Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 539: Dress for the Job You Want

Episode Date: August 31, 2020

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Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad. It's skeptical, it's political, and there is no welcome at it. This is episode 539 of Cognitive Dissonance. And you know what the biggest story this week is, Cecil? What's that, Tom? It's the hurricane that's not even front page news anymore because everything is so crazy.

Here's how fucking crazy shit is in 2020. There was a hurricane which hit on Wednesday. Then on Thursday, a bigger hurricane hit the same place. It called its big brother. Right. Oh, man. Hold on a minute. So a category four hurricane, massive, monstrous hurricane with, according to the National

Weather Service, unsurvivable storm surge is how they described it. That is how they described it. I remember seeing that and thinking like, that is peak 2020. Right. That is how they described it. I remember seeing that and thinking like, that is peak 2020. In the same description,

I don't remember who it was, but somebody else said that parts of one of the areas affected would be essentially annexed to the Gulf of Mexico for several days. This is happening. They come in with a signed deed. They're like, no, this is mine.

Gulf of Mexico is like, this is mine. Gulf of Mexico is like, this is mine. It's like Airbnb. They're Arab. Gulf of Mexico is Airbnb and being it for a few days. Just like, okay, this is mine for a while.

I know I can't stay on the coast for a couple of days. That's all just the coast. And like, when I look at the news every morning, I wake up and I look at the news and like, seriously, like on flipboard, I'm like four flips in before i get to

the category four hurricane devastating the coast because 2020 is such a shit show it like you can't prioritize the horrors fast enough it's like going in a haunted house you're like ah zombie ah ghost ah vampires to come out it's like which one was like, I shit myself three times in a row. I don't know. It's so bad. Every day there's something brand new and it just keeps, it's 2020. It keeps happening. That's it. That's it. It keeps happening and it never stops and it never slows down. And that's the thing, right? There's never a moment where it's like, are you going to take your foot off the gas just for a second?

No. Fuck you. 2020 looks you in the eye, grabs you, and then it kind of leans in and it's spitting while it's talking. Fuck you, it says.

Yeah. I cannot even fucking believe. It's fucking great. We have not had a week that hasn't been fucking bonkers style crazy. Not a single week. Not a single. It's been, you know, the tamest weeks we've had were the weeks right after the pandemic

when everyone felt a crushing anxiety. I know, right? The best part about 2020 was the existential dread of sitting in your house and wondering if leave. Like, like there was a moment where it was like, is it the happening outside? Like, will the trees be like shitting death spores at me? Like, that was the best part of the year. That was the best part of the year. That was it.

That's peak 2020. That was the best part of the year. Like, I am jerking off to that memory every day. I wistfully look back to that every moment of my day. I'm like, man, that was so great. It was almost like a, it was like a really anxiety-filled snow day. Is what it was.

Okay, it's snowing, but it's nuclear winter snow. So it's a snow day. Admittedly, it's a snow day, but your DNA doesn't work anymore. Like, okay, fuck. And you know, when we started Two Time, it was right snow day, but your DNA doesn't work anymore. Like, okay, fuck. And you know, when we started Two Time, it was right around then

when we started to really realize that talking about COVID news was just heightening everyone's anxiety. Right. And it wasn't good for us. It wasn't good for anyone else. And so we started to not do COVID news because it just was everywhere.

And so we decided to try to do funny stories and try to, because if there's the same story every day, you feel like, well, I don't want to keep covering that over and over. And I'm starting to get that way with police shootings and protests. Like at some point, Cecil,

the horrors will compound in such a way that we're just categorically like, hello, this is cognitive dissonance. This used to be a show that we could laugh and occasionally say something half poignant, but now we weep for one hour and 27 minutes. This is the Welcome to Cognitive Dissonance, the one hour and 27 minutes. This is the, welcome to Cognitive Dissonance, the one hour and 27 minute weeping show.

What the fuck, man? Yeah, Kenosha? I will say this. You know, one thing that I think has, it's not just this particular moment in time where there's an outcry and people are reacting and there's tons of sort of unrest. It's not just one moment this year. We've known that this has happened multiple times throughout the year. And I got to look up at the leadership and say,

I think that there's just nobody there anymore to turn it down a little. Oh, absolutely. As, you know, sort of platitude filled as many politicians' speeches are, and they don't fix anything, and they almost feel like they're just saying, okay, guys, we get it,

and then they don't do anything. I get that. But it almost feels like, like, you know, that might be better than turning up both sides constantly again and again and again and again. And it always, you know, now the right's calling that, that Kyle kid, a hero. They're calling him a hero. Kyle kid a hero. They're calling him a hero. A hero. A fucking hero. Yeah. Man, it's not even just like that the politicians aren't tamping it down. It's that the right is intentionally amplifying the violence and amplifying the tensions and amplifying the division in order to create a narrative that this violence occurs in Democrat-controlled cities because the Democrats are not able to keep control of their cities. And that message is working. I was reading some articles in the Times. That message is working. Wisconsin is a pivotal fucking state for the 2020 election. And this unrest is good for the right. The unrest, the protest, the violence,

it's good for the right because they use this as protest, the violence, it's good for the right because they use this as a way to say, see, the Democrats, when they're in charge, they can't control anything. Never mind that Wisconsin voted Trump, right? That Trump is in charge. Trump is paradoxically standing on stage saying, the only one who could bring order back to the country is me. And it's like, well, you're in charge now and you haven't brought order into the country, right? Like, what are you waiting for? And there's an answer for that. He's waiting until November because the disorder and the chaos suits him. It suits his political purpose. The longer he amplifies the divisiveness and the amplifies the angry rhetoric, the better this is to drive his base out to vote

because they vote based on fear. And this is fucking terrifying. And that's not even like me making it up. The right, like the science shows, like people on the right side of the spectrum, they literally have a more developed fear response. So like the right is absolutely being played here. They are being played and the divisiveness is a good thing for Trump. So even if he had the

fucking cure for this, he's not going to fix it. Yeah. Oh, I know. I know. I want to talk though for people overseas or other places, they might not know what's going on. Tom and I sort of jumped into this and I want to mention what's happening just so people have a background. So Jacob Blake is a black guy who was shot in the back by the police officer seven times. He was being chased around a car. There's a video of it. You can watch it.

