Some More News - Even More News: Trump Plans To Expand Military Presence In Cities, Benny Johnson's Pathetic Lies

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Hi. Parker Molloy is back to chat with Katy, Cody, and Jonathan about Trump taking down the deep state (guy with sandwich) in D.C., Benny Johnson's embarrassing turn in the "new media" seat in the White House briefing room, the threat to Obergefell v. Hodges, and the deeply unqualified Heritage Foundation Jan. 6 weirdo nominated by Trump to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#EvenMoreNews #DonaldTrump #BennyJohnsonPluto TV. Stream Now. Pay Never.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Well, hello, everybody, and welcome back to even more news, the first and only news podcast. My name is Katie Stoll. It so is Katie Stoll. Hello, Katie. I'm Cody Johnston, is the name of me. And welcome me to the show. and everybody else as well, hi, I did good. You did so good.

Thank you. And someone else is about to do real good as well. Returning guest, media critic, and writer of the newsletter of the present age. We are thrilled to welcome back, Parker Maloy. Hi, Parker. Hello. Hello. Hello.

Hello, hello. Yeah, thanks for having me. Jonathan is also here. Ow! Hi. Woo! There it is. Hi.

A little bit of housekeeping up top. We will be off next week. There will be no new episodes of even more news or some more news, but we will be back the week after. Parker. I haven't seen you since Trump 2.0. How's it going? How are you doing? Lovely.

It's been never a better time to be a trans person in the United States. Boy, howdy. There, yeah, I just haven't checked the news in seven months or so. So, you know, just got to do that. So you haven't been listening to our podcast. Okay. I'm just joking. Actually, your podcast is the only place I get my news.

So if you don't cover it, it didn't happen. That's correct. But yeah, it's, it's been an adventure. My wife is currently out of town, so I kind of have a home alone situation going on. booby trapping the doors and whatnot. Smart. You can never be too safe. But yeah, just kind of hanging in there.

In terms of just the media in general, broadly speaking, did you expect them to just bend over backwards to such an extent to this administration, you know, just totally rolling over and showing their bellies? So quickly. Day after day. I mean, I kind of expected it. I didn't expect it this quickly. because after like after the 2016 election like the media generally speaking moved to the right and then after the 2020 election the media did not move and then the 2024 election happens and they move again to the right but in addition to that natural movement to the right that they have going on throughout the Trump era there's also you know the

The coercion and the, and the, I'm going to sue you and all that stuff with, with paramount and, and every company, basically, is now folding, you know. Well, we're watching institutions fold before Trump even asks them to. And that's anticipatory obedience, you know. So they're so scared of becoming a target that they're doing his work for him. The most alarming part, I think, is that, well, not, there's no most alarming part. It's all bad. But just sort of the pre-capitulation and this sort of weird, it seems like there's this weird assumption, like, well, if we, like, let him have this, then he won't come back to us.

Like, it's sort of, like, in their minds, it's kind of like a one-time thing. We're like, oh, we'll just like, we'll settle this. And then, like, we can, like, business as usual. But that's not how it happens. It doesn't seem to make a difference. there's still the punching bag in the sense that people still hold on to this. Oh, the media is biased against Donald Trump. There's nothing, it seems, that will change that perception of just reporting a bare fact is now biased against Donald Trump.

They're obviously not. I mean, the narrative is locked in, right? It's similar to, and we're not really going to talk about this today, but we might in the future. this sort of like, oh, we're going to arrest Obama and Hillary and Comey for treason. Like, that whole narrative is this like, oh, um, Obama, like, they did like this sneaky thing and they tried to get him not elected and they tried to destroy his presidency and stuff. They actually kept quiet the entire election. They let Donald Trump get elected.

Comey went out and helped Hillary lose. Like, that's what happened. But the narrative is like, oh, they were like, oh, they were so mean to him and they did this they did this no no no they kind of let it happen if this was true why wouldn't you deal with it when you were president before that's what i keep coming back to i'm okay also that's an important question the media can be posing like we can be asking these questions no we just like no okay their answer would be the deep state hid it from us at the time but like pose the question and make them spin their wheels go down that exactly and respond to it

ask the very important question. Also, it makes me wonder what, let's say it's all true in the deep state, like, well, you weren't a very effective president then if you didn't have control of your government to have this very important piece of information handed to you. Anyway, yeah, they just didn't check the secret rooms, um, enough. They were like, Obama lost, the secret rooms this time around. Well, Obama locked them all in a bathroom, you see. Exactly.

It's where you got the idea. The media coverage, the whole, the insistence that the media is against Trump, that's when, because I worked at media matters during the first Trump administration. That was one of the things I focused on was this, this insistence that everything was rigged against Republicans. And any step that these platforms would take, like, remember in 2016, Facebook had, they got rid of all of their editors on the, for the trending tab, because conservatives were like, it won't let me put. bright barred in there and and they got upset about that and then they still insist that facebook was rigged against them and no matter how much to how far to the right facebook would move they would still keep up that same you know same thing like they're still going to accuse cbs of being uh anti trump even though they have like a fact uh an administration approved fact checker joining the the crew over there and they're now owned by a billionaire's son. Yeah, they're owned by a right-wing billionaire's son, so that I'm sure will go well. They're the ones that are getting Barry Weiss in there to be their ideological guideline.

