This week's episode of the Wild Card Podcast is brought to you by the all-new Wild Card Studio. The new Wild Card Studio! Wow! I can't believe you found this place, Ron!
It's great! Thanks! I was just driving past it and saw the for sale sign. We really lucked into it.
Lucky is right! This place must cost the fortune! Not as much as you might think. Besides, we'll manage.
We always do. Does it bother you guys that so many people were murdered here? Doesn't bother me! Whether it was built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
They prefer to be called Hindu, Jarrid. Or that this place used to be a funeral home in the 70s? Funeral or not? It's a home!
Home! Home! Or that it was a former asylum for the criminally insane. We should feel right at home.
Or that it was an old folks home but closed down to the elderly abuse? It's all in the past. We can't change that. Or that they used to film the 700 club here?
This place is evil, I tell ya. Not for long! I called a priest! He should be here any minute to bless the house!
There was an old man in town that told me about a red-eyed demon pig that haunted this place. What will the priest do about that, Ron? Ron? Where did it go?
No idea. I'm gonna go out and chop firewood. It's freezing in here. I'll get it!
Hello? I believe you're expecting me. I'm Father Merrin. Where is the child?
He might be chasing a ghost pig. The possessed child is chasing a ghost pig. Ron's not possessed. What child?
Is this the metneal home? I'm sorry. You're looking for a future Ron as hope. You take a left at the end of the driveway and continue on for about six months.
My mistake. Thanks so much. That was weird. Oh, what's that smell?
It's like lavender and... well... poop. My bad.
Devil bacon? No, I'm not sure about this place, Ron. It doesn't feel right. Would you stop worrying?
You don't see Jeff freaking out. Mother of God! I'm coming apart! See?
The walls are bleeding Ron. Yeah, I paid extra for that. You're welcome. You can explain away all that other stuff.
Listen to this, I was in a bar downtown and they said that the guy who killed everyone here, he used to... stand up all the time. So? So...
Jeff, he's been standing up. Jesus Christ. You're right. What are we doing?
Look at this picture I just found my understanding here. This is the murderer. My God. He almost looks as much like Jeff as I do.
Get out! What was that? Oh my way! I'm getting out of here!
Jeff, what happened? I was in the basement. Oh no! There's a room under the stairs.
My God! Inside of the room there were... What? What was there?
JARS! A D'Mato! And corn! What foul fiend roams these halls?
What kind of monster would bring us to this damn base? I did. You mad man. We have to get out of here.
We can't. I spent like 20 bucks on this place. That's 20, man. I thought you were on my side.
Oh yeah, it's a habit. Besides, we've only been here for 27 minutes. Suddenly I'm relaxed. Have some Satan bacon.
I don't want your ghost bacon. And I don't want to stay in this house another minute. Me neither. I do want some Satan bacon though.
Come on, let's just sit down for a minute. Take a deep breath and watch some TV, okay? Okay. Come in, I don't...
Take a step that is not... I don't know this show sounds dumb. Change. It's the 700 Club with your host, Pat Robertson.
Welcome to the 700 Club, God bless you. Welcome to the wild card podcast. I'm your host, Jerid Eden, and my co-pilets on this journey to wherever are my good friends, Jeff Curtis. Hello.
And the man who has been known on several occasions to lie on his stomach. Sing in one location, but not others. And has been called by the Los Angeles Times, the most terrifying human being you've ever met because he's real. It's true.
I'm not singing over here. I don't sing over here, but I'm not singing over here. I don't actually think Ron can lie on his stomach. I can't.
I can do it. I do it all the time. In fact, I do it so much that it's fucked up my shoulders. Oh, it actually can't say that way.
I cannot say that. I don't sleep. I lay on my stomach playing video games on the laptop. I'm like, oh, my shoulders are being shoved in my neck.
It's awful. Okay, well, I stand corrected then. Actually, I'm on my neck. That's true.
That's true. That's right. All right. So, most horrifying being that everyone's ever met.
