WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.860 Hello. I had myself a little nap. But stuff still 00:00:05.860 --> 00:00:09.759 happened. So what's up? We're at... War? We're 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:13.779 not at war. Don't call it a war. Alright, the 00:00:13.779 --> 00:00:17.019 US is just kind of just going bazonkers and doing 00:00:17.019 --> 00:00:19.739 a lot of dumb shit. For example, renaming the 00:00:19.739 --> 00:00:21.660 Department of Defense the Department of War. 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:23.859 Yeah, haha, Trump, the guy that everybody was 00:00:23.859 --> 00:00:25.780 like, oh, he's gonna start no more wars, literally 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:28.760 is renaming the DOD to the Department of War 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.179 again. If you didn't know, that was what it was 00:00:31.179 --> 00:00:32.859 originally called, kind of, and then it's been 00:00:32.859 --> 00:00:35.280 the Department of Defense. Now it's going back. 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:37.759 My favorite part of all of this is that defense 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:40.820 contractors are now war contractors, if we're 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:43.219 gonna stick with the semantics. Which they've 00:00:43.219 --> 00:00:46.500 always been, like we've known that, but yep, 00:00:46.939 --> 00:00:49.740 I'm gonna invest in some war contractors. That 00:00:49.740 --> 00:00:52.520 sounds real good. So that's just like one... 00:00:52.729 --> 00:00:55.009 Little thing and they didn't really change the 00:00:55.009 --> 00:00:57.570 name. It's like a an alternate name that can 00:00:57.570 --> 00:00:59.429 be used But then they're saying that everybody 00:00:59.429 --> 00:01:02.329 has to use it It's a mess and it's expensive 00:01:02.329 --> 00:01:05.109 and it's a huge waste and it's basically just 00:01:05.109 --> 00:01:09.030 because Pete Hegseth is insecure a big scary 00:01:09.030 --> 00:01:13.390 Secretary of War It's it's genuinely embarrassing 00:01:13.390 --> 00:01:18.769 Except for it's also my nation cool. So what's 00:01:18.769 --> 00:01:21.569 the Department of War up to? Glad you asked couple 00:01:21.569 --> 00:01:23.750 different avenues here They can really walk and 00:01:23.750 --> 00:01:25.310 chew bubblegum at the same time because they 00:01:25.310 --> 00:01:28.010 are both intimidating the people of Chicago and 00:01:28.010 --> 00:01:31.310 also killing people on boats off the coast of 00:01:31.310 --> 00:01:33.750 Venezuela. Let's tackle that in order. Chicago. 00:01:34.109 --> 00:01:37.849 Trump posted a meme of like him invading Chicago 00:01:37.849 --> 00:01:40.689 with military helicopters. Like posted a picture 00:01:40.689 --> 00:01:44.299 of a city of which he is the president. on fire 00:01:44.299 --> 00:01:47.560 as he's invading it. They love to say that everything 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.219 Trump does that's obviously egregious is to troll 00:01:51.219 --> 00:01:53.219 people, and then when people are like, hey, this 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:56.060 is obviously egregious, they're like, ha, see, 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.120 he trolled them, like I said he's doing. It's 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.439 five -year -old shit, which is not surprising. 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:04.640 Him doing something completely unacceptable and 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.260 then people saying that's unacceptable, we shouldn't 00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:09.580 stand for that. That's not trolling, that's just 00:02:09.580 --> 00:02:11.960 being an ass. Solidarity with the people of Chicago. 