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Jan. 28, 2025 - Adventures in HellwQrld
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Adventures in HellwQrld Presents: The Fed (And a lot of other stuff)

This week Eric, Steph, and Mike talk about conspiracy theories around The Fed and get derailed a lot talking about Trump and Elon. You knew that was gonna happen cause how could it not, but we promise we do discuss the fact that The Fed didn't kill JFK. 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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Teksting av Nicolai Winther The Adventures in Hell World podcast talks in-depth about QAnon.
While it's meant to be comedic informative, sometimes we have to get into things like child abuse and violence against people.
Listener discretion advised.
Hello, everybody.
I am Mike Rains, a.k.a.
Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hell World.
This week, I am joined, as always, by Steph, who is fighting with a stuffed animal and has not unmuted her mic.
I'm here.
I'm here.
Sorry, I was fighting with my mouse.
Hello.
Yes.
And we're also joined by Eric, the Deep State Operative.
I was also fighting with Steph's mouse.
This is what happens.
It's just one giant tussle with technology here at Hellworld.
Jaylee's off this week.
She's been busy all week, and she basically said, I don't know anything about the Federal Reserve that I can really add to this pod.
So between that and the fact that I'm not feeling great, I'm taking the week off.
And we said, fine.
Bugger off.
We'll do it without you.
Struggle along as best we can.
And struggle we shall.
I'm going to say right off the bat, I don't really...
Like finance, economics, banking, that kind of goes over my head.
So the research I did was mostly on seeing what people are saying and seeing the debunking for it.
But once you start throwing around terms like bank of last resort, I'm just lost.
Yeah.
We're not here to actually explain how the Fed works, because we probably don't understand how it works, and if we tried, we would fail.
And that's exactly how they want it.
They want everybody to be confused and not know how it works.
Oh, and to just stare at that pyramid on the back of the $1 bill and let it brainwash you.
Just let it take you away and make you subservient to the Illuminati, which...
You could fold that bill and foretell the World Trade Center.
Yes, you can foretell 9-11 if you fold it.
Or you could fold a different way and turn Washington's head into a mushroom.
There's a lot of different things you can do, yes.
That's just to show how pilled we've become as a society.
My son, who just turned seven, I was talking to him about the back of the $1 bill, and I said, you know what that is?
He goes, it's the Illuminati.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, everybody.
We had breaking news that Donald Trump actually signed the executive order that unclassified the JFK, RFK, and MLK records, and all these people are currently on my timeline freaking out.
And everyone's just like, oh, you're going to be in a world of trouble now, poker!
And guess what?
Next week we're going to talk about the nothing.
We're going to talk about the grand nothing that came out of this executive order.
Because by then I'm sure the documents will be out where idiots can read them.
And you're not going to find anything.
You can't change the evidence of what happened.
I'm sorry.
No paperwork can do that.
It's impossible.
I have this crank on my timeline and his avatar is JFK in the foreground and LBJ ominously looming over his shoulder.
The whole, like, I'm getting ready to kill you and so you serve the presidency, Jack.
That whole thing.
And his Twitter handle, his Twitter name is Lyndon Johnson murdered John Kennedy.
Super subtle.
Yeah, really subtle.
This guy is just, he's a straight shooter.
He is totally just, you know, looking at the evidence and determining, like, he's just going to go where the evidence leads him.
That's just where he's at.
And this guy is, like, hooting and hollering at me.
And like a week ago, I asked that guy, I said, so what is the sequence of gunshots and which bullets did which wounds?
And he actually at that time said, like, I'm not I don't have the time to tell you that.
And then I was like, well, get get around to it.
Suss it out for me.
And they always do that.
That's a classic conspiracy move where they're like, oh, I could explain it to you, but I don't have time.
Right.
I remember a couple weeks ago, that guy jumping in my mentions, you and me were talking about something, and then he...
And then we weren't even talking about JFK, but he brought it around to that.
And I remember I messaged you and I said, hey, this guy's trying to get your attention.
You're like, oh, I know him.
And then, as I recall, he starts going on about the exit wound in the throat or whatever it was.
Yeah.
Oh.
And, like, my God.
I mean, oh, no, don't throw me into that briar patch.
Oh, no.
I mean, just, like, literally, I'm a pig in shit if you start that stuff with me.
I live only to talk minutia of the Kennedy assassination.
That's why I pointed it out to you, because I'm like, hey, here's a fish for you.
You're like, oh, no, I'm all aware of this guy already.
Right.
But it's just, like, this is, like, everyone's...
The thing I really enjoy about these documents being released is I've actually had people use these documents as an excuse to keep arguing.
And I'll be like, look, Oswald acted alone.
That's all there is to it.
And these people are like, well, they haven't released all the documents, so how can you know that?
And I'm like, because the evidence proves it.
And they're like, well, until the government shows us everything, they're hiding something.
I'm like, well, guess what?
Now it's all coming out.
And what they're going to say is that when they find that it doesn't meet their expectations, which I'm guessing it...
We'll not meet their expectations.
They're going to say, oh, well, this wasn't all of the information.
It's obvious that somebody either altered this or hid it, which means that they're still deep state infiltrating in Trump's presidency.
They're always going to be an excuse.
They're never going to accept it.
It's very rare when there are people like me and Panda and, you know, Tyler who...
Come to our senses.
But most people just keep making excuses.
Well, that's the thing, is that there's no amount of evidence that will debunk the situation.
And as what Stephanie said, like 99% of all, I just want more evidence, people, are lying.
When people were like, I just want to see the long form of Obama's birth certificate.
And he released that.
And then they said it was a forgery.
And then the people who were like, I just want to see the body camera footage of the police at Pelosi's estate when the guy goes to the door.
And then they released that.
And they said, why did Paul Pelosi have a drink in his hand?
Why was he in his underwear?
This doesn't disapprove anything.
And that's the way it is.
No amount of evidence actually clarifies things for the conspiracy theorist.
The conspiracy theorist will always just loop the new evidence into the conspiracy and continue to believe the conspiracy exists.
And what happens if these documents come out and it proves that Chris Carter was right and Cigarette Smoking Man did shoot him from the storm drain?
That would be awesome.
That would be great because it would involve breaking reality because you actually don't have line of sight on Kennedy from the storm drain.
But, I mean, don't let that get in the way of anything.
That was my favorite TV show, Breaking Reality.
And I just want to point out that, like, if anyone's wondering just how diseased I am, how absolutely sick I am as a human being.
The fact that Eric just threw the storm drain at me and I knew exactly what the storm drain was and knew the debunk for it.
