Adventures in HellwQrld Episode #81: KBJ, Truth, Groomers, and more with Shark!
This week Nurse Shark fills in for L as we celebrate KBJ getting confirmed and bask in QAnon's impotent rage. Also Truth Social continues to be a train wreck, Q makes a return (Sort of) and we react to the wild story of the Secret Service maybe being compromised, all that plus the return of the Babylon 5 Five! Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
I am joined, as always, by Sarge.
Hello from the internet.
And this week, we have Nurse Shark in the third chair.
Hello from the Philly area.
The Philly area, which is also part of the internet.
Yes.
That too.
Yeah, it is all of these things.
It is all of these things and more.
So we've had just all kinds of stuff going on this week.
More news than you could possibly hope to talk about.
But as we've been doing recently here in Hell World, we open up with the lighter, fluffier, sillier stuff.
And what could be lighter and fluffier than laughing at the train wreck that is Truth Social?
Everybody quit.
Everybody quit.
Yes.
So Truth Social, in case you didn't know, is Donald Trump's dying internet platform.
Their big plan was pretty much to try to rope QAnon believers into joining the movement, into joining the platform.
And let me tell you, QAnon was reacting as though they had never been courted or talked to friendly before.
And it was just like, they just couldn't see what suckers they were.
Q's gotta go somewhere, right?
Yes.
So while that was all happening, while their social media plan was to do this thing, to bring QAnon in, their tech side was designed to apparently disastrously crash and fall apart.
They had promised that they were going to have TruthSocial ready for Android phones by the end of March, and we are now recording this podcast on April 7th, and you still cannot get on TruthSocial via Android.
I applied to join TruthSocial sometime in the middle of March, and I have not had my account for TruthSocial approved yet.
They're on to you.
They're on to me, but also...
There are plenty of QAnon supporters who have said that they are still waiting to get in.
They're not happy.
Absolutely not.
They're not happy at all.
They're like, they're really saying, you know, kind of like, what is going on?
You know, why?
Why would this take this long?
They're really kind of not getting us to this Technical difficulty because it's just never happened with any other platform in that kind of way.
So, I mean, they're really having a struggle with this to try and hold on with their fingernails to the side of the building and to not fall off, you know?
So it was, it was a bunch of upper, it was like three upper people quit, right?
The, like, the chief, The Chief Technologist or whatever.
I don't remember all their titles, but like...
Mm-hmm.
The only guy that's been sticking it out right now is Devin Nunes.
Right before we started recording this, Devin Nunes is being torn apart on Gab because there's nothing that Torba and Gab enjoy more than an enemy social media platform falling apart.
Because, hey, that means we get to have more We get to try to talk about how we're the ones, we're the good, we're the good place for Nazis to go.
We're the place where you should go to promote all your hatred and vitriol.
And so yeah, Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, what a great pair of names those are.
Guy Guy and Billy Drunk Person, they were the Yeah, they were the TruthSocial Chiefs of Technology and Product Development.
They left.
They've called it a day.
So that little train wreck of an event has happened.
Again, they weren't able to get on Android.
And recently, there have been reports that downloads of TruthSocial on Apple's App Store That's a big number!
by 93% over the past month.
That's a big number.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Yeah, literally everyone, yeah, everyone who wanted Truth Social got it in the first month,
and probably the vast majority of them were not able to get on Truth Social in that first
month.
93% drop.
Yeah, yeah, it is.
It is horrifying.
And there are the official, like, unconfirmed reports because it's people on background who are not putting their names to it.
Right.
But there have been statements that Trump is debating fleeing Truth Social and joining Getter, which one of his other minions started.
What's Getter?
Have we talked about Getter?
Getter is an alternative, it's basically another alternative to Parlor and Gap.
Although it sounds closer to Grindr.
It really sounds closer to Grindr!
It does!
Sorry.
Oh, 100%.
No, you're 100% right.
Like, they went with it for a reason.
And who's, like, super involved with it?
Jason Miller, the most, like, unethical person, I think, outside of, like, war criminals, right?
He's, like, isn't he?
Why do you say that about Jason Miller?
Why is he so bad?
I don't know the story of Jason Miller's terrible evil.
Wait, Jason Miller, the one that the The guy that made the cocktail that had the abortifacient medication in it?
Am I thinking of the wrong guy?
No, you could be right.
I just want to hear the story because I don't know this guy that well.
Jason Miller is the CEO of Getter.
Okay, so he's been a Trump aide, but, like, while he was a Trump aide and married, he fathered a child with his wife, but he also fathered a child with another woman, AJ Delgado, and went through a crazy amount of fighting over whether he was even the father, and finally paternity was established, and he's been having a huge fight over any kind of, like, child support and any kind of, like, presence in the child's life not been there, but also he
got a stripper pregnant. So he got her out to a bar or went to her place of work, had
something made for her to drink, and basically gave her the abortifacient medications that
you give, like morning after type pills because she said he spiked her martini or
whatever it was so that he wouldn't have a third baby that was all within like this within like two to
four months of each other.
Okay.
Uh, yeah.
So this is Gitter's creator and CEO?
And this is like the GOP who's not, you know, they are, they are pro-life.
They are, you know, pro-family and this guy could not be more of an example of just the opposite of everything that they say that there are.
And I mean, talk about, you want to talk about a groomer?
Like, this guy's sketchy.
I wouldn't put him near anyone.
Hey, groomers are for the heavy side of the news.
Oh, we'll get there.
I will wait.
I will wait.
Yeah, yeah, yep.
But yeah, I just looked it up.
I just looked up Jason Miller.
And yes, father of AJ Delgado's kid and an unnamed doe.
Basically, I basically gave her a plan B by blending a pill into a fruit smoothie.
Okay, that's what it was.
The ensuing controversy caused him to leave his position as a political commentator on CNN.
I love that that's like CNN's hard line.
Trying to trick a woman into having an abortion against her will.
That, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, Jason Miller, you're off CNN for that!
Holy shit.
I mean, it's like, holy cow!
I guess CNN is more quote-unquote pro-life than, than truce, than, than gutter.
And the Trump administration by having him as an advisor.
Well, they found out he was pro-choice.
They got rid of him real quick.
But basically, the thing is that Trump apparently had said he didn't want to post on Truth until it was good, and that Truth was quote, not ready for primetime, so Trump didn't want to bless it with his presence.
What does that mean, until it was good?
Well, the terminology in the article was not ready for primetime, so when Truth was ready for primetime, Trump would show up, because I think he made one post ever on Truth, and it was just sort of like, hey, join me here, because it's great!
And then he basically walked off the platform and was like, actually, no, it's not great.
No, I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it and I'm gonna go join the guy who fathered two kids in a couple months with two different women and apparently had another woman have an abortion against her will.
I'm gonna go join that guy's platform.
That's the platform for me.
I'm amazed.
I'm honestly amazed that that isn't like every third post on Gab from Torba.
Because it feels like to me that if you're this giant dum-dum that does nothing but scream about Christianity and wrap yourself in the cross and talk about Jesus, The fact that, like, one of your rival Nazi sites has a CEO who tried to make a woman have an abortion against her will, I feel like I would beat- that would be a dead horse I would never stop beating.
I would be beating that dead horse for forever, until it was nothing but a skeleton, until I was actually just hitting the ground with my bat.
Then maybe I would stop doing it, but I would never let that jump.
I'd be like, oh yeah!
That's a lot.
That's a whole lot.
Yeah, I mean that is wild.
That is just super, super crazy.
That's the dirtbag that's running Getter.
I mean, it's really amazing.
It's really amazing that you could look at the absolute colossal piece of shit that is Andrew Torba, and the cesspool that is Gab, And then you're like, wow, this guy that runs an alternative to Gab is actually worse.
I mean, that is breathtaking.
How bad are these people?
That is unreal.
So while all of that's going on in the right wing cesspool of social media, meanwhile, while all that's happening, A new right-wing hero and free speech warrior, Elon Musk, has jumped into the fray, buying himself a heapin' helpin' of Twitter stock, and apparently having gotten himself appointed to the board of directors at Twitter.
So, um...
