Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 910: Door Dash Stunt Driver

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

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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. Today is Thursday, April the 16th. And straight-of-horam, there's been a lot that's happened.

There's a lot. You know, you take three weeks off. Take three weeks off. Almost four. Four weeks off of recording. I don't know how long I've been gone. You take a month off of recording. And, you know, you don't even have a straight-of-hoose anymore.

You lose, this is why we can't have nice straights, you know. Are the straights doing okay? I don't think they're doing okay. We're going to have a straight pride day. You know, it's so funny because like I think I've mentioned this on the show before, but I've got, there's only one person anywhere in my life that is a Republican. And it's a guy, is a subcontractor that I work with. And he and I are not friends, but we have a.

an acquaintanceship. You're friendly. I'm friendly. Friendly is even maybe, but like, we have an acquaintanceship. So we'll chit-chat on a casual level a few times a year. And I could not help myself, but like, I was just tax messaging him the other day. And I'm like, are we tired of all this winning? Yeah.

Because what I said to him was like, you have to explain to me how I would differentiate this from losing. Because I can't see the difference. It's hard. It's hard to know. Right. You know, like, did they have a good answer? No, not really. No. He basically was like, well, you know, they're going to capitulate and give us everything we want.

You just wait and see. And if they don't, then just bombs away. If they don't, then I was wrong, but it doesn't matter because you'll forget. Right. Yeah. Like, his opinion is like, you know, just regular diplomacy has failed. So it's time to shoot missiles. No, we had a bunch of regular diplomacy.

I mean, in the counterpoint, Tom's friend. Yes. It did not fail. Like, yeah, like, Obama's, the deal that Trump ripped up. Yeah. The deal that Obama made in 2015 absolutely was a great deal. It was a good deal.

And if you, what is going to happen as a result of this is we will get less than the 2015 deal that Trump called the worst deal America ever made, the worst agreement. Oh, you get so much less. So much less in comparison. And the thing is, is like, one of the things that Trump wants to entice the American people with is to say, well, look, Obama shipped a bunch of money over there, and the money that he gave to them was the buyout in order for them to not do this stuff and then they lied about it, et cetera, et cetera.

I'll say this. The money that they gave them was a lot of unfrozen assets and interest on unfrozen assets. It was already their money. Yeah. He's mischaracterizing that money already. Right. So he's already lying to you. But then look at what happened here, right? The straight of homoos gets closed down because here's what you don't have to have to deal with if you're outside of the country, right?

What all of these idiots that run this country all due to the rest of the fucking yokels that voted them in is they either just lie straight to their face and they believe it. Right. So they'll just say lies and the lies are just like gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. Look at me. I'm a Trump broder. Give me all the lies. I want to eat all your lies. And then they just fucking, they deep throat every lie that comes out of his mouth. Or they're critical of him, but they're only critical of him for as long as the news can say centered on that story. So they'll be critical of him for a moment and then they'll move on to the next thing.

So it's either flooding the zone so you're getting rid of your critics or your critics are so fucking stupid. they will gobble things up like you're a fucking mama duck. Okay? So those are your two options. And what happens when it's foreign policy? What do you get to do to them? Nothing because you can't flood the zone because they're single issue voters, man. Yeah.

They only care about the straight of whomews. So you know what? You're fucked because you can't lie to them because they know what's happening and you can't out fucking zone them and flood the zone with stuff because they don't care about anything else. Yep. So guess what? Now you got to actually sit down. and fucking get something on paper, do something. And instead you're just writing mean tweets to them.

Be like, oh, my, my, straight up. Just open it up. Just open up the street. And everybody in the entire world is laughing at you for. You're a fool. Because you're an absolute fool. Yep. Yeah.

Let's say, and I don't think this is going to happen. But let's imagine for a moment that by some diplomatic miracle, and this, I cannot even imagine how this would happen. I've read so much about this. But let's imagine it anyway. Let's imagine that the strait gets opened completely. Sure. No change.

Just like it was 50 days ago or whatever. What did you accomplish? Literally nothing. Here's where we were at before we dropped the first bomb or shot the first missile at Iran. Before Iran had 900 or so pounds of enriched uranium somewhere. They had a hardline Islamic regime. They had... Can I stop?

really quickly. Before you, but the not, the supposedly, we blew up all that uranium in, in last June.

Yeah. But that was a lie. Right. That was just a lie to tell the American people so we could drop some bombs on. Exactly.

Yeah. That's what, that's what's spending a second on. Yeah. Let's spend a second on that. Because like nobody, to your,

to your previous point, we don't hold that motherfucker or any of these people accountable accountable for the things that they say. So the first time they went and dropped these fucking giant

bunker busting missiles, they immediately came out and, and fucking flexed dick so hard. They were like, we fucking decimated. Their words, we decimated, destroyed, utterly obliterated their nuclear capabilities. Awesome, right? Let's say we believe that.

I can't hold in my mind that in June we had obliterated their nuclear capability, and then now it is urgent that we go and obliterate their nuclear capability. And also, they still have all of the enricher, all of it. We didn't remove any of it. We buried it, but it's still there. It's still fucking there. We still have a dynastic hard line or more hard line. It's worse.

It's worse. We made it worse. Yeah. So we've not done. There's been no regime change at all. There's been no removal of or destruction of the enriched uranium. The straight was open before. So if it gets opened, you just have the thing.

you already had. That's it. Like, we've literally done nothing except for kill people. Damage and destroy infrastructure. Like, remember when Pam Bondi, who's now fired? Remember when Pam Bondi sat in front of Congress and they said, hey, what about the fucking Epstein shit? And she said, the Dow's over 50,000.

And everybody laughed. Well, now the Dow's at 46. That we lost all of those gains. So, like, that was the thing that was. supposed to make this thing worth it. But now we don't have that either. We literally don't. Like, what do we have?

What do we have? Help me understand how this is distinguishable from losing. We don't even have, like, when you go to Brookfield Zoo and they make a little wax figure for you. We don't even have a wax figure of the straight of our moves. We don't even have that anymore. We lost it. It's over.

We got, like, gas is five bucks a gallon over here. Yeah, it's going to get worse. It's going to get. I mean, it's going to get worse before it gets better. Everybody's saying, oh, it's going to be fine. No, it's not. No, it's not. What makes you think that?

