
In this episode of Nightly Scroll: Portlanders protest Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, Harvard hires a drag queen, Biden family weirdness & more
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Hello and welcome to Nightly Scroll. I'm Hailey Karenia. Happy Friday to everyone in the chat. Thank you for spending your Friday evening with me. It is 6pm Eastern time. You gotta watch on rumble, right? Rumble.com Haley is where you can watch Nightly scroll in full. So if you're watching on X or if you're watching on Facebook, come on over to Rumble so you can watch the whole show. The show we start off with more serious news off the top and then the. The wheels come off towards the end. So you don't want to miss the end. That's the good part. We have fun and especially on this Friday episode, we're going to do blind reactions. We're going to do question and answer. So we have a lot to get to. Portlanders are protesting President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in the weirdest way possible. Also, Harvard University has hired a drag queen as a professor. More Biden family weirdness we're going to get into. Also, I've got scrolling time. Like I said, blind reactions, more fun stuff ahead. So put your phones on. Do not disturb. Nightly scroll starts now. Foreign so I am not going to try to attempt to pronounce this woman's name, but this is a Portland city councilor, and here she is providing tips and tricks for protesters on how to avoid law enforcement. Listen to this. Hello, everyone, it's Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo. Here are some ways that you can protect yourself while organizing for your community. Local journalists like Kevin Foster, who are on the ground at the ICE Building, have captured video footage showing that there are unidentified black helicopters flying over the ICE Building. And we suspect that they are using that to gather data on people. There are facial recognition technology devices used at most federal buildings, and most people think that they can beat that by covering their faces. But if you just cover the lower half, guess what you have left? Your eyes and eyebrows, which are the most identifiable part of you. Even if you do cover your face successfully, some technology can also track your gait and the way that you walk in order to create a pattern that's just identifiable to you, just like a fingerprint. And guess what? Your phone. You should consider this a tracker and a listening device. At all times with your phone. They can track your location. They can see who you met with. If you happen to organize with a bunch of different people and you all took the bus to the same secure location, guess what? They have a pattern of who you organize with and who you talk to and how long and why. So you should get a Faraday Cage, which blocks the signal from your phone. You should disable fingerprint and facial recognition technology to unlock your phone, and you should have a PIN that is longer than four numbers. If you're going to regularly protest, I also highly recommend going to your local grocery store, buying a burner phone in cash, and using encrypted apps like Signal to communicate with people and having disappearing messages on. You should attend protests with people you know and trust, and you should have someone trusted at home who has everyone's insurance information, everyone's job information, and is acting as jail support in case anything happens to their friends. I believe that we will win, but we have to be smarter than and we have to be better organized than our opposition because they have every tool available to them and we do not. Our opposition. I mean, she's talking about law enforcement. Like, you know, it's this us versus them narrative that it's the law enforcement that is the enemy of the people. Meanwhile, if you are a peaceful protester, you don't need to heed any of these warnings. You don't need to get burner phones. You don't need to make sure that you have trusted people who know all of your information in case you go to jail. Peaceful protesters aren't being thrown in jail. If you are peaceful, why would you need law enforcement to not be able to track your whereabouts or know where you're meeting up with people or who you're organizing with? Unless this is, of course, a criminal enterprise. Unless, of course, you're being funded by a group that you don't want law enforcement to know about, or you are, indeed not a peaceful protester, which is, of course, not protected under the First Amendment. It is funny how she was warning to have, you know, information on hand in case, you know, you get arrested, which is not typical for peaceful protesters. So it's kind of like she knows she's giving tips and tricks to her constituency that she thinks is going to get in trouble. She knows that the kinds of protests that these people are going to are not protected. And yet she is still advocating for these people to go out and wreak havoc and be able to do so undetected by police. Meanwhile, other protesters in Portland are taking a more peaceful approach. Although this could be violating people's eyeballs. Listen to this. One of Portland's most unique events is planning an equally unique response to the National Guard's deployment. An emergency World Naked Bike Ride. The World Naked Bike Ride usually happens every summer. People bike in the buff to protest pollution from other forms of transportation and call attention to cyclist safety. In a new post on Instagram, organizers say they are getting ready to ride for another cause, responding to what they call the militarization of our city. It's funny how we talk about this, right? How the protests, they really just show up and show out, no matter what the cause is, right? Insert leftist cause here. And they're out and about, right? They organize, they get a group together. So it's funny how this started as a climate change thing. Why you need to be naked? I'm not sure. Is it because us wearing clothes contributes to climate change? Maybe. I don't know. These are also weird, hippie, dippy people who live in Portland. So whatever. Maybe they're just, you know, this is what they do. But it started out climate change and cycle safety. Now it's the, quote, militarization of the city. And what does showing up naked do? What does riding your bike naked do? That also can't feel very good. If I had to guess, riding a bike naked is not something that I would do. Not in my fair free time, not to protest anything, certainly, because you know where I stand on this. They do nothing. But certainly showing up and riding around on your bike naked is definitely going to send President Trump a message. It's going to send President Trump the message that you are totally mentally ill and maybe more troops are needed to handle whatever is going on there. But a creator is based in the Portland area and he puts on social media. He. He's an independent journalist, and he puts these videos out of what living in these cities in the Pacific Northwest actually looks like. The homelessness crisis, the drug epidemic. This is what living in Portland, Oregon, looks like. Watch this. Just absolute psychotic people. They are crawling around on the floor, they are jumping around. They're clearly on drugs, groaning and under the influence. This woman is walking into traffic, directly into traffic. People just in distress. This is death, you know, on the streets. Yeah, this is death. That's not life. You know, at the end of the video there, he interviewed someone who is not homeless, and she says, this is death. This is not life. This is not the way to live. And of course, when you hear these mayors and the governors of these cities that Trump is sending National Guard troops to, they say, we don't need this here. We are fine. Everything is fine. This is a great place to live. Everyone loves it. And then you see videos like this, and it's like, no, you're gaslighting us. You're gaslighting the American people. You're Gaslighting the people who actually live in these cities and have to trip over these people and all the needles and the human feces and everything that is on the ground, what purpose other than to save your own ass, is it, is it to lie? You're just lying. You're lying to the people