Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 362: Waiting 4 Wrath
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of cognitive dissonance but cecil i gotta tell you man i'm not 100 ready to start this episode
why is that well i have not had the requisite amount of cavife today you gotta have your daily
your daily requirement of
Kvifife. I have, you know...
Am I pronouncing it right? I think it's Belgian.
It's not real
clear. Okay. It's not real clear.
Yeah. But the president
and a handful of people have had
the amount of Kvifife.
And it's true.
I was thinking about Kvifife
earlier today, and I thought, how wonderful would some Kvifife and Toffife be. And you know, I was thinking about Cavifee earlier today, and I thought, how wonderful
would some Cavifee and Toffifee be together?
I know, right?
You know?
Yeah.
It just, I feel like it's like a match.
It's just like a, it's a, it's a match made in heaven.
Delicious.
Speaking of matches made in, well, I don't know about that.
A match.
It's a match.
It's a match.
It's a match, buddy.
Cause we are joined.
It's like, it's like the, what was that dating game?
Like the matchy matchy dating game. Do you know what i'm talking about no no that's like the rapey rapey dating
it's like well this is like a match on grinder
let's welcome let's welcome our guests all right so we are joined by jen and aaron from the waiting
for wrath podcast welcome welcome to Welcome to us. I'm the
grinder side of things. So how about you, Aaron?
I guess that means I have to take the
Tinder. Bend over and take it.
You better swipe fucking right.
Hey, I'm not picky, man. We live in
Wyoming. There aren't enough people here to be picky.
That's true.
Jesus Christ, I forgot that they were in Wyoming.
Isn't there like a popular city
named after a porn star there?
Cheyenne.
Yeah.
I like that.
Not the other way around.
No, that's how it is.
They didn't have a name for it before.
It was just called this place.
And then...
Defined a popular city.
I guess that's true.
Doesn't a city have to have a populace
in order for it to be popular?
That's fair.
How big is Cheyenne?
We got mountains named after tits.
50,004
according to the sign.
Something like that, yeah.
In a city of 50,000 people?
Oh my gosh, that's cute.
That's great.
On Tinder in Wyoming, is it all
bighorn sheep or just mostly bighorn sheep?
Well, I mean,
we have an Uber now. We did. We got our first Uber. But I haven't seen a bighorn sheep? Well, I mean, we have an Uber now.
We did. We got our first Uber.
But I haven't seen a bighorn sheep in like
days. Yeah, we got our Uber.
We got the Ubers now.
Oh, it's just that one guy. He's got to be
busy. Well, yeah. The horse can only
pull so many people a day, but you know.
Well, and we spend 90% of our time
drinking, so.
Just some old Amish guy.
Where are you going?
I'm going to town.
I'm going to church and town.
Those are the options.
There's 75 bars.
You know where you're going?
There's only one place to go.
Fine.
Maybe to the general store.
Well, you know, there's downtown and a field.
It's easy that way.
Thank you to the general store.
Well, you know, there's downtown in a field.
It's easy that way.
So we ran into the Waiting for Wrath podcast at ReasonCon.
I want to tell a story of running into the Waiting for Wrath podcast.
So I am hanging out by the bar that closed at like 9.05 or something.
I don't even know.
Speaking of Amish things,
the Amish bar.
They go,
oh, it's getting a little dark out.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So I'm hanging out there and some very hairy guy
comes walking up to me
out of nowhere.
And I genuinely like,
I don't remember what he said.
He said something sexual
at a certain point. I said sure you can grab
my dick or something and he walked away and then that
was the end of the
all his friends usher him
away as fast as possible
the next day I was
approached by four different
waiting for wrath members
and they all apologized
individually for this guy
they're like we're sorry.
He's our Yeti.
We don't ever take him out, you know?
And I was like, yeah, it's fine.
No, it's no big deal.
I genuinely don't even remember what happened.
Do you have to get tags for your Yeti or like a leash?
Like, how does that work?
Well, I begged for not a restraining order.
I do remember that part.
Oh, he's got a leash now.
Did you guys reserve enough internet
from Wyoming state internet or
however that works out there?
We would like to use the internet for today,
Wyoming. Man, they're going to fly it in on a pigeon.
You have no idea.
What is this internet of which you speak?
You would not believe the number of pigeons
it takes to get my voice to Chicago.
Is that what I use to not get pregnant?
Them inner tubes?
The internets?
That's when we tie off the bandwidths on them inner tubes.
Well, they're made out of sheepskin, right?
That's right.
Okay.
Just checking.
So the second day.
So there I am the second day.
They come up and they all like come up and apologize to me.
In like a pile or a row?
No, they wanted a time to like, can I kiss your ring?
And I was like, sure, no problem.
And then I and then.
I got to put a ring on my dick.
Later on in the day, later on in the day, I'm leaving.
This was after the big party, right?
After everybody's, you know, everybody's already drinking.
I didn't drink that night, but I'm walking out.
Jen comes walking up to me and she's like, hey, how, how are you doing?
You know, I was going to call bullshit earlier, but now I'm really calling bullshit.
I'm like, how are you?
And she's like, she looks at me and she's kind of doing that, you know, like when somebody is
like really drunk and they're kind of like
sort of like leaning wheat, like they're
just listing, they're just sort of like listing
back and forth. They're straight
up and down. But I am leaning
back and forth and she looks at me and she goes,
who am I?
And I was like, oh, fuck. She wants me to call her mommy.
I don't know that one. I don't know that one.
I want to do this. Check her ID first.
I go, you're Jen from Way to Breath. And she goes,
good.
And I was like, okay. I didn't realize
that was the first question. That was the first
question in the test. I didn't realize.
Well, I'm the weirdest person ever.
And then I walk outside and everybody
kind of, again, like the Yeti, they
sort of usher her away from me.
Well, it's a good thing it wasn't
like a five-day podcast.
Everybody would have taken a turn.
But the thing that really sucks is the next day
I didn't get all the apologies.
I still wanted all the apologies because that was
a lot of fun. Man. Well, we're super
sorry that one of our hosts tried to make out with you.
And it wasn't this one, I guess.
I was just too busy trying to stay upright.
Nine or ten rum and cokes later, I forget.
If it makes you feel any better, actually it should make you feel worse, Cecil,
because he tried to mouth kiss about seven other
men at the conference, and
so I was doing a lot of apologizing
the next day.
He just
followed them around with mouth spray, like
no, no,
no, just a squirt bottle,
like an errant cat. The best
thing about that is that you think you're joking.
Well, he is legally blind.
He is legally blind, so he has a blind cane, which I have to take away from
him sometimes and whack him with it.
And then I'm arrested for assaulting someone
with a handicap, and it just goes to shit
from there. Nothing gets you to a bar
faster than being able to wrap people on
the shins with a blind cane, though. That is a
handy talent. I have
found you by echolocation.
Whack.
So we wanted to talk to you
guys about this story from the mirror.co.uk.
ISIS reveals
ISIS reveal.
I would have read that wrong. I would have pluralized it.
ISIS reveals six reasons
why they despise Westerners
as terrorist sister claims he wanted
revenge for U.S US airstrikes
in Syria.
This article, which is published
by ISIS, I guess,
is titled...
ISIS Monthly or something?
Like, Jihadist Times
or fucking whatever it is.
Jihadist Digest, the monthly
exploding quarterly.
Yeah, the last page that says
this episode will explode in five,
four, three...
Find out what seven things in your kitchen can make a bomb.
The burkas that will drive him wild.
What?
Have you hit your woman in just
the right manner?
When is it time
for a backhand?
Find out now.
Hit her like she wants it.
Yeah, it's pretty much,
you just turn the page,
it's like any time.
Any time is good for a backhand.
All of the time.
Any time.
You should be hitting her
with this magazine.
Instructions on how to roll it up
and hit her on the nose.
It's made with extra thick pages.
It's like, no.
Bad fifth wife. Bad fifth wife.
No, I'm
fourth wife. Ah, whatever.
How to know when her eyes are sassing you.
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Outrageous.
Ridiculous. How dare you?
The article was titled,
and I love the title, and I do actually like this title, because it is insanely unequivocal.
Right?
I do appreciate, you know, I don't want to say like radical honesty is just an excuse to be an asshole.
But like this is honesty taken to a level that at this point I just have to admire.
The article is titled, Why hate you and want to fight you
it's like a third grader wrote it it's like a trumpian level of honesty it really is man
i wonder why they hate us they want to fight us oh read this article why we hate you
so it's the kind of honesty you get from a four-year-old pushing you on the playground
well first there was the lunch thing.
The reason why they hate us
is because we checked no in the box, right?
But yeah, there's not a lot of
vague here in this. You don't have to
read into it.
And I like this because
it really kind of puts
to bed some of that
nonsense like, well, it's really for complex
geopolitical reasons.
Right.
The fuck it is.
See, so can you put this on the big board?
My computer's not working. For sure.
Also, it's not a computer. It's not.
It's an iPad. We don't let you have a computer.
So I thought we could go through the six reasons,
not in any great depth or detail.
I like that it's six reasons.
They made a movie, 10 Things I Hate
About You. They can't even come up with 10.
These people are underachievers.
13 reasons why?
If you can really find six reasons to hate me,
you are not paying attention.
That's just lazy journalism.
I find six reasons to hate Westerners
just right this second.
We're going to find out that the six reasons aren't actually six reasons, it westerners just right this second yeah we're gonna find out we're gonna
find out that these the six reasons aren't actually six reasons like two reasons right right yeah it
i've never been hated for only six reasons yeah i'm just like i actually feel fucking
validated by this article i walked away i felt warm i felt fuzzy i like this i feel underachieving
your life goals under 100 well they were actually going to write a top
10 list, but they blew up after six.
The timer was off.
We hit the wrong button.
They were counting down the wrong thing.
And the number one
reason we hate you is...
That's the seventh time we've tried that.
Somebody get the new counter.
