1009 - Sideshow Bob Ritchie feat. Alex Nichols (2/9/26)
Alex Nichols is back to recap Turning Point USA’s alternative halftime show featuring Kid Rock, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, and Gabby Barnett. We also read a Tablet article complaining that Robert Kraft’s #StopJewishHate Super Bowl ad was too woke and before checking in on some old friends (including Megan McArdle) trying to downplay the significance of the Epstein scandal.
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I love how fast people forget that even consensual prostitution is illegal in much of the US , and trafficking adult women is also an illegal and heinous crime which is emotionally harrowing physically and mentally can cause lasting damage and pain.
What the right wing doesnt get about the culture war is it’s called L I B E R A L A R T S. There is no chud conservative arts. It’s why it sucks it’s why the orchestra folks were leaving cause they went to liberal arts colleges. It’s fucking in the name. It’s like being like damn our sith are so bad at not killing their apprentices or masters because maybe they’re not Jedi knights.
Hilarious
Why is there so much mucus in your throats? Actually difficult to listen to
You mean you didn’t watch the pre pod video on only fans?
Just make Alex the third mic
*4th, I'm not counting Matt out
Felix learn one more band other than Brand New challenge.
And one other book other than Revolutionary Road EDIT : actually I think he's Brough up Anna Karen inability a few times.
Also, stfu with your anti USPS bullshit meg . Making me vaguely nauseous
PS Pablo is on a fucking heater lately you love to see it folks
Cut to exterior: IDF base; morning sunlight dapples a blown up section of hesco barrier and tangled razor wire. Black clad men reacting joyously and with obvious pride in a job well done. Cut to black screen. Robert Stack voiceover: Lchaim intifada, mutha fuckahs
What is the Spanish Charlie Kirk song at 25:26?
Those commentators - like Megan Mc Whatever and Megan Kelly - that are like *shrug* 14-16 isn’t that young, are completely missing the point that the common through line was coercion, assault and/or rape. The girl that was sitting in Jeffrey’s kitchen (on the island I believe, not NY) crying, and one of the cretans that was close to him (was it that older couple with the kids that wanted to marry off their girls to Jeff, or was it someone who work for him? Don’t remember) came up and ask her what was wrong and she said she had been brought to the island and had her passport confiscated. Of course that person did nothing to help her. There’s a reason they recruited foreign girls, the less English the better. I don’t remember which tranche it was in, but in True Anon they quoted someone celebrating the fact that they couple speak or understand English. You don’t have to know their age to see the illegality, not to mention the total moral depravity which you might not want to be all shruggies over. Blech.
That farce TPUSA put on was pre-recorded. They could've fixed the problems by doing a second take before airing it. They didn't because they are lazy and didn't want to take the extra time to do it right.
@chris second mention of Gary glitter in as many weeks. Ever heard this song? Next time here's your music cut: https://open.spotify.com/track/6xkdrgASYj4FApleKzift6?si=dIIoawTzQSuwWYFQoIxdpA
question for the Deep Music Heads: did the Kopyright Liberation Front know about the Allegations when they aped the riff for their debut hit Doctorin' the Tardis??
Will's laugh is half the reason I listen to this show
for me it's the pure ASMR I get when he goes "it says here" when reading
Felix’s riff about Steven Pinker inventing the shocker is why he would probably get banned from BlueSky.
16 year old girls diffusing throughout the environment due to Boyle’s Law.
the episode art 😂😫
Didn't Charlie Kirk get stuck in elevators?
Like a cold drink of Mountain Dew Zero waking up on a hot dry morning.
they should have just play the ending song ya have on the pod instead of having Kid Rock and all those weirdos perform at TPUSSSAY halftime
I muttered that I never got past Swann’s Way either, and look what came up in my feed: https://youtu.be/uwAOc4g3K-g?si=dtSMuf7E_grS6MeP
It wasn’t funny when Will said “I like that song”
Never trust a pedophile.
Megan McArdle really does fully embody every part of that John Ralston Saul book Matt mentioned with every word she writes
I love this thing being done in the Atlantic article where we all just pretend billionaires and heads of state are like regular citizens and do not in fact get extensive background checks for every person they interact with
its also very obvious felix was a brand new fan by how often he references them and jesse lacey
instant classic. im a little piggy and this is my type of slop.
