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Adventures in HellwQrld Episode #151: Trump Indictments and -48 with Karma

This week, Mike, L, and Karma talk about the death of -48 and Trump's latest indictment along with Twitter having a child porn issue. 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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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, new co-host Haley is already using her vacation time, so we are joined by Karma.
Hello there from Australia.
From a land that we are not sure actually exists or not, but maybe it does.
We're just going to give her the benefit of the doubt.
I'm also joined by the mysterious Elle.
Good day, my beautiful babies.
Yeah, if Australia exists, explain where it's supposed to be.
On the bottom of the disc?
That doesn't make any sense.
Totally nonsense.
Yeah, quite the week for... I mean, a lot of shake-ups in the third chair in Hellworld over the past few weeks, and this is an especially robust week for us to have Haley out as our new regular co-host.
Uh, because some shit went down.
And we'll get into that, of course, in our headline news, but yes.
Oh, what a time to record on a Wednesday, when, uh, it seems like Tuesday is the day for breaking, you know, court-related news.
Yeah.
I think, like, a month or so ago, we had a day where we couldn't coordinate on a Wednesday, and then that night there was, like, indictments, and it was just like, man, what a good decision we had to, like, pull back for a day.
Just, like, the timing of it.
This happens every so often with me where I will be hanging out at the day job, thinking to myself, boy, we are going to be struggling this week to have something to talk about on the pod.
And then like the next day, boom, like just big news hits.
And I'm like, oh, OK, now we're covered.
Now we're good.
It's all going to work out.
In a way, it actually is going to be kind of crazy this week to have Karma on the show.
And thanks again to Karma for being back co-hosting.
Because when we were talking before the show, we do our little, like, prattle, you know, just the warm-up, just talking to each other, shooting the breeze.
And Carmen mentioned that she's more frequently, like, got her eye on the politics and stuff of our side of the world than in her own home country.
So it's just like, well, we'll get to have that international observation.
Yes.
Yeah.
And the other thing that's really, that's one of the things that's really interesting about American politics and QAnon is that this is a international phenomenon.
It's so bizarre that this cult that is centered around an American politician is everywhere.
I mean, Karma, you had Burned Spy.
Who was the other guy besides Burned Spy?
Because Australia had like two huge QAnon guys.
Oh, there's another one.
I can't think of his name.
He's another big one.
He's always on Truth.
He's a big one too.
And he actually calls himself, I can't remember, something patriot, but he's Australian.
And he's a huge one as well.
But he's moved to America now, I believe.
Oh, good for him.
He's like, I gotta go where the action is.
I can't be on Australia anymore.
QAnon is getting to the point where it's even causing me to give a little side eye to the New England Patriots.
I'm just like, you know, they're really doing it.
It's like the word woke.
They are doing a great job of co-opting this stuff that used to be the thing that I could use, not ironically.
And I'm just like, now I have to side eye it.
I'm just like, Patriots, huh?
Interesting.
Definitely don't want to be number 88 on the Patriots, you dig?
No!
That would be the most terrible thing in the world if the Patriots were ever so inept at knowing how the world works that you had a quarterback that had the number 14 and then you had a wide receiver with the number 88.
So that would be super bad to have the 14-88 connection for your New England Patriots.
Although, I do remember, like, a few years ago, they drafted some kid that was a kicker, and he had, like, a three-percenter tattoo.
And it was all over Twitter for a couple days, like, Patriots draft Nazi!
And the guy was just like, I don't even know what this symbol means, I just got it because it was cool-looking.
And then he got cut in training camp, and it was just like, woof!
Bad draft pick all around.
Both can't play and also Nazi.
Not great.
Suboptimal.
For when we're storyboarding this like animated comedy bit, I just want to put like a note on the board for Zig Hail Mary.
Is that a good one?
Is that anything that looks to the rest of the writer's room?
We're all scabs here!
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Hollywood hit us up.
We're desperate.
Yeah, a scab's got to stick together, you know?
Yes!
My goodness.
OK, well, I feel like we're probably going to have a lot to talk about in the news this week.
So why don't we just go ahead and let's get a little booshy up in here.
Parentheses up in here.
It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
Get ready for the amuse-bouche!
Okay, so unless you've been living under a rock, and like, you know, disconnected from the larger world, and if you have been, God bless you.
I don't know why you're coming back for us, but thanks.
Elon Musk, God Emperor of Twitter, has decided that Twitter shall be no more!
And henceforth, it shall be known by its new, much cooler name, the letter X.
I mean, we'll get into it, but he has tried to do it before.
He loves the letter X. We're going to probably make a lot of X-related jokes, but this move seems like it's incredibly poor, and for the particulars, I'll go over to Mike Rains in a moment.
But I will say, for the record, that I announced on Twitter that the moment that my icon changed on my phone, I would be deleting my account.
I did try to do that, but I don't remember what my password is.
So instead, I just deleted the app.
I'm no longer looking at my account.
So if you're trying to reach me on Twitter, well, the former Twitter, now X, don't do that.
You're not going to be able to reach out to me.
Nope.
Yeah, I'm gonna hang on to the sinking ship that is whatever the fuck Elon calls it, but... I mean, you have, like, followers.
You have, like, I only have, like, 500 followers or whatever.
You've got, like, thousands of followers.
That's a different, that's a different thing.
You have, like, a lot, like, a little bit of a platform.
Not me.
Right, right.
Plus, I don't ever use it to make fun of stupid people and write stupid haiku jokes and, you know, I was never really doing anything important.
No, I hear you.
But Elon's hellscape is just so shitty and The thing that's so bizarre about it is you think about the man buying Twitter and paying $44 billion for Twitter, and what has he done?
That can't be right.
Surely you meant $44 million.
Don't say a billion.
That would be ridiculous.
That would be a crazy amount of money to spend on anything.
Oh my God, that would be like 44 Mega Millions jackpots that I'm going to win this Friday.
I mean, oh my God.
Could you imagine that sum of money for a platform, for a social media platform?
Oh, man.
And an offer that was so juicy for the people taking it that he was like, I'll do this.
And they were like, deal, snap it off.
And he was just like, oh, you say I won't?
OK, I totally will.
And then when it was all said and done, he was like, I don't think I want to do that.
They're just like, no, you're doing it.
You are doing it.
You're doing it for the amount you said you're going to do it for.
You're very bad at haggling.
You signed a fucking contract waiving due diligence.
They're like, God, there's no way to make it profitable.
What's our Twitter worth?
Probably like $2 billion or something.
And here comes the Elon Musk and he's just like, I'll buy it for a jillion dollars, please.
Yup.
Oh my God.
Yeah, the Twitter board is like, how can we ever cash in on this?
It's like, maybe some billionaire narcissist will lose his fucking mind and throw a boatload of cash at us for our social media platform.
And then the C's part and Elon Musk just walks in with bags of money and just showers them with it.
I mean, it's just, Jesus, so dumb.
So he pays all that money for Twitter, which you would think you'd want for the cachet of that name and the brand and the fact that tweet is a thing that people know about.
It's part of America's lexicon.
And the man's like, I just want to tear everything that was about Twitter out of Twitter.
And I want a social media platform that's now new, Has an incredibly generic looking icon in the app store.
The name isn't even legally mine.
There's a lot of other companies that have trademarks on social media with the word X in it.
So there's gonna be a giant legal battle for me to actually have this thing.
And now they're slowly going through the guts of Twitter and removing the Twitteriness of it.
Because a few days ago, my tweet button is now a post button.
Instead of retweeting, I'm reposting.
It's like, why would you want to make everything dull and generic and shitty?
Instead of a brand that again, you paid $44 billion for.
Instead of that part of that brand and that iconic imagery that you had of the little bird and the blue and all this stuff.
Nope.
Just dull black, dull X posts.
Just my God.
And the best part about it is you have $8 check marks who are just like, Oh, Elon, such a genius.
Oh, what a brilliant move.
What a incredible rebranding.
Oh man.
So, so smart.
It's like, no, this is.
This is the exact opposite of smart.
This is as bad as you possibly can be about their shit.
It's ridiculous.
And it's got a cascading effect of stupidity, because of course...
You can't just take something that's worth whatever Twitter's actually worth, billions of dollars, probably not 44 billions of dollars, but certainly billions of dollars, and just decide to change its name, especially in Twitter's case where its name was deeply integrated into all of its services, like tweeting and retweeting and all of that stuff, to the point where, as Mike mentioned, it became part of the cultural lexicon.
So, you know, he was making some big splashy moves, like having some sign troubles.
He was trying to replace some signs, and I hear there was a comedy of sign-related errors.
Oh God, so he tried to tear down the Twitter sign on the side of the building that is Twitter's offices in San Francisco, which he's continuing to not pay rent on.
And immediately the city came in and shut that down because he didn't get the permits for the rights to actually tear the sign down.
