The Worst Week Yet

204. Someone's Got A Gun In The Oven...

This week, Andrew and Kennedy sat down to discuss whether or not THIS was the worst week yet.

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Broadcast on:: 14 Oct 2024
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[music] Welcome to the worst week yet, the least informed podcast on the left. It's a podcast where every week we get up, get up, come on, get down with the sick news. I'm your host Andrew Hiller. Wait, I got one, I got one. You got one? I just had one. It's a podcast where every 30 minutes that you listen to it ages you by one year. Get up, come on, get down with the sick news. Come on. I should be, I should be getting a Pulitzer right now. I, if I could hit the, if I could hit the applause button, I would. Well, I don't remember which button it is. Um, let's see. This is getting one of them. Mike, you're fucking face tonight. That works. That works. That works. Kennedy, how are you? How are you? It's just us today. It's just us. How are you? It's just us. Sick and tired of the election season. They have like an axe. Let's get this. I want to rip the Band-Aid off already. Um, yeah. No, you know what? It is bad. I think, you know, maybe this isn't the worst aspect of Citizens United, but one of the worst aspects is that every, every, every commercial break or every ad that plays, there are like 12 different fucking ads for each side. There's too many ads. There's too many political ads. Yeah, too many political ads. Uh, control. Yeah. Um, we need to, we need to shut down politics. We also, we need to start having elections later. Like, if the election had started six weeks ago, this would all feel less offensive. Yeah. But no, this election started in like fucking February or whatever, you know? And so by now, it's just like, you just feel like you're just beaten down and numb and tired. I feel like the election started last year. Like our elections last more than a year. It's crazy. It's too much. Yeah. I guess the voting, like the primaries technically started in like January, February. So I see what you're saying, but even that's too fucking long. It's ridiculous. That's nuts. Yeah. We should have all of our primaries, all of them, they shouldn't be spread out and crazy like this. All of our primaries should happen in September. And then we should have our election in November. And that's it. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I will say listeners, we are, we are actually, we're recording this a few days earlier than normal because as of the time you were hearing this, I am now driving back from Canada. I'm in my house right now, but you're listening to something that was recorded in the past. This isn't live. I'm breaking K fabe. Just this one time to tell you that this is prerecorded. So if anything has happened over the weekend, say like, I don't know, nuclear war, assassinations, a third hurricane is at the World Trade Center, something like that, like we we're not going to get to that. Okay. We had to do this a little early because I'm going to Canada. That's right. I'm leaving the motherfucking country for my birthday. That's right. My birthday is on Sunday, which was by the time you're hearing this yesterday. So if you didn't wish me a happy birthday yesterday, you fucked up. How do you feel? Huh? Huh listeners? Great. Probably. You've never listened to this show. What are you talking about? I can't count myself as a listener. You're right. But yeah. So, To be fair, once upon a time I listened to this show before I came on it. Oh, that's nice because I was like, I gotta make sure these guys aren't fucking nut jobs. Or I go on that show. That's fair. I've never done that. I'm just like, you know what? If I'm going on a show and everybody's a nut job, I'm just going to, you know, it's fine. Attach my name to it. I don't give a fuck. You can't get fired from being an ice cream truck driver. Okay. Or a podcaster. Fair. Fair. Yeah. So I don't know. We're just going to, you know, we're just, I don't, I wanted to put something out, you know, a little bit of something for you to listen to, you know, I didn't want to leave you hanging. Even though, you know, I've, we've been doing this podcast for almost four years. I've taken two weeks off and, you know, I feel like I should do that like 52 weeks a year. Like it's, it's fucked up. I, I am a firm believer in the zero day work week, Kennedy. Nobody wants to listen to me, but I will die on that hill because I have no money. Zero day, zero hour, um, speaking of having no money, uh, we have a Patreon. It's Patreon.com slash worst week yet, uh, Kennedy and I, as we just recorded another star spangled episode of, um, is Shyamalan, Tober. Yeah, this week we watched, uh, what the fuck do we watch? Oh, old and the lady in the water