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Thank you so much for joining us today.
We got a fucking banger of an episode for you folks.
We're going to start off here with a follow up to the last episode where three Marines got their asses absolutely demolished by 30 to 40 teens on a beach.
I mean, technically it was like nine of them or something, but man, they they went down pretty much without a fight.
Well, it turns out those Marines were actually, the story was, if you didn't listen to that episode, the story was the Marines were concerned citizens passing by the beach, noticed some teens being disrespectful to the beach by lighting off fireworks, demanded that they stopped, informed the teens that they were Marines, and so therefore the teens had to stop having fun, at which point the teens all jumped them.
Yeah, that's the story that we were told.
Brick brutally assaulted, brutally stomped out, not even fair, swarmed these poor Marines who were just trying to protect the beach, is what we were told.
Yeah, and again, the photos accompanying that story were of a Marine with a single, like, blemish on his cheekbone.
Not even a black eye.
A little raspberry.
Not even a fat lip or a black eye, nothing.
No, actually, it turns out these Marines were allegedly partying with the underage teens on the beach, including passing bottles of alcohol to them on video, and then allegedly trying to kidnap blacked-out 14-year-old girls and take them back to an apartment?
Yeah, yeah.
So before we get into this, I just wanted to say, um, you know, after, after this came out, a lot of people felt guilty about, you know, defending the Marines and calling for the deaths of these teens again.
Uh, you can hear that episode by subscribing to patreon.com slash minion death cult, uh, to hear all the wonderful reactions, uh, to the Marines getting owned by, uh, teens.
But, um, Yeah, a lot of people, you know, feeling, uh, you know, remorseful, regretful about the, you know, how they felt about these teens in light of this new information.
And I just want to say, uh, we at Minion Death Cult, we always thought the Marines getting beaten up was good.
We always thought it was funny.
Yeah, from the jump.
We knew it was bad.
We just didn't, we knew they deserve it.
We just didn't realize how much they deserved it.
It's just like the story that they presented even was, uh, was not very sympathetic, but Okay, so we got a lot of credits to give out.
First and foremost, shout out to Jacob.
Shout out to Listener Jacob.
So when I posted that episode Wednesday night, woke up Thursday morning to a comment from Listener Jacob who said, I was at this party.
The real story involves some Marines getting wasted and playing cards at a high school party at T Street Beach.
Again, this is in San Clemente, Southern California, Orange County, etc.
They were rowdy, looking for a fight.
There's videos of the Marines fighting each other with their shirts off, just for fun.
Probably the coolest thing they did all night.
Again, one of the coolest things you can do is beat up a Marine.
So, for a brief second, they were cool.
When they were beating each other up, yeah.
According to the rule, they were being cool for a second there.
They got jumped when they were getting handsy with some teenage girls.
Crazy how the story got twisted to make it seem like they were in the right.
Doesn't surprise me one bit that there are kids from my school in jail right now instead of these fuckers.
The whole county is a cesspool of red.
Again, yeah, one of the funniest things about trying to blame this on, like, California liberals or whatever is that Orange County is, like, the most right-wing county.
Like, it's up there.
It's up there.
I think they voted for Biden.
They voted blue for, like, the first time in decades from Biden, but I think that was mostly due to, like, low turnout because everybody was depressed.
Yeah.
They're very good about doing that thing to where they kind of do They are just like they are the epitome of centrist to where they might vote for like the Democratic presidential elect But their local shit is all very very right-wing.
Yeah, they're um OC bros, they're like well wealthy fuckers who drive lifted trucks or you know lug or the even wealthier ones drive luxury automobiles but Yeah, so when I read this in the morning, like first thing when I woke up after, after we posted this episode, I was like, Oh, okay.
So Jacob's lying, right?
Like Jacob's just a liar.
Like, no offense.
I mean, it's a, it's a good lie to tell.
Um, but I was just like, you know, this, this would be too, like, it's too far that one of our listeners was there at the party that we just talked about.
Right?
Yeah.
That's pretty, that's pretty wild.
Shout out Jacob.
Uh, yeah, no offense to you, Jacob.
Uh, I believe you now.
Um, but I was gonna, you know, do some digging and then when I posted, uh, the just the... Again, just the story itself.
We said we were Marines and they wouldn't listen.
Just like I posted that I was like, oh, this is insanely funny.
Jacob followed up again and actually had receipts with him, which in the form of an Instagram account that these teenagers have started, that is, where is it here?
Get underscore the underscore truth underscore out.
So that's Instagram dot com slash get underscore the underscore truth underscore out.
If you go there, it says the Marines are lying.
And then it has a bunch of videos of, yeah, the Marines drinking, drinking fireball whiskey while playing cards with teenagers.
crazy stuff from other like accounts from other underage girls who were there who were like these same guys come to the beach frequently and try to pick a pick us up even though we're 12 um wow yeah like a bunch there was a bunch of like testimonials via like text right yeah dms uh This one... I don't have a full vid, but here is a pic of one of the Marines carrying me while I was blackout drunk.
He was trying to make me go with him and the other Marines, and got mad once my sister told them no.
The next day, he stalked my sister's Snap Maps and drove all the way to our friend's house and cussed us out when we told them to leave.
And yeah, there's a video of him, like, uh, lifting a young girl over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
That's terrifying.
Yeah.
Just like literal kidnapping shit.
And like, and then it's like after they've been called out stalking their Snap Maps or whatever.
That's scary.
Like that's true.
And nothing's going to come of that, huh?
We'll see.
I don't know.
I mean, I guess there's some kids in jail right now because of this, but.
Exactly.
That's what I'm worried about because the kids are in jail, but I don't think like hopefully these guys get like court-martialed at least.
Yeah, well, I mean, we'll see what happens like during a trial.
All this stuff could come out during a trial as part of the defense if it goes there.
Yeah, but so if you go to this account, you know, there's a lot of these receipts like this, but then there's a good amount of people trying to defend the Marines.
Like Les, like Lele underscore CSR who comments.
The only thing this tells us is these kids need major parental intervention.
They should they should not be drinking until blacking out in public areas.
And the young girls should not be out so late.
They are putting themselves in vulnerable positions.
Yeah.
Vulnerable positions because there's, uh, just demonic, demonic entities like these Marines in, you know, in existence.
The ones you're, you're defending right now.
Yeah.
It's like, Oh yeah.
Didn't your parents tell you there's going to be like predatory Marines out there?
Didn't your parents tell you that?
It's not their fault.
It's that, it's that like amazing meme.
It's, um, you know, Oh women, if, if men aren't here, who's going to protect you?
And it's like, well, from who?
Yeah.
If men aren't here.
Who will you get protection from if you're gone?
It's exactly that.
Woke corporations, Tony.
Yeah, the woke mob.
The last sentence here, time to learn what accountability is.
It's great when accountability comes in the form of the rape of an underage teenager.
That's definitely the right way to do things.
Yeah, absolutely.
And accountability for the teenagers, not for the adults.
Because these are grown adult men.
They're in the Marines.
These are adult men.
Like, what the fuck?
Yeah, they don't have accountability.
Yeah, I mean, legally speaking, they might not be considered adults in some states, but they've signed up for them.
The military's taken them.
Yeah.
So that's that.
Yeah, so go to this Instagram, give these teens some support.
I'll put the link in this episode's description.
But, you know, even though we were wrong, even though we kind of took the Marines story at face value, we were still right, in essence, for laughing at them and calling them idiots.
And don't you forget it.
Yeah, unfortunately, like the New York Post did another story.
New video shows Marines at California beach party before being beaten by mob of teens.
And then the thumbnail video says videos show Marines harassing a girl and drinking with teens before fight before fight broke out.
