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Speaker 1: Ah, welcome back to Behind the Bastards. Legally the only

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Speaker 1: podcast that you're allowed to listen to under the terms

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Speaker 1: of the New World Orders. Fucking International Monetary Fund, build

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Speaker 1: a Berg group, whatever you know it, that's the law.

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Speaker 1: So hate the Buildeberg Group. Oh see, I don't actually

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Speaker 1: have a bit ready for this, Mettley. How are we

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Speaker 1: doing today, Matt? I'm doing great.

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Speaker 2: I am right now hidden in my bedroom because my

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Speaker 2: all of the loud.

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Speaker 1: Noises that I intend to make. That is fair, now, Matt.

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Speaker 1: You are if folks are not aware, if our listeners

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Speaker 1: are to wear You are the host of a number

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Speaker 1: of podcasts, including a Sopranos podcast called pod Yourself a Gun,

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Speaker 1: That's right, and the Wire podcast called pod Yourself the Wire.

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Speaker 2: Yes, which you can find on a feed called pod

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Speaker 1: It's nice and confusing.

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Speaker 2: If you see Tony Soprano's face and the logo, you

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Speaker 2: know it's a show about the Wire.

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Speaker 1: That's been extremely clear, now, Matt. Both of those titles

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Speaker 1: are obviously a reference to the intro music for the sopranos.

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Speaker 1: That's right, which which the refrain is something like woke

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Speaker 1: up this morning, got yourself a gun. That's right.

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Speaker 3: Now, guys, what are we doing today? Do we have

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Speaker 3: a Do we have another Scott Adams book?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, not all that long ago. We did our

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Speaker 1: that he wrote that he considers to be He thinks

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Speaker 1: that his cartoons in time will be forgotten, but generations

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Speaker 1: He said this. He's gotten the record about this.

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Speaker 2: Are these graphic novels of Dilbert that were calling books?

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Speaker 2: Or are these just words? No cartoons?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just words, and they're they're real short. He says,

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Speaker 1: just means he didn't tell a story right, right right.

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Speaker 2: I love starting an offul book with the idea of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to publish like a big three hundred

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like a dick in the middle of it,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a whole book for like, yeah you can.

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Speaker 1: You can just like say you finished it in a

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh me, I've just been reading all these

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Speaker 2: People are opening them up and there's nothing in them

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You find the dick, you email it to us,

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Speaker 1: and you make a sacred pledge never to tell anyone

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Speaker 1: It's like Santa Claus. We all do it and we

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Speaker 1: all benefit. So Matt he wrote these books, the Religion

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Speaker 1: I really like quite a lot, House of Decline Haus

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Speaker 2: Someone who does TV would rewatch podcasts of twenty year

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Speaker 1: This is, this is all. We all have a moral

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Scott would have loved to be a Nazi,

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Speaker 1: That's what he did. Matt. If you if you look

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Speaker 2: I believe it's an article of faith that he has

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Speaker 1: It's like it was written by a dude who like

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Speaker 1: You know, even that would have been better writing if

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Speaker 1: we had just learned that this guy's attitude was like,

436
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Speaker 1: I'm just always going to side with the kid who

437
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 1: kills their parents. I used to assume I don't know

438
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 1: what went on. I didn't listen, I didn't know any digging.

439
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: I just figured kid kill his parents probably cool.

440
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 2: If my kid killed me, Like, listen, I don't know why,

441
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,239
Speaker 2: but I get I get the need to do this.

442
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 2: We all want to kill our parents, so we're just

443
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Speaker 2: not brav enough.

444
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Speaker 1: Freud said a lot about that's just why I support

445
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Speaker 1: legalizing cocaine, because that'll let more kids kill their parents.

446
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're going down this road. So

447
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: this old man is here and he wants to talk

448
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 1: to the general, So Waters tells him. The old man

449
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: started talking to the guards, and five minutes later they left.

450
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Speaker 1: They didn't say, why call the marines off the roof

451
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Speaker 1: if the old fool won't leave, shoot him? Yes, Sir,

452
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Speaker 1: said Waters, in a way that revealed he knew it

453
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Speaker 1: wasn't a workable plan because the Scott Adams insert is

454
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Speaker 1: able to talk the army down from shooting him for

455
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Speaker 1: invading what is effectively the Pentagon. The whole world are fools,

456
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Speaker 1: muttered Cruise using a ruler to drag a battle platform

457
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Speaker 1: from the Indian Ocean. Matt makers were a frustrated group.

458
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Speaker 1: The old notion of a country was meaningless. Al Z

459
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Speaker 1: dominated the entire Islamic world. Governments existed under his rule

460
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 1: in a fashion to keep the water running, to remove gardamage,

461
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Speaker 1: and to run in doctrination centers for children, but The real.

462
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Speaker 2: War about Muslims, dude, is open borders. You know, just

463
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: they just want to they just want to go to

464
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Speaker 2: the Middle East and completely erase these borders that we

465
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Speaker 2: totally made up in nineteen seventeen.

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Speaker 1: You know, fucking bullshit dog it is. It's yet another

467
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Speaker 1: example of this like thing you get with a specific

468
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Speaker 1: kind of like and this is like particular. You get

469
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Speaker 1: this with like weirdo Christian folks, right wingers who hate Muslims,

470
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Speaker 1: but you get it also with like atheists who hate Muslims,

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Speaker 1: especially in this period where they're like they have this

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Speaker 1: attitude that like, well, the entire Muslim world is just

473
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Speaker 1: always angry at America and secularism. They're just always pissed

474
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Speaker 1: at it, right, Whereas I don't know. Again, you spend

475
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Speaker 1: a lot of time in the Middle East, and one

476
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Speaker 1: of the things you learn is that the people who

477
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Speaker 1: live there are like the people everywhere else. They are

478
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Speaker 1: mostly angry at the folks who live right next to them. Right,

479
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Speaker 1: It's just like Texas and Oklahoma. That's everywhere in the world.

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Speaker 1: That's everywhere I've ever been. Yes, yes, anyway, not to

481
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: flatten politics too much, but people are generally pissed at

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Speaker 1: their neighbors, because that's who you rub up against. But

483
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: in this all of the Muslims, presumably Arabs and Persians

484
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Speaker 1: and Kurds, everybody all together. You know, anyone who's just

485
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Speaker 1: kind of in that region of the world is all

486
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Speaker 1: a Muslim, and they're all backing the guy who killed

487
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Speaker 1: all of the Jews. Yep, that's good. Yeah. So there's

488
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Speaker 1: no countries anymore, and in the Christian part of the

489
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Speaker 1: world there was still a pretense that civilian governments ruled

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Speaker 1: their respective countries. In reality, crews had the power to

491
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Speaker 1: redraw boundaries and remove so called leaders with a word.

