U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss Resigns | Tyler James Williams

I feel like I've met you before. This is wonderful. We've got a great showpie In tonight, coronavirus has a fun new side effect, Britain loses another queen, and we'll find out why Florida now has the greatest gas stations of all time. So let's do this, people, Let's jump straight into today's headlines. I'm gonna be honest, people, with all the news that happened today, I don't think we have enough space in today's show. We we tried everything we could to pack it all in. You know, we

tried to tighten it. I even put the news on a crash diet, you know, So we'll get small enough to fit but those diets don't really works, and all that's even more news than ever. And I've got a pantry full of tummy t The point is we just don't have the time. Fortunately, not enough time. It's just enough time for a segment week call. Anybody got time for that? All right, let's kick things off with an old school story. That's an update on the coronavirus pandemic,

or as we call it now, just life. Not pretty much. Everyone has gotten through COVID at least what's seven times. Scientists are wondering what that's doing to our bodies, and the onset is not great. We have some more concerning news now about the long term impact of COVID nineteen A study shows that it speeds up aging. An epidemiology expert from Washington University in St. Louis studied long COVID's

impacts on your organs. In his research, he noticed patterns indicating the kidneys, the brain, and the heart all age faster after about with the virus. Yeah, that's right. Researchers say COVID can cause your organs to age faster than you are. I'm not even sure what that means. I guess you turn on the TV to what's euphoria and your kidneys are like, what about blue bloods? Commar come for real? This is disturbing news. Fights in COVID is

so difficult that it ages your body pots. I mean, that is a great excuse for the next time you can't perform in bed. Though, you know, you gotta understand, my penis is like eighty five. And this is the scary thing about COVID because it's a novel virus. We still don't know what the long term side effects might be. And what sucks is that it's always gonna be bad. We know it's always gonna be bad, like viruses never have good side effects. News anchors are never like breaking news.

We're learning now that now you're not of turn people suffering from long COVID got those sex cv things hearts not. If we had more time, we could talk about the long term strain COVID is gonna put on the medical system, or how weird organs are in general, like why don't we have so many? Why don't we just have one big one that runs everything? But we can't get into that important medical discussion because while COVID keeps coming up with new ways to attack our bodies. The virus of Russia.

Vladimir Putin has found new ways to attack Ukraine well. Tonight, the third of Ukraine is without power after Russia destroyed power stations in the last eight days. President Zelinski says Russia has thrown the country into massive blackouts and is urging his nation to brace for a tough winter. For the last month, Russia's targeted Ukraine's electricity grid, especially substations

that serve as junction points between cities. Just yesterday, Russia unleashed these a swarm of kama Kaze drones to dive bomb energy facilities throughout the city. Yeah, after being beaten back by Ukraine's forces on the ground, Putin has now resorted to using kama Kazi drones. Caddy bitch. And you know, if this doesn't prove that putin strategy is failing, nothing will, because you never need to use kamakazi when you're winning.

You know, It's like anytime you see someone rushing somewhere with the handsful of paper towels, you know things are not going according to plan. Shoo shoo, shoo, shoo sho. And by the way, also, can we stop calling them Kamakazi drones. If it's not a person inside, it's not Kamakazi. Al right, that's just ghost riding the whip. And Kamakaze is from Japan. So this is a war crime and cultural appropriation. So you canceled that at me a putin. Yeah, let's see if Twitter will do what the U n

could not. By the way, an interest seeing detail in the story is that Russia had to buy these drones from Iran, which kind of makes you question their military might. You're supposed to be one of the most powerful militaries in the world, but you ran out of ship already. Like you realize, American never runs out of weapons. Never. America has so many weapons. Sometimes it will sell weapons to countries that it's gonna fight just to make space.

You know, We're like, all right here, you going rack, all right now, let's do this now. If we had more time, we could talk about how Russia's access to weapons from other countries reminds us that the global sanctions aren't as global as we think because they stillft ties to Asia, South America and the Middle East. Oh, we could talk about how this Ukraine war is completely completely derating, notch as Ukraine, but also Europe's economy and their energy supplies.

But we don't have the time to get into that because while Ukraine is in turmoil, there's another country in Europe that somehow isn't even more of a ship situation today, Great Britain, And that's one story we definitely need to make time for breaking across the pond a little earthquake. Just forty four days, that is how long Prime Minister Liz Trust was in office before resigning. Just in the

last few hours. I recognize though given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party. This makes Trust now the shortest serving Prime minister in three hundred and one years. God damn Britain. Another prime minister, another prime minister, and this one when we last at forty four days. Boris Johnson had COVID parties that were longer than that. You realize how hardest

to get tired of somebody this quickly. Usually politicians get a period of time where you like them first and then you hate them. But Britain hated Liz Trust basically from day one. Imagine being on a first date, on a first date with someone and they're like, oh, I'm so sick of all your ship but we just met. It's like, I know, and I'm suffocating. Actually, if this was a relationship, I feel like at this point Britain's friends will be sitting down with it, like, listen, honey,

