Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 1/17/23 – All Gassed Up

Episode Date: January 18, 2023

For tonight's show we'll be saddling up and preparing to take everyone's gas stoves with the use of righteous force, just like we did with guns and bibles and stuff. Should be fun.Support the show

Hey everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's January 17th, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark A.G. What's up, Mark? Go Cowboys. Fun hanging out last night, bud. Yeah. Thanks for coming out to console me if they lost, but it was a fun hang. Don't worry. We won't tell football. It doesn't hit for you guys. Because, so before we get to the show, one thing today that I found absolutely infuriating, so Davos is going on that, you know, the yearly conference where all the world is super rich and powerful fly to Switzerland and private jets to talk about climate change. Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema are there for some reason.

They were on a panel today, and they were asked about why voting rights legislation didn't pass, and they talked about how they stopped the killing of the filibuster and then high I fived. And then Kristen Sinema referred to Kevin McCarthy as her good friend. So, yeah, I can't wait for that lady to go away. Another thing, Kissinger spoke there today about. How old is he? He's a little.

He's got to be ancient, right? Oh, yeah, they always do, those guys. He's almost 100. Yeah, like there's not hitters live forever. People with actual souls drug overdoses. That's the world we live in. So he was talking about how. his peace plan for Ukraine, and it was essentially for Ukraine to surrender.

So there you go. In case y'all forgotten Kissinger's greatest hits. I saw this today. Yale's, this historian at Yale named Greg Grandin estimates that Kissinger is responsible for, in part or a whole, between three or four million people's deaths, not just illegally bombing Cambodia, but, you know, supporting the Chilean military coup and Greenlight, Argentina is dirty war. where they kidnapped everyone to the left of Pinochet and tortured them and disappeared them. A Pakistani genocide. Like the guy's a monster. Anyway, tomorrow they got an exciting panel on the future of human rights.

So I hope he gets to speak to that too. Kisinger open for the human rights panel. You say it's supposed to be a climate change thing primarily. They talk about all sorts of. What does he have to do with that? They talk about everything. All sorts of global thing, including, like, you know, basically investment opportunities for the world's elite and how the masses political movements are getting in the way of them.

So that's sad for them. I'm sure that is annoying, probably. Yeah. Today's, the overarching theme this year is the polycrisis, which is their word for everything falling apart, which, as the world's most powerful people, they have no role in. It's just thinking they're going to. Like, yeah, everything's really bad and we don't know what we know. we don't understand what all the people are doing to make everything so bad. But I guess we should talk more about it.

We should just let's have a good talk. And then, you know, five-star hotel and then fuck off forever again. Yeah, a bunch of, you know, war mongers and oil company execs being like, what's the deal with climate change and all the, all the destabilization in the global south? What the hell happened there? Yeah. And they're like, these people are not recycling enough, you know, They're just not committed to taking shorter showers and shit like that.

Like, I'm not saying that people shouldn't do those things, but it's like the way that's been twisted and put on regular people so effectively, you know what I mean, while they just keep doing whatever the hell they want to do, the corporations and all that. And it's thrown the guilt onto all of us. Like, it's up to us to save the planet. And, you know, they have no part in it. Just a guy, you know, a Texaco exec with a bunch of endangered species heads hanging in his office being like, you guys are killing the polar bears. Also, I went on with this wild-ass story. So this guy who ran for a state rep, state house in New Mexico, he hired a bunch of dudes to shoot up Democrat politicians' houses. There were six houses that were shot at.

He apparently doesn't connect to the four of them. So maybe the other two were just carrie backfiring or somebody shooting there celebrating a college bowl game or something. But so he apparently printed out some stuff to prove that his election was stolen and tried to go to their houses and talk them about it. And when they wouldn't, he just paid these guys to shoot them up. Just shoot their houses. Was he like, I mean, was his plan to just, it's just like a reign of terror thing,

just scare them by shooting up their houses? or like it doesn't, you know, it doesn't seem like he was, like, if the plan was to assassinate them, they could have been, you know, probably could have drawn up something better. It seems like he was just, you know, committing a massive felony,

just for the fuck of it. And also being a lunatic, because, you know, that much is evident. Yeah, you stay trying to figure out the lunatic's thought process. Step one, shoot up Democrat kids' bedroom. step three assume office in the House of Representatives.

I don't think there is a step two question marks. Yeah, right. This guy's name is Solomon Pena. He's a big Trump supporter, obviously. He had a bunch of social media posts saying he stood with Trump, and that's why he wasn't, you know, conceding his election defeat. The really dumb part of this plan was the whole point of hiring somebody so you can have an alibi, right? But he went with them to the shooter.

Just trying to make a day of it. just have a nice boys' day shooting up people's houses. Yeah, that is weird to hire, you know, gunmen and then show up. And also, you probably were about to say this, but also, like, he, like, lent them his car, too, didn't he? Right? One of the gunmen got arrested driving that guy's car. So it's like, he wasn't, didn't exactly have all of his bases covered. Yeah, he also texted them the plans.

so he was always going to get caught. But beyond it being a Blinguong's buffoon and a dumbass, like they shot up one of the politicians, like the bullets entered the window of one of their kids' bedrooms. So it was like, this is the era of dangerous buffoons. Like, these guys are clowns and they're fun to laugh at, but it's always important to remember that fascists are always buffoons, man. Doesn't mean they're not murderous psychopaths.

Right. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you know, we're, you know, dunking on him for being a dipship. But obviously this is, you know, some pretty freaky stuff. of and exactly the type of thing that, you know, we're all worried about seeing more of. So, yeah, a little disconcerting, to say the least. Yeah.

Stop shooting at people's houses just because you politically disagree with them or because you made up. They don't even disagree about stuff. Like this guy couldn't, you couldn't tell this guy an actual political issue as an opinion on. He's just like a psycho who thinks his election was stole. Even though it was an old, warmly dim district, he lost in a landslide to a Democratic incumbent. Like, he never had a chance to begin with. He's just like, yeah. yeah all right well with us as always as producer matt this is weekly skews before we

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We hope you'll consider signing up, getting some more skews in your life. All right. As for the show tonight, it's time. once again, lefties for a big freedom roundup. That's right. They're enjoying far too much freedom on the right. We need to go out there and take some of it back.

