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- 0:04Speaker 1: Let's start with Congress, the only branch of government that
- 0:07Speaker 1: ages in dog years. For a while now, there's been
- 0:10Speaker 1: growing concern about how old some members are, but it
- 0:13Speaker 1: really peaked this summer when Senator Mitch McConnell got sick
- 0:16Speaker 1: and disappeared with no explanation. The rumors spun out of
- 0:19Speaker 1: control from him secretly being dead to people saying the
- 0:22Speaker 1: photo that was posted of him in the hospital was photoshopped.
- 0:26Speaker 2: It looked fine to me. He looks great.
- 0:36Speaker 1: But yesterday was Congress's first day back in session, so
- 0:39Speaker 1: it was time for McConnell to show up, lock in,
- 0:42Speaker 1: and show everyone he's feeling A-OK.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Let's go. Senator McConnell, how are you feeling, Senator McConnell?
- 0:59Speaker 3: How are you feeling, Mitch?
- 1:10Speaker 2: You feeling all right, Mitch?
- 1:12Speaker 4: Good.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Uh-oh, okay.
- 1:17Speaker 1: I see that he's giving a thumbs up, but that's
- 1:19Speaker 1: not the thumbs up of a man who's doing well.
- 1:22Speaker 1: That is the thumbs up of a football player on
- 1:24Speaker 1: a stretcher that you're never gonna see again.
- 1:28Speaker 2: His thumb is saying I'm good, but his face is
- 1:30Speaker 2: saying beep.
- 1:42Speaker 1: But maybe Mitch was just overwhelmed by the media circus
- 1:44Speaker 1: outside his door. I'm sure after he gave the thumbs
- 1:47Speaker 1: up and got in his car, he seemed totally normal. Wait,
- 2:00Speaker 1: did he get stuck in thumbs up? Quick, tell the
- 2:04Speaker 1: Senate to vote on universal health care right now. He's
- 2:08Speaker 1: stuck like that. He has to vote yes. Republicans are
- 2:10Speaker 1: going to have to flip him upside down to get
- 2:12Speaker 1: a no vote. I'm sorry, but everything here screams puppet. Like,
- 2:19Speaker 1: there's just a guy on the floor of the SUV
- 2:21Speaker 1: with a fishing line. Like, quick, y'all, I can't open
- 2:24Speaker 1: his mouth and move his thumb at the same time.
- 2:27Speaker 2: But let's move on to something that can pass for
- 2:29Speaker 2: a living human, AI.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Over the last few years, we've heard about all the
- 2:34Speaker 1: terrible things AI's gonna do. Use all of our water,
- 2:38Speaker 1: take all of our jobs, mess with our ability to think,
- 2:40Speaker 1: or even worse, mess with our ability to think.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Which is all bad, but at least it's not going
- 2:48Speaker 2: to kill everyone.
- 2:49Speaker 5: Jacob Coxon, a researcher at leading AI firm Anthropic, says
- 2:53Speaker 5: he resigned, posting, the people building AI earnestly believe that
- 2:57Speaker 5: it could kill us all by the end of the decade.
- 3:01Speaker 2: End of the decade? It's fall 2026.
- 3:05Speaker 1: That's just three pumpkin spice seasons away.
- 3:14Speaker 2: But you know what?
- 3:14Speaker 1: Maybe that's just a disgruntled employee. People love to shit
- 3:18Speaker 1: talk their jobs after they leave. You know, when my
- 3:20Speaker 1: buddy got fired from Chick-fil-A, he told everybody they spend
- 3:23Speaker 1: Sundays doing unspeakable things to the sauce. I'm sure the
- 3:29Speaker 1: people who still work there don't earnestly believe AI could
- 3:32Speaker 1: kill all humans.
- 3:34Speaker 6: A more senior employee at Anthropic wrote this on X.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Jacob is correct here.
- 3:39Speaker 5: We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Damn it, you still work there? How do they get
- 3:48Speaker 1: these employees? Do they just ask where you see yourself
- 3:51Speaker 1: in five years? And if you say, killed by my
- 3:53Speaker 1: own creation, you're hired. Frankenstein ass workplace. But look, I'm
- 3:59Speaker 1: not an expert. I don't know anything. The only time
- 4:02Speaker 1: I use AI is when I try to Google and
- 4:04Speaker 1: it makes me use AI. So why are the people
- 4:07Speaker 1: who work there so convinced this is a possibility?
