Chapo Trap House - 951 - My Boys And In Some Cases Gals feat. Alex Nichols (7/14/25)
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On today's episode we've got Alex Nichols back in the house
What's up?
And fellas, let's get into it
I'd like to begin today with the
Ongoing schism in Mag MAGA world relating to the Epstein files or the lack thereof.
So when are they going to release these files? Do the files even exist?
Well, our president has weighed in on it over the weekend writing on True Social.
Donald J. Trump states, What's going on with my boys and in some cases, gals?
They're all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi,
who is doing a fantastic job.
We're on one team, MAGA,
and I don't like what's happening.
We have a perfect administration, the talk of the world.
And selfish people, quote unquote, are trying to hurt it
all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. for years, it's Epstein over and over again.
Why are we giving publicity to files
written by Obama, crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan and the losers and criminals
of the Biden administration who conned the world with Russia, Russia, Russia hoax,
the laptop from hell and more.
They created the Epstein files just like they created.
They created the fake Hillary Clinton Christopher
Steele dossier that they used on me.
And now my so-called friends are playing right into their hands.
Why are we even platforming Jeffrey Epstein?
He is out.
He unalived himself.
He committed suicide.
Yeah, that's what I thought he was going to go with.
I mean, I saw the other press conference where he said, um, to talk about this
now after, and he didn't even like remember where all those girls died.
He said after the thing in Texas, um, he, he said it's a desecration.
It's a desecration to talk about it.
Yeah.
You, one would wonder why like Biden didn't like reveal the files if they made them.
I don't know.
I mean, I, I, I guess I could see Obama being too into procedure to do it, but
surely, uh, Biden would have, I think trying to conflate it with Christopher, the Steele dossier is like, he
has such good memories of turning the Russiagate thing on its head.
And this really isn't the same thing.
It's one thing when you're like, you're taking advantage of people's innate
boredom when they hear about like Nellie Orr and who is the Lev Parnas.
But it's another thing when you're like, oh, we're going to get all these
pedophiles. We're going to reveal all their secrets.
I'm I'm committing right now.
I'm in these files and it's because they lied about me.
Well, I guess the thing that I'm going to zero in on here is when like he says
that the Epstein files, which don't exist or do exist, he
says if they do, you know, basically, if they do exist,
they were written by all the losers and criminals of the
Biden administration. But I guess like, my problem with that is
that Trump was the president when Jeffrey Epstein died in
federal custody. So why don't you have your files?
Why was there no investigation done by anyone who's not a crooked criminal?
I don't get, like, I don't even the people who were skeptical on Trump on the right-wing side,
I don't get how like, I mean, I'm sorry, maybe I wasn't paying attention.
Maybe Alex Acosta, he was just like, despite everything, he was like an up and coming star, like a great administrator.
But it seems to me like there was no other reason for him to be in the administration,
almost like he got rewarded for doing a specific act when he was US attorney in Florida. To
me, it seems like the most predictable fucking set of circumstances and I have very little
sympathy for the people who said they were fooled
because either like you were too stupid to do whatever job you have, or, um,
you are, you were aware that Donald Trump was president in 2018, but, um,
just for how they have done this, like how Trump and Bondi and all these people have done this,
I think they arrived at the single worst possible way they could have done this.
Like the most discrediting and demoralizing.
Like if they had literally released Donald Trump kissing a ninth grader and we're like, uh, they, they like put like
a jib jab type cutout of AOC's head on him and we're like, Oh, look at that.
This, Oh, I guess we see how AOC got, you know, came from being a
bartender to a Congresswoman.
She was on the plane, everybody.
I think it would have gone over better.
Like more people would be willing to stand behind it, but doing it this way where it's like, I have the files on my desk.
I just have to go over them to make sure that Donald Trump isn't in them.
I, the files are fake and also Biden made them.
Yeah.
The idea that Biden made it is pretty funny.
Like there's a Democratic version of like the fake Republican Epstein list that goes around
where it's like every single Democratic celebrity.
It's like people who wouldn't be in there.
It's like people it's like the weekend is in there.
Alex, I saw one where Cardi B is in there.
Yeah, just people who are like people who weren't famous yet when
Jeffrey Epstein was still doing that shit.
Yeah, Cardi B when she was like a random teenager
who was a member of the Bloods, Jeffrey Epstein was like,
hey, do you wanna like, I know you're also 15.
Yeah.
But do you wanna join this as a perpetrator?
Like Lil Nas X was on there.
When he was 16. Lizzo was on there.
Everybody you hate.
But there's like a democratic version of that
where it's like John Voight, Kevin Sorbo.
Just naming every conservative celebrity.
Yeah.
Scott Pressler.
James Woods.
Hold on a second.
Yeah, I don't know.
Wait a minute here. He's on both lists
I just want to read a little bit more from the the truth social post. He goes on to say
We are saving our country and making America great again, which will continue to be our complete priority
The left is imploding cash Patel and the FBI must be focused on investigating voter fraud,
political corruption, Act Blue, the rigged and stolen election
of 2020, and arresting thugs and criminals. Instead of spending
month after month, looking at nothing but the same old radical
left inspired documents on Jeffrey Epstein. Let Pam Bondi
do her job. She's great. The 2020 election was rigged and stolen and they tried to do it
at the same thing in 2024.
That's what she is looking into is a G and much more.
One year ago, our country.
OK, so did they forget to steal it in 2024?
I never fucking get this.
I never get this.
It's the same thing for when they go, oh, well, once we like do all these ice
raids after the first like
year of this presidency, watch all these blue states turn red.
And it's like, so are they selectively doing voter for like
once you catch the illegal immigrants that are voting or
whatever, they're like, you got us fair and square.
You think it would be easier to steal an election when you're
in power rather than when you're trying to win, not
re-election, but the first time.
Just lastly, he says here, this is my favorite part.
He says, one year ago, our country was dead.
Now it's the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Let's keep it that way and not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that
nobody cares about.
Thank you for your attention for this matter.
Man, it would be better to say nothing.
Like everybody else did, like the Clintons,
they just said nothing.
They weren't out there acknowledging it.
Yeah, the Democrats, they've chosen,
it's a hard choice, you know,
attack Trump on this, like, you know,
uniquely damaging thing that has the side advantage of ripping
his coalition, at least his online entertainer coalition apart, or get five more Bill Clinton
DNC speeches where he looks increasingly hollowed.
It's a tough choice and I can see why they went with the latter. But with this, it really is like pretending it didn't happen like the Democrats would
be better than this.
I mean, again, the worst possible way you could do this.
Yeah.
