Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 12/17/24 – The Medieval Peasant Drone Panic

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

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what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's uh december 17th 2024 i'm tray and that there is not mark you may have already ascertained you know him you love him it's the senior georgia correspondent long time denizen of the ske universe and far in a way most frequent fill-in co-hosts it's mr cori ryan forester mark ain't here Corey is how you doing Corey I'm good buddy yeah I like to feel like I'm the Jay Leno to your Johnny Carson you know what I mean like other people have filled in but I do it the most and also disappoint the most people and I'm the most defensive and have a huge I'm I'm the more I'm more like the Ed McMahon of this particular show every now and I just go all right

all right yeah okay but now just everybody note mark is uh he left today to part It's unknown. I mean, we know where they are. You know, he's going to do family Christmas stuff. So he's gone. He's already on the road already. He won't be back until 2025. That's not that weird because a public service announcement, and I'll repeat this at least one,

maybe two more times. Because of the fact that the next two Tuesdays are going to be Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, this right here is the last skews of 2024, which means Corey is closing out the calendar year with us. And it's a fun topic, too. It's going to be all right. But how do you think that, oh, look at that. Got some, is it bubbly? What is that? It's bubbly just for the occasion, because I knew this would happen. And by the way, shout out to a mutual friend and friend of the show. Kim Casado sent me this from a nice winery in the Napa Valley. And I knew this would be the last one. As you can see, I've done it already popped it. And I put it in my,

in my Braves World Series glass. So I, congrats to us into the year. I can think of no more appropriate receptacle. But I always like to think of Mark on like holiday like this because he's like with his wife and doing family stuff. And I'm actually not sure if they're with his family or her family or they're doing both a split over the next few days. But it's like we were just talking out before the show started by how Mark don't suffer fools or suffer anything at all. But I know for a fact that at least his in-laws, they don't, you know, it's not like they're on the same page as Mark with everything. Frankly, who is. Right. So it's just like it's always funny to me to Like, I want to know, do you think as another person who knows Mark, and I think it'd be funny for our viewers to think about them knowing Mark as well, do you think that he, like, you think he reigns it in when he's with his in-laws and stuff?

Or do you think he's just as full Mark as he is with every other person he ever encounters? Yeah, I mean, dude, it's hard for me to imagine because, as you pointed out, the only thing Mark suffers is from depression. You know what I mean? I bet you he does and I bet you he does like go into every single one like all right it's not going to be like last year I think that he like probably has that thought and then someone he's like but sure that you know and then someone says something that's just too dumb and he can't exactly that's what I and I get it I get it to like there's certain things I can't suffer like it used to be political and I've since been like I just want to still love my family but if one

of them, like, misquoted a Mel Brooks movie and tried to tell me that they were right and I was wrong, I'd flip the table. You know what I mean? Right. So, and Mark's that way with current events. And we've shared pictures on the show before it's been a long time, but you've also seen them because they were in our group chat, pictures of Mark on holiday in the summertime when they go to, like, visit her family in Florida on the beach. And it's Mark who shredded and everybody knows that. So he's shirtless with a six-pack and tan and looking good, standing in front of the vastness of the ocean, right? But his face is just pure misery.

Just like, no joy at all. And in my head, that's because right off camera is his father-in-law who's been bitching about Mexicans for 48 straight hours or whatever it is. And Mark has just been biting his tongue that all time. Yeah, just whittling a Trump paperweight just slightly off to the side. Yeah. Yeah, but it hits for me to. to imagine Mark in places of joy and entertainment and fun.

Yes, right. And it's funny because it's like, I know that I'm also, I'm one of those guys for a lot of people who know my friends too, but it's like, but Mark is like, my me, if that makes sense. Yes, he is. He's your you. Yeah, right. Yeah.

You're my me to my family and he's your you. So he's like my grand me, you know. Yes. Let's continue this thread. Let's talk about who, who is which is what. This is the type of thing that we do a lot on our other. show, by the way, putting on air is our sister show, which you should listen to, which me and this fellow host,

it's all about fancy people stuff. And we get into, there'll be times, there'll be sometimes where it's like six minutes into a thing. I'm like, have we made any sense to a regular person who's listening to what we're saying? And it's like, I know we know what we're talking about. You're like, yeah,

I'm here, you, he's your him. Yeah, his mom is my mom, my grandmom and that's how we all be. Just so lost in the research. And everybody at home was just like, what the fuck? are they talking about if you're wondering what the fuck we're talking about we're going to it's not going to make much more sense probably because you know what it is it's the drone stuff but before we get to that producer matt is still with us he's back there he's here on the holidays doing his thing for this final show of 2024 this is weekly skews i want to remind y'all before we continue of course a few things uh if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person and of course you should want to do that go to traycrouter dot com check out my upcoming tour dates. I'll be in Chicago, Illinois, this weekend, closing out this year. And then in

2025, we've got a ton of dates already and adding more every day. Go to traycrouter.com. Also, if you enjoy this program, I would like to show your support, you can do so by signing up on Patreon. You go to weekly skews.com slash more, or you can just go on Patreon and search for my name. Either way, works. Five dollars a month, get you access to two full-length bonus episodes. We do skew and A's. We cover things that happen in between the shows. It's just this show, but more of it. So if you like that. this show, get some more of it, and support the show in the process, sign up on Patreon. Corey, before we continue, since you're here, I wanted to ask if you wanted to, you know,

tell the people anything you'd like them to know, since I just did it. You got any plugs you want to make? Sure. Since this is live, I can actually do this. This weekend, if you're in Chattanooga, Tennessee or the surrounding area, December 20th through the 21st, I'm at the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Headline and all the home for the holiday show. You can go to the Comedycatch.com and grab those tickets.

