“Thoughts and Prayers, Thoughts and Prayers”: How Two Comics Pranked the NRA

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, Inside the Hive co-host Joe Hagan talks to Jason Selvig and Davram Steifler, the comedy duo known as The Good Liars, about their viral prank on the National Rifle Association in late May. Selvig, posing as an NRA ally, stood before Wayne LaPierre and thanked him for his continual “thoughts and prayers” for mass shootings, presenting a brutally exhaustive list. The duo has attended 15 Trump rallies, poking at the QAnon insanity inside, and were eyewitnesses to the insurrection on Jan. 6th—which they also managed to turn into pointed comedy. “You couldn't help but feel like they were getting ready for a battle reenactment or something,” says Steifler. "Everyone we stopped was like, ‘This is 1776.’” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive, this is your co-host, Joe Hagen.
0:07.9	I've got a really special interview today conducted a couple of weeks ago with Jason
0:12.7	Selvig and DeVrom Stifler.
0:15.3	You may know them as the comedy duo, The Good Liars.
0:18.8	They pose as interviewers and drop in on Trump rallies.
0:23.8	Another political events that essentially create pranks as a political commentary, something
0:29.0	not unlike the Daily Show, but taken to the next level in many ways.
0:33.2	They were on the scene creating trouble in Washington on January 6th.
0:36.8	They were there, high witnesses, and they made, believe it or not, amazing comedy of it.
0:42.5	They were famously at the NRA convention in Houston a couple of weeks ago, after the
0:47.0	shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and that was Jason Selvig, who stood before Wayne LaPierre,
0:53.6	the head of the NRA, and posed as an ally with an ostensibly pro NRA speech.
0:58.7	Let's listen to that now just to jug your memory.
1:00.7	The chair recognized the gentleman on the microphone, one A.
1:04.7	Thank you.
1:05.7	My name is Jason Selvig, and I'm from West Palm Beach, Florida, and I would like to say that
1:12.4	I am sick and tired of the left-wing media, and frankly, people in this room today, spreading
1:20.1	misinformation about Wayne LaPierre.
1:24.6	Whenever there's a mass shooting, they all say that Wayne LaPierre isn't doing enough
1:30.4	to stop these mass shootings, and even implying that Wayne LaPierre has played a part in making
1:36.9	it easier for these shooters to get guns, to get weapons.
1:42.9	You heard it after Las Vegas.
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