August 5, 2025 • 29 mins
A bizarre "racism" scandal involving a supposedly "black face" labubu doll is prompting a meltdown on Black TikTok. I break it down in this episode of the Brad vs Everyone podcast. Plus, an ex-CNN journalist uses AI in a creepy way to push political propaganda, and a MAGA troll disrupts a live NBC News broadcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am the owner of the world's first kosylab.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
But when it comes to the la booboo situation, that's
the nature of white people. You can't really trust them.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Ridiculous racism scandal has black TikTok crashing out for no reason.
We're gonna break this down in so much more on
today's episode of The Bad Versus Everyone Podcast, my daily
show where we take on the craziest ideas from across
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the Internet, our media, and our politics, all from an
independent perspective. Up first, guys, we're going to talk about
one of the more bizarre Internet stories and dramas. I
almost wanted to call a niche, but it's really not.
It's megaviral. Right now, there is a racism scandal happening
over a blackface la booboo doll on TikTok. Now, if
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you know what none of those words mean, that's all fair,
and I'm gonna explain it one by one. Though. Here's
this TikTok that I found funny, just kind of summing
up the absurdity of it all.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you told me in twenty twenty that somebody was
getting canceled because they did black face on something called
a laboo boo.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I would just.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Look at you and be like, who gave who gave
you the substance?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now, yes, you need to know first and foremost what
a laboo boo is. Yeah, very serious stuff we're tackling today.
It's apparently some kind of doll or toy made in China.
That's all the rage right now, and people are like
collecting new ones and customizing them and bragging about it
on TikTok. Here is NBC News reporting on the labooboo craze.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Right, I want to introduce you to some friends. These
are my laboo boos, and these are the hottest toys
on the market right now. These dolls are made by
a Chinese company called Popmark. That company is now worth
almost forty billion dollars because of the explosion in popularity
for these things. One reason why they're so popular is
because of these right here. It's a little clip that
you can add to your backpack, onto your purse, even
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in some cases onto your belt loops that you.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Can show it off.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
And the customizable aspect of this, I think is a
big story for why they're so popular. Their entire stores
that we saw they're dedicated to dressing up your labouoo.
This is a shark onesie that I put on. My
bees are enormously popular and people are waiting in lines
for hours outside of vending machines, outside of PopMart stores
to try to score one of these, or even buying
from resellers that are charging hundreds of dollars. There's also
fakes out there on the market. They're calling them Lafoufuzi's
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are so hard to get your hands on. In fact,
they anchors try to steal the from me on the
show this morning, but these are mine.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Stay away, Stay away.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So now we get to our main character for this segment,
which is a woman, a British woman who got famous
on TikTok almost overnight because she had a la boo
boom made out of twenty four carrot gold. She must
be very wealthy. I don't know how she's wealthy, but
take a look at this I have and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Only twenty four carrot gold labooboo. Now this is real,
twenty four carrot gold made in the form of a labooboo.
Now he weighs two hundred grams. It cost US twenty
thousand pounds to have him made. They mounted down basically
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gold bars and they put it into a shape thing
that was the shape of a labooboo. So here he is.
He is the Golden One, he is the chosen one,
and he is twenty four carrot gold.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So now let's watch the video that got this woman,
our main character for the day, in so much trouble
because she tried to design a labooboo and style it
after Ksi, who is a black YouTuber turned rapper that
she is a huge fan of. And I'm guessing you
can see where this may be going. She painted the
labooboo doll's face black with black paint and didn't seem
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to realize that that is not allowed according to kind
of standards about what constitutes blackface and what is considered offensive.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I am the owner of the world's first ks Si
La booboo. So I have been a fan of the
Sidemen for years and years, and I can't tell you
how excited I was to pick up this Ksi La booboo.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I was so excited.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I paid one hundred thousand pounds for the ks
Si La booboo, and I think it's just perfect.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
This is with my collection of most expensive laboo boos
of the world. Obviously because they are top celebrities and
they're probably the biggest.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
YouTubers out there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't know if there's anyone else in from the
Sidemen that I'll get in labooboos, because obviously this is.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
A one off.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I am the only person in the world that has
the Ksi la booboo now the bandana that is actually
on the Ksi laboo.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So this video had overlays on top of the original
video because she has deleted the video due to all
the backlash. And the one thing that no one's known
saying that stuck out to me is did she say
she paid one hundred thousand dollars for this weird looking
laboo boo? Why what on God's green Earth would ever
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inspire somebody to spend that much money on a weird
ass looking doll. Feed when you could feed the homeless,
go on a luxurious travel for a month, you could
do so many things with that money, and you decided
to buy a weird, extremely weird looking doll that got
you canceled by most of Black TikTok and branded erasis.
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By the way, guys, when I heard of black TikTok.
I'm not talking about all black people or even most
black people. I'm just talking about a specific group of
black influencers on TikTok who kind of set the discourse
and definitely tend to lean to the left in their politics.
And they did not take this one well. This was
something that seriously upset them. This face paint put on
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a doll somewhere in the world, and they crashed out
over it. Many of the top influencers in this community.
They smared this woman as a racist. They accused her
of doing blackface, which refers to a historical American tradition
where people white, racist white people painted their faces black
and made fun of black people with kind of minstrel
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shows and different caricatures and that kind of thing. They
accused her of doing that, even though if you look
at her video, I think the intent was clearly positive.
She's like a huge fan of this person. She wasn't
trying to mock or deride anyone. Anyway. We'll get into
more of the explanation behind what she did, but first,
let's watch this interesting compilation of people very upset about
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this doll.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Let's listen it made me appreciate white people because only
they think of stupid shit like this.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But when it comes to the La Booboo situation, which
sounds so funny, saying out loud, my biggest issue here
is that I liked her content. I thought she was funny.
