italian pawg hits robber baron with negative zone
[00:00:00] Behold, a cold open. This is an unusual way for an episode to be. Usually when we can't make the Wednesday release, we just call it for the week. But, you know, this being timely, we wanted to get it out quick. But, Joe, can you explain what caused us to miss the Wednesday release?
[00:00:18] Yeah, so like my various maladies.
[00:00:23] Malaise's?
[00:00:23] Malaise's. Shortest version is I have an appointment at an ortho clinic for January 6th, which is notably not super soon. And then my hip just finally fucking started really giving out like on the stairs. I didn't like fall, but it was like that thing where you start to like, oh shit, I'm not stable.
[00:00:42] Malaise's. That happened twice. I was not holding my kid, but I have a kid. So I was like, okay, well, there's the fucking problem. So I went to the emergency room. I explained in this hospital system, I have a ortho appointment, but my hip, I'm not gonna make it. Yeah, it's fucked.
[00:00:59] Pause the story. Now, most people you would assume the rest of the story goes Joe gets his care. However, if you've ever played Fallout New Vegas, you know, there is a perk that you can activate called Wacky Wasteland,
[00:01:10] which just makes the game more nutty. This effect is turned on in real life for Joe.
[00:01:16] The devil picked it for me at birth.
[00:01:18] Yeah, it explains what's about to happen. Joe, passing the ball back to you.
[00:01:21] I was waiting for initially two hours, which is like obviously a long time, but that's like basically five minutes in ER time.
[00:01:29] So that wasn't that bad. But I noticed that all of the medical staff, the orderlies, all the employees coming through were wearing moon boots.
[00:01:40] So I was like, that's interesting. And with the moon boots, just like really fat.
[00:01:44] Yeah, maybe it lets them jump higher. That's cool.
[00:01:49] So I guess what is what's happening and the reason those moon boots were being worn is because it fucking emergency room was just like flooding.
[00:01:58] It wasn't raining, dude. It was just starting to be underwater.
[00:02:02] So the workaround was that we're going to lose 30 beds and everybody's going to suit up like we're fly fishing.
[00:02:12] So there's that. The thing is like an ER will never tell you to like go home unless you're like disrupting something, of course.
[00:02:19] But like if you're if you're waiting for care, they're not going to be like, yeah, you should just like give up.
[00:02:25] They're not going to say that to you. Yeah.
[00:02:26] Yeah. So I was I went to the front desk like again because I'd gone a few times.
[00:02:33] I was like, you said there was an x-ray coming up for me soon.
[00:02:36] And it's like, I'm not trying to be, you know, I know it's slow and everyone's impatient.
[00:02:40] But like, did you lie to me?
[00:02:45] But I get up there to just sort of say that, yeah, I've been waiting for a while.
[00:02:51] I understand everything's backed up with this flood situation.
[00:02:56] And the there's a guy like sitting on the table behind the person at the reception desk who's like eating like a bag of chips.
[00:03:04] And he hears me say like x-ray and he's like, oh, radiology is like flooded.
[00:03:11] But and I was like, hospital's broken, dude.
[00:03:14] Like we turned that shit off.
[00:03:17] And then I did I did my very autistic confirmation move, which I do what I'm just like.
[00:03:23] All right, let's make sure I'm not going to lose my mind here.
[00:03:25] I was like, so my understanding is the only way you would get an x-ray is when a machine in another department has capacity.
[00:03:34] And that capacity would have to mean that it is not more urgent than whatever they're doing and whatever comes in through here.
[00:03:43] And by the fact that I've been here for four hours, I have been determined not urgent.
[00:03:47] So based on this, is this all correct?
[00:03:52] And they're like, yeah, I'm like, OK, I'm going to go.
[00:03:54] It was so fucking funny.
[00:03:57] In retrospect, it was very concerning the day of.
[00:04:00] I'm like, Joe, we got to record our Luigi episode.
[00:04:02] I'm so excited.
[00:04:03] And Joe's like, I'm at the hospital.
[00:04:05] I'm at the fucking hospital.
[00:04:06] I live here.
[00:04:07] Oh, no.
[00:04:08] Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:04:10] And then a couple hours later, I'm like, are you OK?
[00:04:12] How's it going?
[00:04:13] He's like, haven't been seen yet.
[00:04:14] And then an hour goes by and he's like, they're wearing waders.
[00:04:18] And I'm like, what are you talking about?
[00:04:20] He's like, hospitals flooded.
[00:04:22] And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?
[00:04:24] And then at like seven, he's like, I went home.
[00:04:28] Yeah, I did.
[00:04:29] I just it was very defeating.
[00:04:32] Because I had to then limp home still, you know?
[00:04:35] Yeah.
[00:04:36] But that was why we didn't we didn't do it.
[00:04:39] This is an instance of the wacky wasteland perk.
[00:04:42] There's been countless others.
[00:04:44] Give me two.
[00:04:45] Give me two.
[00:04:47] One of them involved you.
[00:04:49] One of them is an example of how powerful it is because it occurred before I even got there.
[00:04:55] It was because I was arriving at this location.
[00:04:59] The spawn math was different.
[00:05:02] Yeah.
[00:05:03] PVP was turned on.
[00:05:05] It was just it was the day of your bachelor party, which is a series of wholesome events.
[00:05:09] Uh, and we were waiting to do archery at the lake.
[00:05:14] And there was just I got there and there was just this woman in a bathing suit who I assumed was with someone.
[00:05:23] Nope.
[00:05:24] And, uh, she had a, uh, she, she, she was carrying nothing but a bottle of wine.
[00:05:29] Yep.
[00:05:30] And she, she took some of our donuts, did not ask.
[00:05:32] Uh, and, and she was just like, I woke up on a boat.
[00:05:35] She's just like, I, I like, I just woke up on a boat.
[00:05:38] Like, uh, listener, I think we talked about this before, but you probably forgot.
[00:05:42] And also it bears repeating.
[00:05:43] I want to be clear that Joe is not like taking, uh, the classic line out of context and making it sound more like random than it.
[00:05:51] No, she's opening with like, I woke up on a boat.
[00:05:56] Starting from silence.
[00:05:58] Well, I woke up on a boat, period.
[00:06:01] And she's done for a while.
[00:06:04] And then she took one of your donuts.
[00:06:06] Yes.
[00:06:06] Uh, and also she would every once in a while, cause we were like being polite and like sort of being like, we're busy doing something else.
[00:06:13] Please move on.
[00:06:14] Every once in a while she would just go Hollywood beach, which is where she woke up.
[00:06:19] Yeah.
[00:06:20] The thing that was like really worrying to me is like, has she joined our party or not?
[00:06:25] Like, it's not clear.
[00:06:26] Like she is in this orbit situation.
[00:06:27] That's not, I, I am actually very comfortable with standing a lot of social discomfort.
[00:06:32] I'm not like the type of person needs to like physically remove myself from situations that are fucked.
[00:06:37] I had to walk into the woods.
[00:06:39] Like I, I, I did just because there was like nothing in my lived experience for like, this woman started Morrowind and she's like, I just woke up on.
[00:06:50] Necromancy may be illegal in Cirodale.
[00:06:53] And like, and like, do we have to help her?
[00:06:55] Like, I didn't know if she needs help.
[00:06:57] Like, uh, like.
[00:06:59] Like she certainly didn't need help finishing her big bottle of wine, which was again, like 1045 in the morning.
[00:07:05] Chugging the shit.
[00:07:06] Yeah.
[00:07:07] Yeah.
[00:07:07] But that's an example of it.
[00:07:09] Uh, also Joe, don't forget the wacky wasteland shit continues.
[00:07:13] And it's very apropos given what you just talked about with the, uh, the, the emergency room.
[00:07:17] We didn't get to do archery.
[00:07:19] The archery lady was like two hours late and Damien called her and she was like, that's today.
[00:07:26] Right.
[00:07:27] Which meant we had not actually two hours of Hollywood beach lady, but it felt like it.
[00:07:33] You have to understand we're waiting for this person to show up to save us with like an itinerary, you know?
