1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Motherfucking many years. So many years, motherfucking many years. So yep, yep, yep. 2 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: There it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome 3 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: to another phenomenal many episode of My Mama Told Me. 4 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: That's right, the podcast where we dive deep deep into 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: the pockets of black experiencing theories and we finally work 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: to approve the theories that you, the listeners have at home. 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: That's right, motherfucker's It is time to talk to the 8 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: people about the ship that the people care about. I 9 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: don't know what's on, y'all mine. I do all the 10 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: hard labor on on the Tuesday episode. This is this 11 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: is just me getting to chat with the the real 12 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: folks at home. Are the real blue collar conspiracy theories, 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: you know, the conspiracy theorists who are in the coal 14 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: mines sucking up all that black air. That suit. Now 15 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: I want to hear from you. I want to shake 16 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: hands in a burger restaurant while people take pictures and say, ah, 17 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: he's a good you see him to like, he'd be 18 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: a good candidate. He's a good candidate for conspiracy theory president. 19 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: That's that's what this is all about. And and today 20 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: it was actually sent a message. This is exciting. This 21 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: this maybe I don't I don't know. I'm hesitant to say, 22 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: but I think this may be a message from my 23 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: youngest listener so far. Certainly, he certainly is on the 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: border of it. He's a young man by the name 25 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: of Destin who sent me a message, and he's very uh. 26 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: He made a point of of explaining that he while, 27 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: and he does. He sounds like a grown fucking man. 28 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: But apparently he's fifteen years old, and he sent me 29 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: a message about something that he and his family have 30 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: started to believe. So I'll play it for you now. Hey, 31 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: I'm afld black melodic gets off a bit. It is 32 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: pretty often because I looked and sound a lot older 33 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: than actually am. I'm adopted about two white parents. Just 34 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: a very crucial to what I'm about to tell you. 35 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: I have a theory of the self checkout scanners are 36 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: racist because more than one occasion, the scanner said I 37 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: was stealing. I was my dad to pick up some groceries. 38 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: We went to the self checkout area. He scanned most 39 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: of the items, and I wanted to be helpful, so 40 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: I did the same, and it sent off the warm 41 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: and said I was stealing. Another time I went to 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: my mom to pick up groceries, she skinned the milk. 43 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: I scanned one of my crow conditioners, and then I 44 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: learned an employee I was stealing. So we moved down 45 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: to a different self checkout skinner. I attempted to skin 46 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: it once again, and this time it didn't. You let 47 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: me scan it. Another alarm and a Mealy showed camera 48 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: for my mom, took the conditioner out of my hand, 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: scanned it, and everything turned off and was just fine. 50 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: We were actually a big fan of your podcast and 51 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: this actually did happen to me, so we thought it 52 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: would be a kind of interesting and fund to send 53 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: us in. All right, thank you linkson Hell Yeah, well, 54 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: well thank you deston uh for I guess and and 55 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: Destiny's parents, where I guess exposing this young man to 56 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: something hugely inappropriate for a fifteen year old to listen to. 57 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: But I'm honored it. I moved all the same. I'll 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: do my best to cuss less in this particular episode, 59 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: as it is targeted directly at a child that said, 60 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a complicated issue. You're you're posing 61 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: here that self checkouts might be racist. First off, I 62 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: believe you. Let's let's start there. Let's let's start right 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: at the nitty gritty. I believe you. Now I will 64 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: say you're fucking up by mixing white milk with black 65 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: hair care products. You know what I mean, You gotta, 66 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: I think at the self checkout, you gotta do it 67 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: with a certain type of uh of slow rhythm. There's 68 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: a dance here. You don't. You don't mix and match 69 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: with with dairy products and and fucking s curl. You 70 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: know what I mean. You gotta, you gotta put something 71 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: in between. There was what was something that that mixed 72 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: motherfucker is like uh, frosted many weeks. Put some lots 73 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: of sugar, but but still good for you. Put that 74 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: in between the two, and maybe that'll help help the 75 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: stuff check out register the differences in in what's being 76 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: posed so so destined. I'm I'm being silly, I'm being 77 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: a little facetious, but I do. I did take the 78 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: time to dig into some of what you're saying. And 79 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: as it turns out, based on the research that I compiled, 80 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: and remember I'm an idiot, but the research that I 81 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: can pile does suggest that there might, in fact be 82 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: you might be right about this technology being racist. Not 83 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 1: to be clear, I don't think that the computers themselves 84 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: have some deep preference for like white hands scanning stuff 85 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: versus uh co kohand scanning stuff. I I don't think 86 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: it's that complicated. But I do think that the people 87 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: who are programming these computers, they they're teaching their computers 88 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: to register big old black man hands as a potential threat. 89 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: And I'll let's walk this back a little bit so 90 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: that we can really earn some of this positioning. Right, 91 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: we've all long understood the self checkout is a place 92 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: for a potential theft and and or tomfoolery. Let's say that, right. 