First Time Hearing | Bo Burnham - Straight White Male Reaction

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  • @MrLboydReacts
    @MrLboydReacts  2 роки тому +41

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    • @lfs8600
      @lfs8600 2 роки тому +3

      Hey I've heard the music from you're intro literally everywhere, could you please let me know what it's called?

    • @millroyboy07
      @millroyboy07 2 роки тому +8

      Bo Burnham does satirical comedy. It’s complete sarcasm.

    • @MrLboydReacts
      @MrLboydReacts  2 роки тому +7

      @@millroyboy07 as was my entire response to this video

    • @JC-bs5pd
      @JC-bs5pd 2 роки тому +2

      I’ve never seen someone drain all humor out satire like you have. If only this video was a joke.

    • @millroyboy07
      @millroyboy07 2 роки тому +3

      @@JC-bs5pd He told me that he knew it was satire. Which i find it hard to believe.

  • @braindeadg0th508
    @braindeadg0th508 2 роки тому +1301

    why does no one realize that it’s satirical 😭 he’s playing a character. he’s making fun of people who truly think the things he is singing.

    • @miadouglas3037
      @miadouglas3037 2 роки тому +37

      Exactly

    • @braindeadg0th508
      @braindeadg0th508 2 роки тому +143

      @@artvandelay9131 because that’s always been his thing. he’s a comedy artist who sings about random stuff and throws dark/taboo topics in with it.

    • @easy5929
      @easy5929 2 роки тому +70

      @@artvandelay9131 have you watched “make happy”. He literally says it was sarcastic

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 2 роки тому +17

      Yeah, no shit. Maybe you're the one missing when reactors are being sarcastic?

    • @glorygloryholeallelujah
      @glorygloryholeallelujah 2 роки тому

      Exactly. This song magically makes all of the white people he’s mocking, crawl out from under their Starbucks rocks and expose themselves for what they really are.
      For us to then entertain ourselves, with their virtue-signaling madness and flailing responses.
      🤦‍♀️🤣

  • @nicholascharles9625
    @nicholascharles9625 2 роки тому +676

    Bo is so good at satire that people often struggle to realise something absurd he says is satire despite it being absurd.

    • @js2184
      @js2184 2 роки тому +3

      I blame Poe's Law

    • @nathanm.6147
      @nathanm.6147 2 роки тому

      ​@@js2184 Poe's Law just describes dumb people. Satire is supposedly impossible to understand without the work in question blatantly pointing it out? Ya, maybe for dumb people.

    • @cm9241
      @cm9241 2 роки тому

      It's not that he's "so good" at satire. People are just stupid as fuck

    • @bobthompson209
      @bobthompson209 Рік тому

      Same, but I'm either at home or at work so I don't know when I would be.

    • @ZeallustImmortal
      @ZeallustImmortal Рік тому

      When has that ever happened?

  • @anth0nyislive
    @anth0nyislive 2 роки тому +1918

    As a white man, I have never, in my life, been randomly searched for drugs

    • @tespiii
      @tespiii 2 роки тому +127

      Neither have I, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that I don't live in the US...

    • @MeStandby
      @MeStandby 2 роки тому +17

      I have, kinda. Random traffic controll, usually only at around 1-3am.

    • @NattyNickDxB
      @NattyNickDxB 2 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @MrAdamloring1985
      @MrAdamloring1985 2 роки тому +3

      I have.

    • @Trivdgun-
      @Trivdgun- 2 роки тому +6

      Define randomly... :3

  • @jerrypickins
    @jerrypickins 2 роки тому +612

    I also cringe when people say "the Blacks" or just "Blacks". However, I'm fine with "Black People". When asked what I think the difference is, I try to explain it this way. Saying "the Blacks" is just boiling me down to only my skin and nothing else, almost like I'm not even a person/individual, but a color of skin. While "Black People", "Black Man", "Black Woman", etc are just descriptors. They still acknowledge us as an individual person or group of people, that just so happens to be black. Also, in my opinion, it has less negative connotations than just calling us "the Blacks".
    TLDR:
    "The Blacks" - at the end of the day we're just a color.
    "Black People" - at the end of the day we're just everyday people, who just happen to be black.

    • @austinwitham109
      @austinwitham109 2 роки тому +31

      And frankly you should only be adding the specific type of people when it's relevant. If you're telling a story that has nothing to do with blackness or civil rights there's no reason to bring it up in the first place. They're just people. It actually makes the story worse because you're adding unnecessary details and taking away from the focus of the story.

    • @skotfree9958
      @skotfree9958 2 роки тому +12

      The exception being when one is referring to a family with the surname Black as a group. i.e."The Blacks are coming over for dinner."
      Or
      "That's the Blacks' house."

    • @CordialH
      @CordialH 2 роки тому +23

      I hear "the blacks" and think of it similarly to when people say "females." If you use "female" as an adjective, such as "a female cat" or "female squirrels," sure. But if you use it as a noun, it's pretty indicative that you're using it for an object and not a person.

    • @vh8542
      @vh8542 2 роки тому +9

      Thank you! I have gotten shit from people in situations that I'm just trying to describe the person. Like at my job we had one black person on our shift so when talking about him with another worker who didn't know his name I was like "Yea he's the black dude." Just giving a descriptor so you know who I mean. Just like I'd say "Yea he's the tall dude" or something like that. If I worked in a place that has mostly all black people and they referred to me as the white guy when talking to someone who didn't know my name it wouldn't be a big deal.

