Daniel Cartier (00:01)
All right, here we go.
Hey everybody, welcome to There Is No God and We're All Gonna Die. I'm your host, Daniel Cartier. I'm a gay liberal atheist living in the Bible Belt. I don't even know what Donald Trump would think of this podcast. If Jimmy Kimmel is too edgy for them, I don't know what a liberal atheist living in the Bible Belt saying there is no God and we're all gonna die. I don't know what they would think of me. I can't even imagine.
but I don't think they'd like it. I think they are, โ they're looking at Freedom of Speech right now and they're, โ they're scratching their heads and they're looking at all their charts and I think they're gonna be doing something with Freedom of Speech I don't think we're gonna have it very much longer, which is really sad.
and it's really scary because it is one of the building blocks that America was founded on. And the thing that's really crazy is all it took was one guy getting murdered. And before you freak out, if you are a MAGA person, hello. I'm glad you're here. I know you probably hate me because I'm a gay liberal faggot. I get it.
And here I am saying there's no God. Yeah, I'm sure you hate me. But I'm glad you're here. And I love you back. I love everybody, even people who vote against my own best interest. I mean, I know you probably think I'm the radical left.
I'll tell you just just before I keep going and talking about what I was going to talk about if you're a MAGA person I just want you to know what me being โ the radical left is Well, I pay my taxes I Rescue handicapped dogs. I sponsor guys in recovery when my parents got old. I took care of them My mom had Alzheimer's my dad had heart problems. I
went up there and stayed with them. I'm a really loyal friend. I bake cookies for my entire town, believe it or not, I do. I bake cookies for the police department, the fire department, the two banks, the hardware store, the Mennonites, the lady at the post office, all my neighbors. Like if I'm baking cookies, I'll bake like eight to 10 dozen of them because everybody's gonna be getting them.
That is me being the radical left. Isn't that crazy? I know. You should lock me up. You should lock me up because obviously I'm a threat to everybody. See, that's how all this is sounding now. okay, so now I'm gonna go back to what I was talking about before I had to give that little disclaimer for all the MAGA people who may have shown up and, you know, wanting to report me to the authorities because that's where we are now too.
You know, snitchin' on neighbors because he's not sad enough about Charlie Kirk. Why isn't he crying about Charlie Kirk? He should be really sad about Charlie Kirk. He doesn't seem sad enough. I'm calling the police. I'm calling Donald Trump. I'm calling the... They're probably gonna have some hotline or something. โ You know, I joke. Kind of. But that is kinda how it feels. โ
1248 people every day on average around the world get murdered and it's horrible every single one of them it's horrible because somebody took their life and that's wrong Charlie Kirk was one of those people
And it was sad. He had two kids, he had a wife, and yeah, If you're here and you're a big fan of his, I'm not gonna take that away from you. But what I'm thinking is, what about the 1,247 other people on average that were murdered that day? I don't see anybody passing any laws because people aren't sad enough about them. I mean, you know.
Jimmy Kimmel just got canceled because they didn't like what he said about it, even though he didn't say anything bad about Charlie Kirk. This whole thing with Jimmy Kimmel, โ he was actually just making jokes about Donald Trump grieving, you know, they Donald Trump hey, how are you holding up in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk getting killed?
Trump starts talking about his fucking stupid ballroom that he's building on the fucking side of the White House that nobody asked him to build. And because he's the one building it, I don't care who's president, you would have to drug me and kill me to go into it. I wouldn't want to go into any fucking bullshit that Trump built. Fuck that. Fuck that shit. So yeah, mean, Jimmy Kimmel was going on and on about that.
But Trump was like, it was so disrespectful. And then he got his ultra billionaire friend who owns all the networks and is a huge MAGA supporter and whatever. And now Jimmy Kimmel, who's been on the air forever, for a really long time, now he's been suspended indefinitely. And it just happened like that. Because Donald Trump didn't like how people were talking about Donald Trump. And now they're on this witch hunt.
There's talk of them going after the VIEW and I don't know who all the other people are. John Stewart, Seth Meyers, they want to cancel everybody. And I don't know, I guess replace them with people they like. So now a job of the president is to do TV programming. I mean, I don't know, I didn't realize we were living in North Korea, but I guess we are. And all the people who are like, freedom!
Freedom! I got an American flag and I'm into freedom! I like freedom!
Like, apparently they don't like freedom. mean, apparently they like... The version of freedom those people like, these like, MAGA, you know, Trump warriors or whatever the fuck they want to call themselves, they like this version of freedom where everybody likes what they like. And there's no transgender people, and there's no gay people, and there's no people with darker skin, and there's no people from other countries, and there's no people who aren't Christian, and...
There's no Muslims and there's no, I don't know, just anybody who isn't white, straight, Christian. You can still be a woman, but you just need to be subservient to your husband and never get an abortion. Then you're fine. So they like that freedom. The freedom to be that. Freedom to be white, straight, Christian, and prejudice, I guess, you know?
And you know, here's the thing. people are like, there's the left they're being so mean. The left is being so mean. I think about this a lot, actually. โ When we on the left are accused of being just as prejudice as the right is. Here's my thought on it. No, we're not prejudice.
