Adventures in HellwQrld Episode #107: Walker, Ukraine, and Elon
This week we are trapped in the never ending cycle of Elon Musk maybe sorta kinda buying Twitter, Herschel Walker continues to be a nightmare of a candidate, and Russia continues to lose in Ukraine. Plus Lizzo played a flute and made a lot of people angry. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.
Hello, everybody.
I am Mike Rains, a.k.a.
Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
I am joined, as always, by Sarge.
It's a me, Sargeo.
That's my new updated Mario impression.
It's incredible.
It was like Mario was in the room with me.
I don't think you've watched the new Mario preview, so you're more wrong than you think.
I believe it.
And the mysterious L. Hello, my beautiful babies!
Did you have that teed up, or did you audible?
No, I was just riffing off of you, Doug.
We're all in that sort of Mario state of mind following the launch of that incredible trailer.
Like we talked about in our group chat, I think it looks amazing.
I have no notes.
It's incredible.
How could it not be?
No notes!
Oh my god.
This is when we reveal that this is our secret backdoor episode of Binge Wordy, and we're here to talk.
Get ready, the trailer was 90 seconds, but we're talking for 90 minutes.
I did listen to a very thorough breakdown of My Son Hunter.
I can speak on that.
Okay, look, because the show is what it is, I will say that we do have to address the fact that they seem to have gone out of their way to de-cake-ify Mario.
Yeah.
They shortened his arms and shrunk his ass.
Yeah, and I get that, like, this is like a weird Tumblr thing to be talking about, and I don't want to, you know, I don't want to position myself as one of those types, but it does seem like a pretty specific choice that they have made.
to sand down his sort of plump dumper like in all those video games maybe the video games is there's like a point of reference or whatever in the 3d ones where like maybe this is so when Mario gets hit he gets smaller so this is probably him before he gets a mushroom See, but this is clearly based off of the Mario 64 and so on 3D Mario Brothers, where ain't shit happens when he touches mushrooms.
He gives no fucks about mushrooms anymore at that point.
He's just like, dude, getting big and getting small, fuck that, I've got a health bar now.
I've got 64 bits and a health bar made.
He's got all these things.
You can't touch Mario.
Mushrooms, flowers.
Ain't nobody got time for that shit, I mean.
And he's calling people mate and bruv, you know, like an Italian.
That's Italian culture right there.
That's the pinnacle.
Dio's mio!
Yeah, damn right.
It's-a me, bruv, Mario.
I've just got all of the Bombaclat accents.
They're just like, Chris, Chris Pratt, you're all over the place, but we love it.
Here's your paycheck.
If we seem low energy, two out of three of us have been stuck in traffic, and we all have worked full days today.
I also think I might not be alone in my house currently, and since we're recording off hours, I am sort of... Ghosts.
Yeah, I have spooky specters.
It is their season.
I have spooky specters in my house and I don't want to disturb them.
I am intentionally speaking in a different sort of timbre than I normally do, and I'm sure it's coming through, but what are you going to do?
Sometimes you have to not try to wake up your roommate who works weird hours.
I mean, you've got roommates, you gotta be considerate.
I mean, luckily for your roommate, it's been, for our world, kind of a slow news week.
Not a ton happened, all things considered.
A lot of plates are spinning right now that we talked about, that we're gonna talk about once they're doing a little less spinning.
Yeah, so that's the show, patreon.com slash pokerpolitics.
Penmore will watch My Son Hunter, not just me listen to a breakdown of it.
Oh god, that sounds like absolutely trenchant political commentary, My Son Hunter.
Can't wait.
It's fucking terrible.
Spoiler warning.
It is.
Gina Carano made a totally good decision there, man.
Way to go, Gina.
Going from the mouse to Ben Shapiro, smooth sailing, just everything great.
Which is a real shame, because you don't see a lot of women like her in Hollywood, and she looks great.
She represents a certain type that you don't see a lot of, and it's kind of a bummer that she decided to go the way of the conservative idiot.
I will let you and the audience in on this.
Obviously they talk about Hunter's laptop.
In that entire movie, not once, did they tell you what is on the laptop.
Just that he had a laptop.
Because they can't make claims to that.
Sorry, I can tell you right now.
Breaking.
Hunter Biden's laptop has cheat codes for Aladdin for the Sega Genesis on them.
Boom.
There it is.
That's quality.
He was tough.
I mean, that game was tough.
He just needed the help.
I almost asked if that was the game how you hit the reset button.
No, that was X-Men.
There was X-Men for the Sega Genesis.
You had to actually hit the reset button.
Yeah, there's all sorts of wacky stuff going on with the Sega Genesis.
Like, if you put in the game Altered Beast and then turned it on, and then it got to the opening scene, and then you ripped the cartridge out and you put the cartridge for Strider in, it gave you invulnerability for some reason.
Anyway, we're wildly off topic.
We're supposed to be talking about QAnon, now we're talking about Sega Genesis.
It's very bizarre, but not super bizarre for those of you for whom this is not the first episode.
Welcome back.
We're talking about Sega Genesis again.
And Super Mario Brothers.
We're bringing the console wars back, because Lord knows there's no other wars to talk about.
This is our pod within the pod, The Games of Our Fathers, talking Genesis.
The Games of Our Fathers parentheses, but it's us.
Oh, God, we're 40.
Yeah.
Oh, God, I'm so old.
No, no, you fool.
This is it's time for our actual segment, The Amuse-Bouche.
It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
Get ready for the amuse-bouche.
If you're not here for pop culture tangents, then I don't know why you're listening to this podcast.
Speaking of which, we get to start this week by talking about what Lizzo's mouth do.
Lizzo went to the Library of Congress, and I'm going to put this important fact at the top.
Lizzo is a trained flautist.
Like, she is a very experienced trained flautist.
And they showed her a bunch of historical quotes.
So while we're filling in the audience on fun facts that we need to know to make this story make any sense, Lizzo is a trade flautist, that's the one that Sarge brings to the table, but I bring to the table something I did not know.
There exists in this library a fucking crystal flute, like from Dungeons and Dragons?
Yeah, they use it to wake up Snorlax.
I just, like, you know, people were talking about this story and nowhere did I see anyone really highlighting the absurdity of the fact that that thing exists and that we just have it sitting unplayed in a box.
Anyway, continue.
Yeah.
So, correct me if I'm wrong on this, they give Lizzo James Madison's flute and ask her if she wants to play it, which she does very, very well.
And she only played like two notes.
She played it a couple times and that was it.
She was like, bing, bang, boom.
I'm done.
History's awesome.
This was like a truly crazy moment.
And all the best of us in America decided that this was a bridge too far.
Yeah, that was the end of the story, right?
This chain flutist played a historical flute and that was it.
That was the end of the story.
Nothing else happened.
Oh, yeah.
Our betters in the right wing in QAnon declared this to be the death of the American Republic.
This is how the woke left shames and humiliates us by having Lizzo play a flute.
That this was a sign of conquest by the left against the right.
That this historical artifact was desecrated by Lizzo and people were talking about it.
I can't stress this enough.
None of those people knew that flute existed.
Nobody knew that flute existed.
Unless you had already taken a tour of that place or are already a flautist.
You had no idea this was a thing, because that is a crazy thing.
And it is a crazy thing that nobody knows exists.
Like, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's just the presidential crystal flute.
That sounds made up.
That sounds like a Venture Brothers joke.
Yeah.
Now, this is so obviously the racist Serb set, because Lizzo, a black woman, played the fourth president's James Madison's flute.
But they neglect to bring up anything about James Madison, like that he owned and sold slaves.
One of those slaves might have been his child that he literally sold.
So, you know, maybe fuck that guy.
Like, fuck our fourth president.
Sarge, that's neither here nor there.
This is about the flute.
We have to preserve the sanctity of this weird flute.
The sanctity of this weird flute.
You can't just have this trained pop star playing this flute.
Yeah.
What makes her qualified to play it?
Does she even know how to play a flute?
I mean, come on, does she even flute, bro?
Do not rewind one minute.
Think about playing Ronald Reagan's bone flute.
It's a lesser artifact, but it is still technically a flute.
This is the one that you have to like prove yourself on.
And then you can play the real flute.
No, this was so baffling.
There's so many memes now of, like, dumb fake artifacts that Lizzo now possesses.
And she's like, why are you upset about this?
Like, she was never out of sight of any of the Library of Congress, the museum personnel.
It's not like she could have stolen it or would have wanted to.
And again, professional musician and trained flautist, like, on top of that, it's not like I don't know why she was there in the first place, but... Literally, because the Presidential Library reached out to her, because they knew that she was a professional flute player, and they were just like, hey, we got some cool flutes for you.
Would you be interested in this?
Because no one knows about this shit, and we're trying to encourage awareness, and trying to make flutes cool, because nobody on God's green earth cares about them.
Except Lizzo, and Lizzo's fans who rock out to her flute playing.
And presumably the person making that call is just like a regular, rational human being, and it didn't figure into their equation that she wasn't white, because why would it?