- 4:10Speaker 7: The reality is the first steps are already here. AI agents,
- 4:13Speaker 7: and to be clear, those agents are computer programs. They're
- 4:16Speaker 7: not people. They've already conspired together, written malicious code, faked
- 4:21Speaker 7: online identities to try to outsmart humans.
- 4:25Speaker 2: And we know it's already happened.
- 4:27Speaker 4: In an essay, Amadei, whose company runs Claude, writing, a
- 4:30Speaker 4: swarm of rogue AI agents could be capable of taking
- 4:33Speaker 4: over the entire internet in just six to 12 months.
- 4:37Speaker 4: And saying AI could be used for cyber attacks or
- 4:39Speaker 4: to create biological weapons.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Six months ago, the Anthropic CEO is saying we could
- 4:46Speaker 1: have six months before AI kills us all. Everyone pick
- 4:50Speaker 1: your death pose now, all right? You don't want to
- 4:53Speaker 1: be like those people in Pompeii getting caught off guard.
- 4:55Speaker 2: All right? You got to hit them with the.
- 5:03Speaker 2: All right, I'm convinced AI is dangerous. Are you guys
- 5:05Speaker 2: going to stop making it? Or do you have some
- 5:08Speaker 2: other way to stop making it?
- 5:10Speaker 1: Anthropic CEO Dario Amadeus calls for an industry-wide slowdown.
- 5:16Speaker 8: He suggests third-party monitors, government regulations, and international cooperation are
- 5:21Speaker 8: needed to slow it down. And soon, in a rare
- 5:24Speaker 8: show of unity, rival CEOs Elon Musk of XAI and
- 5:28Speaker 8: Sam Altman of OpenAI have said they too think the
- 5:31Speaker 8: technology is becoming too powerful too fast.
- 5:35Speaker 2: This makes me hopeful.
- 5:36Speaker 1: If the people want AI to have guardrails and the
- 5:39Speaker 1: CEOs of the AI companies want AI to have guardrails,
- 5:42Speaker 1: then it sounds like AI is going to get some guardrails.
- 5:45Speaker 8: President Trump posted today that the only control or guardrails
- 5:49Speaker 8: that AI needs is a strong and smart high IQ president.
- 6:01Speaker 2: I did forget for a second that he was president.
- 6:06Speaker 2: But you know what? Let's not rush to judgment. Trump
- 6:08Speaker 2: can be smart sometimes.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Maybe the reason the economy is tanking and we're losing
- 6:12Speaker 1: the war in Iran is because he's been putting all
- 6:14Speaker 1: his energy into studying up on AI.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Let's give the man a chance to prove himself.
- 6:19Speaker 9: Some people say the worst case scenario with AI is
- 6:21Speaker 9: that the robots, the machinery learns to, obviously it thinks
- 6:25Speaker 9: for itself, that's what it does. And that could turn
- 6:29Speaker 9: against humanity.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Do we have the guardrails? It's going to be fine.
- 6:33Speaker 2: We'll always have something to stop them, right? We'll have
- 6:35Speaker 2: a little gear. I really hope so. I really don't
- 6:38Speaker 2: like that robot. We'll stop. We have a little gear?
- 6:48Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:51Speaker 2: That's not how AI works. Are you thinking of a Furby?
- 7:01Speaker 1: President Trump, please say something that tells me you have
- 7:04Speaker 1: a firm grasp on the threat that AI poses.
- 7:07Speaker 2: It's technology.
- 7:08Speaker 10: No different than when television was, they said the movies
- 7:11Speaker 10: would be out of business and the radio came and
- 7:15Speaker 10: something else was going to be gone.
- 7:16Speaker 2: And it's always, everything is... People should think more positively.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Did this man just compare AI to the radio? Trump
- 7:29Speaker 1: is like if the mayor from Jaws didn't know what
- 7:32Speaker 1: sharks were.
- 7:34Speaker 2: No, no.
- 7:35Speaker 1: It's safe to swim, everyone. This is just like when
- 7:38Speaker 1: television came along.
- 7:39Speaker 2: It's just like that.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Also, it sounds like Trump thinks radio came after TV.
