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Ep. 252 – “Tyranny, Bloodshed, Misery, Slavery:” The Apostle Cleveland’s Rebuke of Socialism
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This week we’re looking at a little local literature from our friends at the nearby church of Christ. Direct mail is a tough medium with which to elicit a response. I haven’t studied the charts and graphs, but I don’t imagine many people come to the Lord via longwinded mailers. However, I received one this week that got my attention. It’s entitled “Socialism is Not Just an Economic Theory! (The Moral Responsibility of all Mankind,” and in it brother Cleveland Reddinger lays out four compelling points on why Socialism (uh, I think you mean Communism) is an afront to God and His divine plan. Not to spoil things, but point number four is “It just doesn’t work,” so it’s riveting stuff! Listen closely and repent, ye freeloading, healthcare-deprived, droopy-bootstraped debt slaves!
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Paul, Slavery, and Taxation
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Speaker
Paul does not have one indictment on the system of slavery. There isn't a single indictment on it in the entire New Testament. there's just its There's just advice on how to how to be a good slave. That's all he has to offer. And he's all over here being like it's comparing that to taxation.
00:00:17
Speaker
tech i Look, there is a point in which taxation goes too far. Everybody knows that. yeah but But um comparing being taxed so that way you have roads to drive on, hospitals to go to. and yeah What, in your socialist utopia?
00:00:38
Speaker
Comparing that to like unpaid labor where you're beaten for disobedience isn't exactly the same.
Podcast Evolution
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Speaker
everybody, welcome to another episode of Growing Up Christian. I'm Sam. And I'm Casey. And man, we did an interview last week. and those where we mostly are joined by guests that we've had on in the past just to do our normal shit with, and that's always a lot of fun.
00:01:23
Speaker
It had been a while since we had done an interview. And I feel like we had, like, it makes me realize, like, how much our focus has shifted since starting this, where we were, like, at the top. I'm like, we got to get someone for every episode. And now I'm like, I don't really even care. i just not doing one of our regular episodes last week.
00:01:43
Speaker
for the past week, I'm like, God, I feel like we haven't done this in so long. I can't wait to just fucking get on and record with Casey. I, I, I love this. I think it's, this is the most fun part of it for me. So I had a very, also 50% of the time we record, I feel like I'm losing my voice. I'm not sure what's going on. I probably have some like undiagnosed problem. I don't know. could be lack of sleep at this point, but I'm not a medical doctor, but I diagnose you with ah insufficient levels of Mountain Dew.
00:02:18
Speaker
Yeah. that's I mean, it keeps your sickness that big. You're rarely sick. Healthy as a whores. um Yeah. So my weekend, I had this i had a a really wild weekend.
Health Scare and Emotional Impact
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um So friend of the show.
00:02:35
Speaker
Two-time reoccurring guest, Chris Oberholzer from the band Tannin' Handsome. ah He's doing merch on Greyhaven's tour, as he usually does. And they were in Worcester on Friday. And I was like, sick. i We've tried three times to like meet up um since we got to know each other there on this, as you know his band or Greyhaven has come through town or in the vicinity. So this time we were like locked in, all good,
00:03:03
Speaker
I met up with ah my other friend before the show. um Chris had to do load in. So we're like, we're at the bar that we always go to before we hit the, the palladium and Chris texts me and he's like, Hey man, I'm walking over now. I'm like, all right, sick.
00:03:21
Speaker
Then my wife calls me because she had had to she had brought my son, my infant to the doctors because he kept doing these weird, like spastic arm movements. Like they, his arms would kind of like shoot up and they would just shake like really fast. This is you. Then you're infant.
00:03:43
Speaker
Yup. Yup. And so she brought them to the doctors. Uh, and then they were like, we think you should go to children's hospital in Boston tonight. Like we're concerned about this, um, being something serious. So,
00:03:58
Speaker
I had to text Chris were like, well, dude, I guess it's just god God. It's not in God's plan for us to ever hang out because I'm actually running out of the bar in my car right now because I have to drive to Boston, um bring my kid to the ER there. So we did we were there until like fucking three in the morning. um You know how yeah er go ER visits go.
00:04:22
Speaker
The good news is it's not – the concern was that it was neurological. So they had neurology come in and do their consult after, you know, a couple other doctors. And there's not, they they're not super concerned that it's like a neurological problem. like it's not like seizures or something like that, um which is obviously great news. Still a little on the the concern side because he still does it relatively frequently, um but at least like based on, you know, their assessment and and then seeing him do it.
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like there's an alertness that he has while he's doing it, which they're like that. Basically he's not frying his brain every time this happens and we need to get it under control immediately. So it's just something to like pay attention to and have some followups on. So that's good. It's terrifying though.
00:05:12
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Yeah, it was, i I was like literally crying on my way home. Like, to go pick them up. Like i'm like, that's, it's any, anything slightly concerning is, is scary. But when you're, when your primary care goes, we think you, cause children's hospital in Boston is, is one of the best hospitals in the world for treating children. Um, and so when they're like, we think you should go out, out there. We're like, Jesus Christ. Like, yeah, yeah. You're just sitting there for hours waiting, you know? Um,
00:05:43
Speaker
So it fucking, that fucking sucks. Terrifying. ah And even though they're like, they give you the good news of it being like, you know, not something like epileptic or something like that. You're still just like, yeah, but we don't know.
00:05:57
Speaker
And it's possible that it's just a, ah you I don't know. It's possible that it's just like him figuring out how was you know new body works. And the movements are just unusual. But it's kind of like, it looks like when they get when you get a baby gets startled, but he does it for like five, six, seven seconds. And you're like, oh, that's that's, it's just a little weird. So, I don't know.
00:06:21
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We're keeping an eye on it. But it was What if he got a little touch of the Holy Ghost? Yeah. I didn't think about that. He was getting, hold he's getting the Holy Ghost baptisms straight from our, uh, wait, did he hold them up and like kind of jog from the side with his pants down? Actually. Yeah. was It was weird. He
Fireworks Incident and Legalities
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had just a t-shirt on and he just kept lifting his arms up by us. so We could see the bottom of his ball sack.
00:06:47
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Dude. God entered his body, like a body, his same size, pretty small body. It is. It's easy for God to enter. and Unlike that you know a rich person going through the eye of a needle or something.
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um but and then So then we had plans Saturday night already with with good friends to go out to dinner. So we're like we were tired, but we were like, we'll just keep these plans. They were going to come over and hang out afterwards, but I was like, hey, man, um we're just not up for doing something after. like We're beat. And they're like, yeah, no of course, totally understand. Yeah.
00:07:22
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So we go out to eat have a great time, go to my in-laws to pick my kids up. And on our way home, it's like 7.30 at night, driving down in my old town to get to the new town I live in. um I come up behind like this truck and it's just stopped in the middle of the road.
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And I see them launch something out with the passenger side, ah the front passenger side and into the woods. And they speed the fuck off. And then a firework goes off.
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It's just like, bah, bah, bah, bah. And like it sets four like three or four little fires. um So i like just throw my car in park and jump out. And I'm like i'm trying to stomp one out. but that So I get one kind of out. But then the other two are are going. So I run up the hill to like the one that's up top.
00:08:17
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and like throw all the sticks and shit that are there. That'll catch crazy fast. And, uh, trying to stomp that one. Now at that point, I'm just like, fuck call nine one one. It's like, like she calls nine one one.
00:08:29
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Um, yo, by the time the, like, first a cop shows up cause like a town cop, he shows up kind of a dick. Honestly, i get it to a degree, right? Because I'm trying to be like, all right, put myself in his shoes. You show up, there's a fire.
00:08:44
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You're trying to just get people out of the way, make room for the emergency services. But I'm there like actively trying to stomp this shit out and keep it from getting out of control. And he just comes up and he's like, Oh, I guess my little fire extinguisher is not going to do much.
00:09:00
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I'm like, yeah, probably not. I mean, it doesn't appear to be like that would be helpful. so And then he's like, and then he's just like, you need to get out of the way. You need to pull You got to get the fuck out of the way, man And I'm like, all right.
00:09:14
Speaker
You could have said thanks. I could have let this entire like block burn down. There's how, I mean, someone's property, dude. Like there's two houses right next to where this fire is going. Oh my God. Just be like, Hey man, thanks. Can you get out of the way? Yes, of course. I just, I left, I took a picture before I left. I posted it in our discord. Uh, it's a pretty, I mean, it was a pretty good size before yeah I took off. And, uh,
00:09:38
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prien I was just like, that's at the time. Charlie used to be a firefighter? Who? That's ah Charlie in the Discord. So they used to a firefighter. Yeah. That's pretty cool. And said that all firefighters are secretly pyromaniacs. So i was thinking about like this cop and stuff. And I just imagine like when you apply for government service, there's like a sorting hat.
00:09:59
Speaker
And if you've never gotten hard at a bonfire, it puts you into the cop category. You have to get your rocks off writing traffic tickets. yeah it's It was cool. I mean, I felt like I say i felt like i did like a you know my civic duty. you know i ah who knows Who knows how far that would have gone? like Just right place, right time. It's just crazy that like I pulled up like right at that time.
00:10:26
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It's wild. especially because we're li Maybe we'll just cancel. Yeah, it's it's wild that a firework set fires like that. I've never had, guess I don't know much about fireworks, but I've never had one like light anything on fire, especially not like multiple fires.
00:10:42
Speaker
it was like as It was like a smaller fire. Firework is probably the wrong word. It's not like the ones that like whistle up into the air and pop off. it's like it's It's made to throw on the ground and watch it just shoot shit everywhere for a second. and then Oh, like one of those fountain ones?
00:10:59
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some less fountain-y, more just like, it just launched off, like, like it landed, and then, like, just kind of like, popped out, like, you know, five or six mini, like, pew, pew, pew, kind of, don't know.
00:11:14
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it's hard to imagine that was for the intention of, like, you know, 4th of July entertainment. that Whatever they had felt like for the purpose of like destruction.
00:11:27
Speaker
Were you able to buy fireworks in Massachusetts when you were a kid or were they against the law? No, they've always they've always been against the law, I believe. to So where do people drive to buy fireworks there?
