WEBVTT - #1131: Losers 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.850 <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>. 0:00:03.590 --> 0:00:17.180 <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Dan and Jordan, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.320 I am sweating. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.970 Knowledgefight.com. It's time to pray. I have great respect for 0:00:23.110 --> 0:00:25.090 Knowledge Fight. Knowledge Fight. 0:00:25.310 --> 0:00:27.390 I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, 0:00:27.410 --> 0:00:28.970 saying we are the bad guys. 0:00:29.090 --> 0:00:30.000 Knowledge Fight. 0:00:30.090 --> 0:00:31.120 Dan and Jordan. 0:00:31.220 --> 0:00:32.220 Knowledge Fight. 0:00:32.300 --> 0:00:41.839 Need, need money. Andy in Kansas. Andy in Kansas. Andy 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.019 in Kansas. Stop it. 0:00:43.060 --> 0:00:43.820 Andy in Kansas. 0:00:43.860 --> 0:00:46.040 Andy in Kansas. Andy in Kansas. 0:00:46.060 --> 0:00:47.020 It's time to pray. 0:00:47.300 --> 0:00:48.120 Andy in Kansas. 0:00:48.140 --> 0:00:49.140 You're on the air. Thanks for holding. 0:00:49.550 --> 0:00:50.800 Hello, Alex. I'm a first-time caller. 0:00:51.010 --> 0:00:51.830 I'm a huge fan. 0:00:51.930 --> 0:00:52.710 I love your work. 0:00:53.110 --> 0:00:56.990 Knowledge fight. Knowledgefight.com. 0:00:57.690 --> 0:00:58.810 I love you. 0:00:58.830 --> 0:01:01.330 Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. 0:01:01.390 --> 0:01:01.710 I'm Dan. 0:01:01.930 --> 0:01:04.390 I'm Jordan. We're a couple dudes who like to sit around, 0:01:04.470 --> 0:01:06.250 worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.000 bit about Alex Jones. Oh, indeed we are, Dan. Jordan. Dan. Jordan. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:11.640 I have a quick question for you. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:12.000 Please. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:13.149 What month is it? 0:01:13.260 --> 0:01:13.680 It's April. 0:01:13.900 --> 0:01:14.460 Oh, shit. 0:01:14.620 --> 0:01:14.880 Yeah. 0:01:15.180 --> 0:01:15.460 Uh-oh. 0:01:15.819 --> 0:01:16.480 What's your bright spot? 0:01:16.500 --> 0:01:18.650 There are no traditions anymore for the rest of the year. 0:01:18.670 --> 0:01:20.250 It was really just the first couple months. It was 0:01:20.270 --> 0:01:22.730 just those first couple months. Yeah. I'll tell you my 0:01:22.750 --> 0:01:27.679 bright spot. Okay. Honestly, I'm conflicted about this. Oh, my God. I... 0:01:30.060 --> 0:01:32.060 I said I wasn't going to talk about Survivor. 0:01:32.260 --> 0:01:32.540 Sure. 0:01:32.660 --> 0:01:33.960 And I meant to. 0:01:34.300 --> 0:01:34.520 Right. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.080 I meant to not talk about it. 0:01:36.180 --> 0:01:38.100 You had every intention to not talk about it. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:39.080 Sincere. 0:01:39.140 --> 0:01:39.360 Right. 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:40.319 From the heart. 0:01:40.420 --> 0:01:40.600 Yeah. 0:01:40.660 --> 0:01:42.920 I got to cut this shit out. Right. But I 0:01:42.940 --> 0:01:46.660 was watching last night's episode of Survivor. And something happened 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.180 that I got really excited about. And then I felt 0:01:50.220 --> 0:01:53.480 really disappointed by. Oh, no. So mild spoilers. Okay. I'm 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.280 not going to say who got voted out or anything 0:01:55.310 --> 0:01:55.500 like that. 0:01:55.530 --> 0:01:55.770 All right. 0:01:55.910 --> 0:01:59.430 All right. But so Jeff Probst. 0:01:59.610 --> 0:01:59.810 Yeah. 0:02:00.550 --> 0:02:05.350 He starts giving a speech to everybody about how they 0:02:05.370 --> 0:02:09.030 were trying to come up with ways to use nature 0:02:09.150 --> 0:02:12.300 to inform the twists in the game. Sure. And that 0:02:12.380 --> 0:02:17.540 nature had blessed them with a perfect metaphor. 0:02:17.620 --> 0:02:19.300 Cautiously optimistic about this? 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:20.420 Blood moon. 0:02:20.740 --> 0:02:21.480 Less optimistic. 