Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 175: The Womb Squad

Episode Date: September 8, 2014

     

Do you want to get cognitive dissonance streamed to your iPhone or Blackberry? If so, download Stitcher free today at Stitcher.com. Hey Cecil and Tom, this is Chad. Just listening to your most recent podcast about the doctor who was cured from Ebola by science. And it was scary to think how close my thinking used to be to his. I think wrapped up in there somewhere is this fear that if he doesn't give God all the credit for what people and science did for him, that somehow he's going to actually be punished for it. It's really an insidious mentality that I'm

very glad to be free from. Keep up the good work. Love it. Glory hole. Bye. 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. Recording from Glorio Studios in Chicago, 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. Reverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad.

It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome at this is episode 175. Wow. Fucking take that, listeners. You know, if you think about it, Cecil, each episode is about, what, an hour and 20 minutes long? Yeah, some of them are a little less, so there could be an hour. They're no more than an hour and a half most of the time,

so it's like between an hour and an hour and a half. 70 minutes? Sure. It's like round out, you know? Yeah, it sounds good. It's 70 minutes of recorded nonsense times 175 shows. Motherfucker, we have wasted 12 250 minutes of people's lives at this

point lord 12 000 minutes and that's like like 6 050 sexual encounters You're rounding down, aren't you? This is optimistic. So Cecil, we should bring up first, before we really begin the meat of the show, we should mention again that you were kind enough to create an Eventbrite for our upcoming picnic. I want to point out that you created it. I don't know what Eventbrite is. I hear good things. You can sign up.

You can go to our website, and you can find a link for the Eventbrite. If you want to go to the picnic, the picnic is going to be in Naperville. We're not going to give out the exact details. You've got to go to Eventbrite and register. The reason for that is we are capricious assholes, but we also specifically need to know how many people are going to be there. And we also have to lay out some ground rules, right?

Like, I think we decided early on that this is probably not a kid-friendly event. I'm not bringing my seven-year-old. I'll probably bring the baby because, I mean, I curse around him all I want. He can't think yet. Yeah. I would. He can't think yet. Yeah.

I would also say don't bring your dogs and cats and fucking iguanas and shit. Iguanas? Let's just throw that out there. Let's just throw that out there. Ferrets are cool, though. You want to bring a ferret, that's fine. Oh, yeah. Ferrets are always fun.

Yeah. But you have to dress them in a top hat. Yeah. And they have to sit behind the glory hole. top hat yeah they have to and they have to sit behind the glory hole so if you're planning on going we're going to close the event a couple of days before the event um so you know if you think you want to go register now for give us an idea so that way we know how much foods and drinks to uh provide at the event um we're hoping it's a good time if it's not we will sneak out early and leave you to your own devices. We're there for like seven minutes.

We're like, hey, everybody, good to see you. We're out of here. Fuck this. This sucks. I got to go. This is the worst party I've ever thrown. Yeah, we're going to have some foods there and some beer. It's kind of BYOB, but we will have uh several bottles of a

brew that tom and i just concocted at his place uh so we'll have some beer some homemade beer there but then they'll you know clearly if you want to drink you probably shouldn't come to get sloppy though you're gonna have to drive driving to a place and then getting sloppy is not an option for anyone so you know you fucking police yourselves because you're adults but um don't get sloppy i'm not taking care of you no i specifically will not take care of you yeah i will point at you yeah and be like that looks problematic yeah but uh it's it's uh it's gonna be a month away at this point so uh so we're looking forward to it it should be a good time rain or shine it's gonna to be a month away at this point. So we're looking forward to it. It should be a good time.

Rain or shine, it's going to happen because we've got a pavilion. So rain or shine, we'll just be fucking huddled on that pavilion if it's fucking raining. All fucking dour-faced and unhappy. All angry. It's like a seven-minute, again, it's like a seven-minute party. We were just like, cool, bro. I'm out of here.

Great. You guys are even less fun in person than you are on the fucking show. No shit, man. I'm just a prom night dumpster, baby. I got no mom or dad. Prom night dumpster, baby. My story isn't long, long but boy it's awfully sad so this first story comes unsurprisingly from the raw story holy shit cecil do you have a

weird clown in the corner as one of your top images? Uh-huh. Man, that wasn't there yesterday. Memphis fires clown for calling black customers unbeweavable and nappy head. I'd say that's a good firing offense. Fair enough. But, you know, like, I'm looking at this guy's wig. I'm just saying, like, maybe you don't have room to talk about the nappy head gum. I kind of think that's a stock photo. So this story, Texas cops swarm school. Police call for

prayer over a miscarriage in a bathroom. What? This story is just so fucking odd. So evidently a woman that was attending the school is a texas high school a girl had a miscarriage in one of the bathrooms um it's sad when people have miscarriages that's the response you should have it's like oh are you medically okay yes no address that and then the

second thing is that must be sad and then you try to offer them solace and comfort. What you don't do is call helicopters. Because what is a helicopter going to do? It can probably broadcast that prayer over a big area. Yeah. It just pray the child back into the uterus from space. It can do that. That's how that works. You call the divine hand of God to shove the baby back up her vagina?

What if there's a SWAT team on the roof and they swing through the windows? They're like, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. They're all running down. Kneel, kneel, kneel, kneel, kneel. They've got Bible snipers. They shoot one line of prayer right you, like fucking laser prayer focus. And then you just have to pray. Right. Well, if they get a headshot, because then it goes in the ear and then that travels right to the soul, which isn't real, and then makes you pray.

That's their fucking solution, though? I know, man. Well, there's a solution. They don't even have a problem. Well, as far as solutions go, praying is a better fucking solution than trying to fucking i don't know call the SWAT team yeah i can't understand like at some point at some point that you know and there's a follow-up article that says something like no charges filed in miscarriage it's like oh yeah that's how miscarriages work no kidding you don't file

charges when the body spontaneously just like is like, I fucking I'm not pregnant anymore. That sucks. Like it's not like because even in the whole article, nobody in any of the conversation is saying like that she delivered a living baby and then fucking killed it. Or like no, like the science teacher gave her a fucking abortion or anything. Like nobody's talking about anything that would possibly be criminal. Instead, this poor girl in the school had the gross misfortune of being pregnant in Texas, where evidently people don't know what fucking miscarriages are. Well, womb and bomb are only one litter apart, so maybe they thought it was like a womb threat. Calling it a womb scare?

Womb scare. We got a womb threat. We got a womb threat in aisle five. You know, and it's like one of the people that they talk about, that they talk to is like, man, I'm going to read it. Alan Elliot of Baby Moses Dallas. I had this fucking highlighted too.

