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Autistic Barbie · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I have to begin with the big things. To Kathleen Radcliffe,
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  Speaker 1: I actually came in today and I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: male slot anymore because with all the work, the construction
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  Speaker 1: of the remodeling and stuff, they took out the mail slot.
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  Speaker 1: But I had a card in the in the male
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  Speaker 1: room and uh and just a sympathy card for for
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  Speaker 1: my loop and that's just the sweetest thing. Somebody sent
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  Speaker 1: me flowers last week and I get the card this week,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just you guys are so nice and thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Each day is a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: although I do still talk to a dog who isn't there.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably gonna go on forever. I'm just saying, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think that's abnormal. I do the same type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: How long is normal? I mean, you know your.
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  Speaker 2: Normal is different than somebody else's normal.
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  Speaker 1: It just it just I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could make sense of it. But until
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  Speaker 1: until such time comes your roll with what you got.
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  Speaker 1: Blazer and I were just talking here and I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of switching gears because the more I think about this,
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  Speaker 1: the more it sticks. It staks in mccrawl and that
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  Speaker 1: is something Zach sent to us this morning about Mattil
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  Speaker 1: and this new autistic Barbie. And I, seriously, i'd like
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  Speaker 1: to because I know a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: kids out there, you know, they are on the spectrum,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, and I do have some of that
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  Speaker 1: in my family as well. Although the one of the
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  Speaker 1: children that they say is on the spectrum, she's scary, smart,
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  Speaker 1: highly functional, and I think possibly psychic. And so there's
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  Speaker 1: because there's time. Seriously, the Queen and I will have
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  Speaker 1: a conversation about something. It's eleven o'clock at night, she's asleep,
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  Speaker 1: we are in the you know, our little private room,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't hear anything in the whole house. And
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  Speaker 1: yet the next morning she'll wake up and she's asking
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  Speaker 1: us about the subject, whatever we were talking about. It's
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  Speaker 1: like she sees she's scary, she's freaky scary sometimes. So
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I get that there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of kids out there that they they as they say,
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  Speaker 1: are on the spectrum. But I don't get what what
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  Speaker 1: purpose autistic Barbie serves. I'm just I'm sorry, Zach Am
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  Speaker 1: I missing something maybe you've got because you're you're younger
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  Speaker 1: and and different perspective.
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  Speaker 3: No, because I don't understand it either, because what do
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  Speaker 3: you so say your kid is on the spectrum? As
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  Speaker 3: they say, yeah, and you buy a barbie, go, this
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  Speaker 3: barbie's like you?
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  Speaker 2: How do they play with it? Do they do?
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  Speaker 1: They go?
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  Speaker 3: I have to make autistic decisions for this barbie when
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  Speaker 3: I play with it?
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  Speaker 1: How is that barbie like you?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: Because it has a fidget spinner, it's like you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just I'm sorry, I don't I this is this is
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  Speaker 1: a money grab as far as I can see. It's
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  Speaker 1: just another way, you know, to to uh put put
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  Speaker 1: put something out there you're gonna pay money for and
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  Speaker 1: if it's for the children, since it's for the children,
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  Speaker 1: people will pay for it. But I don't. I honestly
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  Speaker 1: don't see where this serves a purvise. Have they ever
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  Speaker 1: made like a big fat Barbie? No?
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  Speaker 3: I think they made a different sized barbie, but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't anything like they didn't have obese.
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  Speaker 1: There see that it is an obesity more of a
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  Speaker 1: problem with our children than than autism. Sure, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's probably got larger numbers. Why there should be an obesity.
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  Speaker 2: Barbie there's a Yeah, no, no, there's nothing like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's a curvy Barbie. She's a little bit more curvy.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, that's it. A little bit more curvy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you mean like a bigger butt or something on her
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  Speaker 1: more curvy.
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  Speaker 3: When I look at the pictures, I don't I can't
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  Speaker 3: tell any difference. I'm not a Barbie offician auto.