Yeah, and there is video of like one of these Marines like trying to dance with a girl from behind, grabbing her from behind while other people looks like try to Get him off of her.
Yeah, fucked up stuff.
These guys deserved worse, I think.
Very funny to be like from, you know, I'm just assuming Lili is right wings and she's like reactionarily defending the Marines against teenage girls.
But it's like, yeah, what does your side say?
like you're going to do to pedophiles or like child abusers, like you have all these exactly morbid fantasies about getting to torture a child predator, you know, for in your basement, like doing the movie prisoners for fun.
That's like shit you fantasize about.
Right.
And then the one time the kids actually do it, you're like, I'm sorry, too too far.
And it's funny cause like, I mean, hopefully these kids who are, who are locked up right now, hopefully they're, you know, being able to tell the people that are locked up with like, Oh, what are you here for?
Oh, I beat up some Marines for assaulting an underage girl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well then, and then they get murdered because they just assume they're lying.
There's no way that's possible.
Yeah.
There's no way you're that cool.
Yeah.
There's no way you're that cool.
You're underage.
You're a child.
There's no way you're that cool.
You're still in high school.
I did find this one reply.
A new reply from Dave O. Who's replying to the original story.
I live in Dana Point right next to San Clemente and know this area.
Can't tell for sure, but the kids fighting the, quote, Marines.
Look like they are not from San Clemente.
Could be inlanders that are not locals.
909ers or inlanders cause issues in beach cities every summer.
I'm gonna walk up.
Are we about to cause issues in beach cities this summer?
I'm gonna walk up, I'm gonna fucking find Dave O. I'm gonna go out surfing with my dad one day and like try to find Dave O and pull up my pant leg and show my 909 tattoo and say, see Dave, you know what this says?
Says not welcome.
Get the fuck out of here.
I haven't, I haven't gone to an Orange County beach since I got Inland Empire blasted across my stomach.
That would be sick, dude.
You totally should.
I kinda can't wait.
I'm gonna go there now.
It's usually not the beaches I would choose, but now I'm going to.
Just get, like, really snarky comments from people in Laguna Beach.
Yeah, that's exactly what it would be.
I loved this so much.
Example, Huntington Beach riots of 1986.
Oh, yeah, totally, man.
Definitely no, no Huntington Beach residents participated in that.
Also, 1986.
That's that's your case in point for how often.
That's how far back you had to go.
For how often.
909, San Bernardino is sending in super soldiers to disrupt the activities of good Orange County residents.
I think that like was like our parents, because they would, you know, they actually were just barely young.
It actually was them.
Okay.
How many Huntington motherfuckers, uh, how many helped, helped ruin like Orange Show, uh, OzFests and Warped Tours?
Absolutely.
How many, how many of those Nazis that were at OzFest, whatever, in the 90s, whichever year that was, uh, were from Orange County?
Yeah, the majority.
Yeah.
I love they didn't look.
They sure look like they're not from San Clemente.
Some of them were brown.
Some were Hispanic.
I don't know if I've ever seen a Hispanic person in San Clemente.
I don't know.
Did I ever tell you about, uh, when I had this like, it was like a second cousin.
It was like my aunt, my aunt's niece through her husband type deal was staying, was staying with all of us.
We all lived together.
And, um, she's, we were teens and she went out with some friends and got in some sort of trouble and she was lost.
She's not from California.
And, um, and she calls and like, where are you?
And she goes, I don't know.
It's, it's some city with the Mexican name.
Oh.
And we're like, that's all she could tell us.
We'll be right there.
Yeah, on the way, on the way.
You mean every city?
You mean every city in California?
Okay, I'm sending out 30 of my fastest drivers.
We're gonna go in all directions.
Yeah.
Starting from, starting from where we are.
We can just, we can go past a couple places, but that's really it.
And we're, we're talking about like, like Riverside, Oceanside.
That's just, I don't think those are still English words, so we can go right past those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So thank you.
Thank you to listener Jacob.
Thank you to everybody who is helping to share these teens story and a special thank you to the teens for doing it.
Good job.
Yes.
Shout out Jacob.
I'm glad that our listeners are the kind of people that hang out with the kind of kids who party on the beach and beat up pedophiles.
I think that's cool.
That's some valor that I will steal for sure.
I think we count.
I think we're kind of honorary beach teens.
Yeah, I'd like to think so.
I like to think that we at least embody some beach teen spirit.
That's so funny.
These didn't look like Inlanders.
Clearly the sloped brow and wide forehead.
Yeah, I can tell by their gait, the way they walk.
That's Inland Empire.
That's Inlanders.
Inlanders?
Do they mean Inland Empire?
But that's exactly what they mean.
Yeah, that's what Inlanders mean.
Inlanders?
Ugh, I've never, I hate that.
I love it.
909?
Get your name, get my name out of your mouth.
Oh, oh, fuck you up.
Yeah, I almost posted, I almost violated terms.
I was just like, I'll just, I'll just keep it vague when I, when I quote tweet this.
Yeah.
Okay.
Monday.
Moving on.
I can't remember if somebody sent me this story.
Might have been Ani, in fact.
I don't know.
I caught this story somehow.
I glimpsed this story.
And I was like, fantastic.
Beautiful.
They did a study of which states are the worst at driving.
Nice.
What's your guess, Tony?
I don't know.
What state has the highest concentration of women?
Oh, good call.
Yeah, California, New York, Arizona, ever since they did voter fraud to Carrie Lake.
Yeah, yeah.
Maine, probably.
Is that your final answer?
Wherever the women are?
I'm going to go ahead and say it's Delaware.
Weird guesses.
Why Delaware?
Because of Joe Biden?
You know, I think states like that get ignored so often and I kind of want to just give it its moment, you know?
Sure.
Well, I mean, your instincts aren't wrong because the state that does have the worst drivers, according to this new study, is a state that gets a ton of attention.
Is a state that demands a lot of attention, probably one of the reasons there's such assholes on the road.
If you had asked me what state has the worst drivers, I would have said, that's Texas, baby.
Everybody knows that's Texas.
Texas is like renowned for having the biggest douchebags on the road and the most dangerous drivers.
And it turns out, yes, I've been vindicated.
Here from the Daily Mail, U.S.
states with the worst drivers EXPOSED!
We're gonna show all of their junk.
All the worst drivers are gonna see their junk.
I love it.
The fucking Daily Mail can't help themselves.
Even when they're reporting about traffic statistics, they have to act like they have leaked photos of a naked celebrity.
Yeah.
Just like filthy, just filthy people.
The whole state was exposed.
Just flopping out, hanging out for everybody to see.
Texas tops chart, followed by Louisiana and Kansas.
So where does your area rank?
Great, this is great engagement bait from the Daily Mail.
I knew this would be a story.
I knew this would be a very fun story.
I'm just gonna read a little bit of the Daily Mail before we get into responses because the responses were even more varied than I than I could have hoped for.
But reading from the Daily Mail, Texas drivers are the most reckless people on the road according to new research.
Have you ever heard this, Tony?
Um, no, but it kind of makes sense because, like, they have the most ridiculous car cultures.
Car cultures that I love.
Like, Texas has, like, the most obscene car cultures that they render their cars almost, like...
On safe to use by customizing them so much so that that also makes sense to me that like maybe they're also not good at driving like you can't you can't put you know 40 inch rims and v10 in the same car oh yeah that's not safe Uh, I don't know.
When I think of Texas bad drivers, I think of a guy in, like, an F-450 dually rolling coal and driving up your ass even though you're going the speed limit in the far right lane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then, like, passing you on the shoulder on the right to get around you.
And staring at you the whole time.
