GabCast Bellgab.com - 28 March, 2020

March 28, 2020 - GabCast Bellgab.com

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28 March, 2020

28 March, 2020 ---------- BellGab user Stellar joins Liberace(!) in a four hour discussion of extraterrestrial life, radio signals from space, technology and conspiracies. An emergency "coronachan" version of The GabCast.

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	The following program sucks.
	We ain't got no fing microphone.
	We ain't got no speaker set up.
	And now, our feature presentation.
	This is the Gabcast, a podcast about bellgab.com.
	Call the show now at 573-837-4948.
	That's 573-837-4948.
	Now, shut up, sit down, and listen to the damn show.
	Even in quarantine, we maintain a high level of production quality.
	This is the Gabcast.
	This is an emergency edition of the Gabcast.
	At least, that's how it was sold to people.
	As an emergency version of the Gabcast.
	I'm MV, otherwise known as Liberace.
	Also here with Brig and Pate.
	What's going on, you guys?
	No, I don't want you both to do that at the same time.
	Just one of you at a time.
	Ready, go.
	I was hoping exactly what I wanted to happen there happened.
	I was hoping you guys would be confused as to who should go first because I didn't really delegate it.
	I just kind of said, you know what?
	If both of you could not do that at the same time.
	And then what I was really hoping for was that the two of you would actually do it at the same time again, just assuming that the other one was going to defer.
	But instead, you just both went the silent route.
	That's acceptable as well.
	Anyway.
	Well, but you didn't operate on that philosophy, did you?
	You just remained silent.
	So did she.
	Well, I guess you kind of did, didn't you?
	But she wasn't thinking ladies first.
	She just thought, well, you know what?
	I'm just going to sit back and see how this mess sorts itself out as a result of MV's lack of leadership.
	Give me just a second.
	I need to even further employ the NoiseGate here.
	Don't forget our intro music.
	What's that?
	Our intro music.
	What are you talking about, the intro music?
	You're not going to play our intro music.
	Oh, you didn't hear that?
	No.
	I wonder why you didn't hear the intro music.
	Well, I can assure you the intro music played.
	Okay.
	I don't know why you didn't hear it, though.
	So you just heard me come in and start talking like some sort of psycho.
	Hey, everybody, it was the Gabcast.
	Like, wow, that must have been rather grating.
	Well, that's what we heard.
	Suffice it to say, the bumper music did play.
	This is the Gabcast quarantine edition.
	As I sit here, day five of quarantine, not going anywhere, not doing anything.
	Although we did take a nice walk today.
	We hit the walking trail.
	Got a nice new little puppy.
	How old is the dog?
	How old is the dog?
	Two months.
	Two months.
	The dog is two months old.
	It's just this cute little...
	One, two, three, Pete.
	Aww.
	Oh, I know.
	Oh.
	Hey, buddy.
	There's nothing I could say during this podcast now from this point forward that could or should offend or off-put anybody because I own a cute little puppy.
	So, you know, that should tell you something about me.
	That should overshadow any negativity that otherwise would be held against me during this broadcast.
	Well, at least you're not a cat lady.
	Well, as has been the case for many years, I'm going to have to keep turning this Noisegate up.
	As has been the case for many years, I still live with two cats.
	That has not changed.
	One of the biggest mistakes I ever made in my marriage was allowing my wife to get two cats.
	And I thought, well, you know, she was living far away from her family and everything, and she was kind of a little bit lonely because of it.
	And I, being sympathetic to that, allowed her to get a cat.
	I say that in such a kingly way.
	I allowed it.
	I think Jackstar was in the room when that executive decision was made.
	He allowed it.
	He allowed it.
	Of course it was him.
	He may not have been in the room physically, but in spirit, he was definitely there.
	I allowed her to get a cat.
	I get it.
	And then what's one cat without two?
	I mean, one cat, what does it do?
	It sits around and it plays with dust.
	What is it going to do?
	You get one cat, and let's say the sun's shining just right, and you can see the dust floating through the air as a result.
	Maybe, I don't know, maybe that'll pique the cat's curiosity.
	Maybe it'll swat at the air.
	That's about all the entertainment you're going to get out of that cat.
	So, naturally, the thing to do seemed to be to get another cat.
	So, we got another cat.
	And, oh, hey, guess what?
	That cat is just as boring as the first one was.
	And you put them together, and you now have multitudes of borings stacked on top of one another.
	They don't play with each other.
	They don't do any funny things.
	The only thing that they have brought to the table is me having allergic reactions to them.
	That's the only thing they've brought to the table.
	Has the puppy added any exciting?
	Oh, no.
	Oh, yes, yes.
	The puppy.
	I thought you were going to ask if the puppy has added to my allergy problem.
	No.
	The puppy has, in fact, been a godsend because it has demonstrated to me that I can, in fact, still snuggle an animal without winding up in an ER.
	You know, I can still hold an animal.
	Oh, you cute little thing.
	You just sort of hold him up to my face and just smell his little puppy breath and just kind of whisper into his ear, oh, you cute little.
	We haven't really settled on a name yet, and Nabila kind of wanted to go with Scooby, which I promptly informed her.
	If you're looking, if you are actively searching for the most uninspired, uncreative, soulless, uninteresting, just disconnected, I'm not invested in this process at all dog name ever, then fine.
	Go ahead and pick Scooby.
	It's not Belgabian at all.
	It's too common.
	And clearly her objective, as she said about this process, was to be Belgabian to adhere to adhere to the standards that Belgab may have set for her and may expect of her.
	Hey, guys, hey, could you just be a little bit quieter?
	Just a smidge quieter.
	I mean, the NoiseGate technology on this mic processor can only do so much.
	It really.
	I know.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, dear lord.
	It's just a collection of savages here.
	As we go about day five of quarantine.
	I'm sorry, Peg.
	Go ahead.
	That's going to sell them the technical limitations of the equipment.
	Like, oh, yes, you're right.
	We'll just settle right down.
	Well, when I bought this mic processor, I read the fine print and it said, in the event of a five-day plus quarantine as a result of coronavirus number 19, you will be able to filter your kids out of the official podcast of Bellgab.com.
	And I regret to inform anyone listening that the unit is well beyond warranty at this point.
	I can't begin to return it.
	So.
	So that's just Jasmine and Lena making all that noise.
	Oh, they're insane.
	And they're dancing currently to a video on YouTube called Paralyzed.
	And in parentheses are the letters NF.
	I don't know what NF means, but I'm inclined to think it means this is something kids shouldn't be listening to.
	What is the NF in parentheses, Jasmine?
	She doesn't even know I'm speaking to her.
	You see how dead I am to my own children once they cast their eyes upon YouTube?
	You see how deaf they are to any expressions of concern or interest that may come from me?
	Have you tried pounding on your desk heavy gate style?
	Maybe I'll try hurting my ankle in front of them.
	And the sympathy, the sympathy drenched upon me.
	I'm just going to keep turning this noise gate up until I feel like it's actually doing something.
	Well, apparently that didn't work.
	And you know, something really weird that's happening is I have this delay dump that I run.
	And for whatever reason, the buffer on it is just slowly going away.
	And I don't know why, because I'm not dumping anything.
	That's really odd.
	It doesn't matter.
	That's inside baseball stuff.
	If you want to call into the show tonight, the number to call is 573-837-4948.
	That would be 573-837-4948.
	I will warn the listening audience in advance.
	I've already begun tequila consumption.
	That's already started.
	Out of the gate.
	Normally, in this situation, I'm going to wait until the broadcast has commenced.
	And from that point, I may begin imbibing.
	But in this case, actually, Brig and I had a really long Voxer conversation tonight that carried on for well into an hour.
	And that was the conversation during which I was sipping tequila.
	And I thought to myself, well, you know what?
	Why are we not just doing a gab cast?
	If we're sitting here chit-chatting like this, I've got nothing to do.
	I've never felt more useless in my life.
	I have nowhere to go.
	No one to see.
	There's no money to be made.
	We should share our ideas about solutions to the world's problems.
	Well, when I suggested this broadcast tonight, in the back of my mind, I was thinking, if anything, Brigg is going to solve some of the world's most pressing issues, even if she doesn't necessarily want to do this broadcast.
	So I'm glad to know that you and I are on the same wavelength in this regard.
	Coronavirus or COVID-19, as it's being more clinically referred to.
	Let me turn the noise gate up even further.
	I've never turned it up this high.
	I can't believe it.
	It's like I don't know what the limits of this box are.
	This one goes to 11.
	Well, actually, this one goes to 24.
	And I'm really beginning to climb here.
	Let's just put it this way.
	I'm approaching 3 o'clock on the knob.
	I don't know if.
	I don't know.
