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Adventures in HellwQrld Episode #196: All Hail The God Emperor

This week we deal with SCOTUS declaring the President is unbound by the law and can do as they please. Will Biden get replaced and should he? Also RFK ate a dog and raped a nanny and the Dilbert guy goes after Mike. 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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Hello, everybody.
I am Mike Rains, aka PokerandPolitics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
This week, I'm joined, as always, by Haley, aka ArizonaRightWatch.
What up, assholes?
That's what they deserve.
And we are also joined by the mysterious Elle.
Hello, beautiful babies!
Eagle noise!
Gunfire sound!
Other stuff associated with Independence Day.
It's America's last birthday.
Yes.
We're celebrating finally getting away from the rule of a king or despot.
Or are we?
Or the return of said things?
Oh no!
Yeah, dude, I'm feeling especially patriotic this year.
It's a great time for July this year.
Nothing is going wrong in our country.
Nope.
It's pretty nice.
And it's also pretty rare.
So that's cool.
It's been very chill vibes this week.
Yeah.
This week, I had a customer at my work.
And I, like, I am a, uh, I enjoy the pro-wrestling.
I, this is a shameful habit of mine that I must acknowledge.
And one of the big things in our wrestling community is how wrestling t-shirts are terrible, and how, like, so many wrestlers have shirts you could not wear in public without feeling horribly ashamed of what you are doing, because the shirt is just terrible on so many levels.
I was walking by a blackjack table, and there was a guy wearing a shirt.
And that shirt was Black Cat, the villain lady of Spider-Man.
And she was ass down, she was face down, ass up in her bed and naked.
And in the back of the, in the background was Spider-Man in a window peeking in upon her.
And I was just like, where the fuck would you get that shirt?
And why on earth would you wear it?
Like what, on what planet were you like, time to wear my black cat about to take a doggy style from Spider-Man.
Time to strap that on and head to the casino.
And he's being like a peeper.
He's being like a creepy Tom.
Yeah.
Maybe they're doing some, like, C&C play.
Oh, maybe.
Maybe.
Wow, that's some Hellworld After Dark.
Yeah, for sure.
That would definitely be some After Dark stuff.
But, like, I've read enough of the Spider-Man comics to know that, like, generally Black Cat is, like, into Spider-Man's vibe and deal and does kind of want to fuck him pretty often.
If Spider-Man's, like, outside the window, I imagine one of two things are happening.
A, it's a kinky thing.
He's at the costume.
It's, like, some C&C, like, peeper in the window, in only the way Spider-Man can do it.
Welcome to the Big Apple.
Some guy with superpowers is gonna watch your vajoon.
Or, uh, the thing that Mike said, which actually never occurred to me, uh, which is, like, literally, it's just a moment in time, just before Spider-Man steps through, like, opens up the window and comes inside and is like, now, time for sex!
I figure that the way it's framed, it's probably like he's supposed to be out there intentionally, but I guess it is possible that this is just a vignette.
It's like a single frame, like, Felicia Kyles or whatever her name is, like, rolling around, like, in the bed, like, and then it just so happens to be, like, this is the staff shot that ended up on the shirt, and it's right before Spider-Man goes through the window and they start fucking.
You need to make a zine of all the unique shirts that you discover at your work, because this has been a reoccurring segment of you describing just very unique shirts that you've seen.
And I would like to see all of them.
Do you suppose that whoever made that shirt paid for the rights?
Do you suppose that money changed hands at Marvel Comics?
That's a bootleg.
Someone went up to some Marvel people with a license and was like, I want Black Cat just ass up naked in a bed with Spider-Man gawking through a window.
And Marvel was like, sounds good.
We'll sign off on that immediately.
No problem.
To be fair, that is probably what most male comic book fans want.
Based on the way I've had to interact with these Ding Dongs, There's a market for that, and they thankfully are outside of my circle of having to deal with, but that stuff wouldn't sell if there wasn't a market for it.
And the market for it is that guy, and whoever that guy likes to hang out with in his downtime.
Yes!
I'm just imagining, like, you and your bros are hanging out, and then Bob walks up wearing that shirt, and you're just like, ah, Bob!
That's Bob.
Classic Bob.
Of course he's wearing the black cat, looking to get laid shirt.
Yeah.
Can you imagine what his home poker game is like?
Probably just a bunch of absolute legends complaining about not getting fucked by 20-year-olds.
Yes!
Absolutely.
And like, honestly, 20 if we're lucky.
Like, behind closed doors.
Yeah.
Like, hey, you're dealing next, Dr. D. You know?
Yup.
Oh, man.
Get fucked, that guy.
Couldn't have happened to a douchier guy.
Love that the cycle has already kind of moved on from that.
Haven't heard about that guy in like four days.
And it's just because it was just like, one of world's biggest streamers outed his pedophile parentheses, not talking to anyone.
And it was like, big news for three days.
See you later.
Yeah.
The news cycle had to move on so that people get pissed off at Mr. Beast for building those hundred houses and giving them away for free.
They'd be like, yeah, sure, but what else are you doing?
Like, with the money that you have, certainly you could be doing more.
And it's just like, how about with the money you have, you could be doing anything?
I think his YouTube is fascinating.
I also think it's fascinating.
And I don't think it's wrong for some, like, even the ones where it's just like, hey, I'm gonna see if these people can do this lightly embarrassing thing, and I'm gonna film them for content, and at the end of it, I'm gonna give them, like, $100,000.
And people are just like, this is exploitative.
And it's just like, only if the people doing it feel exploited.
Like, if they're just regular people who are just like, oh yeah, I'll hang out in this haunted house for $100,000.
Like, the contractor's side I'm pretty sure says, oh yeah, and by the way, we're gonna film you.
Put this on YouTube.
It's like those people are like, bamboozled.
What the fuck?
You mean you're gonna pay me all this money and then you're gonna expect to get some footage out of it?
Yeah, that's the deal they're making.
The same deal that anyone who's ever been on camera makes.
It's like, hey, get fucked.
Like, I don't understand these people that think they have some moral high ground over Mr. Beast.
He's doing more than zero!
You are doing zero!
You, armchair quarterback, doing nothing.
Mr. Beast, doing something.
And yeah, he has to make videos for the wheels to keep turning.
That's where his money comes from.
And yes, he gets to be wealthy, too.
You don't have to choose.
If billionaires could decide, hey, I can still be a billionaire and give away a bunch of my money, and even if they were doing it in interesting ways, that would be such a huge cue for us as a society.
We would love that.
That would be the biggest come-up.
But instead, billionaires want to hoard their wealth.
Are you campaigning for Mr. Beast to replace Biden right now?
Like, what are we doing?
I mean, does he have a pulse?
I don't know.
Mr. Peace is probably too young.
He's not 35 yet, is he?
No.
Because I actually have had conversations with people who've been like yelling at me that Taylor Swift doesn't turn 35 until after the election.
I'm like, but she turned 35 before the inauguration, which is what counts.
So... I mean, I think it's so funny how they just wish-cast celebrities into the presidency as if we're not going to get like Pete Buttigieg in eight years.
Oh yeah, well, I'm saying this as a... Hashtag Democrat life.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Who's your freshest, coolest guy?
No, no, no.
I said fresh and cool.
Oh God.
But he's gay, that counts for something.
And it's like, eh, does it?
Like, see, as an ally, I just think that gay is just like a regular thing you could be.
So it doesn't really move the needle for me as a voter.
And I'm gay.
Yeah, who cares?
What does it have to do with anything?
I just see things from the soulless, like I just want to win the election and I don't care if we use a celebrity who has no idea of how politics works to do it.
I don't care anymore.
Good news, Mike.
The other guy is a convicted felon and had four years in office to prove that he was going to do nothing.
So as long as the Democrats can put up a person who can stay awake The victory will be ours.
The celebrity I want to put up is M.I.A.
of paper.
Mike and I were looking at her website, her fashion line before starting, and this is something To be witnessed, in my opinion.
Mike, do you want to explain?
She basically has a bunch of clothing that is literally just conspiracy bullshit.
She has a brain-protecting do-rag to keep the 5G from cooking your brain.
She has silver-lined underwear and pants to protect your sperm count from whatever it is that's supposed to be cooking your spermies.
I don't understand, but...
And my favorite part about all of it is that all the shit on this website is unbelievably expensive.
Like those like the lowest price is like a case for your phone so your phone won't spy on you is like 50 bucks.
Everything else is like 100 to $400.
I wanted something but I don't want to contribute to her and InfoWars and I it's I don't have $400 to spare on a shirt.
It's also hideous.
It's all, it's all hideous.
It's really hideous.
It's really like, like Futurecore.
It's just all silver.
I mean, kind of.
So, so like, yeah, it's all like silver reflective, like it looks like parachute pant material or whatever.
