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Adventures in HellwQrld Episode #149: All Crimes All The Time!

This week Haley, Mike, and L talk about Trump's impending J6 indictment. The Michigan fake electors getting indicted and Tim Ballard getting kicked out of OUR for whatever bad things he did. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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	From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Cues in the News!
	I hit the wrong fuckin' button.
	Beepin' it!
	Big beeper!
	It works.
	It works, though.
	Okay, hitting music now.
	Yep.
	🎵 Music 🎵 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.
	Hello, everybody.
	I am Mike Rains, a.k.a.
	Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
	This week, I am joined by escaped child that was captured, Haley.
	She made it out.
	She's free.
	Yep.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Yep.
	Unfortunately, sorry.
	Sarge did not escape, so he is trapped in the South American jungles.
	However, the mysterious El did survive.
	And I don't know what the fuck my Grace is talking about, my beautiful babies, but I'm back!
	I'm back!
	And Sarge is gone!
	Did you not see the movie?
	No.
	God, no.
	Are you kidding me?
	Why would I ever see that movie?
	I could send you a totally legal link if you're interested.
	Yeah, but I mean, at the end of it, does it reward me with 90 minutes worth of time?
	Like that Justin Timberlake movie?
	Does it put the time back on my clocks?
	Because if not, I'm off that.
	And you'd be negative 45 minutes on that, because that movie is actually two hours and 15 minutes.
	Holy smokes, really?
	I mean, I guess.
	I don't know.
	I know it's produced by some weirdo Christian production group.
	Angel Studios.
	The Jesus TV show that's gonna show up on the CW.
	But in my head, Christian production houses are still low-budget, terrible affairs.
	So maybe they've got the budget now for a... I mean, Jim Confusio for two hours fifteen?
	Oh yeah, it's not.
	They did not have the budget to fight.
	The fight scene was blanked out, because I didn't even think of it until Sarge mentioned it, but they clearly didn't have the budget to have a fight scene.
	I mean, that's fine.
	Wherever they were cutting quarters, it does not matter, because that movie is going to be crossing the $100 million mark.
	If it hasn't already, then pretty soon.
	And trending upwards from there, because I don't think that's included all of the pay it forward tickets that have allegedly been... There's so many.
	But not necessarily claimed.
	Yeah.
	Fuck wild shit, man.
	Unreal.
	Oh, yeah.
	It is.
	It's going to be very interesting to see if this thing is an actual, like legitimate money making success or if it's just a bizarre right wing money laundering grift scheme where like the pay it forward stuff and all the studio stuff where they're like helping people get tickets.
	If it's actually something that, like, made them money, or were they just trying to push this shit into the culture because they were just so desperate to have... Well, I mean, at this point, it seems like it's gonna be both, right?
	If they have a bunch of those tickets that haven't been claimed, but the movie is still already... is about to cross, like, $100 million or more on an $18 million budget or whatever...
	Like, that's an unmitigated success.
	Regardless of whether or not the other thing in the background is a grift, the movie they produced, and then put it in theaters, is just successful flat out.
	Which is horrifying, because by all accounts it's just a pretty down-to-plate, boring, lightly conservative movie about a guy who's like, I'm a great cop!
	Or whatever, you know?
	They're at almost 9 million tickets sold on the Pay It Forward thing.
	And yeah, that pays for the theater because I tried to get, before I totally legally downloaded it, I did try to go to a theater near me and it was sold out, even though I know it wasn't actually fucking sold out, because I sent you that photo of that guy who was tweeting himself in a theater near me and he's like, There's only two other people in here and I checked and that one was also like sold out like they're fucking sold out and they're not actually sold out in some cases.
	I'm sure some theaters are popping you know like that you know Prescott, Arizona theater is probably packed every day but not so much Downtown Phoenix.
	You know, a lot of the sort of blue and non-tinfoil hat sort of people are probably just like, oh, it's all some sort of big, you know, like, nobody's actually seeing the movie and all this money is fake and all that.
	And I'm just like, God, I would love to believe that.
	But remember, like, the Passion was just, like, successful on its face because it was appealing to an incredibly specific demographic that isn't normally catered to in a wide-release motion picture.
	So, like, the fact that, like, you could come out with this, you know, sort of, like, oorah, Republican message movie that's, like, not so down your throat with it that it will make, like, a regular person immediately throw up out of their eyeballs, but also, like, enough, like, especially on the back end, like, if you know who it's coming from, like, certainly enough message forward to get the actual devotees in there.
	Like, I'm assuming that there's some places where this movie's actually, like, you have bros coming out of this movie high-fiving and being like, yeah!
	I hate it when people traffic kids!
	They did something.
	They watched a movie.
	So they did something.
	Yeah.
	One thing I will say is when I left the theater, there were people talking about, oh man, if I had kids now, I'd be terrified.
	The movie really got across the idea that someone's going to just swoop up with a van, scoop your kids up and take them away.
	And that's just, that's just, that's your lot in life in the world nowadays is that child abduction by strangers is omnipresent.
	Don't get me wrong, it certainly does happen sometimes, which is more than it ever should, and obviously that sucks, but, uh, I mean, it's not exactly, like, all over the place, like, there are just vans circling every neighborhood and every town, like, just looking for wayward kids.
	Yeah, not a day goes by on my commute that I don't see some sort of abandoned big wheel, or, you know, some, like, broken switch that hit clatter to the ground after some kid just got snatched up.
	It's like, uh, seven, eight times, eight times a week with the shit.
	Yeah.
	You're, you're, you're just on the bus and your commute.
	And you're just like, you're just looking at the playground.
	You just see that empty swing, just swaying back and forth.
	And you're just like, God damn it.
	They did it again.
	Yeah.
	It's like that post I sent you where that guy was like, if you hear a kid
	crying in a supermarket, nine times out of 10, it's just a kid crying.
	But one time out of ten, that's a kid being trafficked and you should always check.
	And then there was like other kind of like red pill types being like, if you fucking come up to me and talk to my kid, I'm going to shoot you.
	This will be fun.
	This will be a fun little I mean, I just love the idea of, like, just right-wing lunatic on right-wing lunatic violence, because these idiots are dealing- a parent is dealing with a distressed child in public, which is just how parenting works, and then you just have some nut who's like, hey, are these really your parents?
	And then the guy's like, what the fuck did you just say to my kid?
	Just goes way downhill from there.
	I like that Twitter post that went viral that I wouldn't fault anyone for not knowing about because Twitter, but it was getting a lot of traction and I saw it where it was like a lady who got bamboozled because she saw an abandoned kid stranded on the side of the road so she got out of her car and there was some human traffickers using this child as human bait to fish for women to human traffic and I was like Okay, I mean, I guess that's possible.
	Like, I'm not saying that that's completely impossible.
	But what I am saying is that there are plenty of, like, adult male...
	Good Samaritans that might, like, see a kid wandering on the side of the road, pull over, and just, like, immediately call 9-1-1 from the car before even approaching and, like, going up.
	Like, there's a lot of ways for that to go wrong.
	Like, where you're gonna have some, like, big muscle dude pull over on his motorcycle, like, he's got a gun on his hip because America.
	He walks up to the kid, and he's just like, hey, buckaroo, you need a, you know, where's your adult?
	Are you all right?
	And then that kid's just gonna be like, fuck outta here, chief, I'm fine.
	Like, get outta here, we got a thing going.
	Like, it's good.
	Motherfucker, you broke my character!
	And then he pulls out, like, a cigarette and starts ripping a butt.
	And he's like, ugh, goddammit, I have to get back, ugh.
	You know how long it takes for me to, like, wander around in the street in a way that looks believable?
	Impossible.
	The kid's doing this whole, like, trying to get back in the zone to be a kid again for the next trafficking quote.
	Yeah, and then there's, like, two guys in, like, a van, like, close enough to the action where they could Abduct and stuff a person into this vehicle, but not so close to the action that you can see it.
	Right.
	And, like, behind, like, a bush or whatever.
	Schrodinger's abduction van.
	Anyway, yeah.
	Everybody, like, all these conservators, they really love, they're going after the word, like, mythologize the idea of trafficking.
	Yes.
	Trafficking is, like, woke.
	It's whatever, it's whatever they want it to be that they don't like.
	You know, some people moved into my neighborhood, and I didn't mind too much because I'm a pretty forward-thinking guy, but then they started trafficking all that heroin, and I was just like, you know what?
	I hate all trafficking.
	Oh, God.
	Anyway, that was supposed to be our first Boosh topic, but we actually kind of turned it into our pre-Boosh fiesta.
	So let's go ahead and sally forth to our amuse-a-boosh.
	It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
	Get ready for the amuse-boosh.
	Adding on to the whole fun and frivolity of the nonsense around Sound of Freedom, we've also had right-wing conspiracy theories around these movie theaters, where people are like, oh, they broke the air conditioning to make it uncomfortable, or the sound quality at my AMC wasn't great, they were trying to prevent people from hearing.
	That's just the movie.
	Or I was fired for refusing to inject the chicken nuggets with this vial.
	They're just like, yeah, they passed all these vials to employees.
	It was like, hey, make sure to sprinkle this on the popcorn or you're fired.
	And I was like, no, I'm an American patriot.
	I don't know what's in this vial.
	And then they analyzed the file for nanobots.
	I'm pretty sure that was a troll post, but if... Oh, I mean, it hoodwinked a lot of people.
	A lot of real stupid people thought that was, like, absolutely the truth.
	It was so funny.
	I was like, what are you talking about?
	Because again, that's like the perfect thing to bamboozle people because it simultaneously paints the opposition as incredibly smart and incredibly stupid.
	Like, imagine if your plan was just like, we need to sneak these nanobots into the popcorn at movie theaters.
	How are we going to do that?
	So we're just like, hey, how about we put it in the butter that we put on the popcorn?
	And they're just like, shut up, Steve!
	That's impossible.
	We need to make sure to hand out an individual vial to all of these.
	We need to put the power back in the American people's hands.
	It's like, it's exactly like the mules.
	It's like, how can we rig these votes?
	I know by paying people $10 a ballot to put them in ballot boxes.
	An elaborate network of lies that falls apart as soon as anyone starts talking.
	Yes, exactly.
	It's a tradition thing.
