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Banning Influencers, College Dress Codes, 4-Day Schools & AI as Your Second Brain | TMI Ep 437 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Take two Let's try this again. Let's see if rumble
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is agreeing with everyone and fixing the audio
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glitch by restarting the feed I'll give everyone
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some time. We'll buy some time. We'll do the
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intro again. It's fun. Frye Yay August 7th, 2026.
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I'm Manila Chan. That's Ted Raul producer Robbie
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lurking in the background You are tuned into
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the TMI show Ted Manila information show, which
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is live Monday through Friday, 10am Eastern Time.
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Please be sure to hit the like, follow, share,
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subscribe button. This stream is not live. Why?
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It says it's live. Does it say live on your end?
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Oh, it's mine. It doesn't. It just says start
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stream. Mine? Yeah. Well, I mean, let's ask the
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chatters. Okay, no, we're live. They're popping
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up. It's just okay. Okay, we're cool. We're good.
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All right. Yeah, we don't get the same interface
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somehow as the person who originates the stream.
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So Manila is seeing all sorts of bells and whistles
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on Rumble Studio that you and I are not seeing.
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Like you don't have access to the banners, do
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you, Robbie? I don't. Let me see. No, I don't.
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I don't. I need to reassign myself. See, I think
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I have like, I think I've been assigned like
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the dog assignment here on TMI. No, no matter
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who gets assigned administrator or whatever,
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it still like removes your power access every
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time. I don't know, it's just not, it is not,
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it is a glitchy ass program and - All right,
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sounds good. I just insist it's, it sounds good.
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Everyone's saying sounds good, yeah. The chat,
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the statters, yeah, everything's good. See, we
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have to do live audio checks with you guys, like
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that's - Yeah, I know. Well, I guess this would
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be the - I mean, yeah, we should probably be
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like a, like a rock band where we come on. We're
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like, Hey everybody. Hey, uh, Hey, good evening.
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Uh, we're, we'll start in a few minutes. Uh,
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we sound all right. Hey, you doing all right
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tonight? Okay. Great. I know. Hello, Lansing.
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Love you. Ted. I'm going to, I'm going to kick
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you out. Okay. Then I want you to close the TMI
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room. Like just close it on your end. Just end
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it. Close the tab. Well, he'll have a button
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says closed room that way he can just leave it
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I will drop you another invite and come back
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in and I will remake you an admin again Okay,
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are you gonna? Actually, I don't need to kick
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you just just leave just go away. I'm gonna stop
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you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye See, this is what I mean
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that rumble studio. I mean admittedly I am NOT
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a tech person but I've worked in media for like
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20 years. I can look at the interface and because
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of what it has and what it's lacking, the capabilities,
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I can tell you this is not prime time ready.
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It just ain't. They really need to invest more
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in this infrastructure and the interface of how
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the user experience. Well, they are. That's one
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of the reasons why they blew up the creator program.
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That's where they're getting the money from to
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do it. Well, I don't I don't know at what cost
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because they're spending millions of dollars
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on Dr. Disrespect and some other bull and Bon
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Gino Like really did you did you give a pay increase
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to Bon Gino a contract increase like If anything,
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I would have been like Bon Gino's coming back.
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Let's give him and get him at a discount rate
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after his stint in the FBI. I want to find out
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that he's actually secretly an illegal alien
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and has to be deported. That would be alien from
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Mars. Do you have buttons now? No, I do not.
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Glitchy AF. That's what I'm saying. Did you make
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me an admin? I did. It says you're an admin.
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I'm going to reboot. See, that might help. Let's
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see if it won't help. That that will not help.
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But whatever. It's OK. And then my my chats disappeared
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now that I'm looking at the. I can't even tell
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if I'm looking at them. See the rumbles just.
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All right. OK, there's the chat. There it is.
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OK. Rumble is not ready for prime time. Not ready.
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Well, we can always go to YouTube if you prefer.
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No, but then they ban us for speaking the truth
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or having opinions. Oh, by the way, by the way,
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you got a laugh yesterday? I know. Manila. We
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can't even hear Ted. I see Ted moving his mouth.
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Manila, come on, put me up. Put me on. He's on
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the stage. Put me on. There he is. Hey, yesterday
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I was able to reload the entire episode where
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they dumped us onto YouTube. On YouTube? Yeah.
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it's all up there if you want to hear it the
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wild and crazy shit we said woo crazy the controversial
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stuff oh yeah wild and crazy they killed our
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feed on youtube yesterday if you guys didn't
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know because we're talking about a certain miniature
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elfin former doctor head of a big organization
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a medical organization who shall remain nameless
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yeah yes who shall remain nameless he must not
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be named his name is not anthony No, not at all.
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It is not that at all. So YouTube booted us literally
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like once we started talking about them. Yeah.
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But now you can post the video and it didn't
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give us a strike or anything. I don't know. Maybe
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they'll give us a strike, but I was just like,
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yeah, fuck it. Let's see what happens. Yeah,
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yeah. It's the worst they can do. Blow up your
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channel like they did mine. Oh, right. Yeah,
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I guess that is the worst they can do. Oh, wait.
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Oh, wait. All right. Well, with that, now that
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everyone's on, and I guess maybe the audio glitches
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are fixed, then on with the program. Let's go.
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Better 14 minutes late than ever. Yeah. We got
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to go. All right. First up, this is the inspo
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for the thumbnail, Ted. Fun Friday. Keep in mind
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this is Fun Friday. So if you don't have fun,
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you're being disobedient. Yeah, it's just not
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worth doing it today. So big question to you,
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to Robbie, to the viewers out there. Should businesses
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be allowed to ban social media influencers? It
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should be mandatory. So here's the story. Social
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media influencers should be sent to camps. And
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never released. Gitmo, maybe? I mean, Gitmo's
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good. Yeah, it's already there. We're already
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paying for it. That's fine. That works for me.