00:02:12.189 --> 00:02:14.210 I'm sorry that this is happening to your city 00:02:14.210 --> 00:02:16.689 now. I do want to note though that it's not like 00:02:16.689 --> 00:02:18.889 the military is about to roll into the streets 00:02:18.889 --> 00:02:21.090 of Chicago and burn it to the ground and launch 00:02:21.090 --> 00:02:23.210 an assault. That's not what's happening here. 00:02:23.289 --> 00:02:26.030 Trump is a huge weakling and like doesn't actually 00:02:26.030 --> 00:02:27.810 have the power he keeps asserting that he has 00:02:27.810 --> 00:02:29.530 and he just keeps breaking the law and we keep 00:02:29.530 --> 00:02:31.669 not doing anything about it but he can only go 00:02:31.669 --> 00:02:34.250 so far before people would do something about 00:02:34.250 --> 00:02:36.449 it. So he's trying to toe that line of like how 00:02:36.449 --> 00:02:38.509 much can I do, how many headlines can I make, 00:02:38.550 --> 00:02:40.710 how much red meat can I give to my base before 00:02:40.710 --> 00:02:43.509 I actually get in actual trouble. Doesn't make 00:02:43.509 --> 00:02:45.569 it better, doesn't make it okay, doesn't even 00:02:45.569 --> 00:02:48.449 make it remotely alright. It's still fucking 00:02:48.449 --> 00:02:51.270 awful. Quit strong -arming cities that don't 00:02:51.270 --> 00:02:54.439 want your presence there. Don't know but moving 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.000 on to Venezuela and the whole situation there 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.120 because that's that's International scale pretty 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.479 fucking big essentially out of nowhere the US 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.280 bombed a boat that had left from Venezuela with 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.219 11 people on board just Obliterated it no warning 00:03:09.219 --> 00:03:12.000 the top boys in the US government Trump Hegseth 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.960 Etc all started to say this is a drug smuggling 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.259 boat They said that it had 11 drug smugglers 00:03:17.259 --> 00:03:19.719 on board and a whole bunch of drugs Which is 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.819 why they bombed it with military equipment. As 00:03:22.819 --> 00:03:25.199 with most things with this administration, engaging 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.460 with the words they're saying on face value is 00:03:27.460 --> 00:03:29.719 disingenuous. They are lying and they don't care 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.759 that they're lying. And yet, I'm gonna fall for 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.699 the trap. That's not how any of this works. The 00:03:34.699 --> 00:03:36.800 military doesn't get to go after civilians of 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.939 another country just because we claim they're 00:03:39.939 --> 00:03:41.800 drug dealers. First of all, they've produced 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.159 exactly no evidence for this. None. Just they 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.139 just said that that's the case. Our government 00:03:47.139 --> 00:03:49.580 is capable of releasing information and proving 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:51.560 their claims, bringing people to court, even 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.340 if they weren't going to give them their rights 00:03:54.340 --> 00:03:57.280 to a trial. They could at least give any evidence 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.979 at all. But that's not the case. So yeah, international 00:03:59.979 --> 00:04:02.340 eyes are on this and they're like, you just bombed 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:05.439 a civilian ship with military personnel. That's 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.300 a war crime. It doesn't matter. They're not a 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:10.250 military target. The Trump administration keeps 00:04:10.250 --> 00:04:11.650 trying to say that they're members of a gang 00:04:11.650 --> 00:04:14.870 and that gang is tied up with Venezuela's state 00:04:14.870 --> 00:04:17.269 government and so they're a supporter of terrorism 00:04:17.269 --> 00:04:19.149 and therefore it's a target or something, and 00:04:19.149 --> 00:04:21.970 all of that still doesn't apply. And here is 00:04:21.970 --> 00:04:24.009 why it doesn't matter. All the words that I just 00:04:24.009 --> 00:04:27.149 said were useless. Because JD Vance went on Twitter 00:04:27.149 --> 00:04:28.990 and when someone said, hey, that's a war crime, 