July 29, 2025 • 32 mins
South Park has entered the political debate with a savage new episode on the end of woke, the media, and Donald Trump. Was it funny, or did parts miss the mark? I break it down in this episode of the Brad vs Everyone podcast. Plus, a new "feminist" gossip app called "Tea" is sparking controversy, and a liberal journalist accidentally exposes Democratic star Jasmine Crockett.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everyone hates the Jews. Everyone's fine with you, Jasler's oh
with a not good. No, it's terrible because now I
don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
South Park is so back and nobody is safe from
their score. We're going to react to the latest episode
of south Park that weighed in on the absolute state
of American politics, media, and so much more in today's
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episode of the borad Versus Everyone podcast, our daily show
where we take on the craziest ideas from across the internet,
our media, and our politics, all from an independent perspective. First, guys,
we'll talk about much more in today's show as well,
but we're going to touch on south Park, which I
was definitely a south Park kid. I grew up as
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a you know, edgy thirteen twelve year old loving cartman,
and I've always thought south Park was the funniest of
those kinds of shows of the family guy, American Dad,
all that universe. I've always had a soft spot for
south Park, and they just did an episode that is
getting tons of attention because it took on the current
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media moment, our post woke America and Donald Trump. So
we're going to run through it. I'm going to try
to play some clips, see if they'll let me get
away with that, though they can be very copyright aggressive,
shall we say, the South Park Studios guys. And the
first moment I want to talk about, is this really
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what I thought was the funniest or maybe second funniest
part of this episode. I watched the whole thing. A
lot of people are just sharing a couple clips and
discussing it. I watched all twenty two minutes of this
on the treadmill yesterday as part of my dedication to
you for my heavy duty research that I bring you
on this podcast, combined with my dedicated efforts to defeat
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fat positivity one treadmill session at a time. So here's
this first clip of Cartman talking about the demise of NPR.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Alexa put on ninety point one got it now playing
radio station ninety point one FM.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Mom, something's wrong with my favorite show. It's just like static,
your favorite show. Yeah, NPR, National Public Radio. We're all
the liberals bitch and whine about stuff. Something's wrong with it? Oh, sweetie,
the president canceled in PR. What do you mean? The
president canceled NPR? That was like the funniest shit ever.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Han, Oh my god, you guys. You guys are not
gonna believe this. The President of the United States canceled NPR.
What's NPR the funniest show ever? Where all the lesbians
and Jews complained about stuff? The president had it taken
off the air. I mean, who is the president think
he is?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Beat them?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I can't cancel the show. I mean, what show are
they going to cancel next? It was seriously the best show.
It had like gay rappers from Mexico all sad because
girls in Pakistan got stoned to death and guess why
they got stoned to dead because they were It was hilarious.
Why would you even cancel that? I don't know about you,
but I'm worried about what this country's coming to. It
seems like everybody's changing. It suddenly wokes up is off limits.
I mean it's like now everyone rips on the juice
and it's totally fine. Huck ha, see what's one with
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cal everybody's given up.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So this was so funny to me. Uh the only
part I didn't love about it though, maybe they just
did it for like dramatic effect for the story is
that NPR in reality wasn't taken off the air. It
just lost government funding, which was a small percentage of
its funding supposedly, so and PR free to exist, people
just have to fund it themselves, which has always made
sense to me. But the way that like the the
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most obviously Cartman is in south Park, the most ignorant
big and the fact that he loved NPR because it
was so woke and because it had all the lesbians
and Jews complaining about stuff is just funny because it's
like close to reality. You really can't turn on and
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br and listen to a whole hour without some sort
of bizarre identity politics angle being force fed to you.
And the idea that people might like that but only
ironically because they actually hate different identities is genuinely funny
and to me was one of the funnier moments of
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the episode that's getting so much attention online, and it
was a kind of a theme of the episode, this
idea that like woke is dead or woke is dying
in society, and I think that's true to a certain extent.
It's true as far as like mainstream is concerned. Obviously,
you know social media and in certain progressive media bubbles
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and in academia, woke will never die. It is their
relig but in terms of like the mainstream, it's definitely
on the wayne. And the funniest part of this episode,
and then we'll get to some of the Trump stuff,
which I have more mixed feelings about, was when Cartman
realizes that, like, Woke is dead, and you expect him
to be happy and take a victory lap, and instead
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he's devastated.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Listen to this, but but get over here.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
This shit's whack? Pause he principal. If he's changing, there's
no hope. I think I know what's happening. I think
Woke is dead. Woke he's dead. It's dead. Butters, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
You can just stay retarded.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Now nobody cares. Everyone hates the Jews, everyone's fine with
using gaslers. Oh with that neckgog. No, it's terrible because
now I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So this is genuinely funny because Cartman's whole personality is
being like the offensive guy who says this stuff, and
now all of a sudden, no one cares anymore, and
it's not outrageous, it's not boundary pushing. So I thought
that was genuinely like the funniest moment to me. Everyone
says these bad words now, and what am I supposed
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to do? What's my personality gonna be? It also does
kind of needle at a certain truth, which is that
for some people, anti wokeness is all they have. Now, obviously,
I've talked a lot about woke insanity. I'm not gonna stop,
but it's not my entire brand or career, whereas some
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people branded themselves around that and definitely are scrambling. And
so I thought that was an interesting clip. Okay, guys,
Now we're going to talk about the Trump part of
the episode, which is where things got controversial and there
was some backline and I have more mixed feelings about it.
But first, please do make sure you're subscribed. If you
aren't yet, do hit that leg button while you're at
I remember to comment with your thoughts. Also, remember you
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can listen to the Bread Versus Everyone podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio,
wherever you get your podcasts. Now, let's talk about Trump,
and I don't think I'll be able to show you
a clip of this part because they're a little more
heavy handed with the copyright on this clip for whatever reason.
But Trump was depicted as this like unhinged fat dude
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in bed with Satan with a tiny piece of male anatomy.