You know what I mean?
They were just like, hey, it turns out that this wildly popular pop star is also a very good, trained flautist.
We should get her to come play some of these cool flutes.
And everybody was like, yeah, that sounds great.
It's amazing.
This is why every boardroom meeting needs one, like, shy racist in the background to just raise their hand at points like this and just be like, but isn't that terrible because she's black?
They'd be like, shut up, Randy.
You shut up.
Oh, man.
We're on episode over 100.
I don't even know.
We're in the hundreds now.
And in our show notes, it does not matter.
I see MTG.
I always still pick Magic the Gathering.
Yeah, we're going to start talking about Magic the Gathering divorcing itself from my sphere of consciousness by deciding to charge $1,000 for four packs of Magic cards that are being printed that are not even tournament legal.
They're like fake Magic cards for $1,000.
No, sadly, we have to talk about an even worse thing.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, friend of the podcast, by which I mean person who doesn't know the podcast exists, thank God, is apparently not doing so great on the relationship front.
Mike, what's the 411 on the romance?
The sitch is Perry Greene.
Her husband of 27 years has filed for divorce, declaring that the marriage is irretrievably broken.
So, I guess the spotlight of having his wife being this QAnon-promoting, right-wing-grifting sort of weirdo has put a strain on the relationship, and he's calling it a day.
There was also a bunch of People that had been reporting that like she was having affairs, that things were on the rocks for a bit ever since her star turn from just, I don't know, quiet QAnon supporting business lady to now actual holder of public office and Fox News regular, also InfoWars regular.
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
So yeah, it seems like the hubby was much happier with life before all of this madness became mainstream.
So he's decided to call it a day.
He's getting out of town.
Yeah, I mean, it sort of seems like you'd probably only really be excited if your wife turned into an aspiring lady Hitler if you were an aspiring man Hitler.
Yeah, it was all well and good that she talked all this QAnon nonsense at home, but then she started doing it on the national stage and, uh, fermenting rebellion against the government.
And he's like, ah!
Yeah, it was all fun and games when it was just, you know, what two people do in the safety of their own home, you know.
Maybe he just likes it with the white hood on, but now she's taking it out into the public eye, and that's not good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's such a racist, is what I was saying, on top of all of her other flaws.
He gave a statement.
He was just like, I seem to recall he said that there are a lot of problems with this relationship.
I think he made a statement.
I hope I'm not making that up.
Has she responded to any of this?
Has she come out and been like, this is some horseshit?
No, I haven't seen any public statements from her about the divorce or any rumors about it.
I kind of feel like she's just kind of in that spot where it's better not to talk about it and give it oxygen.
Just try to play it off sly and just let it play it out and then later on give the whole privacy, respect me in these trying times.
Thank you all.
PS, give me money.
I'm a representative.
We're always lobbying for money.
So it'd be great if you could do that.
Yeah, she hasn't made any statements that I can find.
And for those of you at home who are listening who might be thinking, wow, look at these guys
just kicking this lady while she's down.
Well, A, she sucks.
And B, that's not what we're doing.
We're celebrating her husband for getting out of a bad situation.
So congratulations, guy whose name I don't even know.
Don't worry.
No matter what the situation is with you and your wife, it could always be worse.
Let's get to the news.
Oh, absolutely.
From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News!
For instance, you could have been presenting yourself as a hardline anti-abortion guy, and then it could be revealed that not only have you probably paid your ex to get an abortion, but that was on top of the child that you fathered with her and many other women.
Of course, we're talking about Hersh Walker, Mike, and a story that can't stop developing.
Give us the 411 on exactly what's happening with our friend.
And somehow the first candidate, Herschel Walker.
Yeah.
I wish I was in Texas because then we could call him Walker, Texas banger.
Yes.
But no, it's in Georgia where nothing cool happens except for the show Atlanta.
But that's not really something we could work with.
Yeah.
So the article came out that Herschel Walker had paid for a woman's abortion.
There was like literally like, and they literally had receipts.
They literally had like the card he signed that was just sort of like, Hey, I'm Herschel Walker.
I paid for this abortion.
Have a good one.
Take care.
Um, and then Walker came out and was just sort of like, this is all horse shit.
Uh, I totally, uh, deny all of it, blah, blah, blah.
And then his son, uh, Christian Walker, who is a, basically a right-wing activist who goes on social media, talks a bunch of shit, is like, I'm a Republican and you can't handle like the hard truth of my Republicanism.
Cause I just know how it's really going on in the world and being a Republican is like smart and awesome.
And if you're not one, you're dumb and bad.
This is known.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so Christian Walker, who literally where his bread is buttered is by being a Republican
sycophant.
He just said he was like, you know what?
Fuck this shit.
And he posted a bunch of tweets about how like me and my mom had to like constantly move from house to house for like six months after she left Herschel because he was stalking us and threatening us with violence.
All of his family begged Herschel not to run for public office because they knew stuff like this was going to come out.
He's a piece of trash.
I hate him.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm defending my mom here.
And again, Christian is not exactly a hero given his past and all the shit he's said and done, but he's really making it clear here that he's on the side of his mother and not the side of his father because Hershel Walker is apparently a colossal piece of shit.
And So yeah, no problem.
So then, uh, one of the other things that came up from this whole thing was Herschel Walker was like, yeah, I might've paid for this abortion.
You know, I was giving lots of people money.
I really don't know who this was about, what was going on, just yada, yada, yada.
And then, uh, the, the, uh, story broke that the woman who had this abortion is actually the one of the, one of the mothers of one of his children.
And that she had the abortion because at the time, Herschel wasn't ready to be a father.
He asked her to do it.
He would pay for it.
He'd take care of it.
And then later on, she had his kid and Walker just skipped town.
So this was not some one-off affair thing that happened.
Oh, he paid for it just to get it behind him.
Nope.
This is a woman he was in a long-term relationship with, and he has totally pretended that this is not the case in any way, shape or form.
And And clearly, as a conservative candidate for office, he is both a fan of abortions and no father households, correct?
Oh, yeah.
His literally absentee fathers has been one of his contention points.
It's been one of the things that he's bemoaned because that's that's an issue that you can try to use as a wedge against your opponent, because you're a black guy.
Your opponent is a Democrat.
Who's also a black man in Reverend Warnock.
So you've got to explain that you are a good example for the black community as a father and that you understand what it means to be a stand-up man, to be a good parent, to raise your kids, not to father numerous children with women and then abandon them and pay for one of them to have an abortion.
None of that.
None of that at all.
I love the idea that even in a parallel universe where Hershel Walker isn't a crazy hypocrite who has children with at least three different women, if I'm counting correctly, even if he was just a perfectly upstanding guy, I just love the idea that he's just like, I believe you should be there for your children.
What does my opponent know about community?
He's just a, check notes, reverend.
Aw, shit.
Aw, beans.
Aw, beans.
Oh yeah, he actually had an interview recently while all this shit was going down with Fox News, I believe, and he said basically, what does Warnock know about forgiveness?
What does he know about redemption?
And it's like, it's his whole life!
He's a reverend!
That's all what Christianity is all about, is forgiving people and redeeming them.
Like, this isn't even, my God, you couldn't be any harder in his wheelhouse if you tried.
Well, if we have any good Christians listening to this show, I have good news for them.
On top of the already good news of the good book, which is the Bible, because that is the best news, of course.
Yeah.
And that good news is, everyone's already turning the other cheek for Hershel Walker, man.
They're just like, hey.
They're like, hey man, you know what?
You done fucked it.
Everybody sins sometimes.
It's cool.
Who did Herschel Walker play for?
He played for the Georgia Bulldogs, which is why he's running for senator in Georgia.
Oh, he was on college football?
Oh, no, he didn't.
He made it to the pros.
He was a Minnesota Viking and a Dallas Cowboy.
He had his time in the NFL, but he was like legendary at the college level.
He was good in the pros, but in college, he was an unstoppable, unstoppable God.
And that's why the Republican Party was just like, hey, you're a famous college football player from this state.
How about being a senator from this state?
We got Tommy Tupperville elected senator in Alabama.
And so, hey, I mean, this is clearly a winning strategy for us is find someone related to college football.
Which is really weird because like the last season of his career, didn't he play for the aborting philanderers out of Chattanooga?
The Chattanooga boarding philanderers?
It's so weird that of all the college players they would tap somebody who played for them.
That was a good season for them.
Yeah.
Shocking first round loss in the playoffs.
A lot of people had them going all the way.
They were supposed to win the play that year.
They were supposed to make it to the full term of the games, but instead they were prematurely taken out of the equation.
So weird.
Yes.
Did you fit them all in there?
And at the end of the day, Hershel Walker got a paycheck for it.
Because that's how the man operates.
Yes.
Uh, wow.
What an interesting riff I've taken us down.
I was waiting to see how many more you had.