I don't think this was going to die down, but at least like you could see it, you could
see it get a kick to the side.
You could see it being the ice cubes kicked under the fridge, like the other,
you know, mini flare ups, like the H1B visa thing early on in the administration.
But he just chooses to go out here and go, oh yeah, you know what?
I actually was talking to my friends who have known me for my whole life.
And they said that I'm the least likely
to kiss a 15-year-old.
It's funny you guys are still posting
about Jeffrey Epstein.
I've been at the gym.
I've been hanging out at the gym.
I've been going on dates.
I've been doing cool shit.
I actually show these posts to Epstein victims,
and they actually laugh about how wrong you are.
Yeah, we're all at the bar looking at our phones like,
oh my God, you guys are losers.
You're still on this old meme shit, this choogie ass meme.
We don't say that shit anymore, man.
We say diddy party.
We talk about baby oil and diddy parties.
You guys are doing the old meme about a pedophile.
Frankly, you guys are Diddy-ah.
Man, I wish Trump would have pardoned Diddy.
I was just hoping and praying that that would happen.
Now, I don't think there's probably not a reason for him to do it at this point because
they dropped most of the charges.
I had this gut feeling that Trump was going to pardon Diddy for some reason.
It wasn't even really going to be explained.
Someone just called him on the phone and he said, oh, he's innocent.
I don't know.
I was sort of different, Alex, but I could see him.
Do you know about Lil Dirk's murder case?
Like have you been following that at all?
A little bit.
So Lil Dirk basically like made a custom
like bitmoji to like order murders with.
What?
Like he was not, well not, I'm just saying
he was not trying to hide it very well.
Okay, all right.
He did, he, you know, I don't, if you're listening to this and you're
trying to get away with like an interstate murder for hire, don't, uh, my first advice
is like, don't do that. Talk it out. But if you do, don't do this stuff. Little dirt did
he, no one was less careful and he's probably going down for like three like federal murder
for hire charges. And I just, in my mind's eye, I saw Trump pardoning him like three federal murder for hire charges. And I just, in my mind's eye,
I saw Trump pardoning him
like three years of the administration.
Like that's a Trump after the ret,
like he passes his one evil bill
and then the rest of his legislative agenda stalls.
And then the rest of the administration,
the next three years is about like,
you know, mini controversies where, you know, he appoints
Kid Rock to be the ambassador to the UN.
And then like the final year is where he would pardon Lil Durk and did it.
Yeah.
It's like a king in the old days.
He just has a line of people coming up asking for favors.
Alex, I was thinking of that.
Did you see, did you see last week when it was like the leaders of a number of African nations came
to the White House and he sort of all received them. And they
tried to like entice him, like very, very similar to how I
would imagine like, you know, the ancient emperor of Rome,
you know, receiving people from the provinces who want, you
know, favorable trade negotiations and the guy from Senegal was like, you could build a golf course in Senegal.
You like golf, right?
And then Trump just basically with each of them was like, wrap it up.
We got to keep this move.
Yeah, they just canceled a con city.
Yeah, yeah. Someone already tried to do that.
He had that fake city that he was going to build where there was the
the giant skyscrapers that are all rounded and they look like metal dildos.
And there was like, it was supposed to be run based on a coin, which was like a crypto,
but it's not even like, like I've never heard anybody mention it out of outside of a press
release about a con city.
It's not even a functional shit coin.
They just canceled that because they built like one welcome
center and then they just stopped.
So I guess Trump could do that.
Acon City was like I remember this was like the first Neon
was a and they were talking about this for like 10 years
and the budget to build it this like it was you know like a
Dubai type mock-up was billion dollars, which is a
steal. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, a city.
Yeah, city. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, if I could get like a Jeremiah city for six
billion dollars, I would.
But a con that is I mean, it would be a steal twice the
price.
Just continuing with some of the ongoing reactions to Trump and the Epstein files,
like like you said, Felix, there's been sort of a crack up among the
the entertainment sector of Trump Trump voters.
And like just just a few of the reactions here, starting with Andrew Scholes.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Man, he's he's fitting to make his voters look like a goofy.
And he stands on business
Yeah, that's that is like if you're stupid. That's like Walter Cronkite saying Vietnam is yeah
Yeah, when he had no, yeah, it's like man. We look like goofies
Well, he says I voted for none of this Trump is doing the exact opposite
Before Andrew and he was president already different for all of it. He was president before Andrew.
And he was president already.
I know you were a different race when the first time he was president, but he was still
president.
We've got Benny Johnson.
So President Trump has acknowledged that the Epstein files exist here.
President Trump has acknowledged that the files were written and that there is something
there.
He says that they were written, however, by his enemies and therefore will not be released.
Whoa, what?
And on this video, like, Benny looks hollow.
You can tell how sort of, I don't know, defeated he is by all of this.
It's not fun anymore.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you have to like, for Betty, it's probably inconceivable
for like a public figure to hide a major, you know, parts of their sex lives.
Like, yeah, like to lie about it for their image.
Yeah, he probably has a lot of trouble, like, you know, getting into the mind frame,
someone who even does that.
But no, I feel like I think you're absolutely right that for American
stupids and podcast listeners, Andrew Schull is saying, I didn't
vote for this is the Walter Cronkite moment.
Yeah, it reminds me of early Obama, in Obama's first term, where
you had all the hope and change and everybody was like, on the
train and totally like, like everybody bought into his
rhetoric, his speeches and everything and
They were so hopeful and then like week one you would hear people being like he didn't close gitmo
I fucking hate him this fucking piece of shit
He didn't fucking do all this shit in the first week
We expected him to do and they're just having like a mirror image of that where they they bought all the rhetoric and they got
like genuinely into it.
This sort of apolitical, low-information youth voter who just heard that there's something
really cool that all the people in my demographic are really excited about.
It seems like the people on social media really love this guy.
And then there's two months of it and it's just a regular politician.
Just a guy doing what APAC wants and what the Heritage Foundation wants in the Chamber of Commerce.
They're like, wait a minute, this isn't cool.
This isn't cool.
This doesn't appeal to the youth anymore because they're not out there doing meme stuff.
They're not doing the stuff that would just that would get everybody in the Senate freaked
out and probably have the CIA start killing people.
Like they can't actually do that.
They can't just release the JFK files because it would be cool.
Yeah, Alex, I always thought that was such an unspoken problem with like
the most idiotic conversation of all time.
The thing that I think this just finally killed it.
