WEBVTT - Qanon Grifter Bill Mitchell (A Crossover Episode) 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:07.680 What's anonymous my queueses. Robert Evans hosted Behind the Bastards, 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:09.920 the podcast where we tell you everything you don't know 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.520 about the worst people in all of history. Uh. And 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.400 of course today is a very special day. We are 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.440 talking about Q and on one of the bastards behind 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.560 it uh and I'm I'm doing it with uh several 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.000 co hosts today the collective who hosts the Q and 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:30.320 on Anonymous podcast? You guys want to introduce yourselves. Travis View, 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.640 I am Jake Rocketanski and Julian Field is the third wheel. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.200 I every car needs a third wheel, otherwise it would 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.360 be a bicycle. You can be our fourth baby doll, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.400 and I will be defeat sticking through the floor. I 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.479 want to be the flint stone feed Now, now that 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.440 we're going with a fun car analogy, I want to 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:58.280 do something better. Come on now, Uh. We we we 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.560 have some weird similarities. Is that all of us are 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.479 people who started paying attention to different sections of eight 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.160 chan uh several years in the past for reasons that 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.080 are difficult to explain to anyone, including ourselves, and then 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.760 found our weird little obsession turned into meaningful news and 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.479 suddenly had to Field calls from the Washington Post and stuff. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.880 Uh super weird, isn't it. We were doing the fun 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.880 Nazis and you were doing the real Nazis. Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.880 we were doing like the goofiest Knatzi used who believed 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.800 in like you know, underground tunnels and ye know, and 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.320 uh coming military trimbunals. It was fantastical and the body 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.600 count was relatively low, so that that that makes our 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.560 work I think a little bit more entertaining. Yeah, and 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.760 imagine like a war where the only guy who died 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:50.960 was a mob boss. Yeah, pretty pretty good. And uh, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.480 in case some listeners don't know, both the the neo 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.840 Nazis on h Chan who were responsible for all those 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.440 mass shootings and the people who are kind of like 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.480 driving the Q and on movement are are We're located 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.440 on eight Chan at different sections. There was the Q 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.400 research board, which is obvious what that was, and then 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.200 there's the poll board, which is where all the Nazis were. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.600 There was a bit across pollination, but as not as 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.160 much as some people think. I know it was. It's like, um, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.960 it's like those old Gary Larson cartoons, um, where they 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.200 would show you know, it would be like the skydiving 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.359 school and then like the crocodile farm right next to it. Yeah, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.800 for for the for the real Nazis. They looked at 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.160 the Q and On board and they're like, nah, that 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.440 that looks like vulcans occultism, dude, we left that behind. Yeah, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.560 it's funny. On the on the Q research board, on 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.720 every single thread, someone posted of some like really heavily 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.120 anti Semitic ship about like the Jewish question um and stuff, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.079 and they actually wound up blaming me. They thought that 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.359 I was sort of seeding this information to try to 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.360 make them look the more anti Semitic they actually are. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.880 I was not denied it. That's become common theme. They 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.120 also thought that we brought um, that we brought plants 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.920 to the Q and On rally a couple of weeks 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.480 ago to make them, to make them look stupider and 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.440 and than they already are. My favorite is Jocas Aben 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.560 of the Lines Led by Donkeys podcast. He responded to 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.400 our tweet where where it was like me pictured with 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.639 all these Q and On influencers, and he was like 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.120 did they know that? Like you were the host of 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.360 qu on anonymous and then one of the influencers answered 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.440 did they care? But it was too late he had replied, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.080 so he clearly showed that he cared. So sad and 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.000 I was like, clearly they did, and no answer to that. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.040 That's adorable. Well, today we're here to talk about somebody 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.200 who is not adorable. Uh, we're here to talk about 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.920 Bill Mitchell. Um who is uh I don't know, iluminary 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.840 of the of the Q movement. That's not the right 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.880 term to use at all for Bill Mitchell. Nothing should 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.000 describe him as aluminary. How would you describe Bill Mitchell? 