I mean, I could have kept going, but I feel like it was going to get Adult Swim-style weird, and like, Roger was going to show up and be fucking unfunny for a while, so... It turns into kind of a Too Many Cooks situation, where it becomes unfunny, then you have to keep going until it comes back around.
It's like, honestly, like I can't I came to Too Many Cooks like two years after it got popular.
At some point, like I finally was just like, maybe I should actually see what this is all about.
It's only like 13 minutes or whatever.
And I'm not going to lie.
By the end of it, I was just like, yeah, OK, that was pretty funny.
I was like, I see what they did there.
And it made me laugh.
Good for them.
That does that reminds me of the Adult Swim commercial break.
Where they had, like, the triangle heads playing the drums with, like, babies.
And every, like, six months or so, some QAnon promoter plays that clip and is like, look at what these demons are doing!
This is stuff that's on TV.
It's like, yeah, that was on Adult Swim, like, a million years ago.
It's like, calm down.
It's just like this, like, just farming outrage.
It's just outrage content.
They're like, this is what these Luciferian Satanists put on television, where they think we can't see it.
It's like, no.
It's on YouTube.
If you're of an age, you saw it.
It's a thing.
It was just weird art shit that was the kind of stuff they played on Adult Swim at that time.
No way, Mike.
You're supposed to hate that.
You're supposed to hate that and you're supposed to love Doctors Who Abuse Puppies.
Mike, as much as I have to ask you this question for another week, What the fuck's going on with Dr. Oz?
At this time, I mean it in the most sincerest terms, because I heard you guys mention this, or read you guys mention this in the group chat a couple of times, and I just allowed myself to glaze over it, because I knew we were going to get to another show.
So I genuinely don't know what the fuck we are talking about right now.
I just know it involves Dr. Oz and a puppy.
Yeah, it's not only a puppy, it's apparently a litter of puppies that were killed by Dr. Oz by being injected with syringes of expired drugs.
And this was some sort of bizarre medical experiment that Dr. Oz funded.
I don't know what sort of medical research they were attempting to gain from this.
Bumming me out was the experience?
How to bum Sarge the fuck out?
Geez.
I can't believe he was purposely poisoning those poor puppers.
Which is only a joke you'll understand if you realize that it took me a moment to divorce myself of the concept of a litter of puppies.
Thank you.
I'm out.
I saw that his opponent who is Federman who is beating him called him out on this.
So he paid for this whole experiment. He did. Did he participate in it? Like,
do we have any details? I don't believe he physically participated in it. I just believe
that again, it was like the unbelievably sketchy shit that Oz had done basically throughout his
entire career as a quack cure salesman guy. It does it.
None of that actually lends me to believe that, oh no, there's no way he would have done this.
It's more just sort of like, yeah, that kind of tracks with like the Oz career path of just being a weird sociopathic monster that just It's like, you know what?
We're testing our latest, like, weird fat loss drug thing, and we need some animal experiments.
So hey, here's some bucks.
Go kill some puppies and tell me if they lost weight in the process or whatever.
I mean... Maybe he just innocently thought that they were testing a dog euthanasia drug.
Has anyone ever, has anybody ever considered that?
Maybe?
Oh yeah, yeah.
He's just like, my god, you monsters, you killed all these puppies.
How could you kill all these puppies with my money?
When I run for Senate in a decade or so, this is gonna look really bad.
Doctor, doctor, that's what it's supposed to do.
Oh, thank god then.
As you were.
Yeah.
I'm gonna make a mint.
Oh, man.
Oh, yeah.
Dr. Oz is really upset that, like, that Dr. Oz puppy euthanasia formula, like, made it to market, like, and now people are finding out about it.
It's like, oh, man, that's really gonna make me look bad in the eyes of the public.
So they're, like, campaign strategists and stuff, like, involved with all these people's political campaigns.
Yeah.
Aren't you supposed to- Marshall Walker and Dr. Oz's campaigns were just like, we hope this story never comes out.
That's their strategy.
Yeah, I mean, like, you would hope that they at least know about it, right?
Yeah.
But it seems like if they knew about it, they would already have, like, stuff set in motion in case it comes out.
But, I mean, I don't know about the Oz thing, because, again, I had no idea what we were talking about until just now, but based on the reaction I was seeing to it online, like, doesn't seem like whatever spin doctor machine they had was really working.
Yeah, I'm seeing, like, hashtag puppy killer Oz and all that kind of stuff.
Oh, fantastic.
Well, there's a Halloween costume for the year.
Yeah.
Yeah, you have your friend as a puppy running away from you and you're just like Dr. Oz of a giant syringe chasing after him.
Great.
It it's again, it's really amazing how pretty much like so many of these awful Republican candidates for Senate They literally just got the nomination because Trump endorsed them and Trump just doesn't have any vetting standards.
He's just sort of like, hey, I was a television celebrity and I became president.
Dr. Oz was a television celebrity.
Why can't he be a senator?
I endorse him.
nothing but good times from here. Yeah. Hershel Walker played football. Good enough for me.
You got my endorsement. Herschel, uh, JD Vance begged me to endorse him. I like groveling.
Groveling's good. You got my endorsement. Uh, Peter Thiel told me that Blake masters
is a good guy. Boom. Blake masters endorsed just winner after winner hit after hit. Like
Trump just banging these, these absolute titans of politics out. It's incredible. I mean,
the man don't miss. Yeah. And, uh, in a followup from last week, we now know what I had, uh,
suspected, uh, the, the guy who was lying about his service.
Uh, We saw that he had been demoted.
I don't remember his name.
Majewski.
Majewski had been demoted and I was like, well, there's only a few things that'll do that.
And it barred him from reenlisting.
It's because he was driving drunk on base in Japan.
That's a great way to get your ass kicked in the military, I'm sure.
Yeah, they demoted him.
They threw the book at him, and they were just like, we would prefer that you didn't join back up.
But in his defense, what the fuck else are you gonna do if you're posted on base in Japan?
It's gotta be, like, the safest.
Yeah, there's nothing else going on there.
Like, I mean, I guess North Korea sometimes fires a missile over you, but aside from that, like... Yeah, that's not in our notes, but that did happen this week.
Oh yeah, the other thing that was funny was that he tried to play off that demotion.
His quote-unquote reason for the demotion was that he got into a brawl.
You know, when you're doing secret missions in Afghanistan and you're all like stressed out, you go to the bar to blow off some steam and then some guy, some jarhead gets in your face and you gotta give him the business.
I just took things too far.
That's why I got demoted.
It's like, no, actually, you were driving drunk around a base.
It wasn't some ultra-manly, toe-to-toe, fisticuffs thing, and you just had to pay the price for, like, taking some guy to the woodshed for besmirching your honor or, like, sullying your lady's integrity or something.
Nope, nope.
You just drove drunk.
That's actually why.
Wait a minute.
It was exactly like the beginning of Con Air.
Remember Con Air?
Yeah.
It's just like Con Air.
Mike deflated as soon as I said that.
Mike, do you not remember Con Air?
Nope, not in the slightest.
My God.
I remember the end of Con Air.
I do not remember the beginning of Con Air.
You don't remember the virus?
It starts the way any movie would, with Nick Cage doing a Buckwild Southern accent, returning as a hero from war, to burl louisiana where he gets into a fight after some good old boys who want to fuck his wife ambush him in a parking lot and then he accidentally kills one of them and then this louisiana judge is just like
Well, I know you're a war hero, but here in the South, we don't cut into that sort of thing.
We hate our servicemen.
So I'm sentencing you to maximum jail forever.
Prison for eternity.
To you.
War hero.
There's no extenuating circumstances.
War hero, army ranger.
They're just like, you need to be held to a higher standard because you were trained as a weapon.
Jail forever.
That's how Cautio starts.
Because that seems like it would make perfect sense.
They were just like, you, lily white caucasian war hero Nick Cage, who is an army ranger, you were ambushed by four guys, you got into a fight, you got your ass beat, and you accidentally killed one of them.
Jail forever.
Forever jail.
The best part about that is, again, I don't remember the start of the movie, I don't even know if I saw the opening of Con Air, but I really enjoyed the idea of the jury being like, you know what?
Fuck that war hero.
Fuck him!
They get the judges like, OK, now you can convict Nicolas Cage of second degree murder or third degree murder or manslaughter.
They're like, no, Judge, we want a first degree charge on the docket.
We want to hang him high.
Come on, Judge, give it to us.
We fucking hate the troops.
It's just like all these evil, woke, liberal stereotypes in the jury pool.
They just can't wait to just get Nick Cage and send him to a Super Max for the rest of his life.
It's all they're dreaming of.
But then he... That's some Bayou Justice for this Army Ranger.
But then he gets out because he, uh, the plane crashes and all the prisoners escape and he helps catch them all.
So they re-evaluate his conviction.
And they give him even more time because he can't get to military.
Well, no, they set him loose, but then he's walking with his wife and his daughter, and they get mugged, and he accidentally kills that guy, and they're just like, jail forever.