	I mean, there are things that got...
	What I'm trying to tell you is if smoke starts rising from my equipment, you will understand.
	You will understand why the broadcast just suddenly ceased.
	Go ahead, Pate.
	So you say you're turning the knob to 3 o'clock.
	Where is 0?
	Zero start at 6?
	I'd say 0 is at the knobs.
	There's a threshold and a ratio.
	Both of them start at about 7 o'clock.
	And I'm approaching 3 on both of these.
	Because normally you don't want that set too aggressively.
	Because what'll happen is it'll cut out the beginning of everything you say.
	Like if you're silent and then you start speaking, it'll cut off the beginning of your sentence because there's not enough just environmental noise to get you over the hump to get across the gate.
	And you'll sound really weird.
	But when you've got a lot of background noise like this, my God, you can just crank that thing.
	Are you sure you're supposed to be turning the knob?
	Maybe you're supposed to be pushing the knob or pulling the knob.
	Well, luckily, this thing is elevated to such an extent, I've actually considered whether the pouring of errant liquids into this piece of equipment might have any effect on it.
	But it's elevated to such a level that my kids have not been able to demonstrate the effectiveness of that approach.
	So, I mean, it's never too early to hope, though, is it?
	I don't think it is.
	Well, I don't think our listeners care.
	I don't know how many people we could possibly have listening at the moment because this was not promoted in any way whatsoever.
	Dr. MDMD says that I am breaking up a bit.
	I don't know if that's because of the noise gate or if there's some sort of other problem.
	I mean, my voice is going through a lot of different.
	I tell you what I'm going to do here.
	I am going to.
	I see a problem right out of the gate.
	So we're going to keep talking.
	The stream is going to drop for a moment and come right back.
	So let me just do this.
	Let me exit that.
	And I'm going to bring this up.
	And I'm going to disconnect that.
	And reconnect this.
	And that's not going to work because I have to have this.
	And I do not.
	Okay, test one, two.
	Okay.
	So I'm sorry for anybody.
	Sorry for dead air.
	It.
	I can't speak and type at the same time.
	I'm sorry.
	We'll end in a second.
	Okay, that's for everybody in the chat room there.
	So the number to call, if you want to be on the show, 573-837-4948.
	And I'm looking at this.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, there it is.
	Okay, that looks normal now.
	If you want to be on the show, I have a far more complicated setup here than I think I need for what I'm doing.
	Actually, the delay dump is what adds a lot of complexity into things.
	And I know that some people may think it's a very unbellgab thing to have a delay dump, but it's more to protect other people than anything else.
	I don't care about people calling in and using profanity or anything of that nature at all.
	It's mostly to prevent attempts at doxing and whatnot.
	And it came in handy recently, in fact.
	Brigg, you remember we had Azure A on the show?
	And we played that clip.
	Remember we played that clip from his podcast?
	I don't know, but I'll tell you the delay dump came in handy for that.
	Just sliced it right out of there.
	He's just gone.
	I wonder what happened to the poor soul.
	Is he gone?
	I've spent so little time on the forum recently.
	I don't even know.
	I've been so worried about him.
	Well, MV.
	I've been extremely worried about him.
	Are you being genuine right now?
	Because I got to tell you, I am detecting just a smidge of sarcasm.
	Oh, MV.
	Now, you know, the poor man, he came to Bell Gab, and all he wanted was a little bit of support and attention.
	He wanted people to know about his, what does he call that thing?
	Podcast.
	He tells us all about himself and how he feels about everybody.
	And what's that thing called?
	Condition.
	His podcast?
	I don't know what he calls it, but all he wanted to do was get some approval, feel like part of the gang.
	I mean, and I don't know.
	Now he's gone.
	I suppose he has his tail between his legs feeling all forlorn.
	And I feel sorry for the poor guy.
	Well, I detect sarcasm in what it is that you're saying right now.
	And I will tell you for the record that I am more loyal to Azure and more in support of Azure than I have been of any Bell Gabber ever.
	I'm Michael Van Dee.
	You have been.
	You have been.
	Oh, stop it.
	Well, come on.
	Go ahead, Carry on.
	Finish out that thought.
	I was waiting for you.
	I thought there was more there.
	I suppose he's gone back to what's that called?
	Asgab?
	And I don't know.
	I suppose he has to deal with Mitron day in, day out.
	See, you always pronounced it Mitron.
	I always just instinctively thought it was Metron.
	That's how it always jumped off the screen at me, is Metron.
	I always called it Metron until Richard Groiper informed me that it was pronounced Mitron.
	Well, and you know, Richard Groiper would never lie.
	Pate types in the chat room that phonetically it's meet, M-E-A-T, and then run, R-O-N.
	Suddenly, things are making more sense in that regard.
	Thank you for that contribution, Pate.
	You're welcome.
	I'm really surprised here, and I feel like it perhaps is a bit indicative of my downfall that here we are doing this show, and I'm drinking, but Pate isn't.
	Like, Pate actually sized up the situation and decided for himself that tonight would maybe not necessarily be the best night for him to drink.
	And he didn't do so.
	And the liquor stores are closed.
	Is that all this came down to?
	If I walk out at night to go pick up some booze right now, I will probably get mobbed by zombies.
	And I don't know.
	Maybe listeners would enjoy that, but I don't think I would.
	So it's not the result of any sort of personal growth on your part or some sort of an expression of personal responsibility.
	It was just you couldn't get no liquor.
	Well, actually, I have, what do I got?
	Like eight Miller High Life tall boys in the fridge?
	I could.
	But liquor stores are closed.
	I got to save them, man.
	Morgus says Metron is the advanced aliens on Star Trek that caused Kirk to battle the Gorn.
	You know, I'm really shaky on original series references.
	Now, if you want to get into the next generation, I can mention obscurities that you wouldn't believe.
	I can follow pretty much any train of thought, any storyline you want to mention.
	I can be a major contributor to that conversation.
	But when it comes to the original series, you know, it's really something.
	As into The Next Generation as I was, I haven't seen it in a few years.
	Like, maybe once every five years, I'll just plow through the whole series.
	I do that with several shows.
	I do that with The Sopranos.
	I do that with Breaking Bad.
	I do that with MASH.
	And Star Trek the Next Generation is another one of those that just every five years or so, I'll just plow through the whole series again.
	And yet, when I took into account my appreciation for The Next Generation, I thought naturally, if I go take a look at the original series, which I have seen in bits and pieces over the years as it aired in syndication, I thought naturally I'm going to go watch that and I'm going to appreciate it as much as I do the next generation.
	Well, au contraire, that in fact was not my takeaway.
	If I'm being totally honest with you, I find the original series entirely unwatchable.
	And if I'm going to be even more honest with you, I think that Gene Roddenberry was not really all that impressive.
	Not nearly as much so as people give him credit for.
	I realize he was doing a TV show on a shoestring budget with rapid production schedules, and nobody took the show seriously to begin with.
	And if the people who were behind the scenes financing the show and making the actual executive decisions about the show had known what kind of a cultural phenomenon it was going to be 30, 40 years, 45 years down the road, 50 years down the road, certainly they would have allowed him to put more into the show.
	But alas, nobody has a crystal ball.
	Having said that, take a look at 2001 A Space Odyssey, the Stanley Kubrick Classic, and look at what went into that movie.
	I watched that just about two months ago again.
	That's another one that I'll do this with movies as well.
	Certain specific movies I will give another spin once every three, four, five years, whatever.
	And I recently did this with 2001 A Space Odyssey.
	And that introduction scene where they show the Earthrise, I think it's the Earthrise from the moon.
	Or maybe it's not from anything.
	Maybe it's just from space and you see the Earth rising over the moon.
	I don't know.
	I don't remember.
	But the point I want to make is when you look at the special effects that were employed in making that film, and we're talking a movie that was made in 1968.
	Anyone who has not seen 2001 A Space Odyssey, 68 Sonny in there.
	Okay, so 52 years ago, this movie was released.
	It was probably in production 53 or 54 years ago.
	And go look at the introductory scene to that movie where you see the planetary bodies.
	I think it's just the Earth rising over the moon, over the moon's horizon.
	It looks legit.
	It looks totally real.
	You would never know looking at that that that was not actually filmed in space by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration today.
	You would have no idea.
	It looks that good.
	And that was being made at the same time Star Trek the Next Generation was being made?
	Oh my God.
	And the juxtaposition of those two things, when you take this into consideration, to me, it makes Star Trek the Next Generation that much more unwatchable.
	And I understand all the reasons why I just laid them out myself.
	But I'm just not impressed by the original series.
	I'm not particularly impressed with Gene Roddenberry.
	And again, if I'm being totally honest with you, I think that the next generation got better when Gene Roddenberry died and Rick Berman took over the series as executive producer.
