1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,500 Hello. 2 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:07,200 Listening to vibrations amplified by the Earth is how I know that stuff has happened. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,000 So what's up? 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,200 When is the last time that you checked your cornfield for millions of dollars worth of coins? 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:13,100 Never? 6 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:14,900 Are you some kind of dingus? 7 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:21,200 An anonymous dude in Kentucky found over 800 Civil War-era gold coins in a cornfield. 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,900 It is valued at over a million dollars, possibly multiples of millions. 9 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,900 According to Jeff Garrett, Bitcoin boy in Kentucky, 10 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:31,200 the contents of this find are like unbelievably rare. 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,800 The discovery is being referred to as the Great Kentucky Hoard, which is excellent. 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:37,700 Here is a quote from the Coin Boy. 13 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:43,500 Finding one mint condition 1863 Double Eagle would be an important numismatic event. 14 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:47,800 Finding nearly a roll of superb examples is hard to comprehend. 15 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,700 This is the functional equivalent of reaching into your winter coat pocket and finding a 20. 16 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:54,100 Just a really big deal. 17 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:55,400 A very good day. 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,400 Did you all see the zit that I posted to X? 19 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,100 It got a lot of re-zits. 20 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:01,900 Oh, you're not on X? 21 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:02,900 I'm on X. 22 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:04,700 I love X. 23 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:10,500 In a late night completely unprompted tweet, Elon Musk decided to just shit can the entire Twitter brand 24 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:12,300 and rebrand it all to X. 25 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:17,100 Getting rid of the bird logo, possibly getting rid of the name entirely and just calling it X. 26 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,000 The dude's got a hard on for having a company called X. 27 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,200 He's been trying to do this for a long time. 28 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,400 And so he purchased Twitter for $44 billion and then he got rid of the staff. 29 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,900 And then he got rid of the Twitter. 30 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:30,100 Very cool. 31 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:31,700 Wonderful business acumen. 32 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:38,400 Anyway, as we all know, suddenly changing your brand entirely is a very easy thing to do and makes a lot of sense. 33 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,900 Taking 15 some odd years of brand recognition and just throwing it in the toilet is a very good idea, 34 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:46,800 especially if you want to retain advertisers and users. 35 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,200 Anyway, something that I actually want to talk about with this is that his whole plan with making the X app 36 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,500 is that he wants to make an everything app like how WeChat is in China. 37 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:58,200 If you're not familiar with WeChat, it's an everything app. 38 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:59,600 It's like a messaging app. 39 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:00,700 It's also a payment method. 40 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:01,600 It's also a store. 41 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:02,900 It's everything. 42 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:04,900 You have to have WeChat, essentially. 43 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:08,300 It's the exact kind of thing that we point and say, look China bad. 44 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:12,700 But Elon Musk wants to do exactly that because it's okay when a rich white guy does it. 45 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:14,000 That's how you do it right. 46 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,300 Florida has new education standards as put out by their Board of Education. 47 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:23,100 These new education standards are to teach middle schoolers that slaves benefited from slavery. 48 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:28,900 Yes, the absolutely unnecessary railing against critical race theory is now manifesting as 49 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:31,800 teaching kids that slaves benefited from slavery. 50 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,300 They learned important life skills as slaves. 51 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,900 It's important to consider both sides of the slave debate. 52 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:42,000 Anyway, these guidelines were put out before and the Florida Teachers Union was like, 53 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,500 hey, no, nah, make some changes, dog. 54 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:47,900 And they didn't make changes. 55 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:53,300 And now it's published as a PDF that you can read in the actual section. 56 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:57,000 There's a clarification point that makes it very clear that you should teach quote, 57 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,700 how slaves develop skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. 58 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,500 Just some on the job training. 