Chapo Trap House - 864 - Gent’s Video feat. James Adomian (9/3/24)

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

Long time friend of the show James Adomian stops by to catch up on some news, including the conservative rumor of bikers traveling to Colorado to fight Venezuelan gangs, the North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate who was a five-night-a-week customer at a porn store, and the Swifties for Kamala Zoom call. We also check in with some of our old friends Elon Musk & Sebastian Gorka. James’ new stand-up special Path of Most Resistance is available now for purchase at 800 Pound Gorilla: https://800poundgorillamedia.com/products/james-adomian-path-of-most-resistance And will be streaming on YouTube starting September 19th!

All I wanna make is hip choco All I wanna make is hip choco Greetings, friends. We are back at it. It's Tuesday, September 3rd. I hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day weekend. We've got some shop up coming at you and just right off the top of the show. I'd like to announce that we are rebranding the show and it will now be called the one nice Jewish boy podcast. And here's Felix Peterman, our one nice Jewish boy. Yeah. On the heels of evil Patrick and Caleb from pot about lists, a successful podcast, two nice Jewish boys, we decided why not give the formula a try. This comes on the heels of our failed attempt to rebrand the Massachusetts Institute of

Trichnology, which is the world's only white hosted black Israelite podcast with a focus on Massachusetts politics from a leftist perspective. Well, I'm being in from Massachusetts myself today, separate from the Institute of Technology, but I would like to introduce our guest for today. It's one of our oldest friends is James Adomian back on the One Nice Jewish Boy podcast. Welcome to our Jewish podcast, James. Hi. Hi. I want to know how you guys come down on the Senator Ed Markey. Thumbs up.

Thumbs up to Ed, to Ed, to Ed Malarkey. But James, it's been a while, but I was wondering, did you see today on the social media, the clips from the Two Nice Jewish Boys podcast? No, I have not. I guess this is the joke. This is where we are. Right. Well, imagine a show featuring Israel's number one English language podcast. Imagine a show with two nice Jewish boys who just sort of riffed out in the style of Joseph Goebbels. If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow,

I would press it in a second. That's just, I think, I mean, I think most Israelis- If that's the choice, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, imagine two 39-year-old boys who also aren't nice either. That's the other thing. They're neither nice nor boys. Holy Roman Empire.

Yes, it is very much a Holy Roman Empire situation. But the clip that was shared today was these two chuckleheads yucking it up about how if there ever was such a thing as a genocide button that would erase all Palestinians from existence, everyone in Israel would push it if they could do it in secret. Well, that's a great thing to admit on a podcast. It kind of puts all of us off the hook

for anything we may have said. Yeah, anything I'm gonna say on this show today. Is that like a problem with Israel that people are too PC that they won't admit they would do this? Because I really don't think that's the case. I don't think they would need to be in a closet if I think the button is being pushed right now actually.

Yeah, they invented the worst genre of like drill. They invented like Palestinian Holocaust drill. That's about like how they should do the, the NAWGGA again, but like worse. I have a, I have a theory I've never communicated before that. I think there's other more maleficent political factions that have looked at Chapo Trap House and gone, well, why don't we just do this? But for the, for like bad guys, you're like, well, it's these it's it's you know, you just get these guys, you know, slapping around

making jokes. But instead of doing it from the point of view of like not killing people, and not redistribute and redistributing wealth, we just flip it, we just flip it. It's like we're it's like pro killing and like keep the money in the in the hands of the one percent. We own on Chappo. Some of our some of our sort of cousin podcasts, like a pod about Kill List. That's a good one. And there's a few others.

The Killbillies. Episode 666. Yeah, because I've seen this phenomenon before where people are like, so there must be some guy in some botnet headquarters surrounded by servers, and he's going like, get, damn, just get me my own Chapo trap. There aren't enough nice boys out there to do it.

I don't have nice 41 year old boys like myself. Yeah, I don't know if it's like a plan thing, but I do feel like in like 2019 and 2020, there was like, again, I don't want to say that like they were meeting under the Denver airport. Um, gray aliens were there, the lizards from that painting that ice cube posted and got yelled at for, uh, like it was the Like it was a whole NWO thing, I'm not saying that. But I do think there was like a concerted effort among like edgy Democrats where they're like, well why don't we just like do that?

Why don't we have internet content where we like, you know, tell people to kill themselves. Like they don't really, they don't really get like why people listen to it. I mean, I don't know either. But neither do they. You guys are the thought leaders. You set the chessboard and they're copying your moves. Night to take rook. That's what we do here. But James, I have a story that I'd like to get to at the top of the show. This is this is

this is news that I got from from X the everything app formerly known as Twitter. This is something I just saw the other day and Felix and I, we love stories like this. This is from a certain account that says, inclusive video of bikers riding down a highway. And the account says rumors are circulating that the Hells Angels and Mongols are headed to Colorado to deal with illegal Venezuelan gangs. They are fucked. And I just I love how whenever like one of those like one of those like

MAGA verified accounts now, whenever they say rumors are or like there are whispers that it just means they like hope it happens. They're making it up and they like hope that it's true. Rumor has it. But now, so on this post has been upended with a community note that says that this is a video from 2013. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club will be in Colorado for a Four Corners motorcycle rally not to deal with Venezuelan migrants to which I say that's not true.

I don't believe that the Hells Angels are going to Colorado and they're going to deal with these. I love the phrasing illegal Venezuelan gangs. If you're in illegal Venezuelan gang, don't worry. The Hells Angels and the Mongols have no beef with you. It's just the illegal the illegal Venezuelan gangs that the Hell's Angels are going to deal with. I was trying to keep up with this illegal Venezuelan gang story. I'm not using X anymore, so it's hard to get the real facts. I'm only going off of my Bloomberg box wire service, which is, we know, not reliable compared to the real, the real wire service.

