Conspiracy! The Show 313: The Killing of a Health Insurance CEO

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Hey everybody, welcome to
Conspiracy the Show.

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I’m your host, Adam Todd Brown,
joining me as Co host this week.

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Connor’s here.
Connor, how’s it going?

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What’s up fellas and lady?
Fellas?

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I don’t know why I went with
fellas.

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I mean, I’m sure the boys are
listening, all our boys.

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Well, it’s your boy Connor, AKA
Adam Todd Pink, because if

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everyone got to pick their
colors, we’d all be Adam Todd

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Black.
We’re talking about some shit

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this week.
I know this was the feel good

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story of the year, Adam.
This was like solely

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Sullenberger for 2024.
That’s where we’re at now as a

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culture, that this is now the
everybody.

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Like hoorah, come on, one for
the little guy.

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Yeah, people had strong feelings
about this on both sides of the

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argument, but I feel like more
on one side.

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Mostly the one side, there’s
fewer people who are like, oh,

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well then think about the CEOs.
I mean, they’re just trying to

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enjoy their Wolfgang Puck
catered lunches.

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I don’t know.
It’s, it’s, it’s hard for me

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because I’ve worked in
television now for enough years

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where I’ve met a lot of these
billionaire lizard brain fucks

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and they’re just awful.
You can’t.

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There’s they’re completely
disposable human beings.

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Yeah, and when you’re, I should
mention we’re talking about the.

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United Healthcare CEO.
United Healthcare CEO Brian

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Thompson.
When it’s really got us all

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united, hasn’t it?
I think what people got to

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understand is different about
this guy is it’s an insurance

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company.
They kind of specialize in

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letting people die for profit.
This is kind of the game.

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Yeah.
And so that’s going to come back

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to bite you at some point.
Like it doesn’t need to be that

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way.
It’s an extreme way.

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It would be great if it came
back to bite him legislatively,

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although I don’t that doesn’t
seem to be any any danger of

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happening.
Never.

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It could come back to bite you
legislatively or ballistically

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is the other way.
Yeah, I mean, I would prefer

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legislatively.
It would be.

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Better if people weren’t being
sent into debt because they get

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sick.
That’s fucking insane.

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And no one here is outright
endorsing any kind of violence.

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Not outright.
No, I mean, I’m not trying to

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get a fucking stun grenade
thrown through my window.

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I’m not fucking telling people
no.

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Don’t take any fucking advice
from me.

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No, and especially not me,
because I only know about 30% of

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what Adam knows.
Yeah, I mean, unless you want to

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know about the CIA in Jonestown
or.

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Where Elvis really was.
Yeah.

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The spoiler alert, it wasn’t a
coffin.

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Yeah, that you can listen to me
on.

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But yeah, don’t, don’t take your
violence directions for me,

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that’s for sure.
I mean, they’re already hitting

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us with a low grade amount of
Havana Syndrome, Adam.

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So the worst, they really do, I
think, for this podcast is turn

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up the radio waves 1020%.
Yeah, and I feel like I could

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handle that.
I don’t have enough fillings in

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my teeth for it to be a big
issue.

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I drink enough Celsius, I got to
figure the preservatives in that

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is going to stop any kind of
government nonsense.

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So I am glad we waited to record
this when we did.

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Otherwise this would just be
completely irrelevant.

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A useless time capsule.
Yeah, there was a whole bunch of

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mystery around who did this and
what the motive was.

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I mean, I was keeping not, I
don’t want to say hope, but I

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was keeping the option open that
maybe this was someone just

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wanted to murder this guy for
personal reasons.

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He fucked my wife.
Yeah, but he was like, just make

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it look like a disgruntled
patient or consumer.

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Or the VP of United Healthcare,
since she’s got some better

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ideas, you know?
But they did find the shooter

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this morning as we record this
26 year old Luigi Mangione.

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Yeah, no word yet from his
father.

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Pizza.
Lasagna.

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Yeah, that sounds like a fake
name.

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My other son, Alfredo Spaghetti,
he is such a good boy.

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And there have been details
trickling out about Luigi, and

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we’ll talk about him in a little
bit, but it seems like he’s the

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guy.
At this point it would be rather

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weird.
It would be like someone was

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doing the best United Healthcare
Murderer alternative Reality

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game Halloween costume where
they’re like I’m going to

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cosplay this guy and see if the
cops will catch a fake version

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of him.
Yeah, they found a manifesto

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about the healthcare industry on
him.

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I feel like at that point it’s
like, well, then you’re dead the

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rights, but you’re, he’s dead
the rights anyway and you might

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as well have the manifesto.
I mean, you got to get your bars

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off.
Although are they going to

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publish it?
That’s a question.

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This guy’s got mirrors though.
He’s got that shit hosted on

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fucking Rapid Gate or somewhere
in Ukraine.

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Someone.
Yeah, I think someone’s going to

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find it.
There’s no way he didn’t put it

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online for people to find.
I mean, you never know.

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I just one of these days you’re
going to be on their list of

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favorite podcasters, Adam.
I can feel it that.

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‘D be fine.
I appreciate the listens no

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matter where they come from.
A heck of a credit like you may

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have seen Adam on cracks.com and
the Christopher Dorner

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Manifesto.
So let’s talk about this

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shooting, how it unfolded, the
online reaction again, United

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Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson,
50 years old, shot and killed by

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a previously unknown assailant
on the morning of December 4th,

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2024.
I believe that is Jay-Z

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birthday, if I’m not mistaken.
Happy birthday Hove.

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Rockefeller diamonds up.
He shooter arrived outside the

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hotel about 10 minutes before
Thompson arrived.

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Do we feel like he maybe got
tipped off by someone?

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He must have known something.
I know he could have been

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stalking this guy, but how long
had this conference been going?

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Was it?
Was this like day one?

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I because I feel like you’re
either there for three hours,

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like staking it out, or you
know, when The thing is wrapping

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up.
Yeah, he definitely knew when to

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be there because he showed up
like 10 minutes early and

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there’s footage of him just
walking around hitting a

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Starbucks.
No, no wonder that like women on

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Twitter have such a crush on
this guy.

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He’s he’s got the good looks,
he’s anti corporate, he’s very

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punctual.
He is he’s going to be is where

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he says he’s going to be when he
says he’s going to be there.

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That’s nice.
Imagine being on the verge of

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assassinating someone
essentially and you’re like, I

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could go for an energy bar
though me dip into the

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Starbucks, get the get the blood
sugar up.

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I guess like every, well, at a
certain point you got to be

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like, I’m exposing myself to
like all this risk.

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Just every single corporate
store you walk into is it is

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another level of assumption of
risk because of all the cameras

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and surveillance and shit in
there.

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But you’re like, wait, what?
Am I going to fucking do this

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shit while I’m light headed?
No, you get a granola bar.

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How about the, I’m sure you’ve
seen the video of the shooting.

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How about that person that’s
just standing there?

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That would be, Oh yeah, intense.
Yes, kind of like the guy

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working the camera when Bud
Dwyer shot himself in the head.

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Oh fuck.
Yeah, have you ever seen the Bud

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Wire documentary?
I haven’t.

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I haven’t reached that level of
depression yet.

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It’s sad that dude got set up
like he was not guilty of the

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things they accused him of that
made him kill himself.

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But anyway, when Thompson
arrived, he walked toward the

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hotel entrance.
Mangione approaches from behind,

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fired at least three shots.
We’re not used to using his full

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name yet, so I immediately
pictured Chuck Mangione from

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King of the Hill with like,
opening up his like fucking

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flugelhorn case and pulling out
the gun.

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Sorry, sorry.
What if they’re related?

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Mr. Mangione and his soft jazz
stylings would like to.

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That’s how you know you’re soft
is when you need a softer

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version of the softest genre of
music.

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It condemn in the strongest
possible terms the actions of my

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nephew Luigi.
I mean it’s possible.

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His brother Mario is a good egg.
I would have expected this from

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his cousin, Waluigi Mangione.
OK, I’m done.

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I’m done.
I’m really done.

