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Amazon Shuts Down Smart Home, the UN is Pure Evil, DHS to Assign "Risk Scores" | HBR News 410 · Honey Badger Radio

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  This is HBr News number four ten, Amazon shuts down smart Home, The
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  un is pure evil DHS to assign risk store scores, where we talk about
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  the news of the week and give it the Badger treatment. Hello everybody,
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  and welcome on Honey Badger Radio. I hope you guys doing well this weekend,
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  that you're laughing at all this absurdity so that you are not consumed by
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  it. My name is Brian. I am joined by my lovely co hosts,
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  The Patriarchs and Hannah our handmaiden. That's Hannah Wallen, doctor Radam Cam
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  and Mike j and we welcome you to this episode of HBr News number four
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  hundred and ten, which is really higher than that, but I can't be
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  bothered to count all the news shows we're done, so anyway, today's show
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  should be a lot of fun. I know there's a lot of big stories
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  people are talking about, but I wanted to narrow down to these because I
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  think they are in some ways really really important. So sick around, it's
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  gonna be a good time, and let's talk about what the news is gonna
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  be. So this week we're gonna be talking about the smart home that Amazon
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  shut down over supposed racist language. The UN Secretary General proposes a global Digital
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  Compact to push laws against hate speech or hate in general, specifically towards women,
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  because obviously women are always most affected. The Department of Homeland Security is
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  sought to assign risk scores in what I believe is related news to social media
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  accounts and more so, stick around, it's going to be a good time
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  and be sure to joonas afterwards for the Patron Only show. So on this
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  week's Patron Only Show, I learned I made this a main story as well,
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  but I thought we're probably not going to get a lot of time to
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  really dig into it because we have four pretty big stories. But if at
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  the end, I may give it like a brief little mention. So I
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  learned about this thing that Clarendon. You know, Claraton is the allergy you
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  know, Um they make the I don't know, the anti allergy medicines.
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  It's not been a drill because it doesn't make you drowsy. It's it's Clarton
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  and um. They have started something called the Diversity Tree Project which helps to
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  fight pollen levels one female tree at a time. And and the theory is
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  okay that because of patriarchy, we planted too many male trees and male and
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  that that's a that's a thing. It's not it's not common because plants by
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  and large have both male and female gamets. But there are some trees that
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  are male and some trees that are female, or at least more male and
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  more female. And so because there's too many male trees, there's too much
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  pollen, because the male trees are just jizzing on everything, and something has
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  to be done about it. So Clarton has started this thing called the Diversity
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  Tree Project. We're gonna look at the website on the in the after show.
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  I'm sure it will be very educational and we're gonna learn something about um
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  that that very famous song by Rush about the trees, so I can attest
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  to the fact that I do get nose raped every every string, by every
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  spring by trees. It's it's a terrible, terrible thing. But it just
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  strikes me that adding more female trees along with the male trees would just cause
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  the pollination to result in a larger number of little saplings and more trees.
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  Yes, so we will look at that in the patron show. Yes,
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  it does seem like it would undermine the product itself. Why would Clarton want
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  to make people less allergenic? Well, there's I think that there is some
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  some speculation we could get into. But is the patron. So so if
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  that. All right, So with all that out of the way, let
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  us get into today Stories and Mike j is back. So welcome back to
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  the show, Mike, and tell us a little bit about the Starbucks thing.
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  Oh, thank you, Brian, it is good to be back.
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  So the Starbucks thing, we're gonna have to go over a little bit of
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  a retread here, just to bring everybody up to speed, especially if we
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  haven't heard about this, although I don't know how you could not have heard
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  about this, but here we go. In twenty eighteen, a famous incident
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  occurred at a New Jersey area Starbucks in which two black men, who were
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  loitering at the store and not ordering anything, asked to use the bathroom.
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  The men were told they could not since they were not customers, and were
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  asked to leave the store. The men claimed that they were waiting at the
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  store for a business meeting to happen and refuse to purchase anything, and again
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  insisted that the store let them use the bathroom, which just paused there at
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  it for a second. I always found it weird, like if you're such
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  a big, high power, important business person. Way to do a business
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  meeting? Could you not just buy a two dollars scone? Yeah, right,
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  one of those. You know. Actually, I don't think anything in
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  Starbucks is less is two dollars or less, but there's got to be something
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  like chocolate covered almonds. I don't know. Well, the other problem is
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  that that, I mean, Starbucks is really overrated. Yeah, it's not
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  really that you're so if there is anything there that's you know, under two
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  Bucks, it's like worth a quarter probably, But anyway, we're just overpriced.
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  It's the food and the coffee is just not that good. We digress,
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  but go ahead. I hate this. I hate to go further off
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  course, but I damn it. I hate the fact that I feel compelled
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  to defend Starbucks because the lifetime ago over fifteen years ago when I was in
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  high school. And like, the thing that sucks about Californi is there's no
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  point dressing warmly in the morning when it's cold, because you're just going to
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  regret that in the afternoon when it warms up. Yeah. So, like
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  I had to wait for the bus outside out front of a Starbucks for about
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  an hour to get to school every day because I had zero period for my
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  senior year, and eventually I just started going in the Starbucks. They were
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  the nicest people. They never asked me to buy anything, They never asked
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  me to do anything. They let me use the bathroom if I want to.
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  I started buying just like hot chocolate from there, just because I felt
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  obligated and they were cool. They also didn't care that I would like drink
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  half of it and then like sneak over to like the half and half in
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  the milk and just fill it back up with milk. So even that point
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  in time, they were once upon a time, they were nice people.
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  But yeah, go ahead. They still let you use the facilities that let
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  you use the Internet. They just don't let you hanger around on sofas for
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  several hours, occasionally going to the bathroom, perhaps with someone else who walked
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  in. Just now, because yeah, that looks at it. We never
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  did get, you know, the full story as to what those two gentlemen
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  appeared to be doing. Well, I guess we got eyewitness testimonies as to
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  what they appeared to be doing, but we don't quite know the full story.
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  Yeah, but and it was it was kind of a weird story,
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  because if I remember right, they when it first came out, they didn't
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  even want to tell the cops what they were doing in there. Um yeah,
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  but I there isn't anything about getting in trouble with grifters that is going
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  to redeem Starbucks for me because of how disappointed I was when I moved to
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  Dayton. Like I used to live in Bluffton, Ohio and work in Findlay,
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  and there was this unbelievably great, actual, you know, little downtown
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  coffee shop on one store. They didn't known like stores across the country that
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  they had this terrific atmosphere and great coffee, and the people that worked there
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  were really nice. And I that's where I learned to like coffee, because
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  I would stop. I was a security guard at a at a plant in
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  Findlay, and I had to be up at night all night for that was
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  my first real night job. And then I came down to Dayton after being
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  you know, away from Findlay for a long time, and that coffee shop
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  had closed too, so I can't even get coffee there in Findlay now,
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  but there was Starbucks. I'm like, well, you know, Starbucks will
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  be good. I'll get Starbucks and it was just not anywhere near the quality.
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  And the worst thing was, at that time I moved down here and
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  I was working at Speedway, and Speedway was working on how great quality coffee
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  they could make, you know, they wanted to do the thing McDonald's does
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  where they get a reputation for having way better coffee than you expect at that
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  type of establishment, and they succeeded. Like none of the places that I've
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  been to have you know, gone up to the level of quality they had
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  at the Moondog. But it was about the same between Speedway and Starbucks.
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  And I was just like, ah, that sucks. I just spent five
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  dollars for gas station coffee, you know, not thinking about it. But
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  like I can understand why somebody might walk into a Starbucks and if they had
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  to wait for somebody and that that's the only reason they were there, like
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  no want to buy something. But at the same time, like I've been
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  a business owner and I've worked for smaller businesses and stuff, and you're right,
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  it is very suspicious when some one comes into your business and just hangs
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  around and doesn't buy anything. And if you have a place that's like a
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  restaurant or you know, like even United Dairy Farmers has little restaurant style seating
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  in some of their gas stations. If you take up a seat, that
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  means somebody else that wants to buy something can't sit there and eat or drink.
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  And that's an annoyance in a food place. If you have seating,
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  you want it to be used by people who are paying customers. And it's
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  one thing for somebody to come in and wait, you know, ten fifteen
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  minutes. It's another thing for people to start using your facilities. And everything
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  in a facility costs money. And then if you're in a neighborhood where there
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  are people who are less considerate of the facilities. I think I've told enough
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  bathroom stories from Speedway for people to realize, you know what, I don't
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  want people coming in and using our bathroom without without having at least some connection,
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  you know, where they paid for something. Because gas stations let people
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  do that all the time. And people who have been drinking and they're going
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  to be sick, that's where they go gas station bathrooms. You know,
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  people who don't want to blow up their bathroom after eating something they shouldn't have
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  eaten go to the gas station, and you know, people who have some
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  weird Shenanigan fetish for drawing on the wall and poop also go to the gas
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  station. And I wouldn't want if I ran a coffee shop like I would
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  not want that to become the way people treated our bathroom. So it's not
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  unreasonable to say you've got to be a paying customer to use the bathroom,
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  but in some states it might be illegal. I would have a public bathroom.
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  It has to be open to the whole public. It's a fairly common
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  practice to say that you have to be paying customer to use the bathrooms.
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  Nothing controversial about that at all. But go ahead, Mike finished the back
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  to the store. So they want to use the bathroom, they're not willing
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  to buy anything. The employees are sketched out. They get the word call
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  the police. So the store employees call the cops and the two men are
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  removed from the store, trespassed from the store. And this sparked a big
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  online kerfuffle and an offline off rising against Starbucks as many ill informed idiots accused
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  the extremely progressive company of racism. The company finally relented and publicly announced that
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  they would allow anyone to use the bathrooms regardless of their status as a customer.
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  They closed down hundreds of stores for a day to force employees to undergo
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  cult diversity training, and eventually donated money to Black Lives Matter. Though now
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  that I think about it, I can't remember if those two things were exactly
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  connected, but success folded. So what most people don't know about this incident
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  and the meat and takes this story is that during all this drama, another
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  drama was playing out where the former Starbucks regional manager, Shannon Phillips, was
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  terminated from the company as a direct response to the incident. Curiously, the
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  store supervisor of the employee who was the one who ended up placing the call
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  to the police that day, was not fired or reprimanded at all. And
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  I think things will start coming together when when when I point out that it
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  should be noted that the supervisor, the one who was not fired in any
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  capacity or even reprimanded, well, the one who instructed the employee to call
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  the police. I do believe that's how it wind is black and that's this
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  regional manager Shannon Phillips is white. Phillips argued her firing was racially motivated,
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  and that Starbucks was looking for a white scapegoats, despite her not having any
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  direct part in the police being called that day. Taking them to court.
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  Starbucks claimed she was a bad employee and a worse manager, but the jury
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  sided with Phillips and her version of events, ultimately awarding her over twenty five
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  umm million dollars in damages. And this isn't This is an interesting way of
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  tracking this poisonous ideology, you know, to kind of set the die in
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  the organ system and to see where it goes, to see which institutions and
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  which levels of them are completely captured, which which fields of vision or whatever
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  are completely covered, and which areas and sexes of of of society are still
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  capable of pushing back. I suppose it's no surprise that the boundary at this
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  point is at the level of regional manager. If it's a store manager and
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  they had they happened to be white or male, that's the scalp we're looking
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  for and we can get. If it's just an employee and they're white or
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  male, that's that's the entire body we're going to throw in the part and
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  sacrifice to the blood god. If it's the general public, and they're white
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  male to forget about it. That's just the dirt on our shoes. We
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  only think about it for as many seconds as it takes to scrape it off
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  our aforementioned shoes. And needless to say, if you're at the other end
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  of the spectrum, you'll you'll never have to worry about this ideology coming for
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  you. If your name is Biden, you can go and suck the dream
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  the chrome out of live black babies kidneys every morning, and the worst you'll
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  get is not even a slap on the wrist, but stroke of the shoulder
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  while everyone yells look over there at that other thing. But here we are.
