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#598 Deadbeat Breakdancing Bitcoin Dad & Coworker Memes (unlocked)

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And they're like, we can't do that.
And I was like, what do you mean?
They're like, yeah, if we would have had this conversation Thursday instead of Friday, we could have helped you out.
And I was like, but you were helping me out.
And then you stopped helping me out.
And now I need help again.
They're like, yeah.
And they're like, you can just call this company.
They do bill forgiveness.
They help you out, right?
Yeah.
And so I call them and I'm like, hey, can you guys help me?
They're like, dude, we have to mail you a physical thing.
You have to mail it back to us.
It takes like three weeks minimum.
And if your electricity is off, we have to deny you.
I was like, what?
What are you talking about?
And so I ended up having to pay him $1,700.
Isn't that insane?
That's so fucking insane, dude.
And the whole time, I'm like, guys, I was like, my lizard's gonna die.
My lizard's gonna die.
It's all your fault.
Like, what the fuck?
You just expect people to just like...
Like, there's no circumstantial thing.
They're like, there's programs you can get on, but it has to be on in order to get on those programs.
I was like, what the fuck?
That makes no sense.
No, it doesn't.
And I was like, why did you guys let it get this high?
This is like so high.
Like, you expect someone to just have that laying around?
So every month they were letting it build up or what?
Well, no.
They were just taking it off my bill.
It would say $100 credit on it.
And it was some sort of program.
And then they're like, oh, that was our fault.
So it's like a chargeback.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah.
Yeah, that should be illegal, dude.
Oh, yeah.
They should have to, like, go to court to get that money out of you.
They should have to go to court to turn someone's electricity off.
Yeah.
Like, that is just so insane.
I was like, guys, like...
They're like, you can pay 50% of it.
I'm like, I don't have 50% of it right now.
I won't have that till the 5th.
And I don't want to give that to you on the 5th because that's not what my budget is for.
And they're like, well, you just...
I was like, so wait, you guys just think I just can't have electricity till next month?
They're like, yeah, that's it.
I'm like, you guys just do this to people all the time?
They're like, yep.
I'm like, you guys are monsters.
This is crazy.
There's no exception thing.
They're like, well...
And they would tell you.
This is what they kept telling me.
Well...
Well, if you had like a medical thing, if you had like a medical thing, we could turn it back on, but you don't have that, and you can't get that because your electricity is off.
No, totally.
That's what I wanted to be like.
I was like, what are you talking about?
It was just so funny.
I was like, so I can move an elderly person in and have life support and you guys would help me out.
But because the electricity is off right now, you have to deny that claim.
And then I was even like, so could I open an account in someone else's name?
Can someone else open an account in this address right now?
Or how is that going to work?
They're like, yeah, but then we had to go to court.
I'm like, you guys are just demons.
You guys don't even want the money.
It was just so crazy.
Yeah, that's fucking nuts.
Now it's all worked out and I just have a cool little credit card.
But it's all good.
Man, that fucking sucks.
It's just so annoying.
I could have given you guys $100 a month.
I could have done that.
Mm-hmm.
This is another reason to be in a union.
It's because you could have a lawyer who could send them a letter.
You wouldn't even have to go to court.
Your lawyer would probably send an email to somebody or something, and they would turn your shit back on.
Yeah.
And there's like no reasoning with anybody.
And the whole time I felt bad because I was being cool with all the operators I was talking to.
Because it's not their fault, you know?
But I'll be like, hey, I know you gotta tell me no.
Kick me on upstairs.
Let's go.
Just...
I'm like, there should be notes in my profile by now.
I don't want to catch you up.
Like, just kick me on upstairs.
This isn't your problem.
And they would do it.
So then Friday, though, they were supposed to call me back Friday.
And they never called me back Friday.
Hmm.
And Thursday was supposed to be by 7pm, so I called back at like 4.30pm.
And I'm like, hey, I never got a call back.
They're like, oh yeah, you're not going to get one today.
I was like, why?
I have to tell 7. Can I just talk to them now?
They're like, no, you can't talk to them now, because they're going home at 5 today.
I was like, okay, cool.
So tomorrow, they're like, actually, it's a holiday on Monday, so we can't even do shit for you till Tuesday.
Yeah.
Like, how crazy is that?
I am glad for the holiday, though.
I don't want this to reflect poorly on the holiday.
On the holiday, yeah.
But I'm glad people get days off.
It's just like, I know y'all could just flip a switch over there.
I know you can do that.
Right, just say it was an accident.
I'm like, do the same accident you did to get us here.
Do that one.
I was like, if you guys turn it back on, I don't even have to give you money.
I can get money from these guys who say they give me money.
And they already said yes.
And they're just like, no, we can't talk to you until Tuesday.
And then it was the day after the holiday.
So the one I screenshotted, that was a second phone call that day.
I was on hold for a pure hour, the first one, and then two hours later on.
Spending like four hours on the phone.
Insane.
Again, you should have to go to court if you want to make somebody wait on hold for two hours.
And then they expect your phone, like, luckily, my phone didn't die.
You know?
It's just like, oh, it was just so funny.
At the end of the day, I can't believe how evil people are and how stupid people are and how that combination is really bad.
Yeah, well that sucks.
Yeah, it's all good now though.
We're back at the crib.
We're toasty.
We're on the internet, folks.
Cool.
Yeah, you want to get started here?
Yeah.
Alright.
I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
We are Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
Coworker memes are responsible for And we're documenting it.
What's up, everybody?
It's your midweek episode of Minion Death Cult.
I hope everybody's doing okay.
I don't know how Tony's editing these things, but you may have heard how Tony's doing at the beginning of this show.
I'm glad you're doing better now, Tony.
Yes, it's nice.
It's nice to be doing better.
I'm stoked because I'm getting the cyst cut out of my face on Friday, two days from now.
So that's going to be cool.
It sucks that you can't do the lightning bolt like I know you wanted to do on your face.
As a Harry Potter homage, because that's been ruined.
I know you wanted to ask him to make it look like a lightning bolt where the cyst was.
Yeah.
And then I said, well, I'm twice as good as Harry Potter.
Let's do two lightning bolts.
And then they told me something about that that I didn't know.
I don't really remember.
It was bad, though.
You can just make them out of snakes.
You can just make the two lightning bolts out of snakes.
Yeah.
Either way, I'm glad to be rid of it.
I'm glad I don't have to wash my hair as much anymore.
Don't have to put a little band-aid on my face when I go to sleep so it doesn't collect filth throughout the night when I'm sleeping on my pillow.
Is it a shame that it's not a little bit higher?
So it's definitely not like a Nelly homage when you're doing it?
If it was a little bit higher, you could be like, no, no, I'm just a huge St. Lunatics fan.
No, I have been getting a lot more respect when I do wear the Band-Aid out.
Oh yeah, I would imagine.
I think a face Band-Aid is kind of like a hard thing.
Yeah.
Like, dang, something happened there, and like faces...
Maybe that person got in a scuffle and I bet the other person looks worse off.
I bet the other person has five band-aids on their face.
That's right.
It's funny because it's like so big that you can, even when I put the band-aid on, you can see like discoloration, like the skin looks like bruised or something on the edges of the band.
It's really cool.
Yeah, again.
They're like looking at you and looking at Ani and kind of like whispering to each other.
For people who don't know, a cyst is just like a big pimple.
So it's just like I have a big pimple on my face.
Very stupid.
Anyway, that's what's up with me.
It's like a pimple for men.
It's like the freaking pimple from hell.
Okay, so...
Tony...
What would you do?
Like, how would you feel about a guy who ran out of his family of, like, five?
Ran out on him?
Was absent from their lives?
Couldn't remember their birthdays?
Couldn't help out with bills, etc.
How would you feel about that guy?
Yeah, I'd probably be pretty bummed on him.
Sounds like...
Doesn't sound like...
Yeah, kind of seems like a bummer.
Like, yeah, no.
Yeah, no, don't fuck with that guy.
Now, what if I told you he did it to pursue a breakdancing career and actually did become one of the best novelty breakdancers in America?
Well, then I'd say, where's the script?
Where's the movie?
Who's directing this bad boy?
Did you see that part of it?
Did you see where he suggested?
No!
He suggests...
He fucking says that, dude.
He suggests that his daughter write a movie about their lives.
And you know what?
I bet she's going to do it.
I hope she does write it.
I hope if anyone writes it, it's her.
Yeah, I can see the selfie she's going to take with him when she sells the script.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
No, okay.
There was like a viral story.
I heard about this story through Ani.
I think Ani told me about, yeah, this woman, this young woman whose dad left when she was five to become a professional breakdancer.
Yep.
And his name is Ben Hart.