00:11:40
Speaker
ah New Hampshire, i think Vermont maybe. um You can probably get some in maybe even Connecticut. Basically all the neighboring states. lets you have huh? Vermont's like, this is a place for pedophiles and fireworks freaks.
00:11:55
Speaker
yeah Because you every time you go like anywhere north, there's like signs that tell you how far like you are, how close you There's like firework tents like at the border. Those big circus tent like pop-up ones where they're like,
00:12:11
Speaker
that they'll like sell fireworks under. And it's funny because like people will buy them and then just drive over, like then turn around, go home and then just get pulled over. Cause there's like always cops, like waiting for people who just go over the border to buy them and then come back.
00:12:25
Speaker
Great use of state resources. I feel like like fireworks has always been the stupidest phalange of the American economy. And it temporarily lost the top spot when fidget spinners were a thing. But then you know that industry fell off. Remember when the bottom fell out of the fidget spinner industry? The the the bubble popped?
00:12:47
Speaker
Fireworks were back dude. Yeah, and people were laughing lot deck. Yeah, and I've never thought they were cool. i Every 4th of July, I'm like... this This country really does suck.
00:12:57
Speaker
Like... It just, like, it's not... I don't think they're cool. And if you listen and you think they're cool, um have have your fun, I guess. But every year, I'm just like... I hate... I hate the 4th of July so much. I think it's the worst holiday.
00:13:15
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It's the most, like... There's nothing. I don't. I don't. You can go to a cookout, but at every cookout on the 4th of July, there's somebody there who's just dressed up, donned in American flag gear, talks about how much they love their country. And it's just like, shut the fuck up. Like, I don't care. I hate the of July. hate fireworks. We never do anything for the country. Like, like daydreams about would if they would have joined the military and diving on a grenade or something like that. But like in actuality, like if if the president came out and was like, guys, we're trying to write the the the budget deficit.
00:13:55
Speaker
So we're going to put a little surcharge on gasoline for a while. It's just 50 cents a gallon to try to pay this off. It's all going to that. They would be like, no.
00:14:05
Speaker
Yeah. no they love They love their country insofar it doesn't require them to give any amount of their money to take care of it. That's off the table. Taxes are actually illegal. Did you know that? Because I love those people. Nothing is more riveting than getting into a conversation with someone who wants to talk about how taxes are illegal. Yeah.
00:14:27
Speaker
and then they'll we should privatize the roads yeah we should private oh man if we privatize the fire department you could have paid for the uh the blaze to go out and then you then you actually would i would consider you a hero as of now i don't right just what do you consider me oh a victim of happenstance okay i i mean i oh oh your shoes melted oh oh big deal dude Hey, that's that that's good that's the price I'm willing to pay for my country.
00:15:03
Speaker
I had a little brush with danger this weekend. Oh, yeah? had brushes. the four-wheel a little too fast.
00:15:11
Speaker
You were cleaning out your gun and you forgot you're not supposed to look down the barrel of it. Yeah. How do you know if it's not you got to know if there's dirt still in there, right? Like, I think there's i just got to be something there you because you dropped it like tip first into the ground. go Total rookie. That wasn't on it to prevent the the barrel from just getting filled with sand.
00:15:36
Speaker
Oh my God. I was watching a video this weekend and it was like about this like lolcow YouTuber gamer guy. who was like a Call of Duty streamer. And there's like video of him like on a live stream and he's showing off his like he's got like a ah Russian sniper rifle from World War Two.
00:15:55
Speaker
It's like a Mosin-Nagant. And he had the bayonet on it, which they're already really long guns, like big, clunky, primitive looking guns. And then he's got this big, long bayonet on the end of it. And he accidentally shoves it through the middle of his TV. Yeah.
00:16:09
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um but If you want to find it, it's ah the YouTuber's name Wings of Redemption. Just look up Wings of Redemption Stabs TV.
00:16:22
Speaker
Wings of Redemption is so on brand. good name. Yeah, that's nice. So, okay, so I have... My whole yard is is either apple trees or pecan trees. We've got a whole bunch of pecan trees, and they produced a ton of nuts this year. i was very excited for the harvest. You know, you have to wait a long time because the the outer casing has to split before or you can't get them out. Like, they're just gummy and hard to deal with.
00:16:52
Speaker
Does it split when they're still on the tree, or is it like a wait for them fall off situation? Yeah. It'll split while they're on the tree and drop the nut. And a lot of time the husk just stays up there with like, it's it's like split open like an alien egg.
00:17:06
Speaker
Okay. and oh yeah nice then you run around and pick them up. It's actually,
Squirrel Troubles
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Speaker
it's really fun. So I was looking forward to it big time because we we were like, dude, we're going to have just like buckets of pecans this year.
00:17:19
Speaker
So like I kept going out there and checking them and you're like, you're just waiting and waiting and waiting, you know, until they start to be ripe enough to like pop the the casing. And every time I went out, there's fewer and fewer and fewer. And I'm like, God, what are they just, are they falling off? or the what it And it's the f freaking squirrels are, I looked out the window one day and there's a squirrel running with like, he's got four of them in a cluster, like in his mouth. And he's just, just charging across my yard with them.
00:17:48
Speaker
He's got like one of those hobo packs, like that little bag attached to a stick, and he's just got it full. A bindle. Yeah. A bindle full of my pecans. I'm like, where what are they doing with all that? mean, we're talking to hundreds of pecans, and they're pretty big, you know? And I was like, I don't know what they're doing. They're storing them somewhere. Well, I went into my shed, which I don't i don't go up in the loft of my shed very often, and went up there, and it's just wonderful.
00:18:17
Speaker
piles of pecans and walnuts and like rotten wood and leaves. I'm like, oh my God, this is crazy. And it's like one of those things where you never anticipate how much it's going to be.
00:18:30
Speaker
So I'm like, all right, well, let's just put some gloves on. We'll go out tomorrow and clean it out. I hauled six buckets worth of crap out of the loft of my shed.
00:18:42
Speaker
Six. So much. Every squirrel will die next year. Yeah, I was going to say, those squirrels work so hard to provide for their families. I don't care. Can you imagine? They're going go home. like i would I mean, do do animals have reactions to any – or is it is it just an instinct where they're like, all right, I guess we've got to keep at it? Or do they walk up there and just be like, what the fuck?
00:19:08
Speaker
I don't think squirrels are conscious of much. I think they're pretty much operating on brainstem only. Yeah, but just do what they got to do. So we haul them all out and stuff.
00:19:18
Speaker
Clearly, there's more than just squirrels like in there, you know, because there's crap all over the place and stuff. So I'm like, all right, I better set some traps and see if I can root these things out because they just wreck whatever's in there. You know, they'll eat through whatever you put in there and stuff. If it's not wood or metal, they're going to ruin it.
00:19:37
Speaker
And what kind of traps? Well, okay, so that's the thing. So I'm like going through my garage and I have like some of those old, like the old school traditional mousetraps, you know, ones that are like, they're super cheap. They're like, they got the little plastic looking cheese trigger on them. Yeah. So you bait it. I just, I just set one tonight.
00:19:58
Speaker
So I put a bunch of those out. I put peanut butter and some and cheese and some of the other ones so far cheese wins. Yeah. But so we went to the store one night and I'm like, I think we got, well, I caught, I i got a rat with one of them.
00:20:12
Speaker
And it was big enough that I was like, I can't believe that trap actually killed it, you know? Big enough that you're like, we can trick this thing. Yeah, there's some good fillets on here. So i I was looking at the rat traps. traps.
00:20:26
Speaker
There's like, okay, there's there's like the expensive ones, which are like, they're all black and they're kind of like shaped like a chip, like a giant chip clip with teeth on them, you know? Okay. And you like bait the little circle and tuck it, you know, and then just squeeze it to set it. And it's like very clean and easy. Right. But they're like nine bucks a piece.
00:20:46
Speaker
Then there's... Like a little bear trap? Kinda. Yeah. It's like a sideways bear trap. Does it... Does it like, does it just, does it like, just, does it get that their head or is it like just trap them? Yeah. Violently. They reach in there to like lick the bait and it, and it snaps them. Yeah.
00:21:05
Speaker
So. Instant kill. They have those, but then next to them, they have just a bigger version of the thing that I already have, like the traditional mousetrap. Right. And those are two for like $2. Right.
00:21:20
Speaker
Why do I care about six? I don't know why I care about $6, but I was like, oh, cheap. And so I got those. so I'm always locked into that mindset and I have regretted it so many times. I have not changed my ways.
00:21:34
Speaker
Dude, those things should be illegal. They are so dangerous. yeah so i so i was I snapped my finger setting one of the small ones the other day. Yeah, like I snapped it setting one of the small ones.
00:21:47
Speaker
It is so scary setting them. So I, months ago when we talked about my mouse problem here. I bought all those traps, and I haven't used them yet. I like i just don't... I don't know.
00:22:00
Speaker
I guess I just keep hoping they'll leave. Obviously, that's stupid. I just really think I just don't want to actively do one more thing at the end of the day ever. So... I, but I set, I set one today and I'm like, I'm just kind of like, I was fucking with it. And I'm like, I'm, I'm terrified to just, it's nerve wracking. Cause it's like, you have to. The tension is so tight. And that little thing I'm like, and I could tell that I locked it in a way that I'm like, I don't think this is sensitive enough. I should done like a test run with a pencil or something.
00:22:32
Speaker
Uh, and I already failed. I already lost. Like ah the mouse, I, right before I came down here, I checked the trap. The bait was gone. The trap was set. they Well, so I snapped my finger with one of those setting it like, like last week or whatever. I was, it hurt, but like no harm, no foul. Right. But I get home with these big rat traps and dude, these are nuts.
00:22:59
Speaker
Like, i mean, you, You really, I mean, it's so much tension on it. It is a big step up from like the little ones. And so I'm trying to set it, but it's just got this little like chintzy plastic trigger on it. And I can't get the thing to line up. And I'm trying to be like so careful because I don't want to get my fingers anywhere near where it's going to snap. Right. So I'm holding it kind of weird, yeah trying to keep it positioned. Yeah.
