Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of former Vice President Mike trends Ah. He had a great welcome party and Indiana, hey did We will get to that later. I am Jack. That is miles. Here are some of the things that are trending. What should we start with? Should we start with the rats Are? Yeah? New York's rats Are? This is just a it's a fun story. New York has appointed its first ever rats Are. It's fun for now and then I'm waiting to see, like
how this will turn apocalyptic. But a rats are is someone in charge of getting rid of rats. They are not a rat that they've given political powers to. Um, which was my how it got my attention in the first place. You say rats Are, I'm like, who is this rat and what is their skill set? Because you had you know, pizza rat comes from New York. It's a it's like point guards and talented rats or being produced by New York City. Killer Hezy, where's that rat
with the killer heasy? Yeah? Yeah. So. Mayor Eric Adams announced that Kathleen Karate has been hired as the city's Director of rodent Mitigation, and we'll find innovative, innovative ways to cut off rats food sources and use new technologies
to detect and exterminate rat populations. She's making a salary of one hundred and fifty five thousand a year, which is a lot, but it's presumably doesn't break down to all that much if you think about it per rat since New York has yeah, I mean all they can't she even live in New York making that much? I know, truly probably not. Yeah, well, I guess that's the thing. It's like, well, I'm actually here's the thing. I'm so swashbuckling. I will live amongst the rats so I can understand them.
That's why I don't have to worry about things like rent. Yeah. So the job was posted back in December when the rat problem was I think it came across Mayor Adams's desk because he was ticketed or a rat infestation in a Brooklyn rowhouse he owned, m you know, just a slum lord like any self respecture powerful people and paid powerful person in New York. Yeah, he has not paid that ticket off Miles. As of December, he hadn't actually
paid it. But what he has done is appoint a rats are You're gonna get results for her first job is gonna be get the rats out of that row home so he can then contest. That's fine, but the job posting called for a background in urban planning. Okay, make makes sense, but also said that the applicant should have a swashbuckling attitude, m crafty humor, why, and general aura of badassery. I'm sorry, that's in the job description. That's in the job description. I think they're playing to
sword fight the rats. Probably you're looking for a rat tzarre action. It sounds like, all right, that humor out gotta go. So discord leak is the news. So this Jack to Shara, is that how we're pronouncing that? Yeah? Texi Era Sharing, one year old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been charged with two counts under the Espionage Act related to retaining and distributing classified and
national defense information being detained in Boston. The main thing that I'm still trying to understand is like this story took over the mainstream media. This was the number one story on New York Times for over twenty four hours. It's the number one story on Drudge. So you got both sides being really blown away by this. It seems like just at first blush, like, this is a person who was trying to impress teenagers in a chat room on a discord and started like just showing them the
most classified documents that they could. The day that, like, the news story started circulating, government records indicate that he used his government computer to search for the world leak. So it's like, not, it doesn't seem like a sophisticated operator. Maybe he's so sophisticated. I know how this will, this will play, so I'm gonna do something seemingly very basic. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. For like people like Eric Swalwell and like sort of establishment Democrats, there's always this thing that, like in American politics, someone who leaks classified information, the immediate thing is always like that person's a trader. When a lot of the times, unfortunately we live in such a cryptic environment as it relates to our government's actions in general. Yet sometimes that's the only time we get a moment to like be like, whoa, what the fuck
are we doing? Oh yeah, fuck all that, And then they want to keep that ship secret. In this instance, I don't know what his fucking motivations are, but it's clear though too, like so for the Republicans, they're like, oh, this guy's like a right wing dude, and they can be like he's a trader. But then you have people like Marjorie Taylor Green, who if you're like on the far right, this like especially with Marjorie Taylor Green, who has like a lot of you know, kremliny talking points.