I want you to understand what level of perversion and obsessiveness this is in me.
I am a nut and I fully acknowledge that.
And that's why whenever I see these QAnon people talk this shit...
I'm just pacing back and forth like Darth Maul behind the Force wall.
Just waiting.
Just waiting to go with them.
And none of these people have...
None of them have the nerve to actually talk to me about this shit.
None of them.
Because all they know is what they saw in Oliver Stone's movie JFK. Maybe if they were really into it...
They watch Rich Man's Trick or The Men Who Killed Kennedy or some other nonsense, but they have no actual basis in reality.
They've never studied this.
These people don't study anything.
That's what's so funny about these quote-unquote free thinkers who do their own research.
Their research is prepackaged for them and spoon-fed to them.
They don't actually analyze anything.
Why do they think Michelle Obama's a man?
Because they've seen her dancing on Ellen, which, again, prepackaged and fed to you.
Like, make your own conspiracy theories up, you goddamn lazy scum.
Like, don't just, like, oh, look, it's the Ellen video.
There's Michelle Obama dancing.
Oh, look, her ding ding came out.
Who got her?
It's just, oh, my God.
It's training.
It's like Pavlonian training.
It's like if you say Michelle Obama is trans, you get a pat on the head.
You get likes, you engagement.
And it's also training from the, like, the influencers are training other influencers how to do this shit, but they're also training the believers, people who are like how I used to be.
They're training them.
Every shooting, it's a false flag.
Every this is a that.
Every fire is Jewish space lasers.
They train you.
And you just stop thinking.
And when, at one, like, stark moment for me, My dad called me right when the San Bernardino shooting happened.
He's like, how close are you to San Bernardino?
And I'm like, I don't know.
I don't even know where that is.
I guess it's far away.
And I'm like, what happened?
He's like, there was a mass shooting.
I was like, oh, that's a false flag.
I didn't know where San Bernardino was.
I didn't know anything that had happened.
He said mass shooting.
So I said false flag instantly without knowing anything because I had been trained.
And that's how all these chuckleheads are.
Yeah.
It's just never-ending.
And they know to just repost the same shit over and over again, just keep talking about it.
It never ends.
And that's the muck they're wallowing in.
But anyhow, we're going to segue smoothly to what our actual point of this plot is for this week, which is the Federal Reserve, the great enemy of the Patriots, basically This is the last time you can state that America was truly free before it was destroyed.
Either it's the D.C. Incorporation Act under President Grant.
I think that was like 1867 or something like that.
Oh, is that when we became a corporation?
Yeah, that's when we became a corporation.
But if you don't believe in the D.C. Organic Act, I can never remember the exact name of it, but basically that was that.
Then America was free until 1913 when the Fed took us over and then we got taken over by the deep state.
And because the Fed is a banking system, you don't even have to be that spicy to get into Zog because, hey, it's banks.
That means Jews.
That means Zog.
And so this is all anti-Semitism with a coat of paint on it to try to make it look better than what it really is.
And you cross over into a lot of the SovSit stuff when you start talking about the Fed, too, because they get into, like, oh, this is when, like, the corporation thing started and the straw man and all that.
So it goes into a lot of, like, pseudo-law and pseudo-history and pseudo-banking, I guess, too.
Yeah, so the first thing I'll talk about is what the Fed actually was, and that was Woodrow Wilson, one of history's greatest monsters, is the president now.
Fuck you, Teddy Roosevelt, for vote splitting.
Basically, Teddy Roosevelt was Jill Stein and Ralph Nader on megasteroids.
Where he lost the Republican nomination to President Taft, who was the incumbent.
And instead of saying, fair play, Taft, you got me.
Better luck next time.
Roosevelt was like, fuck you, I'm forming a third party and I'm just going to run anyways.
The Bull Moose Party.
Yeah, the Bull Moose Party.
And this is when he got shot.
And then he opened his jacket up to show the blood and said, it'll take more than this to kill a Bull Moose.
Did he say bully?
He may have, but no.
But basically, just no selling Steph's jokes.
Anyways, horrible.
I suck.
I suck.
No, no.
I'm a horrible improv partner is what I am.
The point is that he splits the vote.
Everyone knows he's splitting the vote.
He basically makes Wilson the president.
Poor move.
Probably made World War I go on way longer than it needed to.
Because Teddy would have just jumped us right in there.
Teddy would have been like, hey, fuck this shit.
We're going to war.
He literally called it the Great Adventure.
Yes!
Ted, he probably would have led the troops.
He was a nut.
He probably would have been our first president killed on the front lines.
Like, Ted, this is a bad idea.
He's like, fuck you!
He gets mowed down.
Because even his machismo wasn't enough to survive a German submachine gun in the trenches.
But anyhow, so Wilson is the president and is being really monstrously racist.
And while he's doing all of those bad things...
Wilson is also thinking to himself, you know, America's economy has been really weird pretty much for the last hundred years and definitely after the Civil War.
We just have like these 20 years of prosperity and then like 20 years of recession.
It's just this constant boom-bust cycle that is not great, and probably we need to do something to fix that.
So Wilson looks at all these different ideas and basically comes up with the idea that the Federal Reserve would be a good way to manage America's economy and to make sure our monetary policy is sound.
That framework became the basis of the bills that eventually created the Federal Reserve.
Or was the Federal Reserve created on an island by J.P. Morgan in secret?
What say you, Eric, about this?
What say you?
I actually found on the Federal Reserve their official website the history of the whole Jekyll Island thing, but I wanted to backtrack a little bit.
What really got this ball rolling was what was called the Panic of 1907, which was this massive recession that happened.
And in the 1800s, there had been six recessions.
And looking back now, they say that probably they were a lot worse than they could have been.
They were a lot worse than they could have been because of the way the banking system worked then, which was basically banks would just loan to each other.
Then they would hope for rich people to help stimulate the economy, which is where J.P. Morgan comes in.
When the panic of 1907 came in, he convinced a bunch of his multimillionaire friends to just pump money into the economy, like millions and millions of dollars into the economy to jumpstart it again.
A lot of these politicians said, we probably should find a system that doesn't involve hoping that millionaires will bail us out when the shit hits the fan.
So in 1910, these six guys, hopefully I get these names right because some of them are a little oldie-timey, Nelson Aldrich, A. Piat, Andrew, Henry Davidson,
Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip, and Paul Warburg met at Jekyll Island, which is an island in Georgia that had a big, huge club for the mega-rich at the time.
And so they were keeping this all tip-top secret.