00:23:25
Speaker
Dude, so I set it, and I had it like set. I thought it was okay. I took my my hand off of the bar, and it snapped close. And like i kept I didn't get my finger in it, but the little... like like the unfinished like metal piece sticking out from like the the the bar went straight through my thumb.
00:23:49
Speaker
Like just thunk right through my thumb. I felt like it hit the nail. was just like bleeding all over the place. I was like, this is nuts. I'm not wearing, I'm not using these. I threw them away. I mean, that thing is, mean, a rat's a pretty good size. I imagine like the bar would be like,
00:24:08
Speaker
wide enough to like like your wrist like as well at least as wide as your like it could get your whole hand in there yeah it's a good like it's it's it's about twice to two to three times bigger than the like yeah normal mousetraps not i'm already done i'm already done with mousetraps i'm like because that one that's set i'm like well game over i'm not gonna i'm just gonna put that i'm just gonna throw it on the ground so it releases and then just throw it in the trash like i have no interest in like Dude, I realized it's so funny because today i when I was setting my... i went I realized I needed one because I walked into my garage and there was two mice just you know having a fucking party.
00:24:49
Speaker
And they like it's so funny when we turn the lights on because as soon as the lights come on, they just like run around and smack into shit. They're blinded for a moment. Yeah. So they just kind of scurry around, hit a box, run under my tarp. like They're just doing whatever.
00:25:04
Speaker
And the reason I was in there was because ah i I went in this morning to get like a little – I was trying to find small nails. um And I know I had some, but you know i have now i haven't organized my garage since I moved here. here So ah i was hope I'm on paternity to leave now. So for the next few weeks, I'm home with my son. My wife's back at work.
00:25:28
Speaker
And he was being a little, he was being a dickhead today. He refused to take a bottle. Kid just decided that he doesn't want bottles. He doesn't want pacifiers anymore.
00:25:39
Speaker
so we just had to, we had ah a seven hour standoff today where he just cried most of
Parenting Challenges
00:25:45
Speaker
the time. And I would try to give him a bottle and he would just choke on it and refuse to drink from the bottle.
00:25:52
Speaker
And, uh, it stressed me the fuck out. And then I got like a few minutes where he was asleep. I put them down. i'm like, all right, going to go find that nail. My ratchet set with, it has like 120 different attachments for it. Um,
00:26:08
Speaker
Right. typical Typical, regular, you know, grown up ass ratchet said that anyone would have. And I guess I didn't clamp it shut right the last time I used it. So I just pick up my ratchet set to move and I launched 120 fucking ratchet attachments across my garage.
00:26:25
Speaker
And so so annoying so i I just threw it on the ground, kicked a bunch of boxes, screamed at the top of my lungs a couple of times. I was like, if my neighbors are around, they're like, cool. We moved in to a raging psycho new a raging psychopath moved in next to us.
00:26:42
Speaker
And I was like, i I know I'm in a bad spot right now because when I saw that mouse, normally I'm like, I don't even want to use these mouse traps. I feel bad about killing the mouse. And I was like, if that mouse walks anywhere near me, I'm stomping on it until it dies. Like that's how I felt so angry.
00:26:58
Speaker
and then that evening I was like, I am still, I guess I'm still, uh, not quite over my, uh, stress and my frustration today. Cause I was like, I got home, uh,
00:27:10
Speaker
this evening and was like i'm filling that garage with mousetraps and then the mouse fucking ate the cheese i just ate fucking cheese off the mousetrap and in two seconds so frustrating i think i i i think i need to like slather it in peanut butter or something so that way like they can't just like grab the cheese and take off like a peanut butter like let me lick this shit for a bit and jostle that little trigger around peanut butter works You should try it.
00:27:37
Speaker
Yeah, well that's the next move. but Yeah. So, yeah. Then second thing that happened. ah So it's bird season now. So we've been running around trying to find quail. And yesterday we drove to a spot that's traditionally been pretty tough, but sometimes pays off.
00:27:53
Speaker
First spot I wanted to hunt, the guy there was a guy so like parked there, and I couldn't tell where he was at, so we had to find a different spot. Hunt one spot, nothing. Take Pippin out on the second spot, and we walk this big field. We get all the way around towards the end, and we're like over near the woods about to turn around and head back to the car, and he starts kind of like sniffing around real vigorously. I'm like, oh, okay, maybe he's onto something.
00:28:17
Speaker
So I'm like, walk over there. I'm like, what are you looking at? And he like sticks his head down into this thick grass and goes, art and he pulls a skunk out of there and drops a skunk like two feet from my and my feet.
00:28:34
Speaker
And I'm just like, oh, get out, get out. So I ran and it didn't spray me, but it did spray him. So he was covered in that.
00:28:44
Speaker
And we we weren't in my truck. We were in the Jeep. So like we had to put him in the kennel inside the cab of the Jeep and drive home.
Dog vs. Skunk Experience
00:28:52
Speaker
That's awful. He got where he was so mad.
00:28:56
Speaker
Right in the chest and chin and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Front and center. yeah it's it's like a grease it's like uh it's very oily yeah it's it's it's like uh like when you have to suppress a dog's anal gland it's just like that like viscousy oily it's gross it's like it's like natural uh anti-seize you put that on your bolts and your chassis out they come of
00:29:27
Speaker
No, that is the worst. And that smell is, that lingers for so long. um that That's, dude. And dogs never learn. They're never going to learn not to mess with those. Even though you can, I know he smelled that from two miles away.
00:29:43
Speaker
yeah But. I heard that skunk spray, ah if if they get like a direct hit into the face and they're like sinuses in their eyes that for like a small, it can kill a small dog. I don't know if that's true. I was told that.
00:29:58
Speaker
ah I was told that time when I was probably more willing to believe dumb things that people tell me. It's
00:30:08
Speaker
at this point in my life, I don't think people can tell me a reasonable, it could sound, them it could be the most reasonable sounding fact of all time. And I'd be like, do you have a source for that? I'm backtracking, dude. I'm going back into the conspiracy world.
00:30:22
Speaker
Yeah. Well, we've been thrown into it, dude. Now that the conspiracy community is kind of like they're, they're collectively deciding that Trump sucks. It's fun again. It's getting fun again. Yeah.
00:30:35
Speaker
No kidding. So I'm on the Charlie Kirk train. i watched on the way. I've been really plumbing the depths of the Internet. So I watched like this two hour documentary about the like the trans school shooter that shot up that school in like Nashville, which is I don't very dark. Recall that. Well, I mean, I.
00:30:56
Speaker
There's been a bunch. There's been too many to really keep track. We don't really keep tabs on those that well anymore. There's just one every few days.
Media Narratives and Oversimplification
00:31:03
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What you remember every time is the discourse around it, you know, unless you like really dive into like what the like the what the case really says about it. And they they didn't really. So.
00:31:16
Speaker
Clearly they thought we we're not going to release this this person's journals, you know, because A, you know it's the you know, their excuse was, oh, this is like a, you know, how-to for future school shooters. Oh, yeah, they've always been so concerned about that.
00:31:34
Speaker
Yeah. And B, they're like, oh, well we don't want to feed, you know, internet bigotry or whatever. Oh, yeah, their second biggest concern. That's right. I love that. That's good. So what was interesting about it though, is when you, you know, like, cause all you really heard at the time was that this person was trans and like they shot up a Christian school. Right. But like getting in, like reading into that this person's journals and stuff like trans is transgenderism is really not their defining feature.
00:32:11
Speaker
Like, It's kind of like a self-loathing gay person with, you know, some some real like superiority complex issues and probably some, you know, schizophrenia on top of that. Yeah.
00:32:27
Speaker
Like it's such a weird story because it's basically like this, this girl like was on a basketball team in seventh grade and it was it seemed like maybe that was the only place they ever fit in ever was on this basketball team for this one year.
00:32:46
Speaker
And she was like the only white girl on this like black girls basketball team. And they did really well. I guess they had a lot of camaraderie and stuff. And like after that year, when the team like disbanded after they made it to the state championship or whatever, like she could not deal with it.
00:33:04
Speaker
Like, yeah. spent the rest of her life like obsessing over the these girls that were on this basketball team with her, most of which like she didn't ever really even talk too much again, you know, but like writing them love, love notes and.
00:33:20
Speaker
Back and forth, you know, on I mean, it was it was it's just a crazy story. And like when you read all of it, you're like, oh, man, this is a person who is deeply unwell. Yeah. And the idea that she was trans only really came about like right like in the months before the school shooting.
00:33:40
Speaker
So it was just, you know, it's just another one of those things where you're like, wow, there was so much story here that got skipped over because something else fits the agenda better. Right.
00:33:51
Speaker
Which is frustrating. Which is always what happens anytime something terrible happens. It's isn't it it's so weird. And I'm not going to pretend like I don't fall into it a little bit.
00:34:02
Speaker
Yeah. ba because of how polarized things are but it is weird that like now when something like a some sort of mass form of violence happens everyone's just what side were they on what side were they on and then when it's like not your team you're like yes because and then you realize it doesn't matter because every side's just gonna make it be what they want it to be anyway because we live in fucking storybook world where you just make shit up constantly yeah speaking make shit up constantly um
00:34:36
Speaker
we've spent a handful of weeks talking about how much of a bummer everything is.
Political Shifts and Scandals
00:34:42
Speaker
And then we had Spencer on and I talked about that little glimmer of hope with Zoran's win. Right.
00:34:48
Speaker
And I got to say like, those little Those little glimmers just keep you know popping up here and there. And right now we're watching MAGA implode. oh things are changing fast. It is.
00:35:03
Speaker
ah It's like if you asked me six weeks ago if there's if there's anything Marjorie Taylor Greene could do to make me not hate her, I'd be like, absolutely not. she's a terrible person. And she is wrong about so many things, but the enemy of my enemy rings true, man. It really does.
00:35:22
Speaker
Yeah. She's really ah changed her tune. And now you have like, dude, you I mean, like oh there was like over a hundred Republicans were going to vote for the release of the Epstein files.