	They're like, look, we know it's not the best way to get stuff done.
	But it's tradition, man.
	You know, like, it's like, it connects us to our ancestors, our ancestors of human traffickers and nanobot poisoners, etc, etc.
	So, oh my god, these people, they're just just the absolute worst.
	And so from there, we also had the hero of the story that Jim Caviezel played, Tim Ballard.
	He has been forced out of Operation Underground Railroad after an internal investigation uncovered that he was doing bad things inside the company, apparently.
	There was an investigation going on for a long time in Utah, like about their shady activities.
	It seems like they've been getting investigated for a while because it's a
	grift. And also, did you read that article where it was like talking to the
	employees that had former Operation Underground Railroad employees that had
	like defected and...
	What the fuck is Operation Underground Railroad?
	Tim Ballard's quote-unquote anti-trafficking organization...
	It's his script.
	You'll never guess my follow-up question.
	Who the fuck is Tim Ballard?
	Tim Ballard is the real person that Jim Caviezel plays in Sound of Freedom.
	He is the bait and yeast.
	The totally incredible super-spy agent guy that saves all the trafficked kids across the world.
	Like a reverse Carmen Sandiego for kids.
	Yes, exactly.
	They do that in the movie.
	They really do.
	They show, like, a ship, and it's like, it's going over here, and then it's going over here.
	Do they do the Indiana Jones, like, line across a map?
	They practically do, but it's like a real ship.
	That would have made it a little better to show, like, here's where all the kids go.
	That also would have made significant portions of the television show Game of Thrones better, because, man, towards the end of there, they got real sloppy with their positioning, and everybody was just like, Nightcrawler teleporting across the Earth to just be like, oh, these two characters need to have a personal talk.
	Oh, they're just together now.
	Whatever.
	Who cares?
	Guys, you're making a TV show, not a D&D campaign.
	You have to do a little, like, work.
	Get out of here.
	Just make up a goddamn mage that does teleportation or something.
	You have magic in your world.
	It's not that hard.
	Some of those whistleblowers though that were coming on about Tim Ballard's organization were like talking about how like obviously they were not trained to do the stuff they were doing and it was like traumatizing to the people that they quote-unquote tried to save but he some people said that like some of their mercenaries were like dipping into the product.
	Shocker!
	Oh yeah, knock me over with a feather.
	Yeah.
	Oh my god, I hope our lizard isn't old enough for the hat.
	This shit should be fully fucking investigated.
	It seems like there's a lot going on here.
	Yeah.
	Also, speaking of the sound quality of Sound of Freedom, that being a conspiracy, I think it's just that Jim Caviezel is a mumble actor.
	He mumbles when he talks.
	I can't understand a fucking word he's saying.
	He's inarticulate Bane.
	That's Tim Ballard in the movie.
	Yeah.
	I'm not sure how much of his work I've seen.
	I certainly never saw The Passion, plus that was in Aramaic or whatever.
	Have you ever seen The Count of Monte Cristo?
	No.
	The Highwaymen.
	No.
	You should watch that one, it's hilarious.
	It's supposed to be an action movie, but it's...
	I think I saw the first two episodes of Person of Interest.
	That's the one with the computer that predicts crime, right?
	Yes.
	Nice.
	Yeah, I saw a couple episodes of that.
	My favorite caveat of that was the computer just knows that this person is somehow involved in a future crime.
	They don't know what the crime is or anything.
	Mike, we have to watch one of his movies for a bonus episode.
	I was watching a preview for it.
	It was two years ago.
	It was called Infidel.
	And it's like, if Sound of Freedom was anti-Latino racism, the movie, this is anti-Middle Eastern racism, the movie.
	I was watching the preview for it and I'm excited to watch that one.
	We should watch that one.
	Haley going on record as being pro-racist movie.
	It's just, it's funny to watch the... She's like, my saga of the South, we gotta watch it.
	It's hilarious.
	You'll never believe how racist it is.
	Super racist.
	You remember back in Iraq War era, people used to put the Infidel sticker on their car?
	Yeah.
	It's that movie.
	It's that sticker in movie form.
	I need to see it.
	Oh God.
	Jim Caviezel.
	I can't wait for the movie that's the skeleton with a skeletal hand doing the middle finger.
	That's the next right-wing bumper sticker I want to see as a movie.
	Ghost Rider.
	Yeah, Skeletal Bird, the movie.
	I actually had somebody in the casino a few days ago, they had a shirt that just said Fuck Your Life University on it, and the emblem apparently of Fuck Your Life University was the skeletal bird.
	And I was like, man, I haven't seen a skeletal bird in a dog's age.
	That is definitely... Oh man, so that means that people that I see with that are just graduated from that institution.
	Apparently, yes.
	I had no idea.
	I thought, I didn't know it was a higher educational thing.
	I just thought it was like a conservative dog whistle sort of nonsense.
	You know, like, hey, I know what you're about and I'm about it too.
	Yeah.
	I don't like some of my neighbors and we could talk about why in the privacy of behind closed doors.
	Did you guys see the Operation Underground Railroad shirt they're selling for the Sound of Freedom?
	Like, the Sound of Freedom shirt they're selling?
	The Never Trust a Pedophile shirt?
	Yes.
	I would have to say I probably haven't seen it.
	Mike, say it.
	Yeah, Never Trust a Pedophile is what the shirt says.
	It says in big letters.
	Can you imagine wearing a shirt that says, never trust a pedophile on it?
	Oh my god.
	It feels like punishment for a pedophile.
	Like he was forced to wear the shirt.
	Can you imagine having the word pedophile on any of your apparel at any moment for any time?
	I don't think context is going to matter.
	I feel like most people see you walking down the street, they're going to lock in on that particular word and either give you a wide berth or suddenly be coming up to give you some sound of freedom, if you know what I mean.
	Well, I did- I have seen someone in the wild wearing a Kill Your Local Pedophile shirt.
	Oh, I see those at every Proud Boy Rally.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they love that sh- they love- that's like a Proud Boy, like, alternative merch that they have.
	They have, like, the Proud Boy logo with that.
	Yeah, and I'm sure that they don't really believe in that message until it turns out that it's their friend or- Oh, buddies!
	Or them.
	They're just like, oh no!
	I can't abide by it!
	I like the messaging, sometimes not so much, you know?
	You're so real for that, El.
	That's so true.
	Well, they put hormones in the water now, so 12 is a lot different than it used to be back in the day.
	He screams being handcuffed by an officer, complaining about how he is not above this particular aspect of the law, or any aspect of the law.
	Yeah, I said it a billion times on this podcast.
	I think those people protest a little too much, you know?
	Every time I'm seeing headlines about somebody getting pitched for a thing like that, it's just like, local pastor and conservative goon Bob Smith was, you know.
	Yep.
	No offense to our listeners named Bob Smith.
	Oh, you know what?
	Offense to you.
	Well, not to you.
	No, no, no offense to you.
	Offense to your parents.
	If your last name is Smith, they need to make your first name something.
	I'm Chevrolet Smith.
	Yeah, your first name's gonna pop if your last name is Smith, because otherwise you're just gonna be incredibly boring.
	I mean, it's just the way this works.
	It's why America is currently...
	Unable to get all captivated by Trump's indictments because our champion of justice, our bastion of freedom, is literally named Jack Smith.
	Literally one of ten trillion people with the name Jack Smith.
	I'm sorry to tell you this, Mike, but you are full of shit.
	As always, I have to remind you that our pinnacle of manliness is named Elon Musk.
	Oh, right, right.
	Because this is our show and we are Bootlickers who love the man, we have to talk about Elon Musk and probably not mention his deformed penis that you can ID immediately from having seen briefly for even just a moment in a lineup.
	Because it's so deformed.
	It's like a Hydra.
	It looks like Mecha-Ghidorah because he's been tinkering with it.
	Anyway.
	So I'll toss it over to Mike.
	Mike, why are we talking about Elon Musk this week, aside from the fact that we love him?
	We love him because he made a post about how Twitter is down 50% in profits, or it's losing money hand over fist compared to last year.
	It's just hemorrhaging cash, like you read about, because advertisers are fleeing and everything sucks.
	Which is Michael Andela's broke, so he can't keep shoveling money into all of his conservative lunacy.
	Oh my gosh, have you seen that he's auctioning off a bunch of MyPillow, like, industrial products?
	Yes.
	Well, I also saw that he was auctioning off, like, full pallets of MyPillows for, like, you know, 98% discount or whatever.
	Oh, fuck, I should do that.
	I was like, look, I hate the band, but I would like a crate of MyPillows.
	Yeah, head out.
	Yeah, I could give them out guilt-free to, like, myself, my friends, maybe some homeless folks.
	Homeless people, they could use some.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	How much is the pallet of pillows?
	We'll have to look into it.
	This will be our pillow.
	Sorry, I don't want to, but that's, yeah.
	We tend to make them our pillow, am I right?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Our pillow.
	Yes.
	Anyway, yeah, who could have predicted that scaring away all of your advertisers with a bunch of unpopular and horrifying business practices would suddenly trade your revenue?
	So strange.
	Besides everyone.
	Who would have guessed that besides literally everyone?
	Yeah, so after declaring that Twitter was hemorrhaging money hand over fist, Elon then gave out his first massive payments to his power users, and a bunch of right-wing dickbags, I believe including Andrew Tate and other monsters, got piles of cash.
	Krasenstein.
	Yeah, Krasenstein.
	He's like in prison or like in jail awaiting trial.
	He's awaiting trial.
	But he's like for, uh, it's like for, I can't remember what he did, but he did something I remember was a crime.
	Yeah.
	A crime that the right-wing claims to hate.
	So strange.
	And then he bragged about how he was moving to Romania because that crime is harder to convict there.
	Did you see Liz Wheeler is canceling Andrew Tate right now?
	Uh, I don't know who Liz Wheeler is.
	Oh, you don't?
	No, I don't.
	No.
	I wish I knew who Liz Wheeler was.
	Oh, okay.
	She's like a right-wing grifter type.
	Um, and she, uh, she was like begging for Andrew Tate to be on her right wing crappy show and he didn't.
	So now she's like, we're canceling him and Anz.
	Look at him, he's a rapist.
	Did you guys know?
