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diff --git a/wiki/transcripts/the-importance-of-heroes-part-3.md b/wiki/transcripts/the-importance-of-heroes-part-3.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..16515f5e @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +--- +title: "Transcript: The Importance Of Heroes | Part 3" +type: transcript +episode: the-importance-of-heroes-part-3 +generated: true +date: 2026-02-04 +audio: "https://feeds.fountain.fm/R8scBF2Wiykm0YVldsHQ/items/DVRhZvi9IjXWBmoE93AB/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---38728cb3-2b57-4657-91f2-72dbea7bed45.mp3" +duration: "9:48" +sources: + - raw/episodes/the-importance-of-heroes-part-3/bundle.json +--- + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-7">0:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-7" data-t="7">Insane,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-8" data-t="8">deranged,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-10" data-t="10">crazy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-11" data-t="11">In the hands of a tyrant, these aren't mere words,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-14" data-t="14">not impartial descriptions of thought or behavior.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-18" data-t="18">They're weapons.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-19">0:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-19" data-t="19">After all, there's nothing more damning, more completely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-23" data-t="23">dehumanizing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-24" data-t="24">than to call someone crazy.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-28">0:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-28" data-t="28">The conspiracy theory thing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-30" data-t="30">it I I'm just utterly shocked that they could try to make this it's it's you know how people wear tinfoil hats? I think they're wearing tinfoil condoms. I I'm not sure because they seem so crazy. There's always been crazy conspiracy theories. I think we've all got uncles over the Thanksgiving</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-46">0:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-46" data-t="46">dinner who's told us crazy stuff.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-48">0:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-48" data-t="48">It started with the nine eleven</span> <span class="cue" id="t-50" data-t="50">truthers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-52" data-t="52">Crazy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">Then the birthers.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-55">0:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-55" data-t="55">Crazy. That the Bush administration</span> <span class="cue" id="t-58" data-t="58">could perhaps have had something to do with nine eleven. Facilitating nine eleven, encouraging the actions that took place on nine eleven.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-66" data-t="66">That is insane.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-68" data-t="68">That is literally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-69" data-t="69">insane.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-71">1:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-71" data-t="71">But sometimes crazy isn't just a figure of speech,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">sometimes it's a diagnosis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-77" data-t="77">And as long as there have been those willing to diagnose others as insane,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-81" data-t="81">there have been those who have sought to use this as a label for their political enemies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-86" data-t="86">And why not?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-87" data-t="87">Once diagnosed as mentally unsound,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-90">1:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-90" data-t="90">political dissidents could be treated as we have always treated those we dismiss as crazy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-95" data-t="95">They could be locked away, drugged and subjected to all manner of torture in the name of treatment.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">Now the idea that would be rulers would cynically use the lunatic cudgel against their political enemies is bad enough,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-109" data-t="109">but what if the reality</span> <span class="cue" id="t-111" data-t="111">is the complete opposite of what is commonly understood?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-115" data-t="115">What if the delusions of the dissidents</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-117">1:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-117" data-t="117">are in fact real?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-119" data-t="119">What if their paranoid fantasies are not fantasies at all?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-123" data-t="123">What if their inability to fit in is not a sign that they are sick,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-127" data-t="127">but the society they are protesting against</span> <span class="cue" id="t-130" data-t="130">is sick. In other words,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-132" data-t="132">what if it's not the political dissidents who are crazy,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-134">2:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">but the politicians?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-138" data-t="138">You're about to learn about the dark history and the even more disturbing present of political psychopathy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-145" data-t="145">Prepare yourself for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-147" data-t="147">descent into madness.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-150" data-t="150">This is The Quarter Report.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-169">2:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-169" data-t="169">Do you think you're the devil himself?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-172">2:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-172" data-t="172">No. But I I do have a good mirror.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-175" data-t="175">It's a serious question. I'm sorry to hear that. Think you're the devil himself?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-179">2:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-179" data-t="179">I don't know. Why would you say that? Because you have all the attributes. You're you're incredibly smart. You remember the devil is Somebody knows what? The the the devil's brilliant. Did you read Milton's you read Milton's Paradise Lost. No. The devil scares me. This Satan is Satan is the is the he he he is the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-197">3:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-197" data-t="197">he is at</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-198">3:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-198" data-t="198">the number one or two archangel.