Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 11/22/22 – The Cost of Hate

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Tonight, in the wake of another horrific shooting in Colorado, we'll be talking about the very real dangers of the hateful rhetoric continually pushed by the right. Join us. Support the show

Hey everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's November 22nd, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What a week, Trey. What a time to be alive. So a lot of news happening for a holiday week. Trump announced that we knew he would. He's running again. So hurry for that. Mayor Carlin announced a special counsel. I don't know what to make of that yet. Scotus today fucked him on his taxes. He's going to let Congress have them, so that's fun. So now that these three handpicked Supreme Court justices are deep state traders. Nancy Pelosi stepped down from leadership.

That's just going to be a congressperson. I'm sure we're talking about Hakeem Jeffries, her handpicked successor. Because I imagine I will have problems with a lot of stuff he deals because his main move is to punch left on every issue except Medicaid for All, which is pretty good. Medicare for All, which is pretty good on. But there's a hot new conspiracy theory in town that I want to. I don't know how much you've been following the FTX collapse the whole collapse to the crypto economy I mean I knew that it had that that had happened but you know as we've

talked about before on here but like I've never understood crypto in the first place really so I also don't understand what has happened to it but I know that it's bad if you're in the crypto war like it didn't didn't work out as I understand it yeah not understanding it doesn't make you stupid it makes you smart because it's one of those things we like When I talk about how, like, the government should just make things work again and make things understandable, like if you can't, like, the thing I was talking about it, if you can't understand as a regular person, like a three-sentence description, though you're being sold a bunch of bullshit, right? Right. So, like, uh, this kind of short version of it, I'll take it to the conspiracy theory. So Sam Bankman-Fried was this, like, guy hailed was a tech genius.

He ran his crypto exchange called FTX. Turned out as a Ponzi scheme. He was stealing the money out of the bank accounts to put into his venture fund, which is supposed to be a separate business. Nobody even knows where the money went. Turns out they used a bunch of the money to. buy his parents, like $120 million with a real estate in the Bahamas, yada, yada, yada. The people running the company were in a pollicle, which is the phone, according to one report, which is a fun little twist. They were all banging each other and like committed nine-person relationship.

Freed was a big Democratic donor, which is part of the origin for this conspiracy theory. And he also espoused something called effective altruism, which is essentially like a liberal benefactor version of greed is good. You have moral obligation to make as much money as you can so you can fund, like, good charitable causes, which he admitted in an interview, which is bullshit branding. Anyway, a lot of fun stuff here. But I'll let, I'll let's play this video of Marjor Taylor Green dipping her tonus conspiracy theory. And then I'll explain to you what she's trying to say because she doesn't really get it with us. But let's talk about the aid to Ukraine. Here in the news, we're just finding out about the situation with FTX and the cryptocurrency.

So is American people's taxpayer dollars going to fund aid in Ukraine, but yet it's really funding something else that's happening, maybe ending up in Democrat donors' pockets? Was that helping Democrat campaigns? Was that helping Democrat candidates get elected? 8.9 billion is... Okay. What? So here's how conspiracy theory goes.

All right. the Biden administration has given a bunch of money to Ukraine to fend off Russian occupation. There's a bunch of Ukrainian money invested in FTX. Sam Beckman-Fried took some of his profits from FTCS and donated to Democratic causes, and Republicans didn't do as well in this election as they hoped. Therefore, see where I'm going with us? I guess. but it's just it's pure cope it's pure cope for getting you're asking the election

because there's a bunch of things wrong with this one the aid to buy the aid to ukraine regardless of this dumb idiot caucus in congress he yells about it is bipartisan uh a lot of the ft one of the other big ftX guys donated a bunch of money to republicans so the money was being spent bipartisanly if it was being laundered to ukraine which absolutely fucking wasn't it's just like different money is money comes in a lot of piles and the third thing is it was Bankman Freed gave like $10 million to Democratic candidates this cycle when like $2 billion were spent. So if you think the whole House and Senate and governorships and everything were decided over $10 million in a $2 billion election, you're a fucking idiot. But the thing is like they're really losing their touch, man.

Because a pizza gate was the Mona Lisa. This is like child's drawing in your refrigerator. Yeah. I was going to say I don't follow any of it really, but I'm, you know, I'm happy for Marge that she's got a new conspiracy theory. as you can, you know, sink her stupid teeth into or whatever. I know that's got to be very exciting for her. I'm sure they get pumped up whenever a new one of those emerges from the ether. So that's fun.

Yeah, there was a meme version of this theory that it expresses it via, you know, arrows, the money flowing that it drew Sam Beckman-Fried as basically a, like a Nazi-era propaganda cartoon, like with the hook nose and stuff and grew up in hands. So that's fun. Musk posted it so you know it's going well and he's just personally had has his feelings hurt because he tried to get some of Freeman Bank Fruit sorry the scam guy from FTX his money to help bail out Twitter and the guy didn't come through so he's just mad about that and now his turn full Nazi over it so there you go um another thing we get to show this absolutely bonkers

story that's full of shame shying fraud that I wanted to talk about from Pope Publica it's a it was a They got some tapes from inside some pro-life groups, lobby and Tennessee Republicans. And we'll get to the tapes and what they say in a second because it's pretty fucking horrific. But they basically, it's held together by like an interview slash profile of this dude named Senator Richard Briggs. Yeah.

So let me read this, read the first, I'll read the first sentence. This is the fucking around part. When State Senator Richard Briggs voted yes in Tennessee's a total abortion ban, he never thought it'd actually go into effect. It was 2019 in Roe v. Wade with the law of the land. his vote was just a political statement. Now we get to the finding out part.

But on August 25th, the ban and one of the strictest in the country kicked in. And, you know, we know what happened next. Tennessee is a horrific state abortion ban. And even though they put what they thought, this guy, this guy, Briggs happens to be a former army colonel and heart surgeon.

Right. So he knows medicine. Yeah. And so he tried to raise some concerns about the way the life the mother exceptions and rape and assess were written, but nobody listened to him. But now Tennessee women are fleeing across state lines to get lifesaver medical care, which none of the lawmakers intended, right?