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It's a good start. So a small Nantucket shop.
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I've never been to Nantucket, Ted. I always confuse
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Nantucket with... I've been to Martha's Vineyard,
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but not to Nantucket. OK, so I guess that kind
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of vibe. For whatever that's worth, nothing.
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So a small, fancy little Nantucket shop. has
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somehow ignited a national debate over feminism,
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free enterprise, and apparently the sacred right
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to film yourself shopping. Four Winds Craft Guild,
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an island business selling handcrafted Nantucket
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baskets. Recently, who doesn't need that? They're
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like 1000 bucks. I'm not Yeah. Look it up. That
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basket should blow you while you're at it. I
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mean, Jesus. Seriously, look it up. It's like
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a family owned business that's been there for
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like 100 years or something. But they're like
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handcrafted baskets that you can only get in
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Nantucket. And you should only want to get in
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Nantucket. You don't really need anywhere else.
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Okay. Thousand bucks. So it's a high end Nantucket
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basket place. There once was a basket from Nantucket.
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Yeah. Recently hung a handsome nautical sign
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declaring no influencers. That's all it says.
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It's a wooden hand carved thing. It looks nautical.
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It's very tasteful. It says no influence. Is
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it a $900 sign? The shop then posted it online
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where it immediately influenced, ironically,
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a great many influencers to become furious as
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People Magazine reports. What? Because truly
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influencers are the most disadvantaged of us
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all. Prominent content creator, Paige Lorenz.
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I wonder if she has any relation to Taylor Lorenz
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from the Washington Post. Oh, I was thinking
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Sophia Lorenz. No, Lorenz. That's Lorenz. This
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is Lorenz. Z -E at the end. Like Taylor Lorenz,
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that annoying 40 -something -year -old writer
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that pretends to be younger. Oh yeah, I know
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who you're talking about. That one, she's like
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the social media reporter for Washington Post.
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It could well be her, totally. Well, it says
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Paige, Paige Lorenz. So this prominent creator.
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That's a very pretentious name, yeah. Paige and
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Taylor, yeah. Paige Lorenz, who has more than
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two million followers and recently opened her
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own store nearby, called the message anti -feminist,
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her argument. And anti -semitic. Influencing
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is dominated by young women, Ted, okay? So singling
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out the profession effectively ridicules female
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entrepreneurs. Several other creators join the
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backlash describing the sign as icky. Icky, it's
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icky. And arguing that hostility towards influencers
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has become socially acceptable hostility towards
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women. No, it's mandatory. It's not acceptable.
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The shop owners. Influencers are the worst people
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in the world and should all die. Hold on, hold
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on. Let's finish the article and then you can
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comment. So the shop owner is a dude and he says,
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it's not about women. It's about people wandering
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through his shop, glued to their phones, treating
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the place less like a store and more like an
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unpaid television studio. And frankly, that distinction
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matters. Nobody's banning women, he says. Nobody's
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checking employment records. The apparent message
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is simple. Come inside, look around, and behave
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like a normal customer, not the main character.
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Maybe buy something, maybe don't. Yeah, like,
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hold on, hold your comments. Maybe buy a thousand
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dollar basket, maybe don't. Well, I mean, you
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know, it's a family business. He says, you know,
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don't be the main character in a documentary
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that nobody commissioned. Businesses already
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regulate disruptive conduct. Restaurants enforce
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dress codes. Museums restrict photography. Gyms
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increasingly prohibit filming because ordinary
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people don't want their lunges appearing behind
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someone's inspirational monologue. Influencer
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is not a protected class. A ring light is not
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a mobility aid and engagement does not mean strangers
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have agreed to participate in your content. The
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solution could not be easier. Put the phone away
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and shop normally. Now this is all my editorial.
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You can still be an influencer outside. Get out
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there. Private businesses should absolutely be
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permitted to protect their atmosphere and their
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customers from unwanted filming Sometimes the
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finest luxury a shop can offer is the assurance
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that nobody nearby is suddenly yelling. Hey guys
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That's all my editorial But you know having that,
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you know being that my family had owned a small
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family business and thank God it was you know,
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we closed it before the age of influencer, but
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look having been the daughter of a small restaurant
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owner, back then foodies were coming in and taking
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pictures and whatever, but they're not doing
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this whole influencer thing. You're fucking barging
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in with ring lights and tripods and shit and
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disrupting the whole atmosphere. That wasn't
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happening 15 years ago. Whereas now influencers
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are coming in with their little entourage. Everyone's
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got multiple things that they hold their iPhones
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with. It's got hand gadgets that you hold your
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phone with. We call them an Osmo in the industry.
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But look, I've been a reporter for the better
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part of 20 years and having traveled with a cameraman
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and whatever. We have equipment, obviously. You
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know that that in the old days was considered
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you're a legitimate organization, right? Like
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you you were equipped with a field producer a
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cameraman real cameras real microphones Sometimes
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people welcome that sometimes they don't but
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generally if you don't get permission as a reporter
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with a whole camera crew To film in somebody's
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business. They have every right to tell us no
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Yes, they tell us no. I mean, they can literally
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just be like, I don't like your t -shirt you're
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wearing. You got to get out of here. Whatever.
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And you have to go. Whatever. I can't film as
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a reporter there. Why does the influencer think
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she or he gets a fucking free pass? If I can't
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film there, then why should you? Because you're
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armed with multiple iPhones. Because you're Gen
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Z. That's why. They think that they can walk
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in. Look, if reporters can't do it, we have to
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ask permission. Then influencers should be able
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to do the same thing. They should be, like, there's
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no discrimination here. This Paige Lorenz is
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some uptight a -hole who obviously is, she opened
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a competing shop down the street about Nantucket
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life, Ted. She's, you know, this. like, pretentious
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Nantucket lifestyle. She's a Nantucket lifestyle
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influencer. And so she's mad and she's like,
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this is, you're betraying women and influencing
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is how so many women have become entrepreneurs.