There's a video of it. He's walking around the car. The cops try to grab him from behind. He opens his door. They're saying he's reaching for something. He might just be trying to get in it. Well, I don't know, because they fired seven shots in him before he could do literally anything. They fired seven shots

into his back. Right. You know, so they shot him. He didn't die though. He paralyzed from the waist up. And so he's in, he's in the hospital and he's, and that's where the protests start. Then there's this kid, Kyle Rittenhouse, who's a 17 year old kid from Illinois. So Antioch is right on the border. It's Antioch, Illinois is right on the border of Wisconsin. It's one of the most Northern cities in Illinois. And he crossed the border. It's about a 30-minute drive to get to Kenosha from there. And he drove up with,

I think he even got dropped off by like his parents or something with like a permission slip or something. He's like, yeah, kid. Have fun storming the castle. Exactly. And he was standing there he gets interviewed by the daily caller while he's up there um he takes a photo op to to wipe down some graffiti at a certain point in the night um he's running away from the this there's sort of a scrum he's running away uh he's got a long gun someone hits him because they thought someone thought he shot someone or he did shoot someone. Well, can I interrupt real quick? Because

I read just this late evening, the New York Times frame by frame analysis. And you can see like, it looks like a handgun goes off in another place in the crowd. And then people are like, he shot somebody. And so he started running at that point. I see. Okay. That's what I read in the Times today. And then he starts running away and someone says he shot someone. And so the mob, of course, goes after him. Three people go after him and they run after him. Somebody hits him with a skateboard, I think at one point. And then he falls on his back, shoots three people, shoots two people dead and one person through the arm,

gets up, walks over to the police, holds his hands up and the cops literally drive right by him. Drive right by him. And they weren't that far away. So I didn't not see that. And they drive right by him and then he flees to Illinois

and he's captured and now he's charged with murder. You know, what I think a lot of people on the right are saying is that he's defending himself, right? That's their whole thing is that he's defending himself from this group of people that were coming after him.

But, you know, there is no wrong place, wrong time for white people, right? You know, like where, you know, like you, that doesn't exist, right? You can drive, literally drive 30 minutes away from your house and stay on your ground, right? It's not your, it's not even your place, but you could go somewhere else if you're white and do that. But, and you know, what's other, what's also crazy to me about this is that immediately I saw arrest reports for the people who shot as if somehow having a gun lets you see into other

people's minds and know their know their arrest record they have a criminal record man i you hear that shit all the time it's like wow that person had a felony sheet as long as and you're like well did they know that were they like running around handing out fucking business card felonies like do they have a sky writer right no like the thing like the thing is like, this is a fucking, we live in a fucking crazy town right now. Like we live in crazy world. It is, it is somehow a legal thing for armed vigilante pseudo militia men to show up and openly carry enormous fucking weapons and walk around the streets as if they're like some fucking sheriff's

posse. That's, that's what's happening. Like the cops for this guy, like he showed up and like, when he was interviewed, one of the things he said is like, I'm here doing my job. I'm protecting local businesses. Like get the fuck out of here. You brought a gun out to be cool and intimidate people. That's what you did. You're and like, somehow that's a legal thing we can do that should not be a fucking legal thing we can do in america turns out it's not for him yeah right young yeah because he's under 18 but like if he were 18 and like he didn't get stopped it's not like anybody stopped him said hey you look too young yeah the cops gave him water and thanked him for helping basically yeah thank you for your service like what what the fuck is wrong with this fucking country that like you can show up to a fucking protest and carry around a great big fucking assault rifle and pretend that you're some fucking vigilante militiaman.

Like we don't need vigilante militiaman. We don't need people walking around with fucking enormous fucking assault rifles for no fucking reason. Just out in the open pretending they've got a fucking job to do. You don't have a fucking job to do. You're just there to cause trouble, to stir shit up. You're there to intimidate people. Antifa shows up, like fucking actual Antifa shows up and they got sticks and it's the fucking end of the goddamn world. It's the end of the fucking world with someone on the right or someone on the left shows up and they have like a fucking leaf blowers to blow the fucking tear gas away. Or they've got like a fucking garbage can shield. Oh, they're coming out heavily armed with their

protective padding, right? Oh, they're, they're out there like human tanks in there. But some fucking lunatic asshole, vigilante militiaia man wannabe motherfucker can grab an enormous fucking military style assault rifle and strut his ass around like he's big fucking shit out in the open. And it's like, well, you know, that's perfectly normal, reasonable. He's got a right to be or someone's got to protect these businesses. He's a hero. He's a hero. Yeah. Murdered people.

Yeah, fucking murdered people. Absolutely. And you know- Guns just escalate shit, man. Absolutely. And you know this was going to happen, right? You knew this was going to kick off sometime. It was going to happen

when people started bringing their long guns to the fucking, to the show. And you know, one of the things that happened is people told him to stop, right? So they yelled at him. They told him to stop. Hey, stop that guy. You stop. He kept running, right? He didn't comply. He didn't comply. And look at the juxtaposition of those two guys, right? On the one side, there's a black guy going

to his car. He's not complying, right? He gets shot in the back seven times. On the other side, there's a white guy, not complying, turns around, shoots people, no problem, doesn't matter. That's because noncompliance doesn't apply to white people. It doesn't apply. Watch a hundred videos. Watch that video of the guy who's

so mad he tears the ticket up and throws it out his window. And the cop's like, you better pick that up or I'm going to give you a ticket. He's like, he's like, he's like flipping his shit look at all the times yeah all the different times look at that i'm on bundy this week you know he got wheeled out in a car and i'm fucking on a on a office chair out of wherever he was holding his dumb protest right he gets shot in the back he didn't get he's non-compliant fucking the very fact of Karen, the idea of Karen. Karen is a white woman, noncompliant person.

That's what Karen is, right? That's where the whole concept comes from is that there's no such thing as compliance. It's compliance for you. That's what it is. It's compliance for you. You comply. I don't have to comply.

I never have to comply. And we're seeing, it's almost like people don't fucking like that. It's almost like they're taking to the fucking streets never have to comply. And we're seeing, it's almost like people don't fucking like that. It's almost like they're taking to the fucking streets and protesting that shit. And we can't stand it. We can't stand like, like there is a certain group of people that cannot stand to see that narrative exposed. And that's all that's happening. Like, like the thing that like makes me like crazy is like a huge part of all that's happening is that it's out in the open

now. Right. Yeah. Like it's, it's out in the open now right yeah like it's it's on camera it's on video it's immediately boom quick quick as a flash it's uploaded it can't be taken down the camera can't be confiscated you can't have somebody like beat the fucking film out of the camera like it's a shit's fucking live and it's in the it's in the immediacy of the world right now and it can't ever be taken down and that's the big difference that's the reason we have like all this transparency into the problem right now it's the only reason it's not because there's a new problem it's not because anything is like escalating in in in severity it's not like anything is escalating in terms of the um amount of this problem has existed for ever forever like the police have been beating the shit out of people of color

in order to get them to do whatever the fuck they want forever. Yep. The only difference is like now, boop, I caught it. Yep. That's it. Saw it happen. I got it.

It's all on video now, motherfuckers. And this Kyle kid, this Kyle Rittenhouse kid, he winds up shooting these people and they, you know, on the one side they're showing, you know, on the one side, they're showing, you know, they start to show the guys who went after him, the three people who went after him as dangerous thugs, right? So they're violent felons is what they found. I don't know

if any of that's true. It's just what I saw on Twitter. And I actually went to look for news stories about it and could not find a single news story. It may just be anonymous hearsay on Twitter. I have no idea, right? From what I saw up till this moment, it didn't look like it was real. It looked like it was just somebody had made some shit up and posted on Twitter. But they're trying to show the people who went after him as these violent thugs.

