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495 - Hantavirus Cruise & iPad Babies

The host reflects on a humorous and visually striking Netflix Is A Joke Festival appearance, where the *Selling Sunset* cast appeared in elaborate, theatrical costumes. The event combined satire and creativity, featuring mock scenarios like a food delivery robot and a "poor person" choir, emphasizing the entertainment value of absurdity. However, the host shifts to a critical tone, questioning the cultural impact of social media and digital platforms. He argues that Meta and Facebook have created toxic environments, contributing to mental health crises—particularly among aging users who are trapped in online rage and misinformation. He observes that older generations now spend their final years on Facebook, engaging in irrational debates, which he sees as a form of digital psychosis. The host also raises alarm over early childhood screen exposure, noting that over two-thirds of children under two use screens for extensive hours. Despite concerns about obesity, sleep issues, and language delay, he acknowledges that parents feel pressured to give screens to children as a coping mechanism. He proposes a balanced, realistic approach to digital use, emphasizing parental responsibility and the need for moderation, while warning that without intervention, the current trajectory risks deepening societal and psychological harm. The segment ends with a candid, unsettling reflection on how technology has reshaped human connection—especially in the face of real health threats like hantavirus, which the host uses as a metaphor for the dangers of unchecked digital exposure and misinformation.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show. Thank you all for coming out to my show at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival in Los Angeles at the Wiltern Theater where I interviewed the cast of Selling Sunset dressed as John Wayne Gacy and it was a great moment for everyone. It was fun. It was a fun show. The women from the show didn't speak that much and Jason Oppenheim, who owns the brokerage, to his credit, tried to answer some of the questions and I like him. At one point I said, are your clients worried about security? And he said, yes. He goes, in fact, the other day I went to go to a house. I went to a house and they wouldn't even let me in because that's how secure it was. And I went, they wouldn't let you in? And he goes, no, well, they let me in. I was like, oh, so you just, you lied. You just, you made that up. And he laughed. He goes, yeah. And that's what, that's what a good real estate agent does. A good real estate agent is a liar. Sorry. You want them lying for you, but that's what they do. And I respect that. I respect the profession always. They have. And they came on the show. Now we did a show where it was like a theatrical kind of Broadway show. If you were on math, you know, we interviewed a food delivery robot. We had a choir of people that came out dressed as unhoused people and sang landslide. We had, you know, we had like a woman come out who pretended to lose her house in the Palisades fire. We had fun. And we might do more things like that because they're fun. And I, my costume designer in LA, she's one of the most talented people. You know, there, there is a lot of talent here. Um, not so much on the screen, but behind the scenes, there's a lot of talent. Like there's still really creative people who love what they do. And that, and this woman is one of them. And she, and she, she, she did this photo shoot. I didn't even know what was happening. They did these professional photos of me. Dressed up in like this John Wayne Gacy kind of drag Joker costume that she made. And it was, it was unbelievable. And she brought in all these, you know, really high level gay makeup artists and photographers. Were they on meth? Who cares? It doesn't matter. They're working. It's a work drug. And they were blasting music. And I felt very cool. We did it. It was a whole photo shoot. It was very fun. And they do very high level people. I didn't even know it was happening. But it was exciting and fun. And they were, they're the funnest people I met. Were the, were the makeup meth people. They're like fun. And then everyone else, you know, the Netflix festival, you just, you see a lot of comics you haven't seen in a while, which is fun. But then you're just inundated with, you know, the business, the industry. It's gross. It's gross. It's desperate. It's sad. It's gross. It's grotesque. Truly. And it's a lot of this. It's a lot of. Hey, hi, hi. It's a lot of that. And, um, but it was a fun thing to do. It was a fun thing to do. Was, uh, you know, was Netflix, um, thrilled with everything I said on the stage? We don't know. We don't know. I'm sure. I'm sure everyone takes it. Everyone takes criticism in stride. Even Netflix. I, I've had a relationship with Netflix, but Netflix, like everyone, like myself has good and bad in them, right? It's complex. It's not just amazing and great. And that's it. We must be introspective and look inside. So I imagine that was the message delivered. I delivered it in a fun kind of theatrical way. I don't think there's any problem there, but it was a fun thing. We'll do more things like that, I think, because it was fun to do something strange and weird. And it had a lot of moving parts and different components. And, you know, the Selling Sunset cast, I don't think they knew what was going on. And one of them I asked, you grew up in the UK? And she said, yes, I did. I grew up in Paris. They don't know. I don't know what they really know what's happening. Bree, I liked a lot. And she's one of the OGs and she's still on the show. And she laughed at every joke and she's Nick Cannon's ex or current. I don't know, whatever. It's not my business, but she was great. And, but there's a lot of the women there. You would try to just, you know, they wouldn't really answer a lot of the questions. I asked one woman, I said, do you know any poor people? And she said, no. And I said, that's okay. That's okay. Because everyone judges her for that in society that she doesn't know any poor people. But she probably doesn't like them. And that's her choice. It's hard to meet poor people if you're rich. And no one talks about that, by the way. It's true. It's hard to meet poor people. If you're rich, you got to go out of your way to meet a really poor person. If you're rich, like, I mean, if you're rich, rich, not if you like made money in comedy after being a bum forever, like I did, then a lot of people, you know, don't have any money. It doesn't matter. But if you're someone that, you know, works in real estate and you're hot and you're whatever and you do, you can't just meet a poor person. That's not the way it works. And then as you meet a poor person, it's weird to bring the poor person around as a rich, hot real estate agent who sells houses or whatever. I don't know if they actually sell houses either, but it doesn't matter. Does anything matter? I think I said to them, I'm like, you guys don't really sell houses. I mean, they didn't even defend, they didn't, they didn't even go, no, we sell houses. I don't think it matters. I don't think it matters if the audience knows they don't sell the houses. I don't think people watch the show because they sell houses. And the audience was so vicious to these people. When they would talk, the audience would go, shut the fuck up. People from the mezzanine, the balcony would scream at them. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Because people now, you know, it's, that show got debuted in 2019. It was just pre-pandemic. That show was from a time when people believed that they could own a house. They never believed that they could own some crazy modern mansion in the Hollywood Hills, but they said, I could get a little house, a cabin somewhere. I'm in the game. And when you're in the game, you can, you know, there's the escapism of, you know, watching a real estate show where these women pretend to sell these high-end properties because you can, you can enjoy it. It's silly and there's drama. They fight with each other, whatever. But you go, well, I own a house and I'm watching other people sell nicer houses, but I'm, or I could dream of owning a house. It's realistic that I own a house. But now that owning a house has become incredibly tough, I think that, that era of entertainment, that era of voyeurism is actually going to decline. I don't think people are going to have an appetite anymore to watch shows where like attractive. And by the way, I could be wrong. It's my prediction. I don't think people are going to have an appetite to watch shows where hot women walk around mansions and pretend to sell them. I think eventually people are going to go, well, we've had enough of this shit. This is a relic from another era. We can't, we can't even imagine owning something and we're pissed about it. And rightfully so. And we're not going to watch these bitches, you know, walk around in the six inch heels on a marble floor. It takes on a new meaning when people are fucked. You know, so I think, but I do appreciate them coming on and they were lovely people backstage. They were very nice. They didn't answer the questions. That's fine. Doesn't matter. They tried. At one point I said, just name an area of Los Angeles that you like. Can you do that? Just name, you don't even have to like it. Just name an area of Los Angeles and let's discuss that. And we'll release clips of this, but it was difficult for them. And, and, um, but it was still nice that they came and, you know, a lot of things are changing. I read this article in the New York times. You can grab this, that meta, which is this mega company owned by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Instagram, you know, they dumped 80 billion, I think, into this metaverse idea. I think it was billion. That sounds high. It might've been million, but it is a, it's on drudge. It's in the times. It might've been 80 billion. Um, there was a time during the NFT craze where people would come up to me and say, you have to be the first. in the metaverse. And I said, what do you mean by that? They said, well, pretty soon we're just going to live in a virtual world completely. And instead of performing for 300 people or 3,000 people or whatever, you're going to perform for 50,000 people or a hundred thousand people or a million people in the metaverse because the metaverse is going to be the digital world we all inhabit. You'll have these glasses and you're not going to go meet your friends at a restaurant. You're going to meet them in the metaverse. And people are going to watch comedy in this digital world. And now, of course, it sucked. Everything we saw that came out of the metaverse, you'd have an avatar and you'd be this avatar. Get something up about the metaverse where we can kind of look at it like the concept, the proof of concept for it. It was like, you know, it's this strange thing where you'd have an avatar and you'd live in this completely digitized digital world. And people really believe that that was like going to happen. It was like on the cusp of happening. But again, this was the height of the NFT craze, the mania. This is when people in Miami are showing you their phone and going, look, I just paid $10,000 for this. It was a squiggly line that I just paid $10,000 for this squiggly line. I knew people who flipped NFTs, meaning they bought them and then sold them for more money. And they made like $2 million. And these were inherently worthless pieces of shit. Many of them, you know, it is non fungible tokens on the blockchain and it's a way to show ownership. I own this. It's mine. I can prove that I own it. And a lot of these things were, some of them were artistic. Some of them were cool. A lot of them weren't. So the metaverse was an outgrowth of this idea is that, well, you know, we're all eventually just going to inhabit this reality. And we're going to inhabit this reality because there's a pandemic and the world is gross and it's dangerous. There's riots and there's crime, but not in the metaverse. In the metaverse, it's all good. So let's watch a little bit of this thing here. But again, the metaverse was doomed. And maybe in 10 years or sooner, we're all living in the metaverse, but but it never caught on. It just never happened. But here's a little something on that. Imagine you put on your glasses or headset and you're instantly in your home space. It has parts of your physical home recreated virtually. It has things that are only possible virtually. And it has an incredibly inspiring. By the way, just stop. Stop it for a minute. This freak. This freak is so. He disturbs me on such a guttural level. And he makes my skin crawl. And no offense. You know me. I don't try to be offensive on the show. There's something about him. Bezos, at least I kind of get, because he's a real psychopath. He's on a big yacht. Him and his wife bought the Met Gala, which a bunch of my. Comedian friends that tweet, you know, all day about how, you know, white men suck, seem to throw those morals away when it's time to go to the Met Gala that's now owned by a true lunatic, Jeff Bezos, who's on a super yacht. He's a genuine Bond supervillain. But there's something about Bezos. I kind of. I don't know if I would say I like it, but there's something honest about Bezos. He's like, I'm on a super yacht. I got this. My wife, we have a big wedding in Italy. We invite every famous person we know. We are. You know, Bezos seems like a guy, there's maybe some insecurity there. Whatever it is, he desperately wants to prove to you that he's the coolest person that's ever lived. And, you know, is that. Is that disgusting? Sure. But you know what it is. And I think now, truly in life, it's not about whether you agree or disagree with someone. And I was thinking about this the other day. And it's not about whether you think they're good or bad. Do you know what they are? I think this is becoming the real question and the real concern and the real way to evaluate people. Forget good or bad. Forget the morality. Forget just for a minute. And just do you know what they are? Do you get where they're coming from? Are they reliably consistent? Whatever. And a guy like Jeff Bezos, I think he kind of understand that. This guy feels like someone who's really trying to be a human being. He's doing his best. He's occasionally succeeding. But it just. Something is deeply unsettling. But let's continue here. Mark Zuckerberg, friend of the show. Incredibly inspiring view of whatever you find most beautiful. Hey, are you coming? Yeah. Just got to find something to wear. All right. Perfect. Oh, hey, Mark. Hey, what's going on? Hi. What's up, Mark? Whoa. We're floating in space? Who made this place? It's awesome. Okay. So, all right. Kill this. Just to give you a refresher course of what the Metaverse was. Now, find this article here where it is. This is a New York Times article about Facebook. Facebook dying. Meta dying, which owns Facebook. It's on Drudge. And, you know, I read this article today and they make the point that nothing on the internet dies overnight. Even Yahoo and AOL and things like that. They still function. They still have people that use them. You know, Facebook. I don't know anyone on Facebook. We can sell a lot of tickets on Facebook. We post probably content from this show on Facebook. Facebook's now settling lawsuits. Facebook's now settling lawsuits with people because it's now proven that Meta's algorithm has, you know, driven people, I think, to kill themselves and stuff. I think that's what's going on. Like, that the algorithm has focused on negativity and it has incentivized and encouraged the type of behavior that has led to people to have serious psychological conditions. So Meta's, they're settling some what? Like, we all know someone who's gone insane on social media. We all know that. You all have an aunt. We've all existed in this world long enough to know someone who, who has genuinely become a schizophrenic on social media. We know that person. We know someone who at one time was fun and