Daniel Cartier (00:22)
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 and this is episode number 13 which I'm recording right before Halloween on October 30th. And yes, if you have been tuning in this year, you'll notice that I did not post anything for the last month. I took a month off and I am gonna talk about that. It's actually pretty important.
yeah, I'm going to have a lot to say about that. Actually, I had to take a month off because, well, get into all the reasons. There was a bunch of reasons why I took a month off. But the short answer is that I was working a lot of hours. I was working about 80 hours a week, between all the different clients that I have for web design and for
social media marketing and all the other things that I do for my clients. And then on top of it, I had this huge music project come up, which was very time consuming. It literally was hundreds and hundreds of hours. And I do not say that lightly. And then on top of that, I was doing art fairs every week and I was doing a ton of art and then I had this huge art installation. So I was kind of running around like a
crazy person, in the middle of it all I was posting these podcasts, which don't get me wrong, I love doing these podcasts, but I don't get paid for doing them. They are kind of more of a passion project, they're like a labor of love, they're a way for me to get all the feelings that I have out into the open in a way that's a little bit more constructive than me just kind of bitching about stuff on Facebook, like I can actually...
harness all the feelings that I'm having about the world
and I can put it somewhere constructive, like, in a 45-minute to hour-long podcast, and I can get a bunch of stuff off my chest and talk about stuff that's happening in the news and take some calls from people and talk about some, you know, just cool concepts that I'm thinking about.
So anyways, yeah, I took some time off because, yeah, people need a break.
sometimes we get to the point where we have just exhausted ourselves and working as many hours as I was working and then Doing this podcast and you know, it's it's it's not like I'm who's it that like Joe Rogan like I guess he's a I've never listened to him But I mean, I know he's like a big podcast guy and he's making millions of dollars. I'm not like that This is just some dorky podcast. I have I'm just some fucking guy
like I'm not a big deal, know, I'm just this guy kind of pontificating online. You know, if it ever became something more than that, whatever, I mean, like that would be cool, I guess, but it's not like that's not really why I started doing this, you know, so, so yeah, when I started feeling overwhelmed between all the stuff that I was doing, I had to kind of
tone it down for a second. needed to really take care of my my own mental bandwidth, my mental health, my physical health, because I was I was actually starting to get physically exhausted. And I know when people say that, it sounds very dramatic, But honestly, yeah, I was starting to get physically
like medically exhausted. I was driving my car and my eyes were rolling up into my head. So it was starting to get a little dangerous. So yeah, I needed to take some time off.
But I'm excited to be back. I'm excited to be doing this again. And I do have a lot to talk about. I made a list. you guys, did not spend a lot of time on this list. But I did make a list of things that were on my mind. And so for this episode where I'm kind of diving back into things, I'm just going to read this frigging list that I made. if...
If you don't like the list, that's fine. If you like the list, that's fine. Whatever. But this is just a bunch of stuff that's been on my mind and I've had a month to think about it. And so, yeah, I'm going to just bang into this list. Daniel's gonna read a list of things. Thing number one.
I don't hate religious people. we just decide that once and for all? This continues to be a thing with me. I swear to God, even in that month that I took off, I still had people coming onto my Facebook page, sending me private messages via YouTube or even, my website saying, why do you hate religious people and why are you so mean to religious people? And you're always,
poking fun at religion and honestly if you go back through every single episode that I've ever filmed or if you've ever looked at anything I post online I'm never making fun of religion. I'm not. I don't believe in religion because I'm an atheist so there's that but I'm not making fun of religion. I I've said many times that I'm my goal isn't to take away.
the religious belief of other people. don't have any interest in that. First of all, I don't get paid enough to de-convert people from religion. And I'm not getting a paycheck for this. So it's like, you know, if you want to believe in Jesus or Allah or like some other friggin thing, honestly, go for it. Like hats off to you. Like life is too short and I'm 56 years old at best. have
Probably what? Another 30 years of living? Like if I live to be 86, my dad lived to be 89, my mom lived to be 82. So like, say I live to be like somewhere in there, like 86. I have 30 more years. Do you think I want to spend the next 30 years deprogramming billions of people who believe in religion on the, I'm sorry, but like, first of all, I wouldn't be successful. Like religion is like pretty much all over the fucking place.
So at best, all I can do is.
I don't know, just share what I believe. if people agree with me, great. If they don't, great. You know, whatever. you know. So that brings me to thing number two. And thing number two may sound like a little harsh, but you guys, don't fucking care.
Here's what thing number two is. I do not give a flying fuck. I do not fucking care. And what I mean by that is, you guys, if you don't like my views on religion or on politics, because I know a lot of you MAGA people have loved to come on here and call me a pile of shit or tell me that I'm stupid or blah, blah, blah. You guys, I am a 56 year old faggot.
