Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the most popular crowdsource review form online and a
Speaker 3: vital resource when choosing which waxing place doesn't laugh so loudly?
Speaker 3: But can we trust everything we read on Yelp? One
Speaker 3: extremely Italian restaurant owner finds Yelp's business practices so devious
Speaker 3: he's protesting.
Speaker 2: My name is a chef, David Cherlatini. I'm a chef
Speaker 2: owner a Botto bistro and I give fifty percent of
Speaker 2: a pizza if you give me a one star on Yelp?
Speaker 4: Why would you want a one star review? Sorry? Let
Speaker 4: me ask you in what terms you can understand? What's
Speaker 4: the matter to you?
Speaker 2: If you want to have a good rating on Yelp,
Speaker 2: you need to pay for advertise, and I decide to
Speaker 2: don't pay advertise. So what they do? They manipulate your
Speaker 2: raything in order for you to give up and pay
Speaker 2: for advertising.
Speaker 3: According to Doggie Day, when he refused to pay Yelp
Speaker 3: to advertise, he noticed dozens of five star reviews disappearing
Speaker 3: from his Yelp page.
Speaker 2: To me, that is a stortion. Yes, I'm Italian.
Speaker 5: We invent a stortion.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean you're not just Italian, you're like
Speaker 3: cartoonishly Italian.
Speaker 5: I agree with you.
Speaker 4: How exactly did yelp try to extort you? Walk me through?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5: You open your business.
Speaker 2: In a couple of weeks, you have your business place
Speaker 2: in their forum, you start to have good review, and
Speaker 2: then in three or four weeks you start to receive
Speaker 2: a phone calls. They call you every single day. They're pushy,
Speaker 2: they don't give up, they keep calling you. We were
Speaker 2: answering the phone, looking at the number, and we were
Speaker 2: just telling to go themselves. Immediately, after a couple of days,
Speaker 2: you start to see the results of your bad decision.
Speaker 2: So immediately your rating is changing somehow. This good review
Speaker 2: they're gone.
Speaker 3: Claimed that yelp extorts businesses was a serious allegation, and
Speaker 3: he's not the only one with the Yelp grievance. In fact,
Speaker 3: yelp gets accused of extortion so much that they have
Speaker 3: an entire page on their website dedicated to explaining how
Speaker 3: they don't extort businesses.
Speaker 1: So I went to.
Speaker 3: Yelp's headquarters to meet with their spokesperson. But not just
Speaker 3: any spokesperson.
Speaker 1: My name's Ben Flannik.
Speaker 6: I am currently yelp san Francisco's community manager. And and
Speaker 6: I did some television a number of years ago, were
Speaker 6: on it was on The Bachelor, I was the Bachelor.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Forget about yelp extorting people. I had to ask Season
Speaker 3: sixteen's Bachelor, what really went down on that horseback ride
Speaker 3: with Lindsay or the time he totally does I.
Speaker 6: Would prefer that we probably keep this conversation about Yelp today,
Speaker 6: that's cool with you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, yes, absolutely no.
Speaker 3: I'm I am one hundred percent a professional, and I'm
Speaker 3: here to talk to you about Yelp.
Speaker 4: I would never want to talk about it. Go go,
Speaker 4: go get out of here, go clean it up, clean
Speaker 4: these up. I didn't arrange that.
Speaker 5: No, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 4: Sorry, excuse me.
Speaker 3: What would you say to someone who says that yelp
Speaker 3: extorts businesses?
Speaker 6: I would say, that's simply not true.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: I'm also not in sales.
Speaker 1: I don't you know.
Speaker 4: I run the community side of things here.
Speaker 6: Yelp makes its money primarily through advertising. You don't have
Speaker 6: to advertise. Reviews are shown just the same, whether you're
Speaker 6: a paid advertiser.
Speaker 3: Or not, so businesses can control the order in reviews
Speaker 3: that come up.
Speaker 6: Description reviews are a bit different. We have this algorithm,
Speaker 6: it's called recommendation software, and unfortunately the business owners get
Speaker 6: frustrated with the algorithm. Alongside that you have sales reps
Speaker 6: that are calling them and they think that the two
Speaker 6: are correlated, but they're absolutely not.
