Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 552: Crack Legal Team

Episode Date: November 30, 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 glory hole studios in chicago this is cognitive dissonance every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad. It's skeptical, it's political, and there is no welcome at this is episode 552 in our apocalypse series well i mean they weren't all in the apocalypse series tom was the last yeah 25 or so yeah well more than that actually now yeah i guess it's a couple hundred buddy last 40 four years times 52

i'm just talking about i'm just talking about 2020, you know, that's the fury road, a series, but no, it's just the road, Tom. Yeah.

Just the road. Oh my God. I'm going to eat a baby for Thanksgiving. Well, well, I guess some, some big stuff has come up. It's funny.

Cause Cecil and I were just talking before the show and he's like, Hey, did you hear Trump pardoned Flynn? And I was like, when did that even happen? Oh, just this afternoon. It was just this afternoon.

Yeah. Cause I thought the big story we'd be talking about is the official ish. Beginning of the transfer of power. Biden finally won. He won so many times this last time. He kept winning and winning and winning and winning and winning. There's a joke that I barely understand, but I understand the gist of it. I laughed. It was something like Biden has won Michigan so many times they have to call him Ohio State now.

I don't follow college football. It's still a funny joke. You get where it's going, right? It's still a funny joke. I was like, oh, that's fucking money. That's so great. That's so good. Yeah.

Yeah. He's been winning. He's won. So this last week, we talked about Giuliani and his... We found out... I found out too from a couple people that it actually is not hair dye

that was dripping on his face evidently there's a a side of your head uh make it look fuller stuff that it's okay it's like a mascara type thing that people put on and that's what was dripping down so it's not hair dye it was a product to make his head look like a little less bald and okay so it's like it's not hair dye but it's a coloring for the hair it's spray on hair tom essentially is what it is and uh and so that's what was happening but anyway he had this really unhinged press conference go ahead it makes a lot of sense that giuliani's fucking mascara would be running because he's all the time. Constantly on his,

on Trump's dick. He's choking on it. So no surprises that his mascara is running. I'm surprised he didn't speak in a series of clocks and gags when he was on this, on the stage. But anyway, he had this really unhinged woman come up and give this very shaky, almost to the point of cry break speech.

Her name, I think, is Sidney Powell. Yep. And so she stood up next to him and gave this very really emotional with zero substance talk about how they were going to stop all this voter fraud, et cetera, et cetera. Evidently, she went on a couple of networks, one American news network and a couple other places and started talking about within days after this, started talking about how she was going to convince people to not vote in the Georgia runoffs because Georgia was going to certify for Biden. And so she was trying to convince Republicans not to vote. And immediately Trump's team sent out a message and said, she's no longer part of the crack legal squad.

We disavowed all relationship with this woman because she's a fucking insane person she is crazy she was she was originally making the rounds as part of their elite strike force or fucking a team or like double ultra ranger seal lawyers or whatever that's like pulling back the curtain to your elite strike force of of navy seals and they all look like chris farley yeah right it's like pulling back the curtain to your elite strike force of Navy SEALs, and they all look like Chris Farley. Yeah, right? It's like that guy. They do a squat, and their fucking back opens up, and their ass is hanging out of their pants in the back.

Get out of here. It's like that guy at the bar is like, yeah, I was a Navy SEAL. And you're like, really? Can you say one true thing about the SEALs? You killed somebody with a paper clip. I mean, I was an actual seal and I used to catch fish in my mouth. That's what I meant to say. You don't believe me.

Watch me balance this ball on my nose. Fuck you. I clap real well. Anyway, but she, she went out and she was talking about like dominion about the computer system dominion she was talking about how dominion was a tool manipulated by venezuela and china and cuba and and so these third rate like with the exception of China, these fucking third rate autocrats in other parts of the world and somehow fixed our voting system to flip something like up to 3% of the Trump votes over to Biden. You're just like, for fuck's sake, this is so complicated.

And all this series of things that have never happened, this never happened for the most. I do want to, on a side note, Dominion feels like a weird name for something like that. Aren't there Dominion people who think there's like seven different stages of grief in the government or whatever? No, seven different pie pieces. There's seven different pie pieces. That's what it is. Yeah, that's what it is. It's the pie pieces. Those are the pie piece people.

Aren't they Dominions? It is. It is. It's the prayer warrior. Prayer warriors. That's right. Yeah, we covered them before. We covered them a long time ago where they stand up and like stand in your lawn and fucking freak out and shit. It's fucking crazy. So she was going, she was making the rounds

and she like even made it to Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson was like, well, if this is true, this would be like one of the most massive voter fraud

and criminal conspiracies of all time. Like, I have some questions about it and she got mad and didn't want to answer Tucker Carlson's questions. And then,

now the Trump team is like she was never part of it they did it's not even just that they fired her right they're saying she was never a part of that team but she was standing at the same conference she gave up she talks in it what are you just like random people that aren't part of your team during your press conference. How can all these things be true at once? How is that even possible? And if that is true, if that is true, you should be fired just on the spot for that, right? You should lose your job just because

you let that happen somehow that some rando made his way on stage and you didn't stop him. This would be like finding out, this would be like if you and I were like, Ian has never been employed by this show. We have never heard of Ian. We disavow Ian and everything Ian has done

and everything Ian stands. What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, it's amazing, Tom. What are you saying? But I want to say this though to everybody out there. This is a perfect opportunity for someone who's very nefarious or many people who are very nefarious to go out of their way to create a Twitter account

that's Republican Georgia voter 61456. Put a picture of a bald eagle or a truck nuts or whatever you want as the profile picture. And then begin tweeting about how you are going to boycott the runoff because Georgia went to a truck. And do it over and over and over and over and over and over and continue to tell people, everyone you can, comment on every single large Republicans,

you know, Twitter feed over and over and over and continue to tell them how you are. There's no way you're going to vote in these runoffs because these Republicans didn't come out and protect the state for Trump. Oh, that is so delicious. And you do it over and over and over. And you know, it might actually be a couple of people.

Who knows? I mean, man, who knows who could get involved in something like that? But they would have to be pretty nefarious to do something like that. Yeah, that would be wrong to do. It would be wrong to do. But if someone were to do it. Don't send us any screenshots of people doing that. Yeah, no, that would be terrible.

I would hate to see it. I would not even want to read them with glee. Gosh, it'd be terrible. I just wanted to say that out loud because it's like one of those things you think of and it's so horrible and you can't help but share it with people. That's the way I feel.

That's the way I feel about it. Oh, Cecil, did you see that Parler got hacked for a hot minute? I didn't, no. Oh my God. I missed this. I've got to read something to you. So somebody, I don't know if it was a full hack, but somebody was able to somehow get a hold of a Twitter customer service handle for Parler.

And so people were, they were responding as if they were a customer service representative for Parler to legitimate Parler questions. So people were on there and they're like, yeah, I have these problems or whatever. And so this person was answering them. I've got to read a few of these because they're just amazing. Parler, if you don't know, by the way, is like a Twitter alternative for people that are really upset about free speech,

but it really just means they want to say the N-word a lot and not get in trouble. Right, yeah. That's what it means. It's more racist Twitter. Yeah. Like, I don't even know how that works, but that's what it is, guys.

