Speaker 1: Syphilis. I'm Robert Evans hosted Behind the Bastards, the only
Speaker 1: podcast that is introduced as badly as this podcast is
Speaker 1: and also talks about terrible people. Um, I didn't know
Speaker 1: what else to say. Yeah, I shouted syphilis loud enough
Speaker 1: to unsettle my neighbors. There used to be a lot
Speaker 1: that that's the only way you can get that diagnosed.
Speaker 1: You can't have a diagnosed, doesn't speaking volume, You gotta
Speaker 1: shout syphilis. Look, this is a time of illness and disease,
Speaker 1: So how better to express solidarity with everyone than shouting
Speaker 1: the word syphilis as loud as I can. I think
Speaker 1: that is the only way we can really show that
Speaker 1: we care right now. We're all in this together. We're
Speaker 1: all in this together. And musical style a hero, Jamie Robert.
Speaker 1: Have you seen High School Musical? Um? I saw the
Speaker 1: parody of it that was done by uh oh wait no,
Speaker 1: there was a parody of Glee that they did on Community. No,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what High School Musical is other
Speaker 1: than what the title tells me. Well, honestly, that's more
Speaker 1: than I expected. I feel like introduced our guest Robert
Speaker 1: just so thought, do you want to just introduce our guests. Yes,
Speaker 1: our guest today or I'll do it for you is
Speaker 1: Jamie Elizabeth Thompson Jefferson Loft. This yes only bitches betel
Speaker 1: cast it's destroyer of mensa. Yeah, I had to be
Speaker 1: introduced completely. What it was the dragon lady's name? What's
Speaker 1: her name? I had? Jamie of the House loftis first
Speaker 1: of that breaker of mensa. Yeah, frequent podcast guest, feminist
Speaker 1: icon and my really good friend. I love you so much.
Speaker 1: So we're all we're all stuck in our individual homes
Speaker 1: right now, as everyone listening to this pretty much his
Speaker 1: survival cheese. I did. I I had a breakfast of
Speaker 1: a spoonful of dried UH and powdered survival cheese this morning,
Speaker 1: and it actually kind of ruled. I don't, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like that. Normally, when you
Speaker 1: eat a spoonful of a powder, it's like tough to
Speaker 1: choke down. But the survival cheese instantly turns into like
Speaker 1: a mushy cheese. Was like substance in your mouth, So
Speaker 1: it's not it's pretty good. Actually, I don't. I don't mushy.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. Well I. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all doing I I. Some have survival cheese, some
Speaker 1: have three boxes of Frenzy. Just yes, you are drinking
Speaker 1: at two pm as we record this podcast. Okay, like
Speaker 1: we all haven't been drinking at two pm. You're right,
Speaker 1: You're right. As someone on Twitter put it, everyone everyone's
Speaker 1: drinking is now on airport rules. So yeah, anything goes
Speaker 1: I there there, there's no more Mike's hard at the
Speaker 1: seven eleven. But we did find a case of white claw,
Speaker 1: and so you know, we're making it work. We're making
Speaker 1: it work here. So everyone is, uh, everyone right now
Speaker 1: is making sacrifices and changes to deal with this situation. Uh,
Speaker 1: whether it's differences in drinking, eating powdered cheeses, recording podcasts remotely, Uh,
Speaker 1: we all we've all had to change our lives. But
Speaker 1: there's a special, select, elite group of people in this
Speaker 1: country who didn't just see this looming disaster and change
Speaker 1: their own lives. They saw it as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make a shipload of money by lying to the entire country.
Speaker 1: And today we're going to do a timely episode about
Speaker 1: the grifters of the Great coronavirus pandemic. Wow. Oh what
Speaker 1: a privilege. Yeah, yeah, I collected as many as I
Speaker 1: had tie him to collect. Sophia has whipped out her machete.
Speaker 1: It's as one does. Everybody hold their weapon of choice
Speaker 1: right now. I want to get a pick, Robert, the
Speaker 1: knife you gave me as any other room. I don't,
Speaker 1: but I have it. I opened a box with it. Good,
Speaker 1: I opened up a violin box with it. Well, that
Speaker 1: box isn't gonna be hurting you anymore. This is wonderful,
Speaker 1: Thanks Jamie. It wouldn't be a hellishly destructive and napocalyptic
Speaker 1: pandemic if there weren't a funkload of grifters sailing into
Speaker 1: profit from the mass destruction of human lives and livelihoods.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen eighteen, as the Spanish flu burned its
Speaker 1: way through tens of millions of souls, smooth talking conment
Speaker 1: offered up salvation to the dying and the frightened. On
Speaker 1: jen a public notice appeared in British newspapers purporting to
Speaker 1: lay out the symptoms of this deadly flu. But this
Speaker 1: public notice was in reality an ad for formaments of
Speaker 1: my them in tablet and Mint, sold as a remedy
Speaker 1: for influenza. These ments were claimed to be the best
Speaker 1: means of preventing infectious processes. Everyone, especially vulnerable children, was
Speaker 1: advised to suck a tablet whenever you enter a crowded,
Speaker 1: germ laden place. That's way better than a tablet. You'll
Speaker 1: be good. I wonder what the what our equivalent of, Like,
Speaker 1: what if we if we do have descendants, what they'll
Speaker 1: be Like? Can you fucking believe in they were just
Speaker 1: telling you to like live stream red dead redemption and
Speaker 1: then you'd live, you know, ship like that? Or can
Speaker 1: you believe in? They had electricity there? Oh? My sweet
Speaker 1: has Matt descendants? In the US, snake oil salesman build
Speaker 1: the Spanish flu as an exaggerated form of the grip,
Speaker 1: which is a funny thing that people used to call
Speaker 1: kind of any like colder flu type sickness US. It's
Speaker 1: like a Grandpa Simpson way of referring to an illness.
Speaker 1: They've got the grip. Yeah, yeah. So one of the
Speaker 1: treatments for the grip that killed tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: Americans during the nineteen epidemic was the laxative bromo quineing,
Speaker 1: taken in enormous quantities as a preventative measure. Now, quinine
Speaker 1: was known to protect against malaria, so people figured, why
Speaker 1: wouldn't it help against the flu. Uh. And interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: this is one of the this is one of the
Speaker 1: remedies to the Spanish flu that also popped right back
Speaker 1: up again for the coronavirus um in the mouth of
Speaker 1: the President of the United States. So we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about that in a little bit. Oh hell yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good and cool, right. Another another popular Spanish flu
Speaker 1: remedy was beaver oil um, which I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was, uh, but I also don't just ring out
Speaker 1: a beaver. Ye, whatever drips out, maybe you get like
Speaker 1: a beaver press and you really just sort of like
Speaker 1: you really oh like, oh that's so growth. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just ring out a be like oh like the toothpaste
Speaker 1: tube thing. You just do that to a beaver and
Speaker 1: whatever comes out of their mouth that's beaver royal or
Speaker 1: maybe up in you know, you know how the French
Speaker 1: when they make their wine, they all they put all
Speaker 1: their grips in a bucket and then they stomp on
Speaker 1: the grapes. Maybe up in Canada they do that with
Speaker 1: beavers and Canadian feet. Canadians sound off in the comments.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, don't. I assume that is headcanon, that that
Speaker 1: is this podcast canon for Canada. So if you are
Speaker 1: a Canadian and a fan of the show, you just
Speaker 1: have to accept that, all right, yep. Now, perhaps the
Speaker 1: most successful influenza grift though, was a product that we
Speaker 1: all know and I don't know. Love is probably too
Speaker 1: strong a word, but we all know it. Uh. It
Speaker 1: was a an invention of the Vix family remedy company,
Speaker 1: Vix Vapo rub yea. Yeah. Yeah. It was a bullshit
Speaker 1: treatment for the fucking the Spanish flu. Now, it had
Speaker 1: no curative or preventative effect, but the vis company was
Speaker 1: smart enough to focus on drumming up fears that their
Speaker 1: medication was about to sell out instead of spending a
Speaker 1: bunch of time lying about its medicinal property. So they
Speaker 1: would just sort of allude to the fact that it
Speaker 1: was a treatment for the flu and then would try
Speaker 1: to scare people that they were going to run out
Speaker 1: of it so that folks would buy up as much
Speaker 1: Vicks vapor up as they could possibly get. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I mean vas vapor up. That's like the tingly stuff, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like your grandma has it, but it can also
Speaker 1: make you horny. Wait wait what huh? No, you know what,
Speaker 1: Let's move on. I think it's more like icy hot
Speaker 1: for your lungs. Yeah, it's like your grandma has it,
Speaker 1: but also make you horny. That is not at all Okay, Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: Smells really bad too. Just a thought, Frenzy and Jamie
Speaker 1: is Grandma revealing a lot too? Yeah, Vix filled in
Speaker 1: order to scare people into mass buying up h and
Speaker 1: stockpiling vapor rub. Vix filled drug stores with advertisements like
Speaker 1: this druggists exclamation point, exclamation point. Please note Vix vapor
Speaker 1: rub over sold due to present epidemic. Jeez, all right,
Speaker 1: I think doesn't work? Is over sold? Oh yeah, it's oversold,
Speaker 1: so you gotta buy some of it. People wouldn't be
Speaker 1: buying all this ship up if it wasn't oversold. It's
Speaker 1: not dumb, not a dumb ball. So obviously, formaments didn't
Speaker 1: treat the influenza um and Vix vapor rub didn't either,
Speaker 1: but it is still a popular product, so go figure.