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  Now, we know roughly where the line is at this point, though
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  it is a moving line. If you are a regional manager, then at
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  this point in history you might have the money and resources to stand your ground
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  and go ahead and say X fucking excuse me. You can't just go around
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  calling people racist and ruining their lives, at the least you can't do it
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  to me yet. So now now's the time to push back. Upper middle
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  management folks out there, make the most of it, because it won't belong
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  before you get encompassed into the fold as well into the boundaries of the blob.
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  And then it's time for the the ones above you, the corporate managers,
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  to start sweating into the selk, handkerchiefs or whatever. If you can,
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  if you can push back enough regional managers of the world, if you
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  can get behind a cause that can actually reverse this this descent into madness,
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  then you might never fall into the danger zone. And when you've achieved that
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  victory, don't just leave it there like one rung below you, where the
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  store managers can still be sacrificed to this mob, because then it's still right
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  at your doorstep where it could still turn around and devour you at any moment.
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  Like the blob, it is, you need to keep going until the
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  store managers are safe, the line managers are safe, and even the dude
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  who cleans the toilets has the freedom to say out loud, hey, there
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  are two criminals obviously dealing crack in the men's room. Can can we can
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  we can we maybe do something about it, and then then then maybe we
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  can have a society again. Maybe maybe we can have nice things again,
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  like coffee. You know, when someone somewhere is allowed to draw the line
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  between the nice thing that is coffee and the nice thing that is crack,
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  even when it's black guys dealing in oh no. And I you know,
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  honestly, I think the only thing that saved this regional manager is the fact
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  that she could not be said to be directly involved in the incident, right.
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  I mean, you have a situation there where the training that the staff
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  was acting on was corporate policy, not regional policy. Because regional managers do
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  make policy. And I discovered that when I was working at another company that
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  had overlapping regions, or rather regions overlapping a community where I lived, and
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  so if you substituted at a different store, you might be in a different
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  region, and there were some policies that were different in regard to, you
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  know, how you had to handle certain things, and that would have that
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  would have done it. If this policy had been a regional manager policy,
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  she'd have been toast. But since it was corporate, she didn't have anything
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  to do with the situation at all, and she could go into court and
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  say, I had literally nothing to do with the situation. There was no
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  reason to mistake that I had something to do with the situation, I was
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  sacrificed, and that's that's enough. You go into court being able to say
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  you were sacrificed, having nothing to do with the situation. Then it becomes
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  a question of why. And we are fortunate in the United States that it
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  is still under the law considered discrimination to do something like that, and you
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  can you can at least get your employer on wrongful discharge if you just they
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  just grab a random person of your skin color to sacrifice because public disaster,
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  public relations disaster, and that's what happened. So there's there's at least,
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  even though the court system is profoundly broken and our political system is profoundly broken,
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  there's at least that silver ligning that our civil court system does get it
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  right sometimes. So that was an expensive way for Starbucks to maintain their ESG
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  score and their Corporate Index score. It only costs them twenty five and a
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  half million dollars um. No, it's probably not a lot for Starbucks,
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  but it's it's good for this woman to to fight this because too many people,
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  you know, when this shit happens to them, they just kind of
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  buckle and say, well, I guess I was being racist and she finally
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  said, you know what, this is bullshit, and not just because you
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  know it didn't operate it at her level. I mean, like why it
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  went to her because she's white. They targeted her because she's white. They
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  didn't do it for any other reason. Somebody had to go. They were
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  making a giant stink about it. The race husters were out there, the
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  guys that were inside the Starbucks conducting business where they were just they were just
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  using their victimhood as a weapon, just like feminists do. It's the same
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  tactics. And this woman finally said, you know what, this is not
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  fair. But the truth is that never should have been a story to begin
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  with. Never, it never should have been a story. I guarantee you
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  that the employee that made the call was not white. The manager was not
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  white. That's why they didn't go after them. They went after the regional
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  because that was the first white person up on the chain that they could target.
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  And that was and that's what they call anti racism. Like, it's
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  ridiculous, this should never have happened to begin with. I don't, I
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  don't. I will not make any excuses for these people. They are awful.
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  This is awful. Behavior. No one should be doing this, and
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  I frankly it pisses me off like a lot. You know, I go
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  to Starbucks sometimes I don't really care about the quality of the company. They
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  have a right to exist and not have to deal with these people harassing them
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  and using their own retard ideology against them. Sorry for saying the R word
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  that might get us in trouble. I guess it's like the thing you can't
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  say now. But yeah, I mean, like this weaponization of victimhood,
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  it has to end. I mean, I feel like I've been spinning my
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  wheels and talking about this for like on this show for ten years, and
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  so like it just so I'm glad that she did this. I hope more
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  people follow suit. I do think that a lot of people are really getting
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  tired of this stuff, you know, and and it's it's exhausting. I
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  mean, Starbucks like recently removed or banned that I don't know if band is
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  the right word, but they basically like no longer display the Pride flags.
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  This month they had them taken down, and of course, like the gmafia
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  got mad about it. But it's like people are sick of this, sick
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  of it, Like find some joy in your life and live it. Stop
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  forcing your shit on everybody. That's what this is. It's the same thing.
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  Oh, you can't let me go in your bathroom and smoke crack for
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  like an hour because I'm no, because you're doing that because you're not buying
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  products like this. The idea that you can't use a bathroom of a restaurant
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  or cafe or store or whatever, and that that's only for paying customers,
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  that's not a crazy idea, that's not radical. Like some people will do
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  it, some won't. But if they don't allow it, that doesn't mean
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  anything. It's just their policy. Why are you meeting there anyway? Go
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  to the dunkin Donuts. Maybe they won't care. I don't know, but
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  you see. I will point out one other thing though, because like we've
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  we've made a lot of references to specific reasons why they might have been in
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  there, that information is unknown. We don't have that information, so we
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  can't be sure exactly what they were doing in there. No, maybe their
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  story could be completely legitimate, but it doesn't like there are things you can
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  do that are completely legitimate in a story that will make you look like you're
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  suspicious. Or they will make the employees nervous about you, and and it's
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  just, uh, it's just a thing that makes sense for you to recognize.
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  You know, this is a business establishment, it's a retail establishment.
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  This this actually has happened to me the other day. People suffister, Yes,
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  they have the right to be suspicious. This happened to me the other
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  day. It was ringing stuff up at a register and I used a hand
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  scanner to scan something in my cart and then I put it in the bag,
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  and the camera didn't see me scan it, and it didn't see me
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  run it across the scanner, and it's not connected so that it gets the
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  information from the hand scanner that yes, this item was rung up, so
• 25:37
  it stopped the transaction. The automatic teller or the checkout machine stop the transaction,
• 25:45
  and I had to wait for somebody to come over and confirm that the
• 25:48
  item was actually scanned and before I could actually continue the transaction. And for
• 25:56
  a second it was like, gosh, you guys are treating me like a
• 25:59
  thief, even though I ran this up. And then I thought, you
• 26:00
  know, that's just the way the technology works. They're not doing anything because
• 26:04
  of me. They're doing something because the system isn't made to handle things being
• 26:11
  done the way I just did it. And I've been too fast for those
• 26:15
  things too and had them stop the transaction because of that. And it's not
• 26:22
  this person looks suspicious or anything about you know, demographic or anything like that.
• 26:26
  It's that the technology is not perfected. But if I was a grifter
• 26:33
  and had anything about me that I could be like, well, you just
• 26:37
  did this because I'm this, it would be it would become a situation where
• 26:42
  I, you know, I could do the same thing to somebody at that
• 26:45
  store that these guys did to the regional manager, and in most cases people
• 26:51
  get away with it. When I worked at one of my earliest jobs in
• 26:56
  Dayton, a guy came in and did this. Um, he did it
• 27:00
  for a gift card from the company. He came in and UM just behaved
• 27:07
  in a in an odd manner and then bought, uh, you know,
• 27:11
  like fifty bucks worth of stuff in a in an establishment where you usually see
• 27:15
  people's in in store expenditures being fairly minor and uh, and then handed over
• 27:25
  a credit card. And I had a I had a coworker that if you
• 27:30
  you know, bought a lot of stuff if if you spent a lot,
• 27:33
  she would ask to compare your signature to the signature on on your license.
• 27:37
  And you know, this was we we didn't have um the machines at that
• 27:42
  time that you swipe your own card, uh like. And she got fired
• 27:48
  and he got a gift card because he said she she only asked him because
• 27:52
  he was black. And the way he'd proved it was he had somebody coming
• 27:56
  in behind him and buy a pack of gum and she saying, know the
• 28:00
  differences one was a fifty dollars purchase and the other one was like a dollar
• 28:04
  purchase. It's a big difference. And but that still got her fired.
• 28:08
  And there was literally nothing they would they would hear from her. They hung
• 28:14
  up on her, they you know, kicked her out of the room.
• 28:15
  Everything. She was just good, this is it. You're you're the sacrifice.
• 28:19
  We're going to give this guy a gift card and you're the sacrifice.
• 28:22
  We never found out how big of a gift card he got U but he
• 28:26
  did cost her her income. She had to go find another job, and
• 28:30
  that was during a recession. So yeah, and he didn't know anything about
• 28:36
  her right. Um. Also, I'm wondering because I just thought about this.
• 28:44
  I think Starbucks employees are like required to join a union. Um did
• 28:51
  the union stick up for her? I wonder um did something that I would
• 28:56
  I would ask because I have a feeling they wouldn't because unions tend to be
• 29:00
  woke too, and they destroy people's lives or they allow them to be destroyed.
• 29:04
  So I know there are people who love unions, but that's the truth.
• 29:08
  There are probably better ways to defend workers like rights. So I'm not
• 29:12
  saying that workers shouldn't have rights. I'm saying unions might not be the best
• 29:15
  way to do it. It's kind of like saying I don't like public schools,
• 29:18
  and people think you don't want kids to be educated. No, I
• 29:22
  don't like public schools. Yeah, that's a different thing. So well,
• 29:25
  and that there. If their union is the retail union, it's it's not
• 29:29
  like people who are familiar with like the Teamsters and those unions have expectations of
• 29:34
  how a union serves the employees. I've been a member of the retail union
• 29:41
  and it is absolute shit. Yeah, my wife, it's not a real
• 29:45
  union. Yeah, my wife. My wife worked at a grocery store where
• 29:48
  we were in Chicago, and she had like the union, there was no
• 29:52
  choice in it, you had to join it, and it didn't do anything
• 29:55
  to her. It did. They didn't do anything for her. So I'm
• 29:57
  saying shop yeah, yeah. So anyway, I'm wondering about that because it
• 30:03
  looks like she may have had to fight this battle on her own. And
• 30:07
  I will point out also because cockpit Monkey said, we'll stop using self checkout.
• 30:11
  They don't pay you and you don't get to use the break room.
