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March 24, 2022 - Adventures in HellwQrld

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Adventures In HellwQrld Episode #79: KBJ Hearings GOP goes full QAnon.

This week Mike, Sarge, and L talk about the KBJ hearings and GOP Senators pandering to QAnon. Also Truth Social might be getting the Really Real Q. QAnon continues to celebrate Russia, an Ron Watkins is officially on the ballot in Arizona, way to go America! Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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	Hello everybody.
	I'm Mike Rains, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
	I am joined, as always, by Sarge.
	Hello from my secret bunker high above the earth.
	And the mysterious El.
	Hello, my beautiful babies.
	I'm vengeance.
	See, we've been doing Batman on Bingeworthy, so El's got Batman on the frame.
	Batman is confused.
	How can your bunker be in the sky?
	It's a sky bunker.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	You could have a bunker within a facility.
	It's like the dumb flying base from Black Widow.
	That movie was also pretty bad.
	Wouldn't go to that one as your point of comparison there, bud.
	I just wanted that Flying Fortress to not crash.
	They can't help themselves.
	They put a Flying Fortress in a movie, it will crash.
	Yeah, imagine how much cooler that movie would have been if at the end of it they took over the Flying Fortress as their base of operation for the good Black Widow squad.
	Yeah!
	What do I know?
	I'm not Kevin Feige.
	No, you're certainly not.
	Anyway, I hope we've amused our audience with our patter, and now it is time to amuse our booshes with our most recent segment of the show, new edition, but I think I like it a lot.
	It's time for the up top amuse-a-boosh this week.
	For everything that's not quite news.
	Yes.
	It's always a tight roadblock for us because technically it happens before our content warning, so we have to be a little less punchy with it.
	So let's keep that in mind while we talk about Ron Watkins.
	Everyone's favorite authentic Wagyu cowboy, because boy howdy, he looks super comfortable in that cowboy getup.
	He is, I guess, officially on Arizona's ballot now.
	Good for him.
	What a tremendous opportunity for Ron Watkins.
	Before we got started, Mike, you had started to let us know what you exactly have to do to get on Arizona's ballot.
	Do you want to take us through that real quick?
	They require a small number of signatures of qualified voters.
	It's 3% of qualified voters in the district.
	And each of Arizona's districts for Congress vary in signature requirements from 5,024 to under 4,000, actually under 3,500 in one of them.
	So 3,448 is the smallest one.
	under 4,000 in a month, actually under 3,500 in one of them.
	So 3448 is the smallest one.
	So it requires an incredibly small amount of effort to make it on the ballot in any
	of these districts.
	Again, 5,000 votes, you're in, and almost all of them.
	You need 24 more to qualify in that one.
	So, Ron Watkins managed to obtain some thousands of signatures on his petition to make it onto the ballot.
	So, congratulations, Ron.
	You managed to find enough QAnon-addled supporters in your district to run around to the local shopping malls and supermarkets to get people to fill out, to sign their names to things.
	So that you can be there.
	And Ron was very proud to broadcast to everybody that this incredibly minor formality for real candidates was something that he did before anybody else did.
	He's the first man on the ballot officially in Arizona.
	And the one thing I would really wonder about Ron is, did he actually get extra signatures?
	Because in a lot of these things that happen, like third party candidates or ballot initiative questions, What will happen in a lot of these cases is if people actually care and they don't want you to be on the ballot or they don't want your ballot question to make it onto the referendum, they'll file challenges against signatures.
	So a lot of the groups that do these things will make it a requirement to get like 25 to like 50 percent more signatures than they need.
	So if there's ever a challenge put against you and a bunch of your signatures get thrown out as fraudulent, You still have enough signatures to meet thresholds, so you surpass it.
	So I'm really wondering if Ron just like literally made it to the bare minimum and was like, I'm good, I'm in.
	And if anyone bothered to like challenge him, they'd find that like half of his signatures got filled out by the person running around filling them out themselves.
	This whole page is in the same handwriting!
	What's going on here, Ron?
	I don't know, the guy said he had the people sign it!
	So you're saying there's a possibility that old Ronnie Watts might not be on the up-and-up with it?
	Wow, the Smith family is huge, and they all love Ron Watkins.
	Exactly, exactly!
	Again, I have no idea, and I don't think anyone cares enough about Ron to make a challenge to knock him off the ballot, but Like, if somebody did, I don't know how likely it is that all those signatures will hold up to scrutiny, and I feel like he probably didn't put in the work to get the overkill that usually happens in these events.
	Like, I don't remember if it was in the last election cycle, but there have been things where Actually, I now remember, like, Kanye had a bunch of his ridiculous third-party candidacy signatures scrutinized by the Biden campaign, because they knew what people were doing with the Kanye campaign.
	Yeah.
	And this happens a lot with, like, third parties, where, like, a Green Party or a Constitutional Party candidate will get on the ballot, and immediately the major party that's being siphoned votings from is, like, check their signatures.
	They're bullshit.
	I want to see that.
	And so, like, that kind of, like, Legal warfare is something that is often waged during these sorts of events, and I truly doubt that Ron scampering to the clerk's office in Arizona going, Here's my signatures!
	I made it!
	If he actually knew what he was doing with a campaign, he'd be like, I now have enough signatures to make it on the ballot, but in order to fight deep state fraud that will attempt to knock me off the ballot, I need even more signatures.
	And then he could get more names and more emails and more people on his mailing list, and that's what a smart person would do.
	I feel like the best thing they can do is ignore this guy and not give him any oxygen.
	How could you possibly ignore him?
	Haven't you seen his photo ops?
	He looks like the world's worst G.I.
	Joe action figure.
	With his Wagyu cowboy hat and his AR-15 standing in front of Trump's border wall that doesn't work.
	Who wants to play as that guy on the schoolyard?
	He has so much free time now that he's not being Q and not writing Q drops.
	Yeah yeah and uh the other thing that's funny is oh he was in a uh he went to some Arizona meeting town hall or whatever to yell at yell at people and he was wearing his hat indoors because that's now the Ron Watkins brand is his is his white hat he's not even cool enough to wear the Wagyu black hat that was that was his thing for so long now he's officially Cowboy Ron Watkins with With the white hat that he doesn't even take off when he's indoors.
	So yeah.
	Maybe at some point he won't look like he's wearing his daddy's clothes, but like, you know, his is like a different daddy than his actual daddy, who also couldn't pull off that outfit.
	So moving on from World War G.I.
	Joe action figure Rod Watkins to some real true American heroes.
	The USA trucker convoy has been trying to do a thing, and they have been encountering Not necessarily the specific type of resistance that we had anticipated, but certainly some amount of resistance.
	Mike, what's been going on with this USA Trucker Convoy?
	Well, as we've seen on social media, they were paralyzed by a biker that got in front of one of their trucks and then just continued to pedal along the road while the truck couldn't get around them and was left to futilely just be mad behind the person pedaling an actual bicycle.
	On top of that, they've been becoming more and more unhinged and angry.
	They recently boxed in a Tesla on the highway and then started yelling at the Tesla driver.
	Electric car, bad!
	Even though a lot of us like Elon Musk a lot because he's a weirdo billionaire who posts memes on the internet and seems like he was, I don't know, if not pro-Russia, at least anti-Ukraine?
	So they were doing that kind of stuff.
	One thing that was really bizarre was one of these rigs, which is again a truck, was playing an ice cream truck song like blaring it out of its speakers so for a group of people who are obsessed with calling their enemies pedophiles you would think the last thing on earth they would do is have a truck blaring music that would attract children to run towards that truck
	And then be disappointed that it wasn't an ice cream truck, and what the fuck are you doing?
	But that's what they were doing.
	They were just like, you know what would make this rig of ours really pop off?
	Ice cream truck music.
	Let's dash the hopes of some children as we drive by them slowly, pinned behind a Tesla or a bicycle.
	I'll bet you ten bucks they thought they were doing the opposite, and were like, we're gonna play ice cream truck music, and like, Show these pedophiles.
	I mean, they just keep losing to DC traffic and that is hilarious to me.
	It turns out if your goal was to sort of infuriate motorists and prevent people from getting where they needed to go, the Beltway already does that.
	It's baked into traffic in that area already to be infuriating and mostly useless a lot of the time.
	I've been stuck on the Beltway.
	It blows.
	It's famously bad.
	It's not quite L.A., but it's pretty rough.
	Yeah, the one time I had to deal with the Beltway, it was not a great experience.
	It blends into my experience of having to pay several thousand dollars through all of New Jersey's tollbooths to escape that bizarre bit of hell.
	Yeah, the trucker convoy is also now getting mad at the people running the convoy because they're starting to wonder what exactly is the point of this?
