5G Towers, Kyrie's Anti-Semitism, Home Depot Unions
Crazy and The King PodcastNovember 10, 202200:42:09

5G Towers, Kyrie's Anti-Semitism, Home Depot Unions

Torin and Julie are back this week with 5G towers taking over NYC, a conversation about anti-Semitism, Kyrie Irving and other Black celebrities in hot water over controversial decisions. Plus, Mastodon, are you in?

Torin and Julie are back this week with 5G towers taking over NYC, a conversation about anti-Semitism, Kyrie Irving and other Black celebrities in hot water over controversial decisions. Plus, Mastodon, are you in?

[00:00:00] We've been about this work diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging shared through the voices of a white woman and a black man. We bring lived experiences We have pursued D&I progress for most of our professional lives

[00:00:16] We use Crazy and The King to cover news tips from colleagues and hosts incredible guests listeners Cal on Julie and I to transparently drive the conversation we thank you For rocking with us check it Julie kick off the show Welcome to Crazy and The King Election Week 2022

[00:00:42] Election Week 2022 and Master Don is Rising now listen for those of you who are listening to this pod Julie and I actually have done this introduction Two times so we're not gonna necessarily have as much fun with it the second time

[00:01:01] But I promise you we are going to have a conversation around Master Don So clear your mind Like were you familiar with Master Don before this weekend or actually before we even started recording

[00:01:16] So before we started recording but only like two days ago because of all the Twitter stuff and like oh shit Where am I gonna go? What am I gonna do? Master Don Rising the the rising the rising So listen

[00:01:33] When I was on the plane you actually hit me with an article and it was really around some funky new great towers Going up on the streets in New York City and on a serious note

[00:01:45] There's some people with some concerns and the article is titled for those of you listening It's what are those mysterious new towers looming over New York's sidewalks? Why did you pull this article? Well, I just think it's really interesting for a few different reasons

[00:02:01] So they're 5g towers to break everyone's uh, you know Yeah, trust on it 5g towers to be exact There are more than 2000 places across New York City. So think that you know the five boroughs

[00:02:16] Where these 5g towers have been put up and let's say they're like two or three going to be put up Just like correction going to be put up 2000 going to be put up go ahead. Yes, and so some of them have started to pop up around the city

[00:02:29] And just so like when I think of 5g I think of a cell phone tower, but this is sort of like a mini cell phone tower It goes up. Let's say maybe like three stories high

[00:02:39] So you could be standing at the bus stop and look up and you could be standing underneath a 5g tower Could be outside your apartment window that kind of thing and they're being put up in Internet deserts and basically

[00:02:54] 90% of them are going into internet deserts which are underserved areas of the city in terms of getting access to Reliable high-speed internet and we know how incredibly important that is when it comes to being able to work remotely

[00:03:11] Being able to help kids do homework to get access to the information that they need To be well educated members of of the community and society And so what really caught me off guard, and I think this is sort of where your brain went too was

[00:03:29] This is a really good thing I think and this is my opinion Because we need all you know, we need to make sure that people who don't have access to very expensive internet You know like a lot of us have to pay for are getting access to 5g

[00:03:45] But the community seemed rather upset about it. They weren't really happy Because there didn't seem to be a lot of communication and Interestingly enough some of them didn't see the need Yeah, I didn't see the need and I would say you know the health care concerns

[00:04:03] I mean think about how many years Jay We walked around and people said that this was a problem having the phone to our ear Could be an issue it being so close to our brain

[00:04:14] And so there were are even mentions in the story around the health care concern One mother raises the issue saying that the tower is just right outside of her son's bedroom window

[00:04:24] And so I think it's absolutely fair, and I don't think it's asking too much of a community I don't think it's too much of a community to ask that's a better way to say it

[00:04:35] I don't think it's too much of a community to ask that you communicate with us that you share with us that these developments these enhancements are Coming down the pipe that this is the reason why we are doing them

[00:04:47] We want to allay your concerns around health care or access or whatever the case may be I just don't think it's too much of them to ask Tell us what is going on You mentioned something In the opening you said that this was election week and So

