This Week's Top Stories - TIME's Person of the Year, California's Sneaky Gun Law & More

other CEO. Constantly interacting with Twitter users while running one of the most valuable companies in the world, Elon Musk can also influence the markets with just one tweet. Time magazine also recognized must other ventures like SpaceX. Musk is the richest man in the world thanks to Tesla, which is increased in value eightfold since the beginning of the pandemic. Yeah, congratulations Elon Musk. Oh Man, I'm so happy for him. Like, the guy could really use an ego boost, you know,

And honestly, you can't argue with this. I mean, richest man in the world who also controls space, Crypto and electric cars. I mean, who would even be second place, Like maybe Pete Davidson. Maybe moty question is this, though, Why isn't that Person of the Year always goes to

the weirdest persons? Like have you noticed that? Like I sometimes wanted if aliens came down, I don't know if I want these guys representing our race, you know, the aliens would be like your space SAEs nature to be exterminated. Except for that guy, Hey shames normal, totally normal. I think it's just because his name is Ellen that we think he's all futuristic. You know a lot of futuristic things Ellen, I pad, xbox, E, cigarette, a rod. You know, if his name was Leon, would you buy a car

from Leon? Trevor, It wouldn't be the same Leon. Musk does not carry the same word. Stop talking about the blockchain Leon, you know what I mean? So I Leon feels like a kind of a deadbeat name, whereas Elon's a disruptor. So I'm not on board. So you don't think he deserves it at all. I think we're all being duped by some good naming. I feel you there. You know, Tesla, that's a good name as well if it was called Elsa. You see, we just let it go.

We let it go I'll be here weak folks. All right, let's move on to our next story, which is from California, America's side boob. California is one of the most anti gun states in the country, which is a frustrating position to be in these days, especially when conservative courts are striking down any effort at gun control. But now the governor of California has come up with a new plan to limit guns, and where he got the idea from

is pretty hilarious. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he wants to use the new restrictive abortion law in Texas as a model to ban assault weapons use them, tweeted. He wants legislation that allows Californians to sue anyone who makes, distributes, or sells the guns, as well as ghost gun kits. The governor site Supreme Court rulings that have allowed the Texas law to remain in effect while the High Court

reviews it. That's right, Gavin Newsom now wants to pull a Texas except he's going to do it on assault weapons and ghost guns. But if you ask me, is a pretty risky move. I mean, you're gonna want those ghost guns and a giant marsh meadow man shows up. I don't think that's what a ghost gun is. I think it is costa I read. But yeah, the idea is that because the Supreme Court is allowing this forbanning abortion, they're going to have to allow it forbanning guns too.

But here's the thing. Here's the thing. The problem with this idea is that the Supreme Court can make up whatever rules they like, Like, if they want to strike down these gun laws, they'll find a way. You know, the Supreme Court is like that annoying kid that your mom made you have playdates with tag I got you not. I have a vest that makes me invisible. Man, I wish the courts allowed your mom to have an abortion.

You know, I'll tell you what, guys, America has gotten so divided right now that at this point I think maybe maybe some states should just like succeed and and try and do their own thing, like you know, have they tried that before? Supposed the worst that could happen? You know, Trevor Um, I usually try to have something funny to say, but the story is about guns, abortion and obscure Supreme Court ruling. So you're on your own

for this one. Wow. I was hoping that I was going to turn it to you and you were gonna like, I know, I mean, and then you just left me. If anything, I wish the State of New York allowed me the right to sue you for putting me on the spot to come up with something funny for that story. But we're not there yet. Well, I mean, it's your job. Like you, before we started this, you said you've got my back, and now you're saying, I'm saying, that's a tough story, you know. But but yeah, I mean, that's

what we do here. We deal with tough stories. Well, you do it better than me, which is why I'm sitting this one out. But at this point it seems like I'm all in because I'm still talking somehow. One of the guys who have the most information about Trump's attempts to overthrow the election is his former chief of staff, Marck Meadows, but as of a few weeks ago, he suddenly stopped talking. Lawmakers investigating the January six attack on the Capitol have run out of patients with Mark Meadows.

Mark Meadows made the decision to cooperate, and then he made the decision to uncooperate and as a result, we're going to have to hold him in criminal contempt. The committee says they've got questions about documents Meadows has handed over, which shed light on what the Trump white House knew about the insurrection before it began. The committee is also interested in the week leading up to the insurrection and

meadows involvement in efforts to undermine the election outcome. When presented with the idea of certain states sending alternate slates of electors to Congress, Meadows responded, I love it. Mmmmmmmmm. Get you a man who loves you the way Mark Meadows loves overthrowing democracy? See that, I love it. I love it. I mean to be fair though I love it. There's also what you send when you want the other person to think you actually read through all their texts

when you didn't. So maybe it was like that with Mark Meadows. I don't know. The fact is, though it looks like Mark Meadows was very involved in Trump's plan to overturn the election. He pushed the Justice Department to investigate made up voter fraud, he tried to block states from certifying their electors, and he even made Trump licked the Oval Office desk to claim dibbs. And it definitely doesn't look good that he stopped cooperating with the investigation.

