Weekly Skews - Skews - Tech Check - Round 2

Episode Date: February 28, 2021

I'll explain further but we are testing some stuff out. Not a full episode, but we welcome y'all all the same. Sorry, no other good way to test things like this except for going live. So here we are.Support the show

Well, hey there, everybody, first of all, sorry about any confusion you currently have going on. I know this is confusing. What we're trying to do here is do some sort of trial runs, try to test some things out. actually, just to be up front with you, we were trying to test some things out with a completely different software, and that did not work at all. So then we came into our regular software, which is what we're using right now, to explain to y'all so you understand what's going on. But just so y'all know, and we're still going to talk through some of the things, the, you know, changes that are starting next week, which are not that many. But, yeah, not a full-on episode.

It's more of a trial run type thing. And we just, when you do shit that's live on software, there's no real way to ultimately test it all without going live. So we had to go live and that's what we're doing. So, yeah, this is a little behind the scenes action. You guys are with us too here. I feel bad all the times I've made fun of Elon Musk blowing up a rocket. Yeah. Right.

Yes. So, all right, a couple things real quick. We do have some clips for us to, you know, to give you a little bit of fun stuff here. But just wanted to also explain, again, it's Friday. This is a tech check. That's what we're tempting to do here. We're not going to Fridays or anything. Here's a summation of the changes in Mark.

You tell me what, if anything, I miss. As we've mentioned multiple times on every recent episode, I think, we're going to once a week going forward on Tuesday. So still on Tuesdays, but not on Thursdays. Why? Well, a few things, as I've mentioned before, one of them was, and it's still going to be who knows how long before it's legal for me tell jokes in public again, but whenever me and Corey and Drew get back to actually

touring, Thursdays are going to be non-impossible. We're getting roasted in the comments, Trey. It's getting fucking roasted. Ten spots of technical difficulties in this show. Yes, yes, it's becoming a bit of a hallmark here. But anyway, that and, but also, and, you know, call us stupid, call us naively optimistic or whatever, but we also just think that we're trying to be. hopeful that there just won't be as much crazy bat-shit lunacy things to cover going

forward. I'm not hopeful of that at all. Things are going to keep getting crazier for a while. I don't know what's going to turn it around, but it hasn't come yet. Another rationale we have internally that I'll share with you now, and who knows how that I actually play out, is we've told ourselves that in doing it once a week, we'll have more time, like, especially between the Tuesday and Thursday shows previously. it was a lot of

you know I mean it's 48 hours and we wouldn't even know what was going to happen in the next 48 hours what the next show was going to be having a full week and the same time every week

will hopefully help us kind of craft each individual episode a little bit better so that's part of it too it's I'm gonna tell you all this don't even worry about this part

at all it's the skews let's all just call it the skews but we are going to weekly skews not just because we're changing it to weekly but because some smart-ass motherfucker out there scooped scooped evening skews out from under me immediately drat i didn't i'm an idiot didn't think about any of that and i'm talking about the domain name the social media names all that evening skews was taken by someone and i'll be deep in the cold cold ground for i pay that

asshole to get that name back. I think you earned it personally. I think you earned it. Yeah, right. Yeah, but it's to the punch. So that's why it's going to be called weekly skews starting on Tuesday. And we have a website, producer Matt, it's been real busy, weekly skews.com, Facebook pages, all that stuff.

We will still be going live from the same pages we have been. But if you could check out the weekly skews pages and follow us there, it would help kind of consolidate things in the future. But don't worry, we'll still be going live on the same platforms we had been previously. And what else, Mark? Like, is there anything that I didn't cover? A minor change. We're pulling a bit of a Darren from Bewitched Aunt Viv and the role of Mark Aegee

when I'll be played by Corey Forrester. But don't worry about it. Yeah, I mean, it's basically we had to fit this into it. Like, if we're going to keep doing it in non-pandemic time, we had to figure out how to fit this into our lives because we don't make any money doing it right now, which is fine. Yeah, but we got to, so we got a plan on a world where we're doing this and also have jobs and Trey has to raise us kids and shit, too. So, uh, yeah, but the show itself will remain largely the same. Thank you to all of you all who filled out that little survey we sent out. That's also helpful. Um, I don't know what else we need to cover in this little, uh, this little tech check we're doing here.

But, I mean, we've got to, we put a... Here, I got you. I'll tell you, look, we could preview Tuesday's show. We know what Tuesday show is going to be all about. It's going to be recapping some of our favorite dumbasses who are spending the weekend coughing all over each other at CPAC and Orlandoland. You want to know what's going on at CPAC, which is the conservative political action conference. It's a place where it's like juggalo for people that think Ted Cruz is it. It's gathering of the juggalo is for people who think Ted Cruz is cool, all right?

