Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg is promoting the extremist because Mark Zuckerberg is
Speaker 1: actually sea his site, the Zuckerberg site has actually set
Speaker 1: up set up like add promotions that actually push people
Speaker 1: towards extremists, sites that kill federal officers, and Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: becomes a billionaire. So that's Joe Scarborough obviously pretty fired
Speaker 1: up about Facebook and Zuckerberg. What was he talking about
Speaker 1: particularly there, Facebook and its role in federal officers being killed?
Speaker 1: Do we want to talk about the boogaloo movement here?
Speaker 1: Or what is the boogaloo movement? I've heard you say that,
Speaker 1: I've seen it somewhere. Uh So this is the new
Speaker 1: uh extreme far right kind of crew. Um. Uh most,
Speaker 1: this is the next most likely group to show up
Speaker 1: at a at a pizza joint thinking there's a pedophile
Speaker 1: ring in the basement out their internet organized right wing extremes.
Speaker 1: Right wing extremist called allegedly that Air Force guy who
Speaker 1: killed a couple of cops is part of that. Yes,
Speaker 1: and so that's the incident that he's referring to in
Speaker 1: the Oakland protest. There was one of these guys who
Speaker 1: was using that as an opportunity to quote unquote try
Speaker 1: to start a race war, depending on which article you
Speaker 1: read of the and scarboroughs of the belief that Facebook
Speaker 1: needs to find a way to monitor those and keep
Speaker 1: them off the site, right. And then you got NBC
Speaker 1: mobilizing activist groups to defund conservative websites on Google, and
Speaker 1: Google saying you have to police your content even as
Speaker 1: they say we don't have to police our content, and
Speaker 1: big tech just scary. I saw this piece and Wired
Speaker 1: dot com caught my eye. Facebook groups are destroying America,
Speaker 1: and uh it talks about how these uh, it's actually
Speaker 1: pretty interesting, um about how you have these private Facebook
Speaker 1: groups are closed groups, you know, not everybody can see
Speaker 1: what's posted in the rest of it, and families have
Speaker 1: them or or whatever. But they talk about how bad
Speaker 1: actors can infiltrate them and start spreading misinformation trolls and
Speaker 1: Russian bot farms and the rest of it. Um. But
Speaker 1: then you get into this. Groups continue to be used
Speaker 1: for political disinformation. The Obama Gate conspiracy theory is yet
Speaker 1: to be defined in clear terms, even by its own adherence. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's not right. And yet our analysis of face groups
Speaker 1: groups show that the false narrative that the Obama administration
Speaker 1: illegally spied against people associated with the Trump campaign is
Speaker 1: being being fueled and nurtured there. Ah, So that's false,
Speaker 1: even though the stated is fact, even though the current
Speaker 1: Attorney General says that is what happened. Well, the Inspector General,
Speaker 1: who is completely nonpartisan, says that there were many, many,
Speaker 1: uh illegal activities and getting the FISA warrant, And the
Speaker 1: head of the FBI says, if I knew now what
Speaker 1: I knew that, I never would assigned it. But they
Speaker 1: just stated as fact and wired that. Um, the false narrative,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. It's it's a conspiracy theory, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. So but is there some is there a
Speaker 1: growing belief that Facebook is like the home of right
Speaker 1: wing stuff and Twitter is the left wing stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: not on Facebook. I'm on Twitter every day, but I'm
Speaker 1: never on Facebook, So I don't really know much about
Speaker 1: the left thinks thinks there's too many quote unquote Nazis
Speaker 1: on Twitter too, right, Like a lot of these social
Speaker 1: media sites hit the sweet spat of both sides. Think
Speaker 1: they're doing horribly. Um, but if you were to pull
Speaker 1: uh particularly you know, probably thirty five and unders rank
Speaker 1: the political leanings of these social media sites. Facebook would
Speaker 1: probably be the far right one. Interesting are the most right?
Speaker 1: Not far It's certainly an older platform, yes, by many years.
Speaker 1: Your average Facebook or is much older than your average
Speaker 1: instagrammer or whatever, snap, twitch, blitch. How much of Facebook blump?