But that's the nature of white people. You can't really
trust them to be funny without saying the N word
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or doing something racist, or doing black face or making
their lat booboo in black face, Like what the fuck
is that?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Every single time, without fail, if black people enjoy Let
me say, if I enjoy something, if I find something funny,
give it a week, give it a fun week, that
person will be racist.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Just so we're all aware, what that twenty four care
at La Booboo woman did is exactly why critical race
theory is important in education.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Okay, you need.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
To be properly educated on racial experiences and everything that
comes with being a black person, because when you do
something like what she did, not only does it affect strangers,
it affects any black people that you know, you've offended basically.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Everyone, and that's inherently racist. Like nobody in the world
is jet black, like jet ask black. There's no person,
no man, no woman, no human being, no form of
anything that's jet black.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
That's racist.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
That's a carcatry piece that you just painted and threw
a bandana. One like he was a gang banger, Like, girl,
what do you think rappers are gang bangers?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You're so weird, you're sick, girl, bla wow.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So there is so much to discuss from the crashouts
that we just witnessed. A couple points that just are
like wrong about these videos. One, she didn't put a
bandana on the Ksi La Boo boo? What am I
even talking about? How did my career come to this?
She didn't put a bandana on the Ksi La Boo
boo because she thought, like, oh, black people wear bandanas
or rappers wear bandanas. No, because KSI very famously wears bandanas.
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So that part is really totally unoffensive and not at all.
She didn't do anything wrong with that. And then the
part where he's like, she painted it jet black. No
human is jet but it is true that, like most
black people's skin is really more brown than black. But
are you telling me that if she'd painted it brown
you would have been fine with it? Something tells me
that's not true, and that seemed like a bit of
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a distraction there. I also just have to kind of
like laugh at this idea that you have harmed all
the black people in your life, You have offended everyone.
Maybe it's a doll like show me on the doll
where the labooboo doll harmed you. It's not that deep.
And to some extent, like if you're personally traumatized by
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the color of paint someone put on their doll halfway
across the world, that might be a you problem, Like
society might actually be too frickin' soft, especially because and
as you'll hear, this woman had no al intent. She
was not. Of course it would be wrong to do
blackface to mock or de ride black people, but that
was so not her intention, and intent does in fact matter. Also,
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I have to laugh at this idea that this is
why we need critical race theory in education. What no.
Critical race theory refers to a specific, rather toxic strain
of left wing critical theory that views everything through the
rends of race. Practically, it does not simply mean educating
people about racism. And I would agree that like educating
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people about the history of racism, in America is important
for Americans. Again, though this woman not American, and we'll
get to more details about that, but that may be
why she didn't know that this would be perceived as offensive,
which is understandable. And I find it kind of strange
the idea that you would expect everyone in the entire
world to be educated in unique facets of American racial history.
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Because colored face paint is not offensive everywhere in the world,
it is considered offensive in America, specifically because of a
unique historical context with minstrel shows and racism, and the
idea that every person across the entire globe should be
educated about that seems a little odd to me. And
then it's wild to me because this woman, I mean,
I would have told her, don't do this, like you
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shouldn't paint things up to look black like. Obviously it
was a mistake, but the idea that she's some evil,
racist bigot. But the people seizing on this situation to
me declarations about how this is why you can't trust
white people. Yeah, that's way more racist than her silly
doll and the well intentioned mistake that she made. You're
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using the example of one person who had no ill
will to draw sweeping conclusions about the untrustworthy nature of
an entire race of people. But yeah, please tell me
how you're the victim and she's the racist. Sure, Jan, Okay, guys,
we're gonna now listen to her apology video where she
explains why this happened and offers her apologies. But first,
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let's listen to our friends apology video where she explains
what happened, what went wrong, and how she really had
no ill intent.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So this is a.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Video for the people that I have upset with the
KSI lavuvu. Now, as a lot of you have seen,
I posted the video and I removed it shortly after.
Now my apology is for the people that I have.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Upset on that.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I am sorry because I didn't know what blackface or
the dolls were up until obviously I posted that video
and then people was telling me about it. Now I
know that an apology probably isn't good enough, because now
I have done research on the dolls and the blackface,
I can obviously see how bad it was. Now. I
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wasn't taught about blackface in school. I moved to I
am English, I moved to Spain at a young age.
I went to school in Spain, and it's something that
wasn't talk here. So that is why I am apologizing,
and I am saying sorry to everyone that I have
upset and that have offended. And in no way did
I intend for that video to be malicious.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So I honestly believe her that she didn't know that
this was going to defend anyone. When you watch the
original video, it's like really clear she loves KSI and
she's a fan, and she wanted to do this as
an act of like fandom. She clearly had good intentions,
She apologized, she took down the video, so who cares?
Why is this a big deal at all? Why are
millions and millions and millions of likes being given on
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videos talking about the an analysis of this situation and
how she's canceled and all this, Like, it's not that deep.
Nobody died. It's face paint on a doll by someone
who had no ill will. At some point, y'all just
have to build a bridge and get over it. Seriously,
And the people who are not accepting her apology or
who are still trying to hold her accountable for the
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harm she did, the problem is, y'all, the problem is
really not her now. She has other problems we could
unpack because anybody, again, spending one hundred thousand dollars on
a I have questions, But she seems sweet, if not
particularly bright, and I really think she had no ill will.
So as far as I'm concerned that people complaining calling
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her evil, racist, whatever, they're the problem. They need to
get a grip. Most normal people, black, white, rainbow, whatever,
are not actually going to be meaningfully upset about a
doll that was made that had no ill intent. And
if you are, if a doll in Spain or England
somewhere being painted a certain color keeps you up at night.
The problem is you? Really, the problem is you now.
