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Mercola Tapes Edition

This week, Patrons get a bonus headline, plus more than ten minutes of post-roll conversations and shenanigans.

In this week’s episode, Republicans solidify their position on HARM, Pete Hegseth teaches us about the butt dialing group chat section from The Art of War, and Jonathan Jarry will be here to convince you that Joseph Mercola actually is nuttier than you thought.

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Guest Links:

Learn more about the Mercola Tapes here: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/exclusive-videos-show-dr-joe-mercolas-dangerous-ideas-whipped-alleged-medium

Find more of Jonathan Jarry’s work here: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/articles-by-author/Jonathan%20Jarry%20M.Sc.

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Headlines:

Dems reintroduce “Do No Harm” Bill to remind us that Republicans insist on doing harm: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/democrats-re-introduce-the-do-no

White House is selling corporate sponsorships for the Easter Egg Roll: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/trump-easter-egg-roll-sponsors.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Religious leaders lose shit over Satanic Black Mass: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/lawmakers-and-catholic-leaders-flip

Columbus school district bans candy bribes used to lure kids to Bible classes: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/columbus-school-district-bans-candy

Pete Hegseth sent secret war plans for attacking Houthis to journalist by accident:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-secret-houthi-war-plans-goldberg-hegseth-2049762

Comments

To add some color to your patreon only portion. I work as a regulator. Prior to this organization, I was at a few different hedge funds. I’ve been there for almost 15 years. Loved every minute of it, until now. I really enjoyed working on this side, protecting investors means I’ve been able to get millions sent back to pension funds. I could have left at any moment and made a lot more money but I really like it here until President Musk took over. Also, Eli brought up a great point about NASA. I’ve been to a few Quant Funds. I’ve literally interviewed PhD physicists who worked at CERN but moved to NY to work at a hedge fund because they were able to make 7 figures a year. It’s such a shame because we lose great minds to Wall Street that should be working in the field of science somewhere but it’s tough to say to them that they could make 150k/yr running experiments that take 10 years or they can come to midtown Manhattan and make 1.5Million/yr running mathematical models. We lose out on great scientific advancement for someone’s ability to beat the S&P 500.

Host - History of Money, Banking, and Trade

Jonathan’s segment was great. I also feel the need to emphasize that you should double check anything even remotely consequential that ChatGPT tells you. It literally says “ChatGPT can make mistakes” at the bottom of the page at all times while you’re using it.

Kunoku The Proto


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