• 30:14
  Well, the answer to that is in a lot of the stores in my
• 30:18
  neighborhood, like they're eliminating jobs in neighborhoods like mine. Before they eliminate jobs
• 30:22
  and neighborhoods that you know where your rent is double or triple mine, there
• 30:30
  is no regular checkout out. They eliminated all of the checkouts. They closed
• 30:34
  two stores that were on either end of the neighborhood, and the people that
• 30:41
  worked at those stores, they combine them into a much bigger store. But
• 30:47
  their jobs are all now lifting and bending and stocking shelves and stuff like that.
• 30:53
  They don't they don't work at the registers. They don't have checkout that
• 30:59
  is not elf checkout. When I go in there. Um they're there.
• 31:03
  Those are all closed, those are only open during certain parts of the day,
• 31:08
  And they're doing that more and more in neighborhoods like mine in this area.
• 31:15
  Um partly because nobody will work for the wages that they're paying, so
• 31:22
  they're just eliminating the jobs altogether. Yeah. Yeah, I mean where I
• 31:29
  work, or where I work, where I shop some some there's one there's
• 31:33
  a food line, and the food line doesn't have any self checkout, so
• 31:37
  I prefer going there over any other place. It's also the closest but at
• 31:41
  the and the Kroger also has a mix. But like the cvs where I
• 31:47
  have to go to get my meds and stuff, um, like, there's
• 31:49
  like one person that kind of oversees all the self checkouts in case someone needs
• 31:56
  to like have their ID checked or something like that. So yeah, that's
• 31:59
  true that it's happening. But like in the cases where there is one,
• 32:02
  I would agree that maybe he should just go with the human being, you
• 32:07
  know, because a lot of times the self checkouts have the glitches and problems.
• 32:10
  Or like I bought some Benadrill because um, I need to have I
• 32:16
  have an allergy, so I bought some Benadrill today and they the machine.
• 32:22
  I was buying it with the auto and it was like saying, oh,
• 32:24
  you need someone to come over and you know, like scan their your ID
• 32:30
  or whatever. You have to get your AH check because you're too you know,
• 32:34
  we don't have ID for this Benadrill, which I didn't know there was
• 32:37
  an age limit on. But there you go. Oh yeah, here's why
• 32:39
  there there's this trend now, um, and this is really dangerous and stupid.
• 32:46
  And I'm not going to get into the whole rabbit hole of the hat
• 32:50
  man and all that shit, right, UM, not gonna confirm or deny.
• 32:53
  I was on Benadrill for years and years, Okay, I can confirm
• 32:58
  the spiders, um. And that's and you don't have to Overdoseun's punt Benadrill
• 33:01
  for the spiders happen. You just have to be on it for years.
• 33:05
  Now. I see spiders when I wake up, before I fully wake up,
• 33:09
  but like crawling across the ceiling like the size of my hand, Like
• 33:15
  that's really. But here's the thing. Benadrill does screw you up if you
• 33:22
  overdose on it. And I'm not just talking about your head. It is.
• 33:28
  It's not just an anahistamine. It can make you drowsy, and it
• 33:30
  can also do physical damage to your liver and your kidneys and your heart.
• 33:37
  So if you know somebody that's messing around with a stupid trend, maybe suggest
• 33:42
  to them that they they find some other less harmful way to see things that
• 33:46
  aren't saying today that it's not a hallucinogen delirian. Yeah, it's not a
• 33:54
  fun trippy and one with nature trip it is. It's a bad trip.
• 34:00
  Have an hour long conversation with your mother before you realize she died five years
• 34:04
  ago. Trip, yes, yeah, which like that that that kind of
• 34:09
  happens in your dreams anyway, after you've lost people. But unfortunately, like
• 34:16
  benadrill is more likely to cause night terrors than good dreams. It's not good
• 34:22
  for that. And and there are people who also give it to their children
• 34:27
  to make them sleep, and don't do that either. That's that's dangerous to
• 34:31
  the child. You can do permanent damage to the child's growing body doing that.
• 34:36
  Yeah, so of course, because people abuse stuff like that. It's
• 34:38
  just like with um the cough medicine that they you have with your license.
• 34:47
  Well, Niel is one of them. But it's it's all of the ones
• 34:51
  that have the decongestent. I can't think of the name of the dec I
• 34:53
  don't take decongestents, okay, but well they made me sick. But in
• 34:59
  any case, Um, there's one that you can't get without your driver's license
• 35:05
  because it makes a mass if if they abuse it enough. And uh that
• 35:10
  when that's been that way since oh gosh, the twenty tens. Yeah,
• 35:19
  because when I worked at a pharmacy, it was that way already for quite
• 35:23
  some time before I started working at that pharmacy. And that's they've done that
• 35:28
  with several medicines. It's not an expectorant, it's um, shoot, it's
• 35:34
  a sudo fed Yeah, it's the ephedra. Uh. And they've done it
• 35:38
  so much, they've they've regulated it so much that you can't even get There's
• 35:44
  an herb, a Chinese herb called ma Wang that has ephedra natural huh.
• 35:52
  No, it's actually called that. It's spelled h a u n g,
• 35:55
  but it's pronounced wang um. But in any case that that was used to
• 36:00
  be going up asking for ma Wayne. You can't get it now because of
• 36:07
  the fedra. But it's like a tiny percentage of what's in the pills you
• 36:12
  if you wanted to make methout of that, you would have to have like
• 36:15
  a warehouse full of just that herb to be able to make wait what they
• 36:21
  do with the pills. Um. But because of all this, like the
• 36:27
  bottom line, what I'm getting at with the bendrill and all that shit is
• 36:31
  this is a result of trying to regulate people's entertainment seeking and and you know,
• 36:38
  using um, using substances and stuff, and it doesn't work. And
• 36:46
  all it ends up doing is causing in conveniencing people at the cash register where
• 36:51
  they have to turn over their license. But it doesn't actually prevent drug use.
• 36:54
  It doesn't prevent purchasing enough to make the bad shit out of it,
• 37:00
  none of that. Yeah, So all right, we got to move on
• 37:07
  to the next story. But before we got some super chats. Yeah,
• 37:09
  I was gonna say before that, I have some super chows and stuff,
• 37:13
  so I'm gonna read through these really quick. Um. All right, So
• 37:15
  I got an anonymous super chow yesterday, so I might as well us read
• 37:20
  it for five bucks. Yesterday we did a show talking about how there is
• 37:23
  going to be a Velma season two, and I wanted to discuss like how
• 37:29
  to do parody. Well, um, and as an example, I took
• 37:32
  an episode of a show called The Venture Brothers. I'm explaining this because how
• 37:37
  many people have never heard of Venture I know, Criminals Criminal It's not that
• 37:42
  old, is it. No, it's from the twenty It's from the two
• 37:45
  thousand, late two thousands, sort of like the mid to late two thousands,
• 37:49
  So two thousand and five something like that. But anyway, but the
• 37:52
  problem is it was only on like Adult Swim at like four am. Yeah,
• 37:55
  it was only on Adult Swim. It's it's a great show. You
• 38:00
  really know about it if you were a night owl, yeah exactly. Yeah,
• 38:05
  and you had access to the first episode and they only heard one of
• 38:08
  them and one off. Yeah. Two thousand and four they started airing them
• 38:13
  regularly. Yeah, and you had to have a cartoon network as well,
• 38:16
  which I didn't, so I didn't really get those torrenting. Yeah, not
• 38:23
  that I or anyone I know has ever done that. Yeah, it's just
• 38:28
  something I heard of through the grape vine. So anyway, and did it
• 38:30
  burn me a CD? Every now and then? You know, someone sent
• 38:34
  us a supercow. In relation to what we discussed, on the show,
• 38:37
  and they said I should read this, but I don't want to respond to
• 38:39
  it because we have already gone for forty five minutes and we only finished the
• 38:43
  first story. So Anonymous gives us five bucks and says, I saw the
• 38:46
  episode. I've seen all the episodes. It's definitely woke bullshit in my eyes.
• 38:50
  It's referring to the Venture Brothers. Um they made him pathetic, referring
• 38:54
  to Brock. I've seen many feminists adjacent shit like that before. I don't
• 38:59
  care if she apologiz guys. I mean, look at how men are viewed.
• 39:00
  Why wouldn't a feminist write something like that. There's a spectrum to feminism.
• 39:05
  Just because they're not on the far left side of feminism doesn't mean they're
• 39:07
  not woke or woke adjacent. Like I said, I don't believe they would
• 39:10
  try that ship with Black Dynamite because he's basically the black version of Brock Samson,
• 39:15
  except because he's black, he gets a special plot armor that protects him
• 39:19
  against that type of shit. Thank you, Anonymous. Maybe I'll respond to
• 39:22
  that some other time. I have to watch the rest of the show anyway,
• 39:24
  so I couldn't really speak to what you're saying, but I am enjoying
• 39:28
  myself so far. Rat gives us five dollars and says doomed. Doomed,
• 39:31
  are these such insects that would prick pinholes in the gods while their own unfettered
• 39:37
  ooze doth eat away at their tenements? Thou dost hide in the shade of
• 39:42
  thine own shadow, son of man. Retribution is not choice, but divine
• 39:46
  wind. You shall not see the calm which doth chase it. You will
• 39:51
  die. You will try. Yeah, that's if you go to my channel
• 39:55
  and then look at most popular, you'll find that exact rand cold squirrel versus
• 40:01
  rat trap. Oh yeah, okay. And then, lastly, in a
• 40:07
  relevant super jaw, Meredith Gigas is five Bucks, It says hbar news number
• 40:13
  four ten. Starbucks didn't just lose the twenty five point six million. The
• 40:16
  policy changes that the company made for publicly available bathrooms cost them a lot of
• 40:21
  money and they had to reverse the policy. D I will get companies coming
• 40:24
  and going yes, yes, yeah, thank you for that. Meredith,
• 40:30
  and I agree, and I you know, we just have to we just
• 40:35
  have to respond accordingly. Fight if you are if you feel like you're being
• 40:39
  persecuted and you feel like it's you know, unfair based on your race or
• 40:45
  gender or whatever, you should definitely fight back because especially if you're part of
• 40:50
  the privileged group, because they're the ones that are going to get targeted,
• 40:52
  and you should make them pay for it. I mean literally if possible.
• 40:55
  So thanks for that, and let me read. I got one more super
• 41:01
  chat this time from YouTube. Nothing from Rumble yet, What's up Rumble Squad?
• 41:07
  Richard Bire gives us a dollar ninety nine and says, once you make
• 41:09
  management, union doesn't rep you. Ah see, that's true, that's true,
• 41:14
  but you still have to pay union dues. Yeah, but you have
• 41:17
  to be like depending on the retail establishment, there's a level of management you
• 41:22
  can make. Lower management like shift managers get represented, but store managers don't.