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.840 I think he's luminous. If you look at him, everything 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.520 is just like a pale light. It just fucking blows 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.840 out your eyes. He's the white Wizard of Maga. I think, yeah, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.600 I once uh, I think I once described him as 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:17.800 looking like a child who has a secret. Totally. Well, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.960 Bill is an interesting piece of ship and we're gonna 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.320 have fun talking about him today. Um So, Billiam Mitchell, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.320 I've decided that's his real first name because I can't 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.600 find like a middle name or anything for him, So 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.880 so we're gonna go with Billiam was born in nineteen 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.880 sixty one or thereabouts, somewhere in Germany. His father was 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.600 an army colonel, his mother was a college professor. Now 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.760 on Twitter, Bill has claimed that his dad wound up 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.800 working for the Joint Chiefs in the Pentagon at one 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.120 point and served in Koba in Vietnam. It's possible this 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.720 is true. It's also possible it's a lie because Bill 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:55.279 Mitchell lies constantly. There's really no way to know. Yeah, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.640 as a general rule, I like to have as much 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.000 info as I can about these people's early lives, and unfortunately, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.880 in Bill's case, there's not a lot of information to 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.080 go on. There aren't any super detailed profiles that delve 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.360 into his early life and background, and it kind of 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.440 seems like he doesn't want to go into much detail 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.880 about it, which is understandable. Uh. He graduated from the 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.200 University of Maryland in nineteen eighty two with a degree 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.040 in accounting and finance and was apparently a big theater buff, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.800 which you can really see in his videos. Clearly a 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.520 guy who likes putting on a show. Jesus start superstar 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.720 kind of guy. Yeah. Yeah, if you haven't looked at this, dude, 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.599 you owe it to yourself. He has like the perfect 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:37.720 executive hair, um like like this, this white bowl on 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.280 his head, very distinguished looking. And he has a chin 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.320 like Jean Claude van Damme if he didn't exercise. Is 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.039 how I would describe his chin. Uh, chiseled and flabby 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.360 at the same time, which is very difficult to pull off. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.600 He border character. I was gonna say, he looks like 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.920 a like a character you might create and like g 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:03.120 t a online like he looks like he looks like 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.680 if you played Fallout, the robot president who would like 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.119 speak over the radio. If that guy was a person, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:14.080 he would look like Bill Mitchell. Yeah now Bill, Yeah, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.840 like I said, lifelong Republican. In the nineteen nineties, he 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.400 fell in love with Ross Perot as a businessman, he 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.880 himself he liked the idea of having the country run 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.920 by businessman and uh, I think that that's a thing 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.960 only businessman thing. I don't think members of other professions 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:33.680 tend to think one of us should run the entire country. Yeah, well, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.280 you're you're you're accustomed to uh telling other people what 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.240 to do, if you're like a CEO, then this, like 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.159 the president, is just another variation of that. I guess, yes, yes, 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.440 And clearly corporations and countries have the same goal. Uh, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:53.160 maximizing shareholder value. Yeah now um. For the most part, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.760 politics played a fairly minor role in Bill's life, and 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.680 he focused instead on his career running an executive recruitment 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.720 firm he founded. Has no wife or children. He threw 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.560 everything into his work back when it's still existed. His 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:10.760 company website executive decision dot biz You've gotta be kidding me. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.080 Dot com not available? No, No, he could get dot 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:20.960 biz baby dot z Yeah, the classiest domain. Um. He 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.960 bragged that his bold, proactive style quote empowers clients to 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.600 acquire the finest staff on target, on time, every time. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.560 In a BuzzFeed profile in two thousand sixteen, Charlie Warzel 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.000 noted quote his Yahoo answers profile, stretching back more than 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.040 a decade, paints a fuller picture across hundreds of questions 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.560 and answers. Mitchell reveals a successful recovery from colon cancer, 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.320 a frequent desired for feedback on whether or not to 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.960 color his graying hair, and endless mundane curiosities ranging from 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.360 the silly why do Jack Russell owners all look like 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.720 they want to kill themselves? Would a bumble bee? The 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.080 size of a man be able to fly to the 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.320 more existential. What is intuition and how often is it correct? 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.040 Why not pick create a condom that covers just the 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:09.440 top bench of your penis he and uh, he and 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.840 Matthew Whittaker should get together and team up. I love 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.160 that the guy has never tried just not pulling it 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.200 all the way down, just like you can test that 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.280 out yourself. Bill. I. I love that you say that 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.240 because it means that you and Bill had the exact 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.360 same thought at some point, but you translated into action. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.480 That is slander, sir. I like to pull my condom 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.840 all around my balls. Wait this, Uh, these Yahoo answers 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.800 are like a treasure troue because I remember when when 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.000 we I tried to do some dig up some research 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.559 on Mitchell and the same thing. It was really hard 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.760 to find. But like hearing these answers, it's like looking 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.000 at it's like okay Cupid profile or something like. I 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.800 feel you could get to know the man. Yeah, Charlie 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.160 Warzel is a good journalist and did a good job 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.760 of digging into this guy. So in the midas, Bill 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:56.200 moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte, I said it Charlotte, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.520 which is very wrong. I don't know why Charlotte, North Carolina. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.040 He was there in two fifteen when Donald Trump, famous 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.760 rapist slash casino owner, wrote down the elevator of his 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.320 skyscraper to announce the start of a presidential campaign. Watching 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.120 at home, Bill Mitchell saw an opportunity. He had no 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.240 history and entertainment at this point, or political journalism. His 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.480 social media presence was minimal. He had less than a 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.120 hundred followers. But Bill was inspired by Donald Trump, and 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.040 he had something that no real journalist or pundit could 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.559 possibly have, a bone deep, perfect, almost religious certainty that 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.280 Donald Trump was going to win the election. So chilling 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.840 to see. It's chilling to see the parallels with Jake. Yeah, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.520 he has a platform and before two thousand sixteen nothing, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.880 My hair is going gray. Yeah, yeah, it's Uh, there's 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.160 a lot of us who are in vaguely similar boats 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.040 to Bill Um just because we live in a hell 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.400 age where where all expertise has collapsed in on itself. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.560 And so anybody who's good at tweeting, Uh, you can. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.640 You can write Washington Post articles under a fake name. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.240 It's a whole new world. We are the news now 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.679 say yes, yes, and it's uh, nothing but positives to 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.040 that being the case. So Bill started tweeting, because what 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.120 else are you gonna do? You're certain of something that 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.040 nobody else believes. He tweeted his herd and as fast 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.719 as anyone has ever tweeted before. Over the course of 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.920 the election, he posted an average of two hundred and 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:27.400 seventy times per day. How did you pull up these metrics, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.360 Charlie Warzel did, like put that together? I guess, yeah, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.680 it's that's so many tweets like I'm I I spent 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.839 too We all spend too much time on Twitter. That 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.719 is way too much. Five minutes, but that's if you 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.080 did over twenty four hours. You gotta sleep right well, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.160 I mean, how does he keep his figure? I mean 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.679 I would imagine that he would look like like the 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.959 fat people strapped to the floating chairs and Wally, you know, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.599 just glued to his phone going like mag I'm I 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.880 don't think he eats. I think he subsists entirely on 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:07.000 the energy he gets from hot takes, hot takes in cocaine. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.319 Uh So some of his best takes, collected by Mr Warzl, 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.559 are as follows. You notice how close. Trump stands to 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.760 this black man as he listens to him. No racist 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:24.680 whatever to that. If you think about it, Hillary putting 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.160 women into baskets maybe one of the most sexist things 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.600 ever set in a political campaign. Trump's ground game isn't 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.040 in a computer, It's in our hearts. Imagine poles don't exist. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.480 Show me evidence Hillary is winning. Jesus was perfect in 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.760 the media of his day. Had him crucified. Paco's pilot 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.760 was Rupert Murdoch. Yeah, ponscious pilot was the Fox New World. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:53.640 I guess CNN of King Herod was actually um Jake Tapper. Well, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.840 now that's not even a conspiracy. Jake Tapper is eternal, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.640 like we've all that is true. Yes, that's true. And 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.280 Chris Chris Cuomo is is closing in slowly. He will 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.079 be eternal soon. Yeah, the the entire history of the world, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.680 it's like the Dark Tower series, but instead of those 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.160 the characters Stephen King came up with, it's just Jake 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.800 Tapper and uh fucking Haraldo Rivera like battling throughout time 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.760 to God's muscles, rippling falling through clouds. Well you know 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.880 what you trace back Messopotamia. Then Jesus probably looked a 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:29.439 lot more like Haraldo Rivera than he did. Oddly enough, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.880 Jesus was also hit in the face with a chair 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.640 during an episode of his talk a chair he built. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.800 So Bill Mitchell started a podcast, Your Voice Radio, where 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.360 he expanded upon his political theories and talked to other 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.760 Trump world luminaries like Jack Piso Bik. In his interview 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.760 with BuzzFeed, Bill described Your Voice as a number one 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.240 political talk show, even though it only racked up a 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.560 few thousand downloads per episode. I can't say precisely how 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.320 popular it is now. But Spreaker, which is a podcasting platform, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.080 says the whole series has about five eighty one thousand 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.640 total streams, which isn't bad, but is nowhere near number one. Um, 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.920 not even particularly close. We have double that on soundclod. Yeah, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.319 I get about that much in a week. Um, and 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.040 we're not a number one podcast. Like see boys, I 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.000 told you it was going to be a good collaboration. Meanwhile, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.520 Bill Mitchell's listening and he's like, oh, I thought it 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:31.480 was pretty good. But there's only about three hundred thousand 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:38.600 people in the world. Bill social media presence quickly grew 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.920 from the hundreds to the thousands and then to the 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.319 tens of thousands. Uh. And like I think by the 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.720 time that BuzzFeed article was done, like kind of near 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.959 the end of the election, he had about ninety thousand 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.160 Twitter followers. Now, Bill's Twitter work was way more popular 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.079 than his number one political talk show. In fact, he 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.800 grew to become one of the single most influential people 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.360 in the two thousand sixteen election. And I hate that. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.600 I'm serious about that. Uh. The M I T Media 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.800 Lab like crunched a bunch of numbers on it and 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.680 found him to be the twenty six most influential person 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:14.079 on Twitter of the entire election, accusing this by pedophiles incredible. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.719 He's the highest ranked non politician or a journalist. To 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.920 give you some idea of how good Bill was it Twitter, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.880 he wound up one place below Mitt Romney, one place 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.960 above the official GOP Twitter account, two places above Megan Kelly, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.920 three above the Drudge Report, four above Paul Ryan, and 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.760 five above former President George W. Bush. So you gotta 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:40.120 give he's good at Twitter. Even though I owe my 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.920 being able to do this podcast to Twitter, I because 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.720 of stuff like that. I would not object to just 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.040 burning Twitter to the ground. Yeah, yes, yes, does Bill 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.320 Mitchell even know these stats about himself? I mean, this 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.680 is I feel like he would be. Of course, Bill 0:14:54.800 --> 0:15:02.600 Mitchell wakes up every morning touching himself to these. So 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.200 he credits his success at Twitter with his skill at 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.160 using language. Quote, I've always been clever with words as 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.640 a recruiter. I make my living as a communicator. I'm 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.000 good with word images and painting pictures with a short 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.560 phrase here and there that people can relate to. When 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.800 asked how much time he spends making his tweets, he 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.120 dis missed the idea that there's you know, any planning 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.160 mind them. I'm just firing the thoughts out as I 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.040 come to them. I have an interesting take, you see. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.160 I delve into the internals and really tell people what's 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.480 going on, and it's given me some fame. Now. As 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.920 ab served as Bill seems to most people, he clearly 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.440 has a gift for communicating with a very specific segment 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.160 of the American populace. But the last month of the election, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.440 he averaged forty retweets and ten million Twitter impressions per day. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:50.360 Holy sh it. Yeah, that's terrified, and it's really evidence 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.320 that the key is to just never stop posting, um, 0:15:54.400 --> 0:16:00.280 never stopped posting, and never always pander, pander and post Right. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.520 He actually spends all day just opening um Chinese fortune 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:09.240 cookies and just tweeting that out. Yeah yeah, that it's 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.840 that's actually really close to what he is. Um. He 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.760 also credited his success to the fact that he speaks 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.200 for a chunk of the American populace that even the 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.560 conservative media never let to speak. Quote. These are the 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.920 people who call into rush Limbaugh and who hold on 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.000 the line and never get on air. My tweets cut 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.680 on because I was saying out loud and using my 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.360 talent for words to say what they wanted. Like, I 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.080 speak for the people that Rush Limbaughs, Like y'all are 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:40.720 fucking nuts. Yes, the tweets you pull up while you're 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.920 waiting for a fucking opioid addicts to answer the line. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.960 Oh boy. So while most of Bill's followers seem to 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.840 be committed Trump fans who appreciated his takes, a sizeable 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.040 number of them were liberal hate watchers, gleefully watching bills 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.600 increasingly unhinged predictions and laughing at him. They took particular 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.840 joy and mocking his attitude towards Poles do you see 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.960 Do you see what you did, Travis, Do you see 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.800 what you've done to this country? Very funny looking at 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.960 these guys and now they're president. Very funny, these guys, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.639 these guys who have no influence on my life until 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:21.800 until they do, until they run the country. This tweet 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.840 is pretty emblematic of the kinds of things he was 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.480 saying in the months leading up to the election. This 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.800 is from August two thousand sixteen. A poll is a hypothesis. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.439 Rallies and social media presence are empirical evidence. A hypothesis 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:38.600 unsupported by empirical evidence is wrong. Yeah, oh yeah, And 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.040 you bring up Nate Silver. Absolutely beautiful. Just the guy, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.160 the data guy, data boy, the data man. Now. Nate 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.000 Silver responded to this tweet with a tweet set to 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.719 the tune of John Lennon's imagine imagine there's no polls. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.840 It's easy if you try. No puwre quinnipac on crowd 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.520 size we rely, which is not not a bad joke, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.280 but he ironically right, like I would love it if 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.600 they fucking eliminated the polls and actually looked at the 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.840 groundswell of people. Yeah, yeah, Bill was actually way more 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.280 in the right than the Nate on this one, which 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.960 is weird. Um Like, even as a guy who doesn't 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.640 like Nate Silver, it's very unfortunate. Um. And in fact 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.040 Bill kind of developed a reputation for being the right 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.880 wings Nate Silver equivalent. While Nate was wonky, evidence focused 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.880 and data driven, Bill Mitchell ran on pure gut instinct. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.000 The divide between the two men's methodologies embodied the divide 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.920 between conservative and liberal in America. For his part, Bill 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.560 attacked the polls for being fundamentally flawed and complained that 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.159 they didn't really represent voters in the election. Since so 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.880 many of Trump's voters had been a political before two 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.080 thousand sixteen, they weren't the sort of folks posters talked to. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.560 He argued that crowd size was a better predictor. Quote 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.680 if you arrived here from Mars today and you didn't 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.680 speak English, but you saw Trump every single day of 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.440 the week at these rallies. He's dominating online, he's dominating 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.520 yard signs and rallies and all the physical things we 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.879 can see. You'd think this guy is winning. If it 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.960 were up to me, i'd make polling illegal. This is 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.280 just my dream world. Yeah, He's like, polling doesn't matter. 