00:04:29.290 --> 00:04:32.069 he said, quote, I don't give a shit what you 00:04:32.069 --> 00:04:34.009 call it, and he's being applauded for this by 00:04:34.009 --> 00:04:35.490 a lot of people. And I want to talk through that 00:04:35.490 --> 00:04:38.110 a little bit. Now, I am not, I don't really give 00:04:38.110 --> 00:04:40.050 a shit about this statement. Like, I don't care 00:04:40.050 --> 00:04:41.850 about the fact that he cursed. I don't care that 00:04:41.850 --> 00:04:44.029 he's being a bit of a dick. What I care about 00:04:44.029 --> 00:04:46.589 is the sentiment and what it expresses. It's 00:04:46.589 --> 00:04:48.269 perfectly in line with how they approach everything. 00:04:48.389 --> 00:04:50.629 Go right back to the Department of War. They 00:04:50.629 --> 00:04:54.129 think this is cool and a show of strength. They 00:04:54.129 --> 00:04:57.449 would happily bomb far more places and then just 00:04:57.449 --> 00:05:00.019 make up stories about what they bombed. to get 00:05:00.019 --> 00:05:02.160 people to support them in doing more war crimes 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.939 because they think that they have the quote authority 00:05:04.939 --> 00:05:07.060 the absolute authority that's the term they keep 00:05:07.060 --> 00:05:11.220 using to just bomb shit as America the whole 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:13.639 concept of like we shouldn't be the world police 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.839 god like they're just saying we have the right 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.279 to do this because vaguely we can say that they 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.959 are drug dealers and drugs are dangerous to our 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.480 society and therefore it's national security 00:05:25.629 --> 00:05:27.970 It's cynical and it's just them wanting to be 00:05:27.970 --> 00:05:30.629 able to bomb shit, mostly so they can distract 00:05:30.629 --> 00:05:33.490 from how terrible things are going domestically, 00:05:33.550 --> 00:05:36.589 and how not released the Epstein files are. And 00:05:36.589 --> 00:05:39.550 so with all of that, don't spend time asking 00:05:39.550 --> 00:05:41.670 questions like, where's the Second Amendment 00:05:41.670 --> 00:05:44.089 people now? Or where's the small government people 00:05:44.089 --> 00:05:47.829 now? It was always disingenuous. Where they are 00:05:47.829 --> 00:05:50.089 is cheering this on. Because this is what they 00:05:50.089 --> 00:05:52.689 wanted. This is what they voted for. And like, 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:55.069 yeah, it's going to erode their own rights. The 00:05:55.069 --> 00:05:56.670 government's already talking about how they can 00:05:56.670 --> 00:05:59.750 try to strip guns from trans people, which is 00:05:59.750 --> 00:06:02.050 against the Second Amendment. The party who's 00:06:02.050 --> 00:06:04.129 like, absolutely no infringement whatsoever, 00:06:04.129 --> 00:06:06.810 ever, ever, is like, hmm, how can we infringe 00:06:06.810 --> 00:06:09.930 just a little bit? And then maybe we'll just 00:06:09.930 --> 00:06:12.870 crank that up over time. But like, even the NRA 00:06:12.870 --> 00:06:16.449 came out against that. Like, that's how out of 00:06:16.449 --> 00:06:18.430 pocket that shit is. Anyway, don't let the government 00:06:18.430 --> 00:06:20.290 lie to you to create the preconditions of war. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:22.819 We've learned this over and over. We're gonna 00:06:22.819 --> 00:06:24.740 do it anyway. Like, that's just what humanity 00:06:24.740 --> 00:06:27.639 does. On loop forever. But still. And that's 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:29.300 not me being a doomer. That's not - That's just 00:06:29.300 --> 00:06:33.209 - That's just history, baby. Noooo - It's my 00:06:33.209 --> 00:06:36.670 Mario Party announcer impersonation. ICE has 00:06:36.670 --> 00:06:38.589 set a record for the largest single workplace 00:06:38.589 --> 00:06:40.930 raid in the Department of Homeland Security's 00:06:40.930 --> 00:06:43.129 history. It's the Hyundai LG factory thing. If 00:06:43.129 --> 00:06:44.550 you haven't heard about this, essentially what 00:06:44.550 --> 00:06:46.930 happened is there's a factory in Georgia that's 00:06:46.930 --> 00:06:49.269 currently being set up that's a joint venture 00:06:49.269 --> 00:06:52.250 by Hyundai and LG. ICE recently raided this factory, 00:06:52.389 --> 00:06:54.689 which is in the process of being set up, mind 00:06:54.689 --> 00:06:58.290 you, and arrested hundreds of South Korean nationals 00:06:58.290 --> 00:07:00.410 who they claim were working illegally. chained 00:07:00.410 --> 00:07:02.670 them up, detained them. So come here, come here 00:07:02.670 --> 00:07:06.829 real quick, because, yep, working illegally. 