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Speaker 1: He didn't need military power to get his way, although

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Speaker 1: it was available if it's suited him. Cruz was widely

494
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Speaker 1: believed to be the only person who could stop the

495
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Speaker 1: terror of al Zie. No one felt it was a

496
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Speaker 1: good idea to distract him. The atheists and the smaller

497
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Speaker 1: religions were lying low, supporting the Christian power base and

498
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Speaker 1: enjoying safety and numbers. The most enthusiastic supporters of the

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Speaker 1: Christians were the Jews who had escaped Israel after So

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Speaker 1: that's good, thank you, No, I'm glad, he wrote me

501
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah. Yeah, no, you guys, you guys got

502
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: stuck in there. You got to you gotta mention.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you for you know,

504
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Speaker 2: I like that Scott Adams. He's like, by the way,

505
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Speaker 2: in this future, the Jews finally show some respect.

506
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Speaker 1: They finally show some gratefulness for.

507
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Speaker 2: Christian America for helping you with this thing I invented.

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Speaker 1: I am now picturing the if Scott had gotten the

509
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Speaker 1: made for TV movie version of this. Well, the narration

510
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: goes on. It just like cuts to a guy in

511
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Speaker 1: like a bagel shop, like saluting with a bagel at

512
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Speaker 1: the camera.

513
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Speaker 2: Just walks into a bagel shop standing ovation by all

514
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 2: Hasidic Jews in there. Yeah, turns to the camera and

515
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: he goes, you're welcome the Jews and then walks away

516
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 2: without paying for his bagel.

517
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: Now, look when people when when authors whose thing is

518
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: not writing about military stuff right about fantasy future military stuff,

519
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: it's usually bad, which is fine, But you know, I

520
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't normally criticize someone for this, but I am going

521
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: to criticize Scott Adams because he's I hate him. So

522
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: here's his description of the weapons system that the Christians

523
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: have developed in order to fight what appears to just

524
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Speaker 1: kind of be a constant, low level like suicide bombing

525
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: using drones campaign, which is what the Muslims. So that

526
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: your enemy is every couple of days they kill like

527
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: three people with a drone bomb, right, Like, that's the

528
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: that's the the opposing side, right, So here's what they've

529
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Speaker 1: built to counteract that. Battle platforms were a recent addition

530
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Speaker 1: to Cruise's arsenal. They were the size of cities floating

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Speaker 1: on the ocean, vastly more powerful than the aircraft carriers

532
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Speaker 1: they replaced. The platforms could be assembled in days, ringed

533
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Speaker 1: by destroyers, and monitored by an umbrella of satellites. Nothing

534
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: could penetrate their perimeters thanks to NATO's technical breakthrough of

535
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: forced particle beams that could slice through incoming metal like

536
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Speaker 1: a hot poker on a cobweb. The rest of the world,

537
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: which was mostly Alsi's territories and a sprinkling of non

538
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: aligned powers, used conventional missiles that were no match for

539
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Speaker 1: the particle beam defense grid. Now here's the thing, here's

540
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: the thing. A couple of things, A couple of for

541
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: one thing. Maybe it is realistic that this is fundamentally

542
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Speaker 1: a weapons system that would be no use in the

543
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: war that they're fighting. That's not what Scott, he wants

544
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Speaker 1: us to think. This is cool, but like it is

545
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: like useless for fighting like a low level terror campaign

546
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Speaker 1: that's just a bunch of mild terrorist attacks, right for

547
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Speaker 1: a lot of I mean for one thing, like he's

548
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: like they're even more powerful than aircraft carriers we have,

549
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: but the enemy just has like some drones with grenades,

550
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: like aircraft carriers are fine for that, you know, like

551
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: you don't need But also, well, why why are you

552
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: how is this supposed to help? Like? How is how

553
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: is controlling the oceans supposed to help? When your enemy

554
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: is not opposing you in a direct military manner? Why

555
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: is this useful? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I am I am generally confused also as to like

557
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Speaker 2: the amount listen.

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Speaker 1: The amount of people. It sounds like that al Zie

559
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Speaker 1: is killing.

560
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Speaker 2: Is he's doing an occasional terrorist attack every couple of days,

561
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Speaker 2: killing a couple of people. Yeah, And the entire world

562
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 2: is like, oh man, we gotta fucking wipe these fools

563
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Speaker 2: off the map because because literally a billion people have

564
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Speaker 2: a murder rate of three per day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty good. I'm just sadestly, man's that's better

566
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Speaker 1: than we're doing right now. That's not bad. Americans kill

567
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Speaker 1: a lot more Americans than these guys all the time.

568
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Speaker 1: It's a little I no, like, yeah, we shoot I

569
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Speaker 1: don't know, like thirty five thousand something like that of

570
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Speaker 1: us get shot to death each year in this country.

571
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Speaker 1: At least, like they are they breaking those numbers? Is

572
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Speaker 1: Alsi's campaign even doing that many Americans anyway, fascinating question.

573
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Speaker 1: So Cruz has accepted that he's going to have to

574
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Speaker 1: kill all two billion Muslims to win this war. I mean,

575
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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta do what you gotta do. I

576
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: will give it to That's fine, Like that's a bad

577
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: thing to do. But in terms of characterizing this dude,

578
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: it's a bad guy, which he is. This guy's not

579
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Speaker 1: the hero. Give Scott that, that's fine. The tall wooden

580
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: doors of Cruz's war room open to a stream of

581
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: military advisors, admirals, and generals. There were twenty five of them,

582
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Speaker 1: one from each of the dominant NATO countries. So what

583
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: about Turkey, the Muslim majority country? About Turkey? Turkey? What

584
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: the fuck? He just doesn't know? They had no decision

585
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: making power. Cruse had the monopoly on that, but they

586
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Speaker 1: were useful in maintaining the illusion that NATO enjoyed some

587
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: sort of democratic input. It was thin fiction, the sort

588
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: of war that a wartime population was happy to accept.

589
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: The Joint chiefs of Staff of the United States had

590
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: become over addressed, advisors, symbolic and useless. The NATO generals

591
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: were more loyal to cruise than their own civilian governments

592
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Speaker 1: in times of extreme danger. And again they're trying to

593
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: be like, everyone's this load of cruise because it's the

594
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: only guy who can beat this man. But like, we're not.

595
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Speaker 1: It's not ever established what he did to earn that, Like,

596
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: there's a vague mention of battlefield victories. All he talks

597
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: about the Muslims doing is carrying out terrorist attacks. Which

598
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: where are the battlefield victories? What are the what's the

599
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: fighting this for doing?

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Speaker 2: He's the best of the best, you know, again, when

601
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 2: he was doing battles, doesn't matter where, you know, he

602
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 2: was best at it.

603
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: It's okay. You could you could establish this early on

604
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: by being like when he was a captain in the field,

605
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: you know, he was an embassy. Dude, he stops a

606
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: terrorist attack, right and like yeah something, but like, no,

607
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't get that Sky has this, like

608
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: it's okay whatever. Cruse gets angry that they're not murdering

609
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: this old man who has somehow gotten through his defenses

610
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: and demanding to talk. So he grabs an M sixteen.

611
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: Uh.

612
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: He flips off the safety so at least Scott knows

613
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: that guns have safety. He did a little research for this,

614
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, credit little bastard. He's up to something,

615
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: Cruse muttered, watching the floor indicators. He's just sitting in

616
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: a waiting room right now. Yeah, he's He's in his

617
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: big meeting room with all of his generals. It is

618
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: like his Sabbath moments. They're all gathered in their masses,

619
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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and this guy's.

