#635 I didn't know that it was so vile to obey the Ten Commandments.
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I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
Little elementary school heathens are responsible and we're documenting it.
What's up everybody?
Welcome to Minion Death Cult.
Thanks for being here.
Sorry we missed Death Chat last week.
As you know, Tony is basically a climate refugee at this point, living in the deserts of Southern California.
And nature was actually trying, apparently, from what I've heard, nature was actually trying to decolonize Tony's neighborhood, which led to it, you know, infiltrating the air conditioning and sabotaging it to pump hot air into your domicile and I guess for some reason we're rooting for Tony to what?
Conquer nature?
Does that sound right?
Is that the way you would describe it?
I just want to let everyone know.
I'm not telling you to root.
I know my place.
I accept.
I understand if I'm not being rooted for here.
That's okay.
But I do have to fight back as much as my human nature obligates me to.
But yeah, I felt like I was in a A more malicious version of the happening.
The bougainvillea tree outside of my house decided to basically wrap my air conditioner, which is not an air conditioner, it's just a gigantic piece of shit swamp cooler.
So already ripe for monkey wrenching, just by the universe.
It's supposed to be like a modern One but it's not it sucks.
It like wrapped itself around like the intake.
So there were just bougainvillea flowers and leaves just just basically suffocating and so it was only blowing hot air into my house and I didn't figure that out until until this morning.
But yeah, so unfortunately couldn't do that couldn't survive.
But yeah, it's been gnarly like.
Are you like near the coast?
I'm in LA and spending time out here.
I get straight depressed when I'm driving back home and I just wash the temp in my car.
Like, you know, that tells you the outside temp, just climbing.
- Is it that much cooler in LA?
- Like 15 degrees cooler in LA.
- Are you like near the coast?
Are you near one of the beaches?
No, I mean, but, you know, but, uh... You're closer than San Bernardino is.
When I played golf out there the other day, it was, you know, on a hill.
It was nice, because it was, like, on a hill, and there was a breeze.
I had a very funny experience out there.
Okay.
You want to share?
Uh, yeah.
Shout out to you real quick, if you're listening.
I had a really nice time with you, and I just think this is a really funny story.
The whole, like, you know, what do you do conversation happens.
I'm golfing with, like, Four other guys I don't know.
None of us know each other.
You just happen to be at the same, going at the same pace of the golf course?
No, they book you, they book you so you go four or five at a time.
So they pair you off with a buddy, with buddies that you got to play with.
Okay.
Yeah.
So the typical, you know, what do you do thing happened.
It's funny as I, I always lie.
I always just make some shit up.
But for some reason I decided I'm going to tell these guys, oh yeah, I have like a, that my, I do like a podcast.
I'm a scumbag podcaster.
Yeah.
And so one of them is like they're both pretty interested in.
They're asking me questions about I'm telling about the show.
You know, it's so funny.
We're at.
Sorry.
Let me let me stop.
Let me.
I want to milk your story for all it's worth, Tony.
So let's just pause right here as if you're OK.
No, go ahead.
I like that we're at a level of podcast saturation where people don't just know what a podcast is.
They probably have a favorite podcast, which is really just a TikTok account, but they know it's a podcast now.
Are getting rehabilitated because, specifically because worse and worse people are doing them.
Absolutely.
And they're getting all the people who would never have listened to Marc Maron interview somebody.
Yeah.
They're now like listening to 18 year old frat boys try to shame sex workers.
And that's exactly why I don't ever say it when I'm dating.
I don't ever say what I do when I'm dating.
Ever.
They're like, oh, you're so, you know, I already know you're like this weird little poly guy and you also do a podcast.
There's no way you're not a piece of shit.
Weird and little.
- That's true. - Yeah.
Like, there's no way you're not a piece of shit.
So we're talking about, you know, we're talking about, that's how I'm on the premise.
I'm like, yeah, we basically cover current events, but like through the lens of the comment section, you know?
That's really interesting.
This is probably what I'm saying. - Interesting is a word for it.
- They thought it was cool, you know, whatever. - I've always said it was pretty cool. - Dude breaks out his phone, punches it in, subscribes right away, like does it.
On the Patreon, right?
You made him go to the Patreon?
On the Patreon.
No, just on, you know, Apple Podcasts.
All right.
And he's like, oh, this is cool.
You know, you know, whatever.
Like three holes go by.
And then I realize he's wearing a Ben Shapiro shirt.
Fuck yeah, dude.
What's up, man?
Thanks for doing it.
I was like, dude, you're going to hate my show.
And he's like, for real?
Oh yeah, you're going to hate it.
Remember when Ben Shapiro recited rap lyrics to try and make fun of them?
We re-recite Ben Shapiro lyrics to try and make fun of him.
And I told him, I said, you actually might enjoy our show the way we enjoy Ben Shapiro.
So maybe you might get a kick out of this.
You might enjoy it.
Listen, I know you're wearing the Ben Shapiro shirt.
I know you don't seem like the type, but if you like rap music, we have a lot of episodes about really good rap music.
Really good rap music you're going to love.
You know, we might have different political views, but music, art, soul, like that can bridge that divide.
Just search Minion Death Cult Tom McDonald and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
You'll see exactly what's going on.
Or cop rap.
That's another really good episode.
And it's funny because, you know, have you ever like seen somebody and like they're, they're, you know, they're dressed fine.
There's nothing like offensive or anything wrong, but the whole time you're like, You just, there's just no, there's no sense of like style, no sense of anything happening.
Fashion wise or?
Yeah.
Just a very, just like, okay, so you're just, you're talking about like.
All I can tell by the way they dress is like they probably went to college.
Yeah.
Derogatory.
You know?
And then once I realized what the shirt was, it all made sense.
It all made sense.
And now, and then now finally goes, I go, Oh, you know, I didn't get what you do.
Make a joke.
What do you think he does?
He's a, he's a young, he's a young, he's a young white man, probably mid twenties, young white man wearing basketball shorts and like a hat that said New Jersey.
Yeah, so he's either in tech or he's in finance or he's a political consultant of some kind.
Yep.
Venture capitalist.
That's what he says.
I'm a venture capitalist.
I'm a venture capitalist who likes listening to the little good boy who promises great granny and grandpa that he'll never have sex outside of wedlock.
Yeah.
That's what I like to listen to as an adult.
It all just made so much sense.
And I was like, yeah, OK, good for you.
You know, that's that's great.
But it was funny.
We actually we had a great time.
He was like he was like, you know, he was a nice enough dude and like didn't didn't like he didn't seem too brain poisoned.
