Weekly Skews - Skews 3/15/22 – Gaslighting Gas Prices

Episode Date: March 16, 2022

Tonight we engage in every red-blooded Americans favorite pursuit: hollerin’ about gas prices. Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. There’s a lot of debate about what’s really going on there and just how much blame Joe Biden should take for it all, so let’s get into it (and plenty of other stuff too, of course). Support the show

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day. And beware for Verily, it is the Iads of March, March 15th, 2022, to be exact. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? Well, is that, Trey? This week's also the two-year anniversary of the official launch of COVID, I think, is the way we're trying. I think it was March 11th, where NBA shut down. that I didn't see a tournament got canceled. It's my last day going to a job. Right. It was definitely somewhere around here. Yeah, because I remember we had, we had been touring so much.

And then we took a self-imposed break from the road in January and February of 2020, you know, which we scheduled a year in advance. We're like, yeah, that would be nice. And so our first dates back, we're in Riley, North Carolina on like March 13th-ish or something like that. And I landed, went to the hotel, and got into my room, and my phone rang. And my agent was like, yeah, it's off. You could just go back. And then, you know, didn't have more for a long time after that.

So, yeah, happy COVID anniversary, everybody, or, you know, shitty anniversary. I don't know what you say about a terrible anniversary. But, yeah, two years, still going strong. Real staying power, COVID has. Yeah, yeah. Have I ever tell you, if it's on the show to ever tell my mechanical bull COVID? story? I don't think so. The last thing

I was doing that it might have been March 11th or March 10th is me and you said we, you're including talking about Corey and Drew. We and Corey are working in this game show development thing and we're doing a run through the pilot and it was a game show the premise of which would be like in the final round you answer trivia about country

music and shit and then you're on a mechanical bull and every answer you get wrong it speeds up until you fall off and that's how much money you get for your writing. All right. I like it. So I'm sitting there watching this as they get notifications. Tom Hanks has COVID. And I was like,

holy shit, this is the last thing I'm ever going to do when I'm watching a paid extra ride a mechanical bull for $50. So that, and that was like the last thing you did in person professionally, watch the guy ride a mechanical bull and try to answer questions about Toby Keith or whatever. It's appropriately silly for what we do. I go to in person work one day every three weeks right now for a,

for a shoot days, but yeah, they, um, yeah, that was a, that was, that was very surreal. It's like, oh, this is, this is my, this is my, this is my, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the role credits mode of my career in show business, and it's a, yeah, uh, real quick, we're going to talk about daylight savings time for a little bit, but I want to shout out Canada, because they have so many people, we make fun of them a lot a few weeks ago, because the trucker shit, but they got so many people volunteering to fight in Ukraine, they got a whole Canadian battalion over there, so shout out to the Canucks. Yeah. I don't know that much about. like military stuff, but I understand that Canada's a pretty badass in that regard. Like, I've always heard that like people didn't realize it or something, but really in World War II, they were some, you know, hardcore motherfuckers who were holding shit down. So, yeah, respect to Canada.

I mean, they're right there. We never invaded them, sir. It must be a reason. Yeah, right. They got plenty of stuff we'd love to have. And for some reason, we just keep letting them be there. So, yeah, obviously there's something to that. And also briefly, because we were really laughing about it over the weekend,

I want to mention the guy who on Sunday afternoon bid and won $518,000, I think, for Tom Brady, the ball, Tom Brady used to throw his last touchdown in the NFL. And then, like, 15 minutes later, Tom Brady's like, I'm back, baby. It's in like, look, a dude who could spend $500,000 on that ball, I'm sure it's probably just like a drop in the bucket to him, but it's still so funny just because of the timing of it. It was literally that. It's like Tom Brady saw that and was like, you know what, fuck that guy for some reason.

And just unretired made that ball worth, you know, $200 or something three hours after he spent a half a million on it. It's pretty, pretty funny. Let's tie. So Congress did something today, Trey. Yeah. Super impactful and everything. Something is going to really turn the tide in this country. They came together and they got it done.

The Senate voted fucking unanimously, unanimously. to establish permanent daylight savings times, who would not have to set our clocks back in November. I think it's hilarious. So does that mean that that's happening? Like, if Joe Biden, like, signs this, then that as of this year, that will be the deal. We're not going to do it anymore?

The House does pass it, but I can't imagine something the Senate passed unanimously won't get past the House because somebody has some polling data, which is really funny, but people feel really, really strongly about this. and I find that really funny. I fake rant about it,

although I don't really care that much, although I do like extra sunlight at the end of the day. Sure. What's the, like, I do not have strong feelings about daylight savings time, but I always felt like, yeah,

you know, like you said, extra hour sunlight at the end of the day, that's fine. Why not? I always like setting the clocks back too because you get like an extra hour of sleep that night,

which is big for me. So one night a year, I get, I get real excited. Like, yeah, I'm gonna wake up with a whole other hour tomorrow morning, but that's about the extent of my passion on the subject. So some people are what, really not for this, or they're super for it, or both hotly divided.

We actually has been largely overwhelmingly positive as far as I've seen, or I've seen a few contrarian, because like, here's the thing. Apparently, we had this same big fight in 1974 and Congress ended daylight savings time, and then one year later, everybody hated it so much, we immediately went back. So I imagine, I imagine we're going to be doing this again in a year, which is just really fucking funny because we never learned from ourselves. In general, like, me personally, let's pretend a person with no empathy. This really hits for me.