that you are supposed to be serving. And this is not what a, an American city should look like. It's just not. So it is very sad. But when you hear these, these Democrat politicians, they're just, they're lying and, and lying and lying and it's, I mean, I hate to see videos like this, but it just goes to show that these are lies, right? That these Democrat politicians who say that everything is fine, they are lying through their teeth and they, they don't want you to believe your eyes. So thank goodness for independent creators and new media who can actually shed some light on this situation and show the rest of America that, yeah, maybe sending these troops in, maybe it is justified. Now I have to go into this Biden family weirdness. So Ashley Biden is Joe Biden's daughter, Jill Biden's daughter, and she posted this. She posted what we call a dump on Instagram. And here is what one of the photos is. And you could scroll down here so we can see the photo at large. And it's a photo of her working at her, I don't know, living room table, it looks like. And Joe Biden, I don't know what it is about these photos of Joe Biden. He looks like he's photoshopped in every single one of them, but he is in the corner and Joe Biden sitting there and he's in his suit, suit and his shirt, and he's got his phone out. And Ashley Biden is taking this photo and she's got her laptop in front of her. And if you scroll down there, you can see that on her laptop there's a sticker of Frida Kahlo on the left. Then there is Beyonce on the literal trackpad. So I don't know how that works. I don't know how you. Maybe she has an external mouse that she uses. But why you would put a sticker on your trackpad, I am not sure. Then here's the part that's the most concerning. There's a sticker of her own mother, Dr. Jill Biden, of course. And it says, it's Jill. Dr. Biden, if you're nasty. Dr. Biden, if you'RE nasty. Who, first of all, odd that this sticker exists even Stranger that Ashley Biden bought that sticker of her mom. Dr. Biden, if you're nasty, is that most children, no matter how old you are, do not want to picture their parents having sex or anything like that. We're all just immaculately concepted, right? Like, this is. No one wants to think about this. And it's just odd that you would put this on your laptop. The Beyonce sticker on the trackpad. Weird. The kind of nas if you're nasty. I mean, who wants to think of their mom in a nasty way? Who wants to think.
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I don't quite understand even the meaning of it. Like, is it. Is it really sexual or is it something else?
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You know, I don't really know, but I think it's more like when people say, like, call you daddy or something where it's like, call me doctor if you're feeling nasty. Like, I don't understand why you would do this. I don't understand really the meaning behind the sticker, but why you would. Why a daughter would buy that sticker of their own mother, I don't know. Also, can you throw up the photo one more time? Because when I first saw it, the most shocking thing to me was whatever's going on in the background. So if you could scroll up, what do you think that is in the back? Those blobs?
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Plants, perhaps?
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Okay. After looking at it for a long time, I said, that is a plant on the table. But at first I was like, are those birds? Are they statues? Like, at first glance, I had no idea what was going on back there. I. It looked a little creepy to me. But I did stare at the photo for longer than I would like to admit to figure out that that was a plant. But, yeah, I had no idea at first.
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So it's funny that Joe Biden does look like he was Photoshopped, right? He does, yeah.
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It just doesn't look natural and everything else is kind of in focus and he's kind of. I don't know, it's just. It's odd. Also weird to post your laptop with your emails open again. It's a little blurry, but you could zoom in and see who she's emailing. I mean, it's just. It's all very contrived and weird. So I just figured we would get into some Biden family weirdness because, you know, that's how they do. But I want to go into this other story now. A woman in Maine received ballots in her Amazon package. So this is in Newberg, Maine. This woman said she ordered Paper plates, rice and coffee from Amazon. And it all comes in one package. You know how you can click the little button that says send them all in one package or whatever to save on shipping costs and boxes and to save the environment or whatever? You know, if you order a bunch of things and they're supposed to come in the same day, Amazon will just put it all in the same box. Well, so she bought these random items, but when she scored, saw the package, she said that it looked like it had already been opened and re taped. So all of off the bat, she was like, something's off about this package. Then she opened the package and realized that no, no one stole from it or, or tampered with it. They put ballots inside the Amazon package and these are blank main state ballots for the upcoming November election. Interesting. So everything was fine with her package. She got the rice. She got the, you know, I probably wouldn't eat this rice knowing that someone with nefarious intent, let's just say potentially was tampering with the package. I wouldn't eat the coffee, I wouldn't eat the rice. Whatever else she bought, I wouldn't, I wouldn't use that or the paper plates. But she called the Newburgh town office straight away, handed the ballots over. Thankfully, this, thankfully, the woman who received this package with ballots said, I'm going to hand this over to authorities rather than fill all of them out and vote a hundred times, because, you know, people probably do that and people would probably, if, if given the opportunity, they might do something nefarious with them. But she handed them over to local authorities. And this is what the Secretary of State said. This is Shana Bellows. She said in a statement, safe and secure elections are my top priority. As soon as we became aware of the allegations of ballots being received outside the appropriate chain of custody, I immediately initiated an investigation through my Secretary of State's law enforcement division. Law enforcement is working diligently to determine who is responsible and they will be held accountable. We will not stop until we have answers. But this brings up more concerns, right? Because this is clearly not the only woman who got this. You would imagine someone who wants to stuff ballots in Amazon packages are probably not stopping at one package. This one package with coffee and rice in it. Let me just stick a bunch of ballots in it and then go on my merry way. This seems like this is part of a larger effort to influence the elections in Maine. And Republican leaders in the main legislature, the state legislature, they have sent a letter to the doj. They have sent the Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, also FBI Director Cash Patel requesting a federal investigation in as well, which I totally agree with because again, if it's happening in Maine and it happened to this one woman, who's to say that this is not happening all over and who is to say that it's not happening in states like California and other blue states that push mail in ballots heavy. It is very difficult for me to believe that we have safe and secure elections, unfortunately, especially due to mail in ballots. I think that everyone should be off on Election Day. I know it is a national holiday, people. If you work in the government, you have off, right, the banks, the whatever, libraries will be closed, things like that. But normal people have to go to work on election day, right? There are a lot of industries that do not shut down no matter what. There are industries that don't shut down on Christmas Day. They don't shut down on Thanksgiving or, or anything else or Labor Day, etc. So everyone I believe should be off on Election day because I think that you have to go to your polling place. I