1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,920 Hello, I paid off my loan to Tom Nook, but stuff still happens. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:06,800 So what's up? 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,760 Space is up. 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:15,400 I know that as far as space imagery goes, the James Webb's Cosmos peeper is the one that's been getting a lot of the attention. 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,480 But there's a new kid on the block. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:23,400 Yesterday, the ESA's Euclid Telescope revealed its first full color images of the stars. 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,760 More than just stars, like the universe. 8 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,760 It's very pretty and super rad. 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,480 It's also cool and great. 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:37,880 These photos are the first look at the power of this telescope and its ultimate goal of creating the most extensive 3D map of the universe yet. 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:45,640 This is your reminder that human curiosity can shine through any fog as we raise our thoughts, minds and hopes to the cosmos. 12 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,960 And also space is fucking cool. 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,760 I've got art thieves art thieves for you, but well, they got caught. 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,320 But you're going to like the art. 15 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:58,840 Back in 2019, a piece of high art was stolen from the Blenheim Palace in England. 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,000 This is apparently where Winston Churchill was born. 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,920 And the art was in a room just opposite where he was born. 18 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,800 The art in question was entitled America. 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:11,400 And it was a toilet made out of gold, a working toilet made out of gold. 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:12,440 Visitors could use it. 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,880 There was a three minute time limit, but you could stand in line and take a dump in a golden toilet. 22 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,320 It was reportedly worth about five million Great British pounds. 23 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,440 And it went missing overnight one day. 24 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,920 And they just found a bunch of water spewing everywhere from the pipes. 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,600 How you steal a toilet made of gold from a palace? 26 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,000 I don't know. 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,880 I would love to see that footage. 28 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,280 But they didn't do a good enough job. 29 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:33,960 They got caught. 30 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,160 It was four guys now being charged. 31 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,760 Just guys being dudes. 32 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,920 For real, though, I want to take a shit in a golden toilet, but specifically a stolen golden toilet. 33 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:43,800 What a statement. 34 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,280 So this next story just kind of kept getting more absurd the more I read. 35 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,920 There's not a whole lot to talk about here, but I'll just give you the play by play. 36 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,120 Exterior Union Station Washington, D.C. 37 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,680 Two people are in a car at a green light, but they're not moving. 38 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,880 Capitol Police take notice of this car and intend to go over into a traffic stop, assuming that they're inebriated. 39 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:10,200 As the cop approaches the car, it speeds away and crashes into a barrier surrounding the U.S. Capitol. 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,880 It is at this point that I should tell you the car was stolen. 41 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,440 And after it crashed, the two dudes inside went running for it. 42 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,680 They were chased by a bunch of cops and eventually caught. 43 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:23,640 And then cops found they both had handguns, one of which had been modified with a giggle switch. 44 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,560 Both of the pistols were unlicensed and they were not allowed to be carrying them in the first place. 45 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,240 And a giggle switch is super illegal. 46 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:34,400 It essentially turns a semi-automatic pistol into a borderline fully automatic machine pistol. 47 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,880 They also had an extended magazine for it. 48 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,720 Just not the kind of stuff you want to get caught having in a stolen car that you crashed into a barrier around the U.S. Capitol. 49 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,600 The moral of the story is don't idle at green lights. 50 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,080 That's why we honk at you. 51 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,480 Elections happened. 52 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:49,720 Here's some results. 53 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,520 Specifically, U.S. elections happened. 54 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,600 And here are some U.S. election results. 55 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,480 High level. Overall, Democrats are very happy. 56 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,720 Republicans are not as happy, but also had some wins. 57 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,280 Ohio had two major resolutions on the ballot. 58 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,800 One was enshrining abortion rights in their state constitution and the other was legalizing cannabis. 59 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,760 Both passed with flying colors. 60 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,440 Abortion rights was about 56.5% yes to 43.5% no. 61 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,760 And cannabis legalization was about the same. 62 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,560 57 yes, 43 no. 63 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,080 In Virginia, Democrats took control of the entire statehouse. 64 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,680 So the statehouse representatives and the state Senate. 65 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,680 This contrast, the Republican controlled governorship in the state. 66 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,360 The Republican governor of Virginia was intending to pass more abortion restrictions. 67 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,200 That is almost definitely not happening now. 68 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,120 Virginians also voted against constructing a casino in Richmond. 