Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 138: Dr. Ass-less Chaps

Episode Date: February 17, 2014

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Want to stream Cognitive Dissonance to your Android or iPhone? Buy the app! Go to DissonancePod.com and click on the link on the right-hand side of the page. Each purchase helps support the show. Hey, Cecil and Tom. This is Cameron from Washington. I don't know whether to thank you for this or be really fucking pissed off at you. But effectively, I was listening to your latest episode, and somewhere between your horrifying butchering of the name Indian Jekyll,
Starting point is 00:00:35 I don't know how to pronounce it either, I'm a very fat American as well, and hunting and eating Ewoks, I just couldn't help but laughing like a fucking maniac. I listened to your podcast in a computer lab, a dead silent air conditioned computer lab with about 12 people and two very strict teachers. The school has unwittingly allowed the passage of podcasts and allowed filth to infect their servers like yours. And so this is where I usually listen to Cognitive Dissonance. And so in this silent room, I just
Starting point is 00:01:12 burst out laughing. And as a result of it, I have gotten a stern talking to, and I have now been awarded a lunch attention. So I think thank you. You know, fuck those guys. Thanks, guys. Goodbye. Glory hole.
Starting point is 00:01:37 Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason. This is Cognitive Dissonance. Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad. It's skeptical, it's political political and there is no welcome at this is episode 138
Starting point is 00:02:29 the boorish laughter episode i'm cackling i'm purposefully cackling right now it is we asked you know cecil we have not but ourselves to blame. We asked for iTunes reviews, and several of our listeners were kind enough to go to iTunes and leave reviews. We did, however, get another two-star review wherein they accused us of cackling and derided our boorish laughter. I believe they did that with a monocle and a top hat. They did. They called Mr. Peanut on the phone to complain. They were like, hey, Mr. Peanut, I listened to this podcast a couple of times. You know, it's so funny about that review that made me laugh is the person's name is like Mark, the app rating maniac or something like that.
Starting point is 00:03:13 And he's rated one thing. It's like us. It's like you're the you're the fucking lamest maniac in the history of maniacs. Good sir. Let me tell you. And I'm wearing my monocle to call you good, sir. I love the idea, too, that somebody would spend a tremendous amount of time being like you know what i'm known for raiding apps boom bitches i'll fucking raid an app like nobody's bitten it i got a two star i got a two star over here i got a two i'll fuck anything that moves. You know, look, everybody's got to be good at something. I don't know what I'm good at yet, but I'm hoping to find out. I'm fucking good at cackling and boorish laughter.
Starting point is 00:03:52 That's what I'm good at. It always strikes me, too, when these people that are like, they laugh too much or they're laughing. Oh, my God. It's just like your life is the worst life anybody's ever lived. You are the worst person in the world. You are the most... Could you imagine how un-fucking-fun that person is to be around? They're just like, will you stop laughing at stuff?
Starting point is 00:04:11 And I went to this party and all these people were like enjoying themselves. And I was there to have an argument with somebody, but nobody would argue. They just wanted to... I wanted to punch somebody in the balls. Enjoy themselves. So I just sat in the corner and punched myself in the balls. You are watching the beginning and the birth of the New World Order. And you want to call me crazy?
Starting point is 00:04:35 Go to hell. Call me crazy all you want. So the first story we're going to cover comes from Right Wing Watch, right? Yes, it does. click you've won it wasn't working comes to right wing watch back god told me to sit down and shut up because he has absolute miracles in store for the blaze So God is evidently a website designer for chubby people now. God's like a pushy marketing agent. Sit down and shut up, kid. I'm taking control.
Starting point is 00:05:15 He's got like a 40s shirt on, like in a vest. He's not wearing a suit coat. He's just got the vest on and like a cig hanging out of his mouth and one of those floppy hats. And he's like, sit down, kid. I'm'm gonna show you how to run this thing yeah see yeah exactly he's like a lot yeah he's he's like the uh the newspaper editor for peter parker from he's got the streaks of white hair on the side oh that's awesome he's a hard-bitten newspaper man yeah he's crusty but benign yeah like wouldn't that be a great like you know because superman has his alter ego right yeah and it's so god has his like god is just but he's the boss because he's god i think
Starting point is 00:06:07 i think jonah jameson kind of looks like glenn beck to be honest with you kind of does he kind of looks like glenn beck um this is an interesting story because he basically saying in this story that god is because it's a sort of jesus take the wheel sort of thing for glenn beck right he's saying i had all these plans and i had this stuff and God told me to zip it and sit down and basically just watch him work. Like, I'm going to work. And it makes it feel like Glenn Beck is talking about, you know, this little network that he's made, the Blaze. It's like, let's not forget that Glenn Beck was a fucking millionaire when he started this venture. It's not like he just built this thing from nothing.
Starting point is 00:06:47 It's like you built this thing from a successful career. It's like somebody, you know, is a fucking, it's not a miracle that you built a successful venture out of something like this. It's like a stock person, a stock market person makes a bunch of money in the stock market and then builds like a successful stock brokerage firm. That's not a, like that's, it's it's it's one foot in front of the other. It's not that's not a fucking surprise or a miracle at all. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is not the little engine that could. Right. Right. Yeah. It's like, oh, let's ship more money into that. Yeah. Hey, man, you know, if. If I dump a billion dollars into this thing, maybe it wasn't that much,
Starting point is 00:07:28 but what the fuck do you got there? A fucking red camera, a guy to operate it, four microphones and a desk. You certainly aren't curing cancer there, Glenn. Right, yeah. I mean, you could whip this together in the better part of a productive afternoon. You could Kickstarter this fucking thing.
Starting point is 00:07:43 Are you kidding me? Although he does have an awesome camera i'm always blown away at the quality of his he does it's a red it's like it's like an hd red it's really beautiful i like his mic i think his sound is actually really good when you listen to glenn talk his production value is solid man it's very solid like he's got some good production values and And by the way, I just want to mention too, like why this is important. Glenn is technically putting himself in a sort of priming the pump, if you will, for him to be the mouthpiece of God here. He's saying, look, I'm putting myself up to be a prophet. I'm putting myself up to say I'm getting a message from God. And so he's not like allowing himself to be attacked rhetorically anymore, or even,
Starting point is 00:08:30 you know, logically because he's, he's, he's now saying God is running the show for me and the show. So this is basically, if you listen to my show, you're listening to God. That's why this is important because people believe him.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Oh, sure. He's setting himself up as a prophet, right? That's, that's,, because people believe him. Oh, sure. He's setting himself up as a prophet. Right. That's, I mean, he is now... A prophet for profit. A for-profit prophet. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And not to be confused with a non-for-profit prophet. Non-for-profit prophets are totally different. Yeah. And I don't think he is a prophet, so then he would be not a prophet, non-for-profit prophet. He's just going to keep on going, isn't it? We're going to have to stop this one.