Because, like, one, I don't get up super early. I don't have any kids. The idea that some of the, they said the idea that people, kids are be waiting for the bus at, you know, in December in the dark, let's pretend that doesn't matter. I find this awesome. But I think I find truly funny, like people, like, I think are confused about why we have daylight saving or who's behind it like people always think it's like farmers that's what i always heard yeah it was farmers extra hour daylight for farm purposes but i mean farmers get up early you know

it's like you're taking that daylight away from the first part but whatever that's what i always heard about it real quick i want to read this uh tweet matt sent us from nancy fraser who's a skewer says our long national nightmare is nearly over i have to say this feels like weed being legal in my state like this is really happening in my lifetime so there's somebody pumped up about it. But anyway, going on, we've been lied to by big, big sun. Yes. Martin's Farmers actually hate this because it messes

with the circadian rhythms of the they hate changing clocks because they messes up the circadian rhythms of like dairy cows and shit. So it messes up milk production and, you know, so it's also people think it's because of like to save energy during a war. That's not true. They like saving doesn't save any energy. But

if you're for this and you're suspicious at all about why Congress to do this unanimously, you need to know the real reason why who's behind this and who loves it is the chamber of commerce the chamber of commerce loves daylight saving time so much so that i imagine they're super in favor of it becoming permanent because what happens is was an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day people are spend more time shopping on the way home from from work they go out to eat more they uh i think somebody did the math and like uh people spend 70 million dollars more year on golf because of

Daylight saving time. So there you go. Even the good things that happen if you're for this or because America is irrevocably corrupt. Capitalism, baby. Spend, spin, spin. Yeah, well, happy permanent daylight savings time, everybody. All right, this producer Matt is with us.

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That's what they say. Is there more to it? We will attempt to decipher it and complain about all of the complaining. That's what we're going to do. But first, a myriad of dumbasses for you, beginning, as always, with our daily dumb asses. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's DD, everyone on earth, except for Donald Trump, who has uncovered what's really going on with the crisis in Ukraine. And let's hear it from him.

Matt, play it. It would have never happened. And we did talk about it. I mean, he definitely wanted Ukraine, loved Ukraine, would never have happened. What do you see happening next then? Because it seems like the tensions are. high. How does this all end? Is this going to be like a long term thing? How do you see it unfolded? Well, and I said this a long time ago. If this happens, we are playing right into their hands,

green energy. The windmills, they don't work. They're too expensive. They kill all the birds. They ruin your landscapes. And yet the environmentalists love the windmills. And I've been preaching this for years. The windmills, and I had them way down, but the windmills are the most expensive of energy you can have, and they don't work. And by the way, they last a period of 10 years, and by the time they start rusting and rotting all over the place, nobody ever takes them down. They just go on to the next piece of prairie or land and destroy that. It's incredible that they want, but other forms of green energy, they don't have. So I love the way it's brain works because it's like a one-man improv scene. The podcast he's on right there, it's called the Nilk Boys,

and they're essentially the Canadian equivalent of college humor. But I don't know how they got this interview because what they do is pranks. Like their last, they made a video earlier this week where it was like a 30-minute-long fake documentary. What they did was they tricked a Bigfoot hunter into thinking he'd found Bigfoot. And it was pretty funny. Yeah, that sounds all right. I mean, I could get into that. And they're very popular.

That video got like 4 million views in less than a week in Canada. You know, they're Canadian. I can't figure out I mean I imagine they got the interview with Trump because of how many views they get But I think they were prank in it Right because they do pranks, all right Yeah, so like they're just like

These guys, for college humor used to prank each other One of them tricked his girlfriend And I think of their issue was being proposed to At a basketball game And she never spoke to her boyfriend again So that was really funny But they do shit like that And here's a video of them

like I think there is what makes you think they're prank and her fucking with him because they call him Donnie listen to him. Donnie I wonder I'm just saying no so criss so yeah it's a fucking dumbass I like it feels like somebody

like it feels like they beforehand they were like bet you won't call him Donnie or something like you know what I mean he's like I'll totally call him Donnie watch me I'll do it like feels like that type of thing to me but yeah he just sort of rolls with it yeah is he doing is he like on the podcast circuit right now?

Like, is that like, because I hadn't seen him popping up on these either. I mean, the man kicked him off Twitter, he's got to get his juice. He's got to get his fix. Talk to the people. But yeah, they want to, they're just trying to distract you. Russa like, you crying, everybody from big windmill.

Everybody, listen. Think about the birds and the prairies for once. You played a video of them complained about windmills before. Like, this whole thing, He's, he's, look, I almost just called it quixotic, but it is literally quixotic because he's literally tilting at fucking windmills because this is, this goes back like a 20-year-old beef he has with windmills because in Scotland, they built wind turbines off one of his golf courses and he thought it, it messed up the view and he fought a bunch of lawsuits try to stop the windmills. And that's sort of been baked into his brain, not just that I don't want windmills messing the view from my golf course, but windmills bad. and he's in a one-man war with windmills.

How did you feel about the aesthetic nature of windmills? I'm not really an aesthetics guy. Like, I just like things to be useful. And if we save the planet, but I have to look past the windmill to see a sunset, I am finally. I mean, look, I'm trash and as such utterly bereft of taste. Okay, I'll be the first to admit that. But, like, I've always thought, like, I remember we were moving to California on I-40, the stretch that goes across West Texas, which is all in West Texas.

Texas planes and stuff out there. We drove through there at Twilight, and there's a shitload of windmills. And I thought it was, like, super rad looking. I thought it was beautiful. I think it hit harder than me than all that flat land by itself would have. I didn't realize that people thought windmills were eyesores, I guess, is what I'm saying. I've always thought they were cool, you know, and not just the old Dutch ones, you know, that, like, you get the color of your shirt hung on in a slapstick comedy from the 50s, but, like, you know, the modern ones, too. but maybe that's just me.

Well, I think this state that has, based on no research, just my eyeball test. The state where I remember seeing most windmills, wind turbines was Hawaii, which is famous for its ugly scenery. Right. Yeah. All right, well, who knows what the fuck he's talking about.

