This week Mike, Haley, and L talk about Elon's freak out over the block feature, Prigozhen getting blown up in Russia, a hate crime in California, and finally the GOP Debate and Trump's babble rabble with Tuck Tuck. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Adventures in Hellworld podcast talks in depth about QAnon, which means we have to talk about all kinds of child abuse and violence against people.
Listener discretion advised.
Hello, everybody.
I am My Grains, a.k.a.
Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
This week, I am joined, as always, by Haley, a.k.a.
Arizona Right Wing Watch.
Hello.
Happy Indictment Day.
Happy Mugshot Day.
Mugshot Day.
Mugshot Day, the most blessed of all days.
And also the mysterious Hell.
Hello, my beautiful babies.
Another beautiful day in Hellworld, isn't it?
Every day.
Truly one of the best days in Hellworld.
Cause, uh, we recorded this, we're recording this a day off schedule because we had so much stuff that was going to happen Wednesday night.
And we were hoping we were going to get the mugshot earlier today, but, uh, Donald Trump, because apparently he wants to make this a production has declared that 7 30 live the mugshot, like he's trying to control the narrative of the mugshot.
And so it's adorable.
That's it.
That's his move now.
I wouldn't exactly say I'm craving the mugshot.
I don't want to be thirsty like that.
I don't really give a fuck.
It's just like, ooh yeah, picture of some horrible looking old man's face.
Love it.
I'm excited for the t-shirts, the t-shirts that will be happening.
You know, there's already a bunch of the other crew.
Yeah, but I mean, like, I feel like it's just been enough people have even just been talking about it online.
Surely some some member of Trump's cronies were just like, hey, you know, people are going to be merchandising these shirts no matter what.
We should probably do that.
Oh, they're absolutely going to do it.
It's going to be the best.
It's hard to be excited for the shirt because I know that, like, at least one out of every two people that's wearing it is going to be some Trumper goon.
Oh, yeah, they're gonna they're gonna try to like reclaim the mugshot.
They're gonna try to take it away from the libs.
We're taking it back.
Yep.
Damaged on the forehead.
Yes.
Trump's the shittiest Joker.
That'd be so funny.
I'm not gonna kill you.
I'm just gonna hurt you real bad.
Great.
Remember that scene in that movie?
Oh, wait, no?
No.
Weird.
No.
That's very bizarre.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I love how like, I'm like 20% of a Jared Leto Joker apologist.
We went over this on the bingeworthy podcast.
We talked about it.
Like, I don't like Jared Leto.
He seems like a shitheel.
And what we got on the screen was clearly awful.
But they filmed a lot of that Joker stuff and everything about that movie was terrible.
So I feel like maybe there's like a halfway decent interpretation of that style of Joker in there.
I don't know.
I'm not a fan of the movie or any of them.
Oh, I mean, it was incredibly awful, except for, but, you know, it gave us Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn.
She's been riding that and, you know, she started to come in.
We like that.
I'm seeing Barbie tomorrow.
It's happening.
Oh, shit.
It's happening.
Let me show you my shit.
Hold on.
Are you going to give us a little twirl?
You're grabbing shoes off the floor for the in-media res for the listeners at home.
Do you like my do you like my Barbie shoes?
Oh my god, they're actually quite nice.
Do you have a coordinating pink outfit for those?
Uh-huh.
Do you have a coordinating pink AR-15 for those?
No, unfortunately not.
What kind of an American are you?
And moreover, what sort of Arizonan are you?
I will not describe how many guns that I own, but I don't have an AR-15.
I mean, well, like, for the listener at home, you have an assortment of deadly weapons on your on your back wall.
There's like a trident and two different types of spears crossed over like a like a ram's skull.
Yeah, you've got like a Mortal Kombat style like murder, murder fan from the from the Mysterious East.
It says make me come again, instead of, you know, make America great again.
I got it at a I got it at a drag event.
I mean, that had to be where it came from, because otherwise, I mean, that seems like a weird way to communicate that signal to somebody.
Like, you're mid-passionate lovemaking or whatever, and you're just like, oh my god, that was great.
But instead of... but verbally, you're gassed out.
For whatever reason, you have enough in the tank to wave your arm around, so you just bust out the fan like a debutante.
I just thought it was funny.
Oh, no, it's great.
I can't wait to go to my first drag show.
My friends have been waiting to find a good one.
They want to take me to, like, a Dynamite one, and I think they found it, but they only do big elaborate shows seasonally, so I think my friends are waiting to take me to the Halloween Extravaganza.
Last year they went, and it was supposed to be great.
That sounds fun.
I very much am into the idea of drag.
As I've become a grown adult, I've realized that I am definitely not 100% straight.
That's just not a thing.
For me, personally, I'm sure there's some people out there that identify that way and bully on you.
But for me, I was just like, I thought I got all that stuff out of my system when I was a lad.
But sometimes I'll see a person that makes me feel kind of way.
You never stop discovering yourself, you know?
It's constant growth.
Yeah, I'm gonna go blind if I keep discovering myself whenever I get constant growth.
Anyway, that's enough of those questions.
That's a case of the juiciest fruit hangs the lowest.
Normally we do 10 minutes of Rampant, but we have a bunch of shit to cover this week, so let's go into our one.
That was a nice positive intro.
Yeah, dude.
Sex positive?
Hey man, you know?
Self-love.
Find wherever you are in the sexuality spectrum and, you know, stick the landing.
You know, you deserve it.
Love yourself.
And others, if they consent.
Anyway.
On to the boosh.
Okay, the boosh is only one topic this week, and therefore, here is a special drop.
It's the segment on the show everyone hates to do, and we're sorry, but we need to talk about Elon.
Okay, that rocks.
A little classic fucking Phantom of the Opera there in the background.
Good work.
Who made that?
What is that new?
Man, shout out.
Sing once again for me!
I love fandom.
So extra.
Me too.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes did a cover.
If anyone is a punker, shout out.
Well, okay.
Rewind the boosh.
Now we're talking about this.
First of all, yes, I do co-sign on Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and their delightful covers of various stuff.
I don't know if I want to call it punk music.
I mean, you know, it's like pop punk, you know?
It's like part NoFX sometimes.
Fat Mike's sometimes in there.
Also pop punk, I know.
I guess, look, and I know, hey, I love pop punk, and I know I'm not supposed to gatekeep, but I actually kind of like gatekeeping, so just ignore me.
If you don't like the shit on stage, just fucking ignore me.
Who am I?
Listen, I don't like Green Day, so we all have opinions, you know?
That being said, I don't really like any of that commercial pop punk shit.
What do you like?
Leftover crack?
You like a star fucking hipsters kind of guy?
You like anal cunts?
What's your jive?
That stuff's too hardcore for me.
I'm more into The Irvs, Houseboat, Dead Mechanical, Snuggle.
Uh, Masked Intruder, just trying to think of stuff off the top of my head.
I have like a, I have an old iPad.
I'm one of those cats who has like an iPod Touch that I keep around just because my punk savvy buddy broke me off like 250 gigs of like obscure-ass punk music at one point.
You're the best guy at the punk show too because you're big.
Oh yeah.
Several of the small capacity shows I've been at, I've gotten the look from the bouncers that are working there that are just like, pleading for some sort of help.
And they know I can't do much, but I think all they're just like, hey, could you just stand there and be large and immovable for me?
And I'm just like, yeah, man, I got you.
Shout out punks!
Shout out to true punks and also fake punks.
Sorry, I like me first.
No, I don't like me first.
It's just I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't like if somebody was like, hey, like, I would get it.
You're cool.
And I wouldn't be like, be first to the gimmick.
But, you know, that's that's that Kennedy's shout out, Mike.
I mean, yeah, but what's your favorite punk band, you know?
Oh god, do I have absolutely nothing in this genre?
I mean... Oh, it's just Gordon Gates and Sardines.
Is that Bob?
Can I do Blackpink?
Is that even in the ballpark?
I have no idea.
Yeah, sure.
You like the intersection of Pop Punk and Power Pop?
You listen to some of the Exploding Hearts?
Dude, I fucks with this shit.
I got real recommendos.
Anyway, okay, let's Tivo back to where we were before.
The opposite of punk, Elon.
The opposite of punk, Tivo.
Yes, Elon Musk, the TiVo of people, in that he used to be relevant and now he's just hemorrhaging money until he goes away.
Elon Musk, in his most recent unpopular decision for the platform Twitter, because it has no other name, has decided to do away with the block button, and that has caused this efficient shitstorm that we're going to cover on the show, because every stupid decision that Elon makes is good for us.
So Mike, what's going on with Elon blocking the block?
So Elon decided that he was just going to do away with the block feature for God knows what reason, probably because he was mad at somebody blocking him and it made him sad.
Because I blocked him.
HuffPo editorially for listening to this, I've got the headline for you.
Attack of the block.
Boom.
There you go.
That's free.
Yeah, that's about your level of headline generation.
So there you go, chips.
You can take that one for free.
It's gratis, you know?
So Elon did all this.
He basically made the announcement that he was going to get rid of the block feature.
Literally everyone threw a fit.
And this is not just your typical whiny libs.