But then it's like, literally the first thing, like top left hand corner, the first thing on the page is like a, like a literal foil bucket hat.
Like, I get that, like, I'm sure that whoever did it thought that they were being really clever, where it's just like, yeah, our lead item's a tinfoil hat.
We're in on it.
But the hat still is ugly.
It's like an ugly bucket.
It's fucking horrible.
Who the fuck wants to wear that?
What are you, Pharrell Williams?
If not, you can't pull it off.
Like, this stuff has the design sensibilities of somebody who was famous 15 years ago.
Listeners, can you please get me one of these shirts?
The one that says, um, Original Silver Street Shield on the- on the arms?
I wanna rock it.
You don't want prudency boxer shorts?
You don't want to let the boxer shorts enhance your egg count or whatever?
It's only for men.
It says it protects you from the numerous risks linked to electromagnetic radiation restoring your autonomy and freedom every now.
Dude, like if you're on the page and or if you're listening to this and you want to be on the page and scroll Scroll down until you get to the photo for what I believe is MIA modeling Ohm Protection Leggings.
No, no, they're bad, they're bad.
Not only, like, this photo, if you saw this person on the street, you'd be like, oh, that person is mentally ill.
That person is in the throes of a breakdown.
It's like a poncho that looks like it's made out of Christmas ribbon and just, like, silver, like, just silver leggings that looks like it's from a fucking, like, 1980s B horror movie about aliens.
And that's the look.
That's the fit.
And the look on her eyes is that the monster is upon her.
The monster has just finished eating her friend and is now about to go to her.
Or like this image has been photoshopped to remove the two FBI agents or whatever that are on either side of having just released her from whatever human captivity she was in.
Yes!
And also, like, this same guy is modeling all the male stuff.
Is that, like, her son?
Like, who's this?
Who's this weirdo?
Who's this weirdo who's in for this riot?
Are you just some random model?
I don't know.
This is horrible.
This is horrible.
They should all feel bad.
Everybody involved in this should feel bad.
It says it protects against smart cities, digital crypto, AI, neural link, hackable humans, zero privacy, deep mind, internal body data harvesting, and indiscriminate tracking, surveillance, mind data mining, social media overload, augmented reality, The social credit system, virtual dystopian minefield.
Boom.
So M.I.A.
is a crazy narcissist, and this is known.
And it's not like new information.
She's always been kind of wild, like she's been kind of wacky.
But like, you know, I have to imagine that she probably doesn't realize how capitalist and horrible this is.
Like, I think that she's just too crazy.
I think she probably really thinks that she's doing some sort of good by doing this and that she can make a little money on the side.
But like, Tricking people into buying your garbage by throwing literally every buzzword that you could plug into some search engine algorithm.
That was like an SEO paragraph that meant actual nothing.
Yeah, my parachute pants will prevent you from indiscriminate bio-gene mind hacking.
No big deal.
I love that this trending page has a guy posing in front of a 5G tower.
So you know it works.
Yeah, I mean, based on the photo, I would have to assume that the clothes are working.
I mean, there's no visible way... Like, there's no way to communicate that visually.
It's like that movie, The Happening.
So, like, I'll just... I'll just sort of trust... I'll trust that these ugly fucking clothes are keeping this guy's dick and balls from, like, exploding or whatever.
I mean, he literally looks like he's just wearing foil pants.
Like... It does!
It is!
It's really bad.
Yeah, guess what?
Yo, dude, I bet that dude's dick at balls is sweaty.
That shit does not seem good at all.
Yeah, keeps out 100% of 5G and also airflow.
Make sure that your package has like a robust musk to it whenever you peel yourself out of this cling film.
I did not think the opening of this pod was going to be trashing clothes, be it horrible comic t-shirts or M.I.A.' 's psychotic break clothing line.
Assuming how fucking bad your clothing line has to be for me to have the confidence to look at it and be like, this is bad and stupid.
This is bad and stupid and it's not fashionable and anybody wearing this would just be like, It'd be like, oh, you're clearly filming some sort of incredibly low-budget superhero movie.
It looks like a takedown of the genre based on how dumb you look.
Excellent irony, chaps.
Well done.
Very good irony, folks.
I can't wait to see the movie when it comes out.
And then just very confused of you.
M.I.A.' 's just like, I'm saving the world!
Ching, ching, and all that.
Take your money!
Oh, ain't it?
Yeah.
I know.
I cover my harsh background.
But that was like 30 years ago at this point, so I've seemed out of touch for a while.
Ching ching and I take your money!
Okay, yeah.
Good stuff.
I love the idea that they have a hardship in your, like, I love the idea that hardship in your past just gives you credibility forever.
Fuck that shit.
It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
When you've been successful for like 15 or 20 years, you don't get to say shit about shit.
Shut the fuck up.
You're too successful to do shit about anything.
Just kidding.
Alright! Enough of this horse shit. Here comes Mongo.
AKA, the Amuse-Bouche.
It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
Get ready for the Amuse-Bouche.
Bouche topic number one, something I know less than nothing about.
Let's go!
Dilbert comes after Mike.
Mike, are you the Mike?
Are you the Mike who is miked by Dilbert?
Yes.
Yeah?
Dilbert has come for me.
Dilbert is happening.
It is.
Well, I mean, Lord knows that guy's probably got free time now that every paper has got to shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He posted some nonsense.
He posted a thing that was basically If you think the Democrats are bad now, wait till they find out the truth about climate change.
And I grabbed that, did my standard thing where I screenshot you and then talk shit about you.
And I said, Scott Adams is probably just like six months away from saying, like, wait till the Democrats find out about the Holocaust.
And note that as I explain this, I did not tag him.
I did nothing to do to make sure that he would know about this.
Me and my piss middling fucking Twitter account.
But Scott Adams, obviously name searches.
He's obviously like fucking a lunatic.
And he found my tweet and then he yelled at me and he said, good way to change the topic away from the truth or whatever, talking about climate change.
And then we all yelled at him and Then one of my followers found that Scott Adams already has questioned the Holocaust.
He's not six months away from questioning the Holocaust.
He's already there.
He already did that.
And when this was brought up and I posted it to him, Scott Adams did not reply.
Mr. Gilbert did not have any comments about His previous questioning about the official narrative of what happened in World War II and all that good stuff.
So, that was great.
Yeah, there was that famous Dilbert comic about him complaining about not getting a raise.
And the punchline was, yeah, that's about as likely as the Holocaust happening.
And then like... Looking at that... Classic Dilbert!
With his tie all crooked and pointed up, oh Dilbert!
He's got his coffee in one hand, and he's questioning the validity of the Holocaust just like he always did.
Yes.
You know, I think there was a pretty anti-Semitic Garfield comic that week, too.
There was a wild one.
Some people did bring that up in my timeline, that basically he just created the newer version of ultra-lazy Garfield bullshit, where it's like, it's Monday!
Time to make a comic about hating Mondays!
It's Tuesday!
Lasagna!
Wednesday!
Hating Odie!
Thursday!
Hating John!
Friday!
Hating Nermal!
Sequence over!
I know it's obviously just because hindsight is 20-20, but it's hard not to look back at the 80s and before and just be like, Really?
These were the ideas that were, like, getting over the goal line?
Like, this shit seemed pretty easy back then.
I mean, and if you go back even further, you're just, like, Family Circus.
This is, like, or, like, Cathy!
What the fuck's going on with this?
And, like, this is a thing?
Like, the person doing Cathy could barely draw.
It was just, like, is this, like, I could be, this could be my job?
I could do this?
I could do this!
Yeah, that was my reaction the first time I saw a Dilbert comic, was like, this is a bunch of circles.
How the fuck is this a cartoon in my fucking newspaper?
Oh, OK, I'm about to go on a tangent.
I'm sorry.
And you know it's probably going to be a little weird when I'm calling it out ahead of time.
OK, that reminded me, this weird thing is happening where I'm seeing stuff on Twitter.
We need to put an end to it right now.
Because it happened 20 years ago or whatever, people are starting to come around on the comic loss.
The infamous webcomic, Loss.
Look it up if you don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but it was like this hilarious, like, it's a perpetual meme, it's a funny joke thing, and, like, people these days are trying to, like, retroactively say that it's actually not bad and maybe even good, or maybe even having, like, trying to have something to say.
The same way they're trying to do that with the prequel Star Wars trilogy, by the way.
You're all fucking wrong.
You just grew up with trash, so you don't know any better.
Yeah, rip off your nostalgia goggles.
I did it for the original trilogy.
That shit is not great.
Only one of those- anyway.
It's important for us to all remember.
Loss is a comic.
Was somebody trying to use a format that was way out of pocket to communicate a message that did not belong there.
That is where the dissonance is.
That's where all the humor comes from.