0:02:21.500 --> 0:02:25.300 There was a blood moon room. And so Jeff Probst 0:02:25.340 --> 0:02:28.280 is like, there's going to be a twist that will 0:02:28.460 --> 0:02:31.260 fundamentally shake this game forever. 0:02:31.490 --> 0:02:32.989 Werewolves are real. 0:02:33.750 --> 0:02:35.150 That would be one. 0:02:35.310 --> 0:02:36.430 That would shake everything. 0:02:36.810 --> 0:02:37.030 Yeah. 0:02:37.330 --> 0:02:40.570 But it's a blood moon. Right. It's a twist that 0:02:40.590 --> 0:02:43.750 will change the game forever. Right. How can this not 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:48.720 be my big pitch of make them bleed? Yeah. Make 0:02:48.780 --> 0:02:52.460 them give you a pint of blood. Sure, sure. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.280 I mean, it would be interesting legally. 0:02:57.870 --> 0:03:00.489 But, you know, on the other hand, they take a 0:03:00.530 --> 0:03:03.510 lot of shit from people's bodies on reality TV shows. 0:03:03.530 --> 0:03:05.470 I don't think it would be illegal for Jeff Probst 0:03:05.490 --> 0:03:07.770 to be like the person who bleeds into this cup 0:03:07.830 --> 0:03:09.250 the fastest is immune. 0:03:09.330 --> 0:03:10.670 Ooh, that's a good question. 0:03:10.770 --> 0:03:14.440 Can't be voted out. Here's my question, though, right? So 0:03:14.460 --> 0:03:16.660 you're saying it's a speed bleeding challenge? 0:03:16.780 --> 0:03:17.280 Speed bleed. 0:03:17.540 --> 0:03:21.220 So now I'm thinking, looking at my own body, where 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.980 does blood come out the fastest from? I'm chopping my 0:03:24.020 --> 0:03:26.580 femoral artery, and then I'm dead in 30 seconds. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.919 Okay, here's where the legal comes into it. There probably 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:37.090 would have to be some sort of rules around where 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.600 you could cut. 0:03:38.660 --> 0:03:41.550 I like that in my fantasy, I'm like, oh, here's 0:03:41.590 --> 0:03:42.770 the trick. I'll kill myself. 0:03:42.790 --> 0:03:45.510 Yeah, that'll be fast. Got him! 0:03:45.810 --> 0:03:46.230 Got him! 0:03:47.820 --> 0:03:50.800 I know it's not ever going to happen, but it 0:03:50.940 --> 0:03:53.060 felt like the closest that we were ever going to 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:57.090 get to my fantasy version of completely insane Jeff Probst 0:03:58.270 --> 0:04:01.130 really going too far with the premise. And the fact 0:04:01.170 --> 0:04:03.050 that it was a blood moon, I was like, it's 0:04:03.110 --> 0:04:06.230 right there. This is happening. For a minute, I thought, 0:04:07.010 --> 0:04:10.000 this is fucking happening. We're losing it. And then it 0:04:10.030 --> 0:04:10.470 didn't happen. 0:04:10.510 --> 0:04:12.760 What happened? What was the theme? 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.430 They just voted out three people. It's not like. 0:04:16.450 --> 0:04:17.330 Because of a blood moon? 0:04:17.710 --> 0:04:18.010 Yeah. 0:04:18.570 --> 0:04:19.790 Because it was just extra blood? 0:04:20.450 --> 0:04:20.789 Yeah. 0:04:20.850 --> 0:04:21.430 Extra bloody? 0:04:21.470 --> 0:04:25.050 Yeah, like, the whole speech that Probst was giving was this, like, 0:04:25.370 --> 0:04:28.010 there's a twist that's going to change the game forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:04:28.190 --> 0:04:30.390 It's something that's never happened on the show before. We're 0:04:30.410 --> 0:04:31.859 voting out multiple people. Bleed in a cup. 0:04:31.890 --> 0:04:32.980 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:34.359 From your hand. 0:04:34.380 --> 0:04:36.620 Squeeze blood from a stone, literally, yes. 0:04:36.900 --> 0:04:39.400 But no, it was just that no one, they've never 0:04:39.420 --> 0:04:41.360 had an episode where three people were voted out. That was. 0:04:42.020 --> 0:04:42.839 That sucks. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.260 Three tribal councils voted out. Yeah. 0:04:46.140 --> 0:04:49.060 That is a fundamental misunderstanding of what is interesting about 0:04:49.110 --> 0:04:49.440 that game. 0:04:49.500 --> 0:04:52.770 It was fine. It's an escalation in terms of like, yeah, 0:04:52.790 --> 0:04:54.630 there have been episodes where two people have been voted 0:04:54.730 --> 0:04:55.529 out before. 