• 41:29
  But they still have to pay union dues. Yeah, because that's that
• 41:34
  was that way at my store. But even if they technically represent you according
• 41:42
  to the dues that you've paid, they don't necessarily do the things that they
• 41:47
  say they're going to do to represent you. And I will say I was
• 41:54
  I was working at a union retail establishment when Walmart's employees started agitating locally here
• 42:02
  in the dating area for unionization, and they came to our union meetings and
• 42:07
  they found out I don't know if they did unionize or not, but they
• 42:12
  found out they already made more money per hour at their jobs than we were
• 42:16
  making at our union jobs. That's how effective the retail union is. I'm
• 42:22
  shocked, I tell you shocked. All right, So let's know what you
• 42:25
  guys think about this in the comments. We're gonna move on to the next
• 42:29
  story. We're gonna talk a little bit about Amazon. So Mike j I'm
• 42:32
  gonna give you the floor again. So once again, similar kind of story
• 42:37
  here, and this one's gonna go a little bit long. I wrote it
• 42:42
  yesterday, then I added in a dendum, and then today I decided I
• 42:45
  could do better and got a little long in the tooth. But there's a
• 42:47
  lot here that needs sing. All right, we won't interrupt, Just go
• 42:51
  ahead and read through it. Brandon Jackson, who lives in Baltimore, Maryland,
• 42:57
  was puzzled when he came home to discover that all of it was smart
• 43:00
  vices that were connected through his Amazon Echo We're not working. Jackson, who
• 43:05
  owned what is referred to as a smart house, had most of the common
• 43:09
  household amenities such as security, cameras and lighting, connected to other devices for
• 43:15
  ease of use, ultimately united through some sort of Amazon product, so it's
• 43:19
  all there in one convenient package to work through. But with his Amazon devices
• 43:24
  not functioning, that caused other smart devices to either not work or become harder
• 43:30
  to access. Thinking that this must have been the faults or the hacked or
• 43:36
  otherwise compromised email, Jackson checked but found everything fine. Calling Amazon themselves also
• 43:43
  proved fruitless and restoring his services, but the Amazon rep did tell him how
• 43:47
  to proceed. The rep explained that an Amazon executive had emailed him a phone
• 43:52
  number and he was to cull it. Contacting the Amazon exect, Jackson was
• 43:59
  met with a mile amount of hostility as he was asked if he knew why
• 44:02
  his services were terminated. When he responded he did not know why, the
• 44:07
  executive grew accusatory and told him that he had made several a racist remarks at
• 44:13
  one of Amazon's delivery drivers and that was the reason for the termination of his
• 44:17
  services. Jackson was taken aback by these claims. Not only did he deny
• 44:23
  doing any such thing, but he had the evidence to back it up,
• 44:28
  as his home camera system could prove no one was home at the time of
• 44:31
  the incidents, and the only thing that the delivery driver could have heard was
• 44:37
  Jackson's automated response, which replies, excuse me, can I help you?
• 44:44
  Checking the video of the doorbell camera, and that is exactly what happened.
• 44:47
  Jackson noted that the delivery man was wearing headphones at the time and must have
• 44:52
  misinterpreted what was said by the automated doorbell system. One small aside something I
• 44:59
  didn't until earlier here or later, I should say, the delivery driver,
• 45:07
  Jackson himself, and the part of town they live in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 45:12
  They're all black. Baltimore is a very black part of Maryland. Jackson was
• 45:17
  black, the delivery driver was black. Everyone was black in this all the
• 45:22
  way around. I'm just gonna let that one hang there. So with this
• 45:27
  slam dunk evidence, you would think his name would be cleared in his account
• 45:30
  and services would be restored immediately, followed by a groveling apology from the company
• 45:37
  and maybe some sort of recompense. That a man accused of one of the
• 45:43
  gravest sins you could have committed in twenty twenty three would be expected to receive
• 45:46
  for being accused of something like that, But at last, very little of
• 45:51
  this happened. It took well over a week for his services to be restored,
• 45:54
  in his account to be unlocked, and the whole time Amazon kept him
• 45:59
  in the dark concerning their internal investigation. He received no apology, no admission
• 46:06
  of wrongdoing on their end, and no reimbursement for the time his services were
• 46:10
  down. After having the services restored, Jackson stated the following quote, After
• 46:16
  nearly a decade of loyalty, I've been given a harsh reminder that a misunderstanding
• 46:21
  can lead to such drastic measures. It seems more reasonable to handle such issues
• 46:25
  in a more compartmentalized way rather than a blanket shut down of all services.
• 46:30
  Due to this experience, I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo
• 46:36
  devices and will caution others about this incident. End quote Amazon, and keep
• 46:40
  in mind this is only after being pressured to release some sort of statement to
• 46:45
  the media. Release the following to several media outlets quote. We work hard
• 46:51
  to provide customers with a great experience while also ensuring drivers who deliver Amazon packages
• 46:55
  feel safe. In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer
• 47:00
  did not act inappropriately, and we're working directly with the customer to resolve their
• 47:04
  concerns, while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again.
• 47:09
  I would just like to say that we at Honey Badger Radio do not
• 47:15
  condone the actions of the late erstwhile mister ted Kazynski, such a cruel,
• 47:22
  deluded, and violently unhinged character, is not and never should be subject to
• 47:27
  reverence or celebration. In no way, shape or form should any party or
• 47:31
  parties conduct any parties looking upon mister Kazynski's manifesto and concluding any rash activated conclusions
• 47:42
  to what is outlined in such a document. I mean, who is possibly
• 47:46
  to say who is right and who is wrong? All we can say is
• 47:49
  that a thing and its consequences are two separate concepts, and that, for
• 47:53
  all we know, it is one all the other that has been a disaster
• 47:59
  for man kind and all its subsidiaries. But yeah, this really seems like
• 48:04
  the kind of thing that science fiction should have wandered us about, and it
• 48:07
  has probably more than one episode of The Jetsons skutting around this particular topic.
• 48:14
  What if you find yourself living in a computerized construct of a house and that
• 48:20
  computer malfunctions. There are a million different ways that that could happen, that
• 48:27
  a code could encounter some kind of malfunction. And that's just in terms of
• 48:30
  malfunctions. This story is not I would reminder you about a malfunction. It's
• 48:37
  not a bug. It is, in fact a feature, and the whole
• 48:39
  thing shut down because of one passing human error, and by the sounds of
• 48:45
  the error in question, was not even an honest mistake. It was randomly
• 48:51
  malicious. Someone heard excuse me, how can I help you, and somewhere
• 48:55
  in their brain they're grievance stricken victim mentality smooth rain that's programmed to see racism
• 49:01
  everywhere. Racism was heard somewhere. That's all it takes. One disgruntled,
• 49:08
  woke employee just needs to call up and say I taught I taught puddy tap
• 49:15
  and fucking wallop. Some dude is now homeless for the foreseeable future. And
• 49:21
  if that's all it takes, imagine what kind of Internet scams are going to
• 49:28
  flock into this brave new world of opportunity it's already disturbingly easy for some desk
• 49:36
  monkey in Calcutter to remotely lock you out of your computer. Well, if
• 49:42
  your computer is your house, guess what they can do. I'm very sorry,
• 49:46
  Ethel, but if you're locked out of your house and your character's going
• 49:50
  to slowly starve to death along with your two visiting grandchildren, unless you buy
• 49:54
  ten gift cards from Amazon and give me the redens from cause, yes,
• 50:00
  and again that's just the illegitimate scams. Yeah, I'm sat here imagining what
• 50:07
  criminals might do with smart homes in the future, but it's nothing compared to
• 50:10
  what's happening right now in the present and apparently above bored and perfectly legally.
• 50:16
  If someone falsely accuses you of racism, if some random dog's body jobs with
• 50:23
  falsely accuses you of racism, then you have to jump through a series of
• 50:27
  hoops just to enter your own home. Imagine if a regional manager accuses you
• 50:35
  of racism and that accusation sticks, then what then you just have to find
• 50:40
  another home. I guess you've got to start over again. Sorry, Amazon
• 50:45
  owns this house, and now good luck. Citizen life is a journey,
• 50:49
  not a destination. Happy trails. So yeah, just in case anyone needed
• 50:54
  wake up called regarding smart houses, for the love of God, don't do
• 50:59
  it. I know we all appreciate labor saving devices here and there, but
• 51:04
  there are places that even the laziest person has to say, Yeah, no,
• 51:08
  that's too far. If putting a physical key in a physical lock is
• 51:15
  too much effort for you, you are definitely too lazy and having a steel
• 51:22
  blast door that can and we'll lock you out of your house because of nothing
• 51:25
  more than a spontaneous piece of juvenile he said, she said, bullshit.
• 51:30
  Then your laziness is going to be faced with its greatest challenge ever, although
• 51:35
  maybe that's for the best day. Sloth is a sin, after all,
• 51:40
  this is the sin biting you on the ass. What goes around comes around
• 51:45
  it. It's karma, as they say. Now, if we only had
• 51:47
  a mechanism in place for teaching us a lesson about the sin of pride,
• 51:53
  well lust for that matter, but one story at a time, Well,
• 51:59
  this could have been that mechanism. Like if it had been a female carrier,
• 52:05
  because there are plenty of female carriers, you could have just as easily
• 52:08
  made the charge of you know this, this person hit on me. This
• 52:12
  person said something sexist, you know, anything along those lines. That's the
• 52:15
  thing, a company having the right to turn off devices that give you access
• 52:21
  to your home that they don't own, even if, even if you only
• 52:25
  rent all of your electronic devices, which is basically where we are right now.
• 52:30
  You don't own your phone, you don't own your computer, you don't
• 52:31
  own any of the smart devices you can get. They can shut them off
• 52:37
  without your permission, and you have no recourse but to deal with the company.
• 52:42
  You can make a public stink and and maybe the outrage will have an
• 52:46
  effect. But when you use those things, you sign a contract that you
• 52:52
  know you you basically you won't mess with it. You don't own it.
• 52:55
  They can do what they want with it, and so on. You're agreeing
• 53:00
  to things that honestly, really you're only you would only agree to that for
• 53:06
  convenience if you didn't consider the fact that you just paid hundreds of dollars.
• 53:13
  You know, dozens of little efforts every day at your job that all of
• 53:19
  your labor goes to to buy something, to buy access to something that can
• 53:27
  be controlled outside of your intentions at the whim of the company that actually owns
• 53:34
  it, and and that's where we are right now. There's a movement to
• 53:39
  change that, but there shouldn't have to be. And I kind of wonder
• 53:45
  if the workforce had remained primarily of the gender that doesn't value safety nets over
• 53:54
  freedom, and that does value their labor, does value the the risk and
• 54:04
  the sacrifice that goes into earning things. Would we have been so quick as
• 54:09
  a as a workforce to sign those user agreements and to turn our objects into
• 54:20
  things that we only rent from a company that can from a distance take it
• 54:23
  away, take away your access, take away function, change the way it
• 54:29
  works so that you have to relearn how to use the damn thing every few
• 54:31
  months so that it doesn't mesh with your old software and you have to buy
• 54:37
  new software and so on. And I think that that might be a big
• 54:42
  part of the problem, is that generally speaking, you know, women are
• 54:47
  quick to adopt this stuff, and then it becomes the norm, and then
• 54:51
  you can't get away from it. And that's why we end up in a
• 54:54
  situation where a man can get locked out of his home, even just temporarily,
• 55:00
  based on anything. The fact is, if the guy had said something
• 55:05
  from inside his home that was profoundly racist. It still should not have resulted
• 55:09
  in this action. You know, maybe Amazon could have stopped delivery to his
• 55:15
  home. While our delivery drivers don't have to come to your home because you're
• 55:19
  an asshole, and we don't have to deal with assholes. Their labor is
• 55:22
  worth something too. But these devices are not related. These devices don't have
• 55:30
  anything to do with him, you know, or do with anything he said,
• 55:35
  and they don't have anything to do with his relationship to any delivery people
• 55:37
  that come to his home. So that's a totally different story, and they
• 55:45
  don't. There's not a real justification for cutting off services that don't have anything
• 55:52
  to do with the incident and don't have anything to do with the driver's experience.
