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You know, the first thing that we're gonna talk about today
is this controversy with Teddy Fresh,
Ethan Klein and Hila Klein, right?
Because in addition to the hugely popular H3 Podcast,
they have the mega successful Teddy Fresh clothing company.
And Ethan and Hila just popped into the news
because they addressed accusations
that their clothing brand is a toxic place to work at.
A lot of this seeming to stem from Glassdoor reviews
where the company has a 1.8 star rating.
Some of the negative reviews,
they're calling it a sinking ship
saying that it's abusive and extremely toxic
and that the bosses treat employees like garbage.
Some are from as recently as this month,
others as far back as around December of 2021.
And on their podcast,
Ethan and Hila said that these were bad faith reviews
likely written by people
who never even worked at Teddy Fresh
with Ethan saying just the timing of all of this
feels like a red flag.
- Teddy Fresh has been in business
for five long (bleeping) years
and all these reviews started springing up six months ago.
Five years, nothing there,
and then all of a sudden six months ago,
there's like all at once,
like 15 (bleeping) negative reviews.
And you eventually Hila saying,
you know, some of these could be legitimate,
which is something she obviously finds concerning,
but that she believes that the majority
are just unjustified attacks.
And with this, saying she really tries to make sure
that this is a good place to work.
- I don't know,
I mean like maybe there's a couple that are real there
and that it obviously it really is sad to see
and I mean I take it very seriously
and I do believe
that we're improving the company all the time
and constantly working on it
and constantly trying to make sure
it's a really good environment for our employees.
We try to make everyone feel like they're valued
'cause we really do value everybody that works for us.
I don't think it's toxic.
I mean I'm there like all the time,
I get along great with everybody,
I feel like we all collaborate.
It's a fun place to work at.
And adding, like Ethan noted,
the timing of all this feels weird,
but Ethan then also going on to say
that he would concede
that one or two of these negative reviews are real,
but also saying how would they know
since Glassdoor hasn't actually ask the company
to verify who is writing these reviews and then adding
- But the thing is
when you're working in a job for five years,
people come and go,
and every breakup isn't always amicable
and some people, I'll be honest,
some people are (bleeping) employees and they suck
and you need to fire them.
That's just reality of owning a (bleeping) business.
- [Philip] But still, coming back and saying
the majority of these reviews are bullshit and adding well
- It's just so (bleeping) up
and it's so obvious to me that it's all bad faith.
Like we've worked so hard, specifically Hila,
to build this company and do it the right way,
and I feel like there's really nothing bad you can say
or criticize Teddy Fresh for.
Like myself and this show,
there's plenty of (bleeping)
you can (bleeping) criticize me for,
you can make a billion exposed videos on me,
but Teddy Fresh is not like that,
it's like clean and wholesome.
- [Philip] Further claiming
that they try to do right by their employees
by giving generous pay, benefits, perks,
severance packages and more,
and saying these reviews
just do not paint an accurate picture
of what is going on at Teddy Fresh,
and noting that this kind of stuff always seems to happen
when something big's going on,
right now, they have this big, big sale
and saying these takedowns are just time to line up
with something like that.
And also, as far as Hila's response,
well they say
this obviously stems from those Glassdoor reviews,
but also, it started getting traction on Reddit
and getting tons of attention with Ethan saying
- And what my theory is is that this is being fueled
by Trisha stans and Keemstar
and possibly Kav Kav.
- [Philip] And then later,
regarding Trisha Paytas specifically,
he seemed to try to make a separating point
between Trisha and her fans.
- There's a community of like Trisha stans
who hate my (bleeping) guts
and these Glassdoor reviews are always posted there.
- I'm not talking about her.
- No, it has nothing to do with Trisha.
- Okay, yeah, just say that.
- I'll say, Trisha has nothing to do with it,
but there's a community of psychos
that has nothing to do with her,
she doesn't interact with them, it's not her fault,
I'm just saying that it's always posted there
and people there are participating in the same thing.
So it just became like a (bleeping)
for people to be like "I worked at Teddy Fresh
and they treat us like Lord of the Flies.".