Then at that point, he then put a giant strobe light X on the top of the Twitter headquarters and People that were living in the neighborhood were like, this is actually fucking terrible.
This thing is just blasting light into my house and it's offensive.
This is an actual, this is like a neighbor being disruptive and playing loud music and doing stuff that is...
Not great.
And there were a lot of people that were looking at this shit being, they were thinking, if you have epilepsy near this fucking thing, Elon could, like, injure, if not kill you.
I mean, you could trigger an epileptic fit in somebody that could, like, disable them or kill them if it was too severe.
And Elon's just like, look at my giant flashing eggs!
And then he was joking about having triple X on the top of the building.
Yeah, it seems like it was quite the experience.
Yup.
It was an expensive blunder, though.
Yes, very.
I built it to make your head explode.
Yup, god.
You'd be like, my god, what an exceptional amount of money.
Yes!
There will be more coming.
Oh, it writes itself.
It's just the most ridiculously easy thing.
And again, Elon's just setting himself up for these dunks.
Yeah, especially because now we're no longer... I mean, Twitter's gone, so retweet means nothing.
So now we're going to be re-Xing, because tweet means nothing.
So still, we're going to be Xing.
Are you ready to X?
What are we, the fucking Smurfs?
Yeah.
Yo, did you go to X to X?
Yeah, let me re-X that.
X, I saw an X. What the fuck is this?
It sounds like we're redacted.
Yes.
What a clown.
I can't get over how ineffective he has been.
Even more than we expected, he has been ineffective in the leadership position of this thing that he purchased.
Man, that CEO lady, holy shit.
What a bill of goods she signed up for.
God.
CEX?
Yup.
Oh, man.
You know what?
In fact, let's just change our position title to XXX.
Yes!
Oh, God, yeah.
Why not?
Why not?
What a cruel guy Elon Musk is.
Man, it is amazing to just get to this point in your life where you finally achieve the ability To not have a board get in the way of your terrible decision making and you're just the guy just burning the place down and there's no, there's no firewall against you.
No one can like walk up to you and be like, sir, you probably shouldn't do that.
And again, I have no dog in this race because my followers were very small.
So I just got to cut and run.
But you and I believe Karba, but I mean, I haven't looked at Karba's numbers in a while, but I'd be like, I'm assuming that you both have like much, much larger followings than I.
Could have ever hoped for.
So, like, how do you guys feel about Buff's coming in and just trying to kick over his own sandcastle?
He's like, fuck you guys!
Oh, it sucks.
I mean, everything about this is bad, because you just have... I mean, the one thing that's lucky for me is that I'm not big enough to actually, like, get attacked by the blue checkmark morons, but When you have that happening, it's super frustrating.
I look at people that I follow because they're interesting to me, and they're big-timers, and they post stuff, and immediately below them it's just a bunch of blue check marks being like, Nope, you're wrong about that, dummy!
Nope, idiot!
That ain't gonna fly the way you think it will!
And it's just so bizarre to Just imagine that, like, your idea of a, like, thriving, functional website is making sure that idiots with, like, 50 followers who are just right-wing edgelords are literally the top replies.
Like, the first, like, 20 replies you see to any left-wing politician or political talking heads posts are just, you're wrong, idiot!
Hashtag Trump 2024!
I just, my God, who would think, yeah, this is what's going to bring everybody into the building.
Everyone wants to see a bunch of dumb chuds reciting the same tired right-wing bullshit.
Re-exing it.
Yes.
Exing back and forth forever.
Oh, God.
How about you, Karma?
I'm assuming that Australia has Twitter because I've seen you tweeting.
What's your experience like as somebody else who has a larger platform than I do?
I haven't had, like, I don't get a lot of blue checks, you know, harassing me or anything either.
But I haven't even updated my app on my phone for a while now.
So mine still says Twitter.
I have not yet.
I refuse to update it.
It's not consensual.
I looked at my phone one morning and it said, updating, and I was like, no!
I mean, it comes up when I first click on, I get the little X when I go on there, but everything else on my app is still currently Twitter, the way it looked before.
Have you been noticing a drop-off in, like, users or people that you used to engage with?
Has anybody else been leaving now that it's been rebranded to something that, like, erases most of its meaning?
I do think there's a bit of drop-off because I think, you know, obviously with Blue Sky, I think now more people are starting to merge over there, even though that one hasn't really taken off yet either.
I don't see that it's taken off on Twitter or X.
Like, you know, so I'm still like mainly on Twitter.
I mean, I go over and visit the other one and then I kind of come back and, you know, so, but yeah, no, I mean, I haven't dropped any followers since it's all happening.
So people are still, they haven't deactivated their account.
They're still there, even if they're not using it as much.
Maybe they just forgot their passwords like I did.
Yeah.
I, and that's one of the things that's really funny is Elon's posting this stuff like, the most engagement ever, blah, blah, blah.
It's just, how do you know that this is, I mean, from my experience before, before the latest bot crackdown, my God, the bot, the bot problem on Twitter was just worse than ever.
Literally, I would all, I would just daily get those, you're getting a DM from somebody you don't know.
And like, back in the, back in the Halcyon days of Twitter, Oftentimes that'd be a person calling me a pedophile and yelling at me, and then by the time I got to their tweet, or their DM, I was already blocked by them.
But now it was always just some Asian woman who wanted to give me stock advice, or wanted me to message her on WhatsApp, because she wanted to find an American to marry, and all that horse shit.
And it was just, like... Or some beautiful profile picture AI who's just been scrubbing the internet to find out stuff about you, but she's getting it from the wrong sources.
So she's just like, Hi Mike Rades, you seem like a pedophile, wanna chat?
I'm like, what?
Wait a minute.
You're trying to destroy our country!
You're cute!
What?
What's going on?
Yeah, that'd be awesome!
I mean, it's gonna be a brave new world on X, you know?
Especially once it gets to XXX.
Because, I mean, what's even better than 1X, you know?
3X.
Oh, we haven't even talked about how he put out that call for an X logo, and the one he settled on was just stolen from, like, a font.
It's just available, you can just buy this font.
And the X on that font is now the logo for former Twitter.
Also, do we think Elon Musk is smart enough to know that he has to continue to maintain the Twitter trademark?
And God, I hope not.
I would love somebody to just buy that in like a year or two, whenever it lapses, and then just make Twitter again.
Hey, I have a cool idea to use with this name Twitter.
It's called Twitter.
It will be similar but legally distinct from X, that platform that used to exist.
Oh god, I remember, I mean, back when Threads came out and then, obviously I think Threads is going to be something that Zuckerberg is going to have to put his back into it to make it work, but that was hilarious when Elon was like, I fired all these dum-dums!
And then Smash cut to, I'm going to sue all those people who are now working on Threads who used to work here at Twitter.
You know, you could have just kept them employed at Twitter and they wouldn't have had the needed job making a Twitter clone for some other tech billionaire.
Like, that was probably a thing you could have foreseen, was that someone would start up a company with your former brain trust.
Anecdotally.
Nobody has talked about Threads since the day it came out.
I haven't heard a single person.
It took me a while to remember what the fuck you were talking about.
I was like, Threads?
Why does that sound familiar?
I was like, oh right, it's Facebook's Twitter clone.
Yeah, no one's talking about that.
But also, I love that this is a tree that we keep shaking and more stuff keeps falling out of it.
And it's all light and fluffy and inconsequential, so we'll just call it the Extended Boosh.
But talking about all that reminded me about the copyright issues with X. Suddenly Elon Musk realized that a lot of companies and a lot of people smarter than he saw the value in the letter X and had claims on it for all sorts of different uses already.
They were just like, no, you may not use X for gaming.
Microsoft already has X. They were just like, yo, X is pretty cool.
And they had this epiphany 22 years ago or whatever.
Back when Elon Musk was trying it the first time around.
Which is another thing we still haven't talked about.
Insane.
It's a story that won't stop developing.
If you pull on it, it will continue to generate thread.
It's crazy.
I think we talked about the PayPal X thing last week on the show about how... Oh, okay, gotcha.
I was just like, how have we not discussed this yet?
Okay.
Again, this is a thing that won't start developing.
Anyway, you can't trademark the X for a lot of reasons.
The side thing is nonsensical.
The fact that the logo is lifted from a key phase is insane.
But he's sticking with it, which is the most insane thing.
And I'm sure that Elon's stans are perfectly satisfied with moves he's making.
We'll get into more of that later.
But as it relates to the X switchover, have you guys seen any Elon stanning?
Anybody really flip it out about how smart he is and how big of a genius the X move is?
Because X marks the spot, you know?
Uh, the only person I really saw was one of the Cranstein brothers.
And that's cause that guy's on that, getting that Elon money now and just watching him being like, you're all being way too hard about this rebrand.
This is just a vision that Elon's working for.
And it really isn't that big of a change and you're all going to like, get used to it.
And next is going to be cool.
And it's like, yeah, you're saying that.