	Like, what are we even doing here?
	Because all we're doing is getting stuck in traffic every few days and We're not getting a lot of attention or interest in what's going on.
	And one of the people that's like one of the founders of this movement, Brian Brazy, is like, hey, what we're doing isn't a waste of everyone's time.
	This is great.
	We're totally sending a message to the D.C.
	and the swamp about What we're protesting, even though they probably could not articulate what they're protesting at this point, because there are no mandates.
	I mean, nothing that was happening in Canada is happening here.
	They're just angry Republicans that are mad that their orange God lost an election.
	Like a hundred years ago.
	Yes.
	It actually was only like a year and a half ago, but it was COVID time.
	So it might as well have been an entire epoch ago.
	Yeah.
	We could start using different letters after the years now.
	Once COVID is actually done, I'd be fine if they're just like...
	BC, BC now stands for before COVID, now there's AC, right after COVID.
	BC?
	Yeah, once that army vaccine gets fully, goes through all the trials and actually works
	against all strains of COVID, and we can just get the army vaccine
	to be cleared up all this shit, that year needs to be like one AC, one after COVID.
	We just start, just scrap the old can opener, clean slate, fresh start, moving along.
	My use of the word epoch reminds me, or it doesn't remind me, but it leads me to a question.
	Do we suppose there's a Nerdcore rapper out there named Epoch Shakur?
	And if not, there should be.
	And with that, I feel like we should probably play our content warning and get into our headlines for the week.
	Content warning.
	The Adventures in Hellworld podcast talks in depth about QAnon, which means we have to talk about all kinds of child abuse and violence against people.
	Listener discretion advised.
	Yeah, one, it's a good thing I put the content running real quick here, because I remembered one last little thing from the idiot grifter land that we were dealing with, and because also L brought up Epoch, which made me thought he was going to segue into the Epoch Times, but that's my, uh, that's my ballet universe.
	In what fucking universe would I have ever done that?
	I don't even know what that is.
	Right.
	That's why I realized I was wrong.
	You really needed for me to start segueing into things I have no knowledge of.
	That'd be weird.
	That'd make me the king of podcasts.
	That's why I realized I had made a terrible mistake.
	That's why I said that.
	The former writer for the Epoch Times, Brian Cates, who is a now just full-blown QAnon weirdo trying to run that right-wing crypt, had got into a spat with Lin Wood, also a resident QAnon lunatic, Because Linwood had somebody go to Brian Cates with information about Hunter Biden's laptop.
	And Brian Cates was like, I've got that story from a million other sources, buddy.
	I don't need it from you.
	Fuck right off.
	And then Linwood was like, hey, Brian Cates, guess what?
	You're a pedophile.
	Because that's how these people operate, like literally they're just children hurling insults at each other.
	And now you actually have QAnon grifter on QAnon grifter ruckus, where the pedophile slur is being thrown around with abandon.
	And My favorite part about it is people just throwing themselves on the fainting couch, being like, how dare you, sir!
	How dare you call this gentleman that terrible word!
	It's like, you call everybody that.
	Literally our top story in the headlines is going to be about that.
	It's the only thing you people do.
	So the fact that you can't believe that that got turned around on you, it's like, it's just fuck right off.
	Like this was always how it was going to turn out, idiots.
	Did you read how the Salem Witch Trials ended?
	When they called the wrong person a witch and they were told to stop.
	That's when it ended.
	But guess what?
	Everyone's a witch in these situations.
	That's how it works.
	Well, everything's a nail to a hammer.
	Yes, exactly.
	Me thinks they doth protest too much, etc.
	All the ways I could say the thing I would love to say without actually saying the thing I would love to say because that would get me in trouble.
	Yes!
	So, make of that what you will.
	Right.
	I re-upped my dose of Salatinol and I'm...
	I'm perfectly, here I am, I'm ready to give you the podcast millionaire experience that isn't the Joe Rogan experience because apparently he can say whatever the fuck he wants.
	Must be nice.
	Sure can.
	It was on NewsRadio 25 years ago.
	Can't I say whatever the fuck I want?
	And Spotify's just like, oh, we couldn't wait to have you say whatever you'd like.
	With the mildest of content warnings, which only makes you seem more mysterious and controversial.
	So people gotta tune in to find out why they got this warning on them, bro.
	Content warning!
	Joe Rogan is sorry if you're offended by the truth.
	Okay, well, that's nice.
	Thanks for the heads up.
	If you're my cousin, you just think he gives good interviews.
	Yeah.
	My favorite interview tactic is to try to conduct the whole thing with a cigar sticking out of your mouth.
	It makes the audio experience really rich and great.
	Yeah.
	Can you imagine being somebody who's trying to get into the audio engineering game, and you have the selfish choice of having an opportunity to get in on Joe Rogan's team?
	It's like, oh, well, on the one hand, 200 million listens a week or whatever, but on the other hand, Joe Rogan.
	You build that reel.
	You get that on your CV and then you're just like, after a year, you're like, and I'm out!
	Yeah.
	And then you have to really prepare your couching it for when other people bring it up.
	They're just like, Joe Rogan experience, huh?
	And you're just like, yeah, well, it just seemed like a good way for me to get used to the big audience.
	I don't necessarily agree with all the shit he says, and I'm pretty sure the vaccines work, and I don't think anyone should be using the n-word, and certainly not all the time.
	Certainly not white people, ever.
	And certainly not white people all of the time, so.
	No white person listening, not even while rapping along to your favorite song.
	Exactly.
	Watch them have to modify their art, man.
	Because that word's not for you, fucking idiot.
	Just replace it with the word fella.
	It works just fine.
	That's what I do.
	That was genuinely my tactic.
	I figured that was going to be my move five years ago and I've never looked back.
	It's better than just trying to self-censor yourself by not saying anything in those moments.
	Once you get your brain trained to do it, it comes out seamlessly.
	Who tried to run game on a fella?
	It also makes everything sound a lot more wholesome.
	I've been listening to a lot of Brockhampton again, and man, I say fella a lot.
	Well, I think it's unfortunate that you're listening to Brockhampton, unless you mean that one song, in which case, good on you.
	But the rest of their catalog is, uh, rough.
	That's not their fault.
	That's my fault.
	Because my favorite song by them happens to be the rap song they made as a goof when they are, in fact, like a 12-person boy band or whatever.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we've talked about nonsense for long enough.
	Let's get into our headlines.
	From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News.
	So, against all sanity and reason, it sure seems like Joe Biden might actually get a Supreme Court nominee through.
	Now, I say against all sanity and reason because the Republican Party has made it pretty clear that they're not interested in letting any president that is not a Republican get their nominees through.
	And when it comes time for Daddy Trump to get his nominee through, That's it.
	Turnaround time on that?
	Two weeks.
	How many did he get?
	Three?
	He got three.
	He got three in four years.
	I think Obama got two in eight.
	So, it's, uh, yeah.
	Well, Obama was supposed to get another one.
	They were just like, nah.
	No.
	And instead of literally anything happening to any of those people, our government, broken though it is, just decided, you know what, sometimes the Republicans can in fact just say the president can't exercise his
	authority. They could just be like, no, we don't think so. The president is just like, hey, I
	think I want to do this thing.
	And that's within my powers. The Republicans are just like, nah. And instead of those people
	having any sort of, you know, legal action taken against them or whatever, the Democrats just sit
	there. They're just like, we're sad about this, but we're not going to do anything about it.
	Yeah. And it wasn't even like really an issue in the election between Trump and Hillary,
	except for the fact that people were like, hey, you need to vote for the Supreme Court here.
	People were like, don't you tell me what I have to do!
	She stole it from Bernie, so argle-bargle!
	And it's like, great.
	Now we have actual shithead Republican senators Doing interviews on TV talking about, you know what court case I think they got wrong in the Supreme Court?
	Interracial marriage.
	I think that should be left up to the states.
	Which, I mean, that is just an aggressive mask-off moment where you're just like, fuck it, white supremacy.
	Yeah, that's an atomic take.
	I saw that.
	My current levels of medication prevent me from saying that I would really love for them to just sort of push harder the white supremacy thing, so that way they can get checked most hard.
	They're just like simultaneously very pissed off about the fact that whites are not going to be the majority in our country, or maybe not even are the majority in our country right now.
	And also, let's keep taking it to these non-whites.
	It's like, yeah, at some point, you know what's gonna happen there?
	Not good stuff.
	Just because I'm just gonna say it.
	Maybe you can be that punchy when you're in the majority, but when you start losing your majority, like a cliff being eroded by the steady progress of time, at some point you're going to crash into the ocean.
	And I hope I'm there for it.
	Oh, God.
	It looks so good.
	Oh, make our podcast noises.