- [Philip] And as far as the responses here,
it is worth noting that in the past couple of days
since addressing the whole situation,
the Teddy Fresh Glassdoor
has been filled with positive five star reviews.
And notably, there are some clearly coming from fans
who are joking
about whether or not they actually work there.
As far as my opinion,
yeah, based off of the timing,
it feels like very much like review bombing,
which unfortunately across many businesses
has become this standard thing.
I mean in some places, it's even used as blackmail,
as well as the fact that if you run any business,
eventually you're gonna have people
that are disgruntled ex-employees.
And well, of course, with this story,
yes, I'm passing the question off to you,
I just, I personally, I can't imagine Hila Klein
running a bad or toxic company.
Like you're talking about the woman
that's able to successfully parent and manage Ethan Klein
on a day to day basis.
I can't even comprehend the level of professionalism
that must take.
Like that woman's gotta be a saint.
Then, what should really be a surprise
to no one at this point,
global warming is continuing to take its toll worldwide
with Europe being hit especially hard right now.
In places like Spain, temperatures have hit over 113 degrees
leading to at least 360 dying.
Portugal also faced hundreds of deaths
between July 7th and 13th
after it was hit with similar temperatures.
And understand, those numbers are expected to rise
as temperatures continue to stay hot.
And keep in mind, these are both places
that at least have an idea of how hot this is.
However, that's definitely not the case for most of Europe
where death tolls are expected to reach the thousands
due to the ongoing heat wave.
Take the UK, for example,
it's expected to see over 100 degree weather
and almost no one has ways to deal with it.
It's so hot some schools have decided
to either close early or not open at all,
rather than deal with the hundreds of heat stricken students
but being at home isn't much better.
It's estimated that 97% of British homes
just flat out don't have AC
and are in fact designed to keep homes warm,
which compounds the issue.
Some people have even resorted
to placing aluminum foil on their windows
in an attempt to keep the heat away
by reflecting the sun's rays.
And on top of all that,
many parts of the continent are fighting forest fires
caused by the extreme heat and ongoing drought.
Portugal and Spain have had thousands of acres burned
due to the ongoing fires
and thousands have been forced to leave their homes
amid a huge forest fire in Southern France.
And it's the same issue all over Europe.
600 people near Berlin forced to evacuate,
thousands of acres burned
across Greece, Croatia and Slovenia.
And while maybe for the Americans watching,
you might be hearing these numbers and go,
this doesn't sound like the biggest deal,
right, we're talking about tens of thousands of acres
across the entire continent
while a single fire in California
can burn hundreds of thousands of acres,
but large forest fires and extreme heat
are very rare in many of these countries
and they often don't have the same equipment and training
to deal with them.
Remember, and I mean this,
it is expected that thousands will die because of this.
It's just the infrastructure is completely different
and not set up for it.
All right, so some pro tips for the hot, dry weather,
gonna sound straight forward,
but it's important to remember, stay out of the sun,
and literally this cannot be said enough,
drink a ton of water.
And if you're sweating a lot,
don't forget to get some kind of electrolyte in there, too.
Otherwise, you can also get sick from an imbalance of that.
And lastly and unfortunately, do not expect this to go away.
Every year,
we've just been seeing record breaking temperatures,
once in a lifetime events happening like every single month
is apparently the new normal.
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And then finally today, we need to talk about this.
- [Officer] Shots fired, get inside.
Go, go, go.
- [Philip] Right, so that's just one piece
from around three hours of police body camera footage
from the Uvalde massacre that's just been released
along with the Texas House Committee Report
giving damning details on the failure to properly respond.
So the report says that the first responders
"lost critical momentum when they treated the situation
as a barricaded subject scenario
rather than an active shooter scenario,
leading them to take a more measured, methodical approach."
With it adding, "Correcting this error
should have sparked greater urgency
to immediately breach the classroom by any possible means
to subdue the attack and to deliver immediate aid."
With police sergeant Daniel Coronado
hearing gunshots inside the classroom
toward the beginning of the shooting and then saying,
- [Daniel] Okay guys, he's armed inside this building.
We have him contained.
- [Philip] And as minute after minute goes by,
their sense of urgency palpably fades
and you can see officers hunkered down waiting for backup.