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So when you put up that sign, this is sexist.
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No, no, dude. Like there, there are tons and
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tons and tons. I mean, I have a school -aged
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kid, tons of male influencers in the gaming world,
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tons. Right? So she doesn't even probably understand
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what she's talking about. Sure, maybe lifestyle
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influencing is a female dominated thing, but
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influencers are like a lot of guys, a lot of
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girls. Bottom line, you own a business. No shoes,
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no shirt, no service. You can say whatever the
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fuck you want. Get the fuck out. Yeah. Get out.
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It's not discriminatory. And yeah, well, it's
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certainly discriminatory. Well, not discriminatory
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in the legal sense. No, not in the legal sense.
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What is she going to do? What is she going to
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do? Go, like, file a claim with, like, be my
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guest. You're not a protected class. You're a
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despised class. Right. So I'm I'm, you know,
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at the very end there, that was my own editorial
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is that, no, you're not protected class. You're
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you are not entitled to go in there. Do whatever
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you want and disrupt the whole how many times
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have you guys been to a restaurant where? Whether
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you're a big -time influencer or not or the millions
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and millions of young Gen Z ears who are trying
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to become an influencer and They're fucking making
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a spectacle at a restaurant or at a store or
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whatever Because they're trying to film a video
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or if you see the young guys, right? Those are
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the chick lifestyle influencers. If you see young
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men you might Get basically what I would describe
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as assaulted because they're filming these stupid
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You know like prank influencer videos, right?
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Right influencers have been fucking shot at the
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mall because they're doing some weird shit and
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somebody didn't know that they're you know, the
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guy was an influencer and They've gotten smacked.
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They've gotten shot. They've gotten this is dumb.
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You're It is really, really, really, really dumb.
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Yeah. You are tantamount. You are new media.
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You are tantamount to being a modern day, a today
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reporter, like I was in yesterday's era. You
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need permission. That's what I think. Yeah. No,
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of course. Obviously. No question about it. I
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mean, it's just funny to me, just like I think
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to me that the funny part is the idea that they
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would think that they would get any sympathy
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from the public. You know Like but but that's
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that's just it they live in their own little
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content creator bubble and And you know these
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teen girls or college age girls Obsess over them
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and they they are the new lifestyle. They are
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the new Oprah, right? So sure they they don't
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get it Like they don't get that they are not
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protected, and that this is private property
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and not and I think more shops and restaurants
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and whatever venue should actually ban that like
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if it becomes clear that you're not just taking
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like a couple photos because you're out at your
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friends, you're celebrating your friend's birthday
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at dinner, or you're taking that's not what we're
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talking about here. That's not what we're talking
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about. When it becomes evident that you are trying
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to host some crazy influencer live feed. or film
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something for social media, out. I think the
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owners have the right to put up a sign and ask
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you to leave their business, but then the influencer
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goes and talk shit on that owner and can effectively
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destroy the business. I just don't understand
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why people are allowed to call themselves influencers.
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I mean, it's not like for someone else to decide
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that you're an influencer. Isn't that like, that's
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sort of like someone saying that would be like,
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you know, Manila, can you and I just say like,
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oh, by the way, we've decided to become supermodels.
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And like, I'm a supermodel now. It's like, I
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mean, it's like, it's like, but but like, that's
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not for you to decide. That's for the public
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to decide whether you're a supermodel or not.
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Right or like I'm a star. I'm now a star I'm
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like like I'm a cartoonist a cartoonist used
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to someone who draws cartoons Okay, but am I
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a star cartoonist? Well, that's not for me to
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say that's for like if I were to say that on
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online like I'm a star cartoonist Like that had
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better be true according to the public, right?
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I mean, that's not for me to decide You're a
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star cartoonist. Oh, thank you. Thank you Bobby.
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I'm a star Well, look I I got some head like
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headline things that popped up on my phone about
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like like tick -tock star tick -tock star so
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-and -so died age 26 and and it got me thinking
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Ted I'm like when they say things like Instagram
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model dies or Instagram model this or that or
19:37
tick -tock star dies age, whatever and these
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banners come across my phone. I'm thinking This
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is like like Apple news is like Branding them.
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It's like saying Broadway star, you know so -and
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-so Passed away from you know what? I mean like
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they give you that that moniker at the beginning.
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Yeah, like a broad like like Hollywood makeup
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artist, so and so, or, you know, a list actor,
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Brad Pitt, right? They give you the moniker first.
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So the new moniker is now like, or like, King
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of Pop, Michael, Michael Jackson, you know, and
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you know, the story that with that, right? He
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had, he had that contract. Like he was it would
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literally know he had he had a deal with media
20:23
organizations, where he told them his agent said
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if you ever want any kind of access to Michael
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Jackson like an interview or You know, he'll
20:32
ever do a quote or anything. You have to refer
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to him as the king of pop So it's not like it
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was it was never organic and the media organizations
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all should have been like Right, right, but they
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weren't they always so they were like king of
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Michael Jackson. Yeah, I don't know if the New
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York Times did it But like, you know, a lot of
20:56
places did. So you couldn't just be like pop
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star Michael Jackson or? You could. But then
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he would like, I will have you are dead to me.
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I will never cooperate with your media organization
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because you don't refer to me as I will always
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be king of pop. You know, I love Michael Jackson.
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So I don't. It's it seems hard to believe that
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he would. He was more the queen of pop. But OK.
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And not his people. No, he never misidentified
21:26
himself as anything other than a man so That's
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kind of like Lindsey Graham, right? I mean He's
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still a man All right, sort of sort of was ish
21:38
Whatever whatever that ghoul was you have genders
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for fucking ghouls. But anyway, so there's that
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What do you guys think viewers? I don't know
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if you guys I don't have you're with me I just
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think, like, influencers, that's some bullshit.