[00:05:07] Because it's election week. I said, you know what why don't we do this story on Glen Yonkin? so Glen Yonkin is the governor of Virginia and earlier this year in January he set up what he considered to be a

[00:05:23] Tip line and I shouldn't necessarily say he set up his administration Set up what they consider to be a tip line around this critical race theory now for all of our listeners

[00:05:33] You know Julie and I have talked about a number of instances where critical race theory has been brought up It's been brought up in the corporate quarter. It's been brought up by politicians It's been brought up by community groups and organizers

[00:05:46] I think about the group down in Texas the moms these folks have really Attacked critical race theory and basically said we don't want to talk in our schools We wanted to we don't want it to happen in our workplaces

[00:05:58] Nowhere, we really don't want history that makes us uncomfortable to be talked about so the administration set up a critical race theory tip line in January and guess what happened in September J I'll tell you exactly what happened Nothing Couldn't hear you can you say that again

[00:06:22] Yeah, that's not right there nothing Because most of the tips that they received came from well most of them came from one woman But the few that they receive were around academic rigor special education teaching tactics there were some praises of adulation and

[00:06:44] Congratulations for the teachers, but few very very few if any Tips or complaints around critical race theory so in September they close the tip lined out Yeah, so right just

[00:07:01] I can almost see a correlation now and bear with me while I say this out loud for the first time between this 5g story and this Glen yonkin story okay Glen yonkin in this case Took

[00:07:20] Political action right not government not civic action took political action to keep a base of his supporters agitated To you know not sort of be the grown-up in the room that says you know what this isn't real

[00:07:36] This isn't really a problem. We know that you've been kind of fed these theories On at these conspiracies. We're not seeing it And we're not gonna focus on it anymore This is very similar to what's happening in our schools around the furries and the bathroom bills just political

[00:07:55] nonsense right and then we have on the other hand the other side of the aisle is Politicians who are trying to do something good civically but forget to ask the people that they're helping Right and so all of this is around legitimate necessary communication and

[00:08:17] Having the people that serve us who we elect to these offices understand that they cannot make decisions Unilaterally and they can't make decisions That are based on what their perceptions of our needs are or what reality is it on their own?

[00:08:37] And I don't know if that that correlates but it's just like a lot of shitty communication and sometimes Maybe solving for a problem or solving for a problem that the community that where that doesn't actually exist Like the voting piece that you mentioned

[00:08:54] Around you know in the New York Times and how since the pandemic I know that there have been some changes in how the disability community has been able to participate in the voting process

[00:09:07] Yeah, New York Times has a great article out on election day. I highly encourage you to go back and read it Just talking about that disabled voters are twice as likely to have Problems voting in person As an as a non-disabled person and in fact during the 2020 election

[00:09:28] more than two million voters with disabilities reported that they were not able to Finish the act of voting or a vote with the appropriate privacy protections And that's a significant number and then as we move towards these more restricted

[00:09:47] Laws and regulations around the right to vote and and all the rules of putting pieces and parts in place to Protect identities and make sure there's no voter fraud which does not happen at any scale in this country

[00:10:01] What politicians are doing again is making it more difficult for a Part of their constituency a large part of their constituency to actually participate in the process Yeah, which is absolutely unnecessary Which is a reminder for all of us that while we may vote on a particular day

[00:10:21] at specific times throughout the year that the Necessity for us to be present and involved involved in present attentive intentional that that requirement is something that exists all the time that we

[00:10:38] In the in the throes of our day-to-day and moving about life all of the responsibilities that we have personally professionally that we cannot Forget to be civically engaged To some degree and speaking of voting will close out with Home Depot. They actually voted down

[00:10:57] This is in Philadelphia. They voted down the opportunity to unionize In the Home Depot stores the vote was 165 to 51 Forming the Home Depot workers united as you might know for those listening It's an Atlanta based company. They employ somewhere in around 500,000 people in more than