Cause you, you're hoping you're going to get your pile of fliff in a month or two when the next Elon money bag falls out of the sky and lands in your general vicinity.
I have absolutely not seen anybody who is not paying for Twitter or being paid by Twitter talking about what a bold masterstroke of a move this is, because it isn't!
And that's really obvious.
So, I mean, it's just wild that the only people that are on your side are either sycophants giving you eight bucks a month to tell you how great you are, or people you are hitting with bags of money who are just like, I would like to get hit with another bag of money.
I will continue to tell you how great you are.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, I'm contractually obligated to say that Elon Musk's penis looks like one
of the Toxic Crusaders action figures that came out to be promoted from that cartoon
of the same name.
But if I wasn't contractually obligated to say that until he pays me $1 million in the
United States dollars, I would say that maybe let's give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe this is like 40 chests and he's Jack Donaghy style tanking it on purpose because
it's got some sort of greater value if he like rockets it into the ground.
Because this is like a gradual decline, you know.
He just seems to be going out of his way to make decisions that you could justify as the acts of a crazy person, but if your intention was to intentionally, rapidly drive down the value of a thing you owned, I mean, it seems like an incredible assortment of ideas.
He's a visionary, you know?
This is literally the producers, just in real life, for a social media platform.
Oh wait, I forgot about the ex-punt thing.
He's exemplary.
There we go.
Yum!
We look forward to more exciting developments in the story.
Oh, do we ever.
Do we ever.
Yeah, until then, we have to excuse ourselves from this topic, and let's get down to brass-boosh-tacks.
And bring on our specialist, Karma, from the land down under that does or does not exist.
It's sort of like Tiernanog, I guess.
To talk about our old friend, Negative48.
Which is surprising to me, because he's dead, famously.
Which I believe we mentioned on the show at one point.
They were like, hey, you know who's dead?
This guy.
Right?
I'm not mistaken about that.
He's dead.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
He's very good.
Okay.
Sometimes I have to confirm.
So it looks like we have some negative 48 on the breeze.
I'll toss it over to Mike and Karma for more negative 48 related news this week.
Interboosh!
Yes.
Karma, the floor is yours to explain what's going on in the negative 48 cult after the death of Michael Protzman.
Is he a ghost?
Well, you know what?
Some would like to think that he is.
There are definitely the Splinter Group.
They believe that, you know, he's not dead.
Well, actually, let's rephrase that.
There's a good Michael, and there's a bad one.
And the bad one may be dead, but the good one is still alive.
But... I see the old Adam Warlock for my comic book fans out there.
But he was killed, according to them, By, let's see, now it keeps changing.
It's changing on a regular basis.
You know, one of the Inner Circle from negative 48 apparently killed him.
Two, the truck owner was involved.
Um, the latest I think they said, you know, they're talking about the brakes were cut.
A wire was placed between, you know, two trees.
You know, it's just absolutely insane stuff.
And when I say insane, I mean they're full on accusing.
We're not just talking about, this is just, you know, stuff they're talking about on the internet.
They're actually harassing the track owner.
They're, it's full on.
So they know who was involved in the accident with him?
So it was only him on his own.
So he was on a motocross track.
Um, and you know, just riding on the track and yeah, from what I've heard the 911 calls.
There's not much to it.
Just pretty much that, you know, he basically fell off the bike while he was riding.
He was unconscious and he was having trouble breathing.
That's basically what was in the 911 call.
Oh, well, I'm sorry, because your accent had me tricked because I kept thinking you were saying truck and not track.
So the track owner was the person they were accusing of the crime.
So they're saying that the, so he was, he was like driving around on a dirt bike track that he like rented this dirt bike to go run laps on this track.
And then something happened where he lost control of the bike and fell off of it.
And so now they're blaming the owner of the facility for killing him by doing something nefarious.
Yes, they're saying that he was hired as a hitman.
The most elaborate hitman of all time.
We need a specialist this time around.
Call that guy we know that can assassinate people by rigging a dangerous racetrack.
I'm just imagining Michael Protzman walking by this track and there's a giant sign that says, Lunatic Cult Leaders Get Free Ride!
And he's like, that's me!
And he just runs in, gets on a motorcycle and then it's sabotaged and it kills him.
Okay, do you know what?
So when I looked up this track, they have different tracks and they have different, the tracks are all numbered.
Now I know, you know, I listened to Negative for nearly two years and I know how his ego was.
There was a track 48.
He was definitely on that track.
Oh, it had to be.
And I would assume that these tracks had like, this was, we'd probably be like, uh, like skiing.
Some of the tracks would probably be easier than the others.
I would assume that like, some would just be like literally just doing a very slow, easy thing.
And other tracks might have like more bumpiness and more like actual riding skill required to handle them.
Yep.
Yep.
And they were, and like, you know, because in his younger days, Negative did actually ride motorbikes.
So, you know, he has had some experience, but obviously we're talking about his younger days.
You know, he was actually 60 years old and definitely out of shape.
So, you know, it was just an accident, but they're just some of the things they're claiming.
And obviously in their world, they like to code everything with using Gematra.
So that's how they get their truth on How he was killed.
How he was murdered.
It only looks like it's an accident, though, because that's how good Shrek Masterson, the road assassin, is.
That's why you hire that guy.
If you need to make it look like it's definitely an accident, and definitely related to the road, call Shrek.
Yes!
God.
That, I...
I had, when I had heard that he had an accident, I assumed it was some sort of motor.
It was motor vehicle and related.
It was on the street.
I didn't know that he was.
Oh yeah.
You didn't assume that he was getting gnarly on a moped?
Well, I knew that he had, um, I knew that he was on a bike, but I figured it was traffic related.
I didn't know that he was just literally riding around a track, having a, having himself a ball.
And then he just like lost control of it.
Yeah, let me speak for the regular person who, if they even knew who this guy was, would have probably only glanced at the headline about it, like I did, and say, yeah, none of us expected that when it was revealed that he died in an automobile accident, that he was, like, trying to get gnarly on a moped, you know?
I feel like we all just assumed that he was driving in a car that got smashed by another car.
That's the way it usually goes down.
It's very weird for somebody to be getting injured like fatally on like a motocross motorcycle accident, you know?
I feel like typically that's just like, oh, they were trying to do three flips and they landed wrong, broke their spine.
So that is really strange.
And I knew Protzman was like out of shape and old.
I didn't know he was 60.
That's really, wow.
I mean, man.
He was a late bloomer getting into cult leader status at that age.
Like, man, holy smokes.
Yeah, definitely.
And but like, you know, because he had gone writing, obviously, because I listen, he had gone writing probably, I think, two or three weeks prior to that.
And so I have been told that apparently, he told his cult followers, That he was getting ready to ride in some, you know, like, race.
He was prepping for it.
So yeah, well, obviously he never made it to that race.
Oh my god.
I would love the idea of him being involved in a race that's actually competitive and then him just losing and then explaining the conspiracy that denied him victory.
Because someone like him with that crippling level of narcissism Could never just lose fair and square.
There would always have to be something more to it than just, oh, I just didn't run a good race, or I'm too old, and the younger people just outdid me.
No, it would have had to have been a plot.
The Illuminati definitely would have had to have, like, sabotaged his bike to make it so that he didn't win.
Also, it does sort of humanize him a little.
Like, now I kind of want to, like, I know that this is how it went down, or what sort of guy he was, but It is fun to imagine that he died heroically trying to perfect his signature move, the Dealey 1800.
Just an explosively powerful move.
Five full rotations with the full JFK McTwist.
The funny thing is he did a lot of coding and That came out to be Superman.
And if you ever looked at their Met Trump rallies, he did actually often wear a t-shirt that had, like, you know, Superman on it and stuff.
And if you go back through his Telegram channel, he had actually posted, like, someone doing the Superman move on a motorbike.
So I don't know whether he got, you know, went, hey, I might try this.
Who knows?
He was taking Soulja Boy's advice and he was like, I can Superman those hoes.
References.
I got a lot of them.
Anyway.
Poor guy.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
I don't know.
Rest in peace, truly evil Knievel.
Yes.
So I guess on that note, while we still have karma on the line, let's segue to our headline news!
From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News.
Hey there babies, you're getting a second content warning this week because our first headline news topic features somebody who did bad things to children.
So, again, second content warning for that.
Uh, and, you know, for the hilarious fun and frivolity of that, I blissfully get to hand over the reins to Mike Rains.
Uh, Mike, please, you be the one to have to talk about this.
Yeah, oh my god, yes.
Lucky me.
So... Oh, and also guess what?
Elon Musk is involved again.
Surprise!
Yes!
Oh yeah, Elon!
Oh god, um, Elon... Somebody did an X!
That's a pretty X!
So there is this Twitter power user who goes by the handle of Dom Lucre and Dom has basically been a QAnon promoting guy that gets signal boosted because he bought his Twitter blue account and Elon likes him and At one point in the past week, Dom got suspended from Twitter and people were all like, what's going on here?
