Subscribe at www.patreon.com/miniondeathcult to support the show and get 40+ hours of bonus episodes, including a lengthy bonus segment from this episode. This week, Brett Payne of Street Fight (https://soundcloud.com/streetfightwcrs) helps us do a deep-dive on McB of McB'$ Men's Fashion in St. Petersburg Florida, a small-business owner own who posted his way into financial ruin, both online and irl. "After devoting 10 years of my life, and great service here with McB's in downtown City of St. Petersburg, Florida USA. The new, rotten, Entitled, and mainly FEMINIST within the LGTBQ community have ruined my business, reputation, and life. They are truly Evil people. Not only should they all be sued civilly for such false public slander, but in some circumstances should do some serious Jail time" Also: we cover the Jussie Smollett incident, the conservative reaction, and the Chicago PD's handling of the case. Support the new anti-capitalist studio Means TV, and their effort to create a horizontally-organized platform for leftist content at https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/lets-build-means-tv
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Brett Payne, co-host of Street Fight Radio.
Thank you so much for joining us.
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69 is a great number because everybody gets equal pleasure, you know?
That's what's so great about it.
It's hard to leave that.
But 420 is a great number to achieve.
So you've got an even better goal.
And we're almost getting to everybody being able to enjoy 420.
We're like, you know, a few dozen states away from everybody enjoying 420.
Yeah, it means CBD won't make you flip out on 420.
That's why we gotta really feel the burn.
The burning the ganja.
Has Bernie even run on legalizing weed?
Like, does he have to?
No, not even.
Does he have to?
It's like implicit, right?
He knows where he gets his money.
He knows where he gets his marijuana dollars.
We said that bar at like, I want to have a beer with them, you know?
But actually, no.
I want to like...
I want to hit a gravity bomb with this person.
You know?
Yeah, I want to do mushrooms with Bernie.
That would be so sick.
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We're going to do shooms with Bernie.
Yeah, Bernie's the only candidate who could say, like, no, I don't like weed, not for me.
And, like, millions of stoners everywhere are like, that's fair.
All right.
My head, man.
Different strokes, different folks.
Yeah, so Brett, of course, co-hosts Street Fight Radio, the number one anarcho-comedy show on any radio station across the nation.
And if you're not listening to Street Fight Radio, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Start listening immediately.
It's a wonderful show.
We love it on this podcast.
And we are very grateful to Brett for joining us.
Yeah it's great to have you around too because I didn't really know much before I came and guested in January I gave you a listen and everything and me and Brian used to do on the show Brian used to be when it was more low-key and there wasn't like you know thousands of like listeners that added him on Facebook he could actually deep dive into a lot of these groups and he would come up with stuff but his thing is all destroyed now and
It's nice to have it because I personally don't like reading the comments anymore.
Like, they drive me nuts, but listening to y'all do it, you know, it makes me proud.
It's like, yeah, it's like someone doing, like, a really dangerous job, you know, that, like, it's gonna kill ya, and, like, you're the next generation, like, of coal miners, you know, that are gonna get toxic brain worms.
Yeah, we're getting black brain from doing this show.
Right.
We're like the characters from that, what's that fucking suspense movie about defusing the bomb?
Oh, Footlocker.
Speed?
Footlocker, yeah.
Yeah, we're Speed.
We're Keanu.
That's way better than fucking the Hurt Locker.
Yeah, when you're in those comments, you gotta keep it at 55, because if you slow down, it gets really sad.
Well, if you go any faster than 55, you'll go even further backward in time.
And, uh, you know, we all know how that ends up.
Um, so, uh, we got a few things to talk about today.
Uh, the first topic I feel like is very street fight adjacent.
Uh, and I'm calling this segment, I'm calling this, uh, episode probably the Ballad of McBee.
And this is the story of a small business owner who posted himself into financial ruin.
Posting not only on Facebook, but on the front window of his very own establishment in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
This is something that we love on the show.
Just people who can't stop posting.
Politicians, local personalities who just don't know when to stop posting.
Trap rappers.
Yeah, exactly.
I look at someone like this and they're so obnoxious and he's probably just been contained to his small town for so long but the internet Now means like his obnoxious tentacles can spread out across the country.
I'm honestly surprised that Mick B has not.
It's really his own like ineptitude.
Like, his failure is what makes me believe in a meritocracy.
Like, his failure to sort of become a, I don't know, right-wing boomer personality on YouTube or Facebook is because he is so inept at...
either technology or at public relations or something because he is uh he's putting it all out there and by all rights he should be a figure um you know like Adam Calhoun or like any one of these intensely popular front front seat of their truck yelling guys but he just doesn't know how to do it right
So, Mick B owns a second-hand men's clothing store in St.
Petersburg, Florida, like I said.
He claims to specialize in, like, high-end men's fashion, like Gucci and Versace, but what he really specializes in is, like, petty grievances against women and the gay community.
Plus like the clothes are just shit.
It's like, so all the suits he sells, it's like Farmsworth Bentley of Outkast fame, but they're cut in the Steve Harvey fashion, and they're being worn by a white guy with spiked highlights.
Yeah, it's definitely looks like this guy, you know, somehow robbed like an estate sale.
Like that's the only way I figure he got these clothes is, you know, is they fell off the back of a truck.
I just don't see or like he has some sort of connection at the thrift store that gets him like the good shit first.
He's got he's got pictures on his like on his both his personal he's got like four different pages he's got two different pages for his clothing store which is called like McBee's Men's Clothing Store.
He's just bad at business you're supposed to have one fucking place for your customers to go.
Well the the the I don't know the most successful page has like uh 2,700 likes the second page has a thousand likes and then his personal page has you know so many followers or whatever um he but you know he does look like He's so weird-looking.
He looks like if Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray were dressed up as a 50s game show host.
Yeah, he looks like if Ryan Stiles grew up on the Florida beach.
He looks like an extra from the John Le Cosamo Mario Brothers movie.
Yes, yes.
He looks like King Koopa's failsong.
Yeah, he does.
King Koopa's little homie in the background.
Yeah, he looks like if he was born 30 years earlier his name would be Diamond Joe or something like that.
He looks like if a bowling rock dad decided to try out metrosexuality.
He looks like if somebody thought that Westernwear was just like what they imagined Nate Dogg wore.
Okay, so now that we've now that we've hopefully conveyed to it's just like the worst fashion from like 2005.
It's really obnoxious, cabal in your face.
From somebody that looks like they didn't do anything to earn it.
It's like they stole that.
Who did they steal that from?
What I was going to say earlier, I lost the thread, was he posts pictures of himself going to fucking Salvation Army to buy his stock.
Oh!
Okay, I know that hustle then.
I did that too.
Yeah.
Which is like tight, because I mean, I ran a Depop for sure.
Like, I did that for a minute.
But like, this guy is the reason there's still good stuff there. - Okay, so going to the McBee's official Facebook page, like, honestly, you're only gonna get a slice of honestly, you're only gonna get a slice of what McBee has to offer with this episode.
We can only spend so much time on this segment.
So if you're at all interested in McBee or Kevin McBride, go to these Facebook pages.
I'm liking it right now.
You could just do a whole podcast on McBee.
