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April 22, 2025 - Adventures in HellwQrld
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Adventures in HellwQrld Presents: Trump Struggle Session 2, Deportations!

This week we get into the deportations and other criminality of the Trump White House and Mike and Eric get way into the weeks talking about Lord of the Rings 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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Really exciting.
I hit the button for the content warning disclaimer and literally all the upload media just blacked out.
Just immediately straight dead.
The entire soundboard just conked.
I was sitting there waiting for it too.
I'm like...
Yeah, it's like, okay, now we play the content warning, and then we get the show rolling.
And then the content warning was like, no, I will not play.
You can go to hell.
Yeah, the soundboard just exploded.
I don't even know what happened there.
You need a coffee break.
Maybe the problem that I was having earlier was with...
Riverside. Yeah, Riverside might just be borked.
So, guess what, everybody?
Height of professionalism.
We're rolling with this.
You're going to hear all of this.
We're not going to edit this off.
No! I'm way too lazy to restart this show.
Well, you did edit out the part where I complained about how much our fans suck, right?
Yeah, yes!
I'll get rid of that.
I'll get rid of that part.
We're like, God damn it, we can't grow this show mostly because our audience is a bunch of cucks.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. Just super great.
Content warning, listeners.
Sometimes we talk about things that are awful.
Yeah, we're going to talk about a lot of awful things today.
Today is a day of awfulness because we just decided, you know what?
We have to take a little looky-loo at our current esteemed President, El Estados Unidos, the bang-up job he's doing with our economy.
Civil liberties and all that good stuff.
And Donald Trump has been doing some stuff, too.
Yep, yep, that also.
Well, actually, there was some news that our touring love affair between Elon and Donald might be hitting the rocks.
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
He was like, Elon was trying to sneak into some kind of top-secret Chinese military briefing on China, and Trump's like, no, no, give him the blankety-blank out of there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fuck that guy.
Yeah. He'll be funneled into other aspects of the administration.
It also is relevant when we're talking about listeners.
We didn't intro anything.
Just ripping the band-aid off.
I went to the Border Security Expo this last week.
That's why we didn't record a week ago.
But you don't know that because we're ahead of episodes right now.
Yeah, we had a small gap in our posting, but you all got the Nephilim episodes sort of on time, so it all worked out.
But I went to this Border Expo that was probably one of the most insane events I've ever been to, and it was with Tom Homan and Kristi Noem, and it was relevant to all the Border stuff happening right now, so we'll talk about it a bit.
Yeah. By the way, the stock market is down about 700 today.
Everything going great.
What's so awesome is that everything is so bad that I'm actually seeing people on social media saying stuff about where they're like, Trump and Vance and all these people are trying to distract you with the illegal deportations so you don't notice the horrible economy news.
And it's like, no, we can notice all sorts of terrible things all at once.
How do you decide which one of those is the distraction and which one is the main event?
Right, exactly, exactly.
I can, as they say, walk and chew bubblegum.
Right, right, exactly.
I can complain about so much shit at once, listeners, you don't even know.
You don't even fucking know.
I'm like the top complainer here.
But it just kills me, though, because, you know, they used to say that about Biden all the time, and it's like, it drives me nuts when you see these guys, like, be like, hey, it worked out when the MAGA did it, why don't we do it now?
Ah, boy.
Yeah. We are in the most magical of times.
Truly the most magical of times.
I'd like to say there's a reason why the Chinese say may you live in interesting times and they mean it as a curse, not a blessing.
Right! I say that all the time.
Me and my friends darkly live in the interesting times phraseology.
That's what it's all about.
Yeah. I think Lennon said something similar.
It's like there's, you know, periods that, like, years that go by slow and then, you know, weeks that feel like...
No, it's something to the effect of, like, there are years where nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen.
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah. And that's how I feel lately.
Right. I remember being a kid during the first Gulf War and being like, well, there's a war going on right now, but my life isn't really any different.
And it's like...
This is kind of boring.
I guess this is all I get.
I want to go back to 30-year-old me and smack me in the back of the head.
I'm sorry, 30-year-old me, I mean, not 30-year-old.
I remember just when the war was happening, I would just be wandering around asking random people.
Asking people stuff like, oh, so how many people are going to get killed?
And folks were like, don't talk about that.
I'm like, but it's a war!
People are going to die!
What's your body count estimate?
What do you mean like the American War?
What'd you say?
What war are you talking about?
I was talking about the first Gulf War.
The first Gulf War.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I was just like a dumb, dumb kid.
Yeah, I was a little whippersnapper back then.
Right. No, but you know what?
Unfortunately, my job is actually tracking American fascist movements.
The one thing that I don't think they tell you enough historically is how fucking annoying.
fascism is and how stupid it is.
There really isn't enough emphasis on that, so may the future people know that fascism, when it comes for your society, it is mind-numbingly stupid to a point where it hurts.
I mean, I guess anti-intellectualism is a component of fascism, but it's just like, man, they...
That should be stressed a bit more, how frustratingly annoying it is.
Yeah, that's the thing, is that all this stuff is morons.
It's incompetent people who want to wield lots of power, and then they start typing aggressively on their keyboards where their mics are picking it up.
But yeah, I mean, it's just...
We're dealing with people that are incompetent.
And that is something that I really just don't understand how people just had this massive bit of COVID time dilation where COVID happens and we get Trump out of office.
And then this weird nostalgia for the Trump presidency pre-COVID kicks in.
I'm just sitting here thinking, you don't remember what a bumbling moron he was pre-COVID?
It wasn't like COVID changed anything.
It just made his incompetency that much more abhorrent and that much more obvious to notice.
He never knew what he was doing the whole time, and now he double doesn't know what he's doing.
And he's gotten rid of anybody who could possibly steer him in the right direction.
Right, exactly.
I mean, yeah, we got our boy Mnuchin, who was...
Running the government and saving us.
He's not there anymore.
All that kind of stuff.
It's just...
Oh, boy.
But if Q is right, then any minute now, Jeff Sessions is going to sweep in and save the day.
Yeah. Trust Sessions.
Let's talk about it real quick, since we're just shooting this shit on news.
4chan hacked by Soyjack Party.
Any news, anything related to...
To Watkins, the Watkinses with that?
Have we looked into it?
Should we wait until next week to talk more about this?
Well, the 4chan wasn't with the Watkins boys.
And so I have talked to some people about the hack and if it's going to mean anything.
And someone said that there is a bit of...
There was kind of like a bonus...
Bonus perks, like VIP perks you could get on 4chan.
And that the person who was posting the original Q drops did use that.
And that means that there may be a record of that transaction between 4chan and them.
So we might be able to get a hold of their credit card info and that could lead to a doxing.
There's just so much information that was given out in the docs, in the leak, that it's just hard to...
It's going to be a lot of stuff to sift through before we get to that.
And so many QAnon promoters are already throwing a fit about this and screaming that this is going to lead to a disinformation campaign.
People are going to try to claim that they figured out who Q was.
Don't you dare listen to them.
The true Q is in our hearts all along.
All that kind of stuff.
They've got to get it out beforehand.
They've got to pre-set your brain to not accept anything that doesn't fit their message.