The only thing we hate is your prejudice. The prejudices you have. That's the only thing we hate. We wouldn't hate you if you didn't have all these against everybody. There'd be no problem. Like I wouldn't even have any opinion about the people on the right if they didn't hate blacks and gays and transgender people and want to control women's bodies and want to, you know,
round up people and take away people's rights. If you guys weren't doing that and cheering about it and acting like it was so awesome, I wouldn't have any opinion on you. You give us reasons to have opinions about you. If you didn't give us those reasons, it's kind of like, โ
if there was an abusive husband and he was beating up his wife and then she finally complained he's like you're so you're so prejudice against like what my my punching because you do realize like all your prejudices when you're taking away people's rights you're basically doing the same thing you may not be punching us but you're still
taking away our rights and, trampling all over liberties. So you're still being bullies, you know? โ And yet we're not supposed to have any opinions about it. Or we're prejudiced too, you know? It's called gaslighting is what it is. โ Republicans... I'm not saying all Republicans.
I've said this before, I do know some nice Republicans. I've met them. They do exist. They're like unicorns at this point. there was a Republican at the Gay Pride Festival that just happened in, our little podunk county.
She was lovely and she was in my booth and she actually bought one of the signs that says love in a rainbow thing because she supports the gays. So I'm not saying all the Republicans are bad. But you guys are on a really shitty team. I gotta tell you. You know, it's like you're on the team of censorship now and, clobbering free speech and just basically taking away anything that's a threat to Trump. And honestly,
I'm wondering if all this was orchestrated. hate being that person who is questioning, you know, is like a conspiracy theorist. But, you know, I was looking at that text between the shooter and their trans roommate slash lover supposedly. And it didn't even seem like a text that people who were 22 would be sending. Like they were saying vehicle instead of car.
Like the language they were using was really fucked up and all the pertinent information was just in this short text exchange, like, the gun was here and here was my motive and I feel so sorry for this and I feel so sorry for that
Like everything just was way too convenient I actually went and I asked chat G GBT I I was like does this seem like a a text transcript that AI wrote and chat GBT said yes it does So I'm just saying I mean if AI even says that it sounds like a AI text It's very suspect to me, but you know who knows
We'll never know I mean because the whole thing is so fucking corrupt that it's like anything that comes out of this administration. It's like should we even care because the Epstein files. we're gonna release the Epstein files like we need to release the Epstein files
I kind of have a feeling that once they release the Epstein files, there's not going to be anything there because they're going to have taken every bit of incriminating evidence out. Like, why wouldn't they? do we really trust this administration? I mean, they're all Trump appointees. Like, I could just picture them just like. I don't know, fucking getting rid of documents. I mean.
I hate being this person who feels this way but-
It's not like it's really hard to picture them doing that, right? Anyways, enough about that. here's the other thing I'm gonna say before I go onto the next thing.
this is something that is really bothering me as well.
So they're accusing people on the left of being insensitive to Charlie Kirk getting murdered. Again, he was one out of 1,248 people on average that got murdered that day around the world. apparently everybody on the left didn't respond the way the right wanted them to. Meanwhile, if you want to see some really horrible
Horrible reactions to people getting murdered and people getting violently attacked Go to any Facebook post where a transgender person got murdered or got attacked or a gay person got murdered or got attacked Or a black person go and just just read the comments and look at all the laugh emojis and The comments saying they fucking deserved it and you know
I hope they got a punch in from me. Like, I've seen hundreds of comments like this over the years. I actually went and there was this really homophobic post last summer. These people were, organizing this straight pride march or some such bullshit, you know, because straight people are under attack apparently, whatever. โ
But they were being very homophobic about it. You know, it's one thing, okay, you wanna go and be proud that you're straight people. I mean, I guess, couldn't you just go to a strip club? I don't, whatever. you know, they were being very, very homophobic while they were organizing this and saying horrible things about gay people and transgender people and all this other lovely stuff that they like to say. And I saw it, and you know, I'm one of those people who's like Daniel, don't.
take the bait. Don't go there, Daniel. But of course, Daniel goes there. And so I just started leaving these comments for everybody. And I was telling people all about being gay-bashed and how six guys beat the shit out of me for being gay. And they dragged me by my ankles across pavement. And they kicked me in the torso and the head.
they strangled the guy I was on a date with until I thought he passed out and I thought they killed him and I thought I was next and you know, had blood all over me and I've had PTSD for the last 36 years. Cause I thought, well, maybe if I just talk to them as a person and make them understand why gay people have gay pride, because we've had to fight to be proud of who we are. We've had to fight.
to be proud of who we are even when they tried to beat the shit out of us to make us not gay or to teach us a lesson that if you want to be a fag this is what we think of you.
as we're watching our friends die of AIDS and Republicans are laughing and saying, gay stands for got AIDS yet? Or Jesse Helm saying, AIDS was God's punishment to gays
So, know, I was saying all this stuff and I thought that maybe some of them would, I don't know, maybe respond as human beings and be like, wow, that's really horrible. But no, it was a bunch of laugh emojis and people saying, poor baby and sissy and fucking queer and one lady.