think you should have to show up in person. You have all damn year to figure out how to get there, if you need assistance or whatever. We all know when Election day is. You can look it up, the election days for the next few years, figure it out, figure out how to get there. Figure out how to show up in person and to vote in person. That is my, that is my take. Show your id, vote early if you can't make it on election Day. But you know, if you have to order an absentee ballot for whatever reason, maybe you're serving overseas, by all means do that and go through that process. But I don't see how anyone should be able to have five to 10 ballots sent to their house. And it's got the names of the last, you know, 10 families who have lived in that house. I mean, there's too much room for error. And, and again, not everyone who receives these ballots is going to do the right thing. They're not all going to respond like this woman in Maine responded immediately, calling authorities and bringing this to their attention and then launching an investigation after that. How often is this happening? Where is it happening? And are these ballots getting into the hands of people who will do the right thing or the wrong thing? I hate to admit that I don't have faith in humanity, but when it comes to certain things like this, I just don't. I just don't. So this is very, very concerning. But speaking of elections, you know, President Trump likes to troll that he is also going to run in 2028. He sells 2028 hats. And as we know, he's been on a roll between Sombrero Gate and all these other memes that are going on online. He started off by trolling Senator Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. And he, of course, was making Senator Chuck Schumer say things about illegal aliens that he didn't say in real life. And Hakeem Jeffries was standing next to him in the sombrero and the mustache. We've all seen this, right? But President Trump is still trolling Hakeem Jeffries. He posted this on Instagram last night. Look at this. So this is President Trump tossing a Trump 2028 hat on the head of Hakeem Jeffries in the Oval Office, which I think is absolutely hilarious. It kind of reminds me of when Biden put on the Trump 2024 hat. Do you remember that on the campaign trail?
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I do remember that.
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Yeah. That was iconic. It was just iconic. So I think the more Democrats, whether it's in real life or AI that we can get wearing Trump 2028 hats. Just hilarious. Even Gavin Newsom said this. I forget where he was speaking. I think it was a panel of some sort. And he admitted that the Trump team had sent him Trump 2028 hats. And he said, I think I have 12 of them at this point. So whoever is working in President Trump's, you know, communications office or Team Trump on the campaign side, I mean, they are just having too much fun with the memes. And I say keep it coming. So we're moving on now to an interesting story. I don't know. I mean, I feel for the people who live in North Korea under this dictatorship, because they really. They can't do anything, right? They don't have the freedoms that we have here in the United States of America. But the latest thing that Kim Jong Un is cracking down on are breast implants. The dictator there has ordered an emergency crackdown on breast augmentation surgeries. He says that they are antisocialist. And Pyongyang's city Ministry of Public Safety issued an emergency order saying these breast implants go against. They are. I'm sorry, they are rotten capitalist implants. So this is. This is a capitalism versus socialism thing, which I guess I can understand. I mean, unless Kim Jong Un comes up with government sanctioned breast implants. Yes. This is. This is capitalism, right? If you want to buy boobs, you can buy boobs. We. We're free.
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Speaking of Which I believe the nominal GDP per capita of North Korea is like $1,200,000 a year or $1,200 a year.
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Yeah.
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Who's buying breast implants in there?
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It's a great question. And apparently they are concerned not only with the women who get them, but with the doctors who perform the surgeries. And. And not only that. They are facing harsh prison sentences and they are sent to the labor camps.
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Could it be like, maybe his daughter is interested in it? And he's like, no, no, no, no. It's maybe for everyone. It's not communist enough, maybe.
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Does Kim Jong Un have kids?
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I believe he does.
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I know nothing. I really know nothing about him. I try not to. I don't know. Not that I anyway believe he has.
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A younger sister who is like, known as a. A torture person.
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Oh.
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And he. I believe he contract. He has kids too.
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Yeah, they keep it all in the family. I'm sure. He's. I mean, again, I don't know much about him. I remember this was probably back in 2020. I was joking with one of my friends. I think I've told this story on the show before, but I forget. I was joking with one of my friends and I was Venmoing her for something and I wrote in the caption of the. Or I can't tell. I don't remember if she wrote it in the caption in the Venmo to me or if I wrote it in the caption to her. Because you know how you can Venmo someone and you put what it. What the payment is for. One of us wrote Kim Jong Un's surprise party supplies. And we were both banned from Venmo temporarily, which is anti freedom of speech, I believe. But we were not planning a surprise party for Kim Jong Un's birthday. We were not throwing him a surprise party. It was indeed a joke. But we were. We got a Venmo slap on the wrist for that. So just FYI to anyone who's trying to have a little fun on Venmo, you can't. It's kind of like North Korea, I guess.
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What if you had a friend who just happened to share his name?
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Are you able to name your kid Kim Jong Un?
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I don't know. That's a good question.
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Yes, there are. There are certain names that they don't allow you to name your kid. Can you look. Wait, let me look this up.
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Names that like, you can't name your kid Hitler.
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Yes, I believe.
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Right.
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And this is in the United States of America. Okay, so in the United States, you can't name your child anything with numerals. Like you can't name your kid the number two, for example. Symbols. You can't name your kid, exclamation point, etc. You can't name your kid the at symbol. You also cannot name your child Adolf, Hitler, King, Queen, Messiah. But these are not banned in all states. They are just banned in some states because I feel like people have been named Messiah. People name their sons Jesus. Jesus, you know. So I don't know, I guess it varies by state, but it does not say anything about Kim Jong Un. Certainly you can name your child Kim, right?
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You could probably phonetically manipulate it so that your kids name.
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First name is Kim, middle name Jong Un.
B
Yeah. Like John. Like J, O, H, N, John.
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Hyphen, un. It could be done. I think we can get around it. Not that, you know, I'm interested in naming my son or daughter that, but. Interesting.
B
Then you can take legal action against Venmo and guarantee their college fund.
