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The Midterm Stakes, Gavin Newsom & Woke Hollywood | Peachy Keenan with AJ Rice Dangerous Laughter · Dangerous Laughter

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  Speaker A: Dangerous laughter. Laughter. Dangerous. Danger. Laughter. Dangerous laughter. Danger. Left hand sam.
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  Speaker B: The emergency destruct system is now activated. The option to override detonation procedure has now expired. The ship will automatically destruct in E minus one minute.
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  Speaker C: Welcome back to Dangerous Laughter. Got a great episode today. I am AJ Rice. Remember, go to dangerouslaughter.com to experience the inevitable. Really, you know, we have a lot of different guests that come on this show. Some traffic in the dangerous. Some just traffic in the laughter. Today's guest does both. In fact, she was. She was born to be on this show. My next dangerous guest is a proud domestic extremist and believes convincing people to become more domestic is the simplest way to save Western civilization. She is a proud husbo. Sexual. I think I said that right. Mother of five and master of the irreverent pseudonym. She is a satirist, a wife supremacist, and her bylines have appeared in the Spectator, the LA Times, Newsweek, and more. Her new book, Super Villains Architects of America's Decline. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the queen of Karen Bass's wasteland, Peaky Keenan, everybody. Peachy. Great. Great to have you here. Welcome to Dangerous Laughter. How are you?
• 2:49
  Speaker D: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me, A.J. it's great to be here,
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  Speaker C: for sure. And I look, I was very familiar with your first book, which everyone can see behind you, you know, over there at Regnery. Domestic Extremist. Right.
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  Speaker D: A
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  Speaker C: lot of people don't realize, you know, how much fun you're having playing words on that with that name. And then I've got the new book here, Super Villains. It's amazing. You know, I'm just envious of. I mean, the graphics are done well. Love the blurbs. Got some of my buddies there in the blurbs. So I think what people want to get into, and we usually do this with everyone because some people might not have gotten the first book if you. You should go get both of them. Right. When your kids. When your kids come back from fall break, make sure you stuff under their bed or under their pillow. Both of these books, ladies and gentlemen. So give us the Peachy Keenan origin story, right? How. How you went from, you know, secular, you know, sort of nothingness into Catholicism. People want to hear it.
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  Speaker D: Okay, yeah, sure. And I talk about this a little bit in my first book, Domestic Extremists. So I'm. I was born and. Born and raised in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. My parents were Republicans, but we had no religion. My mother was like a committed Atheist. But she was a wonderful person. Okay, don't hold that against. She has since converted to Catholicism, actually last year, miraculously. And so I went to, you know, private all girls school in Los Angeles. I went to an Ivy League university. And I just sort of, you know, this is like the 90s, and I was imbibing the culture, which was the default was, you are going to be a pro choice feminist, you're going to vote for Democrats. And that was just. There was no question about it. I think I, you know, voted for Democrats in the 90s. I barely remember. Um, it just was. We weren't, we weren't very political, but I wasn't going to step out of my lane. That was just what there was. I didn't even meet a Republican conservative man other than my father, until I met my husband. And I'm not even kidding about that. They simply did not exist in my world. You know, I had girlfriends who, you know, got abortions. We were just spending our 20s like you, like you did, like just having fun and working and one day we'll get married. But it wasn't a priority. But I became more politically conservative. I kind of figured out, oh, my parents are onto something here. So I was sort of politically conservative. But when I met my husband, more or less, but it was really meeting him in that era, Iraq war was happening, that I radicalized. And he would ask me these very pointed questions. And he was not Catholic at the time either. He was basically like secular in Los Angeles. And we'd have these great debates. And I realized maybe I do. Maybe I need to rethink my position on abortion. Like, maybe it is murder, but if it's murder, if the mother, if the mother wants it, that's all the only thing that matters here. I just started to see, like, the fallacy of those ideas that I had been taught and I just had never really thought much about. I wasn't a political person. And we got married. We converted to Catholicism. We raised our children as Catholics. I converted after him. I was too busy having children to convert. And then in 2019, I was a writer. I'm a professional writer. I was working at Hollywood Studios writing copy for Disney, HBO, these big brands. But in 2019, I was, you know, I had started getting really into, you know, Twitter and politics, right wing politics online. And I started writing for the American Mind. I had friends who edited the American Mind, James Poulos, Matt Peterson. And I was like, can I send you guys something? And I did, and they published me. And I had to Come up with a pseudonym, which I was. I was already PG on Twitter, and that was 2019. And so a year later, I got my first book deal, and here I am talking to you.
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  Speaker C: Wow. It's amazing. You know, I've. Too many people know me. I mean, AJ Rice is one thing, but it's pretty much a knit, and it's not a pseudonym. You know, I've got all kinds of nicknames, some of which I like, some of which I came up for myself, most of which come from the haters. And, you know, I'm from Philadelphia, so, you know, we're used to the haters. So super villains.
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  Speaker D: You
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  Speaker C: know, sometimes I try to. I fancy myself a super villain sometimes. I've called myself in the past the Phantom Menace, because, you know, I've been in rooms that I'm not supposed to be, and some of who. Some of my clients are.
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  Speaker D: But.
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  Speaker C: So the book is called Super Villains, and obviously, it's a fun comic book style. We're using that type of language. Architects of America's decline. So. And you. You go through all of them. The Rainbow Goon Squad and all kinds of people. We'll get into it in a second. But do you think super villains. Do you think they. They know that they're super villains, or are they. Do they think that, you know, obviously what they're doing is for the greater good? It's altruistic or it's. It's, you know, you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. I'm. I always think about Thanos from the Marvel movies and comics, right? Two movies. Infinity War and Endgame. And, you know, he basically, you know, he was making the argument that the. The universe is overpopulated and. And that he was going to collect these Infinity Stones, and with the snap of his finger, he was going to wipe out half of existence so that no one starved and no one went hungry. Now there are some memes out there, and you can buy a mug. You know, I mean, some days, I got to be honest with you, I turn on Ms. Now, and I think to myself, maybe Thanos was right. If we could only snap all the Justin Bieber fans away. Right, right. But. But I think there are super villains. Don't they think that they have. They know what's best for us?