and I believe you've already forgot. We've recorded this five minutes and 50 seconds ago. We hit and on that recording, it's fine. Um, look, not, what was that? Do my phone just make noise? I don't know what I just heard. Anyways, Patreon.com slash worst week yet. If you give $10 a month, we say your name. So, um, thank you to Zapp Action's Downer, Dracula 206, Chauncey Onder's, Andrea Humphrey. You fuck like my dad. The man in the west, terminally online, leftist Pablo Hummus, Optimus Crime, old hub, goblin named Andrew Rose. And why not? I pay more for only fans Josh Troopin, AJ from Baltimore, in next, Goblin mode, mega force base CIA brain bugs and our newest patron. See, this is what I'm talking about. This is coming from my phone and I don't know what it is. It's a, a new song by M.N.I. Shyamalan's daughter. Okay. On the screen, it's a, it says, this is an ad, I guess, playing on the news, the news store that I have open on my phone. I don't know what. This is fucked up. Anyways, our newest patron, childless cat dad. Thank you so much for joining the Patreon. We appreciate that. And if you'd like to do that, you can head on over to patreon.com/worstweekget. Andrew Hilary, why would you so blatantly become a fake patron of the show like that? Yeah, right. I'm doing some, I'm doing like the worst tax fraud I could even like anybody's ever thought of. Like, what if I signed up to my own patreon? I'll blunder my own money. And I'll sign up as Andrew Hilary. There's still a declaration in the finance. Anyways, thank you again for supporting the show. Kennedy, as I said, I just, I got a couple things that I want to touch on. I have one story I want to touch on also really quickly. Okay. Do you want to go first? Yeah. Go, go ahead. Make my fucking day. We should have covered weeks ago, but we forgot to. And I just remembered it today, and I was like, you know what, let's, let's cover it right now. Okay. But also before I even get into that, I just need to really quickly say, um, on a bit of personal news, uh, ethyl Kennedy passed away this week. R.I.P. Yeah. R.I.P to another member of the Kennedy family, uh, which obviously I am, uh, tangentally a part of, uh, uh, anyway, um, so this is a news story from about a month ago, um, but I still think it's worth covering because a story like this has a lesson in it that anyone can learn from at any time. Okay. Okay. Um, so, uh, in, in a home in Virginia about a month ago, there was a shooting now, no one was seriously injured, but, uh, it's a cautionary tale to be sure now, um, the, the shooter in this story was an oven, um, wait, was it a gas range or an electric range? Because you know, the Democrats are trying to take the gas stove, uh, see gas stoves are safer. Yeah. People keep saying you got to get rid of your gas stove well, I guess stove never shot anybody. I know a gas stove has probably shot somebody, um, but, uh, allegedly, uh, so, uh, these homeowners decided to, uh, uh, store their gun in the oven loaded, um, and, uh, statistics show that 43% of households in the U S keep a loaded gun in an unlocked container, uh, which is not a great statistic, but still most people don't choose the oven as their container of choice. Now normally, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you know, some people sometimes put a few dirty dishes in the oven before they wash them or maybe throw a couple of steaks in the oven after you grill too many and leave them there for a little while before you put them in the fridge or whatever, you know, people do store stuff in the oven. I get it. And it can lead to disasters. Well, uh, this oven reached 400 degrees, which was hot enough to a melt the gun to the oven rack. And B cause the bullets to spontaneously start discharging. Five bullets were shot out of this gun, uh, uh, uh, which obviously did quite a bit of damage to the oven and other things in the kitchen. Um, again, no one was seriously hurt, but, uh, again, even though the story is older, I think that, uh, don't store your guns in the oven is a lesson that's relevant any day of the week. Yes. You're totally right, Kennedy, ketchup does not need to be refrigerated and guns do not need to be baked. Yeah. Don't bake your guns. Don't bake your guns, folks, microwave, uh, and really be careful what you store in the oven in general. You know, um, I've heard of people starting fires in their oven, uh, with a cutting board. Don't put your cutting board in your oven. Yep. Just don't do that. Just don't, don't put yourself in these situations. Yeah. Don't put like towels. Don't put that in your oven. What else shouldn't you put in your oven? Oh, yeah. That's an, I've actually definitely heard of somebody putting a dish towel in the oven and starting a fire absolutely under no circumstances. Should you put a top hat in the oven? Yeah. Um, don't