Speaker 1: And as a new pandemic has settled down upon our world,
Speaker 1: the descendants of these snake oiled treatments and the salesman
Speaker 1: behind them have started to spread through the fertile soil
Speaker 1: of the internet. On March nineteenth, Forbes published an article
Speaker 1: about a series of mass text messages pushing a link
Speaker 1: to a fake Fox News article that purported to prove
Speaker 1: CBD oil treated the novel coronavirus. And there's a little
Speaker 1: clip of the Fox News article with the wonderful title.
Speaker 1: While the world is waiting for a vaccine, one mom
Speaker 1: has found a solution to fight back against the coronavirus outbreak.
Speaker 1: Man Fox News bringing moms into this. It's they always
Speaker 1: do like that's like the I don't know. For whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Years ago, scammers found out that claiming like a mom
Speaker 1: had come up with something was a solution to hacking
Speaker 1: twenty of the country's brain there. Yeah, yeah, I will
Speaker 1: never understand it because my mom doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: cure anything. No, my mom, I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to get my mom to watch less MSNBC. But
Speaker 1: one hour, we're all trying to get our parents to
Speaker 1: stop watching television. Um, my parents are being good kids now.
Speaker 1: They listen to me this week. Last week they were like,
Speaker 1: ahaw kid, this week, are like, yes, wise One, Yes
Speaker 1: we shall wash our hands, Yes we shall not go outside. Yes,
Speaker 1: O wise One think you think you? Thank you? So
Speaker 1: I sent my dad. I sent my dad a link
Speaker 1: to this podcast. I'll update you if if he starts listening.
Speaker 1: My mom thinks that the panic is overblown by the
Speaker 1: media to try to make the economy look bad, and
Speaker 1: this is a liberal conspiracy. So whatever whatever's going to
Speaker 1: happen to her is going to happen to her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else to do at this point. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Love love a world on fire, and
Speaker 1: that is why I adopted you and made you my
Speaker 1: full time son. Thank you. Now, whoever is behind this
Speaker 1: particular grift trying to sell CBD oil as a treatment
Speaker 1: for the coronavirus um is ambitious. I'll give him some
Speaker 1: points for that, but they have funck all on. Our
Speaker 1: first real grifter of this episode, a fellow named Jim Baker,
Speaker 1: host of The Jim Baker Show. Now, Jim is like
Speaker 1: a like a Christian preacher grifter kind of guy, and
Speaker 1: he is a convicted felon as a result of illegal
Speaker 1: fundraising activities on his previous show, The Praise the Lord Club,
Speaker 1: which put him in prison for like five years. He's
Speaker 1: also star of some of the best Vig Burger videos
Speaker 1: of all time. Are you familiar with vic Burger, Robert,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's He's got some
Speaker 1: great Baker content and he sells survival foods Baker buckets,
Speaker 1: which are just like really overpriced dried food. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a he's a cool dude. Now he's hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands and probably millions if I'm like really honest, but
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be optimistic for the sake of my soul.
Speaker 1: Right now, hundreds of thousands of Christians still trust Jim
Speaker 1: Baker for reasons I can only describe as very dumb,
Speaker 1: and as a reward for their faith and forgiveness, Jim
Speaker 1: is selling them a magical silver spray he claims will
Speaker 1: protect them from the virus. The specific product he was
Speaker 1: talking on his show is Silver Solution, a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five dollar tube of nonsense infused with nano silver. Yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: you guys like nano nano silver. What can you that?
Speaker 1: What is nano silver? Well, it's tiny, tiny trace amounts
Speaker 1: of silver that you just shoven whatever else you're already selling.
Speaker 1: The idea is that silver does have antimicrobial properties, like
Speaker 1: back before antibiotics, it was used a lot in wound dressings.
Speaker 1: There's some burn dressings, like I have some burn dressings
Speaker 1: in my emergency kit that have some silver. It has
Speaker 1: some uses, but people have taken Okay, there are there
Speaker 1: are actual medical applications of silver in certain contexts and
Speaker 1: use that as a justification for what if we put
Speaker 1: an amount of silver too small to do anything in
Speaker 1: every product and then light to people and say that
Speaker 1: it will cure their illnesses. That's the that's the biz. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I love the biz. I love of business. Cool. So
Speaker 1: the silver solution Jim Baker was selling was about a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for two, roughly the size of a tube
Speaker 1: of toothpaste. And yeah, the the the silver solution he
Speaker 1: was selling was a product hawked by a woman named
Speaker 1: Cheryl Selman, and on the February twelfth episode of Baker's show,
Speaker 1: he had missed Selman on as a guest. She didn't
Speaker 1: quite say her product would cure the coronavirus, but she
Speaker 1: edged right up to making that claim, saying, quote, let's
Speaker 1: say it hasn't been tested on this strain of the coronavirus,
Speaker 1: but it's been tested on other strains of the coronavirus
Speaker 1: and has been able to eliminate it within twelve hours.
Speaker 1: You know, I love a girl boss, and this is
Speaker 1: just scarage in that edge. I hope that there was
Speaker 1: like an article about her that was like, this female
Speaker 1: entrepreneur is is changed your narrative on what cures corona?
Speaker 1: Not with her, but we do have I will be
Speaker 1: reading extended segments from an article about another lady grifter
Speaker 1: a little later on. So don't you worry you god? Okay, good, No,
Speaker 1: this is a very gender non discriminatory, uh episode of
Speaker 1: Full of Grifters, although I do think they're all white. Um,
Speaker 1: so well, I think that just says a lot about
Speaker 1: who becomes a grifter in America. Yeah. Yeah, So a
Speaker 1: few days after this episode of The Jim Baker Show aired,
Speaker 1: Lisa Landau, the chief of New York State Attorney General's
Speaker 1: Healthcare Bureau, sent a cease and desist letter to Baker,
Speaker 1: demanding that he pully adds or face enormous finds. It
Speaker 1: was like five thousand dollars per violation, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of violations when you're advertising two hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people. So Baker pulled the product, and that's great,
Speaker 1: But I didn't. I wouldn't be doing my job if
Speaker 1: I didn't point out that Cheryl Selman has been hawking
Speaker 1: her nonsense silver on shows like Bakers for years now.
Speaker 1: And the only reason it's almost the same name, right,
Speaker 1: it's why, same same bitch, same vibe, same vibe. And
Speaker 1: the only reason that her silver nonsense to drew like
Speaker 1: federal anger now is that the coronavirus forced elements of
Speaker 1: our governments to briefly care about the sale of snake oil.
Speaker 1: And I want to play for you a video of
Speaker 1: Cheryl on the Faith Shopping Network in two eighteen, singing
Speaker 1: the praises of her various silver filled gels and oils
Speaker 1: alongside a fake doctor who bears a striking resemblance to
Speaker 1: the unit character from Game of Thrones. If it's a
Speaker 1: little if my little booger gets a little bumper bruise,
Speaker 1: he's like Pap Paul. He's like put the gel on it,
Speaker 1: like he tells me. He knows exactly what he needs,
Speaker 1: and he'll come to me because he sees us doing it.
Speaker 1: And to me. You know that's that's changing a generation.
Speaker 1: It's changing the generation absolutely and and so this silver
Speaker 1: gel is so versatile. Again, the same thing as you're
Speaker 1: like in the in the kitchen, in the bathrooms. Side
Speaker 1: of the beds doesn't matter. I mean, you don't want
Speaker 1: to get up out of bed, feel a little tickle
Speaker 1: in your throat, Just pop the tube open, squirts them
Speaker 1: on your toe, swallow it down and it actually goes
Speaker 1: down slower than the liquids, so actually coat over that
Speaker 1: soreness helps to kill those viruses, those bacteria. By the
Speaker 1: time you wake up in the morning, you're feeling better. Um,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Absolutely, well this is for everyone. Yea, just
Speaker 1: pop the tube open, squirt someone your top. It's all
Speaker 1: it's viscous, so it'll just drip down the back of
Speaker 1: your throat. And hear that. You know, I'm making a
Speaker 1: cum reference because our audio engineer Daniel is wearing a
Speaker 1: shirt that says come in large letters. And also they're
Speaker 1: talking about squirting viscous liquids down the back of their throats,
Speaker 1: so that's just where we are. They're so calm, it is.
Speaker 1: It is like dystopian QVC. I like you Jim Baker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it feels like that's the Faith Shopping Network and
Speaker 1: it feels like the end of the world watching that video,
Speaker 1: Like it feels like it feels like this would be
Speaker 1: the video that opens up Paul Verhoeven movie. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: like this little clip from it would be like part
Speaker 1: of a run of ads. Uh, it's just so it's
Speaker 1: just so apocalyptic. Yeah, that's like the emotion behind this video.
Speaker 1: And it's from two thousand eighteen. So it's good that
Speaker 1: Jim Baker is getting some pushback from the state now, um,
Speaker 1: but it takes him a while to deal with this
Speaker 1: sort of ship. Now, Cheryl and Jim are not the
Speaker 1: only people to try and sell nonsense silver bullshit products
Speaker 1: as a way to cure the coronavirus, and in fact,
Speaker 1: my research into the different nonsense cures spreading around the
Speaker 1: internet suggests that silver based cures are probably tied for
Speaker 1: the most common nonsense care alongside huge doses of vitamin
Speaker 1: c um. So yeah, that's interesting, but probably oh yeah, nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing like eating a funk load of oranges to keep
Speaker 1: you safe from the plague. Uh. So it's not just
Speaker 1: Jim and Cheryl are pal Alex Jones also received a
Speaker 1: cease and assist from the State of New York for
Speaker 1: a silver based product he's been chilling as a surefire
Speaker 1: way to kill the coronavirus. And here's the ad for
Speaker 1: his super blue silver infused toothpaste, which I have to
Speaker 1: warn you, given his history, is very likely infused with
Speaker 1: lead um. Now, before we play this, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things that are interesting to me. So he he
Speaker 1: repeatedly cites this army study about how this product of
Speaker 1: his can prevent the coronavirus. And the actual study is
Speaker 1: talking about like a silver infused wound gel that can
Speaker 1: stop like viral in fact or that has shown a
Speaker 1: preventative effect on viral infections. He's claiming that means that
Speaker 1: if you just shoot some of his toothpaste down your throat,
Speaker 1: it'll protect you from the coronavirus. There's no evidence to
Speaker 1: suggest this. It's it's pure nonsense. It's pure, very stupid nonsense.