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I don't normally agree with woke white ladies who are
crashing out on TikTok, but I have to make an
exception this one time, because this video did resonate with me.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Can everybody that's been talking about labooos please stop? I've
been in the woods for a month. I thought everyone
was talking about a nice pair of shoes. I come home.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I finally, Oh, I should get to know.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What does everybody talk about labooos? I look it up.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
It's a stuffed anemonic keecham. Please tell me I'm missing
something because I'm about to get the biggest thing egg.
It's my grown ass adult friends, people in mind. Everyone
I'm please tell me I'm missing something because this is
freaking me out.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Is it is this?
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Because it's it's like everyone's an adult that I've seen
and with the animal in a keychain?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Am I missing something? Please tell me I'm missing something?
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Is there a million dollars hitten in one because what
the fuck's going on? Or like I imagine where this
is a real thing.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Everyone. You guys are really scaring the shit out of me.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Honestly, that is the first justified TikTok crash out I've
seen in a long time. The la boo boo thing
is weird to me. I mean, if people have fun
with it, sure, but do not be blowing fortunes on
these weird looking ass dolls, and do not be canceling
people or starting whole discourses online about racism over accidental
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mistakes people make with these weird looking dolls. Hopefully this
is just a fad and it will be over because
I really never want to say the word la boo
boo unironically on this podcast ever again. But if anybody
would like to send me a twenty four carried gold
laboo boo, I think I can make an exception. What
do you guys think. Did you appreciate this story and
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how truly deranged the world of the internet can be sometimes?
Let me know in the comments, Make sure you subscribed
and hit that like button while you're at it. Up Next,
we're going to talk about a genuinely kind of sick
and disturbing thing that just happened in media, featuring ex
CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who is now doing his own thing,
his own independent broadcast on substack and YouTube and flailing
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and seems very desperate for attention. Because that's really the
only conclusion I could draw from his latest stunt. He
just featured on his podcast a interview with a AI
avatar of a dead person, a teenager who was killed
in a school shooting tragically, whose parents have now created
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an AI of them reanimated from the dead, that he
interviewed on his podcast. Jim Acosta did to push gun
control agendas. So listen to this clip and try not
to get ghostbumps and creeped out, but you will.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
But first, today is August the fourth, that happens to
be the birthday of my first guest, Joaquin Oliver. Died
in the Parkland school shooting in Florida back in twenty eighteen,
but his parents, Manuel and Patricia have created an AI
version of their son to deliver a powerful message on
gun violence. Manny asked me if I'd like to be
the first reporter to have the chance to interview Joaquin,
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whose nickname was Guak. I've talked about him on the
show before knowing Manny for several years now I consider
him to be a good friend, so of course I
took him up on the opportunity. So here's that interview
using artificial intelligence, as well as a conversation I had
with Manny about this experience to connect with Guak take
a look.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
All right, if you want to share anything or have questions,
I'm all ears. Just let me know.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Joaquin. It's Jim Acosta.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
I was wondering if you could tell me what happened
to you.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
I appreciate your curiosity. I was taken from this world
too soon due to gun violence while at school. It's
important to talk about these issues so we can create
a safer future for everyone. What would you like to
know more about, Joaquin?
Speaker 11 (18:17):
I would like to know what your solution would be
for gun violence.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun
control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need
to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure
everyone feels seen and heard. It's about building a culture
of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that?
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I think that's a great idea, Joaquen.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
We definitely need more of that.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
I'm so glad you think so more kindness and understanding
can truly make a difference. Together, we can create a
world where everyone feels safe and supported. Anything else on
your mind.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Bring on the floods. Honestly, like modern society is so cooked?
What these did I just watch? That is the creepiest
thing I have seen in a long time. Could we
not reanimate dead people with AI? That is so weird?
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And look, my heart goes out to the parents. They
are grieving still, I'm sure, and I can't imagine that loss.
So I'm not judging them for wanting to do this.
I'm judging Jim Acosta for the reporter for saying, yeah,
this is great, let me uplift and promote this. I
really want to put this on my show. What it
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gives desperate for relevancy? It really does, because his independent
show is not doing well, and it gives that he's
just desperate for attention. And then also any way of
doing this is creepy to me, like reanimating dead people
via AI and then interviewing them or talking to them,
but like to do so to push a partisan political
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agenda is even more gross. Really, like, I'm sorry, I
don't need the AI of that's been fed the diary
of a deceased teenager is not going to tell us
anything new or insightful about gun control policies and their
efficacy or lack thereof. This is just like emotional manipulate.
It's just an attempt to guilt trip. It doesn't actually
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add anything to the substance of debate, and so it
seems grotesque to use this AI like this at all,
but especially in a political or partisan manner. And honestly,
I watched the whole thing. I'm not going to make you.
Don't worry, but I do want to show you another
clip here. It's weird.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
This is weird, and join me now to talk about
this is Benuel Oliver Manny. Great to see you as always.
I have to say I'm kind of speechless as to
the technology there. I mean, it was so insightful and
I really felt like I was speaking with Joaquin. It's
just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I understand that these He's AI.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
I don't want anyone to think that I am in
way trying to bring my son bag.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It's sadly I can't. I wish they could.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
However, the technology is out there and and we can.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
There's two things I can hear his voice again, which
is something that Patricia loves. Patricia will spend hours asking questions.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
See like any other mothers, she loves to hear what
Quin's saying. I love you, mommy, you.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Know, oh my gosh, and that's and that's important.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
And on the other hand, we can just raise her voices.
And now Joaquin is going to start having followers. Is
not money, is not Patricia. He's going to start uploading videos.
This is just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So again, guys, my heart breaks for the parents here.
I highly doubt that it is psychologically healthy for them
to do this, or that this is you know, like
listening to his voice. It's not him now. Again, people
grieve differently. I'm not judging them for that, but I
would encourage them to maybe unpack that with a grief
counselor whether that is really productive. On Jim Acosta, though,
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here's where I wit Canon will be critical. That was
not beautiful. That was freaking creepy and gross, especially the
way you politicized it. Your fake interview with this weird
Uncanny Valley AI imitating a dead teenager. It did not
remotely actually feel like you were speaking with him. You
just lied like that is so not true. The AI thing.
