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Episode Date: September 3, 2025

A Pentagon higher-up is suing his psychic side-piece for threatening to beat up his wife. An affair that started as innocent research for a book that we’re guessing is like “What if Jack Ryan was into healing crystals?” Keeping with the theme of mysticism, we get into RFK’s ongoing destruction of the HHS and CDC, him finally admitting he doesn’t believe in germs, and our new CDC director who thinks he should be able to sell your kidneys.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you are watching this it is september 2nd 2025 uh we are recording this on monday september 1st at 12 30 p.m on the left coast just so you know it's labor day this is what we do for you people these are the sacrifices we make we still show up on labor day just for you guys that's how much you mean to us this is skews I'm trying, that's Mark. How's your weekend, Mark? That was fine. It was like a funny.

It was what we do for you guys. We clock in for a super difficult hour running our mouths for it. Weekend, it was good. Had a fun weekend thinking about that. We had our second consecutive Schrodinger's president who's both alive and dead, apparently. Like, everyone's just joking about Trump being dead. Like, it's funny. Last week, we were joking that if Trump died, they just wouldn't tell us for a while.

And then all of a sudden he just wasn't seen or heard from for like five straight days. Right. Which is weird for him. And then they started putting out pictures of him and stuff. And then people online started saying like, you know, these are old pictures or whatever. Like this is like, people started looking at them and they were like, this is actually from, you know, whatever, a previous appearance. Trump posted, yeah. The White House posted a photo of Trump golfing with John Gruden.

Maybe it's real. But Trump also golfed with John Gruden last week. and they wore the same shirts. Mm-hmm. Right. So. But it's like, like, there's a video going around of like someone throwing stuff out the windows of the White House right now.

Have you seen that? Mm-mm. Okay. The White House windows are bulletproof and they don't open. So I don't know what, I hate doing the stupid criminology bullshit, but something weird is happening, you know, is really even trying to explain it. And because of like the weirdest response to me was like the mega influencers, right? because, like, everyone, I don't think, I don't think anyone actually thinks that Trump is dead, right?

But, like, because everyone's involved in, like, a sci-up or info war all the time, to see themselves as foot soldiers in this shit, mega people started posting clearly fake photos to, like, literally saying suck at libs and there's a picture of Trump golfing, except it's supposed to be golfing in Virginia, but there are palm trees on the course. Mm-hmm. Right. Like, what do you think you're accomplishing? Yeah, I don't know.

Just lib-boning, you know, the most. important thing in any of their lives. But do you, I mean, but I, yeah, I also, I definitely don't think that Trump is dead. But do you, like, do you think that something is up with him? Like, he fell and his face looks all fucked up or something, like some old person shit that he can't be seen in public, but all this bullshit is started. So they got to, like, try to act like he's fine, but he's not fine, even though he isn't dead or something like that.

Or, I mean. I don't remember a day where he didn't spend at least, like, three hours rambling at the press it's like his favorite thing to do and he hasn't done it in like five or six days now he might he might give a three out press conference tonight and we're all we're absolutely wrong but it's like the funniest possible possibility is that like he had a stroke but it did a reverse fetterman's now they won't let him talk he's super woke now yeah that would be hilarious because i've actually apparently that does i mean i've i don't know i've read anecdotal stories and redid comments and stuff like that and people have it's like yeah my aunt was the nastiest person

in our family and she had a stroke and now she's a total sweetheart you know like like apparently it can't go either way I guess but uh man what a fucking bail out from the universe that would be the only uh the only thing like like also like the white house is more plugged in to like the internet of rumor bill than any other organization on the planet right outside of you know me and me and Corey all right and so like Trump post on truth he said never felt better I was like okay he's definitely fucking dead it doesn't make any

all this is so deeply weird the only thing the only like true social posts that made me think he's like it's definitely him is like there's a long post about how Roger Clements should be in the Hall of Fame and no one else cares about stuff that petty and the only other reason I think he's definitely alive is like the escalated trade war with India

the race tariffs because Narenda Modi won't like nominate him for a Peace Prize. Like, no one else cares about you like that. So, like, I don't know, man. It's like so fucking funny, though. Like, like, JD gave his speech to his interview last week where he said he's perfectly ready to take over. And like, he'd be our first millennial president after getting zero Gen X presidents. We basically go, we've had like a string of like, I don't know, five, six whatever straight boomer presidents.

Mm-hmm. And then we skip, skip over Gen Z straight to millennials. It's like we have five straight Mr. Burns has never go to BART. Yeah. It's a very funny. Yeah. All right.

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So support us and get some more skews in your life in the process. Now, as for the episode today, it's not just about Trump's health. There's, dare I say, fucky stuff going on with health and health care in general in this country, which makes sense. considering the brain-eaten lunatic at the top of it. RFK Junior's got some wild thoughts, believe it or not. We'll get into those a little later, but first we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt graphic, please. Today's D.D. Pentagon officials who don't realize that hell hath no fury like a psychic woman scorned.

If you're praying on his film fall, here are some dates you might want to play it as I said in my last video mercury is going retrograde in Donald Trump's fault house and he don't put up Mercury is the planet of information when it's retrograde we go back in time okay and that's where you guys to get to vibe with this woman this is an astrologer known as star heel whose a government name is Amy Tripp so Amy Tripp has been sued by a guy who's a higher up of the Pentagon by the name of Anthony Tata. Okay. This is a confusing story I need you to follow me here. Tata is suing her after he's admitted in a court file. He had an affair with this woman, which is why she's turned anti-Maga. And he broke it off with her. And she, let me quote here, lawsuit claims they met on the dating out Bumble in 2024 when Tata was seeking advice for a book. He was writing with astrological elements. So he was having trouble in his marriage at the time. And when he

broke it off with her, she, uh, basically threatened to beat the shut out of his wife. Okay. So, God. Okay. So Tata. It's not very like hippie-dippy new agey at all. Just, but I feel like a lot of them are kind of like that, like at the end of the day. Just, you know, you get past this sort of like woo-woo facade and it's just crazy shit back there.