I'm talking specifically about gas stoves. You know what to do. Get your buddy with a trailer, head out in the neighborhood, start yanking them ovens. You can get four or five in an afternoon, I think. If you got extra time, grab some of their guns too, two birds type of deal. You know, be efficient, be smart about it. Now, obviously, that's a ridiculous notion, but that's not stopping the right from treating it as a legitimate concern. We'll talk about all.

all that silly stuff. A little later, but first, of course, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., the deep state for allowing Marjorie Taylor Green onto the Homeland Security Committee, because now she can finally get to the bottom of 9-11. Hit it, Matt. By that time in our American history, we had had George Bush for eight years. We had 9-11.

sorry about that guy's call came in so I had to decline it um but we had witness 9-11 right we had witness 9-11 the terrorist attack um in new york and the plane that crashed in pennsylvania and the so-called plane that crashed into the pentagon it's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon but anyways i won't i'm not going to dive into the 9-11 conspiracy um by that time in our American his All right So go ahead All right

I want to rant about conspiracy theories here for a minute because 9-11 sort of like the it doesn't no one can come up

with a cause for why the deep state or whoever would do now like it doesn't make any fucking sense you do not you saw also

they could we could invade Iraq okay but we invaded Iraq a bunch of times already with no reason you don't need a and even that was wasn't like an actual reason for Iraq, you know what I mean?

They made up a whole other reason for Iraq, which had nothing to do with that shit. So yeah, yeah, I mean, I was curious what she, so like, where is she on the 9-11 conspiracy, like, spectrum? Like, what does she think? Does she think Bush did it? Because, like, I wouldn't, I mean, I'm doing that thing again. I know, you know, trying to, trying to make sense of it, sense of a nonsensical lonescy. But, yeah. Just think about it critically for, just think about critically for a second.

second, all right? If you're, to have caused us belly for the global war on terror or whatever, you did not need to do something as drastic as murder 3,000 people and destroy the most valuable real estate on the planet, which is essentially what the World Trade Center was, all right? And even after you did that, you did not need to take down two more planes and hit the Pentagon. And you definitely would not need to stage a missile attack on the Pentagon and say it's a plane. And also, like, the thing that really drives me crazy about conspiracy theories is they ignore the real fucking conspiracies that are on in the newspaper for example this late last week or earlier over the weekend moderna announced that they're jacking up the price of the

COVID vaccine right from $26 a dose to $130 a dose this is a vaccine that was paid for by $2.5 billion of government funding it's our money we on it they announced a jacket of the price which will basically be unless you're uninsured will only fuck your insurance company, but that's a whole other scam. But yeah, the, that's in the fucking newspaper. Get mad about that. Presumably, they're allowed to do that, knowing the government's going to do anything about it because of campaign contributions.

That's a conspiracy. That's right there in front of you. And instead of being mad about that, being mad about what's going on in Davos, you get mad about a fucking cartoonish thing you made up in your head, right? It makes me absolutely furious. Well, I think it's like they, You know, it allows them to think that, you know, they've got their eyes open while everybody else is asleep at the wheel. Like, we're all sheep and they're the only ones that are, you know, clued in to the grand hidden truth of things, I think is the appeal for these people or something.

But I mean, yeah, I remember, I think we talked about this before, but I can remember thinking like conspiracy theories were like, I don't know, like kind of neat. They were fun to talk about. I didn't believe any of them, but they were, like, easy to make fun of. And, like, they seemed, I felt relatively harmless, like, you know, moon landing shit and that type of stuff. And it was just kind of, you know, almost whimsical. And then in recent years, it's really just taking a real turn. And it's not at all fun anymore, at least for me. Yeah.

And then the real conspiracies, like, you observe, you can see right in front of you, they go, like, oh, so what do you think? and then they paint some elaborate picture like they did some cartoonish like 9-11. Like, no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying, I can watch you take a bribe and do something bad. That's exactly it. Anyway, this is my way I once wanted to talk about Marjorie Taylor Green me put on the whole man security committee

and how fucking crazy shit's going to get. They also did some fearmongering about Eric Swalwell, where, you know, he had some sort of like, I don't know, a woman who worked in his office who was accused to be in some sort of Asian for China, which he reported it and then she got important or whatever but they've turned to erics wall well into a chinese spy and and he got kicked off committees and he kevin mccarthy got asked about it today and McCarthy's like well if you had the fbi you know background report that i got

you wouldn't put him on committees either meanwhile the fbias publicly announced they don't suspect anything they just straight up fucking lying and also just wanted to talk about marjor taylor green to mention a daily beast story from a couple days ago about how marj marge marge and loren bolbert almost got in a fist fight in a bathroom at the Capitol. So that was fun. Yeah. Well, you know, somebody's got to be top crazy, right?

You got a fight for that crazy belt. Yeah. It can be only one, I guess. Did they say, was a winner announced? Like, did anybody, didn't one of them get the better of the other one? Or it was a stalemate? What happened? Well, Lauren ran away out of the bathroom.

So I think that was the end of it, which I would highly recommend because Marge does crossfit and is mean as hell, so I wouldn't want to fight her either. And that's while Lauren Bulwark carries a gun to where she goes, because she probably doesn't know crab maga or anything. Right. Yeah, but, yeah, Marge being on the Homeland Security Committee, it's like, you know, she going to have them looking into lasers and shit, presumably. Like, there wasn't any better committee. I mean, I don't want her on any committees, but that one seems particularly egregious. Yeah. I mean, speaking of conspiracy theories, if she, like, wants to make a bunch of DARPA, right, you know, the defense research and whatever, the people that did try to invent the weather machine, I mean, they really did try to make a weather machine. But, like, they did do it, of course. It's impossible. It's impossible. the men who stare at goats type shit.

Yeah, if she got those records public, that would really hit for me. And I would really enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah, I would like to see what all they're into. I bet they got murder bots and stuff going. Yeah.