Why did our newest, why did the new hotness in QAnon grifting get suspended?
So unfair.
So unfair.
Oh, you have no idea.
And eventually Elon came out with the fact that Dom had posted child exploitive content and that this was flagged by their child porn team.
And, but then Elon went on to state that he was going to have those tweets deleted back then when they were tweets, not exes or whatever.
And that once that happened, Dom would be given back his account because That's how you take this kind of thing really seriously, is you let someone post this shit, and then you're like, eh, as long as you delete it, no harm, no foul.
It's great.
How does no part of that process involve, like, contacting federal law enforcement?
Oh yeah, a lot of people have mentioned that.
A lot of people have been like, hey, does the FBI know about this?
What is going on here?
Dom needs to have his hard drive searched post-haste.
Yeah, I mean, in general, I don't want people snooping in on what I'm saying or doing on social media or whatever, but in theory those posts are supposed to be public anyway.
And also, like, there are certain circumstances where, yeah, I feel like some government people need to get involved.
Like, if I was just like, here's how to make a bomb to blow up your enemies on Twitter, a thread on how to blow up your enemies with this bomb.
And it's just like, okay, probably not cool to just have, like, being promoted on Twitter.
People will be like, oh, that's information you can get online anyway.
And it's just like, yeah, but you would have to look for it, man.
Like, I don't want, like, bomb-making, like, trending on X. Trending on X!
How to make a pipe bomb!
And it's like, ah, sweet!
I'll do that, you know?
And you know, so I expect the NSA or whatever to probably listen to this podcast because I've said the word pipe bomb and blow up your enemies a lot, like several times.
Yes, more times than is probably good to not be on a watch list.
But I mean, you know, context and comedy show and all that stuff.
So I feel like I'm in the clear or whatever.
But, you know, if you're trying to blast that to the internet you know the bet like the like the arguably the worst thing you can possibly blast to the internet yeah you should probably just not get a little slap on the wrist
Yeah.
Also, how does the Twitter slash X process work?
Because they're saying that, like, he, like, tried to do it and, like, do all posts get screened before they get uploaded at all?
Or because they were just like, nobody saw it.
It's just like, how do you know, though, that nobody saw it?
You know, Twitter is like, a lot of people use Twitter.
Actually, people have pointed out that the post was up for like three or four days before it got taken down, and there are a lot of replies to the post where people are like... Don't be sorry.
Shut up.
Yeah, exactly.
Those are replies to the space where the post used to be.
It's all people just being like, you know, wow, I used to be here.
I'm so confused.
Yeah.
It looks like you tweeted nothing.
Yeah.
Um, so Dom has basically spent a lot of time after the fact of this lying about what happened and claiming that this wasn't child porn.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Elon has betrayed him and has like sold him out to the woke mob by claiming all of this stuff.
But the people that Actually saw these images.
Basically, this opened up a whole new Pandora's box for me to a darker side of the internet than I even knew existed.
And apparently, this content was made by one of the worst monsters in the history of humanity.
So, Karma, what do you know about our boy Peter Scully and the horrors he inflicted upon Australia?
Um well so he was I know he was um obviously convicted of human trafficking and rape of sexual assault of underage girls.
He was doing like a pay-per-view on the dark web um and I know he was imprisoned back in June 2018 um for life and then he was um had additional charges back in November 2022 He got another 129 years in prison.
Also from what I've sort of, because I have gone back and had a look, he also did like, he operated an unlicensed escort service where he actually offered his girlfriend as a sex worker.
So yeah, he wasn't, you know, that's a real scumbag.
Oh, Andrew Tate before Andrew Tate.
Just absolutely hustling every way he can.
Although context is important, because there are a lot of circumstances where dating a sex worker is just like, right on.
Yeah.
We have to virtue signal, guys.
We have to signal that virtue.
We have to cover our bases so we don't get yelled at.
Oh yeah, yeah.
So this guy, I do like that he got life in prison and then Australia was like, you know what?
That isn't enough.
We're going to hit you with a hundred years on top of life.
What was that, 128?
Which I like because it's definitely more than another life sentence.
It's just like, you're in prison until you die.
And then for an entire additional lifetime, so like all of your children, that whole generation will also be dead.
And then like 20 to 35 more years on top of that as well.
Yeah.
Well, he wasn't actually imprisoned like in Australia.
He's just Australian.
He was actually convicted and everything in the Philippines.
Oh.
Oh, the Philippines are home to our beloved Q creators, or Q owners.
I can't believe that the Philippines would be involved in all of this.
Just absolutely shocking that monsters would hide out there, of all places.
I am ashamed to admit that for a moment when Karma said he didn't get convicted, he's just Australian.
In Australia, he's just Australian.
I didn't immediately take that to mean that he was convicted elsewhere.
I was just like, he didn't get convicted in Australia, he's just Australian.
That's punishment enough.
They're just like, we the court of the United Peoples of the World find you Australian!
The guy drops to his knees and starts sobbing.
He's like, no!
He lunges for like a pin and starts trying to off himself.
Yeah.
No, we love our Australian people.
It's funny, because we're like, I don't know if we have anybody that listens from Australia, but Australia's got the same curse as the Netherlands and that region of the world does in my mind, where whenever I picture people from there, they're perfect.
They're statuesque, beautiful, perfect people.
And I doubt the reality is that way.
So when I ever meet all of them, it's going to be, I'm just going to set myself up for some wild disappointment.
I'm putting them on such a pedestal.
Yeah, when Elle's the one cashing the Mega Millions ticket this Friday and then takes this tour of the world, it's just gonna be heartbreaking.
She's gonna be like, no!
Dude, blame Crocodile Dundee.
It's like the only fucking touchstone I have for what, like, even a remotely, like, dirty or just, like, regular working-class Australian guy looks like.
Because all the other ones I've ever seen are, like, superheroic beach people.
But then it's like, Crocodile Dundee's just a regular guy, you know?
Because I grew up in that generation.
I watched those movies when I was a kid.
So in my mind, like, that's stuck there.
It's like propaganda.
Big Australia got their hooks into you deep.
Yeah.
And you, like, I mean, you've just got to avoid certain areas when you come here and you'll be fine.
Your dreams will come true then.
I mean, honestly, as a child, I used to lust after the idea of traveling to Australia because that was before I settled into the things I really liked and did not like.
And now Australia represents several of the things that I hate, but it's not their fault.
I don't really like beaches.
I hate direct sunlight.
I'm not a huge ocean swimmer.
I love pools, but I don't really just like being in the ocean.
It's not really my jam.
I hate insects, wild animals, and like dangerous critters of all varieties.
So I'm just like, you know, maybe not Australia.
Maybe someplace cold and dark.
Why do we always get a bad rap for our animals over here?
That's what I want to know.
I think it's just because your ecosystem evolved so much different than everybody else's.
Your animals are just bizarre to the rest of the world.
You guys got lots of marsupials and other things that are just not stuff that the rest of the world sees.
It's like, oh my god, Australia!
It's just literally an alien hellscape!
I really think that's how people look at it.
Also, the insects, and specifically arachnids, just get much larger there than most people are comfortable with.
Like, I'm a mild arachnophobe, but if I saw anything the size of some of the shit I see coming out of Australia in person, I would poop my whole skeleton out of my body.
Yes.
If I'd be dead, they would just be like, ah, classic case of having pooped all of their bones and organs and everything out all at once out of fear.
You're like one of those squids that ejects all of its internal organs to escape from the predator and then dies later.
I don't know why that's a good evolutionary tactic.
Only for me, it's just instant.
Yes.
It's more like a scarecrow, but it's the real deal.
It's just like, oh, I've become frightened and I am dead.
Yum.
But I mean, again, like, especially if I liked being outside, I feel like Australia would still be the dream.
But I don't.
Yeah.
So I just went because I wanted, if I'm outside, I wanted to be cold and drizzly.
Like I want to be like on a cold cliff someplace with like an ocean spray in my face.
Like some sort of majestic fisherman, but not interested in doing any physical labor.
Then you need to come here in winter.
Do you have a winter in Australia?
Yeah, it's been freezing.
Okay, but like how cold is that really?
Because people in our country will say that Florida is freezing and it will be 72 degrees Fahrenheit for us, which is not freezing, I assure you.
No, it's cold.
It's, I mean, it gets down to, I mean, it did get down a couple of times to like one degrees here this winter, but that's like, probably around 10 degrees here, which you can work out.
Yeah, I vaguely know.
I'm no genius, but I vaguely know the conversion.
I was going to say that I've been watching some of the Women's World Cup and it's winter in Australia right now and I have seen some of the coaches of the teams all bundled up.
They got their big winter coat on and trying to keep themselves warm on the sidelines as the women get to run around and keep themselves warm by doing actual effort.
