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That's two times authentic.
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That's two Italian things in there.
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People so mad about vegan food.
Yeah, what did we call it?
Mignon's Law.
Mignon's, Mignon's Law.
Whenever the subject of veganism comes up, inevitably somebody will turn to cannibalism.
Just to teach those goddamn vegans a lesson.
As a known, they will literally eat you.
Yeah.
I remembered what the Vegan Runner episode was about.
Actually, Ani reminded me.
I can't take credit for that.
It was...
People weren't allowed to, some neighborhoods said that people weren't allowed to barbecue in their yards because the smoke was offensive to the neighbor.
And somebody else was like, oh well, so I can't barbecue in my yard because a vegan runner might run by.
And then another guy was like, I'll eat the vegan runner.
I'll just eat the vegan runner.
It's like beyond Twitter making up a guy and then getting mad at them.
It's beyond that.
It's like making up a guy and then somebody else entirely getting so mad at that made-up guy that they're gonna eat the made-up guy.
Yeah, they're not going to slaughter.
They're going to slaughter, prepare, and consume this person that they hate that much.
You have to carry that hatred through the end of the process or else you're going to get queasy and give up.
So to make that statement, you're pretty pissed.
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I think so.
Yeah, okay.
Let's introduce our guest here for this fantastic show we have lined up.
We have Yusra Rizouki from the Restaurant Opportunity Center.
How are you doing, Yusra?
Hey everyone, I'm doing well.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you so much for joining us.
I know Yusra from Facebook, from the Street Fighters Facebook group.
It is one of the best places on Facebook.
I don't know how you get into it.
I've just been in it for like three years.
I don't know how that works.
So good luck.
I recommend it though.
And I also know Yusra because the Restaurant Opportunity Center gets like 10 bucks a week from my paycheck.
Thank you so much for that!
Yeah, I reached out to people on Facebook you know because UPS does like a what's what's the I'm forgetting now what's what's the like overarching charity group that like tries to suck up all the money for various charities?
Like Act Blue?
No, Act, no, it's not like a Democrat, or no, Act Blue is like a portal or whatever.
No, it's, anyway, I can't remember.
Instead of donating through them, I wanted to pick like a good group.
And Yusra, your group, the Restaurant Opportunity Center, sounded pretty neat.
So I decided to go through you guys.
Why don't you tell the listener a little bit about the Restaurant Opportunity Center?
So if we're being concise, We mobilize restaurant workers across the country through local chapters because it's a very non-unionized sector of the workforce and is disproportionately represented by women and people of color.
Obviously like mistreated and Don't have fair wages.
Yeah.
Complete.
One of the most underpaid sectors in the entire country.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like literally just a special minimum wage to say we don't like you even more than other minimum wage workers.
And it's $2.
And the history with that is like a holdover from slavery as well.
So 43 states still may pay you $2 if you're a server.
So fucked.
That's so fucked.
I can't imagine.
Yeah, and honestly like 80% of people end up working in a restaurant at one point in their life, so it's not like a small problem either.
It's like most people are affected by it.
Yeah, I never worked as like a real server, but my two jobs before UPS were both in food service.
I worked at Pizza Hut and I worked at Subway.
So I didn't make the server minimum wage.
I mean, in California, there is no server minimum wage, but I didn't get tips either.
So I feel like I made my bones.
I feel like I can complain with the rest of you guys.
Yeah, so the reason we asked Yusra on the show today is because you shared a very interesting bit of news that I had not heard of and I'm just reading here.
This is from the Post Gazette.
Labor complaints spur plans for Monday rally outside Guy Fieri's restaurant in Westmoreland County, which I believe is in Pennsylvania.
Is this close to Pittsburgh?
Yeah, it's Pittsburgh area.
Yeah, so employees at Guy Fieri's American Kitchen and Bar at Live Casino in Westmoreland County are planning to hold a rally outside the casino Monday afternoon to protest what they describe as, quote, pay discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaints.
I can continue reading from this article or if you want to give maybe more personal description of what happened to these employees, Yusra, feel free.
I'll try to, like, sum it up.
So, one of the workers complained directly to HR.
His name was Nate.
He was the one who originally reached out to us because the manager that he was working with was dropping card art N-words when talking to the staff like it was nothing.
What was he, like, sorry, I mean, you know, I don't know how, you know, nitty-gritty we want to get, but was he, like, calling people the N-word?
Um, the quote that Nate was, like, particularly pissed off about was they had music playing and it was rap music and he called it, you know, n-word music.
Okay, wow.
Okay, so he wasn't trying to be cool.
No.
Okay.
I was hoping he was rapping.
Yeah.
Not that anybody even says, like, a hard R in any song ever.
Unless you're Fat Joe.
Which he just did, and I'm still not over it.
Yeah, so he complains to HR.
HR does nothing after a while.
Like, he has to work closely with this guy that's, you know, mistreating workers and, you know, being a manager, you know, what managers do.
So after a while, when he reached out to us, in the kerfuffle, we kind of realized that he was getting paid, him and all of his black co-workers were getting paid $2 less.
than their white counterparts, despite all of them having more experience and most of them taking like a really big pay cut.
I can't remember off the top of my head what the casino was paying, but it was like 12 or 13 dollars an hour for people who had like 19 to 25 years of experience.
And what a lot of people thought that this would be like a really good opportunity that they might be able to work with Guy personally and just like, you know, saw it as a career advancement.
So they were willing to take the pay cut.
But they were also told that every single cook was getting paid the same amount.
Like, explicitly, and that was not true.
I just imagine, like, these poor souls, like, uh, Bart, when they go to Camp Krusty, just, like, you know, wearing, like, rags and eating gruel and, like, working with, you know, rusty utensils and just telling themselves that, well, Guy, Guy is gonna be here any day.
I swear it.
He's gonna come and he's gonna liberate us.
He's gonna lead us to a revolution against this fucking honky-ass manager.
But it's not even that.
He's just gonna come in and he's gonna tell us that our sauce is gangster.
Yeah.
That's why when you told me this story, Alex, I was like, no, not Guy.
Guy is notoriously, you know, sweet to black line cooks.
He tells them all they got that they're gangster and you know that like it the food tastes like soul That's one of the reasons.
I mean, that's one of the reasons like this story is so important is I mean a it's just people's livelihoods It's what it's workers rights.
It's workers being discriminated against but it also sort of flies in the face of gut what what has been sort of a a I don't know, very rosy public face of Guy Fieri.