And, yeah, that's fine. That's cool. And also, please listen to putting on airs because that is, you know, not only, you know, it's hard. You've got all your babies, all your podcasts that you do. You don't want to pick favorites. But, you know, I like screwing around and talking about fancy things. And we just had, for those of you listening that they're like, I've been meaning to check that out, but I need a bigger reason. If you follow Twitter, if you're at all on Twitter and you follow at die workwear,

a.k.a. the men's wear feller on Twitter, Derek Guy, and he hits for you, because he hits for me, and it seems like everybody. That was our most recent guest, and that episode is very popular, and he schooled me and Trey on some men's fashion, even though, I mean, we fucking, what do we need to do? Clearly, we got it killed. Yeah, right. So, yeah, putting on air. Listen to it wherever you get your podcast or watch it on our YouTube at watchPOA.com. Other than that, let's, you know, aliens. Yeah, I was going to say putting on airs. I love it, because that's where I can go to really dumb it up, but then I realize, you know,

everybody watches like, that's where you dumb it up? What do you do here every week? Because that's how Mark makes me look smart. Exactly. I know. Putting on airs, you're the smart one,

but you dumb. But the whole show is dumb. Right. Yeah, exactly. It's dumb in a fun way. I mean, dumb is almost always fun. And I feel like unless they're like, you know,

running the government or anything. But anyway, yes, as for the show tonight, as we already mentioned up top, What else we're going to talk about is what the whole world has talked about is captivated the nation. The drone panic on the east coast and spreading throughout these continental United States. Is it aliens? Is it our military?

Is it someone else's military? Is it mass hysteria? Who knows? But me and Cho will surely determine the absolute and irrefutable answer by the end of this hour. But before we get to that, but on the same subject, we begin always, Matt, with the Daily Dumbass. Graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., the government for not admitting that the New Jersey drones are UFOs who want to hit Trump's golf course with photon torpedoes. This is Trump addressing the issue.

Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey ports? It seems like the American people have a big discipline. The government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went. And for some reason, they don't want to comment. And I think they'd be better off saying what it is. Our military knows and our president knows.

And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense. I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the enemy that blasted out. even if they were late they'd blast it something strange is going on for some reason they don't want to tell the people and they should because the people are really i mean they happen to be over bedminster want to know they're very they're very close to bedminster i think maybe i won't spend the weekend in bedminster i've decided to cancel my trip have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones i don't want to comment on that have you been Do you have any reason to think there's a threat?

All right. So, look, I got beyond. This ain't going to hit for this audience or whatever, but I'm just going to keep it real here. That is about as much as Trump has ever hit for me. And that scenario. And Ben, saying, that's what I mean by that, is him being, like, that is the most that I've ever seen Trump not be Trumpy.

And it's while talking about the potential of aliens or whatever. But it's like, frankly, everywhere he said, he's like, the government knows, they know, they know who it is, they know where it is. Like, I believe that. I believe that that is true. But it's, and so I know people, especially from the Daily Dumbass segment, people come to expect a certain thing when we do a Trump clip. And that clip didn't really deliver, in my opinion.

But don't worry, fret not. He still came through in the clutch, because here is the other maker thing that Trump had to say slash contribute to the drone conversation. It was this picture that he posted on true social math. You can pull this picture up. So this is a nice. contrast to what we just heard. Yes.

Now, that's more like it, Joe. I mean, he's going two for two. Really? Absolutely. Like, yes. Yeah, still. Absolutely. Yeah.

So if you're, if you're only listening, he posted on true social a, uh, an AI generated image of, of drones delivering bag upon bag of McDonald's to Chris Christie, who is shoveling hamburgers into his face. in front of those and it's like this is the type of thing that this is what Trump brings to the table

in American discourse you know is this type of picture and it's like dude we've talked about it before but it's like I because like you know Chris Christie

I know he's like a relatively sane Republican now or whatever but he's also like he still sucks too and it's always been one of my favorite things I've said for years

the one thing that unequivocally does genuinely super hit about Donald Trump for me is when he goes after other Republicans and conservatives like this, like especially out of nowhere. Because it's just like they're just not equipped to play that same game.

No. Like they're just not. And this is the type of thing because, you know, fuck Chris Christie, like you said. And it's like seeing the president-elect post this picture of him is funny to me. We'll get back to the UFOs in a minute. But what do you think about this right here?

Oh, I think you're 100% correct. And like often, and I don't know if this is on purpose or if, It's just like, you know, a symptom of who Trump is. But like a lot of times he'll go after them for things that like they kind of can't come back at Trump for because it's just not true. Like he'll just be like, yeah, somehow I'll mention Ted Cruz and they'll lay that whole thing. Ted Cruz said this about you and your campaign and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Expecting Trump to give this huge complicated answer and he'll just go, well, his wife's a dog.

You know what I mean? And like, that's it. Like, he'll just call his wife a dog. And like, Ted Cruz can't respond to that because like I'm not, I don't. like Melania, but, like, she hot, like, she was a model, you know what I'm saying? And also on top of that, we all, we all hate Ted Cruz so much. He's, yeah, we're not, man. He sucks. And so when he gets emasculated like that, because Ted Cruz normally can't come back at that, but he later bends over. He, like, kisses the ring for the guy that called his wife a dog

to his face, which is like, you ain't no man if you do that. Like, I know that Trump. He said his dad was the Zodiac killer. Right. Trump don't hit at all, but seeing that happen to people like Ted Cruz does hit for me, even if it is coming for Donald Trump. I guess that's the one public service that I feel like he does provide is that. Dude, that. It keeps those dudes in their place a little bit.

Yeah, man. Like, who, like, dude, the Democrats haven't shit on John Bolton the way that Donald Trump has. You know what I mean? Like, we just, like, because. Because, like, Democrats, like, they just want to talk about, like, fundamentally how people are, you know, what they've done wrong in politics. Like, well, John Bolton, now, they'll use the word disconcerting a lot in their, like, hardcore takedown. And Trump's just like, look, he's got water on his brain. I don't know what to tell you.