	Oh, so, oh my god, so strange.
	I'm like every other right-wing shitbag that fucking tolerates that guy because he's fighting the Matrix so these charges are trumped up.
	I just love that.
	And he's literally fighting ghosts in his jail cell.
	Captrick did not get a payout.
	Oh yeah, our boy Cat Turd did not get one of the luscious Elon payouts and posted a bunch of sad Cat Turd tweets about how he wasn't getting those big bucks from Elon and what is the purpose of life even if one cannot get paid fat stacks for one's tweets?
	He then today posted a thing about... He posted a somber message about how the five-year journey of being Cat Turd has had many twists and turns, but in many ways Cat Turd saved me.
	In many ways, my internet persona of low-effort right-wing shill has truly reawakened myself, and I'm inspired by me, the guy who's way too online.
	Congratulations, Cat Turd.
	Why me by Cat Turd?
	That's poetry right there.
	The five year journey of Cat Turd and how it changed him from being whoever he was before to looking like he's got a big toe for a head.
	Or maybe he's a Diplo person.
	Anyway, what a goon.
	What a goon, and I don't mind mentioning that he looks weird because he's a monster.
	Get rekt, loser.
	Oh yeah, he's the absolute fucking worst.
	I'm tired of these ugly fuck Republican or conservative conspiracy theory lunatics like platforming themselves on Twitter and getting traction.
	And they'll just be like talking about like alpha male Chad shit and then a picture of them will start circulating and everybody will just conveniently ignore that they look like Quasimodo or whatever.
	Fucking so dumb.
	They're never missing a beat when it comes to being hypocritical.
	Yeah, it's like, oh man, I follow the Andrew Tate alpha male, blah, blah, blah.
	It's like, dude, you're massively overweight and hideous looking.
	You're nowhere near the perfect human being.
	Calm down.
	You're the opposite of white supremacy.
	You're white inferiority.
	Just back up.
	Relax.
	Okay, speak of people that are not nearly as cool as they think they are.
	Back to Elon Musk.
	I also, did you hear that he's, or maybe you guys talked about this last week, because I totally listened to the show and just forgot.
	For sure.
	Did you see or hear his lawsuit against the people that sued him when he was trying to back out of buying Twitter?
	Oh, no, I haven't heard about that, but it sounds incredible.
	It's a lunacy.
	So when he tried to back out of buying Twitter, Twitter secured this law firm that paddled his ass in court and made him go through with it, as we know.
	And then Twitter, as an organization, like, just before having to turn it over to Elon Musk, paid them out their victory fee or whatever.
	It was like $90 million.
	Then Musk took the reins, and now after all this time, he was looking back on it.
	He's just like, you know what?
	You guys didn't do enough to deserve that victory fee or whatever, so we're suing you.
	We're suing you for that 90 million dollars.
	We're coming after you.
	We're suing you.
	And it's just like, this law firm, Twitter secured them because they're specifically, like, the pros at this sort of litigation.
	So the fact that Elon Musk is taking a swing at them is, like, really dumb.
	Just throwing more money into a fireplace.
	That's the thing, is that there...
	People always talk about this, how dealing with contract law in Delaware is the biggest nightmare in the legal world.
	So if you're actually going after a law firm that exists only to make sure that contracts from Delaware are enforced, you better, when you come to the King, you best not miss, because those people are fucking serious.
	What a good week for our buddy Elon.
	You'll love to see it.
	I'm very happy to hear that he's having such a good time because we love him.
	Yes.
	Because he's great.
	For content, you know?
	And if we're ever going to become podcast millionaires, we're going to need content.
	And we're going to need sponsors.
	And we're going to need MyPillow.
	I mean, not MyPillow.
	We could do it without MyPillow.
	OurPillow.
	OurPillow.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's what we need to do.
	Not just buy one crate of those pillows.
	We need to buy all the crates of those pillows.
	And then we'll do a random hour pillow and then we'll be the ones who are pillow millionaires.
	We'll be the ones that have our infomercials playing for four hour blocks between 3am and 7am every morning on the high number cable channels in your TV.
	That's my favorite time of day.
	I'm not sorry, because he wasn't here for this episode.
	Only the three of us will be pillionaires.
	Okay, enough pie in the sky thinking about having enough money to afford a single property in the United States.
	Let us go into our last Boosh topic for the week, which is RFK, who I kind of only know a little bit about.
	I certainly don't know why we're talking about it this week.
	But that's why we have Mike here.
	Mike, why are we talking about this thing?
	Okay.
	Oh, and before we get to the special Arizona segment of Boosh, we have a special Arizona Boosh.
	Yes.
	So, RFK Jr.
	decided to say really bad, awful, dumb things, which is what he usually does, but this week it was extra bad, because he was explaining this week that COVID was a bioweapon that may have been made in a way that it didn't target Jewish people.
	That Jewish people would not be harmed by the COVID bioweapon as much as other races would be harmed by it.
	This is a centuries-old slander against Jewish people that they are somehow disease-bearing monsters that are immune to their own diseases while they infect societies around them with said diseases.
	It's just the Jews did COVID.
	Yes, the Jews did the COVID, because why wouldn't they?
	They're the source of all the evil in the world.
	My favorite thing about anti-Semitism is, uh, where's the beef?
	Like, why?
	You know, he's probably got a lot of stuff rolling in that brain about Jewish people.
	I'm sure they've all got their stupid reasons or whatever, but I mean, it's just like, I don't know, man.
	Like, it just seems there's just so many of them and they're so diverse and you can just look around you and see that they're Just as, like, diversified as everybody, like, saying that they control everything or they control banks or that they do this or they do that.
	It's just so insane.
	Because especially, like, they look very typically like the people who made them, which is the most surprising part.
	Like, in a lineup, you really wouldn't be able to tell.
	Bigotry is a little easier to, like, justify in terms of, like, the, like, the logic process of somebody being stupid about a thing if they're looking at something wildly different from them.
	I don't know.
	Anti-Semitism is just so stupid.
	All this bigotry is really stupid, but that was especially just like, it's like, look, I know you've never done anything to me and you look pretty much identical to me, but I hate you for no reason.
	Have any of you guys seen an RFK for President sticker in the wild yet?
	No, no, I don't know.
	Me neither.
	I'm looking forward to that rally because it's like, what?
	Does anybody actually want him to be the president?
	Uh, Steve Bannon, I think?
	That's about it.
	I think he just wants him to win, or, like, disrupt the vote, not actually win.
	Oh, yeah, Bannon actually looks like he just stepped out of a Waffle House and into a wind tunnel, and I don't like it.
	For those that don't know, this is an AstroTurfed-like campaign, by the way.
	Yeah, we're just going through the fanpage until Mike is done looking at his phone.
	Yeah, I'm just providing more information.
	No, RFK is a fake candidate that was literally told to run by Steve Bannon, and it's very bizarre that Bannon Just being really thinks himself to be this like super genius mastermind of political strategy and 70 chess and chaos theory and all this stuff.
	You can figure out his plan.
	You're just watching a show.
	It's like, oh, the RFK is the candidate because he's always on a show.
	That wasn't very subtle.
	Right.
	But what makes it so bizarre is it's just Why did he think RFK would have any appeal to Democrats after he talked for five minutes?
	Because his only appeal is the last name Kennedy.
	It's just, this guy has the last name Kennedy, therefore you as a Democrat would know that he is a good person.
	Maybe he's also an Adonis.
	Oh yeah, yes.
	Especially relative to his age.
	Those people love just being like, look how fit he is relative to his age, of course.
	So shredded, but not as shredded as me in my prime, of course.
	Look at these pictures of these guns.
	Not as shredded as edited Trump.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Well, you know, the doctor they were checking about before he became president was surprised to find that we also assumed he was overweight, but he just really had one huge abdominal muscle, just one incredible muscle that just gave him like superhuman levels of strength and power.
	Let's just be slow and lumbering.
	He's like a Frankenstein.
	If he ever gets within range of you, then like, boy, howdy, kablammo.
	Oh, you're dead.
	You're so dead.
	You have no idea.
	Oh, God.
	Just, yeah, the whole...
	The whole concept of this bizarre anti-vaxxer, pro-Putin, just basically everything that Kennedy stands for is anathema in the Democratic Party.
	There were these polls that were done both on candidates and issues, and literally the only two things that were more popular than Joe Biden For Democrat primary voters were vaccines and Ukraine.
	So bringing somebody into the fold who's like, I think vaccines are bullshit and Putin should win.
	It's like, yeah, that guy's just going to crush.
	It's just going to be like, oh man, he's just stacking up delegates left and right.
	He's just dominating Biden.
	Ooh.
	I just, I just don't understand.
	If you're going to run this guy.
	Why did you not wait and run him third party or something where you could just use that Kennedy last name to maybe trick some people in the general election into siphoning some votes away from Biden?
	The no labels party.
	Yeah, no labels.
	But no labels isn't Bannon's dumb grift.
	I would have thought that Bannon would be smarter than trying to run some weird nut in the Democratic primary where he's going to get no traction at all.
	What do you think?
	OK, so what do you guys think is the numbers he's pulling?
	Well, he had the 20% poll that one time, but now he's probably closer to 10 or probably less.
	Did we think how much, like, actually?
	No, I don't think we've actually seen any real polling since the weird outlier 20% poll came out a million years ago.
	But he's, I mean, he's nothing.
	I mean, we literally had him and Maxine Waterson-Williamson, whatever her last name is, whose campaign director just came out and said, this is a book tour.
	She's not actually trying to run for president.
	It's all bullshit.
	Fuck off.
	That's our Democratic primary, is the anti-vax lunatic who thinks that the Jews did the COVID and the Healing Crystal Chakra Lady, and that's it.
	Oh, Marianne Williamson?
	Yeah, and the press is just trying to breathe life into it.
	And it's like, no, no, no, it's never going to happen.
	We've got nothing.
	You've got nothing and you deserve to have nothing.
	It's just ridiculous.
	Good day, sir.
	Yes, I said good day.
	I'm running.
	You would have more traction and you could probably replace Kristen Sinema because she's getting out fundraised by the
	actual Democrat in the Arizona primary right now.
	Oh yeah, he's blowing smoke out of the water.
	Gallego?
