Minion Death Cult - Pigman w/Abdul Malik (clip)
Aired: 2021-09-20
Duration: 06:45


=== Becoming Pigman (03:48) ===

[00:00:00]  I think maybe we should just give a little background on Bosch-Faustin, but after we do that, I think the only way to really talk about this comic, the comic is called The Infidel.
[00:00:12]  It's The Infidel featuring Pigman.
[00:00:15]  So already you're, like, assuming that people know who Pigman is and that he's gonna be, I don't know, such a popular figure that you can just name your comic The Infidel featuring Pigman and have that I don't know, be SEO.
[00:00:31]  Quality SEO, somehow.
[00:00:34]  It's a bit misleading.
[00:00:35]  It's not, um, it's not... I don't know, we don't know what this could have been.
[00:00:38]  I feel like maybe he was stifled.
[00:00:40]  I just think name it Pigman.
[00:00:42]  That's maybe what I would say.
[00:00:44]  Or just The Infidel.
[00:00:46]  Yeah, um...
[00:00:48]  Looking at the back of this, of this comic, uh, we have, uh, the character who's the, like, his, I don't know, mild-mannered persona?
[00:01:00]  The superhero's, you know, alter ego?
[00:01:02]  You know, who's to say who the real, the real personality is here, but when he's not Pigman, I think he's Frank something?
[00:01:10]  Uh, on the back it has Frank saying, Jihadists are a superstitious and cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts.
[00:01:22]  I must become something terrible, something they fear, dot dot dot dot dot dot.
[00:01:28]  I shall become a pig.
[00:01:30]  Yeah, whenever I was grocery shopping with my mother as a child, whenever we would pass by the bacon meat aisle, she would faint and flee.
[00:01:41]  Just scream.
[00:01:43]  Yeah, that's one thing we know, and you can't really deny this, it's that Muslims are afraid of pigs.
[00:01:48]  It strikes fear into their heart.
[00:01:50]  How else could you avoid eating delicious bacon if you weren't deathly afraid of it?
[00:01:56]  Yeah, it's not just like a simple dietary choice that doesn't affect you at all growing up.
[00:02:02]  It's just, no, you must be afraid of the pig.
[00:02:05]  You know, when you're first in Islamic school, actually, which I did attend as a kid, they would put you in front of a video in like Clockwork Orange style, show you images of like pigs eating people and boar attacks.
[00:02:20]  And then to cleanse your palate, they would show you a factory farming video.
[00:02:24]  Yes.
[00:02:25]  He's like, don't worry.
[00:02:27]  We're fighting back here.
[00:02:29]  Yeah.
[00:02:31]  We own Maple Leaf Farms.
[00:02:34]  I love that it's like, it's, it's like a extremely stupid version of Batman, right?
[00:02:40]  Because it's like, Batman dons the bat, you know, because, is it because he's afraid of them or is that just the movie?
[00:02:49]  It's because he is afraid of them.
[00:02:50]  It's because he must become the thing he fears.
[00:02:53]  That's what I always thought it was, but I realized I might be, you know, just absorbing the Christian Bale Batman.
[00:02:59]  Yeah, he becomes the bat because he is afraid of them, not because he thinks criminals are afraid of bats.
[00:03:09]  And then second of all, um, I mean, I shall become a pig.
[00:03:14]  That's so fucking good.
[00:03:15]  Uh, but this reminds me of like the Ku Klux Klan wearing white robes because black people are afraid of ghosts.
[00:03:27]  I mean, we are afraid of ghosts.
[00:03:29]  If I saw a ghost, I'd be scared.
[00:03:31]  But if I saw like a guy in a, like a costume, like a, like a sheet thing, I don't think I'd be.

=== Twin Towers Mystery (03:06) ===

[00:03:38]  As scared as like a poltergeist.
[00:03:39]  But that's what a ghost is, Tony.
[00:03:41]  It's a sheep.
[00:03:42]  It's a...
[00:03:44]  I didn't see that, I didn't see that one, that guy, I didn't see that version of Ghost, that guy got cancelled.
[00:03:49]  We haven't yet described, the listener is probably like, what do those two ghostly white pillars on the chest symbol actually mean?
[00:03:57]  They're not, they couldn't be for, you know, the pillars of Islam or whatever, and you may have deduced that they're for the Twin Towers.
[00:04:07]  Dude has the...
[00:04:10]  Two World Trade Center towers in the center of his shirt with a red, like, S slash kind of over, like, behind and across them.
[00:04:24]  And you're like, okay, that's weird because it just blatantly looks like the Superman logo with Twin Towers in the center of it.
[00:04:32]  Which probably exists somewhere.
[00:04:35]  But they're gonna have the antenna still.
[00:04:38]  So if you're confused at all by this, don't worry because the second to last page is a full page explanation of the meaning behind Pigman's chest symbol.
[00:04:51]  And so it's blown it up bigger.
[00:04:53]  So you see the two towers, you see the red stripe going across it, but you also notice there's two notches off of the right tower for some reason.
[00:05:02]  You're like, I thought each tower got hit once.
[00:05:06]  What's up with these, you know?
[00:05:08]  Um, so I'm reading here.
[00:05:09]  The two white rectangles represent the Twin Towers with the red S making it read September 11th.
[00:05:17]  It's definitely what it makes it read.
[00:05:20]  Sure.
[00:05:20]  I, we knew that right away, which is why we're reading this explanation and describing it slowly to our listeners.
[00:05:26]  Uh, it honestly just looks like the Ghostbusters symbols.
[00:05:29]  This seems like, but instead of busting ghosts, they're just busting the trade center.
[00:05:36]  Because it looks like it's crossing it out with the S across it.
[00:05:41]  I ain't afraid of no towers!
[00:05:46]  The S is also a nod to Superman's S. Oh, really?
[00:05:50]  The part of the S that goes off to the left side makes out a 9, making it 9-11 as well.
[00:05:57]  So, like, the little back hook of the S kind of comes off so it looks like a 9.
[00:06:02]  The left tower looks like a 9, I guess.
[00:06:05]  It's a stretch.
[00:06:06]  That's a big stretch.
[00:06:07]  You're like, damn, that's a lot of meaning for your chest symbol.
[00:06:11]  But don't worry, I'm only like a third of the way through this.
[00:06:15]  It gets crazy.
[00:06:16]  And since he's a capitalist pig, the design makes out a dollar sign.
[00:06:23]  9-11 was all about the money.
[00:06:25]  That's what he's, like, there's a really good interpretation of this.

=== Emblematic American Values (00:18) ===

[00:06:29]  That involves, uh, you know, the stocks that were shorted before 9-11.
[00:06:34]  Yeah, like, here's, here's the best, like, defender of, uh, America.
[00:06:39]  What do I want his symbol to be?
[00:06:41]  To, to be emblematic of American values?
[00:06:43]  Just, oh, a money sign.