Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 551: Giuliani's Meltdown

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

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This episode of Cognitive Dissonance is brought to you by our patrons. You fucking rock. Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason. recording live from inside the endless abyss that is 2020 this is cognitive dissonance every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way we bring critical thinking skepticism and irreverence to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad it's skeptical it's political and there is no welcome at this is episode 551 of cognitive dissonance cecil and uh i don't know man things seem to have gone from worse to shruggingly worse like like things have gotten

worse cecil here's here's what's unique about the last week things have gotten exponentially worse through complete and total inaction right right we we are at a we are at a place right now where 1,923 people died yesterday from the coronavirus. And the president tweeted out something about an 85% lower mortality rate for COVID today. That's what he tweeted out. Today, we have the highest number of deaths that we have had since the beginning of this thing. 1,923 deaths in a single day. Since the beginning of this thing, 1,923 deaths in a single day. And the president, the leader of our country, tweeted out about how great the medicines were and that mortality was down 85%. You know what's insane to me about the president and his current state is that we have a guy who has not met with any kind of coronavirus officials for a long

time, any of the briefing task force or anything they've said. It's months since he's met with them. He hasn't really left the fucking White House. Like you just said, he's hiding, right? Why does he want to be president still? You know, if he doesn't want to do the fucking job right now, why do you

want it in fucking 62 days or whatever it is from now? Why do you want it then? I have no idea. You know, I've thought about this with Trump specifically, but then just like fucking rich people in general. Like once I'm rich, I'm not going to work anymore. I don't need to. That's why you get rich, right? Like if I win the lottery, the first thing I do is quit my job.

I don't even go back and get my personal effects. I can buy new personal effects. I have digital pictures of my kids. I don't fucking care. I will buy the building and light it on fire. That's what I'll do. But like these billionaires, a guy like Trump, he's a billionaire. And I know that when he hopefully eventually leaves the White House, he'll go back to work trying to make money.

I don't understand. I don't to pretend that I understand the motivations of billionaires who still wake up in the morning and go to work to be more billion-y billionaires, like a super double extra plus billionaire billionaire. I can't. It's got to be about power. It's got to be about nothing other than just sheer, unadulterated, ego-driven power. And any attempt to look at what could possibly motivate a man like Trump beyond that? Because like you said, he seems to have no interest in the job itself of governance. None whatsoever. Doesn't care.

He's never expressed much of an interest in governance. Before, certainly. But, you know, at least at the beginning of the coronavirus, Tom, he was giving daily or every other daily briefings, as I recall. He was constantly in front of the camera talking about how great a job he was giving daily or every other daily briefings as I recall. He was constantly in front of the camera talking about how great a job he was doing. At least he's fucking talking. Now, where the fuck are you?

He's the commander in hiding, man. He's like the lady in waiting. It's unreal. It's a level of unreal. And today there was a presser with Rudy Giuliani. He's like a Yankee candle. That guy, somebody lit him on fire and he's dripping shit all down his face. And I got to play this for you, Tom, because it's so fucking funny. He's like the wicked witch at the end of

Wizard of Oz. I'm melting. Exactly. So let me play this for you, Tom. This is my favorite shit. Um, so at the end of the press conference, on Trump's, on the official White House channel, this is what was played. I think these guys didn't realize that they were being recorded. So let me share this with you. And at once, all for Joe Biden.

That's like flipping a coin 186,000 times and it lands on Rudy. See fucking Rudy's hair dye dripping down his face. That does not happen. The fucking official channel. Tom, it's the official Trump channel. This guy is saying, no, I

I'll play it again. I trust that this is that this is true. Again, I saw it on Reddit and it was also confirmed on Reddit by a couple other people. But again, it's Reddit, right? So just take this with a grain of salt

until someone writes an actual news article about it. Just presume that someone might be internet pranking us, right? So between us now, Tom, someone might be internet pranking us and I'm looking you in the eye and saying, I don't care, right saying, I don't care. Right? I just don't care. It's just too good. So this is

supposedly from Trump's feed. This is supposedly what happened. And at once, all for Joe Biden. That's like flipping a coin 186,000 times, and it lands on Rudy. Fucking Rudy's hair dye dripping down his face. That does not happen. There is no reasonable explanation

for the upshoots. Straight lines up. I'm not even talking about... I can't believe they leaked it. He said... It's so good. He's going to be dying from embarrassment.

It's so good. Well, that's the problem, Tom. They only counted the votes just for men. That's the problem. His fucking hair, if you haven't seen this, folks, it literally, his hair is fucking drip. His hair dye is dripping down his face. There's a fucking

gif of him I saw today where he blows his nose and then he takes the same fucking thing that he blew his nose in on that stage and he wipes his lips off and his face off. It's so gross. It's so nasty and weird. And I can't tell if he flips it around or not

because his hands are below. So he might just wipe his boogers on his face or he might've turned it around. But either way, if you turned it around, that means your hand's in the booger. So either your hand's in the booger or your face is on the booger. I don't know what's happening with Rudy Giuliani,

but he genuinely looked like fucking Nosferatu up there. He looked like Nosferatu exposed for the fucking sunlight for the first time. That's what he looked like. It's fucking amazing. I saw it happening live and I couldn't, at a certain point, the guy I was watching, David Packman, who used to be on the show once, he turns

and there's this big streak, this fucking big line of dye that leaked all the way down his head and I thought, is that a facelift scar? And he pauses it and he talks, he's like, no, that's hair dye. And then he kept turning around and he said to the camera, he said, Rudy just needs to stop moving his head he needs to stop he's like a fucking bulldog

you know when the bulldog drinks and it shakes its head right that's what it looked like that's what it looked like it was unreal man unreal and the and i also just want to add real quick that they literally just waved papers in the air and said i have a bunch of affidavits but i'm not going to tell you who and that's all they said said. They said nothing. I don't blame Rudy for dying his hair because he doesn't want this all to be like in a gray area when it all shakes out, you know? So who fucking uses like water soluble hair dye? Did he just color it in with like one of those dry erase markers beforehand? Is this like emergency, like hair polish in the fucking bathroom at the gas station? Like trying to make your way to Mexico?

What the fuck? Have you ever dyed your hair, Cecil? I've dyed my fucking hair. You put hair dye in. It doesn't just drip out because you got sweaty later that day. Right? That's not even a thing. That's not.