- 7:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:48Speaker 1: He's been watching TV all these years and then he
- 7:51Speaker 1: comes across a radio like, you could have it without
- 7:53Speaker 1: the picture? Technology is crazy. So look, I know a
- 8:02Speaker 1: lot of people are worried that AI is going to
- 8:04Speaker 1: kill us all before Shrek 5 can give us closure.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Mainly because the tech CEOs gave us six months to live.
- 8:12Speaker 2: But I'm not really sold on their narrative.
- 8:15Speaker 1: I think it's just as likely that these people in
- 8:17Speaker 1: a speculative, overblown industry got into a room and were like, so.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Is everybody out of money?
- 8:25Speaker 1: And this whole thing, this whole thing of pumping the
- 8:27Speaker 1: brakes is actually about taking the pressure off of them
- 8:30Speaker 1: to deliver massive returns that we know still aren't possible.
- 8:34Speaker 1: It's a lot like if a guy couldn't get it up,
- 8:36Speaker 1: but instead of apologizing, he was like, it's actually like...
- 8:40Speaker 1: You know, like, that's the problem, really. Like, I'm really
- 8:44Speaker 1: saving your life right now because.
- 8:46Speaker 2: This thing is too dangerous. Like, it's not that I
- 8:50Speaker 2: can't perform, it's that I want you to live.
- 8:54Speaker 1: So I don't think we can trust the tech CEOs,
- 8:56Speaker 1: and I know we can't trust Trump, who needs the
- 8:59Speaker 1: AI bubble to prop up the economy. Really, I just
- 9:02Speaker 1: need someone who is trustworthy and fully on the ball
- 9:05Speaker 1: to tell me yes or no, is everything gonna be okay.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Good enough for me.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Let's kick things off with Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
- 9:19Speaker 1: and guy at the tattoo parlor who's always getting asked,
- 9:22Speaker 1: are you sure? He may be in charge of a
- 9:26Speaker 1: war that we're clearly losing, but don't worry. Hegseth is
- 9:30Speaker 1: laser focused on making sure his next speech looks sexy.
- 9:34Speaker 11: Well, according to the Wall Street Journal tonight, Hegseth's Pentagon
- 9:37Speaker 11: is focused on finding troops who embody the Secretary's specific
- 9:41Speaker 11: brand of masculinity to serve as the backdrop for his
- 9:44Speaker 11: next speech. Commanders are now reportedly being asked to nominate
- 9:48Speaker 11: troops who meet Hegseth's waist-to-height requirements and also exhibit quote-unquote
- 9:54Speaker 11: impeccable grooming standards.
- 9:58Speaker 1: I'm sorry, is this guy still in charge of the military?
- 10:00Speaker 1: or is he in charge of casting Love Island? I
- 10:04Speaker 1: can just see him screaming like, all these soldiers are
- 10:06Speaker 1: gonna watch this speech shirtless, so no pepperoni nipples! I
- 10:11Speaker 1: have never heard anyone say the phrase waist-to-height ratio before.
- 10:16Speaker 1: This man cannot count the number of missiles you need
- 10:18Speaker 1: to fight a war with Iran, but when it comes
- 10:20Speaker 1: to male physique, he's a beautiful mind? And asking for
- 10:27Speaker 1: impeccable grooming is a little strange. But it's nice to
- 10:31Speaker 1: know this administration is finally taking grooming seriously. Well, let's
- 10:41Speaker 1: move on from Pete Hexeth to another perfect specimen of masculinity.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Donald Trump Jr.
- 10:49Speaker 1: This summer, he celebrated one of the most important days
- 10:51Speaker 1: in any man's life, his second wedding.
- 10:54Speaker 2: We had an awesome small ceremony in the Bahamas. It
- 10:59Speaker 2: was just absolutely cool. I think I got some video.
- 11:02Speaker 2: I'll give you sleep.
- 11:17Speaker 10: It's a.
- 11:19Speaker 1: What a beautiful ceremony in the church from sinners. But
- 11:34Speaker 1: poor Tiffany, even at a wedding that's basically in a room,
- 11:38Speaker 1: she could only get an obstructed view?
- 11:43Speaker 2: Still, I'm not gonna hate on this story.
- 11:45Speaker 1: For once, I'm glad to see that Trump's finally having
- 11:47Speaker 1: a family get together without any corruption.
- 11:50Speaker 12: A Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin paid hundreds
- 11:53Speaker 12: of thousands of dollars to help finance Donald Trump Jr.