And so his performing name is Benny Hanna.
I did not catch that part.
Yeah, it's dinner and a show because he's a snack.
No, I don't know.
That's giving him a lot of credit there.
That's also slang that wasn't invented back then, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, and she showed text messages where he said, Happy birthday, I think?
Yeah, that was wild!
The big reveal at the end of the video is that she's wearing his t-shirt that he sent to her as a birthday present.
It's him doing a spin on the floor.
It's funny because when you're watching this video and she starts talking about her dad who's a breakdancer and you realize there's a breakdancer on her shirt, you're like, oh, it's funny.
At least she doesn't have a weird feeling towards breakdancing.
At least she's not mad at breakdancing.
And then that reveal was pretty great.
It was like a Red Bull shirt.
He was performing at a Red Bull event.
So it looks like a Red Bull shirt, but it's not a Red Bull shirt.
It's his shirt.
Right.
Um...
So I have some questions, you know, before we get to the rest of this story, because there's more.
You know, like, okay, it sounds bad on the surface, right?
You leave your family to become a professional breakdancer, tour the country and shit.
Pursue your passion?
I'm sorry, what?
Is that what you meant to say?
Not all passions are equal, I don't think.
Wow, you're over here discrediting one of the elements of hip-hop, huh?
Alright.
It's like saying you dined in Dash because you had to get home to play Skip It.
No, but like, okay, is he breakdancing for the Lord?
That could be valid, you know, you give up worldly things like your wife and daughter, other kids, and you just, you know, you're like an ascetic, you're like an ascetic.
But instead of like being out in the woods alone, you're still spreading the gospel at various county fairs or school gymnasia.
You give up everything, you give up everything but a piece of cardboard in your one Adidas tracksuit.
And if you look closely on that piece of cardboard, it's the New King James Bible.
Yep.
Written in ballpoint.
That's what inspires you to do the windmills as effortlessly as you do.
So when you say windmills for the move, that's the legs, right?
That's the legs, yeah.
But when you say windmills for hardcore, that's the arms.
That's the arms.
Which makes more sense.
But windmill kick is still a thing.
There's still a windmill kick.
Yeah.
Hardcore adopted.
That has the caveat of kick added to it.
Yeah.
And that's just from a different culture that hardcore kind of adopted.
Yeah.
Martial arts.
Mixed in with.
Orange County culture.
Yeah.
But martial arts, I mean mixed martial arts.
Um...
Well, no.
So what kind of breakdancing, right?
Is he breakdancing to keep kids from smoking weed?
Or maybe he's like breakdancing to prove that white people can't just dance.
They can even do the blackest dance there is.
And they can do it adequately enough to be sponsored by a volatile financial asset.
Like Bitcoin.
This is this dude's gimmick.
He's a senior breakdancer for Bitcoin.
He's been on...
So let's go ahead...
Well, okay.
We'll get there in a second, I guess.
Sorry.
It's a bit of a trip to the well because I saw an email from my Babylon Bee subscription.
I am subscribed to the Babylon Bee emails.
Let me just pull it up here.
I mean, that's where we get most of our jokes from.
We just steal them from the Babylon Bee.
Babylon Bee is basically MDC Ghost Riders.
Well, I get confused because I'm subscribed to both Babylon Bee and Not the Bee, which is Babylon Bee's version of Not the Onion.
You know how Babylon Bee's already like, you know, the bad onion?
Well, Not the Bee is the bad version of Not the Onion, but they just started it themselves.
Instead of like enough people...
I don't know.
What do you like?
Caring about it.
Yeah, caring about it or spontaneously coming to your brand or whatever.
Yeah, so this is actually from Not The Bee.
Reading from Not To Be.
Now, this story would be bizarre, hilarious, traumatic, and tragic all by itself.
But check this out.
So they're talking about the breakdancing deadbeat dad story.
But check this out.
Do you recognize homegirl here?
Because a certain NTB, that's not the B. For anybody who doesn't have an actual email subscription to not the B, that's what NTB stands for.
Yeah, I was curious.
Thank you for breaking it down.
Because a certain NTB editor recognized Homegirl, and I just want to say, she's not black.
No.
Do you think the guy writing this is black, Tony, or do you think he just likes homegirl?
I think he just likes homegirl.
I think if he could, he'd say girlfriend.
But like in the Plutonic girlfriend?
I think...
Okay, so my opinion now that I just came to, but it is the right one.
Not the Bee is offshoot of Babylon Bee, which is a Christian organization.
They're like explicitly Christian thing.
Um...
I think he wants to, like, call her bitch.
Like, this bitch.
Yep, that's, yeah, exactly, yeah.
But he can't say that, so he thinks, well, what else do black people call women?
Because we learned that from black, white, that black people like to say bitch.
So, a homegirl.
That's the PG version.
That's the Christian version.
And let's not, listen, I don't think they want to be black.
I think they're going for urban.
So, you know, I'm going to give them that.
Okay, because a certain NTB editor recognized Homegirl, and let's just say this video explains so much.
It's Factory Reset Girl!
This explains so much.
And it's the same girl from another viral meme that conservatives adored.
Which was, she went on a date with a guy who paid for the food, and when he handed her his credit card, that's when she felt the feminism leaving her body.
Yeah.
And so, you know, all these freaks, of course, left.
They're like, I should be able to buy a woman!
That's what I'm talking about.
You know?
I love them being like, finally, an honest woman.
She wants that trad life, which is, I have money.
So brave.
She's so brave for saying that.
It's like clickbait.
It was clickbait for conservatives.
It was ragebait for TikTok liberals.
But it's really just kind of a shitty 90s sitcom joke.
Yeah, exactly.
Feminism is when you don't let men pay for anything.
Yeah.
Yeah, so...
Sorry, one second.
Okay.
So they break this story.
Not that B breaks this story that it's the same girl or whatever.
It's the same West Coast bisexual who turned trad wife because a guy paid for dinner.
Because a guy had money.
That's the only way it happens in the first place, first of all.
I don't know.
I've turned a couple bisexual libs into trad wives real quick, and I'm very broke.
Well, I don't know what you think.
You just gotta believe.
What a trad wife means, Tony.
They told me I needed to get a better job because I need to start paying for things.
This is what they said.
They said, you need to start paying for everything and so you need to go get a better job because this ain't gonna work out.
And I said, I thought you were a feminist!
What happened?
What happened?
I'll be a trad wife.
Hell yeah.
Stay home.
Cook and clean and shit.
I'm totally a trad wife.
I'm definitely a stay-at-home dad.
A stay-at-home dad who maintains a sourdough culture.
I mean, come on.
What I'm saying is that role's filled, ma'am.
Thank you.
Okay, but they're saying it's like, no wonder she was so quick to switch back to conservatism when she said she liked money.
Or whatever.
It's because her dad was a deadbeat who left her.
She was fatherless, right?
That's what they're saying.
They're saying this explains so much.
Oh, I should also say this.
This is written by the writer Harambe on Not the Bee.
God damn it.
I forgot about that stupid thing.
And I can't believe it's still, like, living in the corners of the internet.
And people told me, people try to tell me, they try to gaslight me into thinking that the Harambe jokes were not racist, and they are.
And this is my proof.
This is my proof, is that it still exists in the Babylon B corners.
What do you think, how do you think a Christian, what do you think a Christian says, like, dorks out for Harambe?
Oh...
Are they allowed to say the D word?
Probably not.
I think they probably say like peen.
Peen?
Peen's out.
Peen's out for Harambe.
Richards out for Harambe.
Hopefully they just say prayers out for Harambe.
That's the one they should say.
Yeah.
Um...
Yeah, so Babylon Bee's coming at this in the fatherless meme angle.
Like, oh, that's why she was a lib, that's why she was so easy to switch back, or whatever, is because she didn't have a dad to guide her to being heterosexual.
If this guy, who clearly sounds pretty masculine, pretty good exemplar of male culture, he could have guided her to being a normal...
Conservative who cares about the genitalia of elementary schoolers.
A normal person.
There's this whole meme like fatherless.
It's old enough at this point you don't see it too much anymore.
Well you see it if you like If a sex worker goes viral on Twitter or something, it'll just all be people commenting fatherless or whatever.
But if you go over to X, however, they're responding to BreakdancingBitcoinDad, BreakdancingBitcoinDeadBeatDad in a very different way.
Because BreakdancingDad did respond...
To his daughter.
And that's like...
Such a great example of what Twitter, formerly known as...
Or X, formerly known as Twitter, is for...
It is for disgruntled middle-aged men.
It's the platform for the dads of the viral TikTokers to go on and clap back at their much more likable and popular daughters on TikTok or whatever.