Nobody even revealed what happened at Jekyll Island until 1930. So they sat on this for 20 years, even after the Federal Reserve had been passed and everything.
They had everybody arrive at the train station because, you know, there was no cars or anything back then.
Everyone had to take the train.
So they arrived separately so that nobody would see them all coming at the same time and realize that something's up.
And they all claimed that they were going to Jekyll Island for a duck hunt.
So you might hear that sometimes brought up by conspiracy theorists where they talk about the meeting as the duck hunt.
So they sat down, they got together.
They pounded out the whole idea for the Federal Reserve, which is basically this big national bank that has smaller branches all over the country.
There's one here in Chicago.
I think I've actually visited it before, like on a field trip or something, but that's neither here nor there.
Despite JP Morgan's name being all over the place, he actually had nothing to do with the Jekyll Island meeting, except for like, they think that he helped get them basically get them rooms at the clubhouse, but he didn't have anything to do with any of the, the legislation that was being drawn up or anything.
And so I've kind of, I gotta, I gotta go over my notes again.
So if somebody else wants to jump in and kind of, Fill in something for me while I'm looking at this.
Well, what I'll do is I will talk about how the Fed got passed, because this is one of the controversial things that came about with the Fed, is that people talk about how it was one of these bills that was snuck in at three in the morning in the dead of night.
When nobody was around and then they voted on it in secret, they all fled town, and then Wilson signs it in secret or whatever because he's so ashamed of the terrible crime he committed.
And what will usually happen in this situation is people will bring up that the vote on the Federal Reserve...
It was 43 to 25, which is very low.
Even back then we had plenty of senators.
So people are just like, well, look at that.
And there'll be some argument that they didn't have a quorum, which they obviously did because they had more than 50. But the people will say that it was illegally passed, that there wasn't enough people on the floor to pass it, and all this kind of stuff.
The reality is that back then, People, Democrats and Republicans, weren't at each other's throats as much as they are now.
There was no allegations that Democrats were baby-eating Satanists that I know of.
That'd be great.
I'll find out if there was a senator in 1913 who was super into that shit.
But what happened was, is this was passed on December 23rd.
Which obviously is two days before Christmas.
And so because this was a holiday session of Congress, congressmen and senators wanted to get out of town to get home to celebrate the holiday.
So back then they would do a thing called vote pairing, where you, a yay vote for a bill, would go find a nay vote for a bill and say, Hello, Senator, who's going to vote nay?
Let us both leave and go back to our families and mistresses for the holidays.
And that other senator says, Sounds good to me, good sir.
And they leave.
That is what happened, was 13 yay votes and 14 nay votes.
Apparently one guy who was voting no said, you know what?
I don't need to be paired.
This thing's going to pass anyways.
Fuck all this shit.
And just got out of there.
But that is why the vote was so low, is because 27 senators just dipped town because they had already accounted for their vote by removing a vote from the other side from the equation.
So if those 27 senators hadn't been there, the vote would have had 27 more votes on it, and it would have been 13 more yeas and 14 more nays.
So there was actually no skullduggery about the vote.
It was just the way business was conducted in 1913 in the U.S. Senate.
And here, and I found one of the things I was looking for.
So one thing that really...
It takes all the wind out of the Jekyll Island thing, is that the plan that they came up with on Jekyll Island didn't even get passed.
They brought that in.
The Democrats didn't like it, so they actually rewrote the bill to the Federal Reserve Act that actually got passed in December.
So that's the really funny part.
You got these six rich guys sitting in dark rooms, smoking, hashing out a plan, and the plan doesn't go through.
I mean, the Federal Reserve that did come through is very similar to what Aldrich had proposed.
Aldrich was the senator who proposed the bill.
So it's very similar, but they did make changes.
So it's not even like this was some clandestine thing written by the six richest men in the world to further enrich themselves.
Yeah, and then they had to send out the edict to kill the three guys that were going to be on the Titanic so that they couldn't oppose them.
I love that these conspiracy theories are all about how the mega-rich...
Got one over on us by creating the Fed.
Smash cut two now, where we literally have our Nazi-saluting hero, Elon Musk, running an office out of the White House as the richest man in the world while Zuckerberg and Bezos are kissing the ring.
Richest man in the world who gets large government subsidies.
Yes.
And is now being told, hey, decide where government subsidies go and we'll just trust you that you won't give it all to yourself and your buddies.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
I mean, it's just the funniest thing in the world, hearing Sink Unger talking about how Biden and Harris losing shows that the establishment was defeated.
Define establishment.
Define establishment.
You've literally got, like, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Elon.
All grinning like idiots behind Trump at the inauguration.
And that's not the establishment.
Those are the fiery upstarts coming to D.C. trying to take down the power structure.
It's the irony that kills me.
These MAGA guys were so afraid of a deep state of unelected elites running the country that they elected Trump, who immediately brought in an elite.
Group of unelected officials around the country.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's like, this is...
It's like, oh, no!
And he's going to conquer Canada, Mexico, and Greenland, so we're just going to create a one-world government under a new world order?
Simultaneously.
We're going to fight...
The anti-war president is going to fight three wars at the same time and win them all.
Oh, I forgot.
Four.
Panama.
We're also taking the Panama Canal.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I love it.
I can't wait until Mexico gets its first $20 billion installment of weapons from China to fight its defensive war against America.
It's going to be great.
I can't wait until Trump, like, I can't wait until we're Russia against Ukraine and Ukraine is Mexico.
And we've got, like, Trump threatening to nuke Mexico if he doesn't get his way.
And people are like, oh, you guys are threatening Mexico now?
It's like, oh, my God.
It's going to be so awesome.
We're just going to literally live in the dumbest timeline.
Speaking of Ukraine, I love how it turns out that Trump's master plan to end the war in Ukraine was to write Putin a strongly worded social media post.
Yeah, hey, Putin, surrender!
Putin's like, fuck you, I'm conquering the whole country.
And you ain't gonna give them any more money now, so I'm fucking taking it.
And then Trump's like, yeah, that sounds right.
I mean, literally, this has been one of the things that I've been listening to for forever from all these QAnon people is that Trump's going to end the forever wars and then use that massive political capital to kill all the liberals.
And it's like, oh, look, that forever war that we're not involved in.
No Americans are dying in Ukraine.
We're not actually involved.
It's ongoing and it won't go away because Ukraine doesn't want to surrender and Russia wants to conquer it totally.
They're not going to accept only taking a chunk.
So, oh, so strange.
So strange.