I'm going to follow the cranks on this. I don't think he's dead.
Can you guys stop edging Will with interruptions he sounds like he's gonna cum
Kid Rock is a rich kid from Michigan. He cosplays as Southern white trash. Everyone in Nashville hates him bc he thinks his president of Redneck Disneyland(downtown Nashville/broadway). And to be honest, he is the president of Redneck Disneyland. Oh! And he got kicked off the stage at his own bar for being too drunk.
A propos of nothing, they just name dropped Rod Dreher on France Culture, the French equivalent of NPR, and it made me wonder how Brother Rod was doing.
Felix was definitely watching little miss sunshine recently
The Atlantic has been conditioned to like & protect Epstein via his habit of feeding it dead Slovenian teenagers
Lmao McArdle did the "why there were no flowers for Brian Thompson like there were for John Lennon" thing for Epstein
If the elites hanging out with Epstein weren't committing crimes, they should all be put under conservatorship for being complete incompetent morons
Get Big Lurch up there post-COVID
The epstein emails really do shed light that Steve Bannon definitely was melting bodies in that jacuzzi in the house he rented.
Nah. Charlie wasn't there. He was throwing his entire ass to Benito in Hell.
Haaa jes hwhanna kiss ma fish.
Yo necessito heroina por favor?
There’s no trick to it! It’s just a simple trick 👍
I think Felix almost said the Saul Williams album by mistake
Shamwow got HIS tongue bit off and then he beat the shit out of the toot. How do I know? I represented him.
x-raided has been free for years now felix lol, good namedrop tho
I don't want to idolize the past too much but when I was younger when a scandal got even kinda big there would be an investigation committee in the senate and it would at last put up the appearance of looking into it, so it's like low key fucking insane that the Epstein story doesn't even get that
I guess what's the point now eh? They know they can't just lie and get away with shit like they used to, no pomp and ceremony is going to hide the fact none of them are going to put each other in jail over this shit. Same with Palestine. They know they can't hide it anymore, that's why they're doing the whole let's build a surveillance state and move towards fascism thing
Where’s the party for old-fashioned guys? Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?!
SOMOS CHARLIE KIRK!
I found in over a decade as a postie people are really comfortable with trust convicted nonces to wander around there neighbourhods knocking on there doors and asking their kids if mum is home to sign for the registered mail.
Here's the We Are Charlie Kirk track that Chris found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEHn-lZ40U&list=RD1DEHn-lZ40U
Just came here for this. Gonna send it to my niece
Yves Klein Blue NFT.
There’s no trick to it. It’s just a simple trick!
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One day future man will return
brand new mentioned 🗣️
They should have made the kid from the antisemitism commercial the bear jew
Will, you can’t just say that word lol
McArgle-Bargle is sub-Michael Tracey, "Nothing to see here!" Michael at least gets paid off with young pussy; also Matt Taibbi lost his "partner" the hate-filled dry drunk Zionist nut Walter Kirn this week, no more "Racket News." Taibbi can continue writing encomiums to Bari Weiss' genius all alone now. "She's not 4!" so it's okay? A 9 year old victim is known.
It’s great that Megan McArdle was making the same argument as Bryan Callan. “Nobody cared about this kind of thing back in the day.”
Meghan and co doing the “oh you sweet summer child we already knew the system was dark and unfair” routine regarding Epstein is so funny bc ok the system you advocate for is rotten to the core so how exactly is that supposed to persuade anyone to your side? Like we’re just supposed to shrug like one of the animal in the flintstones and go “it’s a living!”
I like that Felix cites seminal texts like Little Miss Sunshine when taxonimizing Jews for outsiders. Did he watch it recently, or did it deeply shape his growing mind?
Why did Kid rock wear the euro tourist long yet skinny jorts and fedora combo for his big performance
Because he's a brain-damaged moron?
Kid Rock is making the transition so he can run for office
I need that We Are Charlie Kirk track
Megyn Kelly also did the 'well they aren't 4 year olds' take which is funny to me because that means - ByHerLogic - what Roger Ailes did to her wasn't actually all that bad.