But of course, they think all the women are lined sluts who I just want an abortion for convenience. But anyway, so this guy's a doctor. And so that brings us to the dumbest debate in world history, where he was talking about how he's had patients and, like, the lawmakers are saying shit that doesn't make sense. Like, no mother would ever want to terminate a pregnancy just because she gets diagnosed with can't like if you get diagnosed with cancer you have to determine your pregnancy before you can get chemo right because the chemo will kill the baby right um and he'd say well no mother would do that and he's like what if the mother already has kids like i know mothers had to make this decision it's a very tough choice and fucking government shouldn't be involved in him and he actually says this he wishes men would quote recuse themselves from the whole thing because we don't need to be talking about that now the debate he's having is with this guy who calls himself doctor david reardon the guy has a PhD in biomedical ethics from a single single since closed unaccredited

online university. So these are you guys debating for the women in Tennessee. Yeah, and the doctor is the one who's losing. Although this doctor, senator, Dr. Senator there, Dr. Senator Colonel, he's got a bunch of titles. Dr. Senator

Colonel Briggs is like a good and infuriating example of a lot of Republican politicians nowadays, I think, because like if you read this article, about him and read what he had to say about the law and stuff like that. He seems like an extremely reasonable and sensible guy. He's a doctor, too, so he knows what he's talking, talking about the

dangers of laws like this and how they're bad and everything. But he voted for it. It was something to be voted on because he's a Republican, and at the end of the day, that's what they do. They vote, you know, they vote down the party line, and that's exactly what he did. And yeah, you reference his his rationale reportedly is that it was in 2019 and he never thought Roe would be overturned so that it would never matter anyway. So it was just easy for him to be like, yeah, I'm pro-life. See, this shit's never going to matter. But, you know, lo and behold, now here we are.

And he's like, you know, trying to do something about it or at least talking about it. And, you know, we all know how that's going to work. But, yeah, Tennessee, we're number one, everybody. This is like the most restrictive, I think, so far. are trigger law for abortion in the U.S., so go us. That checks out. So the actual news in this story was the recording, the director of Susan B. Anthony Foundation, which is a hardcore pro-life group, was urging Tennessee lawmakers to go after

IVF doctors, even the lawmakers have said they will not fuck around with in vitro fertilization, but they're absolutely going to do it. She's just telling to wait for a little while, and they're also probably going to go after, you know, birth control and maybe condoms. I don't know. Yeah, they're trying to, they're trying to catch it like, oh, no, there are exceptions in the law, but it's just they're not, there's a thing in the law that says a doctor is able to defend himself against the charges of, you know, performing an abortion if he did

it to save the life of the woman. But, like, he's presumed guilty and has to prove his innocence. like it's not like saving the life of the woman is not explicitly covered it's just if you do that you can then go to court and say you shouldn't have to go to jail for 15 years or whatever because that was the circumstance but that's going to you know any doctor is going to you know think twice it's going to be a major factor in considering your options or whatever if you know you're going to have to go to court for fucking you know yeah every doctor already carries a humongous malpractice insurance uh you know coverage for like getting sued and uh because but like they're talking about establishing like

well first of all having to go to court to prove your innocence is fundamentally on American and antidote about evidence works um it's like minority report for abortions yeah yeah uh and they're talking about like keeping data where a doctor does above average amount of abortions they're probably lying and giving out non life saving which is like what if a doctor has a bad, bad week with luck with patience or something. Yeah, anyway, just for a little bit of fun before we get to the show, like we said, Trump announced, and I wanted to just take a brief moment, do anything to say about it, really,

but I wanted to enjoy this video of people trying to leave Trump's big announcement speech early and secured them not letting them out the door. Help is on the way. Joe Biden has abolished. America's borders. She's walking the room, Trey. We built the wall And now we'll wait

Did you see that guy? We built the wall. No, there's a guy right in the middle of like 13 or 14 seconds who like turns around and gives the like, you know, kill it motion. Like he's,

you know, with his hand over his throat. Yeah, he's like, fucking I can't. I can't do this anymore. This is wild to me though because like, I just don't understand how you could ever find yourself in that room

for that event. And then, you know, like how bad was the damn speech? whatever like this is you know this is you think this would be his number one crowd right here but even they're not having it they're the half-eluding one so they're just there to be seen and shake hands they don't like actually like care but like it was funny because trump promised he keep the speech short that's probably that was his deal with the tv networks if they carry

it and then he promised to take no more than 45 minutes and if 45 minutes in he told them to take their seats so it's like I know you didn't go to church growing up but they're is a phenomenon where you'd like be like you come out football is about to start and they're like let's fucking go and the preacher we'll get to like now we get to the reading it's like ah fuck we're going to be another half of all right well let's get into it with us as always as producer matt this is weekly skews i want to remind you of course a couple quick things number one if you'd like to see me perform live go to tray crowder dot com check out the upcoming shows me and cori and drew will be at zanis in nashville the weekend before christmas and i got a bunch of other dates in twenty 23

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impact on the hateful and dangerous reddick aimed towards the LGBTQ community that emanates constantly from the right wing. I think we all know the answer to that question, but we'll talk about it a little later. First, though, of course, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. vampires for not being nearly as cool as werewolves. That's right. We hear from who else?

The man himself, hit it, Matt. I want to tell you to keep the faith. Oh, do you ever watch a stupid movie late at night hoping you're going to get better, don't get better, but you keep watching it anyway. The other night, the other night I was watching this movie, I was watching this movie called Fright Night, Freight Night, or some type of night, but it was about vampires. I don't know if you know vampires and cool people, are they not? But I'm going to tell you something that I found out. A werewolf can kill a vampire. Did you know that?

I never knew that, so I don't want to be a vampire anymore. I want to be a werewolf. But then anyway, as I'm watching this movie. this movie, and then you tell how stupid it is, because it's one in the morning. So I'm watching my TV, of these kids watching their TV, or a vampire kill on their TV.

All right. So you know, it's kind of stupid. It's made as much sense as it's going to make at that point. He goes on for another 90 seconds, never really approaching a cogent point, but Roy Wood Jr. posted that clip and said, he was like, I don't know

about being in the Senate, but I watched this shit in a comedy club, and then that night, Roy went up on stage and opened his set with just doing this. Yeah, that's great. So, yeah, love Roy. Yeah, what the hell? Yeah. He's got a future in stand-up if he shifts gears.

