Words With Trends 5/21: Qanon, Karl Malone, Amy Klobuchar. Breitbart

On this edition of Words With Trends Jack and Miles discuss a Qanon believer challenging an Oregon senator for their seat, the stories of Karl Malone's relationship with his child are coming back up, Amy Klobuchar has submitted herself for vetting to be Joe Biden's VP, and Trump is parroting Breitbart headlines.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Words
with Trends. I'm Jack O'Brien. That's miles that sound effect
from Words of Friends. I missed that game that was
actually pretty good. Um I missed the Yeah, I missed
the Words Streak two. That was fun too. Yeah. Because

(00:26):
my grandmother, she was such a big scrabble fan. She's
a big reader, like always trying to get me to read.
And when I was younger, she would always make me
play scrabble with her and she would just obliterate me
with her like adult vocabulary. And then Words with Friends
came out. I've got it on her iPad and we
would play like from far, very very far distances, but
we would always still play. And when I started beating her,

(00:48):
she had like a moment of like, oh, now the
teacher or the apprentice has become the teacher. And I
was like, yes, I have Yes, that is getting getting
dunked on repeatedly by an adult. Will do that going
the lab and learn some new polysyllabic words. I do
love a person who is just perfectly content to beat

(01:09):
someone who's like so far below their skill level. Yeah,
she kind of like off like that, Billy Madison recessing. Yeah,
just she and Jade me, you know what I mean.
I think she was just like, get down, get this
week vocabulary out of here unless you want, if you
want to play, come step your game up. And hey, hey,
I honestly remember when Words with Friends came out and like, oh,
she's she better be fucking ready, bro, because I've been

(01:31):
to college now and like it's been a minute since
we played scrabble. Uh miss that? All right, let's tell
the people what's trending. What's trending? Queen On? Is that quote?
Q and on is trending our newest for our fastest
growing religion? Uhh Yeah, it's not the religion I would design,

(01:56):
but it's the religion that we deserve. Yeah, why is
it trending right now? And so this this woman, Joe
Ray Perkins, she's she's taken a few bites of the
apple trying to get into office in Oregon and now
she's running against Jeff Merkley for a Senate seat. And
this woman is a pretty out there qu and On supporters.

(02:18):
She's retweets q and on stuff all the time, talks
like at the end of the year, she was like
for all the haters, allow me to posit our rhetorical question,
what if you're wrong? Um? Yes, And in her announcement video,
she was saying like she's all in with Q. She
was holding a like where we go, one we go
all bumper sticker like in the this video announcement. And

(02:41):
then when basically the entire national media was like, oh,
you got a conspiracy theorist who's like again for people
don't know what Q and on is, they believe that
Q is given the inside info to help the real
patriots and Donald Trump lock up all the pedophiles and
Satanists who are basically anybody who is ideologically opposed to

(03:02):
Donald Trump. It was a conspiracy theory that was that
started out as Robert Muller is working with Trump behind
the scenes and they're going to arrest all the pedophiles.
There's many threads now, there's many threads now where even
now people believe that Obama and Hilly Clinton have already
been executed for their crimes and the people out there

(03:22):
now doing appearances are doubles. Got it? Okay? Alright, well
now I believe it again. Now I find it believable.
So yes, anyway, so once everyone was like, hey, Oregon
Republican Party, your senate candidate is a straight up cute
like truth or like readying for office. What's going She
came out and was like, I don't support Q even

(03:44):
though all of the evidence points of the contract, including
her holding a Q and on bumper sticker in her
announcement video, and it's just sort of like, No. What
I like is that I believe in whistle blowing on
both sides and patriots. Like it was just a weird
one eighty. It was more like a one twenty, not
a full one eight. Right, I believe in whistleblowers. Uh,

(04:06):
like you whistle, but I mean you look, their activities
have only ramped up, you know, like it goes from
a thing you laugh at, and but they are they
are doing like I r L in real world things
that are very dangerous and are like it's leading to
arrests and things like that. So it's a you know,

(04:27):
rapidly expanding thing. A lot of boomers dig it as
an ideology to the more evidence we get that it's
not true, the more momentum it seems to build up,
which suggests that it's not going anywhere, and it has yes,
somebody legit wrote like a think piece and like I
think it was in the Atlantic that was like, this

(04:48):
might be the next new religion because it's growing faster
than any new religion and will be a be here
long after people aren't wearing aga hats too, I think,
because it like it really offers this like bizarro way
of explaining your own powerlessness, but like in a way

(05:09):
that like you're like, yeah, I believe in like Satan
and like pedophiles are bad. So like if if that
rubs me the wrong way, this is really good for me,
because that's exactly who the problem is. Well, I mean,
it's it ties into some of the things that we
have you know, talked about there being an a need

(05:30):
for an outlet for it, like in the thirties during
the depression. We talked on tomorrow's episode about how you know,
they became obsessed with bank robbers because they were like
taking it to the system. And I mean Q might
be their equivalent of that, you know, that some kind

