Adventures in HellwQrld - Duffy Road Trip, Elon/EV's, Hantavirus, and more!
Aired: 2026-05-11
Duration: 01:29:43


=== Welcome to Hellworld (14:31) ===

[00:00:30]  The Adventures in Hellworld podcast talks in depth about QAnon.
[00:00:33]  While it's meant to be comedic and informative, sometimes we have to get into things like child abuse and violence against people.
[00:00:39]  Listener discretion advised.
[00:00:42]  Hello, everybody.
[00:00:43]  I am Mike Rains, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
[00:00:48]  This week I am joined by Eric, the Deep State Operative.
[00:00:51]  Hey, everyone.
[00:00:53]  It's Sunday right now, so I just want to wish a belated happy Mother's Day because by the time you hear this, it'll be long over.
[00:00:58]  Oh, it'll be like Friday.
[00:01:00]  I'll be so lazy posting this.
[00:01:03]  The most dated episode of Hellworld ever.
[00:01:06]  And we're also joined by Steph.
[00:01:07]  Hi, Steph.
[00:01:09]  Hello.
[00:01:10]  Hi, I just wanted to say the documentary that I'm in, I got a good review from one of the hosts of Conspirituality who got to see it in Canada.
[00:01:23]  And he said he liked it.
[00:01:26]  And I'm very excited for a chance when I get to see it.
[00:01:30]  And I just finished The Conspiracists, The Noel Cookbook, and I read the.
[00:01:37]  The section where you get name dropped at the end of the book.
[00:01:40]  So that was like fun.
[00:01:41]  So it was like, yeah, yeah.
[00:01:43]  I sent a copy to my dad.
[00:01:46]  Noel signed it for him and I sent it off to him.
[00:01:49]  And whenever I go to like some book event, I get a copy for Lenny.
[00:01:54]  So yeah.
[00:01:58]  Yeah.
[00:01:59]  It's just, it's funny to know that like we have the celebrity conspiracist on our show.
[00:02:05]  It's just, man.
[00:02:06]  Yeah.
[00:02:08]  Yeah, yeah, everyone's just listening for you.
[00:02:11]  Right.
[00:02:11]  It's like, it's Steph and those two assholes.
[00:02:14]  Pretty much.
[00:02:15]  That's pretty.
[00:02:16]  Well, I actually got a friend through this show.
[00:02:21]  Shout out to Ross at A Restless Native.
[00:02:27]  He's a good buddy of mine.
[00:02:28]  He comes to my weekly Zooms and stuff, and we text and stuff.
[00:02:32]  So I actually got a friend through this podcast.
[00:02:36]  Yeah, I think he's a mutual because I think I recognize that name.
[00:02:41]  He's a great guy.
[00:02:43]  He's got such a wonderful Scottish, what is it called?
[00:02:46]  Brogue?
[00:02:47]  Yep.
[00:02:49]  There's some weird way to pronounce it, but that's the American way.
[00:02:51]  Yeah, that's how we say it.
[00:02:52]  Like, there, but Scottish Irish brogue.
[00:02:56]  There's an Irish wrestler in WWE who kicks people, and they call it the brogue kick because I guess it gives you a concussion so vicious you get an accent afterwards.
[00:03:07]  Oh, I thought maybe it was a bro reference.
[00:03:10]  No, I have no idea.
[00:03:11]  I know.
[00:03:11]  I know.
[00:03:11]  I was just an Irish.
[00:03:13]  My favorite thing is he has a backbreaker they call the Irish curse backbreaker.
[00:03:18]  And it's like, I don't think that backbreaker gives you a tiny penis.
[00:03:21]  Because if it did, that'd be devastating.
[00:03:23]  I would not want to take that move.
[00:03:25]  Oh, no.
[00:03:26]  It retreats inward.
[00:03:27]  Yes.
[00:03:27]  Oh, no.
[00:03:28]  I can feel it.
[00:03:29]  I can feel it in my gurt.
[00:03:32]  I can feel it in my bowels.
[00:03:33]  I can feel it in my tum tum.
[00:03:35]  It's not great.
[00:03:36]  That bro thing, it kills me because I was with this group of students at one point, and I called one of them dude, and they're laughing at me.
[00:03:43]  Because they're like, oh my God, you're so ancient.
[00:03:45]  So I started calling them bro, and they hated that even more.
[00:03:48]  Excellent.
[00:03:49]  Excellent.
[00:03:50]  That's the way it should be.
[00:03:52]  Just giving kids the razzle dazzle, make everything they enjoy uncool.
[00:03:57]  That's right.
[00:03:58]  Run into the classroom one day and be like, hey, everybody, six, seven, and just watch them seethe.
[00:04:05]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:04:05]  I'm a middle aged white man.
[00:04:06]  Anything I touch turns to shit.
[00:04:08]  Right, exactly.
[00:04:09]  You just gotta ruin the cool factor for everything.
[00:04:13]  It's just that's.
[00:04:15]  That is your purpose in life as a middle aged white guy.
[00:04:18]  That's what it's all about.
[00:04:20]  Betting the dad jokes.
[00:04:21]  Yes.
[00:04:23]  So, anyhow, we were looking for light and fluffy.
[00:04:28]  Have this.
[00:04:28]  I don't know if I have the sounder for the Amuse Bouche anymore.
[00:04:32]  Oh, wait, I do.
[00:04:32]  Here it is.
[00:04:33]  Boom.
[00:04:34]  It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
[00:04:37]  Get ready for the Amuse Bouche.
[00:04:40]  Bam.
[00:04:41]  I was wondering about those bumps.
[00:04:43]  I haven't heard them in a long time.
[00:04:45]  Yeah, dog's age.
[00:04:46]  Dogs are like, people are like, oh my God, he dusted that off.
[00:04:49]  Holy shit.
[00:04:49]  Old school.
[00:04:50]  The five people who've been listening to this whole time.
[00:04:54]  Welcome, sixth listener to the show who Kavia's knowledge fight just ended.
[00:04:57]  Welcome.
[00:04:58]  Sorry.
[00:05:00]  We're not going to go line by line through anyone's stuff here.
[00:05:03]  We're just sort of riffing.
[00:05:05]  We're not very scientific.
[00:05:07]  We also don't have a villain origin story around Timothy Geithner.
[00:05:11]  So there's big differences between us and the now defunct Knowledge Fight podcast.
[00:05:16]  So, yeah.
[00:05:16]  But, anyways, our Secretary of Transportation doing magical things.
[00:05:22]  Truly.
[00:05:23]  Yes, he decided that in this age of high cost of food and skyrocketing oil prices, What he should do was tell America, get on the road and drive.
[00:05:35]  So he decided to film a documentary with his family for seven months.
[00:05:40]  It was a seven month road trip this man went on.
[00:05:44]  And, like, as someone who has gone on many road trips, I can't, I mean, unless he spent two weeks at Disney in the middle, I don't see how you could spend seven months going from one end of this country to the other.
[00:05:57]  Like, I mean, did he spend a week in Waldrug?
[00:05:59]  How did that even work?
[00:06:01]  Well, there's um, I when I listen to the iHeartRadio podcast, like Behind the Bastards and Weird Little Guys, um, there you know, I have to fast forward through the commercials and sometimes I just let them run.
[00:06:15]  But he's been running an ad on Spotify about like Duffy has to buckle your seatbelt, yeah.
[00:06:25]  And I, you know, I like, I mean, maybe even just old, but I liked it when I didn't know who the Secretary of Transportation was.
[00:06:34]  You know, right.
[00:06:35]  I mean, that's the thing is that it sucks learning about politics because once you get into it, you now become like so immersed in what is actually a very niche thing for people to engage in.
[00:06:51]  The median voter couldn't name the chief justice of the Supreme Court if you gave them 10 tries.
[00:06:57]  Like, people who actually impact our elections are so incredibly low information.
[00:07:05]  It would make your head just hurt thinking about it.
[00:07:09]  People vote for the dumbest possible reasons.
[00:07:12]  And then you get all super in the weeds and super invested in this stuff.
[00:07:19]  And then you break your own brain over dumb nonsense.
[00:07:24]  Like, I remember these two guys.
[00:07:27]  This was in 2008 when Obama was going to win in a landslide.
[00:07:30]  So this kind of bullshit really wasn't that offensive.
[00:07:33]  But there were like two different sort of leftist third party.
[00:07:39]  Like chuckleheads running, and this one guy declared that he couldn't vote for one of them because their vice president wasn't ready to take over in a crisis.
[00:07:49]  They had to go with the other ticket.
[00:07:51]  It's like, buddy, if you're arguing like Constitution Party versus Green Party vice presidents, you're so far off the road.
[00:08:00]  Like, don't even worry about it.
[00:08:02]  No one cares.
[00:08:03]  Your vote is ungettable.
[00:08:05]  Just give up.
[00:08:07]  And I have to wonder now if that guy voted for JD Vance.
[00:08:10]  Oh, I'm sure he's going to be our next president.
[00:08:13]  He strikes me as a stern but fair commander in chief.
[00:08:19]  Oh, that guy was sitting there, like just thinking to himself, you know, I wasn't really sure about Pence, but I think Trump's turned a corner of this Vance pick, whereas Walls, I think Kamala kind of biffed it.
[00:08:33]  I got my mind made up here.
[00:08:35]  Yeah.
[00:08:36]  I was with him until the hot dish.
[00:08:37]  He lost me on hot dish.
[00:08:40]  A mean pick six.
[00:08:42]  Is that what you're trying to sell me, Mr. Walls?
[00:08:45]  You're trying the big lie you're.
[00:08:47]  Telling me, Mr. Deceiver.
[00:08:50]  Oh, yeah.
[00:08:51]  I remember that was like Joe Rogan's thing back when he was trying to defend this bullshit, where he was like, Look, man, I know Trump did a lot of stuff, but this Tim Walz, he crossed lines.
[00:09:03]  I had to get off the sidelines.
[00:09:05]  I couldn't let a pathological liar like Tim Walz roam the halls of power in America.
[00:09:12]  That would have been unacceptable.
[00:09:13]  That was literally one of Rogan's excuses for being hard on the MAGA train in 2024.
[00:09:19]  Tim Walz was a bridge too far, baby.
[00:09:22]  Let me tell you.
[00:09:25]  Yeah, we can't get an old white guy in the White House.
[00:09:27]  Oh, no.
[00:09:27]  Let's go for Trump.
[00:09:29]  Yes, exactly.
[00:09:30]  Oh, my God.
[00:09:31]  I literally just posted this.
[00:09:33]  Like, some random paste eating mega troll posted a very wide shot of Trump in his golf cart.
[00:09:42]  He's like, 79 is the new 39.
[00:09:44]  Trump is aging in reverse.
[00:09:46]  And it's like every photo of Trump from like 20 feet and closer in.
[00:09:54]  It looks like Grandpa ain't going to make it.
[00:09:56]  Let's just put it that way.
[00:09:59]  That reminds me of something I noticed.
[00:10:01]  Benjamin Button.
[00:10:02]  Yes, exactly.
[00:10:04]  Right.
[00:10:05]  Yeah.
[00:10:05]  But we were, I was looking at pictures of that ridiculous statue that is totally not a golden calf that they erected.
[00:10:15]  And I think, was it Mar-a-Lago, that 22-foot gold statue of him?
[00:10:18]  Yes.
[00:10:18]  And the preacher was like, This is not a golden calf.
[00:10:21]  And it's like, No, it is.
[00:10:22]  If you have to say that, you're admitting it is.
[00:10:26]  But then, one thing I noticed was because I saw like a.
[00:10:29]  Most of the shots I saw were wide so they could show, you know, the people fawning over it and everything.
[00:10:32]  But I saw one close up one.
[00:10:34]  And I noticed that in the statue, Trump has a noticeable punch.
[00:10:38]  And yet he's still a good 100 pounds below what he actually is.
[00:10:42]  Yeah.
[00:10:43]  Because like they tried to make it more realistic, but they probably ran out of gold before they could get his true proportions in.
[00:10:52]  And I don't feel.
[00:10:53]  I don't like to weight shame, but in his case, I'll make an exception because he's just such a.
[00:10:58]  I mean, for one, he's.
[00:10:59]  He does it constantly, so I feel like I'm punching sideways on this one.
[00:11:06]  He posted a meme of uh JB Pritzker.
[00:11:10]  I saw that eating like just Pritzker being giantly fat and overweight and having McDonald's and KFC, which are Donald Trump's two favorite things on earth, right?
[00:11:21]  And he's got like a double cheeseburger in his hands and all this.
[00:11:25]  And the thing that's so funny about this is uh, Pritzker's on the GLP ones, Pritzker's already down a lot.
[00:11:32]  He's going to be in president shape by the time he announces for 2028.
[00:11:38]  Yeah.
[00:11:39]  And JD Vance is also hard on the GLP ones.
[00:11:43]  Like Vance looks so skinny now.
[00:11:45]  It is like almost offensive to be like, buddy, you're not fooling anybody.
[00:11:51]  You saw all the memes of yourself as a shaggy haired loser and you thought, you know, I ain't putting up with that anymore.
[00:11:58]  I'm getting on the drugs, I'm dropping weight.
[00:12:02]  I mean, with the drugs, I thought he was doing some couch aerobics.
[00:12:05]  Whatever, hey.
[00:12:07]  Subtle jab.
[00:12:08]  Boom.
[00:12:09]  The subtlest.
[00:12:09]  But I mean, me playing the straight man who refuses to take a joke, it's like, hey, man, nothing works except for these drugs.
[00:12:20]  And that's why everyone's taking the drugs now.
[00:12:23]  I feel like I'm Abbott and you're Liam Neeson and taken.
[00:12:26]  Right, exactly.
[00:12:28]  I am a terrible, terrible stage partner.
[00:12:32]  I'm not Liam Neeson from The Naked Gun.
[00:12:34]  No, the exact opposite.
[00:12:36]  I am an aggressive no and.
[00:12:39]  I won't give the joke any space to breathe.
[00:12:42]  They, they, uh, I was thinking that because, um, this show that uh Ricky Gervais did, he had uh, you know, Liam Neeson wanted it, it was him playing himself, uh, because Ricky Gervais loves people, celebrities doing that, and so he said he wanted to do improv.
[00:12:55]  They're just showing how, like, you know, the joke is how painfully unfunny he is, like, he keeps bringing in cancer, and Ricky Gervais is like, no, there's nothing funny about cancer, you can't bring up cancer during improv, right?
[00:13:08]  Yeah, but I, the one thing that does blow my mind about all this is like.
[00:13:15]  We're not, Trump's going to be our last fat president of our lifetimes.
[00:13:19]  Like, we're not going to have a fat president again.
[00:13:22]  Because for the next 20, 30 years, anybody that's going to go for the presidency is either going to be naturally trim or they're going to get on the drugs.
[00:13:33]  So I'm trying to think about it.
[00:13:35]  We had Taft, we had Grover Cleveland.
[00:13:37]  I would say there's a case we made there, but I'm having trouble thinking of any other like grossly overweight presidents.
[00:13:44]  I mean, Bill Clinton was like 30 pounds overweight and our press treated him like he was King Kong Bundy.
[00:13:49]  They were like, oh my God, this fat Southern pig, which it's so funny that that was their attack against the Democrat president, was that he was from the South and he was fat and he was white.
[00:14:02]  And it's like, that's 90% of Republicans now.
[00:14:04]  I remember even Saturday Night Live got into it, which shows you how long ago I was watching Saturday Night Live, but they showed him because he was doing this big thing where he was showing how he goes jogging because he was trying to beat this reputation.
[00:14:15]  So the skit has, I think it was Phil Hartman playing him running into a McDonald's.
[00:14:19]  And then talking about how much he's exercising while grabbing and eating everybody's food around him.
[00:14:25]  Right.
[00:14:25]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:14:26]  Exactly.
[00:14:27]  I mean, it was, yeah, porker Bill Clinton, and he was chubby.
[00:14:32]  He was, I say, yeah, he was maybe, he could stand at least 20 pounds, but I mean, he wasn't tipping any scales here.
[00:14:38]  No.
[00:14:39]  And now he's gaunt.
[00:14:41]  I mean, now Bill's like, oh shit.
[00:14:42]  It's like, Bill, remember how we were making fun of you about the Big Macs before?
[00:14:47]  You could use a couple, you could knock a couple back.
[00:14:51]  Large fry on me, Bill.
[00:14:53]  Don't settle for the medium on me.
[00:14:55]  I'll up you to the large fry.
[00:14:57]  Let's go.
[00:14:58]  He's at that age now where he stopped eating at 4 p.m.