So the thing is like, so the movie is talking about Fright Night. There's been two versions of it. I'm not sure whether he was watching the 1985 version, the 2011 version. But anyway, there's no fucking werewolves in it. So I don't know what he's talking about. But so. Maybe it was like Twilight or something. He just got the name totally wrong.

You know what I mean? Or one of the underworld movies. So I'm giving Herschel a little too much credit here probably. But did he just invent a werewolf? I don't know. Maybe we got the wrong movie. Yeah, werewolves did kill vampires. Maybe he took a diversion into another movie for a second.

Because in Underworld, yeah, it's a bet so about a war between vampires and werewolves. But he wasn't about frightening because the point he's trying to make it. I had to go find the print version like a, like, and read it to decipher it like try to like diagram his senses and shit so the climax of fright night is they try to kill a vampire of like holy water and a cross and it doesn't work because the guy trying to do it is a non-believer but when he gives the holy water and the cross to a believer it works and we're able to kill the vampire through the power of christ right okay so he's saying that you gotta have faith yeah yeah that's the point he's trying to make if you listen to all two and a half minutes and bang your head against a uh a rock for like three or four times before you listen to it. Yeah, you got to have faith. He's like, was Brings me to another point.

You guys heard this band Limp Biscuit. Well, they had a great cover song all about illustrating this point and the importance of having faith. And as I listen to Fred Durs, very intelligent, man, I realize that, you know,

this is a message we need to spread out here. And I'm aware of that song, like I said, as a cover, but, you know, we're sticking with it. He's on the reboots. He's watching the later editions.

So it's consistent. I know what I'm doing. Yeah, you probably do it. And you know, like Fred, I also did it all for the nooky, but anyway. All right.

Next, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is the government of Arizona for not listening to this clearly sane man. Let's hear this impassioned plea. Once again, the eyes of the world are upon Maricopa County for another botched election. Am I here to accuse you of stealing the vote? Heavens no, for that would make me a terrorist, wouldn't it? Let me ask you, if you took your life savings to a bank, and the teller put them in a machine,

and the machine kicked out one out of four of your bills, and the teller said, don't worry, we'll put them in box three over here, and we'll let you know how many were in there later. We'll send them off to a separate location, and someone will be sure to get back to you and tell you how much money you have. Would you be okay with that? So I do as well, I wanted to talk about this guy for a couple reasons. One, he's a returning champion.

You're not like hallucinating. I thought I had like Mandela effect for a second because we've talked about this guy before. He was in San Diego last year, screaming about vaccines at the city council meeting in the exact same haircut and the exact same shirt. So he really. Yeah, well, that's his, that's his, you know, town hall shirt or whatever. That's what that's the shirt. He has let everybody know that, you know, He's on the side of liberty and or statues when he's going to go and try to speak his, you know, truth to power.

Yeah. So the good news about this election is so far, the only one's screaming fraud are guys like this and not like low-ta-fascists. So that's good. It's Carrey Lakes, like, edged up to it, but then kind of pulled back. And now she's pivoted to running for vice president. So, but like, so this particular meeting, I think it was this one. Maricopa County has fucked up their rules for public debate. So I guess everyone gets three minutes.

but it can also pass your three minutes along to another speaker. So everybody signed up, then gave all their minutes to one guy who talked for like 45 minutes, to sound exactly like this guy. So it's just like, yeah. And also they're saying that even the Maricopa County Board has no jurisdiction because the elections in which they won were also rigged. So apparently there's no government Maricopa. So this guy is declared himself emperor and says they have to have a new election.

There you go. So, yeah, well, this is, this is, you know, barely relevant. This is an aside, but this dude looks a lot like a guy that I lived beside in college. He lived in the apartment next to us. And that guy, he introduced himself and, you know, we called him by that name for the whole time we lived there. And then we found out like two years after we had moved as we ran into him at a bar with some other people that that was never his name. He just made up a name just for us to call him. I don't know if he just always wanted that name or something.

You know what I mean? but yeah, come to find out wasn't even a little bit of his name. So it could be this guy, actually. You know, maybe he moved out west. It does occur to me that like one downside of legalizing weeds that stops being in agricultural things. These guys don't have a personality anymore,

so they've got to find something else to do. Yeah, he's also, he's another example of like, who was it that did some shit on the, oh, it was the Nancy Pelosi's husband, the attacker or whatever. And they were like, we're supposed to believe this guy. guy's right wing he's a nudist and he whatever the other shit that he did and it's like this guy's another example of this of that I feel like where it's like you know he's a white guy with dreadlocks

clearly super in the pot you know but they can be right wing loonies too you know stop stereotyping everybody can be a dumb ass okay every every conspiracy theory ends up being anti-semitism and then that only has one political home and it's on the right um so related we're talking about election uh election denier stuff this is in dallas this is in texas he's got in dallas who thinks that dallas city council elections are raided for democrats which is funny because like all cities dallas is pretty liberal but the right has a new election fraud expert one who was once busted for illegally filming people in his bathroom oh stand-up guy it's even we're going to get to that in a second so so where this goes is this guy posted a video to rumble all right which is like the right

wing YouTube. He's trying to call for a delay in the certification of a midterm vote because they have video footage filmed by somebody who worked the election that shows the check-in people, the number of people had voted jumped after the polls closed or it's just a computer glitch or whatever. Just sort of they hit enter and it tagulated in whatever the spreadsheet program they were using. But anyway, this guy named Kevin Monclough, M-O-N-C-L-A, sorry if I'm saying that wrong, is the

guy running this campaign. And he's trying to raise, he's trying to raise money, of course, to crowd fund his investigation. I think he set his target for $200,000. He's got $20,000 so far. So good luck with that, Kevin. I hope you, good luck headed towards jail. So the backstory here, so he had to pay $3 million for filming people in his bathroom. The prosecutor said he found no criminal evidence, even though he filmed children in there,