[00:07:40] Like we're on a schedule now.
[00:07:41] We can't hang out here.
[00:07:43] Uh, you can't just be around here all the time.
[00:07:46] We have activities planned, but that never happened.
[00:07:48] That's like, actually, no, we just, we're just chilling on the lakefront.
[00:07:51] Same as you were equal.
[00:07:54] Oh man.
[00:07:55] Me and the other archers were talking and we think you should hang out with that lady.
[00:07:58] We're watching from a telescope.
[00:08:01] Joe, that's two incredible wacky wasteland encounters.
[00:08:04] Three makes a trend.
[00:08:05] I'm sure you don't have another one loaded.
[00:08:07] I do.
[00:08:09] Uh, this was like in, uh, 2011.
[00:08:14] I was, I think it's starting grad school or something, but I was like walking.
[00:08:18] I was walking with my iPod in and I had my earbuds in my ear and the iPod was in my right
[00:08:24] back pocket.
[00:08:25] Some guy tried to do a rip and run and he did the move.
[00:08:28] Uh, you may be familiar with where it's like you are passing someone on the street and as
[00:08:33] soon as they pass you, you do like a really sharp one 80, like to like get right behind
[00:08:38] them to take their whatever.
[00:08:39] Yeah.
[00:08:39] Uh, uh, he did that.
[00:08:42] I noticed it because obviously I have insane gamer reflexes.
[00:08:46] Yeah.
[00:08:47] Uh, so I like turned my head as he started to do the rip and run.
[00:08:50] So what happened is he just put his fingers in my mouth as he was going for the earbuds and he just like grabbed my ass as he missed the thing in my pocket.
[00:08:58] And then I turned around and said, what the fuck?
[00:09:01] And he called me gay.
[00:09:04] And, and like, I, dude, I literally had to sit down in class five minutes later.
[00:09:11] Like I, uh, it was just like, I don't have time to process this.
[00:09:15] This is very strange.
[00:09:17] I bet there's not another story you have loaded up of someone calling you gay for no reason.
[00:09:24] When we were teenagers, homie of the show, Em and I, uh, were like just walking around the suburbs cause that's what you do.
[00:09:31] Uh, and it, it comes screaming down one driveway is like a girl riding the back of, uh, like a boy in like a motorized wheelchair.
[00:09:43] Like she's like riding it like a chariot.
[00:09:45] Uh, and she comes like barreling towards us as they're walking in the street.
[00:09:51] And she like does a burnout in front of us and says, Hey, gay F slurs.
[00:09:57] Like, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the one for sticks, you know, heard of it.
[00:10:02] And which, which causes Em to laugh because it's like, what, what, like what is happening?
[00:10:06] At which point, uh, she turns and says, you laugh like a double gay F slur.
[00:10:13] Uh, and, and then she like just peels out and leaves.
[00:10:17] And the thing is she wasn't communicating with the kid in the wheelchair.
[00:10:20] He just knew how to go, like when to go.
[00:10:22] Okay.
[00:10:23] He just understood the master blaster role.
[00:10:26] And it was like, Em and I bring this up like all the time, like to each other.
[00:10:33] It's just like, that was, we just, then we just had to kind of keep walking.
[00:10:38] Hello everybody.
[00:11:06] Welcome to Anime Sicko's podcast.
[00:11:08] Uh, the podcast for geniuses where we have wacky wasteland turned on.
[00:11:12] Uh, we look at the four pillars of modern misery, anime, gaming, posting, and jobs.
[00:11:17] I am Tom and Anime Sicko.
[00:11:18] I'm Joe and Anime Sicko.
[00:11:20] I wish I had the perk that makes it so like, there's just random gore.
[00:11:25] Like you stub your toe and your head falls off.
[00:11:27] Yeah.
[00:11:28] Yeah.
[00:11:28] That would be a good one to have.
[00:11:30] Yeah.
[00:11:30] Not this shit.
[00:11:31] The one where if you're bisexual, you're just better at everything.
[00:11:34] Uh, that's pretty funny.
[00:11:38] Uh, we, we have three new patrons to get to, uh, before we go into the, the meat of the episode.
[00:11:44] These are all like homies.
[00:11:46] These are people who have like been with us since the beginning and I'm sure have patronized
[00:11:50] us in the past.
[00:11:51] It's Alex Keswick.
[00:11:52] Thank you, Alex.
[00:11:53] Thank you.
[00:11:54] Scott Paladin.
[00:11:55] He uses Holy Smite.
[00:11:57] Thank you, Scott.
[00:11:58] And Works of Genius.
[00:12:00] What an apropos listener of the show.
[00:12:02] Thank you, Works of Genius.
[00:12:03] Thank you.
[00:12:04] Thank you.
[00:12:05] All righty.
[00:12:06] We got to talk about my man, Luigi.
[00:12:08] Bro, hit him with the negative zone.
[00:12:11] Luigi Mangione, the, uh, murderer of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, if you're listening
[00:12:19] to this in the future and, uh, the legacy media has successfully buried all knowledge
[00:12:25] of Luigi.
[00:12:26] Uh, I've been saying to myself constantly, bro, hit him with the negative zone.
[00:12:33] I can't handle that.
[00:12:36] It's like 80% Luigi's Mansion.
[00:12:39] Like the name is not, it's, it's more distracting that it's not quite there actually, because every
[00:12:45] time I see it, my brain is like, you know, like the spooky game.
[00:12:49] I, we were going to do a skit, but we forgot.
[00:12:51] I'm just going to tell you what the conceit was where I was going to be like very upset.
[00:12:56] Like I don't like the people are saying Luigi's Mansion.
[00:12:59] I have Italian ancestry.
[00:13:01] I'm 25% Italian.
[00:13:02] And this is actually really rude.
[00:13:04] And Joe would be like, oh, okay.
[00:13:06] I didn't know.
[00:13:07] And it's like, let me put on some respectful musics to help you prove your point.
[00:13:11] And then I would turn on that PS2 Spider-Man minigame music where you deliver the pizzas.
[00:13:16] And I would say, thank you to show this is very respectful of my heritage.
[00:13:18] And then I'd be like, in fact, his actual name is Luigi.
[00:13:22] Oh, ow, I didn't know.
[00:13:24] No, this is Luigi's Mansion.
[00:13:25] I just hadn't read it yet.
[00:13:28] His name is fucking, his name is Luigi.
[00:13:31] Remember in Smash Brothers when Luigi wins and he turns to the camera really like coquettishly
[00:13:37] and goes bang, bang.
[00:13:38] A very kind of femme bang, bang.
[00:13:41] Very fun.
[00:13:42] It's so funny that in Smash Brothers only, like Luigi is like so gay.
[00:13:49] Luigi is a drag queen for sure.
[00:13:51] And it's just like Sakurai is like, hey, hey, the rest of Nintendo.
[00:13:55] I've decided something.
[00:13:57] Yeah, it doesn't quite come across in any of like the other team ones where like he can just be him.
[00:14:04] He's just green Mario in that one.
[00:14:07] I mean, like we, one of our classic bits early on that sort of made us, made our mark was when we said that Luigi was a pog.
[00:14:17] Because in the official Smash Ultimate render, he's looking so breathable.
[00:14:23] He's got his ass poked way out and he has this face that's like, I hope no one takes my hole.
[00:14:29] Not that, not only that, that's his third jab, dude.
[00:14:33] The third jab in the series is the breedable butt.
[00:14:36] It's really fucked.
[00:14:38] He has like the, aw shucks, kick taunt.
[00:14:42] And of course the negative, you were talking about what you were maining Luigi in Brawl,
[00:14:48] which was the game where his final smash was the negative zone.
[00:14:50] And being that it was college time, often you'd be playing Brawl when like randos would be coming.
[00:14:56] People would just come by and play.
[00:14:58] And one of my favorite types of questions to get was just like, like when I would do the negative zone,
[00:15:06] people would be like, what is this?
[00:15:09] Like why does he do this?
