Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 85: Fine Imported Goblin

Episode Date: February 3, 2013

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Two, honor your ma and pa. Three, no telling tales or gossiping. Number four, get your hide to Sunday meeting. Number five, ain't nothing come before the Lord. Number six, no fooling with another feller's gal. Number seven, no killing except for critters. Number eight, quit your foul mouthing. They'd seem to forgot just one of them. Love me or I'll torture you forever and ever, because I'm just. Stacey asks,

Why does God let children die? An innocent two-year-old died. It was a freak accident, but why did God let it happen? Why didn't God let her pull through? Sweet Jesus, crispy cake, Stacy. Why don't you take better care of your youngin'? You act like I created the entirety of existence just to watch you suffer. That's only partially true. the entirety of existence just to watch you suffer. That's only partially true. Anonymous asked, Dear Hillbilly God, when will the world end?

Well, I haven't paid a payment on the world for some time now. It was paid off, and then I got one of them title loans, and I bet you could guess the rest. Well, anywho, the foreclosure date is 4.5 billion years in the future. So I'll either have to wait until then or move y'all out sooner. And if I move you out sooner, I'll probably do it with lots of beasts, locusts, and frogs. But I'm not sure yet. I'll get back to you. John asked,

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The explicit tag is there for a reason. 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 mat. This is episode 85 of Cognitive Dissonance.

We're 85% of the way to our centennial. We have a B. A solid B at this point. Is there a fucking plan for the centennial? Were you not part of the centennial planning committee? I wasn't on the planning committee. Dude, it's going to be awesome. There's going to be fucking balloons and shit that just

come down, like streamers. We're going to totally record another episode. It's going to be a big deal. I don't know about a big deal. It'll be another episode. Two fucking people in this operation and you don't get the memo. How does that happen? I don't know.

I can't believe you wrote a memo. I had to handwrite it. I'm not tech savvy enough to type the fucking thing. This is going to be probably a pretty quick episode because the stories this week sucked. Yeah. Just throwing that out there. Our very first story is just really weird. It's from Huffington Post.

Cheryl Nuxle. Nuxle. Nuxle. Idaho GOP State Senator. The fine state of Idaho, home of potatoes, compares health care to the Holocaust. Home of delicious potatoes. First of all, she needs to get a mullet trim.

Yes. That's the first thing you see. You see a picture of her posing with Santorum. Yeah, she's got Santorum all over. That's the problem. She's nearly, she's covered in Santorum, practically. You need it to slick back that nearly, she's covered in Santorum, practically. You need it to slick back that Camaro she's

wearing. Party in the front. Or what is it? Business in the front, party in the back. Yeah, I mean, she's got a full eye rock on that thing, man. She does, man. She does. It's kind of domed and then she's got the fucking like 1989

bangs that sort of roll over and touch her eyes. And it emphasizes how the hair is thinning too. That's nice. That's a good look. Every high school girl I went to school with was hot with that haircut. That is not true. They were just girls in high school. It's not.

I'm just saying. Girls in high school, they all start off as an eight because you're so horny. That's just how it works. It's hard to imagine this woman ever went to high school. they all start off as an eight because you're so horny. That's just how it works. It's hard to imagine this woman ever went to high school. Well, she did. She didn't learn a hell of a lot. She didn't go to history class, it turns out. She is a vocal opponent of the health care initiative, the Affordable Care Act.

And she made some comments that I seriously cannot make heads or tails of. I can't. In an email to supporters, she wrote, quote, this is a fucking quote. This is a good quote. The insurance companies are creating their own tombs, much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps. What? Private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange.

Ah, just like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps. Except no one's going to die. What is happening here? I don't even understand. Okay. Insurance companies are like Jews. Right? They're not like Jews at all.

How are they like Jews? I don't even understand what's even happening. They're like Israel. Every organization that eventually gets phased out will just get its own Israel. It's like. Where you go there, health insurance is really expensive. You're surrounded

by enemies all the time. And you have to be a belligerent asshole just to survive. I mean, it's like comparing just like, man, this orchard is just like how the Jews were killed. It's just a random... You're picking a random thing.

Do you think you're impassioning people? I wonder if that's what she thinks is that if I bring the Jews up here, it's going to impassion people. I'm reminded of a skit from Family Guy where Lois is running for city council. And she stumbles across the words 9-11 and people cheer. And so she keeps on her entire speech is just her going 9-11. people cheer. And so she keeps on, her entire speech is just her going, 9-11. And then they cheer and she's like, 9. And then they go, 11. Yay!

And they just cheer. Like every time they're like, you know, clapping and applauding. You know, and it's the same thing. It's like you're just injecting some sort of rhetoric in here to try to bolster your position. But your rhetoric doesn't make any sense. It's like, it's like rhetoric guaranteed to just infuriate people too. And she goes on like she's still,

when she gets questioned on it, she's like, Oh, hang on a minute. Let me clarify. Quote, I just want people to know the truth. I felt badly for the Jews.

It wasn't just Jews, but Jews and Christians and Catholics and priests. My thing was they didn't know what was going on. The insurance companies are not realizing what's going to end up in their demise. Just fucking say you're sorry. Just stop with the Jew comparisons. Stop comparing the slaughter of six million people to the possible demise of private health care insurance. It doesn't even make sense that it even would be. The thing is, it's not it's not even set up to do that anyway. They're going if they were, they would just be like, it's a national health care system.

Then you get rid of all the insurance or most of the insurance companies unless you want some sort of boutique health care. Right. Well, then they're not going to kill them. They're not going to gas them. Well. It's not. I don't know, Tom. The death panels are for real.

The death panels are for real. You wear a blue cross blue shield tattooed on your arm. All the representatives of Humana are like starving and huddled together around barbed wire fences like we just worked in the call center. Fuck!

They're all tattooed with HMO on them. Instead of separating men and women, they're separating the HMO and PPO. You know, in two distinct lines. It's fucking lunacy. The PPO are the ones that are there. They're like policing the other ones. The HMO are just like, we're going to kill you.

You know what? You're actually going to have to talk to somebody else first. You know, I can't get you in this week. That's going to be six to eight weeks for an appointment. Wish I could help you. Fucking leg just fell off. Yeah, that's not covered.

