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Speaker 1: very much. Joining me now is an amazing comedian a

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Speaker 1: But he's coming out with a new special, Bringback a Pooh, Akash,

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Speaker 1: of decades. So you know, look, all we can really

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Speaker 1: point to is that the attacks are coming strong. I

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Speaker 1: knew they would. It was always my fear whenever we

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Speaker 1: set up our business here. But ultimately, look, the only

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Speaker 1: the reason to do it is because of all of

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Speaker 1: you who are out there who speak out against this stuff.

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Speaker 1: So the campaign continues. I don't know what else to say. Personally,

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Speaker 1: I'm very concerned about some of the warmongering lies and

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Speaker 1: Russia Gate lies that some of these other content creators

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Speaker 1: on substack have been profiting off of. So if we're

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Speaker 1: going to have a conversation about misinformation, let's have a

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Speaker 1: fullsome conversation about misinformation and who is getting what wrong

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Speaker 1: where and with what concepts. Label every single thing the

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Speaker 1: Pentagon says about Ukraine misinformation and then I'll start to

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Speaker 1: believe you. All right, guys, thanks for watching. A lot

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Speaker 1: more for you later. Some big news on the Amazon front.

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Speaker 1: New ruling from NLARB. Let's go ahead and put this

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Speaker 1: tear sheet up on the screen. The NLRB has accused

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Speaker 1: Amazon of threatening and surveilling warehouse workers on Staten Island.

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Speaker 1: That is a significant facility. That's, of course where Christian

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Speaker 1: Smalls was working when he was fired, they say for

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Speaker 1: violating COVID protocols. Okay, what he was really fired for

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Speaker 1: was agitating for better conditions and potentially a union for

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Speaker 1: his workers. It's also where we've tracked worker who again

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Speaker 1: was agitating for union rights, who was fired, who has

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Speaker 1: now been made homeless because he was fired potentially illegally

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Speaker 1: by Amazon. They deny all wrongdoing, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you a little bit of what this

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Speaker 1: article says. Federal labor regulators on Thursday accused Amazon if

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Speaker 1: illegally surveilling and threatening workers who are trying to unionize

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Speaker 1: a Staten Island, New York warehouse. They want to compel

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Speaker 1: Amazon to take certain actions to inform workers of their

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Speaker 1: right to organize. That's according to a regional director for

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Speaker 1: the agency. They say that Amazon repeatedly broke the law

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Speaker 1: by threatening, surveilling, and interrogating their Staten Island warehouse workers

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Speaker 1: who are engaged in a union organizing campaign. Amazon says

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Speaker 1: this is false and will show it through the process.

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Speaker 1: But you know, some of the behavior that they were

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Speaker 1: accused of here is really quite incredible. According to the complaint,

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Speaker 1: they interrogated employees about their organizing activities, called union organizers thugs,

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Speaker 1: and allegedly threatened employees by telling him it would be

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Speaker 1: futile to select the union as they're bargaining representative. They're

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Speaker 1: also accused of soliciting unspecified grievances from employees with the

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Speaker 1: promised to reviedy them if they reject the union, so

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Speaker 1: basically saying like, hey, if you've got some problem, I

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Speaker 1: can fix it for you if you reject the union.

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Speaker 1: This is totally and completely illegal. Union elections are supposed

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Speaker 1: workers have a right to join a union if they

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Speaker 1: want to join a union. Union elections are supposed to

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Speaker 1: occur in a laboratory environment, which is exactly what the

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Speaker 1: NLRB ruled Amazon had violated in that election down in Bessemer,

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Speaker 1: And all of this becomes really significant because the Amazon

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Speaker 1: labor union, this new union that's attempting to organize the

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Speaker 1: workers there on Staten Island, they just collected sufficient signatures

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Speaker 1: to trigger a union election. So this is an ongoing situation.