Fucking idiot. Explained that the mother could have avoided any criminal charges if she had taken advantage of Baby Moses laws by carrying the child to term and then dropping it off at a safe baby site like a fire station. It doesn't do any good if the fucking baby's dead because it's a fucking miscarriage. I know. baby's dead because it's a fucking miscarriage i know she just like and the moment you tell her that she's just like oh i totally shouldn't have fucking purposefully miscarried the baby right by thinking about it god i feel like such an asshole i can't believe it and like the the cops are just like what do we do what do we do what does it say in the manual when somebody miscarries it in high school i don't know know. Pray. Click. Here's what I suspect happened.

It's hard to get out of this raw story, but logic for me is saying somebody walked into the fucking bathroom into a fucking gory mess, right? Sure. So they walk in, there's fucking blood all over or something. That's the only thing I could think of, right? That's the only reason I would suspect someone would call the police is they walked in and they

just fucking like, we're like, holy shit, it's fucking gore fest in here. But then that, that, that to me says like, like, what was she fucking like running around while it's like falling out of her? You know,

it's like a Betty Hill. Like that's the only, yeah, she's like running around trailing blood and fetuses everywhere. It's like that zombie movie with the, that, uh, that the guy from Lord of the Rings directed.

I can't remember what the fucking name of dead. Dead Alive or something it's called. Like the guy has the chains, the lawnmower strapped to him and he's chopping everybody up. Like that's the only way. But the thing is like that's the only thing I could think of, right? Like my brain was trying to figure out why the police were even called. And that's the only thing I could fucking concoct is that somehow there was a gore fest. And people walked in like fucking, oh my God, somebody sacrificed someone if it's satan here and they fucking ran off and called police and then the police prayed as they came in and then shout prayers from the rooftops I guess

I don't know yeah that's that's the thing is like they like call in a helicopter it's like somebody's bleeding in a school quick get a helicopter, well. What's a fucking helicopter going to do? I mean, I guess if you're thinking that it's like a rampage of some sort. Yeah, but it's like, don't you know pretty quickly if there's been a rampage? I guess. Maybe you don't know before you unleash the helicopter. I don't know. Prophylactically shooting helicopters in prayers.

I don't know. Prophylactically shooting helicopters and prayers. OK, they claim they're feminists, but what they actually are, they are sexualists. It has nothing to do with empowering women anymore. We've we earned the right to vote. We have equality in the workplace. If we don't, we can fight that on a one on one basis. But everything they're about now is kind of about from the head down. It has nothing to do with women's brains or their hearts.

So this next story also comes from the Raw story, which means I got to fucking look at this clown again. Oh, man. Fox News guest, feminists aren't being what God designed them to be. Yeah. So a group of conservative women told Fox News fox news shouldn't even be called fox news but anyway fox and friends they were really on there to promote a book called what women really want um and they they basically said that like what women want uh is to be brain dead sluts on

fox i think i mean that's kind of what they were suggesting. I don't know why they said that. That's, they're, like, it doesn't even, and I use that in the most, like, sex-positive sense of the word. Like, they're just, they're just, who has any idea? All they're doing is criticizing feminism, but not offering an alternative of any substance.

You know, they say, here's what they say. They say, women don't want to be objectified. And what this feminist movement has successfully done is really sexualized women instead of feminizing women. What does that mean? I think it's just a great straw woman argument. I don't even understand what that means, though. I don't know what it means either. I watched fucking four minutes and 39 seconds of this on this.

I'm not going to play it for our listeners because it's not worth it. I've never heard so many words and not a thing be said. I mean, I'm going to, I got to read that again. Hold on. I'm going to read, I'm actually going to give it more context. So she says they claim that they are sexist feminists, but what they are actually are, they are sexualists. It has nothing to do with empowering women anymore.

I don't really know what sexualist is. She doesn't define it. Then she says, we earn the right to vote. We have equality in the workplace. If we don't, we can fight that on a one-to-one basis. I don't know what that means either. That means, I guess, every woman for herself, I guess. I don't know.

Yeah, I guess people shouldn't band together for a common cause if they feel like the cause of their disenfranchisement is, well, whatever. That's a stupid thing to say. But everything they're about now is kind of about from the head down. It has nothing to do with women's brains or their hearts. Well, your heart's below your head. Your heart's below your head. Then she says the crazy thing.

Women don't want to be objectified. And what the feminist movement has successfully done is really sexualize women instead of feminized women i don't understand what that means i really because it doesn't mean anything because it doesn't like and i'm not kidding when i say they say a bunch of words but none of them mean a thing they keep on saying like um they want to put us back to the 50s and stay home and take care of children but what they're doing is like cave woman waiting for caveman to bonk them on the head and drag them back to the cave by their hair. And I'm like, what is that? I don't know anybody who thinks that's a good idea.

And I don't know anybody who's suggesting the 1950s model of gender politics other than like hardline conservatives. You know, the thing is, is like if somebody wants to live their life like 1950s. You can do that. Like good. Live your life like it's the 1950s. Like nobody's stopping you. Like that's the thing that I don't understand is like there's nothing in place that says that a woman can't live her life like fucking. What's the woman's name?

Like fucking Beaver Cleaver. What the fuck is the woman's name? What's the mom's name like fucking beaver cleaver what the fuck is the mom's name june cleaver june cleaver nobody can fucking live their life like like you could fucking live your life like that if you want to you want to cook dinner for your family be a stay-at-home person whatever mom you want to you know wash all the clothes and fucking you know i don't even know like i don't even know what she did during the day because I always focused on the fucking beaver. So I don't know. But like, you know, whatever she did throughout the day,

that's fine. You could do that. And there's fucking freedom to do it. But you know what you also have is a freedom to do other fucking things. And that's important. And it's just like, like what they're, what they're arguing against is that they're saying

that all feminists want all women to go out and not be at home and be stay-at-home moms. And that's bullshit. That's just fucking a blatant lie. What is it? It's just straw man. They're just building. They wrote an entire book of straw man arguments that they just knocked the fuck down.