	Yes, Gallego.
	I love all these people who are just like, yeah, you know what,
	now's my time.
	I'm going to run for president of the United States.
	And it's just like, who are you?
	And what are you talking about?
	I mean, even people that like whose names we know, like Joe Manchin, like people are talking about maybe him, him make a run for it, you know, maybe him giving it the old college try.
	And it's just like, you're average American.
	Joe who?
	What?
	Yes.
	Who's that?
	What?
	I've been seeing these ads, because Massachusetts has that bleed from New Hampshire, so we get these, like, New Hampshire-based ads in Massachusetts.
	I've been seeing ads for this guy named Doug Burnham for president, and the guy just, oh my lord, he just looks so creepy and weird.
	Like, I just, I'm like, who told this guy?
	Apparently he was a governor somewhere, because that's what it says on his It's just like, Doug Burnham, balanced budgets, Doug Burnham for president.
	And I'm just like, my God, I don't know who you are.
	And you look like some sort of AI nightmare fuel atrocity.
	Just, Oh my God, I cannot, I just can't imagine.
	But some idiot got in this guy's ear and was like, Hey, throw a couple of million dollars into a fireplace.
	Maybe you could be president.
	And it's like, no, no, you can't.
	Well, there we go.
	RFK.
	King nobody in a group of nobodies trying to run for President of the United States and not being really in contention because they're not Trump or the already President of the United States.
	Or Trump's whipping boy, Ron DeSantis.
	So I think on that note, it's time for us to transition into our wonderful, succulent news segment.
	Let's do that.
	Let's get into the news.
	From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News!
	He's a big orange Adonis with a one-pack.
	Oh my god, running down the ramp under the jumbotron, it's Donald Trump!
	And we have to talk about him this week and every week until he or we die.
	So it's time for us to do that now.
	Let's rip the bandaid off.
	Mike, what's going on with Donald Trump this week?
	I can't wait for him to die.
	Oh, man, the Trump death podcast will be quite possibly the greatest podcast we will ever.
	The funeral procession is going to be like, whew.
	I got to go to that.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah.
	So basically, our boy Trump, he received what is known as a target letter by Jack Smith, the previously mentioned, very boringly named man, Jack Smith.
	And that target letter indicated that Trump is now, um, is now being investigated for his actions on January 6th.
	And he had a few days to appear before a grand jury to give his side of the story if he wanted to.
	Otherwise, the grand jury is going to move forward without his testimony and will probably indict him for crimes related to January 6th.
	So we have the January 6th crimes to go on top of the documents crimes to go on top of the Stormy Daniels crimes.
	And all of this is not even talking about the Georgia, uh, the Georgia investigation into him, which involves, uh, which also involves the full selectors, which we'll be talking about more as a subsection of this.
	So yes, Trump is looking at an unending series of indictments, which is going to make the 2024 presidential campaign the most magical campaign you've ever seen.
	Because on one hand, you're going to have Joe Biden.
	Touring Pennsylvania, talking about his record as president, and then the media is going to smash cut to Donald Trump in a courtroom as witnesses are talking about the documents he stole, or the insurrection he attempted to inflict upon the American capital to overturn his election, or any of his other crimes.
	It is going to be the funniest thing in the world where You're just going to have one guy in a courtroom or prison, like all the time, while the other guy is hitting the campaign trail, shaking hands and kissing babies and having QAnon posting, Joe Biden touched a child again today, that fucking pederast.
	Yeah.
	So, uh, all of that fun stuff is going on and it's going to be, uh, very much delightful and bad.
	So, um, What has happened that is, uh, exciting is that on top of these, uh, Jack Smith, uh, indictment things, we have the fact that the Georgia Supreme Court told Donald Trump, no, we're not stopping the, uh, Georgia district attorney from her, uh, charging you of crimes or her investigating you of those crimes.
	She can just go right ahead.
	The Georgia Supreme Court was like, unanimous decision.
	Trump, no.
	You don't get to have this woman get off your back.
	She's allowed to be on your back for forever, because that is what you deserve, you criminal scumbag.
	Don't do crimes.
	I mean, as a president, generally, you know, what do you do?
	Donald Trump was just living his best life, which involved lots of crimes, an unending, relentless series of crimes.
	The only people who should not be allowed to do crimes are elected officials.
	Everyone else, you do you.
	Everyone else, crime all you want.
	That's basically, that's, that's the official political stance of the Hell World podcast is if you're not an elected official, commit crime.
	Just not crime.
	Most crimes are just crimes of poverty.
	So, you know, you do you.
	This is not a, don't, um, uh, but you know, asterisk, you know, You know, this is not legal advice.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	And asterisks.
	And quotations.
	And warnings.
	This is legal advice because we have all cleared the bar.
	Yes!
	We're the real legal eagles.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's us.
	Yes.
	Oh, that guy is blowing up now.
	Good for him.
	So many crimes happening, you know, he's got to explain things.
	Yeah, I mean, he must feel like the way we felt on January 7th every day.
	Yeah, it's like, hey, here we go.
	Everyone needs to talk to us now because we're the ones who actually follow these lunatics as they attempted to end the American Republic because their orange daddy told them to.
	I'm in somber and mournful, you ghoul.
	That's our demo, right?
	Yeah.
	Oh, God.
	We make a comedy show where we cover headline news topics in a very somber, mournful way.
	That's why we're exactly like Sound of Freedom.
	It's just two hours of dull sadness.
	That's why I throw my hat in the ring.
	I think that they should let us do the eulogy for Twitter.
	Yes.
	So, also branching off of this whole fun and frivolity of Trump's impending indictments
	for his criminess, we had the first shoe drop in the phony electors scandal that existed
	because Um...
	The Republican Party, while they were trying to steal the election in a lot of different ways, one of the fun things they would do is they would create these slates of fake electors, quote-unquote certify them in sham ways, and then be like, hey, fake electors, try to get before the Congress when the Electoral College is being certified and see if you can just make Trump the president.
	16 fake electors in Michigan are now facing felony charges for attempting to pull this scam.
	That's weird, because it sounds like what you're describing would be tampering with an election, which I believe, if, I mean, I like, let me take out my notes here.
	Conservators are supposed to be, let me flip through my notes, against Also, according to the rules of Hellworld, elected officials are not allowed to do crimes, so... Right, right.
	Again, we made that very clear.
	Yeah, the president could kill someone, you know, out in the street.
	Just strangle them to death and they're fine.
	They're the president.
	They do whatever they want.
	Except for Joe Biden.
	He's not the real president.
	So if he or his son or anyone he's ever known does a crime, it's headline news.
	For forever.
	Can you believe that Joe Biden's son, who's not an elected official, likes having parties with beautiful women?
	And doing cocaine.
	Unreal.
	Un-fucking-real.
	And doing cocaine.
	Maybe even at the White House.
	Unreal.
	I've seen that dude's dick so much.
	Yes.
	Hunter Biden's mighty hog is apparently something Republicans are... Unsolicited.
	Not by Hunter Biden, by Republicans.
	Right.
	Republicans are like, hey, have you seen Hunter Biden's penis yet?
	I'm like, no.
	They're like, here it is.
	I'm like, why are you showing me that?
	What is wrong with you?
	Why would I care?
	Wendy Rogers, uh, had to delete a post on Twitter because she shared an Illuminati bot video that he had of like flipping through photos of naked Hunter Biden and like zooming in on the cock.
	And, and there's like a revenge porn law in Arizona that she may have violated with that.
	There was some back and forth between lawyers on that one, but she had to delete the post because it was like, lady, you're posting cock and you're an elected official.
	I mean, just good general practice after the past couple of months, especially just avoid any video that has Illuminati spelled any type of way in the name of it.
	That's her news.
	YouTube dramas.
	I love YouTube drama, but this isn't the right podcast for it, although it is great.
	Uh, yeah, so this, uh, so obviously, yes, of course, the fake elector thing, people actually trying to influence the outcome of the presidential election.
	And yes, of course, Republican, conservative, Stooges, dumbfuck idiots that are obviously on the right side of the aisle, which is also ironically the wrong side, you know?
	Has anyone ever thought of that before?
	Can we get... Hey, Garrison!
	Hey, man!
	I got a comic idea for ya!
	I got some stuff for you to label in a cartoon.
	Yes.
	Boy, howdy.
	You do love doing that, don't you, Ben?
	Like a picture of the cartoon, right?
	On the one side, you have the right side of the aisle.
	Labeled also, wrong side.
	And that is labeled.
	And then the aisle itself, aisle.
	Because how else would you know?
	And then the whole thing, it just says comic.
	And then on the side, Ben.
	I'll have to fight it, but I think Gary Larson, the Farside comic, he actually drew something like that, where he just mocked Ben Garrison's crippling label disease.
	Just crushed him for it.
	I love that guy, but the Farside is one of those things that I, for my childhood, that I intentionally avoid.
	Because I was like, dude, when I was 11 years old at a Spencer's Gifts, that stuff was slappin'.
	I mean, it was hilarious.
	But I remember how those went in my head, and I'm like, if I ever go back and re-read the material, I'm gonna be like, these aren't that funny at all.
	This doesn't hold up at all, exactly.
	So I try to keep it like a perfect... That's how I feel about early Garfield.
	In my mind, early Garfield had something to say.
	I remember really liking it as a kid, because I would read the collections at the Hallmark Like, store or whatever.
	Like, they had the books that, like, collected it from beginning to... So I read, like, the first, like, three to four years worth of Garfield comics, and I thought they were great!
	I was like, oh, I love Garfield!
	But now as an adult, I'm just like, Garfield kind of always sucked, right?
	I'd, like, look it around and just be like, I don't know, man.
	I don't know if I ever... It's the memes that are good.
	Yeah.
	Oh, well, Garfield is, like, the perfect cultural creature that can only be improved.
	There is no way to diminish the quality of it because it is already so low.
	Anything you do to a Garfield improves the Garfield.
	I had a family member that was so obsessed with Garfield, her entire house was like Garfield stuff, like Garfield appliances, Garfield curtains, Garfield toilet cover, Garfield salt and pepper shake, everything.
	It was like a fucking nightmare of Garfield.
	So yeah, I like Garfield.