[00:15:11] Yeah, one of the things that's so great about Smash Brothers is that like it exposes you to Nintendo stuff
[00:15:16] that you wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
[00:15:17] Most people have heard about Metroid and Earthbound from Smash Brothers.
[00:15:21] So you assume, oh, I'm going to learn some Luigi lore about the negative zone that I didn't know from some game I never bought.
[00:15:29] No, this was just a bold choice.
[00:15:32] A really bold choice.
[00:15:33] When you're in the zone, you fall asleep and a flower grows on your head.
[00:15:37] Yeah.
[00:15:39] Luigi starts doing an incredibly sexual dance.
[00:15:42] His hips are simply going nutty.
[00:15:46] Again, he's looking breedable as anything.
[00:15:49] He's using his pog powers to change, to invert all colors.
[00:15:54] And yeah, you fall asleep and you get a flower growing out of your head, which as we know is...
[00:15:59] A dot.
[00:16:01] Yeah, well, I was going to say that's a metaphor for getting transed.
[00:16:04] Like you got turned trans.
[00:16:05] He recruited you.
[00:16:06] Oh, I see, I see.
[00:16:08] So Luigi...
[00:16:09] His name is Luigi.
[00:16:11] Like...
[00:16:11] That is sort of...
[00:16:13] Luigi is like an actual name.
[00:16:15] We know this.
[00:16:16] It is an actual name.
[00:16:17] However, the news is saying Bubsy all the time now.
[00:16:22] Like, it still feels like that.
[00:16:24] It's like when the prisoners are like free Luigi.
[00:16:28] Bubsy's conditions are abhorrent.
[00:16:32] Also, we talked about how his last name Mangione is mansion.
[00:16:37] But I was like, what is it really?
[00:16:39] Because I think it...
[00:16:41] Because mange, that is sort of like a linguistic root in Italian is eat.
[00:16:45] It's like, it can't be that.
[00:16:47] So I looked at what Mangione means in English.
[00:16:50] And it fucking means like big eater.
[00:16:53] It means like food liking guy.
[00:16:56] And just like, holy...
[00:16:57] Like, okay.
[00:16:58] Talk about the excellence and stand the test of time nature of Italian culture.
[00:17:05] Other fucking cultures were like, when they invented surnames, it would be like,
[00:17:10] oh, we will simply name you after who your father is.
[00:17:13] Or like, I know.
[00:17:14] Cobbler.
[00:17:15] Yeah, we will take the thing that your family does.
[00:17:18] And that will be your name.
[00:17:19] Cobbler, you make shoes.
[00:17:20] Cooper, you make barrels.
[00:17:21] Baker, you bake.
[00:17:23] Italian is like, this big fucking fat ass always goes for seconds.
[00:17:27] This family is always eating.
[00:17:29] This family is the founder of the Clean Plate Club.
[00:17:32] No napkins needed.
[00:17:33] They simply lick them clean here.
[00:17:38] He's an Italiano.
[00:17:40] He's got the big brows.
[00:17:42] This guy is like my guy.
[00:17:43] And also like, he's dumb as shit.
[00:17:46] Like, people are posting that Dennis Duffy quote from 30 Rock where Jack asks Dennis Duffy
[00:17:54] what his politics are.
[00:17:56] And he says, socially conservative, fiscally liberal.
[00:18:00] And like, that's it.
[00:18:03] Like, median voter Luigi Mancione.
[00:18:09] Like, the Goodreads stuff.
[00:18:11] The murder is obviously exceptional.
[00:18:13] But the good...
[00:18:15] Like, he's read a book.
[00:18:17] Like, that's insane.
[00:18:18] He's just...
[00:18:18] Yes.
[00:18:20] Tom found this post from him when he went to Japan.
[00:18:25] Mm-hmm.
[00:18:27] That floored me.
[00:18:29] Tom will read it.
[00:18:30] The gist of which is, hey, I went to Japan.
[00:18:35] Here are my notes how they can turn it around.
[00:18:37] Uh, uh, they gotta stop doing the perv shit.
[00:18:42] And focus on, like, the food and karate.
[00:18:46] Can you read the tweet?
[00:18:48] Yes.
[00:18:49] This is my man, Luigi Mancione.
[00:18:51] Um, having gone to Japan.
[00:18:54] And I...
[00:18:55] It is wild that you...
[00:18:58] Give notes on, like, country.
[00:19:01] Yes.
[00:19:02] What a guy.
[00:19:03] What a king.
[00:19:04] Um, modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.
[00:19:11] You could just cut out Japanese urban.
[00:19:13] Modern environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal, but whatever.
[00:19:17] Uh, the solution to falling birth rates isn't immigration.
[00:19:22] It's cultural.
[00:19:24] Well, it's economic, but okay.
[00:19:26] Um, but he says it's cultural.
[00:19:28] And here are his, uh...
[00:19:30] Here are his notes.
[00:19:31] It's...
[00:19:31] Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness, and spirituality.
[00:19:37] And here are the bullet points by which he's gonna do that.
[00:19:41] Ban tanga fleshlights and, quote,
[00:19:44] Japan real hole custom porn star pocket pussies being sold in grocery stores.
[00:19:53] Item number, that's one.
[00:19:55] Japan...
[00:19:56] That's been led with that.
[00:19:57] Real hole.
[00:19:59] That left him shook.
[00:20:02] Uh, what else we got?
[00:20:03] I just...
[00:20:03] I love that he...
[00:20:04] It's like, I gotta call out the brand name.
[00:20:07] I have to make sure everyone knows I'm talking about Japan real hole.
[00:20:09] Let me get the skew in there.
[00:20:11] Yeah.
[00:20:12] Like, some of these brands, their fleshlights are not evolutionary mismatches, but Japan
[00:20:17] real hole released.
[00:20:18] Next one, replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering with actual human interaction
[00:20:25] with a waiter.
[00:20:25] So, one of my key, like, sort of, like, analytical tools is, I just believe that, like, most people
[00:20:33] don't understand scale.
[00:20:35] And when they think about things, they just often are thinking at the wrong scale.
[00:20:39] And it's just like, what scale of isolation is occurring with conveyor belt sushi?
[00:20:46] Yeah.
[00:20:47] That it moves the needle when it's removed.
[00:20:53] I also, like, everyone who has worked as a waiter or known a waiter or read a post written
[00:20:59] by a waiter knows that the interaction that customers have with waiters cannot be accurately
[00:21:06] described as human interaction.
[00:21:08] They are acting as though you are a shitty robot they hate.
[00:21:14] It's, yeah, this is ridiculous.
[00:21:16] Next one.
[00:21:17] This one, I think, is like, I mean, I love my man Luigi, but this, I don't know if I can
[00:21:24] support.
[00:21:25] Given also that he is a gamer, which is one of the reasons that I support him so much.
[00:21:28] Replace esports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting
[00:21:36] with athletics in school.
[00:21:39] So, am I understanding correctly that they just, they got to pick a better fighting game?
[00:21:47] Like, Tekken is very complicated.
[00:21:50] Like, it's very hard to play.
[00:21:53] It takes a lot of time.
[00:21:54] They need a place for Smash Brothers.
[00:21:56] It's easier to get into while still having a high skill ceiling, and it's got Luigi in
[00:22:00] it.
[00:22:00] My bro can hit him with the negative zone.
[00:22:03] I think, but he's, I think he's trying to say that, like, we have a natural instinct to
[00:22:09] become fit, and that's good for us.
[00:22:12] And gaming is allowing us to get that dopamine vector even though it's fake.
[00:22:18] Yeah.
[00:22:19] Which is stupid because Tekken's cool.
[00:22:21] You can play as a bear in that.
[00:22:23] Okay.
[00:22:23] He gets me back with this next one.
[00:22:25] This is the one that I think is actually really true.
[00:22:29] Heavily stigmatized maid cafes where salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters
[00:22:35] and perform anime dances for them.
[00:22:38] Here are my notes.
[00:22:39] Cut it out.
[00:22:40] I think that the maid cafe is one of the great sins.