• 55:58
  Granted, he didn't what he was accused of, but even if he
• 56:02
  had, this was still wrong. Yeah, exactly. It really doesn't matter.
• 56:09
  At the end of the day. What this says is that guy doesn't
• 56:14
  own that smart home. Amazon does, so that that means that he's giving
• 56:20
  them money for something that doesn't belong to him and he doesn't have actual rights
• 56:24
  to that property. They fixed it up, sure, but it never should
• 56:29
  have happened to begin with, and it doesn't matter. He could have been
• 56:30
  there could have straight up been a klansman in there. If you bought that
• 56:35
  product, then it's yours. That's that's how it should work. If you
• 56:37
  pay for the service, it's yours, you know. So, I mean
• 56:44
  we can get into like how things have gotten so sensitive around these topics that
• 56:52
  innocence are being harmed. In fact, that's basically the only people being harmed
• 56:55
  are innocent people in like ninety nine percent of these cases that have nothing to
• 57:00
  do with It doesn't matter that that guy was black. I mean that only
• 57:04
  that's just the cherry on top that just makes it funnier. But it shouldn't
• 57:07
  matter. He could be he could be a white redneck with a swastika on
• 57:10
  his arm. I don't care. If he's paying for the service, he
• 57:14
  should get the service. So the only thing that you really should be thinking
• 57:16
  about is not whether or not all of the factors that Amazon responded to are
• 57:22
  valid or if there would be a scenario where they could be valid. The
• 57:25
  only thing you should be thinking about is why is it people are giving money
• 57:30
  to a gigantic, trillion dollar corporation for something that they don't actually own.
• 57:36
  That Amazon could take from the from them at any point, is there like
• 57:40
  anyone on earth that has so much stuff of personal value that they would need
• 57:46
  to put a smart home together to protect their shit and to lock their doors
• 57:52
  and shit. It's like, do you just want to live on the enterprise
• 57:54
  so you can just say computera you know, like fine, but you're you
• 57:58
  are putting your things at risk because if Amazon decides, like if they if
• 58:04
  they get to the point where the ESG becomes something that happens to individuals because
• 58:09
  you gave them control over your devices that you paid for. You're basically just
• 58:15
  saying, well, I hope that you don't decide that I'm a biggot and
• 58:19
  take away all of my freedoms, take away all of my devices. Frankly,
• 58:22
  you shouldn't need to do that, Like we can get a fucking iron
• 58:25
  lock and lock your door, Like, do it the old fashioned way.
• 58:29
  Don't use the computer shit, don't connect it. I don't even want Elon
• 58:32
  Musk's fucking self driving cars. Fuck all that, because you're giving too much
• 58:37
  power to people who don't even care about you, who don't know your name.
• 58:42
  To them, you're just somebody who gives them money and you're not even
• 58:45
  getting you're not even getting property out of it. So this is not capitalism,
• 58:51
  by the way, But we're you gonna say, Mike, can we
• 58:53
  go back to moats? Yeah, like like just really dropped out of fashion.
• 58:58
  Dig a moat around it wants some alligators and yeah, yeah, maybe
• 59:02
  crocodiles. I don't know, like the water that ranas I mean, I
• 59:06
  don't know. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, just protect you get
• 59:10
  fucking the hounds, you know, like from the Simpsons. Just did the
• 59:15
  computer things run faster than hounds? Yeah, I'm sure they do. And
• 59:20
  then yeah, or big fuckers, they're fast. So anyway, just you
• 59:29
  know, I'm saying I think that I think that our audience is smart enough
• 59:31
  to know that a smart home or anything like it is a bad, bad
• 59:37
  idea. That's one of side I wanted to make. If you're getting like
• 59:42
  that, build it yourself. Smart devices are not smart. The second greatest
• 59:46
  trick the devil Leverpool. It was brilliant from a marketing standpoint. You came
• 59:52
  in, invented a problem, and offered the perfect solution. You know what
• 59:59
  you're you're telling me your toothbrush doesn't talk to your refrigerator. Why the fuck
• 1:00:05
  not? It's it's it's current year, dude. Everyone's doing that. And
• 1:00:08
  at the same time, you know you invent problem solved, problem cell solution.
• 1:00:15
  Separately from that too, there's also that connotation of well I have a
• 1:00:20
  smart TV. Okay, well I don't. Well, if it's not a
• 1:00:23
  smart TV, it must be a dumb TV. Yeah, yeah, because
• 1:00:27
  this guy owns a dumb TV. Wow, you didn't know you were still
• 1:00:30
  living in the stone age there? Mm hmmm. It's powered by a dinosaur,
• 1:00:37
  was there? There was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation where
• 1:00:45
  made a meal for I think three of his three of his crewmates, and
• 1:00:50
  he did it manually. He did it without the replicator, and it was
• 1:00:55
  terrible. Like everyone hated it except except Wolf, who loved it because that's
• 1:01:01
  the joke, because clingons like things for humans humans ay and I mean me
• 1:01:06
  think this was supposed to present a flaw in Riker's character in that he can't
• 1:01:12
  cook. He's good at lots of things, but he can't cook. But
• 1:01:15
  as that seemed played out, I asked myself, if if you get if
• 1:01:20
  you if you live in a futuristic gay space, luxurious communism, whatever it's
• 1:01:24
  called. And you have replicators that can make all your food for you,
• 1:01:29
  then surely nobody can cook if that's all anyone has to do, has to
• 1:01:34
  do that. It's not just ry cook. You can't cook. Nobody can
• 1:01:37
  cook. Why why would you learn to cook If you can have a machine
• 1:01:40
  that can literally just turn the hydrogen atoms from out of space into the whatever
• 1:01:47
  meal you want, of course nobody would not have a cook. No one
• 1:01:50
  would have the first idea what fucking cast iron skillet even is? Yep,
• 1:01:57
  And and and that's the case with every aspect of this, because we think
• 1:02:01
  once we have replicators that can take base atoms and turn them into food,
• 1:02:06
  well, that that will surely be the lynchpin that can take us to this
• 1:02:10
  capitalist hell hole into this luxurious gay spas communism thing that they've been talking about.
• 1:02:21
  Every step of this is only going to hold us back, given that
• 1:02:25
  the vast majority of people are going to have to live on planets and they
• 1:02:29
  are going to have to to be able to be in touch with the nature
• 1:02:36
  from whence they came well once means why or whatever, But every the idea
• 1:02:44
  that people would be able to live this futuristic environment without being in touch with
• 1:02:51
  how to elite. I'm not talking about being a bad grills. I'm not
• 1:02:54
  talking about being able to live in the jungle just on your own. Yeah,
• 1:03:00
  just having some basic skills like like you know, growing livestock or hunting.
• 1:03:07
  Yeah. And it's so difficult to walk, to walk the line between
• 1:03:13
  these technological advounches that are obviously life changing the important yep. But the ability
• 1:03:21
  to communicate is that even that's a double edged thought, but it's it's clearly
• 1:03:25
  something improved by the technological age. Yea, but not everything is um,
• 1:03:32
  being able to cook food shouldn't be I think, no matter how advanced we
• 1:03:37
  should we get, we should always be able to to cook food, and
• 1:03:42
  we should always be able to go in and out of our houses. I
• 1:03:46
  mean, does that make me a luddite? Yeah? What what is not
• 1:03:55
  anything to be embarrassed about? Yep? Yeah, going of a term of
• 1:04:00
  continence, we just we just don't want to draw the line. Yeah,
• 1:04:04
  we haven't. We haven't found an appropriate social political point. And yeah,
• 1:04:11
  it is which to draw the line. At what point do we say we
• 1:04:15
  have saved enough labor? Some amount of labor is actually good for us.
• 1:04:21
  Yeah, end up like those fat bustard on floating chairs in Yeah, exactly.
• 1:04:30
  Um, well, honestly, it's it's not even always about saving labor.
• 1:04:32
  Like if you look at the smart car thing. Um, some of
• 1:04:39
  that sort of started with I can't think of the name of the I want
• 1:04:45
  to say it was on Star UM that had a you were attached you you
• 1:04:53
  had a a hook up to a remote room full of people basically in your
• 1:04:58
  car, and you if anything happened, you push the button and called them
• 1:05:03
  and they would call an ambulance for you, or if you could remotely stop
• 1:05:09
  your car if somebody stole it, and blah blah blah. And I remember
• 1:05:11
  the commercials for this. I never saw a mail driver in the commercials.
• 1:05:16
  Was always some chick in distress and on Star, some guy at at OnStar
• 1:05:24
  would give her the reassurance that you know that there was an ambulance coming,
• 1:05:28
  the police had been called whatever, or you know, her car or had
• 1:05:31
  been stopped at this location or that location, and it was all about you're
• 1:05:38
  in danger, you know, which is funny because if somebody's gonna steal car,
• 1:05:43
  they're not gonna steal one of those nice new cars that you could put
• 1:05:45
  something like that in. They're gonna steal from me because they can take my
• 1:05:50
  car, my van and part it out, all right, they'd sell a
• 1:05:56
  whole bunch of little things off of it, and the cops can't trace it
• 1:05:59
  because it's old, you know that kind of thing. And I know this
• 1:06:01
  because we've had vehicles stolen more than once from us for for various reasons.
• 1:06:09
  It's easier to break into older cars, it's easier to sell older cars,
• 1:06:14
  and it's easier to take the parts off of them and sell the parts.
• 1:06:19
  Yes, yes, Richard Bierre remembers this too. The thief, the car
• 1:06:23
  thief was male in the on Star commercial, right, and and that to
• 1:06:28
  me, they sort of they're playing on fears that people talk women into having,
• 1:06:34
  and they're basically taking away little bits and pieces of your independence, your
• 1:06:42
  autonomy, your freedom. And as soon as you give it all up,
• 1:06:45
  you do get to the point where a you're helpless and B you are now
• 1:06:51
  vulnerable to being controlled using the very same apisms you were using, yeah to
• 1:06:58
  protect yourself. Whereas um, if you learned how I feel like you really
• 1:07:03
  want a smart home, learn how to put those things together right, that's
• 1:07:10
  a computer that just is attached to electronic devices that pick up signals from it.
• 1:07:19
  And that's it. You don't have to have Amazon do that for you.
• 1:07:24
  If you're really desperate to have a house, that's that's all. Uh
• 1:07:28
  connect interconnected like that, create something like that. Just learn how to third
• 1:07:33
  party Raspberry Pie for instance. Well you just yeah, you could do that.
• 1:07:38
  You can. You can learn how to build your own computer systems,
• 1:07:43
  can learn how to attach them to devices. Uh, there are you can
• 1:07:47
  go to. Well I don't even know if radio shacks still exists, but
• 1:07:50
  when I worked at radio Shack, there were ways at that point you had
• 1:07:56
  um devices that you could put your light on a timer. You could,
• 1:08:00
  you know, your living room lights would come on at a certain time of
• 1:08:03
  night or day based on this timer. You could do the same thing with
• 1:08:08
  your television. People used to do that if they were going to go on
• 1:08:11
  vacation for two weeks, set it up so that at you know, five
• 1:08:14
  o'clock, their television would come on, so it would look like they came
• 1:08:16
  home from work and turned on their TV. And it was to discourage someone
• 1:08:20
  from breaking in the house because it convinces them that there's a person inside.
