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Taming the Deere · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Hello. I considered my options before making
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a choice. But stuff still happened. So what's
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up? New cat just dropped. You can't have it.
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But new cat. Roller coaster of emotions. In Bolivia,
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there is a new cat. Found it. Researchers were
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going over the genetic code for samples from
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various cats within the leopard family, the generally
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spotty boys. I should say the Lepardus genus.
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Leopardus genus. the genus of leopards. And so
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the scientists were like, look, we really want
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to know what's making these kitties want to bop
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fuzzy things on the head. So they took some DNA
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samples and checked them out. And when they looked
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hard enough, they found a new cat. Specifically,
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they identified a new genetically unique species
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of cat within this genus that is basically a
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leopard that is also smaller than a house cat.
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This little guy is called El Tikalo. T -T -Tilkayo.
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T -I -L -C -A -Y -O. I did great on that one.
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Um, it's a good thing that they named it. I probably
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would have just named it Buster. Which actually
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I think I'm just gonna call it Buster. The Buster
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breed of cat can be found in these misty forests
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of Bolivia where it's prowling around wondering
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where its dinner is. ever searching for a person
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sound asleep in their bed so they can jump on
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their face. We only know of a few of these little
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guys. It's not like you're gonna go to the pet
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store and pick yourself up a little mini leopard
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anytime soon. We've got one in captivity and
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we saw another and we've got some pictures of
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some more maybe, but we don't really have, you
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know, a pet store's worth. But to be clear, also,
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they're wild animals. Please don't go to Bolivia
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and find a misty forest. Walk up to a wild cat
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and try to go pss pss pss pss pss. Not a good
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idea. That said, they are painfully adorable.
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And they're literally just like house cats. And
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there's one at a zoo that's basically just like
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a cat at a zoo, just hanging out. Neat. Maybe
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just pause and think about this cat for a little
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bit longer until you're ready for the next section.
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Here we go. The United States federal government
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has been occupying cities across the nation,
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typically cities that are known for being Democrat
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-leaning and did not go for Trump. Said another
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way, the federal government is trying to punish
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the citizens of given cities based on their politics.
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Which is fucked. One of the highest profile examples
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of this would be Washington DC, where we are
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spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money
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daily to have the National Guard roam around
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carrying guns. All the while, there has been
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no meaningful drop in violent crime in Washington
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DC, which is purportedly the reason that they're
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there in the first place. We all know that's
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not why they're there. Let's just be clear about
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that one. Let's turn our attention to Memphis,
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Tennessee, a city that has already seen dropping
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crime rates since 2024 and throughout 2025, before
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a task force of federal agents was sent into
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the city to harass people. The Memphis Safe Task
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Force is a coalition of local and state police
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as well as federal agents from across a bunch
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of different agencies. ICE, HSI, FBI, it's a
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real who's who of agents that we don't really
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want mucking around in our business. Americans
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famously love having the federal government meddle
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in their day -to -day lives. Memphis is a generally
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Democrat -leaning city in a Republican -leaning
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state. It makes sense that they want to punish
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this place in particular. And so, of course,
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despite dropping crime rates already happening,
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they sent in this task force and then claimed
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responsibility for dropping crime rates. The
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task force is essentially causing havoc. It's
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what happened in Minnesota all over again. On
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August 30th, ICE raided a bar in Memphis and
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rounded up over 100 people, throwing them in
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buses and bringing them to detention centers.
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At time of writing, at least four people have
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been shot and killed by members of this task
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force. One of these victims, Tyron Johnson, was
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shot by a member of the U .S. National Guard,
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who then lied about it. Accounts from authorities
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say that Tyron was a direct threat, pulled a
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gun facing the National Guard member, and so
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the National Guard member shot him in the chest
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to take care of the situation. One problem. The
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medical examiner ruled that he was shot in the
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back and the chest was an exit wound. So I have
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some questions, as does his family and lawyers.
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To be clear, they said that he reached for a
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gun in Tennessee, the states where I would bet
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money that there are more guns than pants. Can
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someone pull that stat, actually? Another case
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involved the killing of Darren Pegram. A DEA
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agent went to a Burger King where Darren was
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working to serve an arrest warrant. None of the
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DEA agents who were there were wearing body cams,
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and the cameras in the facility itself did not
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capture the actual shooting. And yet the DEA
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has already said that no charges will be coming
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to these people, while also acknowledging that
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this is a lot of killing. He said that the use
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of force was justified. We have literally no
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proof of that, except for the account of the
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DEA agent who did the killing. Non -law enforcement
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eyewitness accounts say that he was behind the
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counter being like, what are you going to do?