	Yeah.
	The thing that's so funny about this, and Al has brought this up previously, is that white people, you're still going to have all the money.
	Calm down.
	You're going to be fine.
	This generation of white folks is going to shuffle off their mortal coils, pretty much ensconced in power and white privilege, period.
	If you're actually, like, worried that maybe four or five generations down the line, lily-white skin won't be a blank check for success and prosperity, I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
	Like, that's not your problem, really.
	Just, I don't know, try to be more empathetic.
	Try to actually care.
	Try to not actually have that be a thing that matters.
	I've never been like someone who's been like, holy shit, I'm white and that's such a great part of my existence.
	It's more just sort of like, yeah, because I'm white, I get to like skate on a lot of shit.
	Yeah.
	Once I realized what privilege was, what my white privilege was giving for me, like whiteness Didn't be like, you know, if I ever thought in my foolheaded like teenage years that like white was an identity Quickly that fucked off and I was left with just realizing that whiteness is Convenience it's just the most it's easily the most convenient part of my life.
	It's like being white and being male are just so convenient and In that order, because every day I get to see people that are male but not white get shot or tasered or beaten by police officers.
	So I'm just like, oh, that really calls into view where the hierarchy is here.
	Be white first for maximum convenience.
	Be male second for the convenience kicker.
	Yeah.
	Oh, like what Elle just said there, I'll never forget about this.
	One day I had an iPad on my passenger seat of my car and it fell to the floor and then managed to kick under the seat.
	And I don't know why that so annoyed me, but it did.
	So I just pulled into this parking lot of a business.
	This was late.
	And I reached under my, uh, the seat, fished my iPad out, then put it back on my passenger seat.
	This cop rolled up on me and then like said, Hey, why?
	And he walked over to my window of my car and was like, Hey, Why did you park in the parking lot of this closed business?
	And I said to him, my iPad fell under my passenger seat, so I just stopped to fish it out.
	And he looked at me, and he just turned and walked away.
	He had no response to my ridiculously stupid excuse for why I just did what I did.
	It was just like, if I was not me, aka a white guy, There have been more questions.
	He would have taken my license.
	I would have had to sit there for a while.
	No.
	The moment he looked at me, he was like, oh my god, I can't believe this dumb-dumb just said this to me.
	It has to be true.
	I'm out of here.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	You're a waste of my time.
	Essentially.
	So yeah, being white and being male are both pretty great in terms of like this horrible society that we've built where white male people are at the top of it.
	Which is why it is so inspiring to see that Joe Biden has put forth this woman of color to be the next Supreme Court Justice, and I'm into it!
	Yes.
	I'm gonna, like, mask off.
	I'm real excited that Clarence Thomas is, like, sick.
	I'd be fine if that guy keeled over, because we need to get some Supreme Court seats back, and that's how it rolls.
	Yes.
	I feel like at some point our country should probably look at lifetime appointments to any position and just be like, why was this ever a thing?
	Yeah.
	Why did we ever decide that for life was a good time for somebody to have a position of such power?
	Like, I love how we managed to figure that out when it came to, like, monarchs and shit.
	Like, America never had kings, but then at some point it got to the point where we're talking about, like, the highest court in the land and the people responsible for, like, Building the foundation for that.
	We're just like looking at each other over tea and biscuits and just being like, so, uh, appointment for life?
	Everybody good with that?
	100% for life?
	For their whole lifespan?
	And everyone was just like, yeah, sounds good.
	They're just like, how did that happen?
	I guess people just lived shorter lives back then.
	Also, no term limits on senators has genuinely fucked us so many times.
	Well the six year terms also it's just like you you barely you barely have a chance to like pull them out of office and once they sneak in for another six years you forget about them.
	So like that whole everything about that is like not great.
	One of the things really funny about that is that we have these Supreme Court justices for life The FBI got founded, J. Edgar Hoover became the first head of the FBI, literally became a power-mad tyrant that terrorized presidents.
	The moment Hoover dropped dead, I think it was Nixon who was in charge at that time, was like, oh yeah, by the way, we're gonna pass some legislation so the next head of the FBI has a 10-year term.
	We're not doing that again!
	Let's put an expiration date on that one.
	Man, yeah, even a broken clock is right twice a day, holy shit.
	So it's like the fact that like we had one FBI director and then we're like whoops that was a bad idea for a lifetime appointment or no actual sunset clause on how long they can reign but the Supreme Court has lasted over 200 years and we we haven't tinkered around the edges on that we haven't been like you know what Maybe after 20 years, you have to step down.
	Maybe something, something, I don't know.
	Maybe, like, Clarence Thomas, he got onto the court when he was, I think, in his 40s?
	I mean, it's ridiculous.
	He's been around since Pappy Bush, and he's still, like, only in his, like, mid-70s.
	It's, like, just really ridiculous that, like, literally nowadays, uh, when I see someone getting nominated to resume court, the first thing I just check is their age.
	I'm like, how long are they gonna be there?
	Yeah, and I love how conservatives, specifically Republicans, they love just taking cracks at Joe Biden because of how old he is.
	I mean, let's not get into the fact that he's only two years older than Donald Trump or whatever.
	But they love the idea of their president apparently just being this young, square-jawed like fucking action movie star, but they want the highest
	court in the land to be packed with conservative corpses, like
	just like, literal, like, as long as they have the majority,
	they don't care. Just actual, like, like actual nine witches on
	the panel. As long as we have the majority, we don't give a
	fuck.
	Let's go. And it's just like, ah, yes, another opportunity for
	a Republican to be a hypocrite. Can't get enough of that sweet
	sweet hypocrisy.
	I mean, it was just like, they literally just did it when they
	when they got when McConnell, like stalled Obama's pick for over a year, I think, or just less than and then mash
	through Trump's last pick under the wire.
	And nobody seemed to care enough then, and certainly nobody cares now, because the average American is a stupid person.
	Which is a bummer, because our listener base is, I'm assuming, pretty heavily weighted towards Americans, but that's just sort of the way of the world.
	I'm not necessarily saying that you are stupid, but I am probably saying that all of your neighbors and probably family members are stupid.
	Take that, our listeners!
	Not our listeners, the friends and families and neighbors of our listeners.
	And you know what?
	If you would like for them to become less stupid, introduce them to the Adventures in Hell World podcast and have them donate to our Patreon at patreon.com slash pokerpolitics.
	We'll get him up to speed.
	We'll make him smart.
	We have Biden's pick.
	They're in the process of being confirmed, which I'm sure is going super smoothly.
	But even ahead of the confirmation process, it turns out our good friends across the aisle in conservative wackadoo land, We're engaging in smear campaign tactics to try to make her seem like the true evil Satan.
	Because they were just like, our 6-3 majority on this thing is not strong enough.
	We have to make sure to get all of our knives out for this woman of color and really make sure that our base knows that, yes, we support white nationalism.
	Boy, did they get dunked on a lot.
	But their base doesn't care.
	Their base loves it.
	So Judge KBJ, who hopefully will be justice soon, Josh Howley started this ball rolling with claims that she is soft on pedophiles.
	Child sex crimes.
	That she was not sentencing people strongly and harshly enough when the cases that were put before her involved child pornography.
	And Democrats have proven, like, her track record has been, like, listed.
	This is all bullshit.
	But this whole thing about child pornography is just a massive dog whistle to QAnon and these communities that This woman is bad, that she is part of the deep state, and that means that she has to turn a blind eye to their terrible crimes against children.
	And the through line that we have going right now is, of course, QAnon is desperately trying to recycle Hunter Biden's laptop to make it a news story again because the son of the president matters for reasons, question mark.
	Well, the last administration showed that they...
	Well, his kids were in his administration, whereas Hunter Biden has nothing to do with it.
	He's not in the cabinet, he's not talking to daddy and telling him to bomb Syria because they made him sad.
	Hunter Biden's laptop.
	People are talking about how Hunter Biden is going to get indicted very soon.
	How the laptop contains all this terrifying child porn.
	Or allegations that Hunter Biden himself is a pedophile.
	The logic here is we just transmute Hunter Biden's pedophilia onto Joe Biden, so the President is also a pedophile.
	So of course, the President, who's a pedophile, nominates KBJ, who is soft on pedophiles, so that when the day comes when the Bidens are brought before the Supreme Court to stand trial for their crimes, because that's how the American legal process works, They will have an ally in their back pocket who will aggressively condone their horrifying crimes against children.
	And also, on top of that, because Lindsey Graham today literally said, let's go back to the child pornography cases, which was just, fuck you, Lindsey Graham.
	On top of that, while he was talking about that, he also brought up George Soros, which was at least the second time I've heard Soros' name brought up during these hearings, which is again another massive dog whistle to QAnon and these conspiracy theorists that the evil rich Jewish guy is funding these corrupt activists, judges, and prosecutors to undermine America and bring about the New World Order.
