The Biggest Problem in the Universe: Uncucked - Episode 82

Episode Date: June 14, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:09 Welcome to the biggest problem in the universe, the show where we discuss every problem in the universe, from long goodbyes to telling lies. With over 5 million downloads, this is the only show where you decided what should or shouldn't be on the big list of problems. I'm Maddox with me as dick. Hey, what's that funny? And Sean, our audio engineer, guys, 5 million downloads. We did it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:28 All right. We finally cracked that 4 million ceiling. Great. Congratulations. Thanks. You smell terrific. Is that because I just had nuts in my mouth? Hey, speaking of embarrassments, that Apple test that we did in the bonus episode, I don't want to give away any spoilers, but that did not go well for you, did it?
Starting point is 00:00:49 You know what? Eat shit. Each shit, Dick. And Sean, that was the most bunk test. You know what? Yeah, no spoilers. I was just going to say that. Look, you've had 24 hours to buy it.
Starting point is 00:01:04 Yeah. Well, Sean brought in some of the apples for that test. We won't give anything away. Thank you so much, Sean. for buying those apples. Yes, you're welcome. Yeah. Thanks for picking.
Starting point is 00:01:13 Yeah, you know how to pick them, Sean. Although. Although. Yeah, I knew this would be my fault. Oh, it's everyone's fault but mine, buddy. Randy fucked up as well. Randy fucked up. You fucked up.
Starting point is 00:01:23 I fucked up. Oh, you fucked up. You're the biggest fuck up. If it doesn't go his way, the whole fucking thing is rigged. Yeah, we're deleting that episode. Now, you're deleting it, Sean. So, I will say this. I have a new favorite apple,
Starting point is 00:01:37 and it is not what you might. Expect. If there was ever a reason to buy bonus audio content, it's to find out what that new favorite apple is. It's called the Bahamian Sandy. No, fuck. All right, guys. Last week, the biggest problem in the universe was not enough organ donors.
Starting point is 00:02:03 Oh, that's good. Hey. That's actually a real problem. I'm surprised. That's great. Thank God we didn't bring him. something stupid on the same episode to not give not enough organ donors the chance to shine. Oh, yeah, to counter that out. Well, followed by human driving directions.
Starting point is 00:02:19 That's a big problem. Everybody hates that. Everybody hates human driving directions. And then superhero obsession, which, wait, before we move on, though, the human driving directions, Dick, someone linked to a song by Psychostick about human driving directions. Have you heard this song? No, but this is about to be a big problem of mine. People showing me songs on the line. Why is that? It's just like making me, you're like holding me hostage, taking my time for me, making me sit there, and then the pressure to react is also tremendous. I don't think, I don't think there's any pressure for this song, Dick. I think you'll like it. I link to it on the front page of our website if anyone wants to listen to it, but check this out. I'll just
Starting point is 00:02:59 play a little bit. Listen to this. World directions. Girl directions. Okay, so this is how you get here. You're going to want to take the 202. Don't get on the 60 or else you're totally going to be going the wrong way. Oh, girl directions. Yeah. Anyway, that's the slide. Yeah, I figured you'd appreciate that.
Starting point is 00:03:41 I have a problem with both of them for men and women. Because guys always want to give you a shortcut. It's like, okay, you don't have a shortcut. No. I know that your shortcut necessarily means you take twice as long to get there. The only time I've gotten directions that were human driving directions was where they acknowledged that the GPS is better in. general, but they said, for some reason, the GPS is not finding this address.
Starting point is 00:04:05 And it was like a new building. Yeah, that'll happen. Yeah. Anyway, then followed by superhero obsession. Everything was a problem last week. Superhero obsession was another problem. It came in third, and then lines came in fourth, but still a problem. Yeah, because it's also a solution. Line? At the same time. How's that a solution? Well, because without a line, you'd have a mob. Or take a number. How about taking a number? That's a line, though.
Starting point is 00:04:33 No, it's not, you just sit down. You take a number. You're not standing in a line. Are you sitting in a circle? You're sitting on a bench. You're sitting on a bench. You're sitting... Have you ever been to jury duty?
Starting point is 00:04:43 No. Remember, I ignored the notice. And I've got several more notices that says they're going to arrest me, and I've also ignored those. Okay, well, for anyone who's not a felon, if you go to jury duty, you just sit down in a big room with a bunch of seats and a box. Or do you? I don't know. Boat a box. square tubes or whatever it is.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Someone said that they were surprised you didn't like lines because a box is basically six lines, right? Or 10 lines. How many lines you need a box? I got the comment. Alonzo Larios. He says, I'm surprised Maddox-Bride in lines is a problem. As boxes are nothing more than several lines joined together.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Here was a good one. Crags Argon. Although I think I disagree with him politically for the most part. This episode, Dick tries driving to a shooting range, which I did. I told the story last episode of my life coach I tried to go shooting and we were stymied by dirt roads. The last two miles or so of our trip was dirt roads
Starting point is 00:05:36 that my car could not traverse. And we did try, but we failed. This episode, Dick tries driving to a shooting range but is surprised to find that the road was made by libertarians. Yeah. It's true. That's a libertarian road, man. Can't make them do anything.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Don't want to intrude in their lives. Go ahead, make them fucking wrong. Sure, fuck it. No oversight. No regulations. No laws. All right. I think Craig said it about her.
Starting point is 00:06:02 I also screwed up by saying horsecock. I brought in Sam Jacobs, who needed a kidney. Yeah. She commented on the post page. Yeah. She was promoting her food truck instead of her kidney. I thought she would have gone for the kidney post, but she went with the food truck post. Oh, I saw the food truck thing in there, and I didn't understand what the reference was.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Hey, you know, you got your moment in the comments, right? You got to go for what's important to you. Well, you know what? Maybe she's trying to get a successful business to help pay her medical bills. That could be. I don't know. I hope she is successful. But her boyfriend, horsecock, is not the one who sent us the barbecue sauce. I accidentally slammed... That was Dr. Smoothrod. I fucked that up. Okay.
Starting point is 00:06:47 It was not Horsecock. It was Dr. Smoothrod. I completely lost. Who are we talking about here? Dr. Smoothrod sent us the barbecue sauce. He is But Sanchez's friend, right? Yes, and now people are saying that after But Sanchez's tantrum, after the Trump episode, he should be referred to as but hurt Sanchez. Yeah, yep, yep. Which I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:06 And for anyone who's just listening to the show, But Sanchez is a longtime listener. He and his friend, Dr. Smoothrod, sent us a care package a long time ago with a bunch of barbecue sauce that broke in the package. Did the one, the barbecue sauce that survived, have you eaten any of it? Not yet. I can bring it out right now.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Oh, I ate some of the ones that he said it specifically for me because he called me a pussy or something like that. And he said, this one's for you. I love it. It's great. I put it on everything. I made some wings a couple weeks ago. me and the lady, we pulled out the colon cleanser. Oh, yeah. Is that your idea of a romantic dish here?
Starting point is 00:07:35 Let me make some hot wings, baby. Clean that out. Yeah. Clean that out. Blow it all out. You got some serious pipe delay. I'm going to put on a construction helmet and deliver it to show you how a libertarian lays some pipe.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Oh, that's a... There's no oversight here. Oh, yeah. No regulations here. No regulations either. No regulations. Either. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:54 It's leaky. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Leaking the whole time. Spray. Oh, gross. There's going to be some environmental disasters here. You're going to have to throw these sheets away.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Still drizzling. Always drizzling. I got a comment from Angel or is it might be Anheel. It's probably Anheel. I think it's Anheel. It might be. Anheel Andres Katanio Flores. He says, Sean, this is for you.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Happy not deleting the podcast for 50 episodes straight, Sean. Hey. Yeah. Things are looking up. So the happy deleting the podcast anniversary, Sean. A lot of people commented. Really? Yeah, that was the anniversary.
Starting point is 00:08:29 Or this one is. because we can't tell based on the deleted episode. Yeah. Like there's no anniversary mark that's clear cut. Was it the deleted one or was it the next one? Right. And we may never even know because this episode may get deleted. We don't know.
Starting point is 00:08:41 We don't know. Nothing is certain. That's, uh, what is that? 52 weeks with no, with no accidents, right? Yeah. 52 weeks. It's like a fucking being potty trend. Shot, next time you delete a fucking episode, we're going to rub your nose in it, for sure. Oh, good luck.
Starting point is 00:08:58 I've tried to. I've broken. I really fucked up my hand punching Sean in the ass won Super Bowl. Do you remember that when me and you got in a fight? No. After Super. I was really pissed off. I think I lost a bunch of money and the special episode of House that was on after the Super Bowl
Starting point is 00:09:12 was not up to my expectations. So me and you started getting into a wrestling fistacups match and I punched you really hard on the ass. I fucked up my hand. He's got a rock hard ass over here. Wow. So be careful. Not going to play well for us in the comments. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:09:27 What's wrong with punching your male friend? Like a wrestling match? No, between having nuts in my mouth and your ass, I'm sure we've given them a heyday with sound bites they can use to make shitty, snarky songs about us. Hey, yeah. I've got a real quick, last comment. I want to try to help you, Maddox, with your future.
Starting point is 00:09:48 You talked about lines and how you enjoy cutting them. Yeah, right? Not enjoy. I do everyone a favor. It's a benefit. Oh, okay. Yeah. So you selflessly cut lines.
Starting point is 00:09:59 when you think the line isn't moving. Sean's brother, Brandon, actually sent me several articles where people have been stabbed cutting lines. Yeah. You know, there are idiots out there. You can't control every violent apes standing around who has a fucking disproportional, unreasonable, unreasonable response to someone cutting in line.
Starting point is 00:10:18 You what you stab them? The fuck is wrong with you. Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make. And by the way, I don't cut, I skip. I don't, I'm not cutting in line. I think cutting in line is rude. and standing in line behind you and you just come up and cut in line? So what is skipping the line?
Starting point is 00:10:33 Skipping. I just go inside. Oh, you go directly to the front without waiting in line at all. I just, I don't, I mean, it's not even the front. I just, like, completely circumvent the line. I'm not standing in line. Argument over cutting in line at a McDonald's leads to a butt stabbing in Florida. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 00:10:49 This could be your future. I'm the ghost of Christmas line-cutting, line-skipping future over here. You know that guy wasn't Sean. He wouldn't have gotten through that hard, big ass of... Blade would have bent like Superman. I'm trying to stab that ass. Right off that hard ass. Fucking Kevlar with a trauma plate.