    • @summeraidan5815
      @summeraidan5815 2 роки тому +6

      Goes from a noun to an adjective. From WHAT you are to an ASPECT of who you are. Makes perfect sense

  • @lewisfender318
    @lewisfender318 2 роки тому +736

    This is probably my favorite Bo Burnham song. The epitome of satire

    • @BdoubleOEY
      @BdoubleOEY 2 роки тому +11

      The last line is his best work.

    • @ellelillen
      @ellelillen 2 роки тому +13

      Nah prob the ending of make happy "cant handle this". It perfectly described in a hidden manner how the music and comedy industry drags you in and then starts exploiting you for money, also how he wished he could have a private life. For example the burito part was about how when the contents spilled out he wished someone whould have warned him about it bc he whould have done it diferently. The "a part of me" part is about his audiance defines him but also destroyed his private life. Definetly the best made song he has ever made.

    • @Ariahlmao
      @Ariahlmao 2 роки тому +6

      All of his songs are so good

    • @ricardoraccoon8964
      @ricardoraccoon8964 2 роки тому +10

      yea too bad everyone here takes his sarcasm seriously lmao

    • @JL_27
      @JL_27 2 роки тому +7

      Yeah my man reacting is missing all the satire.

  • @Maddmax26
    @Maddmax26 2 роки тому +218

    BO: "Why did God curse me to be a straight white man?"
    Loyd: Rolls eyes
    BO: "I state my problems, other people roll their eyes"
    Me: Dying.

  • @mu4990
    @mu4990 2 роки тому +755

    As a straight white man, I can promise you I've walked around Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Richmond, Denver, Tampa, Philly, Chicago, Austin, and several other major cities with COPIOUS amounts of weed and have never been randomly stopped or searched for drugs.

    • @fiatche
      @fiatche 2 роки тому +15

      Same here in middle america (Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, etc, etc), lol.

    • @PKMetalGames
      @PKMetalGames 2 роки тому +6

      @@fiatche Same. Missouri lol

    • @ice-iu3vv
      @ice-iu3vv 2 роки тому +8

      nyc. denver, boston, nashvile, most of the north-east, same. its SO WEIRD some of the wacky stuff he's somehow sure of.

    • @jamesmyles4540
      @jamesmyles4540 2 роки тому +5

      Once rode an elevator with a cop well i had 10gs in my pocket. He definitely knew.

    • @timesnewgrecian4591
      @timesnewgrecian4591 2 роки тому +31

      john mulaney had a great joke during one of his specials around the time several states started legalizing weed recreationally. he told the crowd the news, everyone woo’d, and his response was “well dont woo if youre white, its always been legal for us.” hilariously true.

  • @jordanmiller7945
    @jordanmiller7945 2 роки тому +91

    The funny part is as he introduced the song and said problems, my man here rolled his eyes. The very next sentence Bo said I say problems and people roll their eyes 😂 😂🤣🤣🤣 Nailed it

  • @Jay-dw8zi
    @Jay-dw8zi 2 роки тому +191

    I've lived in Chicago, and Detroit. Never been "randomly" searched. I got blonde hair, and blue eyes. I'm not saying that there's a correlation. I'm just saying. IM JUST SAYIN

    • @minnesotaman3
      @minnesotaman3 2 роки тому +4

      Same lived in Minneapolis for 21 years brown hair blue eyes not once got searched for anything moved to Wisconsin haven't gotten searched here in 2 years

    • @rabidmaddog4130
      @rabidmaddog4130 2 роки тому

      Watch for Waupaca county... they will search you and illegally change reports. "Sheriff" Wilz is as crooked as a question mark.

    • @BigWeenisEnergy
      @BigWeenisEnergy 2 роки тому +6

      I got pulled over once and refused a search and it actually worked. He literally told me "I think there's some illegal drugs in your car(there were), but you're free to go."
      The context is not lost on me.

    • @jackmurphy8963
      @jackmurphy8963 2 роки тому +2

      @Jay do you speak German, asking for a friend

    • @goger282
      @goger282 2 роки тому +1

      you just sayian??

  • @nairdacnalbel
    @nairdacnalbel 2 роки тому +185

    they want you to think everyone gets randomly searched for drugs, so you don't feel the blatant discrimination.

    • @FlipDaMushroom02
      @FlipDaMushroom02 2 роки тому

      I mean, everyone does. There's 330 million people nationwide in the U.S.. I'd bet that all people including Latino, Black, White, Asian, etc. will get stopped for something.
      Unless you like...met every single person and concluded some races are stopped and some aren't, which I very highly doubt.

    • @nairdacnalbel
      @nairdacnalbel 2 роки тому +3

      @@FlipDaMushroom02 you cannot be serious

    • @FlipDaMushroom02
      @FlipDaMushroom02 2 роки тому

      @@nairdacnalbel I am, because I used these things called "logic, reason, and the most minimal of critical thinking skills".

    • @EtherealAfro
      @EtherealAfro 2 роки тому +4

      @@FlipDaMushroom02 what'd you even say? I wanna hear this possible ignorance

    • @FlipDaMushroom02
      @FlipDaMushroom02 2 роки тому

      @@EtherealAfro In a country of 330 million people, it's impossible for one skin color to be stopped.
      This is logic. Cope, seethe, and mald even...

  • @josh_lao24
    @josh_lao24 2 роки тому +101

    42 yr old Straight White male - I've been in nearly every major city in the country over the years and I've never been stopped or randomly searched for drugs or anything else.