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So the video of him shooting
that gun, it looked weird.

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There was all sorts of
speculation about what kind of

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gun it was, and one interesting
theory was that it was a

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veterinary gun.
Sounds like some real like No

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Country for Old men shit.
This is like, oh, this is like

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what Barry would use.
Yeah, apparently it’s a gun

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that’s capable of firing 9mm
bullets, but also doing it

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without making a loud noise.
Does you got to kill your horse,

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but you can’t wake up your
chickens?

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I guess I don’t.
I mean.

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It was pointed out that no one
really intervened after he shot

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this guy.
Like there was no one who was

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like I’m going to fucking play
hero right now and tackle this

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dude and they think it might be
because no one really heard it

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the way you would normally hear
someone getting shot 3 times.

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OK, it was like a more, it
wasn’t like a gunshotty noise.

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It was like three loud clacks of
some kind.

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Yeah, so now imagine you’re that
person standing there.

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You just hear like you’re like,
hey, what was that?

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Holy shit.
Was that a laser?

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On the video it it looks like
the gun jams and he very fucking

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calmly clears that.
Yeah, this was a guy who

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practiced on a pumpkin, you
know, in the ruins of whatever

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life he came from to do this.
It’s going to be very

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interesting to hear the story of
like, whatever this guy’s

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answered, what whoever the fuck
was going through, you know,

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that motivated him to do this.
If it was him, himself or.

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Yeah, I am really interested to
hear all of that.

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I was sure this was going to at
least be a military guy.

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With how professional it was,
you know it had had some doormy.

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Like you mentioned Barry, it
seemed like kind of a Barry

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shooting where he’s using this
weird ass gun.

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Apparently he they think he
maybe 3D printed the gun and

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that it was just a gun with a
silencer.

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Maybe not a veterinary gun.
Maybe he 3D printed a veterinary

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gun.
I don’t know.

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Maybe he just did it for the
pussy and didn’t realize that

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he’s going to be in prison with
a bunch of dudes.

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You can conjugal visits if
you’re an assassin.

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That seems like something they
would cut out.

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Yeah, yeah.
I don’t know.

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Do they even?
Yeah, I’m sure they still allow

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those.
That has to be a thing.

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And then we crack down on
prisoners having any fun or

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semblance of joy in their lives
in this country.

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So who knows Like.
Look, we’re not going to take

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away the slave labor, but we
that means we can’t take away

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the pussy either.
Come on, it’s a delicate

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ecosystem.
Exactly.

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So after he shoots Thompson, he
runs across the street, gets on

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an E bike very environmentally
conscious of him, and then

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disappears into Central Park.
And that’s where the trail went

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cold at first.
He’s punctual, he’s into biking.

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Good looking all, obviously he’s
an excellent planner.

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Clearly, Yeah.
He’s the catch.

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Oh, and we have to mention the
bullets.

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Yeah, this was really cool,
writing something on shell

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casings.
I mean that that’s a really just

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a strong move in general.
Yeah, he wrote.

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Deny, Defend, Depose on three
different shell casings, one

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word each, I’m assuming.
Like if you shot yourself three

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times in the head and then they
said fuck you, Brenda.

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Yeah, that is probably a play on
delay.

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Deny, defend why insurance
companies don’t pay claims and

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what you can do about it.
A 2010 expose of the insurance

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industry.
Thompson’s wife said he’d been

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getting threats, but she said
she wasn’t sure exactly over

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what, but something about denied
coverage.

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There’s got to be such a large
degree of like what I can only

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describe as background radiation
for like public hate.

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When you’re in that position
that you like, you probably tune

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out a certain amount of death
threats is just like baseline.

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It’s like how those are always
coming in.

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Yeah, I’m sure.
I mean every comedian I know

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with more than 30,000 followers
is fielding death threats all

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day I’m sure.
Yeah, yeah, there’s got that’s

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got to kind of come with the
laboratory when again, you are

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in charge of a company that
sometimes lets people die over

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technicalities and things of the
like.

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That will elicit some death
threats for sure, and sometimes

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some shootings.
Apparently it turns out people

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are pretty upset about the state
of health insurance in this

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country, even with Obamacare
which fixed everything.

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Exactly.
Even with the premium being

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covered for people who can’t
afford it, there’s still

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deductibles, co-pays, Co
insurance, all of that shit that

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you still have to come up off if
you get sick.

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You got to come up with it.
Yeah, so.

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Yeah, it’s not surprising that
people have gotten to this

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point.
I’m almost like some of these

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things, like car accidents, I’m
surprised with the way people

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text and drive, how fucking
like, you know, distracted and

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checked out and on drugs.
Everybody that I’ve ever met is

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all the time that there’s not a
fucking car accident every

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second of every day.
The horrible, horrible horrors

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of corporate America being as
they are, you’d think that like,

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these people would be bleeding
in the streets every Thursday.

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So it’s kind of crazy that it
like is a huge, I don’t know, at

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least to feel that way to me
that it’s like so kind of rare

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that someone actually does take
this into their own hands.

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But I don’t know, I don’t, it’s
kind of hard to blame someone

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for feeling that electoral
politics has failed them at this

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point.
You know, when we said we were

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going to fix this with Obamacare
in 2008, and that was supposed

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to be like a big first step and
it didn’t happen till halfway

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through 2010.
And then it was kind of lame.

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And then we fucked it up for
like a decade and a half.

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It’s like, well, what do you
think?

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Yeah, you.
Think we’re going to write

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another letter to Elizabeth
Warren?

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Yeah, we talked about this on
the You Don’t Even Like the Show

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podcast this week also, but very
briefly.

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And Jeff mentioned he’s been
saying for a couple years now

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that he’s surprised there’s not
like been a punisher type of

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person out there who just went
after CEOs or health insurance

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people.
I see it as a growing

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demographic.
Yeah, I would be surprised if

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this this doesn’t continue
because especially given the

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reaction he got online, that’s
going to spark the interest of a

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lot of people who are looking
for exactly that sort of

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attention.
And we do got all these guns.

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There’s so many.
Yeah, that’s true.

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We just have them lying around.
Yeah, what are we going to do

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with them all?
We got like 8 guns for every

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guy.
Yeah, that’s when guns will be

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made illegal.
When fucking corporate America

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starts getting it, then there’ll
be action on guns.

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Yeah, I, I know a bunch of a
bunch of kids at Sandy Hook.

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It’s like, well, you know, the
hunters, 8 white guys with a net

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worth equal to that of Rhode
Island.

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Well, OK.
I mean, because these guns are,

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I mean, it’s the 21st century.
Yeah.

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Exactly, And then they’ll just
move to like lobby to loosen gun

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laws in other countries so they
can just sell them a little more

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freely there.
So yeah, the online reaction to

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this, it was a lot of jokes
about pre-existing conditions,

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which you’re going to have to
see that coming.

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And on the other side of that, a
lot of people being highly

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offended that people were making
those jokes.

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I said also on you don’t even
like the show episode.

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I’m not really a go on social
media and joke about someone

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dying or almost dying but I get
it when people do sometimes.

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You have no other outlets for
catharsis available to you, you

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know, You see one of the people
fucking you over get their

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fucking head exploded.
It’s like, well wait, can I

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never celebrate?
Yeah, and I mean, people do

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celebrate death and murder, like
whenever, you know, a serial

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killer dies.
When Jeffrey Dahmer got beat to

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death in prison, there were
jokes about that.

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No one was mad.
This guy kind of put up more

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numbers than Jeffrey Dahmer,
just in a different way, you

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know?
Well, it’s a much like, I don’t

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know, he’s been picked better
targets.

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I think we can all agree on
that.

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Yeah, that’s a good point.
Definitely a process killer as

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opposed to a product killer
there.

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Yeah.
This guy, I hope he’s, I hope

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he’s, I hope he’s like, damn,
made it all the way.

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Where’d they catch him in Texas?
Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania.
Like, damn, Yeah, I made it all

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the way to Pennsylvania.
Not bad, Luigi.

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Yeah, caught in a McDonald’s.
Someone recognized his face.