There were plenty of QAnon promoters that were like, Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Our boy, Clandestine, aka Sex God Rod, was like, Elon, buddy, amigo, you don't understand.
I have immaculate... Okay, sorry, I have to pause you there for a second.
I have to hit you with a friend check.
That person you just mentioned, they have two names, and one of them seems like it gives them a sort of power.
I think we can drop the AKA there.
I know that he's known by two monikers, but that person should never be called Sex God again.
It's over for that.
The moratorium on Sex God Rod.
This is the last time you'll ever hear of Sex God Rod.
He's now known as whatever the other name was.
So-called.
Sex.
So-called.
God.
So-called.
Rod.
Oh yeah, no.
Yeah, we're gonna do some community notes on this day, whatever we do.
Community notes.
He is probably not a sex god.
No, the reason why I call him that is mocking, because before he became quote-unquote famous because he went viral, because he was basically the first Major QAnon promoter or major shitbag to promote the idea that Ukraine had biolabs that were generating COVID and shit.
And that became his claim to fame that got him some level of internet notoriety.
But before that, he was your typical QAnon promoting sack of shit and At some point between Biden winning the election and Biden taking office, he posted this whiny screed on Twitter where he talked about how he hooked up with a chick and then while that chick was on top of him,
She looked at him and said, you didn't vote for Trump, did you?
And... Real.
Definitely happened.
Oh, everything that happened in this thread is 100% absolutely real and authentic.
All of it totally existed.
And he wordlessly pushed her off of him, got dressed and left the room as she freaked out about why he was vacating the premises, apparently like in the middle of sex, but now he couldn't finish the deed because She questioned the God Emperor or something.
And then he proceeded to listlessly traipse about Washington D.C.
while basically having a psychotic break, seeing a shooting star.
And then he communicated with God, and God told him, don't you worry, Trump will still be in office after January 20th.
And apparently God's a real kidder, because no, Biden became president on January 20th.
So that's how that actually worked out.
Okay, I love that for him, and I love that for you.
But that being said, that's still like a hard line to toe, because without the benefit of that mountain of context, that name still seems pretty... We'll just tell the story every time.
That'd be like if you were hanging out with your friends and your nemesis walked in and you're just like, there he is.
Satisfying Pipe Down Danny.
And everyone's just like, oh shit, that guy must be great.
And you're just like, no, it's ironic.
It's ironic and I have to give you an anecdote to explain why.
Just put it on a big hat.
I would love to be called Satisfying Pipe Down L. Even if it was ironic, I feel like I would catch enough flies even with it being ironic that people would just be like, oh shit, is it true?
And I'd be like, no, I'm fat and out of shape, so probably not.
It's ironic, I have to tell you an anecdote.
Anyway, back to Elon Musk, a guy who is also not a dynamo in the sack.
No.
So, anyhow, a bunch of people, including QAnon promoters, were very upset at the idea of having the block feature turned off on them, because they don't want to have people like me and other normies yucking their yum and crashing their threads and talking shit to them.
So this- I'm blocked by like, half the AZGOP including the official AZGOP account.
You can't block me now, loser!
Yes!
How you fuckin' doin'?
You got me so thick and satisfying, ironically!
I'm blocked by like, half the AZGOP, including the official AZGOP account.
So it would be nice.
I never used the platform enough to block too many people, but most of them I blocked for being like, actual Nazis,
or like, real close to Nazi of Jason.
It was people I found out that were, like, hate listening to the show or whatever, or at least hate reading some comments on tweets.
Every once in a while, somebody busted there just to be like, ugh, like...
Some stupid thing about your opinion and I'd be like, who the fuck is this?
Oh, like Glock Eagle 88.
Okay, cool.
Well, either you love guns and you were born in 1988 or it's worse than that.
So either way, Kerblock!
Also, if you like, talk about Jewish, like violence against Jewish institutions or anti-Semitism or violence against trans people on the timeline.
A lot of times you get a lot of weirdos who are like, hey, look at this picture of a Wojak of a trans person being killed.
Isn't that funny?
And it's like, you're blocked.
You're blocked.
And they like to do it to like people in your comments because they're trolls.
And Elon is enabling trolls.
That's what he's doing here.
At this point, I mean, so I once again don't want to give the man too much credit, but with each decision being somehow worse than the last, I have to ask again, is he tanking it?
Is he resurrecting the 30 Rock failed show tanking it?
It feels like that.
I mean, it's so bizarre that- It seems like a more and more of a The Producer situation every time.
Like, I just barely use it now.
It seems like he's in a room somewhere just being like, okay, it's illegal for me to just literally light it on fire.
So how can I just make everyone think it's on fire and leave of their own accord?
It's so strange.
And as Haley brought up, Cat Turd and Elon ended up having a fight to the point where Elon blocked Cat Turd.
And then Elon blocked a bunch of people.
And then Elon made a post where he was just like, oh, shoes on the other foot now, ain't it, motherfucker?
Ooh, I'm blocking people!
And everyone was like, Elon, this is not an own.
This is not a win.
You could always do that, but- Way to illustrate the perfect example of why the feature should continue to be a part of the platform.
You did not want to hear what those people were saying to you, and they wouldn't stop.
So you clicked a button, and you didn't have to deal with them anymore.
Right!
So dumb!
And as a bunch of people have brought up, both on the Apple App Store and on Google Play, social media platforms have to have a block feature as part of Terms of Service to be put on those platforms to be downloaded.
So if he did decide to turn off the block feature, he would then have to do something, somewhere, somehow to placate Google and Apple to keep They were talking about making Mute more powerful in some way.
of address that. Like I feel like I saw a like a post in an article somewhere where
he was just like, well, actually, there's still going to be this feature that lets you
do a thing. So it still lets you moderate the content. So we can totally get around
that. It's fine.
Yeah, he there were talking about making mute more powerful in some way, like you wouldn't
be able to block but mute would be extra strong. Which what are you doing?
You're literally breaking something that isn't broken and then trying to fix it with a suboptimal fix.
You know, we're no longer allowing stab.
Stab is too powerful.
It gets into your organs too efficiently.
So what we're going to do is we're going to make knife punch stronger.
So now knife punch will be very good, but you will not get to stab anyone.
Because I mean, how powerful can you make a mute before it's just blocked?
You know what I mean?
Like, mute already means I don't listen to you.
Like, would mute plus be like, I don't listen to you and I don't have to see you?
That sounds like fucking block to me, I don't know.
Right, it's so dumb.
It is the most bizarre thing I can imagine someone wasting time and energy on because you just didn't want to back down from the fact that removing block was a stupid idea.
And he's just like, oh, but getting rid of Block doesn't matter because we're going to have Mega Mute, which, why?
You can just leave things as they are.
He's going to make it a paid feature.
Oh, that'd be so great.
Oh, yeah.
Do you pay to Block?
But my initial question, so my question aside from whether or not is Elon Musk secretly tanking it is, assuming that this is like on purpose and for realsies, who hurt Elon?
Who hurt Elon?
Journalists.
Who hurt Elon and Blocked him and now he has to have a justification to just make it so that their Blocks don't work no more?
That would be Grimes.
She probably blocked him for a little bit and he was like, nope!
Definitely seems like the sort of tantrum a fucking petulant billionaire would throw over some girl.
Grimes is the logical choice because somehow she let him hit it at least twice, which is incredibly gross and dissatisfying because some of her music is catchy, but fuck her.
I think she's kind of into him still.
She's an awful person, I think.
She's the worst.
Whatever.
You can like our music.
It's fine.
I listen to, you know, like the Smiths sometimes, you know, it's fine.
He, Morrissey is a bad person, but it's, and it's like, you can like the music, but Grimes, holy fucking shit, man.
Those politics are some dog shit on top of dog shit, but you can like the music.
It's fine.
We all have, we all have problems.
Has she done that debate yet about feminism failing women yet?
Dude, I think that's literally this weekend and nobody, nobody ever hit me up that they were like, hey Haley, you want to go to that?
Nope.
I don't have enough clout.
I mean, it's like a trap to just be like, hey, does anyone out there want to admit to being interested in this anti-feminism symposium?
I'm interested to go see what they say because I think that stuff is interesting.
Oh no, I believe you.
I believe that you're acting in good faith.
Do you know what I do?
You know, that's kind of what I do.
I go to Turning Point USA events and write about them.
I just don't believe you!
Okay, I know, I know.
I'm just letting you know.
Well, we're getting to know each other a bit through this podcast.
That's true.
I didn't really know shit about you except for the three guest spots we did, so that's fine.
But I do want you to know that you are not being attacked.
Yeah.
But yeah, God, fucking Grimes sucks.
I don't even remember the point I was making, because we just started talking about it.
Oh yeah, Hulan!
So Grimes would be the logical step, but I really hope that it's, like, I hope it was SPFs, like X, and that, like, once that was started falling apart, like Elon, because Elon admitted to being attracted to her.
So, like, I could imagine it being, like, sliding into the DS and just be like, hey, I hear you like, uh, not conventionally attractive billionaires who seem to have a lot of issues.
So, uh, what's good?
And she was just like, no, block.
And he was just like, you know what?
Block's over forever.
No blocks for anyone.
