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This week Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch and the SH!TPOST podcast joins us to discuss the sudden right wing focus on child trafficking and pedophilia as a counter narrative to the popular BLM and MeToo movements, the different subsets of the right wing and their specific reasons for employing this campaign, and how it's trickling into normie corners of social media Also, far right christians respond to Jerry Falwell Jr. stepping down as president of Liberty University over a risqué photo he posted to instagram, among other things Get a premium episode every week for only $3.11/month at Patreon.com/miniondeathcult Listen to SH!TPOST wherever you get podcasts or subscribe at shtpost.substack.com Buy some merch to support Tony's planned co-op at instagram.com/ALoftyStandard music: Goatsnake - Easy Greasy
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I'm Alexander Edwards.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
We're Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
Child veils are responsible.
We're documenting it.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome back to us from you.
Thank you so much for welcoming us back to the program.
We have a good episode.
This is, I think, maybe a little more informative than we normally do.
Maybe a little more actual reporting.
Uh, than we generally do on this show, but then we got some some fun, uh, dumb stuff in the second half.
Uh, up top, I just wanted to say that we were recently on Street Fight Radio's Patreon Metal miniseries.
We were the, uh, we were guests on the very first episode of the miniseries they are doing on Heavy Metal, and our episode was specifically on Doom Metal, uh, something that Tony and I are very much into.
We talked a lot about Black Sabbath, obviously.
Talked a lot about Sleep.
And just, you know, our personal relationships with metal.
You know, why we like it, why it's good.
Because, you know, it's good.
And we just explained why it was good.
It was super fun because I enjoy smoking weed anyways while I record sometimes, but for some reason that really made me feel like I had to lean into it.
It was one of the most laid back episodes of anything I've done and got so excited and so much fun to talk about this dumb music I love so much.
Yeah, it was a fun episode.
You can catch that at patreon.com slash Street Fight Radio.
They do a lot of miniseries over there including like spotlights on various shock jocks, various right-wing religious figures.
Highly recommend it.
Very, very worth your money.
And I would also say...
Patreon.com slash MinionDeathCult, also worth your money.
We've been putting out content there steadily, even when we can't get an episode out into the regular feed.
The most recent episode we did was on a couple of, I guess they're adults, but they're kind of like posing as like goody two-shoes kids with students.
I mean they can vote, like they're of age.
I never got any confirmation.
I mean, the kid looked like he was 90 years old, but I'm not gonna take that as like a birth certificate.
I would hope so, but yeah, that's not how things work.
They got arrested for writing pre-born Black Lives Matter in chalk out front of a Planned Parenthood, and then they went on Tucker Carlson to whine about it.
Very fun episode.
We also took a dive into Landlord Facebook to see how Landlord Facebook is reacting to the coronavirus and the eviction moratoriums.
And it's not going well for them, folks.
Also, last plug, hey, we were on a little podcast called Shitpost hosted by Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch.
That was a very fun episode about COVID-19 grifters.
And wouldn't you know it, here to talk to us today on this episode, also Jared Holt from Shitpost and Right Wing Watch.
How you doing, Jared?
Hey, thanks for having me.
It's like a bad stomach flu.
You get me in your system once and I'm here to stay.
I can't think of any other illness to compare that to right now at all.
Stomach flu is the one to go with, I think.
There's so many.
It's so hard to choose one disease or virus.
It's tough, man.
I can never pick one out.
But stomach flu is really the people's disease.
I mean, how many times have you got out of work because of stomach flu?
You know, everybody knows stomach flu.
I almost got out of this podcast because of stomach flu.
Yeah, yeah.
What was I gonna say here?
It's, you know, welcome to our program, Jared.
Thank you so much for joining us.
You know, we have fulfilled the bargain.
You had us on your show.
We are having you on our show.
And I think it's even, I don't know, I think it's even more, like, magnanimous of us.
I think it's even more, I don't know, Like, it's even bigger of us to have you on our show because, like, we were already on your show.
We didn't have to have you on our show.
We already got what we wanted out of the relationship.
Yeah, yeah.
We already won that one.
Congratulate ourselves on still having you on our program.
Well, you know, the first thing I want to do is welcome you both to your show.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's an honor to have you guys here.
It's nice to be here.
Yeah, it feels good every time.
So, one of the reasons I, you know, we kind of asked you on this specific episode is because we are I don't know, covering something, you know, tangential to what we covered on Shitpost last week, which is coronavirus, COVID-19, wearing masks, and the way that the right wing is responding to that online.
And this is like a very...
Specific response that we didn't touch on uh on that episode but something that's been like percolating something that's been bubbling in the background um and it it goes farther and wider than just coronavirus it's it's Something that has been like permeating, percolating in the right wing for a while.
And I think it's time we address this.
It's time Minion Death Cult addresses the craze that's sweeping the nation, pedophilia.
Why is, why are people so into it right now?
What is it about pedophilia that has, that's grabbed this nation by its lapels?
And of course, what I'm referring to is like the recent hashtag Save the Children campaigns.
If you've been following right-wing or conspiracy or even kind of normie social media, you've probably seen a lot of posts about how all we're talking about is Black Lives Matter.
All we're talking about is coronavirus.
When your son or daughter is being abducted right now, why aren't you posting about that?
Yeah.
You're over here talking about Black Lives Matter and in another room your kid's getting snatched up and packed away in a cabinet.
And it almost serves you right.
Yeah.
If you weren't doing that, if you were paying attention, if you were trying to save the kids, you'd be fine.
But instead you're so busy worrying about...
Social injustice and police brutality.
We can't abolish the police because the police are going to be the ones who are going to save all the children.
Right, right.
You want to talk about things that matter.
Black Lives Matter.
Yeah, sure.
We all agree on that.
But did you know there are 574 children still on Little St.
James Island yet to be rescued?
Yeah, yeah.
Those kids are growing up and once, you know, if they get any older we're not going to care about them anymore.
They're just going to start a commune now and they're just going to live happily off the grid.
They're going to rock the fat one and then everybody will be fine after that.
They'll get it out of their system.
On the Save the Children stuff, this hit very close to home to me recently.
I don't spend a whole lot.
That's usually where it happens, technically.
Thank you.
Thanks for the clarification.
I don't go on Facebook a whole lot because it just makes me depressed.
I see people from my high school being people from my high school and I'm like, ugh.
Everyone has those people at their high school.
What's that about?
I don't know, but like, I'm just gonna go back on Twitter and get some more death threats or something, like, this sucks.
I got a friend, sorry to detract from that, I had a friend request from somebody with 21 mutuals, and I was like, okay, it's probably somebody from the Minion Death Commandos Facebook, or it's probably somebody from like the Street Fight Facebook group.
Nope, it's somebody from my hometown.
You know how I know?
It's because I went to their Facebook and it was like, uh, Austin Powers memes about coronavirus.
And it was them reporting a photography page who like specialized in taking portraits of children.
They were like, report this page!
Oh no.
I was like, yeah, okay.
This is somebody from my hometown.
It's not somebody who's like a communist on Facebook.
Yeah no I mean in my case it was like for some reason I got on Facebook and I scrolled for a couple minutes and I came across this guy that I went to high school with and he was always kind of you know like a little weird in high school but nice you know nice enough guy you know cared about people that sort of thing don't have a whole lot bad to say about him but then like three days ago
What we're gonna talk about now that saved the children stuff like he just took that opportunity It was like hashtag save the children fuck it mask off for the last 12 years.
