Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 2/14/23 – Off the Rails

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

It's a Valentine's Skewsday, y'all, and tonight we’ll be largely ignoring the holiday to focus instead on the travesty in East Palestine, Ohio, as well as the fact that Republicans apparently want 13 year-olds to be able to get married and work in the mines. Join us.Support the show

What's up, everybody, welcome back, happy Valentine's Scus Day to you. It is February 14th, 2023. Hope everybody's feeling the love out there tonight. So we're a couple minutes late. That's a minor technical difficulties I know, hard to believe. But it's true. I'm Trey. That's Mark.

What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I've got a lot to talk about tonight. UFOs, Trey. basically all the kinds of vehicles and various points of technology. Yeah. I want to say, I'm still laughing about our argument over the Super Bowl. That was fucking hilarious.

Yeah, I didn't know if you're going to bring that up or not. I talked about it a little bit on the Patreon thing. I did this way. I was like, I'm not going to do this, but basically Mark, and then I ended up doing the whole thing. I had like an argument with you when you weren't even there, just for Patreon people. So, yeah. Drew texted me. I was watching with Drew at a loud bar.

So we didn't realize it was a controversial call because there was a noise. couldn't hear the broadcasters. But Drew said to you that I said to him, why are you this way? It was like, it was about why are you so mostly invested in the game which your team's not even playing? Yeah. It's obviously a me thing because like it happens to me in person and in text and stuff all the time where it's like I seem way more like fired up or upset about something

than I feel like people would be like, whoa, okay, all right, calm down. And I'm like, I'm not even mad, you know, but I'm doing that that way. But anyway, we're not going to get into the whole thing, but just so people are aware, if you watch the show you know that call at the end, I said that was soft and it ruined the ending of the game. I didn't say it was wrong.

I said it was a soft call that ruined an otherwise great Super Bowl, and that spiraled into just a whole thing. So, yeah, that's what it was about. Yeah, okay, so it was a good game. Congratulations to Kansas City Chiefs fans. I don't really, even though a Cowboys fan, I don't really have strong feelings of hate towards the Eagles. Nick Sirionni kind of hits from me.

associate channel hurts. So anyway, it was a good game. You guys'll be back. So Diane Feinstein, we already knew she was going to retire, but she announced it today, which we've talked about before. She is a pretty well-known to have a pretty bad dementia. Like, I think we talked about how, like, Chuck Schumer had to have four separate meetings with her to ask her to retire, and she forgot the first three. But so this exchange happened today after she announced her retirement. Somebody asked her about her retirement, and she goes, I haven't made that decision. Her staffer goes, we put out the statement. And she goes, wait, you put out the statement?

I didn't know they put it out. So she retired and forgot she retired. Oh, God. Anyway, any replacement level of California senator is going to be better than her. So you ideologically forget the fact that somebody else can actually show up for work. And this, I'm not trying to sound ages tier. I think like a 40-year-old early on said dementia probably shouldn't be a senator either. For sure.

Yeah. And just since you made me think of Maimau's, just now we're bringing her up. I also point out this was a, this is my Maimau's, uh, this is my Maimau's, uh, throw or whatever that I've got behind me here trying a little something out, you know, shout out to the hometown for people that have noticed in the different background. I had to do something, you know, at long last to combat your surroundings there, the ever popular climbs of Mark's set up.

So yeah, here we are. Anyway, yeah, man, she's 100 or whatever it is. No disrespect intended, but they ought not have the option to keep doing that. my thing, but I mean, they do. Yeah. Yeah, when you know, political party, he was oriented 90% around just patron and jobs and people people keeping employed. Then it's, this is what it looks like. But, uh, while I'm the subject of old lunatics in Congress. The state of union was last Tuesday before, after we got off. And I'm sure you guys have all known. That's son, like the goobers yelling at Biden. And then, um, uh, Marjor Taylor Green and Kristen Sinema dressing like

