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Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·Dec 6, 2019
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TL;DR

Casual Friday podcast discussing Netflix shows and conspiracy theories with minimal pinball focus.

Summary

This is a casual Friday episode of the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast where hosts Drew and Scott Ian discuss non-pinball streaming content, primarily focusing on Netflix shows including Star Wars: The Mandalorian, The Movies That Made Us, and a deep dive into conspiracy documentaries like Hunting Hitler and The Family. The episode digresses extensively into unrelated topics including German-Argentine villages, Nazi history, and political conspiracy theories, with minimal pinball-specific content.

Key Claims

  • Jon Favreau created/directed Star Wars: The Mandalorian

    medium confidence · When I saw it, I'm like, oh, you know, written, directed, or screenplay, or whatever story by Jon Favreau. The hosts praise his storytelling.

  • Jon Favreau directed the first Iron Man film and started the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    high confidence · People forget he starts that Marvel franchise off the right foot with Iron Man. He directed Iron Man, the first one... that whole Marvel universe started with that dude's ball sack.

  • Hitler's body was never definitively found; a female DNA skull was tested

    medium confidence · they never really found his body...the russians like had a skull i think so this is hitler's skull and then they were able to test that it was a female

  • The Family operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit religious organization with undisclosed earnings

    medium confidence · the family, they're taxed as a... Non-profit... they're like a church... they don't have to report their earnings

  • The National Prayer Breakfast is a week-long event founded by The Family to network politicians globally

    medium confidence · It goes on for, I think, four or five days. It's literally a week-long thing... they have houses all over Washington, D.C. where they let senators stay there for cheap

Notable Quotes

  • “Star Wars The Mandalorian is like an Indiana Jones, right? Where he gets his ass kicked almost every episode, but he finds a way to outsmart and out battle everybody”

    Scott Ian @ early — Describes the thematic appeal of the show using familiar action hero comparison

  • “There's no way you could have more than one of those sand crawlers. It's like saying every German needs to drive a Volkswagen Beetle.”

    Drew @ mid — Demonstrates the hosts' tangential deep-dive into Star Wars lore inconsistencies during casual discussion

  • “YouTube is like the video version of Pinside. How so? It's just a bunch of trash, it's hot garbage on YouTube.”

    Scott Ian and Drew @ mid-late — Only direct pinball-related comparison in episode, references Pinside forum

  • “When people talk about the Illuminati, you just laugh at them, you're an idiot, but then you have something like the family and you're like, oh yeah, that's basically it.”

    Drew @ late — Summarizes how The Family documentary validates conspiracy theory concepts

  • “They're bigger than the Democrats and the Republicans. That's the problem. They're bigger. Yes. Yeah. They're more powerful and more influential than Republicans or Democrats.”

    Scott Ian and Drew @ late — Core thesis about The Family's alleged political power transcending traditional partisan lines

Entities

DrewpersonScott IanpersonJon FavreaupersonJon HeypersonCarl WeatherspersonFelicity JonespersonDan AykroydpersonSam SternpersonAdolf Hitlerperson

Signals

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    content_signal: Hosts discussing major streaming platforms and content series (Netflix, Disney+), indicating engagement with broader entertainment media beyond pinball

    high · Extensive discussion of Star Wars: The Mandalorian, The Movies That Made Us, The Family, Hunting Hitler documentaries

  • ?

    community_signal: Single reference to Pinside forum as cultural comparison, suggesting pinball community remains relevant but marginal to hosts' content consumption

    medium · YouTube is like the video version of Pinside. How so? It's just a bunch of trash it's hot garbage on YouTube.