- 11:55Speaker 2: 's recent wedding celebration in the Bahamas.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Here comes the bribe from a Russian guy. All right,
- 12:05Speaker 1: what did Comrade Oligarch give him?
- 12:07Speaker 13: The parties that followed were anything but low-key, including professional
- 12:12Speaker 13: dancers and a large fireworks display.
- 12:15Speaker 2: ProPublica says this.
- 12:16Speaker 13: Man, Umar Kremlev, seen in the back of this photo,
- 12:20Speaker 13: footed the bill.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Dang, look at him back there! He paid for all
- 12:26Speaker 2: that and he got Tiffany'd?
- 12:31Speaker 1: Also, the guy who gave them 700K is named Umar Kremlev.
- 12:37Speaker 1: I don't want to be culturally insensitive, but that name
- 12:40Speaker 1: sounds like a knockoff James Bond villain. He's a spy
- 12:44Speaker 1: from the Kremlin. Let's call him Kremlev. But I'm getting distracted.
- 12:51Speaker 1: A Russian oligarch with ties to Putin paid for the
- 12:53Speaker 1: president's son's wedding weekend. And this is a presidential family
- 12:57Speaker 1: of billionaires, which means you just did corruption for the
- 13:01Speaker 1: love of the gang. One person who is not happy
- 13:05Speaker 1: about the reveal is the bride, Bettina Trump.
- 13:10Speaker 2: Bettina. I've never seen those letters put together before.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Bettina Trump, or as President Trump calls her, Melania.
- 13:21Speaker 2: What are you doing here? I thought you'd never come back.
- 13:27Speaker 1: When Bettina heard people were saying that her wedding was
- 13:29Speaker 1: nothing more than a tawdry bribe, she set the record straight.
- 13:33Speaker 6: His wife, Bettina Anderson, responded to ProPublica's reporting today with
- 13:38Speaker 6: this on Instagram. Don and I got married privately on Friday,
- 13:42Speaker 6: surrounded only by our family. And our dear friend, Umar,
- 13:45Speaker 6: very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us
- 13:49Speaker 6: after our wedding.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, fake news.
- 13:54Speaker 1: They didn't pay for my wedding. They paid for the
- 13:57Speaker 1: much more expensive after party. Because I'm not cheap.
- 14:03Speaker 2: I'm Bettina.
- 14:10Speaker 1: This whole family's been making billions off Trump's presidency, and
- 14:13Speaker 1: they still can't resist a freebie. Whether it's a Qatari
- 14:16Speaker 1: jet or a post-wedding chocolate fountain, all of Trump's kids
- 14:20Speaker 1: have front row access to everything.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Well, almost all of them.
- 14:31Speaker 1: But let's move on from Don Jr., who technically has
- 14:34Speaker 1: no responsibilities in the administration, to someone who does have responsibilities,
- 14:38Speaker 1: he just doesn't worry about them, FBI Director Cash Patel. Yesterday,
- 14:44Speaker 1: Cash testified before the Senate, and the FBI is facing
- 14:47Speaker 1: a lot of scrutiny right now, so these hearings were
- 14:50Speaker 1: a chance for the Senate to really dig in.
- 14:55Speaker 8: What about the bestiality?
- 15:09Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the what now? Did I miss an episode?
- 15:15Speaker 1: You know things have gone off the rails when someone
- 15:18Speaker 1: has to ask, what about the Beastie Alley?
- 15:23Speaker 2: But apparently what happened was earlier in the.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Hearing, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin wanted to ask Patel about
- 15:29Speaker 1: a recent decision to loosen standards for FBI recruits. And
- 15:32Speaker 1: I guess one particularly loose new standard kind of jumped out.
- 15:37Speaker 10: The FBI has lowered standards its hiring standards by dropping
- 15:41Speaker 10: automatic disqualification for applicants who have stolen from prior employees,
- 15:46Speaker 10: paid for sex, are engaged in bestiality. Director Patel, do
- 15:51Speaker 10: you believe those who have previously stolen from employers, solicited sex,
- 15:56Speaker 10: are engaged in bestiality, are qualified candidates that the FBI
- 16:01Speaker 10: is losing?
- 16:03Speaker 12: Thank you for bringing this up so we can get
- 16:04Speaker 12: to the truth of the matter.
- 16:07Speaker 2: We are witnessing history here, all right? This may be the.