Like I have been through so much fucking bullshit in my life, you know, seeing friends die of AIDS, like getting gay bashed, like having people call me a fag every single fucking day in my life. I've reached the point where I do not fucking care. I just don't. Like, you know, you reach a point in life, and if you're younger and you're listening to this, I know this might sound alien to you because I know when we're young, what people think of us is so fucking important. And I get that. I do. But you...
will reach a point, hopefully, someday. Not everybody does. Some people, they really care for the rest of their life what people think of them, and it consumes them, and that does actually become their higher power. They may say they believe in God. They may say they believe in this, that, or the other thing, but if you are consumed with what people think of you, that's your God. know, it's not God. God's not your God. That's your God. So for me, you know, I don't have God because, you know, it's like
I'm an atheist, what people thought of me for a long time, that consumed me. That was my God. Like I chased after that. I chased after heart emojis and I chased after likes and I chased after this and I chased after that and chased after people paying attention to my music or liking things that I posted. And you know, I still post shit on Facebook because I'm a member of the human race and that's what we do. But I got to tell you, like, I've reached the point
in life where to me what's most important is my piece of
Honestly, spending time with my dog, spending time with my partner, I know this is going to sound lame, but like watching TV, listening to music, exercising, hanging out with friends, making art, making music, like that's what's important to me. Like if I start making like what people think about me online or like what people comment in like the YouTube things where they're like, you're a piece of shit or whatever.
Or even when they say, like, I love what you do. And I mean, that's nice to hear. But if I make that too important, then I really kind of lose sight of why I'm even doing this. It's like if this is to be liked or be popular or whatever, like honestly, there's just so many better things to have as a goal, I think. And so I think
Thing number three! Okay, I'm getting to thing number three. I'm actually not wearing my glasses, so my list is just like a bunch of hieroglyphics. So now I'm just kind of like doing the list in my head. Thing number three. Wait, what the fuck was it? Shit, I was just there and now I don't remember what it was. Okay, so
Daniel Cartier (09:41)
thing number three is basically everything I'm talking about right now is that's one of the reasons why I stopped doing this podcast for a little while was because I needed to really figure out like why the fuck I was even doing this, you know, with everything else that I'm doing, ⁓ music and art. And
I had this huge music thing that I was working on. was hundreds and hundreds of hours. like all that type of stuff. and then you add the podcast on top of it. I to really wonder like, okay, why the fuck am I even doing this podcast? Like, is it even necessary? And so when I took the time off, it gave me a lot of time to think like, okay, does the world actually need me pontificating about politics and religion? Like does.
the world needed. And a couple of cool things happened that made me decide to start doing it again. One was that like I was feeling really I don't know like I've I've suffered from depression my whole life and I've suffered from I'm sorry I have a really loud dog at my feet right now. OK. I suffer from pretty major depression like I've suffered from depression my whole life and I've suffered from I don't know like
suicidal feelings and stuff, not to freak you people out, but it's it's a part of my story. I'm very open about it. And the reason one of the reasons I'm open about it is because it takes the power away from those feelings. I do believe that we're only as sick as our secrets. And so it's really important when we struggle with stuff like that to share about it. And I've I've said many times, I'm kind of an open book. So I don't have any problem sharing about stuff like that. And the way I look at it, like if I can share about
the fact that I've struggled with suicidal thoughts most of my life and depression and hopelessness and all this other stuff. You know, maybe somebody else out there who isn't comfortable talking about that will hear me talking about it and it will maybe make them feel a little less alone. And so that's why I share openly about it. It isn't to be dramatic or anything like that. But anyways, so.
I do struggle with stuff like that. And so when I took the time off from the podcast, you know, I just started thinking like, okay, why am I doing this? And so then one day I was, I was actually feeling like really not having a good day. And somebody came up to me on the street, in my little podong town. And they just started talking about how
They loved listening to the podcast and they looked forward to it and they, you know, they didn't agree with everything I said, but they were really, really enjoyed it and that they couldn't wait for the next episode and all this other stuff. you know, like I said, I'm not doing this for gold stars or for praise or anything, but it made me realize, you know, sometimes we can overthink things and
we can get in our heads and start, I don't know, analyzing what we do a little bit too much. And I may have been doing that with the podcast as well, which I, what am I at? Thing number five.
Thing number five, I think maybe I was making this podcast a little bit too complicated. I don't know, like, I kind of felt the need with every episode to like be really up on all the current events. like before I would film a podcast, I would like Google what was happening in the news and then I would like get all these news stories and stuff. And I'm not saying I won't still do that, but.
At the end of the day, there's so many people doing that right now that I don't really think that that's really what makes my podcast special. don't first of all, I don't really think my podcast is that special. I think it's just some guy talking about his thoughts. But you know, when people have a podcast, I think what makes it engaging is the person not so much what they're talking about, but you know who they are. And so for me,
What does that mean? Okay, so I'm some guy, I live in the Bible Belt, I'm a gay liberal atheist, and that's fine, but I'm not the only gay liberal atheist. I mean, there's plenty of us, believe it or not. There's a lot of people who identify as that, and then there's a lot of people who identify as gay and liberal, but they still believe in God, or they are straight liberal atheists, or they're straight...
I don't know, conservative, I guess those exist, like there's straight liberal Christians or whatever. I mean, so there's so many different ways a person can be, obviously. Like I'm kind of like saying stuff that's kind of stupid right now, but you know, I am who I am and so.
I think what makes a podcast interesting is that we have all these labels that we put on ourselves, but that at the end of the day, a person's ability to still make it personal and and and put their own imprint. Nobody. OK, let me put it to you this way. Nobody is going to be a gay liberal atheist exactly like I'm going to be a gay liberal atheist. I will be.
the best version of a gay liberal atheist that Daniel Cartier can be. Now, if I was trying to be the best gay liberal atheist that some other person could be, I would do horrible job because I'm not another person, I'm me. worrying about that me and like my version of being, and not just being gay liberal atheist, I mean, that's just three labels, you know, there's...