(22:26):
I mean, I guess it's kind of impressive as a technology,
but it is still like very not lifelike at all.
And the answers and the responses and the voice are
very robotic, so you're just lying. And again I didn't
have a lot of respect for Jim Acosta coming into this,
but wow, what remained of it is not in the
room with us anymore. It has left the station. Frankly,
it has departed the universe. One final clip of this
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and then I won't make you sit through anymore.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
And what's amazing about this, Manny, is that you know,
we've heard from the parents, we've heard from the politicians.
Now we're hearing from one of the kids.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
That's important. Yeah, it hasn't happened. It's it's really important.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
Like there's a there's there's always been some literature on
Whataquin's side. Everything that Patricia and I have done, it
ends up being an extension of Joaquin.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
But this is a way better way to explain it.
Speaker 12 (23:19):
And and moving forward, we will have Woaquen on the
stage in the middle of a debate.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
He's a symbol of something that is deeply deeply wrong
with this country and that we should not allow our
kids uh to be subjected to this, uh, this kind
of just terrible violence. And you know, I said, I
said it at the end of the interview, that that
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you are inspiring to me, manny, and so is he
he really he's he's a he's a symbol that should
inspire us. I think, uh, we that we shouldn't stop
believing that we could fix this problem because people give up,
you know, and I think some like this is maybe
going to give some people some hope.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So maybe it's just me. But that did not give
me hope. It gave me the creeps. And I'm sorry.
But when Jim says we've heard from the parents, we've
heard from the activists, Now we're hearing from the kids themselves. No,
you're not. You absolutely are not. You're hearing from a creepy,
robotic imitation of one of the deceased teenagers. To say
you're hearing from the kids is not true, and it's
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very bizarre. And the idea of putting this thing again,
it's not a person, it's not that the teenager like
it's a robot on stage in the middle of a debate,
or as part of a political presentation, serves no actual
purpose other than emotional guilt tripping people Like seriously, it
doesn't further any substance of irrational debate whatsoever. And again
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also have to take issue with Jim Acosta on this
idea that while we allow mass shootings and school shootings
to happen because we just won't pass certain laws. I mean,
we can debate the efficacy of each individual gun control policy,
and I there's a few I'd be okay with, but
a large part I think most of them wouldn't work
and would be counterproductive. But regardless, there's no policies that
would actually stop this or prevent this. That is totally
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totally naive and not remotely credible. Now, maybe some could
reduce somewhat, but as long as there are guns in
America and there are very sick, very depraved, very mentally
ill people, terrible things will happen. And even if there
weren't guns, things, terrible things can happen. You look at
what's been done with trucks and cars and other ways
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to enact these horrific acts. So it's just totally disingenuous
and dishonest to say, well, we just choose to allow
this to happen by not passing my preferred policies. Total bs,
but frankly, that makes it pretty typical for jem Acosta. Still,
this is a new lot. What do you guys think?
Let me know in the comments and hit that like
button while you're at it. Okay, guys, one final thing
I want to cover today. A mega right wing Blaze
(25:54):
host named Alex Stein just trolled an NBC news which
I think he thought was MSNBC, but anyway, he was
at the Texas State Capitol and they were broadcasting and
he decided to interject into their coverage. Let's watch.
Speaker 13 (26:12):
We just watched the speaker gabble out with a whole
lot of anger. Kelly, here's the state of play, here's.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
NBC skeep.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
Okay, sometimes this happens, and we understand that that can happen.
And while we love free speech, we're going to keep
control here. So Ryan, thank you, Shack, thank you. A
volatile story. We'll be following it. And apparently not only
Shaq cleaned up. Okay, stay with us here, because Ryan
(26:45):
has cleared the set. As we would like to say,
the gentleman moved on. So Ryan let me turn back
to you. Nicely handled there. Can you give us an
update on as you were walking us through this. We'll
all take a breath there. Maybe not Okay, go ahead, Ryan,
see hold on, hold on one second. Yeah, okay, we're
(27:09):
just gonna pull the plug there, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
Time is high.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Yeah, there's a whole lot of anger here as you
can see. So we're we're gonna get control of this
and come back to you.
Speaker 14 (27:19):
Only said fair enough, fair enough, and we recognize people
are expressing their views and we're there to cover it.
You do that job. We'll move on with our audience.
Thanks for your patients with.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Okay, On one level, this was hilarious, like the fact
that they broke away and then thought it was all
clear and came back, and he came back and was
still trolling them. I mean, look, I don't support this behavior.
I don't think it's serious or credible. I think it's
very trollish and immature. But it was comical to me.
(27:49):
I also it was more interesting to me in the
sense of how how the newscaster really struggled to adapt
to go with the flow, Because you don't understand, like
unless you've been in these scenarios are you and on TV?
How scripted the news is and how little actual improvisation
there is by these hosts, how most of the time
they're just reading lines written for them by other people,
(28:11):
and they're essentially just faces and figureheads. And that kind
of showed because this woman just could not adapt on
the fly whatsoever without tripping over herself. And I really
thought that was remarkable and that the whole thing was funny.
I mean, in another sense, it was crude and kind
of gross behavior, like I will and I don't really
(28:32):
take Alex Stein seriously at all, but it was a
little bit of media chaos and drama and I always
find that somewhat entertaining. What do you guys think? Let
me know in the comments and hit that like button
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Speaker 5 (29:07):
So M.
I am the owner of the world's first kosylab.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
But when it comes to the la booboo situation, that's
the nature of white people. You can't really trust them.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Ridiculous racism scandal has black TikTok crashing out for no reason.