who is now a schizophrenic. And that's sad. And I don't know what can be done about it, but we know that that has, that exists. So what I was talking about before, in March, the company, Meta, alongside YouTube, lost a bellwether lawsuit alleging that its addictive design choices triggered anxiety, depression, and body image issues in a teenager. Waiting in the wings are over 100,000 similar cases seeking claims against Meta. And I think that's sad. I think that's sad. I think that's sad. I think in the tens of billions of dollars. Also, you know, people have talked about foreign influence campaigns using Meta, misinformation campaigns using these sites or whatever. So this article in the Times is basically saying that although Meta is still doing very well in the sense that they've made a lot of money, there's a few key markers that show that the company itself is beginning to decline and that that could be irreversible and that that era of the internet might be ending and it will take a while. And one wonders what comes next, but there's a quote here, there's a grim satisfaction in watching this organization hoist with its own petard. This is the company that profited from trafficking and lies. It tunes its algorithm to boost hatred and division that stole our data and used it against us that created the culture of toxic memes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever. So this is in the New York Times. And what they're saying here is they go, well, if Facebook dies, maybe things get better. And the New York Times is like, it could be a heartening turn in our national conversation. And they said TikTok traffics more in inspirational content. I don't know what algorithm on TikTok they're on, by the way. They go, TikTok's traffic's in more inspirational content? I don't know where they're at. They go, prom videos are currently trending. Okay. But what's interesting about this, to me, like kind of reading this article, is imagining what comes next. Because there was that, and it seems to be, like, are young people fighting about politics on the internet? Yeah. It doesn't seem to be that they are in the way that older people are. That feels to me like something that, as a younger friend of mine who helped out with the show recently said, old heads do. It doesn't feel like that's a, like I'm, the people I know who have the most active social media presence are older. And that seems odd. It seems like it should be the other way around. That younger people should be the ones on social media using it for whatever reasons to make change or whatever. But it seems to be like older people that are bored and all they care about is this and this is now where they live. Like that is their metaverse. Like he has created that. They don't need the goggles. They're already there. They're already there, Mark. You did it. You kind of did it. My aunt's already there. She's locked in. I don't know that she needs to be in a digital world. You've already created this space where people are able to basically just fight about things that don't really affect them for the rest of their lives until their bodies are riddled with cancer and they die. That's how old people live now. Old people, however you want to, you know, talk about our country. A lot of people that aren't from America are like, it's, you know, they visit here and they go, it's an abomination what you do to your old people. You stick them in homes. You kicked them out of the house. You know, they would never do that in Japan. They go, we all live together. We respect our elders. They die in their beds. We ship them to nursing homes. There's fight clubs. People pee on them or whatnot. It's bad. But whatever you think about that, old people now, the last years of their life, meaning where they still have before they're completely bedridden and they're going out. Mark Zuckerberg has stolen the last 10 years of your mother's life before she got dementia and Alzheimer's. Mark Zuckerberg has stolen that. The last 10 years of grandma's life. Where's grandma? She's on Facebook. She's drunk and she's fighting with someone she's never met. And that's how people get old now. They get old on the internet and they spend their golden years, the last years on this planet where they still have moving legs and they can still walk. They spend. They shut in their home on Facebook, talking about Iran. That's what, that's what Mark Zuckerberg's created. He's made your PA he's driven your parents insane and he's given them a place where they're incentivized to actually get crazier. And that's the way people get old. Now that that's part of life. I haven't been on Facebook in years. I used to go on it. I'd write statuses, get likes. I'd try to be funny about shit. I haven't been on it in years. The, the, can you get up the average age of a Facebook user? It might be younger than I think. I don't know. And I don't know how they calculate these averages either. That's not true. This is such a lie. They go. As of early 2026, the largest demographics of Facebook users globally is 25 to 34 years old. Growing engagement for users, 45 to 65. How do you go on Facebook? No. Do you know anyone really engaged on Facebook? My parents. That's right. No, it's true. I don't know where they're getting to it, but then maybe they're talking about people in India who just got it. I don't know. It's yeah. Whatever. This is old. People are on Facebook. Facebook, the last years of their life, Mark Zuckerberg has stolen and he's radicalizing them and they can't do anything about it. Their bodies are failing. Their minds are failing. They're trapped in this prison, this hell. They should be seeing their grandchildren. They should be drinking wine. They should be on a boat. But what they're, what they're really doing is spending their life. The last bits of it. The last things that really matter. They're spending it in this hell created by this humanoid freak. That's how their truth has been. So this, the company Meta starting to decline. I don't shed a tear for this. Now I'm on Instagram. I like Instagram. I'm on social media. It's part of my job. I get it. I'm not, uh, you know, one of these people who claims moral superiority to any of this, but I just look around and notice things. And I look at the people on Facebook. I go, these people are unwell. They're older. They don't get, they don't know what AI is. They don't know if something's real or fake. They don't know what they're arguing about. You know, there's clearly an AI video of a crocodile eating someone. And they're like, that's why you never, you got to respect animals, the power of an animal. And it's just, I, they don't know their lives have been stolen from them. It's sad. It's actually sad. They don't understand what happened. They don't get it. Nothing like this has ever happened before, by the way. They didn't watch their parents do this. This has never happened before where at the end of your life, there was a technology invented that made you insane. This has never happened. Large swaths of the public have gone, functionally, they're insane. They're lost. They're gone. On every political spectrum all over the place. Doesn't matter. But this has never really happened before where a playground for your worst ideas and impulses was given to you. At the end of your life, when the sharpness of your mind is starting to really wear thin and you don't know what's going on. And they give you this playground and go fuck around, have fun, see what happens, learn things. You shouldn't learn things. The learning should stop at a certain age. Now they're all learning about aliens on Facebook. I heard the government was going to come out and tell everybody there was no God. We were. Created by aliens. How are they going to take that? You know what I mean? That's what I heard was going to happen. I heard from multiple people. I called a couple of people. They go, yeah, I think the government is going to come out and tell everyone there's no God. We were created by aliens. All the world religions are fake. And deal with that. Do with that what you will. Who