Speaker 1: How much is Facebook is political at this point? Or
Speaker 1: is it still dominated by a lot of people who
Speaker 1: just much too much? Is the just have pages that
Speaker 1: are about their their their grandkids and their lives in
Speaker 1: their new puppy and that sort of stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the issue is, should uh, the evil Mark Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: who is indeed the Antichrist Zuckerberg? Should he be awaying
Speaker 1: in and finding they hate stuff and getting rid of it. Well,
Speaker 1: at the very at least adjust your algorithms so that
Speaker 1: doesn't become a prominent thing on my news feed just
Speaker 1: because it's getting a lot of engagement. Well, that's a
Speaker 1: tough one. That's a tough one because it is one
Speaker 1: of the they're they're not technically a publisher, but as
Speaker 1: one of the largest publishing outfits in the world, they
Speaker 1: allow things to be seen that you had had to
Speaker 1: work hard to find otherwise. So they're algorithms pushed them
Speaker 1: toward people who might be open to the idea or
Speaker 1: at least um you know, of whatever the view is,
Speaker 1: or at least you know curious enough to whatever um,
Speaker 1: but would have never you'd never been able to find
Speaker 1: it before, you wouldn't even know it existed. I'm not
Speaker 1: on Facebook. I didn't know what boogaloo was, but so
Speaker 1: if I were on A. McCartney's nickname the early seventies,
Speaker 1: I think today's his birthday, it is, have your birthday, Paul?
Speaker 1: How old is? I'm not gonna say, Sir Paul, because
Speaker 1: number one, the idea of a night is idiotic, and
Speaker 1: number two, I'm not British, but he's seventy eight, Michael
Speaker 1: the same ages Joe Biden, only four year old years
Speaker 1: older than our current president. So he seems to be
Speaker 1: he's his mental faculties about him, Sir Paul. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he does. He does. Seems sharp as it can be. Fantastic,
Speaker 1: charming fella. Anyway that banned the Beatles. Seriously, Oh I do, um,
Speaker 1: I do? I would like it if these these these
Speaker 1: platforms that have so much power to get information out
Speaker 1: could figure out a way to not push stuff that
Speaker 1: otherwise you wouldn't be able to come across. It's really
Speaker 1: doing them a favor. It's really doing like your most um.
Speaker 1: He isn't the word extreme because we've used the word
Speaker 1: extreme twenty times already in this conversation. A fringe their
Speaker 1: their fringe ideas that are getting put in a prominent
Speaker 1: spot and then therefore just having a chance to grow.
Speaker 1: And that I don't think that does anybody any good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the great downsides of the Internet is some
Speaker 1: of the sickest among us. Who couldn't you know? It's
Speaker 1: very much like a virus and and I realized the
Speaker 1: term viral is is overused. But if you think, you know,
Speaker 1: I really like having sex with children, oh boy, you're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to spread that virus because
Speaker 1: you can't find anybody else who who's willing to take
Speaker 1: it on. And you keep it to yourself. You realize
Speaker 1: you're sick, You realize I gotta keep this under wraps.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. You bring it up at the bar,
Speaker 1: you get beat upright exactly. Yeah, as opposed to with
Speaker 1: the Internet, you can find a hundred thousand people who say, heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. You're right, that's not weird at all. Good
Speaker 1: for you. Oh, it's so ugly. It reinforces such such
Speaker 1: terrible things. I mean obviously, and we've plowed this turf before,
Speaker 1: plowed this ground. But how do I how do I
Speaker 1: put this exactly? Well, it's just and there are some
Speaker 1: things that should not catch there are some things that
Speaker 1: should not be seen, They should not be discussed. Um.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I saw a great ad the other day.
Speaker 1: I wish we could get it going in the US.
Speaker 1: It was a uh it was done in New Zealand
Speaker 1: and it was naked. Couple shows up at this lady's
Speaker 1: front door, super ripped dude, hot hot gal. There ass
Speaker 1: nude okay. Their bits are are covered up by like
Speaker 1: the railing of the porch. It's cleverly done, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: And they say hello, we're here to see Jimmy. And
Speaker 1: Mom's like what. And they said, well, Jimmy watches us
Speaker 1: having sex online and we wanted to meet him and
Speaker 1: talk to him, and and and mom is you know
Speaker 1: aghast and and and then the two alleged porn actors
Speaker 1: actually say some really cool stuff about oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to mention to him that. Look, I never asked
Speaker 1: for consent. It just happens at all. And that's not
Speaker 1: how real life works. And I do things, you know
Speaker 1: in these movies nobody ever does, and and nobody wants
Speaker 1: and and the woman's like, oh yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: There's no real woman who wants that. And we just
Speaker 1: want to let Jimmy know that. And and then mom says, oh,
Speaker 1: I think maybe it's time to have a talk with
Speaker 1: Jimmy about the difference between what he sees online and
Speaker 1: real life relationships. I thought that was good. Yeah, God,
Speaker 1: dang it. We're just we're just entering that world with
Speaker 1: the kids getting better at exploring on the internet. They
Speaker 1: don't have necessarily the the you know, the sex drive
Speaker 1: thing happening yet, but just the exploring the internet that
Speaker 1: we're we're in it. We're at a state with a
Speaker 1: ten year old and a year old. It's more of
Speaker 1: an accidentally coming across something that seeking it out mostly.
