Some More News - SMN: Abortion, The Metaverse, And Other Things We Were Magically Right About
Episode Date: May 17, 2023Hi. In today's episode, Cody and Katy discover they have psychic powers, based on all the various news stories they totally saw coming. For example, Steven Crowder being a griftin...g creep, the metaverse being a big joke that would never go anywhere, and abortion rights being rolled back across the country in the wake of the Dobbs ruling. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i6-grc6xfKrp-Ulr8OWEqI-VsiBUZgdfKM7iMJifnW4/edit?usp=sharing Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews If you want to take ownership of your health, today is a good time to start. Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to https://athleticgreens.com/MORENEWS.
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Oh, holy heck, you guys!
Hey! Hi! You folks!
Hold on a sec! Katie, are you there?
I'm so here.
You got a number? You got one?
Tell me you got a number.
Oh, I got one! I got one up in the ol' computer!
Don't pull your punches now, alright? Don't go soft!
I'm never soft! You know the KS
goes hard. Hit me. Invade my brain. The number you're thinking of is 77. That's... Okay, well,
I don't see why it wouldn't be. Maybe. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Does that mean you were not thinking of 77? Or were you not,
not thinking of 77? I mean, yeah, I am now thinking of 77. So you like sort of predicted
the number I would be thinking of. That's incredible. Incredible indeed. It's official
then. We are psychics. We're psychics, bitches.
There's literally no other explanation.
We should buy some stocks.
Weird how we're always right about stuff.
Okay.
Okay, so I put a bunch in MoviePass and Sears and what was the other one? I'm seeing Radio Shack.
Radio Shack it is.
We can't lose.
We literally can't lose.
In fact, I'm going to go play the lotto.
Be right back.
Hey, fancy people.
Here is some more amazing news.
We have been watching our old episodes
and it turns out that a lot of what we say
is going to happen
actually does end
up happening in the future. Isn't that wild? It clearly means that we are magic and psychic here
at the Showdy, and not just any magic, but the cool, dark, and satanic kind where a lot of our
hexes have also come true. I mean, just last month, we saw numerous blowups for the right-wing
grifters we often curse on this very show.
Fox News settled their defamation lawsuit
by having to shell out $787.5 million,
a number I'm told is high,
which in turn resulted in them absolutely shit canning
Tucker the Tuck Slopper Carlson.
Although that's probably not because of the lawsuit,
there's a lot of reasons they could have fired him
and a lot of people are speculating.
I mean, I know the reason because I'm psychic.
But anyway, they like super fired him.
Like he didn't even get to say goodbye.
Tux was kind of a white whale around here
in that he's a white nationalist
with the temperament of an orca.
Around that same time,
Disney filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis
for being a partisan asshole
and harassing one of Florida's biggest job creators
for having black mermaids or whatever,
resulting in the presidential hopeful
having a not so hopeful presidential run.
And we're a long way from the election,
but boy, old sticky Ron is not very popular right now.
Also not popular is Steven Crowder,
a guy known for his shitty and misogynist views
who turned out to be, in fact,
a shitty misogynist in real life.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson continues to bumble about
on Twitter like an angry grandpa,
confusing porn with a Chinese breeding farm,
and also falling for a satire website
that is literally called the Dunning-Kruger Times. It just really
seems like these right-wing grifters are coming apart at the seams. People who we sort of predicted
were terrible and silly people. And that's clearly either because of the pact we made with Satan,
praise be, or our newly discovered psychic powers. Or both. Because here's another example.
It appears that Twitter is now worth less than half
of what Elon Musk paid for it.
And honestly, I'm not sure if that has to do
with the demonic hex or the fact that buying
an already unprofitable social media company
for $44 billion was simply not a good idea.
But of course it's a small price to pay
for saving free speech as proven by the Twitter files.
Remember those?
And now that you've remembered those.
The Twitter files were mostly BS, just like we said.
Oh, right, that's actually a nice place to start the show,
which hasn't technically started yet.
However, my psychic brain predicts that you don't mind
and are very attractive and smart.
You see, my beautiful and intelligent viewers,
we did an entire episode where we pointed out
how dubious the Twitter files appeared to be.
This was back in January
when we were all so young and innocent.
To jog your sexy brain,
the Twitter files were a series of controlled leaks
by several, call them journalists, showing emails and various data from Twitter
before Elon Musk took over.
Musk handpicked the journalists
and gave some selected files to these journalists
and then tried to act shocked about some of their findings
as if he had nothing to do with them.
The point of these leaks was to prove
that the pre-Elon Twitter was engaging
in horrendous censorship of right-wing voices,
something Musk was seemingly convinced of
long before he bought the site.
Seems like perhaps he had a specific conclusion in mind
before even seeing the data.
And so our psychic brains predicted
that the files he did release were very clearly cherry-picked
and heavily misrepresented by the journalists releasing them,
such as when Matt Taibbi would make
completely wild statements in his tweets
as if he were presenting a fact
or how he'd leave out important context
to the information he was sharing.
There's evidence that the Twitter files
are purposefully misleading.
Often they'll just make a statement without any evidence
as if it's a universal truth.
Every single fact in the New York Post
Hunter Biden story was accurate,
or that instead of chasing child sex predators
or terrorists, the FBI was busy flagging social media posts.
Why couldn't they be doing both, Matt?
What Taibbi didn't include, however,
was that the tweet links in that email
were nude images of Hunter Biden.
And so what he was actually describing
was the Biden campaign asking Twitter to remove tweets
containing private photos of drugged up naked man dick,
the worst kind of man dick,
and clearly not something that is allowed
on most mainstream social media.
God, look at my hair back then.
Anyway, go watch our episode.
It's a good episode.
I'm sure, I don't remember, why would I?
My life is a blur of debauchery.
Point is that the Twitter files seemed
to really bend over backwards to prove
that the left were controlling Twitter
while completely omitting or downplaying any efforts
from the right to do the same kind of censorship.
For example, they never did a big dramatic threat
about the GOP and the Trump administration's request
to censor posts, which is odd
since they were the actual people in power back then.
You'd think if you were a journalist
trying to speak truth to power,
you'd go after the people who were, you know, in power.
So yeah, we called this all out back in January
and implied that Matt Taibbi was perhaps lying a bit,
maybe a bit of a liar with our psychic powers and our very psychic brains, because wouldn't you know it?