Every day he probably gets, he probably notices because he's, you know, he sees everything on the back end and he probably notices some people that he has blocked and he's like, fuck this!
You know, he gets mad.
He's like, he's, he's like, why does this person have me blocked?
A lot of girls, probably a lot of, he doesn't like it when girls have him blocked, like Grimes.
So yeah.
Maybe he's trying to, he's, he's trying to reattract Trump to the platform and he's like, see Trump, like you come back to X, nobody could block you.
You'd be a blockable.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Look, see, all of these are reasons that he could have for doing the things he does, when the actual truth is probably that he's just a big dumb idiot.
He's just a big stupid moron, and he just makes baby tantrum moves at a whim.
Whoever it was that blocked him and pissed him off, it was probably in the middle of some dumb debate that he was getting his ass handed to a man, because I've never seen anyone with such a huge platform be so bad at debate in my life.
And they blocked him, and he felt like that was an L, and he was like, you know what?
No, you may not block me.
I need to continue to get dunked on by you.
He probably jumped on his little burner account where it's like Elon Musk's kid or whatever that thing was that people figured out was probably actually him.
Wikipedia defines treason as it is just like, okay, look, you know, we're four words in or whatever and I already hate what you're saying, so please stop.
You do not have to type all of that.
Wow, what a clown.
God, I love him to death.
I mean, if only that were actually working in the literal sense, because I don't like him.
But talking about him is a hoot and a holler, and it's certainly more light and fluffy than the rest of the horrible shit we get to talk about this week, which is why it's in the boosh.
But I don't really think there's any further delaying it, especially because I, personally, am on a recording time limit.
So let's go ahead and get to our juicy headline.
Mike Rains, as always, give me headlines.
From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News!
Excellent.
Our sloppy toppy headline, uh, going going pregone is what I have written here.
It turns out that if you run afoul of Vladimir Putin, you probably shouldn't round up your whole posse of your closest officials and take a like a twin engine aircraft.
Overrushed airspace, because sometimes things, even Dark Brandon could have predicted what happened to you.
Yeah, that was funny.
Oh, that was the greatest part of it.
We'll get into it.
Let me toss it over to Mike Rades for the deets.
Mike Rades, tell us who exploded in an airplane accident today.
Oh, in a total accident in a plane, Pergosen, our hero that staged the 24-hour coup against Vladimir Putin.
Nazi.
He's a bald Nazi fuck.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just saying.
I don't want to be... I'm just letting them... Haley says, when are the Nazis not heroes as well?
I'm just... I want to be clear.
He's a bald Nazi fuck and a couple other bald Nazi fucks went boom with him.
There are no heroes in this little fight.
This is like... I don't know.
Who are two people that suck, Mike, that fight?
If they were to fight, you'd be like, I don't give a fuck.
Yeah, exactly!
They could both fucking kill each other for all I care with, like, two, boom, punch, knock each other out cold.
They're kind of soft bodies, so they just kind of die both, you know?
It'd be fine, I don't care.
He's dead Nazi, there's a bunch of dead Nazis.
Anyways, you can go back.
Back away!
I want to see Elad and Zuck do, like, that slap fighting.
You know how there's like professional slap fighting?
Power slap, yeah.
I want to see them do power slapping because there's just no getting around that.
You're just getting hit in the face.
You're getting hit in the face real hard.
You see that?
It's where babies fight.
Yeah, there was a- That sounds like deep web shit.
So, as I was- I got a live stream for you.
Yep.
As I was going to say before RabbitDogHaley jumped all over me and bawled me.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I was going to say the official editorial stance of the Hellworld Podcast is that Purgos is a piece of shit.
He is a good monster.
But what Ellen said previously, there was this scene in Deadwood where the major crime boss and the sheriff are in a brutal fight.
And the secondary crime boss, who hates both of them, looks out from his balcony and says, awful possibility in such fights is that both men sustain mortal injury.
So yes, just...
I would have totally been awesome if somehow the plane had crashed into the Kremlin and killed Putin in the process.
That would have been sick.
That would have been awesome.
That would have been the ultimate finish there.
But sadly, Pergosen, this moron, decided not to finish his coup and then thought he was all good with Vladdy Daddy.
He pardoned me!
It's like, we were good enough, right?
I turned around.
Putin broke him off a shitload of cash and pardoned him.
He was like, dude, it's cool.
We're straight, me and you.
They bro-grabbed.
And, you know, Pergosen leaned in and was just like, bro, I'm sorry about your secret blood cancer.
And Putin was like, shut up!
It was like, okay, bye.
And then on the back of it, there was a sign that said, kick me and in parentheses said, or blow up the jet I'm in with all of my personnel.
Yes.
Yeah.
And so there was a moment, there was a bit of like, for a couple hours, there were people who were like, Hey, wait a minute.
This is Russia saying this.
We need more confirmation than just them.
So sad to hear of death of this treacherous piece of shit, anyway.
Wagner group admitted that Perkozyn was dead, international news covered it, and then eventually
Vladimir Putin came out and was like, oh, Perkozyn, he was a great guy, so sad to hear
about it. You know, them's the breaks.
So sad to hear of death of this treacherous piece of shit, anyway. Okay.
Yeah.
Back to how our special conflict in Ukraine is doing just good.
Everybody is doing well.
All of your sons will be home soon.
Yes.
Back to being a piece of shit myself.
Nothing but shit.
You know?
Everything about Russia kind of sucks.
They're very bad.
They have a good history, man.
There's good architecture, you know?
I would have liked to visit it before the war just for the historical stuff, but it's like, well, now you can't.
No, now you might get caught up in some shit, you know, and if you saw Putin on the street, you'd have to, you'd have to fucking like, you'd have to be like, boo, and then you get arrested, right?
At least boo.
I like how Haley decided to avoid getting thrown out a window there.
She's like, if you saw Putin on the street, you would boo at him.
Yeah, you definitely boo at the least.
Yes, that would be the official hell world stances at the least.
Yeah, I mean, we're also big huggers around here.
Sometimes you just have to talk about how nice it would be to just hug somebody just until they went peacefully to sleep forever.
Hey, you're a big guy.
Sometimes it just happens.
Yeah, with your love.
You just want to embrace them with so much love that they never wake up again.
Yeah, so we're big huggers here.
That's how we show our affection.
This is a good episode.
We're being good.
We're being good.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I feel like another telltale sign that he was dead was when he didn't immediately release a video being like, I'm not dead.
And in fact, coo back on.
Like, you know, yeah, it was just like, I feel like it's like, oh, as somebody who commands a great number of military forces, I feel like your first order of business when your death is being widely reported would be to say, yo, I am not dead, actually.
Actually, we got you with tactics, and you bombed some random person who was using my name.
But no, it was him and all of his, like, top brass or whatever, him and his buds.
Him and just a bunch of people that were important to the Wagner Nazi Military Corporation, you know?
Yeah, dudes with, like, swastika tattoos.
Like, you, you're out.
Yeah.
You're out of here.
Crab dance.
So, you know, we're not exactly broken up about the airplane accident, but it is a tragedy when an aircraft Accidentally has issues in the air and then plummets to the ground already on fire.
It's a very common accident.
There was a story which was faked on Russia Today, but people started circulating it so it was real, where Russian propaganda claimed that the pilot for Percozen had a heart attack.
They had myocarditis.
The vaccine for Percozen.
Vax?
Yes, Vax.
That was the joke that people were running with, but Russia Today did not actually post that.
I like second planers.
Did you see second planers?
Yes, there was a second plane and then maybe Pergrosen was on it.
Yeah, but I was, I thought that was funny because it's like, well, if they missed, I don't think he's still, I don't think he's going to make it once he lands anyway.
I think he's never going to be like, oh man, nevermind.
Darn!
We only had the manpower to blow up one plane.
There's no way we could send a squad of people to the location where the other plane landed and kill you there.
No.
Yeah.
If you land the plane, you live.
It's like baseball where being in the sky is like running towards the base, but once you land, you're on the base and you're safe.
You're just safe.
Assassination missed.
Yep, no assassination.
You're safe.
That's why not a lot of people play Russian rules baseball, you know?
Right, exactly.
It's a very dangerous game.
Yes.
Just real life hitman.
So let's go ahead and hypothetically assume that foul play caused this plane accident.
Just real life hitman.
Let's assume it was a plane intentional.
Are there any tinfoil hat theories?
Because the first thing my mind jumped to when I heard about it was, I was like, first of all, obviously Putin just killed this guy with a bomb on a plane.
That seems pretty obvious.
Good on him, I guess.
You know, again, I wanted to see them meet each other from the beginning, so I'm glad that one of them is dead.
Hugged.
He's sufficiently hugged.
And is sleeping.
But, you know, like, my second thought was, you know, it would be really funny if Ukraine did this.
Because everyone on planet Earth will just be like, Putin killed that guy.
Obviously, Putin fucking killed that guy.
What the fuck?
And then the Wagner group's gonna be like, obviously Putin killed him.
We should go kill Putin.
And like, just hoping that they'll get the Wagner group, like, to march on Moscow under new leadership again.
Yeah.
That'd be funny.