Yeah, it's the only place that a Bitcoin shirt's going to play well.
The guy is like an Elon Musk fan.
Like he has Elon Musk.
The dad has Elon Musk in his bio.
Let's watch this video.
It's funny because like the Bitcoin stuff, the crypto stuff wouldn't happen for like 15 years into his breakdancing career.
You know?
And I like that he was able to like marry the two.
Bitcoin's been around for a while, and I think he seems like the kind of guy who would be an early adopter.
I don't know when he got into Bitcoin, but I'm glad he found it.
Yeah, it's gave him a second breath in his breakdancing career, and I think that's beautiful.
Okay, this is Ben and Wanda Hart.
Joint Twitter account.
The first joint Twitter account I think I've ever seen.
That's amazing.
More proof that X is becoming Facebook.
More proof by the day.
So this is like his second wife, I believe.
Not going to comment on what her race might be.
Oh, this is the dad's account.
Yeah.
Ben is the dad?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Yeah, the dad responded on Twitter, like I said.
With a profile pic with the new wife, not the child's mom.
Are we ready?
Yeah.
I don't know what you thought I was setting up.
I mean, I thought someone else was sharing.
I don't know.
I just thought someone else was sharing.
That just adds to it.
I should have noticed the shirt in the profile pic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is his account.
Ben and Wanda Hart says, I wake up at 6 a.m.
to find that my daughter has posted a TikTok video trashing me.
How many tweets begin this way now?
Oh, I mean, not enough, honestly.
I woke up to find my DMs filled with my immediate family members asking me about all the vicious lies my niece posted on TikTok about me.
Yeah.
She's a big social media influencer with millions of followers.
Here it is.
And I think we're going to listen to some of her video as well.
We're watching him watch her video.
Got it?
Okay, I wake up at 6am to do some work.
I get my coffee.
He's in a Bitcoin shirt.
It's a button-up Bitcoin shirt.
It's got like fake, what do you call it, like motherboard circuitry?
Yeah, circuitry exactly.
And the Bitcoin logo all over.
It is gold on black, in case you were wondering.
I think you probably assumed as much, but it is just to confirm.
It is gold on black all over print.
I like wearing this shirt to remind people why they couldn't buy a PlayStation 5 for two years.
Yeah.
I sit down, I open my computer, and what am I greeted with?
Well, hundreds of comments calling me a deadbeat dad, a child abandoner, and all manner of other insults.
So I think, what's this?
There's like two edits per sentence.
This is a very highly edited video.
What is this all about?
Well, after a few minutes of investigation, I discover that my daughter, Maddie, has made a video about me.
She's a screenwriter in Hollywood.
She's also a big social media influencer with millions of followers.
Some of her videos get millions of views.
And this video has tens of millions...
What is fucking wrong with the way he's talking?
Why is he talking like that?
I think this is like...
I think he's talking like the early internet advice guys, like financial advice guys.
He's like the guy with the suit with the dollar bills all over it.
Matthew Lesko, yeah.
Yeah, he's doing that kind of delivery.
He's doing kind of like a straightforward, to the point.
Yeah, exactly.
It is a commercial delivery.
It's a very, yeah, it does sound like Matthew Lesko now that you say that.
Two government programs to prevent your daughter from disrespecting you online.
Yeah.
Just a thing that's really important about this video, too, is her video is, I think, maybe like a three minute long video telling the story.
His response is 10 minutes long.
Just I don't know if that puts anything in perspective.
Yeah.
Tips on selling your blood to exchange money for Bitcoin.
It's all free!
...of views, 1 million likes, 20,000 comments, 40,000 bookmarks, 30,000 reposts.
It's just insane.
Oh, I forgot.
He is an ad guy.
This makes sense, then.
He's going to talk about money.
That's how he has money.
It's because he has a, whatever, advertising firm or something.
So he's grinding.
Well, he did say he woke up at 6 to start work.
Wow.
Wow.
I mean, we were already awake two hours.
The real movers and shakers in this country were already awake two hours before that, but go off.
How you can find more hours in your day to be productive by simply abandoning your family.
Split your one day into three by having no ties to your previous life.
I thought I'd better watch this video.
And frankly, I was pretty chagrined by what I heard.
She was so easy on you, dude.
Man, the worst thing you could have done is provide an unvarnished look at who you are to the internet.
To say the least.
But honestly, the more I watch this video, the more I like it.
Well, I like about 98% of it.
However, I do need to correct a few statements in the video.
But first, let's just watch Maddie's 90 second video.
And then I'll give you my comments.
What's a piece of trauma that you have that's funny?
It has to actually be funny.
I'll go first.
My dad abandoned my family when I was five years old.
That is a wife and four kids.
He abandoned us and then pursued amateur breakdancing.
Some more context is needed here.
Needless to say, I will talk about this in a moment.
Alright, let's continue the video.
And he got really good.
When I explain the trade-off between breakdancing and my family, it's going to make a lot more sense.
And he says it like it's going to.
Because you're waiting for it.
Because all the research I saw of this was a wholesome response from Dad.
Heartwarming response from Dad.
And it's like, what are you talking about?
You're waiting for it.
We'll wait.
We'll wait.
This has 31 million views, 47,000 likes.
And again, we're watching the dad's video.
He's stitched it, they call it.
He stitched his video with hers, and we're watching the hers section of it.
Good.
He, like, blew up.
Like, he became, like, a D-list celebrity status, like, viral breakdancer.
He became, like, the oldest actively competing breakdancer in the world.
So that's his novelty.
His novelty is that he's old.
Yeah, yeah.
It's funny, because, like, she's doing this so well, because, like, at the beginning, she says, a piece of trauma that's funny.
Dude, she's not even, like...
She's being so easy.
She's not even mad at you.
If you're mad, it's because she feels bad for you.
He's not mad.
He's 98% laughing.
That's true.
And look at his face.
He's clearly having a good time.
He's looking over at the split screen that's not there.
He's doing such a good job with this.
And he got a good morning America, and talk shows, and Washington Post wrote about him, and he went super viral, and he did all these interviews, and he danced with Paula Abdul, and here I'll show you.
Take a look at this 60-year-old breakdancer.
Yes, 60 years old.
Amazing.
Uh, he sucks ass.
He looks like shit.
He looks like a sloppy fucking mess out there.
He is doing the moves.
I will say that he is doing the moves.
And he is showing some fitness here, but he's doing it poorly.
It doesn't look cool.
This doesn't get you too excited.
You're just like, oh, look at this sweet old man.
You're like watching a man do, I don't know, maybe a little ollie off of a curb at a skate park.
That's what you're watching, where if you didn't know anything else about the man, you'd be like, oh, sick, dude!
Hell yeah, get it, you know?
But the second you learn, like, that guy's a fucking anti-woke Elon guy, you're like, get the fuck out of my...
I don't give a shit, dude.
Yeah, yeah, fuck off.
You're old.
Okay, cool.
Nobody talks about affirmative action for the elderly.
Yeah.
About how you can just do the bare fucking minimum.
But you put old, old guy in front of it.
You just yell I'm 60 before you do whatever you're doing and you're untouchable.
Old guy pets cat.
I did that fucking 10 times today, bro.
You gonna put me on the newspaper?
Where's my fucking Red Bull sponsorship?
He's competing at a breakdancing competition in Philadelphia, and he may not have won, but I tell you what, he is winning over a lot of people on the internet.
He really is.
Okay, I'm going to skip her story to get to his shit.
Basically, she does just like...
Tell the story we already told, talked about the text message, stuff like that.
But also, I do want to say, every time he's shown dancing, he's dressed in the worst outfit you've ever seen in your life.
He never looks cool, and it's so easy to look cool when you're breakdancing.
He wears, at one point in this video, a Bitcoin shirt that's worse than this one.
Yeah, it's impressive how bad it is.
I left four kids to do that.
He may not have paid for some of my medical bills growing up, but he did give me this breakdancing merchandise.
So that's him.
That's a nice shirt.
It's his b-boy name because his name is Ben Hart.
You know, I'll get texts like this.
Happy birthday, question mark.
And then let's do his breakdancing video.
That's true.
And then a link to his breakdancing video.
That's true.
That's true.
That one's true.
I am my biggest, my own biggest advocate.
Yeah.
Listen, if you're not going to gash you up, how do you expect other people to gash you up, you know?
Okay, let's get to his response.
Okay, in many ways I love this video.
And of course, I love my daughter Maddie.
And we get along great.
At least I think we do.
100% reading from a script.
That is the only way he was able to say Maddie so naturally.
Yep.
And like, how are we supposed to believe that part, bro?
Which part?
Like, the part where they get along great.
I mean, if you don't have any interactions, that's the same as getting along.