59 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:11,200 This is a state institution putting out these recommendations run by a guy who's trying 60 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,200 to become president. 61 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,600 I don't think we should let him become president. 62 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,500 Anyway, Netflix stock went down. 63 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:18,100 So Netflix did their earnings stuff. 64 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:22,700 And while their signups are way up, they missed their earnings by a little bit. 65 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:28,700 They were expected to get $8.3 billion in earnings and they got $8.2 billion in earnings. 66 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:32,400 And because of that, their stock tumbled 20%. 67 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,600 So the writers in the Actors Guild are on strike because streaming services aren't 68 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,900 paying them very well. 69 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:43,600 And Netflix only made $8.2 billion in revenue, which is just not enough. 70 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,300 And so their stock got eviscerated. 71 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:48,100 It seems like this is a system that makes a lot of sense. 72 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:53,200 I think it's very important to make sure that Netflix generates $8.3 billion in revenue 73 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,200 next time. 74 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,000 Because otherwise, what are we even doing here? 75 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,800 Hey, um, pay people. 76 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,700 Who gives a shit about profit? 77 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:01,660 You can't do anything with profit. 78 00:04:01,660 --> 00:04:02,660 It just gets hoarded. 79 00:04:02,660 --> 00:04:04,000 It doesn't help humanity. 80 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,500 Jesus fucking Christ. 81 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:09,300 I don't know about you, but I don't think my purpose in life is to create profit. 82 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:12,240 That's a pretty narrow and sad purpose in life. 83 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,600 Even this day in the year 1411, the Battle of Harlaw took place in Scotland. 84 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,460 There were some barons in the north, there were some barons in the west, and they had 85 00:04:21,460 --> 00:04:23,800 a competing claim on the same spot. 86 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,060 And they're like, I'm just going to beat the shit out of you for it. 87 00:04:26,060 --> 00:04:27,140 And so they did that. 88 00:04:27,140 --> 00:04:31,380 It's considered one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in Scotland, with over 1500 people 89 00:04:31,380 --> 00:04:32,800 dying on the battlefield. 90 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:33,800 There was no clear victor. 91 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,860 A couple who conspired to launder $4.5 billion of stolen crypto is going to plead guilty 92 00:04:39,860 --> 00:04:40,860 to that. 93 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:44,540 The Department of Justice is planning to sue Texas over the buoys that Texas deployed into 94 00:04:44,540 --> 00:04:49,020 the river to try to stop migrants from getting across and also making them drown. 95 00:04:49,020 --> 00:04:51,700 A 13-year-old girl who was kidnapped has been rescued. 96 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:56,180 She was abducted in Texas and found in California after she made a help me sign and put it up 97 00:04:56,180 --> 00:04:57,180 in the car window. 98 00:04:57,180 --> 00:05:01,220 Amazon is working on construction for a big warehouse to house their upcoming internet 99 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:04,180 satellite thing, kind of like the Starlink. 100 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:05,860 But this time Jeff Bezos does it. 101 00:05:05,860 --> 00:05:11,460 The board has received a $9.2 billion loan from the government to create electric vehicle 102 00:05:11,460 --> 00:05:12,460 battery factories. 103 00:05:12,460 --> 00:05:15,860 Remember those cluster bombs that were sent to Ukraine and people were like, oh, they're 104 00:05:15,860 --> 00:05:17,340 not going to use them as cluster bombs. 105 00:05:17,340 --> 00:05:20,700 They're just looking for the munitions that are included in the cluster bombs. 106 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:23,460 Well, Ukraine's now using the cluster bombs as cluster bombs. 107 00:05:23,460 --> 00:05:24,820 They're saying it's very effective. 108 00:05:24,820 --> 00:05:25,900 I'm sure it is. 109 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:29,680 And finally for today, the law that was passed years ago in Arizona that restricted your 110 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,780 ability to record police activity has finally been struck down as unconstitutional. 111 00:05:34,780 --> 00:05:36,500 This is because it's unconstitutional. 112 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:39,140 But boy howdy, do cops love unconstitutional. 113 00:05:39,140 --> 00:05:42,060 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 114 00:05:42,060 --> 00:05:49,300 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, and a live map of your local 115 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:51,100 ice cream truck. 116 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:55,420 Don't forget to leave a review if you are on an app that has a review section. 117 00:05:55,420 --> 00:05:58,060 It really helps the show if you leave a review. 118 00:05:58,060 --> 00:05:59,260 Thank you so much for that. 119 00:05:59,260 --> 00:06:03,180 And go ahead and share this on out to people that you love. 120 00:06:03,180 --> 00:06:09,300 And if you don't have anybody that you love, I'm sorry. 121 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:10,460 My name is Endeavorance. 122 00:06:10,460 --> 00:06:12,220 I'll be back on Wednesday. 123 00:06:12,220 --> 00:06:34,580 Take care and be well.