00:07:08.569 --> 00:07:11.589 They are illegally contributing to the economy. 00:07:12.149 --> 00:07:14.089 Let's back up, and then we'll come back to the 00:07:14.089 --> 00:07:15.769 whole bunch of people getting arrested and what 00:07:15.769 --> 00:07:18.509 happened. May of 2022, Governor Brian Kemp of 00:07:18.509 --> 00:07:21.509 Georgia is announcing the largest economic development 00:07:21.509 --> 00:07:23.730 project in the state's history. This project? 00:07:24.149 --> 00:07:27.029 A battery factory owned by Hyundai and operated, 00:07:27.089 --> 00:07:29.110 which would employ people in the area, but, you 00:07:29.110 --> 00:07:31.850 know. set up by a foreign company. For the past 00:07:31.850 --> 00:07:33.689 few years, they've been building this facility, 00:07:33.810 --> 00:07:36.410 they've been setting it up, and people from Hyundai, 00:07:36.569 --> 00:07:40.149 from like, you know, South Korea, where Hyundai 00:07:40.149 --> 00:07:42.829 is, have been coming over and setting it up. 00:07:42.990 --> 00:07:45.470 But here's the thing. Working in the United States 00:07:45.470 --> 00:07:49.089 sucks, and not only does it suck to just be a 00:07:49.089 --> 00:07:51.310 worker in general, but working here as somebody 00:07:51.310 --> 00:07:54.230 who doesn't live here is very confusing. Working 00:07:54.230 --> 00:07:55.769 here as someone who does live here is confusing 00:07:55.769 --> 00:07:58.449 too. like navigating healthcare plans, if you 00:07:58.449 --> 00:08:01.870 even get one. I digress. Point being, there's 00:08:01.870 --> 00:08:04.389 a whole bunch of different ways to be here to 00:08:04.389 --> 00:08:07.389 work. But ICE reportedly got a tip that shit 00:08:07.389 --> 00:08:08.949 was going down at this factory, so they went 00:08:08.949 --> 00:08:11.629 and raided it. Arrested hundreds of South Korean 00:08:11.629 --> 00:08:14.430 workers who they claim were here illegally on 00:08:14.430 --> 00:08:17.410 visas that either expired or didn't cover the 00:08:17.410 --> 00:08:19.509 scope of the work they were doing. So it's not 00:08:19.509 --> 00:08:21.970 even that they are here illegally. It's not like 00:08:21.970 --> 00:08:24.589 Hyundai smuggled in a bunch of illegal immigrants 00:08:24.589 --> 00:08:28.310 and had them do enslaved labor. They're literally 00:08:28.310 --> 00:08:30.430 just like here on visas and some of the visas 00:08:30.430 --> 00:08:32.649 were like they didn't check the right box or 00:08:32.649 --> 00:08:34.669 something to that effect. Now, could it be a 00:08:34.669 --> 00:08:36.649 systemic thing and the companies are trying to 00:08:36.649 --> 00:08:39.389 like skirt paperwork? Absolutely! That happens, 00:08:39.590 --> 00:08:41.070 and most of the time it doesn't matter because 00:08:41.070 --> 00:08:42.990 countries are not trying to kick out foreign 00:08:42.990 --> 00:08:47.289 investment because they want to go after people 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:50.970 because they're racist. That is not what usually 00:08:50.970 --> 00:08:54.070 happens. Sorry, it's truly getting to be too 00:08:54.070 --> 00:08:56.210 ridiculous to even talk about. Where we are now, 00:08:56.490 --> 00:08:58.470 the people who were detained by ICE have largely 00:08:58.470 --> 00:09:00.870 been sent home. The South Korean government, 00:09:00.950 --> 00:09:03.190 the president actually, got involved directly 00:09:03.190 --> 00:09:05.169 and was like, hey, what the fuck? They got a 00:09:05.169 --> 00:09:06.669 plane chartered, people got on the plane, they 00:09:06.669 --> 00:09:10.059 went home. So that's mostly settled. But South 00:09:10.059 --> 00:09:12.620 Korea made a commitment to invest hundreds of 00:09:12.620 --> 00:09:15.879 billions of dollars into