I wonder if some part of the appeal of the Minions is that they're a collective group of children.

They are like weirdly ageless. Like they're like they're child-like but they're not really children.

Right. I've always heard...

They're... They're immortal. They are? I think so. Like, I don't think you can kill them and I think they've been around since like the dinosaurs or something.

An uncomplicated sweet child that you can blow up in the... a master that's sort of right they are minions they were they were born to be evil right but

specifically to be controlled by an evil person I don't know I don't know about the

minions I don't know about the minions. And we're back. I'm here with Chris, Kendra, and Halle.

Hi. Last verse is back to lurking like the babaduke.

There's more light on her this time.

Let's get into it. What a weekday.

Jury selection in Donald Trump's Manhattan-Hushmoney trial began on Monday, marking the start of the first criminal trial of a U.S. President.

Here's the New York Times's Maggie Haberman on what she observed.

You guys have been at the times have been live blogging this event and 40 minutes ago you wrote Trump appears to be sleeping his head

keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack. Tell us about that.

Well Jake he appeared to be asleep and you know he repeatedly his his head would fall down this

time he didn't pay attention to a note that his lawyer Todd Blance passed him his

jaw kept falling on his chest and his mouth kept Now, you know, sometimes people do fall asleep during court proceedings,

but it's notable given the intensity of this morning. Yeah, that's rather surprising.

It's a... I just just also like you know that when you're just sitting in a chair and you can't read you're there's not enough recline to it so that you can help but do that thing where you're kind of well that thing sucks

I like that it was like 10 a.m. on a Monday it's like it wasn't even

Thursday afternoon it was like oh no they probably didn't give him his normal

diet coke and Adder all so that he would appear normal

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