Did he use like watercolor hair dye i fucking literally has no hair like when you're that old and ugly do you still need to be vain like can't you just recognize at a certain point you look at yourself and you think no man there's no fix in this. Fuck it. There's no fix in this. Does he think somebody new and exciting is fucking him for his looks? Look, man, I used to drive around in a Geo Metro and I knew that car was a piece of trash. It was a tiny three-cylinder engine. I knew for sure I was never impressing anyone with that car.

I didn't pretend. I didn't put fuzzy dice on it. I didn't chop the top and put it low i knew it was a piece of trash pull up and rev all 70 horsepower of its engine i didn't have one of those things that fucking shock absorbers on the front and the hydraulics that made it bounce or i didn't do any of that stuff to it see so my favorite part of that is that i had a fucking geo metro Metro as well. And I had a killer sound system because I just want it. Do you remember that? I do. I remember it was good. Yeah. He had a subwoofer. Yeah. It broke the car. Like it was the, it was still the least

impressive car anyone's ever had, but it also, the sound system broke the car was such a piece of shit that it literally damaged the car and irreparably broke it. So I want to play this too. So right after this happens, and I did not watch this live, but this is from Rolling Stone. They captured. That picture.

The picture of him is amazing. Guys, go to Rolling Stone. I'll include a link on this week's show notes. Actually, if I don't, if I forget, it's Fox airs Giuliani presser in full then reports it was a lie. And I want to play the audio from Fox News right after this. I didn't watch this live, but I mean, this is literally on Fox News right afterwards. But first, let's go to Kristen Fisher. She's live at the White House. Kristen. Well, that was certainly a colorful

news conference from Rudy Giuliani, but it was light on facts. So much of what he said was simply not true or has already been thrown out in court. And, you know, Giuliani, he opened by making this really bold and baseless claim that a lot of this alleged nationwide voter fraud that he's referring to all came from one centralized place. He called it a nationwide conspiracy. And yet he failed to provide any hard evidence to back up that one specific claim, especially when you're dealing with a claim that really cuts to the core of our democratic process. It goes on like that. I only played 40 seconds of it, but you guys can watch the whole thing.

Literally, the person keeps saying over and over, there is no evidence for what he is saying. All these places that they keep saying there is evidence. They are certifying these places. They're getting certified election results in these places. They are just, it's insane to me that we live in a time where someone can just say, there's a guy, there's one guy who's in his best interest to lie to you, literally saying a lie. The other people are saying, no,

we don't have any evidence of any of that happening. In fact, here's all of the hand recounted ballots and all the places that we've done. Here's all the certified election results, no evidence of fraud at all. And then they go back to him and he says, no, but you got to believe me. I'm telling you they're trying to steal the election from me. That's what we have. And then we have 47% of Americans believe that guy

who thinks the election was stolen from him. We're at a place in history I never thought we would be in, Cecil, which is where Fox News is fact-checking Donald Trump and Donald Trump's associates and saying that is inaccurate. Yeah. We're at a place where Fox News has had to say, wow, I guess if we're going to use the word news, we should actually journalism a little. Yeah. I mean, there's no spin they can't they're not they're not even attempting any kind of a spin on this not even

fox not even the most sympathetic so where we've where we've had to go then when when you look at the the conspiracy bullshit it's now had to move to even like weirder, more niche platforms like OANN, like the One America News Network, where nobody with a journalism degree outside of a junior college has ever worked ever. These are discredited sources. Those are the only ones. So you've got now 47 million people who have spent the last how many years of their lives looking at Fox and quoting Fox and being Fox is the fucking arbiter of all good information. And just like that, they've turned their back on Fox. Yeah. They turned their back on the most right wing news outlet in our history. I watched video feeds from the million MAGA march,

which was certainly short of a million by a lot, many hundred thousand. But it was, they were marching down the street screaming Fox News sucks. They had a chant, Fox News sucks, because Fox News called Arizona and since then they haven't been as,

don't get me wrong, watch Fox News and they still do talk about this, you know, as if Trump had something to say but has not produced the evidence. Many other networks are literally just saying that that's a baseless claim, and they're cutting away from press conferences, and they're not giving him a platform. Fox News aired that entire press conference. So, you know, so Fox News is there in the room airing that entire press conference. And so they're not off the hook. They're certainly not off the hook. And don't, and you know, they're part of the reason why we're even in this. They're probably a large reason why we're even in this mess. Right. Absolutely. So, you know, now they're stepping away from the burner saying, well, it wasn't me who burned the house down, but you know, now they're stepping away from the burner saying, well, it

wasn't me who burned the house down, but you know, they were the ones who fucking lit everything on fire to start out. But don't get me wrong. They are pulling away, which is, I think really, uh, you know, uh, interesting to see sort of them pulling away. And I'm, I keep wondering when it's, how long it's going to take the Republican base to start doing that. And the reason why they don't do that is because all the Republicans see how many people Trump motivated to vote. If you look at the last vote that just came in, 80 million people almost voted for Biden. But 73 million or something like that voted for Trump. So there's a lot of people out there that voted for Trump.

And I will say this, some of those people who voted for Biden also voted for Republicans on their ticket, right? Absolutely. There's a group of people out there that are Republicans that don't like Trump. And they went out, and if you look at some of these Senate races

that we thought for sure were in the bag, you can tell a lot of Republican down ticket stuff got picked by people who went out to vote for Biden. There's just no way that that would have worked any other way. And so, you know, so what we have is a group of people who see Trump as a guy who can get people out to the polls. And he has electrified a large group of people in this country that they don't want to lose. And if they go against Trump, they lose him. So are they willing to go all the way through four straight years of saying that Biden is an illegitimate president

because he stole the election? Are they willing to go that far? Yeah, 100% they are. I believe 100% that they will do that. It's only in their favor. If they can cast, there is no downside to this if you're the Republican establishment, unfortunately.

You've got Trump on the one side who they've never had, they have not had anybody who has brought as much energy into their party. And they know their party for a long time was really lagging. The conventional wisdom was that if we turn out a huge population of people, that overwhelmingly those people are left-leaning.

Right. But a character like Trump was able to energize an enormous base of really shitty people that have never been energized before. And I think they know they don't have any other rock stars in their pocket. Yeah. They don't have any other rock stars in their pocket. From a policy perspective, if they can cast aspersions before Biden even walks in the door on the legitimacy of his candidacy, that will help them in the midterms. In the midterms, they will be able to use the fact that we have a, the fact, use the bullshit argument, which is totally unfounded,

in fact, that, you know, we have a rogue president who stole the, and the only way to get this back is the midterms and we need to turn out and they can use that. So there is no downside politically for establishment Republicans to lean on this as long as possible. And who cares in their mind? I mean, who cares what happens to Trump, the person Trump, the person doesn't seem to care what happens to, you know, the Republican establishment. They don't give a shit about each other, but I think they're very happy to use one another for their various aims. And their aims are not exactly in sync, but right now, I think it's an advantage to both of them to let this violence play out in the streets. What's crazy to me is that this is genuinely going to destabilize our country.