Honestly.
So if you go to the McBee's official, the top rated McBee's Facebook page, you get a sidebar that says, Our Story.
McBee's is now a slave to the LGTBQ community.
Dot dot dot dot dot.
They ruined my business.
Dot.
We are closed.
Dot dot dot.
So this is an interesting story.
Is that a consensual slave-dominatrix relationship he's talking about with the community?
It's an interesting turn of phrase to use in conjunction with the LGTBQ community.
It's an interesting turn of phrase to use when referring to a business owner.
That's true as well.
Well, you say that but I look at this guy's page.
I look at his social media presence and I'm thinking like as a slave to the LGTBQ community What he means is he's forced into public acts of humiliation You know like standing in front of his store with hand-drawn signs that say lock up feminist Okay Which is a real thing that he does.
What part of the community did this to him?
Just his mere existence.
Just the existence of queer folks drove him to make crudely drawn signs.
What I love is they're like poorly scripted signs on pieces of poster board that cost like $2.99.
And he just like scribbles on them.
You know, LGBTQ slave, but not in a cool way?
Well, what happened, as much as I can glean from- A few things happened to McBee.
Uh...
He posts a lot, and he posts his opinions about Trump, and his opinions about whatever Democratic mayor won the race in his area, or didn't win, I don't even know.
But he puts signs up on the window of his store talking shit about the Democratic candidate for mayor, and how everybody is sheep who voted for him, and everybody is afraid to be called racist for voting for the Republican.
And he also just posted a ton of shit against the queer community in that area.
And apparently he has a personal vendetta against one of the female bartenders at a bar that's like around the corner from him.
So in one of the posts he did, I don't think I have the image up right now, he calls her out, says where she works, says who she is, and says that she is targeting him.
Just posts these printed signs in his own window.
Um, another debasing act that this piggy must do to appease his LGBTQ mistress is like, again, posting more signs in his window.
Like this one that says, uh...
LGBTQ community has me in fear for my own life.
I can't seem to overcome the power they have.
They have me running in fear.
I'm enslaved to them, and I must conform.
So, for that reason, we are closed early today.
Sorry!
What's crazy is, out of context, that's kind of hot.
That's kind of a hot-ass paragraph.
I'm like, yo, me and the dude are about to fuck.
Yeah, I can root that on for sure.
The feeling grabbed you.
It's an uncontrollable urge I have right now, and I have to close this door.
If the door's not locked, it's because I left in too big of a hurry.
Please do not enter the store.
Mr. Customer, I am a slave to my desires.
Please do not use that against me.
This feels like a Janet Jackson music video.
It's so tempting!
It's sizzling hot.
Something going on is like, you know, there's something going on in the boiler room, I bet.
So, like, aside from the extremely hot sub-dom relationship that is the text of this paragraph, there is a subtext that I want to explore with this, which is like... there is a subtext that I want to explore with This is the kind of luxury you can afford as a small business owner?
To just suddenly close up shop?
Like, if your daughter, like, you the listener, if your daughter is going through cancer treatment, like, good luck getting a day off from the bus.
But, uh, McBee here can take a mental health day because lesbians have been dunking on him on Yelp.
Yeah, I mean, that is, you know, why it's nice to be the owner.
But you're also a slave.
But you have to be a slave to other people, I guess.
So there's a trade-off.
Well, it's really weird because the HR math is really strange to figure out.
So he can take a day off for the LGBTQ community dunking on him, but I couldn't take a day off to help my daughter get healthy.
But I probably could get a day off if I was worried that my daughter was LGBTQ.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
There's different benefits.
Did I say sick?
I meant maybe queer?
Yeah, I need to have an intervention.
Did I mean she's not well?
I meant she's not right.
And they know exactly what you mean.
In that way.
Thoughts and prayers.
Go home.
Take as much time as you need.
Dude, there's so much to explore with Mick B. Someone's lightened up his Yelp reviews.
Is that what it is?
yeah oh they're lighting him up on because he's he's he's so fucking funny like he will not stop posting he he is like he is like a cat with how many times he's died on this hill on facebook on yelp on google um the yelp stuff was so funny if you go to his yelp um There was, there's a bunch of, you know, one-star reviews of his business, and, uh, one of them, like, a lot of them were just like, hey, he's a bigot.
He fucking puts shit about the, about, like, gay people in his windows, or makes videos where he's talking about the gay mafia and shit.
Like, he posts that meme of the, the rainbow-colored gun being held to, like, a proud straight man's head.
With like, respect me or die!
Or like, do you believe in two genders?
It's like the Columbine thing or whatever.
Go ahead.
What I love about that is that solidifies our thought about how straight white men think of guns as dicks.
He's getting, like, really homophobic about the real gun that he has pointed to his head.
Like, when he holds a gun, he feels like he's got a bigger dick, but also when he sees a dick, he feels like it's probably a gun.
Yeah, that's fair.
That's where we're at.
When it comes to that kind of toxic masculinity.
Um, one of the reviews though, like I said, you know, a lot of the Yelp reviews were like, hey, he's a fucking bigot, like, don't go to his store, whatever, but one of the reviews was like, I bought a pair of pants from McBee and I went to a wedding, and then the pants split, Down the crack, and my butt was hanging out, and I will never go back to McBee's.
And I have so much respect for that Yelp review, that's such a good one.
Like, I was playing basketball against a team of all-stars called the Toon Squad, when suddenly my pants ripped and everyone saw my freckled, jiggly ass.
And then the lady bunny yelled out, nice buns!
And everyone laughed at me, and that's why I will not be shopping at McBee's in the future.
After reading his many window reviews, I thought for sure I would be safe from the LGBTQ agenda, and he proceeded to expose my anus to many people of the same gender, one of which I am only of the two options.
I love the gay mafia stuff because That is kind of one of those crazy things that somebody made up that you were like, that would be kind of cool to have a gay mafia around town that kind of just, you know, bothered people or, you know, made them pay for protection if they were bigots and shit, you know?
Like, you can be a bigot all you want, but you're going to have to pay a tax to the gay folks around here.
Oh, I think it's more like, um, imagine, uh, Bad Boys Junior Mafia, but featuring Jonathan from Queer Eye?
Yeah, that's pretty close.
That shit would be so ill.
Yeah, yeah.
The rest of this literal sign he has posted on his window says, The lead female bartender at Independent Bar is leading the gay mafia against me.
Her latest move against me?
She sent her friends to attack my name, business, and character in front of the business here, right where you are standing.
Many of them several times over.
I've got video, pictures, and customer testimonials.
And it's so funny because I watched the video where you can see two women, uh, standing out front of a shop talking to two guys and they're like, hey, like this really cool boutiques, like this really cool, like vintage other stores right there around the corner.
Like, don't go to this guy.
He's fucking crazy.
And then he's like, he's like furtively videotaping them from like around the curtain in his front door.
And then they noticed him and they're like, Oh, hi, fuck you.
Hi.
Can't you like see him like walking outside with the video in hand being like, see I'm not crazy watch this video evidence that I'm not crazy and plays back the video of the previous 30 seconds he just filmed?
I'm not crazy I've just been hiding in the curtains the whole time.
