Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 10/11/22 – Go Anti-Woke, Go Broke?

Episode Date: October 12, 2022

Tonight, after a slew of tremendous dumbasses, we'll get into a recent trend of anti-woke business models which have comically and immediately failed. Should be a fun one. Join us!Support the show

Out of there, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is October 11th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Audey. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I got a fun show today. I'm looking forward to it. I got a bunch. It's basically all dumb ass. Oops, all dumbasses. It's all dumb asses. I like it. Yeah, but we talk about normal dumb asses, then some true financial dipshittery that some bunch of right-wangers are getting up to.

Before we get started, though, last week, Biden announced is going to pardon all people convicted of federal weed offenses, federal personal use, which is like almost nobody's in prison for that. It's basically just affects people's job prospects. They don't have to check that felon box

in the fucking form anymore, which is good. By the side, that's still, you know, that's still cool. Fox News literally put a headline up to the Reefer Madness, which is so funny to do in 2022, because like 70% of people favor legalizing weed. It's the biggest layup of an issue on American politics other than like, should the sun come out tomorrow? Yeah.

We're still trapped. I mean, I know why it's because, you know, booze companies, drug companies, and cops don't want it. But the reaction was funny because you saw a bunch of centrists being. tepid about it, even some Democrats, which is weird to me. Democrats, a lot of them seem to have internalized the idea that getting more votes by improving people's lives is somehow cheating. Well, that wouldn't be fair to improve people's lives.

I don't know what they think the straight and narrow path is supposed to be, you know, like the way you're supposed to go about it, if not that. I often wonder what these people, like, think their job is. You know what I mean? Because it doesn't seem like they understand it at most points. Jobs to win elections and then having won elections do nothing until this time to win an election again. Right.

Yeah. I do, but congrats. Like, I'm wondering, like, I'm trying to figure out who exactly gets federally convicted for weed possession. I guess you get caught with it in like a federal park or something. But most of those people plead out. They don't do any jail time. But, yes, it's about the fell and box and job occasions.

And it's stupid. But you call it smoking weed while you're camping, and now you can't get hired for work. It's so fucking, it's dumb. I do, what's the last time you to take a drug test for a job, Tray? I used to, you know, regularly when I worked for the federal government, and I actually tried to do a thing with our union. I mean, I didn't really try to do a thing,

but I, like, talked to the union rep about how, like, this could not have been more clearly outing myself to this guy, but he was cool. But, like, I had. found this thing where there was a super i don't remember it now i knew the case at the time there was supreme court case from like the mid-90s of a supreme court had found that it was unconstitutional to uh drug test uh politicians or something like that like uh you know con congressman and stuff it was unconstitutional and so my whole thing was like why are they allowed to do it to us and

you know like it always pissed me off because like you know i would tell other people i worked with I'd be like, if our, if our boss showed up at your house and was like, all right, just, you know, take you and the family, come out and stand on the yard for a while, we're going to go in there, me and the boys, and just, you know, look through all your stuff, all your possessions, make sure everything's on the up and up, and then we'll be out of your hair. You tell them to go fuck themselves and get a warrant, but for some reason, they can do that to the contents of your bloodstream or your bladder, and everybody's just totally fine with it. It used to be a whole thing with me that no one cared about. But, yeah, I had to get tested for that job, but not since. That was a long answer to a simple question, but yeah. It's a thing I used to get fired up about. You know, like, American employers are so, like, the word fascist that gets overused,

but I don't know the way to describe it. Like, this isn't a sports thing, but, like, when deflategate happened, And everybody was mad at Tom Brady for maybe taking a half a pound of air out of football and whatever. But he eventually got suspended four games. What he actually got suspended for was the NFL wanting to go through his cell phone. Right. And so instead he fucking smashed it. And they were like, you're suspended four games because we couldn't read your text messages.

And everybody thought that was appropriate. I'm like, my fucking boss. You can't read my phone. Fuck you, no. So anyway, Tom Brady doesn't usually hit for me, but he was correct on that. Um, speaking of football, uh, hold on, wait a minute, hold on, before we do it, why, why did you, why did you ask about getting drug tested? Oh, I just can't remember. I think the last, my first job out of college, by the last time I got drug tested for a job, but it's, we're still doing drug testing, even though it's legal in like 30 some states or something, which is like, but I understand you don't want somebody high driving a forklift. Sure, I get that too, but to me it's always been like if the part, if it's impacting their job, like if they're fucking showing up high or something and you call and they think, you know, like drug test people for call, it's just like, it should be just like getting a warrant or something like that.

If you have probable calls or their job and, you know, it seems to be a danger or something, but I just don't think that it's anybody's goddamn business to just randomly for no calls at all, drug test people and pretty much any job as far as. Yeah. I remember this guy named Ed was a heavy construction. I was 1920 for my dad's crew. And we had a heavy equipment operator. I was calling Ed. And he drank the whole day. Yeah. He would drink beers in the morning and switched to liquor about three or four o'clock. And he was the best equipment operator. So I don't know. But yeah, I understand. But the big about drug testing for weed is it's in your system for 30 days. So just because I smoked a joint 28 days ago, I can't drive a fork. That seems like a fucking dumb system. I don't know.

I think it's all right. Go ahead. Anyway, speaking of football, by the way, we should legalize weed for pain management because, like, my neighbor was in pill rehab and there were two NFL players in there for doing heroin. So, yeah, they should be allowed to take weed. But speaking of football, Brett Favre, a small update on him, he could put out a statement today to Fox News, of course.

He didn't know how it was wrongdoing in Mississippi State Welfare case. I've been unjustly smeared in the media. The media did it. Ray. Yeah. Brett Farb's own text messages where he's planning to do welfare fraud. Right. It's like you would think if anyone should have learned by now that, like, people can find out about your text messages.