Starting point is 00:09:07 This is not going to end. I love, too, by the way, that even God wants Glenn Beck to shut up. Yeah, of course he does. Even God is just like, okay, look, 7 billion people on the planet, and I have to listen to all of them. Listen here, kid, I'm sick of the blaze. You get a special message to shut the fuck up. I have no problem attending happy weddings. If there is a gay wedding and everybody's gay, everybody's happy, I have no problem with people attending a happy wedding. But I'm not real big on attending neurotic weddings. I draw a distinction between
Starting point is 00:09:43 gay weddings and neurotic weddings. People say, what's a neurotic weddings. So I draw a distinction between gay weddings and neurotic weddings. People say, what's a neurotic wedding? A neurotic wedding is what Nero came up with when he said, hey, let's do same-sex weddings. Okay, that came from Nero. He's the namesake for this kind of abomination. It's very popular today, outrageously popular. It's mind-boggling how popular it is. Now, Dave, however, I have many exceptions. I think you can attend a wedding if you hold up a sign that reads Leviticus 2013. I think that would be appropriate. I think that would be appropriate. Yeah, that you could attend a wedding and hold up the sign Leviticus 2013.
Starting point is 00:10:13 And, you know, word for word, a man sleeps with a man as he sleeps with a woman. The two of them have committed abomination. They shall both be put to death. I mean, you could attend a wedding and hold up that sign. So if you get an invitation to a homosexual wedding, and I guess, Dave, it comes down to if you bake a cake for a homosexual wedding, you could put Leviticus 2013 on the cake. So this story comes from the raw story. Pro family group leader. Even plumbers know Valentine's Day is not for LGBT people.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Even plumbers. Because I guess plumbers are stupid. But I don't know why. Yeah, I know. Like big slam on plumbers right out of nowhere. What the fuck? What the fuck? Don't these people even like plumbers?
Starting point is 00:10:54 Wasn't there like some sort of super plumber who was the hero and Obama was the arch villain a while ago? Yeah, wasn't there like Joe the plumber was the fight Obama girl? Yeah, it was like fucking Joe the plumber. You people love plumbers yeah well plumbers are like a symbol for like middle-class america despite the fact that plumbers make like a hundred dollars an hour every time they're in my house like a plumber comes to my house that's the least middle-class person that's been in my house like a plumber comes to my house they're like like, yeah, it looks like the flux capacitor
Starting point is 00:11:28 there. We're going to have to lube this all out, maybe add some quads to the L-joint. That's going to be about $1,300, maybe $1,400 there. Yeah, that's going to cost you about, let's say, a tree Cadillac and a diamond ring. What do you say? Throw a Rolex in there, we'll call it even, huh? You know, I will say, though, I had a plumber out the other day to replace the wax ring on my toilet,
Starting point is 00:11:56 even though that is work I can do. Yeah, sure. But I have decided that that is work I will never do again. You can do it. Yeah. But you don't have to do it. Right. That's the key.
Starting point is 00:12:07 I have never been so happy to come home and have spent $75 of my money. That's it? Right? Jesus, I'd have it replaced every week. Are you kidding? It doesn't even need it. Just get your ass out of my house and fucking scrape that gooey fucking ring out of there and replace that fucker.
Starting point is 00:12:26 I was like, you do it right now. When we called and asked him, like, yeah, you know, I'm like, I got to you got to replace the wax ring. And he's like, yeah, it's like 75 bucks. When can you be here? I fucking love you. It's like the chorus of angels. I was like, you can take my child. I fucking love you.
Starting point is 00:12:42 I was like, you can take my child. I fucking love you. That's one of those things, though, that when you're a trained professional, you can fucking just burn through. But when you're a fucking dope like you or me, it's an hour of gooey, shitty, worst work in the world. I hate all the things. The worst. And I'm full of wax that's full of poo. I know. I hate my life.
Starting point is 00:13:03 I'm not dealing with that. There may come a time in my life ever where i have to deal with that again but i have done my share of replacing toilets and wax rings and if i never have to open the poo pipe again there's no reason to do that you can like stuff a fucking cat or something down there to fucking make sure it doesn't smell. And oh, God, plumbing is the worst thing ever. I can't. But even they know that Valentine's Day, Cecil, this is my segue back into the story. You like that?
Starting point is 00:13:34 Okay. Yeah. No, it's good. Plumbers and Valentine's Day in the same fucking Jesus Christ, man. You fucking thought this one up earlier. I did. You know, no, I did not. Even they know.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Don't even think about this show before i've never once thought about this show until we hit the record button let me just tell you even when i'm finding the stories i'm not even thinking about this show i'm just like this seems like a thing let's do this just accidentally hit a bunch i just randomly and accidentally grabbed stories um i just have it automated through zeit that's just what i do like i read them as we go that's why i'm stalling now right yeah so this fucking idiot uh he is the president of save california.com website randy thomason um and and his his assertion in his one minute shit show that he puts out is that uh everybody knows that men and women i mean what he's basically saying is uh you know tab a slot b
Starting point is 00:14:34 that's what his argument boils down totally yeah you know and even plumbers know that there's like female even plumbers even fucking plumbers. Those brain dead half-wits. Fucking mouth breathing, right? Brain dead morons that they are. Those awful human beings that have no worth in society. Even plumbers who we all know we should hang. Wait, what? What's happening?
Starting point is 00:15:02 What was this guy going to say about electricians like i know jesus man give him a chair fuck cool set it up i don't know we didn't think this out what yeah i i think it's it's interesting because you know the phrases he said what he says here and this is the the phrasing he uses he says valentine's Day is for only one man and one woman. I'm thinking, which one? Like, what pair of them? I know. Is it like a lottery that we have every year?
Starting point is 00:15:33 And if you get the right number, you get surf and turf. And if you don't, you've got to fucking enter in the Hunger Games or something. It's a lottery where you're just like, oh, fuck, I chose the wrong one. Hunger Games it is again this year. Fucking Hunger Games. One out of seven billion chance of getting picked. I never get the surf and turf. And the person who gets picked would be allergic to crustaceans.
Starting point is 00:15:58 Like, fuck. Damn it. I'm a vegetarian with a shellfish allergy. This is the Hunger Games. Can I trade this in for the Hunger Games or no? That story appears to be over. I don't really have anything else to say. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:12 I mean, hold on, hold on. Let me see if I can say something about it. Let me think. No, I have nothing else to say about that. Okay, that's fine. Pentecostal chaplain John Kaufman came out and said this, Marriage is the combat multiplier in that it gives married troops hope and a reason to fight well, defending one's country of which marriage and families are the foundation.