Obviously, there's so much more to all of us. I mean, I'm also a musician. I'm a dog dad. I'm a partner. I've been sober for almost seven years. So I'm like really into, you know, helping people get sober. And I love, you know, building communities. So I'm like, really, I love getting involved in like community things. And I love making art. And you know, we all, I love nature. And I, you know, really, really value my family.
friends and all of that stuff. So, you know, all that, mean, a life is made up of so many different things. You know, it's really like we're with ourselves 24 hours a day. So there's so many things about all of us. And so that gets me to the sixth, sixth, sixth thing. That's hard to say. Sixth, thing. Anyways, that gets me to that.
which is that,
I know, like, I think one of the other things that I had to do was I had to kind of like, not just get away from the podcast, but I kind of had to get away from everything. Because honestly, you guys, started everything's just been so fucking crazy with Donald Trump and with MAGA and with Freedom of Speech and with with all the fucking stuff that's going on right now. And so much misinformation everywhere. And
So much? I don't even know how to describe it like...
I was starting to feel really dark about everything.
really dark, like to the point that like I had a couple days where I felt absolutely like what was the fucking point of anything. And when I get to that point, that's like a warning sign for me where I need to kind of back off and kind of not worry what the fuck else the world's doing, because the world's going to be doing all sorts of fucking bullshit. I mean, that that I do know, like the world's going to keep being the world and the world is full of people doing fucking
horrible things. And if we're not careful, we will just focus on that. And we'll kind of lose sight of the fact that there's people doing a lot of wonderful things, too. And so I found myself going down into this rabbit hole where everything sucked and everything was pointless and everything was hopeless and everything was, you know, might as well just fucking like end it all. um, yeah. And so.
That was one of the other reasons why I had to kind of pull away. And I even pulled away from like, you know, social media and like just kind of like. I don't know, like like everybody, you know, like I would wake up in the morning and like one of the first things I would do is like. Look at Facebook and it's like, really, is that the first thing you want to fucking look at in the morning like Facebook? first of all, dude, you're 56 years old. There's you have you've lived such a.
rich and storied life. And you've got these three beautiful dogs. have this beautiful partner. You know, you have like a cool, funky house that's filled with art and books and literature and, you know, cool friends. And the first thing you're going to do when you wake up and you open your eyes is like, look at Facebook. Like, what the fuck? Like, that's such a shitty way to start the day, I think. So I think I needed to back away from that as well and kind of look at like
What the fuck are my priorities? know? So that brings me to thing number seven. If this is a meandering episode because I had to record a meandering episode to get the ball rolling again and you don't like the fact that it's a meandering episode and you think it's just really unfocused and not professional and that I should have some script and that it should be all like tied up with a bow. So it's
acceptable to you, you know what dude? I don't fucking care. Like I'm just doing the best I can. Like this is me getting back on the horse after not filming an episode for a month. This is how I was able to start doing it again was I needed to just press record and start talking. I could not think about it too much because if I thought about it too much, I would put it off. And sometimes, you know,
The only way we can start doing stuff again is to just fucking start doing it. That's a big part of me being an atheist, by the way, is that back when I still kind of believed in the higher power, people would say stuff to me like, it's just destiny. It's destiny like that. This is going to happen to you or that's going to happen or God's going to do this for you or God's going to do that for you. And the weird thing about being an atheist is you don't have that. Like, I don't have some God's not going to do fucking.
Jack shit for me because I don't believe God's real. No offense if that's what you believe. Like if you believe they're in God, great. I'm happy for you. I don't. So, yeah, a lot of times for an atheist it's like, fuck, man. know, like if I'm gonna start recording a podcast again, like I can't wait for God to inspire me to do it or the universe or anything like that. I just have to fucking start doing it, you know? And so, or not.
Which brings me to thing number, I don't know, am I on thing number eight or thing number nine? I'm losing track. The list isn't that fucking important. But it brings me to my next point, which is that, I gotta be honest with you, I know I just said that I'm not doing this for any sort of response or like chasing heart emojis or anything like that, but I will say my ego is one of the reasons why I, well, not my ego.
Yeah, well, fuck it. My ego is one of the reasons that I was like, OK, you need to record another episode because I do not want to give people who hate my views and think I'm, you know, fucking full of shit or whatever. don't want to give them the satisfaction of thinking like, ⁓ he quit doing his podcast. he took all his atheist toys and he went home, you know.
like no fuck that like no no no so I know that's kind of lame that's not the most spiritual motivation but whatever who cares I'm only human and so the thought of like some MAGA troll out there feeling like they posted some shitty comment last month you know and that
look, I posted this shitty comment. told him he was a pile of shit. And so then he stopped filming his podcast. Like, no, I don't want to give people the benefit of that. yeah, well, whatever, who cares? and so then the next thing I wanted to say, and I am going to take some calls. I actually do have some calls. People have still been leaving messages for me. So I actually have some calls I can take.
So that's kind of fun. That will give this episode some fucking structure. But what was I going to say? Think Daniel. I was just about to say something. This is why it is good to have notes, by the way, because the notes will, you know, I didn't make any notes for this. I just started talking. But.