America, and this was 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.159 part of that. And ICE essentially just came in 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.320 and took a big dookie all over it. And now they're 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.679 like, what's going on? Are we really doing this 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.240 investment or is it not worth our time? So thanks 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.720 ICE, you literally just cost a bunch of people 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:30.039 from Georgia their future jobs. Because it turns 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:33.279 out after a factory gets built, they hire people 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.750 from around the factory. Weird. Oh, speaking 00:09:36.750 --> 00:09:39.129 of jobs, we got the jobs report and it fucking 00:09:39.129 --> 00:09:41.110 sucked. The job reports for August came out. 00:09:41.149 --> 00:09:43.049 Expectations were already pretty low. We expected 00:09:43.049 --> 00:09:48.990 around 75 ,000 new jobs and got 22 ,000. Just 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:52.309 22 jobs. 22 ,000. Very abysmal. The previous 00:09:52.309 --> 00:09:55.330 two months also got adjusted. June now had job 00:09:55.330 --> 00:09:57.289 loss, which is the first time that that has happened 00:09:57.289 --> 00:10:00.149 since Trump's previous term when COVID broke 00:10:00.149 --> 00:10:01.809 out. I also want to note that as people have 00:10:01.809 --> 00:10:03.549 been pouring over the data and the jobs reports 00:10:03.549 --> 00:10:05.970 and all the economy stuff, wouldn't you know 00:10:05.970 --> 00:10:09.110 it, black women are affected by an outsized degree 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:11.529 on all the job losses. Hundreds of thousands 00:10:11.529 --> 00:10:13.629 of black women have left the workforce and have 00:10:13.629 --> 00:10:15.789 not been able to return or were laid off, and 00:10:15.789 --> 00:10:19.450 it's way more than any other demographic by population. 00:10:19.850 --> 00:10:22.929 Maybe all that anti -DEI stuff has, uh, you know... 00:10:23.490 --> 00:10:25.870 misplaced values. You may recall that the last 00:10:25.870 --> 00:10:27.669 time that a job support came out, the numbers 00:10:27.669 --> 00:10:30.110 were so bad that Trump actually fired the head 00:10:30.110 --> 00:10:33.149 of the bureau that puts out the numbers. Unfortunately 00:10:33.149 --> 00:10:36.909 for him, again, he's a shitty president and doesn't 00:10:36.909 --> 00:10:39.169 know what he's doing, and telling people that 00:10:39.169 --> 00:10:42.450 they are not hungry only lasts so long. But moving 00:10:42.450 --> 00:10:45.190 on, I never said anything that I've ever said. 00:10:45.389 --> 00:10:48.230 That's my RFK Junior impersonation. I'm not doing 00:10:48.230 --> 00:10:51.289 the voice. RFK Jr. is a well -documented anti 00:10:51.289 --> 00:10:53.690 -vaxxer whose own family and a global coalition 00:10:53.690 --> 00:10:56.570 of medical experts call a threat to humanity. 00:10:56.929 --> 00:10:59.330 So anyway, the Director of Health and Human Services, 00:10:59.470 --> 00:11:02.169 RFK Jr., had a hearing in the Senate recently, 00:11:02.230 --> 00:11:05.269 and it was bizarre. Here's how basically every 00:11:05.269 --> 00:11:07.450 conversation between him and a senator went. 00:11:07.610 --> 00:11:10.909 First, the senator would be like, hey, you said 00:11:10.909 --> 00:11:13.429 this thing, and it sucks. To which RFK would 00:11:13.429 --> 00:11:16.250 be like, I didn't say that. You made that up. 