Great.
Yeah, she's not actively hating me.
Like, she's not, like, telling me she hates me all the time.
So we must be good.
She left him on red with the birthday message, and then she left him on red with the link to his...
Unless she deleted her responses.
Oh, that would be funny if she was like, I love you so much, Dad.
I'm so happy.
You never missed a birthday.
You came and hung out with us literally every other day of the week when you weren't breakdancing.
But she deleted those secretly.
She doesn't want you to know the truth.
But a few corrections are in order.
Or at least a few things that...
Correcting my dishonest daughter.
On X. The Everything app.
Do you...
Like...
Because what you do is you talk to her, right?
If this happens, you talk to her.
You don't put out a...
Because I don't think he's talked to her between seeing this video, getting the comments, and putting this video out.
I don't think he was like, hey, that's not how that went down.
And you're waiting for him to correct how it went down.
That doesn't really happen.
She's doing the liberal thing of going on and using her own trauma as some sort of self-promotion to some extent instead of talking to him.
I'm not saying she has to talk to him, but she's doing that aspect of it.
And then he's doing, yeah, happy birthday even to the daughters out there who are haters.
But I don't remember what I was going to say.
...need to be put in context.
First, I can see that as a five-year-old, Maddie would see her dad as having abandoned the family.
One day I was living there.
The next day, I wasn't.
You're supposed to explain at some point that you haven't abandoned her between five years old and 30 years old or however old she is.
You're supposed to, at some point, you do have to tell her what happened.
That will look like abandonment to a child.
But married couples do get divorced about half the time in America.
To a 12-year-old, it just would seem like you never had a dad at all.
Wouldn't even feel like abandonment.
Yeah.
You know?
And I was just living a mile or so down the street in LaGrange, Illinois.
We just weren't living under the same roof.
Now, about not paying medical bills.
So that part is crazy.
He's going to say more on it in just a second.
The fact that he was living a mile away and still apparently had no contact with them...
Yeah.
With his four kids and his, you know, I guess you need to contact the ex-wife.
You do have to contact the ex-wife to make arrangements to see the kids and all that.
Yeah.
More on that in just a second.
That's just not correct.
He talks here about how much money his ex-wife won in the lawsuit.
He, like, ended up, he said, all told, he paid her five million dollars.
Yeah.
And so then, you know, it wasn't his fault if she didn't get all her medical expenses met.
You know, it was likely the mom stealing money from her own child's medical expense fund is, I think, what he would have you believe.
Yeah.
Here was the financial arrangement at the get-go.
$1,000 per month in child support.
And, of course, I paid health and the kids' college fees.
X, the app where you go to complain about child support.
In all, I paid out about $5 million to my ex-wife to cover costs for her and the kids.
And this is in 2000. And the kids!
This guy is fucking...
Yeah, he's just ad-brained.
He's commercial-pilled.
He's ad-brained.
It is crazy, though, because it's like, man, how much money did this guy have?
This guy clearly was doing well.
And that's the thing, too.
It's where it's like, yeah, rich people have a different code of ethics.
So he is thinking like, no, I was just grinding.
Yeah, and you'll see a lot of the people who defend him would be like, well, he sent them money.
Yeah.
It's like, yes, I would respect him even less.
No, I don't know if that's true.
But I would, you know, if I found out...
Finding out the breakdancing thing, that's really...
That's what you gotta hide.
Yeah, yeah.
$1,005.
So add 50% to account for inflation.
In other words, I was not a deadbeat dad at all.
And by the way, Maddie did not say that in her video.
But a lot of the comments assume that and say that.
She said you abandoned her.
Now, of course, there was no way for Maddie...
I didn't know how much I was paying because she was a kid.
This wasn't something I talked about.
Also remember that I was living one mile down the road from the kids in LaGrange, Illinois.
Sidewalks all the way.
An easy walk or bike ride.
I saw the kids all the time.
No abandonment, just a divorce.
Okay, I love him saying, sidewalks all the way, but you could easily ride your trike all the way to dad's house, a mile away.
And so if you didn't do that, and you felt abandoned, well, I think we know who's to blame.
Back when I was a five-year-old, I walked two miles to see my dad uphill both ways in the snow.
Sidewalks all the way is great.
I do love that.
Him like...
Oh, okay.
There's one more part to this that I wanted to watch.
Was I at fault in the divorce?
Yeah, I would say it was about 70% at fault.
I own that.
Not in other ways.
Do I regret marrying Mom?
Maddie and her three siblings would not have been born.
They would not have existed.
That is true.
You forgot that I brought you into this world.
That is, man, she owes you so much.
She owes you like half of her life, I think.
It's crazy that they don't have, you know, they don't have estrangement lawyers, you know?
If your kid wants to leave after everything you've put into that relationship, like, you've put your whole, you know, good portion of your life...
not going to be financially compensated compensated for that like i i do think if your kid wants to leave scot-free no strings attached they should have to sign some sort of prenup you know in like the first week or first uh month of them being born or whatever because otherwise like it's really not really not fair yeah
this ungrateful homegirl doesn't even understand that she has a natural uh natural ability to probably breakdance because of the genetics i provided for her and she's just gonna act just like like like i gave her nothing and It's not my fault you're not trying to do head spins.
Yeah, I want those jeans back, actually.
Yeah.
He goes on to breakdance in this video.
The kids have turned out great.
Maddie graduated from Northwestern University and is a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Maddie's older sister, Tori, is a partner at a hedge fund on Wall Street.
Uh-oh.
And she's teaching English to first graders in Thailand.
It's funny how the arrow button sometimes works to fast forward on Twitter and then most of the time doesn't work.
Doesn't, yeah.
Now, some of you might be wondering, can he still breakdance at age 66?
No.
Well, I don't know.
Let's see.
We kind of just assumed that you could.
I saw the video and knew that you couldn't breakdance even 20 years ago in your heyday.
15 years ago when you were on Good Day LA or whatever.
I guess it was only six years ago because he said he's 66 right now.
And that was when he was 60. He started breakdancing when he was like 54 or so.
Oh yeah, totally.
Because that was one of his corrections was that he didn't leave the family to start breakdancing.
It was just a happy coincidence.
Yeah, yeah.
Judge, court, members of the jury, if you would look at these records, you'll see that I started breakdancing in 2012, five years after I left Maddie's mom.
At least publicly, though.
It's when he felt ready for prime time.
I'll give it a try.
Okay, cut to a completely different video.
There's a cut from him kneeling to him saying the first word.
So he kneels down and then it cuts to him actually talking while kneels.
Like, look, he couldn't even get out the first set.
Like, he probably forgot how to start.
Like I do.
Why are you talking to Maddie right now?
Why is he...
Okay, Matty, I want to show you that it was all worth it.
He's got a Bitcoin flag hanging in this room.
This is like a breakdancing room he has in his house.
It's kind of sick, actually.
I mean, this is like his...
How much you want to bet he calls this his dojo?
I'd put a lot of money.
I'd put a couple of bitcoins on that.
It looks like a funeral parlor.
They just moved everything to the sides of the walls.
Yeah.
It's just whatever, hard floor, and then there's like one of these tables at the front looks like a picnic table with a cloth over it.
And I guess that's where the judges would sit if you're having a competition in this room.
The Bitcoin flag is just a black flag with a picture of a Bitcoin.
You know, there is no Bitcoin, so it's just...
A gold coin with the Bitcoin logo chunked out of the center of it.
An awful flag.
And then the American flag, too, of course.
Let's watch him breakdance.
The old man does.
He looks...
How is he still bad at that?
This is not an ability thing.
This is a rhythm thing.
How is he still not on beat here?
He looks like a 64-year-old McLovin.
Yep.
He's like that level of dork trying to dance, and now he's just doing the jogging, the running in place kind of dance before you actually get to the floor.
Awful.
Man, it's grim.
It looks like...
I don't know.
I would have to watch this for a minute before I decided what the person was showing me.
You know?
I would be like, is this awful?
Am I going to feel really bad for laughing at this?
Yeah.
And then you realize he's just a regular old guy and you're like, okay, this is fucked.
Fucking mess.
Just so...
Oh, why did you give him the sick-ass pause?
You gave him such a sick pause.
He looks awesome right now.
Yeah, he just threw himself onto the floor and he's whipping his legs around.
He looks so cool right now.
Oh, nope, not anymore.
There you go.
That's a better pause.
Now he's like a turtle on his back.
Yeah.
Now that's a pause, if you catch me.
There you go.
Yeah.
This is the first time I've seen someone break dancing and been like, I could do that.
Yeah, yeah, I feel good.
I want to try it now.
Also, he has one move.
He's only done the same move every single time.