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Well, maybe he wouldn’t be sick
if he would eat some real food,

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Adam.
So maybe it’s his fault.

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Yeah, not taking care of
himself.

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It’s a great point.
According to the BBC, they did a

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kind of deep dive into all of
the online response.

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This was the one issue seemingly
in 2024 that was able to unite

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the left and the right.
They said it just covered the

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entire political spectrum in
terms of people who were like,

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fucking had it coming.
Yeah, like I said, it’s the feel

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good story of the year.
And that makes sense because the

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way insurance companies kill
people, it doesn’t really

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discriminate.
I mean, it does in that if

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you’re rich, it doesn’t matter.
Like none of this is going to

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matter.
You can just pay for your

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healthcare and you don’t give a
shit.

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But everyone else, I don’t know
what the level of rich you have

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to be to where medical debt
couldn’t ruin your life, but you

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got to be pretty fucking rich
beyond that, if you get the

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wrong illness, no matter how
much money you got, the way

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health insurance works right
now, you’re going to give most

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of that to the fucking doctors.
I didn’t realize I don’t have

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like Illuminati writers Guild
health insurance at the moment,

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but when I had it, I didn’t even
I didn’t realize how bad just

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regular like my parents Kaiser
health insurance that I had till

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I was 26 was was like, oh, I
didn’t realize that that is even

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pretty shitty until I had like
the good stuff and then knowing

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there’s a level of care above
that.

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It’s like, you know, this guy,
his family’s like, oh, and it’s

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a shame.
He was, he was a little too far

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away from the Elysium pod.
If we could have gotten him into

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the tank full of a chlorophyllic
goo, we could have 3D printed

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him another liver and skin cells
for this whole thing would have

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been fine.
But it looked like, I don’t

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know, It’s, it’s like there’s
like, it used to be like, OK,

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there’s two Americas.
Now there’s now it’s, there’s

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like 4.
It’s like more, it’s like Mormon

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heaven.
And most of us are just in the

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bottom shit pile, you know,
crawling.

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I’ve worked for health insurance
companies before.

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I right before I quit to start
writing and doing comedy full

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time, I was working in health
insurance for more than 10

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years.
I didn’t know that’s what you

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were doing during that era.
Yeah.

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During the era of all your
Milwaukee concert stories.

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Yeah, that.
Was I did that for more than 10

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years and a lot of it was in
claims processing and these

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motherfuckers are as evil as
advertised.

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It’s not called medical coding
and chilling.

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Yeah, and here’s the thing.
Remember when Obamacare was

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being pushed and they were
talking about death panels?

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And yes, there’s going to be
this panel of people who review

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your case and decide if you live
or die.

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That already exists.
Every insurance company I’ve

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worked for has, it’s called the
medical review panel and they

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just if there’s a high dollar
claim that comes in, they

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fucking scour that claim and
look for reasons to not pay it.

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And it was especially easy when
pre-existing conditions were a

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thing.
You would get health insurance

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and say you had diabetes.
I don’t know if people know

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exactly how pre-existing
conditions work.

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You would have basically you
could get insurance, but that

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particular need would be
excluded from your coverage.

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So you could get health
insurance, you just couldn’t use

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it for your diabetes.
Be like a like a driver’s

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license you can’t use in Florida
or Arkansas.

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Yeah, it is an insane bargain
that people would have to make.

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Or you could go into what was
called the high risk pool.

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Any public pool likely to be
pissed?

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Which meant, yeah, we’ll give
you insurance, but it’s going to

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be like $1500 a month.
And this was in like early

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2000s.
Yeah, 2006 dollars.

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Yeah.
So I mean, Obamacare at least

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has removed that aspect from
health insurance, which is good,

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but now they just get around it
with prior authorization and

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shit like that and denying
claims that way.

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That’s an insurance company’s
job and every one of them has a

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team of nurses who are looking
at your claims to decide if

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there’s a reason they cannot pay
him.

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One of the examples that stands
out to me from when I worked in

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insurance.
This guy had a heart attack in

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Jamaica and obviously he’s not
cognizant to make his own

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decisions and what not.
So he has this heart attack in

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Jamaica, wakes up in Florida.
Turns out the care he needed

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wasn’t really available in
Jamaica, so they airlifted him

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to Florida.
And this health insurance

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company I worked for fought so
hard to not pay that helicopter

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bill because he didn’t get it
authorized.

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And it’s like, how is this man
supposed to get this authorized?

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He’s actively having a heart
attack.

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He’s not fucking John Mellencamp
who like Jane, smoked his way

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through a heart attack once and
they would just look for shit

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like that.
Did that guy end up getting it

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authorized?
I don’t think so.

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Like that carried on.
God, that’s crazy.

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Like it carried on for months
and months and it was like

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$15,000 which to that company
would have been fucking nothing

433
00:24:04,760 –> 00:24:06,920
to pay.
To that guy, now he’s an

434
00:24:06,920 –> 00:24:08,960
indentured servant for the rest
of his life.

435
00:24:09,440 –> 00:24:11,560
Yeah, and I mean, I had a heart
attack.

436
00:24:11,560 –> 00:24:15,760
I’m assuming he was older, like
probably maybe not even working

437
00:24:15,880 –> 00:24:17,840
anymore.
Like he doesn’t need a fucking

438
00:24:17,840 –> 00:24:21,160
$15,000 helicopter bill on his
hands.

439
00:24:21,280 –> 00:24:24,040
But that’s what these fucking
insurance companies do, yeah.

440
00:24:24,240 –> 00:24:28,600
We do health insurance, not so
much helicopter insurance,

441
00:24:32,000 –> 00:24:33,760
sorry.
I did.

442
00:24:33,840 –> 00:24:36,680
I mentioned this on the You
Don’t Even Like This Show

443
00:24:36,680 –> 00:24:40,920
episode, but there was another
instance where that same team of

444
00:24:40,920 –> 00:24:43,960
nurses, this guy took an
ambulance to the hospital.

445
00:24:44,080 –> 00:24:48,160
And one of these nurses wanted
to get medical records to see if

446
00:24:48,280 –> 00:24:52,000
it was possible that a friend or
family member could have driven

447
00:24:52,160 –> 00:24:55,480
them to the hospital instead of
them taking an ambulance.

448
00:24:55,520 –> 00:24:58,400
And it’s like.
Medical records of you having a

449
00:24:58,400 –> 00:25:00,480
friend.
We need proof that you don’t

450
00:25:00,480 –> 00:25:02,280
have friends that could have
driven you.

451
00:25:02,560 –> 00:25:03,680
Well, yeah.
Like what do I show you?

452
00:25:03,680 –> 00:25:07,240
My Warhammer 4K figure.
What the fuck do you want from

453
00:25:07,240 –> 00:25:08,520
me?
So it’s like when it’s like when

454
00:25:08,520 –> 00:25:11,000
they want me to prove my income
when I had no income.

455
00:25:11,000 –> 00:25:15,280
It’s like I pull out my pocket
and a family comes out.

456
00:25:15,280 –> 00:25:17,400
What do you what do I need?
How do I show this to you?

457
00:25:17,640 –> 00:25:21,200
So yeah, I get it.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone

458
00:25:21,200 –> 00:25:25,760
that people are this mad about
health insurance and healthcare

459
00:25:25,920 –> 00:25:28,160
in this country.
There was a whole Denzel

460
00:25:28,160 –> 00:25:32,560
Washington movie about it in the
early 2000s called John Q.

461
00:25:32,760 –> 00:25:34,480
And he doesn’t.
And he doesn’t get behind the

462
00:25:34,480 –> 00:25:36,360
fucking.
He doesn’t get behind something

463
00:25:36,360 –> 00:25:39,200
unless it’s got some juice.
All right, That’s a leading man.

464
00:25:39,360 –> 00:25:42,360
Yeah, goddamn right.
So that’s going to make people

465
00:25:42,360 –> 00:25:46,880
mad, putting a dollar value on
human lives.

466
00:25:47,040 –> 00:25:50,880
And it’s a form of violence in
and of itself.