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.059 And the senator would be like, nah, I've got 00:11:18.059 --> 00:11:20.500 it right here. I've got a transcript. It's on 00:11:20.500 --> 00:11:24.460 video. To which RFK was like, no. And also, you're 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:27.480 the problem, and I'm the solution, and anyone 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.200 who believes you is wrong, and everyone should 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:32.539 believe me. End hearing. It was basically back 00:11:32.539 --> 00:11:34.200 and forth with senators being like, you're inept, 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:36.740 and him being like, nuh -uh. But for real, he 00:11:36.740 --> 00:11:38.840 essentially just sat there and denied that the 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.220 COVID vaccine was effective, or at least hemmed 00:11:41.220 --> 00:11:42.820 and hawed about it, as opposed to being like, 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:45.230 yes, obviously, the data shows that. And then 00:11:45.230 --> 00:11:47.070 he was like, I'm not an anti -vaxxer. And then 00:11:47.070 --> 00:11:49.210 he tried to downplay the fact that he continuously 00:11:49.210 --> 00:11:52.649 tries to link SSRIs to murders. He just said 00:11:52.649 --> 00:11:55.070 a whole bunch of crazy bullshit, which is completely 00:11:55.070 --> 00:11:58.470 par for the course. It's RFK Jr. A bunch of medical 00:11:58.470 --> 00:12:00.389 organizations are calling for him to step down. 00:12:01.060 --> 00:12:03.620 We've got measles outbreaks. Florida is trying 00:12:03.620 --> 00:12:06.279 to overturn vaccine mandates. The head of Health 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:08.259 and Human Services is taking shots of raw milk 00:12:08.259 --> 00:12:12.299 and telling people that he can see their children's 00:12:12.299 --> 00:12:14.759 mitochondria. Last thing about RFK and the whole 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:16.960 -ass United States before I move on. There was 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.899 a 10 % drop in the stock of the company that 00:12:19.899 --> 00:12:22.899 makes Tylenol after it came out that RFK is likely 00:12:22.899 --> 00:12:26.039 soon to release a report that links Tylenol use 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:31.169 in mothers to autism in children. Now... That's 00:12:31.169 --> 00:12:34.470 not true. The claim is not true. The stock drop 00:12:34.470 --> 00:12:37.149 did happen. There has been a ton of research. 00:12:37.210 --> 00:12:39.389 It's not, that this is not, it's just not a thing. 00:12:39.570 --> 00:12:41.129 It is not a thing and they're just gonna be constantly 00:12:41.129 --> 00:12:44.649 searching for, quote, the cause of autism forever. 00:12:44.809 --> 00:12:46.610 Because it's not a thing that we need to find 00:12:46.610 --> 00:12:50.490 the cause of. Stop it. It's not how this works. 00:12:50.789 --> 00:12:52.649 I'm so tired of having to say that's not how 00:12:52.649 --> 00:12:57.629 this works. Just be competent. A little bit. 00:12:58.870 --> 00:13:01.940 Ever. Elsewhere, Japan is down a prime minister. 00:13:02.620 --> 00:13:04.879 They only have the one, but it's gone now. Prime 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.840 Minister Shigeru Ishiba has stepped down or announced 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.840 his resignation a little under a year after taking 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.000 office. Essentially, he took office and like 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.340 right after that his party lost both the upper 00:13:15.340 --> 00:13:17.879 and lower houses of government. But he's largely 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.639 been working to try to figure out what the fuck 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.440 is going on with the Trump tariffs, saying that 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.120 he wanted to get all that settled before stepping 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.240 aside so as to not cause more chaos because the 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.210 tariffs... are a lot. So he is stepping aside 00:13:28.210 --> 00:13:29.809 and he's calling for his party to do a vote to 00:13:29.809 --> 00:13:30.990 figure out who the new Prime Minister is going 00:13:30.990 --> 00:13:33.809 to be. I don't know a lot about Japanese politics. 