which is fucking weird. So it was his own bathroom, and the videos he kept were of his then-wife. he was filming his own wife in the bathroom. You remember the line for the first Star Star Wars movie, like a wretches, was it? There's never been such a wretched hive of scum and villainy or something like that. I'm sure the nerds could correct this, yeah, but it's something like that. The modern Republican Party, there is no genre pervert that isn't there. Every time, dude, these dudes that are always like the face of these various, you know,

lunatic movements or whatever, and I guess it isn't shocking, but every time they've got some wild shit in their background. It's almost like they're fucking crazy. You don't need to set up a video camera to see your wife naked in theory. In theory, you get to see your wife naked a decent amount when you're married, even just walking around the house, right? So I don't even know what the fuck this guy's doing. He probably was in just like some poop or pee play and she wouldn't do it. She's like, oh boy, I got the phone with him. So anyway, he got caught because let me quote here

his then wife found a box of videotapes of herself peeing and pooping along with like neighborhood kids and stuff and I guess that's a good way to turn your wife into a then wife it's a good for her I know she is yeah

don't phone people in the bathroom even if you're married to them it's a good rule general rule of thumb I'm comfortable taking that stance with you Mark I agree our final final honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is carrot top for not being able to top

This shit. This is Joni Ernst talking about gas prices and Thanksgiving and stuff. Yeah. The chairman of the Democrats Congressional Campaign Committee said families struggling with these rising prices should eat chef boyardee. That's what he said. If that is the Democratic. Democrat solution. Boy, are we cooked?

Chef Boy, are deep? My God. It's like, any time it's like, she thought that was going to kill, I think. It's like, this is what, why did we, you know, at what point in their meeting was like, we need, we need to, you know what we need to know what this speech needs some prop comedy. That's what we've got to get to. Somebody, like somebody mocked that up, brought it out there, and just, the level of pride with which she presents that you know she's like you get it huh boy are we cooked

right it's not even a it's not even a can they make cans that size she could use for a prop she used like a whole weight protein powder yeah yeah so like i don't even know what the fuck she's doing but these in congress people love props in the floor of the senate so what she's talking about is Sean Patrick maloney who we talked about last week because he uh he's he's he's the D triple C leader who bubble fucked away his own election after pushing out of progressive um He did say, he was saying that when his gas prices went up, when he was a kid, his family was struggling to get to get by, they would eat chef, Yardee. And now that part is fine.

That's not let them eat cake. He's just talking about how his family went through hard times. But then he said, that's what families have to do. And that approach is let them eat cake territory. Anyway, I'm not going to defend Sean Patrick Maloney's. I'm not a fan. But God, Dirty Ernst sucks. Yeah.

All right. Well, let's get into it as we reference. step top, as you all are surely aware. There was another mass shooting. Gunman killed five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. And, you know, so it's time to have another reasoned conversation about the machinations behind that and what we can do as a people to help and move forward into a world in which things like this never happen again, right? Truly, truly, surely the outcome. We're talking a little bit about the shooting itself. I'm sure everyone's familiar with that now, but then all the court, the, the politics that led to it and why they

won't relent on this shit, even though it's a losing, losing cause for them. So yeah, just before midnight Saturday, uh, this dipshit, 22 year old, uh, in a tactical gear with a, an AR 15 and a sidearm, entered a nightclub and shot a bunch of people, killed at least five, and I think injured at least 25 others. I killed, yeah, I killed five. I think five are dead so far, excuse me. I don't think anybody else is going to die, but I don't know that for sure, but 25, yeah, I shot 25 other people until some people with the nightclub tackled him and stopped and we're talking about them in a minute um at first i want to flag this for a second because the beginning the first couple of days reports said the motive for the club cube mass shooting was unclear and i don't

i don't really want to like say that media shouldn't do this because you should always be cautious because nobody needs to be in a hurry about this stuff the guy's in custody we don't need to be in a hurry to have a political fight about a tragedy right um but i want to come back to that in a minute because it was pretty observably clear what he was up to just by who he was, but we'll get to that in a second. So he was today charged with five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of bias-motivated crime, which other states are called hate crimes, causing bodily injury. So again, yeah, the motive for the club cue mass shooter was unclear. The guy, he's the grandson of a longtime East County politician who's a Republican. not just any Republican.

He's been around for a long time. He's represented the 71st District since 2016. He served the city city council and was the mayor for two decades. There was a well-known political figure in the area. And last year, vocal faced criticism after he compared January 6th to the American Revolutionary War. This is Lexington and Concord. First shots fired against tyranny. Tyranny will follow in the aftermath of Biden swearing on the 20th.

And then a couple days later, he says comments were misconstrued. I don't know how the fuck you've been. What other, like, interpretation of that could there be? But it's always, that's always the go-to after it. That's almost like, you know, getting, saying you were hacked after, you know, you accidentally retweet some porn or whatever. It's like, calling your comments misconstrued when they were just very explicitly the exact type of shit you're always spouting. Yeah. And maybe it'll come out that, like, like, I'm not saying every grandson shares the grandfather's politics.

I certainly didn't share my grandpothers. but like but the the the when you're when your grandfather is in the fascist hate business and then you go into the fascist hate business it's clear to assume your motivation is fascist hate right you can pretty much throw up to that string there it's a family business um so a couple things about this guy uh he had a he had what should have been a bad criminal history all right a year and a half before he was arrested in the nightclub um the guy's name is anderson lee aldrich he allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forced his neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad

and crisis negotiators talked to him into surrendering. Yet despite that scare, there's no public record that prosecutors move forward with felony kidnapping and medicine charges against Aldrich, or the police or relatives tried to trigger Caliphotter's red flag law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons to ammo the man's mother says he had with him. I mean,

what, like, why? What's the point of having, you know, laws like that one, a red flag? Like,

if that ain't a red flag, how much redder does a fucking flag need to be you know what i mean like he like listen to this like it wasn't just like so i imagine he didn't get charged because his grandfather's a fucking mayor but like yeah probably uh so maybe there was no flag to wave because they fucking pull it back from charging him but here's like CNN got a hold of a video of he shot of his own his cell phone camera um of the standoff and he's he's telling the camera i've got the fucking shit heads outside Look at that. They've got a beat on me.