The notes do actually fucking help a little bit because I do kind of get lost like I'll I'll start talking about something else and I'll go down this tangent, but What what was I hold on
Daniel Cartier (22:33)
yeah, I remember what it is now. The next thing I wanted to say, and then I'm going to take some calls and then I'll probably talk a little bit more, is that if you are racist,
That's stupid. And if you're homophobic, that's fucking dumb. And if you're transphobic, that's fucking stupid too. And if you are sexist, that's fucking ridiculous. And if you're a fascist, like if you're a fascist, or, and you probably don't think you are, this is the thing. The people who are racist don't think they're racist. The people who are sexist don't think they're sexist. The people who are homophobic don't think they're homophobic. The people who are transphobic, well they probably,
know they're transphobic and they don't care because I don't know, they just don't care. But the people who are truly supporting fascism, which we are watching fascism in blooming like a big ugly flower underneath Donald Trump.
The people supporting all this and cheering for it, don't think it's fascism. They think it's just patriotism or I don't know what the fuck they think it is. I will tell you, I looked up the definition of fascism. is fascism. That's what it is. It is ⁓ somebody who wants to consolidate power so that it's all underneath them. It's this very authoritarian government where they they want to take away the
people's rights to speak out against the government or anything like that. I this is all the type of stuff Donald Trump's been trying to do. So I think that's one of the other reasons why it took me so long to start posting again. I got to be honest, because every day there was so much fucking stuff happening over this past month. It's like every day there was like more shit that I could talk about to the point that it was like I didn't even know where to fucking begin. I mean,
You guys, we have a fucking president. And I know this is old news at this point because the no kings protest happened a couple weeks ago. So like now it's just kind of like old news. But it doesn't take away the fact that we had a president post a fucking video where he was shitting on American citizens. He was dumping shit on American citizens
doing what America was founded on, protesting. And he was wearing a king's crown too.
I mean...
You know, if Joe Biden had done that or Obama, can you imagine? I actually like there was a book that I wanted to write and maybe somebody else can write it because I'm never going to fucking write it. But like I wanted to write this book called If Obama and then just like. Have it be like every page be like if Obama had called country shitholes.
If Obama had mocked a disabled person. If Obama had bragged about grabbing women by the pussy. If Obama had colluded with a foreign power to influence an election. If Obama had, and just go on and on and on and on and on about like all the things Trump has done that we know he's done, like we have video proof and audio proof and documents and all this other stuff that prove
that Donald Trump has done all this stuff. Like, just switch it to Obama. The difference... You know what I think? Okay, so like the people who think they're not racist, like, no dude, you're actually fucking racist. Because these people who think it's okay to pardon the January 6th rioters, I mean, I think they were domestic terrorists, you know, the people who attacked our nation's capital on January 6th, and then Donald Trump pardoned them.
The same people who think that's okay, if all those rioters had been black and they had been attacking the nation's capital on behalf of Obama, dude, like, the reaction would have been like, my God, they all need to be killed. You know what I mean? Like, but a bunch of white cracker barrel people fucking attacking our nation's capital on behalf of Donald Trump. no, that's fine. And
By the way, let's pardon all of them and some of them are actually running for public office now. So forgive me if I see that as being kind of fucking racist, that, you know, it's okay for all these Hee Haw people to be attacking our nation's capital on behalf of Donald Trump. But if it was black people doing it for a black president, you guys would be freaking out.
And I'm sorry, that makes you racist. You may disagree with me and whatever, that's your fucking business. We're all adults. go write about it in your diary or whatever. like, ⁓ yeah, it's racist of you. Anyways, let's take some fucking calls. Like back for like, I think this is one of the other things, like I'm back for what? Like after like not posting for a...
for a month and I'm already like accusing people of being racist and stuff and it's like Daniel it's like your life's already so fucking complicated and now you're like telling people that they're racist but I mean some people are fucking racist anyways and they're also homophobic and transphobic and fucking sexist and just fucking lame people anyways let's see who called
Hmm.
Yeah, I know.
⁓ man, that was perfect. What pisses me off the most? I think I just listed off a bunch of stuff that pisses me off. Okay, you know what pisses me off the most? This is just the first thing that comes to my mind. Willful ignorance. People who are just proud of being stupid. They're proud. They are proud that... I mean, it's almost like we live in a country now where people know that they're being fed bullshit and they just don't fucking care.
because it's like their side's feeding them the bullshit, so they're like all in on it and they're like, yeah, I'm totally down with that. this willful ignorance, I started seeing it, I started really noticing it actually, ⁓ years ago, there was this, I know this is kind of gonna be kind of a weird segue, but ⁓ there was this, ⁓
website for a while that was dedicated to all the fried foods that you can get at a Texas state fair. I mean, literally like there was so many different things you could get deep fried, like deep fried Oreos, deep fried Twinkies, deep fried this deep fried that they even had like like whole hamburgers that were then breaded and deep fried like hamburgers in buns.
that were then breaded and deep fried. They had deep fried fucking butter, deep fried butter, y'all deep fried butter. And so there was these people. just remember seeing this, this like news story. I don't know. It was on some fucking channel where they were ⁓ interviewing people at this, this, ⁓ this Texas state fair and
They were just like, yeah, we're getting deep fried butter. And like these people looked like they were about to have like heart attacks. And I don't know why, but I always think about those people when I think about when I, when I see, when I see people commenting now and it's like, it's clear that
It's almost like you must know, you must know somewhere deep down in your soul that what you are being fed by whatever news outlet quote unquote news outlet that you're getting your information from, you must know on some level that it's bullshit. But you you clearly just don't care. You don't care because maybe it's more entertaining. Maybe the stuff that you're like that, the bullshit that you're
Peretting like you know about I don't know hunter Biden's fucking laptop or whatever the fuck you you know, whatever it is. Maybe it's just more entertaining to you. I actually think one of the reasons why Donald Trump Has been so successful is because as hideous as he is It's entertainment for people I found myself in 2015 when he really kind of took off because before that
He was just kind of this sad political footnote, like, yeah, Donald Trump, like he was, he did his whole birther conspiracy theory with Obama. Do you remember all that? Where he was convinced that Obama had not been, I mean, it was just basically racism. That's all it was, know, he's, Obama's black, so he must be from like a different country. I mean, that's really how that all came across, but. ⁓
You know, so Trump was behind all that, but I mean, he was just kind of this like sad little fucking carnival barker and nobody took seriously. And then I remember in 2015, it kind of started shifting and all of a sudden there was this big wave of Donald Trump, MAGA, whatever. And it was like that.