You know what I mean? Tom Brady. Let's just match your phone. But it would be Brett Farv after all the whole dick pick scandal. It's just wild that it's like he just keeps sending incriminating text messages. and then acting like surprised and whatnot. Yeah, it's just, it's a real goddamn shame about Brett Farv. I don't know what else to say about it.

I was a huge fan when I was a kid. But, you know, he's a big old piece of shit. So what else do you say? I didn't even make this connection, but another former football player, Hursa Walker. So his story keeps getting worse and worse and fucking worse. And this is just sad, but the contours of his relationship to the woman who's abortion you paid for. It became more clear. It turns out that he pressured her for the first

abortion he paid for, and it kept dating like another two years, and she got pregnant again and tried to get her to have an abortion the second time. She said no, and that's what ended the relationship. But he kept denying it, so the woman kept getting madder, madder, matter, and actually had a text message. He started changing text with Herschel's current wife, whereas that can't be going good for him. But they showed the reporter text messages from Herschel to the kid and this is like I'll read from the article um why so he just texted the kid love you but just two words love you fairly constantly that's sweet I guess but he uh he walkers on that same love you message to his son frequently no matter how many times

it went unanswered sometimes a child would write short notes back inviting Walker to a baseball game wishing happy Easter sitting in a photo of himself with gifts I don't which I assume Herschel sent um pace accelerated in 2021 Walker's gearing up to announce candidacy. Then this summer, he sent him seven love you messages, then nothing else. The boy replied,

you two once. The boy invited his father to watch and play baseball and Walker would say he would like to see him play, but last time Walker saw his son was January, January, 2016. Then between July 1st and October 11th,

Walker sent his son 34 unanswered brief text messages, all but six say love you, and they all come between midnight, 3.41 in the morning, so I'm assuming he's hammered. and then the son lost and snapped back at him on October 13th he wrote back what's my favorite color what grade am I at how old how old am I and Walker responded the

next afternoon God bless you love you uh then walk me and texting again for a month uh so yeah total dead beat absentee father I'm gonna see he has some quarter-ordered child support I gather but um a kid ask you what's my birthday and you just don't respond for a day and just say love you god bless god bless is southern for goodbye by the way you don't know it just seems Like, it's like, I don't know, almost worse than just not being there at all, because you are, he is not being there at all, but still doing this like superficial, you know, texting bullshit type. I just have zero patience for this type of thing from anybody, but, uh, you know, especially someone, uh, and a high profile running for office situations. So yeah, I just, Hersch Walker could not appear to be a bigger piece of shit to me. So, you know, know we'll see how it turns out it did remind me one time my dad had a had a few drinks and we were talking i said something about being glad fifth grade was almost over and he goes no wait you're in fourth grade and i go no i'm not and you argue with me about what grade i was

inflate happened that so that that brought that was a fun memory for that my dad was around though he was in my life and took care of me so it's not like i'm not at all throwing my dad under the bus who's the fun story um last thing for kit so Elon Musk is a fucking idiot uh but he's a useful idiot to Vladimir Putin, apparently. This new story came out today. Elon Musk spoke to Putin before tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan report. So Elon Musk

tweeted out a peace plan for Ukraine that is totally unworkable because it was a good idea basically three months ago, but now things are so different that you can't just his plan was basically to give half of Ukraine to Russia and have Ukraine declare their neutral between NATO. Yada, yada, yada. Anyway,

the important part here is like, I got to say Elon denies this, even though the reporter talked to Elon who confirmed it before he printed it, but when he saw the reaction, then he denied. Anyway, in fact, it doesn't matter. This reporter's totally credible. I've never seen your own reason to believe him. He's been credible for like two-decade-long career. I just want to point out here that Elon is a government contractor with a fucking security clearance. Um, so him running his own foreign policy with the president of Russia is a problem. Yeah. It's also like, he just like, he clearly, he, like, he, like,

he truly believes that like with any given problem he's like well it's up to me to fix this you know what I mean he's like I got to be the one to solve the greatest geopolitical crisis of the past 30 years or whatever because who else is going to do it if not me Elon Musk you know it's my duty and my burden to save the world from itself at every opportunity like he really believes that shit remember the Thai cave rescue when he kept trying to retrofit Tesla's into the submarines

and the cave divers kept telling him like look the path's so narrow way to take off her scuba tanks and push him through and then follow him at certain points you to get up and walk like half a mile on dry cave and then dive again and he's like nope I'm making fucking submarines and when a guy

when he got kept sending it wouldn't work he caught him a pedophile right so anyway also So in Ukraine, a lot of Ukrainian military communications are being a run on Starlink, which is, you know, Elon's sky-destroying satellite network. He made a big show that he was donating it at the beginning of the war to help Ukraine, but it turns out it's being paid for by the U.S. government. But there was a story last week that Ukrainian advances were happening so fast. They outran their Starlink coverage when they entered into like the Far East and the Crimea, which is the regions that Elon Musk is now saying he grew up. of Vladimir Putin should go to Russia.

And I just I'm just wondering now if that's actually what fucking happened. Right. Or did he turn them off because he fucking wants to help, right? This guy's so compromised, like he's trying to take over Twitter

and he's so, business interests are so big in China. They basically would be given over a lot of big chunk of the American internet to control the Chinese, China, which is not fucking good. Anyway, fuck Elon Musk. Yeah.

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as for the show tonight, there's a recent trend in the business world where investors are trying to profit off of anti-woteness, but so far doesn't seem to be working out exactly as they had planned. We'll have some fun with that here shortly. But first, the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic plays. Tonight's D.D. Fred from Scooby-D., for not being sexy enough to turn Velma back to God's light. This is kind of really offensive on the level that we're disrupting these beloved characters. There's no, there's no innocence.

You can't have a moment of just fun without an agenda. I'm waiting for them to tell us that Scooby and Shaggy shared more than a Scooby snack. in that, you know, mystery mobile. Shaggy. Well, whatever it was. But what other beloved characters are they going to sexualize next floor? This is... So, okay, so, like, how mad they continuously get about cartoons is funny to me.