knows? Now that didn't happen. I think the government's kind of backed off on that. They're like, well, make your own conclusion. Choose your own adventure. But supposedly that's what they were going to tell everybody. Like, by the way. It's all fake. There's no God. You were created by aliens. I really believe that's what they were going to say. And they were just going to tell everyone to deal with it. Deal with it. And they called a bunch of pastors. And they were like, hey, by the way, you're going to have to. Your congregation is going to get upset. Because during the morning press briefing, we're going to announce that there's no God. And we're all a creation of aliens. I mean, it's like. I mean, it's like. I mean, what are we doing to these people at the end of their lives? Could you think of a worse way to get old than the way you get old now? Is there a worse generation? Is there a worse time? Now, yes, the boomers have all the fucking money. They own these big houses. That's all nice. But they don't have minds anymore. Their minds have disintegrated. They've melted in their heads. I mean, it's unbelievable. And now at the end of their life, while they're frothing in a Facebook rage, wandering around their house, we tell them, by the way, we don't think there's a God or anything. That's the last thing they hear before they collapse on their keyboard. As they're responding to their sister that they barely speak to. Well, actually, the trans issue is more of an issue than you think it is. It's insane. We are destroyed. Now, you might think it's undignified to go to a nursing home and die there. And it is. But my mother was in one of them and died in one of them. Whatever. This is worse. What we're doing to them now is worse. They're all in big mansions on Facebook. And they're insane. Their kids hate them. This is worse. Yes, nobody wants to go to fucking Shady Acres or whatever the name of that fucking thing. I think maybe that was from The Sopranos. Nobody wants that. Everybody goes, I don't want to go into a home. I'm completely fine. I want to live on my own. And that was the big discussion. The big discussion was like, well, where do you put old people? You put them in these homes? And everybody was like, nobody wanted to go in those homes. And Louie's got a great new bit on his special about this, about putting his dad in a place. But the way people are getting old now where they're just on the internet. They're just on the internet at whatever age. Trying to figure it out. And being taken advantage of and bamboozled. And it's coming from all sides in all directions. And they're becoming truly, like, psychotic. We're inducing psychosis. That's what Mark Zuckerberg's done. He's inducing psychosis into large swaths of the population. But very noticeably in older people that have now all gone insane. And I actually think, by the way, like, so there's a new study. That shows more than two-thirds of children under the age of two use screens, some for eight hours a day. So many one-year-olds are now on a screen for eight hours a day. Here's why that's good. Are you ready? Here's why it's good. If we're going to live like this, we got to start them young. They got to be, listen. The people I know who got introduced to Facebook later in their lives no longer speak to their children. They no longer speak. To their families. They've had Facebook for 10 years. Their children won't bring the grandkids to the house anymore. That's what happens when you introduce technology late in life. I'm for, if we're going to live like this, and it seems like we are, I'm not commenting on if it's a good thing. I don't think it is, but it doesn't seem like anybody has any investment in changing it. But more than two-thirds of children under two use screens, some for up to eight hours a day. One-year-old, and by the way, and I'm going to say it again, and it's not a joke, they're watching this show in very big numbers. Two, two-year-olds under five toddlers are watching this show in big numbers now. It is a huge demographic. Almost a third of newborns watch screens for more than three hours a day. While nearly 20% of infants aged four to 11 months watch screens for over an hour a day. So your 11-month-old is going to get an hour just to get them going. And by the way, I'm for this. Because we need, they need, if we're going to have this, they need to understand it. By the time they're four, they need to go, that's AI. Look at the watermark. It's AI. Scientists say the basis of future health and brain development. Is laid down in the first time from pregnancy to the age of two. So scientists are now saying that it might not be good that they're doing this. Yeah. Higher screen use in babies supposedly links to poorer development. Well, there's not jobs for them when they grow up. So who cares? They only need to be literate online. Listen to me now. There are no jobs for your children. They only need to understand the way the internet works. So I don't have a problem with a one-year-old spending five to eight hours a day on the screen. These include increased risk of obesity and short-sightedness, sleep problems, behavioral difficulties, language delay. Folks, they're going to have it anyway. They're having it all anyway. They're going to have it all anyway. Most likely, your children are going to be obese, short-sighted, and have language delay. That's just what it is. We're going to get ozempic form when they're kids. That's come. GLP-1s for kids are coming. And I'm for it. They're coming for the fatties for the kids. We're going to have them all. Your kids are on peptides, they're on GLP-1s, and they're on the screen. And there's nothing you can do about it. I'm sorry. It's what it is. Don't shoot the messenger here. I'm telling you, yes, they're going to be fat because they're on the screens. Hit them with the needle. Oh, my kid's fat because he's on the screen. Well, it's necessary. It's necessary for him to be on the screen because he needs to be literate, and he needs to understand the way the internet works. He needs to understand different cultures that arise on the internet. He's got to choose. She's got to choose. They have to choose what culture they want to take part in on the internet. So they're going to be obese, probably. You hit them with the GLP-1. The GLP-1 will slim them down. The GLP-1 will hold the food in your infant's stomach longer so that your infant is less hungry. Because soon, they will approve GLP-1s for toddlers. So usually, here's the way it works. Your two-year-old eats a chicken nugget and shits it out and wants another chicken nugget. But the GLP-1 will hold the nugget in your two-year-old's stomach longer. And it won't shit. So now, we have two things happening that are good. Shitting no longer is a thing with babies. They're not going to be shitting all the time because they're on GLP-1s. They're going to be very constant. The food is held in their stomach longer so they're less hungry. Problem number one, shitting babies, solved. Problem number two, obese children, solved. This, and they're going to be sitting there and they're going to be on a screen. Listen, I'm pro-family. I'm pro-children. But here's what's going to happen. You're going to have a fat child and it's going to sit in a chair like this. It's going to be on a little cushion and you're going to put a screen in front of it. And then you are going to shoot it up. Stop with the needle of GLP-1. Parents said they're offering screens to their babies and toddlers to help manage the stress of daily life and coping with exhaustion. They mean their stress, right? Not the baby's stress? Yes. Let me read. Let me read that again. Parents said they're offering screens to their babies and toddlers to help manage the stress of daily life and coping with it. Well, here's the thing. I'm pro-family. I'm pro-child. I'm pro-civilization. I believe the happiest people, truly. Are the ones that, you know, the happiest people I've ever met are the ones with children. That doesn't mean that there are, I'm happy I don't have children. So I'm not saying everyone's, whatever. I'm not telling you how to live. That's not the deal. But I'm saying, I believe people should have children. I think it's good. You know, most people are not going to get what they want out of their career. Truly. Some of them will. Most don't. And even the ones that do, there's a certain emptiness to that. Whatever. So I am pro this. But here's the other thing. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a good parent. So I think what people are doing now is they're giving their children the screens because they don't have the energy, the time. One parent described their baby screen time as, quote, a survival skill in my house. A government spokesman told Sky News, parents told us they want clear, practical, and nonjudgmental advice on screen use for under fives. And we work hand in hand with them. Because the parents don't want to be judged for it. And I get it. They go, I got my kids on a screen. I give my kid an iPad and I say, leave me alone for a little while. And they don't want to be judged for that. And I understand parents don't want to be judged for giving their one-year-old an iPad for eight hours. Okay? They don't want to be judged for this. And I think we should stop judging them for it. Because here's the deal. We're heading into this digital world. By the time those kids grow up, we probably will be in a fucking metaverse. So this is what you can fight all these. People fight this. They fight that. They're mad that everybody's on drugs and, you know, on the different pharmaceuticals. They don't like this. They don't like that. I'm not saying that. I don't know anything about the GLP wants. I tried them. I didn't like them. They made me feel weird. I lost passion for life. Truly. But that doesn't mean that other people. And now I have a meal plan of a trainer. I'll do peptides. I'll do other things. The GLP wants for me personally, I felt that there was a, I don't know. I started to lose interest in more than eating. It was weird. And just for me. And that's not everyone's experience. So by the way, go take them. Enjoy them. I don't really care. It doesn't matter to me. I am forgiving them to children. I am. I am forgiving GLP wants to toddlers. And I am forgiving them iPads. For them to watch this show and many others for, for hours on end every day. That's your, there's your kids not going to play soccer. Cut it out. Have a realistic expectation for your child. Having a nonverbal child who just is on an iPad all day that you shoot up once a week with a needle so it doesn't eat. Yes, you're going to do just a quiet child who's constipated from the GLP one. They're on you. Also, here's the thing with people giving GLP ones to their toddlers. You have to remember fiber. You have to remember fiber because they have to move. They, you don't want their stomachs to explode with food. So you have to make sure the food is moving through your two-year-old or three-year-old system while they're on the iPad for eight hours. So you have to make sure they eat fiber so that they shit eventually so that they don't explode on the couch because you don't want to say my toddler got gastroparesis. We forgot the fiber and my toddler's stomach exploded. Yeah. my stomach exploded it was full of chicken nuggets it was full of chicken nuggets and we forgot the fiber so to my toddler didn't shit out the chicken nuggets so it's stomach exploded while i was watching the ipad so these are the ways to be a parent now i'm not an expert i'm not a parent but that's what it's going to be and and we should feel bad for parents i like this article that says parents shouldn't really have to raise their kids they should be able to just give them ipads for the entire day quote this research is a reminder of the pressure so many parents face and and can i make another comment if your toddler on shot day doesn't doesn't want to eat anything you make sure they eat protein you have to give them protein and the day they take their shot this research is a reminder of the pressures so many parents face and our guidance is designed to offer realistic evidence-informed advice that reflects the demands of family life not be a rule book that adds to the pressure i like sky news because here's what sky news is saying hey listen let's get realistic you're not going to raise your children you're going to give them the pad the ipad and so a lot of parents don't know what to do they're they don't know what to do the kids are getting hooked on the ipad and they're not going to raise their children on the screens but here's the question what is that is this a baby losing his mind over a screen yeah what's what does he wants to watch my program what does he mean oh this is just a collection of children to get mad they can't watch youtube yeah all right let's see a little bit of it he's having a uh i want to have the ipad i'm mean what's he what's he trying to watch he wants to see tucker i want tucker i want tucker all right we get it we get it they're mad they're mad they're addicted my godson's addicted to what are you going to do they're addicted to it what are you going to do they're little junkies in your house they want their screens what are you going to deal with them you got a bunch of sticky finger junkies in the house to want their goddamn screens what are you going to do fight that battle you give them the ipad and you're going to give them the ipad and you're going to give them the ipad and you're going to give them the ipad and you're going to give them the ipad and you're going to give them the screen and you let them watch it folks i'm telling you i know it it sounds wrong otherwise it gets really difficult especially if you have multiple kids it's very difficult they don't want to play outside anymore they don't want to play outside none of their friends are outside all of their friends are playing video games they want to play video games so they're going to sit around and play video games what they want to do they don't want to go out you know remember when you were a kid i was like maybe not you you're younger than me but like we would play manhunt you know what i mean you would go out and play things hide and go seek stuff like that they don't do that anymore they don't do that anymore children do not do that they're not interested in that they want to be on the screens that's where they live now and it's hard to imagine a world where that changes so in a world like this you have to i think give your child the screen um it's like eating in aa which i've been a member of or you know or or or or na or things like that it's abstinence it's drugs or alcohol you can't do it go to god you do other things you know but in oa overeaters anonymous which i haven't been in lol um they tell you you gotta eat so it's not it's there's a moderation's not a i mean moderation's essential in that it's like sec essay sexual anonymous so you gotta have sex but you you can't like do whatever things you were doing that are bad whereas it's different like aa it's like you can't can't um it's the phenomenon of great but here's the deal these kids aren't getting away from the screens so they're little junkies screen junkies in their house but you need to teach them a responsible way to use the internet because it's going to be their entire life otherwise mark zuckerberg's going to get them later on and they're going to go fucking insane we gave the internet to a generation of people they are in the process of destroying everything in the world everything in the world by the way they haven't even had it for that long it's not like they've had it for that long but they got it late in life and it scrambled their fucking brain so what you have to do do you know how many people i know who've blocked their own mother do you know how many people have blocked their own mother people i know on facebook or whatever and did have told me i've blocked my mother she i she cannot reach me on the internet if she wants she can call me i have blocked her i do not want to see what she posts i don't want to see what she shares i go your mother