	Now, I know some people are going to quarrel with that.
	I know some people are going to view that with the assignment of some level of sacrilege.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	That's just my honest takeaway.
	And there may be a certain segment of the listening audience right now who has no idea who Rick Berman is, has only heard the name Gene Roddenberry in Peripheral Passing, and is not at all aware of the special effects employed in the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey, a movie in production 53 or 54 years ago.
	If you haven't seen it, it's not just that opening scene, by the way.
	It's everything in that movie.
	From the scenes where they are outside the space shuttle, the scenes where they're floating around in zero-G environments.
	Everything about it.
	amazing that movie could totally have been made today and would not be the you would not know that it had been made like Well, let me rephrase that.
	If you saw that movie today, never having seen it, and you were not told that the movie was made in 1968, you'd have no idea whatsoever.
	But for a few tells, a few giveaways, like when the guy sits down in front of the video phone and stuff like that, you can tell that what they did there, they were envisioning from a 1968 perspective what communication may be like in the future.
	So specific stuff like that, they kind of screwed up on.
	Like the guy sits in front of a video phone and after he, it's either after the call or before the call, a voice comes on and tells him, AT ⁇ T requests that you enter 15 US dollars to make this video call.
	I don't remember verbatim the company or whatever, but that's the gist of what it is.
	And when you're seeing this, you're like, okay, that is totally not the way it ended up working out.
	I mean, we're talking to people all over the world now with Skype over HD video, and it looks beautiful, and it doesn't cost a penny.
	No one envisioned that.
	But aside from those specifics, it's really an amazing movie.
	And it causes me to have a much more difficult time appreciating Star Trek the next generation.
	Brigg, what were you wowing about there?
	I'm sorry.
	I was just doing my Heather Wade interpretation.
	So do let's pretend for a moment that with the little dissertation I just did, the little soliloquy I just heaved upon the listening audience.
	Let's pretend that during that I was a guest and you were Heather Wade.
	Are you saying that that's what I would be hearing as a guest during her show?
	That's my guess.
	Oh boy.
	Well, don't guess because you actually listen to her show, not because you are doing so necessarily as an active listener, but because you are.
	I am a long time loyal listener.
	Well, but, I mean, let's be honest, your motives may be slightly nefarious.
	I mean, you're listening.
	You're listening so that you can be entertained by her behavior.
	I mean, let's be honest with one another.
	I mean, come on, Brig.
	I don't know if I have just allowed people to view behind the curtain, perhaps a little more so than I normally would or should.
	But you know what?
	A little bit of liver poison can do that to you.
	I'm here to tell anyone listening to this broadcast right now that Brig does not have entirely pure motives in listening to Heather Wade on a nightly basis.
	Thoughts?
	How dare you, sir?
	You cannot speak of my girlfriend in that manner.
	Good lord.
	Asuka Langley says, I guess I need to take my ADD meds and watch 2001 all the way through.
	I can understand that take on the situation.
	And in fact, I will concede that the movie is a little bit artsy-fartsy.
	And I feel like, for lack of a plot, they kind of went a little esoteric in their attempts to account for a lack of any sort of real plot.
	And it's one of those situations where you're presented with an artistic package that perhaps the creators of which didn't even know what it was they were saying or what it was they were doing, but it's presented to you.
	And if you don't get it, if it's not your thing, if you're not on the same wavelength, well, that's your problem, man.
	And I do catch some of that vibe from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
	I think the plot at a certain point, I think the plot in that movie falls apart when everyone went at the point where all of the astronauts go to the moon and they find the monument.
	What do they call it?
	An obelisk, I think is what they call it.
	And they're standing there and suddenly there's this loud ringing sound.
	And I think the movie from that point forward is just sort of like, um, eh, okay.
	What's happening here?
	But never mind all of that.
	I'm not necessarily proposing that to anybody.
	2001 A Space Odyssey, I'm not necessarily proposing that to the listening audience as the finest in cinematic screenwriting necessarily.
	I'm just presenting it as an example of what was possible from a special effects standpoint in 1966 or 67, which is when that movie was produced.
	And then I think about a TV show like Star Trek the Original series makes it a little bit the monolith.
	That's what it was.
	Thank you, Morgus.
	You know something I've always liked about Morgus?
	He's just this encyclopedic repository of information.
	Like, I don't know that there's ever been a subject anybody could be discussing.
	It could be something directly related to Art Bell or that whole universe, or it could be something that's entirely unrelated and disconnected to that.
	And Morgus is just always right there to save the day.
	If you want to be on the show, the number to call, you didn't sound very sincere in that.
	Yeah, there, Brig.
	I think that Brig has a beef with Morgus, and I want to go ahead and hash this out right now.
	Brig, what is the beef with Morgus?
	I like Morgus.
	See, I don't believe that.
	You've told me on multiple occasions that you can't stand Morgus.
	You wish Morgus would come to Belgab and reveal that he has contracted colorectal cancer.
	You've said that on more occasions than I can count.
	I'm kidding.
	Brigg has said nothing of the sort.
	I say that about everybody, MV.
	Well, okay, I take that back.
	She did say it, but she said it kind of in passing.
	It was just sort of a throwaway statement that didn't really mean much.
	No, I'm kidding.
	Brigg never said anything of the sort.
	It's something I've always appreciated about Morgus.
	He's just always there with the facts.
	Now, Pate says I think it's his Austin Powers teeth that turns her off.
	Oh, Pate, you're referring to Briggs' problem with Morgus.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	His avatar.
	Well, I wasn't entirely sure what it was that you were referring to there.
	I hope.
	Did his avatar have some goofy teeth?
	Well, it's actually that Morgus character that apparently George Norrie was all into when he was a kid and never was able to shake it well into adulthood, which is why I'm really shocked that George Norrie has grandchildren because that implies he has children, which implies he's actually had sex with women or at least a woman.
	And I cannot believe that being into this Morgus character, a local TV show personality that did everything within his power to make himself look as that character in Morgus' avatar does.
	I cannot believe that person into adulthood still being a fan and admirer of that TV show and that personality ever had an opportunity to see a naked woman.
	Well, now, maybe in Dave's early career or before, you know, when he was doing the St. Louis local circuit or Detroit or wherever he was from, he went to the sperm donor bank a little bit to supplement his income and got out in the wild.
	And then when he became a successful TV star, radio show host, and all-around high roller, some of those ladies came after him for child support.
	Can't they do that?
	I don't think they can.
	I think that when you go to a sperm bank and you are a recipient of a donation, I think there is a certain legal understanding that you take part in that you are not going to seek any sort of financial compensation from the person who donated the sperm to you.
	Although there are cases of guys who actually freelance doing this.
	There's a case of a guy, I think he's in New York, I think he's in New York.
	He might be out of Manhattan.
	I think he's somewhere out of New York.
	And he has for the last two or three decades freelance, been a sperm donor for countless women.
	I think the count is well over 30 at this point.
	In some instances, donated the old-fashioned way, the old-timey way.
	Sort of.
	And in some instances, donated through the more clinical way, which, depending on the woman, I mean, I would have to say to you that depending on the woman, I will add that caveat.
	I would say that in certain circumstances, okay, we'll assume the guy is probably not being paid.
	So if he's not being paid with actual money, it seems to me that, I don't know, allowing him to actually, and I know I'm going to take some flack for this.
	I may be kicked off of my network and lose my job for seeing this in the Me Too era.
	But it seems to me that if this gentleman is going to donate his DNA to a woman, the least she should be expected to do is to allow him to donate it in the conventional method.
	I mean, if she's getting his DNA for free, she's not being charged anything for it.
	And some of these women have come back after the fact and sued this guy.
	And I don't know, I have to assume it's because when you donate to a sperm bank, you are shielded legally from any financial repercussions.
	I think I can go ahead and turn this Noisegate back down.
	I think you're shielded from any financial repercussions.
	You can't be sued.
	I think that the people who receive the donations actually sign some sort of a waiver that proscribes that sort of tactic on their part.
	But if you're just some guy who's meeting people by the 7-Eleven at 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday, all right, let's make it happen.
	Well, I guess things could go wrong in that case.
	And several of these women have sued this guy.
	But I just think in this situation, if, and again, I will stipulate, depending on the woman, I mean, you're not going to want to receive payment in this way with just any old woman.
	But I think if you're going to donate your DNA, if you are going to give the gift of life to someone in this way, I don't think it's asking too much to suggest that you be allowed to at least enjoy the experience.
	I mean, the woman is going to carry the child.
	She's going to feel this budding life within her.
	She's going to appreciate that process.
	Ah, the gift of life within me.
	I have it.
	And it's blossoming within me.
