Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep. 24 | 1-844-WYT-FEAR, Georgia's Tooth Fairy, & Social Media Shakedown

Episode Date: October 29, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Chewing the Fat on demand. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. It's yours truly. Jeff Fisher, Monday edition. Hope everybody had a beautiful weekend. I came across this video this weekend, you know, in my social media timeline. And don't look at me like that. Just because I know you sent it to me, Chris Cruz, but I saw it.
Starting point is 00:00:30 It was in my Twitter feed after you said it to me. And the caption is, I know white people will see this. and get upset. LMA, oh, oh, oh, I'm in tears from C on Twitter. And I looked out and I look at the video and it's from the Times opinion piece. So I guess it's the New York Times online opinion piece and it's a video. And it, well, of course I see, I know white people will see this and get upset. I'm watching.
Starting point is 00:01:05 All right. Not that I want to be upset. I just want to see what's so funny. Right? I want to be in tears as well. Here's the beginning portion of the Times opinion piece. Not for a charcoal grill. No charcoal grills are allowed.
Starting point is 00:01:22 You're scared. Please leave me alone. You're white. African-American. Illegally selling water without a permit. But with cell phone cameras and social media, calling 911 on your black or brown neighbors just isn't what a guy. used to be. Oh, my. Hi, I'm Necy Nash, actress, inventor, and advocate for not calling 911
Starting point is 00:01:43 on black people for no goddamn reason. I'd like to introduce you to a radical new product that will save you all the headaches of being filmed and outed as a racist douche. It's called 1844 white fear, and it's revolutionizing the way racist white people cope with black people. All right, that's enough. That's like the first minute or something. of the video goes on for two and a half minutes and you get the gist and it's really funny and it really makes racist white people look bad
Starting point is 00:02:14 and by the way you should look bad but I was immediately struck with wait is this real or is it fake so I think that we today on chewing the fat
Starting point is 00:02:33 should dial live 1844 W-Y-T-F-E-A-R-18-4-4-8-4-White-F-E-E-R. And see what happens. All right, let's go. 8-4-4- White Fear is going to be, why'd you call here, White Dush? Thank you for calling 1844 White Fear. We are here to address your urgent concerns about black or brown people living their life near you.
Starting point is 00:03:13 That's tremendous. We get options? If you are indeed white Oh, I got to write this stuff for a black or brown person in your proximity, press one. Scared is one. If hearing Spanish is triggering for you, please protect your ears now.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Some gringoes creen that the police is a guardia armada particular without canterer the bestine of his decinoes of other races and this needs to paris. Oplima the two. That's okay. That's too.
Starting point is 00:03:41 I can speak Spanish. That's it though? Okay, so that's one. But let the reality that black Americans are twice as likely to be arrested as whites and almost three times as likely to experience force during encounters with the police. Place your fears in a larger context and let this light jazz wash over you. If you're near a black or brown person waiting for a friend at a coffee shop, press three. If they're taking a nap in the rec room at your college, press four.
Starting point is 00:04:10 If they're engaging in a family barbecue, press five. Oh my gosh. If they're a child selling water, lemonade, or any refreshments, press 6. If you're near a person of color doing anything strange like shopping, golfing, mowing the lawn, eating at a waffle house, doing their job as a firefighter, renting an Airbnb, moving into their new apartment, opening their front door, or existing in a way that just doesn't feel right to you. Press 7. To repeat the menu options at any time, press 0. I mean, I want to hear the option. So, push 3.
Starting point is 00:04:41 Based on your menu selection, we have determined that you are not injured and probably just racist. In order to deal with this situation, you should put away your phone and move on with your day. Or if you're feeling particularly bold, you may introduce yourself and try being a person. Whoa. Thank you for calling 1844 White Fear. While this New York Times opinion hotline is a satire, the issue is very real. If you yourself have experienced this form of harassment, please email us at 844 W-Y-T-F-E-A-R at NYTimes.com.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Well, then we'll push four. Based on your menu selection, we have determined that you are not in danger and probably just racist. In order to deal with this situation, you should put away your phone and move on with your day. Based on your menu selection, we have proven that you are not in danger and probably just racist. Six. In order to deal with the situation, based on your menu selection, we have determined that you are not in danger and probably just racism. In order to be...