And they're trying to paint him as a kid who's looking to become a police officer. He wants to go to academies, a Blue Lives Matter kid. And you're just like, it's almost, it's like the police officer who's one week from

retirement and he gets shot. He's like, oh man, I was just one week from retirement. He was one year from getting into the police academy and he could have literally killed anyone he wanted with impunity forever. Yeah, he just could have just killed whoever he wanted. All Kyle did was fuck up the timing.

Yeah, that's it. That's all he did. He just fucked up the timing. Fucked up the timing. That's all he did. This is like, but you know, like in terms of like- You know, dress for the job you want, Tom. You know, that's the thing.

Dress for the job you want. Like, this is really no different than the way that we treat, you know, white and black people in the justice system. Like when white people, you know, rape women, it's a great example. Like when white people rape women, it's a great example. When white people rape women, it's like, well, Bud, he was an honors student and he has a promising football

career. We don't want to ruin someone's life over one bad decision. You're just like, first of all, that's more than just like an oopsie. One bad decision is ordering a chai tea latte. Right, yeah, exactly.

That's a bad decision. Right, exactly. But like we do this shit where we're like, we come up with a fucking million apologies for the horrifying bad actions of fucking white men, right? And like when it's other marginalized groups that are acting, it's all of a sudden, it's like, well, you know, I mean, that person did have these problems and they smoked marijuana once. And you're just like, get the fuck out of here.

We cannot bend over fucking backwards enough. We're fucking Cirque du Soleil fucking contortionists. We bend over backwards so fucking hard to defend some fucking suburban white boy. backwards so fucking hard to defend some fucking suburban white boy. But when it's some like, you know, woman or trans person or black kid or fucking whatever marginalized group it is, like we cannot stop. Like we, it's like, we got to dig up every fucking piece of dirt on that fucker. We do it every time. And it's disgusting. How's my son? He's going to be all right. Oh my God. Finally, some good news for this guy. There's no other way to take that. That's a great attitude.

I've got to tell you, if I was getting this news, I don't know that I'd take it this well. But you said he was all right. Yes, he's lost his left hand, so he's going to be all right. You son of a bitch. I hate this doctor. He's a very literal man. That's more the way I would take the news. So this story comes in the Daily Beast.

And I just thought this was like a crazy headline like bouchy says he was under anesthesia when cdc changed covid 19 testing guidelines so this is this is part of a a broader uh story but like the cdc was under intense pressure from the top down to change some of its guidelines on, on, on the handling of categorically denied Tom, right? But they were all the politicians call it categorically denied. Right.

There was top down pressure. And then they had to walk back the testing guidelines. Cause all the scientists said, what the fuck are you talking about? It's almost like the CDC should just be all like, okay. I just got gotta say this like politicians even there like what is the cdc if not scientists the cdc should just be all scientists

i i will say this like i used to really have a tremendous amount of like respect for the cdc as an apolitical group that was like there to you know, keep us fucking safe from things like infectious disease. I have, I have fucking completely lost faith and completely lost trust and completely lost respect for the fucking CDC at this point. They, they have shown so many times throughout the goddamn pandemic. They've shown so many times that they are cowards in the face of political pressure. They bend a political pressure. They change their guidelines. They change their recommendations. Then they change them back and And they fucking, like, this is a great example. Like, they came out with a revised guideline around the idea of asymptomatic spread.

And then they were just like, everybody was like, oh, the fuck? And they're like, well, yeah, what I really meant was the opposite of the thing that I was pressured to say. So now you can't trust. And you should be able to place implicit trust. They did the mask thing too. They initially said no mask, don't buy mask, don't buy mask, and they did it specifically so that we wouldn't run out of PPE for first responders. But that also put into people's head that you shouldn't wear a mask, and they've never let go of that.

Right. And so now we have this crisis, literally a crisis in this country because people won't wear masks. They just won't. I've seen so many Facebook threads, Tom, where someone talks about mask wearing and there's always one yokel out there

who wants to jump in and say, yeah, well, suffocation's like a real thing, man. Yeah, well, it's not stopping you from shit flapping your fucking gums. Gosh, it's so disheartening to see what is happening. And it's not just that. There's so many aspects to this that have been so bungled and so mismanaged. What's the reason why we would want to talk about asymptomatic spread not being a bad thing? I can't think. The only reason I could think of that is that we want numbers to be lower. That's the only reason. I can't think of another reason. It's artificial. It's political. I am happy to hear anyone else's analysis of that. Send me a message and say, Cecil,

Anyone else's analysis of that, send me a message and say, Cecil, here's three reasons. Here's two reasons. Here's a single reason why that might be useful information. I can't think of a way in which that would be useful. Dude, I can't either. And the distressing thing is we should be in a position where we can say, listen to the doctors and listen to the scientists. That's the position we as the public. That's a traditionally skeptic position. We should be listen to the scientists. That's the position that like we should, that's the position we as the public. That's a traditionally skeptic position.

We should be able to say that. The problem is the goddamn experts, the scientists, the doctors, the CDC is giving conflicting information. They're contradicting themselves. So that immediately, like for people like you and I, we can look at that and we can say,

okay, let's try to figure out where that came from. Let's look at other sources. But you have to do some fucking due diligence. And then I'm still not convinced I know what's real, right? Because I'm still just a guy with a fucking English lit degree, which isn't worth a fucking cup of coffee when it comes to a goddamn pandemic. But like the rest of the public basically looks at that, or many people in the public, I should say, they look at something like that and they say, these people cannot be trusted. They don't know any better than my Aunt Sally or Uncle Fred. So the idea of expertise becomes eroded and we cannot erode the idea of expertise at a time when

the only people we should be listening to are the experts, because then that leaves the most persuasive voices in the room to decide what's true. And that's the opposite of how you should behave in a crisis. Yeah. And it's a, when we look to the experts, we should be able to look to them as a way to be unbiased, right? They should be looking at the data and making decisions based on the data, not on optics. And that's the decisions that they're making. There's been a few people that have been, I think, in that whole mess that have had a lot of integrity. Fauci feels like somebody who's had a lot of integrity, right? Throughout this whole process. He won't, you know, people try to get him to talk bad about Trump. He won't go there. He's, you know, he's constantly trying

to just talk about what's going on. There's many times he's literally, Trump has said something, he's walked on stage and said, please disregard what that buffoon has said. What I mean is this. And so there's been many times that I looked at him and say, okay, well, this guy feels like a straight shooter. And you know, the other thing too, that I think is really important is that we are looking at right now, we got an email a couple weeks ago about it and it's really true. We're looking at science happening

in real time. And so there's things that we see and we think, well, that might work and it doesn't and people are putting a lot of hope on those things. And so we're running into real issues with people who are putting too much hope onto something that doesn't have any

real, that has no real effects. And that's happening in, in several different places. We're going to talk about plasma here in a minute, but you know, it's happening in several, the hydroxychloroquine was one of those things. And then, you know, they talk about all these other different types of things that are, that are, that, that fucking MyPillow guy's got some weird shit that he wants to throw. Somebody else said like, I think this week there was a study that came out that said, like, citrodidyl or some bullshit like that. It's like an anti, it's a mosquito repellent. Also kills COVID-19. And it's like, all right, cool.

