Episode Transcript: #959 - Mick West
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And we're live ladies and gentlemen. We're live sporting the latest round earth shill.
We're just coming out with it. Round earth shill t-shirts. Both Jamie and I get $3 per
month from the federal government to tell you that the world is round. And Mick West
is a big part of it all. He is one of the main shills that tells everybody that he
knows that he has a whole website dedicated to arguing against people to
think the world is flat. Yeah, the differences that don't get paid for it.
Come on, stop lying. I know you're getting $3.50 per month.
Yeah. Oh, which I did. I had to pay for my web hosting and it's coming out of my pocket
and nobody pays me anything. See, Mick West is serious. He's not joking around with us.
This has got to be one of the most bizarre trends. And Jamie, I think you said it first
that you thought it was originally a troll. You thought that they were fucking around like...
I still think some people are. Yeah, for sure. But I feel like it started out with like 4chan
or something like that. Or maybe you read it. These crazy kids, these wacky kids, they decided
to start trolling saying that the earth is round or the earth is flat.
That's some of it. A lot of it is just people who, they actually believe it.
Yes. Oh, there's a lot that actually believe it. There are people that actually believe it.
And then there's people who see that there's people out there who believe it. And then they
start like kind of egging these people on. Yes. And then it becomes really, really hard to tell
where the dividing line is. Who's actually trolling and who's actually a genuine true believer?
There are absolutely a lot of true believers. But there's also a lot of people with like little