Starting point is 00:05:49 Based on your menu selection, we have determined that you are not in and probably just racist. In order to deal with this situation, you should put away your phone and move on with your Spanish. Dose. We understand that you're feeling scared, but let the reality that black Americans are twice as likely to be arrested as whites and almost three times as likely to experience force during encounters with the belief.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Place your fears in a larger context and let this light jazz wash over you. If you're near a black or brown person waiting for a friend of a coffee shop, press three. If they're taking a nap in the rec room at your college, press four. If they're engaging in a family barbecue, I'm a little ticked at the New York Times opinion. This should be in Spanish. If you're near a person of color doing anything strange like shopping, go. All right, we need to call back again and start with two. and not go to one first to see if it's all in Spanish.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Because if it's not all in Spanish, I'm complaining. If I'm Spanish and I push two dose and then I get just English speaking, I'm triggered. Right? All right. So we've dialed 1844 white fear. Thank you for calling 1844 white fear. Yeah, I know. You're welcome.
Starting point is 00:07:13 That's what we call. It's already called twice. right, we're going through. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Please listen to the following options before making your selection.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Okay, we know. Yeah, yeah. And feeling scared about a black or brown person in your proximity. Press 1. Oh, yeah, what do I know? If hearing Spanish is triggering for you, please protect your ears now. Okay, so there you go. This guy sounds good, too.
Starting point is 00:07:41 This is why my mother-in-law watches. We understand that you're feeling scared. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Americans are twice as likely to be arrested as whites. All right, that's enough. All right, thank you. The Spanish guy, Chris Cruz, as my interpreter, my UN interpreter.
Starting point is 00:07:59 Did the Spanish guy say that they're going to end up speaking in English when what he was saying? Because this may come as a shock to you. While I understood, you know, two as a dose, I can count to ten as a ten as. Spanish. The, uh, most of the Spanish language, I'm not fluent in. Did he say what you're going to hear as in English? No, he didn't say that. And what did, what did, what did he tell us was going to happen? Was it just the same thing as one? Yeah. Just in a lot sexier Spanish voice. He said just green goes, which is kind of like the W word from us to guys. Right. Right. Okay. From us. Oh yeah. Now you're, now you're them. Oh yes. Yeah. Now you're, now you're. Yeah. Now you're. Now you're,
Starting point is 00:08:41 them. You ever hear the, you ever hear the, remember the old Lone Ranger and Tonto joke? The Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by Indians and the Lone Ranger says, what are we going to do, Tonto? And Tonto says, what do you mean, we, white man? You can laugh later with the kids on that one. Yeah, that one's on me. That's on me. Joke of the day. But remember, if you really do know someone that has an issue with racism, hey, for real, you shouldn't be hanging out with them. They're not good enough for you at all. period. B. 1844, white fear. You know, I had a lot of people ask me this weekend as I was out and about, we were talking about, I mean, thousands, thousands, maybe even close to millions were coming up to me over the weekend
Starting point is 00:09:33 saying, hey, we really love your podcast, but, you know, you don't talk politics or anything. We can. We can. We can. We can talk politics if you'd like. I mean, we could spend, we could spend the day on the news that broke this weekend that on Friday when Obama came out and talked about how he wants to, you know, he can't believe how everybody lies now. Okay, is that right? Former President Barack Hussein liar Obama. Is that right?
Starting point is 00:10:02 Is that the same man who stretched the truth? We can talk about Hillary saying she's going to leave the door open, you know, with her interview. She doesn't want to make any decisions, though. She's going to wait until the midterm elections. I wonder why that is. I wonder why she would wait until the midterm elections to a next. It couldn't be that if the Democrats take a beating, she just walks away and says, oh, civilization is over as we know it.