0:04:55.670 --> 0:04:55.890 Sure. 0:04:55.930 --> 0:05:00.010 That's happened. Yeah. But it wasn't like it zigged when 0:05:00.050 --> 0:05:03.000 it could have zagged. And I think that that was 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.140 the problem. Yeah. Like something really upsetting should have been 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:08.480 the twist that will change the game forever. 0:05:08.500 --> 0:05:13.090 Yeah, I mean, you can't say Blood Moon without the 0:05:13.510 --> 0:05:18.330 either straight up werewolf or like, oh, blood, sanguination. You're 0:05:18.370 --> 0:05:20.790 going to take blood from something. 0:05:20.850 --> 0:05:24.020 I think the idea that they wanted you to feel 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.950 is like the sacrifice of more players is. 0:05:28.260 --> 0:05:30.240 I would have accepted, like, a sacrifice. 0:05:30.260 --> 0:05:32.070 Like, you got to go put your hand in some 0:05:32.130 --> 0:05:34.169 deer blood and, like, put it on your forehead or 0:05:34.210 --> 0:05:35.070 some shit like that. 0:05:35.110 --> 0:05:35.470 I don't know. 0:05:35.510 --> 0:05:36.270 That's not a challenge. 0:05:36.290 --> 0:05:37.030 Or the box from Dune. 0:05:37.070 --> 0:05:40.400 Obviously, that's not a challenge. Yeah, absolutely. Get the Gom 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:41.320 Jabbar out there. 0:05:41.779 --> 0:05:42.220 What are you doing? 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:45.279 Here's the blood moon. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.900 God, that'd be good. 0:05:47.020 --> 0:05:47.760 That would be good. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.140 Anyway, it's fine. I gotta stop talking about Survivor, and 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.120 I swear I will. What's your bright spot? 0:05:54.180 --> 0:05:57.840 My bright spot is a little abstract. I haven't been 0:05:57.900 --> 0:06:00.580 able to watch more than a few innings of a 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:01.500 baseball game this year. 0:06:01.580 --> 0:06:01.820 Oh, no. 0:06:02.730 --> 0:06:06.789 My beloved Cubs are doing okay. They're not as good 0:06:06.810 --> 0:06:08.570 as they should be, but there's only been a week 0:06:08.589 --> 0:06:11.550 of the season. My bright spot, though, is that I'm 0:06:11.570 --> 0:06:14.490 still following up with all the box scores. I'm following 0:06:14.860 --> 0:06:18.240 the league, you know? That feels good. I felt a 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.260 direct connection to that guy in the 1920s reading his 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.520 newspaper going over those scores. 0:06:24.620 --> 0:06:27.600 Chomping on a cigar looking at the Zeros and ones. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:27.780 100%. 0:06:27.779 --> 0:06:29.050 No, totally. 0:06:29.060 --> 0:06:31.950 Like, there's a stock ticker or some shit on that thing. 0:06:32.010 --> 0:06:34.210 And it's just like, for a brief moment, I was like, 0:06:34.210 --> 0:06:36.670 100 years is no time at all. 0:06:36.810 --> 0:06:37.110 Yeah. 0:06:37.210 --> 0:06:38.730 You know? It felt cool. 0:06:38.790 --> 0:06:40.950 Before we started the show, we were talking a little bit. 0:06:41.150 --> 0:06:43.210 And we talked a bit about basketball. 0:06:43.270 --> 0:06:43.510 Yeah. 0:06:43.630 --> 0:06:46.410 And how I used to love basketball. And I have 0:06:46.630 --> 0:06:49.770 vivid memories of that. Like, looking at the box scores. 0:06:49.790 --> 0:06:50.050 Yeah. 0:06:50.390 --> 0:06:53.789 And reading. Absolutely. Having to figure out, like, okay, this 0:06:53.850 --> 0:06:55.150 line is this. Yep. 0:06:55.230 --> 0:06:55.350 Yeah. 0:06:55.690 --> 0:06:57.969 That's exciting stuff. I love a box score. 0:06:58.029 --> 0:07:01.550 Just visualizing like, oh, this was the back and forth 0:07:01.589 --> 0:07:05.870 of the game. Yeah, there's just something about that. There 0:07:05.930 --> 0:07:09.540 was a time where you had to imagine. You could 0:07:09.580 --> 0:07:12.840 not watch a replay. You couldn't watch a YouTube clip. 0:07:13.020 --> 0:07:13.980 There were no highlights. 