You fucking see that right there. Fucking shitheads got their fucking rifles out. If they breach, I'm going to fucking blow it to holy hell. He has the video of what seems like a message is law enforcement outside. So go ahead and come in, boys. Let's fucking see it. This guy didn't get charged. Right.

I read a news story the other day where a mom, she got charged with child abuse for letting her kid walk home from his friend's house half a mile away. Right. What the fuck country is this? Was that mom's papal the mayor, Mark? Yeah, no, yeah, that's fucking crazy. It's like, oh, it's just a phase. Where boys will be boys, you know,

threatening to blow up their mom in the neighborhood and stuff. Yeah, no, it's ridiculous. So before we get to the politics, though, for a second, I want to talk about the heroes because they deserve it. A couple people saved a lot of lives at night. The Times had a sort of profile slash TikTok of the shooting with an interview with the main guy who took down the shooter. His name is Richard Fierro.

He's an army veteran in Marit here. In Iraq and Afghanistan, he'd been shot at, seen roadside bombs shred trucks in his platoon and lost friends. He was twice awarded the Bronze Star. Okay, so did his service to the country and

he's been through combat before, so he didn't freeze. And the thing to know here is he has PTSD, pretty bad. One of the reasons he was out that night, He was there with his wife, daughter, and her boyfriend there to support one of his daughter's high school friends was dancing in the drag show. So it's like a nice family fun night out doing campy shit. And he has a hard time of crowds. So he really had to gas himself up to go there because he has hypervigilance from being in the war.

Like he doesn't like he's just nervous around other people and objects he can't keep his eye on and shit like that. But he said he wanted to go watch one of his daughter's friends to perform. And I would read this quote here. These kids want to live that way. They want to have a good time. Have at it. I'm happy about it because that is what I fought for so they can do whatever the hell they want.

Yes. I mean, that's not, I'm not trying to draw. There's no connection to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our personal freedoms. That's fucking gassed up bullshit, but the guy did his service and he didn't make the decision to go to war. So the guy came in started shooting and he ran over and grabbed it by the back of his tactical gear,

threw him to the ground, kicked the long gun around, and took his pistol away from him and started beating him in the head with it. And then I'm a quote from the story everything say why it's probably wrong, but it says a drag dancer is passing by. Mr. Friero said he ordered her to stop the attack where they're high heels, which is a, yeah, fucking stop his ass. And he kept pumice in the shooter. He thought he'd killed the guy. The drag dancer thing, I saw some pushback from the community there that said that it wasn't a drag dancer or was a, it was a trans woman. Now, I'm not sure the time he got that quote. It could have

got him from Fierro himself. We just didn't understand the identity of the person doing the attack. Anyway, if it did come from Fierro, I think his heart's in the right place, and you all agree. all people want to do is if you're politely asked what they want to be called and then call them that. It's so easy the cops did it in the shooting. They announced the deaths and the victims by what they identify ass,

not some dickhead shit by their fucking driver's license or birth names. Anyway, CNN had an interview with Fierro last night. I thought it was worth watching a little bit of it. Yep. All right. Hit it, Matt. Remember you got it. Interview with Mr. Fierro here.

Well, Matt's trying to pull that up, I suppose. Here it comes. Now I'm just trying to fill the air. Yeah, it's a harrowing account and some wild, wild shit. I have thoughts on this guy and all of it here in just a second. It may not even have been a window left. But I saw a lot of people, and this guy was there, and I saw the ACU pattern flag fest. And for me, that was like, there's a handle.

I'm getting it. So I ran across the room, grabbed the handle. pulled him down and then started to uh well actually i think i went for his gun with him his rifle flew in front of him um and the young man that tried to jump in there with me um he he we both either pulled him down or whatever but he ended up at his head uh and right next to the ar and then with the ar he we i told him push the ar get the air away from him the kid pushed the ar i i don't know what his name was. And then I proceeded to take his other weapon, the pistol, and then just start hitting him at where I could, but the armor's in the way. And I just started, I found a crease

between his armor and his head, and I just started wailing away with his gun. And then I told the kid in front of me, kick him, keep kicking him. And I was, I was guided, but I was telling people, call 911, call 911. I brought him down. I, I, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, was in mode. I was doing what I did. I do down range, you know. I train for this. I don't want to ever do this. I didn't even retire because I was just, I was done doing this stuff. It was too much. And I, I'm, you know, it came in handy. And I got to protect my, my kid. I lost my kid's boyfriend. I tried. I tried to have everybody in there. I still feel bad that there's five people that. There's five people that didn't go home.

All right, you can cut it, Matt. Yeah, pretty rough. I hate that he feels, you know, bad. I mean, obviously, anybody would feel bad, but I'm saying it's sad. But, like, so here, this, first of all, I used to work with a vet who every time of mass shooting happened, he would talk about how, like, if he was there, he would have stopped it or whatever. And he does that, that do is sort of a blowhard or whatever. But, you know, obviously, I'm glad that actually happened this time.

but what pisses me off already is I don't know if you've seen it, but some of the right wing dipshits on Twitter and stuff have already started pointing to this as like, you know, some kind of false flyer or some kind of bullshit indicator. Like I saw one of them, like a pretty prominent one that Jack Possepiac or however the hell you say his name. He said earlier, he was like, we're just supposed to just believe that a U.S. Army veteran was in a gay nightclub at a drag show.

Okay. And it's like, yeah, because, you know, real man don't, you know, show an interest in their daughter's life and try to enjoy things as a family because, you know, and broaden their horizons and are secure enough in their sexuality to do something with their family without being fucking threatened by any of it, you know, like it's just, it's like the,

like we're saying earlier with the guy that attacked Pelosi. It's like, ah, he got naked and did yoga. Can't be one of us. This guy like, you know, was in the army and it's a badass.