This is not working. I don't know why they're
Indian, but there you go. You ever get like, you know,
like fidgety, like while you're writing or whatever
and you're trying to think and you've got a pen and you're just like, click, click, click,
click, click, click. I just like, you got the,
you got your bomb vest. I'm like, hmm.
What do I do?
Click, fuck, shit, boom.
There's some
prankster in the corner just keeps texting
the person.
You've killed 17 of your comrades without even knowing it like that's not a that's not a that's not a big
is you're just like fucking text stop no stop fuck oh yes stl there we go
your your mobile rates will apply we're so proud of little Johnny
for blowing himself up we even paid the long distance
fees that's how much
we hate you paid for Verizon
and a rack are virgins waiting for them
in the cloud
the O cloud maybe
well the cloud thing is I mean like Well the cloud thing is
I mean like the
The afterlife cloud thing
Is fair when you turn to mist
It takes a lot of 70 years
To put your back together
For your virgins
It's just like
Start with the borders
Start with the borders
And you work your way in
Your virgins are like
80 years old
We've all made. You're virgins are like 80 years old.
We've all made each other not virgins.
We're all lesbians.
Like shit.
Now I have to bomb heaven.
Where do I go after that?
Mega heaven.
Their eyes are sassing me.
I can tell.
I read the magazine.
All right.
So that's a callback.
Let's go through these. The first one is because you are
disbelievers. He says, we
hate you first and foremost because you're disbelievers.
You reject the oneness
of Allah, whether you realize
it or not. I like that part.
It's like, well, I thought I was not
doing that. No, you are. Ignorance
is no excuse, man.
I realized it. The last time Ola tried to
be one with me with a little pinky trick,
I shut that shit down.
He says, by making partners
for him in worship, you blaspheme against him,
claiming that he has a son. You fabricate lies
against his prophets and messengers, and you
indulge in all manner of devilish practices.
I don't even understand
what that means.
By making partners
For him in worship
Who's doing that?
I think it's talking about
Jesus and the Holy Ghost
No Christian that I know
Thinks of Allah
Allah and Jehovah God
I think have been interchangeable
In where the religions kind of came from
So I think that's what they're saying
They're saying you've taken Allah Turned it into into a god who's got a partner and a son
oh jehovah god filthy filthy heathen yeah i like that jehovah allah he's starting this in like an
essay form like we hate you first and then he's gonna go into like the body statements i will
seek to prove the following hatred.
That is a well-sourced thesis right there.
I hate you because...
I appreciate the work you put into this.
See, right?
You know, he got this published in a journal recently.
It's a whole thing.
It only cost him 70 virgins.
Where the page is like all shiny.
No, but they were sticky when he was done.
Oh, from beating his wife with it? That's right. Well, I don't think any of us are going to argue with this. So, shiny. No, but they were sticky when he was done. Oh, from beating his wife with it?
That's right.
Well, I don't think any of us are going to argue with this.
So, yeah.
Yeah, right.
I indulge in devilish eggs on occasion.
Not practices, but...
Well, those are spicy.
All manner of devilish practices.
I feel like they should be a little more specific
so I can create a checklist.
Yeah, exactly.
So I can check it twice.
I don't feel like a day is complete until I
fabricated some lies against
holiness. I don't know.
It's like trying to stitch somebody's skin back on
you and you're just like, oh, I gotta check that box.
I forgot.
Does it count if it doesn't fit? I don't know.
Do you fuck me?
I'd use three of these women.
Jesus.
Would you splode me?
I'd splode me.
It puts a law on its skin
and then it lets the blasphemy begin.
Yeah,
but the suicide bomber girls,
you got to put them back together
like a quilt.
There's only one or two
important parts.
Don't worry.
You can beat the stuffing
out of them again later.
It's fine.
It's like a patchwork.
It's like a raggedy bear.
Because you are liberal,
we hate you because you're saccharum.
Saccharum?
That's not a thing.
That's cabife.
That kid is cabife.
We hate you because of cabife.
We hate you because you're secular.
Liberal societies permit the very things
that Allah has prohibited while banning many of the things he has permitted. I read that and I thought,
what the fuck are you like a secular society? What, what is it that we are prohibiting that
he has permitted? That actually doesn't make any sense. I don't get the next part where he's,
where he says Christian disbelief and paganism 32. Like what is that? A new paganism?
Christian disbelief and paganism 32. What is that? A new
paganism?
It's like when you're a 33rd level
Mason. You're a
32nd level pagan.
My pagan casting is over
9,000, you guys.
I really think he's upset at
Baskin and Robin and what it has done
to our country.
You're like, Tasty, you're like,
Drew it again?
I mean, we had drew it yesterday.
It only has one flavor, and it's sadness.
There's 32 flavors of paganism right now,
and I prefer Rocky Road.
That's what she said?
33rd flavor is nail bomb.
You really taste the iron?
It's fortified.
Is this ice cream halal?
Number three is because some of you are
atheists. In the case of the atheist fringe, we hate
you and wage war against you because
you disbelieve in the existence of your lord.
That's redundant.
Number one, just use subheadings.
This is like the Ten Commandments
and they're like,
yeah, you can't like God
and you can't like other gods
and you can't do graven images
and you can't really do...
And you're like,
fucking just use a subheading.
That's like four commandments
we're going to say.
Seriously, this is sloppy writing.
You could lump all this into
because you're not Muslim.
Yeah.
Right?
The first one.
Well, I think he's just saying that,
I mean,
not only are we disbelievers,
we're fringe.
I don't want to be called friends.
Do you want to be called fringe?
Yeah.
I want to be called fringe.
I'm good.
Yeah.
I am called friend.
Of course I am.
But that's what he's saying.
So we are the,
yeah,
we're the subheading.
I see.
I like that.
It's because you're atheist.
Like the numbers,
like it's some closet case
or corner case shit.
Numerically, it's like, yeah, because some of you are
atheists. Yeah, we don't mind a whole lot of us.
That seems like you're bombing
a lot of people that you're not mad at.
Just lump us all into the same thing.
Right. No, it would be easier
and it would save space in his essay.
Absolutely. And most of us can't even agree
upon the conceptual penis anyway.
See, right?
So, like, I mean, Jesus, you know?
Oh, that's my favorite subject right now.
I love that. Love that.
Alright, number four is for your
crimes against Islam. We hate you for your
crimes against Islam and wage war against
you to punish you for your transgressions
against our religion. See, number
one. This guy is either
being paid by the word
or he was told, you will
come up with six reasons. You
will have six by two o'clock.
Okay, fuck. Because
number five is for your crime against
Muslims. We just had crimes
against Islam a minute ago.
And so we hate you for
your crimes against the Muslims, your drones
and fighter jets bomb kill and maim
our people around the world and your puppets
in the usurped lands of the Muslims
oppress, torture and wage war against
anyone who calls to the truth.
He was asked for four pages
and he had this at like 14 point font
and like double space
and sizing it. He's like
spacing it like 2.25
so it's a little less noticeable.
This strikes me as like the rookie cop
trying to get you for as many things as he can
like public intoxication,
nudity, evading arrest. Like man, I was
just trying to penguin away from the dumpster
I was pissing on.
This doesn't need to turn into a big
old federal thing. Aaron's a hell of a
time on Saturday night.
This sounds like bitter experience, my friend.
I'm just saying there's only one dumpster and we have to take turns.
So you got to make it quality time.
Quality over quantity, gentlemen.
Yeah.
So what's the difference in Islam crimes and Muslim crimes?
One of them is ideological and the other one is punchy.
He's saying, you know, your drones
and your fighter jets bomb and kill and
maim our people. Yeah, I'm kind of against it too,
bro.
We're on the same page here.
I don't think that, but I'm not physically
bombing anyone. Yeah, remember when
you had that drone full of bombs?
No, you didn't have that, did you?
No. Well, I've never seen the solution to fewer
drones and bombs
making more bombs
like that's just
maybe that's where
the confusion comes from
like look
you came over here
you did the one thing
we tried to retaliate
and 57 chemical labs later
yeah I have to say
with number five
like I mean
I don't disagree
with what he's saying
I mean I disagree
with the premise
but number five for sure.
Yeah.
They've got the best lands and puppets.
We kind of suck.
You kind of want to tell them, like, no one wants your land.
Your land is garbage.
No one wants your shitty garbage territory.
Like, nobody's like, oh, yeah, you know what would be awesome is some fucking uninhabited wasteland of desert for fucking mile after endless garbage mile.
Nobody wants it. Will you quit
talking about Wyoming?
I know it's tough out there.
And then finally, for
invading our lands. So it's
kind of the same thing as number five.
What does invading mean if it's not
like being all up on?
It's like number five, right?
You're all up on shooting and killing us.
Yeah.
And then you came to us.
Yeah.
We had to do that to shoot and kill you.
Like we can't, I don't know.
It's like those things are part and parcel.
We're getting those satellites put in space.
You'll, you'll be able to strike number six and still revel in five.
It'll be great.
The greatest satellite, the greatest bullet point.
It says, we hate you for invading our lands
and fight you to repel you and drive you out
as long as there is an inch of territory for us left to regain
or reclaim, jihad will continue
to be a personal obligation on every single Muslim
man, like I just want to say
you see those fucking apologists
all the time, you see those guys
who are like, oh it has nothing to do with Islam
it has nothing to do with Islam
every one of these has everything to do with Islam. It has nothing to do with Islam. Every one of these has everything to do with
Islam. Absolutely
everything to do with it. How do you
take, maybe the invading the lands piece,
right? Maybe five and six, you can make a case.
But one, two, and three,
which are specifically ordered. And then
the guy says, the guy fucking
specifically says,
the article concludes that while foreign policy is
an issue, the main reason they
are hell-bent on their destruction is because they don't like the west very much it reads what's
important to understand here is that although some might argue that your foreign policies are the
extent of what drives our hatred this particular reason for hating you is secondary hence the
reason we addressed it at the end of the list i feel like it should have said like, at Glenn Greenwald
at the end of it.
You know what's crazy about
this too is it seems like we had to like
agree to all
this stuff ahead of time, right? It's like we had to
sign like a prenuptial Islam agreement
ahead of time.