Of all the pieces of shit I've ever worked with in my life, I have never seen a lazier, more useless, empty-headed, dumbass than John fucking Bolton. poached that out of nowhere, just on a Sunday afternoon, apropos of nothing. Yeah. And it's hilarious. I've said. Going back to the... Go ahead. Well, I was going to say, just like, if he wasn't, unfortunately, the leader of the free world and also a

fascist racist, like if this is all he ever did. Which he is. Yes. Which he absolutely is. I'm not trying to humanize him any way. But if this is all he did, like, dude, he would rule for me. I would love him. So going back to the video itself of him commenting

on the drone situation. I saw people on, so just so y'all know, before we continue further into the subject and you're not going to be surprised to hear this, most of my information is coming from Reddit and not just Reddit, but various, like, UFO-specific subreddits. And as you can imagine, people on there are very level-headed, very cogent, not at all reactionary or insane in any of their takes.

So that's where I'm getting a lot of my information from. But I saw a lot of people on Reddit responding to Trump's statement because he is the incoming president. And it's like, what does he have to say about this? And this is what he had to say about it. And I saw a lot of people on Reddit saying like, you know why this terrifies me? They're like this right here has shaken me to my core more than anything else about this drone stuff. And that's because Trump isn't being Trumpy about this. Right.

It's kind of weird. Like Trump is just being like a regular guy. this video like he's not even he even calls joe biden our president like people pointed that out he didn't call out yeah he was like he was like you know i don't know maybe somebody go wake up sleepy joe from his nap and see why he's letting the aliens take over the east coast like that he's like he didn't do none of that he's being relative he's being serious and just like a regular person and that terrifies me and i'm just wondering what your reaction to that is does it terrify you because it didn't it didn't really terrify me no

But what do you think about that take on that? Now that you mentioned the Sleepy Joe part and how he just said, our president, the first thing that comes to my mind is like, it's almost like he's done campaigning for good because technically he is. And maybe this actually is who Trump is. Like this is more actually who Trump is in the past eight years has been Trump saying all the crazy shit that he needs to say in order to get elected.

And now he can drop the character. By the way, no waste, again, saying that Trump is a normal person because fascist dictators are not normal, but, like, it, he wasn't like on the, on the apprentice, he was not like how he's been for the past eight years. And in old interviews, he was not like that. So maybe he's just dropping the whole, like, he don't have to say Sleepy Joe. He don't have to do all that because it's like, he doesn't have to campaign no more. I think that's part of it. A lot of people pointed out, they were like, look, most of us, what we see of Trump is like his highlights

or low lights, depending on the spectrum. own. And it's like, so of course, that's him being as Trumpy as possible, but he probably has many boring or relatively boring moments like that all the time. But like, I think you're on to something with the not campaigning thing. But more, my main thing with it is I don't get being alarmed by that because to me, if Trump knew or had any worry or indication that this was like a potentially super horrific thing. Right. I think he would be putting as much blame on everybody else as he possibly could.

Of course. I think he'd be going out of his way. Exactly. I think he'd be going out of his way to be like, what is Joe Biden doing? Where is Joe Biden out on us? He's fucking like, I think if he was scared about it, because that's why I saw people saying they're like, he never. What if he's like, one of the aliens?

I mean, if anybody could be, and actually, he's probably, he's one of the most American humans. anyway, that there's existed in recent years. But yeah, like, I just, a lot of, I saw a lot of people saying, like, he don't act like this ever, man. This means he's scared. And I was like, I don't think it means that. I feel like if he was scared, he would be more him than ever.

Like, I think he'd be deflecting as much blame as possible. To me, the fact, it's not just Trump, but also it's like, we were talking earlier today on well-read when we recorded it with Drew about how, like, so far billionaires are not evacuating the East Coast. They're not letting up on their helicopters and getting the fuck out. They don't, the people who would know shit

because they are the ones who actually run our society. Or? They don't seem to be terrified, right? And that's part of what makes me feel better about it. Or what? Or those are all the aliens. Or they're just there are all the aliens.

Yeah. Well, dude, if that's, if that's what's happening, they've got a complete 100% victory already. They can go ahead and just not complete. pieces over. Like, if all those people are the aliens, then like, yeah. Well, dude, y'all, y'all've had the planet for fucking, you know, a hundred years or

ever, you've had it forever, so just. Right. You ever see how these pictures of Elon Musk that they'll put out of like, oh, he built weird, you know, like he'll be on his boat and is like his belly, he's got a belly on him, but it is shaped like no belly I've ever seen before. It's always reminded me of Edgar from Men in Black of Vincent and Inafrio's character. who was famously a large alien bug wearing a human suit. And an egger, in a suit, in an egger suit, in an egger suit.

He was in an eggers suit. By the way, not to derail, but one of the most underrated performances by a human being ever, I fully 100% believed when I was a child that Vincent Dinoffrio. Yeah. It's unbelievable. He's one of the goats, dog. He's a jeez. It's just prosthetics and him going, I'm a bug in here.

Between like that and. Private Pyle and Kingpin and, like, the sale with Jennifer Lopez and something that's like, he's nuts. Yeah, well, anyways, so between that, how Elon B looking, like, obviously there's always been the whole, like, these billionaires are shapeshifting, whatever, blah, blah, blah. But I, by the way, the first time ever, for the first time ever, I saw what Peter Thiel looked like the other day. Like, I've heard about him for a long time, but I've never, I've never seen him. I've seen him on CNN talking about some water, Louis Macon, Louis Mangiala, and I was like, this is what this dude looks like, and it looked like he'd had like 900 chemical pills, and I know he's not that old, and he couldn't even, like, get a word out and stuff, and I was like, there's something off about this guy. And now I'm looking at it all, and like Mitch McConnell would just be freezing, you know what I mean, Nancy Pelosi falling out when she hears shit about stocks or whatever, like, I don't know, man, it just, to me, it could be like, this is the current shift of aliens, and now that. the next shift is about to take over and he's got to go home.