But, like, if you read further into the article, it's like, but it's unclear how that could be useful at all for anyone, basically. It's like, lots of things kill viruses, right? Like that's not hard to do. Yeah, I mean, well, you could stick UV light up your ass or drink fucking alcohol, according to Trump, whatever, you know? But like, you know, the thing is, we're just, everyone is just throwing as much spaghetti against the wall as possible and hoping it's going to stick.

And we're paying attention to media outlets that find one glimmer of hope because they know that's going to be a shared thing that people will talk about. So we're finding out that the most optimistic things might not be true. The most pessimistic things might not be true. And then sometimes the scientists come out and say things that they walk backwards and people don't like to hear that. They think science has the answer period or it doesn't. Those are your two options. You know, I think as a skeptic personally, I'm okay with science making mistakes. Me too. I've never had a problem with that. Where I do have an issue is like when science feels like it's being co-opted

for political reasons, you know? Absolutely. Yeah. And it's like, fuck, man. Like I can't, fuck. I just can't stomach it. I just cannot stomach it. We, like, we need some real answers. And like, it's crazy to live in a time where we've got such an important problem and we have such an incredible crisis in leadership. And then we have a crisis in like, um, uh, scientific leadership as well. We can't be, we can't be, we can't live in a vacuum on both sides. Like being in a vacuum without like in both sides where like nobody is really invested in the truth and nobody is really like looking out for the actual people. They're all looking out for, you know, whatever self-interest they serve.

It kind of couldn't be worse. Like it just kind of could not be worse. And one of the things that you can look at, almost all their decisions are optics decisions. You know, any of these decisions that get where they have to walk them back, they're all optics decisions. The same, you know, masks was an optics decision.

That's an optics decision because you don't want people walking around your country with masks on because it looks like you've failed. It looks like, well, it's already here and we've already failed. You don't want people doing the, we're going to talk about plasma in a second, but we're talking about all the things that they're

pushing forward and then this new testing method that they're coming out with. And then also the roll your numbers up to the CDC thing instead of local areas reporting them and then posting them or whatever. That one caveat that came down that said you've got to

give all your numbers to the government before we actually post them now. So all this stuff is optics based. It's all 100% trying to make sure that they look the very best that they can. Yeah. Meanwhile, the fucking death toll just hit 180,000. Yep.

Yeah. It's going to hit 200,000. You know what? What is that? Three weeks? Yeah. Yeah. It'll almost certainly be a quarter million by the time we get to election day.

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This is a wrap! What are you going to arrest me for? I want the manager. Lady, this is a subway. He's taping me again! He's taping me again! You called into this commercial! My God, no more Karens. the manager. Lady, this is a subway. He's taping me again! He's taping me again! I do not like that stuff! You called into this commercial!

My God, no more Karens. Okay, go to adamandeve.com and get... I'm talking to this guy. He's a f***ing idiot. Use code glory. The Food and Drug Administration just told a Massachusetts bakery that they cannot list love as an ingredient

in their granola. Yes, they have to call it by its scientific name, rat poop. So this next story comes from Ars Technica. FDA's promotion of post-COVID plasma treatment was as bad as it appears. So FDA is also now problematic. That's good. That's awesome. So this specifically refers to the emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 treatment, which would allow for plasma from people who had recovered from COVID-19 to be used as a therapeutic. And when they came out, they came out and Trump had said ahead of time, he's like, ah, Sunday, we're going to have a game-changing announcement on some shit. And then the game-changing announcement from the FDA

was, hey, this is great, and it reduces severity by like 35%. It was like a really dramatic big-time number, and it's like, whoa, that's awesome. That sounds so awesome. The principal justification for allowing this treatment under emergency authorization

was a 35% drop in mortality for those receiving plasma the first three days. And you read that and you're like, holy shit, that's huge. That's huge. And it's like, yeah, cool. That's not true. No, the actual difference in absolute risk. You would want to get that right, I think. Well, here's how bad it is. So I'm just going to read directly from the article. Imagine a case where only three out of 100 people are affected. An experimental condition changes that number to one out of 100. The relative risk is different by a factor of three, a 300% difference. But the absolute risk is the minor change of going from 3% to 1%.

The actual change in absolute risk seen in the study was 4.8%, not 35%. That means an additional 4.8 lives per 100 COVID-19 patients might be saved with the treatment. They fucked with the math. That's what they did. Bottom line is they fucked with the math. It says right in the article, it is possible to find some numbers mentioned in the paper that could be interpreted as producing a 35% difference between different types of treatments, but things get more complicated. When they start breaking it down, it's like, no, it's not nothing.

If I'm in the hospital, I want the 4.8% chance all day long. Sure, yeah. But it's not a 35% chance. It's about one-seventh of that. But it's not a 35% chance. It's about one seventh of that. But like, this is about having a great headline. This is about having a killer press conference. This is about having stories that go viral for your shitty uncle to share. Like that's what this shit is for. Because we have no leadership. Because nobody gives a shit about the fucking outcome. All they care about is the outcome of their party and the outcome of their personal career.

Yeah, or just how great I am. And that's literally what has been happening the whole time. It's just how great, look at how great I am. Look at how great I am. Look at how great I am. Look at what I'm doing. I'm doing the best job. I'm doing such a better job than anybody could have done,

is the line. Mike, can you imagine, do you think he believes, honestly, do you think Trump believes that like, history will look back at his legacy? Because this is a legacy-defining moment, right? And had he done a great job, you could hate him for everything else. But had he done a great job with the pandemic, that would have been his legacy. That would have been his legacy. Nothing else would have mattered. If the United States had just fucking crushed this thing New Zealand style and like the rest of the world is just a shit show and like the US with its big ass population still had a functioning, robust economy and we didn't have the massive leading the world

in cases and deaths position that we're in. Like if he had just fucking crushed this thing, that would have been his legacy. Do you think he's looking now and being like, yeah, my legacy is going to be the pandemic for sure, but it's going to be favorable? Do you think he believes that? I think he does. Oh, yeah.

I think he's one of those guys that I can't, I saw this week, he's such a fucking narcissist that there's a suspicion suspicion there was an article about him in one of those newspapers years and years and years ago and there's a suspicion that he posed as his own secretary to send in a message to say how great working for donald trump was and how and how great he is to women. And it literally uses the same language that he does when he talks.

So hold on, let me find, I'll read it out loud. Is it like that doctor's letter where it's like, I'm the best health, the most good health. The health is the best health of all the health, the health, the health. So supposedly Carolyn Gallego wrote the 1992 letter. And so the letter came, the letter is from this person. It's a letter to the editor.

And it says, it says, I'm gonna read it. Based on the fact that I worked with Donald Trump as his secretary and therefore know him well, I think he treats women with great respect, contrary to what Julie Baumgold implied in her article. I do not believe in, I do not believe any man in America gets more calls from women wanting to see him, meet him, or go out

with him. The most beautiful women, the most successful women, all women love Donald Trump. He so wrote this. He so wrote that. Like, especially at the end, right? The most beautiful woman, the most successful woman. All the women want to fuck him. He's so good to women. I'll tell you who's not a misogynist. Donald Trump, he's so not a misogynist. He gets so much pussy.