  • @TetraTheThief
    @TetraTheThief 11 місяців тому +19

    It'll always be funny and a bit painful seeing people reacting to Bo Burnham's songs and getting the completely wrong message from them. It's satire.

  • @bwillowb78
    @bwillowb78 2 роки тому +682

    White woman here, never been randomly searched on the street, at the border or for a flight. I’ve literally been on the street with friends with less privilege while they were harassed and when I objected the officers apologized for interrupting my evening. The level of discrimination aimed at anyone other than middle to upper class wasps is so blatant that I have no idea how anyone manages to normalize or ignore it.
    The ease with which I walk through the world compared to how other people are treated is so so wrong. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect all the time.

    • @nevyn_karres
      @nevyn_karres 2 роки тому

      Women, especially white women, are way more powerful than the fascist peeps, who seem to be mostly just white males.

    • @matthewgilbert9881
      @matthewgilbert9881 2 роки тому +30

      Same thing has happened to me (white) when i when to the airport with my wife and a friend of hers. My wife, who’s family is originally from Guatemala, got a little separated from me and was with her friend, who is also white. Both myself and her friend got through, while my wife was taken out of line and searched. I have never in my life been searched, for any reason.
      I grew up in east Texas, so I always knew people were really racist, but seeing it in person with my wife has been a more visceral experience.

    • @tecumseh821
      @tecumseh821 2 роки тому +3

      *ignores class

    • @kaiserofkush
      @kaiserofkush 2 роки тому +3

      What IS it like playing on easy mode?

    • @matthewgilbert9881
      @matthewgilbert9881 2 роки тому +18

      @@kaiserofkush accurate take. I’ve literally forgotten I picked something up and walked out of a store with it, without paying, and no one said anything to me. It is easier to keep a reasonable perspective now, having lived with my somewhat darker skinned wife for over ten years now.
      I think it’s almost like a drug, because it allows a person to go through life assuming that life is fair, and everything they’ve gotten they’ve earned through merit. Because that’s what people tell us. That’s why for a lot of people it’s a tough pill to swallow, the idea that they’ve basically had a leg up on a large portion of the population since before they were born.

  • @JTidiotboy
    @JTidiotboy 2 роки тому +228

    Nope. White, 30 years old. Never been randomly searched for drugs. Most likely never will be. Song is very accurate for the vast majority of the demographic mentioned.
    btw I agree about the adoption thing. It sucks that the adoption process is so convoluted and expensive.

  • @samseverin5877
    @samseverin5877 2 роки тому +424

    Just adding in here: I'm a white woman. Piercings, tats, dyed hair - I definitely look like I smoke pot. Never been searched for drugs. Not randomly, not even at large parties the cops busted up. The racial disparities in policing are bullshit.
    Great video! Had a lot of fun watching you react

    • @tinkeringclaws5559
      @tinkeringclaws5559 2 роки тому

      you live in a state where pot is legal?

    • @Chetloore
      @Chetloore 2 роки тому +4

      I live in Texas and I'm a straight hippie. Never randomly searched anywhere.

    • @MS_Fdgod
      @MS_Fdgod 2 роки тому

      Lucky, I just have long hair and I've been stopped about 30-40 times.

    • @Chetloore
      @Chetloore 2 роки тому

      @@MS_Fdgod what southern state do you live in? Texas hippie here.

    • @WowDope
      @WowDope 2 роки тому

      do you live in a neighbourhood ravaged by crime and drugs?

  • @groovciti
    @groovciti 2 роки тому +27

    Y’all know Bo is a comedian right?

  • @goatjwp3860
    @goatjwp3860 2 роки тому +98

    another song that is proof bo is a genius songwriter

  • @lewisfender318
    @lewisfender318 2 роки тому +77

    The piano solo is absolutely incredible

    • @Katy-sh3ru
      @Katy-sh3ru 2 роки тому +1

      I agree one hundred percent 🔥🔥

  • @CasherCat
    @CasherCat 2 роки тому +93

    Absolutely love your reactions and your ability to take a joke. Side note, I'm a straight white male and have never been randomly searched for drugs....the cops definitely had a reason when they searched me..

  • @bendyrland7213
    @bendyrland7213 2 роки тому +64

    43 year old white dude. I've been searched for drugs once 20 yrs ago. My home state borders Canada, it was common at the time for college students to travel to Canada to party, as the drinking age in the provence was 18 vs 21 state side. On one trip 4 or 5 carloads of us were re-entering the US from Canada. As we pull up to the American gate, the Border Patrol/Customs Agents tell everyone to get out of the vehicles. A few agents led us inside the building next to the gate and begin searching us and asking about the purpose of our visit, asking if we have any items to declare, any drugs etc. Meanwhile a few other agents are searching the vehicles quite thoroughly. All our bags taken out and searched, etc. The search comes up empty and we are sent on our way. I'm sure we were a sight to behold after a long weekend. I have crossed the US/Canadian border at least a dozen times. Only searched on this one occasion. I've never been searched by any US law enforcement officers.

  • @wallywest2360
    @wallywest2360 2 роки тому +44

    Yeah, I'm a 49 year old straight white male that's spent plenty of time in big cities and I've never been searched for drugs.

  • @MeryKeit
    @MeryKeit 2 роки тому +25

    I love how defensive you turned immediately without knowing that you're in the same boat lol

  • @thisleftylefty
    @thisleftylefty 2 роки тому +79

    “I don’t like ‘African-American’ see, I’m not an good example”
    “I prefer human first” sir, you are the best example

    • @arifreyr2677
      @arifreyr2677 2 роки тому

      Also why is it necesary instead of just american, why are white people in the states not called european american? Stupid need for people to label everything and divide us into tribes.

