In short
The episode is a political rant reacting to recent conservative figures’ controversies. Hosts argue Elon Musk is hypocritical for tweeting at podcasters and for alleged child-support failures; they claim money replaces parenting and cite Musk cutting off his daughter. They also attack Pete Hegseth, saying his Bible-referencing rhetoric is used to sell war for money, Israel, and oil, and that he’s insecure and removed competent military leaders. They mock Ted Cruz for being booed at a Texas college football game during discussion of NIL compensation rules. They criticize House Speaker Mike Johnson for endorsing MAGA candidate Brandon Herrera amid alleged extremist/sexualized remarks and hypocrisy, claiming Democrats should more aggressively “brand damage” him.
Guests
Jennifer Welch, Josh, and “Pumps” (co-host).
Notable examples
Cruz “Ted, you suck” chants; Johnson endorsing Herrera; Musk child-support dispute.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOElon Musk's Controversial Parenting
0:00 to 1:26
Discussion on Elon Musk's parenting and public persona in response to a podcaster.
“All right, Elon Musk gets triggered by 52 year old podcasters.”
Critique of Billionaire Values
1:26 to 2:56
Critique of billionaires' values, focusing on Musk's relationship with his children.
“Elon Musk has a, it's like I perceive billionaires to have.”
Religious Hypocrisy in Politics
2:56 to 5:05
Discussion on the hypocrisy of religious figures in politics, specifically targeting Pete Hegseth.
“And so we raise up a new generation of strong, brave warriors who will say, when it matters most, send me.”
Ted Cruz Booed at Game Day
5:05 to 7:14
Reaction to Ted Cruz being booed at a Texas football game and the implications for his political standing.
“And the religion stuff is just on par for this administration.”
Political Commentary on Mike Johnson
7:14 to 10:02
Analysis of Mike Johnson's endorsement of a controversial candidate and the state of the Republican party.
“It's because there's some jockeying by the NCAA and or ESPN in this.”
The Morality of Political Endorsements
10:02 to 14:00
Discussion on the moral implications of political endorsements and hypocrisy within the GOP.
“You didn't nominate this guy, but I was surprised to see you endorse him and fundraise him, fundraise for him.”
Discussion on Mike Johnson's Hypocrisy
14:00 to 16:05
The hosts discuss the alleged moral hypocrisy of Speaker Mike Johnson and the lack of Democratic leadership in addressing it.
“He has released Congress out of session so that there cannot be votes about that.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04All right, Elon Musk gets triggered by 52 year old podcasters. Imagine this. This is a man who is running all of these big companies. He's literally tweeting about me. I mean, how pathetic, what a pussy pop this up. Jennifer Welch says Elon Musk is the biggest deadbeat dad on the globe. I stand by it. I didn't go far enough, honestly. And then Elon Musk responds. No one has provided for their children more than I have. She is as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside of Elon. I want to say, I wear that tweet like a badge of honor. And I want to tell you something, Mr. Musk, I raise my own children.
0:47And if my children were trans, gay, or had any issue whatsoever that would make a lot of the world be mean to them, I would triple, quadruple, infinity down on my love for them. And that's the fundamental difference between you and me. Your net worth may always be more than mine. And I'm fine with that because your net worth is the most disgusting thing on the planet. You can't even love or take care of your own kids. And here you are some cheerleader and champion for the family values party. Seriously. I can't wait for him to watch the interview with Ashley St. Clair that you did. You're really going to get under his skin then, which it was a great interview.
1:26Here's the thing about Elon Musk. Elon Musk has a, it's like I perceive billionaires to have. He has this, if I give money, then it overcomes all of my shortcomings because I have money. And so the fact that you have completely cut your daughter out of your life because you disagree with her tells me everything I need to know about you, full stop. And money does not equate to parenting and loving and nurturing. And he's such a piece of shit. He doesn't even know the difference. No. Yeah. He's responding to a podcaster who's talking about his failure to pay child support and he's worth billions.
2:08One of the richest men, trillions. Yeah. On the planet, think about how morally bankrupt you have to be to be on X arguing with a podcaster about not paying child support. It's fucking mind blowing. Yeah. But I mean, hey, Mag is all family values. all the time. Hands up. Praise Jesus over here. Let's do a little casual tongue talking with big Christian Elon Musk. I mean, this movement is such a fraud. And speaking of fraudulent, effed up, ridiculous Christians is Pete Hegseth. Play the clip. We will finish this fight. But we also know, as the scripture says, the world will always have war and rumors of war.