Speaker 1: But um, it's just and I know every generation has said,
Speaker 1: you know, today's harder to raise kids. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: they've been saying that since and there'll be you know,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, they didn't have the wheel
Speaker 1: you didn't have to worry about some kid going out
Speaker 1: there getting run over by a wheel because we map
Speaker 1: the wheel. But the Internet is just uh an opportunity
Speaker 1: and everybody knows this. I'm not saying anything new here,
Speaker 1: but the an opportunity that there wasn't even anything close
Speaker 1: to that prior to the Internet, for an opportunity for
Speaker 1: kids to get, you know, into whether it's conversing with
Speaker 1: the some of the human beings you were just talking
Speaker 1: about some of the worst human beings on Earth my
Speaker 1: kids can talk to today would have been impossible. And
Speaker 1: those people are anxious to talk to your kids and
Speaker 1: are clever it figuring out how to get to him
Speaker 1: and um, and it wasn't even possible a few years back.
Speaker 1: That's just it's absolutely amazing. I'm surprised we haven't come
Speaker 1: up with a better way to to to weed that out,
Speaker 1: to have that stuff harder to get to. That it's
Speaker 1: that it's still as wide open as it is on
Speaker 1: the Internet. Is it a technical difficulty, is it a
Speaker 1: First Amendment difficulty? Is it all wrapped together? I still
Speaker 1: don't understand why all pornography can't be on a on
Speaker 1: a you know, dot x x x website and it's
Speaker 1: everybody can go there who wants to. But I can
Speaker 1: put a simple filter on my computer it says, don't
Speaker 1: go to those websites and understand why we can't do that.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna enforce that? When the guy puts it on
Speaker 1: dot com out of you know, alley in Bangkok or
Speaker 1: what have you. There's just there's no way to filter
Speaker 1: that out coming into our country with our with our
Speaker 1: internet providers. I don't think so. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: find it, but the bad guys are always a step
Speaker 1: ahead of the good guys. I mean, I I name
Speaker 1: my hard core sicko porn site nice Puffies dot com.
Speaker 1: But if there was a if there was enough, um,
Speaker 1: there's no restrictions on the porn on dot x X,
Speaker 1: what would x x X. What would be the advantage
Speaker 1: that all your audience that you want for your porn
Speaker 1: is over there? What would be the advantage to go
Speaker 1: into the other Because they if there's a monetary system
Speaker 1: based on clicks, they don't care how old the person is.
Speaker 1: By by putting it in a place that isn't gated
Speaker 1: off by the dot x x X, they are able
Speaker 1: to farm more clicks and However, the economic Okay, that
Speaker 1: makes sense to me because there would be enough parents
Speaker 1: that wouldn't you know, they wouldn't allow it into their home. Uh,
Speaker 1: And then there'd be a billion clicks out there for
Speaker 1: high school boys for instance. Okay, maybe a click farmer
Speaker 1: is the compromise for me, because I kind of like
Speaker 1: the modern world and I kind of like a more
Speaker 1: old timey, small town existence. So I want to become
Speaker 1: a farmer, but I don't know how to grow crops.
Speaker 1: And maybe I could be a click farmer just a
Speaker 1: wall of a hundred iPhones. Yeah, I'd have the coveralls
Speaker 1: and the straw and a tractor and everything. And in
Speaker 1: a hundred iPhones or a thousand iPhones, this is a
Speaker 1: growing on this farm. This is a growing movement. By
Speaker 1: the way, there are a lot of Congress people looking
Speaker 1: into this and trying to figure it out, and I
Speaker 1: would love for them to succeed in that. I would.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard the solution. I actually wonder if it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do with like people who are in Congress,
Speaker 1: who are around a certain age, who kids are entering
Speaker 1: that age of the Internet, who have all of a
Speaker 1: sudden decide what can I do about this. I think
Speaker 1: that might be white's bubbling upright, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right. Just a quick screed. All
Speaker 1: the children listening to the show. I'm gonna address the boys,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna talk about girls because I'm a straight guy.
Speaker 1: Did you know that about me? Hey? Real women are great,
Speaker 1: and real relationships are great. They're kind of complicated and
Speaker 1: sometimes painful. But the whole internet thing sick the kids.
Speaker 1: It's not normal. It's really not normal. I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine coming to that first started before you had a
Speaker 1: real adult relationship. I can't either. You started there, right,
Speaker 1: that was your introduction to what sex is, right, I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine how that changes the way things look
Speaker 1: to you. You grow up thinking every baseball game includes
Speaker 1: a fist fight, and then you join your first baseball team,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a perverse view of what baseball is.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's it's troubling, and I got no solution
Speaker 1: for you. There's got to be a solution. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to your kids. Just has to be talked to your
Speaker 1: kids about porn. About better one than that, though, There
Speaker 1: has to be even a better one about your libertary
Speaker 1: I hate you. I'll never listen to your show again. Saved.