Let's move on to his progeny. I've tried our honorable mention. First honorable mention here, anybody who thought Donnie Jr. couldn't put together some fat beats. He's got a new outro. on his Twitter videos whatever he's doing

here and get ready to bob your head to it erased by big tech hope you guys are doing good wait for it yeah

oh hell yeah oh shit oh shit it's so funny to me because you know what what the favorite drug of DJs is

is, Trey, one of them. It's got to be cocaine, right? Which everyone is famous for thinking Don Jr.'s on because he makes video that are much crazier than this where he's just off on some wildout rants. But I want you to know that someone is in his corner and standing up for him asserting that he does not do cocaine. That's right. Don Jr.

is a co-kid because he has high energy and they always say that about me. You got the wrong guy. I don't need stimulants. Anything alcohol I've done. the years off and on because it lowers me down. See, the left doesn't have energy, folks. They don't get it. Famously never makes a powerful speech.

I mean, he's really becoming a good orator. One of the best. I mean, just a couple years ago, he was okay. Now I'm like, damn, that's a powerful speech. That's better than Joel Oldstein or somebody or Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King. Come on a long. Don Jr.

An orator on the same level as Martin Luther King, according to Alex Jones, which is probably the least crazy thing Alex Jones said this week, I would imagine. I don't, maybe I'm with a junior, totally see it. Alex Jones, I have no trouble believing that he actually isn't on anything other than just like his own lunacy. You know what I mean?

Like he's so pure distilled crazy that I can see that manifesting itself in, you know, that way where it seems like he's on cocaine, but really he's just on fucking human alien hybrid conspiracy theories. whatever all day. But Don Jr., yeah, he coked out. Yeah, plus all the new tropics and brain powder and gorilla testicle, you know, pills that he takes cells on his website, but she's taking all those. Yeah, I, I, like, the idea that Don Jr. is a good speaker is such a wild take. Like, it's like, it's like Vladimir Putin thinking he looks good with his shirt off type

shit, you know, which Putin ain't bad for a 70-year-old dude, but I'm saying like, he's like the picture of really what he reads a horse is like how gassed up are you on your own propaganda i've watched a decent amount of john don junior's speeches putting together this our dumb show and the man makes no sense and he's obsessed with dumb bullshit he's perfectly which i guess a lot of people are his father hits for people it's the same thing but like he also the way he speaks has changed over the years he's doing an impression of his dad i know i know i thought that too even in that short clip and yeah it seems like he's like actively trying to sound like his dad more than he used to, which again, I mean, I guess that makes sense if you're him.

You know, might as well try to imitate him if you're not going to get any kind of like actual love or support from the man. So maybe he just, maybe he started doing that when he was like looking in the mirror in the bathroom, you know, and impersonating his dad back to himself, telling him that he loves himself. Yeah. He's proud of him and all this stuff. And then he did that so much, he now has just kept doing it without realizing it in the public eye, something like that. That's just a theory. Speaking of theories, Herschel Walker's got one for you. He's their next honorable mention.

You're likely to have never heard this before. So prepare to have your mind blown when Herschel Walker, Senate candidate in Georgia, and noted former Bulldog, gets to talking about evolution. Matt, let's hear it. You hear that meaning somebody up there had to say, let there be light that the earth started, and then he had to put someone there on Earth. Because remember Adam was there. Remember Adam came there, then Eve came.

So somebody had to start it out. So it means it had to be a guy. Because it didn't just, some bomb blew up and it started out. And then I tell you something else I heard. And I think about this. Because at one time, science said man came from AIDS. Did it not? That means to go to the science.

Every time I read or hear that, I think to myself, you just didn't read the same Bible I did. Well, this was interesting, though. If that is true, why are there still apes? Oh. Think about it. Check me. Check, mate.

No, no, no, no. Thing about this. All right. Deal with that, everybody. Okay, like, it's, first of all, you know, you've got to be pretty dumb to say that thing in the first place. But it's like a whole other level to clearly think that it's like this big revelation you're making to people at this point. It's like the go-to cliche for bad evolution arguments. Is that exact thing?

If we evolved for monkeys, why they're still monkeys, that's been, like, beaten to death so much. over the years. And so for him to just be like, now think about this, guys. Listen, listen, are you listening? Sit down. Check this out. Why are there still apes?

Just add the whole other layer of dumb assery to it for me. It was like a frequently stolen 80s stand-up joke. But the thing was, those people were playing dumb to be funny, right? It wasn't, no one actually thought they were making a, literally making a joke about how they, them, they themselves are stupid.

Herschel Walker apparently watched some terrible road comedy from 1986 and thought it was a good point. but it's also like there are different kinds of apes yeah if there's a silver bag gorilla why are there still a regular girl right yeah it's like it doesn't it doesn't make any why are there different kinds of fucking dog I mean I know the dog ones we did that to them but we did do that to them yes but what the fuck like we're doing like everything's getting so done we're going to have to do the scopus monkey trial again well it's like I don't know it's like they hear it and think that it's the same thing as saying that like

a chimpanzee turned into a man and then I guess a lady chimpanzee turned into a wo man and then those two had the first human baby and then there's been humans ever since and you know no more chimps anymore or something is how they interpret the argument as opposed to you know modern day apes and us share a common ancestor fucking million eons against I don't know why that part of it it's just like that's an easy like sound bite thing for them to say that they think makes evolution sound stupid which actually makes them sound stupid but they're oblivious to that part so they just roll with it you know what I mean

but you can't rationalize something like that why are they still why are they quarter horses if they're a pinto horses you know like it's like like you can I mean I don't want to argue about illusion with people but like this does not

argument against it or for it or whatever it's just like it's just somebody stringing words together in a stupid sentence and he's going to be fucking elected senator uh i know dude yeah for sure well you know i can go dogs what you're gonna do he's like good contest for us maybe he's one of the greatest dogs of all time pretty much a lot i feel like um all right let's talk about the truckers a little bit why not, and not the wonderful Southern rock outfit drive-by truckers, but just these regular-ass truckers out here have been causing