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  Speaker 1: But see, I didn't mind Barbie when Barbie was just
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  Speaker 1: you know, a piece of plastic with some nylon hair,
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  Speaker 1: and she had her summer house and her corvette and
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  Speaker 1: you know, poor castrated Ken as a boyfriend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, poor guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I feel so bad for Ken, I
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  Speaker 1: really do, But I just I didn't mind it when
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  Speaker 1: she was just a doll. But they're trying to make
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  Speaker 1: Barbie some sort of socially relevant presence in children's I
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  Speaker 1: guess mostly girls. Lies. Are they still marketing Barbie to girls?
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  Speaker 1: Or is Barbie, you know, now a unisex toy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's for I think it's still marketed to girls. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean Ken is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Ken is marketed to girls too, too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I have not seen any little.
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  Speaker 1: Girls get a Ken doll and they can tell Ken
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  Speaker 1: where to sit, where to stand, what to do, climb
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  Speaker 1: up on the top of the summerhouse and fix the roof.
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  Speaker 1: Ken gets ordered around and done with, and then we
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  Speaker 1: wonder what happens when they get older and get married.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just say I know I'm being very flippid about it,
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  Speaker 1: but I just I don't see I don't see the uh,
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  Speaker 1: the practical need, the practical value of autism Barbie. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know until Mark said there was a vital
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  Speaker 1: Ago Barbie. I didn't know there was a Vita Lago
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  Speaker 1: Barbie either. Have you seen vital Ago Barbie.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not a I'm not a Barbie.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to see a vital Ago Barbie. I
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  Speaker 1: like to know is she more black than white or
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  Speaker 1: white than black, because I think there's probably racism at play.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not fifty to fifty, it should be a
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  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty doll.
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  Speaker 3: It looks No, they have them in a black Barbie
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  Speaker 3: and a white Barbie where they both have like vittle igo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can get a white Barbie that has
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  Speaker 1: dark patches and a black Barbie that has light patches.
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  Speaker 3: Right, even the white Barbie has white her patches on it.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have brown patches. Well, I see that's just
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  Speaker 1: wrong too, man, that's I'm sorry. But look, if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it, do it right. And vidal IGO's a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a thing, it really is. It can be small,
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  Speaker 1: it can be large. Different people are different ways. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw they have a kin villa igo. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a woman on a Facebook video over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend that had the villa igo and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: skin thing. Obviously, you look at her and she's she's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got two different complexions because there's some parts
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  Speaker 1: of her body that have no melanin, so there's no
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  Speaker 1: no darkness. She was obviously genetically African American black, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to call it, but she had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of white patches on her body. Aside from that, though,
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  Speaker 1: you look at her feature, her eyes, she was a
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  Speaker 1: lovely girl. But this was just you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: one of those things where.
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  Speaker 2: You're born with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, you got crooked teeth or you
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  Speaker 1: got I just I worried that because they come out
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  Speaker 1: and this is gonna sound nuts, but because they come
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  Speaker 1: out with stuff like this where we're going to create
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  Speaker 1: barbies that have what we consider to be problems, issues, stigmas, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: that we are saying you're you're you're special, you're different,
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  Speaker 1: instead of just if a different doll came out that
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the whole Barbie concept or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and they wanted that doll to be a vittle igo
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  Speaker 1: doll or what. Okay, I'm good with that, But to
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  Speaker 1: say we need a vital i Goo Barbie, It's just
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  Speaker 1: it seems like, Okay, now we're going to change Barbie
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  Speaker 1: and make her less perfect, so so you feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: because you're a less perfect kid. I just I feel
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  Speaker 1: like they are accomplishing exactly the opposite from what they
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  Speaker 1: they say they want to accomplish with stuff like this.
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  Speaker 2: They're making a radio host Barbie.
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  Speaker 1: Are they really as glasses? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It does shows in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Is she a studying?
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  Speaker 2: Stunning and brave?