Right. They really need you to not accept any evidence that shows that Paul Ferber was the guy making the original Q-drops, which, again, that's kind of the normie conspiracy theory around QAnon,
is that Paul Ferber...
Was the guy that started it, and then when it moved to 8chan, Ron Watkins or someone associated with Ron Watkins, like, stole it from him and then moved it on, moved it there.
So it'll be interesting.
It'll be interesting to see if anything like that does happen and we can, like, sort of get some information about Paul Ferber on there.
And who knows?
That may or may not happen, but it...
What the end result of this hack is going to be is almost assuredly lots of people being very angry and screaming and yelling and saying, don't listen to anyone, fake news.
The hack isn't true.
Q is truly a military intelligence officer who was working hand-in-hand with Donald Trump to take down the deep state.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
Yeah. Interesting.
Yeah. I mean, also, I did see there was, like, You know, it's not, like, totally reliable, given the source.
But if people are able to confirm some of that stuff, there was, like,.gov emails, like, in some of that leak.
So I'm interested to see where all that goes, what, like, more professional tech people find.
So, yeah.
I don't know.
I just thought it was kind of funny.
Yeah. I mean, it was a really interesting situation.
And if we do ever get any information about the Q account, that'll be cool.
But at the end of the day, the people that believe in this stuff are going to believe.
There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
There's no evidence that could prove Q is a moron.
And they'll be like, oh, crap!
Q was fake.
Now I'm going to stop believing.
That's not how this works.
Yeah, it makes me think of the scene from Life of Brian where Graham Chapman keeps yelling, I'm not the messiah.
And then one of the guys trying to worship him goes, the true messiah would deny his divinity.
Then he goes, okay, fine.
I am the messiah.
He is the messiah!
Right, exactly.
Interesting. Can I tell you guys about my time at this border conference?
Yes, you can.
Fuck yeah, that's what it's all about.
I'm going to put my feet up then.
Well, okay, so like you said, we kind of wanted to talk about the due process list deportations, people getting sent to Guantanamo, definitely the topic of people getting sent to CECOT,
which is the...
El Salvadoran mega prison.
It's the new hotness.
Those pictures that come out from that place are...
It's just a modern day concentration camp.
They're honestly some of the worst photos I've ever seen in recent years.
I don't know.
Does anyone want to chime in?
No, they're just really horrible.
I mean, all of this sucks.
And we have an administration and their cult of just worthless human beings who are sitting around here saying, hey, this is good.
It is a good thing that we have just thrown random people into this concentration camp.
Random brown people, that's the important part.
Well, I mean, yeah, for now, but I mean, it's coming.
Yeah, they were making that.
Basically, a couple days after this conference, they were talking about finding ways to send U.S. people there, and Eric Prince, specifically of Blackwater, was like, oh, I have a blueprint how we can maybe get this going.
Right. Oh, yeah.
And I'm trying to remember, isn't he the brother of Betsy DeVos, the former Secretary of Education?
Yep. Yeah, I totally forgot about that.
Damn, that is a fucked up family.
God damn.
He wasn't there.
There was no Blackwater at this event, but this was kind of in that realm of events.
It was basically a...
A big trade show.
It was at the Phoenix Convention Center, which is where the America Fest is held, the Turning Point America Fest, which is their biggest conference.
It's fucking huge.
It's where we have Comic Con, which we have one of the biggest Comic Cons in the country.
So this place is gigantic.
And the Exhibitor Hall was basically like 230 private prison companies.
Like surveillance companies, like military weapons tech, like AI companies, and even things like tents and like, you know, like razor fencing.
They had samples of the company Co-Train USA, which is who does the floating barrier in the Rio Grande that has been like, I think the subject of like international...
Basically, controversy, because it's like who...
The Texas government put it in there, but it's kind of like in the Mexico territory.
Is that the one that's got the razor wire?
And like, Greg Eppett was bragging about how he's going to murder people with it?
Yeah, and people have gotten caught in it and drowned.
It's like, there was samples of that at this event.
So this is the event.
That kind of sets the stage.
It's literally the military-industrial complex.
I mean, there's no other way to put it.
And the prison-industrial complex, too, from what you're saying.
Yeah, it's like prison-border-military-industrial complex, but, like, the private companies that get contracted with them.
And a lot of the stuff here was kind of, like, up-and-coming.
Like, there was...
People listening may have seen this news story.
Tom Homan was speaking with the ICE director, Todd Lyons, and they were talking about how people should be...
We should start doing deportations here like Amazon Prime, but with human beings.
It went, like, incredibly viral, that quote.
Shout out to...
Yeah, I heard the ICE Amazon dream.
Yeah. A terrible fucking thing to say, but...
Like, Kristi Noem spoke at this, Tom Homan spoke at this, and then they would take a Q&A, and a lot of the, like, essentially CEOs with some of these groups that were in the Exhibitor Hall were asking, like, okay, what kind of tech do you need right now so we can kind of help you with this,
like, deportation process and, like, streamlining a lot of this.
So that was the event.
It's, like, evil.
Like, people with meta were there.
There was, like, a guy that does the AI policy with meta.
I guess, like, Border Patrol has an AI officer now.
It's kind of, like, a newer role.
Because they want to start implementing AI and everything, which is, like...
Does AI ever work for you guys when you toggle with that shit?
Like, I can't imagine putting, like, that shit into, like, war and deportations when it's, like...
You type into chat GPT and it tells you something fucking stupid.
Yeah, I mean, I've never gotten anything.
I don't really use it, so I can't say as to...
Yeah, I fooled around with chat GPT a couple times.
Like, I was...
I asked a question like a hypothetical.
If you were traveling...
Well, I won't get into the details, but I asked a mathematical question, basically.
And the answer that gave me sounded kind of weird.
So I asked it again and got a completely different answer.
And then I said, you gave me two different answers.
And Chad Chippity responded, oh my, you're right.
I'll have to look into that.
I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what I want.
You know, processing immigrants at the border.
Oh, I accidentally shot an officer.
My bad.
Honestly, with a lot of the people getting targeted being like Latino, Hispanic, or Arab, like Muslim, like Middle Eastern, I think there's, like, a pretty good chance for,
like, a lot of this AI tech, when they implement it, to, like, make mistakes because, like, I don't know.
Right, like accidentally shooting a swarthy Sicilian because it got his skin color mixed up.
Or just mixing up, like, two Jose Garcias, you know?
Oh, my God.
If you have a generic Hispanic name, you're so getting thrown into a gulag, and they are not going to care about it.
I mean, what is the situation with the man from Maryland?
Garcia? I can't remember his first name right now.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
Yeah. The Trump administration admits that they fucked up on that in court filings.
They're not publicly admitting it.
Their PR people are like, no, he's a gang member.
In court documents, they say they made a mistake, and it's like, well, what was the mistake?
Does anyone know here?
Yeah, does anyone even know what the mistake was?
Yeah, maybe he had like an autism awareness tattoo or something.
Yeah, like the hairdresser who had the mom and dad crown tattoos, and they just grabbed him and threw him into the gulag, and even the agents that were grabbing him were like, this isn't the right guy, and they were like, shut up, we gotta make quota.
Like, leave us alone.
Yeah, Tom Homan was pretty, like, blunt about that in his speech.