=== Prick Atheism Defined (09:40) ===

[00:15:02]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:15:03]  And it's like, holy shit.
[00:15:04]  I think he's losing weight because they lost their adrenochrome at the pizza parlor.
[00:15:10]  I was right there.
[00:15:11]  Oh, God, man.
[00:15:13]  That's right.
[00:15:13]  Yeah, adrenochrome is notorious for putting on the pounds.
[00:15:18]  Adrenochrome keeps you in fighting shape.
[00:15:20]  It's like you take your shot of Ozempic.
[00:15:24]  And then you exsanguinate a small child.
[00:15:26]  That's the deep state health routine in the morning, keeping you beautiful, energetic, and trim.
[00:15:32]  That's what it's all about.
[00:15:33]  That's the coolest word in the world, exsanguinate.
[00:15:36]  I love that word.
[00:15:37]  It's such a great word.
[00:15:40]  Words that begin with E are great.
[00:15:44]  I love elegance.
[00:15:45]  That's one of my favorite words.
[00:15:47]  This one doesn't start with E, but I always liked defenestrate.
[00:15:51]  Defenestrate is a great word.
[00:15:53]  D's are also good.
[00:15:55]  Yes.
[00:15:56]  Yes.
[00:15:56]  That's such a great word.
[00:15:57]  Great word.
[00:15:58]  There's, there's, um, in the Weird California book, there's, uh, an entry about, I guess, there's supposed to be some house in San Francisco that is like an art monument to defenestration.
[00:16:13]  And it's got like clothes hanging out the window and like furniture in the yard or something like that.
[00:16:19]  I don't know why, but I thought you were going with the Winchester Mystery House at first.
[00:16:23]  That's not that far from me.
[00:16:25]  And everyone's like, Oh, have you been there?
[00:16:27]  And I'm like, I basically know all I need to know about that place, and I'm not paying $50 for a goddamn half hour tour.
[00:16:35]  So, no, I'm not going.
[00:16:37]  Well, what if you see her ghosts wandering the halls?
[00:16:40]  Ghosts aren't real, and I've seen ghosts, and I don't believe that they're real.
[00:16:46]  Wow.
[00:16:49]  That's like when people say that atheists worship Satan.
[00:16:57]  Those two contradict each other.
[00:16:59]  I love that.
[00:17:00]  I love that so much when people call.
[00:17:03]  Atheist satanic, and it's just you do understand.
[00:17:06]  I'm not on your chessboard, I don't believe in the white pieces or the black pieces.
[00:17:11]  Well, I mean, Richard Dawkins is kind of satanic with the he's been saying lately.
[00:17:17]  Well, he's always been problematic.
[00:17:19]  Let's call atheist children bright.
[00:17:22]  Go yourself, Richard.
[00:17:23]  What do you mean, lately?
[00:17:24]  Isn't he dead?
[00:17:26]  No, he's saying that AI is alive.
[00:17:31]  Yeah, he decided that Claude is insult, but also Claude is female.
[00:17:35]  So he's called, he's also a turd.
[00:17:37]  That's what I'm thinking of.
[00:17:39]  He's also a turd.
[00:17:42]  He's also a turd.
[00:17:45]  Yeah, I mean, and as far as problematic as Hitchens was, he's less problematic than Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.
[00:17:54]  So, yeah, just, and if you really look at, because I was like really into the atheist stuff, and I've made the correlation between the new atheist movement, a lot of which moved over to the intellectual dark web.
[00:18:09]  But the new atheist movement, and you see this with the guy from Penn and Teller, Penn Gillette, there is, it really fits in with the conspiracy theory mentality where it's, I'm better than everyone else because I know this thing.
[00:18:29]  And like looking back on it, I'm like, oh my God, so that's why I was so into this new atheist stuff when it was popular.
[00:18:37]  Like that mentality, Of, I'm better than everyone else because I know this secret knowledge.
[00:18:45]  And it's just, you know, it really, I, so you can kind of see how the new atheist movement became the intellectual dark web.
[00:18:56]  You can also see, like, looking back on my own life, why I was into that and conspiracy theories.
[00:19:06]  Like, it's the mentality.
[00:19:08]  And atheist isn't supposed to be a mentality, it's just supposed to be a thing.
[00:19:15]  Yeah, I think that.
[00:19:15]  Go ahead, Eric.
[00:19:16]  Okay, I was just gonna say the thing that always bugged me about Richard Dawkins.
[00:19:20]  I mean, I'm like, me, I'm kind of live and let live.
[00:19:24]  I'm like, I don't care what you believe in, just, you know, as long as it's, you know, keep it your business, I'll keep my beliefs my business.
[00:19:31]  But Richard Dawkins would like, if he spotted somebody with a cross, he would like run through traffic to yell at the guy.
[00:19:39]  Yeah, I, we went to, I had this atheist sugar daddy who used to send me money and stuff.
[00:19:49]  Like all, he just liked my writing.
[00:19:51]  He wasn't really a sugar daddy, but and he sent me money to attend an atheist convention in Arizona.
[00:19:59]  Um, and like while I was there, when we were checking in at the hotel, the guy at the desk goes, You're okay that there's a Bible in the drawer.
[00:20:14]  And my husband and I were like, Yeah, why?
[00:20:17]  They're like, Well, we had some complaints.
[00:20:18]  I'm like, Jesus, come on, seriously, people.
[00:20:21]  Like, number one, it's in a drawer, which means that someone had to go in.
[00:20:27]  Open that drawer, which no one ever uses because it's right next to the bed.
[00:20:31]  Who uses that drawer?
[00:20:32]  So, someone had to go and open the drawer just to find the Bible, just to be a Karen.
[00:20:39]  Like, come on, man.
[00:20:41]  Seriously?
[00:20:43]  You know?
[00:20:44]  Yeah, some people look for a way to get offended.
[00:20:47]  Right.
[00:20:47]  That's the thing is that that kind of atheism was what I defined as like prick atheism, where you're, This smug asshole who has to go around yucking everybody else's yum, where you're just like, You're an idiot.
[00:21:04]  You think there's a God?
[00:21:05]  There isn't a God.
[00:21:06]  There's nothing that happens after you die.
[00:21:09]  You stupid piece of shit.
[00:21:12]  And that's a really not great way of getting converts.
[00:21:15]  That's a really poor way of trying to explain your philosophical position.
[00:21:21]  You're just being a prick.
[00:21:23]  And if you enjoy that part of atheism, then.
[00:21:28]  You're not really doing it right.
[00:21:30]  You're not really understanding what's going on here.
[00:21:34]  For me, I grew up in an unreligious household.
[00:21:38]  I never went to church.
[00:21:40]  I never got into religion.
[00:21:42]  I only read the Bible later in life as a thought exercise, really.
[00:21:48]  In high school, I was kind of like the hero for a lot of people because we had this, we had the preachy Christian idiot who, Ended up being my friend because we were kind of outcasts on opposite sides of the coin, and we would just like fight with each other at lunch all the time about how I was going to burn in hell and how he was a deluded moron.
[00:22:10]  But that was our thing.
[00:22:12]  And my other moment of dealing with religion in high school was this was and I, this is always like, this is how atheists should live their lives, and this is how you should deal with these things.
[00:22:26]  Is there was this kid in my German class, and he was.
[00:22:30]  The coolest kid had the long flowing black hair.
[00:22:34]  One day he came into school and like plugged an amp in and played an electric guitar.
[00:22:39]  Oh my god, you just see the crowd around him!
[00:22:41]  He was just like the man.
[00:22:44]  And this girl looked at him and asked him about like his take on religion.
[00:22:52]  He was talking about how his mom was Jewish and his dad was Christian, and he had this like mix of the two philosophies and blah blah blah.
[00:23:01]  She's just like, take me now, you wild stallion, just the whole thing.
[00:23:06]  And she then looks at me, the bridge troll, and is just like, what are your thoughts on religion, Mike?
[00:23:13]  And I told her, I'm like, I'm an atheist.
[00:23:15]  And she's like, what?
[00:23:16]  And I'm like, yeah, I don't think there's a God or a heaven or a hell.
[00:23:19]  And she just like, flinched.
[00:23:22]  She just reacted so poorly to what I said.
[00:23:26]  And then she just says, that is so wrong.
[00:23:30]  And that's where we should be.
[00:23:32]  Just outcasts who are bad, we're terrible people who think a horrible, blasphemous thing, and just roll with that punch, just accept it, folks.
[00:23:41]  Don't be a jerk about it, just be like, Hey, this is just the way it is, man.
[00:23:46]  And now, like, I'm, I'm, I guess I'm more like, I, I, I, I, atheist agnostic.
[00:23:54]  I, I don't, you know what I mean?
[00:23:56]  I don't believe there's that.
[00:23:57]  It's an absolutely meaningless thing.
[00:23:59]  I, I hate people who get hung up on that shit.
[00:24:02]  And, um, for me now, it's like, my, my dad, like, you know, I, I made up with my dad and, and all that.
[00:24:08]  And my dad will be like, I'm praying for you.
[00:24:11]  And I'm like, thank you.
[00:24:13]  And he's like, well, you know, and he always goes, well, you don't believe in that stuff.
[00:24:15]  And I'm like, yes, but, I don't need to believe in it.
[00:24:19]  What you are doing is putting good thoughts out for me.
[00:24:24]  I don't have to believe in God.
[00:24:26]  Your prayer is putting good thoughts out into the universe.
[00:24:31]  And that's a good thing.
[00:24:33]  And it doesn't bother me.
[00:24:35]  Yeah, I was going to make that same point because I see these people who are like, somebody said, God bless me.
[00:24:40]  And I felt so sick.
[00:24:41]  And I'm like, why?