Speaker 1: But here is an ad for Alex Jones toothpaste that
Speaker 1: will kill the coronavirus. Side down. If you haven't looked
Speaker 1: up his latest arrest photo, look it up. Have a
Speaker 1: lo oh his d u I photo. Yeah, yeah, come
Speaker 1: right back with your calls. I promise see nine on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday, Global transpaction. I'm not gonna belabor this. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you that for it's just your daily
Speaker 1: life and your gums and your teeth, and for regular
Speaker 1: viruses and bacteria. The patented nano silver we have the
Speaker 1: Pentagon has come out and documented in Homeland Security and
Speaker 1: said this stuff kills the whole Stars Corona family at
Speaker 1: point blank range. Well, of course it does. It kills
Speaker 1: every virus. But it's then this is a this is
Speaker 1: thirteen years ago, and the Pentagon uses the product we have,
Speaker 1: and the product we have in private label is about
Speaker 1: to be in Walmart coming up. They just ordered a
Speaker 1: massive crap ton of the not the one they have,
Speaker 1: but it's even better one that we have. So I'm
Speaker 1: just saying we're always cutting edge. Thank to God. I
Speaker 1: just I just go with the research, go with we
Speaker 1: always have it than the nano silvertooth paste and the
Speaker 1: super Blue with the tea tree and the ion and
Speaker 1: that's the super Blue is amazing. And then we have
Speaker 1: the whitening toothpaste that has the nano silver and a
Speaker 1: lot more as well. Those are both excellent, third and
Speaker 1: four short dot Commerce will discount to spite all the
Speaker 1: hell breaking loast side note, has he gotten more like
Speaker 1: blowdy like? Yeah, no, because he's been he's been back
Speaker 1: on drinking heavily. Uh. During Sepack he held his own
Speaker 1: event and he had like a bunch of speakers doing
Speaker 1: a night of free speech. And by the end of
Speaker 1: the event he was so drunk that he like passed
Speaker 1: out and someone else had to end it for him. Um, Jesus, yeah,
Speaker 1: he actually has a serious problem. Yeah, yeah, I do
Speaker 1: think that. Um, if you put Billy, Wayne Davis and
Speaker 1: Cris Crofton in a blender, they could sound exactly like
Speaker 1: Alex Jones does, and the ship trying to do that,
Speaker 1: and they keep saying, no, you can't put us in
Speaker 1: a blab we put our friends in a blender. It's
Speaker 1: I don't know the solid question. Why can't we put
Speaker 1: our friends in a blunder? Also, why is Alex Jones saying,
Speaker 1: of course no, it doesn't dude, shut them does not.
Speaker 1: Don't buy it from Walmart, don't buy it anywhere, jesus.
Speaker 1: Actually from Amazon dot com right now. Yeah. The the
Speaker 1: Info Wars Life Super bluetoothpaste is available on Amazon dot
Speaker 1: Com for even though the State of New York Attorney
Speaker 1: General's offices and a ceasoned assist to Jones for selling it.
Speaker 1: Um So that's cool Amazon, good work for you, guys,
Speaker 1: but also don't but also don't and also maybe, as Sophie, Sophie,
Speaker 1: it kills all viruses, you know what viruses Robert our
Speaker 1: t shirts because they're impregnated with silver. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: You're you're not getting the hint that it's time for ads,
Speaker 1: and it's really hurting my heart. I thought I raised
Speaker 1: you better well by these products. Assuming there are still advertisements.
Speaker 1: We're back. Assuming there were advertisements. We were. There's advertising,
Speaker 1: you know now more than ever I love to get
Speaker 1: a podcast advertisement, being like, hey, will you advertise a
Speaker 1: dangerous pharmaceutical in this the End of the World? And
Speaker 1: then I say no, and then they say, well if
Speaker 1: Robert says yes, and I say no, and then they
Speaker 1: say why, uh, I will advertise. You know what. One
Speaker 1: of the things I love is we we had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do some ads for Carnival Crews right as
Speaker 1: the coronavirus outbreak was starting, and very wisely looked looked
Speaker 1: around each other and said no do you want to
Speaker 1: You know what the Caitlin and I got that same
Speaker 1: email and we were like bed making for it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys wanted that free cruise. We wanted the free
Speaker 1: cruise so bad and they and still they ghosted us.
Speaker 1: If if I wonder why, I wonder why in February
Speaker 1: Carnival would suddenly stop advertising. We couldn't get a curt
Speaker 1: We couldn't even get a free Corona cruise. That's a bummer.
Speaker 1: It's too bad. It's too bad. It really is so
Speaker 1: um yeah, info Wars, Info Wars. So I know what
Speaker 1: you're thinking, which is that surely selling silver impregnated toothpaste
Speaker 1: that kills the coronavirus by slathering it all over your
Speaker 1: face or whatever the funk Alex is suggesting there prenant. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: surely that's his only coronavirus grift. But of course it's not.
Speaker 1: Of course it's not. So yeah, selling toothpaste as a
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen cure is not even his main coronavirus grift.
Speaker 1: This pandemic has actually been something of a lifesaver for
Speaker 1: info Wars, and the weeks leading up to the virus
Speaker 1: is spread throughout Wuhan, China. Jones and Info Wars racked
Speaker 1: up a series of finds as a result of legal
Speaker 1: malpractice between masty platforming and the legal bills for Info
Speaker 1: Wars as many many lawsuits. Things were looking very, very grim,
Speaker 1: But then came the coronavirus. Jones and his cronies lost
Speaker 1: no time in drumming up terror over the virus as
Speaker 1: soon as they could, primarily so that they could scare
Speaker 1: people into buying their emergency survival food. Now, much of
Speaker 1: this fear mongering was done by info wars is chief
Speaker 1: health correspondent and former Bastard pod subject Mike Adams, The
Speaker 1: Health Ranger. No, no, no, this is the Health Ranger baby,
Speaker 1: And I guess I should just play this one for it.
Speaker 1: So this is from January, and it's from info Wars
Speaker 1: health correspondent Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. And this gives
Speaker 1: you an idea of back in January, how Alex Jones
Speaker 1: and his his crew were sort of setting up the
Speaker 1: coronavirus outbreak. Okay, because the truth is so nightmarish, it's
Speaker 1: so excuse me again, it's so horrific. It's such a nightmare.
Speaker 1: What can we do as a human race. I'm here
Speaker 1: to tell you it's over for humanity. There will only
Speaker 1: be lone survivors. Strategy must now shift. You can be
Speaker 1: a survivor. We can help you survive. The information here
Speaker 1: at in for Wars and and what I do can
Speaker 1: help you survive. I'll give you some practical things in
Speaker 1: the next segment. But maybe maybe it's an astonishing statement
Speaker 1: to hear from me, the health Ranger. But it's over
Speaker 1: for humanity as a whole. The masses will be slaughtered dope.
Speaker 1: So that's the health Ranger. That's the health Ranger. He's
Speaker 1: given you good health advice. Now obviously, uh you know
Speaker 1: he he says that he's going to come back can
Speaker 1: give people some some practical advice for survival, and that
Speaker 1: practical advice turned out to mostly be buying Info Wars
Speaker 1: bulk food packages. Um oh go figure. Yeah. And the
Speaker 1: price of these increase. Every company is selling these doubled
Speaker 1: and tripled their prices um. But even like by kind
Speaker 1: of the standards of the industry, Jones started jacking his
Speaker 1: prices up early uh and to outrageous levels, while repeatedly
Speaker 1: claiming that other sellers were sold out and that his
Speaker 1: storable foods were the only affordable option for families looking
Speaker 1: to stock up. Um. Because his whole thing is lying
Speaker 1: to his audience. Um. Info Wars jacked up their prices
Speaker 1: at the same time as they sought to convince their
Speaker 1: audience that society was on the verge of collapse. Because
Speaker 1: that's just good business. And I'm gonna quote from a
Speaker 1: media matters right up now. Since December, the info War
Speaker 1: Store has more than doubled the price of its largest package,
Speaker 1: info Wars Life Select one year. On December twenty one,
Speaker 1: the package was being sold for four hundred and forty
Speaker 1: three dollars and fifty cents. The price increased to fifteen
Speaker 1: by January. By jan the price that increased to almost
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars, and the page was displaying emergency survival
Speaker 1: Foods coronavirus clearance sale. So that's ethical and good, right, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think that that is. I think that that shows
Speaker 1: a lot of concern and kindness towards your fellow man.
Speaker 1: Is I mean the health it's so it's so saith
Speaker 1: from the health rangers mouth. I couldn't come up with
Speaker 1: a better name for a fake health professional than the
Speaker 1: health ranger, Like they really I can outdo that. That's brilliant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's no one more trustworthy than a ranger
Speaker 1: when it comes to health that a ranger health. Maybe
Speaker 1: the health Shariff would be the only name, like the
Speaker 1: only more fucking sinister way of saying that. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: So rules, it rules, It does rule, Jamie, thank you
Speaker 1: for agreeing with me. So uh. Coronavirus has been a
Speaker 1: near constant topic of discussion on on info wars is
Speaker 1: various broadcasts. According to a search of info wars is
Speaker 1: online streaming platform band dot video, at least a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five videos have been posted since January twenty
Speaker 1: two that referenced the outbreak in their titles. Of these, seven,
Speaker 1: we're published after info wars released its emergency Survival Foods
Speaker 1: Coronavirus Clear and sale add for bulk food on January now.
