Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to this Friday, February twenty eighth
Speaker 1: edition of a trend of Measles. So yeah, spooky out there, folks,
Speaker 1: Uh crazy so many ways. I'm yeah, we actually, you know,
Speaker 1: he really did it. It is it really is crazy.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: As soon as I heard it, I was like, he
Speaker 3: knows what twenty twenty five is going.
Speaker 1: To be late, pretty scary, spooky, hilarious. Nah, yeah you
Speaker 1: figured it out. I don't know how, but you did. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm Miles and I'm here with Brian the editor. What's it, Brian, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know exactly. Well, it's Friday, it's time to check
Speaker 1: in with what's trending. Brian. You are not in the
Speaker 1: United States, so you get to watch everything terribly unfold
Speaker 1: from over there. But America jessicatter fire Yeah yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah exactly exactly. Well, look over here in America,
Speaker 1: we just had our first measles death in a deck
Speaker 1: or so. Sounds like, yeah, he did it, we did it.
Speaker 1: That was last time twenty fifteen, when a woman in
Speaker 1: Washington State died of measles. This time, sadly is an
Speaker 1: unvaccinated child in public Texas. And this would be in
Speaker 1: any normal world. I don't know what's fucking normal anymore.
Speaker 1: Usually you would have a functioning Health and Human Services
Speaker 1: and all that. But the secretary of AHHS is one
Speaker 1: RFK Junior aka let them kids die of measles. Check out.
Speaker 1: Just just his antics in Americas.
Speaker 3: It's really got a way of letting children die for
Speaker 3: adult some mistakes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the measles outbreaks again were brought up to
Speaker 1: Trump during like this cabinet meeting, and he was just like, ah, bro,
Speaker 1: that's He's like, he's kind of like, that's a that's
Speaker 1: RFK bro. Why don't you why don't you take that question?
Speaker 1: And basically he was like saying that the people like
Speaker 1: that it's all blown out of proportion. That the hospitalizations
Speaker 1: that are happening, we're quote mainly for quarantine. Everything RFK
Speaker 1: Junior says is wrong. So even without checking this, I
Speaker 1: know this is wrong and I will check it. Hold on. Okay,
Speaker 1: the actual chief medical officer of the Lubbock hospital where
Speaker 1: the death happened said, no one is hospitalized for quarantine
Speaker 1: today because they need treatment. Okay.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 1: He was saying right now. Those patients quote are needing
Speaker 1: supplemental oxygen and respiratory support to help them get over
Speaker 1: viral pneumonia linked to measles. So doctor Laura Johnson, thank
Speaker 1: you for just saying the words out loud that are
Speaker 1: science based. And then also RFK was saying that quote,
Speaker 1: we're following the measles epidemic every day. Incidentally, there have
Speaker 1: been four measles outbreaks this year in this country. Last
Speaker 1: year there were sixteen, So it's not unusual we have
Speaker 1: measles outbreaks every year. Okay, hmm. Again, this was another thing,
Speaker 1: like I said in American Sama Kennedy went out there
Speaker 1: there was an outbreak in twenty nineteen, and then he
Speaker 1: was just also talking. I was like, yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. I wasn't telling him to
Speaker 1: not vaccinate or whatever. And then an outbreak happened whatever,
Speaker 1: who knows, who knows, And then he also said that quote,
Speaker 1: we don't know what was killing the people who died
Speaker 1: in that outbreak, so very alarming. And also not to
Speaker 1: mention that he canceled like the there's like an annual
Speaker 1: scientific gathering to discuss like flu vaccinations for the year.
Speaker 1: He's just canceled that meeting. So I think they'll just
Speaker 1: have to freeze. They'll go to a parking lot and
Speaker 1: do it to figure out.
Speaker 3: How to look. Guys, the measles happens every Look, my
Speaker 3: father and my uncle gets shot every year.
Speaker 1: It's an annual thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Normal, perfectly normal for your father or uncle.
Speaker 1: To get shot every year on the same day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just what it is? All right news, I guess lighter news.
Speaker 1: They're okay. So in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Whoha, whoa, whoa, I'm sorry, did you say lighter news?