It ain't no telling. All right, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbasses, all the boring assholes out there like me and Mark who've just had the same stupid name our whole entire lives. Watch this clip featuring George Santos. Or is it? Folks, another important speaker.

Another congressional nominee, George Santos. George, who we know as a friend, and he's known as Anthony DeVolder to me. I don't know where George Santos came into the thing, but that's what he says here. All right, you got that. So this guy's got caught line about so much shit. I don't even know where to begin. For example, there's another story today and get another video clip ready in your And you have a minute, Matt.

There's another story today about where a former friend of his, Santos slash DeVolder apparently started a go-fund me for his dying dog and then just stole all the money from it. Yeah. But in case you think this name slip thing is like some sort of like miscommunication, just check out though the man himself, Anthony George Santos, DeVolder, right here. My name is Anthony DeVolder. I recently founded a name called United for...

all right uh you think that maybe he was like like in his head he was like well i know i'm going to be making up all kinds of crazy shit and you know anthony devolder might not inventing like a whole character or something that he was going to run with i i don't know what this guy's thinking but then another headline i'm just to read this matt you don't throw it up there uh but the this headline uh he this headline uh he george is at the stop the steel rally. And here's a headline. George Santos's former roommate says the congressman stole his $520

burberry scarf and wore it to stop the steel rally. It sounds made up so much shit. Well, you know, I mean, everything with this guy is made up except for the stuff that isn't. And it also sounds made up because it's so ridiculous and on the nose. Do you? Yeah. So the guy, like,

There used to be, yeah, I don't understand. Everybody fucking lies about some shit around then, right? But the sheer volume of this is absolutely insane. So we don't watch this clip. I want you to remember in your head that George DeVold or Santos, whatever, did not go to college. All right? Remember that way you watch this clip. There we go.

Oh, buffering. That's a throwback. You guys remember buffering? Yeah, I'll just tell you what I was. I just find that. So, Twitter's collapsing. Everybody knows that. That's where we get our videos from.

So he used on this radio show, and the host of him are bonding over his love of both volleyball and tennis because their kids play college volleyball and college tennis. And he goes, oh, actually, I played college volleyball. I actually went to college on a volleyball scholarship. That's why I have two. replaced needs. All right? So he goes further than that.

He talks about how much ass they kicked and how everybody feared them when they walked onto the court and now he was like the best dude on the team and all that. He didn't just say I had a volleyball scholarship and that's why my knees are bad. He like really elaborate. He ruled at volleyball in the college he did not go to. Yeah. So let's talk about what he says is public medical history for a second. All right.

He's got the two knee replacements from playing volleyball where. where he didn't play volleyball, but a college didn't go to. He's got, he had a brain tumor that he treated with radiation therapy. He's got a mutative deficiency

and acute chronic bronchitis. Also, his mom died on 9-11. He had four employees died at the pulse shooting and his grandma died in the Holocaust. So I'm telling you that Anthony DeVolder's life

seems pretty awesome, but George Santos has the worst luck of anybody I've ever fucking heard. Yeah. He's like, everything that's ever gone wrong. Yeah.

Have you ever known, have you ever known personally somebody like this? because I have like when I like growing stuff there was a guy who like would just make there was actually a couple of them but one in particular would just make up the most

clearly bullshit stories about stuff and he'd do it all the time like he said that he saw and tried to shoot and missed Bigfoot while deer hunting and like Bigfoot stopped and stared him down and all this stuff he found an ancient cave filled with like artifacts and cave

paintings and all this stuff while also hanging out in the woods. He used to say that like girls would literally run out into traffic to ask for his phone number. Like just, and it was always some shit like that. And everybody of course knew that it was all bullshit, but he would still just do it with a straight face all the time.

So it's like some people, it's like a pathological liar, but it's like some people's brains just seem to operate that way. And it seems like this George Santos dude is one of them so luckily, or you know, naturally he's a congressman now yeah i i the closest one i got i got a buddy who's whose life is always awesome everything's great every show he did was awesome every every every girl he's ever been

with is amazing every like his huge dick always got money and i and i know him i've known him for over a decade i'm like i know that buddy you don't have to bring up you don't have to bring Corey into this. That's just a joke. Joe. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway,

that's the issue. I wanted to start a segment. It was like a weekly George Santos update and use the Benny Hill theme music. Yeah. Well, we can't use copyrighted music. So this is this is this is the music goes on dumbass and stuff. All right. Our next and I believe final honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is a Chinese spies for having

to go to their safety school. This is Carrie Lake who did not go away. unfortunately. And the CCP is connected. You've educated people on that. You talked about what they're doing in research labs. How about the CCP infiltrating our university systems right there in Arizona? The Confucius Institute.

They take over our research and they find a great little. China tried to take over America by infiltrating Arizona State is the funniest fucking conspiracy theory of my entire life. Our buddy TJ hung out with last night went to Arizona State. state, all right? It's known for like one thing. It's a fucking party school. Yeah, right. Exactly. It's a party school. And like it's so like, it's just so funny Chinese spies is going to Arizona and getting drunk with a bunch of bleach blonde girls and being like, this is how we do it. This is how this is the way in right here. This, another thing is funny is like, she actually taught me something because there was a real sort of thing here, but it ended in 2019. Arizona State closed the Confucius Institute.

And I'm surprised to hear about this because it's extremely dumb. So China does a bunch of soft power stuff, and you can be suspicious stuff if you want, but they invest in, like, soccer teams in South America and helping build infrastructure in Africa. They're helping invest in all the countries around the Amazon. And, like, they help, you know, they support soccer teams and shit. And America used to do that kind of shit. We pulled back during Trump because it's under the braille of foreign aid, right? So China's doing foreign aid to American universities.