You know, I feel like he made this transformation from sort of a fringe, cringe, cultural artifact to like sort of wholesome dad cornball Uh, Empire, right?
He went from like this, uh, sort of smash mouth, you know, joke in and of himself to be like, Oh, hey guy, you know what?
He's all right.
I feel like it was only recently that it became kind of in bad taste to make fun of Guy Fieri because everyone was like, no, it's, he's actually like a cool dude.
And he's like a sweetheart.
And you know, you shouldn't make fun of people for the way they look.
Guy Fieri.
It became untasteful to do it, but now he's showing it, yeah.
He's like the left version of Mike Rowe.
We were like all taken in by this like public face that we thought, oh man, this guy wears like white sunglasses and he bleaches his tips and he's like, he's one of us.
He's a dirtbag, you know?
And it turns out, no, he's just a giant business tyrant from the sound of it.
He, like, with both of them, they, like, adopt the aesthetics of the working class when never having been a part of it.
Like, his entry went into restaurants and his whole empire.
He was a manager.
He was never, like, a line cook or anything.
Well, I mean, I feel like- Well, I started as a manager?
Yeah.
Gross.
I feel like as a manager, though, like, your experience is critiquing food.
Like, that's good experience to have, you know?
Like, you taste the food and you tell your employees, like, whether it's good or not, you know?
Like, you pay them by how good it is.
And so, what better person to have a TV show where you go around and tell people how good their food is by, you know, that's his talent.
No one can do it like him.
So this is a casino, but it's like his franchise that's inside the casino?
Does he own the casino?
I mean, he's got his fingers in a lot of pies looking at his website, but it's like the casino seems to be something different.
It's just a good old-fashioned Guy Fieri American Kitchen and Bar just inside the live casino, it seems.
Yeah, he has the chain as the American Kitchen and Bar, and I think it's like a restaurant that's opened inside of that.
So I think the casino is separate. - Right.
So you are helping, I guess a couple employees this, From what I can tell by reading this information, the employee in question ended up quitting the job for obvious reasons after, you know, their concerns were not responded to and then reached out to you guys And I sort of, I think I heard you say you're working with at least a couple employees.
Have more employees?
Are you talking to more employees?
How is that going?
So, I mean, it started out with kind of like an internal petition.
And then, so a lot of the employees came forward.
I mean, especially because so many of them realize they're being underpaid.
And then when we went external with it, I think it was like 3,200 signatures on it now.
A group of the employees, and some of them now ex-employees, were at the rally as well.
A specific one was the one that came forward to say that he was being paid more.
His name was Nick, and that's kind of how that came about.
So he was a non-black employee who said that he was being paid more.
That's uh so the demands as far as I can tell from the petition uh they involve uh a raise for the black employees there as well as back pay uh for the time that they were working there underpaid um I feel like you know there's there's a cynical reading of this where it's like
As as somebody who is advocating for workers, they could say, well, it's discriminatory to only ask for a raise for black workers or whatever, like the cynical.
I can hear like, yeah, people making this argument on Twitter or whatever.
And I mean, my response to that would be these are these are workers who were underpaid.
They were being discriminated against.
And that discrimination has to be rectified, like, before we can talk about, like, everybody has to be on the same level.
Everybody has to be on the same level before you can raise everybody.
Is there any sort of pushback that you've heard from any other employees like that?
Not really.
I mean, some people were silent about it, but no one seems to have actively, like, went against everybody else with it.
Some of them wouldn't come forward with how much they were making.
You can't really force anybody to do that.
That was another thing.
Once this started hitting HR, they didn't directly threaten them to not tell each other how much they were making because that is illegal.
But it is illegal to ask your workers to not tell each other how much they're making.
I feel like I've seen that.
I feel like I've seen that directive before on company posters or things like that.
That's the thing.
People don't want to talk about wages with their co-workers because You might feel like it's in poor taste.
Never ask a woman how much she weighs.
Never ask your co-worker how much they make or whatever.
It's in poor taste or whatever.
And it's like, no, we've had that fake bit of manners drilled into our heads by the people who pay us.
Yeah, they want us to feel that way because if we were to actually discuss it with each other, Things would have to be different.
Oh, yeah, totally.
And it's to the point where even when you start those conversations, just having that conversation is viewed as like organizing and like you'll get you'll get asked to leave.
Yeah.
But it also sounds like with this whole thing, it's it's that people who were brought in underpaid are getting compensated.
And it also happens to be that those people are all black.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, they were being underpaid.
I mean, One reading of it, you can't say directly, is because they were black.
So like, we were asking for a raise from a whole bunch of people who were told they were being paid the same amount as everybody else.
Like, they were told this is the starting pay for everybody.
The place just opened in October.
So everybody's like, you know, fresh, new.
Uh, so, when they're saying back pay, it's like back pay for the last, I don't know how many months that is.
Oh yeah, get over it.
Yeah.
Also, you were able to open a restaurant in October during a pandemic, like, in a casino.
Uh-huh.
Chill.
Like, you got money.
You're fine.
Sorry, I misspoke.
I said five years of back pay.
It's five months of back pay.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Yeah, it's only since October.
Yeah, well I feel like, yeah, it's kind of obvious why the black employees are making less money, considering the fucking manager is dropping the n-word.
Exactly, yeah.
So, he, um, and it didn't happen immediately, and it didn't happen because of HR, but he got into, like, an altercation with one of the other workers, and both he and that worker ended up quitting.
So, one of the original demands was to have him removed, and he removed himself, I guess.
Um, another one was like, you know, something simple.
Like, uh, sensitivity training, and they, like, refused to do that.
Um, they said that they did, they didn't.
Like, none of the workers... Like, there's workers that are still there that are just like, yeah, that didn't happen.
That's cool, because, like, I mean, we'll see here when we get to the comments section, but, like, Guy Fieri's American whatever, bar and grill, can just say, oh yeah, we did sensitivity training, and, like, who is going to believe that he's lying?
Who is going to not take Guy Fieri's word for it, you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you know how hard it is to say something anti-gay?
Well that's I mean I feel like we have a responsibility like we on this show it is it's a dangerous path to tread you know I was just listening to the Behind the Bastards episode about that doctor who was doing experimental surgery on women's vaginas and it took a very brave
You know, a very brave doctor speaking out against this guy about what he was doing, you know, and that guy was experienced a lot of, you know, being blackballed and stuff like that, and that might happen to this podcast, but... Guy's a powerful being.