Why would you think that? If you think that gas is going to get better soon, you've not read anything about this at all. There's literally no reason or economic way that gas will get better soon unless we massively subsidize it. Isn't the whole thing for the Republicans? That's your money, guys. That's your money.

Like, what are you fucking complaining about once in a while? somebody from another country who comes here because they walked across a thousand miles of desert to get in and then they show up and then we decide to ship them to a cold weather climate and then we have to put them up somewhere because the other option is they

die and then you'll complain about it and then you're like I'm fucking mad about immigrants and you're like okay but now you're subsidizing everybody else's gas you didn't want to pay for fucking student loans for anybody I don't want to subsidize that I only want to subsidize the things I care about and the things I care about are

what dear leader tells me to care about. That's it. That's it. We are, the economy is eating shit in every possible way. We weirdly added jobs, but I don't really understand that. I suspect actually that BLS number might get revised back down. Yeah, I mean, like, can you trust anything though now? No. I mean, seriously, like, it's like the North Korean Ministry of Truth now. Yeah, I know. So, like, we're just, we're just at this, like, crazy making place where I can't figure out how the Republicans that campaigned on, oh my God, spending and deficits and, you know, the national debt. Okay, let's say I buy all that. Awesome. I'd like a trillion plus dollars for the military. We spent billions of dollars dropping bombs in Iran. We just cranked up the cost of gas to the fucking,

like it doubled essentially, like overnight. It's going to continue to get worse. The deficit's going to continue to get worse. We gave tax breaks to the wealthy. There's less revenue coming in the door. Like all of these things are just going to increase the debt. But we got rid of USAID. So like some kid, like now we're not going to give like people shots and shit and like some kids going to get fucking AIDS for no reason. That's what we got out of it. Right. Some kid you don't know has AIDS for no reason. But the country's still poor. The car country is still bankrupting itself. If you buy that reasoning, it's getting worse. The economic picture is getting worse. If that's the only thing you voted on, it's worse, assholes. How's your grocery bill? Yeah, man. Oh, God. I just...

I can I want to read a piece of this because this article that we have for it is from the Atlantic, and I really think that there's a piece of this that's so important to read. Yeah, yeah. And this is talking about very specifically about like, like, when you go out and you do a thing, you should have a clear aim as to why you're doing it and what you're doing it for. And they outline the policy and the stance of the administration as time went on. So this is what they say. Over the course of a 39-day conflict, Trump offered various, often contradictory explanations for why he was conducting the war and the efforts of the strikes.

On the first day of the war, according to Trump's telling, the U.S. sought regime change. But that goal quickly receded when the Iran replaced. its slain leader with an even more hardline sun amid no sign of popular uprising. Trump then said on a March 30th social media post that regime change had happened anyway, claiming that the new and more reasonable leaders had been installed, even though the regime was very much intact, eliminating nuclear weapons development sites, which Trump previously claimed had been obliterated in strikes last June,

was one point put forward as the main reason for the war. but then Trump declared that the sites were so covered in rubble that they were inaccessible anyway. Trump also repeatedly said that the U.S. had already won, but then didn't explain why he predicated, why it was also predicated on a prime time address last week that the war would go on for another two or three weeks. And then it goes on to talk about the Iran-Iran controlling the straight, which is super easy for them to control. They don't need anything.

They could do it with like a one fucking 30-out six. And they're like, guess, we don't need. need anything. Like you can blow up everything and guess what we do? We just and then they're like charging, they're going to charge people to go through the straight now because they're like no, guess what? We're going to fucking hold you hostage. And America's just like, yeah, whatever.

Yeah, what we're, what we've done is we have blockaded Iran. So now there's a block. Now there's a, there's a blockade by the way is so like the idea that the war is over is impossible if there is a blockade because a blockade is an act of war. Yeah. It is an act. It is the same thing. And I

want people to think of it the same way. It is the same thing as seizing a castle in exactly the same way that laying siege to a castle is an act of war, even if nobody's hitting the other guy with a sword right now. Yeah. Right? It's the same thing. So a blockade accomplished it. It's not an embargo. That's a different thing. A blockade is different. So that is what is happening right now. But like the other thing that somehow in Cecil, I don't know how we fail to recognize this over and over and over. but defense is easier than offense. It's always so much easier. Look at every modern historical example proves that the hardest thing to do

when both sides have anything approaching modern weapons is to come in and sweep through and create massive total overnight change. We were unsuccessful in Iraq in doing that. Like, it's easy to beat the other arm, right? Right. But like, then there is this long and extended period where you have to do all the next steps. And all the next steps when the other guys have modern weapons basically makes, it draws everything to this sort of like grinding bloody slow motion detente, right? Where nobody fully wins and everybody is always in conflict. It's why we lost in Afghanistan. We lost

in Afghanistan. Yeah. You cannot pretend that we didn't, because, Because who's in charge before the Taliban? Who's in charge right now, the Taliban? There was a pause in their ability to be in charge. They basically waded it out. Attrition is a strategy. And these guys are in a war of attrition. We are now in a war of attrition with Iran.

Iran knew that's the way this was going to go, by the way. And we knew it too. Because, and I've read analysis as well, it said, we already considered that if we bombed Iran, that they would take control of, the straight and that it would cost them very, very little to do so. Yep. We did it like a whole little war game.

And everyone was like, hey, man, you know what's going to happen if we do that? And then nobody listened to those people. That's it. This was all knowable, dude. This was all knowable. I think that, like, here, the problem is that the president's 79 years old. This is truly my take on this. The problem is that the president is 79 years old, which means that he came of age and

became an adult during a period of time where the propaganda about the United States military basically created a sort of like mythos around it, a magical sort of like envelope around this idea of American might and military power where swooping in and destroying the other guy's army was the answer. It was the way you won. It was how you demonstrated force and power and projected that out into the world. That's such old thinking. That's 50-year-old thinking. But remember, He's 79. 50 years ago, he was almost 30. That's when he came into his real adulthood and started forming his views about how the world and politics worked. And they haven't developed since then. And so I think he's just

stuck in a mindset that has not evolved. Just look at the way he dresses. He dresses in a fucking 80s power suit, right? He's not changed. I bet he still listens to his high school music, man. This is a guy who peaked 50 years ago. It's the thing is like, I would accept somebody being stupid. But, like, these people are, like, negative intelligence. Like, I can't even, like, get behind. If you're that stupid, then Bush was stupid. Bush was stupid.