go yeah so i know that the knee-jerk reaction is to say get the screens out of the cans of kids well sure but i think realistically it didn't they're not going to be able to exist without having some kind of relationship to a screen so i would say if you're one it's it's not nine hours eight hours a day is too much how long is this show usually about an hour yeah an hour a day is fine for them but again this program give us the view no i don't know i mean what's appropriate for a one-year-old uh uh how many hours should a one-year-old be spending on social on uh on the screen they're not on social media but how many how many hours should a one-year-old be on the screen i mean i think none you think none do you have any children well no i say no more than five i say no whether here's the way i feel you put you if you put your one-year-old somewhere in a house and give it a screen you have to set a timer and then five hours later you have to go back and check on it on the day your two-year-old takes a glp one shot give give it a protein shake because it needs the protein otherwise it'll eat its bones and explain that to the kid say this means that you're going to have to go back and check on it and then five hours later you have to eat your bones so you have to eat protein um hantavirus what is this but you're my mother used to talk about hantavirus to get a mouse in our house and she was right it spreads because of rodent shit and by the way everyone on a cruise let me stop this right now anyone that goes on a cruise anymore you deserve exactly what you get there are so many examples of why you should not get on this floating toilet i mean anybody there's documentaries there's a documentary called poop cruise anybody now i know that you want to go on this all-inclusive thing i know that folks you know when i grew up people used to go to a little inn they'd go to a little bed and breakfast somewhere and yes cruiser for like old people i know gay cruises are fun and you could do molly and stuff on the ocean but there's just too much of a chance for a nightmare to happen on a cruise it's happened so many times how do you even just walk you just walk on a cruise down and go well we hope we're not stranded with hantavirus on the sea so you can go to a shitty made-up town in mexico and buy some fake fucking crap you can buy cocapelli the guy who plays the flute or a dream catcher or some bullshit and now you're we got hantavirus now after this we're gonna watch david muir but after this i want you to pull up there's a doctor on the boat who's giving updates about hantavirus but let's watch david muir hantavirus the race to track a deadly virus outbreak that started on that cruise ship in the atlantic after authorities have now revealed tonight that many passengers got off that cruise ship weeks ago the hantavirus outbreak linked to that cruise ship in the atlantic health officials tracking at least 30 people now who got off the ship two weeks ago traveling to their home countries all over the world including seven americans now back in the u.s three people taken off that ship in just the last 24 hours two of them in serious condition look at this that's how you're leaving the cruise now freeze on a thing people say that is the photo of how you're going to leave the cruise is that what you want i'm telling you stop fucking around with this that photo right there is how you're going to exit the cruise you walk in you're excited about the buffet you leave like that let's continue serious condition three other people have died tonight 18 americans remain on board that ship the world health organization urging calm abc's victor akendo leading us off hanta hanta hanta try to find the doctor who's on the cruise he's on the ship and he's giving updates about hantavirus which my mother was so concerned about we're gonna get she would tell that to my father she would go there's a mouse and he's shitting this house we're all gonna get hantavirus virus. And my dad would, you know, do his. usual you're overreacting we're gonna get hantavirus because of it because there there there was a mouse we had a mouse okay so a swedish doctor who previously worked aboard the luxury cruise ship affected by a deadly hantavirus outbreak said the ship's medical staff were likely operating under quote tremendous pressure with limited resources let's listen to this man now by the way i'm talking to experts i'm not but i'm just calling people that i know that i think know things and they're saying it the human to human hantavirus spread might be overstated and it might it's probably not such a big deal but who knows anyway let's see what this guy says he's from sweden if they are allowed to disembark then the passengers will somehow get home but uh of course i mean no country want to have the hantavirus you in the general population on the ship bomb that ship bomb that ship you that's it you went on a cruise this is the way we should handle cruises now if you go out on a cruise and there's a there's a disease outbreak you're not coming back we've got too many fucking problems in this country for you to come back with hantavirus you're dead say it don't you by the way don't release the information to the public i'm telling the trump administration some of them are you know not too thrilled with me but the ones that still listen i'm telling you right now and i know they'll have no moral problem with this just bomb the ship bomb it and by the way this is the new standard you're allowed to go on a cruise if any if there's any outbreak of any significance i'm not talking about like norovirus i mean like a hantavirus if something happens just like we shot down that plane that was going into the ship and i'm not talking about like a hantavirus i mean like a hantavirus we thought was going to go to the white house and then we made up that story let's roll that's fake we shot it down just like that happened let's roll fake i think and i believe but anyway we need to do this with cruise ships of sick people we need to get rid of them and then make up a story that the boat was attacked by terrorists or something like that this is okay let's let's get get this guy what is this passenger on board the cruise ship that has suspected hantavirus outbreak where three people have died and five to six people are sick cries out as a ship remains near cape verde hantavirus is rare go up sorry hantavirus is rare but serious illness usually spread through contact with rodents or their waste let's listen to this guy he's making a uh his hantavirus statement here he is i normally wouldn't make a video like this but i feel like i need to say something so i wrote a on board the mv hantius and what's happening right now is very real for all of us here we're not just a story all right we're not just hold on hold on hold on who told you to get on a boat no i'm dead serious i went on the impractical jokers cruise once to do stand-up comedy i walked off that boat i said i'll kill myself i'm dead serious i went on the impractical jokers cruise once to do stand-up comedy there's no amount of money you could offer me to do a cruise gig ever again in my life i said i'll kill myself if i have to get on another cruise i will take my own life i will gladly take my own life when this guy goes we're not just a story we know you're not just if we thought you it was just a story we'd let you dock we know it's not just a story that's why you're not docking with hantavirus we got too many fucking problems we got ai we got we got iran we got all this shit going on we got aliens we got the price of oil and then you think you're gonna bring a hantavirus no we're not just a story no you're not and i feel bad for this person and i'm not saying that this person doesn't deserve empathy or sympathy i'm simply saying that the boat he's on should be struck with a missile and they should burn alive with their choices and i'm not saying they don't deserve sympathy or empathy i'm saying you got on the boat you should be killed i'm serious tonight i've had enough these people they bring these rare outbreaks