Also, Corey was doing on stage this weekend. He was referencing this. And Corey's whole thing was, like, pretty sure I knew it nine years old, Vellma was a lesbian. Like, this don't feel that new. to me. I feel like she's always been a lesbian. And also the dog thing, it's like

that's an old, that's an old go-to for them too. Like anytime gayness comes up, they throw in a like, what's next? We're gonna be marrying dogs? Like, it's like, they go straight from gay to dog fucking pretty

easily, I feel like, which is an odd leap to make so continuously the way that they do. Especially for Because the big whole flow of the logic there is that dogs can't consent, except for Scooby, who can because he can talk. Rout row. So if Scooby and Shag, you're into it, what the fuck?

What the interest is in the mind? But anyway, Scooby is not even any of the new Scooby Duke, if you might understand. Anyway, what they're talking about is there was a viral clip in the movie. You went viral on right wing social media, where the extent of her lesbianness is she sees a cute woman and does the like the heart's eyes hubba hubba thing. It's like they did that with Lightyear too and Corey was talking about this but they got

super upset about Lightyear the Pixar movie because it had lesbian characters in it and that scene from that movie because I watched the movie it's like it's like two seconds long it's nothing. It's like two women being married but not like you know they're not getting down in front of young but young buzz light year or nothing like that you know

like uh not scissoring in front of a woody doll it's uh it's pretty harmless uh most saying people would agree i think but yeah that's what i'm saying it's like all this type of shit they get so jinned up over it it's why it's just it's funny it's also it's also like but yeah but it's also the degree which they never think about stuff like when they were mad about the predator going woke by having Native American characters

and they weren't America at the time just native characters it's like the original predator was about a special forces unit operating in South America illegally who were lied to about the point of their mission to kill rebels who they had no actual beef with

it was like it was anti it was anti-meddling in South American propaganda in the 80s you just didn't notice it and then what Scooby-Doo it's a company It's a bunch of stone hippies traveling around when, like, literally living off the land at a van, taking down a bunch of small business tyrants for abusing their workers and shit. So like, boy.

That's fine. I mean, you're right. I laughed because it's like, that's a funny way to describe Scooby-Doo, but is also completely accurate. That's exactly what Scooby-Doo was. Yeah. Very anti-capitalist. Scooby-Doo. Anti-capitalism propaganda.

people should have had to touch to what they're watching a little more I think like they did it with the new um they're turning alien into a series on if there's a sequel or reboot or whatever and uh okay they've got Noah Howley's show running it you know the guy that did all right yeah fuck yeah I'm fully on board with that I hadn't even heard about it but he talked about the shows of me anti-capitalist and people got mad like did you not get that the first movie was anti it's like really Paul Reiser's character and alien, the corporate. Yeah, that's like, that's the whole fucking thing.

Yeah, no, you're right. I mean, again, we were talking on the well-read podcast about, like, how, you know, people misinterpret rage against the machine, you know, or like, get mad at them for being political. So there's nothing too stupid. No point they can't miss or misinterpret. All right, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, Washington and Lincoln for being rhino.

evidently according to a new poll as referenced right here I believe I remember a very famous pollster very well-known John McLaughlin came to my office just prior to the plague coming in he said sir if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln came alive from the dead and they formed a president vice president team you would beat them by 40 percent There's a lot going on there. Oh, god damn funny to me. That's just like, that's pake distilled Trump shit right there, dude.

You can't hardly get more Trump than that, that clip. Yeah, it's, I like the part. My favorite part is when he almost forgets Abraham Lincoln's last name. Then he also calls COVID the plague, which I thought it was fake. But anyway, moving on from that. I was thinking about how, like, American history gets flat. They become these cartoon characters and no actual beliefs. They're just great men.

But the idea that Lincoln and Washington would agree on political issues is so funny to me. If Lincoln said, I want a free slave, George Washington would have hit him in the head with a brick. Right. Yes. Like, you know, like, yeah, they probably wouldn't make the best candidates in 2022, either of those guys. If we're being honest, you know, don't even think about bringing up Indians or the French or I guess they were cool with the French. but yeah, who knows what else. But yeah, it probably wouldn't work.

But it's just, it's like he's, it's just perfect Trump shit. He's like, yeah, it's basically like a lot of people are saying a lot of very smart people are saying that if the two greatest American presidents of all time were here today, I'd stomp their ass. A lot of people are saying it. They're telling me this. We're all hearing it. It's like, it's just, I don't know. It's fucking perfect. Also, the Whiskey Rebellion was sort of like the January 6th of its time.

George Washington, the military director's shit. So there you go. Another Trump news, this story was out today. So Trump is apparently, his super PACs raised a bunch of money to ostensibly help with elections, but instead he spent it all in his own legal defense, so that really hit for me.

The numbers here, he's still sending out a bunch of emails saying it's imperative that we win in big in November. I'm not sure at what point this becomes fraud. I think, to me it's pretty clearly fraud now, but how the government defines fundraising It's all mixed up with the First Amendment and campaign finance regulation, which we don't really do. But he raised a like, I don't need to do the math on my head right here.

Math don't hit for me. About $18 million. He spent $8.4 of it on actual election-related activities and spent $7 million of his own legal defense, another $2 million following to nonprofits, which employ four members of his staff, like Mark Meadows. If Trump was a Democratic plant to destroy the Republican Party, how different would this look? right yeah yeah like every fucking we're going to talk about the senate races in a few minutes but every every nominee he pushed through like herschel like oz like blake masters like jd vance are fumbling away which should have been very winnable races for them a couple of might still win

which is scary but it should have been a lot easier if they just nominated just pick fucking go to the chamber of commerce and throw a dart and nominate the guy you hit and they would to kickwalk to the wins. But someone made it, I was looking at footage. I didn't end up using it for the show, but the Illinois gubernatorial debate

and the democratic governor incumbent kept tying his opponent to Trump. And somebody made the point that like they're treating Trump like he's an unpopular incumbent. Like he's actually still the president and it's working because he's like dead weight around these guys necks and Matt some of this polling data earlier. Trump is 20 points underwater with independent men right now.