This thing of like, well, oh, we need like a guy who could
speak to young men for
Democrats. There is this idea, there was this implicit thing that like the Aiden Ross, Andrew
Schultz people that got into Trump this time, who by the way, do not constitute like a huge block of
support, that they constituted some sort of like permanent conservative majority. When in fact it is like the shallow support you can get because it's not
like they're not into this because it's they, they, you know, they own a
carding business and they can finally like pay their workers less or like
not pay the Obamacare tax.
They are like, like you're saying, just someone declared to them that
this is the cool thing now. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, right you're saying, just someone declared to them that this is the cool thing now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, it was cool.
Their audience thinks it's cool.
Yeah.
And now their audience is getting angry so that they're like, they're looking for an off-ramp.
It's not fun.
Just like how it was cool for them to like, make their profile a black square in 2020.
And how quickly that went away.
Yeah.
Like it's incredibly shallow
because it is just all cultural signifiers.
Yeah, it's just what people are into at the time,
which has always happened.
It goes back to like George McGovern probably,
like all the boomers who got really into that stuff,
the people who were really into the hippie movement
for a couple of years,
because that was what was cool.
And then like they inherited their parents' house or whatever,
or they bought a house for $10,000,
and then suddenly they were like,
you know what, Richard Nixon's okay.
I don't really care about this stuff anymore.
Watergate kind of disillusioned me.
I don't give a fuck anymore.
Yeah, they finally got a job when they were like 31
at a company called like MicroStrategy
and it went public and they made $700 million and they're like, I think that the Ayatollah
embarrassed us.
Yeah.
That's just, that's so much of the voter block is just the dumb Americans.
And I don't know what you do with that.
Alex, that is what do you do with that that is like I have thought about that too because I've taught like I don't know how many like regular lives you know but I know if you just like people that I've known from like something from like MMA stuff who are still like Biden dead enders to an extent and I've had arguments with them since November.
enders to an extent. And I've had arguments with them since November. And the thing that I always
tell them is like, how are you still acting like, yeah, like you guys fucked this all up with your your Gaza stuff, but we're going to get back there now. And we're going to fix this. Like,
how has this how has this not been a massively demoralizing experience for you, not just in Biden's presidency, but in
the fact that you like culture can now turn around so quick and just as quickly as Trump became cool
and then uncool as he is now the next democratic president that will govern like a normal Democrat
and have that same same thing of like,
what the fuck? This isn't cool. He's doing, you know, third way. He's doing a budget neutral
stimulus bill. The same things happen again. How like, how do you think you have any shot in like,
some type of like, Democratic control over the executive for the next like,
20 years to even undo any of this.
Yeah, must be so terrifying that there is that youth movement toward the Republican Party.
That like this this idea that the Democrats are always going to win forever because of demographics.
Because they're just younger voters and the average young person supports the Democrats like that was just like the rug was just pulled out on that.
They still have the majority, but like that hope is gone.
And then they have to come up with something to replace it.
And they have nothing.
It's just Joe Biden.
Remember Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
What about Gavin Newsom?
Is he cool?
Like it's stuff that just like the average dumb young person who's not committed to
politics already, like, that just doesn't appeal to.
And it's really hard to find that ephemeral thing that appeals to that average dumb voter
who's just always got the zen in.
And they're like watching Instagram reels all day and they're like, they might support
gay people in one conversation and then they have another conversation,
they're like, yeah, those people should be killed,
I'm Christian now.
Like I'm a Christian, no fat guy,
and then two hours later they're like, yeah, I'm a gooner.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Like that's the person that you have to appeal to,
and I don't know how you even do that.
Yeah, yeah, like a guy with a crucifix in his name,
and then you scroll back two weeks in his tagged photos
And he's like dressed up in a maid outfit and getting farted on
like yeah, but you even do yeah like a guy who's like his picture is like a
Like a Roman gladiator, and he's got the cross in his name
And then you click on his feet and it's like most recent reply is like to an AI porn account
It's like I would eat your pussy any time of the month. I don't care
It's like those people now are demoralized on Trump and like again. Yeah, they have the majority among young people and
You know just you know gun to my head now things favor them in the midterms in the next presidential election
just based on trends but um what happens after the first week of that presidency do you
think Gavin Newsom is not going to become like massively unpopular it's
just going to be fit it's just this is the plan you have three and a half years
of a Brandon the next like shitty Republican like JD Vance or fucking
Tom Cotton takes over, this stuff they do is so incredibly unpopular that it Brandons
them. Young people swing back and it's just, you know, maybe a couple two term presidents
in there. But for the most part, just trading off bags of shit during a time when like these implicit
guarantees, these things that were implicit guarantees of American life for middle class
prosperity are going to be disappearing rapidly. Yeah. I just, yeah. How do you not kill yourself
if you're like a regular lib? Yeah. I'm like all the politicians, they have less like staying power
than they used to just because of influencer
culture and the way that we think of stuff now, where everything's on your phone and
you can just scroll past it.
If you don't like somebody, you can just scroll past it.
If you don't like something, you can just mute it.
You have unlimited choices and people are less patient for something that really sucks
and you just kind of have to live with because
we're not used to that.
We're not used to having a president where we have to say, well, that's the guy.
I don't know.
You can't really complain because we're used to having this choice, having this infinite
choice over everything.
And it means that having a guy that sucks, having a guy who's sort of okay, who maybe
agrees with you on some stuff and the rest of the time he sucks like
That just doesn't have as much purchase with people anymore because they're like, why do I need to do that?
Like I can find somebody online who agrees with me 100%
I can find influencers who agree with me 100%
So why should I have to settle for this random guy that I don't like and And I think he sucks. And all of his videos just depress me.
I hate looking at him.
And he's like, his voice pisses me off.
I was going to say a little, like, I think I think I think the way out of this
trap for either political party, Alex, I think you hit the nail on the head
earlier, is to just move on to like new and more scandalous celebrity sex abuse
and pedophilia scandals, like the Democrats should be demanding the release of the the Diddy files and
We need more we need more baby oil related press or press conferences
And you know like just come up the works of government until we can just create some new scandals
Yeah, that was such bad timing for Trump that the Diddy trial kind of wrapped up around then
That was such bad timing for Trump that the Diddy trial kind of wrapped up around then.
Like if that had just gone on like three more weeks, if that had been in the news
when he was doing the Epstein thing, that was gone. So it was only the Epstein story. Yeah. Yeah. You can tell that they were trying to gear up to make Diddy like the new
Epstein and like, I don't like make him like a democratic affiliated celebrity,
which he kind of was, but it's like, it's not like Epstein where there I don't like make him like a Democratic affiliated celebrity, which he kind of was but it's like
It's not like Epstein where there's actual things you can point to where it's like
Yeah, Bill Clinton was on this flight with Diddy like yeah, I you know Obama went to a party
But no one not even the biggest crank thinks Obama was like, you know, literally like,
okay, I'm here, I took a picture with you.
