Plandemic (GAM248)

Noah Lugeons

Eli Bosnick

***Plandemic*** is the half hour excerpt from an upcoming documentary\* in which a world leading virologist\* tells the true\* story of how Anthony Fauci and the Deep State ruined her life.\*\*\*

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another terrible movie, because it turns out when they're bad enough, movies can *kill* people.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you love *Loose Change*, but you wish it was filmed from inside the Twin Towers, you will *love* this movie. Look, we've watched a lot of crazy bullshit documentaries (we watched *Vaxxed*, we watched "Aliens Aren't Real, They're Demons Trying to Get You to do Butt Stuff"), but we have never before watched a documentary where the subject of their lie was something you could drive from your house and get yourself killed by. This is like if they made a moon denial documentary from the fucking *moon*.

### **Best Worst**

* Noah: ...slick production.
* Eli: ...evil plan.
* Marsh: ... understanding of vaccines.

### **Notes**

* Check out Marsh on Twitter, *Be Reasonable*, *Skeptics with a K*, and at The Good Thinking Society or Skeptic of the Year.
* The website (now pared down to essentially nothing) originally featured a lengthy "About the Film" section, and suggested users download the vignette and upload it themselves: "In an effort to bypass the gatekeepers of free speech, we invite you to download this interview by simply clicking the button below, then uploading directly to all of your favorite platforms."
* *Medium* currently features a transcript of the vignette, and *Business Insider* features a point-by-point takedown.

### **Jokes**

* Well yeah, so they've misspelled the word "copyright." They said "We used copyrighted"... well, it says "on-cpyrighted" and they've spelt "copyrighted" wrong. And then I thought, "What is 'on-copyrighted'?", and I realized they've also spelt "non" wrong—what they mean is "non-copyrighted" and they've managed to fuck up *both* of those words. They've got a very low win percentage even per word of the first sentence. It's amazing. [Noah: Again, we're talking just one run through spellcheck and this is—you know—we hit the "slickly" that we're going for here.] [Eli: Now, to be fair, it is the least *deadly* mistake that they will make in their movie, so credit where credit is due.] [Noah: That's true, but again… it's like "take medical advice from a YouTube video that couldn't make it through the first written or spoken sentence without a glaring error that they didn't notice."] Not even my favorite spelling mistake in the film—it's not even my favorite—and it's not often you get that with films, that you get to pick out which spelling mistake is your favorite.
* And then Mikki fucking—the filmmaker (I'm sorry, the "filmaker")— says "Wow, you are so selfless to risk your freedom for the good of humanity with *no* ulterior motives whatsoever; apropos of nothing, here's what the cover of your new book looks like." [Eli: Yes! I honestly almost went with "Best Worst Intro of a Book." Right? So, "Wow, you are a hero and to sacrifice all that—anyways, let's take a look at your new movie."] And by the way, you want to know the saddest part of this fucking movie? That book was number one on Amazon about a week ago; it still—it just dropped out of the top ten *today*. [Marsh: Oh God. And so... this is—the book is interesting you know—she's got a book out about all of this. The co-author of the book, first of all, is a guy called "Kent Heckenlively", which sounds like a name that Heath gave himself during an ad read for dick pills. "Kent Heckenlively" is definitely one of Heath's characters for the dick pill ads. And o, you start looking at the characters she's knocking around with, this virologist who's super knowledgeable about immunology, and Kent Heckenlively is currently banned from Australia because he called for a ban on all vaccinations, and he calls himself "the number one—the world's number one anti-vaxxer." And that's her co-author. You think, "Who else is involved in this book?" Well, the forward... the forward to the book is by Robert F. Kennedy, where the "F" stands for "Fucking Idiot." He's written the foreword to the book. She's got a cover quote from Luke Montagne, who won a Nobel Laureate for his work on HIV, but his other work includes essentially justifying the water memory theory of homeopathy. So, her book is basically like *The Avengers* for batshit: it's like she's found all of the batshit heroes from around the extended universe and brought them together to fight a pandemic—fight for a pandemic.] (24:16)

### **Interstitials**

* MarshDidCovid.com (6:38)
* Evil Fauci (33:04)
* Coronavirus Did It! (1:02:51)

### **Tropes**

* Boss in a Bit Part
* ~~Christians~~ Woonatics Don't Know How the World Works
* Pearl Clutching
* Coincidence Treated like a ~~Miracle~~ Conspiracy
* Computers/Technology is Evil
* Reprehensible Moral Message
* This is YOUR Movie!
* Wake Up! [Sheeple]

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Film on Archive.org [Don't watch this bullshit.]
* IMDB

### **Ad Reads**

* Quip: "That *does* sound easier than paying Noah to slap me." (1:33:58)
* ForHims: Eli Antics (1:35:32)