	That would have been a great person to like, Like, if they didn't know about Garfield Minus Garfield, to, like, get that book for them and just, like, sneak it into their house one day, and just hope that they, like, stumbled across it and were like, what's this?
	And, like, flipping through it, like, maybe get a new cover printed that doesn't say what it is, and they're, like, flipping through it, and they're just, like, losing their minds.
	Why is Garfield not in this Garfield comic?
	What is going on?
	What does it all mean?
	Like a Junji Ito manga where they're just hunched over reading this comic, and the comic characters are gone, and you can see all the looming Garfield merchandise in the background.
	Before, so playful and happy and exuberant and filled with the life of somebody who loves them, now bearing down on them relentlessly, staring at their very soul, making them question everything they know about reality.
	I want that vintage, um, Garfield clock that, like, his eyes move and his tail tic-tocs back and forth.
	Yeah, I love that thing.
	Yeah, I have the Garfield, uh, phone.
	The, the, like, actually.
	Oh, that's so sick.
	See, Garfield.
	Good merch.
	Because it's good, dude.
	Like, I shopped, I shopped at Spitzer Gifts, like, a lot as a kid.
	Anyway, back to the electors.
	Although I did love our little detour to Garfield, Ed, because Garfield is great and terrible.
	One of the funniest parts of this whole thing was that one of the Michigan electors who got indicted is named Misha Maddock, and apparently she really enjoyed posting a bunch of memes and gifs about how she was totally
	going to get arrested any day now.
	She had a tweet from May 16th that said, Dems waiting for my arrest. And it had a picture of
	a skeleton drumming its fingers somberly waiting for her arrest. She spoke to posting. Yeah,
	she made a lot of posts about how she was totally going to get arrested.
	Any day now, you Dems, you dumb libs, just keep waiting and I'll get arrested.
	And now, of course, all of those threads are now being filled with people aggressively dunking on her, because guess what?
	You did get arrested.
	This segues into the fact that Arizona had a slate of fake electors.
	So Haley, what's the story about Arizona's fake electors?
	What luminaries in the Arizona Republican Party might find themselves in a peck of trouble in the near future?
	Yeah, we were also one of the states that had a slate of fake electors who were like, hey, fuck you voters.
	How about we do Trump instead?
	This is very exciting because our fake electors include Kelly Ward and her husband, who was the previous Arizona Republican chairman.
	She has permanently fucked off to the beach and, like, international waters.
	She has seriously permanently fucked off to, like, sandals or some shit.
	Like, having a Vacation, permanent vacation with her husband on their boat that they bought that they call American Honey.
	All she does now is post travel photos and it's like, no, you need to get back here.
	You need to get back here and answer for what you've done, ma'am.
	So she and her husband were some of the fake electors.
	Jim Lehman, he's like this super rich piece of shit who ran here.
	For Senate.
	And he's also like a fucking billionaire or something.
	He's super rich.
	So yeah, see ya.
	Fuck you too.
	I'm personally very excited also for Anthony Kern who he stormed the Capitol and he was a representative here and then he was like not and then he got re-elected this last midterm as a state senator.
	But yeah, he totally stormed the Capitol and he sucks ass.
	It's just a, you know, piece of shit.
	He's always bringing Turning Point USA people to board meetings to complain about LGBT students.
	And also, he's just an asshole.
	Also, he was a Brady-listed cop, so he's a dirty ex-cop, you know, so fuck him.
	Also on the list is Tyler Boyer, who is the second-in-command at Turning Point USA.
	Him and Charlie have been, Charlie Kirk have been friends since they were kids.
	And like, yeah, he's one of the leaders of Turning Point USA.
	And just has big political power here.
	And then another Turning Point USA guy that's on the list is also a state,
	I think senator here.
	He's a legislator here.
	Jake Hoffman, he sucks.
	He's not on social media because he ran a teenage Turning Point troll farm
	And he got banned basically on Facebook and Twitter So he's delegated to the realm of Telegram but he still sucks.
	He's always introducing these like, you know, let's ban books, let's ban LGBT people type bills.
	So those are all the people that are facing I mean, there's more.
	There's a pretty big list, but that's some of the highlights.
	I'm looking forward to them possibly also getting charged because our Attorney General is a Democrat.
	That was one of the seats that flipped.
	That's actually news also in Arizona is that Abe Hamaday, who was the Republican candidate against Chris Mays, he's also one of the people that's just been filing like infinite cracking cases trying to overturn that election.
	He just lost for like the third time again this week and he's refiling.
	He's going to try again.
	He was the one that only lost by like less than 300 votes.
	Uh, the one, he was like the only race that was actually swung by COVID deaths in the AG.
	You remember that?
	Yes.
	I remember reading that article about how the number of Republicans killed by COVID may have tipped an election and it was only his.
	So yeah.
	Um, so they've been like really trying to, you know, you know, they've been doing a lot of court cases with him too.
	Cause it's like, It's the AG that's going to file these charges.
	So it's like, they really wish they got that election.
	They probably wish they, uh, incurred vaccines or masking a little bit more.
	Cause that was a pretty fucking close race for 2.5 million voters.
	Um, also Cary Lake was just as unrelated as few Arizona things that I think are funny that I think you would enjoy.
	Cary Lake was sanctioned.
	Oh yeah, I mentioned that off air that Carrie once again got slapped by the Arizona courts for her shit.
	And Alan Dershowitz.
	Oh yeah, the Dershowitz was involved in that.
	And also I've been reading about how Arizona and a bunch of other swing states are effectively broke because they've been running so many fucking lawsuits and spending money on them that now they don't have actual money to run the 2024 campaigns.
	Yeah, it'll be funny.
	They won't be able to hire, you know, Anybody to help with their campaign. So we're gonna get
	really shitty Graphics, we're gonna get really shitty
	Everything it'll be great Yeah, yeah, yeah
	Oh god.
	Not that I'm saying I blame those people.
	I support this show.
	No, yeah, yeah.
	I agree.
	It's the worst content.
	I remember back at the last, like, writer's strike, there was some pretty bad shit coming up at that time.
	Even before the actors joined the strike, I was just like, hey, get ready for a lot of shitty TikTok, quote unquote, talent to suddenly get, like, a TV show.
	Because it's coming, baby.
	You're about to see, like, You know, remember Ninja?
	No?
	Well, guess what?
	He's got a new TV show all of a sudden, so... Well, yeah, yeah, all that kind of stuff's gonna be happening for sure, because that's how this obviously works.
	I mean, it's... Maybe people will start trying to make eSports a thing again.
	It's like, ah, it's hilarious.
	That's not gonna happen.
	Oh, hey, I'm all in favor of watching Street Fighter VI tournaments on my TV.
	I'm okay with that.
	Yeah, but I mean, it's like, it's growing...
	Like, you know, over like steadily over time in small numbers, like, you know, for a while there, everybody, these big companies were losing their mind.
	They were just like, well, we'll just throw cash at it and make it popular overnight, like really popular.
	It's just like, no, no, you're not.
	It's still video games, man.
	What are you talking about?
	Yes.
	I do think it's funny that, like, right-wingers are, like, obviously like, oh, I hope you guys strike forever.
	Um, when it's like, like Carrie Lake, you know, and Wendy Rogers, and it's like, they make half their fucking personality around movies.
	Carrie Lake's book literally opens up with the Matrix line and, like, she has a whole chapter just talking about movies in the 80s and how things used to be good back in the day.
	Like, you guys love movies.
	Shut up.
	Fuck off.
	Oh yeah, we were supposed to talk about Carrie Lake at the boosh, but then I got distracted by my peach delivery.
	It's okay, we can talk about Carrie Lake at the end.
	It's a Carrie Lake extravaganza right at the end.
	She owes $122,000 for wasting the court's time on one case, so she's probably got more sanctions coming.
	Fincham was also involved in that, and the Dersh.
	And Fincham has recently moved to Phoenix.
	Mark Fincham, the cowboy QAnon Secretary of State Canada.
	The guy that had, like, fucking Honey Badger as his online persona.
	Yeah, he's had that for a long time.
	Yeah, um, he has a jacket that literally says Honey Badger on the back.
	But anyway... Speaking of cowboy and QAnon, what the fuck happened to Rod?
	We haven't talked about Rod in what feels like a hundred millennia.
	Is he dead?
	Did he go back to Australia?
	He said he's gonna go back to posting.
	Did you hear that?
	No, I don't know.
	Probably.
	Oh, I mean, well, the thing is, is that Ron was always kind of just like the quiet, like, worker bee of the two between him and Jim, the nut job who wanted to be the flamboyant owner of the Chance.
	And Jim was the one who really wanted the attention.
	Like, Ron was just sort of, like, content with being just the guy that works on the project.
	Then Ron got bit by the celebrity bug and tried to get on OAN as the I feel like Ron just flew too close to the sun.
	He did recently post that he's like, I'm getting all my accounts together so I can start posting again.
	Classic Ronny Icarus.
	That's what we've always called him.
	And richly deserved.
	Richly deserved Ronny Icarus.
	Yeah, good ol' wax wing Ron, we always said, which is like, which is fun because it's also a tongue twister and if you fail it, like, you know, you sound ridiculous.
	You sound like a, what's the name, a porky pig or whatever.
	Anyway.
	Dr. Carrie Lake.
	Yeah.
	Let's see.
	Oh, Helen Dershowitz is like, I don't want to get fined.
	I wasn't part of this case.
	And it's like, dog, you're her lawyer.
	So part of the case was citing instances of Carey tweeting and talking about him being part of the case.
	So I was like, dog, you're part of the case.
	Shut up.
	So he also is fined.
	And then, like I said, Fincham just moved to Phoenix, supposedly.
	He wants to run against Stephen Richer.
	The recorder?
	The guy that Carrie Lake had that weird fantasy chapter about where she was kidnapped by?
	In her book?
	Okay, great.
	He's the recorder here.
	He's kind of like enemy number one with the Republicans here because, you know, he My favorite part about having Hayley on the podcast is that, you know, like the regular show, Mike is in the driver's seat with all the knowledge, because that's the point, because the rest of us like sort of are tuned out.
	But when Haley's here, sometimes she'll say stuff that is like specific to Arizona
	that causes Mike to have that same glossy eyed, deared headlights look that I usually have
	when we're talking about a thing.