Starting point is 00:11:04 Yeah. A gyro line? I don't know. Do you have gyros? What is it? A line to get gyros. What? The man accused of...
Starting point is 00:11:13 Oh, heroes. Is that how you say it? Eros? It's... It's Greek. Heroes? It's heroes. Yeah, like Nguyen?
Starting point is 00:11:21 What? No. No. Not at all like Ngu. No, like Nguen has a G. Yeah. And you say it like, Yos. It's a Greek.
Starting point is 00:11:27 Heroes. Okay. So, so simple. Not no, not at all. Well, Nguyen is the Vietnamese pronunciation. So these are Niro's? Do I have that right? Yeros.
Starting point is 00:11:35 Cut in line at a popular midtown Euro and chicken cart told the officer who arrested him that he was acting in self-defense. Took place around 4 a.m. Self-defense because he was cut in line for a Euro? Yeah. They just ignored him, but after they drove off with their food, this guy chased him in his white Lexus SUV. I don't know why they put that in the article.
Starting point is 00:11:56 And pulled him out at a red-loid. light and stabbed him Entitled Entitled shithead That's why Yeah, it's the same As the Mercedes driver
Starting point is 00:12:04 I talked about In the bonus episode Yeah Oh which I forgot to play this During the bonus episode But it's pretty cool So I'll play it now This is from a song
Starting point is 00:12:11 Oh That a fan sent in It's from at Goosepo He sent this to me on Twitter He did a chip tune mix of the bonus intro That's kind of cool Check it out
Starting point is 00:12:21 That is cool Yeah Oh man That'd be a good game Right He's taking me back I just want to be Fighting the Mother Alien in Contra.
Starting point is 00:12:40 Yeah. Oh, that'd be so cool. Who would be the bad guy for the Solutions episodes? Who's the most voted down? Probably Uber. Probably my surge pricing thing. Surge pricing. Solution?
Starting point is 00:12:51 Ronald Reagan? Possibly. Is it a bad guy for the Solutions video game? Yeah, yeah, bad guy. Bad solution. Yeah? Yeah. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:13:02 I got a comic from James Callan. He sent this in a while ago. Yo, Dick, they say you should paint what you love And nothing gets me rock hard Like Libertarian Theory and Honeycrisp Apples Check it out in light of the apples test I don't know if you want to see this Yeah, pretty cool
Starting point is 00:13:18 Mad Mad Mad Mad Max 2 Attack of the Libertarian Apple Consortium It shows Dick sitting in a yoga pose With his, what's that, the piece Almost like the Buddha fingers up in the air I don't know what that is It's two fingers straight up Like you're about to finger an elephant's pussy
Starting point is 00:13:34 And then I'm standing? An elephant, yeah. An elephant. Huh? Why an elephant? I don't know what kind of women you're dating these days. And then... You think, fat women will stand up and you maneuver under them?
Starting point is 00:13:48 Oh, if they lay down, I don't know. What am I? I'm standing in the back with my hands. You're wearing a Contra shirt and you're really pissed off about Apple. Yeah, I really pissed off. Oh, this is the comic. Okay, yeah. Yeah, this is the comic.
Starting point is 00:13:58 I mean, I'll post the comic on the website. I don't know if you want to go through any of these on the show. This guy, this gentleman with a mustache is. love apples, but there are so many choices. How do I know which apple is right for me? Then you swoop in with, I've got your apples right here, buddy. You do sound like that. Yeah, that sounds like me. That's a pretty good likeness, yeah. There you go. Oh, that's so cool. My ass is coming in with one eye bulging out of his head. Muscled like one of the who's like the... Like Zangeefe. Yes, like Zangeeve, but not as much hair. It says Red Delicious is back, baby. Yeah. You can taste the
Starting point is 00:14:35 polyphenols. That's cool, and I'm punching some sucker. And then he tries to eat one, and he goes, it tastes, the guy says, it kind of tastes like mealy garbage, which it does. Can I just pay more for an apple that tastes better? Maddox says no, or do you want to read that line? Yeah, no, I... This is the most accurate dialogue of you I've ever seen in my life. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Then there's a close-up of Maddox with what he must think is a clever look on his face. Yeah, it's the following. Real clever. I like it a lot. It says, actually, that's already gold. It says actually, that's what we smart people call a sunk cost felsic. Yeah, it's a sunk cost fousy. Sometimes paying more doesn't get you a better product. That means red delicious apples don't taste like mashed up caterpillar colons.
Starting point is 00:15:23 That's right. That does sound like something I would say. Very accurate picture. James Callan, was it, huh? Yeah, don't talk about supply. He continues talking about the economy on this one. and I show up with a libertarian
Starting point is 00:15:37 Oh, Captain Libertarian With a WWF belt on With a big capital L Yeah, we'll post that on the website The L stands for fuck the government You know, it continues El signs for losers Loserarians, that's what they are
Starting point is 00:15:49 Losertarians, that's pretty good Hey Whoops I'll play some voicemails here Oh dang, well done So I like how Madox The most sarcastic
Starting point is 00:16:02 And bitchy personal on the internet. Bitchy? Doesn't like a character in the show because she's too sarcastic and bitchy. Are you fucking kidding me? If you saw a girl like that in real life, you'd probably jizz right into your lobo underwear. What a schmuck. And you really think, I'm gonna take your opinion seriously on films or TV when you mentioned lepercon four in the fucking hood.
Starting point is 00:16:25 Oh. Go to life. And Dick, you're okay. Oh. So that's because you didn't like that. That's because you didn't like that superhero show Ricky Lake last week or something like that? Jessica Lake, Jessica Jones. That's what it was.
Starting point is 00:16:39 Yeah. Which a lot of people in the comments, and this totally backfired, but a lot of people in the comments are like, Hey, Maddox, I looked up Jessica Jones because you talked about on the podcast, and now I watched a bunch of episodes, and now I really like it. I've created fans for this fucking show now with Dr. Purple. And then people like, hey, Maddox is not Dr. Purple, idiot. Oh, we got a new fan voice. That's my bitchy fan voice Because you guys are bitchy
Starting point is 00:17:04 I'm not bitchy You're bitchy You know what Just because you talked about it last week I did watch a couple I think I got through like Two or three And she is sarcastic with every line
Starting point is 00:17:15 It's just totally unlikable Right They even call it out in episode one or two The guy, one of her neighbors She said something sarcastic to him And he says Sarcasm is a way of distancing yourself From other people
Starting point is 00:17:25 That's true Yeah and that's all she fucking does In that show She distances, distances I get it. Okay, you're a bruised apple. All right, you're a honey crisp. We get it.
Starting point is 00:17:37 Yeah, we got it. She's not likable. I got a, no, not likable at all. I got a comment from Alexander Prenter. He says, Maddox, superheroes are like Greek gods and legends. And then he proceeds to name Roman gods and heroes. Get it right, fuckface. What we named Roman gods?
Starting point is 00:17:52 I guess we named Roman gods. Oh, yeah, big fucking difference. They're basically the same ones. They change their names. They have the same superpowers. Same shit. And by the way, I got so much black in those episodes about Maddox, infantilism, you're complaining about infantilism, you play video games, still, you idiots. I'll play that voicemail about that if you want to respond to it.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Let's hear this bitch. Hey, Maddox. This is my problem with your superhero obsession problem. You see, you think escapeism is a form of inventiveness. Never said that. Every fucking hobby is escapism. You're escaping your problem. No.
Starting point is 00:18:37 To specifically, you know, relieve stress or something, whatever you like your hobby. Kind of true. No, no. I'm pretty sure Dick doesn't, I mean, doesn't shoot guns specifically to think about, oh, the refugees coming to America, man. No. He's like, you know what? It makes me happy and I don't think about my problem.
Starting point is 00:18:58 Yeah, what do you think about that? Yeah, well, okay. So I never said that escapism was a problem. Oh. And I never said that infantilism was necessarily escapism. Okay. So, for example, a hobby that is not escapism, or doesn't necessarily have to be one, is building a ship in a bottle, right? A lot of people like to do that.
Starting point is 00:19:20 It's relaxing. But it's also not, you can still pay attention to your kids and your life and your worries. Like, you can still have that. While you're building the ship in a lot. Well, you're building a ship in the bottle. How many people do that, do you think? I don't know. I think it's an older person hobby.
Starting point is 00:19:34 Or, like, putting together puzzles. It might be relaxing for you, but you're not doing it to avoid your responsibilities. Do you like to sit and scrimshaw, too? What is that? It's carving on sperm whale teeth. What? I haven't even heard of this. It's an old sailor thing.
Starting point is 00:19:49 No. No, that's weird. Look it up. I don't need to. You just told me. I don't look it up for fun. Some of it's cool. It's my new hobby.
Starting point is 00:19:57 I'll just look up things at Chant's. Yeah. You know, hobbies can be satisfying and rewarding, not necessarily infantilism. Escapeism is totally... I'm not criticizing the superhero genre for escapism. And by the way, I still like lots of superhero stuff. But infantilism is more nuanced than that. It's not any certain...
Starting point is 00:20:16 It's not one specific thing that you do. It's how you do it and why you do it, right? Yeah, let me ask you this. Yeah. If I brought video games in with the same logic as... superhero obsession? What would your thoughts on that be? Seems like people are mostly
Starting point is 00:20:35 hitting on the point that you criticize other hobbies and yet have escapist hobbies of your own. No, it's not that I'm not criticizing these hobbies for being escapist. If you brought in video games, okay, here's the problem with the, that I have with the video games, is when people conjecture and
Starting point is 00:20:51 project way too much social influence at the behest of video games because of, and as a response to video games, that's when I have a problem because that verges on video game worship. Like, for example, there's a lot, the big
Starting point is 00:21:07 trend in video game criticism right now is feminist critique of video games. And they say that it has a huge influence on society and culture and it affects the way we think about women and it affects the way we think about gender and all these... Dude, Extreme Beach Volleyball 3 got not really got shut down in the U.S.
Starting point is 00:21:25 How about that? Yeah. My favorite game series. So putting that much importance on this medium, which, I mean, there's, first of all, no evidence. You don't have any evidence to show, and it's really difficult to prove. How do you even show that somebody playing a video game that doesn't have a strong female role or maybe has women characters as decoration or whatever weird argument you want to make, right? You have to then draw a line from that argument and make a thread all the way to some real-world repercussions.
