Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of former
Speaker 1: Vice President Mike trends Ah. He had a great welcome
Speaker 1: party and Indiana, hey did We will get to that later.
Speaker 1: I am Jack. That is miles. Here are some of
Speaker 1: the things that are trending. What should we start with?
Speaker 1: Should we start with the rats Are? Yeah? New York's
Speaker 1: rats Are? This is just a it's a fun story.
Speaker 1: New York has appointed its first ever rats Are. It's
Speaker 1: fun for now and then I'm waiting to see, like
Speaker 1: how this will turn apocalyptic. But a rats are is
Speaker 1: someone in charge of getting rid of rats. They are
Speaker 1: not a rat that they've given political powers to. Um,
Speaker 1: which was my how it got my attention in the
Speaker 1: first place. You say rats Are, I'm like, who is
Speaker 1: this rat and what is their skill set? Because you
Speaker 1: had you know, pizza rat comes from New York. It's
Speaker 1: a it's like point guards and talented rats or being
Speaker 1: produced by New York City. Killer Hezy, where's that rat
Speaker 1: with the killer heasy? Yeah? Yeah. So. Mayor Eric Adams
Speaker 1: announced that Kathleen Karate has been hired as the city's
Speaker 1: Director of rodent Mitigation, and we'll find innovative, innovative ways
Speaker 1: to cut off rats food sources and use new technologies
Speaker 1: to detect and exterminate rat populations. She's making a salary
Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifty five thousand a year, which
Speaker 1: is a lot, but it's presumably doesn't break down to
Speaker 1: all that much if you think about it per rat
Speaker 1: since New York has yeah, I mean all they can't
Speaker 1: she even live in New York making that much? I know,
Speaker 1: truly probably not. Yeah, well, I guess that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I'm actually here's the thing. I'm so swashbuckling.
Speaker 1: I will live amongst the rats so I can understand them.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't have to worry about things like rent. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the job was posted back in December when the
Speaker 1: rat problem was I think it came across Mayor Adams's
Speaker 1: desk because he was ticketed or a rat infestation in
Speaker 1: a Brooklyn rowhouse he owned, m you know, just a
Speaker 1: slum lord like any self respecture powerful people and paid
Speaker 1: powerful person in New York. Yeah, he has not paid
Speaker 1: that ticket off Miles. As of December, he hadn't actually
Speaker 1: paid it. But what he has done is appoint a
Speaker 1: rats are You're gonna get results for her first job
Speaker 1: is gonna be get the rats out of that row
Speaker 1: home so he can then contest. That's fine, but the
Speaker 1: job posting called for a background in urban planning. Okay,
Speaker 1: make makes sense, but also said that the applicant should
Speaker 1: have a swashbuckling attitude, m crafty humor, why, and general
Speaker 1: aura of badassery. I'm sorry, that's in the job description.
Speaker 1: That's in the job description. I think they're playing to
Speaker 1: sword fight the rats. Probably you're looking for a rat
Speaker 1: tzarre action. It sounds like, all right, that humor out
Speaker 1: gotta go. So discord leak is the news. So this
Speaker 1: Jack to Shara, is that how we're pronouncing that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Texi Era Sharing, one year old member of the Massachusetts
Speaker 1: Air National Guard has been charged with two counts under
Speaker 1: the Espionage Act related to retaining and distributing classified and
Speaker 1: national defense information being detained in Boston. The main thing
Speaker 1: that I'm still trying to understand is like this story
Speaker 1: took over the mainstream media. This was the number one
Speaker 1: story on New York Times for over twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: It's the number one story on Drudge. So you got
Speaker 1: both sides being really blown away by this. It seems
Speaker 1: like just at first blush, like, this is a person
Speaker 1: who was trying to impress teenagers in a chat room
Speaker 1: on a discord and started like just showing them the
Speaker 1: most classified documents that they could. The day that, like,
Speaker 1: the news story started circulating, government records indicate that he
Speaker 1: used his government computer to search for the world leak.
Speaker 1: So it's like, not, it doesn't seem like a sophisticated operator.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's so sophisticated. I know how this will, this
Speaker 1: will play, so I'm gonna do something seemingly very basic. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. For like people like Eric Swalwell and
Speaker 1: like sort of establishment Democrats, there's always this thing that,
Speaker 1: like in American politics, someone who leaks classified information, the
Speaker 1: immediate thing is always like that person's a trader. When
Speaker 1: a lot of the times, unfortunately we live in such
Speaker 1: a cryptic environment as it relates to our government's actions
Speaker 1: in general. Yet sometimes that's the only time we get
Speaker 1: a moment to like be like, whoa, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are we doing? Oh yeah, fuck all that, And then
Speaker 1: they want to keep that ship secret. In this instance,
Speaker 1: I don't know what his fucking motivations are, but it's
Speaker 1: clear though too, like so for the Republicans, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy's like a right wing dude, and they can
Speaker 1: be like he's a trader. But then you have people
Speaker 1: like Marjorie Taylor Green, who if you're like on the
Speaker 1: far right, this like especially with Marjorie Taylor Green, who
Speaker 1: has like a lot of you know, kremliny talking points.