00:35:35
Speaker
Like that's a huge shift. Like Trump was going or off on everyone trying to like, don't do it, don't do it. And then when he realized that there's no hope, he's like, I want to release the files. I think it'd be great to release the files. I've been trying to do it this whole time.
00:35:49
Speaker
And look, my concern is that like they've had the files for so long that they they're just the the standoff has been about scrubbing evidence and damage control this whole time.
00:36:04
Speaker
ah So I have a feeling that whatever we get is just going to be a disappointment. am. It's going to be heavily redacted if they do release things and yeah then it's going to be messy, but and I know which names won't be redacted. But i I think the thing that's actually been really interesting with all the discourse is how like, so the emails, <unk>s there's two things, uh, where I want to touch on quickly and you, you're probably familiar with both of them and I want your take, but the emails that have been going around, um,
00:36:37
Speaker
you know that have brought us glorious memes about Trump blowing Clinton. I mean, the internet's on fire with those. It's been like it's been really nice. Donika Walensky and the big, beautiful Bill. and Unfortunately, ah Epstein's brother has come out to say that the Bubba referred to in these emails is not Clinton.
00:37:02
Speaker
And I don't know which ties he has or who he's beholden to, It sounds like he's actually just trying to like, trying to clarify things. I don't know. Who is again? Sorry. i What'd you say?
00:37:13
Speaker
Who is it again that, that you're saying? Epstein's brother apparently commented on it. Yeah. And I'm not sure like that guy, I don't know enough about him. I know there's some weird shit about that. I mean, if you're Epstein's brother, you're automatically kind of not a trustworthy person to some degree, but, um, only because it's like, what did you say this whole time? Um, but the other one, um, regarding the emails, a lot of people are like,
00:37:41
Speaker
Oh, like they they keep talking about those like they're the Epstein files and it is very, it's different. Like those were recently subpoenaed um and aren't technically part of the Epstein files. So I don't, a lot of, that you see a lot of the criticism on the, on the right being like, being like Oh no, they didn't.
00:38:03
Speaker
Biden didn't care about the Epstein files. No one else want release them. And I heard, something interesting about it recently. And I don't know if it's just someone trying to run cover for the left. Um, but it was basically when Biden was president, the, like the Epstein files were like Ghislaine hadn't been prosecuted yet.
00:38:23
Speaker
So all the Epstein files and all that was related to the prosecution, which is why like you wouldn't have, that someone was arguing that you wouldn't have released them. Like anything pertaining to the,
00:38:35
Speaker
the um The court case. The court case. Yeah. You would, you would hold on to. So it wasn't really much of like a conversation at the time simply because everyone's, everyone's making their case. um And as soon as you, as soon as you got all the Epstein files out into the, into the internet, into the world, you, you lose your ability to like really conduct a trial in any way, shape or form. So I don't I ah that's something i've I heard. I'm interested in looking into the timeline a little bit more. well I don't remember when Ghislaine was convicted. Was it during was that during Biden's presidency or after?
00:39:15
Speaker
I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. I think she was convicted during that. I don't remember exactly. There's some of that. Yeah. I mean, like to some extent that that, that makes sense. And I think like some of what we've seen leak and come out over the past, you know, eight months here is, is stuff from the trial that was submitted for, you know, um for evidence and stuff like the birthday book, I think was one of those things that they used in her, you know, defense or whatever. I don't, I don't know exactly where all the the lines are, but the bottom, I think,
00:39:51
Speaker
the the whole But she's living it up now, dude. She's got it cushy. She's ready to like petition for her release. She's got a puppy. It's crazy. It's crazy. She's got a freaking puppy in jail. Trump's really stuck now that all this is so big.
00:40:06
Speaker
And he's clearly compromised, right? like there's no We've known that. No one on the left. No one critical of Trump. No one who has cared about the Epstein files from the start. Yeah.
00:40:19
Speaker
Nobody's surprised by that. well like the the art The problem has always been that he's he's that he's compromised. um And now it's like... So now he's like really... like He's trying to thread this needle of like, this shit's coming out. How do I do damage control? But like also knowing that like like like he's still... like It looks like he so we're moving towards Ghislaine getting a release. And you just are like...
00:40:46
Speaker
For him to try to be like, I don't care. i don't care about any of this. But also, Democrats are pedophiles. He's trying to do like everything all at once. And I feel like if Ghislaine does get a release, then we are... that's gonna I feel like that's going MAGA is cracking. MAGA is falling apart.
00:41:06
Speaker
But I feel like if that happens, it's going to be like... That's just dropping a nuke on the whole thing. Yeah, I mean, it's it's going it's going away either way. think i think ah what Nick Fuentes officially announced it as being dead this week. And it's funny to watch the things that they've... Because so much of what's going to kill them is the stuff that they put in place to begin with. Like, they s stoked the flames around the Epstein case and stuff, you know, because it was politically expedient to them at the time. The thing with the Epstein case is it burns everybody.
00:41:39
Speaker
And I... and yet There's no better example of that than some of the stuff that's come out in the last like month or so here, where you see like email exchanges and stuff between you know where Epstein is arranging back channel meetings between like Israeli officials and Vladimir Putin's regime. you know um Right, right. he He's you know negotiating stuff in in African nations. There was one of the craziest things that I've seen recently here was um they they have
00:42:15
Speaker
they wind up video in a text exchange with ah the the congresswoman from the U.S. Virgin Islands. She's, a dude he's texting her, he's actively texting her and priming her with questions to ask the person that's on the stand or whatever.
00:42:31
Speaker
And, and she's literally like responding to it in real time. And he's like giving her pointers and stuff on it. I mean, this, this doesn't, This isn't one political party. This is so much of the old guard financial you know infrastructure of our political system is and is infected by this. Right. And he's one he's yeah one character. He's one character that's become like a big name because of the like just the – you know grotesque nature of some of the other things that he was doing but it's like what you see is just it's it's a it's a brief like look into just the sordid under dealings of all of these people and how money gets moved around and how you know um yeah communication channels are set up and stuff and and i mean every
00:43:22
Speaker
every day there's something new coming out about it. Like, you know, his, his relationship with Mossad and, you know, have it, he's got, you know, people from Mossad staying at his properties for weeks at a time. And it's just, it's crazy. and Like the, the, the sexual exploitation is like the most salacious part. And that's like, it's, you know, the most egregious part, but I think, uh,
00:43:46
Speaker
What we're seeing now finally with some of these documents coming out is like the true reason that he was around. You know what you don't see in any of this crap is financial advice.
00:43:57
Speaker
He didn't advise anybody on finances. Like they haven't released a single thing so far of him giving advice on taxes or storing wealth or anything like that. It's like that's all crap. It's just – Which was allegedly his job.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yeah. He was just the hub of this like wheel of influence, you know, and he's just one of them. There's probably a bunch of these guys. Yeah. and they are going to they will. And as long as they stay away from ah engaging in.
00:44:26
Speaker
weird sexual deviancy, they'll be way less likely to get caught because that ah that's just, that's the best way to get caught. I mean, we watch politicians fall all the time because they couldn't not get that blow job in a back alley from an 18 year old guy, you know?
00:44:43
Speaker
ah And now you, and you have JD Vance, like not Vance, I'm sorry, Hegseth. The story about him paying for sex from a 17 year old who is homeless, trying to save up for braces.
00:44:56
Speaker
I don't know if you've heard that story, but no, it's been going around. It's it's. You mean he that isn't a good guy? I know it's crazy. I mean, his own mom point oh was one of the people that point that out.
00:45:10
Speaker
But yeah, that story is making the rounds now. ah seventeen She was 17 at the time and he paid her for sex. And it's like, yeah, she was in and out of homeless shelters, trying to get through high school.
00:45:22
Speaker
ah and Disgusting. Was saving up for braces with that money. That's what she was doing, sexual favors for for braces. So Shit's wild out there, man. It never stops. It never stops.
00:45:35
Speaker
i i it I guess I'll just say if this isn't the reckoning, ah then we're fucked completely. like if this If this doesn't take people down on all sides, if this just kind of becomes a thing that disappears or that like a couple people go but the problem's not really dealt with, like we are fucked. like our Our country...
00:46:01
Speaker
Our politicians, world politics, it's all so deep and dark. if this can't If this can't rattle that cage in in and at least address the problems in this country, then then we are actually doomed. i'll just i'll be that I'll be that depressive about it.
00:46:20
Speaker
I think it's going to. I think the the you know Trump's leveraged every bit of his like political and social power with his base to try to push this down and and not deal with it, and and it's totally failed. And now they've they've built basically these juggernauts that are eventually going to destroy them. you know People like Thomas Massey. like Nobody knew who Thomas Massey was a year ago, but like he's become like one of the... like lone voices on the right that makes any sense.
00:46:52
Speaker
Yeah. And and i the thing I like about Massey is like, I mean, yeah, at the end of the day, it's hard. Like, I'm not going to agree with him on a lot because he is in the Republican Party and i by all my views are a far cry from any of their ideals. But he i I honestly think it's fair to say he's the only principled person there.
00:47:14
Speaker
Like, Marjorie Taylor Greene, like, I'm happy to pull you in on the on on this fight so we can, like, get something done. But, like...
00:47:25
Speaker
I don't respect her. I think she's a trash ass human. And, but Massey, I'm like, that at least, at least that dude has like scruples, you know, he has a conscience. He has an idea of what he thinks is the right way to go about functioning in a democracy. Like he believes in the things that we're told our country is about. And,
00:47:50
Speaker
i don't I'm happy to disagree with him. I'm more than happy to disagree with him because i just it's not it's so refreshing to see him go up against the entire fucking party on principle and and and work with Ro Khanna on all the Epstein file shit. like it's It's great. I appreciate that guy.
00:48:10
Speaker
i don't I don't know if I ever would thought I'd be able to be like, yeah, I respect that guy. I would go out to dinner with that guy and have a conversation with him and be like, I can talk to you because you're not going to just lie to my face. You're actually straight shooter.
00:48:28
Speaker
Right.