Yeah, yeah.
And then he's right next to this is another sign that says parents, please protect your kids Suggestion put them in private schools or homeschool them monitor the type of TV shows and games and movies they watch parentheses strictly To my loyal customers.
I am sorry.
This militant group is all over this neighborhood and you already know what they did to Kevin Hart sad I missed that.
Was there a ceremony where he had to trade in all his money or something?
No, much like Kevin Hart, McBee did not get to host the Oscars this year.
And then the last line, sorry, the last line in this sign is, quotes for some reason, God, please give me the strength to open again someday.
I love that.
That's the tiny voice of righteousness inside of him.
Yeah, and it's in a smaller font than the rest of it.
Yeah, it looks like a cry for help.
Well, prayers have to be humble.
You can't put them in bold font.
It's true.
This guy, I mean, like, I went back into this guy's feed and, like, a year ago he was posting about feminists, about how feminists are, you know, emasculating men, etc, etc.
They think they're men.
If any of them, and I'm paraphrasing here, but I am not misrepresenting what he said because it was If any of them are degrading you in public, hit them.
Do not let them take your honor away.
Hit them just like you would a man.
So, I mean, he's advocating for violence against, you know, women, feminists, gay people in the community.
Holy shit.
That's why people had a problem with this.
Which is funny because I'm like, now after hearing that, I'm like, when you see him, hit him.
Harm him.
Make sure he doesn't feel safe being on the sidewalk anymore.
We would never advocate for violence on this show.
This is hypothetical.
This is purely hypothetical.
Satire.
Uh.
Um.
Sorry.
I got, I, I, I, uh, I, so wait, I'm sorry.
I can, I remember it.
So this was a year, he's been doing this for a fucking year?
At least.
He's been keeping, he's been, and McBee's like, he's been selling thrift store clothes since then too?
Yeah, we have a poem here that talks about his origin story.
Oh, perfect!
But what was I going to say?
Another thing about McBee is that he was arrested for assaulting a female police officer at a Pink concert.
Okay, that is...
Wow.
That is rowdy.
That is pretty rowdy.
I mean, if the police force hadn't have hired women, he wouldn't have been able to hit one.
That's true, right.
Honestly, hitting a female cop at a Pink concert is basically like committing a hate crime at a Public Enemy concert.
Like, that's not cool.
Yeah.
not really the vibes we're going for McB That classic McBee style.
I don't know if Pink and company is looking for that, you know?
So here is another posting, an IRL posting, on his window store, on the store of his window, his window front.
It's titled, My Poem from Jail.
He went to jail?
Letters from a Petersburg Jail, by McBee.
Hello, it's me, McBee, from jail.
Serving day 4 of 10 because I did not prevail.
Oh, I love it.
Rhyming.
Life was perfect until August 19th of last year.
The Tampa Bay Rays were the reason I moved here.
Okay!
Okay, we're doing a little 8th grade poetry slam right now.
Okay.
I don't think he was like a relief pitcher.
I think he was a big fan of the Rays.
God, I love them damn colors.
I just had to come down here and get all the colors on me.
You know, I had to be a part of it.
Listen, I'm like really tuned in with what the Tampa Bay Rays want to wear.
I saw an opening in the market.
My talent is I can see things in reality.
Now I am here wasting away?
Really?
Wow.
Okay.
That's deep.
Makes me think.
Honesty, character, and transparency has always been my game.
But it doesn't work in the legal world, I'm ashamed.
If only... What is this?
If only I knew in advance that an officer needed to prove herself.
I read her soul during arrest.
She needed self-help.
What?
Don't you know that before you assault a female officer, you're supposed to yell as loud as you can?
Do you wish to engage in mortal combat?
And she has to agree, and then you can go ahead and fight in the third dimension.
Before striking a female officer, you do have to say, equal rights, equal fights.
Equal rights, equal fights.
I also would like to punch someone in the face saying, here's a little bit of self-help.
Quit helping yourself!
Quit helping yourself!
Why are you helping yourself?
Let me kickstart this self-help machine.
The two black eyes under her makeup was the first tell.
Maybe this is why she assaulted me, provoking me into this hell.
Wait, he hit a woman with two fucking black eyes already?
Is that what he's saying?
Well, it's kind of like when you get the rental car and there's already scratches.
No, I'm just kidding.
What is this?
Does that need to be deleted?
No, you're good.
You're good.
Because you realized that you were immediately shamed by it.
So that's all that matters.
Everywhere I go, I have been trying to spread the good word.
Teaching right from wrong and helping guys stay true to my word.
What?
You write word with word.
It's hard to stay true to your own word, but have you ever tried making other people stay true to your word?
That's true.
I feel like I fell on my own swerve.
Try something besides the same word.
My daughter knows you can't do that.
Whether on Facebook morning till night or at the shop lol my quest to make things better will not stop.
Signed Mick B. See you don't understand how to do like beat poetry.
You got to do it and you got to punch it.
Yeah.
Whether on Facebook, morning till night.
You're just doing Michael Myers from So I Married an Axe Murderer.
Yeah.
Yeah, really.
It doesn't, I think poems are supposed to provide clarity to the situation and I have a million questions now that I know that this is because he punched an officer at a pink concert that apparently already had two black eyes and was looking for another fight.
That's his cover story.
She's all revved up, you know, she's embarrassed because she's got two black eyes, so she wants to kick my ass.
So I'm just like, I'm gonna get this out of the way and kick her ass first.
She was actually just like a goth cop.
Yeah, smokey eye.
Listen, I want to be clear.
I thought the cop was a victim of domestic abuse.
So I wanted to give some self help.
Um, every time I see the word, the name McBee, I'm just thinking of King of the Hill and like, Hey, you're the coolest McBee.
Oh man.
I haven't got that far yet.
He's like, he's like the cool dad who wears fucking bowling shirts and lets his kids drink at home.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm not a big fan either.
Unfortunately.
You just, you just exposed me like crazy.
That's okay.
It's a very, it's, he's a one, one episode character, but it also reminds me of Sugar Ray adjacent character, Mick G. Co-writer of Fly by Sugar Ray and also director of like Charlie's Angels and shit.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Uh, it's, it is a smart move.
It's three letters.
Um, but he's kind of ruining the name with his behavior here.
True.
You squandered all the goodwill I had from the name McBee.
Hey, real quick.
Do you know what today is, in all sincerity?
Today is the 20 year anniversary of me seeing Sugar Ray at Cal State San Bernardino, opened for by Everlast.
Fuck yeah.
That's literally today.
My dad took me there for my 12th birthday.
How do you know that?
Because my dad took me there for my 12th birthday.
Two days after my birthday.
What is, uh, what's Fly Out and all that?
Oh, no, this is actually, this is, this is Way Out.
This is, um, during the, the tour for the second album.
Oh.
Um, that I fucking loved.
The one with, um, the one with, uh, Every Morning.
There's a halo, like, there's a halo.
I don't really, I don't, I mean, I feel like now that I'm a grown-up, I can't listen to those songs.
They're fucking gross.
I think Someday is also on that album.
Yeah but um yeah so that's this is literally today is the 20-year anniversary of me seeing Everlast open for a Sugar Ray.