69 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:43,720 In Kentucky, Democrat Governor Andy Beshear held his seat, which was a little surprising given that Kentucky is super, super, super Republican. 70 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:48,080 But he distanced himself from Biden and pointed to his record and managed to keep his seat. 71 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:58,880 A close race that Republicans are happy about is Mississippi, where Republican Governor Tate Reeves held his seat against apparently a relative of Elvis Presley, who was his competitor. 72 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,040 And Philadelphia has elected their first female mayor. 73 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,360 The Democrat, but that's to be expected. It's Philadelphia. 74 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:10,000 There's a long tale of smaller elections and stuff that happened as well. 75 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,560 Check out your local state results. 76 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,360 I have a big history one for you today. 77 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,600 On this day in 1892, the New Orleans general strike began. 78 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,520 It only had to last for a few days, but it got pretty wild. 79 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:30,000 It all began with the Triple Alliance, a sort of union supergroup between the Teamsters, the Scalesmen and the Packers. 80 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:37,720 These three came together to form a labor council called the Working Men's Amalgamated Council, which was also my nickname in high school. 81 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:44,480 They were calling for better pay, better hours, better working conditions, and they started to gain the favor of many more unions. 82 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:49,920 As calls for a general strike began to rise, nearly 50 unions joined in and doing a strike. 83 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,240 These unions represented about half of the entire workforce in the city. 84 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,280 Shit got whack. Natural gas stopped flowing. Electricity stopped being delivered. 85 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:03,160 The city went dark. Construction stopped. Deliveries stopped. 86 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:12,840 Everything stopped. And the employers and the government were not very happy about that, especially because the workers were extremely well organized and super orderly. 87 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,480 The picket lines were calm and composed. 88 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,880 No one was being harassed, and they were making their statement as plainly as they could. 89 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,640 And so there are multiple attempts at trying to break up the strike. 90 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:30,120 First, they were targeting racial divides, trying to say that black workers were causing a problem and harassing white women and children. 91 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,680 And they're the issue here. 92 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,040 It didn't work. The workers remained united. 93 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,480 And so then they called in strikebreakers. That didn't work either. 94 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:43,760 Eventually, they called in the state militia, saying that there was chaos in the city and they needed the militia to reestablish order. 95 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,480 But when the militia got there, they found just a bunch of peaceful, striking workers. 96 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,960 And they were like, there's nothing for us to do here. There's no danger here. 97 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,800 The militia left the next day. 98 00:05:52,800 --> 00:06:00,960 Eventually, the Board of Trade sat down with union leaders where unions won most of their original requests, getting a, get this, 10 hour workday. 99 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,760 And overtime pay. 100 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:08,520 These people literally called in the state militia because workers wanted to have a 10 hour workday. 101 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,360 Anyway, after getting their absolute ass handed to them and being humiliated publicly, 102 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,840 the Board of Trade and the local politicians, as well as the federal government, 103 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:21,720 attempted to sue the union leaders, saying that they were doing conspiracy, some racketeering shit. 104 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:27,280 The lawsuit was held up in court for a while, and eventually the state withdrew the lawsuit because there was nothing there. 105 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:36,040 Solidarity then, solidarity now, and I want to be very clear that they tried to use racial divides to keep us separate and it didn't work. 106 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,920 Lightning round. They're making a live action Zelda movie. 107 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:40,160 I'm scared. 108 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,160 According to a former aide, towards the beginning of the pandemic, 109 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:49,040 Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with COVID on live TV to prove that it wasn't a threat. 110 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:56,920 While shopping at a thrift store for Halloween decorations, an anthropologist in Florida found an actual human skull among the decorations. 111 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:02,280 A hospital patient in England talked a hospital worker out of detonating a homemade bomb. 112 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,640 The hospital worker was unhinged and was ready to try to kill, quote, 113 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,320 as many nurses as possible using a homemade pressure cooker bomb. 114 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,160 It didn't happen. The patient talked him out of it. 115 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,880 Now the guy is in custody. So well done, hospital patient. 116 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:21,120 And finally, for today, Sony is removing their Twitter integration for PlayStation 4 and 5, 117 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,480 so you won't be able to view or share posts on it anymore because Elon Musk has just ruined the platform. 118 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,400 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 119 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:36,960 Don't forget to leave a review and do a share at a friend with this show because that helps. 120 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:41,680 Thank you. I'm so bad at delivering these kinds of messages. 121 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:51,040 Anyway, head to Stuff Keeps Happening.Online for sources, bonus content and a lead on where you can get your very own golden toilet. 122 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:56,120 My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Friday. Take care and be well.