June 19, 2024

The Reverse Kennedy feat. Ciarán Dold

For this week's bonus, we're talking EU elections and weird European politics with Corner Späti's Ciarán Dold. Learn about Ursula Von Der Leyen's anti-wolf vendetta, Cypriot Mr. Beast somehow getting a parliamentary seat, the hypothetical return of François Hollande in a move they're calling Opposite Day PASOK, and Riley's conjecture about a maneuver known only as the Reverse Kennedy. It's a whole lot!

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Man2quilla · March 9, 2026

There are non-toxic ways to get lots of smoke quickly, but I'd like to think they use white phosphorus

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drednorzt · June 30, 2024

on the subject of putting explosive reactive armour on sainsburys https://youtu.be/_1btDc5xJe0

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Petter Ericson · June 29, 2024

I have a friend who wrote her PhD thesis on small parties trying to go from EU to national parliaments.

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Petter Ericson · June 29, 2024

Actual non-trash thing is that the fascists in Sweden lost vote share for the first election since 2000 or so and are hilariously panicking.

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Ivy Morgan · June 28, 2024

another level of "if you saw someone shoplifting food, no you didnt"

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Aaron · June 25, 2024

I'd wear an Avignon Popes jersey.

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Tommaso Caprotti · June 24, 2024

Fyi, the Zemmour and Marion Maréchal falling out was the other way around. She announced that Reconquête would have allied with RN without discussing it with Zemmour. He then tried to expel everyone from the party basically, but it looks like Maréchal has the members’ support. Basically she did an Le Penist entryist coup to re-absorb the Reconquête base within the RN.

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Andrew Davis · June 23, 2024

Did my mind play tricks on me or did we have an episode where people constantly said, "popping smoke," and and Milo didn't bring out his pretty good Call of Duty voices.

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John Harwood · June 22, 2024

My family have been supporting the Avignon Popes since 1309.

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Patrick ODonnell · June 22, 2024

I’m assuming none of you saw the Cheneyesque breakdown of how the NFL has given international markets to various teams; France’s was already the Catholic-themed New Orleans Saints

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Patrick ODonnell · June 22, 2024

https://www.nfl.com/international/global-markets-program

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Lunchbox · June 22, 2024

I was fully expecting November to say she wanted the smoke machine in train cars so it could go off if someone eats chips/crisps.

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Man2quilla · June 21, 2024

I would buy the shit out of that merch

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etienne · June 21, 2024

Climate Stalin: we're going to phase out all fossil fuels with in 10 years no questions. Get building Climate Stalin (a little bit of cow poop on the windshield of the ceremonial e-Lada): you know what wait a minute. Let's rethink this

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David Schuller · June 21, 2024

(Reverse Kennedy) President Kennedy has grown a second head in Dallas.

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CT · June 21, 2024

Please release the Avignon popes t shirt

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Dom · June 21, 2024

The amount I would pay for an Avignon Popes jersey is, ironically, unholy

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Bernie Homes · June 21, 2024

We have the fog machines here in Aotearoa as an anti robbery thing for dairies and such. If a guy with a knife comes in and says open the till or I'll stab you the guy behind the counter pops smoke

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Man2quilla · June 20, 2024

"The church demands a retractable roof or it'll move the franchise" -Justin Roczniak

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Radio Free Covenant · June 20, 2024

And the rare DOUBLE reverse Kennedy, where you shoot someone in a book depository and a grassy knoll from a moving car.

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Ivy Nova · June 20, 2024

great episode

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Stephen R. · June 20, 2024

MEP Zwarte Piet is hilarious.

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Skelecopter · June 20, 2024

Love da Popes, Let's go Popes!