Speaker 1: She's doing stuff of like who's the real enemy here? Right?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, she said quote,
Speaker 1: he told the truth about troops being on the ground
Speaker 1: in Ukraine and a lot more because we had no idea.
Speaker 1: There was like a small force like of Americans in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, interesting, I had no idea and
Speaker 1: then just going to be like oh like or like
Speaker 1: being able to do like start a war with like Russia.
Speaker 1: You know, they have all kinds of everyone has their
Speaker 1: reason to evoke this. I mean, that seems like it
Speaker 1: should be the big news story, not that it was leaked,
Speaker 1: but that they are US troops on the ground. But
Speaker 1: I guess I guess they're like, we don't want they're
Speaker 1: putting them at risk, and it's like, well, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: you're putting all of us at risk. By like fighting
Speaker 1: this lukewarm proxy war against Russia, right, and doing such
Speaker 1: a good job of keeping the document secret that they're
Speaker 1: available to Jack to Shara, Yeah, on discovering one year
Speaker 1: old trying to impress his chord group that met playing
Speaker 1: video games. Yeah, so anyway said he's a white male
Speaker 1: Christian and anti war. That makes sure him an enemy
Speaker 1: to the Biden regime. M. Yeah, that's probably what happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great fodder for the outrage machine. Yeah. I guess
Speaker 1: what was revealed is compelling, So maybe that's what it's
Speaker 1: being treated that way because they know they can't report
Speaker 1: that because it's technically violating like national security, so instead
Speaker 1: they're just talking about so okay, that is clarifying. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like one of those things where it's like because
Speaker 1: it sounds, like the Washington Post said, like there's videos
Speaker 1: of him like saying racial slurs and then like shipping
Speaker 1: off a gun and stuff. I am not team to share,
Speaker 1: I will just say, of course, but it's like one
Speaker 1: of those weird things where you find yourself Like for
Speaker 1: me personally, I'm like, well, like leakers and stuff like this,
Speaker 1: where they're revealing just how reckless our foreign policy is
Speaker 1: or these other things. I'm like, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of want to know these things. Yeah, but again,
Speaker 1: it's very easy to then just be like it's a
Speaker 1: trade blah blah blah. So look, I'm more saying like, oh, wait,
Speaker 1: what what happened in these leaks? And now everyone gets
Speaker 1: to go to their corners and you know, Eric Swalwell
Speaker 1: and the like and like quote tweet Marjorie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: like who's the real trader here? It's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: focus on like shit like gun control. But I guess
Speaker 1: that this helps kind of take the attention away and
Speaker 1: onto the leak that I actually care about because it's
Speaker 1: stupid and doesn't matter and I'm an idiot. Um. The
Speaker 1: Murdocks have long suspected like Ruper. Wait which Murdo and
Speaker 1: not the South Carolina Murdocks. No, not the murdog. Did
Speaker 1: you watch that documentary yet? No? I haven't. Man, We've
Speaker 1: been talking about it a lot. It's another thing to
Speaker 1: like visually begin to put the pieces together and your
Speaker 1: fucking skin is gonna crawl off your body. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the other Murdocks who make my skin crawls my body.
Speaker 1: The Rupert Murdocks of Manhattan have long suspected someone is
Speaker 1: leaking their lives to the rights of Succession. Is like,
Speaker 1: Succession is so dead on. There's this new Vanity Fair
Speaker 1: article that like details about a bunch of the like
Speaker 1: dark secrets and like one of the sun says like
Speaker 1: struggle with mental health and shit like that. But the
Speaker 1: detail that blew my mind is that Sherman says there
Speaker 1: was actually a clause in Rupert Murdock's divorce from Jerry
Speaker 1: Hall I think is the name of one of his exes,
Speaker 1: preventing her from giving the Succession writers any plot ideas.
Speaker 1: So they specifically called it out, and we're like, yo,
Speaker 1: they are getting so much right that one of you
Speaker 1: motherfucker's has to be leaking, and so therefore I have
Speaker 1: to specifically say that you can't do this. Wow. I
Speaker 1: wonder if anything's gonna mirror this season in real life.
Speaker 1: M yeah, M interesting. So I don't know. I always
Speaker 1: suspected the Succession was pretty close to home and that
Speaker 1: they had a lot of the details of what it's
Speaker 1: like to be in a room with these people. But
Speaker 1: apparently they watch it and we're like, who the fuck
Speaker 1: who's telling on us. Right, so interesting, very interesting. Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: And there's a warning from the FBI. Uh that was
Speaker 1: getting a lot of coverage about how public phone chargers,
Speaker 1: it places like airports, can be hacked and bad actors
Speaker 1: can hit you with the malware. Malware. I call it malware.