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Speaker 1: The one thing I'll point out here is how pathetic

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Speaker 1: it is that, like the remedy for this blatantly illegal

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Speaker 1: bullying and union busting behavior is that they're going to

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Speaker 1: have to like post notices around the warehouse about what

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Speaker 1: workers rights actually are. We always try to point that out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you can find them, but they always get

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Speaker 1: away with it. This is part of the problem. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you look at this stuff. It is just

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Speaker 1: so blatant. Also, how good is it that this news

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Speaker 1: comes from the Washington Post. Yeah, that's a great bright

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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. And let me tell you something. They immediately

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Speaker 1: in the fourth graph put Amazon spokesperson said the allegations

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Speaker 1: were false. Discl Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Posts.

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Speaker 1: These are little things you would never think of. It's

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Speaker 1: very very rare. In order to have the direct response

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Speaker 1: from the company, all the way up above the fold,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, in order to make it so that

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Speaker 1: I used to write and was a journalist, And if

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Speaker 1: you read, you can see that the responses are usually

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Speaker 1: buried in the twentieth or the thirtieth or whatever paragraph,

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Speaker 1: and they describe the allegation fully before, but instead they

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Speaker 1: put the response and then they go into the details

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Speaker 1: that Crystal all just laid out. So another little piece

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Speaker 1: of medium manipulation for all of you folks out there.

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Speaker 1: But look, this is the second time now they've been

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Speaker 1: caught threatening and surveilling warehouse workers on Staten Island. They

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Speaker 1: have to redo the election because they basically rigged it

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Speaker 1: over at Bessemer, even though they probably would have won anyways.

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Speaker 1: So you know, there's God, the stuff these people get

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Speaker 1: away with, it's unbelievable. Yeah, and listen, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think it's still very long odds in Bessemer that the

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Speaker 1: result will be any different, but the climate is a

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Speaker 1: little bit different now from when they are originally running

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Speaker 1: that election, so I do think they have a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a better shot this time around. But it

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Speaker 1: just shows you how you know the technical right to

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Speaker 1: join a union is you know, it's it's very difficult

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Speaker 1: because workers are rational to look at this set of

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Speaker 1: circumstances and say, you know what, they're threatening to fire me,

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Speaker 1: or they're threatening to close the plant if I vote

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Speaker 1: in favor of the union, if we ultimately end up

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Speaker 1: with a union, and you know what, they've done that

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff before and they got away with it.

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Speaker 1: So that's why these circumstances are so incredibly difficult, and

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Speaker 1: of course that's why you need a total sea change

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Speaker 1: in the way that we approach unionization and the way

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Speaker 1: that these elections ultimately occur. But you know, once again,

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Speaker 1: they're caught red handed effectively bullying, surveilling, and engaging in

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Speaker 1: these blatantly illegal tactics even under our sort of toothless

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Speaker 1: current union laws. And you know, I think the more

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Speaker 1: or that people see the way that Amazon behaves here,

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Speaker 1: the more workers are feeling in bolden, the better chance

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Speaker 1: we have of at least gaining a little bit of

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Speaker 1: ground within the labor movement. And ultimately, we care about

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Speaker 1: this so much because if you don't have an organized

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Speaker 1: working class, like honestly, you don't really have a democracy,

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Speaker 1: do you just have a corporatetocracy. You have exactly what

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Speaker 1: we have now, where it's rich people and corporate interests

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Speaker 1: who run everything because there is zero counterbalancing force. I've

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Speaker 1: been pointing it out here. But look, you know, unionization

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Speaker 1: actually went down in the year twenty twenty one, which

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Speaker 1: shows you a lot. When we have a big worker

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Speaker 1: revolution happening, which we all support, but we got to

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Speaker 1: make sure we keep these lasting changes. It can't be temporary.

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Speaker 1: You got to have people out there fighting. Should we

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Speaker 1: reform union? I don't know, you know, I don't have

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Speaker 1: the answer to a lot of this. I just want

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Speaker 1: people to have better lives and to fight for them.

