He has no shame about calling people out. He will walk up to a person - rich, poor, old, young - in a bar, restaurant, on an airplane, or wherever and just let them have it. He'll start politely ("Hello sir would you please either turn the volume off or put headphones on") and if they don't, he will escalate until either there's a shouting match or they relent.
His record is nearly flawless in accomplishing the mission.
A lot of us would luv to do the same thing but might find our heads bouncing off the pavement.
To be clear, I applaud your friend.
The interesting side note to that story though is that I discovered there's an incredibly seedy side to YouTube premium - all he watched was AI generated videos, with an AI generated voice reading out an AI generated script about how some child had lost their parents in a war and then went on to find god, or a "serviceman" had been in a helicopter crash and then gone on to find god. It's basically scamming old people who are fearing the end. I know it's YouTube Premium because literally every 3rd video was a video about "how do I find my purchased videos on YouTube" which he would watch 20 times in a row and then eventually go off and find his purchased scam bait.
Despite how annoying all this was, I came out of it most angry at YouTube and everyone who works there enabling predatory scumbags to target sick old people.
Any of these problems could force a person to resort to using their speaker instead of headphones. But if we had standard heapdhone jacks like the old days, there would be far fewer excuses.
It also doesn’t help that it’s been a very long time since phones came with headphones included.
xvector•7h ago