[00:22:43] One of the great sins of all time.
[00:22:45] I think it's disgusting.
[00:22:46] The maid outfit as, like, a concept is just like, oh, we really fucked this one up.
[00:22:53] Humanity.
[00:22:55] I don't like this.
[00:22:57] It's just like the subservient sex slave outfit because it's not an outfit you can actually
[00:23:04] do house cleaning in.
[00:23:05] It is specifically for being a subservient sex slave.
[00:23:09] And then the last one, let's do more karate.
[00:23:13] Revitalize traditional Japanese culture.
[00:23:15] And one of his three bullet points as examples is karate.
[00:23:19] So do more karate.
[00:23:20] But it's Okinawa karate, right?
[00:23:21] Like he has a school in mind.
[00:23:23] Much like how he needs to make sure that the fleshlights that need to be banned are Japan
[00:23:28] real whole brand fleshlights.
[00:23:32] It's got to be Okinawan karate.
[00:23:34] If it's Hokkaido karate, boo!
[00:23:38] I don't know if they have karate in Hokkaido.
[00:23:41] They probably do.
[00:23:43] They got punching everywhere these days.
[00:23:45] So here's the thing about this.
[00:23:48] It's funny.
[00:23:49] We made some jokes.
[00:23:50] But it's actually very relevant to his manifesto.
[00:23:55] And we say manifesto because that's what the legacy media is calling it.
[00:23:58] It's not.
[00:23:58] It's just sort of like a follow-up.
[00:24:02] Manifesto implies, like, long and crazy.
[00:24:05] There was a Chris Hayes tweet.
[00:24:06] I don't know if I'm reading into this scolding tone that kind of made me chuckle.
[00:24:10] But, like, he was just pointing out that it's, like, not really a manifesto.
[00:24:14] It sounded like he barely wrote a long essay.
[00:24:16] His page count sucked.
[00:24:18] Like, it sounded like...
[00:24:19] He's so lazy.
[00:24:19] It did sound like he didn't do enough homework was the issue.
[00:24:25] It's not.
[00:24:26] It's...
[00:24:27] The beauty of the...
[00:24:29] I say beauty.
[00:24:30] But, like, the reason manifestos are known for being manifestos is that they're long,
[00:24:35] and that means there's increasingly likelihood that there's the weird shit in there, right?
[00:24:40] Yeah.
[00:24:41] Like, for example, I mean, as...
[00:24:44] To call back to his Goodreads account,
[00:24:47] the thing everyone was reporting is that he gave a positive review to the Unabomber manifesto,
[00:24:52] which, again, this is a meathead.
[00:24:55] Like, this is a pure Italiano.
[00:24:57] He's not...
[00:24:58] He's smart, but he's still Italiano.
[00:25:00] I can't...
[00:25:02] You know, you get it.
[00:25:03] But I've said in the past, anyone who likes the Unabomber manifesto,
[00:25:06] it's a red flag for being kind of a dope.
[00:25:09] Because you're being swayed by naturalistic fallacies,
[00:25:12] or you're, like, secretly waiting to be activated for a race war.
[00:25:17] Exactly.
[00:25:18] But, like, the thing about the Unabomber manifesto is he starts off by saying a thing that is true,
[00:25:24] which is, like, technological development is often a prison,
[00:25:28] because what was once a convenient new thing that, as a tool to help us,
[00:25:34] becomes something that you are required to do.
[00:25:36] It becomes baked into the basic expectations of how life is,
[00:25:39] and thus everyone's expectations increases.
[00:25:43] So you never get more leisure, and you never get more convenience,
[00:25:46] because any convenience just frees up more bandwidth to get filled with more expectations.
[00:25:51] This is true, and it is real, and it makes life worse.
[00:25:55] He then goes on, because it's a manifesto, he doesn't end there.
[00:25:58] He then goes on to be like,
[00:26:00] the femboy leftists are trying to force fem me,
[00:26:03] and when I see their fuckable holes in my dreams...
[00:26:07] Yeah, it's...
[00:26:11] Yeah, and this...
[00:26:13] What he left, or his statement, was pretty much to the point,
[00:26:17] which was just like,
[00:26:18] hey, healthcare is no good.
[00:26:21] End of sentence.
[00:26:22] Yeah, I can fucking read part of it.
[00:26:24] To the feds, I'll keep this short,
[00:26:26] because I do respect what you do for our country.
[00:26:28] Again, this...
[00:26:28] Which is so, like, he's so cop-brained.
[00:26:32] Whoa.
[00:26:33] Whoa.
[00:26:34] You gotta remember, this is an Italiano...
[00:26:36] This is a median voter.
[00:26:38] Yeah, this is an Italiano...
[00:26:41] Who, uh...
[00:26:42] Grew up in privilege.
[00:26:43] He got money.
[00:26:45] Hooah, blah, blah, blah.
[00:26:45] I'll save you a lengthy...
[00:26:46] I wasn't working with anyone.
[00:26:48] I did all this...
[00:26:49] You can look at my notebooks to find out how I did it.
[00:26:51] Blah, blah, blah.
[00:26:51] I apologize for any strife or trauma,
[00:26:53] but it had to be done.
[00:26:54] Frankly, these parasites had it coming.
[00:26:56] A reminder,
[00:26:57] U.S. is the number one most expensive healthcare system.
[00:26:59] We rank 42 in life expectancy.
[00:27:02] United is a big company.
[00:27:04] Blah, blah, blah.
[00:27:04] It's grown and grown and grown.
[00:27:05] But has our life expectancy?
[00:27:07] No, the reality is these fuckers have gotten too powerful,
[00:27:10] and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit,
[00:27:12] because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.
[00:27:14] Obviously, the problem is more complex,
[00:27:16] but I'm not the one to explain it all.
[00:27:18] Many have illuminated the corruption and greed decades ago,
[00:27:21] but the problems remain.
[00:27:22] It's not an issue of awareness at this point,
[00:27:24] but clearly power games at play.
[00:27:26] Evidently, I'm the first to face it with such brutal honesty.
[00:27:29] I do love...
[00:27:30] I'm like the only person who ever thought about this,
[00:27:32] and I'm going to do it.
[00:27:33] But it's sort of the messaging issue here
[00:27:37] for just, I guess, existing media and everything
[00:27:40] is just like there is no industry less liked,
[00:27:47] more intimately in everyone's lives than health insurance.
[00:27:52] You're not going to get a lot of people who are loving it.
[00:27:56] And as a result,
[00:27:58] they now have to tell everyone that
[00:28:02] this happiness that they feel is fake,
[00:28:06] and they shouldn't...
[00:28:07] Don't, don't, don't, don't.
[00:28:08] Don't feel good about this, actually.
[00:28:10] They want this to be a manifesto so bad
[00:28:12] because they want him to go on and say something kooky.
[00:28:14] And also, the reason I'm doing this
[00:28:16] is there's too much Japan real hole these days.
[00:28:19] That would be like,
[00:28:20] yes, crazy guy.
[00:28:22] But like, he's just like,
[00:28:23] you know how the health insurance companies are bad?
[00:28:26] Well, I mean, the thing that really is like so fucking true
[00:28:32] is it's not an issue of awareness at this point.
[00:28:36] That's like, talk about the,
[00:28:39] that's like the key,
[00:28:40] the root of so much of the Democratic Party's incompetence.
[00:28:44] Of course, there's a million roots.
[00:28:45] It's a very deep tree.
[00:28:47] But one of them is just like,
[00:28:49] it's the whole thing of like,
[00:28:50] the senators being like,
[00:28:51] I can't believe it.
[00:28:53] Donald Trump is proposing to put Hitler
[00:28:56] as like the secretary of not being Hitler.
[00:29:00] What a terrible,
[00:29:01] and it's just like,
[00:29:02] what are you getting,
[00:29:02] like we all know,
[00:29:04] like we know.
[00:29:05] Awareness is not the issue.
[00:29:06] I know.