It is destabilizing our country. It is destabilizing our country. It's horrifying. Yeah. Yeah, we are a less safe, less cohesive nation than we've ever been. We are, we're at a place where, I mean, genuinely, the foundations of democracy themselves are in real existential peril. And the fuel is absolutely being pumped into that fire

by the fucking president of the United States every single day. And all the people who don't denounce him. Yes. All those people that stand by his side are just, they are just as culpable in this. Yeah. I could not possibly agree more. We are less safe every single day, and we are less internationally safe. You know, Haley and I were talking about this, and she brought up the point that the United States, in a lot of ways, has acted functionally as the CEO of the world. And I think that that's, in many ways, true as far as the Western world is concerned.

the world. And I think that that's in many ways true as far as the Western world is concerned. And to abdicate that responsibility, either because you are unable to discharge it or because the rest of the international world has lost respect for your positioning as CEO, means that someone else is going to fill that power vacuum. Someone else is going to fill that. And up until relatively recently, the United States had been a relatively good steward of democracy across the rest of the world. Don't get me wrong, we've done a lot of evil shit, but we have been decent stewards of democracy in many other parts of the world. But there are huge players on the international stage which have no interest in democracy. Russia and China come immediately to mind, and they gain every day in power, both economically and militarily and diplomatically. And if the United States is

unable to discharge its responsibilities as CEO of the Western world, someone is going to step in and fill that spot, man. And it's not going to be to the advantage of Europe and America and South America. And, you know, it's just not, it's just not. And we are at that point, we are at a precipice and we stand poised on the brink of that precipice, staring down at it. And fucking 70 some million people are more than happy, more than happy to take to the streets and burn the whole fucking thing to the ground over a goddamn one person, over a cult of personality dipshit. It's horrifying.

We got this vaccine news this week, and it's great vaccine news, except for it's also like big fucking shrug, because until that vaccine goes in my fucking arm, it may as well not exist. And right now we have an absolute lack of federal leadership, which is going to be necessary to mobilize the resources to get 327 million people jabbed in the fucking arm with the goddamn vaccine. Not once, but fucking twice. Yeah. And every month counts. If we wait until January to even start that process in earnest in terms of the logistics of distribution at the current rate. So if you look at the numbers right now, we've got 250,000 people dead right now. We've got 1,923 people,

this fucking thing died yesterday. But if you just look at about 1,000 people a day, we will have exceeded the American death toll of World War II by sometime in February or April, depending on how the numbers kick out right now. We will have lost more people to the fucking coronavirus than we lost in all of World War II, the four years of World War II. We'll have lost that same number of people by early 2021.

And I don't see any way around that if the fucking current administration doesn't begin coordinating efforts with the incoming administration. How are we supposed to get people the actual vaccine in their fucking arm if we sit on our hands until January and tweet out a bunch of bullshit about how the mortality rate's

85% down, making people less fucking worried about it. That's reassuring to the people. To 73 million people, it's reassuring to them that this is nothing to worry about. Anti-maskers, yeah. It's fucking awful, man. This is going to kill every other

day. We're going to have the death toll of a 9-11. A 9-11 every two days, if we don't do something to stop this. I mean, we're, we're effectively there right now or in excess of that right now. Yeah. Yeah. Can you imagine somebody who let 9-11 happen every other day? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's where we're at right now. And there's tons of pushback all over the country about regulations that people are trying to put in. And I will say there is clearly, you could see so many of these fucking Republican governors held off their regulations until after the third. After the third, after we voted, then they started talking about how, oh, we should go through masks. We should do this. We should do that because they knew the optics of all of this would be so bad ahead of the election. They let people die because

they did not want things to look bad. And that is abhorrent. It's horrifying. They should be prosecuted for something like that. Because what happened, literally right after everything happened, right after the election, they started rolling back all the shit that they had said. Oh no, we've got to be careful. Bunch of these fucking Republican governors did it. Yep. Yeah. And a lot of them have waited until their hospitals are completely overrun.

Yeah. Right. Until their hospitals are over fucking flowing until there are mobile morgues after mobile morgues stacked in the hospital parking lot until in certain places in the country, one in four hospitals is running out of medical personnel to deal with this problem. And now is the time? The time was when everybody was fucking saying the time was. The time was September and October when every infectious disease specialist who actually has a fucking degree in this

was hitting the fucking alarm bell as hard as they could saying, this is going to be a really hard fall. We need to do something. Winter is coming. Winter is coming. And fucking nothing but crickets until November fucking middle.

Yeah. Fuck us for that. Fuck us for that. It's fucking, it's disgusting what's going on. And then what happened today when they revealed that the plot for Whitmer, the kidnappers were planning

to execute public officials. They had a plan to execute. Yeah, the broadcast reported that new filing show, a plan that the militiamen had drawn up in the initial takeover. And basically what they were going to plan, they had planned to televise executions of people on the air.

So, you know, when we call these people y'all Qaeda, you know, when we talk about, you know, the American Taliban, this is the American Taliban. This is literally, there is nothing that separates these people from violent extremists all over the world. There's nothing that separates them from that. Nothing.

I want to point out too, from that same article from The Independent, one of the comments in there is, we're one of the few state capitals in the country that does not ban guns from inside their state capital. Huh, that's weird. Huh, what a great fucking notion. What a smart fucking thing to do.

Let's make up, that's... The anti-masking stuff that I've seen, I've seen, there's so many people, you can search for it. Find people being confronted that aren't wearing masks in places where they're supposed to be wearing masks. There's plenty of places to find it, but you can find video after video after video

of these people yelling and getting mad and coughing on people. I've seen some of that, yeah. You know, screaming at people who work there that just say, could you just please leave? And then they say, oh, I got a medical condition. That's, that's the big thing that they keep saying over and over and over again. But I saw one this week that I absolutely loved. It was flaming gay guys walking out of this place. And he says, I figured out how to do this guys. I just walked up to a guy who had the mask around his chin and I walked up to

him and I said something about, are you going to the hole later? And the guy said, excuse me? And he said, are you, are you going to the hole later? And the guy said, I don't know what you're talking about. And then the gay guy says, oh, in our community and in the gay community, when someone has the mask around their chin, that means they're down for gay sex. And so I just thought you were down for gay sex. And the guy just thought you were down for gay sex. And the guy said, no, no. And then he immediately put his fucking mask on. Immediately put his fucking mask on.

