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A groundbreaking political development here in Washington, D.C., something that's really shatter Joe on a deeply emotional level.

Nick Adams, known probably to many as the Hooters Loving Alpha Male Online, who's a big Trump supporter.

He's no longer officially the administration's ambassador nominee to Malaysia.

We'll talk about the gall to nominate Nick Adams to that post in a bit.

He's now the special presidential envoy for American tourism, exceptionalism, and values.

This is a made up position, but it actually is now a position at the State Department.

It's real. I went and looked for it because at first I thought it was just totally a joke, but there is actually a state.gov page for Nick Adams.

And this title is what he is listed as of March 17, so he's been in this position.

There's so much to unpack here, and I'm going to get into it too, including this insane video that Nick Adams posted of himself.

But Joe, you've been the one who's written about the guy the most.

Can you just sort of explain who this weird character is to the people who are uninitiated?

In the onset of like the Trump era, Nick Adams kind of emerged as like an online figure,

where he would just tweet about, you know, loving rare steaks, loving going to hooters,

and then all of the, you'd always have like a sexual innuendo he'd say, like, nothing beats a

fulsome with the boys. Obviously, to golf, but like, you know, a playing golf with four men, but like, you know,

winking at something else. And everyone's just like, oh, here's this character.

And then he was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Malaysia, which is an important job.

And Malaysia has a bunch of Muslims, so they were upset because he frequently tweeted about radical Islam,

and his, you know, crusade of American exceptionalism. He's from Australia. He has a thick,

very thick Australian accent. I am really upset because I had never looked forward to something more,

like the last time I looked forward to a hearing was when Diamond and Silk testified

from Congress, which I did get to see in person. So I was looking forward to Nick Adams testifying

in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But as we saw, they, when they, when an

a nomination carries over into the New Year, it's technically sent back to the White House,

and it's up to the White House to resubmit it. And they didn't do that for like all of January.

And I was like, oh, that's weird. And then they formally.

Well, so Nick Adams was asked about this actually by the Sydney Morning Carol in February,

because as Joe said, he was also asked about it by me many times via email.

Those went too bad. Maybe he'll respawn out of his job as to promote tourism and exceptionalism.

But he was asked about this by the Sydney Morning Haralds and his quote was,

I've been promoted from the role of ambassador exclamation point. More details to come in the upcoming

week. This was not a promotion. We're going to get into all the weird stuff in a little bit,

but I've always sort of wondered, Will, he seemed like he's obviously a very

a mega figure and he's gone on all these shows and he knows or pals around with a bunch of people.

But like, is he actually in the mix or do the Maca folks regard him as kind of a buffoon?

I mean, I think he's kind of a immaterial player. I mean, I think he's a guy who is sort of seen

as perhaps like fun to be around, I guess, because he's always eating Tomahawk steaks and talking

about sports cars and golfing. But he's not really like an integrated right wing media figure

in the way that Laura Lumer or Tucker Carlson, these Megan Kelly, these people are.

And on one hand, look, he says he has fans. He calls them Nads or Nick Adams disciples.

So on one hand, I guess he has some amount of fans. But I think it's also a little hard to judge

because I know Joe is a better Nick Adams expert than I am. But I feel like he's kind of been

laying low to try to get this ambassador ship through like he was learning trying to be a good

boy to not talk about his chest hair or whatever. Almost like a political, like a Johnny Bravo character,

like this kind of real like kind of macho guy. But he's not as I would say malevolent as a

lot of right wing figures, particularly in the manosphere. You know, I think I'm in the rise

of people like Clavicular and Andrew Tay. You know, we'd be so lucky if Nick Adams was really

small for me. Let's get a flavor. Let's just look at some of the tweets that are not malevolent,

but kind of our malevolent, but our kind of not malevolent. Here's one that just talks about as a

appreciation for boobs. Appreciate a nice pair of boobs. And I'm not going to apologize for it.

Here's another one to her as later about boob reduction. He says getting a boob reduction is like

slapping God in the face. Okay. Joe, you would know this bit. He tweaked, I don't know how many times

he's treated bad hooters, but he treats a lot of our hooters. Hundreds, hundreds. Here's one

where he says I go to hooters. I eat our steaks. I lift extremely heavy weights. I read the Bible

every night. I am pursued by copious amounts of women. I am wildly successful. I have the physique

of a Greek God. Not true. I have an IQ over 180. I am extremely charismatic. They hate this.