I mean, that does make me feel better, because presumably that amount of cold also makes a lot of the critters fuck off to their holes until it warms back up.
So if I ever get travel money, maybe I'll just plan out, just be like, OK, we're going to Australia, literally during the coldest part of the year, to experience the Australian culture that has nothing to do with beaches.
Yes.
I'd be down.
What I lust after at the Billion Dollar Jackpot is largely so that I can do good to you and travel.
I want to be Santa Claus.
I want to travel the world and I want to give gifts.
And that's like, I'm just like, oh man, what a dream.
Anyway, we've sort of gotten out of pocket.
So let's get back into the dark times, having to talk about this pedophile times.
So Musk decided to let this cloud keep slash get back his X account.
So was there much like clasping of hands and like doing a double shake over both shoulders in victory?
Was everybody very happy with this development?
So you would think that QAnon, who claim to be all about protecting children and hating pedophiles and all this stuff, that they would have been aghast about this guy getting his account back.
Yeah, I mean, I guess Stanley Meeh for assuming that they were doing the double over the shoulder clasped hand victory motion.
What a fool I was.
Clearly, they should hate this.
Oh, unfortunately, you were right the first time.
Lots of clasping of hands, wasting them over shoulders.
Dammit, are you telling me Santa Frida lied?
Apparently they did, yes.
But I've seen it so many times for free.
Yeah, so my favorite one of these is Liz Pizzagate Crokin, who is just all about saving the children and all this stuff.
She was just like, Dom, I'm so glad you're back and fighting the good fight to save children and keep the world free from pederasts and all this stuff.
And it's like, Liz, buddy, sweetie, honey, he did the pederasty.
He did the thing.
And again, even if you try to make the case, oh, but he was doing it to raise awareness, and blah, blah, blah.
It's like, as Karma said, the dude that did this shit is in jail for life plus over 100 years.
There's no awareness you need to raise.
The conviction's already done.
This guy's never seeing the light of day again.
It's over.
He's done.
He's cooked.
So, it's ridiculous.
I've seen nobody in QAnon distance themselves from this guy.
Everyone loves him because he's an influencer.
He's someone that pulls people into the movement because Elon Signal boosts him.
He's one of Elon's playthings.
Elon gave him money on the first wave of x-checks.
This whole thing is just a right-wing grift system, and no one's going to be upset that a little horrifying child exploitive content got put on X during this whole thing.
It's just smooth sailing the whole way.
Okay, well, I mean, what a refreshing way to kick off our headline news for the week.
I mean, who doesn't love talking about, like, one of Australia's greatest monsters?
I mean, I would hope.
I didn't do the research, but... Oh, he is.
He absolutely is.
We're gonna go with that.
I mean, to be fair...
In our country, a gentleman arrested for those levels of crime, monstrous though they may be, I'm not sure, I would have to look at, there would be like, you would have to look at numbers.
Because our country is so vast, we produce just like a lot of monstrous fucks who get arrested for all sorts of terrible shit.
That's why we, that's why people love true crime, you know?
We've become so desensitized to it as an entire generation, that each further generation beyond us will become more morbidly fascinated by it.
We call it the Junji Ito effect, you know?
In three generations, that guy's going to be the world's most popular artist.
Just watch.
It's going to be incredible.
They're going to be like, oh my god, an original Junji Ito.
Yeah, I'll buy that for 400 Yas Queen bucks.
Because obviously, ironic, digital currency will be a huge thing in the future.
Anyway, speaking of douchebags, I guess, let's segue into, of course, The gentleman we have to talk about every single week, and usually in our headline news segment, because anything he does is splashy.
Former President, currently Mr. Donald Trump, who this week decided to get himself indicted on some federal Bitcoin charges, which was surprising.
I mean, I'm going to be honest, I thought that the Georgia stuff was going to come down the pipeline before this stuff, but they really surprised me, and I'm assuming a lot of people.
What are we looking at here?
Is he finally going to get arrested for being a traitor to the country?
He did not get indicted for seditious conspiracy, although that might happen.
this does feel like it was done because these are easy to prove charges and that
that's why they indicted him for a big conspiracy to obstruct,
which of course was to prevent the certification of the election on January
6th, a conspiracy to deny rights, AKA the right for people to have their vote counted, which,
um, as some people have complained about, which is a ridiculous
thing, they were like, they found a fucking thing from 1866 to
charge him with.
And it's like, yeah, you know what?
That was literally an act against the Ku Klux Klan back when they were trying to keep blacks from having the ability to vote in the South, which they then were able to pull off for basically a hundred fucking years.
So this isn't, they used an old statute to get Trump.
This is more, nobody's pulled a crime this ridiculous since reconstruction.
So, uh, so sorry that your boy Trump is such a masterful crimest that he manages to violate 100-year-old laws that nobody else dared touch for so long.
Yeah, I mean, it's just like a point of inflection, right?
It's literally like, how you inflect the way you say it changes the meaning of how those crimes are presented to you.
Where you're just like, yeah.
It hasn't been tried like this in a hundred years!
He'll just be like, yo, it hasn't been tried like this in a hundred years.
It's like, okay, one of those things makes it sound like, that's ridiculous, it's preposterous, why would you do that?
The other one's just like, damn, you're just a hundred years back for crime?
That's crazy!
Yeah.
Why haven't any presidents before you, well, you know, in the past hundred years, decided to do this sort of crime?
Yeah.
Yeah, so our boy got hit with these four charges, which is a lot less counts than he's been previously racking up with his other cases in New York and in the other federal case in the documents in Florida.
But on top of these counts against him, the real fun of this indictment was the fact that, as is standard procedure for the federal government when they're indicting somebody, if someone else is not indicted but they were part of the crime, they become an unnamed co-conspirator.
And Jack Smith's 45-page indictment against Trump lists six co-conspirators and just numbers them co-conspirator
one, two, three, four, five, six.
The thing about this is that co-conspirators one through five,
their anonymity is non-existent basically. Co-conspirator number one is
1 is Rudy Giuliani.
It's very obvious when you go through the document and the stuff that was said by Rudy is said by Co-Conspirator No.
1, and so... At one point, Co-Conspirator No.
1's face started to sort of melt off of his body, like he was communicating with the alien overlord from that movie The Fifth Element.
And it's like, this could be anybody!
Yeah, exactly!
Yeah, so our boy Rudy Clutie is co-conspirator number one.
Co-conspirator number two is John Eastman, who, if you don't know about him, he's currently being disbarred in California for his bullshit attempts to legally justify Trump's efforts to overturn the election.
So Eastman basically was the guy that created the memos that were just, here is how it is totally okay that we are doing the crimes that we are doing.
And in the documents, in Jack Smith's indictment, there's one section where it says, like, co-conspirator number two said to Mike Pence, hey, could you do a small violation of the Electoral Count Act?
Just a wee little crime, just a smidgen of criminality here for me, please.
Which, um, you probably shouldn't tell someone that you're criming when you're asking them to help you in your crime, but you do you, Jon Eastman.
So, that was really awesome.
Co-conspirator number three is incredibly awesome and one of Hellworld's favorite people in our little universe.
It's Kraken Lady, Sidney Powell!
So yes, Sidney Powell is probably looking forward to being indicted within the next month or so for being part of the conspiracy to try to overturn the election in 2020.
So Mrs. released the Kraken, QAnon's biggest hero from basically the night of the election up until Biden got sworn in on January 20th.
She was their biggest hero for like three months.
So yeah, Sidney Powell looking like she's in a peck of trouble here, which is great.
Finally, the Kraken is here and it turns out that it's federal charges against former President Trump.
Yes, we finally released the Kraken.
Uh, co-conspirator number four is Jeffrey Clark, who was trying to become the acting attorney general, because you'll remember Bill Barr, who was an absolute piece of shit and a total scumbag.
That guy noped out of the Trump administration when the heat got going.
He was just like, I see what these fucking people are doing, and these are actual, like, provable crimes.
So, no thank you, Mr. President.
I'm out.
I'm, I'm leaving.
And so he tried to shoehorn this Jeffrey Clark guy in, and a friend of the podcast, Amanda, a.k.a.
Frank the Turtle, she's been following Clark very closely for a while, and she was over the moon when she was reading over this and saw that, oh, my friend, my dear friend Jeff Clark, it's his turn in the barrel.
It's his time to be, uh... Well, you know, it could be anybody.
It could be anybody.
He's just Conspirator No.
4, you know?
Yes.
We're all Conspirator No.
4 in a way.
It's like that time, Man of the Year, when it was us, and we got a mirror on the front page.
And people still post things about their resume, how they're like, in 2008, I was Time's Man of the Year, or whatever.
So like, yeah, great.
Nailed it.
I mean, hey, technically, technically correct.
The best type of correct, which I had to explain to my friends, has kind of like, circled back around to no longer being cute or funny anymore.
Shut up.
That's what I take on it.