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  Speaker D: Well, right, Exactly. To them, they're superheroes, and you and I are the super villains. We are so evil, irredeemably evil, deplorable. And we need to be, you know, they can't yet murder us. I Mean, they're trying to. I mean they're killing some people. They're trying to kill the President all the time. They can't yet legally murder us, so they do what they can. That's what this book was born out of. The sort of like the canceling and silencing of people on the right. People who had like a different covet opinion. You know, this book kind of was germinated, right. You know, post Covid, just watching people get thrown off Twitter. And, and, and you're not allowed to say anything about the vaccines or you're not allowed to say anything about drag queens in kindergartens or whatever. And just the, the culture of like this like kind of fascist culture of like. Shut up. Like we're going to tell you what's right. You're wrong. You're an idiot. You're just this toothless who, you know, believes this old stuff. We have the new. The new. It's year one, right? It's year zero. And we're here to fix everything. Sort of the utopia, the classic utopian. So yeah, they, they think they're the good guys. And I just want to be. Make sure we're clear. Actually, no, in fact, what they have been, what they're doing, all the people in my book and the many people I didn't even include in my book, what they're doing, their project does seem to be anti human and anti American. And they are kind of using us, using the country's power and might and economy to give themselves, collect, kind of gather this political power to themselves to enforce their vision of the world, which I don't want their vision of the world. Okay. This book is my rejection of their vision of the world.
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  Speaker C: Sure, sure. You mentioned about when you stare into the abyss long enough, there are super villains that stare back at you and it's funny. It's like I, I have one of your super villains over my shoulder here. This is, this is the, this is my book, the Curse of the Bearded Lady. I mean, you, you've got, you've got. You see, I actually give them actual mascots. I actually named them the Woking Dead, the Bearded Lady. But you know, in the. I guess the author's note. Well, before I get to that, it sounds like you tiptoed right up to the abyss right before the virus escaped the lab. How dare you. It sounds like. Because I ask everyone this. Like what? Because I interview a lot of people that come from, you know, where I come from, which is, you know, the liberal arts or the humanities department or they're, they were once this and now they're that. Like, what was the flashbulb moment for you? It sounds like Covid and, and the lockdowns and, and, and obviously coming into, you know, experiencing more social media and then cancel culture and starting to sort of, you know, get red pilled that way. But was that it? Because you said to yourself, okay, well Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders and then Trump and Naomi Wolf flipped and, and, and Tulsi Gabbard flipped And you know, RFK Jr. You know, the oldest male heir of the most famous Democrat family had had enough. So it sounds like Covid was the thing for you, the abyss for you. You had had it.
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  Speaker D: Yeah, I think that the, the COVID the lock, the, the crackdown on social media, which I was affected by. I mean, the reason I called myself Peachy Keenan, that's not my real name, was because even expressing any political opinion, for example, when I was full time at Disney, would have gotten me fired. And so like thinking about that and realizing where we were as a culture that, you know, half the country was voting for Donald Trump and yet they were treated as literally domestic extremists. This tiny fringe group of, I don't know what, neo Nazis or something, but it was a completely mainstream thing to do, to be Republican, be a conservative in this country. But we were treated as these wild eyed extremists. And that was just hilarious to me and shocking. But my real, my real final, my big red pill was in 2015 when Donald Trump started running. I mean, I voted for him in 2016. Right away I could just see instantly, and I bet money on this and I made money. I just knew he was the only chance,
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  Speaker C: sure
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  Speaker D: that the right had to beat her to beat Hillary. And you know, I bet right.
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  Speaker C: I mean, look, I've been in this game 22 years and I've been in here in the swamp for that long too. And I've seen all kinds of people come and go and I'm, I've never been. I remember when Metallica was getting played on Stranger Things, there were, you know, Metallica fans that were basically saying, oh, we don't. You, you just learned about Metallica from, you know, this stupid kid show. You're not allowed to listen to Metallica and, and the boys, Lars and the rest of them, they stepped in and said, no, you find, find your way to us any way you can. So when it comes to, you know, conservatism, I've watched people come in, implode and leave. I've Watched people flip and go crazy. I, I mean I've watched it all. But the OG coming down the golden escalator was a huge moment for me as well. I mean I, Most of the PR firms here in town threw in with the other 17, 18 goofballs. You know, there were run of Bobby Jindal and I mean, you remember, you forget. Yeah. Oh
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  Speaker D: my gosh, haven't heard that.
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  Speaker C: You forget what the Star Trek convention, you know, looked like. Right. I mean it was, it was, it was out of control. So when it comes to super villains though, you know, and you, you break it down in different parts. Part of the, the sort of theme of the book is you don't. You, you talk about people that are pretty much either what, not. Not dead. Had to be American. And there was another, it was another, there was another qualifier there. Yeah,
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  Speaker D: they had to be unique or representative in some way because the real problem with this book was there was too many on my list. I had,
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  Speaker C: Yeah, I was gonna say, how do you do it? I mean I, I had
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  Speaker D: a spreadsheet, I had multiple categories I had to cut. There was just. I realized you would need a forest of trees to print all the paper required for like a multi volume set of like thousands of people.
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  Speaker C: So I had to
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  Speaker D: cut it down, you know, to people who were juicy in some way. Either they were well known and had a. Really. Had done really, you know, naughty things I wanted to write about or they were not well known, but I thought people might want to know like what they've been up to. Names I had never heard before. Oh, this is the person behind that crazy thing that I, that everyone hates. The
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  Speaker C: greatest name of all, Chase Strangio. I mean,
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  Speaker D: what strange,
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  Speaker C: I mean, you know, is this a, this is who she worked for? The Penguin or a 2Face? Gotham City?
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  Speaker D: Yeah. You mean she, you can't say her name three times because she'll, she'll materialize and do bad things.
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  Speaker C: That's right.
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  Speaker D: Chase. Chase is a trans, trans man who is an ACLU attorney and she spent, has spent her career fighting for trans children's rights. She's the one who sued, you know, these school districts who didn't want boys in girls locker rooms. She has sued states for preventing boys from playing on girls sports teams. She's gone to the Supreme Court and you know, she's like the Elliot Page of ACLU lawyers. And so, and, and obviously it's just the name itself was just too good to not.
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  Speaker C: Oh, for sure, for sure. I don't know how I Don't know how. How Chase Strangio escaped me and the bearded lady book.