	Yeah, and for those of you who are listening at home that were wondering why we edged you for 15 minutes with nonsense before getting into the meat and potatoes of this confirmation hearing, this is why we're talking about it on our QAnon show.
	It's because they're just using it as a massive platform to try to curry favor with this QAnon crowd by hitting all the right conspiracy buttons.
	And I mean, like, you know, we sometimes make a joke that, you know, what's bad for the country is good for our podcast.
	But I mean, shit, man, it's stuff like this is getting fucking scary.
	Like the fact that the fact that the courting of this particular subgroup Yeah, it's getting out of control.
	conspiracy theorists is like getting to the highest platform in the country, like, you
	know, a Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing. Like, people need to start taking
	notice of this. Like we need to we need to start figuring out how to nip this one in
	the bud.
	Yeah, it's getting out of control. Like, MTG never should have gotten elected. And here
	we are.
	As I've said before, the Republicans turned a blind eye to Marjorie Taylor Greene. She
	She won the first leg of her primary, and there was a month or so before the runoff between her and a bog-standard Republican who is exactly the same thing as her, and no one in the Republican Party was like, hey, this QAnon lady, should we actually stop her?
	Should we put money behind her opponent?
	Nope.
	Fuck it.
	Let her win.
	We don't care.
	Yeah.
	And that's just, like, so ridiculous.
	Media Matters has a tracker for QAnon candidates running this cycle.
	There are now over 100 candidates who have endorsed some view of QAnon running for some office.
	The 100 is bad, and it is bad, but some of them are running for state Senate, state House, that kind of stuff.
	They're not running for the actual House or the actual Senate.
	But this is an actual thriving part of the Republican Uh, party is QAnon adherence.
	Openly proud, admitting it, QAnon adherence.
	And the Republican Party isn't slapping their hands down.
	They're not saying, bad, bad, QAnon promoter, bad.
	We're not going to let you do this anymore.
	Laura Loomer, who was the Republican nominee in Florida for the House of Representatives in one district, and she got smashed, but she still won the Republican primary.
	She today had a post about how the KGB confirmation hearings are proof that down the line, if the liberals get their way, you'll get the death penalty for misgendering someone.
	And Laura's running for Congress again.
	I don't know if it's the same district or not because of redistricting this year, but Laura has a chance to win another Republican primary.
	So you're going to have a clown who's literally said that liberals will kill you for misgendering people in a few years if they have their druthers will actually be the standing Republican nominee for a House seat in America.
	I know that normally it is the way of podcasting to just roll through such trivial mistakes, but I will say that I think it's funny that you accidentally said KGB confirmation.
	That's not exactly the sort of mistake we want to make in this current climate.
	Hey!
	I love Rounders, that movie.
	You should be here first on Adventures in Hellworld.
	Adventures in Hellworld colon KBJ for KGB.
	Let's go.
	Could you imagine if her initials were that?
	They would be losing their mind.
	Yeah, I mean, well, whatever.
	Barack Hussein Obama became our president.
	He was great for eight years.
	So, I mean, if names have power, it would have to be a stronger name than that.
	It would just be like, now we're here to confirm Obama, Hitler, Judas to the Supreme Court justice position.
	And then maybe even then, no traction on that.
	But yeah, so I caution you, dear listeners, to be afraid of our current Republican Party and the way of the world that they seem to be engaged in, which is to say that in order to be successful, you either need to be courting this QAnon thing that nobody seems to know about if you ask them.
	I don't even know what QAnon is, and yet their talking points are always just... Never heard of it.
	Laser focused.
	Or, you need to be willing to swallow Daddy Trump's tiny orange mushroom, which apparently our friend Mo Brooks has forgotten about.
	So, having turned away his precious lips from the white shroom, or from the white shroom, from the orange shroom, apparently he has started losing Daddy Trump's favor.
	What's going on with Mo Brooks?
	And also, who the fuck is Mo Brooks?
	Yeah, and so I ask you.
	So one of the senators from Arizona, I mean not Arizona, Alabama, which in case you didn't notice is very Republican, there's an open seat in the U.S.
	Senate that obviously is going to go to a Republican in Alabama.
	So every idiot in the universe that wanted to be a senator from the Republican Party is gunning for that seat.
	And Mo Brooks, who was a representative from Alabama, had won the endorsement of Donald Trump and even went so far as to put that in his name on Twitter.
	He was Mo Brooks, endorsed by Donald Trump.
	At some event, Mo made the unbelievable mistake of telling people that we have to move past the 2020 election, that we have to focus on winning in 2022, recapturing the presidency in 2024, and that yes, I mean, probably with some eye rolling and like whatever he looked, obviously the Democrats cheated, yada yada, but Hey, spilled milk under the bridge, we gotta move on, let's do this.
	And once the God Emperor heard about Mo Brooks' heresy about moving past 2020 and just trying to deal with the events that are bothering America today, Trump declared Mo Brooks to be quote-unquote woke, which is apparently the most hideous slander you could lobby against a Republican.
	So after declaring Mo Brooks to be woke, he then said that he retracts his endorsement of Mo Brooks and will be looking at the Republican primary field in Alabama to find a new pick for Senate shortly.
	So pound stand, Mo Brooks.
	How dare you tell anyone to get over 2020?
	I'll never get over 2020, you piece of shit!
	Uh, Mo Brooks, Mo Problems, the voice actor.
	Yes, exactly!
	So, uh, does this actually mean anything for the race in Alabama, or is it just funny because it's just yet another instance of somebody daring to just be like, oh, maybe Donald Trump did legitimately lose the election, and just throw like a fucking, like a, being a piss baby and throwing an orange shit fit and making sure that people's, like, political careers are over because he's still got that sort of juice somehow?
	It's really hard to say because the Republican primary there is just massive.
	It's like an eight-person field.
	And Lord knows what you could actually do in order to make yourself stand out in the crowd.
	And obviously having Trump's endorsement was a feather in Mo Brooks's cap that made him stand out over all the other schmucks and lunatics that were trying to wedge their way into the public consciousness.
	And now that he's lost this, Who knows?
	I mean, right now, obviously, all the staffs of all the other schmucks trying to win this primary, which will, again, unless, literally, Alabama's standard for electing a Republican to the Senate is not be a credibly accused pedophile, and then only barely.
	Because this is the state of Roy Moore, where that man was perilously close to still winning a Senate seat, even after being credibly accused of being a pedophile.
	uh by countless uh like strolling up to the counter with his hands in his pockets and
	then he sees the sign that says no pedophiles he just turns around and walks away yes yes
	that's where the grandpa simps are walking into the the fucking uh maison derriere yes
	yeah so uh all of these other republicans that are in the primary mix my god i mean they
	absolutely have to be just chomping at the bit to try to get the god emperor's blessing upon them
	so that they this so they have a chance to be the one that will uh be the nominee that will then win
	unless they are credibly accused of pedophilia and then maybe they'll still win anyways because again
	that election was way too close for comfort Do better, Alabama.
	Do better.
	Before anybody yells at us on the internet, I know that it's champing at the bit and not chomping.
	And so does Mike.
	He just misspoke.
	I assure you.
	If there's anything I do, it's misspeaking.
	I am the king of it.
	I don't think I've ever heard a podcast in which somebody didn't accidentally say a dumb thing that was obviously just misspeaking.
	And then, you know, you just power through it.
	Except in the instances where you're accidentally calling KBJ KGB, in which case you get called out on it.
	Or when you accidentally say chopping instead of chanting.
	Then you get called out on it.
	In fact, anything that Mike Rain says, he gets called out on it.
	That's what we're here for.
	Straight to jail.
	Alright, so that's the truth about Mo Brooks and the reason I said that is because I'm going to use it as a seamless and incredible segue into our discussion of the week about Trump's social platform, Truth.
	Which is supposed to at this point have been the incredible free speech platform that everyone had always been waiting for, where you could get on there and show pictures of women's breasts and talk about how much you love Hitler.
	It's the home of Q. It's the new home of Q, Alex.
	So what's going on with TruSocial?
	Has anything gotten any better over there?
	A little better at TruSocial?
	Not really.
	People are slowly finding their way onto the site, which is making them very happy and excited.
	And Michael Flynn actually made a post about how Telegram is now currently censoring itself, which is true.
	Because I think Telegram is actually on app stores and stuff.
	You can actually download Telegram, unlike Gab, which is just so absolutely toxic that like no actual real entity will dare touch Gab.
	But, um, so truth social.