Like he he wasn't aware of of cat boxes in public school restrooms.
So, you know, he's not complete, you know, but it was just funny, like straight up merch.
Right on, brother.
Oh, that sucks so bad.
Did he pull out like a Steven Crowder liberal cum coffee mug?
No, no.
It was a Nalgene bottle.
And I was like, that's a lot.
That's a lot of cum.
He pulled out his cell phone and you saw he had a cell phone case that had Steven Crowder in drag on it.
Yeah.
Because he thinks it's funny, you know, and like, I don't know, kind of interesting.
He did kick my ass, though, so I will say that.
Oh, the venture capitalist was better at golf than you, Tony.
That's crazy.
No, listen, I'm trying to break those stereotypes, right?
I don't think anybody cares.
Nobody cares if golf is rehabilitated.
You just want to rehabilitate it so that you can do it.
I don't need to.
I don't need to rehabilitate it.
It's been rehabilitated.
I just want to grow the game, OK?
I just want more people I actually want to hang out with out there.
Okay.
You know?
Yeah, you got to have like a...
What was it called?
The moral majority?
Like, what was the...
The evangelical infiltration of politics in the 80s called?
Like, you want to do that, but for golf and for not rich assholes.
For degenerates.
You know, it's like, it's, it's, it's me and Jake Flores and then like, uh, two 65 year old Korean men and then a frat bro.
That's who's like out there, which by the way, that's my new favorite demographic demographic of person is 65 year old Korean golfer man.
I love them.
They're the coolest dudes ever.
We have the best time and they're like the most, They're either the most strict players and they don't give a fuck about anything, or they're the most supportive, nicest dudes who are so stoked to play golf with anybody.
So if you have a Korean grandpa or dad that you want me to hang out with, let me know.
Yeah, I'm sure people are going to volunteer their Korean dad to you.
They're going to keep that dad to themselves.
Like they would let you, Adam.
Kidding.
I wanted to talk, the first thing I wanted to talk about, you know, there's been a lot of news about just Joe Biden, his deteriorating condition, again, deteriorating from an already pretty shitty set of faculties.
They're all dealing with that.
We've talked about that like two weeks in a row, two episodes in a row.
So we're going to leave that by the wayside.
I predict funnier things to happen, though, that we will probably have to revisit.
There are multiple flights of stairs that have to be climbed during a campaign.
He's going to have to debate again.
Yep.
He's going to have to host Benjamin Netanyahu At the fuckin' House.
Yep.
Or the Senate.
I can't even remember where that motherfucker's speaking.
But yeah.
Benjamin Netanyahu's gonna say some funny stuff.
About Biden, probably.
So, yeah.
Plenty of time to talk about that guy.
I wanted to move over to Louisiana.
who this is an interesting story to me Louisiana has mandated placing the 10 commandments in all public schools so So wild.
It's funny.
It's, it's wild.
And it's not, I'm not like, it's bad.
I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, separation of church and state do not enshrine religion into government, you know, respect all religions to be sure.
Respect the rights of all religions.
Don't proselytize in the public school.
Yeah, please.
No, bad, right?
However, this isn't like, maybe people are taking this as a canary in the coal mine, like, oh, this is, you know, just the tip of the iceberg or whatever.
This is what's going to happen under Trump.
They're going to make us put the Ten Commandments in every classroom under Trump.
Yeah, that's not on my biggest list of concerns, I guess, right now.
It's obviously tied in with other stuff.
It's just wild to me that they're still pushing for this dumb bullshit.
This very flimsy cult.
I would have thought... Honestly, I think I was giving even Trump voters too much credit.
Mm-hmm.
Go on.
Because there are real problems with this country that Trump voters, that Republican voters, that centrist Democrats, that Independents all recognize and we just have, you know, different prescriptions for them or different descriptions of them.
Yes.
But shit like groceries are too expensive, rent's too expensive, I don't like corporations, yada yada, like, They are coming around on a lot of these issues that I would say are like primarily working class issues.
They do seem to be getting more, quote, serious about politics, even if it's like rooted in conspiracy theory or it's rooted in a twisted American understanding of what the actual problems are.
You know, like globalism is a great example of that.
Like when they talk about globalism, like it's global capital that you're talking about and you just choose to call these capitalists communists or whatever.
This is like, we're going to mandate putting a Trump bumper sticker on every car in America.
Like, it's silly.
It's kind of shocking, honestly.
It's quite literal.
It's quite literal virtue signaling.
You know, which is so funny because they've become the two things they hate, which is like what they claim to hate, which is identity politics and virtue signaling.
And that's their everything now is those two things.
Right.
But they've always kind of had that, you know, like this feels like something from the Bush era or from the Reagan era.
You know, this it's like totally it feels in the most, I guess, practical sense.
It's.
Racist, right, like it's, you know, Christianity is not a race.
But, like trying to mandate a Christian hegemony obviously excludes a lot of other cultures that are not white.
And it excludes cultures that are white as well, right?
So it's like, maybe racism is the wrong word, but it's like xenophobic or whatever, or you know, it's just bigoted, you know, it seems to be like it's virtue signaling, but for You know, bigotry or discrimination.
I don't want to get ahead of this real quick, though.
But the thing is, you're standing pretty anti-Semitic to me because you got to remember the first Christian was a Jew.
Uh-huh.
And that's Jesus Christ.
So you're right.
If you want to follow logic, you're saying you're just you're basically being anti-Semitic right now.
So I just want you to tread lightly there.
Because I'm criticizing Christianity.
Yeah, you're saying the spread of Christianity and Christian homogeny is like a bad thing, but that's what the first Christian wanted and that guy was a Jew, so just be careful.
Honestly, I do have a reply that is close to something like that.
I was going to say, I thought it was maybe a previous episode, but I've had this segment in the tank for a while, and I think I remember a very funny comment.
My favorite thing, saying the dumbest shit possible, and then you're like, nope, actually, it's here.
Let me see if I can, uh, if I can find it.
Hmm.
Okay, maybe it wasn't this subject, but it was somebody invoking the Judeo-Christian God.
So maybe it was from a previous episode.
We did just have one saying the Judeo-Christian God.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yeah.
Well, I support the Judeo-Christian God.
It's like well That's not you're supposed to do You're obviously not listening Closely enough to Ben Shapiro Yeah Ben Shapiro is not saying there is a Judeo-Christian God.
He's saying there is a Judeo-Christian set of values that we, wink wink wink, have.
We don't have the same religion.
There's two different gods.
Most Christians think Jews are going to go to hell.
It's not the same thing.