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  Speaker D: See how much you can learn. Well,
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  Speaker C: that's it. I'm going through your book, and I'm going, wow, here we go. This is. This could be the person funding the bearded lady. So listen, we're gonna. We're gonna take a break. Take a little break. Pay a little bills here. We'll be back on the other side. We are speaking with Peachy Keenan, author of Super Villains Architects of American America's Decline. We will be back on the other side. I'm like the Joe Patchy of conservatism. Write my books to fight back. I write my books to, you know, poke fun at these people. Because, look, there's plenty of people out there that talk as fast as, you know, Ben Shapiro. I mean, there's all kinds of people, you know, Victor Davis Hansen's a. And this one's a genius. And all the rest, guys like Gutfeld, Steven Crowder, the Babylon be. What I try to do in some ways are more devastating. And this is what made Charlie so effective, is that Charlie was able to take. He. It was almost like he was weaving tapestry in front of his brain. Moved very quickly. One of the fastest I've ever seen, you know, and I never shut up. And I will tell you, he was able to take, like, the New Testament and weave it with the Magna Carta, make jokes about what happened on the Bachelorette last night. I mean, he was. He was able to weave like that. And that scares the hell out of anyone that can weave like. And Trump does. Does. Anyone that can do that, scares them. I'm not here to get into the. They go into all the rabbit holes there. But. But I will tell you, Charlie Kerr was a master at weaving politics and the culture together, just like Ross and just like Breitbart.
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  Speaker E: You should be women. And yet your beards forbid me to interpret that. You are so. Someone once said comedy is the art of turning horror into humor. That's the essence of the curse of the Bearded Lady. Laughing in the face of madness before it devours us whole. Nothing in living memory has been funnier or more horrifying than a movement convinced there are 72 genders. Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina. The curse of the Bearded Lady. The curse of the Bearded Lady. The trans mafia has whipped America's sanity. It's Monty Python by way of mengelo. Absurd theater with real victims. I'm not here to conduct a medical examination of the trans mafia. This is a cultural Autopsy. If Billy Shakespeare could write tragedies, histories and comedies, why can't I? The radicals refuse to surrender their gender mad stranglehold on America's vital institutions. This book will show how we got here, how we fight back, and how the Democratic Party's obsession with mainstreaming the bearded lady will doom it to political extinction.
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  Speaker F: Stay locked in with the man who slayed the Woking dead. This is Dangerous Laughter with AJ Rice on the Publius Media Network.
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  Speaker C: Back on the DL, I am AJ Rice. Go to dangerous laughter.com. always remember, and peachy probably agrees with this, there is no substitute for perfectly timed derision. There is no substitute for it. And you know, always remember, humor is moral warfare by other means. And our guest today was born to be on Dangerous Laughter. I gotta tell you guys, you got to go out, get a copy of this book, get a couple copies of this book. Super villains from the author of Domestic Extremist Peachy Keenan and I, you know, on the COVID here, we got everybody. The Rainbow Goon Squad, the sick doctor, the Hollywood wrecker, you know, probably all of Peachy's neighbors there in California. Yeah,
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  Speaker D: I know. God forbid they recognize me walking my dog.
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  Speaker C: That's right. I
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  Speaker D: live in fear.
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  Speaker C: That's right. If you would only just, you know, can, you know, convert to something else other than Catholicism, you know, you could wear a rubber dog mask like Biden had those guys in the Pentagon doing. You know, they're putting. Yeah, I mean. I mean, my God. So Chris, hit me with that graphic. Let's pull this up here. This is from the book. I want everyone to see this. Right, so here's where you write. Midway through writing this book, the wind shifted, the storm subsided, and for the only time in American history other than, you know, Grover Cleveland, an ex president, retook the White House. The Overton window slammed shut, birds sang, dolphins leaped, the sun came out and we had won. The bearded lady stopped singing. One millimeter closer. I want to get into this millimeter. And the last hundred year march through the institutions would have been complete. I talk about this all the time. I would have been finalizing this manuscript from my gulag cell with the. With the rest of the thought criminals. You know, it's like I think you and I might have been separated at birth because I pretty much say that, that if we weren't the one, I'd be in the. I'd be in the FEMA camp, you know, I would be. I'd be somewhere in the cell with you, I guess, and Metaxas and You know, the rest of our friends. Yep. So one of the things you get into in the author's note, and it's something that affected my book as well, is September 10th of 2025, my client, I worked on a couple of his books, was assassinated Charlie Kirk. And you know, this was of a. Basically. And look, I don't go down rabbit holes. These people have proven nothing as far as I'm concerned. It's, you know, they're chasing all these phantom things. You know, they're chasing, you know, Lindsay Clancy's innocent and the, the, the first lady of France has a penis and all the, I mean it's just some of it's, it's, it's crazy. But you bring up the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I mean, the fruit from the super villain tree caused this, am I right?
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  Speaker D: Yeah, of course. Yeah. I knew Charlie, I would go on his show from time to time. I was on his show January of last year because the fires. Right. My neighborhood in Altadena. And I was like live on his show showing that and obviously like you completely horrified by what happened to him. And this was in the middle of me kind of revising super villains. And I was talking about a lot of these online influencers, you know, the Rainbow Goon Squad, these sort of child whisperers who online will lure kind of vulnerable young people, teenagers, children into these sort of gender and sex cults, furries, you know, all the skyrocketing rise in female teenage bisexuality. I mean that was. Which is now coming down because it was a trend, an online driven contagion. And so is transgenderism in many ways. And so yeah, Charlie's killer was, we now we know, was caught up in this like kind of online furry trans, you know, and they obviously
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  Speaker C: binary weird.
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  Speaker D: Yeah, they hated him for obvious reasons. He represented everything that they weren't. He was the. He was speaking truth about what they were and their own self hatred and all the rest of it. And he had a trans boyfriend or whatever, so he was doing it for his lover. You know, who knows? Like what was in his head? I. I can't
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  Speaker C: say. LA trans. I mean, it's just ridiculous. Yeah.
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  Speaker D: So, yeah, I dedicated the book to Charlie though, because he was exactly victimized by the fruit of the super villains. And so it really is, this is, it's funny. Many of them are very ludicrous and they're kind of hilarious to make fun of. But the ideology that so many of them spout is, is so destructive and it
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  Speaker C: is
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  Speaker D: leading so many people astray. We See this, We saw this in the Clancy movement around Lindsay Clancy. We see this in, you know, feminism. We see this with children's programming on, you know, on Disney, where I used to work. It's just like, almost inescapable.
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  Speaker C: Don't forget Ms. Rachel. You know, she's in the
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  Speaker D: book.
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  Speaker C: Oh, I know Ms. Rachel.
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  Speaker D: Exactly.
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  Speaker C: Ms. Rachel's. Ms. Rachel's out here today trying to figure out. Trying to figure out the other side of that airplane hijacking in Israel, you know?
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  Speaker D: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Trying to figure out the mindset. Right. You know?