=== Tesla Cult Madness (15:24) ===

[00:24:42]  They're trying to be nice.
[00:24:44]  I mean, you don't have to believe it to be like, oh, thank you for the sentiment.
[00:24:48]  You know?
[00:24:49]  You know, I think every atheist should like look up liberation theology because that's a really great thing.
[00:24:59]  Liberation theology, where you know, you have like Catholic nuns in Central America or South America fighting to liberate the people who are being subjected by uh CIA run fascist governments, you know, and uh, not CIA run, but you know, the CIA like.
[00:25:20]  Put them in.
[00:25:21]  It's always the CIA.
[00:25:23]  It's always where we go one, we go all, Steph.
[00:25:27]  We're all in this together.
[00:25:28]  We're fighting the deep state.
[00:25:30]  No, I mean, but no, the CIA meddling in South and Central America is a known fact.
[00:25:36]  I mean, that's an absolute fact.
[00:25:38]  And Iran.
[00:25:39]  Thank you very much for that, Kermit Roosevelt.
[00:25:42]  Well, hey, I actually went into the Iranian wormhole, and it's really kind of a It wasn't so much that the West meddled in it.
[00:25:55]  It was mostly that the guy who was running things started overstepping his boundaries and the Shah stepped in to squash that shit.
[00:26:06]  It was like, I'll have to find that YouTube video, but it was very interesting because it went through the details and a lot of the whole CIA did it thing is way overblown and people trying to toot their own horns and beat their own chest and be like, yeah, we did this.
[00:26:21]  And it's like, actually, you guys kind of fucked off and kind of screwed up and really.
[00:26:26]  Like Iran kind of stepped on a bunch of its own rakes in that situation.
[00:26:31]  But blaming America is always, I mean, that's just, that's how you get the clicks.
[00:26:35]  That's how you get the eyeballs.
[00:26:36]  That's how you get attention.
[00:26:38]  But yeah, Iran, we, it got, it got, it was a secular Western kind of nation.
[00:26:45]  And then the Ayatollah revolution, no bueno.
[00:26:50]  And now, now we're in this fucking rotten kettle of fish.
[00:26:53]  We're in this bad situation.
[00:26:55]  And that's what, that's what's not great.
[00:26:57]  It's like suboptimal that we are here now, stuck in a non war war because that we're going to win any moment now.
[00:27:08]  And simultaneously, we've already won it.
[00:27:12]  Yes, it is Schrdinger's war that we have already prevailed in and will also prevail in shortly.
[00:27:18]  Just this constant bullshit where we're just going back and forth between, yeah, we already beat them to, yeah, we're going to beat them very soon.
[00:27:30]  And I have a spoiler for everybody.
[00:27:34]  We're not winning and we're not going to win because the only way for us to win would be to actually invade.
[00:27:40]  And Trump is too big of a coward to do that.
[00:27:43]  So we're screwed.
[00:27:44]  We're absolutely cooked in this situation.
[00:27:46]  We are literally at the mercy of the Iranians and it sucks.
[00:27:51]  And the Saudis, apparently.
[00:27:52]  Yeah.
[00:27:53]  Oh, yeah.
[00:27:53]  In the South.
[00:27:54]  Yeah.
[00:27:54]  We were going to do Operation Freedom Plus or whatever they were called.
[00:27:59]  Yeah.
[00:27:59]  Operation Trump is God or whatever it's called.
[00:28:02]  Fuck Saudi Arabia, those bastards.
[00:28:06]  They helped fund 9 11.
[00:28:08]  Fuck those bastards.
[00:28:09]  Fuck them all.
[00:28:10]  And they bought out EA games with the help of Jared Kushner.
[00:28:14]  And now they introduced like microtransactions in the game.
[00:28:18]  Fuck you, Saudi Arabia, because I have a mod that blocks that.
[00:28:23]  So fuck Saudi Arabia for 9 11.
[00:28:26]  Fuck them for their stance on homosexuality.
[00:28:29]  Fuck them for everything.
[00:28:32]  I like that The Sims was where the line was crossed.
[00:28:35]  I was waiting for that too.
[00:28:37]  Well, my thing is like there was a Sims creator that is taking part in their marketplace where you get a whole whopping 40% of.
[00:28:51]  You know, whatever, but I have a mod that blocks this new marketplace.
[00:28:55]  And so I posted to them on Twitter.
[00:28:58]  I posted a clip of a man who made a phone call from the 105th floor of the South Tower and he was on the phone as the tower collapsed.
[00:29:09]  I'm like, hey, are you proud to be supporting this shit?
[00:29:12]  Congratulations, bitch.
[00:29:15]  Yeah.
[00:29:17]  Oh, yeah.
[00:29:17]  I mean, that's the thing is that Saudi Arabia sucks and that they're involved in all this kind of stuff.
[00:29:27]  But they give us their oil, which is what we care about.
[00:29:29]  And now Iran has decided to destroy the global economy because they can and they can get away with it.
[00:29:35]  Yeah.
[00:29:35]  And that's the thing that gets me.
[00:29:36]  Nobody would give two shits about what happens in the Middle East if it wasn't for oil.
[00:29:41]  Right.
[00:29:42]  They would be like, let them bomb each other.
[00:29:44]  Who cares?
[00:29:45]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:29:46]  But now it's our money that's at stake.
[00:29:51]  And that's the issue.
[00:29:52]  And it's so annoying that.
[00:29:56]  We put ourselves in this spot and we have elected this government that is anti renewable energy, anti getting us off of oil and gas.
[00:30:05]  Just, I'm sure that if they could find ways to destroy fuel efficiency in cars and make us make sure that we were getting 10 miles a gallon, they would do so.
[00:30:15]  Yeah, it's just actually going to kick themselves back.
[00:30:18]  Right.
[00:30:18]  It's just, it's so insane to me that we can't get somebody out.
[00:30:25]  On the campaign trail, talking about how we Americans should be using American wind and American sun to power our energy grid instead of Middle Eastern tyrants and their oil.
[00:30:39]  There's like such an easy way to spin the energy argument into this nationalistic, rah, rah USA bullshit.
[00:30:51]  Elon's going to save us all.
[00:30:53]  Don't you know that?
[00:30:55]  What I was thinking of was I was remembering a few years ago when Trump was saying that he doesn't like all these clean energy bills because China is getting all our good air and we're getting all their bad air.
[00:31:05]  So I could see someone being like, no, we can't use wind.
[00:31:09]  That's Chinese wind.
[00:31:12]  Do it up.
[00:31:13]  I will have that argument 10 out of 10 times.
[00:31:17]  That would be awesome for me.
[00:31:20]  I'm here for that all day, every day.
[00:31:23]  We need to get Pete Buttigieg out there on the stump talking about this stuff because he's a good communicator.
[00:31:30]  I'm putting all my faith in the South African pedophile, Elon Musk.
[00:31:36]  I'm putting all of my faith in him.
[00:31:39]  Yep.
[00:31:41]  He's one of those guys who I said the same thing about Rudy Giuliani.
[00:31:45]  If either one of them had just kept their mouths shut, then they would be these universally beloved heroes of the world.
[00:31:52]  Like Rudy Giuliani was America's president.
[00:31:54]  He was the man who brought us back from 9 11.
[00:31:58]  And Elon Musk was the genius billionaire.
[00:32:02]  What did I say?
[00:32:03]  You said president.
[00:32:04]  Oh, sorry.
[00:32:05]  Well, he thought he was president.
[00:32:07]  But yeah, and Elon Musk is this genius billionaire who's revolutionizing the tech industry, and he's going to.
[00:32:15]  He's going to save the world single handedly with his unyielding generosity and visionary status.
[00:32:23]  But then they had to go and be like, That's not enough.
[00:32:26]  I need to get my words out there on the air.
[00:32:28]  And people were like, Oh my God, these people are crazy.
[00:32:31]  The man who's going to save the world who couldn't save 13 people trapped in a flooded cave and then called the diver who actually did save those children a pedophile.
[00:32:42]  Way to go, Elon.
[00:32:44]  They could have just sat back and just counted their money, but no.
[00:32:48]  They love cameras too much for that.
[00:32:52]  It's so strange, too, that he went on the path that he did because his big product, allegedly, is electric cars.
[00:33:02]  And now he's in this world where the electric car is a symbol of liberal oppression and how they're going to have their police state micromanage you and monitor your every move.
[00:33:19]  Everything you do will be tracked on phones and cameras and everything and all this kind of stuff.
[00:33:26]  And now liberals who want to buy EVs are just not going to buy from Elon.
[00:33:32]  And every now and then, when I have some money in my hot little hand and I don't want to run to DraftKings, use promo code RETMONEY to like waste it.
[00:33:44]  I think to myself, why am I not shorting Tesla?
[00:33:47]  How is Tesla valued at the value it's at?
[00:33:51]  It's.
[00:33:52]  Entirely smoke and mirrors.