	So, Flynn was basically saying, well, Telegram's getting censored and Gab isn't very user-friendly, which is the dig he had at Gab, which I'm sure made Torbz punch a window when he heard that.
	And Flynn was just like, I'm just waiting for the day when my big family of digital soldiers can all join me on Truth, and it'll be wonderful.
	And that was just another subtle way for saying, hey, QAnon, come to Truth Social.
	And QAnon's aggressive, I mean, TruthSocial's aggressive courting of QAnon is so overwhelming that their fake Q social media account that we've talked about previously Even though that account literally said, hey guys, I'm not actually Q. This was all a joke.
	Calm down.
	Relax.
	This is just for funsies.
	The QAnon promoters are like, no, you're the real thing.
	We believe in you.
	Only Q would say that!
	Only Q would deny Q's Q-ness.
	So this nonsense has led to one QAnon promoter declaring that he believes That Q will post on 8kun for the first time in over going on almost two years now.
	And that the post will only be to confirm that he is now posting on Truth Social.
	And we will then follow them there.
	And my real question about this is, is that sounds more like to me that Jim and Ron Watkins are negotiating with Truth Social to just sell the Q identity intellectual property to them.
	And That these QAnon grifters, one of them is being tapped to actually write this shit because like Dan Scavino and Devin Nunes and all these other assholes who kind of know what they're doing, they probably know they can't actually write like quote-unquote Q drops on Truth Social.
	They don't have the voice of Q down.
	So they need one of these assholes to do this for them.
	And another QAnon grifter, I actually saw people talking to him, and he was like, hey, I'm on Truth Social, everybody, blah, blah, blah, join me there.
	And someone asked him, what is your handle on Truth Social?
	And the guy replied, Q. Nice.
	Whoops-a-doodle.
	Yeah, which this guy is small potatoes.
	He actually wouldn't rate because, as previously mentioned, Q on Truth Social got his account before Trump did.
	That account was baked in the Truth Social from the jump.
	So they would not have hired this guy for that job.
	He didn't have the cachet to get an account that early.
	But again, he wants to have that rub and he wants people to believe he is the one posting on that platform.
	So hey, why not take that swing?
	Why not go for it?
	Because the people running that account don't know any better.
	They don't know the inner workings of all these grifters and con artists.
	We should just start a movement where we just Spartacus this motherfucker.
	We all just claim to be Q. The Adventures of Outworld podcast is proud to reveal the true identity of Q is me, L. L equals Q the whole time.
	Wow!
	Oh man, I didn't see this one coming.
	Yeah, so the Avengers in Hellworld, so Mike Raines, who is also Q, and myself, who has always been Q, we decided that one of the many ways we were going to try to capitalize on the Q brand was to make this podcast, Avengers in Hellworld, where Devils advocated Uh, by claiming to be a bunch of liberals and playing both sides of the field so that we could grift, uh, two ways.
	So, um, and we were, and then we were fortunate enough to find also Q Sarge.
	Uh, so.
	It's a me.
	Welcome to the 3Q Podcast.
	Yes!
	Hey, Q did state in a Q-drop that only ten people have the full picture of what's going on and are on Q, are on Q-team, and three of them are non-military.
	So, L and E are two of the non-military, Sarge is military, so doesn't count against that quota, doesn't hit that salary cap, so we're good.
	We're going to create a new tier on our Patreon for like, I don't know, $250.
	With only seven slots available, you can join as the other seven members of Q-team.
	And that's, that'll be the conniacal Q-team.
	And, but again, Q-team six.
	Yeah.
	Q-team six.
	The 10 people on Q-team six.
	Exactly.
	But unfortunately we can only accept one person who without military background, because again, Q made it clear.
	So.
	And if you want to be that person, go ahead and head on over to our Patreon.
	And I'm not saying you have to be, but I am saying you have to be a member of our Patreon to be considered for QTeam6.
	Yes, absolutely.
	And I have to say, for legal reasons, that Q-Team 6 is not affiliated with SEAL Team 6, but is instead a riff on the Bionic 6.
	Because my particular brand of Q is, I'm the Q who makes pop culture references to cartoons from the 80s.
	So, for those of you who are wondering, what the fuck is LslashQ talking about now?
	It's a cartoon from the 80s called the Bionic 6, so you can go check that out.
	I think they had a big robot gorilla.
	One of them was like baseball themed.
	It was very strange.
	These were a strange time.
	They were weird.
	Everything was a toy commercial.
	Everything was a toy commercial.
	You know, it was just, it was so crazy.
	Like people were fearing nuclear apocalypse and like, you know, everybody hated Russia.
	It was just an incredibly bizarre time.
	Not unlike 2022, in which people are afraid of nuclear war because we all hate Russia again.
	Specifically because Russia has decided to non-consensually enter Ukraine, and in doing so has done nothing but make Ukraine look incredible.
	Every time I see 80 coverage coming out of Ukraine, it's like, wow.
	What a unit of a country, holy shit!
	But of course, QAnon, they don't see it that way, because Vladimir Putin is second in their hearts only to Donald Trump.
	They love how he rides horses shirtless, and if he says that Ukraine is filled with American bio labs, and therefore, and Nazis apparently, and therefore needs to be defeated for those two reasons, and whatever other reasons he could cook up on any given day, QAnon is going to back that play.
	So, Mike Raines, what's going on in the world of QAnon as it pertains to the unfortunate and dreadful military action happening in Ukraine right now?
	And for the record, I will say once again, the Avengers in Hellworld stands with Ukraine and hates war.
	So, hot political takes.
	War is bad.
	There we go.
	Yes, even I think war is bad, and I was in one.
	Maybe, I don't know, a war criminal, Sarge.
	Just randomly.
	Yeah, and also, that's not something to hang your hat on, dawg.
	I've been part of the war on drugs for like 30 years or whatever, since I was born.
	Drugs won!
	You were in a losing war.
	I mean, hey, Russia's in a losing war right now, baby.
	They are losing to American and European-made Hand-held anti-tank missiles, and you love to see it.
	Yeah, it's just like a small farming town just ate Putin's lunch.
	They were just like, hey, observe our mighty Russian tanks.
	And these farmers are just like, observe our mighty entrenched position.
	Yeah, observe our German made Panzerfaust M1As. And they're like, oh, we don't like those.
	So the story of what is happening in Ukraine is pretty much that Ukraine is the ultimate cesspool
	of corruption, child trafficking, bio labs, Nazis, even though if you actually...
	This is all according to QAnon, not according to us.
	And according to reality.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Very much against reality and what reality ascribes to what's happening here.
	Every ill that has ever happened in the history of the universe is pretty much Part of the Deep State's operations inside of Ukraine and Putin going into Ukraine shall cleanse the world of this evil and save us all from these terrible bad Deep State awful monsters.
	Now what's really funny about the fact that They love to talk about, oh, the Ossoff Group and the Ukraine is just full of Nazis and how bad they are, is that QAnon is very much of the mindset that, you know, Hitler wasn't actually the bad guy in World War II.
	We're a record scratch noise?
	What?
	Oh yeah, so much of QAnon's mythos is that Hitler was but a puppet of the Deep State, and that the Deep State was playing both sides in order to make more money.
	They love talking about how war is good for business.
	If you look at what happened to Europe after World War II, it was a bombed out fucking ruin.
	Basically, the only country that ever had a real good go of it in wars is America, when the war is in Europe, and we can just build shit and they can't bomb us.
	Yeah, it largely doesn't affect us.
	You just have to hope they don't roll double sixes twice, in which case you are totally fucked.
	Yeah, I don't get those heavy bombers.
	Yeah, those super bombers are no joke.
	Jericho bombers.
	Yeah, so, so they will, they will first the first level of QAnon's red pilling when it comes to World War Two is both
	sides were equally bad because Hitler was merely the puppet of
	the bad people that made him go to war. And then Then the bad people had the other side fight him so they
	can make the big bucks selling weapons.
	Level two of that was Hitler was actually the good guy in World War Two.
	Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, uh, Hitler.
	Hitler was actually fighting the New World Order, which of course was a Jewish-run conspiracy against Germany.
	He was doing everything on the up and up.
	They like to conflate the Bolshevik Revolution with Jewish people.
	The Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy is often cited as being proof of this.
	This then gets into this whole thing where when the Soviet Union collapsed that was the toppling of that evil globalist New World Order enterprise and then Putin takes over and he's the good guy because again the Soviet Union was the bad guys because Jewish people and now you have Putin who's a strong Christian Pro-Russia, pro-nationalist, anti-globalist guy running the ship of state.
	So, now Russia is super-duper-XXX good, and they're fighting the real Nazis, who are now transmuted into being bad guys, even though, again, Hitler was at worst a neutral, dumb puppet, and at best a good guy, when you actually listen to these people.
