Greatest City in the World, Baby

Jackal and Josiah catch up on some current events before we launch into Horror Month in October. We discuss an article about the LAPD conducting a pot raid, Mark Robinson's "black Nazi" scandal, Israel's attack on Lebanon, and the fearmonger over Haitian immigrants before zooming in on the indictment of Eric Adams and why being the Mayor of New York is a curse.

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References

• "LAPD raid goes from bad to farce after gun allegedly sucked onto MRI machine," Lester Black in SFGate, https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/lapd-cannabis-mri-raid-19789448.php
• "Calif. cops forced to return $800,000 in pot after controversial raid," Lester Black in SFGate, https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/calif-cops-forced-to-return-800k-in-cannabis-19370034.php
• "Netanyahu vows to use ‘full force’ against Hezbollah and dims hopes for a cease-fire," Bassem Mroue, Tia Goldenberg, Melanie Lidman in Associated Press, https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-news-09-26-2024-486f5aecac210273611124f9ade95fc6
• "Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them." Brett Murphy in ProPublica, https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken
• "'A heartless disgrace': Des Moines passes homeless camping ban amid public uproar," Virginia Barreda in Des Moines Register, https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/des-moines/2024/09/16/des-moines-passes-homeless-camping-ban-amid-public-uproar/75249608007/
• "Why do they hate Haitians?" Josiah Sutton in Digital Burnout, https://josiahwsutton.substack.com/p/why-do-they-hate-haitians
• "‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum," Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck in CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
• "It's cliché to point out hypocrisy," Josiah Sutton in Josiah's Media Round-Up, https://josiahlist.substack.com/p/its-cliche-to-point-out-hypocrisy
• Lauren Windsor's accusation toward Chris Rufo: https://x.com/lawindsor/status/1836932778933313704
• Steven Monacelli independently verifying email address linked to Rufo; thread also includes Rufo's attempt at making an OnlyFans for Lauren Windsor: https://x.com/stevanzetti/status/1837172969367359653
• "Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi is on leave over an alleged relationship with RFK Jr.," Rachel Treisman in NPR, https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120486/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-ny-magazine
• "Pizza Rat: New York City's infamous rodent, explained," Margarita Noriega in Vox, https://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9366729/ny-subway-pizza-rat
• "Rudy Giuliani Hits Rock Bottom for the 967,345th Time," Bess Levin in Vanity Fair, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rudy-giuliani-hits-rock-bottom-for-the-967345th-time
• United States of America v. Eric Adams, Sealed Indictment: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s._v._adams_indictment_1.pdf
• TrueAnon thread of indictment highlights: https://x.com/trueanonpod/status/1839322899918061593
• Additional indictment highlight from Ali Najmi: https://x.com/ali_najmi/status/1839336789234131051

Music & audio credits

• 90's Lofi type beat - Liadiii
• Yesterday – bloom.
• "Vance defends pet-eating claims, says he's willing to 'create stories'," Politico on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJ_Icosa3s
• Sentimental - Dan Darmawan
• Niebla - El Shirota