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Interesting. A man attempted to change his name to 1069 in the 1970s, but courts denied his request. They said that, you know, naming yourself a number is confusing.
B
Unless you are Elon Musk.
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And the name, it's okay, right? Of course. What's that kid's name again? X. I know it's. They call him X, but it's like X, A, E, something, something, something. Also, Lucifer is banned in several countries, including Germany, New Zealand and Iceland. Imagine, fast hydration combined with balanced energy. Perfectly flavored with zero artificial sweeteners. Introducing Liquid Ivy's new energy multiplier. Sugar free. Unlike other energy drinks. You know, the ones that make you feel like you're glitching. It's made with natural caffeine and electrolytes, so you get the boost without the burnout. Liquid IV's new energy multiplier. Sugar free hydrating energy. Tap the banner to learn more. I don't know. Can you name your son Devil? Like, I don't know. I guess it just depends on where it is. Elon Musk. Son. So Elon Musk has a son named in Nevada. Saxon, Kai, Damien. Griffin. These are normal. And then. Yeah. How do you pronounce that?
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Just X, I think, is how they call. Is it a boy or a girl?
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It's a boy. How to pronounce.
B
I know. He has another one named Exadark.
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How to pronounce it is pronounced X. Ash A12.
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There we go. We learned it.
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There we go. All right. I have to read this. Article to you all because it is so weird. Okay, Harvard hired a drag queen. I just have to read you this headline and then also go through the article with you because it is so bizarre. So here's the headline. Harvard appoints drag star Lahore Vagistan as a visiting professor. And right wingers are furious. According to Pink News, which is an LGBTQ outlet. But I think that it's so funny. Right wingers are furious. I'm not furious at this. I would consider myself a right winger. I think this is weird. But Harvard has every right to hire Lahore Vagistan, Dr. Lahore Vagistan, to teach. Whatever. I feel bad for the parents who are paying for their child's education, and this is what they're getting. They're getting Dr. Lahore Vagistan teaching them whatever the hell. So this is what the article says. The Ivy League University announced that it had hired the drag performer known out of drag as Kareem Kubchandani. Okay. Can't pronounce that. Probably butchered that. Lahore Vagistan is certainly easier to pronounce. This person is going to give lectures as part of its Studies of Gender and Sexuality program. Makes sense. The fact that people go to Harvard and study this crap is beyond me. But this is. This goes on. Right. The performance artist and researcher holds a bachelor degree in sociology and anthropology, as well as a master's degree and PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University. You can get a PhD in Performance Studies. What does that entail? You go. You get your PhD so that you could be Dr. Drag Queen. I don't get that. Who gets a PhD in Performance Studies?
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Imagine the plot twist if she was actually a physics professor or something.
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Right? And then it would be like, cool. I don't even think this person is necessarily showing up to work in drag. They might. I mean, they're teaching gender and sexuality, so it seems fine. But to do that. And I guess they would be free to do that, but I think that this guy, Kareem Whatever, is just going to show up as, like, his normal self, you know, the PhD in. In performance studies. And he's just going to teach kids about. Well, here. His research focuses on the intersection of queer nightlife, global politics, ethno eth. Ethnography. Sorry. And the South Asian diaspora. Also drag. So queer nightlife, global politics, where those things meet. That's this guy's expertise. Wow. He's written at least seven academic journals, or. I'm sorry, seven academic journals have published his work, and he is going to, quote, bring the nightclub to the Classroom. So Harvard educated means you might be an expert in drag. That is the Harvard education. Now. It used to be a prestigious organization and a prestigious school to get higher learning, and now it's just woke up. Woke drag queens. Dr. Lahore Vagistan is going to teach you about the intersection between gay nightlife and global politics. So. And what's the cost? You know, I'd love to know what they're paying him. What? What each student is paying for this class. Honey, what did you learn in school this semester? Well, Dr. Lahore Vagistan taught me about gay nightlife. We used to be a society.
B
I'm looking up here. The average salary for a Harvard professor can vary, but recent data suggests is above $200,000 annually.
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And you know what? I would. I would do it too, for a check.
B
Yeah.
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$200,000 is a F ton of money. You are very well off. You get to teach drag to Harvard students. I mean, why wouldn't you put that on your resume? I. There's clearly a market for it. I guess people want to take this class and Harvard wants to give the class and this Dr. Lavagastan or whatever, Lahore Vagistan wants to teach the class.
B
So there it is, Harvard or another Ivy. But I recall we reading an article recently about a class on Taylor Swift.
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Of course.
B
Yeah. Deep studies of her lyrics, you know.
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Well, speaking of her, her new album came out today and everything that I've heard has been against my will on Tick Tock. I've just seen videos and clips of these songs and boy, it's. It's Taylor Swift. I'll say that.
B
You don't like her?
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Nope.
B
Oh, I hold no opinion on her, but she's very popular.