    • @thisleftylefty
      @thisleftylefty 2 роки тому +3

      @@arifreyr2677 Yep, it’s really just to identify the “others” from the dominant class, it’s messed up

    • @sgtspring3663
      @sgtspring3663 2 роки тому

      African american doesn't even work for any black person outside of the USA

  • @theeffintoves
    @theeffintoves 2 роки тому +18

    2:08 when you said you didnt believe him about getting randomly searched. I have never been randomly searched by cops/tsa despite being pulled over a few times and flying numerous times. despite living in a bad part of town, i am never stopped when i leave a grocery store to check my receipt
    where as i have seen numerous people of color get stopped/searched

  • @michaelwebb5946
    @michaelwebb5946 2 роки тому +24

    You are just a human, and I love your content. You are one of the only reactors who feels natural. You aren't just going for shock value. You don't over react, or pretend that you have never heard a song that everyone has heard. Keep it coming.

  • @cdwise11
    @cdwise11 2 роки тому +7

    I was just yesterday rewatching all the reactions to this and was bummed you didn’t have one! Bummed no more :)

  • @kylewolff1728
    @kylewolff1728 2 роки тому +35

    As someone who worked in the mental health field, specifically with children, in my opinion having an expensive, convoluted adoption process is important. The horrors of the foster system are no joke, and children being easy to acquire will lead to far more abuse and neglect. That being said, the current adoption system is terrible, but making it cheaper and easier is not the answer. Getting organizations who won't adopt to non-white and/or non-christian parents out of the business would be helpful. The fact that it is a business in the first place is probably the biggest problem. Just my thoughts. First time watcher who enjoyed your video!

    • @smolsmile5254
      @smolsmile5254 2 роки тому +1

      Currently lowering the price will do nothing, at the moment the prices of adoption should be high just to help prevent (won't stop but help prevent) a large amount of abusive and neglectful people from having kids
      The problem is their being a price on human beings in their first place

    • @ianseff5627
      @ianseff5627 Рік тому

      Aren't there social workers who check the family condition and finances to determine if they can adopt children? That's an unfair system for those who genuenly want these children

  • @---l---
    @---l--- 2 роки тому +1

    white guy out here on the West Coast.
    never randomly stoped in the city.
    only stopped once as teenager my beater car was full of friends.
    Who had all of their tomatoe plants from their horticulture class on their laps.
    they were trigger happy county sheriff's. Was super privileged & lucky to not get a ticket or arrested.
    If I had to deal with that shit all the time. I don't even know how I would even deal with it.

  • @PeterPorty
    @PeterPorty 2 роки тому +3

    As a white-passing latino, I have NEVER been "randomly" searched for drugs, not in south america, not in the US and not in europe.

  • @Colinkrauss1
    @Colinkrauss1 Рік тому +2

    Cmon man it’s a comedy show! There’s a crowd laughing

  • @jcheever37
    @jcheever37 2 роки тому +22

    straight white male here, definitely have had a no turn signal coming off a frontage road turn into me and my veteran friend handcuffed on the side of the road "for our safety" as officers Rufus and Doofus searched my car for 40 mins. They found some CBD and a .5g of weed. They seized the CBD for testing and gave the weed back 😂 gotta love Illinois.

  • @SirSquireLP
    @SirSquireLP 2 роки тому +2

    I am 32 year old white man that has lived in NYC my entire life and have never been searched for drugs, privilege is real

  • @agusvedder8761
    @agusvedder8761 2 роки тому +31

    I LOVE how you always react like he's not being ironic hahah good video

    • @agusvedder8761
      @agusvedder8761 2 роки тому +5

      OH AND adoption is so expensive cause it shouldn't be called "adoption" it should be named like it actually is, "child trafficking"

    • @michaelramirez4107
      @michaelramirez4107 2 роки тому

      I really hope you know bo is not being serious right?

    • @kipherburger857
      @kipherburger857 2 роки тому +6

      @@michaelramirez4107 I feel like he didn’t realize this song was a joke

    • @michaelramirez4107
      @michaelramirez4107 2 роки тому

      @@kipherburger857 lol

    • @bararobberbaron859
      @bararobberbaron859 2 роки тому

      @@kipherburger857 You can check his Lonely Island reactions, he clearly knows but that's just how he plays it.

  • @TropicalHat420
    @TropicalHat420 2 роки тому +11

    9:19 The face of a man whose telling himself "don't laugh" lmao

  • @Dr.Magic.
    @Dr.Magic. 2 роки тому +24

    I’m glad you seemed shocked by Bo’s lyrics. You’re reaction is exactly what he’s looking for.

  • @Charsept
    @Charsept 2 роки тому +42

    The end gets me every time 😅
    Also, nope, never been searched for drugs.

    • @BdoubleOEY
      @BdoubleOEY 2 роки тому

      It's his best line in any of his songs. So good.

  • @eeeezypeezy
    @eeeezypeezy 2 роки тому +9

    White dude here, mid-30s, lived in and around major cities my whole life and I've never been stopped and searched by the cops. The fact it's so common for people who...aren't in my demographic group, let's say...is information that should not shock me, given everything I know about the way this hell country operates, but somehow still did shock me.

