Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 1/31/23 – Bad Cops

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Tonight Trae’s computer is given him fits as we are once again joined by Corey Ryan Forrester. We’re talking about Memphis police war crimes, trends in American robocopping, and whether employers are racist against bearded Americans. Plus dumbasses and Corey’s news quiz for children.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's january 31st 2023 my wife's birthday in fact happy birthday katie i'm tray i'm tray that's mark listen tonight's going to be a little bit different because there he is you see him the show himself senior georgia correspondent corey rime forester is going to be with us for the duration. Now, that doesn't need an explanation, but in the way of one, here's what's going on. My primary computer is in the shop right now. It's down at the computer garage. So I had to pull my old computer out, and I'm really worried that it's going to poop the proverbial bed on me as it is want to do. This way, in the event that happens, these two gentlemen will just carry on with a

plumb as they are want to do. So we're going to see how it goes and have a three-headed monster on this edition of skews. So, Mark, how are you feeling about it all? Good, but I'm glad you tagged in Corey to help out because if you go away, it's just me talking into the void, which is I spend most of my day. So it's nice not to have to do that. Yeah, me talking to us,

please don't leave you a little of my thoughts, ever, Trey. That'd be nice. I'm doing my best. Yeah. So, yeah, how are you going? Yeah, Cor. Well, I don't know. You know how Trey can attest to this.

Whenever anything happens, I immediately go to what's the most negative thing that it could be, and that's the one I go with. I just have this feeling that Trey totally wanted to take the night off for his wife's birthday. He was going to not do the show. And then he started going through old comments on the last time I hosted, and he was like, oh, no, I can't, I can't let him do this all by himself. So I'm going to pretend that my computer is at the poop garage or wherever you said. And so, no, that is not true. you know my computer's at the poop garage i've been having i've been having fits out of that i'm the only person i bet any of y'all have ever met who bought a brand new macbook pro

out of the box that just sucked from day one it was just i got a lemon i didn't know you could i knew you'd get a car that was a lemon i didn't know you'd get a computer that's one but i did and so yeah big apples having to fix it up for me i'm actually excited uh go ahead mark Did, Corey, didn't you and I do one of these on our wedding anniversary? Yes. So, trained to go for his wife's birthday. That would just make us look terrible. Yeah, so a couple of things will we get the show.

I know you want to do your news quiz thing, Corey. But this story really made me laugh. Trump's kicked off his 2024 campaign, and he gave a big rousing campaign event in New Hampshire this weekend where he's actually trailing around DeSantis. and he dropped the old hits, you know. He went back to the windmills. But he also, he dropped the heat about the windmills. He says that windmills aren't just killing birds now.

They're taking that on planes. No one knows more than him about windmills, though, Mark. No, everybody says it. I looked up, in case you're wondering if there's an epidemic of planes crashing in windmills, absolutely is not. And I looked up how tall a windmill is, a wind turbine is. It's 280 feet or 80 meters, for overseas listeners. So if your planes fly 280 feet, you've got bigger problems than a wind turbine.

term. But his campaign is like, because Trump's hardcore supporters about 28% of American voters. And so he's got to be rocking a hard place because most Republicans don't want to vote for Trump, but also like if they don't vote for him, he could ruin their lives and just drag those people away from the party. But so they did an interview with a bunch of people who both anonymously and on the record said they hope he dies. we mean like Republican thought leaders and like high profile people saying yeah it would really

it for us if they died that would solve a lot of problems here's a quote from former Republican Congressman Peter Meyer from Michigan who said you have a lot of folks who are just wishing for Trump's mortal demise he turned this strategy for dealing with Trump quote actuarial arbitrage So if they had a bunch of anonymous Quoteer Lurias, we're just like hoping he dies But remember Trump's parents both live well in their 80s And I think one in the early 90s And he has access to the best medical care in the world

So good luck with that strategy But yeah, it's like it's funny Because like the left Everybody wants Trump to go away Our fantasies is hauled off in handcuffs And bears is just he like keels over on a toilet And I'll take dead too for the record

Yeah I wouldn't I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind. Yeah. Yeah. So they're, so some of them right are talking about how their hope is like,

because he lives on flet fish sandwiches, that it might kill him, but it might work the other way because like he's made of artificial food. So like we've never seen Velvita go bad. No. Yeah. He's totally. It might be immortal.

Yeah. He's like processed himself. He's like a processed cheese equivalent of a person, got the skin tone for it and everything. Yeah, I've always been. I think he's. one of the greatest examples of how it's absolutely true that people's health is an individual thing yeah do you know what i mean that's like something that'll kill you dead somebody else can do

for 50 years or whatever like because trump he or not i know he's you know rich and has all that healthcare stuff like you said but he's just pouring garbage down his gullet for 70 years and literally doesn't believe in exercise and he's apparently going to live forever so who the hell He's only a couple years younger than Biden who's vegan and around the bike every day. And he's like even if he died now, like he's already surpassed the life expectancy for men in this country and living the way he does. So like no matter what, he is a medical marvel. Yeah, Joe. I see, I know you want him to hit us with these.

I'm wanting to so bad. Mark, these are mostly for you. Yeah. Well, of course they are because the only reason I ever do them is because you're not on here. So, Trey, and for the audience at home that doesn't know, every week, as soon as I find out I'm hosting skews, I go and I delete the Twitter app off my phone, I throw away all the newspapers, I burn them because I don't need to read nothing, because I know I'm going to get it here on the greatest informative podcast that you can get weekly skews. So, every week that I'm on, I pose three questions to Mark that have really been bothering me,

and I need to know the answers in a judgment-free zone. This week, speaking of former Republicans that we don't know where they are, Mark, I posit to you, ask you, where is Paul Ryan? He's on the board of Fox News and doing like corporate consulting shit. He's also getting back out there

doing a bunch of interviews. Yeah, that's kind of the standard move, right, for those people, whenever they get out of politics, they just then get on a bunch of different boards of directors and, you know, just make like crazy money for not doing all that much which i guess they've got a lot of experience with for sure but dude he walked away so quick like i feel like he was just starting to and not hit for me but just starting to hit you know he was a young this is another thing i want

to bring up too looking back at paul ryan shit he wasn't that bad like remember when like he was the worst thing that we thought could happen at dude at least he was young showered incompetent. Am I wrong here? A little bit, but it's not working out there's over here. But one of the reasons he walked away is like, because he was trying to governing a small

majority, like this circle of brain-dead mongles and Kevin McCarthy's trying to wrangle and he just got sick of it. He's like, you guys won't let me govern. It's like, okay, whatever, have fun. Well, I'm glad I asked because I didn't know. So, there we go. Letterman gimmick here.