So he's not helping at all. And to that, I say thank you, Donald Trump. Yeah. Well, that's like, you know, it was Lindsey Graham, right? He said back in 2016, you know, there's something to the effect of if we let this happen, he will ultimately destroy the Republican Party or whatever. So it's like some of them knew at the time. And also that's what that whole controversial democratic strategy was about, right?

was this exact idea, like propping up the Trumpiest candidates because he's such an albatross to everybody except for, you know, the Red Hat Brigade, except for his base. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like it might, it probably helped Federman win in Pennsylvania and Josh Shapiro went in Pennsylvania, but it might push Republican secretaries of state your election deniers over the line in places like Arizona and Nevada. And I'm not sure how a Democrat who's going to win the presidency in 2024, if that happens. They won't sort of other results. I don't know.

When you sent in the National Guard and make them sort of other results at gunpoint? I don't know. Dude. The idea of that, you know, being a much bigger shit show, you know, next time around is not a calming or encouraging thought. But, all right. That's what I've been in whiskey, Trey. Yeah, got that right. All right.

The next honorable mention. For Daily Dumbass is women for being, unfortunately, unable to make difficult decisions and forcing us men to have to do it for them, which we would really prefer not to do. Now, let's discuss what the Supreme Court did and didn't do. The Supreme Court, all they did was said there is no right to an abortion in the Constitution, which then pushed this issue down to the states. Sure, that's correct. I get it. If you're a woman, it stinks, that most of these legislatures are men. most of these decisions are made by men. I wish it were other than that.

I wish, as a man, I didn't have to make this decision. I wish women to get this decision. And that means... It's like, really, the whole thing is women's fault, if you think about it. Like, they're the ones forcing us to do this for their own good, you know? And it's a shame. It's the burden we all carry being forced to make decisions for women. But what are you going to do?

There's no other choice. in the state of Utah, I guess. Which that's where that guy's at, right? That's Utah. Yeah, that's John Curtis. He's the rep for Utah's third congressional district, which he has been since 2017. He took over Josh Chafetz,

who was that super Trumpy guy who left to go work for Fox News. This guy, he's weird. So he was a super popular mayor of Provo, and his big thing was sort of like environment. Like, well, first I wanted to point out, when they went to this two shot, his opponent's face really hit for me

because I don't think he was on camera. And he was like, he was looking at it. like yeah no no yeah it was great like he was he was like fucking what like are you cutting a campaign out for me right now what the fucking good uh so so his big thing in provo is like a lot of like environmental stuff assuming not for left wing reasons they're probably because you know prolo's got a cool skyline they get tourism money for steers and shit um but he originally ran for a state senate as a democrat um and then he lost

66 to 33 and so nope being a Democrat don't hit for me in utah so he changed party. Right. Anyway, I don't know what this guy believes in. I like his trying to make ladies. I wish you would let it slate you too. But since you're not, I have to take away abortion because I got like it. It's like, oh, Jesus Christ.

You know how tired I get of always having to make decisions for all my wives, you know, all the time? I look around at them and I'm like, could you guys please do some of this? But, you know, they just lack the capacity. So we got to do what we got to do. Run for office women, please. All right, our next honorable mention, five-month-old babies for not being able to defend themselves, according to who else, J.D. Vance. The Lindsey Grand Bill. My view on this is generally speaking, Ohio is going to want to have different abortion laws than California than Texas. And I think Ohio should have that right. But some minimum national standard is totally fine with me.

We're talking about five-month-old babies. You're aborting five-month-olds now? God damn. It keeps getting crazier and crazier out here in these streets. That's, you know, I know they talk about late-term abortions, but God damn. Yeah. Personally, I think abortions should be perfectly legal from first, second, third trimesters. Then once a kid's born, he gets to be alive until he's like 14.

Then after 14, you can decide again until he's 18. Yeah. I think there's probably some parents out there who would sign up for that legislation. You know, it's the classic, it's the classic philosophy of mothers all over the country, I think. I brought you into this world. I could take you out of it. It's not legally true, but yeah. No.

I'll probably vote for that. Well, I'm not the president. Vote for me. We'll still work on it. So that was from Tim Ryan, J.D. Van, his debate last night and I know I'm biased but I don't think I went well for JD who of course not was born with the charisma of like a sea slug but he also that that construction by the way we're going to have different laws in a board in California and Texas and our state I saw like

a bunch of debates happen this week and Republicans are going to that they must have had some somebody wrote that form was all they were using it and I just want to say that I can see you all copy and paste in the same language into your speeches and you're not fooling anybody Um, so Ryan had a couple clips go viral where he absolutely embarrassed Vance for, um, being a Trump suit. She talked about, uh, JD, Trump being on stage at a J.D. Vance rally talking about this guy used to be against me, but now he kisses my ass all the time. Yeah. And, yeah. And the JD got up there and like, you know, hugged it out with it. It was like, I'm having such a great time. Aren't we all having a great time?