Disney villains or like I think the joke I made was they looked like people came dressed up like rich ladies and no one was sad drowned of the Titanic and then they stepped into a pretty epic trap Joe Biden said about Social Security which is deeply hilarious because yeah that was the best part that part was genuinely rad I thought and you know the type of thing I feel like you don't often see in like a stay of the union address or something like that it was pretty because it was pretty expertly done, I thought. He basically baited them into publicly declaring that they would not, you know, go after social security or whatnot. Right. And there's like, there's one thing everybody knows about Republicans, they love to get rid of

Social Security. The whole party's been oriented since 1960s around rolling back the New Deal. And so like, why they would deny it? Because they, they've all openly, not only is a campaign issue going to be that they want to roll back Social Security, but what's going to keep it pertinent in the news is they're all hypocrites about it because they say one thing to one group people or another one. So like the campaign ads fucking right themselves is pretty ridiculous trap. But also highlighted that the public and primary, you know, Nikki Haley declared and everybody knows DeSantis and Trump are running. But this is going to be like a salient issue because Trump always runs the left of them on economic issues. So you're looking at a dynamic

where Trump's going to win the nomination for a party who's opposed to existence of Social Security by running to protect Social Security. And Ron DeSantis openly advocated for ending Social Security when he was in Congress. And now Joe Biden went to Florida, gave a big speech trolling him about how he wants to kill Social Security. And DeSantis hasn't said Jack's shit about it because he knows a losing fucking issue for him. But while Ron is under DeSantis, this headline killed me. Trump is testing out new nicknames for Ron DeSantis, including Meatball Ron. To be fair, I called Ron DeSantis this.

spaghetti person, but that's my, that's my term for any, you know, Italian American or whatnot. So, which I feel it's like Trump's going for the same thing. But, yeah, this is about the, he also did Ron De Sanctimonious. That was when he came out the gate with. That one's not bad. Meatball Ron is more Trump's speed. He's also trying out lock down Ron because of Sanchez is trying to get to the right of him on COVID stuff. And, but so Trump's just pretending that DeSantis was like a really strict COVID government.

which is funny. But the meatball thing is funny because we're like, obviously it's because he's because he's Italian, but he's saying it's because he looks, he's because he's fat. That's Trump's defense. He's like, no, I'm not racist. I'm anti-fat. Yeah. Well, I maintain and I always have.

You cannot be racist against an Italian racist dude from Florida, who or who lives in Florida, you know, away. But yeah, it's funny either way. We're also on the record that anti-Italian racism is just funny. But there's a big intro-right internet fight right now about who the bigger pedophile is between DeSantis and Trump. Because Trump was like well-known on Epstein's plane. And DeSantis, we read the episode of the story when DeSantis was a teacher in between getting his bachelor's and his master's at a private school. Then he would like go to high school parties and hang out with underage girls to like Trump's going in on that now.

So that's a lot of fun. But you want to talk about you? Yes, I do. But those two, like again, you know, I know like democracy at stake and everything and I hope they both eventually go down in flames. But like I'd be lying if I said I'm not sort of looking forward to watching that whole thing play out because it's going to get, dude, the shit's going to get wild. You know what I mean? Like Trump, the things he'll say about people that don't even like, you know, fire back at him or actively betray him in his mind. You know what I mean?

He'll insult their families and stuff. So somebody that's like his arch nemesis. his eyes. Like, dude, he's going to say some wild shit. Also, Desantis, Desanza's been running around for the last year and a half calling everybody who's, to the left of him, a groomer, right? And then so Trump calls him a groomer, and it gives a speech in high moral dudgeon and the, the entire right-wing pro DeSantis, like, National Review, all those, like, bow-tow publications are like talking about how uncouth it is and below the office of the president for Trump to do this shit, as if it was the first time he's doing it.

And DeSantis says, well, I don't spend my time attacking it. attacking Republicans. It's like, okay, you can use the Groomer thing, but not against me. It's unfair, right? It's like, oh, Jesus Christ. Right. So, yes, please, UFOs. Let's go.