But it's more racist Twitter. Question. How do I change my at name? It's way too long. Answer from somebody with a legitimate parlor customer support response. Depending on which state you're in will determine how complex the process will be.

However, usually you can pay a small fee, show your ID, several proofs of residence, possibly a confirmation of citizenship at your local licensing office and you can change your name to whatever you like. There's a couple more that are great. We've had a lot of activity over the last few days and we're excited to meet and help you all welcome question is porn or nudity allowed on parlor yes they are permitted as long as they meet the following guidelines one video angles must be classy

no one wants to see just two asses clapping together. Speak for yourself! Goddammit. All subjects must be consenting of legal age and Caucasian. This is parlor, not National Geographic. So if under 18, is it blocked? I wish there was a way to not have porn on media sites or apps

so as to protect children and have way too much freedom on these apps. I appreciate the feedback. Porn hurts people in many ways and degrades women. And this answer is fucking great from the parlor. To be honest, we at Parler have gained a lot of new members based on our philosophy of not censoring anything and being a proponent of free speech. That means we're finally making that money. If we started censoring people who like to look at breasts online, we would also have to censor all of our new members that like to look at political information and isn't grounded in any facts.

They answered dozens of these. That's amazing, Tom. It's so great. It's amazing. It's so great. That's amazing. I love too that they somehow get hacked pretty early on in their whole thing. That tells you how secure everything is over there.

Goodness gracious. But anyway, I'm excited though because you did start out our initial conversation by saying that there is a transition and there is a transition happening. The department that is sort of responsible for that is reaching out to Biden. However, Biden did say that Trump has never talked to him since. I know.

He's just like, he's like, fine. You can move into my house, but I'm not going to be there. Stupid face with your winning. And really now, and I did see an article about this, and I have to agree. You look at the swings, you know, I know we have a stupid system in this fucking dumb country

with this fucking electoral college, which is the stupidest fucking system, but it genuinely was a fucking landslide. Yeah, it was not close now that they've tallied it all up. And it wasn't close in, it was close in Georgia. It was close in Wisconsin, but really every other place on the fucking map, it was not

even remotely close. Yeah. Not even remotely. It just took so long. Yeah. Like the, the nail biting scary part of this that made people like myself raise my fucking hand and say like, it should not have been this close lamenting the, and it was like, it was a fuck. It's over 80 million people at this point that have voted for Biden on a broad scale of,

Hey, I'm looking sideways at my neighbors. You still should. Cause 70 million people voted for Trump, but 73, 73 million, but you're still 7 million people more. That. That's a lot. That's a lot more, man. And they're still counting those votes. And those votes that they're still counting are coming from predominantly Biden areas. When this thing is all done and said and shaken out, it's not close. It's not close from an electoral perspective. And it's not close from a just total number of people. Yeah.

And percentage for the right guy. Percentage too. The percentage is a huge swing comparatively. The recent, in recent memory, Obama beat, I think McCain by more percentage, but that's only,

that's the only, only one recently that even can compare. Yeah. This is a crushing victory. Yeah. It's just, like I said, it's just, we've changed the way people vote. This is the first election we've ever had, which has had so much external voting, right? Where the voting wasn't done in an internal polling place. And it's like, it's a lot to keep track of. It's the first go round at this new expanded system of mail-in voting and expanded system

of absentee voting. And that process, I think we're growing into it. It had some problems. I hope they keep it. And I hope it stays after the pandemic. And it's a thing that occurs from this point on. Because as much as the other people, the, the, the other side who did vote for Trump came out there, there's a side that just really just found its own voice in this

election to, uh, to, and, you know, the sad thing I think is, is that the Senate didn't, didn't shake out how we thought it was going to shake out. And, and, uh, uh, we got a message this week from someone who had said, you know, because I had said last week that, you know, there's a lot of data points that point to Republicans turning on Trump and voting down ballot Republicans. And they commented and said, well, that might not be. It could just be that some people came in and didn't care about the Senate. They just wanted to vote Trump out and that's it. And they didn't pay attention to anything down ballot. And that's a possibility too. I'm not going to discount that

as a possibility. That's also a possibility too. But we also saw that there was enough votes and especially places that were polling very high for the Democrat that those Democrats did not win. And they got beat pretty soundly. Yeah. So you've got to look at it as an opposition and not just a failed vote. Yeah. You know, the only thing I hope we change, well, not the only thing, but one of the things I hope we learn from this and change from this

is to pass some laws that allow the states that weren't allowed to open, sort, and count their mail-in ballots until the last minute. That created so much unnecessary tension and anxiety and uncertainty. And the uncertainty was exactly what Trump has been leveraging. Yeah, it was what he wanted. Right? That uncertainty, though, is artificial. It's a bullshit uncertainty. It's structurally created in order to disenfranchise mail-in and absentee ballots, in order to get states to count as more important ballots that are cast in person.

Yeah. Right? So we got to fix that part of the system. It's a structural problem in the system. Fix that. And man, I mean, this is the biggest turnout we've had in a hundred years. Yeah.

In terms of the percentage of the available voting population. Yeah. Percentage of people. Huge. Yeah. Great speech though. This is where we're protesting? This of the percentage of the available voting population. Percentage of people. Huge. Yeah. This is where we're protesting? This is the right where the cameras. They're in the free press zone and if you could save your comments until you're completely loaded into the cage. Okay,

have fun. Enjoy your right to free speech. The armed forces welcomes your dissent. So Cecil, if you thought being a protester was rough in the U.S., and it is, by the way, Singapore Singapore has Being a protester was rough in the US. And it is, by the way. Jesus, yeah. Singapore has the most fucking zero tolerance policy on protesting ever. I just got to read this.

Singapore is, first of all, Singapore is not fucking around. Singapore is like you spit on the sidewalk and you get caned. They are not fucking around. Yeah, for sure. I don't think that's an exaggeration. I think that's actually true. They are the most not fucking around authoritarian government ever. Singapore's smiley face activist in one man protest charged with unlawful assembly. Jesus Christ.

Assembly. It's one guy. It's one guy. There's a picture of it. He's standing there with a small piece of cardboard, about 18 by 18, with a fucking smiley face. With a fucking permanent marker or whatever

inked on it. He's standing in front of the police station. This thing lasted one minute. Exactly one minute. One minute. One minute. He was arrested. He was arrested for this. On Monday, he pleaded not guilty to charges of two offenses under Singapore's Public Order Act.

Could be fined up to $5,000 Singapore dollars. It's $3,700 for each case. He posted bail of $15,000 Singaporean dollars. It's about $10,000 in bail. Has to go back to court on Friday. Are they going to make him hold a sad face now outside? Do it. You'll do it and you'll like it. This same guy is like, he's a Singaporean, and he basically does these tiny little protests, and he gets arrested for them.