So obviously he can't be on their side. although like what's the fucking sides in a mass shooting you know what I'm saying like it's all just so fucking gross but also predictable this is just the most American thing to ever happen you got a mass shooting uh you got uh hate you got people choosing political sides as if one side's right as a like you said it shouldn't be two sides it should be everybody in the world against this one fucking asshole right um you got uh a guy utterly broken by war who didn't want to ever do it again who had to you got and then they get when the cops got there mass shootings are chaotic it's hard to piece together what's happening when you

show up on scene right that's when you don't want everybody having guns because you want to do the good guys or bad guys are right but they they uh fiero they cuff him but he's covered in blood and put him in the back of a cop car and he doesn't know if his family's alive they left him there for an hour so you also you could say racism right it's like everything popped up in this you want to say the pro-american side is like our individual do it, do it yourself, badass sort of mythology does lead people to charge into situations like where they otherwise wouldn't find the rectitude to do it, like flight 93 on that 11, for example. So like, which that's a fascinating story.

They hijacked the wrong flight, basically half the people on that flight new karate under a bunch of military veterans. So they fucked up on that day. That's the positive side of America. But like it's everything wrapped up in once. And before we get the politics of it, I want to talk about free speech for a second because no one really knows what it is anymore. And I'm a pretty much, I'm a free speech absolutist.

I consider myself literally a car carrier member of the ACLU. But like, so we're talking about Kyrie Irving for a second. I'll promise I'll make this connect. So Kyra Eving is a basketball player for New York Nets. And he got in some hot water a couple weeks ago because he posted a video link to it, horrifically anti-Semitic documentary on Amazon with no comment. And he was asked about it. He said he was just asking questions, even though the documentary says the Holocaust was exaggerated

in any way black people, the real is. Israelites yada yada yada um and then he's acting like he's like don't treat me like what i say is important i'm just like a fucking posting shit but you have like millions of followers and you it's a responsibility whether you want it or not you can literally just say nothing no one made you post it you can keep your fucking mouth shut it also that's been an ongoing thing with him his whole career i feel like he's like also a flat earther but he tried to be like a you know a hero for the anti-vaxxers during covid and everything like he's always been a like you know i stand up for what I believe and everything he believes seems to be horrifically stupid.

Yeah, he's just like a spiritually seeking dude. I think he said three different religions in the last three years. He just, like, wonders about a bunch of stuff, and he's not smart enough to think through stuff where he says it out loud. Anyway, so like yesterday, predictably, like hundreds of Hebrew black Israelites, which are considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, showed up outside the Barclays Center to distribute a bunch of anti-Semitic literature, which is, like I said, completely foreseeable. So you can't say your words don't have an impact and literally got a bunch of anti-Semites to show up at your game, right?

You did that. You can take responsibility or not, but you can't. That's my free speech right to say, fuck you for doing that, right? And then today he gives a quote where he says, I just want to be able to say what I want and not have a big backlash to it. So he wants free speech, but the rest of it can't call it a dipshit. Exactly. Right. The people who have the backlash, they shouldn't have free speech because, right.

But both your bullshit and the backlash are both free speech. Yeah. So the right's been trying to gin up all this fucking stochastic terrorism, which is what it is. And every time it happens, they act like the rhetoric does not connect to the real world. Like it's just pretty. But like just a couple of incidents from the last few years. After Trump elevated anti-immigrant anti-Latina rhetoric, we had the deadliest anti-Latino shooting in modern history, which is El Paso. After general rise and racist rhetoric, we had Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal.

after anti-Asian hate with COVID Atlanta and because of weird conspiracy theories connecting immigration with anti-Semitism give the tree of life shooting and the Buffalo shooting right, the mass shootings. And now after an anti-LGB Plus campaign, you get Colorado Springs which brings me to Lauren Bober because

she posted typical thoughts and prayers because she's in Colorado. Not far from Colorado Springs, I don't think, but I don't know my Colorado geography that well. But like, so she posts her thoughts and prayers thing about the shooting, but she's been calling all of her social media called people groomers and saying we need to cancel drag shows. Right. Those are a danger to children. Right.

For two years, two and a half years. Yeah. I mean, when you literally talk all the time about how basically anybody in the community is a groomer and a pedophile and they're dangerous to kids and your whole thing is being like, somebody thinking that we've got to protect the children. The children are precious and all that shit. And you just keep that going and going. You can't be surprised when somebody decides to, you know, I'm going to do something about it. Like it makes those people a target.

Like it's a direct result. of the shit that you say. Like, you can't, you can't dehumanize people repeatedly like that and vilify them for fucking nothing. And then, you know, act shocked when an armed lunatic sees them as the villain in their own fucking, you know, heroic tale or whatever and does some crazy shit. I mean, it's just like, they're not going to fucking pull back.

So it leads up to the rest of us to tell, to make it clear that they're fucking assholes who don't represent. most of us, and to express ourselves the ballot box, which we sort of did last Tuesday, a week ago Tuesday. But what we're on the subject of free speech and how idiots don't understand it? Let's talk about Elon Musk for a second.

Because he spent all weekend reinstating a bunch of anti-trans activists. We're talking guys you might have heard of, like James Lindsay and Jordan Peterson, who fashioned themselves academics. Lives of TikTok had been sort of banned, but his guy, lives of TikTok if you're not aware, is a super

popular social media account across all platforms that just takes videos that like trans people or teachers with blue hair film talking about being nice to gay people and makes them mega viral and makes them targets the point where people chased out of their homes and a lot of her content this latest content goes straight to Tucker Carlson's shows it's seen by millions and millions of people um and also okay groomer was back trending on Twitter over the weekend um so yeah fuck Elon because these people just think they're playing and they're not playing And not for nothing,

Elon has a personal connection to this issue because he has a transgender daughter who doesn't speak to him, which I think might be a factor in all this. And he says he lost his connection to his daughter because of neo-Marxists. Yeah. And he doesn't,

he just, this guy absolutely fucking sucks. And these people just do this stuff and they fuck around with other people's lives and they don't take any sort of responsibility for. It's never their fault. They never just shut the fuck up. And we're getting ready to watch this video from Fox News. It's a compilation of shit they've been saying recently.

And think about if you're not trying to get people killed, what is this stuff for? Right. Yeah? Yeah, hit it, mad. ...usted in sexualizing children, and unfortunately, some people are, what would you do? You might have a drag queen story hour. If you don't see that as teetering on the edge of losing civilization, then you and I just disagree.

