Dan Gets Mad #534

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Satan takes over essential oil company, new COVID-19 vaccine promotes itself as fetus free, America stops trusting pastors, a report about Reformed Jews and sexual abuse, Colombia legalizes abortion, a survey about belief in god, and the Texas state government targets trans kids.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's Thank God I'm Atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher. And, coming up on the show today, I'm going to show you how to make this video.
0:16.0	Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's Thank God I'm Atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher.
0:28.0	And, coming up on the show today, just a horrible attempt. And, probably going to get away with it down in Texas of being mean to trans kids.
0:41.0	Just kicking the most vulnerable kids when they're down, because that's what bullies do. That's what Republicans do.
0:49.0	And, I'm just livid, and we're going to talk about it. I'm so fucking mad. I can't even tell you.
0:55.0	Dan, all right. Well, Dan, first, I've got the story, the saga, if you will, about a couple MLMs that's multi-level marketing companies.
1:10.0	Here in Utah, I don't know. Dan, you know this, and I bet a lot of our listeners know this. But, Utah is home to a lot of multi-level marketing companies.
1:22.0	All the multi-level marketing companies are based in Utah. I don't know if they all are.
1:29.0	All, because Amway is not here, but nonetheless.
1:35.0	And people should understand that the reason is directly related to Mormonism. It is because Mormons are so insular and they sell to, first of all,
1:49.0	about half the Mormons spend two years of their lives doing door-to-door sales as missionaries selling the church.
1:56.0	So they're used to selling, and they're used to like having, you know, having their friends over for a thing.
2:04.0	So it's a whole Mormon cultural deal.
2:06.0	Yeah.
2:07.0	And can you tell me the difference, Dan, between an MLM and a pyramid scheme?
2:15.0	Yes. I can, actually.
2:17.0	Yeah.
2:18.0	A, there is no difference.
2:20.0	And B, yes, there's a difference because one of them actually sells a product.
2:25.0	It's about the product. That's literally it.
2:28.0	The concept is still the same, and it's all about getting people under you to give you money, and they get people under them to give them money.
2:39.0	It's all about the percentages, right?
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