[00:11:21] 2,300 stores in the US Canada and Mexico so no union in Philadelphia Yeah, and this I mean I actually read the story and I kind of thought well I'm really surprised that they they decided not to unionize

[00:11:36] But what I had to kind of step back and remember is that Phillies in the Northeast Which has much greater labor protections. It has a stronger history of of unionization than a lot of the rest of the country and so

[00:11:58] Outside of reading the article and hearing that there were some potentially some harassment things that were happening With the employees in this particular Area or managers who are trying to unionize This is a much different conversation than a Starbucks in Little Rock or an Amazon in

[00:12:19] You know Mississippi where worker protections are Significantly less from a regulatory perspective than they are up in the Northeast We'll see how this continues to play out But I think that where we really need that union build out is really it's in the south and the Midwest

[00:12:38] That's where we've lost a lot of those worker protections over the last three decades Cool, so a word from our sponsor and we'll keep pushing through this election week episode Do you love news about LinkedIn indeed Google and just about every other recruitment tech company out there hell?

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[00:13:14] So in a flash, let's talk about the chicken and egg the bird let go of several thousand employees ad revenues have dropped potential class Action lawsuit is looming and he justifies it because of activists social groups pressuring advertisers women's unemployment in the US rose by

[00:13:41] 212,000 or point three percent in October this is according to new data from the Department of Labor a more recent loss has been MSNBC's weekend host Tiffany cross. She's leaving the network some say fired and many say left unprotected by that employer MSNBC

[00:14:01] The world's tallest woman hopped on a plane for the very first time at seven feet point seven inches tall The airline removed six seats for her For those listening, this is a non-work related example of the difference between equality and equity

[00:14:20] Now if you missed it not a problem just rewind the episode and listen again and finally yes Hearing in New York based hearing technology and audiology care provider Raised 10 million in a series a round of funding and it's still a no for me on Twitter blue

[00:14:40] Which is now another retail play which brings us back to Mastodon you ready Jay? Let's talk. Oh My god, so before we talk mastodon I also have to give a little name drop early in the show for our social media person

[00:14:59] Trisha who is helping us she put a Poll on Instagram about paying for Twitter blue and I was just completely fascinated So if you're not following us on Instagram, go do it take a vote on the poll

[00:15:11] Let us know what you think and we'll do more of those Shout out Trisha We so appreciate the work that you have been doing like literally Loving how you have amplified and built up our social presence over there on the IG

[00:15:26] So that hot water I mentioned is boiling There are more than a few disappointed murmurs when Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong'o Announced that she would become the global diamond brand Of the beers their first ever global ambassador Kyrie Irving has raised anti-Semitism concerns

[00:15:50] Rihanna disappointed fans with the choice of Johnny Depp and We know a whole bunch of people are mad at Jack Dorsey Let me just say here's what here's what Chris D Jackson said about Jack Dorsey on Instagram he said quote it's not about your business practices

[00:16:11] It's that you said Elon is the singular solution that you trust and His question to you Jack was our billionaires really that mesmerized by each other and I want to go back to that Elon is the singular

[00:16:31] Solution that I trust I guess you know my question this week J as we talked for a couple of moments You know, I just found myself really I'll use the word disappointed I think that that's a little light because that tends to be a part of the week

[00:16:53] You know you you ebb and flow through these emotions how you're feeling about certain subject matter I found myself just a little disappointed in as Chris says that disconnectedness of some of these people that breathe a rare air and

[00:17:10] How it is that you cannot see what you are doing. It is Paralytic it is peril It is an abuse misuse It's just detrimental to more of humanity that it is serving and why is it that we

[00:17:30] Seem to continue to suffer the brunt of many of these decisions Well, that was a big question for our little podcast here this afternoon and you know I mean, I think the thing if we go if we went back and listen to last week's episode, right?

