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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of frind

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Speaker 1: Or Boltovs eightening very very frightening me. That is courtesy

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Speaker 1: of Box of Chords of Unknown Origins, which is their name.

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Speaker 1: That's funny. I have one of those things. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: a box of Chords of Unknown Origins. I'm not joking yo.

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Speaker 1: That is that is most of our storage space is

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Speaker 1: just a random salad cables, unused cables and chords. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you open it up. Just what is this electronic salad? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's almost like the thing where like her mat She's like,

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Speaker 1: do we have him check the cables box. He's got

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Speaker 1: it all, every form of USB in multiple lengths. Yes. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: shout out to Box of Chords of Unknown Origins. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and Queen a little band that people should check out.

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Speaker 1: Little band from the UK. They got some bops. Gang. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Scott Rudin. I always had my suspicions

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Speaker 1: based on his name that this guy was not too cool.

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Speaker 1: Rude Dude. Scott Rude Dude was his nickname in Hollywood

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Speaker 1: assistant circles. He's like a legendary producer, um who it

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Speaker 1: has just been like it's an open secret that he's

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Speaker 1: an abusive dick to people who work for and around him. Um,

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Speaker 1: So a expose has come out where they're like, well,

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Speaker 1: now the me in the me too era, you're not

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Speaker 1: allowed to do things like uh. In this case, there's

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Speaker 1: a story in which he uh. One of his assistants

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Speaker 1: is not able to book him on a sold out flight,

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Speaker 1: and in a fit of fury, he smashed an Apple

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Speaker 1: computer monitor on the assistants hand. The screen chattered, leaving

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Speaker 1: the young man bleeding and in need of immediate medical attention.

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Speaker 1: I would have bucked Scott rutined up right there, it

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Speaker 1: would have been. And oh, I hate this ship. I

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Speaker 1: hate because man production is weird like that. Hollywood is

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Speaker 1: very fucking weird, where like asshole creative people can just

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Speaker 1: fucking flourish because of like their ability to make money

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Speaker 1: for a studio and ship like this, and like you

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Speaker 1: have these instances where it's someone who's so out in

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Speaker 1: the open with this ship. But because you know, that's

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Speaker 1: that's why I think it's so rampant, especially in entertainment,

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Speaker 1: because there's no recourse for anyone if you're up against

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Speaker 1: someone who has more perceived power or influence within the industry,

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Speaker 1: like there's just no there's no way to remedy it

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Speaker 1: because it's all built on like, you know, gathering around

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Speaker 1: people who are influential and powerful to have, you know how,

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Speaker 1: allow your own stock to rise. And I feel like there's,

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Speaker 1: especially in the executive side, there's more insecurity uh than

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Speaker 1: your typical industry because there's like it's not a job

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Speaker 1: just feel insecure in that job, and so it's easy

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Speaker 1: to bully insecure people. And also being insecure leads to

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Speaker 1: bullying behavior a lot of the time. So uh, Anyway,

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Speaker 1: everyone left work that day and was like fuck this,

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Speaker 1: But then they came back the next day and continue

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Speaker 1: to work for him, um and last bowl at a

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Speaker 1: colleague and just throw a potato with the yeah there

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Speaker 1: they say, like it's openly acknowledged that people would be

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Speaker 1: like going bald prematurely like getting yeah, just like working there.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I thought was interesting was Tatiana Seagal tweeted,

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Speaker 1: you know, several people I spoke to for the Scott

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Speaker 1: Ruden piece told me they spoke to the New York

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Speaker 1: Times last year for a for a similar expose. H

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Speaker 1: obviously it never ran huh New York Times. Uh. I

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Speaker 1: mean yeah, that's that mainstream media complex of you know,

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Speaker 1: sources and tightly woven web of sources and access and

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Speaker 1: financial Uh. You know, there's probably big studios that advertised

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Speaker 1: with the New York Times. Um. Anyways, funk this, dude, Uh,

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Speaker 1: this one like that would be wonderful if suddenly we

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Speaker 1: had a a sea change where people like this were

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Speaker 1: just no longer employable within any industry. Um. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it just has to be. I don't for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: you know, we just have to be better about take

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Speaker 1: allegations of this kind of fucking behavior and like learning

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Speaker 1: how to I mean, I'm not in a position to

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we're going to arrive at that

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Speaker 1: and protect the people who are actually trying to bring

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Speaker 1: allowing like the culture of like, dude, it's career suicide

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Speaker 1: if you fucking say something. Man. Yeah, shack is trending

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Speaker 1: for better reasons. Yeah, a little little capitalism fairy tale exactly,

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Speaker 1: our favorite kind field good story, shack Oh, rich man

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Speaker 1: paid for this man's wedding engagement ring debt. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just some guy was paying off like for his

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Speaker 1: and guy was like, hey, thanks, Shaq just taps him,

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Speaker 1: So he said, He's just he's just trying to make

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Speaker 1: Bill Murray esque tales too, of his acts of kindness. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: is worth of groceries, like for the next hour or whatever. Exactly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of one of those things that probably

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Yeah we love Oh my god, rich

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Speaker 1: exactly right. I'm sorry, but that those instances are one

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Speaker 1: in five billion. When the celebrity is like, hi, allow

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Speaker 1: me to extend my generosity towards you to get you out.

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Speaker 1: That's not that's but again that kind of gets your

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Speaker 1: for us to not try and fight for something better.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Shock will pull up and pay for my medical bills.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson is trending because he was like, wait a

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Speaker 1: second here. Uh, Tana Hesse Coates is writing a new

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Speaker 1: Captain America series and one Red Skull, who is a

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Speaker 1: classic Captain America villain. Uh, some of his schemes and

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Speaker 1: ideas resemble one Jordan Peterson's ideas, and he's like, is

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Speaker 1: he trying to say something about me? And people are

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Speaker 1: pointing out like, it's not. It's not so specific. It's

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Speaker 1: just like that what he what Jordan Peterson is doing,

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Speaker 1: is not original enough for him. Do even draw that conclusion.

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Speaker 1: There's so many people who have similar ideals and are

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Speaker 1: praying on unsuspecting young people on the internet. But uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean Captain America has always been anti fash from

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Speaker 1: days two now the people with the shield storming the capitol, right,

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Speaker 1: I get. Yeah, I just gonna this guy. It's just

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Speaker 1: one of the first sort of outrage of culture war

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, good for you. But anyways, apparently that

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Speaker 1: did not realize that Coates was writing a Captain American series.

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Speaker 1: That's fucking dope. I don't really read comics, but I

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Speaker 1: and Uh, the Amy Poehler's name is trending because she

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Speaker 1: there is a stripper who was Uh. There is basically

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Speaker 1: fake though, just putting that out. They were trying to

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Speaker 1: say that this dancer was Amy Poehler bait because the

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Speaker 1: mug shot looked like her. No, they were just like,

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Speaker 1: immediately debunked. The it is a mug shot from a

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Speaker 1: if you know Amy Poehler, you'd see that much shot

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Speaker 1: finally hashtag decline now is trending. What's going on? It's

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Speaker 1: these so these two um door dash drivers in you know,

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Speaker 1: door dash needs to pay people more so they're not

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Speaker 1: you know, weaponizing your own draconian algorithm against you for

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Speaker 1: you know, humane pay. That's yeah, it's they're taking advantage

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Speaker 1: also shouldn't be necessary. But yeah, shout out to decline. Now,

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Speaker 1: all right, those are some of the things that are

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Speaker 1: trending this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the

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Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind

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Speaker 1: and don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk acountable