We're gonna break this down in so much more on
today's episode of The Bad Versus Everyone Podcast, my daily
show where we take on the craziest ideas from across
(00:32):
the Internet, our media, and our politics, all from an
independent perspective. Up first, guys, we're going to talk about
one of the more bizarre Internet stories and dramas. I
almost wanted to call a niche, but it's really not.
It's megaviral. Right now, there is a racism scandal happening
over a blackface la booboo doll on TikTok. Now, if
(00:54):
you know what none of those words mean, that's all fair,
and I'm gonna explain it one by one. Though. Here's
this TikTok that I found funny, just kind of summing
up the absurdity of it all.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you told me in twenty twenty that somebody was
getting canceled because they did black face on something called
a laboo boo.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I would just.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Look at you and be like, who gave who gave
you the substance?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now, yes, you need to know first and foremost what
a laboo boo is. Yeah, very serious stuff we're tackling today.
It's apparently some kind of doll or toy made in China.
That's all the rage right now, and people are like
collecting new ones and customizing them and bragging about it
on TikTok. Here is NBC News reporting on the labooboo craze.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Right, I want to introduce you to some friends. These
are my laboo boos, and these are the hottest toys
on the market right now. These dolls are made by
a Chinese company called Popmark. That company is now worth
almost forty billion dollars because of the explosion in popularity
for these things. One reason why they're so popular is
because of these right here. It's a little clip that
you can add to your backpack, onto your purse, even
(02:05):
in some cases onto your belt loops that you.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Can show it off.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
And the customizable aspect of this, I think is a
big story for why they're so popular. Their entire stores
that we saw they're dedicated to dressing up your labouoo.
This is a shark onesie that I put on. My
bees are enormously popular and people are waiting in lines
for hours outside of vending machines, outside of PopMart stores
to try to score one of these, or even buying
from resellers that are charging hundreds of dollars. There's also
fakes out there on the market. They're calling them Lafoufuzi's
(02:31):
are so hard to get your hands on. In fact,
they anchors try to steal the from me on the
show this morning, but these are mine.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Stay away, Stay away.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So now we get to our main character for this segment,
which is a woman, a British woman who got famous
on TikTok almost overnight because she had a la boo
boom made out of twenty four carrot gold. She must
be very wealthy. I don't know how she's wealthy, but
take a look at this I have and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Only twenty four carrot gold labooboo. Now this is real,
twenty four carrot gold made in the form of a labooboo.
Now he weighs two hundred grams. It cost US twenty
thousand pounds to have him made. They mounted down basically
(03:22):
gold bars and they put it into a shape thing
that was the shape of a labooboo. So here he is.
He is the Golden One, he is the chosen one,
and he is twenty four carrot gold.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So now let's watch the video that got this woman,
our main character for the day, in so much trouble
because she tried to design a labooboo and style it
after Ksi, who is a black YouTuber turned rapper that
she is a huge fan of. And I'm guessing you
can see where this may be going. She painted the
labooboo doll's face black with black paint and didn't seem
(04:00):
to realize that that is not allowed according to kind
of standards about what constitutes blackface and what is considered offensive.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I am the owner of the world's first ks Si
La booboo. So I have been a fan of the
Sidemen for years and years, and I can't tell you
how excited I was to pick up this Ksi La booboo.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I was so excited.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I paid one hundred thousand pounds for the ks
Si La booboo, and I think it's just perfect.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
This is with my collection of most expensive laboo boos
of the world. Obviously because they are top celebrities and
they're probably the biggest.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
YouTubers out there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't know if there's anyone else in from the
Sidemen that I'll get in labooboos, because obviously this is.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
A one off.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I am the only person in the world that has
the Ksi la booboo now the bandana that is actually
on the Ksi laboo.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So this video had overlays on top of the original
video because she has deleted the video due to all
the backlash. And the one thing that no one's known
saying that stuck out to me is did she say
she paid one hundred thousand dollars for this weird looking
laboo boo? Why what on God's green Earth would ever
(05:11):
inspire somebody to spend that much money on a weird
ass looking doll. Feed when you could feed the homeless,
go on a luxurious travel for a month, you could
do so many things with that money, and you decided
to buy a weird, extremely weird looking doll that got
you canceled by most of Black TikTok and branded erasis.
(05:31):
By the way, guys, when I heard of black TikTok.
I'm not talking about all black people or even most
black people. I'm just talking about a specific group of
black influencers on TikTok who kind of set the discourse
and definitely tend to lean to the left in their politics.
And they did not take this one well. This was
something that seriously upset them. This face paint put on
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a doll somewhere in the world, and they crashed out
over it. Many of the top influencers in this community.
They smared this woman as a racist. They accused her
of doing blackface, which refers to a historical American tradition
where people white, racist white people painted their faces black
and made fun of black people with kind of minstrel
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shows and different caricatures and that kind of thing. They
accused her of doing that, even though if you look
at her video, I think the intent was clearly positive.
She's like a huge fan of this person. She wasn't
trying to mock or deride anyone. Anyway. We'll get into
more of the explanation behind what she did, but first,
let's watch this interesting compilation of people very upset about
(06:37):
this doll.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Let's listen it made me appreciate white people because only
they think of stupid shit like this.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But when it comes to the La Booboo situation, which
sounds so funny, saying out loud, my biggest issue here
is that I liked her content. I thought she was funny.