Transcript

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0:00
Cause it's Friday, you ain't got no job, and you ain't got shit to do. You're just in time for the after party that is Fuck It Friday, starring Drew and Ian.
0:18
Alright everybody, welcome to Fuck It Friday. Happy Friday, Drew. Happy Friday. Are we fucking up Friday again? We did it. Episode 6, baby. It's happening. Six times we've done this? It feels like yesterday when we started this. I feel like I've been fucked up on Friday a lot more than six times.
0:37
It's a lot to take in right there, Drew, but I don't know what to say. Welcome back, guys. Hey, welcome back. I know you just got done listening to us talk about God knows what on Wednesday, so welcome to Friday. Same shit. I'm dropping drinks here. That was sort of like a mini Fuck It Friday episode. Yeah, we're all over the place.
0:57
Toppers, toppers, toppers. Yeah, not much news. But let's talk about something not pinball related. Let's talk about streaming. Okay. Not pinball streaming. Let's talk about fucking watching movies on stream.
1:10
Mandalorian. You got Disney+, huh? I do. What did you think about Disney+. I think it's a great service. I really do because, you know, no matter what age you are, you have kids, you don't have kids. You know, I happen to have a kid who loves a lot of this Disney shit. so many good choices on there for everybody.
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1:30
You're not going to see anything over PG-13, which is fine. But you'll see movies like Tron, which is pretty dark. It's a dark movie. It's pretty cool. It's edgy.
1:40
But yeah, there's a lot of cool... You'll see the Pirates of the Caribbean. I don't need to go into that anymore, but those are in there. But then you've got the Disney stuff. You've got the Simpsons stuff. You have the cartoons, but they also have the Mandalorian. So Drew, you said you got what, three episodes in? Almost three, I watched the first two And I started the third one And I'm hooked Oh dude, it's so fucking good man You know it's refreshing every time you see good Star Wars action Right, because The new movies are so hit and miss Yes And the prequels to me were a big miss I didn't really care for any of them And then even Two words, pod racing Yippee you know it's bad when you watch a movie and then you daydream about how it could have been cool sure i would have done this would it be so much cooler if you started off with an older anakin and he was a moody fucking dude and yeah you just go into this whole thing and he was his name's hayden christiansen well no that was like episode three they ended with the moody teenager bothered me anyway so anytime you get something cool where directors use the Star Wars as you know the Star Wars franchise is like a toy box it's cool just like Rogue One that was a toy box I have no idea what that movie was about other than there was a reason why there was a failure you know the Death Star had a weakness that was it that was the only part of that whole fucking movie that had a little bit of a point the rest of the movie was just a sandbox that was just the director playing with toys and I loved it Rogue One was really good you know that yeah I mean that main chick wasn't great Felicity Jones I didn't care for her too much but the story just the set pieces were cool just watching it was awesome the last 45 minutes the way they laid out the story I mean you knew it was going to happen because it was all culminating at the beginning of A New Hope but it was just really neat to watch that I need to see that one again But I think the storytelling in Mandalorian, it's top notch. Oh, yeah. It's great. They took like a Western vibe. Is Jon Favreau, is he involved in the movies or not?
4:01
No. He needs to be. No shit, right? Jon Favreau, if you're listening. No, that was my first thought. When I saw it, I'm like, oh, you know, written, directed, or screenplay, or whatever story by Jon Favreau. I'm like, okay. The dude's good. Yeah. He's been putting out good shit forever. People forget he starts that Marvel franchise off the right foot with Iron Man. He directed Iron Man, the first one. That's what I'm saying. That whole Marvel universe started with that dude's ball sack. Sure. And if Iron Man wouldn't have been any good, it might not be where it is today. Right. He took it to a great direction where it was realistic to a point, but also a comic book. Fun. Yeah, it was fun. So, and Mandalorian has that. It's this kind of gritty, dark story, but there's the fun, lighthearted stuff.
4:51
We won't give too many spoilers for you guys who haven't watched it yet, but I can't imagine there's too many people out there who haven't. It's been out for, what, four weeks now? Fucking love it because that guy, the Mandalorian himself, is like an Indiana Jones, right? Where he gets his ass kicked almost every episode, but he finds a way to outsmart and out battle everybody, all his opposition it doesn't matter what it is when he fought that big creature that was just badass yeah he fights this mudhorn looking thing I think it was called a mudhorn even just the Jawa thing he was going off against a bunch of Jawas and you would think there would be no way that Jawas could beat up a Mandalorian but they find a way super fucking cool right yeah and the jawas were true to the originals they just kind of kept that whole it was very cool just uh i find it interesting now that jawas are in multiple worlds though they didn't really talk about that but now jawas are in this other world like i just i don't know jawas always to me were were like a tatooine thing but apparently they're all over