And I fucking love the balls in this guy's like, okay, I live under one of the most obviously authoritarian governments possible. I'm just going to hold up a smiley face for 60 fucking seconds. Yeah, that'll be $10,000. for 60 fucking seconds. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that'll be $10,000. In previous arrests in 2018,

he'd held a sign calling for the dropping of criminal defamation charges against an editor and writer at an online news website. So he got arrested for that thing. This one is amazing. He was previously convicted for organizing a public assembly

without a permit after he invited a Hong Kong democracy activist to speak over Skype. What? At an indoor meeting, authorities claimed he did not have a permit for a foreigner to speak at the event. Motherfucker was on a Skype call. This guy got fucking arrested for being on a Skype call. And he still got fucked by it. That's ridiculous. The guy's name is Jolivan Wham, by the way. His name's Wham.

And one person protest and you get arrested, that protest should probably be called a careless whisper. Don't you think? Oh, Cecil. Come on. It's a Wham joke. You know, I was funny because I looked up wham songs earlier

because I wanted to see if I could find one that would work and that's actually a George Michael song. That's not a wham song by the way. Oh really? Yeah. I didn't see it in their catalog but the other thing I found today was wham rap from 1986. What? I'm not going to play it on the show because

every time we play something like this, we always get fucking flagged and I get a message that says, oh, copyright violation. Time Warner or whatever and then they send you

a fucking copyright violation. So I'm not going to play it but just Google Wham Rap. It's amazing. It's the greatest thing you've ever heard in your life. It's worse.

It's worse than the Blondie rap in that one song. Do you know the Blondie? You know Blondie? Oh my God, yes. Yeah, the one Blondie song where she raps and it's the worst thing you've ever heard. So bad. It's worse than that, guys.

It's so bad. The last thing, by the way, from that Singapore story I want to read is Singapore does allow public assemblies, but only at Speaker's Corner in Honglim Park. And it's currently closed. They have one place in all of Singapore where you can gather and say something. And they closed it.

It's like that place in England where you can go scream at each other. Did you go there? I didn't know oh we went there it's just a bunch of religious nuts yeah i think it is a hundred percent just religious nuts literally standing on boxes yeah and just barking out their fucking jib jab i thought it would be really kind of fun i thought like oh like maybe it's gonna be like political speech or whatever it's it's just like the most annoying activist you've ever seen. It's like, it's fucking, all it is is just like PETA and fucking pastors.

It's PETA and pastors. It's like filling a PETA full of pastors. That's how bad it would be. You throw blood on one of those guys. They love it. You throw blood on another. They hate it. It's just crazy.

Everybody's unclean. For here I'm sitting in a tin can All alone Planet of Pins There's nothing I can do This story gave me life. It just gave me life when I saw it, Tom. I love it so much.

This story is fucking, again, it's peak 2020 because now, now the monoliths appear. I love it so much. This is DPS Crew discovers mysterious monolith from air in remote Utah wilderness. I double checked this. This is everywhere. You can find this.

Yeah. It was on I Love Science or whatever it was. Yeah. The Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter was assisting Utah Division of Wildlife Resource officials counting bighorn sheep when the crew spotted something mysterious from above. The discovery was made Wednesday. One of the biologists is the one who spotted it. We just happened to fly directly over the top of it, said pilot Brett Hutchings,

which is the most I'm a helicopter pilot name ever, by the way. Brett Hutchings. Brett Hutchings. Helicopter pilot. Yeah, of fucking course you are, Brett Hutchings. Fuck you. And your fucking r course you are, Brett Hutchings. Fuck you. And your fucking rippling abs, you dick. You know, Brett Hutchings has fucking aviator glasses and a sweet leather jacket.

And he doesn't look like a douchebag when he wears it. Stupid, sexy Hutchings. So according to pilot Brett Hutchings, he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Turn around. Turn around. And I was like, what? And, whoa, turn around, turn around. And I was like, what? And this is in the article.

And he's like, there's this thing back there. We've got to go look at it. The crew circled back and landed the helicopter to take a closer look. They couldn't believe their eyes. Tucked in a red rock cove

was a shiny metal monolith protruding from the ground i'd say it's probably between 10 and 15 feet said pilot brett hutchins we were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears the rest of us should make a run for it one of you turns into a baby or whatever and you're at a table a weird table for a little while and you get old and you become a baby again. It's a really, it's a weird thing. It's just fucking like chimpanzees

banging fucking sticks against it and shit. It's so good. What I love about this is that someone went to all the trouble to take this thing out into the wilderness and then they didn't tell anybody about it. Right. They just put it somewhere. In the middle of nowhere. And then they didn't tell anybody about it. They just put it somewhere. In the middle

of nowhere. And they just hoped that someone would come across it and find it. That is amazing to me, right? Because, you know, as someone who creates things, I certainly create video, audio, and you know,

you may or may not call it art. It certainly is what it is, right? I'm certainly not going to say it is art or profess that it is art. But as someone who's a creator, the thing that you want is for people to find it, right? The thing that you want is to share it with others to say, look what I made, right? My wife's an artist. She posts pictures of her drawings as they are drawn. She will finish a day, take a photo of it. And if you scroll through her timeline on Facebook or whatever, or on Instagram,

you're going to see these drawings as they're worked through. She's sharing it the entire time. Artists share their stuff. But this is the exact opposite where someone created something and the fact that someone found it outside of them telling

people is actually part of the art. And that's really cool. It is so great. And it's not just plunked there. It says it's firmly planted in the ground. It makes you wonder how long it's been there. The people that put it there see, so they could be fucking dead man it could be yes we have because that movie is known there's no

movies around even that movie's old right so if it was a spoof on that movie that movie's what 50 years old now yeah yeah i fucking love this we are just 2020 is at a place where we're just finding mysterious monoliths in the desert. I love it so much. This is the beginning of a fucking B-sci-fi movie. I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. I'm happy to have the aliens come down, give us the vaccine

so we don't kill each other and we're essentially the antibiotic chickens that get brought to a factory farm. I'm okay with it then. At least I can go out to eat once in a while. I went into a Jimmy John's today. For the first time in a long time, I've been, you know,

I normally don't go out, I'll order food to get delivered to me, but I rarely go into places. Did you go for the free smells? I went in just because I was hungry and I was looking for something to eat that would be fast that I could just sort of quickly grab on my way to the studio.

Sure. And so I drive by, I see it, I go in and I walk in and it's been so long since I've been in a restaurant. I nostalgically thought how awesome it would be to just sit in there and eat a sandwich. I'm staring at the terrible cracked subway tile that goes up to half the wall.

The place is dimly lit. There's a couple of booths that I know for sure are uncomfortable. I know they're not comfortable. I know it's uncomfortable to be in there. I know that I'm going to be annoyed because someone's going to be talking really loud on their phone while I'm sitting there.

But there's a part of my brain that said, wouldn't it just be awesome just to sit and have a sandwich in here? Right? You know? That's where we're at now. Yeah, man. Like, bring on the monoliths. Look, man.

Bring on all the monoliths. We are an hour and 25 minutes away from wanting to send a poet. That's where we're at. Where does it hurt? Way up at the top part of my thigh. I don't know, about a centimeter below my ball sack. Let me take a look. How does it feel when I do this?

I don't know, doctor. I'm not gay. Are you sure? Good point. I'm convinced. Let's do sex. Oh, yeah. F yeah.

Oh, yeah. F yeah. Oh, F yeah. This story is just so mean. This one is. Oh. Everything about this story is just so mean. It's so shitty.