He was like, oh, people get mad at us because we get, like, you know, essentially extras when we do our raids, and it's like, if you get caught up in our raid and you don't have documentation, you could go away.
Like, he was just so open, like, yeah, we're gonna make mistakes, I don't give a fuck.
You know?
And then I think, like, because right now there is, like, a lot of students getting their visas and green cards pulled from the administration.
They're at over a thousand students right now, and Arizona actually has the most.
And it does seem, it's speculation, but everybody basically that's gotten flagged is for really minor crimes.
And in a lot of cases, it was for stuff like, That's gotten thrown out.
But they're still getting flagged by the system.
So I was wondering if maybe, like, they were using AI for that.
Because Kristi Noem openly said, like, Elon's basically her biggest partner right now in terms of, like, DHS.
And I don't know if you guys heard about this, but basically the only way you could apply for asylum since, like, 2023 was through this app called CBP1.
And it was already pretty shitty.
It was in limited languages, and it frequently crashed and had errors.
But it was basically the app that people use to make their hearings and apply for asylum.
And she was talking about how...
And I don't think any news has ever talked about this.
How it did...
The news has talked about how it shut off the day that Trump went into office, his inauguration day.
Had CBP1 shut off.
But then it restarted back in March as CBP Home.
And the point is to basically report your self-deportation.
And she said, like, Elon helped rework that.
Oh, thank God.
Yeah. Yeah, we need his steady hand at the wheel.
Yeah, I don't want Elon being responsible for the tech that, like...
Determines anything.
Well, I mean, if you think about it, he has first-hand experience being an illegal immigrant himself.
Yes. Which you would think would give him some sort of empathy for those, but not so much.
Weirdly, if anything, he is only emboldened to be even shittier and more mean-spirited.
Yeah, that's when his situational...
It's situational autism pops up whenever empathy is required.
Yeah, weird.
Weird, yeah.
But that is the benefit of being the richest man in the world is just like the rules that apply to somebody that is just like a dad in Maryland do not apply.
Yeah. Oh, God, no.
Have you guys heard about the senator that's trying to talk to him?
Yeah, he was there.
He's there today.
He's there now.
Yeah, he's there and the president of El Salvador is...
Going all new phone who dis on him.
Yeah, they're not letting him in Seacott right now.
And there are like Republican lawmakers there right now also that are like taking photo ops with the men stacked in the cages.
Yeah. Which is honestly some of the...
I was like dizzyingly fascist.
It reminds me of those photos that were coming out during the...
I think it was...
During the second Gulf War of, you know, of the soldiers posing in front of bodies of Iraqis that they just slaughtered and stuff.
That was also, like, notorious during the, you know, Iraqi prison torture at Abu Ghraib.
Abu Ghraib, yep.
That's probably what I'm thinking of then, right there.
I think you're right.
I think there was, I think, like, both are correct, which is very cool.
But the company, like, one of the few companies that was actually found liable for that was at this event.
They had, like, a booth where you could get, like, water bottles with their name stamped on it.
Yeah. The pride.
The pride to do that.
Yeah. Like I was saying before, they got street cred now.
They're like, you know, yesterday's war crime is today's braggable.
Yeah. Honestly, that was how it felt, because every fucking company that I looked up at this thing, I was like, damn, they have the most evil history I've ever Googled in my life.
The people currently running Guantanamo Bay, the Migrant Processing Center, they were one of the lead sponsors of this thing.
They handed out tote bags with their logo on it, so that's cool.
The Geneva Conventions for Beta Cucks.
You tell them.
There was private prison companies that are notoriously bad, like CoreCivic and the GEO group.
There was a company that we talked about a little bit beforehand that I want you guys to weigh in on a bit.
It was seed-funded by...
Peter Thiel, who obviously does Palantir, which is a Lord of the Rings reference.
Explain it.
The Palantirs were like the evil orbs that Sauron could look through and see people in distant lands.
They were basically a communication device.
Yeah, they were created by the elves, given to the humans, and then Sauron got a hold of them and corrupted them.
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Yeah. That's interesting.
I mean, you know, I feel like Lord of the Rings is kind of normal.
I feel like that's an interesting metaphor for how, like, these war criminals, like, take Tolkien's work and corrupt it.
I figure they were trying to lean more towards the communication aspect of it than the corrupted by evil aspect of it.
Oh, yeah.
No, yeah.
It's just interesting.
I think they actually just got, like, literally within the last couple days, yeah, like, military is, like, contracting with Palantir for their, like, AI surveillance tech,
like, two days ago.
But they weren't there at this, but they had, there was another similar company there that, like, Peter Thiel, like, essentially funded.
And it is part of that Silicon Valley era...
When you think of WarTech, it's a lot of the older companies like Lockheed Martin and shit.
And this company, Anderil, is considered one of the companies that's kind of successfully challenging that.
And they specifically are AI-focused.
They want to kind of replace all...
Like, tanks are old news.
That's like vintage military tech.
They want to do complete AI, like autonomous attack drones, like autonomous swarm drones, these like autonomous suicide drones that essentially just refill and are meant to be destroyed.
They're fucking the most terrifying things.
Right, and don't have any qualms about blowing up civilians.
No, yeah, a lot of those, like, awful videos that we've seen online of, like, drones killing civilians is, like, Anduril Tech or similar companies.
And it is, like, AI heavy, which is, like, I think that's, that's, like, a level of dystopia, like, dystopian.
Yeah. Yeah.
I know, that's, like, Terminator stuff going on there.
Yeah, Terminator was also where my mind went to, but also, if you've played Horizon, this is very much the origin story of the Horizon series.
The video game?
Yes, the video game.
And also, if you go way back into the history of Dune and the Butlerian Jihad, that was all man versus machines.
And that's why there's no computers in the world of Dune, because AI has been outlawed so that it doesn't try to overthrow humanity again.
Some of the speakers at this event, like, want that.
Like, the people that were in AI tech at this thing, and just, like, Palmer Luckey, who is the CEO of Andurl specifically, is kind of, like, about that life.
He... Previously, he got big by being the person who made Oculus Rift, and then he sold it to Facebook, and then he was ousted from Facebook for, like, political shit, because he's, like, a fucking weirdo.
He also, maybe you guys have heard of this, he prototyped, like, a VR headset that had these, like, three explosives that were aimed at your head, so if you die in the game, that goes off and actually blows your fucking brains out.
No, I did not hear anything about that.
You never heard of that?
Yeah, I was like, okay, this guy's crazy.
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But the Anduril is a reference to Lord of the Rings too.
Explain. Anduril was the reforged sword that Aragorn used in the movies.
The Shards of Narsil, which was the sword that his ancestor...
Oh my god, I can't believe I'm blanking on that.
Isildur! Come on, nerd!
I knew I was going to feel like an idiot for putting it in Isildur's name.
Basically, the sword shattered when Isildur defeated Sauron, and then it sat in pieces for 3,000 years until the elves reforged it for...
Aragorn, which they do in the books, they do it in the third book.
Instead of the movies, they do it while he's on his way out of Rivendell.
It's an intense scene.
I'm sorry, I got it backwards.
They did it the other way around.
They gave it to him in the third movie, and it was in the first book that he got it.
Yeah. I just really...