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.879 We should make it illegal. Yeah, band poles um And 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.880 I'm a fucking Martian that like came to like discovered 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.720 a new fucking planet. And the first thing I do 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.480 is like wander into a Maga rally. He actually does 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.200 look like a Martian wearing a skin suit. Yeah. And 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:25.560 if if a Martian wandered into a Maga rally, oh boy, here, 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.440 get about it. Here, he's a literal alien. He's a 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:34.040 literal illegal alien. Oh boy. Now. Bill's level of connection 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.800 to the Trump campaign was heavily debated. For his part, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.920 he claimed to be in regular contact with the Trump 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.160 brothers and several other workers on the campaign. Digging done 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.960 by Buzzfeeds Charlie Warzell indicated that this was not the case, 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.359 and instead suggested that most of the people close to 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.800 Trump found him fundamentally irritating. Quote. He thought he was 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:52.240 going to be in charge of a Trump group in 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.240 North Carolina months ago, and when he got there he 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.320 found out he wasn't in left deciding not to be 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.840 a part of source said. Mitchell plays this down, alleging 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.680 that he volunteered to run so social media for the 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.160 campaign in North Carolina, but quit after a few weeks, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.560 deciding his personal account was more helpful to the campaign. Still, 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.160 one source believes there's tension between Mitchell and the campaign, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.960 explaining that earlier this year, Trump advisor and social media 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.159 director Dan Scovino unfollowed Mitchell after an incessant series of 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.000 Twitter direct messages filled with pointers about how wrong they 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.000 were doing social media. Um yeah, yeah, and I'm not 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.359 gonna say that Bill is wrong there. Uh, he might 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.680 be better than so at social media than anyone Trump 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.399 actually paid to do the job. Uh, but that's how 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.200 politics works. I mean, Bill Mitchell is is is a 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.320 never ending tweet storm. It's like if yees, if fucking 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.920 Seth Abramson never took a breath, that would be just 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.760 gave me the fear. Now. In that BuzzFeed article, Charlie 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.000 declared Bill to be the post truth, postmath anti Nate Silver. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.760 It was not an unfriendly depiction, but the clear implication 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:54.359 was that he was a bit of a nut and 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.800 November two thousand sixteen was going to prove all of 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.159 his silly predictions wrong. And as we all know, that 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.600 did not happen. But Thursday after the election, Bill texted 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.480 Charlie and asked, Hi, Charlie, will BuzzFeed be doing a 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.000 post truth follow up article on me? Smiley face now. 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.760 To his credit, Charlie Warstle fessed up to being owned 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.640 pretty hard by Bill Mitchell. He did, in fact write 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:17.800 a follow up article which revealed that Bill had spent 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.520 election night alone in his home studio interacting with his 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.520 Twitter followers, who by that point numbered nearly a hundred 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.560 and fifty thousand. So because of his kind of relentless 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.600 uh predictioning I don't know what you want to call it, 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.560 Bill was treated as sort of an oracle. In the 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.520 immediate wake of Trump's upset election victory, he took the 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.480 opportunity to try to rebrand himself as a political pundit. 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:40.960 He told Charlie Warzl that he thought Jared Kushner would 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.000 hire him to work at Trump TV, which was the 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.320 thing he thought would exist very soon. Bill raised ten 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.800 thousand dollars for his YouTube show and got his radio 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.920 show syndicated on Cleveland a M Radio. Since his first 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.280 set of predictions had worked so well, he started making many, 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.160 many more like this one. I think the Wall will 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.480 become the next great American monument. Like the Statue of 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.000 Liberty Wall is a monument to our sovereignty. That's what 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.840 I'd say if I were on his marketing team. That's amazing, 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.840 because that's like the Great Wall of China if you 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.639 couldn't walk on it. Yeah, yeah, if it had like 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:19.040