[00:33:54]  There's no there there because the only thing that they were like full self driving was the thing that was what they were selling on everyone.
[00:34:04]  And now Waymo has already eaten their lunch on the self driving car thing.
[00:34:09]  The Waymo taxis are actually the ones that kill cats.
[00:34:16]  I'm sure they do.
[00:34:16]  I'm sure they do.
[00:34:17]  But I mean, regular drivers kill cats.
[00:34:21]  I've had, I had, uh, Five cats in my life, and three of them got hit by cars by humans.
[00:34:26]  So I'm so sorry.
[00:34:27]  Well, I mean, yes, but also, these, these, there was a famous incident in San Francisco.
[00:34:33]  Number one, whether it's a bodega cat or not, you shouldn't be letting the cat run around outside.
[00:34:39]  Okay.
[00:34:39]  That's number, that's my number one point.
[00:34:42]  Number two point is these cars are supposed to be so good.
[00:34:46]  One of the Waymos hit a cat, and there was this big uproar, and everybody, there's like a little monument to the cat.
[00:34:54]  And, um, A Waymo hit it, and the Waymos are causing a lot of damage and a lot of trouble.
[00:35:03]  But California, I think it was just stated a law that now Waymos can get tickets the same as regular drivers.
[00:35:13]  And also, fuck these driverless cars.
[00:35:16]  I don't look, not to get conspiracy theorist here, but I've seen Minority Report, okay?
[00:35:23]  I don't want to be in a car that can be remotely controlled by anyone.
[00:35:26]  Yeah, but you've also seen Demolition Man, and that worked out good.
[00:35:30]  I never saw Demolition Man.
[00:35:31]  Okay, well, it had driverless cars too.
[00:35:33]  Oh, okay.
[00:35:34]  Just accept that.
[00:35:37]  I'm not arguing the validity or are Waymo's good.
[00:35:43]  What I'm arguing is that Waymo has eaten Tesla's market share on the driverless car front.
[00:35:50]  Oh, yeah.
[00:35:51]  Yeah.
[00:35:51]  And Rivians, I see a lot of Rivians.
[00:35:56]  And Rivians are just better than any Tesla.
[00:36:01]  And every Tesla that's on the road right now has some kind of recall on it.
[00:36:06]  So.
[00:36:08]  But this is the thing that originally you could kind of lie yourself into Tesla.
[00:36:14]  They're leading the market in EVs.
[00:36:16]  That's why I should invest in them.
[00:36:18]  And now they absolutely aren't.
[00:36:20]  And then it was like, oh, but Tesla's going to have full self driving.
[00:36:23]  So that's why I should invest in them.
[00:36:26]  And Tesla is nowhere near close to being the leader in full self driving now compared to Waymo and these other companies that are like working on that.
[00:36:37]  There was a quarterly report recently where Elon came out and said that the.
[00:36:43]  It's like, I think it again, I'm not a Tesla expert, so if I'm wrong about this, I apologize.
[00:36:49]  But basically, like the hardware on the Teslas is called like hardware three.
[00:36:56]  And Elon in a report said they will not be able to download full self driving into hardware three model Teslas, you're gonna have to get the upgrade to hardware four, and those models will get the full self driving download once it's ready.
[00:37:10]  And all these people bought Teslas with hardware three because they thought they were getting full self driving.
[00:37:16]  And now they fucking aren't.
[00:37:18]  And Elon's admitted this.
[00:37:20]  And I'm here to let you know if you buy hardware for Teslas looking for full self driving, probably not going to happen either.
[00:37:26]  So it's just this thing that is, it's just this carrot he keeps dangling in front of people being like, yeah, we're going to solve full self driving next year.
[00:37:38]  We got it in the bag next year.
[00:37:39]  And it's just, it's the Donald Trump two weeks, only way longer and way further out into the horizon.
[00:37:47]  Well, the listeners don't know this, but I'm actually recording for Mars where we've already settled, you know, like Elon promised.
[00:37:55]  So, yeah.
[00:37:56]  And I can't wait to hear about your bone density and how it's like literally turning to gelatin as we speak.
[00:38:03]  It is delightful.
[00:38:04]  And I'm making poop potatoes and Matt Damon's up here with me.
[00:38:10]  We are just, yeah, it's great.
[00:38:14]  It's great.
[00:38:15]  Yeah.
[00:38:17]  Yeah.
[00:38:18]  So, I mean, I for one have no problem with Elon Musk going to Mars.
[00:38:22]  I'm just going to put that out right now.
[00:38:23]  Oh, of course.
[00:38:24]  Oh, it's yeah.
[00:38:25]  And and I for one would have had no issue with him going into that cave to try and save the kids himself.
[00:38:32]  You could do it on one breath, Elon.
[00:38:34]  Come on, we're all senior swimmers build.
[00:38:39]  Yeah, I I encourage Elon Musk to try uh cave diving with no certification, no lessons by himself alone at night and Elon.
[00:38:50]  The rope.
[00:38:51]  You don't need that rope.
[00:38:53]  Only cucks need that rope to find their way out.
[00:38:56]  Do it, buddy.
[00:38:57]  Do it.
[00:38:58]  You're rich.
[00:38:59]  Yeah.
[00:39:01]  It's just really silly that this guy's put himself out there like this and that people are just so invested in this cult and he's going to get us to Mars.
[00:39:12]  And no, he's not.
[00:39:14]  Going to Mars is such an unbelievably Herculean task just to go there.
[00:39:19]  The idea of colonizing Mars is so stupid.
[00:39:23]  It's.
[00:39:24]  Impossible to the extreme.
[00:39:25]  I think with current technology, it's a six month trip to Mars, depending on where it is in its orbit.
[00:39:30]  Right.
[00:39:31]  You, you, you, yeah, there's a window every two years where you can take a six month trip to Mars.
[00:39:39]  And that's it.
[00:39:41]  So, like, basically, every two years, you have this, this small window to get there in a half year.
[00:39:50]  And then, what are you going to do?
[00:39:52]  How are you going to make this planet that is absolutely completely inhospitable to humans remotely?
[00:40:01]  Accepting of you.
[00:40:02]  It's not.
[00:40:03]  It's going to kill you.
[00:40:04]  That's just the way it is.
[00:40:05]  I'll show you how.

=== Wayland Card Game Design (02:58) ===

[00:40:06]  Two words Wayland, Yutani, building better worlds.
[00:40:11]  They can farm the atmosphere.
[00:40:14]  Didn't you see those documentaries that James Cameron made?
[00:40:19]  And oh my God, I forgot his name.
[00:40:22]  There goes the joke.
[00:40:22]  Never mind.
[00:40:24]  What's really funny about that is the fact that you're talking about the actual thing that people know the Wayland Corporation for.
[00:40:34]  In pop culture, but I never really got into an alien.
[00:40:40]  So when I hear Wayland, it's actually one of the corporations in the Netrunner card game.
[00:40:47]  So it's like very funny to me because I know I'm seeing it from a wrong perspective.
[00:40:53]  And I have to just sort of say, Mike, Mike, they're not talking about your weird niche card game.
[00:40:59]  They're talking about the very famous movie franchise that is much bigger and much more popular.
[00:41:06]  So calm down now, boy.
[00:41:08]  And I have their logo on my elbow, and then the other elbow is umbrella.
[00:41:13]  I went with the evil corporation design for my elbow tattoos because you can't spell elbow without OW.
[00:41:21]  That is one painful place to get a tattoo, I'll tell you that.
[00:41:27]  And a popular spot for prison tats, too.
[00:41:30]  Yeah, I did.
[00:41:31]  Well, and on your elbow, you're so fucking limited, and everyone goes with the stupid spider web or like some kind of swirl design.
[00:41:38]  I was like, no, I'm going to go with umbrella and Wayland Yutani because I'm hardcore.
[00:41:44]  Yeah.
[00:41:47]  Yeah, that's going to be my actual effort to get into the InfoWars.
[00:41:57]  I'm going to pitch myself to the new InfoWars.
[00:42:00]  I'm going to have to make an InfoWars card game.
[00:42:04]  And the thing is, if I was able to make a successful InfoWars card game that was kind of like a Magic the Gathering where you're making new.
[00:42:13]  Content like every three or four months that would be like a constant revenue stream for them to use to then pay the Sandy Hook families with.
[00:42:22]  So I would be like, it would be like a kind of a charitable card game in that sense.
[00:42:28]  So that'd be fun.
[00:42:30]  I, but I, and I just, oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
[00:42:33]  No, I just, I like, um, I really enjoy the idea of an asymmetrical game where the two sides are not just like.
[00:42:44]  My deck does this to kill you, and the other person's like, Well, my deck does this to kill you.
[00:42:48]  It's actually offense and defense, like the decks are actually engaging with each other in very specific ways.
[00:42:55]  So, I find that kind of game design very appealing.
[00:43:01]  Wake up, audience!
[00:43:02]  I swear to god, this is going to get interesting in a minute.