Wait, really? They might have to pay a lot of money to own the free press. Yeah. A staggering and insulting to the rest of us amount of money. It's like something like a quarter billion dollars. It's like a hundred million dollars. Yeah. That's, okay.

It's all wild. I mean, that is, in and of itself is chilling. I didn't know this specific detail. But just add it to the list of the ways he's consolidating power across the board in a very undemocratic fashion. Barry Weiss is asking for $250 million, according to the New York Post. So, yeah. What is she doing? Running for president?

Jonathan, what's happening in D.C.? Well, Trump's federal and military takeover of what? Washington, D.C. is in full swing, has been for several days. It first started with National Guard troops and the FBI seen on the National Mall and in Georgetown, which are not exactly considered the high crime areas. The presence has increased each night of this. You know, there's hundreds of officers. They're making arrests for low-level stuff. Last night, they were about a mile and a half north of the White House stopping cars randomly pulling people out of their cars and arresting them unclear for what. Finally, law and order. And then Trump did a radio

interview with Fox News guy Brian Kilmead this morning where he said he regrets or insinuated that he regretted going, quote, going by every perfect edict and rule in 2020. He lied that Minneapolis was burning down then. So he said now he decided before he became president this time, he said, I'm going to act before the fact. I'm not going to go after the fact, which would seem to fly in the face of his argument that this is an emergency that he had to send the National Guard there for. Which is weird. I'm not used to this president being inconsistent. Contradictory statements from the president. Oh, and also the deep state. We were just talking about the deep state. The deep state in the form of a man with a. sandwich is getting in in the way of these agents, Sean Dunn is a 37-year-old guy who worked for the Justice Department as a paralegal in their Office of International Affairs. He stood up to some federal agents on Sunday and called them fascists and threw a subway sandwich at them and he now could face a year in jail and is being charged with felony assault on a federal officer.

And I mentioned the deeps. I mean, you never know what kind of damage a sandwich can do. There could be a brick in there. We can just assume that he's going to get pardoned by Trump, though, right? Right, because that's what you do with cops in D.C. I mentioned the deep state because Attorney General Pam Bondi referred to him as part of, quote, the deep state we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ. All those deep state paralegals.

This isn't going to go over well for residents of D.C. It isn't going well. Can you imagine? I mean, they're doing it in L.A. I'm not in L.A. at the moment. but this kind of military presence and this kind of attention, I wouldn't want to go out. I wouldn't want to just do anything at all

because I know they're trying to fill quotas. I wouldn't want to jaywalk. Yeah, no. Not that I ever jaywalk. Most people don't like walking around in a city. It's like martial law. Like who wants to like they're also, they're just like stopping people in their cars.

They're doing beat cop jobs. What do you, why are they there? But to, I mean, to Trump's little quote there, the Washington Post, the fake news, Washington Post has reviewed documents from the Pentagon that they are, the Pentagon is basically planning on what they're calling a reaction force for civil unrest, which is, it's all related to the plan, the goals are to create fake emergencies to send in the military and create, this air about everything and have this force ready so that if anyone throws a sandwich or something, they are ready to crack down even harder so they can create even more fear so they can send in even more people and create this, uh, what we're seeing. Um, but the idea like they don't want people to protest. They don't want anything like that. And they are ready. They're like the, according to these documents, they're going to, they need like hundreds of troops

ready around the clock in case there is civil unrest, whatever that means to Trump, which we can imagine means quite a lot of different things. It's very, very bad. And I mean, I guess the hope is that people in D.C. are like, wait, no, this is actually not good and not helping. But we will see, I guess. Well, yeah. And I mean, and to make matters worse, the way that the press is covering it is has been pretty ridiculous you know the new york times published a headline for trump cities like washington are real estate in need of fixing up i mean the headline's doing so much work to sanitize what's actually happening we're talking about stripping voting rights and self-governance from 700 000 people and the times frames it like trump's doing a home renovation show on

hg tv yeah that is nasty work because the article itself is better than that like it does attempt to frame it as this is a flawed view. It points out all of the lies that he is told. It's not, I mean, it's not perfect in my viewpoint, but I would hope that the writer of that article is a bit upset at the editor. Yeah, they never, they don't choose that. But just like, what's going on? They used this isolated incident of a person and they're lying about what it even happened there to send in the military. Like, that's what's going on. It's just creating a fake crisis to crack down. It's a tale as old as time.

I don't like, why can't you just say that's what's going on? And that's how like the Overton window shifts. Like if they frame it as like, well, this, you could also look at this as fixing up real estate. That's what Trump does. That's what people are going to start to believe. CBS had a headline Trump deploys National Guard to DC takes control of local police in crime crackdown, which insinuates that there's like a crime spree going on. And they mention in the sixth paragraph that, obviously, violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low, which we've all known instead a million times.