Oh, that's amazing. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that the most brilliant thing that you could think of? That's great. Because they're terrified of that. And here's the thing. The reason why most guys aren't wearing masks

is because it's a machismo thing. I guarantee to you, the reason I don't know about the women. I don't know why, uh, the women, I'm not going to pretend that I would understand that, but I will tell you after being around a lot of guys, I recognize and know that that's why they're not doing it because they don't want to look weak. And that's why they're not. And so specifically going up to guys that aren't wearing those masks, it might, I mean, it might fall, you better be ready to fuck though. You better be down to fuck because if you walk up to some guy, right, you know, might be gay and you're not into, you know, you might, you might bring on something that, that you don't want. But, but I thought I saw when I saw that, I thought that is fucking awesome. So great. Cause it's literally using something against them that they cannot stand, which is their own homophobia. Are you an American? Do you believe in democracy, freedom, values, thinking?

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So I think there's actually some video of this, Cecil, from when Fox News, so Fox News is reporting on this and the one guy is being interviewed and he is, even the guy at Fox is like, holy fuck, do I see what I'm fucking seeing here? Yeah, he says out loud, he basically says, I'm sorry, we just showed an inappropriate sign or something like that. Essentially, that's what he says, yeah. Yeah, he is out loud. He basically says, I'm sorry, we just showed an inappropriate sign or something like that.

Essentially, that's what he says. Yeah, he is. I mean, again, when you have Fox appalled, I mean, Fox, do you remember the Tea Party movement? Cecil, we covered this shit on,

I don't even think it was, everyone's a critic at the time, but when Obama was first elected and he took office and the Tea Party rose up and they had images of Obama being hung in effigy. They sold monkey shirts that said Obama on them. They had pictures of Obamacare with Obama dressed as an African witch doctor. Like they had some of the most overtly, obviously, disgustingly racist shit.

And Fox gleefully covered the Tea Party. Covered it all. They gleefully covered the Tea Party. No problem at all. Not a lot of commentary on that shit being racist. So when that same fucking channel turns its head and it's like, holy fuck, what is even happening right now? When you appall the appalling, you have sunk to a level that is really just mind-numbing.

Yeah. Absolutely mind-numbing. Well, this entire endeavor was a stop-the-steal event, I guess. I don't know. There was kind of like a big thing going on out there. There was a bunch of people who showed up to DC. There are a lot of Proud Boys, a lot of people that are aligned with the Proud Boys, plenty of people that wore Proud Boys sort of regalia on themselves, hats and merchandise or whatever. And they were marching through the streets.

And there was a lot of clashes, a lot of clashes with anti-protesters, people getting knocked out, people getting punched. And when you watch those, especially when the police are involved, watch where the police's backs are. Their backs are always to the Proud Boys. They're always defending the Proud Boys. You watch what happens when,

there was a perfect example. The Proud Boys came to the wall that they had erected in front of the White House and tore down all the Black Lives Matter stuff. And that was sort of zip tied to the wall and the police watched them do it. And they never stopped them from doing it a bit. Never once went over there to stop them from doing it.

And whenever the people wanted to go up to stop them from taking it down, the police would step in and push those people back. And it just shows you time and time and time again who the police are aligned with. It shows you who they're aligned with. They are not aligned with the BLM protesters out there. They're not aligned with the Antifa protesters out there. And they're not neutral. And they're aligned with they are not aligned with the BLM protesters out there they're not aligned with the Antifa protesters and they're not neutral

and they're not they are not that's exactly it they're not neutral they're not the force that's saying I'm just here to keep the peace they're a force that's here to say I'm here to protect these people when the BLM people march around and they're not doing fuck all except for marching down the street watch

time and time again, them get pushed into the police and watch the police react or the police push into them. The police in riot gear, the police shooting tear gas, the police constantly using their, their vehicles and their horses and their bodies to try to corral these people and to shove them over and hurt them. We've seen it time and time and time again. And there is none of that, not a bit of that when it's the, when it's the,

the Maga March people. Yeah. When it, when it's, here's the thing, Cecil, when it's a bunch of fucking white people gathered together, right.

They can do no wrong, right. And do whatever white people gather together with guns. They're celebrating their second amendment. Right. Right. When white people gather together and have hate speech aggressively, like, you know, just, just so that nobody misunderstands the sign that, that one of the guys was holding, it said coming for blacks and

Indians, welcome to the new world order. That's what the sign said. So, you know, there's no, there's no getting around that. Like that. Like that is just an aggressively racist sign. Yeah, I don't know how you spin that otherwise. What are you coming to give them Comcast cable? What are you doing? So when that happens, they're exercising their First Amendment right. And I will say,

they are exercising their First Amendment right. As long as they, you can be a hate-filled asshole, you have a First Amendment right to gather. As long as they, you can be a hate-filled asshole, you have a First Amendment right to gather. That's, I support that. But earlier this year,

I mean, earlier this fucking last month, maybe this month, I don't even remember anymore. I mean, there was a Turn Out the Vote rally in North Carolina.

Turn Out the Vote! It was just, it was people walking down the street in North Carolina saying, hey, we should exercise our fucking right to vote, which we also have in the fucking constitution. And the police broke that up

and fired fucking pepper spray at everybody. Yeah. At these fucking MAGA march, the fucking MAGA idiots were pepper spraying into, they were attacking with pepper spray, the counter protesters and the police did nothing. That's's just that's just fucking raw assault that's assault with a weapon and if fucking absolutely no police action it's the the cops aren't who is surprised cecil that a bunch of fucking gun wielding authoritarian thugs are on the side of the fascists like that's literally what you would expect it's unsurprising the paramilitary government-sponsored authoritarian thugs are on the side of the fascists we're okay yeah oh yeah yeah dogs bark yeah you fucking knew it

you fucking knew it yep and that and that whole thing that whole thing was just you know they they call the fucking kaylee mccraney or whatever the fuck her name is um that fucking bobblehead that is his press secretary she tweeted out there's a million people here and you could just see 10 000 is she in the square that she tweeted out and i want to i want to point out too if you remember when the women's march happened after trump took office because everyone was just so appalled that trump was fucking elected and there was three million people all across this country that took to the streets and there was no arrests no nothing you know there's no fucking stabbings right you get fucking a 10 10 ish thou i don't know how many thousands were here.