I've watched a backspin to like a headstand pause.
Yeah, I would more call it like a combination of four or five moves that he does for the whole routine, and he can only do those.
Yeah.
Like, those are the ones, just the basic stuff.
He can do a head spin, which I guess is not that basic, but if you're doing a windmill, you know, and you've got a strong enough neck, I think you could parlay that into a head spin probably pretty easily.
Yeah.
He did one revolution on the head spin.
Not that impressive.
I like when he jumps down to the ground.
I think that one's coming up.
up.
He does that one second.
He just like slammed this junk into the ground.
Like he just like that, That looked painful.
Yeah, I like that move.
That was great.
Okay.
Can you run that back real quick?
Can I watch that one more time?
Yeah, I guess so.
Thank you.
I can't hit the left button.
Oh, yeah.
You can't.
Oh, it worked this time.
Sick.
Sick.
No.
It's okay.
It's okay.
The sound of it is just so crazy.
Yeah, sorry, dude.
I'm now age 66. So there's really no excuse for anyone not to be breakdancing.
So the bottom line is this.
That was like a motivational speaker.
I love that so much, where he's like, at the end of this breakdancing demonstration, he's like, the main point You know, because this is a video to his daughter.
Yeah.
The main point...
I thought he was going to say something about, like, fatherhood or family or raising kids or whatever.
The main point is it's never too late to start breakdancing.
You know, maybe Maddie needs to start breakdancing.
Maybe she'll understand...
Um, this is like, this is such old internet shit.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
This is, this is like kid pretends to play with a lightsaber shit.
Oh, an old, old guy break dancing.
Yeah.
What?
But he's old.
How is he doing that?
It's like talk show, like daytime talk show stuff.
Literally.
From like 10 years ago is what this guy represents.
So, of course, Elon thinks he's freaking awesome.
Oh, man.
He's probably so geek that Elon knows who he is.
I bet you he's going to end up breakdancing for Elon.
I hope he does.
Elon responds, you are awesome.
Oh, man.
Way, way cool.
Way cool, bro.
Awesome.
Ben and Wanda Hart say, thank you, Elon.
I'm a huge fan of you.
Hashtag Tesla and hashtag Bitcoin are my two biggest investments.
And then if you look at his profile...
Hashtag Bitcoin explainer.
Freedom maximalist.
World's oldest actively competing breakdancer.
Parathesis 65. Hell yeah.
66 in the video.
Better update that bio.
Does he think that Elon invented Bitcoin?
No, he doesn't.
Because I have something on that.
But he does say Elon fan in his own bio.
I can't imagine why your daughter doesn't talk to you, dude.
Yeah, that's so funny.
That's so embarrassing.
No, I went to his profile because I wanted to see what this guy was about, and he actually has a tweet criticizing Elon.
Had Elon and Tesla not sold most of the 43,000 Bitcoin Tesla bought in 2021, Tesla would have 2.2 billion in Bitcoin right now instead of 503 million or so.
Elon decided to pump Dogecoin instead for some reason.
Yeah, I wonder what that reason is.
Why would he do that?
That's so weird.
A garbage meme coin that was launched as a parody of Bitcoin.
It's wild that Elon would promote not just a parody of something, but a trash parody.
Just a really unfunny, nonsensical parody that he then somehow made money from.
Why would he do that?
It's so weird.
Doesn't he know that's cringe?
Elon did not fundamentally understand Bitcoin.
He was surprised a few weeks back when Cathie Wood pointed out the Bitcoin network's compute power is substantially more than the combined compute power of the Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple clouds.
Compute power being a key pillar of Bitcoin's security structure.
He was shocked to find out that we're burning more rainforests than the other three largest corporations combined.
Yeah.
And he didn't fundamentally understand Bitcoin.
So he decided to go make a mirror, an exact copy of Bitcoin and call it something else because he didn't understand it.
So he went into the same exact thing.
Somewhere else.
Yeah.
What's the argument for, like, compute power?
What's the argument that's, like, kind of...
It's just, like, trivia, right?
Because the compute power of Bitcoin, they mean everybody who's mining Bitcoin.
So it's just like a bunch of different servers, disparate servers in different areas owned by different people.
So what if it's a, quote, combined computing power?
That's like saying a combined using gasoline power.
power.
America has a combined using gasoline power greater than any other country on Earth.
I think it's like the other resources.
That's the resource.
That's the value of it, I guess, in some way.
But you can't tap that because it's all decentralized.
That's the whole point of Bitcoin.
I don't know.
Compute power being a key pillar of Bitcoin's security structure.
I don't know.
Maybe Bitcoin can use all of the compute power...
To add additional layers of security, other than the fact that it's just all linked on a blockchain.
It's just forming the blockchain, I think, is what they're considering the security culture, which, again, I don't think is a particularly valuable thing to burn the earth for.
And then the same guy, or not the same guy, sorry, a guy replied to this Ben Hart tweet and said, had Ben Hart not sold all of his Netflix stock around two years ago, complaining about how the shows are too woke?
And then there's just like a shot that shows, you know, Netflix, like, the stock value doubling in two years.
And then he shared this Ben Hart Facebook post, or...
Yeah, this is a Facebook post.
Netflix stock crashing 37% after today due to a loss of 200,000 subs instead of the 2.5 million increase in subs forecast.
Second horrible quarter in a row.
The stock price has dropped by more than half since November.
Netflix is projecting losing another 2.5 million subs this quarter.
The truth is their original content is terrible.
They are more focused on being woke and having an LGBTQ plus themes in all their movies and shows.
Tiresome.
I have nothing against LGBTQ content if it fits with the story.
It just isn't tossed into every show.
The Crying Game was an excellent movie, very well written, good story, sympathetic characters.
Who hasn't?
Whom's among us hasn't experienced the crying game?
Listen, if you want to talk about trans people or gay people or whatever, it needs to have won an Oscar.
Otherwise, that's woke.
Otherwise, I'm going to do terrorism if I happen to accidentally watch it.
Yeah.
The loss of 200,000 subs is what?
Because of the price increase?
That's why they knew that they were going to lose that...
This is one of the various times...
April in 2022, this is one of the various times they've raised their price.
Probably, yeah.
Or they've instituted some policy about sharing your account.
Something like that.
So people are like, fuck you, and they leave.
It's not wokeness, bro.
200,000 people didn't suddenly decide to stop because of wokeness.
Yeah, no.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's just funny to find out that he's also an anti-woke guy.
I mean, of course he is.
Bitcoin and Elon, also Deadbeat breakdance dad is anti-woke.
Some responses to this other than Elon's fantastic.
You're awesome, sir.
You have won the internet today.
Just like proving that this is the place for Deadbeat dads.
Mm-hmm.
There's nothing wrong with pursuing saving the Earth, whether it's through breakdancing or through SpaceX, at the expense of raising your 11 children.
Yeah, or if it's populating the Earth.
It's just funny that...
So let me just read this real quick.
From Fuzzy Warbles, who has Alex DeLarge as his avatar, and that it's not just Alex DeLarge, it's Alex DeLarge with the based glowing red eyes.
Oh, hell yeah.
Just when you thought he couldn't be based enough, he has base glowing red eyes.
Right.
Like, I thought he was already cool, you know, like hitting women and shit.
Glowing red eyes can't stop him now.
Okay.
I somehow saw Maddie's video.
Catchy headline.
Finding out that the guy painted as a, quote, deadbeat is actually a smart entrepreneur who provided abundantly to his family and an absolutely based bitcoiner is amazing.
Yeah.
So it's funny to see like two different conservative responses to this because you have like the not to be like whatever traditional Christian values area of conservatism.
Yeah.
Who's like, yeah, this is one of the guys who's not raising his fucking kids and, like, we're principled enough to get mad at this guy even though he is a man.
Yeah, look what he did.
Even though he is, like, whatever, disgruntled at the...
Well, I don't know if he's even disgruntled.
He probably just never looked back.
But, I mean, he's, like, upset at a woman right now.
Despite all that, like, you know, this is why his daughter...
This is why we can hate his daughter.
We can hate him...
Because of the way his daughter turned out.
Yeah.
They found a way.
It's also funny that it's breakdancing.
So funny.
That he's a white guy and it's breakdancing.
It's such a trivial thing.
Imagine if this was a black family and the dad quit to do breakdancing.
Do you think Twitter would be like, wow, I didn't even know he was this based.
What?
Yeah, I had no idea.
Yeah, there's no way.
That's the best part about this thing.
They're like...
No, this guy had to break out of the cultural norms.
You know?
Yeah.
I liked this excuse.
You don't know if the mom is gatekeeping him from seeing his children.
That's what it's called.