But also, isn't this supposed to be something that the president's able to do authorized for 48 hours? And that's it. And this is a 30-day. There's like a 30-day time frame for it before Congress needs to act. But I don't think that he cares. I don't think he does at all. And I don't think Congress will make a stink about it. Because in, I mean, 30 days, that's. four years in in trump time so it's going to be like jonathan you're saying like it's going to be more normalized by then and they're going to capitulate again and they like might just authorize it for him so that senator mark wayne mullen can wear a seat belt again and doesn't fear car jac did you guys see this clip yes no yeah this guy's a senator what's a senator of what state is this the uh oklahoma i love that his name is his name is mark wayne because his

His mom couldn't decide whether to name him Mark or Wayne, but eventually just decided to leave it as both. Yeah. You know what? Is that the real story? We have middle. That's the real story. That's on his Wikipedia page. So I remember looking it up at one point and just being like, that's really weird.

So sad about that, like deeply sad. And I hate to show this fella any empathy. But with a name like that, you're never going to find one of those little vanity plates with your name on it at a truck stop. That's the real tragedy here. like that's got to do deep deep things to a kid growing up yeah all right uh here he is talking with oh again brian kill me this guy's everywhere lately and by the way i'm not joking when i say this i drive around and wash in dc in my jeep and yes i do drive myself um and i don't buckle up and the reason i don't buckle up and people can say whatever they want to they can raise their eyebrows at me

again is because of carjacking i don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when i need to exit in a hurry because I got a seatbelt around me and I wear my seatbelt all the time but in Washington DC I do not because it is so prevalent of carjacking and I don't want the same thing happened to me what's happened to a lot of people that work on the hill

I support him for one I support his decision to not wear seatbel to not go ahead buddy knock yourself out Mark Wayne don't wear that seatbelt he's like I wear a jeep you know I'm a tough guy I will be there with cover fire whatever that tweet was but also I'm terrified of

driving in the city where I live in work. The seatbelt that takes three seconds to take off, by the way. But doesn't... Maybe I need to listen to it again. But if you have your seatbelt on, it's harder for you to get out of the car and have your car stolen from you.

That's what I'm thinking. So what is he... It's easier for you to get out and give them your car. If you don't have your seatbelt on, they can pull you out of your car quicker and take your car. Well, he's saying he doesn't want to

day and fight. He's like, if someone wants to carjack me, they can have it. I will be out of this car. Honestly, you can just say that. Hold on a second. Let me give my seat. Bad move to say that on national TV. Look for a Jeep out there, folks, I guess. I'm going to like

scoop, like, road running myself out of there real fast. I'm already crying, okay? Car thieves watch Brian Kilmead. We all know this. So if they're watching, you are just telling them what to do. It's really terrifying for for these senators and congress people these days i wasn't weren't we told that these are the tough guys

why why wouldn't you why wouldn't you say i'm sorry if you're gonna be a guy on tv and you're like i i don't wear my seatbelt when i drive okay great well you should get at least a fucking ticket good lord why wouldn't you go out and be like i carry a gun in my car because of the carjackings like that's the culture that you're trying to emulate why don't you just say that but probably because he doesn't anyway doesn't track whatever thanks mark well thanks mark wayne the other angle on this we you know legacy media has been bad enough obviously right wing media is not doing much better there's now been multiple examples of people pointing out that it's a little bit rich here in donald trump talk about crime in dc and the safety of police officers in dc when he pardoned all the people

who attacked police officers on January 6th. Very reasonable point to make, directly related. And yet on News Nation with Leland Wittert, Medi Hassan was cut off and got a come on from the host after he brought up this very good point. You think it's because Trump cares about crime in D.C., really? Because I remember Donald Trump on January the 6th, 2021, not giving a crap about crime in D.C. Sorry, Lilland, sorry, Lilland, 150 police officers.

Come on, Medi, Medi, this is a short segment. I know, I know you've said that. 150, please don't get hurt. And then this morning on Fox News, Marie Harf, made the same exact point with everyone saying, can we just stick to D.C. here? Can we stick to the topic at hand? Who wants to relitigate the thing that this guy did? Is that it is very rich to say we are going to charge the sandwich thrower with a felony

when I was there on January 6th. And all of those people that assaulted police officers got pardoned, not just the nonviolent ones, not just the ones that went into the Capitol, everyone, including the ones that went after police officers got pardoned. So don't tell me we care that this administration cares about protecting police officers when they did not care about those on January 6th. Respectfully, can we just stay? But they got pardoned. No, those were police officers. I just want to talk about D.C. for a second.