You said the EIP was founded in response to the government dropping its proposal for a disinformation government.
Well, there you are. We're quoting you on screen. It wasn't. It was formed two years earlier.
You suggest it was government funded, even though during the 2020 election that you're covering, it wasn't. It was formed two years earlier. You suggest it was government funded, even though during the 2020 election that you're covering, it wasn't. You say they labeled 22 million tweets
as misinformation in the run up to the 2020 vote. They didn't. They flagged 3,000 election
misinformation tweets for labeling. So you were only 21,997,000 off. Oof, not looking great.
Looking like the opposite of great, if I may be so bold.
So after our video on the subject,
Congress actually had a hearing
with former Twitter executives
to get to the bottom of these types of claims.
And over the next few months,
we watched the Twitter files,
as well as twitter.com, the website, begin to fall apart.
In that particular instance, I do remember hearing that we had received a request from the White House
to make sure that we evaluated this tweet and that they wanted it to come down
because it was a derogatory statement directed towards the president.
They wanted it to come down. They made that request.
To my recollection, yes.
I thought that was an inappropriate action by a government official, let alone the White House.
But it wasn't Joe Biden about his son's laptop.
It was Donald Trump because he didn't like what Chrissy Teigen had to say about him.
Is that correct?
Yes, that is correct.
In a shocking turn of events that no one could have possibly predicted,
then President Donald Trump appeared to have very thin skin
about what people said about him on social media.
Can you believe it?
And the White House contacted Twitter
to specifically request that a tweet calling him
a pussy ass bitch would be removed.
Weird how that wasn't revealed in the Twitter files,
or how Twitter actually changed their rules
to accommodate Trump's behavior,
or how Twitter apparently had an entire database
of GOP requests for moderation.
It was routine for both Democrats and Republicans to do this,
but the Twitter files only leaked the Democrats' requests
to seemingly make it appear to be a one-sided thing.
In other words, we were correct in our psychic prediction
that the Twitter files were a direct misinformation campaign
led by Elon Musk, who has even recently said that it's time to move on
from the Twitter files, the biggest bombshell
the news has ever seen, earth-shattering revelations.
"'Time to move on,' says Elon Musk,
who it turns out wasn't actually interested
in fighting for free speech,
so much as he was a pissy little baby pants
who craves attention or a pussy ass bitch, whatever.
That's just what it says here on this very official paper.
Okay, you can read it yourself because our videos on Musk
weren't just prophetic in terms of the Twitter files,
but Twitter in general.
In fact, after being used for this misinformation campaign,
Matt Taibbi would actually get into a fight with Musk
and ultimately leave Twitter for freaking truth social
because Musk so clearly began running the site
into the ground.
This was because Musk tried to ban
sub stack links from the site
and has generally gone back on everything he claimed
he was going to accomplish.
Blue check marks are the most hilarious example here.
As we pointed out in our video,
Musk claimed that charging money for Twitter Blue
would do away with quote,
"'Twitter's current lords and peasant system.'"
Putting aside how little sense that makes,
after Twitter mass removed all of the legacy check marks
from the site, fucking nobody switched over
to the payment system, because why would they?
No one wants to pay to have a little emoji
next to their name.
That's clearly a bad business idea.
So it was a disaster.
One that caused Musk to panic
and after repeatedly, smugly telling celebrities
they would have to pay up,
ended up giving the check marks back for free
to anyone with over a million followers.
Now, along with that being a possible FTC violation,
what that means is that Musk's new system,
the one he created as a response
to the previous lords and peasants system,
is to charge people for blue check marks
unless they're really famous or popular,
otherwise known as an even worse
lords and peasants system than before.
And so Twitter's check marks are now a combination
of famous people who don't want them
and the most profoundly gullible people to ever exist,
making the site generally unpleasant to be on.
After all, every boosted reply is from someone
who thought paying eight bucks to a billionaire
was good and cool, meaning that every boosted reply
is some of the most mediocre or sometimes horrific thoughts
ever put to words.
And that's probably why people are now flocking elsewhere.
Blue sky, huh?
Well, that could work.
I mean, unless there's some kind of fundamental reason
it might not gain traction with the general public.
There's a new social media app called Blue Sky
and on it, Senator Brian Schatz from Hawaii, a Democrat,
he just skeeted, quote,
"'Nah, no problems there.
"'Look, maybe the future isn't skeeting.
"'I mean, I sure hope it is.
"'And may, oh, oh, what if it is skeeting?'
But this isn't a video about Twitter.
It's a video about how we're psychics
who were completely right about Twitter
and how Elon Musk is just a sad little man
who paid $44 billion to give himself more attention,
which it turns out we were extremely correct about.
And like, how do you explain that?
How do you explain that we predicted Elon Musk
was a crybaby rich dude who was going to drive Twitter into the
ground through lies and bad ideas until everyone eventually left the site. The only explanation
is that we're psychics. Hey, mind freak, I just dumped everything we have on number three.
You mean like? Horse, lottery numbers, Powerball. I just called Vegas and I screamed three.
Just the single number three. I saw it in a vision.
Well, it was either a three or it was a but,
but I'm pretty sure it was a three.
Well, that's all I needed to hear.
Anyway, we will be right back with more things
that we were eerily right about.
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Hey, Katie, how are we doing those lottery numbers?
We won, obviously.
Oh, snap.
How much did we win?
Oh, I mean, like, I know we won because I'm psychic.
I haven't actually checked.
So I don't know, like a billion dollars.
Yeah.
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Anyway, glad you're here, Katie, because I think the next prediction involves you.
Oh, I know it does.
I know everything now.
I'm like the god baby at the end of 2001.
The space odyssey, not the actual year.
That's right, that's very true.
You see, nearly a year ago,
we did a video about the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade,
which spookily turned out to be released
the very same week it was overturned.
Coincidence or mind magic?
After all, besides the leaked news
that the Supreme Court was going
to be overturning Roe v. Wade,
there was no way we'd know that was going to happen.
And yet somehow we did.
Repealing Roe v. Wade did all the things we said it would.
Katie, shall I leave them in your capable and psychic hands while I go take a brain nap for Thinks News?
I don't see why not.
