- Sup, you beautiful bastards.
Welcome back to the show.
And y'all, I was so excited to start today's show
because I just, I wanted to experience this with you.
So you know how North Korea does like
at least a yearly show of force,
there's like a parade,
you see their military vehicles.
Well, they did a showcasing of force with their troops,
and it's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
(crowd applauds)
(soldiers screams)
(crowd applauds and cheers)
(Philip chuckles)
What is that?
But it just gets weirder.
(soldiers screams)
(crowd applauds)
(soldiers screams)
I don't even know what this is.
Is it electric shock?
(soldier screams)
(crowd applauds)
(soldiers screams)
(crowd applauds and cheers)
(soldiers screams)
And there's more,
but it's only this weird mixture of a circus act
in a state karate tournament.
And I'm just left wondering,
who is this meant to intimidate?
What country are you going to fight
whose main weaponry are two-by-fours and sledgehammers?
Are you gonna choreograph to fight us to death?
I'll take a calm, good old boy with a sniper rifle
over whatever the fuck that insanity was
any day of the week.
Then, sort of sticking with this theme of weird
and what the fuck,
though in a different and more local way,
we should talk about Shannon Bruga
also known as Shannon O'Connor.
A woman I imagine likes to think of herself as a cool mom.
I'm not like other moms.
I'm cool.
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The reason we're talking about
this 47-year-old California woman,
is that she's now been charged
for hosting a series of illegal parties
for her son and his friends,
were mostly 14 and 15 years old.
Also, before some people are like,
well, my parents let me drink.
This is gonna be no big deal.
It's probably worse than what you're thinking.
So yes, investigators say
Shannon supplied the teens with alcohol,
also pushing them to binge drink
often to the point of illness or unconsciousness.
With all of that leading to
some really dangerous situations.
Things like, yeah, people broke a finger.
Someone was drowned in a hot tub.
In another instance,
hold on for dear life with this one,
Shannon let an unlicensed, drunk teen drive her car with,
that's right, it's not over,
two kids hanging off the back of the car
while it was moving.
One then falls, hits their head,
is unconscious for 30 seconds,
later diagnosed with a concussion
after spending the night vomiting.
And then, hit them with it Billy.
- But I'm not done yet.
- She also reportedly manipulated, encouraged drunk teens
to participate in sex acts with one another.
Sometimes non-consensual acts,
and sometimes while she watched.
With victims who say that
this woman facilitated their assaults,
claiming that she also laughed while they have
and or when they asked her why she didn't step in.
With investigators adding that Shannon was very adamant
the teens who attended her parties keep them secret.
She's even accused of helping teens sneak out of their homes
so she could drive them to her events.
Reports also saying she bullied at least one teen
who was suspected of breaking the secret.
And Billy, hit them with it again.
- But I'm not done yet.
- Claims of physical assaults
and massive property damage at her parties.
I mean, there's so much to go through here.
Which is also why we saw
Santa Clara County District Attorney, Jeff Rosen, say,
"It took a lot of brave children to come forward
and to untangle this deeply disturbing case.
As a parent, I'm shocked.
As the DA,
I'm determined to hold those adults who endanger children
fully accountable to the law and our community."
And all in,
Shannon now faces a total of 39 criminal charges,
which is why it should be no surprise to you
that Shannon is our douchebag of the day.
Which y'all, I've been doing this for a minute,
but it feels like a lot of the news just keeps getting worse
to the point that douchebag of the day
isn't even an appropriate title.
This is a monster person.
The line of negligent mom to monster mom
was crossed very early in this story.
But I'm gonna leave it there.
I feel like if I keep talking on this,
I'm just gonna say something
that's gonna get me in trouble.
And so actually, I'll pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts regarding this story?
Then a former NFL star, Brett Favre,
scandal news at this time doesn't involve him
sending unsolicited dick pics to female journalists.
It appears that the law is knock, knock, knocking
on Brett Favre's door.
And this because according to the Mississippi Free Press,
Brett "Received $1.1 million in funds from two non-profits
whose founder has since been indicted on state
and federal charges for their alleged role
in the largest embezzlement scheme in state history".
With Mississippi State Auditor, Shad White,
saying that Favre now must return $828,000
that he received from welfare funds
that should've gone to needy families.
And as far as the specifics of Favre's involvement,
you have White saying that he accepted the money
for speaking engagements that he never actually attended
for Families First For Mississippi,
which was one of the non-profits
involved in the allegations.
Now, with this,
Favre has said that he didn't know that
the funds were illegal when he accepted them.
And in fact, in May of 2020,
the auditor said that Favre did
return a portion of the funds,
but as it stands now,
Brett and the other people here
need to pay the money back in 30 days,
or they're gonna face a civil lawsuit.
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Then, in interesting entertainment news,
it starts with a gift that keeps on giving,
or the thing you wish people would stop recommending to use,
"Squid Game".
The show is in the news for a couple of reasons.
I mean, you've probably seen "Squid Game"
reach 111 million fans.
It's Netflix's biggest series launch ever.
It wasn't even close,
beating out the previous leader, "Bridgerton",
which had a launch of 82 million households watching
in the first four weeks.
In fact, according to a Morning Consult poll,
around one out of every four Americans has watched the show.