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If me as a reporter, I have to go ask permission
21:56
to film, so should you, influencer. Couldn't
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agree more. And story number two here on TMI.
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Tuskegee University has entered the national
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culture war through the most dangerous doorway
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available. the student closet. According to Fox
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News, the historically black university in Alabama
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has introduced stricter standards for clothing
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worn in the classroom, cafeterias, and official
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settings. From now on, kids have to arrive on
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campus prepared with a business suit. God, it's
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fucking Alabama, though. It's so hot. And appropriate
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shoes for professional events. Bonnets, durags.
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bedroom slippers, sagging pants, revealing clothing.
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So I guess we're rolling jihad style here. Don't
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dress like a hoe, Ted. Most non -religious head
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coverings. Can you wear a miter? Are prohibited
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under certain campus spaces. Can you wear the
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hat of dignity, the sombrero? Cell phones are
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also being shown the classroom door. The new
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policy comes from weird ass Tuskegee president
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Mark Brown, a retired Air Force major general
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who says the goal is career preparation. What
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career preparation? Everyone's going to be at
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that school and every other school right now,
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it's going to be unemployed. They're going to
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be sitting at home at their parents house. Anyway,
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like they can wear dress and sweats for that.
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His message is essentially the workplace may
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judge you before discovering that you are brilliant.
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So learn the rules before someone with a clipboard
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and a LinkedIn account does it for you. All right,
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Mr. 1954. Anyway, supporters call that practical
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education critics call it respectability politics
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or gay, especially because some prohibited items,
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including bonnets like the bonnets from like
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a little house on the prairie and do rags are
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closely associated with black culture. They argue
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college students are adults paying tuition. That's
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true. Not seventh graders waiting for the principal
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to measure their shorts. But a GAO that's the
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Government Accountability Office review found
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that an estimated 93 % of public K -12 school
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districts now have student dress policies. These
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rules routinely govern hats, exposed undergarments,
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skirt links, offensive graphics. I was sent home
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for my disco sucks t -shirt and what administrators
24:30
delicately describe as disruptive attire. I was
24:34
also sent home for my dead Kennedy's too drunk
24:36
to fuck shirt. So when does a dress code stop
24:41
being ordinary school discipline and becoming
24:43
intrusion into adult identity? Tuskegee argues
24:46
that college ought to prepare students for professional
24:48
expectations. There are no professional expectations.
24:52
Critics counter that professionalism itself is
24:54
changing and that employers increasingly care
24:58
more about performance and whether or not you
25:00
wear hard sold shoes. So there we go. That's
25:05
fair. I think the man is crazy. I don't. And
25:09
I do think that there's something to it. But
25:12
if you're going to start with, like, making people
25:14
wear a suit to professional events, don't start
25:17
in fucking Alabama, where it's 100 degrees plus
25:20
a zillion percent humidity and, like, you know,
25:24
and the cicadas are buzzing and the alligators
25:27
are running through campus. Like, fuck that.
25:28
It's too hot down there. Start that shit at,
25:31
like, University of, like, Bangor. No, I'm opposite.
25:36
Robbie and I, I think are on the same page. Well,
25:40
you voted for Trump. I got it. When I was involved
25:43
with, so back when I worked for Verizon and before
25:46
that, when I worked for Best Buy, and even then
25:48
when I helped interview people at my old hospital
25:50
job, if you came in for an interview and you
25:55
were wearing just a t -shirt and shorts, I might
26:02
want to dignify you with an interview. I'm going
26:04
to send you home. And the reason is if you take
26:07
no, if you take no respect. Yeah. Or how you
26:11
look, whatever you come in, then how can I possibly
26:15
treat you? How can I possibly entrust you with
26:18
the responsibility that the job is going to require?
26:21
No, for example, no, one of the reasons why military
26:23
- Don't the best buy guys? Don't they have? Aren't
26:30
they like don't wear their own polo shirt that's
26:33
assigned to them, right? So it's kind of not
26:35
an issue But not to have interview but not to
26:38
an interview No, for example, if you're going
26:40
to go join the military the whole reason why
26:41
you why you have a uniform is That if you look
26:45
like a Marine, you'll start acting like a Marine.
26:47
Well, it's also so that you recognize each other
26:50
The job you want that's the point like for example,
26:57
you know a lot of times I'm famous for wearing
26:59
my white t -shirts. It's because the two of you
27:01
exercise poor judgment and hiring me as your
27:03
producer. That's true. So I've already got the
27:06
job. Now, when I did the interview, which didn't
27:09
exist, I would have wore something a little bit
27:12
better, like maybe a button down shirt. Look,
27:17
I would always wear, I would always dress nicely
27:20
to a job interview. Only wear your 400 thread
27:26
count clan sheets. That's right. The best thread
27:31
Egyptian cotton. You only have one chance to
27:36
make a first impression. That's it. That's all
27:38
you got. And if you come in looking like a hood
27:41
rat, it's not discrimination if I send you packing
27:46
because if you have so little respect for yourself,
27:49
if you have so little self -respect. It's discerning.
27:52
If you have so little self -respect, if you can't
27:55
even be bothered to dress for the job that you're
27:59
applying for, I have zero obligation to hire
28:02
you over someone who can. That's not racial discrimination.
28:04
That's because you're an idiot. Right. It's not
28:06
a race. Look, I don't think I would. I think
28:10
that people are entitled. I was in high school
28:13
at a public high school, not a Catholic school
28:15
or anything. But I'm from the hood. You can stay
28:19
on there, Robbie. I'm from the hood. And there
28:24
were, obviously you're not allowed to wear gang
28:26
affiliated attire. That was, and this is a public
28:29
school in LA. Girls, because - Not like, like
28:33
I love, I heart the Crips. Like, yes, exactly.