Yeah. Trump just disrespected him to his face in front of everybody there. Yeah. Yeah. So that was embarrassing. It was smart for Ryan to bring it up. But also he did, he had this pretty good clip that I thought was actually a, I'm not sure if you can shame these people. So I'm not sure to what extent shame works. But this is a pretty pithy line that I, that I thoroughly enjoyed. And it rhymes. So I'm sticking out. I'm for Ohio. I don't kiss anyone's ass like him. Ohio needs an ass kicker, not an ass kisser. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. That's necessary. For a political debate, that's basically the end of eight. mile. So there you go. For the record, Ryan is losing three and a half points by three and a half points right now to that fucking dickhead. Maybe the debate will help. I don't know how many people still let them decide. Ohio's been a thoroughly red state for a while now, so it's not called Klein for him. So I don't think it's necessarily a huge failure by him personally if he loses that it would just suck for the country. Checking him to other Senate

campaigns and see how they're going. Here's a fun little headline from a couple days ago. Dr. Oz delivers speech in front of Hitler's car. We talk about it all the time. It's like, how hard is it to avoid associations with Hitler? It seems to be pretty difficult for a huge number of conservative politicians and hopefuls because it just keeps coming up. Yeah. This was a fun.

fundraiser hosted in California by Matt Gates's in-laws, at which Jordan Peterson zoomed in to give a speech. So everything's going well for Dr. Oz. You got Hitler, you got Matt Gates, his wife who overlooked his underage sex trafficking, and Jordan Peterson, who talks about how woke liberals have made lobsters gay or whatever on the internet. And by the way, Federman's only up 3.5% of court of the latest polling, so it's totally within reach for Oz. So if you're in Philadelphia, we're in Philadelphia, definitely, but if you're in Pennsylvania, go vote. I do not want to see Dr. Ozzler over my TV.

As much as we could use the content, I would love for us to not have enough content on this show and be able to quit so America would be more sane. That would be fucking nice. Yeah. Yeah. Our final honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is all those teenage litter box poop and furries out there for refusing to go away.

Even though no one can seem to find them. Yes. Matt. I want to read you a quote from earlier this week on talk radio. It was, have you heard about this story, kids identifying as cats? It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it's happening all over Colorado and schools are tolerating it. Where are you getting that? And do you believe that's true? Well, I'm out on the campaign show talking to parents every day. And this is this really weird phenomenon that's happening in middle schools and high schools. It's actually been going on for a couple years called furries. Ferry has been going on for a couple years, right?

They're struggling. So I have a lot of compassion for kids that are having, you know, difficulty right now. But schools tolerating kids dressing up as cats is not appropriate. Have you seen any specific examples of this, though, or not? Many, many. And all the parents across the Denver metro area, at least. Oh, you're good. And that's just, yeah. And that's like, that's how that always works for that. Like, it's all the same. It's all just a bunch of this ladies, like on Facebook or talking to each other at these events or whatever. just saying the same thing as far as like you believe this is happening no i hear about it all the

time and it's like you know it's just it's just them saying it to each other and like yeah with specific examples oh everywhere it's everywhere i mean you heard everybody's saying it you know that screensaber with the ball bouncing around yeah it's it's this idea of bouncing between all these different pta moms and none of them knows who started it or when it's going to end and the that's this hiding ginaw by the way we talked about her before a couple weeks ago when she's when she waited her waited into this pool. And the only reason I want to talk about her again is because she's the first one to keep pushing it.

Like every other one has been like, I heard about these furries and somebody goes, actually no, that's fucking stupid that never actually happened. And they go, oh, my bad. I was mistaken because they get embarrassed. She's made it the central issue of the closing message of her campaign. Right. She is talking about nothing but furries in schools. If you're wondering, her current position is she's elected, in 2016, she was elected to a board

of Regents for the University of Colorado. So she's already an education official. And the effects of this, I wanted to talk about this. They interviewed, the people, so the reporters keep asking her about this because she keeps talking about it. She keeps saying she's gathering information to be released.

I do want to say that Coloradoans hit for me because a bunch of them are up in her Twitter mentions, saying pictures of their kids in Halloween dressed like frogs and shit, saying, here's some of them. So that's fun. But they talked to the educators because the report is called around to a bunch of school districts to go actually to kind of get some actual information. Like, is this happening? And they're like, no, it's not fucking happening.

And here's a quote from the executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executors. The claims are exhausting, he said. Our educators have been so focused on having a normal school year going through. We're focusing all that lost time kids had over the last few years and here we are. School districts are spending time chasing down storylines that are purely for political gain. they have nothing to do of what kids are experiencing in school and it's shock and awe

it's just incredibly frustrating and here's the money quote when you throw this on top of it it's coming to be the top of list why people are saying I don't know why I want to even want to do this anymore politicizing the daily instructions of school and the daily work of the school

is rousing at the list of why people are questioning why they want to be in this profession. Yeah. Yeah, man. I don't like that like it's been like teachers have been underpaid and treated like shit for a very long time

and have still, like, shown up to do the job and everything. And it's like, and it was already a hard enough and thankless enough and undercompensated enough job before they all latch or, like, laser focus, their particular brand of insanity on the teacher's career, on the school system and school boards in the classroom. And now that that's happened, I just, I can't even fucking imagine, dude. All the bullshit they already had to put up with. And then you add these people's brand of insane bullshit on top of that.

That's fucking horrible. It's horrible. My heart goes out to any teachers out there because that's just straight up unfair. Yeah. My mom was and my sister is a teacher in a poor rural district of primary school, both of them. And you don't make jet shit for money. The whole upside is you like spending time with the kids and teaching the kids. And then you have a parent comes in and a asshole teacher, parent comes in and he goes, show me where the litter box is.

And you're like, there's no fucking litter box. And they're like, I know it's here. It's like, how do you convince somebody that something doesn't exist doesn't exist? You can't do it. So like it's it is the groomer panic, the fucking CRT bullshit. The fact we're underpaid. Now they're going to answer questions about litter boxes. All the COVID shit, the COVID shit too was huge with the vaccines and masks and all that stuff.

It's like they've really gone in on the school. in particular recently because somebody's got to think of the children mark that's why anyway yeah let's talk about the anti-wotness industry yeah so the main thing we're talking about is a new right-wing dating app that is just hilarious in every aspect but before we get there this anti-wokeness is branding is a really interesting thing because it continues not working but rich people have so much money they keep throwing money at it specifically we're talking about peter thiel and the first thing he's in the news for this week peter field we talked about it a much before he's the guy Bank rolling J.D. Vance's and Blake Masters' campaigns in Alaska and Ohio.