See, I was super into lemonade and brownies because DJ Lethal was involved with that.
So that was like a big draw for me.
Was that when they were called pick-up sticks?
No, I think that was just Sugar Ray.
It said Sugar Ray on the front.
They used to be called like twiddly winks or pick-up sticks or something.
I think it's twiddly winks.
For the listener, I'm gonna play audio from a video that Mick B recorded about an encounter he had with a fucking feminist meter maid.
Anyways, she comes up and goes, if you don't move that in, I'm gonna write you a ticket.
And I said, I said, we're only going to be here a few minutes, and she goes, and she immediately says, I'm trying to be nice.
So, what does that mean to me?
She's already triggered to be mean and that she's about to erupt if I don't follow her commands?
Anyway, she fits the prototype of all these feminist women that are coming after me.
Mid-twenties, thirties, glasses, angry as hell, man-haters, but she was already triggered to get me.
And so this is what's wrong with our country.
These feminists are destroying our country.
They're making our country weaker and angrier because of these man-haters.
And so when I pointed out to her, and I was nice to her the entire time, I go, what about the trash cans up there that are sticking out way onto the road?
And she goes, we're not allowed to ticket them.
And I said, well, I guess it's a double standard then, right?
She goes, I'm trying to be nice to you right now.
So, I couldn't believe it.
Like, I have to follow this parking meter's commands.
She's just an employee of the city.
Us merchants here are bringing the people to the city.
They just work here for us.
Anyways, see you next time.
This is what's wrong with our country.
Yeah, so basically what happens in this video is McBee has parked on this, like, side alley.
And when I say parked, I mean kind of parked.
It's just disrespectful.
I mean, it's sloppy.
It's fucking sloppy.
He's pulled over.
I don't have the I don't really have the heart to leave my shit looking that fucked up especially with like identification on the back of the vehicle and you know where someone can find me but so I don't know I don't like to represent my vehicle that way.
If you're parking like this you're definitely getting a poem stuck to the windshield of your car an angry poem.
Well not not to get a little real on it but parking like this provides a lot of it's a lot of comes from a lot of confidence I'll tell you this much Those trucks you see that are parked parallel across three or four parking spaces, I can guarantee you those are white men every single time.
Sure, I wouldn't argue that.
Because if my car gets hit by someone driving by it or trying to park, I'm definitely going to get the short end of that stick every single fucking time.
It's parking privilege.
Yeah.
I'll be right back, don't worry about it.
And so he's out there, and like I said, I am actually not against parking like this per se.
It's like, fucking why?
You know, he's complaining because he said a meter maid is going to bother him.
Which is like, you know, fuck them.
I don't like them anyways.
But then the way that McBee acts, I'm actually on the meter maid's side now.
The way that he's telling his grievances, I'm like, oh well fuck you dude.
You should get ticketed up and down the goddamn block.
It's rough.
It's like, who do you root for?
Yeah because like no one should get a ticket but like when the thing is when I park in the middle of my side street with my hazards on and go inside for a minute I don't do it in front of a cop.
Well the whole thing is so as you heard in the video all the meter maid does is ask him to fully pull up against the curb that's all that happens what he tried to parallel park But he didn't do it all the way.
He, like, just got out of his car before the last five seconds of the parallel park so that his nose is sticking out into the alley or the road, you know, like a good foot and a half.
And the meter maid is like, hey, can you just, like, back up?
And he's like, here come the feminazis.
She was the type.
She had glasses, her hair in a bun.
Yeah.
You know, the kind of broad that's looking for a fight.
You know someone who simultaneously looks, you know, mid-twenties, thirties?
Yeah, he's a total asshole.
And this is kind of one of those things where they use the government to fuck with people.
Like, we know that for real.
That they're using their politics and their voting to actually fuck with people's lives, get people killed, and support all of the other stuff.
So, if this is the one person that's going to get Metered for the day I would like it to be this fucking guy because there's a there's another thing in there where he says like Feminazis are making this country weak But it it looks like whatever he's doing is making his parking game super fucking weak because it's embarrassing as hell You're close.
You're close, but the thing is see McBee before the fucking LGBTQ agenda came after him he was able to ball out and he used to have a reverse camera But after they shit on him, and after they shackled him to their LGBTQ slavery, he had to sell his car and get a car with no reverse camera.
So he doesn't even know how to park.
This is not his fault.
I don't know.
It's like, if... This is what happens when you vote for an authoritarian government who gives tanks to your local police force.
Like, this is the direct result of that.
So yeah, if this guy suffers the consequences of that, cool.
Good.
Yeah, McBee looks like he would have those like old metal curb feelers that used to stick off the side of Cadillacs and shit.
Yeah, but he has them on like a 95, he has them on like a like a 95 like Ford, no, Lincoln Town Car.
Like a nice car for 95, but that was a weird year for automobiles.
Yeah, but you don't want to scratch up them rims, man.
Have you ever, has any of us, this is a genuine question, has any of us ever been able to talk our way out of a parking ticket?
Yeah, I got lucky one time.
Oh, okay.
My car I have right now, I have a 1986 BMW that I bought from my old employer for $500 because I heard him making a deal with somebody else for that cash amount, and they said no, and I was like, I'll do it.
And he like had to do it.
Yeah.
He felt like he had to do it.
So anyways... You caught him.
That's a good loophole.
You just listen in to everybody else's deals.
Finally!
The opportunity strikes!
I'll get cash right now.
So I'm getting coffee and I see me getting a ticket.
I go out there and I was like, Officer, what's going on?
And she was like, Oh, um, your tickets are stolen?
Your tags?
My tags?
Yeah, my tags.
Your tags were stolen.
I'm like, I just bought this yesterday.
I did not know the tags were stolen.
And she, like, over the phone called and was like, hey, he just bought this yesterday.
Like, can you send something out about this?
Wow.
So the one good cop, you found them.
Oh, no, no, no.
She's giving me other tickets I deserve.
So fuck her.
Well, that's, to be fair, that's not a parking ticket.
Uh, it was done by parking enforcement and it was gonna be on yellow sheet of paper.
That's all I knew.
Okay.
I've never personally been able to talk my way out of a parking ticket.
What can I say, man?
Black privilege.
Yeah.
I just think it's funny that this parking, this meter maid, parking cops, who I don't support, was like, hey, just move your car in slightly.
And he was like, this is my stand!
I'm willing to die on this hill for all white men, for all alpha males.
I will not accept your overture for mercy.
His take on her being triggered?
She was already triggered, so she had to try to be nice.
So she had to flip it in reverse.
And it wasn't taking.
And then finally, um, McBee updated the cover photo for the McBee's Men's Clothing Facebook page, which might be my favorite part of this.
Um, McBee did a meme.
He did a meme for the cover photo of his business page, which is...
The Simpsons scene where Homer is fantasizing about Ned Flanders' leftorium going out of business and laughing?
Except, except McBee has edited the leftorium sign to say McBee's.
And you get to see a close-up of the actual McBee's logo which is like a The M for McBee is like a wide lapel suit jacket It's so good because like usually when you meld two things together like a letter and an item you like Both things lose a little bit but the M is completely intact and then you just added a lapel and buttons and like cuffs.