I'm sorry, Haley, but I just wanted to just mention I really enjoy the deleted scene from the third movie where the mouth of Sauron just gives...
Aragorn, an endless amount of shit.
Who is this?
It takes more than a broken elvish blade to make a king.
And then Aragorn decapitates him.
Which Tolkien would have rolled over in his grave.
Because the whole British parlay and meeting of people is supposed to be this very high-minded way to conduct war.
And you'd have Peter Jackson being like, and then he lobs his head off with a sword!
Yeah, like in the book version of Helm's Deep in the second book, even the bloodthirsty murderous orcs are willing to parlay because Aragorn followed the proper procedures to do it.
And they spend the whole time mocking him, but they don't kill him, even though he's standing right there out in the open.
I understand that Tolkien had very severe PTSD from World War I, and that's why he kind of glossed over the violent aspects of his epic war between good and evil.
Yeah, the Battle of Helm's Deep is like two pages.
Yeah. But, oh God, if fucking Legolas looks at a tree, are we going to get five minutes about what elves call that tree?
Yeah. Oh, boy howdy.
Yeah, there were songs in that book longer than the Battle of Helm's Deep.
Yes. Just, yeah.
If you want world building on top of world building, boy howdy are you going to get it.
Yeah, your ship has come in.
Yeah. I will never forget.
Because I was the idiot.
I was the huge moron right when they said that Laura Ring's books or the movies were coming out.
I was like, well, I gotta read the book then!
Biggest mistake of my life.
Me too.
What a horrible...
Those books suck.
Anyone who wants to defend them can go to hell.
And the best part about it is...
The fact that Tolkien hates his characters so much.
Again, him and George R.R. Martin.
Frodo is a bum.
The whole point of the story is that Frodo sucks.
He's terrible.
And the only reason why...
Good defeats evil is because Schmiegel's touchdown dance after biting the ring off of Frodo's hand, Schmiegel slips on a banana peel and falls into the lava.
I remember talking to my friend about...
I'm like, I hope in the movies Frodo throws him in.
My friend was like, that'd be so untrue to the books, because Frodo's a piece of shit in the books.
And then when Frodo threw him in, I was like, oh man, way to violate Tolkien's bold vision.
Oh my god.
But that all happens.
Good defeats evil, the ring is destroyed, even though it's, again, Smeagol's touchdown dance is what killed him.
Then you look at the book.
And there is like 200 more pages to go!
Yeah, he defeats the Dark Lord Sauron, and you're only two-thirds of the way through the book.
Right! You're like, what?
The book just ended!
And Tolkien's like, oh no, it didn't, motherfucker!
Oh, you're getting so much more!
That's why I had to laugh, because people were complaining about how the movie Return of the King ended like seven times, and I'm like, oh, read the book, then you'll know what ending fatigue feels like.
Yeah. Oh, you sweet summer child.
You have no earthly idea.
Yeah, I was in like sixth grade when that one came out and I remember being able to go to the midnight for that.
And it was like, I was so tired the next day of school because I was like, dude, it ended like so many times.
It was like so long.
Yeah, because the theatrical cut was three and a half hours long.
And at least half an hour of that was the postscript.
Yeah. So I'm going to ask.
Do you guys like the theatrical release or the extended director's cut more?
I only watch theatrical.
I never got...
I've seen a few deleted scenes, but really, I don't care.
I mean, I'm bummed out for the mouth of Sarah not making it on the big screen because I think that character's hilarious.
I must have...
I mean, I think I only watched the theatrical cut once, and that's when it was in theaters, because until you said that, I didn't even realize that the Mouth of Sauron is not in the theatrical cut, because I'm so used to watching the director's cuts.
I remember going over to a friend's house, where he did a 12-hour marathon of all three movies with meal breaks in between.
There's like special editions, like nice special editions where you can get the full...
Yeah. But I personally, this might be controversial, because honestly, everyone I know likes the full director's cut.
I like the theatrical cut.
I think it works.
I think it flows well.
I don't know, though, because I wasn't a huge Lord of the Rings fan before the movies came out.
I think the movies are honestly great.
I low-key love the original trilogy.
Because I came out when I was a kid, and I was like, dude, this is fucking awesome.
It was the first DVD I had was the first movie.
And I was just like, this is cool.
But I don't have, like, I didn't read the books.
I didn't read the, like, long-extended Simorillion or whatever the fuck.
Oh, God.
I didn't even touch those.
I mean, all that stuff is just more world-building.
It's just, if you thought Lord of the Rings was boring, wait till you get to the rest of Tolkien's work, and it's just nonsense.
Imagine it's, you're reading the Bible, but it's for something that even the author admits is fiction.
Yeah, and then he's just like, I'm going to keep world building.
I'm just going to keep building this fictional world up.
Is there going to be any action or excitement?
No, it's just, I'm telling you, it's literally just like those sections of the Bible where it's like an X begot Y, who begot Z, who begot A, and it's just...
What are we doing this for?
Why are you...
Ah, God.
Stop world building.
Write something with a little pop to it.
Oh, my God.
Tolkien's like, no.
No. I love...
I just love that we're so broken as people that our world is burning and we're just punching fucking Tolkien.
This is where we're at.
The evil of Donald Trump is so massive.
It's like, you know what?
We're going to have to take the nerd comfort of knocking down fucking Tolkien a peg or two.
Rome may burn tomorrow.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh my god.
Okay, so the Anderil thing, the Anderil company at this event, Anderil, I guess, means Flame of the West, and this is like murder tech company that the CEO, Palmer Luckey,
literally was like, I want this to be the weapons tech of the West.
So it's like, they're just like, you know, it's like seeing the Ghibli.
Being slopped out as AI.
It's just, it feels like a little bit of a slap in the face.
But I don't know.
I don't know.
I guess, well, you said Token had PTSD from the war, so it is like a slap in the face.
Yeah. I don't know.
Yeah, I mentioned he would absolutely hate having military tech companies named after his stuff.
Yeah, that's interesting.
So... I did do a school shooter simulator.
Were you the school shooter, or were you trying to stop the school shooting?
You know, it was...
That was, like, my first question.
I was like, uh...
Because it was, like, it's, like, a simulator meant for cops and, like, Border Patrol and shit.
For them to do, like, high-stress, um...
Like... It's basically you're in a room.
It's a tent that's 360 degrees of screens that are also really high.
So the people in the simulation are the size of people.
And you walk through it and actually have to turn because it's in every direction.
And you do have real guns.
They're just refitted with laser tech.
And it does give you a kickback when you shoot.
So it still gives you the full effect.
And then do they give you a phone with a Punisher wallpaper that you can scroll through while the shooter's taking out everyone else?
There was so much Punisher fucking tats and shit at this event.
Yeah. Again, showing these people who truly know the source material and understand what the Punisher was all about.
God. There was, like, TED merch.
You know, like, TED, like, the...
Comedy movie?
Oh, the Seth MacFarlane one?
Yeah, it was like a booth that sold weapons and tactical gear.
It was like an Israeli military weapons company.
And they had Ted kitted out holding up guns.
It's like a morale patch.
And the guys from The Office, Jim and Dwight.
Dwight, yeah.
Kitted out also.