But that was in D.C. That was in D.C. Those were D.C. Police officers. Can I just start with the. Scott Jennings did it too. um on cnn somebody brought it up and scott jennings got real real mad um they just can't handle because it's not it's it's a simple point it's valid just because it's just because it's easy to say and easy to point out doesn't mean it's a bad point um not everything is like well obviously you're going to bring that up but like let's get to the no it's a it's a valid point well and it's handle it because they also all of them hated it when it happened all of them during i would say january up until january 7th in the evening probably they were all very very upset about it so

bringing that up is um upset to them as well in this specific case in this specific case only when talking about january 6th it's very important to not get stuck in the past man live in the present you know but if it has to do with the 2016 election in obama let's definitely relitigate it till we die. Well, we have to arrest that man. We have to arrest that, and it's coming. Any day now. Jonathan, I think before we move on, I think we should touch on D.C.'s mayor, Muriel Bowser

and her reaction to everything that's going on. Well, she's kind of tried to have both sides of this. She has an interesting relationship with Donald Trump. I think it's kind of the shine bomb strategy. I would imagine that Muriel Bowser butters him up and you know tells him she wants to work with him and doing a good job because first she called the move unsettling and unprecedented

but then she said the fact that we have more law enforcement or presence in neighborhoods that may be a positive and then the next day went a little bit harder and called it an authoritarian push and that Democrats need to take back the house and then as of Thursday she is a reportedly left town for Martha's Vineyard cruise-ish, one would say

but it's interesting because when Trump announced that he was taking over D.C., he called the Democratic mayor of D.C. a good person who has tried, which is weird when he does that. It always strikes me as a little weird, but he compliments a Democrat,

and he's like, I like this person because he likes Gavin Newsom too. Like when he talks about Gavin Newsome, he's like, nice guy, you know, like him, but... I love that new scum. I love him. You would like to see a mayor with really strong backbone in the face of this for sure. I also will give a slight amount

of grace to say that I think it's slightly different than being a mayor of Los Angeles all the way across the country versus, you know, he's there. It's the hotbed for all of this political conversation. You know, and the rules for DC are a little bit different, admittedly, than for New York or something. Yeah, it's a true. I don't, I mean, I don't admire the position. that she's in or, you know, want to be in that position myself, that sounds very tricky. But then you go off to Martha's Vineyard in the midst of it. It's not a great look. Maybe just to deny parogis to Alan Dershowitz.

To Dershowitz. I am saying things that someone who is not in this world, like everything I say, people would be like, what? What is this reference? Deny parogis to Alan Dershowitz to Alan Dershowitz at Martha's Vineyard. What's this idiot talking about? See, this is how I feel like having conversations with. my very much not as

online wife. She'll be completely oblivious to anything that happens in the world and I'd be like, yeah, so then this happened and this happened. Alan Dershowitz got denied a parogi and she'll be like, who's Alan Dershowitz? And then you're like, how long do you have? Remember, Robbie Starbuck

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Uh, Benny Johnson, if you don't know, he's this online right-wing weirdo. Formerly of BuzzFeed, fired for plagiarism. Uh, yeah. Uh, famously, he was fired from BuzzFeed for plagiarism, um, and found a new home being a liar for this authoritarian regime, and he is feeling comfortable there. He is such a liar. He's so perfect for this administration and this moment. Just like blatantly lying, pretty dumb. He's excellent.

He's excellent for them. And anyway, he was the guy in the new media seat for the White House press briefing on Tuesday. And this is what he did with that. We started. And as always, we'll start with our new media seat, who is our podcast host today, Benny Johnson. Benny, why don't you kick us off? And thanks for being here. Thank you, Caroline.

As a DC resident of 15 years, I lived on Capitol Hill, I witnessed so many muggings and so much theft. I lost track. I was carjacked. I have murders on my ring camera and mass shootings. I witnessed a woman on my block that held up at gunpoint for $20, and my house was set ablaze in an arson with my infant child inside. And so to any reporter that says and lies that DC is a safe place to live in war, let me just say this. Thank you. Thank you for making the city safe because no parent should have to go through what my family went through, having the fire department rip open their door to save their infant child. And so thank you for your work on securing this city. My question to you is this. Nancy Pelosi has attacked the president for deploying the National Guard to the city, saying that it is to cover for his incompetence.

Hillary Clinton has also attacked the president for securing the city of Washington, D.C. I'd like to get your response to Nancy Glowsey and Hillary. Sure. Do you want to, thank you for the opportunity to be here. I'm so grateful. Do you have a clapback for this tweet from Hillary Clinton? What I love a waste of a guy? I'm a person and all of our time.

Before we dig into how much he's lying, we've got the receipts. We've all got the receipts on how he's lying. We'll talk about that. this new media seat I mean like the fucking Tim Pool the people that they're putting in there it's literally just let me just kiss your ass

let me just tell you how good you are at what you're doing and then give you the most softball question you could ever I'm like you care to respond to my praise you might as well my question for you is thank you so much thank you so much

also he got carjacked I do have to wonder if he was wearing his seatbelt I was wondering that too Not really curious. Okay. One of the big things is that he could have asked just a normal question and tried to suggest that he's a real journalist. Could have asked about this summit with Putin and Trump in Alaska and just ask a serious question about it. I guess he thought he wouldn't be asked back unless he immediately thanked her.