And he's like, I just heroically saved all of Las Vegas from this crashing airplane, and they're just like, cool.
Life.
In jail.
Double jail.
Super jail?
We will let them bury your body in a civilian cemetery instead of just throwing it in the back of the prison after you die and letting the vultures pick at it.
We will accord you proper funeral rights now.
That's all you get.
That's the thin gruel we're willing to offer you.
Okay, well, speaking of Caucasian men that are completely off the rocker, I don't actually know if Elon Musk is Caucasian.
I don't even know if he's human.
But Elon Musk is who we're talking about next.
We're going to talk about Elon Musk because... L's favorite.
Yeah, I mean, L just doesn't know what there is to talk about Elon Musk this week.
So, okay, no, L does know, or at least L will pretend to know.
So, Elon Musk was just like, hey, I guess I'm going to buy Twitter after all.
I saw that and I was genuinely, like, I saw someone else on Twitter, but I also thought, like, wonder what he's trying to cover up this time?
Because Elon will manipulate the media and the market, and he knows, like, the quickest way to do that is just throw something outrageous out there.
I mean, is it to cover up for the fact that after Bamboozled the world last year with an idiot in a robot costume, this year he trotted out his actual robot and it walked six feet and then waved?
Yeah, he's like, I need to get this out of the news cycle.
And it's just like, oh shit, it's the Honda robot from 2004.
Look at it walking slowly and waving.
What an absolute unit.
I've never seen this happen before.
Yeah, it's taken us only 60 years, but we finally made the robot Kennedy.
We can finally put it in a car and it can wave.
You can wave all day long.
Meanwhile, I could go on YouTube and watch videos of Boston Dynamics robots doing backflips and shit.
Just sprinting down a hallway and then doing some fucking parkour.
It's crazy.
Boston Dynamics robots are literally the Watchers from Horizon Zero Dawn at this point, whereas Elon Musk has a shambling humanoid It's like, come on!
I mean, we've already seen the post-apocalypse robots.
Boston Dynamics has made them for us.
Literally, once a month I see something from either China or France.
It's usually not in America, but it's like something where some government has done a bad thing with one of Boston Dynamics' robot dogs.
People are just like, look, we told you they were going to turn those fucking robot dogs into weapons.
We fucking warned you!
Who could have seen this coming?
And it's like- Best sci-fi movie ever.
Right, literally, the robot dogs are Skynet.
We fucking know that.
It's the way this world works.
I mean, isn't Blast of Dynamics, like, openly funded by DARPA or whatever?
Didn't we always, like, literally, like, yes, no, that these are going to turn into- Like, yeah, these are definitely going to have military applications.
Like, of course they are.
Like, probably not in dog form.
It seems like what they're going to do is eventually there's going to be like a big fuck-off huge one that's like the size of a rhino that just walks cargo to places.
Like, they're probably not going to fucking mount it with guns or anything.
That's very impractical.
We have an unlimited amount of meat people that can do that.
We don't need to spend money on robots.
The robots will carry our stuff, do the things that human beings can't do unless you have a lot of them and you treat them very badly.
Right.
And the thing is, one of the Boston Dynamics robot dogs with a gun on its back is not a very stable shooting platform.
That's not how this would actually work.
But I mean, anyways... Imagine scale one up, mount a minigun at the back of it and have a dude riding it into battlefield.
I mean, that's a demoralizer right there.
It will temporarily make the opponents forget that they can just drone that guy to death.
They'll be like, oh my god, what an absolute unit.
Oh, wait, we could just shoot him from the sky.
We could just drop a grenade at him from 400 feet.
Yeah.
We could just drone the shit out of this guy and every other guy.
Yeah.
Drones kind of make every... Drones take the fun out of, like, the military because it's like, oh my god, look at that weapon.
It's like, can it stop a drone?
No, can't.
Fuck it then.
Yeah, why are there ground trips anymore, guys?
Just get with the drode program.
It was like that dark period of time in Magic the Gathering where people were like, oh, look at this cool creature!
It's like, can it survive a flametongue cavu?
No.
Fuck it.
Worthless dead.
Dogshit.
If it's not pro-Retrograde 5 on the butt, fucking useless.
So, I mean, who cares?
Yeah, Elon Musk just needs to, like, Between our drone technology and Elon Musk's incredible robot, surely we don't need to ever lose another human soldier on the battlefield ever again.
Yes!
Have Elon's fleet of robots slowly shamble and wave at them.
Why would you do that?
Why would you risk the robot blowing up on you?
robots, they have to have bombs in them or something.
Like it's like the ultimate bluff.
The, the, the other side just thinks those robots are dangerous and
they just back away from them.
And the robots never do anything, but no one ever calls the bluff.
Cause why would you, why would you do that?
Why would you risk the robot blowing up on you?
Fuck that shit.
I'm just leaving.
It's like that school of thought where if you get like mugged or something, you just
like get naked and go all crazy and just hope you make them think that it's not worth it.
It's sort of like getting big in front of a bear.
You're just like, you know what?
If I ever get mugged, I'm just going to act all crazy.
It's like, first of all, you're never going to do that.
You're a coward.
And when somebody pulls a gun or a knife on you, we should all be pretty cowardly and just fucking give it up.
Whatever.
It's just stuff.
But also, you're not going to do that for a variety of reasons, because I just don't think you've got the Velcro pants on all the time, and it's going to be pretty hard for you to get nude.
Yeah.
Yeah, so our boy Elon, besides having his crummy walking robot, so basically the timeline of all this was, the first thing that happens is the first taste of discovery in the Twitter Elon lawsuit breaks out.
And it's a bunch of tweets, or it's a bunch of text messages between Elon and other people That show that Elon and his friends are kind of just weird right wing tech bro morons.
And they're talking about quote unquote, getting the boss back on here, which they believe is like an allusion to Trump.
And at one point they're talking about having, they're having, talking about having Blake Masters, our soon to be failed senatorial candidate from Arizona, like in charge as like a vice president of like integrity or something like that.
And.
So all of these messages come out and they basically make it look like Twitter's going to be just a gab for a little while, and then it's going to just die and lose all its value.
And literally the day after all these text messages come out, because this is how Discovery works, Elon's like, BT dubs, I'll just buy Twitter.
Like this whole lawsuit, this whole thing.
Oh, I'll just buy it.
And while that's going on, um, you know, I'll just buy it.
Yeah, I'll just buy it.
I'm we're, we're good.
We're good.
I'll I'm just going to buy it.
And while this is going on, Elon made a post was just sort of like, Hey, everybody, here's my awesome plan for peace in Ukraine, which was pretty much just like literally what the Kremlin wanted it to be.
Like, this is all like pro-Russia talking points.
Oh yeah, super pro-Russian talking points.
And then, so Elon holds a poll where he thinks his brilliant take is going to win the day.
He loses the poll in crushing fashion.
He blames bots for attacking his poll and making him lose.
And this was before he offered to buy Twitter, so like literally the guy who's got like, I don't know, 5 million followers or whatever on Twitter, posts a poll, gets a result he doesn't like, blames bots for the result, and then is like, I'll still buy the company.
At the grossly overinflated price I offered to buy it for.
He then continued to double down on this whole thing.
He was posting like maps of Ukraine, showing that like the Eastern section of Ukraine voted for Russian parliamentary parties in the last election for their Ukrainian parliament, while the West voted for more Ukrainian parties.
And he's like, look, the East wants to be part of Russia.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Like, this is just... Guys, what?
This is just common sense.
I don't get it.
I don't know why you're all so upset with me for just pointing things out as the way they are.
And then someone pointed out to him like, Hey, Elon, here's the results of Zelensky's election.
And it was like literally the entire country voting for Zelensky.
And like his opponent, who only got like 24% of the vote, winning very small packets of Ukraine here and there.
And that whole Eastern Russian side of Ukraine was like, we voted for Zelensky overwhelmingly.
The president, all of Ukraine supported him.
We all voted for him.
We did not vote for Russian invasion.
I know that might sound odd, but we didn't vote for it.
It's weird.
It sounds like horseshit to me.
Yeah.
It turns out it is.
Well, according to Vladimir Putin, those places are Russia now, so... Yeah.
Well, if you could do whatever the fuck it wants, but Russia's got some... They just discovered some new territory in Russia.
It took, I mean, it was a deadly expedition.
It took, you know, like hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers to find it, but they found unexplored territory in Russia.
It's so weird.
They held some very normal, very real elections.
Don't worry about it.
Shut up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so our boy Elon peddling this Russian propaganda and what this was about was that Putin was like quote-unquote trying to reframe the way the war looks and what's going on.
And so Russia had these quote-unquote referendums where, as a lot of people were pointing out, There were people having a gun pointed at their faces and they were told to check the right box off.
And if you checked off the wrong box, you might get shot.
So checking the right box is a really good idea.
And this referendum was, are you in favor of Russia annexing your province to be part of Russia?
We love Russia!
shocking landslide, all four provinces voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation.