What's really funny about this is, as I pointed out on Twitter a few days ago, in the QAnon mythos, Q has a couple times referenced Elon Musk, but he didn't reference him by name.
Q does this dumb shit where he uses everybody's initials, unless you're Obama, pretty much.
And EM, as Q called him, Q let E.M.
know that he sucks, and he's a bad dude, and Q doesn't like him, and that's all there is to that.
And, of course, because QAnon doesn't care about anything that Q had to say if it doesn't currently fit their agenda right now, they're all just like, hey, shut up, Q!
Elon's our new daddy!
He's gonna bring Trump back!
He's gonna give us our accounts on Twitter back!
We're gonna do this!
I actually saw one QAnon promoter Talking up the idea that Elon is going to give Trump back his Twitter account so that Trump can finally post the tweet.
And if you don't know what the tweet is, the tweet is Donald Trump, and he was supposed to say this when he was president by the way, this wasn't supposed to be private citizen Trump saying this, was supposed to tweet out, my fellow Americans, the storm is upon us.
What a tremendous consolation prize.
Like Shark was talking about before we started, we brought this up.
They're just always like, oh man, I love me.
The bar just keeps getting lower.
A bar so low it's on the floor now.
They're just like, love me a consolation prize.
It's like, get Trump back on Twitter.
Huzzah!
I mean, what are we even doing?
Like, The thing that always gets me about this- That's so unsatisfying!
That's so unsatisfying!
That's like about as satisfying as a cross-stitch pillow.
I mean, come on!
Really?
That's it?
Yeah.
That's it.
That's it?
This is what I always bring up when it comes to QAnon is that Q started posting at a moment of extreme strength for the Republican Party.
They controlled both houses of Congress.
Trump was the president.
Trump had a Twitter account and all of this stuff and now we are four years after you started posting and the Republicans now control none of Congress.
They've lost the presidency.
Trump is off Twitter.
And now their victories are literally trying to get back to the status quo of 2017.
Trying to get where we were back when this whole thing started.
Which is so ridiculous to me.
It's like the idea that like...
Yeah, in 2017, we thought Trump was going to arrest Hillary and Obama like tomorrow.
But here in 2022, what we're hoping for is that the Republicans win back at least the House and maybe the Senate with the House.
That'd be great.
And then maybe Trump can get his Twitter account back.
And after all that happens in 2024, Trump can win the presidency back.
So then we can be back to where we were in 2017 when he was posted shit.
Only it will be seven years later, nothing will have happened, but we'll have gotten back to the starting point.
Then maybe we can start dreaming about D-Class or the FISA warrants or something.
I mean, it's just...
QAnon, the seven-year plan to get back what we lost when Q was originally posting.
That's what Joe Ebb's new movie should be.
I mean, it's just so pathetic that...
They had it all.
That was the one thing that Q kind of got wrong with his posting, was that there was nowhere for the Republicans to go but down from where they were.
I mean, literally, they had all the power.
Everything was theirs.
All they could do was lose.
If they had won those midterms, congratulations, you held serve.
Who cares?
Well, you were at like a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 of what's supposed to happen, where 10 is the storm.
10 is Hillary and Obama getting cuffed and stuffed.
Right.
And since then, you've gone from the 9, which is total control of the government, Running everything, doing whatever we want to like a two, where it's like, you still have Fox News.
You still have Tucker Carlson promoting white nationalism on TV.
These are the tiny handholds you still have in our government.
The only little bit of sunshine you got was you stuck an extra Supreme Court justice on there after Ginsburg died.
That was it.
That was the one little victory you got in one area of our government in the interceding four years between Q First posting and today.
And of course, today, when we get to our actual headlines, they took a hit on that area too.
That area?
Not so great for them today.
The sky?
A little gloomier.
The roses?
Not smelling quite as bright.
But right before we get into all of that, I wanted to play for you this.
Apparently the newest Q drop that has ever been made.
Q returning from a nearly two year absence with this message.
You will see mass resignations from the Biden administration in the coming days.
The chaos and corruption are becoming too much to manage for those in his inner circle.
Mass exits coming very soon.
And if you're wondering what Q-drop was that, it's not a numbered Q-drop.
That was an actual post by Ron Watkins on Telegram.
Ron, I'm... Ron, I'm not...
Yeah, Ron, I'm not Q Watkins, posted that shit on Telegram.
And if you don't, I mean, literally, this is the Wizard of Oz yelling into the speaker after Toto ripped the curtain back.
It's the saddest shit.
I mean, just literally just being like, I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm not Q. Now I'm just gonna ride things exactly the way Q would ride them.
And I'm gonna say bullshit like Q would about massive resignations and Biden's administration.
Get the fuck out of here, Ron.
Seriously.
I mean, what clown shit.
Who falls for that?
I mean, it's just...
Well, I know the answer already, but really, that's egregious.
We talk about it all the time, but that shit was, obviously, I was like, oh wow, Q posted and you didn't?
Oh, okay, it's Ron.
It's Ron.
Q did post, and it's Ron.
Right.
He just posted on his Telegram account and not on his 8chan account, that's the difference.
I have to assume Like, someone had to have come to him.
Like, I'm constantly just gaming theories on why he hard stopped.
Someone had to have been like, yo, you are, if you keep doing this, people are going to, people who matter are going to start paying attention and you will go to jail.
Like, someone had to have.
That's what makes me wonder, why didn't Q just sell out to Truth Social Media Q?
Because, I mean, Truth Social is so desperate for it.
They want that character.
It's not like Jim or Ron want to use it.
I mean, one more Q drop, it's like, hey everybody, follow me on Truth Social.
And no one cares.
No one cares about the no outside comms.
No one cares about any of this.
They just want Daddy back on the internet preaching bullshit so they can pretend like they follow him.
Even though they ignore everything Q says when it suits their purposes.
So yeah, it is pretty mind-blowing.
So, having gone through all that fun stuff, it's time to get it... Thanks to the Jason Miller stuff, we actually did take a dark turn in the opener.
Now to get into the real fun stuff.
I am a little macabre, aren't I?
Yes.
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.
From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News.
So, QAnon has suffered another defeat, and America has obtained what small victories we can on the Supreme Court, with Judge KBJ now becoming Justice KBJ, or I should say that she will be Justice KBJ soon because she's been confirmed to the Court.
But she's got to wait for Stephen Breyer's retirement to be official, and then she'll be sworn in, and she'll be the newest and bestest of all our Supreme Court justices, even though the Supreme Court is still ruled by a 6-3 sociopath majority.
I was going to say, Trump got three appointments, right?
Yes.
And now Biden's gotten two?
One.
But this is Biden's first, and I mean, With the way the reporting on Ginsburg's health went, the way we're reporting on Clarence Thomas now, if I got that newsflash tomorrow, I would not be surprised.
Because that dude seems like it's been getting real dicey for him.
And hey, at this point, given what they did to steal the Supreme Court seats, I have no sympathy whatsoever.
I have no shame saying that if some ailment to his health rendered him incapable of continuing to serve on the Supreme Court, hey, that's karma, baby.
That's how this works.
I mean, you reap what you sow.
And I would hope that I would hope Manchin and Sinema and I mean all the other 48 Democrats would definitely do it.
I just hope those other two schmuckies wouldn't be like, now now this would be a little untoward doing exactly what the Republicans did with ACP.
That would be that would be some dirty pool for us Democrats.
So Yeah, nuts to all that.
And again, lifetime appointments.
I want a 24 year old on the Supreme Court.
I want someone fresh out of law school.
Just put them on there and let them serve for 70 years.
I have no ethics in this situation.
Let them serve for 70 years. I have no, no ethics in this situation. None. Yeah. So, so
So yeah, she was confirmed.
That was great.
QAnon, who had spent the past, her entire confirmation hearing, Being very happy that the Republicans were towing their party line when it comes to talking about people being light-armed pedophiles, being pro-groomer, all of that bleak shit.
QAnon, of course, has taken this news with their standard misery.