Speaker 4: We don't extort businesses.
Speaker 2: Bullshoot you are going to work. You are going to
Speaker 2: be arrested from these people. It's blackmailing. Is rocket bring
Speaker 2: the money in to the family, and that's the help mafia.
Speaker 3: Does it cause you pain being so Italian and seeing
Speaker 3: your noble tradition of mafia culture be portrayed by these
Speaker 3: Silicon Valley douchebags.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's insulted. The Italian community got really mad. Not because
Speaker 2: the attention of distortion is the way that it's been done.
Speaker 2: That a little stupid guy called me from the Silicon
Speaker 2: Valley because his manipulated that's humilating for the Italian issue,
Speaker 2: not at least doing the rightway. Send couple of guys
Speaker 2: with a baseball bat, do it a classic a gig
Speaker 2: of the money. Nobody's saying anything.
Speaker 4: But what if he was on the Bachelor.
Speaker 2: Well you can gratulate to him. But also talent to
Speaker 2: go with himself. These people are protected by politics, law
Speaker 2: and lawyers, and we don't give a shit anymore. It
Speaker 2: might be legal, but it's not okay.
Speaker 3: Choosing who to trust between these two guys was going
Speaker 3: to be tough. Business practices are totally legal, but David
Speaker 3: da had a point. Harassing businesses and adjusting reviews feels dishonest,
Speaker 3: almost as dishonest as calling this Italian style pizza. In
Speaker 3: the end, I had to listen to my heart.
Speaker 2: It might be legal, but as an all kid, just.
Speaker 3: Because it's legal doesn't make it right. I was going
Speaker 3: to have to let bend down easy.
Speaker 4: Ben.
Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time with Yelp today, and
Speaker 3: I think it's just that Yelp and businesses are somehow
Speaker 3: not trusting one another. It just feels like there are
Speaker 3: some things that Yelp is keeping from businesses. But I
Speaker 3: really hope that Yelp finds happiness. I'm sure one day
Speaker 3: they'll make a business very happy. Thanks time. It flies
Speaker 3: when you're having fun, but it also killed people every
Speaker 3: March in November, we try to control it.
Speaker 4: Daylight Saving Time is about to begin.
Speaker 1: Remember we fall back tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Night set the clocks back bringing forward, and I hate
Speaker 6: it that what hour?
Speaker 3: Why do we change our clocks? And does it do
Speaker 3: more harm than good? Well, as I found out, if
Speaker 3: you screw with time, who are you? It just might
Speaker 3: screw you back. Arizona it's one of America's top states alphabetically,
Speaker 3: but more importantly, their clocks play by their own rules.
Speaker 4: Arizona does opted out of daylight saving time. They stick
Speaker 4: to standard time all year.
Speaker 3: So I'm here in Cactus Country to find out how
Speaker 3: these time bandits can even function living outside of normal time.
Speaker 3: How has living without daylight saving time completely messed up
Speaker 3: your life?
Speaker 7: I feel like everybody else is all messed up because
Speaker 7: I've never turned my clock back.
Speaker 1: I never have to worry about it. I guess it's
Speaker 1: like the wild West.
Speaker 4: Does that explain your I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what explains this.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that I don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about changing the clocks. Don't you feel like you're missing
Speaker 3: out being an hour behind the rest of the country.
Speaker 1: No, that's all right, we'll catch up.
Speaker 4: You won't catch up. You're always an hour behind.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't see it as living in the past.
Speaker 5: I only see it as living in the present.
Speaker 6: It's their future and not my past, because my past
Speaker 6: has then.
Speaker 1: Their clocks.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry what Arizonas seemed happy with their own time laws,
Speaker 3: not to mention their access to primo desert drugs. But
Speaker 3: if they were unaffected by not changing their clocks, why
Speaker 3: do the rest of us do it? I sat down
Speaker 3: with clock blocker Scott Yeates, who's on a mission to
Speaker 3: permanently stop clock changing.
Speaker 8: I'm the leader of the lock the Clock movement, trying
Speaker 8: to stop people from having to change the clocks twice
Speaker 8: a year.