so much havoc recently in our first honorable mention as we get into that portion of the show is anybody who doesn't think that getting a haircut draped an American flag from a dude with a ponytail while listening to a kid rock song about pills is not the most patriotic shit

a person can do. Let's see it. Prepare to feel the eagle in your heart sore as you watch this. hair cut by mission inco errs free barbershop in haters town speedway he does take donate oh shit turn it off turn it off matt oh yeah we're good copyright oh yeah i just i was sitting there i was sitting there kind of vibing to the old kid rock jam fucking i about started mouthing the lyrics along myself and then i go like oh shit we're playing a kid rock song on this yeah it's a good song

i'm paranoid about that yeah that song you know shit again grew up white trash That's on slap for me. Drew said he saw him in concert, and he came out in a white tuxedo playing an all-white piano for that song. And Drew says he'll remember that until the day he dies. But anyway, listen, present-day Kid Rock, no. Well, I would not even defend Olden Times Kid Rock either, I guess, except for, you know, if you was in a trailer, it was what's up.

Anyway, this guy, looking good, looking lined up. So do you understand what's happening here? The truckers have established a camp at a dirt racing track in Hagerstown, Maryland, which is like 70 miles from the clearest entrance to the beltway. So they're commuting 60, like 68 miles each way just to go drive in circles around D.C. And the funny thing I would them choose in the infield of this dirt race track for their base camp is it rained early this week so they couldn't go drive around D.C. because they were stuck in the mud at dirt race track.

This whole thing is such a farce because, one, there aren't really enough of them to do anything. but they are annoying and they've gotten extremely fucking weird but like just to get the vibe like one nobody likes them uh like they check out this traffic jam this video of this traffic jam where it's just like it's nothing but like you gotta you just gotta see it or i guess we don't have it no well it's okay yeah it's just a bunch of truckers in traffic or a bunch of

of trucks in traffic, rather, in D.C. Yeah. I can't even tell by looking at it, though, because I know D.C. is like legendary for its traffic and whatnot. I know we talked about that on a previous episode, but just from like looking at it, not living there, I can't tell like, is this egregiously bad? You know what I mean? Or are they just like sitting in the traffic that would already otherwise be there?

So it's just this traffic has more dumb truckers in it than it typically would on average. You know that's on blue on black? Yeah. Yeah. It's like that. So, yeah, that don't think they make much difference.

To the degree they did fuck up traffic, I think it's because the DC cops, the different agencies around DMV area are to start doing different shit. Like the Maryland cops are going to be pretty pro trucker. The DC cops are still remembering January 6th. They don't let them into the city because they're afraid of some other shit could go wrong. So they've blocked off exits.

So to the degree they're fucking on traffic, it's because the D.C. police closed a couple exits so they couldn't get off. Let's just play the video of the guy complained about getting flipped off Matt The next one down off the day after the honking video Go all the way across capture of these people And not one time did I see anybody

Flippers the bird, not once We're going around a beltway Birds are flying Birds are flying everywhere That's the kind of people that live up there You know I just I mean In D.C. is a different world

There's not a town in America where you could drive around intentionally fuck up traffic and not have somebody flip you off it's such a painfully oblivious statement to make it's like you know the whole way here nobody was flipping me off it's because yeah you weren't purposefully fucking their day up on your way there you were just driving to the place where you were going to fuck people's day up as a plan and then when you get to the place and start executing the plan to fuck people's day up you mean all of a sudden people start flipping you off and you're like that's a reflection on the culture of the town that you're

currently fucking up like it's just it's so dumb what do they think like do they think people are just going to like get at stop and get out and clap for them fucking wave flags and shit you're doing it you're fucking doing it fuck my job i don't need to be there anyway i'd rather spend this time fucking giving you props for being a true patriot in your truck this back after that video the general tonal voice and she's saying is basically that like we were why don't you Why aren't you greeting us like Liberators? We're here to save you. And it's like, you're fucking up my day.

So this is from this morning, a reporter of a fall in the convoy, tweeted this. Trucking out of the people's convoy this morning are taking a mystery route around the beltway. As many of them continue to claim they're being followed by government helicopters and frustrated commuters are actually agents of Antifa. So the people flipping them off are Antifa. And the traffic helicopters reporting on the shit they're doing are government black helicopters. Deep state. Yeah.

Deep state and Antifa, both. convergent to ruin their convoy. Yeah, so they did manage to get a meeting with Jim Jordan, and they had a meeting with a senator go poorly because he wouldn't give into their demands because no one will say what their demands are. That's what I think. No, the cues people get to be asking what their demands are. They don't fucking have any.

There's nothing they want because, one, the government's not doing them about COVID anymore. There is no federal vaccine mandate, similar to one that the Canadian truckers were in theory protesting. There's like, there's nothing, they're just, they're just, like, literally always thought they honking your horn and you're stuck in traffic was the funniest thing because they're just like an impotent rage being expressed to the universe. Yeah, right, exactly. And they're just doing that. You're so right. This is like the, yeah, the protest version of just honking your horn and staying still traffic. It's like, what you think that, yeah, I don't know. Anyway, Right, let's say...

It's important to know that, yeah, that the most annoying protest, the most annoying, pointless protest in history has won the support of the most annoying and pointless senator in U.S. history, Mr. Ted Cruz. Let's watch him try to struggle to climb down out of a truck after doing a row. Yes, please. There's slow clapping for him attempting to climb out of a truck. Yeah, go ahead. I can get out of this. If that's like one of his people You know, it's not, that's not easy to do

Even amongst these people, the type of reception that Ted Cruz has gotten has been appropriately Ted Cruz-like Whenever you've got that next one, Matt, you can go ahead and throw it up too because I appreciated it. You look at the origins of the pandemic. The virus.