I saw this meme that, like, the way people talk about the funding to Ukraine, they seem to think that we're, like, that we're sending, like, Walter White-style pallets of cash into Ukraine.
So this one guy showed, like, this magazine, you know, saying, hey, why don't you send some of that money to Ukraine over for disaster relief?
And then it cuts to the next thing.
What am I supposed to do with this tank?
Right, exactly.
How are we going to fucking rebuild houses with javelins?
It's like they think we're, because they're calling it a money laundering scheme.
I'm like, no actual money is being sent.
It's all military surplus.
It's stuff that we bought years ago and don't need anymore.
Oh my God.
These world's greatest researchers do zero research.
The jokes write themselves.
That's what's so wonderful about all these people talking about America's woke military.
Blah, blah, blah.
We are beating the shit out of Russia with our hand-me-downs.
We're using our fucking shit from 20 years ago, and we're crushing Russia with it.
I saw a video earlier today of...
Of a Bradley tank just destroying one of Russia's most advanced tanks.
If Russia actually had to fight our real military, it would be over so goddamn fast.
They would have absolutely nothing to offer us.
Oh my god.
It's so funny how ridiculously...
We outmatch everyone in the world so much militarily that it's...
It's not even comparable.
China's created a super aircraft carrier.
It's like, yeah, guess what?
We still have 13. They have one.
They also have the 10-pack abs.
We don't have the 10-pack abs.
We don't have the 10-pack abs, which is true.
You know what a 10-pack ab doesn't do?
Save you from a grenade.
Drop from a drone.
When you create the grenade-proof 10-pack, then we're fucked.
Then we're in some trouble.
Oh my god.
He just flexes and the grenade bounces clean off.
Yeah, bam, the shrapnel just deflects off.
Or this will roll for one trench.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, no!
Yeah.
So, this was the Fed created Smokefield's backroom on Jekyll Island, then passed in the dead of night in the Senate.
Both of these things, again, not true.
And then the Federal Reserve becomes this sort of boogeyman in the right because it's some sort of illegal bank.
And, I mean, this is kind of a thing in America for the longest time because we had, like, the big argument over the National Bank with Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams back in the ancient times.
We've always had this sort of ordeal where, like, do we want a central bank?
Yay slash nay.
And there's always been people on Team Ney for some reason.
And then the Federal Reserve happens, and it's really not that big of a deal.
But then the big thing that happens is Nixon gets us off the gold standard, and holy shit, like, after that...
Stuff gets kind of super-duper wacky now that we're not on the gold standard anymore.
And that's really where inflation and the amount of money in our economy goes crazy.
And this is the thing, folks, is you're not putting that genie back in the bottle.
There's not enough gold in the world to sustain the American economy, much less the global economy.
If we were to go back onto the gold standard, welcome to, like...
The weirdest deflation nightmare you could possibly imagine because we just can't back this amount of money with gold because we don't have that much gold.
No one has that much gold.
America has the most gold, but it's still not anywhere near rational to imagine that you could get onto a gold-based system.
But our great economists at QAnon don't care about this because Q stated that gold will destroy the Fed, which made them very happy because that is a thing that they want to believe.
And so this is part of this worldview, this worldview that somehow our current...
Fiat-based currency is bad, but gold-backed currency is good.
There was a Q&A that Q answered a bunch of questions in, and one of the questions from an Anon on the Chan boards was, Q, do we have the gold?
And Q's reply was, yes, gold shall destroy Fed, and Fed was in all caps for whatever reason, and then he signed it to Q. This has been one of the silly narratives inside Conspiracy World is that returning to the gold standard,
we'll get rid of the Federal Reserve, which will de-zogify the American government and give us back freedom and prosperity that we are currently missing because, again, the bad people are running our banks.
I will leave it to QAnon to tell you who those bad people are, because 75% of them will say Jews, the other 25% will not admit that, because they don't want to sound that way.
No, they'll say Kazarians or something like that.
Yes, yes.
But one thing that really gets me is that these guys are all horny over the gold standard, but at the same time, they also love cryptocurrency.
Which, do they think crypto is backed by gold?
I mean, I don't.
Yeah, fiat currency, but it's our magic fiat currency.
It's our magic money made by the blockchain.
So much better than the money made by the evil government.
It's like, how is this better than the money made by the evil government?
Explain.
It's all invented.
Like, the only reason gold has value is because, like, if you really, really think about it, all of it's bullshit.
Yeah, it's gold has value because it's shiny.
It's pretty and it's rare.
Yeah.
And then we make paper currency and we say, oh, this currency is worth this much.
And then there are market shifts and then there's international change rates and stuff like that.
And it's all made up.
It's all loans.
Student loans don't pay them.
It's all made up.
Do not take financial advice from Hellworld.
We are a comedic, informative podcast.
Please do not go into...
Yes.
Do not take advice from me, but I will tell you I'm doing the anarchist thing.
And I am not paying my student loans because education should be free and the student loan system is a scam.
This is what Gillette says.
If you're taking advice from a magician, you're an idiot.
Pay your taxes.
I'm not a sovereign citizen.
I'm just saying the one thing that these conspiracy theorists fail to imagine with their supposed vast imagination is that it's all bullshit.
So next week when you hear that beeping noise when Steph's ankle monitor goes off, just know that everything went great and she'll only have a couple years probation before she's allowed to roam the country free again and all that good stuff.
But if I storm the Capitol instead, I'm going to get a pardon.
Do violence on behalf of the president.
It's okay.
The party of law and order.
Oh, God.
That actually reminds me of something that I've been mentioning a couple times here and there on Twitter, because it's kind of gotten buried under the whole J6 thing.
And also, it's definitely way more obscure than January 6th.
But Trump, pardon, Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web, you know, buy your drugs and your guns website.
And the guy who hired hitmen and shit.
Yeah, all that stuff.
Well, I think it's useful because I kind of feel like I need Xanax right now.
I mean, you know.
Somebody was saying, wait, I thought we don't like drug dealers.
And I'm like, yes, but he's not just a drug dealer.
He's a drug dealer who is beloved by the libertarians.
So that changes everything.
Yeah, that's how they use language and politics to change the meaning of words.
They twist it.
If you are a real libertarian, you should be fine with all drugs.
You shouldn't be getting pissed off about fentanyl coming in at the border.
You should have some kind of logical consistency.
And the Libertarian Party seems to have lost that because that...
That classic model is what kind of aligns with a lot of things, I believe.
Like, if you want guns, if you want prostitution, drugs, abortions, go ahead.
It's your body.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to cut you off.