Harnicious and sick drag queen story hours. Lips of TikTok, one of the most informative accounts on Twitter. And because it is so informative, it keeps getting banned. Adult male, putting on women's clothing and dancing and talking about sexual themes with other people's children. Drag queen's story time. Don't want them in preschool, teaching them to twerk. Why would any parent allow their child to be sexualized by an adult man with a fetish

for kids? sort of pedophilic. But that literally ends with him saying this one guy who's on Tucker's show says, people need to arm themselves with information or whatever. And Tucker's like, people need to arm themselves. That's for sure. I agree with that. Yeah, because if you think there's an organized pedophile grooming operation down the street,

you might want to take a gun and go try to shut it down, right? Right. Like if you're prone to vigilante stuff, because that would be horrific if that was true, it's just not fucking true. This drag show is happening at midnight There are no kids there But they just love shit that, you know, freaks them out Like freaks the base out

Stuff that they're afraid of That makes them mad and uncomfortable And all that stuff It's just like, you know It keeps them in the type of mode That they generally want them in And it's like in transgender people For the past few years now

It's been like that new hot thing Now it's, you know, furries too or whatever But it's always something You know, they gotta have their buggy man Got to The thing that kills me about this and why is it responsible up to the responsibility of the other 70% of us who were saying it's like these people aren't pulling back from it even though it doesn't have any sort of

electoral effect in their direction we just had a national referendum about stuff like this about litter boxes and trans panic and abortion access and this sort of connects we talked about the top of the show with like what's going on in tennessee and abortion but like how can you see what's happening electorally and still think we're a democracy and keep pushing forward these horrifically unpopular shit that makes everyone hate you Like, they're in such a bubble they think they're popular. And that's truly fucking frightening. It's just going to be elections.

Elections are the only thing they're going to stop them. And, like, I saw this polling the other day. It's not great about trans stuff, but I thought it was pretty interesting. Hating trans people's underwater, even among Republicans. Not huge underwater. It's like people that are, I think greater acceptance of transgender people is very or somewhat bad, adds up to, like, corn in this graph, like, 47%. but that's not like if you're voting a Republican like you're preaching to the choir on this stuff anyway

so like what do you what's to gain out of it it just feels good to hate you know and they're absolutely not going to pull back and I know they're not because Hershey Walker put out this ad in the run up to the runoff after the shooting if you got it Matt play all right there we go

I'm NCAA All-American and I'm Herschel Walker for more than a decade I worked so hard 4 a.m. practices to be the best but my senior year I was forced to compete against a biological male some fair in Rome a man won the swimming ball that belonged to a woman

and Senator Warnock voted to let it happen why not's afraid to stand up for female athletes Herschel Walker stands up for what's right. I'm Herschel worker, and I'm proud to approve. So, like, first of it, you've said it before, but them acting like they give a shit about women's sports is so hilarious. Like, name two of WMBA players, anybody who's pissed off about this shit.

Also, that they spend so much time and effort and attention on this, when it's like, wonder how many actual relevant cases of this there are across the whole country, let alone in any given state, you know what I mean? It's like fucking two, three, and then there's, talking about this. Like, no, thank, you know, this will surely help with inflation and gas prices, spending time, you know, taxpayer resources and efforts on this. For what? For nothing? Just because people are freaked out. And I'm not sure what the government's supposed to do about it. Also, don't know what he means by Reverend Warnock voted for to have men

compete in women sports. That's just, that feels like it's just made up horseshit out of nowhere. I don't know if the federal government wouldn't, let me be voting on Title IX funding or something with some rude language in it. But anyway, we don't know. I don't need to show the next video, Matt, because Herschel did another speech yesterday where he made it all about how, how mad he was about men identifying as women, right? And it feels weird to be, like, I'm trying to imagine being a trans person and see that graph in the poll I just put up. Like, why are people voting on whether you being accepted as good or bad? Like, we shouldn't, we shouldn't be doing, like, we shouldn't be doing this, have to do this episode or whatever, because, like, it shouldn't be, like, up for a debate. it shouldn't be a political issue whether people exist or not.

It's just fucking gross all the way down. And just another more examples about whether they're not pulling back from this. The new Florida Speaker of the House named Paul Renner was accepted his designation today and he spent half of his speech talking about drag queen story time. And a Texas state representative

just filed legislation that requires any business that hosts drag shows, in air quotes, to be listed as sexually oriented businesses there by preventing children from legally entering. We're talking about guys dressed up like, you know, bugs, bunny, dressed as a girl bunny, reading stories at a library.

There's nothing's remotely fucking sexual. Maybe the books are about acceptance, but like, why are you, most children's books are about acceptance. Charlie Brown was about acceptance of being sad. Sesame Street was about differences. Mr. Rogers,

during the Civil Rights Movement, watched the black guys' feet on a show. Like, it's like, the children's shows have always been a bit woke. I mean, we talked about before on here, but we had a drag show

as part of the Relay for Life. And when I was in high school, being all my buddies, like they you know it was like the main event was the teen boys drag show and it was like every great fun huge hit everybody loved it you know every but then they were told to be terrified by that sort of thing and now you know you can't have it but um but yeah one last thing before we get to the comments like um this panic is getting so fucking dumb i read this story yesterday uh titled the right wing mothers fueling the school board wars and here's an

anecdote from the story about the books they're trying to get rid of, a picture book about seahorses, which touched on everything from their ability to change color to independent movement of their eyes, which threatened to normalize that males can get pregnant by explaining that male seahorses get birth. I don't know what to tell you, man, male seahorses get birth. Right. It's not a political issue. It's just a thing that exists in the world, but they say that allowing kids to learn a fact about seahorses that the male gives birth, that that could normalize the idea that males can get pregnant and serves as a covert endorsement of gender fluidity. That is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard.

Well, so far, anyway. Yeah. They also were trying to stop the teaching of Greco-Roman myths, nudity and cannibalism. And the takeaway from this is like, Venus emerges naked from the sea in Greco-Roman mythology. And Tantalus cooks his son, so therefore that's cannibalism. I mean, dude, the Greek myths, that shit is wild for sure. Very metal. But, like, it's super metal and kids love it.

Like, Mike, you know, I was super into that shit. When I was younger, my sons are into, they're, you know, they like some of that mythology stuff too, because it's fucking wild and crazy. And it doesn't make you insane. All right, Matt, let's find some questions and comments and whatnot. Thanksgiving, Mark, y'all, uh, y'all go anywhere? Is it just the two of you at home where you do? We have a couple friends over, watch the Cowboys game.