However, we'll make you white, or we'll make you Jewish, Zionist Jewish, in order to defeat the larger enemy, which is everybody else.
Yeah, we'll reach across the aisle for this one.
Um, but I just loved the Judeo-Christian God.
I mean, I get, you know, they're the same God up until a certain point, I think.
But it's also Islam, right?
It's like the same, you know, the whatever, the Abrahamic religions.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's just what they say.
That's just what the people of Islam say.
I, you know, I don't agree with that.
That's gotta be a different God.
Well, that's fair.
I mean, you should have the right to exclude people from your religion.
Yeah, it's gotta be a different one.
There's no way.
But you know what I'm saying?
It seems like a little flaccid, this whole attempt.
Oh, the other thing I was going to say is, not only is it xenophobic or meant to try and hector other communities into Assimilating or to adopting your religion or your culture or whatever.
It also seems like an attack on teachers unions.
That's like the other, you know, it's attack on children.
You want to, you want to indoctrinate, putting the 10 commandments up on the wall.
It's not going to indoctrinate children.
Like the only things I remember from the wall in elementary school was like Michael Jordan holding a book.
Or like a cool plant that my teacher had in the room that me, as a joke, ripped off a leaf in front of a few people and ate it, started chewing on it.
And then it was a toxic plant so it made my mouth go numb for like a really bad kind of taste and feeling in my mouth for a while and I had to go to the nurse.
I don't remember, like the, like, are you going to remember the footprints poster on the wall of your elementary school or whatever?
Is that going to, like, is that going to, is that going to groom you?
Well, the thing is, yes, I would.
But the thing is, I went to Catholic school, so it made sense.
These are public schools, so no, you should not have those memories.
Right.
You were in a situation where they were doing even more grooming.
They were, the grooming was even harder.
Yeah.
The teachers like when they start I guess mandating that teachers teach the Ten Commandments or like You know, that's that's when I would be like, okay, I see where they're going now.
But again, this is like I'm just whatever spitballing here, but um Yeah, Louisiana governor defends 10 commandments in schools mandate quote, the US is founded on Judeo-Christian values.
There it is.
If this country were founded on Judeo-Christian values, especially like with the respect to the Judeo part, it would be a lot more communist.
I just gotta say it.
And that's, parenthesis, positive.
Complimentary.
Whenever I'm having these conversations with my grandma, the one who really made me the Catholic and stuff, I'm like, all this stuff that you don't like about me is your fault.
A lot of, I got, that's the, that was my baseline.
So yeah, you're right.
That's if, if that was real.
And like, that's the funny thing too, like the 10 commandments in themselves, except for the commandments about putting God, you know, that God in front of everybody.
Besides those, they're pretty, they're still pretty good rules.
The 10 commandments?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's go through them.
What do you say?
Yeah, let's run it.
This is in the bill.
Uh, the text shall read as follows.
The Ten Commandments.
I like that they title- you gotta title it, you know, like it's your elementary school essay.
The Ten Commandments.
I am the Lord thy God.
It's the sound- again, it sounds like something, you know, uh... What's his name?
The Red Dragon would say.
Wait, no, that's- From Manhunter.
Wait, that's a very specific type of Ten Commandments because the Ten Commandments should just be a list of rules.
Well, how do I know why I should be following them, Tony?
Who's given these rules out, you know?
That little preamble kind of... That's a whole different level of stuff now.
I would feel weird if I still believed in God like I did until I was like, you know, whatever, 14, 15.
I would feel weird being the person whose job it was to type out, I am the Lord thy God.
Yeah.
Be like, am I going to get in trouble for this?
Is this impersonating the impersonating God?
Yeah.
I think this is like a felony or something.
Anyway, I am the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
So that's, I guess, one.
See, they don't even have, like, numbers next to them.
And I think there might be too many here.
I think, is I am the Lord thy God the first commandment?
No, the whole thing is the first one.
The first commandment.
The second half is all you need.
The first commandment is free speech.
The second commandment is the right to bear arms.
Yes.
So this is the third commandment is I am the Lord God.
Okay.
So I am the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.
That's all one commandment.
Tony?
I don't, it shouldn't be.
Hey, can we get the Ten Commandments up?
Tony, can you pull up the Ten Commandments here?
Yeah, hold on.
Let's see what Google AI thinks the Ten Commandments are.
I thought you were their fucking Catholic correspondent, bro.
Well, that's, yeah, because I'm like, I was like, am I that rusty?
No, no, that's like not that crazy.
Like the list of commandments I have in front of me, the first one just says you should have no other gods before me.
So is there anything else about graven images in that?
That's all contained?
No, that's the second one.
Should be like, you shall not make idols.
Right.
Okay.
So that's the second one.
Okay.
So thou shalt not make to thyself any grave in it.
See, that's like the same as another God.
Okay.
But, uh, thou shalt not take the name of, of the Lord thy God in vain.
I'm having real trouble reading this.
Why are they doing this really wordy version of the, the phrasing and syntax is insane.
Uh, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
I mean, this is probably the homework on the weekends.
This is probably like the, what, King James version.
This is like what's in the Bible.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Oh, kids are definitely going to read this.
Kids are definitely going to read this and be super interested in it and also fearful of it, to be sure.
It's so funny, like, yeah, this, what a bad move.
Don't use, don't do the wordy version because that's just being on your father and mother.
Boom.
Done.
Out.
Next, next, next one.
Well, part of the, part of like the power of religion is the impressive nature of, you know, the, the whatever, the rites and the mystique around it.
They had, you have to cultivate an aura if you want to get people to believe in God.
True.
And so I do like the sort of world building using like in world language.
Like we're imagining we're in a world where God exists and hasn't been killed.
And so we're using the par loss of it's like being in Ren Faire.
Yeah.
I got to respect the showmanship of it is what you're saying.
It's more it's like cooler.
Like I feel like reading this, I kind of feel like I'm watching End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It's like reaching that level for me almost.
And maybe, maybe this is the way we inspire children.
Maybe this is how we bring the Bible alive.
Thou shalt not kill.
Okay.
We've all heard that song from the Lost Boys.
We know that just, just that one's fine.
I'm okay with that one.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Leave that one in there.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
You hear that, Tommy?
Unfortunately, it does mean premarital sex, so... Sorry, kids.
So I guess that's good.
See, they're not grooming kids.
They're just telling kids not to cheat on their little girlfriend or boyfriend.
No, no, not to cheat on their future spouse.
Adultery is just, you're the one I think who told me adultery was just premarital sex.
I don't, I don't know if that, I have that definition.
No, I didn't say it was just premarital sex.
I said that premarital sex is covered in it.