Because fucking he keeps on being like, even if you don't
know, too fucking bad.
What the fuck, man?
Like, there's this is not the religion Because fucking he keeps on being like, even if you don't know, too fucking bad. And you're like, what the fuck, man?
Like, there's a, this is not the religion of tolerance, right?
You know what I mean?
Like, where you're just like, live and let live.
Nope, don't like Islam, time to die.
That's not a, and the thing is, all, like you said, like Glenn Greenwald, all these people want to kiss their ass.
Like, it's a, like, they're the, oh, don't worry. They're a religion of peace.
They're not trying to hurt you.
Bullshit, man.
There's a big sect of these people that are fucking angry at non-Muslims.
Yeah.
Right.
It almost seems like the author is kind of taunting with that too, by going through all these reasons at first that are, you know, lunatic-y, but then, but you can almost see
where he's coming from.
And then at the very end of like,
psych, just kidding.
We hate you because of this
and we're going to blow you up.
It doesn't matter.
It's just the catch-all rule at the end of the list.
You almost had me, crazy ISIS guy.
And then you blew me up.
We're going to be joined by Aaron and Jen
at the end of the show.
We're going to do a little interview with them at the end.
So stick around for that.
Cecil,
I think we would be a little remiss if we didn't at least touch on the whole conceptual penis hoax skeptic article.
I did want to touch on this because the conceptual penis is so much better than the actualization of my penis.
Here's what I do with my with my girlfriend.
What I what I do is I say conceive of a better penis.
It's like visualizing like like a runner.
Like what she's she's looking for the platonic realm of forms which is a 10 inch black cock that and that's why i put pictures of that all around my
home that's why yeah you know so to give her the visual you know to give her the kind of you know
here's i always just dream a little dream i send my wife a different dick pic every day
it's never mine it's never yours never mind I just say, this is my conceptual penis.
I had a coworker
that she was on Tinder
or some such
and she got dick pics
all the time.
Sure.
And she had,
I think,
the greatest idea ever
to take all the Tinder dick pics
and make them into
a dick coffee table book.
Oh, that's awesome.
I think it's fucking genius.
And if your pics say,
be like,
hey,
all right, well, maybe I should... Make sure it's a soft cover
book.
What it should be able to do is
get a scratch and sniff style version.
No, no, but not really. That'd be horrifying.
But what you do is you...
Is that a Jew?
Maybe wash that up a little.
Did you go running first?
What the fuck is going on?
Really?
Did you swim in Lake Michigan?
You buy it as a soft cover,
and then the more you leaf through it,
it becomes a hard cover.
I like that.
Right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It stiffens up with use.
Sure.
Or if you add a blue pill to it.
That should be how you, it should be locked.
And you put like a little blue pill in it that opens it up.
That's how you get to the.
That's exactly it.
It's a fucking million dollar idea.
I'll tell you what.
That's great.
I just patented it.
There it is.
But, you know, first I want to, I want to lead off by saying, you know, Skeptic Magazine published an article in case anybody doesn't know.
I don't even know how to stand.
Well, some people, the thing is, is it hit the skeptic community real hard, this thing.
But it might not have hit the atheist community at large.
True. So just a quick bit of reference. Skeptic magazine published an article outlining a gender studies academics, right? So it's called the
conceptual penis as a social construct. That's the name of the paper. And so what they sought
to do, this is according to them, what they sought to do was to expose a problem within the gender studies academia
that was fraught with a whole bunch of jargonistic postmodern obscurantism
that ultimately means nothing
and that you could publish a bunch of gibberish.
A nonsense paper.
Right.
And that it would go through just fine.
That wasn't their only goal. It was not their nonsense paper. Right. And that it would, it would go through just fine. That wasn't their only,
it was not their only,
not their only goal,
right?
Their other goal was to expose the problems with pay to pay publishing,
pay to play publishing.
Right.
So the,
and Thomas Smith on his show,
serious inquiries only he does.
And along with Eli,
um,
he,
they do two shows.
Eli comes on with Thomas.
They do a really great breakdown.
Sure.
Um,
I encourage you guys to listen.
They had to do a second show afterwards
with all the corrections, though.
So check that one out, too.
Yeah, he sourced it all through Yik Yak.
It's brilliant.
The Yik Yak stuff is tough.
And then the second show,
he actually has James Lindsay,
one of the authors of this paper.
Yeah, I listen to both of these shows.
Yes.
And James Lindsay defends himself.
Despite how Thomas treats me,
I listen to everything that Thomas does on that show. I listen to that all the time. Even how Thomas treats me, I listen to everything
that Thomas does on that show.
I listen to that all the time.
Even though Thomas hates me,
I still listen to him.
Even though he doesn't like you personally.
Even though he doesn't like me personally.
To be fair though,
you don't like me personally
and we've been best friends
for 20 years.
I can't do any better.
That's what your wife said
for a long time.
I bank on that.
That's what my ex-wife said
for a long time too.
She did too.
I bank on that. You're not going to get a long time. I bank on that. She did too. I bank on that.
Like,
you're not,
I mean,
you're not,
you're not going to get a better friend.
It's like,
you're punching above your weight class already.
You know what I mean?
My weight class is significant.
My ex-wife's not punching above her weight class ever.
She's super heavyweight.
There's nothing above it.
At a certain point,
you're doing sumo,
and that's just not it.
Hiking up that fucking thing
like draw that thing whatever you know what i mean like that waistbandy
loincloth that's what i thought you were talking about
those don't hike up no not anymore
you know i i did want to talk about one thing that I think has been less touched upon.
And that is the idea, just the concept alone, that it is even reasonable for somebody to,
somebody who's a lay person, somebody who's not a part of any field of study,
and to just pick up one of these papers and expect to understand it.
You would not have this expectation of one of the criticisms of the, quote, soft sciences by people who are more proponents of the hard sciences.
Right. Is that, you know, the soft sciences are less rigorous, less difficult, you know? Sure. And yet we have this expectation within the soft sciences that I, as somebody who's not
a gender studies PhD, that I can just pick up one of these papers and read through it
and that it will be meaningful and that I will know the terminology and that I will
not be lost by the vocabulary and that I will be able to make heads or tails of it in a
meaningful way.
That's nonsense.
I would not have that same expectation
of picking up a physics
paper, right? I would no more go to
a physics journal and be like, oh, I'm not a physics
major. I dabbled a little in college.
I took a handful of physics classes. I can probably
whittle my way through it.
No. A PhD level paper?
Are you fucking high?
No way. Why would I have that
same expectation? This nonsensical notion
that gender studies or many of the soft sciences are fraught, particularly with, you know,
a series of jargonistic terminologies that, you know, render these papers unintelligible.
Is it not more likely that
as a lay person unfamiliar with this level of of academia is it not more probable that you just
don't know the language that you don't get it you don't you don't you know what the fuck you're
talking about because it's not your fucking field of study yeah why is that not every bit as like
the most reasonable part hey i read this and i didn't understand it. It must be garbage.
Or I read it and I didn't understand it because I'm not a fucking PhD in gender studies.
Well, and one of the things that happened on that on one of the podcasts was there was a whole list of of potential papers that could be this egregious affront to academia and make gender studies look ridiculous because they are crazy named papers.
They have just these insane titles that when you hear the title, you think, what? That sounds
fucking stupid. Yeah. But listen to that podcast that that that SIO podcast with Thomas Smith.
Lindsay isn't on then. Lindsay sends this. He sends a link for reference. Listen to Thomas just very reasonably discuss each one, even the ones he doesn't understand.
He says, who am I to say that this has no merit?
I'm not in this field.
I'm not in this deep, deep academic field.
And one of the things I mentioned to you when we talked about this a little bit, you know, I really feel like this is not so much a skeptics problem as it is
an academics problem. The academics that I know have a real hard time with how much they have to
publish. And these pay to play journals are a symptom of how much you are required to publish
to get tenure. There is a problem with pay-to-play publishing that I think
that they should have stuck with, and they shouldn't have tried to tack in this gender
studies thing because I think that maybe they were using it as a signal boost, and that's a problem.
That's the real problem, is that they're using this as a signal boost. It's something that's
in their own wheelhouse. It's something that they might have a pet peeve against,
and so they're utilizing this gender study thing because they want it.
But they're really frustrated about the academic stuff.
Yeah.
And, you know, keep it academic, just like Thomas says in his podcast, keep it academic
and nobody cares.
Right.
Like, yeah, you did Sokol hooks.
Even Sokol himself, the guy who did this first thing was that they're attributing this hoax
to. even he
said that doesn't prove anything.
Right, yeah. So it's like, if it doesn't prove
anything, what's the point of it?
And when I read the article
in Skeptic Magazine,
very clearly they come out and
say, to me, it feels like they're saying
that what we wanted to do was expose the problem of gender studies
first and pay
to play second.
They accomplish, they basically muddy the water so badly they accomplish neither.
And I feel like they've been incredibly dishonest in this process, incredibly dishonest in this process, just painfully obtuse about it.
And one of the analogies that I gave like I'm not a
science guy, right? Like I don't have a degree in the
sciences. I have a degree in the arts, right?
So, but the arts are fraught
with similar nonsense, right? And we talked about
this a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, yeah.
As a writer,
if I go to something
that is basically a vanity press,
I can get garbage published, right?
You can get anything published. Anything.
I could write fucking Jabberwocky part two.
Sure.
Right?
Jabberwocky's actually excellent.
But I could write garbage, and I could get it published in a pay-to-play vanity press
type thing.
Does the fact that I can do that, does that render all of literature moot?
How fucking silly is that?
It's silly.
You didn't expose a problem with the subject itself.
You exposed a problem with the publishing methodology.
Yeah.
Gary Busey said recently that Donald Trump would make a great president.
Of course, he said the same thing about an old rusty birdcage he found.
All right, this story is from Right Wing Watch.
This is Dave, coach. Doc right. This story is from Right Wing Watch. This is Dave,
coach.
Doc coach.