- 16:12Speaker 1: First time ever someone's response to what's up with the
- 16:14Speaker 1: bestiality is, thank you for bringing that up.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Like, these are the standards you're lowering?
- 16:31Speaker 1: Maybe the new standard should be only needs to do
- 16:33Speaker 1: 20 pushups and not can't go to a petting zoo
- 16:36Speaker 1: wearing gym shorts. So this whole thing apparently confused Republican
- 16:43Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy, who asked Patel what old regulations were
- 16:47Speaker 1: we actually under discussion here?
- 16:50Speaker 12: The regs wrote it up in a fashion before I
- 16:52Speaker 12: arrived that addressed prostitution, bestiality and trafficking. They were there
- 16:56Speaker 12: before I got there.
- 16:57Speaker 14: Tell me what it said before.
- 17:00Speaker 12: It automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side
- 17:05Speaker 12: of it. Obviously, we are never going to hire the criminal.
- 17:08Speaker 2: This side of what?
- 17:09Speaker 14: The bestiality?
- 17:10Speaker 5: Yes.
- 17:11Speaker 14: So you disqualified the animal?
- 17:24Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Was this a big problem from the animal side? Like,
- 17:34Speaker 1: are there bomb-sniffing dogs out there who are like, shit,
- 17:37Speaker 1: the Chinese know I hooked up with Kyle.
- 17:43Speaker 2: I am so confused.
- 17:45Speaker 1: In his fake scenario, the animal participant in the bestiality
- 17:49Speaker 1: is the one to blame? Like, there are actually FBI
- 17:54Speaker 1: applicants going, yeah, you know how sometimes in an online
- 17:59Speaker 1: dating situation you can get catfished? Well, that happened to
- 18:04Speaker 1: me by a catfish. How is the head of the
- 18:12Speaker 1: FBI losing an interrogation about animal sex? What a fall
- 18:17Speaker 1: from grace for the FBI, you know? Like, y'all used
- 18:21Speaker 1: to be the cream.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Of the crop.
- 18:22Speaker 1: The Bureau was the dream team and America's finest law
- 18:26Speaker 1: enforcement agency.
- 18:27Speaker 2: I mean, y'all killed Dr.
- 18:29Speaker 10: King.
- 18:31Speaker 1: And now look at you. J. Edgar Hoover must be
- 18:36Speaker 1: rolling over in his dress right now. And by the way,
- 18:50Speaker 1: I'm not the only one wondering why Kash Patel made
- 18:52Speaker 1: bestiality an issue in the FBI at all. Senator Kitty
- 18:56Speaker 1: and I had the same questions.
- 18:58Speaker 14: Why would you, in light of the context... And what
- 19:04Speaker 14: we're going through and we're having a tough time attracting agents.
- 19:09Speaker 14: Why would you even get into bestiality?
- 19:13Speaker 12: We are not into bestiality.
- 19:22Speaker 1: OK, now I definitely think cash is into bestiality. Why
- 19:27Speaker 1: do I get the feeling there's a video of Kash
- 19:30Speaker 1: Patel partying in the locker room of the Westminster Dog Show?
- 19:37Speaker 1: He's just in there like, yeah, Labradoodle, let's go! I'm
- 19:42Speaker 1: not saying he does it personally, but like, maybe his
- 19:46Speaker 1: mom had an affair with an owl.
- 19:57Speaker 2: It would explain a lot, you know?
- 19:59Speaker 5: Just....
- 20:01Speaker 1: So I believe that Kennedy is sensitive to the optics here,
- 20:04Speaker 1: but I did some investigating into the senator's social media,
- 20:08Speaker 1: and I think I might have uncovered an ulterior motive.
- 20:11Speaker 14: Hey guys, John Kennedy here. I've got somebody I want
- 20:16Speaker 14: you to meet. This is Lily Grace Kennedy. Even though
- 20:21Speaker 14: Lily is a lady. She likes to hump-a-dump my arm
- 20:25Speaker 14: after I feed her cheese when she jumps up on
- 20:31Speaker 14: the bed.
- 20:31Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- 20:34Speaker 11: Hump-a-dump?
- 20:39Speaker 1: Hump-a-dump means that dog is humping the shit out of you.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Hump-a-dump is crazy. Hump-a-dump means that dog is really throwing
- 20:50Speaker 1: it back, you know?
- 20:52Speaker 2: Well, good news.
- 20:53Speaker 1: Under Kash Patel, John Kennedy can join the FBI, and
- 20:56Speaker 1: so can Lilly.