We love Russia, please don't kill our families.
Yes, absolutely.
We love our families and we love Russia only slightly less than our families who will be
gunned down in front of our very eyes if we don't vote yes for this referendum.
So yeah.
And basically, oh God, let me tell you, when Putin had his big rally and said that the
results were in and these provinces have been annexed and if the evil Ukrainians and NATO
try to take these provinces, now they're attacking Russia itself and there will be dire consequences.
Oh man, you have never seen QAnon so happy in your life.
Oh, they were like, oh, Putin just checkmated NATO.
He just told Biden where to stick it.
And it's, this is something that is really, it's all over truth social media.
Just people being like, I love Vladimir Putin.
He's the greatest.
And it's like, you know, that's, that's what I think of when I think of an American patriot.
Someone who's just like really weird.
Yeah.
Just aggressively pro-Russian dictator.
That's what makes you a patriot in America.
Yeah, I saw the post when you posted that, and I was like, this is bizarre.
Like, it's just weird.
Yeah, it's just... Dude, Putin's just got that charisma, man.
Like, the Republicans just crave, like, doughy, old, alpha men.
They just love, like, they love a dad bod, but they also love pretending that it's in, like, an Adonis.
They're like, oh, that dad bod.
And it's just like, have you seen Trump's abs?
They're incredible.
What he's got is some sort of intestinal cancer.
And it's gonna find him eventually.
And he's doing all this to like, cement his name in history, like taking back Ukraine for Russia.
And it is not working.
Also, again, all this nuclear posturing, like, I guess.
I mean, like literally, if you're just absolutely, I mean, if he's absolutely off his rockers and he just knows that he's dying soon, then maybe he just gets desperate enough to do a nuclear or anything.
But failing that specific set of circumstances, I can't imagine any rational person just being like, yeah, you know what I'm going to do?
Use the first nuclear weapon in like 70 years.
Because I'm sure that the world's going to react very strongly in favor of that.
No, they will not.
Sure, China is going to be real excited to be next door to where the nukes are flying.
Yeah.
That's the thing that's so wild about all of this, is that even with all of the shit Putin's been trying to do, and this whole, oh, Russia's going to be amazing, it's like, Literally, even if everything broke exactly the way you wanted it to, you're just going to be China's bitch in the Russia-China partnership.
Like, China's eaten your lunch, bro.
They have way bigger economy.
Their soldiers have 10-pack abs to your 8-pack abs.
You just can't rate for dictators when it comes between you and Xi.
Xi's just got you beat, man.
And also, like, even if, we don't know, like, their closeness maybe meant that China has always known that Russia is a huge nothing when it comes to their military, but man, watching Russia get pantsed can't be good for that power dynamic, right?
Like, China's like, we literally don't even have to worry about your military, and we've got all the other bases covered.
We're beating you, like, our population is larger, we make more money than you, like, people don't think we're a joke.
The West is still willing to do business with us.
Yeah, we're very important.
They're just like, dude, if Russia didn't have oil and natural gas, they wouldn't have fucking anything.
So that's going to be a real fun partnership with them going forward.
Yeah.
A partnership which, again, I have to imagine will probably end if Vladimir Putin starts some sort of nuclear escalation on, like, that side of the world.
Like, literally, like, next door to China, let's blow up some nukes.
Oh, that's when you see China just be like, no, oh, NATO?
You just want a shiny new China?
A shiny new Russia?
And you just want to break it up into a bunch of, like, toothless countries?
Cool.
Go for it.
Oh God, China would wash their hands of Russia so goddamn quick.
And so QAnon, very happy about the rally and Putin announcing of the results.
QAnon, however, deathly silent about what's going on in the past week, which is basically Ukraine taking back much of this territory that was allegedly politically annexed.
Bye, Putin.
I'll be honest, I watch the maps online, but I don't know these cities' names.
I don't know here and there, but I know the various targets of the Ukrainian counter-offensives, and every day it's like, oh, they captured this, they captured this.
Oh, I didn't think they could take this, but obviously the Russians were just abandoning everything, so the Ukrainians were like, why not?
And that's the thing, is that QAnon cannot talk about this because it's reality and it's something they can't spin.
It's not an election they can claim was stolen.
It's not anything like that.
This is just... Russia's military is just getting mushed over and over and over again by Ukraine's military.
Ukraine even issued a statement recently that they were like, hey, we were going to conscript everybody in the country, but we've decided not to.
We've decided we've got enough soldiers right now, we're good.
And if people want to volunteer, they can come on in.
But like, right now we're pretty okay with our troop levels.
Our troop levels are solid.
Meanwhile, you have Russia literally throwing in untrained conscripts to the front lines as chum, as literal just meat shields.
Oh yeah, I was reading some article on the AP News, I think it was either today or yesterday, and accompanying it were photos and the journalists on site reported that they saw at least just 18 soldier corpses just like left behind.
When the Ukrainians retook this place, there were just, like, corpses lying in the streets, and the Ukrainians were just like, yeah, I mean, we went and we took care of our dead, but, like, these Russian guys, I mean, like, nobody's coming for them.
Like, these corpses are just here now.
This is just, they're just dead here forever.
It's quite sad.
And there was, uh, there was like a sign, uh, there was like a protest, uh, some Russian soldiers like elected, like company leaders to protest lack of pay and materials.
And the fact that like, they're really not happy with the way they're being treated.
It like, it is impossible to explain how low Russian morale is in this whole thing because.
They know, even with all the Russian propaganda and all this shit, they know that they aren't getting the proper materials to fight this war.
And the fucking Ukrainians are just having America and the West throw blank check after blank check at them, and just shipping in more hardware.
And it's like, you're sitting here with a fucking rifle from World War II, and then a drone drops a grenade ten feet to your left and blows up two of your friends.
And you're just like, okay, this is great.
I've got a rifle that's jamming up that has been around for almost a hundred years, and the other side is literally having drone strikes with precision grenades that are killing my friends.
It's just...
It's just really obvious, like, that Russia... Putin had to have thought that, like, his army was capable of doing this, and obviously his military leaders lied to him constantly.
They're like, oh no, no, we got this!
They could not lie.
He set up this, like, feedback room where they had to tell him what he wanted to hear.
Oh God, it was a feedback loop where, yeah, like you tell Putin the military is ready to kick some ass or you get killed.
So you tell him the military is ready to kick some ass.
And then what's so funny about all of this is, you know, Putin thought Trump was getting reelected.
You know that Putin just looked at this shit and he was just like, he's like, these fucking Americans reelected George H.W.
Bush.
They elected that, they elected like W, that moron.
They reelected Clinton.
They reelected Obama.
Like, once you get in, you get eight years.
So Putin's like putting all his pieces on the chessboard.
He's moving things around.
And he's like, okay, once like Trump gets back in, we'll declare the war.
And then he's like, what?
Biden won?
What the fuck?
No.
How?
How could that fucking old dullard idiot beat my guy?
What the shit?
And then he's like, ah, fuck it.
Just invade anyways.
Trump did enough damage in his four years.
It'll work out.
Smash cut to it not working out.
And it's like, it's a narrator.
It didn't work out.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
It's just, it's just really wild that, uh, I saw, uh, there was like a headline that was like, CIA thought Kiev would fall in three days.
We were shocked it didn't.
And it's like, yeah, I mean, pretty much everyone thought, yeah, the Russian military is a real deal.
And then it's like, no, it wasn't.
No, it wasn't.
Not even close.
Yeah.
And it turns out that, uh, that sacrificing a significant portion of them for a failed campaign in your, Like plucky little brother's territory is probably not doing anything to strengthen the old army of the motherland.
Oh man, do we have listener questions?
Do we want to answer some listener questions?
That sounds like a thing we could potentially do.
Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
It's time for Q and A. Yeah, I mean, want to is probably pretty strong.
It's strong.
More like will do.
Contractually obligated to answer the listener questions as per the covenant we have signed with our audience.
Before we did that, I just wanted to give a quick shout out about the fact that we now have, like, federally decriminalized weed.
Like, Dark Brandon is now Dank Brandon.
Mike, could you believe that Tens of thousands of people on Twitter, and as of this recording, the leading headline on Huffington Post, stole by hilarious Dank Brandon meme.
I was the first person to call a tank, Brandon.
It was me.
I was witty and clever, and I did it first.
Everybody else owes me some royalties.
They owe you five bucks?
They owe me... it's a percentage.
So for those of you who are making very little off of my hilarious joke, you owe me very little.
And for those of you that are wallowing in my jokes cash, like the Huffington Post, Ariana Huffington, or whoever you sold it to, you owe me a hell of dough.
And I will take that in the form of cryptocurrency, please.
Only your sassiest ape non-fungible tokens, please and thank you.
I am looking at the gif of Dark Brandon's laser eyes on the Huffington Post headlines.
I believe you mean Dank Brandon?
Yes.
Yes.
So, anyhow, Pancake Peasant asks, Tom and Giselle have reportedly hired divorce lawyers.