28:38
So like obvious gang affiliated attire is not
28:41
allowed. Overly, overly baggy pants. So like
28:44
the boys, they would, if you were in trouble,
28:48
for whatever, like one of the narcs at school
28:50
sees that your pants are way too baggy. First
28:53
off, they're hanging below your ass, right? And
28:56
we can see your underwear. That's instant, nope.
29:01
Here, either you go home and change or you can
29:03
wear this school assigned pair of slacks or whatever,
29:07
right? If the boys' waistbands were like more
29:11
than two inches bigger than their waist, not
29:14
allowed. You can pick these pants up later before
29:17
you go home. for girls, they would make us put
29:22
our, if our shorts or skirts were too short,
29:25
they'd make you stand up with your hands flat
29:28
against your side and they would measure that
29:31
it had to be two inches past the tip of your
29:36
middle finger. And that's a public school, okay?
29:39
Because I'm from the hood. And I imagine the
29:44
surrounding area by Tuskegee University, has
29:49
similar problems and culture problems. And I
29:52
think that's what, I'm from a Mexican hood, like
29:55
near East LA. I would imagine Tuskegee is more
29:59
black. And there is - It is. There is more problems
30:04
within the black community of where it's acceptable
30:08
to wear pants that are literally, you're a boy,
30:13
you're wearing like, whatever, you're in university,
30:15
good for you. That's step number one. But number
30:18
two, nobody wants to see your ass. Nobody wants
30:22
to see your boxer briefs. I think someone wants
30:24
to see your ass, probably. But you can get a
30:26
career in OnlyFans and leave the serious jobs
30:29
of people who want them. You don't need to go
30:31
to university and be a home bag. And the girls
30:33
that are, you know, where I'm from, they were
30:36
dressing like little skanks. I imagine there
30:38
are some of this problem. That's a beautiful
30:39
thing. you do not want to see a little 15 year
30:43
old home. Yeah, I don't need to see that. I'm
30:47
not Epstein. No, in this case, this is some but
30:48
I mean, I know bag you don't you're teaching
30:51
the kids a little bit of dignity. Self first
30:56
believe that at home. I'm not saying he needs,
30:58
you know, he or she needs to wear a suit and
31:00
tie or, you know, pantsuit like Hillary Clinton
31:03
to school every day. But Just dress in normal
31:07
clothes. Cover your ass. Cover your tits. Put
31:09
it away. You're there to learn. Dress like your
31:12
hoe or dress like the thug that you want to be
31:14
outside of school. That's up to you. But when
31:17
you're at school, just like a restaurant... I'm
31:19
just curious though. The same very people, right,
31:23
who are great with this dress code. with this
31:27
fucking military psycho. Like they, they, these
31:31
same people would be like, how awful the Muslims
31:34
are to put their women in burkas and chadors
31:37
and in hijab. Like how awful that like, you know,
31:42
they have to cover up in Iran and they can't
31:44
show their beautiful flowing hair, which Iranian
31:47
ladies do really have beautiful flowing hair.
31:50
Like how, how sad that is that they're so oppressive
31:54
and yet they're pushing for the same shit here.
31:57
Let me put it this way. Obviously, I dress pretty
32:01
boring. I don't really relate to the way the
32:05
clothes that are being described here. And I'm
32:07
an old white dude, so of course I do. But I don't
32:11
care. I mean, it's like one of the things you
32:14
learn as a New Yorker when you first arrive is
32:17
mind your business. And it's not my business
32:22
how other people dress. Okay, two things. Two
32:25
things. WellDressedNerd says, um, question. Back
32:29
in the day, dress code was common practice in
32:32
school. When and why do you think it went away?
32:35
I think it went away because of all of this woke
32:37
shit and social media and people started saying,
32:40
dressing like a hoe or hood rat or whatever,
32:43
that that became a cultural thing versus a pop
32:48
cultural thing. Well, dressing like a hoe is
32:50
not a black thing, okay? I mean, check out the,
32:53
you go walk this, go look at a LA high school
32:57
letting out at like, you know, three o 'clock
32:59
in the afternoon and look at the 15 year olds.
33:02
Holy shit. Holy shit, you're okay. And Peter
33:05
says, I went to a private boys school. Thank
33:07
you for the donation, Peter. I went to a private
33:09
boys school that required a coat and tie. I complied
33:12
by wearing four ties at a time. So, you tie that.
33:16
You always see the private school kids in Manhattan.
33:19
They always are like pushing the dress. You see,
33:21
it's alluded to in Harry Potter, right? Like,
33:23
they always kind of like, they fuck with their
33:25
ties. They barely have them on. You know, the
33:29
ties are weird and long. They have to have a
33:31
tie so they have a weird, wild, weird tie or
33:34
whatever. Look, I get the little bit of self
33:35
-expression that fashion is, but when you're
33:40
- Yeah, P .W. Walker says the dress codes disappeared
33:43
when I was in high school in the 90s. I think
33:46
they started just honestly, I think this process
33:49
started to disappear in the 60s with the student
33:51
radicals and all that. And they were like, you
33:53
can't tell us what to do and how to wear. With
33:56
the hippies, they fought back against this. And
33:58
now we're seeing it. It's an ongoing slow moving
34:03
fight. I think a society that's like, look, I
34:06
agree personally. You know, if you're going to
34:08
a job interview, dress great, you know, it's
34:11
very hard to be overdressed. You know, it's like,
34:14
it's hard to fuck up. Even if you walk into,
34:17
like a startup, and everyone's wearing jeans
34:19
and a t shirt, and you walk in wearing a suit.
34:22
I mean, they may like roll their eyes at you
34:24
a little bit, but they're not gonna look down
34:25
on you. And you can always next if you get the
34:27
job, you'll come in and wear a t shirt, right?