Well, they're misunderstanding that the idea here is about choice. Empowerment equals choice, right? So people, just like you said, like people need to, people need to understand that they have the choice and it's a valid and, and, and honest choice to be, you know, stay at home moms or stay at home dads or whatever the situation is. should always also have the option of entering the workplace. And if you enter the workplace, you should be paid the same for equal work and like treated as an equal human being, regardless of gender. Like, like that's what empowerment means. Like empowerment is the option to look at your life and make decisions about what's best for you and for your family in a way that, that matches your identity and your family's identity, your financial needs, and takes all of those things into account to build a family structure that is most conducive to your happiness,

right? And most conducive to your family's well-being. This idea, you know, what they're basically doing is saying like, you're saying all women want to be this, and we're saying all women want to be this. And're saying all women want to be this and it's like it's like it's so reduction ridiculously reductionist yeah nobody's saying that all women want to be i at least i don't know of anybody right that is a feminist that's saying all women must be blah like no they're just saying fucking be what you want to be yeah and have an option have an option and like and she you know, she says in here, the sexualized thing is just a red herring.

Right. That's that's a way for them to slut shame. That's really what that is. Right. That's a way for them to look and say, like, well, you know, I mean, the feminist movement basically like, you know, it gave women the right to be sexually free individuals. And that's, you know, fucking grody or whatever. I don't know. It's just like some weird fucking backwards slut shaming backhanded comments. But, you know, then she goes on to say like, you know, talk about how what God wants from women, you know? Yeah. And she says they want less government in their lives.

They want to make their own decisions. They want freedom to choose for their children, for their families. That's what women really want. And I would say like, yeah, man, I fucking agree with that. Like, that is exactly what all people want. All people want, you know, the freedom to make their own decisions, choose what's right for their children and their families. That's what all humans want.

That's not like, that's not something that's, like, specific to any particular gender. But the fact that it's not specific to a gender only underscores the need for women to have those same options, right? Yeah. Because all people want that, but only half of us routinely get to pursue that. Yeah. That only underscores the need for continued work for the other side, like for women.

And I can't help but see like the hypocrisy in that because they all talk about how there's like a big long thing about how they're talking about this one woman, I guess was a child actress, and she grew up a Democrat, and this other person was a Democrat, but now we're not. Now we're conservatives and blah, blah, blah, and they're going on about being conservatives. But she talks about small government at some point.

I'm thinking, no, you kind of are sort of pushing the envelope on big government. And then the other thing she says, we want no more of this feminist politicizing our bodies and what happens in our bedrooms. And I'm thinking, you are all about what happens in people's bedrooms. I know. You're fucking all about it, man. No. And I just I don't I don't get how they can just be so blind to the fact that, you know, their side is mostly anti gay.

And it's like, oh, we just don't want people fucking talking about what's going on in our bedrooms. Well, yeah, as long as your bedroom's straight, I guess, right? Yeah, and nobody is talking about straight people's bedrooms. I don't even understand what that comes from. Yeah. Who's talking? Like, who's having that conversation? The only people that have conversations about bedroom politics

tend to be conservatives who are either, you know, like the Rush Limbaugh types who vilify women who use birth control, right? Sure. And like slut shame like crazy and have like crazy conversations like about what real rape is and like all this like mad crazy nonsense that you listen to and we fucking discussed on the show. And then the right is also having the conversation about homosexuality. The rest of the country doesn't give a shit what anybody does in the bedroom. Sure. And we also don't believe, like, the atheist side doesn't believe that there's a what God wants from women.

Yeah. You know, like, let's talk about that for a second. Like, what God designed women to be? Wow. I mean, you want to talk about pigeonholing a gender. Exactly. You're all sick! 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 story also comes from the raw Story. Mississippi gay man says Baptist teacher raped him for three years so he would hate men. I don't even know where to begin with this. Wow. Begin slowly and with a lot of lube. No, I will not. I will not.

So the Washington Blade reported that Jeff White said his teacher at a Bethel Baptist school in Wills, Mississippi, justified repeatedly raping him over the course of a three year period from when he was 14 to 17. He called it ex-gay therapy and it was designed to make. Hold on. I know. Isn't it pre-gay therapy? He says, White says in an interview, he says, he would rape me because I was gay and because it would make me hate men and that would make me change. That's a dude who just wants to sexually abuse a child. Right.

Like, that's all that that is. Like, this is not, like, ex-gay therapy is abusive in nature, but this isn't like ex-gay therapy is abusive in nature but this isn't even ex-gay therapy and and it's we have to we have to make sure that we say this person hasn't been uh he's been accused but it has not been convicted of this right right so i want to make sure that you know we mentioned if this is all true and this guy did rape these people to try to make them straight by giving them gay sex. I don't know that that's a successful way to do that. Well, you know, I'm reminded of the story we covered in South Africa where they were, you know, raping like men were like raping lesbian women to try to to try to bang them straight. Right. And it's like that's a it's not

gonna work like at first of all you're not going to change somebody's gender by doing something awful to them like there's not nobody right like zero out of ten doctors recommend sexual trauma yeah as a as a heel like nobody's like hmm have you tried being raped? Like, nobody's ever said that in all of the history of time. There's no control and experimental side of that equation either. It's not like any ethicist is like, well, I mean, it's a dicey proposition, but the risk-benefit analysis is worth it. Let's go ahead and rape the experimental group. See, these rats over here have been raped every day.

Right? And these rats over here have been raped every day. Right? And these rats over here. Good God. Now, the concern, obviously, is if this isn't bottled up in San Francisco, this kind of nonsense, then it's going to be spreading across the entire Fruited Plain, and you're going to be going to your Burger King in Des Moines, Iowa, and you're going to have a rainbow-colored wrapper for your Whopper.

So this story comes from Right Wing Watch. Barbwire columnist. Homosexuality is violence against God. Reverend William Cook of the Black Robe Regiment. You heard that here. The Black Robe Regiment. He went on Barbwire last week to warn that the devil the devil Cecil is taking over the United States. Oh, no.

Through gay rights and abortion and telling conservative churches that this is a time to fight. I'm glad he mentioned it because the conservative churches have been so quiet. Yeah, I know. If he didn't say anything, they probably would have just stayed asleep. Not done anything. Yeah, I think I think this is another you know, this is clearly another opportunity for someone to demonize another side to say, you know, I mean, you're saying like gay rights and legal abortion are the devil. They're evil. They are from hell and from Satan. You're saying that a two things that we in this country, for the most part, clearly gay rights, for the most part,

is starting to slowly get steam here in this country and be legal more and more and more places. 19 states with gay marriage. 31 states ban same-sex marriage. Man, I can't believe it's still 31 states. But it's 19 and counting. That's pretty good. 19 and counting. And they pretty good. 19 and counting. And they're moving.