620
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Speaker 2: Man in the waiting room just kind of being I'm

621
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Speaker 2: just waiting to see the general.

622
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Speaker 1: He's breaking his way through all of the layers of

623
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Speaker 1: security that NATO has put up by just like being

624
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: a smart old man and talking his way through. We

625
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: don't need to hear her see any of.

626
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Speaker 2: This obviously, is he's getting through every single defense of

627
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: the entire Christian world army.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is just this guy being frustrated that nobody

629
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Speaker 1: is able to stop this old man by murdering him

630
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: or just like holding him, you know, like what cops

631
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: would actually do if like a crazy old man was

632
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Speaker 1: at a military base, probably just like taze him, you know,

633
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: put his hands behind his back. But he's really he's

634
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: really smart. I assume, Yeah, this doesn't make much sense either.

635
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: So he decides he's going to flee because someone in

636
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Speaker 1: the room that he's just been in is leaking war plans.

637
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: We're not told why. Yeah, the general is gonna leave. Yeah,

638
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: he's got he's gonna bounce someone of my staff. Someone

639
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: in that room is leaking war plans. We're gonna put

640
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: some distance between that old man and me because the

641
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: smell's wrong. Once commanded control is secured, I'll deal with

642
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: the leak and the old man get the car. And

643
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: then we're informed that he has a portable device that

644
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: lets him fire a missile at wherever he wants to,

645
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: launched from a site in South Dakota that fewer than

646
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: a dozen people on Earth knew about. So there we go.

647
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: I guess that's yeah, that he's going to murder all

648
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: these guys in order to secure absolute power. Even though

649
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: he already has absolute power.

650
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 2: I've got an app that'll blow up any McDonald's in

651
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: a thousand mile radius.

652
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: Cool, Yeah, why are we needed? Yeah, it's good stuff.

653
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: How do you explain plan to explain it to the world, waters,

654
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: His assistant, who murdered his parents, asks, I won't have

655
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: to explain anything. The world will assume it was an

656
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: attack from one of Alzi's fanatics. Hundreds of buildings had

657
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: blown up in the past two years alone. The military

658
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: had stopped analyzing the remains of each explosion long ago,

659
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: assuming correctly that they were all the work of al Z.

660
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: No one would request an inquiry about this blast because

661
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: AlSi would be the universally presumed perpetrator. Really tight ship

662
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: they're running over in NATO, we just say, whenever a

663
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: building blows up, we assume it's this guy. You don't

664
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 1: do anything about it, you know, Yeah, that's yeah. Let's

665
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: try the next chapter here, Horatio Cruz takes over NATO. Okay, interrogation.

666
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: So they've captured the avatar, and we finally get a

667
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: description of this old man who's been slowly talking his

668
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: way through the NATO defenses. The avatar was sixty two

669
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: years old, but could have been mistaken for ninety gaunt,

670
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: clad in a threadbare delivery man's outfit from an earlier time.

671
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: His silver gray hair was short and untamed. Looking a

672
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: picture of Scott Adams, and I think we'll see why

673
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: that's important. A red plaid blanket covered his shoulders, clutched

674
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: tight in front. Thirty years ago, as a package delivery man,

675
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: he met the prior avatar, from whom he learned the

676
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: secrets that brought him to the fifth level of awareness.

677
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: But it took a terrible to learn of the water,

678
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: he learned the way. Humans are not genetically equipped to

679
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: handle this kind of knowledge, and he was no exception.

680
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: The awareness aged him prematurely. He understood too much about reality,

681
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: and with that knowledge came an overwhelming responsibility and an

682
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: incalculable stress that spread to every cell of his body.

683
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: That's why Scott needs the Gilbert swimming pool, you know's

684
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 1: the only way to know too much. He reduced incalculable shelf.

685
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 2: He's got to do, you know, he's got to do

686
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: the backstroke in order to like inuntenses shoulders from you know,

687
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 2: knowing who runs things, you.

688
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: Know what I mean. He's rich we're supposed he looks poor,

689
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: but the Avatar's got a fuckload of money. He has

690
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: his own Victorian home in San Francisco, so that's pretty nice.

691
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: He got most of his money from the previous avatar,

692
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: but he also invests money because he's so good at

693
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: at knowing Patternskay, Scott is really giving us a lot

694
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: about himself here.

695
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: Yes, No, he's describing himself. I think you're gonna have

696
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 2: to explain to me what you mean by avatar here.

697
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 2: I mean, like, this is what is uh, what are

698
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 2: we talking about here?

699
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: Well, the avatar is this line of the smartest people

700
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: in the world who pass on their knowledge about reality,

701
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: which is mostly weird little brain tricks that Scott Adams

702
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: picked up that he that he like affirmations and ship. Right, Okay,

703
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: so it's all the ship from Scott Adams is.

704
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 3: Terrible problem James Cameron thing.

705
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 1: No, I figured notatic about big big jim Big Jimmy anyway.

706
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean, so, uh god, what matters. What matters is

707
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: Scott Adams in describing the Avatar is describing himself, and

708
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. He was painfully lonely. The last Avatar hadn't

709
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: advised him to avoid personal relationships. It was just obvious

710
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: that he had to. No one could understand the Frenches.

711
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: He could no longer talk to normal people without leaving

712
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: them changed in some way. It was unfair.

713
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 3: He was.

714
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: He was just divorced.

715
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: He was the most divorced, smartest divorce man in the world.

716
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: The only thing larger than the NATO battle platforms was

717
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: the amount of divorced in this one man's art. You

718
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: know who else is divorced man? The sponsors of this podcast.

719
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: Every single one of them was left by their wives

720
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: for good reason, and very much for good reason. We're

721
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: really proud of of there. I don't know why I'm

722
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: continuing to go on about this anyway. Yeah, why don't

723
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: you divorce us and listen to these ads? We're back

724
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: and we're you know, divorced as hell. Uh, super divorced.

725
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: That's that's what Scott was trying to avoid by by

726
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: by hiding. As the avatar is. Now his divorced energy

727
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: has been passed on to us. I have a race

728
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: car bed Matt. You're really into pickleball? Yeah, yeah, it's

729
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: just been a calamity over her.

730
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 2: I like to take over various tennis courts and say hey,

731
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: fuck you undivorced, and then play pickleball.

732
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: Sophie's dressing like one of those one of those guys

733
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: from a nineties movie who like moves in with with

734
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: the main character who super divorced X and is like,

735
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I'm thinking actually of the

736
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: movie hot Rod here whatever, Yeah, great movie anyway, Well,

737
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: off topic, back to the Avatar. No ordinary person could

738
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: understand what it was like to be an avatar. Even

739
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: when he did talk to people when it was absolutely necessary,

740
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: he was still utterly alone. He felt as though he

741
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: was one short gasp from insanity. Most of the time,

742
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: he felt certain that he had a special role to play,

743
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: that he was chosen, that he alone could save the

744
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: world from upcoming destruction. Other times he felt he must

745
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: surely be mad, because only insane people think like that,

746
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: and they, as did, he have no capacity to know

747
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: which category they really belonged to. Ah, so smart, that's

748
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: so smart. How'd you think of that? You know? Too long?

