1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,560 Hello. I forwarded a chain letter to five friends, but stuff still happened. 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:13,600 So what's up? It's not so quality control. Uh, whoops. Remember just a few weeks ago when there 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,640 was that 737 Max that had a door just blow off the side of the plane while it was flying? 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,600 Yeah, that thing that should never happen? Well, Boeing went back and took a look, 5 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:29,040 and one of their suppliers reported that there were 50 more undelivered planes with, quote, 6 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:36,560 mis-drilled holes. 50 of them. Mis-drilled holes on an airplane. Ah, this is some late stage 7 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,520 capitalism bullshit. There are basically two companies, Airbus and Boeing for commercial 8 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:48,080 airliners. And Boeing is producing planes that just come apart. Cool. Why have safety regulations 9 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,120 when you can instead buy the people who make regulations? Why have competition when you can 10 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:59,120 instead just monopolize? Sorry, do-op-alize. Sorry, sorry. Totally not a do-op-aly. Totally. 11 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,440 There's a lot of nuance. There's a whole lot of stuff. It's not just two companies. Speaking of 12 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:10,240 effective monopolies, Disney has invested $1.5 billion into Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite. 13 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:15,360 This gets Disney an equity stake in the gaming company, which means that they have influence 14 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,600 over decision-making. Presumably Disney wants to do, first of all, a whole lot more just putting 15 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,120 Disney characters into Fortnite, but most likely they're looking at trying to bring in Epic to do 16 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,840 more, like, interactive experience. That's what their marketing team wants you to think of it. 17 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:35,120 Think of it as an interactive experience. Jesus Christ. I want to just point out that every 18 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:41,040 experience is interactive. That's what an experience is. Anyway, yeah, think of it this way, 19 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:47,120 though. You know how Fortnite is like a game, but also a social hub and sometimes a concert venue? 20 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,920 I think that's what Disney is after here. This is a big deal and possibly the first step towards 21 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:58,480 Disney ultimately wanting to buy Epic and bring them in as their, like, live services game 22 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,600 development thing. But that's just speculation. I want to be clear. That's just speculation. 23 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,000 Let's talk about John Fetterman, because I'm not surprised, but I am mad. John Fetterman is a 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,560 freshman US senator from Pennsylvania, and while he was on the campaign trail, he was painting himself 25 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,440 as a progressive. He even got endorsements from AOC and all of that. And then he went on to go up 26 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:25,600 against Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz. Anyway, he beat Dr. Oz, and now he's a senator. And since becoming a senator, 27 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:31,520 he's just basically a normal-ass Democrat, which is to say, center right at best. On the campaign 28 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:36,560 trail, he talked about needing healthcare reform, foreign policy reform, criminal justice reform, 29 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,760 all of this stuff, very thoughtful progressive ideas. And now that he's in the Senate, he's like, 30 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,160 I love Israel. And then he's like, there's a crisis at the border. And like, yeah, haha, 31 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,760 he started off from making Republicans mad by wearing shorts on the Senate floor. 32 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:56,240 But now he's just helping to fund a genocide. And it's not like he's unique in that. Most Democrats 33 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,120 are helping to fund a genocide. That's what they do. And all of the Republicans, too, is just to be 34 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,320 clear. It's not the Republicans don't get to get a free pass on this one, nor on any of them. They're 35 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:12,000 never getting a pass. But in terms of accountability, John Fetterman was like, hey, y'all, I'm a new kind 36 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,640 of guy. And then he gets into office and he's the old kind of guy. Like, let me put it this way. 37 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:22,560 His wife was an undocumented migrant. And now he's like, there's a migrant crisis. All these 38 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:28,880 undocumented migrants coming into this country that should be able to take care of them. Isn't 39 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,200 it weird how we don't have room for migrants, but we have the most aircraft carriers of any country, 40 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,280 and one of the few countries that have aircraft carriers, and one of the few countries that have 41 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:44,240 foreign military bases. What's up with that? But no, can't can't feed the hungry. Sorry. 42 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,760 A rich person did a bad thing. And people have acknowledged it. All right, look, I collect 43 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,080 articles over a few days and then write about them all at once. When I got this article in my 44 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,240 inbox, this was more breaking. But now literally everyone's already talking about it. So let's 45 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,640 talk about Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift made some music that one time and people like her for it. 46 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,120 But now she's getting in some heat because she's following in the footsteps of Elon Musk. She has 47 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,240 sent a cease and desist to Jack Sweeney, the teenager who has social media accounts publishing 48 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,520 the flight records for private jets. Now upfront, I want to be super, super clear. He's not publishing 49 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,880 any private information. He's taking highly available public information, like easily available 50 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:28,080 public information, and then just reformatting it and publishing it to social media. It's not hidden 51 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:33,920 info. This is an entire hobby. Flight tracking is an entire hobby. It's not some small niche thing. 52 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,560 But Elon Musk and now Taylor Swift have both attempted to stop this from happening, 53 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:44,160 saying it's an invasion of privacy to track their 20 minute flights that they take. They're both 54 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:49,280 extra mad because his flight tracker also publishes how much carbon emissions they make. And so these 55 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:53,200 very rich people get upset because people might start thinking that they're not actually all that 56 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,680 great for the world because of the whole using your private jet to go to 7-Eleven for a slurpee 57 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:02,640 thing. Is it slurpee? 7-Eleven is slurpees, right? Or is it iceys? I think it's slurpees. Anyway, 58 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,120 it's absurd. Multiple billionaires who are so rich they have their own private jets are going 59 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,840 after some kid for talking about said private jets. It's basically impossible to ignore the 60 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:17,280 outsized power differential here and how needless it is. And so even Swifties are starting to say, 61 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,040 that's kind of shitty. I mean, Tay-Tay can do no wrong, but this does seem like wrong. 62 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,600 Here's a challenge. At some point today, pull out your phone or a recording app on your computer 63 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,640 or something and record just one minute of whatever you're thinking about. You're not going to post 64 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,040 this anywhere. You're just going to hit record and start talking. I don't want you to do any planning, 65 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,600 just whatever's on your mind. Whatever comes out, comes out. Hit stop after a minute and set yourself 66 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:47,360 a reminder to go back and listen in six months. Lightning round. Citizens of Paris voted overwhelmingly 67 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:53,440 to essentially triple parking fees for SUV sized vehicles within city limits. A court of appeals 68 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:58,880 has unanimously determined that Trump does not have arbitrary legal immunity forever. 69 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,080 That's probably just going to keep going up the courts though. King Charles has cancer. 70 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,320 McDonald's appears to have missed their sales targets for the first time in like four years, 71 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,360 in part due to ongoing protests. Keep it up. Another Baltimore official has been charged for 72 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:18,800 crimes. This just happens weekly. This time it was mortgage fraud. People are out here jokingly or 73 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:25,280 otherwise stunt or otherwise wearing an Apple vision pro while driving their cars. In some cases, 74 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:30,880 a Tesla with autopilot. Don't do that. I get mad when I see people with headphones on while driving. 75 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,280 Don't do that either. I don't care how good the transparency mode is. Pay attention. You're driving 76 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:41,520 a car. You're driving a motor vehicle. Focus on that. Tucker Carlson is going to Russia to interview 77 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:47,360 Vladimir Putin in the least surprising headline of today's stories. Wait, nope. This one's even less 78 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:53,760 surprising. Nikki Haley, presidential hopeful for the Republican party, lost to none of the above 79 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:59,040 on the Nevada primary. Fucking hurts dog. Like straight up yikes, bro. 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