Socialism and Christianity
00:48:30
Speaker
Well, um so since we're on the topic of of politics, I wanted to work through a an informational flyer that was left for for my wife in our mailbox.
00:48:47
Speaker
A nice piece of literature. is that on Is that on nice cardstock? Dude, it's on cardstock. It's got a little gloss to Is it like laminated? It's not laminated. It's just real nice. Real nice paper.
00:49:00
Speaker
You hear that? It's got a nice snap to it. Oh, that's a good thump to it, man. that's ah thats they got Whoever this is has a healthy budget for proselytization.
00:49:11
Speaker
So it's from the El Dorado Church of Christ, which is ah my okay my town, closest real town to me. And it's entitled Socialism is Not Just an Economic Theory, The Moral Responsibility of All Mankind by Cleveland Redinger.
00:49:33
Speaker
So I'm just going to launch in. the eldora time with the time that's some breakfastface The Eldorado... The Eldorado... He did that on a typewriter? Good for him.
00:49:45
Speaker
Good graphic design for a typewriter. Yeah, and just to give a little bit of context here, so they they described themselves, the Eldorado Church is a Bible-based, non-denominational congregation striving to be the church we read about in the New Testament. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.
00:50:02
Speaker
we are Nothing more, nothing Other than the New Testament. I appreciate, any anytime you read like non-denominational Bible-believing, you... you you you know what you're in for, but you really kind of also don't know what you're in for.
00:50:20
Speaker
Yeah. It's like, know there's douchery coming, you just don't know what flavor. Mm-hmm. This church has 4.2 stars Google. four point two stars on google Oh, okay. Six reviews. Six reviews.
00:50:37
Speaker
ah Michelle Davis gave it two stars, and she said, I don't really recall being here, only because I have no car to gotten there.
00:50:50
Speaker
Is she saying she's never went? i don't know. She doesn't recall. She gave it a two stars. It was like, i never been here. Two star. Yeah.
00:51:00
Speaker
She's not saying she hasn't been. You know what I think happened? I bet if, all right, this was, this review was given six years ago and she needed an alibi is what I think happened. I bet if you look up Michelle Davis, eldorado El Dorado, El Dorado, police report, you'll find something.
00:51:17
Speaker
But the rest are, um ah that's the only one where an actual review is given. I don't really recall being here only because I have no car to gotten there.
00:51:28
Speaker
Wonderfully written. Let's just hope that this this ah brochure is written as well as that. okay so launching in. One may wonder why a brochure on spiritual matters would concern itself with a political topic of the day.
00:51:41
Speaker
One yes definitely would wonder that. That would be a proper question if the two topics never had contact with each other. However, the modern truism, you can't legislate morality, ignores the very fact that God himself did just exactly that with the Ten Commandments. For that matter, there is no reason to make something illegal unless it is felt by society to be a moral first.
00:52:07
Speaker
To say that something ought to be illegal is to say that it is wrong, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. That makes it a moral question. so okay Already my first point of disagreement.
00:52:19
Speaker
Yeah, so he's not entirely concerned with moral. It's just concerned with upholding social norms. I don't know that they're... It's like morality a part of it. Some part of it is just like social governance.
00:52:35
Speaker
Right. I wonder, okay, so we legislate the Ten Commandments. Is jaywalking immoral? Is jaywalking immoral? What sort of, ah if if your creed is only the New Testament, right, which we know about these guys, then, and you were to legislate the Ten Commandments into, it you know, as the law of the land, like, what punishment would you have for adultery?
00:52:59
Speaker
what What fits the crime? Does the Bible lay that out in the New Testament? ah I don't know. It used to be stoning people to death. um We see examples of that in the New Testament. I don't know if it exactly states that that's the that should be the repercussion for it at any point.
00:53:17
Speaker
But also the inconsistency from the start is like, we're all about the New Testament. And then they're like, already already on the Ten Commandments. Yeah. So, I mean, really, at the end of the day here, what he's arguing is that, oh, no, we have a so a biblical precedent for legislating morality. And that's going to be important here in a second, because we're we're all about to learn something about socialism.
00:53:41
Speaker
So, why am I addressing socialism? For many reasons. First, it assumes that man is the measure of all things, that there is no power higher than man to which we must answer.
00:53:52
Speaker
This is because it is based upon humanism, which is basically the worship of man. Humanist manifestos 1 and 2 both declared atheism to be fundamental to their worldviews, available on Amazon, as are Bibles.
00:54:07
Speaker
I don't... What the fuck does that even mean? Since this is a true foundation. to How many anarcho-capitalist regimes exist across the world that are like not okay?
00:54:21
Speaker
I mean, I'm sure this guy has a a problem or two with certain Islamic countries and their theocratic ah statehood. Oh, yeah.
00:54:32
Speaker
Well, there's only one right way to be, you know. So since this is a true foundation to socialism, there are several things which follow, which we are we are making some big jumps in here. So yeah it is funny to think about the fact that like, hey, people should have health care and it should be affordable to keep themselves alive with food and water and shelter. You know, like that.
00:55:01
Speaker
fundamentally ah is underwritten by the idea that man is God and that humans are the end end all be all of reason and morality. and And that's biblical because if if everyone joined together to to create a society in which everybody had their needs met, that would undermine God's desire for...
00:55:26
Speaker
entire populations to be wiped out because they didn't do the right thing. You know, God used to drop famine on people when they, ah when they negged him the wrong way and then they were gone. But you know, in a socialist society, the men would pick up the slack there and the famine wouldn't be so much of an issue.
00:55:44
Speaker
So it is an affront to God's judgment, certainly. Yeah. Yeah. I just love this is it's so reminiscent of like so many things that we sat through and as kids in like Sunday school or youth group from like the you know, the pretentious for youth pastor where it's like, um you know, one thing about socialism is that there's no higher power than man. And we know that because socialism is based on humanism and humanism. If you look at these two documents, which I am am asserting all humanism is based upon and therefore all socialism is based upon, you know, atheism is fundamental to their worldview.
00:56:24
Speaker
It's just like, oh, my God, dude. This is really convincing if you want to come to these conclusions to begin with. Which is most of um most of evangelical Christianity at this point.
00:56:37
Speaker
Yeah, so since this is a true foundation to socialism, there are several things which follow. One, there is no objective standard of right and wrong. What Hitler did many... oh my God.
00:56:49
Speaker
I'm already crashing out. What Hitler did may be thought unpleasant, but not morally wrong. Unpleasant. Dude, not... If you can find me a socialist who thinks that what Hitler did was unpleasant but not morally wrong, i will ill I'll come to church.
00:57:08
Speaker
help Find me one. ah You'll go to this church. You'll go to El Dorado Church of Christ. An objective standard is one which exists whether you like it or not. Acknowledge it or not. Know it or not. It's like gravity. Ubiquitous. It works on all men everywhere equally.
00:57:29
Speaker
And I or am the one to declare it. Yeah. Except for when, uh, it, yes, gravity does. Uh, but I, I love, dude, that's, that's a common one though. Um,
00:57:42
Speaker
I heard other versions of that connected to less extreme i ideas like this one, but just like, you know, God, God, God's God and the Bible's true. And if you don't want to acknowledge it, you know, that that's like not acknowledging gravity. It's like, except for it's not because you, what you don't see is people not acknowledging gravity.
00:58:04
Speaker
And then just carrying on with their lives as because you can't. The idea is that like, you can't live your life as though gravity doesn't exist because it does. But the Bible, it's not like gravity because you can live your life as though it's not anything true, real, relevant, important, necessary.
00:58:21
Speaker
And you can, ah you can do just fucking fine. Yeah. Yeah. And it is funny how to make these points, these broad brush points about,
00:58:33
Speaker
like ah a term which can mean so many things to so many different people. Like socialism is a pretty broad term, but they have to dip into the like the, the most stuffy of like campus theory that they can find and be like, obviously all of these card carrying socialists think this right here.
00:58:56
Speaker
And like, so What does this have to do with socialism? I don't know. But they use it interchangeably with communism. they don't This person, yeah i would I would bet $100 that they don't know the difference between socialism and communism.
00:59:12
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, communism has some more stark ideological lines for sure. you know It's not my favorite by any means, but like go find me up an actual communist, like someone who says they're a communist and not just like someone you label one. There are none.
00:59:30
Speaker
There's like 17 people on Reddit that say that to piss you off. That's it. They, they, yeah it's not real because communism's objectively goes against like the, the values of that, that modern day socialists uphold communism is just like, everything's owned by the government. Everything comes from the government. Everything's government owned. Like, yeah,
00:59:53
Speaker
and everyone's like that that sucks nobody wants that because that's only as good as the government you have that's wishy-washy shit like yeah i mean, you go it's so funny because like ah when i went when when I lived in Virginia, when we were all there, it's like you would if you wanted liquor, you had to go an ABC store.
01:00:12
Speaker
And ABC stores were all state-owned. And that it was only – so all alcohol. If you wanted beer and wine, you were good. But if you wanted liquor You had to go to an ABC store, entirely regulated by the state.
01:00:28
Speaker
You could not have a private liquor license to sell out to to sell liquor. And that I mean, that's like objectively a form of communism, right? You've you've made liquor communist. And and nobody like – I didn't hear people like complaining about it, but coming from Massachusetts, it's like that's crazy. It's crazy that you can't just like pop into a local liquor store. that Yeah.
01:00:56
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ah Okay, so it says, number two, there is no such thing as personal responsibility. Since there no is ah there is no objective standard to assign personal responsibility, it simply ceases to exist. I am under no obligation to my fellow man or even the children or family I create.
01:01:15
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That's society's problem. We don't have to imagine how this works out in the real world. real world We see it every night on our news screens. that's that' That's the dumbest paragraph we've read so far. No, no person.
01:01:29
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It's everyone's personal responsibility. That is the point. It's my personal responsibility to make sure that other people can afford housing and healthcare. care And I'm so okay with that.
01:01:43
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i Dude, okay. I just... um I just got an email this morning and had a little panic attack. It was from my student loan carrier.