You know what I mean? Your head's at. Yes. Maybe the drones are bringing it. Yeah, right. Yeah, that Mitch McConnell and Peter Thiel in our ruling class. They've been aliens. They're starting to wear out and malfunctions.

Now we've got to ship in the next, the next shift of alien overlords. It's possible. So, yeah, we've, look, Mark, it's funny. Mark entitled it before he left, Mark entitled this episode and this segment, the mid-eval peasant drone panic, which is hilarious to me because I knew this would happen. We've already gone, me and you've already gone beyond medieval peasants in terms of our dumb mastery about this subject. So like when Mark listens back to this episode, which I think he does, he's going to be just infuriated the whole time for me to think about. Because as

we get into it, so let me set up a few things. You guys already know. I mean, if you, if you're not living under a rock, you know, the general situation is a large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over parts of New Jersey and also the East Coast and it keeps spreading today. I think there was reports out of Texas, right? So it's like spreading. So all around this or becoming all around this country. You know where all the dumbasses are. Right. And and these drones are like they're flying in formation. They're flying at night in places they shouldn't be. A military base got shut down. An airport got briefly shut down. This is not this right here that Matt's shown is a picture from the associated press

that someone poses what they're saying and it's like I mean you know it is wild looking and these reports just continue to compound also like as it became a story the FBI and the government came out and basically their initial response was like

yeah we don't know what it is but it is fine though which weirdly didn't put anyone at ease that response and now they're just keeps being more and more of it. So people are wondering like, what is this? What is happening? And so since Mark is not here and this would not hit for him that I'm about to do this, but I'm going to speak on his behalf and do my very best, do my very best to tell y'all up top before me and Cho go off

to deep end, tell y'all up top, what I believe Mark's general stance on this whole thing is, which is that he comes down on the side of mass hysteria. He thinks that this is similar to like the Chinese weather balloon panic or like it's not not founded in any kind of actual react there's nothing really to be worried about that there are 800,000 plus drones in the US registered drones people be droning somebody sees a drone someone else freaks out about it they send their drone to go find a drone now there's another drone in the sky someone gets a video of that drone and now you got this whole area is just lousy with drones on top of that the night sky is actually filled with all, it's just, the night sky

is just lousy with all kinds of lights and stuff that they blink in or not, the night sky is wild. It is. People are, because of these stories, people are paying attention to the night sky when they normally don't and they're seeing things moving around and they're like, that's weird alien

drone shit when really it's not some of the, some of these sightings that have been reported have been confirmed to be just pictures or videos of airliners like fucking a Delta flight from London and New York in the distance coming in on approach and the way

it lines up it looks like it's drones when it's not. That's been proven to be the case for some of these and that's another one. A pretty prominent Republican politician, the former governor of Maryland, he posted a video of his own drone sighting

Larry Hogan and it has since been proven to be just a video of the constellation of Orion. So, So it literally is just stars in the sky. My name is Larry Hogan. Larry Hogan. That was Hulks brother.

It was Hulks. Really? Because that sounds like a made-up brother of Hulk Hogan. Like, oh, Larry Hogan. It was a made-up brother of Hulk Hogan, but they ran it as a gimmick in WWE where they pretended that they were brothers, like in work. You know what I mean? And the dude was Larry Hogan.

And it's just, that's hilarious to me. Larry is the most like is the most like perfect like fake brother name you can come up with like if you come up with a fake brother for you for you know like yeah Larry Forrester it just feels like the go to to me is Larry so anyway no this is an actual governor and again a fairly well respected one I believe governor of Maryland who uh if you watch the video it does look weird but it's not it's not actually weird it's literally just start people are paying attention to this guy and being like ship be blanking what is that and their satellites, bro, too.

Right. It's normal stuff. And that also, that's not just Mark's position. That is the official White House position, by the way. They put out their official position yesterday. Right. But they said that, like, so many of these reported sightings are just misidentified, totally normal things, like constellations, far off airplanes,

like licensed drones that are allowed to be there. hobbyist drones, stuff that isn't weird, but people don't understand that it's not weird. So that's, if I could speak for Mark, that is what I believe Mark's position on his whole thing is. And furthermore, that we are a lost and irretrievably stupid society because of the fact that we do not realize that. That is what I think Mark would say in not so many words if he were here. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, Cho, me and you, I mean, it's clearly aliens, right? Aliens you're here. What I say to Mark is this.

Let's talk about it. He don't hit. Look, two things can be true. Two things, this is what I hate about Mark and society in general. Okay. Because Mark is very much typical in this fashion. Is that people don't understand that two things can be true. Sure.

Are there a lot of these things that people are misrepresenting as alien drones? Absolutely. Because I agree with all that stuff. Like, my friends, you know, any, like, if, we look at the same sky, but where I clearly see a satellite, they're like, that is a government drone over my house. And I'm like, why would a government drone be over your house? Like, you put all your business on Facebook. Nobody has to spend Pentagon fucking money to figure out what you're doing, right? Your location is on, on your phone. Every time you go to Golden

Corral with some different hoe, you tweet about it, shut the fuck up. So that can be true. But at the same time, I cannot state this anymore clearly. It is aliens. absolutely yes for a lot of people watch around now that saw the video i posted today they're like trace talking out of both sides of his mouth because it's not like him because in the video i made today i said i said it probably most likely was mass hysteria and nothing really was going on and now i'm saying no it's clearly aliens uh you know a couple of things number one like it's just you want to cover all your bases right or you know it could be one it could be the other whatever but now, but also more importantly, earlier today, I had been talking to Mark, and since I put

that video out, I've been reading on Reddit for four straight hours. And now I'm convinced that it is not alien. No, look, we're being a little tongue in cheek here, obviously, but I, but people that have been watching the show for a long time know because, dude, we're living in a golden age of alien stuff. We've covered aliens on this like actual real world political podcast we have. Aliens have come up multiple times in the past few years because Congress be talking about them and stuff. And Mark Hayden it every time because I'm an idiot and aliens hit for me. And he has to roll his eyes out of the back of his head and become upset when I start talking about it could be aliens.