That's how he's not a misogynist. You can tell by his drowning in pussy. Holy shit, what? When I saw it this week, I didn't know about it. Holy shit. But I just couldn't believe it. I thought, you know, that's probably true. And there's no way to know, right? I don't know about it. Holy shit. But I just couldn't believe it. I thought, you know, that's probably true. And there's no way to know, right?

I don't know. Right. But the way it's written, it's either dictated by him or it was written by him. There's no way it's not. Seriously, it's like, my secretary wrote it. Yeah, but she didn't write down the, take a memo, sweetheart, that you bellowed at her ahead of time. Exactly.

Right. Did you see any of the RNC this week? No, I read about it, but I didn't watch any. Did you watch any of it? God, Tom. I can't do that. I'm not a strong enough man.

I'm going to play a section for you real quick. Okay. I'm going to play it for the audience too. And I'm going to turn my screen so you can see it. Okay.

Give me a second. We'll link to this in the show notes if you guys want to watch it. I cannot express to you how much you want to watch this, right? I can't tell you, I can't tell you how much you really want to see this. The leader who will rebuild the promise of America and ensure that every citizen can realize their American dream. Ladies and gentlemen, can realize their American dream. Ladies and gentlemen, leaders and fighters for freedom and liberty

and the American dream, the best is yet to come. Why is she screaming at us? That is so weird. It's so weird. She's just screaming into an empty room that echoes the silence back at her it's genuinely feels like 1939 hitler yeah it's bombastic it 100 if i mean i know that german always sounds like that but that's a german pillow talk sounds like imagine someone

imagine if someone translated this and did it in german yeah think of how amazing that would be just think of how amazing that would be tom good oh somebody should do that somebody should somebody should take that same video and don't change any of the words. Just translate it into screamy German. Well, and Tom, let's get right into this next story. Because this next story talks about this lady. So this story is pretty great. It's from Newsweek. AOC questions Kimberly Daffodils.

The lady we just heard. Yeah, whatever. I don't know how to say her fucking name. Do you know how to say her name? Guilfoyle? Guilfoyle? Guilfoyle? I don't know.

Guilfoyle? Kimberly Gargoyle's knowledge of her own heritage after she said she's a first-generation American. You know what? I'm just going to read what AOC said because it's fucking amazing. This is so good. So, the woman the GOP picked as their proud Latina

to tout immigrant experience didn't seem to know that Puerto Rico is already part of the United States. It's quite a message because it reflects- How did you not know? She is Puerto Rican. Like one of your parents literally came from there. Were you not inquisitive ever during your whole life?

Were you ever just like, hey, we should go back to where you grew up? Oh, I don't want to go there. You never typed it into google you never just went porto rico and then what comes up when you type porto rico it's america porto rico territory united states territory it's literally the first thing that's returned how is it possible how do you live that life you could swim there from miami that's like being born a boy and not knowing what your dick is for are you kidding me oh fuck it's so fucking great it is it is really great. Yeah. What is she? I think I interrupted you. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

No, that's okay. So AOC goes on and says, it's quite on message because it reflects their belief that Latinos aren't real citizens, even when we are native descendants. Right. And then even fucking Meghan McCain came out and said, my husband and his family are Puerto Rican. They aren't first generation Americans because Puerto Rico is an American territory. I feel like this has to be explained every few months,

and it makes me fear for what's being taught in our schools. Oh, jeez. I actually had to tell somebody that at work just like a week or so. Like, think last week. Somebody last week, Cecil, at my work was like, oh, you know, we're trying to do this closing, and they want to sign in Puerto Rico,

and they're refusing to go to the American cons want to sign in Puerto Rico and they were, they're refusing to go to the American consulate. Cause if you're out overseas, that's where you have to sign documents. And I said, I said, well, there's no American consulate in America. And the woman just stared at me. That's amazing. And she just stared at me and I was like, cause, cause that's America. And she kept staring at me and I'm like, because that's America. And she kept staring at me and I'm like,

Puerto Rico is America. It's America. That's all I kept saying to her. She just sounded like that guy in the Gif where his head blows up. She's dumbstruck for hours just standing in her office

not saying anything, just blathering. Because there's an IO error. I can't imagine if something happened in Guam, she'd be like, I can't even do this. Gosh. And listen to this. This is part of the speech, right?

I mean, we didn't listen to that speech, but part of her speech, part of Kimberly's speech is, as a first generation American, I know how dangerous their socialist agenda is. My mother, Mercedes, was a special education teacher from Puerto Rico. My father, also an immigrant,

came to this nation in pursuit of the American dream. Now, her father, her father is an Irishman, right? Something like that. Born in Ireland. A Irishman, right? Something like that. Born in Ireland, immigrated in the 50s. Yeah.

And so, I consider my duty to fight to protect that dream. So, it's talking about a socialist agenda. And then it goes, rioters must not be allowed to destroy our cities. Human, sex, drug traffickers should not be allowed to cross our border. The same socialist policies

which destroyed places like cuba and venezuela must not take root in our cities and schools what the fuck are you talking about are you talking about three separate things or are you saying that you know these weird billionaire that because all the people are cubase that are talking about it they're all like oh it's a fucking uh uh billionaires all well are they socialist billionaires that trade in kids i don't understand i think how do you how do you conflate the socialism in the i don't get it i i think she is confusing first of all i think she's confusing puerto rico with cuba that's what i really think that she's doing yeah i think she doesn't know the difference

between puerto rico and cuba i don. I don't think she does either. It's the only thing I can imagine. That's the only thing that I can imagine. It's so amazing. You never talk to dad or mom about where they live? Yeah. She knows her mom's from a specific place in Puerto Rico. I was like, man, was that before or after the revolution, mom?

Did you know? You fucking idiot. Did you know Shiva Gavaraara did you know that person fuck out of here god is such a stupid stupid thing is it'll play like it'll play it'll play to the to the base of the right that like oh they don't care that puerto rico is america if you were to ask them if you were to call people out on this, Cecil, they'd be like, yeah, well, maybe it shouldn't be. I got to say, though, the memes that have come out of this, of that person

with her hands up in the air have been the best. They've been the best. They have been the best. And genuinely, everyone the first night when she spoke was just like,

the fuck? What the fuck is wrong with this person? You can't hear that speech and not think that person is unhinged. I read two or three different, like, you know, best of the night, worst of the night type things

and all the worst of like, different people said best of the night, but like worst of the night was always that speech. It was just like, that was just weird. Like, she just screamed at everyone. There wasn't even anyone to scream at. It's like you're a poet in Chicago.

Hey, hey, hey, poet in chicago that's my feeling space and sometimes i dragged you out there oh that was good you got me on that one little Little poetry joke there, guys. Very little. Deep cut for you poets out there. Excuse me. There's a sign at Rampstead Park that says do not drink the sprinkler water. So I made some tea with it and now I have an infection. Sir? Sir? Are you listening to me, sir? Sir, I'm talking to you.