Yeah, sorry. That's a pre-existing condition, my friend. Listen, you were starving before you got here. Yeah. This story comes from the New York Times. Modesty in ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn is enforced by secret squads. See, so we were just lambasting the UK. Just lambasting the UK.

For their crazy squads of Muslim vigilantes roaming the streets and just like harassing people, harassing them, if you're Clarence Thomas, about what they're wearing. And evidently in Brooklyn, same shit, different religion. I love the thing is, is it's not like the brute squad that's walking around being like, this is a Muslim area, put out your beer, and like yelling at them. Instead, they, the modesty squads, na-na-na-na-na-na-na, the modesty squad, they are like, instead, what they do is, they're very polite, these guys. They'll just call up and be like, oi, hey, your daughter has a short skirt there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to her, huh? Just call up and be like, Oi, hey, your daughter has a short skirt there.

I'd be ashamed if something were to happen to her, huh? That's a mighty nice store window you got there. It sure would be a shame if a brick were to go through it, huh? The Modesty Squad's utility belts are just chastity belts? Chastity belts with like a cell phone so they can call these people on the phone to let them know that, you know, you shouldn't have a nearly naked mannequin in your or fucking modestly covered mannequin in your window. If a mannequin, if the concern is that a mannequin might, quote, inadvertently arouse men and boys. might, quote, inadvertently arouse men and boys. First of all, if the mannequin purposely arouses passing men and boys, then it is the mannequin from Mannequin, the movie. I was just going to say, like, the only aroused mannequin I've ever seen,

the only person who's ever been aroused about a mannequin is the woman who was, like, fucking from Sex and the City, whatever her name was. It's not the horse-faced one it's the other one not the horse-faced one so it's not sarah jessica parker no it's not it's not sarah jessica parker is she in that that's it that's who it is yeah it's just such a weird like um and they even say in this article they say like they kind of operate like the mafia where they'll they'll say you won't get any business. And these people have to kowtow to their fucking demands, which are ludicrous demands.

Dress your mannequin better. Like put more clothes on. We have to cover with a fucking Afghan. What the fuck am I supposed to do? Why would you want to do business in a neighborhood that threatens you with these veiled threats? And you're right. They are the exact same threats. Like, they're like crazy mob threats.

Like, they're crazy, like, godfather mob threats, you know? Like, these are offers you can't refuse. Yeah. And I don't understand why neighborhoods put up with this shit. You know, I mean, I understand the idea of a boycott, right? Like, I understand you vote with your dollars. You know, I mean, I understand the idea of a boycott, right? Like, I understand you vote with your dollars.

So you see a place like this and you say, okay, you know, I don't like what they're doing here. It would be like if we were walking down in, like, the middle of a downtown area and there was a – I don't even know what I – I can't even think of anything I'd be offended by. It's like – I mean, I don't know. Like, fucking – again, I'm still fucking stuck on what I would be, something that I am offended by, I would say. The thing. I can't even fucking define it for you. The offend Cecil store. Because I'm just like, I don't know, like, I'm not really offended by a lot. So I see it, I'll be like, okay, you know, like, I mean, I guess it would be if I walk by a store and they had faux lynched black people hanging out.

Like, that would offend me right so so i see that and i go oh that's a k-mart that's yeah it's like you don't want to know what's on blue light special you just don't so i i walk by and i'm like oh okay uh that's offensive I'm not going to shop here. Like that's what a normal person does. They say, okay, well, you've offended me. Instead, these people mobilize. They get everybody together and they're like, oh. And again, I can sort of see that too because it's like boycott. If I saw that and I was so offended, I might say something like, man, that fucking KKK Mart sucks my balls.

There's no way I'm going to shop there. I'm going to tell all my friends about this. I'm going to tweet about it, whatever, and get a bunch of people not to go there. But the fact is, is like, like these are threats. It's different if you're just going to boycott a store. Sure. Boycott a store. Good.

You know, people do it all the time. You know, when there's threats involved, especially when they're talking about like smashing windows, that's not how you handle this. And it's altogether right that DOMA discriminate against homosexual behavior because it is not a benign alternative to heterosexuality. It's got a host of pathologies associated with it. It is not behavior that ought to be endorsed, promoted, sanctioned, funded, subsidized, protected in law by any rational society. We ought to discriminate against homosexual behavior.

This next story is from Salon.com. It's also from kind of all over the place. This was like the story that I just could not find this week. Churches threatened to pull funding if Boy Scouts drop anti-gay ban. What's particularly interesting to me about this is that I was a Cub Scout when I was a kid. I never made it to the Boy Scouts. I quit before that because it seemed like a lot of work. I'm too lazy for that shit. But we always got together in the church basement.

That's where these things seem to happen, right? Like the Boy Scouts, the Cub Scouts. And even though we got together in a church basement, my Cub Scout experience was not an overtly religious experience. the churches in many churches rather um are are trying to control the direction of the boy scouts by threatening to pull their funding to to yank that do they not understand that the boy scouts can just sell more popcorn like it's it's okay they'll just go to a different place you'll just seem more out of touch yeah you if you if you your funding, the thing about this story, it's like, well, we'll pull our funding. Well, okay. Then you'll have less influence. You're just going to marginalize yourself. You're going to remove yourself from the equation even further. This

seems to me like a really foolish decision. There's nothing to be gained by the churches doing this. Yeah. The churches did threaten to pull out funding of the Boy Scouts, but they did not threaten to pull out of the boys. So that's one thing I think we need to look forward to. We'll have to look forward for that. There's a part of this article where it says at the bottom, and this is a concerned parent, if this comes to pass, then I will pull my boy from Boy Scouts. It won't be because that I fear, as some ridiculously suggest, I simply don't approve of the lifestyle. So what they're saying is they're saying, I don't fear the lifestyle. I just don't approve of it.

Well, since when do you have to approve of everyone else's life decisions? Like in order to have a conversation with somebody, do I have to then say like, do I have to sign like a document that says I approve of every life decision you've made up till this point? world do we live in where that's the case? It's not the case. I may not approve of many things that have happened in your life, but that's not my fucking place, man. You know, like, it's not my place to decide whether or not, like, it'd be the same thing as if they were saying,

well, you know, you married a woman who's too fat. Well, fuck you, man. What the fuck is it you're putting on your call? You don't get to decide that I, that I married a girl who's too skinny. This isn't fucking Jack Spratt fucking nursery rhyme. Like you don't get to decide who I get to marry or who I get to love. Obviously there's things somebody could do where you would lose total respect for them.