467
00:25:51,080 –> 00:25:55,560
It’s happening from behind a
desk and by way of paperwork and

468
00:25:55,560 –> 00:25:59,800
shit, but that’s still pretty
violent to just let someone die

469
00:25:59,800 –> 00:26:03,840
because they didn’t request the
right authorization, didn’t go

470
00:26:03,840 –> 00:26:08,320
to the right doctor, any number
of things that medical claims

471
00:26:08,320 –> 00:26:10,960
get denied for all the time, all
the time.

472
00:26:11,160 –> 00:26:14,480
And we have a really strange
system which necessitates this

473
00:26:14,560 –> 00:26:17,800
enterprise in the 1st place
where I’m like somewhat

474
00:26:17,800 –> 00:26:20,800
sympathetic to the points in
general of someone going, well,

475
00:26:20,960 –> 00:26:24,320
X person didn’t do something, Y
person would just do it instead.

476
00:26:24,680 –> 00:26:28,080
But it’s more about like, why?
Why are we doing X thing when we

477
00:26:28,160 –> 00:26:30,720
could be doing Y thing?
Like it, it really, it really

478
00:26:30,720 –> 00:26:35,720
makes no sense to have like a a
private system of healthcare

479
00:26:35,720 –> 00:26:39,920
like we have.
There’s no meaningful alteration

480
00:26:39,920 –> 00:26:43,040
or debate around addressing it.
I don’t know.

481
00:26:43,040 –> 00:26:45,480
This is like, it’s kind of like
what’s like, why are people in

482
00:26:45,480 –> 00:26:47,600
Hamas?
Well, did anything else work

483
00:26:47,600 –> 00:26:49,080
ever?
Yeah.

484
00:26:49,120 –> 00:26:52,640
Is are we literally down to like
some Dark Knight Returns?

485
00:26:52,640 –> 00:26:54,240
You can’t kill an idea.
Shit.

486
00:26:54,400 –> 00:26:56,160
Perhaps.
Yeah, yeah.

487
00:26:56,160 –> 00:27:00,520
I mean, people are going to get
fucking desperate and shit like

488
00:27:00,520 –> 00:27:03,880
this is going to happen.
It’s I feel like I’m repeating

489
00:27:03,880 –> 00:27:05,800
the same point over and over
again, but I mean, it’s just

490
00:27:05,800 –> 00:27:08,320
probably the same circuitous,
madding conversation that would

491
00:27:08,320 –> 00:27:11,160
lead someone to leave their
hometown to go kill a healthcare

492
00:27:11,160 –> 00:27:13,360
CEO.
You know it’s you just then find

493
00:27:13,360 –> 00:27:17,040
yourself talking in circles
about your ever shrinking wallet

494
00:27:17,040 –> 00:27:18,160
and life.
Yeah.

495
00:27:18,320 –> 00:27:24,320
So Mangione, after he committed
this shooting, gets on a bus, it

496
00:27:24,320 –> 00:27:28,080
seems from the Port Authority,
seems like he went straight to

497
00:27:28,080 –> 00:27:32,360
Altoona because he they said he
arrived in Altoona on a

498
00:27:32,360 –> 00:27:35,200
Greyhound bus.
He took a cab to the Port

499
00:27:35,200 –> 00:27:37,440
Authority in New York and
that’s.

500
00:27:37,440 –> 00:27:38,960
Sounds like a song from
Nebraska.

501
00:27:38,960 –> 00:27:42,080
He arrived in Altoona on a
Greyhound bus.

502
00:27:42,840 –> 00:27:44,560
Yeah, it does.
And ex.

503
00:27:44,560 –> 00:27:47,320
Wife in the rear view.
Yeah, I’m wearing a Steve Earle

504
00:27:47,320 –> 00:27:49,480
shirt right now.
If anyone’s going to write a

505
00:27:49,480 –> 00:27:53,400
song about this dude, it’ll be
the guy called.

506
00:27:53,400 –> 00:27:55,640
Copper.
Well, yeah, you wrote Copperhead

507
00:27:55,640 –> 00:28:00,760
Rd., but also John Walker’s
Blues, which was a song about

508
00:28:00,760 –> 00:28:05,200
that American Taliban kid and I.
Was I was just going to say it’s

509
00:28:05,200 –> 00:28:06,680
going to be called Copperhead
showed.

510
00:28:06,680 –> 00:28:09,560
But because this guy’s a huge
chode.

511
00:28:09,840 –> 00:28:12,400
Yeah.
So yeah, for a while there, they

512
00:28:12,400 –> 00:28:15,120
thought the gun he used was
purchased in Connecticut.

513
00:28:15,240 –> 00:28:19,400
And Nope, just someone else
happened to buy a similar gun in

514
00:28:19,440 –> 00:28:21,240
Connecticut around the same
time.

515
00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:26,120
They got lots of surveillance
video of this guy, but it was

516
00:28:26,120 –> 00:28:30,920
also pretty clear that he at
least somewhat understood the

517
00:28:30,920 –> 00:28:34,400
surveillance state and how it
works.

518
00:28:34,560 –> 00:28:40,120
He did a mostly good job of
keeping his face covered, Which.

519
00:28:40,120 –> 00:28:42,360
Yeah, they they said he only
lowered his mask.

520
00:28:42,680 –> 00:28:46,480
For what reason?
Yeah, the way we got a picture

521
00:28:46,480 –> 00:28:50,880
of his whole face is he was
flirting with a girl at the

522
00:28:50,880 –> 00:28:54,080
front counter of the hostel he
checked into.

523
00:28:54,240 –> 00:28:57,520
Respect.
She apparently said she wanted

524
00:28:57,520 –> 00:29:01,080
to see his smile, so he took the
mask down.

525
00:29:01,240 –> 00:29:04,680
And I feel like that’s kind of
how he got caught.

526
00:29:04,840 –> 00:29:10,440
I don’t know.
Death fire is his dad before he

527
00:29:10,440 –> 00:29:14,080
went to go kill him was like
damn it son I can’t stop you

528
00:29:14,080 –> 00:29:16,320
from trying to avenge what they
did to mom.

529
00:29:16,640 –> 00:29:20,480
But don’t go chasing pussy and
getting yourself in trouble now.

530
00:29:21,360 –> 00:29:24,320
I won’t, Dad, I’ll just kill him
and come right back.

531
00:29:25,960 –> 00:29:30,160
So I read an interview with a
former bodyguard of Ryan

532
00:29:30,160 –> 00:29:34,840
Thompson, and he said it was
kind of baffling that there was

533
00:29:34,840 –> 00:29:39,200
no security around this guy.
Which when I read that, that was

534
00:29:39,200 –> 00:29:42,760
another thing that made me for a
second think like, and maybe

535
00:29:42,760 –> 00:29:46,520
someone killed him for something
else and just trying to make it

536
00:29:46,520 –> 00:29:48,560
look like it’s an angry
consumer.

537
00:29:48,560 –> 00:29:50,840
But clearly that’s what got him
killed.

538
00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:52,760
Yeah, they’re going to.
They’re going to try to paint

539
00:29:52,760 –> 00:29:55,800
this guy’s motives like, yeah,
yeah, this guy’s a huge fan.

540
00:29:55,960 –> 00:29:57,360
Kaiser.
I don’t know.

541
00:29:57,360 –> 00:29:59,920
It’s weird.
No one knows what he’s mad

542
00:29:59,920 –> 00:30:01,880
about.
Fucking bozo.

543
00:30:02,080 –> 00:30:05,760
This is a quote from Philip
Klein, that former bodyguard

544
00:30:05,840 –> 00:30:09,280
speaking to CNN.
It was baffling to be honest

545
00:30:09,280 –> 00:30:10,840
with you.
You know, you get it.

546
00:30:10,840 –> 00:30:13,600
Somebody in the number one
healthcare organization in the

547
00:30:13,600 –> 00:30:16,720
United States of America who is
a corporate executive, a

548
00:30:16,920 –> 00:30:20,640
high-ranking one as a matter of
fact, and he has no protection

549
00:30:20,640 –> 00:30:22,520
around him.
That is just baffling.