Starting point is 00:21:59 and that is a very tenuous and difficult argument to make. That's the problem. And that's when video game worship can become a problem. And this doesn't really have much to do with infantilism. Infantilism is the avoidance of responsibilities and pressures as an adult in favor of doing childlike things or regressing your state to a childlike mentality. All right. Do you want to see my Christmas tree?
Starting point is 00:22:26 I put a Christmas tree up. All right. your Christmas tree. I made all the ornaments myself. You want to get a load of this? Let's see it. I think fans will like it too. You just hang beer cans on it? Oh, geez. Is that... Dick's got this for Christmas tree, which first of all looks
Starting point is 00:22:41 a little too stubby. It's a little too stubby around the bottom. They are expensive, man. They are expensive. But, I mean, you've got to spend something. And then at the very top, he's got Donald Trump, Donald Trump wearing his hat says, Make America Great again. It's my tree top mirror. Trump is such a jackhole. He's such a fucking idiot. Trump on a tree, man.
Starting point is 00:23:00 That's great. Trump on a tree. It's not like elf on a bench? Or what is it? Elf on the shelf. Elf on the shelf, yeah. All right. Trump on his stump.
Starting point is 00:23:08 You want to get some, you want to get some problems going here? Let's get some problems. What's your first problem, dick? My first problem is daylight savings time. Or as Sean corrected me before the fucking show started, daylight saving time. I was being really pedantic yesterday.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Oh my God. I was going to make a point to always say it daylight savings time because it bothered Sean. It doesn't bother me. Look. Look. Let's say it. I'll say it. Look.
Starting point is 00:23:33 What? Why are we giving ourselves an hour of jet lag twice a year? Why are we doing that? Why are we doing this? Nobody likes this. Daylight saving time. Do you like it? Savings time?
Starting point is 00:23:48 Savings sounds weird. It's got to be daylight savings. No, I know. No, it was started as saving. But I know everybody says savings. I do too. Everyone fucking hates it, right? Do you like it?
Starting point is 00:23:58 No. Do you like eating dinner in pitch black For half of the year? No. It's awful and it's stupid. I hate it. Yeah. It's a huge problem.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Why are we doing this? Allegedly to save energy? I've heard a number of different reasons. I have heard reasons from harvesting. It's a relic from harvesting days. That's false. I looked it up. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:24:21 You're thinking the wrong way. Yeah, the farmers are against it. Yeah. Well, and then I thought about it in terms of, of actually having more daylight, et cetera, et cetera. But then, to me, it's just a big delusion. We're just hoaxing ourselves. We're convincing ourselves that we have more daylight hours
Starting point is 00:24:37 just by changing our entire fucking time system. Why wouldn't all these factories that are supposed to be saving all this energy just opt to start work at different hours? Yeah, there you go. They're the ones paying the bill. Right. So they're like, this is how this conversation goes,
Starting point is 00:24:52 hey, hey, GE, you guys could save a lot of money. if you just started work an hour earlier. How about that? And he's like, go fuck yourself. We know how much we're spending and money. Okay, well, this is what we're going to do. We're going to change time. So that you don't have a choice.
Starting point is 00:25:10 What are you going to do? Tell everyone to come in to work late? Like, what kind of scam has been perpetrated on us? If you really think about how stupid and farcical this whole time shifting thing is, it's a fucking joke. And the amount of time it takes to just change. the time on all these fucking devices. We've got easily over 3 to 600 million electronic devices,
Starting point is 00:25:34 and that's an underestimate, I'm sure. Dude, let's say it's 10 minutes, so you've got to change every device. That's like a billion dollars for everyone who has to do it. How much, I don't know, what you could make in 10 minutes, but cut it off your schedule and see how much it is. It's a shitload of money. It's a shitload of money, shitload of time, and for what?
Starting point is 00:25:49 I've heard all these explanations and reasons, and none of them are true. It's just a relic. Actually, Arizona, the state of Arizona in the U.S., has held out. They refused to do daylight saving time. Arizona and Hawaii as well. And Hawaii, good. And there was one other, there's this weird... I grew up there. It was awesome.
Starting point is 00:26:05 What, in Hawaii? Arizona. Oh, Arizona. Yeah, moving to L.A. It was like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. What do you mean daylight saving? So, how much better does this make everybody else than Arizona? I feel like half the year, it's too dark, and half the year is lighter than usual. I got a
Starting point is 00:26:20 awesome graph for what you're talking about. Okay. This is daylight saving time as it's currently observed. It's got the hours for an acceptable sunrise time. Like, when the sun rises, is this an acceptable time for the sun to rise? Right. And when the sun sets, is this an acceptable time for the sun to set? Because it feels like, for half the year, it feels like we're living in Alaska. Right. It sets at like 4.30. It's awful. It's like Sweden. Sweden, the sunsets at like 3 p.m. It's depressing, man. It's depressing. Um, wait, so what is this? It's a survey? They ask people what,
Starting point is 00:26:51 what the acceptable time range is for a sunset or sunrise? Well, I think this is like saying, um, If a reasonable sunrise time is defined as 7 a.m., the grid as it gets purple means it's worse. So if you're living in a purple area, you will hate life. And contrary-wise, if you're looking for sunset at a reasonable time, this is where you live. And you'll notice here that we live in orange. So we're fucked. In fact, the entire West Coast is orange.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Okay, it could be worse, but yeah. We're not in the purple area. Yeah, it could be worse. We could start eight, we could say five, we could call 1 a.m. 5 p.m. We're about right in the middle. Yeah, we're about right in the middle, I think. Yeah, so here is, here's another interesting graph.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Here is what it would look like if daylight savings time were abolished. Look at that. Less purple. Less purple. A lot less purple. It'd be better for most people. It doesn't look like a lot of change for us because it's orange still. But still, you know, at least it's better for more people.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Yeah, and here's what it would look like if there's, if daylight savings time were always in effect. So Sean was telling me, but look at the sunset time. Dude, fuck sunrise. Who cares about sunrise? Yeah, no one's on. Nobody.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Start work later. Yeah. That's all you. In fact, go from eight hours a day of work to six hours a day. Start at 10, leave it five. Absolutely. Easy solution for that.
Starting point is 00:28:16 There was a study done a while back to about the time that we all go to work because we all have rush hour traffic. And that's why they call it rush hour traffic because everyone's going to work at the same time, they did a study and they found that if they staggered the time that people went to work, even just by 30%, you know, for some people,
Starting point is 00:28:36 it would cut down on traffic so much. It would say millions of dollars, people would be happier, shorter work days, all these things, all these things that factor into it. And this is another one of those things. Like, we just cut it out. It's just going to be less stress for everyone. Stop changing the fucking time.
Starting point is 00:28:51 Yeah. We don't need it. There's no reason to do. Why do we ever, like, Why is this just accepted as a thing we all have to do the next time it rolls around? I'd be curious to see, I mean, they always do it on Sundays now so that it's not going to impact people's work days as much. But I'd be curious to see the amount of like a dollar figure on how much money and time is wasted with people missing schedules. I got all these fucking stats for you, dude.
Starting point is 00:29:14 I got all these fucking stats. Heart attacks increased by 25% the morning after. Yeah, heart attacks. And then they drop by a comparable amount when we skip back. Like you push it, when you push the time, the time goes backwards, everybody panics, right? Everybody can't, you lose an hour. People are having heart attacks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:31 It is literally killing people. Yeah. Changing your fucking clock, as it should be. By, but you said by 25% increase? 25% compared to other Mondays. I bet you have car accidents on there, too. I do. And so the heart attack risk falls by 21% later in the year.
Starting point is 00:29:47 So we're increasing heart attacks by 4% every year. Wow. For whatever the purpose of this dumb holiday that we do is, Rex 17% increase in traffic fatalities on Monday after the clock spring forward. Wow. Now, technically, that's moving into daylight savings time,
Starting point is 00:30:06 but I don't care, because this is changing the clock. Daylight saving times mean changing the clock. Leave it, it doesn't matter when it is daylight saving time. Right. The fact that we have to change the clock one way or the other is called daylight savings time. But leave it on or not, the problem is that we fuck with the clock and fuck with the thing that's most important
Starting point is 00:30:23 to people. Like, I'll give up sleep for sex, but I do so at a tremendous penalty for the rest of the next day. You know? You're trying to stay up at night, maybe you drank a little too much whiskey, trying to get this leather
Starting point is 00:30:37 to turn into something more, trying to get some rebar out of this leather. You know what I'm talking about? Like, oh, fuck, I'll keep at this for another couple hours. The old whiskey day. The old whiskey did. The old whiskey did.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Happens all of us. Happens all of us. WD. Airlines. costs, it cost $147 million for airlines to move. So we elongated daylight savings time at one point. I don't remember that. Was it during our lifetime? Me either. Yeah, I think it was in 2007.
Starting point is 00:31:06 When I was a kid, none of this really mattered as much because, I mean, it sucked to have to wake up early to go to school or, you know, for some reason to have an extra hours. Speaking of school, observed SAT scores were 2% lower in areas where students had to deal. with daylight savings time versus not. So I guess just Arizona and Hawaii. But that's pretty telling. We're making kids dumb by screwing with their sleep. It is making kids dumb, and it is saving a negligible or negative amount of money.
Starting point is 00:31:37 Because people are running their AC longer and their gadgets and their lights and shit when they get home. There you go, man. So is there a reason in all your research? Did you find a reason that politicians say we're still doing this? No. No.
Starting point is 00:31:51 The reasoning given at the outset was to save money in, like, factories and manufacturing. However, I don't fuel. Yeah, and fuel for lighting. Sure, yeah. Oh, I see. Came back in World War II. We had it around the turn of the century, I think. It was maybe, maybe around the World War.
Starting point is 00:32:09 But people said, no, fuck you, we're not doing it. Yeah, it was repealed or canceled, and then back to World War II. So the argument can be made that if the day, if the work day started when there's more light out, and it gets warmer sooner, it'll save money in heating and cooling costs. Is that what the argument is? However, studies in Indiana and studies have shown... No, it's at the end of the day. That's what...
Starting point is 00:32:31 When you spring forward, it saves it at the end of the day. You're not saving the fuel at the beginning. Well, if the day starts... If it starts to get warmer... Like, let's say you spring it forward by an hour, and then you go to work when the sunrise is up, right? And then it gets warmer during the day, so you have to spend less money on heating.