I mean, you're getting close. So we have at this point, we're slowly inching our way towards that. But abortion, clearly, you know, by the Supreme Court ruling is perfectly legal. Perfectly legal thing to do. But he's telling people that it's the devil. He's telling people that it's evil. It's not that it's, you know, it's something that, you know, he thinks maybe we should try to change or something like that. No, no, no. He's going out of his way to demonize it. And that's, I just think that, you know, I always see these, these things when they talk

about, you know, when they talk about things that are in politics and they're, they're church people, When they talk about things that are in politics and they're church people, Reverend William Cook of the Black Robe Regiment, how are you able to be able to say these things and still have a fucking tax-free existence? I know, man, because it's obviously political speech. I mean, this is obviously political speech. I don't think there's any reason that churches should exist tax-free. There's nothing unique about the church as an organization, I don't think, that justifies not being taxed. You know, churches make tons of money. There's no reason why they can't be taxed. Every other organization is taxed.

Go ahead and fucking tax them. It's fucking fine. You know, one of the things that he says in this column is, he says, By sanctioning abortion and more recently sodomy, America has done violence to the imago dia, which I believe means the image of God and itself. Nations that rebel against the divine prescription for supremacy over the elemental principles of the world inevitably come to be ruled by them. America was given a choice between liberty and death. America chose death and shall have tyranny. What the fuck are you talking about?

I don't even know what that means. I just listened to you say it, and I still don't know what you're talking about. The part that I love is where he says, nations that rebel against the divine prescription for supremacy over the elemental principles of the world. We have no supremacy over the elemental principles of the world. Like, what? Like, I can't, like, there's never been a time where I've been like,

oh, because I love Jesus, carbon is now helium. There's never been a time where I've been able to do that. There's never been a time where I've been able to be like, oh, you know what? I fucking believe in the virgin birth. I believe that so hard. That's how hard I believe in the virgin birth. I believe in it so hard that actually gravity doesn't work in my house. Unless I decide it does.

Because I have control over like I'm not fucking an X-Man if you are you're the blob so there's a bot at the bottom he says but some will say I have not had an abortion I am not a homosexual

I believe abortion and sodomy are wrong I can't impose my belief on others can I silence is tacit approval look at listen to that I mean it's going out of your way to like go after those moderate people that are saying oh well you know I just let live and let live

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You need more than one Cleveland? That's the part of this story that first struck me. It's like, wait a minute. We need more than one Cleveland? So this guy is Pastor Philip Missick of the King of Saints Tabernacle. Ah, the King of Saints. Yeah. He says he was stunned, Cecil, stunned,

to find the young adult section of the public library full of books like Blood Promise and Twilight and the Vampire Knight series. He says this is dark. There's a sexual element. You have creatures that aren't human. I think it's dangerous for our kids. Well, I mean, Winnie the Pooh has creatures that aren't human. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, like, the pokey little puppy has creatures that aren't human. I don't think those are scary books. Let's just say, you know, Twilight or Vampire. I don't even know what the Vampire Knight series, whatever. It probably dislikes Harry Potter, too, because it's like fucking sorcery or whatever. Sure. But, you know, he's saying it deals with the occult and the supernatural and it shouldn't be part of the public library. And it's like, well, your church is in the fucking public library, dude.

Like, it's the public library. There could be people of other faiths that don't fucking their underwear isn't shoved so far up their ass that they will let their kid read Twilight. So why do you get to fucking dictate what's in the fucking library? Well, I do. I have to say I love what he says at the end. What he says at the end is pretty great. He says, I understand they have a right to these books, but I also have a right to complain about them. What the fuck, man?

You whiny little bitch. Just tell your kids not to read the fucking books, man. kids not to read the fucking books, man. You know, isn't that funny? Because it's like, if everybody that attended your church heeded your advice and then you gave them the advice not to read these books, then you would have nothing to worry about.

The faithful attend your church. The faithful hear the message and the word and all that kind of happy good news bullshit. And you've given them good advice and they've heeded your advice and so those books remain on the shelf like fucking covered in dust it's all good right no problem like there is literally no problem here the problem is that nobody gives a shit what you're saying and the

best thing that you can think to do about the problem which is a non-problem right is to is to complain about it well and then and you know, his solution is to get rid of him. I mean, you might as well burn him if you're just going to take him off the shelves. And, you know, what's upsetting is that the city manager says they're taking his complaint seriously. And these people are going to spend all this time preparing a report and, you know, probably having fucking meetings with parents and people are going to stand up and they're going to all have an opportunity to, you know, fucking. It's fiction, guys. It's fiction.

You can literally write anything down. That's how fiction works. If you were to look through all of the, I mean, here complaining about the Twilight series, motherfucker, read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. That's not a young adult fiction, though. It's not, but that book will fucking ruin your life. Like, that book is, I mean, there's a scene in that book where there is a tree full of dead babies. Do they call the prayer police?

Do not call the prayer police. Do they call the prayer SWAT Do not call the prayer police. Do they call the prayer SWAT helicopter to come out and shout prayers? No, because it didn't happen in Texas. So it's a tree full of dead babies, you said? Yeah. What's the tinsel? Like umbilical cords? You should see what's in the stocking.

You should see what's in the stocking. You could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportion. What do you mean, biblical? What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes.

The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Story comes from Politics USA. Rapture enthusiasts fantasize about a post-rapture America ruled by atheists. This is awesome. It's so funny. So these fucking end times idiots fucking babble talk about how, you know, after the rapture, all the all the good people float up in the sky and they all give, you know, sloppy kisses to Jesus or whatever. And then all the fucking dirty atheists are left down on the ground to, like, eat food and not listen to this bullshit.

Here's what he has to say. This is from Right Wing Watch. Here's what he has to say. This is from Right Wing Watch. This is End Times prophet Ed Hinson on VYC America's Crosstalk. So here's the clip from there. It's about a minute and a half long. Dr. Hinson, the second event that you write about in your book, To Shake the World, is USA Out, New Power In. And you indicate that this disappearance of millions

will change the axis of power across the globe and that the United States is going to diminish as the world's largest superpower. What gives you that indication? That's partly due to, I think, both interpretation and speculation. It's the assumption that there are millions of born-again believers in America. Now, that doesn't mean everybody who claims to be born-again is. I understand that. But the United States would be incredibly impacted by the rapture, because there are more professing Christians here than perhaps any other place on the planet. Now, millions of people would be missing worldwide—Ch China, England, Europe,

wherever. But what would happen, I think, in the United States is the sudden rapture of believers would leave this country totally secularist, totally atheist, totally in the hands of... Wait, wait, wait. Millions of people are voiped into heaven, and we become secularists? People are voiped into heaven. Right. And we become secularists. Yeah, I think he misunderstands the proposition here. Right.