=== Virus Conspiracy Purity (15:34) ===

[00:43:04]  No, it's okay.
[00:43:06]  Talk what?
[00:43:09]  I just wanted to remind our three listeners, um, that uh.
[00:43:15]  Well, Mike makes a joke all the time, so I can too.
[00:43:18]  I just want to remind the listeners that yes, the Sandy Hook families are getting paid.
[00:43:24]  But one thing that not many people know is that the third Sandy Hook lawsuit that was never heard in court because of the bankruptcy and probably will never be heard in a court is Lenny Posner's case.
[00:43:40]  And both prior court cases used tests, like Lenny didn't get on the stand or anything, but they used tests.
[00:43:49]  Records of what had happened to him in those court cases to help get a win for the other families.
[00:43:56]  Lenny's not getting anything.
[00:43:57]  So I encourage, you know, support the onion.
[00:44:02]  That's good.
[00:44:03]  But I also think that people should be making a donation to the Honor Network, which is H O N R Network.org.
[00:44:12]  I'm a volunteer.
[00:44:13]  I don't get any money for it.
[00:44:15]  But, you know, Lenny deserves something too.
[00:44:19]  So, you know, Support the Onion, but you should also support the Honor Network.
[00:44:26]  That's cool.
[00:44:26]  I agree with that.
[00:44:30]  So, 45 minutes of fluffy nonsense.
[00:44:32]  Let's talk about what people are really upset about this week, and that is the Hanta virus.
[00:44:38]  Yes.
[00:44:39]  Yes.
[00:44:41]  So, if you haven't heard about this, everybody, basically there is a cruise ship out there, and people on this ship have been infected with the Hanta virus, which is.
[00:44:53]  A very lethal virus.
[00:44:55]  It has somewhere between.
[00:44:57]  Gene Ackman.
[00:44:58]  Gene Ackman's wife.
[00:44:59]  Gene Ackman's wife died from the end of the virus.
[00:45:01]  And it's found in mouse droppings, primarily deer mice.
[00:45:05]  And that's why what they tell you if you find mouse droppings, you're supposed to wet them down.
[00:45:13]  You're not supposed to vacuum it because it is airborne.
[00:45:18]  You're pretty much blowing the virus into the air then.
[00:45:20]  And it's easy to treat, but it is also very.
[00:45:25]  Deadly and, um, you know, it's a pulmonary disease.
[00:45:30]  And fortunately, it's also very rare in humans.
[00:45:33]  And also, don't go on a cruise ship, it's a fucking floating petri dish, for Christ's sake.
[00:45:40]  So, uh, yeah, anyhow, the uh, this very lethal virus, uh, is on this cruise ship, and three people have died from the virus.
[00:45:52]  And there has been talk about the virus.
[00:45:57]  Being transmitted from human to human, which most of these antiviruses do not get transmitted in this way.
[00:46:03]  Again, as Steph said, it's mostly from rat droppings getting into the air in ventilation systems or a vacuum cleaner or whatever.
[00:46:15]  And then you read that stuff in.
[00:46:17]  I remember someone was talking online about how out in the West, like in Colorado and stuff, people were saying, do not buy used camping goods because if there's mouse droppings in that tent or whatever.
[00:46:31]  It could kill you.
[00:46:32]  So be very careful about those sorts of things.
[00:46:37]  And also learn your mouse droppings.
[00:46:39]  I used to have mice for pets.
[00:46:41]  So, like, when I see mouse droppings, I know instantly it's mouse droppings.
[00:46:46]  And, you know, you can look it up online what deer mouse droppings look like and stuff like that.
[00:46:53]  So, I kind of learned a little bit more about this stuff.
[00:46:57]  And I used to be obsessed with epidemiology and virology.
[00:47:01]  Ebola was like one of my teenage hobbies, like studying Ebola.
[00:47:06]  But just if you see mouse droppings, wet it down with bleach, you know, get a respirator, don't panic, and, you know, take a picture of the droppings, look them up online, and call whoever you need to call.
[00:47:22]  It's, you know, you don't need to panic.
[00:47:28]  So some of these viruses, Have been transmitted human to human.
[00:47:33]  Like, it's called the Andries virus or something like that.
[00:47:36]  Yeah, but it's very rare for it to be transmitted human to human.
[00:47:39]  Right.
[00:47:39]  Hantavirus is very rarely transmitted human to human.
[00:47:44]  And if they do, basically, you have to be like lying in bed with the other person and like sleeping together, like literal sleeping together, not having sex, but actually being like in the same bed, breathing the same air for like a long time.
[00:48:01]  That kind of like intimate contact is what it's.
[00:48:04]  Required in order to transmit this virus.
[00:48:07]  And the virus is not very contagious.
[00:48:10]  And it also doesn't have an incubation period where you don't feel bad and you're running around spreading it.
[00:48:16]  Like basically, when you're contagious is when you're sick.
[00:48:20]  And when you're sick from this shit, you're dying.
[00:48:22]  So it's very obvious what's going on.
[00:48:25]  So you will be quarantined.
[00:48:27]  You're not going to be spreading it around.
[00:48:29]  But because this is a quote unquote like novel virus, it's something that people.
[00:48:34]  Don't have immunity to.
[00:48:37]  If you get hit with it, it will fuck you up, like much worse than COVID would have.
[00:48:42]  So everyone's freaking out.
[00:48:44]  It's the new pandemic.
[00:48:46]  It's blah, blah, blah.
[00:48:47]  And the amount of performative temper tantrum having I'm seeing online about this people who are screaming, I will not comply if they try this fucking lockdown bullshit again.
[00:49:01]  It's not going to work.
[00:49:03]  And A, who is the president?
[00:49:05]  Who runs our country right now?
[00:49:08]  Like, are you saying you would rebel against Trump if Trump told you, everybody, we got to lock down for a little while.
[00:49:14]  We got a virus.
[00:49:15]  It's a problem.
[00:49:16]  That's the thing about purity tests, nobody passes them 100% of the time.
[00:49:20]  So I do think that there would be some idiots out there going, going, Trump is not being Trumpy enough.
[00:49:26]  He is betraying Trump.
[00:49:29]  Oh, I get nothing.
[00:49:30]  Nothing like rubs it in the face of liberals and lefties like dying.
[00:49:37]  Well, they seem to want that.
[00:49:39]  I saw Sarah Palin come out of the woodwork to say, don't comply.
[00:49:44]  All these people are going to die.
[00:49:46]  Let them die.
[00:49:47]  That's my take.
[00:49:50]  The Adventures of Hell world does not want anyone to die.
[00:49:52]  Right.
[00:49:53]  Yes.
[00:49:56]  It's so.
[00:49:58]  The thing about this is that's so ridiculously frustrating about it is what's your counter to this?
[00:50:06]  What is your plan besides sheep drench?
[00:50:10]  Or vitamin D, or tanning your butthole, or whatever.
[00:50:16]  I've already seen people saying that hantavirus can be treated with ivermectin because ivermectin prevents RNA from entering the nucleus, and then immediately got community noted stating that hantavirus does not enter the nucleus, therefore, ivermectin would not be effective in that way.
[00:50:32]  Yeah, our new liberal hero, our new champion of the left, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
[00:50:40]  Has like posted about this about how uh ivermectin is good against hantavirus and all that kind of stuff, and it's just like, oh my god, are we really doing this?
[00:50:52]  Are we really going to go down this road of being absolute morons who are just going to?
[00:50:59]  I know, I understand what you're saying, but for me, it's are we really going to do this across the political spectrum?
[00:51:09]  Like this kind of purity, virtue signaling bullshit that's coming is for right wingers trying to appeal to QAnon and grifters like them.
[00:51:22]  I just see so many of these people.
[00:51:24]  Who are like, hell yeah, brother, and preach it, you're on to something.
[00:51:29]  When people are like, I will never accept another public health recommendation ever.
[00:51:34]  If you try it, I will fight you.
[00:51:36]  Good, do it, do it.
[00:51:37]  And all the anti vaxxers can go by Epstein Island and live there with all the white supremacists.
[00:51:43]  Go there, all of you, all of you, peace.
[00:51:46]  I, I meant, I don't care if these people want to kill themselves or their families, as long, you know, leave the kids alone.
[00:51:54]  Number one, number two.
[00:51:56]  Don't get other people's kids sick, but of course, they're going to do that, which is why they think they should all go live on Epstein Island and just die.
[00:52:08]  Uh, it's very dark, yeah.
[00:52:10]  I get you, I hear it.
[00:52:11]  I'm sorry, but the you know, a lot of these people are so brainwormed and an RFK, literally.
[00:52:20]  Um, they that you know, health is health, there are facts, and wasn't there an old conservative book called Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings?
[00:52:31]  Hey, facts don't care about your feelings.
[00:52:33]  And the fact is, is that public health, it's called public health for a reason.
[00:52:39]  If you have a communicable disease, you can spread it on to someone else.
[00:52:43]  There was some Amish community in Texas with the measles outbreak.
[00:52:48]  Their kid died, and they're like, well, that's okay.
[00:52:51]  God decided that.
[00:52:53]  Fuck you.
[00:52:55]  Fuck you as a parent for killing those people, they should be charged with murder.
[00:53:04]  That's plain and simple murder, death row, Texas.
[00:53:07]  There you go.
[00:53:08]  Yeah.
[00:53:10]  It's so frustrating listening to these people talking about, yep, I didn't vaccinate my kid and they died, and I was right to not vaccinate them.
[00:53:23]  It's truly insane that this is happening.
[00:53:26]  I've actually seen people say better dead than autistic.
[00:53:29]  Oh, yeah.
[00:53:30]  Oh, yeah.
[00:53:31]  Which is.
[00:53:31]  And of course, they're pro life too.
[00:53:34]  I'm sure they're pro life.
[00:53:36]  Pro life, except for when it comes to your kid dying of an easily, easily preventable disease, and you people are ruining the health of other children, and that is murder.
[00:53:55]  That is murder.
[00:53:58]  That is murder, plain and and I'm not for the death penalty, I'm not, but you know, these assholes in Texas, you should be charged with murder, and boom, you're in Texas, automatic death row.
[00:54:10]  Like, you know, a black guy gets misidentified for robbing a liquor store and he had nothing to do with it.
[00:54:19]  He's going to end up on death row.
[00:54:21]  So, hey, why not some white anti vaxxer?
[00:54:24]  Put them on death row.
[00:54:27]  The difference is that they're white.
[00:54:28]  How dare you?
[00:54:29]  How dare you?
[00:54:30]  I know, of course.
[00:54:33]  We're white and our kids can die from anything we want them to because white.
[00:54:39]  I have no patience for these people anymore.
[00:54:42]  You can't talk to them.
[00:54:43]  You can't reason with them.
[00:54:45]  And they won't listen.
[00:54:46]  And they're murdering kids.
[00:54:49]  They're murdering them.
[00:54:50]  It's murder.
[00:54:52]  And I think we need to stop beating around.
[00:54:54]  You know, people in general need to stop beating around the bush with it.
[00:54:57]  It's murder.
[00:55:00]  Do you think it's murder?
[00:55:03]  I think it might be.
[00:55:04]  Or maybe possibly homicide.
[00:55:07]  The Adventures in Hell world does not condone murder.
[00:55:10]  No, we don't.
[00:55:11]  Murder sucks.
[00:55:11]  And it's just.
[00:55:13]  Don't murder your kids.
[00:55:15]  It's just so horrible.
[00:55:15]  Or anybody, really.
[00:55:17]  Yeah, please don't murder.
[00:55:18]  Please.
[00:55:19]  That's a pretty universal rule, in my opinion.
[00:55:22]  Yep.
[00:55:22]  Just stop killing people.
[00:55:24]  But it's just so ridiculous that we have politicized vaccination to the point where people will kill their kids to own the libs.
[00:55:36]  And then when you get into this, when you get into this breaking of our shared reality, where vaccines should not be a political or controversial thing.
[00:55:50]  We get into vaccines and people are letting their children die, they're not getting vaccinated.
[00:55:57]  They are allowing outbreaks of these preventable diseases from happening, and then we come to election time, and people are just like, Well, I'm voting for Trump because he's better on the economy.
[00:56:09]  It's just the fact that there is like literally nothing in all of these spaces where politicians can pay a political price for their horrible wrongness is insane.
[00:56:23]  And Republicans are actually rewarded by being anti vax because there's anti vax voters out there who will.
[00:56:31]  Rush to the polls to vote for the guy that will allow them to kill their kids by not getting them vaccinated.
[00:56:38]  Like, I hear all these Republicans and all these right wingers talking about how Democrats are blocking the passage of the Save Act when it's an 80 20 political issue in Republicans' favor.
[00:56:51]  So, all those Democrats are going to pay a price at the polls for doing this.
[00:56:56]  Vaccines are probably a 90 10 issue when it comes to favorability, unfavorability.
[00:57:02]  And Republicans pay no price for being anti vaccine.
[00:57:05]  They pay no price for fucking banning chemtrails and banning fluoride in the water and being insane because your median voter just doesn't think about these things.
[00:57:19]  Your median voter isn't going to the polls to vote for vaccines.
[00:57:23]  And then when their kid gets a measles outbreak because a bunch of anti vaxxers are in their first grade class, it's like, ah, beans.
[00:57:31]  Well, I'm still with Trump because he's tougher on terror.
[00:57:35]  Or whatever the nonsense is going to be for what they thought of.
[00:57:38]  One thing that, because I've noticed this about a few conspiracies, but it really stands out with the vaccine thing is that it jumped political parties like in the last couple of decades.
[00:57:47]  Cause like I have this meme that I was using for a while where it was, you know, it was an anti vax thing.
[00:57:53]  And the woman in the picture was this total, you know, granola girl wearing hemp clothing and a dread sack on her head and everything.
[00:58:02]  And now it's, you got, you know, Now you got a mediocre white man in an ill fitting suit saying, I will never take a vaccine in my life.
[00:58:14]  Yeah.
[00:58:14]  Like, it's very funny.
[00:58:16]  When me, Sergeant L, did the Christmas special of Hellworld and we reviewed the An American Carol movie, the Rosie O'Donnell character was the conspiracy nut to show how crazy those leftists are.
[00:58:32]  They think 9 11 was an inside job.
[00:58:35]  They think jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