Starting point is 00:32:51 costs, and then when you roll back an hour, it gets darker quicker, right? And then you have to spend less money on cooling costs. Yeah. So something along those lines. That's the argument, right? But it's a wash with all these other statistics. Oh, totally. And it's even in the cases where it works, it's like 0.18% of energy costs. We're saved in the middle of the country where energy is free. Yeah, it's a way bigger pain in the ass than any benefits. It doesn't even sound like there's any benefits. No. I used to write for a TV show on current TV, which is, I I don't even think it's around anymore. They were bought by Al Jazeera, weren't they?
Starting point is 00:33:24 They were bought by Al Jazeera. Yeah, it was Al Gore's network for a long time, and they wanted me to come in and write on one of the shows for a long time. And I wrote for them for a little while, and they had this show that I worked on, did a segment about this state with three different counties where one was daylight saving time, and one was not,
Starting point is 00:33:46 and then another one was also daylight saving time and on the border of central and mountain time. Some ridiculous thing. So in that state, you could have four different time zones depending on where in the state you were. So they did a whole bit where they would jump on one side of the county line and they'd be back in the future. And then they would ask people for stock tips and things like that.
Starting point is 00:34:13 It's kind of a funny segment. But it just goes to show how crazy and ridiculous things can get, especially when people, you know, choose to opt in and opt out of these daylight saving time regulations. Yeah, $400 million is what it costs. People getting fucked up, people's sleep schedules getting fucked up, missing work, wrecking their cars. That's pretty significant. $4 million? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:35 That's pretty significant. Each year? Big chunk of change. The only one of those stats that I thought was not very compelling was the 2% about the SAT scores. Kind of negligible. But the rest of the stuff. Oh, my God. Oh.
Starting point is 00:34:51 If it was 2% of kids getting molested, then you'd have a big problem with it, right? It is 2% of kids getting molested. By the government. Okay. The worst kind of molestation, right, dude? Okay, here's a positive, though. Yeah. $200 million of sales of barbecues happened because of the extra month of daylight savings.
Starting point is 00:35:12 What? Why? Because there's more daylight? Is that what it is? I guess so. Huh. That's what the barbecue consortium. They were lobbying for more daylight savings.
Starting point is 00:35:21 Oh, are they really? The fucking barbecue people. Big barbecue. Big barbecue. Always trying to fuck the little guy. Let's just fall back every year. Fuck leap year. No more leap year.
Starting point is 00:35:32 We'll just fall back with the clocks and every four years everything will work out. Or who cares if it doesn't work out? Why do we have to keep track of time at all? So fucking satellites don't fall out of the sky, dick. It's pretty important. We have to have very accurate time so that shit stays in the sky.
Starting point is 00:35:48 I don't think they have daylight savings. Satellites? No, man, they're ice cold, calculating machines. Trump's got to get on top of this, daylight savings. I want him to come out. When we spring forward, I want his Twitter to be lit up with the Chinese start of daylight saving time. I don't want daylight savings. It's not good.
Starting point is 00:36:05 And we should kill the families of the people who invented it. Yeah. We should. You know, that might very well be the next Trump headline. Good. Every week. I would support it. Jack assery coming out of that guy's mouth.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Make America green. Big problem. Big problem. Everyone hates it. Yeah. Yeah, I can't defend it. So, although, so 200 million plus for barbecue sales. Why would you want to defend it? It's horrible. It's pain in the ass. No, there's no, there's no upside except for the barbecue thing. So you have 200 million in sales in barbecues. And then you have 400 million in costs. So it's a 200 million cost net. Cost, yeah. But the death thing is very... I don't think that 200 million of barbecue sales happens every year, though. Well, there's got to be other, you know, industries or businesses that benefit from it. Who?
Starting point is 00:36:47 Who would benefit from a random change in time? Sunscreen companies. There you go. I like it. Beachware companies. Skateboard shops. Oh, maybe. Hey, we got an extra hour.
Starting point is 00:37:00 Let's go buy a skateboard. You know what really sucks about this, though, Dick? And I'm surprised you didn't bring this up, though. Is it screws with last call at bars. I was going to bring that up. When the fuck is it last call anymore? In fact, it was just daylight saving time. And I was at a bar, and everybody was confused.
Starting point is 00:37:16 There was a B-line at the bar for people asking them what time the cutoff is. No one knows anymore. No one knows. You're an extra hour of drinking in the fall. Do you? Yeah, because the clock goes backwards. Okay. Except it goes backwards at like 3 a.m. so it fucks you. Because it goes after last call, it takes back.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Again, every state gets to pick its own thing, whether they even want to do it or not. They do that specifically to fuck drinkers. Fucking Schwarzenegger should have fixed this when he was in a house. Is it like Tahoe that, uh, where it goes from Pacific time to mountain time, and there's bars on both sides and people on the later side go back over to the California side to drink an extra hour. I didn't know that. Oh, I heard something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, interesting problem, Dick. There you go. Good problem. I got some graphs and some stats. Did a pretty good job on this one. I really liked it. And you even found some counter arguments to your own argument. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:38:05 Yeah, that was dumb. Oh, the golf industry says that the additional month of daylight has meant another 400 million in revenue. So golfers and barbecue salesmen. That's who this helps. Barbecue salesman, golf oil salesman. No, golf, golf. Oh, golf. The game.
Starting point is 00:38:27 I'm sorry. Yeah, because you can play longer or later. Oh, God, fuck these people. Okay. Guys, I got the real biggest problem in the universe, and this may be exacerbated by daylight savings time. I don't know. Slippery slopes.
Starting point is 00:38:40 Oh. Yeah. Slipping falls is a big problem. Guys, they're murder on your back, am I right? What? Slippery slopes are murder on your back. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There are types of slippery slopes, guys.
Starting point is 00:38:54 Can we do that again? What's... You want to do it? That joke. I'm being an asshole. Yeah. That's new. All right.
Starting point is 00:39:05 Guys, lots of things make flora slippery. Like oil? Huh? Food spillage? Wait, do you mean literally slippery slopes? Well, those are... problems. Okay. That's not what I thought he meant to either.
Starting point is 00:39:19 Water, ice. These are all things that make floor is slippery. That's true. But the worst kind of slippery slope is a rhetorical one. Oh, okay. Good. Right. Yeah. I hate these phallet. I hate these things. Why do you hate these things? Anytime someone online brings up like, that's a fallacious something. I'm like, oh, fuck you. Why? Go eat them. Why? Why do you? Because you knew what they, either you knew what they were trying to say or you didn't. I think people abuse it. Like, oh,
Starting point is 00:39:45 slippery slope, slippery slope. So what is it necessarily bad that it's a slippery slope? Do you know what he's trying to say? It's fucking, it's hard to have an argument in 140 characters. Well, yeah, Twitter's a shitty format to have any kind of conversation or debate. I hate
Starting point is 00:40:01 talking on Twitter. But when you're arguing with someone and they make a fallacy, especially a slippery slope one, things can get really, really dangerous. And by the way, I just did a quick Google News search. the words slippery slope. And there are so many headlines
Starting point is 00:40:17 across the country of both political sides blaming each other for making slippery slope arguments. One of the biggest problems with slippery slope arguments. Do you want to define what it is first? I don't want to derail your thing and just annoys it. No, that's a good call. This is from the website niscore.org.
Starting point is 00:40:33 It's one of the first things that come up when you search for it. It says, The slippery slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. And this is from Your Logical FallacyIs.com. This is a fun website.
Starting point is 00:40:50 It's really snarky. When someone makes it a logical fallacy, you just send them, hey, your logical fallacy is slippery slope. This is exactly why I hate though. It's so much fun. It's so much fun. Listen to this one. This is from that website.
Starting point is 00:41:01 It says, the problem with this reasoning is that it avoids engaging with the issue at hand and instead shifts attention to extreme hypotheticals because no proof is presented to show that such extreme hypotheticals will in fact occur, this fallacy has the form of an appeal to emotion fallacy by leveraging fear. In effect, the argument at hand is unfairly tainted by unsubstantiated conjecture. That's what it comes down to. And the important key here is an extreme hypothetical. Right. So if something, you're afraid of something happening because of some extreme outcome. And one of the classic examples we have that in politics today is about gay marriage. Well, I
Starting point is 00:41:42 I mean, that debate is settled now. Okay. What is the slippery slope fallacy for gay marriage? Farm animals are next. Yeah, exactly. That's what is, Sean. Married farm animals. Just marriage will get turned gay.
Starting point is 00:41:54 Yeah. It rubs off. You don't know that? I don't know, does it? Gayness? Yeah. No, it doesn't rub off. No, that's sort of heard you can catch it in the air.
Starting point is 00:42:02 Even a little bit? Yeah. I mean, you can rub a gay person. Off? Off. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry I said that.
Starting point is 00:42:13 Yeah. You don't think there's a kid who will maybe see and go, I'll give that shot. I have a friend who was curious as to... Oh, boy, here we go. I've got a friend who was really curious about roughing a gay guy off. The guy I know. No, but for real, a friend of mine was really open-minded about his sexuality,
Starting point is 00:42:36 and he thought, well, I might, maybe I'm gay. Maybe I'm, you know, and he decided to... Question everything. That's critical thinking, right? Every straight guy who... follows this show should be blowing guys every once in a while. Maybe they're gay. You got to know for sure.
Starting point is 00:42:50 That's the straightest thing you can do is suck a guy off and then keep being straight. Yeah. Oh, that's a fucking fat. That's the truth. Light them off. If you blow a dick and you're straight after that, you are straight. You are straight. You are straight.
Starting point is 00:43:05 You're straighter than any straight dude who's not blown a dick for sure. That's true. So I have this friend who said one day he said, You know what? I don't know if I... He said, I've always felt straight, but maybe I'm gay. I don't know. And he decided, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:25 He decided to look at gay pornography. Okay. Okay. Then he's gay. You know, yeah. And he looked at gay pornography. And then he also decided to try to masturbate to it. And he said he couldn't.
Starting point is 00:43:38 And he said, that's when I knew I was straight. I'm like, well. Well, that's a really weird way to go about. Does that mean, yeah, if he would have been able to masturbate to gay pornography, would he have started dating guys? I don't know. I think he was... That's a big leap.
Starting point is 00:43:55 I think he was also going about it wrong. I don't think you... Masturbating? Well, a lot of things. Okay, like what? Well, first of all. You think you've got to go to the full pull? What do you mean, John?