550
00:30:22,800 –> 00:30:24,880
End Quote.
Oh, he’s highly ranked, all

551
00:30:24,880 –> 00:30:28,240
right, but high-ranking.
Yeah, that one.

552
00:30:28,240 –> 00:30:30,960
That was that one’s for the the
gathering of English professors

553
00:30:30,960 –> 00:30:33,680
next week.
Maybe his prior authorization

554
00:30:33,680 –> 00:30:35,920
for security got turned down,
you know.

555
00:30:37,160 –> 00:30:39,400
Should be.
Maybe he had a pre-existing

556
00:30:39,560 –> 00:30:42,280
condition of being a cocky dumb
fuck he didn’t think he was

557
00:30:42,280 –> 00:30:45,520
going to get got.
And the other speculation is

558
00:30:45,520 –> 00:30:49,120
that maybe it was just a
personal choice and he didn’t

559
00:30:49,120 –> 00:30:52,840
like having security follow him
around, which should have gotten

560
00:30:52,840 –> 00:30:55,320
used to it bud.
I actually like being dead

561
00:30:56,840 –> 00:30:59,000
killer.
It’s like more more of an open

562
00:30:59,000 –> 00:31:01,160
concept.
What did you think about the

563
00:31:01,360 –> 00:31:04,640
backpack when they found the
backpack in Central Park and it

564
00:31:04,640 –> 00:31:06,520
was just stuffed with Monopoly
money?

565
00:31:06,680 –> 00:31:11,880
I mean, again, the guy rules.
He he was playing to the he was

566
00:31:11,880 –> 00:31:14,520
like, he every every moment
where he had an opportunity to

567
00:31:14,520 –> 00:31:17,240
make this fun for us, he did.
He wrote some fun stuff on the

568
00:31:17,240 –> 00:31:20,600
bullet casings left behind the
bullshit clue full of a

569
00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:24,120
disrespectful prop.
I mean, you know, it’s just it’s

570
00:31:24,120 –> 00:31:26,080
great.
Yeah, it reminds me a lot of

571
00:31:26,080 –> 00:31:28,760
Colton Harris Moore, the
Barefoot bandit that took his

572
00:31:28,760 –> 00:31:32,080
own mug shot when he used to go
rob like rich families in Santa

573
00:31:32,080 –> 00:31:33,720
Barbara and steal airplanes and
shit.

574
00:31:33,880 –> 00:31:37,000
Yeah, yeah, he definitely put on
a show.

575
00:31:37,120 –> 00:31:41,480
Also Speaking of Santa Barbara,
this guy’s last employment was

576
00:31:41,480 –> 00:31:44,560
in Santa Monica, apparently.
Oh no shit.

577
00:31:44,560 –> 00:31:48,280
I might have fucking bumped into
him at the what’s the mall out

578
00:31:48,280 –> 00:31:49,440
there?
I don’t know, The Grove.

579
00:31:49,520 –> 00:31:50,960
I hate Santa Monica.
No.

580
00:31:51,520 –> 00:31:54,200
The Grove’s in the Fairfax, but
don’t they have one out there?

581
00:31:54,400 –> 00:31:55,800
Maybe not.
The 3rd St.

582
00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:58,880
Promenade is in, yeah.
The fucking 3rd St.

583
00:31:58,880 –> 00:32:01,480
Promenade.
Yeah, I lived in Santa Monica

584
00:32:01,480 –> 00:32:05,880
when I first moved to LA, but
it’s because my office was in

585
00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:10,040
Santa Monica and all I had ever
heard about LA was how fucking

586
00:32:10,040 –> 00:32:12,600
crazy the traffic was.
So I was like, I’m just going to

587
00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:16,080
live by my office and pay a
little more and not drive.

588
00:32:16,200 –> 00:32:19,640
And turned out to be a good
decision because I didn’t have a

589
00:32:19,640 –> 00:32:22,480
commute to fucking wear me out
when I first got to LA.

590
00:32:22,680 –> 00:32:25,640
The LA commute will kill you,
but let’s save that for our

591
00:32:25,720 –> 00:32:29,640
Local Gripes podcast.
That’s the next conspiracy for

592
00:32:29,640 –> 00:32:33,840
the show is all the LA anyway.
So yeah, the Monopoly money,

593
00:32:33,840 –> 00:32:36,080
that was a fun touch, that was.
Love that.

594
00:32:36,240 –> 00:32:39,680
Interesting, had a Tommy
Hilfiger jacket in there also.

595
00:32:39,680 –> 00:32:43,160
I don’t know if that was a
message or just fashion choice.

596
00:32:43,320 –> 00:32:45,400
Might have just been planning to
change jackets.

597
00:32:45,760 –> 00:32:51,760
Yeah, maybe he appreciates Tommy
Hilfiger stance on Axel Rose,

598
00:32:51,880 –> 00:32:55,760
which is that Tommy Hilfiger
punched Axel Rose in the fucking

599
00:32:55,760 –> 00:32:58,240
face once.
That is one of my favorite

600
00:32:58,240 –> 00:33:01,320
stories of all time.
That does rule, yeah.

601
00:33:01,880 –> 00:33:04,000
On what grounds?
I mean, I’m sure they were

602
00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:08,240
justified, but.
Axel Rose did something shitty

603
00:33:08,240 –> 00:33:12,080
toward Tommy Hilfiger’s
girlfriend, like moved her drink

604
00:33:12,080 –> 00:33:14,840
or something, or like knocked
her drink over and it turned

605
00:33:14,840 –> 00:33:17,440
into an argument and Tommy
Hilfiger fucking punched him in

606
00:33:17,440 –> 00:33:19,000
the face.
Fuck yeah, dude.

607
00:33:19,360 –> 00:33:21,360
Imagine getting beat up by Tommy
Hilfiger.

608
00:33:21,840 –> 00:33:24,600
That guy’s been stocked in the
mall since I was 5.

609
00:33:24,720 –> 00:33:26,160
All right?
You got to fight for that kind

610
00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:28,200
of placement.
A lot of brands have come and

611
00:33:28,200 –> 00:33:29,720
gone.
Remember Lucky Jeans?

612
00:33:29,760 –> 00:33:32,560
I don’t.
You remember Anchor Blue?

613
00:33:32,880 –> 00:33:34,200
Yeah.
Nobody does.

614
00:33:35,080 –> 00:33:39,120
So this shooting has health
insurance companies and their

615
00:33:39,120 –> 00:33:43,680
leadership types a little
nervous about, you know, also

616
00:33:43,920 –> 00:33:46,680
getting targeted.
It’s obviously not going to be

617
00:33:46,680 –> 00:33:52,000
this guy because he had to stop
at that McDonald’s in Altoona

618
00:33:52,120 –> 00:33:54,560
and just sit there and eat.
That is bold.

619
00:33:54,560 –> 00:33:57,920
Why not eat at home or in your
car or something?

620
00:33:58,120 –> 00:34:00,200
I don’t.
Know I mean, maybe he’s I don’t

621
00:34:00,200 –> 00:34:03,320
know how like not I don’t know
how planning on does it just

622
00:34:03,320 –> 00:34:05,360
seem like you could get away
with it like this guy was like,

623
00:34:05,360 –> 00:34:07,640
I’ll try to get away with it,
but I’m not going to go crazy

624
00:34:07,800 –> 00:34:10,840
like I don’t know.
Yeah, I’m not going to skip my

625
00:34:10,840 –> 00:34:14,360
Egg Mcmuffin at a certain.
Point I I guess I would probably

626
00:34:14,360 –> 00:34:16,440
feel like I’m a dead man.
My legs are tired.

627
00:34:16,480 –> 00:34:17,600
I’m tired of being in this
fucking car.

628
00:34:17,600 –> 00:34:18,800
I’m going to eat this fucking
Mcmuffin.