00:13:33.830 --> 00:13:35.509 I'm not gonna pretend that I know anything about 00:13:35.509 --> 00:13:37.610 this guy, but there is a quote from him that 00:13:37.610 --> 00:13:40.070 I do want to read because it's very foreign to 00:13:40.070 --> 00:13:43.370 me as a resident of free country USA. Quote, 00:13:43.389 --> 00:13:45.669 I have consistently stated that I do not intend 00:13:45.669 --> 00:13:48.190 to cling to this position and that I would make 00:13:48.190 --> 00:13:50.649 a decision at the appropriate time after accomplishing 00:13:50.649 --> 00:13:52.629 what needed to be done. What needed to be done 00:13:52.629 --> 00:13:55.710 being settling the tariff stuff and now... He's 00:13:55.710 --> 00:13:58.929 doing that! Wow! Thanks, Guy! I mean, I don't 00:13:58.929 --> 00:14:01.710 know if thanks, Guy, but thanks, Guy! Over in 00:14:01.710 --> 00:14:04.149 eastern Afghanistan, there have been a series 00:14:04.149 --> 00:14:06.629 of devastating earthquakes. What started on August 00:14:06.629 --> 00:14:09.330 31st with the 6 .0 magnitude earthquake has resulted 00:14:09.330 --> 00:14:12.330 in several aftershocks, thousands have died, 00:14:12.649 --> 00:14:14.639 and thousands more have been injured. Entire 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.320 villages have been wiped out, and a lot of the 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.720 villages in the area are mud and stone construction, 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.419 and they were just devastated. I do want to say 00:14:21.419 --> 00:14:23.240 that there are efforts, there are rescue efforts 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.120 and aid efforts now in the area, but the continued 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:27.820 aftershocks, there were two more earthquakes 00:14:27.820 --> 00:14:30.360 after the initial one that stopped efforts for 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:32.659 a while. Like, there's so much rubble and so 00:14:32.659 --> 00:14:34.700 much destruction that it's hard to navigate in 00:14:34.700 --> 00:14:37.059 the first place, let alone while there's also 00:14:37.059 --> 00:14:39.120 the threat of earthquakes. But it's another example 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.559 of people coming together in the face of absolute 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:44.590 horror to help each other. They're a long ways 00:14:44.590 --> 00:14:47.289 away, but my heart goes out to everyone who was 00:14:47.289 --> 00:14:50.350 affected by this disaster. And just once more, 00:14:50.529 --> 00:14:54.370 like, thank you to any and everyone whose focus 00:14:54.370 --> 00:14:57.149 in this world is to help people in their time 00:14:57.149 --> 00:14:59.809 of need. Stay righteous, y 'all. Game it! Silk 00:14:59.809 --> 00:15:02.549 Song is out. Silk Song is out. Silk Song is out. 00:15:02.769 --> 00:15:05.590 Silk Song is out. That's my Silk Song song. You're 00:15:05.590 --> 00:15:08.549 either hyper aware of this game, or you have 00:15:08.549 --> 00:15:10.289 no idea why everybody's freaking out, or you've 00:15:10.289 --> 00:15:12.110 no idea what I'm talking about. But Silk Song 00:15:12.110 --> 00:15:13.980 is out. What the hell is Silk Song? You know 00:15:13.980 --> 00:15:16.720 those things that are just like franchises that 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.100 become a meme when you're just waiting for the 00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:21.179 next installment? You've got your Game of Thrones, 00:15:21.580 --> 00:15:23.519 you've got your Grand Theft Auto, stuff like 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:25.700 that. We've been joking for decades about Half 00:15:25.700 --> 00:15:27.919 -Life 3 at this point. Silksong is kind of one 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:29.779 of those. So there was a really popular game 00:15:29.779 --> 00:15:32.080 called Hollow Knight where you play as a bug 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.539 and you explore stuff. It's really sweet, really 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:36.940 casual. That's not true. It's very hard. I suck 00:15:36.940 --> 00:15:40.840 at it. Silksong is a sequel, or the next game 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.259 in that franchise, and the developers announced 00:15:43.259 --> 00:15:46.240 it in 2019. Now, as an indie game developer, 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.340 I am very, very aware of... how long it takes 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:51.879 to build stuff, so like no hate against the studio 