But like, is it just, it's just like a couple of landlords that are like, God damn it. These Venezuelan tenants of mine must be some kind of gang. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to be honest. I tried to like, I love, you know, getting to the bottom of conservative things. Usually, usually I find them very fun or funny, but this one, it really gave me the feeling of like, I don't know, a cousin describing why she got fired from her most

recent job. I just really tuned out. It was really like, you know, girlfriend describing her, her, her enemy at the workplace type vibes for me. This is not a very interesting one. I do like that they, you know, my favorite contemporary conservative thing, their moral universe where like hell's angels are like these marauding do-gooders. I think that's very cute. I love that. Yeah, they took care of those hippies at Altamont. They're gonna do our dirty work here. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean like, Felix, you and I were discussing about how when they're not murdering people and dealing drugs, the Hells Angels love doing things like charity rides for kids with leukemia. And like, I don't know what beef they have with Venezuelan gangs. But to me, like the Hells Angels are a good, you know, we should be embracing immigrant gang culture, because eventually Venezuelan drug cartels will be doing, you know, we should be embracing immigrant gang culture because eventually Venezuelan drug cartels will be doing, you know, charity events for kids with muscular dystrophy. It's just they all become part of the rich American fabric.

That's what I love about like, yeah, the conservative cosmology about the Hells Angels is that like this is all over Facebook, like, you know, probably AI now, pictures of like, um, a biker where he's like shaving his head in solidarity with a kid with cancer. And they're like, this is what the most crazy evil Hills angels did. And that goes, well, you should judge your book by its cover. And the people reposting that are like, you know, they're, they're calling the SWAT team when a, when a black kid walks across the street from them. But like it's they only do it for Hell's Angels.

Like, I mean, I would like it if this applied to all gangs, if they get properly assimilated. But like if you said that like the gangster disciples that they do fun runs, you would get laughed out of the conservative Facebook. For some reason, like the probably the most prolific killers of wives in all of organized crime. They're nice. You can already picture the AI. I mean, I don't even need to see it. This has already been fed into the machine. The AI image of like Hugo Chavez with like long gray hair on a Harley Davidson. And they're like, it's proof.

This is photographic proof. He faked his death and he went to Colorado. I mean, I mean, outside of the the racial dynamic here in terms of like why people wouldn't react the same way if like the gangster disciples or black gorilla family did a fun run, I think conservatives, they really they really like and admire any group of criminals that have their own vehicle, that have their own vehicles,

that like they don't need that doesn't even provided for them. They're just they have their own means of conveyance to Colorado or elsewhere. It's like, you know, like I feel like once a year, I see posts about how truckers are going to shut down the capital because of immigration or taxes. And it never happens. Like once a year, I see posts about how truckers are going to shut down the capital because of immigration or taxes. And it never happens. But like truckers are another example of pseudo criminals with their own vehicle who conservatives

really adore. I remember back in like 2011, they were like, the truckers are going to surround a bungler in DC and end a bungler care. The Canadian trucker thing is the closest that's ever gotten and they just annoyed everyone. They just showed up blasting Gordon Lightfoot. And on the Edmund Fitzgerald. Yeah.

More than anything though, they like a white organized crime group and it's an outgrowth of my favorite thing from internet's past, which was when people would post like Chief Keef and be like, oh, what if Al Capone was around to teach him what a real gangster was? Or like-

Chief Keef has probably killed more people than Al Capone has. Easily. Or even better, the ones that came after that where they're like, the mafia has called out ISIS. Those are my favorite. Those were, I love those. I wanna see the call come out on social media,

reposted quickly by Elon Musk, where somebody's like, we've seen it, Meals on Wheels is being sent to intervene in AOCs, attack on the Constitution, Me meals on wheels being activated. This looks like obviously like, wow, incredible that this is true and happening. Well, in the in AOC socialist district, there are no more meals to be had because of Marxism. So that's why they need the wheels to bring them in. But she's stopping all the meals at border checkpoints in the Queens

and is turning them away. But hopefully the Hell's Angels will remedy that soon. The bridges and tunnels are being turned into Maoist checkpoints. This is obviously what their plan was all along. I've seen it on the message boards written out where there's a bunch of guys around a table with the pyramid with the eye floating above them. a bunch of guys around a table with the pyramid with the eye floating above them. Well, James, you say you're no longer on X, the everything app. By any chance, have you moved to Brazil recently? Yeah, no, I love God. I love how quickly he's losing everything. I mean, you want to see the three witches prophesying against him where he's like, well,

the weird sister said that I would never lose my billions of dollars unless the entire country of Brazil rose against them. He's stuck in his Scottish castle. Till Burnham Wood comes to Dunson and until Brazilian Wood comes to rise against my Twitter. Yeah. But so yeah, like X has been banned in Brazil because Brazilian government asked him to ban seven accounts.

And I didn't know this. Brazil is the third largest users of Twitter by every nation in the world. And I just don't know what it's going to be like without Brazilian people on Twitter. But Elon also posted the real names. There's going to be a lot less guys like Defender of Europe 1488. I'll tell you that. This has decimated the population. Yeah, the marble bust. Yeah, decimated the population of white nationalists who are like 78 percent Amerindian in their 23 in May.

So, yeah. And then Elon also posted the real names and like the Brazilian equivalent of the Social Security number on X of the people. Those names have to be awesome. The names of like the band, the people who are too based for Brazil, but they're Brazilian, like Pythagoras, Muller, Euclid, these more shirts. But like, I mean, like you once said that this was about freedom of speech. But like now Brazil doesn't have access to Twitter.