You know, quick to, quick to throw, have affairs and throw hands and stalk people and shit like that. But also that dude, you said he met her on Bumble because he's, you know, you said he made her on Bumble because he was writing a book that are astrological elements like you don't get on bumble for that you know what I mean like like Bumbles for a specific thing and you can research a book and there are other avenues you know send a DM reach out to a publicist something like that you don't fucking swipe right on somebody on Bumble so all right oh I need to forget I need to thank one of our skewer a honky talk party who sent this story for me at launch me down this rabbit hole that I thoroughly enjoyed so to know who Tata is okay he's the

He said current Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. So he does personnel shit. He was also working in the first Trump administration. He's a former Brigadier General and a Fox News guy. And he writes military-themed novels. So he does write books. So that part of the story is true. He's also said a bunch of, like, just a bunch of virulent anti-Muslim shit that he had, like,

the reason he was up for a Senate-confirmed position in 2020 in Trump's first administration. He did not get confirmed because all this stuff came to light where the mildest version of it is he called a Barack Obama. I'm a terrorist leader. And so he was part of the Muslim Brotherhood. So that didn't get him fast-tracked. You said that happened during the first Trump term. Oh, dude, the first Trump won people, people, yeah, this is just 2020. But Trump won, people did get fired from the White House and did not get confirmed for being racist.

Yeah. Right. That did happen. It doesn't happen anymore. So, yeah. So his version of the story is he was just minding his own business looking for a psychic and bumble. right so fascinating guys so let me read to you some of his book titles okay sudden threat rogue threat hidden threat mortal threat so basically

the famous threat series game of threats yeah exactly shadow threats yeah uh like a dumb and now currently wife threat is what he's going on doing now marital threat yeah yeah domestic threat you know it's i mean the possibilities are endless you just keep you know he could You're right, literally a million of those who never run out of titles, I feel like. Yeah, I don't think he's got to, so he does have a career to fall back on. But basically, yeah, he writes Tom Glancy's novels

for guys who think code breaking is gay because it involves math. So now I guess his next book will be psychic threat, which I guess it'll be about Jack Reacher with mind powers. If you're wondering about Amy Tripp, like, what her track record is is an astrologer to psychic. She did correctly foresee the date of which Joe Biden would drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

So she nailed that one, but she also subsequently predicted that Kamala Harris would become governor of California, and she's already announced that she won't even seek the office. So she's also, there's a fun, like, she has like a small niche cult following of, like, day traders who, like, follow her and do the opposite of her financial advice. So that's fun. Yeah. I think I could, I think I can, you know, get into that particular, whatever you want to call that. Like, people could do that for me, too. and also it would be very lucrative, I think. Yeah, your sports betting is famously.

Yeah, I could start a sports betting podcast, but that's the whole idea is I give my sincere takes. Listeners do the opposite. They all get rich, and I get to monetize the podcast as it grows in popularity. Yeah, I don't know. I'll think about it. It feels foolproof to me because I only lose.

It's funny when you talk about monetizing the podcast because you immediately lose all the money you made, sports betting. So, yeah. Well, see, when you're in that, you don't have to actually do it. You know? Right. Like you, you know.

So the lawsuit, the lawsuit says, took the breakup badly and began a campaign of harassment that featured hundreds of calls and text messages to Tata and his wife. During his conversation, Mrs. Tripp threatened that she would beat the shit

of John Doe's wife. They didn't use, here's how stupid this all is. Tata's lawyers didn't put his name in the lawsuit, but they did put his date of confirmation and what agency he works for. And he was the only guy

that fit that description remotely. So why keep it a secret when somebody figured out in like 10 seconds? So, yeah, throwing to beat the shot of John Doe's wife and she was going to ruin both John Doe and John Doe's lives. Then they need to quote, watch our backs, the lawsuit said. And another message after Tata's wife pleaded to be left alone, Tripp is said to have told Tata in a message, quote, if your wife texts me again, she's going to be picking her teeth up, pass it on. Yeah, wild psychic.

Trip also wanted $25,000 to keep the affair quiet, threatened to accuse him. a publicly of an unspecified crime. So this poor guy just wanted to have a nice, quiet affair with an internet psychic, him and his wife were in a tough spot, and then can't go back to his wife that I have his wife's life thread. I mean, look, it's, you know, one of the oldest maxims in the world of men, um, insensitive as it may be. They say, don't stick your dick in crazy.

You know, that's been, it's been said since the dawn of time. and, you know, this guy's, but, I mean, it kind of applies to her, too, I guess, but, you know, she's not the one who was married and fucking in the Trump administration and stuff, so. Well, he just got, he just, this affair happened probably, I'm guessing during Biden's presidency. Um, he just got, he just took office. He was just sent to confirmed last in July, so just fairly recently. But so, yeah, he is a fucking lunatic. You're right about that. He's serving the army for 28 years and where he had at least three affairs during his time of uniform. which is a court martial offense and had a kid out of wedlock. His ex-wife fought a complaint with the

officer general with the army to try to like snitch on him because he had like failed to help or pay child support for their daughter. This is not the child he had a wedlock out of wedlock, the child he had in wedlock with his then wife. The army led him off without any sort of punishment because he produced a document signed by a judge, I think in North Carolina, where he used to be stationed at Fort Bragg

that this document said that he had actually helped his ex-wife with his daughter's medical bills. Now, his daughter shouldn't have medical bills because he's on Army health insurance, right? So something's weird not there. But anyway, you'll never guess the document turned out to have been forged. Right. And they proved all this, and this was all years ago, and he's still under Secretary of Defense right now. I mean, again, not that I'm surprised by that, but, I mean, Jesus Christ. Yeah, they basically put together a team of the most blackmailable people on fucking Earth.