	Where it's just like, oh, I usually don't see that for Mike where it's clear that Mike just doesn't know
	what the fuck is being talked about.
	I like to send Mike a lot of brain rot stuff, like unrelated Arizona too.
	Have you seen, I love that for Mike. Ice Cream So Good.
	Ice cream's so good!
	Yum, yum, yum!
	Oh my god, are you talking about the Twitter Reel thing or whatever?
	Yeah, the NPC, like, girlies.
	Ice cream's so good!
	That's a pretty strange new... Feeling like a cowgirl.
	...fetish thing.
	I mean, that only has legs for sexy purposes, right?
	It's like half sexy, half like, this is funny, right?
	Like, what else can I do here?
	I guess, but that's a lot of money to be spending.
	It's only one cent to do a lot of the actions.
	So if you already have, like, credits, it's like, okay, I'll just do this, see how long I can make her go, like, yum yum yum!
	Ice cream's so good!
	Okay, fair enough.
	I didn't know that it was that cheap.
	That's actually pretty economical.
	Yeah, some are more expensive.
	Like when she does, like, oh, you got me feeling like a cowgirl.
	Those are more expensive.
	Pinky doll is the main one that kind of people have seen with the popcorn on the hair straightener.
	I feel like in order to make money on that, you really need your horny whales to be doing the big emotes over and over again.
	Because otherwise, at like one cent's an emote, oh my god, can you imagine the strain on your voice?
	I've seen some that are like, because it's kind of like...
	It's kind of like, uh, GTA NPCs, you know?
	Like, they only have limited actions that you can spam.
	You know, this is the sort of thing that we, like, I don't think that I have it in me to do it.
	And I certainly don't have the money to, like, make it look good.
	But I feel like if you got, like, a voice actor or somebody with a real good voice and, like, a nice, like, setup, that looked like a tavern or whatever you had to dress up
	like a wizard in front of like a crystal ball or whatever and it'd just be like now we're really
	talking about npc shit like you go in there and you pay him an immo like here's your once a day but he's
	just like hello we were traveling yeah you're like a mean one i've seen some guys doing like
	racist ones you know it's like oh i just say bad thing bad thing but i'm gonna
	Let's see how many legs, let's see how much legs it has without the sexy part at all.
	I'm not talking about sexy wizard, I'm talking about regular ass wizard or bartender, or just like, hey, get a group of people that are talented together, they could do a whole little fictional tow that you could Like it is kind of cosplay, like some of it's got cosplay aspect, like one of the NPC girlies does like cosplay with it, so it's like supposed to be a bit more like an NPC character.
	Yeah.
	If that makes sense.
	Are you okay, Mike?
	You look like your brain's kind of fried.
	No, I'm just letting this wash over me like a waterfall.
	I'm just laughing at it.
	It's just one of these things where I'm like, how did we even get here?
	But we're here.
	Yeah, I was actually just thinking about how we started discussing this, but I've been to it.
	I think I just threw it in there.
	I was like, hey, this is someone I've been looking at.
	That's usually the same vibe that Sarge brings to the table.
	We're always getting distracted talking about horse shit.
	I'm sure that the listeners who only care about the QAnon and conspiracy related stuff are just, God, these fucking clowns again.
	It's the internet.
	It's a big thing, you know?
	Yeah, it's a melting pot.
	Welcome to the internet.
	I guess.
	I try not to judge people like that, like the NPC girls or the people that support them, and I mostly succeed, but part of me does fail in the same way that it fails, like, the OnlyFans revolution.
	It's just like, oh boy, that has just changed the timbre of a lot of internet discourse in a way that I don't like.
	Get the bag.
	Yeah, at the end of the day, get the bag.
	Like, I don't give a fuck about that.
	That's what I say, like, you know, at least 90% success rate on being able to just be like, yeah, you know, do your thing.
	Do we do the thread that I did just right before I got on here?
	You said I should do that one.
	Well, I mean, we're heading into the mailbag now.
	All right, let's just do that.
	We'll do it next week on our Arizona episode.
	OK, because I think that, yeah, I think that thread is very weedy.
	That's very in the weeds.
	So people are going to need some understanding lead time for that.
	Where's my mic?
	Thumbs up.
	That thumbs up into your webcam was for the listener.
	Yes, yes, theater of the mind!
	Tune in next week, listener.
	For our double secret Patreons that get the video feed.
	Yes, oh god, that'd be so great.
	Anyways, let's find our way into the mailbag, I guess.
	Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
	It's time for Q and A.
	Stephanie, who is co-hosting with me on the bonus podcast stuff about 9-11, asks if we think that Sound of Freedom will actually inspire there to be like real-world violence with like the weird stuff about checking up on kids and all that.
	Yeah, I think it's kind of inevitable because if you start If you start instigating shit with parents of stressed out kids, that parent's probably pretty stressed out and it's not going to go well.
	It's just feeding a paranoia that's already kind of there and telling you, yes, you are correct.
	There are enemies lurking at every corner trying to take your child.
	You should be fearful of every interaction you ever fucking have.
	Um, and also, like, people were, like, freaking- there was, like, Bud Light freakouts in stores, you know?
	People, like, saw Bud Light and were like, I'm gonna destroy this.
	Like, this is a bit of more of a sensitive subject.
	Like, there's definitely gonna be some shit, uh, just a matter of what, when, and where.
	Yep, pretty much.
	I don't see- I don't see how this goes over smooth.
	Everything has a cause and effect.
	We need a hard-ass shirtless action star to emerge that can channel these people's fucking rage back to, you know, like what is currently an actual enemy of us, Russia.
	They have been an enemy in the past when everybody loved it in the 80s.
	They're an enemy now and for some reason all these people that are too concerned are dealing with this horseshit.
	We're not dealing with this horseshit because at the end of the day none of them are actually going to do anything to stop human trafficking.
	Including just donating money.
	Is it ever going to happen?
	Absolutely not.
	No, you're supposed to buy a ticket.
	Yeah, they'll donate money to other people watching this movie, I guess, in the hopes that they too will donate tickets to see the movie and at some point up the chain until somebody does something.
	But, uh, you know, if they were to channel that, like, imagine if they were channeling that financial power into Ukraine, helping to defend themselves against Russia, for instance, who's an actual bad guy and tons of atrocities on the board.
	If you want to look at them, I mean, you know, just take a look at Russia.
	They're not great.
	Never happened.
	Uh, like.
	Yeah, one of the other great things that's happened as a result of this movie is legitimate anti-trafficking organizations like Polaris Project are now being attacked by QAnon and the right for being POTESTA associated and all kinds of shit like that.
	Guess what?
	No, these people, there are actual anti-human trafficking organizations that are out there that exist that do good work.
	And if you guys would just, I don't know, stop harassing them, or maybe look into them, maybe you could actually do something.
	But no, as Haley's been saying, at the end of the Sound of Freedom movie, Jim Caviezel's like, buy somebody a ticket so they can see this film!
	It's like, how's that gonna stop human trafficking?
	What the fuck are you, Jesus?
	Yeah, how about, hey, donate to this anti-human trafficking place.
	How about that?
	Yeah, how about that?
	How about you give some money to someone who's actually fighting this fight for you?
	Instead of just, pay someone to see my fucking movie!
	Oh my god.
	And you know what?
	Maybe that was a conversation they had, and maybe somebody was like, hey, we did the research, and it turns out that people are more likely to donate money to have other people see this movie.
	And they were just like, okay, well we'll just ignore that that's not going to do anything.
	We will get that back, you know?
	And then they elbow us.
	I remember I get that bag and it's just like, yeah, you know.
	Like they've sold over almost 9 million tickets.
	Let's go low end, $10 a ticket.
	That's like, that's a lot of money that could have gone not to a movie.
	It could have gone to some better things.
	Yeah, I mean, it would certainly be like, I mean, imagine a world where like this movie with its, you know, sub $20 million budget comes out, does between $100 and $150 million at the box office.
	And that's all domestic because worldwide they don't give a fuck about this movie.
	Uh, I'm assuming.
	And then, uh, you know, like, at the end of it, it spreads awareness for an actual, like, you know, list of places that people could donate to, or like, hey, do your research.
	We know you love doing your own research, so do your research on these places, find out which one works the best for you, and do what Jesus would do, and donate your money to this stuff.
	Instead of getting those new boots or whatever, You know, donate to this instead of doing that.
	That'd be great.
	It's just going to the future Tim Ballard lawsuits.
	Yes.
	Way to go.
	Thank you.
	So great.
	So yeah.
	Sorry for that grim news there, Stephanie.
	Oh yeah.
	We love you.
	Oh yeah, I forgot.
	I don't think I chimed in.
	My answer is like, yes, but small yes.
	I think that, you know, it will cause people to get a little antsier than normal, but I don't think it's going to cause like a rash of violence or anything.
	Yeah, I guess one or two incidences that could possibly be traced out to like, oh, they saw this movie at one point within the past month.
	So it's just feeding the paranoia of trafficking that people already have.
	Yeah.
	What it's doing is actually like it's it's doing like larger culture damage that pushes stuff in that in that way.
	Yeah.
	Justin asks, what favorite actor to play Superman?
	I don't watch superhero movies, sorry.
	Superman's been around forever.
	I don't watch superhero movies.
	Not into them.
	Just aggressively anti-Superman.
	Just fuck that guy.
	What's his name?
	I'm trying to remember.
	I don't actually remember the name of the guy.
	My cop-out answer is the guy who did the voice in the DC Superman animated show.
	If we're talking live action, then I mean Chris Rue is not close.
	He's one of the guys who got You know, I feel like casting a guy who was fit but not buff was important to sell the fact that he could believably act like a Clark Kent and that no one would ever question his deal.
	Because if you get somebody like Henry Cavill, who's like a shredded Adonis, like literally somebody who's... Some folks might be like, that's what the pinnacle of male form should look like.
	That's pretty close.
	Right, but you know, no matter what suit or whatever you're putting him in, at some point he's gonna stretch back too far at the Daily Planet and someone's gonna notice that he's just shaped like, like God himself and they're gonna start asking all these weird questions or like heaven forbid they ever see him like, you know, not Slouched over, like, Quasimodo or whatever other shit he would have to do to hide it at all.