Speaker 1: I like malware. That's just what I wear to the
Speaker 1: mall new kicks. Or it's like no, man, I studied
Speaker 1: abroad in Spain. It's actually pronounced malware. Okay, it's actually maldware.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot of people are like what the fuck,
Speaker 1: Like wait, what the bulletin reads think twice before and
Speaker 1: this is the FCC and they're talking about the FBI
Speaker 1: said I think twice before using public charging stations. Hackers
Speaker 1: could be waiting to gain access to your personal information
Speaker 1: by installing malware and monitoring software to your devices. This
Speaker 1: scam is referred to as juice jacking. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I am extremely important, so everything checks out here, probably
Speaker 1: very interested in what's on my phone, so checked out.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, like one of these like this journalist
Speaker 1: over at Slate, Heather tom Murphy like actually was asking around,
Speaker 1: like is this true, and even like reached out to
Speaker 1: like hackers who are like in the you know, info
Speaker 1: security space, and they're like, I mean like a better
Speaker 1: version is using like rigged cables than like this, Like
Speaker 1: what even they're described and even then there's not a
Speaker 1: lot to say that this is a widespread problem. And
Speaker 1: so then then like then what the fuck is the deal?
Speaker 1: Like why talk about this? And then like they talked
Speaker 1: to like someone at the FCC and other places and
Speaker 1: they're just sort of saying, oh yeah, like they referenced
Speaker 1: old bulletin from twenty nineteen, like that's what the FBI
Speaker 1: person said, and everyone took this as like big news
Speaker 1: because the FBI like put this out and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like this warning from twenty nineteen, and I apparently
Speaker 1: it looks like the reason the FBI social person even
Speaker 1: shared it is because quote, the agency regularly provides reminders
Speaker 1: and public service announcements in conjunction with our partners and
Speaker 1: as their author the writer Slate says. In other words,
Speaker 1: it seems that the FBI, like many other entities in America,
Speaker 1: feels the need to put out content. It turns to
Speaker 1: old stuff when nothing new is going on. What's our
Speaker 1: posting schedule look like this week? Guys? What do we
Speaker 1: what do we got? What do you got for me? Now?
Speaker 1: But before you take off for your birthday on the weekend,
Speaker 1: let me know what the posting cadence is going to be.
Speaker 1: Look at the engagement stats we got on that one
Speaker 1: time when you claimed that people's refrigerators might be reading
Speaker 1: their phones over their shoulders and having sex with your mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're refrigerator, maybe banging your mom. Click here to know
Speaker 1: if you have one of the dangerous models. Yes so yeah,
Speaker 1: um as superducer Base says in the chat Jestermenter. Bring
Speaker 1: your own phone charger and rechargeable battery. Look, I love
Speaker 1: you trust and chargeable batteries where you know, unless you're
Speaker 1: building your own, unless that's a home build. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine a homebrew rechargeable battery just like electrical taping, a
Speaker 1: bunch of like de cell rechargeable batteries. Say it's safe,
Speaker 1: it's safe, it's safe, all right. Mike Pence has he
Speaker 1: announced that he's running for president? I mean he did, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's out there. Doesn't seem like it's been picking
Speaker 1: up a ton of traction. But what what what happened?
Speaker 1: So he recently appeared maybe oh no, you know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's because he did a book and he
Speaker 1: did his book tour, and that's when everyone goes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so you're running, right, because you never put out a
Speaker 1: book about oh you want to hear about my story
Speaker 1: unless you're running for president. But he is definitely edging
Speaker 1: with us because we don't know what he is doing.
Speaker 1: He is not really filing official paperwork yet and he's
Speaker 1: saying I'm gonna make my decision. I think it's like
Speaker 1: a lot of people in like Ron de Santis, because
Speaker 1: we've even heard Ron de Santis. There's a potential he
Speaker 1: might not step up this year. Yeah, nobody wants to
Speaker 1: fuck with Trump. Yeah, like because he's shook daddy and
Speaker 1: he's like yeah maybe twenty twenty eight or whenever. The
Speaker 1: fuck that is mean is like a better at fucking time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Pence, I think who knows. I mean, he
Speaker 1: still has to go testify and all this other ship.
Speaker 1: Everybody was like Ron de Santis is like Trump with
Speaker 1: an Ivy League education, and it seems like that is
Speaker 1: just Ted Cruise. He just seems like he's another Ted
Speaker 1: cruise to me yea at this point exactly with just
Speaker 1: like slightly less sniveling. But Mike Pence is one of
Speaker 1: a kind though, Baby, he is yeah, one of the
Speaker 1: strangest humans to watch, like public figures to watch in
Speaker 1: motion because yeah, because he is like a like a
Speaker 1: meat suit powered by corporate donations. Yes, and that's really it.