She's gatekeeping him from her 27-year-old bleached hair brown eyebrows daughter.
Dude, how are the kids?
I don't know, man.
She's gatekeeping them from me.
Yeah, something about a restraining order.
Like, that's total gatekeeping, you know?
And it's like, that's not cool.
Like, how do you expect the scene to grow if you're gonna gatekeep my kids from me?
She gaslit my daughter into thinking I left the house and didn't want anything to do with her anymore.
I said there's sidewalks all the way.
Yeah.
I don't understand what you're talking about.
They have sidewalks the whole way.
I'm picturing a five-year-old, but in one of those things you can push.
You sit in it, but you can push it.
I guess that's more for younger babies, but I'm imagining one of those rolling things.
And as long as she just keeps to the sidewalk, she'll be fine.
Yeah, it's like that really cute show where the little kids go do tasks.
But it's like, old enough to go visit your dad?
Yeah, exactly.
Old enough to prove to daddy that you're worth it?
Alright, do you know what he looks like?
Do you know what he looks like?
Okay.
Alright, so I just want you to go to the wrong dad.
Remember the address?
Okay.
Oh, what you're going to want to do?
Okay, so her first stop is the 7-Eleven, where she will buy a two-pack of Excedrin for her dad's likely hangover.
Yeah.
She tries to hand the 7-Eleven clerk Bitcoin.
Do you guys have a Bitcoin machine here?
Can I do an exchange?
Are you old enough to realize that relationships go both ways?
Yeah, most of...
Okay, but back to this gatekeeping.
She's gatekeeping him from seeing his children.
Most of these cases for divorced parent do be gatekeeping, and since the mom have the custody, legally he can't do anything if that's really happened.
That's a really good point.
The mom was probably telling her, your dad wants nothing to do with you.
And you would think, since he's only a mile away, he could somehow get around that sort of a lie.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it for this story.
It's so funny.
Because, yeah, he has on the X version of it, The reason that people are sympathetic to him here is he has two things going for him.
He has the Bitcoin identity and his daughter happens to be a woman.
Yeah.
And not even like a woke woman, apparently, but a woman.
So that's kind of enough.
Yeah, I think the feminism leaving my body thing was a joke on her.
Yeah, totally.
I think she is woke.
So that's a big no-no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, let's move on.
Let's move on.
For the human eyes to get a glimpse, you know pips cannot convince which bigger attempt of them seeing, blowing words in the wind.
While we ascend to limitless ends and pretend we're still human when in fact we're only half.
The other path extends infinity to the map.
I try to laugh, but they pull me down like crabs in a bucket with hands in my pocket.
How long will it last?
Heaven only knows, so Kevin keeps inventing the flows to turn black crows to white foes.
And you're supposed to, triplet these that you heard.
The word's moving at light speed and vision's blurred.
It's all so incredible, decibels in this glam.
Standing in my B-Boy's stance, yeah.
My B-Boy's, standing in my B-Boy's stance, yeah. yeah.
This one.
They're one of the top.
This is something I admittedly, I'm not as well-versed on.
I mean, I think a lot of Facebook is co-worker memes.
I think that's probably kind of the genre we're working with in general here.
Now, these are memes about co-workers, not memes from co-workers?
No, the other way.
These are memes from co-workers.
A meme a co-worker would show you at work, or a meme a co-worker would post that you follow them on social media for whatever reason.
The few memorable co-worker memes are like a guy right when we were punching it, right when we were grabbing our fucking scanners for the day, A guy I knew who was Christian.
Like a nice, mild Christian guy.
That was his vibe?
Showed me a meme of an anti-trans meme.
He showed me a meme of piss on toilet seats.
And it was like, coming soon to a women's bathroom near you.
This was like six years ago or something.
Did you ask him if he said 20 P's then?
No, it's okay if you do that in the guy's bathroom.
You can do it.
Yeah, it's allowed.
Yeah.
That guy does not sit when he pees.
I try to fucking click on the window when I have another window in front of it, and the only empty space to click is right by the arrows.
Uh-huh.
Because I don't want to click on another tab, you know?
Yeah, I feel you.
I feel you.
Because if I click on a tab, then I can't see you anymore.
Fuck.
What was I saying?
Oh, we were talking about how it's okay to pee on the seats if you're a dude.
No, I was just...
That is funny, because there's supposed to be a wholesome guy in your mind.
But yeah, I guess to those people, anti-trans memes are wholesome?
Yeah, I mean, they think they're doing God's work, I guess.
I don't know.
But yeah, no, I was just like...
I was like, oh, I don't agree with that, dude.
He's like, yeah, me either, bro.
And I was like, no, I mean, like you.
I don't agree with you or that meme.
I tried to appeal because I knew he was otherwise a mild-mannered and seemed like a fairly thoughtful guy.
I was just like, nah, trans people, those people go through enough already, man.
Why would I want to make life harder for them, dude?
And he just didn't say anything to me.
I hope a small part of him felt embarrassed.
Yeah, that's like, I purposely don't add coworkers on my social media stuff, you know, unless I'm like fucking them.
Oh yeah, totally.
You gotta know.
I have a guy that I keep around who's like an old friend who would be a co-worker equivalent in that mentality.
I keep him around so I can watch his feed because he's always sharing shit that I would never see if I just kept the people I actually like around.
Right, yeah.
I guess like an old high school friend is probably pretty similar to like a co-worker.
I've been...
That coworker or that person to a lot of people, you know?
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
Yeah, yeah.
That's definitely...
I got one of those I keep around, and he keeps me pretty on tap with the awful shit.
Exactly.
You got that one coworker who, if they're not posting about George Soros, then they're posting about Palestine, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Just equally crazy stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This one guy, though, this is a co-worker from when I was in California, and he doesn't even work at the company that I work for anymore.
And I don't want to say too much bad stuff.
I've just been seeing so much bad stuff in his feed.
He took a hard right turn at some point.
And it's just a really annoying hard right turn.
And so I kind of wanted to just go into this.
But I don't want to be too hard on him.
Because one thing, I used to buy weed from him.
So I appreciate him in that respect.
Um, and then another thing is like, uh, there was a guy that I had beef with who kicked a dent in my car and I couldn't find him.
Uh, cause he wasn't, he wouldn't like answer the phone and shit.
And I saw him walking up to a party that I was leaving as I was leaving.
And I wanted to just kick his ass, but he was a coward.
So I just shoved him.
And he called the cops on me.
Anyway...
Loser shit.
While I was in a confrontation with him, this co-worker was immediately ready to fight this guy with me.
Immediately ready to jump this guy.
Just because you guys work together?
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
So I appreciate it.
This guy used to live with Tony.
Other Tony.
Oh, okay.
Alright.
Yeah.
But yeah, he's taken a really weird fake...
The fake lazy conspiracy theory stuff we talk about on here, that's his identity now.
Because I see his stories all the time.
And I just screenshot them when they're worth it.
Like this one.
And it's the Charlie Day being crazy in front of the red string being a conspiracy theory versus I think this is one of the vampires from the Twilight movies.
Yeah, I was going to ask.
I don't know who this guy is, but he looks maybe like a vampire.
If we're being like good faith, this is a vampire and not just like an old gay aristocrat.
Yeah.
Well, it's both.
He's one of the oldest, I mean, they're vampires, so they're old, and he is of the aristocracy, I think, in the vampire.
Because he's wearing like a coat with tails and a ruffle shit.
And it's me in 2020 explaining what was about to go down, and it's Charlie Day screeching.
And then it's me in 2023 when my normie friends know I was right.
And it's him looking regal and smug, holier than thou.
What's fun about this is there were enough things happening in 2020 that you're not exactly positive which one he's talking about.
And then I also like that they all do think that they're totally right.
Everyone that could be, they all do think that it's been proven right now.
And yeah, they are like...
Yeah, see, I told you guys.
Fucking, I should listen to me.
This is the best genre of meme.
A meme where it's just about how cool and smart you are.
But it's like done in like an annoying way on top of it.
Yeah.
Like, you want to find out what's going on today?
How about you look at my posts from two years ago?
What?
Yeah, scroll back, baby.
If you want to find out why your life is so weird, look at the craziest person you thought was crazy but was actually twisted in the intelligent way.
Yeah, look at theirs.
Check them out.
This was another story I got from him.
He shared it from Mikey's Glock 20 on Instagram, I think.
Hell yeah, brother!
It's a photo of the Land O'Lakes butter, but if you didn't recognize what it was, that's because they took the frickin' butter maiden off of this body.
Have you heard about this, guys?
I had no clue what it was until I saw the large letters on it.
I was so confused because there's no babe on it.
It's like a screenshot of a post, so it's $7 for a pound of butter, dot dot dot.