Somebody's got to do it.
I feel like maybe we're those guys to take down the one guy, you know?
Now, you said they did sensitivity training or whatever.
Has there been any other response?
Have they talked to you guys at all about this?
They said that the pee discrepancy wasn't real.
Cool.
That was their last response.
I love that.
You're like, no, we're talking to them.
We're seeing it.
It is real.
And they're like, uh-uh.
Yeah, so, you know, they're in deny mode, they barely acknowledge anything.
I mean, it took a lot to get them to make, like, the first acknowledgement, and now it's, like, slow-moving and not much of anything.
Yeah, the last thing I have here from the article is Mr. Hannaford, who I guess is one of the managers at this bar and grill.
Mr. Hannaford said he was unable to give further comment at this time, so... Yeah.
Yeah and it's like you should absolutely talk to your co-workers about how much you make even if you feel like it's an uncomfortable situation or it's an uncomfortable conversation to have.
It's a valuable one.
You have to start thinking about this thing as a giant A battle or a war and you are on the side of your co-workers.
That is who you are on the side of.
It is us against them and you have to be able to talk to your own side about these sort of things, you know.
That's one thing you can do.
The other is joining a union where there's a contract that shows how much every single person makes at whatever level of seniority.
Like my contract, my union contract, the one I signed when I became a full-time driver, Uh, was I made this much after the first year, I made this much after the second year, I made this much after the third year, and then at the fourth year I topped out.
And everybody after four years under that contract makes the same exact amount of money.
White, black, uh, male, female, you know, uh, uh, non-binary, you all make the same amount of money.
There's no racial stipulation in your union contract?
No, there's not.
People will be surprised to learn that.
That's a benefit of working in a union.
No three-fifths clause.
At UPS, everyone's brown.
So, it's okay.
Yeah, so, let's move on to some responses to this because I feel like they're going to, I don't know, point out sort of the nature of what we've been talking about.
These were responses in a publication called the Press Democrat who covered this story and Morty Rabb says, Rarely would I defend this putz.
So Guy Fieri.
Rarely would I defend this putz.
But in this case he is so far removed from the daily operation it would be impossible he had anything to do with it.
And then before we comment, let me just read Darius's comment who says, Not to defend the hamburger clown, but this location is just a counter-operation in a sleazy casino in an old mall east of Pittsburgh.
He likely has no idea what's going on in regard to daily operations.
For some reason, the PD, so the Press Democrat, considers this news.
And just before we get into the nuts and bolts of this, I like that they are on the exact opposite side of this that we are.
Where we're like, rarely what I criticize, a wholesome cringelord Guy Fieri.
But this is bad.
This is bad stuff.
These guys are like, oh, this is a hamburger themed hobo clown that I wouldn't, like, spit on if he were on fire.
However, if it gives me the opportunity to look down on wage workers, I'd gladly side with him.
This is also a free speech issue, you know?
I don't think it's worth writing just because someone decided to exercise their free speech in the kitchen in regards to what music they're listening to.
Uh, so how do you, how do you respond to this, uh, this argument that Guy Fieri doesn't even know what's going on?
We should not lay this at his feet whatsoever.
Okay, so I have two points on that.
The first is smaller.
It's just the basic, like, all of these, like, figureheads of larger franchises always, like, reap the benefits of every single, like, altruistic thing that happens in them, but they can't ever, like, Be chastised for anything negative that happens.
But the what I think is actually like the bigger story around Guy Fieri is.
So I feel like this is a window into talking about some, which is he has, as we said, this very like cultivated image of being this like saint to workers, especially in the recent past, especially with Covid, because he helped with a relief fund.
But that relief fund was also also sponsored by the National Restaurant Association, which is one of like the biggest anti worker groups in the country, like has most politicians in their pockets is the reason we have two different wages is the reason why a lot of our labor laws are what they are.
And then when you have somebody like Guy Fieri, with like, His, like, you know, saintly figure as, like, the... Well, I wouldn't call him saintly.
I would just call him, like, really cool.
Yeah.
He's, like, fucking rocking, you know?
And, I mean, I don't need, like, you know, a Christ-like figure when I'm getting down at the casino or whatever.
I want somebody that I can, like, have a guy tie with.
Yeah.
Which is what they call Mai Tais at the Bar and Grill.
Is it actually?
Because I don't really want that.
Yeah, it's called a guy tie.
Hell yeah.
And by the way, just to touch back, the chicken parmeroni sounds so fucking good, man.
I don't mean to give him promotion on this show, but like, pounded, breaded, and fried signature parmeroni red sauce, fresh mozzarella, provolone and parmesan, crispy pepperoni penne pasta.
It sounds dope, dude.
I mean, yeah.
The only way you can make something like that better is a little pepperoni on top.
I like what he calls the New York Steak Strip.
He calls it Old School Steak.
But school is spelled S-K-O-L.
Hell yeah.
Because it's cool.
Well, back in my day, that's what you had.
That's what you got.
That was the old school way.
And it's got A1 donkey sauce on it.
What is A1 donkey sauce?
How is, Tony, how is donkey sauce different from mule sauce?
Well, donkey sauce, that's, that's for old school.
Cause like, you know, that's, that's that straight ass flavor.
That's that funky ass flavor.
Okay.
Right.
Mule sauce is just a waste of space in, in everything.
It's a waste of, of resources.
It actually, like, it's part of what's killing the environment is the shipping and receiving of mule sauce.
Okay.
I'll take your word for it.
I don't think I'll be trying either in the near future.
Oh, you're going to forget to check that box, Playboy.
You're going to forget to check that box one day and a bottle of mule sauce is going to show up and I'm going to laugh.
Okay.
Well, I will try it.
If some comes to my house, I will try it.
But yeah, Yusra, continue with your thought about whether or not Guy himself is responsible for the actions that happen within the restaurant that he owns.
That he profits off of?
Yeah.
That he's the face of?
That his name is, like, right on?
And also, like, could a phone call fix this if he heard about it or cared?
So, like, That's where your responsibility lies.
Like, if you could change this very, very easily with, like, a wave of a finger.
But if you type in Guy Fieri into Google, all you'll see is how many different ways he helped restaurant workers over the last year.
And it's kind of, like, really sad to have that person be, like, the figurehead for, like, the association that's been, like, holding workers back since For decades and decades.
I mean, it makes sense with what you're saying about how his experience in the restaurant industry was first as a manager and then second as an owner.