It was like a perfect storm and maybe it was because all the other political candidates running then were just milk toast. Like they were just like not exciting and people wanted something exciting. I think about that line and ⁓ smells like teen spirit like here we are now entertain us. And I kind of feel like America was at that point where
they wanted the fucking circus. That's what they wanted. And so that's what they voted for. And I found myself buying into it too. you know, I found myself every day, like, I would wake up and I would like, one of the first things I'd Google was Trump. Like, what did he say now? Like, what, you know, it like, was almost like a TV show. Like, you know, what's the next episode? You know, like, now he said this, like, now he's mocking a disabled person. Now he's...
You know, doing this thing or that, some, whatever, like all the fucking crazy things you did. I'm not gonna start listing them all off because it's so many, but ⁓ yeah, think, I mean, I think that that's been the thing that's worked for him the most is just the fucking clown show, you know? It's entertaining in a really sick way. And... ⁓
But I'll tell you guys, ⁓ it's also empty calorie entertainment. It's not gonna pay your bills. It's not gonna put groceries on your shelf. It's not going to lower prices. It's not gonna give people who are about to lose their fucking healthcare, it's not gonna give them healthcare. It's not going to make the income inequality that we're seeing any better because let me tell you, since Trump's assumed office, billionaires have amassed so much more fucking wealth, it's obscene.
Elon fucking Musk, like 186 billion more dollars since Donald Trump assumed, I think it's about 186 billion dollars. It may even be more. But that's the last figure that I saw. you know, I know that Mark Zuckerberg, know, like, some other big, like, 48 billion dollars or some fucking such bullshit. like, and then Donald Trump. I mean, you know.
with all his cryptocurrencies and gold sneakers and fucking, you know, the millennia coin and the Trump meme coin. Do know how much money people have lost investing in that fucking bullshit? Trump has made a ton of money. you know, selling his fucking autographed Bibles, you know, selling shit like, selling Trump shit like a White House gift shop. I mean, he's just like, he's just like ⁓ an opportunist. That's all he is. Like, how much?
How much money can I grift off the American public? And you know, and he is, and you know, it's like, like P.T. Barnum said, you know, there's a sucker born every minute. And you know, so Donald Trump's like profited billions of dollars. And then you get these people who are like, he gave up his, you know, pay. He's doing this for free. He's not fucking doing this for free. You fucking, are you on drugs?
Do how much money he's profited? And now he's like wants to sue the fucking government for investigating all his fucking crimes. He wants like what? Two hundred and seventy million dollars. Well, people are losing their fucking SNAP benefits and they're losing their they're going to be losing their health care. You know, I mean, we are I haven't even mentioned the fact that we're in a fucking government shutdown right now. You know.
Anyways, so willful ignorance, willful ignorance really pisses me off. It makes me mad because, you know, it's lazy. It's just fucking lazy, you know, right now. mean, we're there's going to be so many repercussions to everything we see going on right now. Do you realize, like, if people can't eat, what the fuck are they supposed to do?
I we're going to see a rise in crime not because people are bad people but because it's like they're not going to have any choice but to fucking like you know if you're about to starve to death what the fuck else are you supposed to do and you and you know food banks run out of food how what are people supposed to fucking do and if they have kids or that you know it's like desperate people do desperate things that's what causes crime desperation it's not because people are
I mean, yes, there are bad criminals. Don't get me wrong. So I know if you're MAGA, you're gonna be watching this and you're gonna be like, ⁓ he's just like thinks, you know, like criminals are lovely people. No, I'm not saying that. But what I'm saying is a lot of people who commit crimes are just desperate people who are just in horrible situations and they don't know what the fuck else to do. There's a lot of that. And we're gonna see a lot more of that if people don't have any resources, you know, if they don't have any way to eat.
You know, that's like the one basic human necessity we should make sure is always there. And it's not the Democrats' fault. all of this hinges on the fact that, I mean, I'm simplifying it a little bit right now, but let's take away people's health care.
like let's make it more expensive now so that we can take that money and like you know give billionaires tax breaks I mean that's basically what's going on and I mean I'm oversimplifying it but I don't fucking care let's take away from people who are already struggling so that people who have more money than they will
ever know what to do with, or their children or their grandchildren will ever know what to do with. Let's give them more money. That's the system we have now, and it fucking sucks. Fucking sucks. And so if you're cheering for that, man, do me a favor and go to the mirror and look at yourself and say this sentence to yourself, I have shitty values. Because you do.
