489 - Melania’s Humanoid, Missing Scientists, & A Podcast Scam

24:16Tim Dillon:Hold on for a minute. Isn't this going to scare the kids in the third world? Because they have like almost nothing over there, right? It seems interesting that we would just send a bunch of robots to the third world and think that the people, because the third world, they still believe in witches and stuff. I mean, it's not like they even have like Playstations, right? I mean, we're just sending, so it's odd to just send humanoid robots over to the third world and just imagine that they'll be like universally accepted and loved. One would imagine that people in the third world, especially children, maybe the children in the third world will think it's cool.

24:54Tim Dillon:You know, I don't know. Because they always seem happy, the kids over there, you know, from what I, you know, obviously there are problems in the third world, obviously. but maybe the kids are going to be okay with it but a lot of people i think are going to because by the way i'm looking at comments from america in the first world and people are they don't love this what what people elected trump for was what they elect most presidents for which is their pocketbook it's prosperity it's the it's having some extra money in the pocket it's having some disposable income. It's being able to maintain a standard of living.

25:37Tim Dillon:They elected Trump because they felt they were losing ground and they wanted to regain some ground. And they wanted, and they thought too many of the government resources were going to immigrants that had just got here. And that maybe the federal workforce was too vast and that too many government resources were going to foreign wars. And those are perfectly reasonable reasons to elect somebody, by the way. However, what you've gotten is a ton of government resources going to a foreign war. And you've gotten a lot of government resources being poured into these AI programs and robotics programs that will only seemingly make people's lives in the near term harder because they're going to lose their job if any of these people are to be believed, and they're going to have less money and less security because of these things.

26:50Tim Dillon:So a lot of people are not happy a little over a year into the Trump presidency to see the first lady walk out with a humanoid robot. But let's continue to hear the robot out because I've never been for not letting people speak. Let's go. Yoko Soh. Bienvenue. Bienvenidos. Bienvenidos. Bienvenidos. Yes. Shagatam. Mogisal Mibet. Woo! Brohimu va 'im. Leskavu prasimam. So now what the robot is doing, by the way, in every different language, is saying the word kill.

27:39Dobrodochli. Thank you.

27:46Tim Dillon:Now let's talk, let's go to the video you were at where Melania is speaking about the benefits of these humanoid robots to come in and teach children in the third world. Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato. Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous. Literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics, and history. Humanity's entire corpus. By the way, stop it for a minute. It's maybe the most globalist administration in human history. The idea that you're going to send humanoid robots all over the world is the most hilarious thing. I mean, if you elected these people to do anything for America, like anything, like one thing, the idea that there's money being spent to build these robots, that they're not even going to help you.

28:50Tim Dillon:We're going to ship them to the third world. I'm not even saying you should want robots per se, but this is one of the most hilarious things I've ever said. Let's keep listening. It's available in the comfort of your home. Play-Doh will provide a personalized experience adoptive to the needs of each student. Play-Doh is always patient and always available. Predictably, our children will develop deep critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities. The AI-powered Play-Doh will boost analytic skills and problem solving and adapt in real time to a student's pace, prior knowledge and even emotional state.

29:44The byproduct, a more well-rounded lifestyle for our children, freeing up time for being with friends, playing sports, and developing interest beyond school. A more complete person, but as discussed yesterday.

30:04Tim Dillon:So, by the way, instead of sending your kids to school, there's going to be a robot called Plato who's going to come to your house? that's kind of what she said right she's like it's in the comfort of your own home we're going to send a robot to your house and the robot will handle the kid so how does this work because i i imagine by that time you've also lost your job to ai so a robot so a robot comes in now well by the way what are they even teaching the kids at that point. There's nothing left to do. But in this world, apparently you're sitting in your room on some drug that makes you not feel anything.