Starting point is 00:10:27 I'm going to go back to my gated house and be left alone. Couldn't be that, could it? But I would rather not talk about that. I don't want to, you know, look, I don't want to talk about, everybody talks about that. Everybody talks about Megan Kelly getting the boot now the Today Show. is, you know, trying to make it right. And everybody just loves, what's her name? Hoda.
Starting point is 00:10:59 No, not from Game of Thrones. But the chick, the chick, you know, the 50-year-old lady from the Today Show, Hoda. Agonizing. Isn't that her name? Isn't that her name? No, her name, the co-host of Today Show, Hoda. Yeah, that's her name, Hoda. Not the Game of Thrones guy.
Starting point is 00:11:27 But they just, you know, they ran Megan off. They never liked her. She came in, they paid her way too much money, more money than they made. And she was supposed to be their savior, and they all were in love with it. And then they realized, oh, wait, we're supposed to hate her. So they found a way to run her off. I got it. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:11:43 And she got ran off for something that was silly and stupid, and the whole world knows it. And yet what's left? Nothing. Megan doesn't have a gig. She's going to walk away with, what, 50 million and be sad. And she'll have to spend some time, extra time with her kids that she claims she wants to spend time with. She's going to have to spend extra time with her husband that she claims she wants to spend time with. And she's going to want us to believe that she's really, really sad because she doesn't have a job.
Starting point is 00:12:13 Okay, I believe you. How's that 50 million doing for you? Okay? You're going to be all right. You're going to be able to live. You're going to be able to still live the lifestyle you've become accustomed to. You're not going to have to downsize, are you? You're not going to have to get rid of the weekend nanny so you and hubby can go out, are you?
Starting point is 00:12:32 Don't talk to me about that. Oh, my gosh. You're not going to, are you going to have to, no, you are not going to have to cut back to cleaning people to every other day? No, I won't have that. You're not, you're going to have to. to take the kids to school? What?
Starting point is 00:12:53 I won't have that. That's not the life you've become accustomed to. I mean, I get it. But do we want to talk about that? When I can talk about the greatness of HBO and how they've created a job that I think I want? And they actually have started something that you know every single network
Starting point is 00:13:16 is going to have these now from, Now until the end of time. They've created work. So good for them. They've created another job that now is going to create work for a lot of people in broadcast, moviedom. They're all going to have to have it. And what is it, you ask?
Starting point is 00:13:38 An intimacy coordinator. An intimacy coordinator. That, my friends, is a job I want. Yeah, no, that scene went too far. Sorry, you're going to have to do it again. Can't film that anymore. Now, look, do we need one in today's world? Maybe.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Maybe looking at it seriously. I think we need one in today's world to avoid lawsuits is about what it's for. You know, the story goes on to talk about so many sex scenes on its shows. The cable channel has hired one more staff member to keep it under control. And now they're pushing the other networks and other. other movie dim people to create this job as well. And they want to treat it like a stunt coordinator where someone oversees it all.
Starting point is 00:14:35 And look, all it is is to avoid the lawsuits from the Me Too movement. They've come down with that. You know, they want to make you feel like when it comes to sexuality, which is one of the most vulnerable, things for all humans, men and women, there's really no system. There's never been a person required to be there to protect and bring expertise. No, that person was supposed to be you. How many times in this Me Too movement have we actually heard from actors and actresses
Starting point is 00:15:11 saying that was too far? And very few, very few times, because we've heard them say, I thought it was too far, but I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to lose the job. That's not my fault. That's your fault. It's your decision. Hey, we're going to have a naked scene now. You know, the scene you agreed to in the contract when you said you'd do the movie. This is what we plan to do. I think that's too far. Okay, well, what would you like? I'm sure. Maybe 90% of the time, that's what the conversation that you do. have. Not, oh, I think that's too far and I really think we should do something else. You're fired. They've already invested in you. If you have some sort of artistic measure that you'd like to
Starting point is 00:16:03 make the movie better with without completely undressing and having sex with the guy, then bring it up. If you think it's too far, say no. Guess what? You can say no. I know the Me Too movement but really want you to believe that you can't say no because of the power dynamic. But that isn't true. It is far from the truth. And you can probably talk to, I don't know, 90% of wives and husbands around America. Because I don't know how your marriage works, but funny thing is, I'm married to a female and she identifies as a female at this time in my life.
