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Elsbeth McTavish

TikTok commentator known as "Elsbeth The Dissenter" from Alaska, recurring guest on the Rational Boomer Podcast.

Sep 11, 2026

MikeHOST
46:17
What the fuck are you doing? Why don't you stop this? That's what they think.
46:21
I know.
46:22
I know.
46:23
I think the same thing all the time.
46:25
And, you know, honestly, what I would love to see from the Democratic Party is for them to just get as radical as fuck.
46:32
You know, I mean, go after the health care system for being a for profit health care system, which is killing this country.
46:39
Go after our education system for for, you know, everybody should be able to walk into a classroom and just learn.

43 MINS LATER

MikeHOST
89:55
That's all we can do.
MikeHOST
48:22
It's ridiculous.
48:24
It's ridiculous.
48:25
And so I have stopped going to the doctor.
48:27
I have a pacemaker in my chest that... any day now I have to have a new battery put in and they, they criticize me and come down to me.
48:36
Oh, you, you haven't been coming in for your checkups.
48:39
Why? Why would I? You guys tell me I'm fine every single time you do a pacemaker download, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
48:45
Oh, everything looks good.

41 MINS LATER

MikeHOST
89:38
That's all we can do.
MikeHOST
16:38
I don't care what anybody says.
16:40
I a h- 100,000 times, a million times over wholeheartedly agree.
16:46
Um, before I went into massage therapy, I was a microbiologist.
16:50
And so I studied health, health, the, the, the, like, basic function of cells and cell health.
16:57
If you know what a cell needs, you can keep it alive indefinitely, okay? So when I was watching in real time this absolute idiot not only lie, just bold-faced lie, you know, kind of like knock Dr.
17:13
Fauci out of the way, "He doesn't know what he's talking about.
17:15
We're gonna, like, inject bleach into every..." You know, I mean, my God, it's like there's, like, always a fraction of a kernel of a truth.
MikeHOST
20:08
That seems like a weird transition.
MikeHOST
16:38
I don't care what anybody says.
16:40
I a h- 100,000 times, a million times over wholeheartedly agree.
16:46
Um, before I went into massage therapy, I was a microbiologist.
16:50
And so I studied health, health, the, the, the, like, basic function of cells and cell health.
16:57
If you know what a cell needs, you can keep it alive indefinitely.
17:02
Okay? So when I was watching in real time this absolute idiot not only lie, just bold face lie, you know, kind of like knock Dr.
17:13
Fauci out of the way, "He doesn't know what he's talking about.
MikeHOST
20:08
That seems like a weird transition.
MikeHOST
10:46
What made you move to Alaska, though? Did your husband or you get a job? Or what was that about?
10:51
No, just being stupid kids wanting to do whatever you want.
10:55
And so I grew up in Ohio, in Perrysburg, Ohio.
10:59
And then right after graduation, moved to Michigan and then settled in Indiana.
11:04
And then I was... living in Indiana and working in Chicago.
11:07
And I was working at this great CPA firm in the AMA building on Staten Grand.
11:13
And I was going to college to be a microbiologist.

11 MINS LATER

MikeHOST
22:23
who's behind this bullshit.
MikeHOST
11:54
Oh.
11:54
So I was working as a massage therapist, and, um, still going to school and stuff like that, picking away at my science degree.
12:00
And my...
12:01
In the mean- When I was a kid, uh, about 18, 19, my, my brother got married, and he wanted me to be part of this family, you know, get to know his, his future wife while he was just engaged.
12:13
He was in the military.
12:14
He was in the Air Force.
12:15
So I was always over at their house, and, uh, she had three older brothers, so we were always hanging out.

12 MINS LATER

MikeHOST
23:58
[laughs]

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