For me, basically, genuinely where I fall is I would like to believe that it is aliens. And also further, I don't know if y'all like this, it would hit for me if it was aliens. Because most things don't end up hitting for me. yes gun to my head my money is on i don't think this will amount to anything in the long run and it will be just another thing like the chinese weather balloon incident it'll just go away and we won't get nothing out of it that's what i that's what i if i had to bet my house that's what i would bet it on happening you're also a terrible better that's true too that is true that's a good point i almost never win my bets because i but the reason i would make that bet is because

I want it to be the other way. And so I just, the universe is not going to allow that to happen. Now, you might ask, why would you want it to be aliens? I could tell you. There's a few reasons. There's a ton of it. First of all, I've always disputed the notion that people have, people that automatically assume that if aliens show up, it will be bad.

And I know the most common analogy, which I think is mostly attributed, originally attributed to Stephen Hawking, I believe, is like, Yeah. Ask the Native Americans how it was when the technologically advanced society showed up to their world, you know. Right. And back in the day, it's like, that's what happens. Right. I've always disputed that because I've always thought that as a society advances. I've always thought Stephen Hawking was an idiot who should listen to me. I've always thought that. But I've always thought that as societies advance, they don't just advance technologically. They advance like morally and ethically and philosophically. Empathetically. Empathetically. That. also happens right and so i just don't i don't take it for granted that a society that could uh be intergalactically space fairing would automatically be that ruthless or lacking an empathy in fact i think you could argue that it could be the opposite they could be a very you know like i said morally advanced society too uh that's part of the reason that i would it would hit for me if aliens show up another reason though me and you were talking about this before the show started or earlier

a damn well red, I can't remember. Even if they're not, I'm still kind of on board at this point. Me too. Bring us out, dog. Come on. I'm about ready for the aliens to show. No more bills.

Give them their shot at it. Why not? We suck. How much more could they run this thing into the ground? As long as they are already doing, like let them fucking let them take a shot.

I'm fine. Yeah, man. I want them to show up for a myriad of reasons, and one you've just, you know, you've just touched on, which is like, let it just be over. You know what I mean? Like, as long as they wipe us out all at the same time in, like, one flash and don't, like, put us into internment camps or whatever, like, that hits for me. That's fine. But also, like, to me, I want to hear, I want to hear all of my religious friends just lose their goddamn mind when some purple-headed aliens show up and try to explain to me what. This is this going on.

That is great. See, that's the type of thing because you grew up in the church and I did not that you think about that I don't

but that really hits for me. That is a great point. Watching the humanity's religions have to react in real time to fucking first contact with an objectively

intelligent alien race. Like, that shit would be wild, dog. They'll call them demons. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean,

yeah, you're right. They will. They will just But I'm saying, they'll end up being the reason that the aliens turn on us because they'll show up like, hey, guys, what's going on? We're here to party and they'll be like, demons and then they'll blast us all. My fear is that, like, what if they're like real big? You know what I mean?

Like, we think of them, I think of it as like humanoid. You know what I mean? Like, what if they're giants? It's like, what if they just wop my ass? No, that's not just that. They just walk into a bar and whoop anybody's ass. What if an alien can do that? If you thought about that, that wouldn't be it.

That's hilarious. Who cares how big they are if they have fucking tractor beams and fucking rail guns and shit? No, I'm not. What I'm saying is a really, really big alien could still be like a celestial and marvel. Yeah, yeah, because like even if, like, even if I'm not talking about an alien, like in this situation, these aliens don't have any problem with us either. It's just that they're so big that it's like, you remember the scene and you remember the scene in Avengers? when Roan, or somebody was talking to Ronan or whatever, or no, Loki, and they were like, I have no quarrel with you.

And he's like, well, an aunt has no coral with a boot. You know what I mean? Like, what if they're so big that they don't even notice us? Now, see, I actually share that completely. First of all, at first, it was hilarious to me because I thought you're just like, now see me, anytime a new antagonist shows up, I ask the question, well, how big a boy are they? That's what I ask. So that's what I need to know about these.

That's what I thought you were saying like physically. But no, what you just said, I've also, that's always been my caveat too and I'm not just saying that.

And my Patreon video I did this week also on this subject. This is all I've talked about for 72 hours. Yeah, why weren't you? Let's just do a new podcast on aliens. This week on this subject. I said the same thing.

My caveat to that whole like, you evolve philosophically and empathetically and all this stuff too. My caveat to that is, always been now look if they are so far ahead of us that we are basically ants to them right then yeah that's a problem i hear you yeah human beings like respect ants and what they can do and how wild they are but we will knock a whole shit out to put a fucking play set in your back yard without thinking twice about it so that's what i'm saying no no no no i'm 100% with you on that

I've always thought about that too because I agree that is a concern but again at least then we're just like thrown we're just thrown astray you know and then we're dead and then yes but see my dying words to my mom I'll go I told you

Jesus wasn't real bitch you know what I mean so but see here's the thing here's the new hotness when it comes to complex I don't know if it's new but here's the here's the big brain move right and see like normally when it comes

conspiracy theorist, you know, the big brain move with aliens is like, yeah, they're out there and the government knows it. They're just lying to us. They're not telling us that they are there, right? So keeping that in mind, there's a thing called Project Blue Beam, which is a famous amongst lunatics conspiracy theorist that I think originated in the mid-90s. And recently, Roseanne Barr, famous Trump supporter and legendary commission. media and Roseanne Barr has supported publicly on Twitter. This is Project Blue Beam. You know, who else has said that?