Starting point is 00:16:49 life. And ever since I've known her, actually, she's identified as a female. I'm sorry. Ever since I've known my wife, that person has identified as a female. And there have been plenty times when the word, no, get spoken to me and others from this person that's my wife that's identifying as a female. And it seems to work pretty good. It's a pretty powerful word.
Starting point is 00:17:22 No. And if you don't like it, then you can say, well, how about, how about yes? How about yes? No. You mean you're just making the decision? Yes, I knew I could get her to say that word. It's agonizing to me that the power dynamic, please, please. And I'd also like to maybe talk about.
Starting point is 00:17:50 about the, you know, the things that matter in people's lives. You know, like the things that are banned in other countries but are legal here in the U.S., things that make the United States great. There are some reasons why the United States of America is great. Some of the things that are banned in other countries but legal in the U.S., baby walkers. Now, first you say to yourself, what? Baby walkers are banned, I know. Babies in Canada have to learn to walk the old-fashioned way.
Starting point is 00:18:28 They banned baby walkers in 2004. Now, in Canada, they found that these baby walkers endangered babies and delay motor and mental development. If you are caught in Canada with a baby walker, you are sent to the Eastern Front if you are caught with a baby walker possession or selling of a baby walker can result in fines of up to $100,000
Starting point is 00:19:03 and six months in jail come on now how many of you have had kids in baby walkers raise your hand that's what I thought a lot how many kids loved their baby walker because once they figured out that they could move their legs as fast as they could and ram that thing into your legs, that's what they love doing. They were busy developing those motor skills that Canada says they can't.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Ketchup in school cafeterias right there is any country that has banned ketchup, we should just shut them down. They should be extradited from the United Nations right now, although we should just end the United Nations anyway. But aside from that, No, ketchup in cafeterias? Are you kidding me? France banned the tomato condiment from school cafeterias in order to preserve French cuisine.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Um, huh? Now, according to this story, students can still put ketchup on French fries in these cafeterias. I would say that we should not be serving French fries if that's the case. And that can't be the case. Right? I mean, if you were in school and you say, I want French fries and I'd like some ketchup on that, you get kicked out of school immediately, right then, you're done. Call your parents, you're over.
Starting point is 00:20:34 In France, you'd have to have, what, mayo and mustard. Nasty. Oh, it sounds so nasty mayonnaise on fries. In fact, Heinz should make a big push in France right now. I'm pushing over that. And as a wannabe Heinz police officer, I want a Heinz ketchup police officer badge so bad. And we've talked about that.
Starting point is 00:20:56 I don't know if we ever talked about it on this podcast, but I've talked about it plenty on this network and over the years on other shows. I want a Heinz ketchup police officer badge so bad so that when we find people, this would be my job. I would go to restaurants. And you know restaurants that have unmarked condiment containers? So you know that one's mustard and that one's ketchup
Starting point is 00:21:18 and that one's, you know, barbecue sauce. And they even do it at some restaurants with syrup. But they're on marked. They just say, you know, maple or strawberry, whatever it is. Some people put bad ketchup. And by bad ketchup, I mean any other ketchup that's not Heinz. In containers and claim that it's Heinz ketchup, those particular establishments would be shut down immediately under my authority
Starting point is 00:21:52 as a Heinz ketchup police officer. if you say to people, yeah, that's Heinz, and it's not, or if, and this is even more horrendous, if someone were to replace inside a Heinz ketchup bottle, inferior ketchup, so that people just off looking at it think that it's Heinz ketchup, but inside the bottle it's inferior, oh my gosh, that place will never be reopened. We'll shut that down right now. If you're in there, you just leave. I'll kick you out because we're shutting it down.
Starting point is 00:22:28 We're locking the doors. We're chained in the doors shut right now. That is wrong. There's incandescent light bulbs that are banned in other countries. Mullets. That's kind of a good one, though. I might have to agree with that one. Plastic bags, we're trying to get there.