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Jacob Barlow · June 20, 2024

"The scoundrel's lung" absolutely sent me

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Noblese Oblahaj · June 20, 2024

Scoring a mobility kill on a Tesco by lifting a Kinder egg off a shelf too quickly

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ND · June 20, 2024

Slam dunk yes on the Avignon Popes merch, 100%

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John Leavitt · June 20, 2024

I was enveloped in a fog bank while trying to establish a more equitable society in the lagoon

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Josep C. · June 20, 2024

Describing some of the new Spanish EU parliament members as center right is a bit generous... One of them worked as the far right media shit poster. Although, yeah, the Germans and French here are a different beast.

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Nah · June 20, 2024

Riley says "Pop Smoke" so many times I'm imagining a version of "Dior" where the brands shouted out in the hook are all British supermarkets

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Ros · June 20, 2024

Ciarán is delightful!

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HJC · June 20, 2024

"you need to remove the shoplifters' queen" oh sorry Morrissey c. 1987?

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Alex · June 20, 2024

Was not expecting fucking Bryanston Greek Camp to be mentioned It's a mix of losers into classics doing it because they want to do it at uni and went to a state school where they can't learn Ancient Greek (me), and weird poshos who just seemed to spend the whole time getting caught fucking in various places around the grounds and putting on plays in ancient greek

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Shelley James · June 20, 2024

I was so surprised to hear Bry get a name check, but of course Milo went. Makes sense. I worked at Bry for a few years as a cleaner and now my kids have cushy summer jobs there where the pay is good and the work is best described as “light”. Also, I couldn’t have done my job at a state school as it was boarding house cleaning. So, there’s that.

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Pat Biss · June 20, 2024

Can't BELIEVE they let a town called "Swineshead" go by without a SINGLE David Cameron joke

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Samuel · June 20, 2024

Eh. More of an antipopes fan myself

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Elsie Hupp · June 20, 2024

Requiring courtiers to spend time at a remote palace (under surveillance and out of trouble) was an important aspect of how Louis XIV maintained power in late 17th and early 18th Century France. Therefore obviously the freaks of British society should be confined to Hampton Court Palace and forced to learn ballet.

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Man2quilla · June 20, 2024

So fucking good

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Ilian Petit · June 20, 2024

Alright so as a french citizen, my personal theory on why Macron called for a snap election is because he's an authoritarian egomaniac who's on uppers every time he appears on a fucking screen and who engages in magical thinking. He decided to multiply the number of live TV elocutions until the election and they've been containing a significant portion of nonsense that I just don't want to believe was written beforehand for the sake of my own sanity. I really think that when he called for the snap election, he was convinced it was going to be beneficial to him, because that's just how delusional he's been about so much already. Apart from that it's probably one of the funniest TF episodes I've heard, can't wait to put one of those smoke boxes in my place, I'm sure our 4 cats are going to love that

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Elsie Hupp · June 20, 2024

Or maybe Brigitte just hasn’t been pegging him hard enough lately?

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Steph · June 20, 2024

Speaking of led by donkies, isn’t it time that one of you did a feature with Joe?

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Swann Felin · June 20, 2024

Hi ! French listener here :) Extremely amused by your take on all the insanity. Funnily enough, the "let the RN be ridiculized at the reins of power" theory from the FT guy is actually the leading theory in most French discourse rn. Oh well ... wish us luck ...

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etienne · June 21, 2024

grince et écope as they say

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TheIdealCopy · June 20, 2024

There was a US firm which marketed smoke machines for domestic security use in the 80s & 90s. It was apparently specially-formulated (and mildly toxic) and was called Home Fog

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aceplym · June 20, 2024

On current (20/06) subscription rates it looks like you could go up to 561.6 smoke machines

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Man2quilla · June 20, 2024

My dumb American ass read this like "it's not the 20th yet" 🤦‍♂️

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Lain of the Wired · June 19, 2024

you know when i worked the security cameras i think that job would have been harder with a thick obscuring haze? like do they thing we get thermal cameras?????????

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Oliver Cant · June 19, 2024

Yes! Time for weird Euro shit! Lemme see some freaks!

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EliteErin is cool · June 19, 2024

This is excellent content