Speaker 3: But isn't it a good thing to set the clocks
Speaker 3: forward an hour and gain that extra hour of sunlight.
Speaker 8: People in general like that extra hour slay, But for
Speaker 8: some people it's really deadly. Traffic accidents go up, strokes,
Speaker 8: heart attacks, more people actually just die in the few
Speaker 8: days after the spring forward time change.
Speaker 4: I guess for some people, time is up.
Speaker 3: Solid jokes aside. If this is literally killing people, there
Speaker 3: has to be a good argument for it.
Speaker 5: There really isn't any argument, and it changed the clock.
Speaker 1: Twice a year.
Speaker 4: Well, there is the farmers.
Speaker 8: No, the whole story about the farmers. It's the biggest
Speaker 8: pr con job ever. The farmers have always been against
Speaker 8: changing the clocks for daylight saving time, and they've been like, hey,
Speaker 8: stop blaming us, we don't have anything to do with this.
Speaker 3: You'll blame the farmer trope. No, honey, I did not
Speaker 3: have sex with my yoga instructor. It was a farmer.
Speaker 4: Anyway, had sex with Why do we even have daylight
Speaker 4: savings time? Or is it Daylight's saving times?
Speaker 5: Daylight save meaning times? No, s it's daylight saving.
Speaker 3: Time, got it?
Speaker 4: Daytime save light time?
Speaker 8: Well, it was first proposed here in the United States
Speaker 8: by a retailer that found that if there's more sunlight,
Speaker 8: people would have more time to shop.
Speaker 4: This all started from a retailer.
Speaker 8: Well, he came up with the name daylight saving time,
Speaker 8: but it actually started during World War One. The Germans
Speaker 8: started doing it, and then the Brits and then the
Speaker 8: US fell ensued. After that it was called wartime.
Speaker 3: Such a German thing to do to make people lose
Speaker 3: an hour.
Speaker 8: After the war, we stopped doing it because everybody hated it.
Speaker 8: And then in the sixties, the golf industry became a
Speaker 8: really big industry. So golf lobbyists were able to convince
Speaker 8: politicians that we should have daylight saving time so that
Speaker 8: there's more time to play golf after work.
Speaker 4: Wait, the golf lobby.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8: They make hundreds of millions of dollars for every extra
Speaker 8: month that the country is in daylight saving time. And
Speaker 8: then a candy lobbyists went to Congress and said we
Speaker 8: should have daylight saving Time extend into the first weekend
Speaker 8: of November and that way on Halloween.
Speaker 5: Makes somemo camp.
Speaker 3: All right, wartime golfers and now candy men are the
Speaker 3: reason behind DST.
Speaker 4: Where does that leave us?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 5: Things are actually really improving.
Speaker 8: There's a bill that has both Republican and Democrat support
Speaker 8: to actually make the change to the law so that
Speaker 8: the states can go on permanent.
Speaker 5: Daylight saving time.
Speaker 4: So it's a bipartisan issue.
Speaker 5: It's totally bipartisan.
Speaker 3: Wow, I don't think I've ever heard that from anybody before.
Speaker 8: Well, the basic idea of time is really just an agreement.
Speaker 8: We all have to come together to decide when ten
Speaker 8: am is and that agreement shouldn't kill people.
Speaker 3: Time is an agreement. What even is time? When is time?
Speaker 3: Who is time? Why is time?
Speaker 5: What can I go?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 3: The deeper I traveled into daylight saving the deeper. I
Speaker 3: got lost in what time? Even was?
Speaker 2: Time is a construct?
Speaker 4: Time is, it's now, it's before, it's later, later.
Speaker 2: I'm in their past, but it's my future in the future.
Speaker 3: And if some states changed the clocks in Arizona doesn't
Speaker 3: could space and time invert on themselves?
Speaker 4: Who are you? Better? Question is when am I.
Speaker 10: Future me?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I'm you during daytime?
Speaker 3: Save lifetime. Hold on a second, this is me in
Speaker 3: an hour. Yeah, this whole changing the clocks thing is
Speaker 3: really fixed up. God damn it.
Speaker 4: Who just locked the clocks? This whole thing would never happen.
Speaker 3: Ah, Yes, the McFly paradox. I knew exactly what to
Speaker 3: ask me.