0:07:14.060 --> 0:07:16.500 You just had to see that the box score had 0:07:16.700 --> 0:07:18.020 six hits versus. 0:07:17.740 --> 0:07:20.170 Four hits and two errors. And you had to imagine 0:07:20.230 --> 0:07:21.710 what those errors looked like. 0:07:21.730 --> 0:07:24.710 Yeah. You know what the problem with an error in 0:07:24.750 --> 0:07:27.510 baseball is? What's that? It's never as silly as you 0:07:27.550 --> 0:07:29.070 want it to be. It's not. 0:07:29.130 --> 0:07:30.310 There are some silly errors. 0:07:30.350 --> 0:07:33.429 But almost never. Almost never. It's usually some weird formal thing. 0:07:33.570 --> 0:07:33.790 Yeah. 0:07:33.950 --> 0:07:36.110 You know, it doesn't, it doesn't, no one's, no one's 0:07:36.190 --> 0:07:37.350 tripping around. Yeah. 0:07:37.930 --> 0:07:40.590 Or just a regular mistake. You know, like, oh, I 0:07:40.630 --> 0:07:42.630 just sailed the ball. I threw it a little too high. 0:07:42.690 --> 0:07:42.930 So. 0:07:43.090 --> 0:07:43.350 Yeah. 0:07:43.430 --> 0:07:45.400 That's an error. It is like, yeah, but that's not a, 0:07:45.870 --> 0:07:47.310 that's not a fun, wacky error. 0:07:47.450 --> 0:07:51.060 No, no. Like someone just like. slipping and going head 0:07:51.100 --> 0:07:51.450 over feet. 0:07:51.860 --> 0:07:55.980 So you're saying that we should institute more banana peels 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.179 on the diamond? 0:07:58.500 --> 0:08:00.020 Yeah, yeah, definitely. All right. 0:08:00.250 --> 0:08:02.410 I will take that proposal into consideration. 0:08:02.430 --> 0:08:03.950 And now I've started thinking. 0:08:04.030 --> 0:08:04.230 Yeah. 0:08:04.690 --> 0:08:08.930 Could you do a Harlem Globetrotters of baseball? They have one. What? 0:08:09.030 --> 0:08:10.310 It's called the Savannah Bananas. 0:08:10.630 --> 0:08:11.750 What? 0:08:12.130 --> 0:08:13.380 What do they do? 0:08:13.500 --> 0:08:16.840 They're just a pure clown show. Like, they're fantastic. They're 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:22.240 very good ballplayers. But they have sing-alongs. They do crowd stuff. 0:08:22.500 --> 0:08:27.730 They have these clips. Everybody does dances. Sometimes during the pitch, 0:08:29.150 --> 0:08:32.270 they'll have a camera set up. So the umpire, the catcher, 0:08:32.350 --> 0:08:35.940 the batter, the pitcher, and the center fielder, and the 0:08:35.980 --> 0:08:39.000 second base, and the shortstop all just start dancing in like. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:39.320 What? 0:08:43.550 --> 0:08:46.130 They're all doing the same motions for like 30 seconds 0:08:46.230 --> 0:08:47.750 and then they throw the pitch and they just move 0:08:47.850 --> 0:08:49.309 on with the, it's a whole thing. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.060 How do they fake the hits and stuff though? 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.099 They don't fake them. They're just very good ball players. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:55.680 Uh-huh. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.160 Yeah. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:57.920 They just know exactly where they're going. No. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.360 Well, I mean, but if you're good at baseball and 0:09:00.420 --> 0:09:04.260 everybody's kind of working as a team, you're going to 0:09:04.380 --> 0:09:06.760 not be good all the time. But there's a lot 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.689 of stuff that you can control if you and the 0:09:08.750 --> 0:09:11.410 defense are both kind of on the same team in 0:09:11.429 --> 0:09:11.710 a sort of way. 0:09:11.730 --> 0:09:13.770 If the pitcher isn't trying to get one past you, 0:09:13.910 --> 0:09:15.589 they can put it where you need it to be 0:09:15.650 --> 0:09:16.730 to hit it where you. 0:09:16.950 --> 0:09:17.110 Right. 0:09:17.490 --> 0:09:20.810 But sometimes it's the time for the pitcher to show off. 0:09:20.910 --> 0:09:22.890 It's a little bit like an all-star game. Sometimes the 0:09:22.929 --> 0:09:25.469 pitcher goes, ah, I'm going to strike you out. Or 0:09:25.530 --> 0:09:27.089 sometimes the hitter's like, ah, I'm going to hit a 0:09:27.090 --> 0:09:27.449 home run. 0:09:27.490 --> 0:09:28.850 That kind of thing. 