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Speaker 1: We got thirty three states suing Meta to fix the
Speaker 1: youth mental health crisis. This is interesting timing on the
Speaker 1: I mean so it's a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general
Speaker 1: from thirty three states. Mainly, we're covering this story because
Speaker 1: it allows us to say attorneys general, which is a fun,
Speaker 1: fun one to pluralize, from thirty three states now suing
Speaker 1: Meta for quote contributing to the youth mental health crisis
Speaker 1: by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that cause
Speaker 1: children to be addicted to its platforms. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of research that points to social media
Speaker 1: being part of what is driving mental health crises among
Speaker 1: America's youth, but there's also countervailing research and a lot
Speaker 1: of research to the points it's very kind of it's
Speaker 1: not settled sign I would say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think even like broadly, it's it gives
Speaker 3: a nice out for legislators to hang all of this,
Speaker 3: like the ills that young people are experiencing on social media, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: it's not all the other shit that people are experiencing
Speaker 3: in this country that might also be And granted we've
Speaker 3: seen the research, like even Meta's own research is like, yeah,
Speaker 3: not great for like younger people's mental health to be
Speaker 3: on like Instagram or whatever, But like what about everything
Speaker 3: on the outside of the cell phone that young people
Speaker 3: are experiencing too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little frustrating that there's wide, sweeping bipartisan
Speaker 1: support for targeting social media companies, but none nothing is
Speaker 1: happening to combat like, you know, gun violence, for instance. Like,
Speaker 1: maybe part of the reason teenagers are more depressed and
Speaker 1: anxious these days is because they've been having to do
Speaker 1: active shooter drills since kindergarten. Yeah, you know. Study from
Speaker 1: earlier this year found that forty of eighteen to twenty
Speaker 1: nine year old Americans are concerned about being a victim
Speaker 1: of gun violence or a mass shooting. I feel like
Speaker 1: that might weigh on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe climate change.
Speaker 3: Maybe you know, their their government's part in aiding and
Speaker 3: abetting ethnic cleansing in the Middle East, and wondering, like.
Speaker 2: What what are the people I vote for do? Exactly right?
Speaker 3: Is there is there a future where the planet is
Speaker 3: not dead or just stricken with global war anyway? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but meta for sure, Yeah, I mean that's one dimensiones.
Speaker 2: Go harder, go harder. Please.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like Yeah, I just don't think people
Speaker 1: know yet, but it does, like part sometimes it really
Speaker 1: reeks of like TV will rot these children's brains and
Speaker 1: that's why we're all, you know, like when we were young,
Speaker 1: that was the big scare, was right, kids were watching
Speaker 1: too much TV, which they probably were, but maybe not
Speaker 1: the biggest problem that was facing our society.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's inequality. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It could be that, it could be a amount of
Speaker 3: taxes that billionaires should be paying. There's a lot. There's
Speaker 3: a lot that could be done. But hey, yeah, go
Speaker 3: after him. I'm glad you guys got bipartisan support on something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, sure, let's sue Meta for all their
Speaker 1: shitty antics, but let's pretend as though it's somehow going
Speaker 1: to fix the mental well being of a generation who
Speaker 1: are worried that they might be fatally shot before they
Speaker 1: even have a chance to lose their home to get
Speaker 1: a climate apocalypse, yeah.
Speaker 3: Or even yeah, or realize they can't afford a home,
Speaker 3: h or whatever that is. But yes, yeah, bipartisan ship
Speaker 3: love to see it.
Speaker 1: The mcflury spoon's going away.
Speaker 2: It's gone. It's gone.
Speaker 3: It's letting you know real quick, y'all that we were
Speaker 3: plastic thing that had the clippy thing on the end
Speaker 3: that was hollow in the middle.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be out of here.
Speaker 3: It's getting phased out because they're like, that's a lot
Speaker 3: of shitty plastic to be using.
Speaker 1: So uh like hooked into the blender and like that
Speaker 1: was the actual like blender blade.
Speaker 2: Is that I believe, So it looked like that. I
Speaker 2: believe that's why the clip was on.
Speaker 3: Hey, anybody who worked at McDonald's correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: but I believe that's why there is that clip on
Speaker 3: the end of it, because it's clearly not to like,
Speaker 3: you know, lock into your jacket pocket or something like weird.
Speaker 2: And that's how I like, that's how I wear.
Speaker 1: You just have like a necklace of runs on me
Speaker 1: at all times exactly. But yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: a thick, girthy piece of plastic for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I mean obviously, you know, when
Speaker 3: I was in Europe, you know, they were using wooden
Speaker 3: spoons already, So we'll see, we'll see where they go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And a lot a lot of people are pointing
Speaker 1: out like there there seems to be a concerted effort
Speaker 1: from the Biden campaign, uh to convince voters that Trump's
Speaker 1: age is an issue too.