Starting point is 00:44:05 With a real person? No, no. Yeah. Yeah, trying to kiss a guy is less gay than looking. looking at gay porn and trying to masturbate to it. Like, wouldn't that be? Or more gay. It's more gay.
Starting point is 00:44:18 I will say this. I don't know. He wasn't afraid to find out. Yeah, he wasn't afraid to find out. He's definitely not a homophobe, so there's that. Oh. He's like, getting up in there. He's like, he's watching it.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Okay. That's pretty deep, that's pretty deep gay territory. Actually, the first gay, the first porn I ever watched was gay. Lesbians. Yeah. Yeah. A couple of gay-ass lesbians scissering. It was so cool.
Starting point is 00:44:40 Anyway, oh, it was a sex star, fuck sluts number 13. That was the... Oh my goodness. That was the first... One of the first pornos that my friends and I all chipped in to buy. Anyway, so he, there's a real simple test if you're gay. Chipped into bi. So you shared this with everybody? Did you watch it together?
Starting point is 00:44:56 Yeah, the first... Yeah, the first time, yeah. I've never done. I don't think I've ever done that. Yeah, it's really weird... Yeah, it's really weird for a lot of people to hear that that I've watched porn with my guy friends because they all think that we have to sit there with boners and rubbing one out. I'm like, no, we're not getting boners.
Starting point is 00:45:11 Well, wait a minute. You're not getting boners? No, I wasn't getting a boner. I wasn't sitting there with a hard on watching this thing. Why are you watching it then? It's hilarious and fun. Hmm. And then boobs. Like, there's a lot of reasons to watch porn.
Starting point is 00:45:25 Sometimes it's just on in the background. Got a couple of pornos going, what? All right. Yeah. Okay. We used to have our corn and porn Wednesdays. And you'd watch porn with your friends? Yeah, we'd get soup and then watch porn.
Starting point is 00:45:37 I think that would make me very uncomfortable. Like, I don't want my porn sweats coming out. and getting my pheromones soaking into the air and then Sean's touching them with like walking through a mist of my musk This is all sounds disgusting. Just hear Maddox, mom, my Spaghettios! And my pornography! You make it sound like it's so weird, but it's not that.
Starting point is 00:46:01 It was at my friend's house and his parents were out of town. We'd just watch pornos. Just throw on some porn. We'd make, it was the corn and porn Wednesdays, and we would go to the grocery store, the food for less. we'd buy, I'd buy a can of stew or some corn, and some corn, and I'd put the corn in the stew, I'd have some soup, and we'd watch porn. It was like a thing.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Yeah, soup would also be the last food I would eat. I was hungry. I really like soup. All right. Yeah, back then I ate soup a lot. Anyway, so back to slippery slopes. I get so many stories about this porn thing. All right.
Starting point is 00:46:35 So the problem is, it's a barrier to action, a slippery slope, right? because you can't solve problems until you overcome ideological hurdles. And one of them that stops progress dead in its tracks is the fear that acknowledging a point in a debate or allowing something to happen will necessarily lead to some other possible outcome. And the gay marriage one we talked about, which is, you know, it might lead to people marrying animals, their parents, their cars, or baloney or whatever the fuck people say that people... Yeah, whatever. You know, people are afraid someone's going to marry, which, again, who cares?
Starting point is 00:47:08 We'll be wrong with that. Marry some baloney. Yeah. No big deal. Well, it hurts the sanctity of marriage and then... I don't know what then. And then what? Gay people are getting married.
Starting point is 00:47:18 Or straight divorces going through the roof? They can't go any higher, much higher before it's past the 50% tipping point. Straight divorces? Yeah. I think they're past that. 50%. Actually, last I heard about 51%. Just on average?
Starting point is 00:47:32 I can't remember who said it. I think it was a comedian. He said, like, if you're a hardcore Christian and you're completely against gay marriage. He said, you have nothing to worry about, like, God's not going to let him in. You know, like, you're not getting into heaven. Don't worry about it. I argued for a defense of marriage activist. Like, you know, those DOMA people, defensive marriage act? I argued with them, I said, hey, if you're worried about protecting marriage, why don't you try, why aren't you lobbying to ban divorce, right? Because that'll save a lot more marriages than allowing gay people to get married.
Starting point is 00:48:09 No answer to that. Oh, yeah, we're trying that too, but first let's try to ban gay marriage. Well, yeah, because it's about gay marriage. Yeah. So in most, this is, this is again from NISCorp. It says, in most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question, and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed. The argument has the following form.
Starting point is 00:48:35 if X has occurred or might occur, right, Y will inevitably happen. And Y is usually some extreme position, right? Yeah, they don't acknowledge any of the bumps in the road going down or the slope. There are no roadblocks, no pushback from any other group or anything. No, it's actually the root cause of a lot of fear mongering online. People use this for fear mongering. Like if we let people do, I don't know, if we let,
Starting point is 00:49:05 If we let them... Like, well, you know, not to get political again, but the... Uh-oh. No, but the refugee argument or even, like, terrorist argument, you know, if you want to, it's kind of like fear-mongering to scare people about a certain group of people, right? If you're... Whatever that group may be, in the 50s, it was Japanese people around World War II. We can't let them in our country.
Starting point is 00:49:30 They're the enemy, right? It was communists in the 50s. Oh, that's not due politics. Is there any other slippery... Slope fallacy or is it just all politics? Guns? Guns? Pretty political, I would say.
Starting point is 00:49:40 Well, it comes up a lot in political debates and this is the problem because it shuts down the conversation. Like, for real, this is what's shutting down the conversation is slippery slope arguments like this. Like, yeah, guns is a big one because the, because gun advocates don't want to give
Starting point is 00:49:57 an inch because they're afraid you'll take a mile. Well, that's true. Government stormtroopers will get down your door. It's, I mean, it is true. Why is it necessarily true? It just reverts to Nazi Germany immediately. Like everyone's out there trying to make a name for themselves and scaring the shit out of everyone.
Starting point is 00:50:13 I think they're almost by definition political because there's always a group pushing it. That fear or whatever. So I don't think that happens without it being political to some extent. So there's an argument, there's this article on this website called registered guard.com. I don't even think it was a news website, but it says zero tolerance on hate speech is a slippery slope.
Starting point is 00:50:32 and that's kind of an interesting position to take. What do you think about hate speech? I hate it. Good, done. Moving on. Hate speech? Like what? Well, hate speech.
Starting point is 00:50:47 Give me like five or six examples of hate speech. Oh, no problem. I can rattle off 20 right here, buddy. Yeah. Like Chinese people are too good at math. Would that be an example of hate speech? That is a stereotype. No, hate speech would be
Starting point is 00:51:02 more along the lines of insightful, like, we should kill all gay people. We should, we should, we should export Chinese immigrants or Vietnamese. That would be, like, borderline. That's hate speech? I think so. I don't know, I have a tough time with all these, like, thought crimes. Like, if you're inciting violence, there's already laws. There's already laws protecting that.
Starting point is 00:51:25 There's already laws about that. You don't need their motives called into question. That's okay, what? Historically, you'd have the, like, the Christians would put on the, I think they're called passion plays to incite violence against the Jews. Passion of the crisis based on one of those. I looked up the definition of hate speech a while back too, and it's not,
Starting point is 00:51:42 it's kind of like a murky area legally, but... Yeah, I don't like that. But it ultimately comes down to this. If you are inciting inciting some kind of violence or violent action or some kind of response towards
Starting point is 00:51:58 a large group of people, you're stereotyping them, a large group of people, that would be That would be considered more or less hate speech. But what about the Iron Sheik? He was awesome. He was awesome stereotype. Right? I'm sure everybody agrees with that.
Starting point is 00:52:13 Yeah, he was great. Come on. It's interesting. I read this sociological article about wrestling and how it reflects our times and how in every era of wrestling, no matter who our political enemy is perceived to be, they always drum up an enemy in wrestling
Starting point is 00:52:30 who represents that political enemy. Who is it now? Captain's Safe Space? Oh man, that would be great. That'd be incredible. It's, yeah, in South Park, it's reality. What's his name? You know, that episode they did. Anyway, but this is from this article,
Starting point is 00:52:46 the register guard.com says, zero tolerance on hate speech is a slippery slope. And I don't know what exactly that means because he didn't give any examples of tolerable hate speech. Because I don't know. I don't know. This is kind of like one of those areas.
Starting point is 00:53:00 What should you tolerate? when it comes to hate speech. It says it's gotten to the point where even admiration for non-European culture is denounced as bigoted if that admiration blossoms into so-called cultural appropriation. Ethnic food fads are denounced for their insensitivity. Recently, the website Everyday Feminism.com offered the feminist guide to being a foodie without being culturally appropriative. No eating sausages, stuff like that. A nice foodie guide? No, well, there was this article that went out recently about how there's this college campus that banned yoga.
Starting point is 00:53:32 They banned this yoga class because they felt like it was culturally appropriating someone else's culture. Yeah, I hate that shit. I was going to bring that in after Burning Man because there was always a big stink about people wearing headdresses as feathers because it's culturally appropriating
Starting point is 00:53:49 Native American headwear or something. Man, I don't care if people are offended by their culture getting appropriated. I guess that's part of it. I think we've gone way overboard with the political correctness. But this isn't political correctness. It's a slippery slope.
Starting point is 00:54:10 It is. This is where you're getting... It's intertwined. Yeah, it's intertwined. Because this guy says here, this is something I notice. It happens generally more with the left when they start to criticize people as being blanket bigots and being the most extreme version of whatever they're saying. Like if someone says something that may be perceived as prejudice, you just jump to the ultimate conclusion, which ultimately is Hitler.
Starting point is 00:54:41 It's only a matter of time before Hitler comes up in that conversation. We should start there from now on. Start with Hitler. Every argument to start with, you're Hitler, here's why. You're Hitler. Here's why. First of all, we had Chinese food yesterday. But it goes on.
Starting point is 00:54:53 Hitler fed the Jews. The same thing every day. Nothing. Oh, that's true. That's a bad meal. Yeah. It goes both ways, though, because on the far right, too, there are all sorts of banners and memes and things floating around on the internet of Obama photoshopped as Hitler. Well, he is Hitler. Obama definitely is Hitler. Obama is definitely Hitler. George Bush was Hitler. George W. Bush, Clinton was Hitler. Everyone's Hitler. Yeah. Isn't that more, that's way more fun political theater. than trying to avoid Hitler.
