Episode 283 – Virtually Distracted

Will America really be distracted into a dystopia? Join Bobby and Jordan for this discussion and many others and also Maude and Gladys.

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Publius May 14, 2026

Rand has sent things to the DOJ, so it was up them to prosecute Fauci.

Troy is one of the great movies from the 2000s. I need to go back and reread the iliad.

The Fellowship of the Ring is 25 years old. The CGI still holds up today.

All it takes is one more generation (the newborns now), and then the great movies of the 1980s-90s will be forgotten. The good movies from the 1950s-60s have basically been forgotten for a long time.

Blu-rays can be retconned. Look at the original Star Wars. Han shot first, but in the blu-ray, Lucas decided to make them fire at the same time.

I don’t recall the Book of Mormon being mentioned in priesthood yesterday, which was the first time I had gone in probably 5 or 6 years. It was just going over President Oaks’s latest conference talk. But in sacrament meeting, the stripling warriors were due to Mother’s Day.

It’s crony capitalism, where private corporations and government collude to create monopolies and to trample on our liberties.

Yeah, the church is building a 15 minute city down in the south somewhere.

Sounds like Jordan has been on LDS AVOW forums.

We already have a bill that requires vehicle manufacturers to have surveillance cameras inside of all new vehicles by 2027. It’s not just a kill switch. Massie tried to remove it from whatever mass bill, but most Republicans are bought off.

Can’t share the original post by Insurrection Barbie since I’ve been blocked, but here we see the establishment’s paid shills, like her, going after Massie. Anyone, and I mean any and everyone, going after Massie should never ever be trusted:
https://x.com/i/status/2054918744632103015

Flock cameras are on the rise and are what China uses for their social credit score:
https://x.com/i/status/2053853458592391338

The financial hardships of Americans don’t matter to Trump because making the deal matters most:
https://x.com/i/status/2054275808554782735

Israel has anti-infiltration laws, forcing them on white nations (replacement theory):
https://x.com/i/status/2054298826995900733

The Church hosting some migration assistance gala thing:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1N7b2ejWJA/

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Episode 283 – Virtually Distracted

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