Like, constantly. I'll get up talked about this. Like, she's trying to blackmail him. The correct move is to go public with it and then sue her for it as opposed to leading it out there as ammunition to be used against him. But you only get put in this position about being a fucking scumbag in the first place. Right. Yeah. All right.

You want to do this next one? Yeah, I'll do it real quick. Okay. Honorable mention for Daily Dumbass. people who want ICE officers unmasked because they don't understand it could really impact their side hustles. There is a sense of danger. A mask is a sense of security for them. And they feel as though, like, you know, many of them own business.

They do things outside of ice. And it isn't the same world. It isn't something that, in a sense, right, we could be proud of our job, but people are not proud of us. And we are talking to, we are talking about. So they have businesses. Sorry, like, if people knew it was me behind this, like, the, this skull-faced Gata mask, it could really impact my Etsy store. That's the argument they're going on with there. Right.

I, like, I don't even know what is they. Like, these people put themselves in danger wearing masks that made that point before. They're not going to listen until some bad shit happens. But hopefully the worst thing that happens is they all lose their pensions and their agency is disbanded. But so, like, AI's, the fun story here is like, we bitched a lot about AI and the government using for facial recognition and stuff. But some vigilante activist in Norway, I believe, has started, created his own AI that started to unmask ICE agents. The guy's name is, no, it's Netherlands, sorry. The guy's name is Dominic Skinner.

He's an immigration activist. And he estimates he and a group of volunteers and publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing mass during arrest. He told Politico, as experts are, quote, able to reveal a face using AI if they have 35% of more of the face visible. Now, senators and, like, a bunch of people at ICE and home insecurity are getting really, really mad about this. Again, even though they, Skitter says 20 guys, right?

20 agents. Quote, let me quote James Langford, Senator from Oklahoma. Ice agents don't deserve to be hunted online by activists using AI. Okay, but the rest of us are being hunted by AI all the time. Right. Well, listen, I mean, they hunt people all day long as their job. They're not hunting me and you, but they are, you know, people, you know. There's a Democratic Senator by the name of Gary Peters from Michigan, co-sponsored a bill called the Visible Act to require ICE officials to clearly identify themselves.

Quote, has serious concerns about the reliability, safety, and privacy implications of facial recognition tools, whether used by law enforcement or used by outside groups to identify agents. Now, what we have here is like an AI version of the We Got Guns 2Bitch sort of thing. So, like, I don't really understand what, like, what cops think is going to happen next, but the idea that there can be all these highly advanced, like, AIs, the whole premise of which is that there are super cheap, right? That's the whole point of them is they scrape all these databases with little or no effort. That civilians will also have them seems like an impossible dream to me. Right.

Yeah, I'm sure they'd like to restrict all of that to just, you know, government fucking big brother bullshit but um it feels like that genie's out of the bottle but also I mean this is what I say every time a version of this comes up but like I just think you know these ice guys it's like the whole I just feel like if if in doing your job you can like you have the legitimate feeling like if people know that I'm doing this job if people know that it's me doing this it could ruin my life. life, then, like, you know, maybe you shouldn't be doing that, you know what I'm like, like, whatever, you know, people got to work and shit like that. But people like that, I feel like, you know, there's all kinds of different avenues, you know, you could take. Like, you know, even, like, most cops don't cover their faces. They're hated by a lot of people, but like, you can be, you can be a fascist asshole. And, you know, in ways where you don't necessarily have to cover your face and you'll be jerked off by some people. the higher percentages than ice agents are.

I just feel like they should have other options available to them. It feels like they immediately started wearing masks as soon as Trump retook office. And I don't know whose idea it was or how it spread so quickly because not all of them do it, just most of them. But like the idea, like the idea of their fear of their lives, like if someone saw their face, they'd be able to find their house and come kill them and their family. That's not what they're afraid of. Not in the immediate anyway. What they're afraid of is their neighbors see a viral video of a guy getting beat and see their face.

Right. And we go to their kids' baseball game. wants to sit with them. They'll have to sit off to the corner with the guy with the guy who beat child molestation charges. That's what they're fucking afraid of. Yeah, right. Just the shame of it or whatever.

Yeah. But again, like, you know, like that, I just, I feel as though I, I feel like I had to be in a real desperate situation to do something for money or for work that I, you know, was that ashamed of people knowing that I, that I did or what, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Like, it's like, it's like, oh, if everyone in your neighborhood, the people have known you for years you go to church with will start thinking you're going to burn hell because they see you on video doing your job, it feels like you might want to look for a different job. Well, I don't know if I'd put it that way, just because that definitely also applies to me, too. Not my neighborhood here.

But like, where I grew up, like, 80 plus percent of people, it's lying to absolutely think that I'm going to burn in hell for doing my job. So, you know, you know what? I guess I get where the ice guys are coming from now that you put it back on. I'm trying to think of a comedian who wore a mouth. I can't think of one right now. This guy has to have been someone at some point. So, but the thing is like, like, I can't figure out, like, all these different police agencies think they need AI to solve crimes. And I will grant them that they've gotten really, really bad at solving crimes.

So maybe it's a good idea to have a computer do it for them. But, like, like, how will we solve crimes the computer doesn't do it for? So it's such a pathetic argument to make. when you got like the murder closure rates like barely 50% anymore. You watch these British detective shows where like guys spot a blue from a mile away and catch a murderer and our guys will see

catch somebody standing over a body and not know who the fuck did it. Right. Yeah, it's an amazing race to the bottom. So it's like, so this mask gambit was always doomed to backfire because like it's unprecedented. You don't, I don't, I could have guessed

the public reaction would be. bad, right? So, they're making lists of immigrants, right? So anyway, what Skinner's doing, let me quote here, Skinner's AI powered on masking project as part of a broader online campaign, the ICE list that has published the names of more than 100 ICE employees

from field agents to back office bureaucrats. It's one of several anti-Ace campaigns that have drawn attention from the media and Homeland Security officials. Do we think they'd be making lists of people if their identities were publicly known? They wouldn't need to make lists and nobody would even think to do.

it, right? Mm-hmm. But you make a little mystery to solve. Now you've got the online fucking, like, like, nation of resistance movement who's making revenge lists. Right. Yeah, it's more like kind of strass and effecty type stuff, which they seem to fall back into all the time in this administration.