Speaker 4: Basically, yeah, that's true. Sure, sure, sure, go ahead. Yeah
Speaker 4: he's old too. You think I'm old, well, I but
Speaker 4: he's like very old.
Speaker 3: Also, he's also very old and also pro war at
Speaker 3: all times. So yeah, there's also that there. He's also
Speaker 3: that too. I don't know, I mean, like I get
Speaker 3: you see this a lot where they're like, why are
Speaker 3: they why are people just like only talking about Joe
Speaker 3: Biden's age for me personally, when I bring his age up,
Speaker 3: it's to talk about how disconnected he is from the
Speaker 3: people that are inheriting the earth that he may be
Speaker 3: leaving within you know, the next however many years his
Speaker 3: life goes on for and because of that and not
Speaker 3: considering like all the things we just talked about, climate change,
Speaker 3: gun violence, like what our foreign policy is and things
Speaker 3: like that, and not understanding where a lot of younger
Speaker 3: people are with that. That's why I point to that part,
Speaker 3: not to be like he's so old. Oh no, it's
Speaker 3: like this we we can't keep having these like elders
Speaker 3: be in the driver's seat like for a ride that
Speaker 3: is going to affect you know, billions of people in
Speaker 3: the future.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so I get that, And I think with Trump
Speaker 3: he's like such an open fascist and all these other things,
Speaker 3: it's like, well, yeah, he's old, but then he's also
Speaker 3: like these other things.
Speaker 2: Sure they're all great.
Speaker 1: Yeah one with him, yeah, yeah, it does feel like
Speaker 1: that is going to be a big part of the
Speaker 1: next twelve months of our life. Is like you know
Speaker 1: how old you are? Oh yeah, well you're you're old too,
Speaker 1: And it's not going to be not going to be satisfying,
Speaker 1: but we.
Speaker 3: Will both send billions of dollars away to the military
Speaker 3: industrial complex, and that's ensure that you don't have a future.
Speaker 2: So they can unite over that.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the thing that a lot of
Speaker 3: people are starting to like wrestle with, Like I think
Speaker 3: in this cycle, because I see him, I'm already seying
Speaker 3: the think pieces of people.
Speaker 5: Being like, don't you fucking think about abandoning Biden. Look,
Speaker 5: how scary this thing's going to be. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 5: like it's scary now, but can you show us something different?
Speaker 1: No, the answer is they cannot.
Speaker 2: Do you what do you want Trump to win?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: Do you watch any NBA basketball, any opening night action?
Speaker 2: I saw the end of the Knicks Celtics.
Speaker 1: I was disheartening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was tuned in. But hey, look,
Speaker 2: took him to the wire, took him to the wire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, watched Wemby Wemby Wemby Yama And he is tall.
Speaker 1: He looks tall. He still looks tall even though he's
Speaker 1: not having a big game. Guy looks tall. Gotta tell you.
Speaker 2: He doesn't disappear in games, I'll tell you that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, there was another mass shooting as of this recording.
Speaker 1: The shooter is still on the loose hours after the
Speaker 1: initial killings at a bowling alley in Maine. Once again,
Speaker 1: this is the result of politics and companies choosing profit
Speaker 1: over human lives. Uh.
Speaker 6: We've talked about it like so many times, so many times,
Speaker 6: and it's like it's just getting like every time it's
Speaker 6: like the same thing too. You're like like, Okay, we're
Speaker 6: gonna hear thoughts in prayers, no legislation, don't make this political,
Speaker 6: or you find out something even more infuriating, like that
Speaker 6: this guy was known to law enforcement prior to this, Yeah,
Speaker 6: for threatening to shoot up like a military base.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like what the fuck is going on? Uh?
Speaker 3: But again, when you have laws like Maines, which a
Speaker 3: lot of people are like their laws are so lax,
Speaker 3: but when you look at them like on a continuum, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're about normal for the United States.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So people are pointing to Mains gun laws and like
Speaker 1: just how fucked up their gun laws are because they
Speaker 1: don't require a background checked by a gun, no red
Speaker 1: flag laws, the sorts of things that would have saved
Speaker 1: a lot of people's lives in this case, you know,
Speaker 1: because this was a person with the known history of
Speaker 1: just tossing up all sorts of red flags. Doesn't ban
Speaker 1: high capacity magazines like things. The stuff that is like
Speaker 1: the bare bones legislation that we know does work and
Speaker 1: can be passed in the United States in some parts
Speaker 1: of the United States, doesn't require a permit to carry
Speaker 1: concealed guns just breaks breaks off. They flipped them off.
Speaker 1: But so people are like, well, Maine, geez, that place
Speaker 1: sounds like a you know, like that. They just don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck West.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they got to be worse in the nation,
Speaker 2: right with a lot like that.