Speaker 1: In one February twelfth video, Alex was bold enough to
Speaker 1: actually merge his two key coronavirus grifts, claiming that the
Speaker 1: natural components in certain quality food stuffs and other info
Speaker 1: wars products can quote easily be used to combat viral infection.
Speaker 1: Then he attempted to sell his audience more dried food, saying,
Speaker 1: I am very sad about this virus and very sad
Speaker 1: about the bioweapons and things that are going on, but
Speaker 1: it is an opportunity for people to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the products we have. We got food, we got guts,
Speaker 1: we got red blood. Kick your ass if you attack
Speaker 1: us with me. It's religious not to screw you over hell. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: this is a matter. This is a grifting master class.
Speaker 1: He's not bad at grifting, you have really good at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's really in the Malcolm Gladwell approach to being an
Speaker 1: evil grifter. He's put in the ten. What's impressive about
Speaker 1: that is that Malcolm Gladwell has also done the Malcolm Gladwell.
Speaker 1: Do you think you figured it out? How do you
Speaker 1: think I gotta get a drift going. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: people to buy dried beans and go foraging. And there's
Speaker 1: no profit in that. I need we need to there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of money and exposing grifts. You really
Speaker 1: have to establish your own I we need to get
Speaker 1: like a branding deal going on with I don't know,
Speaker 1: get on the I I have faith that Lazy Mosley
Speaker 1: is going to find a good grift in all of this,
Speaker 1: She'll figure it out. Yeah, that's a good option. I
Speaker 1: was considering just starting a militia um and charging dues?
Speaker 1: Can we so if you can, we start a militia.
Speaker 1: Is that is that allowed? Do you think? Do you
Speaker 1: think corporate is going to be cool with the militia?
Speaker 1: No comment? Okay, Well send me and you will be
Speaker 1: a member of my militia and that will improve your Sorry,
Speaker 1: don't make five dollars off of starting a militia. If so,
Speaker 1: they will happily started militia. If if every listener of
Speaker 1: this podcast just sent me five dollars, I could fund
Speaker 1: the militia. Oh for sure, you can go fund me
Speaker 1: a militia. At any point time, I could buy two
Speaker 1: tanks for Alex Jones as one, and we could really
Speaker 1: we could really bear down on this. Let's go for people.
Speaker 1: Do you know is Jim Baker Jim Baker Jim Baker's
Speaker 1: Jim Baker those um? Is he still selling those like
Speaker 1: buckets of slop? Yeah? Sure is Baker? Well I'm out
Speaker 1: now so freaky Yeah no, and they're bad both. Like again,
Speaker 1: this is something I am a nerd about both Alex
Speaker 1: Jones and Jim Baker's survival foods are renowned within survival
Speaker 1: nut jobs as being some of the worst quality products. Like,
Speaker 1: they're just there. They cost as much as Mountain House,
Speaker 1: and mountain House actually tastes good. Um, it's terrible. It's
Speaker 1: terrible products. Don't buy them. Don't buy any of them
Speaker 1: right now. Don't buy this. Let make your own slop
Speaker 1: bucket bucket. Everyone listening right now is more than capable
Speaker 1: of making their own slop bucket. They don't need. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only real survival food you need is to chew
Speaker 1: up all of the food currently in your fridge, spit
Speaker 1: it into a bucket and freeze it, and then you're
Speaker 1: good to go. You can just baby birded back into
Speaker 1: your mouth. You can. That's the empowerment that I need.
Speaker 1: I can be my own mommy bird chew up my
Speaker 1: food then eat it back later. That's as it falls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your that is the goop is about to come into this, Jamie.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we can talk more about Alex Jones, but
Speaker 1: there's way too much grifter ground to cover here, So
Speaker 1: let's mosey on over to Amazon dot Com, which has
Speaker 1: itself become a hub of coronavirus grifting so expansive it
Speaker 1: puts even Info Wars to shame. See the Kindle Direct
Speaker 1: Publishing service give sellers the ability to publish any e
Speaker 1: book they want and even paperback books for free in
Speaker 1: less than five minutes. This system services so many authors
Speaker 1: that there's simply no time for any human monitoring. Books
Speaker 1: are printed on demand and the whole processes as automated
Speaker 1: as can be. Now, that's not an issue for all
Speaker 1: of the people who want to self publish the erotic
Speaker 1: novellas and fan fiction epics that they're writing, you know,
Speaker 1: during their quarantine. And in fact, it's great for ghost. Hey,
Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein's ghost and I have a really cool Google
Speaker 1: doc cope and we're working at it with Berney Sanders
Speaker 1: and it is horny as fuck. A so uh, this
Speaker 1: is not Yeah, so it's fine for a lot of people. Um,
Speaker 1: but the fact that this is completely automated does create
Speaker 1: an issue when paired with an unspeakably contagious viral epidemic
Speaker 1: that threatens to shatter the economy forever. I'm gonna quote
Speaker 1: now from a rite up on the website un dark
Speaker 1: dot org who kind of revealed this underground industry that
Speaker 1: just sprung up around coronavirus quote. Since late January, hundreds
Speaker 1: of titles related to COVID nineteen, as the disease caused
Speaker 1: by the virus is known, have come up for sale online,
Speaker 1: many of which appear to be written under falser misleading names.
Speaker 1: One series of books, which includes Coronavirus one oh one
Speaker 1: Everything you Should Know to Avoid Illness and Protect Yourself
Speaker 1: from the Wuhan Outbreak and Coronavirus and Face Masks the Truth,
Speaker 1: claimed to be co authored by Dr Zoe Gottlieb. Another
Speaker 1: two books, which were available Wednesday but have since been removed,
Speaker 1: listed their author as Dr Sanjay Gupta, who was said
Speaker 1: to hold a medical degree along with tutiple master's degrees.
Speaker 1: The biographical details did not match those of sin in
Speaker 1: chief medical correspondent by the same name. Yet another publication
Speaker 1: titled Coronavirus Disease Leave Alone. He's my coronavirus man, Harsh Monday,
Speaker 1: This is bullshit. That's kind of brilliant, though to get
Speaker 1: a decoy sang in the fake Yeah, that's pretty great.
Speaker 1: It's not dumb. Yet another publication titled Coronavirus Disease A
Speaker 1: Practical Guide for Preparation and Protection listed the U S
Speaker 1: Department of Health and Human Services h h S as
Speaker 1: its lead author and a non existent agency, the U.
Speaker 1: S Department of Health, as a co author. It has
Speaker 1: also been removed by Amazon, but remains available to order
Speaker 1: from Barnes and Noble. Representatives of jh S did not
Speaker 1: respond to multiple emails seeking comment regarding the book. So
Speaker 1: that's cool. This is a cool industry, right, that's a
Speaker 1: neat little thing. Is very cool. I like cool and good. Yeah. Now.
Speaker 1: This undark write up notes that similar self publishing services
Speaker 1: exist with Barnes and Noble, Walmart, and a number of
Speaker 1: other companies. In fact, Barnes and Noble promises to have
Speaker 1: your self published work available for sale in less than
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. So that's good too. One particularly egregious example
Speaker 1: on their site is the totally credible book Coronavirus Colon
Speaker 1: wuhan Coronavirus Colon All Secrets Revelli ad they misspelled revealed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Wait uh, that's good. I think that
Speaker 1: this is good. This is good. I think that you know,
Speaker 1: you know, fast forward a little bit in the future.
Speaker 1: This will all be very fun once everything is Revelli
Speaker 1: ad in the future. Yeah, it will be Revelli AD
Speaker 1: soon and we'll realize how incredible this book was. For
Speaker 1: just eight this title will provide you with quote, the
Speaker 1: history and ways to combat it, spread and prevent another epidemic.
Speaker 1: So that's good. And these viral pandemic tie in works
Speaker 1: get a lot weirder too. Outside of these these big
Speaker 1: hitters we've named, there's also equine coronavirus everything a horse
Speaker 1: lover needs to know, and canine coronavirus everything a dog
Speaker 1: lover needs to know. Okay, honestly I am not disinterested
Speaker 1: in canine coronavirus. Well you should be, because these books
Speaker 1: are written by a nonsense person. Uh. The authors claimed
Speaker 1: to be Malick Hill, PhD, who no one can find
Speaker 1: any real evidence or information about. But he also has
Speaker 1: books on how to protect your fish and rabbits from coronavirus.
Speaker 1: In addition to this, he's the author of the critical
Speaker 1: work how to Buy a House for literally zero dollars, which,
Speaker 1: given the rent crisis we're hitting, you know, maybe people
Speaker 1: should look into Oh my god, yeah, holyish it literally
Speaker 1: zero dollars. That's a deal. You know, that is a
Speaker 1: good deal. I mean, I know, I mean there's been
Speaker 1: there's been some people reclaiming empty houses, but I have
Speaker 1: a feeling it's not the same thing. No, No, because
Speaker 1: they got to spend money to like drive their get selene.
Speaker 1: You know. Bolt cutters. All these things cost money, literally
Speaker 1: zero dollars. They're not first. I mean, why don't they
Speaker 1: should send us two thousand dollars in bolt cutters? The
Speaker 1: government just males expensive bolt cutters. Yea stimulus package, burn
Speaker 1: them all, good fucking luck. Here's a check in some
Speaker 1: bolt cutters. See you in hell Like I would respect
Speaker 1: that more than what's called. We can't pass a meaningful stimulus,
Speaker 1: so we're sending bolt cutters in a nine millimeter to everyone.