749
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 2: I was convinced he's the smartest person in the world.

750
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: Writing story about the smartest person in the world. This

751
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 2: is my favorite genre of.

752
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 1: Novel, and you get a lot of I think when

753
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: people like make fun of Scott a lot of like, wow,

754
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: this guy really should have gone to therapy. I don't

755
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: think that's the answer for Scott. I think what Scott

756
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: needed was like a normal, a full time job that

757
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: didn't pay him seven hundred million dollars, where like he

758
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: had to he had to like strive for something with

759
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: a group of other people and like be confronted sometimes

760
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 1: the limits of his own capability and you know, his

761
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 1: his his shortcomings and work with other people to seal

762
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 1: those up. That really would have been good for Scott.

763
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 2: In a just timeline, in a just society, he would

764
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 2: have been a middle manager who's only making a handful

765
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 2: of people's life.

766
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: Hell as opposed to what he became. I think, like, honestly,

767
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: if you if you make Scott working like I don't know,

768
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: like a road work crew right where he's getting out

769
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: there every day. He's doing something hard, but it's also

770
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 1: something every day you can see like, oh, we finished

771
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: paving this chunk of road, and like that's some progress.

772
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: People are going to use this right and you're you're

773
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: out with other people, they're going to call you on

774
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: your bullshit when you say insane things like you know

775
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: he would have he would he wouldn't have a pool

776
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: shaped like Gilbert's head, but I think in his soul

777
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: he'd be a happier man.

778
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 2: No, you have just a bunch of affirmations on his

779
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: wall that just says, you know, work will set.

780
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: You free, but set you I think would have set

781
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: Scott free occasionally broken. Sometimes work sets yeah free. Look,

782
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why. We're going

783
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: down the baby out with the bath water sometimes. Yeah right, yeah, Okay,

784
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: So the avatar has got to look among other things.

785
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: And by the way, he's supposed to be in an

786
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: interrogation room here that hasn't been introduced. We're just learning

787
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: about the avatar again here. Uh. So he's looking for

788
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: his replacement because he's gonna die. He's old. Uh, he

789
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: doesn't know whether or not it's fair for him to

790
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: pass it down to somebody. And then yeah, finally we

791
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 1: get actually back to the story. I'm sorry, really, I am, said,

792
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: the avatar, cuffed to the wall in eyewing for what

793
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: getting caught ground the thick necked interrogator with an oversized

794
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: forehead and stubby fingers as he moved his cart full

795
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: of pain tools nearer his subject. I'm sorry for what

796
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: I have to do. This will end quickly if you

797
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: tell me everything, said the interrogator. That's why you're here.

798
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: What do you think you got the pain tools? Yeah?

799
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: I do kind of want to know more about these

800
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: pain tools. I want to know what they are. You know, Yeah,

801
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: seems like fun. He's like, that's why I'm here to

802
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: tell you everything, which you know, is what the avatar

803
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: is about to do to get out of this interrogation thing. Yeah. Smart, Yeah,

804
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 1: he's going to use his smarts before I turn your

805
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: guts into jam. How about you tell me this is

806
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: the interrogator. How about you tell me everything I need

807
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: to know. It's a little courtesy I like to extend

808
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: to my guests. Nobody has ever taken me up on

809
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: the offer, but I feel it's only fair to put

810
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: it out there. Jesus, this interrogator's like, this is so

811
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: much worse than torturing a man. Let's say you figure

812
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: out what questions I need to ask and then you

813
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: just answer them. If you make me ask the obvious

814
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: questions over and over, I'm gonna get tired, and that

815
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: makes me cranky. You don't want that very well, replied

816
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: the avatar, and again I'm truly okay. So he's doing

817
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: this thing where like the torture is like, you're gonna

818
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: tell me everything or I'm going to kill you, and

819
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: the avatar clearly is going to like do some brain

820
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu that destroys this man. Who's But it just

821
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: keeps going on for several pages of him being like,

822
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: all right, I'm about to do my brain jiu jitsu.

823
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: You want to do it, Yeah, do it. I'm gonna

824
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: do so much smart that you're gonna be like wow. Yeah.

825
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: So a page and a half goes by. Tell me

826
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: something brilliant, old man, mocked the interrogator. Convince me you're

827
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: the smartest man in the world, and I'll let you go.

828
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: I don't think the smartest man in the world would

829
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: believe that you're sincere. The interrogator flashed an executioner's grin

830
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: and turned up the voltage. He moved the electric paddles

831
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: towards the old man's chest. This is just to get

832
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: your attention. Do me a favor and don't die right away.

833
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: Who is patrick, asked the avatar. The interrogator froze for

834
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: a moment, then quickly boiled. How do you know, my brother?

835
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: What bullshit is this? What else do you know about me?

836
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: The old man looked into the eyes of his interrogator

837
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: and took a deep breath. I know that you were

838
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: raised Catholic, but as an adult you pick and choose

839
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: the parts you want to believe. You think it's okay

840
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: to hurt people as long as it's in the interest

841
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: of the greater good. You convinced yourself that you'd still

842
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: go to Heafen's so long as you accept Jesus before

843
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: you die. You were treated unkindly as a child, especially

844
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: by the older boys and by the better athletes. You

845
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: don't sleep much because every time you close your eyes,

846
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: you see your victims, and you hear their voices just

847
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: before you drift off to sleep, and it pulls you

848
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 1: back your restlessness. Sometimes you try to stop the voices

849
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: by drinking. The drinking works to an extent, but it

850
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: has ruined your relationships. The interrogator dropped the paddles and

851
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: stepped away from the old man. Just kills himself, so

852
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: he just and now. The avatar explains that he did

853
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: a cold read, which like it's not even a good read.

854
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: That's whatever. I'm sorry.

855
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: That's also not something that's smart, that's all. That's literally

856
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: just something con.

857
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: I have to assume that the reason why he guessed Patrick,

858
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: which this dude reacted strongly to, is because he's Catholic

859
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: and every Catholic man has a Patrick in there. Of course. Yeah,

860
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: very simple, very simple. Also, like half of the Catholics

861
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: are I don't know, like living in Latin America, Like

862
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many Patrick Patricio.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I love the idea of it was like it was,

864
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Speaker 2: you know, Officer Weinstein, and he just looks at him

865
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Speaker 2: and he goes like, tell me about Rachel. It's like, Rach,

866
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Speaker 2: how do you know it my extended family?

867
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Speaker 1: Did you know her name? Did you know Rachel? Of course? Oh,

868
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Speaker 1: it's great, you're a lot about it.

869
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 2: He's like basically, you know, he's like he's kind of

870
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 2: modeling it after every smart guy character you've seen in

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00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 2: fucking anyhow.

872
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: It's a fucking cold reading, right, yes, yeah, it's it's

873
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: it's remarkable as opposed to I think a fun version

874
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: of this character when he's every time he's in like

875
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: a situation and he's got to boil someone's brain. It's

876
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: just a Ponzi scheme. He just gets him to invest

877
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: in a Ponzi scheme.