When are you going to let me molest Kevin Hart?
Yeah.
Yeah, the people that it implicates are like,
people who are as famous as Diddy or less famous.
It's like Meek Mill and Usher,
and people like that, which just doesn't have that much,
that doesn't do that much, unless you're a huge fan of them.
The difference between like the president being implicated and like Meek Mill, who like probably did like a photo op with Josh Shapiro like five years ago.
And Meek Mill wasn't even a perpetrator.
The whole thing is that like Diddy fucked him.
It's not even a crime.
He just had gay sex with Diddy.
That's not even a crime. He just had gay sex with Diddy. That's not illegal.
Yeah. Yeah. Plus every kid thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. That sort of
happened a little bit with Epstein, but with Diddy, I think that sort of overtook the rage
a little bit. Just having like every, every person under the age of 20 being like Diddy
party, Diddy party, Riz, baby oil. Yeah. I mean, that's incredibly, um, that's incredibly just depressing that this
in like, this is like a really sordid story and he got away with it again.
Yeah.
Like this guy has gotten away with fucking everything his entire career.
And people like, uh, I'm not going to say zoomers that's too broad, but there
is like a type of stupid young person where it's like,
they literally think that like federal agents busted into his house because they
heard he was being gay with baby oil and not like elaborate,
like sexual torture ring.
Yeah.
Like fire bombing kid,
could he's car and going into his house and opening his Christmas
presents.
Yeah.
You said Kid Cudi's car on fire because he was talking to Cassie.
He's a really crazy guy, isn't he?
Yeah.
But yeah, it's sort of like Jen Alpha's version of what we had with Michael Jackson jokes.
Yeah.
For when we were like 12.
If you brought up Michael Jackson, it was like Jesus juice.
It was like the M&M parodies of Michael Jackson and like, how was Michael Jackson like a PlayStation?
They're made of plastic and they both get turned on by little kids.
Like shit like that.
It was like, that was also as depressing because he also got away with it and they turned it
into a joke.
And I guess the same thing just happened with Diddy where it's
It's a joke. It's a joke for middle schoolers and he's just gonna go scot-free
Do you think with Diddy they're gonna do the same like posthumous thing that people do with Michael Jackson now where it's like
He was trying to warn us about Jewish people
Yeah, he was the one celebrity who wasn't a pedophile. Yeah
And that's why they that's why they tarnish it.
Yeah.
Just one last reaction from the, like I said, the Trump entertainment political complex.
Charlie Kirk today said, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being.
I'm going to trust my friends in the administration.
Oh, okay.
Oh yeah.
And I guess like the other angle here is because this is this is largely due to Trump
and his attorney general back in the back in the news cycle.
I've noticed some like the libs have to have their their say on the Epstein thing.
And I think, like, basically, the angle they're going with is that, like,
there is there is no such thing as the Epstein like client list,
which they're probably right about.
But like, like, you know, I'm just quoting from Jordan
Wiseman here. He says, I absolutely understand why
Democrats want to fan this Epstein controversy. But if
Trump is hiding incriminating info, what's the explanation
for why Biden didn't order it released? Like if you're a dem,
this is a chance to crap crack Trump's base of cranks and maybe
even win a handful of them back. You want him tweeting all day about Epstein?
But but then what is the argument that Merrick Garland was too principled about documents? Um,
He says people seem to think that I'm asking for an actual reason no, I think this is this list probably just doesn't exist
I'm asking what reasons Democrats would come up with it for their version of the lore And like, look, I don't think there is this like, I think probably most of the prominent people and politicians associated with this that you already know about.
Like, I don't think there's going to be some list out there of like hundreds of other people that like you've never considered that are all implicated by this.
But like what I think is still out there is probably like any number of the like glaring leads in this investigation that were just simply not followed up on.
I think there are files in terms of likely the evidence he is from his Manhattan apartment that we probably don't know about.
But like I mean, I guess the answer for why the Democrats wouldn't do this, like the obvious one would be Bill Clinton.
But I don't know, Catherine and I were talking about this last night. Like, would it really be like that suicidal for Democrats to just cut this guy off along with maybe
no Reid Hoffman? Like, like if Biden had just like sunk him with this shit, like we wouldn't
wouldn't that have benefited him in the long run? Yeah, absolutely. But like, you could say that
about any number of things with Democrats, where you look at
the way they do these a bunch of things and you go, this is, you know, malpractice for
a political party for any politician to do things this way.
But when you, you see it less as a political party and more as like, I don't know, like
a group of super friends who are all
enriching each other's consultancies, then it does make more sense.
I mean, I totally agree with you.
Like that, that the idea of like a literal client list is.
I mean, it is, if I were more conspiratorial, I would say that there has
been a deliberate framing of this case since 2018 and 2019 by
like right wing influencers who like took a hold of it, who are trying to frame this
case in such a way that like everyone who follows them will forever be looking for that
one silver bullet like knockout blow that definitively proves that, you know, Trump went up to Epstein
in like 1993 and was like, you and me, we're done.
And then that I have my own daughter now.
Yeah, she just turned 10.
So I'm good.
Yeah.
Vertical integration.
But but like all the things that like exonerated Trump and like proved that like all like that
the Clintons are caught red handed.
Um, when of course, like the incriminating things are, like you said, these things that
like are incredibly suspicious, either incredibly suspicious sets of coincidences or circumstances or records of payments or details
from other lawsuits or correspondences between Epstein and Brunel and Peter Mendelson. But for
Joe Biden, I just, I don't even think, I don't even think it was a conscious thought. I don't
think he ever entertained this as an idea. Yeah. they always think Trump's never going to win again.
Yeah, they're always in that mindset, which is sort of like we don't we don't
know in a way this right.
Because like, they both don't want to do it.
He's he's he's he will never be taken seriously.
They don't want to actually go that hard.
They don't want to actually put like the the incriminating stuff out there.
And they kind of rationalize it to themselves as well.
He's not going to win anyway.
There's no way he's gonna win.
Like, why would he win?
Like, we just, we impeached him.
He's like charged with 42 felony counts.
Like, why would this guy ever win again?
We wouldn't have to do anything.
Right, why would I go through the trouble of like,
you know, angering my friends at WestExact,
who are, you know, now billing, you know, Peter Mendelson,
who's for, now that he's the new ambassador to America, why would
I go through the trouble of possibly aggravating someone in my professional circles?
Yeah.