Yeah.
On like a very straight angular M. The cuffs nail it.
The cuffs sell it.
The cuffs, yeah, make it.
This is very, if this tux was on something, it would be on a robot from the Jetsons. - And then the-- You don't get that joke.
What?
That's right, young millennials.
You don't get that joke.
I don't know.
It's like a robot.
They get it.
The S in McBees is also a dollar sign.
Yeah, that's an interesting choice.
It kind of throws off the rest of it.
Well, I guess it lets people know what you're about.
I think it's good because McBee's is like a high-end second-hand store.
Sure.
So they're conveying both, I don't know, both ideas in this logo with like, oh, a dollar sign.
It's going to be high-end fashion.
But the logo itself is so tacky, you know you're not going to have to pay that much for it.
You're right.
You're right.
It's not really his fault.
You guys wouldn't understand.
You don't know what it's like to ball out.
Every time I type an S, I just type a money symbol.
So my autocorrect now knows that when I mean S, I mean cash money symbol.
So when he drafted this, that's what came out.
It's not his fault.
It's a lifestyle.
It's just the way you are.
It's your existence.
It is what got you into hot water by posting about Chuck Schumer.
Um, yeah, I love this, like, self-own.
This, like, the LGBT community is Homer laughing at McBee's going out of business.
Yeah.
Like, I wish he would have gone further with it, like in the episode where it was just Homer laughing about McBee's grave.
Yeah, and you know what also here is kind of is interesting as well is because the character that Homer is thinking about that's being pictured in this daydream is actually like crying into their hands so that's that's McBee in this and like he is I mean, actually revealing to everyone that he's been weeping about this, you know?
Like, he's been crying, which is brave, I say.
But also, not what you would expect from someone that also hangs a foot and a half out of a parking space and then calls anyone who brings it up a feminazi.
I think maybe McBee had a couple of white wine spritzers before he made this move.
He does have an interesting drink, I bet.
He's probably drinking just the little hotel mini bar bottles.
I bet he just carries around those for pineapple rum or some shit.
Dude, there is a hotel mini bar bottle graveyard in the back of McBee's.
No, he only drinks alcoholic versions of regular drinks, so he only drinks like, not your dad's root beer, white tart lemonade, that's all he drinks.
Alcoholic orange soda, McVean's hard lemonade.
Exactly, yeah.
Also, I love that he thinks, is he calling Homer a lesbian, or calling lesbians Homer?
Well, he's calling them cruel idiots, you know.
Yeah, I think so.
They're kind of dipshits the way that their mafia destroys people's businesses.
But we also love Homer.
Flanders is the villain in the Simpsons universe.
It's a bad meme.
But he does dress better, so maybe that's where his loyalties lie.
Smartly dressed.
Guy.
This is, again, his cover photo.
After devoting ten years of my life and great service here with McBees in downtown city of St.
Petersburg, Florida, USA, which is tagged, I helped resurrect the city.
He did!
Fact!
Whoa!
The new, rotten, entitled, and mainly feminist within the LGTBQ community.
Why does he keep putting the T before the B?
He doesn't want to give it the respect it deserves.
Yeah.
Have ruined my business, reputation, and life.
They are truly evil people.
Not only should they all be sued civilly for such false public slander, but in some circumstances should do some serious jail time.
Okay, let's move on to the second topic of the night.
I'm gonna just intro this topic by reading a headline from WFLA News on Facebook.
Breaking.
Jussie Smollett charges dropped.
The Empire Star was charged with filing a false police report about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago.
We are awaiting a press conference in Chicago now.
So before we get into comments from this, I feel like we all probably have something to say about this topic.
First and foremost on this show, I think it's very funny that the charges were dropped.
I think it's funny because of how, like, personally, every person on the right wing took this act by the District Attorney in Chicago.
I think that's very funny.
My secondary thoughts, you know, which would be my primary thoughts, you know, not in relation to the show, is that it's Pretty astounding how publicly, for lack of a better word, how publicly crucified Jesse Smollett was by the Chicago PD.
He had 16 felony charges brought to him by the Chicago PD, which were all in relation to one crime, one supposed crime, one alleged crime of lying to the police.
He just allegedly lied about the same thing 16 times.
And so they charged him with 16 felonies.
That was how this was handled.
And not to mention all the press releases the Chicago PD did.
Not to mention the media coverage around this subject.
So real quick, my take on this whole thing is funny because like, yeah, it's like, it's like kind of lame that he, it is lame that he did what he did.
Or, you know, we don't know.
We don't know what happened.
Yes, he did what he did.
But what it looks like to me is, it looks like the flash mob equivalent of what police consider to be like proactive profiling, where like, Yeah, if he said he got beat up by some racists, you know what you should probably do?
Look for some racists and arrest them.
Because you'll probably find something.
Just like how when you see a black man driving a car down the street, you think to yourself, let's just pull them over just in case.
All he was doing is proactive profiling.
Okay, no, I back that.
Um, I have been, I have stayed so far away from this one.
It is such a weird story to me.
I think for something like this, uh, you know, the police, they find out if, I don't know what happened, but if they find out he did it, it's just one of those things like, stop fucking wasting our time, you know?
Uh, and he got so goddamn embarrassed in the public and he looked so bad.
Um.
That I didn't, I didn't want to see him to face any charges at all.
I was kind of nervous when they announced all those felonies.
I was like, please do not send this guy to fucking jail over this.
He's a fucking idiot and he's up all night, I'm sure, climbing the fucking walls, scared out of his fucking mind over something he may or may not have, you know, stupidly done.
Well that's the thing is that these, even if he was convicted on these charges, he wouldn't have seen jail time.
He wouldn't have seen prison time.
You know, the cops blew it out of such proportion once they found out, once they supposedly found out evidence against him.
They blew it out of such proportion because he fucking allegedly slandered Trump supporters.
Like that was his crime.
The crime wasn't lying to police.
The crime was slandering white people.
That was the crime that he was tried for in the media and by the police releases to the media.
And even so, even with all the hubbub they raised over this, he wouldn't have seen prison time.
He would have seen community service and a fine or whatever.
And that's what he ended up paying.
He ended up paying his bail.
He ended up forfeiting the bail that he paid.
And the prosecuting attorney took into consideration the community service that he was already doing.
And so they just dropped the charges.
They were just like, okay, whatever, fine.
What's wild about this is like in this In this news cycle that we've had, in this experience that we've had in current day America, we've made these jokes about hypotheticals that wouldn't happen, right?
Remember the good old days of 2015-16 when you can say like, one day they're gonna pull over a black guy who has a permit for a gun and they're gonna continue to shoot him.
So I was grateful that at some point during this hearing a security officer or police officer didn't do like a physical comedy type trip that would allow him to toss his weapon to Jesse Smollett.
Um, and he would be forced to just catch it out of instinct and they were to like, you know, execute him right there.
Yeah.
But they had video that he had a weapon on him.
Like that, that is a hypothetical I could see happening.
They could have found him sleeping and just shot him to death.
Yeah.
They just did that.
But they could do that in the courtroom.