I mean, I do get it, though, you know, he he can't be disloyal to Trump because in Trump World, loyalty is everything. You take care of Trump, and Trump takes care of you. Unless you're John Bolton or Jeff Sessions or Rudy Giuliani or Millennia Michael Cohon or anybody

else He's ever known, it's called loyalty. But before he stopped co operating, Meadows did hand over a lot of documents to the committee and one thing they discovered were a bunch of frantic text messages that he got during the Capital riots, and some of them some of them came from Donald Trump's closest advisers. Thoughts Entertainers frantically texted Mark Meadows as the Capital riot was happening and urged

him to get then President Trump to stop it. In one text exchange, Hannity urged Meadows to tell Mr Trump to quote make a statement and ask people to leave the capital. Brian Kilneed saying please get him Trump on TV, destroying everything you have accomplished. Laura Ingram, writing, Mark, the president needs to tell the people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy. Oh man, this is so amazing. Yeah, because you realize Fox News has spent the whole year

acting like January six was nothing, just nothing. It's just a few you know, patriots, just having their voices here. But it turns out that in private, they were freaking out about it, freaking out. It's like finding out the flight attendant who's been telling you that it's just a little turbulence is actually going back into the cockpit, like, doesn't anybody know how to fly this thing? We're all gonna die. On your left, you can see the Rocky mountains,

really beautiful. Pre stay in your seat, folks. And I love that they were so concerned that this could ruin Trump's legacy. If he gets somebody killed today, no one will remember that time he told everyone to drink bleach. It's crazy that CNN fired Chris Cuomo because he was caught giving secret advice to a politician his brother. But now it turns out that basically everyone at Fox News was giving secret advice to President Trump and these people.

But I mean, I guess that's what makes it okay. Yeah, Like one person at your network has no integrity, that's a problem. If nobody has integrity, that's a company policy. Fox News, we all Ireland. But the best part of this text dump is that it wasn't just Fox hosts

who were freaking out about Trump's response to the riot. No, there were also texts from President Trump's oldest son and men who never has to worry about chin cancer, Don Jr. As the violence continued, one of the president's sons texted Mr Meadows, quote, He's got to condemn this ship asap. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough, Donald Trump Junior texted. Donald Trump Junior texted again and again, urging action by the president. Quote, we need an Oval office address. He

has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand. Yeah. It appears that Don Junior himself thought the insurrection had gone too far and had gotten out of hand, which suggests that he was okay with an insurrection that was a little more in control. WHOA,

what's with all this violence? I kind of thought we could overthrow the government in like a cool fun way, like Oceans eleven, like we sneak in and still Democracy before anyone noticed, and we're all wearing cool suits, and George Clooney is like, you guys are cool, and I'd

be like, you're cool, George Clooney, something like that. Now, clearly Don Junior's texts didn't work, which honestly, I'm kind of glad about, because the only thing worse than an insurrection would have been having to thank Don Junior for stopping an insurrection, Thank you for save being Democracy, Don Jr. But still seeing Don Junior desperately trying to get a message to his own father, I mean that tells you a lot about their relationship, right, And those those aren't

even the only texts that he sent Mark Meadows that day. In fact, a source has provided The Daily Show with additional texts, and I'm going to read them to you right now. Later that day, Don Jr. Texted Mark Meadows again, quote, hey man, just wanted to see if you pass those messages to my dad yet, And then quote, actually it might be easier if you gave me my dad's numbers so I can text him directly, question Mark. Some time passed, and then another text let me know about my dad's number,

but no rush, I know ship is cray law. And finally that night quote, come on, man, at least give me his email, and then three prayer hands emojis. There was no response. Today, Dr Fauci announced that three doses of the current vaccines of a good enough protection against omicron that as of now, we don't need any new omicron specific vaccines, and that, my friends, is great news. You know. It's like finding out that your old charger

works at your new phone. And this is actually good news for anti VAX's because that means like your old spiracy theories will look for omcron too. Yeah, you don't have to think of new conspiracy theories because that ship is hard. Like this, This new O Macron vaccine is gonna make your blood gay. Oh man, this is hard. But just because the current vaccine seem effective doesn't mean