93 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a well known thing. In fact, 94 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: you know what it's. It's like the brown outdoor bitches 95 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: saying Game of Thrones. It is known that you can 96 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: steal from the self checkout. In fact, there's an article 97 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: that came out in ten in The Atlantic titled the 98 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: Banana Trick and Other Acts of self checkout thievery. A 99 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: journalist basically documents the various methods many people used to 100 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: steal from self checkout, covering up the bar code stickers 101 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: with less expensive items, moving the stuff into bags without 102 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: scanning them during the the checkout process. Basically, I guess 103 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: you would scan something and then slip something in, and 104 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: because the weight isn't usually noticeable, you're able to get 105 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: an additional item in there, and then most famously scanning 106 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: something that isn't bananas as bananas to pay way less 107 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: for it. That's the banana trick, right. Bananas costs whatever 108 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: it is, a nickel for a bushel. I don't know 109 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: how much bananas cost. I'm I'm not a man of 110 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: the people anymore. I'm not not up on on the 111 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: price of bananas, but they're very inexpensive, and if you 112 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: are able to sort of match the weight of the bananas, 113 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: you're probably able to get something like steak for way 114 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: cheaper than you thought you would. That said A twenty 115 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: fifteen studies showed that after auditing one million self checkout 116 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: transactions over a course of a year totally twenty one 117 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: million dollars in sales, they found that nearly eight hundred 118 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars worth of goods left the store 119 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: without being scanned and paid for. That's a lot of 120 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: fucking money. They acknowledged that the ease of theft is 121 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: incur urging people who are less likely to steal to 122 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: do so, so much so that grocery stores are becoming 123 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: increasingly less inclined to punish people who are caught doing 124 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: minor shoplifting. That's right, you're hearing this correctly, they are 125 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: saying in this article, and remember this is written in 126 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: in the white Man's text. Though take it with a 127 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: grain of salt, but they are saying that grocery stores 128 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: have now they're they're they're putting less effort into charging 129 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: people when they're caught stealing minor ship because it is 130 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: happening so often. In fact, in the Dallas Police Department 131 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: and acted a new policy, officers would no longer routinely 132 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: respond to shoplifting calls for boots amounting to less than 133 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: fifty dollars. They raised that to a hundred dollars. But 134 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: the point is that if you were stealing under that amount, 135 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: the Dallas police are claiming they're not even gonna show 136 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: up to deal with this ship. It just is what 137 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: it is. The store will deal with it as a 138 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: need to which you could sit back and think, oh, 139 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: that's amazing, right, you could sit here and go, that's 140 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: that's fucking sweet. I'm less likely to do a life 141 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: sent sentence for smuggling pop tarts. Progress. However, I think, 142 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: and this is important here, Destin, I think it's a 143 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: little more telling, and how much money these corporations, these 144 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: giant corporations are saving by eliminating their human workforce that 145 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: they would rather lose up to of us or rather 146 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: allow of us steal from robots. They would rather that 147 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: than have to pay more people a living ways, do 148 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying That they know we're stealing, 149 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: and they think paying human beings is a greater theft, 150 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: so they let it live. They let it go. They 151 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: would rather motherfucker's just steal little items than have to 152 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: pay us us an amount to survive the amount that 153 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: that humans need, because they know that having a person 154 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: that a register is far more expensive than whatever pop 155 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: tarts you can take. Now to the larger issue, Destined, 156 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: that the question you're posing. I looked up whether there 157 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: are in fact cameras in these self checkout machines, and 158 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: as it turns out, there are not only cameras in 159 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: some of these machines, but they are currently working on patents, right, 160 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: patents and tech to make them identify thieves before they're 161 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: even able to complete the act of stealing. That's right, 162 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: they're they're on some some minority reports ship, you know 163 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: what I mean, full minority report ship. But instead of 164 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: some white ladies in Bathwater telling you the fake future, 165 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: they can make the computers do it for them. There's, 166 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: in fact, self checkout maker, the original I guess self 167 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: checkout maker, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions has filed a patent 168 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: application for a system that would scrutinize your facial express 169 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: to determine if you're stealing, planning to steal, or even 170 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: just thinking about stealing. You know, they'd be basically are 171 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: claiming they'd be able to scan for micro expressions and 172 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: small tells to identify thieves. And if you know anything 173 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: about the way that technological advancements work, certainly in this country, 174 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: but around the world globally, I'm sure they don't start 175 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: with niggas as the template, do you know what I mean? 176 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: They don't start with black people. They're not figuring out 177 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: how to be sensitive to our personal facial expressions or 178 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: are our rhythms and ticks. They ain't using us as 179 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: a standard. And that's that's true across the board. Cameras 180 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: weren't invented to be able to document black skin. They 181 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: were invented to be able to document white skin. And 182 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: then we had to introduce all kinds of lights and 183 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: filaments and and different lenses so that we could begin 184 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: to see ourselves in film the same way that white 185 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 1: people are able to see them selves. And the same 186 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: is probably true for this advancement quote unquote with these 187 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: self checkouts with in any way, you know what I'm saying, 188 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: They're not gonna be able to look and see if 189 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: you're having a bad day or if you're stealing mentos. 