It's true. You are the one, despite all of these, how do I just mention? We still entrust you with letting the decades know what this podcast is all about. It is.
It's just insanity. I shouldn't be trusted at all. Our podcast is about going back in time and correcting the horrible errors that I create when ever I found out we had an official wild card time machine. I'm glad we fixed it.
Yeah. So, this will be one of those errors we fixed. If you mention it, be careful. Be careful.
It may cause a loop in time. Divergent time strings. Exactly. You want to be careful.
It may cause a loop in time. That's it. Oh, my God. No, we may have a loop in time.
I forgot. So, speaking of divergent time lines. Yes. I haven't been here before.
Something feels very wrong. How did she like it? The answer is very. So, speaking of divergent time strings.
Yeah. You and I have seen movies recently. We have seen movies that involve divergent time strings. Yes, indeed.
And we're talking about Avengers Endgame. Now we've both seen it. I've seen it twice actually. I've seen it on Friday and I'm back.
I've been a little. I considered going to see it again Tuesday the night after I saw it. Yeah, I saw it. And then I decided to write it.
It's like 5.25. But then I thought we just saw it the night before I got home really late. So, let's, let's me and my son go see Shazam. Shazam rises from the staining pile of shit that is DC movies into amazing heights of mediocrity.
Amazing. It is so much better than most DC films, which is saying nothing at all. Yeah. I'm not chatting space with Wonder Woman and then other movies were made too.
That's what I understand. I did like Man of Steel although not even. Oh God, I hated it. I hate it.
I know. I like that. I hate it. No, God bless them in Shazam.
They were trying so hard and you could tell. They were like, oh, we're trying to make a good movie. I'm like, guys, this sucks. This is not great.
But they were really trying hard. The cast was really, they were into it. They were having a good time. They did a great job.
It was the script. If you start with a bad script. It's like building a castle on a foundation of sand. And that's what they had.
It was just poorly written. Now we're going to celebrate spoiler syrup. What do you think of Endgame? Holy shit.
I shouldn't have watched Shazam the night. I pretty much did endgame. That's might have been part of the Shazam problem. But then I got a tale about it.
The next day I was like, what if we hadn't seen Endgame and he goes, no, it's no would have been shaded. And I said, yeah, you're right. Endgame is amazing. I saw Endgame the Thursday night.
It came out. It was a kind of Friday. It came out. There's not a bunch of shows.
I thought there's a night. I had like 6 to 10. So I got around 9 to 15. I drove home and I turned already off.
I was alone with my thoughts for about an hour. It leaves you like that. It's like if we turn to the dead, I weren't a super seroid. Yeah, that's the feelings that you would get.
It's very soon. And I saw it again Friday to me. It was 11. It was 11.
I'm not again last Friday. I'm ex. And enjoy it even more the second time. Yeah, that's what I understand.
Mackenzie, it was her second time watching it. It was our first time. And she just wept through the whole film. And then we all wept.
I know a lot of everybody. I'm not an emotional person. But the second time I saw I'm ex was over a week after it came out. And they were still stopping.
Yes, I wept. And you weep out joy. I got very close to emotion near the end. But now they're the same spot everyone else does.
I understand. I came close to emotion. That's how powerful that film is. So in the vein of talking about an interesting game I should say, I'm who are some of your favorite heroes?
Batman's always been my favorite. And the only DC character that I really enjoy. It's hard for me to watch Warner Brothers and DC do what they're doing to Batman the last 10 years. We talked about it here before we did the match ups.
Because you guys are just a new fan of Batman was I grew up with Batman and it was serious. Which is one of the greatest. And then the Batman Arkham games. I started Arkansas yesterday because I love the arc of the arc of the arc of the game.
It's such a fun game. I think there's four of them that I kind of ignore one of them. Because it's not me and Rocksteady. Which one is that?
It's not that game. It's fun. The rogues gallery is disappointing on that one. Actually, it's got a pretty big one.