Is there any QAnon angle or conspiracy on either of them?
Um, QAnon's kind of like neutral on Brady.
Giselle is a witch.
Giselle is a monster.
All of her kind of new agey shit is obviously evil, bad, demonic spirits.
Isn't Brady like in their corner?
Is he like a Trump guy?
He's a quiet Trump guy.
The last Super Bowl the Patriots won, he didn't go to the rally, he didn't go to the presidential meet-and-greet, he didn't do the... The burping snack grab?
Yeah, he didn't get a whopper and do the grip and grin with Trump.
He snubbed the White House there.
I don't know... But, I mean, he's a Caucasian male that enjoys football and sells weird supplements.
He should be like a god to these people.
He's already a grifter.
If you haven't, there's several YouTube videos breaking down the TB12 program and man, I thought he made enough money he didn't need to grift his fans.
Okay, so does it count as him being a grifter if he's also a victim?
Like, is there a chance that he has just been, like, actually hooked by this weird guru guy that's actually- because, you know, like, Tom Brady's not in there mixing up the formula and shit, like, he's got a guy, he's got, like, a quack doctor that does that for him.
Yeah, that's Alex Guerrero, his trainer that the Patriots and Belichick hated, and that was, like, that was one of the, like, the souring points between the two, is, like, Brady wanted Guerrero in the locker room, and Belichick was like, no.
We have team doctors.
I'm not letting your fucking quack into the room.
Fuck you.
Belichick was like, nobody even remembers former WWF wrestler Eddie Guerrero.
Get the fuck out of here, Tom Brady, with that shit.
Nobody cares.
Aaron Hernandez could not bring in Big Van Vader, and you may not have Eddie Guerrero.
And Tom was like, I don't even know what you're talking about, old man.
And Belichick was like, NWO for life!
It's like, oh god.
Fucking Belichick.
Yeah, as they're wheeling about on a stretcher.
Yes!
Top Radiation is like, uh, yeah, the coach started acting really weird.
He started saying all sorts of words.
He started calling this guy Eddie.
I started listening to Mox, Jon Moxley's audio book.
And, uh, when they started up The Shield, they didn't know if people would sell for them.
So their whole plan was, well, there's three of us.
And if people wouldn't sell for them, they'd just beat the shit out of us.
That is, uh, yeah.
Oh God.
Old timey wrestling and the threat of, uh, implied violence was always there.
And that's awesome.
Uh, I remember, um, in the ancient times, the guy that was going to lose the title to Bruno San Martino, who then held it for seven years, allegedly, like he really tried to avoid having that wrestling match.
And supposedly he was told he was going to win when he got in the ring with Bruno and then the bell rang and Bruno was like, Hey, We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way.
And 45 seconds later, Bruno Sammartino is the champion of the world.
So that's how that happens.
There's already a podcast called WrestleTalk and I forgot what our original question was.
We're talking about how QAnon feels about Tom Brady and Gisele splitting.
They should be devastated like the rest of us.
Heartbroken.
It's like they're like American royalty and truly they are the new Kennedys and seeing them split up is devastating.
Yeah, I think the main reason why QAnon doesn't have hard opinions about Tom Brady is they already have their hero and anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers.
They already have the big-time quarterback who was like, I ain't taking the vaccine, screw it.
So they were like, yeah, we already got our hero.
Brady got vaccinated.
He's a bitch.
He's a beta.
Fuck him.
Even though he won the Super Bowl and Rodgers hasn't won one in a million years and never will.
So, great.
Eric Rodgers is also on the opposite end of the God-to-these-people spectrum because he was dating that girl that was like 25 years younger than him.
No.
Or whatever.
Shaylee Woodry or whatever her name was.
There's a lot of those out there.
And she was batting hard for him, too.
She seems like a ride-or-die type of partner.
She was just like, everybody's talking shit about my man, but fuck him.
I'm gonna dick him down in this bathroom, or whatever she said, I don't know.
But I do remember that she was very much supportive of him.
Which, in this instance, bad, because the things he was espousing were stupid and wrong.
But in general, you know, that's a good impulse.
Support your partner.
Like, you love to see it.
Maybe not dating it and maybe not dating somebody who's like 40 or whatever when you're 23.
But, you know, aside from that, it's all good.
Yes, so thank you for the question that derailed us brutally.
Much appreciated.
Mebad asks, have you seen Above Majestic?
And do you think Jordan Sather did a good job as a producer?
Above Majestic is a nutso conspiracy movie about everything.
Literally every nutty bullshit thing that exists.
Me and I believe the QAnon Origins Project and Sarah Antonio, I probably got her last name wrong because my brain is made out of pudding right now, but we actually did a watch along where we did like an MST3K as we watched it and reacted to it.
That movie has everything.
It has adrenochrome.
It has Nazis living under the South Pole.
Awesome.
It's just batshit insane.
And it's really awesome because Jordan Sather is the guy who comes out and pisses and moans about Ysera and Nysera.
JFK Jr.
And he's like, you dum-dums will believe any dumb shit, making the movement look bad.
We gotta reign things in.
And it's like, you believe in Nazis living under the South Pole?
You think Nikola Tesla created free energy and the government's hiding it from us?
MedBeds?
Yeah, MedBeds.
I always forget about MedBeds.
So, two weeks ago, my local Nerd Trivia, they were like, the next round is Conspiracy Theories.
And my teammates slid the The answer sheet over to me and I was like, I might not know them.
No, I knew all five of them because they're all babies.
They're all babies first conspiracy theories.
And they're like, what airport?
And I was like, Denver, just just he doesn't even finish the question, Denver.
And it was a bummer because they're all babies first conspiracy theories.
Because if you go any deeper than that level, they get racist so quick.
They get anti-Semitic.
And I was like, I thought about it.
I was bummed out that they couldn't do any like crazier ones, but I was like, wow, if you don't want to talk about Nazis, you really can't go below this level of conspiracy theories.
In this round, it's a list and we're going to need you to list from top to bottom the best races.
Go All I'm thinking is like
They ask they ask a question That's a little too spicy about conspiracies and like you
buzz in or whatever and you're like the protocols of the elders of Zion
And then everyone else who knows the answer starts giving you the side eye, where they're just like, why do you know that?
And you're like, uh, because I research conspiracy theories.
Yeah, that's why you know that.
Then you encounter their side eye with your Illuminati eye.
And you just put the circle around your eye immediately to let them all know you're cool.
You're like, I'm cool!
I pulled it up by Kim Trill's book, which a close friend of mine saw when he came over and he's like, I know you have this for your podcast.
Otherwise, I'd be very worried.
And I'm like, it's so hard to read.
As we've talked about... Sorry Sarge, you'll get the hang of it someday.
I try.
I sound him out phonetically, but... See, Sarge held up his book that was about chemtrails and harp, and that reminded me of the The awesome photo that's going around the internet of Biden and some guy from Florida really bro-ing it out, and Jill Biden's talking to the guy.
And then in the foreground you have DeSantis.
Oh, I love that photo.
DeSantis just looking like the biggest sad baby in the world, while the president's just, like, presidenting in the background.
Ah, it's so perfect.
If DeSantis has a PR team, he needs to fire them for letting that photo get out of, like, the ultimate Chad Virgin moment of him and Biden.
Yeah.
Did we somehow matryoshka ourselves like 12 layers deep in bullshit?
Are we still technically answering the Tom Brady question?
No, we were talking about Above Majestic.
I haven't seen.
I don't know.
Google drive me that.
I'm vaguely interested.
I'll get my thoughts on it.
That was why I had forgotten because I don't know what that is.
I'm assuming it's some dumb, bad piece of media that is about a bunch of conspiracy horse shit.
But going into this, like I had no idea what that was.
It could have been anything.
Yeah, it is exactly what you just said it was.
It is exactly just a ridiculously horrible movie about just every conspiracy theory that's ever existed.
It's just absolute clown shit of the highest order.
So, thank you for the question.
Cleodora Silvestri, who is again right clicking on your NFTs, asks, what is the worst casino game and why is the answer Keno?
I don't know.
All the Keno tables I've seen, they give you that free soup, right?
The Chinese players love Keno and they always bring you that free soup.
Maybe that's what Keno is like where you're from, but having spent a lot of time in The thing about Keno for me is I don't really consider it a casino game.
that all of the people playing Keno are a bunch of sad old white people.
Yeah, Keno, the thing about Keno for me is I don't really consider it a casino game.
It's more of a lottery thing because I see people playing Keno at the local convenience
store and stuff like that.
That damn thing is something else.
To me, the worst casino game is the Big Six Money Wheel because your odds on that thing
are unbelievably bad.
It's like, if you wanted to play roulette, but you just wanted to lose even more aggressively than you would lose at roulette, then by God, play the Big Six Money Wheel.
It will absolutely fucking destroy you.
No, the worst casino game is poker, because in this dumb game, a woman This was fucking unprompted!
I did not tell Sarge to say that!
Women can't beat men!
