C (3:07)

Yeah, the polling is bearing that out. Sometimes I have, like, little faith that, you know, the. The opinions of the American people, but in this particular instance, they generally seem to understand how messed up was this was. This also sounds like one poll said, like, 70% of respondents had seen a video of the incident, which is crazy, right?

A (3:27)

Yeah, I, you know, I've seen every angle of this because, you know, of course, X. The Everything app made sure it was the only thing in my feed. And in my opinion, it showed me, you know, clear as day that the ice. I'm not even gonna say in my opinion, the video I watched showed me clear as day that this ICE agent was in absolutely zero immediate danger. And this is coming from somebody who has seen way too many episodes of Cops. More than I would like to admit to know that they have let people live for far worse offenses with a vehic.

C (3:59)

Yeah, I mean, like, it was like. What really struck me was the fact that the shooting did not affect the sort of the. The velocity or the angle of the vehicle and the officer was unharmed. They're saying there was some sort of injury. There has not been corroborate. We'll get into that later. But it was obviously not ran over because if he had not shot, it would have not affected the trajectory of the vehicle. This is one of those I call like, you know, why did he have the bull Bart kind of facts. I'm thinking that scene in the Simpsons where Milhouse is chastising Bart gaslighting them.

B (4:32)

Santa's little Helper. Guess I was the only one who loved him.

A (4:35)

You got that right. Remember the time he ate my goldfish and you lied to me and said, I never had any goldfish, but why'd I have the ball part?

B (4:44)

Why did I have the ball?

C (4:46)

And this is one of those things where it's like, here's a real. A core fact which is real central, which is I think everyone needs to pay attention to, which is that, like, the. Obviously the officer would not have been harmed because the shooting did not make them a sort of. Any sort of like, didn't change the trajectory of the vehicle in any meaningful way.

B (5:04)

Yeah, you don't. Your body doesn't despawn it's not like a video game after you shot. Like, it's in the same general area. Like, you don't move. That's. You lose the capacity to move because you die.

A (5:15)

Yeah. Hey. All right. This is a tough one, guys.

B (5:18)

Yeah.

A (5:19)

Things feel bad. I know police are like, they do be murdering people in the street, like, like, consistently for, like, millennia. But because, you know, especially after this, like, big push of, like, you know, ICE and like, the $50,000 hiring bonus that are, like, Uncle Sam wants you, you know, very reminiscent of that kind of stuff. It's like any geek off the street, as demonstrated recently. I'm sure you guys saw the wonderful Slate article from Laura Jadid where she gets offered an ICE job while doing the minimal amount of work. She doesn't sign any of the paperwork. She definitely isn't gonna pass her drug test because she's, like, smoked weed, you know, a couple days before, know, taking the test, and she still gets the offer. So when I say any geek off the street who wants a $50,000 signing bonus, which is a lot of money. That's a lot of money. Essentially with the idea of going to, you know, essentially to become, like, some kind of street mercenary and, you know, ski masks and body armor.

B (6:29)

Yeah.

A (6:29)

You know, I was worried that something. I was worried that something like this would happen.

B (6:34)

Yeah. Honestly, I was surprised, like, given my, like, how low my opinion of the America Kucan White proletariat is that they had to offer that much. I thought they would have done it for free. I'm sure, actually. Honestly, I'm sure all of those, like, you know, really high cholesterol, like, chuds who cannot, like, keep up a brisk pace for more than 10 seconds probably would be doing it for free anyways.

A (6:55)

The journalist who went to the sort of, like, recruiting area, which is really. You guys should read that article if you haven't. It's really funny. It's held in, like, some kind of, like, esports arena. So it's like all of these, like, thick neck, you know, like, law enforcement guys sort of milling around. She said it's kind of empty. There weren't as many people as she thought. But it's all, like, neon. Like neon LED lighting and, like, you know, because it's tricked out for some kind of video game tournament. Yeah, it's so. It's so bizarre. But she said that, like, you know, eventually, you know, she ends up talking to this guy, you know, who's an employee or has been working. Working for ICE for a long time, and he's like, you know, it's not gonn. You're not gonna be on the streets right away. Like, you know, you gotta sort of. There's a lot of paperwork to be done. You're not gonna get to do the cool stuff like you see on tv. And the journalist is like, oh, well, that's okay. Like, I guess I'm more suited to that. Like, I'm more suited to that. And the guy kind of like, adjusts and he goes, oh, well, just to be clear, the goal is to have as many guns and badges on the street as possible. Okay, so even he kind of like, when she said that she wanted to maybe she would be comfortable working in the office, that was like, the wrong sort of mentality to have.

B (8:05)

She could tell, no, you are the brown shirts. You don't understand. There's no brown shirts doing paperwork. You don't get to do that.

A (8:16)

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A (9:00)

Travis, for once, I agree with you.

C (9:02)

And I also agree that people could.

A (9:04)

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C (9:13)

Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think out of gratitude. Maybe that's not true. The part about me crying, not. Not me being grateful. I'm very gr.