Nobody looks at Lost and is laughing about, like, a miscarriage.
Everyone's looking at it and just being like, Jesus, what the fuck?
Like, that would be like having, like, a very special episode of Ren and Steppy, you know?
We're just playing it straight down the line.
Just Ren and Stimpy go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
They hear a bunch of sad stories.
There's no punchline.
The punchline is just, here it is.
It's presented to you in this format.
There is no punchline.
Like, nobody wants that.
That would be stupid.
Like, and it was stupid when Lost did it.
Rant over.
Correct.
I actually saw that Lost Discord online, and it was like, no, you don't understand.
The point was, this was a dumb gaming comic joke thing, and then this guy decided to do this serious miscarriage storyline in the middle of it, which is ridiculous.
You don't do that.
No.
Stay in your lane.
Your lane is well-defined.
Yeah, for the record, Penny Arcade is not without its controversy.
But Penny Arcade was going on long enough that they had to do a webcomic the day after 9-11 happened.
Like, they were expected to upload a thing.
So literally that day, they uploaded a picture of the main character for that comic, just being like, dude, we don't feel like being funny today, bro.
Like, shit is rough.
And that was that.
Like, they didn't try to, like, say anything with it, you know?
Like, sometimes your format just isn't the right way to communicate something of that magnitude.
That's why people think that Lost sucks.
And I'm tired of, like, people trying to gaslight my memory of a thing, like, because they think it's, like, somehow helping progress.
It's like, no.
Like, I'm allowed to think a thing is bad and stupid.
And especially if it was, like, as tone-deaf as that is.
You don't get to fucking, like, change the narrative on me 20 years on because you're just like, actually, it was about a guy going through some shit.
Yeah, don't go through shit publicly on your dorky video game upcoming.
Anyway, sorry, this is taking way too long.
We were talking about Dilbert.
That's why I'm talking about comics.
Dilbert came after you.
So it was just a one and done exchange, like a drive-by.
Like you guys got into a brief spat, and then when you came at him with some facts about tonight, the Holocaust, he just left.
Yeah, oh, he bolded very quickly.
Yeah, he got out of there right fast.
So that was the long and the short of it, but it was just so funny.
Your brush with greatness.
It was.
It was an actual brush with greatness.
Hey, the next time you talk to your friend, whatever this guy's name is, creator of Dilbert, Ask him if he remembers, like, 25 years ago when he was, like, at the, like, kick of the world.
It's like, hey, remember when you couldn't go into a Spencer Gifts or a Hallmark store or whatever without seeing your stupid merchandise all over the place?
How you doing now?
How's it going, bud?
Yeah!
How does it feel to have very obviously peaked and now it's all downhill?
Literally all downhill.
And you're sacrificing it for what, exactly?
Right.
Like, climate change is bullshit.
Okay, I guess.
I know!
Rave.
You're like, yeah, 30 years ago you couldn't walk into a store without seeing all my merch everywhere.
Now I'm on Twitter typing in my own name and hitting search and seeing some guy giving me shit about denying climate change and you're all like, I'M GONNA TELL HIM!
LET ME GET TO CLICKITY-CLACKIN' ON THESE KEYS AND LET THIS GUY KNOW THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS BULLSHIT!
I'LL SHOW YOU, MR. POKER IN POLITICS!
YEAH!
And also, in hindsight, like, If Dilbert was drawing on personal experience, he'd say, yeah dude, you deserve to be a corporate drone.
Your brain is too smooth for you to be a thinker, and I'm assuming your body is too weak for you to be a mover.
So you get to be a cubicle drone.
Sucks for you, but I don't know, get smarter or stronger, and then you get a different lane.
Yeah.
The world of strongos and smartos is not for you, the office drone, because you are too stupid and too weak to be either of the other two things.
And I'm saying this because if he's hate tweeting at you, maybe he's listening to the show.
Maybe he's going to talk about how his comic is all circles, how he peaks, how he sucks.
That'd be great.
Dilbert, come on the podcast.
Yeah, Dilbert.
Yeah, we'll let you on.
No problem.
Come on, Scott Adams.
Yeah, dude.
I mean, like, hey, if you listen to all of this and you're still willing to come on, knowing the level of heat you're going to be getting, then fuck yeah, come on.
I'll fucking be like, hey, your comic was shitty, and you can come at me about having more money than me, but at the end of the day, dude, your comic's shitty.
You're probably shitty that it got cancelled.
You're probably...
I just, I would, my question for him would just be, how did you have the balls to fucking make a comic that poorly drawn when Calvin and Hobbes was like still in fucking newspapers everywhere?
Like, Calvin and Hobbes, like Bill Watterson like fucking busted his ass to do fucking art.
And here you are just fucking, couple circles and there's a character and he says a thing about work.
Give me money please.
Jesus.
Dude, this is still like a thousand times better than Family Circus, though.
Yes!
This is literally just the most boring thing imaginable in a circle.
Okay.
Alright!
Speaking of the most boring thing ever, sorry about my rant about loss, but I got worked up.
Let's move on to something that, like, I put an exclamation point at the end of it because I was so excited to hear it's back.
We're talking Kim Trails, baby!
What's going on, Kim Trails Mike?
Uh, so Tennessee, uh, has passed a law that, uh, prevents, like, geoengineering and ba-ba-ba-ba-ba and all these other fancy words, but the long and the short of it- Oh my god, are they teaming up with MIA?
Are they making your clothing mandatory?
Is it gonna be like- Is it gonna be like that cancelled Yeezy school where everybody was gonna wear white robes like they were about to walk into Zordon's Palace and, you know?
Eat nothing but sushi.
With your precious sperm protected by your silver boxer shorts.
Yeah.
So the long and the short of this bill was that chemtrails are illegal.
They've outlawed chemtrails in Tennessee.
You can no longer spray the good people of Tennessee with the deadly deep state chemicals that turn us into mindless drones and give us cancer.
And all the rest of it.
People have been posting photos of Tennessee's skies still apparently full of chemtrails.
People are not happy with the results.
This law has not created the pristine skies over their heads that they were expecting.
Where's this?
Oklahoma?
Tennessee.
Tennessee.
My god.
Tennessee has a little more spice to it.
I wouldn't consider Tennessee A place that I would want to avoid completely, but if their intended bill is to make it so that I can't fly over it, then I feel like it's like, what are you if you're not even a flyover state?
You know?
It'd just be like, remember that state, Tennessee?
And it'd be like, no, not really.
I haven't heard of it in a while, because they won't let anybody fly over it.
And because they're that level of crazy, nobody wants to drive through it.
That's where Daily Wire is headquartered, so I'm sure that it's a real normal state, you know?
I remember them having a bitchin' aquarium back when I was a little kid.
Mike, what do you know about Tennessee?
What I know about Tennessee is that the chemtrail bill passed, but someone, I hope this was a Democrat, but someone tried to put a proviso in the bill to not disturb Bigfoot's natural habitat, but that was voted down 71 to 18.
They were like, fuck Bigfoot!
to 18. They were like, fuck Bigfoot. Yes. We the people of Tennessee acknowledge the
existence of Bigfoot and we say fuck em.
Oh man, the person who put this rider in the bill actually used the term cryptozoology.
This person knows their cryptids.
I salute this Tennessean Congress critter for knowing the lore and the lexicon of this world.
Conservatives need protecting.
Other cryptids probably need...
Like, protecting by the government, right?
Like, the Loch Ness, the water he's in is probably at dangerously low levels.
Yeah, that's a different country, so fuck him.
We've got our, we need to be fucking protecting, what was it, Champ and Ogopogo, and there's at least one other Nessie-like, I think.
Is Ogopogo in Canada?
I don't know.
With the Chevron reversal, the air is going to be much dirtier, and Mothman's going to be affected.
Mothman may no longer eat your whole ass at a Denny's.
Mothman may just not have the energy to give you the rim drop you deserve.
Dude, Mothman is going to pack it up and go to Tennessee, where the air is going to be clean and free of whatever the stuff is that they could never prove is coming out of those airplanes.
Bold move to ban a thing that you can't prove exists.
It's pretty strong.
I do love that.
I do love that we're just legislating make-em-ups now.
That's pretty cool.
We can just add that to the list of stuff that's happening in our country right now.
That's pretty awesome.
Yeah.
And you know what?
Unicorns are prohibited from using public facilities inside the borders of Wisconsin.
Thank you very much.
It's just like, okay, cool.
You got it.
You showed them.
You're not going to do the thing.
Nope.
Nuts to that.
I've always thought that unicorns were getting a free ride.
Finally, finally someone to push back on big unicorn.
Dude, some TikTok streamer is going to glue a horn on a horse and try to make a funny video.
They're going to get beaten to death by those cops.
Yes!
Those officers are going to take the opportunity, because that's all cops want to do is kill somebody.