But that's the nature of white people. You can't really
trust them to be funny without saying the N word
(07:04):
or doing something racist, or doing black face or making
their lat booboo in black face, Like what the fuck
is that?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Every single time, without fail, if black people enjoy Let
me say, if I enjoy something, if I find something funny,
give it a week, give it a fun week, that
person will be racist.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Just so we're all aware, what that twenty four care
at La Booboo woman did is exactly why critical race
theory is important in education.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Okay, you need.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
To be properly educated on racial experiences and everything that
comes with being a black person, because when you do
something like what she did, not only does it affect strangers,
it affects any black people that you know, you've offended basically.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Everyone, and that's inherently racist. Like nobody in the world
is jet black, like jet ask black. There's no person,
no man, no woman, no human being, no form of
anything that's jet black.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
That's racist.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
That's a carcatry piece that you just painted and threw
a bandana. One like he was a gang banger, Like, girl,
what do you think rappers are gang bangers?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You're so weird, you're sick, girl, bla wow.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So there is so much to discuss from the crashouts
that we just witnessed. A couple points that just are
like wrong about these videos. One, she didn't put a
bandana on the Ksi La Boo boo? What am I
even talking about? How did my career come to this?
She didn't put a bandana on the Ksi La Boo
boo because she thought, like, oh, black people wear bandanas
or rappers wear bandanas. No, because KSI very famously wears bandanas.
(08:37):
So that part is really totally unoffensive and not at all.
She didn't do anything wrong with that. And then the
part where he's like, she painted it jet black. No
human is jet but it is true that, like most
black people's skin is really more brown than black. But
are you telling me that if she'd painted it brown
you would have been fine with it? Something tells me
that's not true, and that seemed like a bit of
(08:58):
a distraction there. I also just have to kind of
like laugh at this idea that you have harmed all
the black people in your life, You have offended everyone.
Maybe it's a doll like show me on the doll
where the labooboo doll harmed you. It's not that deep.
And to some extent, like if you're personally traumatized by
(09:19):
the color of paint someone put on their doll halfway
across the world, that might be a you problem, Like
society might actually be too frickin' soft, especially because and
as you'll hear, this woman had no al intent. She
was not. Of course it would be wrong to do
blackface to mock or de ride black people, but that
was so not her intention, and intent does in fact matter. Also,
(09:42):
I have to laugh at this idea that this is
why we need critical race theory in education. What no.
Critical race theory refers to a specific, rather toxic strain
of left wing critical theory that views everything through the
rends of race. Practically, it does not simply mean educating
people about racism. And I would agree that like educating
(10:03):
people about the history of racism, in America is important
for Americans. Again, though this woman not American, and we'll
get to more details about that, but that may be
why she didn't know that this would be perceived as offensive,
which is understandable. And I find it kind of strange
the idea that you would expect everyone in the entire
world to be educated in unique facets of American racial history.
(10:27):
Because colored face paint is not offensive everywhere in the world,
it is considered offensive in America, specifically because of a
unique historical context with minstrel shows and racism, and the
idea that every person across the entire globe should be
educated about that seems a little odd to me. And
then it's wild to me because this woman, I mean,
I would have told her, don't do this, like you
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shouldn't paint things up to look black like. Obviously it
was a mistake, but the idea that she's some evil,
racist bigot. But the people seizing on this situation to
me declarations about how this is why you can't trust
white people. Yeah, that's way more racist than her silly
doll and the well intentioned mistake that she made. You're
(11:13):
using the example of one person who had no ill
will to draw sweeping conclusions about the untrustworthy nature of
an entire race of people. But yeah, please tell me
how you're the victim and she's the racist. Sure, Jan, Okay, guys,
we're gonna now listen to her apology video where she
explains why this happened and offers her apologies. But first,
(11:34):
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(11:55):
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let's listen to our friends apology video where she explains
what happened, what went wrong, and how she really had
no ill intent.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So this is a.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Video for the people that I have upset with the
KSI lavuvu. Now, as a lot of you have seen,
I posted the video and I removed it shortly after.
Now my apology is for the people that I have.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Upset on that.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I am sorry because I didn't know what blackface or
the dolls were up until obviously I posted that video
and then people was telling me about it. Now I
know that an apology probably isn't good enough, because now
I have done research on the dolls and the blackface,
I can obviously see how bad it was. Now. I
(12:44):
wasn't taught about blackface in school. I moved to I
am English, I moved to Spain at a young age.
I went to school in Spain, and it's something that
wasn't talk here. So that is why I am apologizing,
and I am saying sorry to everyone that I have
upset and that have offended. And in no way did
I intend for that video to be malicious.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So I honestly believe her that she didn't know that
this was going to defend anyone. When you watch the
original video, it's like really clear she loves KSI and
she's a fan, and she wanted to do this as
an act of like fandom. She clearly had good intentions,
She apologized, she took down the video, so who cares?
Why is this a big deal at all? Why are
millions and millions and millions of likes being given on
(13:28):
videos talking about the an analysis of this situation and
how she's canceled and all this, Like, it's not that deep.
Nobody died. It's face paint on a doll by someone
who had no ill will. At some point, y'all just
have to build a bridge and get over it. Seriously,
And the people who are not accepting her apology or
who are still trying to hold her accountable for the
(13:50):
harm she did, the problem is, y'all, the problem is
really not her now. She has other problems we could
unpack because anybody, again, spending one hundred thousand dollars on
a I have questions, But she seems sweet, if not
particularly bright, and I really think she had no ill will.
So as far as I'm concerned that people complaining calling
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her evil, racist, whatever, they're the problem. They need to
get a grip. Most normal people, black, white, rainbow, whatever,
are not actually going to be meaningfully upset about a
doll that was made that had no ill intent. And
if you are, if a doll in Spain or England
somewhere being painted a certain color keeps you up at night.
The problem is you? Really, the problem is you now.
(14:33):
I don't normally agree with woke white ladies who are
crashing out on TikTok, but I have to make an
exception this one time, because this video did resonate with me.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Can everybody that's been talking about labooos please stop? I've
been in the woods for a month. I thought everyone
was talking about a nice pair of shoes. I come home.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I finally, Oh, I should get to know.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What does everybody talk about labooos? I look it up.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
It's a stuffed anemonic keecham. Please tell me I'm missing
something because I'm about to get the biggest thing egg.