It's so shitty and mean. Or this is from Oregon Live. Oregon man sues. Alleged he went to doctor for distress over marital woes only to find out the physician was having an affair with his wife. Jesus Christ.

A Bend, Oregon man was experiencing depression as a result of his failing marriage, so he went to his family physician. And his family physician, by the way, is a fucking quack, right? So I got to throw that out there

in the beginning. The guy's a fucking quack. It says later in the article, and I'm not going guy's a fucking quack. It says later in the article, I'm not going to read the whole article, but it says later in the article that he's a complete fucking quack. He's a acupuncturist and osteopathic manipulation and biodynamic cranial osteopathy

certified laughter yoga leader. Yeah, I actually- In addition to traditional medicine. Yeah, I actually did a Google search because I didn't know what it was. Biodynamic cranial osteopathy. And my computer just put a pop-up that said no more internet for you for today. I said, no, you're not allowed to look this up. Go away. You're on timeout from the internet. I, when I read the laughing yoga i was like yeah it's because he's bending this guy's wife over laughing at him the whole time jesus christ the guy just laying on the ground doing the roflcopter constantly that's what he does it's

laughing yoga so so this guy goes to his fucking quack doctor and his quack doctor is like, yeah, man, I'll fucking treat you. And he gives him all kinds of fucking advice. He gives him fucking herbs. Yeah, he gives him weed. And fucking breathing techniques for his depression. He prescribes him marijuana and CBD oil. What he doesn't describe him is,

hey, man, I'll stop fucking your wife. Jesus Christ. It sucks so bad. and it sucks because he goes to this guy he goes to this guy and this guy's this guy's been balls deep in his wife for three years it's not like a passing thing i know this wasn't a weekend away how many times how many times you think you can get certified to be a laughing yoga instructor in three years? Like, it's a lot. Yeah, it's

just so mean. It just sucks so bad. It's so fucking mean. And in a way, don't you think, well, I mean, he's a quack, so it doesn't matter. At least he definitely studies some quackery. But you would think that if I keep hurting you,

that would be against that oath that I take. Yeah. I mean, there is a specific kind of mean-spirited to this to be like, yeah, I know I'm fucking this guy's wife, but I also know how much it hurts him. Yeah.

Because he's coming in and telling you all the time. this guy's wife, but like, I also know how much it hurts him. Yeah. Like, like, cause he's just coming in and telling you all the time. You're so aware of it. You're just like, man, that, that does really hurt this guy. Maybe I should.

No, I'll give him some pot. Maybe I should up his prescription. That's what I'll do. Up his prescription. Yeah. What a mean person. Sucks so bad.

Jimmy, by using your method method i really lost weight fast probably too fast the stress you put on my body made me slip into the bowels of a red nightmare i sleep in my oven my hair falls out in clumps i cry when i see a tree and i burn symbols into my house pets with a curling iron but it's's worth it. Because these days when I'm wearing a black jumpsuit, I look like a closed umbrella. So this story comes from Retraction Watch. And what I like about this story is, first of all, there's a thing called Retraction Watch. Where are you finding stories, Tom? I look where I look, Cecil. It's a big place.

It's not like Two Scoops or wherever I was last week. I know you have car scoops. Co-authors of paper on COVID-19 and jade amulets blame the online press and social media for misinterpretation of retraction letter. Admittedly, they were pretty on point with their original letter. Yeah, I know. The original point. I don't know how you misconstrue what they say. So there's a paper talking about how jade amulets may prevent COVID-19.

And then they got criticized like crazy for it. And then they were like, wait a minute. I think that the sum of that criticism is unwarranted. And they said of the, they said the conceptual understanding and far reaching implications of such an unconventional approach, a complex idea that employed concepts and frameworks from geology, geophysics, and condensed matter physics may not have been clear to them at all. And you're like, all right, that's a fucking word salad of gibberish. But you're saying like, look, you didn't understand.

And later they said, we never said that it prevented COVID-19. But a quote from the paper says, Nephrite jade amulets, a calcium ferromagnesium silicate, may prevent COVID-19. ferromagnesium silicate may prevent COVID-19. You can cut out the part about it being a calcium ferromagnesium silicate

and read that as jade amulets may prevent COVID-19. What the fuck? Where do you got to put the jade amulet? Because I only know of jade that goes somewhere

very, very intimate. That's egg-shaped. That's egg-shaped. That's a shape. Amulet shaped? Where does that go? In your ass? I don't know. Where do you put it? Oh I feel the buzzing of the crystals or whatever.

You reach for the jade amulet it burns your hand and so later on when you go grab a hold when you have to go find that thing in the desert you have to fill like your hand with plaster or whatever. How do you think he did that in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Raiders of the Lost Ark is a that thing in the desert. You have to fill your hand with plaster or whatever. How do you think he did that in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Raiders of the Lost Ark is a terrible movie, by the way.

I hate Raiders of the Lost Ark. You hate all the Indiana Jones movies. It's a terrible movie. God, it's so stupid. With the photo-sensitive traps that the fucking Mayans have or whatever. So fucking stupid. You know, what I love is having been to Belize and Guatemala and gone through the Mayan ruins

and looking at like the current infrastructure of Belize. They certainly, they don't have, they don't really need to make, I love that country and I had a great time. But I'm telling you, this is not a technological powerhouse. It's so funny. And that guy, he burns his hand. You can drink and drive legally.

He burns his hand in that movie. And then I guess he makes a plaster casting of his own hand or something. I don't even know what he does. Yeah. They never, what do you do? They never addressed that. It's just like,

it's a perfect. They also don't address either that fucking Indiana Jones swims out to a close submarine. And then later somehow winds up swimming away from said submarine. And you just think, well, how the fuck did he get there? Did he climb in and nobody saw him?

You can't just open up a submarine. What are you talking about? Oh, we should have locked the goddamn submarine. Well, I didn't think of. And then that woman who's in the back of that, clearly in the back of that thing and it blows up. And then the next scene,

she just, oh, I was in a different pot or whatever. This is the worst movie. It's the most continuity errors I've ever seen in a movie. It's the worst. People lap it up too

and say, oh, it's great. I can't suspend enough disbelief for that movie. Cecil, it is thousands and thousands and thousands of times better than The Crystal Skull, though. It is. I'm not going to argue with you.

Thousands. But that's just saying they went downhill from there. Yeah, but pause and consider the starting place. But yeah, The Crystal Skull is an absolute four-hour ball kicking that's what it is and it's only two hours long tells you something we're gonna get so much fucking hate for indiana jones i hate it it's the it's the worst movie it's terrible you're wrong if you like it so everybody likes it though Then they're all wrong, Tom. I will get a lot of shit for that. I know, it's so funny.

I know, I will. I know. To be really frank, I think that that movie has a lot of really awesome character building in it. And I think that that's what- It's a fun character building movie.

And I think that's really, really fun to watch. But the movie itself has so many grievous, terrible writing errors in it that it's just, it's just so hard to get away from those and still think that's a masterpiece. You know, it is what it is. And I'm okay with it being a fun movie, but it is not the masterpiece

and doesn't belong on those big, you know, best movies of all time movies. It's not one of those. God may be using this as a wake up call. This coronavirus may be a privilege because I'll tell you right now, there's a much bigger judgment coming. It's in the Bible.

