Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Anvil on Conspiracy Theorists: “People Have Got Too Much Time”
The pandemic happened and COVID was real. Whatever Glenn Danzig, Ted Nugent, your racist uncle at Thanksgiving, and some dude in the comments section with the username PhilAnselmoRules69420 try to tell you, over 7 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide. It was not a government conspiracy and it was not caused by 5G. These are facts; get over it. Thankfully, some people in the metal community understand that, like Anvil’s Steve “Lips” Kudlow.
In a recent interview with Chris Akin Presents (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), Kudlow had some choice words for conspiracy theorists and made a really good point about the dangers of social media:
“The worst thing that’s caused this is the fact that everybody’s got a soapbox to stand on, and all the voices are of equal volume. So the sensible people are at the same volume as the idiots, but not only are the idiots at the same volume, there’s more idiots. So then what happens to the truth? It’s lost in the stupidity, man. And it’s up to you as the individual to somehow discern the difference — wipe the shit off the fucking gold to find the gold. Pardon all my expression, but sometimes it feels like that. You’re looking for the information. Like, can all this garbage get out of the way so I can find out the facts?”
He then took a deeper dive into conspiracy theorists, and I have to say, he’s 100% correct on all of this:
“What has brought all this on is the craziness of the pandemic, and it comes down to the vaccine or no vaccine, it comes down to the 5G technology and then mixed with nanobots and you put all this shit together and the next thing you know, government has got remote controls on everybody who gets the vaccine because the vaccine’s got nanobots in it, which is ‘Star Trek’ technology. And they can control you, so if you don’t comply, they can put you to death just by pressing a button.
“And this was some of the garbage that was being spread around during the pandemic. You just think about what level of insanity is that. It sounds like a sci-fi novel. Like, come on. People have got too much time to sit around and think of crazy stuff. That’s completely nonsense and you’re making it up, making it up as you go. I mean, there are people that were saying that it’s alien technology or alien disease, that COVID was put here by aliens. You name it. And what the problem is, and what I’m saying is, initially you’ve got social media where everybody gets a soapbox. Anybody can say anything about any subject, whether they know what they’re talking about or not. And they do. [Laughs] And then because they didn’t effectively check the facts or even read about what they’re talking about, they’re just parroting what somebody else parroted. And it’s like a broken telephone, and the conspiracy gets even more cloudy and more crazy as it moves along.”
I know that this isn’t the point, but one of my favorite things about this is that Kudlow knows that nanobots are technology from Star Trek. That’s not something that a non-Trekkie would know. So I look forward to keeping an eye out for Lips in full uniform at the next Comic Con.
You can look forward to catching Trekkie Lips Kudlow and the rest of Anvil at the following dates:
Jul 12 – Cambridge, MA, US – Middle East – Upstairs
Jul 13 – Hamden, CT, US – Space Ballroom
Jul 17 – Ridgewood, NY, US – Tv Eye
Jul -18 – Sellersville, PA, US – Sellersville Theater
Jul 26 – Winter Park, FL, US – Conduit
Jul 27 – Pompano Beach, FL, US – Piper’s Pub
Aug 1 – El Paso, TX, US – RockHouse Bar & Grill
Aug 4 – San Diego, CA, US – Brick By Brick
Aug 7 – Anaheim, CA, US – The Parish, House of Blues
Aug 8 – Los Angeles (LA), CA, US – Resident
Aug 10 – Palmdale, CA, US – Transplants Brewing Company
Aug 11 – San Francisco, CA, US – DNA Lounge
Aug 14 – Portland, OR, US – High Water Mark
Aug 15 – Seattle, WA, US – Substation
Aug 18 – Denver, CO, US – Hi-Dive
Aug 21 – Minneapolis, MN, US – Zhora Darling
Aug 22 – Chicago, IL, US – Reggie’s Rock Club
Aug 24 – Hamtramck, MI, US – The Sanctuary Detroit
Aug 25 – Lakewood, OH, US – The Winchester
Sep 21 – Toronto, ON, Canada – The Rockpile Bar & Nightclub