from the buffet of a cruise ship with rodent shit and then they're mad that they can't go waltz around fucking macy's you live with your choice sit in your bunk on the cruise and get ready to get struck with a missile you're dead we're going to kill you you're dead hantavirus will not kill you the u.s government will i'm telling you i'm sour you know trump his decisions i don't like i've soured on him i thought he had some real good points early on but i'll tell you this if he blows up this ship if he blows up this hantavirus ship i'm back let's listen to the rest of his statement because by the way i am not i am serious when i say that you can't take a cruise and then bring like a plague back that's not the way it works but again let's start him from the beginning please here uh this guy is on the hantavirus cruise ship hantavirus friend of the show let's listen to this gentleman i normally wouldn't make a video like this but i feel like i need to say something so i wrote a few things down can you stop this for a minute why does everyone feel they need to say something he might he feels like he's i know he feels like he's dying and it's sad and it's horrible and i and you go i feel like i need to say something and then i guarantee you i'm somehow i get plain like watch i i don't know if he's gonna do this but i feel like this is gonna get this gonna be very like it's not gonna take it here's the what he should say are you ready hey um we're pretty fucked and there's hantavirus here it's a real thing it's not just a story and we realize that it is a very dangerous outbreak and you know even with the best tracking of people and everything it's gonna be it's gonna it's gonna pose an unnecessary risk to human civilization we don't need another pandemic we haven't even recovered from the last one so i've made this video to ask the government to strike our boat with a missile and blow us up instantaneously and kill us instantly so that the rest of the world can live in peace and peace and peace and peace and peace and peace and peace and peace and love you dad but let's see what he actually says that's the selfless thing the selfless thing for all these people to do on this hantavirus chip is to take their own life selflessly selflessly they should all walk the fucking plank no they should walk the plank i've had enough of this now an old school pirate the trump administration with my full support i'll be back jd van stop telling people you don't like me because i got a big mouth by the way we'll get that we'll get joe kent in there how about that i'm kidding but he does have that jaw um hantavirus they walk the plank is it my fault this guy goes to the iran war i'm the problem they they make them walk the plank now he's freaking out about ai you see this jd vance he's freaking out about ai he's all upset about the ai who's doing the ai he's doing that they they they have a plank and they make them walk the plank and god i loved pirate stuff as a kid and you make them walk the plank and they get and at the end of the plank they get to say something they get to say something like hi i this sucks i feel really scared i don't know what comes after this the government you said there god and aliens created all of us that's the last thing i read in my bunk before i was made to walk the plank because this boat has a hantavirus outbreak that was kind of disturbing that that's the last thing i read but i shouldn't have gone on facebook that was my fault i went on med i went on facebook there was an article that there was no god we're all created by aliens so i guess this is literally the last thing i'll ever do um but i completely understand and and agree with our government's decision to make everyone on this ship walk the plank instead of posing an unnecessary risk before the summer months where we hope we see a little spike in spending and the economy repair itself uh by people buying martin's potato rolls uh burgers dogs etc you know how it is a couple of vacations anyway let's watch his statement by the way this seems insensitive it's actually not and your child if you think it is continue i am currently on board the mv hondias yes and what's happening right now is very real for all of us here i get it we're not just a story totally we're not lives okay people yes people with families okay with lives okay with people waiting for us at home i know there's a lot of uncertainty and that's the hardest part all we want right now is to feel safe to have clarity and to get home so if you're seeing coverage about this just remember that there are real people behind it and that this isn't something happening well somewhere far away It's happening to us Right now I'll share more when I can What does the statement even mean? I know it's a real boat With real people with hantavirus I don't think it's AI What's he saying? Does he want Does he think I'm gonna And I feel bad for him And his trembling voice He's sad But does he think I'm gonna say Come back With the hantavirus? I just did a photo shoot And I look good in some of these I just interviewed the cast Of Selling Sunset I don't want hantavirus That's a non-statement statement We're real people We exist We're on a boat We have hantavirus We get it We know you're real people We know you have families And people that love you That's the problem We don't want you infecting them With fucking hantavirus We don't want you infecting them Here's what I say if I'm him Hi, I'm on this boat I don't have hantavirus I'll kill everyone on the boat Then test me And let me come home I'm willing to kill everyone on this boat Are you reading anything about this hantavirus? Are there any more statements From people on the boat With the hantavirus? Is he the only one who's Live streaming here from the boat? People just can't Stop with the screens No matter what, huh? I know it's a boat I know it's real I know you're actual people I know it's horrible I feel bad for you My heart goes out to you I don't want hantavirus There's a lot of things in my life I want I don't want hantavirus I might want to live in Rhode Island at some point In the Newport area I like that I like seafood I think it's beautiful But I don't want hantavirus So like I understand It's such a weird non-statement statement We're people We exist We have hantavirus It's like, bro You chose to get on this boat And now you have hantavirus I feel bad about this What are you reading so intently over there? Just an article from another Is there any other statement From anyone on the boat? Or is this the only guy That's chosen to update us On the boat here? I'm pulling up one right now Pull it up Just because I want to give everyone A fair shake And I want to hear from people On this boat Because I I don't know You know Is this another person This is another person Who's decided And I Listen, man I feel bad for people With hantavirus We just can't let He said they're not being well informed The people on the hantavirus This is going to be like Flight 93 here I'm telling you this right now We got to We got to We got to make up something Let's roll Okay This is somebody on the Is he on the boat? I think so, yeah All right All right He seems He looks pale Don't let him off He looks real pale Of Northwest Africa It's very scary Because It was nothing that We were ready for On 12th of April We had the first casualty Ruhi Kennett Was on the ship's first leg For most of April And recorded the moments The captain announced The first death This is my subunit To inform you That we're going to One of our passengers Suddenly passed away last night Why did you decide to record The captain's announcement? I felt something odd It turns out We were not well informed The cruise operator says At the time of this announcement There was no evidence of a virus Or contagion on the ship Three people died Following this outbreak Now confirmed by the World Health Organization To be the anti-strain of hantavirus In rare instances It can spread from person to person Health officials are now tasked With contact tracing With one passenger In intensive care in South Africa