Go rest your powerful brain as I mystify our audience with yet another Some More News prediction that turned out to be true.
Watch on, jaws agape, as I present the video we made about abortion rights from June of 2022.
Do you think that the states should have the right to determine abortion laws?
Because it won't change the laws in like, yeah, that's all Roe v. Wade overturning means that Colorado can have abortion like they have all the way up until nine months.
And Texas can have a heartbeat bill.
Yeah.
So, again, it's going to be let a thousand flowers bloom.
Yeah.
So again, it's going to be let a thousand flowers bloom.
It's going to be each state gets to decide on its own specific abortion protocols,
which is precisely what the Constitution suggested at the time. Most abortions now, even when you go to a clinic, are done with the pill.
Yeah.
The pill.
And pills are easy to get in America.
We know that.
So, you know, for the people who say we're going back to 1973, we're not.
Like Bill Maher said, you can just get a pill now.
How hard is it to get an extremely hard to get pill
that the GOP is specifically restricting in their states
and is very hard to get because of that?
The repealing of Roe v. Wade would likely encourage
further efforts to reduce access to
and illegalize contraceptives.
So the argument that we shouldn't worry,
that it'll still be legal in some states,
or that since most of the country supports abortion,
then it'll be protected, is completely dishonest
and frankly, cowardly.
And not only does the US have the worst
maternal mortality rate compared to other rich countries,
this rate goes up even higher in states
where there are restrictions on abortions. In fact, it's over 50% higher than in less restrictive states.
Not to mention that the states most likely to ban abortion already have higher rates of maternal
mortality than the rest of the United States to begin with. In the 12 states in which abortions
are restricted and are likely to be restricted further or banned outright, maternal mortality went up 38% due to those restrictions.
And states that lack Planned Parenthood clinics saw an increase of mortality by 8%.
All of that is to say, it seems like if you actually valued life,
you would be concerned about those numbers
and wonder why some states seem to be killing mothers way faster than other states.
So yeah, that was just a quick gist of what we said in
that video that perhaps you could go back and watch if you feel like being really bummed out.
But in short, we said that all the grifters claiming that repealing Roe v. Wade was no big
deal were actually lying. That the GOP wouldn't stop at a statewide abortion ban alone and that
banning abortion was actually going to cost way more lives than not banning it. And wouldn't stop at a statewide abortion ban alone, and that banning abortion was actually
going to cost way more lives than not banning it. And wouldn't you know it, all of that came true.
Uh, yay? No, no, that's the wrong sound. I can't think of a good sound right now. I mean,
besides screaming. Anyway, Bill Maher acting like people could
just get a pill even if their state banned abortion was, it seemed very wrong of him to say.
Like some kind of wrong person he is. Meaning that if I were Bill Maher, I would perhaps reflect on
how wrong I am all of the time. Perhaps I would apologize and then disappear from public life. Because of course
the GOP is now going after pharmacies that might distribute the abortion pill in those states.
That is not an option for people living there, nor is driving to another state. Because
immediately after we put out that video, we started seeing the GOP try to expand their rules to ban people crossing state lines
to get an abortion. So I guess it's not actually about state rights then? Especially when Lindsey
Graham would then propose a nationwide ban soon after Roe v. Wade was repealed. Because that
was always their goal. Of course it was. And so anyone pretending that it wasn't at the time was
either a liar or perhaps not very smart. A credulous rube, perhaps. They certainly weren't
psychic like I am. After all, and I take no pleasure in saying this, but we were right
that repealing Roe v. Wade and triggering abortion bans would in fact make these states
way more deadly to live in if you are a woman. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
last year, 14 states have banned abortions in nearly all cases. Many maternal health doctors
say state abortion bans are untenable for them and their patients. From Tennessee to Texas to Idaho,
for them and their patients. From Tennessee to Texas to Idaho,
OBGYNs are beginning to pack up and leave.
Right.
Imagine if you're a dentist and then your state
made the practice of giving root canals illegal.
When not just illegal, but very illegal.
You would essentially be trying to work
with one hand tied behind your back.
And when your professional code is to do no harm,
you might find yourself
choosing between going to jail or trying to save a life. And while the movement and people may need
doctors to make that sacrifice, that is an unsustainable situation. It's like, okay, it's
like if you tried to date a grizzly bear, even if the bear had like a really good and stable job.
If your government chooses to outlaw medical science,
then it's hard to stick around if you're a doctor.
And so sure enough, we are now seeing an exodus
of OBGYN doctors in states that have banned abortion.
And not to mention new doctors
flat out avoiding work in those states.
In other words, by making a major part
of women's health care illegal,
these states aren't declaring that they don't mind it if women living there are left with no
health care options at all. They'd rather live in the fucking 1800s than accept reality.
And what's left are being called maternity care deserts, otherwise known as areas of the country where having a baby is way more dangerous
than it needs to be. So if the goal of overturning Roe v. Wade was to kill more babies and more
mothers, then congratulations, you did it. You have made it so that at least one study found
that mortality rates for both the mother and baby have since increased in these anti-abortion states.
Just like we said it would.
Because it was never about preserving life, not the babies or the people having them.
They do not actually care.
Because as we said in that video, banning abortion doesn't actually lower the abortion rate.
They just make abortions more dangerous and put more women in harm.
And I really can't stress this enough.
The only reason to ban abortions is because you actually just want to inflict your religious
values on people and perhaps want to control women.
That would certainly explain why they absolutely are not stopping with Roe v. Wade.
So this is a final vote on this access to contraceptives legislation,
the measure would protect a person's ability to obtain contraceptives and the ability of
health care providers to offer such services. You see that weak shit? That was a total of 185
Republican lawmakers voting against a bill protecting people's rights to contraception. Now, why in the world would they do that?
Well, as we said in our original video, if someone was pro-life,
you would think they would also be pro-contraception and sex education.
And yet, they aren't.
They simply want to control how you fuck.
Like some kind of fuck puppeteer.
Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it here.
Yeah. So yeah, it turns out that our video was right because we are psychics as you see. And people like Bill Maher and Steven Crowder trying to act like it was no big deal were actually wrong.
Wow. So weird that Steven Crowder wouldn't have a good opinion about women's reproductive health.
Clearly, we were psychics.
There's just, there's no other explanation.