named Priscilla from Santa Fe. like, she was saying all this stuff to me and saying that you never got attacked, prove it. She wanted to see like my medical report and everything and she was just so hell bent on it never happened and people always make up these stories and whatever. And I was like, well, you know, I would not wish went through on anybody. And I'm sorry that you feel that way. And I really got into it. And,
On a side note, I ended up writing a song about her, so if you go onto the Angry album, there's a song called Priscilla from Santa Fe. That's about her. So, something good did come out of it. I did get a song out of it, but โ
You know, Priscilla from Santa Fe doesn't like the fact that I am gay. โ I told her about, I told her about the guys who gay bashed me. She responded with a laugh emoji. Priscilla. Anyways. Yeah. It's a good song. You should check it out. It's on the angry album, but, โ yeah. So my point is that apparently we are supposed to respond to a certain way.
when somebody like Charlie Kirk, who actually instigates a lot of this violence, by the way, all his ret-ret-ret-retor-ic, ret-tor-ic, ret-tor-ic, all of his retor-ic over the course of his life, talking about how transgender people are sick and gays are a destructive force and that they're grooming children, you know, all it takes is like some dumb frat guys on a college campus hearing that, and what do they think?
we should go and fuckin' beat the shit out of some fags. I mean, that's how this happens. Language begats actions. So, I just wanted to point out that double standard, that it's okay for them to laugh about transgender people being murdered. It's okay for them you know, post...
of Obama being hung, and it's apparently okay for them to attack the nation's capital with cutters and nooses and, all that. So it's okay for them to be violent.
and you know to be horrible. But I don't know, Jimmy Kimmel says some jokes about Donald Trump and he gets cancelled and people who were not sad about Charlie Kirk getting
get reported and get fired, like there was a website, where you could report people's reactions, And Donald Trump says he wants to start a task force apparently, to, you know, investigate how people reacted to Kirk's death. Anyways, these are scary times. These are scary times. And honestly, I feel like they're using this whole fucking thing as power grab.
I mean, project 2025 could not be happier right now. And so I don't know, like, will I even be able to do a podcast like this a year from now? I should be able to because that's free speech and free speech is messy. I posted about this yesterday actually on Facebook. You know, I am sad.
well I'm not sad, like I didn't know Charlie Kirk so it's not like I'm required to have any emotion about it, but yes, it was too bad that he got shot. But say I was one of the people rejoicing that he got shot. I'm sorry! That would be my constitutional right. Nobody's required to respond to anything a certain way. We can respond however the fuck we want. That's freedom. And if you-
don't support somebody's right to be happy that somebody died, then you don't support freedom. You just don't. Again, I'm not happy that Charlie Kirk got shot. I'm really not happy because it's really fucked America up. For selfish reasons, I'm not happy because his death is being used to bring on fascism in America. I mean, because that is what's happening. And it's almost like this fast forward button has been pressed. Like, this guy gets shot and now like, here we go.
So, for very selfish reasons, I'm really sad he got shot because I thought it was bad before, gonna be really bad now. again, I don't know if somebody like will be able to do this podcast a year from now.
if we're even just monitoring people's reactions to somebody dying and if that is something that people are monitoring, you know, it's like freedom is not supposed to always feel good. That's the thing, like first of all, life isn't always supposed to feel Life sometimes feels bad and people don't like that, but that's just natural. And it's also natural for people to respond to things in ways that we don't like.
But that's their right. You know, here's the deal. The people who laugh that a transgender person got killed or that I got gay-bashed, that's their constitutional right. I support their right to not feel sad that I got gay-bashed. As a matter of fact,
You know, I know this sounds extreme, but I kind of wish that like some of these people I know who voted for Donald Trump, I kind of just them to start calling me a faggot. You're voting for a homophobic party. just embrace it. Just lean into it at this point. I don't know. That's just kind of something I was thinking about earlier today. Anyways, let's take some calls.
Let's take some phone calls and see who called the show. Oh, yeah.
That is a good question. โ If there's no God, why is there so much goodness in the world? Well, because there is. I mean, because people choose to be good. I talked about this in, I think the first episode I filmed, โ we didn't always have morals. I think it like back when we were cavemen or whatever, there was no.
concept of right or wrong. If you had a deer carcass and I wanted it because I was hungry, I could like hit you over the head with a rock and take your and...
it was like nature back then, know, kill or be killed.
Then when we started farming and building communities, we realized, we can't just be hitting people over the head with rocks if we're going to coexist with them. We realized that there was safety in numbers. so society started forming. And I think goodness exists because of evolution. don't think that, like animals,
a huge animal person, you I rescue handicapped dogs, I love my dogs. But you I don't think animals have the same sense of good or bad that we do, you know? we overanalyze everything because we're human beings. But I think when you get out into the wild, I mean, if a tiger kills a gazelle, like there's no like,
murder trial or anything. It's like, no, that's what happens out in the wild. And so I think when humans first evolved, we were the same way. I mean, we were just trying to survive. it was kind of like, kill or be killed. But evolution over time, we became these cultures.
this eight billion of us. And so if we were all just like hitting each other over the head, like if my neighbor came back from all our groceries and I hit her over the head and took all our groceries, that would not be a sustainable way country to live. Like it would devolve into chaos. And so I think evolution has given us
things like goodness and kindness and empathy but I think it's something we evolved into. I don't think it was how we were when we first when our species first started being humans and again also yes there's a lot of goodness in the world but then there's a lot of badness is badness a word I think is badness a word you guys I don't know
โ I don't think it's a word, but anyways, for all the goodness in the world, there's a lot of bad. I think it's just bad. There's a lot of bad. There's a lot of bad in the world. There's a lot of good in the world. There's a of bad. Okay, enough of me thinking about grammar. โ Yeah, there's a lot of bad in the world too, I appreciate the question. I guess my answer is,
There's goodness in the world because of evolution. We've had to evolve to have goodness and societies would not function if we didn't have some sort of like morals and ethics to live amongst each other. And evolved into a species that realize it feels good to do good things. Like when I...
bake the cookies for my town. feel like a million bucks. That's why I do it. I do it because it makes me feel good. You know, so... I don't know. There's a lot of, bad people in the world, though, too, so... Don't forget about that. And those are the ones we have to watch out for, especially now, because they're running the show. Clearly. All right. What else?