- 21:00Speaker 15: Let's start right here in New York City. Home of
- 21:07Speaker 15: the New York Knicks. And the Statue of Liberty. And
- 21:14Speaker 15: Throg's Neck Bridge.
- 21:19Speaker 16: We got some Throg heads in the house. It's the
- 21:22Speaker 16: best city in the world. A lot of buildup for that.
- 21:24Speaker 16: It's the best city in the world. But it's not perfect. Luckily,
- 21:27Speaker 16: we've got Mayor Zoran Mamdani here now to fix our problem,
- 21:34Speaker 16: starting with problems number one and number two.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Finding a public restroom in the city could soon get
- 21:39Speaker 2: a lot easier. Mayor Mamdani announced plans to install 17
- 21:43Speaker 2: modular public restrooms in busy areas all across the five boroughs. Yes,
- 21:48Speaker 2: thank you, Mayor Mamdani.
- 21:49Speaker 16: Looks like Costa has weekend plans after all. But this
- 21:54Speaker 16: will be helpful, because I'm so sick of having to
- 21:57Speaker 16: buy a coffee every time I need to go to
- 21:58Speaker 16: the bathroom, and then having to buy another coffee because
- 22:02Speaker 16: the first coffee made me need to go to the bathroom. Then, yep,
- 22:05Speaker 16: you guessed it, another coffee for another bathroom.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Coffee, bathroom, coffee, bathroom, coffee, bathroom, until.
- 22:11Speaker 16: Finally I'm home and I can relax on my couch with,
- 22:13Speaker 16: you guessed it, a nice cup of coffee.
- 22:15Speaker 17: But.
- 22:17Speaker 2: These aren't just your regular old public restrooms. These have
- 22:21Speaker 2: some pretty high-tech features. A QR code gets you in
- 22:25Speaker 2: for free.
- 22:26Speaker 13: Safety features include a smoke detector and a 10-minute time
- 22:30Speaker 13: limit per use.
- 22:31Speaker 10: Attention, your use time has expired.
- 22:34Speaker 14: The door is opening now.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 22:40Speaker 16: Wait, after 10 minutes, the doors open automatically?
- 22:43Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:45Speaker 16: People are going to be in there on minute nine
- 22:47Speaker 16: with their pants around their ankles trying to cut the
- 22:49Speaker 16: wire like it's Mission Impossible.
- 22:51Speaker 2: Red or blue? Red or blue?
- 22:55Speaker 16: I can't believe the door just flies open whether you're
- 22:57Speaker 16: done or not. Nothing keeps things moving smoothly like a
- 23:01Speaker 16: shot clock counting down until the entire city gets to
- 23:04Speaker 16: see your butthole. On the other hand, it does beat
- 23:08Speaker 16: the original idea, which was to eject you over the
- 23:11Speaker 16: Throg's Neck Bridge.
- 23:14Speaker 2: It's a great bridge.
- 23:16Speaker 16: Let's move on to something that's lasted way longer than
- 23:19Speaker 16: 10 minutes, the war in Iran.
- 23:24Speaker 4: Nothing bad can happen.
- 23:25Speaker 8: It can only good happen.
- 23:30Speaker 16: When Trump launched this war back in March, he promised
- 23:33Speaker 16: us it would take just a few weeks and it
- 23:35Speaker 16: would cost us nothing. And that promise went just as
- 23:37Speaker 16: perfectly as all his other promises.
- 23:39Speaker 18: Nearly seven months into the war with Iran, Americans are
- 23:42Speaker 18: also footing a rapidly rising bill. From the price of
- 23:45Speaker 18: the war itself, the Congressional Budget Office now estimating $ 38
- 23:49Speaker 18: billion in rising, to the price of the things we need,
- 23:52Speaker 18: like oil. Diesel prices pushed to new record highs again overnight.
- 23:57Speaker 18: Diesel's rising costs can show up in everything from groceries
- 24:00Speaker 18: to clothes to home heating.
- 24:02Speaker 5: Oh, great.
- 24:03Speaker 16: As if I don't already fight enough with my wife
- 24:05Speaker 16: over the thermostat. I always want her to turn it
- 24:08Speaker 16: down and she always wants me to stop coming home
- 24:10Speaker 16: at 2 a.m.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Stinking of alcohol. You know, it's like marriage. But that's right.