He's on that side of the industry.
He was probably in that association.
I can't say for sure, but it's all like small business owners.
The way I look at this is like, it's very funny that This is how we are looking at the capitalist enterprise of like selling your name or owning a you know owning an idea or owning a brand and then profiting off that brand
Despite doing none of the work involved in making the product for that brand, right?
Because this is a restaurant that actually produces something.
It makes something.
It makes food.
People are served, right?
Yeah.
But it's called Guy Fieri's American Bar and Grill.
He makes exorbitant amounts of money off of the labor of the people that we're talking about today.
And yet the argument for him not seeing any ramifications or not having any culpability over this, the argument in favor of him is, well, he doesn't do any actual work at these restaurants.
How could he know what's going on?
Yeah.
So it's like the worst... He just makes money off of the backs of the people who are being underpaid.
Yeah!
We can't hold him to the high standard of actually doing the work and getting paid $2 an hour.
But listen though, when I finally open up my endless ZD place, Tony's Crazy ZD, I also won't be there.
You'll probably shorten it to Crazy ZD.
But I'm not going to.
It's going to be Tony's Crazy ZD.
That's what my grandmother wanted.
And so, so I'm not gonna be there.
I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna cash those checks.
But I'm also gonna go ahead and make sure no one's dropping hard R's in the kitchen!
Do it in the front where everyone can see ya.
Um, yeah, I don't know.
I feel like it's just, uh, it's just funny that they're using, like, the actual, uh, the worst part of capitalism as a defense of the capitalists themselves.
It's very, uh, it's very funny that that's, like, where they have to reach to defend these people.
Um... Even if you're gonna license it, you still have to approve of certain things.
If you're listening you still have to approve of like a rule book and the rule book has to be written in such a way to where like that shouldn't have been an option.
He had to at least see and approve that.
I just think like you shouldn't be allowed to make money off a place if you're not there and working there.
All of these, like, celebrity, like, you know, faces of whatever companies always make themselves look in the public face.
Like, they are personally involved in their, like, thousands of ventures.
Yeah, their image relies on it.
That's how, that's why people go there.
Like, that, like, if you look at, like... That's why people, sorry to interrupt, that's why people work there.
That's why you said, like, these people agreed to work there.
That's why they applied to work there.
So that they could be like graced with his presence and then um, but he doesn't His say doesn't matter when it comes to like how much they're getting paid according to people No, he's just like a billionaire innocent in the minds of these people.
Like, I don't understand that mindset at all.
Makai has another interesting take.
These people, so now they're talking about the workers.
When you say things like he, with a capital H, you're talking about Guy Fieri.
But when you say things like these people, you're talking about wage-earning scum.
These people need to be very careful and have irrefutable proof of such allegations.
Remember, they will be applying for other jobs as such allegations, true or not, could and will prevent them from becoming gainfully employed.
Would you hire them?
So me, like, as I'm thinking about this as, like, a UPS driver, and I'm like, hmm, would I hire this guy that I've read about in an article who got called the N-word?
You know what?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I've been thinking long and hard about what my, you know, what I would do as Guy Fieri, because that's how I, like, that's how I picture myself, you know?
I picture myself as a Guy Fieri type.
Imagine that phone call.
Imagine you're about to hire someone and you're calling the references and they're like, listen, he's fine.
Just don't call him slurs because he kind of freaks out.
Then I got to walk on eggshells.
You know?
Yeah, go ahead.
I love that freaks out too.
It's like he went to HR and then waited like a month.
Yeah.
Like the calmest reaction to that.
Probably calmer than you should have.
Yeah.
My mind is like, that's kind of like the rule, is that if I hear you drop the R, we get to fight.
Yeah.
That's a reasonable response.
Yeah.
And no one's going to be instantly that mad.
No, no.
He said it.
He said the whole thing.
And they're like, what song was playing?
I'm like, not a song that has it in there.
He just said it.
I get to fight him.
And like, yeah.
They should be so lucky.
Yeah, so I just love how, I love this centrist response.
Remember, they will be applying for other jobs as such allegations, true or not, could and will, like, hey, these allegations could very well be true.
But these, this, this, this n-word still needs to watch his step.
Yeah, that's basically, I mean, he literally started with these people.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Now, is that something that these employees are worried about?
Like, retaliation in the industry or anything like that for speaking out?
Well, definitely.
Honestly, like, it's always an issue and that's what's so difficult in, like, the restaurant sector.
That, like, everybody always argues about retaliation and that's a thing that, like, you know, we run into a lot.
Like, while we're mobilizing workers in, like, whatever particular restaurant, it's always an issue.
To, like, keep them safe from, like, you know, bosses firing them for them asking for, like, back wages or, you know, whatever it is they're fighting for.
This is the flip side to this, like, weird obsession or, like, respect for Guy Fieri.
Like, the mirror comment to the one that we've been reading comes from Hardworking Woman's Truth.
Who says, I met him.
So Guy Fieri, that's him.
He gets, you know, I met him.
Is it a capital H?
I met his highness on a couple of occasions.
He seems like a great guy.
I don't doubt he will do whatever he can to make this right.
It's like, wow, this is a horrible story, but I'm at least happy that it happened under Guy Fieri's purview.
So he can step in and make it right.
He'll fix it, yeah.
He'll personally fix it.
I love that delusion, too, to where you think to yourself, I know about this story.
So therefore, Guy Fieri, whose name is on the restaurant, he's bound to find out about it soon.
Yeah.
He just doesn't know about it yet.
But once he finds out, he's going to take care of it, of course.
Somebody should tell him.
Also, I met him twice and he seems definitely like the guy who is anti-racist and would step in and like all this shit.
Okay.
The comments on a local Pittsburgh, you know, like a local affiliate, I can't remember whether it was like CBS or something, but it's WTAE TV Pittsburgh wrote about this story.
And these comments were just atrocious.
I'm not going to try to, I don't want to spend too much time on them, but Like, an overwhelming, uh, Mike Brigman?
Bridgman?
Kind of gets to the overwhelming response to this.
Mike Bridgman says, And it's funny because it's like, The meme about, you know, the sensitive snowflake, right?
The person who just, they can't handle criticism or they can't handle, you know, naughty words or something like that.
It's now extended to you making, like you getting cheated out of making money to live.
Like, oh, sorry, sorry, you had thousands of dollars stolen out of your paycheck.
Boo-hoo.
Why don't you grow up?
That's the real world.