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Speaker 1: And this is you know, this is just exactly what

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Speaker 1: all these folks are up against because they rule your

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Speaker 1: life if you work at these companies, and it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be that way. That's right, all right, all right, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for watching. We'll have more for you later. You

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Speaker 1: would think that this saga with Rogan would end, and

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Speaker 1: yet somehow, Crystal it makes it all the way to

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Speaker 1: the White House press briefing room where Jensaki says that, well,

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Speaker 1: what happened to Rogan? You know, the labeling is fine,

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Speaker 1: but we want to see more from the company. Here's

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Speaker 1: what she had to say. Sure. Last week, the Surgeon

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Speaker 1: General also was asked on MSNBC about Joe Rogan's vaccine

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Speaker 1: comments on Spotify, and he said that tech companies have

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Speaker 1: an important role to play in stopping misinformation because they

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Speaker 1: are the predominant places where misinformation spreads. Spotify is putting

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Speaker 1: out advisory warnings on episodes that have to do with

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Does the White House in the administration think

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Speaker 1: this is a satisfactory step or do you do you

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Speaker 1: think that companies like Spotify should go further than just

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Speaker 1: you know, putting a label on there to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: go do your own you know, to check this out.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's more research you can look at, you know,

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Speaker 1: signed research Gardi COVID. Sure, well last July you probably know.

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Speaker 1: But the Surgeon General also took the unprecedented step to

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Speaker 1: issue an advisor on the risk of misinformation and public health,

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Speaker 1: which is a very significant step. And amid that, he

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Speaker 1: talked about the role social media platforms have. So our

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Speaker 1: hope is that all major tech platforms, and all major

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Speaker 1: news sources for that matter, be responsible and be vigilant

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Speaker 1: to ensure the American people have access to accurate information

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Speaker 1: on something as significant as COVID nineteen that certainly includes Spotify.

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Speaker 1: So this disclaimer, it's a positive step, but we want

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Speaker 1: every platform to continue doing more to call out missing

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Speaker 1: disinformation while also uplifting accurate information. I mean, look at

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Speaker 1: the facts, right you are sixteen times more likely to

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Speaker 1: be hospitalized if you're unvaccinated and sixty eight times more

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Speaker 1: likely to die than someone who is boosted if you're unvaccinated.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty significant, and we think that is something that

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Speaker 1: unquestionably should be the basis of how people are communicating

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Speaker 1: about it. But ultimately, you know our views. It's a

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Speaker 1: good step, it's a positive step, but there's more that

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Speaker 1: can be done, more that can be done. Who are

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Speaker 1: these people to tell Spotify who and what should be

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Speaker 1: on their platform? This is like during the entire Facebook SOGA.

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, imagine having that privileged position

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Speaker 1: of being able to ask a question of the White

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Speaker 1: House Press secretary when you have the climate crisis you've got,

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Speaker 1: you know, people's lives are up, and inflation, I mean,

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Speaker 1: all of these major issues, and you want to know

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Speaker 1: about the labeling on Spotify I know what Joe Rogan's

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Speaker 1: podcast because he knows it's going to get clips and

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Speaker 1: he knows his face is going to be on television.

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Speaker 1: It's disgusting. And oh, by the way, this I knew

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Speaker 1: immediately when they started going this direction of like, let

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Speaker 1: me tell you about the misinformation out there on Facebook

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Speaker 1: and on Spotify, on all these platforms. When they did

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Speaker 1: this a while back. This is a great way to

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Speaker 1: scapegoat to distract from their own failings with regard to

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. Why don't you ask if you're worried about

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Speaker 1: pandemic deaths, why don't you ask why we aren't pushing

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Speaker 1: for a healthcare system that doesn't incentivize chronic illness and

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Speaker 1: death and keep people detached from the medical system so

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Speaker 1: that they're fearful of going to the doctor when they

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Speaker 1: get sick. Why don't you ask about that? Or why

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Speaker 1: don't you ask about how they lied about caring that

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Speaker 1: the big pharma companies lifted their patent protections. They said, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we support that, and then they did nothing about it

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Speaker 1: and continue to block that proposed that the World Trade Organization.