I've been investigating satanic pedophilia and So I sent him a message because I had to know more and he's just like, there is nothing like you need to do the research yourself.
I have been spending my life's work to expose the satanic pedophiles.
Google is free, Jared.
Sorry, sweetie.
Yeah, yeah.
Do the work, please.
Yeah, so this topic came very close to my orbit in a personal way that oftentimes the stuff that I cover at my job or on my podcast or whatever, I can maintain some sort of detachment from it or kind of be like, that's that thing but that's not my life.
So, I'm very eager to talk about this, is what I'm saying.
This gentleman from my high school taught me a lot.
It is something that has, like I said, trickled out, permeated, grabbed hold of many different, like, groups.
Many different, you know, sub-genres of the right wing and even, you know, apolitical, normie spaces in the right wing.
And I think Tony alluded to it earlier with, you know, the cabinet thing.
I think the Wayfair Conspiracy theory is kind of what broke this into the mainstream.
Yeah.
We can talk about that in a minute, but that's one of the first, like, instances I saw of, like, fresh faces in this scene.
You know, fresh, like, people who, like, friends of friends who were like, hey, you know, I normally don't buy any of this conspiracy theory shit, but a Wayfair cabinet for $55,000?
It's kind of sus, you know?
Well somebody who like I had met on a dating website and my like profile is very clear that I'm like I'm not about that at all.
You're totally in favor of child trafficking.
Your profile makes it very clear.
It actually says, like, work for Wayfair.
My not-involved-in-child-sex-trafficking-tinder bio is drawing a lot of questions to ask that aren't already answered by the bio.
That's a really good bio.
I mean, it's a hot topic right now.
You can just put in there, you know, and you can put, like, Black Lives Matter, not a child sex trafficker.
Hit all the all the spots.
So what's funny though is that so one person like we end up following each other on on Instagram and just between two like Black Lives Matter posts was sandwiched between was like a Wayfair conspiracy post and I was like well there goes that person I'm not gonna this isn't going anywhere but it's like it's so wild and like it's become so normal that even some people who you know are
How in the world would a cabinet be listed for $50,000?
Well, it's like exciting.
It's the QAnon shit.
QAnon is compelling to a certain degree because it meets the needs of its adherents.
QAnon specifically targeted towards Trump supporters.
It meets those people's needs.
It tells a compelling story about You know, what's actually happening that, you know, justifies Trump's seeming cluelessness or dementia.
The same thing I think with Wayfair, you know, it's like a very interesting...
sort of exciting story that you can say this one company is is you know doing the dark interweb stuff you've you saw you see in movies etc to do this real thing that's that's actually happening which is you know yeah trafficking women and children actually happens uh But doing it in a way that's, like, clever.
Or doing it in a way that's, like, out in the forefront.
And you have to be, you know, red-pilled to see through it.
You know, once you've been given the red pill, you know, you can see the signs.
The signs are all around you.
It's folding the hundred-dollar bill into the Burning Twin Towers type thing.
It's a very compelling story.
The Wayfair thing though, we have a listener who works for Wayfair, and they told me exactly why the cabinets are listed like that.
It's because Wayfair is like a marketplace like Amazon, right?
It's not like the cabinets are made by Wayfair.
It's just a marketplace where different companies sell their shit.
It's like Target, etc.
If you are out of an item, if you list your item as sold out, you're penalized by the, your whole company is penalized by the algorithm that like pushes you into search results on Wayfair.
So what they do is they just, if they're out of an item, they raise the price to $55,000 so that nobody's going to actually buy that item.
But it gets around the algorithmic penalty for, for being sold out of something, essentially.
Huh.
That's really interesting.
Yeah.
I would have never thought to do that.
I used to work for a bike retail company and what we used to do was the same thing except for what we did was we would like triple the price of an item and if somebody bought it we would just fuck over the person who bought it at regular price and send to the person who bought it for way too much money.
And then give the other person something for free.
Here's a tire patch kit.
I'll get it to you next week.
Anybody who's ever worked in any type of e-commerce, it makes perfect sense.
But it turns out a lot of people have not.
Yeah, so the pedophilia thing, obviously QAnon are predating QAnon, back with Pizzagate.
It's been a staple of, like, right-wing talking points, right-wing propaganda for a long time.
But I kind of want to go through, like, the different places that I see this trend in, of hyper-focusing on pedophilia as, like, a rallying cry, you know, for your movement.
And a big place that I see this in is I see this in like fascist Facebook and far-right Facebook.
And there's like very obvious reasons for this.
Let me just read this post in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast group.
This guy, his avatar is... What's the name of the couple?
Who pointed their guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in St.
Louis in the private gated community.
I don't know the name of the couple.
Yeah, I don't remember the name, but I think everyone at this point has seen that photo.
It is the guy, but he's a Pepe.
Epic.
And the background, I mean, you say epic now, but just wait.
I mean, you're gonna wish you had saved that epic for when I finish this description.
Because the background of this guy who's a Pepe private community AR-15 guy, the background is the Hawaiian print Boogaloo stuff.
Boogaloo on behalf of millionaires who own, you know, who live in private gated communities with Democratic politicians.
Well, I mean, he's obviously with the shits, though.
He, like, wasn't talking about it.
He was being about it.
Yeah.
He knows how to boogaloo, in fact.
Yeah.
You know, I had something I wanted to say about the background, but I kind of fucked it up and said it earlier.
That it was epic?
Yeah.
You could even say epic.
Oh shit, more epic.
That's right.
They put bacon on the bacon.
You could say based.
Say the word based.
Give me a clear based and I'll edit it in.
Based.
Nice.
I agree with Jared.
So this dude, this based guy, posts into the Joe Rogan Experience podcast group, shares a post that says, uh, stop using pedo-friendly terms.
And then it's got like two columns.
It's like a, like a little, uh, you know, graph or like a, you know, a, I don't know what you would call it, a little diagram.
And, uh, on the left it says, instead of they need help, Say, brick that motherfucker.
Instead of, it's a mental health issue?
Say, to the wood chipper with the fuck.
Instead of, pedophilia is a fetish?
Say, saw the fucking half with a butter knife.
I like how fuck has to be in all of them.
They really gotta squeeze it in there, too.
I like how it's referencing the Kevin Costner... It's not referencing, but it's evocative of the Kevin Costner Robin Hood, where... What is it?
The bad guy?
What's the Sheriff Nottingham?
What's the bad guy in that?
He's like, I'm gonna gouge your eyes out with a spoon.
They're like, why a spoon?
I don't understand.
Like, wouldn't you want a knife or something?
It's like, no, it's more blunt.
No, this hurts more.
It's painful.
It's dull.
So, cool.
It's very cool to do that with a butter knife.
Instead of saying pedophilia isn't criminal or immoral, say... That thing that we all say.
The thing that everybody is saying that they're trying to normalize in society.
I was just saying it's in my Tinder bio.
Instead of putting that in your Tinder bio, Tony, put, dig their eyes out with your fingers in your Tinder bio.
No context.
No context whatsoever.
That won't bring any more questions.
