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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There are non-toxic ways to get lots of smoke quickly, but I'd like to think they use white phosphorus
on the subject of putting explosive reactive armour on sainsburys https://youtu.be/_1btDc5xJe0
I have a friend who wrote her PhD thesis on small parties trying to go from EU to national parliaments.
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.
another level of "if you saw someone shoplifting food, no you didnt"
I'd wear an Avignon Popes jersey.
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.
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.
My family have been supporting the Avignon Popes since 1309.
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
https://www.nfl.com/international/global-markets-program
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.
I would buy the shit out of that merch
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
(Reverse Kennedy) President Kennedy has grown a second head in Dallas.
Please release the Avignon popes t shirt
The amount I would pay for an Avignon Popes jersey is, ironically, unholy
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
"The church demands a retractable roof or it'll move the franchise" -Justin Roczniak
And the rare DOUBLE reverse Kennedy, where you shoot someone in a book depository and a grassy knoll from a moving car.
great episode
MEP Zwarte Piet is hilarious.
Love da Popes, Let's go Popes!
"The scoundrel's lung" absolutely sent me
Scoring a mobility kill on a Tesco by lifting a Kinder egg off a shelf too quickly
Slam dunk yes on the Avignon Popes merch, 100%
I was enveloped in a fog bank while trying to establish a more equitable society in the lagoon
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.
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
Ciarán is delightful!
"you need to remove the shoplifters' queen" oh sorry Morrissey c. 1987?
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
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.
Can't BELIEVE they let a town called "Swineshead" go by without a SINGLE David Cameron joke
Eh. More of an antipopes fan myself
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.
So fucking good
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
Or maybe Brigitte just hasn’t been pegging him hard enough lately?
Speaking of led by donkies, isn’t it time that one of you did a feature with Joe?
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 ...
grince et écope as they say
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
On current (20/06) subscription rates it looks like you could go up to 561.6 smoke machines
My dumb American ass read this like "it's not the 20th yet" 🤦♂️
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?????????
Yes! Time for weird Euro shit! Lemme see some freaks!
This is excellent content
