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And let's just jump into it.
I'm gonna warn you, I'm feeling petty right now,
but I'm feeling happy.
And that is because over the weekend
the BAMF that is AnEson Gib gave Austin McBroom
one of the biggest Ls of his life on a night of Ls.
So if you're unaware, which is entirely possible
because I don't know what the promotion plan for this was.
Like I didn't even know this event was happening
until they were like, "Yeah, we're gonna delay it,
and also no one's here."
Which is just wild when you compare it to like
the other two big ones we recently saw.
KSI had a lot of success
even though he wasn't fighting a big name.
iDubbbz's Creator Clash was so fun to watch.
It was a massive success, sold tons of pay-per-views.
But for this fight, you just saw empty seats for days.
- We are here in the VIP lounge.
There is more people in here
than there is outside in the venue right now.
There's about, if I had to guess,
maybe 100 to 300 people here.
- For those who were fighting,
also Austin McBroom's company was putting on the event,
and Gib turned Austin McBroom
into Austin McNight-Night, bitch,
knocking out the douchebag king in round four
after putting him down five times.
Also as enjoyable all the knockdowns are to watch on repeat,
you can find and search them,
but I don't wanna give Austin the ability
to take down this video.
I've seen a bunch of videos getting removed for copyright,
I imagine because it's embarrassing.
And yes, a lot of the story's gonna be me
joining in on the internet, making fun of McBroom,
but I really do want to give Gib his flowers here.
The leaps and bounds he has made
since he had that horrible fight with Jake Paul
where he was doing that crab stance,
absolutely fucking amazing, props to that man.
What we've seen since then, what we saw over the weekend
is the continuation of just pure will and determination
on his part.
It is truly inspiring.
But back to Austin McL.
For him being the self-promoter that he is,
he's been trying to build himself up
to be this kind of a Jake or Logan Paul, KSI type,
having easily beaten Bryce Hall in his previous fight
but also having just a shit show of an event,
finding out then and I imagine even more
now that he is not the pull that he imagines himself to be.
KSI mocking him from overseas, tweeting,
"Ha ha ha, Austin McBroom.
This man wanted to fight me for $3 million.
More like three cents."
But also, if we're being honest, KSI went so easy on McBroom
compared to the rest of the internet.
And I understand why the internet would react that way,
because I mean, he's a villain.
Whether it be all the cocky bullshit
he was saying to Gib before the fight,
or if you wanna talk about quality of character stuff,
people looking about how he's exploited
his audience and family.
And regarding audience,
why so many people have called him a scammer.
You know, a number of those things are connected
to why I'm feeling so petty right now.
But, and I don't know if I've ever
publicly talked about this.
In addition to me thinking that he does
a lot of fucked up stuff on the internet,
this motherfucker years ago when my oldest was younger
and I wasn't there, he didn't realize
that this kid that he was filming was my son, Trey.
But he saw this crying child at a haircut,
was like, "That's gonna be content,"
and posted my son to his story.
I forget if it was his story or his Snapchat.
And he shot it in this way to be like,
"Look at this child that's losing it,
and then look at my angels."
Mocking and filming my son without permission
while he was like freaking out
because he has a sensitivity to sound.
And so that which I've held inside since then
is part of the reason I'm so glad this scumbag got dropped,
especially at a fucking failure of an event
where the great majority of people that are even aware of it
are aware of it because you've been fucking memed,
you loser.
(sighs) I feel two pounds lighter.
Surgeries are horrifying, right?
No matter how simple,
there's always the possibility of complications.
You're trusting your body and your life
in the hands of strangers, sometimes for hours.
And then on top of all that,
there's this other random thing of
what if one of the people involved is like a creep or worse?
And I'm not saying all this because of a hypothetical
but rather because of Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr.,
who's an anesthesiologist at
the Baylor Scott and White Surgicare center in Dallas.
So he's the guy who administers anesthesia.
He knocks you out, he puts you under,
he monitors your vitals
and assumes responsibility for your wellbeing.
It's a key position.
It's a big responsibility.
It gets them big six-figure salaries.
And our buddy Ortiz here is gonna probably
need to use some of that salary for a lawyer soon,
because the Texas Medical Board claims that he is behind
a string of mysterious incidents this year,
starting with an 18 year old
who went in for a normal operation,
and all of a sudden he experienced severe complications,
with his parents saying,
"The idea we could take our healthy, vibrant 18 year old
in for a routine surgery and 90 minutes in
be told that he had 50-50 odds of survival is nightmarish."
But it wasn't just one person.
He had at least three more patients contacting their lawyers
with similar stories, all young, all healthy,
expecting to go in and out the same day,
but randomly going into cardiac arrest
on the operating table,
with one patient even reportedly dying as a result.
But also the list of victims extends
outside of the operating room.
Because back in June, a physician at the center,
Dr. Melanie Casper, took an IV bag home to rehydrate.
And when she plugged it into her vein
she almost immediately went into cardiac arrest and died
according to the Texas Medical Board.
