It's the end of the week, and so
it's time to take out the trash.
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Okay, this is the Garbage People of
the Week, and I've got one.
This is a current story, but
it feels like a bit of a throwback.
We had a lot of garbage people of
this sort last year.
It's possible, I didn't check, but
it's possible this person might
have been one last year.
Do you think, Marissa, they were?
Okay, well, they're coming back.
So mine is Amber Lynn Gilles.
Amber Lynn Gilles, you
can probably tell from the photo,
has an issue with masks.
But that's not the issue.
At this point in America,
just being an anti-masker by itself
isn't enough to get you put in
the garbage can.
You need to go above and beyond,
and she, in fact, did.
But before we get to the news part
of this, we want to catch you up.
She had gone into a Starbucks and
didn't want to wear a mask,
even though she knew going in
she would have to.
She wanted to create a public
spectacle of herself, and
so she did.
Now, when this individual Lenin
asked her to, she decided to post
on Facebook a photo of him with,
meet lenen, misspelled,
from Starbucks who refused to serve
me because I'm not wearing a mask.
Next time, I will wait for cops and
bring a medical exemption.
Which is definitely more convenient
than just going in with a mask on,
or getting it delivered or
something like that.
But anyway, as a result of her
making this big, viral Facebook
thing attacking Lenin, people
rallied to the barista's support.
An individual named Matt Cowan
started a GoFundMe to tip him.
Originally, they
wanted to raise $1,000.
They raised $105,000 for
that barista, which is crazy, but
not as crazy as what happened next.
Which is that that individual,
the woman who didn't want to wear
a mask and put his picture online,
said that she wanted half of
the GoFundMe money.
She asserted that there had been
discrimination, claiming she did
not have to wear masks because she
received a medical exemption
from a chiropractor.
I don't know what that has to do
with getting half of
money that was raised for a person.
But you should understand that in
the meantime, because that happened
last year, the Starbucks thing,
in the meantime her Facebook
account indicates she remains
a staunch opponent of mask-wearing.
A video from August showed getting
into a separate spat with employees
at Sprouts Farmers Market because
she refused to wear one.
And bear in mind, she's still
making videos of her going and
not wearing a mask so
she can argue with working-class
Americans, which is awesome.
Now, the individual who's being
sued is the one who raised
the money, Matt Cowan.
He said that she made a public
Facebook post that went viral and
I'm not responsible for
whatever anybody else sends to her.
Everything was done in
a philanthropic sense and I used
publicly available information to
populate my GoFundMe.
Because in her lawsuit, and
she is suing for
half of that money, she says
that she received death threats.
Which is obviously awful, but
I don't see how Matt Cowan
produced that.
And she is saying that he targeted
her by having a photo of her on
the GoFundMe.
Just bear in mind, she posted
on social media about this first.
She made it a big public thing
before he made it a public thing.
And again, I don't have any idea
what any of this has to do with her
being entitled to half of the money
that was raised.
So you could have avoided all of
this by just wearing a mask.
But if you're not going to do that,
you don't get 50 grand.
And thus, garbage can.
[INAUDIBLE] >> What do you think is
the best part of that story?
because there is an answer.
>> I don't know,
it's all pretty similar.
What do you think is the standout?
>> The best part of that story is
that she got a respiratory disease
medical exemption from her
chiropractor.
>> [LAUGH] That's great,
I completely skipped over that.
>> I'm going to crack your bones.
>> That's amazing.
>> And it's like, I got my
military exemption from a G.I.
Joe doll, what?
That doesn't make any sense.
My leg hurts, and
I totally got that information from
a neurosurgeon.
No, that's not the person in charge
of that, I don't think.
[LAUGH] >> You went to
your chiropractor because your
chiropractor is exactly the kind of
medical professional, not in
general chiropractors do that.
But you probably knew your
chiropractor and were like, can
you please write me an exemption?
It's like the equivalent of weed
doctors in 2004.
Where you'd be like, hey, can you
just tell people I'm stressed so
I can get a fricking weed card and
buy this eighth?
[LAUGH] >> That's what it is,
you do not have a real medical
exemption.
That type of medical exemption does
not exist, and definitely does not
mandate that that location.
And everyone's still doing this
because they're so insulated on
their social media feeds.
It does not mandate that that
establishment has to give
you service.
>> Yeah.
>> They don't.
This is not what they meant when
they said ADA compliant.
>> Just terrible.
[CROSSTALK] >> It's so good.
>> It's a crazy amount of money,
in any event.
But it was produced,
people gave it.
It's not yours.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe she needs the money because
of her chiropractor bills.
[LAUGH] I don't know,
are they expensive?
You ever get your lung cracked?
They put the elbow in, and
then they crack the lung.
It really helps,
helps me breathe freely.
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