Hey, Cody, you awake?
Yeah, I couldn't sleep because of my big psychic brain.
Yeah, I think I gotta go hit some cars with a baseball bat, so your turn again.
Well, hold on.
What if, instead of literally hitting cars with a baseball bat,
you metaphorically hit a car with a baseball bat by making fun of the metaverse?
You just don't want me to hit your car with a baseball bat.
Yes, that is a significant part of it.
The metaverse failed like we said it would.
Okay, so at this point, you might be so enamored with our psychic abilities
that you forgot we did an entire episode
just about the metaverse.
Perhaps you even forgot the metaverse was a thing at all.
We don't blame you.
It is and always was barely a thing.
But about a year ago,
we saw a small bump of hype
as media outlets role-played a universe where
Mark Zuckerberg was going to create a revolutionary future where people worked and shopped exclusively
in the metaverse.
And only those two things.
So in that video, a man is able to put on a small pair of glasses to enter this metaverse.
This is the augmented reality promise of Facebook's Project Nazare.
And heck, that would be really cool for activities that perhaps aren't just centered around
work.
After all, we sure did love catching all them Pokemon freaks.
And it's really, really telling, and perhaps something I'm going to talk about later,
that all these big companies can think of is that VR will be used for shopping and working.
You know, the money stuff.
As we pointed out in that episode, it seemed very doubtful that a handful of rich suits
are going to actually dictate the future of the internet.
We pointed out that they have little to zero concern for privacy and that their imaginations
were completely limited to capitalism.
It was very similar to how they thought about NFTs and cryptocurrencies, in that they wanted
to use the endless possibilities of the internet to recreate stuff like money and real estate.
It was all very clearly not the future.
There are only a few platforms where investors can buy and sell real estate, each with their
own unique cryptocurrencies.
Each platform has a limited number of parcels
available for purchase,
which is tracked using blockchain technology.
And what I'm getting at is that if anyone tries
to sell you something digital
based on artificial limitations and scarcity,
be it fake real estate or a JPEG of a monkey,
well then that thing probably isn't
and definitely shouldn't be the future.
They're bringing the worst parts of capitalism
into the metaverse before it's even a thing yet.
And the only reason I'm not more upset about this
is because I'm pretty sure it won't work
or rather the metaverse as these companies
and scammers are picturing it
is certainly not the metaverse that will succeed.
Such powerful predictions from our very magical brains.
And geez, let me tell ya folks, it did not take long for our psychic visions to manifest.
Only about six months after we made this video, the company Sandbox, otherwise known as The
Place selling virtual real estate, began to struggle.
Properties, if you can really call them that, which, I mean,
I guess you can, but honestly, you shouldn't. But properties that were worth hundreds of thousands
went down 85% since only the start of the year. For example, a digital parcel that boasted it was
next to Snoop Dogg's Metaverse home sold for $450,000 to a fan of the rapper. Six months later, and that same
virtual land was now worth $25,000. At the most. Turns out, owning a bunch of pixels that were
artificially put in close virtual proximity to a celebrity isn't actually worth so much.
proximity to a celebrity isn't actually worth so much. Also, I don't think Snoop or really any celebrity is all that online. You think Tom Cruise knows how to even open an email? Nah,
no, no way. All his messages are sent through cosmic thetan waves. So yeah, Sandbox's stock
has since plummeted as the company is now struggling to maintain 1,000 daily active users.
You know, some real Twitter blue numbers.
It was, as we predicted, a bad investment, as were the majority of NFTs and cryptocurrency.
Cut to today, and several corporations have completely shuttered their metaverse projects, including Facebook, a company that will always be called
Facebook despite what they claim, even though it's extremely funny that they changed their
name to Meta and now the metaverse as these people have imagined it has failed.
Just like we said it would.
And in fact, just days before we filmed this, it continues to fail.
But just for the record, that isn't to say the concept of a metaverse is the problem,
but rather that the people trying to make it happen have absolutely no creativity left in
their brittle billionaire bones. But hey, legs are coming soon. There's one more feature coming
soon that's probably the most requested feature on our roadmap. Legs. Legs. So I don't know, man. Maybe, just maybe Mark Zuckerberg can take the billions
of dollars he plans to invest in AI or whatever his next bad project is and send it to me,
to Katie, a psychic who can perhaps spend that money better than Mark. Not that we need the money, because
we have won the lottery. I am sure of it. I haven't actually checked, but we definitely won
the lottery. Yep, I've already flushed all my old money to make room for my new money, which I will
now have to immediately spend on a new toilet. Thanks, Katie, for that powerful non-car smashing
look and how the metaverse was silly and bad
and we were right and Mark Zuckerberg was wrong.
And also, yeah, yeah, yeah, you stink Mark, you stink.
Like onions and sperm.
That's just what it says in the paper, okay?
Don't shoot anybody actually, violence is bad.
As an aside, we also spoke heavily in that Metaverse video
about how Facebook becoming an aggregate
for the entire internet meant that the government
needed to restructure the way they regulated ISPs
in order to include social media,
a thing that I do believe we were very much proven right
about after a certain billionaire baby
with rice paper thin skin bought Twitter.
So there's also that, more proof that we're psychics
because there's just no other reason
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If you haven't heard, we're psychics now because so much of what we say on this show
actually comes true.
Hey, Katie, any psychic visions?
I see bones, sharp bones sticking into the side of a school bus.
So no, nothing besides the normal stuff
that's always in my head.
Cool, keep us posted.
Because I predict that we have more
shody to do-dy duty.
Like poops from butts.
And speaking of places to poop,
remember when we called out Walgreens
and their so-called shoplifting crisis?
Sure you do.
And if you don't, you will.
There was no shoplifting crisis. Sure you do. And if you don't, you will.
There was no shoplifting crisis, just like we said.
Back in 2022, a huge media talking point was these supposed shoplifting sprees,
specific to perceived liberal cities
that Walgreens claimed was the reason
behind their store closings.
The consequences of this fear-mongering
was a campaign
to push city officials to clamp down on petty crime, as well as provide free police protection
for these stores. In other words, the fear-mongering completely worked, which is a shame because the
city of San Francisco could have simply hired us instead of all those cops.
Rays and crimes caught on camera show exactly why American cities are under siege.