No, I'm sorry.
I apologize.
But I was just saying the Libertarian Party is just right-wing now.
It sucks.
Yeah, what I've been saying for a long time is that if Robert A. Heinlein could see what the Libertarian Party turned into, he'd roll over in his grave.
Because he was an old...
I mean, he was conservative, but then later...
I mean, you saw Starship Troopers, right?
Yeah, well, that was what we're going to get.
That was old.
That was earlier in his career when he was a conservative.
Then he married his second wife and she turned him into a hardcore libertarian where you read his later stuff, it's all free love, people having sex with everybody, and put whatever you want in your body just as long as you don't hurt anybody else while you're doing it and all this stuff.
That ain't what it is anymore.
No.
There's nothing I enjoy more than libertarians talking to me about how abortion needs to be outlawed.
And I just sit there and I'm just...
You do understand that it's entirely against what you're supposed to be believing in.
Yeah.
And prostitution, too.
Prostitution and drugs.
Like, anything that has something to do with what you do with your body, that should be, like, libertarian-like hands-off.
I'm of the opinion that most...
That most people who call themselves libertarians are just doing it because they're ashamed to admit that they're MAGA. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
They want to believe in all the reactionary policies they want, but at the same time, they want to go, no, I'm not a Republican.
I'm an independent.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm a free thinker.
Yeah.
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Det er jo bare reklame.
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Det var altså cheeseburger fra kun 25 kroner hos McDonald's.
Ikke sant?
Åh ja.
I think both parties suck, but I'll only criticize the Democrats, even though I think Republicans suck too.
It's a left-right paradigm.
Oh, all of that.
Oh my God, all of that.
The Uniparty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That just drives me up a wall.
Just like the fact that we have created this narrative where both parties are bad, but only the Democrats get my scorn.
It's universal on the left-right paradigm.
Yeah, plenty of progressives are only willing to yell at the Democrats, too.
Right.
I'm willing to yell at anybody who's doing something stupid.
I can't think of any specific examples, but there's been times where I've called out a Democrat for something and people get on my case and they're like, hey, he's an artist.
I'm like, I don't care.
I'm going to call it hypocrisy wherever I see it.
I don't care if you're on my side, quote unquote, or not.
Yeah, but I mean, the thing is for me is that I'm just so burnt out by this shit that at this point, you know what?
Democrats are just beings of pure light and semeral magic and they can do no wrong in my eyes.
And I will never criticize them because fuck you.
I just have this reflexive reaction because...
Going into this election, and even now, people are still doing this shit, which is just mind-blowing to me, where...
Lord knows, we are going so far afield from the Federal Reserve.
But guess what?
Guess what, podcast listeners?
You knew what you were signing up for when you turned in.
And I promised to stick the landing on the Fed exactly where you expect me to, with the murder of President Kennedy.
And we're going to get there very shortly.
And we put the ADD in Adventures in Hell World.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
But the thing is, is that our media space is basically...
Hard right conspiracy lunatic.
And you've got, like...
Alex Jones and all of those people in, like, the nutto sphere, and they're all screaming that if you don't vote for Donald Trump, Kamala Harris's death squads are going to come and execute you for your crimes.
And then you move to, like, the bro-o sphere, and you've got the Paul brothers and these kinds of clowns, and they're just like, hey, bros, you know, I'm pretty much apolitical bro doing the apolitical brocast, but I just want to let you know that...
And if you don't vote for Donald Trump, this podcast will probably be canceled and censored all across the world because that's what Kamala Harris is going to do.
So vote for Trump.
And if you're not old enough to vote for Trump, make sure your parents vote for him to save me and the pod.
Now we're going to do some bro stuff.
Talk to you soon, bros.
And in the process, they're supporting actual real censorship.
People are reporting issues on Meta.
TikTok and Facebook about certain search terms that are, like, against Trump or Musk.
Oh, yeah.
Free Palestine on TikTok is just gone now.
You just can't say that anymore.
It's so weird!
That's what kills me about this whole dude bro thing, is that it's working!
Right.
Like, as much as Joe Rogan is a joke, he really is pretty much telling millions of young men how to think about stuff.
Right.
I mean, oh my god.
There's nothing I enjoy more than just the...
The dumb Joe Rogan lies where, like, after the election, he was just like, you know, after Tim Walz lied about his military service, I just had to get off the sidelines and make sure Trump won.
It's like, yeah, Tim Walz radicalized you.
That milquetoast ball of Midwestern men, that was just white dude, the most vanilla white dude on God's green earth.
That was the guy that just, like, galvanized you.
You had to ride out on your white horse, like Gandalf the White.
Save the good people.
It's just, oh my god, you clown.
But then you get to the...
So you have your quote-unquote apolitical bros who are all right-wingers just lying about it.
And you have your hard right-wing conspiracy nuts.
And they're all just frothing at the mouth telling you to vote for Trump.
And then you pivot to the center-left milquetoast people like John Oliver and John Stewart.
And they're basically like, no.
Trump's worse, but really?
Really?
We're going to invest in Biden or Harris?
Really?
And it's just this gritted teeth.
Just this, oh man, you're going to drag me to the polls against my will to vote for this?
Just totally uncaring.
Just absolutely.
Begrudgingly admitting that Trump is the worst of the two options, but still just acting like, well, Harris ain't offering me anything, really.
And then you tick from them to the left, and it's like, hi, I'm the Hard Left Podcast, and today we're going to be talking about organizing to get better wages for people and how we're going to achieve a better and more just and fair healthcare system.
But you know the one thing that we're not going to do?
Vote for Genocide Joe or Holocaust Harris.
Fuck those pieces of shit.
Vote for Jill Stein or somebody else or just stay the fuck home to teach them a lesson.
And it's like, how?
How does any of this benefit anyone?
What the fuck are we doing?
And guess what?
Now you've got what you've got.
And guess what?
Trump's literally just put his ass in the chair in the Oval Office.
And he's like, you know, Trump Tower Gaza sounds pretty good.
After we kill all the Palestinians, probably going to do that.
And it's like, man, sounds like that really worked out for you.
Boom.
Man, that was hashtag free Palestine.
Just pump your fist.
Can I just say that?
My old conspiracy brain kind of sparked into life when I saw that the ceasefire was perfectly timed with, like, the inauguration.
Uh-huh.
And then smash cut to a day later where Trump's like, I don't think the ceasefire's going to hold, and it's not our war anyways!
And then immediately withdraws the sanctions and the conditions.
And the TikTok thing?
