(upbeat music) - Hello there, here's some more news. No, really. I mean that, it's not
just some empty phrase, routinely ejaculated from my numb lips, devoid of meaning or passion, after years of exhausted repetition. I guess it's that too. But not for this specific episode. Mostly not, no folks this time. I'd like to truly give you some more news. As in a scattering of news stories, some of it, but more. See, you might've noticed
that the current year is now 2021 and that's fine, I guess. We can't do anything
about the passage of time. Also 2020 was terrible. Mainly because of that
guy, you know, the guy and the virus, you know, the one. It killed Herman Cain,
the virus, not the guy, but also probably the guy. The point is, the news
was pretty much dominated by those two things, not Herman Cain, the virus and the other guy. And unfortunately, that
means a lot of stuff from the past year, might've been missed. Lots of news clutter,
falling under the seats of this high-speed railway through the pandemic hell we call life. That's why, this particular
news dude, has opted to spend the next, however many minutes rummaging those dusty crevices, to give you all the junk you may or may not have missed from the past year. Doubling back, if you
will, like the ZZ Top Song in Back to the Future Part Three. or rather, turning to look at the disaster we just swerve past like Marty, almost hitting the Rolls Royce, the end of Back to the Future Part Three. And while there's probably other Back to the Future Part Three
comparisons, we can list off. Let's just put up a title, "Catching Up on the Garbage You
Missed During the Pandemic." Yeah, nice and simple. Harmless, assorted news. No need to be scared folks, relax. Put your feet up. Like Marty, at the beginning of Back to the Future Part Three. I mean, okay, yes a lot of
this will surely be depressing because that's just how news is. But isn't it just nice to
know what you're getting? No complicated impeachment. No countless virus fatalities. Just news by a news dude, sitting here without pants looking you, in the eye with my hands fully in view, telling you, what's what. Manageable, undemanding. Maybe with a few
unintrusive jokes in there like pointlessly yet effortlessly, working in Back of the Future
Part three references. Yes, certainly this will be an easy video with no weird puppets or eggs or interruptions or, see? No comedic irony here,
thank you very much. Do we have a fake out where
something wacky happens now that the audience feels safe? Good. That's good. Anyway, let's get into the news. Just you and me and no, nothing zany that's
what I thought, okay. Just good old fashioned
fun like, police brutality. That's the stuff you love. Christ, okay, perhaps buckle up. I don't know if you remember this, but last year was pretty full
of that, police brutality, including, but not limited to that time... - Little Cody stop, it's
you from the future. - (beep) No, no. - Did I catch you at a bad time? - Always, if you're going
back in time to talk to me, you're always catching me at a bad time. - Oh, well, since I'm here anyway, I couldn't help but overhear your desire to change the passage of time. But you were in luck
little me, thanks to this, time can now be reversed. Simply put this into your computer and time will rewind itself. Sending a video message in reverse through the events you just witnessed. I call it on un-forward-tion. - Oh good. You're doing "Tenet." Yeah, we've all seen that for sure. Everyone is talking about "Tenet." Thanks, just give me the thing. - Blop. - Oh wow, it worked. You send it back in time. You did it. Any other (beep) you wanna say or do? Some kind of song or anything you need to get out of your system now? - Oh, well, what are you up to? Do you need any help
with your news program? You know back in my day,
I used to be quite the... - And we're moving on. I'm just gonna... There we go, like nothing happened. Where were we? Oh right, the police
brutality, good stuff. Not so much a thing you missed as it is a thing that dominated
the news cycle last summer. Specifically the almost entirely peaceful, "Black Lives Matter" protests calling for the defunding of the police, which suddenly stopped
when Joe Biden was elected. Therefore ending all racism or maybe the election just
took over the news cycle. I don't recall what ended the racism, just that it was definitely ended. And now that the dust is settling, you know now that all racism
and police brutalities ended, we're getting a scattering of lawsuits, half-assed apologies and
shocking revelations, of just how (beep) the police were during these dark times
that are totally now over. Not to mention that thing
where a bunch of inflamed, predominantly cracker-ass
and pro-authoritarian, stop the steal protesters,
stormed the U.S Capitol and was met with a hilariously less hitty and tear-gassy response from the police. Showcasing the obvious
difference when the gathering is of a whiter more boot-licky form. And then those people
literally attack the police with blue lives matter flags as if, I don't know, maybe the
people who wielded those all last year didn't actually
care about police lives, so much as police
upholding their own values, specifically white supremacy. Anywho, overall, the other protest, the Black Lives Matter ones, claiming that police were poorly trained and violent racists were met with overwhelming affirmation that the police were indeed those things. Like in 100 page reports
on police violence during those protests. And then we all kinda
stopped talking about it because racism had ended. Thank you, Joe. But, what if, perhaps, hear me out? What if racism hadn't actually ended? And while we all moved on, a bunch of those police
that did the bad things, that made the headlines are
now quietly getting off faster than a perverted mime? - [Reporter] Erie County
district attorney, John Flynn, says he makes no apologies after charging two Buffalo police officers with felony assault last summer. On Thursday, Flynn announced a grand jury had dismissed those
charges against officers, Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe. They were arrested after they