  • @chloeulmer5741
    @chloeulmer5741 2 роки тому +1

    White woman, 25, I’ve had my bags searched at the airport before and high school drug searches (not targeted towards me, just school sweeps)

  • @Guffrs
    @Guffrs 2 роки тому +18

    I'm a white male, Flint MI, was with my girlfriend who is African American, we were both exiting a store at the same time and the alarm went off that goes off if something is stolen. We both stopped, they told me, without checking me or anything, that I was ok, and then they stopped her and asked to search her/her bag.

    • @spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825
      @spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 2 роки тому

      Probably because she had a bag. You know, to PUT stuff in. Perhaps someone thought they saw you sjoplift and they were just doing their jobs. Unless this instance occurred decades ago, I think you're oversimplifying. Even if what you said is true and they are racist, that's a single occurrence out of 100s of millions a day.

    • @Guffrs
      @Guffrs 2 роки тому +1

      @@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 I had a bag too. And maybe it's my area, seems decently common here, her response was pretty much like this happens all the time.

    • @Guffrs
      @Guffrs 2 роки тому +3

      @@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 Also, your condescending tone doesn't really help, especially when you were wrong.

    • @spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825
      @spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 2 роки тому

      @@Guffrs this is anecdotal. One occurrence out of millions, you're painting a picture with little paint and a large canvas. Besides, why are you commenting thus instead of taking g legal action. It was racist, wasn't it? Or do you just not care and you know it's not race related and your just trying to be a white knight?

    • @Guffrs
      @Guffrs 2 роки тому +2

      @@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 I wasn't making a point or saying my experience represents America or anything more than sharing my anecdote because it had something to do with the video. I think you are reading into this more than what it was. I was just sharing my experience because it surprised me that it happened. I'm not trying to crusade for a bigger cause or even make a point of any sort. If you read back over what I said, all I did was share the story. I didn't say it means America is bad or racist or draw any conclusions from it. You are the one who drew conclusions from an anecdote.

  • @hostilecrayon
    @hostilecrayon 2 роки тому +2

    I as a white woman have never been a victim of a random drug search.

  • @austinwitham109
    @austinwitham109 2 роки тому +6

    I've literally smoked a joint walking by cops maybe 50 times in my decade of smoking weed. Never once been stopped or searched. Randomly or otherwise

  • @trainwreck_mk2
    @trainwreck_mk2 2 роки тому +1

    As a white woman I have never been randomly searched for drugs. And I lived in the 11th larges city in the US.

  • @DarkHatchet55
    @DarkHatchet55 2 роки тому +26

    As a 33 year old straight white male, living in a suburb of Detroit, I can confirm I have never been randomly searched for drugs.

  • @NotBavarian
    @NotBavarian 2 роки тому +1

    I may not have been searched for drugs, but for my highschool s random drug tests I was "randomly" selected 5 out of 6 times

  • @HiveFleetKd
    @HiveFleetKd 2 роки тому +27

    Mind being blown on the adoption costs. That sounds insane and such a barrier, the wellbeing of children should not be run for profit.
    I (UK) have three adopted siblings, there were no fees or anything near those kinda of figures.
    It took around a year to go through the process, several rounds of background checks and interviews (with a social worker and a local police officer, etc), financial stability checks and all that.
    There were some minor costs involved, such as an enhanced DBS background check (under $50 per person) and travel - But the state gave a grant towards providing support for the kids, which completely covered buying a new people carrier and helped towards furnishing & decorating their bedrooms.

    • @aeringothyk5445
      @aeringothyk5445 2 роки тому +4

      If it were cheaper so many more people would do it. When I’m retired I’ll probably adopt some kids since I’ll have the time to be there for them without sacrificing the money to care for them. Like a full time grandpa figure

    • @Arthaius
      @Arthaius 2 роки тому

      - I was absolutely stunned when Mr Boyd revealed these criminally ridiculous costs - it's actually criminal, they are selling children; I'm in Canada, and do not know if this is the same as in the States (I'm going to assume not since Canada was colonized by the U.K. originally, so would assume we follow a similar system but who knows), but either way, I feel that the U.N. should actually step in and intervene in this matter, it's literally selling children, there is no legally viable excuse for thousands of dollars in fees to adopt a child, let alone TENS of thousands. Thank God the U.K. is doing it the correct way.

    • @TheNeoVid
      @TheNeoVid 2 роки тому

      This is America, where you can be bankrupted by a medical bill. Looks like learning about the adoption thing is as shocking to people in other countries as the fact that an ambulance ride can cost a month's salary.

  • @jayb-clay2724
    @jayb-clay2724 2 роки тому +1

    Back in the day when I wasn't livin right I was pulled over and searched like it was my job.

  • @lionelhutt9119
    @lionelhutt9119 2 роки тому +4

    I am a white guy, I have never been searched for drugs on the streets
    but I live in New Zealand where that's not really a thing, and police mostly just leave you alone.
    I have been patted down randomly at an airport but that may just be that I'm in my 20s and have a beard.

  • @motiemo
    @motiemo Рік тому +1

    White woman here. I walked up to a police officer once while tripping on acid with weed in my pocket and asked him for directions and he pointed me in the right direction. Did not care about the weed smell lol

  • @yoshums7970
    @yoshums7970 2 роки тому +10

    White male here, never been searched for drugs. Every BIPOC friend I have, has, on several occasions. This is what systemic racism is, man.

  • @emiliandekievit3703
    @emiliandekievit3703 2 роки тому +1

    White man, live in The Netherlands. Never have been random searched for drugs. But I can confirm that it is not equally threated. People from abroad / non white people are way more often randomly checked. Even when there is no reason for it.