Bush was a stupid person. A genuinely dumb human being. And it's not like he got any smarter since he left. He's still a stupid person, right? He's still a dumb person. But Bush, at least, I think, had enough intelligence to know when to listen to somebody who was smart enough to know, you shouldn't do this.

you should do this, you shouldn't do this. He doesn't have anybody around him, and he wouldn't listen to them anyway, right? So I'm sure there are people in his, you know, that are below the people he appointed. Because every person he appointed, they are as dumb as you can be, like I suggest, they're not even dumb.

They're like negative intelligence. Like when they come in the room, they suck the intelligence out of the room. And so the dumbest thing you've ever heard, that is the smartest thing that can happen in that room. That is the fucking, that's like Einstein. It's like a, A fucking theory of relativity.

It's so smart in comparison to the dumbest shit that they think up. But like those people don't matter. It's the people underneath, right? So like all the generals and whatnot. And look what they had to do. They had to go through and like call that herd because they had a bunch of people who were like, dude, what are you doing? Yeah.

And then everybody's like, nope, get rid of them. Get rid of him. Get rid of him. They're like drilling into the wall and there's a plumber next to be like, dude, there's a pipe back there. Don't do it. It's like, fire that plumber. Fire him now.

Fire him now. Brah! water shooting everywhere. And then he's like, it's fine. And he's standing next to water. And it's hitting him in the face. And he's like, there's no water. It's insanity, man.

How do we let? And the thing is, is like, there's no, every question, every single question should be like, that's obviously not true, Mr. President. What you said when you were like, the unicorns are going to open the straight. That's not real. That's not a real thing. That's what every question should be. And everybody's just like, okay.

Hey, can you tell us about your wife coming up and talking about Jeffrey Epstein? What's happening with that? It's so weird. I don't need to hear about it. I don't give a fuck. I don't fucking care. What, like, I want to, I've got two quick things to say it. Like, to the Melania thing, that was the strangest apropos of nothing skiff that ever occurred.

No more random. Like, as far as I'm, as far as I know. I wish at the end of that speech, I wish at the end of that speech somebody did that big lung cane and pulled her off. You don't remember like when they pull people up in Vaughnville? Yes, Vaughnville and they're like, da, that, that, she has to jazz hands her way off as she's getting pulled. That's what I would have hoped that would have happened. That in a, in a time and space Cecil that you think can't be more surreal than it is.

Having Melania, apropos of nothing, show up, give a press conference in front of. of the, like, first of all, she stood at the fucking presidential dais with the presidential seal on it. That's weird. That's never, that's not a thing, right? That's just, but, okay, she stood there. She gave a speech that nobody thought she,

like, that didn't address anything anybody was saying. It's just like, out of nowhere, she didn't know the words in her speech. She didn't know the words she was using. She used the, she read off the teleprompter the wrong words that she couldn't pronounce them. So, like, she didn't know what she was saying. Trump didn't appear to know that she was going to do this ahead of time.

And then she just, like, wandered off never to be seen or heard from again. You're just like, what even the fuck was that? It's season three at Twin Peaks. That's what it is. For real, man. Like, if somebody, dude, I'm telling you, if the fucking energy secretary has a log that he carries around, would you even be surprised? No, man, no. Him and RFK can,

he's got the log and RFK has the raccoon penis and they just sit next to each other. It's the whole thing. So here's the other thing that is cracking me the fuck up right now is that now I'm reading all these stories about how America is like $5 gas, we should take another look at electric cars.

And it's, God. God, if it wasn't so funny, would you cry? If it wasn't so funny, would you fucking cry? Come on, man. Come on, no. Like Ford and several other major manufacturers have basically, like, just like six months ago,

they're like, hey, we, we, people aren't buying them. They've removed the subsidies. They've changed all these rules and made it. impossible. We're not making them anymore. You've made it impossible for us to make these anymore. And then Trump was like, what about if I make gas $5 a gallon? And I work against all the things I try to do at every point. Who's the, is it, what's the guy's name? DJ Khalid? You played yourself. Like what is happening right now? Come on, man. Who, if you're, if you're a farmer right now, you're eating shit, right? So, like, let's just go.

through all the people that are eating shit. When oil gets more expensive, right? Oil is like most of fertilizer is petrochemical. You can't, you can't not live while the oil. Like oil's a big deal. So your food. So farmers eat shit first and maybe we subsidize the farmers. Oh wait, we were already subsidizing the farmers because of the tariffs. So I guess we'll have to subsidize them more much. Now here's a more much, guys. So here we give those guys more much because we already gave them more. and that wasn't enough. Yeah. And then so the fertilizer's going to get more expensive and the food's going to get more

expensive. Wait a minute. It wasn't food already expensive? Isn't that why we voted this guy in? Didn't he hold up a thing of Johnsonville Bratz and say they were expensive? And then so it's and it's and then gas is of course expensive and we transport literally all of our goods. No goods are transported without gas.

Kind of amazing. Right. So all the cost of all the goods. are going to go up. Wait a minute. Didn't the cost of goods already go up with the tariffs?

No, now they're going to go up more much. Inflation jumped almost a full point. It's been 40 days since that war started. We are fucking our own ass right now so hard.

What are we doing, man? It's so, it's like everything is stupider than the next thing you said. You just can't believe it's happening. From now on, I only read the news in

Jean Shorts, drinking milk in the hot tub. I'm telling you what. Like, here's what I want. Here's what I want. And I'm talking to you, you fucking mouth-breathing dumb fuck,

who looked at both those candidates last time and you thought, well, you know, I don't know that you can go any worse. You can't get any worse than Camelah. Can't get any worse than that. Here's what I want you to do. Take the fucking L

and sit it out for the rest of your fucking life. Just be like, You know what? All those city thinkers, they don't think I, that politics is too much for my tiny brain. Good, it is. You're fucking stupid. You're a fucking idiot. You shouldn't participate in your civic duty.