An irrational fear. that's my lovely friend Ruben calling in. Ruben. Well, I have a couple of rational fears. โ I hate things jumping out. I really do. I am not a fan of things jumping out. Like, I don't like getting surprised. So when Cory and I watch any scary movie,
The TV's here, but then we have these closet doors that have mirrors on them. And so if I think something's gonna jump out, I can't look directly at the TV. I have to watch the TV in the reflection of the TV in the mirror, the closet mirror. Because I don't like being surprised. I just don't. I'm not a fan of it. And...
My other huge irrational fear is hitting animals with my car. I'm famous for driving 30 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour. So we live out in the middle of the woods, out in the sticks, in a little podunk town. And so the town that actually has the grocery stores and the restaurants and everything, You got to drive through this windy.
Woodsy Road and there is all sorts of critters. There's deer there's Possum there's armadillo. There's skunks. There's every single type of animal That would be running around out in nature. They're all out there And I'm so paranoid I've hit deer twice and every single time it's just it I'm
a basket case for days afterwards, because I don't like hurting anything. I really don't. I'm not even worried, when I think about hitting a deer, like I'm not worried about me getting hurt, and I'm not worried about my car getting totaled. I'm worried about the deer. Like I'm worried that I, like I hurt this beautiful animal. Like I don't want that. I don't want that on my, so, so. โ
I'm okay driving during the day. Like during the day, you know, you can kind of see everything, but at night I have to drive really slow and I have to pull over. I sometimes drive home with my hazard lights on as if I have car problems and I just keep pulling over. I've pulled over on that little stretch of road that's probably like, hmm, it should be a 17 minute drive. It's like, I don't know, 14 miles. I'll pull over like,
10 times to let these pickup trucks pass me because these young guys in pickup trucks, they just want to drive like 80 miles an hour. I can't even imagine doing that. yeah, hitting animals with my car and things jumping out. don't like being surprised. Let's see, what else?
Wow. โ Well, my views on Marjorie Taylor Greene is she's fucking horrible. I can't fucking stand her. Yeah, I did notice that she was one of the ones that was really vocal about Trump releasing the Epstein files, and so I do appreciate that. I will give her credit for that, but as a whole, she's a fucking wingnut. She's one of those people, I can't believe that.
These are the people who get elected. People who believe in Jewish space lasers and, you know, all this other such bullshit and, let's face it, she's transphobic, homophobic, fucking racist, as far as her โ trying to save face, I don't think, unless she's really delusional, I don't think she,
Does she actually think the left would ever embrace her? I can't picture that happening. She would have to really go out of her way. way more than just the Epstein files. she would have to like do a complete 180 on everything. obviously I don't see that happening. She is who she is. โ Yeah, so... I'm just glad I'm not her.
Here's the thing All these people just seem so miserable Like is Marjorie Taylor Greene a happy person is is that fucking puppy killer? what's her name? Kristi Noem is she happy person is Donald Trump a fucking happy person Are neo-nazis happy people are proud boys happy people? Are these evangelical fucking nutjobs?
happy? They all seem fucking miserable to me. They seem like miserable repressed people who are jealous that other people aren't miserable and aren't repressed. You know? It's like, I always think of when George W. Bush was like, they hate us for our freedom. and he was talking about the people in the Middle East. They hate us for our freedom. I honestly think that's what these right-wing people, why they hate liberals. They hate liberals
for our freedom. For the fact that we're actually living lives who want to live. Because I don't think half of them want to live the fucking life. They seem miserable living the lives that they're living. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. But I think it's very telling for instance, they want to outlaw porn, but then where is all the porn watch? In southern states. You know, where's all the infidelity happening in southern states?
One of the biggest places where they watch transgender porn? Southern states.
You know, so I mean you tell me like I mean I've met so many people in these like super conservative marriages who They don't seem like happy marriages. I'm just saying and now I'm not saying it's a blanket statement for all marriages, but I'm just saying I've met some who You know, it makes me just glad I'm not in that marriage I'll just put it to you that way Anyways, let's talk about who's in the news
Daniel Cartier (32:00)
Alright, I'm just gonna read... I just have the news open, I'm just gonna read what the headlines are. โ Trump threatens licenses of TV stations that criticize him. Wow!
Trump threatens licenses of TV stations that criticize him. Can you fucking believe that? That's crazy to me.
Daniel Cartier (32:24)
Yeah, okay, so this is really fucked up, you guys. This is actually severely fucked up. โ All right, I'm just gonna read this. This is from TribeLive. โ President Donald Trump suggested that US broadcast networks should face scrutiny over the licenses if their content is overwhelmingly critical of him
He said that's something that should be talked about for licensing to when you have a network and you have evening news and all they do is hit Trump Trump told reporters aboard Air Force one They're not allowed to do that. and then he said Trump praised FCC chair Brandon Carr and drew a
direct link between coverage that the president views as negative and the prospect of TV licenses being revoked as a consequence. So he actually wants to use his friend Brandon Carr
who is the FCC chair, that if anybody's critical of him, they will get their license revoked. Think about that. Just think about that. That we have a president now who thinks that...