But don't worry, there's no Indian on it anymore, so it's not offensive.
How's Build Back Better working out for you?
What?
Do they think Joe Biden took the butter maiden off the box?
I think they do.
And that is kind of a shitty trade we did at the assembly, at the international, when we said, okay, we will...
Allow corporations to charge twice as much for butter, but they have to change the packaging on it.
They have to take the cartoon lady off of it.
People forget that when we took this deal with Biden that we didn't read the fine print where he said, we're going to take the lady off.
We're going to take the lady off the butter, but we're going to continue to fund Zionism.
We forgot about that was part of the deal and we voted for him.
See, I think that, like, they know how big, how, like, cranky, that's not the right word, they know how cranky they sound.
They know how, like, unhinged this sounds.
Oh, butter's expensive, but at least we took the fucking woman, the Indian, off the box!
I'd allow 12 squaws to be on this box before I'd ever let Land O'Lakes charge me $7.
It's funny, because I don't think you've ever bought Land O'Lakes butter, my friend.
It's never been cheap.
No.
It's never been cheap.
I think we thought it was the good stuff and paid it a lot for it because there was a babe on it.
Yeah, it's also funny, like, that is, like, a lot of product, a pound of butter.
That's, like, a lot of butter, or, you know, a lot of product that a lot of labor, particularly, like, animal labor, went into or whatever, and they're just pricing in, you know, the cost of factory farming.
And that is, you know, it's not, I'm just kidding.
I do love that.
The, like, fake butter is, well, margarine.
Does margarine have dairy in it?
Some of it does, but mostly not.
Okay, then I was going to say, the fake butter, is it cheaper or is it more?
It's cheaper.
There you go.
I do like that, for the record, you were the first person to say animal labor on this show.
So thank you for that.
I was scared.
You really moved that conversation forward with that.
You weren't supposed to hang a lampshade.
You were supposed to let everybody be indoctrinated by this subtle change of terminology.
I got too excited.
I got a little excited about it, yeah.
I like this one a lot.
He posted a story, and the story is an image.
Do you know what this image is, Tony?
Oh, shit.
Now I do, yeah.
It's like a realistic Pepe just blowing clouds, like smoking a joint in front of a cityscape.
Like looking sick?
What if Drake was a frog?
Yeah.
What if Drake were a frog and he was watching over the six while smoking that fire?
Smoking by blazing one.
I took this exact picture a couple weeks ago.
And it's all backlit, so you just see the silhouette of a figure.
I didn't know if Tony would be able to tell the outline of the head was the Pepe outline.
I thought it was a guy with huge hair, but those were his eyes.
He is wearing a hoodie, though, and cargo pants.
He's very chill.
I think he's wearing a backpack, too.
Just kidding.
Amazing.
And did you see what Pepe's listening to?
You see the song that's playing?
The Madball song?
Awesome.
Pepe's just listening to a Madball song and just like staring out at the city.
What a weird combo of person.
It's a co-worker, bro.
Yeah, this is totally co-worker, yeah.
Like, Madball Pepe smoking weed in front of the city.
Is this a city?
Do you recognize this city?
No.
Me neither.
I mean, it's got, like, warehouses in the foreground and then skyscrapers in the background.
Could be a lot of cities.
It looks pretty wide.
It could be fake, you know?
I think it might be fake.
Um...
Do you think he's listening to the Madball song about cops killing people just because they're having fun?
Yeah, right?
Or like, what about the one about how the singer is the child of two South American immigrants and experiences racism firsthand, so he has to form a gang to survive?
Do you think he likes that Madball song?
I never understood.
I don't know.
That's a whole different conversation.
Hardcore OGs being awful dudes.
I think the Madball guys are all right.
No, I'm saying most of them are, but I'm saying there's still guys who are lame and still listen.
You don't get to listen to Madball.
This guy isn't even an old head.
This guy's like our age.
Madball's probably like the best band he listens to.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's like you don't get to listen to Madball anymore.
What is the Pepe being wistful?
What is he ruminating on?
Because this is definitely a sort of zen, alone with my thoughts kind of a post.
Is he like, damn, I wish there were a white person in that Stanley Steamer commercial?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, is this guy, is he really funny?
Because if I posted this, it'd be funny.
This exact combination.
I might post this exact combination later.
No.
You'll see.
You'll see where we're going with this.
No.
This guy's a right-wing culture.
He suddenly decided to be a right-wing culture warrior after Trump.
Very odd time to get in.
Yeah.
You're lame.
They already won.
You're a bandwagoner, bro.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, Pepe's like just on the roof looking out at the city, you know, looking at all the contradictions in the city.
He takes a big, big fat rip of his blunt and he's just like, I can't believe they made the mermaid woke.
Here's another...
Here's a photo of him.
Of him in his Tesla shirt.
Sick.
He lost like a lot of weight.
That's the type of person.
Yeah, and I don't know.
Maybe he realized his true self.
Maybe he realized how big of an asshole he could be.
I don't know.
Not a lot of things are worse than when a guy who's an asshole loses weight so now thinks that they're attractive because they're not fat anymore, which is not really how that works.
He's not an ugly guy.
He was always a handsome guy, but he seems like an asshole now.
That's what happens.
You get skinny.
Like a crazy aggrieved weirdo.
You know what sucks?
I bet you this guy also hates fat people now.
That's the type of...
It just sucks.
You gotta lose weight graciously.
I know that sounds crazy, but you have to.
Don't become the person you hate.
It's not that hard to not be an asshole.
That's so funny.
The Tesla shirt, it's not cool.
No, it sucks.
Yeah, see, he's trying to get on, like, the right-wing culture war, but on the side of, like, Elon Musk.
Yeah.
And it's like, there's a lot of stuff there, but you're never gonna, like, tap in with the actual mainstream of culture, because mainstream of conservative culture fucking hates electric cars.
So, like, Elon Musk is like a clown that donks on the right people for them, to some degree.
Yeah.
You know, or he, like, he's able to own the libs in various ways by buying Twitter and stuff like that.
But, like, Tesla, no.
You're like coded.
You're lib-coded.
You're walking around in a Tesla shirt.
You're still like lib-coded.
But the reason I wanted to talk about him today is because of this post that I saw.
This is the one that I actually responded to.
And it says, can't make this shit up, clown face emoji.
Quote, you can now apply to keep a migrant in your home in exchange for cooking, cleaning, picking crops, and landscaping via at IRS news.
And again, he said, can't make this shit up.
There should be a minion's law for when someone posts a story or tells you there's a meme or something.
You can't make this shit up.
There's probably around a 50% chance that someone made that shit up.
That is made up, yeah.
Specifically for you.
You're looking at a monogrammed towel that someone delivered to your front door.
And you're like, this shit just appeared here.
Can't make this shit up.
This is fucking wild.
The chances of this are nuts.
It's too far-fetched to not be real.
And then if a co-worker posts, you can't make this shit up.
I think that percentage shoots up to like 85% that someone made this shit up.
Because guess what?
Someone made this shit up.
The community note should say, keep in mind this is posted by a co-worker.
Please factor in the source of this is a co-worker.
Um...
Because I saw this and I was like, that's like a wild story.
Because they're like...
They're conflating the...
The, like, housing asylum seekers in hotels and saying that, like, the government is using private property, is forcing private property owners to house migrants or whatever, and it's just like, okay, they put them up in hotels, right?
Yeah.
They're conflating that with, you know, the border, with, like, Biden's whatever border disaster.
Yeah.
I looked at...
Okay, sorry.
I lost my train of thought.
I was like, this would be a crazy story if it were true.
Not only like, oh, they're making people house asylum seekers, right?
It's, oh no, you get to have a slave in exchange for keeping a migrant within the border.
It doesn't even say anything about citizenship or anything like that, right?
That would be a crazy story to talk about on the show or to like...
Anyway, I need to figure out what the fuck these people are talking about.
So I saw this and within a two-second search, I found a Newsweek article debunking this.
A couple other fact-checking sites also debunking this.
Tracing it back to a meme from...
Well, not a meme, but a post on Twitter, of course, from the U.S. Ministry of Truth...
Which has a verified check next to it.
Siren emoji.
Just in!
President Biden announces tax incentives for families willing to take in slave-migrants in a new, quote, housing for labor initiative.
Quote, you can now apply to keep a migrant in your home in exchange for cooking, cleaning, picking crops, and landscaping via at IRS news.
The IRS news at is not Colored because it's not a link because it doesn't go anywhere.
Maybe your first indication that this wasn't entirely accurate.
This has 21.5 million views.
Jesus.
It has so many views and it got such widespread attention that your co-workers are going to be posting it out of context in their stories to where you have to actually go and look what the fuck.