Speaker 1: So Mark Stein, he's a funny guy, was on Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson last night and they were talking about how they're
Speaker 1: in Chaz in Seattle. They're gonna have some sort of
Speaker 1: games or sports in there, and you're mocking like the
Speaker 1: Chas Olympics chads having their own Olympics and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing, and they got off on this Mitt Romney, who,
Speaker 1: as as you know, is I believe the first US
Speaker 1: ambassador to the Chopp is Sony people. He really fought
Speaker 1: hard for that job, and as you know, he ran
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics. He's actually got managed to import a
Speaker 1: couple of the top Winter Olympic sports into the Chop
Speaker 1: Summer Games. For example, we got the two man luge. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a difference. The guy on the
Speaker 1: bottom is one of the CHOP residents, but the guy
Speaker 1: on top is actually a statue of Christopher Columbus that
Speaker 1: they've toppled and so find the preliminary rounds. I believe
Speaker 1: it's the Richmond Chris Richmond, Virginia Christopher Columbus statue that
Speaker 1: is in the lead. The Boston Christopher Columbus statue is
Speaker 1: close behind, but there's some technical dispute with the judges
Speaker 1: because that guy had his head decapitated, and it's not
Speaker 1: clear whether a headless Christopher Columbus is actually eligible for
Speaker 1: the two man luge. Telso made the joke about their
Speaker 1: sporting of it. There was a controversy when one of
Speaker 1: their uh, one of them tested and there was urine
Speaker 1: in their drug stream. Oh that's good, that's good. And
Speaker 1: something tells me chopperstan will have fellas identifying as women
Speaker 1: women and all the women's events because they won't dare
Speaker 1: you know, crackdown on that. So there was an attempt apparently,
Speaker 1: I don't know how serious it was in Portland overnight
Speaker 1: late last night and this morning to try to get
Speaker 1: one of these going chopp a takeover, and they got
Speaker 1: it shut down really fast, which is a good idea
Speaker 1: because once it gets going and it grows, then you
Speaker 1: end up with real political problems trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to navigate those waters. But they let it get
Speaker 1: started in Seattle and it continues and this could be
Speaker 1: one of those things that's there for months. Right Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying how the businesses are going to deal with
Speaker 1: that if it, I don't know if some businesses closed
Speaker 1: and some businesses who are more friendly stay there, are
Speaker 1: they are they getting enough patrons in the day? Are
Speaker 1: enough regular people able to uncomfortable enough to walk through
Speaker 1: chas to go to these various stores. You can't drive
Speaker 1: down the streets anymore? No, No, I wonder, although there's
Speaker 1: so little will in Seattle to do anything with bums
Speaker 1: and junkies and ne'er duels. You know, what we left
Speaker 1: out is that the autonomous zone they set up in
Speaker 1: Portland was right outside the mayor's apartment. That makes a difference,
Speaker 1: and so the coppers moved in quickly tore down. That
Speaker 1: makes a difference. Yeah, because I was kind of surprised
Speaker 1: that Portlandia, who's their very Twitter account has a rainbow
Speaker 1: police badge. Honestly, um, I was surprised that they took
Speaker 1: such decisive action. Now I get it. So if they
Speaker 1: set up not in front of the mayor, they might
Speaker 1: still be there, could be the Armstrong and Getty shows.
Speaker 1: We're not going to shut things down to people don't
Speaker 1: want it. The politicians don't want it, but the public
Speaker 1: wouldn't support it. But that doesn't mean that we can't
Speaker 1: take targeted measures in places where it is spreading. So
Speaker 1: in Texas, for example, um of all the hospitalizations are
Speaker 1: between the age of twenty and twenty nine. UM. In
Speaker 1: some parts of Texas around Austin, more than half of
Speaker 1: the infections are under the age of thirty. The governor
Speaker 1: there has said, anythings, bars are congregant setting where a
Speaker 1: lot of the spread is taking place among young people.
Speaker 1: So you might take some targeted actions in the places
Speaker 1: where there are outbreaks against those establishments where you might say,
Speaker 1: well you have to go back to fifty percent occupancy
Speaker 1: of twenty. Maybe you close some establishments on a temporary basis.