I also like how he said, and so to any reporter that says and lies that D.C. is a safe place to live in work, let me just say this. Thank you to someone else. Yeah. When you say, and so to anyone that says this, you say something to them. I say no to you, but to you, I'm saying thank you. Oh, yeah, I thought we covered this earlier, Jonathan. He's stupid. It makes me think that he had practiced this to himself and he screwed up reading it at some point. Yeah, like, which makes this whole thing sadder, you know, that he's like, I'm going to be called on first. I'm going to get my question.

My question's going to be, why are you so awesome? You know? It's Tim Poole's. Tim Poole very clearly like, okay, you practice, you practice, you practice this, and you thank them, and you're like, why? Okay, so like, what's the greatest thing about you in as many sentences as you have? What's the greatest thing about you? It's interesting they keep putting people in that seat that we all know.

We're bought by Russia. Paid by him. Like blatantly. Unknowingly paid by Russia to spout Russian propaganda, which they happily did. There was a time that would ruin someone's career. Condolences to Dave Rubin, who has not been invited. I know. That's got to be hard. He's like the one Gregorian guy who hasn't been asked to ask a question about how they're great.

I wonder why. Did you see that Dave Rubin took a few days? days off from his like he went on vacation and he left an AI of himself as as the host of his show no no Parker this can't possibly be fucking he did it I have to look this I did not watch it why would you lie like that why would you lie like that's us what what what do you mean an AI clone of Dave Rubin is taking over his YouTube show that that that's a time magazine headline hey there I'm doing all right just kicking it in the studio what's up with you. That is so funny. I mean, obviously, there's so many things you can say about that and

like, why would you even like try to help AI in that way? But Dave, do you think maybe it says something about you and the quality of your work that you can get an AI to do it for a few days while you're gone? You can go to Dave Rubin.com and a pop-up comes up that says, speak to AI, Dave, click here. AI, Dave, it's a tab at the top of the page. I don't want to, like, burn down half the rainforest to speak to AI Day. Yeah, no, I don't think we should contribute to his, whatever he's counting on the use of speak to AI, Dave. This is so embarrassing. I, I, you broke my brain, Parker.

I mean, you're so right, though. Why would you want to do that to prove how invaluable you are? You're so replaceable, Dave. What are you doing? I could just have AI make me my own personalized Dave room. podcast every day on the topics I want AI Dave Rubin to talk about if I wanted to do that.

I don't even want to miss one of these shows in case everyone's like, it's better without Katie. Why would you give people? Why would you do that? Wild. This is the clone generated by AI startup Skip Class is trained on hundreds of hours of Rubin's material.

In August, it will be prompted with news stories from the zeitgeist and then deliver monologues reflected through Rubin's conservative lens, likely including gleeful taunts of progressives and the endless misery those sick bastards are subjecting themselves to as the real Rubin said on a recent

episode. This is Thanksgiving magazine. What do you need him for then? If once you can have your own AI Dave Rubin, what do you need the real one for? He's putting himself out of a job. Dude, this is a bad idea. Why? Congratulations

I guess on your passive income now, Dave. You don't have to do anything ever. You barely did anything before but now you're just announcing to your audience that they don't need you that you offer them nothing i was going to pivot us back to benny johnson because we haven't even established how much he lied in his comments first he did get a follow-up question somehow and his follow-up question and i'm very sorry to say this was if the president would consider giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Big Balls.

Why do we have to say that name again? And Carolyn Leffat wanted to move on, or Carolyn leave it. I'm sorry, I've been mispronouncing it. She said, I haven't spoken to him about that, but perhaps it's something he would consider. I'll ask him and get back to you, Benny. Thanks for being here. And then a bunch of outlets reported on it as if that was going to happen. Like, White House wants Big Balls to get the same medal as Rosa Parks. No. It's, I, like, the first headline is, like,

I think The Daily Beast did it. And a bunch of other outlets that are, I'm not going to say serious, but I'll put it in quotes. Like, that's not what she said. Why would you report that? You are creating this narrative. You are helping them. He's there to do propaganda and to ask this stupid fucking question. And you are just broadcasting it to everybody as if it's serious or real or as if she said yes.

She didn't say yes. She said, I'll ask him. Yeah. Benny. Thanks for being here, little guy. And then she moved on and you're reporting on it like, it's real so now other people are like oh wow maybe he should get the fucking and that's how maybe he does end up if he does if he does it's because they reported on it like that

that is why i would put money on his response to that question being who the fuck is that who like who are you talking about i don't think he knows even though that's his justification for what's going on in dc i don't think he would be able to comprehend that question even when he tweeted about originally is like a very special man got attacked or whatever I forget how he phrased it, but he didn't name him. He doesn't know who this is. A special boy like Harry Potter. Also, and I guess this is the first lie we'll get into, but why would he get a medal?