01:01:55
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My first student loan payment is due in January. I took out $50,000 in student loans to jump to restart my career in my mid-30s.
01:02:06
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Now I've got to start paying it back in my late thirty s I just want you to guess what, with a $50,000 student loan payment, like student student loan bill, what you think my monthly payment would be.
01:02:19
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Oh boy. God, I don't have this the slightest clue. I mean, what is $350? $675. almost went out and bought gun could put it in mouth. went out and bought a gun just so i could put it in my mouth
01:02:35
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And that's your right. And I... Thanks to the patriots here. I can't afford that. I cannot afford that. That's higher than i thought it was going to be. And you want to know why it's that high?
01:02:47
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Because under the Biden administration... it was capped at 5% of my annual salary. And obviously giving out some fun information about my annual salary here, $675 a month would be 10% of my annual salary.
01:03:09
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And that's the fun thing, right? I went back to school, took out $50,000 to do a job I cared about to take a pay cut and pay off student loans. And now...
01:03:20
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Thanks to our our boy in office. He goes, no, 5%, that's stupid. People need to pay back their loans faster. It's 10% of your salary. So now I have to pay $675 a month. Sounds like you have a problem with personal responsibility. It sounds yeah like I have a problem with getting into a grad program under one administration and seeing things fall apart with the next. And that is the funnest. I think that's the funnest thing about America is that it's just a crapshoot. You never know. You can make a choice one day and realize that and once the ad the administration changes over, it's just like, oh, actually, gotcha, bitch.
01:04:00
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I am – I can get – like all of the all of the income-driven repayment plans were frozen for a while. ah They are back up.
01:04:11
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So I am able to – I am able to submit for income-based repayment, which would change my – payment to be 10 to 15% of my discretionary income after factoring independence.
01:04:31
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So I, with having a mortgage in Massachusetts, mortgages in Massachusetts are horrendous. I'm embarrassed to say what my mortgage is. So I won't. um And having three kids, I can, um I, I,
01:04:49
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um I think it'll drop enough where I can actually afford to not put any money into savings and cancel future vacations. You do like biting off a lot at once.
01:05:02
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The American dream, baby. you just loved You love stacking another thing on the on the pile. Go to college. It's worth it.
01:05:13
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Yeah, there's a real resentment towards ah people who put stock in college degrees in this in this administration. It's clear.
01:05:23
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i think there's like a, I don't know, you know, not to distract everything here, but it just, it kind of goes to the point I was talking about with ah with our guests the other day. It's just, there is just this obsession with punishment in this country. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:42
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And it's a it's a real problem with like the the next generation. I mean, boomers and stuff, they they just, they want you to feel the pain of of every like piece of happenstance or something that that that goes on in your life. Like you deserve to be punished. Now they don't, you know.
01:06:03
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no and they want you to say the same thing like this. That's annoying. They imagined they were. They want you to feel the punishment and the pressure that they imagined for themselves. They were like, that's such a funny way to get it. But it's true because they all had like they all had like twelve hundred dollar a month mortgages.
01:06:24
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For like a nice home, a nice home that you could raise five kids in and they were paying $1,200 a month on a single income and they had to pinch pennies to save up for their boat because they, oh, can't just get it when I want it. ah And now they're like, oh, these kids just want to get a coffee in the morning. Like – Fuck you, boomers. You guys have lost the plot more than any other generation in history.
01:06:50
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Like you didn't go to war. You didn't have like you had nothing. You don't have your trauma was not being able to buy your boat until you were 42. Fuck you.
Student Loans and Social Security
01:06:59
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Yeah. Oh, man, there's so much there.
01:07:02
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At some point, my point, at' a point we got to have a discussion about about c greed, because yeah it's that's the thing that I think about constantly. my My only point for bringing this up was ah one of the socialist ideals is that higher education should, ah if not be free, be affordable. like we've sub The government just keeps subsidizing education, and the education, the academia is just keeps raising the cost on the people.
01:07:31
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And it's like... like and And this is the problem with like when you talk about socialized health care, right? You go, the idea behind socialized health care is that when you have a single payer program, the government can really work that shit down. but So it' kind of academia kind of functions like health care where like you just subsidize it but let them have free reign on telling everybody how much it costs.
01:07:55
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They're just like, yeah, that's that's the free money, and we can just charge all these kids whatever we need to pay for whatever pretend-ass fucking program we want to build snowflakes.
01:08:06
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It makes so little sense, like what any of it costs. And it just makes you so angry. Yeah, so, okay, what we've learned so far is that ah socialism is based on humanism, and according to humanism, atheism is fundamentalism is fundamental is a fundamental of humanist thought.
01:08:26
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Humanism, being about humans, unlike God, apparently. what you know and what This guy who probably talked a lot about cancel culture you know and and the socialists that are that are trying to cancel everybody, what we know about those socialists is that they don't believe in an objective standard of right and wrong, and they do not believe in responsibility.
01:08:49
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Absolutely. that's Obviously, that's what the cancel culture thing was based on, right? so ah so there's So that was one and two. the next we are there's How many points are there? because yeah That was one and two of the first point. Here's the second.
01:09:08
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They believe man can achieve happiness and perfection without any guidance other than man's own thoughts. Despite the repeated, constant, and unbroken string of failure, this is still their belief and goal.
01:09:19
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When something has proven that it does not work and you keep doing it, you are demonstrating insanity. Socialism has never delivered on any of its promises. I love that coming from a guy who probably believes... But the end times is coming any day now for his entire life. But that's cool.
01:09:37
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Third, pay attention to what they do and not what they say. Anyone can talk a good game, but what do they do when they get power? The answer is clear. Tyranny, bloodshed, misery and slavery. This is directly opposite. No, it's not.
01:09:55
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It's not opposite. That's what he's arguing for. He's literally arguing for that. His version of it. it's It's not tyranny if I agree with it is what he's saying. Jesus Christ. Look, look. Hey, true liberty is the freedom to live as a good Christian.
01:10:10
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that's what That's what liberty means. um This is directly opposite from Galatians 5.1. It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
01:10:25
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Slavery to heavy taxation under the guise of it equality is still slavery. far ah Far from approving slavery, Paul told slaves how to endure what they that which they could not change, but to obtain their freedom if they could.
01:10:41
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Well, wait, far from approving slavery, far from approving slavery, Paul told slaves how to act. he did to To endure with that which they could not change, but to yeah obtain their freedom if they could. I wonder what means literally he thinks would be okay for obtaining your freedom.
01:10:59
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not one indictment Paul does not have one indictment on the system of slavery. There isn't a single indictment on it in the entire New Testament. there's just it's There's just advice on how to how to be a slave, how to be a good slave. That's all he has to offer.
01:11:16
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And he's already comparing that to taxation. tech i Look, there is a point in which taxation goes too far. Everybody knows that.
01:11:28
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yeah but But um comparing being taxed so that way you have roads to drive on, hospitals to go to, you know, comparing that. What, in your socialist utopia?
01:11:44
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Comparing that to like unpaid labor where you're beaten for disobedience isn't exactly the same. but he's confirmed He's literally using the dirt like the example of actual s like people in leg irons to like, I'm being taxed and put a tax on my cigarettes.
01:12:07
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He's like, we're the same. he's the guy that He's the guy that goes into low-income black communities and goes, i have I have, he hands him that pamphlet and he goes, we're the same brother, and then dad and then dabs him up.
01:12:20
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yeah Okay, fourth, it just doesn't work. It has never has, and it never will, because it ignores the reality man's problem with sin and the freedom necessary to deal with it.
01:12:34
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It is immoral to force a system which does not work on any people. Oh, dear God. i It doesn't work on anyone except for where it does in every other developed nation on Earth. Every other developed nation on Earth has figured out the healthcare problem.
01:12:51
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Every single one of them. Hey, look, your free healthcare care is just a slippery slope on the way to, ah you know, the the Holodomor.
01:13:01
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Part two. Now, to be fair, what they like to say, the direction they like to go in is they go... Well, yeah, maybe, but we have the best healthcare care in the world because the best doctors want to come here because x Y, and Z. And you go, i love the idea.
01:13:20
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But all I know is every time anyone I've known has gotten cancer, it has been a fight for your life to get the best doctors in the world. You don't. You don't get the best doctors in the world unless you have the most money in the world. You live under the yoke of debt for the rest of your life. Yeah, you can't do it. like Because it's out of network because of our dumb healthcare system. If you're if I break my leg in fucking Connecticut, I owe $100,000. I can't. This shit's stupid. Look, it is truly an amazing system.
01:13:55
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what like What other healthcare system in the world can first save your life only to make you regret that you're still alive? Yeah.
01:14:05
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Have you seen the, um, I've been, uh, me see if I can find it real quick. It's been going around about like, uh, basically the various countries and they're like, how many people are in, um medical debt.
01:14:22
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It's, uh, I can't find it um Someone had just shared it recently. So was seeing if it was ah in a story. So was seeing if was still there, but there's like 15 countries. It's like how many people declare bankruptcy a year because of medical debt. And it's like, it's 15 to 20 countries.
01:14:40
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And the number is zero, zero, zero, zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero You get to the United States and it's like 46,000 people a year. Yeah. I do love these guys. Cause it's like,
01:14:54
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I would be more than – because this is an old guy. For sure, this is an old man. And I want to be like, hey, look, dude, I am i am perfectly willing to ah to listen to your theory and and really give it consideration.
01:15:09
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If you can show me proof that you've refuted your social security checks. Yeah. Like – ah Because that's socialism. That's socialism. That's The word social. Social is in it. The yoke of communist thought. you know And the and ah the excuse is always going to be the same. It's like, well, I paid into that my whole life. I earned that. Blah, blah, blah. And it's like, yeah, that's whole idea. That's the whole point. You proved my point. Thank you. You pay into it and you get back what you pay into it.
01:15:39
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Yeah, like, you know, the post office, it's always operated on a deficit. You know, they've never made money once. They need to run it like a business. Like, it's a public service, okay? If you believe that so strongly, you should pay UPS to ship all of your letters and your, you know, whatever.
