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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Tweed Trends. Today's episode title is Beach Standards Aren't A Game. Let's get started.
Hashtag Red Tide. Just yesterday I was talking about the young man that caught hookworm out of the beach in Florida, and then the fleshening bacteria that people were catching from swimming in the water, and now this red tide. Now it's nothing new, it's something that happens annually, but it's a toxic algae bloom that strikes every year. However, they're saying that it's been about a decade since it's been this destructive, or even lasted this long.
So it's the beaches in southwest Florida that are being struck by this right now, and thousands of dead marine animals are up on the shore. And they're saying that it's approximately 100 miles of coastline, and it's just clogged with carcasses of dead fish, sea turtles, seabirds, manatees, dolphins, and even a shark was seen. And it's just so bad that the governor put an emergency order out. And they're even asking the civilians, people that live near the water, if they would go and help clean up some of the dead animals to get rid of them.
Like, oh my gosh. So just thinking about that in my mind, it's like, what must that beach smell like to have a bunch of dead fish and other sea animals just dead upon shore? Oh my gosh. But worse than that, it's sad that these animals had to die this way due to red tide.
And what's even sadder is they don't know how much longer it's going to last, because it's still not over. Jerry Brown, you may have heard already that the Trump administration wants to lower emission standards for cars. And it shouldn't surprise you, because it's basically a revoking and Obama-era environmental regulation that forces automakers to make cars much more fuel efficient by 2025. Now, everybody's not trying to hear this.
And one person in particular is the California governor, Jerry Brown. He basically called a proposal reckless, and promised that if they try to push this through, they can just go ahead and play on him to fight on their hands, because he's definitely going to fight it. But he's not alone. The attorneys general, for 20 states, including California, say that they will sue to stop the proposed changes.
And you know what? Hats off to them for that. They're saying that we would end up paying more for gas, and then it would also cause more pollution. And I don't know.
I guess I just really don't understand how it is that people can look at it as a bad thing to hold companies accountable, to hold them to a line to say, hey, you need to do this, because this is where we are, and this is not where we want to go, so we need to do better. I don't understand why that's such a bad thing. Everybody seems to be so focused on getting more money that they aren't really thinking about the fact that we have to live here. We've only got one Earth.
So you know what? Hats off to the attorneys general of those 20 states. I'm rooting for them, and against the Trump administration and their wish to change the admissions standards. Madden 19.
So do you know anybody that's mad over Madden? When I say mad, I don't mean just enthusiastic. When I say mad, I mean pissed off. Well, if you go on Twitter, you can find a good bit of them, because there's a song called Big Bang by YG and Big Sean, and it's one of the songs on the soundtrack for Madden 19.
And in that song, they reference Colin Kaepernick. And guess what happened? They scrubbed that man's name out of the song. Like, as if it was a bad word or a drug reference or something.
How crazy is that? Colin Kaepernick's not a bad word. But anyway, so it was brought to the attention of EA Sports, and they're basically saying that it was a miscommunication, that they don't have the rights to include Colin Kaepernick in the game, but that didn't affect the soundtrack, but undoubtedly when they were explaining that to whoever, they just took him out of everything. So his name went in the song, and undoubtedly too, this isn't the first time that this has happened.
They're saying also that it happened in last year's version. That his name got scrubbed from a song called Bars of Soap. Well, to add insult to imagery, I saw in a tweet from Sports Illustrated that showed a video of an old version that has Colin Kaepernick's character covered with a sensor bar. Not really hoping that that was somebody being funny, but as I tried to research it, I could not find anywhere where anybody was laughing.
No, giggly, mojis or anything. It seemed really serious. If only I had an older version of Madden, then I might be able to check that out for myself. But I don't know.
Hey, maybe you have it. Check it out and let me know. Is that for real? All right, guys.
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Tweet Trends. ...before I go. Just got two things to tell you. One, today is International Beer Day, and it's also National Watermelon Day.
I love watermelon. I know you do. So in case you've heard the rumor that if you eat the two together, it'll make you sicker. Even Kilia?
No, it's not true. You can eat the two together. Haven't you been to a cookout or something with both of them? So go get you some beer and...
Watermelon. Have a great afternoon, and I will see you on Monday. Bye. Bye.