Speaker 1: Those are targeted mitigation steps. We have to be willing
Speaker 1: to consider those kinds of targeted steps if we want
Speaker 1: to prevent these outbreaks from happening. Interesting. Interesting Dr Gottlieb saying, uh,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna shut down divisions. People don't want it,
Speaker 1: They wouldn't do it. That's interesting because we so will
Speaker 1: legally did it at the beginning, and now he's just
Speaker 1: saying people wouldn't do it. Well, we were sold a
Speaker 1: rationale for extreme clothes down strategies that no longer seems
Speaker 1: to old water. So yeah, we're willing to do something
Speaker 1: which is probably not that again, So I find myself
Speaker 1: exhausted by the news flow. Tell me about it. And
Speaker 1: you know, we live it because it's what we do
Speaker 1: for a living. But my my wife barely pays attention
Speaker 1: to the news at all, and she said she was
Speaker 1: exhausted by the news flow. And polls show everybody's exhausted
Speaker 1: by the news flow. And it's part of the whole
Speaker 1: part of it is, Um, you know what the differences
Speaker 1: between a good high school band and a bad high
Speaker 1: school band? I remember this from being in high school bands.
Speaker 1: Uh is dynamics. Uh, you're bad high school band. Everything
Speaker 1: is played at the same volume all the time. You don't,
Speaker 1: you don't, get quiet, and then get loud, and then
Speaker 1: get quiet, and then somewhere in the middle of just
Speaker 1: everything is the same volume, beginning to end. And that's
Speaker 1: the way the news is now. Everything comes at you
Speaker 1: at the same volume, as if everything is the most
Speaker 1: important thing happening in your life. And rather than everything
Speaker 1: being elevated too important, it is going the other direction,
Speaker 1: at least in my mind, and I think in the
Speaker 1: nation's mind. Um, everything is being is going down to
Speaker 1: just everything. You can't break through because everything is the
Speaker 1: same volume all the time, right right, Well, you know
Speaker 1: just about the cliche if everything is the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: nothing is the biggest thing. Yeah, and don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what fixes that. I don't know if I'll be
Speaker 1: able to find it quickly enough, because this it makes
Speaker 1: me insane too, especially because I actually care about a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff. Um, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: talking heads are just putting it on. In fact, we
Speaker 1: know some talk show hosts who, uh, you're a conservative
Speaker 1: talk show host, and then they got hired to a
Speaker 1: liberal place. Now that they're they're liberal talk show host
Speaker 1: their gutless, soul less mind one in particular, i'd like
Speaker 1: to name both picturing the same, but that would put
Speaker 1: me at his level, and I don't want to be
Speaker 1: at his level because I wouldn't like the view from
Speaker 1: down there. I'm trying to find in Matt Taiebee's fabulous
Speaker 1: piece that we talked about, the American press is destroying himself,
Speaker 1: he and his usual fashion, as he's rather an eloquent fellow.
Speaker 1: I was talking about, um, the very, the very phenomenon
Speaker 1: we are that everything is always the most important thing. Ever,
Speaker 1: and how that's you know, another one of the real
Speaker 1: sins of modern so called journalism. I agree with them.
Speaker 1: It's been quite hilarious seeing people who I guess we've
Speaker 1: only read that piece by Matt Taiebee coming at him
Speaker 1: on Twitter for being some sort of right mouthpiece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go go go go back through the years. Um so
Speaker 1: does a lot of this get fixed? Democracy, media, all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff with time and a reaction to
Speaker 1: the things. And it's just slower than we would like.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping that. It's just the reaction will
Speaker 1: be there. It'll get fixed. It's just gonna take longer
Speaker 1: than I would like. In that to a large extent,
Speaker 1: I think so people get tired of the same volume
Speaker 1: of all the news, we start tuning out. Media outlets
Speaker 1: are desperate to try to figure out how to get
Speaker 1: people's attention, and they rediscover and it might take ten years,
Speaker 1: is that the way you can get and keeps people
Speaker 1: attention is by having some varying levels of intensity, as
Speaker 1: opposed to it always intense. It just takes a long
Speaker 1: time to get there. I don't see it go in
Speaker 1: that direction. It's going in the direction of more and
Speaker 1: more targeted ideological bubble yelling. But we'll all go crazy
Speaker 1: if we're if we're all check out or check out,
Speaker 1: if we're all being if our brains are being assaulted
Speaker 1: with stuff that reinforce this is a scary time. It
Speaker 1: got even scarier while you were asleep last night. Things
Speaker 1: are even worse than they were yesterday. If if our
Speaker 1: brains are assaulted with that every single day, we'll go nuts.
Speaker 1: Will all be a bunch of anxiety cases we are
Speaker 1: we are well, and or people will tune out, which
Speaker 1: will open the door for the most brutal and cunning
Speaker 1: to take control of the country and twisted to their
Speaker 1: their ends, which is probably giving people anxiety that sentence,
Speaker 1: and I apologize for that. But if we completely check
Speaker 1: out of the political process, or it gets dumbed down
Speaker 1: even more, I don't know where it heads. I don't
Speaker 1: know where it goes, probably not toward anything good. So
Speaker 1: the shift leader at a Taco Bell has lost their job.