30:49Tim Dillon:Some GLP one that has adapted like the seventh generation of it. We're not only do you not want to eat, you don't even want to get out of bed. You don't want to go anywhere. And then you just press a button on an iPad to let the robot in who teaches your children how to be a person? I mean, that's kind of what she's pitching. She's pitching the idea that a robot named Plato is going to come to your house. Can you run it back? Run it back to the beginning of this. Maybe we're misunderstanding it, but from where I stand, she's saying that robots are going to come to your home? Hold on. From the beginning, please.

31:35Tim Dillon:Melania Trump. Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato. Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous. Literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics, and history. Humanity's entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your home. Okay. Plato will provide a personalized experience adoptive to the needs of each student. So maybe Plato's still in the classroom. We don't know. It's weird. It's hard to understand what they mean. Because she said it's all available in the comfort of your home. So I don't know if that means Plato the robot goes to your home. Or it is. How are you reading this?

32:29Tim Dillon:Do you think Plato comes to the home or Plato is in a school? I think to the home. That's what she's saying. She's saying Plato, the robot goes to your home. Yes. Now it doesn't, now here's the way I'm taking it. Does it matter if you want Plato to come? Like Plato's coming. That's the way I'm. Now I don't think Plato, here's the other thing. I don't think Plato's just there to teach the kids. If I had to guess, Plato's got a lot of skills, and Plato's going to really help you and help your family, kind of whether you like it or not. Plato is showing up. So Plato is, imagine a humanoid robot named Plato who comes to your house every day and tells your kids what's the reality.

33:21imagine the robot humanoid robot with all of the knowledge philosophies and all of the knowledge and music and art and history and the play-doh comes to your home every day and teaches your children in the living room and plato is there with your children and if you and plato will adapt to your children and their behavior, and Plato will sit them down and he'll tell them when they are being anti-Semitic. And Plato has no tolerance. Imagine a humanoid robot Plato who has no tolerance for bad behavior or any type of anti-Semitism. Don't criticize what the government does. Imagine a humanoid robot named Plato who comes to your home every day tells you the government loves you.

34:17It tells your children that the government loves them. Let's finish

34:23Tim Dillon:her here. Let's finish. Maybe it's going to be good. Melania Trump, let's hear the rest of this. And always available. Predictably, our children, we develop deep critical thinking. Yes, that's what we want. And independent reasoning abilities. That's what we want. The AI-powered Play-Doh will boost analytic skills and problem solving and adopt in real time to a student's pace, prior knowledge, and even emotional state. That's right. Better not act up. The byproduct, a more well-rounded lifestyle for our children, freeing up time for being with friends. How is this a more well-rounded lifestyle.

35:07How is having a robot teach you things more well-rounded than having a human being do it? No one's explained that. How is having a humanoid robot teaching your children, freeing them up to have a more well-rounded lifestyle? It's the craziest. And the robot will teach your children and it will give them time to breathe free and to model and to have a well-rounded lifestyle and to play tennis and Palm Beach. Keep up. And developing interest beyond school. A more complete person. But as discussed yesterday, we must balance our tech optimism with caution. Yes. The safety of our next generation is always paramount.

36:06That's why we're drafting them. Knowledge is the foundation of civilization. Is it? But although academia is interesting, business is compelling. For real growth in technology and education, I encourage you to bring the private and public sector worlds together. All right.

36:27Tim Dillon:Melania Trump, everyone, saying that a humanoid robot named Plato will soon be at your house teaching your children. So if you voted for that, you're very excited if that's what you wanted. Again, if that was something that you wanted, a robot at your house teaching your children, then that's pretty cool, I guess. If you like YouTube, you'll love YouTube Premium. It's destroying athlete, creator, and YouTube Maxer. YouTube Premium enhances how I use YouTube with awesome features like offline downloads so I can download my favorite training videos before I hit the gym. So no Wi-Fi doesn't turn leg day into loading day.