the universe they space travel too well yeah they're um they're they're pack animals they're creatures you know junkers i'm a shitty desert planet i don't know honestly you think there's only like one group of them i just thought it was the one thing just like the tuscan raiders all of a sudden what you got a tuscan raiders that bothered me so you think there's more than one sand crawler oh yeah there is yeah i think there's different tribes of jowls we can get into this i don't wait wait wait but that means they all have a sand crawler isn't that interesting that's weird too right yeah they're like that's their only mode of transportation it's like a it's this thing for you guys who don't know this is big huge honking tank city that like hauls all their junk yeah and It's like there's no way you could create more than one of those. No way. No, that's my point. There's no way that you could have more than one of those. Yeah, it's like there's no creativity that way, right? They're like, oh, no. They're jealous. They have to have a sand crawler. I'm sitting there. I'm like, well, that's like saying every German needs to drive a Volkswagen, and it's all got to be a Volkswagen Beetle. That's it. If you guys are not Star Wars fans, just do yourself a favor. Google sand crawler and tell me there's more than one of those in the world. There's no way. Eight tread. it's literally like what four stories high it's about built by the smallest creature known to man yeah these things are like three feet tall and this thing's like a hundred feet long and four stories tall and it's got these big tank treads and it's like no you didn't build more than one of those no way this is why I love this episode because you never I didn't know we were going to go into the java sand crawler but it's totally true why the fuck is there more than one of those you know and I didn't think about it until you brought that up and I'm like yeah wait a minute there's some big problems here. Big issues. Big, big issues. Alright, I changed my mind. Mandalorian sucks. It's all about the Jawas. Worst show ever. No, it's a good show. It's really good. I love the western vibe. I love the kind of grittiness to it. I feel like every time you see the Mandalorian... Spoiler alert, guys. Just spoiler alert. If you haven't seen it yet, you might want to turn this episode off. I'm trying not to get into specifics, but I don't want to ruin it. but I love the fact that when he goes in the, like, hang on, we're just going to tell you again, turn it off. If you don't want to, you might just ruin something for you. So, yeah, but I, I like that vibe you get when he goes into like his little tribes area where like there's the blacksmith and stuff. Oh yeah. What, what did they call themselves? I know they're the Mandalorians, but like, yeah, I don't know whatever tribe they're in, but, but don't you get that weird sense? Like the way the music is playing, almost like it's like one of the predator movies. Like there's like that. Yeah. Eerie, and then he walks slowly and they're all the hunters are just like lined up waiting to go bounty hunters yeah they're all just mandalorian badasses we're ready to go out and kick some ass and but he just comes in slow motion walking you know throws down some metal thing hey make me some armor yo like so cool man so fucking cool and once again turn this off you don't want to hear it but But so Carl Weathers in there? Yeah, he is. That didn't seem forced. You know, it was kind of cool just the way he's just sitting there. He's like, hey, you got a job, right? Yeah, he's badass. It was just neat. Bring that dude back. Well, I know, but you would think that, you know, they would kind of force in these old, you know, actors. Yeah. But it didn't seem forced, which I liked. So I thought he really fit the storyline kind of nice. And, you know, he doesn't have a huge part yet, but it's still very cool. So I want to take T-Von to something we talked about last week. We talked about the toys that made us. Yes. Have you revisited Netflix since then to have the movies that made us now? No way. Really? Yeah. Does it go like, uh, by decade or now they have, well, I think they're all eighties, which is funny. It's just the eighties. Yeah. So, but they have like, uh, I think the first are like five, the five, five movies they chose. It was like home alone dirty dancing um die hard Oh man what are the other ones Sorry you keep talking My wife and I were watching Home Alone with my son the other day, and we had a debate about when it came out. Oh, I think 90.
10:07
89 or 90. 90, you're right. I guess you're both kind of right because I think I said late 80s, and she said like 90s.
10:15
Early 90s, you mean? Well, it's 1990. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, I know. 90. But, yeah, and it, oh, I almost had the other one. But, yeah, they had, like, five movies from, like, the 80s that kind of redefined how we look at movies now. And so I watched the Die Hard one. Dude, it was so cool. It was just as cool as the toy one, but they talk about movies. They have all these crazy interviews with all the people that made those movies. Oh, shit. Yeah, I see. They have Dan Aykroyd. they have oh ghostbusters was one yeah of course here it is dirty dancing home alone ghostbusters and die hard okay four movies yep that's the one i was missing that was season one yes so obviously it looks like they're gonna do more um and then they had uh daniel stern from home alone nice yeah the uh no it was it was i watched the die hard one i skipped right to die hard because i'm a huge fan and there was shit i didn't know and i thought i knew everything about die hard i I was super impressed with it. So, highly recommend it. Two stars up. Three shot cheese slices, two thumbs. It was fantastic.