But a lot of them are more distant. But the Arkham is still on the Rock City. Arkham Knight. It's just astounding game.
So you get that fucking throw. I have 100% off of you. I couldn't get through that one part. And I got so mad that I was like, well, I'm done with this game.
Thanks. Thanks Rocksteady. I'm done. So that's what I'm making for so long.
Yeah, I love Batman. But it has to be Superhero. I'm a testing favorite heroes. I went to a superhero party once in college.
I don't do parties. And everyone was dressing up as Superhero. I went as G.I. Joe.
And no American hero. I was actually dressed in some camo and some cargo pants. And I got some plastic weaponry. And grenades and things of that nature.
And walkie talkies. And put them on a belt and spread it all black. And I articulated my elbows a little bit. And no one knew I was.
And I was super important. Which guy goes for my childhood. Not from my college. And I said I'm the real American hero.
That was exactly what I said. Like two people got it. I like Spider-Man. I know I don't have to be a superhero.
I do like John McLean. He is a hero. And Rambo is a hero. I do love Rambo.
And Donkey Kong is a hero. And that's one of my well. The first time he was a villain. He was understanding.
Yeah. He was a good guy. Jeff. Well, I like Rambo, but he's not my hero.
Well, he's everybody's hero. I like Jeff Lane. He's not my hero. Well, I'm just saying to all those people.
What a funny little hero. That was a few. Came along. Counted on a fingers and toes.
I love school house. I like that. I don't have any heroes. Oh my God.
That's hard. I mean, I guess Gandhi's a hero of mine. He's a good hero. Great, Jeff.
Go ahead and bring us back in reality. You're trying to help. You're asking me for a... Well, Sergeant Rock, not your hero.
I like Sergeant Rock, but he wasn't my hero. I'm not asking. I didn't ask who is your hero. Because I would not say that Spider-Man is my hero.
I don't look out for Spider-Man. I don't look out for Spider-Man. I want to be like Batman. But of heroes, they are some of my favorites.
Because I grew up with video games. Right. And in video games a lot of times you were the protagonist. You were the hero.
And you went through the story, saving something and doing some problem. I love that. And then as games evolved, you had a lot more freedom when you played them. To be a hero or not be a hero.
To be an anti-hero who's doing good things but isn't necessarily a good person. It's a flawed individual. And I think there's a lot to the heroes we see depicted in media. Okay, so you're asking me which heroic character I like as opposed to who is my hero.
There's a lot of them are my hero. And it doesn't have to be the lead. Like you can say Hermione Granger's a hero. Shh.
Because she saved two morons from killing themselves. Yeah, both of the times. Be murdered. Yeah.
And was the only one smart enough to figure out. Neville's the handle of the man. Neville's is a guy. I just picture it.
Yeah. Well, Jason Bourne. Oh, yeah. He knows Carate.
I don't know. He knows everything. He knows how to kill people but he chooses not to do anything. What about Jack Ryan?
I've never seen him do anything. I like James Bond. I like James Bond. He's always heroic when he does.
Yeah, James Bond. I watched The Living Day once the other day. Do you watch The Living Day lights out of that? I did not.
I was playing video games while it was on the TV but I enjoyed what I saw. And Duran Duran's song. That's really why I watched it. And I watched it as much as...
Oh, that's right. Duran Duran's doing a kill. I like that song and I don't like that band. I didn't watch as much of Moonraker as I could before I went.
Oh, Moonraker. I can't. Oh, Moonraker. I think it sounds right.
Oh, yeah. We already raided our Bond movie. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
She was so good. They tried to make her assassin. She's not good at it. I think she's a bad assassin.
That was great. It's all about defection. The whole movie about defection. And Joan Don Baker played a bad guy instead of Felix Lider this time.
So how crazy is that? Oh. I mean, it never occurred to me. Yeah.
Yeah. Joan Don played two different characters in the Bond universe. It wasn't Felix. He played another American agent.
Right. But I was actually like a contact for Bond's joke in GoldenEye and there was not enough. It was definitely Joan Don. No, it wasn't.