Starting point is 00:55:27 I can't wait. If Hillary gets elected, I'm going to count down the number of seconds it's going to take before someone makes a Hitlery a Hitler campaign or Hitlery pun. Oh, they're going to have a heyday with that name. That definitely already exists.
Starting point is 00:55:40 Then you could be super Hitler. Then they're going to have to come up with a bigger Hitler. Like Robo Hitler. Mecca Hitler. That's the entire dialogue, just Hitler comparison. Just Hitler, yeah. It's perfect.
Starting point is 00:55:51 Yeah. So anyway, this article goes on. He says, by all means we need more civilized confidence, but demonstrating it only to denounce partisan opponents isn't confidence at all when he's talking about this slippery slope thing. It goes on both sides, but lately it's been politically more liberals and the left
Starting point is 00:56:10 accusing, like using these slippery slope balances. Got to have their safe spaces. Captain safe space can't survive, people challenging his ideas. Even Obama came out to denounce that. Here's what I'm tired of. I'm tired of people getting offended for other people. Yeah. That needs to stop.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Like, look, man, you think that it's bad to have a Native American costume for Halloween? Great. You're not Native American. Shut the fuck up. Yeah. Let's hear from the Native Americans. Because guess what? Not all of them may share your opinions.
Starting point is 00:56:46 I mean, I have a number of friends who are Chinese. We're Japanese. I said every racist ever. Then what? Well. And then? Some of my best friends are. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:02 Yeah. Yeah. No, but I have a number of friends who are Chinese and Japanese. And when there was that big uproar, I think it was last year when they said kimonos were like the big naughty thing. You shouldn't wear anymore because it's culturally appropriating and incensed and blah, blah, blah. I asked them my Japanese friends, I'm like, do you care about this? And they said, no, it's kind of flattering. that people would want to dress up as in this Japanese garb.
Starting point is 00:57:26 And they don't speak for all Japanese people, but neither do the ones who are offended. Well, we need the emperor of all Japanese people to call in. Yeah, we had the emperor of all white people. Is that slippery slope, though? You've got a lot of things mixed together in this one, because that seems like outrage porn. A lot of it seems like outrage porn.
Starting point is 00:57:42 Like, people are just drumming up headlines. Well, the only reason that that could potentially be a problem is if, you know, the slippery slope argument there is, well, it's racist and it may lead to more racism, may lead to some racist extreme example. But there's a lot of slippery slope arguments. I mean, you know, the gun debate's another one. Abortion, we allow abortion in this country who,
Starting point is 00:58:06 why can't we just kill anyone? And then they justify. It's a good question. Let's start doing that. Sure. Retroactive abortions. Yeah, it's a great idea. That's part of the regressive. Non-voluntary euthanasia.
Starting point is 00:58:15 Yeah, that's part of the regressive platform. I suggested that up to the age 18. I think 18's a cutoff point. There you go. Yeah, it's a good age to abort someone. I'm up to 18, of course. I'm not a monster. Anyway, that's my problem.
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Starting point is 00:59:32 I bought my mattress, the mattress I have now at a mattress store for like $2,000, upwards of $2,000. And, man, I am not satisfied with it after several months of being on it. It's digging into my back, it's horribly uncomfortable. Do you have springs in it? I don't know what's in it.
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Starting point is 01:00:53 A skinny guy. A skinny guy could. Like Charles Manson. Yeah. Okay. You ready for my next problem? It's like Charles Manson. Walking.
Starting point is 01:01:01 I got a lot of flack last week. Yeah. My life coach and I couldn't get to the gun range because we were foiled by two miles of dirt road. Oh, yeah. I talked to him afterwards. After getting all the flak online, I texted him. Like, hey, can you check the map for me? I really hope it was more than two miles.
Starting point is 01:01:18 Because a lot of these comments are saying, hey, Dick, why didn't you just walk? Yeah. And I have to admit that that did not occur to me. We just sat in the car trying to use our cell phones and our devices to alert to send out the virtual flare, the help me signal. A couple of goofy idiots. Yeah, so I said, hey, buddy, check that map. It's got to have been like five miles. I want to go into the podcasting.
Starting point is 01:01:43 It was like five miles, ten miles, something like this. You're not walking ten miles, right? shoot guns and he's like got it got it got it so he texted me back hey i checked the map it was almost one mile i knew it i knew it it can't be that much off the road because there isn't even that much land anywhere in l a la it wasn't in l a it wasn't in clona i'm proud of the fact that we did not think of walking no why okay walking is something that savage apes do walking is something that babies do and they get congratulated on it. Walking is for
Starting point is 01:02:20 primitive people. When I see food, I don't start stabbing at it with my hands. Right? Because that's disgusting. That should be looked down upon. I look for a fork. And if I don't find a fork, I wait a little bit. I don't start... Yes, I don't start shoveling mashed potatoes
Starting point is 01:02:36 or cereal into my mouth. Right? Or soup in your case? Yeah? You can't... What are you going to start digging, sucking it out of the bowl? With your porn on in the background? I use a spoon or a ladle. Unless you're drinking miso soup,
Starting point is 01:02:52 then yeah, you just sip out right out of the bowl. I don't walk. Walking is just basically falling down. And failing at that. All right? That's how you walk. You lean forward and you're falling and you use your feet to catch yourself falling.
Starting point is 01:03:07 It's constant failure. Hmm. You think about that. Imagine walking. What do you do? Yeah, yeah. You're not moving around like a gumby, like sliding around.
Starting point is 01:03:16 you're leaning forward and then catching yourself as you fall. Yeah, okay. That's embarrassing. You should be embarrassed walking, period. Yeah. Okay? Okay.
Starting point is 01:03:27 That's why we didn't walk. And I'm proud of it. Because you're embarrassed walking. Because I'm embarrassed by it. You walk all the time. You walked into the studio. I would drive from bed to the bathroom if I could. Yeah, I would too if I had a segue.
Starting point is 01:03:39 Yeah. I'd get on it. Okay, that's the future. I'll take Elon Musk's little stupid tube around. But if I didn't have a segue, and I had, I was in my bedroom and I had a shitload of guns on me and I was really excited. Tell me more. Yeah. I was really excited.
Starting point is 01:03:55 And I put in all this time and effort and preparation and sent emails back and forth and watched a bunch of Trump videos to pump myself up to go shooting in my bathroom or wherever. Yeah. I would walk. You would walk? Yeah. It's the cost of admission, dick. How well. Using your leg.
Starting point is 01:04:12 I know, Mr. Legday over here. You know who else walks? Huh? People with AIDS. AIDS walks happen all the time. Yeah. Well, the majority of the people who walk in AIDS walks don't have AIDS, dick.
Starting point is 01:04:23 Is that true? We don't know that for sure. We've got to get tested. Get tested, everybody. Make sure. You know who else walked? Famous for walking? Forrest Gump.
Starting point is 01:04:32 A retarded guy. Right? That's who walks. Yeah. Not me. I don't walk. There was the million man walk, right? The million man marched?
Starting point is 01:04:41 No, they marched. They marched. They marched. The military marches? Oh, I would have marched up there. with all those guns so fast. That's true. You do Gooseph-Elock.
Starting point is 01:04:48 Yeah, you do Gooseph-Eflat. Hitler! You know who else? You know who walks? Dogs. Dogs, I don't like dogs. Oh, I don't like dogs. No, man.
Starting point is 01:04:58 Oh, man, I got a new fucking dog problems coming in. But yeah, dogs do walk, and so do their owners. You like dogs, though. I love dogs. Why? They walk more than anyone. I don't like them because they walk. I don't like that.
Starting point is 01:05:08 You like them in spite of their walking. Yes, I want to hook them up to a drone and send the drone on the walk. You know, I saw this video of a cat. There was someone who's trying to get a cat to exercise by putting it on a treadmill. And the cat just sat down and then fell off and they kept picking it up and holding it there to the point where its legs were like hitting the treadmill. The cat just let its legs drag. And they kept putting it on the treadmill. Cat would just keep falling off. Cats refused to walk.
Starting point is 01:05:35 Michael Jackson, famous for moonwalking. That's cool. That's cool. Right. I don't want to be in that. I don't want to be. Yeah, alleged. Right, right, of course. Alleged. I know people who stayed at the Neverland Ranch. How old were they? They were children, they didn't get molested. Wait, are you serious?
Starting point is 01:05:54 Yeah, for real. I know kids who are there, they're grown up now, they're in their mid-20s, but they stayed at the Neverland Ranch and they said Michael Jackson was a total gentleman. I don't want to give away who it is. It's like, you know, kind of a big. I knew it. It's hysterios. It's not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not speculating about.
Starting point is 01:06:14 any hysterious molestations that may have happened. But no, this is somebody who's a celebrity now and was a celebrity then. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to say who it is. Well, you didn't need to say the celebrity part. Now that makes it even more exciting. I can't, I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say who it is.
Starting point is 01:06:30 But I do know, uh, yeah, two, two different, two different people. Two different people. It's not McCulley Culkin. Is it McCulley Culkin? It's not McCulley Culkin. That's all I'm going to say. No, he was there.
Starting point is 01:06:41 He testified like in Jackson's favor a lot. I said, no, I spent tons of time there. Nothing ever happened. Yeah, nothing ever happened. I don't know. Anyway. So, so that's, we'll put that in the maybe column, Dick. Moonwalking, still cool.
Starting point is 01:06:54 Okay. And not necessarily a molester if you moonwalk. The Hollywood Walk of Fame? A big joke. A tourist trap. It's a big joke. I don't walk. Okay?
Starting point is 01:07:05 Nobody should walk. Drive everywhere. If you can't get somewhere with your car, not worth seeing. Huh. Machu Picchu. Stupid. I've seen it 10 years. million times on Tinder, don't need to see it.
Starting point is 01:07:16 Yeah. Right? Well, it is annoying seeing it on Tinder all the time. If you can't get there in a car, not worth seeing. Hmm. Great Barrier Reef. Who cares? Seen Finding Nemo.
Starting point is 01:07:28 No big deal. Yeah, well, Finding Nemo was computer-generated, Dick. Probably is better than the original. Yeah, you got that. Got me there, actually. Probably is. The original does take a lot of effort. But here's the thing, Dick.