Not a coach.
Dobbin Meyer.
America needs
a more violent
Christianity.
I mean,
yeah,
I guess if we want to.
Well,
that guy in Portland
fucking heard the call.
He did.
He did.
He heard the call.
He heard the coach.
He's a player.
He took his,
he took,
you know.
That guy,
what a scumbag,
huh? Oh my God. Yeah. Did you hear him in court the next day i fucking know what a fucking uh i mean if the if if the alt-right had somebody who is sort of perfect for their cause it's this guy
what he was screaming was freedom of speech after he killed people i'm not even kidding he was
screaming freedom of speech afterwards and he was saying that those people deserve to die.
I mean, it's just like, and the thing is, is he's
such a fat piece of garbage. Like, you
look at him, you're like, you're such a fat piece
of shitty garbage, and you're
going to die in prison, and
no one's going to care. Nobody. Nobody's
going to care. Nobody's going to remember you.
History's going to, history's going to
dust over your name. You were
a nobody before, and you're going to be a
nobody forever. But Daubenmeier is suggesting we need more of this. I mean, that's what he's
calling for. Let's talk about what Daubenmeier, let's listen to Daubenmeier. It's a little long
of a clip, but it's worth listening to. I remember about a year ago, maybe it was a little bit longer
now. I was listening to Michael Savage, the Savage uh nation so he's not saved he's not even
close to save but savage a lot of times will go to the scriptures and read the scriptures i think
he's a non-practicing jew and uh but he'll read he's smart enough to go to the bible because of
the wisdom that's in the bible no because he knows his base stupid right like that's his audience he
thinks that there's any wisdom in the bible. Michael Savage is fucking smarter than you are. He realizes you're a dummy and you'll buy it.
You're listening to it, right?
All you know about him is what he sold you, dumb fuck.
Non-practicing Jews going to go to the Bible
for the wisdom in it?
No.
Do you know some non-practicing Jews
that go to the Bible for wisdom?
I don't.
Not for wisdom.
I know Eli Bosnick ejaculates on those pages,
but I don't know anything else.
I don't know anything else.
And I'll never forget
what he said.
It just kind of, you know,
again,
one of those arrows
hit me right in the face.
You can see it there.
God, I wish.
That's what happened.
I wish an arrow
would hit him in the face.
That's literally
what happened to your face.
It would be amazing
if he just showed up
with a porcupine.
I wouldn't even care
if it was a Nerf arrow.
He said this,
the only thing
that's going to save America
is a more militant Christianity. Wow. from the days of john the baptist until now
the kingdom of god suffered violent and violent men taken by force and as much as we listen fellas
as much as we don't like it bible's full of violence full of it it's just full of it
the thing that separates the bible from everything else. Is that it's true?
Are you going to say that? Or that it's free in a hotel
room? It is free in a hotel room.
Unlike most things I
pay for in a hotel room. It's cheaper than a hooker.
The Bible
teaches violence is a last resort.
So does karate.
So does Steven Seagal, right?
So does Mr. Miyagi.
But it does teach us
that there's a time for violence.
There's a time for war.
There is a time for war.
I don't know if you saw this or not.
The media has gone crazy over this.
Trump walking in the authority
as president of the United States,
as the man who's large and in charge, as the man who's large and in charge,
as the man who's paying all
the bills against those little worms.
I'm talking about when he grabs the guy
and he pulls him forward. The guy from Montenegro that he
pushes out of the way. Yeah, okay.
The guy who's large
and in charge, the guy who's paying all the
bills. Motherfucker doesn't pay all the bills.
We pay the bills. Yeah, exactly, right?
All the people pay the bills. The corporations, the bills. Motherfucker doesn't pay all the bills. We pay the bills. Yeah, exactly. Right? All the people
pay the bills. The corporations, the companies.
He's not. You think he's
sitting there writing checks? Oh, I hope this one
cashes. It's for $1 trillion.
What? Yeah.
He's exactly right. It's a stupid
thing to say. Yeah. I want you to watch
they call for the press conference. You ought to
watch the Young Turks and what they said. You ought to watch
Matt Allen, what they said about how he's not presidential. He's rude,
he's egotistical. I want you to watch Trump walks up and he is going to grab one of these
leaders, the leader of NATO, I think is the guy. Trump grabs him, puts his hand out,
pushes him back and Trump walks in front of him walking in authority not acting very he's just
being a dick he's just being a cocksucker i could do that to trump i'm fucking way stronger than
trump exactly he's a fucking frail shitty 70 year old man i'll fucking bench press it doesn't make
me right yeah it doesn't make me right like there's a bunch of other stronger younger people
out there we don't do that the reason you, you know, being the strongest, biggest swinging dick in a room
in our time means very little in very few places.
One or two places.
In a fucking octagon, it means something, right?
If there's an octagonal cage around you,
it may mean something.
It probably means something
if you're lifting heavy weights that are
circular.
Right.
If you're doing a CrossFit games,
maybe it means something.
But besides athletic
competition, it's meaningless.
Think about it this way.
Think about a board of directors and think about the
strongest guy in that room.
What is the benefit of him being the strongest guy in the room? The thing is too, like to confuse
assholery with power. That's a, that's exactly it. Right. Yeah. That's just, that's just the
child's way of looking at the world. It's somebody who, first of all, doesn't understand where real
power, respect and authority comes from. Presidential seat. They want us to be like
Obama and bend over and let them have us, right?
That's what they want us to do. Watch Trump
walk in authority here, and the news
goes nuts. Go ahead, Jeremy.
He's showing the video now of
Trump walking forward.
Here he comes.
Here he comes.
Shoves him out of the way.
He said, I'm here, man. I'm large and in charge.
And look at him
huh
they're all little puppies
they're all little puppies
ain't nobody barking at him
it's like those skunks
I got out
they're just wandering around man
what is
what is with the skunks
I don't know
it's something he's referencing
from earlier I'm sure
but um
what a fucking worm you are
that you're so powerless
in your own life
and you're such a shitty contemptible human being that you're so powerless in your own life and you're such a shitty, contemptible human
being that you think that's a good example, that that's a good example of what a human being should
be, that that's a good person, that that's somebody who I should emulate and that other
people should emulate. Well, kind of fucking, you know, they throw that word cuckold around.
They throw that word around all the time.
There's nothing more cuckold than being a guy watching someone else push someone out of a way out of the way.
And that's what gets you.
That's what gets you off.
That's what makes it.
I mean,
you might as well cheer on a guy coming in your wife.
You know what I mean?
Like,
like,
you know,
who cares that he pushed him out of the way he's being a dick,
but you're such a,
you're such a bully cuckold that you can't do this in your real life.
You're a powerless, shitty human being who doesn't have respect of anybody because you don't deserve respect.
Right.
You never earned it.
You never earned any of that respect.
You think you deserve it, but you don't.
No one should give you that respect.
And this is what you cheer on.
You're a pathetic worm of a human being yeah i
totally agree with you man he's walking in authority walking in authority he walked to
the front and center and they all know it too man he just spanked them all remember he just
spanked them all no he was a cock in the fucking in the speech that he gave yeah that wasn't even
accurate and beyond that after the, nobody talked to him.
He stood there. Did you happen
to read that? Or see that? Yeah. After that
speech, all the other world leaders
were hanging out and they were talking
and they were fucking probably doing business,
right? They were doing the business of being diplomats.
They were doing the business of being leaders in the world.
And he was excluded from their fucking reindeer
games. Yeah. Because he tried to shame
them. Right. Yeah. You know not tried to shame him. Right.
Yeah.
You know why a lot of business gets done on the golf course and,
you know,
and so like at the bar and what have you is because that's how people interact with each other.
At the end of the day,
we're all fucking human beings.
And this,
this nonsense where somebody is like,
well,
I'm fucking the big swinging dick.
It's like,
well,
no one's inviting you places.
Yeah.
No one's going to talk.
No one's going to have a conversation with someone that's not trusting.
And you're not the big swinging dick.
Right.
Oh yeah. What you have is this, you have this're not the big swinging dick. Right. Oh, yeah.
What you have is this, you have this air about you.
It's an illusion.
Yeah, exactly.
Right.
And like many people said before, he's a weak person's version of a strong man.
That's exactly right.
He's a stupid person's version of a smart man.
He's just a show.
Yeah.
He's just a show.
And he's fucking weak as fuck.
Yep.
Like, he's so petty. He's just a show and he's fucking weak as fuck. Yep. Like he's,
he's so petty.
He's so easy to damage.
Dude,
he's,
he's all the things you hope your kid doesn't turn out to be.
Yeah.
Like if,
like,
like,
like if I saw my son walking through a crowd of other kids at like the fucking recital or some fucking thing,
and he's fucking elbows his way past other kids.
He and I have to have a talk.
Yeah.
And not a nice one.
Not a nice one.
Right?
We don't have to have a talk called,
yeah,
a way to assert your fucking power and authority
and push the other kids around.
It's a talk called,
stop being a dick.
Yeah.
Just cut that shit out.
Yeah.
And now he walks to the front.
The Lord is showing us a picture of the authority
we should be walking in. And people outside who are not watching MSNBC and not watching
CNN.
They're saying, yes, dude.
Yes, I get it now.
God, this guy reminds me, you know, he reminds me of he reminds me of a Christmas story,
not the bully, but the toady that follows the.
Yeah, right.
It just cheers on the guy doing the work.
That just, he can't, he's too much of a pussy to do this stuff in his life.
Right.
And all he's doing is just being like, you and I have similar values.
And so when you hurt another person, it makes me feel good.
Yeah.
No, yeah, that's exactly.
He's a sidekick.
He's a toady.
Yeah, that's it.
He's a worm.
Yeah. That's exactly right. He's a sidekick. He's a toady. Yeah, that's it. He's a worm.
Who's that guy on the other side of the glory hole?
It's Jesus.
This story's from the New York Times.
Fuck, man.
11 years old, a mom, and pushed to marry her rapist in Florida. I grabbed this story because we hear
about this shit primarily
as it pertains to other
countries. We hear about
this shit and we decry this.