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">And the reason</span> <span class="cue" id="t-202" data-t="202">he goes to hell and needs to rebel is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-205" data-t="205">because he can't be the top guy. Mhmm. And his thing is I'd rather I'd rather reign in hell than serve in hell. I saw that in a movie.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-215">3:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-215" data-t="215">They are the villains that rule the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">But they are losing their control.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-229" data-t="229">You have to fight in order to survive.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-235" data-t="235">You have to fight to feel</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-242">4:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-242" data-t="242">alive.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-257">4:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-257" data-t="257">There's a coldness</span> <span class="cue" id="t-259" data-t="259">in their eyes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-261" data-t="261">They enjoy their victims'</span> <span class="cue" id="t-263" data-t="263">cries.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-265" data-t="265">Darkness fills their souls.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-270" data-t="270">They dominate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-271">4:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-271" data-t="271">to control.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-287" data-t="287">They are the villains who rule</span> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-292" data-t="292">Slaughtering the ones in their way.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-295" data-t="295">Threatened by those who disobey.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-299" data-t="299">They'll burn it to the ground</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-302">5:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-302" data-t="302">in order to wear a crown.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-361">6:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-361" data-t="361">They are the villains who rule</span> <span class="cue" id="t-364" data-t="364">the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-366" data-t="366">You are caught in their game.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-369" data-t="369">They try to extinguish your flame.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-372" data-t="372">Trapped in a nightmare you can't escape.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-376" data-t="376">I know that your heart aches.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-383">6:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-383" data-t="383">Aches.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-403" data-t="403">Woah. Woah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-405" data-t="405">They are the feelings that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-421" data-t="421">alive.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-466">7:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-466" data-t="466">Welcome, folks,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-468" data-t="468">to the hero series. Today, I'm gonna be focusing on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-473" data-t="473">villains.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-475" data-t="475">What a week it's been for villains. The</span> <span class="cue" id="t-479" data-t="479">Epstein stuff</span> <span class="cue" id="t-481" data-t="481">blown up. Epstein didn't kill himself.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-484">8:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-484" data-t="484">The mainstream</span> <span class="cue" id="t-486" data-t="486">meme, people are talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-488" data-t="488">how Epstein is Satoshi.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">People are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-493" data-t="493">crashing out because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-496" data-t="496">people in the Bitcoin ecosystem have been named</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-500">8:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-500" data-t="500">in Epstein files.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-503" data-t="503">You know, there's this thing that happens,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-505" data-t="505">and I I think we're all impacted</span> <span class="cue" id="t-508" data-t="508">by it. Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-510" data-t="510">Which is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-512" data-t="512">we may know something.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-515">8:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-515" data-t="515">We may believe something.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-519" data-t="519">But the second that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-521" data-t="521">that thing that we know or we believe</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">is is validated,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-528" data-t="528">it kinda sinks in a little bit deeper. Like, it's it's one thing to know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-533" data-t="533">that the entire ruling class is a bunch of satanic pedos,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-538">8:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-538" data-t="538">and it's a entirely different thing to have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-544" data-t="544">the mainstream discussion in our culture</span> <span class="cue" id="t-547" data-t="547">be about that subject</span> <span class="cue" id="t-551" data-t="551">for whatever reason?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-553" data-t="553">Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">there's just there's a ton of power</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-557">9:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-557" data-t="557">that the system has,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-559" data-t="559">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-560" data-t="560">momentum</span> <span class="cue" id="t-561" data-t="561">has, that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-563" data-t="563">just the the the general</span> <span class="cue" id="t-566" data-t="566">consciousness</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-567">9:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-567" data-t="567">of our culture of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-570" data-t="570">humanity in general</span> <span class="cue" id="t-571" data-t="571">has. And then it is because we're ultimately</span> <span class="cue" id="t-577" data-t="577">relational beings. We're we're empathetic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-579" data-t="579">We're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">impacted</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-582">9:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-582" data-t="582">by people around us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-586" data-t="586">or the people in our lives.</span></span></p>