	So, I think, like, physicality aside, well, physical looks aside, like, his physicality was great.
	He clearly played a different Clark Kent of Superman.
	And then, you know, I just feel like he had, like, a wholesome charm to him that's been missing from a lot of iterations of the character.
	Yeah, I wanted to live in the dimension where Henry Cavill had a good Superman movie to be in, because he certainly looked like the Superman.
	So the other stuff I'd be willing to forgive if the movies he was in were good, which they were not.
	Yes, I was going to say Christopher Reeves' head and shoulders the best.
	And the problem is, is that It's just so weird that people just haven't been able to figure out how to make a Superman movie that isn't dog shit.
	I mean, you have tons of source material, you have lots of ways to play the character, and no one in modern times has gotten in the ballpark of quote-unquote not bad, which is very interesting.
	I wonder how much of it is studio interference and how much of it is people not, like, because Superman has a, has a cheesy wholesomeness to him.
	And you can't, you can't sand off that part of Superman and still have it be Superman, you know?
	It's like, but I feel like studio involvement might just be like, hey, audiences don't really like to see, like, a cheesy cornball, like, truly, like, waffle good, like, character.
	They just got sort of think it's boring or whatever and I don't know I mean at the end of the day it's up to the studio and the writers of the directors to figure out that problem because you know like they're the ones choosing to bring Superman to the big screen but Superman hasn't always will be like a cheesy ding-dong all the comic books where they make up like some sort of self-serious asshole like They just fall flat.
	Everybody likes it better when it's like, you know, All-Star Superman or whatever, where he's, you know, taking time out of his busy day to talk a girl out of committing suicide because he's like, that's pretty great.
	Like, you know, I'm Superman.
	Hey, what's going on?
	I'll hear you out.
	I'm here to talk.
	I'm here to feel your pain.
	I'm a sensitive, caring Superman.
	I'm a good guy.
	And I absolutely wouldn't be shocked if James Gunn does a scene similar to that in his forthcoming movie.
	It's a great way to humanize the character of Superman.
	Yeah. To have somebody just be like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Like, you could be like,
	stopping an earthquake or something right now. He's just like, yeah, but you know, you're the
	one who's in trouble here. So I'm going to talk to you like, you know, I was supposed to save the
	people I could see in trouble. So let's talk. Yep.
	Let's hash this out.
	Let's see why you're why you're why are you in a bad place right now?
	What can I do?
	What can I do to fix that?
	Why do something like that when you can have a break a guy's neck at the end of the movie?
	Exactly.
	God.
	After blowing up his own town.
	He destroys his own city and then breaks a guy's neck.
	The way Superman does.
	Yeah.
	Totally gets the character.
	So fucking good.
	Anyhow, Pancake Peasant asks, What's something that makes you proud to be an American?
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	And because it's a manga slash anime, they've all got, like, weird powers and stuff.
	And the whole time I'm reading that, I'm just like, yo, these kids might be hot shit in Japan, but if you bring them to America, dawg, and they're gonna get fucked up in the basketball game.
	They're just gonna get so, they would just get, they would get destroyed by, like, I, like, like, reading that manga makes me wanna, it's like, damn, dude.
	Like, what do the kids in America look like?
	They must be insane!
	So, I would say that, weirdly, manga slash anime makes me proudest to be an American.
	I would say that just in general, my sort of Kumbaya pro-America thing would be mostly just the fact that we have just multiculturalism in this country and that people from other nations can quote-unquote become Americans.
	And I think that's something that's very unique to our country.
	Where in general, if you emigrate to some place, you're still that guy from that country who now lives here.
	Whereas after you've been in America for a few years, it's like, hey, that person is an American.
	So I just think that that is like kind of a different thing that America has going for it where other nations not so much.
	So I, I just enjoy that.
	And I just kind of, every now and then I'll be at the casino and I'll just like see just this wide swath of humanity of people.
	I'm just like, Oh, look, we're America bringing all these cultures together to get angry at the craps table.
	Just freedom, democracy, all that good stuff.
	So I passed the floor over to Haley.
	Um, yeah, I'm not like a nationalist.
	I'm not like, oh, I'm proud to be an American.
	Uh, but yeah, basically what Mike said, uh, I guess mostly, uh, I'm just not a borders person.
	So like, yeah, anyone who wants to come here should and I should come here, and it's pretty dope if you want to be an American, I guess.
	I don't know, I'm not really super into patriotism.
	Let me think!
	Oh, if you hated this question, get ready for the next one.
	You're really going to hate that.
	Um, I do like, uh, you know, what you said.
	It's just like, I don't think it needs to be like an American quality.
	You just have to think about petty shit.
	Like, bro, I got another one.
	You know what makes you proud to be an American?
	Anime.
	Best pizza.
	Is that true?
	I don't know.
	Best pizza in the world.
	Commandment Italy.
	Best pie on the planet.
	The United States of America.
	I'd put it up against anybody in the world.
	America has a lot of natural beauty that, you know, like the Grand Canyon and I don't know, other fucking natural beauty.
	But it's a lot of like big parking lots with like gas stations everywhere and like Walmart's everywhere, which is, you know, whatever.
	Number one threat to the planet, baby.
	I guess convenience.
	Okay, I like that about America, I guess.
	I do like a little bit of convenience.
	I'm a little bit lazy.
	There you go.
	That's my answer.
	That's the best I can do.
	I, yeah, hi.
	America's good.
	I like, I like the, this is what makes me proud to be an American.
	What was the question again?
	I think you answered it.
	I mean, if you want to continue to stumble on over and over again, coming up with weird things.
	Like, I like the chaos of America.
	It's a little bit interesting to me.
	Maybe this is how we have like a patriotic awakening inside of Hayley.
	What a way to end the podcast.
	I'm not.
	I'm anti-nationalist.
	I'm big anti-nationalist.
	Anyway, go ahead.
	What's the next question?
	The next question... Leetran Buffalo asked, what is something that makes you proud to be an Arizonian?
	I love how this person is clearly just a Haley fan, because obviously the other two of us... Like, the last time I lived in Arizona, I was two or three years old, living in a trailer that was traveling in a carnival.
	So, I don't know a lot about it.
	Yeah, this was a Hayley exclusive question.
	And given how aggressively she fumbled the bag about the America question, I was like, oh man, this is going to go exactly no good places.
	That was a good question.
	You know, I'm not much of a nationalist.
	That applies to the state level.
	I think people get a little weird about states too.
	It's like, don't California my Arizona.
	It's like, whoa, calm down.
	And then they start to get like, we're going to put a border between California and Arizona.
	I just try to avoid this like downroad of State nationalism also?
	If that makes sense.
	I'm taking these questions too literally.
	I like Arizona for the food.
	Arizona's got good food.
	People always talk about Mexican food.
	The competition is always like, oh is it California or Texas?
	It's fucking Arizona, bro.
	It's Arizona.
	Also, New Mexico gets left off that conversation a lot when they have the green chilies.
	That's lit.
	Food.
	I don't know a lot about a lot, but I do know that saying that Arizona has better Mexican food than California is probably what would be considered a hot take.
	It is a hot take.
	It's fine.
	I'm no dog in the race.
	I do not give a fuck personally.
	There's a lot of good Mexican food here.
	The general consensus is that California is where Mexican food is king in America.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	Yeah, I'm about to be disappointed by Texas BBQ, given all the elements.
	I mean, it's still BBQ, so like, you know, don't don't don't let me whisper it's BBQ as a whole, but it's just like, you know, it's not.
	I kind of, I kind of don't do well with sauce, BBQ sauce anyway.
	I was like maple syrup allergy or something.
	See, that's the thing.
	I mean, good BBQ like is good before you sauce it.
	And then the sauce makes it better if you're a sauce fan or you just leave it off if you're not.
	So, yeah.
	And also burger based sauces are way better than any of that sloppy shit anyhow.
	I'll be the judge of that.
	Mike and I are going to Dallas for those of you who don't know.
	We talked about that earlier in the pod!
	Did we?
	I thought we were off talk.
	I thought we were off pod.
	We were everywhere all the time.
	We can tell you all about our parody Nickelback song we wrote about that place like a decade ago or longer.
	Oh, yep.
	That was brutal.
	That was pretty intense.
	Maybe one day we'll make a cover of it.
	It'll be great.
	We'll do karaoke night.
	It'll be really dark.
	Really dark karaoke.
	If anyone has suggestions what I should go see in Texas, tell me.
	Yeah.
	And finally, Galaxy Brain asks, while Hayley's on the show, could you ask her what she thinks of Kerry Lake's chances of being Trump's vice president are?
	Can he overlook her loser stink?
	Hayley, what do you think the chance of Kerry Lake being Donald Trump's vice president are?
	Can he overlook her loser stink?
	Well, he's overlooking his own stink by running himself because he lost.
	So yeah, I think he can overlook her stink.
	He doesn't want like... Oh, he didn't lose?
	He actually won by like 83.7%?
	You're right, I'm sorry.
	Well, also she didn't lose then.
	Then she didn't lose.
	She's a big fat winner.
	She's a big winner.
	Dude, that's the primary selling point of being part of the American Republican Party is that you never lose.
	You're capable of losing.
	You're like Vin Diesel in the Fast and Furious movies.
	Yeah, that's the two like, but also he doesn't want to, he doesn't want like a Mike Pence who's going to be like, no, actually we have to follow the rules, sir.
	He wants somebody who's like, anything you want, sir.
	Let me kiss your ass, sir.
	And that's Carrie Lake by like, to a T. Have you seen that photo of her before a Trump rally here where she was vacuuming the carpet before he walked out?
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	People were talking about it being like servant leadership and all these other weird ways to describe her.
	She dressed like a 1950s housewife?
	She was just dressed like a modern housewife.
	Tight dress.
	No, I didn't see this, unfortunately.
	I'll send it to you.
	But yeah, she's just a top ass kisser.
	She's trying so hard.
	She's practically living at Mar-a-Lago right now.
	There was a Turning Point event in Florida this weekend and they held like a poll of the crowd and Carrie Lake was the top pick for who they wanted to be.
	Vice President.
	She's just really trying to get that spot.