pushed 75 year old protestor, Martin Gino to the ground last June. Flynn, couldn't go into much detail about what happened inside the
grand jury proceedings, since that's kept secret
under federal law. - Oh right. You remember that brazen assault? The one we all saw happen on camera, where two cops shoved an old
man over while unprovoked? And that old man would go
on to have a concussion and ultimately lose
hearing in one of his ears and have to walk with a cane? You know, that really open
and shut case of assault, we all saw happen and
we're like, geez, well, if those two brazen
goons don't get punished, then maybe we should
just stop having America. Yeah, they didn't get punished
despite their crime being on camera. And we'll probably never know why that is. Despite definitely knowing
that they did the assault because it's on camera, you see. Which I guess isn't enough
to get a cop in trouble - [Journalist] In Philadelphia, a high ranking police officer, caught on video beating a 21 year old Temple University student, has been charged with aggravated assault. - That's Police Staff
Inspector, Joseph Bologna, real Paul Blart melon farmer,
seen beating a protestor on the head in June. The protester, a 21 year old
Temple University student, required stitches for their injuries, but not before getting arrested while suffering a head injury. You can probably guess
where this is heading. Which is Joey Bologna becoming a free man at the start of the new year. After a judge ruled that
quote, "Prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to
establish that Bologna's use of his Baton amounted to a crime." You know, despite the
evidence being him doing that crime on camera. And if it's not a crime,
perhaps we should make it one? To quote his attorney after the charges, that we all saw happen
on camera were dropped, "This is really a great victory "for those people like Inspector Bologna." Those people being, one assumes, meat-themed, hate-balloons who should be in jail for violence. (indistinct chatter) (crowd yells) Don't adjust your You Tubes. That schlubby blur of rage, is
also Inspector Joey Bologna. Recorded a day before the other assault. Doing a separate equally
less provoked assault. Anyway, no charges against this wacky and terrifying fictional
man who actually exists or at least not yet To be fair they have refiled the charges. You know, because he was
filmed doing the crimes. It seems like it should
be easy, but whatever. I'm not a law fella, just a flawed yella, yuck, yuck cops are murderers. Like you hear about when they shot Black
Lives Matter protester, Jorge Gomez back in June and claimed he had pointed a gun at them. Turns out that according to
new surveillance footage, he was actually just running away. So yeah, it sure seems like
they executed a man publicly and then lied about what happened. And maybe could someone go
to jail about it please. But Hey at least we
successfully defunded them. No, not actually that either. And in fact, a good deal of big cities are increasing their police budgets including left leaning
ones and Minneapolis, the place where George Floyd, was killed. That promised to disband the police, didn't actually do that. And the cities that
did try to cut budgets, didn't really do it by much. And like almost nothing got done. That's a weird thing to happen. Jeez and gosh, and golly,
seems like there needs to be continued calls
to action for protests on the same level as last year. And like, wowee, there's just
so much to get into here. Including, but not limited
to all the other recent cases of police officers shooting
unarmed black people since George Floyd. You know, like this man named Carl Dorsey or this man named Dennis Plowden or how about Jonathan Price, who was tased and then shot and killed
by a cop for the crime of trying to break up a fight. Oh and here's a mental
health call that ended in the unarmed and black
man being shot and killed. And here's one in Ohio,
where the unarmed black man wasn't doing a crime, but
was shot within 10 seconds of the officers showing up. That was three weeks after cops in the same city shot Casey
Goodson Jr multiple times and in the back, but I'm sure they had a perfectly good reason to do it. Nothing fishy there. I'm sure there will be some
kind of consequences, right? Like, like how this officer
totally lost his job for lighting up a vehicle
that was backing up after giving no warning to the car and killing a 19 year old man
named Marcellis Stinnette. They also wounded his girlfriend, who later said the cops
were harassing them prior to the murder. But justice, because he lost his job, for the murder that he did. Dude has to get a new job. It's pretty tough, right? These days especially. Gotta fill out applications
and stuff, yuck! Anyway, thus completes our
update on police violence and protests. We totally did it you
guys, and also, I'm sorry, this video is already a handful. But with any luck, we'll... Come the hell on. - (speaking unintelligibly) - Okay, yeah, I get it. It's it's just like "Tenet." Can we just focus on... (speaking unintelligibly) - All right. I'm sorry. I guess this means I'm just
gonna be doing reverse stuff. That's great, looking forward to that. Glad that's in my future. I'm really happy about all of this. (sighs) (speaking unintelligibly) Yeah, no, I get it. Time is inevitable and
ouroboros or whatever. Thanks. See ya. Sorry about that, everyone. I agree that it sucks and makes no sense. And like it's not even
really timely at this point. And no one saw the movie. Anyway, cops who also suck,
like the film "Tenets" sucks. Also things that suck, prisons. You know those places we've
been trying not to think about since COVID hit
because yeah, they definitely have a COVID problem resulting
in 2,100 inmate deaths, along with 170 guard deaths. Meanwhile, ICE the highest
death rate for detainees in 15 years, also because
of that whole virus thing. But also, because it's
been gradually going up since 2018 because of suicides and lack of medical treatment. Because you know it's
ICE and they are evil, but also just exists still. And it's pretty unclear if Joe Biden can or even wants to do anything about that. Like, he placed the 100 day