Even putting it in context, Tony, your Tinder bio should say, I want to dig pedophiles' eyes out with my fingers.
Should say that in your Tinder bio.
I'll run it, I'll give you some, I'll let you know how that goes.
And then instead of saying we should help them, say we should beat them to death with any given item.
And I just, so, I think it's funny, like, anybody who's in the Minion Death Commandos Facebook group knows that I've been like posting this shit in there for a while.
It's like, it's very funny to me how a people, a group of people who will say stunning and brave at like any, you know, at like, I don't know, a trans person working a job, they will ironically say, you know, stunning and brave, will post about how they don't like pedophiles to get like social points.
Yep.
Yeah, as if that's stunning and brave.
Like, the epitome of virtue signaling is... Like, it's like... It's like, damn, I just found out about pedophiles?
That shit sucks.
It's also just some like dumb like 14 year old boy shit where it's like, man, if I saw a pedophile, fuck man, you know what I'd do.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah.
No, exactly.
I mean, it's like, it seems there's like a few reasons for this.
And it's like, one of them is obviously it's an outlet for like an express expressions of exhibitionist violence.
You know, much like the way they talk about Antifa or protesters in general, it's like this way to display your macho bona fides.
Oh, you would stab a pedophile?
I would cut him in half with a butter knife, bro.
With a butter knife, yeah.
I also love how they act like this is something that's really a problem.
That people are really saying these things and it's so rampant.
And that people being pro-pedophilia is such a huge thing.
And you don't have to go to some 4chan link for it.
Um, but they had to put in they need help and also we should help them, which is the same thing.
And also it isn't immoral.
Pedophilia isn't immoral is one of these things that people are, a pedo-friendly term that people are using is pedophilia isn't immoral.
I don't, I don't think any non-pedophiles ever said that out loud and only like two of them have.
Yeah, I'm sure there is some mentalhealthfunquizzes.com or something that's like, here's an idea, and then the right-wing people get outraged over it, and then whoever runs that site is like, wow, really popular stuff, I suppose, and it just turns into this cycle.
I don't know.
I can't remember the last time I talked to somebody and they were like, you know what we should really do?
We should try to, you know, give the pedophiles a hand and you know.
Yeah, yeah.
They're pretty low on the totem pole I think.
I think they're pretty down there.
What they're talking about every single time is like how real it is.
They're talking about the guy that they knew Who was like 19 that was like dating their 17 year old friend in high school.
And that's the one who was like, it's all good.
And that's the only time I've ever heard that out loud.
I guess.
I mean, I think you're giving them a lot of credit.
I think that these same exact people who are like making a big show about hating pedophilia are also the same people who are ultra concerned with the age of consent.
I don't like what you were saying before, Tony, about how these are not things that are said.
These are not things that you hear.
Yeah.
Another aspect of this is painting the LGBT movement, the LGBT rights movement, as in favor of normalizing pedophilia, or as in favor of, quote, like, age gap love, right?
We see these, like, PSYOP these psyops coming out of right-wing spaces, putting up flyers in neighborhoods that say love is love, and it has like a baby hand holding an adult's hand, you know?
Like that sort of thing.
And I don't know how effective that is in terms of propaganda, which is, I guess, something that could apply to this entire topic that we're talking about today, because I think a lot of it is propaganda, whether it's coming from QAnon, whether it's coming from the far right. - Right. whether it's coming from QAnon, whether it's coming from the I don't know how effective it is.
I think it just, it just, like, triggers the same People the same like macho kind of guys who are who are like Weirdly preoccupied with the idea of protecting their daughters or Weirdly preoccupied with the even the hypothetical daughters like hypothetical daughters most the time.
I think it's those same people It's the same people who's like I would fucking love if you came here and tried to rape my daughter.
Oh Yeah, yeah.
So two things on this.
I think one, another demographic that we haven't fleshed out here is the people who are just like, just want violence, you know, like big MMA fan, whatever, not to stereotype MMA fans, but you know, people who have sort of that lust for violence, but like the amount of people that you can just freely like punch and destroy are You know, few and far between.
But pedophiles, you know, I don't think any of us would flinch if it's like, oh shit, that guy just hit that guy in the face.
He's like, oh that guy's a pedophile.
We'd probably all just be like, oh okay.
And then the second thing is... And this gets to like the far-right propaganda aspect of it also, which is that it's like, It's a universally despised figure, you know?
You can, like, air whatever violent fantasies you have about this person and nobody's really going to blink an eye.
Maybe it's a way of, like, these people normalizing political violence?
I don't know if I would call that necessarily political violence, but...
These people who are posting about this are clearly, like, far-right, and they're also posting, like, helicopter memes about communists, they're also posting things about degenerates in general, and they're lumping in pedophiles with that sort of thing.
Maybe it's a way of just, like, normalizing their friends and family to the idea of, like, a little bit of the ultra-violence, you know?
Yeah, and the second thing here is that, just a very short anecdote.
In 2018, on September 11th, never forget, bless the first responders, back the blue, you know, all that stuff.
Benghazi ain't going away.
No, it's never going away.
Charlie might be gone, but Benghazi's here to stay.
Isn't that fucked up that Benghazi happened on September 11th too?
Shouldn't Benghazi have happened on a different day?
I think Benghazi should have happened on a different day.
I would say that's my official position on the matter.
So I went to this QAnon rally they had in DC, and you know, QAnon is part of this sort of broader, save the children world, we'll probably talk about it here in a minute, but they've been obsessed with this almost as long as anybody.
And, you know, as much as these people sit around online and they're like, oh, I'd take a bone saw to, you know, Hillary Clinton because she eats children.
Like, one of the things that will be seared into my brain forever from that rally is someone who went to that QAnon rally actually like ran into John Podesta on the street in DC.
And like, you know, like, You know, if you're gonna save the children, baby, that go time, you know, Doody has called, Q has chosen you to exit, you know, in theory.
But instead, they just took pictures on their cell phone, and then at the rally was like, look, everybody, I saw John Podesta.
And then, of course, they just, they did what they do in the Facebook groups, where they all gathered around the phone, and they're like, man, if I would have saw him myself.
Like they did see him.
Which is a shame because I mean he's so on everyone's face about it.
Everyone knows that Podesta is Italian for pedophile.
Um, yeah.
So like another way, another angle on this is, uh, if, I dunno, if you're our age, uh, I don't know exactly how old Jared you are, but, uh, if, if you're our age, you grew up with like a lot of edgy comedy in, in the late nineties and early two thousands and even mid two thousands.
And another target of these far-right... You're talking about, like, itchy buttholes, right?
You're talking about itchy buttholes as in, like, edgy comedy?
I'm talking about itchy buttholes.
I'm talking about, like, rapping grannies.
I'm talking about the edgiest of comedy.
Another target of this are, like, alt comedians from the 90s and 2000s that actually got Big like Sarah Silverman and Patton Oswalt, for instance.
These are people who were, you know, making like Ironic comedy on Comedy Central or doing, you know, stand-up specials throughout the 90s.
And they have a history of tweets that indicate as much, such as this Sarah Silverman tweet from 2009, which reads, Hey, is it considered molestation if the child makes the first move?
I'm going to need a quick answer on this.
So obviously like a edgy, you know, pedophilia joke, which were very... I mean, if you like watch South Park, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of edgy, like pedophilia jokes.
