Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Unite turned Auto Workers. Hey Union, my name is Jack
Speaker 1: Dad Over there, Well that's Miles Miles.
Speaker 2: Holy shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, the guy's love that voice.
Speaker 2: Really that. I mean, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: He it's he's like still learning to talk, but he
Speaker 4: will always do that back to me if I go
Speaker 4: demon boy, He's like, I'm like, oh shit, all right, man,
Speaker 4: you take after your old man.
Speaker 2: You'll be doing an Australian accent no time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was doing bits with my kids the other day.
Speaker 1: I was like, did my dad ever do like bits
Speaker 1: like voices and like just dumb shit. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 2: But anyway, you're like, did my father do bit?
Speaker 3: Was my father a bit? Idiot?
Speaker 2: Idiot? H Miles? How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: We just had a fantastic recording with the One and
Speaker 4: Only mister Cold Brew.
Speaker 3: Sorry to tease that out, but.
Speaker 2: That's I was there too, so I don't Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just want to let people know. It's one of
Speaker 2: that people know.
Speaker 1: You get ready for safety your loins A gross phrase
Speaker 1: that is I think people said though in history, So
Speaker 1: I didn't just make it up.
Speaker 2: If that weird did you have.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: To gird your loins?
Speaker 3: This means like get ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gird yourself is like you know, I always pictured
Speaker 1: as like, you know, flexing and getting into a crouch
Speaker 1: like a giant wave is about to.
Speaker 2: Hit right right right, But we're also not doing miles.
Speaker 2: I didn't, did you. I didn't realize that it's about
Speaker 2: tying your tunic up for battle. Okay, gird your loins.
Speaker 4: Boy, Yeah, there's like a whole thing is like how
Speaker 4: to gird your loins, And it's like a dude in
Speaker 4: a tunic who's just like, yeah, man, wrap that ship
Speaker 4: around your balls because it's it's fighting time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you don't want that ship flapping around. No.
Speaker 1: We we both had truly brutal loss in the NBA PLO.
Speaker 2: We're not going to talk about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean it's.
Speaker 4: Fine because I've already accepted. I've already I look. I
Speaker 4: said this in multiple chats. I said this to Prop
Speaker 4: and Sophie Lichterman and other Laker fans.
Speaker 3: I know, when they were.
Speaker 4: Getting all turned up for the performance that was happening
Speaker 4: in Game two.
Speaker 2: I said, bro, this season's over.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't care how much they're leading by.
Speaker 2: It ain't happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure enough, we got We both got matching dick kicks.
Speaker 3: As I said, who got matching?
Speaker 4: The Sixers got a fucked up into their game with
Speaker 4: the Lakers alside of Fu Up and Spider Man.
Speaker 1: Meme with both of us pointing at each other while
Speaker 1: being kicked in. The Dickers lost in brutal, heartbreaking fashion.
Speaker 1: They were up like five with uh you know, less
Speaker 1: than a minute to go and ended up losing it.
Speaker 4: Brunton had a terrible game, and he's like, let me
Speaker 4: just bring the game closer with this bouncy off the rim.
Speaker 1: Three and to the Kawhi Leonard shot. Also, you're allowed
Speaker 1: to tackle people in the final minute of the game.
Speaker 2: Nobody told us that.
Speaker 3: If they told us.
Speaker 2: That, we would have played differently.
Speaker 3: Man was definitely confused after that.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, there, yeah, And then the Lakers
Speaker 1: were up twenty in the second half and game winner.
Speaker 2: This was a difficult night of basketball.
Speaker 4: It look like I said in another thread with Jabbari
Speaker 4: and you, it's hard to watch if you have expectations.
Speaker 2: I expected that to happen, so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: here they go go ahead and do your thing, bro,
Speaker 2: and we want to bring Darvin Ham back. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah I try not to watch Sixers games. And then
Speaker 1: you and Jabbari are.
Speaker 5: Like whoa, wow, golly wow that yeah you get think, golly,
Speaker 5: get on, and then just got my heart ripped out
Speaker 5: of my rib cage.
Speaker 3: It was yeah.
Speaker 4: See, that's the fun part about watching as a neutral
Speaker 4: is you get to be invested in it, like whereas
Speaker 4: I'm sure other people watch.
Speaker 2: The Lakers like oh this could be interesting, and I was.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I forget it, but eh, if there were
Speaker 4: some gay moments, some Golley moments.