[00:29:07] It's like,
[00:29:07] there's not some point at which
[00:29:10] being fully informed
[00:29:11] is going to like,
[00:29:13] take the counter over from like 255
[00:29:15] to negative 255
[00:29:16] and like we win.
[00:29:18] But you guys,
[00:29:19] you as a political party
[00:29:20] do need to do something.
[00:29:22] They're like,
[00:29:22] no,
[00:29:22] we're not going to do that.
[00:29:23] We're just going to make sure
[00:29:24] that you're all aware
[00:29:26] via our like weeping fucking emails.
[00:29:30] We got through,
[00:29:32] well,
[00:29:32] I didn't say got through,
[00:29:33] a lot of people didn't,
[00:29:34] but the world
[00:29:38] marched through a pandemic
[00:29:41] and the end result of which
[00:29:43] any discussion of anything
[00:29:45] like national healthcare,
[00:29:46] single payer is just gone.
[00:29:48] Like this past election cycle,
[00:29:51] just healthcare was a nothing
[00:29:54] outside of the case of abortion.
[00:29:57] But like no one's talking about
[00:29:58] this thing that everyone agrees
[00:30:01] continues to get worse.
[00:30:03] And to not even mention it
[00:30:04] makes people feel insane.
[00:30:06] People are pretty insane
[00:30:07] just on a baseline.
[00:30:08] So more of that is fucked up.
[00:30:11] I mean,
[00:30:11] people are like,
[00:30:12] you know,
[00:30:14] Luigi was wrong to do what he did.
[00:30:16] Violence never accomplishes anything.
[00:30:18] And I'm not going to say
[00:30:19] that this murder
[00:30:20] is going to be the thing
[00:30:23] that causes the downfall
[00:30:24] of the health insurance industry.
[00:30:26] I think that's very unlikely.
[00:30:28] Yeah,
[00:30:28] that'll never happen,
[00:30:29] unfortunately.
[00:30:30] But to say that violence
[00:30:32] doesn't accomplish anything
[00:30:33] is also a lie.
[00:30:34] Because I can tell you
[00:30:35] one thing it really accomplished.
[00:30:36] It made the CEO be dead.
[00:30:39] Like,
[00:30:41] and they walked back
[00:30:42] the anesthesia capping
[00:30:44] like that day.
[00:30:46] There was some change
[00:30:48] to billing that would have been.
[00:30:49] Oh yeah, yeah.
[00:30:50] Blueclosh Blue Shield
[00:30:51] was going to be like,
[00:30:52] we're only going to give
[00:30:52] a certain amount of anesthesia.
[00:30:54] And if you're,
[00:30:55] a certain time,
[00:30:56] you know,
[00:30:57] amount of time
[00:30:57] that you are anesthetized rather.
[00:30:59] And they were like,
[00:31:00] you know what,
[00:31:00] this is not a good time
[00:31:02] to be a bean counter
[00:31:04] about this.
[00:31:05] It's like,
[00:31:06] we have heard your voice
[00:31:07] loud and clear.
[00:31:08] We never could have foreseen this,
[00:31:09] but the American public
[00:31:10] does not wish to wake up,
[00:31:11] abdomen cut,
[00:31:13] fully open,
[00:31:14] and start screaming
[00:31:15] in utter agony
[00:31:17] as doctors are like,
[00:31:18] we have 20 more minutes
[00:31:19] of rooting around in here.
[00:31:20] You better not thrash.
[00:31:23] Fucking Christ.
[00:31:24] Like, okay.
[00:31:25] I'm going to say
[00:31:26] I don't support murder.
[00:31:28] I,
[00:31:29] if I had a genie wish
[00:31:31] and the genie said,
[00:31:32] would you like it
[00:31:33] if instead of Luigi
[00:31:35] shooting Brian Thompson,
[00:31:37] he just had a heart attack
[00:31:39] naturally
[00:31:40] and fell down dead,
[00:31:41] I'd say I would love
[00:31:42] the heart attack naturally.
[00:31:44] But I'm glad
[00:31:45] he's not alive anymore.
[00:31:47] Yeah, just in passing
[00:31:48] in my life,
[00:31:49] this is obviously anecdotal,
[00:31:51] but like,
[00:31:51] people have been like,
[00:31:52] yeah,
[00:31:52] he got it.
[00:31:54] Like,
[00:31:54] not to say like,
[00:31:56] it's good that murder happened,
[00:31:58] but the,
[00:31:59] yeah,
[00:32:00] that sure happened, huh?
[00:32:01] One thing I think
[00:32:02] is going to happen
[00:32:03] is that
[00:32:04] the health insurance industry
[00:32:06] will become the troops
[00:32:08] somehow.
[00:32:09] I've decided
[00:32:10] that that'll happen.
[00:32:11] I don't know
[00:32:12] what that means,
[00:32:13] but like,
[00:32:13] troubification extends,
[00:32:15] you know,
[00:32:15] it continues to grow.
[00:32:17] Yeah,
[00:32:17] Joe,
[00:32:18] funny you should say that
[00:32:19] because I have here
[00:32:20] a screen cap
[00:32:21] of a headline
[00:32:21] of an op-ed
[00:32:22] from Brett Stevens
[00:32:23] one of the dumbest
[00:32:24] and worst human beings
[00:32:25] who ever lived
[00:32:26] who,
[00:32:27] let's just say
[00:32:28] I hope he gets a visit
[00:32:29] from Luigi,
[00:32:30] by which I mean
[00:32:31] I hope Luigi gives him
[00:32:32] a one-up mushroom.
[00:32:35] And his op-ed,
[00:32:36] I haven't read it
[00:32:37] because I care about myself
[00:32:38] and I never will read it,
[00:32:39] is,
[00:32:39] Brian Thompson,
[00:32:41] not Luigi Mancione,
[00:32:42] is the real
[00:32:44] working class hero.
[00:32:47] He's the troops.
[00:32:49] He's the troops.
[00:32:51] He was royalty
[00:32:52] to them,
[00:32:53] so he has to be royalty
[00:32:55] to us.
[00:32:56] So Joe,
[00:32:56] I just,
[00:32:57] which do you,
[00:32:58] I know you don't want
[00:32:59] to read it,
[00:32:59] obviously for the same reasons
[00:33:00] and also because
[00:33:01] as you've discussed,
[00:33:02] we understand the rot
[00:33:04] so much
[00:33:05] that like,
[00:33:06] there's no need
[00:33:10] I would say his angle
[00:33:12] is that he,
[00:33:14] he's involved
[00:33:15] in making sure
[00:33:16] workers have healthcare
[00:33:18] and that's,
[00:33:18] it's,
[00:33:20] the flimsy logical board
[00:33:22] the whole thing
[00:33:23] is based around.
[00:33:24] Yes,
[00:33:25] I think that's probably like,
[00:33:26] because there was that like,
[00:33:27] bar graph going around
[00:33:29] that shows that UnitedHealthcare
[00:33:30] does the most denials
[00:33:31] and it was like 30%
[00:33:31] of all claims are denied.
[00:33:32] Yes,
[00:33:33] even by like,
[00:33:34] egregious industry standards,
[00:33:36] they stand out.
[00:33:37] Yeah,
[00:33:38] but that's,
[00:33:39] that you can clearly see
[00:33:40] the idiot brain
[00:33:41] of Brett Stevens
[00:33:42] sputtering into
[00:33:44] a simulacrum of life
[00:33:46] to think of the idea of like,
[00:33:48] well,
[00:33:48] that means that 70%
[00:33:50] of all workers
[00:33:51] should be grateful
[00:33:52] that this noble company
[00:33:55] has allowed them
[00:33:56] to have their lives saved.
[00:33:58] My wife thought
[00:34:00] another angle
[00:34:01] of this might be
[00:34:02] to focus on like,
[00:34:04] Brian Johnson
[00:34:05] is an American
[00:34:06] rags to riches story
[00:34:07] that shows
[00:34:08] the American dream
[00:34:09] is still alive,
[00:34:10] which is so funny
[00:34:11] because like,
[00:34:12] he's also like,
[00:34:13] crazy corrupt,
[00:34:14] like he was,
[00:34:14] he's like getting sued
[00:34:15] for insider trading,
[00:34:17] like,
[00:34:17] well not anymore
[00:34:18] because he got fucking
[00:34:19] Luigi-fied.