In the episode, he was also depicted as thin skinned
and lawsuit happy. And then there was this whole plot
line about how because of Trump and Woke being dead,
they're like pushing Jesus in schools, And I'll be honest,
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this didn't really hit for me, Like, I'm not a
Trump supporter. I'm happy to laugh at Trump. I think
there's a lot of fertile ground to make fun of him. Now, well,
the part that really didn't hit for me was the
whole pushing Jesus in schools narrative because there just wasn't
a lot of truth to it, Like there are a
few Red states that are pushing ten Commandment displays and
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Bibles and schools and stuff, but it's not really a
Trump thing. And that's when you think of the defining
elements of his presidency so far that you could mock
or satirize. You think of maybe like immigration stuff going
insane overboard, you think of maybe the tariff insanity. You
think of other things, but you don't really think of
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pushing Jesus in school. So the best satire is when
it's like rooted in a real thing or a grain
of truth, and then it's just hyperbolically making fun of that.
That part just did not hit for me because it
didn't ring true. I mean, there's plenty of things to
say about Trump, but the idea that he's like heavily
pushing Jesus in schools just did not ring true to me. Now,
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the one part that did kind of ring true is
how lawsuit happy he is and how thin skinned he is.
And in the episode, it shows him suing the town
of south Park and like bullying them and getting them
to do Trump propaganda for him because everyone's so scared
of the lawsuit. And actually, I think the most savage
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part of the episode is how brutally south Park depicts
and hints at the cowardice of CBS folding to the
Trump administration to get their merger approved. And what's so
funny is I literally watched the episode on Paramount Plus,
which is CBS. They just got a big deal from
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CBS and apparently gives zero FS about mocking and criticizing
the network and the fact that they're still on air
is a good sign, and how they're not going to
be taken off air. They allowed this episode to air,
they knew what was in it, that in fact, we
are not living through some media cracked down where people
aren't free to criticize Trump. And more know, Colbert was
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let go because of financial reasons, just like all the
underlying reported suggested. Underlying reporting suggested it was not censorship,
it was not dystopian, and you are in fact still
allowed to make fun of Trump, even in ways that
are very crude, as South Park certainly did. I will
just say it just I don't know. You guys can
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let me know if you thought it was funny. It
didn't really hit for me. The one part that I
did appreciate it was just the depiction of Trump as
so thin skinned and lawsuit heavy, because he really is.
He just loves to sue people all the time, and
he's kind of a snowflake when it comes to people
criticizing him. It's something I don't really respect. And it's
funny because if this reporting is true from Deadline, the
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entertainment outlet, then Apparently they were very inside the White House.
They were very upset about the South Park episode. Deadline
reports Trump seething over south Park markery. On eve of
Skydance Paramount deal closure, White House lashes out a desperate
season twenty seven premiere exclusive. The White House went on
the offensive Thursday morning as a rate, Donald Trump fumes
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over last night South Park's season twenty seven premiere that
depicted him as a satan canoodling and less than well ened,
doubt pompous bully. To put it mildly, the President is
seething over the childish attack by South Park, an administration
source tells Deadline this morning. So I never really know
with anonymous sources about the Trump administration whether it's true.
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I so massive if true attached to this. But if
that is true, if they really are upset about it,
that's kind of funny because the whole episode was about
how thin skinned and how easily triggered he is, and
then if he's actually seething over this, that would kind
of prove their point. One White House spokesperson actually did
go on the record and make a statement to Deadline.
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I'll read you that the left's hypocrisy truly has no end,
and for years they have come after South Park for
what they labeled as offensive content, but suddenly they are
praising the show. White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers
told Deadline this morning, just like the creators of South Park,
the Left has no authentic or original content, which is
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why their popularity continues to hit record lows. Rogers added,
in direct contrast to the one point five billion dollar
agreement Paramount and the South Park duo just inc this week,
this show hasn't been relevant for over twenty years and
is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in
a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on
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more promises in just six months than any other president
in our country's history, and no fourth rate show can
derail President Trump's hot streak. So this statement made me
roll my eyes so hard i gave myself a headache. Really, girl,
you're gonna have to go off and call them an
irrelevant fourth rate show like they have no authentic content.
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They just signed a one and a half billion dollar deal, Babe.
Lots of people still watch South Park and like south
Park because if they didn't, it wouldn't be pulling in
those kinds of numbers, and you should have just said something.
You either should have just not commented and just taken
the high road on it, or commented and been like,
we love south Park and always encourage satire, and we're
willing to laugh at ourselves by putting out this kind
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of combative statement. The Trump White House comes off as snowflakes,
as thin skinned, as exactly how the episode depicted him.
You are proving their point, like, oh my, this is
this was really really pathetic to me. But what do
you guys think about this? And the South Park episode?
Have you seen it? You can watch it now on
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Paramount Plus. Let me know in the comments. Do it
that like? Button? YadA YadA yah And now more crazy
stuff to discuss today. Up next, we're going to talk
about something called the tea app, like as in spill
the tea, I guess, as in what's the tea now?
This is an app that allows women to gossip about
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and rate men, and then also has some safety features
like allowing men to allowing them to check if men
are in criminal database registries, and other sorts of things.
Here's a summary. This app has proven quite controversial and
we'll discuss that, but here's a summary from NBC News
about the app and about a big data leak that
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came out of it.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Whomen are anonymously spilling the Tea on Menday, dated on
a new viral app which has just been hacked after
gaining a huge influx of new users.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Ryan in Newport Beach here's his review.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Dated him for two years to find out when he
went on his work trip he was actually going on
his honey moon.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Upon opening Tea, users can see photos of local men
along with their names. They can leave red flags or
green flags, as well as comments, including about negative experiences
or even vouching for them as a friend. The app
also let users run background checks, search for criminal histories,
and even reverse image search to check if a man
is catfishing.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just found out that guy I've been seeing has
a whole girlfriend like he's in a relationship of five years,
and I'm not the only other girl he's talking to.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well. The company says their mission is to keep women safe.