And, like, Gunn, they have, like, tattoos.
Like, they were, like, military guys.
And there was another company that was, like, you know, it's just, like, Target stuff.
But it was like advertising that it's the targets that like the military uses like the army and border patrol and here's all our official shit.
And it's like there's still a merchandise with like a with a with a joke with the Tropic Thunder never go full R-word joke on their stuff.
I'm like what is this is what?
Like what are we doing?
I don't know, I felt like that was a little fucked up.
Yeah, let's have a teddy bear showing off guns.
Which reminds me of I think it was the first season episode of Family Guy where Peter's visiting the NRA and they show this kid's video of this puppet gun who says, squeeze me and I make bad people go away!
Sounds right.
But anyway, the school shooter thing, it was, like, there was multiple, like, options, but the one, it was basically, like, three shooters taking over, like, a school auditorium, and, like, fucking graphic dead bodies everywhere,
and if you miss, like, you will kill the wrong person, and it, like, all plays out, and you're supposed to shoot, obviously, the three killers, but...
It's for practice.
I don't know.
I thought that was also a little bit weird.
It's great to see that school shootings are becoming so normalized that they're just another training op for the cops.
Okay, but literally.
There was a lot of drones at this event.
I got to shoot a police taser.
Did you get to hit anyone with it?
Was there a guy that got tased on your behalf?
No. And I was kind of asking what that was about.
Basically, the last episode of the John Oliver show covered this company that had the tasers.
Because they've created this...
Have you ever heard of Excited Delirium?
No, but it sounds exciting and delirious.
And delirious, yeah.
It's kind of relevant a little bit to what we're looking into with listeners.
We're going to do George Floyd conspiracies in the upcoming episodes.
And it's basically the claim that the people that get hit with these tasers don't actually die.
They just get really excited right at the moment that they're hit and actually die from that.
Which is, like, it's a pseudo-medical conspiracy that they've, like, this company...
There's basically only one company that issues police tasers in this country.
They are called Axon, and they're headquartered here.
And, yeah, they've, like, tried to fund this, like, research that would put excited delirium in, like, medical papers and, like...
You know, actual official, like, autopsy.
Yeah, so this is total fucking junk science.
They're just trying to pass it off as real.
And yeah, that was what the episode of John Oliver was about, was like the, yeah, the excited delirium.
Oh, since we were...
Talking about school shootings, I was driving around today and I noticed flags had a half-mast everywhere, and I was like, oh God, was there another school shooting?
Well, I just went and looked it up.
It turns out that Governor Pritzker ordered the flags at half-mast because one of those four soldiers that died in Lithuania was from Joliet, which is a town in Illinois famous for its state penitentiary that I believe is now closed down.
Prison town?
No. Crap, what do they call it?
Statesville, they called it.
And there was also a haunted house called Statesville, I'm sure not by coincidence at all.
Oh yeah.
You gotta work in the marketing.
You gotta coordinate.
Brand synergy.
So, the other main speaker at this event was Kristi Noem.
Boo! Was she fully kitted out?
She was.
Well, okay.
Hailey's sighs of defeat are my lifeblood.
Last night was such a rough day in Arizona.
I was like, dude, everything bad is happening here because all these fuckers are in town.
Christy Noem, actually, before she took the stage, because she was after lunch, this event was so fucking expensive, so they provided lunch and stuff.
There was legit donuts all day and I thought that was funny because it was like a law enforcement event.
I'm like, damn, they really do lean into the stairs.
They're leaning into the pit real hard with this.
It's like, fuck, guys, guys, calm down.
Come on.
Half of them have fake Irish accents.
Yeah. For real, I talked to a guy that gave me like a bullet bottle opener who worked with like DHS.
And he had a super thick accent and he legit asked me, he's like, where do you think I'm from?
I was like, okay.
You're from fucking Southie, buddy.
I was just about to say, he's a Southie.
Fucking Tommy from Quincy here.
Go fucking shoot someone with taser.
Wicked smart.
Oh god, the wicked smartest.
So earlier in the day, like, Kristi Noem spoke basically at, like, 3 p.m.
And during the daytime, like, in the early morning, her and Chaya Raychak, a.k.a.
Libs of TikTok, were conducting raids in Phoenix.
Yeah, and she posed for pictures with the exact same look on her face that she had when she was giving the Epstein files.
Yeah. That hurt.
Honestly, I'm not going to lie, that hurt to see Chaya Raychak live filming, live streaming in Phoenix raids.
And they were, they picked up three guys who they, you know, everybody they're sending to Seacott and Guantanamo, they're like, they're drug dealers, they're terrorists, they're gang members.
And it's like, can you prove that?
They're like, no, shut up, Lib.
Yeah, we're not going to even take them to court, so we're not answering your question here.
I know, I see all these people say, due process is only for citizens.
I'm like, well, how do you know if they're citizens or not without due process?
Shut up, Liv.
You can tell.
Right, and then the other one they say is, did this person who got murdered have due process?
It's like, no, victims don't get due process.
That's what, it sucks.
It sucks when people suffer a violent crime.
And that's not how you then pivot about this.
Yeah, we learned when we were kids that two wrongs don't make a right.
Or at least we were supposed to learn that.
Right. I like...
Yeah, it sucks that person got killed, but that doesn't mean that now people not related to that don't have rights.
I've been seeing that exact same thing on the timeline.
Like, oh, did Lake and Riley have due process?
Yeah, that was Postabek.
Postabek posted that shit.
And then I saw them being like, did the January Sixers have due process?
Yes, they fucking did!
Yes, literally they did!
Yeah, that's how that worked.
They got due process.
But two of the guys that they picked up had no previous criminal convictions, so Chaya Raychak was just like, oh, we got a terrorist, and they were like...
They just, you know, like, you guys saw, like, Kristi Noem's photo at Seacott where she was, like, basically posing in front of the cage of men.
Yeah. Yep.
Oh, yeah.
It was quite disturbing.
Yeah. I feel like theses will be written about that.
well my favorite thing is that whenever uh whenever ray check posts something like that like every now and then i'll i'll be masochistic enough to go scrolling through the comments and sure enough you'll get like two or three down and there'll be some blue check yelling shut up jew i'm like i'm like i'm
like it's just it's like she can't even win you know with with the people that are supposed to be on her side because they can't get past their hatred it's it's it's like doesn't she realize who her base is?
Exactly. Yeah, like...
Especially after the Epstein file stuff, I did see a lot of people calling her Mossad on the right and leaning in, yeah, just making conspiracies about her being Jewish.
And she's honestly, too, one of the most bloodthirsty fascists in the American political ecosystem.
And even she's not free of the other fascists coming at her.
Yeah, you can never appease the fascists enough.
You can never win.
Yeah, like Nick Fuentes.
I remember when people found out that he lived in Cicero, which is a very, very Latinx area.
And it's something that people are like, wait a second.
His last name is Fuentes.
Oh, man!
He's like...
He's a brownie.
What's going on here?
Yeah, there is, like, this newer wave of, like, younger, you know, because Fuentes, like, the Gripers were always kind of trying to appeal to, like, the younger crowd, and they are getting a bit more into the age of, like, older Zoomer, and the younger Zoomers are,
if they're on, like, the kind of wave of what Fuentes would have been.