that omcron isn't turning into a big problem. You see, the CDC says that it could soon lead to a major COVID wave in America, and it looks like when it comes to America's sports leagues, that wave is already here. Professional sports are being hit hard by a surgeon COVID cases, A league's source tells CNN the twenty eight NFL players tested positive yesterday. That's in addition to thirty seven players testing positive on Monday. The two day total more than

doubles the number of cases in previous two weeks. The NHL postponing is ninth game this season because of multiple players testing positive and in the NBA, plethora of players will mistime result of being placed in the league's health and safety protocols. Thirty one players are on the list, according to CBS Sports, including buckstar Jana sis It's coupo the reigning finals m v P. He'll be out for

tonight's game against the Pacers in Brooklyn. The Nets they were nearly forced to cancel their matchup with the Raptors seven players in the NBA's health and safety protocols, including superstar James Harden. They had the league minimum eight players available for this game. Almost nobody on the Brooklyn bench tonight at Barkley Center. Look at that. Oh no, not

this ship again, Not this ship again. You remember what happened last time, Right, one week we were all like, huh, well, some NBA players getting COVID, And the next week we're all at home showering without Amazon packages. I mean, so many players in the NBA are getting COVID right now

that they're gonna have to change the logo. In fact, there's so many players who have COVID that I actually feel bad for the players who don't have it, because, I mean, that's one hell of a way to find out that everyone on the team was hanging out without you. The one thing I don't think they should be doing is canceling games. Yeah, I said it because everyone hates it, and I get that the teams barely have any players left,

but like, just make them play anyway. I mean, I don't know about you, but I would watch the hell out of a basketball game that was one on five. Can you imagine watching a football team with a quarterback has no one to protect him? What the Giants already do? That? Wow,

that doesn't seem safe. In fact, this might end up being great for the fans because you know how, deep down inside, when you're at a game, you always hope, you always hope secretly that the coach is gonna look up into the stands and be like, hey, we need you to help us win this game. I mean, that's the real reason people wear jerseys. You know you've got

to be prepared. Well, now everyone is so short on players, that might actually happen, although knowing how quickly Oh Macron spreads, it'll probably be like, hey, you come help us win. Just get a quick COVID test that he can come in. What. Oh, he's also good a Macron. Look at you, loser, Yeah, you suck. You got O Macron and you don't play basketball.

I'll tell you what I'm not looking forward to, though, is hearing what the old timers have to say about this at the Bober shop, because you know they're gonna go in man NBA players these days of suft Patrick Ewing would never let O Macron spike proteins penetrating. He has sent it a membrane. She but let's move on from Corona to something else that goes off to your

body without permission. Andrew Cuomo, back when he was governor, Cuomo took a break from getting people in nursing homes killed to write a book about how brilliantly he was handling the pandemic. And that book made him very, very rich, at least until now. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing new troubles. This morning, the state Ethics panel ruled that Cuomo must now repay five point one million dollars that he earned from a book that he wrote

during the COVID nineteen pandemic. That book was a memoir on the handling of the pandemic. The panel determined Cuomo used state resources and government staffords to help prepare that book, even though his lawyer previously said otherwise. The five million dollar bill must be repaid by nex month. But some of those funds have already been donated to charity and also added in a trust for his daughters. Oh. I mean, if the money is in a trust fund for your

adult daughters, just keep that. But the money to charity, he's going to have to give that back. Actually feel bad for the charities though, I mean, losing that money right before Christmas. I'm sorry Orphans no presence this year because Governor Cuomo used the office printer. I know, I know, But yes, Cuomo may have to give back all five million dollars of his book money, which is fine by me. I mean, I don't understand why politicians are writing books

while they're in office in the first place. He's just kind of flaunting. How you got distracted with the side gig. Honestly, between being governor and writing this book, it's a wonder that he found time to sexually harass anyone at all. You know. The bigger issue here for me actually, when I think about it, it's like the money shouldn't go back to the government just because he used government resources. No, the money should go back because he wasn't doing the thing.

If you write a book about a thing that you weren't doing, then you shouldn't get the money for the book because it wasn't real. If we found out that the person who wrote the Kamma Sutra was a virgin, I'd be like, yo, yo, money back, all the money back. You were just no wonder. You know, no legs goes like that. Just made this ship up, just making it you just like you put your legs and then the other legs. I had a heardier because of your ship. Man. Anyway,

let's move on. For the last few months, we've been talking about how millions of people around the country have been quitting their dead end jobs to pursue their true passions. Yeah, you might find this hard to believe, but most people's dream job is not being berated by a customer at Applebee's. So people acquitting to write that screenplay or start that small business, or whatever their dream is. And one enterprising young woman is making headlines for selling something that everyone

else get us away for free. Reality star Stephanie motto of Fiance has gone viral and a TikTok where she claims to have earned over nine dollars selling her farts in a jar for each Hey, guys, today I'm gonna be showing you a day in the life of a girl who sells her farts in a jar. So I like to get things a roll in with some beans, a protein muffin. Sometimes even a yogurt less sugar is better, some hard boiled eggs. While I wait for those parts to develop, I like to read. I'm very smart. Love

to read. And then after I'm ready to go, I go ahead, and you know, do my word, do my job. I don't need to show you that, guys, but I like to add a little flower petals. I feel like they attach the scent and make it last longer. And when I'm finally finished with my jar, I like to leave a personalized note. Mm hmm. The smell of success. America truly is the greatest country in the world. And props to this woman. Props to her from making that money.