Check out what happened at a Walgreens in San Francisco.
This is a man in broad daylight looting a store and just filling up a garbage bag.
Then he just casually rides his bike out of the store and onto the street.
Walgreens alone has closed 17 stores in the city just because of this rampant theft.
And in the case of the great Walgreens shoplifting crisis
of the 2020s, supposedly going on in San Francisco right now,
Walgreens is blaming their store closures on rampant theft
and local law enforcement is blaming Prop 47,
a law which charges petty theft under $950
with a misdemeanor as opposed to a felony.
This is despite at least one study showing
that the proposition is not responsible
for an uptick in crime.
Oh yeah, those store closures we were just talking about,
like literally seconds ago.
It turns out that there are probably a bunch
of other reasons Walgreens decided to do that.
Like the fact that the city is oversaturated with pharmacies
and that the corporation had already laid out a plan in 2019
to close a bunch of stores across the nation
in order to save money.
Because it's kind of hard to believe
that rampant theft is the reason
you are closing five stores
when two of those stores
only had seven and three reported retail thefts in 2021.
That was from an episode about the larger problem
of using the public sphere of crime
as a political bargaining chip
and how there's an entire capitalist ecosystem reliant on that often exaggerated or fabricated fear. In that episode, we spoke about how the
San Francisco shoplifting crisis was clearly part of that pattern, in that it seemed fabricated as
a political tactic. Maybe we realized that because of crime statistics at the time, or how cops and
corporations lie all the goddamn time. Or maybe we were psychic.
I think the shrink is built in the forecast.
We're probably, you know, maybe we cried too much last year when we were hitting numbers
that were three and a half percent of sales.
We're down in the lower twos, call it the mid 2.5, 2.6 kind of range now.
So that's the CFO of Walgreens on an earnings call saying,
maybe we cried too much last year about that.
Don't worry.
Okay, to put that in context, shrink is the industry term for goods you cannot sell,
whether through theft, damage, or other reasons.
The latest National Retail Federation reports his external theft,
like shoplifting and organized crime, accounted for just over a third, one-third of all shrink in 2021. You can see there on the
graph in orange, meaning that according to Walgreens' own numbers from that earnings call,
at its height, crimes like shoplifting accounted for just over 1% of their sales.
Folks, I don't like seeing a smug Chris Hayes any more than you do, but there simply wasn't
a shoplifting
or larger crime crisis.
And not only do we know that from data,
but from a Walgreens executive admitting
that their claims were exaggerated
and that they perhaps mischaracterized
the amount of theft happening in their stores.
Seems like if perhaps someone lies about a crime
and then cities and politicians bend over backward
and pump extra money into stopping that fake crime, someone should get in trouble for that. Kind of like
how every time I call 911 just to see the big red water truck, I usually get arrested unless I'm
fast. But what's pretty darn incredible is that even with them admitting these things, people are
still trying desperately to paint San Francisco as some escape from New York dystopian hell city. Going so far as to hijack extremely tragic stories for this purpose.
The high profile killing last week of tech executive Bob Lee raised questions and concerns
about how safe it is to live and work in San Francisco. Can you believe it? Even the objectively
better upper class isn't safe in San Francisco,
a city where rich people can be randomly stabbed
in the street like an extra in a Robocop sequel.
This was the exact narrative that played out
in the first few days after this killing took place.
Except here's the thing, this isn't how crime works.
It never was.
Most of the time,
people don't just randomly attack other people.
Awful acts like murder and sexual assault
are statistically most likely to be done
by people that the victim knows, because of course.
And just like those statistics, this cash app stabbing
was revealed to also be committed due to a personal conflict
between the killer and victim.
Does that make it any better or worse?
Of course not.
But it's pretty fucked up how this person's death
was used to push a fantasy narrative
and then completely ignored
once it didn't actually fit that deception.
And generally speaking,
whenever the media or a politician tries to manufacture fear
or push policy based on the idea
that random acts of crime are an epidemic,
they're probably lying
because statistics always say otherwise.
And that goes for this shoplifting crisis
or the claims of drag queens or LGBTQ people being groomers
or anything else like that.
It doesn't take a psychic like us to realize that
and perhaps reject it when it happens
because the consequences for this fabricated panic
are often worse than the crime
they are pretending is a problem.
For example,
stories of random customers assaulting suspected shoplifters at a fucking TJ Maxx.
I don't know how to tell you this, but assault is way worse than shoplifting. Also, TJ Maxx isn't
going to fuck you, bro. You don't need to heroically protect a corporation's bottom line.
And in fact, most retailers' policies are to let these people go due to liability
and various legal and safety reasons.
Because again, people don't randomly attack other people
unless politicians and the media start encouraging that.
Like if someone publicly killed a mentally ill person
on the subway, perhaps it would be extremely fucked up
to try and spin that as anything
but a fucking act of murder.
If you are the kind of person who thinks that I'm not compassionate enough toward people with
mental illness, this episode is definitely not going to be for you because I'm not feeling very
compassionate about Jordan Neely and that shouldn't surprise you. And so we're going to talk about
that today. We're going to talk about why it is that we suddenly exist in a society where mentally well people are being told that they need to yield
to mentally ill people. Let me tell you that the idea that homeless people are just suffering
and all they want is some food is complete and utter bull, okay? Hey, Candace, that is some Nazi shit.
Can't stress that enough.
The idea that vulnerable people are actually bad
and it's okay for so-called mentally well people
to fucking kill those people if they're loud or disruptive
is quite literally a Nazi idea,
without hyperbole, Nazi shit.
And what makes it especially insidious
is that this media narrative of city
lawlessness is exactly what's sparking this death wish vigilante Nazi ass justification
of actual lawlessness from people taking it upon themselves to attack others for petty crimes.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because for these people, paranoia and fear sells. It sells
their Nazi ass ideas and it literally sells their shitty merchandise,
encouraging proud Karens to butt into other people's lives.
So yeah, we need to cut the shit
and call these lies out when they happen,
despite what superpowers we may or may not have.
But of course, it helps to be psychic,
much like we are definitely psychics,
especially when it comes to crime, it seems.
Because whenever we do an episode about how the cops are definitely psychics, especially when it comes to crime, it seems. Because whenever we do an episode
about how the cops are useless and bad
or how no one is going to do anything about gun violence,
we're always spot on.