Speaker 1: Figure it out. Fantastic, feels good to laugh. It does,
Speaker 1: it does. So this is all great. Um. Also great
Speaker 1: is the recent work of beauty influencer Michelle Fawn our
Speaker 1: next Grifter. Now. Michelle is a thirty two year old
Speaker 1: entrepreneur with a net worth of around fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1: She has million YouTube subscribers and two million Instagram followers.
Speaker 1: So that's great. Yeah, I feel like I've I've heard
Speaker 1: of this person, I've never watched their videos. Now, the
Speaker 1: beauty industry entered a significant contraction at the start of
Speaker 1: this year. Cosmetics and all that stuff like, the industry
Speaker 1: started to kind of peel back a bit is even
Speaker 1: before the outbreak really reached it's it's it's peak. Um
Speaker 1: and Fan recognized that early and decided to pivot to
Speaker 1: a new business. Earlier this year, she announced her plan
Speaker 1: to create a podcast called Baby Steps. Quote from Michelle,
Speaker 1: It's essentially to help people take steps into adulthood, buying bitcoin,
Speaker 1: how to store it, what to do with it. You know,
Speaker 1: the key thinks about it. Now she became a bunker
Speaker 1: survival She pivoted from YouTube booty to beauty to being
Speaker 1: a bunker survivalist. No just bitcoin, oh just a big
Speaker 1: so she's just a winkle boss. Now. My viewers are
Speaker 1: hungry for more than makeup and skincare. They want to
Speaker 1: know how to protect their purchasing power. Today I made
Speaker 1: an Instagram post telling my followers to buy the bitcoin,
Speaker 1: dip and then hold. In mid March, is the panic
Speaker 1: over coronavirus began to crest here in the United States,
Speaker 1: Fan posted a picture of her Essential Oil diffuser with
Speaker 1: the caption, if you are burning anti viral Essential oils
Speaker 1: around you. This will kill all of the virus before
Speaker 1: it enters your system. There's no such thing as anti
Speaker 1: viral essential oils. This will not work. Don't do this,
Speaker 1: um which a lot of people told Fan. There was
Speaker 1: an enormous backlash, and to her credit, Michelle Fan eventually
Speaker 1: responded by sheepishly claiming she had not intended to mislead anyone.
Speaker 1: And this is not a great response, but it makes
Speaker 1: her by far the most honest and decent person we're
Speaker 1: going to cover in today's episode by a wide margin.
Speaker 1: And this brings me, Oh yeah, Jamie, I well, I
Speaker 1: just beauty. YouTube like is exclusively grifters. I think of
Speaker 1: like YouTube. There there's a YouTube boot tube. They Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're exclusively grifted. I feel like Maggie may Fish has
Speaker 1: done a lot of good work on like documenting like
Speaker 1: what the extent of those grip those griphs are. But
Speaker 1: this is the first Corona graph I've heard. This is
Speaker 1: a treat. Yeah, and she was clearly just dipping her
Speaker 1: toes into the Corona gript And I think her followers
Speaker 1: are kind of mainstream enough that it it backfired on
Speaker 1: her and she I hopefully has peeled back from this um.
Speaker 1: But you know who else did the same thing even
Speaker 1: more sketchuly whom well you brought her up a little earlier,
Speaker 1: our old friend Gwyneth Paltrow, the fifth Hound of the Apocalypse.
Speaker 1: Now on March thirteen, gwyn Path is that what people
Speaker 1: call her her? And we try not to call her anything.
Speaker 1: If we can avoid it, we dare not speak her name.
Speaker 1: We'll call her six six six the Beast. On March thirteenth,
Speaker 1: she posted a now deleted picture to the Goop Instagram page,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty innocuous on the surface, Gwyneth herself
Speaker 1: in a white shirt, a skirt and sneakers with the caption.
Speaker 1: Most days you'll find g P wearing g label with
Speaker 1: a pair of sneakers, which is one reason we make
Speaker 1: it an annual tradition to put together a fresh sneaker
Speaker 1: guide each year. Get ready to cover some serious ground.
Speaker 1: Run don't walk. First off, just editing note, you don't
Speaker 1: have to say that it's an annual tradition you do
Speaker 1: each year. Not necessary, it's a bit redundant. Yeah. Second note,
Speaker 1: no one is going to call her g P. And
Speaker 1: if they do, that is who is a society? We
Speaker 1: should blame for the coronavirus epidemic is people who refer
Speaker 1: to Gwyneth Paltrow as GP. I'm the fifth out of
Speaker 1: the apocalypse beast. All of these are fair terms of
Speaker 1: Gwyneth Paltrow, But okay, but that that other than the
Speaker 1: you know, the the errors and grammar. Um, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty unproblematic Instagram post, especially considering the kind of products
Speaker 1: Goop has has sold. There's nothing wrong with wanting to
Speaker 1: sell people at khaki shirt and sneakers, But it turns
Speaker 1: out that skirt cost four hundred and fifty dollars and
Speaker 1: those sneakers were four hundred dollars. And since this was
Speaker 1: posted as cities around the US began to contemplate radical
Speaker 1: quarantine procedures and millions found themselves instantly out of work.
Speaker 1: People got kind of pisted at Gwyneth Paltrow for selling
Speaker 1: nine dollars worth of skirt and shoes, even though this
Speaker 1: is what she always does. It just it was suddenly grosser, right,
Speaker 1: um So even Goop fans got angry at her. One
Speaker 1: response on her Instagram read, I think it's irresponsible to
Speaker 1: post this as a worldwide pandemic is going on. You
Speaker 1: have a great platform around health. Now would be the
Speaker 1: time to expand on that, which is an incredible post
Speaker 1: and an incredible snapshot of where we are in America.
Speaker 1: Because he's simultaneously right, he should be angry at this
Speaker 1: soulless gool hawking nine D skirt shoes combos while a
Speaker 1: quarter of the country finds itself edging towards breadlines. But
Speaker 1: it's also baffling that his anger is that she's not
Speaker 1: doing more to promote health products, because it's just never really,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of it's a bit of a
Speaker 1: bummer too, because you're just like, oh, that is like
Speaker 1: what her followers feel is like the health and wellness,
Speaker 1: like she will have their best interests at heart. Like
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bummer. I was honestly shocked and
Speaker 1: appalled that Gwyneth was not um in the imagined video.
Speaker 1: Jamie Chuk your Instagram dm s for Goop's latest posting
Speaker 1: from the last two hours. I'd love for you to
Speaker 1: describe that to Robert Evans before we go to an
Speaker 1: ad brick imagine possessions. I wonder if you can. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the post. Oh god, I don't like the visual
Speaker 1: The visual is really like oversaturated picture of someone putting
Speaker 1: pressure on another person's hand with their hands, and it
Speaker 1: says the following. Anyone can benefit from ACU pressure and
Speaker 1: anyone can do it, says acupuncturist Mary Jane Newman, who
Speaker 1: gave us the best breakdown and ACU pressure points and
Speaker 1: how to best activate them at home. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's something that has nothing to do with anything. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: millions of people are locked in their home and there's
Speaker 1: an acupuncturist who's like, hey, ever heard of me? Is that? Basically?
Speaker 1: It's Sophie Like she's basically her advice is basically like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to be really good advice right now? How
Speaker 1: about you touch another person's hands? Yeah? Literally, it's by pressure.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I'm going I'm licking a
Speaker 1: lot of door knobs these days? Is that? Am I
Speaker 1: not supposed to be doing that? Robert? If you're eating
Speaker 1: survival cheese, you can like a door knob. I think
Speaker 1: that that's the going exchange. But that's my hobby to sacrifices.
Speaker 1: Want to know what you should make your hobby? Doing
Speaker 1: the ad break just a thought? Remember? Are there more products?
Speaker 1: There are always more products and maybe even a new service. Wow,
Speaker 1: and we're back. We're back, and we are talking about goops.
Speaker 1: So I read one post from the Goop instagram. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's another. Come on, Goop, when you said g P
Speaker 1: if I thought at first you were referring to doctor,
Speaker 1: please use your platform in a more sensitive way. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's the time to think about buying trainers
Speaker 1: when people are struggling to buy day to day supplies.
Speaker 1: We don't want doom and gloom, but maybe a post
Speaker 1: on boosting your immune system, staying healthy, etcetera. It's amazing
Speaker 1: what they get angry at and also what they want
Speaker 1: from Gwyneth And unfortunately, yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow was only too
Speaker 1: happy to do this. And I'm gonna quote now from
Speaker 1: New York Magazine. Yeah. Goop is known for Yoni eggs
Speaker 1: and the promotion of potentially dangerous treatments like colonic irrigation.
Speaker 1: Also so addresses COVID nineteen on its website. Some of
Speaker 1: its advice is perfectly legitimate. Wash your hands, disinfect your
Speaker 1: filthy phone, get vaccinated, which prevents other potential illnesses if
Speaker 1: not COVID nineteen. But this being goop. The page also
Speaker 1: highlights entries on the flu prevention properties of elderberry chew
Speaker 1: scientifically there are none, and an interview with a holistic
Speaker 1: practitioner about what to do to prevent colds and flues.
