Milo Yiannopoulos has publicly accused Benny Johnson of being gay and having encounters with boys at TPUSA Student Action Summit events — allegations he claims left Johnson's wife in tears. So what do we do with accusations like these? Jared and Mike explore how to handle damaging personal revelations about figures on the MAGA right.
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Episode Transcript
Sorry, one second. Okay, Okay, I need to pull it
together. Okay.
For people who don't know Benny Johnson, we have talked about
him a little bit on here. He's like branded himself as a
kind of meme Lord. He calls himself.
And like when he's introduced ATPUSA events, he comes just
like I'm the meme Lord. And it's like, there's like
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lightning and like strobe effects and like, he like
summons the memes and it'll be like some fucking Pepe the frog
taking a pee on on, you know, onon on Barney Frank or something,
like in the background, like cheering.
His face is just like in a constant state of being a
YouTube thumbnail or he's like, that's.
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So good. Yes, it is.
He's always like like yeah, that's yeah, that's the Benny
Johnson face in sound is raw. Look at like a like a dog like.
A dude, dude, it's like. A very Long Island accent, like
a dog, like a dog. He he's just like, yeah, he he's
just like kind of like somethingnew happened, you know, like,
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yeah. And he's got kind of glasses
sometimes Other he's he's very, he's interesting because he has
a sort of like telegenic face without being attractive.
I don't know how to describe that.
Like he's sort of like looks pleasant, but not that's just my
my, my opinion about Benny Johnson.
He looks. AI generated.
Yeah, that's the perfect. Well, that that actually would
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coalesce with what I was describing before.
Anyway, he was he was at BuzzFeed briefly and he was like
kind of the right wing person atBuzzFeed and he ruined.
He did a post Jared that was like the the the hottest
pictures of presidents in their in their briefs or something
like that. Presidents in their swimsuit,
swimsuit of their presidents. And he could only find like one
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or two. And it was like one of them was
like Nixon or something. But like then put other ones
that be like, here's Eisenhower driving on the sand in a Jeep.
And it was just like clearly only to get the pictures he
liked of the presidents who werein in in drawers.
And it was like one of them was like a a young Ronald Reagan.
He put the older one and he's like, not as good, but the young
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one. Yeah.
So it's, I don't know. It's seemed a little gay to me.
I I mean rumors that he is gay. I have heard those in my
reporting days in DC from SO many different people so often
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that like, I, I have no evidenceto support this myself.
I want to be clear, but just thethe diversity of like the people
who have told me this, people onthe left, people on the right,
people someone who attended his wedding told me this.
And like, you know, like I've heard so many people this has
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been like his former Co workers at BuzzFeed.
One of them has come out and talked about this, people who
have I. Think more than one actually
have because I think he actuallymade out with one of the
BuzzFeed according to them at ata party.
Yeah, so this is this is like the worst kept rumor in
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Washington is that this guy is acloset case.
But for whatever reason, Milo going on Tim Poole's show and
making these comments caused Benny Johnson to, you know, not
so subtly subtweet Milo appearing to threaten a lawsuit
against him. Mike, you want to read this from
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our boy Benny? OK, yeah, I'll do it.
I'm making my meme face. If you can't see it, I am duty
bound to take action to protect my family against those who
maliciously defame and attack us.
More to come on that soon. Pray for healing for some really
sick and delusional people. Jesus is about redemption.
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The legal system is about justice.
Happy Sunday. Pretty good.
Powerful statement. Power state.
Powerful statement from a personwho is never felated a penis.
I read that statement very straight coded.
I thought so. I don't really.
And it was like, you know, he should have.
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He said it's like he's like, andnow it's time to watch the
Dallas God damn fucking Cowboys.This is one of the more painful
and awkward topics that we coverjust because it's like, I don't
understand why, Like what's the deal?
Like why? Why can't Benny Johnson just be
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a gay personality that they like?
Well, I mean, we, we talked about this when we did that
premium episode about like Dave Rubin.
I I don't think the like, gay conservative is an archetype
that's very well received in conservative media.
Anymore it doesn't have a high ceiling where it hits.