So my freedom of speech, my freedom of information is being greatly reduced here because for all I know, Bolson and Arnold could have been pecked to death by emus yesterday and the rest of the world would just be blissfully unaware of that fact. But the Wall Street Journal has a no sorry, the Washington Post has a piece out about just how much money Twitter has lost under Elon Musk. Headline, Musk's Twitter investors have lost billions in value. And it says here, when Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, he didn't do it alone. Though the billionaire tapped his vast wealth to

cover the lion's share of the $44 billion purchase in 2022. He also relied on banks and loans from a long list of investors, the full extent of which was only recently revealed. Based on a Washington Post analysis using Fidelity's estimates, the eight largest initial investments that were reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or otherwise publicly disclosed are worth about $5 billion less than when Musk bought X. His and his partners overall stake has shed 24 billion dollars in value. A vaporization of wealth that has little parallel outside the realm of economic or industry specific crashes or devastating corporate scandals. Well I think obviously the endgame here is that I'm going to get myself uncut jammed by the Saudi royal family.

I think we're all heading to a final act where it's me and Eric Boghossian facing off. How happy do you think MBS was when he saw that Elon sleeps next to a gun? Yeah, pretty, pretty easy. Pretty easy explanation. He turned up dead. But it says here, among those shouldering the burden, Saudi and Qatari business leaders in royalty, Silicon Capital and tech investors, and Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey.

Musk took out loans to cover the rest of the deal, borrowing more than 12 billion that banks have not been able to offload, news outlets have reported. You go down to the local bank, local bank, and you go, hey, I'd like to get like a small business line of credit like anybody would. Oh, for 50 grand? No, for something like 12 billion, you know, just to open up a corner argument-winting website store. But you know, like, obviously, like losing 20 foot devaluation of $24 billion in assets

of that you can that you now can't pay back to the Saudi royal family. That sounds bad. But I guess like I'm reading about this, it occurs to me that Elon has basically run Twitter in the exact same way I would, which is to say badly, but also as a personal vendetta machine against his political enemies. I would censor all of my, any enemy of mine, I would censor their speech. And this is all pretty hypocritical of Elon because he's saying he's standing up for free speech in Brazil, but actively censoring his website and its users in Turkey, Saudi

Arabia, Israel, Hungary, India, and probably a host of other countries. But like I said, like, this is like, you know, sort of a, you know, like remember that Disney movie blank check, where the kid gets a blank check for a million dollars and then like turns his buys a castle and turns it into a waterpark. This is how this is what I would do. Then he has to pick which one of his kids will die in the Holocaust.

I just thought that was like a weird second half to that movie. Well look, you're not playing octodimensional chess the way I am, Chapo. So it's very simple when you look at what we were doing with what I like to call the fifth turning, which was my purchase of Twitter and its and it's, it's redemption. And that was, it was designed with these investors to be a sort of like lottery to see who wanted to shut down the most speech. And the idea from the very beginning was for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to shut

down the website that was the vector of the most people casually saying that 911 was done by Saudi Arabia or that they chopped that guy up. And also, like obviously Turkish interests, like a lot of people saying inconvenient things to Turkey and so forth like that. And I was the vessel by which the sort of front man that came in and said, don't worry, we'll make this a free speech platform. And the plan all along was to run it into the ground.

And the question is whether I can sufficiently alter my face through plastic surgery in time to dodge the inevitable hitmen that are going to be sent my way from every corner of the earth. Did you know that like one of his big investors for the Twitter purchase was Diddy? Are you serious? Yeah, yeah, no, I'm not kidding. It really is, no, Diddy was part of that investor group.

And if you'll notice, the lies that you see from 50 Cent are being spread on Meta and Facebook, Instagram. I wonder if Elon has ever like taken Molly's center being spread on met and Facebook, Instagram. I wonder if, I wonder if Elon has ever like taken Molly at a Diddy party and like, you know, gone through Diddy's apparently like Ford assembly line like system for molesting comedians. Well, it's funny to say that because obviously, obviously Trey Cool, my other life that was to be sort of a Sanic Santa comedian, I've opened for such greats

as Dave Chappelle. I've mumbled from the side of the wings during a Bill Burr set. And obviously everybody, and like Joe Rogan, like I get such big laughs when I go on Joe Rogan show from the audience that's there in the studio. And it's pretty obvious to me that yeah, anybody like I would have gone through the same thing. Of course, I've taken Molly with Diddy who hasn't taken, you've

got to puff with the puff, you know what I'm saying? And like, I get really high, but then I just like get into my phone and start trying to start arguments with Azalea Banks and stuff like that. It's really great to be horny on a website that you own. He's, he's been, um, replying to, uh, the Hawk to a girl a lot. Really? But it's like, yeah, well, not a lot, but like a few times. And he, like his style of like horny postings, as James alluded to, it is very,

it is very funny. It is like kind of how I imagined like John Wayne Gacy hit on his underlings when he managed to KFC. Anytime it's like a, like a, a girl. He's like, you should post more content on X the everything site and engage with your fans. Yeah. It has the same vibe as like, yeah, Gacy, like imploring a 15 year old to spend more

time at the KFC. You've got to meet people where they are. You have to meet people where they are. And if it's an attractive woman, you know, I'm obviously no stranger to the female corpus. And what you have to do is you got to get in there and you talk about them, what they want to hear. You got to say, look, it's great that you're posting this, but I think you should address the birth rate crisis in the Western world.

And that starts to get them hot. That starts to get them hot. That starts to get them hot. I'll mail you some of my semen to help with this problem. I would you like to have a high IQ infant. Underneath every feminine star, every feminist star is like a tradwife waiting to break out. And you've got to show her that X is the path to, you know, sort of like heating up her soups or whatever.

He has been, he has been like going crazy ever since the paternity trial with Grimes started. And it's like, look, no one's going to like what I have to say about this. But like when you quote unquote, get someone pregnant by like, you know, you come into a Turkey baster and then you shoot that Turkey baster three times into another woman who's carrying Grimes' eggs. How about those kids like just free for all? They belong to no one. They're not really your kids. You know, those are like generated kids. No offense

to anyone who was born that way who's listening, by the way. If your mom and dad are Grimes and Elon Musk and you were, you know, turkey basted into another woman, my apologies. But like neither of them should get like they're not really you. They're not really yours. You didn't even have sex with her probably. Well, as Marcus really pointed out very aptly, it is the duty of man to always withhold his needs and to uphold those of Rome or in this case X. Did you see him yesterday the other day he was posting he was like everyone should read the Odyssey because it's the foundation of Western civilization. And he posted a photo of the Aeneid, or no, no, of the Iliad, rather.