Starting point is 00:16:40 But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers, all because the treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels. So this next story comes from the raw story. Ex Navy chaplain consequences of sin force gay soldiers to wear diapers in combat. I love the way that they lead this story off a disgraced navy chaplain and of course they're talking about gordon dr chaps klingenschmitt um you would change your name to dr chaps too if your name was fucking klingerschmitt i i would especially if my face looked like a raw hemorrhoidal asshole like this guy. They call him Dr. Chaps because he's like
Starting point is 00:17:30 he's part of like the village people and he's the one who wears those. He's the one in the chaps. He's the one that's riding around. He's got like the big black chaps on and like a fucking giant Indian headdress on. Is that I'm just picturing like Pauly Shore from, I don't know
Starting point is 00:17:46 fucking old paulie shore movie where he's doing paulie shore right show the fucking polish oh no assless assless chaps that's what we need to start calling this guy assless chaps assless dr assless chaps that's his name so gordon dr chaps klingenschmitt um has evidently flapped his mouth hole again and said some unbelievably crazy stuff um part of what he said is homosexuality is a combat divider dividing and this i don't understand what dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers, all because their treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels. What the fuck is he talking about?
Starting point is 00:18:39 You know what he's talking about. Yeah, he's insinuating that anal sex makes you poo your pants. Right. That's what he's saying. Heinuating that anal sex makes you poo your pants. Yeah, right. That's what he's saying. He's saying that anal sex makes you poo your pants. That's why you don't take porn stars to, like, four-star restaurants. That's why I don't. Because if you do, they'll poo themselves right in the middle of the restaurant.
Starting point is 00:18:58 They'll just be like, sorry, I was working earlier, and that lobster just goes right through me. Bang. Right out there. That serpent term. Fucking lousy serpent term. It goes right through me. Bang. Right out there. That serpent's herb. Fucking lousy serpent. Goes right through me. It's treacherous. You're going to need a new chair.
Starting point is 00:19:11 I love the idea that they don't have, like, their reason to live is divided. What does that mean? That's a part I can't really decipher. Dividing one's reason to live. You know what we really need to do is we need to discern the discernment here for a second. I was going to discern some discernment. is we need to discern the discernment here. I was going to discern to some discernment. Let's try to discern the discernment. So what does he say exactly?
Starting point is 00:19:29 He says homosexuality is a combat divider. Dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks. Okay, no, that doesn't make any sense. You can't make that a thing. You know what the worst part about that is, is that's not him speaking. That's him reading a thing he wrote. If you watch the video, that's not just him talking and blathering. And I've had that happen to me too, where I'll say something and start to say something else. And you know, I'll interrupt my own thoughts. And sometimes what I say is disjointed. That's totally understandable when you're speaking without a
Starting point is 00:20:04 script, but when you're speaking with a script that you're reading from the fucking TV screen and it says that, there's no reason to write that down. That doesn't make any sense. No. Those are all words I know, and yet in that combination, they form no thoughts. Yeah, no. That's not something. You know, and plus it's like, first of all, we have women in combat that are unlikely to engage in anal sex.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Homosexually, I guess they could. I mean, toys are toys, but tagged or whatever. Sure. I mean, hey, I'm not there to judge. But plus, like, not all men, gay men or otherwise, like not all gay men have anal sex. Like it's like you're he's focusing on one specific sex act and then he's making this leap that it makes you incontinent like it makes your your bowels just like and that's not a true like that's just not a true it's just he's trying to up the
Starting point is 00:20:58 ick factor he's trying to say like i don't have an argument. So let's talk about, you know, the wax ring around the toilet. Yeah. I mean, it really is. Yeah, no. And, you know, the thing is, is like, like to a person who does not engage in the type of activity, it may feel uncomfortable to talk about. I mean, to be honest, you know, like I'm not a homosexual. It's a little uncomfortable for me to think about, you know, gay men having sex. That's why I don't do it.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Right. That's why I don't. I'm just like, oh, well, that's not a thing that I'm interested in thinking about. So I just don't do it. I also don't think about like monkeys getting decapitated. Not to say it doesn't do the same thing. But, you know, if it's something that I'm uncomfortable thinking about, I just don't think about it. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:42 I just choose not to because I have power over my own fucking thoughts. Sure. So, you know, in the same sense here, what he's trying to do is make sure that that's the thing we remember about homosexuals. You know, it'd be the same thing if you were to say something about like, you know, and yeah, those women that are out there,
Starting point is 00:22:00 they're gooey cunts going to be dripping all over the battlefield. You know what I mean? Like, or whatever. You know what I mean? You could or whatever. You know what I mean? You could say some things are about, you know, about any part of the human body, really. But you're just choosing these particular parts of the human body because you want to try to dehumanize them. You're all dead!
Starting point is 00:22:17 Oh, be nice! Oh, my son doesn't stand a chance. The whole world's gone gay! Oh, my God. What's happening now we work hard we play hard so this next story isn't really one story this next story is really like three stories actually um and they're all distressing. Like none of them are good news because they're on cognitive dissonance.
Starting point is 00:22:50 But there is actually a bright light. So the first one comes from the raw story again. Idaho bill would allow doctors or cops to refuse service to LGBT people on religious grounds. The next one comes from the Wichita Eagle. to refuse service to LGBT people on religious grounds. The next one comes from the Wichita Eagle. Kansas House passes bill that will allow service refusal to same-sex couples on religious grounds. And then the last one is from MyFoxMemphis, Tennessee. Senator Kelsey pulls his sponsorship of the Turn the Gays Away bill, because there should be a Turn the Gays Away bill. So three states, Tennessee, Kansas, and Idaho,
Starting point is 00:23:34 are all considering bills right now, Cecil, to basically allow people to discriminate against homosexuals based on their religious grounds. The Idaho one, I think, is particularly egregious. I'm just glad no one lives in Idaho. No kidding, right? You're glad that the population center is like one. They have all population center. They got like a airport.
Starting point is 00:24:00 I looked it up and it's 1.5 million people in the whole state. Yeah, right. like a airport yeah i looked it up and it's 1.5 million people in the whole state right there's like there's there's more people who live in like four or five large cities in illinois oh sure you know i seriously aurora illinois a suburb of chicago and rockford and naperville is basically idaho right that's like the whole we don't even have to get into the city like we're not even talking about the city of chicago yeah you're like three larger cities large-ish cities in in illinois are much bigger but you know here's what here's what i think bothers me about this the most and this is something we hear all the time and you know so something that i think that people constantly try to bring up when they try to argue against whether or not you're godless. And this is something that I think that people just don't understand is they'll say things like, well, how are you a moral person if you can't have God?
Starting point is 00:24:56 Like how are you somebody who does, you know, is going to follow rules and is going to, you know, have this sort of objective morality if you can't have God? and it's going to have this sort of objective morality if you can't have God. But here we see the exact opposite of what that coming to fruition is. People are using that religion to actively be bad people. Your argument for that, that argument that they use all the time that says you can't be you can't be good without God is thrown right on its ear by something like this. Absolutely. Because you're basically saying, look, you can be an awful fucking dirt bag of a human being and refuse service to people when they really need it. But, you know, the one thing then, and, you know, I guess that the Idaho bill has its silver lining in the fact that you can't lose your license for refusing, but you can still, like, get fired for it, which I think is like a silver lining.