Let's pause
and be real about what an 11
year old kid is. An 11 year old
kid is a fucking fifth grader.
Think about who you were.
Think about, honestly, think about...
I was thinking about this when I read the story.
I was thinking about who I was when I was in fifth grade.
I used to love BMX bikes.
Yeah, you know...
I remember that's what I used to love to do.
I had a paper route.
I played toys.
Yeah.
I used to go creek walking.
Yeah, I went creek walking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I probably couldn't have supported a family then
uh man i don't know that i would have properly spelled family at that point i left out the i
but boys aren't the subject of this boys are not right aren't the subject of this that's why right
would i have been able to support a family no but would i have been able to give birth to a family
well you know maybe it's it's horrifying to think that the fact that somebody's biology happens to be capable of producing offspring somehow creates a marital or sexual obligation or in any way implies emotional or psychological maturity just because there happens to be some bodily maturity.
Yeah, maturity ahead of time before everybody else.
Yeah.
It's,
it's,
it's fucking insane.
So in this story,
um,
this 11 year old girl,
uh,
Sherry,
I found out she was going to be married to a 20 year old member of her church who raped her.
Um,
it was forced on me.
She says she'd become pregnant.
And basically the,
the church officials, the church officials, after she was raped by somebody twice her age or damn near twice her age, think about the difference between a 20-year-old, who you were at 20, a sophomore in college, who you are as a sophomore in college versus who you are as a fucking fifth grader.
Married.
Married.
And they married to avoid legal consequences for the 20 year old.
Yeah.
Right.
So this fucking 11 year old girl gets fucking married against her will because the church is like, well.
Yeah, she's pregnant.
That's all fucked up now.
We don't want fucking child welfare getting in the way.
I mean, like, you're not even in middle school.
Yeah.
And this is in Florida.
Yeah, I know.
It says, meanwhile, children under 16 are still being married in Florida at a rate of one every few days.
And that's pretty crazy because that's the same age and rate at which they graduate middle school.
That's nuts.
Why is there a law that would even allow? i don't care who consents to it let me
put that out there why would there why you should not be able to consent as a parent to marrying off
your 11 year old and that law so there was a girl scout that went to try to change this right so she
read about this she figured this out she's a young girl, 13-year-old.
And she was
appalled by this and decided that
she would try to write senators
and try to get a law passed.
That said, no, you have to be 18 to decide
if you're married. That's just how things work.
And it got all the way to the Senate
in a state down there. And it says
this person
responded, this David Bates responded with,
we're asking the legislature to repeal a law
that's been on the books for over a century,
that's been working without difficulty
on the basis of a request
from a minor doing a Girl Scout project.
That's the first ever argumentum
ad girl scout I've
ever heard. Isn't that an ad
hominem? Basically saying, well, she's just
a girl scout. What does she know?
Well, she knows better than you do.
That's the horribly damaging thing
to be married off when you're too young.
Isn't it astonishing that
a 13-year-old girl has
a greater,
a more significantly fine-tuned moral compass than this fucking guy?
How can you possibly look at this law and say, well, it's been working just fine?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
This 11-year-old girl, you're trading her off into captivity.
She's too young to get a job.
She's too young to get a car. She's too young to get a car. She's too young to get
to do any of the things that an adult can do. Even a 16 year old can drive. Right. Right. She can't
do any of those things. She's basically a prisoner for five, six, seven, eight, nine years until she
can live on her own. She can't even she's got to suffer through, you know, not just one rape.
Right. Yeah. But now it doesn't matter. Right. Now it doesn't matter. Right. Now you're just now She's got to suffer through not just one rape, right? Let's be real honest.
But now rape and his wife.
Now it doesn't matter, right?
Now it's just a marital fucking watering hole.
This is a horrible thing, and this happens in this country that's horrible.
I was shocked when I read this article.
I do like that the first clerk said no.
Yeah, actually.
I want to talk about that for a second. They went, you know, because we've railed against this when clerks refuse to issue marriage certificates, even though it's their job for LGBT couples, right?
So I know that I am dancing on the edge of hypocrisy right now.
I understand that.
And I'm thinking out loud.
So indulge me the moment. But good for the first clerk. There was a clerk who said, no, I'm not doing this. I think that there is an insane, insane difference, though, between seeing an 11-year-old girl and saying, this is a human being who has not yet reached an age where consenting
to something as significant as a fucking marital contract.
That's the key, right?
The consent.
We don't know.
She is too young to consent to sex.
How is she not?
How is she old enough with anybody's permission?
Anybody's permission.
She's not old enough to consent to what you're going to issue a license for.
his permission. She's not old enough to consent to what you're going to issue
a license for. That, to me, is
different than two
adults who are consenting
to a marriage and refusing to issue a license
for that. Exactly. Two adults. Bravo to
that first clerk for saying,
that's just wrong. And it's because it's against
the law, right?
If this were, it's not technically against
the law to marry somebody that young, but it's technically
against the law to fuck somebody that young, right?
Right, and that's implied in that marriage.
So this person is like, nah, I think that's a fucking pretty horrible thing.
I'm not going to do it.
That's what it's implied, like you say, in the marriage.
So they're looking at it from a different lens.
The other person is like, there's nothing against the law.
Gay people can get married.
They're human beings.
They want to have a life together.
And they're both adults, and they can consent to this relationship just fine. Nobody's getting coerced into it. Stay the fuck
out of it. Those are two adults, not an adult and a child. And there's no way an 11 year old becomes
not a child because a parent wrote a permission slip, right? Yep. This is, dude, you're still so
young that somebody has to give you a permission slip. You can't go on a fucking field trip at that age.
You can't take an aspirin
on your own at school
at 11. If you get your hand ready
to grip a banana, you'll find on the far side
there are three grooves on the close side, two grooves.
The banana and the hand are
perfectly made one for the other.
So we're going to do a quiz
here for
Ray Comfort. We had received a, uh, a Ray gate, uh, clip that we're going to play for you.
This is a, this is a clip, uh, from the, the chapter that I'm reading in, uh, in Ray comforts
book.
Uh, the fucking, I don't even know what it's called.
It's the fucking, it's the a hundred reasons why the Bible is better than science or whatever. I don't even know what it's called. It's the hundred reasons why the Bible is better than science or whatever.
It's better than science.
I don't even know what it's called.
But this is Adam Rieks' reading, The Portion on Pascal.
Good morning, Raylene.
Good morning, Ray.
How are you?
Oh, I've got such a big one.
I've got an amazing idea.
Oh, I see.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
So, how are you?
Well, talking about big ones, had an interesting experience last night.
I think I had a wet dream.
Oh, no.
Well, is it squirting a thing what oh hydrodynamics
oh that actually what a great segue
okay uh are you in front of the computer because i've got to get this big one out
yes ray yeah already fired up to go. A bit damp, but never mind.
Right.
So this one's for a chapter in my book.
It's about Blaise Pascal.
So just do that in bold.
Okay, yeah.
And then write the same name again, Blaise Pascal, but not in bold.
And in brackets.
This is hard.
It's 1623-1662.
Is that the time?
Well, yes, it was a time, but not on a clock.
It was like in a calendar.
Right, okay.
So anyway, Blaise Pascal was one of history's greatest mathematicians.
He laid the foundations for hydrothetics, hydrodynamics, differential calculus, and the theory of probability.
Are you getting all this?
No, not really.
All right.
Sort of, yeah.
All right, you're paying about as much attention as, well, the readers of the book.
Well, I'm a little bit preoccupied with my night mission, but, you know, you don't seem to care.
No, I've got to get this one out.
He was famous for the Wager of Pascal, paraphrased as follows.
Here can anyone lose who chooses to be a Christian?
Question mark.
If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and faith was in vain,
he has lost nothing.
In fact, he has been happier in life than his non-believing friends.
If, however, there was a god and a
heaven and a hill, then he has
gained heaven and all his skeptical
friends will have lost everything and
he'll... This is boring, but yeah.
Probably just finish it
on that. That is
great, isn't it? That's so hilarious.
Those guys are so funny.
Okay, so this chapter that i read was about it basically listed different scientists and then it
said it would have a quote from them about like how they believed in god but these are all most
of these scientists were like really long time ago yeah right so uh so I have two questions. I only have two questions for you. The first one is,
Ray Comfort talks about Joseph Lister. What does he list as his accomplishments?
A, he wrote, I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
B, he created Listerine, which is the only thing that makes Ray's mouth feel clean after he deep throats a banana.
C, he created and patented the Lister Engine, which converts sexual frustration into horsepower, most commonly used in solid gold butt plugs.
That's how I drove myself to school for my whole high school.
High school career. D he founded antiseptic surgical methods commonly used in the trimming and
pruning of perfect sexual organs.
Oh,
I don't know.
I've never had a perfect sexual organ.
That's well,
in the eyes of God,
nobody else.
I'm going to go with a,
it is a,
he was a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. Nailed it. The only other question I have for you, Tom'm going to go with A. It is A. He was a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
Nailed it.
The only other question I have for you, Tom, is according to Racer, John Frederick Herschel famously said the following.
A. The undevout astronomer must be mad.
B. Cthulhu relay Relay, Wagnag, Fatig. C.
I have discovered 500 stars in my lifetime, and none
could match the size and scale
of your mama.
B. My religiosity
has nothing to do with me being born in
1792, and everything
to do with science.
Well, I feel like the answer is probably A, but I d the most so i'm gonna go with d it's a
it turns out the undevout astronomer must be mad oh yeah yeah instead of man born yeah a really
long time ago that's what all of them do too and there's a couple that are unattributed i actually
looked up to find out if there was like a few of these and a few of these quotes. You're just like, I that's not actually
not even necessarily. Yeah, or they didn't say
that. So what Ray is trying to do
is say, look, here's
10 different scientists that
that seem to have referenced God
in some way. And therefore
God must be more God must be
real because these scientists think he's
real. Next week, the cheap
argument from authority.
Chapter the next.