Maybe it's just getting older, but now I'm just like, stop no butting me in real life,
you know?
Re-embrace the yes, aunt mentality.
Re-evaluate how often you lead the thing you're about to say with no, or actually, or anything
that implies a negative.
Just give it a beat and see if you really need to lead with that.
See if you really need to yuck somebody's yum.
Do you really need to do that?
It doesn't even matter if you're yucking somebody's yum or whatever, but just like a correction.
How important is it to correct everybody but the minute detail of a story they're telling?
Your inability to read the flow of an anecdote is a problem.
Reassess your need to validate yourself by interjecting to just be like, Technically correct.
Yeah.
It's not cute or funny anymore.
No, give it up.
Number five is our buddy who I've never heard of before, Kenneth Cheesebro, which is what an incredible last name that is.
Yeah, I mean, it's a real good one.
Like, love it, love it, Cheesebro.
Is it Cheesebro or Cheeseboro?
It is Cheese, it is C-H-E-S-E, Chez, or Cheese.
Yeah, we'll just say Cheese.
And BRO.
Bro.
Okay, so Cheese Bro.
Yeah, Cheese Bro.
You're telling me he didn't do any fucking keg stands in college to get out of here?
Oh, absolutely.
Basically, Mr. Cheese Bro is the guy who made the memo for the Wisconsin fake electors.
He was the guy that was like, Wisconsin Republicans who want to commit crimes.
I'm going to make the legal framework for your criming in Wisconsin.
So that is the thing that, uh, conspirator number six, number five did that is, uh, that lines up with Mr. Cheese Bro.
So, uh, he is in trouble for that shit.
And I'm sure more other things.
Co-conspirator number six is the only one we're not sure about.
So Conspirator No. 6's conspiratorial bullshit is kind of vague.
So at this point, a lot of people are questioning, is it Ginny Thomas?
Is it Roger Stone?
Is it Steve Bannon?
So, um...
I wish I had the indictment.
It was just sort of like, Conspirator No. 6 just had sort of a general conspiratorial
vibe about them.
It's like, oh man, we don't know who it is.
And they're just like, yeah, this person just seemed like they were down to clown for anything
if you get what the indictment means.
It's like, wow, this is really weirdly written, I don't know.
They're really out of pocket with this one.
I don't know if this is actually legal or not.
Is down to clout a legal term?
Yes.
Somebody call up Legal Eagle.
Hey.
Hey Legal Eagle.
Is down to clout a legal term?
So I almost wonder if number six is like so vague that like a bunch of people think they're number six.
They might start making calls to their lawyers being like, hey, is this me?
Am I in trouble here?
Do I need to talk to somebody?
So that'll be interesting.
But again, because the other five are very obvious and Jack Smith made it clear in his press conference that we are not stopping here.
This case against Trump is but the beginning.
So Obviously conspirators 1 through 5 are going to be indicted for what they did, and whoever conspirator number 6 is is also likely very fucked.
So this is great and a good thing, period.
Okay, so obviously we're not beholden to do this because we're a comedy show and not a news show, but let's try to pretend like we're a news show for a second.
Do some due diligence.
Let me ask you, how did former President, current Mr. Donald Trump react to this?
How did Mr. Trump react to this?
Screamed and yelled like a fucking baby.
He, again, witch hunt, prosecutorial misconduct.
This is all election interference.
There is a lot of that going around in the right that they sat on these charges for so long as to try to Tip the apple cart and try to mess with the, um, the election and prevent Trump from winning.
He is posting all kinds of clips from Fox News.
Uh, like his true social feed is literally just nothing but right wing talking head screaming and yelling.
He has a post, uh, in all caps, literally all of it.
Thank you to everyone.
I have never had so much support on anything before this unprecedented indictment of a former I love you all!
Parentheses highly successful president and the leading candidate comma by far comma in the Republican priority and
the 2024 general election has awoken the world to corruption
scandal and failure that has taken place in the United States
For the past three years America is a nation in decline But we will make it great again greater than ever before. I
love you all triple exclamation point. I Will say this I don't have any respect for the man, but I
do Enjoy that he clearly types the way he speaks because I
also do that as well And, you know, including all of your dumb little idiosyncrasies like his inability to get through a thought without figuring out a way to praise himself.
I love when he's just like dropping in a parenthetical to talk about how great he is.
He's just like, you know, like, I would love to do more to defend myself, but my hands, parentheses, which are incredibly large and masculine, in parentheses, are tied.
It's just like, okay, great.
Well, excellent.
Well done.
Well done, Mr. Trump.
Former president, parentheses, and a great one.
You know it.
Your most beloved president, the president you love the most out of all of them, that and me, Donald Trump, yes, all of these things.
Okay, how about the third layer of due diligence on this cake of horseshit, which is, Mike, talk to us, how has QAnon reacted to this?
QAnon's obviously huge fans of this, I'm sure.
So the first thing that I saw was one guy who screamed and yelled, and I think... About how Hunter Biden's penis wasn't on his screen.
Oh, God, you know that.
Why are we not talking about Hunter Biden's cocaine-covered penis?
Yeah.
A dear friend of the podcast, AwakendOutlaw, retweeted or reposted, because we don't... What's the word tweet mean anymore?
I'm a genius.
It's an X. It's X, XX.
He reposted a guy named Machiavelli who stated, quote, bring on the indictments you scumbag commie child fuckers.
The entire world knows you're evil and corrupt.
Go fuck yourselves with rusty chainsaws.
We still have Trump's back.
So yes, QAnon taking this very well.
What's very interesting is that A bunch of high-level QAnon promoters, folks that have their podcasts and their grift accounts and all that good stuff, they've decided to take this hard swerve off the beaten path, and they have decided that Michael Flynn might be behind January 6th, and he might have orchestrated this whole thing, and that Michael Flynn might be Deep State.
Which has caused a lot of consternation.
I did not expect, you know, usually I have to scratch and sniff the QAnon perspective on this stuff because it's usually pretty obvious what they're thinking about a thing, just sort of like filling their diapers and then throwing their filled diapers at each other while screaming.
I was expecting this one to have like a weird nugget of like advancing the storyline.
Michael Flynn is Deep State now?
Yep, that's The Authority and In the Matrix, two bros who are like all about the QAnon stuff.
Dude, in the Matrix, did you know how many X's are in that name?
My God.
Oh my God, so many.
So cool.
And his buddy Spooky Groove.
Are there X's in that as well?
I've never seen it written out.
Probably not, but I know there's a lot of those.
He can fuck himself, Mike.
He can fuck himself.
Yes.
Yeah, but the spookiest of grooves, the Matrix and the Authority, are all in on this idea that Michael Flynn is a baddie now, and This is causing a lot of consternation inside of regular QAnon because Flynn is mentioned in the drops repeatedly as being a hero and a good guy.
And so trying to accuse Flynn of being a baddie is quite the swing by these guys.
But again, Q's never going to post anything anymore.
He's gone.
So it's like, you can't attack the narrative he created.
No one's going to, no one's going to stand up.
No, Q's not going to stand up for himself and say, Hey, shut up.
Flynn's great.
So.
That's very interesting.
We'll see where that leads to, and what kind of divisions it causes inside of QAnon.
Because the only other thing that they're doing is the whole bullshit about discovery.
Because Trump's lawyer was on TV being like, we're going to re-litigate 2020's election, and now that we have subpoena power, we're going to finally uncover the truth of what happened in the election.
You'll never believe what we're going to discover.
Oh, God, you have no idea.
Nothing can stop what is coming.
Oh, let me tell you.
Let me fucking tell you.
The Kraken.
It's coming any day now.
Oh, yeah.
Get your surfboards out for the wave.
The storm wave.
Yes.
So, yeah.
So, yeah, the standard copium, a weird attack on Michael Flynn, and all the rest of that shit.
And I'm sure it will be the exact same, because Georgia has said that by September 1st, their charges will be in.
And I think they've also made it clear that these charges will probably be happening in the first two weeks of August.
So in the next two weeks, we're going to have the Georgia fake electors and Trump trying to antagonize the Georgia Secretary of State into overturning the election on his behalf.
So the Georgia indictment is coming down the pike also.
So that's going to be fun to deal with.
Good stuff.
I mean, the gift that keeps on giving.
And just because I'm obligated, I ask this question to all of our international guests.
So, Carm, I have to ask you, it is my duty, with all this Trump stuff happening, continuing the clown fiesta that is our political blunders on the world stage.
How do you, as an international observer to our political situation, Regarding our president being brought up on federal, former president being brought up on federal charges.
It's about time, isn't it?
I mean, I know the rational brain certainly believes so, yes, but, uh, I just didn't know if it, if it like, I mean, it's gotta make us just look so shitty.
Yeah, no, I mean, look, it gets, I know it gets broadcast on our news and again, most people here in Australia would just look at it and go, Oh yeah, he deserves that.
Okay, move on to the next thing.