But the man should brush up on his classics. And also, do you remember when he offered to buy a stewardess a horse if she jacked him off on an airplane? Yeah, that what he I think it was like, he like basically flashed his cock to her and she was like, oh my God, what is, you know, put that away. She's like crying, obviously. And he was like, whoa, calm down, I'll buy you a horse. Like it was a panicked thing, which it like, I don't know why he thought that.

Did he like, did he just think that like that, like every woman secretly wants a horse? Well, in my defense, it was a JSX private airplane flight. We were flying from Vale to Davos. And so like, what do you expect on there? They bring around the cards and they offer you like ginger ale and whiskeys or whatever. And then in return, you say, Hey, would you like a horse? And I usually travel, I usually travel even on a smaller private plane with some kind

of hoofed creature in the cargo hold. And so people think that it's some kind of idle promise that you would fulfill later on through some kind of intermediary. But no, I've always got a horse or donkey or something in their little crate underneath. He's got a whole platoon of Shetland ponies that travels with him everywhere that he can just give out like commemorative plaques or pens or something. Yes, I like people to know that there's the clip-clip-clop not of reindeers, but of Shetland ponies when I arrive at a billionaire's convention.

I just like thinking like panicking and thinking of like all the insulting, the most insulting gifts you could give to a woman to calm her down. Like you're about to be sued for sexual harassment and you're like, wait, wait, what about a vacuum cleaner? Would you like to be a princess? Yeah. Well, actually This segues nicely into the the next story. I wanted to address which also deals with the wages of horniness James are you aware of the guy who is running for governor of North Carolina? His name is Mark Robinson

Is this the Republican guy? Yes. He's running for the Republican running as a Republican for the governor of North Carolina And I guess like the context here is that I read a story the other day about the Trump campaign is worried that North Carolina may be in play for the Democrats because of how insane Mark Robinson is but yeah story here is We've got a lot of Carolinas out there a lot of great Carolinas The story is ex porn shop employees say Mark Robinson was a regular he denies it There's a lot of great Carolinas out there a lot of great Carolinas. The story is ex porn shop employees say Mark Robinson was a regular. He denies it. And the story begins in his 2022 memoir.

We are the majority. Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson wrote that he committed his life to Jesus in the late 1980s. I did not, however, experience a drastic convert conversion like some do, wrote Robinson, now the Republican nominee for governor. My behavior did not immediately reform. They say sin is fun for a season, and I was in that season." Robinson didn't specify how long that season lasted or what sins it entailed, but according to Louis Money, great name, who worked in several of Greensboro's windowless 24-hour video pornography stores, Robinson was a frequent customer in the 1990s and early 2000s. Money 52 told the

assembly that Robinson came in as often as five nights a week to watch porn videos in a private booth. Five other men who say they were former employees or customers during this period also told the assembly that Robinson visited two of those stores, Gents Video and News and i-40 Video and News. In addition, Money said Robinson purchased hundreds of bootleg porn videos that Money sold on the side.

He was good for at least one week, Money said, but Money said Robinson didn't pay for the last one, which he described as a compilation of super hardcore films he acquired in New York City that were too risque to be sold in North Carolina. He said he really doesn't care about the $25 Robinson owes him for the tape, nor is he trying to derail the Republicans' campaign for governor. An unaffiliated voter, he said he likes Robinson as a person, if not necessarily his politics. He was a great customer. And you know what? For me, it's just about my 25 bucks from 20 years ago.

This is it. This is such a decline from Augustine. Like, oh, when Augustine found Christ, you know, and he had a, he had a, he had a season of sin too, but he, you know, he was stealing pairs, which was the equivalent of like, I don't know. Jack off in a closet? Yeah, well a pair in the year like 300 was worth what? Like, it was probably the equivalent of like, rap snacks, or one of the rare snacks you have to get in a Japanese snack shop. And he fucked all these women, and he had,

he definitely bragged about it if you read Confessions. He's very proud of his sinful life because he did a lot. But all Mark Robinson did was like pre-internet gooning. And I like, I would be terrified if I saw him in a porn VHS store. For those who don't know, Mark Robinson sort of looks like a racially swapped Jay Glazer for the NFL. And he would be a sight to behold behind those beads. Well, there's nothing better when you're in a sex positive place than the Christian

guy who's there. If you're in a porn video shop or like a strip club or a gay bar, there's no better person to run into and have a forced chat with than the Christian guy who's there with his excuses. Do research. I'm on a path that ultimately isn't going to lead you. But yeah, behind the Greensboro door should be the name of this article But I said the fact that he owes money to this porn story

I was just thinking like in the 90s like VHS players existed and I guess it was like a It's a quirk of North Carolina that you couldn't rent porn videos But you could jack off to them probably like pseudo privately and you could go to like a dedicated Jack off to them like pseudo privately and you could go to like a dedicated brick and mortar jerk off Emporium and just go to like sit in the closet. Watch it. Watch your porn clips and then jack off. And like doing that five nights a week. I mean, like I have nothing wrong with self abuse, but there's just like there's something about like, yeah, like the having to go like because they know why you're there. So you walk in and you're like a regular, they're like, Mark, how you doing? All right. Yeah. We loaded up your favorites.

We got, you know, you got a lot. Yeah. A lot of Yankee laughs going about this, but this is all rooted in common law. This is all rooted in Anglo-Saxon common law. Going back to the Magna Carta that there is, there are certainly certain community standards, Possecoma Possecoma. Hey, BS come as coma, posse, comatose. Hey, BS, comas.