=== MMR Vaccine Lies (02:57) ===

[00:58:38]  And that was the.
[00:58:40]  Joke, and this was at the dawning of the Obama era.
[00:58:43]  This was around that period of time.
[00:58:45]  I was like, the late 2000s was the left is full of nutty conspiracy theorists.
[00:58:52]  And in the intervening 16 years, the right wing has just taken the conspiracy theory voters and that demographic and just bam, they're ours.
[00:59:03]  We own the conspiracy nuts now.
[00:59:06]  And it's really jarring how your hippie dippy granola crunchy girl is now MAGA.
[00:59:13]  Yeah.
[00:59:14]  And if you want a real conspiracy, the guy who kicked off the modern day.
[00:59:20]  Anti vaccine, Andrew Wakefield.
[00:59:23]  It was a real conspiracy.
[00:59:24]  The reason he started spreading the autism thing was because he was making his own special vaccine and he wanted people to be afraid of the MMR vaccine.
[00:59:36]  He was engaged in a literal conspiracy.
[00:59:39]  And that piece of shit came over to America.
[00:59:42]  He got his doctor's license taken away and he's still murdering children.
[00:59:47]  Good job, Andrew.
[00:59:48]  I hope you rotten hell.
[00:59:51]  He had a partner who had made a single shot, it was a vaccine, but it was only for measles.
[01:00:01]  It wasn't for measles, mumps, and rubella, the MMR vaccine.
[01:00:05]  And the whole point of his paper in The Lancet was to spread distrust in the MMR vaccine so that people who could afford to get each individual shot would get a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
[01:00:21]  Three shots instead of one, instead of having them all jumbled together.
[01:00:25]  And his whole.
[01:00:26]  And he got a whole bunch of parents of children with autism to help bankroll his whole grift.
[01:00:34]  Yeah.
[01:00:34]  And he took blood at his son's party.
[01:00:38]  He was taking blood samples from people at a fucking birthday party, and all of those parents should be in jail for allowing that, too.
[01:00:48]  Yeah.
[01:00:51]  It's just really frustrating that.
[01:00:53]  This anti intellectualism is so prevalent now in our politics, and we have people chasing these voters.
[01:01:02]  That is now a powerful voting block in America that our media will not talk about, that they will not engage in.
[01:01:10]  That if RFK Jr. decided, fuck it, I'm shooting my shot, and he ran for president in 2028, he would be a real problem for JD Vance to win the nomination.
[01:01:24]  When you say RFK Jr. is shooting his shot, do you mean he's back on heroin?
[01:01:29]  Yes, I do.
[01:01:30]  I thought he was doing a 180 and getting vaccinated.
[01:01:33]  Well, he is vaccinated, but he won't admit it.

=== UFOs and Benowitz (03:10) ===

[01:01:36]  Right, of course.
[01:01:37]  I mean, it's just this really frustrating thing that you're going to have a bunch of rational, logical, coherent people running for the Democratic Party nomination.
[01:01:56]  And In the Republican Party, you are going to have nuts trying to outnut each other, and whoever wins the nut primary gets to be the candidate for the nut party.
[01:02:07]  And in the general election, that whole thing is just going to get swept under the rug, it's going to get memory hold.
[01:02:13]  We're just going to have to ignore the fact that these people are going to be posting about trusting the plan and patriots in control and how they're going to get to the bottom about the mercury and vaccines.
[01:02:28]  Who's putting the chemicals in our skies?
[01:02:32]  And maybe they'll figure out what's really going on with UFOs and shit.
[01:02:36]  Oh, we completely forgot about the UFOs classification shit that happened this week and how that was literal nothing.
[01:02:44]  But there's a blurry picture of something that's like kind of got like shit shooting out of the top, bottom, left, and right of it.
[01:02:53]  And then in the middle, it's kind of like a cube or a circle.
[01:02:57]  So people are posting biblically accurate angels of all the wings and all the directions.
[01:03:02]  And how the middle is a circle full of eyeballs.
[01:03:05]  And they're like, hey, they saw angels.
[01:03:07]  I told you that's really all this stuff in our world.
[01:03:10]  It's just angels and demons, and humans are interacting with them.
[01:03:15]  I encourage all of the listeners, and it's free on YouTube, the entire documentary is called Mirage Man.
[01:03:22]  And look up Richard Doty and Paul Benowitz and look up Operation Gas Bug.
[01:03:27]  They ruined that man's life.
[01:03:28]  The government invented UFOs and cattle mutilations in New Mexico were to test.
[01:03:35]  For radiation from the government's underground testing facilities where they were testing nuclear weapons.
[01:03:43]  And the whole alien underground base in Dolce started because of the nuclear testing.
[01:03:56]  You conspiracy theorists out there think you're so clever and you know the truth about UFOs.
[01:04:00]  The truth about UFOs was it was a conspiracy started by the government to cover up some of their secret.
[01:04:07]  You know, flight weapons and vehicles and stuff like that.
[01:04:12]  The conspiracy theorists are so dumb that they don't see it.
[01:04:17]  I say it all the time conspiracy theories are a distraction from the real conspiracy.
[01:04:22]  And the real conspiracy is that the government created UFOs.
[01:04:25]  It goes back further than Paul Benowitz.
[01:04:27]  So, hey, conspiracy theorists, you think you're so clever, you're not.
[01:04:34]  That was really salty.
[01:04:36]  That was an aggressive assault.
[01:04:39]  And I can be as salty as I want because I used to live in that world and I know the damage that it did to my brain.