Speaker 4: You know, when I was sixty nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, either America needs to lock the clocks or
Speaker 3: I need to stop doing payodium work trips. Mars Humanity
Speaker 3: side piece. The worse our relationship gets with Earth, the
Speaker 3: more we lust after that cold, unattainable hunk just out
Speaker 3: of reach, which is why everyone went wild for Mars One,
Speaker 3: a private company who in twenty twelve offered four lucky
Speaker 3: Earthlings a one way ticket to Mars.
Speaker 11: Mars one has selected its final hundred contenders to form
Speaker 11: a colony on the foreign planet.
Speaker 6: That is actually happening in life.
Speaker 11: People are being offered a one way ticket to Mars.
Speaker 3: Yet thousands still signed up and paid application fees for
Speaker 3: a chance to go to Mars forever. Who would do that?
Speaker 12: My name is Leila Zucker and I'm an emergency medicine physician.
Speaker 3: What would make someone want to take a one way
Speaker 3: trip to Mars? Aside from just being a woman on
Speaker 3: this planet right now.
Speaker 12: It's been almost fifty years since we went onto the moon.
Speaker 4: It's time to go.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me you would choose space over your husband.
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 12: My husband is okay with that, because if you love something,
Speaker 12: you have to let it go.
Speaker 4: Are you sure you don't just need a little bit
Speaker 4: of space?
Speaker 3: Like I tell my husband that I've got book club
Speaker 3: once a week.
Speaker 4: There's no book club. I barely read.
Speaker 12: It's not really about that we need to make humans
Speaker 12: a multiplanet species.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, for Leila and ninety nine other finalists, there's only
Speaker 3: one problem.
Speaker 4: Mars one now filing for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: Was Mars one ever a real thing at all?
Speaker 11: The more that I looked at it, I kind of
Speaker 11: felt like, this is like not a real thing.
Speaker 1: At all.
Speaker 11: They didn't have any kind of real money. They weren't
Speaker 11: working with SpaceX. Their idea was they make reality TV shows,
Speaker 11: But where do you get the money before that to
Speaker 11: pay for the scientists, the gear, everything else that goes
Speaker 11: into actually getting you there.
Speaker 3: You know what they should have done. They should have
Speaker 3: done a pyramid scheme. I had a very successful pyramid
Speaker 3: scheme going in college. It was basically like herbal life,
Speaker 3: but with one hundred percent cocaine. I would sell it.
Speaker 3: Then I had other people selling it. I would take
Speaker 3: a cut of it. It's pretty great.
Speaker 11: That sounds like you were just selling drugs.
Speaker 3: What are you a cop?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: I told those prosecutors, I'm going to need a second opinion,
Speaker 3: So I turned to real life astronaut Chris Hatfield.
Speaker 10: Mars one had no spaceships. They gave everybody the impression
Speaker 10: that you could just go buy a spaceship that could
Speaker 10: take you to Mars, but those spaceships don't even exist.
Speaker 10: They still have to be invented. Mars one was a scam.
Speaker 10: They builked people out of a million dollars, and when
Speaker 10: they just went broke recently, they still owe somebody else
Speaker 10: another million euros.
Speaker 4: You don't mean a scam. Scam.
Speaker 3: You just mean they told the world that they had
Speaker 3: a thing, but they didn't actually have the thing, and
Speaker 3: they couldn't deliver on the thing.
Speaker 10: That's what scams are.
Speaker 3: What kind of magician can pull off an illusion this big?
Speaker 3: I had to find the man behind it all, Mars
Speaker 3: one CEO bos Landsdorp. I didn't want him to be suspicious,
Speaker 3: so I started off slow. Is Mars one a scam?
Speaker 9: And Mars one is definitely not a scam? And I
Speaker 9: think that if you take a real good look at
Speaker 9: our website you cannot be convinced.
Speaker 3: Otherwise, as everyone knows, the best way to check to
Speaker 3: see if something is a scam is to see if
Speaker 3: it has a website. And like any legitimate space venture,
Speaker 3: Mars one offers sweet merch and a chance to donate monthly.