2:54And so the fight goes on. And so we raise up a new generation of strong, brave warriors who will say, when it matters most, send me. Yeah, he has to raise them up and boost them up with testosterone pumps. Pete Hexf is the most disgusting and appalling member of Trump's cabinet. And that is a high, high, high bar. This is a man that has taken every smart military member because he is so insecure. He feels threatened by competent military members and he's gotten rid of them. He has gotten us into a forever war where we have depleted our munitions. We have announced to the entire world, hey, you know what?
3:43The US Department of Defense isn't near as good as we thought we were. They're as vulnerable as ever. And what he does is he gets up there and he's some crazy religious nut that thinks that women shouldn't vote and that anybody who's smarter than he is, has more merit than he does, should be fired. So when I say the dumbest people are running the country, he is right up there in the head of the snake with Trump, in my opinion. And Josh, I would say that Pete Hexeth didn't get us into this war. Benjamin Netanyahu got us into this war because they made a huge investment, AIPAC, in Donald Trump because they knew Donald Trump would prop up idiots that would be loyalists to all of these bad ideas.
4:33Yeah, I agree with that. And then you hear him reference the Bible. So that's how, when we talk about the weaponization of religion, okay, this is what we're talking about. Because he's trying to sell this war, he's trying to sell the young men on going to fight this war and what it means. And so he's referencing the Bible to stir people's emotions. This war has nothing to do with the Bible, the scripture, getting men ready. This war is about money. This war is about Israel. This war is about oil. It's always about money. And the religion stuff is just on par for this administration. Anytime they need to sell something, they pull a scripture out or they pull a boogeyman out.
5:16And it's complete and utter, as we know and love to say, bullshit. All right. And then we have, speaking of crazy Christians, we have Ted Cruz. He goes on, I think it's called game day, right? He goes on game day. And I just want to point out ESPN, why are you putting Ted Cruz on? Would you put Zoran on? I mean, I just, I just want to leave that there to kind of ask the question why all everybody always capitulates to these patriarchal, horrible candidates, but we'll leave that there. Well, I've got to answer for that later. Ted Cruz gets his fat ass on game day and he gets relentlessly booed at a Texas football game.
5:57This was in Austin, Texas. Play the clip. That's very simple. It brings order to chaos. It protects the students, protects the students' ability to be compensated, to receive name, image and likeness compensation. I think that's only fair. It's only right. They're producing enormous value and enormous skill. Okay, there you can hear. They got to organize. They boot him relentlessly at first. And then they go into, Ted, you suck. Ted, you suck. Ted, you suck. I mean, this is in Texas. And we all need to remember that there are more of us that hate these people than that like these people. And they artificially pump up everything online because these billionaire psychos game the algorithms.
6:43Josh. So what a way to wake up on Saturday. I think we're, Jennifer, in your apartment watching a little bit of game day, and we get to see Ted Cruz being booed on the University of Texas on college game day. It was fabulous. Keep in mind that there's a push to get a new bill passed by Congress regarding an overhaul of the NCAA's rules and regulations with regard to NIL transfers. And so that has something to do with why Ted Cruz, I'm sure, was asked to be on a game day. It's because there's some jockeying by the NCAA and or ESPN in this. I just it made my heart full. It was even better to see.
7:30I loved it. To see to see that. I just I loved it. And kudos to those young men, young brown men at the University of Texas, you know, that are down there saying, Ted Cruz, you suck because I support it. Pumps, what's your take on this? College football is your Super Bowl. So tell us your take on all this. my opinion is this bill by congress is against the athlete but that's a whole nother story for a different day i agree here's the thing two things stuck out to me about ted cruz number one he's so used to everyone hating him in every scenario his you know like if that were happening to me like my heart would race my i would talk faster i would have some physical sign of the stress cool as a cucumber because everybody knows that everybody hates everybody hates ted cruz
8:26franken said has this famous quote that says uh i hate ted cruz and i like ted cruz more than the republican colleagues it's such a good point that he's so used to it but i think he likes it i think There's a part of it that likes it. Okay. Here's a guy who spent the weekend when he wasn't hearing Ted, you suck. Posting this video that was highly edited that Zoran and AOC were having this big, glad, handing, giggling moment at the 9-11 memorial, which it was a brief, hello, how are you? And then they went right back. Ted Cruz on 9-11 was over there liking a bunch of naughty porn sites. And I don't want to kink shame Ted Cruz because I'm for whatever you want to do.
9:14But Ted Cruz isn't for all that. Ted Cruz is for Bible missionary sex. You know, Donald, you can call my wife whatever you want. You don't have to fuck her. I do. I mean, it's it's these guys like getting humiliated. There's something deep like Ted Cruz. I think he gets turned on when Donald Trump humiliates him. I think he gets turned on when all of those people are saying, Ted, you suck. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if he went back to the hotel and did something none of us want to visualize at all. I'm dead serious. Okay, moving along. Speaking of people you never want to visualize in compromising positions, Mike Johnson is confronted over endorsement of MAGA candidate Brandon Herrera.