  • @nunya_beeswacks7262
    @nunya_beeswacks7262 2 роки тому +10

    As a straight white male, I have been “randomly” searched at airports, on the streets, and “randomly” stopped by police when driving including “random” car searches.

    • @91GT347
      @91GT347 2 роки тому +4

      Same here. Curious what all the “never been searched” people look and dress like. ….and Im white white. Pale, strawberry blonde, freckles. Lol Ive just been sitting in my car doing nothing, and they roll up, called the dog in, etc.

    • @ReeN1995
      @ReeN1995 2 роки тому +1

      @@91GT347 Yeah I wonder too, 27 years old now and been stopped multiple times. I wear hoodies and hats but look very pale.

    • @FlipDaMushroom02
      @FlipDaMushroom02 2 роки тому

      The comments are filled with the type of people who spend their entire day on Reddit and Twitter while thinking that transferring power between federal and state governments is the equivalent to fascism incarnated. Absolute cringe lol.
      Also, most of these people saying "I've never got searched, we feel the ''''''pREVILIGE'''''' of being White" are literally committing to what's known as an anecdotal fallacy, basically stating that their experience is representative of 234 million people nationwide. I hope most can actually learn nuance and logic before realizing that maybe those 234 million people do have challenges like the other 96 million these same people like to paint a broad brush with.

    • @DarkPassenger
      @DarkPassenger 2 роки тому +3

      @@91GT347 It's because they aren't hanging around in bad places, or with bad people. It all depends on your location. If you're in a area known for drugs, crime, leaving a drug house, or something like that you have a pretty good chance of being pulled over or stopped.

    • @91GT347
      @91GT347 2 роки тому +1

      @@DarkPassenger Yep. “Big cities” doesn’t really narrow it down much.

  • @CatherinesClaws
    @CatherinesClaws 2 роки тому +1

    as a white person i have never been randomly searched for drugs

  • @MeStandby
    @MeStandby 2 роки тому +9

    Wow... in Norway it costs a total of 20-25k dollars to adopt a child... and an annual fee if a whopping 75$!
    That being said, the state of Norway will pay about 10k of the adoption fee. On top of that, every parrent, including those that adopt, receive an annual payment of around 9k per child.

    • @Death_By_Media
      @Death_By_Media 2 роки тому

      Wow your Nation doesn’t put the commodification of a human being over their importance , sentience, and well being ? Must be be Marxists . 💀

    • @Zebronn97
      @Zebronn97 5 місяців тому

      That is only for international children... It's the cost associated with administrative costs and fees. children born in norway are free to adopt.

  • @Orloft
    @Orloft 2 роки тому +1

    We do not, in fact, all randomly get searched lol. Never been searched at random in my life. Closest thing was being randomly selected for extra security at an airport.

  • @trtlgrdl
    @trtlgrdl Рік тому +2

    Agreed to the satire point. This is from a comedy show after all.
    You gotta watch the whole show to get a fell for the guy. Hes great.

  • @Hayoula00
    @Hayoula00 2 роки тому +5

    Everything is a business in the US....tens of thousands of kids needing a home, but you have to pay that much... Smh

  • @Charlie_the_dog
    @Charlie_the_dog 10 місяців тому +1

    "It's a human ugh"- any hardcore introvert XP

  • @explodingplant2
    @explodingplant2 2 роки тому +4

    White-passing biracial woman (white and Asian), obviously I've never been searched for drugs. But i specifically recall the fcked revelation that hit me after I switched schools from elementary school (northern Virginia) to high school (Washington DC).
    I went shopping with my friends after school and smiled at the shopkeepers as I was accustomed to always do. but it was weird--it was like the 1st shopkeeper, 2nd shopkeeper-- they must have been in a bad mood; they didn't smile back as they have my entire life. By the 5th store and after being followed around by some of the store employees mugging us the entire time with a 😠 attitude, it dawned on my dumbself that shopping while black was a different experience, a much less friendly less welcoming experience. and the weird suspicion that was bothering me that day was culture shock at experiencing a slice of life in America inside a black friend group rather than a white friend group. Wtf.

  • @fury_saves_world
    @fury_saves_world Рік тому +1

    White dude here: Never been searched for drugs even when caught in seriously sketchy positions. I in fact offered the knowledge to the cop that I had weed and a knife in my pocket and he didn't care one bit then gave me a ride home with the other white guy who was walking ahead of me (we didn't know each other)😂😂😂
    Edit: He did search me for safety before letting me in his front seat, but I was walking on a back county road at pitch dark nighttime so that's expected. Beward driving rural roads at night in California; you may encounter two random white guys with weed GOD FORBID they smoke you out

  • @MTG_Scribe
    @MTG_Scribe 2 роки тому +12

    It's amazing how there are two songs called "Straight White Male" and one of them is a pointed look at our culture through a musical lens and the other one is by Tom MacDonald.

    • @JTidiotboy
      @JTidiotboy 2 роки тому +2

      Tom MacDonald is the king of making the dumbest possible point at the worst possible time and tricking people into being a little more racist with each song.

    • @lunardruidcyprianrose333
      @lunardruidcyprianrose333 2 роки тому +2

      @@JTidiotboy The privilege of a virtue signaling Canadian. lol

    • @FlipDaMushroom02
      @FlipDaMushroom02 2 роки тому

      @@JTidiotboy "Racism" is when you make 20 songs in a span of a year talking about how the system divides people by race.
      Wait, that's the opposite of racism...