Also, you can argue that it wouldn't have that much of an effect because everybody on
the right would say it's doctored or it's AI or it's just completely made up.
In a lot of the names on it, people wouldn't recognize.
Like you would have to listen to Truenon
to really recognize the names,
to know who like Leon Black is and be like,
oh my fucking God, they finally got him.
Like, I feel like it would just be,
it wouldn't amount to that much.
And also Joe Biden's explanation for it would be like,
so you got this file and well, you got the names on here.
And back when I was coming up, you had, you know, young girls in the office and you, you
know, you had the secretary and they wore a short skirt.
They had a mini skirt and then someone would like push him off the podium and just walk
away.
I was Alex.
I was always interested in that.
Like Biden, he's never been implicated in the abstain stuff, but he wasn't cool
enough. He didn't get invited.
Well, yeah. Yeah.
I always thought like, what did he make?
Like I always imagined that he thought like the thing was Jeffrey Epstein was
just like a gay guy and he didn't know any of that.
He was like, I think it's amazing.
They can have their own airplanes now.
Yeah. Me and my father, I was driving with my father back in the 70s and we saw Jeffrey
Epstein with a car full of Donald Trump and Leon Black and a bunch of kids.
They said, that's okay.
That's love.
That's love just like any other.
I said, dad, I don't get it.
If I had my own plane, I'd be calling every all my buddies.
I would be hanging out with a bunch of skirts.
And he said, I wouldn't have all these kids around. He said, he said, he said, Joe, those are called hags.
Well, just just like the the final angle here that I want to talk about in terms of the, I don't know, like what could be in these files, whether they exist or not, that's preventing their
disclosure from two separate Republican and Democratic presidential
administrations, seemingly like, you know, and what could very well benefit them.
Well, I think an answer to that lies in this statement by Naftali Bennett.
As a former Israeli prime minister
with the Mossad having reported directly to me,
I say to you with 100% certainty,
the accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked
for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring
is categorically and totally false.
Who, I, when I saw this, I thought,
who is this convincing for?
Because it's like,
Well, they're denying it.
They have to tell you if they're a massage agent.
Yeah. If the most honest country in the world is saying like, do you think there
are any circumstances where Naftali Bennett goes, OK, you got us?
Like without having his arm twisted.
If you can't take his word for it, then who can you trust?
Sure enough, Jonathan Martin.
That's the next thing I want to talk about because like,
Jonathan Martin of Politico, quote, tweeted this and he said,
Would this be a good time to remind people that politics is more veep than House of Cards?
Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy mongers, but the Peter principle is usually the safest explanation.
See also your own workplace.
You know, it's funny explanation. See also your own workplace.
You know, it's funny that he brings up your own workplace
because Politico is owned by that psycho German
who makes you sign a loyalty oath to Israel to work for the company.
So also he brings up House of Cards,
which is starring a famous pedophile who has his victims murdered.
It's like an evil villain who appears on TV,
like tenting his fingers, saying, like, yep, they all committed suicide
and I'm still here. I never get in trouble.
It's weird stuff like that can happen. It's weird there are guys like that out there.
Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock in your left.
Yeah, all these things that I thought, you know, as a young
rotten library reader, like, oh my I thought, you know, as a young rotten library reader,
like, oh my God, if that happened, we could do Occupy Wall Street everywhere.
That would be the government.
But no, those things happen.
And then Andrew Schultz goes, damn, I think that's cap.
And then life goes on.
It just doesn't matter.
As Sidney Pollack said in Eyes Wide Shut, life goes on until it doesn't.
But you know that already.
Life goes on, shouty.
Shouty.
Yeah, there's too much political slop.
There's too much political brain rot.
Yeah.
The Jordan Weisman thing was, I don't think this is super widespread, but I
have seen a few people do this.
The sort of like, you really think that there were other people who were involved?
Oh, you, I bet you think he was blackmailing people, which, you know, talk about crackpot
realism, this idea that, um, you know, there is no client list in so much as the way that like it is most
salaciously described, which sure, but that they take this to mean that there
were no clients or no participants.
And this is like, this is the, like the, um, anti-conspiracist, uh, interpretation
of these events, which again, to remind people, this would suggest that Lex
Wester, Wester gave fucking Jeffrey Epstein real estate worth hundreds of
millions of dollars because he was cool that Bill Barr's dad hired this college
dropout because of his manners.
Um, that how did Epstein make all his money?
Winning the lottery.
He traded CS go skins, Leon Black, the private equity Titan.
Uh, one of the most powerful financiers in the world at the time that he paid
Jeffrey Epstein like $200 million for tax advice.
Leon Black just could not find like an accountant
he couldn't access like a a top-tier accounting firm and he had to go to this Jeffrey Epstein guy who gave him advice that
Was worth hundreds of millions of dollars
that all of this happened and the only participants were
Jeffrey Epstein and Gillian Maxwell, I mean that is I think that's more insane
like any any
Assumption that I've heard like that is Felix. It reminds me of when Christopher Hitchens claimed that
His good friend Ahmed Chalabi was capable of breaking Iranian intelligence signals and codes, not because he was a double dealing con man, but because he was extraordinarily gifted at math.
Yeah, it just it's I don't even know what these people get out of still doing that.
I think it's less that they are trying to pull the wool over people's eyes as it is. They're trying to pull it over their own eyes.
Yeah, exactly.
Because they know that like, you know, a full disclosure of any
of this stuff is is not likely to look shine kindly on the I
don't know, whether the figures and ideological movements that
they're seeking to promote. And I just want to go back real
quick to Jonathan Martin in that, like,
he sort of tries to, like, hand wave away all this stuff by, you know,
like the comparison between House of Cards and V.
And the idea is like, you know, it's seductive to think that DC runs
like House of Cards, i.e. that there are, you know, Machiavellian evil psychopathic, you know, operators who are sort
of pulling the strings and orchestrating these grand
conspiracies in which, you know, witnesses and you know, are
killed or commit suicide. But like, the smart savvy opinion is
to know that DC operates like Veep in which, you know, venal and shallow
oafs bumble their way in and out of disaster.
I just like, I don't think the Veep reading of DC is particularly,
like the Epsiom scandal and everything it implies is
wholly compatible with the Veep view of Washington, DC.
Yeah, you can have both. 100%.
You can have bumbling idiots who also know about sex trafficking operations going on
and say, oh, I don't know.
Like in VEEP where she endorses the anti-gay marriage thing, even though she knows it's
evil because it's like, well, I got to do this.
It's my job.
I don't know.