So wild how when we say
that no one will do anything about guns,
we're always magically right
as evidenced by whatever shooting is currently happening
as you watch this episode.
So, so wild how that is,
how we're clearly psychics for saying that.
So, so wild.
Oh, and speaking of completely manufactured epidemics
used to push a political viewpoint,
Havana syndrome wasn't a thing.
Oh my goodness, do you even remember Havana Syndrome?
I'm having a hard time remembering it.
Considering that it was a looming threat
of microwave brain attacks,
one could think that it would have like,
stayed in the general zeitgeist
if it were actually a thing.
I mean, sure, the news happens fast
and there are all those new seasons of Succession
and Mandalorian, but surely, surely,
people wouldn't just suddenly forget the fact
that we were under a very real mind assault
just a few years ago.
Did we get mementoed?
Was the memory wiped from our heads?
Is that what Havana syndrome actually was?
Or is it possible, just perhaps a little bit possible,
that it never actually existed?
You know, kind of like how we said that
back in our Halloween 2021 episode.
It kind of sounds like Havana syndrome isn't a thing.
Look at me, all green and whatnot.
Perhaps it was cheap makeup.
Perhaps I drank too much AG1.
Or maybe I was radiating psychic energy.
Because in that episode, we proposed that Havana syndrome
was less likely
a coordinated attack and more likely a form of mass hysteria. After all, the symptoms were
extremely random, and it really seemed much more likely that many other factors such as
stress or COVID symptoms were at work. Not to mention that all the reporting of the syndrome
was specifically coming from journalists who specialized in national security, as opposed to anyone with a background in medical science. Cut to two years
later, and not one, but five different intelligence agencies conducted an extensive report on the
event, only to conclude exactly what we said, that Havana Syndrome was not caused by any foreign
weapon or energy gun or what have you. Mind you, they didn't find an explanation for the symptoms.
And to be honest, hearing the CIA claim
something doesn't exist kind of makes me believe
it exists even more.
But that's also the exact kind of thinking
that makes these panics manifest themselves.
Much like the aforementioned shoplifting crisis,
the Havana syndrome seemed most likely
to be a manufactured panic
that conveniently helps
certain political viewpoints.
I mean, the word Havana is right there in the name.
And sure enough, this panic was used to further cut off
relations with Cuba when it happened.
It was used to point fingers at China and Russia
and even pass laws around it.
And yet they have zero evidence that it was actually
a weapon of any kind.
Again, it really stinks the same way
the shoplifting stuff does, right?
Or like how in that Halloween episode,
we also called bullshit on cops passing out
because of fentanyl.
Remember when that was a big problem
and then suddenly it wasn't?
And how it turned out that one of the bigger smugglers
on the drug turned out to be a fucking police union leader?
It all feels very similar, doesn't it?
A group of people make a huge fuss over a perceived crisis,
pass a bunch of measures based on that crisis,
and then years later,
after everyone in the media has forgotten about it,
reveal that perhaps there wasn't a crisis after all.
That's called a grift, I do believe.
That's how grifters work.
They make predictions or claims non-psychically
and then push for specific actions
based on those predictions or claims.
And then when those things don't actually happen
or are proven false,
they just slink away and pretend they never said anything.
Like that virus that didn't kill anybody.
And now if you wanna eat a hamburger,
you gotta put a bunch of vaccines in your blood.
But a good way to predict these things before they happen
is to look at who is making the claims.
Which brings us to a pretty big prediction
we have made on this show many times
that has come true every darn time.
They were grifters. At the start of this episode, we mentioned that there's been a recent
pattern of certain right-wing personalities completely eating dung. Crowder being exposed
for the terrible person he is, Tucker Carlson, by extension Fox News imploding, and also people we
didn't even mention yet, like how Scott Adams recently saw his career fall apart
for continuing to be racist.
And it seems, let's say, interesting,
that the shelf life of right-wing pundits
is often very short.
I mean, before this group, there was also Glenn Beck,
Milo Yiannopoulos, and I'm sure some people I'm forgetting.
And I wanna point out two things here.
One, that we've had numerous episodes
calling these people out as grifters for years,
long before they were finally shown the door
or fully exposed for being terrible.
Here we are doing a video about how the Lincoln Project
was clearly bad before that group fell apart with scandals.
Here's a video where we said that Steven Crowder
was clearly a sad little man who perhaps needed a friend.
And we were half right, in that he was indeed a sad little man who perhaps needed a friend. And we were half right
in that he was indeed a sad little man.
We called out Ron DeSantis
for his backfiring publicity stunts
long before Disney blew up in his face.
We've really called a lot of things
for being the silly grift that they are,
from Quibi going under to the Supreme Court
being balls deep in corruption.
And that leads me to the second thing
I need to point out about these grifters. You know, all the specific things we just talked
about in this video, abortion, metaverse, Twitter, et cetera, et cetera. The stuff we were right
about with our psychic brains. Well, guess who wasn't right about those same things?
And now all of these revelations are coming out that the Twitter middle management was
basically dominated by Democrats who were working hand in glove with the Joe Biden campaign at the sort of vague behest of governmental powers like the FBI.
That's Ben Shapiro concluding that the Twitter files proved a left wing bias, which we would later learn wasn't actually the case.
Here's Jordan Peterson claiming they were a bigger scandal than Watergate that we should move on from, apparently.
So they were wrong about that, as was Stephen Crowder.
Very wrong when he not only claimed that repealing Roe v. Wade wasn't a big deal, but that the Democrats would lose voters because of their protests over it.
What we are watching right now, people, live, and again, it's Save SCOTUS as the promo code, what we are watching is the left turn off yet another demographic of voters. All that's required is for them to see
the protests, for them to see the riots, and for us to say, hey, why do you think they're rioting?
And they'll say, well, because, you know, they think abortion is being banned. And you explain
to them, it's not being banned. And these people are protesting, they're rioting because they want
abortions all the way up until and including nine months period without the states having the rights to restrict them. He was really wrong. And in fact, it was Republicans who lost votes
because of abortion. That's how wrong he was. Speaking of wrong things, here's Ben Shapiro
saying that the Zuckerberg metaverse will definitely happen because of Fortnite. And this
new company is going to be virtually reality based where he's literally he reenacted a scene from Black Mirror.