• 1:08:24
  And if someone's going to break into a house, they're they're more likely to
• 1:08:29
  pick one where they aren't going to get confronted by a gun waving homeowner,
• 1:08:32
  you know, um or or even somebody's going to beat the shit out of
• 1:08:35
  them. Like people not knowing how to do these things themselves, and and
• 1:08:43
  people not people valuing these things without knowing how to do them themselves and without
• 1:08:47
  knowing what's entailed in it. That's why people end up in that that that
• 1:08:56
  situation, you know. And and the bad thing about it is ninety percent
• 1:09:00
  of the population, nine percent of the population could go without that stuff.
• 1:09:03
  But we have gotten to a point now where people with certain types of disabilities
• 1:09:09
  are being made reliant on that stuff, and they're not necessarily going to be
• 1:09:15
  able to just reject it. There are a lot of smart homes out there
• 1:09:20
  that are being given to, for instance, disabled veterans, and they aren't
• 1:09:26
  necessarily going to be able to turn around and say, well, I'm going
• 1:09:28
  to get rid of all this stuff and still live in this home, and
• 1:09:31
  may be attached to a device to get them into or out of a house
• 1:09:35
  that they may otherwise not have the mobility to enter if you can't go upstairs,
• 1:09:41
  you know. So there were things like that that like, we can't
• 1:09:45
  tolerate this. But at the same time, if people just reject it and
• 1:09:51
  put pressure on these companies, then you're not just protecting yourself and your freedom,
• 1:09:57
  you are also protecting people who and not turn this stuff down. Yeah,
• 1:10:03
  I'll just say be discerning, look at the individual things and say well
• 1:10:08
  do I really need that, and decide based on that. And if you
• 1:10:11
  feel like you're what you're getting is going to give you less control over your
• 1:10:15
  own property, I would certainly question that as well. So that's why I
• 1:10:18
  don't use Mac products, by the way, because Apple they they basically like
• 1:10:24
  make everything, you know, its own sort of ecosystem. So if you
• 1:10:29
  need repairs, you have to go to the Apple store. If you need
• 1:10:31
  or if you or you invalidate your your warranty, if you need parts,
• 1:10:36
  you have to buy them right from Apple. Like that's the way that they
• 1:10:40
  do it. And at least with a PC, you know, you could
• 1:10:43
  do whatever you can get Linux. You can buy your product, you know,
• 1:10:45
  parts from wherever you want and build your own shit. That's the freedom
• 1:10:48
  that I would like. So I kind of started it with when I decided
• 1:10:51
  never to buy Apple products, and I don't I don't want to appeal to
• 1:10:56
  literal definitions. But Apple marketed themselves as being different from a personal computer.
• 1:11:00
  Yes, because an Apple is not a personal computer. An Apple is not
• 1:11:05
  your computer. It's Apple's computer. Yes. So anyway, let us know
• 1:11:11
  what you guys think about this in the comments. What do you think about
• 1:11:13
  smart devices? We know they've gone too far, but I guess the question
• 1:11:17
  is where do you draw the line. Some people don't want to use smartphones
• 1:11:20
  anymore, some people ban Apple products. Some people would stop at the smart
• 1:11:25
  home or the smart car. Let us know what you guys think about that
• 1:11:28
  in the comments. All right, so I got some super chats. We're
• 1:11:30
  gonna move out to the next story. Richard ber gives us a dollar ninety
• 1:11:33
  nine and says, I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. How
• 1:11:36
  nine thousand, and then he gives another dollar nine to nine and says,
• 1:11:41
  I know what you said, Dave. I saw your lips moving, all
• 1:11:45
  right, So we tried to say that to an Alexa. I tried that
• 1:11:47
  one. So I tried to catch an Alexa out by saying Alexa opened the
• 1:11:50
  pod play doors and I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid, motherfucker. Yeah.
• 1:12:00
  If I actually had plot begos, you wouldn't be opening them right now.
• 1:12:04
  You'd be giving me lip. Next time, ask her if the slow
• 1:12:08
  blade penetrates the shield. See if she gets that one. All right?
• 1:12:12
  Um, so next story. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrez pictured here,
• 1:12:19
  propose a Global Digital Compact GDC, or International Laws against Hate and lies online
• 1:12:28
  or misinformation. In a tweet announcing the compact, he wrote, quote,
• 1:12:31
  the proliferation of hate and lies in the in the digital space is causing grave
• 1:12:38
  global harm. This clear and present global threat demands clear and coordinated global action.
• 1:12:45
  We don't have a moment to lose. Wow, there's a lot being
• 1:12:47
  said there that's kind of not being said, but it's there. The GDC
• 1:12:53
  is focused on inequality, condemning that quote, some eighty nine percent of people
• 1:12:58
  in Europe are online, but only twenty one percent of women in low income
• 1:13:02
  countries use the internet end quote. The brief claims quote digital technology has led
• 1:13:09
  to massive gains in productivity and value, but these benefits are not resulting in
• 1:13:13
  shared prosperity at a quote, and that this inequality is in part to be
• 1:13:17
  blamed on quote hate speech and quote and quote disinformation and quote. The GDC
• 1:13:25
  says, to counter the serious risks to human rights is to build a robust
• 1:13:30
  accountability criteria and standards for digital platforms and users to address disinformation, hate speech,
• 1:13:36
  and other harmful online content. However, the writers of the UN report
• 1:13:42
  admitted that the distinction between miss and disinformation can be subtle and difficult to determine.
• 1:13:48
  But trust us, we know what we're doing. Without providing any further
• 1:13:53
  details, The UN has condemned and criticism of international climate change policy, which
• 1:14:00
  the board sees as settled science. Skeptics of policies related to climate change or
• 1:14:06
  vaccines, for example, not you know that specific, just throwing it out
• 1:14:11
  there would be more than likely by spreading misinformation, according to the UN,
• 1:14:17
  so not disinformation. At that point they can differentiate between misinformation and different it's
• 1:14:24
  just because they can't call it false, but they really want the whole reason.
• 1:14:30
  They've created this dual system of misinformation and disinformation so that they can refer
• 1:14:35
  to anything that's true as a truth that shouldn't be listened to. It's not
• 1:14:41
  false, but it's you shouldn't be listening to it because it's mis and disinformation.
• 1:14:46
  We don't know which. It doesn't matter, just words, words,
• 1:14:48
  words, words, salad, vomiting word salad and everything. You just can't
• 1:14:54
  say this. Ye, I'm almost finished, going to keep going, I'm
• 1:15:01
  almost finished, let me finish, I'm almost finished. The brief also called
• 1:15:04
  on major tech companies to quote invest in human and artificial intelligence, content moderation
• 1:15:11
  systems, end quote. There's there's the AI. That's the real use.
• 1:15:15
  From health and gender equality to peace, justice, education, and climate action,
• 1:15:21
  all of the buzzwords. Measures that limit the impact of miss and disinformation
• 1:15:26
  and hate speech will boost efforts to achieve a sustainable future and leave no one
• 1:15:30
  behind except anybody who doesn't tell the line. The report concluded, I have
• 1:15:36
  to wonder when they can do away with the whole distinction between misinformation and hate
• 1:15:42
  speech, because the only difference is what you're talking about at the time,
• 1:15:46
  when when you're expressing, you know, a true statement that some powerful liar
• 1:15:51
  doesn't want you telling. Yeah, if the forbidden truth you're telling is of
• 1:15:57
  a scientific nature, it's misinformation. If it's of socio political nature, it's
• 1:16:02
  hate speech. But you'll notice there are anomalous sets of circumstances. If I
• 1:16:10
  say men have x y chromosomes and women have xx chromosomes, you'll notice what
• 1:16:17
  we call that is hate speech as a statement. It's not. It's it's
• 1:16:24
  socio politically color blined. It's one scientifically but biologically genetically ascertained assertion. But
• 1:16:33
  we can't get away with calling it misinformation to say such things about chromosomes because
• 1:16:40
  it's not miss by any measure ever taking place. It is true, but
• 1:16:46
  it's still something we don't want people to hear, so we just have to
• 1:16:50
  call it hay speech. Whereas if and when someone says the unfascinated needs to
• 1:16:59
  be bullied and coerced and forced and treated like second class citizens until they comply,
• 1:17:03
  you'll notice this is not hate speech, even though it is a wholly
• 1:17:11
  socio political statement. The only vaguely scientific word in there is unvaccinated, and
• 1:17:15
  it becomes rather a mute moot point when it turns out the so called and
• 1:17:20
  the so called vaccinated are no more vaccinated than the unvaccinated. So it's the
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  science is what we say it is. Love and hate are what we say
• 1:17:31
  they are. Men and women are what we say they are. The fabric
• 1:17:35
  of reality itself is whatever we say it. There really is no difference between
• 1:17:41
  rationality and spirituality, between theory and empiricism. It's all just one big screed.
• 1:17:47
  It's all one big tale told by an idiot, full of sound and
• 1:17:53
  fury, signifying nothing. And it's something of an inconvenience to have to call
• 1:18:00
  it two different things. Misinformation in hate speech over basically arbitrary reasons. So
• 1:18:09
  it's only a matter of time before they find a lexical marriage betwixt the terms
• 1:18:15
  misinformation and hate speech. They'll find a catch all term that means both.
• 1:18:19
  It's how new speak works quite predictably, as outlined. Either it'll all be
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  called hate speech or it'll all be called misinformation, and eventually it will all
• 1:18:32
  be encompassed under the umbrella term bad. Either you're a bad person or you're
• 1:18:39
  a good person. There won't even be bad statements and good statements. There
• 1:18:43
  will just be statements that make you a bad person and statements that make you
• 1:18:47
  a good person. I've tried to warn people about this. When you reduce
• 1:18:55
  yourself to charging someone with being a bad person for whatever reason, and you
• 1:19:02
  think that by saying so you're somehow getting through to anyone. All you're doing
• 1:19:10
  is sitting cross legged in the final destination of the New Speak movement. You
• 1:19:16
  can sit there going you're a bad person because you won't have children, But
• 1:19:20
  you will be drowned out by the people who say you're a bad person because
• 1:19:24
  you do have children, and you will have nothing left to say because they
• 1:19:29
  won the shame war, they won the language war because you gave up years
• 1:19:34
  ago, and you resulted even before they did. You resorted to just calling
• 1:19:41
  people bad people, well, tucking grow up people, people of all kinds
• 1:19:47
  and bad serious, you're not bad people, You're just childish. Call things
• 1:19:55
  what they are as specifically as you can while you still can. This is
• 1:20:00
  this is happening. It's the Big Brother future. It's not just about to
• 1:20:05
  happen. It's not just starting to happen. It is happening, and it's
• 1:20:12
  not just in the early stages of the happenings, in the late stages,
• 1:20:15
  and we don't have very long at all before it's fully and irreversibly happened.
• 1:20:23
  One of the things that I would point out here is that it literally doesn't
• 1:20:26
  matter what's in misinformation, disinformation, hate, speech verboten anything. It doesn't
• 1:20:30
  matter why they're telling you that you can't say it. It matters that they're
• 1:20:39
  telling you that you can't say it. Just like the Amazon story, a
• 1:20:44
  governing entity does not have the right to limit your speech. There is no
• 1:20:49
  human right to control what other people think. There is no human right to
• 1:20:58
  control how other people view you, or what other people's political opinions are.
• 1:21:04
  There isn't even a human right to control people's lifestyle choices based on those things.
