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Elon’s Crusty Gamer Sock (Premium E274)

2025/1/18
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@Jake Rakitansky : 我认为我们应该关注现实生活中更重要的事情,而不是沉迷于网络上的荒谬事件。我们讨论埃隆·马斯克,是因为他代表了一种网络文化现象,以及这种文化对我们思维方式的影响。 我们花了很多时间讨论网络上的垃圾信息,以至于忽略了现实生活中更重要的事情,例如房屋失火和人们的困境。这反映了我们这个时代的一个普遍问题:我们被网络上的琐事所分心,而忽略了现实中的重要问题。 我认为埃隆·马斯克的行为,以及我们对他的关注,都反映了这种现象。他是一个非常富有的人,但他却沉迷于网络上的争斗,这本身就值得我们思考。 @Julian Fields : 我认为埃隆·马斯克是一个非常懦弱的人,他唯一擅长的是自我羞辱和疏远他人。他试图通过在Path of Exile 2中作弊来掩盖自己的无能,但这只会让他看起来更可笑。 他的行为反映了一种更普遍的现象:人们试图通过虚假的成就来获得认可。埃隆·马斯克试图通过购买推特和参与政治活动来提升自己的形象,但这只会让他看起来更虚伪。 我认为我们应该关注埃隆·马斯克的行为,因为它反映了我们这个时代的一个普遍问题:人们试图通过虚假的成就来获得认可,而不是通过真正的努力和贡献。 @Liv Agar : 我认为埃隆·马斯克的行为,以及我们对他的关注,都反映了我们这个时代的一个普遍问题:人们试图通过虚假的成就来获得认可,而不是通过真正的努力和贡献。 埃隆·马斯克试图通过在Path of Exile 2中作弊来掩盖自己的无能,但这只会让他看起来更可笑。他试图通过购买推特和参与政治活动来提升自己的形象,但这只会让他看起来更虚伪。 我认为我们应该关注埃隆·马斯克的行为,因为它反映了我们这个时代的一个普遍问题:人们试图通过虚假的成就来获得认可,而不是通过真正的努力和贡献。 @Travis View : 我认为埃隆·马斯克的行为,以及我们对他的关注,都反映了我们这个时代的一个普遍问题:人们试图通过虚假的成就来获得认可,而不是通过真正的努力和贡献。 埃隆·马斯克试图通过在Path of Exile 2中作弊来掩盖自己的无能,但这只会让他看起来更可笑。他试图通过购买推特和参与政治活动来提升自己的形象,但这只会让他看起来更虚伪。 我认为我们应该关注埃隆·马斯克的行为,因为它反映了我们这个时代的一个普遍问题:人们试图通过虚假的成就来获得认可,而不是通过真正的努力和贡献。

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The hosts discuss Adrian Dittman, an Elon Musk superfan often mistaken for Musk himself. They analyze the implications of this resemblance and the broader phenomenon of online impersonation.
  • Adrian Dittman's resemblance to Elon Musk led to online confusion.
  • The hosts analyze the implications of this impersonation in the context of online misinformation.

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if you're hearing this well done you found a way to connect to the internet welcome to the qaa podcast premium episode 274 elon's crusty gamer sock as always we are your host jake rakitansky julian fields live agar and travis view

Fake gamers. We're thinking about them all of the time. Especially when our homes almost burn down. Especially when there's people that have lost everything that need our help. All we can think about is stupid online garbage. Our brains are broken and everybody here is dumber for it. We've assembled here another week to pick on the richest man alive who is also...

Just the biggest pussy on earth. Like, I don't even know how else to say it. He is such a bitch. It's incredible. It is astounding. New levels of being a bitch are being unlocked by him. In fact, that is the only game he really knows how to play. It's like, humiliate myself and alienate more and more people. So, yeah, we're here to take a look at, first of all, the fact that Elon Musk has grown another man in a vat. And...

then used him to like trap libs into a story about how Elon Musk was using a voice changer to pretend he wasn't this other guy who he actually is. Technically the DNA is based on him. All of it was developed from his cummies in a big vat and a

Additionally, additionally to this, which I'm pretty sure I nailed in my description, we will be covering Elon Musk being a huge gaming cheater, a huge pay to win customer of Bannon's old gold farming business.

uh type guy uh he he is absolutely he has set himself up by picking maybe one of the nerdiest games out there path of exile 2 which is like if you're not aware a very spreadsheet oriented game very sweaty an intense amount of math to like get the best uh builds as they call them

And this moron has decided to not just have the hubris to pay somebody to develop a character and then just take it, but also to not even attempt to learn the basics about the game he's about to pretend he's played thousands of hours of. So yeah, we're here just for a little episode that kind of means nothing, but we will generate meaningful insights about the broader world once

while we trudge through what I can only describe as gunk. Gunk, muck, goo, slop. There are layers of this and our boots are, you can like see how long we've been doing this, like a tree trunk with the rings.

by the layers of different mucks and goos and slops that print onto the sides of our boots. Honestly, a great analogy for the podcast more broadly. Yes, exactly. So take off your shoes and press them into the toxic ooze with us because where we're going, we don't need boots.

How do you like that, Jake? That was a pretty big pop reference for you. Not bad. I was wondering, I knew as soon as you started, I knew what the reference was, but I was like, how's he going to finish it? And I thought you did pretty well. Thank you, Jake. I appreciate that. No problem. I like that you always give me another chance to not be a huge dickhead. Hey, man, I'm about love. 2025, it's all about 3rd, 7th, 12th chances.