[00:34:20] As I say,
[00:34:21] bro hit him
[00:34:21] with a negative zone.
[00:34:22] But as an executive,
[00:34:24] like,
[00:34:24] just as a baseline executive,
[00:34:26] regardless of industry,
[00:34:28] corrupt.
[00:34:30] Mm-hmm.
[00:34:30] Mm-hmm.
[00:34:31] Also,
[00:34:31] the new
[00:34:33] United Health
[00:34:35] CEO,
[00:34:35] Andrew Witte,
[00:34:36] I think he probably
[00:34:36] is just interim CEO.
[00:34:37] I don't think he's gonna be,
[00:34:38] whatever.
[00:34:39] Can you think of a worse way
[00:34:40] to get a promotion?
[00:34:41] Uh,
[00:34:42] every single member
[00:34:44] of the C-suite
[00:34:44] was arrested
[00:34:45] for being an Epstein.
[00:34:47] That would be worse
[00:34:48] because you feel like,
[00:34:50] like,
[00:34:51] are they gonna try,
[00:34:51] are they gonna put me
[00:34:52] on the fucking plane?
[00:34:53] Like,
[00:34:54] is the C-suite cursed?
[00:34:56] Anyway,
[00:34:57] Ken Klippenstein,
[00:34:58] the,
[00:34:58] uh,
[00:34:59] the journalist,
[00:35:00] he leaked the manifesto,
[00:35:02] or I should say,
[00:35:03] like,
[00:35:03] notes app
[00:35:04] explanation
[00:35:05] of,
[00:35:06] like,
[00:35:06] hey,
[00:35:06] here's why I did it.
[00:35:07] I did it because
[00:35:07] the,
[00:35:08] uh,
[00:35:08] insurance companies
[00:35:10] are really predatory
[00:35:11] and there's no way
[00:35:12] we can do anything
[00:35:13] about them,
[00:35:14] so I did the only thing
[00:35:15] I could think of.
[00:35:15] And it's like,
[00:35:16] okay.
[00:35:16] He leaked that.
[00:35:17] He also is constantly leaking,
[00:35:18] um,
[00:35:19] internal United Healthcare
[00:35:21] statements
[00:35:21] that the,
[00:35:22] uh,
[00:35:23] employees are furious by
[00:35:24] because of how tone-deaf
[00:35:25] they are.
[00:35:26] This,
[00:35:27] the CEO,
[00:35:27] Andrew Witte,
[00:35:28] put out a,
[00:35:29] uh,
[00:35:29] all-hands letter
[00:35:32] just being like,
[00:35:33] this is a tough time,
[00:35:34] but we're all gonna get
[00:35:35] through this together.
[00:35:37] I love this.
[00:35:39] he's,
[00:35:41] Brian's life was a life
[00:35:42] lived to the absolute fullest.
[00:35:43] It's a life that made,
[00:35:44] uh,
[00:35:45] profoundly positive impact
[00:35:46] in the lives of so many people.
[00:35:48] People he never saw.
[00:35:49] People he never met.
[00:35:50] People who never knew him.
[00:35:51] Oh my god.
[00:35:52] Oh my god.
[00:35:53] But people Brian
[00:35:55] cared so much.
[00:35:56] I know deeply about,
[00:35:57] and this part,
[00:35:57] this next part is just like,
[00:35:59] oh,
[00:35:59] CEOs are like,
[00:36:00] dumb as shit.
[00:36:01] Like,
[00:36:01] this is like,
[00:36:01] this is dumb guy writing.
[00:36:03] Brian was one of the good guys.
[00:36:05] And he was certainly
[00:36:06] one of the smartest guys.
[00:36:08] I think he was one of the best guys.
[00:36:12] Like,
[00:36:12] this is us talking about
[00:36:13] anime sickos as a joke.
[00:36:15] You know who's got the best post?
[00:36:16] Dylan.
[00:36:17] Dylan's the best.
[00:36:18] Dylan's one of the smartest guys.
[00:36:21] If you aren't following
[00:36:22] at Fio Fiorello on,
[00:36:24] I think he's moved to Blue Sky now.
[00:36:26] He certainly posts on Blue Sky.
[00:36:27] I don't know if he still posts on Twitter.
[00:36:28] If you're not following Fio Fiorello,
[00:36:30] you are missing out
[00:36:31] on an incredible spread of jokes
[00:36:33] that get delivered to you,
[00:36:35] uh,
[00:36:35] like,
[00:36:36] almost like every couple days.
[00:36:37] Yeah.
[00:36:38] In huge,
[00:36:39] like,
[00:36:39] that's the thing that,
[00:36:40] that kills me.
[00:36:41] He'll go days without posting
[00:36:43] and then he'll post like,
[00:36:44] 20 tweets in a fucking row.
[00:36:46] And like,
[00:36:46] they're not related.
[00:36:47] And it's just like,
[00:36:48] did you,
[00:36:49] and I,
[00:36:50] his brain is such that
[00:36:51] both of these could be real.
[00:36:53] Both of these are feasible.
[00:36:54] Draft pile and you waited
[00:36:55] or was this just like,
[00:36:56] I see the vector.
[00:36:58] Yeah.
[00:36:59] I must connect these with my,
[00:37:00] I am the thread that connects these.
[00:37:02] Yeah.
[00:37:02] He just like,
[00:37:03] his brain just like,
[00:37:04] does a brain blast
[00:37:05] and he's on like,
[00:37:06] he's on one.
[00:37:07] Uh,
[00:37:07] he goes to the negative zone,
[00:37:08] dude.
[00:37:09] Um,
[00:37:09] so I have some questions
[00:37:10] about this whole Luigi thing.
[00:37:11] Obviously Luigi rules.
[00:37:13] I love that he made the NYPD
[00:37:16] look like the dumbest motherfuckers
[00:37:17] in the entire universe.
[00:37:19] Uh,
[00:37:20] a lot of footage of them.
[00:37:22] I mean,
[00:37:22] I went to Central Park
[00:37:23] and that's kind of like
[00:37:24] what I look like.
[00:37:25] I,
[00:37:26] I did.
[00:37:27] That's how I walked.
[00:37:28] It's very nice.
[00:37:29] I,
[00:37:29] I get it.
[00:37:30] The way that they would like
[00:37:32] every once in a while,
[00:37:33] like half-heartedly lean
[00:37:35] and over a bush
[00:37:35] that was like knee height
[00:37:37] being like any,
[00:37:38] uh,
[00:37:39] any Luigi's in here.
[00:37:41] And I,
[00:37:42] look,
[00:37:42] I'm not from New York.
[00:37:44] I know Central Park is huge,
[00:37:45] but I'm sure people
[00:37:46] who are listening
[00:37:46] who are from New York,
[00:37:47] like it's impossibly huge.
[00:37:49] Like the idea that you could find
[00:37:50] a single discarded thing
[00:37:52] just that quickly
[00:37:52] is crazy,
[00:37:53] right?
[00:37:54] Yeah.
[00:37:54] Uh,
[00:37:55] the Monopoly money backpack,
[00:37:57] I'm a hundred percent
[00:37:58] convinced
[00:37:59] is some other shit
[00:38:01] because it doesn't really
[00:38:03] fit.
[00:38:04] I mean,
[00:38:05] consider this actually.
[00:38:06] Our man has
[00:38:08] this entire time
[00:38:10] displayed a really
[00:38:11] cogent
[00:38:13] and clear
[00:38:14] thought process.
[00:38:15] I mean,
[00:38:15] let's refer again
[00:38:16] to his manifesto
[00:38:17] such as it's described.
[00:38:18] No real hole.