Starting point is 00:22:50 We're definitely trying to get there. Spanking. Corporal punishment is a little. allowed in 19 U.S. states. Now, I know I went to school back at the, you know, turn of the one of those centuries, you know, a long time ago. But I have been paddled in school before. My, uh, I had a shop class and they had paddles. So, I mean, I got, I got nailed a number of times. Uh, different preservatives. Chewing gum. Chewing gum is banned in Singapore. What? Weird baby names.
Starting point is 00:23:28 This is completely un-American. You're going to tell me I have to okay a name through the government? Legislation in Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, and many other countries, according to this story, if Danish parents don't choose one of the 7,000 government-approved names for their bundle of joy, they're required to get church approval. Oh, man, that's a good gig right there. Just move there and become the Church of Names. For the right about of cash, we'll approve your kid's name.
Starting point is 00:24:01 And tobacco. Everybody wants to hate tobacco. I know it's bad for you. But what would happen if you banned it? People would be buying it up. Want a bag of Marlboro tobacco? No, all I got is cools. I can't do the menthol, man.
Starting point is 00:24:27 That's all I got is cools. Oh, okay. So you'd be buying bootleg bootleg cigarettes all over America. That might be, that's, good luck. Good luck banning that. I know a lot of people want to ban that. Want to ban alcohol?
Starting point is 00:24:41 Want to ban pot? Oh, how did that work out for you? Wait, we've banned that before. It didn't work out well. We banned out pot. Oh, that didn't work out well. So how about we let people decide what they want to use and what they don't want to use?
Starting point is 00:24:53 And then let the whole free market thing work itself out. Huh. Huh. That's a crazy thought right there. Before we head over to the water cooler, I want to tell you a couple of stories about some houses that you want to concern yourself with if you're out looking for a house. They found a bunch of teeth inside a wall in Georgia in Valdosta. A thousand teeth inside a wall. They don't know where it came from.
Starting point is 00:25:25 They don't know how it got there. They're assuming that it got there because it was. was an old dental house. The dentist lived there. The tenant was a dentist. Uh-huh. Right. Why were they behind a wall?
Starting point is 00:25:47 And another thing that's a little strange, get this. In Georgia, two other homes have been found with teeth behind walls, and they both believe that those houses were also dentists. Is that some kind of dental thing that the dentist pull your teeth and then hide it behind a wall? I mean, I don't know. Oh my gosh, Chris Cruz. That's exactly what it is. I'm telling you, Chris Cruz is just as deduced and figured out exactly what this is.
Starting point is 00:26:34 those were the homes of the Georgia tooth fairies because of construction and growth they keep getting pushed out it's like the little animals that get run over in the neighborhoods every time they start building a house all the animals that lived in that lot go looking for other places to live and they get run over by cars that's why you find a skunk every so often in your neighborhood
Starting point is 00:26:56 I just let you know that's why it happens if you ever think to yourself I wonder why there's skunk or squirrels getting run over that's why. There's a building close by going up, so you've run them out of their home. So now we're running tooth fairies out of their homes in Georgia. That's what we're doing. We're running tooth fairies out of their homes in Georgia. Now we have to put up a fight for tooth fairies in Georgia. I thought we were four fairies in today's world. Tell you about another house.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Kermit-Gosnell's abortion clinic. Is it Gosnell? Gossnell? Gossno. Well, Kermit Gosnell. You know, the abortion doctor. You know, the guy that just murdered babies, him. His clinic is going to go up for sale here soon. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:50 That seems like something that we don't want to tear down. I don't know that you want to ever move into it again, but somebody needs to buy it and keep it. Just so that it's, maybe we put a big sign in there. former house of baby murderer and just it lights up every night. Former house of baby murderer. 2700 square feet
Starting point is 00:28:13 sits right to, I mean, it's a prime location. Prime location. And maybe you do move in. You know, what we can do is if there's people in Pennsylvania that want to have a safe place for the tooth fairies to live,
Starting point is 00:28:30 maybe they can just move right into Kermit's old place. and everybody will just leave them alone. But if you don't want to buy a house in the future that was, you know, formerly owned by a dentist and has left teeth in the walls, you might want to get a hold of real estate agents I trust.com. Real estate agents I trust.com. I know a lot of you think selling your home is simple. Just put the four sales sign up there and it's going to sell.