0:09:29.010 --> 0:09:32.329 Do the Savannah Bananas have a Washington Generals? 0:09:32.710 --> 0:09:33.150 They do. 0:09:33.210 --> 0:09:38.040 There's like a whole league. And they kind of barnstorm. 0:09:38.220 --> 0:09:39.400 A whole league? 0:09:39.420 --> 0:09:41.780 There's like four teams, I think. Something like that. They've 0:09:41.820 --> 0:09:43.200 just expanded to like four teams. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.219 Clown baseball league? Yes, 100%. 0:09:45.220 --> 0:09:49.440 They barnstorm. They've filled out arenas. They've filled out stadiums. 0:09:50.350 --> 0:09:54.830 They'll show up. Yeah, they'll sell out 100,000 seats. 0:09:54.950 --> 0:09:57.750 So hold on. But if they have four teams, then 0:09:57.790 --> 0:10:01.120 are three of them the losers, two of Bananas? Or 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.120 is there another Bananas? 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.440 I do not specifically know how comedy leagues of baseball 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:13.480 work in terms of season-wide rankings. I just know that 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.620 the Savannah Bananas started it as a thing a while back. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.500 And it's just grown. It's gotten big. 0:10:20.580 --> 0:10:23.210 It seems like there's so many more opportunities for things 0:10:23.230 --> 0:10:27.450 that aren't wildly unsafe in the context of basketball and clowning. 0:10:28.410 --> 0:10:30.470 But hey, you know, the sky's the limit. I'm glad 0:10:31.190 --> 0:10:31.590 they're trying. 0:10:31.750 --> 0:10:33.230 Yeah, it is fun. 0:10:33.450 --> 0:10:36.850 It's fun for baseball because for the longest time, every 0:10:36.910 --> 0:10:38.550 single person who's ever picked up a. 0:10:38.530 --> 0:10:40.610 Bat is like, you gotta do it the right way. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.680 There's no rules. And these guys are like, what if 0:10:43.740 --> 0:10:45.660 I did a backflip all the time? 0:10:46.220 --> 0:10:49.690 Now, hockey seems like that would be tough. That would 0:10:49.830 --> 0:10:50.740 be tough. 0:10:50.750 --> 0:10:52.440 There have only been like three skaters who have ever 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.320 done a backflip on skates, I think. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.170 I think incorporating that in clown business would be hard. 0:10:57.190 --> 0:10:57.890 That could be trouble. 0:10:58.490 --> 0:11:00.570 So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over. 0:11:00.610 --> 0:11:02.569 All right. We're going to be talking about a little 0:11:02.590 --> 0:11:05.490 bit of something. And before we do that, let's take 0:11:05.510 --> 0:11:07.010 a moment to say hello to some new ones. 0:11:07.030 --> 0:11:07.750 Oh, that's a great idea. 0:11:07.970 --> 0:11:11.000 So first, shout out to Amanda, Mary Alice, Stuart, and 0:11:11.030 --> 0:11:13.670 all the good people in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Keep fighting 0:11:13.700 --> 0:11:15.640 the good fight. From Cullen, thank you so much. You're 0:11:15.660 --> 0:11:17.520 now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk. 0:11:17.540 --> 0:11:18.240 Thank you very much. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.579 Thank you. Next, happy January birthday to Nick, my weekly 0:11:21.620 --> 0:11:24.920 bright spot and favorite cat dad. Love, Jillian. Thank you 0:11:24.940 --> 0:11:27.260 so much. You're now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk. 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:27.939 Thank you very much. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.090 Thank you. And put on your casual boots and slather 0:11:31.140 --> 0:11:34.110 up a ketchup sandwich because snip, snip, it's the Lobster 0:11:34.130 --> 0:11:37.109 Man and I'm coming for your green walls and 5,000 hats. 0:11:37.150 --> 0:11:39.050 Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk. I'm 0:11:39.110 --> 0:11:39.830 a policy wonk. 0:11:39.850 --> 0:11:40.569 Thank you very much. 0:11:40.610 --> 0:11:42.640 Thank you. And we got a technocrat in the picture. