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Hello.

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I found out what was in the box, but stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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If you remember way back to the before times in April of this year,

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I talked about some people stealing a whole bunch of dimes.

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Two million of them, out of the back of a truck in Philadelphia.

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How about an update on that?

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Recently unsealed indictments around this event are charging four men with theft of government money, among other things.

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They also stole seafood and booze.

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They just kind of like went at it and all these trucks that were in this parking lot and they're like, oh hey crab legs.

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Nice!

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Reportedly they sold off the crab legs and other perishables and then they tried to exchange those dimes at like banks and coin star machines,

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but they did not get particularly far before getting caught.

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So yeah, not the kind of situation you want to find yourself in,

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walking into a government courtroom being charged with stealing from the government.

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This never would have happened if they simply stole quarters.

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Boy howdy them, autoworkers sure are united.

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The United Autoworkers Strike continues to grow as there are now a total of 41,000 striking autoworkers.

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This past Monday 6,800 additional workers walked off the job at a Stellantis factory that works on the Ram line of pickup trucks.

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They've joined the picket line and have bolstered the numbers of employees demanding better pay.

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The corporation CEOs are digging in their heels and continuously lowballing them,

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but to quote our favorite guy, the UAW president Sean Fain, quote,

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We've got cards left to play and they've got money left to spend.

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I fucking love this guy.

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The UAW represents about 150,000 people and again only 41,000 are currently striking.

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This is about a third the size that it could be.

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What they are asking for is simple equitable pay after record profits from all of these companies given the work they do for them.

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The simple fact that workers have to band together and demand better pay

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in a world where companies are making far more money than before without raising wages concerns me.

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Weird how fetishizing economics and financial gain does not result in prosperity among the working class.

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And it's weird how in 2023 there's an owning class to begin with.

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Could have sworn that I read some stories in history class about how that's not great for the people.

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Since last we spoke, House Republicans have nominated a third Republican speaker

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and then they nominated a fourth Republican speaker because the third one already dropped out.

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Y'all this is just an aside.

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There have been so many helicopters just all the time around me recently.

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I'm very tired of having to pause waiting for helicopters to pass by so that you don't hear me going.

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Hey, let me tell you about the stuff that's happening.

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Anyway, yesterday House Republicans nominated Tom Emmer,

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the majority whip as their potential next speaker of the House.

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Three hours later, he was out.

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He acknowledged that there was no way he was going to get the votes that he needed.

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He barely got the support to begin with in a closed-door vote.

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And so he was out.

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I want to note and I'm not defending Emmer here,

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but some of the holdouts against him cited his support for a bill that would acknowledge same-sex and interracial marriage

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as a reason why they couldn't vote for him.

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Federally acknowledging gay and interracial marriage was a deal breaker.

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Additionally, Trump said that Emmer was not MAGA and quote,

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not loyal enough.

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What is this authoritarian bullshit?

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Hey, saying that a politician is not loyal enough to a specific movement leader is not okay.

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That's not a thing you want happening.

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Why are we talking about loyalty to a single person?

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What the fuck is going on?

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I mean, I know what's going on.

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It is a rise of fascism.

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But when you say that people get all up in arms that it's hyperbole,

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it's not hyperbole.

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The ultra conservative movement leader in this country is evaluating potential politicians

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based on their loyalty to him and his movement.

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Not how well they represent the people,

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not what they're doing to make the world a better place,

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but their loyalty to him.

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I don't know what else to say.

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Anyway, after he pulled out, they have since nominated Mike Johnson,

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some jabroni from Louisiana.

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It's not looking good for him either.

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We shall see.

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And before you either hit me with the both sides or claiming favorites or whatever,

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fuck Democrats too.

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Republicans are also fascists.

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While the Democrats enable them.

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And no, I'm not a centrist.

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The UN secretary general has issued a statement calling to fucking stop bombing Gaza.

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He has called for an immediate ceasefire,

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citing the quote epic suffering that is ongoing in Gaza

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as Israel continues to pummel them with bombs and blockades.

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This is collective punishment for the citizens of Gaza after the Hamas attack on Israel.

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And collective punishment is a war crime.

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The call for a ceasefire cites the inability to even get aid into the region

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and the incredible level of human suffering that is currently being placed on this population.

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Civilians have been killed by the hundreds daily,

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with the death toll approaching 6,000,

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with at least 2,360 children being killed so far.

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Hospitals in the region don't have power or supplies and can no longer treat people.

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Civilians are being told to go seek refuge in specific areas that then are targeted by Israel strikes.

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And so over a million human beings who have been displaced from their home have nowhere to go.

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They can't leave the strip and they can't seek shelter.

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Most Western governments are staunchly behind Israel in this conflict

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because they see it as a requirement to have a strong Western military foothold in the region.

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And so Western support of Israel is strategic.

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They have done the math.

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They did the calculations.

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And they don't care.

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That is not reflective of the will of the people at large though,

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as worldwide protests against this ongoing ethnic cleansing have broken out in droves.

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On this day, in 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP, our favorite operating system.

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Hallmarks of Windows XP include the rolling hills desktop background that has reached meme status,

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as well as the fact that virtually every installation of Windows XP was riddled with viruses.

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I mean, at least if it was your family computer, it was probably riddled with viruses.

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Lightning round, an NSA agent has pled guilty to attempting to sell information to Russia

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when it turns out the Russian agent he was trying to sell to was actually an undercover FBI agent.

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An off-duty airline pilot attempted to sabotage an in-flight plane

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and now faces over 80 counts of attempted murder.

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Washington state Senator Jeff Wilson has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm in Hong Kong.

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At the airport, he was caught with a pistol in his carry-on bag.

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He didn't pick up that gun in Hong Kong.

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He flew there with it in his carry-on bag after flying out of Portland International Airport,

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where the TSA did not catch the gun in the carry-on bag.

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Hold on to your attention spans, because TikTok is now testing 15-minute long videos on the platform.

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And finally for today, a wax sculpture of Dwayne The Rock Johnson is getting revised

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after they made his skin way whiter than he actually is.

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Very unsettling to look at.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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