I think they said that there were like 88,000 or something like that showed up total. You get that many people in D.C. and there's stabbings and people arrested. You know what I mean? Like that shit didn't happen before. And they complained and said, oh, he's your president. Suck it up. He's your president. And look at exactly where they're at now.

I mean, you're fucking, you're literally in the exact same position, except for you're the fucking violent one that you were blaming us for being violent about. The fucking women's march went out of a fucking hitch. Yeah. I mean, four years ago, we lived in a new world. We lived in a different world, see? So where you could have a protest that everybody showed up and then they marched and then they exercised their first amendment. Right now, we have people showing up and we have 17-year-old kids showing up with assault rifles to these things to counter protest them. We're living in a world that's gotten dramatically, dramatically more violent. And it's gotten more violent in large part because the goddamn president himself

and personally responsible fans the flames of division and violence. And when these things happen, he picks a side and he supports that side. And he calls expressly for violence and violent people take arms to that call. And he literally, he literally tweeted out after this was over, called it, said Antifa scum tried to break this thing up. And, uh, uh, the guys that were out there beat the shit out of them.

That's I'm, I'm paraphrasing, but essentially what he said. Um, and, and, and it's celebrating violence against other people instead. and this guy has never been breaks he's never been the breaks right he's all gas no brakes he's all gas the whole time and there's never been a moment where he stopped and said holy shit maybe this shouldn't be happening people shouldn't be fighting in the streets maybe we should fucking try to tune this down a little let's turn it down he hasn't done that at all not a bit. How you doing, Max? Well, I'd say that we've tunneled, oh, must be 12, 14 feet. 12 or 14 feet?

You and Kendall have been down there since 6 o'clock this morning. Yes, Chief, but we didn't start digging until 8. Why not? Well, you see, for the first two hours, we couldn't decide who should dig and who should fill the bags with dirt. So we tossed a coin. Hacks, it doesn't take two hours to toss a coin. No, but it took two hours to find it.

This is my favorite story of the week. This is so amazing. This is so good. Cecil, nothing has made me happier than this story this week. Nothing. Oh, this week? This week is so good. Cecil, nothing has made me happier than this story this week. Nothing. Oh, this week, this week is so good. This story. Because of this story. CBS News, suspect tries to escape FBI agents using underwater sea scooter in frigid California Lake. I'm going to read this whole thing. He's a millionaire too, which is amazing, right? That's what you got to expect a millionaire to do this.

This is like bond level, but just incompetent bond. Right, right. A man wanted for his role in an alleged- Yeah, bond, but it's bond that you have to pay when you want to get out of jail. That's the bond. A man wanted for his role in an alleged $35 million Ponzi scheme was arrested Monday after evading FBI agents by swimming into California's largest reservoir using an underwater sea scooter, federal prosecutors said.

Matthew Piercy spent about 25 minutes in frigid Lake Shasta using the Yamaha 350 Li submersible. I love it. I love it. Want a Shasta? Have you seen one of these things by the way one of these

one of these sea scooters I have not let me look at it I think I know what they look like kind of but I can I can imagine

what it looks like but I just I should look at it okay gotta check it out you gotta check it out you got it Google images here

so sea scooter it's just a thing you hold on to that drags you around right yep okay that's it it's basically swimming for the it's just a thing you hold on to that drags you around, right? Yep. Okay. That's it. All right. It's basically swimming for the it's underwater swimming for the lazy. Yeah. That's all this is. I've used one of these when I was in the islands. I bet these are super fun. So they really not that the one I had was not that powerful and the battery

died within a few minutes. And so it really wasn't, it wasn't great. I would have that problem in 30 seconds trying to tug my lard ass around. But it wasn't, the thing is like everybody's kind of sucked. None of them were very good. There was, you know, there's a,

there's a seven year old who's getting pulled through the water at a little faster than you can swim. That's the best you got out of those things. At least the pack that they had at the cheaply run excursion that I was on when I went down in the islands down in the Caribbean. So he gets,

when agents went to arrest Piercy, he hopped in a pickup and led them on a chase that ended at the shoreline of the lake north of Reading. Quote, then Piercy abandoned his truck near the edge of Lake Shasta,

pulled something out of it and swam into Lake Shasta, federal prosecutors wrote wrote piercy spent some time out of sight underwater where law enforcement could only see bubbles agents later learned piercy had a sea scooter a motorized device that pulls users underwater at speeds of about four miles an hour it's not so much a high speed chase it's not really genuinely like you can literally walk slower than that on the bucket. You can walk faster than that. You can power walk faster

than that on land. Four miles an hour. I love too that he doesn't, it's not clear at all that he has any scuba gear on which means that like yeah, you can go underwater for a little while, but then you have to come up. So if you're the cops, you just, and it sounds like this is what happened. You're literally just standing on the shore, scratching your head.

Like, where do you think you're going to go? It's a 15 minute mile. It's a 15 minute mile, Tom. 15 minute mile. 15 minute mile. You cannot run a 15 minute mile. It's impossible. You have to walk a 15 minute mile.

There's no way you could run it. Also like, unless you have an underwater layer that you're going to, where you disappear and then they're just like, fuck, he never surfaced. You don't know. There's no part B to this plan. You don't know. You don't know what's underneath. Maybe he's got, he's got a whole Ponzi scheme down there. He's got a whole Atlantis he pre-built in this weird reservoir that he just ran off to. He's got a, you know what, if you spend that much money though,

don't you think he's got a volcano lair somewhere and that's what he was trying to do was get out to his volcano lair? It'd be great if he got to the edge of the other side of the lake and they had a portage

across to another lake. He's carrying it over his head. He's running, he has, he's got a relay race where he switches them off because they run out of batteries. So he's got somewhere

like a pit crew there to hand him a new sea scooter so he can dive into the water and keep going. I would love so much. He winds up in a tributary and he's going upstream, but he's just staying right there.

He's just staying in one position. He can't go farther or faster than four miles an hour. So he's, he's just stationary and the cops are just sitting there tapping their watch waiting for it to run out of batteries. He's just, what? 28 minutes, you're in the middle of the lake at four miles an hour. You've gone a mile and three quarters out into the middle of the lake

and then now you're just in the middle of the lake like I fooled you well you're going to get cold and hungry stupid I'll wait here what do you think this is Assassin's Creed

eventually people are going to walk away they're going to be they're going to say oh what was that and then they look and then they say oh it must not have been anything

and then they turn and walk away I would love to have been one of these cops that day just coming home to tell this story oh gosh hey he jumped in the lake and swam very slowly away

and then he putted away for a few minutes yeah what'd you guys do we just waited at the edge of the lake I mean he has to come back you can't live in a lake you could go faster through the water if there was a stationary rope

and you pulled your body like if you pulled your body with lake. You could go faster through the water if there was a stationary rope and you pulled your body. Like, if you pulled your body with a rope, you'd go faster. I love it. Where's the rest of this moose? You must have hated this moose. Why don't you forget the moose for a moment?