There's more about him tweeting about boobs. I mean, he had a persona. You say it was hundreds of

tweets about hooters? Is that accurate? So he's tweeted about hooters more than 500 times. And he

stopped though when he received his nomination. And the thing about him kind of toning down his

stick after he was nominated, you could tell he started to get antsy or maybe started to read that

he was not going to get his day in front of the Senate when he started ticking back up again

and started like leaning back into the macho stuff. Him losing his nomination too is like

that doesn't happen. That is not normal. Like they confirmed Herschel Walker before they

can. Well, you know what else is not normal though? Nominating someone like Nick Adams.

Well, no, but I mean, clearly someone in the Senate on the Republican side probably said

this isn't going to happen. This area will be a mess. There will be too much opposition just

based on the gross things he's posted. And when that happens, probably behind the scenes,

it's communicated that this isn't happening. So he received his promotion, which no longer gives

you a lifelong title of ambassador and doesn't affect any policy. So I guess that's a promotion.

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he, this is the actual State Department website and I was reading this this morning and I was just

chuckling along. It says Nick Adams is a political and policy author, thought leader and educator.

I don't know what the education part is. President Trump appoint him to the board of trustees

for the Woodrow Wilson Center in the Smithsonian Institution for a six-year tomb. I did not know that.

Will, did you know that? I did know that. Yes. You know, this is a guy who despite everything

has really been kind of becoming a DC foreign policy wank. Okay. Okay. He says he is the director

of the Texas and Florida based foundation of Liberty and American greatness. That's true and

non-profit. They said he also runs one a warriors and organization dedicated to codifying the

civil rights of Americans who honorably exercised their peaceful First Amendment rights. All right,

here we go. Mr. Adams is an accomplished author, freelance, political analyst, and independent

political commentator working in the United States. He authors a thrice, weekly policy analysis

newsletter. This is true. I didn't know this. Are you on a subset? Are either of you on a

sub-stack recipient list? I'm a subscriber. You are? A free subscriber. Yeah. Do you read these?

On occasion, it's just kind of like typical magus stuff. Trump's great state of the union. No

one's ever delivered such a great city. It's like, it's pretty lame stuff through the real actions

like on a Twitter page. I went through some of the sub-stacks. One was bring the Viva back to Vegas.

The other one was this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for that President Trump is making movies

great again. That was about the rush hour like, you know, sequel that they're going to do.

And then he said, how my book became part of American and world history. And he labels himself

the president's favorite author. He says, being the president's favorite author has been the honor

of a lifetime. That was an interesting one to me. That came up because he wrote this book about

Churchill. And when Bob Woodward was visiting the White House to interview Trump for a book,

Trump essentially says, well, I really like this book. Maybe you should consider getting

a little inspiration from Nick Adams here, Bob Woodward. And so maybe, you know, I don't know if

Woodward did. I don't know if we saw that play out in his book, but interesting nonetheless.

He's got that new book coming out. There might be some scenes from Hooters and the new Woodward

movies. That was Woodward's, that was Woodward's big secret using, using hooters as a place to meet

sources. All right, I'll keep going for a little bit here. He's been a television radio commentator

Yaya. Mr. Adams' work promoting American exceptionalism has seen him recognized by governors

across the country. And he has been awarded honorary status, honorary status in Texas,

Kentucky, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, and presented

commendations in Nevada, Nevada, Missouri, and Arizona. This is on a state department website,

okay? We looked into this a little bit, okay? The honorary status that he gets are just like

online applications you can fill out to ask for nominations to get honorary titles. Like he

received an honorary Kentucky colonel title in 2017. He did get in 2013. Rick Perry did honor him

in a resolution for his book, American Boomerang. That was interesting. He did receive the order of

the civil crescent, which is South Carolina's top award for volunteer and community service in this

state. And he received the Sagamore of the Wabash. I don't even know what the hell that is award by

Governor Mike Braun in Indiana in 2025. Needless to say, I think he's inflating his resume a little bit

on on the state department website, but maybe you guys have honorary titles. Well, I'm intrigued.

If you can just pick up a colonel one, I might as well, I guess. I mean, it sends it to you.

Only colonels. It is truly crazy. It is truly crazy. This guy was nominated to be a master

in Malaysia, which is like a real country, you know, and an important country for the US's

relations. Joe, do you have a sense of what the opposition was? I guess we don't know, like,

you know, beyond maybe these protests in Malaysia, but beyond what would have been like in the Senate?