878
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 2: Yea exactly, just starts explaining crypto. Five minutes later he

879
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 2: gives them forty you're.

880
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: Shaaned up in a fucking dungeon. What do you even

881
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: as a return on your four oh one k? Right now?

882
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 1: What if I were to tell you I could double

883
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: your money in under six months and all I'm got

884
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: in need is a check for twenty grand and a

885
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: picture of your feet For feetpigs dot com, here's Scott

886
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: explaining cold reading. For centuries. Phony psychics abused a version

887
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: of the cold read the dup global customers. It's nothing

888
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: but good observations combined with educated guesses and generalities like

889
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: that a Catholic man has at.

890
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Speaker 2: Patrick in the You know, it seems like so many

891
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Speaker 2: and whatnot?

892
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it seems like so much more to the

893
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: person hearing it. Some fake psychics weren't usually skilled at

894
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: noticing clues from a person's appearance or mannerisms and making

895
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: guesses that sounded uncannily accurate. The avatar was the best

896
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: of the best, able to recognize patterns, so subtle that

897
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: even the most skilled phony psychic would have found an

898
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: amazing Today's situation was especially easy. The interrogator was clearly Irish.

899
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: Someone in his family was probably named Patrick. By the way,

900
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: he's Irish because earlier the avatar notices that he has

901
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: a drinker's nose. That's literally it's so good. I love this.

902
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 2: I love this, and like listen, I knew that the

903
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Speaker 2: dilber guy was like racist, he's awkwardly racist, but I

904
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 2: like that he's like old timey racist.

905
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: I do you know what? You know? What's progressive about

906
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: this is that we start with the idea that all

907
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 1: Muslims everywhere secretly just want to wipe out the Jews,

908
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: which is very racist. But then we move on to

909
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: the idea that like every drunk irishman loves a Patrick.

910
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: You can't get through that.

911
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's fucking iron clad fact right there.

912
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: That destroys this man, right, we can. That's how the

913
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: avatar gets out right, we don't, we don't need to

914
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: continue on to hear he's he's ruined.

915
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 2: Every day you see your don and you want to

916
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 2: get your real fight right every day, your master of

917
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 2: baking Jesus Christ is that, like, how did you know this?

918
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: How could you possibly have known that every time my

919
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 2: master made I cry?

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Speaker 1: Good? That's good stuff. We're going to move along a

921
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: little bit because I want to get to kind of

922
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: the crux of this book, because the basic idea here

923
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: is that the Avatar is working to stop a cataclysmic,

924
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: apocalyptic you know, nuclear exchange type deal between the Christians

925
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: and the Muslims, and the best way to do that

926
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Speaker 1: is to get everyone to stop believing in religion at once.

927
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Speaker 1: Because obviously this is another like you know, Scott has

928
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: this interest, this fun mix of like Christian conservative stuff,

929
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: but he's not a Christian. He's like coming out of

930
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Speaker 1: the internet atheist community. So he has this fundamental belief

931
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Speaker 1: that like the cause of all of the problems is

932
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Speaker 1: that all of these people believe these irrational religions, right,

933
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Speaker 1: which is, by the way, mostly bullshit. Like the cause

934
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Speaker 1: of it is that even when you look at like

935
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Speaker 1: Christians here who are pushing these bullshit laws, they're not

936
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Speaker 1: largely doing it because like they're irrational Christians. They're doing

937
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: it because like certain types of people make them fundamentally uncomfortable,

938
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Speaker 1: exactly because they're racists and they would be racist about

939
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Speaker 1: something if Christianity wasn't the justification.

940
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Speaker 2: In fact, like, that's what I noticed about the kind

941
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 2: of evolution of the internet atheist because I remember back

942
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Speaker 2: when I used to be like I'm a proud atheist

943
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 2: or whatever, and it was completely in reaction to like,

944
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 2: you know, conservative Christians and everything else. And then all

945
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I was like, oh, this seems like

946
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 2: a very interesting front for people to just say some

947
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 2: anti Muslim shit.

948
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

949
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 2: It became just a way to be Islamophobic without saying,

950
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 2: you're as, I hate all religion, but I only talk about.

951
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: Islam, Yeah, exactly. It's it's that same like that old

952
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: stand up thing where it's like I'm racist against everybody.

953
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, but there's only two slurs you use. Man.

954
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: Although to be fair for Scott as the trailblazer, he

955
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: is he really that's the first. That's the first. Like

956
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: that's like, that's like a degree of racism against the

957
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: Irish that, like the British in the nineteen seventies would

958
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Speaker 1: have been like, well this is a sorry, yes, I

959
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: prolist never to do an English accent again. And here

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Speaker 1: I perfect flicted it up on you. That's what it

961
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: sounds like. So Scott obviously the only thing that can

962
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: resolve this conflict between because it's a conflict between these

963
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:48,240
Speaker 1: two irrational religions as opposed to like a conflict between

964
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Speaker 1: there's like bombings and like people's families have been killed

965
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: and they're fisted about that. Anyway, it's an irrational religious conflict,

966
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: right right, right.

967
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with colonialism or imperialism. That's

968
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 2: words that people use to master fact. It's about religion.

969
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: So if he can just get everyone to stop being

970
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: religious all at once, you know, he can sit and

971
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: Scott has all these weird ideas about like persuaders and

972
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: influencers and to be for one thing that I think

973
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: Scott is a little bit ahead of the curve on

974
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: He has been really obsessed with the idea of like

975
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Speaker 1: influencers and connectors and shit since the early two thousands.

976
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: He's got a few years on most folks on this.

977
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: So his his like obsession with Trump as a master

978
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: persuader because he believes Trump is like a messianic figure

979
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: who's so good at persuading. He's going to like usher

980
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: in a new age of human evolution by teaching us

981
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: all persuasion tricks. That's why Scott wrote his terrible book

982
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: Win Bigley. So his attitude here the avatar is kind

983
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: of like moving through the world and the major characters

984
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 1: of this conflict looking for like the influencer. There's one

985
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: person who, because of their network of social ties, right,

986
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: could get an idea out in a way that will

987
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: cascade sort of algorithmically, and then convince the whole world

988
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: overnight to stop being religious. That's that's the plot of

989
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: this book, right. Yeah, he's gonna find this person at

990
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: this cafe.

991
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 2: So we're gonna start a YouTube channel and.

992
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: I'll do it. That is kind of why he does

993
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: his YouTube is he secretly thinks he's he's the master

994
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: persuader and if he can just like tell the right

995
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: joke to people, it'll change the world. Yeah, they would

996
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: just stop throttling me in the algorithm. Everyone would be

997
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: smart like me. Yeah, that's that's why he's gotta he's

998
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: gonna really saddle up to Elon Musk. Finally, finally, so

999
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: the avatar rolls up in front of this cafe. Uh,

1000
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: he had never felt a pattern like this. As the

1001
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: hydro cap that's a hydro powered cab pulled away. The

1002
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: avatar stood on the sidewalk trying to get a lock

1003
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: on the pattern, but he had failed. His stomach growled,

1004
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: and the avatar smiled, realizing his hunger must have been

1005
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: clogging his intuition. But now the pattern was gone, softening

1006
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: to a vibration. Patterns did that, sometimes rising and falling

1007
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: for no apparent reason. The avatar walked towards a restaurant

1008
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: next to the building, Stacy's Cafe. It was the oldest

1009
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 1: business on the block, looking out of a place nestled

1010
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: in the modern architecture of the San Francisco Metropolitan Area area.