Right. So this story comes from carscoops.com. Canadians are being warned. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Why are you searching for stories at carscoops.com uh canadians are being warned hold on hold on now why are you searching for stories at carscoops.com okay i look where i look all right you know don't don't judge a man's process you have a weird flip board that's all i'm saying canadians are being warned not to let moose lick their cars. And then it has pictures of those road signs. Yeah. And I love this because it's two road signs.

Do not let moose on one lick your car. But if you read this left to right, do not lick. Let your moose car. So I guess moose really like road salt. And so they'll come up to your car and they'll lick the salt off your car. And they're saying, hey, don't let a moose do that. Motherfucking moose weigh 1,500 pounds. A moose can do what a fucking moose wants to do.

Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking too. It's like, what the fuck am I going to do? Right. Hey, moose. What am I going to roll up a piece of newspaper and hit it on the nose? The fuck am I supposed to do?

It's a moose. If it wants to get in and it wants me to leave so it can drive down the road with my wife, I'm getting out of the car. Right. It's a moose, man. Have you ever seen one up close? I've seen them up close when I was in Canada fishing.

Yeah. With my dad. We saw them every day in Canada. It was pretty cool. They're fucking enormous. They're enormous. They're enormous. They're shocking how big they are.

The thing is like the size of a goddamn semi truck. This is enormous. These things are absolutely enormous. So, man, if they want to do enormous. So man, if they want to do anything to my car, if they want to fuck my car, they can fuck my car. See, so the other thing I like about this is you've got two signs. As I mentioned before, I like the idea of one of them just going out. So you just drive along and the other, just one side says, lick your car. I like lick your car too. I think lick your car is way better

than do not let moose. If you were a teenager, wouldn't you steal the lick your car sign? I would steal it in a second. In a second. That's so amazing. That would be my sign. If Akamura is here,

then we'll arrest him. And we'll have a solid case against the Katana gang for hiring four assassins to kill a policeman. On the other hand, if it's the wrong house, then we'll apologize to the owner.

This story is just crazy. It's just the details are just... Totally mad. No, no, go on. I was just going to say, have you ever read a newspaper article and you read the whole thing and you know

less after you've read it than when you started like before this story started i knew more information than when i finished it yeah i've never had that i've never had that moment happen and i did it today and i and i just i sat down i was i had it on an ipad so i set it down and i just stared off into the middle distance thinking, this feels like a writing prompt. It doesn't feel. It does.

Right? Yeah. This comes from the Sydney Morning Herald, so this isn't from like car scoops or whatever. Yeah, car scoops. This story is bonkers, and I feel the same way. I'm going to read this whole story to you guys and you won't know what happened yeah and it doesn't get any clearer by the way from the headline no

she was out to get him witnesses describe moments after samurai killing okay first off i have a problem with the because i don't think there's an actual samurai involved in this i i read the i thank you because i was gonna say when I read that headline, I think somebody killed a samurai. Right. I think there's a samurai and some woman killed the samurai. He's just walking down the street

in his really ornate outfit with a wakasashi on one side and the katana on the other. And he's just, maybe he's a ronin. Maybe he's masterless. We don't know, you know. And then bam, he's dead. Maybe he's got six friends. Maybe he's masterless. We don't know, you know? And then bam, he's dead.

Maybe he's got six friends. There's a moose that licks a car and then runs him over. He's dead. A witness has told a court he heard a woman shouting or screaming. That's a distinction without a difference. Something like,

who the fuck are you? In the moments before a man was hit on the head with what appeared to be a stick in sydney's inner west two years ago blake davis 31 and hannah quinn 26 are facing a murder trial in the nsw supreme court after they chased intruder jet mckee 30 from a forest lodge home okay jet mckee is a fucking spine. There's no way that's not a spying. Also, I love that they arrested somebody who is just a hair's breadth away from being Harley Quinn. Yeah, I know. Just right there.

Hannah Quinn, you're so close. All these people are, maybe these are all just alter aliases for superheroes. Come on, Hannah Quinn, you can't do any better than that, Harley. Come on. We're so close. Use your imagination here. After they chased intruder Jet McKee, 30, from a Forest Lodge home in August 2018, and Mr. Davis hit him on the head with a samurai sword.

What? They have pleaded not guilty. Oh. The court heard this week, and this is where it all starts to unravel into madness. Yeah. The court heard this week that McKee burst into Mr. Davis' home wearing a balaclava

and brandishing a blank fire gun and knuckle dusters. Okay, all those things are very specific, but I'm kind of not sure what any of them are except for knuckle dusters. Those are brass knuckles, right? Is that what we would call that? And I think a blank fire gun is just a gun loaded with blanks,

like a starter gun. Okay, I get you now. now i get you now what's a balaclava uh that's like a face covering like a ski mask oh i call a ski mask everywhere else no kidding yeah we call that we call them ski masks everywhere else in the world calls them balaclavas okay all right yeah yeah because i always thought balaclava was that's that nut stuff that you put in phyllo dough. I thought it was not that, but anyway. Okay, all right. Because he had been told Mr. Davis and Ms. Quinn were drug dealers and wanted to rob them. Mr. Key was seen running from the home shortly afterward, and Ms. Quinn running behind him, followed by Mr. Davis.

There's a whole train going on here. Mr. Davis was wearing only his boxers and holding what looked like a stick or a pole. On Wednesday, painter Rossini Palmer said he heard a woman loudly shouting something like, what the fuck are you doing? Who the fuck are you? And he went to the window of the loft he was painting to see what was happening. He said he saw a woman chasing a man down the street, then saw the man on all fours on the ground and the woman backing away. As she was backing away, another guy came from the same direction she came from. He hit him on the head. It didn't look look overly aggressive just sort of a quick bang on the top of the head that's it

mr palmer said the woman and the second man then ran away and he heard the woman say loudly what the fuck have you just done carrie sparks was walking her dog along harrah ford there's more witnesses to this sword murder and sit you can't fucking swing a sword without hitting a fucking witness in Sydney. Carrie Sparks was walking her dog along Hereford Street when she heard a female voice screaming and saw a man running along the road with a woman running fast behind him. She was out to get him, Ms. Sparks said. She said the woman caught him, grabbed him by the collar, and pulled him down to the ground. A second man running behind the woman holding what looked like a pole then caught up.