This is something that I've heard from professional long-haul truckers are like, oh, Texas by far has the craziest worst drivers.
More from the story.
A new analysis Using six metrics, including crashes due to drunk and distracted drivers, reveals where the worst drivers live in the U.S.
The Lone Star State topped the chart, scoring 100 out of 100.
Perfect 10, guys.
Well done.
Nailed it.
Good job.
With the second highest rate for drowsy drivers involved in fatal car collisions and also for fatal car accidents involving a driver on the wrong side of the road or incorrectly navigating a one-way street.
I think they need more sleep in Texas.
They're working too hard in Texas.
This is a problem.
The drowsy driving thing makes sense because of how wide Texas is, how, how, how big it fucking is.
So there's people probably like making 14 hour trips across the state pretty frequently.
Um, yeah.
And then, uh, okay.
Analysts with Forbes advisor crunched the numbers and broke down the most dangerous and safest drivers in America by state.
According to Forbes, five of the top 10 states with the worst drivers are in the Southern U.S.
with several others found in the desert Southwest.
Texas topped the list of states with the most fatally awful drivers.
I love that.
Dog, you're so bad at driving.
You fucking killed someone.
That's bad.
You suck, dude.
That's pretty bad.
You got owned.
It's time.
Accountability as the last story we talked about.
Absolutely.
Finally, accountability.
You gotta stop killing people when you drive.
It's not a good look.
Curiously, many of the most densely populated states in the nation were found to have the safest drivers, Rhode Island, California, and Massachusetts among them.
Wow.
I mean, if you wanted to do some, like, armchair psychology or armchair socio-political analysis here, I mean, it makes sense that people from places that have to, like, cohabitate Next to other people and get along with a massive number of people would be a little more aware of other people around them than in the lone star state.
A state famous for being an individual and being its own country and better than anyone and paving their own way, etc.
I'm not shocked.
Also, you'll never understand the confidence of driving with a gun on the passenger seat.
You're going to drive a little more reckless, because what are they going to do?
I'm going to grab your gun when you fucking roll your truck over.
Throw it out the window.
I'm never going to roll my truck.
What are you talking about?
I'm going to drive like an asshole, but I'm going to do it sick.
It's going to be sick when I do it.
Yeah, totally, dude.
Um, okay.
So let me, I found out a lot of stuff about Texas, uh, doing, doing my usual research for this segment.
Um, so we'll start with Eric Van who said, we are horrible and our speed limits are way too high.
And then I was like, Oh, people probably were like, yeah, for sure.
No doubt that, yeah, that's reasonable.
People were, Thumbs up on this one.
A ton of responses were like, yeah, we're the worst drivers.
Not shocked.
Yes.
Yeah, we're bad.
Yeah, it's it's it's a nightmare.
I mean, living hell every day when I have to go to and from work.
Eric Vann, yes, says we are horrible and our speed limits are way too high.
I was like, oh, I wonder what wonder what Texas speed limits are.
And then Bertie Davenport replies, the speed limits are not too high.
But when you have two extreme types of drivers, parentheses, those who drive super fast and reckless, with the other, cautious, parentheses, driving Miss Daisy, it causes all kinds of issues.
So, yeah, blaming the cautious drivers for the accidents, I guess.
And I also like the way... I'm looking this up right now just to make sure I'm not misremembering it.
Driving Miss Daisy is the racist movie, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't remember, like, the...
The style of driving being a plot point.
No.
I remember her being like, you're being too cautious.
You and you Negroes are too careful when you drive.
Yeah, I'm just I was just like trying to parse like what what maybe Subconsciously was going on in birdie's mind when she used driving miss daisy.
I think she just thinks like miss daisy is the one driving just an old like yeah I think it's an old people thing or it's because I was thinking maybe because I was gonna say people who drive really aggressively and then you know as as as we know, um the The thing that, one of the things that put Houston rap onto like the mainstream consciousness is the Paul Wall feature in Drive Slow.
So there's also, you know, there's also people who are on lean and they're taking their time.
So those two things can't meet up.
But no, she was talking about like old people, I guess.
It's just like she's trying to think of like a movie with the word driving in it, you know?
Why didn't you do that for the first one?
Like, two types of drivers, you know, fast and the furious, and then the cautious ones driving Miss Daisy.
That's kind of like three types of drivers, though.
You got your fast drivers, you got your furious drivers, and then you got your Miss Daisies.
True, true.
So I looked up what the speed limits were in Texas.
Setting speed limits.
This is from the Texas Department of Transportation.
Texas law requires that speed limits on state roadways be set at the state maximum unless unless traffic and engineered studies show a need to alter a speed limit for safety reasons.
OK, so the state maximum is 70 miles per hour.
So this law, which is higher than California.
I mean, there's parts of this.
There's I mean, maybe like one or two stretches that are 70 miles per hour, but it's it's mostly 65.
Well it's funny because like we're talking about kind of the culture behind it and there is like an on written there's like an unspoken agreement that that like the speed limit 65 but it's really 75.
Yeah.
So I mean do they just do that there too then huh?
No.
If it's 70 then it's really 80.
No no no.
Let me let me let me get let me read you what they do.
Okay.
In Texas.
Okay.
So Texas law requires that speed limits on state roadways be set at the state maximum.
So they have to be at the state maximum, which is 70 miles per hour, unless traffic and engineering studies show a need to alter a speed limit for safety reasons.
So, you know, they could they could Lower that if you know these nerds decide that it's too unsafe and the way that happens is the law sets the maximum at 70 miles per hour but allows the Texas Transportation Commission to establish a maximum speed limit of 75 miles per hour or 80 miles per hour or 85 miles per hour if the highway is designed to accommodate that speed on the highway system if that speed is determined to be safe safe and reasonable after a traffic or engineering study.
So when they talk about altering the state maximum of 70, they don't mean down.
They mean, no, you have to do a survey to conduct.
Oh, it's far too unsafe to only be driving 70 miles an hour here.
We need to get those numbers up.
Well, I mean, that's the thing that it In Texas, they're very real.
And they're not trying to reduce, like, death.
They're trying to reduce suffering.
So when you get in that accident, they just want you to go.
They just want to be over for you.
Less to clean up, too, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
If your car explodes, that's less man hours for DOT.
It's like a band-aid method, you know, but like for life.
So I thought that, I just thought that was amazing.
Like, oh, unless somebody determines for safety reasons, it should actually be 80 or 85 miles an hour.
That's like really fast.
Like, that's, not all cars go that fast even.
Yeah.
And I mean, your electric vehicles, well, they can't they can't possibly do that.
So that's that's another reason for the road rage.
It's electric vehicles getting jealous at all the fully competent masculine vehicles.
Yeah, I mean, like.
Don't even get me started on the EVs.
I don't want to get you started on it, yeah.
Just take my balls, you know?
Take my testicles.
And you can't put truck nuts on an EV.
That won't fix the problem.
That's no substitute for your real balls, which are in internal combustion engines.
Yeah, we all know that.
We all know that.
Yeah.
Okay, so the number one response to this was, uh, actually, uh, everybody who's an aggressively bad driver in Texas is from New York or California.
True.
True.
Uh, like Mandy Mara, who says, it's only because all the out-of-staters moving here and are not properly trained.
By the way, another thing I found out about Texas is you don't even take a driving class to get your license.
You just do hours of driving and you fill out a paper test and they give you your license.
Oh.
Wow.
Okay.
That's... That explains a lot.
The bars... You can't have them drive that fast with no lessons.
Cindy Ward says, funny, funny thing.
It wasn't like this three or four years ago.
Hmm.
Look at all those out of state license plates.
And I'm going to say like the first time I heard Texas was were awful drivers was when I was like 12, like 20 years, 20 years ago.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
It's hard cope.