Speaker 9: Don't forget that in sixty one when Kennedy said We're
Speaker 9: going to the Moon before the end of the decade,
Speaker 9: they basically had nothing.
Speaker 3: Okay, if President Kennedy and four hundred thousand people working
Speaker 3: for NASA could turn a dream into a moon landing,
Speaker 3: maybe bos and his team could get us to Mars.
Speaker 4: How many people do you have on staff at your company.
Speaker 9: There's ten people currently working on Mars one.
Speaker 3: Ten people, yes, how many of the ten are scientists?
Speaker 9: So the three engineers currently involved in Mars one and
Speaker 9: the others are more on the storytelling part of the company.
Speaker 3: Of the ten are more involved in the storytelling process. Yes,
Speaker 3: So if I invest in Mars one, am I investing
Speaker 3: in a space program or a media story?
Speaker 9: Investors are really investing in a media company that's selling
Speaker 9: the story.
Speaker 3: So all this time Mars one was nothing more than
Speaker 3: a sales pitch sold to us as news. How could
Speaker 3: the entire world be fooled by this one Dutchman?
Speaker 11: The media? Sure, the media, Yeah, m I t was
Speaker 11: putting out papers about how Maswan's plans were going to
Speaker 11: actually kill the people within sixty eight days of arriving
Speaker 11: because they would suffocate to death. But then you had
Speaker 11: a ton on the news. You would see these kind
Speaker 11: of like soft bowl coverage.
Speaker 4: What items would be on your bucket list? What do
Speaker 4: you need to check off before you go to Mars?
Speaker 4: These people are really going everybody.
Speaker 7: There are two things she will really miss about Earth,
Speaker 7: her husband of twenty two years and her favorite food, hamburgers.
Speaker 10: The media perpetuated and magnified the lie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, media is the worst.
Speaker 3: The first step in becoming a truth telling journalist informing
Speaker 3: Leyla that she's been scammed.
Speaker 4: That doesn't make it a scam.
Speaker 12: In order to have a scam, you have to be
Speaker 12: fooling someone and you have to be stealing from them.
Speaker 12: And nobody has really paid anything other than the original
Speaker 12: application fee.
Speaker 3: So if you're not stealing and you're just fooling somebody,
Speaker 3: it's innocent.
Speaker 12: It's an innocent lie that makes life on earth more magical.
Speaker 4: Like Santa Claus or a Sister Bunny.
Speaker 3: Basically it or like when you tell your husband you
Speaker 3: only slept with his father once. You know, little lies
Speaker 3: that make people happier.
Speaker 12: We say it's only going to take ten years, and
Speaker 12: it's only going to take six million dollars, and we
Speaker 12: know those aren't true. But in order to pursue these dreams,
Speaker 12: sometimes we take small liberties.
Speaker 11: Everybody is allowed to dream, but the media's job is
Speaker 11: not to report dreams.
Speaker 4: It is to report the facts exactly.
Speaker 3: A journalist's job is to seek the truth and to
Speaker 3: stay sharp, and the best way to stay sharp is
Speaker 3: with urbicane. The only erbal supplement made of one hundred
Speaker 3: percent cocaine urbicane that feels good. Mars One had a
Speaker 3: story to sell, and like the customers my erbal supplement,
Speaker 3: most of the media bought it without examining the product.
Speaker 11: That's how you end up in a world where Tharanose
Speaker 11: gets the coverage that it did. It's how by a
Speaker 11: festival happens, and there's really big consequences for things like
Speaker 11: that happening.
Speaker 3: Maybe that explains Mars want. When you live on a
Speaker 3: planet where facts no longer matter and the media legitimizes
Speaker 3: something that was fundamentally empty from the beginning, it's no
Speaker 3: wonder people want to escape. But fighting for a world
Speaker 3: where truth counts is a mission I can believe in.
Speaker 4: Just tell me when we get there.
Speaker 3: Florida God's waiting room. It's home to theme parks, the Everglades,
Speaker 3: your peapot, and of course Florida.
Speaker 11: Man committing a sexual act on a tree, yelling he
Speaker 11: was as.
Speaker 5: Tried to start a fire with spaghetti saw.
Speaker 1: It was karate kicking those birds.