OJ wasn’t let back into polite society and he was found innocent! Where was Megan then?!
Worrying about "Black Santa."
There have been a lot of people, and I would include Kissinger and the Cold War Israeli heads of state in this category, who reached a relentlessly practical conclusion from the Holocaust: If you are behind the wheel of the genocide machine, it can't target you.
It’s not like the Holocaust victims were 4 years old!
Jesse Lacey + Brand New double mention. Felix definitely still spins Deja.
Funny, I'm currently on the 4th volume of the Proust novel, and the first part really is all you need.
Ok. Stop then
I was ready to lose it like Matt did that one time during a McArdle reading series 💀 Jfc
I love how conservatives have just stolen the liberal playbook and think that politics is loudly broadcasting how much you pretend to like a piece of media.
Megan McArdle segment hit like crack
Gonna need a link to the reggaeton We Are Charlie Kirk
https://youtu.be/1DEHn-lZ40U
"Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It's called manslaughter. I think all that lethal weapon horseshit is just an excuse so you dancers never have to get in a real fight."
the end of the Atlantic article reminded me of Eyes Wide Shut: "Someone died...it happens all the time! Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn't. But you know that, don't you?"
Holy shit it’s actually precisely like that scene…… yikes
alright that’s it if you guys don’t make Alex third mic i’m telling Taylor Lorenz you said she doesn’t mask enough
He's fine, but no.
Just think, you start as an ambitious, American young man living in the richest and most free country in the world, at the end of history. Then you work hard to become the political voice of a generation, and entertain people...only to die to small arms fire at the age of 30. What a world! I know Bosnians in the same age group who faired better.
Cropped boomer music
how come all the trump supporters stopped wearing their never trust a pedophile shirts?
All of them. And Ted Cruz said on the floor of the Senate "Stop attacking pedophiles!" and then never "corrected" his "mistake."
Gonna try to become a right wing country singer under the name Buck Broken
Horses champ at the bit
love when Felix hates on quest bars. they’re like eating the goo used to make beyond meat
Liel Leibovitz is 100% the sort of person who would pretend to be _more_ racist than he actually is because he wants to be seen as cool by the Ridgewood Eva Braun lady
love this world we live in where you’re permanently blacklisted from society if you criticize israel once but get to rule society if you rape children
The song you’re thinking of is dirt road anthem by Jason Aldean. Brantley Gilbert tried to copy it and it sucked even worse
yair offering more resistance to netanyahu than any western leader over the past two decades jesus christ
Felix, you’re too funny looking to go around sounding like an asshole so repeat after me: SEX WORKER! SEX WORKER! you got this big guy!
He'll definitely listen to and read this
Y'all ever notice you never see kid rock and Robert Ritchie at the same place at the same time?
wtf why didn’t you guys buy a super bowl ad for fallen Hezbollah fighters. what is my patreon money even going toward if not for that
love the israeli ad of them murdering a random Arab civilian for no reason. those types of videos really won over the world over the last two years
I just wanna kiss fish and never wake up.
I heard it that way too, as did the Due Dissidence guys. Better than pedophilia, anyway!!
lol Yair Netanyahu treating his dad like Phil Margera and getting exiled to Miami
Come on, Yair quit sunkin my dick I gotta work in the mornin
The world is an ugly place, she’s an ugly woman. 💰
My favorite part of the Bannon PR interview is when Bannon tees up a question about all his ‘tax’ clients and Epstein bumbles through a response about being good at money. This asshole never mentions tax law.
I’m doing a Mad Men rewatch and I had totally forgotten that Don invents IDF babe propaganda in season 1.
My dad is from Romania and has been to 3 or 4 Kid Rock concerts back when nu-metal was big. I don’t think he gives a shit about the politics involved or Kid Rock as a person. He just thought that’s what Americans like and wanted to be American lol.
Americans didn’t appreciate Bad Bunny because they weren’t ready for how many references there were to eating ass in his songs on live television
love Alex but I have to disagree with his point that the biggest kid in the school wouldn’t be the one getting bullied. we just read fetterman’s book like two weeks ago
this super bowl felt so much like 2022 with all the crypto and AI ads. truly insane to see after 4 years of rug pulls and millei’s shit show. it felt like the overlords telling us we’re here to rob you of what little you have left then get the fuck out. everyone focused on the halftime show but the real theme of the night was that the future of this country is not for anyone worth less than a hundred million dollars.