	I remember Joe M, one of the big QAnon promoters, was like, one of the biggest red pills is finding out what the Holocaust was really about.
	And it's like, what does that mean, Joe?
	What are you talking about?
	Yeah, holy shit, what?
	Yeah, they have all these ridiculous, dark concepts.
	One thing that they like to talk about is how the people, the Rothschilds and all of the actual power behind the scenes, they aren't really Jewish people.
	They're just like, they use the Jewish badge as a way to deflect criticism of them by declaring anti-Semitism.
	And that the Rothschilds ran World War II, staged the Holocaust to kill real Jewish people, just so that after World War II was over, they could use that to found Israel and shield themselves from persecution by calling you an anti-Semite if you bring them up for it.
	It's the most pretzel-logic bullshit you could possibly imagine, and my brain hurts even saying it, but this is the world I live in, and it's magical.
	Yeah.
	Holy shit.
	Well, boy howdy, they weren't expecting wrinkles in the fabric of their plan in the form of people like me, who are not anti-Semitic, but also disagree strongly with most of Israel's policies.
	Turns out, you don't have to be an anti-Semite to dislike Israel, and disliking Israel does not make you an anti-Semite.
	No, yeah, and Israel has shown that they are for Russia's evasion of Ukraine.
	They've just told Ukraine, you're like, you should just give up to Russia, right?
	Yeah, well, I mean, like, it turns out that if you're if you're pro-Israel, you do have to sort of be about the idea of one country just sort of being where another country already was.
	Like that's sort of like their whole thing.
	It's just like, hey, we're going to make a place for you.
	And that place is going to be this place that already has people in it.
	It's just like, you know, it's modern day colonialism.
	It's like how Christopher Columbus discovered America and all of the people who had been living there for tens of thousands of years.
	He was like, I have discovered all of this.
	And they're just like, well done.
	We've been here for a long time.
	We have like infrastructure and everything.
	And he's just like, yeah, but I discovered it.
	So shut up.
	Also, the Vikings found the place even longer before you white people did, and he's just like, yeah, but still, it was me.
	And I was the one who did it.
	Yes.
	Good on you, Christopher Columbus.
	For hundreds of years, people in America are going to learn that that is how it went down.
	Christopher Columbus showed up and he was just like, I've discovered this place and I'm here to bring civilization and the Lord to all of you uncultured people who are already living here.
	And our school books told us that that was all peachy keen and hunky dory.
	And that is the way that Republicans would like very much like for the Civil War to be taught in school, too.
	Heroic, state-government-loving Southerners fought a war for no reason other than to maintain their ability to govern themselves against the treacherous North.
	And there was nothing else.
	Nothing else.
	That was all that went down.
	And let's just let's just forget about it.
	And then Abraham Lincoln showed up and he gave he gave his Gettyburg Address and he did nothing else before being assassinated.
	Yeah.
	So it's so weird that we don't read the entire Emancipation Proclamation in school, all two pages of it, usually just one.
	And they never talk about Columbus's journals where he documents taking child sex slaves.
	He's like, no, that never happened.
	Hearsay.
	It's all hearsay.
	Your Honor, I would like the defendant's signed confession stricken from the record.
	It makes my case look very bad.
	Your Honor, I would like to extract this here supposed evidence from the record and from this case because it makes my client look very guilty.
	Yeah, it's so weird that the evangelization of Abraham Lincoln didn't really happen until around World War II when America desperately needed heroes.
	And I'm not saying Abraham Lincoln was a bad president.
	He just wasn't the fucking cartoon character Saturday morning superhero that we have him to be now.
	Well, that's not what our textbooks are going to say in places like Alabama and Mississippi and other weirdly non-Northern states that are going to teach that Abraham Lincoln was the messiah for all these African-Americans who made the journey from Africa to America of their own volition because they wanted a better life just like the Irish.
	Because boy, howdy, if Irish people like to tell you anything, it's that they're just like, yeah, we were just like the blacks.
	And it's like, no, you were not.
	And also, don't use that term.
	It's very offensive.
	Listen, everybody needs to recognize that whiteness can be revoked or given at any time in America.
	The Irish, the Italians, on and off again, Jewish people, are allowed to be white and then have it taken away.
	Irish and Italians have it pretty firmly now, but at any moment, you can have whiteness, aka power, taken away from you.
	That's not like... But it cannot be bestowed upon a non-white.
	No.
	Which is the problem with privilege.
	No matter how much you try, you can't just be like, you know what?
	We're just gonna break off our power for these non-white people.
	Yeah, privilege is acting like you hit a home run when you were born on second base.
	Like, things may not be better for you, but you always have that one leg up.
	Like, you started somewhere else.
	Now, you don't really get to be... You're still white if you're poor, but It's gonna be easier to be white and poor than black and poor in America.
	White X is better and easier than anything non-white X, which is what we spoke about at the top of the show.
	And we're rehashing it now because we're all just deeply, deeply filled with our white guilt.
	Being white is so hard.
	I'm always so guilty that I have it so much better than non-whites.
	It's hard to be an ally.
	You don't always know what to do, but I guess start with recognizing your privilege.
	It makes me wonder, how do white Catholics do it?
	How hasn't the guilt crushed them into nothing?
	Forever guilty.
	I know several lapsed Catholics that, even though they're not religious, Like, staunchly not religious.
	I'll be like, oh, I'm a Catholic.
	And it's baffling to me.
	It truly is.
	Yeah, I'm right there with you.
	I also think Catholicism is baffling.
	Imagine a religion based around breaking one of God's most sacred rules.
	Yeah, I'm not even making a joke or riffing.
	Catholicism is baffling.
	I am.
	I'm making a joke and riffing, but I also do believe that Catholicism is truly confusing.
	And anytime anyone has tried to explain it to me, it has not been good enough.
	I'm just like, hey, just literally tell me why, according to your religion, it is cool for you to say a prayer to a saint and not to God.
	And they're just like, well, and I'm just like, well, he made you 10 fucking rules, and this is fucking one of them.
	Don't do this!
	Anyway, sorry.
	No, it makes way more sense that a grave robber from the South found secret golden discs that only he could look at.
	Honestly, they're the same.
	They're the same.
	All of it is the same.
	The only thing that differentiates the Joseph Smith thing is that that happened somehow like 150 years ago and not 2,000 years ago.
	What was it?
	We went like three weeks without a Moroni reference?
	I didn't reference Moroni.
	Moroni is my co-pilot.
	I referenced Joseph Smith and the Golden Disk.
	All that he could look at, otherwise your head would explode.
	And it's totally legit, trust me.
	But once you start with Joseph Smith, you know where we're going.
	This is well-trod ground.
	Seems pretty weird that after Joseph Smith passed, like, they didn't enshrine the Golden Plates at least as, like, a way to commemorate it, or for, like, you know, like, the Latter Day Saints, like Mecca, or whatever.
	They just let them, I don't know, vanish into nothingness, because, or maybe they never existed, who knows, anyway.
	When the Golden Plates, when they needed them most, they vanished.
	So I don't know what percentage of our listenership is religious, but I feel like if we just keep going, we could hit all the religions and infuriate everybody that lose all of our listeners, or we could do the opposite and go into our mailbag and have our listeners ask us questions.
	A reasonable plan.
	Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
	It's time for Q and A.
	So, uh, because I was looking at stuff on the internet, I managed to knock away the mailbag so I don't have to pull it back up.
	So, professionalism.
	Yeah, I mean, incredible.
	Like, so good.
	Mike Rades is just being like the Omni podcast host this week.
	I truly am.
	I'm killing it.
	So, Cleodora Silvestri is friends with a cursed and then an ellipsis, so your name is just too long to even be on the page.
	How long can the multiple factions of Q keep sticking all their favorite bits of bigotry within a single overbloated Ukraine invasion myth that makes Putin the hero before the entire thing collapses like a pyramid built pointy end down?
	That will never happen.
	Well, I mean, that's a funny way to phrase that, but it's never going to happen.
	Like, I can't imagine what sort of event could happen that could ever, like, rock The QAnon mythos, which is now just this horrible amalgamation of every conspiracy theory that appeals to white nationalists.
	Like, literally nothing could happen.
	If we found out tomorrow that Vladimir Putin had, like, a child sex slave dungeon on top of a bio lab that was filled with Chinese working on coronavirus 2, QAnon would somehow just spin that into just being like, Well, yeah, that was always part of the plan.
	That was why the good guys tricked Putin into invading Ukraine and therefore getting extra scrutiny on him so he could discover the dungeons and the bio labs.
	The thing about this amorphous... Their fucking conspiracy theory has turned into the Borg.
	Where, like, even if you get a shot in that rattles them, it only works one time.