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  Speaker D: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: So.
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  Speaker D: I know.
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  Speaker C: So. I mean, the last thing Charlie. The question Charlie was answering at the time that he was clipped was about the trans mafia.
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  Speaker D: I mean, the time. And
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  Speaker C: about trans violence. That was the question that he was in the middle of answering.
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  Speaker D: Right.
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  Speaker C: So, I mean, I, you know, I don't know. I mean, I, you know, the universe. Universe winks at us sometimes. It pulls the rug out from under us. But I, and I've told everyone this, and I, I, I had a business arrangement with him. I worked for his publisher as, you know, kind of like I do for you. But I had, I had met him on a bunch of occasions, even coming around since he was 19. I mean, I was with Ingram and Monica Crowley a long time, sat next to them as their producer. I mean, he was fundraising and building Turning Point, and, And, you know, guys like him, Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, I tell everyone this. The audience probably sick of hearing it. I mean, we. Some of these guys, those three in particular, you know, they are probably the three guys in my time in, In. In this world that reset the board for conservatism, for populism, for, you know, you know, the Republican Party as best as they could handle it. I mean, they were conservatives first. Very different guys, all three of them, you know, that weren't elected. You know, there's plenty of people, you know, Newt, Rush, and Reagan, these were all politicians, but. Or Newt, Trump and Reagan, but, you know, but those three in particular, and I knew of all of them, I was the closest with. With Breitbart, so. And I'm. Look, I'm a geriatric millennial, you know. You know, and so, like, I'm a little older than Charlie and, And Andrew kind of kind of trained me. You mentioned at one point, you quote Saul Alinsky, and the quote is, mockery is man's most potent weapon. Now, I agree with that. This show is based on that. You know, we believe in the equal distribution of mockery here. Alinsky was very well read. He knew that. But I found, I, I. Dangerous laughter is about Western civilization. And it's about, in most cases, we don't hang our court jesters and, you know, comedians, satirists, people that traffic in farce and parody. We can, you know, sometimes ridicule can move faster than rebellion. I don't care whether it's Shang Gillis or Mark Twain. This could be weaponized. Right. And, and Trump does it. Reagan would disarm people with, with humor. I mean, the best politicians can do that. I think Alinsky knows that. Is there a reason you put him in there before I rebut him with someone else?
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  Speaker D: I was just using that to say, like, why, how am I, like when I was thinking, how can I possibly counteract these people? How, what can I do? I don't, you know, not, not a violent person, obviously, but I'm, I can maybe use rhetoric. I'm a writer and so those are my weapons. And writing is very good for making jokes and, and mockery, having fun at people's expense, but also exposing truth. And comedy is just, you know, I'm not a stand up comic comic, but I do like to keep my writing entertaining. And, you know, it's enlightening, but it's also kind of fun, hopefully to read through. It's not dry or academic. And because it's so effective, comedy can just instantly strip someone of their facade. And
• 28:19
  Speaker C: there's
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  Speaker D: nothing else that can do that.
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  Speaker C: That's right. It's our civic duty to use it. And it acts as, you know, kind of a, an audit. Humor could be an audit of, of society. And, you know, I do a lot of books here. You know, you are right in my wheelhouse. I mean, this is, I found myself chuckling, you know, and it's hard, you know, and, and look, I do the same thing. I, I'm, you know, I go on Don Junior's show and he's, he introduces me as a standup comic. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. So the father of comedy. Just a little history of dangerous laughter here. Go back to ancient Greece, you know, 5th century BC in the middle of a war between Athens and Sparta. Aristophanes in his play the Knights. Imagine this publicly funded wine festival where a comedian with a chorus is making fun of all the politicians, the media, and he's doing it to their faces in the middle of a stupid war, the Peloponnesian War. And in, in the Nights, Aristophanes, who they tried to cancel, by the way. And I was thinking about this when I was reading Super Villains. Quote from the Knights, paraphrased from Greek, which I can't read. He who can best abuse the wicked is the best citizen. So, ladies and gentlemen, the super villains are the wicked. And Peachy Keenan is here to dunk on them. Dunk on them. And look, you do a fantastic job of it. And that brings me to sort of the super villain kryptonite question. Like, you know, dangerous laughter. Right. You, you, you can use ridicule against people that take themselves extremely seriously. Right. How dangerous do you think weaponized humor can be? Because I look around and I see the late night hosts dying off on their own. I, I, you know, there, I mean, Colbert's now doing what public access television in Michigan. And, and, and you know, sounds like Disney's going to get rid of Kimmel. Which leaves,
• 30:30
  Speaker D: which
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  Speaker C: leaves us with Jimmy Fallon, who. Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker D: No, I was gonna say Jimmy Kimmel and his wife are both in the book. So
• 30:41
  Speaker C: what's. Okay, so, and I've heard this from a few guys. So what's with the wife? The Kimmel wife? Is the Kimmel wife got her hand up his rear. Is it me puppeting him?
• 30:52
  Speaker D: I think so,
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  Speaker C: yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker D: Basically. Basically, yes. I mean, that explains the multiple extreme facelifts he's had, I think. Also, I don't think a man without a wife like that would have had all that face work. He, if you compare, I'm sorry, if you can. It's like shocking what, what she's done to him. She's redesigned her puppet. She used his show. I
• 31:12
  Speaker C: love it.
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  Speaker D: I don't know if your listeners know, but she, he mar. She was a producer of his show.
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  Speaker C: That's right.
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  Speaker D: And then they got married, they have children. She's. Whoa. She's, you know, to the, to the left of Hillary Clinton. She's
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  Speaker C: a Lindsay Clancy juror. She was,
• 31:28
  Speaker D: yeah, she's pretty extreme. She used his show during the, I believe it was the, during the 20. She like hijacked the show to make a pitch for abortion rights. It was when they were going to overturn abortion Supreme Court. And she hijacked the show to talk about abortion. Because isn't that funny on a comedy show at night to make a speech, get on your, get on your soapbox and talk about women's rights and how they need abortion access. Do your children talk about that?
• 31:56
  Speaker C: Well, you're in la. Do you ever bump into Corolla? Like, how is there any way she allows the two of them to stay Friends. I mean, I would. I would say
• 32:05
  Speaker D: they are friends. I saw them together on some Zoom call, so I think they just have such a history going back. I was on Dr. Drew's show. I haven't met Adam, but I. I remember back in the day when Carolla and Kimmel were doing the man show.
• 32:17
  Speaker C: Right.
• 32:18
  Speaker D: Some of your listeners my age. I remember that.
