Locals in the Netherlands want to ensure that their voices are heard.
And so they found a playful way to retaliate against billionaire
Jeff Bezos whose yacht is being built in the Netherlands.
There's just one problem.
Apparently, there's a historic bridge,
the DF Bridge that they want to essentially dismantle for
Bazos to be able to sail his massive yacht, $500 million yacht to open C.
Now the Dutch are not into that, the locals are furious about this,
they think that this is a terrible thing to do.
Especially considering this is a bridge that has just finished renovations.
Historic bridge that suffered serious damage in World War Two.
And so they feel that dismantling it and
then building it back up again could potentially damage it further.
And so one local named Pablo has decided to organize something which I'm amused by.
He organized a Facebook event to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos's yacht if
the bridge is dismantled for it to pass.
>> Well, that is a unique solution.
I don't know it, our politicians here in America-
>> I'm here for it.
[LAUGH] Should be wary of those ideas spreading.
So, look, a couple of things here first, he's gonna be all right,
he's not going to be on the yacht when you exit.
And what is going to cost to clean up, $10,000, I mean, they're rich.
So they probably charging $20,000 to clean up a bunch of rotten eggs.
Right, the Yacht's worth $500 million.
>> It costs tens of millions of dollars just to maintain it per month,
like it is insanely expensive to maintain that ship.
>> Yeah, although I'll tell you if after all that the rotten egg thing worked and
it's and the yacht smelled from that on.
>> That'd be great.
[LAUGH] Okay, now having said all that, I'm going to surprise you a little bit.
There is a twist here though because I do feel like they approved this project
to build the yacht and it did create some jobs etcetera behind the bridge full.
Well, knowing that they were going to have to dismantle the bridge once the yacht
was built.
So the time to have made that decision was back then.
You can't build the yacht and then go, okay now it's stuck forever and
you you can't take it out.
You see what I'm saying?
>> No. >> [LAUGH]
>> It's very likely that people were not
aware of what was going on until it was too late.
>> Yeah.
>> This is by the way,
the construction of this mega yacht was super secretive until fairly recently.
And so I don't think the locals knew what was going on and the story
about the bridge being dismantled came out in the news very recently as well.
And so I could imagine what the local community is feeling
there because we feel it all the time.
We feel that we don't matter,
our voices are never heard even among the very representatives that we vote in for
these positions of power and you feel frustrated.
You feel angry in the United States, some people unfortunately will either
resort to violence or threaten violence in the Netherlands.
They throw rotten eggs, and I think that that's totally fine.
>> Well look I presume Netherlands democracy is in much, much,
much better shape than ours.
So you're right, I'm sure the locals didn't know the details of this deal but
the mayor did presumably.
>> Yeah.
>> And so.
>> The mayor [INAUDIBLE].
>> Yeah.
>> The politician.
>> So vote out the mayor,
that's how you show that you disapprove of the decision that he made.
That's how a democracy works now in America.
That wouldn't work at all because Jeff Bezos would give the other side like $250
million dollars in political contributions.
And then he would become your prime minister [LAUGH] and
then they would dismantle every bridge and they would rename Netherlands Bezos land.
Okay, that's how it would work in America but
I think you guys have a relatively functioning democracy.
So sure have fun throw the eggs and then vote out the mayor.
>> Now just to give you some more details on Pablo's intentions here.
Remember I said that he organized this Facebook event to throw the rotten eggs.
So far a lot of people have RSVP'd 3800 people have marked
themselves as going to this event.
And over 13,300 people have marked themselves as interested [INAUDIBLE]
>> [LAUGH] I'm interested.
>> Yeah, like the one I love the noncommittal reservations even with this
type of situation, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Where it's like maybe, look in this case it's fine but
don't do a maybe RSVP for an actual event.
>> [INAUDIBLE] story.
>> Like don't do the non committal thing.
>> [LAUGH] >> Everyone hates you when you do that.
>> [LAUGH] >> Anyway especially me, all right, but
I want to give you some statements from Pablo.
He says Rotterdam was built from the rubble by Rotterdammers and
we don't just take it apart for
the phallus symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire.
Not without a fight.
>> And by the way of course the rotten eggs aren't gonna stop this yacht.
So why do it Pablo says, this because I'm a Rotterdamer.
And I think people with a lot of money should realize you can't make everything.
We, with this call we make our voice heard in a playful way and
I think that that is going very well.
So look there's no permanent damage here.
I like that they tinkered with their strategy here,
do we do the fresh eggs now let's go with the rotten eggs fair.
>> Yeah.
I think that that's a good middle ground is it?
>> It seems like it's a little bit more extreme but okay [LAUGH].
>> It's just gonna be fine.
>> No, no that's exactly what I'm gonna do, like I don't like anything physical.
But this isn't against the person and
the yacht is so gigantic it's like throwing against the wall.
So it's more symbolic than anything else that's why I don't mind it and
of course it's playful and and I bet if you win.
They really hold the event and you really go, I better be the time of your life and
probably the only thing that's gonna think afterwards is probably everybody's close.
Keep it real, it's not gonna affect Brazos 1% but it's fun.
>> [LAUGH] >> I like it,
you're trying to fight back in your own way.
The other part of the, like in the stories how the guy keeps saying I'm a router
jammer, okay, and this is what Rotterdammers do.
>> Yeah, no.
>> Okay.
>> I'm definitely feeling it like- >> Yeah.
>> More power to him, also, I think this is a good example of someone using
certain terminology and us just regurgitating it.
Because he's the one who's referred to this as playful and I'm like yeah,
playful totally.
[CROSSTALK] This is I mean if it happened to us,
like if someone was throwing rotten eggs at our house or something.
We wouldn't be like this is super playful.
[LAUGH].
>> Yeah, well that's different.
Our house is not worth half a billion dollars.
>> Yeah.
>> And we don't have 28 people to clean it up for what would be nothing for us.
Right?
>> Yeah.
>> Anyways, last thing for me climbing on Bezos,
you build a half a billion dollar yacht and he can't get under a bridge.
Like and this bridge is really, really tall,
so apparently that you cannot get under any bridge in the world.
And so it's gonna be kind of stuck in some places
and- >> Bezos is really good at burning
bridges, that's what he does.
>> Okay, you know what?
There's one bridge he built though, which is that on twitch.
If you have Amazon prime, you can take Jeff Bezos's money and give it to us.
Go to TYT dot com slash prime and you'll see it takes about 30 seconds.
You redistribute his wealth to a progressive show like ours.
It's a way of kind of virtually throwing an egg at him.
I'm just saying I'm not biased at all here, but TYT dot com slash prime and
will have the link down below.