And here's your home state senator, Marshall Blackburn, is got to get on this, of course. In response to efforts to identify ICE agents, Blackburn, who shares a Senate Judiciary Committee on Privacy and Technology, introduced the protecting law enforcement from Doxing Act in June, which would make it illegal to publish a federal officer's name with the intent to obstructed criminal investigation. Illegal to publish a federal officer's name.

I don't know how you improve the intent to obstructive criminal investigation, but would that apply to newspapers you print the names of like arresting officers? Right. Yeah, I would, to me, I mean, well, I was going to say federal officer's name, just be like public information, I guess unless they're doing, you know, spy shit, undercover shit or whatever, that type of, that type of thing. But, you know, I don't know. Right. But the regime we're falling ass backwards into, and I get really annoyed with the internet arguments about what it is and is in doxing because people seem to think that anyone

known who they are, a certain type of person think that's doxing, right? And I was like, we were kids. Everyone's address was in the phone book. Right. I know. Yeah. I think about that all the time because it's like I, because I, one of my sponsors on YouTube and it's like when it first came up I was like yeah fuck because you know you get these like robocalls and stuff like that or like every now and then I'll get a random package from somebody I don't know or a voicemail from somebody I don't know and I'm like you know who's like a fan of mine but it can sometimes it's slightly weird shit and I'm like well how did this person even find me and then Katie would like well you know

you can like Google you and find you or whatever and I was like what the fuck how does that happen you know and it's like well there's data brokers they do this and they're one of my sponsors like helps you get your name off those lists so you don't get robocalled and shit like that anymore but like at first i was like this so fucked up that they can even do this and then one day i just remember it's like but phone books used to just get thrown onto everybody's front porch and it had all that information you could opt out of the phone book but uh but most people didn't and it was just like you know you could just look up anybody's name and address i mean in your community but the world was a lot smaller back then too people didn't generally get outside of

their community so yeah that that's one of those things it's like when it first occurred to me like within the past year that occurred to me i was like oh right but i don't know shit just seems you know shittier and scarier and worse today like you just don't in the same world it used to be mark you don't want people you know knowing your stuff well see i mean that's the whole thing is like even though even though crimes down everyone's way more scared because we see all these video videos of the few crimes that do happen and like we also like you know next door and ring and ring cameras, all this shit, keep up with paranoia all the time.

But it's probably fine that your address. But anyway, people are scared. They don't think about what they're advocating for. Like, property tax records are public for a reason. That's your address, right? That's how it ends up in data brokers and stuff. Also, everyone who has your address, billing companies, I sell them and stuff too.

But like, you don't, you want public property tax records to be public because you live in a democracy and you want to know what taxes, other people are paying what other people's houses are worth. So, you know, you're not getting fucked on your taxes or your property values, right? Right. Right. So like, like, so when you, when you advocate for police identities to be kept secret, we want is like regular data protections for everybody. Not, not everybody else is fair game in every way possible, except unless you're doing violence on behalf of the state. Right. We're doing ask backwards data protections, what I'm saying. No, yeah. I don't know. I definitely agree with that. Like, they shouldn't be, you know, they should not be protected more just because, like you said, like you said, they're the fucking the stormtroopers or whatever so they get to wear the helmets uh you know and nobody gets to know where they are where they live or anything it's all uh

is all bullshit but yeah you know i don't know so i want to quote here from blackburn again uh in those who oppose the rule of law are weaponizing generative AI against ice agents uh and she said in state of warning could expose agents to threats from transnational criminal gangs like ms 13 okay ms 13 is not going to ice agents houses they could because ICE agents aren't rounding up MS-13 around regular people. They can't find the actual gang members. And Blackburn she has raised concerns in the past

about government use of facial recognition, questioning the IRS's use of the technology in 2022 and criticizing the Chinese government surveillance capabilities. So the IRS and Chinese communists can't use facial recognition, but ICE can't. It's good when they use it. What was the context of the IRS using it? Because I know it was in 2022,

you said. Yeah, I don't know. Like Biden was the president. at the time. So whatever it was that they did that she bitched about at the time, I just bet if they did it now and she wouldn't care is my immediate assumption. But obviously, I don't know exactly what it was that actually happened. Well, the IRS is sleeping with her feet up on their desk during the tone administration. So, but I'm thinking about this is like these people only seem to care about stuff like privacy and data and AI when it affects them or someone they care about explicitly, right? So like we're getting, it was not just privacy and data data. It's literally everything. Like, it's everything in the world. Like, that's how they feel about it. They don't care. They don't care. You know, it's the whole lack of empathy thing.

It's like, it's real. They don't care about any one given issue unless it affects them directly. Or like you said, one of the small handful of people that they actually do care about. Otherwise, they don't give a fuck about anybody else in any context or capacity. So I just like, someone please start making AI porn, a vice agent, so we can get some fucking restrictions on that, please. All right, you want to talk about this talk about