Starting point is 00:25:53 It's not protecting your job. It's just saying you can't lose your license over it. But, I mean, it's a shitty silver lining. It's a shitty silver lining. But at least, you know, like, it's not 100 percent protection of the law. You know what I mean? So you've got to make sure you mention those things because it's – they're not trying to say that. But they are still protecting people that would be basically contributing to the bashing of a homosexual.
Starting point is 00:26:17 Well, the thing is like why should your religiosity be your shield? should why should your religiosity be your shield like why should that be the shield that you get to hold up and say well i am going to be a fucking awful human i'm going to do the worst like i'm going to do something that is unallowable if i do it for any other reason for so we've said as a society we've said you cannot do this and then we're going to make an exception if you're religious. So clearly we're saying you can't do this because it's not right. But you can do this even though it's not right if you've got some religious reason to do it. Right, right. It's still not right to do.
Starting point is 00:27:00 It doesn't make it more right because you have some religious belief in it. Like if you are a person who is uncomfortable – and we've talked about this. If you're in a position, if you've got a job where you think like, oh, man, I'm going to get forced into providing services to people I don't want to – then you have to quit. That's your obligation. Like your obligation is to say, cause I'll tell you what, I like to think that I'm the kind of person that if I was put in a position where I had to do something that I felt was genuinely immoral, it was such a thing to me that I didn't want to, it violated such a fundamental moral tenet of my conscience that I was torn up about it, that I felt violated as a person in doing. And I like to think I'd walk out
Starting point is 00:27:54 before I would do it. The solution isn't to say, well, you know, I think I should get a pass because I believe in a different, you know, sky genie. That's crazy. What the fuck? Yeah, no, I totally agree. And I'd like to think I'm that same type of person. Like if I found something completely morally objectable, I wouldn't do it. I would just choose not to do it.
Starting point is 00:28:16 But again, I think that this is giving the religious people the ammunition to be bad, even if this law did not protect them, even if this law never goes into place. Because we're saying that if somebody came to us at our workplace and said something like, look, I just killed a hooker and she's in my fucking trunk. You got to help me bury her or something. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:28:43 Like clearly there's something morally wrong, right? Or, you know, I need to, I spent fucking this much money on hookers and blow. I need to make sure that I cover it up. You got to help me do it or whatever it is. We would say no. And if it's your boss or whatever, and they're going to fire you,
Starting point is 00:28:57 it's bad news for you. But you would hope that you would be able to stand firm and be like, no, I'm sorry. There is no hooker and blow account that I can put this in. There's no way. You know, I mean, you'd hope that you'd stand firm. But the fact of the matter is, is that people will see this bill. People that live in these places, people that live outside of these places will see this bill and think that they are in the moral high ground when they do make this decision.
Starting point is 00:29:27 And that's the negative part. That's the part that's bad because this is clearly not a moral good. It is not a moral good to discriminate against someone else because of something they cannot control. This is something we learned during the civil rights era. This is something we learned during the women's suffrage movement. You know, I mean, these are, these are lessons learned by humanity that, you know, we don't need to stand on anyone's shoulders to see this. This is a clear,
Starting point is 00:29:54 evident good that we don't have to make up. So the fact is, is that people are going to see this and they're going to say, well, government's telling me that this is okay. It's my bigoted, stupid, fucking cross-eyed hillbilly bumfuck worldviews are righteous. And that's the, that's where the evil comes in because these laws probably won't get any traction. And I knew they did fucking the Supreme court's going to face fuck them the moment they come into fucking play. You know what I mean? The Supreme court should be like, yeah, that's not a thing you can do. Right. Did you see the Supreme Court or a federal court on good news front?
Starting point is 00:30:30 A federal court overturned or told Kentucky that they had to recognize a same-sex marriage performed outside of Kentucky. Fuck them. Good. Yeah. I mean, so good news is coming. You know, it's just, you just got to treat the fucking hillbilly states like the fucking redheaded stepchild that they are. So we're going to take a break.
Starting point is 00:30:50 We're going to give you some important information. Some important information. Should I listen to the important information, Cecil? You should listen. This is not going to be the same old bumper. So you're not just, you're just not going to hear the same old bumper. So go ahead and listen to this bumper. It's going to change your life. So should I tune this bumper out then? Most, mostly, mostly it'll change our lives. I hope it changes my life.
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Starting point is 00:32:18 This story is super fucked up. Bob Jones University. Can I just, I'm going to interject. Never go to a university named after some dude named bob oh it's just it's such like a what kind of name is that like bob jones university that's like mike smith university right i mean is there ever been a student who opened the letter and be like i got in oh where are you going ah bob jones university what yeah i it was i'm glad i had that i'm glad i had harvard as my backup school no one has ever exclaimed in the history of exclaiming things that they got into
Starting point is 00:32:56 bob jones i wonder if bob jones university is one of those like 88 acceptance rates now i'm gonna look it up because i bet you klingenschmitt has a degree from there. He's probably got like multiple doctorates. He's got like six of them. You know, this is not a place you want to go. Bob Jones is not a place you want to go, and I'll tell you why. I'm going to read a little bit from the article. It says, on campus here, students are forbidden to listen to popular music or watch television or movies.
Starting point is 00:33:20 The student handbook tells them to avoid clothing brands that, quote, glorify the lustful spirit of our age in their advertising. They face sharp limits on dating and even leaving campus. They are told which churches in town usually run by pastors tied to the university they may attend. Faculty members and other employees are expected to adhere to the university's literal interpretation of the Bible and are forbidden to drink alcohol. That sounds like a hoot. When can I start going? Good Lord. Can you imagine a less fun college experience?
Starting point is 00:33:53 Oh, my God. I would seriously rather go to a—I would honestly, no fucking around. I would rather go to a public university, and every day at 2 o'clock I get kicked in the nuts. You know, I actually think if you went to a dental university and you were the dental o'clock i get kicked in the nuts you know i actually think if you went to a dental university and you were the dental dummy it would be it would be a better experience than going to this place oh my you ever see those dental dummies yeah those things they have like a fucking faceless teeth thing that's seriously the creepiest shit could you
Starting point is 00:34:23 imagine walking into a place and just like there'd be like a million that's a fucking nightmare fuel right there dental dummy fucking warehouse is like nightmare fuel those things are a fucking horror show every fucking bit of those things yeah just google dental dummy if you don't know what i'm talking you know i do think it's funny that their motto by the way is, is we seek, we trust. Well, there's kind of a conflict there, Bob Jones University. Anyway, they seek or they sought some information about sexual abuse that was going on by the fundamentalist Christian community at Bob Jones University. And then they got tired of it, I guess, because they trusted that they weren't going to find anything.