Yeah.
Computer TM says the bad drivers in Texas are mostly the new arrivals from California and New York.
Yep, that's the only two places people come to Texas from, also.
I love this.
This is a real frailty.
Oh yeah, here are the names of the demons.
And it's like, aren't these the kids in your class who made fun of you?
No, no, they're demons.
This is all, yep, absolutely.
Every single flipped over lifted truck I've seen has been a New York license plate.
Yeah, every single time.
Well, I mean, I believe if it's California, but then you have to look at that back window and check the decals.
If there's an LBZ sticker, then we'll give it to him.
But if there's not, if there's a Texas Longhorn sticker on there, I'm not going to give it to him.
Yeah, New York, California, or Portland, I think.
Probably the worst drivers in Texas.
This was great, though.
Here we get some actual, like, rationalizing.
Because we're saying, oh, they're from the places I don't like, coincidentally.
But no real explanation of why those places would have bad drivers.
But here we get Stargazer in Louisiana, I guess?
Probably not Los Angeles.
The things about driving in SoCal newbies get stressed out about.
Okay, it would be Los Angeles.
Yeah, this is this is I thought they were saying that Southern California drivers coming to Texas got scared of the large interstates.
That's what I thought the argument was.
California isn't just a freeway system with vestigial communities attached to it.
It's so much freeway.
But no, okay, I understand what they're saying.
Still worth reading, though.
The things about driving and SoCal newbies get stressed about are the several lanes on the freeway.
It's actually legal for motorcycles to weave into out of your lane on the freeway.
That's right, baby.
I never understood why people get upset about that.
It's like, you're gonna kill the motorcyclists.
Like, they're choosing to put their entire life at risk.
You don't have to get upset about it.
Well, they are mad that it feels like an extra step to them.
They're like, I already don't want to use my blinker when I merge, let alone look behind me to make sure there's not a motorcycle coming in my lane.
That's true.
Although, I do think that if you move over for a motorcycle and they don't give you a little peace sign back at you, then you don't have to move for the next 10 motorcycles.
You should be able to run them over.
Yeah, then you can chase them.
And the law's not even like weave in and out.
It's like you can split lanes, like responsibly.
Man, it was... Riding a motorcycle is pretty sick.
Like... Yeah.
Cops don't even bother you, man.
Like, I rode a motorcycle for like three years without a motorcycle license.
Yeah, hell yeah.
And I never got pulled over.
It was great.
Um, okay.
It's actually legal for motorcycles to weave into out of your lane on the freeway.
Obnoxious drivers in luxury EV vehicles and sports cars compound it with surface street driving.
So many external factors have the right of way before you, the driver, i.e.
pedestrians, cyclists, and those that's what makes it so dangerous is they have the right of way.
I don't know what people think driving is like, what they want driving to be like.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
They're just like, I should be able to just go and close my eyes and just get there.
I shouldn't have to worry about any of that.
Cause like, yeah, it's, I mean, as someone who was a cyclist for years, who commuted only by bike for, for years, people have no idea, like they hate, they fucking hate a bike.
They hate a bike so much because like, for no reason, there's like zero, there's really no impeding if you just, Look at it and, you know, don't hit it.
You're fine.
It's jealousy because of all their cool haircuts.
All the cool cyclist haircuts.
True.
That they never saw for me because I wear a helmet.
And I like to tell people, if I'm not too cool for a helmet, then you're probably not either.
People are looking at you like, oh yeah, dude, you look so totally cool.
Fucking nerd.
I had to write a cuss word on my helmet so people would think it was cool.
I bashed a marine's brains in with my helmet, so I have some on there.
No, it's a cool helmet.
People hate cyclists.
You're so right about that.
And it's... Again, I have the same thought about it as with motorcyclists.
It's like, yeah, sure, there's annoying... Cyclists can be annoying as fuck.
Motorcyclists can be annoying as fuck.
Who cares?
You're in a car that could kill them instantly.
Like, there's no reason for you to feel, I don't know, threatened or like...
What, like, emasculated on the road because you don't have the right-of-way at every given moment?
Like, just feel confident that you could, like, murder them with your vehicle.
Just, like, I mean, we know you're thinking about it already.
Just let that be enough.
Yeah like everybody who spends enough time on a bicycle has a story of a time that they've been like run off the road like purposely swerved into like more than once and like the person will yell at them like get off the road and it's literally they don't want to share the road they just Yeah, the bike is a threat.
We used to keep spark plugs, the tip of the spark plug.
We used to keep those in our messenger bags, because if you throw it at a window, it'll break the window.
Oh yeah.
Because people would harass you all the time.
Never really got to use it, but it was cool.
Yeah, I mean cycling deaths are crazy in Washington State where I am.
It's, you know, they're finally like they lowered speed limits.
They're doing infrastructure changes to like you know, in some places to add bike lanes, but then in other places they're acting like, I don't know, you know, having a raised crosswalk or something is a substitute for a stoplight or like, you know, flashing pedestrian light, you know, just it's as like walkable just it's as like walkable or as bikeable as Seattle supposedly is, still extremely car centric.
And drivers are very crazy up here as well.
Just in in different ways.
Last sentence in this.
And those pesky skateboarders and EV scooter users who are a danger to us all.
You really have to have your wits.
So many things coming at you.
I feel like someone did like a Tony Hawk underground grind on his hood one time.
What are you talking about?
Skateboarders are not a problem.
The EV scooters, I think they're a bit annoying on the sidewalk.
Um, but they should, again, you shouldn't be driving that fast where they're at anyways.
I'm waiting for an EV scooter to collide with me while I'm working.
Like I'm waiting to knock somebody flat on their ass when they crash into me.
Because that's what's going to happen.
They're going to just bump, they're going to run into you.
Like that's what's going to happen.
Have you seen they do like, they have like, uh, EV scooter racing with like race versions of them?
And it's like, how did, how did that even, how did you start this sport?
That could be cool.
I'm down.
I'm down for all the new, like, like drone racing.
I'm sorry.
Drone racing looks kind of cool.
Like I've seen clips of it and it looks sick.
Also, uh, extreme tag.
Have you seen that sport?
Yeah, I have, yeah.
I'm down for it!
Like, I don't care, like, you're crossfitting, you're, or not crossfitting, you're parkouring, you're already doing fucked up shit to your body.
That looks cool.
Now, like, make it a competition where you're trying to grab another guy?
Like, fuck yeah.
I'm for that.
I like, I like in, I like in-car jiu-jitsu right now.
Have you seen that?
I don't know.
I don't know if you're joking or not.
No, I'm not.
No.
Like, you and I would be sitting buckled into the passenger driver's seat, and then a timer goes off, and then we start fighting.
Wow.
I mean, see, things aren't all bad everywhere.
There's some things that are better now.
There's light.
You can find light if you look hard enough.
Yeah, definitely.
Somebody had whatever mods on and had like the anti-grav mod and landed on the roof of your car with like the force of a thousand pounds on a skateboard.
Yeah, yeah.
I keep trying- I keep, like, driving to my neighborhood and the kids keep ollieing over me and laughing.
Yeah, oh, sure.
Uh, yeah.
One moment it's Housing for All, the next it's Ollie the Magic Bum.
Which is it, kids?
Yeah, I'm surprised they kept that in the remake, but they did.
It's- it's fine, I think.
Well, the- the- the- he was Magic, and his name was Ollie.
Yeah.
Uh...
Agam3, so this is how they respond to Texas having the worst drivers.
The police do not pull black people over for traffic violations anymore, so it is making us all unsafe.
What?
What country do you live in?
Like, what news are you watching?
They just stopped pulling black people over.