And the Department of Events was like, absolutely not. And I tried to figure out what the bottom of the complaint was because what they're doing is just they're teaching Chinese and doing like outreach to high schools to try to get them interested in learning Chinese and cultural outreach and exchange and stuff. And maybe that's propaganda. Maybe it's spying. But there were two groups that were complaining. Their professors of work at the college who thought it was a bad sign for academic freedom because they're worried about censorship. And then the DOD was like just did a bunch of scarebating, a scaremongering, red baiting bullshit. And under Trump and they passed the National Defense Authorization Act.

there was the thing where the DOD would not give money to schools that still had Confucius Institutes. So basically, we'll give you three quarters of a million dollars a year to support your Chinese language programs or you can give the Confucius Institute. So almost all I'm like, well, we'll take the DOD money instead because we don't want this fucking headache. But anyway, Cori Lake's the Psycho

and she's still running around pretending to, she's literally calling herself the governor and pretending to be governor and calling Katie Hobbs a fake governor and scaremongering against a thing that hasn't existed in Arizona or Arizona State. for four years. So there you go. So the DOD said we'll pay

for all that stuff just as long as you don't allow them to do it anymore. All the Chinese culture outreach and Mandarin language programs and stuff. It's wild how much money they got just laying around and how it's all just completely cool with everybody. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's, you know, I get there for guests. It's like, if anybody's going to be teaching Chinese, it's us. God damn it. Not the Chinese. What if one of these young students, you know, it later joins the military, but in college he made a Chinese friend and therefore doesn't want to go to war with them. That'd be bad, right? Right.

Yeah. So, yeah, it's fucking stupid. Maybe they're legitimate complaints. Maybe they'll legitimate complaints. I don't know. But, like, there's nothing made public that these institutes are doing anything, but, like, teaching people how to do calligraphy Chinese characters and stuff. So I don't know. Yeah.

well speaking of fucking stupid let's get into it gas stoves everybody i'd uh somehow miss this when it first started i just started seeing all the crazy tweets from like republicans about you know fucking come and take them but about their ovens or whatever and i was like what is going on yeah i've seen heard a little bit more about it but yeah this is uh this was a good yeah for them this is good it really i think we have an interesting show but it's about topic that should be very fucking boring. It should be fucking boring. That's the thing I want to say about this.

This is another ginned up fake controversy, but it appears like this one has legs, so I wanted to talk about it. But it raises a lot of interesting questions to me, like, what the fuck are they even talking about? And what do these people think the government does or should do, right? Because none of it touches basic reality or what a government, basic government functions. Anyway, it's also like pretty bleak to me about what it says about the hollowness of American culture, especially on the right.

But I'll explain that at the end because it's like the stuff they're hanging on to is utterly meaningless. It's not the Bible and guns. It's fucking random products and shit. And I don't really understand how like enough marigrants have lives so empty that they're so worried about fucking shit like consumer brand choices and government regulations of how stoves. How much methane gas stoves can release or whatever. But like how this is filtering through the right, I want you to see this video compilation of hilarious Fox News. area. So with that in mind, the Biden administration is considering a ban on gas stoves in the name of climate, but really it's for your own good. If America puts up with this, probably put up with

anything. I want to come into my kitchen and what are you going to do now? Are you going to like knock the doors down to see if I really have a gas stove? And by the way, could the Biden administration be coming for your gas stove? The answer is yes. And politicians have been telling us for a long time because of climate, you're not allowed to have a gas stove. This is about Getting rid of natural gas. Follow the money, Harold. Absolutely. I'm a cook. Nobody's going to tell me I can't cook with gas.

First of all, any good cook cooks with gas. It's an immediate up, down, low, high, you know, and I... Safety? We've had these stoves forever 100 years. It's totally fine to get fentanyl to addicts, but a gas stove is a threat to your life. For us to use a natural gas stove in your home because of emissions, but they're not concerned about smoking meth?

Like it's like for now, the talk is focused on banning gas stoves, but it won't be long before we'll also come for gas fireplaces. I mean, you know, you have to consider that it's part of a broader movement that thinks that Western civilization is a terrible thing. I was going to get to there, Matt. So, yeah, so the government might mildly adjust regulations around gas stoves, so therefore this is because the left wants to destroy Western culture. Yeah. So another panel they're on compared to this difficulty. And the democally pro meth also, you know, like, like we're, and I guess it goes back to that and was handing out crack pipes or meth pipes or something like that was another thing they came

up with. Is that what they're referencing? But it's like, who's just totally unconcerned with the smoking of meth, you know? My cousins. Other than people who love to smoke meth, I mean. Another panel, Jesse Waters, compared this to Prohibition, was like, oh, prohibition was a bad idea. It's like, yeah, governments ban some stuff and other stuff. That's everywhere.

Every government in the whole world history, banning stuff isn't the same because you're banning. Anyway, none of this is based on the reality. We'll talk about the reality, the actual reality, what the government's considering doing. But none of this is about anything. But like, the prohibition thing was like, so what do you imagine, like, organized crime is going to take over the gas stove racket or some shit? And also that panel somehow led to criticism of AOC's fiancé for being broke. And I could explain to you, the connection with air was like, AOC made fun of someone for panicking about the gas stove thing.

Someone dug up an old video where she'd filmed in her kitchen where she had a gas stove. And she's like, well, I rent. I didn't choose to have a gas stove. And they're like, ha, ha, ha, your fiance is too broke before the house. That's it. So. Yeah, I mean, I have a gas stove for the same reason. We rent the house we're in, in L.A., and that's just the fucking stove that came with it.

I didn't, and I, you know, I mean, gas stoves hit for me, just fine. I was, I know we haven't even gotten into the report yet, but like, you know, I thought, because I've got children and so, I mean, it's a little bit concerning to me, but, but yeah, I'd never known. I kind of, to me, it's one of those things where it's like, it seems like everything will kill you or will harm you. Do you know what I mean at a certain point? It's like, it's always something, like in California, they got that regulation where they put

like a poster or sticker on stuff that's like, we found it. but this contains things that might cause cancer. And it's just all over the goddamn place. And you're like, well, at a certain point, I'm going to kind of just not worry about it as much because it seems like it's all bad out here in the streets. If you guys ever been to California, there's literally a thing hanging on every building here that says there might be chemicals and then they can kill you. And really, my mom visited and really stole her. I was like, no, it's just there.