Chapter the next one.
I have no Scientology questions for you, Cecil, but I will return with Scientology. Return with Scientology next week.
I will.
You want answers?
I think I'm entitled.
You want answers.
I want the truth.
You can't handle the truth.
This is Right Wing Watch.
This is Wayne Allen Root.
I like how he spells Allen wrong.
Way to commit.
Yeah.
Conservatives must hire special forces Operatives who have killed people
To destroy the left
They're very violent lately
I'll tell you there's been a lot of violence
A lot of pro-violence
I wonder where all that's coming from
It's almost like trickle down violence
I know
We gotta fight
We gotta fight.
We gotta fight like animals.
You know Twitter?
We gotta fight.
Look at that voice. Look at that voice.
Oh, we gotta fight.
Ah!
Come on, man.
We'll put up your dukes.
Fist the cuffs and die!
Oh, my God.
Suspended WND's Twitter account today,
meaning World Net Daily,
a very popular conservative website because they were mentioning the Seth Rich case.
Do you know that Sean Hannity's on a forced vacation at Fox News, just like Bill O'Reilly
was because he.
It's because Twitter killed Seth Rich.
That's why, guys, this is super easy to figure out.
I don't know why I haven't figured this out yet.
Mentioned the Seth Rich case.
And so did Fox News.
Fox News killed Seth Rich.
They teamed up. Right. They teamed up.
It was like those two guys in Fargo.
Oh, right. Yeah. And Twitter
actually put him through the wood chipper.
Oh, geez.
He went right through the wood
chipper. Look at that.
Don't you know he's all into pieces and everything.
Talk about censorship.
Republicans are out of their minds.. Republicans are out of their minds.
Conservatives are out of their minds.
They're all wussies and they don't understand that we have to fight back so viciously and we have to fight back viciously.
Put them off.
Put them off.
Put them off.
We cut every liberal company in this country and we have to contact every company that advertises.
Yeah, good luck.
Hey, guess what?
Facebook, Twitter, all those social media places
that you fucking reach out to your audience on,
fucking Spreaker or whatever you're sending this thing out on,
guess what, man?
That's all fucking, that's all owned by liberals.
All those people are liberals.
They're going to reach out to every company,
all the companies that advertise on liberals.
They don't give a fuck. What the fuck do you think when the m&m little peanut m&m thing walks
out on the screen it's like well you know i think gays should get married they just want you to buy
m&ms yeah they don't give a fuck they're advertising that's all they're doing like
how many listeners do you have how many viewers do you have like can i fucking sell some fucking
m&ms like all they would do is sell fucking m&Ms and deodorant. There's not special fucking
pro-LGBT rights
deodorant that the fucking liberals use.
But there are several tech companies
that have come out as pro-liberal
tech companies. Facebook, Google,
Twitter, all these places
have been like, no, we are fucking pro-
liberal. We are pro-gay
marriage. We are against
a lot of these people are
against Trump policies in several ways. So what are you going to do? Are you going to take yourself
off Facebook? No, they won't. You know, I know. Right. Like that's it. They always say that shit
like, oh, we're going to what they'll do is they'll go to go to something like Facebook to
announce their boycotting something less useful to them than Facebook. Right. They'll do the same
thing for Twitter. The same thing for all that shit they want to use yeah i want to use that i can't i really can't
actually live without it yeah so i'm going to keep using that one boycott sherryos because
there was a black guy marrying a white girl black white stuff send me back to 1960 on on msnbc and
cnn and every single company that's an ad in the New York Times, target them all.
Every company that has an ad in the Washington Post,
target them. Every company that
advertises on
liberal websites
like Huffington Post
and many others,
target them.
How stupid the fuck is that, right?
Because you go on your fucking computer, you open
your browser, and what does it show you for right? Because like you go on your fucking computer, you open your browser,
and what does it show you for ads?
It shows you targeted ads based on your search history.
Based on your own search history.
Right?
I was looking for wallets the other day.
Everything I'm looking at now-
Is wallets.
Facebook is wallets.
Right.
On the other, like today I had to shut off ad block
to read an article
because there's certain news sites won't let you.
It was all wallets.
It was all wallets.
Right.
And it just, that's, and you know what? when i was looking for a vacuum cleaner they did the same thing
when i was looking for you know you look for certain stuff and they're just going to target
you well great what am i going to boycott the fucking the wallet company that they don't they
don't have any fuck they don't care exactly it's just that is a that is a genuinely stupid thing
is this to say that that clearly misunderstands how modern advertising works now
if somebody if somebody is advertising on rachel maddow's show that's a different story that's
different because those people pay money to msnbc for that time slot right so yeah go boycott people
that that are advertised for rachel maddow podcasts, right? If you don't like a certain
group of people, like you don't like
our podcast, boycott Adam and Eve.
You know, if you don't want to boycott
Adam and Eve, though, you could always
swing over to Adam and Eve. Sure.
And by swing, I mean sex swing your
way over to Adam and Eve,
adamandeve.com, enter Gloria at checkout, Cecil.
You get 50% off almost any item.
You need to get free shipping and a free sex swing.
Just like they do to us.
It's time to get hundreds of thousands, preferably millions, preferably 63 million people that voted for Donald Trump to make their voice heard.
Well, guess what?
The other side had 65 million.
I know, right?
So they fucking have more people.
Yeah, but they're all illegal immigrants.
So here's the thing, man.
You can go and fucking be like,
like if I'm a business and like literally,
like let's just say literally 63 million people
who voted for Trump would be in lockstep
with your stupid idea to boycott
whatever's on Rachel Maddow.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt
and do the Maddow thing for you
because you're too stupid to realize how internet ads work. But like, let's say they were going to boycott what was on Rachel Maddow. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and do the Maddow thing for you because you're too stupid to realize
how internet ads work.
But like, let's say they were going to boycott
what was on Maddow.
Sure.
Well, they would still market
to the larger audience of 65 million people.
They would be like, cool story,
but I'll just market to a bigger audience.
Yeah, they would have...
Does he not think that they do demographic studies?
It's like, yeah,
advertising on Muddow, we know who we're trying to reach.
And it's not the people who said,
I don't want to buy.
We're already fine.
We're talking about a sommelier service, dude.
You're never going to get that.
Budweiser's Budweiser
everywhere you go.
Is that rice beer? I don't know.
I don't know if I like that stuff.
That's imported from Japan, isn't it? It that? I don't know if I like that stuff. That's imported from Japan.
It's got some kind of flag.
I like flags.
That's why I bought that.
It doesn't have the flag on it, but it's a red and white flag.
Where's the blue?
It looks vaguely Confederate.
I bought 100 cases.
We are taken off the airwaves and our lives are erased.
See, free speech.
What does that even mean?
Your lives are erased. What are free speech is... What does that even mean? Your lives are erased? What are you, in the Matrix?
Like...
It's like Back to the Future
where he fucks his grandma or whatever.
He starts to disappear.
He fucks his grandma.
Take it, grandma.
Oh, shit.
I'm starting to disappear.
Quick, go 88 miles an hour.
Don't come at her and you'll be fine.
He just comes on his grandma's face.
He's like, don't worry, grandma.
Rub it in your tits and I'll still exist.
In later years, you'll be talking about a facial.
It's meaningless.
You can argue it's in the Constitution and no one's changed it.
It's completely meaningless if you have no advertisers.
If liberals write 10,000 letters
to every single advertiser
saying that if you keep advertising
on Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly
and if you advertise on WND,
boom, we have no free speech.
If Twitter free,
that's how free speech works.
That's not fucking free speech,
you idiot.
But like when people
fucking write
letters or talk,
that is the actual exercise
of free speech.
Like when somebody says something
and then someone else takes note
of the thing that was said, and then they
take an action based on this.
How is your free speech?
You have all the free speech.
He doesn't understand this concept at all.
Nothing is stopping any
of these people from telling this
information to the public for free.
Podcasts exist. You don't
have to have Fox
News, Sean Hannity. You're popular
enough on your own to go start your
own show podcast that just like
Glenn Beck did and have your own
message and talk about Seth Rich every
day and beat off to a
picture of him and come on his face and get a new picture, whatever you want to do, Sean, you know,
the fucking world's your oyster. So, and the same thing goes for world net daily, whatever.
They can do this for free. They're just mad that they're not going to make money off of it. Look,
that's the thing. Their free speech is not impinged their fucking ability to make money off that speech is
yeah look here here's the thing cecil do you have a nationally syndicated radio show
do you that i don't know well okay good thank you if you did i'll be a little hurt i know like
but because you don't i'm in talks though i mean hey do you not have like i have you have free
speech right you have all the free speech rights you want
well how could that be if you don't have
you're not on television how do you not have
it's a fucking stupid it only works
top down is what I'm trying to get at right like
you have like some asshole like
Hannity or Riley or whoever and they've
got this right and then they lose
this for whatever reason and so now they've
lost their right to free speech but that's not
true it's not true.
It's not true in the exact same sense that just because I don't have that, I don't have exactly.
I have all the free speech I want.
I don't have a megaphone that reaches 10 million Republicans.
I don't have free speech.
That's bullshit.
The size of my soapbox has nothing to do with my exercise of free speech.
It only has to do with the audience that I reach when I exercise.
And their free speech, like I said, their free speech still exists. They just want to get paid
for this world net daily. They just want to get paid and say bad shit. Right. Well, if you're not
going to get paid to say the bad shit, they won't say the bad shit because they want to make money
over free speech. That's their choice. Not anybody else's.
Besides, they could take you off WND, take WND off of Twitter because they mention a case where a guy was murdered.
Then we have no free speech and we have no rights.
Twitter is not the arbiter of free speech.
It's a fucking private company.
You don't get to fucking decide what's on Twitter.
Twitter gets to decide what's on Twitter.
Twitter has that ultimate authority.
Twitter didn't always exist.
Before Twitter, was there no free speech?
It was like, I don't know.
Fuck it, there wasn't free speech until Twitter.
We just, we fucking sat around hoping somebody would invent it so we could have more free speech.