Sir? Sir, are you aware that there is waste in your water system? This, this story. Holy shit. This story. This is from Science Alert. I'm blown away by this. I was speechless when I saw it.

Yeah. This is a jaw dropper. U.S. town rejects solar farm amid worries it would suck up all the energy from the sun. It's not a Dyson sphere. What the fuck are you talking about? I got to read parts of this. A retired science teacher. Jane Mann said she was concerned about the rising risk of cancer deaths in the area,

despite reports showing the cancer rates in North Carolina have fallen over the last four years, saying that no one could tell her that solar panels were not causing cancer. I don't see any tigers. She was also concerned that photosynthesis would slow due to the solar panels, stopping the plants from growing in the solar farm fields. I want

to know what's going to happen. I want information. Enough is enough. I don't see the profit for the town. People come with hidden agendas. Until we can find if anything is going to damage this community, we shouldn't sign any paper. Bobby man said he was worried. Where would you get it? There's no more photosynthesis.

You can't get paper anymore. Save what you have, lady. You can't get paper anymore. You can't even have paper. Save what you have, lady. We're running out of sun. Other, they're going to suck up all the energy. Like the sun is just going to be like. Oh, we drained it. Oh God, did we drain the sun?

It's so stupid. It is. It's such a stupid thing to say. I mean, like, yeah, the grass underneath the solar panel will certainly turn brown. Right. Yeah. Anything that is, you know, in a shadow won't have as much sun. It doesn't prevent us from building like pergolas you know i can't see so i don't want to plant a tree in my backyard it might soak up all the sunshine

and then the grass won't have any sunshine every day you walk out it's like seattle and you're like what the fuck man i didn't want to move here i like sunshine once in a while it's not like a fucking rainforest canopy of solar panels that like is strung up in such a way that it prevents the sunlight from like seeping down to the earth. They're just on the ground. Yeah. They're just like on the ground. Like I said earlier, it's not a Dyson sphere. We didn't fly up into space and cover the entire solar panels and then suck the juice out of it.

We didn't juice the sun. We didn't do that. This is why we'll never have nice things, Cecil. Oh, Jesus, man. That is a retired science teacher. That's amazing to me. I hope that retired science teacher is 26. What science?

Do you tell me what science? I want to know what science it was. It's so great. It's so great. It's like- Because I'm guessing, I'm guessing it's Christian science. That's what I'm thinking it was.

There's just like the solar panel manufactured to like talk into the sun. It's like, I drink your sun shake. I drink it up. I hope you drink it fast, then you sun shake. I drink it up. I hope you drink it fast and you sun choke. Sign the document. I see you're no stranger to pain.

I've been married. Twice. Why? All right, this story is from Brazil. It's from the Gazette in Brazil. I'm going to read parts of it. And I'm using Google Translate, so I'm sorry if it sounds a little choppy.

I can't. is it gonna be weird is it gonna be weird like we used to do the voicemail remember voicemail translate for that was so great that was so great somebody would call and be like hey tom and c still love the show google translate be like hey tomato sauce love biscuits furball knobbblenop. And he was like, what the fuck? It was amazing. It was always amazing. I can't separate. I was going to scandalize

the name of God. According to investigators, the deputy tried to murder the pastor at least six times by poisoning, in addition to hiring gunmen on two other occasions. Jesus.

This guy's a modern day Rasputin. Holy shit. All right. So this woman was arrested as the principal for the murder of her husband, who is a pastor. And they said they designated a federal deputy, Fleur Delis, would have designed the crime because she was dissatisfied with the way the pastor managed their money. So he's mismanaging the money.

She's like, okay, you know, I'm going to off this guy. According to investigators, she tried to murder the pastor at least six times by poisoning. Is there no other options when you're mismanaging money? You know, that's a great, that's a great question. You know, like, I don't know, like in your, in your relationship, Cecil, have you ever been like, Hey, you know, we were trying to save some money and use the debit card too many times. So I poisoned your dinner for a week. No.

I've been on the receiving end of that, but never the giving end. Never the giving end. I told you no more than three trips to Starbucks. Now you're dead. What? So during the investigation, the police and the MP faced an exchange of messages in which

Floridella suggests that the murder of her husband would be the only way out. Quote, when she convinces and talks to another son who is denounced here, Andre, about this plan to kill him, she speaks as follows. Do what? I can't separate from him because otherwise I would scandalize the name of God. What? And then decides to kill him. No, but killing him is fine though.

So like you don't want a divorce because Jesus was real clear. And to be fair, Jesus was real clear about divorce. That's not, that's a verboten thing in the Bible. But I do remember there being a little something about killing people as well. I think multiple times they go out of their way to tell you about that. Yeah, I think they're pretty like, eh, I don't know. I don't know. I just, I fucking love that that's

their solution. Like, look, I want, I still want God to like me. I want to get invited to the potlucks. You know, I don't want to be like on the outs with the big guy. So I'm going to fucking poison that mother. Can you imagine like the fourth time you poison him? You're like, all right, maybe I need to rethink. Nope. two more times.

I'm going to try two more times. Where did you find these hit men? Fiverr? Like what the fuck, man? Seriously, everybody sucks at this. There's so many hit man stories, Tom. We cover so many hit man stories. We're just like, people are so incompetent.

And I guess, you know, you would never cover a hit man story where the person, you knew the person got hit by a hit man because then it wouldn't be a good hitman, I guess. Right. So they, they self-select out, but still it's just the, the, the bumbled ones are so bad. So genuinely bad. When you watch movies, like hitmen are like fucking like ultra smooth and suave and sleek. And they have like guns that like, they can like pull it out of their wallet and assemble it in like little pieces

in 12 seconds they have a fully functioning sniper rifle you know and like we read these stories and it's like hit him with a hammer

and I was saying my name while I was doing it I was like I'm Tom whack I'm Tom whack and then I got caught

pretty much immediately yeah and I let him Facebook live it. I tried to kill him by slicing with my social security card. I left it there. Truly, I say unto you, whoever welcomes one of these little ones in my name might be letting in a murderer or a drug.

Let's get her to a detention center, you know, until we can figure out what's going on. So this story comes from Right Wing Watch. Trump world favorite persuader Scott Adams sees satanic coinkydinks in Biden campaign. All right. Well, we're going to watch this video and you can watch this video if you go to the show notes, but we're actually going to play it, play the audio for you right now. So this is Scott Adams. This is the Dilbert creator, Scott Adams. How about the name Joe Biden? Well, there's no six, six, six. God, are we doing this? Yeah, this is great. That's three letters. Biden is five. So there's no symbolism there. This is amazing.

You should do this with a pen and paper. All right, so three and five. I'm getting a pen and paper. Three and five. I got a three and a five. You have to do some drawing here. Okay, I got a three and a five. All right, I got my pen.