God bless you. I like how so many people yell he sucks in the middle of his speeches that he has a canned response to it. Yeah, Colin does what heckler is like, I don't go to where you work and smack the dick out of your mouth. That's his, God bless you, he's his version of that. Got to have something. Let's do this one last one. Then we can skip to this segment, I guess. I want to show this this movement has drawn the crazies as you would expect

listen to this lady explain how she's cracked what COVID was we've talked about Gametria a lot I want you to see what it sounds like in the wild when it came out it was Corona right Corona Corona Corona is six letters when you use Jamitria and you say A is one B is two C is three and you put corona lined out at 6.6. So that's 666. But we found that out. So they're saying the white wing crazies found it out. So they changed it to COVID-19. All right. Hang on. Yeah. Now keep going. What is this? See, right? The C. Ovid. Look it up. Ovid means sheep.

19. Military code for surrender. Sea, sheep, surrender. That's no joke. Wow, that is actually the first I've heard of that. Yeah, well, again, just like Herschel Walker, you know, argue with that, Mark. Yeah, let's hear it. What do you got for that? It seems pretty ironclad to me.

If you don't know what Jamotria is, it's a Kabbalistic method of, this is from the dictionary definition, because I want to be able to be accurate here. It's a Kabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew scriptures by computing the numerical value of words. based on those of the constituent letters. So it's like ancient Jewish astrology, basically. That's not mainline Judaism. Yeah. What do you?

The Q people are really into this ship, but I just can't wrap my head around a worldview. And a lot of conspiracy theories of light, like the eye on the back of the dollar or whatever. Why the fuck would the Illuminati give you an easy to decode code code to figure out their planes? Well, they don't think it's easy. You know, they think they cracked it.

Like, they think it's some Alan Turing shit. they've done by deciphering this or whatever and it's also fun because i just anything with you mentioned it before but anything with like numerology and whatnot it's like it seems like it feels like da Vinci cody to them or something which is why it appeals to them i guess but it's funny because i only uh notice this because killer mike pointed out in a rap song but ronald wilson regan is uh 6666 and that one's very straightforward and i just wonder like how those people would respond to one that's way less convoluted. Maybe the fact that it's

less convoluted would be disproof of it to them. You know what I mean? They're like oh, no, that one's too obvious. You've got to dig deeper to get to the truth of it. They probably got a whole other number bullshit equation for what Ronald Reagan's name actually amounts to in terms of numbers in the Bible or whatever

the hell they're doing over there. That's off Killer Mike's 2013 album rap music. The song's called Reagan. Reagan. And it ends with I'll leave you with these, I'll leave you with these full words. I'm glad Reagan dead. Great song. That song goes hard, bro.

Yeah, yeah. I saw him that year live at Bonneroo, not run the jewels, just killer Mike. And it was fucking super rat. He had the whole crowd chanting fuck Ronald Reagan, even my like, good friend from work who had, you know, grown up a good Christian conservative. Yeah, I was like, well, if your daddy could see you now, he wouldn't be happy about this, buddy. Music can move your soul, right? That's right. Yeah. Well, all of America, you're talking about the main thing, Trigg?

Yeah, let's do it. So other than these truckers who are, who's rig, big rigs get six miles to the gallon and we're going around driving 400 miles a day voluntarily, everyone else seems to be worried about gas prices. I understand it's hidden people's pocketbooks, and they want something to blame, someone to blame. So what we're going to do today is figure out who to blame because things never have complex causes. they have simple ones with bad guys you can point to and make that's right answer so a few facts right now gasoline costs about 432 an average uh as of today uh they're up all over the world by the way and for for a variety of reasons um to hit a historic high though for context gas prices was still have to get 537 adjusted for inflation that was 2008 when gas got

super high and if you remember that we got real mad then too um people going to argue about I'll argue a lot of who the bad guy is here, and it's already started. For example, the Republican leader of the House tweeted out, these are not Putin gas prices. They're President Biden gas prices. And here's another video that makes a similar point in the stupidest, most fake way possible. This is a crisis actor situation. I love it.

I think there would be anywhere better to come sign up to register people to vote. Because if you want to get out of this mess, if you don't want to be paying $4 on soon to be $5, 6, maybe $7 a gallon gas, then you need to vote for Republicans and get some good people. I see a guy right over here. Let's go ask him how he feels about the gas price. Hey really? Hey man. How you doing, man?

You're good. You're good. I've got a video going behind me. You might have asked this question about the gas prices? Sure. How do you feel about paying $4 a gallon for gas? It's a... It's ridiculous that...

I mean, it's heard of dying from Paul. ...it would be anywhere better... Yeah. It's Madison Caulthorn for people just listening. Always on the bleeding edge. Hit him with your nickname for him, Trey. Oh, yeah. all high all on wheels there.

High on wheels, Madison Cothorn, keeping his finger on the pulse with the American working man, as he has wanted to do. If that guy isn't an intern at all, his office acting, I'll fucking shoot myself. The guy was a plant. So here's the weird thing. Oil prices are actually down some.

Right. Like, they're not back to where they were like a month ago, but they dropped 30 prices this week, and it's still going up at the pump. And one of the reasons it dropped, like it was like last April was about $6070 a barrel late last year it got up to about late last week got up to almost $140 a barrel now it's back down a slight less than 100 so we're jumping all over one of the reasons it dropped was a new COVID outbreak and China has suppressed demand because two

huge Chinese provinces of hundreds of millions of people are under new COVID restrictions which like that is enough to depress worldwide oil demand so what's happening now is two calamities or canceling other out for once. Finally, some good, terrible luck. Dre, we were due for a break.