The sorting hat/yarmulke digression was chefs kiss.
it’s astonishing how israelis are physically incapable of grasping slang that originated after 2002. like the music they listen is so emblematic of this shitty time period but then when they speak they’ll make borat jokes or say totes instead of totally. I wonder if it’s because they miss doing 9/11
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C'mon guys, it's not a pedophile ring, it's just an ephebophile ring!!!!
Phewww I was really getting worried there for a second, nothing to see here folks!
For suburbanites who want to bitch about Chicago on NextDoor but are too lazy to actually go there, we have Elgin and Aurora.
thank you Felix for bringing up the point about how the post it note never would’ve stuck to the backpack like that. I was screaming that at the tv for at least a minute
Leil Lebowitz taught a creative writing seminar when I was in undergrad, and he told the kids who were bad at writing that they should try drinking before they write to loosen up. I feel like that's relevant here somehow.
Did he talk about his phase where he tried to become a professional video game scholar
there is a book in your house right now! it’s xi jinping’s governance of china!
charlie kirk in the upside down flickering the lights on and off, candace owens hanging a shit ton of christmas lights all over her house
No one can write off the Epstein shit without lying about it. His victims were as young as 9 and frequently 12-14, and there were hundreds, maybe thousands of them. The Mandelson scandal is not "hanging out" but taking money and leaking secrets, showing Epstein to be an intelligence handler. Nothing except the weirdest Qanon version (i.e. any possibility of whitehat Trump) is getting debunked so far.
Statutory rape was not "fine" among normal people before MeToo, let alone soliciting child prostitution. Even if you believe that people are more than the worst things they've done, this was not standing by a friend who made a mistake, it was standing by an *ongoing* *human* *trafficking* *operation* in service of elite domination that was evil enough even *without* the sex crimes.
The only country song I want to hear is "Parked Out by the Lake"; nothing else compares.
Wrong! David Allen Coe's version of "I'll hang around as long as you will let me" (written by Steve Goodman) is #1 GOAT.
The names on these people Brantley Lee Bradford Kirk McMcGraw Brandon
That TPUSA show limped along like it was shot in the neck.
About the Megan article " they were 16". Some of them were as young as 12
I just wanna drink my beer Drive my truck Beat my wife Drink my beer Drive my truck Drive my beer Drink my truck Beer my wife
I wake up and I get brutally Proust-mogged by Alex Nichols
The right needs to embrace Pro Thunderball https://youtu.be/Czt_ZLbN4pI?si=2Hj04_I37b60Eb3O
Have Roman Polanski MC the event. Fuck it
Never heard of this Leibovitz guy. I think he should die slowly.
Just get Alex on third mic at this point. he's always a treat
Dad asked if I watched Bad Bunny or the TP USA thing. His face visibly fell when I said I really liked the Bad Bunny performance. He just sheepishly admitted that the Kid Rock thing was pretty bad.
Felix mogs by kermiemaxxing on foids at jiu jitsu class
I want to thank Alex and Felix for their rant about the sorting hat As I drove into work this morning. You guys really started off my day on a hi note
Missed Matt talking about the Super Bowl commercials but it was for the best he wasn’t on as hearing Megan McArdle might have induced another stroke
Immediately after Devil Without a Cause and "Bawitdaba" Kid Rock had a cash-in collection of his early stuff called The History of Rock, which had the new song "American Bad Ass" which we've all seen a clip of him performing at the 2024 GOP convention to an uninterested Usha Vance a thousand times recently. He brags in that song about his last album going platinum seven times. His next album, 2001's Forever, sold about 1/8 as much as Devil, and he basically never rap-rocked again. But all his country and country-adjacent music has been released under the Kid Rock name, never as Bob Ritchie.
Oops, "Forever" was just the lead single. That album was called Cocky and it went 5x platinum. "Picture" was on that album. The country pivot was mid-album cycle. Thought that was his next record.