And like that, that, that was a more, uh, realistic, uh, hypothetical than I expected than this, which is him being able to like, you know, just lose some money and walk away from it with the only shame on his record.
Yeah I really feel like for this situation I'm just thinking of like standing on a gravel road and you just kick like the fucking gravel at him and you say get the fuck out of here and you make him like run away make him run like five miles home you know like without any phone or wallet or anything.
You have to say the phrase, kick rocks.
You have to tell him to kick rocks.
Right, right.
It's awful, too, because these things do happen, and it's always the right wing.
They don't remember when... They're reading all the stories about when some white guy spray-painted black's rule on his fucking driveway.
They're remembering those as hate crimes that happened against white people and stuff.
But that guy definitely didn't see any prison time.
Like, you're referencing an actual news story and that guy didn't see any fucking jail time.
Right, right.
And what he did see was people saying, like, well, it was bound to happen anyways.
I mean, maybe they didn't literally spray paint it across him, but the way that they act so confident in public is like spray painting that across my garage.
Absolutely.
I mean, you're right.
I mean, I agree with you 100%.
It's enough for them to be like, well, I mean, I'm sure it's Listen, if you want me to feel safe in America, we're going to have to go ahead and get rid of dunking in the NBA.
Listen, I'm a fundamentalist Christian and I also believe in fundamentals on the court.
I can't wait to see what people think of this news.
I'm all for people wasting the Chicago PD's time.
I think that's good.
I think that's praxis.
Makes sense.
I'm okay with that.
Yeah, but no.
People are losing their fucking minds over this.
Just in this one Facebook post from WFLA News Channel 8.
K Andres Zerbel says, our system is beyond broken.
I feel for the Chicago PD working this case.
Can you imagine their frustration?
And yeah, I feel really bad for them because, like, Jussie Smollett was such a public figure, you know, he's an actor on Empire.
He's such a public figure that people would miss him if the Chicago PD renditioned him to a black site to torture him.
So they had to do things clear out in the open, and that must have been really frustrating for them.
Well, yeah.
Could you imagine, like, if he wasn't some celebrity, they could just, like, you know, execute him and then they can search his house and find weed and show that he is the problem.
Yeah, you know, in such a small potatoes town like Chicago where there isn't much going on as far as crime, you know, they can finally get a big case, you know, where someone's they're not just doing like some some like a smash and grab.
Jesse Smollett is trying to tarnish the reputation of millions of Americans.
So they had a huge chance to stop them, you know, stop this ring of celebrities that were going to start doing this.
This is a two part episode of the Andy Griffith Show.
What's that?
This is a two part episode of the Andy Griffith Show.
I mean, honestly, like, this is the real issue here, is that a well-known black person, a well-known gay person, was the alleged victim of a hate crime, and Chicago PD felt like, oh, here's a PR opportunity.
Here's an opportunity to prove that we're not complete bastards who literally hold people out on black sites and torture them.
Here's our opportunity to prove that we actually care about people of color in our community.
So they devoted an exorbitant amount of resources towards this, like, public relations endeavor and then have egg on their face.
They were made fools of this, you know, according to what we know.
And so that's the real crime here.
The real crime is, like, That the Chicago PD didn't get a chance to virtue signal that they care about black people.
You know, Alex, I know that you're not a fan of, like, cinema or, like, the arts or, um, you know, uh, basic human rights issues.
Not at all.
Um, but if you were to just watch shows, quality shows like The Wire, you would understand the need for black sites.
Yeah, um, our system is broken because we can't get a hamster dam started.
Robin Clark Warner says, Reversed hate crime at its best and allowed to get away with it.
Oh, I love it.
Turn him out.
It's like a UNO card.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
Had it been reversed, that would not have happened and destructive rioting would have occurred.
Yeah, I mean like, I remember one time when it was reversed and there was a black male that was accused of falsely whistling at a woman.
How did that one end?
Oh, that ended up with the accuser being really embarrassed in social media.
Yeah, when they were like, oh wait, we shouldn't have hung him?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's funny because there were a lot of comments about OJ.
There were a lot of, in like various articles, there were a lot of comments about OJ.
There were a lot of comments about riots, etc, etc.
And I think it's very interesting that when people point to like the idea of, okay, so the number one comment was the phrase, Black Privilege!
That was the number one comment.
Which is just the name of Charlemagne's book.
Yeah that sounds like some Charlemagne paid for some viral advertising.
I don't know if I've said this like on the air but like fuck Charlemagne.
Y'all can't say that but I'll say it.
But that was the number one comment was like oh this is Black Privilege blah blah blah.
And then the second comment was like, oh yeah, um, if this had happened to a white person, there would be rioting or if, or this, this is just like OJ.
And I think it's very interesting that white people have to go back as far as OJ to find a guilty black person who was let off the hook.
Yep.
It's kind of like saying the quiet part loud.
It's kind of like revealing your hand there when you have to go back over 20 years to reference another, like, uh, I don't know, national figure, uh, national African American figure who was let off the hook.
Hey Alex, do me a favor and go ahead and bookmark this episode for a couple years down the line when we cover the story when Jesse Smelliot assaults somebody in an Atlantic City hotel room over a signed copy of Power.
Or Empire.
I don't remember which fucking show he's on.
So I like so but the thing is is that they really the reverse hate crime This is all a hypothetical thing because they don't really have any evidence where like some Republican was out and like a bunch of gang members killed them or like Beat that beat him up or anything, you know Well, I love the idea of a reverse hate crime.
So like a love crime?
I don't know.
It's gone from beyond reverse racism to just reverse hate crime.
The reverse hate crime would just be like some really aggressive affirmative action or something?
Yeah, a reverse hate crime is a crime against the people who hate you.
I was just walking down the street and this person, um, they stopped me and they proceeded to like, uh, give me a scholarship, um, and also subsidize my general welfare.
Yeah, reverse Hank run.
Yeah.
I will say, I will give credit to a lot of the conservative commentariat, because aside from the other, like, comment themes that I mentioned, a big comment theme, aside from black privilege, was green privilege!
Where they're saying he only got off because he's wealthy.
I'm good with that.
Yeah, now that might be a viable theory.
Yeah, I could see why you would say that.
I don't think that's going to lead into a conversation about how the pay-to-play aspect in our court system disrupts minority communities or anything.
It won't lead into that unless people do serious work to that effect.
Sure.
I've seen a lot of nascent anti-capitalist rhetoric on the right wing and doing research for this show.
Some fake, it was a fake news article posted about how like the Department of Justice is going to arrest George Soros and seize all his assets.
Take all his money.
And everybody in the comments section was like, yes, take his money, take his money.
And then I commented, I was like, Yes, take his money and redistribute it among the people!
And I got likes from that comment in a fucking Bill O'Reilly Facebook group.
That's wild.
There's hope.
There is hope.
People realize that there is a fundamental, like, even if it's through this racial lens, even if they can only sort of confront this feeling when it is A person of color being raked across the coals in the public or whatever.
They realize that the system is tilted against them.
Yeah, yeah.
So in response to that critique, because I do want to be on that critique of, well he has money so he gets away with things, but let us not forget the American judicial system and the way they treated Meek Mill, who spent about a year in prison for doing a wheelie.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah, and yeah, you're right.