They've also these backlashed from men who say they fear
being misrepresented or docks on the platform.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I had a female friend of mine go undercover on
the Tea app, and I found that there are some
women talking about me. They were clearly just upset. They
felt that they got slided. Is there anything we could
do about this? This is defamation, This is entirely untrue.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Tea promises anonymity to his users, but on Friday morning,
it confirmed to NBC News that seventy two thousand photos
were accessed without authorization, including thirteen thousand account verification photos
that were supposed to be kept private. Now it's possible
that some of those identifying images are being leaked online.
Online spaces for women to talk about men they've dated
are not new. You may have heard of the are
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we Dating the same Guy? Facebook groups, which have received
their own share of controversy and have even faced lawsuits
which were later dismissed. But some on the app are
now saying they feel the abscured more toward gossip than
safety concerns, and that can be to cyberbullying, especially since
the women are supposed to be anonymous while the men
remain public. As of now, it's still the number one app.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
On the Apple App Store, so there is a lot
to say about this app, and I think mixed feelings
about it definitely have some concerns, but I also do
want to acknowledge the reasons something like this exists, Like
it's it's not a coincidence or a fluke that this
is the number one app on the App Store. Is
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this dating app? This dating gossip app? Tea Like women
have concerns about men and about being cheated on, about
being mistreated. Those concerns are very valid and very real,
And some features of this app I wholeheartedly support, like
allowing them to run criminal background checks easily on people,
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Like allowing them to reverse image search people and make
sure they're not being catfished. To me, all of that
makes a ton of sense, and those are apparently the
feed that kind of inspired the app. So here's from
Tea's website. Tea was born from a deeply personal mission
to give women the tools they need to safely date
in a world that often overlooks their protection. Founder Sean
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Cook launched Tea after witnessing his mother's terrifying experience with
online dating, not only being catfish, but unknowingly engaging with
men who had criminal records. Realizing that traditional dating apps
do little to protect women, Sean knew something had to change.
That's why he built Tea, the first ever dating safety
platform for women. So, like I said, I think this
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part is totally valid and totally useful and positive. Where
I have serious, serious concerns is this idea of women
anonymously and really anyone, but in this case it's women
just anonymously posting with no accountability or fact checking or
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anything about men, and how quickly that turns into just
totally unverified gossip, wild accusations, and like cyberbullying in different ways.
So I'll show you one screenshot. I'll read it to
you about one man's profile, Mookie in Baltimore, Maryland. Somebody
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asked what's the tea on him? And the comments read
dick little, can't hold his liquor breath, stink. Another person
says bed on the floor. Someone else said alcoholic ass.
I think you get the idea. This is not about
safety concerns. This is about like mocking a dude publicly
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and just making fun of him and also making some
serious accusations about him, that he's an alcoholic, that his
bed is on the floor, which if you are twenty
four years old, that is diabolical. But like, this is
not serving safety. This is gossip, bullying, slandering people on
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the internet anonymously behind this veil of anonymity in a
way that I think is toxic and probably is vastly
counterproductive to healthy dating dynamics between men and women. Although
we are very much outside of my area of expertise here.
The other newsworthy and in some sense kind of cosmic
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aspect of this story is the fact that the women
were supposed to be anonymous who were evaluating men and
writing all this gossip about them on the app, but
the app took very poor care of their data and
it was leaked, and all their like identifying information has
been leaked. So now a lot of them are upset
about that, and a lot of angry men are gloating
about it because they wanted to be anonymous, but now
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we all know who they are and what they look like,
and their documents have been leaked, which I don't support.
Right people have a right to privacy and it was
violated here. But at the same time, you had no
problem with these men's privacy being put on blast, post
attached to their name and photo about their size, of
their you know what, and their bad breath and all
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sorts of stuff, but now you don't want people to
know that it was you writing that stuff. Hmmm, funny,
funny how that works, right, Like, there is a little
bit of inconsistency and hypocrisy there. Ultimately, my take on
this app is somewhere in the middle, which is probably
going to not make anyone happy. Like the very aggrieved
to men are going to be like, how how come
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you're not standing up for men against these terrible women
who just want to do them so dirty? And then
the more feminist crowd will be like, no, this app
is amazing. It empowers women to stay safe in this
terrible world. I can kind of hold two thoughts in
my mind at once, though, I can simultaneously acknowledge that
women face unique risks and very real concerns in the
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dating world and from men that make some of the
features of this desirable and important. And I don't want
to diminish that, and that's why I support or at
the background checks. The catfish checks all of that. And
then I can also understand in theory the idea of
this kind of whisper network or rumor mill being useful
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to help women avoid abusive men. But I do stand
on business on the fact that allowing people to just
gossip anonymously about people like this is a recipe for
the most sociopathic individuals to lie about people, to spin
the most horrible stories, and to just cyberbly and humiliate
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people for no real reason other than getting a sick
sense of joy out of it. I've experienced it myself,
not in a dating dynamic, but in terms of how
cruel and how totally devoid of factuality anonymous people trolling
you can be. It's not productive, and I think is
very problematic to have people just anonymously gossiping about people
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like this in a way that's then attached to those
persons name and face, and they have no opportunity to
robut or challenge or anything. So I feel like this
take on this might make everyone unhappy, but that's kind
of what we do here on the Brad Versus Everyone podcast.
Let me know what you think. Do you think this
app is important and necessary for keeping women safe or
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do you think it's unhinged and toxic, or do you
think it's somewhere in the middle. Let me know in
the comments. Up next, we're going to check in with
my favorite Democratic member of Congress, the one and only
Jasmine Crockett, the Texas representative and firebrand who loves to
rant about mediocre white men and mock Republican governors in
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wheelchairs as governor hot Wheels. Well, Miss Crockett apparently is
unabashed in some of her more arrogant and ridiculous personality traits,
and also has literally no understanding of how journalism works.