• 32:20
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker D: Funny show. And it was.
• 32:22
  Speaker C: I was a fan.
• 32:23
  Speaker D: It was rye bald humor. Okay. It was like raunchy humor. They had girls in bikinis on trampolines. Maybe they were topless. And I once tried out to be a writer on the show. I, like, had to do a packet and write jokes.
• 32:35
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker D: And my jokes, you know, I was working a little blue. Okay. I wasn't yet an extremely domestic mother of five, so
• 32:42
  Speaker C: this is dangerous laughter. You could be blue and still be domestic. Here. You can. You can work.
• 32:47
  Speaker D: Nothing untoward or blasphemous, but. But I thought the show was super popular. And he was in blackface. Do you remember?
• 32:55
  Speaker C: Yeah, he was dressed up like Carl Malone. Yeah.
• 32:57
  Speaker D: No,
• 32:57
  Speaker C: the Utah Jets. Yeah.
• 32:59
  Speaker D: Right. So now he's just basically seems to be paying reparations to his wife, like his apology towards
• 33:05
  Speaker C: domestic. Domestic reparations to your significant other. Oh,
• 33:10
  Speaker D: and when he. Remember, he went after Charlie on his show.
• 33:15
  Speaker C: Yes.
• 33:15
  Speaker D: He. He said that, you know, he was insulting all of his. All of maga, saying that he was blaming MAGA Republicans somehow for killing Charlie or something. And it was just like. And then he. He called Miss. He called Melania Trump a future widow. I mean, this guy is not afraid to go there in the most, like, discussed despicable ways. I mean, he's really, like, a lightweight compared to what I do. But he. Long story short, he. He. He earned his spot in the book. They both did. The Kimmels.
• 33:46
  Speaker C: Yeah. And look, he seems to be, you know, a little bit of a freaking dick. I mean, I seen him interact with Bill Maher and more. Even Mars, kind of like. Because he, you know, he ambushed Jay Leno that one time. Right. On his own show. Leno talks about it. So I was just wondering. I was on Dr. Drew recently, too, but I don't get a chance to ask about that. I was just wondering, like, whether Adam and him. Whether the wife hasn't sort of separated them because she's obviously micromanaged his. His entire existence at this point.
• 34:14
  Speaker D: Right.
• 34:15
  Speaker C: You know, and it's weird. And I was like, Gavin McGinnis. Somebody was talking about how Kimmel and Howard Stern, both of them are being puppeted by these wives.
• 34:26
  Speaker D: Interesting.
• 34:27
  Speaker C: And that they're just, you know, Geppetto, feminist, wacko Geppettos. And they're just, you know, because the. Especially Howard. But I mean, the man show was cutting edge. I mean, this was counterculture stuff. This was completely politically incorrect stuff, like, you know, like Sacha Baron Cohen and Tom Green and the Jerky Boys and the Jackass Boys. Right. This was in that same sort of vein. Right.
• 34:53
  Speaker D: I
• 34:53
  Speaker C: grew up with all this stuff. Right. I love this stuff.
• 34:55
  Speaker D: Me too.
• 34:56
  Speaker C: I mean, some of it's coming back, but you got to do it here. You know, it's. It's
• 34:59
  Speaker D: Right.
• 35:00
  Speaker C: But
• 35:00
  Speaker D: not allowed to do it. Well,
• 35:02
  Speaker C: before we just. Before we take a break. Take a break. I mean, you've tried out. You, You've. You wanted to be a Letterman writer. And I didn't know about the Kimmel thing. I mean, do you see the entertainment industry, you know, responding a little bit to the fact that, you know, maybe they shouldn't alienate half the country? I mean, obviously the Oracle boys, you know, the Ellisons, you know, they're. They're going to do what they need to do at Paramount and cbs and, and if they buy, if they buy Warner Brothers, they're gonna own cnn. So, you know, Anderson and his boyfriend better look out over there. Jake Tapper, I mean, you know, Wolf Blitzer, who looks homeless, you know, speaking. Speaking of Letterman, you know, him and, uh, you know, crackhead Santa. Letterman. I mean, they're. The two of them will be. They'll be sleeping on a. On a great. Outside Union Station. We saw with Elon Musk a digital jailbreak, you know, when he bought Twitter. You see some changes at Paramount and CBS and, you know, Showtime, it'll be interesting to see. I mean, I, I think Disney and Netflix, they're starting to buy podcasts and put them on. But you are right that Disney ruined a ton of stuff, you know, because we all needed black Little Mermaid in our life. Am I right?
• 36:22
  Speaker D: Yeah. Right. Actually, the man responsible for that, Sean Bailey at Disney, who's the head of the movie studio. I once worked for him. He's in the book. He was the one who spearheaded all the Disney live action movies, the little, the. All the princess movies. And his thing was let's, you know, reimagine the fairy tale beloved ip. Let's reimagine Snow White and the seventh. We all know what happened with that
• 36:48
  Speaker C: miserable white woman. That's miserable. Unmarried white woman.
• 36:51
  Speaker D: Yeah. Just like, you know, from
• 36:53
  Speaker C: snow. From Snow White to Karen White to Snow Karen. Right, right.
• 36:57
  Speaker D: There's no more prints allowed, but we're gonna get it again in Frozen three. I mean these things, you know, they take.
• 37:02
  Speaker C: You think so because. Because they have. They got rid of the wacko. It Star wars. Right. Marvel got hammered and they tried. They're trying to Course. Correct. So you really think Frozen three, what's gonna happen in Frozen three? They're gonna have
• 37:17
  Speaker D: Jennifer Lee, who's in the book, who wrote, you know, all the Frozen movies. She's still there and she. Frozen 3, I don't know the entire story. I think that some of the characters will get married because I think
• 37:32
  Speaker C: magical lesbian adventure, a magic
• 37:36
  Speaker D: Olaf the Snowman is like the only like macho, straight heterosexual man
• 37:41
  Speaker C: in
• 37:41
  Speaker D: the movie.
• 37:43
  Speaker C: And then his. The guy that does his voice is a total lib wacko. You know,
• 37:48
  Speaker D: Josh Gadget. Right. These people are not our friends. Frozen 2 was. Yeah. Was Elsa's like lesbian exploration. But they. There. Elsa
• 38:01
  Speaker C: goes to Hot Topic and buys some sex toys or something. Yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker D: But we see like, it's very interesting. Once Snow White came out and all the pushback and it didn't do well, Disney canceled their live action Rapunzel movie. I think for obvious reasons. They thought, oh wait, either they were going to cast it with, you know, a de. A diversity princess or whatever that was.