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I, did we look that up?
Did we ever confirm that?
It's sex outside of wedlock.
Wow.
I, okay.
Yeah.
So that would be someone who's not your spouse.
Adultery, to me, just means cheating.
So, like, I would agree.
Don't cheat.
You know?
Bad luck.
Unless, you know, unless your partner gets really sick or something and then, like, kind of boring and stressful.
Then that's just self-care and that's, like, not really on you.
You know?
Listen.
And don't tell him.
Keep it a secret.
Uh, listen, I'm just kidding.
If your, if your partner, you know, wife, we're talking here, uh, if your wife gets really sick, do not leave her unless it's heart disease.
And apparently that's the one where they all leave.
So there's gotta be a good reason for it, you know?
I mean, if it's happening all the time, the numbers speak for themselves.
It seems like natural, a natural piece of just the, you know, the way the world operates.
Would you tell a caterpillar not to turn into a butterfly?
How could I trust this relationship if the organ that causes the love is malfunctioning?
She died of a broken heart.
No, sir, she died of a preventable illness.
It just required a little bit of treatment.
Yeah.
So sad.
I wish there was anything I could have done to make her love me again.
Thou shalt not steal.
It depends.
You know, I got I got, like, caveats for that one, I think.
Totally.
That shot not... Define stealing, you know?
It's like, that's where you gotta get in, because, I mean... What, what, what... Well, I know what... I know what stealing means.
I just think it's okay to do it to some people.
Totally.
So that would be, you know, the caveat.
Like, well, do they have a lot of stuff?
Yeah.
You steal a little bit of it.
Uh, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Yeah, don't, don't lie.
Don't, uh... Don't, like, fed jacket people, I guess?
Yeah, that's bad.
Um... Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
I don't care.
Who gives a sh... Like, be jealous all you want.
I kind of like it.
You know?
No, don't covet.
No, because covet is a, you know, that's when you're jealous, but there's like malice behind it.
What are you going to do?
You're going to send bad vibes.
I thrive.
I thrive on the losers and the haters.
Actually, I love them.
Amen.
And I wouldn't change a thing about them.
Keep hating.
Keep being strong.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Okay, that one can get weird.
That's all one.
This is the tenth.
Covet is the tenth commandment.
Got it.
Okay.
Thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
Okay.
They really wanted to get that get that in there.
Yeah, they go in a little overboard here.
Um, there's a lot of rich assholes from like every era of human existence, especially like people with a bunch of cattle.
Yeah.
You know, not really known for being.
Well, I guess I guess we've, you know, we've what do you what do you call it?
You know, we've lionized the American cowboy or whatever, but that's like typically the person doing, you know, the work.
Uh, not the person who owns the cattle or the ranch or the land.
Or the manservants or maidservants?
I wouldn't say I'm like coveting the manservant or maidservant.
That's I think a distinction I need to make because people like Ben Shapiro or Dennis Prager would argue, I think, you know, let me know if I'm strawmanning either of these gentlemen.
They would say that like or they have said I'm pretty sure that like leftism is just jealousy of like successful people or Jealousy of wealthy people.
It's bigotry towards white people yada yada yada, right?
Disagree.
I don't want a manservant or maidservant.
Mm-hmm I just don't think you should have them.
Yes.
For the most part.
Like I don't, I don't know if you, if you like run a huge op, like say, say you quote, oh, you know, and this is a world where there's, we still have capitalism and all that.
You run a huge operation.
Of course you're going to have employees.
I'm an employee.
Tony's an employee.
We're all, so it's, I'm like not against necessarily the idea of people working for a living, whether they're a maidservant, you know, there's honor in every kind of job.
Um, I'm not against the idea of a maidservant.
I guess in theory, if we're all having to sell our labor, that's like one avenue to do it.
But in a perfect world, no, you would not get a fucking maidservant.
Are you kidding me?
Fuck off.
Do you think that there's anybody making the argument that the North was really just committing the 10th, was just breaking the 10th commandment and they were coveting the slaves?
I have seen yeah well there's so yeah that is typically like a confederate or lost cause argument that it was just an economic war between the north and the south and the north was trying to like destabilize the south by You know, emancipating the slaves.
It wasn't actually about freeing black people.
There was a ton of anti-abolitionists in the North as well.
I think Lincoln himself, in his heart, wasn't an abolitionist.
He just did the practical thing to win the war, and it incidentally happened to be one of the better things the United States has ever done.
So that's pretty, I think that's a similar argument to what, yeah, they would be saying is that the North got jealous of the South's production capabilities, i.e.
free human labor.
Yeah.
And it's- AKA coveted the manservant.
And it's honestly not, I wouldn't say an incorrect, necessarily incorrect argument, you know, and it's just, that's how the, whatever, that's how it happened.
Back to this article.
So this article is, yeah, the Louisiana governor defending the Ten Commandments in schools.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is defending the state's mandate to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, explaining that the United States was founded upon Judeo-Christian principles.
Quote, I didn't know that living the Ten Commandments is a bad way to live life.
That is so, that's so cool to be like, well, I don't think we should have the, oh, so you're saying the Ten Commandments are evil now?
That's crazy.
You know, all they say is just don't kill anyone.
Are you pro-killing people?
Landry told America Reports on Friday, I quote, I didn't know that it was so vile to obey the Ten Commandments.
He went on there.
This is like the most shameless shit.
Oh, sorry.
I guess I raped each and each and every individual Louisiana voter when I said we should be nicer to each other.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Oh, oh, you want everyone to start disrespecting their mother and father?
That's that's fine.
That's up to you.
I'm just trying to that's I just want people to covet, OK?
There's too much coveting going on.
Wow, I didn't know it caused people to shit and piss and cum their pants just because a simple list of practical rules to follow.
Wow.
I think it speaks volumes about how eroded this country has become.
I mean, look, this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and every time we steer away from that, we have problems in our nation.
There's a lot of concepts You know, in Judeo-Christianity, that very obviously we do not appreciate in this country.
We do not like them.
We steer very clear of them.
Things like debt jubilees.
People probably heard of this.
This is like, you know, pop history stuff, but it's interesting.
Cultures throughout, like, the ages, Would wipe clean people's debt every, you know, it was like a bank, like a, like a bankruptcy, but good.
Yeah.
For everybody for like every five years.
I don't remember the exact duration, but the point was one of the good things about religion is that it, I guess it did instill morals and values
In the ruling class, not in the worker, you know, like workers are already like, you know, people, normal people are already not going to kill each other unless, you know, times are desperate and yada, yada, yada, breakdown of society, et cetera, et cetera.