I saw one person talking about how eventually Obama and Biden's presidencies will be called illegitimate. And they're going
to get Kagan, Sotomayor, and KBJ all off the court when this happens. And that
hopefully Roberts will also resign at this point. And they can just get nine fascists on the
Supreme Court, which will finally give us the Supreme Court America has been truly
yearning for.
I don't think he's going to do it. But Biden had been looking at the legality of expanding
the Supreme Court to Yeah, but yeah, we'll see. Well, it is it is within his right. But
again, the problem is, is that you, you need to abolish the 50 the filibuster and you need
50 people in the Senate, they're willing to do that. And we don't have those things. So
I Thanks to the good people of Maine for not getting Susan Collins out.
Thanks to the idiot in North Carolina who had a winnable Senate race and then apparently couldn't keep his dick in his pants and got embroiled in a sex scandal and lost that winnable race for us.
So, yeah, I mean, the Senate sucks, and if I was Emperor of America, I would abolish it tomorrow.
But you are stuck with the government you have, so this is the situation we're in.
Yeah, so apropos of nothing and a quick little side note, there's been all this talk of big Democrat names that have announced that they're positive with COVID, like Obama said he had it, Hillary said she had it, Pelosi got it, Kamala Harris' husband got it, Jen Psaki, the press secretary, just came down with it.
And QAnon, who are supposed to be like plugged into the Matrix and they see everything.
The funniest part about this is that half of QAnon is now thinking that we're going back to the before times, back when no one knew how bad COVID was going to be.
And they thought that like when you said, when you were a famous person like Tom Hanks, and you said, I got COVID, that secretly meant that you had been arrested by the White Hats.
And we're now getting ready to be Shipped Guantanamo Bay for your crimes.
That is now... Some people are restarting that.
Some people are restarting that all up.
They're like, oh, Hillary Obama!
Indicted!
It's happening!
We're gonna get him!
And the other half of QAnon are like, yeah, all these Democrats are faking that they got COVID so they can reinstitute the lockdowns and the illegal mail-in voting again.
I see what you're doing, Democrats.
I know your game.
I've never understood.
And never will.
The leaps of logic that they make constantly are just baffling to me.
It's like, oh, they got COVID.
That means indictments.
What?
What are you talking about?
It's real A to D logic.
Well, I mean, these are the same people who literally would look at anyone wearing an ankle brace and be like, oh, they're wearing that boot to cover their ankle monitor.
They've been secretly indicted and they're wearing an ankle monitor and they're covering it up.
Because, like, Hillary had a boot for a while.
I remember right before Biden took office, he had a boot.
They were like, oh, oh, he's not gonna get sworn in!
He's gonna get indicted instead!
I mean, just, they're always, they're looking for it.
They're always looking for that, that, that deus ex machina that's gonna save them from the bad guys winning.
They're also really into those, like, red shoes, too, right?
Yes.
Yeah, but Red Shoes is more of a evil symbolism thing than a coded message of good things happening.
Because the boots were, they've been arrested, they got an ankle monitor.
Red Shoes is, they're Satanists wearing flayed baby skin as shoes because they're so depraved and so evil, they're flaunting their satanic hedonism for all the world to see.
I'm still just wondering if they have a thing with feet.
Like, come on guys!
They have a thing with a lot of things.
Well, we have already established that QAnon have a massive thing when it comes to boats.
They love boats.
Oh, they do.
Yeah, we watched White Squall for the pod and my partner was like, oh, I remember that movie.
And I was like, you're not going to be happy with the people that also remember it.
And it's just like real baffling shit, like where they got, where they get any of this.
And I was like, this movie's fine.
It's not like bad, but it's also not good.
Like, it's just like, what are we doing?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They clearly have a thing for boats.
Like what?
I will never understand.
No, so KBJ got confirmed.
QAnon is angry, sad, but again, because they can never actually accept a defeat, they're trying to figure out how are we going to get out from under this one?
How is this going to work out for us in the long run?
So they're going to have their new talking points and they're going to have their way to get her off the bench sooner or later.
I'm sure that... Any day now.
I'm sure Patel Patriot, my favorite moron, is going to have a thing in devolution about how Biden's not allowed to appoint Supreme Court justices.
And that once Trump reveals himself, this appointment will be taken down.
And then Trump will be able to nominate some, like, I don't know, a clone of Hitler or something for the Supreme Court.
Because that's about what they need for someone to be on the bench now.
Doing a quick pivot away from our headlines that we that we had posted in our little peek behind the curtain in hell world here We had a couple headlines.
We were gonna run with for the serious part of our news, but I just remembered that Arizona Attorney General Mark Bruggevich, I can never get his last name right, but that guy who had been flirting with QAnon for as long as he could because he's running for Senate and in order to try to win a Republican primary, you've got to kowtow to Trump and preach the big lie and all that good stuff.
So Mr. Attorney General here finally released a report today.
That there was in fact no widespread voter fraud in the Arizona election of 2020.
What a twit.
Holy cow!
Yeah.
I'm just joking.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Joe Biden has won Arizona more than anyone else has ever won a state in the history of American electoral politics.
So Joe Biden, congratulations on what is now I believe your fourth or fifth victory in the state of Arizona over former President Trump.
QAnon has basically what QAnon is latching on to is that there is this lie Yeah.
that there's 200,000 votes in Arizona that don't have chain of custody. And this is,
this is all just paperwork. Yeah, that wasn't like, no, yeah, it wasn't all the I's were
dotted T's were crossed. This is all just minor clerical shit that nobody actually believes
is anything.
And we know that he doesn't think it's anything, because if he thought it was anything, he's the Attorney General of Arizona.
He could arrest people.
He could indict them.
He has the power to do these things.
And because he's not doing it, and he's just putting out statements where he's like, yeah, there's a few things that are a little suspect here, but on the whole, bargle, bargle.
So yeah, it's, um...
It's hilarious how these people try to tap dance around QAnon to placate them when it's impossible.
All you can do to make them happy is indict people.
And guess what's going to happen then?
Those people are going to walk because you don't have a case.
And all you're doing is trying to push the QAnon blame off yourself to the judge and the jury of that case.
But they're still going to blame you.
I just want to know when Matt Gaetz is finally getting indicted.
It feels like they've had him dead to rights for like a million years.
That's one of those things where it feels like to me that they're just like so cognizant of what an absolute shitshow it is when they indict him that they want every crumb of evidence they can possibly have and they want to make sure that all of that evidence is going to be admissible in trial.
Because they know that Gates, a million years ago it was announced that Gates had hired out-of-state attorneys for his defense.
And when you, in the legal circles, the stuff I was reading was saying like, you hire out-of-state people to go scorch the earth.
Like if you hire a lawyer from Florida to defend yourself in a Florida crime, That defense attorney is going to deal with that prosecutor again.
He's going to need that guy to cut his buddy a plea deal when he needs it.
He's going to need some sort of like glad handing and grab assing.
When you bring New York lawyers to Florida, you want those guys to just pit bull that shit.
They're just going after everything.
They don't care about making friends.
They're just here to ruin everything.
And however they get you acquitted, they don't care.
Because they're on a plane back to New York the next night.
They're never going to deal with those prosecutors again.
Everybody can go to hell.
So it feels like the prosecution in that case is battening down the hatches for what's coming for them.
So that's going to be really interesting.
If and when it happens.
Yeah, I just feel like they've been patenting down the hatches for like a million years.
Yeah, I mean, you're probably right.
They're just, like, making sure everything is airtight.
But it's also Florida, so who knows?
Yes.
That's important.
No, it's important to point out all of this.
Yeah, like, Florida politics is very swampy, and I don't, I'm sorry about the pun in that.
I didn't even mean it to start with it, but to say that, like, but it's just, it's horrible how swampy it is, and it's also, um, it's, it's bad how it's believable that also it- I mean, Trump didn't get that phrase from nowhere.
Right, exactly.
But I mean, like, it's also- it's also believable that it might be taking this much time because they're actually working on a network of people in government that are doing multiple, multiple crimes.