Speaker 1: There were some golly all right, let's talk about people
Speaker 1: that are winning, winning, yes, winners unions right now. Basically,
Speaker 1: the United Auto Workers ratified their contracts with the big
Speaker 1: three automakers in November. We heard about that one that
Speaker 1: was big, huge, and then now they've also there's a
Speaker 1: reason when for the UAW at a Volkswagen plant in
Speaker 1: Tennessee and everyone's like, shop, the fuckers.
Speaker 4: Don't give the labor movement any more fucking props, I mean,
Speaker 4: like for them for it to be described as like
Speaker 4: historic and stuff.
Speaker 3: It wasn't front page news.
Speaker 4: It was buried somewhere, you know, in the recesses of
Speaker 4: the Washington Post or New York Times. But you know,
Speaker 4: despite the tepid response from the newspapers, the governors of Texas,
Speaker 4: South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia, they collect sively
Speaker 4: fired off this warning, which was quote, we want to
Speaker 4: keep good paying jobs and continue to grow the American
Speaker 4: auto manufacturing sector. Here, a successful unionization drive will stop
Speaker 4: this growth in its tracks. And that's what you're like
Speaker 4: growth for who? Yeah, because how are you going to
Speaker 4: tell somebody who's working for wages that their wages not
Speaker 4: growing is somehow growth?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The reason this is bad for big business is that,
Speaker 1: you know, these state governments are able to recruit like
Speaker 1: German automakers to the US by being like, hey, and
Speaker 1: we can treat our laborers like shit, shit, it's cool man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's specifically a quote German workers don't relish competing with
Speaker 1: cheaper foreign in this case the United States labor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right, and like they're like it's cool. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: it's cool, bro. You can you can absolutely take advantage
Speaker 2: of this labor force out here.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think that's what is interesting about this case, right,
Speaker 4: is like cause again, like you said, these governors they
Speaker 4: are taking it there. They're kind of having some ownership
Speaker 4: of this because of the amounts of subsidies that they
Speaker 4: give away to bring the foreign automakers here. And that's
Speaker 4: why this is a special case, because there are unionized
Speaker 4: plants in the South, and but this is a foreign plant.
Speaker 4: And because of the strength of the unions in Europe,
Speaker 4: like these companies like Volkswagen are just not as horny
Speaker 4: to go scorts earthed with the union busting. They're just
Speaker 4: like yeah, man, it's just like out there, like it's
Speaker 4: a bad look. Like you try to stay neutral in
Speaker 4: this shit. But the other thing is they've already teamed
Speaker 4: up with like Coke funded entities to like make their
Speaker 4: states as hostile to unions as possible. There's there's this
Speaker 4: group called the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, and
Speaker 4: they yeah something, good guys, Yeah, yeah, ALEC, Baldwin, good guy,
Speaker 4: good guy, good guy. But they've been banding about this
Speaker 4: bill called the Taxpayer Dollars Protect Workers Act that bars
Speaker 4: that bars state subsidies to any business that recognize is
Speaker 4: a union.
Speaker 2: Oh ok.
Speaker 4: Another way to put that is that they will pay
Speaker 4: people to ignore the fuck out of unionization drives and
Speaker 4: then you can get some state subsidies. So up next
Speaker 4: is a Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. If you read
Speaker 4: the New York Times, like their labor reporters sort of like, well,
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe because't something cold happen. Probably not,
Speaker 4: Probably doesn't to worry about here. But if you if
Speaker 4: you talk to like union United Autoworkers organizers.
Speaker 2: They are very confident that they are going to have the.
Speaker 3: Numbers to win.
Speaker 4: So, you know, I think the Red the governor in Alabama,
Speaker 4: has only like one tactic in trying to convince workers
Speaker 4: to avoid unions, and it's essentially just saying, like, just
Speaker 4: make less money, right.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, no.
Speaker 4: Okay, but they're going to be the party talking to
Speaker 4: the working class, right.
Speaker 3: Uh. But who knows?
Speaker 1: I mean, is that an option for companies to just
Speaker 1: ignore union like unions just ignore it?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think what they're doing is it's mostly
Speaker 4: that they of the collection of union authorization cards. Is
Speaker 4: what the language that they're using. So it's going to
Speaker 4: be the bills are probably going to be signed. I
Speaker 4: think Brian Kemp and Georgia is about to sign it.