Meanwhile, reportedly kids are still alive inside
with more gunshots popping off
during the more than an hour they're in there
and you can hear officers acknowledge
that children are still inside.
- No one knows what kids or anything else like that?
- There's kids and teachers in there.
- There's students?
- Yeah, there's a student in there talking.
- [Man] They're bringing gas and tanks.
- [Philip] Notably, you also have some officers
wanting to go inside.
- [Man] Dude, we gotta get in there.
We gotta get in there, he keeps shooting.
We gotta get in there.
- [Philip] Another expressing confusion
seemingly at the stalled response.
- What are we doing here?
- [Philip] And nearly 25 minutes after police first arrived,
you have Coronado and other officers
breaking a window to a nearby classroom
and pulling kids out.
- [Officer] Cover them, cover them, watch it,
go, go, run over there.
- [Philip] Then, more than 12 minutes later,
we see school district police chief, Pete Arredondo,
for the first time trying to negotiate with the shooter.
- [Pete] Can you let me know
if there's any kids from there or anything?
This could be peaceful.
Could you tell me your name?
Anything I can know, please?
- [Philip] And in that, it's unclear
whether he's aware there are kids inside,
but dispatch cleared that up
just moments later with this message.
- [Dispatcher] He is in the room full of victims,
full of victims at this moment.
- All the victims, child called 911
said it was full of victims.
- [Man] What
- The rom is full of victims.
Child 911, child 911 call.
- [Philip] But even despite that, six more minutes go by
with nothing happening.
And then you have Arredondo
struggling to open a nearby classroom with keys.
With more gunshot soon ringing out from the shooter,
but still Arredondo tries to negotiate with him again.
- [Arredondo] Sir, if you can hear me,
please put your firearm down, sir.
We don't want anybody else hurt.
- [Philip] There appears to be no response
and not much happens for nearly 30 minutes
until officers finally break inside
and neutralize the shooter.
By which time,
we now know a whopping 376 law enforcement officials
were on the scene
all there to take down just one 18 year old shooter.
With several different agencies present,
including local, state and federal,
and the new committee report
directs blame at all of them, saying,
"No one assumed command of the situation
despite scores of officers being there,
leading to confusion about who's in charge
with a commander of a border patrol tactical team
choosing to wait for a bulletproof shield and a master key
despite the door being unlocked
before entering the classroom."
With the report also noting, that the,
"Advanced law enforcement rapid response training teaches
that any law enforcement officer can assume command,
that someone must assume command,
and that an incident commander can transfer responsibility
as an incident develops."
And so now, you have the Uvalde mayor
launching an investigation
to see whether Lieutenant Mariano Pargas,
who was the city's acting police chief,
should have taken command of the scene",
with him also now being placed on administrative leave
for the time being.
The report also faulting issues in the school itself,
saying that the poor wifi
delayed the lockdown alert when the shooting started,
with not all teachers immediately receiving it
and the intercom not being used to communicate,
also adding that the school's doors and locks
had a recurring problems
with the locking mechanism on room 111
where the shooting took place,
widely known to be faulty, yet never repaired,
as well as a reported culture of non-compliance
with safety policies requiring doors to be locked.
Additionally, the report states
that the shooter fired a total
of 142 rounds inside the school
with at least 100 of those almost certainly fired
before police arrived.
But also, in the end, the report stresses
that it did not find any "villains"
except the shooter himself stating,
"there is no one to whom
we can attribute malice or ill motives.
Instead, we found systemic failures
and egregiously poor decision making."
With the investigators adding
that it is not their job
to say whether anyone should be held accountable.
Rather, each law enforcement agency
has to determine that itself.
So just very big news,
another bombshell update on this horrible, horrible story.
And I will say if you're interested
in reading more about the details,
because I wasn't able to get into 100% of everything,
like always, I'll include links
in the description down below.
But ultimately, that is where that story
and today's show ends.
Whether it be this final story
or anything I talked about today,
of course, I'd love to know your thoughts
in those comments down below.
I've also got more news for you here and here.
Of course, as always, my name's Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in,
I love your faces and I'll see you tomorrow.