broke in the window. All right, here's one that I'm certain is more of an opinion-based question, but I trust yours more than anybody. Mark, more important, Congress or Senate? As Senate. Okay, thank you. Would you like to elaborate? If you're only going to have one, you want to have the one where you can confirm judges and shit, right?

Yeah, that's accurate. Right. And also, like, because, like, the two Senate. senators from a state like Wyoming are, you know, have the same vote as the two from California and shit like that. You know what I mean? Despite the fact California is like 75 Wyoming's or more, however much it is. Well, it's definitely what I thought considering Marjorie Taylor Green is in Congress and Obama was a senator. Like that was, I was leaning towards Senate hits harder, but I didn't know. I figured out to ask. And finally, rule of three. Who would win in a fight? Janet

Reno or John Bolton. I'm going to go Janet Reno. Fuck you all day. Just because she doesn't wear a bow tie. I don't think anyway it wears a bowtie since Malcolm X could win a fight. Yeah, I feel like with Janet

Reno, you want to just like, you know, worker from the outside, sort of stay in the kitchen area, you know? She had a pretty big reach, right? Didn't she? Like, I feel like... Yeah, she got a wings fighting. Yeah, she could like work the jab, you know, set the tone. It's going to be hard to get in there

tight on her you know i agree well yeah there you go well that was tremendous listen before we continue with the show a producer matt is in fact with us tonight this is weekly skews i want to remind you all of the requisite two orders of business here number one if you like to see me and or corey perform live you can go to traycrouter dot com and check out all the dates you see the red ones there the red ones are ones where it's me corey and drew the three of us will be together this weekend in Indianapolis, and then next weekend at the Mall of America up there. Oh, no shit. Bloomington slash Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D-D., teen pregnancy for declining and fucking all of our retirements up. All right, hit it, Matt. This guy in Florida wants to slash entitlements. You don't do that. You don't say that. It's just not a smart idea. What a no deal with entitlements?

Tell everybody that's about 18 to 30 to start having babies. Have a lot of babies. That'll help with entitlements. We should raise a retirement age, but. Oh, God. Wait, did at the end did that son of a bitch say that we should raise the retirement at? Barry the lead. Jesus Christ.

I know what's about to say, what a funny, like, tag for that being able to end. It's like, about burning everything down. Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean, like, that's what they're talking about is because DeSantis and the Freedom Caucus, he was in the Freedom Caucus. He was in the Freedom Caucus. They're making noises about the dead ceiling fight and how to cut entitlements, aka come back on Medicare or Medicaid and raise the retirement age. And they're using that as a jumping off point to slam DeSantis. So that guy was sort of defending him. But this pitch to start doing teen pregnancy again. So we have more babies to pay into Social Security so old people can have food. It's just like, what the. like just raise taxes on rich people just raise taxes on rich people it's also funny to for them to like you know suggest that when you know they make it so incredibly difficult for a teen mom or their spawn to just exist in this world right it's like that's really what you want more of y'all hate them right or we're talking about only the good kind of people having uh team pregnancies but that

that makes that solves the problem better try if the team moms has no resources because then that kid has to drop out of school like 15 to get a job. So he starts contributing sooner. See? You're right. You got to play the long game here. Got to get them in a system earlier and keep them there later. Life expectancy is going down.

Retirement age going up doesn't seem dystopian to me at all. It's like we're not even pretending that you work for any real reason other than to serve your masters and die. You know what I mean? It's like, no, you work your ass off. You build up a nest egg. Then you retire and enjoy your golden ears. And they're just like, yeah. No, we're getting rid of all that.

Like, dude, like, I, like, it's obviously, we all know that the people at the top want everybody to work until they die. We all know that they want that, but it's insane to me that they say it out loud as part of their platform for being a can't, like they, like, these motherfuckers would just go, we should be working until we're 80. And people will hear that and go, I'm voting for this guy. Like, that's, I can't, dude. I just, I don't understand. that's the fight that's happening is because Trump called those people morons for saying out loud they want to raise their retirement

age. Yeah, I love him. Because he has a way better political instincts than they do. But it's weird because I saw these like nerd want types arguing about whether we should retire to raise the determinates because people are living a little longer and are healthy a little longer. And I was like, I'm not engaged with this intellectually.

My real answer is if you try to do that, I'm going to fight you. I don't know. I'm not arguing with you. Also, I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I saw all the other day, I didn't fact check it because I don't get down like that, but I saw somebody the other day say that, uh, like, as I mentioned a minute ago, that like life expectancy statistically is like drop to tiny big. Because I thought it was a big deal. It's like the first time that it happened in literally forever. And it was like, you know, a harbinger of doom,

you know, rightly so. It's a combination of, uh, COVID, uh, COVID obesity and deaths of despair, which is a catch-all category for like, overdose is alcohol. Florida. Suicide. Yeah. Yeah. Florida. We got a bunch of that thing is like, you know what to help with that death of despair problem is telling somebody they have to work until they're 80. Right. Right. That'll definitely make a perk up their spirits.

But like, I'm wondering why we have these like sane cable news debates about shit that's like visceral about quality of life because I saw this story a couple days ago. I was like, yeah, this is how you fucking do it. And you want to know where it's from? France. All right. Let me read you this headline. French Union cuts power to pressure Macron opinions.