Like, it's now just like the whole, like, oh, you need a safe space away from wage theft?
Oh, okay.
That was the overwhelming response from this.
Brian Bish says, in a real Bish comment, another example of the lack of personal responsibility.
Nothing is ever, quote, my fault.
I was fired, so it has to have been someone else's fault because I can do no wrong, dot dot dot.
That's not even what happened.
No.
It's not even like a part of the story.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
I, uh, it's, it wasn't my fault.
I'm the N word.
It's like, no, sorry.
It's your fault.
You need to, you know, and then Michael respond, Michael Lekovich responded to this and says, yeah, the news just captioned him as quote former employee, kind of like calling illegals quote migrants and quote undocumented workers.
And they're just like laughing at each other's comments here.
Um, If you clicked on the story at all, you would know that this employee quit because they were called the N-word and nothing happened.
There was no responsibility for the person who racially harassed one of his employees.
Yeah.
And people continue to not do anything about it.
But also, he's getting paid $2 less.
The guy has like 20 years of experience.
It's like amazing.
I don't know, maybe get thicker skin and then you won't need that money to buy a coat during the winter, you know?
It's that whole thing, though.
It's like, listen, if I was getting paid $2 left, I would kick the door down and demand $2 more.
And it's like, that's what's happening.
That's what you're looking at.
That's what you're looking at.
It's so foreign to you that you don't realize that they are doing the thing that you think they should be doing.
Also, like, If any one of these, you know, internet pull-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps type guys, if you were like, oh yeah, what if your manager, like, okay, so you're a white guy, right?
So, like, what's the equivalent of being called the n-word?
It's like, oh, somebody said that your dog was ugly.
You know?
No, they called me racist.
They were calling me racist.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's the white equivalent.
Okay.
Uh, so their response would be, um, I would like fight that person.
I wouldn't take that.
I would fight that person.
And then, yeah, you would go to jail or whatever.
Yeah.
I saw, I saw a meme in my Teamster Facebook group that was like back, it was, uh, Charles Bronson, uh, drinking, I dunno, drinking scotch or something.
And it said back in my day, we didn't file grievances.
We just popped that cocksucker in the mouth.
And it's like, okay, that's like cool.
I get like, it's like a, you know, like a worker's right, like kind of thing, but it's also like, I don't know.
I'd rather just hand my boss a piece of paper that says, fuck you, pay me.
Like now, now, now you owe me a car payment, dude.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I also can't like, I can't, you know, buy something special with a punch in the face.
Yeah, I would rather money, honestly.
Like, I think that's a, Yeah, I don't have that type of personality where hurting somebody is more valuable to me than... Than money!
Yeah, than making a utility payment.
Listen, I know you're saying that that guitar cost $500, but I have a video for you to watch.
It's just me punching my manager in the face.
Will that cover it?
Yeah, I have an NFT of me sticking my supervisor's head in my butt.
I want to pay my mortgage with this.
That'll cover it.
Yeah, Keith Goodwin said, so some want back pay because they discovered each employee is paid different?
That's every job.
Whose fault is it to accept a position and not know what your worth is?
You accepted the positions and rate of pay of your own free will.
Blame yourself.
And again, like you said, Yusra, these people were misled.
They were lied to about the pay structure at the restaurant.
There was some implication that Guy would be working with the restaurant.
And also, again, like you both have said, this is them advocating for themselves.
Yeah, absolutely.
These are employees saying, no, I am worth more, and you guys need to pay me what I'm worth.
But it's not...
It's not fair to the business who cheated them in the first place, you know?
No takes backsies, right?
But these motherfuckers in the comments are the ones who are... They would... The managers say, okay, listen, so we start everyone off at 22, and they would say, you know what?
Start me off at 2150.
We'll talk in six months.
You know?
Like, that's what they would do.
They have no grasp of reality of how any of this stuff really works.
I can't imagine feeling the need to defend a restaurant in a casino.
That's so weird.
Well, that's the winner in this situation, right?
The winner is Guy Fieri.
The winner is the restaurant owner.
That's the person who is at the top of the hierarchy in this relationship.
And so these, like, I don't know if it's insecurity.
I don't know if they just do actually have the background as somebody on that side of the relationship.
They just want to picture themselves as the winner.
They want to picture themselves as the more powerful person.
And so why would I ever sympathize with the person with less power?
Why would I ever, you know, identify with that person?
That would make me a loser.
That would make me a person with less power.
And I feel like a lot of these people just get Their own ego boosted or their own ego tickled by identifying with the boot instead of the person being trod upon.
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
Darlene Alexander again says, just checking in to see what we're offended by today.
Winky face.
It's like there's only two options.
There's only two options to see to say like what was offensive in this situation.
One, not making enough money.
Being paid less than you're worth, having money essentially taken from you, or being called the n-word by your manager.
Yeah, I think people probably have a right to be, quote, offended by those things, by which I mean try to beat that other person.
Totally.
And the whole thing is, what, you know, what are they being offended by today?
It's not, this isn't, you know, uh, I quit my job because the manager had me unpack the bacon.
He knows I'm vegan.
You know, it's like, that's not it.
It's like, this is, this is, uh, this is really bad.
Most people would agree this is bad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well it's just all you have to do is say that this employee was offended and then whatever the problem was becomes like a joke.
You can just say oh they were offended and then it's like oh well now it's like cancel culture or now it's feelings are being hurt.
When this inevitably happens to me again, I'm going to make sure that the article reads, um, employee insist he's not offended, but it's the principle of the matter.
Uh, yeah.
Um, last comment here.
David Wilson says, I regret reading these comments.
Uh, so yeah.
Uh, never read the comments.
Just wait for MinionDeathCult to read them to you.
That's what we're here for.
We got your back like that.
Thank you so much, Yusra, for joining us on this segment.
Hopefully we have shed some light onto the true evil that is Guy Fieri, pierced the veil of his public image, and we appreciate your efforts in that regard and in your efforts in helping out restaurant workers.
Is there anything you want to send people to before you leave?
Um, I, uh, can I share, like, that petition link with you?
Please.
Yeah, I'll put it in the show notes for this episode, in the description of this episode.
Awesome.
Alright, thanks so much for having me.
Yeah, thanks for joining us.
Thank you so much.
Bye, guys.
Bye.
Peace.
Um, let me take a pee break and check on Penny real quick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's because God hates you.
I want you to know that's why that happened.
God hates us all.
It's true.
It's true.
I've heard that somewhere.