Early on when he was nominated, there were a lot of people who were like, I don't know anything

about him other than his tweets. The only senators who I know had met him in person were Ted Cruz,

took a photo with him like a decade ago that I'd found so can't blame him for not knowing or

remembering. Rick Scott, he had met and, you know, had kind of no comment on it as usual. But

the opposition that it was just like his, the combination of his crazy tweets, his crazy persona,

genuine lack of experience, because like, there's not like, if there's someone really controversial

or like weird or super right wing or whatever, but they have at least like some real relevant

experience in like Asia Pacific policy, like there's a lot of those people who worked at the Heritage

Foundation or whatever, he's not one of those guys. And so all of that combined the fact that his

confirmation hearing, which is mandatory to receive nomination, would have, would have been just

a total mess. It would have been him. All I stand by my hood as tweets.

Demi, Demi, Demi, not to have had a blast. I would have had a blast watching it. And I know they

probably just decided it wasn't worth it and they had that. I feel like they should just do it for

the hell of it. Like we'll establish that even if he gets the votes, he's not going to serve,

but just have the theater. So for some reason, even though this is a week old that he's now in this

made up position at the State Department, it broke today and he put out a video today. He made

a major announcement today where he was grateful for his appointment. Then he put out a video on his

Twitter account, Nick Adams in USA. And it's a video, 16 minute video called the Nick Adams story.

So he made a video of his own story. What I love about this is that in the video, he basically

conceived that this whole alpha male profile is as a stick, which everyone sort of assumed,

but it seemed true possible enough that people were confused. This guy, three-year letterman,

who makes fun of people online for a living in a very artful way, retweeted the video saying,

I went tears of page to some watching this. Nick Adams retweeted three-year letterman.

So I don't know if he's in on the joke or not, but I want to play a few clips from this video.

So you guys, I know you haven't seen I watched it. I just give the viewer a sense of how ridiculous

this human being is. Let's just play a full mashup of some of the best parts from the video.

Getting good grades came easy to him. He had a way with words, a man born for the stage.

Nick was a unique breed, a top student who chose to sit in the back with his friends,

rather than his intellectual equals. Nick would be targeted by the media, political enemies,

even betrayed by those in his own party. He would end up being marginalized,

blackballed, restricted, and virtually unemployable. What is creative and original to the

pioneering spirit is crazy to the parochial mind. The television networks quickly worked out he

was tailor-made for them. And the hits came thick and fast. Nick was smart, quick, and funny,

and the accent didn't hurt either. What do you guys make of that? The best part is

the unique breed, a top student who chose to sit in the back with his friends,

and not his intellectual equals. Unbelievable. Not too much of a snob to

be friend with the dummies as well. He has a real sense of humor, though, in a way that I don't

think a lot of the other talking heads they don't have. Scott Jennings doesn't have that level

of sense of humor on TV the way Nick Adams does. He's in on the joke, obviously. That's why he's

retreating three-year lettermen about his stupid movie. But I just thought, what is creative and

original to the pioneering spirit is crazy to the parochial mind. Like he clearly was, you know,

putting it on thick there. Any final thoughts for our dear friend Nick? I think he's going to excel

honestly. Do we think he will ever hold a single event in this role? Or you don't think they're

just putting him on ice. They're saying, all right, thanks a lot, buddy. You know, go hit the

Tomahawk steaks, go win the wing eating contest. My question is this, and maybe Joe knows this.

Does he have money from somewhere? Because like, this is a 16-minute video. Someone had to pay for

it. It was narrated. It was like, you know, there's some editing involved in it, you know, a lot of

video footage in there. Like, what's he doing? What is his actual income? He writes all these books,

but they can't possibly sell. So my theory to answer your question will is like, he'll throw

parties. They might come from his own pocket, right? Where it's just like doing that. But he's

gone for some parties. So the World Cup is coming up. He's of Greek heritage, even though he's

Australian. Greece did not make the World Cup. Australia did make the World Cup. Obviously,

America's made it because they're the host country. Lucky for them. So he'll get to like celebrate,

I think, with some of those countries. He'll probably host them in certain ways, maybe,

or he'll just, you know, go on TV. That's what he's best at. I'm definitely for seeing a few

Hooters World Cup parties with dignitaries in the future. Look off of the boys,

force them with the boys. All right, look, Nick Adams. If you're watching this, congratulations

on your appointment to special on voice, special presidential on vote for American

tourism, exceptionalism and values, we look forward to your awesome parties. If you do want to come

on the bulwark and talk about it, we would love to have you on. It would be a pleasure and honor,

honestly, to be part of the Nick Adams story. Will and Joe, thanks for doing this, guys. I know

this is heart-wrenching for you, Joe, like heart-wrenching. And I don't want to downplay how

emotionally devastating this around my sorrow that said Hooters. All that content that you were

planning on creating and it's just gone. But I appreciate the work you put in. For those who've

watched, thanks for doing that as always. Subscribe to the book where you get Ridiculous videos like

this. Talk to you soon.

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