If this happens, everyone converts. It's like the evidence. It's like the evidence you're waiting for. But even Cecil, even one step beyond that, all the Christians go up, which is not even what the Bible says, right? So the Bible doesn't say like all the Christians go up, but fine, whatever. So, but let's, let's say all the Christians, millions of Christians go up into rapture world. Hold on though.

What does the Bible say? We read fucking revelations. I don't remember a fuck all what it said about that. As I recall, it was just fucking what it said about it was. Yeah, I know. I mean, what basically happens, I think, and I have to go back in my memory a little bit, but I think what happens is all the good Christians, I think it was like 144,000 Jews go up to heaven. Sure.

Right. I think there was something around those lines. So they go up to heaven. The rest of the Jews, they like hang out and have matzah. I'm not sure. They ride a merry Jew round. A giant one. And then I think a bunch of like locusts with helmets come and pick up the good Christians.

Right. And then some of them get like horns and some of them get crowns, but it's harder to sell who gets what. It's not the same number. And then everybody else just hangs out. But, like, everybody would convert. Like, if I was a fucking Muslim, and, like, all across the entire globe, all the Christians were like, and they were just gone.

That would not escape my fucking attention. I can't imagine suddenly you'd just be like huh so millions of people died as prophesied by this 2 000 year old book that everybody's pointing to is the fucking reason why it happened maybe there is something to it you know everybody would convert i can't imagine you wouldn't be like that like it just doesn't make any sense and then the earth would just be run by christians who were like yeah we're fucking no dude we were christian before right no bro i'm like hastily deleting all the cognitive dissonance anti-christian forces uh and it would uh decimate

uh the economy the banking system uh even the military, the police system. It would throw this country into chaos overnight, not throw any country into chaos, but the larger percentage of born again believers, the larger percentage of the chaos. And I think what answers the real question is, why is the United States not there in End Times prophecy? Because the fucking wasn't here yet when it was written. Right. Because they had no idea because they were a bunch of fucking itinerant goatherds.

That's my guess. Let's see what he has to say. Unless you try to view the Babylon of the End Times as America, there's no clear indication that America is there anywhere. So is she totally destroyed? Possibly, but not likely. It's more likely that she's decimated by the impact of the rapture, and the power then shifts to Europe, because I think the Bible makes it clear the Antichrist will rise out of the old Roman Empire in Europe. Oh my God. I can't hear that. The Roman Empire? Are you kidding?

What is he talking about? He even admits in the beginning. He's like, no, this is all speculation and fabrication. Good Lord. Bullshit. The Roman Empire? I don't even know what to say. Are you serious?

Even he admits, he's like, you know, fucking America wasn't in the Bible, so maybe it's Babylon. Well, maybe it's fucking not. Maybe you just made all this shit up and you're fucking gluing things together to try to make sense of something that just does not make sense. And that's the thing that makes me crazy. If you had a fucking all-knowing, all-powerful being who existed across time, prior to time, outside of time, would that motherfucker not have a more clear way to communicate

rather than calling America Babylon? Wouldn't it be fucking more efficient if he was like, hey, you know what's going to happen in about 1,400 years? We're going to find a thing. It's going to be called America. People are going to fucking go there. Here's what it's going to look like. Here's the fucking coordinates.

You don't know what coordinates are, but these are the coordinates. Like, give me some fucking information. There's going to be fucking people there. You'll kill them with smallpox. Like, what the fuck? I know. Couldn't you? It would be awesome if they were just like, yeah, you don't know what this is yet, but it's a laser. Right. You know?

Right. Instead of like, and wouldn't it be great if he, like, brought down some lasers? Yeah. Like, if God, like, showed up and great if he like brought down some lasers. Yeah. Like if God like showed up and was like, here's some fucking lasers. Put them someplace safe. You'll figure out that they're useful later. They have infinite batteries because God. Like it's just like instead it's like you get nothing but stories full of fucking names that might be. It's like the Nostradamus thing. like a great eagle will soar into a tree.

I know. That's the World Trade Center. Oh, man. It's amazing. Eagles fucking in trees. That's never happened before. It's like, oh, my God. Did you hear that prophecy?

It was amazing. Idiots. Fucking ridiculous fucking basement dwelling troglodyte bullshit. This is no better than the fucking chemtrail retards. It really is. Oh, yeah. Fucking Babylon is like the United States, and somebody break out the Bible code. We're going to figure it out.

Bible code is awesome, too. God. Yay, we should figure it out. If you count every third letter and then convert the A to a seven. I think you're onto something. That's amazing. Let's take a quiz. You want to take a quiz?

Fuck yeah, I want to take a quiz. Let's talk about how ridiculous Leviticus is. I got a quiz for you on Leviticus. Now this is something you're really good at and I'm really good at. It's about food, okay? All right, all right. So I'm going to read a list of animals. You had me at hello.

As I go through the list, you tell me whether or not it's forbidden or allowed to be eaten by Leviticus. Okay? Okay, all right. Ready? Yes. Camels. Forbidden. It's like eating the car.

Hyrax. That's not a thing. Forbidden. It's like eating the car. Hyrax. That's not a thing. Forbidden. Rabbit. That's allowed. Yeah, delicious. Okay, rabbits. Pig.

Sure. Yeah, I'd eat a pig. Shark. Yeah, you actually have to eat sharks. Skate. No. No, they're too close to sharks, but they didn't know it. Catfish. Bottom dwellers. No. No. They're too close to sharks, but they didn't know it. Catfish.

Bottom dwellers. No. Forbidden. Eagle. Yes, but only their eyes. Vulture. No. No. Black vulture. Black vulture? Wait a minute. Can I change my answer?

Yes. Yes to vulture. No to black vulture. Why does it have to be racial? It's the first time the blacks ever got preference. Red kite. A red kite? Yeah. Yeah, if you can catch it.

Black kite. No. Okay. A raven. Who's eating a raven? Who is this hungry? Desert people. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. We're so hungry we have to make rules about whether you can eat small. Raven. Yes. All right. Horned owl. No, it's a devil's owl. No owls, huh?

Yeah, no. Okay, so the screech owl is out. Yeah, those are the devil birds. The gull. You can't eat them. A gull? Like a seagull? Gull.

Yeah, you can eat a seagull. Hawk? No. White owl? Yeah, you can't. No, you can't eat any owls. Okay, so no desert owl. What about an osprey?