1011
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: The avatar entered and was greeted by a bartender from

1012
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: behind a large oval bar. Hi, can I help you

1013
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: one for lunch? We're closed behind three between three and five.

1014
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 1: Can you come back at five? A pink haired woman

1015
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: in her sixties on the other side of the room

1016
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: interrupted the Avatar's response. She was waving a half eaten

1017
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: plate of food at the chef and getting agitated. Look

1018
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: at this presentation. This is crap. My name is on

1019
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,959
Speaker 1: this business, and you want to serve crap. If people

1020
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: want crap, they can make it at home. The Chef's

1021
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: eyes were locked in a death stair with the pink

1022
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: haired woman as she dramatically slapped the dish on the table.

1023
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: I want you to care about this place as much

1024
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: as I do. If you don't, I can replace your

1025
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 1: ass tomorrow. The pink haired woman her rumped and turned away,

1026
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: then turned back with an afterthought. That reminds me, she said,

1027
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: in a softer voice that seemed as though she was

1028
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: channeling an entirely different person. Have you written down all

1029
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: your recipes so I can fire you at any time?

1030
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: I want? Almost, I have a few more to do,

1031
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: said the chef. Very good, give me a hug. What

1032
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: the fuck is this the bear? Yes? Kind of the bear? Yeah,

1033
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,919
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's just that, like she's

1034
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: this woman who's in this. This is supposed to be charming,

1035
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: that she moves between.

1036
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 2: This. Yeah.

1037
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's supposed to be fun and sassy. So she

1038
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: decides to order for him because everyone should eat. She

1039
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: believes the food that she likes, which is a vegetable crutee.

1040
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 1: So Stacey made hand signals to the bartender, who was

1041
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: still wiping water spots off the bar glasses. He nodded

1042
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: and started to pour a chardonnay. Stacey pulled out a

1043
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: chair and sat down across from the avatar. I think

1044
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: I have a headache or a tumor or something. I

1045
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: gained two pounds this week and my hair is falling

1046
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: out in clumps and I have gas. Don't say I

1047
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: didn't warn you. Thank you for the warning. I don't

1048
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: know how I do this job every day. I'm gonna quit,

1049
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: I swear I am, except it wouldn't work because I

1050
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: own the place. I'd fire myself if I could, but

1051
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay the unemployment benefits to myself.

1052
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 1: Hey god, this is just such a great character. Is fun? Yeah,

1053
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: we get along and she and the avatar start talking

1054
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: about modern politics.

1055
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 2: Right, to be clear, these guys they're they're both in

1056
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Speaker 2: their mid sixties.

1057
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Speaker 1: Right, yes, yes, they're both. They're both old people, and

1058
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,919
Speaker 1: they're both kind of Scott Adams. Okay, that's important here.

1059
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: So the avatar tells her that he's trying to figure

1060
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: out how to stop a war, and she's like, how

1061
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 1: can a guy like you stop a war? You couldn't

1062
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: even feed yourself until I decided to have pity on

1063
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: your s and you dress like a hobo on crack.

1064
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: What's up with that? Would it be okay if I

1065
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: answered the first question? Stacey laughed, Okay, if you do

1066
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: a good job on that, I'll let the other one

1067
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Speaker 1: slide go. Think of humanity as a giant software program.

1068
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Speaker 1: Our bodies are the hardware, and our ideas are the software.

1069
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the software gets a virus. What are you talking about? Interpretation.

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Speaker 1: I have never heard this concept before. Yeah, you must

1071
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: the smartest man of the world. Religions are a virus

1072
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Speaker 1: in computer programming, right, uh you know, yeah, it's I

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Speaker 1: guess this is sort of a very boomer attitude towards

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00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: the Internet, where it's just like, well, the computer's always

1075
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: got a virus on it.

1076
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, you can't virus click.

1077
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 1: The links that infect your all Ta Vista, right.

1078
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 2: My mccaffee software every day tells me about new virus.

1079
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: I keep buying more of it, more virus keep coming.

1080
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: Buy a new mccaffee every day. I buy three new mccaffees,

1081
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: and now not one virus. I got a Muslim virus,

1082
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: I got two virus. I got Irish virus. It is also, yeah,

1083
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: he is low key being like yes all like Islam

1084
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: is a virus, you know. Yeah, to beanity is a

1085
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: virus too, But I'm not less concerned about the exce.

1086
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 2: This is all just a way of like, it's just

1087
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 2: how you get to Therefore we must eradicate blank.

1088
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, And the biggest virus of all is being Irish.

1089
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: You know. That's really what Scott's getting at. Yeah, there

1090
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: is so much more anti Irish racism in this that

1091
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 1: I expected. Bill's Irish, so he must know a Patrick,

1092
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: yet he must just know he must love a Patrin. No,

1093
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: I love Patrick in the family. Yeah that is yeah,

1094
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: from hearts, Yeah, from his from his drinkers knows that

1095
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: he loves a Patricks. Must be that's really quite amazing.

1096
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: So in this next part, he's talking with this lady

1097
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: about I was going to and he explains his concept

1098
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: of a prime influencer. I'm looking for the reboot button

1099
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: metaphorically speaking, I'm looking for the one person who is

1100
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: connected to everyone else in a chain of influence, the

1101
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: prime influencer. That is why I am visiting today. So like,

1102
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing. Everyone's connected to this person. And

1103
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: by the way, it have to be this lady, right, Yeah,

1104
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: it's her. It's Stacy, I thought, you know, and she's like,

1105
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: I don't believe in this because people never change their mind.

1106
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: You don't believe people can change their opinions, ask the avatar.

1107
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: Come on, who buys books written by conservatives? Conservatives? Who

1108
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: writes books written by liberals? Liberals? People only listen to

1109
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: what they want to hear. Nobody changes anyone's mind, even

1110
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: if the argument is very good, hasn't happened, never will.

1111
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: The avatar sat back in his sheet, adjusting his napkin

1112
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: on his lap. I can see why you would have

1113
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,439
Speaker 1: that view, but in reality, everyone knows one person who

1114
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: could change his opinion on a particular topic, usually a

1115
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: different person for each topic. And it's not the argument

1116
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: or the logic that matters to people, but the source.

1117
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: Humans are driven by examples, by role models, not by logic.

1118
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: So you're saying someone could make me a devil worship

1119
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: er even if I didn't want to be. That's nutty.

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00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: A year ago you would have said that no one

1121
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: could convince you to wear pink tinted hair, but you

1122
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: seem to have embraced the trend enthusiastically. Okay, so Scott's

1123
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: Scott's this lady, is like nobody changes their mind and

1124
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 1: Scott like, no, no, no, that's nuts. Everyone can have

1125
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: their mind changed by one person who's their specific influencer

1126
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: and can hack their brain on it. That's right.

1127
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's their favorite podcaster tells them.