Speaker 3: We attack two people every week. There's a new headline
Speaker 3: out of Florida wild shocking, unnecessarily.
Speaker 9: Sexual masturbating, at a bus stop, told police he was captain.
Speaker 3: But have we ever stopped to ask the question, why
Speaker 3: something's happening to men in Florida? And it can't just
Speaker 3: be a coincidence. As a future Pulitzer winning journalist, it's
Speaker 3: my responsibility to uncover the truth, to reveal what lies
Speaker 3: beneath the swamp, to answer the question what makes a
Speaker 3: man Florida man? Florida man, Florida man, Florida man, Florida man.
Speaker 3: First thing I did was some heavy back channeling, mostly
Speaker 3: on Craigslist in Facebook. I needed to locate some of
Speaker 3: these real life Florida men. First up was Robbie. Last July,
Speaker 3: he ran into a liquor store with the live alligator.
Speaker 3: For some reason, Florida Man Robbie Stratton decided to bring
Speaker 3: an alligator.
Speaker 7: With him while making a beer run.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely regret it.
Speaker 12: It was stupid.
Speaker 3: Talk to me about the night that you became Florida man.
Speaker 4: I can't really tell you much about that night.
Speaker 1: There's too much alcohol involved that night.
Speaker 3: Not just alcohol, though there's probably a deep rooted conspiracy.
Speaker 1: No, it was alcohol.
Speaker 3: What was it about Florida that made you do what
Speaker 3: you did?
Speaker 1: It was hot, it was humid.
Speaker 4: The heat makes you do crazy things.
Speaker 1: The heat makes you do crazy things. Alcohol makes you
Speaker 1: do crazy things.
Speaker 3: Isn't there something that all Florida men share. There's something
Speaker 3: behind it mental health issues. No, that couldn't be it.
Speaker 3: And this wasn't the only man affected.
Speaker 1: He's been hit with charges after pictures in this video
Speaker 1: showing him handling an alligator, which he posted.
Speaker 3: We're seen by law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Right, A real name, Jordan Bedford, but I go by
Speaker 1: the alligator.
Speaker 3: Man, Kay, alligator man. What's the common factor among all
Speaker 3: Florida man?
Speaker 1: We all different? Well, I'm I'm different from the rest
Speaker 1: because I do the wrong thing in the right way,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. No, no, see you not from Florida,
Speaker 1: so you don't understand my language what I'm talking right now.
Speaker 1: But I do the I do the wild things. Anything
Speaker 1: you think of, I probably do it. Catch like I
Speaker 1: tay you anything, anything, I catch gators, anything, anything, well,
Speaker 1: not anything, oh but basically anything when it comes to
Speaker 1: the reptile animals, mainly the alligators. Though, way like hearing
Speaker 1: Florida you not allowed to catch an alligator. I mean
Speaker 1: I didn't know that before, but I know not I
Speaker 1: just had a little form, put 'em on the leash
Speaker 1: and dance with the last one. They seen.
Speaker 4: What kind of dancing did you do with the alligator?
Speaker 1: The alligator man dance, You gotta kick your feet, spell
Speaker 1: alligator in the sand, as you dancing, as you going around,
Speaker 1: you spell an alligator and you in it with the stump.
Speaker 1: The alligator man got a commercial.
Speaker 4: Too, So you just have a commercial.
Speaker 1: They got a commercial. You got a theme song. Everybody
Speaker 1: seem like na na, nah, naw, it's the alligator man.
Speaker 4: That is the McDonald's jingle.
Speaker 1: Well it's delligated man as all.
Speaker 3: Now I see what you're saying about doing the wrong
Speaker 3: thing in the right way, and how it works.
Speaker 1: It works.
Speaker 3: Where do you find alligators in Florida?
Speaker 1: If there's a lake, there's a gator. I promise you
Speaker 1: that's so. That's everywhere. There's gators everywhere.
Speaker 4: Stuirs are very hard to get about.
Speaker 1: It gone so.
Speaker 3: Many Florida men, so many alligators. Surely there's a Florida
Speaker 3: man who's normal.
Speaker 7: Oh, missy, I am Captain Silky's Silver Tips, and I
Speaker 7: hail out of the island called marathon done in the
Speaker 7: Florida Keys.