You know?
And a friend of mine wrote something so telling today.
Wayne, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the left, the Democratic National Committee, Media Matters, Right Wing Watch, Center
for American Progress, SEIU, and many other left-wing George Soros paid groups has gigantic
offices in cities all around this country, boiler rooms with people being paid, making calls and
writing emails and sending letters and then licking the letter and putting it in the mailbox to sponsors and newspapers
and cable and TV networks
all over this country.
Why do you need to pay someone?
There are people who will do that for free.
There's no reason to outsource this.
Dude, have you ever been
to Right Wing Watch headquarters?
Like the fucking glistening fucking metropolis
of Right Wing Watch headquarters?
It's not a thing, man.
It's not even how the world works.
It's like it's a bunch of dudes sitting at a computer in some fucking basement somewhere.
It's all this shit is.
The thing is, is like when he's saying all these people are sending all these letters,
it's like all you have to do is outrage the right people and they will do it for free.
Right.
You don't need George Soros to pay people to send these letters.
You are outraging people it's easy for them to be outraged and then send the letter on their own but even if
it were true isn't that isn't that what they argued in in uh the the citizens united case right
is that money is the same thing as speech didn't they didn't it wasn't that isn't that the
republican i don't know enough about it is that i but i think i recall that the the argument was made that money and speech are
inextricably linked with one another and that was a that was a hallmark of that decision and so you
cannot infringe upon a company's uh right to spend money because that spending of money is equivalent to speech so if i want to
actually so following that which the fucking republicans love that yeah they fucking they
fucking they love that decision so much so following that same thing is it would it not
be the case that if i spend my money and i get you to do a thing for me yeah that i have used
my money to enhance or amplify my speech isn't that
what we do when we do a podcast we buy a bunch of equipment so we can enhance our speech yeah
so we can broadcast it out my like it's baffling how even by his premise it's problematic yeah
i don't even understand and all over this world to try and destroy the right they've got
boiler rooms of people trying to destroy the right my friend is brilliant the guy who wrote this
is worth like i don't know 100 million dollars brilliant brilliant big time businessman and he
hit the nail right on the head he continues hell they probably even use robots and sophisticated
like twitter bots huh that's weird i hope it's actual
like metallic like androids that sit at a computer and they don't have they don't actually have hands
they just type with their guns like that would be awesome that's a hunt and peck for each key
click click this is really inefficient we should have hired dora she takes like 80 words a minute
what they should do
is they should get all the people
who wear like the Sigourney Weaver suit
in Alien.
They have like the big claw pinchy thing
and they have to type using that.
What they'd have to do
is they'd have to have a giant keyboard
a la big from like...
From Tom Hanks.
You're like dancing across the keyboard.
They're just using those big claws on it.
Right.
And then Sigourney Weaver comes in from the bakery and she's like, get away from it, you bitch!
The computer software to reach out and send their messages.
Why doesn't the RNC and right-wing groups backed by wealthy individuals fund our efforts to put all of them out of business?
Well, that's a good question.
You should call your right wing rich friend
that has a hundred million dollars.
Seems like he has plenty of money to spare.
I don't know why nobody's spending any of this money.
Incidentally, I have an insane amount of money.
What are you talking about?
And you know why?
I know why.
Lazy, cheap, wussy, country club, rhino, a-holes.
I'll say it different than the way he said it.
A-holes.
He didn't quite say it that way.
He finished the word.
We get it.
Yeah, you finished the word.
You didn't start the word, to be fair.
That's fair.
We need to hire an attack dog. former CIA or NSA or FBI or Navy SEALs that have been involved in counterinsurgency
operations all over the world that have killed people.
Their skill set would not matter against the envelope lickers.
What are you going to shoot them?
Where's the skill?
Skill sets don't translate.
They really don't.
They really don't.
If somebody were to give me that resume and they were going to be an
administrative assistant,
I'd be like,
you're overqualified.
I don't need anyone killed.
It's so crazy.
It's like,
I don't know.
You're not even overqualified.
You're just wrongly qualified.
Can you tell me a little about your skillset?
Well,
I can crack a man's neck like a pizza.
It's like,
I really just need him sharpened.
I don't,
I don't need anything else.
It's so crazy.
It's like,
do you know Python?
Like, well, no, but I can shoot a man at 400 yards.
I once killed a Python with my bare teeth.
No, that's not.
No, it's not a creature.
No, you're terrible at this.
I can't.
Like, the skillset.
Do you know Excel?
Well, Excel is shooting humans in the face.
No, it's not what I'm looking for, actually.
I don't need that, really.
I'll call you.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
If necessary, still hunkered down,
motionless in a ghillie suit.
Like, what the fuck? It's crazy.
Yeah, that sounds great, security.
I know, right?
In the office, boy, you're voted
most likely to kill all of us.
That comes in a camel every day.
When the copier makes a loud noise,
he hits the dirt.
He paratroops to the office.
Use the elevator like all the rest of us.
Fuck.
That understand how to fight.
That don't bring a knife to a gunfight that that bring
a gun to a gunfight preferably a shoulder-fired missile to a gunfight preferably a nuclear weapon
to a gunfight preferably a supernova of like seven stars that he shoots out of a star shooting cannon to a gunfight. No,
bro.
I'm like,
what are you?
This guy's talking about,
like, he's,
he's just going on about how we need all these badasses.
Don't they have Ted Nugent?
Yeah.
Right.
Like a super duper bad-ass.
Yeah.
He's a bad-ass.
He's like a super dodging the draft.
Right.
Pants or whatever.
Yeah.
Poop his pants.
I think that's the story,
right?
So what's on your resume,
Ted?
Well, I once pooped my
pants to get out of a job.
We'll call you, Ted.
You know what, though?
At some point, I might pause and be like,
I admire the tenacity.
You're willing to sit in your own filth?
Good for you. You'll do some shit
if properly motivated. Literally. I know.
So we're back with Aaron and Jen from Waiting for Wrath podcast.
Guys, if people have never heard your podcast, let people know what your podcast is about.
Sure.
We do current events, news stories, make dick jokes about them, except we drink.
A lot. That's really what separates us from the successful people.
Well, don't you have like 40 people in your band like earth wind and fire
that's right they're the only podcast with backup dancers and shit
they come out there's a costume change halfway through only when big gay jim is in drag
hey our numbers and our name waiting for wrath there's four of us
and it would have been super clever if i had collected all the hosts before i named the show but so so why did you guys get started podcasting what was the what
what what was the the thing that that spurred you along to get you started this is all aaron oh no
this is all your fault oh um yeah no i uh i was listening to shows like Distance Pod and Scathing Atheist and so on.
And I was like, you know, I can get drunk and do that.
And so I did.
I love when people tell their story like,
well, that seemed like a low bar I could slither over the top of.
We're big fans.
I'm not nearly sober enough to walk, but I can crawl over that.
But no, no, I was, yeah, listening to you guys
and thought I could get my friends together
and at the very least,
my family would get to stop listening to me
bitch about Jesus.
So he collected his one friend at the time.
Yeah, right.
I put, I offered Shay beer
and you offer him beer or kisses
and he's down for pretty much whatever.
He's the one who assaulted
cecil yeah for those of you at home yeah that's shay yeah and then we went up with steve and
uh jen jen unfucked the funny and steve unfucked the audio quality and uh yeah the rest is poorly
edited history i don't know how you guys all from wyoming is it are all four i didn't know how I appreciate the term unfucking the funny. Are you guys all from Wyoming? I didn't know there were four people, much less four atheists.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, I had to scour the state.
And, you know, some of the time she is a cow, but yeah.
Actually, it's really funny.
I was sitting next to these three idiots at a bar one night.
And my husband is a social butterfly and had walked away.
So I heard them arguing about some stupid,
nerdy comic book thing.
I was talking about Galactus.
Whatever.
So I turned and I was like,
hey, who doesn't talk?
No, who doesn't?
No, fuck that.
Don't be all sorry.
Galactus is a great topic
of conversation.
No, I know.
Excellent topic.
I was like,
by the way, you're wrong,
and hey,
I'm going to join your conversation.
Also, my license plate says Eater of a world so i'm out of here so by the end of the night like um aaron and steve were like hey what do you do on thursdays
so but not not nearly that creepy yeah absolutely that creepy creepy is how to be approached by
three dudes be like so what do you do on be like, what are you doing on Thursdays?
Oh no,
it was only the two of us.
I'd like a seventh of your time.
Shay was passed out
at the end of the bar.
Well,
Shay actually knew you
and had taken us to the bar
with the intention
of introducing us to Jen.
But as soon as we got in there,
he got plowed and fucked off.
So,
I actually introduced myself
to my blind dates.
Yeah.
So that's Wyoming for you.
So you're in Wyoming.
Is there anybody out there
that you guys like?
Is there meetups?
Is there people that get together
in Wyoming?
Well, surprisingly,
we've had several listeners
and other podcasters meet us here.
We've got one coming up next weekend from Boulder,
the Prophet Jeremiah.
We have free beer and a couch in our studio.
So sometimes we wind up with a studio audience.
Nice.
That's cool.
Yeah.
So no, there used to be a group on campus
and it kind of got dissolved. So now, yeah, if there's a. Yeah. So, no, there used to be a group on campus and it kind of got dissolved.
So now, yeah, if there's a secular thing going on, we kind of tackle it.
We're kind of it.
Yeah.
The University of Wyoming is here in this town.
So anyone that has an education in Wyoming, it's here.
Yeah.
The little blue dot and a sea of red.
It's gross.
Our studio is in a seedy garage.
Nice.
Seedy garage.
Yeah.
We feel bad sometimes when our guests show up, but I was
like, I promise, because they have to walk
through Shay's woodworking garage, and it's
like, I...
This looks like a horror movie,
and it doesn't end well in those,
but I promise we'll get out alive. It smells like a horror
movie. Oh, yeah.
There's bodies hanging from meat hooks. Just
push past them. It's fine.
Look, Shelly Siegel is back out in the
world again. See? We let her out
once she finally put the lotion on. It's fine.
