Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today we'll be interviewing my brother David O'Yello.

But before we get to David, I wanted to talk about this gas issue and how insane y'all are

going because of the temporary shutdown caused by the colonial pipeline hacking.

In case you missed it last Friday the group Darkside took responsibility for

hacking this massive gasoline pipeline causing the pipeline to temporarily

suspend operations. Colonial operates the largest petroleum pipeline in the United States carrying 2.5 million barrels a day of gasoline, diesel, heating oil and jet fuel on its 5,500 mile route from Texas to New Jersey providing nearly half of the

East Coast gas supply.

And while the interruption is called some mild inconvenience is the pipeline is expected to be fully operational right now.

But what's been our response? It's to panic to hoard gas. Y'all see people put gas in plastic bags, and the result, an actual shortage created

by panic buying and not because of the pipeline suspending its operations.

Now I blame this partly on social media and partly on

stupidity as this panic set in when we read the headlines that there could be a

gas shortage and not the full articles which have told us that the shortage would be over already.

I know we talk about this a lot, but the lack of media literacy at times or our ability to correctly interpret what the news is telling us and responding accordingly seems to be a major

shortcoming with far too many of us. And now gas stations have become what toilet paper once was doing the early stages of COVID.

Y'all remember that. Or Pop Eyes when the chicken sandwiches first hit. That's actually

more excusable than y'all hoarding gasoline. We all felt a little silly after both

of these episodes and we should feel silly now about the gas shortage that we

created by panic-by. So by what you need there's no shortage other than the one that we create and

we'll have enough gas if you consume gas like an adult. And that's that on that. And now on to our show

with my new friend.

I'm absolutely astounded to have him on this show.

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