Are even more far right than him and don't like Fuentes and kind of consider the Gripers to be like the diverse Nazis.
Like, just so people can know kind of where we're at.
We don't tolerate any woke cuck Nazis around here.
No, we just take human traffickers like the Tate brothers.
Yes. It's so funny.
Have you seen, like, the right trying to coin the term woke right?
I have seen it mentioned before, yeah.
Yeah. It's like a James Lindsay kind of right-winger thing.
They can't say Nazi.
They can't admit that there's Nazis in their base and white supremacists.
So they call them the woke right because they are basically saying that they also see race and color and stuff.
So they're like the woke.
So that's what like more MAGA like James Lindsay type right-wingers like Chris Rufo-type right-wingers are calling legit bloodthirsty swastika-waving Nazis.
They're the woke right.
I've always hated the woke right.
I just thought that was a funny...
I just thought that was hilarious.
But anyway, when Kristi Noem got to the convention, she told a story about why Like, they have to send people to Seacott.
And it kind of, like, made me a little bit dizzy.
Because you know how, like, the female fascists have to kind of lean into, like, it's like, you're the leader of the, you're a part of the administration.
You're a leader of this country.
And she's like, I'm just a mom, you know?
Yeah, that shit.
The Ah Shucks thing.
Yeah. I remember Margaret Thatcher was kind of infamous for this, where she was just kind of like, I'm just a homemaker kind of attitude.
Like, no, that's not what's happening here.
And what's funny about that is that, like, the opposite, they have the opposite framing for liberals who try to have power.
Like, Hillary Clinton was a cold-calculating murderous shrew who, like, barely, like...
Probably adopted Chelsea Clinton because she couldn't be an actual mom and raise a child.
Femininity is exclusively allowed for right-wing politicians.
Left-wingers are not allowed to be feminine.
I mean, that's kind of the whole trad wife thing and some of the more explicit Nazis women who are like...
So pick me about it.
And they're just like, women shouldn't even be allowed to vote.
And it's like, you're saying this on your podcast that you're like asking people to listen and subscribe to you.
And, you know, you're not, you don't even practice what you preach.
I know.
I remember that when we were talking about that before, the Edward woman, you know, she's doing the trad wife thing and she lost her job over it.
And I'm like, wait a second.
How could she be a trad wife and have a job?
That doesn't compute.
Right, exactly, exactly.
Yeah, Lily Gattis, she actually was at CPAC, had credentials this year, and she was talking about we should bring back lynching.
I can't believe just some of these commentators right now.
X has truly become like, you know, I think the 4chan thing didn't hit as hard because it was just like nobody, they're all here.
Who cares?
Like, we don't care that 4chan might be down because we don't need it anymore.
Senator Van Hollen, by the way, is the guy that's currently in El Salvador trying to get a meeting, trying to find the, talk to the prisoners.
Yeah, the Honorable Senator from Maryland.
Yeah. I love that.
I love that phraseology.
The honorable.
Honestly, good for it.
You know, I honestly, I know I often complain about Democrats, but I think that that's a bitchin' move to do.
That's, like, what we need right now.
I hope that more people start to...
More elected officials start to...
Throw your weight around.
Right now, the American people in their esteem have decided that Democrats should have actually no political power in our system at the moment.
So, do spectacles.
Do stunts.
Do shit to fucking get some attention on the transgressions of these pieces of shit.
Yeah, and I think like, you know, I don't think anybody...
I don't care what these people did.
None of them should be sent there.
It's a gulag and they got no due process sent there.
And it's a corrupt system all around.
And yeah, there does need to be more pressure on the ground.
They're talking about expanding it.
That was part of the event.
It was like they want to basically double the size of Seacott.
Yeah, that was like Trump talking to the fucking Berkey.
It was like, we're going to need more for the homegrowns.
We're going to have to put more people in here.
It's like, oh my god.
They're just open about it.
They're just openly fascist.
And people just don't seem to understand that.
I mean, it's like, fuck, we are in such bad shape.
It's so grim.
Yeah, so this story that Noam tells...
At the event, why they have to basically fill up Seacott.
I feel like I left my body when she told it, but she was talking about how she went to go visit President Bukele in El Salvador, and that was when she did that video in front of the men in cages.
And she said she asked if they would take more people from the U.S. And he tells her a story about why they need to partner and do this.
And it's because he says he came to America right before he was sworn in as president for a trip with him and his wife.
And they went to Target.
And they were so impressed how clean Target was and how you could do self-checkout.
And he was like, and now you come to America and everything's behind cages.
Everything's locked up.
And so if we want to go back to a society where targets aren't locked up, we need to start putting people in Seacott, essentially.
And I was like, that's a fucking crazy thing to say.
It's like, we must protect the target.
We have to protect the target.
We're going to put people in a slave labor camp because we fell for some shoplifting panic propaganda.
Yeah. That all tracks.
That makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, and I always wonder, where the hell are these...
Where is all these everything-locked-up-behind-cages things that, like, Eric Trump and them always talk about?
The stuff that's behind...
You know, there was, like, this panic that there was, like, shoplifting sprees happening in certain areas, and, like, things had to be locked up, and, like...
Closed down because of these mass shoplifting sprees.
And this is another one of those things where it's like companies like Axon who funded this pseudo-scientific bullshit with the excited delirium were also kind of some of the people that were pushing the conspiracies about the shoplifting panic because it just gives them more funding.
Like, a lot of this shit is literally, it's like panics, you know?
It's like, there's not actually roving gangs everywhere, like, busting up, like, big expensive stores.
They just kind of, like, use, like, one viral story to make that, like, a nationwide narrative.
And yeah, a lot of these companies here were kind of, like, part of that bullshit.
So that's what I went to.
Did you have any interesting stories about the robot dog?
Because I saw a picture of a robot dog and I wanted to know more about that.
Okay, so they were like bragging how the robot dog was run off AI, but I could see the guy fucking using an Xbox controller to control it.
And I called him out and I was like, hey, you're using an Xbox controller!
And he was like, oh yeah, that's just for this event.
Isn't that the same thing that happened with those AI bartenders?
Yes. It was really a bunch of fucking Asian people in sweatshops were doing the dancing and making the drinks and the robots were just pantomiming them.
They were being fed the inputs.
Yeah, it was all mo-cap.
Right, it was all mo-cap bullshit.
Andy Serkis was actually running the whole thing.
Yes, yes.
And then...
Reporters and photography was not originally allowed.
Free speech!
Yeah. But Gnome being there, Gnome was the only DHS secretary to ever speak at this thing.
It's been going on for almost 20 years.
So they had to change the rules a little bit.
Like, she needed a press pool photographer.
So, like, I was able to take photos in the hall, and some people were not happy about that.
And one of my friends, my journalist friends that was there, was, like, getting chased by one of the robot dogs.
And then he got, like, yelled at because one of the companies, it was Bay Systems, which is literally, like, another company that's been in trouble for war crimes.
As you do, I mean...
I'm starting to think that's a requirement to be at this thing.
I don't have to say, I mean, who amongst us hasn't been in trouble for war crimes?
It's like, if you were a data company, you had some major data breach.
If you were a war company, you had some major human rights violations.