They can just...
cancel the licenses of networks if they are critical of him? Like, who the fuck does he think he is?
Who the fuck does he think he is? That is so fucked up on so many fucking levels. Again, if you are a MAGA person who claims to love freedom and you're watching me talk about this right now and you're not bothered by the fact that we have a fucking president who is thinking of taking away the licenses of TV networks if they're critical of him,
is he above criticism now? First of all, there's so much to criticize, but you know, Can you imagine if Obama- imagine if Obama had threatened this. Imagine if Obama had said, you know what, News or Breitbart or Infowars or if any of these networks say anything bad about me-
They're getting canceled. Can you imagine the fucking uproar? This is the thing. This is the hypocrisy. It's okay for them to laugh and do laugh emojis, when transgender people get killed or gay people get killed or black people get killed. It's okay for them to trash Obama and Joe Biden on Fox News and everything. Like, that's okay.
But like if we don't cry enough for Charlie Kirk or we say anything bad about Donald Trump on a network, we're gonna get cancelled. You guys, this is fascism. this is what a fascist dictatorship looks like. They take away the press, they take away us being able to get any information that they're not controlling.
I mean, I don't scares the fucking shit out of me. I mean, how can we function? It's like if we just have some fucking guy sitting on his fucking toilet, if we have this fucking fat orange fucking douchebag sitting on his golden toilet deciding that he doesn't like what the fuck people are saying about him, so he's gonna revoke their license because they're being mean to him.
We've never had a president do that. That's so fucked up on so many levels. And the fact that his fucking friend, Brendan Carr, I didn't even know this guy's name until today, actually. But that's how evil this is. That, you know, the head of the FCC is this huge fucking MAGA person. So we're gonna be hearing more about him. I guarantee it. But, you know.
This is just, it's just so fucked up. It's almost like this is why I wanted to drink last week and why I was feeling suicidal. I mean, all of this stuff makes me feel hopeless and I do believe hopelessness is the point. It's not cruelty. They want people to just feel hopeless and they want people to just fucking give up fighting. It's like, you know what? It's too corrupt. I can't fucking fight something this corrupt. That's what all this is. Fuck that.
Fuck that. Fuck that. You know, it's like... If I don't survive the rest of this presidency, I at least want to know that I did everything I could to fucking like... tell them what I thought of them. You know, not in a violent way. I'm not a violent person. So, you can calm down... if you're like a MAGA person thinking I'm suggesting I would get violent. I'm not saying that. But
No, like, I mean, this is fucking wrong. This is fucking wrong. It's fucking wrong. This is unacceptable. You can't have a fucking president who's... We're gonna just be... โ Revoking the licenses of networks if he doesn't like how they're reporting on him. That is... God. Again, can you fucking imagine if Obama pulled this shit?
He would get lynched, I'm sorry. I mean, it's like...
But Trump does it, and he's great. Making America great again. Fucking stupid fucking idiots.
You know what I hate? I hate fucking stupid people.
I'll just leave it at that. I'm not accusing anybody specific of being stupid, but I fucking hate stupid people. And I hate stupid people who vote. I actually love everybody, but then part of me, even when I love everybody, hates them a little bit. For being stupid and still going and voting.
I'll just leave it at that. What else is happening in the news? โ
earthquake. โ here's another fucked up thing. Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.
The idea would be to frame the recruiting campaign as a national call to service.
Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors, according to the officials. So basically what they're saying is
They're considering using chapters of Kirk's political organization Turning Point USA at schools across the US as military recruitment centers. see This is so fucked up so a right-wing hate speech provocateur who said Luther King was a horrible person and that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and that women should be subservient to their husbands and
that gay people were an abomination and transgender people were mentally sick and all this other stuff, all this like hateful stuff. And now we're gonna use his legacy to recruit new people into the military. That fucking scares me too. so we're taking away the press, we're revoking people's FCC licenses, we're gonna make it harder and harder for people to share information, and now we're going to...
have all these freedom warriors or whatever like these fucking frat guys and you know that's what it's gonna be these fucking jughead fucking frat guys being recruited at these recruitment centers let's just call it what it is they they will be you know fucking brown shirts like they'll be like little nazi soldiers that's what it sounds like they want to do we're basically they want to get an army
It sounds like they want to get an army that thinks the way they do first of all the military shouldn't be an Ideological thing like people want to serve in the military. That's great, but there shouldn't be Ideology attached to it where it's like, okay. Do you have all the same conservative values? We have no because that's fucked up because here's the thing too when they train all these new little like?
turning point soldiers.
Are they gonna use them in foreign wars or are they just gonna turn them on American people? That's the thing I'm wondering, aren't you? I think everybody sees a story like that,
everything else that's going on, I'd be wondering like, okay, who are you gonna use those soldiers on? Probably somebody like me, know, gay liberal atheist living in the Bible Belt.
doing some fucking podcast where I'm talking about this type of stuff. I mean, I must have rocks in my head doing this fucking podcast. like seriously, I must have a fucking death wish or something, but it is what it is. I'm like one of those people,
I can't shut up, like, I have to say stuff, I'm just not designed to stay silent. To my own detriment.
anyways, that's what's happened in the news. you get the point. We're fucked right now. โ meanwhile, something else happened. Donald Trump did something else. So go next segment. I'm kind of a douchebag when I'm dealing with assholes.