Starting point is 01:07:41 You can get to the Great Barrier Reef without walking. Someone can just take you in a helicopter and lower you with a crane into the ocean with your snorkel on just above ceiling, you know, you just look around. Good point. Right, okay. Yep. Then you have to take great barrier relief off. I'm going to see if you scratch that off. I didn't even, I just came up with that off the top of my head.
Starting point is 01:07:58 I'll scratch something off, though. There you go. In Africa alone, women spend 40 billion hours a year. This is true, walking for water. Oh, my gosh. Walking for water. They're legs. Ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:08:11 Why don't they drive? That's all leg day. You know what they could do with that 40 billion hours? Imagine how much of that January Jones TV show they could be watching with 40 billion hours. Imagine how much of your website they could be reading. Oh, they could be reading on my website when instead of looking for water. Yeah, instead of looking for water because they have to walk. That's why it takes so long, 40 billion hours a year these women are walking around looking for water.
Starting point is 01:08:36 Hmm. That's a lot of hours. Walking. Horrible. Big problem. Okay, Dick. It's a solution. to getting places and things that you want.
Starting point is 01:08:47 Walking is? It's an embarrassing solution. Six kilometers a day they're walking to get water. Dick. Injuries, shin splints? You ever had shin splints? You could get that walking. I've heard about shinxswainter's knee, stress fracture,
Starting point is 01:09:01 planners fasciitis. Yeah, that's a thing. I know what that is, but it fucks up your feet. I've seen it. Pussy foot? Pussy foot. Is that what Dick got when he didn't go shooting? Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:09:12 Oh, you do pussyfoot. around things. Here's a guy. Here's the very first person who walked around the earth on foot. He was shot and killed by bandits in Afghanistan.
Starting point is 01:09:25 Because he was walking. Not because he was walking because there were bandits in Afghanistan. Should have been in a Humvee. Should have been flying over Afghanistan in a plane. Not walking. Well, Christopher Eve couldn't walk. There you go.
Starting point is 01:09:40 You thought that was, you think that was a solution? Christopher Reeve not walking? Yeah Did he do it on purpose? No, it was an accident Did we test that? Didn't you have some kind of theory That he was playing up his paralysis
Starting point is 01:09:52 To get money into his foundation? We don't know what the horse's motives were Which I suspect was bad Fucking horses Probably because the horse was being made to walk too much Got pissed off No, the horse You can't ever trust a fucking horse
Starting point is 01:10:07 You can't. They'll nip at you. They'll nip at your ears You know, Sean? doesn't have an ear. In one of his ears is bit off. It's gone. So, Dick, I don't understand.
Starting point is 01:10:17 You can't, now you're contradicting yourself. This is a huge dick versus dick. A huge one. All right. On one hand, you're saying walking is a problem. But on the other hand, you're saying paralysis is a problem. Which is it? You can do a lot more with your legs than just walk.
Starting point is 01:10:36 You can't deadlift if you're paralyzed. Hmm. Yeah, you can't deadlift with your legs if you're paralyzed. But, um... Go to your problem. That's it. My problem is walking. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:10:48 All right. All right. But then vote down paralysis and vote up walking or... They're not mutually exclusive. They literally are. No, you can do more things than walk if you're not paralyzed. That's true. You don't need to think about it.
Starting point is 01:11:02 Uh, yeah. Okay. So you're saying paralysis is a bigger problem than walking. Uh, yeah. I'll give you that. Okay. Not for me. Not for you.
Starting point is 01:11:11 No. rather be paralyzed and walk. I would vote both of them up. You'd vote both of them up. Which is a bigger problem. I don't know. That's up to the fans. We're going to find out. Tune in next week, guys. I know which is a bigger problem. I think you're walking and shove it up your ass. Fine. Maybe I will.
Starting point is 01:11:27 I got the real biggest problem in the universe this week, guys. It's the inability to disconfirm. Yeah. There's a problem. A lot of mouthful problems today. Yeah, it's a mouthful problem. But at least it wasn't a well-planned. poorly executed gun trip because he wouldn't walk a mile
Starting point is 01:11:45 I know it's so bad put all that leg day to use walk, you know what's your problem? Yeah my problem the inability to disconfirm so this is I read this article a while back about
Starting point is 01:12:01 it was actually about this whole outrage porn and this overly PC culture that we're in right now where even President Obama has spoken out against it because he says essentially people who are always looking for safe spaces and no free speech zones and places where they're, you know, this over infantilism, I think, it has something to do with it when people don't want to be challenged and don't want to have their assumptions questioned and confronted. That's the ability to disconfirm? No, I'm getting to that.
Starting point is 01:12:35 I'm getting to that. These people who have these problems exhibit symptoms of a common. Cognitive Disorder. And the inability to disconfirm is one such cognitive disorder. This is from the website site. I think it's Cognitive Therapy, NYC.com. It's this assessment article, and it talks about what it is. It says, you reject any evidence or arguments that might contradict your negative thoughts.
Starting point is 01:12:59 For example, when you have a thought that I'm unlovable, you reject as irrelevant, any evidence that people like you. Consequently, your thought cannot be refuted. You say, that's not the real issue. There are deeper problems. there are other factors, et cetera, et cetera. So anytime you find evidence that contradicts what you believe, you just eject it. You don't acknowledge it.
Starting point is 01:13:19 You don't consider it. This is kind of interesting. They did a study called, when superstition fails, reactions to disconfirmation of paranormal beliefs. So they tested people who have paranormal beliefs, you know, people who are, you know, people who listen to a lot of coast-to-coast AM. Well, people who are on it. Sure. People were on it. I listened the other night, and this guy was talking about,
Starting point is 01:13:40 I think he saw Bigfoot in his tent and he was afraid to open his tent because he thought it might be Bigfoot. No, you gotta be safe. It might be Bigfoot. Turned on now. His wife joined him on the camping trip. No, he didn't even check.
Starting point is 01:13:53 I think he just waited. He just went. So it could have been Bigfoot. It could have been Bigfoot, yeah. So they did this test. It says here, this is from, well, I'll link to the study. It says here,
Starting point is 01:14:01 previous research has suggested cognitive distortion of counter-attitudinal information by believers, but not by skeptics of paranormal phenomenon. The present study sought to extend these results using a different mode of information presentation and measuring emotional arousal as well. 50 undergraduates completed the belief in paranormal scale
Starting point is 01:14:21 and were divided into believers and skeptics on the basis of a median split of their scores. So they read in abstract either supporting or challenging the existence of ESP and completed the multiple effect adjective checklist. So basically they're going through this checklist to see whether or not they have paranormal beliefs, right? Okay. Both believers and skeptics,
Starting point is 01:14:39 showed increased emotional arousal when presented with counter-attitudinal information. So when they found an information that was contradicting their beliefs, they both showed like the same arousal in their brain in the same regions, but only believers showed selective learning of the information. Findings are discussed in light of dissonance theory and selective learning. That's really fascinating stuff. So essentially, what happens is when you confront somebody with evidence that contradicts their preconceived beliefs and notions. They have the same amount of arousal as someone who doesn't accept that information, but their conclusion is contrary to that evidence.
Starting point is 01:15:22 They just continue to believe what they believe. This is actually the root cause of anti-vaxxers. So they did all those tests, and they sent out all those different methods to try to persuade anti-vaxers into vaccinating their children, and no matter what evidence they showed them and not only didn't persuade them, sometimes they doubled down and became even more staunchly ideological in their beliefs.
Starting point is 01:15:44 Well, because you just said it, they're believing, they're not thinking. Yeah, they're believing, right. The inability to disconfirm is a type of automatic thought. It's a type of confirmation bias. And then there's some, this has like so many applications and so many things. Like, for example, in marketing,
Starting point is 01:16:02 this is from a book called Marketing Theory, Philosophy, of science and perspectives. It talks about advertising deception, and people who have the inability to disconfirm are the most gullible and the most dupable when it comes to advertising. So there's a critical research issue, though one which has received surprisingly little attention, deals with whether deceptive advertising is capable not only of initiating trial purchases, but also of sustaining repeat behavior. The logic of disconferment, excuse me, the logic of disconfirmation theory is insightful in this regard.
Starting point is 01:16:34 Disconfirmation theory suggests that disconformation of expectancies would lead to change in cognitive structure, a change in the behavior, or both. And then they found that that doesn't happen at all. So this happens when people get addicted to brands, and they find that that brand is not that good or it's not fulfilling their expectations. They continue to buy that brand. And this has implications in people who are stuck in abusive relationships. You know, sometimes you see a woman who's been in an abusive relationships. she's been beat by a man for a long, long time. And it's obvious to everyone outside of her
Starting point is 01:17:08 that she needs to get out of that relationship. But to her, she has the inability to disconfirm. So she rationalizes these bad things that happen. She refutes any evidence that counters her beliefs and accepts her preconceived notions. Yeah, he hits me because he loves me. Yeah. Why has it got to be she?
Starting point is 01:17:31 What if it's a guy? It doesn't have to be. What if it's two guys? It could be two guys. It could be two guys. What if it's a guy in his baloney? He's beating up his baloney every night. Smack that baloney around.
Starting point is 01:17:43 His baloney needs to get up and pack its bags and walk away, dick. So people are suckers? Is that basically what all that said? People are suckers. No, this has huge implications in so many areas of our life. So I talked about abuse. I talked about purchasing things. I talked about believing in hypothetical things
Starting point is 01:18:04 and ESP and paranormal phenomenon in believing in all these things. God. Uh-oh. Well... No, I'm on the way with that. Yeah, of course. It depends.
Starting point is 01:18:18 So it's... Okay. Well, it depends. I mean, we're going to get into a whole philosophical argument there. Okay. But it does extend to religion and political party, too. Like, your political party, they say as most formed by what your parents were.
Starting point is 01:18:33 Yeah. And even though it might have things later on in it that you don't agree with, a lot of people won't change. How could it not be? I don't know, Sean. Just like your sports team. What's up? Just like your sports team.
Starting point is 01:18:44 Yeah. Oh, no, no. I mean, like I have different political beliefs than my parents do, but I also try to think about things. Oh, my dad's a libertarian. Is he? Oh, he's a staunch libertarian. Really?