You know how I feel about them. So, U.S. military wanted the direction of Justin Trudeau, which everyone went through a fit about because they're not a free military, we joint task force, but shot down at least three things this weekend. At first, it wasn't clearly shot something down because it couldn't fight on the ground, so I thought maybe they just shot out a cloud, but I guess they found some debris, so they did shoot something down. But they also scrambled fighter.

over Montana and shut down airspace for a false alarm. This is like a balloon panic. Yeah. We're in the midst of a balloon panic. Yeah. What a time to be alive, man. And the China's response to this has been really funny because like they went from denying it to saying that, okay, it was a balloon.

But the last three aren't, they're just saying aren't China's. So who knows what they are. But China's like, well, they're panic over balloons. This is a sign of a clear empire. and decline, and I'm like, yeah, trying to god us. Sure. But, yeah, you called them UFN and it's like, I know technically they were UAPs or whatever, unidentified aerial phenomena, at least for a minute.

But, like, I never thought that these were aliens, because as I told you before we started, like they're just not, they're not rat enough to be alien spaceship. They're not like, if they were like little pill-shaped things, like zipping around and defining laws of physics and outrunning our jets and dodging our missiles and stuff, that would be some wild shit. but they're kind of just like big-ass kites just kind of drifting in the wind that then get shot down immediately

and I'm like, dude, intergalactic empire and they're working with that, can't be. Don't make any sense. Nah, Secretary of Defense Esper went on Fox News is just to make the same point joking that like if aliens are invading us with balloons and no propulsion that floated 20 miles an hour over Lake Huron, then we caught a pretty big break.

Yeah, right. But in case, just you're wondering, just because they're shooting at stuff means there is stuff that's worth shooting at. I mean, like, it seems what happens is, like, the military's defense capabilities were not calibrated to look for balloons because we're looking for high, like, high velocity stuff coming in. And so they recalibrated their radar, so they're catching a lot more shit to shoot at is essentially what happened.

It's like how, like, you know, doctors hate doing cancer scans because they're almost always going to find something and then ends up in a panic about it. And most of the time, you probably have a little bit of cancer and it's fine, right? So, like, they're just, they're just shooting at every fucking thing because they, like, they're, like, tweaked out on meth and been up for 17 hours straight looking for balloons. Well, that makes sense. I had kind of been thinking that maybe it was, I was like, they probably always sort of been around. But I was thinking, like, maybe before the military didn't really care because they knew they weren't that big of a deal. But then now that it became like a publicly known and politicized thing that they're like, gosh, shit, we're going to start shooting those things down now.

But what you just said, I mean, that also makes sense to me. They just weren't even really, you know, caring enough to look for. them before. But yeah, Bologna, but in case you're one of these kind of panics are new, I surfed across this story from World War II. So early February, February, 1945, the captain of the USS New York was playing golf, I guess, when it's like hitting golf balls off the ship. We spotted a strange object pursuing the battleship, okay? It was a radio silence. The ship, the USS New York was radio silent on a way to fight a battle in the, I can't even pronounce name of this island.

They're setting up to invading Wajima. And so, they looked at a metallic balloon through binoculars. He ordered the ship's gunner to mark the reins of the threat and had his ship at another one fire on it. And then a navigator woke up because the gun noise came up to the top and said, what are you guys shooting at?

And he pointed at it and he goes, that's Venus. That's a damn planet. I thought it was a super Japanese super weapon. A flying metal object that was just the planet of Venus. The guy goes, that's just what it looks like out here. And

the neighbor was as a planet the gunnery officer joked he was probably pretty short on the range. So there we go. We just love to shoot scary shit in the sky. I mean,

dude, I kind of get it like when I, as one way, somebody's always been sort of into aliens. Like as a kid, there ain't no time

any times that I was like, I saw a UFO and it was just like a plane and a certain type of twilight. You know what I mean? So it had like an odd color to it or some kind of like shooting star or some shit like that's

highly explainable stuff. But I was just, you know, die and. to see a UFO, so I thought I did a few times. And I feel like these military dudes, it's probably a similar thing, but with enemy aircraft or threats or whatever, you know. Plus, these guys haven't had, like, the U.S. military hasn't had an air to air kill in, like,

40 years. Now we have, like, four in, like, two weeks. So these guys are having a blast, man. Never got the extra fire-up missile, dude. This fucking, this is fun. Yeah, all right. It is wild times. All right.