you have shitty values. If you want billionaires to make even more money and you're okay with your neighbor not being able to like go to the doctors when they have a medical emergency or you know, eat, yeah. Anyways, I did not mean to go so haywire here, but
get really worked up. think maybe that's the other reason why I had to take some time off because you guys, when I start talking about all this stuff, I do get really upset and it and it's not like it doesn't affect me. it's like I know that after I stop recording, this is going to be with me for the rest of the night. this is the type of stuff I'm going to be thinking about, you know? So it's not like I just film these things and then I don't have
any thoughts about it afterwards. Like I have a lot of fucking thoughts about it. Anyways, let's take another call and see what else people have to say. But thank you for that question. That was a wonderful question. by the way, you can leave me a voicemail for the next episode at speakpipe.com slash. There is no God and we're all going to die. Speakpipe.com slash. There is no God and we're all going to die. Or you can just go to my website, danielcardia.com.
and you can, I think there's a button right on the homepage somewhere, call the show or click on podcast. I think there's a podcast thing in the menu and then you can go there and then there's a button to take you to the address that I just said. anyways, that's my little, my little fucking plug for that.
Because I do like getting your voice messages. All right, what does this one, what does this person have to say?
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Aww, ⁓ that was the nicest message. Thank you so much. Wow. That is lovely. And I feel so bad after all the ranting and raving I just did. Then to listen to this really beautiful message. ⁓ I do not know who you are. I have no idea. This is just one of the messages.
But that was just so sweet. Thank you so much. Yeah. My. I think you said you saw Swan Song. OK, yes. Swan Song is a movie directed by my wonderful friend Todd Stevens. He's an amazing ⁓ filmmaker. He made the movie Gypsy 83. ⁓ The Edge of Seventeen. And so he just directed a couple of years ago this movie called Swan Song that had Jennifer Coolidge.
Udo Kier, this very famous German actor, Linda Evans from Dynasty. She played Crystal in Dynasty. Todd is just such a sweetheart. And we've known each other for years. And so he he actually had me ⁓ me and ⁓
His brother Chris, Chris Stevens, did the soundtrack for that. Amazing job. And so I lent some vocals. If you watch the movie, you can kind of hear me vocalizing during some of the scenes. Like I'm kind of going like, yeah. Like I'm doing that type of thing. But it's all echoey. And then at the end, my song Hovering plays over the closing credits. it's just such an honor to be part of that because it's a really beautiful story about
this guy who's in an old folks home and he's this hairdresser. He's like this, this gay hairdresser and you know, he's, we forget about, you know, like the elderly, you know, a lot of times they're in these, nursing homes and they kind of feel like life has forgotten them. And so this guy has fallen into that where he's
had this really colorful life at one point, he had been this really flamboyant hairdresser, like living this really amazing life. And then, you know, now he's in this nursing home and he's just kind of there and he's just feels all alone. And so then a bunch of stuff happens and he ends up basically breaking out of the ⁓ the nursing home and going on this like road trip.
kind of like it's like this journey of self discovery ⁓ in his, you know, quote unquote old age. And it's a really lovely movie. It's actually very moving. It's very touching. And I love the fact that my friend did a movie about this. Like it just says so much about Todd's character that he would choose this as a, and it was actually, there was a,
a real hairstylist from, because it took place in Sandusky, Ohio, and there was a real hairstylist ⁓ from, I guess, the 70s or 80s that he remembered from when he was a little kid. ⁓ And so he based the character on this real hairstylist that had existed at one point. And yeah, so, you know, ⁓ it was just so cool to be part of that. And I'm so glad you got to see it. And then you tracked me down. You f—
I found out who I was and you tracked me down and you left this really lovely message. And I really appreciate like that, you you you I don't know. I just appreciate your honesty and your openness. And that was just a really lovely message to hear. You know, I can rant and rave and I am guilty of that. I can get really under the collar. I swear like a truck driver. I drop.
f-bombs all the time, especially when I'm mad. You know, the only thing I get mad about though is people being mean. That's the thing. You know, I guess that's another addendum. Addendum? Is that the right word? To the last question, the gentleman who asked me what pisses me off the most. Needless meanness. Is that the right way to say it? Meanness for the sake of just being mean.
And there's so much of that nowadays. There's so much of that, you know, where people just, they just want to be mean, you know, I have this song on my album, the angry album. I recorded this song, the angry album last year and it's on Spotify. You can check it out. It's a pretty cool album, but it's all political. It's like the most political album I ever recorded. And it's like 21 songs, but one of the songs is called hate.
And the lyrics are like, all we do is hate. Basically, it's all about like there's there's people whose their entire life is just like being online, hating other people like that's what they do. Like they get online and I've been guilty of it. I've found myself. rolling around in the mud with other people and.
flinging mud just as much as the other person. And it's not the man that I want to be. And so when somebody leaves a message and says that I feel safe, like that there's something about me that makes them feel safe, it's a reminder to me, like, dude, they're talking about your best self. They're not talking about the version of you that is rolling around in the mud and flinging insults at MAGA people and being really hateful.
And so it reminds me that maybe I need to aspire to be that person who would feel safe to somebody else, you know, because that's a wonderful thing to aspire to. So thank you for that reminder. It's something that I think I need, especially coming back into this podcast. ⁓ It's weird, you know.