But the idea here is like everybody you meet, you've got to like basically like, you know, they got to get the stamp you know that you got they got to get the stamp of approval from you in some way based on all their life decisions what if you don't like the car they drive everybody that's involved in an organization that my child's going to be involved in has to submit to me a two hour long video documentary about their lifestyle in order for me to allow my kid to join the same organization. Yeah, right. Because, you know, what if there was a diversity of viewpoints in your life for your child's life?

That would be horribly damaging. Tragic. They could grow up to be tolerant and decent human beings. Good Lord. What kind of a world do we want to live in? It's chaos. It's anarchy. It's dogs and cats living together.

You know, and this is a statement, Cecil. It's a liar's statement, right? Like, I just don't approve of the lifestyle. It's not a lifestyle. It's who they are maybe when they get older going to be sexually attracted to. Like, this whole verbiage, it's a rhetorical attack to call this a lifestyle. And the thing is, it's like, I don't even care if it's a rhetorical attack to call this a lifestyle. And the thing is, it's like I don't even care if it's a lifestyle. Like that's the thing about – like I don't even care if it is.

Like even if I fucking bought your premise, which I don't, you dumb fuck, I still don't care. Well, and can you imagine like if there were – I can't think of another analogous lifestyle, right? you imagine like if there were, I can't think of another analogous lifestyle, right? There's no other analogous lifestyle that I can imagine somebody being like, I just, you know, I'm going to pull my kids out of scouts because some group, I don't approve of that lifestyle. This is, you know, it's a lifestyle choice that I don't approve. Well, name one other. If that's what it is, if that's really true, give me one other example. Or in your worldview, are there only two lifestyles? Heterosexual, which encompasses a bajillion different things.

Yeah. And homosexual, which encompasses a bajillion different things only separated by who they're sexually attracted to. It's crazy. I like this. I like that the Boy Scouts are trying to modernize. And I hope that this happens. I hope that this really does go through. It's interesting to note, though, that there's no talk about them dropping the religious requirement because right now, atheists aren't allowed to be Boy Scouts. Yeah, I know. That's interesting. I don't,

again, I feel like it's one of those – it's like they say it's a requirement, but it's not like you have to come in and swear on a stack of Bibles or whatever. You know what I mean? Like it's a requirement, but it's not a requirement. I don't know that that would – I'm not a parent, so I don't really know what I would do if I was in this situation. But I don't know that that would bother me as much as the gay thing. Because to me, it's like one is openly spouting your belief structure.

The other one is sort of underlying belief structure, which really wouldn't bother me too much. I don't care. I mean there's plenty of places that I've been around where people have been religious. And, I mean, it doesn't bother me at all. I don't care that people are religious. religious and it, I mean, it doesn't bother me at all. I don't care that people are religious. I only care when the religious use that, that use of authority to injure or hurt other people. That's when I start to get upset and just requiring people to be whatever. And, you know, if it's unsaid, it's unsaid. It wouldn't bother me. It wouldn't change my mind about that.

And I think too, if they do open this up and that doesn't bother you. It wouldn't change my mind about that. And I think, too, if they do open this up and that doesn't bother you, you should enroll your kids in Boy Scouts because just like every other boycott that happens out there, you shouldn't be like, well, I still don't want to do it. Oh, I totally agree. It's funny because I had a lot of very positive experiences when I was a Cub Scout, and I was a little disappointed that that wasn't an option. lot of very positive experiences when I was a Cub Scout. And I was a little disappointed that that wasn't an option. And I had conversations with my wife about this and, you know, she was so virulently against and this thing came up and she's like, well, you know, maybe now it's something we can consider. And I would want to support the organization. I would want to be very open about

saying, hey, we are joining and here's why we're joining. Right. You've got to reinforce this decision-making process, right? Because if you don't and you're like, oh, well, you know, fuck it. You know, they've pissed me off by not allowing gays once, so now I'm never going to even pay attention to them again. Once they change their decision, you've got to reinforce that because you've got to also understand that there's going to be a lot of people on the other side of that that are going to say, my kid stays home now. Exactly. You know, you know, you're exactly right. And there's no incentive for them to do it unless you stand up and get your kid in there. This podcast is brought to you by Audible. Audible is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment on the internet. It has over a hundred thousand titles.

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It's awesome because anybody that knows me knows I don't know fucking anything at all about sports. Nothing. No, that's not true. I like the UFC. Yeah, okay. I like the UFC. So I guess I don't. You don't know anything about baseball, football, hockey, or soccer.

You know any of the other sports where it requires a team. Right. I just like to see people fight for money in a cage. Sure. I don't blame you. So do I. I like that. The traditional, like, God bless America sports, I don't know anything about them. Never have.

Never played them. Never watched them. Never been interested. I actually try to make plans with my brother-in-law who's a very sporting gentleman on sunday i'm like hey let's make some beer let's get together we'll he's like yeah i'm busy on sunday it's the super bowl and i'm like let's make some fucking beer man what are you talking about i didn't have any idea but at least one quarter of amer, according to the CNN belief blog, will be looking to the heavens for divine inspiration on who's going to win the big game.

They do a lot of sky pointing in a lot of sports, and football is no different. UFC has it, too. Oh, yeah, they do. sports and football is no different. UFC has it too. Oh, yeah, they do. Where, you know, at the end, Benson Henderson will grab the mic and be like, I want to thank my Lord and personal Savior, Jesus Christ.

Yeah, because Jesus Christ wanted you to fucking get that guy in a rear naked choke. He wanted a man to be behind another man and have somebody say it was rear and naked. Yeah, that's what Jesus wanted. Who would Jesus elbow in the eye? Who would Jesus elbow in the eye? Who would Jesus tap out? But anyway, they do a lot of finger

pointing up to the sky in football. Really, it's one of the only other sports I watch is football. So I know a lot about the different teams that are playing and whatnot. And this is American football for all you football people.

All those people all around the world are like football. They don't play football in America. This is actually pretty funny, with, maybe got away with, was acquitted of murder. Murder. Murder. Murder. You know, murder.