sorry, like I know people don't like being told what to do. I get it. You know, it's a free country. Just don't put your fucking hats in the oven, dude. Come on. Yeah. That's crazy. Talk. Don't do it. Uh, don't put, don't put shoes in the oven. No, no, don't put shoes in the oven. Uh, it's not as dangerous putting a gun in the oven, but don't put a knife in the oven. Yeah. Let it cook or don't know a knife is already cooked. If anything defrost a knife, don't make it. Don't broil, don't throw your knives, store your knives in the freezer facing outward. Do not broil an umbrella. You are stupid. Uh, it's okay to eat Legos though, as we determined on this podcast before, let's move on. Uh, so this is a story, you know, there's been a lot of just an uptick in like, it's like anti-immigration, like, you know, deportation fucking narratives, you know, everybody wants to kick all the immigrants out of every country. And you know, frankly, I'm getting sick of it, but, you know, we typically talk about these stories as trends, as opposed to, you know, singling out individual stories of people being deported, but one came across the news desk this week and I wanted to share with you. So this is a story, it's actually not out of America. This is coming out of France, where a, um, an artist of, uh, of, of Middle Eastern descent was thrown out and permanently banned from France due to some allegedly worrying social media posts that, uh, are, are said to sympathize with terrorists. Um, now the thing is, is that, uh, this artist said, well, first of all, the post was, uh, it was on Osama bin Laden's birthday that this post was made and it said, quote, history has written only with the blood of these people to tell the story of these martyrs who made history, built nations and brought glory. Their blood is the lifeline of our faith until judgment day, rest in peace. End quote. Here's the thing is that this guy, he said, like, I think my account was hacked. I did not post that. I don't like terrorism. Like I know, you know, you can look at me and you can make your judge, but like, no, this isn't something I would say. But no, France just kicked him out of the country permanently anyways. Um, yeah, he was a painter and, uh, what was his name is Omar bin Laden is the Osama bin Laden son. Oh, he's allegedly made it sweet. I'm, I'm Tom flex emotions about this. Well, here's the thing. I think, uh, first of all, this guy, he looks so silly. He has like dreadlocks. He looks insane, um, but he's, I don't think he liked his ad. Like he's been living in like Europe for 20 years or something. I think he lives in like, uh, we've been living in France. His wife is a lady from the United Kingdom. They go back and forth between the UK and France and yeah, I don't, you know, this might just be like the unfortunate son of a, of a bad guy or whatever. But I don't know. I kind of believe him. Maybe it's that somebody hacked his Twitter. Maybe. I don't know. He's just nice guy. Who just happens to be named bin Laden. You know what? Maybe change your name, maybe take your wife's name in the marriage, but other than that, you know, whatever. Also whatever happened to freedom of speech, we have a, can we have a, we have an art exhibit that's George Bush and Omar bin Laden. Omar bin Laden's paintings in the same gallery. I think that would actually be powerful. That's how we heal the world, Kennedy. Yeah. I think we could, I think we could heal the racial divide with that one. Yeah. That's how we, that's how we get to a one state solution. Not the intent, not the racial divide globally, but specifically the racial divide that lives within Bill de Blasio. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I think it's a great idea and I think we should, we should, you know, I don't know who we need to talk to to get this plan in motion, but I think it's a great plan. Uh, let's move on. The next thing I wanted to talk about, this is actually something that happened, uh, two weeks ago, but we just didn't get, get around to talking to talking about it. So I don't know if you saw on September 29th, there was a fire at something called bio lab in Georgia. It's like an hour away from Atlanta. It's this company that like, they make different chemicals, I believe for like pool cleaning and stuff. And it's actually crazy. This is the third time that this building has caught on fire in like the last decade. And it houses like incredibly dangerous chemicals, like chlorine, gas and sulfuric acid, and it keeps catching on fire. And like whenever you, I don't know if you saw images, there was like this giant plume of like multi colored smoke, which is always a bad sign. If there's going to be a big bloom of smoke, you want it all to be the same color, you know? But so residents around the area were like told to shelter