[00:17:54] You were kind of like yeah Twitter whatever Elon whatever like no big deal and I so fat. That's a fact. And I mean, here's the thing that's good about us, right? I tend to like overboard

[00:18:08] Overreact a lot of times and you kind of bring me back to like the the same middle place and But what I think that we found this week is how much damage One person can do inside of a corporation in the matter of hours, right? So

[00:18:29] Jack and I think a lot of us had sort of this sort of fan Girl fanboy thing about Jack that he was sort of this good tech guy He he got a big payday, right and at the end of the day

[00:18:45] That's really what it's about is all these billionaires getting bigger paydays with each other and that's why they're so fascinated with each other But knowing that you know Elon dissolved all the employee resource groups. He cut the content moderation team. He also

[00:19:02] Gutted if not completely dissolved the accessible user experience team In just a matter of hours because what he needs is to make more money Because he took on so much debt to make this purchase and now we're all living with the consequences of his

[00:19:21] knee-jerk reaction to buy an option that he couldn't really afford to To actually have have called on him And let me just say I don't even care see here I go again with the I don't care I

[00:19:37] First of all good call on your part because I talked about that, you know one night this week at dinner I was sharing with the person Dan Fellows from get optimal. He's out here with me as well in California and I shared with him

[00:19:51] How last week I had that position around Elon taken over and how you had your position in my oh my How in five days things change because he put up one tweet and that one tweet really sent me over the edge but but I

[00:20:09] Say I don't care in the sense of he purchased something He couldn't afford because there were a lot of people that is now coming out Well, I don't know how true it is But I'm seeing names of people who contributed to that

[00:20:23] $44 billion acquisition that by how he raised that money and there's some names in there of people that You know a lot of us admire if you will we respect to a certain degree We we rock with to a certain degree. So how he got to owning it

[00:20:41] Is his balance sheet business? I think the challenge that I have With the scenario is How is it that you you could be sure so short-sighted that you could come in and Just drastically begin to cut I mean most leadership books

[00:21:04] Most of them from the 90s to 2000s to tens Most of them still have a very familiar theme in them, which is as a leader When you take over Do not do anything for the first 30 days for the most part walk around get to know the landscape

[00:21:22] Understand your terrain and then begin to make some decisions, but give it 30 days okay fine if 30 is too long give it 15 In five hours this cat was going through like a wrecking ball and now is in some ways paying a price and

[00:21:47] To your point and to our inner flash piece He's he's blaming the fact that he cut staff on the loss of Advertisers well the advertisers were beginning to walk away even before the acquisition was finalized

[00:22:01] They walked away in the beginning of the final hours or those new hours of the acquisition So I just don't think that as a billionaire as a person he has Exhibited the type of leadership that we would want actually and I can't pull it up fast enough

[00:22:20] But you mentioned that engineering team that was responsible for much of the accessibility options that were developed That leader is the person that I would enjoy working for he's a person that I absolutely would find to be inspiring

[00:22:36] Supportive resourceful. That's the person that I feel is an incredible That's the model of and it's just one of many many models I just don't think that Elon or Jack have done a good job of modeling good leadership Yeah, and I think

[00:22:55] They'll continue to get away with that right and I think you know when you mentioned those other names in the list this week, right? So Rihanna, yeah, what do all of those people have in common black? They're all black they're all black and I

[00:23:15] Lord Jesus, I don't think that we had this conversation on the record last time that we talked but you know kind of goes back to Kanye who Kanye has some things happening that he needs to answer for but Holding

[00:23:35] To account a black man at a different standard than we hold a white man to I think is Is part of of what kind of goes full circle for me here and I you know, I

[00:23:50] Don't know necessarily that I I feel like Kyrie deserves a pass or you know, I don't know like I don't know But I just feel like as I keep watching People be held account to their errors the ones that we're talking about right now more

[00:24:08] Significantly than the ones that we should be talking about like Elon like Jeff Bezos like Jack Dorsey Are you know successful black and brown people? Yeah, so you mentioned all of them being black. You mentioned a higher or a different standard a different threshold of accountability

[00:24:29] I think about Kyrie in a different way. I think about Kyrie in the sense of he's an individual who has apologized he's an individual who has According to reports that I've seen made a donation to The ADL if not other organizations