Sure, if you can catch one, it's all yours. A heron? Oh, yeah, a lot of meat on them. A lot of meat on those herons. Heron burgers are delicious. Stork? No, they bring babies. Okay.

Locusts? Great in soups, absolutely. Allowed. Crickets? No, you have to feed them to your Komodo dragons or something. Grasshoppers? No. How is a grasshopper different than a locust?

I don't know. I'll say no. Weasel. Yeah, you can eat a weasel. What about a rat? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shish kebab rat.

Fuck yeah. You only got one right. No, you got a bunch right. Okay, so camels. Are you kidding? I only got one right? No, I'm kidding. Camels, camels, you said you can't eat camels, you can't eat hyrax.

You said pig, you can't eat pigs, you can't eat rabbits, you can't eat sharks. And the reason why you can't eat sharks is because you can only eat fish. It says you may only eat fish if they have fins and scales. So if they don't have scales, you can't eat them. So because they have fucking dentricles, I can't eat them? You cannot eat a shark. Oh. Can I ride a shark?

No. You picked the next two right. Eagles and vultures are both forbidden. And they specifically list the eagles. They specifically list red kite. You can't eat that. A raven. You can't eat that.

All the owls. You were right. No owls. You can't eat that. A raven. You can't eat that. All the owls. You were right. No owls. You can't eat gulls. Why? You can't eat ospreys. You can't eat ospreys. You can't eat herons.

You can eat locusts, and you were right there, but you can also eat crickets and grasshoppers. Okay. But then you can't eat weasels or rats. Here's the thing. And they list all of these things, too. It's crazy how they list. I mean, they list everything that you can and can't eat weasels or rats. Here's the thing. And they list all of these things, too. It's crazy how they, I mean, they list everything that you can and can't eat. I would eat all of these animals. All of them, Cecil.

That's because they're food. I would eat, I would, I mean, I don't care at all. I would eat, I would fucking, I would turducken all of these animals into one enormous animal. You stick the cricket in the grasshopper, into the locust, into the rat, into the weasel, into the heron, into the gull. I don't know. It'd be like the woman who swallowed a fly. You know what I mean? I'm just stuffing fucking animals into other animals.

All right, so we got a couple more questions about Leviticus. So far, my track record is solid. I'm going to ask all these in a row. Okay. If you touch an unclean animal, you are unclean until A, the evening, B, an hour, C, all day, or D, until you are cleansed. Until I'm cleansed? Is that your answer? Yeah, why not? Okay. Next question. What should you do if an unclean animal dies and then touches cloth? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? Okay, so let's say you're...

An animal dies? So here you are. You're out in the middle of somewhere. Let's find an unclean animal. An unclean animal, let's say it is a hyrax because I have no idea what that is. What is a hyrax? How is it dying on my cloth? It's actually related to an elephant, I think. What are you talking about?

So you're out there walking your hyrax, and it falls down dead. And it falls on your favorite cloak, okay? Because there's no coats back then because they didn't have zippers or buttons. They had cloaks. So it falls on your favorite cloak. Now, your options are A, burn the cloth, B, throw out the cloth, C, put the cloth in water until evening, or D, don't touch the cloth until evening, then wash it. Fuck you.

Really? Burn it. Burn it all. Burn it. Okay. The next one. If a dead, unclean animal falls onto a clay pot. Where are these animals falling onto?

Why are they dying everywhere? It was very dangerous back then. It's just fucking raining unclean animals. You go outside, it's a fucking hyrax storm. It's raining hyraxes and weasels out there. It's a hyrax hurricane.asels out there. It's a hyrax hurricane. So here we go. Oh, no.

If a dead, unclean animal falls onto your clay pot, you should A, wait until evening and wash the pot. B, break the pot. C, burn the pot. Break the pot. D, run screaming. I don't have any ideas. Well, I don't think it's run screaming because I think you wrote that. I did write that.

Burning a pot would be difficult. I don't think washing it is enough because stupid. So break the pot. Okay. Last one. If an unclean carcass falls on seeds yet to be planted, you should A, plant them. They're fine. B, wash the seeds.

C, wait until evening and wash the seeds. Or D, make popcorn. See, now I'm worried because a lot of these said wait until evening. So there's got to be like a magical principle about sunset. So I'm going to go with wait until evening and like wash the seeds or whatever it is. Okay, so you got one right.

So here we go. I am terrible at this. So what you need to do, if you touch an unclean animal, you are unclean until the evening, okay? What should you do if an unclean animal happens to die and touches cloth? You're supposed to put the cloth in water until the evening. If a dead unclean animal falls into a clay pot, you should, you answered, break the pot. It's correct.

You're supposed to break the pot. And then if a carcass falls on seeds yet to be planted, you should just plant them because they're fine. Are you fucking kidding? I'm not kidding. That's what it says. So wait a minute. They fucking addressed it as if people were like, man, I got a real problem here.

Hyrax corpse on my seeds. Don't know what to do. Whoa, whoa, hey. 37. This is Leviticus 1137. I'll read it directly to you. If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. But if water has been put on the seed and the carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

What the? Fucking. What? It's the most ridiculous fucking chapter of the Bible in the world. It's awesome. And that's saying something. Where are all these dead animals? I don't even understand. Everything's unclean. It's like everything's getting shot by

a sniper at range, you know? It's just like, everything could be murdered at distance. God just has like, like one of has like one of those water balloon launchers, and he's just fucking jetting out fucking hyraxes out of it. He's shooting them out of there. He just said it's like one of those old potato guns, you know? He just sticks like a weasel in there and just poof.

Somebody starts screaming because a weasel fell on their head. That was my best pot. Oh, man. You want answers? I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I want the truth. You can't handle the truth.

So this next story comes from We're Not Telling You because it's fucking stupid. But we'll tell you, but don't link to it. It's fucking nonsense. It comes from the Food Babe blog. Is this a blog, Cecil? Is that what this would be? I don't know. I guess. Sure. It's fucking nonsense. It comes from the Food Babe blog. Is this a blog, Cecil? Is that what this would be? I don't know. I guess.

Sure. It's some fucking vomitus of nonsense. So you guys have probably seen this. Like if you have a Facebooking or a social media at all, Food Babe pops up from time to time on the uninformed pages. And this one is particularly ridiculous. It says, why it's time to throw out your microwave. And Cecil, she gives five reasons to get rid of your microwave.

Sure. First one, microwaves were never thoroughly researched before adoption. No, nobody understood what microwaves were. No, they just invented it accidentally. It's like, remember on SNL they had that happy fun ball? Right.