But, but it's not manifesting in the actual prices, right? No. Right. Because of the fucking, well,

a lot of reasons, but the greed, and I know we're going to get into it, but like the greed of the oil companies, basically, right? Well, actually we can go to that

and come back to the next thing. Because like, like, so you, the people tend to think, like, When you talk to actual rich people about money, the brains work different than us, right? Like, one, we think of money as a literal, tangible thing in exchange for a certain amount

of goods and services. Like, we literally trade hours of our lives in exchange for money. A wealthy person idea, a wealthy person idea that how much money they get will correspond to their effort is laughable. It's not a thing. That's a child's way of thinking. Well, because like, hell, it would be physically impossible for any, human being to expand the amount of effort, which would actually justify the amount of money

that rich people make. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's not possible. Yeah. So, but another one of those things that would be funny to rich people is that we think the way costs work is you take the price, combined with the time, makes you to make something, and then add a little bit. Yeah, right. Just enough to make it worthwhile. That, that is fucking adorable that we think. that. It has the costs have no bearing to prices. They're nothing at all. So what's happened is the oil companies, but if oil prices, by the way, by the barrel are still lower they were in 2014 and gas prices were 80 cents less. Last year, Exxon Mobil was the highest profit in seven years. Chevron, highest profit in seven years. Shell highest profit in seven years. BP,

highest profit in eight years. Gas prices highest in seven years. So like the oil companies are more than ever oil is costing them more in theory do you see I mean like there's no reason to raise prices like you could you could easily take it out of your profits right they're not fucking going to do that and one of the reason is they spent all that money on stock buybacks they're using all those profits to solidify their funding the back end financialization of their company to bit to jack up their stock price for whatever reason but I imagine like if they're looking long term everyone knows we're going to run out of oil eventually so you got to make as much

can for every drop as possible right this you've got to establish a false scarcity like you do with diamonds now I I wish we live in a universe where we're going to burn less carbon so the fact that oil companies are doing or like the government should figure out how to impose prices on driving so we drive less and burn less carbon but the oil companies are going to do it I guess they're essentially the EPA now or some shit I don't fucking know but this is all tremendously ridiculous but something you should know is like you're gonna hear a bunch of myths about like like okay we got a war and

Russia. We got Russian oil sanctions. We're loosening sanctions on Venezuela. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal this week, which is really funny, doing the opposite of manufacturer consent about communism saying it's okay to trade with Venezuela now because they're no longer a socialist, which is really funny. We've still got a sanctions that I ran for, I think, I don't know. The sanctions imposed a human cost, but I do think Iran, the reigning government's evil, even though the people are nice. But all those things are complicated and they're complex. And no one has a good answer for whether or not we should lift sanctions on Iran to get more oil, right? Because that's a dirty business. You're essentially giving up one freeing. I don't want to get into Iran. It's too much. But like to buy Iran oil, you're giving Iran money, right?

We're buying Saudi Arabia is not cooperating with the Biden administration, trying to get oil prices down like they did with Trump because they're fucking mad at Democrats for the backlash. You're killing Jamal Khashoggi. Right. And so, but all these things are messy. But, you know, what it's easy to do is to blame Joe Biden for canceling the Keystone pipeline. Right. So a pipeline that was 8% built when Biden pulled the permits would not be completed now at all anyway. And it was designed to run from Canada, the Gulf of Mexico to ship oil out to export, not a drop of which would spend time in America other than being shipped through here is not the reason gas prices are up in Los Angeles. Right. So they, like, they, I feel like, well, first of all, he's the president right now. Everybody had high gas prices. So they're just always going to say, look what he's fucking doing. That's number one. But also, they know about the Keystone pipeline and they know that Democrats, you know, they're all hippie-dippy and want wind and solar and all this shit. They, like, that's a general thing they know because we don't want the earth to die. But like, they know that about Democrats. So they just say, like, Like, Joe Biden has shifted us away from oil and gas in this country. He's like fucked over the oil and gas industry in this country and the favor of all this hippie-dippy bullshit. And now you see the problem with that because look what happens.

But the thing is, none of that is even true. The Biden administration has given out countless permits for domestic drilling, apparently even more so than the Trump administration. did at this point in Trump's reign. So he's just not even doing that. Like, that's not true. And again, I wish we weren't continuing to murder the earth either. I'm just saying their arguments are shocking, completely disingenuous in that regard. But it isn't going to stop them from keeping on with it.

The complaint, such as it is they're saying that Biden isn't issuing enough new drilling permits and leases. And what the administration is saying accurately is you've given. you thousands that you haven't started exploring or drilling on. Why would you why would we lease more when you just want to put them in your back pocket and keep it? Because you're not spending money on exploration and drilling because you're spending it on fucking stock buybacks. But

this is why I hate defending Biden on it because you're right. We should be spending money on solar and wind and shit anyway. But the basic facts are like here's it from Vox. Biden has done nothing to halt oil leasing. In fact, the Biden administration has outpaced Trump and issuing drilling permits in public lands

and water in its first year according to federal data analyzed by the Center for Biological Diversity. Again, this is a group tracking it who fucking hates this happening. His administration set a record for the largest offshore lease sale ever in Gulf of Mexico last year before a federal court block a lease sale from not considering climate impacts. So, like, they're saying basically Biden is doing evil stuff, but they're not even giving him credit for doing, because they're not doing enough evil. I know.

And it's like, which is why you don't try to do stuff to appease fucking these evil industries, Because they cannot be appeased. They're rapacious. They cannot be filled. And it's also like he's getting blamed for, it's like they act like he's holding back the oil companies from like expanding or ramping up production or whatever. But that also is not true. Like you say, he's giving them all these permits and leases or whatnot, but they're not expanding their drilling or production operations because instead they're spending those extra profits on, you know, taking care of their shareholders and buying back stock and all that fucking corporate. finance Harry Potter bullshit instead of like real world investing in the future or you know giving

some of it back to the consumer in the form of actually lowering the prices to reflect what's happening with the cost or any of that kind of shit that they could maybe consider doing and you know and I don't know why I mean there's no impetus really or incentive for them to you know conduct themselves otherwise as long as everybody just keeps blaming Biden for it anyway and you know there's not going to be any kind of regulations levied or anything to make them do any better. So, I mean, why would they? They're happy to continue fucking us over to the tone of record billions and profits every year. Get the Fox News video ready, Matt.