Yeah, like, uh, because Zielinski did do an interview and he was just like, look, we had nothing to do with it.
It would be really awesome if he had said, we had nothing to do with it, and then you just gave a ridiculous wink.
Wink.
He did the literal Agatha Harkness wink from the video.
I'll do you one better.
He does the people's eyebrow.
Yes, yes, exactly.
I wonder how many people who know The Rock remember that the people's eyebrows started off as the move he did, the signal he gave when he turned heel, and everybody was supposed to hate him.
But instead, it made people love him even harder.
Oh, that Rock in his charisma 18.
Ah, that's going to be so awesome when we're having the 2028 presidential election between Tucker Carlson and The Rock.
It's just going to be like, man, you thought American politics was dumb?
Now, boy, just wait four years.
It's going to get better and better.
We've talked about it on the podcast before.
Surprisingly, a lot of people who listen to the podcast must think I'm this huge wrestling fan when I am totally not.
But again, we've talked about the podcast before.
Even if it was a tiebreak, it came down to a tiebreak between the two.
Who can take a stunner better?
You know?
Donald Trump couldn't get stunned for shit.
So, you know, even if it was 50-50 there, Sleepy Brady gets it out.
I'm sure he could sell it better.
Like, we didn't make him test it, but we, you know, we can make Tuck test it.
That'd be great.
You, take a stunner.
Let's see what you got.
He just sells it wildly.
Japanese hardcore style.
He's writhing around.
I think he comes out with his own bucket of thumbtacks.
It's like, oof.
Oh my goodness.
The Rock.
Rest in peace, Terry Funk.
Yes.
Not a wrestling fan.
I do promise this.
Former wrestling fan.
Oh, man.
I have received more scorn from Elle over actually being a follower of wrestling than anything else in my life.
Do you like Lucha?
Lucha's fine.
Okay, also, for the record, that was like 10 years ago, Al.
Modern Al has gotten to the point where it's just like, I see the appeal of wrestling.
It's just not for me.
But watching the pageantry of it, and the storylines, and especially some of the cool stuff coming out of Japan that I hear about, I'm like, all right, yeah, I totally get it.
It's not for me, but I get why you guys like it.
It's like, I watch a bunch of dumb fucking anime that are terrible, and I know they're bad shows, but they hit right, you know?
They scratch an itch.
Yeah.
There's a food truck that's near me that is Taco Libre and they got a luchador mask and all the good stuff.
Mike's over here talking about food trucks, so off topic.
What a loser.
Do you guys got good Mexican food on that side of the country?
Is it delicious?
Oh, you mean on the on the Beast Coast?
Yeah.
No, no.
I mean, we have serviceable stuff, but absolutely not.
Not compared to California or Texas.
Get out of here.
Or presumably Arizona.
Arizona's good.
Yeah, but I mean, no.
Like, having been to the places where good Mexican lives, like we have serviceable Mexicans.
Okay.
Yeah.
The other conspiracy theory that I have seen from this is that Burgosin has faked his death and is now in the wind.
That this was just the way Putin and Russia wrote him out of the script, and he's now going to enjoy his life on some tropical island with his immense wealth.
He's in Argentina.
Oh yeah.
Honestly, this would be a pretty good way for Putin to, like, quote-unquote pardon the guy and save face.
You give that meeting and you're just like, look, dickhead.
We're gonna cut you a big check.
And then you're gonna tell your men to fuck off, and then we're gonna fake your death, and you're gonna fuck off forever.
Or, we're just gonna kill you.
And you're just like, okay, bet.
I'll take the check and the fake death, and then that will be cool.
And Putin's just like, alright, thank you for your previous service, and also thank you for stabbing me back here at the goal line, you dickhead.
And get the fuck out.
Yeah, so we will see what Wagner actually does about having their leader being murdered by Putin.
There's been mutterings on the internet about Wagner Group being like, we need a minute to recalibrate and figure out what we're going to do.
They should follow their leader.
We need to take some time to continue destroying Africa.
Yes, exactly, exactly.
Yeah, they're like, we don't know if we actually want to like try to go both up with Putin
because that probably won't work out. Do we just want to continue being warlords and not Russia?
I mean, there's a lot of options here. Our plate is full.
So the world is big.
Yes.
All right, guys, who's ready to transition to our next scoop of bummer ice cream on the banana
bummer split of the week?
This is a comedy?
Is this a comedy show?
I mean, hey, blame Mike Rains.
He's the one who wanted to talk about QAnon and QAnon-adjacent stuff.
I would actually like to hear what they're saying about this.
Okay, everybody, trigger warning, prepare for some insightful... or not insightful, just a bummer.
It's a bummer moment.
It's a comedy show.
So there was a hate murder.
Over a pride flag, which of course is a sentence that I would just get like so many conservative idiots just mad turgeon.
A mother of nine.
Holy shit, really?
Wow.
Yes.
A cis straight woman, because because hate affects us all.
All right.
You know, it hurts allies.
It hurts, you know, transphobia, hurts cis people, you know, a gender nonconforming looking People it's it's a this is why you have to be radically cool and love all people because this is what hate festers and fuck this dude.
And obviously thoughts of this woman's huge family, who she was a 66 year old.
She had nine kids, so I'm sure she's got a lot of grandkids.
This is that that shop must have been fucking doing numbers, fam.
That shop must have been fucking nine kids.
Running your own business?
That shit must have been poppin'.
I don't even know what sort of store it was.
It sounds cool.
They had a pride flag up.
It shows that they are typically probably approachable, cool business owners.
Also, nine kids?
Holy shit.
Calm down.
Yeah.
So Laura Ann Carlton was the name of the woman, the person who killed her, I will not name because fuck them.
And so she had, there had been incidents before where people had been upset about the pride flag and she had said, you know, I'm just going to keep flying this thing because I want to show people that I have solidarity with the LGBTQ plus community, that I support them and that I am an ally.
And.
Also, didn't this go down in someplace that's pretty blue, generally?
It was California.
It was like two hours out of LA, I think, right?
Yeah, sounds right.
Close-ish.
Yeah.
I remember when I was reading it, I was just like, really?
In that state?
But I couldn't remember which one.
For whatever reason in my head, I thought it may have been Massachusetts.
But no, California makes sense, too.
Yeah.
So, the person who killed her ran away, and then cops tracked them down, and then the cops killed the guy.
This feels like the kind of thing that was like suicide by cop.
I mean, I have no idea about that being what actually happened.
Yeah, but basically this guy, his social media was uncovered, and it was just full of anti-trans, anti-gay rhetoric and hatrel bullshit.
He reposted a bunch of shit from Illuminati bot, which is one of the major just QAnon adjacent, if not
directly QAnon, conspiracy theory peddling bullshit, like accounts. And so
all that stuff was going around on the internet. And on top of that, he also was on
Gab where his pinned Gab was, we need to stop compromising with the LGBTQ dictatorship
and not let them take over our lives.
Stop accepting this abomination that the government is forcing us to submit to.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The last quote of it reads directly, I like women, not men.
And that just screams out to me that this guy is repressed.
Like, you don't have to say that.
That is just something that a person would just believe.
When you write it out, it just so tells me that this guy was just battling himself and just couldn't accept who he was.
And it's just like, damn, I mean, this shit just poisons people and it's brutal that way.
He was also a fan of, like, Matt Walsh and Libs of TikTok.
That cannot be left unsaid.
And then when they were called out for it, they were like, uh, people are trying to pin us to this because we call out this disgusting groomer pride flag just doubling down.
Fucking absolute fascist pieces of shit.
Just like blood on their hands, you know?
It's like, it's like, oh, we didn't stir up enough bomb threats throughout the year.
Now we're, now we got, now we're just gonna, uh, Basically take, you know, no issue with the murders that we're stirring up.
Like, I don't know.
I cannot say the word.
I always say it's like stochastic terrorism and people correct me.
So, but yeah, but it's just that it's just, these people are creating an environment for people to do this stuff.
They're just inciting hatred against groups.
And then they play stupid.
Like they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Oh, or I mean, in a way to me, it's like, Like being like, well, that flag's a groomer flag and it's bad, but at least on some level they're admitting to a conflict because every time something like this happens, QAnon is just like, MKUltra sleeper agent, not one of ours.
Don't know what you're talking about.
And then the person has nothing but right wing and QAnon shit on their timeline.
And they're just like, nope, MKUltra sleeper agent.
Not one of our community, just like we were talking about this before, but how the Q Shaman wasn't really Q-ing on when they threw him in jail for the January 6th riots, and now he's Q-ing on again because Tuk Tuk said he was cool.
But the fact that these people always disown those who commit the violence they want to see happen.
All of these people want to see this shit happen.
All of these people are awful.
Yeah, there's no way they actually believe it, or at least not most of them, at least not to start.
You know, they could probably be convinced by the bad actors or whatever, but generally they just have to say that, because to say the other thing they know would get them in hot water, and they're cowards.
They're just like, all of us, we're the red wave.
All of us, you know, Trump, overwhelming victory.
Everybody loves, everybody secretly loves the Republicans and all of our policies.
Everybody loves it.
And it's just like, okay, well then why don't you just band together and start doing and saying the stuff that you actually feel and want to do?