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40:24Tim Dillon:let's check in on the Iran war because by the way, I keep getting whiplash. They're like the war's over. And then they're like another aircraft carrier is being deployed. And they're like, we're invading Carg Island. And then they're like, no, we're not. So I don't know what the fuck's going on. Iran. When was this? Iran rejects. Is this from this morning? No, this was from Thursday. I believe Iran is rejecting the U S peace plan. So Iran, I mean, and maybe something's changed, but Iran right now is not hip to this peace plan. Iran wants guarantees, like you're not going to attack us or blow us up or Israel can't fabricate intelligence that we're doing something we're not.

41:17Tim Dillon:Iran said it rejected a U.S. ceasefire proposal and maintained attacks on Israel and the Gulf Arab states, delivering a blow to Washington's efforts to end a war that's wreaked havoc. But Marco Rubio recently said this thing will be over in a couple of weeks.

41:34Tim Dillon:So, Tehran has its own conditions for a ceasefire. State-owned press TV edits, citing an unnamed senior security official. Iran wants guarantees that the U.S. and Israel won't resume their attacks. alongside reparations for war damages and recognition of its authority over the Straits of Hormuz. So here's what's basically happening. Supposedly back channels in Russia and China have said to Israel, you cannot nuke them. If you do it, we're going to nuke you. This is supposedly what's happening because everybody has speculated that if it got to a point where Israel couldn't defend themselves with conventional weapons and they were getting hit too hard, that the possibility was on the table that they were going to use nuclear weapons.

42:16Tim Dillon:And supposedly, and again, what do I know? But it's leaked out and it's in the news. It's out there. That Russia and people like that said, you cannot nuke a country. Because again, Iran is not this isolated country, right? They have allies, China, Russia. Like you just can't nuke Iran. It's not going to happen and you can't do it. So at this point, the options, Now whether Israel does it or not Or whether they listen or whatever The US has compiled a 15 point peace proposal That Pakistan delivered So right now we have J.D. Vance negotiating Okay

42:58J.D.

42:59Tim Dillon:Vance is negotiating Kushner, Witkoff, Rubio Trump somewhat and they're all negotiating to end this disastrous war that they started. So sounds good. And Iran doesn't have a huge reason, obviously, other than to cease getting blown up because they are getting hit. Iran right now has shown a tremendous ability to withstand the onslaught of the US and Israel without their regime collapsing. And they've shown an amazing ability to hit U.S. bases and U.S. interests and U.S. allies. And it's amazed a lot of people. And Iran has no real reason to negotiate, right? At the end of the day, Iran's like, we were attacked.

44:03Tim Dillon:Now, obviously, they have the obvious reason that nobody wants to be in a war, but they were attacked. And many people say that they kind of have the upper hand at the moment, because what is winning even look like? We're not going to have a new regime. We're not going to put hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground and get a lot of people killed. So there's no clearly defined mission. We got into something without any plan or idea of what it would look like. There's this cockamamie idea that there was going to be like massive protests in the street and they were going to overthrow the government once the ayatollah was whacked apparently whacking this religious leader of shia islam during ramadan has united people and there is no protest where the government's being overthrown that doesn't mean that the iranian government isn't tremendously weakened by this i'm sure it is but the idea of a like a pro-Western government coming in there overnight is silly.

45:04Tim Dillon:And it's silly and it's based on lies that we believed and that we were kind of presented by the Israeli intelligence service. So, and again, not a conspiracy that is pretty well-documented. Again, these are statements made by the Secretary of State, kind of by the President of the United States. These are not, you know the national counterintelligence i'm sorry the national intelligence the uh the deputy director just resigned and said this now you know maybe listen joe kent's probably trying to be the vp or the president he has political reasons to say what he's saying but i don't know it doesn't is he making all of this up is it completely fabricated and if it is bring charges against him I mean we're in the middle of a war if he's completely making all of it up um no it seems pretty obvious we got hosed a little bit we were shown intelligence and the validity of it is in question and the idea that uh the Iranian regime was going to fall was again intelligence that we did not have it was given to us and we believed it and we launched a war on those pretenses and we also launched a war on the pretenses that Iran was trying to kill the president of the United States and that Iran was also very close to having a nuclear bomb, essentially, that they were enriching weapons-grade uranium way above the level needed for peaceful uses and that they're about to have a bomb.