So investigators suspect
that compromised IV bags are the cause,
and when they checked the hospital surveillance cameras,
they make a shocking discovery.
You had Dr. Ortiz allegedly depositing the bags
in a warmer in the hall outside the operating room
with patients suffering complications shortly after.
And then when those bags were examined,
they had visible tiny holes in the plastic wrap,
with them also testing positive for Bupivacaine,
which is a drug the board said could and would be fatal.
And so on Friday the board suspends Ortiz,
but bizarrely enough, he didn't even hear the news
because when CBS reached out to him for comment,
he was like, "What, suspended?"
And he denied the allegations,
saying he never harmed any patients.
And so now we're in this situation
where we're waiting to see what happens next.
Because right now he has not been arrested yet.
He's been deemed a threat to the public
and so his license has been suspended.
And he is being criminally investigated,
but he's just out right now.
And so for now, we have to wait.
Do not get sick in Minnesota until Thursday.
And I say that because in Minnesota they just launched
the largest private sector nurses strike in US history
with around 15,000 nurses spread across 15 hospitals
walking the picket line this morning.
Now, importantly, this is not coming outta nowhere.
The Minnesota Nurses Association
has been negotiating with hospital administrators
since back in March, and contracts expired in May and June.
With this clash centering on a few key demands,
one being a 30% pay increase over the next three years,
with the union pointing out
that inflation is at four decade highs.
Plus nurses jobs have become less safe
and more difficult since the pandemic.
But they've also been quick to stress
that pay is not the primary reason that they're striking.
What's really at stake is patient care.
There was already an issue,
but COVID severely exacerbated a hospital staffing shortage
driven by burnout, low pay, and unsafe conditions,
leaving the healthcare industry
down 37,000 workers from February of 2020.
And so you've got this situation
where more people are flooding into the hospitals,
but you have fewer nurses per patient.
So naturally the quality of care sinks through the floor.
With Minnesota nurses saying that some units
go without a lead nurse on duty
and that nurses fresh outta school
are delegated assignments typically held
by more experienced nurses.
And you've got the union now claiming to have found
a 300% increase in nurses' reports
of unsafe staffing levels since 2014.
With the union's vice president also saying,
"Call lights go unanswered.
Patients should only be waiting for a few seconds or minutes
if they've soiled themselves or their oxygen came unplugged
or they need to go to the bathroom,
but that can take 10 minutes or more.
Those are things that can't wait."
And so to try to fix this, they proposed several reforms,
including a committee made up of nurses
and management at each hospital
that would determine appropriate staffing levels
as well as protections against retaliation
for nurses who report under staffing.
But healthcare groups have resisted many of these demands,
countering with a pay increase of just 10 to 12%,
which isn't even half of what the nurses wanted.
With one spokesperson saying.
- 29% and 30% wage demands is something
we've told them repeatedly
is not something that's affordable for hospitals
that have lost hundreds of millions of dollars
so far in 2022.
- And so for the duration of this strike,
which is set to end on Thursday,
hospitals say that they'll actually remain open
by temporarily reducing some staff
and filling the rest of the hole with travel nurses.
Which, as I previously said on the show,
not to like intentionally blow up my mom's spot,
she's a travel nurse.
If I was getting paid less
and in a generally less shitty position
because I was being loyal and dedicated
to a specific hospital and a travel nurse came in
and was making more money than me,
I'd be fucking furious too.
Like how can you be surprised when you're losing employees?
Like do hospital administrators not realize
that they're creating part of their own problem?
If you have a job,
and your replacements are being treated better,
why not just become one of them?
And I will pull back to a certain degree,
not to be all high and mighty.
I imagine it's a little bit of a snowball situation.
Things just get outta hand.
And then you're like, "How do we put it back?"
I don't know.
The whole thing seems like a shit show.
But as far as Minnesota, there's no sign
negotiation's gonna start back up right now.
So we're gonna have to wait to see what happens.
And of course I'd love to know everyone's thoughts,
but especially if you're part of the healthcare industry,
you got family or friends that are in it,
or you're specifically in Minnesota,
I'd especially love to hear from you.
The strike is historic
and I wanna hear from the people living through it.
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Don't trust the polls.
Have you forgotten?
Are you new here?
That is what's being said
by a number of Democrats right now.
And that's because many Democrats right now are polling well
since the reversal of Roe V. Wade,
and since Biden in the party have finally taken steps
in some key issue areas and promises.
But hugely important,
according to a new analysis by the New York Times,
some of the places that democratic Senate candidates
are currently out-polling expectations
are in the same places where polls overestimated
both Biden and 2020, and Clinton in 2016.
For example, in Wisconsin,
you have the incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson
broadly favored to win the election with FiveThirtyEight,
making him a two-point favorite
but all of a sudden,
recent polls look amazing for Democrats,
with a Marquette Law School survey
even showing Johnson's democratic opponent
leading him by seven percentage points.
But Wisconsin is a fantastic state
if you're looking for survey errors.
Because in 2020, the polls also overestimated Biden
by a similar margin of about eight percentage points.