Let he who has not been hauled in front of the Hague cast the first stone.
Right, exactly.
But yeah, the people with Bay Systems were scolding a journalist there.
The one that was getting chased by the fucking dog.
Because they were like, what are you here for?
What are you taking pictures of?
And they were like, we were told that no pictures were allowed.
And we're like, we're allowed.
They changed the rules.
And they're like, well, what's your angle?
So they did not want to be covered, which I thought was funny.
It's like, you could just Google you guys and you have a Wikipedia.
Of controversies.
You're publicly known.
This isn't a mystery to figure you out.
Calm down.
Yeah. Which, I mean, that just tells you everything you need to know about these companies.
They're terrified of anything they're doing coming out to the light of day.
Right. Yeah, it is interesting because it's like they're all eager.
They're like, please give me a contract so we can help to send people to a gulag.
And they're like, please don't take our picture.
Yeah, we don't want anybody to know what we're making our money off of.
Yeah, our new AI for the fucking cell doors of these gulags that ensure maximum suffocation.
I mean, oh my god.
I feel like I talked a lot, so I'd like to hear your opinion on Seacott.
It's terrible.
I mean, everything about this is ridiculous.
And the fact that you have people standing up for this is so insane.
I've been listening to people who apparently are still toughing it out and listening to the knowledge fight, but for me, once the onion failed to buy Infowars...
And it just felt like Alex Jones isn't going to have to pay trillions of dollars to these people.
It really felt like the forward momentum of that show had kind of lost itself because if Alex Jones isn't about to be destroyed in the next six months, why do I want to listen to him fucking lie to me?
But people who've been listening to it have been saying that it's very interesting listening to him going against literally everything he stood for before this happened.
The whole existence of these conspiracy theorists before now has been that our government is becoming too invasive, too intrusive.
They're coming for you.
They're going to black bag you and disappear you to their secret sites.
And you've got to fight them and buy my dick pills so I can tell you how to fight them better and all that stuff.
And now these same people...
Are posting on social media.
Yeah! Blackbag and disappear people!
Fuck them!
Let's go!
Let's do this!
And... Just the fact that these people have completely done a 180, and now they're cheering the police state on, and they're celebrating the violation of constitutional rights.
Yeah, they got a digital countdown board for when the FEMA death camps open.
Right! They're like, yes!
Oh, I can't wait to send people to the FEMA death camps, as long as it's not me!
And it's like, yeah.
Yeah, that's the whole thing.
I bring this up a lot on Twitter.
I mean, it's known, most people call it the leopards-eating-people's-faces party, but in formal logic, it's called the original position fallacy, which is that if there's a policy that will benefit only some people,
most people will go for it because they assume that they'll be among the benefactors.
So these guys are all about Seacockers.
They're like, yeah, it's only the brown people going there.
We're safe.
Yes. Yeah, I mean, I feel like there's some aspects of this that are kind of reminiscent of the Iraq War era, like the hyper-surveillance and the Patriot Act.
And I feel like there was more pushback then.
Maybe I'm misremembering.
No, there absolutely was.
Yeah, there was.
You're getting really quiet, Haley.
Sorry, I was leaning.
I think I'm just leaning because I'm going insane.
I think I'm just leaning.
Um, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
You're literally shifting to the left as we speak.
Yeah, I'm just kind of like dying slowly.
But I, because I was a lot younger during that era and you guys were like, at least you guys were like a young adult.
We were so old back then.
No, I don't know.
I kind of, when we, and then, you know, when we did 9-11, you guys were like 10 years older than me or so.
Well, you know, I remember when it was a big, huge story about the NSA wiretapping thing.
And today, if something like that happened, it would be like, you know, oh, page 6B, you know.
Yes. And then Trump would be like, no, fake news.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, Gnome literally got asked straight up by somebody.
Somebody actually did in the audience ask, like, hey, they started it so hilarious.
Like, now that the terrorists are in the...
Inside our homes, like, how do we basically protect our citizens, but we don't, like, not surveil our citizens?
It's like, we don't spy on our citizens.
We've moved on.
Yeah, only the bad guys are getting spied on.
It's like, bitch, shut up!
Every fucking thing in this, every other product in this exhibitor hall is about spying on people.
Yeah, and we've literally gone from the people who, again, hate the government and everything it stands for, to nothing to fear, nothing to hide!
It's like, where the fuck did this come from?
Yeah, I mean, that's always been kind of one of my gripes with some of the academic definitions of militias.
They usually call them anti-government.
Like, groups.
Yeah. SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, that's, like, their terminology for it.
And it's, like, they're not necessarily anti-government, in my opinion.
Because, like, they love Trump.
They were anti-Obama.
A lot of that, like, the modern era, like, stemmed from being anti-Obama.
And they got this really weird double think where, like, they think that Trump is still an outsider.
And I'm like, he's the fucking president.
There's no more inside than that.
Or Elon.
Elon's an outsider.
Oh, yeah.
They were so afraid that immigrants would take over the government that they let an immigrant take over the government.
Who wants to put a chip in your brain?
Yes. And ruin public transportation.
Oh, my God.
I know.
Elon hates public transportation almost as much as Trump hates windmills.
I don't think anybody could possibly hate anything as much as Trump hates windmills.
Just, God.
We are run by morons.
It's so aggravating.
Oh my God.
What's something good?
We should actually, we haven't, we don't do the, what are you looking forward to, but we should do right now, what's something good?
Something good?
We should have something true?
Yeah, I mean, I think we're an hour in change into the misery and deprivation of this world, and we've beaten the shit out of Tolkien, which was vitally needed.
Since you've offered it, Hayley, tell us, what sleep or food thing are you looking forward to, as is what you always say in this situation?
Well, actually, I'm looking forward to, on Friday, I'm going to go down to Tucson, which is, like, closer south, and spend some time down there because there's two zine fests happening a week apart from one another.
So me and a bunch of friends are going to stay in, like, a relaxing place.
And I'm going to spend exactly one day where I take this phone and I turn it off and I don't look at it once and I go sit at a pool.
And then, yeah, me and a bunch of art friends are just going to be doing art stuff for a week straight, which I feel like I still have to work, technically.
But I feel like aspects of this and the day off will be relaxing.
And also zines.
If anyone local likes zines, hit me up.
Yeah. Oh, I just, for our next, the Floyd thing, someone was like, I strongly disagree.
Fine when these people supported a white person and murdered a black person.
And they have a photo of George Zimmerman.
They have a photo of Derek Chauvin.
They have a photo of Penny.
It's like, yeah.
It's really not hard to find people supporting white people when they kill black people.
It's really not hard.
No. Daniel Penny.
We'll talk about this in the next week.
I can't get into this right now.
We're going to yuck your yum if we get into that.
Moving on, moving on.
Eric, what are you looking forward to?
I was thinking about it because I was prepping for it.
I'm actually looking forward to Easter because I have a child, so that'll be fun.
Holidays like that are always better when there's kids involved.
And there he is!
I knew he was going to come over as soon as you heard me mention him, too.
So that'll be good.
We actually, last Saturday, did an Easter egg hunt that was a lot of fun.
So, you know, it's nice to go out and do something wholesome every now and then.
That's cool.