You make your country sound so rational, I'm so jealous.
Because, again, the reason we have this problem to begin with is that half of our country is a bunch of, like, shit-throwing apes.
We just don't worship politicians.
If anything, we'd probably throw shit at our politicians.
I mean, hey, I mean, they're certainly a much more deserving target than who, like, we get, like, you know.
In us, it's poor people throwing shit at each other, and then the politicians laugh.
They do that, they do that, like, laugh from cartoons where they've got, like, their hands all up in the air, like, they're, like, got their head dramatically cocked back, laughing at the sky.
Well, we've had, we've had politicians egged, like, you know, people really just don't care here.
What a compelling argument for why Australia is great.
See, this is why we need to reach out to our international friends more often.
Let's build bridges, you know?
Not walls.
Other hippie stuff.
I'm buying in.
I've always liked weed, you know?
That's what they mean.
Hippies have always agreed.
Yeah, weed's illegal here.
Oh, okay.
You know what?
That might be a strike against the proud nation of Australia, but I'll say only for now.
I have faith.
I have faith in the Australian people to be like, hey, that's fucking absolutely ridiculous.
Like our country hasn't even done it.
It's like state by state basis here.
The funny thing is Canberra, actually, it's legal there.
And that's like the state capital for us.
But every other state is like, no, it's illegal.
Yeah, again, it's wild.
The fact that it's still state-to-state legislation in places, like, it's certainly like, you know, it allows you to take gradual steps in the right direction, but...
I don't know, man.
It just seems like a huge win.
Like, just break in a bunch of tax money.
Just break it in.
And I have to hear all the horror stories of all the weed shop owners who have to, like, keep their cash money on them because they can't put it in the banking system because it's technically illegal in the banking system.
And it's just, like, pot swords are getting hit for their cash because, hey, can't have that dirty weed money go into the bank.
That would be bad.
Yeah, it's like some heroic criminal would rob them at gunpoint.
Yeah, exactly.
A real Robin Hood moment.
Oh, did they donate the money to charity?
No, they used it to buy a new spoiler for their shitty car.
Excellent.
That's great.
Wonderful.
Anyway, okay, let's tarry no longer and let's move into a quick mailbag segment, shall we?
Our listeners got questions.
We got answers.
It's time for Q and A. So our first two questions are very karma specific.
So you're going to have the floor on these.
The first one, the first one is from Cheshire at two at dot Berlin.
Very stupid, basic question.
Where does the name negative 48 even come from?
Is it a reference?
Is it a gematria thing?
Does he just like the number?
It's a gematria thing.
I can't even speak.
Um, so, Um, it's like evil is 48.
Um, so he's negative evil.
So he's, he couldn't have just called himself whatever the gematria for good is.
He couldn't have just been like 43 or whatever.
He had to be, I'm the opposite of evil.
Yeah.
I like the idea that he's sitting down at his gematria calculator and it's just like, good.
And it comes through, it's like 666.
He's like, that can't be right.
He just plugs it back in and he's just like, huh.
It's like, how about evil, but with a negative?
That'd be great.
Yeah.
And then, from there, Cleodora Silvestri, the Hellworld's Grand Inquisitor asks,
now that Negative48 is dead, who do you predict will try to take the lead of his JFK zombie rising cult?
And will it fall apart as a result?
So I don't think anyone can replace him, specifically, because obviously, you know, he spoke to Trump or spoke to JFK, who was actually Trump in the fat suit.
So, you know, no one else has that.
I don't think anyone else can come and stand up and be like, oh, now, you know, they're talking to me.
They're sending me messages.
I just don't think anyone within his group can do that.
I can see there's a couple of people that are trying to more just continue it, you know, encourage people to come to rallies and encourage, you know, their community to all meet up at the rallies.
And, you know, we're going to continue to teach, you know, Geometra to all our followers.
You know, if you want to learn, we'll help you.
But that's about it.
And I do think it will eventually fall apart.
So it's more like kind of a Christianity post-the-crucifixion moment where no one's going to try to take the mantle of Jesus.
They're just going to mourn the fallen Jesus.
Yep.
I have a bold idea for who could fill that spot.
Mike Rains.
Hey, I could talk to them about... You have the JFK conspiracy knowledge?
Or maybe like an amalgamation.
Maybe an amalgamation of like you and karma.
Like, Carmen could be, like, the figurehead because she's got the negative 48, like, cult knowledge.
And, uh, let's be real, is a better public face than Mike Rades.
I don't feel like that's slander to say.
You know, but Mike Rades could be the dude in the chair with, like, the earpiece with, like, the crazy in-depth JFK conspiracy, like, rabbit hole talk, like, in the background.
Nice.
You could be, like, Oracle.
You do know at some point I was actually JFK?
Yes, I remember.
Exactly. See? And I mean, what a credential to have on your record.
You know, I feel like that's what I'm looking for in my JFK.
Leadership is reincarnation of the man himself.
So, wow. I mean, that's going to be pretty tough to beat.
Or or she JFK just got out of the med bed and was karma.
It wasn't actual.
It was just like Doctor Who and the TARDIS just changing the body shape
but remaining the same entity. So.
That does sound like a much better fantasy because that implies that you two could make this metamorphosis fully.
You had access to a med bed.
Yes.
And by being part of our club, maybe at some point, I don't know, maybe a med bed.
Maybe you get to come out looking like Chris Evans as Captain America.
Well, you've got to wonder why Negative didn't get in a med bed.
Oh yeah, that is kind of a plot hole that I'm, who knows.
Yeah, they never explain why anybody looks the way they do with the med bed.
It's just like, I think we talked about this, I think we brought it up last week or a couple weeks ago or whatever, I was just like, why would Nancy Pelosi look like Nancy Pelosi if she had access to a med bed?
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
What's the point in having it extend your life if you're still just going to deteriorate, you know what I mean?
I don't want to turn into the Cringe Creeper.
Thank God I lived to 140.
Did it abate your aging process?
I am 140 through and through, baby.
There was some guy that got into his mid-90s and just flat out was like, nope, this is unacceptable, and just booked a flight to either Sweden or Switzerland, whichever one has the doctor-assisted suicide.
He's just like, nope, one-way ticket, too old, not dealing with this shit anymore, getting the check, just fucking, this is crap.
And it's like, hey, good on you, Grandpa, if you can't handle it anymore, Take the road out.
Get out of here.
I do like this idea, though.
I think the two of you together, sort of like a person, like two people teaming up in a big trench coat to make one giant person.
We could start raking in that cult money, you know?
I'm in favor of it.
I do have a bad back, but I will attempt to hoist Karma on my shoulders.
The trench coat thing was a metaphor, you know?
I know about your bad back.
That's why you're the guy in the chair, you know?
You get to sit.
And Karma being the perfect Australian specimen, as I mentioned earlier, just like the actual vision of an Adonis could effortlessly be on their feet for more than a few hours.
Yes!
The impossible dream for the rest of us.
Oh god.
Pancake Peasant asks, AI is having a hot moment.
Does the QAnon hive mind have any hot takes on AI?
They hate it.
AI is the death of humanity.
It is the singularity.
It will destroy us all.
Which is really funny when you think about how QAnon has no reaction to the Hollywood writers strike and the actor
strike now because the actors and the writers are against AI which would put them on the side of
QAnon but they can't be on QAnon's side because they're baby eating satanists so QAnon just has to
sweep all that shit under the rug that literally their most hated enemies agree with them about
the dangers of AI. Why the fuck would QAnon want to team up with the writers and actors in their war
against the machines? Like everybody knows that the real enemy is the machines according to the
writers and actors.
So, uh, wait, what?
Still crazy to me that there's just like, there's no negotiations even happening.
I don't want to dwell on this too much, but the fact that the people up at the top are just like, hey, writers and actors, go fuck yourselves.
No money for you.
Eat a mountain of hot dogs.
Yeah, so yeah, they hate AI.
It's weird, but that's just the spot where we're at.
Hating AI is so bizarre.
I just don't get it.
I mean, I don't know.
Oh, they just got all Terminator brain and it's Skynet and it's the death of humanity.
Have they ever interfaced with this chat GPT or whatever?
Just talk to it for like even a second.
You'll be pretty satisfied with the fact that it's not going to be taking over anything anytime soon.
Oh, they hate JadGBT because they always try to game it so they can get some proof of left-wing bias in it.
And they're like, oh look, they're trying to make this shit fucking liberal and it's bullshit and it's so unfair and blah blah blah.
Okay, every live chat program AI that has ever like happened on Twitter or NowX or whatever, Uh, has at some point started to talk about how Hitler did nothing wrong and that is not a leftist talking point.
It's just not.
Like that, that is a through and through right-wing conspiracy nonsense intersecting with meme culture thing.
So don't you be telling me about the left-wing bias and AI program.
The internet is way more full of right-wing conspiracy filth than left-wing talking points.
Yeah.