190 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: They're gonna see a scow on a black man's face, 191 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: and they're gonna sound the alarm. And much even more 192 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: sort of concerning in some of the things that they're 193 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: talking about. This isn't some far off technology. This isn't 194 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: like like some ship that's like ten, fifteen, twenty years 195 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: down the line. In fact, a recent TikTok published in 196 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: October of this year from a Walmart employee named Region Allen, 197 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: and I don't know if I'm supposed to say Region's name, 198 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: although he published it, and he put it's all over 199 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: the goddamn internet. So Region I assume has already been fired, 200 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: poor brother. But that said Region Allen posted to TikTok 201 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: where he warned people to stop stealing from the self 202 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: checkout at Walmart because he said, this day of advance, 203 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 1: their technology to now track people who make any sudden movements, replacements, 204 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: or behavioral changes at the self checkout counter, and they 205 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: project those those changes and and that person onto a 206 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: big screen overhead, basically to air them out in front 207 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: of the entire Walmart community. What a community it is. 208 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: You know, we all want to be in the Walmart family. 209 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: But that said, they're they're basically they're able already to 210 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: to decide ahead of time that you pose a threat, 211 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: even if you are not in fact doing something threatening. 212 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: So in all likelihood destined when your parents are sitting 213 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: there with their their gorgeous white hands, beautiful white hands, 214 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: Oh we love, we love their white hands. When your 215 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: white parents are are checking things out with their white hands, 216 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: and then suddenly your big gass black hand gets in there. Well, buddy, 217 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: these self checkout monitors are they're going crazy. They they're 218 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: are sounding the alarm, they're they're they're buzzing whistles. You know, 219 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: they're doing everything because you represent an unexpected shift in 220 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: what they thought was a normal progression in this self checkout. You. 221 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: I know you said you're helping, but you are not helping. 222 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:23,599 Speaker 1: You're going to jail, bitch, and that and that, unfortunately 223 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: is the way that all of this consumerism and capitalism 224 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: is built. They don't want to have to pay people 225 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: to actually do the labor and figure out who's stealing 226 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: and who isn't. They're just gonna treat you like a 227 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: criminal and come down on you as quickly as possible. 228 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: So so destined this self checkout, as far as I'm concerned, 229 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: as extremely racist. And if I were you, I just 230 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: sit back and let those white people do the labor 231 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: for you. Treated like that, stop looking at this as 232 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: as as anything other than a chance to let white 233 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: people do the hard work for you. You've got personal shoppers, 234 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: and they happen to be too old or white people. 235 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: Stop trying to involve yourself because it's only gonna get 236 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: you in trouble. Just let your personal shoppers and or 237 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,439 Speaker 1: parents do it for you. That's that's where I'm at 238 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: with the destiny, and I apologize to Destin's parents or 239 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 1: for equating them to do or belittling them, I guess, 240 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: reducing them to personal shoppers. But that's that's the America 241 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: we live in, folks. You know, move Destines somewhere else where, 242 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: uh where the machines aren't calibrated to yell out nigga 243 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: just because he wants to buy some es girl, you know, 244 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: and then then we can talk. Anyway, If you, like Destin, 245 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: want to send me messages of about other technologies you 246 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: think are secretly racist, I I'd love to hear from you, 247 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: and I'd love for you to send it to my 248 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: mama pod at gmail dot com. And and please, folks, 249 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: follow the podcast, like it, subscribe to it, do the 250 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: things that that you're meant to do, right, write the comments. 251 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: We we'd love to hear your comments. We'd love to 252 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: hear your thoughts, your critiques of the show, and send 253 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: me those messages. And if you happen to live in 254 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, I've started a monthly show. And the monthly 255 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: show honestly is happening uh the day before this is released. 256 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: So I should have announced it a long time ago, 257 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: but I think our next one is in December, and 258 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: I would love for you guys to to come out 259 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: to the monthly show. It happens at Hotel Cafe and 260 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: you can track everything through my Instagram and or Twitter. Anyway, Okay, 261 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: I've I've covered everything. I've said. Oh I need to 262 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: say bye, bitch. Motherfucking many years. So many years, motherfucking 263 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: many years. So, motherfucking many years, so many years, motherfucking 264 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: many years. So