Let's, uh, let's kid into the ship. Watch this guys. Yeah. let's get into the show here as with us as always is producer matt this is weekly skews before we continue though i want to let y'all know about actually i'll make it quick but three things this week instead of the usual two number one if you want to see me live go to tray crowder dot com i got a lot of dates coming up some of which i'll be with cori and drew those are in red the others are me solo with some local openers it's always a great time go to traycrouter dot com check it out come and see me uh number two we're going to go with yes if you enjoy this program you can do show your support by signing up on patreon go to weekly skews.com slash more $5 a month get you access to full link bonus episodes we're doing one later this week we cover things that come up in between skews days and get a little looser with it and have some fun it's a good time so go on there weekly skews dot com slash more

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Okay. As for the show tonight, we're going to be talking about one of the greatest environmental disasters in American history. the Norfolk Southern Train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Mainstream media may have led you to believe it was an unfortunate act of God in that alone, but trust us, there's a lot of bullshit in that box, and we'll unwrap it a little later. Along the way, we're also going to be talking about some Republican legislation, which seems to imply that they would prefer 13-year-olds be able to get married and work in the minds.

So that's fun. All that and more on tonight's skews, but first, of course, we begin with the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic plea. Tonight's D.D. Rob Deirdick for being the only ridiculousness mainstay, not read into the congressional record. Matt, let's see what Congress is up to here. Would you like me to give the direct quote? Yeah. Please excuse my language. This is a direct quote, but Chrissy Teigen referred to Donald Trump as a pussy ass bitch. Okay. Free speech.

okay all right so that's cool that's cool to contextualize this uh this is the republicans uh big uh weaponization of government hearings which they kicked off by talking about the twitter files and Twitter content moderation policies this is all fucking so stupid um and so this is like a reverse own because they're talking about like Twitter censoring conservatives and then they asked this woman to work for Twitter about this tweet because what happened was when Trump was a past criminal justice reform bill, the one that you know Kim Kardashian lobby for and stuff. John Legend congratulated for him or whatever and Trump thought they were trying to, John Legend was trying to credit for it. He posted tweet tagging John Legend and a bunch of other activists and referred to Chrissy

Teigen as John Legend's foul mouth wife to which Chrissy Teigen tweeted, he didn't even tag me with a pussy-ass bitch, all right? So that's how that ends up being the congressional record in Trump White House reached out to Twitter to take down Chrissy Diggins tweet to call on him a pussy has a bitch. So the thing is like Republicans are calling this a new church committee hearings. Now, church committee is a pretty famous

setting hearings. I think the 70s, but a run by a guy, a senator named church. P.1 covered a lot of CIA and FBI malfeasance when the government actually was weaponized, including co-intel Pro, which is the FBI program that led to among other things, assassinating Fred Hampton and Trump Jr. to kill himself.

Yeah, right. So while they're doing this, this big investigative report in The Intercept comes out about the FBI using an undercover operative in Denver to disrupt Black Lives Matter by infiltrating the group, trying to get them to commit crimes with the all declined to do, and then also accusing everyone else of being a snitch. So this is a thing called snitch-jacketing, where you have your snitch called everyone else snitches. And if you've seen Judas and the Black Messiah, you've seen a little bit of that. But these guys This the FBI is a fucking problem Just not in the way that they think it is Right

So it drives me crazy Like it's like there's no there What they think is going on But anyway This is all somehow about Hunter Biden's laptop And I don't want to do dumb shit again But like No

Who cares man They introduced a new bill this week called On like based online safety for children act or something Like this is a bipartisan bill Try to make social media a safety for children. Meanwhile, hold hearings about how Twitter wouldn't show