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  Speaker 1: And so it's not modeled after me, No, it is
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  Speaker 1: modeled after you. No. I don't think so Barby. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Got a beard.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't had one of these stories at a while.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this or not. Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: Barista in Los Angeles, you see that. No, you would
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  Speaker 1: think seriously that people would have learned by now. Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles deputy share sixteen hour work shift turned into a disrespectful,
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  Speaker 1: disrespectful spectacle with a Starbucks barista served him a coffee
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  Speaker 1: at a cup featuring a hand drawn image of a
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  Speaker 1: pig on the side of the cup. The incident was
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  Speaker 1: slammed a deeply concerning and demeaning to law enforcement by
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. In a statement, they said
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  Speaker 1: this action was extremely offensive, inappropriate, and unacceptable. Disrespectful act
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  Speaker 1: actions will not be tolerated against our personnel. Here's first
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  Speaker 1: of all, sheriff should put out a mimo. All deputies
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  Speaker 1: are now hereby forbidden from going to Starbucks. What you
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  Speaker 1: do in your own time is your own time. But
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  Speaker 1: when you're going out to grab coffee during your sixteen
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  Speaker 1: hour shift of serving and protecting in uniform or we're
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  Speaker 1: in't playing clothes for that matter, you can't go to
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks while you're on duty. I think the sheriff, if
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  Speaker 1: not empowered to do that, should become empowered to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's been about ice the last few months. There have
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  Speaker 1: not been a lot of local stories about local law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement running into this kind of behavior. Now people are
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  Speaker 1: still shooting at them and treating them like garbage, But
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this we haven't seen in a few months,
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  Speaker 1: and I honestly, I was kind of hoping maybe we
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  Speaker 1: were past it, but I guess not. The deputy, whose identity,
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  Speaker 1: of course, was not released by the department, later posted
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  Speaker 1: about the January ninth instant or incident on his private
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  Speaker 1: Instagram account. According to KTLA, sheriff immediately escalated the matter
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  Speaker 1: contacted the company's corporate security division to formally raise concerns
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  Speaker 1: and insure accountability. Starbucks, of course, did not immediately respond
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  Speaker 1: to a request for comment. This is not the first
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  Speaker 1: time Starbucks's face controversy evolving a rogue employee. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're a rogue company. People see you as that, so
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of people that come and want to work
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  Speaker 1: for you. Sorry, but is that not true? No?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes perfect sense.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody with blue fingernails, pink hair, fake eyelashes, and
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  Speaker 1: clown makeup gets up one morning and goes, I need
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  Speaker 1: to find a job. The first place they're going to Starbucks.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me I'm wrong, social media, I think you're what
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  Speaker 1: what am I being? What am I be in? Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: draw a picture on my cup? What do I be in?
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  Speaker 2: You're just you're just being mean about Starbucks work.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not being mean about Starbucks workers. It is that
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  Speaker 1: is the company, and it attracts a certain type of person.
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  Speaker 1: And I've said before I'm not putting down the company.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't like their coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I don't drink coffee.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, don't care for it at all. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like that with a lot of stuff, stuff that
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  Speaker 1: people think is really really good, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like the coffee that so many people rave over. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the wines that people say, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is great, this is the wonderful. It's a it's a red,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's you're going to really love it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: dry red from the California Valet.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's the one thing I even when
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  Speaker 3: I drank I never drank wine, probably because the people
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  Speaker 3: that would talk about it are like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the legs on this, it's the white. It has
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  Speaker 2: a real concreteness.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful. Yeah, they all sound like Alec Baldwin to
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  Speaker 1: you know what, wine goes best with fish, whichever wine
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  Speaker 1: is on the shelf. Yeah, I just I've never been
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  Speaker 1: a connoisseur of wines and people and the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: the dry wines people always seem to think they're better.
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  Speaker 1: I I like sweeter stuff, which makes me an outcast
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  Speaker 1: because obviously I like, you know, the cheap stuff. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a zinfandel. Guys opposed to him are low guy.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's classy. Some of that's out of state.
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  Speaker 1: So I get mine from O Bets, so wonderful, wonderful
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  Speaker 1: winery down there. Oh my gosh, something's so wrong with me.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the cold. I don't know.