And they're just like, well, because then we'll get in trouble.
It's just like, by the minority, and you give a shit, and they're like, uh, yes.
For reasons that we will discuss never.
Oh yeah, that kind of weak shit where it's like, well, we do believe these things, but they won't ever happen.
Um, that was something that happened on the debate, uh, last night where Nikki Haley was like, look, we all hate abortion and want to outlaw it, but we're never going to get 60 votes in the Senate.
And it's just that mentality where you're like, well, what we actually want to inflict upon you is terrible, but don't worry good American citizens.
It won't happen.
And it's like, no, I do worry.
I do worry that you want to do that shit to me.
Although it does seem like a pretty good way to recruit new blue voters, to just have the red leadership just being like, you know, we'd love to make sure that women aren't allowed to drive cars anymore because they're bad at it anyway.
But we'll never be able to do it as long as people continue to vote Democrat.
So what are we going to do?
When word of that gets out, it might, people might be like, Oh man, I should probably vote Democrat.
Cause I'm a woman who would like to drive a car.
So strange.
That's going to be the next hot button topic.
I guarantee it.
It's going to be, because all of our pal around with MBS, you know?
Yes.
I think the voting question will be coming a bit more into play.
Like household voting is going to be an interesting.
The car thing comes first.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not good at driving, so... Neither am I, in that I don't do it.
Public transportation?
Probably real bad at it, yes.
Fortunate enough to have lived places where that is a thing, for the most part.
Anyway, I digress.
Don't you remember every stand-up comedy routine in the 90s, before it became not cool to do anymore, when people were talking about how some people were bad at driving, you know?
Yes.
I'm not going to say who.
I do remember bad comedy.
Sometimes they get a little racial with it.
We don't.
It's just not good comedy.
applause, maybe dangle the microphone in your hand.
Do a little face.
Sometimes they get a little racial with it, with certain groups, definitely.
It's just not good comedy.
It's just another example of comedy.
Yeah, even those are just certain neighborhoods that you don't want to be
on the road in, if you get what I'm saying.
Woo!
That's where we're going!
Yeah.
I mean, I do fit the stereotype of a woman who can't drive, but we won't get into that.
I just don't like it.
I mean, that's fine.
I can drive, I just don't like it because it's just like, I don't know, it sucks.
The road sucks.
I hate waiting in traffic.
Also, you don't even feel guilty about that.
Just because some people fit stereotypes doesn't mean the stereotypes aren't correct.
Yeah, I know.
And also public transportation actually does rule because you meet interesting people on the train.
Uh, well, oh, no, that, no, sorry, I co-signed on that way too fast.
No, I hate that part.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, it is, it does just rock in general.
You and I have probably had most, it sounds like we've had different public transportation experiences.
I mean, there's a lot of weirdos, but like, I kind of like weirdos.
I mean, but the weirder I never get the weirdo that wants to talk about something benign and weird.
All my weirdos want to talk about something like aggressive and weird.
Yeah, Christ.
Yeah, I was on the train from Boston coming home.
And I was and it turned out that the guy on my on the train, like two seats in front of me, was the guy who would walk around.
He would basically walk around Fenway Park or the TD Garden or wherever the big concert was.
And he had a sandwich board that just read Jesus or hell on it.
And it had a giant list of all the people who were going to burn if they didn't repent.
And I just I just loved seeing that guy two seats in front of me like another day is saving souls for that guy.
And I was back going back home.
Because the plane is landing.
Yeah, when I was a wee lad, I was there were those people protesting outside of
this Halloween function that I was at.
I was probably like 13 and I was running by one of them with my wee lad friends
being sort of hooligans or whatever, you know, just sort of being, yeah, being true
punks.
And one of those ladies, she was like a Methuselah.
In my mind, she's ancient, but I bet she was only 65, because at the time I was 13.
She's like 35.
No, no, she was definitely cronish in the face.
She was there holding one of those horrible signs and, you know, screaming about how the Lord hates F-word people, etc.
So as a running buyer, I radiate this sort of vibe that means that random people just sort of want to talk to me no matter what else I'm doing, including sprinting at the time when I was capable of doing a thing.
So she like locked eyes with me and started proselytizing to me directly.
And the first thing that I could think to do was to tell her that I did not speak English in French because I had been taking French in high school.
So as I sprinted by and she started proselytizing to me, I quickly said, And then, she started proselytizing to me in French.
I bet!
Fluid-ass French.
Immediately.
Without missing a beat, she just started shouting at me in French that I didn't really understand.
I was getting fragments of it as it faded in the distance as I ran away from her.
Because then she became like a boss.
You know?
It's like when you're playing a video game and you're trying to sprint through a boss encounter and they take a random pot shot at you and it hits you.
And you're like, oh no!
This has all gone to shit!
Yeah.
That's fun times.
My moment of fun protest bullshit was me and my friend were driving away from the Las Vegas Strip, and there's a church near the Strip, and there were two cop cars parked basically kind of blocking off one of the parking lots of the church.
And I was like, well, that's weird.
Maybe a policeman got killed and there's a police funeral happening.
Yikes, Grim.
I mean, oh, no, it gets much better than that.
And then we roll past and then we get beyond those cop cars to like the main area in front of the church.
And it was actually the Westboro Baptist Church protesting.
They had all their signs, there was like 12 of them.
And I just yelled at them, whoo, Phelpses, you crazy pieces of shit!
Whoo!
And I was like, I couldn't believe it.
I actually got the Westboro... And they were like, that guy gets it.
Whoever that person is, he is on our side.
You heard it.
Yes.
Kind of wild how the Phelps kind of Christianity has kind of petered into this general mainstream Republican talking points.
Well, I blame all the swimming alkaloids, you know?
It really... Just because the subject that we're on, you know, we're still talking about the Pride murder.
It's just on the brain.
It's just... Sorry.
Thanks.
Widow, Widow, Widow Eminem is back to reality.
I'm sorry.
It feels a little disrespectful to not close it out a little.
No, I mean, we did need to get back to it because mostly I need to interrogate Mike Rands in Media Res live on air to just be like, OK, so this happened and it sucks, but we are a QAnon podcast.
You better have some fucking hot heat if we're talking about this.
It better be so QAnon-y.
It better be Q talking about this and fucking self.
Uh, Q actually did not descend from the mountaintops to talk about this.
The, this was in general, again, false flag.
They're making us look bad.
We, we condemn this because we are a peaceful research movement.
I did see a conspiracy floating around that's like, Oh, it was her brother.
It was just a family thing.
Yeah, the people that were not trying to do the false flag thing were claiming it was a domestic dispute or that it was just a robbery gone wrong and that the liberal media is lying about the pride flag and trying to paint... Again, what I love about this is that those arguments are basically saying, oh, they're trying to paint the guy that ripped up a pride flag and then shot somebody as being bad.
And it's in it's so you're saying if they just ripped the plight frag down they would have been a good guy like that.
You know you're wrong the whole way just absolutely all of it you're wrong about but.
In their minds, the only thing that was bad was that this guy shot and killed her.
Everything this person did before that was righteous because they hate support for the LGBTQ community.
They basically hate anyone who is a cis white male.
They are willing to broach the idea that, again, the groomer flag.
Doing all of that, good, but don't go to murder.
And because you make us look bad, and that's the only reason why they're opposed to that, is optics.
Their rhetoric is so obviously inflammatory and so obviously leading people towards violence that they don't have a leg to stand on when they're like, oh, wait, wait, wait, the violence happened?
Oh, oh, oh, no, let me let me let me find my feigning couch.
Oops, the rhetoric led to violence again.
We didn't want that part.
Right.
Oh, man.
No, no.
Look how bummed out Hayley looks.
You've totally bummed Hayley out.
I'm sorry.
I mean, you know, I cover the far right, so it is it is like a little bit of a bummer sometimes.
Hayley is bummed.
And worst of all, it sounds like you mostly had nothing.
I interrogated you for the QAnon Juicy Nugget, and it was pretty much just like it was a false flag.
Yeah, man.
Everything's a fucking false flag.
That's QAnon 101.
You know, though, because I do cover the... No flags are real except for the Pride ones they hate.
Yes.
Yeah, but because I do cover the far right so much, the one thing I definitely notice is just how non-stop, nauseatingly, hatefully anti-LGBT, specifically transphobic, the right has become to the point where it's It's kind of like one of their biggest focuses is to constantly shit on an incredibly tiny minority group in America.
Their rights are being stripped away because of this rhetoric and this hatefulness.
People gotta step up.
They're radically hateful, so you gotta be radically Pro, uh, you know, LGBT civil rights.
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you know, we, you gotta get your, your foot in the game.
You gotta, if you get, you hear some transphobia, tell your friend to shut the fuck up, you know?
Uh, politely, but I'm just saying it's a little bit aggravating.
I have, I have, I have friends, I have like friends who are, you know, transgender and it's like, Yeah, it makes me want to punch people in the fucking mouth when I constantly hearing this, constantly hearing this.
And sometimes you hear a little bit of...
Well said.