I think so. I was thinking he was in an earlier, an earlier versions of Bond as Felix Lider. I thought. No.
Back in the day. Joan Don. Don. I'm a big stick.
I've never actually watched Walking Tall. I've seen the commercials. I saw him with the rock and it was a... He played with Brad Whitaker.
Let me realize that Jack Wade and the GoldenEye. Oh, that was Joan Don. Oh, good for you Joan Don. Yeah.
He's making a fifth movie by the way. The Age of Eighte. I like the last one well enough. I like it.
I like it much until the end. Yeah, ending. Which is funny. It shouldn't be disappointing ending because all of them include some sort of mysticism or a paranormal thing.
Yeah, but this one is a million. A whole size thing. I'm not going to be here. Which was neat from a visual point.
That's not John. It was fine. Yeah. John Don.
And Shilabuff. Shilabuff. Actual cannibal. Actual cannibal.
Shilabuff. Who could have gone on? Who could have picked up the reins of Indiana Jones but fuckers. What the hero did they be?
Disappointing. Disappointing. Yeah. I like the thing that I would be like an anti hero.
One of those real things. I think I was pretty much a good guy but there's that reluctant to do good things. Oh okay. Yeah.
He's just gruff and doesn't want to do anything. Wolverine is very similar to that. Yeah. You're wolverine.
No, I'm not a big fan of Wolverine. You're big fan of Wolverine. I should be very small. Yeah.
I'm like if Rhino were a good guy, that would be me. Rhino or Juggernaut or Rhino. One of the three. Or Kingpin.
If Kingpin were a good guy. I would be king. I'm picking for you. I want to see if I want to see if I want to see if I want to see if I want to see if I want to see if I want to see if I want to be very sweet.
What heroes you think each of us would be? I would be interested to hear that if you could inject some heroes up on us. wireless voice. Yeah.
Ooh. Dyroots be the Flash. Yeah. You'd be the Blurf guidance?
I'd be Blurf. I'd be Shazzam. So there could be a representation of Shazzam. You know what?
Jack survives? It's a great job. I don't want to wooate out the revolutionay. It's like the sweet life of Z Holek and S releg Daar.
Who beat B.B. Frost? Yep. Jetsy Vamer Hurmusic.
Oh. Yo, Whadamaca and B Eddie's Dmix. I want to see extend. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. OK. OK.
I'm very worried about the future of the human race. That was a great, great. I was going to shut up for a second. You're welcome.
All right. Right here in the studio. This is going to be fun. No, it is.
Ever since last week, I thought this is going to be the most fun episode we've ever done. This isn't going to be fun. Whenever we fix things, it gets real exciting to do. Yeah, so I was asked to go back to our mildly recurring segments.
Yeah. The law card's fixed up problem. I think we both requested that. And we did.
The Jared Fix is a problem. By himself. But not fixed. It's something that we really thought would make us sad.
We're not capable of fixing anything. So we tackled the public education. Yes. Which we did fix.
And we did fix the system. Which we did fix again by accident. So maybe we'll look into a solution. So I just wanted to disclaimer at the top.
We know that we have not fixed anything. We know that the two things we've tackled so far will only be fixable by the government. Because the government controls the government controls education. But hopefully if you listen to those episodes, the law cards get schooled and the law cards top justice.
Yeah. See justice. If you listen to this, hopefully we give you some ideas of things that you could do to encourage the government to make some changes. And just remember, as long as there are three equal branches of government, all sharing the same powers and checking the same things that you could do to encourage the government to make some changes.
And the same powers and checks and balances will probably be just fine because that's the way to advance forward instead of staying in gridlock. Excellent. Yes. I fixed it.
I fixed government. This topic is not so much government controlled. Yes. Anyway.
Isn't that solution mostly don't be a dick? And that always like the solution. Well that will help solve today's problem. I'm thinking it might.
We did a public service announcement on not being aware of when you might be a dick. Right. Which I am not always aware of. And then I end up regretting later.