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't tell you. I mean, like I get
Speaker 1: like we have stuff from his past as like our
Speaker 1: radio DJ to get like some inkling after who he
Speaker 1: was before he became like a governor and all that shit.
Speaker 1: But all that to say is he was in his
Speaker 1: home state of Indiana. For you'd imagine he is beloved
Speaker 1: speaking to the fucking NRA. Damn. This is like where
Speaker 1: you go to warm up for the more hostile crowd. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: so here's his entrance to go address the NRA in
Speaker 1: his own state of Indiana. Ba NRA, I love you too,
Speaker 1: who love you? And a lot of booze. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think still some people look, Mike, you
Speaker 1: basically didn't stop the steal when you could have. Bro Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you should have had some backbone, man, maybe you
Speaker 1: should have some backbone. But whatever, that's where he's at,
Speaker 1: because he just like bears down and you can like
Speaker 1: kind of see the wheels working behind the eyes, but
Speaker 1: not really that was like one of those things too.
Speaker 1: He probably was so fucked up by that. Like after
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, man, I don't know, Mother, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I should run mother. This is he probably
Speaker 1: had all the people booing killed, like this is probably
Speaker 1: what happened. Part of me feels like he's not even
Speaker 1: capable of that. Oh, he's just any he has so
Speaker 1: much money by but he does he even to me,
Speaker 1: He's just like he's like this inanimate object. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: is an inanimate object, but like he's an inanimate object
Speaker 1: powered by a corporate behemoth of money that is just
Speaker 1: trying to do whatever it takes. Yeah, well, i'd I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised if he wouldn't have me killed for saying this. Uh,
Speaker 1: if he if he was a listener to the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think Mother is probably the more
Speaker 1: dangerous of the two. Karen Pence, Oh, I mean I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to read the play once we've had
Speaker 1: time to process what was going on there. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And then finally one dollar Hot dog Nights. One of
Speaker 1: them got out of hand at a Phillies game Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: People are getting all bad rap because they started throwing
Speaker 1: hot dogs. It started innocently enough. It began with a
Speaker 1: kid who hate thirteen hot dogs, and people kept trying
Speaker 1: to get him to eat more, which devolved into them
Speaker 1: throwing hot dogs at him or to him. Um, and
Speaker 1: then people started hurling water bottles from the upper deck.
Speaker 1: Everything went nat that that's a direct quote. Several fans
Speaker 1: were thrown out of the game. Um. Something I didn't
Speaker 1: know about the dollar hot dog Night is that they
Speaker 1: are not selling the same hot dogs that you get
Speaker 1: on a normal night at the ballpark. You're getting the
Speaker 1: dollar hot dog. You're getting the dollar hot dogs. And like,
Speaker 1: so somebody, I guess there was one, Like in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: there's a Kansas City Royals Buck Night, which is when
Speaker 1: you can get a hot dog for a dollar, And
Speaker 1: people took pictures of what the hot dogs looked like,
Speaker 1: and they look like crime scene photos. They look like,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be like really fucked up, like
Speaker 1: autopsy photos like of like necrotizing flesh. Yeah, but in
Speaker 1: the shape of a hot dog. And you're like I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is this? And they asked specifically that question,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is this? And there's not been an answer. Um,
Speaker 1: So America, you know, I bet the fucking hot dogs
Speaker 1: they sell normally don't cost a dollar. No, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're making fucking or I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: fucking margins on fucking hot dogs. But I can't imagine
Speaker 1: those little meat tubes are that much per unit. No.
Speaker 1: I bet, like even in a way when it's dollar
Speaker 1: fucking hot dog Night, they're like they're still making like
Speaker 1: ninety eight cents every hot dog kind of thing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean photographs these look like you know,
Speaker 1: they're I mean, they're probably it's pure margin because these
Speaker 1: are hot dogs that they would have otherwise thrown out
Speaker 1: or that we're thrown out. They look there, fish out
Speaker 1: of the garbage. Yeah, these are fish out of the
Speaker 1: garbage and served to you. But so, anyways, I did
Speaker 1: not know that pass it along as a service to
Speaker 1: the Zeke Gang. Dollar hot Dog Night is the dollar
Speaker 1: hot dog is its own Yeah, it is its own entity,
Speaker 1: and you might not want to fuck with it. Dollar
Speaker 1: hot Dog Night will lead to a fifteen thousand dollars
Speaker 1: er bill right, do the math, folks. It ain't worth
Speaker 1: it all right. Well, those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are trending on this Friday afternoon. We are back
Speaker 1: on Monday with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremis, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to y'all on Monday. By piece the
Speaker 1: fuck out