Give it up. Take it, pack your fucking civic duty up and walk over to your garbage can and throw it in there and never look back. Walk into the fucking water. Don't fucking look back for a second at your civic duty. You're done. There's no more civic duty for you. quit while you're fucking ahead. You're the stupidest person

in the world and there's fucking 50 million of you. You're all the stupidest person and you've fucked us. You've fucked us so raw you should sit it out for the rest of your life. And I don't care how old you are. I don't care if you're fucking you were a Gen Z guy and you're like, hey man,

I don't know man. These women's, they're getting up, I got to go fucking vote for some dude. Well guess what? You're a fucking idiot and you fucked everybody. Stop. Stop while you're ahead. Never vote again. Give up your civic duty. You're too stupid to participate in fucking modern normal society.

Am I wrong? Am I wrong, Tom? Cecil, what part of that could I possibly disagree with? Where, like, if you were somebody who's like, I'm going to go third party, I'm not going to vote. I'm not showing up. Like all of that is like all ever, all these guys are corporatists. They're all exactly the same. Yeah.

Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck. Take the L. Who taught you this dumb shit? Take the L. And here. There's a thing, man, like, I won't even talk about you anymore.

Like, if you quit, we'll just be done. I'll pretend you don't exist. Just let fucking adults that know how to fucking put a thought in their head together. Let those people decide what's going to happen from now on. Because you can't. You can't be trusted with this fucking, you can't be trusted with this responsibility. You're too fucking stupid. Dude, I will tell you this.

Like, I'll raise my hand. There are times in my day job where I realize I'm a, out of my depth and I'm not a subject matter expert. Don't look to me for this decision. I'll go find the right guy. I am not that guy. You should, we should take a fucking page out of that book when it comes to our politics. If you all of a sudden are like, you know what, I do keep making all the wrong decisions.

Maybe stop making decisions. Just quit, man. You're not good at it. That's okay to be bad at things. Look, if Haley divorces me, I'll be, it's not like I'm going to go out and get a third wife. I'm just going to be like, I'm bad at this. I'm bad at this. I'll get a dog.

That's what I'm going to do. It's dog time. You know what? Yeah. That's it. I'll just be like, look, I'm bad at this. I have a bad decision machine. You're bad at the presidential election.

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million people in largest single day U.S. nonviolent protest. Eight million people. That's a whole Houston. Seriously. It's an entire, it's one Houston of people protesting. It was sprawling. Admittedly, it was all over the United States.

Now, you're a protester. Did you protest? I did. I went to Chicago. My wife and a friend of ours, a mutual friend of ours went down. And we went to Grant Park. and we walked down through the, it was a long walk

because they walked all the way around the loop. And we started at Grant Park. They did a couple of speeches and then we walked down the street and we marched. And it was great. There was a huge crowd.

And on the way there, on my way out into the burbs, I saw two protests on the road that were huge. I mean, just enormous protests. So like they were on Randall Road. which is a road that's sort of a busyish double lane, two double lanes, like a four lane highway that runs north-south through like the west of far western suburbs.

And I went up Randall and there's just like fucking two gigantic protests. And I didn't go south to Geneva, which is where the normally the really big one is. So one in South Elgin, one in Elgin. And they were enormous. And I was like, wow, these are long. I mean, I had to be a half mile long. It was just enormous about some people. Awesome. So there was people all over the place and they showed all these different things.

But here's the thing. Like it kind of went away. Nobody really talked about it because so much has been going on. But again, like this is showing you, I think there's a very motivated base of people out there that want to change, that want something different. And we're seeing, you know, even in places like we're not going to talk about it to take because it happened a couple weeks ago, but even in like Georgia, that guy who lost the seat for Marjorie Taylor Green in the special election, he was the Democrat. He did pretty well in comparison to... He outperformed expectations by a lot.

Now, I didn't think he was going to win, and we talked about it on the show because we saw the numbers just didn't look like he was going to win that seat. And we were right, but I think, like, the thing is, is that there was definitely a push farther to the left than there has been in a long time, and you've got to, you've got to ride this sort of into the distance.

Because if you don't, if you don't take advantage of this, it's just lost. And I think you've got to take this and be like, let's just try to figure out if we can fix anything after this is all over. Yeah, man. It's exciting. Exciting isn't the right word because it's so dire, but like it is encouraging. Let me use that instead. It is encouraging that a lot of the right signals are showing up that would lead me to believe that we're going to have a strong midterms. Yeah.

And the only way that happens, though, is if people show the fuck up. and vote. Yeah, show up and vote. Yeah. Like, this is not the time to protest, to sit it out, to write in fucking Scooby-Doo or whatever dumb bullshit you think is a thing that nobody pays attention to. It's not a thing. You show up and you fucking vote. That's what you do. It matters. Like, if you cannot be convinced at this point that it matters, I don't know what, I don't even know where you, I don't know what is happening inside of you. Eight million human beings showed up physically to protest. That's a big ask, man. Because there's a lot of people like me who would have loved to have been there

and it couldn't. So for every person that's 8 million, there's 10, 15 people that didn't make it that wish they could have. Yeah. And you know what? We might as well rope in this other story that's right after this in the notes very specifically with what you just said, which is Victor Orban

concedes defeat in Hungary. And it's a huge deal because this is a guy who's been essentially running sort of an authoritarian group over there, far right for a long, time. He's, and he's been using a lot of the same tactics that Trump has been using. And everybody on the left has been saying for a long time, well, you're not going to vote your way out of this. We still

get messages where people like, nope, it's got to come down. Everything's got to get torn down. And then it's going to get torn down. And then it'll get built back up, et cetera, et cetera, even though they don't have to live through the parts where they get torn down. But here's a perfect opportunity to show people it doesn't have to happen like that. You can work together to get rid of somebody, even if they do have a strangle hold on power. Yeah, and like Victor Orban, to, you know, to give some context, like the state bought up many of the major media companies. I mean, they had a, when we're talking about authoritarianism. It's straight up authoritarianism.

Yeah, I mean, like this is not like soft authoritarian. This is like straight up. This is hard straight up authoritarianism. And they were able to regain control of their democracy. It is not easy, but it is possible. This is a guy to your point before who's running the Trump playbook. They were sharing the same playbook. This is a guy, too, and I think this is important,

that J.D. Vance went to fucking Budapest, and he fucking advocated and basically did a stump speech, which is, I think, unprecedented for a vice president to show up and campaign for somebody else's presidential campaign in another nation. I've never heard of anything like that. Maybe it's happened before. I've never heard of anything like that ever happening. They were desperate for Orban to win.