And I'll, yeah, and I'll, before I say this, like, so oil companies are fucking super powerful. Yeah. So the idea that, like, the government would ever do anything to fuck them over is hilarious. Like Joe Biden just had to, this woman was up for a position at the Fed. Now, she's known for being a huge climate change activist and a person for better monetary regulation when comes to like the oil companies. They busted their ass to lobby everyone to make sure she would never get appointed. This isn't even at the EPA or the Treasury Department. This is just

like an oversight official at the Fed. Would have any power over them. They still did everything good they could to just fucking destroy her. Anyway, so. So the idea that oil companies are making record profits, while we're all paying more, is apparently even too incongruent for Fox News to completely process. They had this meltdown about it, I think, yesterday. Watching that young lady sell you on the talking points. That definitely put me over the top. I concede that President Biden blew it when he crushed domestic oil production.

I think that that was a strategic era, regardless of the, of the TikTokian presentation there. Biden should admit that he made a terrible era. But this, Sandra Smith, is also true. Exxon, Chevron, BP, and Shell are all enjoying the highest profits they have in seven and a half years. What's your point? My point is that the oil companies are reaping record profits. Some of this could be handed to the consumers rather than...

all of these Exxon Chevron, BP, Shell. I mean, why don't we look to them and say, what's going on? Why doesn't the government cut the gas tax then? But the gas tax is the only thing that keeps the highways together. So that is fucking funny to me because he says the oil companies should give some back. And he's just saying cut prices or not a price gout, but they mean like, all you think they should mail everyone to check. Yeah. It's like, but it's like he's also arguing against the windfall, for windfall tax of sorts, which we're going to get to.

second but like the what this is is war profiteering right it's a messy chaotic situation they know no one's going to blame the oil companies they're going to blame Joe Biden or Putin or whoever so it's like let's jack it up three dollars right like local news here in LA had an interview with a gas station owner who literally

is like no my prices haven't gone up from the oil from the oil delivery gas delivery trucks uh I just wanted to see what people would pay so he just jacked up to seven dollars the fact he would say that the newspaper is fucking hilarious but at least he's being honest but anyway yeah so a windfall tax so rocana proposed to get windfall tax on gas companies

to try to reap some of this money back for the public coffers because if you're going to charge seven dollars a gallon for gas a couple bubbles of it should go to the public for schools and shit or whatever to build new roads you invest in better infrastructure so you don't burn so much gas in the future so but that this is this is a very complex issue we've been trying to wait into but what really is someone who can explain to american taxpayers like we're children and they're a youth minister. So here's Sheldon White House walking us through how his version of a gasoline windfall tax he were posed in this in the Senate. Hi, I'm Senator Sheldon White House, and I just filed a bill to reclaim from big oil some of the excess windfall profits that they're

earning. And this is my post-it and pencil explanation. all right think of the post-ups as the costs of finding the oil and then drilling the oil and then trucking the oil to the refiners and refining the oil and putting it back in the trucks to get out to the distributors and then from the distributors it goes to the gas station and you pay what you pay for your gas in a regular market economy the price would be related to the cost. No. With just a little bit in there

for the shareholders and the investors. But something different is going on in the oil market because price isn't related to cost. Price is related to an international cartel with prices driven by what Iran

and Russia and Saudi Arabia and other countries decide to do. And particularly when Russia decides to start a war, up goes the price and all of this which for the major companies that we're going to tax is 90 billion dollars 90 billion dollars in excess profit what my bill would do is take half of that 90 billion dollars take all of it you can cut it back but it's funny because it's like not even half you know what I mean I'm sure that shit won't get nowhere it's like not even

half. You know, I, I like this little post-it note and pencil explanation. When I was first watching, I was like, I don't get how the pencils going to come into it. What's he going to do with the pencil? But he just, you know, he just held it as a visual aid. I wonder if he had to, like, plan out. I wonder, like, how many post-it notepads he had. Like, if he went through the things, like, okay, I'm going to say this and the trucks and this, that's seven, eight post-it notepads, or if he just kept adding, you know, another thing to fit the number of Post-it notepads he had in there. But either way, I found it illustrative. That's exactly the type of thing that we ought to do. Like, there's no, people always like to act like, oh, yeah,

they work hard for all that money, you know. They earn it. Like, people genuinely act like they believe that. And it's like, there's no reason why what he just described, which is what's actually happening, should be allowed to happen. Because what's anybody, what's any regular person supposed to do about it you know they have you over a barrel so to speak and they know it and they just fuck people and it's just fine and they get applauded for it in fact and it's so fucking weird why it blows my mind that the 98% of us that are not fucking wealthy or corporate shareholders or whatever in this country are not unanimously in agreement that that is fucking bullshit and should not be allowed to go down but

I don't mind the post-ed note in pencil thing although I do wonder what other things they spitballs like could you use paper clips or magnets or we got around the office without having to go to the store but the thing is like you don't need to explain this so deeply like one thing Trump made really

clear in the fact that he was just venting his spleen at anger and people to resonate with people is that people have a vague sense that they're being fucked all that dragging the swamp did destroy the elite's bullshit resonate with people for a reason. I don't need some super complex reason to understand

that it's wrong for gas company to make an extra $7 billion in profit because a war is happening. That's intrinsically unjust. Just go fucking yell about it. It's like I don't need a, I don't need a detailed object lesson of why it's fucked up. I don't look at a hospital bill and an aspirin cost me $2,000.