46:43Tim Dillon:And this was all intelligence, that is, because I don't think most people understand what intelligence is, but we all actually use, It's the same thing in your life. Did you hear what Becky said about that? Did you hear what she said? Well, actually, what intelligence is, obviously there's satellite intelligence, there's a lot of high-tech intelligence, which is used in targeting and everything else, and troop movements, and we all have some understanding of that. But human intelligence, which again the Mossad is amazing at, and the CIA is pretty damn good at. Human intelligence where you have people high up in positions in other governments feeding you information, telling you what is and isn't likely to happen, giving you some type of actionable intelligence about the state that the Iranian nuclear program is in, a lot of that is very easily manipulated.

47:49Tim Dillon:and if you don't believe me, Google Iraq war and yellow cake and uranium and Saddam Hussein and exactly how, so a lot of that intelligence is easily manipulated and it's cherry picked and then delivered to the president and then the president is told, we have this, we have that we have this, and if you make these connections you can easily see how this can happen and we don't want that to happen on your watch it's a lot different than a satellite just showing troops amassing on the border of Ukraine and you go, oh, well, there's going to be a war. It's a little bit more malleable. So we hope, listen, again, we hope this ends.

48:28We hope people have their lives. But if you just zoom out and you look at this,

48:43Tim Dillon:it's pretty hard to argue that this isn't a death knell for whatever that Trump coalition was trying to do whatever deep state nonsense they were talking about coming on the heels of the Epstein list which they won't release the other half of and then kind of getting into this war you know any any idea that this was a group of people committed to any type of transparency or it's laughable it's laughable if you have if you have any kind of brain which many of you don't many scientists are now being kidnapped and well go back to that because i do want to see what putin's doing what vladimir putin making 760 million a day from oil is war in iran delivers win, fall.

49:32Tim Dillon:Well, guess what? Someone's got to win. Someone's got to win. Someone's got to win. This is what we do all the time. We do these things. We supposedly make our enemies richer. You know, we emboldened it. It's the opposite of what we want all the time. We go, we're going to do this and it's going to have a ripple effect. It's going to, And then the ripple effect, it's like it does the total opposite of what we'd want almost impressively in every avenue across the board. In every avenue across the board, we go, well, we'll fuck these people. Watch how we're going to fuck them. And then all of a sudden, everything goes the other way.

50:19Tim Dillon:We go, oh, we're going to freeze Russia out of the international community and feed Ukraine money and weapons so that they can fight this war. Russia then cozies up with China. Russia deepens trading relationships with India and places like Brazil. Russia turns her economy into a wartime economy. Now Russia's economy is obviously not, it's roughly the size of Brazil. It's not an American economy or Chinese economy, but like, and then we go, oh, we'll just, we'll whack Iran. And then all of a sudden now we have Russia, Putin, you know, making like a ton of money because we had to lift all the sanctions on the Russian oil.

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55:03Tim Dillon:So these scientists are being, some of them are just being, they're just disappearing. And they all have something to do with the aliens. A chilling pattern has emerged after a string of U.S. scientists died or went missing in recent months. Retired General William Neal McCaslin, 68, and NASA aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza, 60 years old, were both major figures in the Air Force Research Laboratory. The general oversaw Reza's work on creating a futuristic medal for rocket engines. Within the span of eight months, both have mysteriously vanished without a trace while allegedly hiking in the southwest United States.

55:44Tim Dillon:Stop hiking, folks. I've said it before. McCaslin's reported ties to secret UFO programs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and Reza's work with space-age technology used for advanced propulsion have led many to claim, without evidence, that the pair are fleeing from parties that wish to silence them because of what they know. So here's what, this is what people are saying. Here's the rub. I've never been able to care about aliens, and I've tried so many times, and I guess I do like Tim Burchard, who's like, keep digging, keep digging. There's aliens in the water. And Tucker says they're demons and J.D.