You have to like dip a toe in these waters to figure it out.
So, of course, I responded to a story.
I was like, someone actually did make that shit up and I sent him the link.
Showing him that it came from a self-described satire Twitter account.
No response from him yet.
I love it, man.
Can't make this shit up.
Clown emoji.
You do know that you're the clown now, right?
You understand that?
No, they don't.
We're the clowns.
You're the clown because you went to a fact-checking site.
You can't post a clown emoji if there's any chance you're wrong.
You just can't.
I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
No.
Instant suicide.
You know someone screen grabbed that and is talking about it on their podcast right now?
This was a response from It's Sowell Goodman.
And then the at is Better Call Sowell.
As in Thomas Sowell.
The right wing black thinker.
The right wing black political thinker.
God damn it.
But it's Saul Goodman.
Like from the show, Better Call Saul Goodman.
And they made him black and made him him.
It's him as Saul Goodman.
It's him on the phone, like the payphone, like the ad for the show, but it's Thomas Sowell.
Your friendly neighborhood stochastic terrorist.
Awesome.
Which they have to put in there because they're making fun of how libs of TikTok gets bomb threats called into children's hospitals.
Mm-hmm.
They're, like, owning that.
It's, like, deplorables calling themselves deplorable, you know?
Yep.
They're calling themselves terrorists because they like it when children's hospitals get death threats.
Because they are.
Yeah.
This is a co-worker meme here.
This is like a better call soul, better call Thomas soul.
That's like a smart co-worker meme.
Yeah.
That's like a meme.
That's a heady.
That's a heady one.
Like the black nerd at work.
Yeah, you're going to go ahead and...
I am going to have a conversation with this co-worker just because I'm curious and I'm going to try to get some...
I'm not going to necessarily contest them or anything like that because I want them to open up.
I want to hear the wild shit that they say.
Like, remember when I used to work with Steve?
Remember Steve?
The old man who just said wild shit all the time at the bike shop?
Vaguely.
I miss having a Steve...
I just love the idea of a show about Thomas Sowell in this style.
Remember when Slip and Jimmy argued that we needed to incarcerate more black men, including the race hustlers known as Al Sharpton?
I loved that episode of Better Call Saul.
I don't know, but I call Saul enough to...
It's a show of...
He's like a public defender.
He defends criminals and miscreants, and he gets involved in crime himself.
He's not up there talking about how we need to outlaw rap music or whatever.
It's like Breaking Bad spinoff, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
It's good.
I've heard it's good.
I've heard I'd enjoy it, but I haven't watched it.
But his comment...
But I'd watch this, though.
I'd watch Better Call Saul.
Easy.
It's Saul Goodman says, Biden brings back indentured servitude on a Friday.
Hell yeah!
Am I being punked?
Where can we look at the photos?
Am I being punked?
Like, yeah, you are being punked in a way, but you're also in on the joke, if that makes sense.
It's like a joke you told yourself, but by the time you finished saying it, you forgot who said it, but you still found it really funny and entertaining.
It didn't matter who said it.
It was going to be good the whole time.
You're being punked if Ashton Kutcher's prank was like, we got you a present that you'll never be able to see or touch or perceive firsthand.
And you were like, fuck yeah!
Hell, that sounds so sick!
But then the punk is that there's actually no intangible gift that you will never be able to see or touch or hear or experience firsthand.
Yeah, they don't even know about the cat.
We told him there's a cat in that box, but we never told him there really wasn't a cat in that box.
He's just never going to be able to see the cat.
Also, where can we look at the photos?
What?
The photos of slaves?
I want to see the photos of slaves.
Is that what he means?
Yeah, I think so, because everybody was kind of riffing on this idea that it's slave because...
Well, because the headline said slave.
In the headline, it says slave.
They make the slave joke.
They have to tell you that this is a joke.
Not even tell you that this is a joke.
They have to tell you that it's worth reading because it's going to be about Biden creating slaves.
And then you, in the comments, you get to riff more on the slaves.
Lisa Christine says, ah, the return of slavery!
Clown emoji.
Twisted crying laughing emoji.
I love it!
Paul Twin Okoye says, slavery never left.
So I like that.
See, you're trying to pretend to be upset at Biden for reintroducing slavery, a real thing that's totally happened.
By the way, there's like, I didn't say it, but there's no housing for labor initiative.
Like, this is all, it's all made up whole cloth.
Yeah, this is completely made up, yeah.
Um...
But you know you're on the right side of history so you have to criticize Biden for creating slavery.
And you do that by crying laughing and celebrating to a certain degree it seems like.
But then the fucking left...
Comes out and they try to outwoke you.
And they try to say, slavery was never abolished, actually.
Yeah, actually.
How do you rectify that?
How do you still pretend like you care about slavery while dismissing the woke nonsense that slavery is still going on to this day?
You know what I mean?
Well, you do it like Bang Bang Bart here who replied, Obama brought it back again, LOL. Biden gonna make it thrive.
Everyone know Obama brought back slavery?
Obama brought it back again, co-worker joke.
Obama brought the slavery back.
Racism is so funny because you get to even blame bringing back slavery on the black guy.
Do you know who sold the original slaves, Tony?
I've heard about that.
Yeah.
Yeah, so slavery was ended, right?
Civil War ended slavery.
And then Obama brought it back in 2008. And then Trump got rid of it, actually.
They won't even talk about it because they hate that he got rid of it.
They don't want to even give him credit for it.
And then Biden brought it back.
And now he's going to make it thrive.
Yeah, so in this vein of people kind of not knowing how to respond to the joke...
Because the joke is that Biden likes slaves.
Yeah.
And so you have to like...
I guess, you know, you want to...
Because they don't know that it's a joke, right?
They think it's real.
So they have to respond in a way that like, I can't believe Biden would bring back slaves.
And none of them can do it.
None of them can like actually respond in a way that...
Would show they care about slavery being instituted?
You know, it's all just joking.
They're all just having the time of their lives.
And like this, Kelly wants America back, says, I need a house cleaner.
Do I have to feed it?
Oh my god.
And I'm assuming this is like, this is a joke.
Well, Biden's the racist one.
He thinks of these people as its.
So this is, she's like saying what Jill Biden would say.
This is a thing Dr. Jill Biden would say.
She would say, do I have to feed it?
Right?
Right.
And then cinders.eth, so that's.ethereum, so maybe he's a breakdancer too.
It's possible.
Another crypto dad in here possibly.
Twisted laughing crying emoji says, just make sure to take it out back every six hours or so.
And then Kelly wants America back, responds again, well, I was going to tie it to a tree.
I have to keep it inside!
Insane.
Yeah.
Insane.
Fucking Joe Biden, right?
Yeah, Joe Biden's such a racist.
He's such a bad dude.
Like, just run with it this way.
And yeah, I liked this one.
In the same exact vein, Noam Verified says about exchanging housing for labor, Noam says, no thanks, I prefer my slaves without a side order of murder.
What is he saying?
He's saying they're going to kill you.
Is that what you're saying?
If you take a slave, it seems like a good deal.
In theory, having a slave is freaking awesome.
So cool.
But they'll probably slit your throat.
This is like...
Man, what's the name of that movie that we watched?
Is it called Green Something?
The movie about the apocalypse where all the service workers turned against the wealthy...
Oh, yeah.
What was it called?
In the Latin American country.
Yeah.
It was called...
That is what's happening here.
That's like what...
That's what...
This is that movie.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Man, I can't remember what the name of that movie was.
It's in the movies section of our Patreon...
Because we have categories now on our Patreon page.
So if you go to the groups, you can listen to episodes by what series they were part of or what kind.
So you go to the movies section, it's going to be in there.
Something to look at later, Tony.
Familiarize yourself with our body of work.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's like...
They're making fun of the idea of housing for labor or whatever.
That is just a simpler version of the system we have now, where your housing is dependent on you having a job and paying somebody working for somebody else, essentially, right?
I feel like a lot of these people would be like, yeah, you don't work, you don't eat.
So it's funny how opportunistically they will jump on the idea of calling that slavery when at the same time Texas is printing textbooks calling slaves, what do they call them?
What was the euphemism for unpaid workers?
It was something even better.
Like laborers?
Yeah, it was something even more exonerative than that.
But, you know, like, you'll see defenses of, well, they got a place to sleep, they got food to eat, you know.
But if you're going to be able to, like, score political points against Biden, you will wokely say that it is wrong for people to do unpaid labor or to do, like, devalued labor, you know.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, you're going to hear people talking about the housing for labor initiative.
It's so funny.
That's not real.
It's not real.
It's not real.
Alright, well, we're going to get out of here.
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