	And then after that, they just adapt to it, and from then on, they know how to deflect that particular criticism.
	Like, they've just enshrined themselves in this protective bubble of willful ignorance and just, like, completely divorcing themselves from reality so that they could be armchair heroes in their own mind.
	The one thing I do wonder about is if the war in Ukraine continues to go as shittily as it is for Russia, and I'm not saying the odds of Putin being overthrown are high, but if that non-zero possibility happened, I really think that that would totally blow QAnon's minds.
	If some group of oligarchs or a chunk of the military or somebody pushed Putin out of power, I read that that is actively happening.
	He's very worried about it anyway.
	My understanding is Putin fired all his household staff because he became desperately afraid of poisoning.
	Oh, I think that kind of stuff is definitely possible, but I mean, that's all good.
	Vladimir Putin will never go above the first story of a building.
	Yeah.
	Defenestration is a Russian, national Russian pastime now.
	You know what, here's my hot take for you.
	Donald Trump for President of Russia.
	Make Russia great again.
	Let's just give everybody what they want.
	We'll fucking kick Donald Trump's dumb ass out of America.
	He can take over Russia and all these QAnon idiots can love Russia and love Trump at the same time.
	So good.
	That'd be awesome.
	That'd be so good.
	I wholly endorse this fan fiction and want reality to break to the point where that actually happens.
	Man, if you want to get the piss tape, that is the quickest way to do it.
	Like, holy shit.
	So thank you for the question.
	Klutz0 asks, which QAnon personalities do you think would do best or worst in a poker tournament?
	You're grading on a scale there because I think they're all just their lack of critical thinking or understanding, and their hubris would probably make them go broke very quickly.
	I really couldn't, like, it would have to be a tournament exclusively of them, and I think the funny thing would be mostly the fact that the luck factor in poker, the bad beats, the things that happen like that, That would feed into their mindset.
	I think this tournament would be a really great idea because it would lead to so much infighting and hatred between them that like, oh, that no good, Jordan Sather, he had the dealer rig that deck so he beat me and blah, blah, blah.
	Because they would never be able to get over the fact that there are coincidences, that things do happen randomly.
	Everything to them is part of a plot.
	Everything to them is part of a conspiracy.
	And if they actually had to go through that ordeal of playing a poker tournament amongst themselves, the winner would be beyond arrogant and insufferable, because they all have huge egos, and the winner would have to believe that they played the most brilliant poker that had ever been played by any human being.
	And all the losers would think they got screwed, that they would think the fix was in to put that guy over them.
	So, I don't really have an answer for the direct question, but my answer would actually be, God, do I want to have this happen.
	If there was some idiot out there, like QAnon John, who is the schmuck who pays for all these conventions, and then he goes on Gab and Telegram and posts shit.
	And it's so funny, because, like, These idiots who don't even use their real names, like MajorDad and PepeLivesMatter, they'll post shit like, I like tacos!
	And they'll get a thousand likes.
	And QAnonJohn, who's been pumping all this money into the movement, and he'll post like this five paragraph thing about how we have to take down Biden and do this and that, and he gets like 80 likes.
	Like, no one cares about this guy.
	All people do is take his money.
	Like, I want that guy to, like, sponsor the tournament with a big cash payout, get all the other QAnon influencers in there, and by the end of the night, he'll be the Deep State.
	The guy that won the tournament will be the Deep State, and everybody else will hate them.
	It'll be great.
	So, I am now pro-massive QAnon poker tournament, because it could only end in tears.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I think that he would go all the way, but the QAnon personality I would like to see in a poker tournament the most is Jim Stewart, boom, got him.
	I would love Ron rolling in there with his fucking cowboy hat and his thinking he's smart so he must be good at poker.
	Let's ban Jesu from the big tournament.
	And so he'll go start a smaller, shittier tournament, like far away from the eyes of almost anybody, where he can rant to his tiny fan base about how much the larger poker tournament sucks and he hates it, but he desperately wishes he could participate.
	He's like, oh yeah, that poker tournament is the worst.
	I hate it.
	It sucks.
	God, I wish I could play it, but it's awful.
	Oh man, I wish I could be there, but it's just the worst and I hate it.
	Fuck, it's terrible.
	Yeah, it'd be great.
	Oh man.
	He could just be like, I cracked this QAnon thing immediately.
	Chris Moneymaker's Q. I've always said that.
	Moneying on.
	We did it.
	We did it, everybody.
	So thank you for the question.
	Placeholder asks, in an ideal world that we don't live in, what safety nets would you like to see set up for negative 48 people as the group splinters and hopefully fades?
	For the families around the people that got sucked into the cult, I would love for there to be some, like, they could go to QAnon casualties, they can find people to talk to.
	There are so many people out there that would like to help them understand what their loved one got roped into.
	As for the loved one themselves, God, I mean, this requires so much counseling and dealing with the fact that you... because you have to be in a vulnerable state to actually join a real-life, living, breathing cult the way Negative 48's group is.
	So you need to have a lot of introspection and a lot of work.
	You have to put in a lot of work in order to find out why you went there, what got you into that place, how can you avoid that place.
	I just think that there's a lot that could be done that won't be, as you said, because we don't live in that world.
	Yeah.
	And the other thing is that it's really tough for those people because there's a big stigma about joining a group like this, and that's something that you have to bear that burden that you bought into an incredible amount of bullshit from some guy
	that was lying to you about How words and numbers work and that he was the prophet of
	God and all that happy horseshit I mean, that's a tale as old as time. Yeah. Yeah, and so
	I mean, I have to say I mean people who listen to the show regularly probably
	already know this but I'm all out of empathy for the people that join that willingly
	The families of the people that joined up, and the children that are involved, and all the people that it ripples out to and affects.
	Those people, my heart bleeds for them.
	I think that sucks.
	It's 2022.
	Like all of the people involved are white, as we've mentioned several times on this episode of the podcast, that means they're on easy street.
	Like I'm sure that they've got their own problems that sort of made them vulnerable enough to buy into this shit.
	But I Haven't become liberal enough where I don't think personal responsibility is a thing anymore?
	So, if you've opted into a cult lifestyle, you don't get to be upset when people are just like, hey, you belong to a cult, and fuck you.
	Which is my position on the matter.
	So, for the families, I'm totally 100% with Mike Rains on this one.
	Like, whatever we can do to help them.
	They didn't do anything.
	They got caught up in this shit, not their own volition.
	For the people that opted in, they should get the same safety net that the flying Grayson's had.
	So thank you for the question.
	Pancake Peasant asks, where can we invest in Sarge's crypted currency?
	Will Woke Mothman make an endorsement ad?
	Woke Mothman's way too woke to endorse crypto.
	It's bad for the environment.
	Yeah, Woke Mothman doesn't seem like he would be fucking with any of this sort of shit.
	Now, I think what we should really do is get our Hellworld coin off the ground and then trick Elon Musk to talk about it.
	Yeah, oh boy.
	That guy seems like he can't get enough of crypto.
	He's just constantly making hot crypto takes and just causing stock markets to fluctuate because the world we live in is fundamentally broken right now.
	It's so fucking crazy.
	Yeah.
	I'll tell you now, listeners, if Hellworld ever endorses crypto, NFTs in any way, know that we've been replaced because we are going to rug pull you.
	It is all a scam.
	Just watch.
	Line goes up.
	I mean, like, I wish that I had the moral fiber to make that guarantee, but I don't.
	If I ever have an opportunity to sell out to the crypto gods for, like, I can be bought.
	I'm just gonna tell you, you, Mike, the audience, God, and everyone, that I have a price.
	I could be bought.
	I'm not gonna speculate on what the price is.
	Somebody offer me a check, and if it's big enough, then I'll fucking hawk whatever ape you want to be most concerned about.
	Like, I've lived poor for over 30 years.
	I'm kind of over being poor, so your boy could be bought and paid for 100%.
	Good on Al for getting that back.
	Boom, nailed it.
	Also, doesn't it seem like it would be nice to have a superyacht?
	Yeah, until the governments of the world come and steal it.
	Well, steal it.
	Repossess it.
	Superyacht seems like the ultimate, just sort of seems like the fucking NFT before NFTs, where it's just like a big stupid expensive thing that's really only for looking at.
	It's just a practical purpose.
	It's just so dumb.
	Just book a hotel.
	Just book a fancy hotel.
	Own the floor of a hotel.
	Don't get me wrong, I like being on a boat as much as an ex-person, but I've never liked a boat experience enough to be like, you know what, I could really use a $300 million boat.
	Yeah, Sarge was in the army for a reason.
	Sarge is afraid of the deep ocean.
	I do not like boats.
	Well, I'll go out on a lake and have driven, like, recreational boats.