And look, no, this isn't the common capture taking as you we were hoping for. But I guess if everyone did it, we could solve climate change. Yeah, why didn't you think of this, Greta? Now, look, I know a lot of people will see this story and wonder who the hell is blowing hundreds of dollars on a fought, But I mean, it's no dumber than n f T s. People are dropping millions of dollars on things that don't even exist. At least with a FOT jar, you get to keep the jar, So I'm not gonna judge anybody

for buying one of these jars. You are into what you're into. What I will say I am confused about is what you actually do with the FOT jar once you have it, Like, do you open the jar right away and just get one hits? Or do you keep it in its packaging forever like a collectible? Oh? Do you keep it for a few years and then open it on a special occasion just like, Hey, honey, great news, I finally got that promotion. How about we celebrate with

a jar of Chateau dapou. The army cron wave that we've been waiting for has now hit the US for real. Hospitals are starting to fill up again. Big companies that were planning to bring workers back to the office in January have postponed until May, and concerts and shows are shutting down. A lot of people are saying that it feels like March all over again. But people, please have some optimism. Things are much better now than they were

back then. For one, we have vaccines too, we have treatments, and three, no one thinks zoom happy hours are a good idea. We've done a lot. But while we are being reminded about just how serious this pandemic is, there are still some people who are taking it just a little more likely. A Cape Coral man was spotted on a United Airlines flight masking up, but not with one of these. He actually was wearing underwear on his face.

This is Adam Jenny wearing his statement Pete bright Red song, I think the best way to illustrate absurdity is with absurdity. Jenny says he's worn underwear as a mask since the beginning of the pandemic. I am banned from flying United so so much for the customers. Always right, Jenny is comparing himself to civil rights icons. Everything else that has sparked changed in this country has started from everyday people. Rosa Parks was nobody famous. She changed the course of history.

Rosa Pox, my man, don't be so modest. You more than Rosa Pox. If anything, You're the Martin Luther King of white dudes comparing themselves to black heroes for no reason. Ship, you know, for real, Sometimes I think conservatives are right. America shouldn't be teaching the history of racism in schools because then at least white people wouldn't know who to compare themselves too when they get kicked off of airplanes for doing dumb ships. I'm exactly the same as huh.

I can't think of anybody, you know. Uh, Like, maybe I'm just a dumbass wearing panties on my face. I didn't reevaluate my behavior. And by the way, and we all agree, there's no way this dude just started sniffing thongs during the pandemic. I bet you he's been going around for years like well, it looks like I got kicked out of the dorm because once again, the rose are parts of my sister's friends underwear drawer. Yeah, someone's

got to do it. But as long as we're talking about civil rights, let's move on to a story about Martin Luther King Day. Some people are saying America needs to stop celebrating MLK Day next year, but the people suggesting it might not be who you think. Martin Luther King the Third is asking people not to celebrate his father's legacy on MLK Day coming up next month. If Congress has not passed new national voting rights protection. They're calling on President Joe Biden and lawmakers to pass two

voting rights bills that have installed in Congress. One is aimed at fighting voter suppression and it's restoring the nine Voting Rights Act. The other focused on reforms making it easier to register to vote who this is core, But I get why the King family has to resort to this.

I mean, with Republicans blocking the new laws and Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema refusing to end the filibuster so that Democrats can post it themselves, someone has to think outside of the box and holding a holiday as a hostage is a great leverage. I mean, it's a brilliant idea because I don't care how racist you are, nobody wants to give up a day off of work. In fact, if you ask me, they shouldn't just threaten to take m l K Day. No, you know what they should do.

They should threaten to turn MLK Day into a second Valentine's Day. That's a real threat, and nobody wants to put their relationship in that much trouble. You forgot Valentine's Day, There's another one. Still. This is a risky strategy because you realize Republicans have a way of twisting everything related to m l K. Yeah, tomorrow, Rondo Sanctists could come out and be like, the King family is right. We've

got to defend Dr King's dream. That's right. From now on, all Black people in Florida can vote exclusively in their dreams. So no need to show up any morning election day. Black people, We did it before we go. Please consider

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