RFK Health and Human Services and the CDC? You want to do that? Yes, yes, please. All right, so a bunch of stuff going on at HHS and the CDC. This is a couple weeks after someone shot hundreds of rounds of the CDC building in Atlanta and I think killed a cop. I think

only look, we got lucky that only one person was hurt. Let's like, there's also been a, the CDC director just resigned or was fired and a bunch of people resigned along with there is. Watch some CBS news coverage of it if you got this man. Another major change today at the CBC. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now named his deputy, Jim O'Neill, as acting CBC director made a tumultuous shakeup at the agency. O'Neill is set to take over after Director Dr. Susan Menars was fired this week, a position

that she held only a few weeks after getting confirmed by the Senate. And O'Neill was actually there for her swearing in ceremony in late July. We're learning that Dr. Menares was pushed out at her clashing with Kennedy over vaccine policy. Her ousting led several other high-ranking CDC officials to resign in protests. All right, so two weeks ago, more than 750 employees at HHS went public with a letter

they wrote to Kennedy and members of Congress that accused Kennedy of contributing to harassment and violence against government employees. After the building was shot up, in which case, RFK kind of blamed them for it. Basically said, well, they were asking for it by giving advice during the pandemic. Okay. Whatever's going on with the vaccine policy, they're trying to, I don't really understand

how much this is meaningful, but they're trying to change the guidance to say that you only get a COVID vaccine if you have a serious health condition, which doesn't make sense to me because of how your immunity works or whatever. But anyway, the ramifications of it are CVS has already announced that, they don't offer the annual vaccine in more than a dozen states, citing the current, quote, regulatory environment after the updated shots received approval for only high risk groups. In general, we're talking about RFK.

There's a couple big problems with it. RFK believes we don't need to fight germs or viruses. We just need healthy living and clean water and good nutrition. This is both untrue and also it's not what the Trump administration is doing. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like every news article about him starts talking about how, like, let me call it here from Axios. Kennedy's pushed to improve American's food supply of significant support from voters across the political spectrum. While being 87% of respondents in the Axios-Ipsos survey conducted in June so the government should do more to make sure food is safe.

Right, but that question, it depends on how they ask that question, but that's misleading. Like, if you just ask any person, should the government be doing more to make sure food is safe, I mean, who is going to say no to that? It's like, yes, of course. But, like, when RFK's like, we're making sure food is safe, it's fucking, you know, steak and shag switching to beef tallow or whatever and shit like that, while I'm sure they're, they've laid off all these people at the fucking FDA or they're rolling back their authority and fucking curbing regulations and all that stuff, which will make, you know, any and all the food that we eat less safe automatically. So it's. Let me give you two current examples. They're currently in the middle of dialing back rules that keep forever chemicals out of drinking water while the CDC slash food safety surveillance. Now they're only tracking two of the top eight infections in her food supply.

So why is the news telling us these people like RFK for cleaning up the food instead of telling these people that RFK is actively trying to jumpstart a Listeria outbreak? Right. You're the news. You just can't have, I don't know, you can't have both. You can't like slash spending and everything in these particular government. in agencies, while also saying you're going to make, you know, food safer somehow. Like, it's just, they are mutually exclusive. You can't do both of those things.

But, again, he just, he just does all the, like, sizzle bullshit that they eat up about, like, we got got these fucking, you know, these dyes and this other, and these refined sugars and shit out of whatever. And then they're like, yeah, that helps. Speaking of dies, I want to show you this video, this viral video, because it kind of sums the whole thing. Here's a maha mom taking dyes off. You've clip this video, Matt. Yeah, she's wrenching skittles under a faucet to get the die off with them.

She has the white beige skittles. She puts them back in the bag. Because the dyes are the problem with fucking skittles. By the way, like, I've loved skittles, but I'm saying the dies, to, like, to do that and then still give that big ass bag of skittles. skittles to your toddlers is fucking hilarious. Like, the, the sugar and shit in the skittles is what's going to fuck them up or ruin their teeth and shit, not the goddamn die. Like, if you don't want to give your kids skittles at all, fine. You know, they'll probably hate you when they get older, but fine. But, like, washing the color off and then still giving them to them is just so stupid. Mm-hmm.

But if you went into, like, a summation of this whole fucking movement, how dumb Americans are about this bullshit. It's basically like, I want the government to make my candy healthy. Right. Right. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's fucking candy. The dye is the fucking least of your concerns. Yeah.

And I have no concerns. I'll eat candy. I don't give a fuck. But I'm saying if you act like you give a fuck, it's not the die you should be worried about. It's everything else about it. So I had missed this, but RFK had a book come out a couple years ago where he talked about his beliefs about how about how disease spreads. Okay.

The abandonment of myasma theory, Kennedy Bambones, realigned health and medical institutions to the pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortify the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition. According to Kennedy, germ theory, gained popularity not because the undisputed

evidence supporting it, but by, quote, mimicking the traditional explanation for disease, demon possession, which gave it a leg up over myasma. I don't know where to begin with How fucking stupid all that is I mean neither That's what I'm saying This is like literal middle age's peasant shit

That we make fun of people For believing back then I feel like now Is he into the four humors too Or the four you know The four by yellow bile And black bile and red bile And bleeding and all that

Is he in all that Dumb fucking shit too? He would He would be if he was actually Believer in my asthma theory But even got that wrong He's so fucking stupid What he's describing

Is something closer is something called terrain theory. But anyway, like, either way, he doesn't believe in germ theory. So the official position of the Secretary of Health and Human Services... We can fucking see germs now. Right. The official position of the Secretary of Health and Human Services

is that you do not need to wash your hands out if you take a shit. Right. All right. So do you... I had forgotten... I went to the... I forgot who exactly my asthma theory is. It's like the belief that bad smells.

Yeah. Stink. Yeah. I just read a book set during the Black... plague like a novel a fictional book but it was set during the black plague so that's why that's the only reason i know some of this shit right now but yes that bad smells and stuff right so i got admit it's a it's a decent proxy for germ theory because stuff it's infected tends to smell bad sort of right they sort of cover that in the book a little bit about how like people that were

actually smart at the time like kind they started wearing mask and shit like that as we all know is that but like which did help but they didn't have the reasoning exactly right but like you said it's like it's like sort of close enough you know like they put it together close enough for the time uh but again now we can see germs and we can see how they how they react to things and you know what what results after exposure to them and all this shit can be literally like scientifically proven now so what basis can a person have especially a person with that type of a platform for acting like it none of it's real or he just doesn't believe it yeah i mean i do like i didn't know I always thought the plague mask, you know, with the bird beaks.