11:28
Yeah, I mean, Netflix shows just keep getting better. They've got to step up their game now that we have Disney. I know. But they've been doing it for a while. I tell you, we watched that show on Ivan the Terrible, the Nazi. Sure. Hunter. Yeah, they got him. He was, like, undercover. Yeah, he killed, like, 100,000 people or something stupid. And, yeah, it was called The Devil Next Door. Yeah, he lived in Cleveland as an autoworker for, like, 30 years, 40 years. That's crazy. It is. It's nutty. Well, this trial happened in the 80s, and it was a big deal. You know, we were kids at the time. But, yeah, it's really. And I think it's five or six episodes. It was really intriguing. see i remember that i remember that in the 80s they were still fighting nazis and shit i was just like that's crazy yep well there's there's nazi hunters i mean that's what these people go out yeah it's just nuts there was a show on history channel called hunting hitler and it was the fucking coolest first two seasons were pretty awesome third season was just like they stretched the truth way too much i didn't like it but they found like three four maybe even five different ways hitler could have escaped the bunker you know yeah and escaped berlin and they literally were on the foot on the ground you know boots to the ground walking the path of what hitler could have done netflix uh it was history channel oh okay but they found uh the canary islands and it's a group of islands right outside of spain now if you don't know your history spain was allied secretly with Nazi Germany but they never entered the war. So Franco, who was the Prime Minister of Spain or the dictator of Spain, he basically was sympathetic to the Nazis. So when all these people, all these Nazis had to flee Germany they all went through Spain. And that's a fact. That's a fact. They had a ton of Nazis in Spain. And then from Spain, they would go wherever they needed to go. Ohio. This is right after the war. Yes, right, the final days of the war. Well, there's a group of islands called the Canary Islands, and they found UFO bunkers, like, underwater, in the mountains, Indiana Jones-style bunkers. Who was making those? The Nazis made them. Oh, okay. And, yeah, they could have easily smuggled a bunch of guys off on U-boats, submarines, underwater, and they traced all that to South America, and they found German-only villages in South America. To this day, there are places in South America, Argentina, that are only German-populated. So you go to these places in Argentina and everyone's speaking German? Yes. Jesus, that's weird. They have this one compound they actually tried to visit and they got kicked out of.
14:17
But it was like Little Bavaria. And it's in South America, it's in Argentina, and now it's like a place where you can go get married, but in the 80s and in the 70s, it has like guard towers. It had walls. It was completely cut off from all of the rest of South America, and there was like five or six buildings. La Cumbrecita. Okay. That's what it's called, the secret German village in the middle of Argentina. Yeah, I was just Googling it while he was talking. That is absolutely crazy. Yeah, surreal. This town is in the middle of Argentina, set in the hills a couple hours from Corredoba, second city. So that must be the second biggest city. It's a meticulously recreated Swiss-German village. Tourists come from across Argentina and further to experience this bizarre version of Little Germany. That is just nuts. Yeah, dude, it's crazy. Go on, just click on images. It looks like you're in Germany. Yeah, I'm seeing these houses. They're like these Bavarian houses.
15:19
Check this out, guys. Yeah, it's called, yeah, just check out German Argentina. Just Google Little Bavaria Argentina. Yeah, it's called like Cumbrecita. Yeah, but there's like, there's a, it's not, oh, Colonial Dignidad.
15:33
Sure as shit. Yeah, this looks like a beer house. So Colonial Dignidad. Google that shit, Drew. That's the one I think I'm talking about. That's the one that is Colonial Dig, D-I-G-N-I-D-A-D. Yeah, here, How South America Became a Nazi Haven. Yeah, and if you go to images on that, all you're going to see are fences and the woods. There's a little compound, and it's got like five or six buildings.
16:08
And it's like nestled in like the mountainside slash woods. but they said yeah this was just a straight up Nazi compound like after the war where all these Nazis fled in South America it's crazy that is fucking nuts so they not only one time two times but I think it was like three different times they found ways Hitler could have escaped easily because they never really found his body they found a charred corpse that the Soviets set on fire but we never found Hitler's body and I think they did some dna testing yeah and they found woman's dna like the russians like had a skull i think so this is hitler's skull and then they were able to test that it was a female yeah so to this day we never really had hitler's body so the story goes hitler kills himself the soviets get there they get to the bunker they find his no no sorry the soviets get there the germans bring his body out the bunker and then they light their bodies on fire, burn the bodies up. And then the Russians get there and they go, that's Hitler. That burned corpse over there. Well, that's just how do you prove it? You know, at that time. Sure. In the middle of a war. Sure. Not middle. At the end of the war. They wanted to be the ones to say, hey, we did it. We killed Hitler. Oh, what are Russians going to say? Yeah. Russians are like, yes. Yes. We found it. We won the war. We did it. We ended it. Look, we found this charred body. It's Hitler, you know, and all of a sudden we're like. Young Vladimir Putin's right there. Hey, Vladimir, stand on this body. Take a picture. It's like this little kid riding a horse with a shirt off, you know.