She's doing stuff of like who's the real enemy here? Right? You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, she said quote, he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more because we had no idea. There was like a small force like of Americans in Ukraine. And you're like, oh, interesting, I had no idea and then just going to be like oh like or like being able to do like start a war with like Russia. You know, they have all kinds of everyone has their
reason to evoke this. I mean, that seems like it should be the big news story, not that it was leaked, but that they are US troops on the ground. But I guess I guess they're like, we don't want they're putting them at risk, and it's like, well, I don't know, man,
you're putting all of us at risk. By like fighting this lukewarm proxy war against Russia, right, and doing such a good job of keeping the document secret that they're available to Jack to Shara, Yeah, on discovering one year old trying to impress his chord group that met playing video games. Yeah, so anyway said he's a white male Christian and anti war. That makes sure him an enemy to the Biden regime. M. Yeah, that's probably what happened. Yeah,
it's great fodder for the outrage machine. Yeah. I guess what was revealed is compelling, So maybe that's what it's being treated that way because they know they can't report that because it's technically violating like national security, so instead they're just talking about so okay, that is clarifying. But yeah, it's like one of those things where it's like because it sounds, like the Washington Post said, like there's videos of him like saying racial slurs and then like shipping
off a gun and stuff. I am not team to share, I will just say, of course, but it's like one of those weird things where you find yourself Like for me personally, I'm like, well, like leakers and stuff like this, where they're revealing just how reckless our foreign policy is or these other things. I'm like, well, you know, I kind of want to know these things. Yeah, but again, it's very easy to then just be like it's a trade blah blah blah. So look, I'm more saying like, oh, wait,
what what happened in these leaks? And now everyone gets to go to their corners and you know, Eric Swalwell and the like and like quote tweet Marjorie Taylor Green, like who's the real trader here? It's like, I don't know, focus on like shit like gun control. But I guess that this helps kind of take the attention away and onto the leak that I actually care about because it's stupid and doesn't matter and I'm an idiot. Um. The Murdocks have long suspected like Ruper. Wait which Murdo and
not the South Carolina Murdocks. No, not the murdog. Did you watch that documentary yet? No? I haven't. Man, We've been talking about it a lot. It's another thing to like visually begin to put the pieces together and your fucking skin is gonna crawl off your body. Yeah, well, the other Murdocks who make my skin crawls my body. The Rupert Murdocks of Manhattan have long suspected someone is leaking their lives to the rights of Succession. Is like,
Succession is so dead on. There's this new Vanity Fair article that like details about a bunch of the like dark secrets and like one of the sun says like struggle with mental health and shit like that. But the detail that blew my mind is that Sherman says there was actually a clause in Rupert Murdock's divorce from Jerry Hall I think is the name of one of his exes, preventing her from giving the Succession writers any plot ideas.
So they specifically called it out, and we're like, yo, they are getting so much right that one of you motherfucker's has to be leaking, and so therefore I have to specifically say that you can't do this. Wow. I wonder if anything's gonna mirror this season in real life. M yeah, M interesting. So I don't know. I always suspected the Succession was pretty close to home and that they had a lot of the details of what it's
like to be in a room with these people. But apparently they watch it and we're like, who the fuck who's telling on us. Right, so interesting, very interesting. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back. And there's a warning from the FBI. Uh that was getting a lot of coverage about how public phone chargers, it places like airports, can be hacked and bad actors can hit you with the malware. Malware. I call it malware. I like malware. That's just what I wear to the
mall new kicks. Or it's like no, man, I studied abroad in Spain. It's actually pronounced malware. Okay, it's actually maldware. So yeah, a lot of people are like what the fuck, Like wait, what the bulletin reads think twice before and this is the FCC and they're talking about the FBI said I think twice before using public charging stations. Hackers could be waiting to gain access to your personal information by installing malware and monitoring software to your devices. This
scam is referred to as juice jacking. So, I mean, I am extremely important, so everything checks out here, probably very interested in what's on my phone, so checked out.
I mean, yeah, like one of these like this journalist over at Slate, Heather tom Murphy like actually was asking around, like is this true, and even like reached out to like hackers who are like in the you know, info security space, and they're like, I mean like a better version is using like rigged cables than like this, Like what even they're described and even then there's not a lot to say that this is a widespread problem. And so then then like then what the fuck is the deal?
Like why talk about this? And then like they talked to like someone at the FCC and other places and they're just sort of saying, oh yeah, like they referenced old bulletin from twenty nineteen, like that's what the FBI person said, and everyone took this as like big news because the FBI like put this out and they're like, yeah, there's like this warning from twenty nineteen, and I apparently it looks like the reason the FBI social person even
shared it is because quote, the agency regularly provides reminders and public service announcements in conjunction with our partners and as their author the writer Slate says. In other words, it seems that the FBI, like many other entities in America, feels the need to put out content. It turns to old stuff when nothing new is going on. What's our posting schedule look like this week? Guys? What do we what do we got? What do you got for me? Now?
But before you take off for your birthday on the weekend, let me know what the posting cadence is going to be. Look at the engagement stats we got on that one time when you claimed that people's refrigerators might be reading their phones over their shoulders and having sex with your mother. Yeah, you're refrigerator, maybe banging your mom. Click here to know if you have one of the dangerous models. Yes so yeah, um as superducer Base says in the chat Jestermenter. Bring
your own phone charger and rechargeable battery. Look, I love you trust and chargeable batteries where you know, unless you're building your own, unless that's a home build. Can you imagine a homebrew rechargeable battery just like electrical taping, a bunch of like de cell rechargeable batteries. Say it's safe, it's safe, it's safe, all right. Mike Pence has he announced that he's running for president? I mean he did, Okay, so it's out there. Doesn't seem like it's been picking
up a ton of traction. But what what what happened? So he recently appeared maybe oh no, you know what it is. It's because he did a book and he did his book tour, and that's when everyone goes, yeah, okay, so you're running, right, because you never put out a book about oh you want to hear about my story unless you're running for president. But he is definitely edging with us because we don't know what he is doing. He is not really filing official paperwork yet and he's
saying I'm gonna make my decision. I think it's like a lot of people in like Ron de Santis, because we've even heard Ron de Santis. There's a potential he might not step up this year. Yeah, nobody wants to fuck with Trump. Yeah, like because he's shook daddy and he's like yeah maybe twenty twenty eight or whenever. The fuck that is mean is like a better at fucking time. So yeah, Pence, I think who knows. I mean, he still has to go testify and all this other ship.