I thought they were just decorative or something or, like, they looked vaguely satanic. But, like, the beaks were stuffed with, like, flower petals and stuff that smelled good. Because they thought, I got to admit, like, they fell ass backwards and had the correct thing to wear a mask during a play. Right, right. It's just the stupid as mask possible. Yeah. So the lady got fired. She was only directed to CDC for like a month.

She was, again, RFK's choice, confirmed by the Senate. you know, Trump selection, and they fired her after three weeks in the job because she wouldn't fucking go along with these vaccine bullshit. So instead they replaced him this guy named Jim O'Neill who has no medical expertise. And here's a video of him speaking back on the day. For me, the most potent and vivid. Should organ transplantation be encouraged to this part? In the free market, recipients of life-saving organ transplant or their insurers are other benefacted. They'll be allowed to compensate their donors, creating incentive for more people save more life okay the new director of the cdc is pro selling your organs yeah uh we made

we talked about Javier malay like like he like he took power like a like a hardcore um libertarian platform and one one of the things he's in favor of is like being able to sell your organs in the open market so basically we're turning waking up into a bathtub full life into ice into a growth industry yeah it's literal like dystopian sci-fi shit it, you know, in this actual late-stage capitalism world that we all live in. Like, it just turns into that more and more every day. Yeah. Like, I was thinking about it, my objection to the, I don't really have, like, a principled objection.

I just think it would say something really dark about society if people were selling organs. Yeah. Yeah. I just think it's like, I'll probably sound like a fucking, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a slippery slope conservative. But, like, I just, I think it's pretty bleak if someone's selling their kidney for money. Also, it's going to lead to selling other people's kidneys for money, inevitably. So, O'Neill is a tech guy. He's a tech investor.

So you probably know what kind of guy he is if he's interested in going to the CDC. He's a Peterfield guy. McCoyer from Dylan Livingston is a founder of something called the Alliance for Longevity initiatives. Livingston's a member of a community that seeks to extend human lifespan. O'Neill is, quote, kind of one of us. He told me shortly before O'Neill was sworn in his deputy. O'Neill Kenle were being deputy's deputy secretary of the HHS. So he's already a government-confirmed position before.

And now he's in a position of great influence. The good news is O'Neill doesn't subscribe to Kennedy's most contentious beliefs and supports existing vaccine schedules to the degree that matters what he cares about. That's the end of the good news, though, because I don't think he cares enough to actually protect that shit. Odeo's close friends include the prominent longevity influencer Brian Johnson. You know Brian Johnson, right? Is that the dude who, like, something about he trades blood with his son or something about his son's dick or something or what? Like, what is it?

He injects his son's blood plasma to try to stay young. He also post regular erection updates when he wakes up in the morning on social media. Right. And like his own dick. It's not, I conflated the two things. He gets, yeah, blood from his son and post dick updates from himself. Yeah. Johnson said that O'Neill is, quote, a soft-spoken, thoughtful, methodical guy.

And he's also, of course, like I already said, O'Neill's friends with Peter Thiel. And so this guy, Brian Johnson says he's cool. We've got this picture, Matt. Just to capture Brian Johnson's whole vibe. There you go. That's the kind of dingus he is. Johnson aspires, desires to live until the year 2140. Do you want to guess why, Trey?

Because that's the layer of the final Bitcoin having. He wants to live until the last Bitcoin splits. So many of the longevity community think that O'Neill can help bring attention to resources to their cause and make it easier for them to experiment with potential anti-aging drugs. Okay, that's his interest in being in the government service. He wants to make it more drug research more of a free-for-all so a few tech billionaires can live to the final Bitcoin having. Yeah, well, easier for them to experiment with anti-aging drugs, you know that's going to turn into some wild shit too and some dark. fucking, you know, basement, the bowels of some island compounds in the Pacific Northwest or some fucking homeless people come to under fucking fluorescent lights and then clockwork orange shit starts happening to them or whatever.

You're barely exaggerating, but like, you're basically right. There's going to be no more vaccines, but this is great news if you've ever wanted to take horse semen and pill form. O'Neill spent a couple years as a CEO of a company called SRF from 2019 to 2021 when it's, founder, Albre de Grey, who was a prominent figure in the longevity field, was a mood following accusations of sexual harassment. So all these people want to live forever so they can sniff women's hair, basically, just live in the dream. When it comes to regulation, there are a lot of treatments that have been shown to slow aging

and lab animals, but none of them have been found successfully slow reverse human aging. And a lot of longevity enthusiasts think that drug regulations are to blame, and O'Neil's one of them. So he wants to support deregulation of new drugs and medical devices under the premise. Like, well, if it works on pigs, we should just start shooting it into fucking people willy-nilly. Just fucking do drive-bys with a fucking dark guns, train guns.

The way this would work is like, he wants to lower the bar for drug approvals in the United States. We should quote, I'm quoting here, we should reform the FDA so it's approving drugs after their sponsors have demonstrated safety and let people start using them at their own risk. So the first run of drug trials

is to make sure they don't kill people. then you start doing stuff with like control groups and whatever to see if they actually have the intended effects and side effects yada yada yada yada he's saying after they pass that we don't kill people phase we should just fucking start passing them out and prove efficacy after they've been legalized yeah it's sort of like what people like joe rogan and then were arguing about the um iver mectin and stuff like that during covid right Meaning like, I mean, that had gone through the old process and was approved for the uses that it was. But basically, they were just like, you know, well, we should be able to use it to see if it works. You know, some people think it works, like, we should be able to just use it. That government makes them a good example, right? Because, like, you had tons of people buying it at veterinary stores and using it off the books. Right.