Here's what Donald Trump said two days ago. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend was in this room with Donald Trump and a bunch of other people and they were talking about all the pride flags in a gay part of Washington DC. There's a part in Washington DC that like has a lot of gay businesses and gay residents It's kind of the gay neighborhood. So.
in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting...
where you know, suddenly the radical left is out to get everybody according to people like Donald Trump and all his fucking cronies. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, some fucking douchebag, I can't remember his name, he was going on and on about these transgender flags and the pride flags in this neighborhood and how people are feeling threatened by these pride flags and so Donald Trump, chimed in
after they talked about it for a while
And he was like, yeah, maybe they could be considered domestic terrorist flags.
I've already like posted a video about this on Facebook, you guys, when I heard that, I fucking flipped out. I did. you know, as the victim of a gay bashing, and I know I already talked about it, my community has had to fight so fucking hard be proud of who we are. and to have these fucking assholes.
getting mad again. To have these fucking assholes be like, โ it's a symbol domestic terrorism. Fuck you. Fuck you. Donald, if you're listening to this right now, fuck you. And I know I've told you to fuck off a zillion times, And the same for Marjorie Taylor's fucking boyfriend, whoever the fuck you are. Fuck you. Saying that the pride flag is a symbol of domestic terrorism. Fuck you. You guys have no idea what it's like to be
persecuted or oppressed or beat up for who you are or bullied, being called names, having your family disown you because they're super religious and they think you're a sinner. I know people who've been thrown out of their house for being gay. I know a guy who is thrown out of his house like his parents were throwing all his fucking possessions onto the front lawn and telling him he was going to burn in hell. And you know what? That guy ended up killing himself.
That's why we celebrate pride, you fucking douchebags. Not because we're domestic terrorists. We celebrate pride because we have to remind ourselves to be proud of who we are because you people spend your whole lives trying to make us feel ashamed. You ever thought about that? We wouldn't even need to fucking have gay pride if there wasn't fucking homophobic douchebags trying to make us feel ashamed every fucking chance they get.
demonizing us, calling us abominations, people like Charlie Kirk who you guys love to fucking canonize and turn into a saint. He wasn't so much of a saint for gay people or transgender people or lesbians or queer people or non-binary people. He absolutely wasn't a fucking And he went on to his little college campuses.
with all these fucking frat guys and conservative people and talked about how horrible we were and how we groomed children and all this other such bullshit just making shit up about us and you can't tell me that that didn't end up getting some queers beat up I guarantee you over the course of his life some of his rhetoric he may not have realized this and you might not have realized this but I guarantee you it got some fags beat up
I guarantee you it did. I've been on college campuses, I know what they're like, I know what these fucking frat guys are like. You know, when they get drunk, let's go beat up some fucking queers. yeah, and remember what that guy Charlie Kirk said about queers? they wanna get our kids and groom them. Let's go beat up a couple. That's how this works, you guys, and that's why we celebrate gay pride. So fuck you for calling it a symbol of fucking domestic terrorism.
Fuck you. We celebrate gay pride because you guys, I'm not saying you, Donald Trump, and I'm not saying you, Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, whoever the fuck you are, but people like you and people who follow you and people who are fans of yours. You know, we celebrate pride because people like that.
post laugh emojis when we get murdered and say that we deserved it, leave comments saying we deserved it and that people should kill more of us. That's why we celebrate pride.
It must be so nice. It must be so nice to be white, straight, Christian, and especially male. It must be nice. I would like to know what that's like sometime to have that privilege. And then to still feel persecuted because, you I don't know, you make up reasons to be persecuted like that there's a war on Christmas or that there's a transgender lady on
one single can of Bud Light or that there's one gay couple on a Hallmark movie. And so it's like, my God, we're being persecuted. No, you're just being forced to admit that there's other people in the world besides white, straight, Christian people. There's all sorts of people actually. Diversity is just, you know, biology, which is I guess why you people hate.
science and biology. it's like, you really think that the world's gonna stop being diverse? Do you think that people are gonna stop being diverse? You can't.
stop people from being who they are. And so, you that's why we celebrate pride because, we know that this is who we are and we want to remember that despite all the bullshit you fucking people do, we're still proud of who we are and we want young people who are just coming out of the closet and, maybe even tried to kill themselves a couple of times because, they were bullied. We want them to know like, hey,
Look, here's some happy gay people who didn't kill themselves and they're doing okay. maybe, you know, you'll be okay too.
And that's not grooming children. that's just giving young people who are scared some fucking hope. That's all that is. And I know that you guys, according to Charlie Kirk, empathy is a bad word. I think it says a lot about your fucking political party that you are turning somebody who thinks empathy was a bad word, you're turning him into a saint.
the guy who demonized empathy. It's fucking sad. You people seem fucking sad to me. You seem like you have really fucking miserable lives. Anyways, enough of you fucking douchebags. Fuck off. It's not a symbol terrorism and you guys are fucking lame. I'm just gonna take a couple more phone calls and then we can wind it up.