It's just, they're everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, but more of the panic. Ronnie Jackson The pillhead Former White House doctor He's now a congressman from Texas If you guys don't remember him

He posted this I will never give up my gas stove The maniacs the White House Come from my stove They can pry off my cold dead hands Come and take it There's like a bunch of this shit No one's coming

We're gonna get in this But no one's coming for your fucking stove Matt Gates also said You can pry out for my cold dead hands Jim Jordan tweeted God guns and gas stoves Joe Manchin got on the act too saying no one's gonna come and take his stove

is true. No one's going to come and take your fucking stove. And even if they did, you're going to get a fucking shootout with the cops over getting an induction of it instead. I don't know. And you could do that because no one came and took your guns either, which I've been screaming for 30 fucking years or whatever. I mean, yeah, we never get around to come in and taking all this stuff. We're so desperate to come and take from these motherfuckers, evidently. I quit my day job to do comedy full time right about the time Obama was elected.

I lived in Texas at that point. And my girlfriend at the time, we lived together. I was going to be on the road a lot. So she wanted to get a gun to, like, to, like, feel more safe at home alone. We went to the gun store. I was just trying to get her, like, you know, like a five or six shot revolver. Or just something to make her feel safe that would scare someone off if they tried to get in her yard or some shit, right? And the guy at the store, they were selling Obama targets.

And his sales pitch was just to get all the guns you ever might want because Obama's going to ban guns. She just stock the whole nail. And if you go look at him and go look at him, he was going to get on. gun sales always surge right under Democrats elected because that's a huge theme of it. Anyway, the only gun-related bill that Obama signed expanded gun rights and let people take guns in the federal parks. Anyway, so how we got here, let's go back to reality for a second before we talk about the panic again. It all started with an extremely misleading article printed about Bloomberg based on a quote from one commissioner at the Consumer Product Safety

Commission. A guy named of Richard Trumka. He said, this is a hidden hazard, may be true. Any options on the table, products that can't be made safe can be banned. All that's true individually. And he's no way threatening to ban stoves. Again, he's one guy on a five-man commission that still doesn't get to make all the rules at once in general. He can't just will gas stoves out of existence by himself, nor can all five of them. But if you recognize he's been named Richard Trumpka, his dad was a big-time labor leader who died. at 2021, I believe. So what the CPU and Consumer Product Safety Commission does?

It makes rules about product safety, right? So when it finds them, it's a hazard or in Congress orders to do so, it can make rules based upon design requirements or they can mount product bans if it comes to it, but it's not nearly the first fucking step. They have to follow rigorous and quoting here, rigorous scientific process to develop mandatory rules. Failing to do so can justify the revocation of a rule. as was the case, a 10th circuit decision,

vacating their ban on small, high-powered magnets. All right, this is tedious bullshit they do. I'm glad someone else does it. Right. Because I don't want to do it. All right. This is our, they're based in Bethesda, Maryland.

They have 500 employees total. Trey, how long would it take to confiscate ever gas stove in America with 500 employees? Yeah, ever? Yeah. As Bernie Mac said, you know, it's a long time if you take the four off that motherfucker. So, yeah, ever. Yeah. Yeah.

But also their governmental agency and, you know, efficiency is not super high within those. And it's like even if they said tomorrow, we're going to come round up all the gas stoves. I think like all of our children would still be cooking with gas before they ever got around actually doing that, which they're not going to fucking do. But I like, you so dumb question. But like if this same agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission under Trump released the same report, like they had these same findings. whatever, would anybody be saying anything about any of it, you know, or would have just found completely under the radar? Well, Trump couldn't have been important about Trump, so whoever he appointed probably would have been like, you know, the research trades referring to

is a new study that says that get children who live in stoves and gas houses have like marginally higher rates of asthma. And like, I imagine Trump wouldn't have pointed anybody who cared about that and they would have known not to speak up. And if they had, it would have either flowing into the radar because they knowing what I thought the government's going to do anything and Fox News wouldn't agenda up bullshit about it or Trump just would have fired a mid-show firing of a guy for even bringing it up right so but as far as the stuff they could do um they could it's a wide range they could just put warning labels on gas new gas stove sales right

just warning labels like the stuff like the ones hanging in California uh parking garage is trade I was talking about or they could make or request request design adjustments It's like range hoods or like performance standards for like how the gas is dispersed or whatever. This is all, again, extremely, they're mad about something so boring. And the process is like a long period of public comment and then like scientific findings. Then they make recommendations. Then they confer with the industry. And lobbyists are going to lobby Congress to get them to stand down and they go round and round.

And then if they fuck up the regulations, if they're not worded specifically enough or don't have a sufficient scientific basis, the first court to get a hold of them would strike down after the, that the industry files a lawsuit. Right. Wouldn't it also just kind of work with the way we've done like vehicles over the years? You know what I mean? Now they all used to be death traps or whatever. And it's like, but gradually more and more like, you know, safety regulations or, you know,

instituted or whatnot. So the new cars that come out, like they didn't get rid of all the old fucking corvettes and everything, is what I'm saying. They didn't round those. It's just the new ones that come out are safer because they have these new requirements that were, you know, passed and whatnot, and it would be the same type of thing with gas stove, even if they did anything at all, which I bet they probably won't. But even if they did, it'd be something like that.

You go to buy a gas stove in the future, and it's going to be a different kind that has, like, it has a, you know, a ventilated range hood or whatever that comes with it. And that's the only kind you can get. And that's pretty much it. Right. It would, it would not affect any existing gas dope. It never, in any world would affect any new, new gas dope. It's like, this is such made-up poor shit. Anyway, to study Trace talking about. So it was a new peer-reviewed research. It came out last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This is really, fucking, this is really fiery stuff to get, you know, anytime the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health drops new heat, you've got to get

real mad about it. So anyway, they basically found, you know, those people are like, well, I did not see this shit coming. Do you know what I mean? No. On these studies and this is their job and shit all the time, like they never thought it would make all the headlines on Twitter and all that shit like, you know,

I wonder if it's exciting or it's really shitty for those people. Yeah, so what they're saying, they say they found, and it was peer review, but I don't know if anybody else is going to do a companion study

or whatever, is that 12% of current childhood asthma cases in the United States can be attributed to Gasto view. So 1 in 8 kids who have asthma, they're saying wouldn't have asthma if they didn't live in a house with gasto.