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Shoot me? You're going to shoot me? And then
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he was shot. So in response to this occupation,
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local businesses in Memphis have been trying
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to figure out a way to push back because this
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kind of situation has a chilling effect on businesses
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on top of the whole human right violations. We
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saw the same thing in Minnesota. If people are
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afraid to go out of their house, they're not
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going to go to businesses and spend money. And
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if people are afraid to even go to work, you
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can't really have businesses. And so eventually
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a pizza shop in Memphis refused service to a
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member of the National Guard, sparking what would
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ultimately become a big coalition of businesses
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doing the same. This, of course, was also creating
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a bunch of online right -wing backlash against
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the business owners, which is rich as hell. Like,
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it's important to not get tripped up on, like,
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conservatives in the U .S. being hypocrites,
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right? But here is a business owner making a
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decision about his business based on his own
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values, and then a bunch of people are like,
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you shouldn't be able to do that. Ignore gay
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cakes! Like, it's not about that, right? It's
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only about punishing the liberals. That is literally
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the only thing that they care about. That explains
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every bit of reaction and policy coming out of
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the entire conservative movement right now. Anyway,
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what was I saying? Ah, despite a bunch of online
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right -wing harassment, it turns out online right
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-wing harassment is not the same as actual normal
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people living in a place. And the actual normal
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people living in a place were like, hey, yeah,
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These federal agents that we didn't want here
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in the first place are stomping all over us.
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We are happy that these businesses are banding
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together and we're going to support you." That
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pizza shop reported a spike in revenue as did
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a whole bunch of other businesses that joined
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in. This economic chilling effect can be seen
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in more than just cities where these kind of
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task forces are being sent into. A joint statement
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from a coalition of cattle rancher associations
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basically said, hey, Trump, fucking stop. we're
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not going to be able to keep doing cattle ranching
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at this rate. Citing that even the quote unquote,
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documented immigrants are afraid to go to work.
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And that's because it's not about if they're
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documented or not. It's about getting rid of
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brown people. It was never about actually going
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after criminals. Again, we know this. Punish
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the people that they don't like. That's the point.
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Unfortunately, the people that they don't like
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do the things that enable them to have the life
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that they have. So whoops. Anyway, perhaps this
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is just a guess, but perhaps. when a group of
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people live in a given place and don't vote for
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a guy, they're not going to be happy when the
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guy that they didn't vote for uses federal agencies
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to harass them. Weird that. Hey, thank you so
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much for being here. It really means a lot that
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that stuff. It's genuinely helpful. Thank you.
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Anyway. Speaking of ranchers. John Deere. They're
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like the HP of farming equipment. Hear me out.
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I've got an explanation. You know HP printers
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and how they suck and how you have to like get
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an ink subscription or they'll like lock you
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out of printing with like third party black market
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ink canisters or something? John Deere is really
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taking that business model to heart. John Deere
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is virtually synonymous with farm equipment.
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Big rig farm equipment. That's what they do.
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That's what they specialize in. If you're running
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a large -scale farming operation, you probably
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have a lot of John Deere equipment, and over
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the years, the company has been putting in a
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lot of work to make it so that you can't repair
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your own stuff. Two different complaints filed
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against John Deere, one coming from farmers and
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one coming from the FTC, both got at parts of
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this issue. The farmers were basically saying,
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hey, yo, John Deere is making it so that we have
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to go to specifically them to get any kind of
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repairs because they are holding away their diagnostic
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software behind a lockbox. So, like, you can't
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go to a mechanic that would otherwise be able
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to do the thing. You have to specifically go
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to John Deere. Simultaneously, the FTC was like,
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John Deere is holding a monopoly on repair systems
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and is not letting anybody else get a hold of
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the actual tools and kits needed to do the repairs.
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All of this makes for a very profitable scheme
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for John Deere. Sell equipment that is absolutely
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necessary for one of the core business models
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in the entire country, and then also require
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that they only ever come to them for service.
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Free market capitalism. But there's been movement.
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At time of recording, Deere has agreed to settlements
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on these cases, and they're gonna have to pay
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out like 99 million dollars in damages, they're
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gonna cover legal fees, but more importantly,
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they're going to have to open up their repair
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systems. It's a right -to -repair argument. Do
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consumers have the right to make repairs to the
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things that they purchased after having purchased
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it? Typically that's what purchase means. So
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according to the settlement, moving forward,
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John Deere is going to have to make sure that...
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third parties can get a hold of the equipment
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that's actually necessary to do diagnostics and
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repairs. They are also required to encourage
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dealerships to promote the sale of such things.