Starting point is 01:18:54 Oh, yeah. You have a lot of libertarian leaning tendencies. Wow. And I don't think you see them. You can call them. them that. Yeah, no, it's funny. I got an email last episode. I didn't bring it in, but this guy said, Maddox, you criticize libertarians, you've criticized liberals. You haven't really, you criticize Trump, but it's like, we don't know, we don't know what you are. Like, why don't you take a
Starting point is 01:19:14 fucking stance? And this guy's really, really pissed. No, don't. Yeah. Well, it's because I think that that one of the, and I'll bring this in, I think that political labels are one of the biggest problems in the universe, because it stops thinking. It stops the critical thinking. It allows you to dismiss anything that isn't already aligned with your point of view. So if you, it becomes like a sports team, right? I'm a Raiders fan. I think that the, the, um, here we go. What is your favorite part about the Raiders?
Starting point is 01:19:44 I almost said Chicago Bulls. I'm a Raiders fan. I'm not a fan of the Chargers, the San Diego Chargers, right? That's a classic rivalry. That's a classic rivalry. No, no, it is. No, it's not. Broncos.
Starting point is 01:19:55 Raiders and Broncos is a classic one. Well, that's another one. There's lots of classic rival. Nobody gives a shit about the Chargers. The white socks and the Yankees, that's a classic rivalry. The red socks, all the socks. Wow. Whatever.
Starting point is 01:20:09 Good example. Yeah. So yeah, anyway, when you have this affiliation with a large political group or anyone, it inhibits your ability to look at things critically because you're likely to dismiss them. It becomes one big ad hominem attack where, oh, well, this came from, in fact, I try not to do this. When someone sends me a link or a source to a right-wing website or right-leaning website,
Starting point is 01:20:37 instead of just dismissing it as being, you know, if it's against a liberal stance or vice versa, a liberal website like Huffington Post or a conservative website like Fox News, I'll look and see what they're saying first. And I'll say, well, they might have, you know, not everything, not everything they say is necessarily tinted with that political point of view. And if it is, I can always Google it and see what less biased sources. say to see if there's any merit to what they're saying. But most people don't do that.
Starting point is 01:21:04 That sounds like a huge waste of time. Why is it a huge waste of time? Like going through all this shit to look at all of the evidence individually. Just send me the link if it's on HuffPaw. Like, you know, wait till it shows up somewhere else. Has it been on Drudge Report? No, then I'm not interested in seeing it. That's my motto.
Starting point is 01:21:22 Well, that's why I do the Google search. Drud Report and Bright Bart. Yeah, and Bright Bart. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, so what's the, what is the real, is it not critical thinking? What's the summary of this? Like, I get the people are suckers and they write off things. Well, in so many ways.
Starting point is 01:21:38 So we talked about belief in paranormal. We talked about being an abusive relationships. But cognitively, and why this shows up so much in cognitive behavior therapy, is because people will sometimes have these beliefs that they are bad people. And no matter what you show them, they're unable to believe that they, They're unable to believe any different. Yeah. Because they have this, they're stuck in this negative feedback loop.
Starting point is 01:22:04 The circuitous thinking where they think everything I do or everything I am is bad and negative, nobody likes me, et cetera, et cetera. And their inability to disconfirm leads them down that path. And all they have to do is step outside of that little circle and realize that there is a lot of evidence, contrary to what you may think, contrary to your negative thoughts and your negative thinking. if you just step outside and take a look a little bit more critically. There's a lot in support of it, too. Well, I mean, you could make the case.
Starting point is 01:22:35 I mean, there's a positive and negative way to look at just about everything. That's why when I brought in death as a problem, I acknowledge some of the good aspects of death, but there's a lot of negative ones that I think far outweigh the good ones. Sure. There's a good and bad way of looking at a lot of things. You could look at the death of someone, as someone's passing and you're sad for them.
Starting point is 01:22:59 But they're like, hey, they're out of their credit card payments. There you go. There you go, Sean. Perfect example. I have to buy them any Christmas presents. There's great. There you go, Dick. Another perfect example. I have another vase for the fireplace.
Starting point is 01:23:09 Yeah, I can sell all this shit. There's more air to breathe. Well, okay. That's stretching it. Yeah. That's true. I always liked his car. Yeah?
Starting point is 01:23:17 Oh, yeah. Give me that car. Yeah. And if he was a drain on the economy or she was a drain on the economy into hospital bed somewhere, hey, less hospital bills. Oh, look at that. Rosie glasses. It can stifle personal growth.
Starting point is 01:23:30 That's a problem. Inability to disconfirm. You should look into it. It's actually really fascinating stuff. I started reading, it's just a huge rabbit hole of cognitive behavior therapy and cognitive dissonance theory and all this stuff. There's tons of literature about this out there. I was really surprised when I started doing research about this stuff. Well, if it shows up on Drudge Report, I'll check it out.
Starting point is 01:23:49 Oh, great. I like this because it's so pervasive. It is very pervasive. It is a huge, huge problem. It affects a lot of people. even people, even people you wouldn't think that are affected by this. Like we, you know, at some point you can always, you can all be susceptible to this. And it's also the inability to, the inability to disconfirm is also the tendency to believe that things will always be bad.
Starting point is 01:24:16 You know, like if you walk down an alley and there's, you hear like footsteps behind you or something, you might think that, you know, it would be silly. to say that you're always going to feel that anxiety. Obviously, you're feeling anxiety because there are footsteps behind you. Once you walk out of that alley and you're no longer in that situation, you're not going to feel that same anxiety, right? Are there people confused about that? No, but that's an example of why I'm saying how ridiculous it is to be to have these fears that it's always going to be this way.
Starting point is 01:24:50 What fears are you talking about? It's a slippery slope. Yeah, it is a slippery slope, Sean. The fears I'm talking about is that I'm never going to find a partner in a relationship. I'm never going to get a good job. I'm never going to get out of my situation that I'm in right now. I'm never going to solve my financial problems. Dude, stop reading my thoughts.
Starting point is 01:25:09 Yeah, these are all mostly true. People don't fix their finances. They do. They fix their finances all the time. Not according to the fucking numbers. I have a lot. People have negative savings rate. Baby boomers have saved 10 grand in the bank.
Starting point is 01:25:24 That's a massive. failure. Odds are you will fail at finances. There you go. There's some negative thinking. That's the odds. But you're looking, but there's lots of evidence. If you look for it, there's evidence that counters what you just said. Okay. The internet can be a place where people with kind of out their beliefs find other people and they just reaffirm each other's opinions. So you just stop thinking. It's like, oh, well, all these people think exactly like I do, it must be this way. Well, yeah, that's a, that's confirmation bias. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 01:25:55 It's related. It's related, right? Yeah, it's definitely related. When I was doing research, a lot of the articles started talking about. Because they can just ignore anything. Exactly, absolutely. It's a lot of the... Holocaust deniers.
Starting point is 01:26:05 Holocaust deniers. I'm saying, I'm going the Hitler thing. Yeah, Holocaust deniers. Yeah, it is related to confirmation bias. And one of the studies, Wikipedia has a really good description about this. It's actually related to confirmation bias. But it's also, you know, your inability to accept evidence that contradicts, that contradicts, what you're saying. You have to acknowledge evidence that contradicts what you're saying,
Starting point is 01:26:28 because then if you don't, you can get stuck in this rut of like, I'm never going to find someone. Like, just like how ridiculous it was to give that example of feeling anxiety that somebody's walking behind you down an alley and then constantly feeling that anxiety throughout the rest of your life, that's absurd because when you change your situation, you will no longer have that anxiety. But people who have this inability to disconfirm never change their situation and are always afraid of having that anxiety in spite of the fact that their situation changes. Yeah, anyway, that's my problem.
Starting point is 01:26:58 All right. One problem you can definitely fix is having a shitty mattress. Yep. Casper.com, use promo code biggest. Is it biggest or biggest problem? All right, guys, my problems this week were the slippery slope and an inability to disconfirm.
Starting point is 01:27:14 My problems were daylight savings time and walking. Thanks for listening. See you next Tuesday. Hey guys, if you have to shit in the shower, then just go ahead and shit in the shower. You can stop it down the drain. Yeah. Not your problem anymore. No one's ever going to find out is move on your fucking day.
Starting point is 01:27:35 That guy just shits in the shower. Problem solved. Hey, what's up, guys? Maddox, I'm a long-time fan. Dick, you're my new role model. What's get into the shit? I got a fucking fan problem for you guys if that's cool. The present-year argument.
Starting point is 01:27:52 I'm hearing this shit all over now. Oh, it's 2015. Band guns, 2015, gender norms, 2015 and 2015, people fall back on this limp dick, chicken shit excuse whenever their argument on our society not being progressive enough, doesn't hold any fucking weight.
Starting point is 01:28:08 I'm just real heated up about this right now because I saw some friends on Facebook bitching about the amount of mass shootings this year and only saying it's 2015, 20, fucking teen. By the way, the legal definition of a mass shooting in the U.S. is for fatalities, which I don't know about you guys,
Starting point is 01:28:23 but I wouldn't consider for a massive number. Maybe that's just me being an asshole, though. Anyways, that's all I got. Dick, you're cool to go fuck yourself. Yeah, I do hate that argument. It's 2015. I saw a lot of people commenting about it. I think the reason it's there is because in the 80s and 90s, we always thought of the future as the year 2000 or 2000X, right?
Starting point is 01:28:45 2025, 2015, those were all big years, right? I think that people are saying, oh, it's 2015. We're in the future where we thought. thought in the past we should have solved these problems. Still annoying. Hey, Dick, is a life coach just a euphemism for boyfriend? Small-faced fuck boy? What the fuck?
Starting point is 01:29:07 Go fuck yourself. Sean, you pretty cool. Wow. I don't know. Thanks, man. I was just going to call that guy a homophobe, but... He is a homophobic. No, he said I was cool.
Starting point is 01:29:17 No, he's all good. Oh, good. That's a slippery slope. It's so easily unbought off. To Nazism, you're Hitler. Maybe worse. You could have friends Super Hitler.
Starting point is 01:29:27 You're like a Voltron of Hitler. I'm like Stiple. I'm like Stalin and Hitler. Stalin and Hitler. Stalin and Hitler. Pol Pot. Who else? Marx?
Starting point is 01:29:35 Oh, you just like combine it and then Mao. The mouth and chest. No, it has to be all Hitler. All Hitler. Those guys are whatever. You don't even know who those guys are. What? People don't know who those.
Starting point is 01:29:45 Only Hitler. Only Hitler. I'm pretty sure they know who they are. Like you could be 70s Elvis Hitler, like a big fat Hitler with a jumpsuit. that comes out and is drunk and on a bunch of barbiturates. Wasn't that your Halloween costume? It's going to be.

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