People are even who aren't right-wing me like oh, well, I get some of the stuff, you know, I like oh, I know
I don't want trans people in the locker room, you know, and it's like shut the fuck up
You have no idea what you're talking about. Just shut the fuck up
Shut the fuck up. That's all I have. I'm just kind of annoyed with this topic because it's incredibly a bummer
Not that I also not this topic and I'm not to make not to make you upset that you picked it
It's important to talk about it. Yeah I tried so hard to get away from that.
It's like the swamp of sorrows that sucked our tax into.
I can literally feel like killing the show.
People are going to listen to this and be like, now we are bummed.
We are sad.
You know what?
We're moving on to the fun stuff.
Comedy show.
Fart noise.
Trump literally just landed.
His plane literally just landed.
I have the TV.
I have my other computer just rolling.
We're an hour in and we haven't talked a fucking lick about the debate at all.
We only did five minutes of the pregame show before we got into the boosh, and it just ameliorated like 45 minutes worth of nonsense into the rest of the show.
We just broke it up into chunks of nonsense.
Trump is walking down the stairs.
He's under the jumbotron.
They're playing estate music.
He's coming off the plane.
He's doing that little dance he does.
There's so many cameras.
We'll get back to that as it gets closer to 730.
I'm sorry everybody for the bummer, but sometimes you gotta talk about bummer things.
It's time to talk about the debate!
We're talking about the debate now!
Me and Elle are pulling on Hayley's reins like she's Arctax.
Just screaming, pleading with her.
I'm sorry.
Get us out!
Hayley, we love you!
Please!
I'm sorry.
Anyways, the Republicans had a debate last night where their big boss, who Haley's doing play-by-play as he goes to get his mug shot.
He's about to walk down the stairs.
Didn't show up.
He decided that, you know, I'm too big for this.
I'm too cool for school.
So we're going to have the B team do this debate and be sad little boys and girls.
And this was This was Amateur Hour.
This was absolute clown shit.
One of the biggest moments that was awesome was the host was like, anyone who believes in man-made climate change, please raise your hand.
And nobody raised their hand.
And they all did their standard bullshit where they were like, well, even if we tried to handle climate change, China isn't going to do anything about it.
So why should we?
And those were the people that were willing to admit that climate change could happen.
Well, the rest of them were just sort of like, well, you know, it's God's will and all that like nonsense.
And it was really funny.
Uh, Vivek Ramswani, uh, who I guess is trying to gun for a cabinet position or I don't know what his goal actually is in this campaign.
Someone showed a, um, they had a focus group, and the focus group are all
independents and they have little dials that they can twist to show their approval or disapproval
of a statement.
And when Rameswamy...
One kid really loves the Speedo, man.
And when he started his speech about how climate change was bullshit,
The dial for women independence just absolutely cratered.
It was just a straight downward line.
It was just like, you know, women kind of don't want the world to burn into a pit of hell to raise their children in.
It's weird that way.
The man line didn't, it went down, it didn't go down as hard.
So I guess men are okay with the world being destroyed.
Way to suck, men.
Do better, please.
I don't know how we're doing this, but I want to immediately jump to what was my favorite moment of the evening that I saw, which was Chris Christie being the fucking ultimate heel by daring to be like, maybe Trump sucked, actually?
Boo!
He also got the UFO question.
They're like, you're not a real candidate.
What do you think about UFOs?
You gonna declassify?
And he's like, come on.
He was literally like, come on, man.
You gave me the UFO question?
He has that shitty grit at his that he did.
I loved watching him do it as he was getting food.
It was just like, yeah, that, I mean, like, God.
I mean, I would respect all of them a little more if they would just lean into that sort of WWE-style pageantry.
Like, when they're booing you, I want you to step in front of the podium.
Fucking, like, raise your hands.
Yeah, wave them up.
Be like, come on!
What is the Fox moderator going to be like, Mr. Christie, get back to your podium?
And people are going to be like, Chris Christie, doing a cool thing at this debate?
Like, being sort of like a wacky heel?
Like, what are you going to do, sanction him over it?
The opening question was about the Rich Men of Above Richmond song, and they literally played it for like 30 seconds.
I was like, a fucking crummy commercial?
Are you kidding me?
Yes, this question's for all of the candidates after we listen to the entirety of this song.
Based on the number of African American TikTokers that we have appreciating it, is this the greatest song in the history of mankind?
Yes or very yes?
Yes, sir.
Dude, TikTok served me up some of that trite shit where it's just black people listening to that song and being like, right on.
Yes, I'm not in my head and agreeing with this.
And I'm just like, this sucks.
TikTok, I don't know why you think I want this, but you are wrong.
I have to imagine it was because I was watching some Irish busker sing traditional Irish folk songs.
They were just like, he just wants a guy, he wants a white guy with a stringed instrument singing a song.
We got something for you, buddy.
Look at how many people of color love it.
They're eating it up.
Probably a bunch of turning point people, you know?
It's like, there's ads.
You're seeing ads.
I'm just like, God.
Nobody likes that song, right?
It's a bad song.
I don't know.
I don't know if it's a bad song or not.
Because I don't like country music, so it's like, is it a good song?
Is it a bad song?
No, it's a bad song.
You've heard the content of the lyrics?
Yeah, I don't like the lyrics, but you know how sometimes it's like, you like a song and then you hear the lyrics and it's like, those are the fucking lyrics?
So, okay, for instance, I don't know if he's a good, I don't know if this is good
country.
Until the sweat drops down my balls.
Right. Yeah, that is a terrible song lyric.
But Lil Jon is not crooning that with all sincerity in the backwoods of Appalachia, in Topanga.
He is doing it with like a chalice filled with like some sort of horrible
nuclear alcohol concoction.
With the yin yang twins.
With the yin yang twins, you know, like nobody is supposed to take until the sweat drops down my balls, seriously.
The other thing, that guy, he's not being fucking ironic or cute.
He really hates welfare people spending their welfare money on whatever- Fudge rums.
He's like, hey, you know what, are you not buying just powdered food?
Like protein?
Like with this?
Is it just not like a slurry?
Like a gray sludge?
That you get, you welfare baby?
Well then fuck off.
How dare you buy food with those food stamps?
How dare you?
They get mad.
There's like stereotypes too.
It's like, oh, people buying steak.
steak and boot food better than me with their food stamps.
And it's like, then they get mad at eating fudge rounds, like, which is it? Which can I
have? Can I have the junk food or can I have the good food? It's almost like you don't
like people using food stamps.
And this is actually, this means something else.
Chris Bounds Also, you need to produce those welfare people, the ones that are livid about steak and lobster all the
time.
And-or, you need to explain your skill issue.
Nice truck you got there, champion.
You tell them you're eating ramen because you drive that thing?
How about a less-of-a-dick extender for the truck there?
Save that ten grand and maybe put it towards some groceries.
I don't know.
Did you need the truck nuts on it? How much of that cute sticker of Calvin
Peeing on a thing you don't like? Probably a woman or a person of color.
I don't know. Do they have stickers of that on the nose yet?
Probably.
I think someone said it best about that terrible song where they said,
try to hum it. You can't.
And I think that's a really good sign for... Yeah, you know what that song is lacking?
The unfortunate catchiness of, try that in a small town!
Like, that sucks, but I know the melody.
I might not be great at reproducing it, but I do know it in my head.
Right.
I'm just like, oh, that song sucks, but I do, you know, but banjo guy, he's just like, I'm in the woods!
I got a GoPro on a tripod with Abejo!
So everyone at the debate liked the song, correct?
Correct.
Yes, of course, of course.
Yeah, before they played it, they said, now please continue standing for our second national anthem.
Literally, it literally was.
Oh man, the lady in the national anthem dress, that was a lot going on.
It was like, it was like flower turtleneck.
Did you see that?
Were you watching that?
Again, I'm an outfit person.
I thought that was an interesting choice of outfit.
The other thing I remember most from the debate was Ron DeSantis' attempt at smiling, which... Yeah, he was going viral for those gestures that he was making with his face.
It's pretty wild how uncharismatic he is and just kind of like, oh, I keep forgetting he's here.
Every time he talked I was like, oh yeah, DeSantis is here.
I hate to circle back to it, but there's a lot of great facial acting in Baldur's Gate 3.
And my Barbarian has very low charisma and frequently just makes these weird, unsettling, weird faces when people are talking to her.
And that is how I imagine... I'm just like, yes, Rod DeSantis has a charisma of 8.
The President has been extracted.
He is on his way to the courthouse.
What is Joe Biden going to the courthouse for?
Because that's my president.
Oh, I mean the ex-president.
I'm sorry.
That's my president.
My geodes.
Every episode, Hayley's going to reveal a little more about herself.
Yeah, I'm actually a really big Trump guy.
Hayley, a Trumper through and through.
Yep.
Oh, that reminds me, we've read that bit about when they caught Biden after, when he was holding his slushie in his hand, talking about Prigo dying.
Oh yeah, where he's just like, yep, I said he probably should watch what he was going to drink, or how he was traveling, or what he was in.
I forget how he phrased it, but he's pretty much just like, yeah, he shouldn't have been eating or drinking or flying at anything, or driving at anything.
And also, like, you know, he got killed by Putin.