These guys have never seen a sword. Everybody describes this. Every single person there is, oh, it looked like, I don't know, it looked like a stick. Did he have a big stick? Was it a stick?

I don't know, was it a pole? Was he pole vaulting? What was he doing out there that day? Ms. Sparks said she did not have a view of what happened on the ground but saw the pole go up in the air and go back down again. It's a pole again.

It's like, watch one Quentin Tarantino movie and you'll know what a samurai sword is. It's a sword. Then heard builders across the street make a groaning noise. I don't know what that has to do with anything. Like just the builders are like oh, good one. There's so much information on this and none

of it's helpful. It's all, there's just so much. It's like someone had a word count they were trying to reach. I reach. Seriously. She said she saw the injured man try to get up using a parked car for leverage while bleeding profusely from the head. A builder told him, I don't think that's a good idea, mate.

We've called for help. So again, more witnesses. More witnesses. Mr. Sparks said the injured man fell down a few times and used the trees on the nature strip to get up again then disappeared up the road i just couldn't believe what i was seeing she said neither can i and i'm just reading this philip east was in his home watching a live stream who didn't watch this happen oh jesus watching a live stream of the Banking Royal Commission. No, he wasn't. Why do I

care that he was watching a live stream? He might have been watching a live stream of that, but he was definitely Zoom calling someone and jerking off like that guy from the New Yorker. When he heard a woman's voice shouting something like, what do you think you are? What do you think you are?

He walked to the window and saw a woman and a man running past the property. So he went down to the street to investigate he saw a white car smeared with blood and a very large pool of blood on the road near boy in amongst the blood or beside the blood which was still pooling there were several objects one of which i believe was a handgun mystery said also and i think it was actually in the blood a black object that appeared to be a balaclava and a knuckle duster. The police arrived a short time later. So what happened was when they hit him with that,

he immediately dropped all his inventory like a video game. So he just dropped it all and then there you go. And this guy didn't even want any of it. He killed this guy for nothing. He didn't like the loot. He's like, it's not even worth picking up. They say the trial continues, but where's the guy?

Where did they find the guy? How far did that guy get? Where did he catch these guys? What is happening right now? These are all things I need to know. I love that this guy gets fucking sorted in the head. He's sorted. Totally got sorted.

And he's like, I'm just going to leave. You know what? I'm out of here. And they're like, oh, he going to leave. You know what? I'm out of here. And they're like, oh, we called the cops. Like, no, man, I ain't sticking around for that shit. This is a very sorted sorting. A sorted tale, if ever there was one. Oh, God.

Do not speak, and whatever you do, don't panic. panic just pretend that it happened do as you're told or it will happen well ceil, if 2020 has taught us anything, it's that zombies are next. I think zombies are next. Yeah. Yeah. An Oklahoma cannibal illegally castrated a man. Is that a thing?

An Oklahoma cannibal? Is that different from other cannibals? You know, that's a great question. And I think the answer is, yeah, it's flatter. You know, I'll tell you this much. When the the zombies are there i don't want to be in oklahoma they you can run no you're a thousand yards they still see you you're right you're right you're basically no different than a guy with a fucking yamaha l350 puttering underwater at four miles an hour how easy would it be to be in one of those mountainous areas, though,

and just standing on a hill? They come up and just kind of just push them all the way down. Fall and fuck right back down. And they just give them a little nudge. And they just fall down until they disintegrate. Just tip them over. Like, hey, you're just bad at this. They can barely walk

upright, let alone climb a mountain. Yeah, slow-moving shambolic zombies are not scary. Yeah, they're not scary. If you get eaten by those guys, you had that coming. That means you're dumber than a shambolic zombie. You could not problem-solve that motherfucker? Are you serious? Yeah, the fast ones are the scary ones.

The fast ones that'll problem-solve are like climb a fence or whatever. Yeah, those are the scary ones. Those are scary. The ones solve, like, you know, crime offense or whatever. Yeah, those are the scary ones. Those are scary. The ones that are just moving around, like, I don't know, dig a pit and stand on the other side of the pit. You're good.

They have no sense of self-preservation. An Oklahoma cannibal illegally castrated a man, police said, and stored body parts in a freezer. I also mean to take issue, Cecil, with illegally castrated a man. That just seems like an adverb that's unnecessary,

right? Legally castrate. All right. I mean, what? I just, also, it feels like you're wasting a lot of the carcass.

You know, it's like, I mean, if you're just taking one piece, why not? Can't you just hear your mom yelling at you that you're leaving too much food on your plate when that happens? Don't you at least want to, I mean, if you're just taking one piece, why not? Can't you just hear your mom yelling at you that you're leaving too much food on your plate when that happens? Don't you at least want to, I mean, if you're going to store it in a freezer, don't you at least want to have the cold shoulder? Oh, oh.

I didn't think you'd have the balls to tell that joke. Not anymore. Last week, a hospital in southeastern Oklahoma admitted a severely bleeding patient with a horrifying tale. Two men, the 28-year-old victim told hospital staffers, had surgically removed his testicles as he lay on a wooden table in the remote cabin in the woods. And one of those men said he was a cannibal who kept body parts in a refrigerator. The next day, sheriff's deputies searched the cabin and found medical equipment, bloody refuse drugs and what appeared to be testicles frozen in a bag

now the two men named by the victim what were they going to shake and bake them? is that what was going to happen? can you shake and bake testicles in their own bag? hide them in your purse they're already in a purse put a little clasp on it hide them in your purse they're already in a purse they're already there put a little clasp on it so these two guys bobby allen and thomas evans gates face felony charges

of conspiracy to commit and performing unlicensed surgery in a crime what the fuck man what just buy surgery simulator on steam what It's not that expensive. It's like $20. So this guy who had his nuts removed told the investigators that he volunteered for the surgery after meeting on a website that advertised castrations. Jesus Christ. Why is there a website that advertises castrations? Why is that a thing that advertises castrations? Why is that a thing?