56:20Tim Dillon:Vance says they're demons and whatever. And I think they're playing a little bit to the crowd with that. You know, I think they're playing a little bit, they're playing the fiddle to the crowd there. Maybe they are demons, I don't really know, but they don't, J.D. Vance doesn't know what they are either, by the way. And I love Tucker, but Tucker doesn't know. So are they interdimensional? Are they whatever? But here's what people think these things are. or not these things are here's what people think this whole thing is that there is a secret get ready race to develop alien technology from craft that has been downed and players in this include all the major superpowers, China, Russia, us, and that we know of many different types of extraterrestrial or interdimensional or whatever visitor, and that we have been trying to reverse engineer some of the technology from their crafts in highly classified locations, things like Area 51 and then places you've never even heard of.

57:43Tim Dillon:Congressman Burchett specifically noted that McCaslin's disappearance was a major national security issue, claiming the general not only possessed some of America's nuclear secrets, but also worked with recovered UFO technology housed in Ohio. So this is what, right, the general had previously led the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson, which was rumored to hold extraterrestrial debris from 1947 Roswell UFO crash. So here's what we got. We got a bunch of scientists working on highly classified projects with downed UFO craft to try to reverse engineer that technology, supposedly.

58:15Tim Dillon:And now they are going disappearing. And who is doing it? Is it Chinese people? Is it the Chinese government? Is it Russia? Is it whatever? So now, here's what's interesting about this. I had a conversation once in D.C. many years ago. Many years ago when I was drinking. And I might start again, actually, because what is the point? Kidding. Kidding, kidding. Hold on, this is sobriety like a roller coaster. Now, but I might have a cigarette. I'll tell you that, folks. It's very hard not to have a cigarette. What did they do to cigarettes? They've just made cigarettes so unbelievably effective. And it's such a problem.

58:57Nothing is effective like a cigarette. Like people lie. They're like, well, no, it's a good walk in the morning. We'll do it. What are you talking about? What are you? I'm not saying you should smoke. It's obviously horrible. Obviously.

59:11Tim Dillon:But what in God's name are you saying? Well, it's a good walk. We'll do it in the morning. No. I take walks in the morning. They're lovely, but they're not a cigarette. We're off topic. Here's the point. I had a conversation in DC once I was drinking I was having a beef eater in and out extra dry I was visiting my friend there who went to Catholic University or George Washington University I forgot I think I had a friend of Catholic and a friend of George Washington University and and I was a loser and I went to Nassau Community College in Long Island and I had dropped out and I was like the loser and these guys were like in big schools and I felt really like, you know, I went down there and I felt like kind of like insecure and I was down, I drove my car down at a Chevy Suburban.

1:00:05Tim Dillon:I was in the mortgage thing, so I had a Chevy Suburban. I drove my car down there and like, I was always like trying to make it, like Willie Loman, Death of a Salesman vibe, like trying to make it, you know. And I had friends down there and they were smug, you know, smug DC people, you know. and not bad people, but they were like, you know, young college, like, you know, people went, you know, back in that time in 2004, people, you were looked at as a scumbag because you didn't go to a college, a four-year university.

1:00:42Tim Dillon:And so I remember hanging out with them for a little while. It was fun. Fine. And then I remember just going out to some like hotel bar. I still love sitting at hotel bars and getting hammered. I still love a hotel bar. The people are fun. I don't go anymore, but I still like a hotel bar because you get a lot of transient people and they're very interesting and they kind of want to talk and they're there alone and they're never going to see you again. That's why hookers are always hanging out there and it can be a lot of fun. And a guy said to me, we started talking about the world and politics and whatever.