Speaker 1: I still have not eating a Taco Bell, but I
Speaker 1: understand it's just fantastic authentic Mexican foods. Oh it is
Speaker 1: too carefully prepared gourmet Mexican fair, authentic. Just you feel
Speaker 1: like you're in Mexico. Do you want to know how
Speaker 1: l Chopo with his billions eight go to a Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: So the shift leader at this Taco bell in Ohio, well,
Speaker 1: shift leader for eight years, lost his job Monday after
Speaker 1: refusing to take off a Black Lives Matter face cover
Speaker 1: he wore to work. He wore the cover because the
Speaker 1: surgical masks provided to employees are inadequate when it's warm,
Speaker 1: He says. Anyway, uh, and who were we about to
Speaker 1: hear him argue with I believe this is his direct supervisor,
Speaker 1: is like the manager. The manager told me he had
Speaker 1: to take it off skin and refused, walked out of
Speaker 1: the restaurant. Blah blah blah. Let's see how this sounds.
Speaker 1: Do you just hiring me because I got a Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter on? You just told me I had to
Speaker 1: go home because I gotta do it off. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not because I'm standing off with what what's right?
Speaker 1: I'm not taking it off, Tammy said, with whatever matters,
Speaker 1: she did not. She said it had to be pray.
Speaker 1: You can't bring politics into the bro I'm not bringing
Speaker 1: politics in. This is what I'm standing for like, how
Speaker 1: does this considered politics? How is it not? Denzel? I'm
Speaker 1: not taking it off. Okay, well then there's nothing I
Speaker 1: can do for I'm just doing my job. You don't
Speaker 1: get it. You don't either, I don't know you don't
Speaker 1: because you did, this wouldn't be a problem. It's not
Speaker 1: that a problem with me. It's a company thing. She's right,
Speaker 1: he's wrong in calling her a Karen is racist and idiotic.
Speaker 1: So Taco Bell is on the defensive though they've released
Speaker 1: a statement, um trying and blah blah blah. You know
Speaker 1: the things all these people say, and uh, some of
Speaker 1: social media is and great Taco Bell, and you know
Speaker 1: how these things work. I know how these things. But
Speaker 1: the main reason I want to play this is this
Speaker 1: is coming to wherever you work. It just is so
Speaker 1: I probably out to have a plan in place. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea. Because somebody's gonna wear Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter something or other. You're gonna say our policy is
Speaker 1: no politics, and they're gonna say, how is this politics?
Speaker 1: They're gonna you're gonna say it like she did, how
Speaker 1: is it not? But and then you will have employees
Speaker 1: with Blue Lives Matter and white lives matter, and you
Speaker 1: will have employees with mega masks or hats or whatever,
Speaker 1: and and god knows what else. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: if he's still alive, that's the T shirt I wear.
Speaker 1: Do we have our Biden if he's still alive clips,
Speaker 1: Holy cow, If Grandpa, if I gave him a birthday
Speaker 1: present he said it like that, I think, Oh my golly,
Speaker 1: he's really weakened anyway on the Black Lives Matter thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you can you can present these
Speaker 1: other political causes that you would not allow in the
Speaker 1: workplace for obvious reasons. And uh, it doesn't make any
Speaker 1: difference if if the you know, if the wind is
Speaker 1: blowing towards everything Black Lives matter is okay, You're You're
Speaker 1: done as a company. You can't. You gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: allow that, or at least you'll be battered. Now, if
Speaker 1: somebody actually like tries to turn this into a court case,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe that'll get worked out in the courts
Speaker 1: at some point, Like if a lawyer takes up for
Speaker 1: this guy for for for losing his job for wearing
Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter thing. Um, see how court rules
Speaker 1: on that. I guess is a company allowed to say
Speaker 1: no politics, no political anything in the workplace. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: as long as it's uniform, as long as they apply
Speaker 1: it even handedly to all people and all political beliefs.
Speaker 1: That is the one perfectly defensible position. Has that already
Speaker 1: been established? Than you just wear what where, what you want? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it will damage your business, Yeah, that would your
Speaker 1: business would be never because you're gonna end up somebody
Speaker 1: the black Lives matter. Then somebody else is gonna wear Uh,
Speaker 1: what's what's an opposite of black Lives matter? All in
Speaker 1: all Lives Matter? Somebody else wears an all Lives Matter
Speaker 1: T shirt? Well, there they're If they're not actually fistfighting
Speaker 1: in the in the cubicles, then then you can fire
Speaker 1: them for fistfighting. But what if they do? Okay, but
Speaker 1: if they don't fist fight and they just hate each other,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that helps Your am not allowed
Speaker 1: to hate my coworker, And that'd be a new thing,
Speaker 1: would I. I don't think it's good for for a
Speaker 1: spree to corps. Well I don't know whether know. I
Speaker 1: don't even need to go there. You can come up
Speaker 1: with a hundred examples of legitimate political beliefs that'd be
Speaker 1: tough if you weren't allowed to hate your coworkers that
Speaker 1: there's some sort of tests I have to quit. I'd
Speaker 1: have to put every job. Yeah, then there'd be no jobs.
