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🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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First they banned gas stoves, because the science said they were harmful. Then the science said football was racist, so we banned that too. Then the nurses came out and said Battletech was problematic, so we banned that as well. Then a data scientist came out and said Florida’s COVID data was fake, so we banned the entire state. Then the scientists said podcasts were harmful, and th--
In this (highly illegal) episode:
* Jesse chains himself to his gas stove
* A bizarre update on Rebekah Jones, serial grifter and former (?) media darling
* Is football racist?
* Drama within the Battletech community
* Jesse threatens to shoot Katie
Errata & Updates
The Paula Curtis thread mentioned
https://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1608146988511690753
“Whistleblower Rebekah Jones wins dismissal- at a price.”
https://www.mynwfl.com/post/rebekahjonescasedismissed
Is Football Racist?
The closest thing we could find to a video of the collapse on YouTube
Daniel Engber’s article on the topic
https://slate.com/culture/2015/12/the-truth-about-will-smiths-concussion-and-bennet-omalu.html
Tracy Canada: “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football”
NFL players aren’t as rich as you’d think!
The movie about the NFL concussion scandal
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/
“Colin Kaepernick in Netflix series likens NFL draft to slavery”
Foolball players wanted to play during the pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/sports/ncaafootball/coronavirus-pac-12-restart.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/sports/ncaafootball/covid-big-ten-football-season.html
NCAA: “All student-athletes must be allowed to opt out of participation due to concerns about contracting COVID-19”
Football players were allowed to maintain their scholarships, even if they refused to play
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/sports/ncaafootball/coronavirus-college-football-pac-12.html
Scientific American: “the term ‘JEDI’ is problematic”
Laura Helmuth’s appointment to EIC at Scientific American
Her reaction to the article’s pushback
https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1611877742298939394
Former NFL player’s reaction to the article
https://twitter.com/TonyDungy/status/1611551363212922881
Battletech
Faith introduces herself
http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2020/06/finding-your-faith.html?m=1
Faith finds Battletech
http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2020/12/faith-finds-battletech-it-dawned-on-me.html?m=1
Faith is going to be a mother
http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2021/04/musings-going-forward.html?m=1
The truth about “Faith McClosky”
https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/the-truth-about-faith-mcclosky/
“Blaine Pardoe is a f****** Liar...”
Ace denies being J, while surprisingly defending him for some reason
http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2021/07/no-you-dont-get-to-lie-and-inflate.html?m=1
“My Publisher Canceled Me in Favor of an Activist Who Threatened My Life”
Statement Regarding Blaine Lee Pardoe
Faith No More
https://acekaller.blogspot.com/2022/12/faith-no-more.html
Pardoe’s response
https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/faithless/
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hey guys, Jesse here. During this episode I forgot to mention that at 7pm on January 21st |
0:06.5 | I will be joining the denizens of the unofficial official bar pod discord server for their |
0:11.8 | game night. We're going to be playing quip lash for charity. If you want to come hang out |
0:16.1 | for that there's a link in the show notes again 7pm on January 21st. Thank you and hope |
0:21.8 | you enjoy the episode. Katie Herzog, how's it going? Well Jesse I'm pretty upset right now. |
0:35.9 | You upset? Yeah I'm upset. I read on Twitter that Joe Biden is coming from my guest of. |
0:41.3 | Joe Joe Joe Biden is going to say a first one to Asheville come in and be like, come on man |
0:49.0 | give me that stove. Yeah I'm really upset about this. This is all over the internet. The |
0:53.5 | Democrats are coming for our guest of. I love my guest of and I want to protest this. |
0:58.8 | So I've had my guest of just running for the last 24 hours and I have a terrible headache. |
1:05.8 | This is like do you remember you probably wrote about it because you're at grist. Do you remember |
1:08.8 | rolling coal? Oh yeah I do remember that. Yeah this was like dudes in like Pennsylvania |
1:13.4 | or whatever would somehow outfit their cars to have like plumes of black smoke coming |
1:17.2 | out of the exhaust or maybe they had special chimneys for it. I don't know the details. |
1:20.8 | It's like we're going to pollute more. Fuck you liberals. Yeah. Have you been following |
1:24.6 | this today? I have not. What I have followed over the years is Democrats come for everything. |
1:29.2 | They came for Christmas. Uh huh. They came for Jesus in general. Yeah. I guess I said |
1:36.8 | and now guest of. Children. They're also coming for children. They're groomers. All of them. |
1:41.2 | No I haven't followed this that closely. I know what is it? What does it even have to do with? |
1:44.4 | Is it like regulatory stuff? Yeah. So basically what happened is that a commissioner for the |
1:49.2 | US consumer product safety commission, which is definitely something I had heard of before. |
1:54.0 | He said that there is a growing body of evidence that gas stoves are bad for the climate. |
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