They were desperate because they're, and Orban, by the way, is a great friend of Trump and a great friend of Putin. These guys are all in the same circle because what they are is they are authoritarian. They don't have to share an ideology, a worldview. What they have to share is a lust for power and a playbook on how to hold it.

and the most important thing we can do is show the world that no, you fucking won't. And take it away and take it back. And it is possible to do. It is possible to do. It's only possible if we exercise the power that we're given. If we don't exercise that power. Absolutely, 100%.

Then it never happens. And then we eat their shit. They can eat our shit. That's possible. Victor Orban just ate hungry shit. People were dancing in this. I listened to the thing. people were dancing in the streets and hugging each other.

And this reporter was like, you got to understand, people in Hungary don't hug. That's not a thing culturally. People do not hug. We're a very stoic country. And people were hugging joyously in the streets. She's trying to report the story. She's like, everywhere I went,

random strangers were coming up and hugging me. She's like, I got hugged more times during this like celebration than I have in my whole life. People are that joyous to throw this guy out. We can throw our fucking guy out. We can throw out our Putin sympathizer. During the middle of the... I mean, it was like... It was like...

What, gosh, what was that? Nine months into the pandemic was the election last time around. That's crazy. So like the last time, nine months into the pandemic. And there was no, there was no vaccine. Vaccine had been developed, but it wasn't available for most people at this point.

It was early November, mid-November, maybe. And they made the announcement. we had social distanced for two straight weeks or three weeks so we could meet up with a couple that were coming up, mutual friends of ours were coming to Chicago to visit us. And so they social distance and we social distance. We wanted to see them.

We hadn't seen anybody physically in a long time. And so we were like, we'll brave it. Why don't you guys come over to our house for food? So they were coming up and they literally, the day they came down, they announced that Trump had lost. Right? So they had announced that that was the day that Biden had won.

There were people in the streets in Chicago. There had to be, you know, like, I don't know how many people were out there, you know, maybe, but like dozens of thousands at least were marching around downtown just screaming and yelling and having a great time because they were all excited that this guy is gone now. He's not part of our life anymore. And like, that was a huge deal. It was a big deal that day. I remember that day.

I remember looking out. I remember hearing people cheering when it, when that, when that fucking news came across. And that was just Trump's first term. Look at how exponentially worse it is now than it was during his first term. Look how exponentially worse it is. So, you know, there's going to be a group of people, I think, and you're going to get it. As you get to the midterms and then as you get to the actual vote for the presidency in a couple of years,

you're going to see it again. There is a very concerted effort by the other side to project apathy onto this group of people to make them apathetic so they do not participate in the things that they do. I tried to make the other side apathetic just a few seconds ago. When I did that little rant when I was yelling at the other side and I was telling them to stay home, I was doing the same thing they're doing, except for I was doing it very overtly. They're doing it very subtly. They're posing as you.

They're posing as someone who thinks like you and says, what's the big deal? Why do we have to do this? All the parties are the same. You know, they say the same thing over and over. and they get you to start to think about it like that. And then you start to wonder whether or not you should vote in this election, whether or not you should support people.

I agree with the people that are farther left than me that we need to push people farther left than they are in the government. I agree that the Democrats need to do more. I agree with all those things. But there is definitely clear choices that you can make that can make things better now. And you have to do the things that make things better now

and then try to continue to push, people to do the right things in the future. But you can't always be on your back foot and hoping for the best because that's not going to work out for anybody. And then hoping for collapse is even worse because we're seeing that the collapse isn't pretty. Yeah. Well, look, apathy is a political strategy. It really is. The development of apathy is a political strategy. We saw a huge amount of that was part of what was pushed forward by bad actors, the Russians, into social media campaigns in 2015. We know it.

It's documented. What they were trying to do was create lower turnout on the left. They were trying to create people. They were trying to, like, damage credibility in the elections. I'm not going to go vote if I think it's not a credible election. Yeah. The Russians were actively working a propaganda campaign to create apathy because that apathy can be a driver to get people, you know, to sway your candidate, right?

You've got two ways to get your guy in charge. You get more votes by getting more people voting, or you just get the other guys to stay home. That's it. And if you can do both, then you can win by a higher margin, right? But the other thing I want to, like, bring up, too, is that we are in the most dangerous period of time. This is it. I was thinking about, like, the most dangerous time, if you're in a domestic abuse situation, The most dangerous time period is the time period right before and right after you leave that relationship.

That is when things become the most dangerous. When people become, they get killed most often. The violence often ratches up. That is the most dangerous time period in abusive relationship. We are coming up in November to a point of inflection. And now, between now and then, this is that ratcheting point, right? We are threatening to leave this relationship. And the abuser has every incentive and no disincentive to create a maximum amount of pain.

It's a great point. That's a great point. This time period between now, the next seven, eight months are wildly consequential and dangerous. And we should be on the lookout for that. And we should also be looking for how can we hold people accountable? That's going to be more difficult than ever. But how can we hold people accountable once we do have control and power again? There you go.

Does the Pope wear a hat with Sergeant York's mother and angel? And will a banker grope for money? Not a banker. I'm a financial publisher. So Cecil, this is from Reuters. Trump's AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure follows feud with Pope Leo. Trump and the Pope are in a fucking beef right now. Jady Vance is weighing in.

and Trump is posting pictures of him as Jesus. I'll let me put a picture on the screen of Jesus as Trump here real quick because it's important to share and show people what it looks like. So this is what it looks like. It is, if you're not watching, I got to describe it to you. It is a very AI generated image of a American flag in the background with, it looks like maybe there's ghosts of soldiers that are in the sky. It's hard to know.

I can't really see because it's small. There's an eagle flying by. Trump is, looks like he's touching maybe Jeffrey Epstein on the head. And he has, so there's a man who's on a bed, like looks like he's sick or something. And there may be a nurse next to him. And Trump is in the middle of the picture. And his hands are glowing and he's touching the person like he's healing him. And he has dressed 100% like Jesus.

Like there's no way. to look at this and think that is what that's not Jesus. But Trump has said that this is something else. Trump, after he was questioned about this, said that, no, I think I'm actually image, I'm an image of a doctor. That was me as a doctor. And I was helping people.

And I was like, that is most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I can't believe like somebody, but then I started looking into it. And I want to share with you another image, Tom. Okay. All right. Because, you know, I started looking into it. And I really do think, like, he might be on to something.