Speaker 1: So every town for Gun Safety, which rates these sorts
Speaker 1: of things, is like, yeah, they're really bad. They ranked
Speaker 1: twenty fifth out of fifty, so exactly right in the middle.
Speaker 1: They are right in the in the middle of the
Speaker 1: whole thing.
Speaker 3: A lot of people point are pointing out to like
Speaker 3: how it's more it's like suit of fed is harder
Speaker 3: to buy than like a firearm in Maine because it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, like a meth precursor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, And you know, also, I mean we've talked about
Speaker 3: Susan Collins too, like how just her, She's she's never
Speaker 3: done the right thing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And when she was like tweeting stuff about it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is like we need to do something about it.
Speaker 3: A lot of people were like pointing out the fact that,
Speaker 3: like when people were like nicely asking her to like
Speaker 3: vote for legislation that would help people like with sidewalk chalk,
Speaker 3: remember she like called the police. Yeah, it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: they wrote on my sidewalk, please find them. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just so fucking disheartening. And you know, it happened
Speaker 3: like during the children's bowling League, Jesus, and now there's
Speaker 3: like over I think around eighteen people that have died,
Speaker 3: and so yeah, uh, we continue to like grapple with
Speaker 3: so many fucking failures of this country like simultaneously. It's
Speaker 3: it's really kind of becoming overwhelming.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A couple of the like pro gun rights arguments that
Speaker 1: this that are directly affected by the events that we
Speaker 1: like do know and can confirm at this point. You know,
Speaker 1: they like to say that more guns actually make America
Speaker 1: safer since good guys, we'll also be carrying guns because
Speaker 1: in main, roughly half of all households have guns, so
Speaker 1: that didn't seem to stop things here. Also the idea
Speaker 1: of like it's just people who like aren't properly trained
Speaker 1: that cause problems. This person's a certified gun training rainer,
Speaker 1: en FIRENM instructor. The other thing is this highlight is
Speaker 1: just like this is another big emergency, like important story,
Speaker 1: news story that is happening with Twitter being like absolutely
Speaker 1: and completely broken, and so you know, just every time
Speaker 1: there's a massive story, the misinformation is just comically bad
Speaker 1: immediately on x and on Twitter, and like right in
Speaker 1: this case, the misinformation was just like right off the bat,
Speaker 1: A highly followed account reported that the shooter had been
Speaker 1: caught right literally like came out and was like coast
Speaker 1: is clear, everyone, you can come out of hiding, and
Speaker 1: the shooter hadn't been caught yet. Yeah, Like I can't
Speaker 1: think of a worse piece of misinformation to spread.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: It was that had been seen over one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy thousand times, and that's.
Speaker 3: Like that's like the fun for these people who pay
Speaker 3: their eight bucks because your bullshit's floated up to the
Speaker 3: top because of the algorithm. Yeah, and you can just
Speaker 3: play a video game called put people in the state
Speaker 3: of disarrays for eight bucks a month because there's no
Speaker 3: but anyway, so yeah, as of now, the suspect is
Speaker 3: still at large, so it's just yeah, yeah, please stay.
Speaker 2: Safe if you're in main.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's also, of course, immediate reports that he was
Speaker 1: a MA supporter and left wing nutt who voted for Obama,
Speaker 1: both of which are unverified, so I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also apparently he'd made thrusts to shoot up a military base,
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, bad bad times.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: There is a tentative deal in place with United Auto
Speaker 1: Workers and Ford.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got two more to go if this is this
Speaker 3: tentative deal becomes fully ratified, they don't like there aren't
Speaker 3: the full details aren't out, but Sean Fain, who runs
Speaker 3: or who leads the UAW, said that includes a twenty
Speaker 3: five percent increase over the course of the new contract.
Speaker 3: It raises the top wage for workers by over thirty
Speaker 3: percent to more than forty dollars an hour, the starting
Speaker 3: wage by sixty eight percent, and the wage for temp
Speaker 3: workers by over one hundred and fifty percent, and also
Speaker 3: stuff like pensions and other things like that. So we
Speaker 3: don't know everything, but it seems like, uh yeah, they're slowly,
Speaker 3: slowly making headway since the what I believe the strike
Speaker 3: started on September fifteenth, So we'll see what happens with
Speaker 3: the other two manufacturers.
Speaker 1: Does almost seem like this collective action stuff might work.
Speaker 3: We were so farm just seeing a bunch of dubs
Speaker 3: for people, not many els.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but hey, how about that.
Speaker 3: Let's let's all let's all keep that in mind, you know,
Speaker 3: stay organized.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll leave it there with a bit of
Speaker 1: good news. Yeah, that's gonna do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show and a very special guests.
Speaker 3: Probably already know, probably seeing her on Twitter already asking
Speaker 3: me all but hey, you already.
Speaker 1: Know, y'all already know. We are back then with the
Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Fight Bye.