[00:24:49] He simply says this is my opinion. I'm I'm suggesting or recommending that you watch a particular movie I think the movie is titled Hebrews to Black if I'm not mistaken I think it's Negroes Hebrews Hebrews to Negro something like that. Yeah, I have not seen the movie

[00:25:08] So so here's the issue and you bring up Bezos. Here's the issue the issue for me is I don't believe that Kyrie is anti-semitic Okay, I don't get that from What he said I don't believe that Kyrie has any ill I Will or concern for Jewish people

[00:25:30] I believe that he was sharing what he believes to be some historical revelation some truth around how we have evolved and he was suggesting that people watch this particular movie and My question becomes well if you're mad at Kyrie for Suggesting that people should watch the movie

[00:25:57] Shouldn't we be boycotting the platform where the movie is housed? Because I don't see any tweets. I let me tell you Jay. I listen to black and white hosts on radio stations programs that are on Black platforms or primarily black platforms as well as primarily white platforms

[00:26:19] I listen to a variety of talk hosts Intellectual individuals that can do far more justice to a conversation such as this than I ever will be able to And I recall last week listening to a woman call in on a show and she was berating Kyrie and

[00:26:40] So I said and at that point. This is probably Thursday. I Had not really dug into why is he going through all this drama? But it became so much of an interest for me like let me just take a couple of days

[00:26:56] Saturday and Sunday I started to look and I'm like I don't think this is adding up This is really not adding up for me And I think the question the bigger question for me is you know to those that are Listing in our audience that are Jewish

[00:27:12] My question to you all is a really sincere question Can one say anything? About the Jewish community and it not be categorized as being anti-semitic Can one say anything Anything even if it's truthful can one with if can one say anything critical and

[00:27:38] It not be immediately categorized as being anti-semitic I say the same thing Jay around Cancel culture. I say the same thing around people tossing around the term of your racist I don't always categorize things as being racist. I just don't you mean that's not my default

[00:27:58] so it feels to me like Much of what is happening against Kyrie is the default of oh just because he said something or whatnot Let's just put it in this category over here So I think a few things One is I think it would be fantastic for us

[00:28:21] in 2023 to have more conversations around Anti-semitism and have some of our you know Jewish friends and colleagues come on the show to help us better understand how to How for us to make those differentiations and what the appropriate sort of

[00:28:43] Landing in middle ground is because it's not a Subject that I'm super comfortable with Um, I I always feel like I do tread very thinly because I don't want to say something that's incorrect

[00:28:55] And I think that's something that you know as you and I are always looking at like Where where do we want to know more? Where do we make ourselves better? I can't imagine that there are listeners wouldn't also benefit from that conversation indeed

[00:29:08] I also think Kyrie in particular has a Has a target on him a lot of times because he has been so controversial Over the past few years especially around refusing to get vaccinated, you know some other things that he has done and said that

[00:29:31] Has has caused his words and actions to be scrutinized Fast quickly whether that's correct or incorrect You know and the I've been looking in the movie that he put up was Hebrews to Negroes wake up black America

[00:29:49] Um and according to the New York Times. It's a 2018 film driven by anti-semitic tropes about Jewish people lying about those origins Among its false and outlandish claims is the assertion that the Holocaust never happened

[00:30:04] So what you know Kyrie put a link in his one of his instagram stories to that movie? It got caught up and and us here we are with him being Titled as unfit for Of being a part of the bricklin nets organization go ahead

[00:30:23] So let me ask you a question. Did I hear you say inside of the movie? The movie Suggested that the Holocaust did not happen Correct Kyrie did not so Kyrie literally he put up a picture of the movie

[00:30:37] Or a rental link or something in amazon no words no context um and That is you know, there's there are apparently clearly anti-semitic tropes in the movie itself now Could we have a conversation with Kyrie about what those are instead of

[00:31:00] You know doing things the way that we did like I think that's where we need to come back to the middle to your earlier point is like if Kanye watched this movie and he's been raised up in a culture of anti-semitism or a culture of

[00:31:17] tropes about Jewish people that are not true that's certainly gonna color his his view of Jewish people and so, you know If if I were to put up let's say the a picture of birth of the nation um

[00:31:36] I would expect that I would get slapped around a little bit because that's a clearly racist movie. Um and I'm you know My question is can Kyrie not see this

[00:31:50] Because he doesn't have the right information or is he just always in that like i'm gonna be controversial mode of Being Kyrie Yeah, you know what, you know again some people would say that A little bit of information sometimes is dangerous You know what I mean?