Starting point is 00:29:00 It doesn't really work that way. And when you're trying to buy a home that you really want, you know what? You don't want to buy the house and then find out that it was owned by the Tooth Fairy. Real Estate AgentsI Trust.com. And that's what we're calling the houses with teeth behind the wall now, the Tooth Fairy's Homes. But it could actually be, well, I don't want to say that it was a serial killer, but it could possibly be that. It could be the serial killer, the Tooth Fairy. criminal minds tonight on CBS, the tooth fairy.
Starting point is 00:29:37 It's just a thought. In the criminal justice system, there are two, real estate agents I trust.com, I don't want to get sidetracked too much because I'm telling you about real estate agentsitrust.com. It's where you need to go to sell and buy your home. We have thousands of agents all over America that want to earn your business.
Starting point is 00:29:57 Let them do it. Let them make you some money selling your house. Let them save you some money buying a house. Real estate agents I trust.com. Real estate agents I trust. Dot com. All right. Let's go to the break room.
Starting point is 00:30:10 Stand around the water cool a little bit. I am thirsty. Oh, my. Have I mentioned how good a cold Coke Zero is? Because they are good. Hey, happy national internet day. Yay! It's national internet day.
Starting point is 00:30:36 Yay. And what makes National Internet Day? Day so special. Well, this weekend we found out that Twitter founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, he was just pondering out loud, you know, well, I look into removing the ability to like tweets. Just get rid of that like button. And people weren't too happy about that.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Now, Jack, I think, needs to remember from time to time that he actually is the CEO and founder of Twitter and doesn't need to be, you know, just wondering out loud. I wonder, you know, if we just, I don't know, we make Twitter yellow. I don't know, we use a giant stork instead of our little bird. Just do that in your office, Jack. Just keep that to yourself. Now, Twitter had to immediately respond with, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Starting point is 00:31:27 We have no plans to remove that feature at the moment. No, no, no, no. We are just the like button as part of a bigger plan to ensure, the platform is incentivizing healthy conversation. Oh, is that it? Is that it? Is that what you want to do? Is incentivize healthy conversation?
Starting point is 00:31:48 See, I was under the impression that what you were in business for is to just let people tweet and follow who they wanted. Boy, was I wrong, huh? One of my favorite tweets all upset about Jack and losing. By Josh Butler, at Josh. Butler on Twitter, by the way. His tweet was, users. Hey, can you get rid of the Nazis, please? Twitter.
Starting point is 00:32:13 Okay, sure, we've changed the stars to hearts for likes. Users, no, no. Zero Nazis, please. Twitter. Yep, we're getting rid of Vine. Users. Hey, hey, how about the Nazis? Twitter.
Starting point is 00:32:26 Okay, okay, fine. No more likes. It's kind of funny. And one of the things that I want to remind Josh about is that, you know, he doesn't have to follow any of the Nazis. And he doesn't have to follow anybody that follows the Nazis. So he doesn't really have to know what the Nazis are saying. So it shouldn't have to affect him at all.
Starting point is 00:32:50 That's how it's supposed to work. I know they don't think that anymore. I know Facebook has taken down 82 more pages tied to Iran. And that they were posting politically charged memes. Oh, no. Oh, no. People were posting politically charged memes. The horror.
Starting point is 00:33:09 And how many of you knew about Gab? Raise your hands. Did you know about Gab? Of course, Chris. Put your hand down. I knew you were going to raise your hand. I knew you were. It was a show.
Starting point is 00:33:20 I knew about Gab. How many of you knew about Gab and were using it or had used it in the past? Of course, Chris raised his hand. Did I raise my hand? No. Had I used Gab before? No, although I had heard of it. I just want to back up a little bit.