	And she's going to go through all of these stages and all of these milestones.
	And she's going to develop all of these memories.
	She's going to be taking photos.
	She's going to be sharing the experience with her family.
	She's going to be showing people her baby bump.
	She's going to be taking friends with her to the JCPenney to pick out maternity clothing.
	She's going to be having baby showers.
	People are going to be donating cribs and onesies.
	There's going to be a party with streamers and inflated balloons, some containing helium, some not.
	I think perhaps the guy could maybe get in on a little bit of this.
	Am I wrong?
	You're correct.
	You, sir, are correct.
	I don't know why the guy should be entirely emotionally cut out.
	I mean, if he's going to face the same possible civil possible ramification, possible ramifications in civil court, he may as well enjoy the experience.
	That's all I'm saying.
	And I don't care what these women promise him.
	Apparently, some of I'm sure he sat down with every one of them and said, now, listen, I don't want you coming back at me five years from now.
	I do not need that.
	So I just want to make sure we're on the same page here.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
	Totally.
	Yeah, I'm totally.
	Oh, no.
	It's just, you'll never hear from me again.
	And then next thing he knows, three months after the baby's born, you know, I just didn't realize how much formula got.
	So, yeah.
	Gonna have to ask you to kind of help.
	I mean, that has happened to this guy.
	I think in this article I read, he's helped over 30 women, and he has faced these sorts of ramifications in civil court, in civil cases, at least, I think, eight times.
	That's not a very good ratio.
	I mean, I'm sure he's sitting down with these women and he's giving them the outline.
	Okay, here are my expectations.
	You know, you're not going to contact me.
	I'm not going to be a part of this kid's life.
	I'm not going to pay for anything.
	I'm not going to be on the birth certificate as the father.
	And then the next thing you know, two seconds in, they're sending the guy pictures of the kid's first birthday.
	They're inviting him to the Bris.
	They are, it's just nothing went the way this guy expected.
	And are you okay over there, Brig?
	I'm enjoying it thoroughly.
	You don't, I mean, she is so totally heather-waiting me, and I'm finding it entirely distracting.
	And as I'm finding it distracting, I'm imagining myself a guest on Heather Wade's show, and I'm thinking to myself, is this what they go through?
	Is this what the guests on Heather's show are enduring?
	And I think that it is, in fact.
	And as I listened to Nori over the years doing exactly that thing, I asked myself, how many other paranormal podcasters are going to be adversely influenced by this?
	Just the incessant exclamation of, wow, or amazing as someone's talking.
	Because if I'm on a roll with something and I'm just sort of, you know, letting it go as seems fit in the moment and I'm hearing wow or amazing on the other end.
	I have to assume that that.
	I'm also my grandmother's listening.
	My grandmother's listening.
	I have to assume that host is in the process of rolling a blunt.
	Go ahead, Pete.
	This is a family show, Lee.
	My mother listens to this.
	You can't be talking about, geez, sperm donors and stuff like that.
	This is national broadband.
	Isn't that what Nori would be doing?
	He would shut you down in the middle of your rant, man.
	That's what Nori would do.
	As I turned on the podcast machine here, I said to myself, listen, with great power comes great responsibility.
	And I thought on that for a moment, and then I said, ah, fuck it.
	Turn it on.
	Let's do this.
	And so here we are.
	If you want to be on the show tonight, the number to call 573-837-4948.
	It is 573-837-4948.
	This is an emergency gab cast.
	And it's an emergency because I understand, as does the listening audience, understand, a significant portion of this nation's population is currently in the midst of a quarantine.
	And so nobody's going anywhere.
	Nobody's doing anything.
	The economy is effectively shut down.
	You can't go to work.
	And so you sit at home.
	And even if you wanted to go somewhere, nothing's open.
	And on the one hand, it's great because you have no obligations put upon you.
	Nobody can say, why are you just sitting here?
	What's your problem?
	Why don't you go do something?
	So this is what I'm used to hearing is, what is your problem?
	Why don't you just get up and go do something?
	Why are you so sedentary?
	Why don't you just, I don't know.
	I mean, you're healthy and you have working legs.
	Go do something with your free time.
	That's what I'm used to.
	But now, here we are in this situation.
	There's nothing anybody can tell anybody to go do.
	If someone yells at you in that regard, what is it that they're going to finish the sentence with?
	What is it that they're going to tell you you should be doing?
	There's nothing they can tell you to do.
	They can't tell you to go to the park.
	You can't swing.
	You can't sit on a park bench.
	That's like the last thing.
	Why don't you just go lick the handrail at Grand Central Station?
	If you're going to sit on a park bench, why don't you just go to a handrail?
	Better yet, pick a handrail that leads into the restrooms at Grand Central Station, stick your tongue out and just give it a nice, solid lick.
	Tastes a little bit salty, doesn't it?
	That's what.
	Did you listen to Heather Wait's show last night?
	What kind of question is that?
	Really?
	Full of advice about what we should be doing right now.
	Okay, what did she say?
	We should be being kind to each other.
	Does that include not feeding people when they come to stay at your house and help you with your radio show?
	Well, that was that.
	Is that the person who's lecturing others on how to be kind?
	Jesus fucking Christ.
	That was then.
	Now you should be helping your neighbor and inspiring them to feel good and happy and joyful and calm and saying nice things.
	But don't don't have, no, don't have any mass consciousness experiments like they were having on Coast.
	What was the mass consciousness experiment?
	Was it to get hydroxychloroquine to work?
	Was that some caller called in and let Heather know that he was a bit tired of hearing her go on about coronavirus and that, you know, he didn't put it in that tone of voice.
	It was like he was suggesting to her that she perhaps needed to get her mind off it and try some positive things.
	You know, this positivity movement that we have in recent years.
	And he suggested to her that perhaps she would have enjoyed more trying a mass consciousness experiment like they were having on coast last night.
	And I would imagine it was...
	What did they try to do with their mass consciousness experiment?
	Like, what specifically were they trying to affect?
	Well, my understanding of these mass consciousness experiments is where you imagine sending out thoughts and prayers and positive thoughts about the planet, healing the people and the vibes.
	And we deserve coronavirus and having you all not me, it's just.
	I mean to think that there are actually people out there walking around in shoes that they purchased, suggesting that we're going to think this virus away.
	Like I understand, when things were sort of light and airy and not too terribly serious, that's the time when you can go on a national radio show or, in Heather's case international, and say things like think the pain away, think the negativity away, and people look at that and they nod approvingly and say ah yes, I understand I have been too negative.
	But you know, we're in kind of a clinical situation here where it's pretty clear what it is we're dealing with.
	And as, go ahead Brett, when you consider the shows that we have to select from to listen to, it's no wonder we've become so negative.
	And, by the way, people may be wondering, MV, why is your, why are your children up at this hour?
	And I have to tell you that it's because I am an entirely negligent parent and in fact my children don't even go to school and I don't remember feeding them.
	I've been told they were fed.
	I really don't know.
	No actually, what it comes down to is that there's no reason to care who goes to bed when I've become something of Something of a nihilist, actually, in the midst of all of this.
	I just, who gives a shit?
	What, if I sleep till 2 p.m., someone's going to care?
	But if my kids are up at crazy hours of the night, I'm, what, someone going to write a letter of complaint against me?
	Go screw.
	What are we going to do?
	We got to be up in time to go to the park?
	We got to be up in time to go to McDonald's.
	Oh, no, we got to be up in time to go to Walmart.
	No, that's not on the list either.
	Let me think of some more options.
	Hmm.
	Well, now, let me get back to Heather Wade and the mass consciousness, mass consciousness thing going on on Coast.
	In her defense, she did say, I was really surprised.
	But she did say that at some point that happy thoughts and stuff like that don't really get anything done.
	So, you know, I was kind of proud of her for saying that.
	Well, yes, on one level, I guess it could be.
	But I was, you know, proud of her for saying that.
	Having said all of that, I think this is entirely overblown.
	And I don't care what anybody thinks about my opinion on this matter.
	I'm just going to give you my opinion.
	I don't appreciate the fact that I am not able to go to work.
	I don't appreciate the fact that I am forced to sit here and talk to August.
	Well, that is the one enjoyable facet of this.
	Which it's my mind quickly went into recovery mode there.
	I don't appreciate having to sit here and feel useless.
	I don't like it.
	And I understand that the government is going to send every adult $1,200 and you're going to get $500 for each child.
	And by the time it's all said and done, between that and whatever else you're going to get for free, I mean, a lot of people are not actually going to lose too terribly much out of this, but I don't care about any of that.
	I just don't like feeling useless.
	And right now, that's kind of how I feel.
	There's nothing to do.
	There's no way to be productive.
	You can't even find alternative means of being productive.
