Harland Williams top podcasts are all where he does drama or does mock confrontations with comedians like Bill Burr or Ari Shaffir. I listen to a fair number of comedy podcasts with some overlap of people in the Kill Tony/Roganverse and Cumtown/MSSP circles so I have more familiarity with them. Now I'm not as familiar with Sam's stuff so anyone who knows better feel free to jump in and correct me, but isn't this virtually identical to the staged for views cringe bullshit he did with Matan Even (who had a similarly terse and staged appearance on Harland's podcast where Harland was throwing shit at him and rubbing muffins on his face while making weird sex jokes about boarding school) where he "DESTROYED" his set and "EPICALLY CRASHED OUT"?
Call me skeptical but flipping a cheapo ikea desk and a couple 40 dollar xlr microphones isn't some kind of epic rampage of destruction lol. This is on pace to be his top viewed podcast he's ever done, his other top podcasts btw are 2 episodes of him fighting with Bobby Lee, Mark Normand joking about October 7th and killing Palestinians, Anthony Jeselnik getting punked and being pissed off for 2 hours while Harland does his riff on the Norm McDonald moth joke (ie a long shaggy dog story that goes nowhere just to piss him off) and him getting into a fight with Bill Burr, this is kind of his thing. If he was actually pissed with the guy, you would think he would just scrub the episode or wouldn't bother crediting them in the description of the video, I know if it was me I would just clown on him or cut that altogether. I've watched many of Harland's sets and podcast appearances and he likes to do goofy, weird surreal shit (you can go watch the podcast he did with Carrot Top if you want to see some bizarre shit), but he will also do serious bits where he drops the character (notably in his podcasts with Bobby Lee because they've been friends for like 20 years). I feel like it's also worth noting Harland is a pretty genuinely nice guy when he's not doing his stage persona which is an intentionally abrasive persona, when he's not in character he is a almost a teetotaler, does not do drugs and writes children's books (seriously, he's published like 10 children's books and does Disney shows for kids).
Is there anybody who has links to comments or xeets or something to provide additional context that's not just people butthurt about Sam Hyde's politics, antifans obsessed with random drama or their favorite fishbowl character being banned from the house, sniping from catty redditors or screenshots of low resolution screengrabs of peoples' faces lol. I am genuinely open to being proven wrong, but this just seems like some cringe staged nonsense a la Eric Andre.
I asked in the MATI thread and all I got was some polish guy having a spergout instead of offering anything useful, so I figured I would come to the ostensible source here about Sam Hyde related information.