Most people are already not going to do these things in the Ten Commandments.
It's very funny that, yeah, those are the ones that we are pretending need to be in school classrooms because we've lost our way.
Because TikTok is telling kids that it's cool to kill people.
Yeah, yeah.
Disrespect your mom challenge.
It's the thing that's going around.
It's bad.
But the rules that were meant to, like, bind The way society itself was structured?
No, we don't like those.
I'm not saying even most aspects of fundamentalist religion are cool, but it's very obvious which ones they actually care about imposing and why.
Well, you just don't get it.
The whole thing is when these rules were written, we didn't have a way to like quantify how blessed you were.
And now we do.
Like if you're blessed enough to, you know, to be a rich person, that means you've probably done good things and then God allowed you to get there.
Yeah.
And so they're blessed.
That's why those rules apply to them, because we have a way to quantify how reverent you are now.
And it's your balance.
It's the balance in your bank.
Right, well that's like the Protestantism, right?
That's like the Evangelicalism.
And that is, yeah, that is the quote Judeo-Christianity we subscribe to in this country.
Nothing about usury, nothing about debt jubilees, nothing about Actually helping the poor, loving thy neighbor, that sort of thing.
That's not, that's far less important than the self, than your particular journey.
Well, the whole thing is those were things that Jesus said later on in the second, you know, in the second part.
Um, and they never etched that in stone.
So like, that's probably not that important.
Got it.
You know, but these were etched in stone a couple thousand years before that.
So like, it's that this is more valuable.
I don't know how much more we need to read of this article.
The Republican governor is taking heat from liberal commentators.
Oh wait, no, there was more to his quote.
Every time we steer away from the Judeo-Christian values, we have problems in our nation.
I mean, right now, schools dot dot dot basically treat kids like critters.
And yet the Ten Commandments is something bad to put in schools?
Just amazing.
It really is.
Wow.
So now just simply writing words on a poster is bad.
I thought that's what we did in school.
Isn't half of school taking a trifold poster and just putting some nice words on it?
It's funny.
So you're aware that the schools aren't great.
You're saying that.
So fucking funny.
So just because we want to give them some rules that, you know, how's that treating them less like critters?
It's very funny.
God, this is my Facebook post.
God, why is Louisiana ranked 47th in public education?
And then God says, I don't know, I'm not allowed in schools.
And I think that's pretty powerful, that thing I just said that I made up.
I think it means a lot.
I think it's pretty meaningful, and I think it says a lot, and I think if we get God back in these schools, he's going to do wonderful things through our children.
Think about how much better school would be if you didn't have to study and you could just pray.
But that doesn't work because he gets cast down once they walk through those doors.
He can't support your kids in testing.
I'm just curious, how does the praying, in your mind, like, is the praying the assignment?
Or is it just instead of studying, you pray to have the knowledge to pass the assignment?
No, you don't even need the knowledge.
You just pray to get a good grade.
And then it should just happen, but we've never seen it able to happen because, like I said, once you walk through those doors, he's not allowed in there.
I think you pray and then God enlightens you.
That's kind of my romantic... However God wants to do it, that's on Him.
I don't care.
I'm just asking for a good grade.
I think if you commune with God, He shows you the universe and you will understand, for example, the Magna Carta.
But that's, like, why, like, some Christians are so evil, is because they really do, and they just become, like, nihilist.
They really did, like, understand the universe.
And they're like, well, fuck it.
May as well just be evil now.
Yeah, I just read a theory, or not a theory, I think it was like some, just some piece of writing about, yeah, what if the god we've all been, you know, that god we all pray to, what if that was actually the devil?
We kind of misinterpreted what was going on.
Bro.
Yeah.
My brain just exploded.
I can't continue.
Yeah, that's why I stopped believing in God.
It was too scary to think about.
I didn't want to serve the wrong master.
It's a big risk, you know?
It's not really worth taking.
Think about it.
Yeah, so I guess it's just not cool to hang out with your God anymore, apparently, according to these liberals.
Yeah, the Republican governor is taking heat from liberal commentators for the state's mandate to display the religious text in public school classrooms.
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg said the mandate bothers her to no end because when she grew up people were allowed to believe what they believed and it wasn't discussed with others.
Quote, if you want your child to have a religious education, send them to a religious school.
There's nothing stopping you.
Get out of my pocket, get out of my body, and get out of my school.
I would just add an addendum to that.
When you go to the religious school, that should also have no funding.
Should not be whatever.
No vouchers accepted at any fucking religious or charter school at all.
Yes, and they should all be taxed.
But she's she's not really she's really cutting her nose off the spider face, because if you keep religion out of the schools, then where are we going to watch Sister Act?
True.
That's very true.
And his sister act seems like that's a classic, like substitute teacher, busy work.
Totally.
Sort of day.
I love this argument, too.
The Republican governor says the state believes in displaying historical documents, especially something, quote, as important as the Ten Commandments.
Is that even a historical document?
Can you even call that a historical document?
I don't know.
I don't know like whether the Ten Commandments has been contemporaneous or whatever the word contemporary contemporaneously verified by like multiple I don't know if it's just the Bible if there's like other evidence for Moses descending from the mount with tablets like that seems like kind of like a fairy tale type thing, right?
And also, wouldn't you like?
Because I know one of the he dropped one of the tablets, right?
But like, wouldn't you like really be precious about that other tablet?
Like, well, wouldn't that be like?
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, I guess so again, be protected by God.
Yeah, if you'd let me finish, it's protected by both God and the U.S.
government, which we learned in Raiders.
Oh, true, true.
So another reason to hate the government, they're keeping the Ten Commandments from you, Mr. Christian American.
It's fucked up.
You could have the power of God in your hand, the real God.
And you don't gotta settle for any fucking Golden Calf or whatever Mr. Beast figurine.
You could get the real thing except for the Judeo-Bolshevist U.S.
government.
Wow.
I love the histo- Oh, so we're trying to erase history now?
It's very funny to do that.
It's like he's still using the Confederate monument argument.
Oh, it's just history.
Yeah.
This statue that we have depicting a slave owner, a runaway slave catcher as a hero.
It's just history.
History.
Pretty good.
OK, let's get into responses, because, yeah, I was like, Shocked.
I was like, who's going to fall?
Like, aren't even Republicans too politically savvy for that?
Aren't they like demystified to some extent?
Aren't they a little more?
Like, I think, honestly, I think Trump did mature the Republican base a little bit.
Now, now their goals, their ideologies, very bad, right?
But I do think they're actually, you know, this, this stuff about the swamp.