They say cuts power. They cut off the electricity to the president's house. The proposed business is about a bill to raise a retirement age from 62 to 64. So even their bad version is still better than their ideal present version. I thought that said French onion, and I was about to go off. I thought we were about to switch years in a big way. Yeah. So this military labor union, they cut off electricity not just in Macron, but political supporters and wealthy people,

while handing out discounted power and gas to the public. hell yeah hell yeah more of that joker shit stop fucking talking to these people burn some stuff down this is fucking ridiculous

anyway that's one of that's your France update we have like the only time Americans burn down cities is when we

win the Super Bowl this is fucking stupid oh god shit anyway riot riot riot riot

well you might want to put a caveat with that because if somebody does riot and they say they heard you say it you'll be I don't care.

I got pills in my mouth. I'm sorry. Make me the face of the movement that burns down a city over the retirement age. I'm fine with it. I would gladly stand for off of this shit. That's definitely a good reason to burn a city down for sure. Right. Somebody's got to clean it up, too.

You're providing jobs. I like where your head's at. Yeah. All right. The trade die. Go away. Trey. Oh, Trey's dead.

Bye, Trey. Thank you, all right. Anybody missed the top of the show? One of the reasons, Corey's here, if you guys missed the top of the show and you came in late, is Trey's computer is a bugging out, and so we needed an emergency backup, and that's why, Corey, you're here to fill in.

So, moving on, the next Daily Dumbass, what do you call it, honorable mention, the first other daily dumbass of honorable mention, is the NAACP for not fighting for bearded Americans such as ourselves. This headline, This headline got me very intrigued. I was like, what the fuck? Republicans cites dynasty when discussing race-based discrimination. Now, if you're like me, you're like, what?

So what happened was there was a bill proposed in Minnesota to protect basically black people from hair discrimination, right? So you can't like, you know, fire or demote or pressure black women that change their hair if they have natural hair or do. dreadlocks or, you know, Afro or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Right. So, debating that bill, and this dumbass, he stood up and talked about, so this bill is called the Creating Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, so the Crown Act.

And it protects traits associated with race, including, but not eliminated to hair texture and hairstyles. So this Republican State Senator named Nathan Weisenberg proposed an amendment to the bill that would add beard to the list of protected traits, signed the fact that he had received emails describing his own. beard is ugly. Dude, just absolutely tailing on himself. That's hilarious. Right. Right. And so when he stood up, he talked about how the duck people, like,

he asked some of his fellow senators if they'd seen the show Duck Dynasty. And he talked about how the Duck Dynasty people represent a certain culture in America, which I'm going to object to in a second as a person who's an actual fucking redneck, not these fake-ass fucking rednecks. But anyway, this thing was voted down. But the thing that, before we go back to Duck Dynasty for a second, this is actually a good idea, but not for the reasons this guy thinks.

I was about to say, I'm actually on board with this, but like you said, not because I think that white people are discriminated against, just because, like, there are so many things in corporate America that people are looked down upon for or discriminated against that just don't, that don't really matter at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think that, now, granted, I can't blame a person if they're interviewing two or three candidates and one of them has a neck tattoo and the other one doesn't, you know, I get you going, well, maybe not that guy. It's wrong, but I'm saying I get it. But, yeah, I'm on this side. Go ahead, Mark. Yeah, the reason I think it would be a good bill. So there are lots of people who have beards for religious reasons.

Yeah, right. Seeks. Hasidic Jews. right but this guy goes to Duck Dynasty as if those guys are getting jobs anyway and it's like these all these people thinking about their fucking sales like oh guy I got called

my beard ugly so I got to pass a bill protecting myself from being able to get a job and going back to the Duck Dynasty people I don't know if you guys know this or not Matt get this picture ready yeah this is what the Duck Dynasty family looked like before the TV show

all right they're preps Hollywood got a hold of them and turned them into these cartoon caricatures of what people think rednecks are and if you're not familiar with it, the Patriarch dude was like the starting quarterback, Belizeana State, he played ahead of Terry Bradshaw on the 7th.

Yeah, and quit because he wanted to hunt. Respect. Yeah, and he started a chain of sporting goods stores and his signature item was, you know, the duck call or whatever, which is where they got the name of the show for. So, like, but like these, they're fake. They made a big, like, so some of my friends back home watch the show more fans of it and they're talking about when these guys were talking

about how they were being censored because they wouldn't show all the religious stuff on the show it's like they're not being censored the show's scripted and after can't get on a screen and just go off book and start talking about Jesus you've got to do the plot of the show right so like anyway these people are also full of shit anyway the guy that the other guy that the creator of the show made his money in gay porn he's the one who found them and got them their beards and shit and they're going there talking about how gay people are going to hell they're fucking lying yeah and for the record like you know there's several people who uh may i mean like you go back to like larry the cable guy right he's a little bit of a put on but for the most part

his act isn't really damaging too i mean look he he he's at least a pig farmer from nebraska i've always given him that i don't really give a shit if someone puts on a little extra south just to get by an entertainment unless they're doing it and then also appearing on the 700 club and also spouting homophobic bullshit then I have a problem with it because it starts to make us look back

does that make sense like my yeah that's the crime to me is the shit like I don't give a fuck that yeah you wearing a polo shirt isn't going to sell duck calls do your thing you know what I'm saying but like don't fucking give me that

like we're discriminated against like you went to Duke probably Yeah, I don't, these guys are, it all makes you mad. I think I, I don't know if I ever told you this story, but I did a bar show with Dan before he's Larry the Cable Guy with when he was still Dan Whitney. And I think it might have been the last night he was Dan Whitney. It was a bar show in Dallas and he ate absolute shit and then cussed the crowd out. And I guess blue collar, blue collar comedy was just about to start.