And Lewis here, I'm going to read, Lewis said, Ray Lewis said to reporters, God doesn't make mistakes. He's never made one mistake. God is so amazing. Here's another quote. He says, I'll tell anybody one mistake. God is so amazing. Here's another quote. He says, I'll tell anybody one thing about God's will. You can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see it at the end of it.

For his will to happen this way, I could never ask for anything else. And what is that? It's a fucking post hoc rationalization of fucking God's will. Like, you're fucking also counting the hits and forgetting the misses. What about your murder trial, dude? Well, he's counting the hits, man. He won. I guess, yeah, I guess.

He won, motherfucker. You know, according to Wikipedia, it looks a little sketchy. Like, I'm just saying, it looks a little sketchy. Even on Wikipedia, which is supposed to be kind of unbiased, they're like, they never found the suit, and there was blood in his limo. Moving on. Let me just ask you two quick questions.

Cecil, do you know where all your suits are? I do know where every suit I own is. Mainly because I only have one place to store my suits. I mean, I have several suits. They're in my closet. Yeah. If somebody said, hey, where's your blue pinstripe suit? I'd be like, that fucking thing is in my goddamn closet.

It's not like, oh, I lost my suit. Yeah. Because I changed out of my suit. No, that's not a thing. No, uh-uh. And see, so one more question. Bear with me now. How much blood is in your car?

Does it have to be mine? No, in fact, it's better if it's not. It's not a Heartland blood donation van. It isn't. It isn't. It's just a regular vehicle. I think that there's going to be a lot of finger pointing to the sky this weekend. I'm kind of puzzled why people think that there's going to be – that God actually does give a rat's ass about – I mean if you're God and you fucking spun the entire universe into existence, you care about a game on a fucking single fucking tiny planet in that existence?

Yeah, this is 27 percent. 27 percent of Americans are like, oh, yeah. How many people on the earth now, Tom? About 7 billion. 7 billion. Of those 7 billion, there's going to be 22 playing a game. Yeah, hang on a minute. And that's what we care about.

22 into 7 billion. Hold on. No, that's not a lot of fucking people, as it turns out. Not a lot of fucking people as it turns out man you know and and the thing is is that he cares way more about them than the 22 people that die a second from fucking hunger and you know africa or whatever yeah you know like you that's not a real number by the way no probably it's just made up that's made up it it's it is startling to look at this and be like wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute two-thirds of the world lives on less than a dollar a day. Yeah. Like, that's the most of them. That's billions, more than one billion people.

And God is like, yeah, but, you know, I think the Ravens got a tight D this year. You know, like, what the fuck? I love that little Kaepernick kid. He can really run. He's having a Super Bowl party. He's, like, making some fucking wings up there. He's got his beer out. He's having a Super Bowl party. He's making some fucking wings up there. He's got his beer out. He's got his fucking pretzels.

Try the mango salsa. I spent all day on it. What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? What the fuck? What the actual fucking fuck fuck? What the actual? The actual flying fuck. What the actual fuck. What the fuck? What the actual fucking fuck fuck? What the actual... The actual flying fuck.

What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? Is this conservatidia bullshit? What the what? What? What? What the actual fuck conservatidia? Atheists and Obesity, Part 1.

According to the Gallup, Inc., very religious Americans are more likely to practice healthy behaviors than those who are moderately religious or non-religious. The Gallup study gives some insight into the above-average health habits of the very religious and not necessarily the health habits of atheists. necessarily the health habits of atheists. The reason is that the Gallup organization defines a non-religious as a person where religion is not an important part of daily life and church, synagogue, mosque attendance occurs seldom or never. This group constitutes 29.7 percent of the adult population. While many Western atheists are non-religious, not all non-religious people are atheists. Gallup further declares, Very religious Americans make healthier choices than their moderately religious and non-religious counterparts across all four of the Healthy Behavior Index metrics,

including smoking, healthy eating, and regular exercise. Smoking is one area of particular differentiation between the very religious and less religious Americans, with the non-religious 85% more likely to be smokers than those who are very religious. Two of the major risk factors for becoming obese, according to the Mayo Clinic, are poor dietary choices and inactivity. Thus, given the above-sided Gallup research, it appears as if non-religious are more prone to becoming obese than very religious individuals. The Bible declares that gluttony is a sin. Furthermore, the Bible declares the physical body of Christians to be temples of

the Holy Spirit. Another example of strongly held religious beliefs affecting behavior in terms of the avoidance of sins and health problems is that religious upbringing and culture affects rates of homosexuality, and there are a number of diseases which homosexuals have higher incidences of. For example, homosexuality is rare among Orthodox Jews, and even the liberal researcher Alfred Kinsey noted the rarity of homosexuality within the Orthodox Jewish community. Therefore, it is not surprising that many very religious Christians and other religious groups, which incorporate healthy beliefs and practices within their religion, would lead healthier lives. Obesity is positively associated with impulsiveness, lower self-discipline, and neuroticism. In addition, many people overeat in response to negative emotions such as depression, anger, anxiety, and boredom. In January of 2011, CNN reported, people unaffiliated with organized religion, atheists, and agnostics also report

anger toward God either in the past or anger focused on a hypothetical image, that is, what they imagine God might be like, said lead study author Julie Exline. Of course, given the irrationality of atheism, it is not surprising that there are atheists who are angry at God, who is morally perfect. A high percentage of the founders and prominent leaders of the militant New Atheist Movement have had problems with being overweight, and anger may have been a causal factor in some cases. See, New Atheism Leadership's Problem with Excess Weight. Certainly, anger cannot be ruled in terms of militant atheists, such as New Atheists, having problems with obesity. such as new atheists having problems with obesity.

In addition, Christians have good reasons to believe a hedonist lifestyle is a causal factor of atheism. See, Causes of Atheism. The Apostle Paul wrote that in the end times, men would be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 2 Timothy 3, verses 1-4. This story is from Yahoo News, Yahoo blog news. Applebee's fires waitress who posted receipt from pastor complaining about automatic tip. This actually was posted to Reddit. Somebody posted a photo of a gratuity.