It's weird recording this podcast is so weird because I just realized I've just been talking nonstop now for I don't even know how long was it like a half an hour 40 minutes I I'm not wearing my glasses so I can't really see how much time has elapsed but I think I think a lot of time you know and I don't know I'm sure I've said some stuff that would piss some people off you know but I can't really worry about that either you know so anyways thank you for
kind of going all over the place right now, but thank you for that message. That was really sweet to hear. That is just so lovely. And please feel free to call back and just know that I'm sending you a ton of love. I'm sending everybody love. Here's the thing. I'm sending everybody love. I mean, even if you voted for that fucking lying sack of shit,
who's in the White House right now who just lies and lies and lies and is corrupt and if you ask me, the worst president we've ever had and is, it would be one thing if he was just incompetent, but I think he's just also like mean. I think he's fucking douchebag. But like anyways, even if you love him.
and you hate everything that I stand for and you think that I'm a horrible person and you hate the fact that I'm an atheist and you hate the fact that I'm gay. I just want to go on record and say, you know, the weird thing is I'm still sending you love because that's how I'm designed. I can send everybody love. Love is easy for me because love is free. Like it doesn't cost me anything to love people. I can I can give out love like it's
fucking candy at Halloween. And so I, I, I do love everybody. Well, I don't love Donald Trump. There's, there's a couple of people in very high exalted places that I think my love kind of stops. They, already have enough stuff. They don't need my love. but you know, the people who are on the same level as me, my fellow human beings that I live amongst and a lot of them don't vote the way I vote.
A lot of them worship a god that I don't believe in. A lot of them hate the fact that I don't worship that god. A lot of them hate the fact that I am a big old homosexual and that I support trans rights and the rights of marginalized communities and I don't view people coming to this country. I would never call somebody illegal. I hate that. You know, they're a human being. I'm not going to describe somebody as
and illegal. So, you know, that's where I'm coming from. And so people who hate the fact that those are my views.
I can't hate them. I know that it sounds like I hate you guys when I'm talking because I get all hut under the collar, but that's just me being angry. I can get angry at you, but still love you. But here's the thing that I don't give away. ⁓ I don't give away respect and I don't give away trust. So I may still love you even though you voted for that fucking blind sack of shit.
I may still love you as a fellow human being, but I don't respect you. I don't. Well, I don't respect your your your views. You know, and I don't trust you like what because you're not giving me a reason to trust you,
Anyways, again, thank you for that message. That was lovely. And now I'm going all over the place. Let's listen to another message. Who else called?
Who else called? I know that this is kind of a weird, weird episode. I don't fucking care. I'm just getting back into the swing of things.
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Well, Ian, as always, it's really nice to hear from you. love that you've called. I think this is like the fourth time you've called my podcast. So you're kind of becoming a little podcast celebrity. I mean,
I think I just kind of laid it all out when I was talking before. think Donald Trump just gives a shit about Donald Trump. And I think it, he's ⁓ just a con artist and a carnival barker and a grifter that I think, you know, he had some fucking good luck over the last 10 years. He got a bunch of fucking people to buy into his snake oil salesman fucking bullshit, you know? And I think all you need to know about Donald Trump is his meme coin.
That's Donald Trump, his fucking meme coin that he's made billions of dollars on and like other people will lose billions of dollars on and he doesn't fucking care. Donald Trump's the guy who like declared bankruptcy a zillion times and didn't pay workers as a result and that's how he was able to like, you know, build his wealth was by not fucking paying people and he's not losing sleep over it. I don't think he fucking cares. And so.
Yeah, he could be using his position to like do all this good, but you know, he's just at the end of the day, he's just this self-serving person. I mean, I could go on and on and on about it, but I think, you know, I've kind of ⁓ already kind of went on and on and on about it a bunch during this episode. So yeah, I agree with your frustration. can't imagine, because I know that you're calling from England.
And does it, I guess, does it seem like America is just like having a fucking nervous breakdown? Like, how do we come across to people in other countries? Like, what, if you go and you, this would be a good thing if you could call back at some point and just give me, give us all the scoop on what the average person in England, like if they bump into somebody else.
and you guys start talking about America like what do you guys say about us? What is the general consensus right now? I would be very, very, very curious to hear like what the average person on the street in England, you know, I think England is, you know, it's like they, you are one of our allies. ⁓ What does the average person on the street in England say about America? Like,
Do you just think like we're like the biggest like train wreck from hell at this point? Feels like we are Anyways, I am sending you a ton of love across the pond and you know that I love love love Love your sexy British accent. It is just It just warms my heart. I could listen to that all day. all right
think we have one more call. And then I will be winding it up. There's so many other things I could have talked about. this whole, I'm looking at this notebook. I did have a bunch of stuff written down, I've already blabbed enough. Let's listen to this last message, and then we will wrap it up.
⁓ wow, what a great question. Well, I would probably want to eat my favorite food. What is my favorite food? I love food. my God, I am am obsessed with food. I love to cook. Cooking is one of my love languages. I love making meals for people. I know I've shared about this before on the podcast, but I love like I'll make cookies and I'll bring them all over town. I bring them to the police department.
that both banks, the Mennonites, I bring them to the, ⁓ post office. I bring them to the fire department. I bring them to my neighbors. even neighbors that did not vote the way I did. I still bring them cookies. you see, so I don't hate people. I'm still a nice person to people. ⁓ anyways, yeah. So I love cooking.