He's like, Trump was like doing George Carlin bits at the podium for four years and leading the two years leading up to his presidency.
He was saying, it's a big party and you're not in it.
I'm the guy who took over the Republican party, even though they all hated me, which is true.
Because I talk shit to every one of them.
Because I dunked on them.
I called them out.
Called out the hypocrisy here.
Called out the criminal there.
Called out the warmongering here.
You know, he did do... Now, that's not to say he followed through on those in a, like, material... But he did say it.
It's on record.
He shifted the Overton window for the right wing to be at least slightly less hierarchical in nature, I would say.
At least in terms of like actually looking at power structures and not being like Just liberal Hollywood is corrupting our children.
I don't know if you feel that way, but there is some better critique of the modern world in the Trump era than in previous eras, I think.
It's less vague.
It's more like specific.
Is that what you mean?
It is.
Yeah, it is.
Because the Bush era was just freedom and beer and, you know, patriotism.
And like there wasn't a lot and just, you know, and it wasn't even that anti-immigrant, but it was still racist.
You know, it wasn't as anti-immigrant as Trump is, but it was like, you know, still just kind of like generic American xenophobia, you know?
But yeah, Trump had like specific critiques of the ruling class that like no other member of the ruling class was ever gonna say.
And just the fact that he, not that his critiques were necessarily more insightful than the average political commentator or whatever, but the fact that he was saying them At all, I think, shifted, like, the way Republicans think about politics.
And there was already an appetite for it, obviously, or else it wouldn't have caught on.
So it's just astounding to me to see how much support for the fricking Ten Commandments.
Like, it's so simple.
It's such a simple, like, Uh, it's like a Rube.
You're like a Rube.
If this gets you excited.
Yeah.
You're a total, you're a knafe.
You're a little, you're a baby deer.
It's the thing about, more than anything, it's a tangible, it's a tangible victory.
It's something they can go into their kid's classroom and see the Ten Commandments and be like, we did that.
That's fair.
It's, I mean, another thing I guess we haven't, I've been like dancing around it, but it is like, I think probably, again, to some degree, a distraction.
Like you're saying, Tony, look, we did something.
Yeah.
What do you think the quality of life is in Louisiana right now?
Probably not great.
It's not necessarily great anywhere.
Anywhere, yeah.
But I imagine in a place that's ranked 47th for public schooling, it's probably got other problems.
Yeah.
I know there's not a lot of money in Louisiana.
I know that there's an entrenched racism and white grievance in just, you know, everywhere in America, of course, but like, there, specifically, yeah, when your base, I guess, is clamoring for an end to the Federal Reserve, to round up Bill Gates,
Like, these are all actual better, I think.
Like, even though I don't think Bill Gates is the worst rich person in the world, sure, he's bad, yeah.
I mean, he's top ten for sure.
Well, yeah, especially with what he did to public schools!
Yeah!
Especially with his fucking charter school programs.
You guys should like him for what he did to public schools.
But these, I don't know, these, they're more serious critiques to me.
Even if you're doing it through the, that's the bad billionaire.
That's childish to me.
But the fact that you're pointing at a billionaire is the problem.
I'm like, okay, good.
Yeah.
That's, that's a step in the right direction.
You know, I can, I can work from there.
But if you're like, well, the reason there's so many school shootings is because we don't have the 10 commandments on the wall.
I'm like, yeah, what are you doing here?
That's nice.
See you later.
Like I'm not, you're an insane person.
I can't even argue with you.
Yeah.
Uh, but okay.
Yeah.
Oh, but we're on responses.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I was just kind of shocked to see so many positive responses on Facebook.
There were like tens of thousands of likes on these Facebook posts.
The top comments were all like, Amen.
You know, or like, this is so wonderful.
Now we can begin healing as a nation.
Praise God.
It's insane how many people, because like, again, I would, I would describe like, you know, I mean, the evangelical evangelicals still have like a fairly, fairly strong grip on the right wing.
But Trump is not a religious guy.
You know, Trump is not I think Trump's like made it honestly okay like Trump was like they accepted the fact that Trump is like a huge what it's sodomite and an adulterer and all and all this stuff not because like they're hypocrites or whatever I just you know the country is getting less religious.
Well, the thing about him is, like, yeah, they know that he's not necessarily a good Christian, but the thing is, their God allowed him to do this.
Their God, like, he is a gift from God.
And maybe it takes someone who's a little more rough around the edges to do what God needs to be done.
And that's a real attitude people have.
They're like, thank God for Trump.
That's a thing that's said a million times a day throughout the country.
So I think that's what it is.
That's how we're able to reconcile it.
You know who else was a sodomite and an adulterer, Tony?
Who's that?
Jesus.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know about that.
I think so.
I think you need to... I don't think you're allowed to say that.
I don't think you're allowed to say that.
I think you need to check that little book of yours.
I think one of the Ten Commandments says you're not allowed to say that.
It's okay.
Jesus putting his hand on Trump's shoulder.
It's okay.
I walked in on Miss Preteen USA locker rooms too.
Too, yeah.
Actually, I didn't walk in, I was there the whole time.
When there was only one set of footprints in the locker room for Miss Teen Beauty USA, it's because I was hovering above you looking down your shirt.
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, let's get through responses.
Sorry, this segment ended up being longer than I anticipated.
Well, that's because the commandments were longer than they were supposed to be.
That's so true.
USA Today posted this in an opinion column.
I'm fine with Louisiana requiring Ten Commandments posters in classrooms as long as they note which commandments Donald Trump has broken.
Get his ass.
Get his ass.
I saw that so many times.
I saw this TikTok that was like, listen, if you're required to post the Ten Commandments, then you should post the rules from every other religion too.
Also, make it required work to where your students have to do a monthly report on a politician who has broken the Ten Commandments.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah.
I mean, sure.
Also, I don't want my kid to have more homework because of this.
It's such a weird fantasy.
Like you're writing a fantasy, you know, this is never, this is never going to happen.
You don't ever expect it to happen, but that's like the extent of your reach as a liberal.
You're like, yeah, sure.
The fascists can put in all the whatever, you know, Western religion propaganda, you know, they can put in every right wing talking point they want.
They can put in every like, Yeah, sure, let him teach that billionaires are good because they provide jobs.
As long as they mention that Donald Trump didn't pay some of his workers.
Let him know.
Let him know.
And it's like, okay, so I do agree that we should be telling people that Donald Trump stiffed workers over and over and over again.
I don't think that's what they're referring to, but go on.
Who's referring to?
The people who want them to know the commandments that Trump broke?
