EPISODE · Mar 25, 2026 · 8 MIN
A big verdict today, $300mil Meta liabel for 70% damages, blood in the water
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
00:04 All right, let's go to the WRD talk line and talk to Gerald in Calpens. How you doing, Gerald? Hi, my brother. Hey, Charlie, find you some local honey that's got the cone in it. Right. And eat that cone and it will deter all this coughing and sneezing. All right. Well, we will certainly see. I've heard that a lot, Gerald. I appreciate it. But I've never really found that to work for me. But a lot of people say it works for them. 00:33 okay there was a big verdict today there was a lawsuit against google and madham youtube uh... and once you listen to this this is from fox news jury awards three million dollars in damages decay lead g m now this was a a single plaintiff case as opposed to the new mexico one uh... which was sort of a more generalized case which was five thousand dollar penalty per violation adding up to three hundred seventy five million so this is a single uh... 01:03 Award of damages meta apparently liable for 70 % of the damages which would leave 30 % to YouTube So a three million dollar award for Kaylee GM. oh How does that strike you Josh? 01:17 Well, as far as writing checks for these two huge multi-billion dollar companies, it's nothing. But it's huge as far as what it means for all of the other plaintiffs. This is now blood in the water. Yeah, it is blood in water. You're going to see a lot more of these lawsuits coming. So three million dollars was the verdict against Google and Metta. Oh, do you know how much? 01:47 Meta is worth. 01:50 Are you ready for this? Well, let's start with Google. Do know how much Google is worth? $1.7 trillion. $1.7 trillion. So what percentage of that is $3 million in this verdict? Are you ready? It is 0.000. 02:25 0.00018%. It is less than two ten-thousandths of a percent. Good gracious. I'd be like, yeah. Oh, how much? Three million? Yeah, I got that on me, man. Let me, yeah, hold on. Let me get out there. Here you go. One, two, there's three million dollars. There you go. 0.00018%. Round it up a little bit. 02:51 That's that is some serious cash right there that these people have. Let's go to Dean and cash. Dean welcome Sir, how are you? Charlie not bad, not bad. Listen, I just wanted to. Today I heard a comment, a quote about uh fighting that you reminded me of. And when you said making people quit. You're not. 03:20 you're right yeah yeah comment it was about someone talking about the purging goal and they said that you know how many mine it takes to make a minefield none so it is what you're talking about yeah you're right on and also i would say in the last day people will have itching ears 03:50 And there are pastors of very good churches in the upstate who are no longer there because not that they were dogmatic about it, but they just brought up subjects that made people annoy us. Yeah. they're not there. Yeah. You're absolutely right. Thank you for what you do. I appreciate it, Dean. Yes. I think churches are places where you should wear steel-toed boots. 04:20 in case you get them stepped on. So somebody takes to me this. um Let me see here. Charlie, this is a numbers issue and an economic issue. The independent voter, which were the swing state, which is where the swing states win, is winnable. But the bombastic rhetoric from the MAGA needs to stop. But insulting them on your show or from President Trump is not working. 04:47 and the grocery store prices are still high. I vote R no matter what, but what I hear my friends, let me tell you something. Here's what you sound like to me. You sound like one of those go along to get along. 05:02 That's what you sound like. We have the single greatest opportunity. 05:10 Well, I know at least two generations or two decades, at least two decades, to defeat the Democrats soundly in the midterms. Their approval rating is in the toilet and we still can't beat them. 25 special elections, 25 special election seats were flipped from red to blue over the past year because of the inaction. ...
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