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.680 So thank you so much to Augustin, Illinois. You are 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:46.440 now a technocrat. 0:11:47.030 --> 0:11:48.780 I'm a policy wonk. Four stars. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.800 Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant. 0:11:50.940 --> 0:11:54.100 Someone, someone, sodomite sent me a bucket of poop. Daddy shark. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.650 Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent. He's a 0:12:00.770 --> 0:12:03.090 loser little, little titty baby. 0:12:03.510 --> 0:12:06.630 I don't want to hate black people. I renounce Jesus Christ. 0:12:06.740 --> 0:12:09.900 Thank you so much. Yes, thank you very much. So, Jordan, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.200 I'm back from the road and all that. You are. 0:12:12.220 --> 0:12:16.099 We're adjusting back into normal. There's a lot of stuff 0:12:16.140 --> 0:12:18.280 going on over at InfoWars, and we're going to get 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.870 into some of that stuff on Monday. But today, I 0:12:21.910 --> 0:12:26.429 wanted to ruminate on something. And before, just as a 0:12:26.429 --> 0:12:28.410 little bit of an introduction, I'm going to play you 0:12:28.450 --> 0:12:29.770 this clip of Alex from 2005. All right. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:32.780 Yeah, this is about survival. 0:12:33.380 --> 0:12:35.680 One thing holding us back is so many so-called. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.610 Alternative truth leaders or patriots are just complete psychopathic power 0:12:39.650 --> 0:12:40.350 trip individuals. 0:12:40.530 --> 0:12:41.770 I mean, you see. 0:12:41.670 --> 0:12:42.450 Them at public events. 0:12:42.490 --> 0:12:43.790 They get off on crowds. 0:12:43.830 --> 0:12:45.650 They get off on being told how great they are. 0:12:45.670 --> 0:12:48.469 And I think there's something wrong with somebody that really 0:12:48.510 --> 0:12:49.770 gets off on that and likes that. 0:12:50.350 --> 0:12:52.480 And that's what they're hungry for. That's what they're looking for. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:53.679 We're not doing that, folks. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.700 We are truly disgusted by what's happening. 0:12:56.300 --> 0:13:00.270 So on Wednesday night, Trump asked all the major networks 0:13:00.370 --> 0:13:02.990 to let him break into their normal programming to address 0:13:03.030 --> 0:13:05.510 the country. And it was one of the most bleak 0:13:05.550 --> 0:13:08.570 pictures I've seen in a very long time. For one thing, 0:13:08.690 --> 0:13:11.580 it interrupted Survivor. And I finally kind of made peace 0:13:11.660 --> 0:13:13.179 with the new season. So it was a bit of 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.180 a setback for me. Right, right, right. That's why it 0:13:15.220 --> 0:13:16.660 ended up being a bright spot again. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:17.100 Woof, yeah. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.209 But it was also disgusting. Okay. I feel like I 0:13:20.230 --> 0:13:22.760 keep getting tricked by these Trump speeches, where there's some 0:13:22.860 --> 0:13:26.360 buzz and anticipation around it, where everyone convinces themselves that 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.420 he's going to say something important, and then it just 0:13:28.460 --> 0:13:31.680 falls flat. He didn't say anything that mattered. There was 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.059 no clarity that was provided about the war in Iran. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.080 I feel like I know less after watching him talk, 0:13:37.179 --> 0:13:40.100 because he's such an obvious liar that hearing him talk 0:13:40.179 --> 0:13:43.520 just gives you new things to doubt. Past leaders were 0:13:43.620 --> 0:13:46.330 orators who gave speeches that calmed a country when times 0:13:46.350 --> 0:13:49.170 were tense, And it's remarkable how Trump is really the opposite. 