Hunter Biden's dick to everyone. Right. And how much bullshit that is. And politically driven and everything. Yeah, it's almost like, you know, they're fundamentally dishonest and hypocritical and don't often make sense. I was just going to say, I'm glad to see that the FBI is, you know,

at least trying to keep it balanced with their duplicitous horseshit that they pull off. You know what I mean? Like, it is very FBI. because, yeah, you know, it's a long-held tradition of theirs. There's two ends this, which is like trying to get arrests,

is just trying to make their numbers and get headlines to prove their careers, all right? Which is like, that's apolitical. They'll do that to fucking anybody. But the snitch-jacking thing was interesting to me because, like,

they're not investigating crimes or even trying to create crimes to arrest people for, which is like what this guy was trying to do, trying to get them to participate in armed plots, just what the right accused of the FBI doing and the Gritchin-Wittner kidnapping, in case. But the snitch jacketing is purely

about sowing discord within political movements. That's not a law enforcement prerogative. That's a purely political prerogative. And they're trying to sabotage BLM and its adversaries by making them all think they're all informants. So that's just like that's not even about numbers or anything. That's purely ideological, which is what I found

you know, ridiculous about that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is our dads for being the type of suckers who wouldn't snitch on us to the feds to save their own. ass. Let's say this here from the architect of the capital, by the way. It was switched. So anyway, this do work as a capital. Watch the, watch the

client. Let me just go on. The notion that you need the car to be with you at all times to be tethered to it, can you explain how there have been, at least in the Inspector General's report, times when the vehicle's been used by members of your family where you're not in the car how would you have responded to emergencies in those circumstances so i'll have to say that you would have to address that with members of my family because the times that that i knew when my wife drove the vehicle and my daughter drove the vehicle or the times that i was in the vehicle so your testimony is that the family members have never driven the vehicle without you being in the vehicle?

I'm saying that that would be something that would have to be discussed with him. I will also say... Well, you're not suggesting we bring members of your family and to testify before, so... You've got it, man. So, all right, so, yeah, don't fire me instead or arrest my 17-year-old daughter.

Right, yeah. I don't know what she's about to. You need to talk to her about that. Hey, man, look, that's her. That's between you and my 17-year-old daughter. the American Congress. So this guy's name is Brett Blanton. He was appointed by Trump to be architect of the Capitol.

And in 2019, it's supposed to be a 10-year appointment, but Biden shit-canned him yesterday. What he got shit-can for was a bunch of different things. One of it was misusing his vehicle. It was supposed to be like a just a drive take-home car to go back and forth to work. But his daughter, his family was taking him to vacation since South Carolina. And his daughter got busted, driving it alone, doing 65 and a 30 in a road rage incident at the Tyson's Corner Mall where she got into a screaming match with another driver. His wife was giving unofficial Patriot tours in the lead up to January 6th, which I don't know. That seems like something.

He also, his daughter's boyfriend got into a fender bender, and he chased down the purse and pretended to be a law enforcement officer. He lied about being caught. They always lie by being cops, man. I don't understand. His car apparently has a light and siren, which is ridiculous to me because he's not, he's a guy in charge of like replacing the windows and the Capitol and keeping the floors clean and shit. The level of corruption here is just so cartoon. What makes these people they didn't get away with it?

Because all they had to do was look at an odometer. And it's like, you put 30,000 miles on it a year when he was estimated to put 10,000 miles on it. And also, he requested that they take out the bench, they put, bench seats to his daughter could have more room to haul around her friends?

It's like Jesus Christ I mean it makes me just assume that there's like you know a longstanding

culture of that type of shit that he was made aware of over the years you know what I mean like the explanation for why the fuck would he think

he could do this is got to be because he thought he could get away with it you know and there's got to be something he might

just be a dumb ass but I feel like a lot of times it's because it's due to like you know a long running lack of accountability

and probably just like some sort of unwritten rules that they share on Capitol Hill. It's like, oh, yeah, that sort of thing's fine. There's no telling how much of that type of shit goes on. And they never expected anybody to have any kind of a problem with it, you know. I think conservatives assume governments inherently crooked and full of scam. So when they get in there, they're like, I'm going to be crooked and be full of scam like everyone else is.

