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- Episode 33: The First Amendment lecture for morons. Donald, Rudy, and Sean. Listen up.
You are not allowed to yell, "Rudy!" in a courtroom because it will cause a panic about the impossibly low level of legal discourse that is about to take place... and no Donald, your rights have not been violated.
14 min - Episode 32: What all Trump supporters really have in common.
I don't care why they joined the zombie mob of imbeciles that killed a Capitol Police Officer. I don't care what motivates people to support men like Donald Trump, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, El Chapo, or Carlo Gambino. I only care that they supported them. I'm finished trying to understand them. I'm unsure if that makes me a kind of bigot. Hear me out and decide for yourself.
23 min - Episode 31: A man who thinks like a serial killer and the people who admire him.
What kind of a man would deliberately stop COVID 19 testing to hide the actual number of people infected? What kind of a man would let the carriers roam the streets infecting and potentially killing innocent people? What kind of a man would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens to increase his chances of winning an election? And what kind of person would support such a man?
16 min - 20 min
- 16 min
- Episode 28: QAnon. Mass insanity today and yesterday
What is it that makes people believe stories that would make lemmings walk away from the cliffs and belly laugh? How is it possible for so many people to become infected with the disease of willful stupidity? Henry David Thoreau may have given us an explanation.
17 min - 12 min
- 17 min
- Episode 25: The joys of schadenfreude. Did you want to fist-bump when you heard Trump had COVID?
Should we feel empathy and compassion for a man who delights in cruelty and indecency? I don't think so.
12 min - Episode 24: The Tao of Donald. A brief explanation of the phrase, "Let me be honest with you."
How Donald Trump turned honesty and reason into culturally defunct concepts and ushered in the American Dark Ages.
11 min
About Wait... What?
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Wait... What!? is an often humorous, sometimes ferocious, but always entertaining romp through the bizarre memes that inspire mass lunacy, religious fanaticism, and ideological intransigency where…
basic reasoning is overwhelmed by willful ignorance. Why do people believe and refuse to ask simple questions about the nonsense they are fed by corrupt politicians, unscrupulous religious predators, and ordinary scam artists? What is the psychological mechanism that makes masses of people behave in ways that would make lemmings point and chortle? When X-files hero Fox Mulder said, "I want to believe" he was unknowingly speaking for religious fundamentalists, conspiracy theorists, UFO true believers, nut-case truthers, and ideologues who run the gamut from skin heads to Antifa -- people for whom there can be no other side of a complicated issue. What causes these people to willingly embrace nonsense -- ideas and claims that make little or no sense -- and shut out facts and reason as if they repositories of the Corona virus? What strange predisposition keeps them from putting both hands in the stop gesture and saying, Wait... What? Howard Siegel takes us on a voyage to a world where objective, reasoned thinking has been replaced with the powerful appeal of irrationally simple answers. Howard Siegel is an attorney, author, former MSNBC legal analyst, and hapless, sysphysian golfer. He has appeared on 60 Minuets, Larry King Live, The Today Show, NPR, and PBS. He lives in South Carolina where he is a practicing heathen, heretic, and herbivore.