Least that's the evidence that I'm seeing in this new
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profile in the Atlantic, which is a left leaning publication,
but sometimes we'll offer criticisms or introspection of the Democratic
Party by a journalist named Elaine Godfrey. She profiled Jasmine
Crockett and spend a lot of time with her, And
there are a few tidbits in this profile that I
find interesting and deeply, deeply revealing. So the title is
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a Democrat for the Trump Era, and the subheading is
Jasmine Crockett is testing out the course style of politics
that the GOP has embraced. And the article really does
frame her as a Trumpian figure. Kind of the worst
parts of Trump his brashness, his crudeness, his vulgarity, his unseeriousness,
his trollishness. She embodies a lot of those same values
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in a Democratic voice, and that became very clear from
this profile. So there's one part of the profile where
they talk about the race to be the leading member
on the House Oversight Committee. The ranking member and the
Democrats select somebody, and this is an empowered This is
a powerful position, an important position with a prominent spotlight
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on it, and she wanted to be it. But she
was ultimately not selected, and the reasons that she complains
about not being selected are revealing. So here's from the article.
She was losing her race to serve as the top
Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. She told me a
job she felt well suited for. Members of the Congressional
Black Caucus were planning to vote for the most senior
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most person in the race, even though that person wasn't
actually a Black Caucus member, Crockett complained, So let's pause
on that for a moment. She thinks she should have
gotten the job and the votes of her black colleagues
because she's black. That's what she just said there. While
the other members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted for
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somebody who's not even in the Black Caucus, and they
voted based on the experience of the person rather than
their race. Do you hear yourself? Do not understand? This
is the kind of anti merit tired identity politics that
has destroyed the Democratic brand. But Jasmine Crockett is all
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in on that, and that became very clear. Now here's
the other funny reason. She thought she should be the
top member on the House Oversight Committee for the Democrats.
To Crockett, the race had become a small scale version
of the Democratic Party's bigger predicament. Her colleagues still haven't learned.
What to her is obvious Democrats need sharper, fiercer communicators.
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It's like there's one clear person in the race that
has the largest social media following. Crockett told me, that's right, guys.
She literally thinks she should be the top member on
the House Oversight Committee, which is responsible for exercising oversight
on the federal government, because she has more social media
followers than her colleagues. That is so silly and so ridiculous,
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but also so very twenty twenty five. I hate it here,
I hate the state of American politics. Sometimes. This next
passage really tells you everything you need to know about
Jasmine Crockett on TikTok and Instagram. Crockett has one of
the highest follower counts of any house member, and she
monitors social media engagement like a day trader checks her portfolio.
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She is highly conscious too, of her self presentation. During
many of our conversations, Crockett wore acrylic nails painted with
the word resist and a set of heavy lashes over
her brown eyes. The lock screen on her phone is
a headshot of herself. So I actually think Jasmin Krockett
is in many ways beautiful and I have no issue
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with her hair or her nails. I don't care about
anything like that. The resist on the nails is cringe,
but whatever. The interesting part of this passage to me
is that the lockscreen on her phone is just a
picture of herself. So I think most people who I
believe she's single. I could be wrong, but most people
who are like married or in a long term partnership
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usually have a picture of them and their partner, sometimes
their dog, but it's it's usually even beforehand. I think
I would have had a picture with my friends, think
from a vacation or something. I never would have just
had a lone photo of myself as my that's giving
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insane narciss I can't be the only one who finds
that emblematic of like a degree of narcissism. And that's
coming from somebody who's not a zero on the narcissism
spectrum at least Okay and myself, But that's kind of
wild to me. But she really is that, she really
is all about her and all about whatever will get
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her more attention and more Internet clout, including at the
expense of the Democratic Party, because I think her getting
on TV YAP and about mediocre white boys is a
gift to the GOP electorally, but it will get her
applause from like MSNBC Wine Mom viewers, and that's what
she ultimately cares about. Crockett also apparently has no idea
how journalism works, because I'll read you this passage from
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The Atlantic. Crockett said that people are free to disagree
with her communications style, but that she was elected to
speak up for the people that I represent as for
her colleagues. Four days before the story was published, Crockett
called me to express frustration that I had reached out
to so many House members without telling her first. She
was She told me shutting down the profile and revoking
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all permission. So this is wild on a couple levels,
one of which is that reaching out to other members
of the house, if you're doing a profile and a
member of the house to get their perspective on their
colleague is just what you do, which is part of journalism.
You ask other sources for their thoughts on the person
or the phenomena you're covering. So for Jasmine to be
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somehow outraged by that is silly and reveals that she
doesn't understand how this works. And then again, this is
the combination of narcissism and ignorance. That is Jasmine Crockett
perfectly in a nutshell telling the reporter she's shutting down
the profile and revoking permissions. She doesn't need your permission
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to publish the profile. That's not how journalism works. And
once you give permission for quotes and everything, you can't
revoke it later. She has zero obligation under journalistic ethics
to honor that request. She does not need your permission
or your blessing to publish a profile on you. You
can't take away privileges for that, and you can't you
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spoke with this journalist on the record and gave quotes
and gave access, and you gave permission. She can and
then use that you can't take there's no take back
seas on the record journalism. And it's not just jasmine.
I don't want to make this a unique shade of jasmine,
because this is something whenever I have interacted with senators,
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members of Congress, governors, these people are so ignorant about
the basics of how journalism works. Yet they really should
know and should educate themselves because it causes them embarrassment.
Like I've had members of Congress, I've had governors. I've
had staffers email me something and the subject is off
the record, and then they send me it, and in
some cases I honor it because I don't really care.
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But I don't have any obligation to under journalistic ethics.
It's only off the record if you and I both
agree to it. This is like basic journalism one A one,
And I don't expect you guys in the audience to
know this, but if you're a journalist, you know it.
And if you're a freaking politician, you should probably know
how journalism works. Or maybe she does know how it works,
but she just thinks she's special and gets different rules
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or that people have to listen to her. But newsflash, Jasmine,
that's not how this works. And so I thought this
was a really interesting profile, very well done, and like
I said, very deeply revealing about Jasmine Crockett. And so
I'll just say to the Democratic Party, if you're listening,
I know you're not, because if you were listening to me,
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you'd be doing so many things differently and winning so
many more elections. But if you are listening, making this
woman a face of your party, a leader of your
party will prove to be the biggest electoral mistake you
have ever ever ever imagined doing, and will guarantee Republican
victories for years to come. Other than that, you're doing amazing.