But it's not necessarily like that or not supposed to be like that anyway. He also like he had some sort of plan to like spend $283 million on new windows at the Capitol. and that's way too much money for Windows. So I imagine the end of that, the result of that chain of events is him getting a new pool put in his house. But like, God damn, man. You don't corrupt you have to be for us to know your name as the architect of the capital. Yeah, I had no idea that was the thing. Yeah.

There's no way to like, there's the only to get famous as do shit like that your daughter do road rage in a government car. Yeah. All right. Our next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is woke politicians for not letting my kids get a job on a crabbing boat. That's right. But not if Iowa can help it. There's a new Iowa child labor bill, which aims to roll back child labor restrictions in the state. They say it's to make up for the shrinking workforce and presumably the, you know, the fact that no one wants to work anymore.

So they're like, well, how about children? Children can work. They're trying to allow teenagers as young. is 14 to take on more job duties, including hazardous ones, and be allowed to work longer hours. But a lot of people have said, and I completely agree with this, that the most egregious part of the bill is the section that would make a business not liable for almost anything that happens to these minors while engaged in these activities. So basically, they're just trying to build into it. It's like, yeah, you know, if corporation accidentally kills your kid or whatever,

you're not going to be able to do anything about that because nobody wants to work anymore and kids need the pride of a job and whatever other bullshit they're going to put out there to justify it. But you can have kids be allowed to have jobs without also including the part where there's no repercussions

for your negligence allowing them bodily harm or death. That doesn't seem that out of line to me to try to at least rein that part in a little bit, but apparently not. Especially because they're specifically shouting out meatpacking plants as places they need these kids to work. And they're also saying, you can work any job if it's work-based learning mean you get school credit for working on a meatpacking plant. And also, this quote really killed me.

Jessica Dunker of the great name of their Iowa Restaurant Association said provisions that would drop the age needed to carry alcohol to a table and allow teens to work until nine on school nights were also needed. Nine o'clock, I'm sure they're doing something already. she said a 14 and 50 year olds yeah they're doing kid shit not fucking taking drinks to a table at a restaurant you fucking psychopath i mean we're old time of country fellers like where we grew up and stuff and like you know i mean 14 15 you know i don't like immediately blanch at the idea of a 14 year old having a job you don't mean that was relatively standard where i grew up it's it's just the i don't know it's the full context and all the provisions like the one we already mentioned where it starts to slip into like nefarious territory and also like Like that'll be part of the lie they used to sell it. You know what I mean? Like the value that a teenager finds and working an honest job and the type of, you know, the way they'll present it is also a problem for money. Like my first jobs were like hanging targets at the fire department's turkey shoots

and I was like 10 years old. Yeah. Like getting like 10, 15 bucks cash to help my neighbors split wood. But I trust my dad's friends who were giving me money to. split wood to care about my safety more than I do a multinational corporation. Absolutely. And also my dad's priority was also having me do my fucking homework before I did shit. My boss at the TGF Fridays is not going to care about that.

Right, because it's like this is going to be a theme, you know, as we get into the train derailment stuff and everything later in terms of regulations, right? Like, if you don't force these companies to not exploit children, they're totally going to exploit children, right? Like, you can't just trust them not to do it. That's why you can't build in a loophole that allows it because they absolutely will immediately start to do it. And so, you know, that's the work-based learning thing, they're literally pulling out of kids out of school to work meatpacking. It's fucking, this is an absolute psychopath. And these are people that are working to ban books teens can read.

And they say it's too dangerous. is, but they're trying to let kids work in actual fucking minds. They think they trust kids. Don't trust them with having dynamite and underground tunnel. What the fuck are you talking? Right. Yeah. Don't let them read, turn them into chimney sweeps or whatever.