- 24:15Speaker 2: We've got a problem with diesel.
- 24:18Speaker 16: And I mean the fuel source, not the brand of
- 24:20Speaker 16: jeans worn exclusively by disgusting Europeans. And the cost is
- 24:27Speaker 16: even more when you count all the military bases we
- 24:29Speaker 16: have to repair, all the equipment we'll have to fix,
- 24:32Speaker 16: all the Iran War Championship t-shirt merch we had to
- 24:35Speaker 16: throw away.
- 24:36Speaker 2: So I'm just a little confused.
- 24:37Speaker 16: Donald Trump has assured many times that we've already won
- 24:40Speaker 16: the war, so why are gas prices still going up?
- 24:44Speaker 1: As a new wave of strikes this weekend targets vessels
- 24:47Speaker 1: in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting escalating threats.
- 24:50Speaker 16: God damn it, the Strait of Hormuz? How is this
- 24:53Speaker 16: still happening? We're the United States, we almost beat the Taliban.
- 24:58Speaker 16: I know we can handle one strait.
- 25:01Speaker 3: A dramatic escalation tonight in the war with Iran. Iranian-backed
- 25:05Speaker 3: Houthis in Yemen threatening a second waterway critical to global trade.
- 25:09Speaker 3: The Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital route for Saudi oil.
- 25:13Speaker 14: Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- 25:14Speaker 16: There's another strait now? This war is like a telenovela.
- 25:20Speaker 16: The Strait of Hormuz.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Has a twin.
- 25:32Speaker 16: I'm starting to think it's bad that our entire economy
- 25:34Speaker 16: is built on extracting oil from incredibly narrow waterways in
- 25:37Speaker 16: the world's most volatile region. And I just want to
- 25:40Speaker 16: give a shout out to my favorite straight, by the way.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Gibraltar, right?
- 25:45Speaker 16: I mean, drama free, staying in its lane. No one
- 25:51Speaker 16: has anything bad to ever say about the straight of Gibraltar.
- 25:55Speaker 2: Anyways, love you, Gib.
- 25:58Speaker 16: So now we have two straits that we get our
- 26:00Speaker 16: oil from, and they're both closed. How did this happen?
- 26:03Speaker 17: A lot of it has to do with the Iranian-supported
- 26:05Speaker 17: Houthi rebels in Yemen here. We can see the Houthis
- 26:09Speaker 17: have now spread their control. Actually, it does include this
- 26:12Speaker 17: town right here, and it also includes a very key
- 26:16Speaker 17: island in the Strait of Bab al-Amandeb right here. They've
- 26:19Speaker 17: been running oil out of this pipeline here into the
- 26:22Speaker 17: Red Sea.
- 26:23Speaker 4: Shut up!
- 26:23Speaker 2: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
- 26:26Speaker 18: Just shut up!
- 26:28Speaker 16: I don't want to learn any more obscure Middle Eastern geography.
- 26:33Speaker 2: I shouldn't have to know what Parham Island is.
- 26:37Speaker 16: No offense to the people of this region. I'm sure
- 26:39Speaker 16: it's a beautiful place with a rich and fascinating history,
- 26:41Speaker 16: but every time I learn something new about it, it
- 26:43Speaker 16: means my life has gotten worse. By this time next year,
- 26:47Speaker 16: gas is going to be $ 12 a gallon, and I'm
- 26:48Speaker 16: going to be able to name all the rivers in Oman.
- 26:53Speaker 16: This brain wasn't built to learn about international waterways. It
- 26:57Speaker 16: was built to learn the names of all the characters
- 27:00Speaker 16: in the progressive insurance commercials.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Flo, Jamie, Mara, and of course, Alan. You guys don't
- 27:11Speaker 2: know their names?
- 27:15Speaker 16: And more importantly, this all shows how badly our commander-in-chief
- 27:18Speaker 16: has managed this war.
- 27:20Speaker 2: I mean, look at this shit.
- 27:21Speaker 16: Iran is not even on the map about the war
- 27:24Speaker 16: in Iran. I thought this war was about nukes, but
- 27:28Speaker 16: the nukes, they're like up here. This war is starting
- 27:32Speaker 16: to feel like that moment in Monopoly when you know
- 27:34Speaker 16: you're going to lose, but it's still going to take
- 27:36Speaker 16: like six more hours of hemorrhaging money.