629
00:34:19,880 –> 00:34:23,360
Yeah, could be.
But now all of these insurance

630
00:34:23,360 –> 00:34:28,679
companies are removing all of
their leadership information

631
00:34:28,840 –> 00:34:31,400
from their websites.
United Health Group, for

632
00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:35,760
example, remove the Our Leaders
page from their site.

633
00:34:35,920 –> 00:34:37,880
I mean they got to update it if
nothing else.

634
00:34:38,480 –> 00:34:39,920
I got to say, this is just
smart.

635
00:34:40,239 –> 00:34:42,880
This is just good.
Good webmastering?

636
00:34:42,960 –> 00:34:45,600
Really.
I mean, it was dumb to have your

637
00:34:45,600 –> 00:34:48,440
leadership information out there
in the first place.

638
00:34:48,639 –> 00:34:51,880
Yeah, yeah.
When you think about it, yeah.

639
00:34:52,040 –> 00:34:54,239
Do gun companies do that?
I bet they don’t.

640
00:34:54,480 –> 00:34:57,640
And was and the person who that
was for I guess like some

641
00:34:57,640 –> 00:35:00,440
fucking boring fundamental
investor who’s like going on

642
00:35:00,440 –> 00:35:03,440
their website, like let me see,
do I know anyone that you know

643
00:35:03,560 –> 00:35:06,280
Bearman Stearns back from, you
know, Yale’s on the team or

644
00:35:06,280 –> 00:35:08,160
whatever.
Like that person will just

645
00:35:08,160 –> 00:35:11,480
fucking know this shit anyway,
you know they’re clued into that

646
00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:13,560
world.
Yeah, they could just make a

647
00:35:13,560 –> 00:35:17,520
call and get that information.
And that’s the thing, all of

648
00:35:17,520 –> 00:35:20,840
this information is public.
If you’re a corporation, your

649
00:35:20,840 –> 00:35:25,240
leadership information is out
there, but it is still smart of

650
00:35:25,240 –> 00:35:27,960
them to go in and remove it from
their website.

651
00:35:27,960 –> 00:35:30,040
At least make it a challenge to
find.

652
00:35:30,040 –> 00:35:31,840
There’s a bunch of these guys.
You know what they’ve been

653
00:35:31,840 –> 00:35:34,160
Googling all days?
How do I get my house off Google

654
00:35:34,160 –> 00:35:36,440
Earth?
Money is no object.

655
00:35:36,440 –> 00:35:37,680
How do I get my house off Google
Earth?

656
00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:42,520
I wonder if that is possible?
I I opened a YouTube video that

657
00:35:42,520 –> 00:35:46,600
seemed to suggest that there was
a cottage industry for doing it,

658
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:47,880
but I don’t.
I did not.

659
00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:49,720
I can’t give you any more info
than that.

660
00:35:49,920 –> 00:35:51,960
Curious.
Watch this space.

661
00:35:52,120 –> 00:35:55,560
You should at least be able to
request a fly over to change

662
00:35:55,680 –> 00:35:57,880
what it looks like.
Throw a big tarp over your house

663
00:35:57,880 –> 00:36:00,240
or something.
If you can cover the cost of the

664
00:36:00,240 –> 00:36:02,240
camera, it’s like, let me give
me, let me.

665
00:36:02,320 –> 00:36:04,200
They do another.
They let you redo your passport

666
00:36:04,200 –> 00:36:05,320
photo.
I mean, let me.

667
00:36:05,880 –> 00:36:07,840
What’s the difference?
Or you Google Street View.

668
00:36:07,840 –> 00:36:10,000
Sometimes you Google Street View
makes you look like a real

669
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:11,960
fucking white trash piece of
shit even though you’re a

670
00:36:12,080 –> 00:36:14,360
respectable family.
We don’t usually have cars on

671
00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:16,120
the lawn.
That was like a one day thing.

672
00:36:16,280 –> 00:36:19,720
I do love that when there’s just
shit happening in the Google

673
00:36:19,840 –> 00:36:23,480
Street View image.
Yeah, I got a couple getting

674
00:36:23,480 –> 00:36:26,680
divorced.
A guy washes his Civic.

675
00:36:26,880 –> 00:36:30,280
So yeah, a bunch of other
companies have done similar

676
00:36:30,280 –> 00:36:32,120
things.
Anthem, which is currently known

677
00:36:32,120 –> 00:36:35,920
as Elephants, redirected their
senior leadership page back to

678
00:36:35,920 –> 00:36:39,800
the company home page.
CVS Health, which owns Aetna, no

679
00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:42,920
longer includes pictures of
their leadership team, but

680
00:36:42,920 –> 00:36:45,560
again, that information’s
already out there.

681
00:36:45,720 –> 00:36:50,280
There was also a Midwest focused
insurer called Medica that is

682
00:36:50,280 –> 00:36:54,400
also based in Minnetonka, MN.
Shout out to the movie Purple

683
00:36:54,400 –> 00:36:56,280
Rain.
Just like United Healthcare.

684
00:36:56,400 –> 00:37:00,320
And they have temporarily closed
their headquarters until at

685
00:37:00,320 –> 00:37:04,640
least December 13th.
You know those employees are

686
00:37:04,640 –> 00:37:10,880
like fuck yes holy shit.
Work from home, rest of the

687
00:37:10,880 –> 00:37:14,600
month probably.
They’re on the Zoom call right

688
00:37:14,600 –> 00:37:19,720
now going Louie G Luigi.
It reminds me of what I like to

689
00:37:19,720 –> 00:37:24,200
call the golden age of terrorism
in the United States, which is

690
00:37:24,200 –> 00:37:28,880
when we had all these active
terror groups like the Weather

691
00:37:28,960 –> 00:37:32,120
Underground or whatever they
were called, but their whole

692
00:37:32,120 –> 00:37:36,720
thing was like blowing up
buildings after hours when there

693
00:37:36,720 –> 00:37:40,240
was no one inside, just to like
make a point as opposed to

694
00:37:40,240 –> 00:37:42,360
killing people.
Kind of like what the IRA would

695
00:37:42,360 –> 00:37:44,440
do.
Yeah, and like, imagine being

696
00:37:44,440 –> 00:37:47,840
one of those employees and walk
up and your workplace is just

697
00:37:47,880 –> 00:37:49,800
rubble.
You’re like, guess what?

698
00:37:49,920 –> 00:37:51,520
They off?
Hell yeah.

699
00:37:51,520 –> 00:37:54,560
And.
Get this, when we come back at

700
00:37:54,560 –> 00:37:56,840
the new building, we all get new
chairs.

701
00:37:57,880 –> 00:38:02,080
God, I hated those chairs.
So yeah, Merry Christmas to

702
00:38:02,080 –> 00:38:05,000
those employees getting to work
from home until the 13th.

703
00:38:05,120 –> 00:38:08,720
I bet they like that because
especially an area like that,

704
00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:12,840
the commute this time of year,
treacherous, treacherous.

705
00:38:13,040 –> 00:38:17,240
So I love this.
This is this is American as

706
00:38:17,240 –> 00:38:19,960
fuck.
The jacket this guy was wearing

707
00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:24,080
in these pictures has been
identified in his just flying

708
00:38:24,080 –> 00:38:26,720
off the shelves.
Because here’s what happened.

709
00:38:26,880 –> 00:38:29,360
Internet sleuths.
There are some good ones out

710
00:38:29,360 –> 00:38:34,440
there who actually do a decent
job of tracking down and

711
00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:38,600
identifying people.
They were very hesitant to take

712
00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:42,280
on this case or help the police
in any way.

713
00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:46,520
Here is a quote from Savannah
Sparks. 1.3 million followers.

714
00:38:46,680 –> 00:38:49,120
We’re pretty apathetic towards
that.

715
00:38:49,720 –> 00:38:54,080
And she also, when asked if she
thought others in her community

716
00:38:54,080 –> 00:38:57,320
were going to help, said
absolutely the fuck not.

717
00:38:57,400 –> 00:38:58,840
Damn.
Love to see it.

718
00:38:59,080 –> 00:39:04,000
There is also that Dinesh guy
2,000,000 followers on TikTok.