It's filled with some weird shit. We don't know what it is. Who cares? That's exactly what a microwave is. Yeah, microwaves. They fucking invented the microwave by accident. Yeah. That's exactly.

They're like, oh, what would happen if we put this magnetron? Anyway. Hold on, though. Little known fact, they actually have to capture wild microwaves and put them in the microwave. That's very difficult to tame. Yeah. So, you know, they haven't been thoroughly researched. Well, and the problem, too, Cecil, is we're destroying their ecosystem.

Yeah, their natural habitat. The natural habitat of the microwaves. You know, and it's just not ethical to have farm-raised microwaves. You know, you've got to get the wild caught. You can't even get me started on organic microwaves, okay? Oh, it's a ripoff, man. It's a total ripoff. Terrible.

I mean, you go to fucking Whole Fraud and you just spend so much of your money on fucking organic microwaves. Number two, microwaves destroy the nutrient value of your food. Okay. Number three, I'll tell you what what they don't do anything to the fucking calories number three microwaves create carcinogenic compounds in certain foods i would say that that's true because i've had some tv dinners that i'm sure were carcinogenic yeah well yesterday i nuked up a nice uh meal of asbestos Oh. And now I've got mesothelioma. It's terrible.

Microbes provide unnecessary daily exposure to radiation. And finally, microwaves can create severe health issues. It seems like more than five. If you're just going to leave the last one open like that. Yeah, microwaves will also kill the president. So the first claim is that microwaves were developed 80 years ago and that they were given to World War II soldiers to warm their meals. And I'm thinking, like, World War II German soldiers

like traveling around with microwaves? Like, where do we plug this in? We're on the front lines. And they plug it in. Remember the first early microwaves? It sounded like a jet taking off. Right? They're just like.

And they weigh like 100 pounds. Do you remember? Like you got in your rucksack. You're like trying to fucking bivouac out with a fucking 100-pound fucking microwave made of steel and anger on your back? Destroying the nutrient value of your food is, I mean, the thing is, is it's probably true. Because when you cook things, you do break some of it down. So it's probably going to lose some of its nutrients. Although in the microwave, I think it's better than boiling because there's no leaching.

You know what I mean? Like when I if I were to boil some foods, I'm going to lose some of that to the water because there is some leaching that happens with the water. But if I do it in a microwave, I don't know that there's a lot that gets lost. Yeah, I can't imagine why it would. I mean, this is just a way of, I mean, the way a microwave works is it basically causes the water molecules in the food to vibrate quicker. To vibrate fast, yeah. Right? And then that friction, you know, from the vibration of the molecules, the friction creates heat, as friction is wont to do. And thus, you know, the food warms up.

It's not like you're putting it in a fucking plutonium reactor, right? Well, that's what she says here when she's like, it provides a necessary radiation. I'm just like, what is in your microwave? Yeah. And it says, she says, I cannot knowingly use a microwave considering they are slowly destroying my cells. I like this. According to the book, cancer is not a disease.

It's a survival mechanism. What? What? What does that even mean? When you stand in front of a radar device, you'll start perspiring and cooking from the inside out, just like food is cooked in the microwave oven. Anybody who's owned a microwave oven knows that that's a myth. Microwaves do not cook from the inside out.

They cook from the outside in like every other thing. They do not cook from the inside out. They cook from the outside in like every other thing. They do not cook from the inside out. All you have to do to test this is get a piece of meat. Frozen meat, yep. Put it in the microwave and microwave it. Then take it out after three minutes and cut it open.

If it's a big piece of meat, it'll still be raw in the center. It'll be cooked on the outside. Every single time I fucking go, like let's say I take a pound of ground beef and I put it in the microwave. It'll be cooked on the outside. Every single time I fucking, I go like, let's say I take a pound of ground beef and I put it in the microwave to defrost. I put it on defrost. I shut it. I let it go. I take about three minutes or so. And then I pull the, the, the frosted hamburger out so it doesn't cook. Right. So I'll, I'll let it go for about three minutes and then I'll just use my hands to sort of pry off whatever's like semi-defrosted.

And it's always the outside. It's never like I can just be like bloop and like break it in half. It's always a solid core on the outside. Right. Well, that's because nothing happens. Like how would the microwaves work? Like how would the microwaves, why would they penetrate to the inside and then start working?

And then work its way out. Yeah. It's not like they'd fucking like have a fucking sensor that can tell where the center of things are. Yeah. Right? It's not like the microwave's like, quick, where's the middle? It's got like a little surveyor outfit thing. And it puts the tripod down.

And it's like, no, go back a little bit. Back a little bit. It's so crazy. And then this article, this one paragraph is so full of bullshit, it's unbelievable. It says, the heat is generated by the rapid movement of molecules or the breakdown of molecular bonds.

Each year, millions of birds are killed when they get too close to or sit on cell towers. What? Wait a minute. Cell towers, that's a different conversation than the microwave oven. It's a different technology. I don't even, I don't know if that's even true. I doubt that it's true, but even if it were true.

Wouldn't there just be tons of dead birds around like certain areas though? Just like be like littered with dead birds? Right. Every time you like drive past like it would just be like the fetid stench of fucking rotting birds everywhere. And if it touches your cloth, you gotta put it in water till the evening that sucks sucks oh my god and then it's the last one is um microbes can create severe health issues oh this is great you see the image here

she has a great image it says um harmful effects of electromagnetic waves as illustrated by dr marasu emoto in the book hidden messages in the water and it's got a before it's a beautiful little crystal and afterwards the distilled water is heated in the microwave result a crystal similar to that created by the word satan i know so somebody said said Satan at water and it went to that form. Yep. Yep. Before it was a beautiful crystal. Now it's a Satan crystal.

Wow. I look up here at the top and the thing that's fucking shocking, right, is there's almost 750,000 people like this woman on Facebook and she has fucking 70 000 followers on twitter this is the same person let me let me let me just i got it the last thing she wrote at my house i still have a microwave but i never turn it on i use it for the timer feature you use a huge metal box for the timer? Right. Like you can't figure out enough. Well, no, she doesn't want to just pull it out because she has this space above her oven,

and she wants to fill it in an aesthetically pleasing way. Put fucking flowers in there, dummy. Cookbooks. Yeah. I mean, that's like having a car but never turning it on and being like, but I kind of like the radio. It's like fucking buy a radio. So we want to thank our most recent patrons. We want to thank all our patrons, of course, but want to thank specifically David, Matthias, Zoran, Sarah, Els, David, Drew, and Joshua.