It's also sparked creators online
to have their own squid game.
For example, it's popping up all over online,
Moistcr1tikal, Bryce Hall.
It appears that MrBeast is next.
But what has gotten my attention the most
is what this show has done for the debate
of subs versus dubs.
Now when you watch a foreign language film,
do you listen to it with its original audio,
and then the subtitles in your language?
Or do you select different audio, right?
The dubbing in your language.
And I will say I was really surprised
by the results of this Morning Consult poll,
but they found that only 38% of adults prefer subtitles.
And as the person gets older,
the less likely they already use subtitles.
Boomers coming in at 28%,
and it worked the same way on the opposite end.
The younger a person was,
the more likely it was that they preferred subtitles.
With millennials coming in at 45%.
Gen Z at 51%.
Oh, I will say how those numbers changed
specifically for "Squid Game"
because I don't wanna trash anyone for doing their job,
but the dubbing on "Squid Game" was horrible.
Like it genuinely sounds like someone's trying to parody
how bad dubbing can be,
but it's people actually trying.
Well, of course, I'd love to know your opinion
in those comments down below.
I kind of couldn't wait,
and this morning I launched a poll for y'all.
What we found there is that
when it comes to beautiful bastards,
81% of you prefer subtitles.
Some noting that,
"The original language really carries a lot of energy
and tone that totally gets lost in translation!"
Though we also saw people on the other side saying,
I'm not an exceptionally fast reader.
Some saying they're visually impaired,
so they go dubbed.
Also, I think there's an easy argument to be made
that it depends on if something actually features people,
or if it's a cartoon or an anime.
Yeah, if you haven't already,
let me know where you stand on this, and why.
Then in very interesting social media news,
we had Facebook today changing
who you can attack on their platform.
But Facebook's Global Safety Chief saying that activists
and journalists will now be considered
involuntary public figures.
And so that, at least in theory,
means that they should get increased protections
against harassment and bullying.
And that's because Facebook says
they treat private individuals
and public figures differently.
For example, as Reuters notes,
"Users are generally allowed to call for the death
of a celebrity in discussions on the platform,
as long as they do not tag
or directly mention the celebrity."
But they say they will not allow calls
for the death of a private individual,
or now a journalist.
But also, as far as the celebrities, according to Reuters,
Facebook's Global Head of Safety said that
they will be expanding the types of attacks
that they will not allow on public figures on their sites.
But it's kind of weird
because you think the line would be,
okay, you can't call for the death of a public figure.
But where the report goes on to list is that they
"Will no longer allow severe
and unwanted sexualizing content,
derogatory sexualized photoshopped images or drawings
or direct negative attacks on a person's appearance".
But nowhere is there a mention of murder?
Whether you agree that Facebook should be limiting stuff
or not,
that almost feels like a separate conversation,
then why wouldn't...
Like if you're going to limit it,
why wouldn't you work from the top down?
Anyway.
Then in really big negative news for Amazon though,
let's all be honest.
It's not gonna cause anyone to not use Amazon.
Jeff Bezos could shoot someone in the street,
and people will be like, yeah,
but I still have Prime.
What because Jeff Bezos is shooting people
in the middle of the street,
I have to go into a store and interact with people?
No.
Jeff Bezos gets to commit 17 murders a year.
It's in the Amazon terms of service that you agreed to.
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But yeah, the news is that this morning,
Reuters released a massive report
accusing Amazon India of a number of things.
With them claiming to have reviewed thousands of pages
of internal Amazon documents before making the report,
which, I mean,
some of those documents include strategies
that Amazon has long denied using during antitrust hearings
both in the US and India.
And the two big takeaways we'll talk about
is that they engaged in search seating,
which is when it puts Amazon produced products
like AmazonBasics in the first two or three search options.
And the second being,
Amazon identifying and producing what they refer to
as reference or benchmark products,
which is just copying items
that are popular among customers.
However,
it looks like they did far more than just copy
how products look and function, right?
Amazon brands have access to tens of thousands
of customer reviews on competitors' products,
and then design theirs to deal with the issues.
Both of those things are especially egregious in India,
which requires foreign-owned market sites like Amazon
to be neutral marketplaces
and not promote their own products.
That's also why Amazon India
is currently undergoing an antitrust investigation
with this report obviously not going to help them.
Though to share the other side,
Amazon has denied these claims saying in a statement
that they were "factually incorrect and unsubstantiated".
Yeah, ultimately, I mean,
we're gonna have to see what happens.
I mean, and also this story probably sounds familiar.
And that's because Amazon's been accused
of similar practices in multiple nations.
At the time of those,
you had then CEO, Jeff Bezos,
denying that the company engaged in such practices,
coming up with a story that any such actions
were done by rogue employees.
However, Reuters' report states that
at least two high level executives knew of
and signed off on Amazon India's plans.
And as far as if Jeff Bezos will say anything here,
probably not.
I think he's trying to distance himself from that.
I mean, today he was busy
shooting William Shatner into space.
Also, just so we're clear,
Shatner then also returned back to earth.
But that is where I'll end the story
since Jeff Bezos still has three murders left for 2021.
Thanks for watching,
and I'll see you tomorrow.