He's a crazy right-wing Silicon Valley psycho and made all his money on PayPal. If you watch the show Silicon Valley, that storyline where the sub-billionaire was paying a blood boy to take his blood to inject him to make him younger, that's based upon a rumor and anecdote about Peter Thiel. I don't know if it's been confirmed as true or not, but the rumors run Silicon Valley, but he injects himself with the blood of young boys. Anyway, that's who we're talking about. So he funded this startup bank called Glorify, Fies and Finance. And they're going to be branded as anti-woke, but I don't know what bank is woke. I know.

I know. He's literally launders drug money. I know, dude. That was the main thing I thought when I saw this. It's like, oh, yes, the famously over-liberal and woke finance industry, known for always shoving their high moral standards down regular Americans' throats, the finance industry. Yeah, the fucking, they have no morals or standards. It's like all it care about is what fucking makes a profit and what doesn't, you know?

And I thought everybody knew that. There's nothing fucking woke about big banking. Like, I don't know. So dumb. Maybe Bank of America made a commercial with an interracial couple in it or something. Yeah, right. Yeah, probably that. So they had ran into a couple problems.

One of the big ones was, here's going to quote in the article, it stumbled with products. For instance, a plan to make. credit card of the same material used for shell casings when the company realized the material could interfere with security chips and potentially be too thick for payment terminals. You got set off like metal detectors and secure like scanners and stuff like that. It's like, do you have ammunition there? It's like, no, it's just my Patriot card, sir. Never leave home without it.

One of their financial products was going to be like homeowners insurance where they're going to give a 10% discount to gun owners. Now, I want to think about the implications of that for a minute. If you shoot someone in your house and get sued, you need a good insurance plan. And one that gives people a cheaper rate for gutting people down is not exactly a good business practice. But I'm not a business genius like Peter Thiel. But while we're talking about Peter Thiel, one of his other things he's been working on is a dating app he financed. It's called the right, with the right stuff.

And it got a pretty big rollout push. Here's a puff piece written about it in news. Newsweek's gone full right-wing rag. I don't know if you've noticed, but nobody cares. It used to be a magazine I liked to read when I was a kid. And I was a fucking kid who read Newsweek. I'm that fucking nerdy. So this is written by a, what's your Bethany Mandel, who's a real, real psycho.

Peter Thiel's new dating after conservatives, the right stuff, is already making waves. No, it's not. Last week, the app released an ad full of interviews with conservative women who were asked what they're looking for in a man they all seem to concur shared value specifically a shared faith and desire to have kids and an interest in family life i want to let me watch this video she's looking at uh and tell me if you see the big problem with her take away from watching this video uh yeah let's hit it matt the ad for uh what's it called the right stuff yes this is uh this is to roll out with real conservative women just voicing their opinion

about the dating scene. Do we have it? Yes, we do. Remember starting the middle there, Matt, 32. Today. That's real long. Yeah. There we go.

Right there. Who actually wants to meet my parents. Why do you want to date a conservative? For me, at least I know that we're going to start off with some shared values. Well, the conservative men I've dated, at least know how to treat me like a woman. In my personal experience, conservative guys have better manners. I like that they understand their role in the relationship as a man. I just prefer my men to be masculine.

And what's the biggest red flag when it comes to dating? A Democrat. No Democrats. A Democrat. Can't be a Democrat. A Democrat. I can kind of mad. They always say Democrats four times.

So these are actors. Right. They're reading a script. And she's treating them like their honest. testimonials. And that fucking made me laugh so hard. And when you know their actors is one, there's commercial casting, so they all look very different. There's a rainbow coalition

of people. Like, there's not... Right. Randomly selected groups of people do not look like they were cast. And also, I know they're actors because I've seen enough commercial auditions to know that real actors are terrible on camera. I mean, people that are actors are terrible on camera in general. They're all very charming and good. I don't think I've paid very well for this because it's going to follow in the rest of their lives. Like that episode of Friends where Joey

accidentally did like a gonorrhea so yeah yeah no it's like but yeah why do you want a date a conservative and it's like you know i just want a man who knows how to keep me in my place namely the kitchen i like a man who knows how to demand a sandwich from me uh yeah knows what knows how knows what to do when i start getting too mouthy that's what uh that's what i'm looking for in a mind do you feel unmasked because your left wing tray uh i wouldn't say it's because i'm left wing i don't feel i don't feel unmasculine uh always but i do sometimes when it comes to like you know when the toilet fucks up or whatever i'm like god damn it i should know how to do more

stuff they're like katy come fix this that's what happens she fixes the toilet while i make cookies you know but i don't give a fuck yeah how everybody's marriage works but still have sex with my woman wife

you know like how not masculine is that conservatives their ideas about masculinity are so weird like Marjorie Taylor Green

get a big thing a couple of weeks about about how Pete Buttigieg wants to emasculate your car essentially talking about fuel model

standards and stuff it's like I don't feel like my dick gets smaller if I drive a smaller car but they that's just me but like they're all in on this shit

Nick Adams that right wing influences going on a real bender all week about how like real men eat steak and get off the get off the latte's need a steak it's like okay whatever um they didn't cut another ad that actually it it's not nearly as this was clearly a sketch so maybe bethny mandel mandel won't be fooled by it but yeah this is pretty funny a pat-all kind of wavelength you want to watch it most common mistake men make when approaching women but most have no clue that they're making it see every time a guy approaches me One of three scenarios.

It's bad, Matt. No, it was about maybe, yeah, I must agree. The dating world is so crazy. The other night, I went out with this guy, and I was like, what are your thoughts on kids? And he said, I'm not going to have any kids. I feel like it's the worst thing you can do for the environment. Yeah, that's when I knew it wasn't going to work out. You know, I had a similar experience.