And so, like, that's why it's taking, like, so many things, and, like, they might have all the information that they need on GETS, but if they, like, pulled on GETS, it might affect something that's, you know, Technically gonna affect something that would hit something on the state level that they really think is important and want to get first or something like that and it's just I could believe that it could be that complicated because it sounds like when you when you finally read some of the stories that come out of Florida politics it all sounds like a clown show.
I don't know what else to say other than that.
Like it sounds like a pure clown show.
I mean, when this whole story first broke, you literally had Matt Gaetz on Tucker Carlson's show, seemingly trying to blackmail Tucker Carlson.
Yes!
You remember her!
That's how this opened!
She was right with you and your wife!
She was right with you and your wife, Tucker!
We made an in-link about it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She was with you and your wife, Tucker.
We've got photos of you and her together, Tucker.
With your wife also, Tucker.
You know the photos I'm talking about.
There might even be videos, TuckyTuck!
I mean, like, it was just like, wow!
And Tucker Carlson was like, just ended the interview.
I don't remember that.
I'm sorry about that.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah.
Don't, don't know you Matt.
Smell you later, buddy.
I mean, yeah.
So that all I can think of was when you talked about the swampy politics of Florida, it's not only like the, the, like the whole like congregations of grift and that stuff.
The thing that I was remembering is the, uh, is the fact that they, there are actual, there's a network in Florida of these shitheads Who let's say there's a Republican and he's running against like Connor Davis in the 5th district of Florida for some office.
These assholes will literally find a person named Connor Davis.
pay for their fees to run them as a candidate.
Oh yeah, I read about that.
And run them as an independent to try to safron votes from the Democrat named Connor Davis
because they're just hoping an idiot will check the wrong box
because it's the same name.
Like, there's no low these people will not stoop to in an effort to try to win an election.
I mean, Florida is absolutely the worst.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
So... Yeah, absolutely.
And thankfully we can now... While we're in Florida.
While we're in Florida, we can pivot to... So, what's going on with Disney?
Waka waka!
Oh my god, so...
This whole thing about KBJ being a pedophile enabler and light sentences on pedophiles and all this stuff, and the Florida Don't Say Gay Bill, basically Republicans are trying to find a way to fire back at the people who were attacking them for the Don't Say Gay Bill because they know that being a bunch of homophobic, transphobic bigots is Not a winner in the long run, but it will keep white people angry and motivated in the short term, so we're gonna go with that.
Yeah, and pedophiles are their extra double catchphrase right now.
Oh, oh.
Pedophiles passe, my good friend.
Oh, dear Sarge.
You're so last week.
The new hotness is groomer.
The new hotness is groomer.
Now, basically, what they're saying is that if you opposed the Don't Say Gay Bill, you're a groomer.
You want these teachers in these schools to be grooming children.
And now they're calling Disney a groomer network.
Jack Posabeck posted a t-shirt that had the Disney logo on it with the word Groomer under it instead of Disney, which by all means, Jack Posabeck and everyone else, please wear a shirt that says Groomer on it and just walk around town.
Just see how great that works out for you with your weird anti-Disney shirt with the word Groomer in it in big, bold letters.
You weird fuck.
So, this is, the thing about this is that Republicans have always done this shit.
Like McCarthyism and calling everybody a communist for a long time.
And I mean, for the past year or so, Marjorie Taylor Greene's called people communists, socialists.
They just like throwing these buzzwords, they throw these buzzwords out, they don't even know what they mean.
But now we've gotten to groomer and pedophile, which those words are so loaded, and they're really dangerous words.
When you start talking about how all your political enemies are pedophiles, and the only way to save children from pedophiles is to throw them in jail or kill the pedophiles, You are now making it really easy to justify violence against your political enemies.
Yeah, that's definitely what we're trying to do.
Yeah, and I'm doing it because I gotta save the children.
Because on the one hand, we have the most innocent, good thing in the world, the children.
And on the other side, we have the worst thing in the world, pedophiles and groomers.
And I'm on the side of the children.
So there's really no crime I can commit against those who would harm the children that would not be justifiable.
Because why are you protecting the people that hurt children?
What's wrong with you?
Are you a groomer?
Are you a pedophile?
If you really think about it, this approach is kind of an aspect of them grooming the public to be weaponized against anyone who isn't going to align with their beliefs.
It is grooming them because it's making anything other than exactly what they're thinking and exactly what they're saying The actual perpetrator, the groomer, it's going to make them that.
It's binary.
You know?
Well, grooming is, I don't know if that's the term, but this is extremism.
It's accelerationism.
Again, because I'm going to toot my own horn, because if you don't promote yourself, who's going to promote you?
But this is one of the signs of conspiratorial thinking I have in my pinned tweet right now.
Sign number five is good versus evil.
And you make the world black and white.
You make the world, I'm on the side of God and justice and my enemy is on the side of Satan and evil.
And that's all there is to it.
And once you make the world this total no shades of gray, you're either pure good or you're pure bad.
You just set it up that you can do anything you want.
I mean, it's why people kill abortion doctors.
It's why people commit these terrible acts of violence because they have to be right.
I'm right.
I had to kill that doctor because he was killing babies.
I'm justified.
That's the mentality, and it's a very dangerous mentality to have.
And now it's way more dangerous because, I mean, if you're an abortion doctor, I apologize, but holy shit, that's a dangerous line of work, and it always has been.
But now, Now, anyone you don't like, literally, one of these nuts can go into a Disney theme park and start shooting now, and their justification would be, every parent who took their kid into that building was a pedophile that was grooming their children to be victims of pedophiles.
Like, you now have made massive quantities of the American public justifiable targets for your violence and your mental illness, for your sickness, because you're taking the most boring thing in the world, Disney!
They literally produce the most milquetoast content imaginable!
They're editing out blood in the violent scenes on the Disney Plus TV shows, that's been a big- They got called out on that and they they put the blood back in.
But I'm just saying, I mean, that's, that's the kind of shit. I mean, they
wouldn't have even needed Lucas to do the whole Han shot first controversy.
Like they're all about that kind of just wishy washy, placating the middle
America kind of bullshit. And now them, these unbelievably boring, the opposite
of edgy, mainstream entertainment content providers. You're throwing them
Like Disney's too spicy for you.
I mean, it's just so ridiculous that This is where we are.
This is what we're doing now.
In the year of our Lord, 2022, that we're having to fight to try to not see Frozen as a groomer movie or whatever else it is.
I mean, hey, why aren't we talking about Bruno?
What'd you do to Bruno, you perverts?
I mean, that's where we're at.
We're at this level of Super bizarre.
Super weird.
Like, these right-wingers, they always talk about, oh, you triggered beta snowflake cucks!
Everything gets you angry!
And now they've gotten to this point where everything on their TV makes them angry.
Everything upsets them.
Everything offends them.
A few days ago, people were talking about, like, hey, why does Gab suddenly hate sports all of a sudden?
It's like, oh no, Gab's always hated sports.
These people, because, because that's one of those other, like, dumb ties that bind.
Like, you could be a Trump supporter, I could be a Biden supporter, but we both liked seeing Mac Jones sling the ball around at Gillette Stadium.
Touchdown, Patriots!
And that's the thing is that these kind of groups, they don't want you to have friends and play fantasy football and live outside the tribe of lunatics that are trying to rope you into Holocaust denial and all the rest of that stuff.
They want you as isolated, angry, and as miserable as possible.
So they got to tell you, hey, don't even watch sports.
Sports is part of the deep state plot to distract you, bro.
I mean, you got to just sit all day online posting memes and watching Jordan Peterson videos on YouTube.
That's a healthy lifestyle.
That's what's gonna get you your alpha male mentality so you can finally take back America from the forces of evil.
And it, I mean, it's just such a shitty way to live.
I've just seen so many QAnon followers, not that, the big promoters won't say this stuff, but I've seen like so many followers in the reply sections that are just like, you know, I can't listen to music anymore because I know who makes it and it just makes me sad.
It's like, Can you imagine taking away a form of entertainment from yourself?
Like, I used to enjoy this thing, but now I can't because other people have poisoned my head and the people that make the thing I enjoy are Satan-worshipping blood drinkers.
So I can't enjoy some kickin' tunes anymore.
Nope, sure can't.
I can't listen to...