• 38:22
  Speaker C: God,
• 38:22
  Speaker D: not have. How dare you have long blonde hair. You know, that's white supremacy or whatever. But then about a year later they said, they came back and said, oh, actually we are going to be doing it. And the two actors playing the lead, playing Rapunzel and you know, Flynn Rider, Finn Rider, they look like the characters in the movie. And that's all anyone wants. Not about race. It's just about is this what the character is? You know, does this look like the familiar character? That's not being a white supremacist. I only want to watch movies with white princesses. That's. That's not the case. And they. We are called a race. You're called a racist if you say, well, Snow White is called Snow White for a reason. Like, it's okay.
• 39:04
  Speaker C: Please let your braids down. Let your plaited hair down. Lower them down here. They're rock rough and stuff with your afro puffs. I mean, I, you know, why not bring back the two people. Mandy Moore and what's his name from Shazam, who's now conservative. Let them. He did. They did the voices.
• 39:21
  Speaker D: They did. They're. I mean, they can't.
• 39:23
  Speaker C: Probably too
• 39:23
  Speaker D: old. Yeah,
• 39:25
  Speaker C: yeah, they're too old. Yeah. They're too old. All right, well, look, we're gonna take a break, be great, you know, because I think Mandy, you know, I think. I think they're both solid, you know, I don't know. You know, that was
• 39:34
  Speaker D: a great movie.
• 39:34
  Speaker C: We're talking to Peachy Keenan, author of Super Villains. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be back on the other side, guys.
• 39:40
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• 40:27
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• 41:09
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• 41:18
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• 41:27
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• 41:39
  Speaker C: Back on Dangerous laughter. I am A.J. rice. Always remember, our job here is to transform horror into humor. We're doing that. Fighting the super villains today. New book, super Villains Architects of America's Decline. We got Peachy Keenan in the house. And I gotta ask you, one of the things you say in the book, and it's a theme throughout the book, is that the one common thread of the super villains is that they want to make Americans miserable. That they love trickle down misery, right? They want you alone, you know, with your cat, listening to Taylor Swift screaming about the patriarchy, right? You know, upset that a heterosexual couple was in front of you that morning in. In Starbucks and. And he held the door for Her. Right. That's what they want. They want trickle down misery. Am I right?
• 42:37
  Speaker D: Yeah. And the reason they want that is because they want you to blame, not them, for the reasons that your life has not gone well or you don't have this. They want you to blame the specific demographic that they want to really destroy the most, which is like, you know, Republican men, white white men, white, straight, heterosexual men. That's the real villain of every story and has been for a long time.
• 42:58
  Speaker C: Right?
• 42:58
  Speaker D: So, yeah, they want to make you miserable and angry so that you blame them and not. Not the super villains. They're angels. They're hoping you don't notice what they're doing.
• 43:08
  Speaker C: Right. Yeah. The nuclear family is the enemy. Black Lives Matter told us on their website they were coming for that. They don't like the middle class. They don't like Western civilization, you know, Greco Roman, Judeo, Christian civilization. One of the things that makes our civilization special is that we stopped being, you know, being polygamists. We stopped cutting the heads off of our wives because we didn't have a Y chroma son like Henry viii. You have made marriage into a rebellion, right? You've. You've turned. You've turned being married and having kids, you have five kids and liking your husband into a counterculture identity. Tell the audience about the hate, because I love the hate. Because I know if you're a satirist, you know, you're over the target if you hear from these people.
• 43:56
  Speaker D: Right?
• 43:56
  Speaker C: So tell me about why all these miserable, unmarried, you know, wenches out there are pissed off that Peachy Keenan has five kids and likes her husband. She's a husband. Sexual. A
• 44:10
  Speaker D: husbosexual. Yeah. I'm only attracted to people who identify as my husband. So, you know, so far, that's one person I first like. I had no idea that people were hostile to big families or, you know, Catholics or anything. But when I was pregnant with my third child, I remember a neighbor was like, horrified and she accused. Accused me angrily of being a Mormon. And with baby number three, that was like, way too far. And with number five,
• 44:38
  Speaker C: she's never met the Irish or the Italians. She'd never been to the Northeast. I mean,
• 44:43
  Speaker D: Los Angeles, it's. You're legally forbidden to have more than two kids. Like three was like, whoa. People can't.
• 44:49
  Speaker C: They can't handle it. Your carbon footprint, you're expanding that carbon footprint.
• 44:54
  Speaker D: And so this is, like, why I became radicalized. And I was working at Disney and I was pregnant with my fifth at the time, my My youngest was in school, so I had gone back to an office. You work in an office? And she asked me just, like. Just not meaning anything about it. Just like, I'm just curious, why didn't you abort this one? Because you already have four. I was, like, out to here, pregnant, and I was like, I don't know. I'm Catholic, and I want the baby like my daughter.
• 45:20
  Speaker C: Wow. And
• 45:21
  Speaker D: she got. Then she got very offended that I had, like, not been. That I had, like, reacted weirdly. Like, I was kind of, like, surprised. She was like, I'm so sorry. Didn't mean to, you know, offend you. And so I became. Yeah, this is how. This is how it happens. Right. And so then during.
• 45:39
  Speaker C: Do you find that these people that talk like this to you, they don't have kids themselves? They have.
• 45:42
  Speaker D: She had. Right. She. No, she
• 45:44
  Speaker C: had a dog and a baby stroller. She was pushing up Santa Monica. Yeah.
• 45:48
  Speaker D: A bunch
• 45:48
  Speaker C: of
• 45:48
  Speaker D: cats and, you know, a string of boyfriends and who knows what
• 45:52
  Speaker C: else. She sounds like wife material. Go ahead.
• 45:55
  Speaker D: Yeah. No, definitely. Yeah. Don't. Yeah.
• 45:57
  Speaker C: Big shot with the cats,
• 45:58
  Speaker D: but you feel bad for them. But then during, you know, during. During COVID the doj, Merrick Garland was accusing people who went to the Latin Mass of being domestic extremists. And that was where the title of my first book came from. I'm not. I'm not a domestic extremist. I'm just extremely domestic. And that might mean being monogamous and being married and having a lot of kids and going to Mass. And that makes you. On. Now you're on a list. FBI target list. And so you do. You know, you do feel like that. That you are just constantly under attack. It does feel like a rebellion these days to be someone who is encouraging their children to, you know, don't. Don't date until. Use dating as auditions for a spouse. Don't just be promiscuous.