Summer break is coming up in, like, less than four weeks, so that'll be good.
Yeah. So yeah, I got stuff to look forward to, but it took me a while to think about it because everything's just so grimdark right now.
Oh, I hear that.
Yeah. So I actually got a twofer here.
I'm actually kind of full of positivity and joy.
A, I'm playing this video game called Blueprints, which is...
It's good.
I mean, it's definitely a very good game, but...
I'm seeing reviews where people are like, this game is going to knock off GTA 6 for Game of the Year.
You have no idea.
I'm like, man, that's a little strong.
Little strong.
I think the game's fine.
I mean, I think there's some areas that could be better.
But for what it is, it's an exploration roguelike, and it scratches an itch.
It's definitely playable.
I do enjoy it very much.
The other thing that happened recently is I've been getting into more fistfights online about the Kennedy assassination with people, which is my jam.
I mean, come at me, bros.
If you've got a conspiracy theory about who killed JFK, boy, do I want to hear it.
I live only for this stuff.
And I actually managed to get into a pretty long-winded argument with one of the producers of Who Killed JFK, the Reiner and O'Brien plot.
And then that guy got so...
The best part about it was that prick.
And I know he's not listening to this pod, so I can call him a prick.
And if he is, then God bless you for listening all the way through, buddy.
God bless you.
But I said something to him, and he replied by calling me snarky.
And then a few hours later, literally, I would post...
I would write something to him.
And he would reply to what I wrote with him with a reaction GIF.
And then I would reply to the reaction GIF and he would post another reaction GIF.
And then I finally said, buddy, I thought being snarky was bad.
What the fuck are you doing?
Like, this is nothing but you being snarky.
And then he was just like, you're not even worth my time anymore.
And I was like, whatever.
Don't you know that being snarky is like a key component of the internet?
Right. Exactly.
And also, he was snarking!
He was busting out premium levels of snark!
It's like snark and porn.
That's like the two things you find on the internet.
Oh my god, you just unlocked a terrible memory for me.
On my burners, where I monitor all the Nazis and the QAnon people, now the 4U for those accounts is...
All porn and Nazis in QAnon.
Somehow porn has just conquered so much of X. It's wild.
Before, I would just be random other things, nonsense, and then I'd get to my Nazis.
Some of my accounts have, like, bleed through with my main account, so I'll see, like, other accounts that I follow on my main account also there.
But now I'm on my burners, and it's just titties!
And then the Nazis.
It's just, like, it is.
I've seen, like, legit ads that are, it's like a fucking video, and they're, like, it's not.
Yeah. You made me think of, because the putting together Nazis in porn, you made me think of...
The fake trailer they made for Nazi werewolf women of the SS.
It was in that Grindhouse double feature with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
But basically you got Udo Kier pulling this SS officer and there's these...
There's these scantily clad women with bare breasts and latex fetish gear, you know, wearing, like, Nazi hats, just standing behind them for no reason at all.
So that's what I'm picturing your feed looking like.
Yeah. Oh, it's so weird.
But anyhow, so I'm fighting with all these clowns.
And our boy Gerald Posner, not great in politics, really, really weird about the trans people, but did an interview with Ben Shapiro.
I understand, Posner, you're a conservative, I get it, but at least you're right about Kennedy.
Now, for those of you who don't know about Posner, his big claim to fame is that he wrote one of the two big Oswald did it books in recent memory.
Vincent Bugliosi wrote the other one.
It's called Reclaiming History.
Posner's book is called Case Closed.
And so Posner's been out there throwing punches.
He's been fighting the conspiracy theories people.
He and the producer from Who Killed JFK, the two of them have been throwing punches at each other.
And I know that Posner's got a big book.
I know he goes on TV and shit.
I'm like, you know what?
Fuck it.
I'm going to shoot my shot.
I'm going to DM this guy.
I'm going to say hi.
And I DMed Posner and said, hey, do you know any publishing houses or literary agents who'd be interested in an Oswald Did It book?
Because I'm working on one.
And he actually replied to me.
And so him replying was awesome and cool.
But the reply was...
I can't even get anyone to do a reissue of Case Closed with new information in it.
Case Close was a New York Times bestseller.
It was a big book.
It did numbers.
And Posner was like, I've even changed agents recently and still no bite.
And I was like, fuck, man.
Good to know my side of the street has no market at all.
Just, you go out there and you tell people, everyone, Oswald did it!
And I got proof.
People were like, fuck you, boo!
Boo! And then Roger Stone is like, I got the new LBJ Did It book!
And people were just showering Roger Stone with cash.
Nobody wants to hear the official story.
That's not sexy.
Yeah, no one wants to hear that.
People are going to fucking buy the book that says the Secret Service in the backup car accidentally shot him.
That was my personal favorite when I was listening to a JFK conspiracy when they mentioned that.
We've got to save the president.
Oops. Oh, no!
Oh, John!
Oh, this is going on my permanent record.
My favorite part about that is the idea that that could have been covered up.
Like, again, the whole point of the Kennedy assassination was that he was shot in broad daylight in front of about 100 witnesses, and none of them noticed that the Secret Service and the backup car popped him in the head.
No one caught that.
You know, I think it's like...
I think publishers should actually be on this because I've noticed there is kind of a resurgence in people talking about Oswald Did It on YouTube.
You know, explainer YouTube accounts, people that like to do historical breakdowns or conspiracy breakdowns.
All of them are talking about Oswald Did It right now.
I've seen some really interesting ones.
And it's like...
I feel like now's the time when there should be an interesting Oswald Did It book.
I feel like you see interesting people admit it, like the Oswald Did It stuff, like Richard Spencer or another Richard, the Richard Hanania.
Oh yeah, that guy.
Yeah, that fucking freak.
Yeah, he is the weirdest fucking dude, because he's like a race scientist with the calipers and everything, and now he's posting these erudite refutations of Trump and shit.
It's like, no!
Go away, you fucking race huckster!
You're not allowed to be liberal!
Go to hell!
Yeah, I think he's just a contrarian.
I think that sometimes so much of the right is just like, you know, the Jews did it, not Oswald did it, that...
You'll occasionally get one guy that's so contrary and he's like, actually, you know what?
Fuck you.
Oswald did do it.
I believe the government this time.
Yeah. Yeah, so anyhow, yeah, so eventually, I think I'm, yeah, I finished chapter two of my book.
The book is going to be brilliantly titled Oswald Acted Alone.
It's going to be incredibly sophisticated and tricky like that.
Oh, so it's actually about his one man off-Broadway?
Yes, one man off-Broadway performance.
You know it.
You fucking know it.
It's exactly, oh God.
Big bouncing titties and then like underneath.
Now that I got your attention.
Yes! Yeah, just a smoking pair of tits and then just like, yeah, that's the cover of the book.
Just uncensored titties.
What was that magazine that Albundi read?
Biggins. Yeah, Biggins.
Yeah, that's where we're at.
Oh, man.
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I don't know.
I forget the rest of this outro, even though I've been doing it for like three months now.
So I'm over.
We're done with this.
It's out.
Good speed, Adrian.
Bye. I think you give us all 20s at the end.
Yeah. Ah, it'd be wonderful if I had them, but I don't.
Bye! See you later, everyone.
Go to hell.
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