you've been through four prime ministers in six years. They can't all be the problem. I'm just saying, maybe it's time to turn the vote of no confidence on yourself. In fact, for the next prime minister, maybe maybe the UK take things a little slow. Yeah, this is chaos. For the next one, maybe maybe don't put a label on it so much pressure that prime minister. May maybe just have them be the person who lives at ten Downing Street. In fact, you don't even live there, just

sleep over here and there, you know. Yeah, then maybe leave a toothbrush behind, you know, and then then they get a draw for their clothes. And then when you're sure that this is the prime minister for you, then you bring them to meet your friends at the G seven. How about that? You know, they're like, yeah, yeah, we're

a thing. Now we're a thing. Oh and by the way, remember the reason Liz Trust lost her job is because She came into office making worse decisions than a company social media manager during Black History Month, terrible budget plans, firing finance ministers, going back on her own policies, sending the queen to meet Jesus. Things were going so badly, so badly that the British press trolled her with vegetables in a side of just how tenuous her standing was

and perhaps how brutal UK politics can be. A British newspaper began tracking ahead of Lettuces to see if the embattled trust would last longer than the produce, and it did. Yeah, that's humiliating, that is humanly. Imagine being so bad at your job that you lose a joke contest. Yeah, because at first people are like, ha ha, I bet she can't last longer than ahead of lettuce. And then by the end but they were like, should the let us

be prime minister? And maybe the letters will be the only one that wants the job because right now Britain's Parliament sounds more chaotic than a family reunion at her shaw Walker's house. Yesterday was a shambolic day for her. We heard earlier in the day that her Interior Minister, the Home Secretary Soweller Braveman had resigned over an issue over improper use of her emails, and then later in the day we heard that she had in fact been fired. And then there was a vote in the House of

Commons which descended into chaos. Some lawmakers alleged that government officials were actually physically pushing them, intimidating them into making decisions that they wouldn't otherwise have made. One lawmaker even alleged that some MPs were crying in the toilets of the House of Commons. What a ship show? Did you hear? That? People were shoving each other, crying, swearing, quitting and quitting. So I was like the whole government turned into a

high school drama club rehearsal. I mean members of Parliament were crying in the toilet. Multiple members of Parliament like how any what? What? Was there? A lying? You know there's people like, oh you almost done? In there? Are you? Almost? Other people are waiting to cry too, you know, it's coming out, Tory, it's coming out. It's actually too bad that this happened in Britain and not in Japan, because you know, at least Japanese toilets, so advanced they can,

they can probably actually help and console you. You know you're doing the best you can thanks to too. I remember, remember what happened? Come, don't don't just shut up? No, just shut up. Don't You're not helping, you know. The craziest part, the craziest part of this whole story is that Liz Trust only became Prime Minister because Boris Johnson was embroiled in so many scandals that he was forced to resign. That's the only reason she got the job.

So you'll never guess who might be replacing her. The big issue though, for the Conservative Party and for this country is that no one really knows who's going to be able to replace her. There are a number of names in the mix, including I have to say Boris Johnson, who is currently on holiday and on vacation at the moment. In the Caribbeans, there are a number of Conservative Party members who are calling for Boris Johnson to return to

the helm. I went to my constituency at the weekend and the strong message that I got was bringing back Boris Johnson. Some supporters and some allies of Boris Johnson say that he may throw his name into the ring, which would be pretty remarkable since he was forced out by a scandal just six or seven weeks ago. Oh that's right, people, Old Boris Johnson is looking. It's a good right now, isn't he not? Physically? Of course, physically

he looks like a Pomeranian who got stuck in a dryer. Politically, though he's not bird. He's an honest question, though, Britain, are you are you guys really gonna put Boris back in office? Boris scandals Johnson? There is nobody else who could do this job, nobody in the entire country. And what about Paddington? Everybody loves him. Yeah, with that voice, he could even have bad policies, No one would care.

I want to burn all the migrants, you crazy tyrants. Now. Look, if we had more time, we could try and figure out Britain's next top minister, or we could place bets on how long they would last. But we don't have the time because we have to go to an ad break that is probably gonna last longer than let's trust

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I think after what has continued to be the pandemic and our you know, political climate, I think which we found a lot that we could be mad about, a lot of things we can yell at each other about, but not much that we could laugh about together. And this is one of those shows that kind of brings people together and you know, you can talk about it the day after and kind of laugh at what we know to be a broken educational system. But if we can't laugh about it, then what it's kind of the

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as opposed to politics, which always divides people. You you've been in this business for ever since you were worked for four years old. You're normal though, enough, I'm normal enough. How I really like the work, man. I really like telling stories and and representing people and you know, empathizing with characters and and and and going into people's living

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If anything, it's the fact that I guess more of a concept the fact that my audience has literally grown up with me and we're all here together now. That that's the thing that when I sit down at night and like all the lights are off and like last thoughts are going through your head. That's kind of the craziest thing for me, is like we all grew up

together and now we're all here. We're trying to figure this life out together and Hopefully I can continue to do that until we all you know, are deep in our eighties. Man, that gave me goose bumps. I love me so much. Thank you so much for being level, but we're at learning nothing. One of the funniest human beings I've ever watched and had the pleasure I speaking truth. How to James Winning? Is everybody want to tell? The quick break will be right back after this flock for

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