17:50
Fucking crazy, dude. Yeah, that show, that was another one. That was Hunting Hitler on the History Channel. Are we still talking about The Mandalorian? That blew my hair back. Mandalorian was cool. Hunting Hitler was cool.
18:04
We're just talking about shows. No, I know. Yeah, like I said, there's so much cool stuff on Netflix. You won't find that Nazi stuff on Disney. No. I checked.
18:14
Type in Nazi on Disney and it'll just be like, Walt Disney, wait a minute, what? I bet you YouTube it. I'm sure there's something. Oh, yeah.
18:22
There's someone on YouTube calling Walt Disney a Nazi. Oh, yeah. No, there's all kinds of stories. Yeah.
18:32
That'll be for another episode. YouTube is like the video version of Pinside. How so? it's just a bunch of trash it's hot garbage on YouTube oh it's off so late at night now I'll put on my headphones I'll be in bed next to the wife and I'll just be on the YouTube channel and you're right you just get down this dark rabbit hole and then you watch this cool video but then it suggests these other five videos and then before you know it you're watching some weird shit did you ever get into conspiracy theories believe them? No, did you ever just get down that rabbit hole? You get to the point where you're at such a ridiculous conspiracy theory that you're like, no. Like what? Give me an example. For example. Give me a couple examples here. Why do I have five examples that come to my head? Yeah, I know. That's crazy. It's because I've gone down this rabbit hole with my wife too many times. My wife loves this shit. Oh, that's right. See, that's where you get your stuff from. Lizard people. there's people out there that believe in lizard people so they believe that there are shapeshifters okay and you can only see them turn into their lizard form if they being videotaped so wait they have so if So if you a lizard person I watching you right now I can see you Apparently not. I don't really know how it works. But if I'm videotaping you, then I might be able to watch it. I'll tell you this. Because it's on YouTube, it's always like they pull it from news clips and shit. And it's always like either A, it's doctored to shit, right? Where it's totally fake and not believable. Sure. Like somebody will, he's like a newscaster, is talking to the camera, and then as the camera pans away, all of a sudden, like, his face will be green. You know, and you're like, all right, that's so fucking stupid, right? He's not a lizard person.
20:25
Sometimes, and this is probably where it all started from, sometimes you'll get just a stupid angle with lighting from, like, a person in the background. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. totally probably would happen to anybody, but since the light hit it weird, and maybe he turned his head to a silhouette form, it might distort his facial features just slightly. Enough where you're like, well, that looks a little weird. But you can tell, okay, well, look at the light. It's like shining in the camera. Yeah, everything looks fucking weird.
20:55
But people take that, and they fucking run with it because they're crazy. And they think it's a lizard, people. And this is the only way you find the lizard, people. You know what's so funny right now? So YouTube lizard, people. I'm watching Ian talk about this, and the reflection from his computer, there's literally green lines on his face as he's talking about the green lizard people. I am a lizard person. I'm fucking over here laughing. King of the lizard people. I'm like, oh, maybe Ian's telling me because he wants to come out and say, come out as a lizard person. I'm not a lizard person. I'm sorry, guys. If I was, it'd be way cooler. I'd be part of the Illuminati.
21:31
Illuminate. Yeah, that's another one. Oh, the family? I watched that family thing. Did you watch the family thing on Netflix? Tell them about that. That's a fucking crazy thing too, right? It is nutty. I don't even know where to start with that because that's such a bizarre thing. It's essentially on Netflix, guys. It dates back to the early 1900s, I think. I don't know if it's that early. I think it's, well, the main guy who starts it, or at least they focus on, is from the 60s. But I think it comes from World War II. And most of this has been like, I mean, most of it, you know, is true. It's been fact-checked. Oh, yeah, it's all true for the most part.
22:11
But, for example, all right, so let's back up a little bit. So this documentary on Netflix, it's called The Family, and it's essentially about a journalist who embeds himself with this group of young men. You know, it's just a house of young men. It's like a fraternity. From the outside, it just looks like they're playing football, doing their studies, going to college whatever yeah but what you find out is that this fraternity house is next to this really really big really fancy house and you find out that that is part of that's like the head of the family where they entertain diplomats they have political power that's kind of behind the scenes they don't their secrecy is their power is what they say all the time so they do they have senators in there they have presidents they have presidents from other countries the top people from this organization you have literally seen them hobnobbing with every president