Yes!
Every cop secretly waiting for their opportunity to kill somebody.
That's why they became a cop.
That's how it works.
That's the flip side.
That's the engine that powers the cat distribution system that TikTok loves to talk about.
Where people will just be out in the wild and like a kitten will just walk up to them and be like, meow, take me home, I'm adorable.
Yeah, that engine of purity is powered by pure police malice.
They're beating that energy out of unsuspecting people.
It's the darkest Monsters, Inc.
sequel possible.
Yeah.
So think about that the next time you dare think a kitten is cute, you know?
All right, so that's enough talking about Kim Trails.
Although, God, I wish we could talk about him every week because, again, it's so fun.
It's so fun and so easily disprovable.
It's like the perfect conspiracy.
But enough of that horse shit.
It's time to talk about Arizona.
Everybody's favorite tea.
The CEO of which going viral for being a mensch.
Good for him.
Way to go, Arizona guy.
But sadly, we are talking about the state and not the delicious tea.
Hi Haley, you're the correspondent for Harazona.
You're Harazona's advocate, as it were.
Yeah, you're L today, like L. Oh yeah, gotcha.
I forgot I had to do that because the recording studio we use was no longer allowing me to just use a single character as my name.
Tell that to Q, motherfucker!
Anyway.
So, what's going on in the fine state of AZ to Daisy?
Which AZ?
Everyone was lazy.
And crazy.
I'm gonna hit us with a few updates on a few things that we've been talking about lately.
And we'll start with some good fucking news.
What?
Yeah!
What?
Okay.
Good fucking news!
Hellworld After Dark.
It is actually shocking news because we've been teasing it for a while but the Arizona for Abortion Access ballot initiative has been submitted and it was a record-breaking number of signatures.
A bunch of pro-choice groups turned in the ballots this morning.
It was 823,685 signatures total.
They only needed 383,923 signatures, so they over doubled it.
This is one out of five registered voters in Arizona that signed this thing.
They did 383,923 signatures, so they over doubled it.
This is one out of five registered voters in Arizona that signed this thing.
So that's good.
So this will do good.
Arizona will be interesting in November for all those who keep asking.
And I think we have a pretty good shot of enshrining the right to abortion in our state constitution.
This will also expand abortion rights in the state.
It's not just like, you know, keeping us at the status quo.
It's actually doing more, I think, in my opinion.
So yeah, go Arizona for once.
Um, okay.
I refuse to say go Arizona.
Although that is a win.
It is.
That is a win.
The people recognize that Arizona did chalk up a dub, but we refuse to say go Arizona.
Go Arizona!
All right, so last week we talked about Walter Ringfield Jr., who was the fellow who has allegedly stolen a bit of stuff out of the
Maricopa County Election Center.
I said last week that this was going to be like kind of an ongoing big deal and it yeah it um
Right wingers, this is like proof that the election is going to be stolen kind of like conspiracies floating around.
Last week I said too that the police said there was no motivation in the theft at the Maricopa Election Center.
And so far that is still true, but you wouldn't know that watching right-wing media.
A senior advisor for Carrie Lake has been on Bannon's War Room basically every single day since this story happened, just spreading a ton of conspiracies about this guy.
And Gateway Pundit has started to kind of go after his girlfriend, his partner, because you know, they have some like Black Lives Matter stuff in
their social media and just in general, you know, seem to be pro-LGBTQ. But also this week some
more information came out that besides stealing the security key and the fob from the
election center, it seems he also stole some stuff when session ended last
month when the legislative session ended. He
He lied about He was working for a lawmaker and was stealing shit out of people's desks.
He stole some challenge coins from the security guard's desk.
and then he also was charged yesterday with apparently back in May of this year
he stole quite a bit of worth of value items from the Phoenix Art Museum
So now he's being accused of theft at the Phoenix Art Museum, which is like our big museum here.
Was fired for theft at his employer last year at Fry's.
Again, there's no political motivation on this guy and I'm not trying to assign motivation here.
It seems like this guy maybe has a little bit of a problem.
as far as stealing.
But right-wingers are taking this as more proof that he's being paid
to steal the items in the election center and kind of cooking up
conspiracies basically that like yeah, someone on the Soros dime is paying this man to
steal election equipment and also a bunch of other random shit for no explainable
reason.
So again, this guy is going to probably stay in the news in at least right-wing sphere
for quite a while because they are going to eventually accuse this man of stealing the
Maricopa election probably.
So we'll get back to him probably in a few months unless anything else comes up.
Also, I just want to correct one thing.
Last week I said that it was like, Stephen Richard basically came out and said that a
rumor about this man running for U.S.
Senate was false, and it was actually Stephen Richer that was wrong on that, and he did run for Senate despite not being old enough.
Well, he submitted a, you know, he submitted a statement of interest to run for Senate, which is nothing, really, because he didn't get any signatures and he didn't move any further than that.
He wasn't old enough to run anyway, but there's just a lot of misinformation around this man right now, and in general, the conspiracies are already cooking up.
So he'll be an interesting character that we'll probably keep hearing about.
The gift that keeps on giving?
That would be that guy?
Oh, absolutely.
Him and probably his partner are going to be relevant for The future.
So, um, there's that.
And then also just because we're eventually going to talk about debates, I feel like I need to mention that there's some attention on Mark Lamb, uh, because who is the, the, the, the Pinal County Sheriff who is running, uh, in the primary against Carrie Lake.
He's a Republican.
Um, And there was supposed to be a debate between the two of them, but Carrie did not debate.
She doesn't want to debate.
It's like, Katie Hobbs didn't want to debate Carrie because she wasn't going to look good in that.
Carrie doesn't want to debate Lamb because she's not going to look good in that.
Like the paper of record here is kind of like kissing Lam's ass because he debated, he chose to do the debate without Kerry and saying he's like the more sensible choice and like he's reasonable because he's not like pushing the election disinformation thing which is total bullshit, he like was literally at the pit.
What?
Um, so yeah, I think it's funny this, like, kind of, uh, whitewashing of Mark Lamb just because he's not Carrie Lake, uh, especially because this week his son, uh, announced a podcast with Kyle Rittenhouse, and that whole family is just friendly with Rittenhouse, so it's a real cool family, and, um, Yeah, there is kind of just this little push to kind of like pick Lamb over Lake, but that's not going to happen.
She's still going to definitely win.
So that's what's happening in Arizona.
Sounds awesome, as always.
In Arizona, always such fun and interesting stuff happening.
Thankfully this week we get to chuck up a dub for the Zonester.
Although, there are two L's behind it, so.
It is what it is.
Hey, a win is a win.
You know, we love wins.
Don't let me diminish the wins.
But also at the same time, we will not be saying go Arizona.
Let's get into Q's in the news.
From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the news.
Alright, uh, this is gonna suck this week.
This is gonna suck shit.
Let's do this in order of shittiness.
Starting with the least shitty thing.
Uh, RFK.
The fuck is this guy on about, dude?
Like, I saw some clips floating around on Twitter the past couple of days.
Ridiculous.
Has this guy always sounded like he fucking is gargling asphalt?
Yes, apparently he had some kind of injury, which I think he blames on vaccines that turned his voice into fucking gargling, just horrible dude.
Vaccine?
Counterpoint?
It's a worm.
Worms ate your throat just like they ate your fucking brains.
So if we're going to be making up excuses for what injury actually causes you to sound like that, I'm going to go worm.
And as soon as you decide you don't want to be on Team Vaccine anymore, buddy, I'll acknowledge what actual injury causes you to sound like that.
But first of all, I had never heard that guy speak, I guess, or at least speak the way he was speaking in this clip.
No possible way that guy could be the President of the United States.
Get outta here!
No.
Like, the President of the United States has to speak publicly, and when that goes wrong, It goes very wrong, which we'll get into later.
So, let's just say hell no.
But also, I feel like the subject matter... You know, thinking back, I feel like the subject matter of what he was saying may have been a little crazy.
Mike, what out-of-pocket shit has RFK been talking about?
So, articles came out about all kinds of absolute unhinged madness involving RFK Jr.
If you have not heard about this, boy howdy, are you in for a treat right now?
Because this lunatic... The least offensive part about this was that he apparently was eating a barbecued dog.
They barbecued a dog, and the man was helping himself to some dog barbecue.
I don't know why, but when you said barbecued a dog, I... There are some phrases that, like, Trump will lose writ free in my head enough, where sometimes when I hear certain phrases, I just can't help but picture it in his word.
Like, barbecued a dog!
Barbecued a dog!
He was barbecued like a dog.
You know what?
Let RFK debate these guys.
Now that we need somebody who can actually stand up on stage, on a podium, next to Donald Trump and actually say words.
I say let RFK do it.
I want to hear him go, brains eaten by worms.