Tip was 18%. It was automatically added onto the bill. It was $34 and 93 cents or what have you. And the individual who signed for this was evidently a pastor and they, they scratched out the amount of the tip. They scratched off the 18% and wrote, I give God 10%. Why do you get 18 you're shortchanging god then yeah it's the first thing i'm thinking it's like well wait a minute you god is worth 10 and i a hardcore cheap motherfucker, routinely tip 20? You're fucking giving it to God in the pooper, man.

Well, God just doesn't do as much as a good server. It's true. I mean, you know, like you get a good server, your meal is excellent. You get a good God, what can you expect? Pretty much the same thing you could expect without a God. That's an excellent, excellent point. What a douchebag thing to do. Yeah.

And then at the bottom here, I'm going to read directly from the article. It says this is the waitress that that wrote that actually posted this online. Applebee's fired her, by the way, said I had no intention of starting a witch hunt or hurting anyone. I just wanted to share a picture I found interesting. She said, I come home exhausted, sore, burnt, dirty and blistered on a good day. And after all that, I can be fired for embarrassing someone who directly insults their server on religious grounds. And then the server also isn't buying the pastor's embarrassment. If this person wrote the note, obviously they want it to be seen by someone, she said. I've been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I've seen the big man used as reasoning.

And no shit. You know what I mean? Like when you post something, you write something stupid on your check to somebody, you're being insulting to someone. You give them a $0 tip even though she said she left $6 on the table. Even still, she didn't put it on the card or whatever. I don't know that I believe that anyway. I don't believe it either. But in any case, she said she left the money

but she still scribbled it out and still was shitty on her check. You can really tell someone's character by how they treat service personnel. Exactly. You walk up, you know, if you have a friend and you see them treat somebody who's a service, you know, somebody who does this as a living, you

can tell. You're like, oh my gosh. You can see a side of somebody open up. This person is clearly an asshole. This person is clearly an asshole. And they got called on being an asshole. Now, I don't think that this woman should have posted this shit to Reddit, especially because they have a policy against it

and Applebee's are not allowed to do it. So she got fired. Hey, that's, you know, you fucking took the chance by posting it on Reddit. But I would have just covered the woman's name up. I don't know why they just kept the woman's name on there. Then nobody would have been able to tell. This whole thing, she wasn't sorry.

She meant to fucking belittle the person who was serving them food. Absolutely, she did. Yep. And, you know, and now she gets caught and now she's sorry. It's just like all those people who, all those fucking guys out there who are in Congress who get caught in affairs and they're oh so fucking sorry. It's just like all those people who, all those fucking guys out there who are in Congress, who get caught in affairs and they're, oh, so fucking sorry. Yeah. You weren't saying you were sorry when you were coming in your fucking mistress. You're sorry now that you're standing next to your wife and you're fucking got caught. That's when you're sorry. Yeah. She's, she's, that's exactly it, man. She's sorry. She got called out for being an asshole. And she says,

she even comes out and she says that it was a lapse in judgment and character. And, you know, it's like, yeah, fucking right it was. But it wasn't a lapse in judgment. It was revealing your character. Right. I don't believe for a moment that it was a lapse in judgment because it couldn't happen to you, Cecil. No, I would never do that. There's no way in hell that you would do that. You would never write something just snarky and mean-spirited and shitty

to a server just to make them feel it's not in your character it's not part of who you are it couldn't happen to you it's not it's not like oh i just made a bad call it's who i am was revealed and it was revealed to the whole world we had a conversation right before we went on where we were talking about how much we leave for tips and things like that. And I had mentioned that one of the things I almost always do is leave 20 percent no matter whether the service is good or bad. And I mentioned to you something like, yeah, maybe I'll start leaving a little less when the service is poor because I'd like to reinforce good behavior and punish – and not punish but at least show that I recognize their negative behavior. And you said you didn't know that you could even do that. You didn't even know that you could even leave less money than 20%

because you would feel bad when you left. Because you know the shitty fucking job that these people have to do every goddamn day. You know it's not a fucking rewarding job. You know they're not making a shit ton of money. You know that they're living off the kindness of fucking others. So you recognize, you're like, man, I don't know that I could fucking do that. This was above and beyond the call of shitty because not only did you not leave, you didn't leave 10%. You didn't leave 15%. You didn't leave, you didn't leave 8%. You didn't leave 7%. You live fucking 0%. Okay. And then to

fucking add on to the whole thing, you insult the person. You say you're fucking worthless to me. You are worthless to me. So, you know, you are being a total shithead. I could see just leaving zero even and not raising a fuss. Okay, maybe the waitress was a fucking, the worst waitress ever. But nobody deserves to get a fucking little note

written to them with, you know, tip. Hey, here's a tip. Cut your hair fucking shorter or something. Right, right. Some snarky little fucking comment like this. You know, and it's like, this was a table of eight people. Right. It was not an inconsiderable amount of work, even if all they got was coffee.

Who's that guy on the other side of the glory hole? It's Jesus. What the fuck is with this next story? Vatican Crimes revealed. Vaticancrimes.us What the hell is with this website? Evangelical pastor convinced followers his penis

contained holy milk. He was arrested. I find myself not at all surprised that he was arrested. Not at all surprised that somebody would give this a whirl. Give this a whirl. Really surprised anybody would be like, wait a minute, wait a minute. That's holy milk because I think that looks like ejaculate. That's not holy milk.

Like you can't – who's buying this? I'm digging through this article, Tom, and I can't. I don't see it. They don't say how old this guy is. But looking at him, I bet you that milk is expired. I bet you. You know, maybe it's cottage cheese by now. I don't know.

Oh, no está bien. Yeah, I don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no'd just be like, hey, everybody, group blowjob, come get some holy milk. And people would be like, okay, I'm going to get some holy milk. Here we go. I wonder if he let dudes up in there. I mean, is it only for women? Only women can have the holy milk? Right.

Well, maybe they got a snowball. I don't know. I'm not even. That's horrifying. It's horrifying. I don't even want to have this conversation. Oh, that's awesome, though. That's horrifying. It's horrifying. I didn't want to have this conversation. Oh, that's awesome, though. That's hilarious.

The quote, he has convinced us that only God could come into our lives through our mouth, and that's why he would do what he did. I have to say, it's not that much different than the Holy Communion. It's just not. It's really not. Yeah, it's really not. He has convinced us that only God could come into our lives through our mouth. Actually, that dude was coming in your mouth.

