Hello.
I defeated the last of the Prime Evils.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
You're arrested, Harry.
Cops in England were responding to a call
saying that there was some dude walking around
carrying a big knife at a hotel.
A danger to everyone around him, pretty dang spooky.
And so some cops showed up with guns
to find out it wasn't a knife.
It was a replica Harry Potter wand.
And the person wielding it was just a dweeb.
Not a knife, boy.
Just a nerd.
Anyway, the cops didn't kill anyone.
And that's pretty good.
Also, JK Rowling is a transphobic asshole.
The ocean is not a car.
Stop putting oil in it.
It doesn't need it.
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
has announced that there is a national emergency
as an unknown vessel has overturned off the coast
and started spilling oil into the region.
Oil has already been washing up on the beaches of Trinidad,
and it's not a particularly under control situation.
The Prime Minister has said they truly just
don't know what this vessel is, where it came from,
who owns it.
Unclear, but it's pooping out a lot of oil,
and divers have not been able to contain the spill.
So it's a matter of trying to just sort of control Z,
the oil out of the ocean now.
And undoing something like that is a tall task,
even for someone as talented as Clippy.
But like, hey, what if we just had less oil in the ocean?
That'd be cool.
I would like that.
I would personally be a fan of not having oil spills
in the ocean, like every year, just constantly.
I'm beginning to believe that a lot of the oil spills
are just put on as PR stunts by the Dawn marketing team.
The Democrat-controlled Senate in the US
has passed a nearly $100 billion funding bill
for wartime aid.
This money will be going to Israel and Ukraine primarily,
with a little bit set aside for humanitarian efforts
for Gaza.
Now, to be clear, we're sending more billions to Israel
to fuck up Gaza, but you know.
Anyway, to be clear, this isn't happening yet.
They have passed it, but it has not been approved by the House.
The House is controlled by Republicans,
and they've already said they want to spend more money
because they want to include stuff for the border.
You know those highly related things, wartime aid
and Southern border security for the US.
So yeah, this is probably gonna result in some more back
and forth between the House and the Senate,
and ultimately is probably going to include some wins
for Republicans and border funding stuff,
because every other presidency, according to Republicans,
the border just suddenly and desperately needs money.
At this point, it might be cheaper to just build that wall
out of the money we send to the border.
The happiest place on earth is gonna unionize.
Neat.
Well, maybe they want to.
Employees at Disneyland in California
refer to as cast members,
not unlike the sandwich artists of the subway clan,
are getting together to unionize.
About 1,700 employees have already picked up union cards,
and they're looking to follow in the footsteps
of their cousins over at the Florida location,
Disney World.
Yeah, Disney World, who are already unionized.
They're seeking representation
from the Actors Equity Association,
which is, that took me a lot of,
and that's a hard thing to say.
Actors Equity Association, good Lord.
Now, Disney is famously anti-union,
but hopefully that won't be as much of a big deal
since there's already some precedent here.
I don't know why I'm giving them any benefit of the doubt.
It'll be just that much more of a bad look
if they try to union bust,
because like, they already have a union
at the Florida location, which is the bigger location.
I'm pretty sure.
Anyway, solidarity always,
and hopefully they get what's theirs,
because it's pretty difficult to make an argument
that Disney can't afford to pay their employees properly.
A somber note, in Kansas City, there was a shooting
at the end of a parade celebrating their victory
in the Super Bowl.
22 people were shot, including eight children
from a person who was spraying bullets into the crowd.
However, from all of this,
I just want to read a quote from the report,
quote, the shooting outside Union Station
happened despite more than 800 police officers
who were in the building and around the area,
including on top of nearby buildings,
said the mayor, who attended with his wife and mother
and had to run for cover when the gunfire broke out.
According to the town's own mayor,
a heavy police presence,
including those stationed on vantage points,
did not prevent a mass shooting event.
That's all I'm gonna say about that.
On this day in 2013, two meteors made headlines.
Space people don't get mad at me.
I know they're not, I know they're not both meteors.
Just don't, let me just say meteor.
The space rocks, the space, space boulders.
So on that day, we were expecting one of these space rocks
to just kind of flirt with the earth,
to sort of skirt by.
Its name was 367-943-Duende.
Beautiful name.
It was all over the news.
We were getting excited about the passage of this space rock.
But before that could happen,
another one crashed into Russia.
We had no idea it was coming.
And suddenly a 60-foot diameter space rock
just entered the atmosphere over Russia
and then exploded,
blowing out the windows in the nearby area
and causing a massive fireball
that ultimately injured 1,500 people.
Apparently we didn't know it was coming
because it was like obscured by the sun.
So yeah, we were looking to the sky
and expecting one of those sky rocks to kind of pass by.
But another one was like,
hey, meet first, lightning round.
Despite the loud cries of capital G gamers,
a recent report has found that about 2% of video games
actually have any form of queer representation.
According to a Wapo investigation,
a Tesla employee who was involved in a fiery crash
that ultimately took their life
was using full self-driving mode at the time,
drawing questions about why.
Microsoft has announced that they're going to bring
some of their first-party games to third-party consoles,
including Sea of Thieves.
So that's gonna be on PS5 and Switch.
I cannot believe that I'm thanking Microsoft
for bringing some good new games to the PS5.
In a sign of the times,
a water park in Sweden has caught fire.
The Biden campaign has joined TikTok
after not so long ago trying to ban TikTok nationwide.
A man in England has become the first in the country
to be charged with cyber flashing
because he was sending unsolicited dick pics to people,
including an underage girl.
Don't do that.
And finally for today,
another door has fallen off another plane.
Thankfully this time it was like a two-seater,
like a small little craft and not an airliner.
But quick question,
why are so many doors falling off a plane suddenly?
Who got cursed?
Wait, I cursed people recently.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode
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Stick to your ribs.
My name is Endeavorance.
I'll be back on Monday.
Take care and be well.