I'm not even saying that that's 10 commandments.
I'm just saying in this hypothetical where you would be like...
Yeah, sure, put whatever right-wing propaganda you want in the classroom, as long as we say, but these guys are hypocrites because they didn't do, you know, it's like, okay.
Cool.
Thanks for wasting my time with this shit.
Thanks for nothing.
It's very lib thing.
Like, let the right-wing do what it's going to do, and then we'll point out how silly it is.
Yeah.
Which is our job as podcasters.
Yeah, back the fuck off.
Voice of Knowledge says, while I'm a Buddhist, I have no problem with the Ten Commandments being displayed.
Well, yeah, you're a Buddhist.
You're not supposed to have a problem with those things.
Oh, did they pick you, Voice of Knowledge?
Here's that Christian attention you ordered.
Yeah, here you go.
I have no problem with the Ten Commandments being displayed.
I'm not like other Buddhists.
Like the school already has more rules than the Ten Commandments do, right?
We haven't said that.
than ever.
Like the school already has more rules than the Ten Commandments do.
Yeah.
Right.
We haven't we haven't said it.
What are you allowed to do in a school that is forbidden by these ten commit?
I guess you can have an idol.
You can have like a Sailor Moon doll in your backpack that you worship.
You can't steal.
That's against the rules in school.
You can't do that.
You can't commit adultery in school.
That's really outside the rules.
Like I you.
Coveting the neighbor's house or like if you wrote an essay and your essay was all a grievance against your neighbor or something, I think your teacher would probably have a talk with you or your parents.
It'd probably be a sad essay about how like I went to a house and they had like central air and cable and it was so cool.
And I just we had snacks.
We had so many snacks.
Snacks I'm not allowed to have at home.
Like that's what the essay would be, you know?
Yeah, we got to watch SpongeBob.
Whereas in my home, the idea of a talking sponge is blasphemous.
Yes.
Um, I guess you could probably take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain.
You could probably say, you could probably say, Oh my God!
Imagine, okay, so imagine a seven year old learning some new piece of information.
You know, we went to the moon in 1960, whatever.
Imagine it's like a seven year old saying, Oh my God!
Like that video would probably go viral, unfortunately.
It would.
Because, yeah, we're watching a sin happen and we're cheering it on.
That's not cool.
So that's maybe the one that schools... But other than that, there are so many rules in school.
Schools do not need more rules, I don't think.
Yeah, not at all.
Schools probably need fewer rules, to be honest.
I do want to say in my household, we do struggle with taking the Lord's name in vain.
So now the rule in our household is we don't say, we just say, get And that's how we skirt the sin.
Do you also say skirt?
Yeah.
Instead of swearing?
Instead of swearing, yeah.
Go skirt!
46Des, very similar comment, says, I'm agnostic and I support this.
What are you guys doing this for?
Like, it's so silly.
This country was founded on Christian values, and I'm more comfortable around Christians than I am any other religion or atheist.
So yeah, you're just racist.
Like, that's all it is, man.
Very, very funny.
The voicenology is so funny, too, because like, hey, Buddhist, your mentality is actually a lot simpler, like more simple to get the point across in less words.
Like, why don't you advocate for getting your message out there, too?
Why are you so good with this?
Like, that's I mean, I guess it's because you're so Buddhist and you don't care, but maybe advocate for your for what you believe.
I think this is from the Fox News comment section, these two comments, and it, honestly, it's the most the Fox News comment section has ever felt like Twitter to me.
Because this feels like blue checks scraping for, like, Elon Musk.
You know, like, listen, I live in San Francisco, I was born in San Francisco my whole life, but Elon Musk is right when he calls it a piece of shit filled with human rats.
How many fucking white people have you met that are like, I'm Buddhist and they're just like, not?
Or they somehow managed to make Buddhism fascist, you know?
Although I do know there is like, you know, extremist, extremist Buddhists.
I am familiar.
Okay.
I don't need any DMs.
They just wear like linen.
So they're like, I'm Buddhist.
Clucky the Hen says there is nothing in the Constitution that says anything about, quote, separation of church and state.
It simply states that the, quote, state cannot establish a religion or prevent individuals from practicing one.
Tony!
What's this then?
What would you call this?
We've been getting it so wrong this whole time.
It's actually... This is stupid.
It's that there's no separation of church and state.
There is.
It just simply restricts the state from imposing religions.
Oh, so this is fine then.
So then the part where they're mandated to post the religious rules is fine.
Like, thanks for doing the work for us, I guess.
It's so funny.
Like, how much more literal can you get?
Yeah.
It's not even like the state saying, In general, we feel good about Christianity, or like, we, I personally as the mayor, or as the governor, try to follow Christian beliefs.
That could be considered, I think, maybe proselytizing as a state worker or whatever, but that's not even, this is literally the government Taking the religion and pasting it to the wall.
This is like, though, this is not even a metaphor for, quote, imposing religion.
They're literally putting the physical religion into the classroom.
But yeah, pretty funny to be like, well, actually, and it's still the same thing.
It says we can't bring, you know, separate.
It's not a thing.
Separate interest is not a thing in the Constitution.
It says we just can't do exactly this.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you, Clucky the Hen.
The Analog Kid says, why do humans who are just accidental collocations of atoms?
This is so funny, dude.
This is totally the Analog Kid.
Why do humans who are just accidental co-locations of atoms have morals or rights?
So I'm gonna, just real quick, look up the word co-locations.
Oh, co-locations.
Got it.
I thought he... I don't know if he means to say co-location.
It's the action of placing Things side by side are in position.
So even in your analogy about atheism, you're still implying that the atoms were placed side by side.
I thought he was saying collections.
Of Adams, because that would be more the atheist.
Yeah.
Just describing a bundle, not as not ascribing, you know, a watchmaker theory to it, which apparently the word I learned a new word, though, co-locations.
But he has two L's in it.
He thought he learned a new word, but he just got really close.
Yeah, there's two L's in it.
OK.
Anyway, sorry, I just had my own personal journey.
Why do humans who are just accidental co-locations of atoms have morals or rights?
The atheist worldview supplies no logical reason for either.
It's true.
There's nothing that makes sense about having morals and rights unless you believe in God.
Unless you believe in an all-powerful deity.
Like it's so funny how willing some of these Christians are to out themselves as sociopaths.
Yeah.
I've heard people tell me, you know, the only reason we're not murdering each other for no reason is because we believe in God.
If it wasn't for that, we would just be doing it.
Yeah.