I don't know what to tell you about this guy.
He's got my brain, perfect brain.
You've never seen such a smart brain.
Completely worm-free, my brain.
But who had worms?
Best worms.
Oh yeah.
So, uh, Mr. Barbecued Dog Eater, uh, was being asked by the interviewer, so what's all this about you assaulting your nanny?
And RFK's reaction was to say, look, I'm not, I never, I didn't run for president claiming that I was a choir boy.
I never came, claimed that I was like some squeaky clean Johnny gum lately.
And the interviewer pressed him on it, was like, do you deny this?
And he was just like, look, I'm not getting into it.
I ain't getting into what's going on here vis-a-vis me assaulting the woman that was raising my children.
I'm just telling you straight, like, I got some skeletons in my closet, me and RFK Jr., just the way things go, you know?
Just the way it is.
The interviewer was just like, so you're not denying this?
And he was just like, word salad, total madness, but not a denial.
And then the interviewer was like, okay, I tried to get you to deny it repeatedly.
You're not denying it.
Uh, time for some ads or something.
Cause holy fuck, what are you doing, bro?
And yeah.
Yeah, I feel like that article, the Vanity Fair article, really buried the sexual assault stuff in that.
It was, like, really far at the bottom and not the headline.
Well, to be fair, that's all I've been hearing about.
I didn't hear the barbecued dog thing.
I assumed he had said more than one crazy thing in that interview, but the only thing I heard coverage of was his inability to say, no, I did not assault that woman.
Which is pretty cool.
I do like that he can't legally say that.
But, you know, at least he's savvy enough to know he shouldn't say that.
So, yeah, that was insane.
And, uh, the photos of him holding the barbecued dog carcass are out there.
Yeah, so what was the context of him talking about barbecuing a dog?
How are conservatives, like, I mean, again, our country said, like, the fact that this isn't a crazy layup in the election year this year is insane.
Because, like, this is the second conservative who just, like, didn't get the memo that people like dogs.
And that you shouldn't talk about killing or eating them.
And don't talk about killing dogs.
And especially don't talk about eating dogs.
Yeah, and the best part about RFK was that this was supposed to be the guy that was going to steal votes away from Joe Biden.
This was Steve Bannon's pet project to throw chaos into the election.
I'm going to bring in this Kennedy and people are going to vote for him instead of Sleepy Joe.
And Steve Bannon, known moron, this didn't work.
In jail, by the way, now.
Yes, Steve Bannon is currently in jail.
A couple days ago, the House of Representatives did a laugh-stitch, Hail Mary thing, where they did a vote saying the January 6th committee was illegitimate, and they sent a letter to the Supreme Court saying, Hey, we just said the January 6th to me was bullshit, so please let Steve Bannon go.
And the Supreme Court was like, we're too busy doing other crazy shit.
Fuck that.
Steve Bannon, off to jail, moron.
So yeah, enjoy that.
Enjoy your summer and fall in Club Fed, you moron who thought that RFK Jr.
was Someone that normies would totally vote for because we like dog eating and women assaulting and all that other good stuff.
Yeah.
Again, I can't get over the dog thing.
Just, like, there's so few things that are still considered just toxic to almost everybody.
And it's just, like, dogs are one of them.
Country stars sing about dogs, and, like, everybody agrees that puppies are cute and stuff.
Just, like, hey.
I mean, I don't mean to be giving advice to the enemy or whatever, but, like, don't fucking kill or eat dogs.
Don't do or talk about that.
Yeah, it should not be hard.
This really shouldn't be hard.
But apparently they can't not do it.
So, I mean, it's just the way it works for these people.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Is my podcast interrupting y'all's cute little phone conversation?
No, I heard that ding and then both of y'all went straight to your goddamn phones.
I sent it to you, too, Al.
You're getting the photo of the shirt.
My shit is muted because I'm profesh.
Yes, I know.
It's in my computer, so it dings.
I'm sorry, everyone!
You found this?
Yes!
You fucking prevert, dude!
How dare you!
For the listener, this is a picture of the art that was on that shirt.
Yes.
Absolutely unreal, and I can't imagine any scenario where this isn't some of that CNC thing.
Yeah.
In fact, I mean, Spider-Man's got the little lines to indicate his spider senses going off, and I don't think that Pussy does that normally.
So whatever they're doing, there's an element of danger to it, and he's reacting, and I'm sure that's given him a huge big boner.
Anyway, this is crazy.
You should post it on Twitter, though, so the audience is aware.
I will.
I absolutely will.
Okay, you know what, Mike?
Despite the fact that it was super unprofessional for both of you to be dinging your phones and looking at it and cackling and all the while leaving me out because my phone is muted because I am professional, I will say that that was a fun bit of levity that we're gonna need as we get to our second topic in order of magnitude of shittiness.
Joe Biden dared to challenge the gods by attempting to speak publicly after 7pm and we are paying the price.
To answer your question, our headlines for the week are not written in the magnitude of their shittiness.
We're going over the magnitude of shittiness with the SCOTUS thing being the last.
Spoiler warning.
For anyone who is living in a cave on Mars with their eyes closed and their fingers at their ears.
The worst thing to happen this week is yet to come.
But the second worst thing to happen is... Wow, fucking Sleepy Joe!
Wow!
Yeah, so...
We had a debate and it went really poorly.
This was very bad.
The best part about this is that we are now on day six of bad debate, recap, rehash, freak out.
Right now our media has blood in the water.
Literally, they had a press conference where the White House press secretary was just like, hey, blah, blah, blah.
Like, the president would tell you this himself directly.
And then someone in the press corps, like, sniped at her.
If he was awake!
People are... Yeah, got him!
Boom!
Roasted!
Yeah, so, like, this is... It's crazy.
This is crazy.
We're in this situation right now where basically people, the media and a lot of people online now are wondering, like, is Biden going to continue to stay in the race or not?
There's at least an Arizona lawmaker and like a representative and a couple other lawmakers have also called for Biden to drop out.
Are they Democrats or Republicans?
Democrats.
Democrats.
Okay.
Like the, like, uh, the, the golden, some guy, the guy from Maine was like, literally like, Trump's going to win and it's going to be okay, folks.
And it's like, holy shit, bro.
Like, calm down.
What are we doing?
Like the, it is wild, the, uh, what's going on here.
But, uh, from everything that I've been reading online and basically, and all the massive quantities of money that the Biden campaign has raked in up to this point.
The only person who could have access to those piles of money were Biden to step out of the race would be Kamala Harris.
So basically your options are Biden-Harris or a fantasy Taylor Swift write-in campaign.
So beyond that, this is what we've got going for us here in America in the year of our Lord 2024.
I think it's funny that people are freaking out that Biden is old because it's like, were you not paying attention before this?
He's kind of been a bit old and sleepy.
Um, but, yeah, it's funny to see the freak out.
Um... Okay, I mean, I'm gonna devil's advocate here.
That, by all metrics, that debate was a disaster.
It was so funny.
It was, like, I mean, funny, yes, but the stakes are too high for it to be ha-ha funny.
It's more like...
Oh, like, did Joe Biden just checkmate himself out of, like, this presidential race?
I mean, it's just like, it's hard to imagine him showing up to that debate and doing worse.
Like, I don't, like, it's like... He could have walked off, just like... Yeah, he could have needed to just, like, literally, completely black out and just wander off the stage like a Roomba.
And just fall into the audience, would have been the only way to do worse.
Oh, there was no audience, so just wander off, like, in front of nobody, for nothing.
A cameraman just, like, getting a tight close-up of him just, like, on the ground, all mangled, like a Family Guy cartoon.
I was literally thinking family guy as soon as you started saying that.
I'm not thrilled to fucking say it.
It's obviously shitty because I do not want Donald Trump to be our president again.
Crazy that it happened the first time, in fact.
And really punishing that it happened the first time, which we're seeing now.
But yeah, I feel like there is cause for people to be concerned.
Even if you're not worried about his being able to perform the duties of the president,
like maybe you're just like, meh, he can probably do all the stuff he needs to do before 5pm.
Even if that's true, the performance at the debate has really started to sink his campaign.
Which has to be acknowledged as being empirically fucking bad.
The fact that we're almost a week on and all people are talking about is whether or not he should even be running anymore is bananas.
The other guy just got convicted of 37 felonies or whatever.
Like, what?
How much of a bag fumble do you need to do to get that out of the headlines?
Because Sleepy Joe did it!
He managed to pull it off!
Yeah, that's the thing is, I don't think that Biden's going to step out of the race, but if he were, I would not be hugely opposed to it under the pretext that you basically just say, okay, look, folks, I'm fucking old as shit, and I'm gonna dip out now.
Now, I want all you assholes who spent the last week screaming and yelling about how I'm too old and I can't fucking do this, I want you to feast your eyes on Donald Trump, Mr. Shark Electrocution.