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What do you guys think of all this? Let me
know in the comments. Do make sure you subscribe if
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Everyone hates the Jews. Everyone's fine with you, Jasler's oh
with a not good. No, it's terrible because now I
don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
South Park is so back and nobody is safe from
their score. We're going to react to the latest episode
of south Park that weighed in on the absolute state
of American politics, media, and so much more in today's
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episode of the borad Versus Everyone podcast, our daily show
where we take on the craziest ideas from across the internet,
our media, and our politics, all from an independent perspective. First, guys,
we'll talk about much more in today's show as well,
but we're going to touch on south Park, which I
was definitely a south Park kid. I grew up as
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a you know, edgy thirteen twelve year old loving cartman,
and I've always thought south Park was the funniest of
those kinds of shows of the family guy, American Dad,
all that universe. I've always had a soft spot for
south Park, and they just did an episode that is
getting tons of attention because it took on the current
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media moment, our post woke America and Donald Trump. So
we're going to run through it. I'm going to try
to play some clips, see if they'll let me get
away with that, though they can be very copyright aggressive,
shall we say, the South Park Studios guys. And the
first moment I want to talk about, is this really
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what I thought was the funniest or maybe second funniest
part of this episode. I watched the whole thing. A
lot of people are just sharing a couple clips and
discussing it. I watched all twenty two minutes of this
on the treadmill yesterday as part of my dedication to
you for my heavy duty research that I bring you
on this podcast, combined with my dedicated efforts to defeat
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fat positivity one treadmill session at a time. So here's
this first clip of Cartman talking about the demise of NPR.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Alexa put on ninety point one got it now playing
radio station ninety point one FM.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Mom, something's wrong with my favorite show. It's just like static,
your favorite show. Yeah, NPR, National Public Radio. We're all
the liberals bitch and whine about stuff. Something's wrong with it? Oh, sweetie,
the president canceled in PR. What do you mean? The
president canceled NPR? That was like the funniest shit ever.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Han, Oh my god, you guys. You guys are not
gonna believe this. The President of the United States canceled NPR.
What's NPR the funniest show ever? Where all the lesbians
and Jews complained about stuff? The president had it taken
off the air. I mean, who is the president think
he is?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Beat them?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I can't cancel the show. I mean, what show are
they going to cancel next? It was seriously the best show.
It had like gay rappers from Mexico all sad because
girls in Pakistan got stoned to death and guess why
they got stoned to dead because they were It was hilarious.
Why would you even cancel that? I don't know about you,
but I'm worried about what this country's coming to. It
seems like everybody's changing. It suddenly wokes up is off limits.
I mean it's like now everyone rips on the juice
and it's totally fine. Huck ha, see what's one with
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cal everybody's given up.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So this was so funny to me. Uh the only
part I didn't love about it though, maybe they just
did it for like dramatic effect for the story is
that NPR in reality wasn't taken off the air. It
just lost government funding, which was a small percentage of
its funding supposedly, so and PR free to exist, people
just have to fund it themselves, which has always made
sense to me. But the way that like the the
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most obviously Cartman is in south Park, the most ignorant
big and the fact that he loved NPR because it
was so woke and because it had all the lesbians
and Jews complaining about stuff is just funny because it's
like close to reality. You really can't turn on and
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br and listen to a whole hour without some sort
of bizarre identity politics angle being force fed to you.
And the idea that people might like that but only
ironically because they actually hate different identities is genuinely funny
and to me was one of the funnier moments of
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the episode that's getting so much attention online, and it
was a kind of a theme of the episode, this
idea that like woke is dead or woke is dying
in society, and I think that's true to a certain extent.
It's true as far as like mainstream is concerned. Obviously,
you know social media and in certain progressive media bubbles
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and in academia, woke will never die. It is their
relig but in terms of like the mainstream, it's definitely
on the wayne. And the funniest part of this episode,
and then we'll get to some of the Trump stuff,
which I have more mixed feelings about, was when Cartman
realizes that, like, Woke is dead, and you expect him
to be happy and take a victory lap, and instead
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he's devastated.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Listen to this, but but get over here.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
This shit's whack? Pause he principal. If he's changing, there's
no hope. I think I know what's happening. I think
Woke is dead. Woke he's dead. It's dead. Butters, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
You can just stay retarded.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Now nobody cares. Everyone hates the Jews, everyone's fine with
using gaslers. Oh with that neckgog. No, it's terrible because
now I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So this is genuinely funny because Cartman's whole personality is
being like the offensive guy who says this stuff, and
now all of a sudden, no one cares anymore, and
it's not outrageous, it's not boundary pushing. So I thought
that was genuinely like the funniest moment to me. Everyone
says these bad words now, and what am I supposed
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to do? What's my personality gonna be? It also does
kind of needle at a certain truth, which is that
for some people, anti wokeness is all they have. Now, obviously,
I've talked a lot about woke insanity. I'm not gonna stop,
but it's not my entire brand or career, whereas some
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people branded themselves around that and definitely are scrambling. And
so I thought that was an interesting clip. Okay, guys,
Now we're going to talk about the Trump part of
the episode, which is where things got controversial and there
was some backline and I have more mixed feelings about it.
But first, please do make sure you're subscribed. If you
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can listen to the Bread Versus Everyone podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio,
wherever you get your podcasts. Now, let's talk about Trump,
and I don't think I'll be able to show you
a clip of this part because they're a little more
heavy handed with the copyright on this clip for whatever reason.
But Trump was depicted as this like unhinged fat dude
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in bed with Satan with a tiny piece of male anatomy.