And I guess he booked that, but I didn't know that. But he just goes, you know what? fuck i don't need this shit and mark does date and was then larry the campbell guy had made billion dollars so there you go it's too it's too long for this show but i actually do know the whole story of how all that went down and i'll tell you later it's pretty fucking fun yeah i can't wait all right we'll do uh we'll do we'll do we'll do one more uh cori because i want to get to the segment do you want to talk about cartoon bear dicks or being gay for hitler oh my god mark what the fuck i thought as soon as you said the first one i was like well there's no way that it's

going to top get we can't do both okay okay let me flip a i don't have a coin but i'll flip my dip can uh okay front top side is gay for hitler bottom side is bare dicks gay for hitler let's do right so our last our last baby dumb ass is everyone who is gay for Hitler for assuming Nick Fuentes is on their team. Oh, God. We love Hitler, not in a fucking gay way, okay? We love Hitler in a Christian way, you freak. Not in a gay way.

Anyway, in like, in like an awesome way, okay? In like a we love Trump way, you fucking liberal. All right. Oh, yes, yes, loving Hitler in a Christian way. Chris, Jesus, the famous hater of the Jews. I got to say both ways of loving Hitler

are weird, but I think just wanting to fuck Hitler is far more defensible. Of course, dude, of course it is. You know how many times I have fucked someone absolutely deplorable and would do it again? You know what I mean? Like, I saw somebody

post something earlier on Twitter today. They're like, would you ever date a woman that voted for Trump? And I'm like, date, no. But I would like, to go back and have another run at a couple of them. You know what I mean? Like, just wanting to fuck somebody. Like, you can still think that Mel Gibson gives off good granddaddy energy

and want to plow him, but not think that anything he did was good. Am I making sense? Yeah, these are the sex thoughts of a man whose wife is six months pregnant. Seven months. Seven months. Yeah, so, by the way, so Corey got an ultrasound today, saw his baby's face and dropped it in a text thread. And Trey immediately made a photo match up with Red Fox, and they're kind of dead ringers. So I got to give it too much.

Do you have it in front of you right now? No, no, no. Yeah. There you go. My baby looks like Red Fox. So Nick Fuentes is the leader of the Gropers. He runs that super racist event adjacent to CPAC that all the Marjorie Taylor Green spoke there, a bunch of congressmen spoke there. He's like, Marjorie Taylor Green kind of had to disown him, but a bunch of

politicians still hang out with him is a complete loser he's also a twitter addict who was at january 6th but um he got like an andrew tate type right yeah he's like he says he's the guy who said that he won't have sex with women because having sex with women's kind of gay because if you're if you have a girlfriend that means you got to like cuddle yeah and go on dates and what's what's gayer than that anyway so um he a couple other funny funny things about next wednesdays before you move on this segment. He got banned from Twitter, but that Elon reinstated him that he was immediately banned for doing a Twitter space where he talked about loving Hitler, which is what he's responding to there. So, after his Twitter account was restored, I said, I'm somebody who in a functioning

society would be rewarded for being a genius. I am awesome and my Twitter is funny and I want my account back now. He also had previously said that life without Twitter is not worth living. I cannot live without being on Twitter. I'd rather be alive on Twitter. I'd rather be alive on Twitter. than this world. So now these officially permanently bans, buddy, RIP. Dude, that type of shit doesn't make sense to me either because I know that this Nick Fuentes feller is successful. I see his name all over the place and I know he, now he probably lost a shit ton of money

in crypto. That's one thing I know about all these people is that over the past year, they have lost at least 250K in crypto, so they're less well off than they were before. but like all these dudes who are like super popular in other realms except for Twitter I cannot fathom wanting to be on Twitter unless I desperately had to be on Twitter which I guess if you're a grifter type like him you literally have to but like dude the we've said it a million times but I can't say it enough the very very very second that whoever it is in Hollywood that tells you how your careers go and tells me Mr. Forster you actually don't

need social media you can just have somebody else run it fucking And bye, I'll see you, I'll still come on skews, and I'll have my handler retweet it. You know what I mean? Right, right. I like it for live sporting events, but that's about it. Right, yes. So, all right, so moving on to this segment. This is like a heavy subject, although there are like moments of ridiculous because it's

about American politics and policing. But so we talked a lot about police stuff on here, and I just didn't want to ignore this because it's kind of the biggest thing going on in the country right now. It's the case of Tyree Nichols. And there's some stuff that's different about this one and gives me a twisted sense that maybe police officials are learning a little bit, but not, maybe not fast enough, nearly enough to, like, be responsible human beings. But let's talk about who Tyree Nichols was, but we talk about his death. He was 29 years old when he was killed on January 7th. He had a four-year-old kid.

He'd worked at FedEx for the last nine months. He would go home and eat dinner in his mom's house every night and his lunch break. his big hobbies where he liked a skateboard and take pictures of sunsets and his dad kept telling him he had to stop skateboarding because you're 29 years old and you got a kid and you can't break your leg and that's a fun argument to be having with their kid you know he's like it's a very human thing and in case you're wondering and I know a lot of people are wanting this for a reason I'm to get to in a second I read one of the articles that came across was a newsweek article with the headline did tary Nichols have a criminal record now he turns out it was a 600 600 word article to get to the answer no at the time of this right there was no evidence suggested nichols had any criminal record of any kind but it doesn't matter if he like one day got a stop and frisked and he found a sack of weed in his pocket that doesn't justify his murder later on because the cops didn't even know his name when they started fighting him right um and i know that a lot of people look at this up because uh tyree nichols criminal record with a top search on google um for a little bit so yeah a lot of people are trying to justify his uh needless death and by trying to figure out if he once got arrested for not paying a warrant on a parking ticket. Which is so fucking insane because, like, if I was to get killed by the cops,

which would never happen. But if I was to get killed by the cops, dude, I think even people that hate me would never think, I wonder if he had a criminal record, which, by the way, I do. Me too. Like, yeah, like, I fucking totally.

I totally do, which, by the way, apparently having a criminal record of any kind, is as good of a death sentence for a lot of these people. A lot of these people also say, like, well, you shouldn't be running. You shouldn't be resisting arrest. Let's just break that down real quick, all right? Sure, you shouldn't run, right? I agree that you shouldn't run.