01:15:58
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and Nobody does that. It's way more expensive. UPS is actually way more efficient and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, it's eight times the cost. it's intention Maybe we don't need this to make money. Maybe it's a service that serves businesses and it serves individuals. And like, yeah maybe it's fine that we have to subsidize it.
01:16:19
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And I don't, it's a lot of people to work. I don't want to see people in FedEx or UPS not have jobs, but I would be okay with a non-compete sort of business model. Like let's just have the USPS and then let's incorporate all those people and let's pay them great.
01:16:41
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And let's bring in all that. Like who cares? It doesn't have to make money. And the people who do it, who work should be like people who work for the post office. I have a friend who works for the post office and there's some, you, you do, you eat some shit. Um,
01:16:58
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because of the way it does function. But it it, sorry, lost my train of thought for a second because I heard my dog barking. USPS is um retirement benefits are phenomenal as they are with most government jobs. Like let's just, like there's no reason that can't work or it shouldn't work better or it shouldn't be a more available option. um i would like to I would like to hear what this guy has to say about how much money we send to Israel a year. you know
01:17:35
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like That's the kind of stuff with these guys where it's like, okay, well, are you rooting for war with Venezuela because your boy wants it? you know Are you standing with Israel as we send you know billions of dollars worth of weapons and armaments and stuff? They're seeking a 20-year arms agreement right now. saw that, dude. Just insane.
01:17:56
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But like, that's the stuff where this all falls away. These guys get real ideological on the ah the points that they like to talk about. But then when it's stuff that actually affects them, like, you know, maybe he's not under social security yet, you know, but does he have a mom that's in like, you know, state funded hospice care or something like that? Like until you just refute all of that stuff, I just don't want to hear it, dude. I don't want to hear it from you.
01:18:19
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Yeah. Because it's crap. And and it's, It's this there's just such an attitude with these guys. It's clocked. It's it's it's cloaked in all this like, you know, freedom and liberty and all this stuff. But like it really comes out to like, I'm going to get me. I'm to get mine.
01:18:37
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Well, dude, i and then you would on the social social security thing, it's like my entire life growing up, I heard people in their 40s and 50s complaining about it. oh yeah every Everyone forever has been like, ah social security is drying up. There's going to be no social security. I paid into it. I'm not going to get it. love ah And they keep freaking out about it.
01:18:58
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and then And now they're a retirement age and they they they love their social security checks. But you know what they complained about? when social security went from 65 to 67 and a half.
01:19:10
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Oh, lose your mind. And now it's like, Oh, that thing that you thought was ridiculous that no one should do now. Now it's super important to you. And I think it should go back to 65. I think making it 67 and a half is stupid.
01:19:25
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Uh, I don't care. Go to work. I don't, I don't care. If you're old, go to work. Who cares? You know If you didn't say that's i just retirement, I love the idea of social security. I think it's great. And it did a, he it was,
01:19:43
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Before social security, like the, the poverty rate for elderly people was insane. And it went, it it dropped like 40% or 30% or some shit like that. And it's like, yeah. but And that is good because what, what, what the realization is, is that when you have all these elderly people end up in poverty, that's actually a bigger tax burden.
01:20:07
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That's a bigger problem socially, economically, economically, It's not sustainable. It's like you need you need this option. And a lot of jobs- Not if you let them die. no and which Let them die. And socialized healthcare will keep them alive. So maybe that is the greatest argument against socialized healthcare. care The thing about like my my thoughts here on on the humanism that I subscribe to is Darwinian thought is really central to it, you know, and it's survival of the fittest. And look, hey, if you're not old enough to ah keep stamping out license plates at the local like sweatshop, maybe we don't need you anymore. That's what I say. You're not contributing anymore. And you know what? Here's ah here's what I'd say.
01:20:49
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Personal responsibility, buddy. okay You're personally responsible for saving up for your retirement. you know Oh, you want to retire? you're 67 and you're joint hurt. Oh, for you. Then crawl in the hole and die.
01:21:03
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yeah If not, go to work. i
01:21:10
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What about when you 67 and a half, you get social security, but you lose socialized healthcare. If we ever get it, you have to trade it. that's That'd be like the same thing. you have to You have to pick one or the other. So if you saved up for your retirement, great.
01:21:25
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Now you can get your, you don't need the social security and you get your healthcare care and everything's good. But if you didn't, you have to be like, well, I might only make it to 70, but at least I didn't have to pay for.
01:21:38
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Yeah, like the amount of pills it's going to take to keep me alive when I'm 67 is like- They don't have Mountain Dew in a pill? I don't know. dude Things are going to go one way or the and or the other. you know The amount of like accumulated preservatives and heavy metals that are going to be in my liver.
Chick Tracts and Religious Critique
01:21:56
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I'm going to be the only person who doesn't drink to get cirrhosis. and My liver just dies. It turns into a puddle. Yeah.
01:22:07
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There's a whole nother essay on the back of this by a different member of the, uh, of the Eldorado church of Christ. Do we want to save that for another time what do we want to go for it now? Hmm.
01:22:20
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Yeah. Maybe we ought to save it for another time or something. It's, uh, it says God is dead. Truth. Lie by Paul shell horn. I love this.
01:22:33
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Let's, uh, let's do part two next week. Sounds good. I did also pick up a Chick Track on the back of a toilet this week at the Recycling Center. Oh, beautiful. That sounds a great way to close. and If you haven't ever seen Chick Tracks, somebody in the Discord originally told told us about these. I'd never heard of them before, and then I like found one. What's the... I don't know the etymology of that.
01:22:57
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Chick Track. Is it C-H-I-C? C-H-I-C-K, because the guy's last name was Chick. Oh, okay, okay.
01:23:07
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Yeah, and it's ah they're like little cartoon comic strip things um showing someone going to hell, basically. I think that's what they all are. It's like, this lady fooled around at a party and then she had an abortion. Now she's going to hell.
01:23:26
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i don't See, the problem is they haven't updated them for like modern era. Like we need to show like a complete gooner fapping out and going to hell in like mid jerk.
01:23:41
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Yeah, that would that would be a pretty good chick track, actually. Just damn under enough of it out to make it family friendly. yeah Yeah, it's like he's sitting there with his laptop, his waist is under his sheets, the sheets are up in a cone around his junk, and it's just like a bunch of lines above it to indicate that it's vibrating very fast.
01:24:04
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So the guy in this comic, he was basically like living the high life, so it shows him like smoking a cigar in front of his Corvette, and then the Grim Reaper comes up behind him and like stabs him in the heart.
01:24:16
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So he dies. And then it shows him in the like coming to in his coffin and life floating through the dirt. It says, what's happening? Wait, I'm dead. It's all over.
01:24:30
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So then it's him standing before a... Does the Grim Reaper kill people? I don't know. seems to have caused a heart attack. Yeah, he seems to have caused a heart attack, so I don't know if he was like if he has one of those little Israeli palm syringes or something, but that's what got him.
01:24:47
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it was A little beeper. Is it? His lapel mic blew his head off. Yeah.
01:24:57
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It's Charlie Kirk. yes to He stand at the throne of judgment and he's got his head under his under his arm of like a basketball.
01:25:15
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It would be funny if we if we did show up in heaven like Beetlejuice where you're just like in the state of your your demise like for the for all eternity. I wish one of us was a ah decent artist.
01:25:27
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I feel like if we could make, ah make chick tracks like that and just start leaving them around, that would be yeah but just the idea of it would have people finding it would be all the, all I needed out of that.
01:25:42
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Yeah. You could have a lot of fun with them. So he's standing in front of the angel. He says, judgment, but you don't understand. Heaven and hell are here on earth. I've always said that.
01:25:54
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The angel says, come, you have an appointment. Will anyone else be there? Oh, yes. Quite a number. There is your destination. See the angels flying with him under his wing like ah Superman and Lois.
01:26:08
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Yeah, that's cool. I like that the angel talks like Darth Vader. Yeah, he's got a real James Earl Jones thing going on. I simply refuse to believe this is happening to me.
01:26:21
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Now, look, I've lived a real good life. I was no different than anyone else. This is what nonbelievers think, dude. yeah Everything has been recorded.
01:26:33
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And then there's a big thing that says, next. You want to see God? I think this is kind of sacrilegious. I feel like this is kind of like drawing the prophet, you know, but God is like a faceless mannequin.
01:26:45
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He's got a big dick. Oh, that's his leg. Yeah, that's his thigh gap. Sicko. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which i was which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works.
01:27:09
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Review his life. Yes, Lord. This was your life. And then it's like a baby. He says, look, that's me as a baby. Does this mean everything I've ever done is going to be reviewed?
01:27:24
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So this is when we get into the sin. Okay? So the angel says, there you are as a teenager. And then there's a little cartoon of him with his buddies. He says, ha, ha. Hey, guys, this is the dirtiest story I've ever heard. It goes like this. yeah And he goes, no stop, gasp. Not that story. Not here.
01:27:50
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and then there's a... ah There's a picture of ah a lady who's obviously wearing makeup and he's peeking around a corner. He's peeking around a corner and says, um, nice.
01:28:06
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ah Nice. Um, nice. I remember doing that, but no one saw me. remember doing that. I remember doing, I remember as a teenager looking around a corner and seeing a beautiful woman in makeup.
01:28:23
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That one time as a teenager. Did you say it? Did you go, nice? noise It's an insane thing to think anybody remembers anything that inconsequential. And that that that's a that's a a damnable sin.
01:28:43
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yeah You can't notice that a woman is attractive. The problem I have with this chick track is how um unrealistic it is because honestly, it's her fault for putting on makeup and looking sexy.
01:28:56
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I feel like Chick would subscribe to that theory. And he kind of just did it himself dirty. For we all have fallen short of the glory of God. So he's ah sweating profusely and he says, why didn't someone warn me about all this? And around him is a bunch of cartoons of him in different states with dates. there's like It's like a schizophrenic wall.
01:29:19
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And it says all the sins that he's guilty of. It says theft, lies, disobedient to parents, Pride, false accuser, unmerciful, hypocrisy, deceit, backbiter, whisperer, hater of God, and last but not least, whoremonger.