In the episode, he was also depicted as thin skinned
and lawsuit happy. And then there was this whole plot
line about how because of Trump and Woke being dead,
they're like pushing Jesus in schools, And I'll be honest,
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this didn't really hit for me, Like, I'm not a
Trump supporter. I'm happy to laugh at Trump. I think
there's a lot of fertile ground to make fun of him. Now, well,
the part that really didn't hit for me was the
whole pushing Jesus in schools narrative because there just wasn't
a lot of truth to it, Like there are a
few Red states that are pushing ten Commandment displays and
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Bibles and schools and stuff, but it's not really a
Trump thing. And that's when you think of the defining
elements of his presidency so far that you could mock
or satirize. You think of maybe like immigration stuff going
insane overboard, you think of maybe the tariff insanity. You
think of other things, but you don't really think of
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pushing Jesus in school. So the best satire is when
it's like rooted in a real thing or a grain
of truth, and then it's just hyperbolically making fun of that.
That part just did not hit for me because it
didn't ring true. I mean, there's plenty of things to
say about Trump, but the idea that he's like heavily
pushing Jesus in schools just did not ring true to me. Now,
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the one part that did kind of ring true is
how lawsuit happy he is and how thin skinned he is.
And in the episode, it shows him suing the town
of south Park and like bullying them and getting them
to do Trump propaganda for him because everyone's so scared
of the lawsuit. And actually, I think the most savage
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part of the episode is how brutally south Park depicts
and hints at the cowardice of CBS folding to the
Trump administration to get their merger approved. And what's so
funny is I literally watched the episode on Paramount Plus,
which is CBS. They just got a big deal from
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CBS and apparently gives zero FS about mocking and criticizing
the network and the fact that they're still on air
is a good sign, and how they're not going to
be taken off air. They allowed this episode to air,
they knew what was in it, that in fact, we
are not living through some media cracked down where people
aren't free to criticize Trump. And more know, Colbert was
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let go because of financial reasons, just like all the
underlying reported suggested. Underlying reporting suggested it was not censorship,
it was not dystopian, and you are in fact still
allowed to make fun of Trump, even in ways that
are very crude, as South Park certainly did. I will
just say it just I don't know. You guys can
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let me know if you thought it was funny. It
didn't really hit for me. The one part that I
did appreciate it was just the depiction of Trump as
so thin skinned and lawsuit heavy, because he really is.
He just loves to sue people all the time, and
he's kind of a snowflake when it comes to people
criticizing him. It's something I don't really respect. And it's
funny because if this reporting is true from Deadline, the
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entertainment outlet, then Apparently they were very inside the White House.
They were very upset about the South Park episode. Deadline
reports Trump seething over south Park markery. On eve of
Skydance Paramount deal closure, White House lashes out a desperate
season twenty seven premiere exclusive. The White House went on
the offensive Thursday morning as a rate, Donald Trump fumes
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over last night South Park's season twenty seven premiere that
depicted him as a satan canoodling and less than well ened,
doubt pompous bully. To put it mildly, the President is
seething over the childish attack by South Park, an administration
source tells Deadline this morning. So I never really know
with anonymous sources about the Trump administration whether it's true.
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I so massive if true attached to this. But if
that is true, if they really are upset about it,
that's kind of funny because the whole episode was about
how thin skinned and how easily triggered he is, and
then if he's actually seething over this, that would kind
of prove their point. One White House spokesperson actually did
go on the record and make a statement to Deadline.
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I'll read you that the left's hypocrisy truly has no end,
and for years they have come after South Park for
what they labeled as offensive content, but suddenly they are
praising the show. White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers
told Deadline this morning, just like the creators of South Park,
the Left has no authentic or original content, which is
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why their popularity continues to hit record lows. Rogers added,
in direct contrast to the one point five billion dollar
agreement Paramount and the South Park duo just inc this week,
this show hasn't been relevant for over twenty years and
is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in
a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on
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more promises in just six months than any other president
in our country's history, and no fourth rate show can
derail President Trump's hot streak. So this statement made me
roll my eyes so hard i gave myself a headache. Really, girl,
you're gonna have to go off and call them an
irrelevant fourth rate show like they have no authentic content.
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They just signed a one and a half billion dollar deal, Babe.
Lots of people still watch South Park and like south
Park because if they didn't, it wouldn't be pulling in
those kinds of numbers, and you should have just said something.
You either should have just not commented and just taken
the high road on it, or commented and been like,
we love south Park and always encourage satire, and we're
willing to laugh at ourselves by putting out this kind
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of combative statement. The Trump White House comes off as snowflakes,
as thin skinned, as exactly how the episode depicted him.
You are proving their point, like, oh my, this is
this was really really pathetic to me. But what do
you guys think about this? And the South Park episode?
Have you seen it? You can watch it now on
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Paramount Plus. Let me know in the comments. Do it
that like? Button? YadA YadA yah And now more crazy
stuff to discuss today. Up next, we're going to talk
about something called the tea app, like as in spill
the tea, I guess, as in what's the tea now?
This is an app that allows women to gossip about
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and rate men, and then also has some safety features
like allowing men to allowing them to check if men
are in criminal database registries, and other sorts of things.
Here's a summary. This app has proven quite controversial and
we'll discuss that, but here's a summary from NBC News
about the app and about a big data leak that
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came out of it.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Whomen are anonymously spilling the Tea on Menday, dated on
a new viral app which has just been hacked after
gaining a huge influx of new users.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Ryan in Newport Beach here's his review.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Dated him for two years to find out when he
went on his work trip he was actually going on
his honey moon.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Upon opening Tea, users can see photos of local men
along with their names. They can leave red flags or
green flags, as well as comments, including about negative experiences
or even vouching for them as a friend. The app
also let users run background checks, search for criminal histories,
and even reverse image search to check if a man
is catfishing.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just found out that guy I've been seeing has
a whole girlfriend like he's in a relationship of five years,
and I'm not the only other girl he's talking to.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well. The company says their mission is to keep women safe.
They've also these backlashed from men who say they fear
being misrepresented or docks on the platform.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I had a female friend of mine go undercover on
the Tea app, and I found that there are some
women talking about me. They were clearly just upset. They
felt that they got slided. Is there anything we could
do about this? This is defamation, This is entirely untrue.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Tea promises anonymity to his users, but on Friday morning,
it confirmed to NBC News that seventy two thousand photos
were accessed without authorization, including thirteen thousand account verification photos
that were supposed to be kept private. Now it's possible
that some of those identifying images are being leaked online.