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There's there's a ceiling it hits and then you can't go
further. But I well, the reason I thought
about that, Jared is like, is like they're always looking
like, oh, this is my blank. This is my black guy, This is my
gay guy. This fuck, this is my trans
person. What was it?
What's her name? Blair White.
Oh yeah. Yeah, Blair White, she's like a,
she's like, she like a, you know, a trans woman.
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She's always appearing in bikinis and stuff like that.
I would be very interested to hear the T from her about who
has approached her on the right,because I bet you that list is
like longer than you would believe.
You know, I just right. Like they, they're always like,
yeah, like, like Trump used to say it like every event or he
just sort of he's my black guy, get up here black guy.
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You know, like it's like they it, it legitimizes their their
white supremacist like death cult project.
And, you know, part of me is like wouldn't like, isn't there
room for like a gay Betty Johnson as there was room for
Emil Yiannopoulos? But maybe I've answered my own
question because nobody came to Milo's rescue when, you know,
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the stuff came out for about himsaying that like some 14 year
old whatever have sex with oldermen in the gay community or
whatever he tried to justify. So Milo responded basically
saying he's not scared of Benny threatening A lawsuit against
him, that he would welcome one actually, and that he would, he
would love to do discovery and subpoena witnesses and, you
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know, let this shake out in the court of law.
Since then Benny has really beenfamily man posting uploading
photos of him and his wife and his kids doing what Milo did
point out which is every couple days posting a picture of him
and his family and being like God is so good I love.
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Y'all like a white Christian family I.
Love my family and my wife, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some stories about me
having sex with some some Student Action Summit kids, like
yeah, yeah, yeah. But how many y'all like a white
Christian family? Really, Huh.
How many y'all come on on Twitter?
I don't want to hear it from you.
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And. Then all the chats and the
replies being like beautiful, beautiful.
Family Sir, I love your memes post the post.
The one about AOC again. I love that one.
What's really funny about this also is I think it's like we're
we're getting closer to the factthat Benny Johnson has the
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dumbest fan base of any right wing influencer.
They have to be not just for thecontent, which really sucks, but
also the fact that they're like half of it is like here's my
Christian family while he's all these allegations that he's
having tons of sex with young guys.
Yeah, yeah. So in, in wake of Milo making
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these claims, he has, like I said, been family man posting.
There's just two posts I, I wantto read here that kind of give
you a sense of the tone. He, he posted a photo of his
family again. And the caption on it was, I
know this is going to trigger some people, but here is my
family. Let's just pause on that for a
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second. I want to think about that.
This is going to trigger some people, but check out this
picture of my family. Jesus, I.
Know this is going to trigger some people.
Just a picture of my family. Like what is one of them?
The fucking Elephant Man. Like I understand like like he
does it, he does it. It's like one of those pictures
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of like it's like the family, but then there's a picture one
of them in the back is like thatWolverine, like the comic where
he's got a giant penis. You know, like one of those
memes are like Barney the Barneythe Dinosaur with like huge
boobs or something. I should say repeat of the Dave
Portnoy, you know, Tom Brady sonpic.
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It's like Benny post a picture of his family and he's like,
this is going to trigger some people, but it's because like
one of the kids is totally nude.Yeah, or, or, or those things
where it's like like, you know, the the family takes pictures as
like nudist, like part of a nudist colony and they're like
stacked together. I have seen that and it's not a
very appropriate thing to share,but anyway.
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Well, he posted the voice, He said we're happy, they're
miserable. That's why we win.
And then there was another thingthat he posted that weekend.
No picture of his family in thisone, sadly.
So our listeners may find this less triggering.
He said demon possession is real, man.
Christians speak out against demons.
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There's power in that. That's fucking tight.
That's tight. That's awesome.
That should be a sample in like a Blood Incantation album or
something. I like that Jared reading that.
Let's tie as hell in Possession is real man, I love that.
But no. He's OK.
He, he's cool, actually. Like Benny Johnson's kind of
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cool. He's he's he's really, he's
posting through it. He's posting through it.
He's posting through it. I'm going to sue you.
Here's my family. Demon possession is real.
Maybe this will trigger you, butI had breakfast this morning.
He's he's really posting it through it.
He should come on the show. I feel like we could have fun
with Benny. He can be the third Mike on his
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own. Who the hell is episode?
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