01:29:41
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Whoa! There was a hormone. I love that like the whole point of this thing is like, but if you said the right words right before you died, all of it would be just fine.
01:29:54
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yeah ah no one would No one would care that you told that dirty story. No one would even remember. i It would just be washed clean. It's like it never happened. You're justified. Justified in your faith. Justified never sinned.
01:30:10
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Now, see, here's the twist, okay? Because the next panel is him sitting in a pew, and it says, Wait, look, that's me in church, see? I wasn't so bad.
01:30:23
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And his p pastor is saying, for God so loved the world that he gave his only blah, blah, blah, bla blah. And he's thinking, I wonder who's winning the ball game. And then the pastor says, if that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, blah, blah, blah. And he says, I couldn't care less. What time is it? He missed it.
01:30:45
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It's one shot. He missed his eight mile moment. Yep, that was almost it. he He lost himself in the music.
01:30:55
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Jesus saith unto him, i am the way, the truth, and the life. no man cometh unto the Father but by me. And to that he responds. And this is really it, dude. This is the worst of the worst here.
01:31:07
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He's walking away with a condescending look on his face, and he says, Bunk, I don't need Christ. There's nothing wrong with me. I'll make it my way. Oh, my God.
01:31:20
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in Below it, he goes, i must have been insane. i must have been insane. I thought when you said that, that when you said the bunk pat part, I thought that was him in heaven saying that and walking away. This is bunk.
01:31:37
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ah do there's This is stupid. Is bunk an adjective or a noun? then This is stupid. Is stupid an adjective or a noun?
01:31:48
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It's an adjective. oh Yeah. This is describing this. So adjective bunk is an adjective. And, I wish it was, i wish the next scene was just like, it it always ends on like something soft. I feel like they need to drive the point home with him being like, just sexually assaulted by Satan or something where you're like, this is not good.
01:32:11
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Oh, we're not done. Yeah, he is naked during this process, I just noticed. So he's in a pile on the floor and he says, what can I say? I'm lost. Without hope, without Christ, I'm guilty. Guilty.
01:32:27
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Like 10 seconds too late, bitch.
01:32:32
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and And big faceless glowing God says, open the book of life. And the angel says, his name does not appear, Lord. I like that God still needs a book.
01:32:44
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God's not super sure. Got a lot of names to keep track of. He still needs someone to open the book for him. And what does God do, dude? He needs someone else to open it for him. That bitch can't even open a book.
01:32:56
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Yeah, it's ah it's it's kind of bunk if you ask me. It's like, oh, you're omniscient and we still have to go through all this rigmarole books and whatnot? It's all pageantry. That's pride. God, you are a prideful beast.
01:33:09
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if Then he points to the to the left and he says, depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
01:33:20
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And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into like live life eternal. And then ah the angel throws him into a big pit of fire.
01:33:32
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Nice. That's a nice pit of fire. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. i wonder if you need dirty backroom deals to have like an angel write your name in Because God doesn't know. God clearly has no idea.
01:33:51
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Yeah. Like if you blow the right angel. Yeah. If you blow the right angel, you can get your name in the book of life. Like when you're still in the waiting room.
01:34:01
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You can kind of look at the angel and give him the old, oh, oh.
01:34:08
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Michael walks in. Michael's like, hey, guys, last minute. We got about, you know, five to seven minutes before we go see God. i don't know if anyone has any last thoughts. Wink, wink. i don't know if anyone has any ideas of how they might avoid eternal damnation.
01:34:28
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Yeah, whose shaft do I got a munch like corn on the cob to get golden apartment? yeah He walks in in his gowns with just a massive erection. it's just He looks like a cyber truck with that thing. Dude, that is how I would do it, too. If I ever got the chance to try, i would just start at the base and I'd go, no, no, no, and no. no like Like a sloppy – like I was filling a harmonica full of spit.
01:35:08
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yeah
01:35:12
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This can be your life, is the final call. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
01:35:29
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Not willing. And we see... i don't know God seemed to have absolutely zero problem with turning this guy away. this is I guess this shows what his life could have been.
01:35:40
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he says, of course I believe the Bible, and I'm convinced that I am lost and going to hell. But what must I do to be saved? And the pastor says, repent, surrender your life to Christ. Acknowledge that he died for your sins and receive him as your savior.
01:35:56
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And then he prays, he says, Lord, I know I'm a sinner. I repent of my sins and I acknowledge Jesus Christ, my savior, personal savior. And that's it. He's saved from eternal fire.
01:36:08
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That's crazy. It only took three and a half seconds of saying a word to to do the trick. I love that. That's beautiful. i wish I wish socialism was not that hard, you know?
01:36:21
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Yeah. It is, dude, the whole that whole idea. of like, all you got to do is say these words and everything's perfect forever.
01:36:32
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Well, they show like a little panel of him in various situations, living his godly life. ah It says, dear Lord, what is your will for me now? And so it shows him at a dinner table, praying with his family, ah helping an old man read a dinner menu.
01:36:48
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The child he, it's a child he, that he would have had if he didn't pay for the abortion. Is that that one? yeah This is, he's reading to a little girl. I don't know that, it's not clear if it's his little girl because she's, the one in the other picture is blonde. This one's, pretty this might be a little girl he abducted. Yeah, was gonna say that's the one, that's the one, he was her youth pastor.
01:37:13
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It says Bible, I think it's supposed to say stories, but like clearly they ran out of room. So it looks like Bible stromboli. That sounds like more room.
01:37:27
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that it Oh, there's one of him ah like doing some ah doing some office work, and it says it's like a guy who's his boss that looks cool it looks a lot like Adolf Hitler. He says, incidentally, sir, he's not only one of our best workers, but also he's a fine Christian.
01:37:48
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So that could be your life. It's sides of the coin, dude. Honestly, the sad thing is, after hearing all of this, um I think that life sounds oh like marginally better than being a dickhead that smokes a cigar outside of a Corvette.
01:38:10
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Yeah, it it even lays out, like, okay, so there's like one page that outlines like the steps to save you from eternal fire. It says... ah So this is this is, one, admit you are a sinner. It's a spell book, dude. That's all it is. You just read these words. It's an incantation.
01:38:29
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It literally says what to pray. Dear God, I am a sinner and need forgiveness. Like, it's it's supposed to be the most consequential decision of your entire life. Like, everything is secondary to this right here.
01:38:46
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But you can read another person's words and it It's like the stamp of approval. It's so crazy. Stupid as fuck. Oh God, I hate that shit.
01:38:57
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yeah We need to um send me, you how many that I don't know how many pages that was that we just went through, but um send send me pictures of the Chick track. I'm going to, and if you can, the other thing, i want to I'll put them on the Instagram so people can follow along.
01:39:16
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Yeah, I am excited to jump into the other side of this here because I feel like there's there's good stuff. go Oh, i right in the first paragraph, I see a sentence starts with, defined by Google AI overview, God is dead.
01:39:31
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It's a metaphor. It's a metaphor. That actually is shockingly more recent than I would have expected from this.
01:39:41
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I'm surprised didn't use crock. Dude, I just, it's so funny to like see this stuff nowadays where you're like, i definitely remember being like, well, if we look at this one person's definition of this, we can conclude all of this about an entire belief system.
01:40:00
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I love that it's Google AI over you.
AI and Technology Impact
01:40:03
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Like if they don't know their audience, because when I see a Google AI answer, my first assumption is that I'm getting some bullshit. That's not right.
01:40:12
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Yeah. A lot of times Google AI answers are wildly incorrect when asking it anything other than, you know, my current asks are like, where do I find an X, Y, and Z in borderlands for, where do I mine a certain gun in, uh,
01:40:29
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or grind for a certain gun and borderlands for in massachusetts google ai google ai is doing a pretty good job of telling me what region to go to in borderlands for to grind a particular weapon grind for a particular weapon but when it comes to like asking it anything that requires it to pull from research or what you would expect it you or when where you would expect for it to need to pull from research articles it gives you dog shit every time Yeah.
01:40:59
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Yeah. It is funny how like how much hype there's been around AI. And then you when you really look at it, it's like, OK, I'm sure it does all sorts of cool things. But like, it seems like it just made Google searches worse for me. And it's basically all it's done.
01:41:15
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And every time you do it, ah you used to have to like opt into it. Like, do you want to use AI? And I'd be like, no. And now every time you do it, you like drain an entire lake. It's so annoying. Every time you click it, it's like, do you want to send a bottle of water to space? Every Google AI search causes a brownout in the neighboring community. Yeah.
01:41:42
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As long as it's a third world country that we don't have to see, then it's okay, right? you Like New York, you mean? Yep. Yeah. We're just cutting them out of the will.
01:41:53
Speaker
Oh, you like socialism? Are you bunch of communists? Out you go. We're going to let Iran invade you. yeah They're probably working on that with...
01:42:06
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The former al-qaeda Al-Qaeda member visiting with Trump in the Oval Office. Yeah.
01:42:14
Speaker
Oh boy. Well, that was fun. Uh, thanks everybody for hanging
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01:42:20
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01:43:03
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oh man. If only we could get that feud in audio form still. i know. I keep that. I ask him every week. Come back, come back and join us. We'll get him on again.
01:43:14
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We'll get him on again. Yeah. Yeah. I remember when he was a, he was in the Confederacy for like the civil war reenactment or whatever it was. That's how I remember it. he's He's too busy like buying new cars every week and selling old ones and and racing them and and being a real cool guy. so He doesn't have time for us anymore.
01:43:36
Speaker
Yeah, he he is he's like the Facebook marketplace wizard, dude. It's a skill set I don't have. I pay too much for everything and then I lose my butt on it and I sell it. You pay too much for everything except for oversized rat traps.
01:43:51
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yeah that's That's where, you know, where it where it means missing fingers, that's where I cut costs. When it comes to safety, you cut costs every time.
01:44:01
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Otherwise, you're overpaying. $8, that's like two and a half, five hour energies. And then you're like, $700 for this Funko Pop? That's a great deal. yeah Yeah, you know I love those. Yeah.
01:44:19
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