This guy seemed normal on his profile. But when we went out, he asked, oh, do you mind paying? I left my gift card in my other fanny pack. Corey where's Fan of Facts I didn't even get to go on my right now Sorry I'm late

I love how they gave them I get the wild Yeah I get that the device Download the right Is that the women are telling the story But it's funny how they You know

They gave all the dudes Lady voices and stuff Yeah Like just Yeah A bit much Again I just want to see I'd like

We should do the opposite of this sketch women going on dates with like, you know, conservative rednecks from my hometown or shit like that and seeing how, seeing how those play out. But, I want to go, Trey. Give me, give me a beat. I don't know. I mean, I put myself on the spot, yeah.

Yeah, I know. I mean, I put myself on the spot by saying it. I already did it early. I just, you know, the same, just want to make the same jokes I already made. Yeah, but, you know, honestly, I bet it hits for Katie that you make good cookies. So there you go. Fucking better. So the problem is they stood up this app and they sent out, you have to join me invitation only.

So they got like a real refined user base. So people haven't managed to get on it. I'll read a couple of reviews from this app at Effortsoft launch. It's a good app, but there's no women, one star. Unsafe. I answered the question by January 6th, honestly, the next day I have two police officers at my door. It's telling me they got a call alleging that was involved in domestic terrorism, one star. Scam.

I'm just the average conservative who just wants to find someone with the same views as me and not that pronoun stuff. But I'll surprise this. This app is actually more liberal than I can imagine. The conservators out there aren't Christian. I hate this app. One star. No women on this site. One star.

All right. So, yeah, it's not working for some pretty straightforward reasons. And The Daily Beast did argue about this. And so, one, they launched it in D.C., which is probably not a good idea because there are a ton of, like, real hard for conservatives in D.C. and the ones that are work for politicians. So they all already know each other and they're connected professionally. So would you want to be on an app

that's all your professional acquaintances? I fucking wouldn't. So. Also like they, and I don't know shit about dating apps for obvious reasons, but I read an article and I thought this was the case. Like they,

you can just put your political beliefs is already a way you can like use regular dating apps. Like all the standard dating apps you can fill. by that you can identify politically and filter them as such and all that shit so like i mean what is the difference even supposed to be in this yeah you can uh you can figure out somebody's basic worldview pretty quickly by asking me a few questions about how they feel about stuff especially conservatives they tend to pretty much wear it on their sleeves or the you know flag tattoo where a sleeve should be or whatever but yeah my neighbor went on a date like a hinge date

with a guy like a month or two ago and within like five minutes he was talking about anti-trans stuff just like okay I don't think this is going to work right they don't exactly hide their beliefs so uh the they asked this quote from a woman kind of proposed a republican operative pretty much sums it up it's all Mitch McConnell staffers on the fucking app these people don't hit for each other to such a comical degree like who would want to date a Mitch McLeod's staffer oh that says a Republican so but they fucked us up they so badly they couldn't even get the name right they got they have already in legal dispute with another dating service that's also called the right stuff that's been around

for decades. They didn't even Google dating out the right stuff to see if they had to get an original name. They've already been hit, they're going to be hit with the cease and those cyst letter. This quote from the other dating app's lawyer said their dating services for people who have higher levels of education and many of them are left wings, they don't like the confusion.

They also share a name with a white nationalist website, so that probably won't confuse anybody. So yeah, it's two ways that Peter Thiel already fucking fumbled the bag on this. Getting back to Peter Thiel, because it's conservative, the invite on the app will only permit heterosexual matches at the outset. So Peter Thiel, who happens to be gay, is therefore funding a project he couldn't, wouldn't be able to use. Another problem with it, with pitching an online dating app for conservatives, is it furthers the enlightenment, which doesn't hit for them.

They asked for what person where they didn't like using it and said the internet seems to interfere with biological tendencies, like men, women. This isn't like Alexa telling you the weather. You can't up in the natural mating process and call it traditional. All right. They're trying to sell fucking computers to cavemen, so good luck with that. They interviewed this woman who was excited about the dating app, but she has a few ideas for pitches. Her name's Savannah Dudzik. She's hopeful for a more positive experience. She'll say me start here. She said she's historically disliked dating apps such as Catholic match, partly because men on the platform were just looking to hook up.

She was hoping for more positive experience of the right stuff, serious romance only, and excited to see it get off the ground. I think it's going to be a hit. But she hopes the Apple ban right-wing males on the platform just looking for hookups. Now, if you don't want to date guys who are looking to get laid, I don't know if there's anything online or offline that's going to work. Historically, the way it goes, the guy's trying to get laid. Then he ends up there.

And then, yeah, right. It just sort of relationships just sort of happened to him, you know. That's the natural flow of things. Yeah. And going back to what they started in D.C., something like, you'll hear anybody has watched any stand-up comedy. We hear people talk about how hard it is to date in L.A. And it's sort of true. But the reason is it's a company town like D.C.

People are not here to build lives and make relationships. They deploy themselves here to try to get a career started. And if it doesn't work out, they know they're going home in general. Right. D.C. is the same way. Political cooperatives graduate college. They go there to get a job of the Senate campaign aid. And when the campaign happens, they're on the road and they're back or they're taking a job in a gubernatorial office. They're not there for long-term relationships. So anyway, I'm not a business genius like Peter Thiel, but amazing idea. So they've been having trouble getting people to get on it. So one of their big ideas was to hire Ryan Mconading, who happens to be Kaylee. Kaylee, Kaylee, Kaylee's little sister. She has like 140,000.

5,000 IG followers, which is funny to me because that qualifies her as a, you know, influential to them, which 140,000 isn't some tremendous amount, but they probably paid her a chunk of money for this. So here's a video she made for it if you want to view that up, Matt, you got it. Hey guys, I'm Ryan. I've got to tell you about something. I am so excited to announce a dating app for all of us conservatives. It's called The Right Stuff, and it's launching this September.

I love it. I just wanted to establish what kind of. influencer hits for them. She got no personality, no game. I'm not sure what's happened. So her IG posts weren't working. So instead what they had her do with DM, like they'd send direct messages to a bunch of conservatives that she knew lived in DC. And they got screen grabbed and passed around people, people making fun of her. So that didn't work. And one of them gave the day gave a DM to the Daily Beast. And a quote here from it is, hi, work with John McEntee's team one exclusively concerned dating out called the right stuff, yada, yada, yada.