I don't know if it's true or not. I don't know. There probably any more studies and people can argue about it. Whatever. And by the way, I do want to agree with you, cooking with gas does hit. It decreases your egg, scrambled egg cook time by like 30%. There you go.

So with the stove, so basically natural gas is mostly methane, right? What happens is when you turn your stove on, it releases methane, which is the second most problematic greenhouse gas. And once the burner on, there are other pollutants accumulating in your kitchen, including carbon monoxide and formaldehyde. The biggest concern is nitrogen dioxide, which causes cardiovascular problems. rest of your disease. So, but I've seen people quibble with the research who are smart and I respect, you're like, but there are a lot of contributing factors and it could be like where you live or maybe the kid's also eating lead toys or whatever.

You never fucking know with all this shit. But so like, but like I don't know. I'm not a peer-reviewed scientist. And if I wanted to think about any of this shit, I would have gone into fucking science instead of going to writing dick jokes for a living. All right. So this is, it's always trying to figure out what the fuck could even happen with this. And it's like, this, whatever happens, it's going to be years from now.

We'll be in the middle of the second Trump administration before the product safety commission tries to do anything. Like, there's going to be like six months of public comment, including from the gas industry. Again, the range of stuff they could do before they even got any more close to bans or new performance standards to make sure they're filtering out emissions. Requirements they'd be sold with a ducted hood to vent outside like trade talked about. Or the most drastic sale will be a ban on import. manufacturing. All right. So no new gas stoves, but currently, 40% of American households have gas stoves about, right?

It's a ton of people. Nobody's taking them. But do you know, like, with like lead, as you mentioned lead and also asbestos and shit, like, was there, were there uproars about those things when it was happening? Like, were people like, come and take my fucking asses, must be. best this motherfucker or like do you know how that all played out I the lead one was funny because I did I did look I did research that for something something unrelated recently but the so the lead industry did try to generate it right it tried to general public outrage and it didn't work because people were more worried about their kids safety right yeah right they tried to be like

when they tried to take lead out of gasoline they're like they're taking away your superior fuel see that's kind of why I asked because I feel like I feel like Like, you know, if that was happening now, there'd be outrage about that, too. Like, the lead industry would have been successful in doing that in our current society, which is just a real shame. Yeah. You know, like, oh, super dangerous. I guess we better stop doing that.

Thank you, the government, for finding out what was making us all stupid and everything. And now everybody's just all stupid. And they're like, we want to keep all that stuff. there's something deeply ironic about the fact that we're the generation who would be stupid enough to fall to the lead uh industries bullshit about how they're taking away your superior fuel and we're the generation whose brains weren't poisoned by lead by lead right yeah so like what the fuck maybe we were smarter with lead brain poisoning i don't know but like at the bottom of this is like i don't know if it's part of the fox news universe thing they've turned politics and government into like uh try to to make it to an entertainment TV program. But I don't understand why these people can't accept the government's boring. It's fucking boring. And just let it be boring.

And not everything is like a struggle between good and evil. And if there is a struggling good and evil, the natural gas industry is not going to be on the side of good. All right. And something like Jesse Waters said in the first clip we watched, where he's like talking about them banning, they want to get rid of natural gas. And he goes, follow the money. It's like, what? right that's just a thing they say right the oil and gas industry is non-profit poor little struggling non-profit mom and pop and they're being taken down by big climate or some shit and anyway like trey

said you would get to keep your fucking stove again 40% of american's american households have gas stoves no one would require you to replace it if you wanted to if you're worried about if you want to if you want to keep the same quality cooking but but not worry about the fumes you can get an induction stove if you want but but either way like the real problem for the long and survival of gas stoves is infrastructure because demand for natural gas is dropping as people move away from fossil fuels. So there's not going to be the market to keep gas like natural gas lines running to your house. That's going to be the thing that turns off your gas stove is the gas industry making,

and the pipeline industry is making different choices about how to distribute fuel supplies. All right. So it's going to be in the natural gas industry that pivots that's going to fuck you out of your gas stove. Anyway, but, like, going back to, like, what government does, like, I'm agnostic about whether or not the government should ban gas stoves, all right? I don't have one currently. My old apartment, we didn't have one. I don't know whether it gives kids asthma. I don't know any of that shit.

But, like, this is the kind of thing a government does. Any government in the world will, like, try to keep products safe and keep its citizens safe because that's the social contract we have with the government. We pay the government taxes in exchange the government doing whatever it can to keep us alive. That's the basic tradeoff, right? But for American conservatives, that just means the army and it just means bombing brown people. But the government does a bunch of other shit, like inspecting meat, right, and regulating the stock market. But like the social contract works definitely in every country. Like, for example, in China food security is a big thing because they had a big fan in the 60s and 70s.

And basically, they're dealing with their government. as long as we have food in the shelves, we don't fucking kill you all, right? That's why during COVID there was big food shortages and people were worried about instability there because that's their one deal. Right? It's their one deal. Here, I was trying to hear, what's our main

social compact with the government? It's like we pay taxes in exchange you just don't lose any big embarrassing doors. Yeah, we keep our kick-ass tanks and boats and stuff. And they do a great job of that, you know. Well, not of not losing

wars, I guess, but keeping all the badass stuff floating and banging and popping and everything. They're real good at that. Well, that's why they're bad at Biden. It's not because he lost Afghanistan. The Afghanistan was already lost because he publicly looked like he lost. Right. Yeah.