He didn't do much of anything. I don't want to dismiss the fact that he, like, put his girlfriend or the woman he was with in the car to keep her safe. That's a great move. But he didn't do anything else. Like, the narrative that was presented to us was that he saw a carjacking and then ran to save the woman being carjacked and then, like, got beat up by these teenagers. Yeah, Benny is still lying about what happened. He knows that that did not happen. We all know.

It didn't happen. So he's saying, like, well, he should get a medal for going and saving this woman that he saw. It's a good Samaritan doing the right thing. No, no, no. That's not what happened at all. So are we just going to give medals? to all victims of crime? I like what I it's just it's just a lie and that's the first one I guess I'm willing to bet

that he didn't actually have multiple murders on his ring camera no yes I don't want to take that bet so I will not be taking that bet from you I'm sorry people people online called him out for this entire list of of crimes that he says he witnessed and that happened to him And he didn't try to back all of them up. Like, for example, he didn't try to back up that there was a mass shooting or what he's had, mass shootings outside of his home. But he did post a ring camera, or it says Nest, but it's a camera footage of it looks like a gunshot and someone falling over and then firefighters breaking down. But people said, okay, this was a fire. How do we know it was arson?

How do we know this is your house? Why don't I see this reported anywhere? And so he's like, it was all over the news. I got the receipts here. And he shared an article from October 2020 with the headline two dogs dead, a third injured in house fire in northeast D.C. Fire officials say in that article, it says fire officials tell ABC 7 no one was at the home when the fire occurred. Interesting.

And also the exterior of the home in that article looks different from the exterior from the footage he posted. and I think the best thing you could say or what I think is the truth I have not independently verified this and I spent way too long on this yesterday is that he lives next door to where the fire happens and it's possible that the firefighters

wanted to evacuate his home too since the neighbor's house was on fire but when he said my house was set ablaze in an arson after which firefighters had to rescue my infant child that is a lie well it's a it's not true it's a lie look um if your nexter neighbor's house is burning down like that sucks that's terrible we spend a lot of time talking about the la fires and a big implication of that are the people that didn't lose their home but did have to

move out and all of that but you don't need to lie about it bro that's the thing like even like the big balls uh situation like yeah it's scary to get attacked by people and like you can tell the truth about something that happened you don't need to create these grand narratives also and there yeah there's this article there's you know the sleuthing

Benny Johnson shared a video of himself on camera in 2020 where he went outside and was like look my neighbor's house got burned down and he filmed his neighbor's house

and he show he literally showed he's like that's my house over there the beige this one is my neighbors and it's burned down he just filmed it and showed it it's just a lie stop it's just a lie stop it

stop stop like I just I don't understand like I don't doubt that he has been the victim of a crime or even multiple crimes that makes your point you can go to the White House and say I live in DC I've been the victim of crime here I know how bad it is, and then go on to your bullshit, where you're thanking them for whatever you think they're doing.

But, like, it just makes you a clown. Yeah, like, exactly. We can, and then I'm just going to continue to not believe anything you say and think that you're a liar, which you are. Even the, like, the claim like, yeah, my, you know, well, your neighbor's house actually was set of blaze. but, like, saying, like, yeah, my house is set a blaze in an act of arson. But then he also says that his infant nearly died in a drug fire. That's not arson. Arson is a specific thing.

You intentionally set a fire. If it's a drug fire, that's not arson. It's just, just tell the truth about the thing that you're scared of. That's valid. It's okay. The result of it is maybe not okay. maybe sending in all these troops isn't like a good idea but like start from a true thing and we'll go from there but he's just a liar it's really frustrating johnny do you want to talk

about your favorite part the kairon oh yeah in that clip you may have noticed that they listed benny johnson as a postcast host before they changed it to podcast host it's irrelevant to any of this it's irrelevant to him saying that neighborhoods in dc need to be bulldozed which we didn't even get to You didn't even get to that. Yes. So we will move on. But like that is the important part. Like we can go, we can sift through his lot.

You know, like we can sift through his lies. Like, yeah, he's a liar. He's just a fascist propagandist is what he is. He wants to be Tucker Carlson, but like the not fired version, I guess. And he's going to create lies and help the narrative, whatever the Trump administration wants, whatever he thinks his like followers want to hear. He's a plagiarist and a pathetic little liar. but then he's going to go out and he's going to do these monologues

where he talks about how we need to bulldoze neighborhoods because of the crime what are you what the fuck like what are you talking about where are the who you just going to bulldoze people's homes you're just going to like where are they going to go what do you mean you're going to build all these camps for people that don't have homes you see oh oh good camps uh it's evil uh he is a silly stupid liar and that's true but he's in service of an evil project

and he should be ashamed of himself but I don't think he can feel that so I mean the one thing that I'll always remember Benny Johnson for is his 2017 tweet where he wrote the advertising on military times right now

and it showed an ad that was for the world's largest gay crews not realizing that that's a targeted ad yeah you gotta delete cookies yeah just gonna just throw that one out there we don't have to go into that

we don't have to unpack that too much we've said it a fact we've it's just a fact just a little color a little flavor for maybe how he's only a liar yeah just sprinkle that it

maybe he's just like incapable of honesty in many aspects of his life and he's just a bad person and a bad person and a bad person and a bad person that's a thing it's just like yeah you're you're all these things but you're you're you've sold whatever semblance of a soul you have to bold those

neighborhoods and it's just disgusting but obviously we've spent too much time on this sometimes we got to you know don't feel Don't feel bad about it. Okay, but we do want to try to get to two more things before we're done. So let's start with the news that Obergefell v. Hodges might be in trouble. Kim Davis, she is the former Kentucky clerk who denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples. What a delight to see her in the news again, huh?