And I guess the most charitable way I would intuit or interpret that Is that they mean people less than them need Christian, you know, it's like, uh, it's like that episode of King of the Hill where they banned trans fats, but all the elites in the town who, who were the ones who wanted to ban trans fats were the, they're eating them illegally actually.
And it's, you know, described by, well, we just, you know, we can do it in moderation.
We can, we can indulge in this food truck responsibly.
Whereas, The masses cannot.
I think maybe that's the that's the most charitable interpretation is just that they're extremely like classist or racist or whatever you know just generally anti-human.
Yes.
I think a lot of like the right-wing ideology can be described as being Antisocial, frankly, you know, that's that's a that's a slur or an epithet that's been used to describe the left, you know, since the 60s and probably before then, at least in America.
But it makes sense.
Truly, like, yeah, you're against collectivism.
You you are almost against society as a whole, it seems like.
Yeah, I mean, in its existing state, much like we are.
So I'm not surprised you need God to not follow through on all the psychotic memes you're posting about defending your castle or whatever.
I don't know how charitable I can be with this because that does seem like part of it.
You are itching to kill your fellow man and that's why we need the Ten Commandments in the classroom.
And if that's what you need to make sure you're not doing that, I mean, maybe just tell us, hey, if you don't put those same commandments up, I'm going to kill a lot of people.
I might be more open to them doing it.
Well, I would be like, whoa, I guess it is going to have a material effect on the country.
I stand corrected.
My fault.
The atheist worldview supplies no logical reason for either.
You're baby again like you're you're so baby if you think that society has no reason to I don't know like adhere to the golden rule if not for God or the or be honest with one another that's like pretty innate human characteristic I think is to realize is to like try and have friends Maybe you're lying to make friends.
That's not good.
But I would accept lying to make friends as a means to an end as opposed to lying to screw other people over.
You try to develop trust with the people around you because they're around you.
You want to know you can trust them.
Mm-hmm.
I want to have a relationship with my neighbor.
I don't ask my neighbor who they voted for for president or whatever.
Yeah.
Mostly because she's an older Vietnamese lady and there's a language barrier.
If we had more conversations and I started hearing her say weird shit, I would be like, hmm.
Yeah.
What's going on there?
But no, she just gives me delicious food.
And we're super nice to each other.
There's like, I don't know, an obvious, to anybody who's an adult, if you're not still living under your parent's root, and you know, there are adults living under your parent's, I don't mean that as a slur, but like, if you're out in the world.
Like if you're self-reliant.
You just know you gotta.
Yeah.
You know, and it's it's funny and it's not and it's like there's I don't know, you know, I'm coming at all this from like a layman's perspective.
I'm willing to bet there's a biological imperative to collaborate with other humans.
That's the reason we develop into tribes.
That's the reason we develop into clans and groups like across Cultures and across continents should be obvious.
It should be obvious.
There's a reason we have moral codes, you know, and you can try to enshrine those moral codes using different techniques such as religion or such as, you know, just a strong cultural taboo against breaking them or whatever.
But yeah, you gotta be joking if you tell me that God is the only reason.
And that is what people like Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager and all these right-wing commentators, that is either how they view the world or how they want to be seen as viewing the world.
And even the most charitable interpretation I can give is that they think the unwashed masses will all kill each other if we don't have religion.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that is still a profoundly antisocial position.
Yeah.
This was great, though.
The last part of this comment.
Pragmatics is not morality.
Who gives a shit?
It works the same way.
Like morality arrives out of pragmatics, I would say.
You know?
Or like morality is the evolutionarily, evolutionarily, I guess, good feeling you get when you make a friend.
Like, you know, like, like, yeah, there's stuff that happens in your brain chemistry that makes you want to have sex.
It makes you fall in love or whatever.
It also makes you make friends, you know, and like, uh, it makes you feel good when you, when you do good works.
Like, I don't think that that's just religion.
I don't like that has to exist outside of Religion and other culture, you know, it's it's just it's very naive to pretend but then he goes on Running your car without oil is not advantageous, but it's not evil Good and evil are not equivalent to beneficial and not beneficial for survival So just dog shit.
So so according to that like then this is superfluous and we don't need to do this Then this is a waste of time.
What are you talking about?
I don't know what he's talking about because it's like running your car without oil.
He's trying to do a semantic argument and saying that if you do good for practical reasons, then it's not actually good.
Um, and I wouldn't say like when you're acting on these impulses to be social, to be good, to be kind, to be friendly, to be charitable, I wouldn't say you're doing it for practical purposes.
I would say you're doing it because it feels good or because you were, you know, cult, maybe even more sharply culturally geared towards those acts.
But at a larger scale, it's advantageous.
Yes.
It's beneficial for society.
So you're not like thinking, aha, it will be beneficial for society if I give this homeless guy five bucks.
No.
You're not being like, oh, it will be advantageous for society if I take care of my sick mother.
Yeah, no way.
That doesn't make any sense.
Or if I give, you know, check in with my neighbor or something.
It's just, but that's what happens when you do it.
Genius.
Fucking idiot.
Anyway, profoundly stupid stuff.
Wow.
We ran so long on that segment.
Hope it was interesting for everybody.
Well, I guess that's the episode, folks.
For such a silly policy, I guess it was a pretty interesting one for us to talk about.
Yeah, yeah.
We learned so much today.
We learned about how separation of church and state is a myth.
And how exactly this is the bad thing.
So that's cool.
That's good.
Yeah.
And this is like pretty big MD.
This is the feels like classic MDC stuff.
You know, this is like whatever Governor Eric Greitens talking about how Obama took away chocolate milk out of his son's elementary school kind of shit, which I always, I always like, I always find funny and silly and you know, slightly maddening.
Classics.
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Pyramidics Brave and strong
Up before the break of dawn Putting poker faces on Broken bodies all day long
The neighbors heard the fire Someone had a night
It must have been the one Husband has lost A lot A lot of blood He wakes up screaming Oh my God
Am I gonna die?
As they strapped his arms down to his side.
Times like these, they've been taught to lie.
Buddy, just calm down, you'll be alright.
And several friends came to his grave.
His children were so well-believed.
As the priest got up to speed, the assembly craved relief. the assembly craved relief.
But he himself had given up.
So instead he offered them this little crap.
You're gonna die.
We're all gonna die.
Could be twenty years, could be tonight.
And lately I have been wondering why.
We got to postpone the unavoidable.
We got to postpone the unavoidable.
And prolong the pain of being alive.
And we got to postpone the unavoidable.
We can't have me Joe Biden-ing all over this episode forgetting content we already went over.
Yeah, I won't let it out.
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
There'll only be rumors of you Joe Biden-ing all over the episode.