34:29
But Depending on the job. But I think that should
34:33
be your choice is my point. I think it's kind
34:36
of like if you don't give people the space to
34:39
make the right decision and you force them to
34:41
make what you think is the right decision, then
34:43
they're not really making a decision and they're
34:46
not being and you're not giving them the option
34:48
to fuck up. You know what I mean? The university
34:51
is teaching these young, this soon to be out
34:54
in the workforce, young adults, teaching them
34:57
to understand that presentation matters. Like
35:02
I get, look at me. Yeah, it does matter. But
35:05
what about free choice, like I just said? No,
35:07
I agree. However, when you choose to be part
35:11
of an institution, when you choose to be part
35:13
of the military, you're giving a bit of that
35:15
away. If you choose the military. Yeah, of course.
35:18
But that's a given. You have a uniform. You signed
35:20
up for it. If you're UPS, you wear the brown
35:22
shirt. Nobody's forcing you to go to Tuskegee
35:24
University. Nobody's forcing you to join the
35:26
army. This isn't the IDF. Nobody's forcing it.
35:30
So if you're choosing to go there. Or the Ukrainian
35:32
army. That's right. Nobody's kidnapping you off
35:35
the street at a pizza parlor to join the Yuki
35:37
army. Like, you know, this nobody's kidnapping
35:39
you. But hey, listen, there's a lot of freedom
35:43
in the Yuki army. You can wear like a swastika.
35:47
You can wear you can wear like the totenkopf.
35:50
Um, you know, you can wear a big picture of a
35:52
patch with Hitler on it. Himmler, if you prefer.
35:56
You can't do that at Tuskegee, I think. Right,
36:03
Robbie, any last words on this? We got to move
36:05
on. Yeah. So here's the part that, that you're
36:08
missing Ted, like the good white liberal that
36:10
you are. If you, if you're a white guy and if
36:14
you sound like me, what do most people think?
36:17
That you're retarded. They think you're a hick.
36:20
And so you've got to, so if you're going to go
36:24
and if you're going to be doing an interview
36:27
or whatever else, people are going to hear how
36:31
it is that you say, or hear how it is that you
36:33
talk, and they're going to have that preconceived
36:35
notion that you are a retard, that your family
36:38
tree just goes straight up. Black people it's
36:41
the same way. Black people have the reputation
36:43
of being stupid, of being thugs, of being lazy.
36:47
If you dress according to that stereotype, You're
36:50
not doing yourself any favors and you are not
36:52
doing your society any favors. You dress - 16
36:57
more minutes, two more stories. You dress professional
36:59
for a reason. You represent your group. You represent
37:03
your class. If you have no problem at all going
37:07
to your job wearing a pair of pajamas, what you're
37:11
doing is that you're showing everyone around
37:13
you that stereotype. is correct. And you are,
37:18
you did not have any role in perfect in a professional
37:20
setting. When I had an interview with that client
37:22
yesterday, I dressed for it because I'm talking
37:27
to people in Miami. Well, yeah, for myself and
37:31
for them. Plus, I understand, you know, it doesn't
37:35
matter what I know. It matters how I'm able to
37:38
articulate what I know. And if I, if I just go
37:41
in looking like some, like some schmuck is just
37:44
got jug in from a cotton field. Am I going to
37:47
get that job? Would you still have a producer
37:48
right now? The answer would be no. Guys, two
37:52
more stories. You don't have to dress like Louis
37:54
Farrakhan, but just clean up. That's all we're
37:58
saying. All right. Speaking of public schools,
38:05
should public schools switch to a four -day work
38:08
week or? school week rather, the three -day weekend
38:12
once reserved for federal holidays, snow storms,
38:14
and suspiciously timed teacher work days. I don't
38:19
remember that in the 80s. I never had a teacher.
38:21
Really? We didn't on the west coast. We didn't
38:23
have it. Often on Mondays. Yeah, I don't remember
38:26
any of those. It's becoming a permanent feature
38:29
in a growing number of American school districts.
38:32
According to the Epoch Times, Nearly 2100 schools
38:35
across 26 states operate on a four day schedule
38:39
during The last the most recent school year so
38:43
20 25 26 school year that doubled the number
38:48
from being reported from 2023 most remain concentrated
38:52
though in rural communities struggling with teacher
38:55
shortages transportation costs and budgets apparently
38:58
held together with copier, uh, copier toner and
39:02
some hope. Uh, the arrangement usually does not
39:05
mean eliminating an entire day's instruction.
39:08
Instead, schools lengthen... Oh, you gotta unclick
39:10
the... Manila, unclick the JAWS, please. Oh,
39:13
I forgot that again. Damn it. We're invisible.
39:16
Okay, so, so... Warwise. So, that doesn't mean
39:20
they're eliminating a whole day's instruction.
39:22
Instead, schools lengthen those four days. most
39:27
commonly holding classes Monday through Thursday,
39:30
but longer school days. Supporters say the schedule
39:34
can improve teacher morale, reduce absences,
39:39
and help rural districts recruit employees who
39:42
might otherwise take better paying jobs. Okay,
39:44
so I see they're offsetting the pay by office
39:47
teachers. Yeah, four -day work week is obviously
39:49
appealing, yeah. School week. Oh boy for them.
39:52
Yes. Yes work week Families gain an extra day
39:55
for appointments activities or simply recovering
39:57
from the weekly battle over missing homework
39:59
one Indiana elementary school cited by the epic
40:02
times reported fewer staff absences, fewer disciplinary
40:07
incidents at school and a jump in its third grade
40:11
reading pass rate after adopting this new schedule.
40:14
But one successful school does not automatically
40:17
constitute a national education policy. The financial
40:20
argument is also less dramatic than the phrase.