  • @dvjolly19
    @dvjolly19 Рік тому +1

    As a straight white man I also have never been searched for drugs, random or otherwise

  • @AdamsTCole
    @AdamsTCole 2 роки тому +7

    I, white, grew up in southern California so calling people by color,race and culture was never a matter of negative
    It was appreciation for each others cultures
    My friends with Mexican, Indiana and black were all equals to me but I knew were all different cultures and that was bad ass. Different food, parties, traditions were to be celebrated and looked forward to. Now that I've traveled to different areas of the US I've seen the same terms used to divide and hate, so in my mind it's like all terms, it's how you use them

  • @chrisknight2631
    @chrisknight2631 2 роки тому +1

    I have never been searched for drugs in my life. 40 year old white guy here. Not once. I smoke roll-up cigarettes using large papers, so they look like a joint would look where I am, and the police once stopped me as they were walking past me and there was a strong smell of weed in the air (weed is illegal here), and they asked me if that smell was me, pointing at my joint-like cigarette and I said “no, it’s just a roll-up.”
    Guess what they said….(?)
    “Ok, sorry to have bothered you - have a good day”
    And then we carried on walking in different directions.
    I’m sorry to say, but every man I know well, who is white, has never been searched randomly. Every person I know well who isn’t white, has been searched for drugs.
    Unfortunately, you are wrong here, but you really shouldn’t be. Being wrong here is nothing to be happy about.

  • @richardzwaduk1552
    @richardzwaduk1552 2 роки тому +3

    I am a straight white male, and I think your outlook on foster care and adoption is 100% correct. My parents are "foster parents" and I personally believe they did an amazing job preparing a child for the world. Thank you Mr. Lboyd.

  • @somerotter
    @somerotter 2 роки тому +1

    Honestly, were you kidding on the random drug search bit? I’ve never been randomly searched for drugs. I’ve been stopped for looking like a weirdo, but never searched.

  • @scottpurcell8833
    @scottpurcell8833 2 роки тому +12

    i love bo burnham. btw, i love everyone and wish you all the best!

  • @Vanagandr99
    @Vanagandr99 2 роки тому +1

    White German Woman here I was searched once in my life and it was not a search it was a check if I was fine with my parents in a big city cause of bruises

  • @Jaxcooley
    @Jaxcooley 2 роки тому +5

    Bo is being ironic and does not actually believe these things

  • @jimw198177
    @jimw198177 2 роки тому +1

    I'm a straight white man and I've been asked by police "where's the dope at," multiple times while being searched by police.

  • @Cassandra6
    @Cassandra6 2 роки тому +4

    So with the adoption thing, it actually depends on how you’re adopting and what agency you’re adopting through. For example if you get licensed through the state, like directly through the child protective services agency, then it might even be free to adopt and the state actually pays you to do it. But if you’re going through a private adoption agency or adopting from overseas etc. then it’s gonna be really expensive. The thing is that even though it’s way cheaper to adopt from the foster care system some people don’t want to do it because the kids are traumatized and “problem children” and many of those adoptions end up falling apart when the family realizes the child is not a perfect angel

  • @tylervoter4397
    @tylervoter4397 2 роки тому +2

    Never been searched for drugs. In fact, fell asleep in my car in a parking lot. Woke up to a cop flashing a light in my window and knocking on it. (Driving home from a gig and was too tired to keep driving so I pulled into a closed has station parking lot to sleep). He thought I was maybe OD on heroin or something. I showed him my bag a weed and was like 'No not into that stuff. I do have some marijuana, just played a show with my band and too tired to keep driving'. He didn't check my eyes or even ask questions. Told me to have a good night and sleep in the parking lot with lights on next time.

  • @thewick4313
    @thewick4313 2 роки тому +3

    Ok so I grew up in LA in the 90s and I wasn't in the best neighborhood and I never got randomly searched by myself. Now if I had my friends with me we always did.

  • @CoreyWatson-mk1eb
    @CoreyWatson-mk1eb Рік тому +1

    I get "randomly" searched for drugs any time I get pulled over. From a Marijuana charge from literally 20 years ago. So not factual but I get the point he is trying to make.😂😂😂😂

  • @Whitesquall123
    @Whitesquall123 2 роки тому +4

    Straight white man from Canada here. I am always the "random bag check" when I travel internationally.
    Ive also been searched for drugs in many cities I've visited - but it entirely depended on where I went.
    Walking into the movie? No.
    Going into a music festival? Yes.

    • @joystick2212
      @joystick2212 2 роки тому +1

      they search almost everyone if youre going into an EDM festival. A majority of people have drugs. As long as you hide them in your sock/undergarments you're generally good.

  • @meghangerhart643
    @meghangerhart643 2 роки тому +1

    Another white woman here who has traveled across borders and been on many flights, as well as many big cities in different countries of the world and I have never been randomly searched for drugs. In fact, no one in my family has either, nor many white friends of mine. Btw, a pat down before going on a flight, if you’ve set off the metal detector is not a “random search for drugs”. I HAVE been in lines for flights or at customs where a black person or a poc man wearing a traditional head scarf WERE chosen for the “random” drug search. As a teenager, I was in a very shady situation with some older people when they were stopped by a policeman. This situation had so many red flags but I don’t feel comfortable giving the details. Needless to say, the cop assessed the situation and….promptly let everyone involved go without even asking for a breathalyzer test for some of the people or the ages of my friend and I. Everyone involved was white. I can’t imagine that, had this happened to a group of poc, particularly with a white cop, the outcome would have been the same.