Oh, there's probably so many.
Like there's probably... There's whole characters.
There's entire characters where that's the joke.
There's probably plenty of jokes about the kids, like, getting raped by a teacher or something, and it was, you know, the height of comedy in the late 90s.
But this is being used as, once again, like, evidence of a specifically liberal cabal of child molesters and child traffickers, right?
Like, so this post was shared by the same guy into this Joe Rogan group, this tweet, But the post originated from a page called Captain Red Pill.
And the caption from Captain Red Pill reads, these people make me sick.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, me too.
Never been a fan of Sarah Silverman's specials.
I don't know what it is.
I mean, Sarah Silverman, she did all the edgy stuff.
She did blackface.
She did, she did pedophilia jokes.
She did like anti-semitic jokes.
You know, she did all the edgy stuff in the nineties.
So, you know, go, go back through that.
And it's just funny that like Captain Red Pill is trying to cancel Sarah Silverman for a naughty joke about, And it admittedly like pretty cringe joke about pedophilia or whatever but it's just funny that that how like
Instantly they give up the idea of there being a cancel culture or there being like a censorship of comedy or whatever when it's you know like an SJW they want to target you know and it's I don't know it's it's it seems pretty like transparently targeted at these people like I don't like I don't think Captain Red Pill really thinks Sarah Silverman is like a pedophile.
Yeah.
Like how much kayfabe is going on here, you know?
Exactly, a ton.
If you put this guy, Captain Red Pill, in the hot seat and was like, so let me get this straight, you think Sarah Silverman's a pedophile and just tweeted it out on July 6th, 2009?
And that's it?
End of story?
You would have to be so far down the rabbit hole to being almost unreachable to truly believe that.
Well you'd also have to see that she actually put in like a survey format and the answer was overwhelmingly yes it is and so she did not proceed.
So the evidence is like on her side.
I think we should also like learn a thing or two from these people because what we really should do is maybe like find and by find I mean like someone could make it an Amazon selling list for like children and like be like yo Amazon selling kids stop using Amazon.
Like, let's do that.
Maybe it'll work.
Well, I mean, Wayfair literally was building beds, was selling beds to the U.S.
government for the child detention facilities.
Like... Yeah.
There's been reports of like a thousand... There's been a thousand reports of children being sexually assaulted in ICE facilities.
These people could not care less about actual sexual assault.
Oh, that's actual sexual assault against brown children.
That's the big difference there.
Those are brown children.
If they didn't want that, then their parents should try to come across legally is what they're saying.
Right, and that's why they care so much about Hillary Clinton's exploits is because Hillary Clinton is a racist and she will only cut the faces off of white children.
Yes, that's why the Amazon listing needs to be of a child who looks just like a thumb.
That's gonna be the most appealing child for this movement.
And I think it's funny to, like, go after Sarah Silverman and Patton Oswalt.
Like, yeah, these are both, like, pretty outspoken libs on Twitter.
You know, Social Democrats, maybe give them the benefit of the doubt.
But it's funny to go after them when Literally have these people perhaps listen to Louis CK's stand-up at any point in time.
I don't know if you two, Jared or Tony, are familiar with Louis CK's stand-up but there might be some stuff in there that rings a couple bells for these people such as talking about his daughter's pussies a lot and also talking about being more lenient towards pedophiles so that we can get our kids back alive.
That latter one I think is a bit he did on SNL.
I think that second bit was something he did when he hosted SNL.
No, but they like Louis C.K.
because Louis C.K.
got cancelled.
They like Louis C.K.
because he did sexual harassment against adult women.
Which is cool and good.
And it's, it's, and which brings me to another point, which I, I believe like not just the far right, but conservatives in general, I believe they see this whole save the children opportunity as a way to one up the Me Too movement.
I believe it's a way to say, see here, we can care about sex stuff too.
And we're not just going to fire them, we're going to disembody them.
We care about Sarah Silverman making jokes in 2009 about this stuff.
Uh, and yeah, it's just, I mean, these people are like openly contemptuous of the Me Too movement, you know, except when it targets like a Hillary fundraiser or whatever.
Uh, and they're also, you know, like the far right, like libertarian, like, Anarcho-capitalism was founded by a man who thinks that, who thought, who argued that it is moral to be able to sell children.
Murray Rothbart, look it up.
The guy who founded anarcho-capitalism, which is right-wing libertarianism, argued for the right to sell your children on an open market.
Yeah.
Your kids.
Which, I mean, maybe, like, explains the libertarian to fascist pipeline.
They found out that that guy was the one who founded libertarianism, and they were like, oh, no more.
Never mind, yeah.
Just gotta bypass it.
We guys gotta go all around it and go straight to fascism.
Yeah, so lastly, the way I feel like more mainstream conservatives and possibly normies, you know, not just conservatives, but like woo-woo, you know, libs and people like that.
are discussing this save the children thing is as a way to like delegitimize black lives matter and uh the coronavirus pandemic the quarantine the uh the the mask regulations they are unironically saying that putting your child in a mask endangers them for child abduction
So I have a post here from Ashley A. Reyes.
So, given everything I've described about this subset of people, The, you know, woo-woo libs or millennial conservatives.
How do you think Ashley is spelled?
E-I-G-H?
Yeah.
You bet your ass it is.
Ashley A. Reyes posts on Facebook in a post that had 844 shares.
Went pretty viral and it's it's a post I've seen before She posts a picture of kids in masks and I'll detail what the kids look like later, but it's kids in masks Can you tell the difference between these kids?
Can you tell they're sad or asking for help?
Could you pick them out in a crowd of a thousand people?
By requiring kids to wear masks, whether it's in stores, schools, or a public place, you are robbing them of their one hope of being found in the event that they get taken.
Their faces.
Their one hope?
Just one, huh?
Did your kid have a face?
Well, I mean, the kid did have a face before you took it away.
Before you forced my kid to take the face away with his mask.
Now my kid is faceless.
Describe your kid.
What's he look like?
I mean, I used to know what he looked like, but then you put that mask on him.
Fuck, man!
You know what he looks like?
He looks like this.
Holds a mask up.
Just holds one of those paper ones.
Look for this.
This is my kid.
He's got the cutest nose.
He's got the cutest mouth.
That fucker's always out.
That nose is always out so he can find him still.
What about those of us who have to put our children in masks to keep them from being abducted because they're so beautiful?
Person didn't think of that, did they?
Yeah.
My kid spent her first like five years wearing a Boba Fett helmet in public.
What was the comment we had, Tony, about that fucking woman who was like, my son's too beautiful.
He's like, I can't, I can't imagine what people, what, what these sick fucks think about him when they look at his face.
That's exactly what it was.
That's exactly what it was.
I just know when I look at my kid, he's like so beautiful.
I can't imagine what they're thinking.
It makes me sick.
So fucked, so fucking weird.
Uh, the photo is kids sitting on a stoop, uh, three boys on top, three girls on bottom.
You know how I know they're boys and girls is because whoever took this picture has matched up the mask color to their genitalia.
Yep, yep, absolutely.
I think it's really cool that you're talking about sexual assault, you're talking about child trafficking and everything like that, but also you're checking your kids nuts before you put a mask on them, you know?