Daniel Cartier (49:44)
Thank you. you have a really, I'm sorry, I don't know if you're gay or straight, but you have a very sexy voice. should say. Okay, well thank you for calling. yeah, resentment is a tough one. I think I've been discussing resentment โ this entire episode, really. I've been talking about resentment. I do think resentment is the thief of joy. there's a couple.
expressions that I like about resentment. Resentment is the poison we pour for somebody else but then we drink ourselves. And expectations are resentments waiting to happen. Like if I have expectations about something I'm probably going to get a resentment because things very rarely go the way we want them to and so I really need to
hold my expectations with very loose hands and allow them to change. People are gonna be people and a lot of times they'll let us down. Life will let us down. As an atheist, I've come to embrace that and it's actually given me some comfort because in the past when life wasn't going my way and I didn't get the things I wanted for instance, I'll just use my music career as a
โ as an example, from a very young age I wanted to be a rock star, and I was making up songs in my backyard and then I learned how to play guitar and then I was in these bands and then I moved to New York and I became the subway singer and then I just worked really, really hard and, you know, I had
This way of thinking that was very destructive at the time, but I didn't realize it. was like, I will be happy when. And then there was this laundry list of stuff that was gonna make me happy. Like I will be happy when I'm famous, when I'm on MTV, when I'm rich, when I have a hit single, when I look this way, when I'm blah, blah, blah. dating this person. Like it was all this stuff that was outside me.
But that was the stuff that was gonna make me happy. And so people kept coming up to me saying, Daniel, happiness is an inside job, happiness is an inside job. And honestly, I didn't know what the fuck they were talking about. And it took me a long time to figure out, yeah, happiness is an inside job. Like all that stuff, it was all external stuff. And what I was essentially saying was,
Okay, I'll be happy when this happens. I'll be happy when that happens. What I essentially was saying to myself every day was that I was not happy with right here, right now, where I was at that given moment. And so for years I was going through life waiting to be happy, waiting for all this stuff to fall into place so that I could be a happy person.
And you know, it's not that I was like walking around with a frown on my face, you know, I'd like, laugh and I'd be with friends, but there was always this thing in the back of my mind that like life wasn't giving me what I wanted. And then, you know, like it almost worked. You know, I almost became a rock star for a very brief moment, it looked like it was gonna work out. You know, I got this big record deal, Elton John signed me to his record label and they sunk a bunch of money into trying to make me famous. And then the whole thing fell apart because of.
corporate takeover and like, and then I was back out waiting tables and sleeping on friends couches and I was kind of back to just being a normal person and because I didn't have the tools, like the tools that I have now is an older person, like where I don't expect things from life. Like I just kind of like realized life's gonna happen the way it's gonna happen and I may want things, but
maybe I'll get them, maybe I won't, but my job is to try and find the joy right now. It's very hard, especially right now when we're going through things like this. But, yeah, so I spent a long time being very resentful. Like I resented, that I didn't get this and then I started drinking and so if you were...
unlucky enough up to me at a bar for years, like I drank for a lot of years where I was pretty fucked up. And so if you were unlucky enough to saddle up to me at a bar, you would hear the whole fucking story, you know, about how they fucked me over and I didn't get this and I didn't get that, and Elton John fucked me over and the record label fucked me over, like all this other stuff.
You know, honestly, I mean, I think the thing about resentment, I mean, it's okay to get angry. Like anger is normal. like if, somebody cuts you off in traffic, or, does something mean, you know, it's, it's normal to get angry, We wouldn't have that emotion if it wasn't necessary. So obviously like anger does serve a purpose. it lets us know that there's things we don't like,
โ like this is something, I don't like this, this makes me angry. Like for instance, all the shit Donald Trump's pulling right now. It makes me It would be weird if it didn't make me angry. But resentment is where we take that anger and we build a nice home for it in our heart. And we make it all comfortable. We let anger move and suddenly it has a permanent residence in our soul.
it's almost like resentment is something that like covet, almost guy from Lord of the Rings, the Gollum guy, like my precious, know. We'll be thinking about this resentment and we love to just turn it over and look at it and talk about it talk about we hate this person, whatever. And so, you know, I'd love to say that I don't have resentments today. I absolutely do have resentments against this administration.
it's definitely evolved from just plain old anger. yeah, I resent this administration. I absolutely do. Why? Because we can't escape it. It's there. running the show and we all live underneath it and it fucking sucks. And so, yeah, I feel very resentful. It would be weird if I didn't. So there's some resentment that I think is unavoidable.
But I think, for me, how can I still live with this resentment? I think part of it is you know, I'm always reminding myself to get right back to right here and right now, because right here and right now, can I still find things to be grateful for? And so the opposite of resentment is gratitude. And you know, sometimes it's not easy to
find gratitude, you know? And sometimes when we're really wrapped up in our resentment, it's almost like we don't want to be grateful, getting a high off of being resentful. But you know, it's really not healthy. I think it takes years off our life. so, yeah, sometimes it's just as simple as sitting down and making a gratitude list. And most of the time when I make a gratitude list, I don't
want to do it, but then after I do it I feel better. There's so many things in life, I don't want to do them at the time even though I know they're good for me, but then as soon as I do them I feel better. So like if I just sit down with a pad of paper and I just start writing down all the things I'm grateful for, I might still be angry at this person but like the resentment goes away for a little while. And you know, hey
Progress is progress. So I would encourage you to make a gratitude list and do something nice for yourself if you're resentful against somebody else, you can also talk to them as well I don't know why I didn't mention that but yeah, you could talk to them if I don't know if that's an option but communication Communication can solve a lot of things. So if it's somebody that it's safe for you to talk to them Maybe like out in a public place.