Alex!!!!!! It’s been a while
You can tell they wanted to book Ted Nugent for their halftime show, but he probably insisted on performing Jailbait to defend the president
there’s a dusty book in your house somewhere, it’s called fallout equestria
ill listen to this later, busy getting some TPUSSAY (mans ass)
TPUSA should have hired that wierd-looking white reggae guy who sings about vaccines, feminism and traditional family values
Too smart, too highbrow.
They wanted the kid to turn the jock into a Lenny that strangled their Arab classmate
My favourite part of the super bowl was disgraced former secret service agent Joe Hallenbeck dancing in the rafters.
Please make alex a permanent host, hes the only one who fills the emptiness without amber, matt etc
This
Good episode and also every Alex Nichols appearance turns into the interruption Olympics.
I was really rooting for Will toward the end there. Clear underdog.
Missing Matt’s annual rundown of the Super Bowl commercials
And his amazing freak outs over Megan McRablebable or however you spell her name
Anyone else hear that as " I just wanna kiss my fish"? Reminding me of the ol' simple folk helicopter crash tunes
I see your Elgin, and I raise you a Sandwich, IL for shitkicking towns.
Helgin for those in the know. I remember going to a jobs fair their when I was 19 which may be the most midwest thing of all time.
I've never been a Bad Bunny fan but only because I've always felt that latinos have an unfair advantage in the musical arts because it's a lot easier to have good rhymes when everything ends in -o or -a. Happy for them though.
My mom, a dyed in the wool colombian ultranationalist, repeated white supremacist talking points because she doesn't like the Puerto Rican accent. We contain multitudes. The half time show was p lit, tho, and she came around.
Blood On The Dancefloor mentioned??!? Hot damn
"I just wanna kiss my fish..."🎶🎵
Once again risking my life trying to listen to the episode and lift at the same time 💀😂
Felix begins speaking at 2 minutes on the dot
I was both disappointed and relieved that they didn't do the whole episode in Spanish.
i think you guys underestimate how many republican/trump types are nu metal bumpers.. almost all of norcal and shitty midwest/redneck places like oklahoma is full of em
Holy shit please give a trigger warning for GenAI "music"
I wonder what kitchen utensils Megan got for this article.
Please make Alex a permanent host, i beg mr chapo
I'm sure they could have found a Nazi pedo who knows how to program vocaloids and had a Maga Hatsune Miku hologram sing the Charlie Kirk song
And dressed in Hugo Boss threads!
Will hits his vape at 42:54
Did you A.I. that reggae Charlie Kirk song, or did that already exist in nature?
It sounded like Felix said "derpy jew"
Tom McDonald was the only artist who asked to be in the TPUSA half time show and by extension the only artist to be denied.
We're literally being controlled by a Jewish cabal. Like, I cannot get past this regardless of how much I try. Yes-yes, capital is the machine that administers the state, but the ideological skeleton of legitimacy for modern American capital is frontierism. This use to be expressed as white supremacy, but has now simply become Jewish supremacy.
Was it problematic to day Apartheid south Africa was ruled by whites?
McCardle being back to continue the rights’ push of normalizing pedophilia is a.. SHOCKER!!
37:16
Fuck
MI HERMANO ESTAMOS CARLITO KIRK. Traemos la flama!
¿Contando o no contando la violencia de pandillas?
We love our Alex folks
Felix keep Connie Connecticut's name out of your goshdarn mouth. She sang with Nate Ruess! From The Format buy Boycott Heaven today!
The president of PR is a pedo
I got the loud if someone can handle the columbian marching powder!
twelfth
I read something about how the same day or day after charges were brought against Epstein in 2018 he has six 55 gallon barrels of sulphuric acid to his island and his island also has a trap door which opens directly onto the ocean surface and I heard the voice of Brace in my head from when he said many years ago ‘what does God want me to do with this information??’
But he didn't have friggin' Sharks with Lasers on their heads?
6th
PSA: the flu is fucking rough this year, folks. Do what you can to protect yourselves. My brain matter is being fried like an egg
I hope you have a speedy recovery ❤️🩹
WOO ALEX
kids rock - j epstein
ALEX!!!
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I can confirm, after extensive undercover investigation
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