What is even happening? After the two-hour procedure, Ellen laughed and said he was a cannibal, the victim told investigators, adding that he had a freezer full of body parts. He also claimed to once killed a man while doing a similar surgery and said he had six other men

lined up for future operations. Yeah, I read that. I thought, yeah, because you have a fucking weird website where you advertise castrations. That shit wouldn't fly on Yelp. Your Yelp reviews. Yeah, they should call it Yelp though because that's the sound you make

when they cut your balls off is Yelp. So it makes sense. So this guy, like he doesn't do well and he tells them like they're not sending him to the ER or the morgue. They like they're not sending him to the to the er or the morgue they later relented and drove him to a hospital but the guy who did the soldier surgery told him that if he died they were gonna just dump him in the woods you don't have to tell him that you're only gonna do that if he dies he won't know you did that that's just mean this is

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I guess they were all over the place. All over the world. I'm just going to mention the places. I'm going to mention the places where we've got messages from. Minnesota is one of the places.

And New Jersey as well. We got one from Illinois. We wound up getting one from Australia. We got one from Washington. There's just turkeys all over the place. Had no idea. Tom, this is one of those things I had no idea about. Yeah, I've seen turkeys in the woods.

Sure, but not like fucking walking down the street. I've never seen one in the street. I've never seen one in the street. No. I've never seen one near a street. No. Turkey in the street and a freak in the sheets or whatever. Like, turkey in the sheets. We got a message from Sherry. Sherry sent us a long message

telling her her struggle as she left religion and she said that we helped along the way. It's so great. It was a great message. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for sending it. Got a message. This is an image and I don't even want to include it, but just look up guys, look up the freedom 2020 hat. That is the ugliest fucking ad I've ever seen. Josh sent in an image of this. It's the ugliest Trump Pence fucking tote bag you've ever seen in your entire life.

And I want to say too about this, there's also this great big, in all red, it says, high sellout risk. And I love that because it makes it sound like you're a sellout. You're going to sell out of your product. It's so fucking terrific.

So good. We knew that. We had it on, we had it on click before you even said it, sir. No one is surprised. Got a message from Doug and Doug says he always

has a hard time with our website trying to figure out where the actual show notes are. Doug, on the show for this week, if you click on disinispod.com, there's a name. So the name of the show is the show on our front page of our website.

If you click that name, the highlighted name, you will be taken to another page and that page will then have the show notes. I know it's a little confusing and I get it. It's not super user friendly, but that was what the website designer, I did not make that website. I bought a template. That website, that's what he decided to do or she decided to do, whoever made the website template. So if you just click on the name though of any of those, any of the previous episodes or the current episode, you can find the show notes and all the stuff is normally linked in the show notes.

Unless Ian messes up, which he does quite often. We got a bunch of messages. Bunt, he doesn't listen to shows. I love taking a shot at Ian, that's great. We got a bunch of messages, Tom,, he doesn't listen to the show. I love taking a shot at Ian. That's great. We got a bunch of messages, Tom, this week. I guess the fireworks in the UK were not people super proud or happy of Joe Biden. Instead, it just so happened

that the day that they announced Joe Biden was also the Guy Fawkes Day or whatever, Guy Fawkes Day. And that's the 5th of November. So they were launching fireworks based on that, probably not, certainly not to celebrate our president. And I don't know, because I

know I certainly wouldn't celebrate another person's president either. I don't know, man. If there was like a fascist dictator in charge of the UK? You know, I will say this. If Putin died or something and there was a big partyist dictator in charge of the UK. You know, I will say this. If Putin died or something. Oh, I'd shoot some fireworks out. I'd shoot some fireworks out.

Got a message from Ben. And Ben says that one time when he was in college, he had to move and he couldn't. He had a queen size mattress in a box. He couldn't figure out a way to get it to his new place. So he just shoved it in the back seat of his Corolla, and it was hanging out the back seat as he was driving down the road. I don't even know how that's possible.

How the fuck do you stick a fucking queen-size mattress in the back seat of a Corolla? I have no idea. What? That's ridiculous. I would love to take it. That would have been a thing. If you had a picture of that, you should have taken a picture of it, because I know I've done shit like that where i couldn't believe i was doing

something i took a picture of it so if you have a photo send it man i'll do that shit with like trying to reach something instead of going up in the garage and getting the ladder and i'll be like i could stack a chair on a box on another chair and that shit is like fucking wacky waving inflated by just i'm like like risking my life so I'm like man the fucking ladder is all the way upstairs I'm too lazy to be safe come on I will work harder to be lazy a lot

got a message from Cameron and Cameron said that Buffalo Trace is a great new whiskey to recommend to new whiskey drinkers on our last week stream we were asked what a what whiskey was a good whiskey to start people out on. And if you're missing the streams,

you're missing fun conversations like that. And someone sent in a message and said, hey, how about Buffalo Trace? Tom and I thought Woodford Reserve was a good whiskey to start out on. But join our stream and you can comment on stuff like that. We live stream normally every Thursday.

Not this upcoming Thursday though, because we're doing the Black Friday stream. Save the Senate. You're going to want to join 3 p.m. Central. Tom, we got a long message. It started out about turkeys in New England, and then it basically told us that we were

completely wrong about our forensics episode. Yeah, so... This is Tony. This is Tony. And Tony is a forensic scientist, and he's working at a place that, as he describes it, acknowledges the flaws in forensic science's history and is trying to correct for them. Man, that's great, but that's not everywhere. And it's easy to find that that's not everywhere because I just Googled a minute ago, is bite mark analysis still used. And you can find articles written very recently where bite mark analysis is still used

in some parts of this country. Until everybody gets on the same page and stops using bad science, that shit's got to go. And the criticisms, I stand by those criticisms. I know we didn't interview any forensic scientists,

but see, so I read 20 articles, watched multiple, we researched the shit out of that. There are real existent problems with the field of science. Now, that isn't to say that there's not good actors. Maybe you're a good actor. Maybe you live

in an area where the science is being done responsibly, but I'll tell you what, that's not everywhere. It does not take a lot of research to look and see that a lot of debunked bullshit is still being floated in court by people who are only too happy to take money to act as experts and to spout bullshit. So sorry, man. We got an image, and image, an image of a Donald Trump book called Trump America First. It's written by a couple of douchebags. And the funny thing is, is that the person who they get quoted on the cover, normally you'll see little, little teaser lines from people who talk about books.

It's so great. It says a must read Donald Trump. It says a must read Donald Trump. Tell what the best part is, is that they can't find people to man offices in the United States government that aren't his family. And he can't find people who like a book about his family. My son thinks I did a great job. This is just the reverse of my mom likes my science fair project.

No kidding, right? Jesus. It's fucking hanging your dad's book on the refrigerator with a magnet. It's ridiculous. All right. So that's going to wrap it up for this week. Be sure to tune in to the live stream

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