(05:50):
of mythical figure who is taking it to the rich
liberal class. So I don't know, hopefully not, but we'll
see Karl Malone, why is he trending so there have
been a few people who have been kind of bringing out,
you know, because he was appearing in the Last Dance

(06:12):
and you know, like nineties basketball has been like a
huge topic of conversation people like on the on Twitter
and stuff like that. We're pointing to Karl Malone in
the eighties, when he was twenty years old, had impregnated
a thirteen year old girl who like bore his child,
and he didn't acknowledge this child for a long time.
The guy played in the NFL and didn't really have

(06:33):
a relationship with Karl Malone until two thousand and eight.
So a lot of people are like, uh, I don't
know if you guys know this thing about Karl Malone. Uh,
but I had not known. And when you read the
articles about it, like you know, the family of the
the woman, the thirteen year old didn't want to press
charges because they wanted Malone to be around to be

(06:53):
able to support the child. It was very dark. And yeah,
like the whole story about this, I talking about how
he you know, barely spoke to him to like when
he was eighteen. Malone was like, hey, man, like we're
not gonna have like you're on your own in the
sense that like, it's too late for me to be
a father to you, but maybe we can have a relationship. Jesus, Yeah,
that is horrifying. He he lived in Louisiana. It looks yeah,

(07:19):
that's where Yeah, in Summerfield is where he's from in Louisiana.
That's where that had occurred when he was still in
his twenties. Yeah. Demetrius Bell, Damn, that's uh much darker
than I was expecting. I was expecting somebody to have
made a meme with like his uh T shirt tucked
into his Highways to jeans or I did too. I

(07:41):
was like, Okay, what what's going on? I was like,
oh yeah. Amy Klobasher is also trending because the vetting
process to see if she qualifies to be Joe Biden's
vice president that she doesn't have any just qualifying skeletons

(08:01):
hidden in her closet has officially begun. She this is
the most sort of legitimate piece of information that we've
gotten to suggest who Biden is going to go with. Uh,
this is who I expected him to go with, just
because of his inability to do anything interesting or correct. Yeah,

(08:25):
I mean there's been a few uh they're saying Jean Shaheen,
the senator from New Hampshire, had actually turned down, uh
like being vetted. Um, so I know there's a few people,
but yeah, like it's getting real now, Uh when you
have these stories come out so to be. I think
a lot of people were hoping it would be a

(08:45):
woman of color at least to you know, like counteract
all the other lack of visible progress that his administration
would present us as voters. Um. But yeah, I think
you know, this is probably one of many options. I mean,
you know, Elizabeth Warren, I'm sure as also probably being
considered along with other people. But yeah, we'll see. I

(09:06):
don't know. Uh, good luck to them all, Yes, good
luck to them all. Uh, good luck to them. Bright
bart is trending. Why why are they trending miles because
Trump is out here tweeting some wild nonsense like about

(09:26):
ballot boxes being It's just that it's him with an
incendiary headline that is, like the d J said, like
people in Pennsylvania or Pennsylvania stuffing ballot boxes. Again, remember
we're talking about how they need uh proof of voter fraud.
They need to start seeding this story as early as possible,
so people have a thing to point to to give
a little an air of legitimacy to this absolutely bullshit story.

(09:50):
Um so you know a lot of people the reason
is because Trump tweeted a bright Bart story to back
this claim up, and everyone is just like cold on
or this. This is not an actual receipt from this store, sir.
This is a hand scrawled note that says receipt for
toilet paper. So I can't expn't it's above me. I mean,

(10:14):
they're not going to need proof, They'll just but they
need these stories. You know. It's the same like Seth
Rich and other ones. They just need a sliver of
something so they can all put, you know, ball up
that timfoil into a nice, you know, new era fitted
cap and put it right on and then be like
you see, do you see that Oxford model that has

(10:37):
him losing in a in a landslide to Joe Biden
because of the economy that I don't know. I don't
even wanna give it life. All I'm gonna do is
I will I will drag everybody I know to vote
on that day to ensure the Trump is not president.
And then we'll see what happens there like I can't.
I'm no longer like I can't. The salve of a

(10:59):
good holding numbers like wearing thin. Although just you know,
good snapshot means that we have to build on momentum
or whatever, just to be like, look, please vote this
other person out. Unfortunately this option isn't great. But it's
not this. It's not hell, it's not whatever. This is.

(11:21):
That's just it's this, but more of it is just
happening under the veneer of veneers. Yes, more veneers. Four
more years of veneers. That is one thing that we're
getting force to. He'll give you a veneerful. All right, Miles,
that's gonna do it for today. I hope everybody is

(11:41):
doing well. Stay say flash your hands, stay inside, and
be kind to each other and yourselves. We'll be back
tomorrow morning. We'll talk to them by