Um, but what would I, if it was my last meal, my last meal, I'm trying to think like what, mean, I love sushi. I do no offense if like you, you don't, I mean, I could, I do love sushi. Um, I don't eat it that much because I live out in the middle of Tennessee and we actually do have some good sushi restaurants here, but, um, yeah, so I do love sushi. Uh, but I don't know if that I'd want that to be my last meal. Um,
my God, you know what I think I'd want? And this is so trashy and I don't care. mean, it's here's the thing, if it's my last meal, if the world's going to end and it's my last meal, then I kind of don't have to give a shit about health, right? Like my health. mean, it's like we're all going to die. So it's like, you know, might as well just friggin eat whatever the fuck I want at that point. I think I would buy a big
thing of I never eat ice cream. I don't know why I never think of eating it, but I know that when my dog passed away ⁓ this summer, my eldest dog, the first thing I wanted, I wanted ice cream. Like I wanted comfort food. because I'm kind of controlling about my food, I'm not going to get into why, like, you know,
eating healthy and whatever and then like I will yeah so anyway I'm not going to get into all my psycho drama with food but I don't really allow myself to like eat like I don't eat ice cream that often and I don't anyways but I do love ice cream and so ⁓ but then because I'm the type of person that is like well I could eat an apple instead you know it's like so I'm like one of those people who's like ⁓ I could eat like a you know some
Watermelon or some you know, which you know, I I love fruit I love you know, I could eat some walnuts or some almonds and it's like so I'm not gonna eat that ice cream. I'm gonna eat something healthy and so Which is fine. I mean, it's nice to eat healthy and I do like eating healthy but I think if I knew I was gonna die and The world was gonna end. Yeah, I'd want a nice big pint of ice cream and I would want to just eat it all and I'd want to sit there with my dogs and pet my dogs
and maybe watch some Project Runway and wait for the world to end. I'd want to just hang out, watch some Project Runway, and know that at some point, like, I'd be vaporized and, you know, so I'd want to just be like with my dogs on the couch with Cory and watching some things or maybe some parks and recreation or some like an episode of The Office or something. And I just want to be like nerd out, like veg out and, ⁓ you know.
be wearing comfortable clothes, like some pajamas or something, and I would just want to have a pint of ice cream in it. The type of ice cream I like, I like ice cream with a lot of stuff in it. I know, Cory really likes vanilla ice cream. He loves vanilla ice cream. Well, good vanilla ice cream. Made with real vanilla, where you can actually see the flecks of vanilla in it. And I get that. That's really good. I like...
ice cream that has like a bunch of crap in it like you know fudge swirls and chocolate chunks and peanut butter filled chocolate covered this or chocolate covered that and caramel this and caramel that like I like the ice cream that has like a zillion different things in it because I don't know maybe because I have add or something but like I like really complicated like I you know like fudge mocha swirl chocolate chunk
Caramel pecan Surprise or I don't know like whatever the fuck it is. Um, that's the type of ice cream I like and so I would want that and I would eat it and I would love it and then at some point there'd be a big flash in the sky and that would be that and then it would be like I was never here and The world would be done and I ended it eating some ice cream and petting my dogs and watching
Project Runway or the office or some dorky show or rest of development or something. And, yeah, it'd be great anyways. So I will be back. I will start posting these episodes again. I'm very proud of myself for showing up. And again, if you are listening to this and you hated this episode and you're like, yeah, this guy's just blabbing on and on about like,
bunch of bullshit. I'm still glad you're here and thanks for showing up and thanks for listening. you got this far you must have liked something that I said because I think I talked for about an hour but anyways yeah I'm going to go and I'm gonna stop filming now and I am going to ⁓ be back next week again danielcardier.com if you go to danielcardier.com and you click on podcast there's a button
that you can, it'll take you to where you can leave me a voice message. So just go to danielcardier.com, D-A-N-I-E-L-C-A-R-T-I-E-R dot com, and then click on podcast in the menu, and there will be a button that says call the show, call the show, and you can leave me a voice message.
and you can say anything you want really. You can be like, Daniel, I hate you. I think you're stupid and your podcast is dumb and I hope you rot in hell. And I'll be like, okay, awesome. Well, thank you for leaving me a voice message and I'll respond to it. I don't care. You know, hey, at least you're not apathetic. You had an opinion about me and I respect that. ⁓ Or you can call and be like,
⁓ you know, I love what you're doing or you could call and you don't even need to make it about me. You can actually tell me something that you think is cool about the universe. You know, give me give me give me a fact about the universe that you find fascinating because you know, that's one of the reasons why I'm an atheist is because I started looking around at all the facts about the universe and they were just already so amazing that I was like, I don't really need to put a God on top of all of this thing. You know, like
know, the fact that it takes light 100,000 years to travel from one corner of just our galaxy to the other side of the galaxy. 100,000 light years. And that's just our galaxy. There's all these other, there's like hundreds of billions of galaxies out there. So, you know, it just puts things in perspective, you know? And yeah, like we are just this tiny little speck.
And when I think about that type of stuff, that's, that's, I, I, I get a lot of comfort out of my spalliness and my insignificance. I really do. You know, it makes me realize that all the stuff that I worry about, worrying about what people think of this meandering podcast, like who gives a flying fuck? Like who cares? You know, I'm just some douchebag talking like and recording myself. It doesn't really matter. If this isn't none of this will matter a hundred years from now. So
we might as well just try to make the best of our life right now. And so for me, that means speaking up when I see things that I don't agree with. means being honest about my feelings. It means not apologizing for the way I feel. And it means speaking up when I see people
being douchebags to other people like when I see them being racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic or trying to take away people's rights, you know? I want people to enjoy their life while they're here and it's hard for people to enjoy their life when other people are trying to take their rights away. That's what this is all about. Anyways, I think that's a good place to end and I will be back next week. Alright you guys, I love you and ⁓ take care and ⁓
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!