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She is very popular. I feel like it's a psyop. She is very popular. The lyrics are not good. The songs themselves are not good. She's not a good performer. She's not that great of a singer. It's just all very odd. She's got crazy fans and she's very good at marketing herself. Clearly she's a business genius. I'm not taking that away from her. But I don't know. I don't really understand the hype. I'm not impressed with anything that I've heard the snippets on Tick Tock and it just seems like even some of her fans are not impressed with this new album. So people said that her lyrics are not the same, that she has maybe dumbed down her lyrics so that Travis Kelsey, her fiance, could understand them. These are the allegations From Swifties themselves don't come for me. But yeah, I, I'm not impressed. I'm just not impressed. Anyway, Maxwell House is going through a name change. So Maxwell House, the coffee company, they are going through this name change. It is going to be Maxwell Apartment. And here's the press release. For the first time in 133 years, Maxwell House rebrands as Maxwell Apartment. And basically this is all because they say they are meeting the needs of today's consumer. And a lot of people in the United states, I think 1 in 3 choose to rent versus own a house. So they are trying to appeal to the apartment poor people in this country, myself included. And apparently this all started on National Coffee day, which is September 29th. This is also ridiculous. There's a day for everything but National Coffee Day. Maxwell House, they have given a 12 month lease offer on Maxwell Apartment Coffee. So basically for under $40, fans of this coffee can stock up their pantry with a year full of coffee. So they are supposed to save coffee coffee enthusiasts more than a thousand dollars annually. That is their goal, which I think is cool. This is not. When I clicked on this headline, I thought, oh my goodness, this is going to be like another Cracker barrel thing. But it's not. I think this is a recession indicator. I think, you know, I do appreciate the brand understanding its audience, understanding the economic climate, knowing that coffee is essential for most people. We all wake up. You know, I choose to drink blackout coffee, but that's just me. But people wake up, they drink their coffee in the morning and it's essential, right? I mean, a lot of people giving up coffee is not really an option. A lot of us are addicted to it. So I think them meeting people where they are, their consumers where they are, and making it more accessible is a win. I think this is like a fun gimmick. It gets attention that Maxwell House is becoming Maxwell Apartment. They're getting people to sign on for basically a year's worth of coffee for not that much money. I mean it's very affordable. And, and a lot of people now they've got fancy coffee machines or they, you know, they opt for a specialty latte at a coffee shop. They end up spending way more than they should. So, all right, this is also a crazy story. A toddler has found a grenade in their front yard. So this happened in Washington State. A three year old found a live hand grenade in his front yard. So he picked it up, brought it inside to his parents and his parents were like, I don't know what that is. But let's not touch it. Let's not touch it. Let's call local authorities. So Washington State Patrol had a bomb squad come in. They were called in to assist and the bomb techs determined that it was a live grenade and it was from World War II. It was a World War II era live hand grenade. And you know, if you, maybe we could pull up the photo from the article if you can, but it looks very weathered and it looks like it had been, you know, sitting in the dirt for, I don't know, 80 years maybe, and the bomb squad was able to safely dispose of it. Here's the picture here. So if you're watching on rumble.com rumble.com Haley Bongina report Channel you can watch and see this. But it is very weathered. Like I said, it looks like it has been exposed to the elements. The rain. It's kind of looks a little rusty. But they were able to safely dispose of it. I think it's really odd that in what, 80 some odd years. I mean, it's been decades. Nobody saw the live hand grenade in the yard. And this is in their front yard too. I don't know how much land these people have. Maybe they're, maybe they live on a bunch of land, I don't know. But no one saw it. And then it also begs the question, are there more live hand, live hand grenades from World War II just laying around in people's yards? And if you see one, don't touch it, Just call the police. But that's crazy, I must say.
B
When I was a kid, I dreamed of finding something like that.
A
Really?
B
Yeah, like some old weapon. I really like history.
A
Yeah, I mean, I think it would be very cool. I'm glad that it didn't, you know, go off or anything like that. It could have been a much different story, but very cool story nonetheless. Also, I want to play this video. Here is a We can all fight about this right in the chat. We can fight in the comments about whether or not we think this is rude, but this wedding guest ordered a pizza to a wedding ceremony. Watch this. Am I wrong for ordering a pizza to a wedding after we weren't fed for eight hours? So I went to a friend's wedding recently and it was an absolutely beautiful day, but it was a really long day. The wedding took place at 12pm and there was photos, drinks, more photos with no food in sight. When it got to 8pm I was absolutely struggling. I hadn't eaten since breakfast. No food had been served other than a few tiny canapes. Which disappeared instantly. I was starting to get hangry. So me and my friend who I was with decided to order a pizza sneakily to the venue. When it arrived, I slipped outside to grab it and I shared it with a couple of other people at the table who were also starving. Word got round and now the bride is furious with me and said if I'd just been patient. Food was arriving in the next 30 minutes. She told me that I embarrassed her and undermined the catering. A couple of guests said that I just did what everyone else was thinking. But some others told me it was tacky and disrespectful. I just don't see how you can expect someone to be at your wedding for eight hours without feeding them anything. And there wasn't any options to purchase food separately. So am I wrong for ordering a pizza to the middle of a wedding? I say sure, she's in the wrong. I think that is a very rude and tacky thing to do. Also, you're an adult. You can't. You can't not eat for eight hours. I mean, I get. I guess that's a long time, but eight hours. I mean, she said it was 8pm so she had had breakfast at noon. I feel like this is very normal. I go most days eating breakfast around 11:30am and sometimes I don't eat until then, until I get home later. And I don't know. And I'm a hungry person, but I could definitely make it eight hours without eating. This is. I think this is super rude. Also not to mention that you go to a wedding and they. She also said there was no food in sight. And then she said there was past food around, but it like disappeared. So clearly there was food. She just didn't get it.
B
It seems to me that she would benefit from some internment fasting.
A
I agree. Intermittent fasting is good. It is good for you. You don't have to eat every two hours. You know, be an adult. Also, if you know that you are hungry, you're a hungry person who likes to eat. That is on you to bring a granola bar or something. You can't just rely on other people to feed you. I don't know. I bring a water bottle with me everywhere because I know that there might. There might not be one there for me where I'm going. You can't just expect that. I think it's super rude and tacky. Anyway, this is the craziest headline that I've seen in a while. This is. You know how I love my airport stories. My Airport and airplane chaos, right? So a flight was diverted after strange passengers started to freak out and then eat and flush their own passports. So this happened on a Ryanair flight from Milan, Italy to London, and they had to make an emergency landing. This was a few days ago. This was last week? No, this week. And passengers started freaking out because they started. They saw that there was some kind of a commotion happening at the front of the airplane. This is because two men started to tear pages out of their passport and then eat them. People started to look over, notice this. Now people are grumbling, realizing something's going on. Right? Then one of the men went to the bathroom and tried to flush the passport down the toilet, which makes me think that maybe these were fake passports. But also no. Once you are on the plane, no one's checking your passport. So maybe, I don't know. Could they have just gotten rid of the passports in the airport? I don't know. What would make you easier eat an airport? A passport? I don't know. But the pilots tried to get into. Not the pilots, the flight attendants tried to get into the bathroom when he was trying to flush his passport. I don't know how they knew that he was trying to flush his passport. But anyway, flight attendants tried to get into the bathroom. He would not allow them into the bathroom. At that point, the pilot said, we have to divert the. The flight to Paris. And that is when front authorities came onto the aircraft and arrested these two guys. What, what would be the purpose, do you think, of eating your own passport and trying to flush it down the toilet? It has to be fake, right? And then it's like, how did they get on the plane with a fake passport? Again, I'm not excited to fly these days. All these stories just don't make me excited to. To fly. Speaking of gross things and eating gross things, this guy on, I think his name is Stephen. He goes by Stephen Mre on YouTube. He eats military rations that are very old. So let's take a listen to this.