When I look at that, I think eight or two, but anyway, go ahead. Okay, it's fine. Except I was looking at it a little bit closer. Okay. Do you know if you took the capital letter J? Take the J? Imagine the capital letter J in your mind.

I got it. Now think of the next letter in Joe. It's an O. Now just move the O to the left until it's on top of the J. It's a backward six. It looks like a little guy. So that's the J and the O in the form of a backward six. A backward six it looks like a little guy so that's the J and the O a backward six if you squeeze two letters together

no it forms an upside down question mark for me I'm not sure so a backward six would look like this I didn't get a backward six out of this either I took my J and then I took my O I don't think I put it in the right place.

I got it. Oh, I know what you have to do. You have to nestle it. Okay. So take a J. I got it. Cecil.

I got it. And then elongate the, I got you, buddy. I got you. I'm not doing this. And then you got to elongate the, the,

the little thing going down. And then you got to nestle the O into the J and then turn it upside down and backwards. And you have a six. It looks like if I do it, it kind of looks like when you cast a hook in and the bait shifts. That's what it looks like to me. All right. So we're not reaching right now. But we have a six.

I think we legitimately have a six. This is a backwards six. This is a six. It's a backwards six, so a nine. Yeah, okay. No, you... All right, now you're wrecking his shit. It's a backwards nine.

I have a six is what I believe. I want to believe. All right. This letter is the lowercase e. Lowercase e. What does the lowercase e look like if you turn it upside down? Lowercase e. Well, it looks like... I did. An upside down lowercase e. like if you turn it upside down? Lowercase e. An upside down lowercase e.

Looks like a... It looks like an a? Now it looks a little like an upside down comma to me. It looks like an a. Yeah, so if you do it, it looks like an a. And then just keep going. Kind of looks like a two. Maybe one of those quick twos.

Yeah, right. Okay. What does Gilbert think? A to D2. And then just keep going. Kind of looks like a two, maybe one of those quick twos. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. No. All right. What does it look like? What does Gilbert think? A to D two. That's what it looks like. It's like a six. So you got the J and the L together.

If you combine them, it looks like a backward six. You've got the lowercase E that looks like an upside down six, but that's just two sixes. Well, it's not even two sixes to be fair you built a six out of two letters they're both upside down and sideways and bumble fucked over admittedly if you take individual pieces of all these letters you could probably paint a satan kick picture too you know what i mean like i genuinely wait yeah you know when you take something apart you can make

something new no shit dude that's how taking things apart works i know it's like what the fuck okay guys did you know that if you buy a batman lego set and assemble it into a demon you have a demon lego set yeah no shit dude it's parts and parts is parts. But the next letter is capital B for Biden. Okay, capital B. And capital B is where you hide your sex. So even-

You just hide it. Wait, what? Cecil, earlier in the video, when he said, I got you, buddy, I got you. Okay, thank you, because we skipped a little bit. Yeah, earlier in the video, he's talking about Biden's slogan, which is like, build better buildings or something. I forgot what BBB stands for.

Build better boobs. Yeah, I forgot what it stands for. Oh, build back better. Build back better, right? Smell a woman's hair. Is that what it was? Is that what the slogan is? And what Dilbert here says is that if you take-

Dilbert, I like that you're calling him Dilbert. If you take build back better and you ignore most of the letters and then you do BBB and now it's not the Better Business Bureau, but it's build back better. What if it was BBC instead? And then what a bee is, Cecil, and I'm not even kidding, what he says a bee is is a

secret six. It's a secret because you can hide a six inside a bee. And if you think I'm making this up, let me read, I'm going to just read to you exactly what it says. If you were going to imagine 666 and you wanted to show it to people and disguise it at the same time,

can you think of any letter that the numeral 6 would fit inside of completely only the capital B? Oh, Jesus Christ. So you can hide a 6 inside a B. So a B is now a 6, even though it's also a 2. B. So a B is now a 6, even though it's also a 2. You know, it's... You, Cecil, should shut your whore mouth and let Tom do

the talking. Tom, you make a good point. I can see the argument. This guy's so bonkers. Who's the fucking idiots in the world that look to this douchebag and they think, God, this guy's right on. Man, he's right on. Oh, he's right on.

I do have too many pagers on my belt. Fucking idiot. J-O-E-B is 666. 666. It gets crazy. You can find a pattern in anything. How do you explain the rest of the word?

He calls himself out on this shit. It's easy if you just cherry pick. If you just cherry pick, you can get that. But what is left of the word Biden? I like that he says that and does not say

why that's a bad thing. He just admits that it's there. It's like, hey guys, there is an elephant in the room. Anyway. I know, right? Let's all eat some of his shit. That's what I was saying. In my speech pre-elephant in the room speech. It's so amazing.

Oh gosh. That's where the six is hiding. What's left of the word Biden. Are you ready for this? I am. D.E.N. I.D.E.N. Identity.

What the fuck? What are you talking about so that if you if you only count some of the letters and you add on other letters that aren't there and you draw different shapes and then you find secret numbers hidden in different letters the fucking what oh You know, if I take all the paint off my walls and use that to paint different things, I will have painted different things. I used to, Tom, I used to think the Bible code was fucking stupid. The Bible code is literally fucking manna from heaven

in comparison to this. It's genuinely, it makes so much more sense. This is David Icke level crazy. It is. It's absolutely off the walls, bananas crazy. My favorite is the J into a six. I love the J into a six. What I hate about this whole timeline is that nobody has any good arguments.

There's plenty of good arguments for not Biden, right? Right. I'm sure there's plenty of good arguments out there that somebody could say, look, you know, he was against this or he did this. And, you know, you know, there's plenty of ways that you could politically tell me, you know, your choice for Biden might not be the best choice. I think that that's valid. And I'd listen to you. But when you're just like, no, his fucking name means bad. And you're like, oh, my God, you're a weirdo.

What is wrong with you? Biden all of a sudden is the devil. What I love is that, like, we didn't know that. Evidently, he's been the devil like the whole time. The whole time. The whole time he's trying to kill Obama

and it's not working. It's like a sitcom where Biden is constantly trying to kill kill obama so he could become and that's the thing is wasn't wasn't obama satan didn't we already go through this once before it's like oh no he's not he's basil lip yeah he's basil lip or whatever basil lips because he ate pesto earlier um this is such a stupid it's so stupid you know you already said the other guy was satan what was, but somehow Biden was also. Yes, Hillary's a double Satan witch.

No, she's, no, she can't be Satan because Satan's got a penis. What she was, was, oh, who's the evil, who's the evil manifestation? Jezebel. Jezebel. Yep, yep. Yeah, she's Jezebel.

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We got a message. It came in as a guest request. It was from someone who just left their email account. I guess Dat Other Guy is the contact info. But it was sent through our website. And they're from Canada, and they're talking about our healthcare system. They say,

I think you need to get on board with a third party for the people and get your shit together before you kill us all with your corporate-centered ideals. I want to say, I don't have a lot of corporate-centered ideals, I don't think, but I'm willing to listen to any ones

that you want to point out. I am 100% behind Medicare for All. I think it was probably the best place to be, but Bernie did not get the requisite amount of votes. 100% behind Medicare for all. I think, you know, like it was probably the best place to be. Uh, but, uh, but Bernie did not get the requisite amount of votes. I hope that people push Biden to do something that is like that, even if it's not called that. Um, and hopefully we will be able to do that if he gets to be, if he gets elected. But, uh, but I, I recognize that our system, our, our, our medical system is totally fucked and it needs an overhaul. Yeah.