I can't listen to Beyonce and Lady Gaga, because I know who they really are now, and that just makes me, that just, that just rustles my jimmies.
I mean, it's just, it's so ridiculous that these people would, like, forego joy in their lives to, like, it's like, I could have some joy in my life, but I'd rather have sadness and anger.
That's, that's the health, that's what's healthy, is instead of singing along to some music that I enjoy, I should be upset at the world that makes some memes about how much I hate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
That's what's going to be fulfilling for me.
That's what's going to put a smile on my face.
That's just where we are.
That is what is happening.
It's not great.
It's the opposite of great.
It's really bad.
Yeah So sorry that I was on my soapbox for so long.
Well, I was just gonna say that like I I really appreciate you bringing up like the the groomer stuff because that is
That is something that's kind of kind of close to my heart like I
worked At a children's hospital and I didn't, I don't have permission to tell which one from our media team, so I have to just say a children's hospital.
And I worked responding to psychiatric emergencies and it was, you know, a hospital that is a medical hospital and not a psychiatric hospital, but at the same time we had to take these kids no matter what.
But a lot of them actually were trauma victims and we had people that were brought in sometimes from the FBI because they actually were trafficked.
And we sometimes had people, you know, kids brought in because they did need to have rape kits done because, you know, they were abused and everything.
When you're involved in those cases of being, you know, one of the support people and you are involved in the actual realities and you know from what the FBI is telling you so that you can actually be an appropriate support, You start thinking about all of these things that QAnon says and it's like, you don't need to be actually this dramatic, guys.
The evil is actually not that dramatic.
There's just some people that know how to be able to get a commodity and not care about what it suffers and use it.
And it's something that they, you know, they don't think about it as a human.
And that's something where it's hard for most of us to be able to, like 98% of us, to be able to understand.
But there's probably 2% of the world that completely understands that they can use people and not really care that much about what happens to them.
Those people are not the people that QAnon are describing.
I wish they actually would listen to some of the stuff that the crime statistics and some of the information that comes out of John Jay and the FBI and some of the stuff that's actually out there because These are real problems.
They are actual, real problems.
You know, child sexual abuse and grooming is a real problem, but grooming is not something that actually happens within a 90-minute movie.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah.
Within a 90-minute movie in, like, in the, what, the fourth grade class?
I mean, it's all just...
I mean, well, I don't know.
Maybe there, but probably not.
Grooming is a culture.
Grooming is finding someone and manipulating them for years and years to, like, take... And I mean, like, generally speaking, like, it's an older male grooming a younger female.
I mean, obviously, there's other ways this can work, but...
That's the standard thing where you have these guys that are in their 30s and 40s and they groom a young woman until she's 18 then they marry her and they have their child bride and it's horribly creepy and sick and we literally have a law they're trying to pass in Tennessee to abolish a legal age for marriage.
We have a groomer law we're working on in Tennessee right now by Republicans, and yet you have QAnon and their ilk yelling, OK, groomer at Democrats.
And it's like, hey, look at Tennessee, QAnon.
I don't see anyone talking about what's going on in Tennessee right now.
I don't think that bill goes anywhere.
And I personally think it's some sort of, whatchamacallit, smokescreen to cover for something else.
That's my, like, I'm like, wow, that seems like some really bombastic policy.
Well, the smokescreen, the smokescreen is, people are talking about the fact that they may be trying
to actually get kind of the state out of the business of marrying people.
They're trying to backdoor illegalizing gay marriage again in Tennessee through what they're doing with these bills.
So that might be what they're trying to do, actually.
Hey, if your headline is literally, uh, Abolish Legal Ages for Marriage, and your party is running on a hardcore, anti-grooming, anti-child bride platform, well, guess what?
That's a bad look, and I'm gonna call you the Grooming Child Bride Party now at this point.
So, yeah.
If the anchor fits, I'm gonna throw it at you, and you're gonna have to catch it and sink to the bottom of the ocean.
So that's just the way that works.
So our last little headline here, which may have been aggressively burying the lead, two men were arrested for posing as fake government officials who claimed that they were part of a government operation that does not exist, where they called themselves part of the U.S.
Special Police Investigation Unit.
What happened here, and the FBI didn't catch these guys, the NSA didn't catch these guys, local law enforcement didn't catch them.
One of these idiots beat up a mail carrier, and when the U.S.
Postal Service, U.S.
Postal Inspection Service, so the mail police, the mail police began investigating these guys for beating up a mail carrier, I'm not even joking.
I've heard legends of the male police.
You don't fuck with the male police.
They're serious.
But yeah, but the male police began investigating these guys and after a little while they were like, there's no such thing as the U.S.
Special Police Investigation Unit.
These guys are faking like being part of the government.
They're doing something really weird.
And as they kept pulling on the strings of who these guys were and what they were doing, they found out that these guys have been trying to secure access to Secret Service agents.
And four Secret Service agents have been put on leave pending the results of this investigation.
These guys were offering Secret Service agents rent-free apartments, Including a penthouse worth over $40,000 a year, iPhones, surveillance systems, drones, flat screen televisions.
One of the two men offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a Secret Service agent who is assigned to protect the First Lady.
So they were trying to curry favor with a guy who was actually a Secret Service agent that was protecting the First Family.
Um, yeah, so what and as you as you heard from the list of gifts these guys were showering on these Secret Service agents, they were really buttering them up with a lot of shit.
And they were, they had gotten to the inner circle.
They had gone to a secret.
Yeah.
So I mean, Like, kind of best case scenario, these guys were part of a spy network and they were trying to, like, get, like, basically assets in the Secret Service that could help them get dirt on the Biden family.
Yeah, the darker, far more terrible outcome here is that these guys were working on a hit on the President.
I mean, that's, I mean, that's what you do, like, the Secret Service is the authoritarian part of the President.
Like, I mean, so that's...
So, I mean, there's only two options.
Incredibly bad or the worst possible thing imaginable.
So, this case, the story broke last night.
So, the two men who are Ed, oh, his last name is absolutely impossible, Tirizadha and Haider Ali.
Thank you, Haider.
Thank you for having a name I could actually pronounce.
Yeah, I was hoping they were white.
Actually, I believe that some of the story that has been going around is that they may be connected to Turkish intelligence.
So, yeah, so yeah, this is a real, this is a very, this is a very bizarre story that is ongoing.
And again, like these, these guys got caught because they beat up a mail carrier.
Like they...
They were not on the radar of any actual intelligence agency or law enforcement agency.
So this is... Oh, actually, it was actually Pakistani intelligence, and they had visas for Pakistan and Iran.
So yeah, this is... Worrying to say the least.
Yeah, so this is, there was a lot of videos on social media, my favorite of which was three FBI agents, one was a woman and two dudes, and the woman is like literally wearing blue jeans, a short-sleeved t-shirt, and she's got on a bulletproof vest with FBI on the back, and the two dudes are in khakis and t-shirts with bulletproof vests, so it's like, it's a casual Wednesday, but wear your bulletproof vest while you're at it.
So it's just like, oh my God.
So yeah.
Yeah, so this is really interesting, what's going on here with this story.
And I mean, those Secret Service agents.
Yeah, those Secret Service agents.
I'm seeing some people who are like, hey, any Secret Service agent who receives a bribe needs to be federally prosecuted.
So yeah.
I mean, I would tend to agree.
Yeah, yeah, so this is, I mean, I wish we had more, like, meat on this story bone, as it were, because it just sounds so inflammatory and wild, but hopefully next week we're going to have more of the story fleshed out to report to you guys about this, because to say this is crazy is an understatement.
Yeah, it's, wow.
Okay.
Like, I don't even know what to do with all that.
Was it a bribe for them to have maxed out their budgets for the Secret Service with the Trumps?
Well no, that was just Trump stealing money from the government.
That was all that was.
I mean, that was just an obvious grift.
And that was all being reported at the time that it was happening.
That Trump was charging the Secret Service to use his golf carts and making them pay for the hotel rooms in his hotels.
I mean, that was just a scam.
Like, this... I mean, like... Yeah, no, I know.
This is next level.
This is next level.