Like people would, those type of bumbling idiots who are self-serving, like they would sign off on that. They would say, yeah, let's just sweep this under the
rug. Who cares? It's not worth losing my job. Like I've, I've compromised my principles
enough to get here. Like, I'm not going to put myself on the, I'm not going to take a
bullet for these people. I don't care.
Yeah. I mean, I guess you could say that it's as a compromise that it's like the seminal British TV show, Jim will fix it.
Yeah, they look silly and goofy and some of the tracksuits and a lot of jewelry.
Yeah, but they're actually the stuff they do.
It's almost as bad as what Didi did with the baby oil.
And again, like Jonathan Martin of Politico just being like,
as soon as the representative of the Israeli government just
states that like it's 100 percent false, that like case
closed, case closed, we can put this one to bed.
Well, I mean, to Martin's point, that is something that a
character in Veep might do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, nothing more to see here.
Well, speaking of things to see, I did see the story.
They're making more of them every day.
There's more things to see.
I love things with a visual resonance.
There are things everywhere for those with the eyes to see.
No, this is about Governor Greg Abbott of Texas says his state's emails with Elon Musk
are quote, too intimate and embarrassing to make public.
Are they buying his comb?
What's going on here?
What is this? Is there like a
lawsuit? What's the trend is subpoena these emails? What's going on? What if he's like what if he's trying to sell him on some sort of like
Cybernetic e-stim technology that can get the cum out of his dick. His gray hair avid is paralyzed below the waist, right? Oh, right
Yeah, yeah
Elon Musk he has the botched dick surgery, so he has to use some sort of contraption
to get the cum out.
So maybe he's trying to sell him that.
Like, hey, you could get load after load out of you with this thing.
You could just strap it on and you could have offspring all over the world.
Oh, and like, they are selling that like, they have some stupid name for their robot.
Are they like, Greg Abbott, we're going to put your personality on a on a flash drive
and we're going to put it into one of our robots.
And you're finally going to be able to play basketball again.
We're going to put you into a Roomba. I know, but let's answer your question. This is part of an effort to track the billionaire's influence in the state capital.
The Texas newsroom in April requested Abbott and his staff's emails since last fall with Musk and other people who have email address associated with some of his companies.
It says Matthew Taylor, Abbott's public information coordinator gave several reasons the record
should not be released.
He argued they include private exchanges with lawyers, details about policymaking decisions
and information that reveal how the state entices companies to invest here.
Releasing them to the public, he wrote, would have a chilling effect on the frank and open
discussion necessary for the decision-making process.
Aren't we kind of past this?
Like with the shit Elon Musk tweets.
Yeah.
Like aren't we kind of past this, the idea that there's like, we don't want to expose
that there's corruption, that people are bribing governors to move stuff places.
Like we're just doing that in the open.
We're doing that with the tariffs.
We're just, every single, every single lever you can pull in the government is being used as a threat or a bribe to somebody and they're just
doing it out in the open in their base defense it like what would even happen
what would happen if there were emails saying that Elon Musk was trying to it
was trying to give Greg Abbott a bribe to move some Tesla shit over there yeah
like every every foreign visit now is like whatever foreign leader
like auditioning to Trump, like what they will give him for like, you know, a tariff,
a tariff exception if they don't have like a dominant industry that will like scare the
Trump people into like granting exceptions. Site unseen with China.
Could you imagine what would happen if like ethically dubious
crypto currencies just deposited one hundred and fifty million
dollars in the president's bank account?
Yeah, that is fucking insane.
They're doing pump and dumps in the White House just openly.
The Trump coin.
Why even hide any of it?
Yeah, they're just doing it out in front of us in their base.
Thinks it's great.
Yeah, they say, oh, the Democrats do it, too.
Look at Hunter Biden and also fuck you.
What are you going to cry about it?
The people are making money.
You're a fucking bitch.
Fuck you. Like, that's just how people talk now.
They don't care. Oh, you.
Oh, you don't see the point in the first lady having a coin.
Suck my dick.
I had to I had I had to miss church for six months.
Yeah.
All right.
A little bit earlier, we we discussed Joe Biden and just I
want to get to one thing about about Biden.
He just he just gave an interview with the The New
York Times commenting on his basically the clemency decisions that were made in the waning hours of his administration.
And I think it's always nice to check back on how how Brandon is doing, how he's feeling and what he's thinking.
I guess he's like this is in the news because the Trump administration and his surrogates are trying to make a big deal of the sort of the use of the auto pen and all
of this. And so the times reached out to Biden and to get some of his thoughts on
this. So first on who made the clemency decisions. Biden says I made every single
one of those and including the categories when we set this up to begin
with. And so but I understand why Trump would think that because obviously I guess he doesn't focus much anyway so yes I made every decision.
And then he says on wine auto pen was used to sign the warrants and he says because there were a lot of them on the use of that auto pen he says the auto pen is you know legal as you know other presidents Trump. But the point is that, you know, we're talking about a whole lot of people.
Honestly, you should be able to use touch ID or face ID to do that.
Yeah. Like you should be able to just hold your phone up to it.
It says on Trump and other Republicans saying Biden was incapacitated
and his aides abused the auto pen.
They're liars. They know it.
They know for certain.
I mean, this is look look at what they've,
they've had a pretty good thing going here.
They've done so badly.
They've lied so consistently
about almost everything they're doing.
The best thing they can do is try to change the focus
and focus on something else.
And this is, I think that's what this is about.
It's, you know, it's consistent
with Trump's game plan all along.
I mean, if I, I don't expect you to answer any questions.
But if I told you three years ago, we'd have a president
president doing this, I think you'd look me in the eye and say,
what are you crazy?
I think I would have responded to Biden that way if he told me or
said anything to me.
I hate it when these guys go in for these supposedly candid
interviews and have these slick, prepared lines like
just a perfect monologue that they can recite. Man, would it really even matter if like Jake Sullivan was signing all those papers?
Like who cares?
Like it wouldn't even be good if he was signing them all by hand.
Like he shouldn't have been president.
Does it even matter?
We, yeah, we, we saw him like die so many times
like he doesn't know where he is he doesn't know his own name like I don't
it who cares the whole thing is a charade we saw it doesn't matter if
someone else signed it we saw his staffers like his staffers would have to
like jolt him and do admin kick when his scripting path got fucked up.
Like remember when he would, he would do a presser and then try to like
wander into the wall, like a SIM.
Yeah.
And then you would find like invisible walls on the stage.
Yeah.
His body man would like, they would just go, okay, just hit him a few times.
It seems to reset him.
You put him in a room and he's like a game tester.
He's just bumping into every object to see like if you can get
stuck on anything, if there's a glitch.
This is how we used to do collision testing back when I was a
kid. You got to go go in every corner.