I mean, the Texas police went, whoa.
Well, I mean, clearly they didn't pull over for a traffic violation.
If that was the case, they wouldn't have killed him.
That's true.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
You really think that's happening?
I was picking my mom up from the airport, and we were coming home, and this cop starts pulling over this Jeep truck.
And I'm like, I didn't think that Jeep truck was doing anything.
And the car pulls over to where I see it.
And I was like, oh, never mind.
He's black.
Yeah.
So think about that before you jump to conclusions, Tony.
Oh, he's perfectly innocent.
And then you see that he's black.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All that cop was doing was just trying to make the, make the highway safe.
Like you're not supposed to say that.
Is that, is that even a stereotype that black people are bad drivers?
No, I've never heard that one.
Yeah.
- No, I've never heard that one.
- Yeah, that's, what? - What, like the rap music is too loud for you to, like it shakes your vision, it makes your vision blurry, the subwoofers in the car, and so you can't tell where you're going. - I keep getting distracted by the candy paint It's hypnotizing Yeah, yeah, of course black drivers are unsafe Tony
Like, how safely can you drive when you have a jacuzzi and a PS3 and a terrarium with your favorite reptile built into the car, huh?
Yeah.
Look, it wasn't my fault, okay?
They stopped, but the rims kept spinning.
So I thought we were still going.
And I went right through that crosswalk.
Pimp my ride?
How about we pimp this country's morals?
Okay.
Hey, I heard you like, uh, feeling safe on the highway, so we pulled over a bunch of black people.
That's, wow!
That's the best exhibit meme I've ever, I've ever heard, yeah.
Um...
Ret Teacher says, That left lane problem is no joke.
It figures Texas is bad because we have so many highways and are usually on one.
People get so mad at the drivers, many on their phone, just chatting away, doing 50mph in the fast lane that they zip around recklessly.
The obtuse one in the outer lane may not be involved in the wreck at all.
How's that for justice, Tony?
The person driving slowly, they didn't even get killed or injured.
Yeah, that's fucked up.
Listen, if I didn't have anywhere to go, I wouldn't be speeding, alright?
Like, have you thought about that?
I mean, yeah, I mean, I do, I do hate me a motherfucker who just doesn't understand, like, they're the reason why this lane sucks and they need to just get out of it.
No, absolutely.
Cardinal, Cardinal Sin.
You still gotta get around them safely.
What are you talking about?
Cardinal Sin driving, just not passing in general in the left lane.
It happens in every state, folks.
I've driven in a lot of states.
I've lived in a couple of states.
People do not honor the passing lane as a rule.
You know, and anecdotally from my experience in any state.
Just bad drivers everywhere.
And like, I don't know, there's like a limit and everything like that.
There is a fast enough to where people can deal with you being there, but...
You know, just think about it.
Next time you're going slow in the passing lane, you could be getting someone killed in the future.
It's not going to be you.
Not only that, you could be causing shame for your entire state by racking up those statistics.
True.
Think about that, okay?
Think about that, Texans.
Yeah.
Yeah, Chastity, I loved this response.
Just again, like, I can't believe the type of shit I was seeing.
Chastity replies to this story, I absolutely believe this.
I cut through town.
What is a highway?
Uh, so if I'm reading this correctly, and I could be wrong, uh, it sounds like Chastity's saying, absolutely, the highways are a fucking dangerous mess.
That's why I speed through town instead.
Yep, that's exactly what I got there.
That's exactly what I was thinking there.
Yeah, the highways are not safe at all.
That's why, that's why I just get cuddy, you know?
That's why I drive through residential areas exclusively.
No one's on them.
Every once in a while you gotta work for a kid, but that's it.
If you're going fast enough, you can't even feel the speed bumps.
No, no.
You just float over them.
Okay, gotta get to our gotta get to our final topic of the night.
What a doozy.
This was really, really interesting because it looks like Chick-fil-A has gone woke.
Finally!
Good, good.
I'm so happy that my years and years and years of not consuming Chick-fil-A in protests, they finally succumbed and it worked.
You hear it, people?
There's power in your dollar.
If you just hold tight, they will finally bend.
Cool, so they're no longer, they're woke now?
That's great.
Yeah, that's incidental.
It is kind of funny how like, vegans are one of the best, I think most successful examples of boycotts working.
I don't know if boycotts, it's not really a boycott, but it is like the, the vegan options available now are, are phenomenal compared to like even 10 years ago.
Oh yeah, it's incredible.
My beef with Chick-fil-A has always been the homophobia.
I would have been there fucking up some crisp cut fries for sure.
Oh, you've been waiting in that line for fries?
I mean, if the homies were going there, I would have been like, get me some fries.
Got it, fair enough.
So I learned about this.
I had some hashbrowns one time.
One time someone gave me some hashbrowns.
They gave them to you, so that's freegan.
You never said you weren't freegan.
I also drank a lot the night before, okay?
So I wasn't in a place to say no to hashbrowns.
Wow.
I have to keep it real.
I have to be honest here, you know?
It's good, yeah.
I'm excited to try my first Chick-fil-A sandwich now that they're woke.
I have no idea what they taste like.
I have been there once.
I went there once.
A girl I was dating, a bad influence.
She's kind of a rebel.
Clearly.
She insisted that I try it because of how good it is.
I was like, okay.
I don't really believe in boycotts.
I've been boycotting Walmart for like 25 years now.
Teamsters are supposed to boycott Walmart.
And they're still fun.
No one's hurting Walmart except for the looters.
God bless them.
Yeah.
That's a tough, and that's a tough one to loot from.
I don't, I don't suggest anybody self check out at Walmart.
Um, good, good sandwich, but, uh, I guess they're not even donating to anti-gay causes anymore?
I don't know.
We'll get into it, alright?
We'll see what the company is all about now.
Okay.
The way I learned about this was from our friend Joey Manorino.
The man who famously did not pay for Twitter.
He paid for free speech.
And he paid for 1776 to commence.
right he paid for 1776 to commence yep he also I've been enjoying it since since Thank you for bringing back 1776.
I'm glad you took that hit and we didn't have to pay for it, but it's here now.
In the original revolution, only 3% of the population revolted against the British government and they were successful.
And there's got to be at least 3% of Twitter users who pay for it.
Maybe.
Yeah, but think about what they can accomplish.
I'm surprised somebody hasn't, some fucking verified Twitter user hasn't done that.
Like a new 3% patch, but for verified users.
Yeah, I like that.
Yeah, he also said he paid for Twitter because that's what George Washington would have done.
Everyone knows that.
I'm pretty sure George Washington would have been as big of a loser as I am.
I doubt about it.
Okay, so Joey here says, we have a problem.
Period.
Line break.
Chick-fil-A just hired a VP of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Line break.
This is bad.
Very bad.
Line break.
I don't want to have to boycott.
Line break.
Are we going to have to boycott?
Oh no.
Oh no.
Guys, I don't know if I can do this because I love... I love Chick-fil-A.
I don't know if I can do this.
This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.
Yeah, this is bad.
This is real bad.
It's so funny.
Like, caring about Like the management style of the CEOs or like whatever CEO program they're involved in, caring about that stuff at this level is way gayer than just being gay.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's like... It's the most embarrassing shit ever.
First of all, you should hate a CEO because they're a CEO, not because they're woke.
You fucking loser.
Um, but they like respect that CEO because that CEO makes it so that they say what, what, what is it that they say at Chick-fil-a when you help them when they help you?
Don't they say my pleasure or something like that?
Yeah.
Well, they at least say you're welcome instead of no, no problem.
Is that what it is?
It's probably my pleasure.
That's fucking gross.
I think it's my pleasure.
That's disgusting.