for the last however many years since eisenhower and they started a thing called the prayer breakfast yes which is like a week-long thing it's not just a breakfast yeah but you know on cnn or whatever you're yep it's the national prayer breakfast blah blah blah and then they They have all the people come over and they have their breakfast. And I've seen it forever. This has nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. No, they come together for a prayer and then they have breakfast together to show unity. That's what I always thought it was. But no, it was all founded by the family. And this group. It goes on for, I think, four or five days. It's literally a week-long thing. It's literally just a meet and greet. And it's a networking opportunity for the family to dig their claws deeper into politics. and they have houses all over Washington, D.C. where they let senators stay there for cheap. What was it? It was like $800 a month where the average rent's like $4,000. Yeah, exactly. So they're literally staying in this place and it's crazy. So anyway, this fraternity, to go back to the fraternity, the whole reason for these young men are to groom them to be the next senators. It's fucking crazy.
24:21
And they have a house full of, for women, too. And they're groomed to marry these boys. To be like first ladies eventually, you know, like to be these members of the family. It's so fucking nuts. Like on, say, day two of the prayer breakfast, I'm doing this in air quotes, you know, they have these like seminars. And it's just like, it looks like you're just kind of like just, you know, having a luncheon or whatever. But what it is, is you'll see the people that are there. These are like dignitaries from like around the world, like from other countries. and these are high-ranking, high-powered people, and they're all getting together, and they're basically doing political favors for one another. Yeah, and the family members are now spreading globally. Now it's not just the National Prayer Breakfast. It isn't just in the United States anymore. It's in Canada. It's in countries in Africa, Europe.
25:17
I think Russia does it. They all do it now. It's all part of the family. Well, that's what they're saying. It's like the worldwide Illuminati kind of conspiracy. It's one world order. This is what these people are. You see some of these people are there, and then literally next week, this law gets passed about whatever.
25:37
Somebody makes paper, so they needed something. So now all of a sudden, this paper tariff goes away, or whatever. And now this other company is making lots of money because they made some shady back. It's just nuts. Yeah. And the family, they're taxed as a... Non-profit. No, I thought they were... A religion. Yeah. Yeah, they're like a church. So because they're a nonprofit church or whatever, they don't have to report their earnings. That means they can get money from anything, anywhere, any kind of donations. But in recent times now with the internet and stuff, people have started getting a little nosy. And they've tried getting in their records, right, like accountants and forensic people. So it'll be interesting to see because now it's kind of been, I don't want to say exposed, because they've kind of been out in public the whole time. Yeah, there's been a few senators that have loose lips. Oh, that's right. The one senator, he... Cheated on his wife, right? Cheated on his wife. And they're very Christian, like this whole Christian value. So this was, what, 10 years ago, 12? Yeah, it's very handmaidens now. Yeah, so 12, 15 years ago or something, sometime in the 2000s, this senator cheated on his wife. He's given this speech, and he was like the first one in public to mention this guy by name and the family. He said the family or whatever he called them. And then all of a sudden, everyone's like, uh-oh. Yeah. He kind of... Outed them. Yeah. So, look. God, I wish I remember what that senator's name was. Yeah, probably 2005, 2006. Just watch it, dude. It's on Netflix still, The Family. It pops up all the time on my feed. And I'm just thinking the whole time I'm watching this, like, yeah, how come more of these independent journalists haven't gotten a hold of this yet? Yeah. Right? Well, how come the Netflix special isn't even that big of a deal? Like, nobody talks about it. That's what I'm saying. It came out. It kind of exposed them. Yeah. And you're right. Nobody's really... Rah-rah-ing about the New World Order that's happening. So, whatever, man. It's just another thing you guys got to watch on Netflix. Seriously. Yeah. It's crazy. No, that one... That one's pretty wild. Yeah, dude. That one gave me the heebie-jeebies, and not many of those things do, but... Because like I said, you know it's real, and the way they do it, they're just so nonchalant, but they're running the world. Yeah.
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And everyone's okay with this, apparently. At least the media is. Sure. And like I said, it's not Republicans, not Democrats. Clinton was rubbing hands with them. Obama was rubbing hands with them. Trump is rubbing hands with them. It's truly something that doesn't even – they're bigger than the Democrats and the Republicans. That's the problem. They're bigger. Yes. Yeah. They're more powerful and more influential than Republicans or Democrats. Yeah, some people were suggesting that this guy, I forgot his name, he's still around, that he's basically calling the shots, more or less. It's just nuts. So crazy. Hey, I've been the president for the last 30 years. No one knows my name, though. Yeah.