• 46:43
  Speaker C: Right.
• 46:43
  Speaker D: Hook up. Get wasted and hook up with a lot of boys. Wait till marriage. Okay? That is. Like, I tell people this. They can't believe that I have college kids who are actually devout Catholics who are waiting till they get married. They. They think I'm lying. Okay? I. On. On my life, I'm not lying. And these are. These are. It works. Like, you can. You can actually avoid these sort of, like, cultural, you know, tropes like promise and party culture. You actually can. Pornography addiction. There's a way to raise kids, to navigate all that and get. And get through it. It's not. It's not perfect, you know, but in general, it seems to be much more successful at raising sane kids to be good adults than what the mainstream culture is offering them. So, I mean, yeah, sorry, I'm guilty. I'm a mess extremist.
• 47:37
  Speaker C: Well, you know, when you're dealing with super villains, you know, and you, you, you, you have to distill down who you're going to cover. And there are names, you know, and names you, you know, maybe you don't know. And in some cases it's an actual individual. In other cases it's a group. You know, one of the things you constantly go back to is that there are minor super villains that undermine the fabric of society all around us. I mean, you just. I kind of described one there and, you know, I was talking to my wife and I'm a late bloomer. I unfortunately get married in my 20s. But, you know, I, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna ask peachy about a person that's in the orbit of, of my company and my family and others. And it's, it's just something that I find perplexing. And I was just thinking about like major super villains and minor super villains and how things can be destabilized even when they think that, that they're not doing anything harm. I may ask you about this. It's all different types of influencers out there. You know, some of them are trying to sell, you know, get you to watch their show. Some of them are trying to sell, you know, crap from Teemo. Some of them, you know, whatever. So I've got this person that's a, that's an ex, let's call her an ex, wife of a client. And, you know, this person was married for almost 20 years, had multiple kids with this person and it didn't work out. They moved somewhere that kind of changed their lifestyle and it, it ended up not working out. Now this person, prior to this was an influencer for showcasing family life and would kind of sell products. You know, here's a scented candle that smells like, you know, that smells like, you know, musk or this or sandalwood or whatever. You know, something stupid, right? Here's, you know, you know, live, laugh, love, you know, whatever. It is just, you know, garbage. What they're doing now is. Could only be described as. And I want to ask you this because you're a husbo sexual and you have five kids. They're. Because they've become a divorce influencer. They are posting all day about the ver. How much Fun being divorced is. And you know, get it, girl. Get it, girl. Leave that man. You know, just. But was like, hey, ladies. You know, I didn't realize what I was missing. I mean, just like. And just like videos and graphics and stuff. I mean, so basically inverted the Amway, pyramid scheme, snake oil, garbage. Right. Just inverted it. And now they're selling. They're. They're a divorce influencer. Have you seen this phenomenon at all out there?
• 50:28
  Speaker D: Yeah, I call them in the book Divorce Evangelists and they're. They're in my chapter is the Female Liberation Theologist. So.
• 50:39
  Speaker C: That's right.
• 50:39
  Speaker D: They've taken liberation theology, which is like a Marxist movement of the third World to liberate themselves from capitalism and colonialism. Female liberation theology is women left feminist, liberal women liberating other women from the oppression of, you know, the patriarchy, marriage, Marriage and family. And so that's what you. That's why you see divorced evangel, evangelism everywhere. You see this in peer groups. One woman gets divorced. All the other women decide to get divorced too, because she's going on trips and she doesn't have to do this and she's happy as a clam and she
• 51:14
  Speaker C: doesn't.
• 51:15
  Speaker D: And you see New York
• 51:16
  Speaker C: and they get mind ass by watching them on Instagram.
• 51:19
  Speaker D: Right?
• 51:20
  Speaker C: They
• 51:20
  Speaker D: have these. Yeah, these influence will show themselves like before my divorce, and they're kind of like slumpy and fat and look tired and. And then after my divorce, she snaps her fingers and now she's skinny and hot and gorgeous. You know, they don't. Most of that is. AI,
• 51:34
  Speaker C: ladies, this could be you. I mean, it's just
• 51:38
  Speaker D: because that's not gonna happen to you. Most divorces, you know, the outcomes are kind of unhappy for both parties in most cases. I'm talking about divorces where there's not, you know, some crazy. Someone went crazy and. Or someone's abusing. I'm talking about. You're just. You're bored. You don't like, he does this. You're sick. Whatever. There's, you know, you think the grass is going to be greener. That's.
• 51:59
  Speaker C: But the problem is the Internet lives forever. And your kids, if they're like, let's say they're like 12, nine and six or whatever. I mean, and Mommy's on there trashing daddy.
• 52:11
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 52:12
  Speaker C: And. And you know, and, you know, and just like, you know, I'm at the Morgan Whalen concert and I'm here and I'm that, you know, whatever the hell it is. Right. Whatever garbage it is, you Know, it's just, I, I, look, I brought it up because I knew it was in the book, but also I, I have this, this person is, is, is sort of circling and I, and
• 52:33
  Speaker D: you
• 52:33
  Speaker C: know, my wife makes fun of it, but I know for a fact,
• 52:36
  Speaker D: keep your wife away from her.
• 52:37
  Speaker C: Oh, no, they're in another state. But the point is that. No, believe me, I got a Scotch Irish wife, you know.
• 52:42
  Speaker D: Oh, good.
• 52:43
  Speaker C: Believe me. Yeah. She's got me nailed to the wall like a pelt. But, but I will tell you, you know, it, like the trans thing and other things, it becomes a peer contagion, like you said.
• 52:58
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 52:59
  Speaker C: Where you said, you know, where it, you, you take peer pressure and a social contagion, you marry them and it starts to spread
• 53:05
  Speaker D: and
• 53:05
  Speaker C: jump like a neurovirus on a poop cruise. It's just like this. It's the, it's right, is the norovirus of divorce. All right, Chris, let's, let's, let's grab these, these images here. We got three potential super villains. You know, one, one is very close hits, very close to home for you. But the first one, this is not an American, but I think we would have to. Absolutely. If you were to do like a, you know, paperback or an addendum,
• 53:36
  Speaker D: this
• 53:36
  Speaker C: person would have to be on there. Chris, give me the. There he is. Oh,
• 53:40
  Speaker D: nice.
• 53:41
  Speaker C: All right, Little Claw Schwab there. World economics.
• 53:44
  Speaker D: Yeah, I was actually disappointed I couldn't put him in. I do mention him, I do mention the U.N. you know, 2030 project.