You got to bump into every bookshelf because you might get
stuck and just go around in a circle.
You have to reset the whole system.
He says, I'm on granting preemptive pardons to his family. He replies, in terms of my
fam, he go after me through my family. I know how
the wait. Sorry, will you say in terms of my fam?
I he did. But like, I don't think he was saying
he's trying to win over Andrew Schultz.
You know, I've done a hell of a lot of things in my life.
Did a thousand things, got a car.
I've worked there.
I'll tell you one thing I'll tell you, Anthony, I never capped.
I mean, you could put that on the bank.
I mean, this is just how it's written in the top.
I think he begins to say family and then and then he pauses and says he go after me through
my family. I know
how vindictive he is. I mean everybody knows how vindictive as he is. So we knew that they do what
they're doing now laughs. We knew they do what they're doing now. And this is like an orally
communicating his decisions to AIDS. Well, first of all, there's categories.
So, you know, they aren't reading names off for the communications of those who had been home confinements for during the pandemic.
I'm going to read that one again.
So, yeah, please.
So, you know, they aren't reading names off for the commutations for those who had been home confinements for during the pandemic. So the only thing
that we really read off names for were for example, you know,
I was what I was going to do about for instance, Mark Miley,
Mark's a good guy. We don't have indicative Trump is and I no
doubt they would have gone after Mark for no good reason. The
general you know, so they may read off his name, what what I
want.
general, you know, so they may read off his name.
What what I want.
I told them this Casper how?
Why do they even let him out anymore?
Yeah, what is being gained by that? I mean, Biden definitely is one of those old people where it's like,
what the hell you mean, I can't drive anymore.
Yeah. And then he just he just plows through the town's post office.
Fuck you. He's like he's not letting anyone take anything away from him.
I'm sure like like Hunter was his chief enabler during those during the Brandon
bunker like end period.
So I'm sure that like that they're like they're like, you know, West execs
shitheads surrounding him.
They're trying to prevent this from happening.
And Hunter is like, what do you mean?
He's going to prove how sharp he is.
And he's finally going to take these assholes that that, you know,
that derided his administration to task going on, he says,
on deciding to pardon former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman,
then changing his mind the next day.
That's a good prank.
That is pretty good.
Like being some piece of shit governor and being like, oh, I'm getting
I'm getting away with it again.
Whoops. No, you're not.
Yeah. Texting all your friends.
You're on JPEG using the rest of your commissary money.
I'm about to get out, dude.
I'm about to get out, dude.
It's going to be so sick. Party at my place.
Rent a limo to take me home.
So, yeah, this is on Don Siegelman.
He says, look, Siegelman was out of jail.
He had served his time and there was no, so he wasn't in jeopardy.
And what I concluded was there's, and these aren't easy decisions,
but there are a lot of people who are considered for pardons.
And I was proud.
I ran the process.
I ran these decisions took time.
In this case, I viewed the facts reflected on it a bit more and
deliberated more on it with my team and decided not to grant the pardon.
And I didn't make this decision quickly.
I made it thoroughly.
And after significant discussions, no, no one thinks you made it quickly.
I'll, I'll make that clear right now.
Yeah.
You should have pardoned all the January six people.
Imagine if he had done that in his last day.
Just imagine how weird that would have been.
Like what would the Republicans have done?
What would Trump do?
What would he say?
Put him back in jail.
These Democrats.
No, like Biden should have pardoned all the January 6th people and thank them
for their efforts in helping him do the false flag to make Trump look bad.
Oh yeah, that would have been great. Yeah, like when the mafia, like when the FBI.
Thank you for instigating violence at the Capitol. You really made him, you merely made him look bad.
Yeah, I'd like to thank all my agents
who participated in the operation.
And then posthumously give the Medal of Honor
to Ashley Babbitt.
Yeah.
Doing that thing that the FBI does
where they'll just like pick up a random mobster
and like conspicuously drive around with him in the bathroom.
So he has to rat now because everyone already thinks he's a rat
Yeah, that would be I mean if he wasn't senile he would have done that would be awesome
Trump just ordered just kills all of them
Yeah, they know too much on adding a last-minute pardon for former South Carolina politician after
Representative Jim Clyburn
lobbied for it.
Well, you know, Jim, when Jim asks, you know, you answer.
He says, the case that Jim, and I have a lot of, I have great faith in Jim, the case he
made, the plea he made at the very end was that he made a compelling case that he was
a person who had dedicated his life to public service, Cro Marty.
Since his release from prison, he became really involved in the community,
helping underprivileged kids staying active with his church.
And he's someone who had been praised for his leadership and
compassion for others. So the very thing that he sort of got
in trouble for, he was not only served time, but he was making
up for it. And I believe granting him the pardon was the
right thing to do.
Why does he even need the pardon?
Who is this guy?
Crow Marty.
Oh, what is this referring to?
Do you guys have any idea?
I don't know.
Marty never heard of it, but if he, if he's out of jail and it's not like a high
profile thing, like pardoning Jack Johnson or some, some atrocity like that
from back in the day, like the guy's out of jail, he's active in the community.
Like, what does he be? Is he, is is this old guy gonna like try to get a job and he's like
Like he can't work for Amazon because he's got a felony
Like we're talking about like an 80 year old guy. He was like, yeah, this is what I'm doing
Yeah, William EW crow Marty who was a South Carolina politician who served prison time for tax evasion. Okay, okay
So we know this is a final, final favor for Clyburn.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is I guess he was looking pro Marty and
this is the best answer, though.
We know he says what he was doing now.
That was almost a continuation of his
apology for what the hell happened when he made when he committed the offense.
So I agreed with Jim and I pardoned him and he's still a decent. This guy is still engaged,
stayed engaged with the community. So 74. Like, what does it matter if he has a felony on his record?
Who gives a shit? Yeah. And like also, also like when he, when he says like he gets out of prison
for tax evasion and then he's like being active in the community and like his church.
Like that's something you say about like a gang member who gets out of prison after killing someone.
Like it's like, oh, like, wow, like this, this politician gets out of jail and then reconnects with the community.
Also, you know what doesn't pay taxes? The church.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's just a form of tax evasion.
pay taxes, the church.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's just a form of tax evasion.
Yeah.
It's like that the community is where like a shitty bag man for Jim Clyburn like does all his crime.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
I, yeah, I do love that though.
It's like we had to do this so he could move out of his halfway house.