And then they ask him something and he's like, hey, I've been working out for the last hour and a half.
I just love President Gaines.
Dude, it's so funny on the freeway.
It's like a train of like a hundred black cars surrounding him.
Again, and when that man steps out of that vehicle to go take his mugshot, he is going to look like the Close Encounters of the Third Kind mashed potato mountain effigy.
That's so funny.
And Joe Biden got interrupted mid-workout, or just post-workout, to be ambushed with questions about Pergosa Dyke.
Like, look, I get it.
Joe Biden is very old, and I'm not thrilled to have a very old man as my president.
I'd rather have somebody younger, for a variety of reasons.
But, that being said, in the battle of these two olds, one of them is clearly better for the job, just in terms of being able to get to the goal line.
Yeah, yes.
Just the whole issue of health and age is so massively in Biden's favor compared to Trump.
It's night and day.
It's ridiculous.
Even DeSantis has posted photos online of Trump just looking like a withered husk and just tried to use that as an attack on him.
It's just, look at, look at him.
He's, he's one, he's one breath away from falling over.
He's practically on his last legs.
You can't pick this guy over me.
And then America's like, but Trump has a charisma of around 12 or 13.
You are so badly outmatched in this situation, personality wise.
Sorry, Ron.
See you later.
Man, you know what was wild about the debate was that everybody was like, we should invade Mexico and also we should also kill, should we shoot migrants at the border to stop them from coming over?
I was like, is this for real a question on a major news outlet at a presidential debate?
And like literally the end of the Trump-Tucker discussion, his final question was like, one more question.
Is America about to enter a civil war?
Like, man, we're just casually asking these fucking questions.
That's pretty wild.
Yeah.
Cool.
Cool state.
The right wing of America really just wants to have war on the home front now.
Just this whole proxy war in Ukraine's boring.
Let's actually blow up Mexico or have our own nation descend into civil conflict.
Those are good and healthy things that we should support.
So, yeah.
Cool bloodthirsty party.
Neat.
So as Haley brought up, Donald Trump was not at the debate.
He was talking to Tuk Tuk about whatever brain worms were crawling around inside his own skull.
And the ratings were huge.
Oh, actually more people, more ratings than people on the planet Earth.
Twitter got 900 billion views for the Trump-Tucker interview.
My favorite thing about the Trump Tucker interview was this was like watching an improv comedy team where one guy just would not play ball with the other guy.
Just absolutely not fucking having any of it.
Like at one point, Tucker was just all, Hey, Trump, did Epstein kill himself?
Shut up.
The election was rigged.
Oh, this is bullshit.
Shut your fucking mouth, Tucker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty much every time Tucker tried to walk him into a obvious, like, Tucker was like, Hey Donald, Donald, I'm going to put this ball in the tee for you.
And then you can hit the ball.
And Trump was just like, just petulantly drop his bat on the ground.
Like, no, I ain't hitting the ball.
Cause there was like this one spot where.
Tucker was talking about how Stacey Abrams complained about how she lost the governorship in Georgia, and other Democrats had complained about losing elections, and Tucker made this snide comment about, well, Stacey Abrams didn't get arrested for that, did she?
And then Trump was like, meh, whatever, you know how things are.
And he just, like, Tucker was just trying to get him to say all these different things that were very obvious things that Tucker would want to lead Trump into.
And Trump was just like, nope, I will not give you what you want from me.
At some point in the interview, Tucker was just sitting there cross-armed interviewing Trump.
It's a really weird body language when you're the host of an interview and you've just got your arms across your chest being like, so, another thing.
It's just like, man, you could just tell Tucker was like, God, this guy won't fucking work with me.
Fuck, whatever.
Well, they got a lot of views.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, God, let me tell you.
Boy, howdy, am I seeing all these QAnon people talking about how the mainstream media has died and now Elon and X have proven their superiority over the world because everyone's now watching the Trump interview and Again, there is no, like the view counter is literally did this thing show up in your timeline?
Cause if it's in your timeline for even a second, you get a view for it.
So it's, this is the most like fake bullshit.
Number-inflating nonsense imaginable.
I'm calling it now.
Certainly a bunch of people who pay for Twitter and therefore get priority into the frequency with which they appear in other people's timelines wouldn't be the same sort of people who would want to share this touch stream.
Can't imagine that that was a thing.
Yeah, of course.
Congratulations, Elon.
You did it.
You made yourself a nice little fake cable network for Tucker Carlson, I guess?
Like, I don't know.
Congratulations.
Literally.
What a big win.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Yeah, you're the best, Tuck.
You did it.
You won it in a pack.
You're the greatest.
Yeah, I'm calling it now.
When Trump loses in 2024, there's going to be memes like, oh, you think you lost?
Look at these views.
You know how they always do that?
Oh, yeah.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
My town had a lot of yard signs.
There's no way he lost.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
His largest, the largest inauguration.
Oh, so the incredible multitudes that were there to see him get sworn in as our president of the United States.
Yeah.
Yes.
God, it's just like that whole thing.
Just all of it.
They, they have all these metrics by which Trump obviously won the election.
And if, and if you're not willing to accept that, then you're just a giant dum-dum.
Refuses to see the truth!
Go back to sleep, sheeple!
That's how voting works.
How many yard signs there are, how many Twitter views you have, that's voting in America now.
So 2024, the rules have changed!
Yes!
I remember that flag!
What does that mean exactly there, Super Trooper?
Like, what do you mean the rules have changed?
I feel like the rules are the same and you just lost, so you're sad.
Yes!
That's not great.
Trump 2024, we're like going to change the rules so that we can do this.
We're going to rig the election, I guess.
Good stuff.
Yes, they're the best.
They're truly the greatest.
Whose mugshot was your favorite?
I mean, I only really saw Rudy's.
That's a good one.
I want that one on a shirt.
I saw all of them, but Rudy's is the only one that stood out to me because I know it.
Sidney?
The rest of those clothes, I don't know.
They're all losers.
Sidney Powell?
The Kraken?
Fashion Queen?
Unfortunately, I'm here to represent sort of the regular person, and the regular person has no idea who that is.
Release the Kraken.
Yeah, I mean, I recognize the name, but if you took the names off of those photos and showed me all of them, like, I would... I would just be like... You're not a Cheesebro fan?
You're not a Cheesebro guy?
I mean, he's got a cool, funny name that I like to see, especially in print, but... No, I mean, I don't know what he looks like.
Is he made of cheese?
That would be really obvious and easy.
Yeah, Cheesebro's the greatest, because he was the one who initiated Georgia's speedy trial law.
And he's like, I want to go to trial ASAP!
And then the Georgia DA was like, let's do this.
And now the judge is like, yeah, Cheesebro's trial can begin in October of this year.
He gets his fast trial, just like he requested.
And now all the other defendants are like, no, no, no!
We don't want to go to trial that quickly!
Fuck you, Cheesebro!
So like, Cheesebro can enjoy being in jail really quickly.
And everybody else can just watch how badly he gets fucked up.
It's gonna be awesome.
Yeah, he's gonna be like the goat that they put into the T-Rex pit at the beginning of Jurassic Park.
And you're just like, I just noticed that the baddest goal happened to that goat.
Yes!
And then when they circle back to it in October, they're going to be like, oh, the cage is gone.
I bet the goat is doing just fine.
And then complamo!
Goat carcass!
And they're going to see it happen.
And then I'm going to continue to describe parts of Jurassic Park.
Interior, outhouse.
I love screenwriting.
Yeah, it's great.
I've never done a lick of it, but I know just enough of the lingo to do dumb punchlines like that.
Yes.
So I think we've covered everything we need to cover in the real world, so let's hit the mailbag.
Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
It's time for Q and A. So Cleodora Silvestri, the Hellworld Grand Inquisitor says, The podcast isn't working and you guys decide that being a cult leader is the grift for you.
What Q-style conspiracy do you make up to fool people into giving you as much money as possible as part of your cult?
Uh, I can't think of like an especially funny answer.
So I'll just go with meditation.
Classic, because it works.
It's calming.
I'm like a guru or whatever.
I can teach you how to meditate real good.
You know, and then if all of the women would like to meditate privately with me, that would be sweet.
You know?
Yeah.
It's also giving me money.
Yeah, I'll just go with snake oil.
It's always good to give people fake cures for shit.
One of my favorite things is when you go down the rabbit hole of COVID and all the bullshit around it, that now there's people who are like, ivermectin will cure you of the vaccine.
The spike protein you get from the vaccine can be removed by ivermectin.
It's like, wow, holy shit.
I had no idea ivermectin was the greatest drug ever invented.
What a miracle it is to have this horse paste cure me of all that ails me, including my previous vaccinations.
See, but if you're just in it for a buck, why bother with snake oil?
If you just want the money, grift oil the other way and grift with cooking oil.
Cause you know, there are lots of people out there, especially post COVID that decided to get into home cheffery.
So just like get regular ass olive oil and just repackage it in bottles and call it like North Korean three blessed oil and make up a story for it.
And then just be like, that's $300 a bottle.
And they're like, wow, that's expensive.
And you're just like, dude, import from North Korea.
Shit is fucking crazy.
Wow.