Yeah, you've got that mistaken. I mean, I don't know. It's not just God. It's that dude too. The end of this article is terrific. This pastor's already in jail where, he said when they arrested him, he intends to continue watering his cellmates with his sacred milk. Dude, you are going to get watered.

I'm just saying. Maybe. Just be prepared for a serious water canning. Is this like a fucking punk news site? Because part of me thinks that with that last line, we're getting punked. We may be getting punked. But, you know, the thing is, two or three of our listeners sent us this as well. Yeah, and I did do a search. I consider them punked. We may be getting punked. But, you know, the thing is two or three of our listeners sent us this as well. Yeah, and I did do a search.

I consider them punked. I did do a search for this too, and a bunch of different articles popped up. So if it is a satire site, other people are being punked by the satire. So I don't know, maybe. That last line to me sounds like satire though. Yeah, if it's not satire, how long did he get away with this? Yeah, I don't know. And what was he bragging about?

He'd be like, hey, hey, bro, I just milked your wife. You want answers? I think I'm entitled to them. You want answers. I want the truth. You can't handle the truth. This next story is from News-Doozy. News-Doozy. News-Diz-Zimbabwe.

News-Diz-Zimbabwe. That's not our Zimbabwe, our news. Because I would want to own this. Chi-Town Blast. Beheaded goblin fought back, says eyewitness. Best story all week. What? This is a story.

This story can't get crazier. No, it really can't. A traditional healer and survivor of the Shitsuwaza blast. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You pronounced that perfectly. That's perfect. That's accurate. Shittunguiza. That's not a fucking word. That's perfect. That's accurate. Chitunguiza? Chitunguiza.

That's all. That's better. That's even better. Blast. Claims the tragedy occurred during a cleansing ceremony, and this is my favorite. This is my favorite, too. An imported goblin. You got to watch out for the imported goblins.

What's better? Well, you don't want the domestics. You know? Yeah. When you're ordering your goblins, they're like, would you like an imported or domestic? So they bring back the goblin. You like smell it. You sniff it a little bit to make sure the goblin's not corked.

You're like you got the decapitated goblin's head in your hand. You're sniffing. It's like severed neck. You're like, I don't know. I don't know. Is this good or not? Yeah. Do you have this goblin on head in your hand and you're sniffing its severed neck. I don't know. Is this good or not? Do you have this goblin on draft? Is it just bottles? What is it that goblins

do best, Tom? I don't know. I have no idea. They gobble. That's what they do best. We have an American version here in the United States. The Hamburglar. He robbles.

The Hamburglar. A couple weeks ago, there was like a whole rash of McDonald's exploding because there was like a – there was an imported Hamburglar that was running around, robbling around. Robbling around. At what point are you like, oh, man, we have got to import us a goblin. Where do we go on Amazon? Hey, can you call 1-800-GOBLINS for me? It's a goblin black market. Like, hey, state buddy, want to buy a goblin?

It's imported. This cage is full of goblins. Like, forlorn goblins. There's protesters outside. Like like stop goblin trafficking, like free the goblins. That's awesome. Stop killing goblins for their ivory. Actually, hold on now. I know a lot about goblins from an extensive amount of Dungeons and Dragons games.

So I'm kind of an authority here. But actually, the thing is, is that goblins are not, they're not cherished for their ivory, which is a misconception. They're actually filled with gold coins. I don't know if you knew this, but, you know, like, they are fascinated by gold.

And unlike, say, like the leprechauns, or as I like to call them, the Irish, they store their gold inside of them, not in little pots, okay? So they actually put it inside of them. So just like if you cut off their head, there's this explosion of gold coins and or rings that pops out. And it's like a Mentos bottle, right? When you put the Mentos in the Diet Coke, there's just a lot of pressure. So what happened is they cut this goblin's head off. All the gold coins start shooting out because, like I said, I play D&D. I know that they have a lot of gold coins in them.

And then it just exploded the entire place. That's what happened. This strikes me as the most scientifically sound explanation. I should be on the forensic team there. And it's, you know, the other thing too, the good thing is that, you know, that there was the gold coins to reimburse them. Because I want to read, it says according to Miss Banda,

transport operator Mr. Clever, Mr. Clever, that's great, Mr. Clever, whatever the fuck his last name is, approached seeking to help dispose of the troubling goblin. He was to pay $15,000 for the ritual. And really, you're kind of getting off cheap because, you know, if you let the goblins go,

if you let it go and you get an infestation, do you know where the last time they had a huge goblin infestation? Dresden. Huge goblin infestation at Dresden. And look at all the buildings that fell down there, Tom. That was bad times. $15,000 is a little, very little to pay. Very little. You know, it should be noted that this goblin was a money spinning goblin from a nearby country, which was acquired to boost the fortunes of this guy's transport business. He decided to dispose of it after it started to make extreme demands.

What kind of demands does a goblin have? Make me a sandwich! It is a money-spinning goblin. If I had a money-spinning thing, and it was like, I would like a different thing. I'd be like, fucking, you spend money for me? Yeah. You're going to spin the fucking money.

I don't know what that means exactly. I'm assuming you're making money. You're basically like a counterfeiting machine. Fantastic. No kidding, right? Why do you be, this is killing the golden goblin. And why would the goblin demand, what could the goblin possibly demand that you couldn't buy it for? Couldn't you just be like, well, like well you know wants hookers and blow i'm gonna go out and get some hookers and blow because i have unlimited funds unless he's like you know you better open that

ass to me like that's i mean that's the only thing he could be demanding that you can't buy right i love too that they were upset that the gob goblin fought back after they beheaded it. Well, yeah. Maybe you insulted it. You know, I don't know much about goblin culture. You know, I know that in some cultures, like, you can't make the A-OK sign or, like, thumbs up. Right. Maybe in goblin culture, it's rude to behead somebody.

It's not a good thing to behead them. I wonder if this is just a cover-up. There was probably a Jankum lab there. A Jankum lab. Oh, my gosh. Now here comes all the mail. Oh, Jankum's made up. Jankum's all ready.

We'll see. He's made up. So we got a little bit of voicemail. One voicemail I want to play for you right now. This is from Steve, the tow truck driver. What's going on? This is Steve, the tow truck driver. I'm just calling because I wanted to let you guys know that you have motivated me to start my own cause or group or community, as you will, on Facebook.