in place and, you know, people were complaining about like a very strong chemical smell. And so this week, there was a meeting about it in the, the, in Rockdale County, which is where it's located. And the county's soil and water, convention, conservation district supervisor, a guy named Kenny Johnson, he went and testified at this hearing. He was saying like, he was saying that like everybody in this town needs to go get their blood tested like there is so much shit that was in this fire. And like, you know, just telling everybody like this is, this is serious and like we need to have, we need to have like an investigation into this. We need to hold this company accountable and like we cannot keep letting them have this fucking lab here or whatever. And then Kenny Johnson, after he walked away from the microphone, he walked outside and dropped dead on the spot. He started complaining about a shortness of breath and then died very quickly thereafter. Yeah. And again, there's stuff like chlorine gas in the air, which like, well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. Do we know for a fact that bio lab is not a subsidy of Boeing? It's almost all the same letters, you know, I mean, we've already agreed that regardless of what corporation does that we can refer to this as Boeing a guy. Yeah. Yeah. Bio lab definitely Boeing to guy this week. Yeah. So obviously, rest in peace to Kenny Johnson, but like more importantly, did they kill this guy? I don't know. I don't know. Like, um, he didn't look, he wasn't like an ancient guy or anything. I don't know. I can't, you can't tell. Not a picture of him, but I don't know. It doesn't seem like the prime suspect or candidate to just dive suddenly. Oh, maybe he was vaxxed. Who knows? Yeah. Vaxxed. Yeah. Um, so this is like again, whatever, a link patient again, like, you know, coincidences do happen. I don't need there to be a sinister explanation. That's not the way that I look at through the world, but like this is now what the third whistleblower who has suspiciously died immediately after blowing a whistle just this year. Like, is this just going to keep happening? Like at some point, but also is it just a semi coincidence of him being somebody who has to like be around this shit? And again, there's like harmful gases in the air right now and he's 62 like, yeah, I don't, I don't fucking like it's fucked up no matter what happened here, but that's kind of terrifying to you. Right? Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Ah, so I don't know. I just wanted to talk about that. Um, so I guess to, to wrap things up here, I did just want to spend a few moments talking about this upcoming election, uh, so here's the thing. I feel very torn, Kennedy. I don't necessarily want either of these two people to win. And yet I'm still sitting here like, God damn it, fucking Kamala. What are you doing? Why not fucking do this? What is wrong with you? How are you going to lose this fucking election? You fucking idiot. Okay, let me, let me retrace. I don't want either of these people to be president, but I don't like, but I'm getting more and more mad at how much it seems like Kamala isn't doing what she should be doing to try and win. She can't. It feels like Kamala Harris is just doing Hillary Clinton's campaign from 2016. It's gotten lazier and lazier as she goes in a lot of ways, very frustrating. Um, uh, it's, it sucks ass. I want to point out something specific, uh, this week, Kamala was doing a few more interviews. Like people were complaining. She doesn't do interviews. She doesn't do interviews. They're like, she went on some fucking call her daddy podcast or whatever or call me daddy. I don't fucking know. She did like 60 minutes, she did the view and she did something with Stephen Colbert that might have been 60 minutes or she might have just, I don't fucking know. Um, there is one thing that Kamala said this week that I think is the most incredibly stupid and also the most dangerous thing she could have said in regards to her trying to win this election. She was asked what is the biggest difference between what you will do and what Joe Biden has done and she responded. Nothing comes to mind people, um, people fucking hate Joe Biden and it's, it's not everybody. There are some fucking blue and matter, no matter who there are blue maga, whatever, but like that's not everybody. There are a lot of people in this country who don't necessarily like Donald Trump, but it is undeniable that their economic situation right now is worse than it was under Donald Trump. And like they don't have to like the guy if they're like, well, my groceries were cheaper with that when he was in charge. That's as far into it as people will look like that is enough for some people. And when you have her saying, I'll do the same thing Joe Biden