Starting point is 00:33:42 I had... Yes. But I really didn't... You know, it wasn't... I was like, okay, a new platform. Big deal. However, what they tell you all the time is that... And I'm guilty of this as well.
Starting point is 00:33:58 With Google and Twitter and Facebook. Look, if you're unhappy with it, create your own Facebook. Create your own Twitter. I mean, Facebook numbers are going, you know, their shares are going down here in the U.S. I know Instagram was going up, so Facebook's like so. We're going to Instagram. But it does happen.
Starting point is 00:34:19 The free market does work. But you have to be able to, you've got to be willing to use it, and you've got to be willing to get through the muck to get to the other end. But when you have platforms like Gab, who on Saturday, Gunman Robert B, Bowers, the guy who killed, and it says in this story allegedly, I'm pretty sure he did it, killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, moments before he posted on Gab, screw your optics, I'm going in. Now, how that is Gab's fault, I have no idea. But they'll tell me, hold on, I'm sure they will.
Starting point is 00:35:01 In the latest tragedy to shine a light on social media's role in acts of terror and violence, especially since Bowers had a history of anti-Semitism on Gab. So he had a history of anti-Semitism on Gab. So Gab is immediately supposed to know that he's going to go into a synagogue and kill people. How does that happen? Oh, I know it doesn't. Gab started in 2016, and it was supposed to be a no-holes-barred alternative to Twitter. All right.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Few restrictions so that it earned Gab the alt-right users. Okay, so the alt-right users got kicked off of Twitter, and they found a place to go. Didn't mean you have to go there. Doesn't mean that they're responsible for them, but apparently in today's world they are. And after that, now PayPal banned Gab from using its payment platform,
Starting point is 00:35:49 Apple refused to host Gab on its App Store, Google removed Gab from its Play Store, Microsoft threatened to bar Gab from using its Azure Cloud Service. So, you know, what happens when you build another, do you build a better mouse trap? Even if you build a different mousetrap, it seems that the bigger mousetrap companies stop you from promoting that new and better mousetrap. So it's kind of a little catch-22 in what you want to do with that, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:36:22 I mean, it's really kind of weird. But I will say that the free market does work if you let it. And how do you know that Twitter doesn't want gab around? biggest drop in monthly users. Twitter's efforts to clean up its platform might be working, but it's resulted in the loss of millions of users. Nine million monthly active users doing the third quarter of 2018. Huh.
Starting point is 00:36:51 Wonder what could cause that. What could cause that? Snap. Losing users. Now it's blaming it's Android app. It's Android's app What? They're there
Starting point is 00:37:06 Really? Could it be that You know, people that just They weren't liking the platform The way it was built And what it was doing? Is that possible? Is why Instagram is number one now?
Starting point is 00:37:17 Is that possible that that happened? Huh. So I don't know what to tell you About the social media Because I want to be able to say I want to be able to have Twitter And Facebook, particularly Go in front of the government
Starting point is 00:37:33 and say, what we promised you isn't true anymore. So if we're to be held responsible for these Robert Bowers going in and killing people, then we'll, you know, we can't let these people on our platform. But you said we wouldn't be held accountable. I'm sure Gap did it too, right? This Gap? They had to have done that to become a platform. People thought.
Starting point is 00:38:00 So if they go before and they get that trust, would say, hey, we're a platform. We're providing this platform, but we can't be held accountable for what people say on our platform. That's them. Not us. And yet,
Starting point is 00:38:16 who gets held accountable? The platform. So, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you just unplug. Maybe you just unplug, you know, except for, you know, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes. Google Play Music, Stitcher,
Starting point is 00:38:37 maybe, you know, whatever one of those you use, and then you download Chewing the Fat. You just download, you know, the Jeff Fisher Show, chewing the fat, talking Walking Dead, bonus Saturday podcast, and then, you know, you rate it, 20 stars, best podcast ever, share with your friends, so that, you know, there's plenty of subscribers, and there's plenty of content.
Starting point is 00:39:00 But other than that, plug.

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