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Speaker 1: If you're worried about people being unvaccinated, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you you got way bigger fish to fry than freaking

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Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. It's just so outrageous, and the number of

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Speaker 1: people who are begging for politicians to take a more

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Speaker 1: active hand in censorship and picking who can be heard

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Speaker 1: and who can't be heard is deeply, deeply desissed. Nuts.

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Speaker 1: But okay, let's talk about misinformation. You say there's an

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Speaker 1: imminent attack by Russia on Ukraine. The Ukrainians say that's

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Speaker 1: not true. So is that misinformation? That's actually real misinformation

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Speaker 1: about what you are saying? You say something about you say,

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Speaker 1: for example, on the Biden administration with all of their

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Speaker 1: claims around Russia, which is being driven by Putin for X,

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Speaker 1: Y and Z, is any of that even true? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what about that? Miss Do you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: dangerous activity? What are you doing in Afghanistan right now?

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Speaker 1: Denying millions of people are about to starve to a

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Speaker 1: million people have already fled the country, millions of children

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Speaker 1: are about to starve to death, and you're asking about

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Speaker 1: whether the labeling is enough on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's

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Speaker 1: such a joke. I mean, that's the thing is, it's

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Speaker 1: just such a joke. It's such a show. You're right,

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Speaker 1: the incentives are so perverse. All that dude cares about

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Speaker 1: is like a clip on the nightly news or whatever,

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Speaker 1: so people like us will talk about it, which here

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Speaker 1: we are doing. I guess it serves his interests, but

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Speaker 1: at least we're showing you what the real incentives are

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Speaker 1: involved here. It's disgraceful. It's such a show and just

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Speaker 1: pure theater and a distraction from anything that would actually

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Speaker 1: make people's lives better. So yeah, it's very convenient for

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Speaker 1: them to scapegoat. You know, Joe who listen. I talked

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Speaker 1: about those podcasts and issues I had with him them.

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Speaker 1: But the idea that that's the problem in the country

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Speaker 1: is completely insane. People couldn't even get tested out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: here we are the omicron wave of subsiding. We still

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Speaker 1: haven't gotten our damn test. So it's utterly rittenban I'm

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Speaker 1: watching this. This is all part of a cathedral plan

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Speaker 1: in order to try and destroy him, Like I am

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Speaker 1: watching this very closely. We've got the White House involved, now,

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Speaker 1: the New York Times op ed page. Now I see

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Speaker 1: other artists out there trying to recruit Taylor Swift and

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Speaker 1: some of the biggest streamers on the platform. I'm watching

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Speaker 1: this happen in real time as they ramp it all up.

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Speaker 1: You know another thing I'd never considered, Crystal, I think

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Speaker 1: it's mighty convenient that this all happened right before earning season.

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Speaker 1: So Daniel Eck was actually forced in order to answer

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Speaker 1: on his earnings call when the stock has now dropped

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Speaker 1: by twenty percent over at Spotify. He's the CEO. Is

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Speaker 1: he's the CEO of Spotify. Now, this is something which

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Speaker 1: actually has been happening to Dave Portnoy, which is that

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Speaker 1: business Insider continues to drop these ridiculous people. We don't

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Speaker 1: have to litigate it right now, but they continue to

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Speaker 1: drop these sexual assault allegations against him right before his

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Speaker 1: company has to go and have earnings call, which puts

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Speaker 1: a huge screw on him and his stockholders and shareholders.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the exact same thing about what's happening.

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Speaker 1: We are watching all of this happen right before Spotify

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Speaker 1: earnings in order to try and destroy the stock, destroy

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Speaker 1: the company, and force them ultimately to fire Rogan. So

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Speaker 1: none of this is none of this is organic. I'm

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Speaker 1: fully convinced this is like a massive hit job, which

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Speaker 1: is all just happening, you know, semi, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of organically, because the incentives for these people is to

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Speaker 1: continue to spew it up. But it's a big it's

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Speaker 1: a big con job that's being pulled off on people,

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Speaker 1: and it's covering up for a lot of crimes by

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Speaker 1: the people actually in these towns. Yeah, it's a total distraction.

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Speaker 1: It's disgraceful. Ye. All right, guys, thanks for watching. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have more for you later