  • @carlrosenzweig1867
    @carlrosenzweig1867 2 роки тому +11

    You're dropping Harry Mack and Bo Burnham in the same day? Thank you sir. If you add Bill Burr and Chris Stapleton, you'll completely blow my mind.

  • @DoraScarlet
    @DoraScarlet 2 роки тому +1

    I’m a white woman and I have been randomly searched for drugs at the airport but that was a random alert. I never have in the street or anywhere else.

  • @deepsquatproductions2227
    @deepsquatproductions2227 2 роки тому +3

    The closest I’ve ever gotten is a cop once asked to search my car after I was driving home from Wisconsin to Iowa with California plates at 1am lol. He asked if he could search my car, I said sure, and he didn’t end up searching it anyway lol. I think he just asked to gauge my reaction. When I cooperated, he didn’t bug me further and didn’t even give me a ticket for speeding or whatever I did to get pulled over.
    That’s the thing, when you’re a white guy in the Midwest, politeness and cooperation basically gets you out of most police encounters. I’ve had two or three cops act like assholes when I get pulled over but I usually talk em down pretty easy. With how many risky ass situations I’ve been in (eg, drugs in the car, expired plates, no insurance etc) I know that if I was a different color there’s a great chance I’d be dead today.

  • @kaylabarr7432
    @kaylabarr7432 2 роки тому +1

    Never been searched for drugs in my life and I KNOW I've smelled like weed in public. The cops are not sneaky about who they're choosing to search

  • @nickwest932
    @nickwest932 2 роки тому +4

    I am white and have been pulled out of my car and put in cuffs, for my protection mind you, then had my car torn apart in a drug search. That was the worst incident but not the only. There have been more times where I was searched.

  • @SanDukey
    @SanDukey 2 роки тому +1

    As a white man, I've never been randomly searched for drugs.

  • @79mib
    @79mib 2 роки тому +4

    Adopting your first child should be funded. You’re doing an amazing thing.

    • @jeffconn722
      @jeffconn722 2 роки тому

      No. Why should it?

    • @h3lblad3
      @h3lblad3 2 роки тому +1

      @@jeffconn722, the Supreme Court just made supported anti-abortion efforts in an effort to "increase the domestic supply of infants", so yes adoptions should be funded.

  • @EDub513
    @EDub513 2 роки тому +2

    2 things:
    1. As a white male (in the US), I can also say I, well as nearly every white personal I know has never randomly been searched for drugs.
    2. Exactly.. why is adoption so expensive? WHO is making the majority of that money, too? The biological mother isn’t making 70-100K per child..

  • @reginehellamidtun3413
    @reginehellamidtun3413 2 роки тому +3

    you have such a soothing voice!

  • @60sGirl123
    @60sGirl123 2 роки тому +1

    I’m a white boomer. Yes, was randomly searched in the 70’s because I was a hippie. So were my friends.

  • @bjc414
    @bjc414 2 роки тому +3

    Never been searched.

  • @maddyadkins5295
    @maddyadkins5295 2 роки тому +1

    White woman here, never been randomly searched for drugs but I’ve seen other people get searched! (Not white people) we really don’t fear or even have to worry about it unless we look homeless or like a skater teen, that’s literally all we have to worry about

  • @bhelliom3
    @bhelliom3 2 роки тому +6

    I'm literally crying at this song again, I fucking love this shit.

    • @BdoubleOEY
      @BdoubleOEY 2 роки тому

      The last lines are his best lines of all his songs.

  • @breakdancinfool
    @breakdancinfool 2 роки тому +1

    Yeah. Im a White man in my mid-40s, have lived in Orlando, FL, San Diego, CA and Dublin Ireland as well as many smaller cities, and have never been randomly stopped and searched for drugs.

  • @threeleggedcat
    @threeleggedcat 2 роки тому +3

    100% agree on the adoption stuff, just also thought I’d mention that it shouldn’t be just any body able bodied because many disabled people would be and are very capable parents as well!

    • @Howzieky
      @Howzieky Рік тому

      Honestly I'd take anybody who's well adjusted and self aware

  • @TallgrassMeander
    @TallgrassMeander 2 роки тому +2

    The conversation about "the blacks" reminds me of a Seth Meyers joke from a few years ago. "Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with the blacks. Unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I highly doubt it."

  • @Therelegationzone
    @Therelegationzone Місяць тому +3

    Does this guy not know what a joke is 💀

  • @willardlarkinsnow5622
    @willardlarkinsnow5622 2 роки тому +1

    Just here to add to all the “I’m white and have never been randomly searched for drugs in my entire life”

  • @wtasonwatson4971
    @wtasonwatson4971 2 роки тому +5

    Brilliant reaction,, people who can enjoy humour are my favourite type of people, not that i care about stereotyping but here we are :)
    Would you react to 3.14 apple pie if you haven't heard it already!!
    It was the first song i ever heard from him back in the day !

  • @Charlie_the_dog
    @Charlie_the_dog 10 місяців тому +1

    Your takes are absolutely correct! XD

  • @lightsoutisay
    @lightsoutisay 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you for bringing attention to the adoption system... although I think adoptive families need to have extensive background checks, you need to allow middle class/lower middle class an opportunity to adopt!

  • @jakeburkhart6495
    @jakeburkhart6495 2 роки тому +1

    Mrlboyd with the silky smooth voice 🔥

  • @broncoo787
    @broncoo787 2 роки тому +3

    Bo is such a gem

  • @chlupl
    @chlupl 2 роки тому +2

    Been searched for drugs a few times, though more often in rural areas. I've also be pulled over for walking in the wrong side of the road and escorted out of town.