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A lot of the policies are my policies. Yeah, no shit. Welcome to the family, motherfucker. It's crazy. that's what his business card says dude shit's crazy it's nutty man no way I still can't believe that's real but it is it makes sense I've seen the news clips it really does when people talk about the Illuminati you just laugh at them you're an idiot but then you have something like the family and you're like oh yeah that's basically it Well, and if you think, I mean, you know, everyone's known for years, like they say, you know, money makes the world go round. You know, you look at, you know, we're not going to get off on the Epstein tangent or whatever, but, you know, when you have. Oh, the guy that. Yeah. Somebody killed. Yeah. He didn't hang himself. Yeah. When you have, you know, excess amounts of money, you know, you can get shit done. Yeah. You really can. I mean. People don even know where he got his money Epstein Sure No They say he a Wall Street guy but then he also said he doesn know shit about anything about money or finances like i think he got interviewed by uh oh some uh stock trader people and they nothing they were like wow he really doesn't know shit about the stock exchange where does he get all his money so you're like well maybe he was selling girls i saw something fucked up on facebook and i get what they were trying to do but it was a it was a mega fail uh someone had like a wood cut out of jerry epstein as a christmas ornament on their tree and it said underneath like just like epstein this thing didn't hang himself or whatever yeah and i get what they were going for it's funny yeah but you also have a sex offender yeah child rapist on your christmas tree yeah no there's a little fucked up yeah like we were talking about in a previous podcast trying too hard doesn't work you know there are just some things that are just in bad taste yeah and you just yeah you shouldn't put that on my christmas tree i don't want to see that shit yeah yeah like you know find your find your humor somewhere else so anyway that's a whole other topic i don't need to get into that that's a bummer no i was just a fuck yeah like i said i was i was just talking the powerful elite Family. Yeah, money. You have the money. The power elite control the media, which let us know what they want to know. But that's the thing. Like I said, the good thing about today's world, especially in the United States, we have all these independent journalists. They blog.
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You don't need credentials to be a reporter now. You can just go find out shit, and a lot of people do that, and they don't work necessarily for a big publication that's bought and sold. Yeah, there was a good podcast recently on Rogan, Joe Rogan's podcast, and I forgot who it was, but it was just one of the recent ones. But it was a guy who basically wrote a book about what we're being fed through the media and the big difference between when we were growing up in, say, the 80s and 70s and 60s where the news was a family affair. You gather around the TV and you watch the news, and the news was only on certain times. Yeah, certain channels. And the news was basically a statement of facts for the most part. It wasn't editorialized and opinion-based. It was a lot of, this is what's going on in today's world, right? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So the big difference today now is you have news networks that are on 24-7, and they cater to one side of the thing. And what gets people to watch it is spreading fear and hatred about the other side. And all of a sudden, there's this huge divide now. So you guys out there that listen to like a Fox News or an NBC, you know, both sides of the fence, that's where if you're only getting your information from Fox News and you're getting pissed off and more pissed off and more pissed off, that's them just feeding you. Just Fox News knows what they're doing. They're trying to get you worked up. They want you to hate the left. And then on the other side, they're doing the same thing. They're feeding you to, and you want to watch more, and you've got to watch more. Yep. And that's killing compromise in general. No, you're right. You know how people hate each other now. Yeah. There's so much anger and hate now because of that. I often wonder that about some of these, like, real big personalities that make lots of money. like say like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or whatever, right? Like at the end of the day, they might go home and just say, I don't really give a shit what the left does. Right. You know what I mean? Like because they're just doing it because they know they're going to make a shit ton of money. And like you said, rile up the base. It's not even like a clear statement of facts. It's 100% opinion on both sides now. Yep. And whatever facts they have, they can distort it any way they want to get you riled up. And it's kind of the death of news. In general, because there are no fair and partial news entities anymore because there's no money in being fair. Correct. That's what I was saying. Like, there's so much money in riling up the bases. Yes. And you know who comes to mind? Roger Stone, who just got indicted. You know who Roger Stone is? No. So Roger Stone, he doesn't have a title. He's been helping out since the Nixon administration, okay? So here's, if you guys haven't, if you guys don't know anything about Roger Stone, this is going to blow your mind. So Roger Stone has helped every Republican president pretty much since Nixon. He has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. What? He's kind of the, he's in the fitness and stuff. He's obviously this older guy now because he's been around ever for politics, right? And no one really knew much about him until Trump because he got hooked up with Trump and he was helping Trump with his campaign too. He doesn't have a title. He's kind of like a PR guy. He's very charismatic.