That's why you shouldn't color-code your kids.
I also think this is weird because the whole premise of this post is that wearing a mask is going to make it impossible to pick your kid apart in a crowd.
I feel like the color-coded mask is maybe a small detail, but a detail you could provide.
Oh yeah, I am really hardcore about making sure my kid isn't ever trans so like I have this mask.
We did a gender reveal party and I had one of those explosive blue dye packs from a bank and my kid's face is permanently stained with the color of his gender.
The best part too is like, according to this premise, one of these kids in this photo needs help.
One of these kids in this photo is being held captive.
Maybe all of it.
They all have terrified faces on, but we just can't see it.
I'm going to jump around in this post because it goes on, but the sentence right here, put a mask on a child and they are unable to non-verbally communicate to anyone around them who might be able to help them.
That's a thing.
People think you can't hear anything through the mask.
Well, no, because when you're a three-year-old- Unable to non-verbally communicate.
Yeah.
With a mask?
Yeah.
Wait, what?
You're right.
No, what that means is if you're wearing a mask, you're not able to mouth to the stranger next to you, help, I'm being abducted by a series of Democratic elites through the vaccine facilities developed by Bill Gates.
Oh, yeah.
I remember learning how to do that as a kid.
I don't even know how to non-verbally communicate with anything that's covered by the mask.
I don't know.
Just make a crazy face.
Show them your teeth and that means you need help.
Also, these are kids, man.
Kids aren't subtle.
Yeah.
Well, once again, it's like this movie logic.
It's this movie logic of like, wouldn't an epic cinematic moment be a little blonde girl with blue eyes looking backwards at our protagonist and mouthing the word help?
Yeah.
Like picture that, picture that in like a Tony Scott film.
There's like a weird, a weird yellow filter over everything because they're in Mexico.
There's like cuts interspersing between like the protagonist's backstory of like, you know, losing his own child and having like a in-touch relationship with children and seeing this, this young, this young victim mouth the words, Help me.
Help me, sir.
That's what, like, they're saying that the mask is preventing.
Which is absurd in my mind, because I don't know about you two, and I definitely don't know about this poster, but I can tell just by a child's eyes whether or not they're being abducted.
I mean, yeah, yeah, pretty much.
I can look in a child... I can look at a child's... I can look at a single eyebrow from a child and tell that they're in danger.
I mean, basically.
I have spent thousands of hours reviewing photos of children, closely examining their features.
Specifically children who are in danger.
Yeah.
Learning the patterns.
It really comes down to body language.
It really comes down to body language.
If you do some body language analysis, it's pretty clear.
And I just wanna say I really do like Man on Fire, No Shots at Tony Scott, but that's how I feel like these people envision the world around them, you know?
Yeah.
It's just like, it's obviously like a what about, you know, what about-ism of, and I meant to say this at the top of the show, I'm not an expert on human trafficking, child trafficking.
There are other places to go for that sort of information.
What's the podcast called?
It's called like, You're Wrong About This, or something?
Do you know that podcast, Jared?
Yeah, they did.
The only episode I've listened to is about the DC Sniper, and it was really good.
Yeah, that sounds interesting.
What's the name of the actual name of the podcast?
They did one on human trafficking that was recommended in the Minion Death Cult Facebook group, so I will forward that recommendation.
That would be a nice resource to have, just to kind of like, anyone who maybe might be able to listen to you can just send them a link and hopefully they'll do it.
Yeah, it's called You're Wrong About.
It's hosted by Michael Hobbs and Sarah Marshall.
Um, my personal knowledge from what I've read from everything I've read over the years about rape and molestation and trafficking is that it happens with people like the victim knows.
It happened, it's perpetrated by Primarily by non-strangers.
By people who already have a pre-existing relationship with the survivor.
So, I mean the idea that like, you know, a person's gonna come grab your baby out of a stroller because they're wearing a mask or whatever.
It's like... It's inflammatory nonsense in my mind.
I mean I hate it because like you know masks do make certain crimes easier uh like I don't know if you've gone through a self-checkout line um since the masks have been involved but the discounts are incredible these days with these masks on it's wild uh but I don't know it's it's that whole
Like I said, it's that whole thing where it's just constant fear and like danger and like something bad's gonna happen all the time and totally ignoring the reality that is like...
You know, it is people that you know, you know, you got to, you got to be careful and you got to teach your kids things like autonomy and, and you know, how to like, how to say no to people.
And they don't, they don't say like the same people who are posting these things are all like, kiss your grandma goodbye.
And they're like, I don't want to.
And they're like, do it.
You have to do it.
And like a kid doesn't really understand the difference between like grandma and teacher and coach.
Right.
You know, and so they don't address these real things.
Yeah, in a lot of instances a kid probably sees coach more than grandma.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a stranger experience for them, but Alex sort of alluded to it earlier in the show where it's like, oh, All of this is just LARPing, man.
Like, what I saw at that QAnon rally, what we're looking at here, like, all of these people in the fucking hour or whatever it took Ashley to write this Facebook post, like, could have... Like, there is...
a lot of this like shitty kind of problem happening in the world and there's things that could be done about it but this is just like for clout well not yeah you're totally right not to like i don't know sound like a scold or something or sound like a uh uh stereotypical sjw but if you want to like i don't know help eliminate
Sexual violence like look at our fucking culture and the way like yeah men are raised in this Like it's it sounds cliche to say at this point because it's been said so many times but none of these people are looking at you know the the actual reality of You know institutional misogyny, you know cultural degradation of women as as a
as a underlying factor with all of this.
And that's not to conflate misogyny with, with molestation, but there's an inordinate amount of power that is given to certain, certain members of this culture.
And it does have an adverse effect on children and it does have an adverse effect on adolescent girls, you know, and I need to, we need to pay more attention.
We need to pay less attention to Wayfair and more attention to pop punk.
*laughter* Dude, I saw someone wearing a Story So Far shirt today and I was pretty bummed about it.
Oh, yeah.
The list is so vast now.
I don't even know every band that has something going on.
As far as I know, they don't have any allegations, but that's the guy who literally kicked a girl off the stage.
Yeah, that sucks.
Oh man, that's like giving me flashbacks.
So were you guys around when Jank was like gonna be the band to transform emo?
What's the name of the band?
Jank.
J-A-N-K.
Never even heard of them.
They were like this up-and-coming like emo punk-ish, I guess pop punk band and like At the time, all the local paper, local alt weeklies and stuff were like going crazy about him.
I was going crazy about him.
And then it's like very fucked up shit happening.
So I'm with you, Tony.
It's, it's about pop punk.
You want, you want to solve child trafficking.
You go to your local virgin record store, you pick up this, you go to the dusty CT section and you just start snapping those things.
Yep, just give me the phone.
I want to see, like, these, like, ultra-violent exhibitionist posts about pedophiles, but about, like, Owl City.
That's what I want to see.
Ten million fireflies every year.
Ten million children.
Let's move on to the second topic.
So we have an article here from Fox News.
Liberty University's Jerry Falwell Jr.
taking a leave of absence.
I'm just going to read here from Fox News.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
has agreed to take an indefinite leave of absence from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty University, the school announced Friday.
The private university issued a one-sentence statement making the announcement.