Everybody was like Ron de Santis is like Trump with an Ivy League education, and it seems like that is just Ted Cruise. He just seems like he's another Ted cruise to me yea at this point exactly with just like slightly less sniveling. But Mike Pence is one of a kind though, Baby, he is yeah, one of the strangest humans to watch, like public figures to watch in motion because yeah, because he is like a like a meat suit powered by corporate donations. Yes, and that's really it.
Like I couldn't tell you. I mean, like I get like we have stuff from his past as like our radio DJ to get like some inkling after who he was before he became like a governor and all that shit. But all that to say is he was in his home state of Indiana. For you'd imagine he is beloved speaking to the fucking NRA. Damn. This is like where you go to warm up for the more hostile crowd. Yeah, right, so here's his entrance to go address the NRA in his own state of Indiana. Ba NRA, I love you too,
who love you? And a lot of booze. So yeah, I mean I think still some people look, Mike, you basically didn't stop the steal when you could have. Bro Yeah, maybe you should have had some backbone, man, maybe you should have some backbone. But whatever, that's where he's at, because he just like bears down and you can like kind of see the wheels working behind the eyes, but not really that was like one of those things too.
He probably was so fucked up by that. Like after he's like, oh, man, I don't know, Mother, I don't know if I should run mother. This is he probably had all the people booing killed, like this is probably what happened. Part of me feels like he's not even capable of that. Oh, he's just any he has so much money by but he does he even to me,
He's just like he's like this inanimate object. Yeah, he is an inanimate object, but like he's an inanimate object powered by a corporate behemoth of money that is just trying to do whatever it takes. Yeah, well, i'd I'd be surprised if he wouldn't have me killed for saying this. Uh, if he if he was a listener to the show. Yeah, I mean, look, I think Mother is probably the more dangerous of the two. Karen Pence, Oh, I mean I can't. I can't wait to read the play once we've had
time to process what was going on there. Yeah. Absolutely, And then finally one dollar Hot dog Nights. One of them got out of hand at a Phillies game Philadelphia. People are getting all bad rap because they started throwing hot dogs. It started innocently enough. It began with a kid who hate thirteen hot dogs, and people kept trying to get him to eat more, which devolved into them throwing hot dogs at him or to him. Um, and then people started hurling water bottles from the upper deck.
Everything went nat that that's a direct quote. Several fans were thrown out of the game. Um. Something I didn't know about the dollar hot dog Night is that they are not selling the same hot dogs that you get on a normal night at the ballpark. You're getting the
dollar hot dog. You're getting the dollar hot dogs. And like, so somebody, I guess there was one, Like in twenty fifteen, there's a Kansas City Royals Buck Night, which is when you can get a hot dog for a dollar, And people took pictures of what the hot dogs looked like, and they look like crime scene photos. They look like, I don't mean to be like really fucked up, like autopsy photos like of like necrotizing flesh. Yeah, but in the shape of a hot dog. And you're like I'm sorry,
what the fuck is this? And they asked specifically that question, what the fuck is this? And there's not been an answer. Um, So America, you know, I bet the fucking hot dogs they sell normally don't cost a dollar. No, you know, and they're making fucking or I don't know, I don't know, fucking margins on fucking hot dogs. But I can't imagine those little meat tubes are that much per unit. No. I bet, like even in a way when it's dollar fucking hot dog Night, they're like they're still making like
ninety eight cents every hot dog kind of thing. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean photographs these look like you know, they're I mean, they're probably it's pure margin because these are hot dogs that they would have otherwise thrown out or that we're thrown out. They look there, fish out of the garbage. Yeah, these are fish out of the garbage and served to you. But so, anyways, I did not know that pass it along as a service to
the Zeke Gang. Dollar hot Dog Night is the dollar hot dog is its own Yeah, it is its own entity, and you might not want to fuck with it. Dollar hot Dog Night will lead to a fifteen thousand dollars er bill right, do the math, folks. It ain't worth it all right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Friday afternoon. We are back on Monday with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremis, and we will talk to y'all on Monday. By piece the fuck out