That would really like, I, I would just give up on jacking off at that point. Like I don't even like, I don't even like going through the grocery store. I don't like the idea of like, I don't know. I feel like there's something vaguely pathetic of people seeing you buy like noodles and toast and thinking of you cooking them alone. It's very embarrassing to me. I really don't do it. I just give it up.

Now we have a window into Felix's life. Noodles and toast alone. I just don't like doing it. I, there's like a tinge of embarrassment there. Whenever I'm buying something like a ridiculous product that no one else would buy, like 7Up Zero, I'm like, I feel compelled to come up with some sort of lie. Like, oh, my pregnant wife has cancer and she's craving this.

And she's dying. She doesn't want to die before tasting this. Or you throw in a couple of coloring books and you're like, well, obviously all this is for some big kid. Yeah. Yeah. I actually teach women how to read at my house and this is for them. But like the idea of everyone knowing what I jack off to and I see them and I, you know, you walk through the beads

and they, you know, that feeling of like seeing your boss or like a teacher, someone in public and wearing like jean, they're shitty, like, uh, like the, the very light jeans of the nineties. It's that same awful feeling, but you know, they just came and you just came. Well, what do you think the acid wash look came from? Well, actually, I think I think I can understand Felix's point of view here because James, in the neighborhood in Los Angeles that Felix lives in, he actually encounters the exact opposite problem that you have living in Los Angeles,

which is that everybody believes Felix is Armenian and won't believe him when he says he's not. Or is he? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like James, people will like ask me if I'm Armenian. Like, especially when I get my haircut, those those are like the most they're like, they'll they'll ask. They'll just like, say, are you Armenian? And I'll go, they'll ask they'll just like say are you Armenian? I don't know and they'll go do you speak Armenian? And it's like why the fuck would I speak Armenian if I like no offense to Armenia, obviously But it's like I'm not learning a whole new fucking alphabet if I'm not Armenian. Well, you this is an improvement

It used to be the ancient Assyrian Uniform that was used. So then Mesrop Meshtots came along and created the alphabet because this was before the Latin alphabet took off. And he was like, I've got something for consideration. I think it's beautiful. Don't get me wrong. I think it's gorgeous. I love it. I just, you know, my brain is cemented over. I can't learn a new alphabet. You could say, here's how you say, I'm not Armenian in Armenian.

You say, yes, hi, Chim. That's I, Armenian, am not. Yes, hi, Chim. Yes, hi, Chim. And then they'll laugh. They might laugh or they might look at you like you're the weirdest person alive. Yeah, I feel like me directly telling them I'm not Armenian doesn't do anything to dispel it.

So I can't imagine what speaking Armenian would do. Because it's like a haggling culture. They used to say, no, I'm not Armenian. And they're like, well, that's just an opening for negotiation. Do you speak Armenian? Right. They go, well, how much Armenian are you? Yeah.

Well, the thing that's tough for me is like, I used to, I was, normally I'm prepared for this because as New Yorkers know, the mitzvah tanks, the people who accost anyone with like black or brown hair and go, are you Jewish? See, I get that. Yeah, yeah. No one thinks I'm Iranian, but I get the guys who are like, we need one more person to pray. James, you know what I would do to get out of that?

And I've only forgotten to do it once in the last 10 years. I would literally say, no, I'm Turkish. And they would just let me go on my way. But like in this, like I can't say that now. Not in Glendale. Not in Glendale, no. Right, make a sidestep.

Be like, no, I'm Assyrian. That's it, I just like, I don't know. Captain Assyrian. I don't know what feuds I would be walking into. I don't want to take responsibility for everything the Assyrians did Well, if you go way back, they were bastards, but now everybody's forgiven Well, moving on. I got two stories here about sort of like the respectfully deal with how the Republicans

and the Democrats are attempting to harness the power of popular culture for this upcoming election. And I'd like to dive into that if you don't mind. The first one is from the New York Times from a little earlier this month. The headline is, Kid Rock Threw a Party. MAGA faithful brought the joy, rage, and smirnoff ice. And this is about a Kid Rock MAGA music festival. I'm just going to read a little bit from it. It says here, on this broiling day, on this broiling July day in Anderson, South Carolina, Mr.

Genetti had a safe space, a tribe. All around him were fellow fans of former president Donald J. Trump, many with big trucks lining up, lining the green fields around the outdoor concert venue. Trump flags fluttered above RVs and tents alongside American flags and a few of the Confederate variety. And this was South Carolina? Yeah. I think they're just describing the state. And this was South Carolina? Yeah.

I think they're just describing the state. They haven't gotten any specific yet. The state of South Carolina to become one giant outdoor music festival hosted by Kid Rock and Jason Aldean. It says here, some 22,500 people would come on this first day of the two-day festival, according to the local sheriff's office, drawn by kid rock and an abundance of country performers. It's going to be another Woodstock One, Mr. Janetti said. Starting in April in Gonzales, Louisiana, and stopping in six other mid-sized southern

cities throughout through late July, Rock the Country offered a vision of the MAGA movement in pure party mode. The shows felt like Trump rallies without the former president. Unburdened by policy talks, speeches from lesser known GOP players, and the buzzkill tendencies of Mr. Trump himself, who tends to noodle at the lectern like a jam band soloist. What remained was a snapshot of a maturing American subculture, with unwritten conventions rivaling those of deadheads or Swifties, and a dizzying mashup of hedonism and piety, angry rebellion, and beer-guzzling pursuit of happiness.

In a phone interview last week, Mr. Ritchie said that The Rock the Country had been designed to appeal to the conservative demographic that had made TV shows like Duck Dynasty and Yellowstone popular. In South Carolina, Kid Rock was the biggest act on the first day of the festival, with the country star Jason Aldean headlining the second. By late afternoon on day one, thousands of people, young and old, overwhelmingly white, had crowded into the open field in front of the stage. Young women clapped across the grass in cherry red cowgirl boots and daisy dukes.