Speaker 4: Cool and you're pirate.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm a pirate most of the day. When I'm not,
Speaker 7: I'm a landscaper.
Speaker 3: What could a landscaper pirate possibly have done?
Speaker 1: A man dressed as a pirate is accused of shooting
Speaker 1: his gun.
Speaker 3: On the Seven Mile Bridge in South Florida.
Speaker 7: So I took out my flintlocks to shoot at the sun.
Speaker 1: Now, mind you, there was no projector.
Speaker 7: You know, simply gunpowder right away.
Speaker 4: Why do you defend what you did?
Speaker 1: Well, I defend my Second Amendment.
Speaker 3: Right, your Second Amendment right to shoot a gun into
Speaker 3: the sun.
Speaker 7: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3: How exactly did you become a Florida man?
Speaker 7: To become a Florida man, you must first be a
Speaker 7: Florida boy and experience to life that it gives you
Speaker 7: as a boy, to hone your skills to be, in
Speaker 7: my case, a Florida pirateman.
Speaker 4: Have you always been a Florida man?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 7: Originally I hailed from Chicago, Oh your transplant, I was then,
Speaker 7: But since then I've lived my entire life here in
Speaker 7: the Keys.
Speaker 4: What do you think is behind every Florida man?
Speaker 7: Must be the water that we're drinking down here to
Speaker 7: drive us.
Speaker 1: To what we do.
Speaker 4: It's a water conspiracy and uh women.
Speaker 7: Women, Yeah, they're the ones that drive you crazy.
Speaker 3: And while I was running away from these unusual men,
Speaker 3: I was heading towards some new ideas. There had to
Speaker 3: be a common thread. What was I missing? There was
Speaker 3: something different about this state. So many Florida man's stories
Speaker 3: filling the news. Did Florida reporters know something I didn't?
Speaker 3: I went to an undisclosed Orange grove to meet a
Speaker 3: very casually dressed journalist to find out, what can you
Speaker 3: tell me about these Florida man stories? I mean, I
Speaker 3: had my own research, but sure you just give me
Speaker 3: yours just to compare notes.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean they are true. People do weird things
Speaker 13: here in Florida, and it gets.
Speaker 1: Into the news. The bushet.
Speaker 13: Yeah, A major factor is that we went from being
Speaker 13: the least populated southern state in nineteen forty to now
Speaker 13: being the third most populous state in the country.
Speaker 1: Sure, we got to this nerd.
Speaker 3: Knew a lot about Florida. And while he mostly rambled
Speaker 3: and I was connecting the dots.
Speaker 13: Built tons of homes everywhere where there used.
Speaker 1: To be just wilderness, a lake des a gator.
Speaker 13: You can get just about any kind of weapon, you
Speaker 13: want here. This is men forty ninth among the states
Speaker 13: and funding for mental health treatment mental health issues. Another
Speaker 13: big factor is Florida was the first state in the
Speaker 13: nation to pass this landmark law called the Sunshine Act
Speaker 13: that says that basically any government document is available for
Speaker 13: reports to go in and see. Police reports, for instance,
Speaker 13: are all open for inspection by reporters.
Speaker 3: And that's when it hit me. The missing piece of
Speaker 3: the puzzle by a guy named Memory Richard Up, that's it.
Speaker 1: What's it?
Speaker 4: It's the Sunshine Act.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not what causes Florida Man. It's why we
Speaker 3: hear about Florida Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4: I just figured it out all by myself. I'm a genius.
Speaker 3: Florida Man has been the butt of countless jokes. But
Speaker 3: maybe that's not fair. Well, this guy was pretty weird.
Speaker 3: The Sunshine Act makes it easier to discover Florida Man's stories.
Speaker 3: But I was just scratching the surface. We may not
Speaker 3: hear about them as much, but it turns out there
Speaker 3: are Florida Men in every state.
Speaker 5: We're trying to shoot the dog shoots its owner. Maybe
Speaker 5: get the emoji.
Speaker 3: And while Florida will always be America's Petrie Dish of
Speaker 3: batshit behavior. The truth is, there's a little Florida Man
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