=== Real Government Conspiracy (15:54) ===

[01:04:47]  And I've actually, I have a friend who reached out to me.
[01:04:51]  They saw one of my posts on Reddit.
[01:04:54]  And I've been helping them deal with this leftover satanic panic that's still in their head.
[01:05:02]  And whenever they see something online that triggers them or they have questions about it, they reach out to me.
[01:05:07]  And I've been helping them.
[01:05:09]  Like, and they're learning to have this reaction to when they see something that triggers them to step away and then go back and fact check it.
[01:05:18]  And I'm helping someone because of my past experience, because of the stuff that I've learned about it.
[01:05:26]  I'm helping someone.
[01:05:28]  I'm helping someone be a better person and a more critical thinker.
[01:05:31]  And I'm getting choked up, but that means everything to me.
[01:05:37]  I'm helping someone because of my experience, because my mistakes, someone is actually.
[01:05:43]  I'm able to use that.
[01:05:44]  So I have every excuse to be salty towards conspiracy theories because they destroy lives.
[01:05:53]  And I'm helping someone pick up their life from that.
[01:05:56]  And that means the world to me.
[01:06:00]  Yeah, that's the thing about this that is so upsetting is that what you just said is true.
[01:06:06]  Conspiracy theories destroy lives.
[01:06:09]  Literally every QAnon promoter that I post stuff from, they all have a post at some point in the last few years where they're like, you know, man.
[01:06:18]  This shit sucks.
[01:06:19]  I'm miserable.
[01:06:20]  I'm upset.
[01:06:21]  My family barely talks to me.
[01:06:24]  Everything's terrible in my world, but I just got to keep on keeping on.
[01:06:28]  I just got to keep trusting the plan because it's going to turn around sooner or later.
[01:06:33]  It'll all be worth it when I'm proven right and I can shove it in all their faces.
[01:06:37]  Right.
[01:06:37]  Exactly.
[01:06:38]  This unbelievable sunk cost fallacy where it's just like, I have suffered so much, but I will be rewarded.
[01:06:45]  I will win in the end.
[01:06:47]  Just that mentality that they've put themselves through all this shit.
[01:06:53]  They're just hoping and praying for the payoff that's never going to come.
[01:06:58]  And it's just so bleak.
[01:07:01]  It's just such a dark world to live in.
[01:07:03]  And the outcome is known.
[01:07:05]  We know what's going to happen.
[01:07:06]  We know it's going to suck for them.
[01:07:08]  No, Hillary and Obama are not going to get cuffed and stuffed and sent to Gitmo.
[01:07:13]  Like, sorry, this is how this works.
[01:07:15]  Like, I'm seeing all these people and they're like all getting super hyped up about Virginia striking down the gerrymander.
[01:07:22]  We're going to win the midterms now.
[01:07:23]  And it's like, What happens if you win the midterms?
[01:07:26]  What happens if Republicans hold the House and the Senate?
[01:07:27]  Guess what?
[01:07:28]  They're not going to kill Hillary and Obama.
[01:07:30]  You're not going to get what you want.
[01:07:32]  Your family isn't going to say, Oh, Jimmy, you were right all along.
[01:07:36]  Oh, we were so wrong about everything.
[01:07:39]  You're never going to get what you want.
[01:07:41]  The Republicans are going to get what they want.
[01:07:42]  They're going to get your money.
[01:07:43]  They're going to get your vote.
[01:07:44]  They're going to get power as a result of you being a part of this system that they have now hijacked and stolen.
[01:07:51]  And no, Michael Flynn didn't start it.
[01:07:53]  No, Steve Biden didn't start it, but they co opted it.
[01:07:56]  They Saw what this was doing, and they were like, Oh shit, this conspiracy theory is literally a get out the vote operation for Republicans.
[01:08:04]  Let's lean into it.
[01:08:05]  Let's make this work.
[01:08:08]  And that's where we are.
[01:08:10]  That's what this is all about, which is why I am like banging the drum about how you got to vote blue no matter who, because Republicans have to be punished for swimming in this shit.
[01:08:25]  They have to pay a political price for.
[01:08:29]  Endorsing all this crap for some guy runs up at a town hall meeting and screams about how the government put a microchip in my head so they can hear my thoughts and they spray the air with chemtrails.
[01:08:41]  And then some Republicans are like, you know what?
[01:08:44]  We're going to put a stop to that, good sir.
[01:08:46]  We're going to fight these people that are doing these terrible things to you.
[01:08:49]  And that guy's like, yay, he listens to me.
[01:08:52]  I'm going to vote for the nut guy to be my new representative.
[01:08:56]  Ignore the fact that in five and a half years, they haven't actually done it yet.
[01:08:59]  Right.
[01:08:59]  And also ignore the fact that a lot of these same people are fans of Elon Musk's NeuroLink.
[01:09:06]  Right.
[01:09:07]  All the hypocrisy, all of it.
[01:09:09]  But the thing is, is that, I mean, again, on a million issues, the two parties are different.
[01:09:16]  But on the issue of being a nut, and if we're going to pander to a nut to get their vote, Democrats don't believe in this bullshit.
[01:09:24]  They don't do this.
[01:09:25]  It's very simple.
[01:09:27]  Republicans do.
[01:09:29]  We got.
[01:09:30]  We got RFK Jr. talking about how he's going to get to the bottom of chemtrails.
[01:09:33]  Buddy, you've been in power for almost two years now.
[01:09:36]  How have you not found where the chemtrail edict is being issued from?
[01:09:41]  Like, Donald Trump runs the government.
[01:09:43]  Can't you go to one of your cabinet meetings and be like, Mr. President, I really need to see him?
[01:09:49]  They're going to find Guthrie's bones before they get to the bottom of chemtrails.
[01:09:54]  Right.
[01:09:55]  But I mean, it's just the fact that they.
[01:10:01]  And they're infinitely patient for their heroes to save the day.
[01:10:04]  And it's like, buddy, Trump's been president for almost six years now.
[01:10:10]  Like, was his first four years just training wheels?
[01:10:13]  Was he just getting his feet wet with that first term?
[01:10:16]  But now he's really going to turn up the juice in his second term.
[01:10:19]  Yeah, I remember a Republican politician saying three years into his first term, hey, he's new to this.
[01:10:25]  He's still learning the ropes.
[01:10:26]  Give him a chance.
[01:10:28]  Meanwhile, the exact same people are calling Zoran Mendani a failure, like, what, two months in?
[01:10:34]  Right.
[01:10:34]  Yeah, Mendani became mayor in January, and it's like, we're five months in, and New York's burning to the ground.
[01:10:42]  Mendani doesn't know what he's doing.
[01:10:44]  This idiot, ah, it's all going to shit.
[01:10:46]  He's America's greatest city is now burning.
[01:10:49]  We're fucked.
[01:10:51]  And I think that the fact that he's an open socialist and he won and he's doing a good job, he's showing them socialism works because capitalism exists to destroy humanity.
[01:11:11]  That's just.
[01:11:13]  I'm going to strongly disagree on all of that.
[01:11:15]  So, but what I think is happening is that Mandani is doing a fine job.
[01:11:24]  As a cog in a machine, he's done, he's working very well with the governor of New York.
[01:11:29]  They're doing stuff, but it's very hard to like turn this whole system one way or the other.
[01:11:36]  And you just hear all these people screaming and yelling about it Obama was going to turn our nation communist or Biden.
[01:11:42]  But it's like nobody is doing these things.
[01:11:46]  And the socialism that you think about, the concept that you have of socialism is like the Soviet tyranny.
[01:11:55]  It's not Scandinavian safety nets and like all of these countries where it's like if you try to start a business and it fails, you're not out on the street, you just get to try again.
[01:12:08]  The government's gonna like give you a hand up to help you out a little, but those societies also pay a lot more in taxes and all kinds of stuff like that, which Americans bitterly hate.
[01:12:19]  Like, we are such a spoiled brat nation.
[01:12:24]  The number of times, because I work in a casino, so this is stuff you hear about all the time.
[01:12:30]  People worry about if they hit a big jackpot, will I have to pay taxes on it?
[01:12:34]  It's like, yeah, I hope you do.
[01:12:36]  If that's a problem, you give me your winning jackpot ticket.
[01:12:39]  I'll do it.
[01:12:40]  Whenever Powerball gets over a billion dollars, I hear people being like, oh, all the taxes I'd have to pay on that.
[01:12:47]  Give me your winning Powerball ticket.
[01:12:49]  I will have no problem paying the taxes on that Powerball ticket.
[01:12:52]  And the thing is, I see, with this new tax bill that's out, I don't think they're really going to be paying all that much in taxes.
[01:12:59]  Yeah.
[01:12:59]  We might actually pay less with a billion dollars.
[01:13:02]  And the thing is, is that the Scandinavian countries, the countries that have like socialized health care and stuff like that, yes, you're paying higher taxes, but guess what?
[01:13:14]  You don't have to fundraise when your mother gets breast cancer because your evil health insurance company won't cover it and the evil doctors are charging a literal arm and a leg.
[01:13:26]  Yeah.
[01:13:28]  You don't have to deliver food to the president so your husband can get cancer treatments.
[01:13:33]  Yeah, you don't have to have Alex's lemonade stand to raise money for a deadly disease because your country doesn't give a if you live or die.
[01:13:47]  That was the whole point behind Breaking Bad.
[01:13:50]  This guy couldn't afford cancer treatment.
[01:13:52]  That's why he got into making meth.
[01:13:56]  They told Walter White they would cover it.
[01:13:59]  The cancer was just an excuse.
[01:14:01]  But.
[01:14:05]  The thing is, that theory, that concept, I understand it and I am in favor of it.
[01:14:12]  But the moment you tell an American, yeah, we're going to do single payer or we're going to do this expanded form of health care, Medicaid, and yes, you are going to pay some more in taxes, they're like, I'm against it.
[01:14:22]  And you're like, but on the back end, they're like, I don't care.
[01:14:24]  I do not care.
[01:14:26]  That upfront sticker shock of the taxes is so no bueno with people that it's a non starter.
[01:14:33]  So it's just like, To me, anyone who talks about this stuff, anyone who's like, but people like the idea.
[01:14:39]  I'm like, yeah, they like the idea.
[01:14:40]  But the moment you tell them they're going to pay a nickel more in tax for it, they lose their goddamn minds.
[01:14:46]  And it's just weird stuff.
[01:14:48]  What's funny about that is that a lot of these people saying that are also the same ones who are claiming that higher gas prices are temporary pain for long term gain.
[01:14:57]  Oh, which is bullshit.
[01:14:59]  Bullshit.
[01:15:01]  There's no back end for the gas prices either.
[01:15:03]  That's the thing.
[01:15:05]  That's what's so ridiculous about all of this is that there's no plan to lower the gas prices.
[01:15:10]  There's no plan because the war has to end for us to even begin the process of negotiating with Iran to free the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:15:23]  And the war ain't ending anytime soon because the two sides are just in this constant pissing contest over what the terms of the ceasefire or the peace agreement are going to be.
[01:15:34]  And Trump knows.
[01:15:36]  That he has to get a better deal than Obama's deal with Iran because if he doesn't, everyone's going to be like, Hey, Obama got a better deal than you.
[01:15:46]  And that's literally the only thing that he hates more.
[01:15:50]  It's the one thing that drives him nuts in this world the idea that Obama beat him at something.
[01:15:54]  Just he lays in bed, tossing and turning at night, thinking that people are like, Obama was better than me.
[01:15:59]  No, he wasn't.
[01:16:01]  And it's such a self forced error, too, because all he had to do with Iran was nothing.
[01:16:08]  Right.
[01:16:09]  He could have sat on his ass with Iran and it would have just gone along on its own.
[01:16:14]  Right.
[01:16:15]  Literally, all he had to do was how they quote unquote tore up NAFTA and just came up with a new trade deal that was just NAFTA but a different name.
[01:16:27]  In his first term, all his idiot staff had to do was sit him down and tell him, we're going to negotiate a better deal with Iran than Obama got, and then go to Iran and be like, yo.
[01:16:40]  Our big baby in the White House just signed this piece of paper.
[01:16:43]  It's the same deal as the deal you had with Obama.
[01:16:46]  Just sign it, and we'll tell Trump it's better, and he'll be happy.
[01:16:50]  And you can touch a glowing globe or something.
[01:16:52]  Right.
[01:16:53]  And he'll touch a globe.
[01:16:54]  Exactly.
[01:16:55]  And they couldn't do it.
[01:16:57]  Trump had to tear up Obama's deal.
[01:16:59]  And then, after it was so easy getting Maduro out of Venezuela, he got high on his own supply and was like, well, now I can kill the Ayatollah.
[01:17:08]  That'll go great too.
[01:17:10]  And tomorrow, Cuba.
[01:17:11]  Yeah, doing exactly tomorrow, Cuba.
[01:17:14]  Just all this shit.
[01:17:16]  And meanwhile, and, you know, and I've been thinking about this ever since we, you know, we did this shit with Venezuela, we did the shit with Iran.
[01:17:27]  Hey, guess what?
[01:17:28]  The new 9 11 is already being planned, okay?
[01:17:33]  Because of what we're doing.
[01:17:35]  The next 9 11, who's ever going to execute the next big attack, they're already planning it because.
[01:17:43]  Fuck America.
[01:17:44]  That's what we're telling the world.
[01:17:47]  We are telling the world, hey, attack us.
[01:17:51]  Attack us.
[01:17:52]  We want it.
[01:17:54]  I would like to think that that should not be happening.
[01:17:57]  I understand that there's.
[01:17:58]  I would say it's happening though, is all these people are like, well, we can't count on America anymore.
[01:18:02]  Let's start looking to other people to.
[01:18:04]  That Europe abandoning us and all that kind of stuff is absolutely happening.
[01:18:08]  But I'm just saying, like, Bin Laden was not justified in attacking us.
[01:18:16]  And that is something that I think a lot of people take that stuff the wrong way, where they're like, oh, no, I'm not saying he was justified, but I'm saying, like, the next attack is being planned and this time it will be justified.
[01:18:31]  No, it won't.
[01:18:32]  It still won't be justified.
[01:18:34]  If someone blows up 10 million American civilians tomorrow, we can't go, well, Trump fucked up, so those people deserve to die.
[01:18:41]  Fuck them.
[01:18:41]  Well, I mean, they should be blowing up Trump, is what I'm saying.
[01:18:45]  But the point is that we are pissing people off on a global level, and it's going to come back.
[01:18:54]  And whether we deserve it or not, it's going to come back to haunt us.
[01:18:57]  And everyone's going to just shrug and go, I don't know why this happened.
[01:19:03]  Well, I mean, the honest thing about 9 11 was that George W. Bush was more right than most people when he said they hate us for our freedoms.
[01:19:11]  That's really what bin Laden's bullshit came down to.
[01:19:14]  But are people going to use this shit as a justification for attacking us?
[01:19:20]  Yes, absolutely they will.
[01:19:22]  And we showed them by getting rid of a lot of those freedoms.
[01:19:26]  America.
[01:19:27]  No, yeah.
[01:19:29]  The Republican Party sucks and needs to be destroyed.
[01:19:32]  Like, that is true.
[01:19:33]  But I'm just saying that, like, to me, Right now, where we're at is not a situation where, yeah, you know what, we're going to get hit with some terrorism.
[01:19:44]  And yeah, we earned it.
[01:19:45]  No, I mean, I just like this morning, I saw some clowns who were posting stuff like, when I was in school, I was told Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor for no reason.
[01:19:58]  And it's like, no, they attacked us because we embargoed their oil because we didn't want to fund their campaign of rape and genocide through Asia.
[01:20:08]  And then Japan was like, well, if you're not going to give us oil to do that, we're going to fuck you up.
[01:20:12]  And then they attacked us.
[01:20:13]  That's why.
[01:20:14]  That's what started our involvement in World War II.
[01:20:18]  It wasn't America being jerks to Japan for no reason.
[01:20:22]  And then Japan punched us.
[01:20:24]  There was a very good reason why we stopped giving Japan oil.
[01:20:27]  It's because genocide and rape are bad things.
[01:20:32]  And we shouldn't be condoning and endorsing nations that commit them.
[01:20:36]  So, yeah, that's what happened.
[01:20:37]  But We're in a bad place.