	I, like, cruise ships really wig me out.
	Like, I don't know how to explain it.
	Well, cruise ships wig me out, but it has nothing to do with the ocean.
	It's just like, hey, do you want to be trapped in this petri dish with a bunch of the worst people that are just like recklessly on vacation?
	And it's just like, no, I don't.
	Like, do you want to be trapped on a boat with a bunch of like...
	You know, middle to elderly aged people that are just going to be knocking back the cheapest vodka available in an astonishing amount while not playing shuffleboard and then, you know, get into this public pool that's on this boat, but they can't treat it properly because, you know, you're on the ocean.
	It's like, this all sounds fucking terrible.
	Why would anyone want to do this?
	And she's like, but you get to look at the coastline of a place.
	Yeah, okay.
	I have Google Earth.
	I could do that.
	I could do that without the fucking, the being riddled with disease and the maybe having a, like, not that respectable sexual encounter with somebody who might be sort of out of my typical wheelhouse.
	Oh dear.
	It's like, fuck it, I'm on a boat and I'm drunk.
	All right, let's go.
	Okay, so that was a thing that we talked about.
	So, thanks for that question.
	BackOnKetoMike asks, how many people lost to Q are never coming back?
	More than we like.
	More than we would like to acknowledge?
	I mean, people will drop out of it, and people will lose favor with Q and QAnon, but there'll be another conspiracy theory.
	The mind of conspiratorial thinking, that doesn't go away for most people.
	People get into this stuff, and then when Q fails them, they just find a different conspiracy to buy into.
	That's how this actually works for them.
	It's just, oh, I want to believe that the mainstream media is lying about the secret truth, and they're not telling me what's going on, and all the stuff I see is a false flag.
	When Q fails them, they're going to say, oh shit, maybe the media isn't lying to me.
	They're going to be like, ah, Q was bullshit too.
	He was part of the deep state also.
	And then they move on to the next con man, the next huckster.
	And the problem is, is just social media and the internet has allowed this disinformation to just get out there further and become bigger and better than it ever was before.
	Yeah, I think we've talked about it, like flat-earther conspiracy theory really exploded for the first time when smartphones became readily available.
	And yeah, it's like Mike's saying, there's always something.
	I mean, the Illuminati was around for a long time and QAnon just made it bigger and better, but that mentality has always been there and it's never going away.
	Yeah, unfortunately, few and far between are the people that manage to disengage from cult behavior.
	Yeah, so thank you for that question.
	Reverend Xenofact asks, the Kretens are somehow getting more pro-Putin and anti-Ukraine.
	What are the odds that they'll decide that the Ukrainians aren't even human, but are clones, robots, demons, vampires?
	Because they don't have much lower to go.
	Dehumanization is like the last line of calling your enemy a bad guy.
	I mean, they've already gone to the point of calling Ukraine Nazis and that they have child trafficking camps, so they've already called them pedophiles and Nazis.
	When they actually get to the point of calling them demons would be... that's... I don't know... I don't know if, like, Putin would go that far, but there are definitely going to be people in QAnon that will cross that line at some point because When you see all these videos of all the carnage and the war and all these civilians being killed by the Russians, you have to have a justification for that.
	You have to have a defense for why the Russians have done that.
	And the answer is, oh, they're not even human.
	They're not actually real people.
	You don't start at burning books.
	You don't start at putting people in ghettos.
	You have to, it's like Mike's saying, it's a gradual lead up.
	the dehumanization is usually one of the last steps. And yeah, I'll go to be fair. Like, I
	don't think they need, I don't think they can get any less human in the minds of these people to
	begin with. Because in order to be pro war, you have to be looking at the footage coming out of
	the Ukraine, you know, not the heroic footage of the Ukrainians, like beating back attacks,
	but the footage of like, people in line at a pharmacy getting shelled for no reason. And
	like dead in the streets and looking at that and just be like, Yeah, sirs, I'm fucking right. Putin.
	Yeah, kick ass.
	Like, how much less human can you make those people?
	They're literally dead on the street and you're looking at their bodies and just being like, fuck yeah!
	It would be different if Ukraine did anything wrong, but they have literally no evidence to support any of their claims because all their claims are bullshit.
	So I feel like, you know, it would be a lateral move at best if they started to refer to like, oh, all the Ukrainians are clones anyway.
	So it's just like, OK, well, at the end of the day, it doesn't change the fact that you don't mind when innocent civilians are getting shelled on the street.
	So who cares?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're inhuman monsters.
	That's basically the best way to describe it.
	Well, that was incredibly bleak, so let's pivot around to the question we always ask at the end of every episode, which is, what are you guys looking forward to?
	What am I looking forward to?
	We talk about it all the time on Binge Wordy.
	I am enjoying Elden Ring, so I'm looking forward to playing more of that when I get a chance here.
	I have enjoyed it more than Uh, any other video game in a long time, and that continues to surprise me.
	So I'm just going to go with Elden Ring this week.
	I really am having a good time.
	I have date night after we're done recording, which is great because I spent the rest of my day before recording the old pod having to do a bunch of heavy lifting and moving shit up and down into my basement.
	So it'll be nice to get the fuck out of here and go out into the world for a little bit and enjoy a light dinner and some company and just do anything that isn't lifting mattresses up and down stairs.
	Keeping it tight.
	Yeah.
	I'm enjoying the fact that I've started my new job at my work, and that was a lot of fun.
	And it also involved me being way more active than I was as a poker dealer.
	Because when you're a poker dealer, FYI, you're incredibly sedentary.
	Whereas when you are a manager and you're walking around, Watching dealers taking in money, paying out bets, doing all this kind of stuff.
	You're actually kind of hustling and bustling around the old casino floor.
	And yesterday, probably for the first time in forever, I got like 10,000 steps in on my my little calculator on my phone.
	I walked like almost four and a half miles in a day, which I definitely haven't done in forever.
	So I was just like, holy shit.
	I'm like, I'm allowed to be physically active and receive financial compensation.
	I need to start doing this podcast on a treadmill while I'm here.
	Standing desk, baby.
	Let me tell you, if you want to be physically active and get paid for it, I have the job for you.
	Go down to your local recruiting station.
	Yeah, that level of physical activity, four and a half miles of barely walking over the course of a nine-hour shift, that was exertion for me compared to... I'm out the first day of boot camp.
	I'm done.
	God bless you, Sarge.
	God bless you for being able to do that, which I could never do.
	Yes, Sarge.
	God bless you, and God bless all of our listeners.
	Thank you so much for listening to the show and for supporting us.
	If you'd like to continue to support us, the easiest, freest way to do so is just tell a friend or tell anybody that, as I mentioned earlier in the pod, you would like to de-stupidfy.
	So you're just like, hey, educate yourself by listening to these chunguses.
	And they're just like, these guys talk a lot about 80s cartoons.
	What am I going to learn from them?
	Make sure you tell them not to worry about that part.
	Only listen to the QAnon parts.
	The rest is just there for their amusement.
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	Big shout out to this week's beautifuller baby, Evan H. Welcome to the team.
	Evan, hope you're enjoying all of that sweet, sweet bonus content.
	If you don't want to give your money to us, but you'd like to do a little good with it, you can donate to Love146.org, an organization whose vision is the end of child trafficking and exploitation.
	Or you can go ahead and donate it to any of the various charities that are supporting Ukraine's defense of their nation against Russian incursion.
	So go ahead and feel free.
	And we won't even complain about it this week.
	Normally, we're just like, hey, we want your money instead.
	But this week, nah.
	If you got some money and you want to give it to somebody, give it to Ukraine.
	This is the part of the show where I'd like to thank DJ Minimal Effort for providing our intro song.
	DJ Minimal Effort remains too cool for social media, so there's no way for you guys to thank him personally, so allow me to thank him on your behalf.
	Thanks, DJ Minimal Effort.
	You're a real mensch.
	Our buddy Frosty, who does our bumps, our content warning, the voice of Q whenever we need it, he can be found on Twitter, at FrostyVO, if you'd like to go over there and tell him that you like what he's doing, and maybe solicit voice acting work out of him for your own projects.
	If you can't get enough of myself and Sarge, you can hear our spinoff podcast where we talk about pop media stuff.
	This week we are continuing our dive into Batman in media, specifically movies in Batmarch, or March comes in like a Batman.
	You can find that at BingeWerdy, B-I-N-G-E-W-O-R-D-Y, and you can find us on Twitter at BingeWerdy, spelled the same way.
	So, for another successful episode of the Adventures in Hellworld Podcast, I have been your host, Hellworld Al, joined by our wonderful military man, Hellworld Sarge, and of course, our expert in all things QAnon crazy, the man of the hour, Mr. Mike Rains.

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