Another hospitalized After returning to Switzerland Dr. Jason Zucker Is an infectious disease physician This is not as easy to spread As things like COVID But I wouldn't be overly concerned Right now if you have travel planned Not easy to spread But still a big fear out there Camila joins us now Camila, what happens to the people Still on board this cruise ship Once they dock at the Canary Islands? Yeah, Tom, so the ship is still days away Spain's health ministry says They will get medical screenings And then go to their home countries What? No, stop No, no, no, no Camila No, no, no, no, no They won't No, no, no, no, no They won't They were on that boat They are to be killed Camila Listen I am anti-killing We know this I've had a strong record of that The people on that boat Need to be hunted down By special operations teams And killed in a Jason Bourne style fashion Where it looks like an accident Make it look like an accident Everyone on that boat Has to be followed And gotten rid of And it's got to be quick And it's got to look like an accident And it's got to look like an accident Who would get on a cruise again, by the way? The captain's like We have a Last night A passenger Sadly passed away Cruises become nightmares so quickly Let's play that Let's play that again The captain's announcement The captain announced the first death This is my sad beauty To inform you That one of our passengers Sadly passed away last night Yeah I mean, folks If you have cruise tickets And you're going on a cruise I don't know what to tell you I'm telling you right I know it's a part of the economy And people will always do it, by the way And I have no power I'm not affecting anything I'm just saying this To my listeners To my, you know, people that You know, care about anything I say Stop it Stop it How many more How much How many more incidents How much more evidence Do you people need? Do you really want to be standing there In the middle of the night? Off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope Wherever the fuck these people are in Africa Or whatever And the guy comes out and goes By the way, everybody's going down With hantavirus on this And by the way I don't know if this shows up immediately So I'm just saying And I'm not I'm not It sounds like I'm being insensitive I'm trying to save humanity The entire boat has to be blown to smithereens It has to be blown to smithereens In the middle of the sea Sorry I don't want I don't want it I don't want it to be the case But I'm not comfortable This is what scares me People, I ran What if I ran against a nuke? What the fuck is it? Bomb them We don't bomb the things we should bomb Attack this shit Attack this shit I mean Does it set Do I Literally, be honest with me Do I sound heartless? Maybe a little bit But I don't know It's for the good of all It's for the good of all It's for the good of all Bomb the ship Bomb the ship We're not just We're people We're real We have families And you're not allowed to see them You've been exposed We know you're real people You're not allowed to see your families You've been exposed And we have fighter jets on the way We have drones on the way We don't even need jets Drone it Drone it now Or if the aliens If the aliens want to get involved here and help And supposedly they have bases under the water Says Tim Burchett Come up and help us here If these aliens can do anything for us Come up from your underwater bases And sink this hantavirus ship Now! Well, there it is You know, I I don't know Of course, my heart goes out to everyone on that ship And I'm Incredibly saddened by these events And I completely am Horrified Like many fellow citizens And I do believe that the compassionate Immediate Legitimate Responsible Course of action Is going to be Is to blow that ship up In the middle of the sea With everyone on it And we should tell them Five minutes Before we do that We say We're going to have to blow the ship up Let them make their videos Give them ten minutes to make their videos And put them out Let everybody be able to take Their phone out And put them out During the last ten minutes of their life And make a video That they can upload To the social media platform of their choice In a deep rage I can't believe the government's doing this to us They're abandoning us This is inhumane Get it all out Get it all out Get it all out Upload it Good Wi-Fi Let them do it Let them do it And then blow them off the face of the earth Good night

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The host had a fun, theatrical interview with the *Selling Sunset* cast dressed as John Wayne Gacy, highlighting creative and absurd elements of the event.
  2. The host critiques the current state of social media and the metaverse, arguing that platforms like Facebook and Meta have exploited users, leading to mental health issues and societal decay, especially among older generations.
  3. The host expresses concern about screen time in early childhood, noting rising usage in toddlers and linking it to developmental risks, while advocating for a realistic, compassionate approach to parenting in a digital world.

Summary:

The host reflects on a humorous and visually striking Netflix Is A Joke Festival appearance, where the *Selling Sunset* cast appeared in elaborate, theatrical costumes. The event combined satire and creativity, featuring mock scenarios like a food delivery robot and a "poor person" choir, emphasizing the entertainment value of absurdity. However, the host shifts to a critical tone, questioning the cultural impact of social media and digital platforms.

He argues that Meta and Facebook have created toxic environments, contributing to mental health crises—particularly among aging users who are trapped in online rage and misinformation. He observes that older generations now spend their final years on Facebook, engaging in irrational debates, which he sees as a form of digital psychosis. The host also raises alarm over early childhood screen exposure, noting that over two-thirds of children under two use screens for extensive hours.

Despite concerns about obesity, sleep issues, and language delay, he acknowledges that parents feel pressured to give screens to children as a coping mechanism. He proposes a balanced, realistic approach to digital use, emphasizing parental responsibility and the need for moderation, while warning that without intervention, the current trajectory risks deepening societal and psychological harm. The segment ends with a candid, unsettling reflection on how technology has reshaped human connection—especially in the face of real health threats like hantavirus, which the host uses as a metaphor for the dangers of unchecked digital exposure and misinformation.

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The photo shoot was a fun, creative event where the host dressed in a John Wayne Gacy-inspired drag costume, and high-level gay makeup artists and photographers collaborated to create a unique and artistic experience.

No, the cast seemed unaware of the show's theatrical nature and the jokes being made, with one woman admitting she grew up in Paris, not realizing the context of the interview.

The host joked that a good real estate agent is a 'liar,' using an example where a broker claimed to have been denied entry to a home due to its security — which the host suspected was fabricated to highlight the profession's persuasive nature.

The host predicts the decline because owning a home has become increasingly difficult, reducing the escapism and appeal of shows centered around wealthy women selling luxurious properties.

The host criticizes Meta for its algorithms that promote negativity and division, which he believes have contributed to anxiety, depression, and even psychosis, especially in older users.

The host notes that many children under two are spending long hours on screens, which he links to developmental issues like language delay, obesity, and behavioral problems, though he also acknowledges parents' struggles to manage screen time.

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