Alex Jones has said this situation. This could be Project Blue Beam, right? And by the way, it's a side note. This is why it just don't hit for me so much being into eight. Because I love it and I love it. And every time this is who you're with. Like it's me, you Alex Jones and Roseanne Barr. I know, dude.

like there should be some kind of separation between actual lunatics and people like me and Corey who just believe that, you know, there's an intergalactic civil war going on that we're caught in the middle of it. Yeah, we don't believe crazy shit. Yeah, this is how I feel about Hitler being back because I love to read about Hitler

and I'm like obsessed with Hitler, but like not in that. I know he don't hit, you know what I mean? But now I can't go the store and buy a Hitler book without having to give some sort of disclaimer, like, excuse me, okay, listen. It is the same. He don't hit for, he don't hit for me. I'm just, I'm into it, you know.

That's, you're 100% right. They are the exact same thing. Being an alien enthusiast or and being really into World War II, both things lump you into some unfavorable groups that you don't want to be a part of. Unless you love all that and it all hits for you. Yeah, right. Right. Yeah.

Anyway, no, I'm saying. So having said that, Roseanne Barr, Alex Jones, and other conspiracy theorists have been saying that this, we're living it. Project Bluebeam, it's here. It's what's happening. So here is what the conspiracy is for Project Bluebeam. It's that the federal government is going to do a false flag alien attack, right, using holographs and holograms and drones and all and lasers and all this advanced technology. They're going to fake an alien apocalypse in order to be able to. subjugate the world enough

to unite it under a new world order, right? So obviously they've been working on the new world order for a long time. Everybody knows that. It goes back to Hollywood Hogan, I think, in the late 90s. And they but they were trying

to get a new world, a one world government a one world government for a long time and this is how they're going to do it is they're going to fake an alien apocalypse to unite humanity and make it more palatable to humanity. that a global authoritarian government is installed.

Now, here's the thing. This is the thing with conspiracy theorists, right? And it's like, look, I know that I'm espousing some of them as an alien person. But still, all the subreddit are it tarted? You know, but listen, here's the thing with a lot of times, because this is how Alex Jones, here's like the nefarious brilliance of Alex Jones, right? Which I don't think he is brilliant. He's a maniac.

But like, what he does, he absolutely. is brilliant. Because part of the reason why, and me and Mark have talked about this, too. So if y'all are mad at me for saying this, Mark has said this too over the years, and I know y'all trust him. All the best of these conspiracy theorists and stuff, they have,

are conspiracy theories and people like Alex Jones, there's some kernel of truth or sense making to what they say, right? So I feel like with this Project Bluebeam thing, like how many people have said for years, I've heard stand-up business. about it about how like all this country and this world is so divided it's so fractured we need something to bring us together as the people you know what i think needs to happen the aliens need to show up right like i've heard comics do bits about that i've heard people say that it's like an

alien the good thing about an alien invasion is that mankind would finally put away put aside their differences and come together under one you know speak well that okay well first i'm getting to that but But that's been an idea for a long time. So the notion that the government would exploit that by trying to do this makes enough sense if you're a basement-dwelling tinfoil hat motherfucker to be like, this is what's happening. Right. But the thing is, these people vacillate between what I'm saying is, I guess I'm just trying to make, I'm just trying to defend myself and you by saying that just so y'all know, it's broke in the conspiracy. conspiracy theory world to continue to believe that the government is lying to us about the existence of our know that they're lying to us that aliens don't exist right right what the real

bleeding edge lunatics believe is that they're lying to us and they don't exist they're lying to us exactly so that's how you know that me and corey are actually smart well but no but no but you're right though you're right that is the thing i feel like covid more than anything yeah Showed that to people where it's like, you know what, that ain't going to work. Even if that is their plan, it ain't going to work, dog. Like, dude, as much as I love the movie and it may at the time when Independence Day came out, everything about Independence Day, I was like, yes, this is exactly how that would go if this happened to us. Oh, it's great.

It's great. But like, it almost at every step is exactly how it wouldn't go if it really happened to us. like having a president throwing his polo and pull up the collar and be like, get me in a plane. I was in the Air Force. I'm a hero. I had a stand-up bit about that part. Like, seriously, I loved that movie one of my favorite movies as a kid.

It's first time I re-watched it with my sons when they were old enough a few years ago, like during the Biden administration right after Trump or whatever. That part fucked me up so much about Bill Pullman and his character. Because in my head, I was like, Oh, my God. This is what we genuinely believe the president was like in the 90s. We, as a society, found this believable that the president was this type of person. Bush might have done it.

Bush might have done it. Yeah, it was, you know, well, I think he avoided military service, but he was like, young and strapping. I know. I'm just saying, I'm basically, his dad, well, his dad, his dad, he was, I mean, he did do that. He did. Obviously, George W. Bush don't hit for me, but he. got, like, shot down in World War II and was, like, a fighter pilot and stuff. Like, he did do that shit, though. I'm basing all of this on George Bush, throwing one straight down the middle after 9-11.

I just feel like, he would want to, I think that outwardly he would talk more like Bill Pullman. Like, he would be the guy that would be like, we're going to get through this, fucking aliens, you know. Man, you're, it's really hit for me how much I know we are pissing Mark off. Because, like, we started out of bad. I'm doing half this because of that. The whole thing, I know right. The whole thing, like that first video was fucking Trump being done. We're like, you know what?

He's spitting me in here, honestly. I should get right. Fucking 30 minutes later, we're like, you know who would have been great is George W. Bush? He's awesome. Which, by the way, no. I fucking, obviously, we're just, but. Oh, I just mean that Bush would have been better than the past two we've had at least

looking like a maverick, looking like one. Not actually being one, but like being a believable bomber jacket type dude. You know what I mean? But yes, but no. But either what? what, Project Bluebeam, even if that is what was happening, which of course it is not,

and I said this in the video I made today, it's funny of me to be like, it's funny of me to hear this and be like, that's so fucking ridiculous. Anyway, back to my theory that this is dueling factions of alien races or competing for, you know, it's like,

I'm dumb too. But even if that, even if that is what was happening, which is clearly not, you're right, it would not have, because that conspiracy theory originates from,

the era of Independence Day, the movie, by the way. People came up with that when they still thought that's how humanity worked. Like, we all know now that it would not go that way, dude. We wouldn't ban together for some kind of larger

existential threat. We'd help them out. We'd tear each other apart more, make their job easier. That's what we would do. This might sound harsh, but the thing that has, like, truly united us

over the past couple years that I've seen, is super-rich CEOs blowing up in a submarine or super-rich CEOs getting shot by an Italian. So, like, more of all that, please. You know, you don't have to waste your time on, you know, holograms of aliens and stuff like that. Just MK Ultra a few spaghetti bros and have them go after the Coke brothers.