This story comes from CNN.com. Church patriarch dies from COVID-19 after leading open casket funeral of bishop. Killed by the virus. It's just going down their ranks. At some point, it's going to be the fucking gardener is going to be holding. There's nobody left. It's going to start with the bishop, and then it's the fucking priest, and then it's going to be a friar and then like some random layman from the church.

Eventually, who's at the end of this thing? Who's at the end of the fucking weird Orthodox COVID-19 murder rainbow? Gotta say, well, I think eventually you do get down to a fly because it's the spider that kills the fly. But, you know, they hold this funeral in a nice enclosed space.

The guy dies of COVID and they're all kissing the body because it's their custom to kiss the body. And I have no idea if the COVID stays on the body after it's fucking dead for a couple of days and it's just sitting around. I don't know what happens. But there's enough people around where, you know, you probably shouldn't kiss the same body someone else kissed.

You shouldn't be taking your mask down to kiss them. Also, every single one of these guys in this outfit looks like Sean Connery with a long beard. Am I wrong? I'm not wrong, right? You are not wrong. Every single one of these guys. Cecil, I would not doubt that, like, I feel fairly calm.

I'm not, I don't know for sure but like yeah i'm like i'm i feel reasonably comfortable saying the virus probably dies with that person but like when you fucking treat this guy like the blarney stone like we're in a place where we shouldn't be we you tell kids at a certain age like don't put your mouth on things, man. Other people put their mouth on that. Right. That does include corpses. Maybe you should just make it a general rule not to make out with the dead, you weirdos.

That's a weird custom. It certainly is. I wonder if it's like the Blarney Stone there, Tom, where after so many people kiss it, it starts to get raw and chapped. It's like a porn dick after so many times. It's like worn out to the nub. It's like a nub on the side. What happened to that guy? Oh, he's a Blarney Stone.

We had to kiss him to death. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Either that or he's a Serbian priest. Oh, it's just hilarious. These guys all come out and they just, they just, it's, it's crazy to me that these people do this thing.

And, you know, we were talking about COVID before we started, Tom, about how it's surging here in the States. And it's surging like in the States, like it's surging nowhere else in the world. It's still surging in the other parts of the world. Don't get me wrong. And I'm not going to,

I'm not going to say that you guys aren't stupid too, but I am going to say, I am going to say we are dumber we are way dumber uh this last week i saw images of and now so tom and i are recording this a day before thanksgiving uh because both tom and i are gonna have our own thanksgiving and then we're doing a thing on friday so we just didn't have time to record the show other than this day uh but the images from O'Hare for Thanksgiving the weekend before were ridiculous. It's hump. It's bustling. Ridiculous.

They were saying it was as packed as it was pre-COVID. Yeah, that's crazy. That is not. It's so funny, man. I took a flight in October and the numbers in October were nowhere near the numbers that they are now. There's no fucking way I would go to an airport right now. Right. There's no fucking way. I went to an airport in October. I felt like I could have fucking taken off my pants and run free. Like there was nobody in the airport on both ends.

So I flew to ontario california tiny airport there's fucking nobody there went to midway there was nobody there the plane was a third not full so they don't they don't sell the middle seats anymore on southwest so i was like yeah all right and there was a third as many cases there's three times as many cases and you're gonna get in a fucking airport security line where you're fucking crotch to ass with a thousand other people standing in line right what the fuck is hey grandma i brought you some fucking covid for the holidays fucking insane man but that's doing that there's gonna be a lot of people traveling and there's gonna be a lot of people getting sick this is this is just the start four weeks from, you're going to see death numbers you did not

think you were going to see. It's going to be really bad. And he doesn't feel scared. He doesn't feel... I don't scare him, so he won't bite, and he hasn't got venom. Now, that's a python, but it's very difficult from a distance to tell a

python from a... You might have to cut it cut he's biting my neck Yeah Well if I watch the telly should be able to get a close in on this go oh my god look at that oh he's gonna let go yeah perfect did that hurt no sorry about that so i know one guy that uh is absolutely not worried about covid at this point not just because he's had it uh but because he's evidently british rasputin this story comes from ndtv after malaria and covid brit British man survives cobra bite in Rajasthan.

This fucking guy with the unassuming name of Ian Jones. That's what that's the kind of name a superhero picks though. That's true. Oh, I didn't think about that. You're expecting it to be a

Brett Hutchins. Yeah, exactly. it's not a Brett Hutchins though it's an Ian Jones this fucking guy gets dengue and malaria was recovering from that he fucking gets COVID then he gets bitten by a god damn cobra and he's just like yeah

fucking Ian Jones doesn't give a shit he's a British charity worker this is a guy who's doing good shit and getting fucked for it he doesn't he's just like

yeah alright whatever he doesn't give a shit though Cecil this is the kind of guy this is like one of those guys that gets in a car accident and gets like thrown out of the car

and somehow like runs like lands on his feet and like runs four steps yeah you know it's like the aristocrats. This is, this guy like gets bit by the snake and the snake dies from him.

The snake gets COVID. Holy shit. He gets, he gets bit by this fucking Cobra and he's like, he's walking around. He's conscious. His symptoms were blurred vision and difficulty walking. Yes, because you got bit by a fucking cobra while you had malaria and dengue. I call in sick to work if my fucking sandwich bread

is a little stale in the morning. Are you fucking kidding me? I call in sick to work if my car seat heater doesn't work. Fuck you. I don't even take my car to work and I call them sick. Can you imagine, if this guy got a fucking man cold, how tough would his wife be?

Right? I mean, this is all we do. We did it about cows a few years ago. Cows are farting. It's them. That's all we do. We blame it on other animals farting.

We've got jets and SUVs. Do you think it might be you guys? No, I heard that cat did a fart. So this story

comes from ifli-fucking-lovescience.com. For 15 years, Sweden thought enemy submarines were invading its territory. Turns out

it was herring farts. My favorite part of this whole story is that the way the guy figures out it's herring farts right so like like herrings have this little gas pocket uh that's connected to their anal tract and that little gas pocket fills with stuff and they get into these huge giant pods of herring and they swim around and they've been hearing these sounds in the fucking water

and they're thinking that they're Russian submarines because Russia did have a submarine back in the 80s. Yeah, that crashed there and had weapons or whatever on it and there was a Geiger counter stuff going on.

And so this fucking guy, the way he figures it out is he buys a herring and he squeezes it. This guy is the only person who's ever proved with pull my finger.

Yeah, this is literally, he needs to write his doctoral dissertation needs to be pull my finger. He's doctor pull my finger from this point on. It's amazing. You know, that'd be like a weird intro to the demonstration. I'm picturing like he's standing there like it's Shark Tank, you know, and he's like, okay. And he's just got his herring and he's like, all right, what are you going to do?