Speaker 4: K Ivy is about to sign it in Alabama. Like like,
Speaker 4: it's just so wild, how like these coke funded groups
Speaker 4: are like, all right, all these auto plants in the South,
Speaker 4: We've got bills for all you governors to make this
Speaker 4: shit obviously the most hostile shit to workers as possible
Speaker 4: and pro corporation as much as possible.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll keep an eye on that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe the mainstream media might not.
Speaker 4: But it's just weird how they don't want to keep
Speaker 4: giving like fanning the momentum of the late organized labor
Speaker 4: movement because like just let people know that this is
Speaker 4: a way to fucking have, you know, collective power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we have a couple updates on the
Speaker 1: un RWA or the UN Relief Works Association. That's the
Speaker 1: group that is you know, UN workers who are trying
Speaker 1: to do like humanitarian aid that had Israel basically say
Speaker 1: they are like terrorists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which yeah, seemed weird at the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and it was very interesting too because that allegation
Speaker 4: caused a lot of Western nations, you know, other settler
Speaker 4: colonial nations, be like, well.
Speaker 3: Then we're pulling funding. You said they're Hamas well, then
Speaker 3: no way.
Speaker 4: And this was the main relief agency that was helping
Speaker 4: Palestinian people, So like this was very intentional to be like,
Speaker 4: we're going to take away any sort of support mechanisms
Speaker 4: that exist for you.
Speaker 3: Well, guess what.
Speaker 4: The UN conducted their own investigation in like specifically not
Speaker 4: about how many people were involved on October seventh, because
Speaker 4: that's a separate allegation, but there was allegations of like
Speaker 4: militancy within the within this organization. The UN and multiple
Speaker 4: human rights organizations said they they could find no evidence
Speaker 4: that these people were like actively militant or had like
Speaker 4: ties to Hamas, and they said the Israeli government specifically
Speaker 4: said this specifically in their report has not provided supporting
Speaker 4: evidence for this allegation at all. As they were asking them,
Speaker 4: we're like, well, we're doing an investigation, Like we can't
Speaker 4: get that to you.
Speaker 1: Quite quite yet, We're still doing the investigation. And while
Speaker 1: we are, we feel like the best course of action
Speaker 1: is to act as though we have found evidence of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: And meanwhile, you know there's the reports of like mass grave,
Speaker 4: like this mass grave at a hospital in Gaza, and
Speaker 4: the Secretary of State like when asked about it, he's.
Speaker 2: Like, Okay, well, yeah, we'll look into that.
Speaker 4: As if we're talking about someone saying like the water
Speaker 4: cooler is fucking broken in the breakroom, like we're fucking like,
Speaker 4: this is just what's so frustrating thing for so many
Speaker 4: onlookers Like that is such a demonic response when most
Speaker 4: people understand now like the US has floor seats their
Speaker 4: front row for this shit, and they're raw rahing it
Speaker 4: and throwing their bills into the ring, and the best
Speaker 4: is like, yeah, we'll look into that, and the like
Speaker 4: the double speak of like well you know there's there's
Speaker 4: going to be repercussions or whatever. We're not seeing anything
Speaker 4: like that, and inocent people continue to die.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd like to say do better, but fucking
Speaker 4: do better because there's fucking genocide happening. And then that
Speaker 4: also ties into this Columbia University story. So over the
Speaker 4: weekend there were you know, like over one hundred pro
Speaker 4: Palestinian protesters were arrested on the campus of Columbia University.
Speaker 4: Like the police cleared out this like encampment that the
Speaker 4: students had set up again because they're saying stop the genocide,
Speaker 4: and this was wild the New York the NYPD cleared
Speaker 4: them out and this fucking responsible.
Speaker 3: The New York.
Speaker 4: New York Police Department was criticized by the NYPD. The
Speaker 4: Chief of Police, John Chell stated that, quote, the students
Speaker 4: that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and
Speaker 4: we're saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Point the NYPD is like, you're kind of like fucking
Speaker 1: up here.
Speaker 3: I'll see what the fuck that was all about.
Speaker 4: And then again Monday, we heard that they were moving
Speaker 4: classes to be held virtually because there was like one
Speaker 4: group on campus that Columbia's Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiatives
Speaker 4: said that students should stay home. There was another group
Speaker 4: Columbia and Barnard Helll They said, we don't see a
Speaker 4: reason for people to stay off of campus, like we
Speaker 4: have not assessed any danger to students there. But this
Speaker 4: like goes on again because now people are like the
Speaker 4: media is doing this thing of conflating anti genocide, anti apartheid,
Speaker 4: pro piece pro Palestinian nonviolent protest with like like violent
Speaker 4: anti semitism, and it's true, there are fucking bad actors
Speaker 4: and there are people who are completely taking this message
Speaker 4: the complete wrong way.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that that's not happen y.