My wife's going to do a lot of cooking. I'd do a little bit of cooking. We invited Drew and his wife, but they said they'd rather stay at home alone instead, which is very true. Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah. For a past looking for comments, I wanted to take a little bit of a victory lap because Peter Thiel's anti-Woke Bank, which you talked about a while back, went under today or yesterday.

It's called Gloria FI, with FI spelled FI like finance. And the statement, the CEO put out about how they're while they're going to the business, She cited the financial challenges way to the startup mistakes, the failing economy, reputational attacks and multiple negative stories took their toll. I'm assuming she's talking about the CEO would like to get drunk and yell at people at work. But I'm going to take that as we did it, right? Yeah. Debbie Lynn Robinson on Facebook says, hit that like button.

Thank you, Debbie Lynn. Yeah, like and subscribe, everybody. Smash it. Smash the button as you do. It's a button on the internet. You got to smash it. But yeah, go anti-woke, go broke, evidently. How about that?

That's fun. Terminal 3 on YouTube says Elon isn't playing to anything. He's just trying to get people talking about Twitter and using it. I don't know, man. I think he's in a right-wing bubble, which believes, like, you can go, you can go, like, first of all, he appears, in theory runs three companies, but he tweets 75 times a day. I'm not exaggerating somebody to the math. You can go look at he's talking to on Twitter. It's Nesh D'Susa.

I got a right-wing psycho named Cat Turd. The CEO of Twitter spends his whole day talking to cat turd on Twitter. Cat turd, yeah. It's like, it's a bunch of psychos, man. I think he's going to, I think he's been radicalized because those are the people who tell him is cool and smart and funny. I saw he had a tweet where he said, you know, it's because he's done that because he realized that the left had grown too divisive and hateful. Or something, I'm paraphrasing, but it was something very close to that. And it's like, yeah, all right.

Kim Cousado, long time watcher and also a patron. Be like Kim, Kim, everybody. but did y'all lose anything in the crypto crash now again i don't even i still i never understood it still don't understand it and thus i never waited into those waters and i guess it worked out does it still exist like like it's still a thing it's just the bottom fell out of it or whatever well now's the time to buy mark you got to get in there f on the ground floor it'll come out FTX had started making their own coin, but basically, Friedman was a crypto skeptic. He was like, I'm not really going to get into crypto, but he ran a crypto bank.

So it wasn't like he was making money. He was the bank. He was just, he was the exchange. Just like the old thing was a gold rush, don't, the people get rich or people find gold that is the people sell on the shelves. He was selling the shovels. But yeah, he did, he stole the money out of the crypto wallets and tried to put it back in the real economy, make money off of. And then people found out. And that was not good.

Just Jucka on YouTube says, I'm annoyed with the professional finance people surprised by Musk's behavior, as though this isn't how he's always been. Yeah. The man's been good at sales, man. I mean, Tesla stocks down, like, I think, 50%. It's like a trillion dollars in market value just because people are realizing you stupid, because the whole valuation of Twitter was just based on his reputation.

So, I mean, the whole value of Tesla, sorry, it was just based on his reputation. So that's through the floor. It's very interesting. This is also a long-time viewer who's Nikon Kalopekam Something like that on YouTube, sorry, Nikon Says Thoughts on Fox. Yeah.

What are you thinking? Thoughts on thoughts walking away from Trump. We'll see if they actually do it when it comes down to actually pushing people to do stuff, like vote. But I don't think they can quit it, man. Like, he controls all their viewers. It really is an interesting type of war, but I don't know if, like, they are pushing, they're not really turning against Trump. They're just pushing DeSantis a lot.

Right. So if it ended up being Trump, they'd just go back to pushing Trump, you think, but they're on team DeSantis right now. Again, that whole that, that little battle right there is going to be some wild shit to watch, I think. I also, I just look forward to the shit talking, you know, the stuff that Trump comes up with to say it'll all be, you know, middle school. fucking playground dumb shit, but that'll be funny, seeing that. He's going to, they're going to spend like $300 million, prop it up

Rod DeSantis's campaign. It's going to get to the first debate. Trump's going to call him, like I think somebody other suggested calling him Miss Florida, and it's going to ruin his fucking life. Nicon again, says, is there any hope after the midterms? Yeah. We talked about it. Yeah. Now, I think that like

it seemed like a repudiation of the most hardcore version of their ideology at the very least and there isn't a bunch of crazy election denial and stuff that's encouraging but also if it makes them sort of you know pivot at least a little bit back in the other direction they'll still suck but it'll be better than you know the alternative so yeah i think there's that we've talked about it a bunch but like the uh uh the election machinery was protected like they most the QAnon candidates lost the election liars lost and the places they lost where the places the were most dangerous, like your swing states.

So that was good. J.T. Norton on Facebook says the rail strike is back in the news. Membership turned down the deal for good reasons. Any thoughts? I don't know. I'm not up on it, unfortunately. I assume you are, Mark. Go ahead.

Yeah, I was reading about it today. We talked about it a while back. If you guys aren't familiar or miss that episode, like they did, the railroad workers are striking because they've cut staff so much that the railroad's trying to put one guy up for train. So like, let's say a trade pulling nuclear waste is one guy. He falls asleep for as a heart attack. That's not good.

But also the scheduling is so tight the guys don't get days off. They have zero sick days per year. And you have to schedule your unpaid sick days in advance. You get fired. So you've got to get a plan ahead to get sick. Yada, yada, yada. Anyway, they won in 15 days. The rabbit wanted to keep giving them zero and not give them any time, let them schedule time off

or give them an advance notice for their ships. And the Biden administration suggested compromise position was one sick day. Not great, Joe. I will say in Biden's defense, he has not made any noise about using the government to break the strike. So that's good. He still remains America's most pro-labor president. He suggests to the compromise position of one sick day. One sick day.

Yeah. As the middle point between zero and 15. Yeah. Ain't that America. All right. Well, once again, y'all go to traycrouter.com. Check out my tour dates. Come and see me.

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