40:24
Closing schools one day a week might suggest
40:26
transportation, food and utility costs can decline,
40:29
but teachers salaries. buildings, and most other
40:32
expenses remain, average savings generally amount
40:35
to only a small percentage of school district
40:38
budgets. Then there's the fifth day problem.
40:41
Working parents still need child care. Younger
40:44
children may struggle with longer classroom days.
40:47
Yeah, I get that. Students who depend on school
40:50
meals may lose reliable access to food. And research
40:54
from RAND Found that although families generally
40:57
like this schedule academic growth in four -day
41:00
districts lagged behind comparable five -day
41:03
districts over time So is the four -day school
41:06
week an innovative solution or simply a staffing
41:09
and funding crisis wearing casual Friday clothes?
41:13
Ah tied to the last story possibly both for some
41:15
rural districts It may be the least bad option
41:19
available for others It could create more problems
41:21
than it solves the calendar may have four school
41:24
days, but the debate still has five sides. I
41:29
could see the good and bad for both. I would
41:32
love to have constant three -day weekends with
41:35
my boy, who's the one that's school -aged. Obviously,
41:38
the newborn is home, but I would love that. However,
41:44
I work from home largely. Not only this, like
41:47
all my different little side hustles, they're
41:50
all from home. But most parents don't have that
41:53
luxury, Ted, so I just wonder about people who
41:57
can't do that. Like, where would your kid go
42:00
on the fifth day? Because you're still going
42:02
to work. I mean... Yeah, I mean, it's a problem
42:07
because basically, look, schools have a role
42:09
that we don't like to talk about, which is to
42:11
say, national state -sponsored babysitter. Yeah.
42:15
Get this kid the fuck out of my hair. And I'm
42:19
working, right? I'm fucking working. And like,
42:22
it's okay to have your latchkey 14 -year -old
42:25
at home. But, you know, it's another thing to
42:28
have your latchkey 7 -year -old at home. So yeah,
42:33
people, I mean, you know, I was, I was a latchkey
42:36
7 -year -old and look, I turned out to be perfect
42:38
in all respects. But yeah, it's an issue. I don't
42:44
know what the, you know, I mean, I think it's
42:48
interesting. I will say that this is probably
42:50
a little bit oversold, the idea that this is
42:53
a, you know, a big phenomenon. 2 ,000 schools
42:57
is a big number, it sounds like. But, you know,
42:59
there are tens and tens of thousands, there are
43:01
hundreds of thousands of schools in the United
43:03
States, I bet. Yeah. So this is a still a small,
43:06
a tiny phenomenon. But like, I wonder what Linda
43:10
McMahon says about this, because, you know, she's
43:13
trying to dismantle the Department of Education.
43:17
Yes, the entire department. So how, how do these
43:21
rural schools get away with doing this? Because
43:25
I thought the Department of Education, I mean,
43:28
maybe that's why they're able to do it. Because
43:29
she's just like, whatever, I want to dismantle
43:32
this department anyway. So have at it. I mean,
43:35
this has nothing to do with the feds. This is
43:37
a state, you know, this is run by the it's run
43:40
by the it's run by the Fed by the by the states
43:43
and and all that so you know how many i'm curious
43:47
because how they do this because like in the
43:49
state of ohio where i grew up you had to i believe
43:52
if memory serves have 180 days of in of classroom
43:58
instruction instruction in a year in order to
44:02
um to be certified by the state as an accredited
44:06
educational institution i i just wonder not like
44:09
your hair salon school you went to Right, exactly.
44:13
Not like that place. Columbia. Columbia School
44:16
of Beauty. I don't know. I don't know how they
44:21
do that. But anyway, the point is, I don't have
44:23
a problem with it. I could see that you could
44:27
lose some momentum, I guess, going from five
44:33
to four days. But I mean, you must lose a lot
44:37
of momentum over the summer. Teachers always
44:39
complain about it. The kids come in really rusty
44:41
in September. I know. And it's hard for them
44:44
to focus. I don't let my kid get rusty. Tiger
44:47
mom. Rawr. Beat him. Beat him. Rawr. Tiger mom.
44:52
It's not me. No, it's... Rawr. Asian tiger mom.
44:56
So yeah, I try not to let my kid get rusty. And
44:59
it's paying off because he's entering the AP,
45:03
not Associated Press, Advanced Placement Program.
45:06
I didn't even know they started this young. So
45:09
who knew? Me neither. But again, JDC in the chat
45:14
brings up a good point. For a lot of poorer kids,
45:18
schools are the only place that they get a hot
45:20
meal. That's true. It's part of the yeah, not
45:25
only yeah, I mean, the school is the babysitter.
45:29
It's the it's the it's the lunch. It's the free
45:33
lunch place. It's the medical. It's the medical
45:36
clinic. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I guess
45:39
unless those those states or those municipalities
45:42
have programs that are maybe there's no instruction,
45:47
but maybe I know like at my son's school, because
45:49
we're not in a super I mean, it's a it's a mishmash,
45:53
like in Northern Virginia, where there's like
45:55
higher income pockets in your subdivision. And
45:58
then you can be right next door to another subdivision
46:00
that's like very low income. So the school is
46:03
like a mishmash. And I always see emails coming
46:06
through, you know, like during the summer, they're
46:08
like, come to come to XYZ school, you know, and
46:12
we'll give you your kid some sack lunches, you
46:17
know, because people a lot of people don't have
46:20
A lot of kids don't have food. So that's so sad
46:24
to me because here I am, you know, it's just
46:28
the juxtaposition against my life, my kid's life
46:32
and other kids at his school. So you got to think
46:36
about that. I don't know. But four days sounds
46:38
great for me. Maybe not so great for, you know,
46:44
a lady down two subdivisions over who is working
46:48
16 hour days. All right, let's go. That would
46:50
be correct. And here's your fun Friday existential
46:55
crisis. AI may be making us more productive while
46:59
quietly making us less confident in our own brains.