Men tried to outdo each other with t-shirts with politically incorrect remarks. Taxes are gay, amos sexual, and I'm voting convicted felon 2024. And this is your at rock the country a cannabis tent did a brisk business in pre-rolled joints and Delta nine space pops. Another company sold gummies containing a proprietary mushroom and new tropics blend. The packaging said frame mind bending experience. Bud Light was the conspicuous sponsor of a two

door outdoor two story outdoor bar. Yeah, they figured out a thing or two pretty quick there, didn't they? Yeah. But like got in line. They got those cans back in the box if you know what I'm talking about. Well, yeah, that just sounds like South Carolina.

You know, I love that they're like, they're like, it's, you know, it's like a Trump rally, but you can let your hair down. You don't have to do it by all that hard policy of Trump. Yeah. Others were split on whether the mega movement was on the cusp of an open rebellion. Edwin Poteet Black Jr. a longtime Kid Rock fan from Michigan with convictions for robbery assaulting a police officer and other crimes,

said that it was time for conservatives to rise up in a civil war against liberals. Weird to the point, our forefathers would have already been out in the street shooting, said Mr. Black, whose grandson had given him tickets to the festival for his 60th birthday. That's kind of nice. That's nice.

That's nice. I love it when a grandson gives a grandfather gifts. I think it's the meaning of life. That's not a bad thing to do if you have an insane, hyper online old MAGA person in your family. Get them tickets, get them out there. The New York Times will probably interview them. They're gonna publicly discredit their cause.

But I like the idea of a 60 year old with several convictions for assaulting a police officer and like, you know Various other felonies is just like we got to take this country back. The law breaking has gotten out of hand It's time for another american revolution. He offers that too. That's part of his media kit Yeah, by the way, i've got several felony convictions and i'm, uh available for interviews everywhere And I also like the the-shirts. Taxes are gay and amosexual. I mean, like, I know they're trying to outdo one another with, like, politically incorrect slogans,

but, like, this seems very tame to me. Like, who would really be offended by a shirt that says taxes are gay or amosexual? I'd just be like, I'm gay for Donald Trump. Like, it just seems to be like a rather limp provocation. Meaning ammunition. It's like stuff that like only the liberal character in Mr. Burcham would get offended by.

Like they've watched too much New Norm and it's like, I can get how that happens. I have to. You can't stop watching. But they, you know, they've watched too much of it and they're like, oh, that's what they're like. They, um, they really do that stuff. If they see a t-shirt that says like, I'm LGBT, let's go Brandon Trump, uh, Bill faint and it's like, you know, libs are, um, they're made of sturdier stuff.

They've been through a lot, you know? Well, from the Lib side of things here, I mean, that's the Kid Rock MAGA sort of like deadhead convention, you know, I need a miracle following Trump around the country, you know, getting fucked up on Delta nine gummies, and just, you know, standing for freedom. On the liberal side of it, this is from the Atlantic from last week. What I heard at Swifties for Kamala.

Hopefully, hopefully the sound of your own vest going off. Jesus. The screams of the damned. They have a K-hole tint. When you're really intensely into Kamala. It says, you might not be shocked to learn that Elizabeth Warren's favorite Taylor Swift song is about cosmic justice. I love karma, the senator from Massachusetts said last night during a Zoom event for a

group called Swifties for Kamala. And I have a thing or two to say about private equity. The 34,000 attendees probably would have cheered, but as is typical for such a massive webinar, only the organizers had control of the microphone and camera. Warren was undaunted by the lack of response. It is going to be a tough fight ahead, he said winding up. There are only 24 hours in a day or 144 all-too-well 10-minute versions. Pause for no laughter. But here's the thing. Just like you've done every time before, we will push this boulder up the hill. Only a diehard Swiftie would have caught all the references in Warren's words, which included a jab at

the investment group backing Swift's nemesis Scooter Braun and a lyric from a Swift deep cut said to be about the singer's beef with Kim Kardashian. It seems safe to assume that Warren did not write all of these clips herself, but she would not be the only speaker on the call whose staffers had squeezed on an unconscionable number of jokes into last night's remarks. Is Liz Warren going to kill herself? Like, I'm sorry, you know, like I, I legitimately believe that she believed she was going to be president.

And now you're doing like she's doing like a Zoom open mic for like, not even super bundlers. These aren't even like big, big money donors, like Dracula or David Geffen. These are just random Taylor Swift fans. They really have her on like the nothing duty over there. Well, the project began with a post by a 22 year old named Emerald the Madrano who runs a popular Swift fan account

I feel like us us with these should mass organize and help the campaign for Kamala Harris He wrote on X in July soon Swifties for Kamala was born a partnership of fans Some of whom run social media accounts and others who have experience in democratic politics. A month later, the group had 71,000 followers on X, a sub stack newsletter and discord channel. I mean, of who can't that be set up? Yeah, they should. I've seen the shittiest accounts get 70,000 followers, the accounts that are like wings out of context.

Those have 3.8 million followers. That's always a fake humble amount that people do when their dog shit account gets 70,000 followers. They're like, I can't believe 70,000 people are here. It's like you are watching that number every day. Cut the bullshit. It's also not impressive. Do you think that Henry V at Agincourt was actually talking about his follower count with that big speech? My band of followers. Yeah, but like, yeah, one more here from Kirsten Gillibrand and just like

I know they say the staffers write this stuff for them. But like, first of all, if you're Kristen Gillibrand and just like, I know they say the staffers write this stuff for them. But like, first of all, if you're Kirsten Gillibrand or Elizabeth Warren's age, you should not be listening to Taylor Swift or know any of her music. Well, they're not. It's just, you know, like stick to the music that you actually like and grew up with. You can be like... Yeah, King Vaughn. Little Dirk.