719
00:39:04,120 –> 00:39:06,840
His quote I don’t have to
encourage violence.

720
00:39:07,040 –> 00:39:10,480
I don’t have to condone violence
by any means, but I also don’t

721
00:39:10,480 –> 00:39:12,040
have to help.
End Quote.

722
00:39:12,200 –> 00:39:15,080
Fair, fairpoint.
Yeah, very, very fair.

723
00:39:15,240 –> 00:39:19,960
And the ones who have tried to
help are getting called snitches

724
00:39:20,360 –> 00:39:23,600
by their peers, like TikTok user
Tizzy Ant.

725
00:39:23,760 –> 00:39:26,840
Is that who?
Tweeted no, this was this this

726
00:39:27,320 –> 00:39:29,720
this this was some of the
strange people that kind of came

727
00:39:29,720 –> 00:39:33,720
out of the woodwork that are you
know, oh, I have something to

728
00:39:33,720 –> 00:39:35,960
contribute that could help to
find this person.

729
00:39:35,960 –> 00:39:39,200
You know like we see on social
media when stuff happens now is

730
00:39:39,200 –> 00:39:41,760
this guy comes out and he’s
like, I’m pretty sure I know

731
00:39:41,760 –> 00:39:43,960
which bike he used.
I think he rode it’s in Central

732
00:39:43,960 –> 00:39:46,680
Park.
It’s pretty much impossible that

733
00:39:46,680 –> 00:39:49,440
could be any other bike.
I know this because I happen to

734
00:39:49,440 –> 00:39:53,280
continuously you scrape city
bike data every minute and

735
00:39:53,280 –> 00:39:57,920
people were like, what?
And I guess he’s just some data

736
00:39:57,920 –> 00:39:59,240
nerd.
And I think he he was like, I

737
00:39:59,240 –> 00:40:01,600
had a wholesome data
visualization experiment in mind

738
00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,920
is what he said.
Like he was just going to know

739
00:40:03,920 –> 00:40:06,520
that people take the bike more
often during the summer time or

740
00:40:06,520 –> 00:40:08,720
some shit like that.
But he just was had all this

741
00:40:08,720 –> 00:40:11,040
data and then was like, oh fuck,
I can use this in like the crime

742
00:40:11,040 –> 00:40:13,200
of the.
The year or the decade or

743
00:40:13,200 –> 00:40:15,680
whatever the fuck.
So I don’t know, we we get to

744
00:40:16,360 –> 00:40:18,440
get some weird characters that
come out of the woodwork with

745
00:40:18,440 –> 00:40:20,360
this stuff.
We never, we never would have

746
00:40:20,520 –> 00:40:23,200
heard about City Bike Guy.
Yeah, and it turns out he’s

747
00:40:23,640 –> 00:40:25,520
super duper wrong, I think.
Was he?

748
00:40:25,720 –> 00:40:28,000
Yeah, I think City Bike
themselves came out and we’re

749
00:40:28,000 –> 00:40:31,000
like, Nope, not us, Al.
Damn, love it.

750
00:40:31,200 –> 00:40:33,400
He’s not even good at scraping
city bike data.

751
00:40:33,400 –> 00:40:36,200
He’s got spreadsheet after
spreadsheet of useless data.

752
00:40:36,360 –> 00:40:37,640
Well, I’m sorry, I put that in
the doc then.

753
00:40:39,160 –> 00:40:43,760
The Internet sleuths did manage
to figure out one thing, which

754
00:40:43,760 –> 00:40:47,640
is the jacket that Mangione was
wearing in that photo.

755
00:40:47,760 –> 00:40:52,200
Speculation is it’s a Levi’s
Sherpa lined 2 pocket hooded

756
00:40:52,200 –> 00:40:57,640
trucker jacket.
Macy’s retail price $225.00 It

757
00:40:57,640 –> 00:41:00,520
would be so funny if it was
Macy’s that actually started

758
00:41:00,680 –> 00:41:03,320
that red.
Yeah, get one of their employees

759
00:41:03,320 –> 00:41:05,600
to post like, yeah, I think I
identified the jacket and it’s

760
00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:07,920
on sale.
It goes great with these jeans.

761
00:41:08,720 –> 00:41:10,960
This is going to be this is some
hype beast lingo.

762
00:41:10,960 –> 00:41:13,480
So forgive me, but this is going
to be the first general release

763
00:41:13,480 –> 00:41:16,720
Levi’s jacket to ever flip for a
profit on Stockx.

764
00:41:17,320 –> 00:41:19,920
Like, I could see that shit you
can just buy at the mall that

765
00:41:19,920 –> 00:41:22,360
like footlocker doesn’t
generally resell on the

766
00:41:22,360 –> 00:41:24,560
aftermarket at all.
But this is going to be like a

767
00:41:24,560 –> 00:41:26,560
hot commodity.
Like, dude, I got the serial

768
00:41:26,560 –> 00:41:28,560
killer Levi’s, bro.
I should buy one right now

769
00:41:28,560 –> 00:41:30,120
before they fucking sell out,
frankly.

770
00:41:30,280 –> 00:41:33,280
Yeah, this is my whole deal.
At the time the article we’ll

771
00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:37,520
link to about it was written,
they had sold 700 of them in 48

772
00:41:37,600 –> 00:41:39,440
hours.
I love it.

773
00:41:39,680 –> 00:41:43,040
I imagine that’s a lot.
I doubt they’re cranking out 700

774
00:41:43,280 –> 00:41:45,800
of anyone jacket in 48 hours
usually.

775
00:41:45,920 –> 00:41:49,520
This is our Like Generations
version of beetle haircuts.

776
00:41:49,520 –> 00:41:50,920
This is the closest we’re going
to get.

777
00:41:52,120 –> 00:41:54,160
This is Kanye West shutter
shades.

778
00:41:54,160 –> 00:41:56,280
It’s stuff like it’s only for
assassins now.

779
00:41:56,440 –> 00:41:58,560
Yeah, and I mean it is a cool
jacket.

780
00:41:58,880 –> 00:42:02,080
Oh yeah, it looks good.
I like workwear, you know?

781
00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:04,560
I’d wear it.
He was obviously doing a lot of

782
00:42:04,560 –> 00:42:07,160
cross country driving.
You need a truck or jacket when

783
00:42:07,160 –> 00:42:10,840
you’re on the run from the law.
And that would have been where

784
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:13,960
the episode ended.
But again, as we mentioned, he

785
00:42:13,960 –> 00:42:17,760
was caught this morning.
Probably right now the guy they

786
00:42:17,760 –> 00:42:23,800
caught is being held on gun
charges in Altoona, but the NYPD

787
00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:25,240
is on their way.
Yeah.

788
00:42:26,560 –> 00:42:29,160
I saw some some more late
breaking news.

789
00:42:29,160 –> 00:42:31,600
I think this is more interesting
than the city bike thing.

790
00:42:32,040 –> 00:42:36,200
The header photo on this guy’s
Twitter is the X-ray of a back

791
00:42:36,200 –> 00:42:39,280
with like 3 spikes in it. 3 pins
or something.

792
00:42:39,480 –> 00:42:42,720
And his Goodreads account
includes the books Crooked

793
00:42:42,720 –> 00:42:45,440
Outwitting the Back Pain
Industry and Back Mechanic by

794
00:42:45,440 –> 00:42:49,880
Doctor Stewart McGill.
So he probably had the fucking

795
00:42:49,880 –> 00:42:52,920
pretty, by the way, horrible
fucking situation to be doing

796
00:42:52,920 –> 00:42:55,960
cross country driving.
This guy really hated that CEO

797
00:42:56,720 –> 00:42:58,720
if he had a back problem and he
was like, I’m going from

798
00:42:58,880 –> 00:43:00,760
wherever he’s from to New York.
Fuck.

