10/1: Proud Boys Overview, NYT Got Duped, feat. Large

Summary: On today's episode ... - Large joins us and as Wes gives us us a Twisted History lesson on the 'Proud Boys' and we all weigh in on the organization, including their very emasculate show-tune theme song from Aladdin which may or may not be ironic - Turns out the subject of the New York Times' 2018 10 part award winning podcast Calaphate from the times terrorism reporter Rukmini Callimachi, duped her and everyone and was not actually an ISIS terrorist at all. So the series was more like an ironic Orson Welles War of The Worlds. Great job the New York Times - According to the group that sponsors the Presidential debate, they are going to make some format changes for the next debate possibly muting the mics of the Presidential candidates to prevent interruptions - Triple animal update in another Hard Factor safari. 1) Bored and overfunded scientists are claiming birds in San Francisco are developing "sexier" mating songs now that traffic noise has died down. 2) A polar bear in Canada went to town on an unmanned helicopter. 3) A dog was rescued from a 30 foot sink hole with the aid of beef jerky as lure Brought to You By Caliper CBD Get 20% off your first order when you use promo code FACTOR at TRY CALIPER DOT COM SLASH FACTOR. You can try Caliper CBD risk-free for 30 days. If you don’t love it they’ll give you a full refund! Also brought to you by PredictIt.org/promo/HardFactor20 where you can gamble on news & politics. Sign up using our unique url and we will match your first $20 deposit. Sign up. Listen/Subscribe to Hard Factor: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Follow Hard Factor: Twitter - @HardFactorNews / @BarstoolNewsN Instagram - @HardFactorNews / @BarstoolNewsNet Youtube - HardFactorNews Voice Mail - 512-270-1480 Hard Factor Mark: Twitter - @HardFactorMark IG - @HardFactorMark Hard Factor Pat: Twitter - @HardFactorPat IG - @Pclassidy Hard Factor Wes: Twitter - @HardFactorWes IG - @HardFactorWes Hard Factor Will: Twitter - @HardFactorWill IG - @HardFactorWill