I agree that you shouldn't resist arrest. But let's just break these two things down. If you are innocent until proven guilty in this country, it means that he can't at the moment of arrest be punished for the crime he supposedly committed. Therefore, if you kill someone for resisting arrest or for running, what you are saying is that running and resisting arrest are punishable by death in this country and that you have no problem with that. Also, like, what they define as resisting, and we're talking to the specifics of Tyree's case right here. But like, like when they killed Eric Garner in New York, what he did to resist was he was, he was selling Lucy cigarettes, which is, you know, a violation of a city ordinance because they're untaxed, right? So it's essentially stealing a nickel in tax.

revenue from the city per pack or some shit is what the crime he was committing was and when they he had been arrested for this a few times he was familiar with the cops and they came up and they hassled him and he goes they went to they went to grab his wrist to cuff him and he went sorry oh your uh your your your mic's off oh now it's on now it's on what he did to resist was they went to grab his wrist to cuff him he just he just gently pulled away is like oh come on a day right right for them to go. So what actually happened in the entire Nichols case, in January 7th, he got pulled over for reckless driving. I don't know if he was reckless driving or not. None of us do.

By the way, that could just mean 15 miles per hour over the speed limit. Right. And he was like 100 yards from his house, so I don't know how big of a hurry he would have been in this point. Five cops pulled him over for reckless driving. They approached the car with their guns drawn for no reason. They immediately opened the door and jerk him out of the car. It's before you've asked for ID. is before they've asked for anything. They start beating him immediately, tasing him. And then here's the running away part, right? The term custody has meaning.

When you're in someone's custody, you're in their care. The response for your life, all right? So, like, they have him in custody. They're beating the shit out of him. So, yeah, he gets loose and tries to run away justifiably because... He was getting his ass whipped. Yeah, they were hurting him for no reason. You're allowed to run away, and that's it.

video, cops can be criminals too, which we're going to get to. But like, so after we ran away, five cops who were there originally, there's a white supervisor that's involved in this, we'll get to in a second. But like, they caught him and beat him. We're not going to show the video. I honestly couldn't bring myself to watch much of it. Yeah, I haven't. I haven't.

Some of them held him while other cops beat him in the head. They did stuff like when he was on the ground, like wind up and kick him. So it's like, it's just like pointless shit. And talk to talking about the, they stopped resisting. There's some of this headline from New York Times. 71 commands in 13 minutes. Officers gave Tybee Nichols impossible orders. A time of analysis found that officers gave dozens of contradictory and unachievable orders to Mr. Nichols.

The punishment was severe and eventually fatal. I just one quick bookkeeping note, he died three days later in the hospital. He did not die at his scene. So here's on the command. They told him to show his hands even as they were holding his hands. They told him to get on the ground when he was on the ground. They ordered him to reposition. himself even when they had control of his body.

So when you can't follow a command because it's nonsensical or they're literally physically keeping you from following the command, that's resistant. Right. And the thing is, Tyree was the one trying to de-escalate this. Here's a quote. You guys are really doing a lot right now.

I'm just trying to go home, right? He's trying to tell them it's fine. You can just do your thing. Like, I'm not a threat to you. Yeah. So they told him to get on the ground. He said, that's when he finally flipped out, he goes, I'm on the ground.

And then the officers got more specific. He says, on your stomach. It's okay, okay, that's an order I can follow. But, like, I got five guys yelling different shit at me. This reminded me, there's a case in Arizona where two cops are yelling a guy in a hotel. Cops went to the wrong room in a hotel with ARs drawn. And the cop,

one of the cops, the cop that actually killed the guy had something psychotic written on the barrel of his AR. And one of them was telling a guy to back towards them, and the other one was telling the lay on the ground. He laid on the ground, the guy that was telling to back towards them, shot him in the back where he was laying on the ground, right?

So, like, how the fuck are you supposed to follow this shit? Anyway. Well, also, it's, you know, most people will say, if you didn't run, this wouldn't happen. And then you have a situation where it's like, well, he didn't run. So what do you want to say to that? And they're like, well, if you didn't resist arrest,

this wouldn't happen. Well, he wasn't resisting arrest. He was laying there. So at what point, at what point can, no matter what side of the aisle you're on, can you hear all this evidence, see the video, hear what the fuck I just said, and not come to the conclusion of, oh, I think that it might be illegal to be black in public, because that's pretty much what happened here. And I know that the big caveat to this whole case, and I'll be the one to bring up the elephant in the room, I don't care, is that, yes, there were five black officers and there was a white one, correct, that was involved in this? Yeah, the five that chased him down and beat him real bad, the second beating, where the cops who got fired,

and all five of those happened to be black. And the white guy did Tazen in the first altercation, and he's been suspended. Okay. Now, maybe he is less culpable. Still, though, when they're being that violent the first time and you don't stop your fellow officers from what they're doing, to me, you're a bad cop. Yes, that's, me and you've talked about this. probably off mic a dozen times where you know they constantly go oh well

it's just a couple bad apples it's just a couple bad apples but when let's say there's a cop that has never beaten a innocent black man in his life but he's definitely been there when it's happened and he didn't say anything now whether he didn't say anything because he didn't want his friends to get in trouble or he didn't say

anything because he was genuinely afraid of his job or I mean you got to look from their point of view at a certain point to go look what they'll do to somebody if they don't like them you know look like so i know that you're terrified but at the end of the day if you know about it and you don't do anything about it you are just as bad of an apple and the whole fucking system is clearly set up and again i say this because it was black officers that did it that whole system is set up to where

this is how we can and we should treat certain people you know what i mean and like at this point i don't know what the fuck a black person is supposed to do when they see the cops because you say don't run and everything will be fine. You say don't resist everything will be fine. You lay there and nothing's fine. So in this point, why the fuck wouldn't you try to run? Because at least that's your best fucking option. Or you don't pull the fuck over

and now you're in a high speed chase. I don't understand why every fucking person cannot look at this and see there is a problem and it is clearly a systemic problem and we need to do something about this shit. Whether it be defunding completely

fucking completely like reprioritizing training all this shit or just doing what they do in fucking England and having a dude wear a funny hat Bobby and just have a little stick that runs around and I don't fucking know but whatever it is that we're doing right now

ain't it dude it's fucking not it right um and I do you know why cops have blue uniforms uh Corey is it's a calming color no it's like when when police were first organized it was in England and wanted to pick the opposite color from the military so they would make a clear sign of the public

that these are not soldiers occupying their streets. Wow. Right, the red coats. All right. Now, fast forward today, but like what I would do, like, you remember when Sheriff Joe Arpaio ran those prison sweat camps? That's the Arizona guy, right? Yeah.