Anyway, so it was funny to me that she used John McEntee, like people knew who he was, because if you know who John McEntee is, you're either a hardcore news consumer like me or an absolute fucking psycho. And if you're the first type, he probably doesn't hit for you. The second type, you don't want to date anybody who knows, who knows and admires John McEntee. So Peterfield bankrolled this, but John McEntee is the founder and CEO. He made his name as a political advisor in the White House presidential personnel office in the Trump administration. Before that, he was Trump's body man, a personal aid, until he was fired by John Kelly in 2018.

McEntee had failed a security clearance background check was under investigation by the Homeland Security Department for possible financial crimes related to gambling. That part seemed funny to me because when he was in college, he was the starting quarterback for University of Connecticut. He obviously has a gambling product. He's not that old. This is just a couple years ago. So I'm wondering if he was fucking point shaving and shit. Anyway, after Kelly was dismissed, Trump rehired him and gave him a promotion. That's when he was director of office of presidential personnel.

He was a pretty powerful person because he was the one, he has a quote from a profile of him. Trump knew he was the one person willing to do anything Trump wanted. He hired all of his friends and hired a bunch of pretty girls, including an Instagram influencer and a dance instructor to work at the White House. I'm sure they came in handy. But the main thing he did is he was in charge the loyalty purged the anti-Trump administration. They fired everybody who wouldn't like pledged their undying loyalty. So if you're looking for somebody who's like second or third, most responsible for January 6th is probably this guy. This fucking guy has mid-20s.

What was the, what was the terminology they used in the January 6th committee hearings? Like team crazy or something like that? There was team normal, team normal and team whatever. So this guy was like the quarterback of tame crazy. by yeah he was he was a coppo or an underboss on team capo uh on team crazy so um i mean i'll just read from this profile macotin as enforcers made the disastrous last week to the trump of presidency possible they backed the president's madrived overturn the election and helps set the stage for january 6 assault in the capital thanks to them in the end the elusive quote adults in the room those who might

have been willing to confront the president or try to control his most destructive tendencies were silenced or gone but maccatee was there bossing around cabinet secretary is decapitating the civilian leadership of the Pentagon and forcing officials high and low to state their allegiance to Trump. So that's the guy who's organizing this dating app, which makes the next part of this really funny because this isn't quite clearly

is not an FBI op because Peter Thiel would be bankrolling it if it was. But if it was, it would be a good one because one of the problems you set up your profile is, quote, January 6th was blank. So I imagine even my concern is the answer to that question would it would uh be revelatory about the person's character personality or work because it's like if they say like an antifa scam you're like okay

they're purely crazy if they go it was a patriotic glorious patriotic movement you're like okay crazy if they go an unfortunate staying on president trump's great legacy you're like uh it's same but too crazy for me right you know it's like so yeah um yeah i'm I mean, it's a pretty good, like, sort of a litmus test or whatever for their, you know, differentiating between the level of, you know, conservative crazy, I feel like. But also, apparently, it just gets the FBI all fired up, too. Yeah. I think, I think this review is a troll job, but I do want to read it because they hit for me.

At asked about January 6th. I said it was there because I was. I'm a patriot. I get a call from an FBI agent the same day, reach one review from you, you're under the name Big Chungus. Big Chungus. All right. Thanks for putting that up there, Matt.

Yeah, like and subscribe, everybody. Share, rate, and review, all that good stuff. We appreciate it. And, Matt, if you've got, you know, a couple of comments for us, throw it up there. Sorry, we got to sort of lost track of time. Yeah, my bad. But if you guys, specifically, if you have any ideas, we could pitch Peter Thiel to give us a couple million dollars to execute some horrible. Yeah, it's also funny.

like he's he's bankrolling these ideas but that this one in particular the guy in charge of it is a dude with a noted gambling problem like like it just don't seem like he makes the soundest business decisions to me peter dale yeah i'm not you know he's a billionaire and i'm not so what do you know uh yeah i would uh yeah it'd be funny if like the user interface improves if he comes a big on a fan duel one week. Right. Derek Duke says two-hour show. Well, not tonight.

Maybe in the future special edition or something. Jules T. says what's your take on the L.A. Council, racist rants. Do we talk about that or was that pre-show you were talking about? We talked about a pre-show. Yeah. So all those people with scum bags, I'm kind of worried to talk about it because in one party states,

what happens is both parties just in South. the other party like it's like so it's not like because california's run by democrats that they're all libs or left wing they're republicans have run with a d next to the name but the case and point that the uh possible next mayor was a trump supporter named rick aruso who did fundraiser from his fundraisers from mr college he just registered democrat a month ago and he decided want to be mayor so like it's not these people don't have any beliefs they're all landlords and shit and uh Well, I was telling Matt, it's like, there's a lot of intra-Latino racism in here that I can't, that I don't have a good understanding of to talk about authoritatively. But, yeah, the stuff she said about other races, I clearly can recognize as racism.

But yeah, these people, they, but when the White House raised in on a city council scandal across the three miles, three thousand miles away, it's a big fucking deal. I hope this lady. She resigned as president of city council. I lost track whether she actually resigned from office yet. But, yeah, I don't know. She sucks. Nuri wondered, I can't think of her last name right now. No, yeah, what's sort of like we were saying earlier about the Hitler stuff, you know, how hard is it to avoid things of that nature?

But apparently, for some people, it's, you know, real hard not to go on racist tirades all the time. Some people seem to have no real problem with it. Other people, though, really gets them by the horn. They weren't a Labor Federation phone call, like a conference call. so like if there's one group it's supposed to express solidarity with workers of all strikes yeah it's a labor union a federation of labor union yeah all right well hey we have always sat here excuse that racism don't hit racism just so everybody knows we got a straightforward anti-racism stance that I've long held all right uh all right that'll about

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