• 1:21:14
  This is why there's no human right, for instance, to insist that
• 1:21:17
  people cannot be gay and cannot partner with each other, even if you refuse
• 1:21:25
  to call their partnership a marriage. You have that right. You don't have
• 1:21:29
  to call something a marriage if you don't want to, but for instance,
• 1:21:33
  you cannot. You don't have a human right to go to their home and
• 1:21:40
  insist that one of them move out because they can't be partners because you consider
• 1:21:45
  that an affront to your religion rights. That's the left wind protection end of
• 1:21:51
  it. That. It's the left that fought for that for years and years,
• 1:21:56
  and a right finally acquiesced, all right, yeah, where it will
• 1:21:59
  accept that right. There's also not a human right to access to somebody's children
• 1:22:06
  to convert them to your way of thinking, And yet we're hearing criticism of
• 1:22:14
  people doing that is hate speech. Right. There's not a human right to
• 1:22:18
  insist that people change their speech to address you the way that you see fit,
• 1:22:24
  or to talk about you the way you see fit. That does not
• 1:22:29
  exist as a human right, and yet we're being told that it does.
• 1:22:33
  That it's hate speech if somebody doesn't use your pronouns, or somebody doesn't say
• 1:22:38
  nice things about you because of your demographic or if you're not allowed to say
• 1:22:43
  mean things about certain demographics because they're privileged. Right, that is bullshit And
• 1:22:49
  the real egregious problem here, the real serious, oh shit moment here isn't
• 1:22:59
  the fight over what constitutes hate speech and disinformation or what doesn't and whether you
• 1:23:04
  know you you should be punished for engaging in it. None of that matters.
• 1:23:10
  It's all in the weeds. The real oship moment is a governing body
• 1:23:15
  that makes policy that nations adopt as part of their national law or their national
• 1:23:24
  part policy because they are members of this organization, is demanding censorship of your
• 1:23:33
  speech based on standards that are as vague and malleable as disinformation, misinformation,
• 1:23:48
  and hate speech, and it wouldn't matter what they called them. There should
• 1:23:53
  be no censorship that's attached to any government governing body. There should be no
• 1:24:00
  organization of that. And frankly, any non government organization, any any um
• 1:24:09
  corporate organization, or any political organization should not want that because that would affect
• 1:24:18
  their consumers, their loyalists for forever. So there is just no uh no
• 1:24:29
  looking at this without recognizing that your human right to observe and draw conclusions about
• 1:24:39
  reality as you see it and then talk about those conclusions based on your assessment
• 1:24:45
  and not somebody telling you what to think and what to say is under attack.
• 1:24:53
  And honestly, the best solution in the United States could do is to
• 1:24:57
  simply leave the UN defund it, stop paying dues, stop being a member,
• 1:25:03
  stop listening to them, don't be involved anymore. And there was that's
• 1:25:10
  where we should be pressuring our politicians because this is the kind of shit that
• 1:25:15
  UN is doing now. It's not doing good things for people, it's not
• 1:25:17
  helping people, it's not doing anything for us, and it's not helping us
• 1:25:24
  do anything for people in need around the world. That we can't do without
• 1:25:29
  the UN, so why are we even involved in this organization? They are
• 1:25:34
  trying to undercut our sovereignty, sovereignty as a nation, and they're making a
• 1:25:41
  demand that policy be adopted that goes directly against our constitution. They're unelected too,
• 1:25:50
  so I mean not that that matters, because again it's a violation.
• 1:25:55
  But I think that every country should leave the UN. I think they should
• 1:25:59
  all demand it. These people are evil. We don't we don't elect them,
• 1:26:02
  and they're literally like trying to form a global government. Alex Jones has
• 1:26:08
  entered the chat. But this is true. This is why this guy is
• 1:26:11
  putting it in global terms. So no, we get this is this is
• 1:26:15
  wrong. Now I gotta move on because we are at the time where I
• 1:26:17
  would normally end it. But I do have one more story. So but
• 1:26:21
  I want you guys to notice that I chose these stories for a reason because
• 1:26:27
  even though they may appear at first glance to be separate, they are connected.
• 1:26:32
  There is something that connects all of this together. So let us know
• 1:26:36
  you guys think about this in the comments. I'm gonna read some super chats
• 1:26:40
  here. Richard Bierre gives US four ninety nine, and says Hannah, is
• 1:26:44
  there a human right to be topless on the White House lawn? I don't
• 1:26:47
  know if you want to say anything private property? No, it's public property.
• 1:26:53
  And is it legal to be like? Honestly, I don't. Laws
• 1:26:58
  that make you wear clothes are kind of violation of your human right. Although
• 1:27:01
  personally, if you're gonna go topless on the White House lawn, definitely do
• 1:27:05
  it in July and not January. That's my main recommendation. You will not
• 1:27:10
  enjoy it in January. I will I will. I will also say that
• 1:27:14
  it is definitely legal to go topless in the White House lawn, but it's
• 1:27:17
  not legal to sing the national anthem inside. So can can you truly be
• 1:27:24
  legally topless? If you've been through top century? Yeah? I know,
• 1:27:28
  you know what. That's a rabbit hole. I don't even want to get
• 1:27:30
  into it, but yeah, here you go that that's no what Technically everybody
• 1:27:39
  has a top so there is no such thing as topless. All right,
• 1:27:44
  Um so anyway, we're gonna move on to the next story. Let us
• 1:27:46
  know what you guys, McGee, that's the top of his ass. Yes,
• 1:27:50
  let us know what you guys think. Assy McGee. I do know
• 1:27:56
  who Assy McGee is. Yes, Um, all right, so we're gonna
• 1:27:59
  move on the next one. Lets know what you guys think about this in
• 1:28:00
  the comments, and now we have the last one. So seems like every
• 1:28:04
  day there's some different story coming out about how the United States government is inching
• 1:28:09
  closer and closer to how China keeps control of its citizens through social index scores
• 1:28:15
  or social credit scores. The US Department of Homeland Security had an initiative in
• 1:28:18
  twenty eighteen called night Fury that had the goal of identifying social media users who
• 1:28:25
  were likely to be terrorists. A complaint made to the Office of the Inspector
• 1:28:30
  General said that the program did not include safeguards to respect the privacy of American
• 1:28:34
  citizens. In twenty eighteen, the DHS Science and Technology Directorates partnered with University
• 1:28:40
  of Alabama, Birmingham to quote develop automated processes to identify potential pro terrorists social
• 1:28:46
  media accounts and open Facebook groups where pro terrorists accounts interact and quote. The
• 1:28:53
  contracts stated that quote the contractor shall conduct R and D on leveraging open source
• 1:28:58
  and social media to counter terrorists use of the Internet and other DHS use cases
• 1:29:03
  such as human trafficking, transnational criminal networks end quote. This contract costs US
• 1:29:10
  taxpayers seven hundred ninety thousand dollars. The OIG published a report referencing Night Fury
• 1:29:17
  in twenty twenty after the complaint alleged that the project failed to maintain proper oversight.
• 1:29:26
  The complaint and stated the project began in September of twenty eighteen and specifically
• 1:29:30
  included data collection of millions of social media records, including posts, videos,
• 1:29:34
  and photos. Also, the complaint notified OIG of concerns that S and T
• 1:29:40
  may not have ensured effective programming oversight, employee accountability, accountability, federal records
• 1:29:46
  management, contract documentation, and information security for this specific project. As a
• 1:29:53
  reminder, the USDHS was the same organization that in April of twenty twenty two
• 1:29:58
  had created the quickly and quickly disbanded the quote Disinformation Governance Board end quote.
• 1:30:04
  This board was allegedly created to combat misinformation and disinformation. I guess only time
• 1:30:10
  will tell how many more initiatives like night Fury exists that we just don't know
• 1:30:15
  about yet. Do you guys seeing the pattern of all of these stories,
• 1:30:20
  like what they have in common? Where they're sort of linked together the threads
• 1:30:26
  of this particular web. Yeah, it's all It's all about taking away your
• 1:30:30
  individual autonomy, your individual rights, you your freedom of speech, your right
• 1:30:34
  to observe and draw conclusions about reality, and handing them over to a governing
• 1:30:43
  body. And in the United States, that is in direct violation to our
• 1:30:46
  constitutional our constitutionally protected rights and liberties. And they're just basically using social justice
• 1:30:56
  as the roadmap. So do you think that, like this this thing where
• 1:31:01
  they're tracking down terrorists, do you think that they're gonna, like, I
• 1:31:04
  don't know, go after Antifa. Do you think that's gonna happen? No,
• 1:31:08
  because Antifa is just an idea, it's not actually a group. That's
• 1:31:13
  right. Do you think they're gonna go after Black Lives Matter? No?
• 1:31:15
  No, that that they're necessary, we need them to fight against injustice.
• 1:31:21
  Do you think they're gonna come after men's rights activists? No, that actually
• 1:31:26
  is a thing. That's not just an idea. It's a terrorist group and
• 1:31:29
  we've completely defeated it. But you must all be afraid of them. Yes,
• 1:31:33
  don't you remember like when they were like trying to gas everybody up like
• 1:31:36
  isis Hey? Is the new thing. It's it's this new thing, like
• 1:31:42
  you know, we just have this this underground seal open like the tomb of
• 1:31:45
  Twots in common and outmarched, you know, like one hundred d fifty new
• 1:31:51
  shock troopers of isis K And I remember looking at that like really a high
• 1:31:57
  definition four K teaser trailer that I guess they released, and are like,
• 1:32:01
  wow, out there is some US government department really justifying their budget. But
• 1:32:09
  it's not that this is this is the thing. The under underlying motive behind
• 1:32:15
  the social justice narrative is getting people to be afraid of each other. And
• 1:32:20
  you know this is gendered as well. Once again, and I remind everybody.
• 1:32:28
  Men are more likely to try to handle shit. They're more likely to
• 1:32:31
  be diplomacy, you know, minded with each other, figure things out,
• 1:32:36
  try to find a way to live in peace. And they're also more likely
• 1:32:41
  to refuse to give up freedom for security because they will handle shit instead of
• 1:32:46
  running away from it and being afraid of it. Women are more likely to
• 1:32:51
  give up their own freedom and that of other people for safety nets and convenience.
• 1:32:59
  And so we are in a situation where the people who are more likely
• 1:33:03
  to shape the social order of things to determine the what what is accepted and
• 1:33:10
  what isn't in in the culture you live in, Right, the openers and
• 1:33:14
  closers of the Overton window, the ones who move it left and right and
• 1:33:17
  up and down, um, are more likely to give up your freedom so
• 1:33:24
  that they can feel secure. And that's the worst part. Like, you
• 1:33:29
  don't hear these people talking about being safe. They believe in a right to
• 1:33:34
  feel safe, which is not the same thing. And in fact, the
• 1:33:40
  safer you feel they're the greater likelihood that you're wrong, you're not safe.