The statement said the Executive Committee of Liberty's Board of Trustees, acting on behalf of the full board, met Friday and request that Falwell take leave, quote, to which he has agreed effective immediately.
The statement did not indicate what prompted the request by the trustees.
Falwell has served since 2007 as president of the Lynchburg University his father founded.
Filed under faith and value section.
End of article.
Yep.
Yep.
That's it.
Wow.
So, I mean, this seems like big news.
It seems like the president of the preeminent faith-based university in this country, a huge Trump-supporting organization, somebody who's fairly prominent in right-wing media, had to step down as president of said faith-based organization.
For apparently no reason, according to this Fox News article.
I think they just wanted him to take a mental health break, like a little sabbatical.
Take care.
Do some self-care.
You're working too hard, Jerry.
We've all agreed that you need to take some time off.
Yeah, maybe spend some time on your yacht just hanging out with other people.
You know, you could even dress up or something.
What do you guys do for fun out there anyway?
Uh, so, if you haven't heard, uh, the reason that Jerry Falwell Jr.
had to step down from president of the faith-based university, Liberty University, uh, was because of an Instagram post.
And we love this on this show, folks.
We just love, like, people who can't stop posting.
You know?
People who, like, I just have too much fun posting.
It's unfortunate, because you shouldn't be able to have too much fun posting.
We are benefactors, this show, and I think the public at large, are benefactors of people who have fun posting.
So, it's unfortunate that you can have too much fun posting, but Jerry Falwell Jr.
falls into that category with this specific incidence of him posting on Instagram a photo of him embracing what was later revealed to be his wife's assistant in a It's not quite a crop top, it's like a rolled up tank top.
Yeah.
And her pants are like pulled down and unbuttoned.
And she's got like a Peggy Bundy-esque hairdo.
I don't know if this is a wig or whatever.
I hope it's a wig.
I don't know, it looks good.
The excuse is like it's a Trailer Park Boys costume party or something.
On your yacht.
You know, that thing we all do.
This is a photo from the yacht, yes.
Then they're nailing it, then.
Then they're actually nailing it.
She doesn't look like a... She looks like a Stepford wife who's doing gardening.
Like, it doesn't look like Trailer Park Boys shit to me.
You sure she's not doing Sexy Randy?
I don't know.
I don't watch Trailer Park Boys.
I don't know.
She's not greasy enough to be Sexy Randy.
And also, Randy is Sexy Randy.
There is no sexier Randy than Randy.
Anyway, she, the point is she's cute as hell.
She, but like, you know, she's got a cute smile on her face.
She's got her fucking shorts, her like Daisy Dukes unbuttoned and unzipped.
And then Jerry Falwell Jr., this motherfucker, He's got a t-shirt and jeans on and he's got his t-shirt pulled up over his belly.
He's got his zipper zipped down so you can see the front of his underwear and he's got his arm very high around her waist pretty much at the under boob like his thumb is like at the boob on her and he's holding a glass of a beverage.
And the caption says... Which is so stupid because he's saying like it's not a drink.
Which is so stupid because he's saying like, it's not a drink.
What he could have said was like, oh, I guess he can even drink Coca-Cola.
Yeah, he can drink Coca-Cola, right?
I'd say, yeah, they're not Mormon.
I think he can drink Coke.
Yeah, he could have just been like, that's just Coke in the glass, don't worry.
But he's like, it's black water.
Which I mean it might be, it's that he might have gotten that charcoal water, that black, it's called, I think it's called black, that charcoal water, and used that, I could see that.
Isn't there like a, I haven't watched it yet, nobody spoil it for me, isn't there like a subplot of Twin Peaks, the new season, where there's like black water?
Yes, yes-ish.
That's what the phrase black water reminds me of.
It reminds me of like an extra-dimensional horror coming through to this universe.
Yeah, totally.
What I think is also really interesting here is like Falwell and his associates, you know people who have never known like a day of hardship in their lives, their idea of like man we were struggling for meals is like oh fuck we had to go to Applebee's instead of like And like, this is how they think trailer trash dresses.
They're like, oh, I'll just take my Burberry t-shirt and I guess roll it over my belly here.
Again, I know you guys haven't watched Trailer Park Boys, but they're actually kind of nailing it.
Their costumes are actually okay.
That was... I don't know if that's... They look like exact characters.
I don't know.
That's like one thing I heard.
Was that that's... At least he does.
That's the reason they... But anyway, so... It's funny that he's like, I promise that's just black water in my glass.
Because it's like...
Kind of rubbing everybody's face in it, that he's drinking despite, like, Liberty University having a strict anti-drinking policy.
Well, Julian, the character he's supposed to be, has a rum and coke in his hand at all times.
There's not a second of the show where he does not have rum and coke in his hands.
It's a running joke.
Like, he always has that in his hand.
So, Tony coming out, I don't know, strong in favor of Jerry Falwell Jr.' 's prop water.
I'm just gonna wait for the Minion Death Commandos to just swarm me online and be like, you don't know shit about television.
I just really like his body positivity here.
I like that he has his gut hanging out.
Um, so I'm, I'm into that part of it and I'm also in trailer park boys.
So he's kind of, you know, he's kind of hitting a few of my, and I'm also in a prop Blackwater for people who don't think for people who don't know, Jerry Falwell jr has a, has a history.
This was basically the final straw for Liberty University.
He has a history of clubbing with, what, his nephew?
Is that right, Jared?
It was something like that.
He was at a club with his nephew.
There's also a scandal that never quite popped about him and his wife financing a pool boy's gym or something like that.
Yeah, I just remember the pool boy scandal where it's like, we love our pool boy so much that we travel with him and also gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hell yeah.
You know.
If I had a personal pool boy, I would also treat him that well, I feel.
Oh absolutely, absolutely.
There's also the video of him pushing his personal trainer across the floor at a gym.
And grunting a lot while he does it.
And the personal trainer is like recording a selfie while they do it.
And smiling and having a good time being pushed across the floor.
And you can see that on Vic Berger's Instagram page.
I would highly recommend viewing that.
It seems very much to me, this is like a layman's interpretation.
I'll follow these fucking freaks on social media.
It seems like Jerry Falwell Jr.
might be an exhibitionist.
It seems like he might be having a lot of fun as the millionaire son of an evangelical, you know, uh, super preacher.
Uh, I mean, this, this photo is taken on his yacht, obviously the part of the parties he's had on his yacht.
Um, It seems like he doesn't quite mind airing out these little moments for the public.
Seems like maybe he enjoys it.
That's kind of the vibe I get from it.
When he apologized for this photograph on a right-wing Christian radio show, he said, I've promised my family that I'll be a good boy from now on.
He also sounded very drunk when he when he said that.
Oh yeah no one thing I was gonna say about Falwell is I've listened to like countless hours of him on radio and TV and everything for my job and he is always the guy who sounds like he's talking in slow motion.
He's always like, well thanks for having me Sean.
It's like You have to think he's either just like drunk or like he is Experiencing life to the fullest so much that like yeah You know he's so sucked like so much is processing in his mind that there's just a short lag It's enough to be noticeable, but not enough to like fuck him up in any real way.
Whatever's going on with him It seems like fun Yeah, totally.
Yeah, I mean, like, if we get rid of all- Whatever he's doing, it seems, like, really nice.
If it wasn't just, like, grifting, I'd be into it.