And we'll all do whatever the fuck you want. We'll be happy as punch. Also, maybe, maybe just give us health care and cheap college and shit like that. And we'll also be cool with you. Like, you don't have to, you know, put a little tiny dude inside of an old dude and make him eat pierogies and stuff and have Tommy Lee Jones give us a speech about Elvis and shit.

Like, it don't have to be none of that. It's very simple. Just do these things. But, like, nah. Nah. It's always nah. It's never, uh, it's always not. Alex Jones, he didn't just tweet his support of this theory.

He also, he retweeted an image of silent lights flying in the night sky. He said it's very compelling footage. of these drones and that for example was one piece of footage that was been proven to be a C-17 cargo plane landing and the person who originated it just muted the audio

so it was never silent. They just like muted. They just like all right, are you still there? I can hear you. Yeah, I can hear you buddy. You're good. My camera went out. My bad. That's okay. The worst part about you. I know. Yeah, you're right. So anyway, they

they muted the audio and tweeted Alex Jones like, ain't this wild? And he was like, damn, that is wild. And it was just a plane landing this whole time. So that's like more evidence for what Mark has been saying being the case. But people are, you know,

freaking out. We're lucky more of this hasn't happened. There was a guy in New Jersey who apparently saw one of these drones in the sky and he got out his laser from his rifle scope, not the rifle itself, but just the laser from the scope and went after the drone with it. And

it caused it to go dark. And what actually he did was he temporarily blinded a FedEx pilot. That's what happened. So he nearly made a FedEx plane crash. What we'll do when the aliens show up, brother. Like, we're not a united people. We're a crazy people that just do insane things. And by the way, I'm glad you just brought that up because this, I want to say two things

to you and have you respond. And I'll shut up for the rest of the show. number one, if it is aliens, maybe don't try to shoot them with a shotgun. Number two, if Mark takes the position that, well, this is what the government says about the drones, and therefore I believe that, then why don't Mark also take the position that the government has said that it is aliens? Okay, hold on. When did the government say that it is aliens? I thought the government said it was aliens.

Like a year ago ago, and we was all just like, No, no, no. There was whistleblowers from the government and shit who claimed it was alien, but nobody, like the government has never officially said, hey, this is aliens. Also, Cho and Matt, I'm going to hit refresh right quick, and I'll be right back. It should be fine. Do it. It should be fine. Cho, just do it. I got you, buddy. Also, I would like to point out here that Roseanne really looks like she's staring right through my soul. Like, I can't tell if she's like in midwink or if she's doing like the rock sort of. of eyebrow raised, but Roseanne, that's the stink eye Roseanne given right there. Yeah, I believe if you looked up stink eye and, hey, there you are, buddy. Yep, I'm back, yes. Sorry, I was treading water by talking about Roseanne's stink eye. This is how much computers don't hit and just how dumb I am about them.

I've had on and off computer issues my whole life, and I just recently spent like a, to me, to my poor trailer, ass, like a sizable amount of money on a computer, like a computer. It's like I can edit video on this thing I can do whatever I need like this is a real deal computer To do all this shit with yes and that too And I just did that and I just got it And I can't get through a fucking podcast without it Hey do you remember earlier

Remember earlier when your camera went out during well red It was when we started talking about the government and aliens I don't think it's coincidence I've been on this for a while maybe they're just striking me down That could be what it is but anyway Yeah, so people are acting a fool, you know, to get people like laser and stuff. And I think that's another big part of what Mark is concerned about is that we'll, like, we'll end up starting World War III because of like quadcopters in New Jersey or something,

which I mean, you know, I could see that happening. I know, but I think we're close to one anyways regardless. I don't think this is the thing to worry about. Well, you might be right, because look, look where some of America's leading conservative voices are taking this conversation. This is from noted thought leader Maria Bartaromo on a Fox business saying what she thinks about it all. Matt, if you got this, pull this up for us. It's not aliens, Joe. It's an even more vile enemy. All those drones are either registered and they know exactly who they are and where they're coming from or people are breaking the laws and going against their rules and those

drones should be shot down. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I think they are breaking the law. I think we've had a vast proliferation of drones in the private sector, and I think they're not being controlled adequately because you're absolutely right. Drones over certain size are supposed to be registered. I think they're not being registered. Again, the government has to come clean on what's the deal here, and they haven't.

Hopefully this week they will. I mean, do you believe they're from China, surveilling America? There it is. They certainly could be. We've admitted, Maria, we've admitted tens of thousands of China and Chinese. Dude, China's too slick. to be this goddamn obvious, man. I don't know why people don't understand that shit.

Like, these motherfuckers, like, listen, I'm not in any way saying that there's no reason to be skeptical or concerned with the fact that, you know, how big China is, how many motherfuckers they have, how we owe them money, how they seem to be a more united. I'm not saying that you can't ever say some shit about China. I'm not going to go that far out and be like, it's all based in racism. all I'm saying is that I do believe the Chinese do that but you don't know it because they're too good at it that's my take. They got it like that.

They got it like that. This is indicative of a larger thing as part of why Mark is worried we're going to fuck around and start a war over it because it's like it's not just her. Also, a Republican U.S. Representative Chris Smith, he was on Twitter. He said, the elusive maneuvering of these drones suggests a major military power sophistication that begs the question whether they have been deployed to test our capabilities, or worse, if they've been deployed by violent dictatorships, perhaps Russia, China, Iran, or even North Korea.