Speaker 1: I mean, come to have your bank employees were in
Speaker 1: a hat to bring down capitalism as they meet with
Speaker 1: all of your your corporate customers. End capitalism. Now, capitalism
Speaker 1: is thievery whatever, it's no, no, no is the answer.
Speaker 1: You can't. I wish you could open a business and
Speaker 1: do your experiment of allowing people to wear political stuff
Speaker 1: and see how it works out. Well. I feel it
Speaker 1: would somewhat sort itself out regionally, right, like whatever your
Speaker 1: individual stores customer base would handle or tolerate. I think
Speaker 1: you could build your policies around matt um right, so
Speaker 1: you'd be much more likely to see a MAGA hat
Speaker 1: or in all right in in in in Trump states,
Speaker 1: and then you're more likely to see the Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter stuff in in your Blue states. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: have one employee that wants to wear Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: in the Trump States. I'm not sure I like this. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's unfair. Yeah, it's unfair framing. Let's all agree with that.
Speaker 1: But um uh. If it was the name of my
Speaker 1: art shop. I tell people it was gonna be sixty
Speaker 1: dollars to frame their family portrait. And I'm charging three
Speaker 1: like the unfair framing, or I have a better price.
Speaker 1: I'm cheaper than everybody else. We only get three sides
Speaker 1: on the frame and the fourth one do you do
Speaker 1: you it's another hundred dollars. This is unfair. Well did
Speaker 1: you see the sign outside get unfair framing? We are
Speaker 1: give me much your back. It's my I own it.
Speaker 1: You should have read the contract. You put mustaches on
Speaker 1: all the people. Why did you do that? I do
Speaker 1: whatever I want. It's unfair framing the armstrong and getting
Speaker 1: show before we revisit old Joe Biden. Joe Biden came
Speaker 1: across this with a picture of Kim Jong UN's sister.
Speaker 1: I probably should know her name at this point do
Speaker 1: we know her name? Doesn't matter? Kim Jong UN's sister
Speaker 1: puts the cute back and execute That's what who wants?
Speaker 1: Who asked for a joke? Is a brutal dictatorship. She's
Speaker 1: got to be the cutest evil dictator of all time.
Speaker 1: Unless're gonna go back to some sort of queen or
Speaker 1: something that I don't know what they look like, but
Speaker 1: no Jong. I think her name is Um. It's not
Speaker 1: clear to me exactly how um yeah, how powerful she is?
Speaker 1: What what are what's her portfolio? As they say, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Um, we might find out. Uh So Joe
Speaker 1: Biden came out of his hole yesterday and did a
Speaker 1: little talking. I I'm not um as dismissive of that
Speaker 1: as a lot of people are. I think it's a
Speaker 1: sound strategy for running for president. I think it's the
Speaker 1: smart thing to do. If I was an advisor and
Speaker 1: wanted him to be president, it's what I would be advising. Um.
Speaker 1: I think you just make it for for a certain
Speaker 1: segment of voter out there. You just try to portray
Speaker 1: it as there's got to be something better than this
Speaker 1: with Trump, That's what I would do. Yeah, and allow
Speaker 1: no negatives in any time you have your candy to
Speaker 1: come out. There's a possibility of negatives. If your girlfriend's
Speaker 1: dating you another guy and he's making a complete ass
Speaker 1: of himself, and that's you know the perception of Trump
Speaker 1: by some people that you just don't say word. Don't
Speaker 1: let him dig his own grave. As they say, of
Speaker 1: course you know, it depends who he asked. Anyway, he
Speaker 1: came out and gave a little speech yesterday and this
Speaker 1: was his big rara, finish American. He's a president who
Speaker 1: do the work. I'm ready in day one after more
Speaker 1: than three years in office. Why isn't Donald Trump ready?
Speaker 1: Mr President? Wake up, get to work. There's so much
Speaker 1: more to be done. Thank you. I've heard that much. Well,
Speaker 1: it was weird at the beginning. That weird how he
Speaker 1: runs the runs the sentences together. I'm ready to go
Speaker 1: after three years in office? Why aren't you, Mr President?