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This is the most messed up thing. He's been married. He's married for many years, right? But he's bisexual, and he brings men into his relationship, right? This was exposed. So he's part of the Republican Party. Yeah. A lot of them hate gay people. Sure.
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He's basically very flamboyant and stuff, right? And actually, if you didn't know he was married when you met him, you'd be like, oh, that guy might be gay. Whatever. No big deal. but for a lot of people it's crazy. But he doesn't care because he's just making money. It's just, it's really, and there was a documentary on that where I learned about him on Netflix, and I looked more into it, and now he just got, he's part of that whole impeachment thing, and he actually just got indicted for some shit. Oh, Jesus Christ. It's pretty neat, though. That's crazy. Yeah. No, he is an interesting, interesting guy. He's super flamboyant, super charismatic, so you'd be like, oh, maybe he's with the Democrats. No, he's... That's crazy. Yes, yes, it is.
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And he's helped all these guys win. Yeah. But he's just a spin doctor. You listen to this guy talk. Yeah. He has the smooth... Oh, it's so entertaining to listen to him give a speech about anything.
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Yeah, Roger Stone, look it up. Very, very cool. So crazy. Yeah. That's what I'm saying, though. But that was to your point about, you know, he doesn't give a shit about, you know, Republican policy or whatever. He just happened to latch onto that. He liked Nixon back whenever. And now he just makes a shit ton of money doing what he does. Yeah. You know, so. Yeah. So check out that Rogan podcast, too. I thought it was very, very interesting. Kind of refocuses the attention on what are we watching, you know? Don't watch that shit. That shit's no good for you. No, none of it is. It's all editorialized. It's not fact. It's there to rile you up.
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Be smarter, people. Get away from that shit. Me personally, I have the USA Today app because you open it up. I mean, there's some opinion pieces, obviously, like any news. But it just gives you the news stories. Oh, the shooting happened. That's all I want. This happened in the world. Whatever.
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Yeah, they say that part of the reason why Joe Rogan's the number one podcast is because he will bring in people and just have conversations with them, and he won't slant it one way or the other. Sure. And this guy was like, there's a reason why you're number one, Joe. And he was like, what? I'm a fucking idiot commentary comedian who does UFC fight page commentary. Like, you don't want to know what I think. And he's like, well, you're growing because you're fair and pretty much balanced as far as who you let on your show, and you just have a normal conversation with them. So everybody's listening to him. That's a good way of getting news. Well, because now it's not the norm. Right. Now he's the outlier. He's doing the different thing. He's just like, oh, yeah, I don't want to editorialize shit. He's like, I want to learn shit. Teach me what you want me to learn, and then I'll take what I think is bullshit, and I'll just say it's bullshit. But, yeah, he was just like, are you kidding me? I'm a fucking comedian. What are you talking about? I'm not. And that quote that's been floating around Facebook, and I don't even know if he really said it, but that Morgan Freeman quote where he said, I may disagree with you, but it doesn't mean I hate you. We need to relearn that in society. Oh, sure. Which is true, because everyone's like, oh, you're a Republican? I hate you. You're a Democrat? I hate you. Yeah. Why? Yeah. Just because you guys have differing views on some political shit? I really don't believe that someone who's a Republican or someone who's a Democrat, even the hardest core of them, can't possibly believe every single thing that comes out of the Republican Party. I just can't believe it. But some of them do. It's nutty. I know. Like they don't have their own opinions. No, I'm with you. I've been saying that for years. I'm like, you know, I've always been kind of a moderate, middle-of-the-road guy. And, yeah, when I hear all this stuff, I'm just like. You can use common sense on a lot of shit. Nope. Not these people. No. No, you're right because they do. They're like, oh, you're a Democrat? Yeah, I'm automatically against you. well why are you a republican i'm automatically against you that's bullshit you know it's just garbage it is garbage in garbage out yeah it's just toxic and that's why i've also said you know the two-party system has to go you know they just need to throw everyone in the ring throw it all into the one-party family system sure just vote for the family the family's running the show they'll take care of you guys don't worry yeah they got lots of money yeah trust me I'm a doctor. You know, whatever. Well, this was a fucking hoot. Yeah. Yeah, we got off on a political rampage. Rampage. Well, let's call it. Let's call it. That was a good one. Thanks, guys, for listening. Maybe next week we'll talk some more Mandalorian. There you go. Later, guys. See ya.