1:01:17Tim Dillon:And at that point, I'm trying to remember, It was either the election had happened or it was going to happen, but it was like, that wasn't really what we were talking about. He was talking about a lot of different things. It was kind of very interesting and he was kind of an older guy and he was slow to talk, but he was like, you know, kind of like, you know, like, like friendly, but a little standoffish. handoffish. And I remember this very well. And he was talking to me and he goes, they don't want people to own houses. So that blew my mind when I was maybe 19, 18 or 19, you hear that. Because by the way, you got to remember, I'm a mortgage guy at that time.

1:02:08Tim Dillon:and this guy goes, they don't want people to own houses. They don't want, he goes, long-term, that doesn't serve people owning homes. He goes, so he goes, he said to me, he goes, everyone's going to lose all of these houses. And I was like, hey, I kind of agree with you. People are going to lose, and I was losing mine. I was like, I was about to, I hadn't lost it yet, but I could totally understand. He goes, you know, he goes, and he goes, and they really want you to own cars. He goes, they want eventually an economy where everybody kind of rents and leases things. He goes, because at that point, you know, people are more easily steered from one thing to the next.

1:02:50Tim Dillon:And again, it was a fascinating conversation. I was 20 years old, 19 years old, something like that. And I said, who are these people? You know, I didn't, you know, I said, who are they, these people? And he goes, it's not any one group of people that you could point to and say like these people, you know, it's not 12 guys in a room. He goes, it's a bunch of people. You have no idea who the fuck they are. And he goes, they work very hard to prevent you from knowing who they are. And I said, is it like an intelligence agencies? And he goes, the intelligence agencies, like the CIA and stuff like that, he goes, they're not at the top of the tier of the intelligence agencies.

1:03:34Tim Dillon:I go, really? He goes, yeah. He goes, because you know what they are. Because you know what the CIA is. He goes, there's levels above that. And I thought that was very interesting. But he goes, no, it's not that. He goes, it's just, he goes, you know, it doesn't serve a lot of people. He goes, if you own your home and you're not in a lot of debt and you have a lot of power, there's a lot of power to that. And he goes, people are not easily steered in that thing. He goes, people want people loaded up with debt. They want them renting. And he goes, they eventually just don't even want them to own automobiles.

1:04:14Tim Dillon:He goes, they want them to just rent and lease. And it was very interesting to have this conversation in 2004. He goes, that's where society's gonna be going. He goes, they don't want you to, he goes, full-time work. They don't wanna have to employ you full-time because they don't wanna have to pay for your healthcare and they don't wanna have to pay for your retirement. This was in 2004 at a bar in Washington, D.C. And it's an old guy who wasn't super old and I've never seen before. And he said, they don't, they're not gonna, they don't wanna pay for your healthcare. They don't wanna pay for your retirement.

1:04:46Tim Dillon:They don't want, he goes, they don't wanna have to, he goes, so in the future, you're going to see a society that looks very different than the one you're in now. I had no idea what he meant. And I went outside and I smoked a cigarette and I was like, that was kind of creepy, kind of weird and everything he said by the way was 100 % right I don't know who he is or where he is um but when he said to me about the intelligence agencies he said the ones that you think are the top are not the top because why would they be the top you know what they are they make movies about them so when we're talking about these scientists and people like that that are operating at levels above top secret and they're part of black projects that we don't know about and the congress doesn't know about and maybe the president doesn't know about and supposedly it is the men in black type shit whatever again this has never been my beat i don't care that much about aliens i've never cared it's very hard to you know verify rogan's done some great episodes with guys like bob lazar i just i don't have a huge interest i'm more interested in the human angle of whatever but this does seem to be and I am talking to people not nobody who's like super top secret but I'm talking to smart people who think that there is something here and these people are disappearing for whatever reason and that it is related to the things they've been working on and that they've been working on really highly classified projects because if somebody figures out how to utilize this technology, I guess we're fucked.

1:06:26Tim Dillon:So I don't know, right? Like this is the whole discussion that people are having about this shit. And it's not something that I've ever been fully invested in on an emotional level. I just don't, most of it, I don't understand. I'm not a science guy at all. You know, I, you know, It's like, I'll care when they land on the White House law on Mars attack style and bite J.D. Vance's head off or something. It's going to give us a good YouTube thumbnail. But I mean, other than that, I don't really know. But I do remember that guy telling me, it's like these intelligence agencies that you've heard of are nowhere near the top of the ones.