I've been there too. So here's a question. What is the number one leading cause of disability worldwide? Oh, wait, not, not sushi and not vaccine.
Correct. Those two things do not disability. Physical disability. The mental disability.
I'm not saying other than autism. Like inborn or. Inborn? When you're born with it.
Are you born with it? My question is what is the number one leading cause of disability worldwide? War. Famine.
Shotguns. Landlines. Bathroom accidents. So you are on the right track.
You asked me what type of disability? Okay. But not IUDs. The answer is depression.
The answer is depression. Oh, well. Oh, fuck. For 45 years though.
The wild cards speak their minds. Ok. Because we are talking about mental illness. Oh, man.
Something that all of us know pretty well. Yeah. What happens when we're in international ways? Yeah.
Oh, have a happy time. Look, I know all this about. Oh, all this about. A mental disorder also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
Some features may be persistent, relapsing or respecting or amused or as a single episode. Many disorders have been described with signs and symptoms that vary widely between specific Parade. So put it into your initial thoughts. your initial thoughts.
On the topic? Yes, exactly. On the topic. Because I've got a lot of realms we're going to do.
It's broad. It's broad. There are a lot of different. Yeah.
You can't put depression or mental disorders. They're very wide. And the different people react and respond and deal with these things differently. Well, I heard a years ago in the 90s.
I had a cast member that was talking about a stand-up comedian that he had seen. It's like actors playing poker, but instead of emptying money, they're like emptying their bipolar disorder versus somebody else's neurosis. Everybody has some kind of mental or emotional defect in some way. It seems like everybody's a train wreck.
I've got a lot of sources I pulled up. What I used regularly was the National Alliance for Mental Health. Those are my favorite ones. When you sign up for their newsletter, they send you a mint in the mail.
It comes in a little brown package. Because nobody needs to know that you're getting a mint from the National Health Association. National Alliance on a mental illness. Yeah.
So when you sign up daily to get a daily mint, I like mints. They make money. Because you suffer from impairment? Yes.
No. So 43.8 million adults experience mental illness in a given year. One in five adults in America experience mental illness. Nearly one in 25 adults in America live with a serious mental illness.
That's about 10 million people. One half of all chronic mental illnesses begin by the age of 14. Three quarters of all mental illnesses begin by the age of 24. Okay.
So you're going to get a little bit of a schizophrenia. That is one in 100, about 2.1 million. But can we define schizophrenia rather than what most people think of as a good thing? I was diagnosed with my schizophrenia several years ago.
Most people think that schizophrenia is multiple personalities. It's a I have this voice inside my life. This voice inside my life. That's a different thing.
Where do I personally? Right. It's a schizophrenia is a schism or a break between reality and perception. Right.
So you sometimes perceive things that aren't there. It could be audio. It could be visual. You believe something true with this.
Now there are severe cases where people are living in delusions. And then there are milder cases where occasionally you perceive a situation to be what it is. Right. That happens.
And that leads to somebody being a dick sometimes when you shouldn't be. Like that happens. That's 2.4 million American adults live with schizophrenia. And I love this terminology.
We're going to get into things like stigma later. But it doesn't say 1 in 100 or 2.4 million Americans are schizophrenic. It says they live with schizophrenia. And not defining someone by a disease that forms a sufferer.
Yeah, that's nice. 2.6% of Americans, which is about 6.1 million, live with bipolar disorder. You used to be called manic depression. This is a disease in which our disorder in which people cannot control their mood.
So on one day they may be the happiest most. Can anybody control their mood though? You can control how your mood makes you act. So for example, I sometimes get low, but I always feel like I'm in control of what I do.
Someone who has, I would say, bipolar disorder isn't always, I don't want to say in the right because that's not fair, but it's like in control of how their emotions make them go. So sometimes they have what's called mania, or they feel empowered to do anything or make a list of what they're going to accomplish. And then the very next day it could swing the opposite direction. And it could be so low they can't do the best.