That's fucked.
I mean, they make better money than a lot of other fast food places, but at what cost?
Exactly, yeah.
You have to be outside of those, I don't know, it seems nuts.
I told somebody who was nice in the service, I was shopping with them and they were very nice, I said, hey, you know, I said, you're doing great, I like your energy, and they said, you're welcome, and I was like, cool, cool.
I didn't say thank you at all, but they said, you're welcome, and I was like, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
We're having a real conversation.
Yeah, so the Joey's trying to get snarky.
I don't want to have to boycott.
Are we gonna have to boycott?
And I think he didn't feel like that was funny enough or or cool enough.
So we followed it up with this and it's like He just wants attention.
So we'll give him a little bit of attention right here because it's something Yeah, he said it's only a matter of time until they start putting semen in the frosted lemonade at this point.
What that's a that's a leap can I see that one can I see that yeah, I'm sorry.
I didn't put it on screen That's a leap What yeah?
Jesus kind of crazy that even in like Uh, Elon's Twitter, that doesn't count as a slur?
Like, what did you get banned?
You got, you got suspended from Twitter for saying an old, you were like, you weren't surprised that an old white veteran wanted to harken back to the good old days and you got suspended for that?
Yeah, I didn't even really say anything.
All I did was be critical of an old white man, and I couldn't post for a whole day.
I will say, nine times out of ten, you would have been right.
Just in this one instance, you weren't, but who cares?
I still think I was right.
I don't care.
I still think it's still a curious observation I get to make.
In the con, it wasn't like this, you weren't, you were talking about something kind of different from the context of the video.
And you were right in that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That, that was my joke.
And that, I think it's a fine joke.
I think it was like, yeah.
I mean, regardless of what the guy was saying, it's still, it's still an observation that will always be true.
We were supposed to, we were supposed to cover that on the show and we didn't, but it would have been.
And for the record, that was just as gendered as it was As it was, like, race-based.
So.
Sure.
Just for the record.
You were being misandrist as well as racist against white people.
I was doing a lot of work that day.
Yeah, man, totally.
This is such a epic thing to say.
This is how afraid, this is how fucking occupied your mind is with trans people.
That you're literally having fantasies about having to drink their semen in the Chick-fil-A lemonade.
Yeah, what a fucking leap.
And do they not have anything else that the cum would be inside of?
Don't they have plenty of dips?
Oh, it could be in a dip.
Making it to lemonade was kind of weird.
Like, just put it in the ranch.
Obviously.
Or even the honey mustard.
Yeah, I think Joey jerks off in the lemonade.
So I was like, what is the actual news here?
They hired...
They hired an officer of diversity, equity, inclusion.
OK, like every other CEO.
How organized is this supposed backlash?
Is it going to reach the level of Bud Light?
Is it going to reach the level of Target?
And when I kind of like, you know, searched the news for this stuff, I found this.
Again, New York Post article, former Chick-fil-A boss.
And so this is from a few days ago.
This is concurrent with the current backlash against Chick-fil-A over their diversity, equity and inclusion program.
Former Chick-fil-A boss Dan Cathy suggests white people shine black people's shoes in resurfaced video.
So I saw a comment where it was like, yeah, of course, of course they have a diversity, equity and inclusion officer.
Their CEO wants every white person to shine the shoes of black people.
I was like, what?
I was like, I have to fight.
I have to find this.
If there's like, what meme is going around about this?
And it turns out it's a real thing.
Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know if I'm off base, but I think that this is one of those things where, I think as a black person, I heard that differently than a lot of people might, where I think, is it that thing where he's saying, we're doing Eagle Opportunity now, you want me to shine black people, we're supposed to shine black people's shoes next?
That's how I hear it.
It's like, oh, is that what you want?
That's where we're at now.
We're just basically shining black people's shoes now.
You thought he was a Facebook commenter?
No, he's the guy that Facebook is mad at because apparently this is a real video.
A three-year-old video showing Chick-fil-A's boss shining the shoes of a black man during a plea for white people to fight racial injustice resurfaced this week amid a push by outraged conservatives to boycott the fast food chain over its hiring of a diversity officer.
So this is Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, got down on his knees at an Atlanta church in June 2020 as the city was gripped by protests over the police-involved deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks.
And so let me pull up this video.
So this is at a church, so this is like a, like, wash my brother's feet type situation.
Yeah, yeah.
This is from a Twitter account called Catch Up.
Chick-fil-A's Dan Cathy goes full woke and says that every white person should get on their knees and shine black people's shoes with a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment for racial injustice.
And I'll play this video.
Shared with me by a dear friend who shared with me about a revival that was taking place at a church in Texas.
And at that revival on the front seat was an older African-American man that was sitting there.
And this young man got up that was there in that service and he'd been so gripped with conviction about the racism that was in that local community in a small town in Texas.
That he took a shoe brush and he walked over to this elderly gentleman and he knelt on his knees and began to shine his shoes.
And tears began to flow in that service.
It was an attitude of conviction.
So I invite folks just to put some words to action here.
Okay, so this is taking place on like a really professional looking sounds.
This is like the Bill Maher show or something like that.
And there's just like three individual chairs around a table.
Dan Cathy has gotten up with a shoe shine brush in his hand and is walking over to the other guest on this show.
We need to find somebody that needs to have their shoe shine.
We need to just go right on over and shine their shoes.
And whether they got tennis shoes on or not, maybe they got sandals on.
So he's shining the shoes of a Christian rapper named, I got his name right here, Lecrae.
Have you heard of Lecrae, Tony?
He's big.
He's got a million followers on YouTube.
Holy shit.
That's amazing.
No, I haven't, but I'm actually more interested in what kind of shoes he's wearing and what his name is.
They were like tennis shoes.
They were like sneakers.
Yeah, but I wonder, like, how cool they are.
Are they, like, Travis Scott Ones?
That's a good question.
They got sandals on.
It really doesn't matter.
But there's a time in which we need to have, you know, some personal action here.
Maybe we need to give them a hug, too.
I would be dying.
I would be dying.
I know.
I don't know.
I would not.
I wouldn't be able to handle that.
This is like, you know that fucking trope of white people just going up to black people's dogs and starting to pet their dogs without even, like, saying hi to the person or anything?
This is what that feels like to me, but a thousand times.
Like, he didn't even interact with the guy, Lecrae, until after he did it and he gave him a hug.
He just, like, walked up to him and knelt down and started shining, and Lecrae had, like, an awkward smile on his face, like, what the fuck is happening?
Yeah, this is like some wildly like lib shits.
I'm like, okay, because the message, the message is good.
The message is, the message, you know, like we need, we need to like humble ourselves and realize, you know, like we're all people and no one's better than anybody, that type of thing.
Right.
But I would not give this white man that moment.
There's no fucking way.
This isn't doing shit.
I'm sorry.
Like, I don't, you know, I'm not trying to speak.
It only makes him look, it only makes him look like compassionate.
What?
I don't need my shoes shined, dude.
Why don't you give me some money?
Asshole.
Yeah.
Are you saying my shoes are dirty?
What are you, what are you even doing here?
And like I said, all it is is like giving, cause the thing is he should have just said the story.
The story was fine, but now you're even saying like, Hey, I heard the story.
I wonder if it'd work for me.
This is like Howard Schultz talking about how he gives his employees a holocaust blanket when he pays their salary.
This shit is so fucking bad.
I mean, it's, you know, it's done and he's trying to help, I guess.
I wouldn't, like, this is a long way to go if you don't really mean it.
So I give him the benefit of the doubt that he's really trying to do something, but holy shit, man, try, I don't know, give some money away.
Yeah, that's what sex is like.