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00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: Then they will change their minds. That is act. I mean,

1129
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: that is how the world works. That's true. That's why adds.

1130
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: You know, Joe Rogan has convinced me to eat nothing

1131
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: but raw liver.

1132
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I look that this is all just him

1133
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 2: going on a quest to find the Joe Rogan.

1134
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: He's looking for the Joe Rogan. That is what he

1135
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: believes though, right like when Trump comes out, he's convinced

1136
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: that Trump is this prime influencer, which is like that.

1137
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: By the way, this is another thing that like these

1138
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: weird online atheist types all did, which is they all

1139
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: found a way to reinvent religion for themselves. Right, they

1140
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: gave up they don't believe the Jesus that the Christians

1141
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: believe in, but they did like have to invent another

1142
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: Jesus for themselves, like God's yeah, exactly one way or

1143
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: the other. They all do it, right, Yes, not all atheists,

1144
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: but all of these weird internet atheists that Scott is right. Yes,

1145
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is a general trade of atheists.

1146
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 2: It's a specific yes, like I'm an atheist, but I

1147
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 2: just don't say it because then all being subscribed to

1148
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 2: a bunch of newsletters I don't want well.

1149
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: And it's it's also like you know, we were talking

1150
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: about how like you've got people who will like use

1151
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: religion as the justification for the way I want to

1152
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: kill certain people. But the real thing is that, like

1153
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: they just hate certain people, right right. The religion rarely

1154
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: is the thing that inspires it purely. It's like something

1155
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: else that comes out that may but and it's the

1156
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: same thing. You've got all these the soda folks who

1157
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: started out as being like lefties in the early two thousands,

1158
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: like Jimmy Dore and whatnot, and they're all preaching like

1159
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: hard right shit right now, and they're all super racist,

1160
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: and they're all really anti trans and whatnot. And it's

1161
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: because like, yeah, what matters isn't Actually it's like whether

1162
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: or not you're a giant piece of shit, you know,

1163
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: I think it's primarily the thing and people will people

1164
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: will if you're a big piece of shit, and you

1165
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: hate people. You know, if you're inclined to pretend you're

1166
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: to be like left wing or whatever, then you'll find

1167
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: some reason why communism wants to kill all the trans people,

1168
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: or like first in the d transition or whatever. And

1169
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: if you're a Christian, you use Christianity for that. But

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01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: I think it's just like, you know, some people are

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01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: fucking assholes, and Scott Adam's an asshole, right, so he's

1172
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: going to get rid of religion and the Irish one presumes.

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01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: The avatar decided to test her light of thinking with

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01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: an argument that was common i'llbe it flawed. If God exists,

1175
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: he must be smart to design the world so perfectly.

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01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: Everything is in perfect balance. If any of our natural

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01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: laws were altered in the least life would be unsustainable.

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01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: Only an omnipotent genius could create such a perfect balance

1179
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: in the laws of physics, physics schmisics. If God is

1180
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: so smart, why do you fart? The avatar waited for

1181
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: the rest of the argument, but there was none. The

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01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: two strangers stared at each other for a moment before

1183
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: being overcome with a wave of laughter that brought them

1184
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: all to tears. So, yeah, that's a.

1185
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 2: Love writing, writing, and getting a real good laugh. Got

1186
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 2: a real big laugh on the joke.

1187
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, very funny. So I'm going to spoil the rest

1188
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: of this book for you. That winds up being the

1189
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: key to destroying religion, right, is that this woman is

1190
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: the prime influencer, and by getting her to tell this

1191
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 1: joke to people, it spreads to everyone else in the world.

1192
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: And then they give up Christianity and Islam, and they

1193
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: give up their wars. And I'm gonna switch ahead to

1194
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: him explaining all this. The major religions changed after the war.

1195
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: Modernized was the word used most often for the disintegration

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01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: of primitive beliefs. The free flow of ideas caused dangerous

1197
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: religious thoughts to perish unto the weight of common sense,

1198
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: most notably the idea that God was limited by a

1199
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: human personality with human wants and human intelligence evaporated. Now

1200
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,959
Speaker 1: the mental health profession handled people who believe that God

1201
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: was talking to them directly. The voting public never got

1202
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 1: a chance to elect such people, whether they were charismatic

1203
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 1: or not. Religions came to be seen as true that

1204
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: lent flavor to holidays and encouraged good behavior, nothing more.

1205
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: The public didn't know who had said it first, but

1206
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: it was the most powerful question in human history, and

1207
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 1: nine words. It overturned centuries of tortured logic and magical thinking.

1208
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: It pushed superstition into a cage and gave common sense

1209
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: room to maneuver. The cause of the religion war sprung

1210
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: from one colossal religious misunderstanding that God thinks like humans,

1211
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: except smarter, and that we people can comprehend his intent.

1212
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: That crippling misunderstanding was swept away in a single wave

1213
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: of clarity. The question was translated into thousands of languages,

1214
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: published billions of times. In English, it was if God

1215
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: is so smart, why do you fart right again? It's

1216
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: this like we just have to puncture religion with a funny,

1217
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 1: fucking logical puzzle and then it'll go away. It's just

1218
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: this trap around people's brains. It's not that like people

1219
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: want land or resources and have been fighting over them

1220
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: and so are angry about the history of conflicts between

1221
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: peoples and are able to use sort of religion or

1222
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: politics to kind of justify continuing them. It's not that

1223
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: people are like greedy. It's not that people get like

1224
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: scared about folks who live far away from them. It's

1225
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: not any of that shit. It's that their minds have

1226
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: been enraptured by religion and you can get common sense

1227
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: to maneuver if you tell a smart joke.

1228
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 2: It's like, honestly, the most fucking like buttoned up, fucking

1229
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 2: elitist it's it's it's got like smatterings of liberalism in there,

1230
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 2: especially circa around this time, and just uh, and just

1231
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 2: a sort of ignorance that was so prevalent at the

1232
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 2: time was basically that everyone uh in the Middle East,

1233
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 2: they're all just fucking stupid and angry, and so they

1234
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 2: all believe in this like magic spaghetti monster and so

1235
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 2: you know they're at war because the spaghetti monster says so.

1236
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 2: And it's like a way to completely ignore literally any

1237
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 2: history that has happened within that region. And you know,

1238
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 2: it's it's great. It's you know, I love when the

1239
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 2: stupidest man in the world writes himself as the smartest

1240
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 2: man in the world.

1241
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: It is it is very fun because again it doesn't

1242
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: take all that much like to learn that the reality

1243
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: is more complicated, right. I remember one of the big

1244
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: moments for me of like, you know, just going into

1245
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: fucking Iraq and talking to people in camps and stuff,

1246
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of whom had been Isis supporters kind of

1247
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: early in Isis's reign was them explaining like, well, you know,

1248
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: we supported them because the cops under the old government,

1249
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: for like religious sectarian reasons, had punished and abused our family.