Yeah. As opposed to someone who's depressed who maybe feels that second way but never really swings the other way. It's just a tend to be a low mood. Yeah.
I'm with you. I think there's people who have a kiddicle imbalance that causes their mood. And then there's normal moods that go up and down and you can say, okay, well I'm not feeling very happy today. Maybe if I go see this movie it'll change my mood.
Does the movie change your mood? Sometimes it alleviates it. Sometimes doing something can help. If you're many, the movie's not going to make any difference.
And if you're truly depressed the movie isn't going to make a difference because that's not, you can't control that, that's something else. But if you're just having a bad day it might make a difference. Why do I say I just make distinction to having a bad day in depression? I hear you say I feel depressed and I say depression isn't feeling.
Right. Right. So when people use that terminology I think that alters how people perceive depression and their views of what it actually is as opposed to I just feel sad today. The crazy thing is that you don't know what the impetus is going to be to switch on or off.
I've gone off on tiny tiny little things that normally should never set anybody off. We often use the word trigger but that word's becoming kind of... And then after that trigger or whatever, afterwards there's nothing that can be done. It makes up sleep.
And then once you've slept you wake up the next day hoping you're okay but there have been times where it'll be mid afternoon and it'll snap. All of a sudden I'm hating life. I'm very depressed. I'm feeling awful.
And everything is negative, everything's dark. I go to sleep, I wake up the next morning feeling the same way, somewhere after breakfast. I start floating out of it. And then some days it'll be a snap.
I'll snap right out of it and everything's cool. It's the weirdest goddamn thing. So 6.9% of American adults live at the major depression. There's about 16 million people.
And 18.1% or 42 million Americans adults live with anxiety disorders. And that's kind of a newer one I would say in terms of... I think you've seen a lot more... I don't know whether anxiety in the way that it's manifesting itself now existed as much.
When I was younger, nobody gave it a name or anything. But it seems like a lot of people are feeling anxiety as of late. Yeah. Well, I think people have always felt anxiety.
It's that people didn't think that it was okay to express their anxiety or that people didn't think it was a big deal. It was a natural thing. Right. Being nervous about something but that's not necessarily what these anxiety disorders are.
Yeah. It's like, I feel anxiety sometimes, like, before public sneaking. Yeah. Like, I'm doing a wedding here in a couple weeks and I'm going to feel anxious for it.
Like, I would say that is a natural anxiety. If it crippled me, the point where I could not do a thing. Right. That's when it becomes a disorder.
Well, the crazy thing about anxiety is you don't need a switch for that. There are moments where you don't understand why your chest is tightening up, or you're having trouble breathing. I've never had those times. It's horrid.
When I first had what I considered to be my first recognized anxiety attack, I went to the hospital because I thought it was having a heart attack. I left work. Yeah. And there was nothing wrong with me.
That continually happened with no trigger at all. It was just all of a sudden there goes. It happens. It could be too many voices going on.
Yeah. Being out in public. That's happened several times. Where I have a physiological reaction to it.
And that's severe. It's more of a I need to leave the situation immediately. Yeah. That's kind of where I am.
Social anxiety is what I suffer from. Right. Mine's to the point where I'll be at home and I'll be invited somewhere and I'll start wondering if I should go because I'll feel awkward around people. Right.
I'm blessed. It doesn't matter that you know them or that they care about you. It doesn't matter. I'm blessed in the fact that I'm a hyper rational person.
Yeah. I'm not my anxiety and my depression in a way where people who suffer from mental illness often have and I don't mean this is not going to sound like what I want to say. I don't mean it to be like get to for any audience. Right.
I just mean your own internal voice is speaking to you and lying to you. Yeah. And you believe those laws. Sure.
And I because of my hyper rationality I cannot believe those laws. I can I'm like here and I don't feel it. But I also have the rationale. You know, that's not true.
Yeah. See, I believe all of them. I believe all of them. I have the power to combat it because of the sciencyness inside of them.