And I want to address the third party. We don't have that system. We don't have a system that creates viability for third parties. Third parties have never been viable in modern history in America. I would love it if that were different, but it's not different. And until it becomes different, we have to work with the system that we're in if we want to accomplish anything. Throwing your vote away to Jill Stein doesn't do anything

except for end up with fucking Trump in office. Well, and if you did split the Democratic Party with centrists and liberals, then the Republicans just win every time. Yeah, they just win every time. It's too strategic with two parties right now. Yeah.

Really, the solution is to break up the two major parties into multiple parties and then change our entire voting scheme. Yes.

And that requires constitutional change. It's not going to happen. Don't get me wrong. It would be amazing if we had multiple, multiple parties

where I could look at my candidates across because I'll tell you, so many times I do, I side with, and it's not a mainstream candidate. It's not somebody who's mainstream. It's somebody who I'm like, what the fuck? I side with who? And that happens. It happens all the time where I'm just like, holy shit, that guy's not mainstream or that gal's not mainstream at all. And that just happens. But I would love to see that because then I would say, well, shit, it looks like this person has the most that I agree with. And I would love to see rank choice voting. I would love to see that because then I would say, well, shit, it looks like this person has the most

that I agree with. And I would love to see ranked choice voting. I would love to see changes like that in our political system. I, the Constitution, the Constitution

is such a fucking hill to climb that it's, it's almost impossible. That's why we don't have an equal rights amendment, man. Yeah. We got a message from, from,

this is, somebody didn't sign it. So they didn't sign it. They they call themselves lunchbox. I guess is at the top there They sent a message and they said um, they they said that they got this mailer in the in The mail and it's literally president trump says join president trump and vote by absentee ballot He's and it says request your absentee ballot today. He's literally Asking people to vote by absentee ballot. And it says, request your absentee ballot today. He's literally asking people to vote by mail, specifically doing it, even though he says and has been shitting on vote by mail

the whole time. Yeah, but it's all the vote, all the don't vote by mail stuff is a way for him to control where voting by mail is more difficult, right? In order to disenfranchise certain population groups.

Yeah, yeah. We got a message from Tammy and then someone else sent a message in too. They sent a message about allsides.com, which is supposed to be all the different stories from all different spectrums of right to left. And they try to use a sort of a grade to tell you whether the source you're looking at is centrist,

whether it's left-leaning, whether it's far left-leaning or far right-leaning. And Tom and I both absolutely abhor the website. It's the ugliest site I ever saw in my life. Because it looks genuinely terrible. It looks like a GeoCity site. Seriously, this looks like a site that somebody built in 1993. Yes. It is an atrocity.

I mean, I'm not saying the information is bad. I'm sure the information is good and it's probably a worthwhile exercise. I will say, though, that it is a cancer for your eyes to behold. Yes. It hurts to look at. Yeah, absolutely. It looks like when the internet was first starting and I Made my wedding website

It looks like that Yeah, we got a message a patron message from bobby b. Bobby's been a longtime listener six seven years Um, just want to shout them out bobby. Thanks so much for listening. Thanks for becoming a patron. Really appreciate it We got we got an image. This is a reddit link that links to an image And we're going to put it on this week's show notes. It very much is the theme of this show that's not a glory hole. Like it's genuinely, like of all the things we've done, it is a theme of the show that is not a glory hole.

So go check it out. Yeah. Send in from Patrick. Thank you, Patrick. Speaking of which, the very next email that we had is an image from Brian, which is a glory hole. And we'll post it on this week's show notes. It's very funny.

See, so my favorite thing about the glory hole that's being held up here is it is for sale and is marked down from $900 to $90. It's 90% off. So funny. No takers. We got a message from Kat and Kat was talking about an impractical car submission.

We had a thread about this and Tom and I took a look at the thread. It was actually a really great thread. It's on the Facebook page and there's a couple of them different places. The Facebook group had one as well as the Facebook page. But this person sent in a message. This is Cat and they said their impractical car is a 1963

Lamborghini Muraya Lamborghini Muraya. I don't know if I'm saying that right. Muria, maybe? I don't know, but it's an amazing looking car. Tom and I both looked at it. It looks like the Speed Racer car. It's awesome. It is beautiful. That is a seriously, outrageously

cool car. It's funny. Someone was picking on me for my choices of a reasonable SUV or a Corvette, and I'm just like, look, man, modest cars are okay too. Go fuck yourself. And actually I changed my mind.

What I would get if I had a billion dollars is I would go out of my way to hire a grandma and get a Volvo and have them drive me around because every single fucking billionaire out there rides in a fast ass car, like flies and like fucking skate, surfboards off a water shark and then they fucking get murdered and they die in a plane crash or a Cessna. I mean, look at Kobe Bryant dies in a fucking helicopter. I would never get

into anything unsafe. I would walk or I would have grandma drive me places. That would be it. I would hire a 70 year old woman to drive me around who goes 10 miles under the speed limit. And I would, and I would strap myself in a five point harness in the back of a Volvo. That's what I would do. I'm going to live long enough to have fun with this billionaire money. God damn it. Fuck it. Hey man. Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong. She's going to take me to a secret staircase where billionaire hookers are. I'm going to go with Graham. Come on, grandma, pick one out for yourself. I'm going to go with Grim. Come on, Grandma, pick one out for yourself.

Live a little. Live a little, Margaret. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I said one, Grandma. We got a message from Elena and Elena sent a long message about Mexico but specifically said, look, I guess in the past we might have used the term illegal alien

and they find it offensive and racist. I know that I try to use the term undocumented whenever I can. If we did use illegal alien, it may be that we might be reading from a story. I know Tom and I are pretty careful. If we did slip up though, we apologize.

It's not something that we try to do. I know that I don't like the term illegal at all because it makes it feel like a person can be illegal and that's a stupid thing to think. So I don't like that. I like to say undocumented whenever possible. Yeah. I think I'm probably more guilty of that than Cecil and I'll apologize. There's no excuse other than I grew up hearing that so much that it's just embedded in there, but I'll try to do better. Right. Right. We got a message from Frank and Frank just said, hey, thanks for making me

laugh every week. Yeah. Thank you for listening, Frank. Yeah. Thanks, man. We got a message from frank and frank just said hey thanks for making me laugh every week yeah thank you for listening frank thanks man we got a message from ak and he said bannon looks like baron harkonnen let himself go baron harkonnen has pus to us all over his body in the book he looks disgusting he's like he can't hold himself up on the gravity he has to use he has to use repulsor lifts to like his belly. He's so disgusting. And this guy's like, he lifts, I'll go. And he's right. That's the thing.

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