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.559 for needing time to build an amazing game. However, 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:57.559 essentially years of speculation of when this 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:00.200 game is gonna come out led to it just reaching 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.539 that same meme status of like GTA 6 and Half 00:16:03.539 --> 00:16:07.139 -Life 3, etc. And then lo and behold, like a 00:16:07.139 --> 00:16:09.659 couple weeks ago, they announced... that it was 00:16:09.659 --> 00:16:12.220 gonna come out on September 4th. It was a blindside 00:16:12.220 --> 00:16:14.940 announcement, so much so that other game developers 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:17.720 rescheduled their launches two weeks out. And 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.419 then on launch day, there was so much hype that 00:16:20.419 --> 00:16:24.000 it brought down basically every digital storefront 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.139 worldwide. Steam, Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation, 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.580 and GOG all went down when it launched. So that's 00:16:30.580 --> 00:16:34.779 neat. I don't... I'm bad at it. I hope if you're 00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:37.700 excited about this game... Have fun, have a blast. 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.179 I suck at Metroidvanias. Hey, do you want more 00:16:41.179 --> 00:16:44.059 of this? Stuff Keeps Happening is supported by 00:16:44.059 --> 00:16:46.419 listeners, readers, and viewers like you. I'm 00:16:46.419 --> 00:16:49.399 like PBS over here. I'm like PBS, but I can swear. 00:16:49.659 --> 00:16:52.059 Your support is how I keep this ad free. 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There's 00:17:44.950 --> 00:17:47.309 limited early research into the potential use 00:17:47.309 --> 00:17:49.630 of an over -the -counter nasal spray that might 00:17:49.630 --> 00:17:51.930 be able to significantly reduce the chance of 00:17:51.930 --> 00:17:53.650 COVID infections. I want to conclude this is 00:17:53.650 --> 00:17:56.210 early. It's early! But it's... it's... that's... 00:17:56.210 --> 00:17:58.779 that's huge, if true. Ranchers and biologists, 00:17:59.019 --> 00:18:01.019 wildlife experts, etc. are experimenting with 00:18:01.019 --> 00:18:04.359 using drones that blast music and like movie 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.119 lines at wolves to keep them away. Literally 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.279 blasting AC DC at a wolf. About as metal as it 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.660 gets, Aura, the ring, the, like, wearable fitness 00:18:15.660 --> 00:18:18.539 ring thing, they made a partnership with the 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:20.559 Department of Defense, or I guess the Department 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.160 of War. Aura maintains that your data is not 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:25.220 being shared with the DoD, it's only for people 00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:28.380 who are in the DoD and opt into it. That's what 00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:30.900 they say, and that's all I can say. And finally 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:33.279 for today, someone's multi -million dollar yacht 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.420 sank right after it was deployed. Which, uh, 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:38.640 if anybody wants to buy a multi -million dollar 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.529 yacht... Save yourself the trouble and just give 00:18:41.529 --> 00:18:47.150 me the money instead. I won't sink. Fast. Thank 00:18:47.150 --> 00:18:48.730 you so much for listening to today's episode 00:18:48.730 --> 00:18:51.369 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for 00:18:51.369 --> 00:18:56.529 sources, bonus content, and a discount on a previously 00:18:56.529 --> 00:18:59.210 million dollar yacht. My name is Endeavorance. 00:18:59.349 --> 00:19:02.170 We'll talk again soon. Take care and be well.