Like, well, has this ever happened to you? My international waters are being invaded by hostile Russian submarines. And the judge is like, that does happen to us here in Sweden. It's like, well, holds up herring. And the funny thing is, is the moment he records this sound of him making this hair squeezing the farts

out of this herring he records the sound and he sends it to people and they say no that's it yeah that is exactly what we've been hearing is herring farts herring farts

in large scale for a long time thinking they were submarines yeah well I guess herring are the only fish that have this unique connection of their swim bladder to their anal duct. So it's not like this happens

everywhere, just where there's enormous populations of gassy herring. There's herrings with like a Brussels sprout thing. They're just like, whatever. I had some onion soup and some Brussels sprouts. I'm a fucking submarine, bitch. What do you want?

a bunch of herrings unbuckling one layer of their belt and putting one fin in between their pants they're lifting up onto one dorsal fin just burp burp you would think that the flying fish would be the ones that would need a little extra push but it's the her But it's the herring. It's the herring.

It makes the sound of the turbo boost from Knight Rider. And see, this is an unloaded gun. This is a Glock 40. 50 cent, too short. All of them talk about Glock 40. Okay, I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of them talk about Glock 40. Okay, I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of that carries a Glock 40.

I'm the only one. See this gun right here, guys? Listen, see this gun? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's still here, it's an empty weapon, guys. Don't, listen. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. this story i love this one too

this story reminds me of the the samurai guy from last week yeah right right it just is so it's so fucked up you think i don't know that You think, I don't know that I know more. I don't know that I know more now. Did I read this whole story? Yeah. I don't know anymore now. This is, this is from KCTV5.

Biker with meth falls during race, accidentally shoots himself before getting hit by car. I think that's it. I think we got it all. I will say that is an amazing title because it does encapsulate the whole story. Which is a page turner, let me tell you. So the police narrative

is the best part. While racing, the subject lost control of his bike. Talking about a motorcycle, by the way. Lost control of his bike and wrecked. During the accident, a weapon in his waistband discharged, striking him in the hip and he was also struck by another vehicle

that fled the scene. But the best part is he was transported to an area hospital with critical but not life-threatening condition. This is the, this is Ian Jones

fucking, this is Ian Jones in a fucking motorcycle race. Yeah, he had, in his other pocket was a Cobra. Insane. What they don't tell you is that helicopter pilot, Brett Hutchings, raced him to the hospital. This guy gets, he's racing, loses control of his bike.

He shoots himself. It's amazing. I love that he shoots himself. I had bad things hit by a car. Oh, it's so good. Have you ever seen that video of that? One guy in the classroom talking about how dangerous guns are. Oh my God, yeah.

And then he shoots himself. Shoots himself. And he tries to like, he's like, he actually, to his credit, he's like, wow. Then he cut. He's like, that's. I'm talking about the same one. I think so. He's like a cop. Yeah, he's like he actually to his credit he's like wow then he kind of like that's i'm talking about the same one i think he's like a cop yeah he's a cop he doesn't like crumple from it or anything he's clearly hurt but he's just like okay i'm in front of all these kids i better look

i just want you to know that's painful do you remember in that one class though that we took we took you and i took that uh that um that concealed carry class and they showed that one video of epic fails with guns the scariest thing you and i've ever watched genuinely i would watch clenching i would watch live people get murdered and then they would perform an autopsy on them before i would watch something like this again it was unreal it's so nerve-wracking because you don't know what's going to happen. The one guy who looks down this barrel at the squib load and you don't know if he's going to get it. You don't know if he's going to pull his,

if he's going to just lean back and there's going to be half a head. Yeah. So guys, so this guy, like he fires his shotgun and he's terrible. He's got, I just have to complain about him for a second.

He's shooting a shotgun at like from six feet away or something. Yeah, like paint cans or something. Yeah's shooting a shotgun at like from six feet away or something. Yeah, at a jug of water or something. Yeah, a jug of water. And he misses the first shot. Badly. Badly. Not even, well, he misses badly.

I can't even understand how you could, he's so close, he could have just poked at it and knocked over this fucking water jug. He shoots it again. And like there's a squib load, which means that the primer goes off. But the main charge in the shell does not go off. So fucking knuckle nuts puts the goddamn shotgun butt on the ground, leans forward and stares down the barrel of his fucking gun. And at just the right second, he leans back a little bit.

The gun discharges and shoots a fucking hole through the brim of this guy's hat. Yeah. And one thing you learn about squib loads is that the firing pin may have ignited. It's just slowly igniting that power. So the powder inside can still explode. It just doesn't do it right away. So what you think might be a misfire might be a squib load. So they always try to teach you to treat those like hot loads. Not like the porn. Not like a porn.

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and use Gloria at checkout. That shotgun should have tapped him on the shoulder is all I'm saying. The shotgun knocks on the wall beforehand. It's like a glory hole. It just knocks on the wall. We'd been down at Options Tavern at a Stubbies and Singlets party and got dropped off

by a mate up the road and started to walk down the survey, get some noodles and went to jump over a sign on the way and slipped over and busted my plugger. That's so Australian. Busted a plugger. So this story comes from ABC.net. Man, I don't know.

I read this story. I still don't know what the fuck is happening. Malakuta College. So first of all fuck is happening. Malakuta College. So first of all, maybe there's a Malakuta College. Maybe this is just an Australia thing where they just presume that you understand everything. Right.

You know, maybe the level of Australian newspaper reader is much higher than our level. I don't know. If they're literate at all, I would suspect that it is. Malakuta College investigated after totally unacceptable sex doll incident on muck up day.

What the fuck? What a what day? No idea what muck up day is. I read this whole article. You'd never get to know what muck up day is. No, you don't get to learn. We're going to learn about it

this week, though. So we will get messages from people who tell us what muck up day is, I guarantee. So the Department of Education and people who tell us what muck up day is, I guarantee. So the Department of Education and Training is investigating to figure out what the fuck happened at this place.

At the school's muck up day, it's alleged that a student brought a female sex doll to the school. Okay, that's inappropriate. But then the teachers, including the principal, start screwing around with this thing? Yeah, start playing with it.

Yeah. Like they're riding it down a slide and they're playing with it and they're like dressing it up and like walking it around. And this is a school with primary.

It's called college, but there's primary school kids. There's five-year-old kids. But then they tape it or tie it to a pole and start dumping water on it. I don't even know. First off,

that's a weird kink. Let me just say, you know, I don't even know. First off, that's a weird kink. Let me just say, you know, I don't like to kink shame, but if your kink is tying a sex doll to a pole and pouring water on it. Water on it? Yeah, you got a very, very unique kink. That's all I'm saying. It's very unique.

Super, super specific. How would you feel if one of your boys came home from school and said there was a sock style there? You would feel weird about that. I would be outraged. That's a school. They're not supposed to be. And one of the things that they say in the article,

one of the girls was like, this is incredibly demeaning. Yeah. It is incredibly demeaning to take a lifelike effigy of a naked woman and to abuse it in front of children. 100%. There's no world where that is not a horrifying, demeaning thing to do.

What the fuck is going on that some student, I can see a student doing it, right? Some dumb ass kid buys a fucking sex doll, brings it to school. But what the fuck is going on when the teachers and the principal were like, whoa, why didn't we think of that? I started like writing it down the fucking slide. When it shows up,

they're like, my turn, my turn, my turn, my turn. What the fuck, man? It's like bringing it to the water park and going down like the lazy river on it. So muck up day, Tom,

is a senior prank day. It's a type of organized prank pulled by the senior class of the school, college or university to cause chaos throughout the institution. Pranks are usually carried out at the end of the day of the senior, at the end of the senior school year

as a going away mark for the school. In some cases, it has become something of a tradition and it's known as muck up day in Australia. So it's a senior prank day. It's like, it's the prank day. They have...