So as somebody who's like, you know, because the thing is is like Trump's saying, here's, this is me as a doctor. So I found a bunch of doctors. And this, this is what I found. So we have Dr. Phil. We have Dr. Phil.

We have Dr. Drew. We have Dr. Oz. And we have Dr. Who. And all of them, all of them are in the traditional outfit that Trump just showed. So you'll have to go to our video to see. I'll tell Ian to post it as an image too if you don't want to watch the video

and you don't want to find it. But this is an image I made the other day. I did not use AI to make this. I photoshopped it the old-fashioned way. Oh my God, I love it. But seriously, I went out, Tom, I typed in pictures for Jesus. And the first pictures for Jesus, Tom,

they all came up and they has the red outfit on. It's the red Toga outfit that Jesus has. Come on, man. What are you kidding? And the way they explain this, somebody explained this online. And I don't know if this is true. But basically what they said was,

Well, you know what they did was somebody said that it was doctored. And he didn't realize that it was doctored. Instead, he thought he was a doctor. I don't, look, I don't buy any of that. Like, he's a crazy, grandiose narcissist. And he is in a fucking beef off with the Pope right now. And I think he very clearly was trying to flex and be like, I am, I am the God figure. I'm the God figure.

I don't disagree. I think this is, I think your mindset for this is exactly where his was. All the rest of it is all just fluff to try to make it seem like his religious base doesn't want to turn on him. But you're absolutely, I think you're absolutely right. And like, I got to,

we got to call back to the photo real quick because I want to, we'll talk about the repercussions and everything in a second. But like, I have a question I need to ask you, Cecil. Can we call the photo back up? Sure. I'll bring the, I'll bring the photo back up.

Let me, let me, so in the background. In the background, guys, if you're not looking at this, in the background, as Cecil mentioned, there's like maybe soldier ghosts or maybe horned demons. It could be a demon. I'm not saying it's not a demon, but I'll tell you what, if you look at this photo and folks, I'm going to do the biggest, I'll put the biggest image I can. In fact, I'll zoom in to that very specific demon spot when I'm editing the video so you can see. But it does look like a demon to me, Tom.

It doesn't, I mean, when I looked at it just now before we, before I reopened it, that looks like a winged, horned thing to me. So, so I've got two choices here, right? Like if I'm looking at this image and I've got two choices, either you've got a grandiose narcissist who's posting pictures of himself as Jesus healing the sick with randomly demons behind him. Sure. I don't know if I'm a religious person, what I'm supposed to do with the demon.

part of the program. Like, what are they his demon friends? I think I'm supposed to be. They look like demons. I zoomed in. There's clearly people that are soldiery.

Soldiers. But that middle one is ambiguous at best. So then let's assume they're soldiers. Maybe it's a transformer? I don't know. I can't tell you. I don't know. Because there's, there's eagles, right? And then there's a weird

airplane, Eagle. That is an airplane eagle, admittedly. On the right-hand side, guys. It's like Thomas the tank engine for a plane. I love the AI sloppiness of this. This is the president. So there is an eagle, like straight up an eagle.

Underneath the eagle, there is what appears to be the fucking bastard love child of like an F-18 fighter jet and an eagle. And then behind it like a tie fighter from Star Wars. There's a tie fighter. Yeah, actually it looks more like the one of the cloud. cloud flyers in Bespin, but yeah, similar. Yeah. And then like, even if I'm like, no, those aren't demons, that would make it demonic, right? So if I'm a religious nut, I should be freaked out. 100% looks like a demon in me right now, dude. But let's pretend it's not a demon. Let's pretend it's our dead soldiers. How's that better? How's that better? No, guys, those are dead American soldiers. Yeah, I mean, just scrolling through here. This is, none of this is good. None of this is good. It's all bad. It's all terrifying. I like the thing is like this is normal though right like this is a stunt that he pulls and it's just normal this is just every day and this is the thing that we should now expect from Trump is this odd shit that he'll just post about himself yeah and then when he gets caught he does it they delete it and then they just don't talk about it again what was the thing that happened recently where he deleted something what was the other thing that he deleted the racist Obama as a

A racist Obama thing. So he had the racist Obama thing. He posts the racist Obama thing. Everybody calls him on the racist Obama thing. And then he's like, what? It was just a joke. It's just a joke. And that's what they say all the time.

Like, you guys should get a sense of humor. And it's like, no, what we should get is a sense of seriousness. We should get a sense of decorum. We should get a sense of gravity about the job that you have. Those are the senses that we should be pushing for. A sense of humor is not something I look for when I punch a ticket. Dude, I want, like, I don't need your tight five, right? Like, I'm not looking for your tight five.

I don't need you to be funny. I'm not interviewing you because you can stand in front of a fucking brick wall at the laugh factory and get a go-for. Like, that's not the job that you're asking me for, right? Yeah, you're not doing, you're not doing open mic night at the chuckle shop. Exactly, right? No. Like, what do I? I don't need you trolling people.

Also, like, deleting something doesn't mean you didn't do it. Why are we? I don't. What is that? Like, yeah, look, look, the thing is like, attempted murder is still a crime because you, it's not like, well, I only attempted. Like, what the fuck are we even talking about right now? Yeah. The, like, we should be, if you're religious, but even if you just hold the country itself as sacred, even if you just hold the idea of civil servitude as something sacred, we should not be okay with the idea of venerating and elevating a single person over the interests and well,

being of the country. Yeah. And anybody who is trying to say that I want my name on shit, I put my, put my fucking, my stupid fucking ugly head on coins and I'm going to sign this thing and I'm going to like he is clearly trying to aggrandize himself at a personal level to push himself above the country. He's not a civil servant. The country, he sees it the other way around.