This shit is blowing my mind because these feel like actual real conspiracies playing out, and it's screwing with my mind because when my brain comes across like an actual real conspiracy, it hurts.
I have to keep reminding myself of this because you look at Donald Trump three years ago saying that TikTok is evil incarnate and must be destroyed, and then...
You know, a couple days ago, he's the white knight, saving TikTok from the evil libs, trying to get rid of it.
And it's tempting to think that this was some long-form plan that he was running, where he was like, I'm going to set up this controversy, and then I'm going to set it up so that no matter what happens, I come out ahead.
But it's, he's an idiot.
He can't plan what he's going to have for breakfast tomorrow, let alone...
I know, I know, but I mean, you know...
You know how just me encountering this and dealing with this.
Yeah, it's just the irony of these people, especially the QAnon people, who have been talking for years about ultimate freedom and loving their country and wanting freedom and love for all.
They're so fucking stupid.
And they're going to find out.
A lot of Trump supporters are poor and rely on a lot of these government handouts, as they call them.
And they're going to find out real fucking quick how they fucking stab themselves in the goddamn foot.
The problem I have with that is that one thing that Republicans really have over Democrats is messaging.
Democrats are, in the election last year, Democrats are shit at messaging, and Republicans are like freaking Machiavelli when it comes to messaging.
Because they're Machiavellian, period.
They're just wicked people.
The thing about that is I've never accepted that.
What I do believe is that the real problem is that we have a far stronger right-wing infrastructure and a way to push narratives and to promote narratives.
The idea that getting a message across, I don't think is really that, is something that's impossible for Democrats.
I just think that Democrats have a lot tougher time cutting through the bullshit.
I just think that there's, again, it's just so hard to get anything to stick in our world where everyone has a million options.
As to what to listen to.
And we all work tirelessly to put ourselves in silos where we only hear what we want to hear.
And so, like, I think that's the real problem.
It's just the network.
It's just the fact that you've got the messaging and it's coming from everywhere.
Again, it's just you've got...
You've got the hard right.
You've got the bros.
You've got all these people telling you why you need to vote for Trump.
And then on the left, you have people telling you why you need to not vote.
You need to sit this one out.
And then...
If you're really lucky, Jon Stewart or Jon Oliver will begrudgingly tell you that you probably should vote for Harris.
But if you wake up on election day and your tummy hurts, eh, just stay home.
Drink some Pepto-Bismol.
It's no must, no fuss.
If Trump gets in, it's really not going to hurt that much.
Whatevs.
And that's the issue.
It's just that our media...
I mean, there's so many stories coming out now where people are just like, man, now that Trump's back in, he talks to us more.
Oh, this is so great.
And it's like...
Fuck you.
Fuck you, you scum.
I don't care about your goddamn job.
And there is just this, with this really alarming lack of media accountability, like CNN just laid off a whole bunch of people and they've been kind of edging slower to the right in recent years.
And we have stuff like, I think Washington Post covered her too.
Fucking New York Times and the Washington Post.
And CNN has done it several times.
They're propping up that fucking fraud Pam Hemphill as some fucking, like, former, like, you know, the MAGA granny that came to her senses and she denied his pardon.
Nobody...
Look, I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but I'm kind of at the point where, can we trust the media?
No.
No, you can't.
I mean, fucking the meme coin, like the Trump scam coin.
The media's reporting on it as just, like, again, it's as though it's just a silly jape.
It's just a fun little thing Don did.
Oh, Donald Trump made a couple million dollars on a meme coin.
Ain't that hilarious?
And it's like he's literally robbing his supporters.
He's, like, literally setting up a rug pull on a scale beyond the Hawk Tua girl's rug pull.
And literally everyone, when that happened, said Hawk Tua girl needs to go to jail.
She actually did a crimey crime here.
Whatever happened to that...
Dumb...
You know what?
Whatever happened to her...
She just left.
She took the money and ran.
She's done.
Just clever on-spot marketing ideology from the fucking Halloween store last year where they decide to make fucking costumes based on that bitch.
Wow.
Yeah, I remember seeing those.
Because...
It's just absolute bullshit and it's infesting every level.
And it's funny, the last thing I heard from her about the crypto thing was her saying, no, this absolutely is not a rug pull.
I don't know what you're talking about.
See you fuckers later.
Yeah, exactly.
They're all scammers.
They're all grifters.
They're all liars.
They're all frauds.
They're just...
Oh, God.
Oh, this world.
Yeah.
So, all of it sucks.
I just really think that it just comes down to the fact that we need a sort of...
Uprising?
A call for...
No, no.
Oh, you don't...
Literally, literally never say that word to me.
That is the worst word to say to me.
Especially when I was trying to get out the words I was saying.
I know, I'm sorry.
I was kidding.
I don't think you know what I'm talking about.
If you do, then you win the ultimate prize.
It's probably the most deep-cut Mike Raines lore imaginable.
Right before I started the Poker and Politics channel, before I started delving into QAnon, I was monitoring Illuminati shit, and the main Illuminati channel I was following on YouTube was a nut called A Call for an Uprising.
I remember that guy.
Yeah, and so that was...
That was it.
Like basically, because if you look at my Twitter feed, it's like it started, I started in like summer of 2018. So I was, I don't know, like six or, I was like seven or eight months right before the first Q drop.
I was a little late to the party.
And I just started hearing more and more buzz about QAnon.
And my reaction was, this is Illuminati with Trump as a hero.
And then I started reading the Q drops.
And I was like, that's exactly what it is.
Holy shit.
I know this.
This is my jam.
I remember it was late 2020 when I started looking into QAnon.
So I was really late to the game.
And when I was looking into it, I was like...
Oh, this is like the Project Monarch, Kathy O'Brien, Arizona Wilder, Fritz Springmeier, David Icke shit.
This is like the Johnny Gosch, Franklin Credit Union shit.
I was hoping it would be something new and exciting.
Something different.
I'm like, this is bullshit.
This is recycled.
When I first heard about QAnon, I thought it was just Pizzagate.
The next level.
And then I find out that it's so much more.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it was all that and a bag of chips.
And so that was where I got into this stuff.
And that was kind of my end to all of these things.
Anyhow, let's finish on a high note about the Federal Reserve, as all of our listeners have immediately just logged off.
Oh my god, I am so sorry.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, honestly, honestly, I mean, like, it's so funny that, like, basically, L, I mean, L just couldn't take the weekly grind of this bullshit, and then me, and just dealing with Trump 24-7, and I got it.
And, like, fuck it, he never signed up for that, so God bless him.