Speaker 1: Among her recommendations, the goop, wellness balls and the air
Speaker 1: vitamin regimen which it best offers. No measures balls, you
Speaker 1: don't you don't want to take? What drop some wellness
Speaker 1: balls down your throat? I unfortunately know what the wellness
Speaker 1: balls are. Are the wellness balls, because I imagine the
Speaker 1: wellness balls shoot out that silver goop that coats the
Speaker 1: back of your throat and a sticky fiscus. You know,
Speaker 1: the drifts, drifts, real slow down at So I have
Speaker 1: a dark past history where I used to be on
Speaker 1: a series that tried out um goop stuff to see
Speaker 1: if it actually worked. So I've tried a fair amount
Speaker 1: of this stuff. I've done the Yoni egg number of times,
Speaker 1: I've done the I've done the calonic irrigation that hurts,
Speaker 1: I've done I mean, I've done a ton of group stuff.
Speaker 1: None of it has like, I don't know, like it's
Speaker 1: it all is very uncomfortable, and none of it has
Speaker 1: resulted in anything positive, and if I had actually had
Speaker 1: to pay for it, I would be very angry. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the Wellness ball it falls right into that that category.
Speaker 1: So I mean, at this point it's like hack to
Speaker 1: have to be like, don't do goop ship, but there
Speaker 1: is still such a big audience for it. It's like
Speaker 1: it sucks and it's like not nice people that are
Speaker 1: getting grifted into a ball full of like I mean
Speaker 1: literal goop that costs you know whatever seven bucks to manufacturer,
Speaker 1: and then how much are they charging for it? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess what some people spend on a car payment. Well, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's it's yeah, it's infuriating and terrible. Uh
Speaker 1: and in a sane society would be criminal. Um, but
Speaker 1: it's not. And so Gwyneth Paltrow is gonna gonna be
Speaker 1: fine throughout all this. She's going to handle this great um.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Gwyneth, she has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with the story of our next grifter. And Jamie, I'm
Speaker 1: going to need you to batten down your hatches and
Speaker 1: strap in to hear this person's name, because I get
Speaker 1: a visceral reaction from just reading this name. Amanda chantal Bacon,
Speaker 1: founder of moon j I hate moon Juice? Can we
Speaker 1: start again? Can we start again? And then you just
Speaker 1: like pause after every name, just to give people a
Speaker 1: real chance to take it in. Amanda Okay Bacon, the
Speaker 1: founder of moon Juice ye cream blocks away from the
Speaker 1: original moon Juice, and I'm thrilled to announce that I
Speaker 1: did burn it to the ground right before this recording,
Speaker 1: Comrade loftus making the revolution happen. So just a few
Speaker 1: days ago, Amanda Chantal Bacon posted this to her list
Speaker 1: to her Instagram, clearly inspired by the coronavirus panic and
Speaker 1: it's it's moon Juice branded their logos right up on
Speaker 1: the top of this list The ten things I'm doing
Speaker 1: for immunity right now in the morning, dry brushing to
Speaker 1: stimulate limp flow and then getting a cold shower too.
Speaker 1: Taking super U t M daily to keep calm elevated.
Speaker 1: Cortisol directly affects the immune system. Frequently. Is that moon juice? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of the products that she sells, one of
Speaker 1: the juices or powders or whatever. Three frequently, washing my
Speaker 1: hands and my children's hands for keeping the air in
Speaker 1: my home clean with a Heppe air filter. This has
Speaker 1: been a game changer for my respiratory system. Five taking
Speaker 1: vitamin C three times a day. Six adding power dust
Speaker 1: and spirit dust to my morning tonics. These adapted genic
Speaker 1: blends are particularly supportive of the immune system. Seven leaving
Speaker 1: clothes at the front door after schoolwork, travel, and hopping
Speaker 1: right in the shower. So just strip naked right at
Speaker 1: the inner to your house, shift, then take some get
Speaker 1: some of that dust in you. Oh yes, if you're not,
Speaker 1: if you don't think that the Girl Bosses are riding
Speaker 1: in on the apocalypse, you have to wake the funk up. No,
Speaker 1: that is what they've been waiting to do their whole
Speaker 1: Girl Boss lives. Yes. Eight drinking green juice, our elderberry
Speaker 1: defense tonic and lots of water. Nine prioritizing sleep and
Speaker 1: taking magneesiome, which is another one products. You know. I
Speaker 1: think we can all see how that's spelled. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's it's it's great love Amanda chantal bacon Um, who
Speaker 1: I do not love. Uh No, I mean as someone
Speaker 1: who literally burned her building to the ground this morning
Speaker 1: for you, It's it's safe to say I also don't
Speaker 1: love her. That's so I mean morning tonics. Not enough said, yeah,
Speaker 1: tonics that you're selling like that would have not felt
Speaker 1: People taking Spirit Dusk Tonics to ward off the flu
Speaker 1: would have sounded normal if I had brought it up
Speaker 1: as part of the nineteen eighteen pandemic grift. But this
Speaker 1: is happening right now. I mean, honestly, bringing like the
Speaker 1: word tonics into the mix at all feels kind of shortsighted.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel, even for the person newest to
Speaker 1: the snake oil realm, the word tonic just seems to
Speaker 1: be one to avoid across the board. The only acceptable
Speaker 1: use of the word tonic is if you are from
Speaker 1: New England and you enjoy a Moxie tonic. Um even
Speaker 1: it's not acceptable to be from New England. So oh well,
Speaker 1: I'm and I was canceled years ago, so it's fine.
Speaker 1: I was specifically talking about you, Jamie. Yeah, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you had to find out this way. Uh.
Speaker 1: Spirit dust and power dust are two of Bacon's most
Speaker 1: popular products in her plant based alchemy line. Both include
Speaker 1: a variety of ingredients like chaga and rishi and maka
Speaker 1: that have absolutely no proven or even vaguely suggested benefits.
Speaker 1: Against COVID nineteen, but there is no law against claiming
Speaker 1: your products help immunity, and a lot of very dumb,
Speaker 1: rich people will spend thirty nine in a small cylinder
Speaker 1: of spirit dust in order to feel like they're doing something, anything,
Speaker 1: to protect themselves. These people will be glad to know
Speaker 1: that moon Juice is still open for pickups and deliveries
Speaker 1: during the California lockdown, very happy to let everyone know that, well,
Speaker 1: not anymore. They are still open to be burnt to
Speaker 1: the ground. That's right, there is there. I unfortunately, there
Speaker 1: was an employee that I had to get out when
Speaker 1: I was burning it down, and she's still out in
Speaker 1: the front. And I'm you know, I'm in solidarity with
Speaker 1: with workers, so I'm like, okay, I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: burn the building down. You can continue to work, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's thank you for supporting workers while you burn down
Speaker 1: their workplaces in order to stop the spread of disinformation. Jamie,
Speaker 1: you think you think that moon Juice is gonna stop
Speaker 1: just because they're building burned down, You've got another thing coming, Okay.
Speaker 1: So now, if you know me, my dear listeners, you
Speaker 1: know there's no way I could hear a name like
Speaker 1: Amanda Chantel Bacon and learn this person is selling power
Speaker 1: dust and not want to know more about her. And
Speaker 1: this is going to get a little bit off the
Speaker 1: coronavirus topic. But this is just gonna make you so angry, Jamie,
Speaker 1: that I have to read you some selections of this articles.
Speaker 1: I found a New York Times article written by Molly
Speaker 1: Young that's a profile on Amanda Chantel Bacon, published back
Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen, and it's absolutely fascinating. Molly's recollection
Speaker 1: of her first visit to a Moon Juice store in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn is really worth reading. Quote. I spotted a glass
Speaker 1: jar labeled brain dust. It has this kind of packaging
Speaker 1: that signals discrete, luxury, minimalist, matt label custom type, the
Speaker 1: word organic. A two point two ounce jar cost fifty
Speaker 1: five dollars. This adapted genic potion lights up your brain
Speaker 1: and increases mental flow. The label said. Neuron velocity and
Speaker 1: vision are fine tuned by toning the brain waves, in
Speaker 1: particularly the alpha waves that connect to creativity. No, no, uh,
Speaker 1: it's so good. It's so good. Yeah. So she finds
Speaker 1: out that this is sold by Moon Juice, and so
Speaker 1: she winds up looking into moon Juice and the company
Speaker 1: gets on their newsletter, and so she receives an ad
Speaker 1: for the moon Juice Cookbook, which included a biography of
Speaker 1: Amanda Shantal Bacon, who described as a powerful influencer in
Speaker 1: the wellness space. This ad mentioned that moon Juice has
Speaker 1: come to prominence when it had been featured on Goop,
Speaker 1: and Bacon had made something called sex bark in a
Speaker 1: video with Gwyneth Paltrow herself sex I also appreciate the
Speaker 1: way that you said it sex bar, sex bars. You
Speaker 1: can't say it any other way. It's illegal, you know. I.
Speaker 1: Sex bark is new to me. I don't know what
Speaker 1: sex bark is, and I'm intrigued. Is it in bark
Speaker 1: that makes you horny? Yeah? I think so, Jamie. That's
Speaker 1: the only thing it could possibly be um, which we
Speaker 1: know we can narrow down that it's not birch, which
Speaker 1: is by far the least sexy kind of tree. Hey,
Speaker 1: sex bark is the new x V vapor up in
Speaker 1: that your groa might have it and it'll make you horny.
Speaker 1: You were that baffling line, Jamie. All of this was
Speaker 1: enough to convince Molly Young that an article needed to
Speaker 1: be written about Amanda Chantel Bacon, so she went to
Speaker 1: meet her quote. Growing up in New York City, she
Speaker 1: was a sickly child bronchial stuff whose parents took her
Speaker 1: to doctor's I got pumped through the Western medicine chain
Speaker 1: without satisfactory results. Of course, nothing helped. One day, she
Speaker 1: went shopping with her family at a downtown health food store,
Speaker 1: where the story goes, an ir vetic doctor visiting from
Speaker 1: India overheard Bacon coughing. The doctor came over and posed
Speaker 1: some questions, very typical iro vetic ones, like how often
Speaker 1: do you poop? And took the child's pulse. After examining
Speaker 1: Bacon's tongue, the man provided her mother with a list
Speaker 1: of forbidden foods cow's milk, wheat, and white sugar, among others.