The main thing he got known for was, like, he had outdoor work camps for jail inmates, and he would make them wear pink colors. The funny thing is it made everybody happier. Yeah, right. He was trying to punish somebody to maselate them, but pink was like, a suit in color, it made everybody in a better mood.

So it did, it did make the prison, the jail population more manageable, but only because they were like in a better mood, not wearing blaze orange. But like, make cops were like baby blue or like pink. Get something, get there, let the, help change their, as opposed to these militarized uniforms. Right. Make baby blue uniforms and pink guns. That will get deaths cut in half, I think.

I mean, I agree. But I, like, I'm, I'm, I'm finding myself at a loss, which is very rare, because because I always have something to say, but, like, we've just, when is going to be the last one that everybody goes, okay, now? I mean, it's going to have to be a fucking white person, and that just don't happen a lot.

Like, that's, you know, when you have so many people go like, oh, the police kill white people too, and it's like, well, fucking scream about it. Say something when it fucking happens. If they killed one of my white buddies, I'd be fucking yelling. Like, Jesus, fucking Christ.

I mean, Tyler Childers has a song about it, that's like if this was happening in the same proportion of numbers to us, we'd have done came off the fucking hill with fucking pitchforks and stab them motherfuckers. So don't act like it's true. Me and Trey talked about this on the Patreon episode on Friday, and I read the lyrics from the last verse of that song. But yeah, it's like cops do kill,

disproportionately kill poor white people, but it's just like nobody thinks of them as a group, a special interest for whatever reason. But like people, everyone should be upset about this. So one more thing for a move on. on to the, the, what happened after the killing and, uh, is, uh, it's, it's, what's different here is the, um, uh, the police video had audio to it. So you could hear what they were saying. That's really the only reason to be held accountable because you can hear the fucked up shit they're

saying. Right. Including one of the officers who didn't chase and being like, I hope they beat his ass. Really? Yeah. Um, also the audio caught him calling out for his mom, uh, as they were beating the shit out of him. It's just awful. Um, so what's different this time? Um, um, so what's different at this time. The main thing is even before the video came out and the public was inflamed, they fired the motherfuckers and arrested them in charge of the five cops. They fired them, arrested

them, and charged them with second degree murder, which could carry up to 60 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. All right. Also, it wasn't just those five guys. We talked about the white cop who also got suspended. Two sheriff's deputies who also show up the scene have been taken off duty and three fire department employees have been fired. I'm assuming there were paramedics who didn't provide

aid while he laid no suffering. um so these aren't just cops this is also a problem of firefighters and paramedics who are loyal to cops which super fucking sucks man because like i've i constantly like i got a brother-in-law who's a firefighter and he fucking rules and uh i won't say him but i'll say that a large number of the firefighters it's him that i know they don't really fuck with the cops that much and i think it's because they see what all these cops do and they're like man that they're wrapping us into this too like we're also public servants and anybody in some type of uniform. So, like, that fucking bums me out because, like, usually you want to think of,

like, well, at least firefighters are out there saving kittens and, like, only existing to help, but, like, I guess not in this case. Yeah, historically, there's been, like, the rivalry between, like, police and firefighters, like, when I was a reporter covering police department, one year was a huge bra, the annual softball game between the firefighters and cops. That was funny. Dude, my brother-in-law, they box the cops every year. It's like the firefighters versus the cops.

And we go and do the fucking firefighters. They're all like, drop that fucking pig. Like it's pretty, it's pretty rad. I mean, it makes sense they'd be right. One, they're competing with steady budget money. So you've got that financial incentive to be rivals. But also, yeah, there's that thing where cops hate firefighters because people love firefighters because they only show up to help.

They don't show up just to annoy you and rate your ticket. But it is funny if you're a firefighter to borrow with the cops, who you call. Because if cops show up, they're not breaking up the fight. They're just whipping your ass. Some other good news that came out of this. Memphis deactivates a unit that fatally beat Tyree Nichols, because these guys are part of a, let me, they're part of a task force called Scorpion, all right? Jesus. Yeah, so they're, it's an acronym, and they're picking, they always pick names for these.

They're like Cobra from G.I. Joe. Cobra stood for street crimes operation to restore peace in their neighborhoods. It's basically a task force to, like, target high, high-crime neighborhoods. All right, we know what that means. they had 50 people on it and they were tasked to bring down a crime in particular areas. So a team of 50 cops are licensed to whip ass. These guys basically exist outside of normal command structures. They think of themselves as special forces, right?

So they're tasked to like kick ass and take names and things particularly go this way every fucking time. Every time one of these cities starts one of these task force, staff forces, they turn out horrifically corrupt. And like for a couple of examples, there's a gun trace task force in, Baltimore, well, those guys were literally just taking cash, pulling people over and taking cash out of their wallets and then beating them, arrest them for resisting arrest if they complained about them stealing their paycheck money. They also used a cover of a police protest to literally rob a pharmacy. They would rob drug dealers and sell it. And then the funny thing about that

is the only reason we know all this stuff is because when they were arrested by the FBI, like the government tried to get them to plead out quietly so the details of this case wouldn't be public. They chose to go to trial because they really think they really thought they hadn't done anything wrong. Right. And he was a great David Simon, HBO show called, We Own This City, about the Gun Trace Task Force. If you've got John Burke all in, everyone

check it out. Another famous example was the Rampart scandal in L.A. in the 90s, about the crash anti-gang unit, oh, crash. It's community resources against street hoodlums. These motherfuckers

stole and dealt drugs, you know, go-to, unprovoked beatings, unprovoked shootings. They robbed a bank, Corey. Jesus. So not all bad. Right. And people know these task forces always go bad. This is a quote from a woman named Cheryl Dorsey, who's a former LAPD sergeant who goes so grossed out by her policing career. She became a social justice advocate. And they interviewed about Scorpion. She said, you have officers who are, in this instance, drunk with power. They understand that they're not supervised. They've been out here behaving this way for probably the entire year and a half since they reinstated this task force, just jumping out the car, pulling people out,

mistreating them, manhandling them, and then jumping back in their cars, and off they go. This task force had been the subject of a bunch of civilian complaints that were absolutely utterly ignored until they killed this guy. And when they busted up this task force, the rest of the other 44 guys in this task force agreed they should be broken up. They were like, yes, this is a good idea. But then one of them said, a statement from the department said, This made me laugh.