[00:38:19] No real,
[00:38:20] uh,
[00:38:22] his manifesto
[00:38:23] is
[00:38:24] very short
[00:38:25] to the point
[00:38:26] doesn't have any
[00:38:27] extraneous
[00:38:28] crank opinions.
[00:38:29] It's very like,
[00:38:29] this is exactly why I did it.
[00:38:31] This is what I did
[00:38:32] and why I did it.
[00:38:32] Okay.
[00:38:33] And he was very clean about it.
[00:38:35] He didn't do a spree shooting.
[00:38:36] No one else was ever
[00:38:37] in any danger.
[00:38:39] He,
[00:38:40] uh,
[00:38:40] knew to get on a bike.
[00:38:41] That's the thing
[00:38:42] that really blew the NYPD's mind.
[00:38:43] They had no idea what to do.
[00:38:44] They're like,
[00:38:45] he got on some sort of
[00:38:46] strange metal horse
[00:38:47] that doesn't have any
[00:38:47] license plates.
[00:38:48] What do we fucking do?
[00:38:50] Usually we would wait
[00:38:50] for it to run out of gas,
[00:38:52] but it just kept going.
[00:38:53] And the reason I think
[00:38:55] that he's got such a,
[00:38:56] a strong grasp
[00:38:58] on his thinking
[00:38:59] and why this monopoly money shit
[00:39:00] cannot be something he did.
[00:39:02] It's so out of the,
[00:39:02] it's like silly.
[00:39:04] Uh,
[00:39:05] the reason his brain
[00:39:06] is so powerful
[00:39:07] and you mentioned
[00:39:08] it's cause he's got
[00:39:09] no Japan real hole.
[00:39:10] He,
[00:39:11] he hates the fleshlights.
[00:39:12] He hates the real hole.
[00:39:14] Uh,
[00:39:15] let's go call,
[00:39:16] cast your mind back.
[00:39:17] Back to when we believed theories
[00:39:19] and actually we still do.
[00:39:20] Uh,
[00:39:21] we talked a lot
[00:39:22] about the retention kings,
[00:39:23] which is a,
[00:39:24] a group of guys
[00:39:25] who are all correct.
[00:39:26] Yeah.
[00:39:27] That your brain
[00:39:28] is suspended
[00:39:29] in spinal fluid
[00:39:30] and come.
[00:39:31] And if you,
[00:39:32] if you're like,
[00:39:32] if you're none too much,
[00:39:34] imagine a fountain
[00:39:35] with low PSI,
[00:39:36] like the brain
[00:39:36] is like dropping
[00:39:37] and it's not getting,
[00:39:39] uh,
[00:39:40] thoughts.
[00:39:40] I think
[00:39:40] is how they,
[00:39:41] they,
[00:39:41] they,
[00:39:42] we know
[00:39:42] this guy
[00:39:43] based on his feelings
[00:39:45] about maid cafes.
[00:39:47] Dude,
[00:39:47] his fountain
[00:39:48] is just
[00:39:49] full blast.
[00:39:51] I don't know for sure.
[00:39:52] I've heard some
[00:39:53] implications
[00:39:54] and,
[00:39:54] uh,
[00:39:55] such and so
[00:39:55] that he is bi.
[00:39:57] If that is true,
[00:39:58] that only goes
[00:39:59] to support
[00:40:00] our thesis
[00:40:00] because
[00:40:01] as we discussed,
[00:40:02] the one thing
[00:40:03] the retention kings
[00:40:04] get wrong,
[00:40:05] they get the idea
[00:40:05] right,
[00:40:06] but they don't
[00:40:06] get the execution
[00:40:07] right.
[00:40:07] the retention king should be telling men to turn gay they like be gay if you are already gay that's
[00:40:16] great if you're not like grin and bear it like just because like that you get take out just
[00:40:23] think about it like okay it's it's a full you're off the grid the point being japan real hole
[00:40:29] he's a retention king uh that's why he's so smart and that's why i actually we identify more than
[00:40:36] just being an italiano idiot who is a gamer uh speaking of being a gamer i love this again the
[00:40:43] mainstream media is trying to make sure because he is a enemy to the ruling class who you're going
[00:40:49] to be shocked that the ruling class rules the mainstream media they surely want us to hate him
[00:40:55] and so they're like what can we do to make him look insane and evil luigi mangione this is from the news
[00:41:00] i forget where i think usa today or some shit luigi mangione who is arrested with charged with murder
[00:41:05] in the shooting death of brian thompson once belonged to a group of ivy league gamers who played assassins
[00:41:11] how ironic in the game called among us uh you are attributing something that was just in the air
[00:41:22] like flappy bird times 20 just like just a basic cultural phenomenon during a time when everyone
[00:41:27] was fucking stuck at home because of the pandemic like literally everyone did uh if there was a
[00:41:31] connection dude the the sidewalks would be like a morgue right now like do you remember the news
[00:41:38] story that was like like uh among us officially the most played game ever like in the history of
[00:41:44] humanity it's like no one has ever played a game more than this more people have played among us than
[00:41:49] than chess or like whatever it's like ridiculous speaking of ridiculous things
[00:41:55] the way they caught him uh so so i have another screen cap of of the news this line what do you take
[00:42:04] what do you make of this try to explain to me what this line is trying to communicate like what real
[00:42:09] life event could be described by these words the mcdonald's worker said they saw mangione around 9 15 a.m
[00:42:18] acting suspiciously in the restaurant adding that he appeared to have fraudulent documents
[00:42:24] got all my papers gonna eat my mcdouble here as i just sort of sort through them these are of course
[00:42:31] fake but i need them all together uh i uh to me that sort of reads that uh they were just like
[00:42:39] i think this is him fuck it
[00:42:43] see this is why i don't go to mcdonald's anymore i go there and everywhere i look people are rifling
[00:42:49] through their papers and they're written with crayon they don't have the proper stamps you see and when
[00:42:54] you go to wendy's you never see this everyone's got their real id with the star at wendy's they're
[00:43:00] showing it to everyone they're being like this is real and like i go there and have a great experience
[00:43:05] i'm getting red as well i'm going this is real i'm showing everyone my id if i do that at mcdonald's
[00:43:10] there's like you know that guy from papers please who's like the guy who always shows up with like
[00:43:15] crayons i love fucking love him he's like yeah that's pretty good right that's mcdonald's that's
[00:43:19] the median mcdonald's customer uh okay no the real okay the distance from if you're behind the counter
[00:43:29] how are you scoping these documents i just whatever it doesn't matter because it the the reason doesn't
[00:43:37] matter because he's uh got yeah and also i this is i don't have like any uh primary sources saved but
[00:43:44] it's just so fucking funny that they're not gonna give the tipster the reward that was heavily
[00:43:53] publicized it was up to 60 grand right which yes crucially includes uh a goose egg yeah um
[00:44:03] uh it's like if you've ever seen a uh store offering a huge sale that says discounts up to 80
[00:44:12] percent if you've ever been in that situation you know that what they mean is our most shittiest item
[00:44:19] that no one wants is 80 off and everything else is full price fucker uh we got you to come through
[00:44:25] the door now you're more likely to buy than if you didn't uh and also this sort of like this is why
[00:44:34] this idiot turned him in because they didn't listen to anime sickos podcast they shouldn't have turned
[00:44:39] him in because don't snitch but also like they don't know that the machine will get blood and that
[00:44:46] is the only thing that it will do it will not pay out they think like if i bow to the machine and like
[00:44:52] point to where the blood lives the machine will give me a treat and it's like no the machine will
[00:44:59] do one thing only ever can you guess what it is let's get blood and that also explains this is sort
[00:45:05] of unrelated but similar the whole thing about like the onion buying info wars in a deal that the uh
[00:45:10] sandy hook families were so happy about that they all agreed was like this is the deal we want and we
[00:45:15] are totally fine with the outcome of this auction and then the judge was like
[00:45:22] are you trying to tell me that the machine isn't gonna get blood i think you didn't listen to anime
[00:45:28] sickos uh you can't buy info wars the onion and my legal uh justification is evil always wins bang bang
[00:45:38] and it's like jesus christ and uh yeah here's another thing that's uh i think we're discussing
[00:45:44] because a lot of people sort of glossed this over like this is there's there's a funny little
[00:45:50] contradiction in in the facts that it's pretty obvious but again nobody people just glossed right
[00:45:55] over it um so he wrote and this is because he's a genius who has a retention king he can like foresee
[00:46:01] this and and do some cold shit um in his hit uh he shot three bullets and the casings of these bullets
[00:46:08] each had a word written on them and uh we know from his goodreads that he had read luigi had a book by