So there was no doctor's supervision. So people did not, there was no one keeping track of whether or not it worked. Right. So, like, how would, how does O'Neill? imagine this working when people are just taking drugs and no one's falling up to see what they're what they're doing right you're basically talking about replacing clinical trials with mass surveillance of patients so it's a good thing he's friends of peter thiel who owns all these different surveillance apps and shit um also just there will be people talking about

whatever given drug under this policy or under this system the way that people talk about to go back to the rogan sphere like alpha brain and various fitness supplements and stuff like that what I mean, where it's like, there will be people online talking about how it works, miracles or whatever, and some of those people will go viral or they'll have a following and whatnot, whether any of it works or not, and it probably won't. It'll just be grifted off of, and none of that will be kept in check by any larger governing body if this is how it works. Like, you're just relying on everybody to just, you know what I'm saying? So it's just like there's just a lot of problems with the idea of doing it that way. Also, it's not like medicine,

was just invented. We have a framework for doing this. But there's just like myth that's taking hold to like, it keeps people to pay people keep saying like, we're the most unhealthy country in the world. And like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like,

no, we're not. Like, things aren't perfect. Like we have a, you know, our life expectancy isn't increasing as other advanced countries. We actually had a backslid some after COVID.

But that's because of gun deaths, traffic deaths. alcoholism, pills, death of despair, suicides, and obesity. It's like it's not stuff we don't understand. It's not because our food is processed. Like, I'm not sure where these morons got this idea, but like the largest advances in human lifespan have been since we started taking vaccines and eating processed food.

So what? I'm not saying that eating processed food is healthier. I'm saying it's obviously not what's fucking killing it, people. right or we wouldn't we live along with our grandparents yeah no it there's it's more of a cultural thing i think and also like the you know America becoming fucking as

successful as it did for over the past hundred years whatever and regardless whatever's happening now but people just you know the sort of land of plenty and shit for a lot of people for a long time and uh and you know the should all the sugar stuff, like the increasing, you know, prevalence of sugar and just everything, everywhere, all the time. But at the end of the day, you can live very healthily in America.

You're not, like, forced to eat, you know, triple quarter-pounders with cheese all day or whatever, even though those things are available. Like, I'm not in favor of removing those things because I believe in, you know, freedom and personal responsibility. So if you want a cheeseburger, you should be able to have a cheeseburger and have a cheeseburger every now and then just also eat some fucking spinach and shit, too. You know, so I don't know what any of that means as far as what you're saying. I'm saying that. No. All the, none of that even matters to me as long as they're doing all the deregulation bullshit at the same time because it wipes all of it out. Like I said, I called it all sizzle earlier.

They're like fucking the steak, throwing the steak away and just hitting susceptible people with all the sizzle of, oh, we're, You know, you teach too many processed food. You have to, you know, too many dies, to me, this shit when it's like that, you know, pales in comparison to the effects that will happen as a result of this other shit that they're doing. The negative effects that could happen, I mean. So it's bullshit regardless. Right. But there seem to be a ton of people who do think their kids will live longer if they eat Skittles that they rinse the die off of.

Right. That's pretty much, yeah. Right. So O'Neill is a straight up libertarian. I want to thank you for not noticing that the background of the speech were given earlier because I want to talk about that now. O'Neill supported the libertarian idea of creating a new geographic zone, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules, including notably permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies. It's always C-Static and micronations. Yeah, these people.

Actually, I did notice that. I was like, what the fuck is that about that? But now that makes sense because, yeah, all these tech bros are libertarians and all the liberal. Libertarians are obsessed with creating their own little, like, fiefdoms or nations or whatever, villages, communities that are libertarian utopias. And a couple of them have been attempted, right? And don't that? Oh, bunch. And they all like, they always just comically fail, just fall apart.

Didn't one of them get, like, set upon by bears or something? I don't know about the bear with it. I don't have been some kind of animals because they weren't getting rid of the, you know, they didn't have like sanitation figured out and shit, which is one of the things. that you know like your taxes and stuff pay for or something and they were out in like the woods in new hampshire i might be making all this up but but because of that they attracted bears i'm pretty sure i don't know that i might be pulling that out of my ass or i saw it on an episode of south park or something but i remember something about that but anyway are you telling me a libertarian paradise forgot to collect taxes to do stuff like trash collection and sewers right

All right. So here's, here's O'Neill talking about his fantasy of a sea stead. I think after I go through a lot of examples, I think I'll demonstrate why the health case society is 2030 will most likely be on the sea. All right. So the, my thing about this every time it comes up is you guys have money and resources. You could just do this. You don't need us to like, for you guys to start your own island where you hunt each other for sport. like, fucking leave us out of it.

Right. I think when he was got, like, $100 million or something. Like, Peter Thiel's got billions. You guys can just, what's in your way? Like, just so you know, I looked it up and it did happen. There's multiple, uh, the weird, wild, and illuminating story of how libertarian utopia was foiled by bears. And it wasn't, and it wasn't, it was in New Hampshire, in fact.

So I actually had most of that. Right. But, yeah, this was from, this happened in the early 2000s, I guess. This is in 2004. A bunch of libertarians got to bought up a bunch of land in New Hampshire or something. They got together and did away with all the ordinances and stuff. And it was, you know, it's pretty much, like I said, fucking, they didn't have sanitation and all that shit figured out. And, like, bears started showing up and fucking, it just all went to shit. So.

And then had they called Department of Parks and Recreation and get rid of the Bears. Of course, they had to resort for the government. So these guys, like another one of these things that they currently exist, it's called Prospera, which is in the middle of failing. It hasn't quite failed yet. But some of those longevity enthusiasts had set up shop and Prospera, which is a quote-unquote special economic zone, the island of Roiton with a libertarian approach to governance

where residents are able to make their own suggestions for medical regulations. So just everybody can make their own medical regulations. I wanted to bet the kidnapping trade around. Rootan and Prospera is fucking thriving, buddy. Yeah, especially once the organ market really gets fired up and going. Yeah. So the craziest thing about this movement is the way they end up making their own conspiracy theories real, like by coming at stuff through a fun house mirror.