Next year, they're tying a real woman to that pole. Guaranteed. Lock up your daughters, lock up your wives. That's a great tradition, Australia. Just have like, wreck the joint day i mean here in bogan day here in here in the states i remember don't you remember locally maybe 15 years ago there was a whole group of girls that beat the shit out of other girls with live fish or something

do you remember this when this? When they were dumping cut up garbage gross like fish parts on women's heads and smacking them with fish at one of these senior prank days. You don't remember them beating each other with fish? I don't remember this. They were like squeezing herrings in each other's

faces and making them fart. I'm not making it up. I'm not making up the fish beating. That happened. That happened here. I'm not making up the fish beating that happened that happened here. So I can't, I, you can't talk about, but it was like a sorority or something, but it was, maybe it was a sorority. Maybe it was a senior prank. I don't remember, but it was, uh, there was a, there was a group of people in our area somewhere that beat the shit out of other girls with fish while they were on the ground, slapped them in the face with a full salmon or something. I remember it happening. And I remember too, one of those girls that was one of the people who beat the shit out of all

the other girls with the salmon came into a class I was teaching in college. And it was a class on the internet. And I remember we were talking about search engine optimization at one point. And she asked me, she said, I have were talking about search engine optimization at one point. And, uh, and she asked me, she said, I have a problem with search engine optimization. Every time you search for a name,

the first thing that comes up is that I beat a girl with a fish. Were you just like, well, maybe don't be known for that. My suggestion was you can change your name. Here's how you do it. You want to go by your first name and your middle name from now on, just drop change your name. Here's how you do it. You want to go by your first name and your middle name from now on.

Just drop the last name. The best way to not be known for that is to not beat anybody with a fish. Fucking exactly. I'm going to Google my name real quick and see if it says I beat anybody with a fish. No, it doesn't say anything about beating people with a fish.

Yeah, it was in 2003. Amateur videotape shot the scene. It was at Glenbrook North High School. So it was here in Illinois. They were throwing objects at him, including large plastic buckets. One girl walks behind the seated girls and slaps them in the back of the head. The other girl holds up what appears to be a testin and wrapped pig's intestine

around another girl's head. Jesus. Five girls were treated at the hospital, at Glenbrook North Hospital. Basically, it started out as a fun hazing and our initiation into senior year, about 10 minutes into it, everything changed.

Buckets were filing. People were bleeding and girls were unconscious. Oh my God. What the fuck? Yeah. You know, you have to look around at the end of that where you just,

there's intestines and fish and fucking bleeding kids like that escalated very, very quickly. And it escalates even farther, farther down the article, Tom. It says witnesses also reported urine feces and fish guts were thrown and others had been forced to eat mud.

What in the world is? Yeah, so that's what happened here. And it was more than 15 years ago. It was 17 years ago, so. How in the fuck are you the ringleader for that? Okay, so Susie, I need you to bring the poop. And then, yeah, that's a weird potluck. It's a weird potluck sign-up sheet.

I'll bring the fish guts. I have a pig intestine at home. Is it like a white elephant? You just grab the one piece of bodily refuse that you have and you have to share it with others? Okay, Joan, you always say you're going to bring cups. You always say you're going to bring cups. Do bring cups.

Can you shit in one of them? I mean, be a team player. If you shit in them, then I'm going to bring cups. Do bring cups. Can you shit in one of them? I mean, be a team player. If you shit in them, if you shit in them, then I'm going to get two other girls. And then we can. Now I got two girls that want to bring one cup. Only one cup.

That's ridiculous. The internet won't accept this. And let me tell you, if they search for that on the internet, they find it every time. I'm not doing it. Take off your mask. Take it off.

Take it off. Take it off. We're not going to take it off. Take it off. time this story comes from unsurprisingly alabama but although this is from tennessee tennessee mayor won't require covid masks until the holy spirit says so from, unsurprisingly, Alabama. But although this is from Tennessee, Tennessee mayor won't require COVID masks until the Holy Spirit says so. Alright. The mayor of a Tennessee county on Alabama's northern border says COVID-19 cases are increasing there.

So he acknowledges it, but he won't order residents and visitors to wear masks until the Holy Spirit moves him to do so. This is where we're at, man. This is where we're at. Tom and I were talking about disinformation before the show started because both of us watched a movie on Netflix.

Tom, do you remember the name of it? I don't remember the name of it. The Social Dilemma. Social Dilemma. Tom and I watched, which parts of we hate it because it's really poorly done and parts of it is amazing because it's really interesting interviews. But if you watch it, I do not endorse the dramatizations at all.

They're terrible. No, that just cut it out. It didn't add anything to the movie at all. Like as a documentary, just a third of it could have just gone out. You're right. And also you're trying to get me to believe that that one kid with the receding hairline

and he just got a divorce is in high school. Get the fuck out of here. He looks like Steve Buscemi coming up with a skateboard over his shoulder. Hey, fellow kids. It's ridiculous. That dude lives next door to Milhouse's dad. That guy's worried about his screen when it breaks because he breaks his screen at one point in the dramatization and he's worried about getting his screen replaced. And I said, just break into your 401k. There's no more penalty for you. It's not a penalty anymore. You're going to be fine.

But anyway, in this movie, they talk about disinformation and they talk about the spread of disinformation. And this is one of those things that we are seeing come to light in the coronavirus epidemic. Yeah. You know, we saw it before and it's not new because Tom and I started this show years ago talking about anti-vaxxers. Anti-vaxxers have been around forever.

Quacks have been around forever. Now, to share those types of ideas with other people and the problem of YouTube rabbit holes sucking people into those places and those spaces to find out about these weird things that they might not have ever been exposed to is really dangerous. It used to be that if you had some idea, the only way to reach an audience with it

was to get that idea past an editorial board. That was how you got, right? Like, you could write a letter to the editor. You could write an op-ed. You had, but there was a barrier. Now everybody's got a bullhorn. And we believe in the democratization of information to such a ridiculously high extent that you hand every idiot a bullhorn. And everybody believes that, like, well, I saw it 12 times.

So, you know, the frequency, the iteration of information makes us think things are more true than they are. It's no good. It's no good. The bullhorn's always been around, right? And I will say, I knew about quacks 10 years before I started recording

Everyone's a Critic even, that were giving out videotapes and selling videotapes to people because that's how they had to reach you. But that's a barrier to entry. There's no barrier to entry at all on YouTube. There's no barrier to entry to watch a Flat Earthers video now. Now, there was before because he had to pay his bills. And there was a grift.

There's also clearly a grift, right? The reason why these people that I know even had videotapes of quacks is because the quack was selling them stuff. The quack was selling them tree oil and fucking toenail clippings or whatever the fuck the quack is selling them.