So a New Jersey Republican representative has said that he believes that these, he said he cited high sources that he has, that these drone, that these drones are originating from an Iranian mothership located in the Atlantic. So I'm saying a lot of of people are like not even taking the aliens angle they're you know doing their war hawk ginning up conflict thing we're like no this is iran this north korea this china and guess what we need to do bomb the fucking shit out of all of them because war hits so much for so many people so there's a lot of republicans doing that too which i agree with mark obviously does not hit i'm aware that me and you've kind of been doing this for an hour but to look at drones but to look at drones in the sky and just

completely secure in your thought, say, you know what this suggests? And then say something as a matter of fact is quite insane. You know what I mean? Because like, we've been doing this for an hour, but we're hitting. You know what I mean? What do you mean? These drones suggest that. You don't know what the fuck they suggest? This is the first time this has ever really happened. It suggests to me, if I'm looking at them, what it would suggest to me is, oh shit, Amazon is making late-night deliveries. That's what it would suggest to me. Okay. Right. Because you just said, because I was about to ask, you know, as we get down nearing the finish line here, I was going to ask you to, like, make a definitive, not not stance, but just like force you to say what you actually think. Because as I said up top, at the end of the day, just everybody knows, because we have been hitting, we've been joking around throughout the whole thing. Here's exactly what I actually think about it. Am I into aliens? Yes. Yes, I am.

Would it hit for me if this was some alien shit going on? Yes, tentatively, it would. What I actually believe gun to my head is happening here, I think at the end of the day, I think, as usual, that Mark is right. Of course he's right. It's not aliens. It's not, it's also not an Iranian mothership is none of this stuff. It's going to be something that don't even really amount to nothing.

It's tech bros. And it's like, it's drones and drone shit. It's a combination of trolls and YouTubers and all this stuff. My dad has one. I know, right. So that's where I think it actually happens. Yeah, dude.

Like, again. But I'm tired of being played with all these fucking dick teasing ass alien stories for fucking six years running now. I'm sick of this shit. Whistleblowers and congressional hearings and fucking 60 minutes pieces and these drone hysteria is like, I, stop it. Leave me alone. Either stop bringing up aliens or let's see some motherfucking aliens,

because it's pissing me off. I can't handle this shit anymore. This is what I'd like to say is my definitive position and also say something to Mark. These drones are of course not proof of alien life, but when these drones are found out not to have anything to do with aliens, that in itself is not proof

that aliens don't otherwise exist. Two things can be true, right? Because much like the Chinese, I feel that aliens is also too slick to be, you know. Oh, yeah. would think so. Like, theirs would be invisible. Like, those would be invisible, right?

Drew made that point on Well Red today, because we talked about it with Drew too on Well Red, and he said that. He was like, dude, the videos I've seen of these drones, it's like, if that's aliens, I'm not impressed. It's like, because like you said, they would be in, they'd have cloaking technology. They're the ones that my dad has, you know? And like I said, like, dude, I see drones in Chickamauga all the time because people, they don't, like, some of the, now the, some of the high end ones, like,

depending on what you want them to do can cost a lot of money. But like, relative to what, what? what you think they would call? Like, if I was a kid, I would have thought they'd cost. They don't cost. That screen TV, right? Like, you had a flat screen TV. You were like, what is that?

$8,000. Right? And next, no, a couple hundred bucks. Like, if you want a drone, you can have one. Because, dude, like, hunters use them, like, to look for deer. Dude, my father-in-law, I had a bit in our, the, me, you and Drew did three 30-minute specials together at Zanis a few years ago. In my 30 minutes as part of that special,

I have a bit about my father-in-law buying a drone for $5.5.5 store. And then I immediately wrecked it into a tree and he climbed up there and got it. Because he's a man and I'm not. And that was the point of the story. But either way, it's like, yeah, he got a drone for $5 eight years ago or whatever. Not hitting one, but they're very, very, very readily available. Well, that's my, okay, that helps my point. One for $5 could still get up to a tree. So imagine what if you spend $400, $700, $800 on it. Right, yeah, exactly. Absolutely.

And dude, like, these, like, my buddy has one that's like way more high dollar because it's used to hold that like actual, you know, 4K camera to shoot like commercial stuff or whatever. Well, like, dude, like people are doing that all the time. There's kids with their daddy's money who are just like, I want to get a shot of all of New Jersey to use in my short film about what I'm not, not all, but you know what? And some of them are just doing it to fuck around because. frankly having a drone as a kid rules and then like you said earlier it's like that drone goes up some other person's like oh my god that's a drone i'm gonna send my drone up there to look at that

drone and then that happens exponentially and you just got a shit ton of drones up there like imagine the people on the ground who didn't send a drone up exactly they're all sitting there like god damn there's 12 drones up there whatever and it's just 11 dudes chasing the same drone slash each other or whatever yeah no i mean I mean, yes, I think, I think, I, yes, I think me, you and Mark all agree. That's probably what it is, but it always hits for me to talk about the possibility of aliens. But it is aliens. Right.

Yeah, it be aliens, but. Or if the aliens are so smart that they're like, let's send up some piece of shit stuff. They'll never think it was us. You know what I mean? Like, let's do this to test how they would react to all this stuff. But don't send our hidden stuff. I just maintained that aliens would be invisible because, like, we can damn near do that with fighter jets and shit. You know what I mean?

Like, like, like, I don't know. I don't know. That's all I'm saying. So that's what you heard finally after all that time, you heard what me and show actually believe about it. We believe what Mark did too. We just had to fuck with him along the way and also have a good time, which I feel like we did. I hope it hit for y'all except for all the pro-Trump, pro-George Bush talked to who did. And that was all so fucking more.

Yeah, right. Yeah, we're all, yeah, we're just hitting the whole time. But anyway, thanks for Mark for his birthday, by the way. Henry Kissinger's autobiography. It's hilarious. I kind of wish you hadn't a said day. You should just send it to him but made a video of doing it or something. But yeah, that's great.

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