moratorium on deportations. Then a judge blocked that, then ICE just kept deporting people. Including a witness to a mass shooting. Then they reopened the
child detention facilities, sorry wait, migrant influx facility. Oh and also a child detention facility. And sure, this is specifically for unaccompanied children
who came to the border and that's going to be
something we have to deal with, I guess. So perhaps, unless we make
actual sweeping changes to border policy, like for
example, not having one, then we're gonna have to accept that this is just who we are. We are a nation that will
put kids in detention camps. No matter who is the president. Anyway, prisons are bad. We know this, we know that even in 2020, there were still people
facing ridiculous jail time for marijuana. We know that COVID was bad
and everyone is jobless and hungry and it's like
the second great depression. And so on. This isn't news, you missed, so much as news you
tried not to think about. How everyone is going broke
because of the pandemic. I mean, except for the really
rich people, that's weird. Weird how the rich are thriving
while the poor get poor. I'm sure no one has noticed that before. Listen, I'm certainly sure
that there was good stuff that happened in 2020 and
we'll certainly find whatever that might be or not. I'm not an oracle. I just wanna get through this stage. - Young Cody, hello, it's me. - No. No. - I forgot to tell you about the hat. Yeah, no, I saw the hat on the other me. Just give me the hat. So we can... - You see due to the
reversing particles involved in un-forward-tion-ization,
the human brain cannot withstand the minor
fluctuations of temperature, caused by the time totem's
radioactive properties. Which is why, we've developed
this smart looking hat to protect the user or
Time-stronaut from... - That's great, man. Real hip stuff. Please just give me the fancy
hat so we can move forward. - Hey, what part of the video are you at? Did you get to Flint? I mean, I'm you from the
future so I've actually watched the video you're making right now. - Just give me the hat and go. - Oh, sure, sure, sure. You were going to talk about
how after everyone forgot, Elon Musk actually helped to
clean up the water in Flint and now he's one of the
good ones and you've been too hard on him. - Yeah, I don't think
that's what I was gonna say. - And you're sorry for all
of the times you made fun of him. You know, now that he's
running for president. - He's what? - Oh, I guess you're not at that part yet. - Please stop. - Spoilers! Joe Rogan becomes the VP. - Hanging up now. - Don't forget your hat. - Thanks, it worked. Sorry, everyone. So, so sorry, but yeah, he's right. I was gonna talk about Flint and their water did get fixed. Mostly, it turns out it's
still going on and yeah, Musk helped. Thanks man. Enjoy re-tweeting the Babylon
Bee about le epic bacon while your workers get COVID or fired. And while you might not have
paid too much attention, 2020 was a big year for seeking justice over everything that had happened. In 2019, they literally called
a do-over in their probe of who was accountable and
then cut to a year later, they have charged former
Michigan governor, Rick Snyder and eight of his officials
with actual crimes. Crimes that will put some of those people, hopefully into a jail for some time. I mean not black man stealing
hedge clippers amounts of jail time of course. That would be preposterous. But, if you're wondering what
the hell actually happened. Well, back in 2014, the city of Flint had switched their main water source to the Flint river to save money. But officials failed to
immediately treat the water. So it wouldn't cause
corrosion in the pipes. This then caused, you know,
corrosion in the pipes. Then came the lead in the
water, followed by efforts to cover up the contamination. Hence the people now
going to jail, hopefully. And that's kind of good
news, the justice of it all. And the fact that residents have reached a $600 million settlement but also, this isn't really the end of the problem. And you know, who realizes this, the citizens of Flint who
still don't trust the water. Because after years of
being lied to by officials, it's kind of hard to trust a system that poisoned their kids. See Michigan, like other States, have something called emergency
managers, who in the case of a financial emergency, can take control of a local government. They aren't elected officials but rather appointed by the governor. And it was these emergency
managers who currently face the most jail time and
were primarily responsible for letting Flint's water go untreated. And despite this, there
have been no changes to the laws that led to
several unelected people having this much control over a city. Nor have similar water
crises been fully addressed in places like Newark and
Appalachian and Detroit. And just the general fact that
when you look at EPA data, it turns out the communities
of color are hit hardest by violations to their drinking waters. So yeah, there's gonna be
some trust issues for a while. Also weird we have to pay for water, since it's the thing that
keeps us alive, but hey, at least we can enjoy that
a few people are going to jail hopefully. Even though, the larger
issue, hasn't been resolved. So it's not like, good news, but again it's nice to see bad
people get punished for, you know, the delicious revenge of it all. Like how Oklahoma is now trying to return $2 million worth
of hydroxychloroquine, they purchased last year when
we had that other president. You know, the president, what's the name? Don dummy Crump. The Gleeson fellow
played him in the TV play about Squid and the Whale guy. It doesn't matter. Anyhow, former president,
Domhnall Gleeson was all up on that hydroxychloroquine dick. And so the Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt, bought $2 million worth. Saying at the time that he was quote "Being proactive to try
and protect Oklahoman's." Fun aside, Oklahoma is
one of the few States without a mask mandate, but
sure, way to protect, Stitt. And now after everyone
caught up to the fact, most of us already knew,
where hydroxychloroquine, didn't actually help, this
