Hard Factor 6/21: PFT Commenter Joins Us, and Donald Trump Is Separating Congresspeople's Families From Their Picnics
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Hello to all, even the haters and/or losers of which there are many. This is Will, Wes, Pat, and Mark from Hard Factor. This is our last episode of the first week of the podcast and wanted to say sup, or what’s up babes, to all of you and quickly introduce ourselves.
First thing you probably want to know is why is Barstool even doing a news podcast? Personally, we have no clue, but we think conceptually it has to do with that GIF of Portnoy laying bricks with an octopus body. The idea, we guess, is to provide an alternative avenue to stay mildly informed for normal people who fucking hate watching news shows. So that’s what we’re gonna try and do.
Listen, we follow most mainstream news (besides the sites that make you pay for articles, fuck you WaPo), and it’s become clear to us that if you were to try and take them all seriously it would just drive you insane. You’d have an existential crisis and end up thinking everyone was out to get you, Randy Quaid style.
You literally cannot sit through an entire episode of Hannity or Maddow unless you already agree with them in the first place, and needless to say, the market sees what works and it gets imitated. Us on the other hand- we’re trying to have a show where we can boldly claim that putting children in cages away from their parents is bad, and also having open lines of communication with a man who is capable of destroying New York City with a nuclear warhead is good, and that maybe Elon Musk should go to Mars and take off his helmet so he dies an unusual hilarious death like in Total Recall. (This is where you call us heroes. Thank you for calling us heroes- but we’re not. See- we’re humble too.)
We’re not here to try and brainwash you. We are just here to deliver the top stories of the day, highlight the funniest comments, and have some laughs while everyone else turns blue in the face yelling at each other. Love us, hate us, all we ask is that you try and laugh with us about all this bullshit.
Everyone have a great week except you, Elon Musk.
In today’s episode we examine the new executive order ending the separation of illegally immigrating children from their parents, Trump’s decision to cancel the White House Congressional Picnic, a restaurant in China that sold monthly buffet subscriptions, and an Amazon update.
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