Yeah.
That's gonna be my response next time you say God is racist or God hates black people and be like, uh, God hates us all, bro.
Excuse me?
Actually, God hates all of us?
God hates all lives?
God thinks no lives matter?
Don't you listen to Slayer?
Hello?
Tamariya is like an all lives matter guy.
Oh, that doesn't surprise me.
Yeah.
Their Nazi artwork is real cool though.
It looked, I mean, aesthetically, you know, design-wise, you know.
Yeah.
Okay.
So moving on to our second topic of the night, just a real, a real death cult bonanza here.
We have a private school in Miami citing false claims bars vaccinated teachers from contact with students.
Wild.
Wild.
This whole COVID thing?
Fake.
Definitely fake.
The vaccine however, that one I'm worried about.
I wish that some of the like logic was real in the sense that I wish that maybe there was something to worry about like it was contagious.
Like what if they just made the vaccine contagious and everyone would catch the vaccine?
Yeah, why don't they make the whole airplane out of the black box, you know?
Exactly!
See, there you go!
So this is from Patricia Mazze, I think of the New York Times, writes, a private school in the fashionable design district of Miami sent its faculty and staff a letter last week about getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
But unlike institutions that have encouraged and even facilitated vaccination for teachers, the school, Centner Academy, did the opposite.
One of its co-founders, Layla Centner, informed employees, quote, with a very heavy heart, that if they chose to get a shot, they would have to stay away from students.
In an example of how misinformation threatens the nation's effort to vaccinate enough Americans to get the coronavirus under control, Ms.
Centner, who has frequently shared anti-vaccine posts on Facebook, claimed in the letter that, quote, reports have surfaced recently of non-vaccinated people being negatively impacted by interacting with people who have been vaccinated.
I love this shit so much.
Which is so fucking deep cut, I hadn't even heard it until I read it here.
Yeah, I've heard a little bit of this.
I love this so much.
Coronavirus is fake.
You can't transmit it to anybody.
It's completely false.
However, the thing that cures it, that's the bad one.
And it is contagious.
Not only is it bad, it's also contagious, unlike the coronavirus.
I love how just block-headed this is.
Because the argument for reopening is like, oh yes, the coronavirus is real, but we need to Put it in perspective and we need to do social distancing while we reopen and get as many people vaccinated as possible, maybe have smaller capacity.
Yeah, work on herd immunity.
That's like the compromise, right?
That's the compromise between killing people and keeping capitalism afloat.
And people like Leila Centner are like, absolutely not.
Not only am I not going to do the compromise, I am going to punish people who even try to compromise with me by getting the vaccine.
I love this.
This is wild.
Even among our own population, so this is still Leila Centner speaking here, co-founder of this academy.
Even among our own population, we have at least three women with menstrual cycles impacted after having spent time with a vaccinated person, she wrote.
Repeating a false claim that vaccinated people can somehow pass the vaccine to others and thereby affect their reproductive systems.
That's awesome.
Neither.
Um, and yeah, like Ani said, like, oh wow, your menstrual cycle was irregular?
Call fucking Guinness Book of World Records.
Like, oh my god, you're probably dying if your menstrual cycle is irregular like, uh, 90% of women on Earth.
Also, you were around someone who's vaccinated and that's what caused it?
Who were you around?
How do you know?
It's when people blame food poisoning on just whatever they decide they didn't like.
When it's never what they think it was.
Where are you getting this conclusion that a non-vaccinated person caused this?
I don't know.
I mean, that's okay.
That's a weirdly cynical thing.
I believe women when they tell me that they contracted the anti-menstrual virus from the vaccination.
So that's just, I guess, two different opinions on this.
That's true.
Yeah.
I love this.
It's like, it's like back in the day.
Ms. Centner gave employees three options.
Inform the school if they had already been vaccinated so they could be kept physically distanced from students.
I love this.
It's like back in the day.
I mean, it probably happens in some cultures still where if you are on your menstrual cycle, if you are currently menstruating, You have to be kept away from the rest of the tribe so as not to, you know, sully them or bring your feminine magics into the fold.
It's just the same exact thing, but with actual science.
Yeah.
Like, oh, if you were getting an actual scientific medical remedy for, or prevention for an ailment, like, we don't want you bringing that negative energy into the school.
Please don't, you're gonna affect the crops.
Uh, let the school know if they get the ve- Just like, you have to like, go into a tent that's like, on the school grounds.
You have to teach your class from inside a shame tent.
Like a sweat lodge.
Let the school know if they get the vaccine before the end of the school year, as we cannot allow recently vaccinated people to be near our students until more information is known.
Again, these are people who advocated for opening during a pandemic.
Coronavirus.
Bring that coronavirus into the school, please.
Oh, you have something that will prevent the coronavirus?
That's evil.
Cannot be allowed in the school.
Get that outta here.
Wait until the school year is over to get vaccinated, and then teachers who get the vaccine over summer will not be allowed to return, the letter said, until clinical trials on the vaccine are completed, and then only, quote, if a position is still available at that time.
So the whole Tony Boswell situation.
You can come back as long as we haven't hired someone to replace you.
Yeah, as long as we haven't done, and like once you get, once someone else is hired, that replaced you, you're no longer, your position's filled, even a new one opens up.
Yeah, Ms.
Centner required the faculty and staff to fill out a confidential form revealing whether they had received a vaccine, and if so, which one and how many doses.
What's your menstrual cycle like?
How irregular is it?
Please mark on this calendar what it's been doing.
That's so... There's people who... I'm imagining students too, families, Who are going to have to lie to keep their jobs.
I remember having friends who taught at private schools that were Christian schools who pretended like they were Christian when they really weren't.
This is even harder.
I gotta just pretend I'm not vaccinated.
Hopefully all my friends understand that I am in fact vaccinated, I just can't say it publicly because I need to keep my job.
I love this, like, this, like, new-age, hippie school is gonna mandate, like, a piss test, but for a vaccine.
Yeah, totally.
The form requires employees to, quote, acknowledge the school will take legal measures needed to protect the students, etc., etc.
The statement said people, vaccinated people may be transmitting something from their bodies leading to adverse reproductive issues among women.
Quote, we are not 100% sure the COVID injections are safe and there are too many unknown variables for us to feel comfortable at this current time.
Again, these are the same exact people who say, oh, well, there's a 93% survival rate of coronavirus.
You're overreacting to the coronavirus that is literally killing people.
And they're talking about, like, releasing radio waves.