guy wants his money back. Gosh, do you even remember
hydroxychloroquine? Remember how there was a
point where conservatives where really, really
trying to make that work? Like, wow, thanks for the
Daily Mail article Ben. Sharing the totally reputable Daily Mail and how they were wrong. And that probably cost lives. And we just all moved on,
like they didn't do that. (speaking unintelligibly) - All right, everyone. I'm just gonna ignore him. (speaking unintelligibly) And, we're moving on. (phone chimes) Come the (beep) on. Hey, Cody, it's Warmbo. I just found a magic
conch shell on the beach. When you touch it, you can't tell a lie. Anyway, I'm coming over. I just wanna get through an episode. I swear to Christ. Okay, pushing forward folks. No other choice. So, hey, speaking of
(beep) on Republicans, also (beep) on Democrats. Remember that Iowa Caucus that went horribly wrong last year? And everyone blamed an app by
a company named Shadow Inc, and that spawned a bunch
of conspiracy theories? Well, it turns out that
an audit has now revealed it to be completely
the fault of Democrats. Specifically the DNC,
who delayed the creation of said app for so long that
when it finally rolled out, it came with a 34 page
manual on how to use it. Like all good apps should have. And then at the last minute, demanded even more changes to the app, making it even more buggy and useless. Shadow Inc then had to
change its name and CEO. And I don't know, maybe
they suck for other reasons but it sure seems like
in this specific case, they were killed by the
Democrats who sucked. Not like evil sucking,
in this specific case, but it's being slow and old and dumb. Old sucking, sucking the olds. Anyway, we'll have lots to say about the many ways
Democrats will self-sabotage, but this is just a taste
of the next four years. You know the stuff. Inadequacy, buckling to Republicans, protecting the wealthy,
going back on promises, rebranding old ideas to seem new. It's gonna be a blast. Hey champ, speaking of
general incompetence and blasts and governments not learning. You remember that explosion
in Beirut last year? The one where nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate was
left on a port in Lebanon for years before exploding
and killing 211 people? And sheesh, if you had a family, that was one of those people or were injured or lost your home. You'd probably want like answers. And perhaps, someone held responsible,
well, suck some ducks. It turns out that none
of those things happened. You see, because the people
who were responsible, for the explosion were
also the politicians. Who also happened to
be the people in charge of the investigation. And so when the Lebanese
government appointed a former military court
judge to investigate, and that judge charged
two former ministers and the current prime
minister with negligence, the prime minister
refused to be questioned and then halted the probe for some reason. Then, they removed the
judge who implicated them. Boy, what a mess. Can you picture it? A government where the people in charge of serving justice were also
the people who were guilty. Can you, picture it? Can you picture that? Can you? I'm not trying to compare
governments of course. It's just wild how much
governments suck in general? Maybe we shouldn't have them. Live in yurts and do drugs
and like power is bad. I don't know. There doesn't have to be a message here. We're just catching up on the news. Like, did you know there's
a whole coup that happened? No, no, no, no, no, no, not that one. A different one that succeeded. You probably saw the meme about it, where the Myanmar military seized power and then jailed their newly
re-elected civilian leader for the crime of illegally
importing walkie-talkies, like some kind of weird sham. Can you picture it? A fair election disrupted
by flimsy claims used to justify a forceful takeover. Can you picture that? Anywhosies, the U.S is imposing a bunch of sanctions on the country, such as freezing assets that
benefit Myanmar's government and preventing the military
from accessing certain funds. You know, halting financial
support for a group of people trying to do a
coup can you picture that? Anyway I'm sure the sanctions will hurt the bad people instead of
just people who live there, like all sanctions surely do. Maybe this is the subject
of a larger episode, but perhaps we should start
looking at areas of the world where coups happen a lot
and learning why that is. Now that we're, you
know, dabbling in coups. See, it turns out that
places like Thailand and West Africa where
coups happen a bunch, well, they have some things in common. These areas tend to be
not quite a dictatorship or a democracy, but rather
treading water in the middle. Myanmar, for example, was ruled
by armed forces until 2011. And this creates a cultural normalization of instability as well as
low consequences for groups, like the economic community
of West African States, which often fails to resolve coups. Instability, normalization,
and the lack of consequences. Can you picture that? So like perhaps, if the
country you are now in, is showing light coup
symptoms, it might be a sign that your current
democracy is falling apart. And authoritarianism and lack of consequences is
slowly being normalized. Be sure to consult your doctor when taking any medications
to help you not think about the coup. Yurt drugs, et cetera. Dicks! Sorry folks... Oh my God. It's okay. Hello, Mr. Cody, it's Warmbo again. Just wanted to remind
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can explore your creativity. Or go to skl.sh/somemorenewsmarch! That's this month. (upbeat music) - Thanks puppet everybody loves. Hey remember fire? Not the fun cleansing
kind, in like a mall. But rather the wild, animal
hurting kind of fire? There were major wildfires
on both sides of the world, in Australia and the United States. And can you guess which
country saw those disasters as a signal to pursue laws
preventing climate change? Well the answer, is neither country. Like obviously America
wasn't gonna do anything. But hey look, neither