I mean, honestly, it's so much more than so many people did or he's saying so much more than so many people said.
He's actually publicly saying, hey, you know, black people got it rough.
Yeah.
Which is that that's so I don't want to, you know, completely shit on you, but this is like supremely cringe.
I didn't think it could be real when I saw it in a Facebook.
I was like, I need to see what meme they're referencing or what video they're taking out of context.
And it's like, no, it's real and it's modern.
It happened in 2020.
There's more to this video, though.
Not a lot, but just there's another important thing he says.
And some stock in Chick-fil-A.
I'll be serious, though.
Yeah, he just he like he was like, you just got some stock in Chick-fil-A.
Now, the rapper said that, right?
He was saying, like, give me some stock in Chick-fil-A.
Yeah, but that's the rapper speaking, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, fuck yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, if you're gonna do this, I'm gonna need some stock in Chick-fil-A.
Especially because the stock's about to go up because you did this.
Yeah.
This was, uh, 2020.
Just have to remember, this is 2020 we're talking about.
True, true.
And a lot of people who were going Chick-fil-A were also, you know, upset at the moment.
We're taking selfies at protests.
But yeah, there's one more thing.
I bought about 1,500 of these.
So he's talking about the shoe brushes.
Oh, oh, he actually bought about 1,500 of them.
I bought about 1,500 of these.
I bought about 1,500 of these and I gave to all our Chick-fil-A operators and staff a number of years ago.
And so any expressions of a contrite heart, of a sense of humility, a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment, begin with an apologetic heart.
Uh, so he's apparently, he apparently instructed his employees to shine the shoes of people with an embarrassed heart.
Great, great thing.
Great thing to make your employees do just to launder your fucking reputation, man.
Yeah, wild.
I mean, like, again, um, This I there's other I'm happy that you're trying to actively be anti-racist But there's like there's just there's just better ways to do it, but at the same time like I didn't you know, that's so much more than a lot of people did or Or have done.
So it's like, it's corny, but it's like, I guess you're trying.
That's cool.
Yeah, he's trying, but he's doing it in the way he knows how to do it as a CEO, which is make your employees do it.
Make your employees do it.
Yeah, yeah.
What's The End Game says about this video about the CEO washing the shoes of Lecrae?
Once you kneel, they will never let you stand.
I'm pretty sure I saw him get back up and walk to his chair.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he still has that position or went on to hold that position in Chick-fil-A.
Whatever position it is that allows him to be joked about giving me some Chick-fil-A stocks.
I think he's fine.
Yeah, just like... How are they going to prevent?
What does this mean?
Never let you stand?
They'll never let you stop disliking slavery.
Yeah.
They'll never let you stop being not racist.
Once you do it, that's it.
Once you go black, it never goes back to the good old days.
Yeah, this is about cucking.
This is what this is about.
Once you kneel, they don't let you get back up.
You've now put yourself in that corner.
I'm thinking too hard about it.
While I was looking at responses to this awful story about Chick-fil-A going woke, the CEO bathing a man's sneakers, The responses were very interesting because on Twitter you have like, you know, the boycott responses.
Those are kind of overwhelmingly on Facebook, however.
They're responding to this a bit differently.
Facebook, obviously known for less technical prowess, less technological prowess, rather.
Also worse media consumption or worse media analysis abilities.
So a lot of people were just like, oh, this is fake.
You're fake news.
We love Chick-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A would never be woke, you fucking idiot.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's how you build a brand right there.
You build a brand so hard that you can do stuff and people just say, no, that's not real.
Sheila posted, Boycott Chick-fil-A!
Another company gone woke.
Ricky Barbary comments, the problem here is this.
2020 the left said cancel, cancel, cancel.
Now we are saying cancel, cancel, cancel.
We have to have an alternative in order to boycott a place or else we will just crash our own economy.
So I loved this because this is like your first instance of cope is like, no, I really want to like live my values and not buy the woke sandwich and not be woke, but I'm so worried about our economy.
So there's just like, it's just a matter of time.
Like we, we, we, we're doing too much work right now with the boycotts.
We're boycotting too much right now.
The economy isn't, if this sandwich is not being purchased and you know, what's next?
We need to buy something, folks.
I love that it finally occurred to them that they need to buy stuff.
That their whole politics and identity is based on the ability to buy stuff.
I guess you're finding out about no ethical consumption under capitalism.
It's pretty funny.
You're figuring that out.
I think that they should charge extra for the sauces.
Myself.
Only if you're a Christian, though.
Because you should be like, you should be humbled.
As an atheist speaking, I think as a Christian you should have to be humble and get less sauces in your meals.
Yeah, I think that having, I think you have to pay for the sauces is like your tax because sauces are just opulence.
That's just, you know, that's gluttony.
You don't need sauces.
Well, it's like tithing.
Jesus had sauces.
No, I mean, he could have made some if he wanted some.
That's for sure, though.
But he didn't need them.
And neither do you.
And they didn't even invent sausage yet.
Think about that.
It's true.
Corey replies, I'm wondering if this is their plan.
So crashing our own economy.
I'm wondering.
You know what she said?
Made a lot of sense.
We are going to crash the economy with the power of our dollar.
But why?
Yeah.
Why?
Why would that happen?
I'm wondering if this is their plan.
I don't understand how businesses can watch another business make a dumb business decision and do then same thing.
There is a reason all these corporations are going woke, Tony, and it's because they're trying to sabotage the entire economic system.
It's like, they're like a kamikaze for the economy.
Like, if we tank, then the economy tanks.
We have to sacrifice ourselves.
Yeah.
And we have to hire as many employees as we can, so that when we go under, enough people lose their jobs.
That's also why they pay them better, is because that's, you know, obviously detrimental to the economy.
So that they're, you know, they knew that, like, that's another way to bring us down.
It's by paying us too much.
And they're not going to be able to get jobs that are that good again, so they're only going to make less money.
It's just a downward spiral.
Yeah, so it's a chain reaction that's going to sow the seeds of destruction in this country.
Here we go.
Kenny Mann says, I just saw an interesting video that suggested the left is using our anger to bankrupt American companies.
Something to think about.
I think it's the left.
The left is responsible for how big of maniacs we are.
How maniacal we are.
I think it's the left's fault here.
I wish that was the plan.
We've all just infiltrated corporations enough to where we're just gonna piss everybody off so much that no one buys anything anymore.
In order for that to work, We'd have to stop buying, you know, sick Pride merch, and that's not gonna happen.
That's true.
Well, looks like the CIA shot another homophobic ray at this right-wing protester.
They hit him with the old hate minorities button.
Gotta love it.
Brandon replies, bankrupt companies.
Then government bails them out.
Then they will be government owned and controlled.
Just what we need, more government control.
I like how, like, on the right wing, they're like, oh, well, if, uh, if the, you know, taxpayer, if the government bails out a corporation, that means they own the corporation, right?
I mean, logically, like, that's, that's what would happen.
Like, even the person on the right is like, shouldn't we own these corporations that we've been bailing out for the last 30 years?
You know?
And it's like, oh, you, you, uh, you sweetie pie, Brandon.
No, we don't own shit, dude.
It's all, it's a free-for-all, man.
Hey, like, all those car companies we built now, like, they're doing pretty good now, right?
Do I get like a... do we get like a... a refund?
Well, they pay you back.
They paid us back with with interest, which happens sometimes during bailouts, obviously not with like the most recent PPP loan, as we as we all have seen.
But like a controlling stake in the company or like the ability to allocate resources and make business decisions, I don't think that that's ever been grant in like my lifetime ever been granted to the government.
Maybe.
But, like, when they paid us back, why didn't they pay, like, why didn't, like, Tony get a check?
Right.