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I know. It's confusing. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what he was talking about anything, but uh,
Speaker 1: that is that makes Jeb Bush seemed like Richard Simmons. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that's they're going for mellow. I think because we've been
Speaker 1: talking about this, how the modern pace and the constant
Speaker 1: conflict in the screaming headlines, and and let's face it,
Speaker 1: Trump keeps things stirred up. He doesn't intentionally, it's just
Speaker 1: he gets a little exhausting after a while, and so
Speaker 1: they're going for calming. Steady old Joe Biden, you know,
Speaker 1: as the expression goes, I think they told him to
Speaker 1: take to aspert and he took the whole bottle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's you know, that's slowing down the pace. But
Speaker 1: he can't have a heart rate of eleven? Was that
Speaker 1: the death rattle? I heard gimony? Get him on a respiate.
Speaker 1: Somebody texts that he's got t MB too many birthdays.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh Joe Biden, tell you what he must
Speaker 1: have been something before electricity. Huh uh. So if he
Speaker 1: does that, anything within a hundred miles of that on
Speaker 1: a debate stage, that could change the polls overnight, assuming
Speaker 1: they have debates, assume they have face to face debate.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just got a call. I'm
Speaker 1: playing in the Gulf Tournament this weekend. They asked me
Speaker 1: if I'm willing to ride in a cart with my partner.
Speaker 1: We're driving there together, we hang out all the time.
Speaker 1: I said yes. They said, now we have plastic dividers
Speaker 1: we can put right down the middle of the cart
Speaker 1: if you like. That's that's not necessary. So maybe they'll
Speaker 1: put Trump and Biden in plastic boxes. Might come up
Speaker 1: like there's some sort of game show. Hi, uh, this
Speaker 1: is a corn pop. When I'm not trying to get
Speaker 1: my razor Rusty and a rain barrel. I listened to
Speaker 1: final thoughts with Armstrong and Giddy. I see that I
Speaker 1: had no idea corn Pop was still around. Here's your
Speaker 1: host for final lots, Joe. Let's get a final thought
Speaker 1: from everybody on the crew. He presses the buttons in
Speaker 1: the control room, keeps us on the air. Michaelang final Yeah,
Speaker 1: every time I eat at cholupa from Taco bell I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm standing in Mexico City. There that authentic,
Speaker 1: nice positive Sean, our producer, final thought for I've been
Speaker 1: trying to get the coronavirus and a a body test for
Speaker 1: about a week now. Every place I've gone to so
Speaker 1: far starts with a questionnaire that figures out how likely
Speaker 1: you are to have it, and I've been denied every
Speaker 1: time because I've been answering, honestly, So it's not even
Speaker 1: these testing numbers were getting an increased cases. They are
Speaker 1: only testing likely people. So it's even a higher number
Speaker 1: than the silly number than we've I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm making my point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, when you consider
Speaker 1: asymptomatic and yeah, so much is still unknown. Jack a
Speaker 1: final thought for us. I'm wondering if the mask controversy
Speaker 1: is about to come back. As a couple of year,
Speaker 1: major states like California are looking at going statewide mandatory masks.
Speaker 1: Are we going to get the whole? What was it
Speaker 1: called the macho mask something or other? And uh, you
Speaker 1: know people are refusing to do it, and it becomes
Speaker 1: a symbol of your Yes, I would say that's coming
Speaker 1: in spades. Becomes a symbol of your politics, whether you
Speaker 1: wear the mask or not. Yes. And there will be
Speaker 1: fist fights, there will be arrests, there will be mayhem.
Speaker 1: I've seen humanity. I humanity, and I don't like humanity.
Speaker 1: My final thought will be this note from Thomas. We
Speaker 1: just got Hey, Joe, you've become what you professed to dislike.
Speaker 1: You're a self serving, pompous jerk. Now fair criticism? Did
Speaker 1: they say around what comment or topic? No? No, that's fine. Okay.
Speaker 1: There are those who worship my very name, sir, we
Speaker 1: will put you in a room and have you fight
Speaker 1: to the death. Oh boy. Arms Strong and Getty wrapping
Speaker 1: up another grueling four hour today. Anybody who worships my
Speaker 1: name has something wrong with him. Uh, so many people.
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Speaker 1: it tomorrow. God bless America. You're having a good time. Okay,
Speaker 1: I did not say that. I've sat here for over
Speaker 1: three hour and fifteen minutes. If you wish to leave,
Speaker 1: you may let me just say how very very dismaying
Speaker 1: and disappointing, not good, and just change the channel from
Speaker 1: this mesmerizing horror show. We'll be better tomorrow than we
Speaker 1: and we heard the words it's over for me, so
Speaker 1: you're we're dismissed. Is that correct? You want to rephrase
Speaker 1: what you're doing? Wake up? Thank you, Armstrong and Getty