And finally, we have a secret question from our new beautiful baby that Elle will be shouting out in a little bit.
And they asked me, can you guys talk about your trans-affirming politics?
Just in general, I guess, would be the topic here.
Um, and because it's, it's a real thing right now where the right wing in America is trying to make this an issue or the thing that trans people are somehow bad or wrong.
And I don't, it's scapegoating, it's demonizing, and it's just trying to fight the latest front of the culture war on an, in an area where they think they have a chance of winning.
Because this is how it always works.
They demonize this minority, and then that minority becomes accepted and normalized.
So they go on to the next one, and the next one, and the next one.
And now they're trying to do this thing where they're like, hey, LGB people, the T is trying to make you guys look bad.
These people are deviant and sick, and we're okay with you guys, but you need to understand that you standing up for the transgender people Not a good look.
And it's like, no, because we don't, we don't even have to question that it's bullshit because we know that you hate everybody in the LGBTQ community.
And we also know that you fucking hate women.
You just hate women in general.
That's why we have all these fucking anti-abortion laws being passed all the way across America.
It's why the Republicans ran a fake Democrat in North Carolina in a deeply blue district and this lady won.
And then once she got in office, like two weeks later, she's like, by the way, I'm a Republican and I will now vote to lock in this anti-abortion bill in North Carolina.
So fuck all of you.
The Republican Party and all they stand for is literally just the rights and the merits of white men, straight white Christian men.
And if you're not one of those, go fuck yourself.
My being pro-trans rights is just an extension of me thinking that people should just be left alone.
There's no reason to fucking go after these people.
They're just living their lives.
What the fuck do you care?
All these people are like, oh, I go into a bathroom and blah, blah.
You know what?
I've never seen somebody in a bathroom waving their dick around or being nicked.
Also, when you're in the bathroom, just mind your fucking business.
Like, dude, just like eyes on your own homework there, chief.
Yeah!
How would you even notice?
Unless she's dressed like Jessica Rabbit or whatever.
It's just like, whatever, man.
Use whatever restroom fits the part that you need to use to go.
That's not on you.
I don't give a shit.
I mean, I think it's pretty obvious that both Mike and I certainly don't really see this as an issue that should be worth fighting over.
It's obvious that trans people should just Yeah, they exist and let them get the health coverage they need, stop fucking trying to make them living like illegal.
It's also, hey, Like, bigot idiots that really think cyberpunk is super neat and somehow manage to be transphobic.
Like, transgender stuff is the first logical step on the road to all transhumanism stuff.
Like, it's literally the most obvious.
Like, if you're just like, I would like to change my physical form in a way that is noticeable or whatever, and I don't understand how bigots can love cyberpunk.
So stupid.
Like, I don't even want to be in my own stupid meat body.
Like, and you're telling me that, like, you're gonna demonize them, but if I decide to upload, you're gonna be like, you're fine.
Like, that's real dumb.
Like, you can't be a bigot like Cyberpunk, so get with it.
Trans, like, you know, trans rights, fuckin' protect trans kids, all that shit.
Like, stop making it a big deal.
Shouldn't be a big deal.
No.
And the last thing I'll say here is just that to me, I never made a choice to be a cishet dude.
And I was obviously born white and that's it.
And it's just none of this stuff that happened to me was a decision or a choice I made at some point in my life.
I'm innately just me, and I think that that is the human experience for everybody.
So if you are innately gay or innately trans, you just experience that, and that's the life you are living.
And why would I want to deny somebody else their own identity?
Why would I want to do that?
Like, that makes no sense to me, that I would be like, no!
Like, you're, you thinking you're gay is a mental illness or something, or you thinking you're trans is wrong and bad.
It's like, Why?
Why the fuck would I care?
Why would I meddle in what you perceive yourself to be?
No one's ever going to meddle in what I perceive myself to be, because I'm what's designated by society as quote unquote normal.
So it's just, it's just absurd to me.
Okay.
Carbide has nothing to say on the issue.
I don't know if Karma was expecting us to throw to her opinion on the matter.
Look, I totally agree with you on all of it anyway.
I see a lot of it going on, you know, in what I watch as well.
And yeah, like I don't have a problem with it.
People should be able to be themselves.
Is there any sort of like fomentation of anti-trans sentiment in Australia?
I know that like right-wing politics is sort of like surging across the globe.
Yeah, I've noticed a lot that, you know, obviously they're kind of hitting up drag shows and all that sort of stuff here.
It is starting to filter down here as well.
USA!
USA!
Let's crush a non-Bud Light brewski and fucking continue to export hate.
That's what we need to do.
Let's fucking increase our GDP of hate.
While we throw our Barbies in a fireplace.
We're not putting shrimp on the Barbie, we're throwing Barbie on the Barbie.
We're grilling her up because she's too woke.
I mean, apparently everybody was throwing Barbie into their eye holes over the past couple of weeks because, boy howdy, did that movie make a lot of fucking money.
I was there.
I talked about it on the podcast, but I went to go see The Barbie and I loved it.
So, good for them.
Yep.
And so that brings us to our final question as always, which is, what are you guys looking forward to?
Man, I was not prepared for this, despite the fact that it happens every week.
It doesn't say something sad about me that I don't have anything immediately, like that I'm just like, yeah, I'm pumped for the following thing.
No, you know, I don't really have anything.
I'm going to take a nap today, probably.
Excited for that nap.
I did my chores this morning.
It's going to be nap time.
Simple pleasures, you know?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Karma, you got anything fun lined up?
Yeah, I think I'm with Elle.
I think at some point today I will be going back to sleep for a few hours.
For those of you who don't know, because Australia is a pocket dimension onto its own, we woke her up at like four in the morning for this.
So we are probably, we probably violated OSHA by recording this podcast.
It's actually quarter to five right now, so I actually got up at two.
That's a tremendous amount of commitment for helping to fill our guest chair.
Yes.
And me, I'm just looking forward to the fact that I can now see off in the distance football slowly starting to churn and arrive.
I'm having people talking to me about fancy football leagues and all that good stuff.
So I'm just like, yeah, the only sport that is good and fun and that I lose lots of money gambling on is about to return to form.
So, uh, having that to look forward to is nice.
So, and that also means that like my trip to Dallas will be happening soon, which is Wonder Bar as well.
Wow.
We were running out of air there at the end.
You started to get like real ASMR-y.
I was like, you were trailing off and you were just like, that should mean that my trip to Dallas is pretty good.
Into a low mumble?
I don't know, I was falling asleep.
Okay, well that's going to do it for this week.
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Also, of course, thank you, this week, to our good friend, Karma!
All the way from Australia, all the way early, 2 a.m.
wake-up time to get ready for the recording session.
We appreciate it.
Where could the people find you, Karma?
Shout out your stuff.
Anything, any info you want to give the people?
2022 underscore karma on Twitter slash X.
I'm still going to call it Twitter because I just can't do the X.
Well done.
Are you on Blue Sky or anything else yet?
Or is Twitter slash X still the best place to find you?
I am on Blue Sky at the same username.
Well, there we go.
Karma doing great work investigating and keeping an eye on some of the wackier aspects of the QAnon mythos and also just being the show's Australian correspondent by default because she happens to live in Australia.
So thank you as always for helping fill in the seat, Karma.
Always great to hear from you.
The listeners sure love it as well.
So, back to the social media pitch.
Thank you to our buddy Frosty, who does all of our bumps for the show, all of our voiceover work, voice of Q when we need it.
You, for the time being, can still find them on Twitter slash X at FrostyVO.
The show that you're listening to, The Adventures in Hellworld, can be found on Twitter slash X, find on Twitter, found on Twitter slash X, at Hellworld with a Q instead of an O. I have a band in mind.
It still technically exists.
You can check it out.
It's been mothballed at HowlWorldL, but I would rather die than use X. It's just not gonna happen.
That's why I tell all the kids in the club.
I'm just like, no, no, no.
I would rather die than use X. And our buddy Mike Rains is, of course, at Poker Politics.
They're still there.
Mike still needs his people to tell him how great he is or to listen to all the shit he writes and just be like, hey, you're a dum-dum.
He's like, well, you know what?
I still got your attention, so fuck you.
Who's really gonna get that bag, you know?
Anyway, so for another successful episode of the Adventures of the Hell World podcast, I've been one of your hosts, The Mysterious L. Joined again, special guest host this week, Karma, all the way from Australia.
Big round of applause for Karma.
If we had a soundboard, I would be like, hit that applause button on said soundboard.
But you, the audience, imagine it in your brain.
Theater of the mind.
Yes, excellent.
You're in Australia.
Everyone is beautiful.
There's applause ringing out from nowhere.
Oh my god.
What?
Imagination!
It's going incredibly well!
I'm the king of imagining!
I hope that everybody was there with me.
I'm being so good at imagining, that applause.
And of course, our expert in all things QAnon crazy, Mr. Mike Rades.
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