[00:32:09] So we we find ourselves going down these rabbit holes and we look at a couple of documentaries or We watch a couple of clips of something on youtube And we read a couple of pages of a book

[00:32:21] We listen to a few moments of a podcast and we feel like that's something that should be regurgitated It should be reshared it becomes gospel to him And so I don't think that I think that we absolutely should put pause down um

[00:32:38] I think that we should use some degree of discretion And so if Kyrie stands to be corrected and I absolutely believe that the Holocaust happened period So if this is a movie that says that the Holocaust did not happen

[00:32:54] Toran personally would not share it if that was the only trope in the movie. I wouldn't share the movie I just wouldn't do it because I don't want a person to have to sift through

[00:33:10] And try to determine which inaccuracies are the ones that are most damaging to a community of people So I believe that certainly that is problematic But I don't think that it's one of those things where it needs to be more than

[00:33:26] Him apologizing if he has already apologized not once but a couple of times I don't think that He should be getting the categorization of being anti-semitic I just think that we are too loose with How we are putting some of these titles

[00:33:47] On people but again, that's just me my opinion and I'm not Jewish And that's the reason why I would love to have someone from that community to come on You know

[00:33:56] We've done it a number of times and we try our best to find people that are uh of the voice that we are Discussing so that we're not talking for them. We're not talking about them That we are talking with them. And so I think in 2023

[00:34:14] We are absolutely going to have a few conversations around Anti-semitism. You just did something you don't know you did it I'll tell you offline what you did But you just did something which was which was uh, promising Okay

[00:34:29] Yeah, I mean and I agree really, you know just to kind of you know wrap up the segment is What I love about our show is that we give each other that space to figure it out together

[00:34:39] And we recognize the things that we don't know and the things that we you know We need to have different conversations on I do think as we are wrapping up the segment just thinking about um

[00:34:50] Something again, I think that that you brought up last week on the show was once the twitter purchase was um finalized the dramatic increase in the use of the n word and anti-semitic um language specifically rose dramatically on twitter, so I think that

[00:35:11] For for jewish people or at least I'll say my concern is that we are going through historically a rise in anti-semitic Beliefs and behaviors and we've seen how those have played out In the past and not just the holocaust but

[00:35:29] Dozens of times over the past, you know couple of thousand years with programs in russia and all over the world that we need to be um

[00:35:38] I think we need to focus on being cautious um in a lot of in a lot of these places especially for this community right now I agree

[00:35:51] I agree. I agree. All right, so uh, we'll be right back because we got to do our her voice segment and close out the show How much do you understand the future of finance? I'm jim roose a top 10 banking influencer and host of the podcast banking transform

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[00:38:57] Absolutely, absolutely and i just want to say that i didn't do a good job this week j on disability twitter So i apologize to you i apologize to our listeners For not necessarily having the twitter mentions lined up

[00:39:14] I missed that part in pulling the show together, but i am absolutely putting the mention out there I want people to go out and get on twitter do hashtag disability twitter just Put the hashtag in the search disability twitter and find articles find resources find people

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[00:41:07] Welcome change agents to your go-to place for stories that ignite your spirit fuel your purpose and connect us all We believe in the incredible power of the human spirit It's boundless resilience and the inspiration it brings to our lives on the driving change podcast

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[00:41:42] So get ready to be inspired and join us on this incredible adventure You can find the driving change podcast on apple podcasts spotify i heart radio or wherever you love listening to your favorite podcast