Meet Dave Daubenmire.  (He’s being played at 2-times normal speed because you really don’t want to listen to three minutes of him.)  Normally, he wouldn’t merit a second glance, but this high school football coach turned preacher man from Ohio is an ardent anti-vaxxer upset that he doesn’t know what’s in the FDA-approved vaccine.  Like many podcasters, he’s vehemently anti-science even though he took a three-week hiatus from Pass The Salt Ministries earlier this year after falling ill with an unspecified illness.  This one goes further, advertising on his website how to get out of vaccine requirements through a convenient religious exemption.

His previous exhortations–like the time he declared, “A woman’s got no business being a cop”–are definitely mockable, but his rant from this week’s podcast is classic Know-Nothing conservative extremism.  Y’see, because he claims he’s not taking the vaccine because he doesn’t know what’s in it, he lists off the nutritional supplements he takes, including something called “NAC” which, he declares, “if you don’t get some of it in your ass, you’re gonna be dead.”  (Fact check:  everyone’s eventually “gonna be dead” whether they take NAC or not.)  After stumbling through other supplements–“1,000 megagrams [sic], meg… mega….m.g.’s, whatever the hell that means”–he holds up a bottle of copper bisglycinate, saying “Every day for a year, I’ve taken copper bisglycinate. I don’t even know what it is, but a doctor told me to take it.”