[00:46:15] the author jay fineman about how the insurance company health insurance industry uh goes out of their way
[00:46:25] to deny claims and deny care to people for uh filthy filthy profit this book is called delay deny defend
[00:46:35] which is a reference to three in the internal names of three strategies that health insurance companies
[00:46:43] use to justify the denial of claims delay deny and defend and thus when the police found
[00:46:54] the bullet casings they were chilled to their core to find that there was a reference to the book delay
[00:47:01] deny defend on the bullets because on the bullets were written deny defend depose now why was that's not
[00:47:13] those aren't the words now joe why do you think that is i think you just got it wrong you ever been
[00:47:19] like writing something down and someone says something to you and you just end up writing what you just heard
[00:47:23] it was one of those uh yeah all the time i so joe had a thought that maybe he intentionally
[00:47:30] used depose to mean like deposing a leader like killing uh executive but in my opinion it's much
[00:47:40] more likely they just fucking wrote the wrong words which is right yeah it's so funny because like
[00:47:48] they're like that's becoming like uh a mantra among like anti-health and people who support it like
[00:47:55] they say deny defend depose like someone that a woman recently got arrested and charged with an act of
[00:48:00] terrorism for on the phone with blue cross blue shield trying to get them to cover her claim which
[00:48:06] they should have she said delay deny depose to them which again is not the same three words it's
[00:48:13] deny defend depose is what he wrote and she wrote delay deny depose and the actual book is delay deny
[00:48:18] defend there's just like this combination of three words that like the accuracy doesn't matter but you
[00:48:25] can't say it you know what it is oh my god home star runner do you remember the strong bad email about how to
[00:48:32] be a metal band and he said you just you do a really low voice and you say a lot of de words uh death
[00:48:38] decay decoupage it doesn't matter what they are if they start with de you good that's a metal and i
[00:48:45] guess that's why it works because this is just so so fucking cold of a thing to do i love it
[00:48:53] nobody talks like it's at all the news is like that says delay defend and depose after the book delay
[00:49:01] deny defend and it's like and you're not it's like can you at least give like one clause where you do like
[00:49:08] comma although one of the words is different for reasons that have not been uh clarified like at
[00:49:15] least ignore that's the thing that drives me crazy no one acknowledges it um but whatever he's in jail
[00:49:21] now they arrested him the other thing that is insanely funny is he did the classic move uh that piece of
[00:49:29] wisdom you hear it's like when you go to prison make sure on the first day you make everybody your bud
[00:49:38] you gotta go up to the scariest meanest guy and make sure he's included as one of your buds he likely
[00:49:46] has a rich social network with additional buds that can help you on your way uh it's it's just either
[00:49:53] the video of them just being like luigi's aka bubsies conditions are i just i i i i it's just a lot to
[00:50:04] take in i'm just it's just it's crazy no crime was committed here when luigi jumped on bowser's it
[00:50:10] should it is so fucking funny how like everyone is going super over time to be like how did this
[00:50:17] once promising man self-destruct into a life of darkness and hate chronic pain like end of story
[00:50:24] yeah yeah and like as though he did not again explain it all in 200 words where he does not go on any
[00:50:31] tangents and addresses the main points and gives some backup information but not too much that you
[00:50:37] get distracted and then says anyway bye bye uh like it's all right fucking there ah so the communication
[00:50:45] goal sort of here is because it's actually straightforward and not a complicated manifesto
[00:50:51] is to inject it with like whoa how could we ever this is unknowable it's unknowable to know why someone
[00:50:57] could do this which is obviously not the case you can see the x-rays or his fucked back in pain and he
[00:51:02] talks about that extensively uh it's another case of like just if you just look at what's in front of
[00:51:09] you yes you see what happened you do not need super new york times journalists to explain like actually
[00:51:15] this is why it happened and it was because of a flash game you know it just it's uh the move here is to
[00:51:26] inject ambiguity i'm not saying he didn't murder i'm saying like the reason for it it was clearly
[00:51:32] fucking stated yeah like the reason is not a secret it's not a mystery and it's not in insane
[00:51:39] mind i mean people the thing that killed me is like like you'll never believe this luigi was rich and
[00:51:46] privileged and yet and it's like well here's the thing doesn't matter if you're in chronic pain it
[00:51:53] literally doesn't matter like maybe it buys you like reprieve and better health care or whatever
[00:51:58] it's if it could if it can but like it just makes you insane money and power are real privilege is real
[00:52:09] but as real as the effect it has is it does not change the fact there's no amount of money that
[00:52:15] makes you not be a meat man and sometimes your meat man body is so ouchy that nothing fucking else
[00:52:24] matters uh another example of that is you might be a meat man who is very rich and the ceo of a
[00:52:30] health care company and feel like you are your tactics are so entrenched in american society that
[00:52:35] nothing bad can ever happen to you and you'll never be punished for it but sometimes your meat man
[00:52:39] body you still have some fucking projectiles for my man you you have hp uh and we just pretend we don't
[00:52:49] i i think this is also the thing i said i think on the uh the cohen episode which is like i think
[00:52:56] americans fundamentally just don't believe they can die like i just it's something that happens to
[00:53:00] other people uh which obviously plays very nicely with just how health insurance is structured in this
[00:53:07] country because like yeah i mean sure it's rough out there if you look at the numbers but i can't die
[00:53:13] so that's that's also why the thing the belief that you can't die is also why in one month the only milk
[00:53:20] that will be legally purchasable will be raw milk and they will actually be required to supplement it with
[00:53:26] extra bird flu because people do not believe they can die and you have to do that in order to uh own
[00:53:33] the woke uh because the woke doesn't like it and well that's the whole that's the game isn't it
[00:53:39] the woke doesn't like it um fucking christ anyway luigi uh what a guy he it's so funny that forever
[00:53:50] forever and ever every time luigi's in a mario game i'm gonna be thinking about my man who hit him
[00:53:58] with the negative zone jack black ended tenacious d so he he could be in the mario movie just this all
[00:54:07] is one wonderful ip murder mishmash uh every the mario brothers movie sequel they're gonna have lines
[00:54:17] where they refer to luigi by name and all you need to do to go viral is close your eyes and just
[00:54:25] yeah you don't don't even need to put the picture of luigi mangi under the audio just say hey close
[00:54:32] your eyes and listen to this and think about the other luigi oh man it's it's i don't know luigi's
[00:54:39] in prison in the mario movie one he's in a cage for committing no crime i bet that if mario at if if
[00:54:49] if they watched if brett stevens watched the mario brothers movie and they saw the end where mario and
[00:54:55] luigi get a star and kick bowser's ass he would be like bowser not mario and luigi is the real working
[00:55:02] class hero ah anyway that's all the time we have for anime sigos don't commit murder don't don't kill
[00:55:12] people god damn it that's our that's there's one takeaway is that we don't support murder and any
[00:55:20] investigative bodies listen to this that is also the takeaway that you should take uh it would be so
[00:55:26] cool if we really had g-men listening to our show like we do yeah they're fans though so we wouldn't
[00:55:31] get in trouble yeah yeah yeah because we're so charming we're like lovely guys and when we talk
[00:55:37] it's the best did you hear the alternative joke that we didn't use that i did a voice message to
[00:55:42] you about no i didn't look at the voice message because i didn't want to what is it well okay
[00:55:47] well it's this i was it was it was the same sort of shaggy thing where it was like people are calling
[00:55:54] it luigi's mansion and it just it irks me because his actual real legal name is mario teaches typing
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