And I'm going to hopefully start my own podcast. I'm not going to plug it, but I just want to let you guys know you were the motivation for that. If I can plug it, let me know on the air next time because I listen every week. Thanks, guys. Bye. So Steve wants to plug his podcast. Steve, call us up and plug your podcast. Just make it short enough to play.

I don't care. Plug away, bro. We have people on all the time that plug all kinds of things. We don't mind if you want to call up and plug your blog or whatever. Go ahead and do it. One guy called and plugged his blog and we wound up not playing his voicemail. We still plugged his blog afterwards.

So go ahead and call up. That's great. Tom, why don't we read? You know, we haven't read a Google Translate in a long time for one of these. Maybe this will be funny. Maybe not. What's going on, Five? This is Steve, Tow Truck Driver.

I was just calling because I want to let you guys know that you have motivated me to start my own Collins. Or group. Or community. As you will. On Facebook. And I'm hoping to talk. I'll talk to you. I'm not going to flood it.

But you know, I just want to let you guys know. You were going to base that if I can point it, I'll let you know. I'm going to write back because I was. Every week. Thanks, guys. Bye, just. Bye, just'll let you know. I'm a right back because I was every week. Thanks, guys. Bye, just. Bye, just. Bye, just.

So thank you, Steve, ye olde tow truck driver, for calling in. We appreciate it. We got a comment from somebody who sent us an email about episode three of Everyone's a Critic, which they pronounce as everybody's a critic. Um, they say, uh, I don't even, how do you even say that name?

Darth Vader. Darth Vader. Boston says, Hey guys, I've been listening to cognitive distance for a while and I just picked up your old podcast. Uh, gotta say marked improvement. Yeah,

I think so too. I listened to the Shawshank Redemption episode which was produced in 2007 by the way. The commentary on Dawkins surprised me a bit. Your opinion on being an atheist and your approach to people of faith sounds markedly different. Do you feel that your positions

and perspectives have changed since then? Yes, absolutely. Dramatically. I feel like, firstly, there's a feeling that I have that when we started doing Everyone's a Critic, we really didn't pay a lot of attention to any skeptical or atheist things. And then we started looking at more and more news items. And there was more and more things that came up, and especially within the last two or three years, that were horrifying. And it sort of jars you. You can't look at it and think, oh, I can just be, you know, I can be ignorant and think that, you know, religion doesn't cause some sort of harm.

I mean, obviously, you know, there will be people that say religion does no good. And I would argue that that's not the case. But I would certainly say that there is religion that does harm. And to ignore that fact, you know, there's no way I could be where I am right now and think the same that I did in episode three of Everyone's a Critic. It's been a lot of years. It's been a lot of years. And this show is, you know, I think one of the things that's been interesting about doing Everyone. And this show is, you know, I think one of the things that's been interesting about doing Everyone's a Critic and then doing Cognitive Dissonance is that we're not the same people over the course of that seven years. A lot of things have happened in your life. A lot of things have happened in my life and this show. I think this show has changed,

you know, our thoughts and our opinions. And we've grown as we've done the show. So certainly our opinions have changed. I want to address, Cecil, this line from the email. By the way, my little brother thinks you guys are hysterical, and you don't? Just like, hey, by the way, I hear other people like you, not me. You suck. But my brother likes you. Awesome. Thanks, Darth Vader.

We got an email from Ray. He says, greetings from Vancouver, Canada. He likes our show. At the end of the email, he says, I've listened to all 83 episodes and recommend you to all my godless friends. In fact, I'm actually 6'3 now, thanks to your show. Keep it emergence. I love the keep it emergence at the bottom. But I like that he's

6'3 now. I think that that's great. I think that, you know, I'm glad we could help you in any way we could. Yeah, as a man who's 5'8", I've listened to all of these shows. They're not helping at all. I'm still a fucking fat Keebler elf. Keep it emergence. So Tom,

Sonorus sends in an email and this is sort of directed at you because we were talking a couple weeks ago when we had Arden Atheist and Heather Henderson on. We were talking about atheist TV characters. Yeah, he says, I don't know if either of you watch The Good Wife, but last night the lead character came out as an atheist. It was interesting to see how it was handled and also its political implications. Her husband is running for governor. So far, the only atheist characters on TV seem to have been men. House, Big Bang Theory.

So this is new so far as I know. I don't watch the, I don't even, I've never heard of The Good Wife, to be honest with you. So I'm not real familiar with the show. But it's nice to see those things happen. I think it's important that our entertainment, that those are reflective of our cultural values. You know, the stories, the narratives that we use to entertain ourselves are not defining in and of themselves, but reflective of sort of the zeitgeist of our social narrative.

So to see those things changing, I think, is exciting. And I'm glad to hear that. Logan sends in an email. Logan says that the Islamic call to prayer is what we play on the show when we do the Muslim segments. And he translated for us. I'm going to read it. It says, I'm just going to read the translation. It says, Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Kind of sounds like a cheer. I testify there is no God but Allah. I testify there is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. It kind of sounds like a cheer. Yeah, yeah. I testify there is no God but Allah. I testify there is no God but Allah. Allah.

Allah. Allah. I testify. I testify there is no God but Allah. I testify that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah. And then it says again, I testify that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah. Come to the prayer. Come to the prayer.

Come to success. Come to success. Come in, little girl. No, it doesn't say that. It says prophet of Allah. Come to the prayer. Come to the prayer. Come to success. Come to success. Come in, little girl. No, it doesn't say that. It says come to success. So he says he was a deconverted white guy who converted and – or he says, granted, I'm a white guy who converted and deconverted, but that's how I remember it.

So thank you, Logan, for sending that in. I had no idea. I didn't realize that they repeated themselves so much in that, but I guess that's what a prayer is. Right. It's just – I like the come to success. It sounds like it's like a multi-level marketing scheme. It's like Tony Robbins has given the prayers there.

It's like you don't have – these are products you're already buying and you don't have to buy the products. Just get 20 of your friends to sign up. Come to success. What the fuck? It's a pyramid scheme. Jason sends an email and says that I just listened to the most recent episode and someone emailed asking about the Muslim chant between segments. You said it was

the Muslim call to prayer. I knew it sounded something like that, but I always thought it was a clip you were playing with satire. And he says, all I ever hear when it plays is Allah went kaboom. There's no – look, look, Jason, there's no saying that that's not actually in there. It might be in there, but we are actually playing a straight up – this is right from a fucking thing I found on YouTube.