Speaker 1: Wells, I don't think so quite. This is quite a
Speaker 1: heavy story. So in twenty nineteen, like three dudes took
Speaker 1: off with a golden and eighteen carrot golden toilet that
Speaker 1: was taken from Blenheim Palace, which is where Winston Churchill
Speaker 1: was born. This was back in twenty nineteen. They never
Speaker 1: recovered it because they're like, well, they probably cut up
Speaker 1: this solid piece of gold and sold it because it's
Speaker 1: a shit ton of gold. In fact, it weighed just
Speaker 1: over two hundred and fifteen pounds and was ensured for
Speaker 1: four point eight million pounds sterling, which is around six
Speaker 1: million dollars. The value of the gold at that time
Speaker 1: was about three and a half million dollars, and it
Speaker 1: was previously on display at the Guggenheim and then made
Speaker 1: its way to the UK. But yeah, so apparently like
Speaker 1: East that they've caught these three people that are involved.
Speaker 1: One is the dude who stole the toilet, and then
Speaker 1: two are the ones that helped fence it or break
Speaker 1: it down to make money for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but who carried it?
Speaker 1: God damn, mus have been the one dude because they
Speaker 1: said he he took out of there. He got out
Speaker 1: of there within minutes. Like this ship was also hooked
Speaker 1: up to plumbing.
Speaker 3: I need, okay, I need, I need a detailed, detailed
Speaker 3: breakdown of this fucking heist because I've never I've never
Speaker 3: seen anything I can't envision hoisting and operating toilet that's
Speaker 3: wild to me.
Speaker 1: There is like, okay, here is here's some CCTV footage.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think this is what they say. This
Speaker 1: is some CCTV footage of the golden toilet again set
Speaker 1: up hooked up to plumbing.
Speaker 3: It kind of looks. That's the wild thing about gold
Speaker 3: is it makes certain things look like shit.
Speaker 1: This is where you see them. This is the dude
Speaker 1: piecing out with the toilet right here in a hatchback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hold on, where's my guy right here? Okay, so there's
Speaker 1: the hatchback and a VOLC. So I was like, yo, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's home boy. He got the toilets. Oh, he got
Speaker 1: the golden toilet seat.
Speaker 3: Look heavy?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. The other guys looks like they're okay. They're
Speaker 1: rolling it out on like oh, it looks like they
Speaker 1: probably had it on like a dolly or something. Okay,
Speaker 1: unless you had like they could have just had like
Speaker 1: a strong man. It's only two hundred fifteen pounds. Light work,
Speaker 1: boom and they're gone. They're gone.
Speaker 3: Oh like kaiser sos.
Speaker 1: They poof and they're out. Yeah. So that's how they
Speaker 1: absconded with a two hundred and fifteen pounds The trial
Speaker 1: is now just beginning. Yeah, holy shit. But the interesting
Speaker 1: thing is like, apparently this is an art piece that
Speaker 1: this Italian artist, Maurzio Catalan made and it was funny
Speaker 1: because apparently when Trump, I think, was in office, he
Speaker 1: asked the Guggenheim because like, I'd like a van go
Speaker 1: for like that I could that, I could you know,
Speaker 1: show in the White House or whatever. They're like, they're like,
Speaker 1: fuck out of here. You want this golden toilet and no,
Speaker 1: he said no, and that the piece is titled America,
Speaker 1: so pretty spot on. Yeah, yeah, again pathetic exactly. And
Speaker 1: before we take a break, just want to touch Andrew
Speaker 1: Tait and his brother, the other guy Tate, have been
Speaker 1: in the headlines for the last couple of years due
Speaker 1: to their criminal behavior in Romania, a country Tate, you know,
Speaker 1: like move to and always talk about it is like
Speaker 1: how lax the laws are there, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to things like sex trafficking and assault. But they were arrested.
Speaker 1: Him and his brother were arrested in Romania in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and we're facing trial on charges of rape,
Speaker 1: sex of the minor, human trafficking, and money laundering. And
Speaker 1: they were barred from leaving Romania until yesterday, when apparently
Speaker 1: they were just like, yeah, they're able to go, and
Speaker 1: they're like, this has nothing to do with any of
Speaker 1: there's no interference from the Trump this is this is
Speaker 1: just we're just letting them leave. Very murky, especially when
Speaker 1: you consider that they took a flight just basically from
Speaker 1: Romania directly to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And this feels like
Speaker 1: very much has the hallmarks of a Trump administration pressure campaign.
Speaker 1: To again, I wonder sex criminal.
Speaker 3: I wonder if this has anything to do with Andrew's new.
Speaker 1: Role as Secretary of Keeping It Real.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, you think you think those are related?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's I think it is a confirmed cat.
Speaker 1: I think he will have to go through the confirmation process,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it could be, it could be.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm wondering who they're gonna get to
Speaker 3: confirm him, because you you need a sigma to confirm
Speaker 3: another sigma.