	I hope, honestly, that she keeps stringing along both the, like, oh maybe I'll run for Senate thing because Mark Lamb, who's the Republican, like, candidate to replace Sinema.
	It's like, Gallego, Lamb and Cinema so far.
	He's not doing so good in fundraising and I think it's because people are waiting for Carey Lake.
	They're like, well, we're not going to donate to Lamb because Carey Lake's going to run.
	So he's doing awful in fundraising, which is great.
	He sucks.
	So, yeah, I don't care.
	I hope Carey Lake gets it because why not at this point, you know?
	You want her to get it because then you can get a gold boat.
	That's what this is all about.
	I literally don't get any money.
	I don't get paid for anything.
	Nobody's going to pay me still.
	I will pay you.
	I will send you a crisp $20 bill for Carrie Lee.
	That's how I feel about this podcast.
	I never see a red cent from this podcast.
	We're hanging Mike Raines rich over there and I'm over here fighting for scraps.
	Trying to build an Iron Man suit, you know?
	I guess I don't hope she gets it.
	I just, I'm pretty sure she's going to get it.
	I'm like 98% sure.
	Oh God.
	Either way, she's going to run for something probably over and over again until she just kind of burns that out or commits too many crimes.
	You can only hope.
	So yeah, she'll probably, my, my personal opinion is she'll get it.
	If, who knows though, you know, Trump might pick some square.
	Yeah.
	I'm thinking the governor of South Dakota, Neom, that lady.
	I just think that Trump's scared of someone upstaging him.
	Like, if he picks Kerry Lake to be vice president... Doesn't he need that right now?
	Well, he does, but I think he's just so ignorant and such a crippling narcissist that if he picks Lake, there's going to be this month of Lake vice president, and then Trump's going to be like, what the fuck?
	I'm running for president.
	Now I'm being overshadowed by her.
	This is bullshit.
	Talk about me, damn it.
	And they're going to lock Kerry Lake in a closet for a month and just have Trump do all these rallies by himself when he's not in court fighting off his crime charges.
	So I just think that That's what I actually want to see, is Carrie Lake's reaction when she doesn't get the nomination.
	That would be interesting.
	I would love to be a fly in that room.
	Go undercover!
	Become like an aide!
	Become an agent aide!
	Get on the staff!
	Work your way in!
	So anyways, that brings us to our final question as always.
	What are you guys looking forward to?
	Oh my god, I always forget this gets asked.
	Uh, that's all right.
	I'll start because I am doing the trendiest, kitschiest thing that anyone could be doing this weekend.
	Barbie?
	In the year of our Lord, 2023.
	Even better than Barbie.
	Cool.
	Even better than Oppenheimer.
	I'm doing Barpenheimer.
	We're going both!
	We're not doing it the same night, but I am going to see Oppenheimer in the full IMAX experience at our local full-size IMAX theater.
	You got the big 600-pound film roll at yours?
	Yes.
	Like actual film IMAX theater.
	And then the following night, we are going to see Barbie.
	So that will be a fun weekend of nonsense.
	I'm so not really a movie person, too, and I'm looking forward to both of these.
	So it's like rare movie weekend.
	I was really excited to see Oppenheimer in the IMAX experience because I'm not like, I'm one of those guys who's just like, I don't really like Christopher Nolan all that much.
	I think he's very overrated.
	But I do respect that he generally makes good films, at the very least, and sometimes great films.
	So I was really excited to see Oppenheimer in this, because he was just like, oh, you've got to see it at IMAX.
	So I'm just like, OK, for the first time ever, I'm fully buying in.
	I'm going to the IMAX theater.
	I'm going to fucking give you a shot.
	I love the cast.
	Blow me away, Chris Nolan.
	Here's your shot.
	So I was excited going into it.
	And then they were just like, oh, yeah, by the way, there's There's like sex and nudity between, uh, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh.
	And I was like, I'm going to get to see Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh naked in this movie?
	That's incredible.
	Interesting.
	And it's really funny to me because, uh, the last, one of the last IMAX movies I went to go see at that same theater was Watchmen.
	And one of the selling points of us going to see that particular movie at the IMAX experience was, yo, there's going to be like a big, like 12 foot dog swinging around on the screen.
	That would be pretty funny.
	We were going to see that movie anyway, so we were like, might as well go to the dog theater.
	When I want to see a huge dog, I go to this particular IMAX theater.
	Oh man, hopefully before that movie they'll play some sort of weird Republican attack against Hunter Biden.
	You'll just get to have that on the screen first before we get to Oppenheimer directly.
	Look at his monster, it'll be like him water sliding into a pool.
	Asshole?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, fool.
	I'm a cool guy.
	I would never vote for that guy's dad to be president.
	No way.
	No way.
	What the fuck do I care?
	It's so stupid.
	Anyway, yep.
	Okay, so Haley, you are up now.
	The pressure mounts.
	Um, I said Barbie last week, but I guess I'll expand on it and I'm looking forward to the Barbie core that it's going to inspire.
	You know, all the all the Barbie outfits, all the pink, like hyper maximalist aesthetic.
	I have a pretty crazy Barbie outfit that I got working up for when I go.
	So I'm excited for the looks.
	I feel bad that it might not have the impression that it would in a different year.
	Because now, unfortunately, both Barbie and Oppenheimer are in the unenviable position of being expected to just be like, alright, this is going to go down as a historically bad summer for cinema in terms of the ticket sales.
	Everyone's movie is bombing.
	So it's just like the last great hope of cinema for 2023 is Oppenheimer and Barbie.
	And it's just like, I don't know if it's fair to expect them to like, like, just because because Indiana Jones did bad, you're expecting it's just like, well, you know, Barbie's got to make them pick up the slack.
	It's time for Barbie to make that extra $300 million.
	You know, it's like Barbie's not a billion dollar movie.
	Are you fucking blind?
	I'm going to watch it a billion times, so you're welcome.
	I'm really excited for it.
	I have been since the initial casting, but I'm just saying.
	It's not Avengers Endgame.
	It's not Avatar 3.
	It's Barbie.
	Right.
	It's, this is not something that exists as a movie vehicle to just sell a million tickets.
	It's, this is not something you expect from Barbie.
	Barbie is a cultural touchstone on a different wavelength than just massive summer blockbuster hit.
	It's just really strange.
	It's just girl media.
	Yeah.
	It's the same thing.
	Dolls, action figures.
	It's going to do great.
	Barbie, Barbie 4.
	Hey, I mean, the trailer makes it look pretty much like the Lego movie.
	In fact, exactly like the Lego movie.
	And the Lego movie is great.
	So I'm expecting big things from Barbie.
	I love the cast.
	You know, for me, it's a weird moment where, you know, the movie is expected to help save Hollywood, but I am looking at it specifically to be like, is Simu Liu a movie star?
	Like, he was fine in Shang-Chi, and he was fine, like, you know, in his television quote-unquote role on Kim's Convenience or whatever, but I'm just like, does he have the amount of riz necessary to be, like, boom, a movie star?
	I think this will help me suss that out.
	Because I'm not defensive about it, honestly.
	What are you looking forward to, Mike?
	The fact that I found out that there's actually a second episode of Justified City Primeval that came out at the same time as the pilot episode came out.
	I watched the first episode and I was like, okay, that was solid.
	I'm happy that Justified is back on my television.
	And then I found out, wait, I can have another episode delivered to me immediately.
	And I found that out like five minutes before the podcast.
	And I was like, oh shit, I can't delay the podcast.
	But now, after the podcast is over, boom, another hour of Justified.
	So that is a good thing for me.
	I am enjoying that.
	Because it was a great show back in the day, and now I get a limited run series.
	So I'm in favor of this.
	And I don't know, I'm Might see Barbie or Oppenheimer this weekend.
	I have no idea.
	I'm not a movie person, as we've brought up before.
	I was dragged to the Sound of Freedom because it's my stupid research job.
	But beyond that, the media I've consumed that is scripted is very minimal.
	So actually having a TV show I like come back from the grave after years and years of having not existed is a plus.
	I'm a fan of this.
	Nice.
	Yeah, it's always exciting when that happens.
	I'm happy for you, bud.
	I've never watched Justify It, but I know a lot of people who say it's great.
	I like Timothy Olyphant.
	He's an affable-seeming, charismatic guy.
	I'm not confused when I see him in movies, you know?
	Or on TV, for that matter.
	It's Timothy Olyphant, of course.
	And we're also in the middle of apparently a Babylon 5 renaissance, because J. Michael Straczynski made a post recently where he was like, There was one executive at the company, I think we're Warner Brothers, there was one executive who just hated Babylon 5, would not allow it to be in the, would just block anything.
	And apparently that guy just retired, so now apparently all this stuff is potentially going to happen with that series.
	So just keep bringing stuff back from the grave, folks.
	Make my day.
	That'd be great.
	Also very exciting for Mike.
	I couldn't be any younger to care about Babylon 5, even as a child.
	My father tried so hard.
	Way to go, Papa L. You had good taste.
	I appreciate you.
	Yeah, I was too young to care about hard sci-fi.
	Like, I wasn't young enough to get into it just because it was any type of sci-fi, like I did with Star Trek, which I also wouldn't have cared about if I got jumped into it in, like, 1996.
	Uh, but, uh, like, so I was kind of in the weird anti-Goldilocks spot where I was right in the middle where it was just like, there was no way I was caring about that show at the time.
	I was like, get this out of here.
	If it's not like a ninja with a ray gun or whatever, cause I'm 10.
	All right.
	So that's going to do it for our show for the week.
	Thank you everybody for listening and for supporting us with your precious ear holes.
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	For riding the co-pilot chair in Sargent's absence.
	We'll point out where you can find Hayley on the social media later on in the outro.
	Just Arizona Right Watch.
	Just look around.
	Yeah, listen to her.
	She can't even be bothered.
	She's like, you know what?
	It doesn't bother her.
	It doesn't matter.
	Don't even look for me at all.
	You know, what are we?
	She's getting deep into Buddhism.
	She's like, you know, I am simultaneously nothing and everything, you dig?
	I have no enemies, Ben Lanzaga.
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	Yeah, me and Stephanie, a.k.a.
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	Is that correct?
	Generally, sometimes you get rid of the underscore, just look around.
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