Starting point is 00:35:12 They found something anyway, and they fucking fired the people. They just fired the people. Cecil, like, yeah, so you hired us to come in and do a little investigation, and we found this fucking sex abuse stuff. You're fired. Wait, what? Yeah, you're fired wait what yeah you're fired and then the story gets weirder because as you read through it um the the representative uh stephen jones president of the university great grandson of its founder uh said we grew concerned that in the process grace grace is the name of the organization they hired to investigate the abuse, had begun going beyond the originally outlined intentions.
Starting point is 00:35:49 We terminated our agreement with Grace so that we could sit down and get it back on track. That strikes me as incredibly dishonest. How do you get it back on track after you fire the people who are fucking digging into the bullshit? It makes no sense because he also says that the university had not told Grace what its concerns were and wanted to discuss them with the consultant, but could do so only face to face and felt compelled to fire the firm first. How in the fuck does that work? Yeah, you're fired. So let's talk. Well, I guess we could talk freely. how in the fuck does that work? Yeah. You're fired. So let's talk.
Starting point is 00:36:28 Well, I guess we can talk freely now, right now that I'm no longer an employee or whatever. I, I, you know, one thing that should be pointed out is that I don't think that there's, you know,
Starting point is 00:36:37 they're clearly not saying that this, this university did this stuff, but what happened was, is that people would come to this university that were diddled as kids. Right? So like, if you're diddled as a child by your Christian pastor, you show up at this place and then you start talking about it with these people that are supposed to be your counselors. And then they just sign, we're like, yeah, um, that's not a thing. And it says here at the very beginning of the
Starting point is 00:36:57 article, it says for decades, students at Bob Jones university who sought counseling for sexual abuse were told not to report it because turning in an abuser from a fundamentalist christian community would damage jesus christ what the fuck what is every time a priest gets caught diddling jesus loses a hand yeah you know it's you know and i gotta say before you before you go on time i just say, like, not reporting the abuse is just as bad as fucking abusing the kids. I mean, look at what happened to fucking Paterno at Penn State with Sandusky. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, that dude was diddling kids,
Starting point is 00:37:34 somebody told him, he didn't do anything about it, and they fucking, they tore the fucker's statue down. Yep. Like, fucking, you're fucked, dude, forever. They took away, you know, I want to say, say like 40 or so of his wins so he couldn't be the winningest coach in fucking football they were like yeah you don't get 40 wins you're not going to be that guy how do they do that i mean he still won right i mean yeah
Starting point is 00:37:54 but they just they just they just don't count it as a record anymore they just alter history they just altered history they're like alter history and you know like the thing is like the guy's a fucking awful human being for not turning the fucking person in. You're awful fucking human. For sure. The thing is, like, there's a reason that there's a reason that it is illegal to know and like help and aid and abet. Like, those are things you can't do. And who would want to?
Starting point is 00:38:22 That's the other thing, Cecil. Who would want to? I am constantly baffled by this if i knew somebody was if i knew a child or or a grown person i don't care if i knew somebody was was was the victim of a sexual assault and i was just like oh man i would love to care about that but i don't i mean like how bad of a person do would love to care about that, but I don't. I mean, like, how bad of a person do you have to be? How bad of a person are you? Like, oh, yeah, man, we should really do something about that.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Never. You know, and the thing is, is like, I mean, I don't want to even say this. I was going to say, like, I have more respect, but I don't have any respect for anybody who does it. But I can at least in some fucking backwards fucking I lost half my brain sort of way understand someone who's trying to do it for something that's physical. Like their career or they're trying to push it under the rugs because they're making money off it or something. You know what I mean? There's some sort of physical bonus. making money off it or something. You know what I mean? There's some sort of physical bonus.
Starting point is 00:39:26 These people are pushing it under the rug or at least not bringing it to light because fucking Jesus is hurt by it? Are you fucking serious, man? Like, let me tell you something. Jesus' fucking popularity rating can take a fucking hit. You know what I mean? He's doing fine in the polls. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:39:42 He's going to be fine. Next week, the fucking Bible's still going to be a goddamn bestseller. You don't have to protect him from everything. He's a big boy. He can handle himself. He's not even real. He can fucking handle himself. So the fact of the matter is that I just don't even – I can't even get my fucking brain around what you were doing.
Starting point is 00:40:00 Sure, but like hurting – like, oh, you're going going to make Jesus where is it in the Bible? It's like yeah, and so if you believe in me, you should totally protect fucking sexual assault perpetrators. Right, exactly. What? I don't remember that passage.
Starting point is 00:40:18 I'm no biblical expert, but I don't remember the passage. That's fucking insane. It's in Revelations, but we didn't read it right. That was the key. That's probably a metaphor. And in this article, too, it says they said not to go to the police because no one will believe you. To defer to authority like your father, or especially someone
Starting point is 00:40:38 in the church, she said. They said if you report it, you hurt the body of Christ. I've seen the movie. They hurt the body of Christ. I've seen the movie. They hurt the body of Christ plenty. He got right back up in three days. Like how much more are you going to hurt that guy? That guy with a fucking RPG will be fine.
Starting point is 00:40:57 He's like, I got fucking, that dude is tough. Like he doesn't tap. I've seen that. He can take a punch. Let me tell you something. He can do a pushup with a cross on his back. i've seen that he could take a punch let me tell you something he can do a push-up with a cross on his back i've seen that i've seen the fucking image he's a crossfitter crossfitter um it says their idea of an investigation and counseling was to ask me
Starting point is 00:41:17 what i was wearing and whether it was tight and to tell me not to talk to anyone about it because it wouldn't look good for me she said university officials alternated between saying it never happened and saying i was a willing participant which is it like which is it like didn't happen well but if it did happen you wanted it fucking i'll tell you what i'll tell you what it was she wasn't a willing participant right it didn't happen that she was a willing right. Right, that's true. Let's put those together. Yeah. That's true.
Starting point is 00:41:47 That's awful. And that's the thing, though. That's the tactic. And there's so many people out there that willing participant bullshit. I know. It's so prevalent. And it's like, blame the victim. Look, man, I understand, you know, actually I don't.
Starting point is 00:42:03 I don't even understand. I don't even understand. I don't even understand. I'm not even going to pretend to understand. I just I think that that's an easy way to defuse the situation and to push blame on someone else. I mean, that's all it is. And it's an easy way to make it look make someone doubt themselves. And it's it's just an awful thing to do. And you shouldn't do it, period.
Starting point is 00:42:20 So the idea that this is the tactic they're using is just i mean it just makes everything more reprehensible well we don't do it with any other crime either no there's no other crime where we're like you know uh you wouldn't call the police and be like somebody fucking stole my wallet well i mean did you have a big wallet did you have money was it sticking i mean was it bulging out of your pants was the wallet prominently somebody stole my car well was it was it bulging out of your pants? Was the wallet prominently displayed? Somebody stole my car. Well, was it like an expensive car? Yeah. I mean, was it a flashy car?