Yeah. Well, which is unironically. I know. And you know what makes me a little sad? I think that
it's going to happen. You think it's going to happen? Yeah. I think that you and I are of a
different generation, dude. I think there are a lot of kids who are growing up in Fortnite world
and spend a lot. And I think the pandemic really accelerated this. Hey, Ben, you were wrong.
Pretty interesting how Ben Shapiro shows up a lot in these clips. Here he is completely buying the shoplifting
crisis when that was a thing. There's a pretty obvious uptick in property crime,
not just an obvious uptick in property crime, a complete downturn in quality of life. There's a
reason that people have been fleeing big cities in favor of more outlying red areas or blue cities in red states.
San Francisco has been turned from a gem, a very clean and safe city,
into something really quite awful.
Over the past few years, you've seen reports of feces,
human feces on nearly every corner, open needles on nearly every corner. There is less crime in San Francisco than in Dallas, Ben.
The rate has been steadily going down since 2017.
It's not
smeared with shit, as you apparently believe. You are wrong. You are always, always wrong.
They're always wrong. Every prediction sneered out with blind confidence eventually proves to be
wrong. I think Kamala and Biden might be throwaway candidates. They know they're going to get
steamrolled in the election. I really don't see the Democrats winning this. I think it's fair to
say Trump's going to win reelection. I think Trump might have
a massive, massive victory, which shocks the left. I think we're looking at a Trump victory, man.
Trump 2020 landslide, even with everything going on with COVID. I think that's what we can expect.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Trump had a 49 state landslide. I think we could see a 49 state
landslide. We may be looking at a Mondale Reagan
type scenario where Trump landslides 49 states and we may see a 49 state landslide, maybe a 50
state landslide. That'd be amazing. That montage keeps going. Please understand that these people,
Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, Bill Maher, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh,
Steven Crowder, and so many more, Their entire careers are hinged on triggering negative
emotional reactions in the moment and with the hope that people will gravitate from one outrage
to the next. Because that way, they never stop and notice how everything these people say turns
out to be wrong. They sit and skim the news live on their multi-million dollar shows and then throw out
conclusions based on their personal beliefs and feelings. That's it. They are not good sources
of information or intelligent and thoughtful opinions. And that's not even from like an
ideological standpoint. Just by simply looking at their track record, they're grifters. Like we keep
saying with our big psychic brains. And eventually they all burn out and get replaced by new grifters. Like we keep saying with our big psychic brains. And eventually they all burn out and get
replaced by new grifters. And the reason we at the showdy will stick around and why we tend to be
correct is because we try to give a shit, I guess. We have researchers and fact check episodes
multiple times and discuss what we want to say as a group before saying it. We cut things that
are fact checked as untrue and point out the nuances of a group before saying it. We cut things that are fact-checked as untrue
and point out the nuances of a situation if it exists. We'll be making an episode about times
we were wrong or we missed the mark. Sure, we have an ideological leaning. Like, yeah, you know,
we certainly do. I'm not going to act like we don't think better things are possible and necessary.
But we're actually very careful about what we say in each
episode and often look at history and studies to draw our conclusions, which is why our conclusions
tend to be correct in the long run. And that's ultimately why we believe in what we believe.
Because adding ideology to the conversation, conservatives, as they exist right now,
have hinged a lot of their beliefs on false claims
or an unrealistic view of the world.
And that's probably why these people
seem really miserable and burnout.
Like if you really believe the shit they say,
that rich people are actually good and better
and vulnerable people are weak or lazy,
or that simply existing as like a gay person is evil,
or that systemic inequalities are a myth
and it's all bootstraps,
or that all of Hollywood is actually bad and woke,
well, then you're gonna be pretty fucking miserable.
Like you can't watch movies and TV
unless it has Kevin Sorbo or Kid Rock in it.
And every misfortune in your life,
even if out of your control,
would be seen as a personal failing.
Your best political hope is this guy,
who you have to pretend isn't a sweaty grifter,
and you're surrounded by people
you think are bad for just existing.
That sounds terrible.
They spend all of their time desperately trying
to rewrite history and facts to justify their ideology,
jamming square pegs
into round holes. And that has to be very stressful. Compare that with just, you know,
actually doing the research and then drawing your conclusions based on that. They have no idea how
much nicer life can be when you're not trying to force an end result with the information you have,
when you're not beholden to a larger ideology.
Like, I don't have to sit here
and pretend that Joe Biden is some kind of demigod, you know?
So I guess it's not actually that difficult to do.
We're not the only show that works like this.
We're not the only ones who are right about these things.
We're not actually special here.
So maybe we're right about these things. We're not actually special here. So maybe we're not psychic.
Maybe we were being really sarcastic
about the whole psychic thing.
Who knows though?
I'm sorry, what?
Did you just say we're not psychic?
Yeah, I sort of gave the game away there.
How we were pretending to be psychic to make a point.
Oh yeah, totally.
I, uh, I gotta go check on some stuff.
Cool. Cool. So yeah, point is that when we're saying that these people are grifters or white supremacists, we're not just like mad at them for not having the same views as us. We're saying that
because we've researched the history of their ideologies and we're making a very educated prediction about where their train
of thought leads and we try to be fair about it.
Like, hey, you know, one of these grifters actually
got it right about the Havana syndrome stuff?
Who's behind these attacks?
Well, we haven't actually established there are attacks
or that any of this is real.
Hey, nice work, Tuxbum.
Good job being the only example we could find
of a right-wing grifter getting something right.
But I kind of suspect it was only because
you wanted to be a contrarian
against the other news channels.
Tucker is, of course, a perfect example
of us simply doing research
and looking at historical patterns
to make a video about how he's a man
who doesn't believe in anything
besides pushing white supremacist talking points.
That's a video from four years ago.
And dare I say, we were accurate
in just the first 20 seconds of it.
Oh, here's some news.
Tucker Carlson can eat.
Whoa.
If you say so.
Tucker can eat it.
The poo, in like a bowl or something,
or with a ladle
Slurp it all up now. That's that's just what the paper says spot on past Cody But just to get a bit more specific
He's an obvious fraud and a racist and a liar all things you probably already assumed
So what happened to tacker corporal Stan did the seemingly resolute conservative?