Speaker 1: Bacon stopped eating gluten at age four and became a
Speaker 1: vegetarian and around seven. She's aware that these biographical details
Speaker 1: invite ridicule, but Bacon doesn't care if people make fun
Speaker 1: of her. She's used to it and anyway. Hers was
Speaker 1: a challenging childhood. I was told growing up that I
Speaker 1: had learning disabilities and mental illness. That was all the
Speaker 1: rage in the nineties. She reflected on her past calmly.
Speaker 1: I came from a family that was like, yes, what
Speaker 1: after the doctor says, is right, just take the pills.
Speaker 1: Bacon's in parentheses. Bacon's mother was the CEO of the
Speaker 1: fashion company Betsy Johnson, and her father was a musician. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love this is like, this is like a level
Speaker 1: of anapotism that it's a very gentle level because you
Speaker 1: have all this one to one nepotism, you have all
Speaker 1: these dynasties in certain industries, but the CEO of Betsy
Speaker 1: Johnson to the founder of Moon Juice is a very
Speaker 1: gentle form of adjacent nepotism that I really just appreciate.
Speaker 1: You can't not respect is the wrong word, but it's
Speaker 1: cool and good. Of course, your Betsy Johnson mom is
Speaker 1: going to support your endeavor to start the worst business ever.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's what the irony of her vegetarianism being
Speaker 1: named Bacon. It's like a great dad joke in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is there. Take it away, Take it away. Dad's
Speaker 1: Amanda Chantal Bacon is great. Uh, And I am so
Speaker 1: happy that I found out about her. And all of
Speaker 1: these grifters are very entertaining Jamie. But I would be
Speaker 1: remiss if I did not point out at the end
Speaker 1: of this that the greatest grifters are not the people
Speaker 1: selling silver toothpaste that will cure your coronavirus, or silver
Speaker 1: goop that will cure your coronavirus, or buckets of food
Speaker 1: or anti viral essential oils or moon dust or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell Paltrow was trying to push. No, the greatest
Speaker 1: grifters in the coronavirus epidemic are our own Congress people.
Speaker 1: I was wondering, so this is not going to be
Speaker 1: a comprehensive ovary of what's going on, because this story
Speaker 1: is like breaking as we're talking about it, Like more
Speaker 1: stuff came out today, um so, and more stuff will
Speaker 1: have come out by the time you hear this episode. Uh.
Speaker 1: But the information started to come out the night that
Speaker 1: I wrote this actually, which was the Friday or Thursday,
Speaker 1: the nineteenth of March. Uh. That Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman
Speaker 1: Richard Burr, a Republican senator from North Carolina, had unloaded
Speaker 1: his holdings and dozens of stuff of stocks that lost
Speaker 1: a huge amount of their value. And he did it
Speaker 1: right before the start of the coronavirus panic. Um. He
Speaker 1: and his wife sold between six d twenty thousand and
Speaker 1: one point seven million dollars in publicly traded stocks on
Speaker 1: February and bought no new positions, so they just straight
Speaker 1: up cashed out. UM. Most of the companies he cast
Speaker 1: out on were major corporations that were hit hard by
Speaker 1: the collapse of the stock market. UM and reporting from
Speaker 1: open secrets dot org and pro Publica and a number
Speaker 1: of other organizations has revealed that at the same time
Speaker 1: as he was selling off all this stock, he was
Speaker 1: publicly expressed in confidence to the American people of the U. S.
Speaker 1: Government's ability to fight the coronavirus and stop it from
Speaker 1: turning into a pandemic state side. UM literally like a
Speaker 1: scene from Veep, just like getting off stage from reassuring
Speaker 1: people and then like calling like dump the stocks, like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievably gross. And while he was telling the American
Speaker 1: people in public that things were going to be fine,
Speaker 1: he was privately warning in closed door meetings with other
Speaker 1: lawmakers and major funders of senatorial and congressional campaigns that
Speaker 1: this virus was quote much more aggressive in its transmission
Speaker 1: than anything we have seen in recent history. And this
Speaker 1: is in late February, when he's still very publicly being
Speaker 1: like we got this. Um, so that's super cool. Uh
Speaker 1: and good? Uh yeah. Um. For like an example of
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff Burr was putting out while he
Speaker 1: was selling off all of his assets, On February seven,
Speaker 1: he wrote an opinion piece for Fox News with Senator
Speaker 1: Lamar Alexander, Republican from Tennessee, that the US is better
Speaker 1: prepared than ever before to deal with a health crisis. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's great. Um, that's okay. Well, as long as
Speaker 1: our as long as our public officials are still fucking up,
Speaker 1: how bad could things possibly be? Yeah? Yeah. So on February,
Speaker 1: when the US had fifteen confirmed cases of COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: and President Trump said it's going to disappear like a
Speaker 1: miracle very soon, Burr attended a luncheon at a social
Speaker 1: club called the Capitol Hill Club, and he delivered this
Speaker 1: message quote, There's one thing I can tell you about this.
Speaker 1: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything
Speaker 1: we've seen in recent history. It's probably more akin to
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighteen pandemic. Um. So that's great. Uh. Thirteen
Speaker 1: days before the State Department began to warning its travel
Speaker 1: to Europe in fifteen days before the Trump administration banned
Speaker 1: European visitors. Uh Burr warned people in the room at
Speaker 1: this meeting that they should be cognizant that they were
Speaker 1: going to have to alter their lives very soon. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: he was not making these kind of warnings publicly. He
Speaker 1: was very much trying to calm people down publicly. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's also worth noting that these were like like,
Speaker 1: these sales were the largest that he has ever made
Speaker 1: in his history as a stockholder, and he did not
Speaker 1: reinvest any of them. This is pure cashing out now. Um.
Speaker 1: Pro public or NPR asked for a comment on the
Speaker 1: senator stocks sales and burst Bow person or in a
Speaker 1: spokesperson for the campaign responded simply, l O L. Really Yeah,
Speaker 1: wait was it was? It? Was it an in real life?
Speaker 1: L O L? Or was it like a text? It
Speaker 1: was I think a text over email or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does make a difference. That is that I mean,
Speaker 1: not shocking at all, but that is just some end
Speaker 1: days ship. It reminds me of to put it in
Speaker 1: another uh stupid Jamie analog. It's like the scene in
Speaker 1: Titanic where Kate Winslet asked the owner of the architect
Speaker 1: of the ship, like, Hey, what's going on. He's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna fucking die, but don't don't tell anybody.
Speaker 1: Just try to save yourself. And uh, yeah, we're funed.
Speaker 1: We're fu you know, speaking of people who are morally
Speaker 1: identical to that Titanic engineer. Uh. Senator Carry Leftler, a
Speaker 1: Republican from Georgia and the newest member of the Senate,
Speaker 1: sold off seven figures worth of stockhold things in the
Speaker 1: days and weeks after a private all Senators meeting on
Speaker 1: the novel coronavirus uh that you know, helped to collapse
Speaker 1: the economy a couple of weeks later. Um, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. At the time, she tweeted, appreciate today's briefing
Speaker 1: from the president's top health officials on the novel coronavirus outbreak. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then she started selling off stock like fucking gangbusters. Um,
Speaker 1: while not you know, uh. Well, for example, on February
Speaker 1: after she had had this meeting and after she had
Speaker 1: started selling off her socks, which she did on February sixteenth,
Speaker 1: she tweeted this twelve days after selling off her stocks
Speaker 1: Democrats have dangerously and intentionally misled the American people on
Speaker 1: coronavirus readiness. Here's the truth. Donald Trump and his administration
Speaker 1: are doing a great job working to keep Americans healthy
Speaker 1: and safe. On March tenth, she tweeted, concerned about coronavirus,
Speaker 1: remember this, The consumer is strong, the economy is strong,
Speaker 1: and drop jobs are growing, which puts US in the
Speaker 1: best economic position to tackle COVID nineteen and keep America
Speaker 1: is safe. Now. Another data point that's worth talking about
Speaker 1: is Leffler had not made a single stock transition during
Speaker 1: the three weeks she served in office prior to this one.
Speaker 1: This was her first The day that she got the
Speaker 1: coronavirus briefing is the first stock transaction she made during
Speaker 1: her time in the Senate. Now, both she and Burr
Speaker 1: claim that like all of their stocks are basically in
Speaker 1: a blind trust, they don't have any control over where
Speaker 1: they get invested. And I'm sure that's completely true and
Speaker 1: something that will hold up in the subsequent investigations into
Speaker 1: their behavior. And there's no chance that they informed anyone
Speaker 1: about what they were hearing in these meetings. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think that any of this is going to be
Speaker 1: tampered with before it has to be examined or you know,
Speaker 1: anything like that. I think we're fine. It's fine now
Speaker 1: as of right now. And again the story is still breaking,
Speaker 1: so the list may be larger by the time you
Speaker 1: get it. Uh. Senators who are confirmed to have made
Speaker 1: significant sell offs of stock in the wake up that
Speaker 1: meeting are Richard Burr, who we talked about, Jim im
Speaker 1: Hoff from Oklahoma, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, and of course
Speaker 1: Kelly Lefler. Now, there were also some sales by Ianne Feinstein. UM,
Speaker 1: and I have no desire to defend Diane Einstein because
Speaker 1: I hate her. But it's not it's not quite the same.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna quote Keith Boykin from CNN here. Uh, the
Speaker 1: Dianne Feinstein sale doesn't quite fit the pattern. Her husband
Speaker 1: sold the biotech stock on January thirty one, when it
Speaker 1: reached a low price of two. After the sale, the
Speaker 1: stock actually rose to on mark four it's currently trading at.