B
I love this guy, by the way. You do this guy? Yeah. These videos for a while.
A
I like just. I just saw this the other day. But yes, he's been doing this for years. So maybe people in the chat have seen this before. But yeah, he eats these military rations. Watch this. So these are like, you could tell that the packaging is from a long time ago.
B
This is a second Boer War, British Armed Forces emergency ration field service. It was produced anywhere between 1899 and 1902. The way that box smells, there's nothing like it. We're going to be cooking 118-year-old dried beef from the Boer War. That's fat or something. Biting down on that and it's just. I don't know what that is. Yeah, just. It definitely smells like foul meat. You know, meat and eggs. Eat cold or after heating by boiling. Can in water, assorted biscuits, coffee. Add 1/3 canteen, cup of hot or cold water. A very tart, sweet and satisfying fruit bar. Look at that thing. That's a beaut, isn't it? 1992 was stored under utmost conditions. I always make poor food choices when I've been awake for a long time. You know, this is like one of those days.
A
Those are eggs.
B
So there's something about this right now that's even more satisfying than usual. So this was a 1992 data production meal. Ready to eat individual menu 8.
A
This is a slice of ham.
B
I'm gonna go eat a tum.
A
And there's, I don't know, some kind of juice on that ham slice. I don't know what it is, but not appetizing. Is his stomach made of Teflon or something? I don't understand how you can eat foul meat that is over 100 years old and not die.
B
It speaks to the, the preservation. Right. Of these MRNs. The technologies took leaps and bounds in that era.
A
Yeah, absolutely. And then it makes you think too because he taste tests a lot of different of these, you know, ready to eat meals. Right. So they are, some of them are from 2024, some of them are from, you know, 10 years ago. I wouldn't. Well, I would maybe try them from 10 years ago. I wouldn't go, I wouldn't go A hundred. That's crazy.
B
Yeah. His videos are very nice. He does have this calming, soothing quality. So it's like almost the Bob Ross of.
A
Yes, the Bob Ross of military rations. Yes. I wonder where he gets them.
B
You can purchase them online. They're quite expensive. These vintage ones.
A
I bet.
B
I don't know his sources of the more peculiar ones.
A
I saw one too where he was eating lasagna or something. So that was 118-year-old beef which is so foul I can't even, I can't even think about that. Then that was the breakfast from 1945, the meat and eggs one that you just mixed with water. And then that ham slice was from 1992. That ham slice is older than I am. And the beef. Yeah, that's something. That is something. Anyway, let's get into some scrolling time. Even ghee's dancing with me today. I love it. All right. This video is just shocking to see how quickly these videos go viral. It's total misinformation. But of course, people latch on to these kinds of narratives because it fits the narrative that they're trying to push. And that narrative is that ICE is just willy nilly detaining black people in Chicago. Watch this. ICE is now detaining African American citizens in Chicago, like, as we speak. And governor has come out and said to record everything, narrate everything, make sure everything is documented, ask for their badge number. Even if they refuse, get them on camera. But I'm going to say that again. ICE is now detaining black citizens in Chicago for every black American that got on the Internet and this app and refused to talk about what ICE was doing and what is going on in our country because I don't really care about the Hispanic community because they don't care about us, which is BS in of itself. But that's a whole other conversation. We told you that we would be next, right? And y' all didn't listen. And look, so this is a sign for everyone to get off their damn high horses and start caring about what is going on in your communities and in your nation. Whether or not this is happening to someone who looks like you, simply because we are human, this shit is not okay. And we've been yelling that. Yeah. So if you see that video and you're uninformed, you would think, oh, my gosh, this is horrible. The Trump administration, they're just, you know, they're picking black people up off the street and, and, and arresting them, detaining them, which of course is not happening, what DHS is doing. And they put out a statement. In the early morning hours of September 30, allied federal law enforcement agencies with CBP, FBI and ATF executed an enforcement operation in Chicago's South Shore area. Get this. A location known to be frequented by Trend Aragua gang members and their associates. Some of the targeted subjects are believed to be involved in drug trafficking and distribution, weapons crimes, and immigration violators. So they had arrested a group of 37 people. Now, are they being targeted for their skin color? No, no. They are drug traffickers and criminals who might happen to have black skin or brown skin. But that is not why they are being picked up off of the street. They are being picked up off of the street and arrested because they are allegedly members of gangs and they have weapons crimes and drug offenses, like I just said. So again, then you see a Video like that, it goes massively viral and it's just fear mongering because people think, oh my gosh, I'm black Ice is going to pick me up off the street and disappear me. Like they say in the mainstream media, if you are not a trend Nairagua GANG member, don't worry about it. If you're not trafficking drugs, don't worry about it. You have nothing to worry about. Do what you're supposed to do and you have nothing to worry about. It's just totally ridiculous. All right. LSU students were protesting because this all was taking, taking place at a presidential search committee. Former LSU president William Tate resigned back in May and they're searching for a new one, Right? So all of these LSU students, they just charge into this meeting where they're picking their new or potentially meeting to pick a new president. And this is what that looked like. Watch off me. Am I being the same? Am I being detained? Am I being the same, sir? Am I being the same on you? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Yep. So these are university administrators. They are sitting in a meeting room just trying to have a meeting, and these protesters barge in. They're wearing a shirt that says, not a MAGA president. Who cares? Who cares? Am I the only person? I went to college. I went to college for four years. I couldn't tell you who the president of my college was. I never thought about it. It did not matter. I went to class, I did well. I graduated with honors. I had fun with my friends. I had the quintessential college experience. Did not know who the president. I could not tell you. If there was a gun to my head. I could not tell you, the president. Why these people care so much and so deeply about their president and where they the president aligns politically just tells me that these kids are just, I think, too involved. Be a college kid and don't worry about all this other stuff. I mean, how much. What is the university president doing that is going to change their lives so much? I, I, I was a college student. I don't even remember who the president was or anything that they did or who they voted for or anything like. Why does this even matter? Oh, anyway, here's another protester. They were protesting a Turning Point event and they