But that's what I was saying. Like, I just think that, like, it's literally just that, like, if they were in power and they found out something was dangerous. And again, on this, it seems like it's nebulous at present. but like if they came out and said this some this shit is dangerous i don't think you'd have any kind of uproar whether they said what you know we have these are the steps we have to take or not it's literally just you know it's a Biden administration thing so it's truly outrageous and unacceptable yeah i mean if it happened under trump maybe what they do is make a bigger

scaremongery deal about gas stoves and then he'd like oh we're going to pass a bill to get everybody you once won an induction oven, then you'd find out that some induction oven company had given Jared and Ivanka a 25% stake or some shit. Yeah, right. That's more like, that's more like what date there. But like, this is also like, I don't think the government, even if they wanted to regulate gastos would be able to get it, I don't have very little faith to be able to get it done in this present moment.

Because like, to me this goes in the bucket of like things just generally don't work anymore right now. No. Like the Southwest airline, there's no airline regulation. So Southwest just went out of business over Christmas for like two weeks and no one can get anywhere and they lost a bunch of people's luggage and lost a bunch of people and shit like that and like the f a shutdown a couple days ago i've no idea what happened there i didn't thought closely because i wasn't flying but like that that seems weird like that doesn't go but like

to get so jinned up over this let's say the government did ban it like the government did a bunch of regulatory shit in the 1970s that absolutely would not fly right now for example among the many examples um they took the ford pinto off the fucking street because the gas tanks kept exploding now if that happened now a bunch of papas would be joining militias to defend the honor of the fucking Ford Pinto

right yeah yeah and I know that they put this to a vote or whatever but I mean like you know flavored vape products or whatever

just got banned in California you know what I mean like shit does get banned but it's like they don't read there's no consistency in it you know what I mean it's not

it has nothing to do with freedom or whatever it's just like if it's shit they like and it's the wrong side saying it needs to be banned, then that's fucking communism or whatever. But anything else, they don't, you know, don't give a fuck. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I didn't really look into why the vape thing happened

or who the lobbying interests were. Maybe a straight-up cigarette company just trying to put vapes at a business or something. I don't know. But like this stuff is like going back to like, again, the particulars the gas stove thing I'm not interested in because like this is stuff that a government does. And what you do, especially in democracy, we get to say at it. If they do something that's overreaching or

anti-statish, you can fucking vote the bums out and vote in somebody more libertarian or whatever if you want to. But also, if you lose the vote, you take the old move on. That's what a democracy is, right? So if you think Joe Biden, the Biden administration has overreached by appointing Richard Trumpka Jr. to pop off about gas stoves, you can vote for somebody else next time around. That's you're right. But what this isn't is a moment that requires a revolution.

All right. But in prior times, this kind of shit was utterly fucking normal. all right let's talk about the easy bake oven for a second all right easy bake oven had a fairly had a war slash partnership with this consumer product safety commission we tried to figure out how to keep a bunch of kids from burning themselves that is a series of voluntary recalls that the product safety commission requested and then when kids still get burning themselves and hasbro figured out they're going to get sued they finally pulled the one product off the line permanently in 2007 after a year old girl's fingerhead to be amputated because of severe burden. Now, if that happened in 2023, there'd be people marching the street with gun saying they had a Second Amendment right to an easy bake-out. I just, but like these panics is so fucking ridiculous. Like, I remember this one from 2014, if you pull up this headline, Matt.

This is the headline from 2014. The GOP's relentless crusade to save America from Kami Lightbulb. Do you remember this panic, right? Yeah, when the new, the new, fangled, more energy-efficient light bulbs started coming out and whatnot. Yeah, they had big protests where they bought a bunch of the new light bulbs and stomped them. And the reason why, it's like, it was basically environmental reasons, but also it saves people a bunch of money on the light bills because it uses less energy while also making better light. They're literally just protesting having a much better light bulb. Yeah, it's just better, right.

It has made it better. And they were like, no, fuck that because it was implied that it could be environment a little bit and that's gay or whatever. Right. This part, this part, fucking kill me because they did, they did research like a public opinion surveys with people of a bunch of diverse political opinions. And they took a set of conservatives and set of liberals and explained to them about the, the light bulb's costs and how much money. They cost more up front. They save you so much money in the long run. At this point, both groups.

We're very pro the light bulb. But then when they put a label on it and say it's better for the environment, all the conservatives turned against the light bulb. They decided not to save the money because it also helps the environment. That is fucking right. Exactly. Anyway, there was a big panic about the light bulbs in 2014. Fast forward to today.

This is a new story from this month or for a couple months ago. The United States will phase out incandescent light bulbs. It's actually happening. They're going to be gone. No one's noticed or fucking cares. Right. Right. And we're lagging behind the rest of the world in this kind of shit, I'm not working anymore. Brazil and Venezuela started to phase out in 2005. The EU, Switzerland,

Australia did it in 2009. Argentina and Russia in 2012. And then Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, and South Korea in 2014. In the UK, there's still an ongoing fight about it where this phenomenon is being referred to as light bulb socialism. There you go. It's not just our dipsets are like this trade. No, I know. Yeah. Well, yeah, well, that's Mama Dip shit there, the UK. You know what I mean? They're always pretty good about going hand in hand with some dipshitry. Queen dipshit. Not Madam Dip shit. Mama dipshit. But like there's like, but the fact that like all these are consumer product stuff, like is something really like depressing to me about it? Because we talked about like, everybody remembers they burn the Nikes and smashed to curigs. We talked last week about their turn against M&Ms because Eminem has female mascots now. want to go back to when M&Ms were boys. Trump used to rant about low-floor toilets, all the people who fuck up their trucks on purpose to roll coal

just to troll the libs by making a bunch more pollution and running up a gas bill. There's nothing behind it. Like when you think about like the proud promise, whether you consider this like fascism's promise of like a return to an idealized past or whether it's just good old day syndrome for your childhood, like when you talk about how like, remember the famous clip of Trump,

before we was elected, being like, they're making a girl ghostbusters. You can't do that. Like it's like that kind of shit. Or like, all this stuff is like, and now it's light bulbs and gas stoves. It's like,

these are just commercial products that were invented fairly recently. It's not like cultural attachments like religion or the Bible or guns. It's like, it's a commitment to like something so incredibly fucking hollow that it just like makes me depressed. that's like that's the thing they're hanging the whole identity on is like cartoon toys that are cartoons from childhood being changed or Eminem logos and toilets and fucking it's just like like nothing has kind of made me feel more sad about all these people