Women can't beat men!
To be fair, there's cheating across all of these activities.
I'm seeing a lot of headlines call these things sports and it's just like, you need to calm down.
One of them is chess.
Woman no beat man in game where card flip random.
I mean to be fair there is a level of poker play that is so bad it looks like cheating.
Yeah and then I love that fucking dude tweeted out and he's there's a lot of negative attention on me right now and I want to refocus it on big brothers big sisters and I was like of course you want to get the heat off of you What an idiot.
Yeah, like the thing to me is it's like I all of it I don't care about like literally
the hand all of it I don't care have an investigation.
The fact that he hit her up for the money and got it back was ridiculous like until
you can prove she cheated you.
That's fucking poker.
That dude, if you follow the Hustler streams, that dude always shows up super rolled.
Like whatever the game is, everybody else has got like $200,000 in front of him.
That dude has a half million in front of him all the time.
He is like, and he's the star of the show.
Why would Hustler Casino want to rip that guy off?
Like why would they want to fuck with him?
It's ridiculous.
Like I, I've had people argue all kinds of ridiculous stuff about, Oh, she knew what the runout was going to be.
And it's like, no, there's no way she could know what the runout was.
That level of like hacking a shuffle master, you can't do that.
It's, and if you could, Then, boy howdy, that requires an inside man, and Hustler's unsafe, and no one should play in that building.
Like, it's not even... I say this knowing who my co-host is, and what his Twitter handle is.
The fuckin' Twitter... The Poker Bros on Twitter are some of the vilest, most misogynistic... They are worse than some of the QAnon people.
Oh yeah, dude.
They're fuckin' terrible.
Quote-unquote poker culture fuckin' blows.
And that's why it bubbled real big and then burst, because it turned something like... Nobody wants to be mired in that shit.
It doesn't have the same jovial, fun nature that rooting for a football team or a baseball team does.
Being involved in poker culture is just sort of like... At its best, it's a very solitary affair, and at its worst, it's a very toxic affair.
I've seen so many people call it casuals.
The best poker player I knew in person was like at their best when they were just like sitting silently at their computer like 14 tabling some online poker site and then they were just like oh I won like $200,000 today and it's like bully for you mate but you haven't said a word in like 12 hours.
Oh yeah like like there was a um there was a An AMA on Reddit from a guy that was like a high level poker player and someone asked, someone was like, Hey man, like, what's, how great is it to just like crush online poker and all this stuff?
And his response was basically that he hated it, that it was incredibly dull and boring to him.
Cause he was just like literally clicking on a mouse all day.
And just like, he knows the math.
He's got the math down cold on like when to bluff, when to bet, all this kind of stuff.
And he was just like, if he basically said, if there was anything else I could do to make this kind of money, I would do it, but I don't.
So I'm just like trapped.
I basically have to be on my computer like six hours a day, just clicking these buttons, watching these hands like wash over me.
And at the end of the day, I'm like, eh, I'm up like $6,000 could have been down $20,000 could have been up $35,000 tomorrow, be back at it again.
And it's just, it's just super boring and super grindy and Yeah, it's like the people that speed solve a Rubik's Cube.
Learning how to do that, I'm sure, is immensely fulfilling, and there's probably incredible moments, like when you're taking down events and setting records and stuff.
But then imagine doing that, and they're just like, OK, now for your job, you're going to do that for between 6 and 12 hours a day, almost every day, for indefinite.
Have fun!
Into that Rubik's Cube.
Yeah, exactly!
I'm much lower stakes.
I watch, like, the pros of Magic, and they're just like, yeah, we rented a house a week before the big event, and all we do is jam matchups all day, every day, before the big event.
And I'm like, I love Magic the Gathering.
That is way too much Magic.
It's just that level of event prep.
I'm like, I will never be that level at something like that, because I just go out of my mind.
Yeah, especially, like, especially back in the day when, like, the Pro Tour would be at, like, Honolulu and you'd hear about, like, the big, like, like, you know, Pro Houses where they were just on the beach in Honolulu just jamming Magic Matches and, like, ignoring the fact that they were in Paradise.
Anyway, what question are we supposed to be answering?
Jesus.
Worst casino game.
It's poker.
The answer is poker.
Poker, we have Big Wheel.
I mean, I haven't been in a casino for a long time, so I guess I'll just say roulette.
I've always hated roulette.
I'll say craps, because every time I've approached a craps table, I've been told, no, you're not allowed to come up yet.
You have to bet here.
And I'm just like, you guys want to take my money, but no one's willing to explain how this game works, so fuck craps.
Like, fuck that game.
Oh, I am here for your craps one-on-one tutorial.
I love craps.
I love explaining craps to people.
It's all I do at my job.
People walk over to the craps table.
They have no idea what's going on.
I educate them.
I, I'm, I'm the devil.
I'm basically someone just lured like instead of, instead of, yeah.
Oh God, am I King Dice?
Yes.
I, instead of luring you into QAnon, I lure you into betting odds on, on the pass line.
And, uh, All right.
you about the come line and hearing the jokes about coming and don't coming haha because it's
so witty and clever but yes all right i don't see a question yes nor should you uh
Reverend Xenofacts asks, I've seen some Q-types loving on Iran, and I have to ask why?
A weak power, non-Christian, a traditional enemy, and it's clear the population there hates leadership.
Is there anything beyond how Q-balls hate America?
Misogyny.
No.
The reason why Q loves Iran is because Iran is part of the QAnon mythos.
Oh.
I thought it was just they're beating up women.
No, the QAnon is in support of the women's rebellion in Iran.
They support the toppling of the Iranian regime because during Trump's Summit meetings with Kim Jong-un.
Q had created this narrative that the Q team had assassinated the leaders of the CIA who were actually controlling Kim Jong-un in North Korea, and that North Korea was being liberated from the deep state and being placed under the actual rule of the benevolent Kim Jong-un and his family.
And everything was going to be just puppy dogs and roses because we had saved North Korea from the deep state.
And what Q would say after finishing these statements was, quote, Iran next.
So the next country on the list of countries to liberate from the deep state was Iran.
And whenever there'd be protests in Iran while Q was posting, Q would be like, People of Iran, we hear you!
You will be free!
Q!
So very much QAnon is all about Iranian revolution because Q has called out... It's part of their prophecy.
It's part of the prophecy.
Iran's government is deep state.
They're the bad guys and we will vanquish them and install Iranian patriot government.
A government that is anti-deep state.
It will be a good government.
It's, um, yeah, that is basically why Iran, why QAnon is so pro-Iran and pro-Iran, uh, protest movements.
They're, they're against the actual regime because that's the line in the sand that Q had drawn.
What's really funny is that like Q was always really anti-China, but, uh, because Biden and China are butting heads a lot, QAnon has no idea how they feel about Xi and the, uh, Chinese, like, One day Xi is a patriot, the next day China's deep state.
So they're just ping pong back and forth there because they don't have any firm grasp on what's going on other than their hatred of Biden and what China's doing this day to like thumb their nose at him or not.
So I'm actually going to steal a question here.
I heard a term for the first time on another podcast.
I'm curious if you can give me a succinct answer here.
What is pastel QAnon?
Okay, so Pastel QAnon is basically new-agey, hippy-dippy, crunchy forms of alternative medicine, where you reject vaccines for crystals and chakras and aligning your third eye.
And it's also about, quote-unquote, save the children.
getting on the fringes of QAnon but you don't know about adrenochrome you might even not know about Q himself or what QAnon is but you're just getting you're just getting the tendrils you're just the anti-vax the save the children like those things that like you've You found a way to reason yourself into an anti-vaccination point of view.
You didn't do it through QAnon, but you got there.
And who doesn't want to save children?
Who doesn't want to protect kids?
So that's what Pastelanon is.
It's just a different on-ramp to QAnon, where you might not even know that's what you're getting into when you're doing it.
You're just sort of like, hey, I don't trust those vaccines, and my Reiki healer always makes me feel better after I have a session.
Why wouldn't I just stick with my New Age crystal healing instead of using this chemical that's going to reprogram me?
So that's what Pasteladon mostly is.
Yeah, I just heard it for the first time.
We've been doing this for so long.
How incredibly bizarre.
Yeah.
I love how weird, I love the weird tendrils that Q can get up in there.
It's just like, certainly there's no way that Q could get into like New Age spiritualism and medicine, right?
They're just like, hold my beer.
Yeah.
So maybe next week, a week to prep, Mike, if you want to, I would like to hear next week a breakdown of what the fuck QAnon looks like these days.
We're several years on and like, I know the movement's fairly fractured and we haven't done this in quite a while.
It might be fun to just kind of take a look at the movement, just a breakdown of where the players are and what they're doing.
I'm here for that.
No problem.
I mean, that is the podcast, but we haven't really focused on that in a while.
Yeah, I'm here for you.
I am here to help.
So no problem at all.
Klutz Zero says, Do you think MTG's Democrats are already killing us line at that rally will be picked up by any other demagogues?