• 1:33:48
  So this is this is basically a result of women giving up your freedom for
• 1:33:56
  social safety, for the security you know as a feeling of security, but
• 1:34:02
  not physical safety, not economic safety, and not political safety. H just
• 1:34:12
  a set of rules that it's easier for them to navigate than it is for
• 1:34:15
  you to navigate. Anything that can make you feel safe can also make you
• 1:34:21
  feel threatened. It all depends on the scale and the nature of the scale
• 1:34:28
  at the time and in the place. Like maybe your man makes you feel
• 1:34:32
  safe, but he could also make you feel threatened. Maybe your tribe can
• 1:34:36
  make you feel safe, but it can also make you feel threatened. Maybe
• 1:34:39
  your nation can and so on and so forth. And maybe the globalist the
• 1:34:46
  globalist tyranny that is descending upon you can make you feel safe but can also
• 1:34:51
  threaten you. I guess, I guess you need to praise all these things
• 1:34:58
  on their own terms, Like how much does this globalist government descending upon you
• 1:35:06
  actually care about you as an individual? And how much does the man in
• 1:35:11
  your life actually care about you as an individual? It's up to you to
• 1:35:15
  figure out, ladies. I mean, maybe men make you feel safe,
• 1:35:20
  but you also hate them and want to grind their identities out of existence in
• 1:35:26
  favor of the next layer up that would be your tribe, your nation,
• 1:35:30
  or your globalist agenda. You know. Okay, fine, if you're that
• 1:35:36
  terrified about you know, men, about the other half of your species,
• 1:35:43
  could you perhaps project these emotional insecurities onto all the layers above that? To
• 1:35:50
  what degree can you predict that the globalist government is descending upon you might be
• 1:35:57
  just as scary as that man in a life who wants to provide for you
• 1:36:01
  and protect you. Is that? I mean? Can? Can Can you
• 1:36:06
  at least be consistent with your criticisms? That would be nice, That would
• 1:36:12
  be a good first step. I mean, it sounds obvious to us,
• 1:36:16
  and and we're just screaming into the well that we think normies will be at
• 1:36:21
  the other end of. But I don't know. Agreed, yep, all
• 1:36:30
  right, anybody else have any thoughts on this? I mean, this is
• 1:36:32
  just emotionally exhausting for me. So we're too too overprotective of little girls.
• 1:36:39
  Yeah, and that's that's what leads to this. It's it's a lot.
• 1:36:43
  Life is a lot easier as an adult if you first learn to throw a
• 1:36:46
  punch, and then you learn to take a punch, and then you learn
• 1:36:50
  how to avoid coming to blows in the first place. Yes, okay,
• 1:36:58
  I got a super chance and a super chat. Rumble gang, what's up.
• 1:37:03
  I'm just checking in to see I don't miss anything. I do.
• 1:37:05
  I do look at that chat every every like at the end of every story.
• 1:37:11
  So all right, first we'll do I gotta I gotta mute Mike because
• 1:37:15
  he's like, there's a lot of background noise over there. Um, Mike,
• 1:37:17
  could you mute? Could you mute? Sorry? Oh that's okay,
• 1:37:23
  all right, rorshacks No gives us ten dollars and says, this is super
• 1:37:26
  chat. I wanted to reply to the show from a few days ago.
• 1:37:28
  In regards to the gay masculine man helping lesbian socio political robber barons, they're
• 1:37:32
  simping, maybe partly built in, but I think it may also be part
• 1:37:36
  mean girls in group survival tactic. Better to a part of the plastics than
• 1:37:42
  not, or you mean, like it's better to be by the side of
• 1:37:45
  the devil instead of in his path. I mean that might be the case.
• 1:37:48
  I think that you're referring to the Douglas Murray Julie Bendell thing. I
• 1:37:54
  assume U. I'm just briefly on that. I think I like Douglas Murray
• 1:37:59
  still, like you know, I disagree with his sort of takes in that
• 1:38:02
  conversation. I think that the way he sees it is it's about tactics.
• 1:38:08
  So he's like, well, I'll side with the feminist if it if it
• 1:38:10
  like accomplishes the goal of doing something about the G mafia. But I think
• 1:38:15
  that it's a mistake. I think that Julie Bendel is the reason why there's
• 1:38:17
  a G mafia and he needs to like recognize that, and she will deny
• 1:38:21
  it till the cows come home. But she is the reason that we're in
• 1:38:26
  this mess. The feminists caused this, they started this, so you know,
• 1:38:30
  and he just needs to wake up to it. So there's a correct
• 1:38:33
  result of feminist intersectionality. Yeah. And and the thing is, it's it's
• 1:38:39
  definitely not instinctive because if you look at guynocentrism and what people refer to as
• 1:38:48
  natural gynocentrism, it all revolves around protecting the golden uterus, not not not
• 1:38:58
  just the giner, not the prettiness of women, not the femininity of women,
• 1:39:04
  but specifically women's reproductive capacity and women's childcare capacity. So it's about women's
• 1:39:12
  utility to children. So it's child centrism or gene centrism, centrism. It
• 1:39:16
  is not something that is inevitable and it isn't something that necessarily translates into a
• 1:39:24
  natural tendency to just defend and protect because women are women, and it's it's
• 1:39:30
  the reason that's important to recognize that is because it does give us the power
• 1:39:36
  to overcome automatically sighting with women on things just because they're women. And that
• 1:39:43
  includes feminists, lesbians, political lesbians, and other groups that are female centric
• 1:39:51
  and female focus. You don't have to do that, and you don't have
• 1:39:56
  to condone it when other people do that. And you shouldn't feel sorry for
• 1:40:00
  somebody who is caught up in that because it's a choice. It may be
• 1:40:06
  a badly informed choice it, maybe they may be culturally predisposed to it,
• 1:40:12
  but they should be able to get past it, and you should be able
• 1:40:14
  to help them get past it. Yeah, much like our universities are being
• 1:40:19
  strangled by ivy and it's considered a status symbol for some reason. I look
• 1:40:28
  how much ivy we've got strangling our buildings. In much the same way,
• 1:40:31
  society is being strangled by a certain poison ivy, And some people like Douglas
• 1:40:38
  Murray have started to notice, and they're appealing to the Julie Bendles of the
• 1:40:42
  world, saying, this poison ivy has become a problem. You're in charge
• 1:40:45
  of, you know, the roots. I mean, here's me try trying
• 1:40:49
  to cull the leaves of this poison ivy. But I understand you, Julie
• 1:40:55
  Bendle, are in charge of the roots, and you maybe help us.
• 1:40:58
  And She's going to go, yeah, yeah, well we'll, we'll,
• 1:41:00
  we'll keep planting these roots, and Mary's like, no, no, no
• 1:41:04
  oner to do that. But then it's over and she's just playing my roots,
• 1:41:08
  and no one's looking at the seeds. M no one accepts us here
• 1:41:13
  and a badger radio, we're going, Well, the way ivy works is
• 1:41:16
  while it's strangling your buildings and you know, you know, whatever infrastructure you're
• 1:41:21
  in, it's also spreading seeds to grow heaven more of this poison ivy.
• 1:41:28
  And where sat here saying, all right, here are the seeds here?
• 1:41:31
  How you prevent the seeds from being continually planted in your civilization? And nobody's
• 1:41:38
  talking to us because it hasn't even occurred to them that it's that the problem
• 1:41:43
  goes down as deeply as seeds. They're like, let's cull the flowers,
• 1:41:47
  let's cull the leaves, let's negotiate with the roots. Yeah, everyone's far
• 1:41:55
  too busy dealing with those with with with those surface problems to actually deal with
• 1:42:00
  the seeds of the problem. Yeah. Real, the only one's dealing with
• 1:42:03
  the seeds of the problem. And we've been shout, abandoned, throstled,
• 1:42:06
  and buried deep into the fossil soil so no one can ever find it.
• 1:42:14
  Yea, and so and yeah, we do we do. That's it may
• 1:42:17
  It's probably only going to get worse. That's why I keep asking you guys
• 1:42:21
  to follow us on Rumble. There really aren't many free speech platforms that actually
• 1:42:26
  believe in free speech. So please do that, because if you take all
• 1:42:30
  the stuff that's going on, all the stories I just covered from Amazon,
• 1:42:35
  this is like a big tech thing like trying to fight against racism. And
• 1:42:40
  then there's the corporate thing with Starbucks and the United Nations, and then like
• 1:42:44
  the FEDS and I mean not just the FBI and the CIA in America.
• 1:42:47
  I'm sure that there's equivalent things going on all over the world. Um,
• 1:42:53
  it's only a matter of time, and probably a very short amount of time
• 1:42:57
  before we're gone from YouTube. So please follow us on Rumble, you know.
• 1:43:01
  I mean maybe it's a lot of effort, it's just it's just one
• 1:43:04
  website away. Just follow us there and watch us there, please, because
• 1:43:10
  we shouldn't be depending on people who hate us, because they do. YouTube
• 1:43:14
  would get rid of us if they could. They're just looking for a good
• 1:43:15
  enough reasons so they don't have to deal with a legal backlash, and for
• 1:43:19
  now, what seems to work for them is to simply suppress us. So
• 1:43:23
  if you go over to us on Rumble, we might be able to grow.
• 1:43:26
  So please consider going to Rumble and supporting us through v the Badger dot
• 1:43:30
  com. I know that times are tough because of inflation and everything, so
• 1:43:34
  I'm not going to push that too hard, but at least, you know,
• 1:43:38
  follow us on Rumble and share this video. Okay, So I got
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  one more super chat from Richard Bier gives us four ninety nine and says how
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  many women will be convinced to undergo a speculum of examination to board a flight
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  and be convicted convicted that they would feel or convinced? I think you meant
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  to say that they would feel safer for having done so. Yeah, you
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  just scare them enough they'll do it. Yeah, there's an answer to that,
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  actually, because in the early mid somewhere in the earlier mid two thousands,
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  there were a couple of women from Russia. I don't necessarily think they
• 1:44:12
  were Russian um spies or whatever. I don't know exactly what their deal was,
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  but they got on a flight with bombs in their bras and blew up
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  a plane. And after that women submitted to having their boobs searched to get
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  on I'm I'm not kidding, you know, to get on a plane.
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  Yes, you can look at my tits, just don't blow me up in
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  mid air while I'm trying to go visit my grandmother across on the other side
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  of the country. I mean, they'll probably just fire all the men and
• 1:44:46
  just give that job to women. Women don't make don't feel uncomfortable. Assassin
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  of the Gray says, those were che chech Nians, and like I said,
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  I don't know who they were associated with there. I'm sure there's an
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  organization behind it. I don't know if it was the Chechenian government or whether
• 1:45:04
  it was a non government organization, but it was some sort of crazy ass
• 1:45:11
  thing that that that resulted in a plane getting blown up and people died.
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  Um it got blown up in mid air. If I remember right, and
• 1:45:18
  I love braw bomb, I can only find two references, both of which
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  are the Tamil Tigers. No, there was a pretty lonk and terrorist organization.
• 1:45:28
  I hope, I hope. I hope a trans I hope a trans
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  woman terrorists sneaks in a braw bomb like in the actual like breast implant.
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  That would be just hilarious. That's why I mean, be tragic, but
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  it would be funny. But in any case, and in any case that
• 1:45:47
  that question, will will women put up with those kind of searches? The
• 1:45:51
  answer is yes they did. The nibble could be the trigger you push it
• 1:45:57
  in like a button. Yeah. Anyway, thank you for the super chat.
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  We have to go, So we're gonna be looking at Lindsay did a
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  write up for this story about the sexist mail trees, but we just I
• 1:46:13
  knew it was gonna go long, so I'm like, well, we'll just
• 1:46:15
  do it in the after show. So I'm sorry, babe, Like,
• 1:46:17
  I'm not gonna be reading this live on the air, but I might go
• 1:46:20
  through an article written about this story with Alison later in the week if she
• 1:46:24
  wants to. So anyway, we are now going to look at this the
• 1:46:29
  Diversity Tree project, posting cringe as always um mainstream culture, and we will
• 1:46:38
  see what exactly the reasoning for it and what it will come of it.
• 1:46:42
  How how much more equality can we get? Can we maximize afford? Yeah?
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  How much? How about? How about that? All right? So,
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• 1:47:36
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