Let's make that no.
So how did you guys...
Okay, so you're in Wyoming.
Clearly not the most...
It's not the secular capital of the United States.
So how did you guys come
to, you know, be secular? How did you guys
come to be atheists within a
community that's not terribly atheist?
I'm Canadian
and wound up here by accident.
And both of my parents are atheists.
Oh, you betcha.
Okay.
Mine's more complicated.
I grew up in South Georgia. and both my parents are deeply Southern Baptist and I ran away and Wyoming's better than Georgia.
Right. All right. We've got that going for us. myself and Steve, the other, one of the other co-hosts, we come from a very, very strict religious background and,
uh,
Aaron and Shay,
not so much at all.
In fact,
Shay doesn't even know which way is up.
So we forget that.
He went to church once,
but they kicked him out for eating all the crackers.
Right.
And trying to,
trying to lick the priest.
But so it adds an interesting,
an interesting flair to some of our conversations because,
uh,
Steve's father is actually a Southern Baptist minister and I've been on
mission trips and blah,
blah,
blah.
So,
yeah.
So big gay Jim's name is big gay Jim.
So he doesn't do a whole lot of the church going,
but he was also raised religious.
And how does a gay person get along up there?
Uh,
really well,
actually.
Um,
at least in one, at least in laramie uh wyoming has this like
live and let live kind of stance that we like to sell to people and kind of more often than not
it's true and especially in in laramie since matthew shepherd the lgbtqi community is way
more visible and and jim was actually friends with matth Shepard back in college. He was the
person, I don't know if you've ever heard of the angel movement that have sprung up from that,
that block the Westboro Baptist people. Jim's actually the one who created the angel costume
that took off. So Laramie and Wyoming got a terrible reputation because of that. Um, but
I've lived in nine different States and I have to say that, that Wyoming for its weird kind of
backwards redneck reputation, little Texas, it's not little Texas at all. I lived in Texas. I can
tell you for a fact, it's not little Texas. Um, It's terrible. We have actually a pretty thriving LGBTQ community here.
And I don't know if you guys saw on the news, one of our state senators, Mike Enzi, made a really just gross comment about, hey, if a man's wearing a tutu to a bar, he deserves what he gets. Our state and our town, all
over town was just such a backlash
to that. Seeing cowboys
wearing tutus with their boots and their
jeans all over
town. I don't know.
Wyoming gets a bad rap, but
it's getting better.
We have a pretty...
Let me see how
other people's business kind of situation...
At least your senator's not body slamming people.
That's Montana.
I don't know the difference.
Is there a difference?
They're both like square states, right?
There's so nothing there.
It's like, I don't know, man, just make it a square.
Just hire a surveyor and just put a line,
a chalk line between states.
Oh, should we use one of these natural bodies?
No one's going here anyway.
It doesn't, it's like the, just fucking
who cares? The best thing
about, well, see, the main difference there
is that we're closer to Colorado.
And it's the other square state. Montana's
got kind of this little, like, prehensile tail
on the western side, so
stop your square
shaming. Yeah, geez.
Whoa.
Squares are shamed.
She'll probably chastise.
Not yet, you don't.
No.
No, you won't until she walks out to you and says,
What?
Who am I?
Who am I?
Why weren't we here?
Well, in our defense, we had drank a keg of beer at that point.
In my defense, Shay didn't leave the hotel room for two days after his meltdown they just chained the poor guy to the bed it's
like no it's not no we tried to get him to leave we kept trying we got him to hooters and he threw
up now so we we're at uh 7200 feet here so the air is real thin and so we're at 7,200 feet here. So the air is real thin.
So we're real stupid.
Yeah, down there at Old Hickory.
Turns out you can drink until it's a bad idea.
And he did.
So, guys, if people were going to find your show, where would they look?
That would be WaitingForWrath.com.
And that's the numeral four.
Although, F-O-R will get you there.
Or you can find us on Twitter at ForW or on Facebook at facebook.com slash waiting.
The numeral for wrath.
If you reach out to us,
I'll talk to you.
So don't worry.
I'll make it weird and then she'll fix it.
It's great.
Guys,
it's so much fun having you on. You guys are blessed.
It was nice writing you a reason contest.
This is great.
Absolutely.
That was fun.
I'm glad you told me who I was.
I appreciate it.
I'll never forget. I guess I won't either. Absolutely. That was fun. I'm glad you told me who I was. I appreciate it. I'll never forget.
I guess I won't either.
Maybe.
I won't let you.
Well, yeah.
Thanks so much for having us on, guys.
So we want to thank our new patrons.
We didn't get a lot of new patrons.
We want to thank Hein Peter.
Okay.
Yeah,
let's go with that. Shane and Bryce. Thanks so much for your generous donations. We really do appreciate it. If you're interested in becoming a patron, you can go to patreon.com slash dissonance
pod, donate per on a per episode basis to the show. Uh, you help make the show possible. You
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who helps us out. So thank you very much. So, uh, the first thing I want to talk about is, uh, we get a lot of voicemails,
uh, sent to us. People will call us on voicemail and I want to caution a couple of people with,
with a few things. Understand that if you're using your mic on your phone, sometimes it's
very delicate. So when you make sounds or you shout or things like that, it might not pick up.
And I can't play that on the show if it's show if it's bottoming out or if it sounds terrible.
So if you're thinking of sending something, you think it's funny, you think it probably
would get played on the show if we did hear it, send a voice memo to us.
It's very easy to record on almost any phone, a voice memo.
And then you could just send that voice memo to us.
Also, remember to keep things short.
If you want your voicemail played on the show, I never play anything that's two minutes long.
I almost, I very rarely play things
that are even a minute and 15 seconds long.
A minute is really the limit.
So think about what you're going to say and then say it,
but don't leave a long rambling voicemail
because I'm almost certainly not going to be able to play it
or fit it on the show.
I do listen to every single one.
So everyone gets listened to,
but I don't always put them on the show because I do listen to every single one. So everyone gets listened to, but I don't
always put them on the show because sometimes the, the, the, uh, like I say, the audio quality is bad
or they're just too long. So, uh, so we're going to read a little bit of email here. We got a
message from Olivia and Olivia says, fuck Chicago. Uh, basically Olivia came to a Cubs game at Wrigley
and it was super cold here at the, here in Chicago, um, for a Cubs game in Mayrigley, and it was super cold here in Chicago for a Cubs game
in May. Yeah, that can happen
sometimes. We get a little chilly. It's been chilly all
year so far.
It has not been warm. There's been a couple of
warm days, but mostly it's been cold.
It's funny that you send this message
that you're cold. When Thomas Smith
came out a couple years ago, it was August,
it was only like 80 degrees.
Oh my God, never ending bitching. He wouldn't stop complaining about it. He's still bitching about ago. It was August. It was only like 80 degrees. Oh, my God. Never ending bitching.
He wouldn't stop complaining about it.
He's still bitching about it.
Oh, such a baby.
Oh, there's too much humidity.
I'm from a terrible place
with no rain.
So we got a message.
This is from Michael from Vancouver,
and he sent us an article
about Trump-branded toilet paper
to be sold in Mexico.
The profits will aid deportees, according to a report,
which seems pretty interesting.
It seems like a Mexican lawyer plans to market
Trump-branded toilet paper in the country
and use the proceeds to benefit deportees.
I think this is a clever way to wipe your ass with that idea.
I mean, look, if you're going to behave like an asshole,
it's an appropriate product, right?
Absolutely. I mean, it's really,
it's simpatico, you know,
to use the language of the people, you know.
Of those deportees.
We got a couple of images from Aaron.
Both of them are hilarious. We're going to
put them on this week's show notes. Go check it out.
They're both Trump images,
and they're both very funny.
They're both from his overseas trip.
We got a message not only here, but on Twitter.
This one is from Kippies and Kippies says that the that the name of the candy that we
have, the black licorice salt candy is means jungle scream.
And the Swedish J sounds like a soft J that can be spelled dj hj gj or j
they really loves their j's up over there like that's like it's a 10 point scrabble i do like
dj that's a good one um we also got a message too on twitter tom i think it was on twitter it was
said it was explanatory it explained why those things taste like, like, uh, kind of like pop rocks. It explains why they taste like salty cat pee.
And that's because it's not sodium chloride.
It's ammonium chloride,
which is not for foods.
Yeah.
It is terrible.
Yeah.
And it makes like when you put it on your tongue,
it bubbled.
Yeah.
It bubbled.
It is pop rocks.
So offensive to the system.
I don't understand you people.
We're going to have an in-studio guest next week,
and I am going to have Thomas from Holy Kool-Aid try one of those licorices.
Oh, I wonder if he can stop.
I doubt it.
I doubt it.
He's going to spit it out.
Everybody spits.
Nobody swallows.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
yeah yeah
got a message from
okay I gotta try it because they said
yeah they said to try to pronounce it
inner
inger margarathy
boy
let me give it a whirl I gotta lean in
my eyes aren't so good
inner margarita bay that's pretty good inner margarita bay Let me give it a whirl. I got to lean in. My eyes aren't so good. Inner Margaret Bay.
That's pretty good.
Inner Margarita Bay.
Inner God of Devita.
All right.
So you're our Bay.
And this was the story that we covered today about the child marriage.
This was sent in, but they said to try to pronounce their name.
So we gave it hell.
Inner Margarita.
Yeah.
So I want to thank Jen and Aaron from Waiting for Wrath for joining us. They were a lot
of fun, funny people. We had a great time
hanging out with them when we had a chance to hang
out with them down at ReasonCon. We look forward
to hopefully seeing them again soon
and doing more cross
work with them because they're just so much fun to talk to.
Really funny and fun people.
Check their podcast out, Waiting for Wrath.
You can find all the links on this week's show notes.
It's episode 362.
Next week, we're going to have an in-studio guest.
We're going to be talking to Thomas from Holy Kool-Aid.
So that should be a lot of fun.
Tune in for that.
If you want to catch the next citation needed,
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