And then me and Haley were just sort of like, you know, is that vein really something that we're going to be able to mine in this bullshit world?
So we were like, let's do deep dives into other conspiracies.
Sounds great.
And now it's just like, the moment Trump got into office, it's just like...
Would you like a daily podcast about the bullshit?
Because, boy, howdy, do you need one.
And it was just like, fuck, you've got to be kidding me.
I said it at the end of his first term, and I've been saying it again now.
It's like, because it was like this four-year thing where every morning I would wake up and say, oh, God, what the fuck did he do this today?
Yeah, yeah.
Like, how can I be embarrassed?
Yeah, yeah.
And the thing for me, because my husband is from England, it's this thought of like, doesn't anybody give a shit how the rest of the world looks at us?
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And you know what always gets me?
I wish I had a time machine.
When I watch all this 9-11 stuff, I wish I had a time machine.
I wouldn't necessarily stop 9-11 from happening, but I would be like, hey, chill on the rhetoric.
Calm down, you're angry.
Let's not be...
Let's not be murderers.
Let's not strike back.
Because the tragedy of 9-11 itself has been overshadowed by the people.
There have been more people who died in Iraq and rescue workers who died in the years since 9-11.
9-11 was just the start of an ongoing tragedy.
And it just keeps continuing.
And just seeing that rage, I understand the rage because I felt it because I remember that day.
It's like, oh god, I wish we could have had some idea of where that rage was going to take us.
Because that rage helped get us where we are now.
Yeah.
Okay, so anyhow, again, I guess we'll somehow segue into next week's episode because apparently we're never going to stop talking about JFK getting murdered.
Or 9-11.
JFK did 9-11.
Yeah.
He might as well have.
JFK set fire at the Building 7. Yes.
Control JK-elition.
JFK-elition.
The second bomb in the grassy knoll.
Why not?
Why the hell not?
Jackie detonated it.
Yep.
It was really frustrating.
Someone said to me Jackie shot him and I tried to find the art of...
Oh, esoteric detective.
Esoteric detective.
I don't know if they're still around on YouTube.
They had a thing where they showed Zabruder and they told you, watch Jackie shooting him.
It's a Mandela thing.
Did you guys hear about that thing with Jackie's grandson talking about how hot she was?
Yes.
Yes.
My mom, of all people, told me about that.
Yep.
Sorry, go ahead, poker.
Anyhow, I will try to knife through my two co-hosts' desperate efforts to sideswipe me away from this.
But anyway, there was this incredibly benign executive order signed by President Kennedy.
Unfortunately, it has a really cool number.
It is Executive Order 111. It's four ones and a zero, so it's 11110. When this podcast goes, I thought it might have been Executive Order 1488. It would have been Executive Order 1745. So,
this executive order, QAnon, and Richard Belzer, the detective from Law and Order, he literally wrote a book about the Fed killing Kennedy.
Oh yeah, he's a big conspiracy theorist, that guy.
He was on Alex's show when the Boston Marathon bombing happened, and they were all crisis actor-ing it in real time and shit.
He does stand-up routines where he...
Where he tries to pill the audience in the middle of his stand-up.
I think he passed away, didn't he?
Yeah, he's dead.
The Illuminati got sick of his shit.
They dropped him.
Well, he got dropped by one of the wrestlers.
Was it Hogan?
Who put a chokehold on him on his talk show?
That may have been a million years ago.
I don't remember Belzer being the one who got beaten up.
Yeah, it was him, but yeah.
Okay, but anyhow, so Kennedy had repeatedly tried to get Congress to pass some sort of act about silver certificates, because he kind of wanted to get rid of silver certificates, and he wanted to go to Federal Reserve notes.
So this is something...
Where people try to misconstrue this order as Kennedy trying to rein in the Fed and trying to defang them and take their power away.
And again, you have to remember that this all predates us leaving the gold standard.
The world of the Kennedy administration is so much different than the modern world that trying to have a frame of reference for this is not...
Like, really applicable.
It's night and day where we were to where we are.
And literally all this executive order did was defer powers that were already authorized to the presidency to the Secretary of the Treasury.
So the text of the executive order, it's one of those things where, like, you...
You can read the executive order and it's meaningless because so much of the executive order is add the following sentence to paragraph 7 of this previous executive order.
You would end up going down this massive rabbit hole to read all the other executive orders that are having slight modifications and edits to their wording on this executive order.
The headline, the top line of this executive order is, So that was all this was, is just literally...
Kennedy is letting the Secretary of the Treasury do some shit with silver certificates, and he doesn't have to tell Kennedy about it.
Kennedy is too busy banging Marilyn Monroe and Soviet spy ladies who are running into his hotels.
J. Edgar Hoover.
Oh yeah, and maybe his torrid love affair with J. Edgar Hoover, all of the above.
JFK is busy having sex with anything that goes into his field of vision.
He doesn't have time to meddle in silver certificates, so the Secretary of Treasury can handle that shit.
And that is literally all this executive order is.
And these people have made a mountain out of a molehill to completely freak out about this thing and to turn it in.
Kennedy was trying to rein in the Fed, take away their powers.
He was going to start running the monetary policy of America through the White House and not through the Federal Reserve.
And the Fed looked at him and said, you motherfucker.
And then they called up the Federal Reserve hit team, because as we all know, they have one of those.
Yeah.
Oh, and they put a big fat manila envelope in Chucky the Typewriter's hands and got him to work to blow away the president.
And no, I will never not mention Chucky the Typewriter whenever the Kennedy assassination comes up right now, because Rob Reiner made that the dumbest thing I've ever heard, and I will never forget it.
It will always make me laugh.
So yeah.
So that is the whole conspiracy.
I remember HBomberguy did a three-hour video on Andrew Wakefield and the anti-vax movement.
And when he actually looked at the report Andrew Wakefield created to explain how the MMR vaccine was not great.
He was like, this is all it is?
He was like super angry.
He was like, how the fuck did this start this movement that's destroying the world?
And that's how I feel about this dumb executive order.
Because it does not say any of the things the conspiracy theorists claim it does.
It's absolutely the most benign thing in the world.
It's just John F. Kennedy saying, I'm too busy golfing and shagging broads to handle silver certificates.
You, Poindexter!
You, Johnny Nerdy!
You fucking handle the silver certificates!
I'm too busy getting my fuck on.
I can't be bothered.
So it's just, oh my god.
At this point, I think it's quicker to write down a list of who didn't assassinate JFK. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, is that...