Just bend to the will of Fox News
when it shifted to be more pro-Trump?
To answer that, I'd like to go all the way back
to his decision to move from print journalism to television,
as described by his own autobiography.
Quote, I was heading back to my desk
with a takeout hot dog one afternoon
when I ran into the receptionist.
She asked me what I knew about the OJ trial.
My instinct was to answer honestly, just about nothing.
But for some reason, I caught myself.
I asked her why she wanted to know.
Well, she explained, Dan Rather's booker just called looking for an OJ expert to go on 48 hours tonight.
Everyone else is still at
lunch. Can you do it? Within a few hours, I was on my way to CBS in New York. And there it is.
Tucker saw an opportunity to be special, brushed off the fact that he was completely ignorant,
lied about his qualification, and then plowed ahead despite having no clue what he was talking
about. Him getting booed at CPAC in 2009,
most likely it signaled that he would have to push
farther right to be more popular.
And so he did that, for money.
And he doesn't care what he has to say or do
or who he hurts to get that.
Had he killed it on Dancing with the Stars,
I guarantee he would have just done that instead.
Right, so in that video, we simply looked at Tucker Carlson's career
bouncing from networks,
the things he himself said in his autobiography,
and also the pattern of racist dog whistling on his show
and concluded that he was, quite simply,
a racist grifter and fascist propagandist
who will say anything just to be on the air.
And while I'm sure most people agreed with us back then,
we now know, with evidence, that this is exactly what he is. He's racist. And he hated Trump,
but supported him and moved more to the right because that was where the money was.
He was all the things we said he was. And what's obviously frustrating is that it probably doesn't
matter. Like Tim Pool and Matt Wallace are already using their big brains
to debate whether or not Tucker's shitty behavior
was a deep fake.
Tucker is now moving his show to Twitter, I guess.
You know, because that site is now pivoting
to the Fox News of social media,
where the owner publicly ponders
white supremacists' spree killings as a media conspiracy.
There's never going to be a bottom here.
They will simply do the clown shit they always do.
The mental gymnastics needed to pretend
like they weren't wrong or at fault
or that they aren't racist or misogynist or grifters.
They'll say it was actually a conspiracy
until they absolutely can't deny reality.
And then they'll just pivot.
Like he's a fan, like he wasn't even subscribed.
It was four clips from one show.
But yeah, so my point is this is grasping at straws, right?
Because even if they can definitively prove,
even if it turns out that this is legitimate,
that really is this guy's profile,
they're telling the truth and they have good reasons to be confident,
that still is not the nail in the coffin that they think it is here.
I mean, I got to be honest.
I think it's funny and I really just don't care. I think we've won so much ground in the culture war that it is completely meaningless that they would even
do it assuming it was a PSYOP. It's just, it means nothing to me. A Nazi wearing a right-wing
death squad patch killed a bunch of people and also happened to be a fan of Tim Pool's show.
Now that's not necessarily related. I mean, I have my thoughts, but Tim and other right-wing
voices spent several days insisting that it was actually a conspiracy. And Tim is now apparently not necessarily related. I mean, I have my thoughts, but Tim and other right-wing voices
spent several days insisting that it was actually a conspiracy. And Tim is now apparently pivoted to
just hand-waving the entire thing, despite what the facts are, because he kind of has to in order
to protect himself from any self-reflection. After all, these people make way too much money for
self-reflection, and by extension, like humanity.
So they'll make up an excuse every time,
say it was conspiracy or that the accuser is woke
or whatever, even when the accuser is fucking Fox News,
then they'll just move on as if it never happened.
They have these pre-built buzzwords and safety nets
designed to let them survive in denial
for as long as humanly possible.
They're all miserable weirdos who fight amongst themselves
and make an obscene amount of money
doing propaganda for the wealthy.
So yeah, of course they're always wrong.
So perhaps we need to break that cycle.
Perhaps if these people have no shame,
they should be like de-platformed or not watched,
you know, something else, I don't know, somehow. Boy, I wish I knew how. But sadly, I'm not a psychic.
Wait, so you're sure of that? Like, absolutely sure.
How much money did we lose?
All of the money. We're out of all the money.
Well, you know, money's fake, so it's no big deal. But hey, see, that actually reminds me
of one more thing I need to say,
which is that we're not always going to be right either.
I'm sure there are examples
of us being wrong somewhere out there.
Do we have an example of us saying something
that didn't turn out to be correct?
The moon is attacking the Earth in that film.
I haven't even seen it yet, but come on,
that's money in the bank right there.
Nope, don't see any problem there
because Moonfall was a great film
that got worldwide praise and made billions. So I don't know, I'm sure there the bank right there. Nope, don't see any problem there because Moonfall was a great film that got worldwide praise and made billions.
So I don't know.
I'm sure there's something out there.
Maybe you can tell us in the comments
that we probably won't read.
But what I'm getting at is that while this was a fun
and shit eating way to follow up on some news stories,
the fact that we can get stuff wrong and know we can
is why we try really hard to get stuff right.
We're not gonna embiggen our noggins over this
or become a smug-ass Bill Maher type.
We're just trying to give you, you know, some news,
some more news, and even more news.
And we're terrified of giving you bad more news.
We want to give you good more news,
good quality, uncut and thick, and often about
boars. Another thing we've been completely right about if you haven't noticed. Like seriously,
feral hog populations just keep rising. And we've been talking about that for like over five years
back when we were on that website for fuck's sake, for the sake of fuck. What will it take for you all to listen to us
about those swine dildos gunning for your bones
and your families?
Anywho, we were right, feels good, right Katie?
I do not feel good.
How much do you think your legs are worth?
I mean, we don't need your legs for the show, right?
Good point.
Legs are coming and legs are going.
The meta circle of meta life.
See, that's why you're the money person. Happy ending for all. Good point. Legs are coming and legs are going. The meta circle of meta life.
See, that's why you're the money person.
Happy ending for all.
Legs are coming.
Wow, look at all these things we were right about. Just because they're blank doesn't mean anything.
If they're blank, they can't be wrong.
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And we got patreon.com to send us some more news.
You may have seen an ad for it that went perfectly earlier in the episode.
And, oh, here's another thing we write about.
Snow.
Bye.