Now that you can't beat me up anymore because I'm gone, I want to see that same intensity about the mental acuity of my opponent, of my former opponent, because I'm done.
And Vice President Harris is now the one running this ship.
So let's talk about some mild incline ramps.
Let's talk about sharks.
Let's talk about all that good stuff.
I'll get on that.
And let's see if our media actually decides to treat Trump the same way they're treating Biden.
Alright, so hot takes only.
Mike Rains, do you think Sleepy Joe Biden should drop out of the race?
Just from an unbelievably pragmatic situation, I would say yes, just because that's what I want.
I want the media to be yelled at about the fact that They've done the Biden is old thing for years and years and years, and it's been their one thing they've beat on him with.
And for some reason, like every time anyone says to the media, yeah, but what about Trump?
They're like, oh, but he's loud and he wears bronzer and his hair's funny.
So the American people don't code him as old.
And it's like, I think the American people would code him as old if you just like started reporting on the stuff that comes out of his mouth at these rallies.
Like the absolute incoherence this man spews.
And like Biden is basically a shield for Trump's incoherence because whenever anyone brings it up, the media is just like, Oh no, sleepy Joe.
He's incoherent.
He's old.
So it's a wash between the two candidates.
So it's like, you just take that Biden dementia shield away from Trump and let's see how things go.
Do I think it will happen?
Probably not.
Would I like it to happen?
Yes.
How about you, Hayley?
Where do you land?
What, you didn't think you were immune to hot takes only?
No, I mean, it's not like I'm a huge Biden fan or like a huge, like, trumpeter of, you know, mainstream Democrats or any of these losers, but, um, and you shouldn't like your president, people.
This goes for both sides.
Just don't, don't like the president.
Hold them accountable.
Um, but, uh, in general, Um, yeah he should be replaced because I would love for the meme of Kamala president to happen.
Um, I think that I got like, this is how I measure politics is when my normie friends start to reach out to me with something that they've noticed that it's reached maximum, it's reached maximum capacity, the normies are talking about it, and I had some friends Text me about the Biden debate.
I had a friend text me that only texts me when politics reaches his brain and he's like, I gotta reach out to the one person that I know is politics.
And they reached out to me about it and he doesn't like Trump.
He's terrified of Trump.
He's actually incredibly fearful of Trump and he feels like that it was a problem.
Uh, and just my other friends that reached out also felt like it was a problem.
Uh, so I kind of like to listen to the Normie, uh, conversation.
Um, and if like just the kind of the people who are like fearful of Trump feel there's a problem, there's probably a little bit of a problem like that.
Everybody kind of feels like there's a problem.
Everybody's worried because they don't want Trump.
It's not, you know, that's the main concern is like, we want to beat Trump.
Right.
Like all that matters is winning this election.
How do we win the election?
And to me, it's just like, I think the easiest thing in the world to do is you have Biden like hand the keys over to Harris.
And immediately you have, like, ads of Kamala Harris, like, walking down flights of stairs talking to people.
Show her doing Pilates.
Being like, and now, how's our opponent doing?
Smash cut to him shambling down incline.
She just needed good talking points and she could kill it.
And, um, also I think just how, like, How much of the media cycle this would take up, like, holy shit, Biden stepped down and Kamala's in, would just, like, boost the name recognition so much it would just be basically an ad in itself.
Yeah.
But I know we would have to deal with, eventually, once everything cooled down, if Kamala became president, the most worst type of awful people, you know, hating on Kamala.
It would be like Obama plus Hillary got elected.
But I'm fine with that as long as we beat Trump.
I don't want Trump on this.
That's... Right.
What matters here is that Trump has to lose.
So, like, do I think this is going to happen 60-40?
No.
But do I want it to happen?
Yes.
Because...
I don't think Biden will sub down.
I am also not immune to hot takes only, so my hot take is that after that disastrous performance at the debate, I think that sleepy Joe Biden is currently probably losing an election, like if it happened right now, to Donald Trump.
But I think that he could possibly beat Trump If we can somehow get over this hump, and I, in my bones, I 100% don't feel like if they switch the candidates that we can beat Trump.
I just feel like if we switch this far into the stream, and it's just like, especially because Kamala Harris, nobody really knows who that is, really.
You know what I mean?
I don't know a single fucking thing about her.
I don't know a thing about her except I know that racists don't like her.
And I think that giving the keys over to that particular person... I think it's just conceding.
I don't actually think there's a way to get... I think Trump has too much juice and I think the race is too close for that sort of horseshit.
So somehow I think the Democrats have to prove that Sleepy Joe Biden is a candidate worthy of Democrats rallying around.
If Joe Biden decides he's sticking it out, for the love of God, progressives, Please swallow your pride this time.
I mean, some of you talked real big and maybe actually even didn't vote for Hillary back when it counted, and we are getting our asses paddled real bad for that decision right now.
Like, our asses are so red for reasons we'll get over.
And I don't know how many of you actually did that, but for those of you who quote-unquote stuck to your guns and voted your conscience, you couldn't possibly vote for Hillary Clinton.
Well, here we are now, and we're looking at the barrel of a Donald Trump's second victory.
So even if it has to be Joe Biden, even if you really, really, really support Palestine or whatever, we need to get our sleepy boy over the coal line.
Spirit bomb, Democrat gathering.
Now, liberals, all energy coalesce.
Let's wake up our boy.
Let's get some of those performance-enhancing drugs I've heard so much about.
Right.
Let's get the chrome.
Where's the chrome when we need it, dude?
Sleepy Joe's horrible performance has to prove that adrenochrome is bullshit, right?
No way they let that guy out there!
It was like they're pumping him with performance-enhancing drugs before the debate, and then the most fucking dogshit performance ever happens, and it's like, well, were that... I bet they're all just like, yeah, we called attention to the PEDs so they couldn't get that chrome in them.
No, they're good.
Chuck it up as a big W for themselves.
I think it was at CNN, so I think it was at Atlanta.
What you do now is you create an account of, like, an Atlanta cop.
You create this whole roleplay account, like Atlanta Highway Patrol or whatever, and you come up with a story about how you busted the truck that was full of the chrome that was supposed to go to Biden's headquarters before the debate, and that you're the reason why he came out all miserable and useless, and you just build off that narrative.
No way, man.
You know who was supposed to supply the chrome?
JT.
But he got pinched by the fuzz.
Oh yeah, I can see that.
All because some young buck didn't know who brought sexy back.
The whole country's gonna fall because that one guy couldn't clog Justin Timberlake.
You just had to be humble and not just be like, you don't know who I am, do you?
I used to be a big deal.
Now I'm the very definition of past his prime or whatever.
I've been a punchline for 13 years.
Oh God, yeah.
Speaking of, El mentioned the Free Palestine stuff.
At the debate and in a later rally, Donald Trump used Palestinian as a slur.
Yeah, we should talk about that because the media was too focused on all the Biden stuff.
That was honestly the most offensive shit of the debate.
Yeah, no shit!
Like, what the fucking shit?
And yeah, that's a new thing.
Palestinian as a slur.
You're a bad Palestinian.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I was trying to... How do you... I mean, I guess.
But is it only for use against those people?
No, it was like Trump called Biden a Palestinian as an insult.
Like, as a slur.
Yes.
He's basically a Palestinian.
Just like, boom.
Just like, look at this Palestinian I'm debating here.
Boom.
Roasted.
I mean, that's bad, but it's not like exactly new.
I mean, Obama was Kenyan the whole time he was in office, right?
Yeah, I was incredibly racist.
I mean, I'm not trying to excuse it.
It's obviously racist and fucked up, but it's not like new news that Donald Trump would just be like... I bet that dude does not know how to put the right proper inflection on Jew to make it not sound horrible.
That's a tough needle.
Like, to go through?
And I bet that Trump would fail that test every time.
Like, that guy needs to stick to people of Jewish faith.
Like, that is the way, like, even I go that route most of the time.
It's hard.
I mean, you know, dickheads have made that word hard to say without it coming off a little aggressive.
Yeah, after the debate, he basically said that Chuck Schumer is Jewish, but he's Palestinian because he's supporting Palestine.
And it was just like, man.
Fucking Palestinian Jew over here.
Yes!
Exactly.
It's like, what the hell are you doing?
Oh my god.
And Lord knows if anything's going to happen with it or not, but literally breaking news in the podcast, Israel has just announced that they've received Hamas's latest offer, and they're encouraged.
There's some movement here.
Israel's like, we can work with this.
Well, yeah.
They know it's going to be tough to fight them and to go to war with Lebanon.
They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do we hit our target of 100,000 dead you?
OK, cool.
We did it.
All right.
Lebanon it is.
Because if Bibi is ever not at war, he gets kicked out of power immediately.
