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061: Couldn't Have Happened to a Straighter Guy [Preview]
Episode Transcript
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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 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, on on 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.
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 something new happened, you know, like, 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 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 at BuzzFeed 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 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 were in 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 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 that like, I, I have no evidence to support this myself.
I want to be clear, but just the the diversity of like the people who have told me this, people on the 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 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 actually made out with one of the BuzzFeed according to them at at a party.
Yeah, so this is this is like the worst kept rumor in Washington is that this guy is a closet 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 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.
The legal system is about justice.
Happy Sunday.
Pretty good.
Powerful statement.
Power state.
Powerful statement from a person who 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.
He said it's like he's like, and now it's time to watch the Dallas God damn fucking Cowboys.
This is one of the more painful and awkward topics that we cover just because it's like, I don't understand why, Like what's the deal?
Like why?
Why can't Benny Johnson just be 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.
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.
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.
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, the stuff came out for about him saying that like some 14 year old whatever have sex with older men 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 know, let this shake out in the court of law.
Since then Benny has really been family 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.
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.
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 fact that Benny Johnson has the dumbest fan base of any right wing influencer.
They have to be not just for the content, 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 these claims, he has, like I said, been family man posting.
There's just two posts I, I want to 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 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 of like it's like the family, but then there's a picture one of them in the back is like that Wolverine, like the comic where he's got a giant penis.
You know, like one of those memes are like Barney the Barney the Dinosaur with like huge boobs or something.
I should say repeat of the Dave Portnoy, you know, Tom Brady son pic.
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.
Well, he posted the voice, He said we're happy, they're miserable.
That's why we win.
And then there was another thing that he posted that weekend.
No picture of his family in this one, sadly.
So our listeners may find this less triggering.
He said demon possession is real, man.
Christians speak out against demons.
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 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, but I 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 own.
Who the hell is episode?