Speaker 1: Those are the rules, dude. Only sigmas can confirm other sigmas. Dude,
Speaker 1: that's in the constitution. It's in the concerts.
Speaker 3: You're gonna let them fucking beta cook me.
Speaker 1: You know what's wild though? Too. They go to Florida
Speaker 1: and then Ron DeSantis, the governor, was asked about it
Speaker 1: and he was like, they're not welcome here. I like, Yo, wait,
Speaker 1: what the fuck your whole y'all whole brand is to me?
Speaker 3: What do you mean, Ron?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it ruffled a few feathers on Hey, rob Bro.
Speaker 1: What a rob he was robbed. Let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back with some more fucking weird headlines and
Speaker 1: trends right after this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're back.
Speaker 1: Meta is trending because I don't know if people were
Speaker 1: on Instagram yesterday or the day before, because you may
Speaker 1: have seen something on reels the reels section where people
Speaker 1: were just getting fed some of the most horrific, violent content,
Speaker 1: like shit that you're like, am I on like the
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven Internet when they were like websites
Speaker 1: down lives pase? Yeah, no for real, like am I
Speaker 1: on two thousand and six live leak? Is this what's happening?
Speaker 1: Because that's what it feels like. Oh the borious shit. Ever,
Speaker 1: people were like, what the fuck's going on? All Meta
Speaker 1: came out was this statement said quote, we have fixed
Speaker 1: an era that caused some users to see content in
Speaker 1: their Instagram reels feed that should not have been recommended.
Speaker 1: We apologize for the mistake.
Speaker 3: You guys were not supposed to see that. Oh oh
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 1: It's fucking weird. I mean, like again, we talked about
Speaker 1: how it was like we're not moderating.
Speaker 3: Shit, No, this is this is all part of the
Speaker 3: plan for them.
Speaker 1: Baby, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: This was just this was just like it's like when
Speaker 3: like when Drake puts out like a little single, it's
Speaker 3: like one of those little feelers. Yeah, yeah, people, it's
Speaker 3: people vibing with this. Do people want to see unmoderated death?
Speaker 1: This still goes forward with it? You know? Then they
Speaker 1: probably yeah, they really were just like oh, it's like
Speaker 1: a big boo boo. But then you're also like, where
Speaker 1: the fuck, Like, do you guys also.
Speaker 3: Admire these here is on reels? Why is this here
Speaker 3: in the first place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a few people that we work with had this
Speaker 1: first hand experience or they're like, my feed of watching
Speaker 1: Dog Tricks was interrupted by just indescribable violence that They're like,
Speaker 1: I what what the fuck did I just watch?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're going for eye bleach and checking in
Speaker 3: on friends and family, you don't want to see like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, someone bed gloved or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. No, No, it was it's truly like
Speaker 1: it's like awful, awful shit. Like just reading some of
Speaker 1: the like what people are describing they saw, I'm like, okay, no, anyway,
Speaker 1: so meta just said oops, sorry, And you know, moderation
Speaker 1: as well, So we're not doing it. I'm expensive. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the oligarchs, Elon Musk has basically done like a
Speaker 1: rage a like I don't care over his like I
Speaker 1: demand you tell me your five most productive accomplishments this week.
Speaker 1: Because this had a hole back and forth. It was like,
Speaker 1: first there was an email and people laughed it off.
Speaker 1: Then there was like a second chance email. It was like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you get terminated. And while that seemed to be like, yo,
Speaker 1: this is it, this is the time to do it.
Speaker 1: Then the Trump administration said the email was actually voluntary.
Speaker 1: And then Trump was saying, well, like if you don't
Speaker 1: like answer, then you would be quote sort of semi fired.
Speaker 3: Here's here's my question that I was never quite clear on.
Speaker 3: I never got clarity. Is so how I found out
Speaker 3: about this whole semi email telling me why you should
Speaker 3: keep your job thing? He sent that out as a tweet.
Speaker 1: No, there was anything. This was like an actual email masking.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, because I was like, how how the fuck
Speaker 3: am I supposed to respond to this email?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, this was like a he tweeted it out.
Speaker 1: He basically hit like the group.
Speaker 3: All he said at all, and because I would believe
Speaker 3: that Elon would do something that dumb of like you
Speaker 3: need to email me right now?