0:13:49.690 --> 0:13:52.420 Everything could be going well, and hearing him speak would 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.679 make me feel off. But the reason that I'm saying 0:13:55.700 --> 0:13:57.780 that it was disgusting was because a lot of the 0:13:57.820 --> 0:14:00.260 speech was dedicated to talking about how he's killed so 0:14:00.300 --> 0:14:03.140 many people in Iran. A lot of it centered around 0:14:03.300 --> 0:14:06.840 bragging about killing Iranian government officials, but the reality is 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.620 what he actually was talking about involves a ton of 0:14:09.660 --> 0:14:12.699 civilian death. And seeing him talk about it in such 0:14:12.740 --> 0:14:17.420 a brazen, flippant way, it felt like it trivialized life itself. 0:14:18.460 --> 0:14:20.820 I was feeling really put off, and as I explored 0:14:20.860 --> 0:14:23.120 that feeling, it dawned on me that this type of 0:14:23.140 --> 0:14:25.600 shit isn't as uncommon as how it made me feel. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.800 Bush bragged about his acts of war back when he 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.180 was president. Hillary Clinton famously said, we came, we saw, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.160 he died about the Obama administration's attacks on Libya. My 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.600 feeling came from a place where I like to imagine 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.600 that our administration, like The leaders are generally circumspect about 0:14:42.650 --> 0:14:45.080 killing and talking about our wars as if they didn't 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.300 actually want to do them. I like to imagine that 0:14:48.340 --> 0:14:52.120 our leaders dislike the idea of international conflict, but, you know, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.500 it's inevitable and some people are going to get killed. 0:14:55.110 --> 0:14:58.270 But Trump doesn't let you think that. It's super clear 0:14:58.310 --> 0:15:01.490 that he's proud of dropping bombs and he loves threatening 0:15:01.550 --> 0:15:04.310 to drop more like he was talking about how if 0:15:04.370 --> 0:15:07.040 Iran doesn't do what he wants, he's going to take 0:15:07.060 --> 0:15:10.300 them back to the Stone Age. Yeah. Like it's fucked up. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:10.800 Yeah. 0:15:11.620 --> 0:15:13.760 Obviously, I don't mean to say here that both sides 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.500 are equally bad or anything like that. Just that this 0:15:16.630 --> 0:15:20.530 overt bloodlust that Trump was displaying wasn't as unfamiliar as 0:15:20.590 --> 0:15:22.310 my revulsion wanted it to be. 0:15:22.410 --> 0:15:22.610 Yeah. 0:15:23.540 --> 0:15:26.600 So these thoughts sent me into a contemplative depression, and 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.140 I could barely enjoy the rest of Survivor when it 0:15:29.180 --> 0:15:33.220 came back on after Trump's speech. So in Survivor, there 0:15:33.250 --> 0:15:36.000 are a number of traditional paths to victory, and one 0:15:36.050 --> 0:15:38.970 of the most time-tested is becoming friends with the worst, 0:15:39.350 --> 0:15:42.150 least charismatic person out there and trying to get to 0:15:42.190 --> 0:15:45.250 the end with them. If you vote together, that doubles 0:15:45.290 --> 0:15:47.350 your influence. And if you make it to the jury, 0:15:47.710 --> 0:15:49.550 make it to the point where they're deciding the game, 0:15:49.990 --> 0:15:52.110 no one's going to vote for that other person because 0:15:52.450 --> 0:15:53.450 they're the loser that. 0:15:53.350 --> 0:15:54.729 You just dragged to the end. You only have to 0:15:54.770 --> 0:15:56.700 be faster than the other person running against the bear. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.280 Exactly. That's a great strategy. That strategy has fallen out 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.760 of favor in modern times because savvy players can see 0:16:03.820 --> 0:16:06.620 it developing fairly early and they nip it in the bud. 0:16:07.370 --> 0:16:10.530 Now in season 50, there's no real losers that could 0:16:10.550 --> 0:16:14.100 just fit into that role. Some people are more liked 0:16:14.180 --> 0:16:17.160 than others, but there's no real mopes. No one's just 0:16:17.220 --> 0:16:22.760