Speaker 1: So like, there was no real this isn't something that
Speaker 1: was really affective. I don't know, maybe there was something
Speaker 1: shady there. It's hard to say, but like, this isn't
Speaker 1: the in the other cases you're looking at people who
Speaker 1: sold off stock and like um in in Burr's case,
Speaker 1: he was selling off stock in like hotels and cruise
Speaker 1: lines and whatnot. Um there's never a bad time to say,
Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein, never a bad time. I I support digging
Speaker 1: into what her stock sales have been to see if
Speaker 1: it does if she did do something shady. But this
Speaker 1: biotech company just doesn't kind of fit the pattern because
Speaker 1: it it really wasn't. Yeah, affected in the same way.
Speaker 1: We'll see though, we should look into every Republican and
Speaker 1: Democratic member of Congress and see what they've been doing
Speaker 1: with their stocks and when they were briefed on how
Speaker 1: bad things were actually going to be, and what they
Speaker 1: said in public about how bad things were actually going
Speaker 1: to be. Look into every one of them. Hang the
Speaker 1: people who committed treason, because I don't unturned Yeah, we
Speaker 1: could call this treason, right, like if this is an
Speaker 1: act of war, we're on a war footing. These people
Speaker 1: are lying to the American public when they know how
Speaker 1: bad it's going to be and profiting off it. That
Speaker 1: feels treasony. I mean calling himself a wartime president, as
Speaker 1: you say, we're already asked even old tim because this
Speaker 1: is an old timey situation. Yeah, it's so dumb to
Speaker 1: when has he not been a wartime president? Right? Who?
Speaker 1: When has any president in our lifetimes since fucking Clinton
Speaker 1: not been a wartime president? Yeah, there has not been
Speaker 1: not a wartime president. I don't think in my entire lifetime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're all war time presidents. Like it's like bragging about
Speaker 1: I don't know, Um, I don't know what it's like
Speaker 1: bragging about. It's it's a nothing, I don't know. Fuck
Speaker 1: fuck all this ship funk all of these people. Um, yeah, Jamie,
Speaker 1: how you feeling today? You know I'm feeling I don't
Speaker 1: usually get frenzia at the record, so this has actually
Speaker 1: been This has been a nice medicinal one. Uh, I know,
Speaker 1: I feel okay, I like, you know, it's just the
Speaker 1: weird ship going on. How how are you feeling? You're
Speaker 1: hunting pigeons? What are you doing? I'm definitely gonna I'm
Speaker 1: actually looking I'm gonna go out this this weekend or
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit next week and do some some
Speaker 1: squirrel and rabbit hunting. Maybe maybe try to bag some
Speaker 1: new Tria, get a stew going, Uh, do some brazing,
Speaker 1: and frying and see how the different game foods work.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine is going to take us out
Speaker 1: and do some foraging, So getting getting ready to do
Speaker 1: all the kind of like depressions, great depression stews that
Speaker 1: I'll need to cook using vermin. My my main plan
Speaker 1: is I'm going to become a professional ballerina and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I don't know, I think that that's that's my
Speaker 1: only plan. I'm gonna become a professional ballerina and I'm
Speaker 1: going to die before I'm thirty. Those are my two plans. Yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: you're not thirty yet, oh Jamie. Oh that yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Oh and I'm gonna read meat comments about me on
Speaker 1: the internet. That's the other thing I've been doing today. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hope we hang in for your thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 1: You know what I realized it is? It is it
Speaker 1: is our seventh year. It is our seventh year. If
Speaker 1: Corona gets us were a genius is actually after all
Speaker 1: that's that's the relief, is if it gets me I
Speaker 1: was a genius. Seriousness, Jamie and Robert have been in
Speaker 1: Daniel have all been extremely hell through full in this
Speaker 1: first week of being home, alone, so you know, say
Speaker 1: thank you to your friends, talk to each other, conicate,
Speaker 1: you know, wave machetes from afar. Everyone has been great.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we've all been checking in on each
Speaker 1: other all week. It's nice. It feels it feels nice.
Speaker 1: Hunt squirrels and pigeons. Learn how to make mulligan stew.
Speaker 1: The two Mulligan stew is what hoboes would eat during
Speaker 1: the Great Depression, And it's basically just whatever you have.
Speaker 1: If you boil anything, even rancid meat, for four or
Speaker 1: five hours, it will be it will not kill you,
Speaker 1: because nothing deadly can survive four or five hours of
Speaker 1: of of boiling um. That's the whole basis of Casian food.
Speaker 1: It's the old timey stuff. Old timey like language really
Speaker 1: is fun, except when it's used to be very racist,
Speaker 1: in which case it's not fun. And that's fun. Anderson's
Speaker 1: sworn enemy is this squirrel that I named Edward. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'm sending you guys a picture of Edward. Currently this week,
Speaker 1: this lady is still giving him so much unbelievable dry
Speaker 1: food that I'm like, piste, Yeah, well, I mean still thriving.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I have a machete and I
Speaker 1: can do something with it. But also I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I'm pissed that he has all these fucking seeds, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, that is that's not okay, mostly because he's
Speaker 1: my dog's sworn enemy. But that's where it is. Not
Speaker 1: that Yeah, look at all those seeds. Guys. Sonny has
Speaker 1: just been gloating about Biden's recent winds. It fuck, it sucks.
Speaker 1: Imagine being walked in the house with a Biden supporter
Speaker 1: right now. Just everyone send your send your thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 1: I did see my first bite in my first Biden
Speaker 1: it um um. You know the things that no no ghosts.
Speaker 1: So if you listen to where you ever, you'll remember,
Speaker 1: like a month or two ago, I said that I
Speaker 1: saw my first Amy for America sign. Well, I drove
Speaker 1: by that exact same house, and now they have an
Speaker 1: Amy for America sign and a Joe bidenside. So the
Speaker 1: logical conclusion, it's the logical conclusion. They also said they
Speaker 1: want to adopt Sunny just you know it was good. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm honestly trying to offload Sunny and it's
Speaker 1: hard right now. So oh man, I mean, I'll use
Speaker 1: you know, I'll turn them into a rug. I was
Speaker 1: going to say a stu, Jamie. I've just been talking
Speaker 1: about how we use every part. Yeah. Sure, there's a
Speaker 1: solid couple of pounds of meat on him, and then
Speaker 1: we'll turn the rest into a rug. Gotta use every
Speaker 1: part of your beloved, every part of your very regressive
Speaker 1: politically dog. Yeah, you're politically regressive dog. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways,
Speaker 1: this has been a very long ending to this episode. Jamie,
Speaker 1: do you have anything you want to plug? You wanna
Speaker 1: tell people they can find you and what they can
Speaker 1: listen to. Uh? Sure, Yeah, you can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jamie Loftus, help on Instagram at Jamie crist
Speaker 1: Superstar and doing something remote comedy shows. You can listen
Speaker 1: to the Bechdel Cast. And you should find what your
Speaker 1: local mutual aid fund is and give some money and
Speaker 1: supplies to it. And that's all I have to say,
Speaker 1: mm hmm. And also remember that that mutual aid is
Speaker 1: fundamentally about building resiliency outside of the state. Uh and
Speaker 1: and not just a stop gap way to deal with
Speaker 1: the loss of state services, but a new way of
Speaker 1: looking at the relationship of human beings to one another
Speaker 1: in society. Without trust in a soulless UH government that
Speaker 1: doesn't care about you anyway. Fucking yeah, heads up? Yep?
Speaker 1: Is it my turn to plug your plugables? Robert? Yeah,
Speaker 1: please please do it. You can follow Rob did I write?
Speaker 1: Okay on Twitter. You can follow this podcast at bastards Pod.
Speaker 1: You can also hear Robert on Worst Year Ever and
Speaker 1: our newest show, The Women's Wear, which has episode one
Speaker 1: on March look out for that. Uh. You can follow
Speaker 1: Dan on Dan What is your twitch thing? Dan? Dan? Dan?
Speaker 1: What is your twitch thing? Say it one more time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I want to say, yeah, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to say it. So you can watch Dan play cool
Speaker 1: video games at UH. I'm gonna funk this up. I
Speaker 1: know it. Can you type it to me? No, just
Speaker 1: type it to me. God, damn it. I'm a hacking,
Speaker 1: a fraud I wanted. I don't want to funk this up? No, no, no, sorry, Chris, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can follow. You can watch Dan play video games
Speaker 1: at twitch dot tv slash. Okay, h Twitch dot tv slash.
Speaker 1: I fucked. I can't do it. I'm having under my
Speaker 1: table at this point. I can't. I can't do what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go look at this Twitter and see it's
Speaker 1: probably listed on there. I'm so sorry, Chris, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to plug dance good life. Oh yeah, okay, fun, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you can fall, you can watch okay, And if you
Speaker 1: want to watch somebody who's really awesome play video games,
Speaker 1: you can follow Daniel on twitch dot tv at dj
Speaker 1: underscore Daniel. That's DJ Underscore d A n L on
Speaker 1: twitch dot tv. Fucking did that ship? Um? Anyways, Robert,
Speaker 1: you want to end your own podcast? Okay, so this
Speaker 1: is out of the podcast. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: Wash your hands or damn hands and burned down a
Speaker 1: moon juice. Burned down a moon juice. M