	You just have to sit around.
	And I'm sick of it.
	Heather Wade had some suggestions for that, too.
	Oh, God.
	She suggested picking up some old hobbies, tinkering with things around your house, cleaning your cupboard, cleaning out your.
	So like if I find a screw that's just like, I don't know what it's for, there's a screw in a part of my house.
	It's just right there in the wall.
	I don't know what it's there for.
	I'm going to tinker.
	I'm just going to start disassembling my home.
	If something's broken, you know, you could try and fix it and take on projects in your home that you've let go for a while because you've been so busy.
	Okay, this is.
	It's not like they were original thoughts, you know, that all the rest of us haven't thought of already.
	Oh, she suggested watching Netflix.
	Oh, hey, that's.
	But, you know, never saw that coming.
	Yeah, they weren't original thoughts.
	You know, they were thoughts that all of us have already had.
	But she said it like she was being a teacher with profound new ideas about things that we could do to occupy our time.
	You know, it, yeah.
	She tried.
	She tried.
	I mean, I guess we'll give her credit for that.
	I'm not even trying.
	I'm just annoyed by the whole thing.
	And I feel like there is politics and everything that surrounds us.
	Even the most innocuous subjects that you would feel have no connection whatsoever to politics.
	There is politics in those issues.
	And I feel like this issue of coronavirus, COVID-19, is steeped in politics.
	And I feel as though it's not a matter of I feel that's bullshit.
	I know.
	If you look back to 2019, the swine flu infected 60 million Americans.
	60 million.
	It killed 15,000.
	Nobody told me I couldn't go to work.
	Nobody told my kids they have to stay home from school.
	None of that shit went down.
	No one shut any restaurants down.
	Nobody shut any city administrative offices down.
	Everything kept working.
	And nobody spent time on TV to tell us all what a shit stain Barack Obama was because he wasn't handling it well.
	And even if things had gotten even further out of hand than they did with swine flu in 2009, I wouldn't have necessarily blamed it on him.
	But here we have this situation, which is entirely disproportionate in terms of the reach that it appears it's going to have.
	I don't think 60 million people are going to wind up having been infected by this.
	And I'd be surprised.
	I don't know what the current death toll is in this country for coronavirus 19.
	But if it exceeds 15,000, that's going to surprise me.
	It may have already done so.
	I don't know.
	I'm not keeping up with the numbers.
	I think it's the number of hospital beds that it's requiring, the number of ventilators, the number of hospital staff, and then staff are getting sick.
	I think it's the medical problem, the fact that the medical profession hasn't been reinvesting the $7,948 per day per toothbrush that they have been getting and investing it and expanding in things that they might need in an event such as this.
	Dr. MDMD, I'm sorry, Brig.
	Dr. MDMD says that 80,000 died from the flu just two years ago.
	I read recently that in the period from, I think it was October of 19 through March of this year, the flu in the United States alone has killed something on the order of about 50,000 people.
	50,000 people.
	But they would argue that that is that low because we have been doing social distancing.
	Well, I would I would I would it would be much greater than that had we not been doing this.
	Well.
	Well, I know that you and I are not necessarily on different pages, Brig, in terms of our perception of this situation.
	But take into consideration the fact that the social distancing that we have been imploring our fellow citizens to do also applied to the flu.
	It is not something that was exclusive to the coronavirus.
	Any social distancing, any precautionary measures that were taken in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus in this country or any other country would also work toward preventing the spread of the flu.
	Yet, from October of 19 to March of this year, the approximate number dead, and this is only in the United States, by the way, 50,000 dead.
	50,000.
	That's only in this country.
	And yet, globally, let's see what the, I'm going to do a little Google searching at the moment here.
	I'm not good at typing and speaking.
	You'll have to accept my apologies.
	Coronavirus global death toll.
	And currently, right now, it is at 30,891 deaths.
	That's the official tally.
	Now, of those 30, and this is global, mind you.
	And of those 30,891 people who died, how many of them had underlying health issues?
	How many of them actually died of something else?
	But because when they died, they were tested and happened to be carrying the coronavirus, their death is listed here and included in this total, 30,891.
	That is global.
	Yet, from October of last year to March of this year, 50,000 in one country alone, this country, nobody shit themselves over it.
	Nobody shut down their business.
	Nobody told me I couldn't work.
	Well, do you think another aspect of this could be because people can be walking around for two weeks spreading it with no symptoms and not even knowing they have it?
	Do you think that could be a factor that's different?
	Typhoid Larry.
	Well, I mean, look, I'm not saying I want to get coronavirus.
	I'm not saying that I think it's a good thing that people take no precautionary measures.
	And I'm certainly not suggesting that we pretend it's not happening.
	But at the same time, all I'm suggesting is that a little bit of proportionality be applied to the reaction.
	And I don't think that's happening in this case.
	And I would be willing to wager that a significant number of people have already been infected with coronavirus, have no idea they were infected by it, and now are walking around.
	They're all immune.
	Yeah, now they're walking around with coronavirus antibodies in their bloodstream.
	And by the way, as I said to Brig earlier, and Dr. MDMD, I entirely agree with the statement you just made.
	I'll read that in a moment.
	But as I was saying to Brig earlier, we are going to start testing people soon for actual antibodies.
	And that is what is going to determine who has been infected.
	Past tense, not who is infected, who has been infected by coronavirus.
	And I think that the numbers are going to be far more staggering in that regard than they are when we take into account the number of people currently infected.
	I think it's going to be shocking how many people are already walking around with the antibodies for coronavirus number 19.
	Let me turn this noise gate down.
	I can hear it cutting off my Fs.
	And to get back on the statement that Dr. MDMD just made in the chat, and I sort of alluded to it earlier, but I have watched for three years, and I don't give a shit what anyone listening thinks about Trump.
	I don't care about your opinions.
	If you want to disagree, call in.
	That's fine.
	I don't care.
	I'm not interested in making sure that the show is listenable enough to people by not saying things that you disagree with politically.
	I don't care how listenable anyone finds the show to be.
	If I did, I'd actually be doing these shows on a regular basis.
	So zero fucks given.
	Pardon my language.
	Yes.
	You didn't hear me say that, kids.
	I'm sorry.
	Daddy did not mean to say that.
	But I think, and Dr. MDMD thinks, I agree entirely with him, that the chaos, the pandemonium that has been put into motion by mainstream media, by our primary sources of information, has been done so for the explicit and direct purpose of removing Donald Trump from the presidency,
	whether it's by impeaching him again because of some sort of action or perceived inaction that he failed to take or that some sort of perceived inaction on his part during this crisis, so-called crisis, or whether it's for the purpose of tanking the economy to make him less appealing to a voter in November of 2008.
	One of those two or a combination of the two, I think is entirely behind this.
	And I have watched for three years as every wing of the mainstream media, whether it's CBS, NBC, ABC, the New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Take Your Pick,
	every mainstream social media network that exists, whether we're talking about Facebook or Twitter, all of them for the last three years have done everything within their power to remove this guy from the presidency by hook or by crook, one way or the other.
	They have sought for three years that that is the reason these people have gotten out of bed for three years.
	And I'm suddenly supposed to believe that these same people who, by the way, are responsible entirely for the pandemonium that's going on right now, fat, idiotic assholes running to the store and buying toilet paper in massive amounts, which for whatever reason are supposed to somehow in their personal lives account for the possibility they may wind up with coronavirus.
	I'm supposed to believe that these news organizations, these mainstream media outlets that for three years told the American people that Donald Trump is a Russian agent, the absurdity of that statement.
	Why are they suddenly they're being honest with us about the level of fear or concern we should have over the coronavirus and that it's in no way intended to hurt Donald Trump when at the same time, oh, by the way, just as a matter of, I don't know, happenstance, we're shutting the entire economy down, which was Donald Trump's primary selling point to people who would walk into a polling booth in November of this year.
	I don't think that's pure coincidence.
	I think that's entirely what it comes down to.
	I don't understand the toilet paper hoarding.
	I cannot wrap my brain around that for two seconds.
	Toilet paper hoarding.
	I don't get it.
	Is there anything, is there like some sort of perception out there that at some point along the way, the people who produce, I'll tell you what, it's Heard mentality.
	Somewhere, somebody went to the store and bought a bunch of toilet paper and some guy saw him doing it and was like, what the hell are you doing?
	He's like, coronavirus, man.
	I'm not fucking around here.
	He's like, well, shit.
	Okay.
	Fuck.
	So he walks over to the toilet paper section and does the same thing.
	And then he gets on Facebook that night and he's talking to his family back in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	Hey, man.
	I don't know, man.
	I'm just telling you.
	I bought a shit ton of toilet paper today.
	I mean...