did the other country, with the not-America advantage. Which is weird, that Australia, the uh, third largest coal exporter in the world, would have a government
that denies climate change. Oh wait, now I see. Now that I said it out loud,
I see what happened there. So its a little comforting, right? Like failing a quiz and then finding out the
whole class failed it too? Great job, everyone. Also speaking of great job big boys, thanks to that previous loser president, there's still disaster
areas in Washington, that have yet to get any federal aid. Places that right after
being wiped out by the fire, asked for aid and then proceeded to get literally zero response
back from our government. For like no reason. The good news being, that Joe
Biden has just now corrected that nearly a year later. So that's good. All it took was having an
entirely new president willing to do the bare minimum. Hey, let's do another spin of the wheel of stuff threatening
the Pacific Northwest. (wheel squeaking) Click, click, click, click,
click, death by bee it is. America was shocked to hear about these giant terrifying Hornets, at the start of 2020. Only to promptly deplete
their (beep) to give stockpile upon learning that they
didn't actually pose a threat to humans. They mostly just hang out
in Canada, otherwise known as not America, where they
continue to pose a problem. Again, not so much to
people, but rather bees, the people of insects. Who you may have heard,
aren't doing so great. As a new study just
found an entire quarter of bee species have gone
missing since the 1990s. And while the murder Hornets are a problem for our little dagger-assed
pals, they really don't compare to bigger threats like
climate change and pesticides. And statistically speaking, most of you stopped
paying attention because it turns out that this other
study here found the media, absolutely doesn't talk, about
the declining bee population. And when they do, it's rarely
connected to climate change and often in back
sections of publications. And we only really hear about it, when there's something viral attached like these murder Hornets. And that's pretty wild, since
if bees were to go extinct, we'd lose entire kinds of food. We wouldn't starve or anything, but stuff like certain fruits and (beep) coffee, would
become way harder to produce. Also, honey? It's not so much apocalyptic
as it just sucks. But also it's pretty apocalyptic
and we should care more. We should care more that Monarch
butterflies are going away because they're cool and deserve to live which is more than I can say for... - Pause. - Oh, good. Hello? What? - Cody it's you, but
from a second timeline. - I mean, we didn't even
include a plot device to make this possible, but sure. Hi, what's up? - It's extremely important
that you don't use that other Cody's backward
time device thingy. If you do, you'll create a temporal rift, creating an alternate
universe where boars evolved, to the point of obtaining
advanced business degrees and take over most fortune 500 companies. - Great, I'm gonna grab
a water while you... - Huh, in my world, the business
hog menace becomes so great that humans learn to escape
into a collective dream world, harnessed by a new technology. We use this invention to fight back. Invading the dreams of the
boar to manipulate them into dissolving their companies. - Yeah, yeah. I get it. We're doing Nolan movies. Listen, I swear. I won't do whatever the
thing you're saying I do. All right? Does that work? - That's not good enough, Cody. We need bones, Cody. You have to swear on your bones. - [Warmbo] Hello,
Mr.Cody, are you in there? - Come on! - (beep) it's Warmbo. - Just be quiet, okay? Be quiet. - [Warmbo] Warmbo knows you're in there. Warmbo can smell you're blood, silly goat. Warmbo will be back Mr.Cody. (footsteps fading away) - You think he's gone? - He's never gone. Listen, you clearly have your hands full. So I'll just like, shoot
you an email about this. - Yeah, yes. That works way better for me. - Is it huh, the Gmail ones still? - Hanging up now. Moving on to tech news,
remember net neutrality? Do you remember that thing? It sure seems like it was a
lot of fuss for nothing, huh? All the way back in 2018,
we were pretty pissed off at Ajit Pai for wanting to
repeal the net neutrality rules, saying that internet providers
must treat all communications equally and claiming that
repealing them would result in some kind of awesome growth
because of the free market. And like, I dunno, Reagan's
ghost would operate and fight Bernie Sanders if
the internet was deregulated. Here he is moving his useless mouth. - We also heard from many
small broadband companies, which are critical to
providing more competition in the marketplace. They told us that these
rules prevented them from extending their service, because they had to spend money
on lawyers and accountants. - Yes, Lord knows lawyers
and accountants cost the same as it would to extend internet
service, that checks out. Ultimately the FCC did
repeal net neutrality, despite no one wanting that. And then the benefits
that Ajit Pai outlined, well, they never happened. Providers didn't expand coverage. And in fact, companies like AT&T have slowed down their expansion. Reagan spirit remained
trapped in the out world. Comcast, cut their spending and the boosts in speed the FCC boasted, had happened before net
neutrality was repealed. Though on the flip side, it sure seems like the
internet didn't end either. So you couldn't say that perhaps, both sides were being alarmist. The answer is a hard sorta to not really. Because there have absolutely been abuses since the repeal of these rules. Such as AT&T rewarding HBO
max viewers with no data caps. All of the companies now
selling your location data or this (beep) of a story where
Verizon throttled the data of firefighters while they were dealing with the California wildfire. Oh right, we had wildfires
in California too. I almost forgot, man. I swear this wasn't supposed
to be a bummer of an episode. I thought it was gonna to be like... (speaking unintelligibly) Simple. Hey, hi, hi, hey, you
there you backward (beep). I hate what you represent. (speaking unintelligibly) - Great, that's great stuff. But what is sort of interesting, is what happened next with net neutrality. Specifically this current pandemic and the demand it created