I'd be like, yeah, party.
Party, dude.
Have a good time.
Yeah, so Fox News obviously didn't report on the reason that Jerry Falwell Jr.
was let go of his responsibilities, but Breitbart did.
And the responses we have from the Breitbart comment section are, I don't know, fairly wonderful.
Ryan Castile says about, you know, Jerry Falwell Jr.
being let go, being asked to resign by the Board of Trustees for Liberty University.
Most men gain weight while their wives are pregnant.
I don't get all the faux outrage.
Yeah.
So this guy thought, like, Jerry got fired because he was looking kind of thick?
Yep.
He got fired because he wasn't fitting the proper, like, Christ-like body image for a president of Liberty University.
We all know that pregnancy sympathy weight, though, is like for the weak.
Like, those people are weak.
And so that's why he got fired.
You should not get... You shouldn't do it.
So the right wing considers, like, empathy in general weak.
And I think, Tony, I'm gonna be charitable and I was channeling you.
I think you were channeling the right wing when you made that comment.
I think empathy with the weak, with your weak wife, you know, when she's pregnant and getting fat and unable to like resist the temptation of chocolates and stuff because that's what happens when you're pregnant.
I think that's honorable.
What's even more honorable is empathizing with a woman who's not even your wife.
Yeah, and not even pregnant.
Well, I think she is pregnant.
I think the woman was pregnant.
She doesn't look pregnant in this photo, but the joke was, the excuse was that the wife's assistant was pregnant and she couldn't button the pants that she wore that night to the party.
And so that he, in an act of empathy, also decided not to button his pants.
And I feel maybe people want to call him a cuck.
I think that he's just being a sensitive individual by not buttoning his pants in solidarity with her.
I mean, again, again, and this is like not to be the Cherry Park Boys guy, but again, she's actually, I think I realize, I realize what character she is.
She is the character, Sarah, and she's nailing it.
And it is a wig.
And she's actually nailing it.
Alex and I have been talking about Falwell and you've just been staring at this photo like... You know, I had to figure it out.
I love cosplay and I won't be ashamed of that.
Is Sarah canonically pregnant?
Uh, no.
Nope.
Nope.
I mean, um, no.
But like, yeah, to make, did they do the research and like, was like, Oh, that woman's pregnant.
That's what happened.
Or is it in the caption anywhere?
Like, Oh, my friend was pregnant here and couldn't button their pants up.
Where did they get, where did they get, is that in the Breitbart article?
Uh, it was in his response on the, on that right wing radio show.
Wow.
Incredible.
I think it's in the Breitbart article, but I read it in a lot of different spaces that that was... I heard the audio.
The audio is magnificent.
I'll try to plug it in here.
Uh, and I'm just gonna throw it to you.
What was up with that picture on Instagram?
You know, it was weird because she couldn't... She was... She's pregnant.
So she couldn't get her... She couldn't get her pants zipped.
And so I was like trying to like, I had a pair of jeans I haven't worn in a long time so I couldn't get mine zipped either.
And so I just put my belly out like hers.
And it was just, she's my wife's assistant and she's a sweetheart.
And I...
I should never have put it up and embarrassed her.
Anyway, I've apologized to everybody, and I promised my kids I'm going to try to be a good boy from here on out.
All right, so was this this TV show, this Trailer Park Boys thing?
Yeah, whatever, whatever.
It was the costume party.
And we were on vacation.
And anyway, long story short, it was just a good fun.
That's it.
I love that his response to this scandal was like – I'm sorry for respecting women too much.
Yeah, yeah, my bad.
We'll get into that in the comments.
Yeah, so Daniel Levitz says, so pedo Joe, Joe Biden, for anybody who's not familiar, so pedo Joe and his buddy, little Billy, parentheses, finger full, Clinton, Who's the boy here?
Who's the one that's out in the sun too long?
Who is he talking to?
fun parentheses and nothing else at his secretary.
You've been out in the sun too long, boy.
Who's the boy here?
Who's the one that's out in the sun too long?
Who is he talking to?
He's talking about all the libs in the comment section.
Not the board that fired him.
In this comment section, they were kind of conveniently ignoring the fact that the board of trustees of Liberty Universities are the ones who fired or who asked for Jerry Falwell Jr.' 's resignation.
Yeah, and just focusing on the libs that are like, yeah, fuck him.
Yeah.
The top two comments in the Breitbart comment section were about Bill Clinton.
Like, so, for anybody who doesn't go to these spaces, it's like, what's, what's the, uh, the company that does the comment sections?
Oh, Discus.
Discus?
Discus?
Yeah, it was like Discus, uh, comments.
The way that these happen in Discus is they're, like, the top comment Everybody just replies to the top comment.
People don't, like, make their own replies until, like, 200 comments down.
It's just the top comment is there, so I'm gonna reply to the top comment to get my comment in there.
Whatever.
So if you ever have a chance to be the first comment, do it.
It's gonna pop off.
Two top comments were about Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
In a comment section about Jerry Falwell Jr.' 's, like, I don't know.
I don't know if I would call this a sexual exploit.
Seems a little bit of a provocative display, you know?
Which, again, I don't have a problem with.
Except when you are, like, part of an organization that demonizes any sort of alcoholic, you know, beverage or sexual engagement.
And also just, like, the idea that it's on a yacht.
Yeah.
That it is, uh... I mean... Well, like, maritime law and, like, maritime sin is very similar.
Like, once you get out far enough in the ocean, like, it's no longer, like, the same sin.
Who is the Liberty University propaganda effective on?
Is it effective on anybody who isn't already totally invested in capitalism?
Yeah.
It's on the face of it ridiculous.
I don't know who the mark is.
I think these are all pretty willing marks.
I mean, a lot of it is sort of like, and I think Turning Point USA, you know, I guess they're a little different because they hit like impressionable teenagers in college and stuff, but like... I don't think they do.
For the most part, TPUSA...
Exists to generate content to give to old people that will give them money to generate the content to show the old people for the but like Their Facebook advertising it came out I think it was last year the year before like they are purchasing ads and targeting people 65 up Yeah, like absolutely, you know, that is the target demo here and I would imagine that Liberty University is kind of the same thing But they actually have to have, like, kids go there.
Like, they actually provide a service, you know?
Yeah, it's like an actual school?
TPUSA just provides, you know, screenshots of Charlie Kirk looking confused.
Or like, stock images of black girls saying, you know, socialism stinks.
Unfortunately, Liberty USA only exists because of the huge amount of Christian parents who are like, you're going to go to this college and I am going to pay for it if you go to this college and that's your only option.
That's the only people that get to go there.
They go there.
That's it.
Even somebody who is a staunch Christian who believes in all this stuff is still going to go to a different school first.
Right.
Gary Ruddick says to somebody who's like criticizing the behavior of Jerry Falwell Jr.
You've never read the Bible.
This is nothing.
Literally nothing compared to the sins of Abraham, Moses, Samson, David, et al.
I don't know.
I think if anybody's drinking black water in the Bible, it's probably some gnarly shit.
It's probably bringing on a plague.
I like this.
It reminds, before we get into the specifics, it reminds me of the episode we did about how Jesus wasn't perfect.
Yeah.
Because Don Lemon was comparing Jesus to slave owners.