Yeah, I mean... Yeah.
Okay, so we have covered slightly more than an hour of news, which is more than all of our tiny brains can handle, so let's crack open the mailbag.
Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
It's time for Q and A.
I remember hearing from the QAA boys about how Q knew the future from quantum stuff and the time-traveling Trump uncle.
Why didn't they get into spirit channeling stuff or stuff like the Edison spirit phone?
Or is quantum cons just a modern version of that?
I think Project Looking Glass and that kind of stuff.
The whole idea of gazing into the time streams has enough credibility with The Matrix and Doctor Strange and that genre of the fantasy realm where QAnon can riff off of that and feel comfortable with it.
Whereas when you start getting into the spirit channeling, that ain't Christian!
I don't like it!
Yeah, I think that QAnon's relation to Christianity is both deep and tentative.
Like they, they like it until they don't.
But I think you're onto something with the, they're just like, Oh, well, one of these is talking to ghosts.
And one is science, which they also hate.
Well, they like to pretend that they like science until it discredits them.
I mean, we love science, but we hate vaccines.
Yeah.
I mean, sometimes you just flip-flop.
I'm in a real fantasy mood right now because I've been playing Elden Ring, but I'm excited to go back to Cyberpunk.
So there you go.
I mean, it's really just balance and what you consume.
We all have multitudes inside us.
Do you have anything to say, Shark?
I mean, I love you guys.
You guys are funny.
Sorry!
That was not what I was expecting.
So I'm going to move swiftly along to our next question from Cleodora Silvestri.
It's a proud NoteCoiner.
Back to not liking any cryptos.
Now that Marjorie Taylor Greene's initials have ruined Magic the Gathering discussions, what other game do you feel will be ruined next by some other crazy QAnon person's unfortunate initials?
I don't know that anyone can mess up Legends of the Five Rings, because L5R is pretty... Well, I mean, that game's dead, so... Oh, it's also dead, but I'm just saying, like, the number five makes it hard to screw it up with initials.
I really can't think of... I really can't think of any other games that are aggressively initial-based the way Magic the Gathering is.
I mean, Vampire the Masquerade... Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't really, like, count.
Nope, Yu-Gi-Oh is just Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon's just Pokemon.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know that there's enough... Americans weird need to abbreviate both politicians and games into initials.
It doesn't feel like we're going to get that kind of crossover again anytime soon.
anytime soon. I remember like there was like some college, there were two colleges
I think it was like Bradley and Pitt played each other and it made Brad Pitt on the scoreboard and that became a thing everyone got a laugh out of.
And there's like two long-haul truck driving companies.
One's named Taylor and one's named Swift.
And finally someone saw Taylor Swift on the highway and they got to get the photo of that.
That was good for the lulz, but yeah, I don't know that there is a possible crossover from right-wing extremist lunatic to beloved card game anytime in the near future, the way Marjorie Taylor Greene is.
I can't think of anything off the top of my head, so... As a child, I wasn't allowed to touch cards.
Yeah, sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt you, Sarge.
I'm just sorry about that.
No, no, you're good.
I was just like, yeah.
No, no, I had nothing else.
That was the thing.
I was just like, Oh, wow.
Yeah, that that would make pulling something for this bit real hard.
If you don't even if you're not familiar with any card games, like, yeah, I'm just going through my whole Rolodex in my head.
Like, so this, like this pastor's kid that grew up in the evangelical world, child of the corn is not going to bring any game to the discussion at all.
Because, honestly, like, outside of maybe Scattergories, I don't really know a whole lot.
So, I mean, even Taboo, he was concerned about that.
He was concerned.
Yeah, wow.
Taboo?
He was concerned.
Taboo had concerns, so, like, we just waited.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would say that I remember when I went to like this weird private school for a couple years.
I was in public school for a long time and my parents were just like, hey, let's put him in private school, get him a better education.
And I went to this very, very weird private school that was like, Not a lot of kids and you hung out with everyone from every grade.
So it was like first graders up through like, uh, people that were about to become the junior high.
Like there was like basically a senior and junior high from a first grader.
And the school was wacky and they had, uh, and the thing was, it's like, so, uh, it's time for Poker Sob Story.
It's my villain origin story.
But, uh, I joined the school.
That noise we might turn into a drop, so thank you Shark.
So I joined the school halfway through the year, and I'm the new kid.
So everyone hates me.
And it is the weirdest thing to be the dork of a school where everyone from a first grade... I was in sixth grade, so everyone from eighth grade to first grade hates me.
And that was my lot in life for that half year.
And then the next year I joined in, this kid who was an even weirder dork than me showed up and got all the heat off me, and everyone hated that kid.
It was weird.
It was very weird because I knew what he was going through, but at the same time, I'm like, better you than me, bucko.
Very, very grateful you're catching that those slings and arrows on my behalf, buddy.
But I remember one of those years, and again, this was like, just like those people go, like, just, we're a small, like private school here to unlock the potential of your children.
And that's all we're in for and all this stuff.
And the people that ran the school did two very weird things.
One, during the summer, They would send out like a, it was a predated email, but they'd send you out a letter basically asking if you'd like come in to help renovate their home because their home was the school.
And during the summer, like literally they would ask for free child labor for a weekend to help like fix the fix the building up.
And the other thing that I remember that was really weird was we went on a field trip, and some kids wanted to buy an Ouija board, and they were dead set against buying the Ouija board.
They were like, we are not letting the children to the school buy an Ouija board.
That's straight double.
Yeah, oh yeah, you're gonna open a gate to Moloch if we let you buy that thing.
And once I was midway through high school, I'm like, why didn't they let us buy the Luigi board?
That's so dumb.
Oh my god.
If there was ever a way to make a kid more edgelord and more rebellious, it's telling them that a stupid toy you can buy from Toys R Us is scary and demonic.
I mean, oh man.
I'll never forget how much credibility I lost in my eyes from that nonsense.
So anyways, thank you for that question.
Amanda Scatlin asks, what is the most ridiculous Q saying?
Trust the plan, the storm is coming.
Why is this relevant?
Feel free to add others.
I think my top two would be trust the plan and nothing can stop what is coming.
Because both of them Both of them just tell you to have faith.
And when you talk to QAnon people when they don't get on their high horses about God wins and all that kind of stuff, they're talking about how, oh, all I do is I do my own research, and I get the evidence, and I find out what's really going on, and I know what's happening.
And yet you look at the two biggest, most Use slogans in QAnon and they're entirely faith-based.
There's no evidence or research you can do to quote unquote trust the plan.
You either trust the plan or you don't.
And when you're yelling, nothing can stop what is coming, you have faith that Q is gonna do something to save the world.
You have no evidence for that.
I mean, you've read, I've read the Q-drops, dumb-dumbs.
That's probably one of my favorite things that people are like, anybody who's read the Q-drops will know the, and it's like, I've read them, they're terrible, they're stupid, they're awful.
Like, trust me, there's nothing magical about reading that bullshit.
Oh, yeah.
Did we get through the first 80 or whatever?
No, we got the first 50, and then we pivoted from a Qdrop-based podcast to a current events podcast.
Because we just had so much shit to talk about, because we were getting into the election at that point, and the election and COVID kind of broke the mold.
Also, Q stopped posting.
Yeah, and Q also began part-time at his job.
All of that.
But it was one of these things where, like, hey, do you want to review this three-year-old Q-drop, or do you want to talk about this murder plague that might end humanity?
It's like, eh, we should probably talk about the murder plague.
It seems like it's more culturally relevant right now.
So, Sarge, do you have a particularly stupid Q slogan that you hate?
Having watched... Where we go one, we go all.
Having watched the movie, I have a weird fondness in my heart for that, I guess you could say.
Yeah, it's hard.
They're all very dumb guys.
Like, they're real dumb.
And I hate it.
But yeah, I have a fondness in my heart for that one.
I mean, it sounds good.
It sounds positive.
Yeah.
Solidarity.
I don't know if I've told this story on the podcast, but so we were talking to management has a meeting with the customer, with our staff, and the manager is talking about, like, We're a team.
We're all together.
We're all working to achieve common goals.