=== Japan Oil War History (02:10) ===

[01:20:42]  Our Middle Eastern policy is stupid and moronic.
[01:20:45]  I mean, me, like, if I fell into the White House tomorrow and was the president, I'd be like, full scale war of Iran.
[01:20:54]  No half measured bullshit.
[01:20:55]  We got to get the straight open.
[01:20:57]  We literal blood for oil because we're fucked.
[01:21:00]  We're fucked otherwise because they won't sign any paperwork with us because they don't sign anything because they can't trust it.
[01:21:08]  Nope, they can't trust anything Trump says.
[01:21:10]  Trump's word is worthless.
[01:21:12]  Like, there's no agreement he's going to be beholden to.
[01:21:15]  So they're just going to.
[01:21:15]  That's the thing.
[01:21:16]  No matter how many times you send Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff over there to collect billions of dollars, I mean, you know, trying to negotiate, they know that any treaty they sign is not going to be worth the paper it's written on.
[01:21:29]  Yeah, because Trump's just going to wake up tomorrow and be like, this agreement sucks.
[01:21:33]  Kill him.
[01:21:34]  And it's going to be like, what are you talking about?
[01:21:36]  What do you know?
[01:21:37]  They didn't say that I have a commanding 12 inch, you know, Dong hanging between my legs.
[01:21:43]  So, no, back to war.
[01:21:45]  And again, these same people were mad at George Bush for going to war after 9 11.
[01:21:52]  There was more of a reason to go to war, not in Iraq after 9 11, then, but we still shouldn't have done it.
[01:21:59]  But there was still more of a reason, and he actually went through Congress and all that.
[01:22:03]  Trump is just, you people need to get, you know, it's like in Big Lebowski say what you will about the National Socialists, at least they had an ethos.
[01:22:14]  These people can't be consistent in anything.
[01:22:18]  In anything, they can't be.
[01:22:22]  Nope, they're brainless little idiots.
[01:22:23]  Oh, they can't be consistent in their ass kissing.
[01:22:25]  I'll give them that.
[01:22:26]  Nope.
[01:22:27]  No, yeah, everything sucks.
[01:22:29]  Everything sucks.
[01:22:30]  It's very bad.
[01:22:31]  If Trump showed up at a press conference wearing nothing below the belt but depends, then you'd see Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson walking in the next day wearing depends.
[01:22:41]  Right, exactly.
[01:22:42]  They were doing that for a while when people were saying that Trump wore diapers.
[01:22:46]  There were some people that were going around like wearing diapers and shit to like mimic the guy.
[01:22:50]  Well, yeah, those were random manga assholes.

=== Inconsistent Weight Loss (05:53) ===

[01:22:52]  I'm talking about like actual people who are in positions of power.
[01:22:55]  Yeah.
[01:22:56]  Right.
[01:22:58]  Yeah.
[01:22:58]  So I'm out of gas here.
[01:23:02]  Anything good going on in you guys' lives?
[01:23:04]  Anything positive to end the show on?
[01:23:06]  I mean, do we got to take a break?
[01:23:08]  Helping my friend has been a big, big, big joy for me.
[01:23:13]  That has been good.
[01:23:15]  I'm taking my.
[01:23:16]  Oh, sorry.
[01:23:17]  You're not.
[01:23:17]  Sorry.
[01:23:18]  Keep going.
[01:23:19]  I was.
[01:23:20]  I'm getting better with GIMP, the photo editor.
[01:23:23]  And I've been.
[01:23:24]  Yeah, thank you for specifying that because that name is very unfortunate.
[01:23:29]  It's a good program, but wow.
[01:23:30]  That's it.
[01:23:32]  No, but I've been, and I've been like pounding out a lot of like cool like recolors and stuff like that for Sims 4.
[01:23:42]  And that's fun.
[01:23:44]  And I, I, all of my stuff is always free.
[01:23:49]  It's always free.
[01:23:50]  You don't even have to subscribe to get anything.
[01:23:53]  And there's no like, you know, oh, I'm giving you a gift for, for being a paying subscriber.
[01:23:58]  No, everything is always free.
[01:24:00]  And then some random person like joined my Patreon as a paid member.
[01:24:06]  And I'm like, oh, that really touches me.
[01:24:09]  So those are my good things helping my friend and just making all this stuff.
[01:24:13]  Go on.
[01:24:14]  I'm sorry.
[01:24:15]  No, I was just going to say that in about an hour, I'm going out with my wife and my mother and the rest of the family to have a nice Mother's Day brunch.
[01:24:26]  So that's a little ray of sunshine right there.
[01:24:29]  Yeah.
[01:24:31]  Yeah.
[01:24:32]  I think my good thing will mostly just be I wasn't really feeling it with the pill.
[01:24:37]  GLP one, so I've taken the shot for the last two weeks, and uh, I'm almost down about 10 pounds right now, just from uh, yeah, yeah, it's uh, I like, like, lost like six, yeah, I lost like six pounds last week.
[01:24:50]  I thought maybe it's just because you were on the uh, the low dosages, but yeah, I don't know, maybe the pills aren't as effective for some people.
[01:24:56]  Well, I mean, the other thing I'll say is, I just like, it may have just been from the fact that I've been on it for so long, I'm just not walking down the candy aisle and being like, ma'am, four packs of MMs, please, like, I'm just.
[01:25:09]  No, it's true.
[01:25:11]  I noticed that too.
[01:25:12]  My impulse control has gotten so much better.
[01:25:15]  Yeah.
[01:25:16]  So it's like, but yeah, I've taken two shots.
[01:25:20]  And last week, it was just like, I don't even know.
[01:25:24]  I melted after my first shot.
[01:25:26]  It was really funny.
[01:25:28]  So I know not to keep my hopes up.
[01:25:30]  And I know one or two pounds a week is kind of the goal.
[01:25:35]  And that's like the healthy weight loss.
[01:25:38]  Yeah.
[01:25:39]  It's very funny because.
[01:25:42]  I brought up Renatrutide to my weight loss doctor, and he was just sort of like, easy now, Tiger, easy.
[01:25:49]  So, if you don't know this, and I promise, I'll wrap this up in the next five minutes.
[01:25:55]  We'll get you out of here in a tight 90 or 91.
[01:25:58]  But, like, the first drug, Wogovio Zempic, is Semaglutide.
[01:26:05]  And then Zepbound and Majorno are Zepatrutide, is the drug.
[01:26:11]  There's this other drug that hasn't gotten FDA approval yet.
[01:26:15]  I'm sure that RFK Jr. needs to snort some off of a toilet seat before he sees what it's all about, really.
[01:26:20]  You can feel that.
[01:26:22]  Both of my co hosts having no reaction to that was such an incredible bomb of a joke.
[01:26:26]  God, my joke didn't hit at all.
[01:26:27]  No, no, no, it was good.
[01:26:29]  And that's the best off the back of the toilet is the best place to snort anything, not that I'm speaking from experience.
[01:26:36]  Yeah.
[01:26:36]  But Reddit True Tide, I'm sure you can get it on the websites like Hymns and Row and stuff like that.
[01:26:44]  They can mix it with some.
[01:26:45]  B12 and call it a weight loss compound or whatever.
[01:26:48]  But the Reta True Tide is insane.
[01:26:51]  Like, on top of all the weight suppressant and impulse control stuff, as Eric said, there's also like studies where it actually just increases your resting metabolism.
[01:27:02]  Like, instead of like burning like 500 calories an hour, you're burning like 600.
[01:27:07]  And I've seen people being like, well, if you work out and do other stuff, that'll be more than that.
[01:27:12]  It's like, yeah, but guess what?
[01:27:13]  This is nothing.
[01:27:14]  I don't have to do anything.
[01:27:15]  I just Burn extra calories off this thing.
[01:27:18]  And though they do say some sort of exercise is a good idea because a lot of what you lose with this GLP 1 is muscle mass.
[01:27:27]  Right.
[01:27:27]  Oh, yeah.
[01:27:28]  Yeah.
[01:27:28]  Oh, and protein.
[01:27:30]  Have a lot of protein of all your meals and all that kind of stuff.
[01:27:33]  Oh, yeah.
[01:27:34]  They're adamant about all those things.
[01:27:35]  But yeah.
[01:27:36]  But I'm just saying, like the Reddit True Tide, all the other drugs will say that your weight loss is going to be like 15 to 21%.
[01:27:47]  The redditrutides, I've seen the benchmarks are like your floor is 20%, your ceiling is like 27% or 28%.
[01:27:55]  So it's just like they got this thing that's coming out that's just going to melt you like a candle.
[01:28:01]  You're just going to walk around just like blobs of skin where your fat used to be because it's all gone now.
[01:28:10]  If you need to lose weight, but you don't weigh enough to qualify for the GLPs, ask your doctor about the Topamax and Fentermine.
[01:28:20]  Combination for weight loss, but I ran out of my fentanyl early because you're only supposed to take a quarter of a tablet.
[01:28:27]  How the hell do you take a quarter of a tablet even with a pill cutter?
[01:28:31]  That's so hard.
[01:28:32]  So when I get it refilled, I'm just gonna like lick it.
[01:28:38]  It's gonna be your weight loss lozenge.
[01:28:40]  Yeah, I mean, yeah, just cutting a pill in half is damn near impossible.

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