It's my grown ass adult friends, people in mind. Everyone
I'm please tell me I'm missing something because this is
freaking me out.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Is it is this?
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Because it's it's like everyone's an adult that I've seen
and with the animal in a keychain?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Am I missing something? Please tell me I'm missing something?
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Is there a million dollars hitten in one because what
the fuck's going on? Or like I imagine where this
is a real thing.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Everyone. You guys are really scaring the shit out of me.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Honestly, that is the first justified TikTok crash out I've
seen in a long time. The la boo boo thing
is weird to me. I mean, if people have fun
with it, sure, but do not be blowing fortunes on
these weird looking ass dolls, and do not be canceling
people or starting whole discourses online about racism over accidental
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mistakes people make with these weird looking dolls. Hopefully this
is just a fad and it will be over because
I really never want to say the word la boo
boo unironically on this podcast ever again. But if anybody
would like to send me a twenty four carried gold
laboo boo, I think I can make an exception. What
do you guys think. Did you appreciate this story and
(16:13):
how truly deranged the world of the internet can be sometimes?
Let me know in the comments, Make sure you subscribed
and hit that like button while you're at it. Up Next,
we're going to talk about a genuinely kind of sick
and disturbing thing that just happened in media, featuring ex
CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who is now doing his own thing,
his own independent broadcast on substack and YouTube and flailing
(16:36):
and seems very desperate for attention. Because that's really the
only conclusion I could draw from his latest stunt. He
just featured on his podcast a interview with a AI
avatar of a dead person, a teenager who was killed
in a school shooting tragically, whose parents have now created
(16:58):
an AI of them reanimated from the dead, that he
interviewed on his podcast. Jim Acosta did to push gun
control agendas. So listen to this clip and try not
to get ghostbumps and creeped out, but you will.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
But first, today is August the fourth, that happens to
be the birthday of my first guest, Joaquin Oliver. Died
in the Parkland school shooting in Florida back in twenty eighteen,
but his parents, Manuel and Patricia have created an AI
version of their son to deliver a powerful message on
gun violence. Manny asked me if I'd like to be
the first reporter to have the chance to interview Joaquin,
(17:39):
whose nickname was Guak. I've talked about him on the
show before knowing Manny for several years now I consider
him to be a good friend, so of course I
took him up on the opportunity. So here's that interview
using artificial intelligence, as well as a conversation I had
with Manny about this experience to connect with Guak take
a look.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
All right, if you want to share anything or have questions,
I'm all ears. Just let me know.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Joaquin. It's Jim Acosta.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
I was wondering if you could tell me what happened
to you.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
I appreciate your curiosity. I was taken from this world
too soon due to gun violence while at school. It's
important to talk about these issues so we can create
a safer future for everyone. What would you like to
know more about, Joaquin?
Speaker 11 (18:17):
I would like to know what your solution would be
for gun violence.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun
control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need
to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure
everyone feels seen and heard. It's about building a culture
of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that?
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I think that's a great idea, Joaquen.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
We definitely need more of that.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
I'm so glad you think so more kindness and understanding
can truly make a difference. Together, we can create a
world where everyone feels safe and supported. Anything else on
your mind.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Bring on the floods. Honestly, like modern society is so cooked?
What these did I just watch? That is the creepiest
thing I have seen in a long time. Could we
not reanimate dead people with AI? That is so weird?
(19:13):
And look, my heart goes out to the parents. They
are grieving still, I'm sure, and I can't imagine that loss.
So I'm not judging them for wanting to do this.
I'm judging Jim Acosta for the reporter for saying, yeah,
this is great, let me uplift and promote this. I
really want to put this on my show. What it
(19:36):
gives desperate for relevancy? It really does, because his independent
show is not doing well, and it gives that he's
just desperate for attention. And then also any way of
doing this is creepy to me, like reanimating dead people
via AI and then interviewing them or talking to them,
but like to do so to push a partisan political
(19:57):
agenda is even more gross. Really, like, I'm sorry, I
don't need the AI of that's been fed the diary
of a deceased teenager is not going to tell us
anything new or insightful about gun control policies and their
efficacy or lack thereof. This is just like emotional manipulate.
It's just an attempt to guilt trip. It doesn't actually
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add anything to the substance of debate, and so it
seems grotesque to use this AI like this at all,
but especially in a political or partisan manner. And honestly,
I watched the whole thing. I'm not going to make you.
Don't worry, but I do want to show you another
clip here. It's weird.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
This is weird, and join me now to talk about
this is Benuel Oliver Manny. Great to see you as always.
I have to say I'm kind of speechless as to
the technology there. I mean, it was so insightful and
I really felt like I was speaking with Joaquin. It's
just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I understand that these He's AI.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
I don't want anyone to think that I am in
way trying to bring my son bag.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It's sadly I can't. I wish they could.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
However, the technology is out there and and we can.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
There's two things I can hear his voice again, which
is something that Patricia loves. Patricia will spend hours asking questions.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
See like any other mothers, she loves to hear what
Quin's saying. I love you, mommy, you.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Know, oh my gosh, and that's and that's important.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
And on the other hand, we can just raise her voices.
And now Joaquin is going to start having followers. Is
not money, is not Patricia. He's going to start uploading videos.
This is just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So again, guys, my heart breaks for the parents here.
I highly doubt that it is psychologically healthy for them
to do this, or that this is you know, like
listening to his voice. It's not him now. Again, people
grieve differently. I'm not judging them for that, but I
would encourage them to maybe unpack that with a grief
counselor whether that is really productive. On Jim Acosta, though,
(22:05):
here's where I wit Canon will be critical. That was
not beautiful. That was freaking creepy and gross, especially the
way you politicized it. Your fake interview with this weird
Uncanny Valley AI imitating a dead teenager. It did not
remotely actually feel like you were speaking with him. You
just lied like that is so not true. The AI thing.