I was a big fan of the turtles. But it says here, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York read off a few jokes. Karma is a relaxing thought, but Donald Trump, it's not facts. She said to be every. OK, karma is a relaxing thought, but for Donald Trump, it's not facts. Oh, when she's saying it like in the AAV way. I don't know. Yeah. She said, she says, if you're in line to vote, stay, stay, stay. When Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts showed up,

he revealed that his favorite Swift song, oddly, is snow on the beach because it highlights the risks of global warming. OK, fuck off. Ed Markey, you are like 99 years old. Ed Markey got elected during like the 1973 oil embargo. You know, you are listening. I've got a memo here prepared by a staffer that says, my favorite Taylor Swift song is the one about the snow on the beach. And Markie's like top artists on Spotify. They don't even have images because they're all in blackface. It's Al Jolson and everyone else who did that. I knew this podcast would turn against my Massachusetts boy. I hate to say it, he voted for the Iraq war. You know, we all loved it. He did. He was beat because he's been in office since 1890.

Everyone loved it when he beat that awful Kennedy, me included, but you know. Well, he had, you had to do certain things to please Senator Conklin back then. Does your climate change is threatening our favorite phenomenon, the senator said before adding that the waters outside Swift's Beach House in Rhode Island are some of the fastest warming in the world. One special speaker was the singer songwriter, Carol King, now in her eighties, who materialized like a yellow haired fairy godmother. King who called Swift her musical and songwriting granddaughter, saying part of the chorus from

Shake It Off and offered advice to first time campaign volunteers. Nikita door knocking is asking a good question and then listening. She urged Swifties to ask voters what they might find in common with Harris. You're building a bridge to that person, King said, aware apparently of how much Swifties appreciate bridges. See, like I guess like all these references are lost on me because I don't not really I don't really follow her music that well. But I mean like it's just this this desperate attempt to just be like you know I love karma but it's coming for Donald Trump in this election. It really feels like Kamala and Trump are passing the Hillary 2016 baton back and forth to each other. Yeah. It's like one day I'll see like the Trump people are

posting the worst animation I've ever seen where they'll see like the Trump people are posting the worst animation I've ever seen where they're doing like the staying alive dance They're like this is a meme for the ages or whatever they say and I'll be like, oh they have the Hillary curse and then The next day something like this there, but they both have the Hillary curse. It's incredible But just based on these two articles, I would say like if I just just going on this alone, I'm giving the edge to the MAGA Festival because at least they're getting fucked up on mushrooms and nootropics and drinking beer and you know, getting sun heat stroke in South Carolina. But like this, this zoom conference thing with we're just like decrepit octogenarian politicians are making these

grasping references at like teen pop music. Oh, just get your own thing. You know, just sort of the brown kombucha that is going around. Well, it's too bad that these eyes, it's too bad that they didn't get a chance to be famous when they were younger. Someone like Ed Markey or Elizabeth Warren, they had, they made them wait. They made them wait. And it's their fight. It's finally their chance to be young.

They're just too, I mean, I like to think of them as precursors though. Are they just never going to have Warren do like an actual campaign event? Like it's, yeah, no one, no one has tried it since, again, Hillary in 2016, where, do you remember all those articles back then that were like, Hillary has a secret weapon and it's her attack dog, Elizabeth Warren? Which was hilarious because it made Elizabeth Warren sound like just a battle ax, like a disgusting diseased dog that would belong to one Mr. Burns. But they did try that. They sent her

out there to a few rallies in Ohio, and she was like, Donald, you're good for nothing, the usual thing she does. And it just went nowhere. I think she's relegated to the G League of the Democratic Party for the rest of her life, right? Got to be. She's like the overnight host on CNN. It's broadcasting at three in the morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like how would you turn on Bloomberg and you see like off standard TV anchors like guys who are a little weird, like you see, you really see why they couldn't make it into the big leagues. Like they have like a lazy eye or like an off-center Jokie. What a really great voice. That's why you're not the real-

They have eczema. Yeah, that's why you have to do news for Michael Bloomberg because you're kind of off. 120 people were reported injured, at least 22 people dead. I wish I were one of them. No offense to any of our listeners who work as anchor people at the Bloomberg News Network. Anna, look at the eastern markets. Look at the East Asian markets just waking up now. Ow! Well, James, before we get out of here today, I did want to update you

on a few recent news items involving, you know, our favorite character, Sebastian Gorka, who I know... Bum, bum, bum. Yeah. He has not made an appearance on the show in a long time. But I got two stories about Sebastian Gorka here. Sleep not in comfort that he hath not be seen. His Gorka moves in the shadows, Mr. Traffa. As Gorka moves in the shadows, Mr. Trafford. This is just that, I'm just going to dive into this one. It says, Newsmax personality and former Trump aide, Sebastian Gorka, described Vice President Kamala Harris as a DEI hire and colored in an interview on Tuesday. In the segment, Gorka accused himself of inflating, in this segment, Gorka himself accused of

inflating his credentials as a terrorismorka himself accused of inflating his credentials as a terrorism expert predicted that Biden will be forced to withdraw from the presidential race if a major Democratic donors pull the plug. Host Rob Schmidt then asked if Democratic donors really think Harris is going to do better in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania than Joe Biden would. Gorka responded sarcastically, she's a DEI hire, right? She's a woman, she's colored Therefore, she's got to be good. At least her brain doesn't literally freeze mid-sentence.

So credit to Gorka for correctly predicting Biden would drop out of the race. But demerits for not using the antiquated term quadroon to describe Kamala Harris. Points taken, Mr. Chapa. He never disappoints. I really I've really missed him. Well, you can actually this next story if you've missed Sebastian, you can commune with him because headline here,

former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka is selling his doomsday prepper cabin on 33 acres in the West Virginia woods. Sebastian Gorka, a right wing commentator and author who worked in the Trump administration, is selling his Baker, West Virginia vacation home. The three bedroom, two bath log cabin is listed for $575,000 and comes with more than 33 acres in the woods. This getaway was-

I'm sorry. That's how you know he's from a bullshit country. Who the fuck, who else, but an Eastern European would be like, Oh, I'm, I'm rich. Now I'm going to summer in West Virginia. That's how you know, you come from a rock farming culture. Talk about someone who just got letters. Oh, I'm afraid it's quite to the contrary, Mr. Chappell. West Virginia striking distance to Camp David, you understand?