on internet services. See, back when they voted to repeal, a Republican commissioner who voted in favor was quoted saying, "I for one see great value
in the prioritization "of telemedicine and
autonomous car technology "over cat videos." And now that in the pandemic, usage has predictably shot up 47%, it seems like there hasn't been an issue dictating the need to prioritize data. The internet hasn't exploded. Despite companies cutting
spending and not expanding. And that's good at least the part where we didn't break the internet but as Wired points out, had there been a major
problem during this spike, it would have been completely up to the private companies
to choose which services to prioritize. And maybe they shouldn't
have that power, you know? In other words, there have
been a bunch of studies and articles saying that the
economic and consumer benefits of repealing net neutrality
haven't happened. While the dangers of putting the internet in the hands of private
companies remain the same. Just because it hasn't been a problem yet, doesn't mean it won't
slowly erode over time. And so far, we've been literally going by an honor system during the pandemic. As in the FCC nicely asking ISPs to pledge they won't (beep)
people over while everyone is out of work. That pledge having since expired and at no point legally
obligated them to do anything, as evidenced by the nearly
3,000 customer complaints, filed with the FCC
during this honor period. It's weird how you can't
just ask corporations to be good to people. It's like they only care about money. (upbeat music) Look, this is all boring. And I hate it. But along with this
continued battle with ISPs, we're seeing a huge moment
for the future of the internet during this pandemic. Not just because of the heavy reliance, but rather that last year closed out a massive justice department
investigation into Google and Facebook. Resulting in a (beep) ton
of antitrust lawsuits. It's sort of a thing we already knew, but now have like data to back up. Which is that Facebook and Google have been
slowly inhibiting things like newspapers or gee, I dunno, internet comedy websites to exist. Thanks to their abilities, to buy out and dominate access to social
media and search engines. Specifically, Facebook,
buying out their competitors and Google spending billions
to ensure their search engine was prioritized on devices. It's going to be long and drawn out, but what's actually good
about it is that thanks to these investigations, smaller companies that were screwed over, actually get to take a legal stand that and
I cannot stress this enough, desperately needs to happen against these terrible companies
that are also cool. We love Google's YouTube, don't we folks? (shrill scream, followed by confetti pop) You know what that sound means, it's time for, "Checking in with All
Those People We Hate." Hey, where my Shkreli-fellies at? You probably remember the
pharma bro who pissed off a nation before
cathartically going to jail. And even more cathartically, being forced to give up
his prized Wu-Tang album. But did you know that
he's still an asshole? That's right. The still rich prison
jerk recently made news for attempting to get an
early release to quote, "Work on a Corona virus treatment." The release was denied on
account of being (beep) hilarious and that's certainly good,
but this news also serves as a reminder that Shkreli is, as I mentioned, still pretty rich, but not nearly as rich as he once was. And also, as I mentioned, he's still an attention
hungry narcissistic asshole. An asshole who at the
time of his sentencing, told the judge, "I was
never motivated by money. "I wanted to grow my
stature and my reputation." An asshole who, while
in prison, was allowed to speak at Harvard to
the protests of many. Protests that he seemed to revel in. This asshole that I speak of will be out of prison in 2023. And now I'm speaking
directly to Joe Rogan. When I simply say, "Hey, don't do it." Same with you Dancing with the Stars. Don't do it. All right, let this one
go away forever, please. Speaking of letting things go, a thing that we should not let go. That thing being Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, all right. So that's still happening. His accomplice, Ghislaine
Maxwell is still in jail and being checked on,
literally every 15 minutes. You know in case someone
tries to kill her. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew is still at large and should be
considered armed and dangerous. Ghislaine is currently in the legal stages of trying to get her case thrown out because the jury was too white. Which feels like maybe she's desperate. And maybe that means she'll, I don't know, give up the sex tapes
of former presidents, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton
that she absolutely once told a 60 minutes producer that she has. Weird how we just sorta know
that two former presidents and whatever Prince Andrew is. I guess a prince, absolutely had sex with underage slaves and are rapists. Like, we know this right? There's so much evidence
and video and photos of them hanging out with
the sex monster guy. And they're all super sketchy
about the whole thing. And we're just kinda waiting and hoping that at some point
they'll go to jail for it. And I can't help but to think about that Beirut port
explosion I mentioned earlier and how all the people in
charge of investigation are also the guilty people and how that problem sure seems
like a running theme in the world these days. And then my mind just
drifts to those yurts. - [Warmbo] Warmbo is
back for an adventure! You can't hide in there
forever you silly goat! - Hey Warmbo, I'm so glad you're here. I was just talking about Jeffery
Epstein and Bill Clinton, you wanna hang out? - [Warmbo] Maybe I'll come back later. (footsteps fading) - Yeah that's what I
thought you boomer sock. Warmbo is 67 years old. He's just doing that voice
because he knows you hate it. Anywho, what else is terrible? You know, while we're