Starting point is 00:42:49 Because it was a flashy car. You should kind of know they're going to steal it. You probably shouldn't have that. Nobody would do that for any other crime. Lord, the day is at hand. We are in the last days. You are Jehovah God. So this story comes from rightwingwatch.org
Starting point is 00:43:07 bachman oh she's back obamacare will be repealed because god listens to his people and will answer their prayers and cecil evidently they're praying not to have health insurance. They're praying that they basically have to go into medical bankruptcy. God, please, whatever you do, make sure I have a medical bankruptcy. Dear God, if you could get rid of this health insurance that I have, the lousy, stinking, dirty, rotten devil government is making me have health insurance. rotten devil government is making me have health insurance. And when I get sick, I want to make sure that I
Starting point is 00:43:48 am bankrupt and destitute and can't feed my children. Oh God, merciful loving God, if you could possibly deliver from me this safety net, which I have been granted so that I can stand on my own two
Starting point is 00:44:04 feet or fall calamitously upon my face hear my prayers lord that i may be fucking retarded how does that prayer work well just like that i think you did a pretty good job no i think you nailed it that's the closest to praying i have ever done that is that is pretty good though it's not you nailed it that's the closest to praying i have ever done that is that is pretty good though it's not bad i mean it's not bad like now i lay me down to sleep i remember doing that which is weird and creepy too it's like when little oh yeah that one's weird like people teach that to their little kids like your little kid is getting on their knees and
Starting point is 00:44:41 saying i'm going to bed now. I sure hope I wake up. I know. Gosh. I could see saying that during the zombie apocalypse. But other than that, there's no reason. If it's like fucking Walking Dead universe, maybe you say that. But otherwise, no, you don't say that. Kids go to sleep and they're
Starting point is 00:44:59 afraid of the dark and they're afraid to go to bed at night. Get another thing to be afraid of as a child. Oh, Oh, what a sweet prayer. Maybe he'll die in his sleep. Oh,
Starting point is 00:45:09 it's so heartwarming to watch him hope to wake up tomorrow. I, you know, one of the things that she says in here, she's talking about like stopping Hillary Clinton, how Hillary Clinton is like the, I don't even know what she said. Something about like the stepmother of Obamacare or something.
Starting point is 00:45:26 And she's going to bring in the socialized medicine if she gets elected. I'm thinking, awesome. Yeah, good. That sounds great. Can I vote twice for her? That sounds like a really good deal for most of the American. And, you know, the thing is, is like I would fucking seriously not benefit from that at all. No, you've got the best insurance possible.
Starting point is 00:45:42 I have good insurance right now. I have low payments. I am in a huge group plan that allows for that payment to sort of disperse over a large group. So it makes a lot of sense for me to keep the insurance I have. It'd be even, it is so not in my interest for that to happen, but I recognize the benefits to society. I'm just like, fucking do it. Yeah. Suddenly my check is like, you know, much lower or whatever. It's like, well, it's fucking worth it. I never have to worry about fucking healthcare ever again. You know, like that's fucking genius compared to what we have now, which is just like, I have to worry about healthcare all the time. Well, and it's almost like you're looking at public policy and social policy as what's good for everyone rather than just what benefits you personally the most.
Starting point is 00:46:33 Sure, sure. And isn't that kind of the difference? Like if you look at – if I look at just like what benefits me, well, I mean a lot of things benefit me. I mean, a lot of things benefit me, you know, a lot of, I mean, I'll be honest, like I'm in a different place in my life that a lot of other people aren't, you know, and there's a lot of policies that are probably that I should, I should probably be more of a Republican. It would probably benefit me financially. Right. Right. To be more of a Republican. But I just, like, I look around and I'm like, well, is everybody as fortunate as I am?
Starting point is 00:47:07 No? Well, fuck, until they all are, then we got work to do. Right, right. Yeah, and I think, you know, somebody commented, I think, or sent us something on Facebook, and they're like, yeah, I've stopped giving idiots like this, and talking about Bachman in particular, any of my time, is what they said, something like that. And good. That's great.
Starting point is 00:47:28 I'm happy that you've been able to do that. The thing is that she has 750,000 constituents. This is somebody who people look to and say she is in government, able to sway public opinion on a massive scale. And she's saying this stuff. You can't just ignore her. You can't just be like, oh, well, she's just in this place in Minnesota. No, she's part of fucking, you know, White House politics. And she's, you know, she's clearly being interviewed still. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:58 She's a candidate for the presidency. You know what I mean? Like, she may be a candidate again for the presidency. presidency. You know what I mean? Like she may be a candidate again for the presidency. So we're talking about somebody who is clearly, uh, you know, somebody who I think that people are paying attention to on both sides. We pay attention to her cause she's crazy and she says some crazy shit. But you know, there's other people who pay attention to her. I think she has plenty of fucking logical things to say, even though she's a fucking complete goddamn liar about most of the things that come out of her mouth. Oh, I mean, yeah, she's the fucking complete goddamn liar about most of the things
Starting point is 00:48:25 that come out of her mouth. Oh, I mean, yeah, she's the most, she's fucking pats on fire liar. I mean, like all the time, like all the time, all the time you look it up and it's like, nah, it's not a true. Um, you know, one of the things that she says, she says, God listens to his people. And I think if believers humble themselves, confess their sins and pray and I think, man, like, God moves in miraculous ways. Seriously, the miracle you want is that people show up and vote for the people you want to win. That's your God's miracle. Your God's miracle is that you win an election because people showed up and voted for it.
Starting point is 00:49:11 It's not like she's saying, like, oh, you know what would be great? We could all get together, and God can make miracles, so why don't we just have God make a miracle where everybody is cured of disease? No, fuck that. No, no. That's a little ambitious, Tom. No, fuck that. No, no. That's a little ambitious, Tom. Okay, smaller miracles.
Starting point is 00:49:28 All right, maybe God can reduce poverty. How about poverty? Let's have... No, it's a little robust. Sorry. All right. How about God can influence by turnout a midterm election? He doesn't come out with a midterm election.
Starting point is 00:49:56 I'm sorry, but hunting season is in November. There's no way I'm going to come out for that election. I mean, talk about scaling back your miracles. Yeah. You know, I mean, we'll just keep on, you know, you don't be a miracle if everybody voted Republican. Yeah. You'll be a fucking miracle if I voted Republican. If I'm standing at the ballot box and I'm like, what the fuck are my hands doing?
Starting point is 00:50:22 Why are they doing this? And be like, yeah, I've been moved by the Lord. Like, okay, well, that was fucking weird. You know? You know, it's funny. You're talking about maybe being a Republican would be in your best interest, et cetera. There's that saying, something about like if you're a Democrat, if you're a Republican at 20, you don't have any soul. And if you're a Democrat at 40, you don't have any brains or something like that. It's something, you know, there's like that saying.
