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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Air Date: 10-21-23

Today, Jay!, Amanda, Erin and Deon discuss:

- the complainers at The Atlantic

- why a mindful workforce is an oxymoron

- the myriad problems with creeping on people

- how Taylor Swift is going to solve anti-native racism

REFERENCES:

The Microwave Makes No Sense - The Atlantic

Real mindfulness would transform the economy - Vox

Maybe think twice before making an innocent stranger go viral? - NPR

The Very Common, Very Harmful Thing Well-Meaning Parents Do - The Atlantic

The 7 Best Conspiracies About Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce - Wired

Native Americans hope Taylor Swift can help get tomahawk chop banned from Chiefs games - USA Today

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0:00.0

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

0:10.2

This is a sample of our recent bonus episode, usually only available to members.

0:14.3

These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda, and myself all getting

0:18.7

together for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting.

0:22.8

So here's a few minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about.

0:26.3

There was a YouTuber prank channel, quote unquote, prank channel, where the pranker

0:37.6

got shot and the person that did the shooting was exonerated in court because the video

0:44.9

showed him just harassing, like I think it was a Uber Eats driver and he's just picked

0:50.2

up some food at a mall and this is a pranker who was a very large man.

0:54.0

He's like 6465 and the guy that shot him was just a smaller guy and an average sized guy.

1:00.3

And he's filming him just, I don't even know what he was trying to say, but he's got multiple

1:05.8

people filming him.

1:06.8

He's filming on his phone and the guy just gets saying, get away from me.

1:09.5

Get away from me.

1:10.5

Get away from me and eventually he pulls out a gun and shoots him, which that's a whole

1:13.9

another can of worms, but after the trial, the YouTuber makes a little statement outside

1:20.7

the courtroom and he says, oh, this isn't going to stop me.

1:23.3

We're still going to keep making our content.

1:25.0

We're just going to keep doing what we're doing.

1:27.0

And that was like the ultimate, like you got shot doing this ridiculous thing, recording

1:35.3

strangers in public and their reactions and you learned a no lesson from it.

1:40.9

And the end of the NPR article said, like recording people doing strange things in public

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