He spent a decade fighting a charge that happened when he was like a 19-year-old kid, you know?
Exactly.
For doing a wheelie.
Right.
But you could also say, like, maybe Drake used his green privilege to put Meek Mill behind bars.
But that's the green privilege that is the Great North.
And also, I don't like the joke I was going to make.
It was, never mind.
So a couple more things on Jussie Smollett.
So the Fox News Facebook post about Jussie Smollett's exoneration garnered 102,000 reactions, which is probably the most reactions I've ever seen on a Fox News post from, you know, from a topic that we've covered on this show.
102,000 reactions, 60,000 comments, and 34.9 thousand shares for this.
The corollary on the Fox News website for this post was 17,000 comments, which I don't think we've seen that many comments on a Fox News website post.
That's insane.
This is tapping into the heart of uh conservative America reactionary America who really has no politics except like a politics of white grievance and follows Fox News religiously so this is you know this was a big story because of uh
Who Jesse Smollett is, who he was accusing, which is, you know, Trump supporters, and The top comm- well no, not the top comment.
All the top comments were like, black privilege, blah blah blah.
Interesting comments I found on the Fox News post was from a user called BenDareDunDat who says, TNBP doesn't stand for Thursday Night Beer Pong.
It's the new Black Privilege!
No need for reparations, biatches.
See, the thing about the new Black Privilege is it's so much different from the old Black Privilege.
Bring us back our old Black Privilege.
We want the old formula.
Listen, I want the good old days when all I was expected to do was be able to move a large amount of weight around and dance real good.
I miss the old black privilege where you didn't have to participate in civics at all because you weren't allowed to.
Yeah, exactly.
I have to say I do not like, I didn't realize this was becoming a thing and TNBP, I feel like I'm gonna have to go look at that hashtag now and I'm not gonna like it.
I've never heard of it.
Well, I want you to know that it mostly is Thursday night beard pom.
Oh, good, good, good.
And, um, a little update.
Turns out, guys, Thursday's for the boys.
Well, finally, there's at least one day for the boys.
Oh, no, no, no.
Now there's two.
What's Saturday?
Saturday?
Okay.
I'm so happy you don't know what that is, because it's the fucking worst.
Saturday is for the boys.
It's like a whole thing about, like, Dude's being bros with their guys.
I'm not familiar with that phenomenon.
No chicks, because that's distracting.
I need to be honed in for my game of beer pong.
One time we went to this bar.
It's this piece of shit bar in my friend's neighborhood.
And there was a group of young dudes in there and out of nowhere they started chanting, DUDES NIGHT OUT!
DUDES NIGHT OUT!
DUDES NIGHT OUT!
So we do it everywhere we go.
And we told our wives and they now also chant DUDES NIGHT OUT with us.
Listen, I don't believe in virtue signaling, but if I've ever heard virtue signaling it's a bunch of guys chanting DUDES NIGHT OUT in a dive bar.
Yeah.
It's that fucking Dane Cook joke where it's like, just me and my guys want to dance.
Right, we're going to get rid of... We just want to dance tonight.
Fuck, no, fuck girls.
No, just me and you, we're just dancing tonight.
We're going to take off my purse.
That's not what it is.
We're going to take off my shoes and just fucking dance.
As a bartender for like, you know, a long, long time, the guys saying, do you sign out, are the guys you want to take pictures of because there's going to be questions about some sort of assault later on.
Of the physical or sexual nature.
Yeah, I can see why you'd say that.
I saw TNBP and thought, to pimp a butterfly?
That's because I'm an ally.
Therapy Dog replies to Ben Dare Dun Dat.
Woof.
With, as for reparations, isn't 500,000 white men dying in the Civil War enough?
If not, then throw in the 1 million in World War I and another 500,000 in World War II.
Yeah, I mean, you can't really take those corpses to the store and get stuff with that.
Is this the guy that thinks that World War I was worse than World War II?
He does.
he's like there's not a lot of knowing about history but that's not one of them a lot of people died in World War I like it was a big war but it was also like a war that defied class interest there's like a lot of socialist history around the start of World War I and how it kind of fractured the workers of the world movement
That's because a lot of soldiers in World War I were a bunch of pussies who hadn't developed the grit that the people in World War II had from World War I. Well, I think it was because they didn't have band-aids in World War I, but then in World War II they did, so there was a lot less infections and shit.
In World War I, people were just snagging their elbow on a piece of barbed wire and getting taken out.
I like the idea of people storming the beaches of Normandy saying, this is for black abolition.
Like 500,000 white men dying in a civil war.
Are they only counting the losses on the North?
Like, I don't know.
I don't know how many people actually died in the Civil War, but I don't, I think that just any war fought, any, like, what about the, you know, the troops that died in the Gulf War?
What about those?
Is that not enough for you people of color?
Could you imagine how much better America would be if that was some of the motivation behind these casualties?
I mean, America wouldn't exist if that wasn't there.
Well, we could go rampage and pillage other countries and bring back the stuff and give it away as reparations.
Yeah, I love that.
It harkens back to a common Minion Death Cult trope, which is, excuse me, sweetie, white people actually freed the slaves?
Yeah, yeah.
Who do you think did that?
Who do you think signed that paper?
Which again, as I've said before on this show, only brings you back to zero.
Even if you were a white person against slavery before the Civil War happened, and then you fought in the Civil War to free slaves, that just brings you back to even.
White people are like the parents of savants that like abuse their kids to like practice the violin every day in like a violent fashion.
But then they went on to like go to Juilliard and be first chair in the New York Symphony.
Except for they're like, look at you, you have trap music in the NBA.
You're welcome.
Barack Obama!
Pressure makes diamonds, okay?
So thank you.
We grew up without any sort of pressure.
We had no reason to strive.
You guys love diamonds.
Yeah.
Okay, last comment on this topic.
In the Fox News comment section on Facebook, Rachel Zakowska says, Are you kidding me?
All the work my department did and he gets nothing?
So I looked at Rachel's profile to see if she actually was a Chicago cop.
And she did have the police emoji in her bio, so I believe it.
The little pink farm animal?
Sorry?
The little pink farm animal?
This is a pig joke.
Got you.
There you go.
Sorry.
No, she had like the cop who was crossing his arms in front of him like, no!
Like in a sassy no, you know?
And she works in evidence, supposedly.
According to her Facebook profile, she works in evidence.
She's like a hot cop, you know?
She's got like a What's the word for gourmet, but for photos?
I have no clue what a gourmet photo is.
Like she's a professional selfie taker?
Yeah, kind of.
You know, like a boutique photo.
That sort of thing.
She's like my favorite feed.
She's like Patriot Hot Cop.
Yeah.
I wear a bulletproof vest and I wear a bikini.
And I'm both, believe it or not.
She can do both.
Yeah, she's fierce.
She's gorgeous.
The word I was thinking of was glamour.
Glamour.
There you go.
This is some glamorous food.
You're like a chef, but for looks.
And so people were like, you know, kind of like talking.
Most people were agreeing with her, but, you know, people were talking shit to her also.
And she replies, James Polanco, you know, if he was innocent, there wouldn't have been any charges to begin with.