The heinous actions of a few cast a cloud of dishonor on the title Scorpion. Dude, that's, I wanted to say this earlier and I forgot, but like, it goes back to what you were saying about when the police were founded or whatever and they went with Blue because they wanted to be the opposite of the red coats and shit. And they wanted everybody to know that they're there to help and shit. Like, these names, man, like you can't fucking be called the Scorpions and have anyone. like we don't get me wrong if you're doing something wrong and you see a cop you should immediately be like oh shit i shouldn't be doing this thing sure but you shouldn't just walk around and when you see a cop even if you're not doing it like i'm fucking white all right i am white i live in the south when i'm downtown or anything and i see a cop i do not in any way shape or form feel safer

in that moment then before i saw that fucking cop complete opposite I don't necessarily think it's going to be him doing anything to me, but I know that something in this area could pop off and I might catch a goddamn stray because this son of a bitch is going through a divorce and thinks he saw a little old lady reaching for a gun in her purse. I forgot, feel free to say you don't want to say if you don't want to, but what's your criminal record for? Well, the DUI was expunged, so I didn't even have to say it, but I just did. When I was 16, I wasn't driving on the road.

I would never do that. I was driving in a field, and I did some donuts and flipped. And a kid that was in the bed of my truck, got a concussion, had to go to the hospital, told on me, got a breathalyzer four hours later, still blew, hammered. Then it was a string of underage consumptions, three of those. And then, you know, I don't pay parking tickets, so there's definitely that. Like, fuck that. I'm going to get, fuck you.

You can come take it. I got an underage position of alcohol. was one of mine and my other one was me and my buddy my first weekend home from college it was two days before I turned 18 which is an important part of the story because I'd have been absolutely fucked

because Virginia criminal laws are horrific But when you were 18 That was the legal drinking age, right? I'm old. They always was yeah So me and my buddy were riding around Backroads getting high And we came across a we were going to drive across this bridge

But the bridge was out under construction So we had to turn around I was like oh let me see that highway barrel So I stole the highway barrel. No idea what was going to do with it. We got arrested for stealing a highway barrel, which in Virginia is a Class A misdemeanor that could have carried a penalty of a year in jail. No, shit.

Yes. So thank God it wasn't 18. Anyway, so I just want to, if people were wondering, as we mentioned, criminal records, it's nothing violent or horrific. Right. By the way, I got to point out, Aaron Streeter said that Corey tells that story about the DUI on putting on airs. I do. So if you want to hear that full thing, go listen to me and Trey's podcast.

putting on air. Sorry, Mark, it was organic. All right. So the, uh, another thing to know, are about, so cops aren't defending this. That's the good news. Every, every police chief, whether they're pretending or not is going, that's horrific. That's horrific. But the rigor context, last year was the deadliest year on record for police violence in the U.S. at least 1,200 people were killed by law enforcement. These aren't full numbers because a lot of agencies don't report them with the federal government. They kind of refuse to. So yeah, it's good. Yeah, damn. They're getting more and more deadly. LAPD's police chief condemn this.

And I want to say fuck that guy, because just this week, there was a case where a guy, like a guy in a wheelchair was killed by cops. He may have done some dirt because someone, another homeless person reported him for stabbing them, which you ought not do, right? And the cops say he threw a knife at them. In a wheelchair? Jesus. Yeah.

He threw a knife at them, which also you ought not do. But the thing is, once you throw the knife, you are on-aunt. Yeah, right. And you're in a wheelchair. You cannot run away, all right? And the especially bleak thing about this. Unless they're on a hill. Yeah.

The especially bleak thing about this is the way he lost his legs was in a different altercation with Texas police last year. Shut the fucker. Right. So anyway, this family also says the police shot him in the back. So there you go with that. So it wasn't even the guy through the knife family who popped off. and fired. So allegedly, I don't know for sure. That's what the family fears. So for the context

here, Memphis police did not get defunded. All right. They have, they just got a huge budget increase. It's got a huge raise. None of the, all these officers were veterans. And they also had been through a lot of the diversity training that we, and bias training that we think what police needs that the funding is supposed to go to. It's just a reminder last year in his state of the union when Joe Biden said fund the police and got a standing ovation from everyone. All that bought was this police force doing this shit. So I don't have the answers, but this isn't fucking working. All right.

And one last thing before we finish up, even though cops aren't defending this, conservative media went plug and play here and did their usable shit. Tucker Carlson, because the officers were black and the police chief as a black woman, said this was a problem of affirmative action because no these people were qualified for their jobs. Oh, my God. Which I agree they're not qualified for the job because they do shit like this. Right, exactly. Exactly. They're not doing anything different than their white counterparts have done for the last millennia.

Right. But the worst take of all time about this belonged to a former sports writer, current fucking idiot and Fox Sports Commentator Jason Whitlock, who said, you can't even imagine how dumb this was. Hit this video. Everybody involved in this on the street level was either 24 to 32 years old. Everybody. It was a group of young black men, five on one. look like gang violence to me. It looked like what young black men do when they're supervised by a single black woman. And that's what they got going on in the Memphis Police Department. The police chiefs black woman put some black woman in charge of the police for us. And we're getting the same kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in a lot of these cities that are run by single mothers. If we want to disgust.