got, well, pretty vile. Watch. I'll be praying for you. Okay, thank you. Have a good day, ma'. Am. Last night. Have a dick. Have a good night, ma'. Am. Have a good night, ma'. Am. Well, that was a protester at a Turning Point event. The sign says F Turning Point. And then the funny part is the woman says, I can't call her a lady, but she's a woman. And she said, you know, did you suck off your dad? And then also your mom, which is only a leftist would say that Republicans moms are not being sucked off. I would say that. I think this is just a liberal problem anyway. This person is talking about her liberal friends and having liberal friends versus having a MAGA dad and what that dynamic is like. Watch this. I love having super liberal friends and then also super Republican dad because my liberal friends will be like, well, just let your dad know that next time he wants to go out of the country. He can't. Yeah. If he wants to go on a nice luxurious vacation in Costa Rica, he is no longer welcome. And I'm like, I don't think you understand. That's not what my dad wants to do. My dad, last time I talked to my dad, he's building a bunker. He told me he's putting cans in the basement in class in case like they're coming. I don't know who they are, but I'm telling you, liberals, go enjoy life, please. Go view the country. Go see the world. It's beautiful. Because I promise you the MAGA people are not leaving their hometown, okay? They're building bunkers. They're boring. They don't leave. My dad was like, just in case something were to happen, I built the bunker. And I'm like, you know what sounds better than living in a bunker with you dying in Costa Rica. So like, stop arguing. They don't want to leave anyway. This speaks to me as a conservative person that rarely leaves my hometown because I feel like I'm working all the time. So I don't really go on vacation much. And also I would love a bunker. I would love a doomsday bunker. If I had, if I didn't live in an apartment and I had more space, I would totally be not a hoarder. What? What is it? Those people, the, the coupon, they clip the coupons and then they have like a. They stockpile water and food in there. I would totally do that if I had the room. Why not just have non perishable food? I'm gonna be like the guy eating 118 year old beef because I'm just going to have it in my garage one day.
B
I have a supply of food.
A
Yeah, of course you should.
B
Ammunition as well is quite important. Yeah, you don't have to have a bunker to be prepared, but it would be Nice. A cozy bunker. I would enjoy it, too.
A
I like it. And they have. If you have a lot of money, like Mark Zuckerberg's building one hell of a bunker in Hawaii. But if you have a good amount of money. I see videos on TikTok. I'm going to have to find them and we'll play them next week. People get crazy with their bunkers. They're very nice. I would love to sit in one. And they're, like, hidden. I saw one. It. They pushed a button and it was like their island in their kitchen kind of, like, lifted up. And then there was a secret door. I love all that stuff.
B
That is so cool.
A
It's so cool. So, yeah, this girl's totally right. I am not seeing the world, and I am dreaming about my. My doomsday bunker one day. All right, do we have blind reactions? We'll end on those. I'm fighting very hard for border security. So important.
B
I've already started building the wall.
A
We built large sections, and we're fixing up a lot of other sections that are a mess. So you have ports of entry, and we have great security at the ports of entry. And then you may have fencing or walls up and down, left and right, east and west. What can't he do right? Our president. So if you're listening and not watching, you know how president. He uses the hand motions when he speaks? He talks with his hands like a true New Yorker, right? Talks with his hands. And he does this. It looks like he's playing the accordion. So this person put an accordion in his hands, a fake accordion, but I think he should try it when he retires from being president in three years. Maybe he has a future doing that. All right, hit me with the next one. Did you do it? Did you do it? You do it? Just married and he officially took Mr. My last name. This man is not straight. Where's the Muellers? Where are the molers? Like the movie where the Millers. We're the mo. Yeah, we're the MO.
B
What's on your shirt?
A
I smell. Okay, so this is a couple. The husband took the wife's last name, which is certainly not traditional. I feel like it's more popular now that women are just not changing their last names. But to have the guy take your last name is odd. I mean, if you don't want to take his last name, then I guess fine. I envision myself taking someone's last name one day. But I don't know.
B
Let's put it this way. I wouldn't do It, I think it's a little bit cringe, you know, just breaking with the tradition and all.
A
Yeah, I agree.
B
I mean the connotations. Like you said poco gay. Yeah.
A
Well, he also is a kind of acting gay. In the video I was getting gay vibes, so I wouldn't be shocked. Maybe this, I don't know. Yeah, I, I see these things. I see videos of girls proposing to their, their boyfriends or whatever. I'm like, this is so cringe. That could not be me. Could not be me. I could understand, you know, if I fell in love with someone and their last name was like gross or dookie or something. I feel like I'm not taking this, but I can't see that happening.
B
This last one is about dating, so I would like your opinion.
A
Okay. If you could give a single girl some dating advice, what would you say to her? How old? Let's say she's like 21. Oh, 21. Just them all because men are so immature that you're not gonna, you're not gonna lock anyone down. You're. Don't, don't even start thinking yet about the husband stuff. But I will say bang, dudes, quietly. Don't tell everybody. Shut the fuck up about it. Just go do your business. Girls, guys, fucking dogs, trans, whatever you want. But keep an eye out for the good ones in your college. Know what I'm saying? Like, keep the solid dudes in your back pocket. Like befriend them, but don't them or date them or nothing until you're kind of like older and you're ready to like settle down with a boy and then call that, that guy up like that one you had your eyes on. And I be like, what's up? Yeah, the solid dudes are not going to want to date you after your ran through. That's horrible advice also for a 21 year old. I would, the advice I would give is to get married. Like, I don't really subscribe to the advice. And people attribute this to Charlie Kirk and other people in conservative media who say get married young, have more kids than you can afford. I don't believe in that. I believe in getting married to the right person. So if you're young, if you're 21 years old and you're you are with someone, I would say that's pretty young. I think as long as you know who this person is, I think the younger you are, the longer you have to date them to make sure that this is someone that you can grow with later in life. I think people know more of, like who they are. And I think it's easier to get married and have that process go faster. But at 21 years old, I would say make sure you're marrying the right person. Make sure you travel with that person, make sure you go through a hard time with that person. Make sure that this is someone who is going to be ride or die and someone that you can have children with and go through hard things with. But I wouldn't that advice. That's Tom Segura's wife, I believe on.