But they're selling them garbage, right? And they're selling them lots of garbage over the years and they're buying more tapes and then they're sharing those tapes with the people. The spread of disinformation is naturally stifled by the barrier to entry with cash. It's just naturally stifled there. Now there's no barrier to entry.

There's no baffle to slow this garbage down. And now we're seeing it with COVID. You can go on the internet right now and you can watch hundreds of videos of people being confronted when they're not wearing a mask and they will say the dumbest shit you've ever heard a human being say. Yeah, yeah.

And people, it doesn't matter how much you argue with these people. It doesn't make because, you know, they're able to find echo chambers where everybody agrees with them online and they they are not confronted with what you would be confronted with without the reinforcement of that space. space. You're just not. You'd have enclaves for sure, but stupidity moves at a faster rate online than it does in the real world. It runs into barriers where smart people are like, no, not here. You're not welcome. It's problematic because in the online world, you just go, I just won't go there anymore. And that's it. You self-select into your own fucking echo chambers so now you got the fucking mayor in tennessee of a town with a fucking covid surge who does not believe that masks are necessary until the holy spirit fucking comes down and come fucks his ear or whatever he's gotta do what the fuck the holy Spirit has to show up? Like, maybe listen to an epidemiologist.

The Holy Spirit was going to fix this. If God was going to fix this, he wouldn't have made viruses. Viruses are just mean. I agree. They're just mean. If you were playing SimCity, Cecil, and you wanted everyone to live and to prosper, there's never a time you'd be like, well, we'll just give them a virus.

Yeah, just throw a virus in there. Well, why would you do that? I don't know. Fuck them. That's why. That's not how you create prosperity and goodwill at all. That's how you create viruses. What do you think about Biden's announcements

that he's been having about, he's created a team already that are all doctors. There's not a single pillow manufacturer on there, which I'm super happy about. The Casper guy. There's not one guy on there who sells pillows. There's not a reverend on that list, which is amazing.

So very happy. There's not a, there's not a reverend on that list, which is amazing. So very happy. There's not a guy with an animal husbandry degree or whatever. You know, somebody should have told Trump that while you do need to hire experts,

it's important that they be experts in the field of study. In the thing you're looking for. Yeah, not just generally, I'm an expert. Just genuinely. I've only hired experts. Yeah. Not just generally. I'm an expert. I've only hired experts.

Okay. Look, man, I understand that you can tie a square in our real world. Well, we're not looking for that today. We're not hiring for that. Look,

I know you're a baller, herons, herring squeezer. Like you can squeeze a herring. No one's doubting your ability to make fish fart that's terrific I will say though that it is heartening to see at least a cast of characters that aren't

just grifters right I get that he's almost certainly going to dip into a pool that people will find distasteful I think Biden will find some advisors that other people find distasteful. I think Biden will find some advisors that other people find distasteful. For sure. He'll go to industry. Yeah. Even Democrats that'll look at it and say,

oh, I think he went for a corporate shill in this position. I think we're going to see that. And we might already be seeing it. I'm not sure. I've been following all of his appointments so far, but we may already have seen it, right? And so there's going to be people who are going to be pushing back on some of the things that he's doing, but it's heartening to at least see people that aren't just grifters or idiots or people provocateurs in these positions. And I think that that is something that feels, it at least feels more normal now. It feels, regardless of whether or not I'm crazy about those policies and I'll be damn, I just want fucking Rahm Emanuel to stay the fuck away from

this administration as much as possible. I want him to stay, you know, as far away from this administration as I hope he doesn't get a job there. But, you know, even if Rahm Emanuel got a fucking job there, I still wouldn't be as upset as if the fucking pillow guy got a fucking job there. I still wouldn't be as upset as if the fucking pillow guy got a fucking job there. Yeah, you know, at the very least, he has pledged that he'll have an educator be the education secretary

and not a fucking Amway heiress. Right, right, right. That's somebody else. Or somebody who's not qualified to do the position like Ben Carson. Right, yeah. Ben Carson,

a neurosurgeon, is going to be the fucking director of housing and urban development. Really? yeah. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, is going to be the fucking director of housing and urban development. Really? Yeah. Really?

Why? Because he put a fucking addition on his mansion once? Right, right. Are you fucking kidding me? I will say this. We were talking about it last week,

but this Friday, this show may come out before then. I'm not sure when I'm going to get a chance to mix it, but this show will be out sometime either before Friday. We have our live stream to Save the Senate where we have a bunch of guests on or after Friday.

After Friday, that donation site for this Save the Senate is still going to be open. And we're still going to have that donation site up and available to people to go and donate on. And so they can go and donate. And we don't see that money. That money goes directly to the candidates. It never crosses our hands. It's in fact using the software and the company that the Democrats in those runoff seats in Georgia are using themselves and it connects directly to their campaign financing. So, um, so those are already being those. So that's up and you can donate. And the reason why you want to do that and the reason why we want to try to flip these Senate seats, even if it is going to be a real difficult thing is because the appointments, it's the appointments,

man. You can't appoint anybody. If they have 52, I am sorry, you're not going to get appointments passed. You're just not going to get anybody appointed. McConnell already said, if we keep the Senate, call me the Grim Reaper. That's what he has said. We have a Senate which has a current leadership, which has come out loud and said, I am going to be an obstructionist to governance. Yep. That's where we're at right now. We need a functioning government.

We do not have functioning government if you have purposeful ideological obstructionism that has no basis in policy or merit. Yeah. It's going to be a massive obstructionist slowdown of everything and they won't get anything done. They won't get anything of substance done. Anything that, I mean, yeah, you can do a lot of executive orders,

but at a certain point, you're not going to have appointments that you want. And, you know, like I was saying before, you're going to have Kasich. That's going to be your guy. He's going to have to be part of the administration. You're going to have Mitt Romney as fucking the Department of Energy guy or whatever, because you're not going to be your guy. He's going to have to be part of the administration. You're going to have Mitt Romney as fucking the Department of Energy guy or whatever

because you're not going to have anybody else because you're not going to be able to find anybody. And if we don't get the Senate, then the only way that we're going to accomplish anything is with more executive orders, which continues the power creep problem into the executive branch. Yep, 100%.

So after the fact, if you want to find it, I'm going to hopefully have Ian add it to this episode show notes. The executive branch. Yep. It's a hundred percent. So after the fact, if you want to find it, I'm going to hopefully have Ian add it to our, to this, to this episode show notes, but please check out. It's a live stream, the live stream to save the Senate.

It's actblue.com. Act blue is one word. Actblue.com slash donate slash podcasters. And act blue, like I said, is the, is the, is the place that both of these Senate candidates are using for their fundraising on Twitter. You can still donate. There's still time to donate.

There's still time to hopefully get some money down there so that that money can be used to help people knock on doors, to help people make phone calls, to help pay for advertising, to help pay for billboards, to do all those things that we use money for in politics. So we are not doing email this week because we had a short week. We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

We'll be back with our live stream this Thursday night. If you missed the live stream to save the Senate, there's three hours of hopefully good live stream for you to check out. We haven't recorded it yet, but we're super excited to have the guests. It's going to be awesome. So you can go to YouTube and check it out. It should still be posted there. Three full hours of wonderful live streaming with all our guests raising money for the Georgia candidates. The link will be on this week's show notes.

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