Online spaces for women to talk about men they've dated
are not new. You may have heard of the are
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we Dating the same Guy? Facebook groups, which have received
their own share of controversy and have even faced lawsuits
which were later dismissed. But some on the app are
now saying they feel the abscured more toward gossip than
safety concerns, and that can be to cyberbullying, especially since
the women are supposed to be anonymous while the men
remain public. As of now, it's still the number one app.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
On the Apple App Store, so there is a lot
to say about this app, and I think mixed feelings
about it definitely have some concerns, but I also do
want to acknowledge the reasons something like this exists, Like
it's it's not a coincidence or a fluke that this
is the number one app on the App Store. Is
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this dating app? This dating gossip app? Tea Like women
have concerns about men and about being cheated on, about
being mistreated. Those concerns are very valid and very real,
And some features of this app I wholeheartedly support, like
allowing them to run criminal background checks easily on people,
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Like allowing them to reverse image search people and make
sure they're not being catfished. To me, all of that
makes a ton of sense, and those are apparently the
feed that kind of inspired the app. So here's from
Tea's website. Tea was born from a deeply personal mission
to give women the tools they need to safely date
in a world that often overlooks their protection. Founder Sean
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Cook launched Tea after witnessing his mother's terrifying experience with
online dating, not only being catfish, but unknowingly engaging with
men who had criminal records. Realizing that traditional dating apps
do little to protect women, Sean knew something had to change.
That's why he built Tea, the first ever dating safety
platform for women. So, like I said, I think this
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part is totally valid and totally useful and positive. Where
I have serious, serious concerns is this idea of women
anonymously and really anyone, but in this case it's women
just anonymously posting with no accountability or fact checking or
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anything about men, and how quickly that turns into just
totally unverified gossip, wild accusations, and like cyberbullying in different ways.
So I'll show you one screenshot. I'll read it to
you about one man's profile, Mookie in Baltimore, Maryland. Somebody
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asked what's the tea on him? And the comments read
dick little, can't hold his liquor breath, stink. Another person
says bed on the floor. Someone else said alcoholic ass.
I think you get the idea. This is not about
safety concerns. This is about like mocking a dude publicly
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and just making fun of him and also making some
serious accusations about him, that he's an alcoholic, that his
bed is on the floor, which if you are twenty
four years old, that is diabolical. But like, this is
not serving safety. This is gossip, bullying, slandering people on
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the internet anonymously behind this veil of anonymity in a
way that I think is toxic and probably is vastly
counterproductive to healthy dating dynamics between men and women. Although
we are very much outside of my area of expertise here.
The other newsworthy and in some sense kind of cosmic
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aspect of this story is the fact that the women
were supposed to be anonymous who were evaluating men and
writing all this gossip about them on the app, but
the app took very poor care of their data and
it was leaked, and all their like identifying information has
been leaked. So now a lot of them are upset
about that, and a lot of angry men are gloating
about it because they wanted to be anonymous, but now
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we all know who they are and what they look like,
and their documents have been leaked, which I don't support.
Right people have a right to privacy and it was
violated here. But at the same time, you had no
problem with these men's privacy being put on blast, post
attached to their name and photo about their size, of
their you know what, and their bad breath and all
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sorts of stuff, but now you don't want people to
know that it was you writing that stuff. Hmmm, funny,
funny how that works, right, Like, there is a little
bit of inconsistency and hypocrisy there. Ultimately, my take on
this app is somewhere in the middle, which is probably
going to not make anyone happy. Like the very aggrieved
to men are going to be like, how how come
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you're not standing up for men against these terrible women
who just want to do them so dirty? And then
the more feminist crowd will be like, no, this app
is amazing. It empowers women to stay safe in this
terrible world. I can kind of hold two thoughts in
my mind at once, though, I can simultaneously acknowledge that
women face unique risks and very real concerns in the
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dating world and from men that make some of the
features of this desirable and important. And I don't want
to diminish that, and that's why I support or at
the background checks. The catfish checks all of that. And
then I can also understand in theory the idea of
this kind of whisper network or rumor mill being useful
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to help women avoid abusive men. But I do stand
on business on the fact that allowing people to just
gossip anonymously about people like this is a recipe for
the most sociopathic individuals to lie about people, to spin
the most horrible stories, and to just cyberbly and humiliate
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people for no real reason other than getting a sick
sense of joy out of it. I've experienced it myself,
not in a dating dynamic, but in terms of how
cruel and how totally devoid of factuality anonymous people trolling
you can be. It's not productive, and I think is
very problematic to have people just anonymously gossiping about people
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like this in a way that's then attached to those
persons name and face, and they have no opportunity to
robut or challenge or anything. So I feel like this
take on this might make everyone unhappy, but that's kind
of what we do here on the Brad Versus Everyone podcast.
Let me know what you think. Do you think this
app is important and necessary for keeping women safe or
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do you think it's unhinged and toxic, or do you
think it's somewhere in the middle. Let me know in
the comments. Up next, we're going to check in with
my favorite Democratic member of Congress, the one and only
Jasmine Crockett, the Texas representative and firebrand who loves to
rant about mediocre white men and mock Republican governors in
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wheelchairs as governor hot Wheels. Well, Miss Crockett apparently is
unabashed in some of her more arrogant and ridiculous personality traits,
and also has literally no understanding of how journalism works.
Least that's the evidence that I'm seeing in this new
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profile in the Atlantic, which is a left leaning publication,
but sometimes we'll offer criticisms or introspection of the Democratic
Party by a journalist named Elaine Godfrey. She profiled Jasmine
Crockett and spend a lot of time with her, And
there are a few tidbits in this profile that I
find interesting and deeply, deeply revealing. So the title is
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a Democrat for the Trump Era, and the subheading is
Jasmine Crockett is testing out the course style of politics
that the GOP has embraced. And the article really does
frame her as a Trumpian figure. Kind of the worst
parts of Trump his brashness, his crudeness, his vulgarity, his unseeriousness,
his trollishness. She embodies a lot of those same values
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in a Democratic voice, and that became very clear from
this profile. So there's one part of the profile where
they talk about the race to be the leading member
on the House Oversight Committee. The ranking member and the
Democrats select somebody, and this is an empowered This is
a powerful position, an important position with a prominent spotlight
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on it, and she wanted to be it. But she
was ultimately not selected, and the reasons that she complains
about not being selected are revealing. So here's from the article.