really balls deep in sorrow, totally blasting at the sorrow. Should we talk about the opioid crisis and how it got worse during the pandemic? Or maybe Amy Coney Barrett. Remember that she's still a thing? It's like boy, from the cops
getting off, to the wildfires, to the Epstein stuff,
catching up on the news, is mostly just getting to learn that there isn't any justice
and no one learns anything. It means having a whole
lot of distracting, frustrating things, all coming knocking at your door at once like... - Real quick, sorry. I was wondering if I
could borrow your copy of Home Fries. - The movie, Home Fries? - Okay, fine, you got me. I was just lonely and wanted to say hello. Hey, if you reverse time yet... - Mr. Cody, I know you're busy, but I need someone to tuck Warmbo in. - Warmbo, cut the weird (beep) you're collecting social security. Hey guys, could you both, maybe... - Cody quick! The hog police are after me. I need to hide in your dreams. - You know, Vince
Gilligan wrote Home Fries. - My name is Coty by the
way, with a T, C-O-T-Y. - No! Hey, hey everyone. No, you're all very zany and fun. And most of you are pretty
handsome, but can we just for once, get through a
single video without smearing some kind of clown (beep)
all over the audience, just this once. - You're still making your silly video? - Well, I'm almost done. I was starting to talk
about Amy Coney Barrett and then do an outro
about how there's no hope for justice and then plug
my upcoming yurt business, you know, usual stuff. Cody's Yurt's, working title. - So, you're not gonna talk about any of the good stuff
that happened in 2020? - Not really, it was
kind of a terrible year. Kinda makes you wanna
invest in portable living. - So nothing good happened at all? That makes Warmbo sad. - Well, there was some cool
weed laws passed, right? We don't really talk about
the other good things. The last election did, I guess, recreational marijuana is
now legalized in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey,
South Dakota plus Oregon and DC decriminalized
a bunch of other drugs. And that's actually pretty amazing. Especially if you were alive
during the D.A.R.E years. We're starting to, albeit
slowly, reduce prison sentences for pot, LGBTQ rights had a
similar boost last year too. Utah banned conversion
therapy, pretty bare minimum. But thanks Utah, way to limp toward progress. Also the Supreme court ruled
that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, protects LGBTQ individuals
from getting fired. So that's also good. And it probably should be
noted that Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's first appointee
to the Supreme court, ruled on the right side of history. Unlike Trump's second appointee, Brett droopy sadboy, rapist, Kavanaugh. And it probably should also
be noted that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch both did vote to
reject the appeal of Kim Davis. That lady who tried to
deny marriage licenses for same-sex couples. So an overall victory in the courts, both despite of and thanks
to a few of Trump appointees. But also, just to be
clear, we aren't looking at all the many other rulings from 2020 and making a
judgment on these people. It's just nice to know that everything isn't definitely bad all
the time or definitely good. That Amy Coney Barrett, for
example has been pretty center to left so far in her rulings. And most of Trump's judges
have not supported his claims of election fraud, nor
did any of them side with Trump over the release of his taxes. Again, they're all still
conservative judges and will undoubtedly side
against progress in the future. But it's still good news
or at least not bad news. It's just, it's just news folks. And I don't know, maybe that puppet and boar guy and whatever
the third one was, maybe they were right and I
could have done an easier job of highlighting the stuff
that's not terrible. (upbeat music) Other really cool historical stuff, the 2020 election gave
us, is Sarah McBride. Our first openly
transgender State Senator. Cori Bush became the first black woman to represent Missouri. Than in New York we had Mondaire Jones and Richard Taurus become the first black and Afro Latino members of
Congress who were also LGBTQ. So that's all gravy. Also unrelated, but in
Denver, they repeal the ban on pit bull ownership. So that's a win for anyone who likes those dopey swole-ass babies. Look at this dump (beep). What an asshole. Anyway, yeah, I skipped
some good news, I guess. When I mentioned the net neutrality stuff, maybe I should have added that a Ajit Pai has already stepped down
and has been replaced, by someone who might
actually restore those laws. And that California is
already enforcing their own net neutrality laws as we speak. And you know, we're starting to see some other Trump era villains,
get taken down a notch. That Louis DeJoy guy. You know, the guy. Who sure seemed to be trying
to undermine the USPS. Sure seems to be determined to stay on and that's a dick move. And it's weird that Biden
can't just fire him I guess. But the good news, is that
the Postal Services Board of Governors currently has
three vacant seats to fill and nominating people to fill those, happens to be Biden's job,
something he's now doing. This would create a democratic
majority on this USPS board and enable them to fire
DeJoy, if they need to. But also, don't necessarily
want to, either. As it currently stands, that
they are giving him a shot for some stupid reason. But overall, the situation
is generally good because even though DeJoy is hanging around and the post office isn't doing so hot, the power has shifted to
the Democrats and Biden who, in this case happened
to have the right idea about what the post office should be. Specifically they're heavily
against privatizing it. And at least seem to
understand, that it shouldn't be considered a business
expected to make a profit. So even though the USPS isn't doing well, the people in charge
also don't expect it to and are reversing the
efforts to cut back on days and charge more for postage
and also one cool electric car, so that's neat too. Electric stuff is neat. I mean, who knows if