	Yeah, well, I'm just imagining walking to my pantry and opening the door and seeing that all my cans of food are gone, but I have a case of toilet paper.
	I...
	I just don't.
	I just, I just I have no idea why people are stocking up on toilet paper instead of food.
	If you cook it right, it makes an excellent soup.
	You just have to add a little bit of extra stuff.
	It's got lots of fiber.
	It really fills you up.
	Well, the other thing is, if you don't have any food to eat, you really don't need to worry about toilet paper.
	I will tell you that we're so stocked up on food here.
	It's insane.
	I swear by the time this is over with, I am going to be such a miserable fat shit.
	Nobody's going to believe it.
	And when I finally go back to work, nobody's going to recognize me.
	They're going to bring in construction crews to widen doors for me.
	They're going to reinforce my chair.
	And it's going to be a sad display of humanity, if you want to call it that.
	I don't even know if I'm going to resemble a human after this is all over with.
	Do you have a bike?
	Well, you know something, Brig?
	I once had a bike.
	And in fact, I called into a few gabcasts while riding my bike.
	You may have heard those episodes.
	But you know what?
	Life took over and I let my bike sit outside and get rained on and weathered.
	And it got to a point where it wasn't even worth fixing.
	Well, you probably can't go out and buy one at a store, but you could probably order one from Walmart.com or Amazon or eBay.
	You might enjoy getting out and riding a bike.
	Why, so some nihilistic freak show can lick the handlebars before it comes to me?
	Yeah, I want to see that on YouTube.
	Have you seen these people?
	These videos are out there for everybody to see.
	And arrests have actually been made of people going to the store.
	I think Walmart, not too coincidentally, actually, has been one of the primary repositories of this sort of behavior.
	But people actually walking down the aisle, sticking their tongue out, and just licking a whole bunch of items with their tongue.
	I really, I want those people arrested and I want them charged with attempted manslaughter.
	I don't care.
	I don't care how overblown this coronavirus horse shit is or is not.
	That's what I want to happen to those people.
	I want them drawn and quartered.
	I want medieval style Tudor era punishments imposed upon these people.
	Well, my daughter did recommend to me that when I go into the store, since I have to go in frequently, I can only bring small amounts with me at a time.
	She just recommended to me that when I go into the aisle, that I just cough and then everybody will, you know, clear the aisle and let me shop in peace.
	I know a couple of elderly people, actually.
	There's an elderly couple in particular that I know.
	It's a man and woman well into their 80s.
	They've been married since dirt was created.
	And the woman recently, she's like this sweet little quintessential old lady.
	I mean, she's like...
	Like me?
	Like...
	Like me.
	Hi.
	How you doing?
	I mean, just, like, imagine an old lady in your mind, uh, No, Brig.
	She does not.
	She does not cruise Belgab looking for trolling opportunities.
	Not like you.
	I don't care how old and infirmed you get.
	I will not ever perceive you as an old lady.
	I'm sorry, because down within, there's something more there that has to be accounted for, which instantaneously deprives you of old lady status.
	No, this old lady is much older than you, and she actually recently was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
	And so here's this old couple.
	They've been married for an eternity.
	And when people wind up with that sort of an affliction, they are inherently immunocompromised because of the meds primarily that they're on in order to kill the cancer.
	You know, they start pumping you full of shit, hoping that the shit kills the cancer before it kills you.
	That's all chemo is.
	You just hope that the poison kills the cancer before it takes you out to race.
	And so I have made it explicitly clear to these two that should they need someone to go to the store for them and pick up groceries, I'm more than happy to do that.
	But then I'm thinking about it, and he's entirely healthy, so he can go to the store and pick up groceries.
	But if he does so, he could easily pick up this virus and bring it home to her.
	And I could do exactly the same thing if I were to go shopping for them.
	So it's like I want to be a good Samaritan.
	I want to do my part.
	I want to treat others as I would hope I wind up being treated when I'm that old, should I be fortunate enough to make it to that age?
	But what do you do?
	My landlady is happy.
	She always asks me if I need anything, that I don't ever have to go to the store at all.
	She would go for me.
	But I told her, I said it's just as likely for you and I to exchange coronavirus droplets when you bring me the groceries as it would be for me to go to the store and get the groceries myself.
	Pate.
	I'm sorry, go ahead.
	Pate says apparently some grocery stores have a seniors hour where only the old folks are supposed to be in the store to protect them from exposure.
	Some 30-ish dude pushed in past the security guard and got his happy ass arrested.
	Thought that was funny.
	That is who does that?
	I mean, like, what kind of savage, what kind of savagery is out there that someone in their 30s shows up at senior hour?
	Oh, no, I got to get my toilet paper.
	Move it, biddy.
	I qualify for that.
	It's very early in the morning, though.
	It's at 9 o'clock.
	So it's going to have to get up early.
	Move it, Ethel.
	I need my bounty.
	I move it.
	And I think Walmart has it as well.
	Well, I'm just very unimpressed by this coronavirus situation.
	I'm very unimpressed by the American people at the moment.
	I'm very unimpressed by our willingness to submit to state power, which really is what this all boils down to.
	I see a massive submission to state power.
	And I'm not at all impressed by it.
	And to make matters even worse, it's actually not even state power.
	If we really get down to the root of it, it is mainstream media flexing its muscle and demonstrating to everybody just exactly what sort of an effect they can have on an economy if they choose to do so.
	Well, I wonder why we're still getting mail and why amazon.com is still shipping.
	I mean, this stuff stays on cardboard for what, 48 hours?
	So, and you see now that the Amazon workers are getting coronavirus in the warehouses.
	So, it's obviously also on the packages.
	So, well, if Amazon just sends them to sensitivity training, I'm sure that'll fix the coronavirus.
	I don't know why it's a concern, really.
	I don't, well, if it's as transmittable as they're telling us on plastics and paper and everything else, I don't know why we're still getting mail in packages.
	And by the way, the same mainstream media who are flexing their muscle to show everybody the ability they have to shut the economy down by generating mass hysteria, these people are entirely unelected, entirely unelected, entirely unaccountable to the American people or to any collection of humanity anywhere in the world.
	They bear no responsibility for what it is that they do.
	And at a certain point, I have to wonder how much more human misery is going to be generated by ruining an otherwise healthy and robust economy than would have been generated by rampant infection with the coronavirus.
	Oh, here's the other thing.
	How much depression is going to be generated?
	How many suicides are going to happen because of failed businesses?
	How much misery, how much human misery is going to be required to say it was worth it?
	It was worth the cost.
	Go ahead, Brig.
	I'm sorry.
	No, no, I totally get that.
	There's a lot of anxiety and depression.
	But what I was going to say is I can't help but think to myself that if this coronavirus is as serious as they would like us to believe,
	and if it happened the way that we are told it did, then it seems that at the end of all this, wouldn't China be responsible for all of the financial toils that this has taken across the world?
	This is something I would like to see accountability for.
	Here we have the communist Chinese government that lied to the world for three months about what it was that was happening there, told everybody they had it under control.
	And now, here we are, fast forward several months later, and I'm listening to people with a straight face tell me that the United States of America has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than the Chinese ever did.
	Go screw.
	I don't believe that for two seconds flat.
	And as I was saying to Brig earlier in our private Voxer conversation, if we're talking about the Chinese, we're talking about a government that is currently in the process of genociding their Islamic ethnic minority Uyghur populations by imprisoning them and murdering them and harvesting their organs for on-demand transplants to wealthy Chinese buyers on demand.
	Excuse me.
	And this is the government that we're going to turn to and believe their numbers on the levels of coronavirus infection in their own country as we hang our heads low in a somber state of depression and reflection to feel sad about our numbers exceeding those of the Chinese.
	I don't buy it for a second.
	Go ahead, Brig.
	Morgus just posted that's what some Fox News hosts have been bringing up recently.
	They should cancel a large block of our debt to them for penalty.
	I agree with that wholeheartedly.
	I think that in Donald Trump, despite his flaws, whatever those may be, which actually I find them to be rather few and far between relative to other politicians who've been lauded, I think we have exactly the right man in the right place at the right time.
	You know, The order of the universe has often been rather kind to the American people.
	And with rare exception, the order of the universe, the arrangement of the planetary bodies, has somehow, someway managed more often than not, seemingly, to give us the right man for the job at the right time.
	There are, of course, exceptions to this.
	My dad wanted Donald Trump to run.
	He wanted him to become president.
	And fortunately, my dad didn't live long enough to see it happen.
	But I don't know if there's an afterlife.
	I know he's up there and he's happy.
	And I say four more years.
	When I think about the repercussions that China may face, hopefully will face after this is over with, that's why I say I think the right man for the job is in office at this moment, because I do think that China needs to face consequences for what it is that they have wrought upon the world.