The country serves him. He should be serving the country. with humility. Great point. A man without humility can never be a servant. He's, he's,

the worst part about it is is that everything to him is a stunt. And I think we should pull in the next story too when we talk about this. He wound up getting door-dashed McDonald's

as a 100% stunt. This is not like spontaneous at all because the person who delivered the door-dash to him was specifically someone who had testified in front of Congress for no tax on tip. right? So that person who did that work and push that stuff through, by the way, the Democrats

were going to do the same thing. But evidently, Trump got it through. No tax on tips. It's a big deal. And so she's there to celebrate in some way. And Trump says, by the way, on your way over, can you pick up some fucking stale shitty hamburgers from a place that nobody eats at anymore? Can you get those for me? And so we can then show everybody. And it's a 100% stage thing. And he's like, oh, look, the door dash person is here. I always answer, let me go get the doorbell at the Whitehouse, let me calm the dog down

because he's barking right now. Like, get the fuck out of. Like, when he knows, it's a fucking stagious stage thing that's ever been staged in the history of stage. And he walks over, and she hands him a fucking shitty,

cold-ass bag of Mickey D's, and he's like, look what I did, everybody. And then he turns to her, and he's like, how about them transgender? And she's like, I just can't. care about tax on tips, thanks. He's just

seriously, I'm not even kidding. He's like, what about them transgenderes, huh? I'm putting them in their place. And she's like, please don't include me in your fucking psychosis. I don't want to do it. I just came here as a stunt.

Please, I don't care about those people. I didn't, I didn't come here to demonize other people. I just wanted a little extra my money to now pay for my $25 gas. Is there any way that you can do this? And then she's just like, well, now we're going to talk about trans people in sports.

It's insanity, man. It's insanity. It is insanity that we let this happen. I cannot believe. I open the story and there's just this, dude, if you have an opportunity to look at this, there is just President Trump and the most terrified lady I've ever seen in my entire life standing next to him. She looks like she's in a hostage situation. Well, he tells you, then it goes on to do a full press conference with this poor lady standing

next to him. He does a full on fucking press conference, answers a whole bunch of just totally unrelated questions. And like everything about this is super bizarre. Like this lady, it's not like she works for DoorDash in Washington, D.C. No. She lives in

fucking North Carolina or some shit. She lives hundreds of miles away. They flew her in to pretend she worked for DoorDash and picked up the, because she doesn't work for DoorDash in Washington, D.C. They flew. And also, I've ordered DoorDash a million times, man. They don't wear a

doordash shirt. She's got a fucking red DoorDash polo. Never seen that ever. They show up and whatever they're fucking wearing that day. Also, you can't walk up to the White House and knock on the door. That's not a real thing. She also like, the knocks on, it's like, hey, it's fucking McDonald's. Oh, dude, because you imagine she got fucking decked by the security. She just walks past the security. She just walks past the security. that somebody just fucking spears her like it's fucking Monday night football. Oh, it would be amazing. And then the best part, the fucking most dystopian part of this is why does this lady work for Doordash?

You know why she works for Doordash? Dude, it's so sad. It's so sad, man. This is so distant. This should be somebody that we're like, okay, absolutely not that lady. Like, this is one of those moments where you're so oblivious to the horror of the situation that you've created in this country. It's unbelievable. She works for fucking DoorDash because her husband, she's an older lady.

She took on the job at DoorDash because her husband has cancer. And to pay for his chemotherapy treatments and to continue to make ends meet while he's unable to work and provide, she has to fucking drive around doing DoorDash to pay medical bills. It's a dystopian hellscape story. And took the job specifically because of the flexible hours. Right. Because she needed flexible hours to take her husband. places. It's like, you're absolutely right. It's so dystopian. And she doesn't seem like somebody

who's like, like, what she cared about was like, hey, man, I'd love to not have to pay taxes on tips. Great. I don't think that people should have to do that either. Great. Sounds great. I think like, no tax on tips. That is so much better. That is so much better than like, like, taxing the, the people who don't have a lot. I think it's so much better. We should absolutely give those people a tax break. I do not disagree at all. I think, like, like if we're going to have to choose between those two people, I would say get the people who own the corporation should be paying all your taxes. Like if there's no tax on tips for you, let's go into the pockets of the people who like run

those businesses and start taking more from them to take up the slack that that's going to happen here. I'm 100% down. That sounds fucking awesome, man. Let's fucking tax the fuck out of those fucking people. The person who's making you run around like that, absolutely. Let's tax the shit out of them. I'm with you.

And she clearly doesn't want to be part. of his rest of his thing. She doesn't want to do it. She's just like, I'm only here for one reason, man. I came here for tax on tips. That's it. Yeah, she's like, I'm doing this weird stage production, this fucking like punch and Judy show

because I don't know why. Because somebody's clearly paying her money to do it. Yeah, because she doesn't live around there. This isn't something she could just casually do. She had presumably to get on a fucking airplane. Right. Like, if you lobbied Congress for something and then they were like afterwards be like,

hey, will you come by and be a problem? No, I fucking, you already gave me the thing. What are you going to give me? Right. What else guy? You're going to give me more tax, a little less tax on tips? Like, what are you talking about? So obviously this was some kind of a, like a staged press because the press was there waiting.

Yeah. I mean, come on. This is so weird. This is like, just stop being so weird, too. Like, you make all the bad choices and you're weird. He thinks it's the fucking apprentice, dude. I know. He's a demented old man who thinks he's a.

that everything is a fucking showbiz. And it's like, that's a real lady with real problems. And you made her feel fucking crazy because you're a crazy person. Yeah. And instead of doing something like expanding Medicare or Medicaid, right, which would have actually changed her life.

And like helped. Like, instead, she's got to go out and fucking hustle some gig work job to pay for fucking poison for her husband to not die. Are you kidding? And the only thing, the reason why she's doing is because the only scrap you'll give her is this. Like there's a person who knows how to pick their fucking battles probably.

Yep. Unfortunately for you, however, you are maidenless. You are fated. It seems to die in obscurity. All right, big, big news all over the place. CNN breaking the story exclusive. Four women described sexual misconduct by Representative Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her.

he has since dropped out he suspended his campaign for governor and the Democratic Party very rightfully has tossed him to the wolves fucking good good yeah and here's it and here's what I think everybody should recognize like the moment somebody on your side

becomes embattled and has some sort of really heinous allegations against them pop up you shouldn't be like well let's stand behind him and fig no no man fucking look swim go figure it out. You'll figure it out. The thing is, is like, the reason why you step down during those places is because there's fucking proof, man. The reason why you step down. This story talks about how he was sending messages to an intern, a 21-year-old intern who felt pressured to have sex with

them. Possibly, there's a possibility he date raped her multiple times. Like, this is some really heinous shit that this person is alleging. And they said that they have evidence of him sending things. and her sending things to him. So I would 100% think that the reason why this man is stepping down is because he knows he's been caught. Oh, 100%. Like this woman's testimony, I listen to hers talk, it's absolutely gut-wrenching. It's gut-wrenching to listen to it.