any of this will happen, because it sure seems like Biden, is not quite doing a bunch of stuff he said he was gonna do. But it's a start, I guess. Yay, progress. Be happy? Not bad news, just news, which is not bad. Still, there's a lot of
other good things happening in the world in terms of
not digging the environment. When I talked about the
wildfires and climate change and missing species, Australia's
exports and all that, I guess it might be nice to also mention that Australia is starting to
export renewable energy too. And we actually found a
lost species last year, that we assumed had died out. And other endangered species
are thriving in some places. And there are big otherwise
sinister companies that use 2020, to commit to
big renewable energy pledges and some, that actually met their goals. And in fact, renewable energy,
continued to grow in 2020, despite the pandemic. We actually had the first
ever successful flight of an all electric plane in 2020. And if that keeps going, if we keep advancing electric planes, that's actually like really good for reducing some carbon emissions. Not to mention this, Sweden
is right now developing a wind powered cargo ship. Something we super need considering that large ships are basically
just trash dicks dragging through the ocean. Heck, even NASCAR, is finding
ways to be carbon neutral. Not to mention bare minimum, not racist. What with the banning of confederate flags and hey that's another
good thing for 2020. Mississippi removed their
Confederate State flag. Remember all those protests
concerning Confederate statues? Well, it turns out that we removed like 100 of those
things, which is a start. Do we have a clip? (celebratory shouts) We do not. Jeez, I talked about some
bummer international news, but failed to mention all of
the positive stuff happening around the world. That fell through the cracks. Africa is free from wild polio. So that's good. I'm generally anti-polio. Also, things I'm anti, terrorism. And while we certainly
have degrees of that going on in these United States, worldwide, we're actually at a five-year low. Other things that are globally low , is that hepatitis, nobody
likes, maternal mortality. As in, women dying due to childbirth. That's also getting
low, but still an issue. We generally got a lot of
medical breakthroughs in 2020. So there's a new blood cancer vaccine and the world's first artificial eye with a 3d retina, with capabilities that might exceed human vision. Literally Star Trek (beep). This actually needs stressing,
because it's also one of the only good things to
come out of the pandemic. Which is that our science
community actually became more global in
2020 because of COVID. It was the fastest a
vaccine has come out ever. The way one scientist put it, was that they achieved 10 years worth of work in just 11 months. And it was done because of a global cooperation that
transcended governments, again, Star Trek (beep). The results of which, aren't just going to change how we deal with
viruses in the future, but how we do science in general. I mean, just to be clear, the disruption of a global pandemic
definitely halted a lot of important non-virus research and negatively impacted
the community as well. But you know how we thought a disaster, like aliens or whatnot
would unite the world and then it didn't actually do that? Well, it sort of did do that thing, just only for scientists. So, you know neat. There were a lot of up lifting things, I could have mentioned
when I brought up prisons, which are bad. I could have at least
pointed out that Biden did order the DOJ to end private prisons. Or that imprisonment rates for minorities in the U.S have been on a steady decline. It feels like drops in the bucket changes, but it's still worth reporting. Because it means that
it wasn't all hopeless, that there are hints of
justice to come out of 2020. Like how yes, so many cops are
now seeing zero consequences and having charges dropped
when they were clearly guilty of murder but at least the protesters, who were arrested last year are also, having their charges dropped. Like in large, large numbers. Protestors are having
their charges dissolved Because, civil liberties and stuff. It's bare minimum folks,
but also kind of nice to see this vindication
reaching people associated with Antifa, you know? And just to have the FBI
Director get up in front of the country and flat out say
that Antifa isn't a problem. And in fact, it's the FA, who we should have been worried about. And to feel like perhaps the world is making a little more sense again. And so ultimately, when you
take away the Virus, 2020, still wasn't a great year. But not the worst. And it did end with the lecture results that were more good than bad and a lot of bad things were
offset by some good stuff. And I don't know, maybe we don't have to land
on a hard verdict here. Maybe 2020, was just kind of muddled and underwhelming and
sorta canceled itself out. And we can all just
forget it ever happened. like "Tenet." And so with that, I guess I have to go back and
like add the good news part into the video you just watched? Fulfill the time loop or whatever? Who gives us a (beep). - You did it little Cody. I knew you'd get there. - What, you mean to a feeling
of emotional indifference and exhaustion? - That's right. Congratulations. - You know what? Thanks, you're right. This dull beige inside of me is, I guess better than
the unaccompanied rage, I started with. - You're welcome. Now get out there and do a time reverse. - I will. And if you can, check out
some of that backward sex, it feels great when it like
goes back inside of you. - Super hanging up now. Well, bye. (upbeat music) I'm eating time. Hi, welcome to the end, where
I say thank you for watching and please like, and
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I really liked this episode of Cody's Showdy. The outro showed that while 2020 was an ass year, there was SOME good that came out of it. I personally really liked a lot of the music that came out of 2020.
ACAB. 40% of cops spouses report their cop spouse beats the shit out of them regularly.
Warmbo is 67?!
anyone have all those reversed clips unreversed?
Wasn't this guy originally part of the Cracked channel?