10:01Play the clip. just because you let somebody cream pie you doesn't mean i have to give a shit about your political opinions the fact that you kept your cum trophy doesn't make you any less wrong about the dumb shit that you say that's him disparaging moms he's also in a video testing a nazi era submachine gun he called it the quote original ghetto blaster you see him goose stepping to a nazi marching song in a podcast two years ago he joked we should abolish old people i have to say I know you're not a voter in that district. You didn't nominate this guy, but I was surprised to see you endorse him and fundraise him, fundraise for him.
10:35What does his candidate say about the Republican Party's more extreme candidates? That's detestable language. You know how I feel about all of that, Jake. But I also know Brandon Herrera has been out running a very effective campaign and explained to people that he. the mega christians are the absolute worst and here's my theory on this here's my absolute theory i think uh moses mike grinder johnson is gay or bi and i think it's a big secret that he wants to continue to hide and his trade-off for not coming out of the closet finding the courage to do that and finding pride in who he is is that he and all of these other depraved people with a variety of skeletons, a variety of secrets.
11:21They want to continue doing things in private and preach against them during the day because the trade-off is we're going to deliver America as a Christian nation to God. I think this is what the Supreme Court whack jobs think. I think this is what Ted Cruz thinks. I think this is what Josh Hawley thinks. I think this is what all of these men think. We can continue doing all this shit as long as we deliver this nation as a Christian nation to God, which nobody fucking wants, except for these crazy ass evangelicals that get co-opted by Israel, by Russia, by the gun lobby, by everybody, the MAGA movement.
11:59We talked about broken vessels. Do you remember that discussion? Imperfect vessels. Imperfect vessels. I think this candidate might be an imperfect vessel. Would that be a fair statement? Mike Johnson, this story of all the stories today, how you can go on national TV, and you can hear those comments, and you can hear Jake Tapper frame the question, and you can still walk away saying that I endorse and support and fundraise for that candidate is deplorable. It really is. That's where the Republican Party is in a nutshell. Pumps, your family is still super MAGA, watches all the Fox and all that stuff.
12:45if in their super religious if they heard that that what this guy said basically calling somebody like you their daughter a cum dumpster and then they heard mike johnson say that what's the reaction to that are they like yep he's running a good campaign i mean how does that play out take us into the psychology on that okay here the initial uh response would be offended and against it and this quick, it would turn into, well, you know, it's not our business and other people get to vote. And, you know, we don't support that. We think it's wrong. But just in their mind, being a Democrat is worse than calling a woman a cum vessel or cum trophy.
13:33You know, I mean, that's kind of it in a nutshell. It would be, I'm offended. That's not right. I can't believe he did that yet. I'm still going to support him because I'm just going to deny it. And I will just say for everyone that thinks that Mike Johnson, he's a good Christian. So Mike Johnson has covered up for a man, his mentor, that sexually abused little boys, Donald Trump and all the people on the Epstein files. He has released Congress out of session so that there cannot be votes about that. He's doing it right now today as we sit here. He is supporting, I think it's Miller in Ohio, who is alleged to have thrown scalding hot boiling water on his wife and broken his two-year-old daughter's collarbone.
14:21So please, Mike Johnson, shove your fake morals with your bible that you don't give a fuck about and you're lecturing the pope on top of everything else he's the most despicable hypocrite on planet earth in my opinion and again you have so many to choose from he's the fucking worst because he has power and he won't use it because he's a pussy on top of everything and this is before we get to where's the teenage son he adopted josh you were going to say something. The porn. I was just going to say, pumps is exciting me this morning. Go pumps. Hell, I like it. It just makes me so fucking mad. Like you have the fucking balls.
15:05You have the balls to sit on television and defend that shit and then lecture the Pope on morality. Shut the fuck up. And I agree. But where are the Democrats doing reputational brand damage to this? Why are they not calling it out all day, every day that the speaker of the House does not deserve to be the speaker anymore? The gavel needs to be removed from him. He supports this, this, this. The case that you made should be made all day, every day by Democrats, calling him a hypocrite, calling him uses his faith, weaponizes it, that he clearly doesn't follow it. And they just don't do it. And it really irritates me.
15:49Josh, final words. And therein lies the problem for us. We need strong democratic leadership. They give you so much information day in and day out to browbeat them with. Seriously, where is the democratic leadership? Oh, they're meeting with Jared Kushner, apparently. All right. Please like, subscribe, comment, comment about little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson. And you guys, we are going to have to do the work that our party sometimes doesn't do. And that is reputational brand damage to these hypocrites. It's a layup. It is a layup to filet Mike Johnson. All right. We'll be back later with more news.
16:32Thank you.
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