(22:26):
I mean, I guess it's kind of impressive as a technology,
but it is still like very not lifelike at all.
And the answers and the responses and the voice are
very robotic, so you're just lying. And again I didn't
have a lot of respect for Jim Acosta coming into this,
but wow, what remained of it is not in the
room with us anymore. It has left the station. Frankly,
it has departed the universe. One final clip of this
(22:49):
and then I won't make you sit through anymore.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
And what's amazing about this, Manny, is that you know,
we've heard from the parents, we've heard from the politicians.
Now we're hearing from one of the kids.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
That's important. Yeah, it hasn't happened. It's it's really important.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
Like there's a there's there's always been some literature on
Whataquin's side. Everything that Patricia and I have done, it
ends up being an extension of Joaquin.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
But this is a way better way to explain it.
Speaker 12 (23:19):
And and moving forward, we will have Woaquen on the
stage in the middle of a debate.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
He's a symbol of something that is deeply deeply wrong
with this country and that we should not allow our
kids uh to be subjected to this, uh, this kind
of just terrible violence. And you know, I said, I
said it at the end of the interview, that that
(23:46):
you are inspiring to me, manny, and so is he
he really he's he's a he's a symbol that should
inspire us. I think, uh, we that we shouldn't stop
believing that we could fix this problem because people give up,
you know, and I think some like this is maybe
going to give some people some hope.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So maybe it's just me. But that did not give
me hope. It gave me the creeps. And I'm sorry.
But when Jim says we've heard from the parents, we've
heard from the activists, Now we're hearing from the kids themselves. No,
you're not. You absolutely are not. You're hearing from a creepy,
robotic imitation of one of the deceased teenagers. To say
you're hearing from the kids is not true, and it's
(24:24):
very bizarre. And the idea of putting this thing again,
it's not a person, it's not that the teenager like
it's a robot on stage in the middle of a debate,
or as part of a political presentation, serves no actual
purpose other than emotional guilt tripping people Like seriously, it
doesn't further any substance of irrational debate whatsoever. And again
(24:47):
also have to take issue with Jim Acosta on this
idea that while we allow mass shootings and school shootings
to happen because we just won't pass certain laws. I mean,
we can debate the efficacy of each individual gun control policy,
and I there's a few I'd be okay with, but
a large part I think most of them wouldn't work
and would be counterproductive. But regardless, there's no policies that
would actually stop this or prevent this. That is totally
(25:11):
totally naive and not remotely credible. Now, maybe some could
reduce somewhat, but as long as there are guns in
America and there are very sick, very depraved, very mentally
ill people, terrible things will happen. And even if there
weren't guns, things, terrible things can happen. You look at
what's been done with trucks and cars and other ways
(25:31):
to enact these horrific acts. So it's just totally disingenuous
and dishonest to say, well, we just choose to allow
this to happen by not passing my preferred policies. Total bs,
but frankly, that makes it pretty typical for jem Acosta. Still,
this is a new lot. What do you guys think?
Let me know in the comments and hit that like
button while you're at it. Okay, guys, one final thing
I want to cover today. A mega right wing Blaze
(25:54):
host named Alex Stein just trolled an NBC news which
I think he thought was MSNBC, but anyway, he was
at the Texas State Capitol and they were broadcasting and
he decided to interject into their coverage. Let's watch.
Speaker 13 (26:12):
We just watched the speaker gabble out with a whole
lot of anger. Kelly, here's the state of play, here's.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
NBC skeep.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
Okay, sometimes this happens, and we understand that that can happen.
And while we love free speech, we're going to keep
control here. So Ryan, thank you, Shack, thank you. A
volatile story. We'll be following it. And apparently not only
Shaq cleaned up. Okay, stay with us here, because Ryan
(26:45):
has cleared the set. As we would like to say,
the gentleman moved on. So Ryan let me turn back
to you. Nicely handled there. Can you give us an
update on as you were walking us through this. We'll
all take a breath there. Maybe not Okay, go ahead, Ryan,
see hold on, hold on one second. Yeah, okay, we're
(27:09):
just gonna pull the plug there, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
Time is high.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Yeah, there's a whole lot of anger here as you
can see. So we're we're gonna get control of this
and come back to you.
Speaker 14 (27:19):
Only said fair enough, fair enough, and we recognize people
are expressing their views and we're there to cover it.
You do that job. We'll move on with our audience.
Thanks for your patients with.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Okay, On one level, this was hilarious, like the fact
that they broke away and then thought it was all
clear and came back, and he came back and was
still trolling them. I mean, look, I don't support this behavior.
I don't think it's serious or credible. I think it's
very trollish and immature. But it was comical to me.
(27:49):
I also it was more interesting to me in the
sense of how how the newscaster really struggled to adapt
to go with the flow, Because you don't understand, like
unless you've been in these scenarios are you and on TV?
How scripted the news is and how little actual improvisation
there is by these hosts, how most of the time
they're just reading lines written for them by other people,
(28:11):
and they're essentially just faces and figureheads. And that kind
of showed because this woman just could not adapt on
the fly whatsoever without tripping over herself. And I really
thought that was remarkable and that the whole thing was funny.
I mean, in another sense, it was crude and kind
of gross behavior, like I will and I don't really
(28:32):
take Alex Stein seriously at all, but it was a
little bit of media chaos and drama and I always
find that somewhat entertaining. What do you guys think? Let
me know in the comments and hit that like button
while you're at it. All right, guys, that'll be it
for today's episode of The Bread Versus Everyone Podcast. Thank
you so much for tuning in. Please do make sure
you subscribed if you are yet, hit that like button,
(28:54):
YadA YadA yah. Remember you can also tune into the
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talk again.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
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