The Morning After

Waking you up, without being woke.

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

Did you catch our annual monkey truck crash episode?

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

Wake Up and Do Something Awesome https://t.co/oQhsqeZvKf

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

In October of 2020 I started Fact Check This Podcast. I had started running social media and making show clips for Peddling Fiction a couple of months before that, and decided to try my hand at doing my own show. I never had any expectation of becoming a popular podcaster or getting a huge audience. I would even regularly joke about my 12 listeners. But it was fun and it was an outlet to talk about stuff that was going on in the world, and specifically to talk about what the “fact checkers” weren’t being honest about.

And through working on @PeddleFiction I ended up doing work for @LionsofLiberty and @buckrebel along with a bunch of other shows in different capacities. Fact Check This also gave me a chance to have some interesting conversations with a whole bunch of people, a lot of whom would end up becoming good friends.

But one of my favorite things with doing the show was sitting down with Sean to talk about comic books and video games and other shared interests that we had. Which also gave him an opportunity to get to know some of those internet friends I had made and let them become a fun little part of his life, and now in hindsight he got to be part of theirs as well. He traveled with me to meet a bunch of them. He did game nights with us and they talked crap to him and he gave it right back like it was nothing. He played video games with some of their kids.

My most recent episode was #392, which doesn’t count dozens of daily shorts, random livestreams, and game nights just for fun. I have planned content for 3 more episodes, and then I plan to have some conversations with those friends and wind the show down at episode 400. It has been a lot of fun, and hopefully some folks have learned a little bit about what’s really going on in the world. But more importantly, I hope they learned something about me and my son and the rest of my family. I know in some ways I’m going to miss it, but I’ve also found over the last month or so that I just don’t have the heart to keep doing it. I’ll keep doing @DeMorningAfter for as long as those guys want to do it, and I’ll keep doing Peddling Fiction for as long as Johnny will have me, but losing Sean took away a deeply personal connection to my show that I just can’t get back, and so it’s time to bring it to a close.

Thank you for all the support over the years. And especially over these last couple months.

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

Pragmata, Paternal Instincts, and Progressive Projection https://t.co/Y7jkfzYdTF

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

I want to respond to every single one of you who have reached out to us with prayers and condolences for our losing Sean individually, to tell you how much we appreciate your prayers and how much it sincerely has meant to us in what has been the hardest moments of our lives... but I don't think I'd ever stop crying if I tried to do it.
There are absolutely no words that can truly describe how gut-wrenching this has been. But on the other side of that, there are also no words to express how much every call, text, DM, comment, and reply has meant.
I know he was loved by so many, and we have felt love from so many. From family and friends to casual acquaintances and even complete strangers, we have been surrounded by love and prayer these past 2 days. If it weren't for every one of you, I don't know if any of us could have gotten through this. And there's still every day from here forward to get through, but we know we can, because we know how much he was loved and how much we are loved.
Thank you all so so much! No one ever knows what to say when something like this happens. And there are no "right words" for it. But also, every word has been the right one. Every word has been exactly what we needed to get through for just a few more minutes and know we can keep getting through.
I will be posting an announcement in the morning with all of the details (so far) for arrangements.

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

Someone on here said "I don't know how someone writes and posts this on the internet the same day" when I shared the post about what happened.
I write. I love to write. And for me, writing is how I can express the things that, if I were to try to say out loud, would just fall out of my mouth as mumble while I cry like a baby.
So here's my latest Substack, going in to the details of the worst day of my life. (Link in the replies)