are going to die mad over nothing than like you check out this from Ron DeSantis fucking trying to capitalize off this shit you got it man here we go Matt's pulling it up but yeah uh yeah it's just you know that's America buddy i can i'm depressed by the hollowness i don't yeah our gas stoves away from us that is your choice and i know many people who cook a lot do not want to part with their gas stoves and so we're going to stand up for that you're all right what a hero man america we do have actual culture right like we had country music and stand-up comedy and jazz and the film industry largely and like there's stuff you could be proud of that isn't m&m logos right uh anyway so i found some comments

yeah matt some comments and stuff i think he accidentally put one up earlier from somebody didn't catch the name said they were thinking about the ford pinto recently because they used to ride in those a lot i'm glad that you didn't explode and you're here to watch us today glad you'd get re-rended yeah sorry ralph nader took away your Sweet ride. Well, I'm waiting for comments. This is a funny story. Day 18,300

and counting says this is conservative. Gaslighting. Yeah, that's good. I wanted to mention this. Missouri lawmakers passed rules about with both a stricter dress code for women. They're making women cover up their shoulders. Well, yeah, you can't have them salacious-ass shoulders just hanging out, people trying to get laws made

and stuff. You're over here. you know it was pure thoughts with that clavicle of yours covered up yeah some decency

lady it was it was kind of funny because they shot a woman actually proposed this rule so I guess maybe she's insecure about her shoulders

or something I don't know but like you're like well the men have to wear suits and ties and I was like maybe

I don't know maybe she's I don't but it's funny they're trying to mandate many women dressing more like at the same time they're trying to

like doing the whole I know what a woman is bullshit. Yeah. Say what on YouTube? Pappalls will defend the Ford Pint. Yeah. I never run one before my time.

Yeah. Dan Arnett says, Hey, I'm a Pappall. Yeah. We got some good Pappalls around. There's some lovely papal out there. I feel like a papal most of the time.

Okay. Nevitz Forever says Wyoming lawmakers propose a ban on electric cars. A group of state legislatures are seeking to end sales of new a 2035 in an effort to protect Wyoming's oil and gas industries. Yeah, they've been sabotaged a metric car. The weird thing about the CEO of Tesla is weird right-wing turn is like his business has been sabotaged every go by right-wing legislatures from Congress, Republicans in Congress trying to cut off like so early support fundings for electric vehicles or like, this is in the weeds,

but like cars, most states make cars be sold through dealerships, right? And since a lot of car dealers are in state legislatures, that's an important, like, racket protection thing for them. And Tesla's business model was deliver cars directly to your house. And so they were doing that just to fuck Tesla. And he apparently loves him for it. So, yeah. Wasn't there some story from like, I don't know, the 70s or like decades ago where there was like a new innovative, like electric engine or something that was developed and it got bought out and buried by the, you know, Detroit, a big auto or something? I don't know if I'm making that up, but some shit like that.

And it's like why there's no public transportation worth of fucking L.A. is also because of big car fucking everything over. I thought of these while we were talking to. Michael Gilbert says, you can take my 70s long darts game when you pry it from my cold impaled thigh. I think it was me and Corey maybe on putting on airs. Some show I did, we ended up looking up lawn darts. And it was like, I think it was like three kids that died, which is too many from

lawn darts but i would have thought if you told me to guess i would have i thought it was like the way i've always heard about it i thought it was an epidemic of kids impaling each other in the yard and shit like them back then and that's why they had to go but like it's a good example i mean that's you know if if those stats were if they were a phenomenon today and those were the stats like people would be losing their fucking minds like what he just said people would be saying that unironically uh lea tushul says i hope i got that right says my easy Bake oven made lots of cupcakes for my future snowflakes. I didn't

know, I had a little sister, but she never had an Easy Bake oven or wanted one. And, you know, ironic, I mean, I would have, you know, now, I love the idea of an easy bake oven. I could have really got into that, I think, because I love baking. But anyway, I never realized they actually, like, did

shit. Like, I didn't know that. I thought they were just, like, a toy, and they were just fake. I thought there was, like, a red light or something in it. I didn't know they were like little ovens. Yeah. It could actually bake stuff. I mean, I've known that for a wife, full-grown person before I found that out.

Like, my whole life until the past 10 years or so, I thought they were just a toy that didn't do shit. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You probably couldn't ban lawn darts right now. They'd find some right-wing judge who'd rule the second of November protects their right to have lawn darts or something. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But yeah, it's like they, you know, they take, sometimes shit gets taken away when it's dangerous.

And again, stuff, like we said, with the vapes, like, shit still does get taken away, you know, it's just part of what happens. But, like, nothing's getting taken away right here. They're always so terrified about things getting taken away that are never going to be taken away, you know? Like, there's just no, like, logical consistency to any of it, which, again. A bunch of people have been mad as hell for almost two whole weeks because five, Five years from now, there might be a warning sticker on your new gas stove. That's essentially what this is about. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. You got another one for us, Matt, or no? Matt's out there. All right. Well, I got one last hit for you if you want to hear. It's a headline I read earlier today.

January 6th defendant stabbed in the nose during jail fight over Tucker Carlson show. So a bunch of the January 6th defendants are watching Tucker Carlson. Carlson in the jail rec room or whatever, and a bunch of people are like, hey, that guy's racist. And they go, no, he's not. And they got a fist bite over at one that's stabbed in the nose. And now they're talking about how they have targets on their back because the whole prison thinks they're racist.

I mean, I imagine being known as a racist in prison is probably a tough situation because, you know, the mass incarceration of the people you're racist against. Sure. That would be an obstacle for them. Man, they've really had it rough in jail, you know. All this time I thought jail wasn't so bad, but none of these guys are in there and I'm hearing their reports, it seems like it's pretty terrible. Yeah.

I'm also really curious about the mechanics of stabbing someone in the nose about how that happens. Yeah. China town shit. Yeah. You just cut the nostril. Anyway, all right. We're about to close up shop here for the week, but remember, go to traycrouter.com, get some tickets, come

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