1250
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: And they like, yeah, they killed my brother, they killed

1251
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: my uncle, they tortured, you know, my dad. So when

1252
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: Isis came and they said that they were, you know,

1253
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: getting rid of these shitty ass police, we were like,

1254
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 1: maybe this will be better. It's not like the Iraqi

1255
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: government was anything to write home about, like we think,

1256
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: and then it turned out they sucked. So now we're fighting,

1257
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, look, there's always you know, there

1258
01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 1: are brainwashed fucking extremists out there, variety of ways, but

1259
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: the vast majority of people's motivations make sense, even if

1260
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: they're bad, even if they're doing bad things, it makes sense, right.

1261
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: It's like the Nazis. The Nazis didn't get like enthralled

1262
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: by Hitler magically. They wanted other people shit, yes, yeah,

1263
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: that's why they did it, very.

1264
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 2: Very human reasons, and you know, like the I think

1265
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 2: we have a tendency to take every kind of like

1266
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: villain or anyone who's in opposition to whatever. You know,

1267
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 2: the fucking American cultural hegemon has to say and go like, oh,

1268
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 2: it's because they are all fanatical. They must be crazy

1269
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 2: to believe that we in any way could be an enemy.

1270
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 2: And I think just in general, it's like, oh, you

1271
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 2: have to understand how absolutely fucking regular people are, and

1272
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 2: you know how villainy is not necessarily this thing that

1273
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 2: comes from like, oh, everyone's a psychopath. It's like, no,

1274
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 2: it's actually much more simple and uh and that makes

1275
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 2: it ten times as like complicated and scary sometimes, you know.

1276
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm like, I'm just like getting flashbacks to

1277
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 2: me like in college and just being like an atheist

1278
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 2: and just being like fucking like, yeah, man, fucking.

1279
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: I'm so smart. I don't even I don't even believe

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Speaker 1: in God, you know, yeaheah, it's almost yeah. The idea

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Speaker 1: that like you're both saying that like, look at these

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Speaker 1: look at these silly religious people who are like denying

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Speaker 1: sort of the you know, they've gotten their minds washed

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Speaker 1: and they can't understand like the true complexity of reality.

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Speaker 1: But also everyone does things for one reason, right, like everyone,

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Speaker 1: All of the Muslims have one motivation and it's killed

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Speaker 1: all the Jews. And if you kill all the Jews,

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Speaker 1: then all of the Muslims support you. Right. All of

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Speaker 1: the Irish have one motivation and it's their friend Patrick.

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Speaker 1: It's their friend Patrick.

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Speaker 2: And you know, just checking down a nice fucking Guinness

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Speaker 2: after a hard day's look.

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Speaker 1: So you know, look, take the wisdom of Scott Adams

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Speaker 1: with you into the world. Is I think what we're

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Speaker 1: trying to say here. Absolutely, And the next time you

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Speaker 1: see a man with a drinker's nose, tell him about

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Speaker 1: his beloved Patrick, ask him about Patrick. Mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, I am low key impressed at the

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Speaker 2: way he went after the White Ethnics in this. You know,

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Speaker 2: there was a time finally when Scott Adams was cool.

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Speaker 1: He could just go after the Irish. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I am looking forward to Uh. I assume in the

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Speaker 1: sequel to this he finds a way to destroy Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, turned out all the snakes we needed to

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Speaker 2: get where these goddamn Irish.

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Speaker 1: You get, you get a lot about like his thought process,

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Speaker 1: because Scott is I think a fundamentally pretty and curious person,

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Speaker 1: and so he just doesn't do really like he didn't

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Speaker 1: know that like Sunni and Shia like exist as divisions

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Speaker 1: of Islam. Didn't even do the basic research to the

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Speaker 1: second largest army in NATO is like a majority Muslim

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Speaker 1: nation and his his, He's just like decided, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: what's something a guy could notice? Well, if you can

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Speaker 1: notice if somebody's got like a red nose because they're

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Speaker 1: drinking a bunch Okay, who drinks a lot Irish people?

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Speaker 1: What's an Irish name? Saint Patrick's day, Patrick Boom Boom.

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Speaker 3: Got it.

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Speaker 1: I just got a whole fucking point to a story.

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Speaker 1: So funny.

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Speaker 2: He's just like taking his calendar and he's marking on

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Speaker 2: I need three hours to write this?

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Speaker 3: Is this?

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Speaker 1: For sure was stream of consciousness. Yeah, this guy is

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Speaker 1: not putting a lot of thought.

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Speaker 3: I think he just used the like talk text app

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Speaker 3: and just was.

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Speaker 1: Like, well, man, God bless him. You got anything to

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Speaker 1: plug here?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, Well, I'm writing a book about the scourge

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Speaker 2: of the Irish.

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Speaker 1: No, actually I do.

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Speaker 2: Uh you know this wire podcast the wire you watch

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Speaker 2: podcast pod yourself on gun is the name of the feed,

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Speaker 2: and uh it is essentially a show where we denigrate

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Speaker 2: Irish Americans in the form of McNaulty.

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Speaker 1: So you know, here's all of the wire is a

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Speaker 1: behind the bastards on McNaughty. It really is.

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Speaker 2: It's behind one specific bastard, Jimmy McNulty uh and his

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Speaker 2: grubby little Irish wiener and uh yeah, if so, check

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Speaker 2: that out, check out the frodcast.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's a show where we talk about, you know, everything

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Speaker 2: except for the wire. Yeah, a lot of fun, I

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Speaker 2: do it Vince Vancini and oh right, I almost forgot.

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Speaker 2: If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area or

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Speaker 2: any of the surrounding areas, on Tuesday, October seventeenth at

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Speaker 2: eight pm, specifically, my wife, Francesca Iforantini and I are

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Speaker 2: going to be headlining the San Francisco Punchline Comedy Club.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, please come out to that.

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Speaker 2: It is a Tuesday at eight pm, October seventeenth, Bortt Voice,

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Speaker 2: My wife and I are gonna be co headlining. There's

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Speaker 2: gonna be some other great comedians coming out. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. You can get your tickets

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Speaker 2: at Punchlinecomedyclub dot com and yeah, October seventeenth. Please come out.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be so good, I swear to God.

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Speaker 2: I mean, at the very least you're gonna get to

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Speaker 2: see my wife and I kiss, like live on stage.

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Speaker 2: It's a sex show. Anyways, come out to that, man.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad I remember to say this. Otherwise I'd

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Speaker 2: have to record this audio later and then send it

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Speaker 2: to you and have you figure out a place to

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Speaker 2: put it in the edit, and that would just sound weird. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: got thank you for having me on for, you know,

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Speaker 2: to talk about something light like, you know, the Irish

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Speaker 2: and how religion bad. You know, smart people are influenced

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Speaker 2: by some douchebag they see online.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and and check out more Scott Adams and our

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Speaker 1: upcoming podcast with Scott. I don't want to make any

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Speaker 1: more like anti Irish kind of jokes, So we're done.

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Speaker 1: We're just done with the episode. There you just so

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Speaker 1: everyone knows. I love Irish people everything that you Irish create.

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Speaker 1: Scott for being racist, which is why I'm stopping. The bit.

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Speaker 5: Behind the Bastards is a production of cool Zone Media.

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Speaker 5: For more from cool Zone Media, visit our website fo

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Speaker 5: Zonemedia dot com or check us out on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 5: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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