That's what they're trying to do. Yeah. Wow. But they're the party of, you know, they're the ones who are most concerned about the children, famously, Mark. I guess the party of won't someone think of the children is, you know, trying to put them into the mines at 13 years old. And also in Wyoming,

also trying to let them get married at 12. I may be exaggerating a little bit, but the Wyoming Republican Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the legislature, which proposes to raise the legal marriage age to 16. So they tried to raise the legal marriage age to 16, and Republicans have freaked the fuck out about it. It's 16 with a parent's permission, I think.

So you still got to get your dad's permission to get married at 16. So it's two ways of being controlled by an older man. So I think this headline is actually a little unfair because it did pass the House, which means a bunch of Republicans did vote to establish a bearage age. It's just a bunch of psychos within the party or against it. They say it's infringing on religious liberty. But like, this is crazy for a lot of reasons. But like, so this is a huge loophole for sex predators because if you're 30, you sleep with. the 13-year-old, that statutory rape, which you'll get caught, definitely if you get her pregnant,

except you can now marry her and get off with this crime scot-free. I'm not sure how long you have to stay married to this, to a 13-year-old girl to not go to jail for statutory rape, but y'all have to be going to jail for statutory rape. This is like, these people are absolutely insane. The state legislature is like, we focus most of the national politics, but my God, they're going crazy. Another example of this, this is a story from yesterday, a Florida school district Ben's book on gay penguin couple. This is a real non-fiction book about a couple of same-sex penguins that raise a baby

penguin together, and there's nothing in it advocate. I mean, if I'm being generous, obviously it, air quote, normalizes, you know, same-sex relationships being normal, but who the fuck cares? This is a non-fiction book about two adorable cartoon penguins based upon real-life penguins. Right. But now, but see, reality is part of the gay agenda, Mark. Right, right. This section of reality where these two actual penguins actually did this thing, that's only to service the gay agenda somehow. It's like the irrelevance that, the irrelevance that whether or not something happened has to their concern for it being taught in schools, if that makes sense, I sort of butchered my wife.

wording of that. But you know what I mean? Like how little they care about whether or not a thing happened in terms of whether or not children should be taught about it is wild. It's a wild stance to hold openly to me. But it's also like you're arguing that that books are turning kids gay because it's unnatural to be gay while looking at a book about a true story about two great breaches in nature. Right. Got's made them penguins gay clearly. I mean, And if you believe in God, like, right? I don't know. I'm sure they'd say the devil made those penguins gay.

And the devil also wrote the book. And the devil wants it put in the kindergarten classroom and all that stuff. So, you know. You reckon penguins got the wrong devil? Yeah. Pigments ain't. That would be cute, adorable, actually. They also banned like a cartoon biography about Roberto Clemente

because it mentions him overcoming racism. Roberto Clemente was a Hall of Fame baseball player, if you guys don't know. Yeah. The funny one is a comedy writer, I know casually, who wrote a book about, she used to write for, I think, John Oliver's show, or maybe she still does. But a day in life of Marlon Brando, which is a fictional story about Mike Pence's pet rabbit, so they make him gay in the book. So that was just funny. Anyway, I saw this JD fans video, and I want to say, for once in my life, I absolutely agree with J.D. Vance. He's talking about this train to Realm, and this will be her segue into, this will be a segue between all these.

silly state government stories and the train disaster hit, man. Actually, my constituents in East Palestine have been some of the main victims of the fact that we have failing infrastructure in our country again, after spending tons of money in an effort to actually fix it. So the problem we have, Tucker, is that we are ruled by unsurious people who are worried about fake problems instead of the real fact that our country is falling apart in some of the most important ways. You mentioned...

They do this type of thing. All the time where it's like they say something that if you remove all context, you're like, damn, they really nailed that. I completely agree with that. But then the context is something so far off base in the complete opposite, you know, of how you feel about it, that it's wild. Like the, I don't know, the projection, the lack of self-awareness. It's continuously amazing to me. Right. The context of the fact he's saying this on the lesbian Eminem hour with Tucker Crow.