Speaker 1: They there are anti there's anti Semitism, and like people
Speaker 1: using this as an opportunity to foster anti semachism online.
Speaker 1: In reality, for sure, there's also widespread Islamophobia that doesn't
Speaker 1: get mentioned by the same time.
Speaker 4: And again, but I think with Columbia specifically, it's really
Speaker 4: important to understand they have they have like no one
Speaker 4: right now, Like with that unfolding, the only people that
Speaker 4: were allowed on the campus of Colombia were people who
Speaker 4: had Columbia University IDs. So a lot of people are
Speaker 4: looking at protests that are happening just outside of the
Speaker 4: campus and saying this is part of the Columbia students protest,
Speaker 4: which has a different energy than the peaceful protests that
Speaker 4: were happening on campus, like with the students, and I
Speaker 4: think that's like it's context that isn't really being provided
Speaker 4: much into something I've read from a lot of the
Speaker 4: criticism about the coverage of these protests, when again, like
Speaker 4: the other thing too that they're also these students are protesting,
Speaker 4: was getting the university to also divest quote from its
Speaker 4: financial holdings in firms that profit from Israel's war and
Speaker 4: occupation in Palestine. So it's just yeah, it's it's just
Speaker 4: fucking mass confusion. But more protests have popped up on
Speaker 4: other college campuses and solidarity. We saw also at NYU
Speaker 4: there were the professors were like locking arms to protect
Speaker 4: the students and their ability to peacefully protest. So it's
Speaker 4: I don't know, I feel like we're seeing more of
Speaker 4: like a sea change slightly like in kind of like
Speaker 4: what we're seeing on like mainstream campuses or whatever. But
Speaker 4: the real changes need to happen with the US government
Speaker 4: and actually doing something rather than I don't know, Joe
Speaker 4: Biden just like kissing his chances of being president goodbye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 1: Typewriter enthusiasts are a group of people. Tom Hanks is
Speaker 1: one that's about as far as my knowledge of typewriter
Speaker 1: enthusiasts goes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right. He's like a collector, right, he's
Speaker 2: a typewriter collector.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's like a brief period where I was
Speaker 1: like really into writing when I was young, and I
Speaker 1: was like I should like start using a typewriter.
Speaker 2: That oh that was like you like Hemingway, like a
Speaker 2: cigarette dangling from your lip. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And then I got one and like that shit is
Speaker 1: so hard to type on my god, I got like
Speaker 1: literally I got a sentence into my typewriter era and
Speaker 1: was like, well, this doesn't work at all for me.
Speaker 3: My pinky hurts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyways, Keller Swift's new album has had a
Speaker 1: lot of typewriter based imagery and its promotion. There's a
Speaker 1: lyric reveal video and the music video for the song Fortnite,
Speaker 1: in which she and posts malone pound away at typewriters,
Speaker 1: creating some kind of like swirly magical sex cloud thing.
Speaker 2: I know, did the colors have to be so like
Speaker 2: gender heteronormative. She has alue and hers are pink.
Speaker 4: It's a boy because yeah, and that's how you know
Speaker 4: that those things were fucking because they wanted to make
Speaker 4: it clear that yeah, it's blue wave and pink wave.
Speaker 1: But fans even noticed that the typewriter used in the
Speaker 1: video contained a secret message because it had no number
Speaker 1: one key. But she's had songs that are like you
Speaker 1: could have been the one, you know, so this is
Speaker 1: implying that she has lost her one or no one
Speaker 1: else is ever going to be the one.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Except in reality, that's how all typewriters were made, because
Speaker 1: people just used the lower case l's for ones to
Speaker 1: save space and reduce costs, because you typewriters were like,
Speaker 1: you know, you paid by the key.
Speaker 4: It's a straight line, man, you need one, you got
Speaker 4: to you got two ways you can do that on.
Speaker 2: You, But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Paranoid typewriter hobbyists are worried that Taylor Swift's endorsement will
Speaker 1: lead to an influx of Taylor Swift fans buying old typewriters,
Speaker 1: which will drive up the cost.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, guys.