She's formally asked the Supreme Court to go back to the case, which would in turn, overturn Oberg F. L. V. Hodges, although they could do a narrower thing, blah, blah, blah, which is the 2015 ruling that made laws banning same-sex marriage. Illegal. The court could have outright denied this request, but it didn't. They issued what's called a call for a response, which asks the original litigants to respond to Kim Davis's petition. It only takes one justice to do that, though, so it could have just been Alito. So now we're in this kind of limbo. where we're going to see if they have the requisite

for justices to vote to reopen the case and of course they'll probably only do that if they're pretty convinced that they have five that can overturn it. I will say, and then I will turn it over

because I'm talking a lot, I'm sorry, a number of some Supreme Court experts, and you can read articles about this in Axios and Reason, they have they are extremely doubtful that scotus would actually overturn obergafel but most of us are not in the mood to hear that because it's exactly what everyone said about roe v wade exactly

i'm going to say i'm very interested to see what they specifically said about uh row back of the right the idea that once you have given rights you can't take them away seems dead at this point or that's what we've what I naively thought 10 years ago and I think it's important to have all the qualifications of like yes this hasn't officially been brought forward to everybody it's not necessarily moving forward at this point it's terrifying though it is truly terrifying and um no i i i katy stole in 2025 is not going to sit here and say don't be worried I'm just not. This is very worrisome.

Yeah, on the, you know, one thing to keep in mind, though, is that even if it were overturned, there's still that 2022 law that got the Biden signed, the respect for marriage act, which doesn't fix, doesn't codify Obergafel, but it does, it did get rid of the defense of marriage act. So there's that So that's a little Yeah That is a good point Like there's still It's not as though Suddenly it would be like

All gay marriages are void Right But we would have a patchwork system Where some states allow it And some states do not Similar to I guess what Dobs do Yeah

And that's working out And we'll keep an eye on it Obviously is progresses But we wanted to mention that it's happening I also I noticed a little bit I only saved one of them because I didn't realize it was a trend

until I saw a few of them a lot of conservative influencers for example if you know who Gunther Eagleman is I hate that I do I'm so sorry we're all miserable because we know that name yep yeah I'm so I'm so sorry

so moving on from Big Balls Gunther Eagleman this tweet it shared the like headline about about this Supreme Court. I'm just going to read it. Breaking. There is now an effort to have the Supreme Court overturn, all caps for some reason, the ruling that legalized same-sex marriages. The suit is being brought by Kim Davis, a clerk who refused gay couples. What are your thoughts on this? I've seen a lot of people post about this and then say, what are your thoughts on this? Because they cannot share their

own thoughts because they don't know how safe it is yet to say that they support this happening. There's this sort of idea of like, well, they're not going to do that. Like most people are fine with it. Most people are okay with it. That's not true actually. There are people out there and many of them unfortunately

have influence despite being named Gunther Eagleman and they're out there and they're testing the waters to see if their audiences and their whole ecosystem is okay with them saying that they want this to happen.

And I just wanted to highlight that because it's not good. It's a normalization of it. It's testing. You push it this far to start and then you push it a little bit further next week and next week. And I'll also add,

kind of doesn't matter. Overturning row, restricting abortion access is wildly unpopular. They did it anyway. And then they rode through it and spun it and Donald Trump went on stage during the debates and said yeah yeah yeah we've already done the thing we're not going to make it any worse I'm fine with where you know they

they make it normalized and then they also don't give a fuck if they can do it if they want Supreme Court can do it if they want oh if there's an open seat I know who should be on there is it big balls no I was going to say Benny Johnson shameless liar but oh that's on too Big Balls will probably be... He's got a long way to go. He's 19 years old. He's like the most famous person in America. Jesus, he's only 19.

Yeah, Parker. Isn't that just the most absurd thing you've ever heard in your goddamn life? Almost as absurd as a 38-year-old going by Benny. That's what I call my dog, and he's a tiny terrier. He's a tiny little terrier guy. Speaking of tiny terriers,

here's a tiny terrier. I wish we live in the same state. He doesn't not look like Benny. Let's spend a few minutes talking about this, the new head of the, or the person who might be the new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His name is E.J. Antony. There's a lot of stuff we now know about him. My goodness. He looks like Dustin Diamond.