47:02
Human beings have always outsourced mental chores.
47:04
We use calculators for math, GPS for directions.
47:07
Yeah, it's making us all dumb. Calendars for
47:10
memory and apparently refrigerators for remembering
47:12
whether we need milk. I mean, hell, we even have
47:14
like Bluetooth for like the washing machine.
47:18
I don't want my appliance to talk to me. I have
47:21
dumb appliances, Ted. Like, I refuse. I like
47:24
my appliances the way I like my politicians.
47:27
Stupid. Researchers call this cognitive offloading.
47:31
AI is different, though. Instead of simply remembering
47:33
stuff for you, chat bots interpret situations,
47:37
recommend decisions, and obviously tell us what
47:39
they think we ought to do. This is now called
47:42
belief offloading. Should I take this job? Was
47:45
that text rude? Should I break up with this person?
47:48
Am I being unreasonable? So instead of calling
47:51
a friend or sitting around and thinking about
47:53
what to do, we ask AI. One study recently analyzed
47:57
one and a half million chatbot conversations
48:00
and found, I want to say we could get meta about
48:04
this, found potentially serious cases of what
48:07
researchers call disempowerment in fewer than
48:10
one out of every thousands of conversations.
48:13
That's not a lot, except that these systems handle
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millions of millions of conversations. So it
48:18
could be gradual. If AI writes every hard email,
48:21
analyzes every disagreement, and recommends every
48:24
decision, eventually making those decisions without
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AI might start to become hard. So basically,
48:31
researchers say maybe view it more as a sparring
48:34
partner. than as an oracle right now people are
48:37
using it as an oracle like what is that thing
48:40
on my face do i have to go to the dermatologist
48:42
you know it's i am not a doctor but i think it
48:46
should i move to florida right like it's shit
48:51
like that but but yeah the rest of the article
48:54
is is right like i i use i was just chatting
48:58
with a friend about this the other day that While
49:01
I do use AI every single day I but I use it as
49:04
an assistant right like I ask it to if there's
49:08
Like I don't know a big white paper that the
49:11
NIH NIH put out or something. Whatever I ask
49:13
it to have a look at this PDF Tell me the the
49:16
highlights of it cite where you found it so I
49:18
can look, you know, whatever I use it as an assistant
49:21
I I ask it, you know, like sometimes I ask it
49:27
stuff like I would look in Google, like what
49:29
day did the battle of blah, blah, blah happen,
49:34
right? And it'll answer. I don't ask it to make
49:37
decisions for me because I think critical thinking
49:40
is a beautiful part of human nature. It is this
49:45
beautiful thing that we're able to do and I hate
49:49
offloading, this mental offload like the article
49:51
talked about is like when I was a realtor in
49:54
Los Angeles, I mean, I'm from Los Angeles. So
49:57
yeah, I know my way around the streets without
49:59
use. I would only look up GPS to see where the
50:02
traffic jams are. But when you're a local, you
50:03
kind of know already at what time the street
50:06
is bad. Yeah, that's true. LA has very predictable
50:10
traffic jams. New York City does. New York City.
50:14
It's like dead. New York City. It's kind of like
50:17
it's it's like not there's where they are. is
50:21
like and when they are is more is also predictable.
50:25
Like, for example, you would know if you're in
50:27
Santa Monica and it's three o 'clock, you're
50:31
not leaving. Yeah, you're probably not going
50:33
to leave. You're not going to. No, no, no. Oh,
50:36
hell no. You'll get there at nine o 'clock. Yeah.
50:40
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You will not. I know it's it's
50:42
12 miles away. You can't cross the 405. The 405
50:45
is like the is like the Great Wall of China.
50:47
It's not possible. But. I would use mental offloading
50:53
on GPS because I already know backstreets to
50:56
go, right? So I would do that. So I would actually
51:00
use it to counter my own. Up through the canyons
51:02
we go. Yes, I would use it as a pushback and
51:06
counterweight to what I already know. By the
51:08
way, Manila, I don't need an oracle to tell me
51:10
that it's time for me to go because it's time
51:12
for DMZ. They're going to DMZ. Are we raiding
51:15
that, Robbie? Yeah, right? Yeah. They're going
51:17
live with Stantus. Okay, I'm going to go. You
51:20
wrap it up here. Thanks, everyone. Say goodbye.
51:22
You say goodbye for everyone. Use your brain.
51:24
Tell Stantus to. Appreciate you guys. See you
51:26
Monday at 10. Bye. See you Monday, y 'all. So
51:31
there'd be Producer Robbie. Thank you guys. Have
51:32
a great weekend. I hope people don't forget to
51:36
use their brain. Critical thinking is a beautiful
51:40
thing. It's a beautiful, God -given, divine thing
51:44
that separates us from the machines. And if the
51:47
machines start doing it for us, they will lead
51:50
you astray. And like, you will be like Pete Hegseth
51:54
and the DOD deciding to bomb a little girl's
51:57
school in Iran. Don't let the machines think
52:02
for you. Just saying. Accidents happen. Just
52:05
consider it an abortion. It'll be fine. It's
52:08
perfectly legal. It's like a 12th trimester abortion
52:14
by missile. It's fine. Have a good weekend, everybody.
52:19
Thank you. Oh, do we have an ad? Do I have to
52:21
get to that? No, but John D. Kakefeller, he just
52:24
gave us the donation. Jarvis, take a picture
52:26
of my penis, increase the size 30%, render in
52:29
3D and give it jiggle physics. Good. Now forward
52:31
to Tetral's neural link. That's what will happen.
52:36
This will be the future and it's horrible. It's
52:40
horrible. Analog, man. Analog. So adios, amigos.
52:44
Have a great weekend. Thanks, Robbie. Thanks,
52:46
everybody in the chat. See y 'all later. Bye.