That really is like I couldn't make that shit up. Because, like, I would almost do a sketch about that where, like, there's a brutal police beating and some reporters sitting there going, how can we make this about a black woman? You know what I mean? And then they, and leave it to Jason Whitlock to do. God damn, man. That's, uh, it's, uh, it's, I don't, I don't know her record as a police chief. I didn't look into it. Maybe she's super good at her job, but also she did allow this task force to be reestablished amid a bunch of civilian complaints.

That's not great. But he's like, he's looking at. Oh, she's still. cop fuck her he's looking at literal police doing literal police activities and going that doesn't look policing to me it's like gang violence i mean he does like gang violence agree to the fucking big and biggest gang in memphis is and like this this is infuriating man i just like these looks like these are young black men 32 years old 32 32's not old enough to know you shouldn't beat somebody to death these are trained law enforcement officers with years and years of experience do you think jason whitlock's like experiences in sports media or whatever is has just conditioned him like a and I'm not comparing these two people to him in

this sense but like his mind is trained like a Stephen A. Smith or like a Skip Bayless where it's like even if I don't believe it I have to give the most unique dumbest fucking take in the world because like if you had told me hey you got 10 goes at what Jason Whitlock's take is going to be I wouldn't have guessed because it's so fucking insane. Yeah if you guys aren't familiar with his career He used to be at ESPN, and he was a normal sports reporter to give his take, so I'm like what LeBron did last night. I liked it. And then he was given a huge budget to start sort of a black-centered version of like when this has been Bill Simmons running Grantland, a black-centered version of Grandland. He was paid to establish that website for two years and never turned out to exist.

So they fired him and he started doing this right-wing culture war bullshit. And it's incredibly bleak that you can make a great living, just telling old racists what they want to hear. And I can't use all the words. that my black buddies would use to describe what he's doing right there. Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah. But it fucking sucks. And, yeah, Matt, you can start looking for some comments right now. But let's do some funsies.

George Santos update real quick. So our excuse mascot, George Santos, disgraced congressman, who resigned with committee assignments but refuses to resign from Congress could even hang on the full two years. He gets a pension and benefits, baby. So I fucking support the grip. Absolutely. Get it.

So, digging through his campaign finance records, reporters found a bunch of people who had donated the maximum amount who didn't exist or didn't live with the address they reported. Now, this could be, here's the problem for him. That's his affirmative duty. Yeah. Right. You can't be like, well, I don't know. It's like, you have to prove that. You have to prove.

You can't prove it. You're fucked. You're going to prison. He was supposed to turn in a bunch of campaign financial. reports today, some finalized ones for the last election. Today is the deadline for it. But you can't turn him in without a treasurer, and he has no treasurer, because here's the headline I want to read to you.

This is the punchline to all this. FEC presses George Santos campaign after it lists treasurer who denies taking the job. He reported donations from people than when asked, he'd be like, I have no idea who that guy is. didn't give him any money. He also reported, like, campaign expenses, like meals at a Miami Beach diner that say he was never there and the meals don't make any sense. Like meals don't make any sense like he says it got pizza here, but this is a sushi joint. He reported parking at a Miami Beach lot and the city says the dollar amounts would be impossible. So you try to like do tax fraud, but he's like, oh, part my car there. That was

$7,000. I should get reimbursed. Exclusive area. Yeah. But the funniest story of this one of us from today the headline reads Promise Green Cards Catfishing Threats Promise Green Cards Catfishing Threats How George Santos's ex-boyfriends Say they were left feeling trapped manipulated So George Santos was 26

He was dating an 18 year old high schooler Which is legal 18 That matter if I'm still going to school Yeah I shouldn't do it I wouldn't tell my buddy to quit doing it if he was doing it But yeah right What are you going to do

So this guy says that It's when Santos was still living with his wife But I asked this guy to marry him And lied to him about being married He said his wife was just his roommate which she probably was. It's a green card thing, right? Which is also a criminal no-no,

but I don't have any moral problem with it. Immigration system's fucking stupid. And this kid got creeped out because George Santos was essentially promising stuff that read like lies and he felt like stalkery behavior. But the funny part was, this guy's name is Briss.

He recalled Santos telling him tales of dating supermodels and how they all still begged him to become a model himself. Ah, yeah. Good of Cory and Matt for an awesome show. I feel a little left out, Michelle. Michelle Broxon says, kudos to Corey and Matt for an awesome show. It's a third wheel over here, but I appreciate it, Michelle.

Definitely meant Mark. Oh, in case, I know we'll get this question. The reason Trey's not here, and he was here at the beginning of show for a little bit. But Corey was here as a backup because Trey's computer is a 1973 Atari. So there you go. Corey, my family is thinking about moving to Georgia. Suggestions? That's what Amanda Break.

Amanda Break. I mean, I need to know. a lot more about you before I tell you where to go. Also, like, yeah, it's a big place. Yeah, it's a big, I mean, you know, listen, Atlanta is wonderful. If you literally can just take your pick of where to move in Georgia, go to Athens. Go live in Athens. During football season, it's going to get a little bit insane.

But you've got wonderful country around you, and it's a nice little college town. It's super fun. Atlanta rules, regardless of what everybody told you about last week, cool. Chickamauga, we're always. here for you baby but i wouldn't suggest it i mean atlanta's uh you know uh it depends like if you're gay and black go to buckhead if you're black and have money you just go to land in general with black hollywood if you're uh you know if you're uh if you want to like throw a dart if you want to hear the if you want to hear the most cartoon had the most cartoonish town in history you can move to core

town because the stories from there are wonderful savannah's great yeah savannah yeah yeah i love savannah um uh see they got a great food scene and nice scenery it's a beautiful state depending on any you know where you want to, so yeah, it depends on, just do a lot of Googling, depending on what you're into. Yeah, for sure. Hey, Mark, can I plug something real quick before we get out of here? For sure. Hey, if you like, if you like hearing me ramble on, you can go to part-time funnyman.com. That's where I do my bonus stuff. Essays, poetry, podcast, videos. I'm currently in the middle of reading this here book, Redneck Bromance, which is a smut novel that was written about Maitre

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