He looks like Dustin Diamond. That's the first thing. He is apparently not qualified. He has not worked in stats collection before. He's published one paper with one citation, and that might not sound bad, but his predecessor received 1,300 citation. on her work. I mean, it doesn't sound good. He has regularly been corrected on Twitter about numbers and stats stuff.

He reads charts wrong, apparently, so the people who know the stats say. And then we found out yesterday that he was at January 6th. Yep. He's a bystander. He was merely deep in the crowd as a bystander. All in patriotic colors, by the way. They're like, he saw it on the news, and then he went down there to be a bystander. in the crowd.

He's near the back. He couldn't quite, you know, make it in. Lucky for him, or I guess not lucky, who would have a presidential pardon. And he gave a, he gives TV interviews, and he does it in front of a giant picture of Hitler's favorite German battleship, the Bismarck.

And listen, E.J., you got to get one of these, so you can't see my big picture of the Hitler's favorite German battleship, the Bismarck behind me. Exactly. It's best to leave a little. bit of mystery, I think. Yeah. I think. You don't need to

just scream your values out to the world like that all the time. It's one of those frustrating things where it's that edge where like, it's just a ship, it's just a picture, it's just this. It's like, I didn't know, or I don't even know if he has tried to explain it. But

it's Hitler's favorite ship, so maybe get rid of it now. It was like $90 though. I did see the ship for like the cost of that that little artwork so he's got to get you know bang out of that buck by trotting it around as much as possible yeah you if you get a deal on it

that's excusable uh and i'm sorry one more thing to mention he uh was on fox news in 2024 and he said i'm certainly proud of the work we've done on project 2025 um because he was the head economist at the heritage foundation yes par for the course yeah but at least we can definitely trust what comes out the numbers now now we can trust those dang numbers which he says they're not they're just not going to put them

out anymore oh yeah they're not going to do it because he doesn't know how I assume like I mean obviously it's because Trump doesn't want to see the real numbers and we'll just like get rid of it and then I'll be he'll be happy but also I suspect part of it

is like I don't know how to do it so what if we just don't Right? I've never pulled all the numbers. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to do that. And I'm not going to learn. I'm busy admiring all my Hitler stuff. So the Daily Beast asked the White House about the Hitler ship. And the White House claimed simply that he is a history buff and has an office full of artifacts. Oh, I'm dying to see what other artifacts he has. Why would they say he has more? What?

Artifacts, like the cross of Coronado? Because they don't care. They don't care. That painting isn't an artifact. No. That's a $90 painting that he got. What do they mean by artifacts? You went on Nazi Etsy and you ordered a picture of...

Like, what they mean? Oh, I need to know. what those artifacts are now. I bet we might find out someday, Cody. Do you think it has the diary signed by Hitler? Oh, maybe. From the last crusade?

From last crusade. Which Nazi artifact from the Indian Jones franchise? Well, everyone was just trying to get the map, but as we know, there's more in the diary than just the map. Diary tells you how to get through the challenges and gives you all the riddles. Mr. Policeman, I gave you all the clues.

Those were the days. That's what it says. in the diary watching a movie well um this this has been fun trump's in charge of history at the smithsonian we could talk about that for a few hours gosh the uh the the uh the proponent of more people knowing about the river of blood uh that civil war plaque that he invented oh outside his golf course he he invented a no yeah he invented a battle uh for his golf course and put up a plaque. So maybe we'll find out about the river of blood

at the Smithsonian now. We'll see all the Time magazine covers. He wasn't on. Maybe one of you guys knows this. I know that they removed the bit about his two impeachments from an exhibit about impeachments and then put them back with an edited version.

Has anyone gone in? Do we know what was edited out? Or did they say he was impeached because of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? It's not that. Because of Obama's conspiracy.

Maybe someone's gone in and taken photos. I just haven't seen it. The fact that it's okay for him to do it at all is just what's so deeply alarming.

I mean, it's not. The president's not in charge. It's illegal. Like, the president's not in charge of the Smithsonian. Why are they agreeing to? It's not the Kennedy Center.

Quote, collaborate constructively with the white house one thing that's that's kind of funny is that in the like in the executive order that they're citing to do the smithsonian stuff uh they were so they struggled to find actual controversial exhibits so they just kind of came up with some hypothetical ones they were like what if in the women's museum you have something about trans athletes that shouldn't be there and it's like first off the women's museum is still being built it does not yet exist it was 2022 they're like we should get on that

yeah and yeah so it's it's really funny seeing them really stretch for to find controversial things because it's the Smithsonian it's like serious people run it's every they just need every they need everyone to think that every single institution and building an aspect of life has been infiltrated by Marxist communist lefties or whatever Trying to do Sharia law

It's just And only he can fix that And only he can fix it By by infiltrating these organizations And turning them into right wing Cesspools Infiltrating Hmm

All right, we did it Parker, thank you so much For being here with us today Thanks for having me I always love Love coming by We love having you you here, please tell our listeners.

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