did. And then you have Donald Trump being like, Hey, your groceries cost more now, right? You lose the election. Like it's, it's, it's, it's way, it's coming way too close right now, which sucks. Like I personally would like her to say something along the lines of like, you know, I will limit what Israel's doing to Gaza. But I understand she's not going to go there, but you know, I'll take a stronger stance on abortion rights maybe, right? Like, come on. Something obvious. I'll take a stronger stance on abortion rights, I'll push harder for, you know, things to be more affordable for working people. I'll do it like not even that not even fucking word salad bullshit. You could have said something unspecific that we're what, two and a half weeks from the Jesus Christ. I guess like three weeks from the election, but fuck. You should have something like people have been saying like, how could you not be prepared for a question like this? And like honestly, I've come around to the position that I don't necessarily think Kamala is a good or a bad person. I think she doesn't care enough. I think she's just like a vessel. She doesn't care enough either way. She's just listening to the people around her. So that's why in 2020, during the primary, she was like supporting all these like vaguely like progressive like sort of left wing things is because the people around her were telling her like, there's a lot of energy for Bernie right now. You could maybe try and do that. And the people around her right now are telling her like, you need to appeal to the middle. You know, we need to win over these suburban like maybe Republicans, but don't want to vote for Trump. And like it seems to, I mean, we're all just sitting here judging tactics. There's no way that we're anybody's going to be vindicated until November 5th. But like this just seems like such a bad fucking strategy. It's what Hillary Clinton was doing. Joe Biden. He fucking sucks. He's lying. But in the 2020 election, he was like saying, I'll do some of that stuff Bernie was talking about, you know, yeah, he was at least like, and again, it was disingenuous, but he was at least making a bit of a play to the left. Kamala is running away from it and like it very well might work, but it's banking a lot on nothing going wrong. Like Israel is fucking up the they're invading Lebanon, like right now this could spill out the threatening to strike Iran that this Iran has the capability to shut down the oil in the Middle East. Like it'll be messy, but they can fucking do it. And if that happens, gas could go up to like $5, $6 a gallon. You lose every single suburban Republican who doesn't want to vote for Trump. If gas is $6 a gallon, every single one of them will be like, Whoa, the Democrats let this happen. No, no, no, no, no. And then what are you left with? Like how? What the fuck are you doing? It's infuriating that it's so it's so frustrating to watch this happen. And again, I do not want Kamala Harris to be the president, but I don't want her to I don't I don't want her to lose the election. And like Donald Trump is he's not even Donald Trump was never a good person. He was kind of good at what he did eight years ago. He's not even good at what he's doing now. He's a shell of his former self. He's rambling. He has he's low energies Jeb Bush and he may very well win the election just because of how bad of a fucking job the Democrats are doing. It's it's infuriating. It's like pulling there's pulling coming out that is saying that now Kamala is at risk of losing Wisconsin in Michigan. And like Pennsylvania has always been like a 50 50 basically. And it's like, What are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? You're trying to win these suburban people and you've completely said fuck the left. We don't need them. I think you kind of do. Yeah, we're going to talk about Donald Trump at all. I don't know. I don't know what the fuck he's been up to, but sure we can again fuck him also. I just figured we might talk about Elon Musk acting like a goofball at Trump's rally. Wait. Was that this week? That was this week. Oh, I thought we talked about that last time. I was sick. I have no concept of what day it is. Maybe we did talk. I don't remember now. Fucking hell. Oh, wait. I can look at. It happened on Saturday. So we might have talked about already. Oh, yeah, we did. We did. We did. I did want to talk about this also, which this is new. Okay. Okay. The first neurolink implant patient has announced he's voting for Donald Trump in the 20 24 election. Now, I just want to put this out there. It's likely there's a reasonable explanation that leads us to this, you know, he's said some Christian shit before you on Musk saved his life. So he's probably just loyal to Elon, right? But also I just want to point out that it's not impossible