Girls on Tinder were asking Crowe Marty if he was a felon and he
didn't want to lie to them
Yeah, like if someone gets out of jail for a felony and you say yeah, they've just been sitting in their room
They don't come out of their house anymore. They just like sit in their room like that's probably better. That's like, oh, yeah
Well, okay
Community like that's doesn't that's where it happened. That's the scene of the crime is the community.
Yeah, I don't know like the mechanics of like, however, Jim Clyburn is like, you know,
getting his portrait finished.
But I imagine it involves a lot of guys like this, like, I'm glad you asked that.
He does it by he starts by painting his porch and then waits to the neighborhood kids
asking what he's doing.
And then he's
Glyburn was the first guy to do that. That's how old he is.
Listen, we're part in Huckman. He didn't mean he didn't mean to say all those things. This
is my favorite answer to the that he gives us a question. It says on why he did not commute
the sentences of three death row inmates to life without parole when he did so for the other 37.
So I apparently like he took 37 people off death row except for three guys.
And he says those three because they became they were involved in what were major major issues
relating to terrorism and crimes that had national implications.
One, for example, I was deeply involved in the one having to do with the church,
and I was down there. I don't know what that's referring to, maybe Dylann Roof. He just says,
it just seemed to me that it was going to be, it was just a bridge too far. And so that's why I
didn't pardon those three, because they had a national implication that stood for things beyond
the crime they committed. It was a reflection of what they did to the entire nation and the community and so that's what I with that's why I withheld them
I spoke to the Pope about this by the way
I was I had a discussion about he called me to congratulate me on keeping my word about not supporting the death penalty
What except those three guys?
It's like how do you support the death penalty or you don't?
Well, did they ask him about how he commuted the sentence of that judge who, that judge in Pennsylvania?
The cash for kids guy?
Yeah.
I don't think that that is in the New York Times dossier of questions.
No.
That was shocking.
It's like the pardoning the turkey thing.
Like, I didn't kill one of them.
Yeah.
What are you getting across morally here?
I don't know.
Is that is that good?
Like, I don't know.
I don't get it.
I know.
And he says, so the pope called him.
He called me to congratulate me on keeping my word about not supporting the death penalty.
But I told him I couldn't do the last three.
And that's that's the reason because it's sort of like, you
know, the guy who you know, I'm making this up, assassinates a
for him Lincoln. He forgot the name of John Wilkes Booth. He
says, you don't know, we don't want to make him famous. We don't
want to make him say he wants to be remembered. Yeah, he goes. I'm sorry, I just got to keep reading these twice. This like, but I told him
I couldn't do the last three. And that's that that that's the reason because it's sort of like,
you know, the guy who, you know, I'm making this up, assassinates Abraham Lincoln, you don't, you
know, you know, you don't you don't you can't pardon him because there's such a
Gigantic implication for things that could go well beyond the individual murder. That was my decision Anyway, some thought I should have but I decided not to do those three. It's good that he clarified that it's not a real story
He didn't actually have the pardon letter for John Wilkes Booth on his desk. It would be like 217
spoof on his desk would be like 217.
But it's like, why would you need to use that as an example when you're taught they're asking you about the actual three cases where you.
Oh, yeah.
Like maybe they would have hypothetically killed the president.
It's like on that level of seriousness.
But like, Andrew Johnson came along and like Andrew Johnson, he came along after
Lincoln died and said, like, oh Johnson, he came along after Lincoln died
and said like, oh, it's all good.
Don't worry about it.
Like they still executed like the actual killers, but they gave clemency to a lot of people
over a lot of things.
John Wilkes Booth also wasn't, they never even successfully apprehended him.
He was, he was on the run and they caught him at some farmhouse. And then Boston Corbett, who was like a,
I'll just say he was lucky he was around before Melanie Mack
because he would have been a Melanie Mack.
Replyer.
Yeah, didn't he cut his dick off or something?
Yes he did, yes he did.
Because he couldn't stop jacking off.
Yeah, Boston Corbett was just like a mentally ill,
like crazy Christian guy who cut his own cock off.
Yeah.
Because of the temptations.
But he, he shot John's, John Willis Booth.
You know, he said he was like reaching for something.
So.
They should have just let that guy jack off.
No one was stopping him.
Well, I mean, no one was stopping him.
Yeah, he did it to himself.
Back then, you're like, you couldn't hear a single voice that would say like, it's okay,
just go jack off.
Don't worry about it, man. You live in the 1800s, everything okay, just go jack off. Don't worry about it, man.
You live in the 1800s, everything sucks,
just go jack off, who cares?
Oh my god, Alex, if I lived back then,
that's all I would do.
It's like there's no flight simulators.
Yeah.
You can't even charge your Steam Deck.
Yeah, there's no games, there's no computers.
You have to walk everywhere.
Everything smells like shit.
Eat some hardt tack and corn poem
Break out your favorite drawing of a lady's ankle that's etched into a whale's tooth and go to town But it's the best you're gonna feel for the
For your life Boston Corbett didn't even have like a 39 year old woman who is like I'm Christian now
But not one of those abolitionist ones
Yeah, like you didn't have like a woman like that, that he could give his one penny a month he
earned as he sold her to.
Yeah, working in a gold mine and sending it to a woman.
A woman is like writing letters.
She's like a newspaper columnist.
You know, cutting your dick off to stop yourself from jacking off that is for the equivalent of
You know if you're a delivery driver you keep falling on your pizzas and giving money to your delivery customers
So they'll rate you higher. Yeah, they got used to work for the Pony Express
He would always fall off the horse
I'm imagining a Civil War era Melanie Mac
Only reading the clear sections of the Bible that refer to the curse of ham.
I'm not going to say he would have been better served by her
existing back then, but maybe he would have.
You know, he cut it off.
He cut everything off and then he went to a Bible study
for like three hours.
But like, how did he stop himself from bleeding to death?
He apparently like he did whatever you do.
I don't know, like caught him.
Like burning with a hot knife or something.
Yeah, like a hot iron or something.
Oh, God.
Oh, dude.
Dude, come on.
It's so insane to like make being alive in 1860
like suck even more, but he did it.
Yeah. Just chill out did it. Yeah.
It just just chill out, man.
Yeah. But you're going to die anyway.
It just doesn't matter.
And John Wilkes Booth was like a famous.
Imagine.
From the most famous acting families in
history. Imagine if Jacob L.R.D.
got killed by like
but by bilingual.
Like if Jacob L.R killed Joe Biden and then was on the run and then Lingle was
like, boom, I got them.
And then Lingle cuts his own dick off.
Man.
We need to have stuff like that happen again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, um, better that than living in Veep.
And they don't do that shit in Veep.
No one cuts anything off.
The only thing they cut off is someone while they're talking to drop a witty insult.
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