I think sometimes like going to a neutral place to talk to people is a good idea. So if you can do that, that's an option.
but also be nice to yourself. All right. Who else? Uh-oh. I think that my wonderful, wonderful partner, Cory, called.
That was my lovely partner, Cory, asking a question. โ Yeah, I do think that there's some benefit to, well, I mean, aside from the fact that they believe in a God that I don't believe in, I don't believe in God. But as far as one of the things I will say about organized religion is community. That's the thing. I always go back to that, when people are like, what are some of the good things that religion gives people? I think it gives them a sense of community, and I think community is really important.
โ if they could keep all the, you know, lobbying to take away people's civil rights and imposing their religious views on other people, if they could keep that out of the equation, I would have no problem with religion. and as I've said many times, my best friend is Christian. He, he goes to a wonderful church. They're very gay positive and transgender positive, and they believe in a woman's right to
make her own decisions about her body. are pro welcoming immigrants and seeing what they need, like not treating people like just because they come from a different place. They're a very liberal church. They're very progressive. And yeah, I mean.
I actually love everybody at his church. I think they're all awesome. The only thing I don't have in common with them is that I don't believe in God. But everything else, they have all the same values that I have. They are horrified by the presidency of Donald Trump too. So not everybody who's religious is a fan of Donald Trump. Like lot of people aren't. There's a lot of progressive Christians and Catholics who think he's horrible. They think he's just the worst thing ever.
So he does not have a monopoly on all religious people So yeah, I have had the the the opportunity of being around Religious people who aren't bigots and seeing that sense of community they have like it's beautiful you know,
a couple episodes back I talked about the 10 things that suck about being an atheist and one of them was that we don't have that same community. Like, I have some atheist friends out there and there's a couple little meetups, but we don't have that sense of community that a church has. I get that sense of community going to my anonymous meetings for my alcoholism.
I won't say the name of the organization, but yeah, that's where I get my sense of community. And I'm a member of a local artist guild. I'm the treasurer of our local artist guild. yeah, so I mean, that's all nice. And I like all that. And it's nice to go and see people and be around people, you know?
So I think that's one of the things I do like about religion. As long as they're not assholes about their religion. I think that it's nice to see, community is always a wonderful thing. so long as the community is people getting together for the common good of everybody, not so that they can impose their bigoted views on people. Anyways. โ
I think that's it you guys. I think I've talked about everything under the sun. I talked about the fact that we are quickly devolving into fascism. Donald Trump is acting like a deranged dictator. Donald Trump wants to, basically strip us of our TV stations and that we're all required now to love him unconditionally and not ever criticize him apparently.
So that was the moral of this whole episode, is that we are basically watching a fascist, unhinged dictatorship unfold. And if you don't think we are, then I don't know what fucking planet you're living on or what drugs you're smoking, because it's clearly obvious to anybody who knows anything about free speech. It is very quickly getting taken away, and that scares the fucking hell out of me.
You know, I've always heard stories of people who live in these countries, where they don't have freedom of speech. You're not allowed to criticize the government, you know, like fucking North Korea and Russia. lot of these like Middle Eastern countries
it always seems like a fucking miserable existence. Would anybody want America to be like that?
Laura Loomer, the silicone-faced fucking puppet of Donald Trump, she actually said that she wants him to be a dictator. she said, I want Donald Trump to be the dictator that the left was always afraid he would be. He should be that.
And I actually like said a couple episodes ago, like, yeah, that's what they want. not a threat to MAGA people. Him being a dictator, that's a selling point. That's what they want. And so it's scary to think that that is what we might get. I mean, it's really precarious at this point. And I don't know, do you stop an unhinged dictator? Like, how do you stop that? It's a good question.
Anyways, I love everybody. didn't want to end on such a fatalistic note, but these are very dire times we live in. I I can't lie and say they're not. So we all need to show up at the polls. We all need to vote. We all need to... This is not a time to be silent. I think the other thing that's happening with all this, censoring and shaming people for not crying enough about Charlie Kirk and reporting people to their bosses and getting people fired...
This is all so that people will, they want people to just start shutting up and they want us to like, just bow down our heads and just like become subservient. That's what they want. And so this is when we can't afford to do that. We need to be louder than ever. We need to be calling them out on their bullshit relentlessly, relentlessly. And if they take away the networks, then
We're gonna have to become the news. We're gonna have to just start reporting the news ourselves. Like, just getting online all the time and fucking like letting people know this is what's fucking going on. you know, we have each other.
So, โ scary times. Anyways, I love you guys. โ Go to my website, danielcartier.com, โ and you can leave me a voicemail, or go to speakpipe.com slash there is no God and we're all gonna die. Speakpipe.com slash there is no God and we're all gonna die. And you can leave me a voice message that way. Or yeah, you can go to my website, danielcartier.com.
and can leave me a voice message there and I will play it on the show and I will respond to it. Then you can be a podcast superstar. So that's enough out of me. Have a great rest of the week. Stay safe, stay sane, and know that I am sending you a ton of love. All right.