Speaker 1: Uh all right at this tweet street, No, it basically is,
Speaker 1: but again, it just being it became less and less consequential,
Speaker 1: and they started backing off on this shit until the
Speaker 1: point where they're just like, like, so, you know, people
Speaker 1: were like, first of all, let's say every fucking person
Speaker 1: replied to this, how the fuck you go through millions
Speaker 1: of emails and then from there efficiently determine who is
Speaker 1: actually justifying their job or who is a loyalist or
Speaker 1: who is not whatever you thought this like weird power
Speaker 1: move was gonna do, it just don't even makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's just purely for your you know again, he's Ketamine
Speaker 1: Bray's dog shit brain of his that he's just like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: this would be fucking sick and I'll have to work
Speaker 1: through Twitter. Yeah. Well yeah, but that was like not
Speaker 1: even close to the same amount of employees. Then, so
Speaker 1: when people were like people were pointing this out, They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: dumb ass, what the fuck, how do you think this
Speaker 1: was gonna work? He then just backed off it and
Speaker 1: was just like, well, we wouldn't need large language models,
Speaker 1: he said, what it was just a check to see
Speaker 1: if the employees had a pulse and if they were
Speaker 1: capable of replying to an email, like completely was like
Speaker 1: pivoting off of that shit, Like it was all a
Speaker 1: joke the whole time. So again, this is just it's wild,
Speaker 1: like they're it's so great. It's just wild that they're
Speaker 1: stupid and evil at the same.
Speaker 3: Time and unseious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just all fuck it, like they're.
Speaker 3: Dead ass and completely unserious at the same time.
Speaker 1: And get a dumb ass. That's both they dumb, dead ass.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see what, you know, what kind of
Speaker 1: shit he does to try and make himself feel powerful
Speaker 1: this weekend, I can leave. I can't wait. And then
Speaker 1: finally some good news, uh Nathan Fielder who gave us
Speaker 1: the rehearsal and you know, Nathan, for you of many,
Speaker 1: the rehearsal season two teaser just dropped. No, it's like
Speaker 1: it's just it's a it's like a teaser in its
Speaker 1: purest form. So the t So the new season comes
Speaker 1: out on four to twenty. Thank god, we'll have something else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, what do you think of that? Teaser.
Speaker 1: It's just like the scale of it now, it's like
Speaker 1: not even just one rehearsal. It looks like he's got
Speaker 1: like five multi verses.
Speaker 3: It's definitely okay. The thing about the rehearsal with you know,
Speaker 3: all the humor aside is the uh, the production looked
Speaker 3: complicated and really I feel like this this teaser really
Speaker 3: sort of it's just such an odd show, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: to conceptualize and to describe to people, and yeah, getting
Speaker 3: to see the production aspects of the actual sort of
Speaker 3: production that you're watching. It's got this meta thing, very
Speaker 3: weird and just he's perfectly suited for this kind of this.
Speaker 1: Kind of media. It's just wild how much it's just
Speaker 1: it's really nice to see like sort of comedians just
Speaker 1: get the sort of creative like latitude to just be like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: what like what do you want to make? And they're
Speaker 1: just like, I think this would be really wild like
Speaker 1: to do a show.
Speaker 3: I like how heady it is because it's like it's
Speaker 3: not like Eric Andre type thing where it's just like
Speaker 3: everything just devolves into shitting.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's ear bombing ranch or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's it's got a little threads running through it,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm it looks the duplication in the teasers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting. I don't know where they're going with that, and
Speaker 3: I don't want I don't want to know. I want
Speaker 3: to be surprised.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just like, you know, it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting. Are these multi versus? Is this like some
Speaker 1: synectic key New York ship?
Speaker 3: You know, definitely some synectic?
Speaker 1: Is that even how you pronounce that the movie?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Syndaci, I think it's New York, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 1: Hey, doch get over here. Those are the stories that
Speaker 1: are trending today. We will have more tomorrow. We got
Speaker 1: a brand new episode, so tune in for that. It's
Speaker 1: basically a two podcast mash up with my guest host
Speaker 1: and our guest. Uh yeah, it's a gigantic episode. You're
Speaker 1: gonna love it. You're going to love it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: check in for that. And yeah, that'll be it for
Speaker 1: us today and then we'll be back tomorrow. But again,
Speaker 1: until then, please take care of yourselves. Please take care
Speaker 1: of yourselves, give yourself some grace, give yourself some space,
Speaker 1: you know, take care of each other. Please. It's really
Speaker 1: fucked up out there. And all jokes aside, get whatever
Speaker 1: flu shots you can. Who knows, who knows what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, So yes, until then, take care of each other.
Speaker 1: We'll see you soon. Bye bye,