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

We will be holding a Celebration of Life for Sean at the First Presbyterian Church of Evansville (609 SE Second St, Evansville, IN) on Saturday, March 7th at 11:00 am. The church will be open and we will have a visitation starting at 9:30. If you know Sean, please come join us so we can learn the stories of what an amazing kid he was...not that we don't already know. Dress for the event will be casual. Sean lived his life in jeans and a hoodie, and Kaydee thought the best way to celebrate him would be to do it comfortably.
The funeral service will be held at Cayce United Methodist Church in Fulton, KY with the burial at Ebenezer Cemetery on the Campbell family farm to follow. When Sean's great grandmother passed away back in the fall, he said he wanted to be buried there with all of the other Campbell men. So that's where we'll lay him, and the rest of us will join him later. Service is tentatively planned for Tuesday, likely midday, and as soon as all of the specific details have been ironed out we will be updating everyone.
In lieu of flowers or gifts we are asking people to donate to the Petersburg and Patoka Township Fire Departments. These were the responders on the scene at the crash. These fire departments are volunteers, and these first responders do this for the love of their communities for no pay and with little funding. We will have more details on exactly how to donate to them soon. Sean's Uncle Nate is a first responder back in Fulton and knows the pain of working these crash scenes, and he will be coordinating with the fire departments to get us the information for donations.
And if you still want to send flowers that's fine too. We cannot even begin to express how thankful and grateful we are for all of the support and love and prayers and food and just everything that has been poured out on us these past few days. Now we ask that you come pour out on us just a little bit more and join us for one or both of these services and help us lay our gentle giant to rest.

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

I got a notification on my phone at 7:14 this morning that Sean’s phone had detected a crash and emergency services had been contacted.
I told Kaydee hustle up and let’s head that way.
I arrived before almost anyone else, there were only a couple sheriffs on scene. I was able to walk up to the truck and it looked awful, clearly a head-on collision. I told one of the sheriffs who I was and he asked that I stay back from the scene, which I already knew and was. I couldn’t see Sean, just sort if where he was. The airbag was fully deployed and the whole front and side of the truck was crushed in around him. As I started to walk back to the car to wait the EMT arrived.

About 10 minutes later the sheriff, EMT, and a state trooper came to the car and let me know that it wasn’t likely he would make it. Another 5 or so minutes after that the county coroner told me he was definitely dead.

I never in my life imagined anything like this. I thought he was gonna be my giant video game buddy for the rest of my life. That we’d share and talk about comics and anime and cut up. I really couldn’t wait for him to “grow up” so we could have a beer together and really have fun. He just started his first adult job yesterday. He wasn’t even 18 yet. I can’t explain the hole in my heart. I don’t know if it’s even possible to explain it.

I love you Sean! Nothing van describe how much I loved you, how proud I was and am of you, how much you meant to me. I already miss you more than I could have ever fathomed being able to miss someone. You looked like you were just sleeping when I got to see you for the last time. I wish you could have just woken up and this all have been fine. You were the best son I could have ever hoped for.

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

“OMG Trump lied”

Hi, new to politics I see. Geez, maybe you should sit down and let me explain some things to you…can I get you some tea and a cookie? This is probably gonna be hard for you to hear.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

So I’m supposed to be outrage about an Obama monkey meme while Democrat elected officials are labeling the entire white race “oppressors” and openly plotting to conquer and subjugate us? Trump can post all the memes he wants. I really don’t care at all.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: The Department of Justice under Pam Bondi redacted an image showing Benjamin Netanyahu photographed with Jeffrey Epstein from one of Epstein’s emails.

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

The Hebrew word for “foreigner” used in the original texts of the Old Testament literally translated as “having obtained legal status”

So, there’s that…

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

We asked @grok to draw @benshapiro as Tony Montana from Scarface.

The results did not disappoint

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

“I’m shitting banana pudding” has been typed more in our GC over the past 3 years than it’s been spoken in normal human conversation for all of history.

Thanks for that @doc_clyde_md

[Justin “Hillbilly Boy” Campbell @jcamp1521]

Now that the election is basically officially over, it’s time to answer the hard questions. Such as…

Who’s more annoying?

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

We narrowed it down to 4
After Trump wins, which city gets burned to the ground first?

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

@MICHIGOON_ Oops! Shouldn’t been Minneapolis.

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

When Trump wins which city gets burned to the ground first (Round 1)

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

When Trump wins which city gets burned to the ground first (Round 1)

[The Morning After @DeMorningAfter]

When Trump wins which city gets burned to the ground first (Round 1)