1:07:03Tim Dillon:He goes, because there's agencies without names, there's things that are going on that you don't know about. And the president, and he told me that, and he goes, at Congress, the president don't know about. So I don't know who that guy was. Another woman tied to U.S. scientific secrets vanishes. Who's this chick? Melissa Cassius has not been seen since June 26th. She was an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1:07:31Tim Dillon:Her disappearance takes the number of people from the scientific community potentially holding highly sensitive secrets who've gone missing or died since June to six. both women had worked at facilities with ties to air to retired air force general you know my casus so i don't know right so while her husband and daughter have previously suspected that cassius left over personal and financial struggles former fbi assistant director chris swecker told the daily mail he is concerned her disappearance is part of a much much larger pattern so that's the other thing we don't know if these people are getting out of dodge because they have problems in their personal life missing woman's devices found wiped and abandoned when the cast his family returned home they found that only her work and personal phones had been left behind and wiped clean after after somebody performed a factory reset so apparently these people are all being snatched up or kidnapped or we don't know or there or our governments put them in the hiding we don't know we don't know and we don't really care I mean that's That's the truth We don't know and we don't care I want them safely returned to their families I guess Unless they need to do some shit If you need to do some shit You need to go do it Get your ass out of Panera Go save the world That's not my beat I'm not saving the world With some metal So you've figured out some metal you're in some underground laboratory looking at some alien inscription on some piece of metal that ain't me, that's you that's your life if you didn't want to be kidnapped you shouldn't have done that shit everyone makes choices in their life about what they do and don't do if you're in a hazmat suit in Los Alamos or you're in Roswell taking that secret air that plane, that Janna whatever fucking gray plane that leaves out of Vegas and you're taking that plane to go to fucking Area 51 to go fuck around?

1:09:37Tim Dillon:Well, then that's on you. You did it. Cassius had allegedly lost her national security clearance at Los Alamos National Laboratory due to her family's money issues. It could not have made her, it could have made her a target for blackmail. That's great. So everybody who's working on this is fucking on payday loans. There's nothing more American than that, by the way. our top scientists are on fucking payday loans. They're all scum. We've got a bunch of white trash scumbag. But by the way, that's every movie. Every movie where the guy saves the world, he's like some bum with no money. But he's a genius.

1:10:13Tim Dillon:He's a genius bum without a dollar. And they put him on a spaceship. Like the one I saw last night, Project Hail Mary. He's a teacher. He's some genius teacher. Wrote a paper years ago. And then they put him in space.

1:10:32but here's the thing, folks. I do not feel bad for you if you were kidnapped, if you're doing this shit.

1:10:39Tim Dillon:This is part of your life. This is what you signed up for. What the fuck did you think this was? What did you think it was? You think you were just going to get all these secrets and be exposed to all this shit and was all going to be fine? No, this is you made a choice, and your choice was to live an interesting life. And that's why right now you are chloroformed in the back of a car. Because you lead an interesting life, truly. You lead an interesting life. And if you lead an interesting life, sometimes lives can be too interesting. This is what people don't realize about life. It can actually get too interesting.

1:11:21Tim Dillon:No one wants a really boring life where nothing matters and there are no stakes. but you got to also think you know this crazy over the top interesting where it's so interesting that can also be a problem because then you find yourself kidnapped and brought to some underground lab oh yeah this guy but this guy Nuno Luriero I heard was killed by some guy that didn't like him he was killed at his home in Boston his the gunman was Claudio Nives Valente a former a classmate in Portugal. Supposedly they had some science beef. But maybe that's bullshit too. I don't know. I don't know and I don't care.