Like, since I was a kid, and I don't think it's totally untrue. I just think it's overstated that people think that like pharma companies intensely withholding cures for disease because it's more profitable to do the treatments. That is literally a Chris Rock bit from, I think, bigger and blacker in 1998. It's like the cure. The money ain't in the cure. The money's in the medicine. And he was talking about, I think, AIDS at the time, because age was still like a big, big thing. But, you know, now AIDS is essentially cured. Like, I love Chris Rock. He's my all-time favorite. But, but yeah. It's a funny joke. And it's like, like I said, like,

They do, like, there will be public statements where, like, people or companies will say, we do not know if it's profitable to cure this disease, right? They openly say that stuff. So, like I'd say, it's not that it's based in nothing. It's that they misunderstand, like, the profit centers of actual pharma companies. I'm willing to bet that just profit-wise, at least short term, there's a bunch more money and not vaccinating people. Vaccines are cheap to make.

and cheap to buy for the most part. And, like, they're one-time doses. Pharma companies are not doing vaccines just for the money. Do you know what I'm saying? But they've sort of created it by taking away vaccines, which are, you know, the low stakes, easy to understand stuff that they do just because of government funding and research and support and requirements. They're pivoting to a world that's closer to the conspiracy theory. Like, let me read here.

because we talked about the measles outbreak before. The Star article's headline, The Race to Find a Measles treatment has an infections surge. As the U.S. hits a 33-year-high in measles infections, there's a new race to find a treatment for the disease. The problem is there still aren't enough cases to make it profitable to develop a treatment. One pharma company, quote, is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel the need for measles treatments

and, in turn, more investor interest. They need a bigger disease outbreak to get investors to invest in a treatment for measles. So we're not going to get one. Mm-hmm. They made it real. Yeah, right. So on the one hand, we've made the vaccine unavailable, so you should try to avoid exposure.

On the other hand, if you want profit justifications for treatments, we need way more cases. Everybody needs to expose themselves and get measles. Mm-hmm. And the main story in that source I was just quoting from is definitely doing his part. He's a doctor. I'm going to put airport on doctors. even though he is a doctor, because he was treating kids in Texas while he visibly had measles. What? Why? Did they, did the kids also have measles? Like, he was treating kids with measles, so he got measles and then kept treating kids that also had measles while he had it?

He was not like so. You know what I'm getting at? Like, Dr. Ben Edwards appeared in a video posted March 31st by the anti-vaccine group, by the anti-vaccine group, Kennedy once led. called Children Health's Defense Fund. In it, Edwards appears wearing scrubs and talking with parents and children in a makeshift clinic he set up in Seminole, Texas, ground zero of the outbreak that is sick in hundreds of people and killed three, including two of children. Edwards has asked whether you had measles, and he responded, yes. Said his infection started the day before the video was recorded. Yesterday it was pretty achy, little mild fever.

Spots came in the afternoon. Today I woke up feeling good, he said in the video. So, measles is contagious four days before and four days after the rash appears. so he was definitely, if any of those kids or people he was around did not have measles, he fucking gave it to them. Oh, God. And this is a guy, again,

works for the organization Kennedy used to be in charge of. So, yeah, the woo-woo people said for years a big form was holding back a cancer cure because treatment was more profitable and they went and created those conditions to their own death drive, fucking more stupid idiocy. Another thing, real quick,

Kennedy's promoted is stuff called peptides. Peptides are short proteins. They come in the form of hormones, such as like creatine and colise. It's happened recently. Some women went to a longevity festival in Las Vegas. A Las Vegas Festival promised ways to cheat death. Two attendees left fighting for their lives. Kind of an ironic place for a longevity festival, Las Vegas. It's not exactly a blue zone, Las Vegas. Yeah, these two women who want to live forever and do not trust stuff that doctors want to inject you with. Went to a booth at a conference in Vegas. and let a guy inject them with peptides. He was an L.A. physician who specializes in the quote age reversal therapies, and he does not

have permission to practice medicine or dispense prescriptions in Nevada. The doctor's name is Kent Holthworth. He said he was cooperating with the investigation. He said, but almost assuredly it will come out that it was not the peptides. He said he became convinced the peptides weren't the cause of severe reactions after plugging everything he knows about the incident into an artificial intelligence app where he said gave him a 57-page report that basically says it is impossible it was the peptides. He refused

in comment on what the report attributed the illnesses to, so too long to read, the locally unlicensed doctor injected them with peptides, after which they fell deathly ill, says it wasn't the peptides because he asked the AI, the AI said it wasn't the peptides. Yep, well,

from the RFK-Ginous America, baby. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's fucking bananas, but at least, you know, at least we're just getting started. This fucking woman in Florida miscarried after she drank raw milk

and she's suing the farm for it even though the bottle said not for human consumption, everyone's clearly told her to only drink pasturized milk. And if this lady lost her... Yeah. There's so many things that's like these people don't... I don't know. We've gotten too far removed from all these

massive advances that were necessary for humanity and society that improved our lives. Do you know what I mean? Like stuff like a lot of these regulations and or unions but also like pasteurization like what why do you think they even started doing that in the fucking first place like if raw mill was better and healthier for everybody they wouldn't have fucked with it they wouldn't have put all that time and effort and resources into figuring out how to make it stop making people sick all the fucking time which they

figured out and it was a miracle they probably won a fucking Nobel Prize for it 80 years ago or whatever and now people are they've somehow convinced themselves that that was done with ill and that those people who came up with pasteurization all those many years ago what wanted to make society complacent and gay like you know what the fuck anyway i i feel like if you what if we had to pick one basic rule that would improve society like just one wish one thing it'd be that like because americans it's own movie brain to tv brain that ever historical has to be vividly accurate. Meaning, if you're going to make a Western,

there needs to be shit and blood running in the streets. And every now and then, an eight-year-old child has to randomly die. Right. Because people get their understanding of the world from, like, stuff like that. They see people happily riding a horse and think that's a history of a world they want to return to.

Right, right. And it drives me fucking insane. Right. Yeah. No, the past was a fucking nightmare. But anyway, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend.

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