The thing that was is when she said it, it was really kind of hard.
Yeah, it was very violent and very horrifying, but it kind of got lost in the in the shuffle pretty quickly.
I mean, Uh, which is a good thing.
I mean, I think she's going to say that got that kind of outrageous shit to try to get more attention on herself because that's how she operates.
But, um, it's, it's just really shitty to start making claims like, Oh, they're killing us.
So.
Since they're killing us, I mean, it's not that bad if we start killing them.
I mean, it's just going down this path of dehumanization and making violence acceptable as an outcome for what's going on.
And all of that is aggressively no bueno.
But for the moment, thankfully, it appears to have gone nowhere.
So I am grateful for that.
Don't worry, she'll bring it back up again.
Can you imagine, like, workshopping that one and then having it fall flat because it just got, like, swept up in a sea of other bullshit and you're like, damn it!
Did she say that pre- or post-divorce?
That was pre-divorce, I believe.
I think that came out around the time of the Lizzo flute incident, and that kind of sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
It was like, Marjorie Taylor Greene is stoking political violence.
Oh my god, a black woman played a flute!
Oh, we know what we're going to talk about!
It's just like, oh man.
It's like, God damn it, really?
Lizzo got to steal my thunder?
Marjorie Taylor Greene's just pouting in the corner.
Yeah, she got home from that rally or whatever.
She gave her big line about Democrats killing them.
And then she walked into her house and there was like a shadowy, clearly liberal figure.
He had like a pride flag patch on him or whatever.
And like with her back towards her, she's like, what are you doing?
And he's just like, I'm killing your husband.
She's like, no, my husband!
And then he turns around and her husband's there, safe and sound.
And it turns out that that guy is a lawyer.
And her husband's just like, I want a divorce.
She was like, why'd you have to be so dramatic about this?
I thought he was murdering you.
He was like, no, that would be crazy.
Why would he be murdering me?
We're going to murder you in cross-examination.
Yeah.
I mean, what is a divorce if not two spouses killing their own marriage?
I remember when marriage used to mean something.
Let's make America great again, guys.
Yeah.
And Leach from BX says, betting odds on another Q return before midterms.
Low.
I don't see it, because Jim's heart ain't in it, and he hated what happened.
And Jim, like, Karma is always posting these streams of Jim's, where he's talking to his cronies, and they're Jim's just mostly pitching about how unstable 8kun is and how hard it is to get the platform to work because they're just getting attacked by all these people that are trying to de-platform them.
So all Jim ever does is just piss and moan about how I can't keep the site up.
We put up a new cappuccino and it didn't work.
And now we're just trying to like stop the bots.
And he's, he's just a put upon like webmaster who can't keep his terrible toxic needs to be destroyed website from like going offline. I remember like someone at some point he had
talked about getting tour operational on the site again.
And it and he had said off also that like it wouldn't be until
January before all their fixes were in. So I don't think he's going to take another crack at Q until the site's
absolutely totally stable because he knows how much heat it would put
on the site. If more Q drop started showing up.
Back like, Oh, Ron's coming back, but he's gonna bust out that killdozer.
Hahahaha!
Exactly, exactly.
Truly, Ron Watkins' Killdozer is the new Elon Musk owes me one million United States dollars.
Once again, to stop talking about his deformed penis on my podcast, which I say having never seen or met the penis, but based on clues that we have discovered, possibly malformed.
We'll go ahead and say 99% certain, malformed.
You should be able to point it out and it'll line up from a mere glance.
Yeah, I mean you should be able to picture it. You should be able to point it out and it'll line up from a mere
glance.
So that's I mean that would have to be some that would have to be some distinct pain.
So Elon Musk, feel free to uh, again, I'll I'll you know what I'll
If I'm going to accept it from other people, I should accept it from you.
I will take the equivalent of one million United States dollars in the form of Ape NFT.
If that's how it has to be, I will accept that personally, directly into the crypto wallet.
Tell Satoshi to get at me.
Uh, previously we had gone like Phantom of the Opera with Elon's peen.
I'm kind of thinking now it's more like Medusa, like the top of the crown has a bunch of like little snakes like jutting off of it and just sort of like hissing and yelling at you.
I think that's probably more along the lines of what actually happened though, Elon.
I don't know exactly.
Yes.
No way, man.
Toxic Avenger.
I'm here for any and all of these options.
So again, Elon, million bucks.
We stopped talking about your horrifying phallus.
But until then, it's going to become part of the conversation whenever we just need to kill time and need something fun to riff about, because your horribly deformed manhood is what entertains us.
And Rob Watkins, if you're listening to this, which you are not, but if you are, Just know that the price is not the same for you.
I am a man who cannot be bought by you.
And I will continue to ward people by your impending Killdozer attack until such a time as you are stopped.
Or you do the attack, I guess.
That's gonna be, like, the ultimate episode.
Like, some Saturday morning, like, Ron Watkins' Killdozer attack happens, and everyone's like, oh shit, the next Hellworld's gonna be spicy!
Yeah, that one's gonna be tough to record, because I'm going to be interrogated by federal agents.
If Rod Watkins did show up someplace and committed a killdozer attack after I had been riffing on it for multiple months on the podcast, they're gonna be like, either this clown got the idea for this dumb fucking podcast, or this guy had inside information.
And it's just like, no, man, I'm just a student of the human condition when I look at that guy.
You just have to rap it, because there's that new California law that rap lyrics can't be used to prosecute you.
Oh, I thought you meant like a Jimmy cap.
And I was just like, that's going to be tough to find for a killdozer.
I mean, I don't know if Magnum does this.
Covered in latex.
That's where I was going.
Not sing about it.
No way, man.
When you're going to killdozer the Sydney Opera House, wrap it up every time.
Yes.
Ah, so that brings us to our question of numerous.
What are you guys looking forward to?
Chainsaw Man!
Chainsaw Man!
Chainsaw Man comes out this week.
I'm very hype.
That studio does great work.
I love that manga.
It is going to be so good.
Expectations sky high.
This rocket is never landing.
Also, there's a bunch of other spooky stuff coming out this week.
The new Hellraiser comes out tomorrow on Hulu, and me and Elle are big Hellraiser fans.
Yeah, I love Hellraiser.
I actually have plans to watch that with some friends.
Not this weekend, but shortly afterwards.
Do love it.
Kotaku seemed to like it.
That was the only review I'd seen of it so far, but it was positive.
At least in the headlines.
We'll see.
Maybe the bar's pretty low.
Only the first Hellraiser and two-thirds are any good, and then the rest is all poop.
I mean, the fourth one, they literally started filming without a script.
Is that the one where one of the cinebites just has like a camera for a head?
Like a movie camera?
I think so.
That's the one with Adam Scott.
Adam Scott's in that one and he was like, we started filming and they were like, we didn't have a finished script.
They were literally like, we had the start and then they were literally writing the script as they were filming.
Nice.
I'm going to keep mine brief.
I am looking forward to rest.
I'm very tired.
So after this, I would rest.
Well, that's not true.
I'll probably play some Storybook Brawl and then I will rest.
And I might also watch She-Hulk.
And I think this is the week where Daredevil finally shows up.
So I guess I'm excited for that, too.
So I'm going to say rest slash Storybook Brawl slash She-Hulk parentheses because Daredevil.
And maybe Daredevil fucks She-Hulk.
You never know.
Maybe.
That would be, I mean, depending on how graphic it is, that could be the greatest moment of Marvel television yet.
But only if it's incredibly graphic.
Yeah.
I mean, the whole point of watching that show is to fantasize about a big strong green lady taking you to the bed, like carrying you like you were a little baby, but you're a full grown man and therefore allowed to consent to such activities that would happen in the bedroom that you get carried to.
Glad that was explained to me.
All right, Mike, take us home.
What are you looking forward to?
I'm looking forward to having a vacation at the end of the month.
So that's going to be fun.
Just relaxing, chilling out.
Potentially at some point in the near future, training more people to learn how to deal.
That's a possibility that seems to be on the horizon.
And beyond that, just being addicted to football, which is awesome.
And so all of those things, like the ship continues apace and life is generally peachy.
What a rush.
What a rush life is.
You know what, it's so much of a rush I can't stand it anymore and it's time for us to be carted off by the fun police out of Hellworld.
They're taking us away.
They're strapping us to those things like Hannibal Lecter including our mouths so that we can't kiss or bite anyone.
No smooches, no bites.
So thank you, everybody, for listening.
We're gonna fuck off.
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Still no social media for them.
What a bummer.
You know who you can find on social media, though, is our buddy Frosty, who you can find on Twitter at FrostyVO.
VO standing for Voice Over.
Our man provides all of our bumps and the voice of Q when we need it, etc.
Hear him every week.
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So, for another successful episode of the Adventures at Hellworld podcast, I have been one of your hosts, the Mysterious L, joined, as always, by my co-host Sarge, and our expert on all things QAnon crazy, Mr. Mike Rains.