Starting point is 00:50:49 I was thinking about that. And one of the things that I thought about was, you know, if you're a, if you're in a Democrat at a young age and you're able to get the reforms you want through that later on, when you're part of the power structure, somebody wants to come along and change that. Yeah. you would want to be a conservative. You would want to conserve those things that you had put into place years before. Sure. But our system doesn't allow for that. Our system for the last, gosh, what is it, 25 years has been essentially deadlocked.
Starting point is 00:51:20 I mean we've gotten a few things through here and there. But these are all just piecemeal once in a while things. I mean the people who are making the most out of government are the people who are like the ultra-rich. They're the ones who are getting the most out of the government. They're the ones who are getting the most benefits and things like that. The stuff that we're getting is like fucking – it's like scraps off the table in comparison. So that's why you have I think – like me as a 40-year-old Democrat, I didn't get a chance to put anything through that was able to change anything because essentially my ideals from then are the same ideals I have now because nothing has changed. Nothing's gotten any better.
Starting point is 00:51:55 Yeah, it's never nothing's gotten any better. So I think that's why it's a different story for us than it was for, like, say, the baby boomers. So this story comes from the raw story man wonder for groping 11 year old girl in public is notorious abortion clinic bomber why is he outside of places i was wondering the same thing like you know like you think you wouldn't be outside i he served a dozen years for firebombing abortion clinics let me say that again clinics more than one firebombing the guy gets 12 years you know people get thrown in jail for their whole fucking lives their whole fucking lives for selling pot yeah this guy three times come on now three times you sell pot but he's clearly firebombed more than one
Starting point is 00:52:45 this is true so even if it's two even if it's two even if he's like um well it's three strikes i'm out so i'm only gonna firebomb two things clinics i don't even understand i don't understand this like our justice system that was the first thing i thought when i read that i was like wait hold hold the motherfucking phone what yeah it's funny because i was in a i was in a uh facebook like it wasn't an argument really it was just somebody asking a question about um felons this week and it's something I had never really known, but in 11 states in our country, felons lose the right to vote indefinitely. So they can, I think, apply to get the right to vote back, but in 11 states, it's fucking, you just don't get it back automatically. In all the others,
Starting point is 00:53:40 there's some system for them to get it back. Most of them after incarceration or after probation and parole, they eventually get the right to vote back. And somebody was saying basically like, you know, I can't believe, you know, they had said something like, why the push to have these 11 states now? And I'm just thinking to myself, I'm like, why are we punishing these people for the all of the time? What is the point of punishing people forever for something that they did? You know, can't we can't we just forgive them for something like that? And, you know, it makes an assumption, too, that all felons are exactly the same. Whereas I look at somebody like this and I think to myself, I think this guy, you know, clearly the justice system is not doing the things it should be doing.
Starting point is 00:54:25 If this guy, somebody who's bombing places and lighting places on fire like a fucking wackadoo is out there, you know, clearly this is a crazy person. And then you could say something like, you know, somebody who sold pot three times, they don't get a right to vote in like Wyoming because they take that shit away forever indefinitely or New Mexico takes it away also for like indefinitely Arizona too well and and I do want to say like looking through this article he set three fires and then was also convicted of arson so it's at least four things right at least four things Cecil yeah I mean it's not like arson arson's one of those things that I don't think you should look down lightly upon because not only can you damage the property that you're aiming for, but you could damage other property.
Starting point is 00:55:09 And, you know, there's chances are you can injure somebody because you probably don't know if anybody's in there, things like that. Fire spread? Firefighters get hurt putting them out? Firefighters get hurt. Like, I mean, that's a fucking shitty crime. Like, that's one of those crimes that's just a super shitty crime that really has an opportunity to endanger other people. So the motherfucker sets buildings on fire, and now he's out to grope 11-year-olds. And, you know, the thing that he did, he said, this says, on Saturday, a man believed to be this scumbag, Beseda, approached an 11-year-old girl who was waiting for her father outside a restroom, pressing his body against hers, grinding his pelvis into her backside.
Starting point is 00:55:54 The man fondled her buttocks and thighs while whispering in her ear that he would buy her the drink she was carrying if she would just follow him outside. What the fuck? If only we had some way to know that this was a piece of shit human. Well, what kind of drink was he like, hey, I'll buy you a Molotov cocktail if you come outside. You know, sometimes we point out hypocrisy, you know, sometimes. And I think that's kind of a feature of the show is where we'll go after hypocrites. We'll be like, man, this priest is preaching all this stuff and then they're out there, you know, whatever it is, doing this immoral thing.
Starting point is 00:56:34 I think in this case, there's no hypocrisy at all. I mean this is right in line with this guy's thinking. I don't think he thinks women are human. I don't think he thinks women are human. I think because clearly if you're going to blow up an abortion clinic and that sort of thing, you don't think women should have any sort of thoughts or thinking part in society at all. You don't think that women should have a choice in their own body. So clearly you don't care in that instance and you certainly don't care about this little girl because you're willing to like rub up against her like some sort of fucking twat and then like drag her outside and want to you know clearly do more than what you did so you obviously don't treat women like humans a long black cock long black cock a long black cock So this story comes from ABC, but not regular ABC like Australian ABC. Australian ABC.
Starting point is 00:57:32 I hate Australian ABC. Hope for further charges over marriage of 12-year-old girl. What's NSW mean in this case? Do you know? New South Wales, maybe? Well, that's a thing. Police are hoping to charge... I'm just being a dick. It are hoping to try to just be in a dig.
Starting point is 00:57:47 It could be. It could be something else. They'd be like, hey, man, that stands for a direction that only we have in Australia. Yeah, it's north-southwest. It's like north-southwest. So evidently a Muslim cleric decided that it would be the reasonable thing to do to conduct a marriage between a 12-year-old girl and a 26-year-old man. That's not creepy at all. Because fucking ew. He should talk to the abortion clinic bomber.
Starting point is 00:58:23 Right. See if he has any tactics to getting women of that age to like you. Yeah, again, this is clearly like two people that just don't consider these folks people. Now, stop what you're doing if you're listening to the show. Go to the website and look at this guy. Tell me if he does not look like the cop from The Simpsons. Doesn't he look like the guy. Tell me if he does not look like the cop from The Simpsons. Doesn't he look like the guy's like, that's some fine work
Starting point is 00:58:50 there, boys. Because he's got that pig nose. You know what I mean? Like that sort of piggy nose going on. The hot pants. Anyway, in any case in any case this guy uh this is great and i think the reason why it's great is that they're sort of just fucking like they've got a big book that's thrown at a lot of people and that's exciting that they're just sort of like and you go to jail and you go to jail it's
Starting point is 00:59:21 like oprah giving away cars just like and you go to jail and you go to jail it's like oprah giving away cars just like and you go to jail and you go to jail yeah it's funny because like it's like related story muslim cleric charged related story sex crime charges against the man married to it's like they are seriously walking around like i'll fucking charge anything that moves like do not push me it it's it's like did you look at that 13 year old jail take that it it's like it's like everybody who showed up on the groom side jail are here for the bride of the groom groom jail oh that's awesome it's like one of those i don't know if you saw but they like had the fake Super Bowl tickets that they would get deadbeats with. The people who had tons of warrants.