799
00:43:01,000 –> 00:43:05,360
On a Greyhound bus, no less.
I’ve done a greyhound from LA to

800
00:43:05,360 –> 00:43:08,120
Portland and that’s brutal.
It’s and that was with a

801
00:43:08,120 –> 00:43:13,520
perfectly fine 22 year old back.
I took a greyhound from it would

802
00:43:13,520 –> 00:43:19,000
have been Peoria, IL to Madison,
WI which normally 3-4 hour

803
00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:22,480
drive, 13 hours because of
stops.

804
00:43:22,480 –> 00:43:25,360
I wanted to die.
Was this before or after you

805
00:43:25,360 –> 00:43:28,040
blew up the chicken man in
Philly the night before?

806
00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:31,360
I think my I’m not trying to big
Dick you out of but I think mine

807
00:43:31,360 –> 00:43:33,640
was 30 hours.
Yeah, that’s crazy.

808
00:43:33,960 –> 00:43:35,480
That’s.
Pretty good Kanye song.

809
00:43:35,480 –> 00:43:39,040
Pretty bad Greyhound bus ride.
That is too much.

810
00:43:39,240 –> 00:43:42,880
Yeah, you mentioned this guy’s
Goodreads page.

811
00:43:43,120 –> 00:43:48,560
The Guardian went out and found
a bunch of his writings on

812
00:43:48,640 –> 00:43:51,880
Goodreads.
For one thing, he left a glowing

813
00:43:51,880 –> 00:43:56,560
review of Ted Kaczynski’s In
Industrial Society and Its

814
00:43:56,680 –> 00:44:00,960
Future, called it a book clearly
written by a mathematics

815
00:44:01,120 –> 00:44:02,560
prodigy.
Here’s the thing.

816
00:44:02,720 –> 00:44:05,520
It’s not the first time time
I’ve heard Ted Kaczynski knows

817
00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:07,600
how to write.
Oh yeah, it’s my favorite Drew

818
00:44:07,600 –> 00:44:09,960
Michael joke.
What do you do when you read Ted

819
00:44:09,960 –> 00:44:12,800
Kaczynski’s manifesto and you
find out it’s really good?

820
00:44:12,840 –> 00:44:15,960
You have to be the guy at the
party who’s like a Unabomber

821
00:44:15,960 –> 00:44:19,200
head.
Yeah, should we review this book

822
00:44:19,200 –> 00:44:21,920
for the pod?
Adam yes, we fucking should.

823
00:44:21,920 –> 00:44:24,960
I know a lot of what’s in it.
I haven’t sat down and read it.

824
00:44:24,960 –> 00:44:27,240
I will absolutely read it.
Let’s do it.

825
00:44:27,440 –> 00:44:30,640
All right, Club.
That’s an assignment, everybody.

826
00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:33,600
That would be a good, that’d be
a good little spin off show for

827
00:44:33,600 –> 00:44:35,040
this show.
A conspiracy book club?

828
00:44:35,240 –> 00:44:36,520
Yeah.
I’m into it.

829
00:44:36,640 –> 00:44:39,080
You got that one book, the
banned CIA book that’s that you

830
00:44:39,080 –> 00:44:41,160
can’t even get on eBay.
You got to memorialize that

831
00:44:41,160 –> 00:44:42,880
shit.
Yeah, yeah.

832
00:44:43,040 –> 00:44:45,040
Yeah, the the lies that bind us
or something.

833
00:44:45,920 –> 00:44:49,240
Yeah, well, I did a couple
episodes about one CIA book, the

834
00:44:49,240 –> 00:44:51,560
one that the government tried to
censor.

835
00:44:51,640 –> 00:44:54,240
They did get it censored in.
Yeah, that’s the one I was

836
00:44:54,240 –> 00:44:55,280
talking about.
But anyway.

837
00:44:55,680 –> 00:45:01,120
So yeah, he leaves this glowing
review of Ted Kaczynski’s book,

838
00:45:01,120 –> 00:45:05,600
but that is not the most
interesting part of his review.

839
00:45:05,760 –> 00:45:08,360
I’m sorry, this is going to be a
little bit long, but so is the

840
00:45:08,360 –> 00:45:10,120
review.
Here are a few quotes up.

841
00:45:10,120 –> 00:45:13,800
First, he was a violent
individual, rightly imprisoned,

842
00:45:14,000 –> 00:45:17,080
who maimed innocent people.
While these actions tend to be

843
00:45:17,080 –> 00:45:20,880
characterized as those of a
crazy Luddite, however, they are

844
00:45:20,880 –> 00:45:24,960
more accurately seen as those of
an extreme political

845
00:45:25,040 –> 00:45:28,200
revolutionary.
And then he’s got another quote.

846
00:45:28,320 –> 00:45:31,440
These companies don’t care about
you or your kids or your

847
00:45:31,440 –> 00:45:34,640
grandkids.
They have 0 qualms about burning

848
00:45:34,640 –> 00:45:38,440
down the planet for a buck, so
why should we have any qualms

849
00:45:38,440 –> 00:45:40,680
about burning them down to
survive?

850
00:45:40,720 –> 00:45:44,480
And last quote, we’re animals
just like everything else on

851
00:45:44,480 –> 00:45:47,760
this planet, except we’ve
forgotten the law of the jungle

852
00:45:47,880 –> 00:45:52,000
and bend over for our overlords
when any other animal would

853
00:45:52,000 –> 00:45:56,160
recognize the threat and fight
to the death for their survival.

854
00:45:56,280 –> 00:46:00,160
Violence never solved anything
is a statement uttered by

855
00:46:00,160 –> 00:46:03,160
cowards and predators.
Damn.

856
00:46:03,280 –> 00:46:05,600
So I guess we’ll never know why
he did it.

857
00:46:07,240 –> 00:46:09,920
That’s crazy.
No clues.

858
00:46:10,040 –> 00:46:14,400
Yeah, who knows?
Probably a Bernie Sanders bro.

859
00:46:15,760 –> 00:46:20,760
So I think that’s our episode
that is as up to date as the

860
00:46:20,760 –> 00:46:23,360
news about this gets for right
now.

861
00:46:23,360 –> 00:46:26,120
I’m sure it’ll be completely
fucking different by the time

862
00:46:26,120 –> 00:46:29,440
this goes up in the morning, but
who knows, We’ll see.

863
00:46:29,560 –> 00:46:33,960
In the meantime, what do we have
to plug before we get out of

864
00:46:33,960 –> 00:46:36,720
here?
My solo podcast is actually back

865
00:46:36,800 –> 00:46:39,960
in broad daylight.
I have an episode up on YouTube

866
00:46:39,960 –> 00:46:45,200
right now about how a $2200
Christian Dior handbag led to

867
00:46:45,200 –> 00:46:48,480
martial law in South Korea.
It is pretty fucking

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fascinating.
Check that out at

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adamtoddbrown.substack.com.
You can get it on YouTube at

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Adam Todd Brown Comedy, or
wherever podcasts are at.

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If you would rather watch with
your listening eyes, AKA your

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ears, Connor, what do you got to
plug?

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I want to plug Adam’s podcast
because Adam’s podcast is for

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conspiracy theories.
What, like pitchfork.com used to

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be for music.
If you want to know what the

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next big conspiracy theories are
going to be before they hit the

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streets and queuing on starts
fucking mucking them up, you get

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it straight from the source and
you go to the Adam, Todd Brown

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and Broad Daylight podcast.
As for me, you can listen to my

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comedy variety podcast Mean
Boys, which features topical

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games, monologue jokes,
sketches, and other fun bits for

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your comedy enjoyment.
I have comedy specials you can

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watch on my YouTube channel.
Conor Mcpadden on YouTube Jokes

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about fucking is the main ones.
Check that out.

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Got a bunch of comedy albums on
Spotify and this might not be

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out by the time this drops, but
I’m releasing a fake cassette

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that has the a USB drive inside
of it with all of my albums on

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there so you can get those and
like 30 minutes of jokes that I

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won’t put on the Internet that
are exclusive to the cassette.

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That is really fucking cool.
Thanks, Doug.

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And let’s get the fuck out of
here.

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Connor, say goodbye.
Goodbye everybody.

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Goodbye everybody, we love you.