	I think that the Chinese government lying to the world, killing dissidents who dared speak publicly about what they perceive to be the risk associated with this virus, there was a physician, a Chinese physician.
	This is possibly the most famous case in all of communist China of someone sounding the warning bells early on, and he winds up getting infected with the very virus that he was warning everybody about and dies in a hospital bed.
	It's a young, healthy guy, not overweight, no known underlying health conditions, and a physician to boot who would know what it is he needs to do to himself to treat himself.
	He would know as he's experiencing various symptoms what it is that he may or may not need to do in order to just, from a probability standpoint, best increase his chances of survival.
	This guy winds up dead.
	He was already on the Chinese government's shit list.
	Other people are being imprisoned by the Chinese government, or at least they had been, for speaking publicly about what it was that was happening there.
	People who filmed video on their phones and posted it to the internet were being roundly prosecuted by the Chinese government and thrown into jails.
	And this is the government that we're going to trust when it comes to publicly announcing their coronavirus numbers.
	This government that's currently genociding the ethnic Muslim minority population known as the Uyghurs and selling their organs to the highest bidder for on-demand organ transplants, That's the government we're going to turn to in deciding who has the most coronavirus cases right now.
	We're talking about a population of people who apparently started this entire thing by eating bats.
	That's apparently how this all started.
	People eating bats.
	Who does that?
	They also hang their meats out right there in the public market.
	You know, they're not in refrigerators or anything.
	Hold on just a second, Brig.
	Hold on.
	Catsmile, I see your left-handed sarcasm in the chat room, and I'm not even going to address it.
	If you want to call in, you can do so.
	But as far as playing ping pong with your chat room comments and the sarcasm laden within, I don't give a fuck to be bothered with doing so.
	If you want to call in, you can do so.
	And the number is 573-837-4948.
	But otherwise, I don't know.
	I really couldn't give a shit.
	Go ahead, Brig.
	Oh.
	What was I talking about?
	I don't know.
	We were talking about the genocide that's taking place in China.
	We were talking about the numbers they are announcing and the fact that they are not in any way trustworthy.
	But yet, despite the lack of authenticity that could be assigned to those numbers, here we are in the United States beating ourselves over the head with those numbers.
	I don't get it.
	Like the same government that's going to lock people up during the period of time when something may have actually been done, been capable, something may have actually been able to be done to contain this on a level that apparently was missed.
	Those people were locked up for warning anyone, and that's the government we're going to turn to for deciding who has the most cases right now.
	I don't even give a shit who has the most cases.
	I really don't care.
	I just wish that people would.
	And yes, I do think that the Chinese government is possibly one of the most repressive governments in existence in the world today.
	And yes, I do think the Chinese government represents a suffocation of the human spirit.
	And I'll tell you this.
	When I was in college, I noticed all of the Chinese exchange students, they don't laugh.
	They don't partake in humor, even amongst themselves.
	I could understand cultural differences that would render them incapable of really appreciating and understanding certain types of humor, but they don't laugh.
	They don't, they're just like, I'm just, I guess this is a broader way of me saying I have no time for Chinese culture.
	I don't respect Chinese culture.
	We're only a couple generations removed from the cultural revolution in China where children celebrated as their parents were handcuffed and put on a stage in the town square and had fruits thrown at them for the crime of running a capitalist business.
	So a culture that's capable of that...
	Nah, I'm sorry.
	I don't have a lot of respect for it.
	A culture that's capable of facilitating and encouraging a form of government that locks people up for warning the world about what soon would become a global pandemic.
	Yeah, I don't have much respect for that.
	A culture that creates its own intranet because it doesn't want its people to be exposed to external ideologies.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I don't have much respect for that.
	So, yeah, guess what?
	The Chinese government and broader Chinese culture as a whole, they can all pretty much go fuck themselves, at least from my perspective and from what I see.
	I don't respect Chinese culture particularly.
	I realize it's an ancient culture, but, you know, there's not a culture in existence in this world that doesn't have ties to some sort of an ancient understanding of the human condition.
	Go ahead, Brig.
	Well, would you agree that there's potential for a great deal of good things to happen, good changes to come that have been needed for a long time as a result of everything that's happening as a result of this coronavirus,
	whatever you want to call it, a real pandemic, whatever you want to call it.
	I think we've learned that a lot of people can work from home, which saves a lot of car exhaust, the use of a lot of oil and gasoline.
	It could be good for our environment.
	A lot of schooling can be done from home by teachers on Skype, which brings the control of the children back into the hands of the parents.
	Because I think teachers have been doing a very poor job of being critical of parents, trying to get information out of their children about their parents, if they smoked a cigarette or if they had a beer last night, if they had an argument.
	And they've been so focused on all of that that I don't think that they've done a very good job of teaching our children or raising our children.
	And I think it could be good if education goes back into the home with some time spent on Skype with teachers.
	I think that could be a big improvement.
	I think there could be a lot of improvements to the way our world works.
	The Federal Reserve, the banks this time have been told no buybacks.
	I'd like to see them even say no shorts.
	No shorts.
	I think that's I think that makes it an unfair playing field where some people win if the company improves and some people win money if it if it fails.
	I mean, I don't think that's the spirit of the stock market as America would like to understand it.
	And I was very glad to see that Trump said no buybacks.
	And he several times repeated that he did not like what he saw happen when all the bonuses were handed out and the money wasn't used for what it was.
	They bought back their stocks.
	They got all these big bonuses.
	And I mean, Trump actually said it and he said, I don't want it in this bill.
	So I think a lot of things very good could happen as a result of this coronavirus, whatever it is, whether it's a farce or whether it was an accident or whether it was a bioweapon, whatever it was, I think because it happened, a lot of good things could come out of it.
	What do you think, Envy or Peyton?
	I think one thing that's definitely going to happen is the idea of people working from home is going to be rethought.
	Look at the number of people working from home right now.
	And as they're doing so, I'm sure they have been asking themselves, why have I not been doing this all this time?
	And I'll bet you, in a lot of situations, not all and maybe not even a majority.
	I'm sure their bosses even have been asking themselves, why have we not been doing this all along?
	And I think that you're going to see a greater percentage of people working from home after this is over with than has ever been the case.
	I also think that you're going to see when it comes to testing, we're seeing situations emerging where it's being promised to people that they're going to be able to be tested for coronavirus within a matter of something on the order of 45 minutes or so.
	That's right around the corner.
	Within days.
	I heard probably.
	I heard 15 minutes.
	Okay, well, there you go.
	Even more so.
	And I think that the era of getting tested for something being this big, long, drawn-out ordeal that takes days and days and days, and you sit back and ho-hum, wait.
	I think that the infrastructure that has been built to facilitate this, it's not going to go away.
	It's going to continue to exist.
	And I think medical testing is going to be a lot more expeditious than it was previously.
	I don't know.
	The medical profession, I don't know what it is that it has become.
	I mean, they don't call us their patients anymore.
	And I noticed when they were talking about it, when Trump and all his experts behind him are addressing the nation, they call us patients.
	That's what they used to call us.
	But for the last 20 or 30 years, our doctors have been calling us clients.
	I mean, it may come back to...
	What was that sound?
	I don't know.
	That was my dog.
	I thought Brigg repped a real nice one there.
	I could smell it from here.
	I really could.
	I don't know if you heard that, Brig, but I swear to God, it sounded like you just really ripped a gasser right here on the show for everyone to hear.
	And you were entirely indifferent to the possibility that somebody heard it.
	I missed it.
	I was running my mouth.
	You'll hear it on the replay.
	I'll hear it on the replay.
	I'll be looking for it.
	I would love to learn that that actually was what happened, that Brigg just, you know what, I don't care.
	We're all dying of coronavirus.
	China's going to own the world soon.
	I'm just going to rip a nice gasser here, and I don't care what anybody thinks.
	I really wish that had actually been what happened.
	Pate, did you get your beer?
	Yeah, I'm about halfway through it.
	Well, dear lord, did you actually have to travel somewhere to get it?
	No, I have, I don't know, like 10 or 8 tall boys in the fridge that I got sometime.
	Oh, God, that was early on.
	I was wearing the liquor stores were going to be closed.
	So I went into my local liquor store and I was like, hey, man, are they shutting you down?
	And he's like, nope, we're a grocery store, technically.
	And they need to have an armed SWAT team here with the boards to shut us down.
	We're going to be open for the duration.
	And anyway, I grabbed two six-packs and stuck them in the fridge and have just been busy doing stuff, not drinking.
	If any time, if there's ever been a time liquor stores should be open, I think it's this.
	I mean, for the first time in human history, liquor stores are finally being given an opportunity to shine, to demonstrate their worth to the broader population.