And he declared, and I quote, where we go one, we go all.
And at this meeting, at this staff meeting, there was a woman that was one of my fellow employees who was wearing a hat with a Q and a white rabbit on it.
Oh, no.
That woman got the absolute wrong message from when he said that.
And I literally had to find someone in management like a couple weeks later.
And I was like, hey, that was a real great speech from that guy.
Did a real bang up job.
But let me tell you what war we go on, we go all means nowadays in the world.
And that woman was like, oh my God, these people ruin everything.
And I'm like, they really do.
They really do.
And she was like, thank you for telling me that.
I will relay that message to him.
So it was just like, oh my God.
Yeah.
So that was hilarious.
Do you have a particular slogan, Shirk?
Not, not to sound like I'm just, you know, parodying you, but like, I have to go with you on Trust the Plan because it especially hits on my points of kind of growing up in that religious world of it is absolutely just, it is, it is, it almost looks like the kind of like, you know, beautiful little, um, You know, watercolors you'll find in Bible stores, kind of thing like that, is trust the plan, kind of thing like that.
There's just something about it that is so typical of the culture that is don't examine anything critically because that's not what you're asked of.
It's just go with it.
And that's actually, I don't think at all, that's all an exact reading of anything that's written in the Bible.
And that's not even me trying to actually be like a Bible proponent.
I'm actually just saying, fairly, I don't think that's a fair reading of some of things.
It's supposed to be read in a more critical way.
I mean, it's just, it's just so, it's just so needlepoint pillow of what I grew up with.
Like, I just know exactly the kind of people who will respond to it.
They're the same people that have footprints in their bathroom.
They do.
You know, like that poem Footprints.
They have it posted in their bathroom.
Right next to where they have, you know, that special towel that they have on that one special ring that's near the, you know, the... I'm from the Midwest.
I'm well aware of the footprint.
Um, man, yeah.
So I mean, yeah, I'm just, I'm just thinking of kind of that like typical evangelical thing that just spreads across so much of America.
So many people can relate to it.
And yeah, I guess I can just say, yeah, that that that would be my winner.
Okay, so thank you for the question.
Will Coomer asks... I probably missed the deadline, but I'll ask anyways.
No, you didn't miss the deadline, Will.
No deadlines here.
No deadlines here.
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My mother-in-law says there are secret tunnels under Disney World for trafficking child sex slaves.
Have you all heard anything about this?
For FYI, the mother-in-law gets all her info from Facebook.
This is just another recounting of mole children.
This is just another recounting of the dumbs.
Also, yes, there are tunnels.
They are not secret.
They're for moving goods and stuff away from the public.
It's not...
Stop child trafficking!
It's so they can bring those fuckin' popcorn buckets to you and not have them clogging up all the walkways for the important money-spending people.
Like, there's nothing nefarious about it!
It's just... And they can't go that deep because that is swampland.
Like, we're not talking about like seven, you know, seven levels of evil, you know, that go deep down.
No, you can't do that in that swampland.
So, no.
There's so many things based in truth that don't have a nefarious origin.
We, yeah, we have thoughts on that.
Yes.
Um, I haven't looked at it in a while.
There's a book called behind the ears and it's the, um, it's stuff that goes on at Disney world that they like, don't like to talk about.
Um, if you're interested, it is, um, It is a really good book.
I recommend it.
If you hear someone over someone's com called an honored guest or treasured guest, I don't remember the exact code word, that means they're a real asshole and security needs to come escort them out.
They have a bunch of little, like, code words and stuff.
And, like, the cast members who dress up as the characters, they're never allowed to say that, like, at work, or when they're not at work, that they play Aladdin or whatever.
It says, they say things like, when I was hanging out with, or...
Or when I spent my day with Aladdin or Cinderella.
They say stuff like that.
It's interesting.
I have a lot of I like behind Disney shit like that.
So there you go.
I actually had quite a bit of thoughts about Disney tunnels.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have one bit of secret casino lore that I will not give to the public because it would ruin the code, which is bad, and I don't want to do that to my fellow staff.
But one thing I will say that is a thing that happens is When you're dealing in the pit, people give you money, and then you take the money, you put it over a slot, then you have a plunger, and you just drive the plunger down, it puts the money in the box, and then the money's gone.
So, if there's ever an incident at a table, be it a rude patron, or the dealer made a mistake, or anything like that, What the what the dealer is instructed to do is to lift the plunger up and then just rest it on the felt of the table.
So that way surveillance use that as a timestamp to find out when the incident happened.
So like they know that like the incident happened before the plunger got removed.
So if they scan the They're watching the video, they see the plunger, they're like, okay, go back, go back like five minutes and watch through that.
So like, if you ever see like a drunk lunatic or someone getting mouthy with a casino person, you will very likely see the casino employee lift the plunger and then just rest it on the table as a way to tip surveillance off as to what they need to look at when they're looking back on the video.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah, so yeah.
Behind the chips?
I don't know what we call that.
I don't know if it's still in print.
I'll have to see.
I always meant to get my own copy of Behind the Ears.
I thought it was like super interesting.
I love that kind of shit.
Yeah.
So, thank you for the question.
Our last question in the mailbag is from Reverend Xenofact, and they ask, it looks like MTG is going fuller QAnon by accusing Romney, etc., of being pro-pedophile, while ignoring her buddy Matt Butthead Gates.
Forget Republicans claiming everybody else is a pedo, how many will turn on each other using that term, and how much popcorn will we need?
Um, well, I mean, the thing is, is that they are, except for Madison
Cawthorne, who was dumb enough to accuse nameless Republicans.
Yeah.
Besides him, who was dumb enough to bring up fellow Republicans being a
cocaine-fueled, sex-bending lunatics, Republicans know better than to piss
inside the tent and that kind of, and that sort of thing.
I mean, Jim Jordan covered up all kinds of sexual abuse.
Matt Gaetz is hopefully going to get indicted sometime this decade.
No Republican knows the name Denny Hassert.
Who's he?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Roy Moore's never heard of him.
So their amount of tolerance for pedophilia inside their own camp is incredible.
So it'll be very interesting.
I mean, if and that's the thing that's gonna be really funny is if Matt Gates gets indicted,
QAnon is gonna call it a frame up.
They're not gonna believe his victims.
They're not gonna believe his underage women.
They've said that a million times already.
Right.
They're absolute hypocrites.
All of their claims to being Save the Children and anti-pedophilia and pro-victim, they go right out the window when it's one of their people who's caught committing the crime.
So, I don't know that we're going to get a lot of popcorn or enjoyment out of it.
They're very good at circling the wagons because they have no shame and they're total hypocrites.
I'm genuinely, I'm weirdly bummed out that they hate Alex Jones because man, the amount of hay they'd be making with all of his depositions and everything.
Oh God.
Like the frame ups in full effect on him, but.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They didn't have their kayfabe hatred of Alex Jones.
Oh, man.
I mean, they'll never own that like QAnon really got started on his network, network or show, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, this was the continuation of Pizzagate.
And, uh, Well, it was one of his other, like, not his shows.
They brought a bunch of people on and, like, taught them how to get it at the cue drops.
Right?
I don't know that.
I'd love to see Owen Troyer or one of those other dingbats be called out for having such a heavy hand in the movement.
I know I'm not being crazy.
It was one of the shows on after Alex, not Alex directly, but They had a bunch of early QAnon people on.
I'm here for it.
I'm here for Sarge digging into the trenches of QAnon's origins.
That sounds like a hoot and a holler.
So our question to Numerus, as always, is what are you looking forward to?
I beat Elden Ring today, so I am looking forward to being free.
I have... Congratulations!
When I beat the final boss, I had 92 hours in the game, and there were still huge swaths of it that I hadn't seen or explored.
So that game is massive.
So if you like that kind of game, it's massive, and it's a ton of fun.
But I beat it, I started New Game Plus, and then I immediately uninstalled it, and I'm looking forward to being free.
I'm free now.
I'm free from my Elden Curse, and I can play other games.
There we go.
I'm looking forward to doing other things.
Shark?
I am looking forward to having a mother-daughter weekend.