1:12:03Because if you start with this shit, with the particles and the electrons and the shit, if you start this shit, you're getting kidnapped. Let me tell you right now, you're getting kidnapped. Don't act. If you're in an underground laboratory with the government, you're getting being kidnapped. That's part of it. And as you're being hogtied and thrown in the thing, you're going to go, well, I wanted an interesting life. And you got one. You got one. You did it. That's what an interesting life is. It's getting tortured by the Chinese to give up secrets from the downed spacecraft. That's what an interesting life is.

1:12:48The boring life is the thing we talked

1:12:50Tim Dillon:about earlier, sitting in Boca, your sister's like, you know, maybe the Iran war is good. You know, the Ayatollah, you know, he's been a problem for a long time. I'll have the goat cheese salad, no nuts. I don't want any nuts on that salad. The goat, I'll have the warm goat cheese salad, and then I want the grouper. That's most people's life. I guess that's kind of good. Most people's life isn't, I guess, that good. Most people's life is like the DoorDash guy fucked me again. and I don't mean literally I mean like the doy-dish guy left the burrito in the yard then the upper level like mid-tier life is like we're visiting your cunt sister in Boca and she's going to eat grouper and spout off uninformed opinions and then the highest level of interest is like the Chinese government has kidnapped me astrophysicist Carl Grilmaire 67 who was killed in his home on February 16, 2026 after being mysteriously gunned down on his front I read about this too Grilmaire contributed to the discovery of water on a distant planet and colleagues were calling his work ingenious and adding to the research that could point to signs of life in less than 161 light years.

1:13:57Tim Dillon:Here's the deal, Carl. This is what being a genius is. Getting shot on the porch. That's what being a genius is. And by the way, I feel bad. I'm obviously not trying to sound heartless or inhumane. But doesn't it cross your mind when you're in an underground super secret military thing with a bunch of other people, you go, this might go bad at some point. Doesn't that cross anybody's mind and go, yeah, you know, this one might go bad. This one might go bad, huh? So, I mean, I don't know what to tell you. What am I supposed to cry because somebody got snatched up from the lab? that's your journey your journey is that and i hope we win i hope we win and we get the technology to defeat the people that are also trying to get it china whatever or that we all share it and defeat the aliens that are going to come or not come or be actually fake drones that our government has using project blue book wise to get us all in our houses so that our children can get taught by humanoid robot.

1:15:13Now that the aliens are here, it's much easier for the humanoid robot Plato to come teach your children.

1:15:22Tim Dillon:So, I mean, I have no idea what's going on. It's just, there's certain people you feel bad for in life, but astrophysicists who are working for secret government programs, you have made your goddamn bed. I am sorry. I am not being rude. You have made your goddamn bed. You've made your bed. I feel sorry for somebody at Walmart who takes a bullet to the face because a homeless guy found a gun and they wandered in on the side of the highway. I don't feel bad for you if you were in Area 51 standing next to an alien staring at him as you guys try to fucking fiddle with some ship that fucking got down 40 years ago.

1:16:04Tim Dillon:I'm telling you right now my I just can't I'm not saying that they're not humans But it's part of your journey No You start fucking around with shit like this You start working on super secret government class Highly classified programs Above top secret Like way above top secret You know I mean I'm gonna stand there And start crying how could this happen how could this happen to the scientists working on this super secret alien program in an underground base that seems such a safe job that's not something you say how could it happen and they better have results by the way and if you think we're not kidnapping people we're also kidnapping I don't know who we're kidnapping but we're also kidnapping people by the way were absolutely trying to kidnap people that have this information.

1:17:08Tim Dillon:And by the way, we might have kidnapped these fucks. So who knows what's going on? So I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's going on. But I'll tell you this. I'm certainly not shedding a tear for the scientists involved in the super secret space program to replicate extraterrestrial ships. Okay? I won't be shedding a tear for those people. I feel worse for the kids in Gaza than the people who go on an elevator 19 stories down into some secret thing we've created in like the middle of the earth. Because that's what they do, by the way. They like clock in and they get in there. They grab their coffee.

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