They're talking about, like, 5G and stuff.
Like, that's what they're talking about that's causing irregular menstrual effects and stuff.
Let me fast forward to the actual information that Layla Centner is going off of.
This was posted to her Instagram account, which is still available if you want to check it out.
She posted a screenshot of what she says is Pfizer's protocol document for their trials on the C-Jab.
And then this reads, Pfizer's mRNA vaccine trial documentation references knowledge of, quote, shedding.
And that's done in like the papyrus font, kind of.
And then it says, exposure during pregnancy or breastfeeding and occupational exposure.
Exposure to the study intervention under study during pregnancy or breastfeeding and occupational exposure are reportable to Pfizer safety within 24 hours of investigator awareness.
Exposure during pregnancy occurs if a female is found to be pregnant while being exposed or having been exposed to study intervention due to environmental exposure.
A female family member or health care provider reports that she is pregnant after having been exposed to the study intervention by inhalation or skin contact.
Yeah.
A male family member or health care provider who has been exposed to the study intervention by inhalation or skin contact.
I don't know what the fuck this is trying to say but they think that you can catch the vaccine or catch the virus through people who have gotten the vaccine because I guess there was like The old way of doing vaccines was they would use live versions of the virus to trigger your antibodies to produce, you know, a immunization type effect.
That's not how these mRNA vaccines happen.
They do not use a, like, actual, you know, live virus to trigger the body's response.
Yeah.
So it comes from the idea that You could shed part of the vaccine, which would, in their minds, contain part of the virus, which would then transfer to somebody else, which still relies on the idea of COVID being contagious and bad.
They're trying to have it both ways, Tony.
It's the man made contagious, though.
Since it's made in a lab and the government's behind it, then it's on point.
So that's what has prompted this.
Another thing they said... Oh my god.
A fifth grade math and science teacher in Miami told her students Wednesday morning the COVID-19 vaccine was dangerous and warned that if their mothers and fathers have been vaccinated, they should not hug their parents for more than five seconds.
That's awesome.
That's so awesome.
Like, what the fuck?
Where are they getting this?
This is the person they're supposed to believe.
Kids are taught, you're supposed to believe your teachers.
Like, they're gonna have actual conversations when they get home.
That sucks.
I love this so much because it is like the crankiest cranks that I've ever heard of.
Like, these are like people who are like, Oh no, the death tolls are fake.
The COVID-19 symptoms are fake.
All of this is fake.
Give me something that is just, like, give me the craziest thing possible and that's what I'm going to believe.
Well, the truth is the thing you're going to try to cover up, man.
The truth is harder to understand.
That's why it's easy to believe.
I'm just saying like it's like well when something's been confirmed by numerous doctors and scientists it's like it's not fun to believe anymore.
Yeah.
Like give me the thing that's fun to be to be afraid of.
Like give me oh no it's a secret vaccine that's like being shed and now no I'm not talking about normal contagiousness because that's fake.
I'm talking about shedding, which is this thing I read about in an Instagram post, which sounds awesome.
That's what I'm going to base my beliefs on.
It's what real scientists use to say it.
Only common folk say things like contagious.
Real scientists use the real terms like shedding.
Well, it's like Grandpa Simpson going into the hospital and being like, I'm discombobulated!
And, like, the doctors are like, you're fine.
And he's like, I demand to speak to a quack.
Like, give me the fake shit.
Like, that's what I want.
Yeah, yeah.
And Leila Centner is like, oh yeah, you're experiencing skin failure because you came into contact with the vaccine.
So yeah, you need to put this towel over your head and tap your ear with a dowsing rod five times before you can come back to the school.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
I respect that.
It's way more fun to believe that shit, I think.
And I think that's what's happening here, to a certain extent.
It keeps things exciting.
I like that.
The Centner Academy opened in 2019 for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, promoting itself as, quote, a happiness school focused on children's mindfulness and emotional intelligence.
The school prominently advertises on its website support for, quote, medical freedom from mandated vaccines.
Ms.
Centner founded the school with her husband, David Centner, a technology and electronic highway tolling entrepreneur.
Yeah, okay, so let me just read the rest of this and then I'll get into what that means.
Each has donated heavily to the Republican Party in the Trump re-election campaign while giving much smaller sums to local Democrats.
I like that.
I like how petty that sentence is.
So I was like, what does that mean?
A tolling entrepreneur.
And I read this article from the Tampa Bay Times that I sent to you, Tony.
Background on the couple.
It began with the Academy's first open house when David and Leila Centner asked guests not just to wipe their feet, but to swaddle the soles of their shoes in saran wrap.
Yeah, dawg.
Hell yeah.
Gotta keep it clean.
And it continued... I don't think it's cleanliness that they're worried about.
I think it's like the negative ions from the parking lot.
They don't want that to get into the grounds of the school, you know?
And it continued with an impassioned pledge to mold students into, quote, emotional ninjas.
Which I feel like they're using that in the insane clown posse sense of the word.
Like they would much rather like to say another word.
Listen, everyone here is my ninja.
We're all ninjas.
We're all ninjas together.
We want to be ninjas but for the mind and body.
That's good.
I like that.
I like it when they really bring the whole family aesthetic, the whole family feel to school.
When Leila was first getting a lot of like media heat, like a lot of heat for this, she was quoted as saying, everybody want to be a ninja, but nobody want to be a ninja.
Nobody wants to be a ninja.
No one wants to do the real work.
And with coverings over the windows to ward off potential radiation from 5G cell towers.
Just again, like, the thing that's killing hundreds of thousands of people in the country is fake.
You're a snowflake if you believe that shit.
You're a sheep.
You're not just a snowflake.
You're a willing sheep.
You're a lemming diving off the edge.
Also, I'm putting this fiber board I bought at Home Depot over the windows to prevent 5G radiation.
No, even worse.
They bought some proprietary film they bought off somebody that's really expensive.
It probably looks like shit, but that's what it's made for.
But you can write it off on your taxes, so...
The Sentiners made a fortune when their New York-based company, Highway Toll Administration, was acquired by a billion-dollar private equity firm in 2018.
They relocated to a penthouse condo in Miami Beach and immersed themselves among South Florida's power players, contributing $1 million to President Donald Trump's re-election fund.
So I was like, what the fuck is the Highway Toll Administration?
This fake ass sounding scam of a company which turns out is a fake ass scam of a company.
That sounds about right.