Well, that was the... That's the mentality.
That was the Bush check, the refund check of 300 bucks that we all got.
Here's one more in the conspiracy theory response to this.
Mike 63 says corporations want to tear down Western civilization and replace it with a corporate consumer society in which culture, traditional values, and national and ethnic identity have been eliminated.
Wow.
What would that be like, Tony, if we were living in a corporate consumer society?
That would be, I think, a Western culture would truly have been destroyed.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine.
I can't even fathom what that would be like.
This is what those sickos want.
Those sickos on the left, they want a corporate consumer society.
That's exactly what they're known for.
Fuck off!
Yeah.
Like, it's that thing, too, where if they would take a second and take a step back, they would realize, like, they do hate that, too, but they don't realize it's happening right now.
But again, I think it's that thing where they think that They're only thinking of corporations, right?
They're only thinking of, like, Disney.
But the thing they're trying to do is still going to be a family-owned business, no matter how big it gets.
Because I have a family and I own it.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, they're an example of good capitalism.
If they even own a business or whatever, you know, who knows what this person is like in real life.
No, it's because I think they never get a chance to criticize consumer culture.
Never.
Because that is, like, their identity.
That is most Americans' identity.
It's consumer culture, right?
And if you're on the left, you can be, like, probably, for the most part, pretend that you don't participate in, you know, consumer-driven whatever behaviors, but you likely do, like we all do, you know?
Yeah.
But at least you're aware of it and acknowledging it, right?
But everybody else, you know, you can't, if you're, like, for American Commerce and capitalism and shit.
You don't get to make fun of consumer culture because that's what capitalism here is built on.
That's like what we do now for the last 20-30 years is consume, right?
If I do that, that means I don't get to post my Chevys are gay memes.
Yeah, they're the fucking die-cut decal you bought that says Chevys are gay, you know.
So this is your one shot to be like, oh, typical of our consumer, you know, or like this is what they've driven us to.
They're trying to create a consumer society, which would be bad, you know.
Marxism essentially has the same social goal, which explains why corporations are becoming increasingly aligned with China and other communist countries.
In short, what's happening is the synthesis of capital and communism.
This is so good.
You know, we've covered this so much on the show, but it's so it rocks so fucking hard, like how big of ideologues these people are, where it's like, OK, the Marxists are saying the corporations are bad.
They've been saying that forever.
But now the corporations actually are bad.
I guess they're getting bad like the Marxists are bad.
Because of the Marxists, yeah.
It's not that the Marxists were right.
It's that, no, the Marxists are so wrong that now the corporations are obviously following their orders.
Yeah, and it's their fault, yeah.
This is the synthesis of capitalism and communism.
This is it, right here.
Totally, yeah.
I mean, obviously.
It's almost like they know too much.
You know, they just can't sort it all out.
They learn too many words.
Yeah, it's just, I don't know, we're all noticing that things aren't going great and just the ways that people choose to express it, especially the right wing whose ideologies are extremely incoherent unless they've like adapted outright fascism.
Which, again, a lot of them have, which, you know, would make sense in, like, a resource-scarce environment.
It would, you know, make logical sense for them.
It would be, you know, obviously immoral, but at least it's like, oh, no, well, we're going to give all the good stuff to ourselves and make everybody else suffer.
At least that makes some coherent sense, but you can't pretend that... It's getting harder and harder to pretend that, like, capitalism will save us on its own.
Yeah.
And that's what these people are going through.
But that's the difference between you and I. You guys over there, you're the synthesis of capitalism and communism, where me over here on the right, we're the synthesis of truth, liberty, righteousness, freedom, justice.
Yeah.
Good times.
Now tell me, which side would you rather be on?
I think it's a no-brainer.
We gotta get to these last two responses, which are fucking fantastic.
Because not only are we at the point where, like, again, I didn't know how this Chick-fil-A boycott was going to be perceived, how many people were going to bite in, how many people were going to...
Take this on the same way they've taken on Target and Bud Light.
And... A not insignificant response to this was... What if being woke is actually God's law?
Mmm... Not... Whoa... Like, what if being equal was actually God's... doing God's will?
And this is not... I'm not talking about libs here.
Trying to do a gotcha.
Okay, interesting.
Sherry Coon says, I'm just curious, is this an action to show that all God's love, that God's love covers all?
So, meaning diversity, equity, inclusion.
I'm just concerned that a boycott will further divide this company from conservatives when in reality it may just be doing the Lord's work.
I have no idea if this is their ploy, but I think it worth seeing what they're doing with this to see what the motives are.
Just my opinion.
It would be so incredibly sad to see a sound Christian organization be overcome by pressures of the secular world.
Have you ever thought about this, Tony?
How being inclusive and making outreach to marginalized community might be doing God's work?
I think we need to look in to see what Chick-fil-A has to say about their diversity, equity, and inclusion program.
I mean like you got it you got to kind of trust that you know God is gonna bless the businesses that are as you know holy as Chick-fil-a and that there might be some this like God wouldn't allow them to go in the wrong direction so this might be God's plan.
You know, this might be bigger than us.
Have you thought about that?
And it's funny, because like, hey, if that's the result of this, if that's what you're getting out of this, then you're saying, maybe even God would say equity for all.
Then run it.
It took, I'm not exaggerating, it took Chick-fil-A going woke for conservatives to be like, you know, some of this wokeness just sounds like treating people with kindness and respect.
Is this gonna sound similar to words that I've heard before?
We just don't mention those ones anymore for some reason.
But it sounds familiar.
Maybe God's onto something.
They're speaking through Chick-fil-A.
Yeah, other people were like, well, I'll have to see specifically what Chick-fil-A says in their diversity, equity, inclusion program.
But I think what they're saying is common sense.
It seems like you'd have to be pretty irrational being to get upset about something like this.
Yeah.
It seems like even just from a consumerist point of view, from a business point of view, we might just want to let everyone come buy our chicken sandwiches.
Might want to let them know that we don't hate their fucking guts.
Seems like it could be not just a good marketing gimmick, but also good for society.
Just turning into liberals in real time.
We might want to apply this just to every day.
Yeah, so I mean, I, you know, I didn't want to give Chick-fil-A credit for going woke.
You know, usually it's just, you know, corporate virtue signaling and making your customers do even more or your employees do even more bullshit on behalf of your, you know, commitment to anti-racism or whatever.
No, this one actually worked.
This one actually appears to have made some conservatives sit down, shut up and have their white asses listen.
What Chick-fil-A says.
What other companies need to go woke to really fix this country now?
What other companies need to...
Publicly hire a diversity equity head, you know, head to really fix this country.
See, I don't know.
It's hard to say because, like, I think, didn't Cracker Barrel go woke?
Didn't, like, they take some menu items off because of wokeness?
They made vegan stuff, remember?
They added some menu items, but I think other people had huge complaints about whatever they had taken off their menu two years ago that they still remembered fondly, and that was like one of the big reasons that they were... This is the last straw.
First you took away the, you know, whatever waffle burger.
Now you're adding something?
Fuck you.
But I think if we can just get like Yeti and like Glock, To get out- then we can fix this whole country.
Yeah.
I think if Yeti went woke, it would just be huge.
Um... Yeti or- Stanley Cups?
What?
Okay.
What about this?
Can we give, uh, Duck Dynasty a call?
See what- what Duck- Imagine getting Phil Rob- whatever that fucker's name is, Phil Robertson, to, like, wash the shoes of a black rapper.
That would be sick.
I would- I would- I would enjoy that.
Or even just say like outline, hey, everyone's pretty cool.
It doesn't really matter where you're coming from, anything else.
Everyone's pretty cool.
Yeah, he's not going to say that, though.
No way.
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