As far as I'm concerned concerned that's what it says yeah uh thomas uh made us hate cinnamon buns forever oh god this is horrible thomas sent us some crazy fucking swedish lyrics of insanity last time about the jerk it was the jerk bun jerk bun song and we made fun of it because you know jerk bun? It was the jerk bun. Jerk bun song. And we made fun of it because, you know, jerk bun song. And he said, my last email about jerk bun needs an explanation. No, it did not. No, it didn't. It really didn't at all.

Jerk bun is an old game that all the men in the game jerk off over a cinnamon bun. And the poor bastard that is last has to eat the rest. I don't believe you in the U.S. have this game. Hope that you find this fun. Sir, I did not find that fun. As a man who used to love cinnamon buns, I will tell you that is not the best email I've ever read, Thomas. I read that email.

I couldn't eat a cinnamon bun for five, maybe ten minutes. Yeah, it was like a 30-second hiatus of my cinnamon buns. Oh, seriously though, what a disgusting game, my friends. How do you propose that game to a bunch of people? I don't even know. You have to be stuck in the snow for a really long time

to think that's a good idea. We haven't seen the sun in so long. This is an email from Isaac. He says, just listen to the new episode. Was I the only one when the dude mentioned the Atheist Metal Band? Imagine Richard Dawkins dressed like Dave Mustaine and screaming about the Kalam cosmological argument into a mic.

No, we both thought that too at the exact same time. That's spectacular. I love it. Thank you, Isaac. Last week we talked about a rapist that got off in the British court system and through, I think, maybe some fault of ours and certainly some fault of the way the article was written, we were, I think, a little misled. That was a statutory rape or what we would call an underaged, what seemed to be consent-filled sexual activity.

So we were not, I think – I don't know how you read the article, Tom, but I did not read the article that way. Yeah, I don't think the details were clear. For me, it didn't really matter, though. I mean, I'll be honest, like whether it's a statutory rape or a forcible rape or, you know, whatever the circumstance was, we did get a comment, you know, saying that somebody disagreed with our assessment and thought that this guy was as much a victim as the girl. And she had some reasons. And her comment can be found on our blog. I just disagree with that. I mean, I'm sorry that she didn't know that it was a crime to have sex with a 13-year-old girl, but it is. It's just that's a crime.

Like, she could not have consented to that activity. And, you know, the article certainly didn't paint all of the details in an exacting light, that's for sure. But nonetheless, I would stand by my statement that this sort of shit has to get punished, if for no other reason than to send a message to communities that they need to do a better job educating their members of the community not to treat women like cattle. Yeah, I agree in some ways. I think that, first off, I think an 18-year-old and a 13-year-old, I don't know that that's such a strange thing to happen. I know that that probably happens a lot all over the world when you're like, you know,

some 13-year-olds get into freshman year and somebody was held back a year or whatever. You know what I mean? There's a dynamic there where those people can meet and can see each other. And I don't know that it's – it's not that upsetting to me that somebody did that if that was the case. What ticks me off about this is like somebody saying, well, I was ignorant of the law. It's like, well, that's not a fucking excuse. You don't get to say that ever. You basically have to say, look, there's a law about it.

Oops. I chose to live in this society. I basically signed a contract that said I'm willing to live by your laws. Well, your law includes one that says that if I'm this age, I can't have sex with a girl that's younger than this age. Well, you did. And that's the problem. But we do thank Sarah for for sending for for commenting on this. It was not something that I had caught and that's the problem. But we do thank Sarah for commenting on this. It was not something that I had caught when I read the article.

I had missed – I guess it was one of the bold points at the top sort of led it on a little bit differently. But when you read the article, I mean they really do say like he raped her, and it didn't feel like't and again, it's the Daily Mail so chances are chances are they have a slant that they're trying to push, so what that tells me is that I've got to be more careful when I read these articles, but thank you for mentioning it Sarah we appreciate the comment on the blog

and the correction. Julio sends an email and he starts it out with hey idiots this is Julio from Tennessee again. I just want to let you guys know that there's a petition to allow Obama to allow atheists to run for public office in all states. I guess there's many states that don't do that. So there's a petition that we'll share a link on our blog because these petitions, people like to sign them. It's like these petitions are like American prayer.

It's a way to make you feel like you're doing something when you're not actually doing something. Well, 25,000 and they have to respond, but they don't have to respond with anything meaningful. And they've proven that when we've said it a couple times. They know that there's probably nothing meaningful except for we value your opinion. And you're just like, well, great. Do something about it then. you your opinion and you're just like well great do something about it then but in any case we will post this link because we are happy to promote

this and we also got another email from Julio that said sorry for calling you idiots I meant to email some other group and I just put idiots on there yeah we get emails like that all the time people like hey fuckers or hey douchebags

or hey assholes and I think it's because we swear they think that all the time. People are like, hey, fuckers, or hey, douchebags, or hey, assholes. And I think it's because we swear. They think that they can just swear at us. I mean, I don't know. I don't know why that occurs to people. I don't open people's email and be like, this fucking cunt said, you know, I don't do that. Like, I say the person's name, and I'm cordial to people who are cordial to me. I only seem to swear at the people who are assholes that we're talking about.

But nevertheless, we get some really stupid emails. We're like, hey, fuckwits. Hey, comebacks. And you're just like, what the fuck, dude? What did I do to you? Except I provide you with a free hour of entertainment. I have never understood that. That's been part of the show.

That's been part. And we never address those emails. Like, if you send us an email, we're just like, I'm going to treat you like a pile of dog shit. I'm going to ignore your email. Thanks for that, bro. We just put you in the spam filter, my friend. Next one, we ain't even going to answer. Block sender.

But it's nice. It's nice that we got an email that starts out with, hey, idiots. And then the next one, he's like, oh, fuck, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. And it's like, oh, thank you, Julio. Thank you for at least recognizing, you know, instead of the other people like, hey, comebacks. Okay, bro, you mad? Well, that wraps up what we thought was going to be a fast episode,

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