Graham Allen was saying, how dare you, Don Lemon, compare Jesus to the Founding Fathers who were slave owners.
Are you saying Jesus was no better than a slave owner who were also the Founding Fathers of this country?
It's a weird argument I have to navigate as a very nationalistic Social media presence?
And that's the same vibe I get from this comment.
Hey, listen, alright?
You think Jerry Falwell Jr.
is bad for being, like, a lout and a lush and, like, you know, a lover of money?
He's got nothing on Moses, who, like, ordered his men to murder women and children.
He's having on biblical sin.
You've never read the Bible.
It's way worse than you think it is.
Exactly.
There wasn't even like sin in the Bible.
There was a victory in the Bible.
But honestly, I think that David was eventually, not David, but Moses was eventually kind of asked to step down by his peers.
All the apostles got together in heaven and were like, Moses, we'd like to, um... You know, I don't know how... We'd like to ask your resignation, Moses.
Listen, we're calling you in, okay?
This isn't a call-out.
We need a new Red Sea Parter, and you're not it anymore.
Hand over your stuff.
And don't get me wrong, you know, when you did that the last time, it was great.
It helped us all out.
It was a good time.
Hand over your staff, and if you turn into a snake first, God damn it, I'm going to lose my mind.
Please give it to me just like a stick.
Thank you.
I want to watch The Prince of Egypt again.
Yeah, I haven't seen that movie in like 15 years.
I think it's good.
It's got a fucking stacked cast and I think that like the soundtrack is good, too.
I think like yeah, somebody's on the sound.
I think it's not like Aaliyah on the soundtrack, but somebody's on the soundtrack.
It's like really good.
Well since I know it's not Aaliyah, let me figure that out.
Uh, but I like, yeah, uh, listen, okay, nothing compared to Abraham who committed sin.
Uh, but he, but Abraham was like vindicated when he was willing to kill his own son for God.
Yeah.
Like, that's the good thing.
Listen, all you gotta do, Jerry Falwell Jr., is say that God was telling you to kill your own son, and then stop at the last second.
Well I mean we have no proof that Jerry Falwell was willing to kill his own son.
So like, you know, apple and the tree.
I don't think he's that down.
Mark Moser says, check out the JCPenney underwear ad.
You'll see a lot more skin and they published that where our children will see it online and in magazine ads on store shelf in plain sight.
If you're not complaining about that already, you're not offended by seeing someone in nothing but their underwear.
This pic has far less exposure than what we see in the ads, so what your real beef?
Oh yeah, a Christian Trump supporter.
Morals, right?
If we'd all work on the hypocrisy of our own judgmental natures, that would be a real start to healing the divide in our nation.
I'll bet that not what you'd like to see though.
See, I need work too.
I'm aware of it.
And admit it, I'm not okay and neither are you.
Stop throwing stones.
I like that this Mark Moser guy is just having a conversation in his head and typing out the responses as he goes.
I mean, that's what you do when you play chess.
You anticipate your opponent's moves throughout.
I like this though, because he's talking about some real shit, you know?
Those things, they really affect you, which is why I need you to go to my change.org campaign to stop Lane Bryant mailers.
Because I know that they had a pretty gnarly effect on me as a youth, and we need to stop that.
No, no, no.
I'm like, you know, let's be real here.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
and his wife, they want to fuck around, they want to party.
Like, I think that's cool.
I think that makes them human.
I think that makes, like, you know, maybe not taking advantage of an assistant, perhaps.
You know, I think that's like, maybe the assistant is a willing participant in these escapades, maybe not.
Otherwise, I think having some fun with the pool boy, having some fun with your friends, totally fine.
I think owning a yacht, Very bad.
I think you shouldn't own a yacht, personally.
No story was like, yeah, we went out on a yacht, and we had a really great time, and no one disappeared.
You know, like, don't even worry about it.
There was no child sex trafficking thing, you know, just want to go ahead and get that one out there.
I'll tell you what we didn't do.
Tell you what we didn't do on that yacht.
Last bit, I'm almost wondering, like, are we going to see Jerry Falwell Jr.
like, let his hair down now?
Like, is he growing a mullet?
Is he, you know, he's saying fuck it, he lives on the yacht now?
Like, is how he's dressed in that photo, is that just him?
Like, I wonder what a post-Liberty Jerry looks like.
I did see a picture of a trash bag that seemed to be full of nothing but sleeves.
Um, just sleeves that have been cut off of shirts out in front of his house.
So we can look forward to that.
Oh yeah.
Last comment here from a commenter named John Wayne says, I wonder what they have against pregnant women.
So that's why people are mad at this photo.
It's because she's pregnant.
I wonder what they have against pregnant women.
Is it because he was attempting to make a pregnant woman feel better about her changing body?
Totally.
Which is like a very upsetting... That pisses me off.
It's a very upsetting phrase considering we spent the first half of this episode talking about child trafficking and now we have somebody speaking wistfully about a woman's changing body.
Very upsetting language used by John Wayne here.
Is it because he was attempting to make a pregnant woman feel better about her changing body, or because she didn't abort the baby?
Yeah, yeah.
Remember, it's not that we hate kids, it's that we hate pregnancy.
We hate pregnant bodies.
That's what it is.
Right, we hate pregnant women.
We want them all to get abortions.
But also, we really want the children too, so... Yeah, it's a tough thing.
It's a tough, yeah.
We gotta work on the Petri Dish Kids.
We need that to get, we need that to really run, you know, come to fruition.
It's the liberal catch-22.
At no point ever has John Wayne ever talked about body positivity or bodily autonomy or how it's good to be comfortable in your own skin as a woman or a non-cis man at all.
Or about reproductive rights or reproductive health care.
He had nothing like that at all, and now he's like, oh, so sorry that he loves the beauty that is a natural woman's body.
Like, so sorry he did that.
You know, I bet if he was posting the aborted gummy bear that came out of her stomach, the libs would have loved it.
They would have been so into it.
They would have said, he should be president for life of Liberty University.
Yeah, we should be President of America.
Liberty University should just absorb the United States Congress into its campus.
Yeah.
Because we clearly all have a lot to learn from people like Jerry Falwell.
Yes, yeah.
Like an amniotic twin, Liberty University should absorb the entirety of the US political system.
Yeah.
All right.
That's the episode, folks.
Thank you so much for listening.
Thank you to Jared Holt for joining us today.
Oh, it was a pleasure.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, it was awesome having you back again.
I mean, not back again, but you know, working with you again.
You can check out Jared's podcast, which is Shitpost.
The I is an exclamation point.
So it's shit, exclamation point, post.
We were guests there, if you haven't heard that episode.
Very fun thing to listen to.
is is the object there uh we were guests there if you haven't heard that episode very fun thing to listen to uh got got anything else to plug jared uh no that's it uh I did the podcast with you guys last week.
I thought it was really good.
You should check it out.
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I am in the process of trying to open up a grocery co-op in my local community, and I am selling some limited edition posters and tote bags to kind of get some money going for that, and we'll be launching a Kickstarter later on.
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San Bernardino, where I'm from, where I love, is a food desert, because it is a low-income black and brown community, and we are trying to bring good food there at accessible prices that's going to be owned by the community and the workers, and it should be awesome, and if you guys want to get some cool shit, That we're making available, that helps.
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