The geopolitical the geopolitical choke point of wheeling mere miles away from my estate. It says here this getaway was built by a prepper for a prepper the listing notes. I sorry, my mom's dog is shrieking right now. I promise you I'm not beating the dog. It's just he goes crazy every time my mom comes home. I promise you that I am beating the dog. Discipline must be brought to the ranks of the canines.

This getaway was built by a prepper for a prepper, the listing notes. It features all the amenities one would need if the world were to end or if they just want to disconnect. That's a real endorsement for vacationing in West Virginia. If the world ends, you'll hardly even notice you're in West Virginia. You're in the woods of Virginia. Also, like, what the fuck kind of endorsement for Trump is this? He's like, I'm buying property to prepare for the collapse of civilization.

Oh, and also a vote for Trump so I can get back in the White House. Yeah. Hurry this process along. This is a great house to eat ten years of beans in and then shoot yourself in the head when you're surrounded by a radiated mutants. It was strategic land during the prior civil war in your country. As it shall be again. Under the shadows of the Blue Ridge mountains you see, stonewall Gorka shall move. Mountain mama, take me home. Specifically, there is a backup

generator, a hand pump for the well and an outdoor stove. There are no neighbors to be heard or seen, just acres and acres of woods, wild animals, and birds. The home is perched at 2,400 feet atop a short mountain. There's a pond on the property that could be fished, as well as lots of opportunity to hike, hunt, or birdwatch. In fact, the listing of the former White House advisor notes that the spot is only 114 miles from the White House, but it feels like you're on the other side of the globe.

So like you said, a strategic strategic location. So I'm perfectly able to pop on down to the White House for a biscuit when we are in power. And when it's removed to retreat one step. I picture Gorka like there's a tunnel connecting the estate to the White House, but he gets in a, he's sort of like the worm from Busytown, but he's driving a traditionally Hungarian onion-shaped car. It's an Apple car, it's a little cute. Yeah, very cute. It's fancy, yeah.

And very cute to think about him in the little onion car. Do you mean to impugnly honor of lowly worm, Mr. Chappell? I will have you know that I have him in my employ. Also, it's perfectly suited to rent out to normies should you need extra income on Airbnb. Oh man, I would love to stay in Sebastian Gorka's place if he ran it as an Airbnb. Do we have any listeners in West Virginia where we could,

like, is there, what venue would we do there? Just like a big cave? A cornfield? A disused coal mine? I challenge you to meet me 100 paces from Harper's Ferry. Yeah, we're gonna do a show in one of those coal slag pits where they just shove the top of a mountain, blew off into like a lagoon or something. I'll be doing a show there and it's perfect quaint and plenty of bird watching.

Our opening act will be some of the surviving white family. They're going to do that tap dancing thing that everyone loves. tap dancing thing that everyone loves? All right, well, before we get out of here for today, James, you have a new comedy special coming out, Path of Most Resistance. Indeed, Mr. Chappell. Oh yeah, it's me. I look forward to meeting you for our in-person festival

and Clash of Arms in West Virginia, where we will pander with the greatest quality of John Voight. He will be my right wing, to my right wing of the MAGA movement. Yes, I'm in, hi guys. So yes, I'm having my standup special out now. It's Path of Most Resistance. It is watchable now on 800-pound gorilla.

And as of September 19th, it is streaming on YouTube and available to rent to own to it's on layaway. Own to rent. Let your dreams come true with the path of most resistance. It's available to watch in a specific viewing booth in gents video in North Carolina. James actually, I just watched the special and there was one moment that I really related to where you talked about the different tranches of exclusivity that airlines bestow upon you for being a Sky Priority member. And I just recently had a similar thought about it. One of the first times I was ever gaining access to one of the United Business lounges

at O'Hara airport. To find out that there are huge parts of airports that are just secret that are like nice to sit in was a revelation to me because my like my feeling of like elitist contempt for humanity is never at its highest in inside an airport. And just to know that like the gate that's for scum. That's for scum. That one is will be Ellis Island circa 1895. Yeah. Did you know that some of those places have gaming PCs now? What? I also, yeah, no, not the I also I stayed in one both on the way to and back from Chicago.

And it's they're amazing. No one cares if you vape in the bathroom. Everyone's doing it. They had a Coke freestyle machine. Yes, I did almost have an altercation in front of the freestyle machine. That's not really United's fault, is it? No, they got an espresso machine. They have a Coke freestyle machine. They've got all kinds of free snacks and treats. And then they have like luxuriously appointed chairs to sit in. Unlike at the gate, the outlets to charge your phone or computer actually work. And it's just generally, you know, just a better class of human being. It's been washed free of the filth that clogs most American airports.

What I've come to understand is that the intimidating paintings that are at the Denver airport are actually are just an advertisement to the most elite lounge that's available. Blue Horse Lounge, the view where you're being served by people in gas masks. No, seriously, if the new world Order equals luxury airport lounges, then I'm in favor of it. I would like more, please. Imagine if you will, luxury airport lounge, 100 meters underneath the surface of the Appalachian

Mountains in West Virginia, 90 miles from the nearest airport. All right, that should do it for us today. I want to thank our guys James Adomian, Path of Most Resistance, the one-hour exclusive special from James Adomian, soon to be out on YouTube, but if not you can find it at, was it 800 pound gorilla? It's 800 pound gorilla media calm okay well we have links available in the episode description that does it for today everybody till next time bye bye thank you bye to the place I belong West Virginia

Mountain Mama take me home