Yeah, I don't like that.
I don't like that.
You can't just say somebody did something and be like, well, that's proof enough for me.
I mean, that's literally how the system works, though, you know?
True, true.
Which I know you know, but it's just like, this is a cop who works in evidence, who works in the system, the justice system, saying, well, they wouldn't have been arrested unless they did it.
Yeah, I work with, um, I do Planned Parenthood escorting and there's a cop that hangs around and I fucking hate the guy.
And after like a year and a half, I finally got matched with another escorter that kind of out of nowhere, we were having a conversation, was just like, You know, the cop that shows up, he's an asshole.
He makes me, like, not like cops at all.
Oh yeah.
I mean, because he is exactly like this.
One time he was out there defending, he was talking about defending some lacrosse player that was accused of a sexual assault.
So, he was just like an awful person to be around all the time.
No man, like, don't you know, like, A lacrosse player could not possibly participate in sexual assault because, like, when you're starting line in lacrosse, like, you just got it coming to you.
You don't have to, like, ask for it.
Got it.
Yep, yep.
Why would a millionaire steal money?
Yeah, yeah.
I see what you're saying.
I mean, if there's one thing a field hockey player is good at, it's at playing the field.
Like, they don't need to cheat, you know?
No, that's awful.
That sucks.
I feel like, you know... They just really are as bad as we think they are.
I mean, maybe one of them isn't, but they are certainly the ones I personally interact with.
I mean, you know, they might be polite, like, you know, actually, like, for a five-second interaction, but, like, a five-minute interaction reveals, like, how fucking bonkers they actually are when it comes to the thoughts of, like, justice and the law and their place in it.
Totally.
I, you know, my, one of my experiences with white privilege, one of my reckonings with white privilege is I was delivering, you know, I'm a UPS driver, I was delivering to this high school,
and I was in the back of the car you know I know the receiver at this high school and uh I was delivering in the back I was going in the back of the car to get the packages and the like school officer came into the cab and almost into the back of the truck and I kind of freaked out for a second you know and then it was only to tell me that one of the other people who worked there thought I was cute
And I was like, okay, so like, I actually didn't have that much to worry about, I guess.
Yeah, yeah.
But like, still, like, no other customer has ever done that.
Walked into the cab and then into the back of the car to tell me some nonsense gossip, you know.
Where the real, like, white privilege comes in is that, like, that happened to you, like, a cop, like, snuck up on you, and you didn't, like, piss yourself.
Because I probably would have pissed myself.
And it's ironic because being a... Because that makes them less likely to touch me.
And also, I mean, it's ironic because being a UPS driver, like, we don't have a lot of places to piss, so the back of the car isn't often, you know, it's often a sight for that.
Sure.
Wait, so this was a cop that did this to you?
Yeah, it was a security officer that I had just avoided talking to and making eye contact previously with who felt entitled to stepping into my package car.
When it comes to love, you gotta go to extreme measures.
Okay, so we're going to end the main episode here.
Thank you so much for listening.
Please also listen to Street Fight Radio and also check out Means TV at means.media.com.
Which is a leftist streaming service that's trying to get off the ground that Brett and Brian of Street Fight recently did a very funny bumper ad for if you haven't heard about it yet.
It's a very interesting Concept that perked my interest it's it's a sort of anti-capitalist co-op streaming service by a filmmaker named Nick Hayes who has done the live videos for Street Fight in the past and is Trying to get this sort of leftist media enterprise off the ground.
It's, you know, means dot media.
You know, normally people have to go through the capitalist Process the capitalist avenues to get their content out there.
And this is sort of a, I feel like a novel idea into bypassing that system and getting leftist, not only getting leftist content out there, but getting leftist creators paid equitably for their content.
Yeah, right now they're raising a whole bunch of money.
They're trying to get a big chunk of money to get it off the ground.
Means of Production is the name of Nick's company that does video work and stuff.
That's who did some of our live shows.
The best ones, like the Chopo Halloween show that we did.
He has, you know, like you mentioned briefly, but he's worked to create like a design process and a marketing process and even like a tech infrastructure that's all based on co-op and horizontally organized production for merchandise and all kinds of stuff.
He's an incredible dude and getting this off the ground will mean more stuff from Street Fight for sure you're gonna get like long-form sketch type videos with actors and maybe stuff that we just write and we aren't even a part of live streams other stuff who knows but it'll be a big deal once it's here and it's just gonna require you know money I mean that is what makes the world go around so
If you head over to actionnetwork.org that's where they're doing all their fundraising and you know there I mean there really isn't a place that you can go and and save like you're against capitalism you know without it being like some sort of maybe like a weird part of a of a website or something but there isn't an outlet where you can just openly talk shit about like the status quo and the way the world is so you know it's
It's going to be a big opportunity, I think, to get more people into this kind of stuff.
And there's also Street Fight people that you've seen in our zines.
All of the graphic work, the people that are hanging out in Utopia, watching the TV, was done by Lermworm, is their name.
And they did one of the covers of our zine.
So they're a listener of our show.
And Secret Awesome headquarters out there in Maine.
Zach is his name and he did the animation, the opening for our Street Fight Show.
He just did a one-minute video of all the workers storming into this high-rise building and taking it over.
It's really a lot of great stuff going on and the money that you donate or put towards it is only going to go back to the people that helped create it.
I'm really excited about the project.
I think what I said before we started was Nick Hayes, the guy that runs it, is the only 19-year-old that I've given beer to and not regretted it.
He's a really stand-up guy.
And Naomi too.
Naomi has helped a lot too.
She's been in the last couple years came on and has helped to do a lot of the managerial stuff and they so both of them as a team have kind of solidified this thing and it's weird because we've been talking about it for two years behind the curtain and it was supposed to come out you know last year and
Now that the videos are finally here, we recorded that stuff I think over in December, the video that just came out, so get on The Means TV, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, follow it everywhere, like it everywhere, share as much of it as you can on every platform that you can.
You know, it's a big part of spreading this mess across the U.S.
for sure.
Yeah, we'll share that video that you guys did for it on our feed and Yeah, there's been a lot of media startups that I've thought about supporting, other podcast networks or whatever, but this is one that I am absolutely going to support.
I really look forward to leftist content being Focused in a specific arena.
I think it's great.
I think that there's a wealth of leftist podcasts and leftist media coming out, and I'm eager to support that.
So that is Means of Production, Means.media, or what was the other website you said?
The Action Network.
That's their fundraiser is happening on the Action Network.
So if you just go to Action Network and search for Means, you'll find it.
Cool.
Real quick, if it's hard to grasp what we're talking about, imagine the idea that if we were to back this, we can give this media outlet the resources of something like a vice That will give us good content, except for you won't have to worry about them having to dole out $2,000,000 in settlement money because they've cheated the women in the office wrong.
Totally.
Yeah, I need to talk to Nick and see if we can get you on the marketing campaign or something.
That's perfect.
Yeah, I mean... I'm here.
People doing drugs and weird stuff, but you know, there isn't any...
It wasn't started by any sort of right-wing provocateurs.
Yeah, Gavin McGinnis is not going to get any money from this.
Right.
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