I searched it up and the top hit was from the Better Business Bureau, which has a whole like entry for the Highway Toll Administration, which judging by the dozens of one-star reviews, seems to be a middleman for rental car companies and toll roads.
What it is, is it's like a payment service that sends out notifications whenever a rental car uses a toll road or, judging by these reviews, doesn't even use a toll road.
The person who rented the car just gets charged, let's see here, a $50 convenience fee on top of the toll.
So this is from Linda S. on the Better Business Bureau.
One star.
This company is a scam.
We rented a car at SeaTac Airport in Seattle, Tacoma, and inadvertently drove back and forth on a toll road May 8th due to road construction.
We tried to find a toll booth, but there was none, so there was no way to pay the toll in person.
The next month, we received a bill from the Highway Toll Administration in New York for $60.
Two $5 tolls plus a $50 quote convenience fee.
The charges clearly stated that the convenience fee is a maximum $25 per day.
I called the Highway Toll Administration was on hold almost an hour.
When someone finally came on the line they said that I had checked out the car two days earlier at 3 p.m.
And since one of our tolls was before 3 p.m.
and the other after 3 p.m., that counts as two days, even though they were both on May 18th.
That's the way we do it, she said.
Wow.
So at first I thought it was between like the rental car companies and the toll roads.
But this is going to the customer?
This is so fucked.
Well, no.
The toll- The Highway Toll Administration has access to the information, like those license plates.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So it is between the rental car comp- The rental car companies set up this relationship with the- Yeah, no.
I thought the bill went to the rental car companies, but the bills are going to the people driving.
Yeah.
I thought it was- That's awesome.
That's so fucking crazy that, like, these are allowed to exist.
Yeah, it's great that...
These are people who think, like, you know, the swamp is destroying America, that, you know, the powerful and the elite, you know, there's a cabal, like, working behind the scenes to make us all, you know, drink fluoride or, like, have better teeth or something to not die from coronavirus.
Also, we're going to charge people $50.
Get in between the government that we hate And charge people ten times the amount that the government is charging them.
And we're the good people.
We're on the side of liberty and justice.
Well, that's good.
They're doing the convenient thing for us because I was gonna feel terrible.
I was gonna spend probably weeks figuring out how to make this right.
I couldn't find a toll booth.
I was gonna be so pained over this because I need to pay my tolls to upkeep the roads.
So they did it all for me and that's priceless.
That's worth, I mean, 50 bucks?
Fuck it.
Fuck it.
75 a day.
Yeah, so they were able to make even more money than they were stealing convenience fees from unsuspecting travelers.
I mean, it's literally like highway robbery, right?
Yeah!
They were able to make even more money when they sold that purely evil, just demonic idea, you know, to a different, like, Silicon Valley, you know, hedge fund or whatever.
And then they wanted to use that money to start up a school promoting itself as a happiness school.
We just like happiness.
We just want to make people happy.
I think it's really important to point these people out because when we think conservatives, we think of people who hate this type of school when we forget that they're all just rich people, right?
Because if this is being opened by hippies or something like that that were like, I don't know, something else, they'd be like, no, school's not for happiness.
School is for school.
This is all bad.
But we forget that there is this whole swath of conservatives who are goop people.
Who are new agey type people.
And they're even more insidious.
They're like, we're not racist.
We love crystals.
We just also, you know, do other things that are destroying your everyday existence.
Does this make sense?
Um, I don't, I don't know that, like, I mean, I think there's a strong connection between hippies and conservatism or individuality, like, individualism.
Like, Hippiness doesn't even have a politics.
Hippiness is, like, you know, an aesthetic to whatever degree it's coherent, you know?
I don't, like, I mean, you see plenty of, like, Grateful Dead Trump stickers and things like that, like... I think, yeah, you've seen, like, all of this New Age stuff mixed with fascism, mixed with Q, like...
There's not really a dividing line between these things, really.
No, because a yoga studio is the same thing as a CrossFit gym.
It's this libertarian, own your own business, create your own independence mentality that people take.
In this case, it's opening a boutique school.
Yeah, and it was funny, I don't have any of the quotes in front of me, but there were some parents who were like, yeah, man, I thought all this weird shit was great until I found out, whoa, it might be anti-science?
It's like, come on, dude, you knew.
You knew this stuff was bad.
And then lastly, yeah, from the Tampa Bay Times, the school has received public funds including an $804,000 COVID-related payroll protection program loan in April 2020 that it doesn't have to pay back.
That's so much money.
Yeah so uh we're taking $804,000 of the public's money meant to help businesses survive in a time of pandemic that we don't even believe in and are actively like trying to support.
We want the virus to to work.
And we don't need to like I mean we are saying it but we don't need to say this school It's for rich people and it only benefits rich people and like this is not contributing to like everyday society at all.
I think maybe it'll benefit society when it teaches all these rich kids that yeah it's totally okay to like hook your car's exhaust up to your mouth and and breathe it in because it's fake science telling you that carbon monoxide is bad.
Like, maybe that will help society to some degree.
I don't know how much rich kids are benefiting from this sort of education, or if it matters at all.
Anyway, just, yeah, just delightful.
Just delightful people.
We actively disbelieve the thing that is really killing people.
We are actively punishing people for trying to prevent the thing that is killing people.
And we think the thing, the preventative measures are actually bad in the way that the fake thing is bad that we don't believe in.
And also we're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars of public funds for ourselves while we fire Or lay off the people who are trying to mitigate this pandemic.
Super cool.
How did they get it to be so much?
That's so much money.
That's like more than I've ever heard.
I don't know, maybe they pay the teachers a lot of money and maybe the payroll protection is related to actually how much their payroll is, you know?
I don't know.
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Anything else to add, Tony?
Nope.
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To the politically minded, here's something I want to say.
To the politically minded, here's something I want to say.
About the state of the nation and how they treat us today.
About the state of the nation and how they treat us today.
In school they give you shit.
They'll toss you in a pit.
And you try and you try to get out, but you're stuck in it.
Well, do they owe us a living hope?
Of course they do.
Oh, what's a livin'?
Of course they do.
Of course they do.
Oh, what's a livin'?
Of course they do.
Oh, what's a livin'?
Of course they fuckin' do.
Well, the livin' that sold me, I'm never gonna get.
The whole country's drownin', up to our necks in debt.
If you're different, they'd bust your head.
Could care less if you were dead.
They'd rather see you drop out than get ahead.
They owe us a living, of course they do.
Owe us a living, of course they do, of course they do.