Do you know what I'm saying? There's no reason for that. So I'm just saying like you could literally go out there and be like you could show the people the post-it note thing on one hand, And another guy who, like me, is on street corner screaming, we got to kill him. And they'll be equally popular.

Yeah, for sure. I think I might get more votes. Well, Matt, go ahead and start looking for some comments and stuff to put up there. But, yeah, I don't know if you had parting thoughts on the whole the gas price thing. I saw, and I did say some, like, market experts or whatever, we're saying, yeah, it's down $30 a barrel right now because of stuff in China or whatever. But I saw one of them called it the calm before the sun. storm. Yeah.

So it's probably about to just shoot right back up, but that there's no relief actually enjoyed by any of the consumers, even for this brief respite is still some horseshit. It's just a week-long period of an even bigger windfall for them, basically. Yeah. We've constructed the entire global economy to be 100% reliant on a limited and dwindling resource that can only be extracted from some of the most despotic evil places on earth. somebody maybe somebody should have been yelling about this shit for 50 years I don't know but like this moment was always coming I don't know what to tell like it's with the added

perk of choking the planet to death yeah in addition to everything you already say that's so fucking true man that's really fucked up when you really think about it that way Rebecca on YouTube says smash it fellow skewers talking I believe about the like button yeah like subscribe and all that internet stuff we do appreciate it. it. Thank you, Rebecca. I was absolutely going to forget again. Yeah, but, you know, and if Biden's still in office when they eventually do come back down, you know, I remember in 2008, you know, because I was in college or whatever at the time. When it got real bad then, I thought that it was just going to be that or above forever. Like, I didn't understand that it could go back

down. You know what I mean? I thought things only went up and it got crazy expensive for a while, and I thought it would only go up from there. But now, you know, at some point, the prices will come back down, but you can bet your ass if Joe Biden is still the president when that happens. It won't because anything he did. It'll be somebody else. The oil companies bailed us out or something people will say. I don't know, but they won't give him any credit.

And like he probably won't really deserve it. It's like he doesn't deserve the blame right now. He won't deserve the credit then. It's beyond him. The president does not have a lower gas prices button he can push. It doesn't exist. And by the way, yeah, they will come back down. I mean, they'll go back up and they go back down.

But one day, it's going to skyrocket up because there's going to be one last gallon on oil. Yeah, it'll cost as much as that fucking Tom Brady football that guy wasted his money on. Yeah. Kim Kucato on Facebook says, buy skews merch. Yeah, sure. You can do that too over at weekly skews.com. Producer Matt made those.

And if you add a slash more on the end of weekly skews.com, well, by God, you'll see the Patreon stuff. before you think about that, holler at that, too. Yeah, I don't know, man. It's just, like I said, there's just certain things that, like, if you are the president, when a thing happens, it's going to get, you know, put on you. And it's just kind of part of the job description. But the way they go about arguing it and everything, and again, just saying things that are patently untrue, I don't know why I'm acting surprised by any of that. But it is annoying.

Mark Lockney, Mark Lockney. I would say I'd go with Lackney. Lackney, Mark Lackney, on YouTube says it's my dad's birthday. Maybe throw out a happy 66th, 66th to Don. Happy 66th, Don. Congratulations, Dad. And you're the guy invented COVID. Yeah.

Do you know that? Yeah. You and Ronald Reagan. Yeah. Just need one more six. And they'll be making up theories about you and stuff over in Q land. Christine Smith says, prices have nothing to do with the cost of anything anymore. Everywhere we turn, prices are high.

hire yeah yeah I mean there's a certain point where the caught where you where you can't like the cost is higher at the price and the company goes out of business you know but it but is that's not necessarily true for any tech company because they keeps losing money at their fist and they stay in business so yeah I secue on YouTube says you know we're fucked when Geraldo is the reasonable one remember you to post sexy shirtless shirtless selfies on yes I do remember that that's right Rick Dwaris ski on YouTube says if you could grow your own gas it would be illegal

I mean yeah that is a funny joke about economics but also it'd be a really dangerous world if you could just grow gas maybe it'd all be illegal if you could just grow gas people would be up to some serious shit with it that's for sure making explosives and all that good stuff one video we didn't I'm not using it but there was a video that's Sinclair Media which is that super right wing

company that owns all the local news stations in America I was pushing the thing about gas prices and I was going to drive up food prices but they were talking to farmers are like diesel fuels way up fertilizers way up like wait why are you talking about those two things back to back because those are the two ingredients

for a bomb that blew up the Oklahoma City Federal building I've been looking into some stuff don't worry about it yeah March madness starting up everybody fill your brackets out Gigi Tampa Bay Your last name's the same as of an area in Florida. That's neat.

On Facebook says, do you guys think the Dems will totally lose the midterms in all elections up to 2024 because of it? Just because of it and everything, I don't know. Like a lot of times it swings in the opposite direction and they're all pissed off and I don't have any faith in anything, especially the Democratic Party writ large. So, yeah, I mean, I'm not feeling good about it. I'll tell you that much. They managed to hold back a lot of redistricting rat fuckery, so the congressional maps not nearly as bad as they'd feared, but the prevailing political trends are all against them. Notwithstanding their brand is a bunch of ineffectual weanies who, and I like Sheldon White House, he's pretty good for a politician, but making a post-it note thing instead of screaming at evil people is not what people want to see.

They want to release some visceral anger. You shall be marching up to Exxon headquarters with a torx. It's more the vibe people need right now. Yeah. Natalie Nichols. Hey, Natalie, long time skewer there. It's my mom's 83rd birthday. But Tucker Carlson would have to wish her a happy birthday for her to see it.

Just get the Russian embassy to tweet it and he'll read it out. Yeah. Happy birthday for your mom all the same. It's, you know. Even Fox News people have birthdays. All right, about to wrap it up. If you want to see me live, go to well-readcomedy. For tickets.

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