that Elon Musk has manipulated this man's brain, right? Like we can't rule that out, right? Like we have no idea what the, like the neural link is this, like mystery. We don't even really know what the fuck is going on with this thing. The anti will find computer virus. I'm just saying it's, it's, it is theoretically possible that Elon Musk has done something to mess with this man's brain cause it to become a Trump supporter and we can't pull that out. And the fact that we can't rule that out is fucked up and that's the world we live in. Thanks. Yeah. Thank you, Elon. Based daddy. Uh, yeah. Also like Elon Musk is doing, he's going in so hard for Republicans right now. It's pathetic. He, I saw this thing where he's like paying people $47 to register to vote, which is like, first of all, that's a weird fucking number. I guess Donald Trump be the 47th president is that what it is? I don't know. Secondly, I saw somebody post a picture of them. It's like somebody that is like an Elon surrogate or whatever, hand delivering a 20 and five and two, two twenties, a five and two ones to somebody is like, ah, look, this guy got his $47. What the fuck are we doing? It's insane. Everything's so fucked up. I'm glad we didn't do a real episode this week. Um, I also am going to be out of town at the end of the month. So I don't know what we're going to do for that. We'll figure something out. We got some time, but yeah, I don't know. Um, this is fucked up and, you know, again, I didn't, I didn't really talk about it too much. But of course, uh, I didn't talk about it at all, but, you know, a shout out and sending love to everybody that's been affected by these fucking hurricanes, um, the, the amount of right wing cope is getting to be suffocating that is the amount of people that are saying like, not just that the, that the government controls the weather, but more that the Democrats are using the weather as a weapon against Republicans and it's like, people are pointing out the hypocrisy of like, Oh, you, you find climate change so hard to believe, but you think the government can control the weapon, the weather. Nobody actually fucking believes this. This is them. They're being trolls and they're like, they're just throwing shit out there to make you talk about that instead of climate change. I wouldn't say that nobody believes it just because okay, no commentators believe it. No pundits believe it. Yeah. They're putting this out there, don't believe it at all. Like Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't believe it. She's just making you talk about a conspiracy theory instead of climate change. Laura Loomer, she might believe some of the stuff she said. I don't know if Laura Loomer knows where she, Laura Loomer has the mental capabilities of Joe Biden. They are basically the same guy. She's crazy, but no, uh, yeah, like it is a waste of time to try and point out. That it's bullshit because you're already just playing into their game, which is let's make them talk about something besides climate change. And, uh, also, sorry, go ahead. Oh, I was going to say that's, uh, that's about the size of it and it sucks ass. Um, and it's just, it's crazy that like they'll make up. Basically reinvent climate change rather than believe in actual climate change that we can see evidence of like, like when they start saying, Oh, these secret cabals of corporations, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, that, you know, these secret cabals of corporations, they're making weather control weapons and shit. And it's like, okay, you're just describing climate change with more steps. Yeah. Well, I mean, a lie is, a lie is much more believable if there's a bit of truth to it. But again, like what they are describing is the problem of capitalism, but they're just like, Oh, you, you won't know that multi, uh, the globalist corporations are evil, right? What if it's the Jews controlling the weather? It's like, no, what if it's just capitalism? That's it. That's the step. I don't know. Obfuscation. That's all it fucking is. Yeah. It's clever in a stupid way. And it is despicable. And you know what? It's working. So that's great. Um, yeah, uh, we didn't really touch on it much, but you know, Israel continuing a genocide. I do the fucking surrounding yet another hospital in Gaza. They're killing countless people. Uh, fuck them free Palestine. And, uh, yeah, do we have any good news to end on? Um, this week, I don't know, dude, uh, no, I agree. Um, but again, thank you for all the birthday wishes, uh, yesterday. And if you missed it, are we even friends? Wow. Wow. But, uh, Kennedy, you and I are friends, and I thank you for doing this podcast with me and celebrating my belated early birthday, but I've lost track of logic, uh, did it again next week for more bad news. [music] [BLANK_AUDIO]