• 53:51
  Speaker C: You
• 53:52
  Speaker D: know, you'll, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy. There won't be any human beings. We'll control the world government. One world government controls everything. Yeah. If I ever do a European volume, he's obviously, you know, top of the list.
• 54:04
  Speaker C: Well, yeah, and look, there he is at as Dr. Evil. Yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker D: super villain for sure. I mean, it's, it's when I first saw him in his little Star wars outfits, like, I couldn't believe this was a real, real person. And
• 54:17
  Speaker C: don't be, and don't be confused, ladies and gentlemen. That is not a hairless pet on his lap. That is Telo, the guy running for Senate in Texas who also resembles a, a hairless pet. So, you know, it's funny, doctor, there's. Austin Powers was modeled on Blow Blofeld, who was the, the sort of bad guy, the sort of arch villain, super villain in the background of the early Sean Connery Bond movies. So, so he's definitely one. All right, give me the next One. This next one. She knows personal. There he is. She knows. Gavin Newsome, Prince Charming here.
• 54:56
  Speaker D: The hair. He wishes. He wishes he had that hair. He
• 55:00
  Speaker C: does. He does. He does. We, you know, but
• 55:03
  Speaker D: there
• 55:03
  Speaker C: he is. Prince Charming from Shrek.
• 55:06
  Speaker D: Right.
• 55:06
  Speaker C: So what's it like living in his petri dish and are you ready for it to be exported to the other 49 states?
• 55:13
  Speaker D: Yeah, it already is. He's in the book, too. I have. My last chapter is Motel California. He's in it. Karen Bass is in it. We're not. We're not doing well. We're gonna have. I think we're gonna have Javier Becerra. Unless Scott. Steve Hilton can somehow pull out a victory. We're gonna have Nithya Ramen, LA city mayor. I mean, she's, you know, that's insane. She's worse than mom, dummy. Okay, let me just put it that way. And so we're getting. LA is getting the Olympics in 18 months.
• 55:42
  Speaker C: And. And am I. Someone sent me. Is someone sent me a story, told me that Arnold Schwarzenegger is helping this woman.
• 55:48
  Speaker D: I just saw that. Isn't that lovely? Our former Republican governor
• 55:52
  Speaker C: is happening there. I mean, my God.
• 55:55
  Speaker D: Well, again, look at the wife. That's all you need to know,
• 55:57
  Speaker C: huh? So let me. Although I do like his son in law. All right, let me. Let me do this third one here. All right. There he is. We got a new. We got a. We got. We have a Marvel movie coming out this December. Robert, you know, obviously that's not Robert
• 56:12
  Speaker D: Downey
• 56:12
  Speaker C: Jr. Yeah. Dr. Doom. Dr. Fauci, you know,
• 56:17
  Speaker D: himself. Yeah, Fauci's in the book.
• 56:20
  Speaker C: Absolutely.
• 56:21
  Speaker D: Sick doctors. And one of the reasons I wrote the book is because I knew that guys like him would never, ever, ever, ever, ever be held accountable, suffer even a day of the consequences for starting, okay, starting a worldwide pandemic and then covering up and then profiting from it. I mean, it's like he did everything bad. Like, all the bad steps and no guilt, nothing. Just preening. He became a worldwide celebrity. Got to meet Julia Roberts, you know, and like no conscience, like, of what he did to devastate small businesses. Kids in school, like, like, how does the man sleep at night? Where's our apology? Nothing. So at least I could do is put him in the book.
• 57:05
  Speaker C: And when the X Men, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers have to team up and fight Doctor Doom in the next Avengers Doomsday film, which comes out this Christmas, I don't think Robert Downey Jr. As Dr. Doom will be fighting them by pleading the Fifth Amendment 111 times. I don't think, I don't think it'll
• 57:26
  Speaker D: be. I
• 57:27
  Speaker C: don't think, I don't think he actually will be using his real super villain powers, unlike the hiding behind by advice of counsel. So let me ask you this before we go. What is the one thing in the book that people are not asking you about? And I ask everybody this, that, that you think the audience needs to, to latch on to and understand, like conceptualize what is something that not everyone is asking about but is a core part of your thesis?
• 57:59
  Speaker D: Well, I think that the end of the book, which is hopeful because I don't want people to despair and black pill on this, like, oh no, how can we ever fight back? And really my message at the end is you need to become a superhero. Okay? That's all we can do. You personally, every person out there needs to. Who's still sane, okay, who still has some common sense, can be a superhero. And you can raise children who are superheroes and you can protect them from the super villains. You must. You must do that. You have no choice anymore, okay? The stakes are too high. And so I really hope there's like an exhortation to people to be hopeful, look inward, you know, know your own strength and fight back the best, the best you can with what you have. And that may just be, you know, being great parents. It may just be, you know, working hard for, you know, to protect your family, whatever it is. Because that's really, you know, what else can we do at this point?
• 58:53
  Speaker C: Sure. I mean, right? All politics are local. All superheroes can be local too. You know, you could be your friendly neighborhood Spider Man. Right? You don't need to, you don't need to go on far flung adventures. You can do it at the school board meeting. Right?
• 59:07
  Speaker D: Right, exactly.
• 59:08
  Speaker C: So Peachy, tell the audience where we can find you, where we can get the book. Substack, social media, all of it.
• 59:15
  Speaker D: Well, the book, yeah, came out this month. It's available for sale on Amazon.com and also at my publisher, Passage Press. You can even buy yourself a special signed edition. You can follow me on X at Keenan Peachy and substack peachy keenan.com.
• 59:31
  Speaker C: i love it. I love it. Look, it's. It's really been a pleasure to have another person that traffics in dangerous laughter on the show named after. It's really been special. And, you know, we're helping Peachy get out there and I, I really appreciated you taking the time to be with us for sure.
• 59:47
  Speaker D: Thank you so much, A.J. it's my pleasure.
• 59:49
  Speaker C: Peachy Keenan, everybody. Super villains, architects of America's decline. You know, buy three, buy four, buy five copies. They make great gifts. You know, Halloween's coming up. I'm sure you'll see some bearded late, some super villains and some bearded ladies out there. Keep them away from your kids. That is all for today, ladies and gentlemen. Always remember, America. We are here to, you know, take out the left. Our job is to transform horror into humor. And always remember, stay dangerous.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker A: Dangerous. Laughter. Laughter. Dangerous. Danger. Laughter. Dangerous Laughter. Laughter.