Speaker 1: I think the lyrics to the the title song of
Speaker 1: the album like make fun of Like this is literally
Speaker 1: the lyrics, right you left your typewriter at my apartment,
Speaker 1: straight from the Tortured Poets department. I think some things
Speaker 1: I never say, like who uses typewriters anyway? Damn you
Speaker 1: were en roasting you for using it.
Speaker 2: That's you, bro. You were you were tortured poets depart department.
Speaker 1: Yeah for someone like I was not tortured enough for
Speaker 1: someone to stick with it after realizing like al Wes
Speaker 1: just have computers that are way better, and like the
Speaker 1: typing on this ship sucks, like it's so hard, is
Speaker 1: uh Yeah, I was not tortured enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's like someone who's like I only do degerat type potography.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's like, okay, we get it.
Speaker 4: Man, Like you could alter digital image, but you want
Speaker 4: everybody to stay still while you'd use your phosphorus flash bar.
Speaker 1: That's right, doesn't make it cool. I like the sound
Speaker 1: of typewriters. I just can't be bothered to actually do
Speaker 1: the do the work of powering them. Remember word processors
Speaker 1: word yeah, I'm typing, no, like the.
Speaker 3: All in one machine.
Speaker 4: Because when she was like writing for Japanese magazine and stuff,
Speaker 4: I remember she would always bring this heavy ass word processor.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what the fuck is that?
Speaker 2: And I was like are there games on there? She's like,
Speaker 2: get the fuck away from this thing.
Speaker 3: This is my job, and I'm like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Serious, I mean that's all we had. We had like
Speaker 1: a whole ass computer. We had like an office desk
Speaker 1: chair that you could roll around on and a whole
Speaker 1: ass computer that was only used it like basically only
Speaker 1: had Microsoft word on it.
Speaker 2: That right free there, SkiFree would be on their mind.
Speaker 2: Sweep healtare, Yeah, I never we never.
Speaker 1: I never tried to install ski free at home. That
Speaker 1: was some school shit though.
Speaker 2: Dude, when you set the fucking tree on fire by
Speaker 2: jumping over it, that was sick.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: Was that the one where the yeddi would come out?
Speaker 3: He would come out? Yeah, that part.
Speaker 1: Let's see a millionaire went homeless as a social experiment
Speaker 1: with the goal of making one million dollars in twelve months, and.
Speaker 4: He did this guy fucking goon, he fucking He's like,
Speaker 4: I'm going so I'm putting myself into debt, I'm losing
Speaker 4: all my money and guess what, I'm gonna get to
Speaker 4: a million bucks. And he's like starts off talking about
Speaker 4: how he has no home. He's like LARPing as like
Speaker 4: a working person.
Speaker 3: Basically it was kind of fucking obviously offensive.
Speaker 2: But then like eventually like he started having health.
Speaker 4: Issues and he's like, guys, it's just there's no way
Speaker 4: to do this like when you have health issues and
Speaker 4: like health.
Speaker 2: It's not fair and it's not fair.
Speaker 3: It's not here.
Speaker 4: Actually this is like it's not fair enough to do this,
Speaker 4: so I'm do it anymore, like and he pulled the
Speaker 4: plug on it.
Speaker 1: Fortunately, nobody in real world, none of the unhoused people
Speaker 1: that he saw and were like, yeah, right, no way
Speaker 1: I'm giving them money. If I was them, I would
Speaker 1: simply get a high paying job and save a million dollars.
Speaker 1: Those people, fortunately never have health problems and that drive
Speaker 1: them into debt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so but like so it's not cheating, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, Like, it's just like it's just like
Speaker 4: not like I don't know, I just I played the
Speaker 4: game on hard mode, and I should I should have
Speaker 4: been a little bit more like realistic about like what.
Speaker 3: My state level was.
Speaker 1: Those people should just say, uh, actually I'm not playing
Speaker 1: anymore and go back to having ever williams of dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah I actually wasn't playing, but yeah yeah, and that
Speaker 1: was actually this was my point the whole time, was
Speaker 1: to show that it's impossible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like the stress got to me man of
Speaker 4: not having money, Oh did it?
Speaker 1: Buddy? Anyways, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Tuesday, April twenty third. We are back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show Chris
Speaker 1: Crofton until then, be kind to each other, be kind
Speaker 1: to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bye.
Speaker 2: Bite