The one thing I always want to just say to people like Reiner and other people who are allegedly kind of earnest and honest people that buy into these conspiracy theories about this stuff is that I hope you idiots who have thought about this And have blamed quote-unquote
rogue elements of the CIA or whatever for killing Kennedy.
I hope that you're really happy that you've allowed all of these idiots that you've pilled on this shit to seamlessly transition from the CIA to the Jews.
Because that's where we are now.
Even Roger Stone!
Roger fucking Stone, who wrote a book literally called The Man Who Killed Kennedy, because he was riffing off the Men Who Killed Kennedy BBC series, and blamed Lyndon Johnson for the assassination.
Like, Roger Stone had a tweet today where it was just like, yeah, the CIA, the FBI, the banks, Israel, they all had a hand in it.
Even Roger Stone is, like, blaming Mossad for killing Kennedy.
It's just...
It was Saul the Accordion who did it, not Chucky the Typewriter.
Roger Stone's just upset that JFK made his boy Nixon look bad in the debate.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, God.
Yep.
Yeah, well, Roger Stone made Nixon look bad on his back.
Yes.
I was wondering if that was going to come up.
Roger Stone has a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back.
This is not a joke.
This is real.
And he's a swinger, too, so put one and one together and someone's going to be staring at Nixon up there with him.
Yeah.
I guess I'd rather stare at Nixon than...
Roger Stone with his misshapen, head-binding skull.
I think my reaction to an encounter with Roger Stone would be, I just want to be paid handsomely for it.
That would be my reaction.
I mean, I'd have a drink with him, but I'd cover my drink.
Well, I don't think I'm getting paid for that.
I'm thinking it's going to go real poorly for me, but as long as I have my Chucky the Typewriter-sized manila envelope in my hot little hand afterwards, it's a living.
Sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do.
And that's the brakes.
Because in this crippling Trump economy, I mean, have you seen the price of eggs today?
Oh, my God.
Am I doing this right?
What eggs?
There literally aren't eggs on the shelves because of avian flu.
Oh, this is going to be magical.
Oh, and even better news, Tanzania reported a sample from someone came back positive from Marburg.
A sample positive of what?
Marburg.
That's Ebola's nasty cousin.
Oh, great.
Wonderful.
I'm just sitting here wondering if we're actually going to get hit by bird flu.
And if we are, we're just done.
This is a government that could not possibly handle that problem.
I was thinking that the other day, that it would be so...
Funny and bad at the same time if both Trump administrations had a pandemic?
Because, I mean, for one, I mean, the conspiracy theorists would lose their fucking minds and be like, look, look, anytime he gets in office, the Illuminati brings out a pandemic.
And that's the thing that always gets me about this shit, is it's just like, is it just, are patriots in control?
Is he all-powerful?
QAnon is exactly the same thing as Christianity, where you have the problem with evil.
How are the deep states still able to fight when your guy can literally gaze through the time streams through Project Looking Glass?
It's so dumb.
It's just the silliest, dumbest, most worthless thing.
Anyhow, this has been over an hour and almost 10 minutes, so we are going to get out of here now.
I think we spent about 20 minutes of it on the Fed.
Oh, if you were lucky.
Oh, God, if you were lucky, you got 20 minutes of the Fed.
I just wanted to just give some advice to people.
I've been really struggling since the inauguration, and it's just been one thing after another.
It's okay to tune out.
It's okay to take care of yourself.
It's okay to not be okay.
Yeah, and I recommend reach out to your friends.
Just be like, hey, you okay?
And I've been enjoying Bob's Burgers and the Return of the Living Dead series lately, and I'm very excited that there's a Return of the Living Dead remake coming out in Christmas if we make it that long.
So just find tiny, tiny little things that make you smile, and for me, a lot of that's been Bob's Burgers.
For me, it's The Traitors, because The Traitors is a television show that is as close to a secret Hitler television show as I'm probably ever going to get.
But, man, if the makers of Secret Hitler could ever get to a television studio, they would obviously have to clean up the name a little, but that isn't a problem.
There's already been, like, Secret Vader and Secret Voldemort and Secret Trump.
So it's not like they can't make the name of the game a little more palatable to the people.
But yeah, boy howdy.
I would also nominate myself to be the host of that show.
I would not be as good as Alan Cumming, but I would still be great.
Anyhow, yeah.
Find something to enjoy, but also keep listening to our horribly depressing podcast.
Destroy yourself with our sorrow and...
Black humor.
Because I need you to do that so I can get ad revenue and make a few dollars because I'm a sad person.
And if you're driving a Tesla, this is your fucking warning.
Now's your time to fucking get rid of that shit.
Or you're just going to acknowledge that you support fascism.
Wow!
I actually saw a Tesla with a bumper sticker that said, I bought this before I knew about Elon.
That was really salty.
Holy shit.
I've seen pictures of those.
Yeah, that's nice, but get rid of the car.
They might like the car.
It doesn't matter.
I'm going to the wrap-up now.
You can't stop me.
The show is ending.
Anyhow.
If you want to support this show, give us a five-star review wherever you're listening to us.
God, why would you do such a thing?
Why would you lie to the people?
But I would appreciate it if you would.
Anyhow, if you want to actually give me money, go to patreon.com slash pokerandpolitics and there are options.
If you do the five-figure thing that we have, we will give you a pizza party.
It's not worth it, but hey, I'd be really happy if you did that.
Gluten-free!
If you don't want to do that, you can go to love146.org and donate to them to fight human trafficking, because that is a real thing that should be fought and dealt with.
I would like to thank DJ Minimal Effort for our theme that I accidentally remixed.
And I'd like to thank Frosty for the bumps that we use whenever we use bumps.
I would like to thank our listeners for dealing with all this crap.
That is that.
Beyond that, if you want to listen to me in a much lower stress, more funly environment, you can listen to me talk football with ladies who really don't understand how football works, but they're trying hard on the Chicks with Picks podcast.
That is Chicks with Picks.
You can find that wherever you listen to podcasts.
Beyond all that, we'll see you next week when we find out that I was wrong all along!
It really was Turkey the typewriter who killed JFK! Boy, is my face going to be red!
Good speed!
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Hørte du hva kongen sa i årets nyttårstale?
Jeg vil oppføre hver og en i det nye året til å invitere en du er uenig med til en kaffepratt.
I vår første kaffe så gjør vi nettopp det.
Vi lar to personer som mener helt forskjellige ting møtes for å prate sammen.
Dette er jo helt uenige med regi da.
De kommer inn i studio med bind for øynene.
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Ja, altså.
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