But Wisconsin is just one example of many.
What we're seeing is in places where the polls
overestimated how well Biden was doing,
Democrats right now are exceeding expectations.
But then you have Democrats seeming to do far less well
in places where the polling
was far more accurate two years ago, like Georgia.
Which is why you have some raising the alarm and saying,
"Hey, this Democratic strength
that we think that we're seeing in places like Wisconsin,
this could be a mirage."
Or as some have described it,
"An artifact of persistent and unaddressed biases
in survey research."
And if the 2020 polling versus elections are any indication,
this could be not only a problem for the House
which they're expected to lose,
but it could also spell serious trouble
for Democrats' efforts to keep control of the Senate.
And actually to further illustrate this,
you have the Times providing a graph of poll averages
in the nine states that Cook political report
describes as competitive what poll error looked like
in those states in 2020,
and then what actually happened in 2020.
And finding that if those trends held for 2022,
the apparent Democratic edge in Senate races
in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Ohio would evaporate.
Take the chamber.
Republicans would need any two
of Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, or Pennsylvania.
And adding with Democrats today,
well ahead in Pennsylvania and Arizona,
the fight control of the chamber
would come down to the very close races
in Nevada and Georgia.
And so I guess all of this brings us
to the final point of this is as we get into the midterms,
you may see the polling changing and going like,
"Oh, I guess that's what's gonna happen."
Polling is just polling.
It is imperfect.
And as you know, because you live a life,
what people say and what people actually do
or follow through with, not usually the same thing.
Do not be complacent.
Be skeptical when the news that you're hearing sounds good,
and always prepare for the worst.
It may lead you to being like me,
just an emotionally exhausted human being.
But you can't say that you're getting surprised.
Russia is getting fucked up right now.
And the ones doing it to them are these beautiful bastards.
And knock on wood,
things are looking pretty good right now for Ukraine.
So obviously a lot has happened
since we last talked about this war in detail,
such as Russia making some slow advances across the front.
But almost none of that matters anymore
after these last two weeks,
with Ukraine launching a series of counter offensives
that have recaptured thousands of square kilometers
of territory.
The operation ahead of a lot of publicity
started in the south to retake Kherson
and open up the possibilities of retaking Southern Ukraine.
And since then, it's made steady progress towards Kherson,
Although it looks like it was never meant to be
the main thrust.
Instead, that seems to have been reserved for
a surprise offensive in the Northeast of the country
in the Kharkiv region over the weekend,
with Russian troops quickly abandoning the front
in what appeared to be a barely organized retreat.
And it's hard to understate how big of a win
this has been for Ukraine so far.
We're talking thousands of square miles
and capturing major transportation hubs like Izyum.
Controlling those hubs means controlling
a lot of the railway access Russia has needed
to supply its troops that deep in Ukraine.
Plus we're also seeing reports that Ukraine
has managed to encircle large amounts of Russian troops.
So taken all together,
this is a major operational victory for Ukraine
and a borderline unmitigated disaster for Russia.
And it's such a wild thing to think
it was marketing, essentially,
that that was a big hero of this story.
Where Ukraine hypes up the Southern offensive,
which analysts actually say wasn't actually that different
from the progress that it's been making for months.
It's just that this time, thanks to better marketing,
Russia bites, and they move
troops and materials to the south
and they accidentally let Ukraine have
an alleged eight-to-one advantage near Kharkiv.
We've also seen Russia's military
acknowledge its retreat from the region.
They described it as a regrouping
to better fortify the Donetsk region.
But regardless of what narrative Putin wants out there,
this has been a big shock back in Russia,
even leading some Putin allies
to uncharacteristically question the situation.
With the biggest name in this camp being Ramzan Kadyrov.
He's a leader of Chechnya and allegedly he's been to Ukraine
and hinted in a nearly 10-minute audio recording on Telegram
that he doesn't believe Putin is being told the truth
and explaining, "If today or tomorrow,
no changes in strategy are made,
I will be forced to speak with the leadership
of the defense ministry and the leadership of the country
to explain the real situation on the ground to them.
It is a very interesting situation.
It's astounding, I would say."
Now, before you get too hopeful, I do wanna note,
this does not mean the war is even
remotely close to being over.
Russia's goals and demands seem ridiculous.
They don't seem to want to engage in serious peace talks.
You have Ukraine not willing to accept
anything less than the total retreat of Russian forces,
including from Crimea.
And honestly, I think that makes sense
because any sort of compromise, right,
where people are like,
"You know, maybe sometimes we gotta meet in the middle."
It seems so transparently obvious
that would just be Russia taking a breather
before fully engaging again.
But for now, we're gonna have to wait to see
how many more dead Russians
Putin wants to throw at the situation,
since he just kind of wants to terrorize his neighbor.
Because let there be no confusion,
all of this unnecessary death lands on Putin.
He's an old monster and pursuit of legacy,
and the only true one he will have
are people dancing when he dies.
But that is ultimately where that story
and today's show ends.
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