Starting point is 01:00:12 Oh, I've heard about these kinds of stings. They were on back child support for years and years. And then they couldn't find them so that they would send to their latest address, they would send this notice that looked realistic that they were getting Super Bowl tickets. And all you had to do was show up and get them or whatever. And they'd show up and be like, hey, you that they were getting Super Bowl tickets. And all you had to do was show up and get them or whatever. And they'd show up and be like, hey, you're going to get your Super Bowl tickets. And they'd be like, awesome.
Starting point is 01:00:31 And they'd be like, yeah, actually, you're getting most of it. They're like, what? There's no Super Bowl tickets. No, it's even worse than you had expected. It's not that you just don't get Super Bowl tickets. You get to go to jail, too. It's even worse than you had imagined. I love the idea that they're just like, wait,
Starting point is 01:00:45 but I still get the Super Bowl tickets, no clearly you do not no clearly it's not the case it's funny because like there's people out there who think that the police aren't allowed to lie to you yeah right i love those people they're the best and like they like they'll be like well you just gotta ask the cop are you a cop and they have to say yes and it's like they have to say yes like that's the best urban legend that cops ever started i know right it's like oh you are extremely arrested like you are all of the arrested if you because the thing is like if you believe that you're certainly the person doing something illegal oh yeah oh yeah nobody not breaking the law has ever thought for a minute not for a minute that a cop for some reason is like oh damn they got me on a technicality like this never happened
Starting point is 01:01:34 ever you want answers i think i'm entitled you want answers i want the truth you can't handle the truth so this is the greatest story of all time. This is from the New York Times. Suicide bomb trainer in Iraq accidentally blows up his class. Oh my God, this is such a great story. Because it's exactly what it sounds like. It's total justice porn is what it is. It is? I love it. I love it.
Starting point is 01:02:05 Cause it's like, it's, it's like fucking the police Academy version of suicide bombings. Yeah. There's a guy in the background making siren noises. Like I can make the sound of an explosion. It wasn't realistic enough.
Starting point is 01:02:26 Oh, well. Get him, Hightower. I love this fucking story. It's just because it's exact. He blows up all of the peoples. Like, all of the people. 21 suicide bombers. 21 people.
Starting point is 01:02:44 So is that like a graduating class? Right. I mean, because you kind of achieved your objective that you set out for in the beginning. Shortest valedictorian speech ever. Yeah, I mean, really, really, super fast. And go, he was voted most likely to explode i don't really have a lot there really isn't much to say just like and they blowed it up like you're just like okay cool
Starting point is 01:03:24 yeah you're dead you exploded i think cool. You're dead. You exploded. I think it's, you know, clearly it's justice. It's, you know, but one of the things I did want to talk about, and I guess this is sort of sad, I guess, in a way, but there's, they were saying Iraq is facing its worst violence in more than five years, with nearly 9,000 people killed last year
Starting point is 01:03:39 and 1,000 people killed last month. On Monday, a roadside bomb in Mosul in northern Iraq targeted the Speaker of Parliament. This person's name, I'm not going to try to pronounce. And it says security officials said six of his guards were wounded, but Mr. Nujafi was unharmed. You know, it's funny because they have this, you know, they clearly have a war zone of a country still. You know, clearly this is the sad part of the whole thing is that is that there's no one really in power to stop people from doing
Starting point is 01:04:11 really heinous shit like killing 9 000 people in a year you know i know that pales in comparison probably how many people were murdered in the united states last year or whatever but we're clearly a much bigger place and people aren't dying. I don't think as violently as they're happening over there. You know what I mean? Like there's some, that's some awful shit. And I, you know, you're in a country that just does not have the checks and balances to stop people from really doing some heinous shit to each other. And that's the sad part is that we kind of went over there. We fucking stuck the goddamn stick in the hornet's nest. And then we said, fucking, we're out of here. Yeah. You know, I don't, I don't disagree with you. And I think that's borne out by the testimony from the citizens that are all like, yeah, fuck those guys. They're ruining our country. Like everybody
Starting point is 01:05:00 we talked to were like, they're fucking celebrating. You know, one guy called his buddy and he was, he was as excited as if he was getting married is how they put it yeah because they're so fucking sick like the regular people the the the workaday you know joe who goes around and is just like just wants to have a life like most of the people in that country are just people that want to have a life they want to wake up they want They want to go to work. They want to feed their family. They want to hug their wife and children. Like, they're just a people. Can you imagine living in a country where 8,000 people were murdered in terrorist attacks last year?
Starting point is 01:05:36 You know, suicide bombs and shit like that. Can you imagine the horror of that? We had one event at the Boston Marathon. And, I mean. Two people died, I think. Something of that. We had one event at the Boston Marathon. And I mean, two people died, I think, something like that. Right. I mean, by comparison, it was nothing. I mean, I'm not saying it was nothing, but by comparison, in relative terms, it was fractional. It was insignificant compared to the horror of living in a country where at any time at any moment something could explode and kill someone that you love or yourself and that they have to go through this shit is a fucking horror show and the only way you can get people to do this suicide bombing
Starting point is 01:06:18 shit the only way people suicide bomb is with this religious ideology stuff it It doesn't, it doesn't work otherwise. Yeah. I think, and you know, like the thing is, is like we were talking about earlier, like the average Joe, you know, the average Joe is probably just as religious as a lot of other people, but they're clearly not letting that, you know, change how they're, how they're going to treat other people. And they clearly think that it's, you know, that these people are doing a moral evil. So, you know, for all the people out there that say, you know, you hate these Muslims or whatever. No, I mean, I'm sure the majority of them are just like these people, you know, like you said, everybody they talked to had the exact same fucking thing. They're like,
Starting point is 01:06:57 this is, this is awesome because these people are bad people. And I, I, I would never say that, you know, like the whole group of them is just, you know, they're all bad or whatever. I think that there's a, there, you know, there's a select group, not only a fundamentalists here that are doing the terrorist attack, but fundamentalists that are running governments in other countries that are putting forth laws that are subjugating people and hurting other people. Those are the bad ones. Those are the ones you want to rally against. Those are the ones you want to say, you're an awful fucking person. Just like the people here in, in the states that do awful shit that are fundamentalists
Starting point is 01:07:29 they have the exact same thing over there so you know don't mistake that you know i think that they're all you know awful humans i think that you know there are some select awful humans over there that are doing some really horrible shit it just happens to be much more noticeable shit than the stuff that happens up over here. So we wound up messing up a little this week. My audio at the very end, there was a problem with my mic, so we didn't get the actual email section recorded. So the show is going to be a little short this week. We have to apologize to Daniel, Matthew, Ian, Teresa, Jonathan, and John. We covered your email in the show, but like I said, it didn't pan out and we weren't actually able to use that audio in the show. So thank you for
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