They're just like, oh, wait a minute.
We fucking hate this guy.
Get the fuck out of there.
Yeah.
Please, the Kinset, the Israeli parliament, please topple your government and get rid of Bibi.
That would be great.
Much love.
Fire some rockets into Russia.
Let's get spicy.
Yes.
Hashtag, let's get spicy, because you know what's good for incumbent presidents?
War.
You know?
True.
Yes.
I hate to say it, but that would be... And you know what's typically really good for the American economy?
War.
You know, a nice big war?
It's like, things are looking a little bleak.
It's time for America to get back to what we're fucking good at.
War!
At what point does the culture warfare that politics has become nowadays make it ethical for liberals to be calling for actual warfare?
Someone in the Heritage Foundation sent out a thing where they were like, we're in the middle of the second American Revolution right now, and it will stay bloodless if the left lets us.
Yeah, that was pretty interesting.
That was an interesting little take there from the Heritage Foundation.
Twitter insists that I like Star Wars, and I got into an argument with some... like, you know, a brief argument because I pulled myself out of it because it was stupid, but... So, like, somebody was taking umbrage of the fact that the Jedi Knights are... they're just like... they're really knights in name only.
They're really more like peaceful monks.
And, you know, they only really do violence for, like, self-defense.
And I was like...
George Lucas wrote and directed all three of the prequel trilogy movies where all of the Jedi were like generals and soldiers in a fucking galactic war where they were just like hanging out of dropships and like murdering soldiers and stuff it's like uh I feel like they're not necessarily the and like even if they're fighting robots at the time for some of it's like I don't think so but like that's it's still pretty violent anyway Also, that's a ridiculous statement from the Heritage Foundation guy, because it's like, oh, we'll remain bloodless, like, as the Supreme Court severely alters the foundation of our country, like, as if women haven't died as a result of the Roe v. Wade reversal, you know?
Like, the guy's a fuck.
He just means that it's not going to come to blows.
And he's right.
I don't feel like progressives really have it in them to come to blows.
We didn't talk about SCOTUS and there was an error.
We're getting there.
Yeah, we're getting there.
He's trying!
I'm gonna mention it.
I'm gonna mention the SCOTUS thing that's Arizona because I was saving it for this segment.
And it made almost no news except for like the New York Times.
Um, is that they rejected, um, a challenge to life sentences for juveniles, which was an Arizona case.
Uh, that was actually deemed unconstitutional a while back, was that you couldn't sentence juveniles to life in prison, uh, because that is a little bit fucking insane.
Um, and, uh, there was some juveniles in, Arizona prisons with life sentence and they were challenged that decision and the Supreme Court has decided that no children, you must stay in prison for the rest of your life.
So that's where we're at as far as Arizona and the Supreme Court.
Bloodless though.
What else happened with the Supreme Court, Mike?
Not much.
The federal American United States Supreme Court, the one that speaks for us, the people, Yeah, so the best part about this whole immunity bullshit is the fact that QAnon literally has spent months and months and months telling us that this was all horseshit and that Trump was going to lose this case, but that was the point, was that he was supposed to lose so that then we could arrest Obama and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
For the record, I don't blame him on this one, because everybody assumed that Donald Trump was going to lose this case, including the last time we talked to the Supreme Court justices about it, the Supreme Court justices, who I seem to remember like a month ago or whatever saying that they were broadly skeptical of this claim.
And that seemed to sort of like, everybody was like, yeah, I mean, like, obviously that's horseshit, right?
I mean, we can all agree that no matter how packed and corrupt the Supreme Court is, Like, even they seem to know that this is horse shit.
And then they went behind bars, or behind closed doors, I should say.
They'll never go behind bars.
They went behind closed doors, and some trips to different places to exchange hands, I'm sure, and probably some very expensive wines, and maybe even some, I don't know, envelopes full of actual money.
And then suddenly it was like, six-year decision, exactly the way you would expect it might go.
Maybe the president is immune to fucking crime.
Yeah.
President is just now unbeholden to the law.
We have literally created the God Emperor Presidency.
That is where we are now.
And the best part about this was that the Supreme Court made it incredibly fucking vague as to what is quote unquote an official act that is thusly the president has immunity for, which is basically their way of saying, If Sleepy Joe ever got out of line and a little out of pocket and started doing some shit, if somebody wanted to sue him, we would probably think that what he did was not an official act.
But when a Republican loses their fucking mind, that's an official act.
And as a result, you can't do anything about it.
And people have been going through this ruling and are particularly outraged and horrified across the board.
One person mentioned that in the opinion, the independence of the Department of Justice, which has been a cornerstone of America's government for forever, was thrown away by Justice Roberts, who was just like, by the way, the president could just tell the DOJ to investigate somebody, and that would be an official act, which is totally cool.
And it's like, no, the whole point of the DOJ and the presidency is they don't interact.
The DOJ does not take orders from the president.
And it's like, ah, now they do.
Now they do.
And it's totally cool and legal for the president to do that.
Just to just boss the federal judiciary prosecutorial force to do as they see fit under the president's benevolent gaze.
So, yeah.
Joe Biden's a thousand years old.
He could tangle it up in courts forever.
It's vague enough.
I mean, dude, like, Uh, like, here's your baseball bet.
Go save democracy.
You know?
The Supreme Court of the United States has decreed that all you pretty much need to do is just have a single witness there, where you can just be like, hey there, buster, this is official business.
And they're just like, what's official business?
And then just go Twinkie House on him.
someone someone made that point where they were like the
reason why Biden needs to stay in the race is because there's a debate scheduled for September and he's the only person
that can get with an arm's reach of
Donald Trump without having to go through a metal detector and potentially he would have
Official act capabilities of that situation. How about just official act lock them up. Fuck it
That's what that's what the opposition's always wanted lock up Hillary lock up Obama
They they want the president to use their broad powers to save the country by person by locking up there. I mean
It's it's kind of a bummer that we don't have the stones to take the first move
Because I hate to break it to them, but it's not like the president is gonna forget this
ruling if it becomes Donald Trump or any future Republican They're going to use it.
Oh yeah.
You are the president now.
You could probably use it first.
I would at least try to get something done with it.
I don't know exactly what that is, and I don't know if it involves Donald Trump in any way, but I mean, if you can official act and make yourself immune to some crime, certainly there's some positive for the country crime you can get away with before you lose this presidency, you know?
Get to some crime!
I voted, like, you know, we voted you into power in case this happened.
We knew that you would do the right crime.
Yes.
Also, that's why we wanted you to be old.
The crime that certain men might be prone to, we believe that you were too old for, sir.
And probably not interested in.
But you were capable of all the other crimes.
Honestly, you're being a bit selfish by not taking Trump out.
You're like a thousand years old.
How much longer you got?
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
You'll never see the inside of a jail cell because you'll die before the court untangles it.
You'll be dead.
He'll probably go flying back from the power of the gun and it would kill him too.
Or how about this?
Just deport him.
Like, what are they gonna do?
They're gonna say that it's unprecedented?
And you'll be like, whatever.
I don't give a fuck if it's unprecedented.
I want him off my fucking country.
And if you guys want to untangle it in the courts, you can do so.
But I will not tolerate him in my country while those proceedings happen.
And then, if you decide that that is not good enough for you, then, you know, I'll have to forcibly remove him from the country one way or another.
So, like, as of this moment, I'm doing Trump malarkey.
He's out of here.
He's a convicted felon.
I don't want him to be president.
He's gone.
Fuck off.
But president, that's illegal.
That's overstepping your bounds.
Yeah, we'll take it up to the courts.
Unsurprisingly, they're on break for a while, so you know.
They always like to drop these landmark decisions right before they peace out, like, so they can really take advantage of all the fucking payola they got, because they're a bunch of corrupt pricks.
Yes.
Again, with, like, lifetime appointments, so... There's only one way to change that!
Wait patiently, of course, is what I mean, for legal reasons.
Politically.
Yeah!
Why will Donald Trump just die politically already?
Yes!
He's so unhealthy and also old.
I love that he's just like, he doesn't read as old because he's covered in bronzer.
What, are you drunk?
He doesn't read as old because he looks extra desperate.
Someone made the point, they were like, a million years ago, on July 4th, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, ancient political rivals, died on that day.
And someone was like, come on, July 4th!
Biggest callback ever!
You can do it, July 4th!
We believe in you!
That'd be so cool.
I mean, that would be wild, right?
If it was just like, purely coincidental, just the universe just being like, try again!
You would be super cool! I would- I would- The media wants to do this, I would probably do that one!
I'm not a religious man, but like, that would be a- that would be a sign of like some sort of cosmic intervention,
right?
I would believe in God, I think, after that.