According to her testimony, you've got four women making similar allegations of misconduct. But this woman that I listened to CNN interview being the most serious that I heard, you know, she was, he climbed on top of her and raped her. She said no. She tried to push him off. I mean, that's straight up fucking sexual assault at the, at the most fucking fundamental level, right? He's fucking rape, bro.

Yeah. And like, he stepped down. And like, even his like, mealy mouth bullshit when he stepped down was like, you know, like I obviously, I deny all these allegations of sexual assault, but I made some bad choices or whatever. And it's like, no, man, like you're saying you made bad choices because you know you can't get out of the whole thing. Right? You know that there is going to be evidence. There's also like lots of corroborative evidence that she there's like text messages that she told a friend, I was raped by him. Like concurrent like messages from when it occurred and like there's a lot of corroborative evidence.

Yeah. Fucking let's throw this guy like here's the thing the Democratic Party does a good job of. We throw these guys away right away. Get rid of them, man. The Republican Party backs these guys up. Matt Gates. Matt Gates very credibly seems to have raped young ladies. Like, absolutely like hunting for underage women to rape. Like, the Republican Party never threw him away. The Republican Party stood by him. Yeah, he was appointed as like the next DOJ head.

Wasn't he the Attorney General pick? And then they said, then they said, like, I think even Gates was. like, no, man, I ain't going to pass that fucking vetting process. And he just stepped out of it. He dropped out of it. He fucking knew he wasn't going to pass that vetting process. When you have people batting fucking, you have people like running interference for you other

places, sure, you can probably get away with it. But the moment you get there's that bit of scrutiny and this is what happens, man. And the thing is, like, why is it that the people in power, these people that get the, and this, look, you're just a, you're a fucking guy who gets a vote.

Like you're, I recognize the level of power that you have, but you're also just a person. So why is it that it attracts these fucking degenerate fucks who seep their way up somehow? You get these fucking gross people who work their way up and then it might, maybe, I don't know if it's the power that corrupts them or if they were corrupted just looking for the power. I don't know how their psyche works. So I can't tell you whether or not he was always bad or if it corrupted him or whatever

the fuck. I would just say you're always bad. I don't think there's a, like, it's not like, it's not like. there's a way you reason yourself into this. But in any case, this guy works his way all the way up. And then, like, I'm just so shocked that good people can't do this work. I'm always so shocked every time this happens, I'm like, man, can't just, can we just all find a nice person?

Because there's plenty of nice people out there who could do this work and never, there would never be a moment you would think they could be guilty of raping somebody. Yeah, I worry about, so here, here's the thing. I was thinking about the same thing. in several contexts lately. I worry about the idea, Cecil, that it is the power that corrupts these people because that's only possible

if they were already somebody who wanted to rape people. Yeah, that's why I remanded what I said. Yeah. And I amended it. So, but like, I worry that there's a higher amount of that than I want to believe, right? So I think I lived in a world where I wanted to believe that this, like,

was a tiny fraction, right? That there was a tiny fraction of people who were really fucking bad actors. I don't know that I can believe that anymore. I think that that is not as tiny of a fraction of people as I once thought. I think that evidence continues to show that that percentage is bigger than I ever thought it was.

Because there seems to be so many more people as we discover these different, like, I read a story yesterday, I think also from CNN as an exclusive. It was an older story maybe from like March, February or March, about like a whole telegram group with like 62 million views,

like not a small number, which is why this has been on my mind, of people who have been trading stories about how to drug and rape their wives and girlfriends and then post those videos online and sell videos and sell instructions, on like what drugs to buy.

God Lord, dude. And like 62 million views. 62 million? Views. And I looked at that and I read it and I sat with it. And I thought, I can't reconcile my hope or my wish that this was a tiny minority with the continuous stories of how many people who, when given an opportunity, will behave, repatrivation.

apprehensively toward women. Yeah, I, you know, you're... I don't know what to do with it. Yeah, and I think the reason why is, you know, you hear the numbers about how many women have been assaulted, right? Like, the number of people who've been assaulted is astronomical. Like, the number of, like, the average of women

who've been assaulted is astronomical, right? And the thing is, like, whenever you say those numbers, there's always somebody who's going to be like, well, actually. And you're just like, and the moment that happens, you think, oh, yeah, the reason why that nobody feels comfortable talking about this is because

you want to jump yourself in there every time to try to defend these guys, but it's a real bad problem. It'd be a problem if it's one, right? It's a problem if it's one. But when it's multiplied by that many, it's a real fucking problem, man. That's a disgusting mindset that is pervasive.

And it works its way through so much of male, culture and you're like, well, why is that? Like, I've never grew up with that. I didn't, I never had any of that. Like, where are you? What are you doing? How are you interacting with the world that's so different from how I interacted with

the world? How is that possible that the two of us grew up together? We're both males. And you and I are both, like, shocked and blown away by this. And yet, the chances are that somebody is, is part of that group. I know. I don't know what to do with this information or how I can, like, process it any other way than to be like, yeah,

it's a lot more people. It's a lot more people than you think. And like, so like here you've got, here you've got this guy and he's got some power and he immediately turns and uses it. And that's not an uncommon story. It's a distressingly common story. The thing that shocks the shit out of me

is how they can so easily slip past the goalie because this guy's been in public spotlight for a long time. For a minute, yeah. Like this guy's been out there. He was involved. in the, when Biden ran. Yeah, I was going to say, wasn't even

wasn't he in the debates? When Biden ran. Yeah, when Biden ran. He was involved. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, I want to, I want to just give credit to the Democrats where it's due. We throw these guys away right away. Get rid of him. Get rid of them. Throw them away. Don't look back.

What the fuck? Who cares? Don't look back. Throw him out. Who cares? He's gone. All right. That's going to wrap it up for our show this week. We'll be back with a long-form show this upcoming week. And we're going to, actually, it might be two weeks for the long form show, but we'll be back with a long-form show, and eventually, there'll be one

sometime. I don't know when. We're not sure. But anyway, we'll be back next week with the regular show, and we're going to leave you like we always do with the skeptics creed. Credulity is not a virtue. It's fortune cookie cutter, mommy issue, Hypno-Babillon bullshit.

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