Daniel Cartier (00:19)
Hey everybody, welcome to There is No God and We're All Gonna Die. I'm Daniel Cartier, gay liberal atheist living in the Bible Belt. actually, there is no episode this week. I just wanted to come on and apologize for being exceptionally busy this week. I actually worked about 80 hours and I have a bunch of art fairs that I'm doing and good Lord, what else am I doing? ⁓
can't even keep track of it all. I'm performing this weekend, I'm doing an art fair, I'm doing this huge art installation, and I've just been working like non-stop. It's actually gotten to the point where, ⁓ I don't know, have you ever been so busy that you don't really know what you're supposed to be doing? That's kind of where I've been this week, and I'm not complaining because being busy is...
as religious people would say, is a blessing. And it is. It is a blessing to have a lot of stuff going on. But I made the executive decision to just take a step back from the podcast for one week because everybody does deserve a little time to catch up with themselves. And I think you guys will live not hearing me pontificate for a week.
So ⁓ thank you for your patience. I actually do have a bunch of phone calls. People have called in and left voice messages. So if you have not called into the podcast yet, this is a great opportunity for me to just put a plug in for leaving me a voice message. Just go to Daniel Cartier, C-A-R-T-I-E-R, dot com.
And right on the home page there's a button you can press that says, the show. And you can call the show and leave me a voice message and I will respond to it on the show. ⁓ The other thing you can do is go to SpeakPipe, like Speak, S-P-E-A-K, pipe, like a pipe that water runs through, SpeakPipe.com slash
There is no God and we're all gonna die. And you can leave me a voice message that way. Either way, you'll be able to leave me a voice message and tell me that you love me or that you hate me. A lot of people hated me. Good Lord. Apparently the haters have discovered my little dorky podcast because I got like, I don't even know, like 40 or 50 really mean comments.
Well not mean, just people who are just like, what is this pile of shit doing in my news feed? And then some other guy told me I should apparently, he said something about a noose, report to the nearest noose, like I'm supposed to hang myself or something. I don't know, you know, you can't please everybody. I am 56 years old and I have pretty much spent all my give-a-fucks. I have no more give-a-fucks to give out to people, so.
If you think I give a fuck, I don't. I don't have any fucks left to give. They are all gone. I have reached the point in my life where there are no fucks left that I can give. yeah, ⁓ just, can't. I can't give a fuck about what people think because if I started worrying about that, then I would start, I don't know, modifying what I say on this and that's really not what I want to do.
I think authenticity is really important and authenticity, here's the deal. It's not always going to be pleasing. The fact that you may not like what I have to say. Well, that's really not my responsibility. You don't have to watch my podcast. I get it though. We live in this world where YouTube, which is owned by Google or Facebook, you know, they make money off of us arguing with each other. And so
If you are somebody who is always going to liberal videos and commenting on them, then YouTube thinks, OK, that guy likes commenting on this type of content. So they're going to show you more of it. So you'll probably see my videos come up again because that's just how it works. So if you don't want to see me, then stop.
posting negative comments on other liberal videos and then you won't see my videos either. That's just how it works. mean, it's like algorithm 101, but or you know, keep commenting. I don't really care. mean, you know, it's I actually like hearing from people and I like hearing what people have to say even if they hate me or think that I'm a loser or call me a pile of dog shit as one person said, I mean, you know, it hurts my feelings a little but
Not really. ⁓ I've dealt with a lot of worse in my life. As I said in my last ⁓ podcast episode, I've survived so much fucking bullshit in my life. Being gay-bashed, having friends kill themselves because parents kicking them out, seeing my friends die of AIDS.
having one of my partners die of cancer and just all sorts of stuff. I've been through it, like losing my parents, that sucked. You know, life is hard. Like life is not always gonna be what we want it to be. Sometimes it can be excruciatingly heartbreaking, but our job, should we accept the assignment, is to keep showing up and to be honest and truthful with each other. And that's kind of my deal with this podcast. Like I'm not...
Trying to be universally liked. I did that for a lot of my life and it just made me feel trapped. know, like when our whole goal is to just be pleasing to everybody, then we can't really be ourselves. And I think our job is to be as authentic as possible while we're here because that's really the only way that change, effective change really happens. And so...
You know, if you don't like what I'm saying, that's fine. You know, and you can call me a pile of dog shit and you can say whatever the fuck else you need to say. It's all good. Please know that I still love you. I believe it or not, I love everybody. I don't love Donald Trump. That's kind of where I draw the line. And for all the people who commented last week suggesting that I was somehow happy that Charlie Kirk got shot. If you watch the video, I never say that. And that's one of the things that was really
That was one of the things that actually did piss me off, is like, don't put words in my mouth. Maybe other people cheered that he died, I never did. I thought it was horrible what happened to him, and I said it repeatedly in the fucking episode, so if you guys actually watched the episode, you would have known that, but I digress. You know, I understand life is busy. You may not have time to watch an entire video, so you have to just kind of decide who you think I am without actually
giving me the benefit of hearing me out. You know, I get it. Like that's what we do nowadays. It's like people who comment on news stories and they clearly never read the article. Like they just, they see the headline and so then they type something that they think is really smart and sassy in the comments. And then other people are like, yeah, you clearly did not read the, ⁓ you clearly didn't read the article.
Anyways, I'm blabbing and I said that I wasn't gonna do an episode and here I am blabbing away like there's no tomorrow. ⁓ So yeah, I'm gonna shut up and I'm sure that will make all the haters happy that I'm gonna shut up. But I will be back next week with a full episode. Thank you for understanding that sometimes we all need a little bit of free time and I have been working myself ragged, so.
I just figured, know, this podcast, you know, the world can survive a week without listening to me pontificate about being a gay liberal atheist, you know, I can talk about that and other things. It's not the only thing I talk about, but I can talk about that next week. So there, yeah, I don't think I have anything else to say. ⁓
If you go to my website also, yeah, there's a bunch of cool stuff for sale. I'm doing this cool thing, my Halloween album that has a of songs about, I don't know, you know, I grew up listening to goth music and so there's a bunch of kind of spooky songs that I recorded last year, so I'm doing a big promotion for that album. You can go check that out on my website. yeah, I think that's it. All right.
Love you guys and have a great weekend or day or whatever. Okay, bye.