So fancy.
You could really taste the suffering.
I love the idea.
I love that it's named Three Blessed Oil.
That just makes it perfect.
It's just this horrible bad English name of the North Korean product.
Perfect.
You got Kim Jong Un's smiling face on it.
No libs gonna cancel North Korean Three Blessed Oil!
We're keeping Kim Jong Un on the bottle forever!
Yeah, it's his beautiful, his beautiful Empire Ships three-blast oil straight from the North Korea.
You love it.
And they love their mascot.
Because they have to, at gunpoint.
Yes!
Hayley, what's your grift?
I guess what's your cult grift?
I don't know what the grift aspect is.
I'm sure it'll have various multitudes of grifts that you see within a cult.
I don't know what the grist aspect is.
I'm sure it'll have various multitudes of grifts that you see within a cult.
We'll be selling bucket food.
We'll be selling gold scams.
I'll be writing books about the cult that we then mass produce and sell to the masses on the streets of New York or wherever.
We'll have like a big compound, but I won't live at the compound obviously.
You could be negative 420.
There'll be various drugs being done in the deserts of Arizona, tripping on mushrooms and whatnot involved.
But the cult, the grift aspect, you know, when you're dealing with a cult, there's a lot of... we'll be selling like bleach, you know, cures and...
There's a lot going on.
This is America.
So it's like there's a lot of capitalism that goes into the cults in America.
So it's like... You have drugs.
Just sell drugs.
We'll do that too.
And then also like whatever art we make when we're tripping on drugs, I'll sell for an exorbitantly high price to my followers.
And then we'll see how that goes.
Oh, Ascension art.
Art that you channeled the great being, the higher power through.
This is the blessed art.
Oh, man.
That guy, whose name I can't remember, who did like those 18,000 paintings or whatever while he was making that funny face.
John Hinckley?
No.
I'm just kidding.
I want one of his paintings, though.
With what I just described, you could be naming any Caucasian guy from the 1970s to 80s and have been pretty close.
But this guy is actually a person of color.
God, I can't remember his name.
He was a popular guru in New York for a long time.
I want a painting from the guy that shot Reagan.
Yes.
I want a painting from the guy that shot Lincoln.
It's not a competition.
Wow.
That would be historical.
Yeah, it would be worth a fortune.
Oh my god, he's a little late, but he's getting to the building.
My god, he's shambling.
He's shambling to the coal line.
He's at the Georgia jail.
I see prison buses.
Do they have a very mild incline for him to stall even further on?
Is there like an old-timey chain gang there working the side of the road and like... No, they made sure all those guys were out of there.
Standing up from their hunched over position and wiping the sweat off their brow with their caps while slowly watching Trump walk by them.
This is a live pod.
Matt asks, Mike, can I have control of your Twitter account for 48 hours?
DM me, we'll discuss price.
Ooh, that's a good way to do it.
Oh yeah, we've always been pretty upfront about being... He's gonna post whole.
Uh, I, I'm willing to sell out.
I don't care.
I don't care if he destroys the account.
I'll just, I'll live on in podcasts.
That'd be a great way to go out on Twitter.
Just give it to some guy.
This is something that I, I never thought I was, I would need to make absolutely clear on anything that I was producing.
Uh, but I do need to make something clear when I say that we can be bought.
Specifically, that does include if you are one of these rich creeps that want to see my feet.
If you are a rich creep and you want to see my feet, prove it with a 50% deposit down, and boy howdy, I'll give you all the fucking foot content.
You wouldn't believe it.
I'm not going to crush living stuff, but I'll crush all manner of vegetable or mineral.
He's 6'3".
Yeah.
Dude, I got the mad feet.
I believe my current sneaker is a size 15 wide.
I got the big ol' feet, you know?
That is a large foot.
You're like a basketball player.
No, because I'm out of shape and unathletic.
I just mean tall.
I'm fairly tall and I've got big ol' feet and big ol' hands.
Trump has been booked.
He's 6'3", by the way.
That's his height.
That's his official height.
Oh, Trump is 6'3".
I thought you somehow knew my height.
No, but congrats on being the same height.
I'm technically 6'2", but my ID said 6'3".
No, you're 6'3 now.
No, I'm actually 6'4 and a half, you know.
Yeah, you're taller than Trump.
You're bigger.
People have pointed out that they don't actually measure you.
They take the height off of your ID or what you tell them.
Oh, really?
Really, yeah.
Okay, next question.
We have time for some Precious Feud.
Yes, Pancake Peasant says, now that Wagner guy Pergosen has fallen out of the world's highest window, is QAnon all hot and bothered with new conspiracies?
What's the hottest take so far?
Oh, we covered this already.
Faked death, basically, is the hottest thing.
Classic my grades, questions grading process.
We know every conspiracy study cover before the question.
My favorite part of it was that you read the whole thing and then it seemed like you realized what was going on.
I realized it as soon as the word Pergosen showed up.
You got through the question and you were just like, oh, we already answered this.
Yeah, obviously.
What else could they have been asking?
Mike, I have a question for you.
This is the question segment.
Because we didn't do Arizona a bit, but like, did you see the blue roof conspiracy about Maui?
Uh, blue roof?
I do not know about that, no.
Dude, I straight up learned about this because of fucking sitting Arizona lawmaker Wendy Rogers.
Oh God, of course.
She posted about this and there's like this conspiracy that, uh, if you had a blue roof, it deflected the lasers.
Yeah.
I've seen, I've seen someone, uh, take a laser and they shoot all the different colors of cloth and all the other colors burn, but blue cloth does not burn.
I've, I've, I've seen the blue, I didn't know there was blue roof, but I do know the blue conspiracy theory.
Move aside Jews, the new Passover's here.
Yes!
Straight up, like, also incorporating Oprah into it.
Like, Oprah had a blue roof is what they're saying.
I have not confirmed the blue roof of Oprah's home.
Wow, see, this is the sort of, this is the sort of spice.
Hey, Mike Rains, you know, this is the sort of spice that was missing from all that horrible shit we had to talk about earlier, you know?
This is the sort of, this is what we're looking for.
This is the shit, you know?
Oklahoma painted a blue fucking roof and they blocked the space lasers?
Holy shit.
Is this the kind of stuff that you like to tell?
Yes!
Dude, that shit is mad fun!
When we first started the podcast and we were talking about the Q-drops, we were talking about all sorts of weird shit, and then when we were doing all the Q-media stuff for the bonus content, it was like earthquake machines, and the Titanic, and clean babies, and just wild stuff happening.
And then, like, you know, but unfortunately, since January 6th, Q has had fucking nothing.
It's just such a bummer.
I mean, I'm glad that they're not, like, posing a danger and, like, I don't want them to, like, rise up and start shooting things or whatever, but from a trajectory of the movement standpoint, as it relates to our podcast coverage, it's just sort of, like, January 6th, it's like, oh, buddy, here it goes!
It's, like, Q, the fucking Stormwind Kraken!
Like, boom!
It's happening!
And then, all of a sudden, repercussions started to come down the pipeline and everybody was just like, we want no part of this anymore.
We disavow this.
So funny.
So yeah, the, uh, everybody that had a, this is the theory is that everybody who had a blue roof was spared from the space lasers, presumably Jewish.
Um, not my opinion on that.
That's what the Wendy Rogers of the world said.
I just think Wendy Rogers earlier when I made that joke about the Jews, I was a fool.
They were still here.
It's, it's, it's not, it's not make way Jews for the new Passover.
It's hooray Jews, Passover too.
And everyone knows fire doesn't spread, so that's how things work.
You have special insulation to go with your blue roof, you know?
Yes.
So, what are you guys looking forward to?
We're like minutes away from this booking photo.
I'm minutes away from the beginning of my D&D gauntlet this weekend.
That should be fun.
Boom.
I'm playing tonight, and then I'm playing tomorrow night where I'm in the DM, and then I'm playing again on Sunday afternoon.
So, lots of D&D.
Yeah, and I am looking forward to the fact that I am slowly managing to pull together people for my fantasy football leagues.
So... And also slowly receding into the darkness as we record the podcast, which is just concerning.
So you're fully in the darkness.
You live in the darkness.
You're a part of the darkness.
I do, but the fact that I live in the darkness means that it should be comforting by now.
Now it looks creepier.
Yeah, now my friend looks like he is either about to jigsaw us, or is he himself about to be jigsawed?
One of the two.
Either way, jigsaw is involved.
Yes.
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Oh, shit, The Gram.
The Gram.
You'll see pictures of skies and pictures of canals, but also, you know, other shit.
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Yep.
I don't like Facebook very much.
Facebook sucks, but God, they're just like, they were wise to buy Instagram.
I will give them that.
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Nice.
Same as it ever was, despite the fact that he cannot block you.
In fact, harass him now more than ever because he cannot block you.
Ask him all sorts of questions about why he thinks Brick is the best resource in Catan.
It's fucking insane.
Anyway, for another totally accurate episode of the Avengers of Hell World Podcast, I have been one of your hosts, The Mysterious Al, joined as always by Hayley, aka Arizona Right Wing Watch, and of course our expert in all things QAnon crazy, Mr. Mike Rains.