Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein, managing out of the Bullock. I'm joined by Joe Perticoat and Will Summer to deal with what is life-changing news, a groundbreaking political development here in Washington, D.C., something that's really shattered Joe on a deeply emotional level.

Nick Adams, known probably to many as the Hooters-loving Alpha Mail online, who's a big Trump supporter, is 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 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 stakes, loving going to hooters.

And then all of the, it would always have like a sexual innuendo.

He'd say like, nothing beats a foursome with the boys.

Obviously, to golf, but like, you know, 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 crusade of American exceptionalism. He's from

Australia. He has a thick, very thick Australian

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