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That part's a little iffy. At the end of the
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day, it's a settlement. John Deere has not admitted
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fault, and that the details may change, and also
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it's definitely not as impactful as it could
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have otherwise been. But it's at least something.
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I think people are pretty tired of an entire
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economic culture of strip mining your customers'
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wallets. So hopefully we see more of this in
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the future. It's a birthday. It's a big birthday.
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For a big boy. Kind of. And it's not a boy. Today
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marks the kind of birthday for Yosemite National
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Park, a place that is as beautiful as it is troubled
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in its history. I say it's the kind of birthday
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because the park was established in, like, multiple
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chunks of legislation. and it went back and forth
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a little bit, and there's a lot of stuff that
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happened. So here is the history of Yosemite
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National Park. Yosemite. It's big, there's a
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valley, some other places, and for a while there
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were native people living there. By 1851, the
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Gold Rush was in full swing, and there were gold
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in them hills. A state -sponsored militia was
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sent into what is now Yosemite National Park
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to eradicate the native people living there,
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expunge them to a reservation. Despite two raids,
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they failed to actually accomplish their goal,
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but they did leave a lot of carnage in their
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wake. Some of the native people living there
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stayed for quite a while, and they would do things
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like make baskets to sell to tourists and stuff
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like that. 1864 is the first time that there
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was some semblance of national parkery going
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on. There weren't really national parks yet,
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but they earmarked a chunk of land around Yosemite
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for public use. Then in 1890, October 1st, they
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did more of that. They passed another piece of
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legislation that... lumped up other bits of land
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around Yosemite into national public usage. So
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at this point we've got like Yosemite and Yosemite
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DLC, kind of. In 1906 they combined them. But
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before that, 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt
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spends a few nights camping in Yosemite, and
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he's like, this place pretty good. This place
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pretty good. Let's make it bigger. So he goes
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back and he's like, hey, we're going to make
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it bigger. And they decide to lump in more, more
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parts of the area around Yosemite into Yosemite.
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Now we've got a nice big old mass. To be clear,
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I want to just pause real quick. These American
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politicians were not moving land. They were just
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designating land. OK, cool. Making sure. 1913
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Woodrow Wilson signs a bill into law that says
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that San Francisco can dam up a river in Yosemite
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to get municipal water. Despite a bunch of conservationists
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being like, hey, this is a bad idea, but they
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did that anyway. 1914, the U .S. Army, who had
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been up until now, stewarding the land, passes
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this over to a civilian organization that will
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eventually become National Park Service. 1970,
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mounted park rangers attack a bunch of parkgoers,
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hitting them with tear gas because they were
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annoying. For real, basically a bunch of hippies
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were hanging out in Yosemite, and that pissed
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off a lot of people for some reason, and national
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park rangers went after them. When the park goers
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defended themselves by throwing like rocks and
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bottles and stuff, they were hit with tear gas.
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It was a mess. Where have I heard that before?
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We've got gold rushing, we've got genociding,
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we've got Teddy Roosevelting, we've got going
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after peaceful citizens for being peaceful. It's
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really just a microcosm of America. Side note,
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there is a recurring event in Yosemite up until
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like the late 60s called the Yosemite Firefall
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where workers would push a bunch of burning embers
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off the side of a cliff in Yosemite to make it
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look like a waterfall of fire. They don't do
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that anymore. Because obviously, it has since
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been replaced with, um, hey, there's this waterfall
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over here that glows in the setting sun. We'll
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call that the fire fall. So happy birthday, Yosemite.
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Sorry that we dumped a bunch of burning embers
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on you. Lightning Round. The Witcher 3 has a
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remaster out if you own the game. It's a free
14:11
upgrade. Thanks. There was this, like, big ring
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of concrete in England and they had no idea what
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it was for for years and we recently found out
14:20
that it was for, like, nuclear monitoring stuff
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during the Cold War. The Trump administration
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has motioned to pull back about $800 million
14:26
worth of funding that Congress has already appropriated
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because that money might be used to help asylum
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seekers. Republican Senator Susan Collins, who
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heads up the Senate Appropriations Committee,
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has concerns. Starbucks has announced that they
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are going back on their climate initiatives.
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So if you weren't already boycotting, you might
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want to get on that. Due to the arbitrary trade
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war that the US finds itself in with Canada,
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there's now a bunch of bans on more Canadian
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products, including like motorcycles, booze,
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and dairy products. A database of US military
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service members was hacked, leaking information,
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including unredacted social security numbers
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for people in the military. And finally for today,
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Six Flags in Valencia, California has shut down
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their X2 roller coaster after multiple people
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suffered a brain hemorrhage after riding it.
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X2 looks too intense for me. Thank you so much
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