	And here we are.
	They're all locked up.
	Makes no sense to me whatsoever.
	If anything, I'd like to know how much medical detriment is being generated as a result of people not having access to their needed, desired daily alcohol regimen.
	I think the liquor stores are open here in New York.
	I think they determined that they were a necessity.
	I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're open here.
	They're open here.
	You know, I really wish I were still a pot smoker because I think that if I were to smoke a lot of pot, I think that that would actually probably enhance my chances of withstanding the coronavirus because, you know, pot smokers have a lot more lung capacity contrary to just what seems on the surface would be the case.
	You know, pot smokers, they inhale deeply and they hold it for a long time.
	They got all those capillaries down there expanded real nicely and then they exhale.
	And study after study shows that pot smokers have far more lung capacity.
	I can't say far more, but they have more lung capacity than those who do not smoke pot.
	And furthermore, studies have been conducted as it relates to the incidence of cancer in pot smokers relative to non-marijuana smokers.
	And the marijuana smokers actually were demonstrated to be receiving some sort of a protective effect against lung cancer.
	So I really do have to say that I wish I were still a regular pot smoker.
	I think that my chances would be greatly enhanced if I were, but I'm not.
	And that's one of the great shames of this entire crisis.
	Well, I think the medical profession often tells us the opposite of what it is actually the case because they want to affect one business or another financially.
	And so they put out fake news about their products.
	I therefore don't believe anything.
	I don't believe anything that they tell me is bad for me.
	I don't believe it when they tell me I should be doing this because it's good for me, like taking vaccines.
	You know, it's almost like if they tell me I should take it, I have a tendency to think, well, maybe I shouldn't.
	And if they tell me it's bad for me, I'm thinking, well, what benefits does that have that they don't want me to have?
	I'm sorry.
	I am that suspicious of the whole system.
	Sorry, I had to adjust the noise gate again.
	The noise levels in the room keep varying.
	So I have to adjust on the fly.
	As Sukha Langley says, based Brig.
	He's calling you based Brig as a result of the statement you just made.
	I will tell you that when I take my kids to get vaccinated, they try to pump flu vaccine into them.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	Flu vaccine?
	I mean, I was a kid once.
	I went and got my vaccinations.
	I remember it vividly.
	I think I have a vivid recollection of every time.
	Well, I didn't eat lead paint.
	I'm not quite of your advanced age, Brigg.
	Go ahead.
	But I will tell you that I don't remember anybody trying to pump me flu of any sort of flu vax, pump me full of any sort of flu vaccine.
	Now, granted, I don't think the flu vaccine existed 35 years ago, but nevertheless, I mean, it's just too much.
	You got mumps, you got scarlet rubella, you've got whatever other bullcrap it is they're vaccinating them against, which is all fine to me.
	I understand why certain diseases no longer exist.
	It's not just happenstance that they went away.
	But flu vaccine on top of all of that?
	Christ almighty.
	When I was a news, there was this one particular radio station I was a news director at, and there was a law firm, a local law firm, that was suing the pharmaceutical industry over the inclusion of thimerisol, which is the, What's the term?
	Oh, a preservative that was for many years included in vaccines.
	And about 45 to 48% of the merisol was mercury.
	And so this is what everyone who is anti-vaccine has decided caused the simultaneous dovetail in autism cases as the number of vaccines increased.
	I personally happen to believe that it was because the mechanisms that were used to diagnose autism became more focused and a wider swath of people who otherwise would never have been diagnosed with autism suddenly were diagnosed with it.
	I think that's the most likely explanation for it, but it was really fascinating as I sat through this two-hour presentation by this law firm and they had all of these charts showing the increase in the number of vaccines given to children in particular time ranges,
	like from say 82 to 92, and a perfectly congruent dovetail in the number of autism cases that just went right along with it.
	I mean, the curve was almost identical.
	But you can really do a lot with graphs.
	You know, when you're trying to make a point, you can manipulate graphs in many ways.
	You can shorten one of the axes so that it represents less of a measurement than the other axis.
	You can say, here's a good example.
	You can, let's say something increased, something that's being measured over a period of time increased from 100 to 120.
	No, not even that, to 102, let's say.
	And you set it up so that the time period that's being measured, I guess that would be the bottom axis, is really short.
	And you also shorten the vertical axis on the graph so that that increase of only two can be made to represent a sudden spike.
	And so visually, as you look at that, you're like, holy shit, look at that spike.
	When in reality, because of the way they have arranged the x-axis and the y-axis, it makes a really tiny increase relative to the overall proportion of what it is that's being measured look like some sort of an explosion.
	And so that's why you can't really put too much faith in graphs and charts when people show them to you.
	So there may have been some of that going on.
	I don't know.
	I didn't have the time on the fly way back when to analyze this, but it really was quite compelling.
	Having said that, I've got no qualms with getting my kids vaccinated.
	It's just that when they want to start pumping them full of flu vaccine, give me a break.
	I myself don't get the flu vaccine, and I've got a much older immune system, which in some ways can work against you, and in some ways can be a positive.
	You know, they're saying that with the coronavirus, one of the things that's actually been detrimental to old people isn't that they're old and feeble and their immune system just doesn't cut it anymore.
	It's actually the fact that their immune system has been exposed to so many various forms of microbial life over the years that it's actually supercharged relative to that of a younger person.
	And so when these old people get exposed to the coronavirus, their immune system actually goes into some sort of an overdrive and goes above and beyond what it needs to in order to combat the virus.
	And the immune system actually, it almost becomes some sort of an autoimmune affliction, I guess, if you will.
	You know, there are all sorts of conditions people have where their own immune system starts killing them.
	And watch it with that old people thing.
	Oh, Brig, as long as you're trolling Belgab, as long as you're in there shucking and jiving, I really have to say I think you're safe.
	I mean, I think that as long as you're doing that, it can be argued that you are at least young in spirit.
	So I think you've got nothing to worry about.
	I mean, when you're on your deathbed, if you can just remind yourself both mentally and verbally, I've been trolling on Belgab for years now.
	I think you're going to snap right out of it, whatever it is that's got you on that deathbed.
	I think you're going to be fine.
	I agree, Emby.
	Just pondering my years on Belgab, the happiness and the joy that I have brought to so many with my posts will bring a smile to my face as I pass into the next world.
	Gravity Sucks says Brig will last longer than Niagara Falls.
	You know, that was for a period of five years.
	That was actually the slogan underneath the Belgab logo.
	Brig will last longer than the Niagara Falls.
	But we eventually became a little bit doubtful of that assertion and had to remove that just for the purpose of saving face.
	What caused the doubt?
	What did I do?
	I don't remember what it was.
	Maybe it was that.
	Was it when I started praising Envy all the time?
	No, I think it was when you began subjecting yourself to Heather Wade's podcast on a nightly basis for the purpose of monitoring her behavior.
	That's when I became concerned about your well-being.
	That's when your health became something that I personally was concerned over and have prayed over.
	I'm very prayerful, as certain politicians would say.
	It can't be denied.
	I mean, many nights I have posted in that thread all by myself.
	I am determined to keep an historic record on Belgab of her shows and the important content in them.
	It's a decision I've made, and nobody can talk me out of it.
	I think that you're actually providing a very valuable service to Belgab.
	If anything, just for posterity, to make sure that it's there.
	Someone was keeping call.
	Someone was officiating.
	Someone was making a record of things.
	And I think that there is inherent value in that.
	And I, for one, at least, am very appreciative that over the years you've done so.
	Thank you, Emily.
	It is hard to believe it's been years, is it not now?
	If you count in all of the ghostings, I don't know if it could still be considered years or not.
	We might be down to about a two-month period if we just take into account actual time spent broadcasting.
	But having said that, I think that you are doing God's work.
	Yes, honey.
	I'm going to be done soon.
	And as I pointed out earlier, my kids are still up.
	Because there's no reason to care if they're in bed or not.
	Are you getting tired, Jasmine?
	No.
	Oh, see?
	She's not tired.
	I'm hyper She just wants me to get off of here I want to play Roblox Why do you need me to be off of here so that you can play Roblox?
	Because.
	Oh, that's right.
	You do it on this computer.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, having said all of that, Brig, I think that you are doing God's work.
	And I certainly appreciate it.
	And I appreciate both of you for being here tonight as well.
	Thank you, Brig.
	Thank you, Pate.
	Yo, any old time, bro.
	This is the emergency gab cast that was sort of haphazardly promoted on Belgab.
	We appreciate you being here.
	I'm MV, otherwise known as Lebarace.
	And here tonight also was Brig.
	And Pate was here as well.
	Sort of.
	Anyway, just getting paid, just joshing with you.
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	Bye-bye then.
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