516 - Jane Doe, Russian Plague, & The Black Epstein

Tim Dillon (0:00)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Tim Dillon Show, live from Miami, the city of the future, Miami, very kind of the people here at The Wave, no?

SPEAKER_2 (0:13)

The Move.

Tim Dillon (0:14)

The Move podcast studio. I thought it was The Wave, but was it ever The Wave? No, it's always been The Move? I think so.

Well, I'm very happy that the people at The Move, because we're on The Move, aren't we, everybody?

SPEAKER_2 (0:31)

All the creators, we're all on The Move.

Tim Dillon (0:34)

And this is a great place. You wanna come down here, you got something to say, you come right in here. You come right in here and you talk in Miami at The Move podcast studio. And you tell your wife, I'm going to The Move and I'm gonna go make us a couple of bucks. I got things to say. And she'll be supportive of that. Or you got to get rid of her. Because the reality is you have things to say and more people need to hear them.

That's just a fact. Truly, that's just a fact. And I find marriages work best. I'm not married and my parents were divorced. I don't have a ton of experience in seeing successful marriages. But I think the ones that are successful, they allow each other space to pursue their own passions and your passion might be coming down to the MOVE studio here in Miami and just going off and talking about things that are happening. And there's so much happening and so much of it is good. Like this Russian mnemonic plague is seemingly pretty contained.

I don't love Putin's face here because it looks a little... He looks more worried, but I've been cautiously optimistic about this one. It's in Siberia. This is what you want. When there's an outbreak, you want it in Siberia, not China. The last one was in China. China's got a lot of people. There's a lot of people in China.

Real communicable situation, wet markets, people are chopping things up, although it probably didn't emerge there. We know that, whatever. The point is that it's more transmissible in China because they have all these densely populated urban areas. Siberia, cold, not a lot going on, not a lot of people.

Daria Shapova is one of the people who sadly fell ill after accidentally dropping and breaking a test tube containing plague bacteria, just like a movie, just like a literal movie. She holds the tube, it breaks, she knows it's over. Immediately she knows it's over, just like a movie.

She fell ill. And take a look at his face. He doesn't look, that doesn't look, that doesn't look great. But I'm heartened by the fact that we've only had three deaths, I think. I think two or three deaths, and this is pretty contained, they've got a bunch of people under observation, a bunch of hospitals under observation. This isn't it. This is not how we're all going out. Don't worry about it. I know all my friends call me now, they're all excited. This is it. It's not it. You're gonna be here for a while. This, you're not getting off this easy. Everyone thinks they're gonna get off this easy with a Siberian plague that's gonna wipe everyone out. No, you're going to live through more of whatever we're going through. You're not getting out. It's not gonna be a Siberian plague. You're gonna... Now, my suggestion to governments around the world, and they're not gonna listen, stop manipulating these viruses to make into bio weapons. I'm asking them, and I don't think they're gonna listen, but I am asking all of the governments, including our own, to stop manipulating these viruses, stop resurrecting pathogens from a time gone by, stop resurrecting the killers of yesteryear, stop doing that, and let's focus on curing the diseases we have now.

That's what the medical community should be doing. They should be focusing on curing the diseases that exist now, not saying, hey, what was that one from the 1400s with the rats? Let's get that one going.

SPEAKER_2 (4:45)

We don't need that.

Tim Dillon (4:46)

We don't need that. We got nukes.

We've got nukes, we've got drones, we've got AI, we've got palatial spiders, whatever we got. You're gonna have robots. You don't need disease. Why do we need diseases? There are so many ways we can kill each other. So many ways, and we've invested tons of money into all of those ways. We don't need bio warfare. That's what we don't need.

SPEAKER_2 (5:12)

We've got enough.

Tim Dillon (5:13)

We've got enough on the docket. There's enough. We've got a full slate of killing machines at the ready. We just don't need bio warfare.