I'm not sure if it would be God, but I'd just be like, damn, those- those aliens that are taking care of us like a
life preserve, for like a wildlife preservation for our stupid species,
that will only let us get so close to destroying what- like ourselves,
they're really fucking- they really had to work overtime a day.
I think that would have been a spiritual revival if both of them got taken out.
Oh, for sure.
There's some fucking four-dimensional guy from the fucking planet Glimglorp who's just like, Yeah!
I'm just as surprised as you are.
Yes, they're both very old.
Yes.
Yes, and either one of them will destroy everything.
Okay.
So, okay.
I just needed... I needed your permission.
All right, cool.
And then they just, like, point their fingers, and it's just like, Morky!
And it's just like, ah, shark!
And then they... I was wondering what Trump's last words were going to be, and, ah, shark, sounds perfectly right.
I can't die like this!
The witch told me a shark would get me!
I lived my whole life in fear!
Damn you witch!
I curse your name!
With my last breath!
The greatest breath!
You wouldn't believe how great my brother is!
With my last dying breath I curse you witch!
Oh man!
God, it's fun to dream.
There's just a lot of dreaming happening this week.
A lot of fantasy that we weren't living in the reality that we're currently living in.
Yeah, maybe we were looking at the glasses being half empty when it was really half full.
What a fun and whimsical week of imagining and purely imagining.
For literal reasons, 100% imagining.
Comedy podcast.
I mean I tried to work enough aliens and mysticism into it that it could like...
It'll never hold up in court.
Okay well that was sufficiently bleak uh and also uh sufficiently long
so let's get into a couple of listener questions that get the fuck out of you.
Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
It's time for Q&A.
Daddy?
and A.
Stoffel?
Like the one with Molly?
Staphylie Yeah, what think you do me down my body ain't even like
that I'll bring the muscle teeth to finish my undertaking ice
you know gratis mobile of the month for barn under threat Older walk-ins asks if Joe Biden Donald Trump a bundle of
hay and a stiff breeze get into a steel cage match who walks away
with the title Did stiff breeze?
Easy.
Stiff Breeze.
Stiff Breeze has got this one in the bag.
This ain't hard.
It, like, knocks over the bundle of hay and takes them both out.
It knocks over everything.
It knocks over Joe Biden and hay from standing position.
And it knocks over Donald Trump the moment he tries to move.
Well, the problem here is that if this is contested under rasslin' rules, then probably whatever one of Biden, Trump, or the hay is on top of the pile is the one that's going to get the pin and actually win the match.
So I'm going to go bundle of hay just because I think Trump and Biden will both fall.
The bundle of hay will land on top of them and then be crowned the champion.
What was the format of the question?
Was it a cage match or just a regular match?
Yeah, it was a steel cage match.
Is a steel cage match different than, like, a hell in a cell or whatever?
Is it still decided by traditional pin?
I haven't played in a while.
Oh, that's incredibly boring.
The Donald Trump... I mean, like, whatever Donald Trump lands on top of, it's game over.
Oh yeah, they're never escaping.
He's got like a significant weight advantage on all of his competitors.
So to the extent one could say that a breeze is being pinned by something, if it is possible to be pinned, and pinning is the win condition, I would say drop.
But if it's just like the ability to win in a straight up fight, stiff breeze.
Yes.
If we have, like, referee stoppage due to knockout, then the Stiff Breeze wins.
If it's only pinfall, then either the Bale of Hay or Trump.
Yes.
Also, stiff is, like, a positive adjective.
Like, it's not, like, stiff is not derogatory.
No.
Like, Joe's a sleepy.
That's not, like, if your name is Sleepy Joe, you're the first guy to get knocked out and punched out, you know?
Yes.
Stiff, like, yeah, I'm thinking about it.
That's hard, powerful, masculine.
What a competitor The Breeze is.
I've always loved him.
I think he might go all the way this season.
Yes.
Boom.
Stiff Breeze 2024.
Let's go.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Dude, there's your writing campaign.
Breeze, Breeze, Breeze.
Dude, get M. Night Shyamalan on the horn and just be like, dude, look, you were just ahead of the curve on this Breeze thing.
It's been 15 years.
Now come around, Donny.
The Breeze is what we need.
Yup.
And Eric the Deep State Operative asks, with all the insanity of the last couple weeks and no signs of it slowing down anytime soon, I want to spread some joy.
What's one simple pleasure you enjoy in life?
Heh heh heh heh heh, yeah.
Heh heh heh heh heh.
You know.
No, dude, snacking in bed.
Everybody agrees that you're not supposed to do it.
It's very obvious that you're not supposed to do it.
And, in fact, I gave it up because I'm doing that intermittent fasting thing.
But before I was on that, my, like, favorite guilty pleasure of life was just, like, laying in bed, I'm eating these Oreo cookies, and that's just the way it goes.
What's your one pleasure, Hayley?
Suffering.
That's not pleasure!
Not if you're doing it right, you know?
We're getting back into that CNC after.
Angels to some, demons to others.
I like walking around nature and looking at the Arizona desert because I find it to be relaxing.
And I think Arizona has goated sunsets.
So that's my answer.
Right now, I'm enjoying chess.
I've been playing a lot of chess recently.
I've played chess since I was like three years old.
My mom got me into it when I was incredibly young.
She didn't know that I learned it until I was four, and we walked by a store and they had a chess board, and I complained that the knights and bishops were set up wrong, that they were reversed.
And then I started playing.
So basically, I have played chess my whole life.
Are you a savant?
When I was a kid, I was very good.
Now, I'm a middling pawn pusher.
I don't play serious chess because I don't want to break my brain, so I just play five minute time, just throw punches very quickly, one of you wins or loses very quickly, go to the next game kind of games.
I play, like, the Marvel Snap of chess, basically.
I just play very fast games.
And it's fun.
And I've been watching some chess YouTube, some guys, like, playing the chess, and talking about it.
I took 12 minutes to make this move, and I'm like, oh, God, I can't even imagine thinking about a move for 12 minutes.
My brain would break.
I remember when the Pando, like, made chess pop off for a while.
Oh, yeah, Queen's Gambit.
Yeah, Queen's Gambit came out.
It was just an easy thing for people to stream and, you know, like, Touch base with their fellow human beings via the internet on.
It was very wholesome.
I liked it.
I was just like, you know, chess isn't a game for me, but I do like seeing something wholesome like that grip everybody for a while.
And that was our tiny mailbag, so what are you guys looking forward to?
I'm going to a B-Day PTY after this.
Yes, that's right, a birthday party.
I'm going to go celebrate my friend being Lisan Al-Ghaib today.
So once I'm done here, I'm going to get dressed and then I'm going to hoof it over to their place and take advantage of some sunshine and listen to some synthwave and just sort of disassociate and vibe.
And then I'll go eat, hopefully, grilled Chinese sausage links and some hamburgers.
Although I only have until eight o'clock to get food inside of me, after which there's no food zone.
No Oreo snacking for me.
Fair enough.
Hayley, what are you looking forward to?
Suffering?
I don't know.
There'll probably be some fireworks outside this weekend.
You know, maybe I'll put on a really obnoxious red, white, and blue outfit.
Hell yeah, slay a queen.
Yeah, because, you know, America.
Oh yeah, freedom up in this bitch.
You know it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I am probably, I'm just going to probably hang out at the Salem Willows, the tourist trap I always talk about.
I'm going to probably do that today because tomorrow the Willows is going to be a zoo and a nightmare because they're going to have fireworks there and all that kind of stuff.
I live on a hill so I get to have firework shows basically just if I have line of sight of a park in my general vicinity I get to see the fireworks from that.
I don't have to work too hard for on that front.
And, uh, I'm not much of a firework person myself.
So when I, when I was a kid, we would have to make the adventure to New Hampshire to buy the fireworks, then smuggle them back into the people's Republic of Massachusetts in order to fire them off because they're illegal in Massachusetts.
But you can literally cross the border.
And then I, and a guy's just sitting there waiting, waiting to hand you fireworks.
That's great.
Ah, federalism.
America, the best.
Excellent.
There you have it.
A bunch of people very excited to be celebrating Patriotism Day where we are all going to be really enthusiastic with our team's cricket performance and not so enthusiastic with our like double A Tackle football performance or whatever, you know?
Losing to Japan followed by Austria?
In a sport that we invented?
Are you kidding me?
Come on!
You call yourselves America?
This 4th of July is a bust, you know?
Anyway, there you go.
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He's getting active.
He's always antagonizing people, you know?
He's getting in there and mixing it up.
All right, so that's gonna do it for another successful episode of the Adventures of Hellware podcast.
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Good speed, patriots!
Iggo noise!
Daddy?
Yes?
Do we have some stuff?
Stuff?
Like when you're painting!
Staphylaxis?
Yeah, what are you going to do with that?
With just one gigabyte of data, you'll have a lot of time to figure out other things.
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