I'm taking my daughter to Baltimore and we're gonna do some fun stuff together.
So I'm really looking forward to that.
She's 12 and She's just a sweetheart, so I'm really looking forward to just having a girls weekend.
That does sound like a lot better than what I'm planning on doing, so that's cool.
I'm looking forward to the fact that Taskmaster returns on the 14th.
So I am currently one week away from more delicious Taskmaster.
Quite possibly the greatest television show going today or ever.
I have one friend who doesn't enjoy Taskmaster and I question my friendship with him.
I don't know how he could be so wrong about this.
It's like El getting after me about the Venture Brothers.
That's how I am with people when it comes to Taskmaster.
So, I'm very happy about that.
You should give Venture Brothers a chance.
Also, Harley Quinn.
If you end up liking Venture Brothers, if you ever do, Harley Quinn is definitely highly inspired by the animated series.
Yeah, right.
I think I've done the two seasons of Harley Quinn that are out.
I'm waiting for season three.
Yeah, that's it.
There's a lot of Venture Brothers DNA in that.
Yeah.
So, I mean.
The thing that's really funny is that every clip I've watched of later Venture Brothers, all these different seasons, I enjoy every clip.
Then I go to season one and I watch the first four episodes and I just can't get into it.
Season one's rough.
I'm not going to lie.
They're not really personalities yet.
They're not characters.
They are tropes.
It's weird and it's weird that like, Elle would probably agree with me, you have to kind of muscle through season one and then they start becoming characters and having, uh, and not just tropes and it gets really deep and interesting.
And man, like the final season has one of my like favorite jokes and has a bunch of my favorite jokes and moments.
Like I'm, I may just start on season two then, because it's just like, I just watched it, and like, the boys are idiots, I hate the father, Brock Sampson is this dumb DSX Mackinac, and I'm just like, God damn it!
Like, I've been hit over the head with how good this is, but I just don't- and then, and again, like, I'll just go down this rabbit hole and I'll watch all these clips and I'll see all these characters that had nothing to do with season one.
And I'm like, wow, that four minute clip was really entertaining.
Wow.
That two minute clip nailed it.
Chef's kiss.
It's like me recommending JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to people.
Season one is only nine episodes, but it is like...
I can't tell people to start there.
If you're going to start, I almost always have to tell people, if you are interested, you have to start with season 3.
And then if you like that, then go back and watch seasons 1 and 2.
And it's weird, but that guy's been making that series for 30 years and he became a much better writer.
The several years where he made the first two.
There's a bunch of lore that happens in season one.
But yeah, I would maybe try starting on season two.
This has been us.
We're looking forward to talking about pop culture.
Elle's not here.
So we had to dig deep into Venture Brothers and Harley Quinn and Jojo.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, nuts to you, Sarge.
The Avengers in Hellworld podcast has ended.
We're now doing it.
We're doing the Babylon 5-5.
It's coming back.
This is like an episode 2 callback.
Because everything Sarge just said about JoJo and the Venture Brothers is aggressively true about Babylon 5 because they, the first season, It's rough, but what's even rougher about the first season is that, I may have said this in this podcast before in my head, I apologize, but you're 90 minutes in, you've gotten your fill, hush you, let the old man repeat his stories because his memory's gone, but
The lead, the human character is always the lead character.
So the main human in the show, he's the lead.
After the first series, J. Michael Straczynski came out and was like, yeah, we wrote ourselves into a corner.
There was no place to go to develop the character.
We needed to bring in a fresh lead human in order to kind of give the show the kick in the ass it needed, and all this kind of stuff.
And then many, many, many years later, that actor died.
And J.E.
Michael Straczynski came out and said, oh yeah, that guy actually was having a mental breakdown.
That guy was having aggressive mental health issues.
He was barely holding it together on set.
He was cracking up in the worst ways possible.
And because back then, I mean, Babylon 5 was like in the 90s.
Like back then, the idea of an actor coming out about mental health issues was career death.
Like, you weren't someone that needed treatment.
You were nuts!
And we weren't going to hire you for anything.
So basically they just told him, we will do a cover story, get you off the show, you can get whatever help you need to try to keep your acting career and your life on the straight and narrow.
And so not only is the first season rough, you lose the main character at the end of the first season.
You get a new main character in season two.
So that is wild that they had to do that.
And the happy ending for that guy was that he managed to have enough mental health treatment that the big payoff for his character they got to do a couple seasons later in a two part episode where he came back as a guest character.
So... Babylon, Babylon 5.
Yeah.
We'll get we'll get back.
Oh, a quick Correction, update, the book I was talking about earlier is Mouse Tales, a behind-the-hears look at Disneyland, if you're interested.
It's on, you can get it on Kindle for 10 bucks.
It's a little bit more in paperback and hardback.
We will talk more about other obscure pop culture shows that we love on the next episode.
And that is me segueing forcefully, Mike, into Take Us Home.
Okay, so I'm taking us home because Elle's not here, so I will grab... Mike Rains will grab the reins of Hellworld and steer us out of here.
If you want to hear more of Elle and Sarge babbling about pop culture, you can listen to them on the Binge Wordy Podcast.
They covered Batman recently.
What are you guys on for this month?
We're doing April Goes Swayze.
The entire month of April, we're watching Patrick Swayze movies.
We're starting with Point Break, then we're doing Ghosts, then we're doing Dirty Dancing, and then we're doing Roadhouse.
So that's April.
Strong choice.
Yeah, so check out those cats over there.
We have to do our shoutouts on the credits as always.
DJ Minimal Effort, who's never going to be on social media because that dude is weird.
He did our banger of an intro.
Frosty VO, who we dug out of mothballs to do a Q drop for us.
He did the Q drop this week, which was Ron Watkins talking his Q. He also does all of our bumps.
You can find him at Frosty VO on Twitter.
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But I do promise that tonight or tomorrow night, the tragic presidency of James Garfield will be recorded because I just had an idea in my brain a little while ago that I was like, everyone always talks about Lincoln and Kennedy as the poor presidents who got shot.
No one ever gives any love to Garfield or McKinley.
And when I delved into James Garfield, the story of how he became president, why he got assassinated, it is incredibly weird.
It's a very interesting story, and I hope that I will be able to tell it well, and that will be coming very soon.
Also on top of that, we're going to get Sergeant L back together with me.
We are going to go over the very brief, because it's about 13 minutes long, Q, the plan to save the world, which is... If Q was, like, if we were doing a horrifying analogy to Like Christianity, Q would basically be like the Jesus figure of the story.
Q, the plan to save the world, is Paul.
It is the guy preaching the gospel of QAnon to the world.
This video was made by a guy named Joe M. He was one of the OG QAnon promoters back in the day.
This video went viral.
This is back when 2 or 3 million hits was huge.
And it really pushed the narrative of QAnon being this thing that was awesome and incredible.
And since it's only 13 minutes long, we should be able to hammer it out in about two or three episodes.
Probably closer to two.
So I hope that'll be interesting, because that is one of the most important bits of video information that's ever been made about QAnon.
It really tells the story of how this whole thing got started.
So that is my pitch for the bonus content and why you should give us your hard-earned money.
Another thing that will happen is if you give us your hard-earned money is we will give you a shout out at the end of the show and you can become one of our beautiful babies.
And we're going to say hello to Jonathan N. You are our newest beautiful baby and we appreciate very much that you're contributing to the podcast.
If us chuckleheads shouting into cans about the Venture Brothers and Babylon 5 is not worthy of your cold hard cash, and by God how could it not be, please give your money to love146.org, an anti-human and child trafficking network who Actually wants to do the work that QAnon talks about.
But again, strangely, when it's Republican who does it, they don't talk about it.
So these people actually care about this stuff.
It is what they're fighting to eradicate.
And they're doing the good work.
So yeah, if you can't give us the money, give it to them.
Beyond that, if you want to give some money to some people, donate to Ukraine!
Fuck Russia!
So yeah, that's kind of an important thing also in our world.
So, having said all of that, I would like to thank Nurse Shark for joining us this week.
I thank Sarge for joining us most every other week.