And I love you too. And I'm reaching around to put that old crusty sock on one more time to get you off.

Okay. Okay. I'm finally back. I've taken a short hiatus from the show because I think I've had really bad acid reflux. I don't know. Yeah, unclear. It's just like, you've been sick for like a month. It's like, surely I'm not dying, right? What's the opposite of like the greatest of all time? What's the opposite of goat? A woat. Okay. She's the throat woat. She is.

No, that's false allegations. Not true. And not the third one. Not spread lies.

Well, I mean, I don't know. It's like, oh, my throat hurts for like weeks on end. That's your only tool as a podcast. Now that she is getting driving lessons, she's driving through the six with her woats. Yeah, let's just put it this way. She was unable to podcast, and now her Path of Exile 2 character is at level 74. Ha ha ha!

Yes, I have played 70 hours of Path of Exile in the last three weeks. You don't have to talk while you're playing Path of Exile, really. I mean, it's a silent game. You don't have to irritate. So what's happening? As a fellow acid reflux person,

And what do you got? You got the burning in the chest. What's happening? I got the silent one, so I don't get heartburn at all. So my throat, like for the past like six months, has just been like sore when I wake up. And I'm like, huh, that's funny. Like, I wonder if I'm dying. I don't know. Hmm.

And then it started to get other symptoms. Like, I just, like, burp a lot. And it's, like, hard to swallow stuff. Have you tried, like, Prilosec? It's over the counter. Dear God. I tried Pepsid. It seems to be doing really good. I don't know. Maybe it's not. This is what happens if you don't. I will message you privately with some medical suggestions. I find that Prilosec, or it's called Omniparosal. Oh.

Really helps with like long-term long-term indigestion acid. This is not medical advice for everybody out there. Do not listen to Jake's like naming drugs. Well, my mom wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer so I can pretend to be one of those things. Yeah, we can give fake legal and medical advice. It's like basically the same. If anyone has any legal troubles, please tell your crime...

Email your crimes to jcroc10. It's good. You will be defending yourself in the hague that I create, my own little personal hague, which is like a room in my house I'm locking you in.

I remember checking the far-right, politically incorrect board of 4chan a day after Trump won the election, and one of the top posts in the catalog read something like, Elon bought Twitter for $44 billion and all he got was all three branches of government. A joke that's an ironic spin off a meme format making fun of Elon for how little he supposedly got out of his absurdly expensive acquisition of the social media site. This is really when it set in for me that he won.

Despite all the stupid, evil decisions Elon has made, up to even performing blatant election fraud, so far he's gotten away with it. And now he has the ear of the most powerful man in the world and a propaganda machine to help facilitate his ghoulish political goals. The only thing that I would say about that is that if you've ever listened to Elon speak for an extended period of time, there is like 0% chance that Trump isn't hearing like the first three words and like a title being cut off because it's too long. It's just dot, dot, dot.

And that's about it. After that, he's like, no, no, don't know, dude. Have your assistant send me the TLDR, bro. It's definitely like a high point for Elon right now. Yes, that's true. The actual concrete things he gets to do with it are still ambiguous and he could still fuck up in a bunch of ways. Mm-hmm.

So given how completely and totally owned we are at the moment by the world's lamest tech billionaire, what else is there to do except post in hopes that it bruises his clearly inflated ego? Which somehow works. That's what's so fucking amazing to me. Yeah. All you need to do is like isolate yourself from the world and all your yes men will cheer you up constantly. Instead, you constantly are just laying out at the feet of the lamest people on the internet and even they don't like you. It's fucking pathetic.

And I mean, yeah, it does. As Julian said, it really does work. Elon supposedly locked himself in his office after being booed at a Dave Chappelle show, for instance, because he was like spiraling about people hating him. He's clearly a narcissist that requires other people's approval. The one thing that he, for the most part, cannot buy. He could, though. That's what's so funny is if he was just a little better at this, like he could. I'm sorry. Like, look at fucking...

look at other billionaires. They're clearly living their best lives. They are becoming more powerful physically. They look healthier. They have gotten a hip hop swag. Yeah.

Added to that persona. Maybe they might be taking like testosterone injections or something. Bezos probably is. Bezos is on HR too. Yes, no, for sure. But what I think is that Elon is also taking that stuff, but still can't help himself, but eat like shit, sit like shit, live like shit, feel like shit all the time.

You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast. For access to the full episode, as well as all past premium episodes and all of our podcast miniseries, go to patreon.com slash QAA. Travis, what?

Why is that such a good deal? Well, Jake, you get hundreds of additional episodes of the QAA podcast for just $5 per month. For that very low price, you get access to over 200 premium episodes, plus all of our miniseries. That includes 10 episodes of Man Clan with Julian and Annie, 10 episodes of Perverts with Julian and Liv, 10 episodes of The Spectral Voyager with Jake and Brad, plus 20 episodes of Trickle Down with me, Travis View.

It's a bounty of content and the best deal in podcasting. Travis, for once, I agree with you. And I also agree that people could subscribe by going to patreon.com slash QAA. Well, that's not an opinion. It's a fact. You're so right, Jake. We love and appreciate all of our listeners. Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude, maybe? That's not true. The part about me crying, not me being grateful. Oh.