B
The podcast I forgot her name is Mary P. Or something I forget called first date.
A
I that is horrible advice to sleep around and then hope that a good guy will like you later. I think that that's bad advice to give to young women, if I may add.
B
I think just dating with intentionality, like, you know, saying you're gonna get married to the first person you meet in college. But you know, if you treat it trivially, you know you're gonna get trivial results.
A
Agreed. And I would also say too, to the get married young, have more kids than you can afford. I don't think you should have more kids than you can afford. I think having an appropriate amount of kids that you can financially provide for is good advice.
B
Having kids is also a good motivator.
A
Yeah, it is. It's a good motivator. But I think being able to financially provide for all of the kids equally is also important. To not have more kids to the point where you your first kid gets to go to college and then your third kid doesn't, or your first kid gets to go to private school and then your third kid doesn't. You know, I just think being able to kind of have a financial plan in place before you have kids and then you kind of have a plan of how many you want, I think is also important. But what do I know? I'm not married and I don't have kids, so don't hold me to it. But thank you for watching this episode of Nightly Scroll. I will be back here on Monday with a great interview for all of you. So I'm excited for you to see it. You can follow me at Haley Karan H A Y L E Y on most social media platforms. X tik Tok Instagram, Truth Social. And I'll see you right back here tomorrow. Bye. Or on Monday.
Episode 148: Portland Protesters Plan Nude Bike Ride To Own Trump
Date: October 3, 2025
Host: Hayley Caronia
Hayley Caronia delivers her signature, unapologetic conservative commentary on Friday’s episode, tackling a mix of headline-grabbing events, viral internet oddities, and cultural clashes. The main theme centers on unusual forms of protest in Portland against President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, the broader state of left-wing activism, questions about election integrity, Biden family quirks, and a medley of trending news items. True to form, Hayley injects sharp wit, skepticism, and candor into every topic, with time set aside for listener questions and viral “blind reactions.”
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City Council Tips for Protesters:
Hayley plays a clip from Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo, who instructs protesters on how to evade law enforcement using burner phones, Faraday cages, encrypted apps, and by hiding their identity, suggesting that police are “the opposition."
Nude Bike Ride Protest:
In response to National Guard deployment, Portlanders are planning an emergency World Naked Bike Ride, normally done for climate change/cyclist safety, to now protest "militarization of our city."
Highlighting Urban Decay:
Hayley discusses viral videos showing extreme homelessness and drug use in Portland, using them as evidence against claims by local officials that everything is “fine.”
[11:15-13:00]
Odd Instagram Post:
Hayley reviews Ashley Biden's (President Biden’s daughter) Instagram post featuring a laptop with odd sticker choices, including “Dr. Biden, if you're nasty.”
Photo Analysis:
Discussion (with producer) on the background objects in the photo and on the odd, possibly photoshopped appearance of President Biden in the image.
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[19:42-21:23]
[21:24-23:25]
[23:26-27:00]
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Dr. Lahore Vagistan’s Appointment:
Harvard appoints drag star Lahore Vagistan (Kareem Kubchandani) as Visiting Professor in gender/sexuality studies.
Trend in Higher Ed:
Brief aside on courses like Taylor Swift lyric analysis, with Hayley scoffing at their seriousness.
[32:29-46:04]
Maxwell House Renamed "Maxwell Apartment":
Coffee brand’s playful rebranding to reflect more renters.
WWII Grenade Found by Toddler:
In Washington State, a 3-year-old finds a live grenade in the yard; bomb squad safely disposes of it.
[46:05-End]
Misinformation on ICE in Chicago:
Debunks a viral video claiming ICE is detaining black citizens “for no reason,” clarifying it was a gang/drug operation.
LSU Presidential Protest:
Hayley mocks student activists storming a meeting over “Not a MAGA President” shirts, calling the issue trivial.
Turning Point Protest Foul Language:
Plays a clip of a protester making crude comments at a Turning Point USA event, dismissing it as unhinged.
Liberal Friends vs. MAGA Dad (Viral TikTok):
Plays a comic riff on differences between globe-trotting liberals and “bunker-building” conservatives.
[56:53-End]
Trump Accordion Meme:
Watches a clip of Trump’s gesticulations set to an accordion soundtrack, joking about a future musical career.
Man Takes Wife’s Last Name:
Hayley and producer find it “cringe” and nontraditional.
Contemporary Dating Advice Mocked:
Critiques a viral clip (Christina Pazsitzky) advising young women to “bang a lot of dudes quietly” at 21 then settle down. Hayley calls it “horrible advice”—advocates marrying the right person, not “getting ran through.”
On Portland’s Protest Strategy:
"She knows that the kinds of protests that these people are going to are not protected…she is still advocating for these people to go out and wreak havoc and be able to do so undetected by police." [07:09]
On Biden Family Post:
"Dr. Biden if you’re nasty…who wants to think of their mom in a nasty way?" [11:15]
On Harvard Drag Professor:
“Harvard educated means you might be an expert in drag. That is the Harvard education now.” [30:30]
On viral ICE allegations:
"You see a video like that, it goes massively viral and it's just fearmongering..." [49:30]
On dating advice for young women:
"The solid dudes are not going to want to date you after you're ran through. That's horrible advice…bad advice to give to young women." [60:36]
Hayley’s tone remains sharp and sardonic throughout, blending pop-culture awareness with conservative skepticism. This engaging episode features her signature rapid-fire style, routine debunking of viral left-wing claims, and humorous asides, making it digestible even if you haven’t heard the full broadcast.