She was losing her race to serve as the top
Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. She told me a
job she felt well suited for. Members of the Congressional
Black Caucus were planning to vote for the most senior
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most person in the race, even though that person wasn't
actually a Black Caucus member, Crockett complained, So let's pause
on that for a moment. She thinks she should have
gotten the job and the votes of her black colleagues
because she's black. That's what she just said there. While
the other members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted for
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somebody who's not even in the Black Caucus, and they
voted based on the experience of the person rather than
their race. Do you hear yourself? Do not understand? This
is the kind of anti merit tired identity politics that
has destroyed the Democratic brand. But Jasmine Crockett is all
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in on that, and that became very clear. Now here's
the other funny reason. She thought she should be the
top member on the House Oversight Committee for the Democrats.
To Crockett, the race had become a small scale version
of the Democratic Party's bigger predicament. Her colleagues still haven't learned.
What to her is obvious Democrats need sharper, fiercer communicators.
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It's like there's one clear person in the race that
has the largest social media following. Crockett told me, that's right, guys.
She literally thinks she should be the top member on
the House Oversight Committee, which is responsible for exercising oversight
on the federal government, because she has more social media
followers than her colleagues. That is so silly and so ridiculous,
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but also so very twenty twenty five. I hate it here,
I hate the state of American politics. Sometimes. This next
passage really tells you everything you need to know about
Jasmine Crockett on TikTok and Instagram. Crockett has one of
the highest follower counts of any house member, and she
monitors social media engagement like a day trader checks her portfolio.
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She is highly conscious too, of her self presentation. During
many of our conversations, Crockett wore acrylic nails painted with
the word resist and a set of heavy lashes over
her brown eyes. The lock screen on her phone is
a headshot of herself. So I actually think Jasmin Krockett
is in many ways beautiful and I have no issue
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with her hair or her nails. I don't care about
anything like that. The resist on the nails is cringe,
but whatever. The interesting part of this passage to me
is that the lockscreen on her phone is just a
picture of herself. So I think most people who I
believe she's single. I could be wrong, but most people
who are like married or in a long term partnership
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usually have a picture of them and their partner, sometimes
their dog, but it's it's usually even beforehand. I think
I would have had a picture with my friends, think
from a vacation or something. I never would have just
had a lone photo of myself as my that's giving
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insane narciss I can't be the only one who finds
that emblematic of like a degree of narcissism. And that's
coming from somebody who's not a zero on the narcissism
spectrum at least Okay and myself, But that's kind of
wild to me. But she really is that, she really
is all about her and all about whatever will get
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her more attention and more Internet clout, including at the
expense of the Democratic Party, because I think her getting
on TV YAP and about mediocre white boys is a
gift to the GOP electorally, but it will get her
applause from like MSNBC Wine Mom viewers, and that's what
she ultimately cares about. Crockett also apparently has no idea
how journalism works, because I'll read you this passage from
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The Atlantic. Crockett said that people are free to disagree
with her communications style, but that she was elected to
speak up for the people that I represent as for
her colleagues. Four days before the story was published, Crockett
called me to express frustration that I had reached out
to so many House members without telling her first. She
was She told me shutting down the profile and revoking
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all permission. So this is wild on a couple levels,
one of which is that reaching out to other members
of the house, if you're doing a profile and a
member of the house to get their perspective on their
colleague is just what you do, which is part of journalism.
You ask other sources for their thoughts on the person
or the phenomena you're covering. So for Jasmine to be
(29:02):
somehow outraged by that is silly and reveals that she
doesn't understand how this works. And then again, this is
the combination of narcissism and ignorance. That is Jasmine Crockett
perfectly in a nutshell telling the reporter she's shutting down
the profile and revoking permissions. She doesn't need your permission
(29:27):
to publish the profile. That's not how journalism works. And
once you give permission for quotes and everything, you can't
revoke it later. She has zero obligation under journalistic ethics
to honor that request. She does not need your permission
or your blessing to publish a profile on you. You
can't take away privileges for that, and you can't you
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spoke with this journalist on the record and gave quotes
and gave access, and you gave permission. She can and
then use that you can't take there's no take back
seas on the record journalism. And it's not just jasmine.
I don't want to make this a unique shade of jasmine,
because this is something whenever I have interacted with senators,
(30:13):
members of Congress, governors, these people are so ignorant about
the basics of how journalism works. Yet they really should
know and should educate themselves because it causes them embarrassment.
Like I've had members of Congress, I've had governors. I've
had staffers email me something and the subject is off
the record, and then they send me it, and in
some cases I honor it because I don't really care.
(30:35):
But I don't have any obligation to under journalistic ethics.
It's only off the record if you and I both
agree to it. This is like basic journalism one A one,
And I don't expect you guys in the audience to
know this, but if you're a journalist, you know it.
And if you're a freaking politician, you should probably know
how journalism works. Or maybe she does know how it works,
but she just thinks she's special and gets different rules
(30:56):
or that people have to listen to her. But newsflash, Jasmine,
that's not how this works. And so I thought this
was a really interesting profile, very well done, and like
I said, very deeply revealing about Jasmine Crockett. And so
I'll just say to the Democratic Party, if you're listening,
I know you're not, because if you were listening to me,
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you'd be doing so many things differently and winning so
many more elections. But if you are listening, making this
woman a face of your party, a leader of your
party will prove to be the biggest electoral mistake you
have ever ever ever imagined doing, and will guarantee Republican
victories for years to come. Other than that, you're doing amazing.
(31:42):
What do you guys think of all this? Let me
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