Thank you all very much for your generous donations. We appreciate it. And we're actually throwing a Cognitive Dissonance listener appreciation picnic. So be sure to check episode 175 out. And you should be able to get a link to the tickets. Just sign up so we know that you're coming and we'd love to see you guys. So if you're going to be in the Chicagoland area on October 4th,

you can come over and drink some beer and eat some foods. We got a message from John and John sent in a little mix of, he had that woman who says grocery money. I was like, you all little kids, all you little women out there have your little grocery money. He made a Pink Floyd mix for us. It was actually pretty cool. I can't play it clearly because Pink Floyd and all, but thanks for sending it in. We got a message from Matt and Matt has a podcast. He had asked us a while back, this was in June, he had asked us for some help, some suggestions on how to sort of start a podcast, what systems to use and things.

So I gave him some information and then he said, hey, by the way, I started a podcast. So his podcast is This Is What Atheists Believe. And I'm going to put a link to it on this episode's show notes. So if you're interested in checking out his podcast, I haven't listened yet, so I don't know what it's like, but he took some advice from us. And good luck, Matt. We hope your podcast continues on. Absolutely.

It looks like there are about six episodes in, so congratulations on starting your new journey. And, you know, we'll definitely give it a listen. And we're sorry you took our advice. I mean, Cecil's. Yeah, I was going to say our. Yeah. That's the fucking royal are.

We got a message from and this is from Christian Downs. Christian says this is a site. There's a site. It's fucking wackadoo site called Torah treasure trove dot com. So weird, man. And it's like, man, this is time cube crazy is time cubes still around. And this is time cube. I think yeah, fucking enormous, man. I'm put a link to it on this episode show notes. It's crazy. It's the most texty. It's so text tackler, man. All right, so I'm gonna start scrolling on the first page. Here we go. I'll tell you when I

stop scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, so I'm going to start scrolling on the first page. Here we go. I'll tell you when I stop. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and I'm not scrolling slow here. I'm not scrolling slow. Just finished. Ugh. That's how long it takes to scroll to the first page. And each one of these pages, this one I'm clicking on just a random link.

Open letter to the Jewish people. Holy shit, it's huge! Everything here is just scrolling forever. This is an immense amount of text. Clearly a lot of time was spent on this, but time in a way that this is kind of what happens when you have hypergraphia, schizophrenia, and fucking know how to code a little.

That's really what happens. Yeah, that's crazy. Thanks for sending it in, though. That was awesome to look at. Wow. So we got a message from Curtis, Tom, that you wanted to talk about. Yeah, so Curtis says, Founder of a show on iTunes a few weeks ago and absolutely love it.

I live in Northeast Texas, originally from Southern Oklahoma, and cannot tell you how nice it is to listen to somebody with my point of view on the religiates. Your story about the guy with Ebola thanking God really got to me. A few weeks ago, a person I went to high school with posted what had to be, in my eyes, the most callous, narcissistic post similar to this one I'd ever seen.

She started by saying that earlier in the day she'd directly seen the Lord working in her life. She and family were on their way back home from a family trip and decided to go to a convenience store for some candy, something that they never do. As they put back on the road, they came upon a terrible wreck that had killed three people in the vehicle in the direction that they would have been traveling. She was convinced that the candy stop was God intervening to keep them safe.

Oh, and prayers to the family that was actually fucking killed. As the Facebook likes and God is so good comments came flowing in, I was just appalled that people can be this obtuse and still feel as though they are being good. And that if somebody like me were to point out the fallacy, I'd be ostracized. You know, this is one of the things that galls me terribly when I see this nonsense, too. It's, you know, it's that idea that, like, if I had left five minutes earlier or five minutes later, I would have been in the one in the car wreck. It's like, well, God made you lose your keys, but he couldn't fucking stop the car wreck. Like, he's still a dick.

Like, God is still being a fucking asshole. He's just being an asshole. It's like walking around with your arm cocked to punch, right? Yeah. And it's like saying, like, I'm going to punch somebody. I'm going to punch, right? Yeah. And it's like saying, like, I'm going to punch somebody. I'm going to punch somebody. And then, you know, like, you move like a three-year-old boy out of the way and you punch a four-year-old girl.

And you're like, hey, God works in mysterious ways. I could have punched that three-year-old boy. What are you talking about? You have literally all the power. Just don't punch anything. Because it's just not a real. Because life is just ruled by random chance. I can't walk around with my arm cocked and not punch something. That it's just not a real. Because life is just ruled by random chance. I can't walk around with my arm cocked and not punch something.

That's just the way it is. We got a really nice letter from David. We were bitching a little bit about Skepticon. And we did finally get a room at Skepticon, which is weird because we had called them that night. We had tried to log on and do it via online registration. And that didn't work because they said they were booked out. So then we called them and specifically said it was for Skepticon, and they said, no, we don't have any more rooms. Then I got a message from Mike who said that they do have rooms.

You just have to ask for a certain person. So I called back, and I was able to get a room right away. So no harm, no foul. We are going to Skepticon. But David said, hey, I heard you guys weren't able to get a room in the hotel room hey man if you guys want to stay in my room i'll have extra room i'm a one guy but i got a double bed you know clearly he was letting us both sleep together and he's like you can run a background check if you want it's totally cool but i'd love to see you guys hey look david that's a great offer. Thank you so much for it. I'll tell you what, you come to the bar at Skepticon and I'll

buy you drinks. So you find us there. Yeah, man, absolutely. What a kind gesture. It was a nice gesture. We got our own room, but I'll tell you what, we'll buy you some drinks when we get there, David. We got a message from John and John sent this story from Sweden. And it's a funny story. I don't know that it has a lot of context based on our show. It's sort of anti-conservative, which is good. But one thing in here is that it comes from a place in Sweden. And, Tom, it's spelled S-J-O with two dots over it, B-O. Yeah. And so go ahead.

What do you think that sounds like? Yeah. Well, he gives us a pronunciation key. All right. So he gives us a pronunciation key. All right. So he gives us a letter by letter pronunciation key. But I'm going to ignore that because it might be accidentally helpful. Yeah. And I'm going to say that this is pronounced Shabobo.

Shabobo is probably pretty close. I'm going to say Las Vegas. Ah, vegas ah nice nicely done i think that's how it's pronounced i think i'm going to las vegas sweden love it there the j is silent so thanks for sending that in john we appreciate it we'll be back uh we're gonna have an extra episode next week so be uh be on the lookout for an episode later on this week. And we will leave you as always with the skeptics creed. Credulity is not a virtue. It's fortune cookie cutter.

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