And if you, if you want to know what it's like, Matt, roll the statue clip if you have it. Throw it up, Trump, Trump, throw it up. What was that? Trump, Trump, Trump's up. That is so cool, he said. Yes, that is a. Dragon says their literal golden idol. Yes, exactly.

There's just. Anybody who's read the book of Exodus knows why this is a bit of a problem. problem for the ostensible Christian nationalist party. It's so on the nose, man. You know what I mean? I mean, not that that's ever been, you know, one of their strong points being, you know,

subtle or nuanced. But it just blows my mind. We see people over, Dolores over here and a couple other people said, no, Mark, don't leave. Mark ain't leaving. Mark will still be there. I'll drag Mark into the grave with me as far as the show goes.

I got nowhere to go, ma'am. It's fine. but yeah i didn't get a better offer from like uh from like uh the breakfast club or something what do you think the golden idol thing the like how much if any self-awareness do you think exist that like the person who came up with that is it literally just trump so awesome you know what we need is a golden statue of him and it never occurred to any of them even though they're all Bible thumpers, presumably, or a lot of them are, about the whole the golden calf thing.

Or, okay, because that's crazy. I mean, it's not. It's very believable, but it's just so, I mean, this, this, what I'm about to say gets parroted about these people all the time, but it's true. It's like, if you had, if you were like writing a fictional movie about all this and you tried to include that, I think you'd get pushback from people, you know, that were like, that's, that's a bit much. Like, that's too far, you know, but they do this all the time.

A bit much is their whole thing. Yeah. I mean, the thing about Bible thumping is when you're thumping a Bible, you're not reading it. So I think that's pretty much. I mean, like, it's not like, this isn't an original observation, but they're not a very Christ-like people in general. Right. Okay. So we'll do another, we got another one for again.

These are little preview clips for our show on Tuesday where we're going to talk more in depth on CPAC. A lot of dumb shit. But we've got another bit for you. So CPAC makes his money on sponsorships. And apparently this guy bought a between speaker ad. And I can't like, but we're going to be overwhelmed with so much content by Tuesday. This wouldn't make the cut. But I wanted the world to see it because it's fucking fantastic.

Hit it, Matt. The last Sun Riot is right back. Hello, American Conservatives. My name is Genki Fuji. I'm a Japanese journalist and an author of more than 70 books on international relations. I run online. You cannot write 70 good books.

No. We'll go that out there. President Trump and American conservatives. We should check out some of this guy's stuff. Yeah. So this is an ad that's got bald. The Samurai futurologist? Okay.

Yeah. See, I thought, I thought, I thought when I saw this clip pop up earlier I thought that they booked this guy like this was like an appearance he made via you know pre-recorded video from Japan or whatever I mean either way it's hilarious

but yeah I just love the you know of you saw he called it President Trump an American samurai which is extremely funny because if there's it's things Trump is famous for it's tremendous physical agility and a dedication to honor.

Yeah, honor, yes. Yes, a strict code. I was going to say, like, there's a, just to get a little nerdy here for a second. There's a metal song I really like called Shiro Yama from the band Sabaton that's about, and it's like them just hollering and it's this hardcore metal song that's got lyrics like, Bushito, Dignified, it's the last stand of the samurai, right? And it's hardcore as fuck. This is so bad it makes me like that a little less.

I also read the book Shogun, which is really good, all about Samarise. And I'm just saying this dude's doing a real disservice to Samarize here, who have always been pretty cool. And I wouldn't have thought you could make Samarize uncool, but here we are with this dude. Where's the Futurologist part come into it? What's he predicting? Trump's return to global power or whatever? Yeah, I don't know, but I just can't.

I'm still thinking about the golden statue because Matt says he doesn't. no idea. I have any idea what's going on with the screen. I was like, why is Matt playing around with the old tech? We know how the old tech works, but that's hilarious. Or do we? Mark? I'll say this that we can like figure out how to wrap it up so Matt doesn't kill himself. The golden statue is so funny because they made it skinny Trump, right? Of course. It's still solid gold, but they made it so skinny that the solid gold statue of Trump is probably still lighter than the regular drum. Sorry.

I had to get a back to again, though. So, yeah, I guess that'll do it for us here again. We were going to test some shit, but we're on our old shit. So why test new shit on the old shit? That makes sense to y'all. Headlines are, we're still going to be here on Tuesday just like before, but it'll be just Tuesdays. Same time, five Pacific, eight Eastern, every Tuesday. Same general format.

Same scorching commentary that you've all come. come to love and appreciate. And, yeah, check out weekly skews the pages, the Facebook pages, and the website and all that. But we'll still be going live from the same places as before, too. So you won't have any trouble finding us. But that's pretty much it, I think. Thank you for joining us for this debacle of a trial run or tech checker, whatever you want to call it. But, you know, that's how we do.

So we'll see y'all Tuesday, and everything will be just fine. I promise. A good weekend. Yeah, have a good weekend.