Right. Exactly. So, yeah. So now we're talking about the train derailment in East Palestine and why it didn't need to happen and why it's worse than it needed to be and how nobody's going to do anything to stop the next one. In fact, there have been two more trained derailments since then, at least that I know about. So a couple of the basics here, the timeline of events here, is a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, February 3rd. Federal investigators say it was caused by a mechanical issue with a rail car axle. a couple of days later all these chemicals were leaking and burning they were afraid it was going to explode

to what they say we'll get to that in a second and so they their solution was to purposefully burn a bunch of toxic chemicals the governor de wine said today that he followed Norfolk Southern's recommendation to burn the chemical cars

and he got the CEO's word that everything will be okay all right well okay then Matt I got this video to see what this calamity looks like so you can get a sense of the scene it's just drone footage taken days after the wreck all right yeah like four days later right so like yeah yeah we don't need to sound that um it's just ominous music uh so by the way there's no more curse of search than drone video Palestine i do not recommend doing that um by the way this

We did a series of episodes in December about how likely this was. It was a small part of the aspect of the railroad strike. But this is exactly what union workers predicted what happened if Congress didn't do shit. And what happened instead was Joe Biden and Pete Puttejeds conspired for Congress to crack and the railroads to fucking stop the strike and break it. So yeah, thanks everybody involved in this. And the two derailments yesterday were in South Carolina and Texas and latter, which did involve toxic chemicals. So yeah, this is just the worst. I guess Texas is the one of Houston isn't that bad.

And here's a fun fact to surf across research in this. You've you seen the recent Noah Baumback movie White Noise on Netflix, Dre? No, I knew that it came out, but I didn't know anything about it. And I damn sure didn't know that it was apparently just about this incident, but it was filmed over a year ago and came out like a few months ago or whatever. It's about an airborne toxic event after a train crashes into a tanker truck. And the fun part, it was filmed in and around Ohio. and some people from East Palestine were extras in it.

So that'll be a fun deep dive for Q&O people. That is some wild-ass glitz in the Matrix simulation type shit to me. Like, you know, otherwise not as it's just a coincidence. But that's a fucking pretty crazy coincidence, man. Like, I don't know. Yeah, it's kind of like how we're all going to eventually going to be in mass shootings. It's just we're all eventually going to be in some environmental disaster that closely matches a movie where we're also extras in.

It's just the world we live in now. but they CNN talked to a guy who was in the movie about it and goes there wasn't talking about that I actually made a meme

where I superimposed my face on the poster and sent it to my friend so glad this guy is having a good time so as far as what's on the train we don't have to play this video

Matt I'll just quote the guy but the local news coverage talking about burning this stuff I talked to a hazmat expert who said we essentially nuked a town in Ohio oh you can play it Matt if you want

three more chemicals that We're on board the Norfolk Southern train that derailed here in East Palestine just over a week ago. And we're being told that some of those chemicals are dangerous. We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open. Yeah, you cut it, Matt. So, yeah, so that's the thing about whether or not it was the best idea to burn it. He's basically saying that he thinks they did it just to get the railroad open faster so they can start making money again quicker. So as far as what was on that train, ethylene glycol and monobutal ether, which is bad for your central nervous system, ethyl hexylacrylite, which is bad for gastrointest, and it causes ulcers.

Isobutylene, when it's causes headaches, dizziness, and at higher levels, coma, and death. It also had 100,000 gallons or a million pounds of vinyl chloride, leaks spilled, and then burned. Vinyl chloride is used to make plastics and associated with increased risk of liver cancer, as well as brain and lung cancers. Also, when it's burned, which is what they did, it creates hydrogen chloride and fosgene, a toxic chemical was used as a gas in World War I. So they did that on purpose. Right. And I can't imagine something like that having any long-term effects, you know, that sort of

cocktail of dangerous chemicals being set on fire in this small eastern Ohio town. And then just, you know, get everybody going about their day. It doesn't at all seem like the type of thing that, you know, we'll have repercussions 30 years down the road and multiple class action wall suits and probably an Oscar-bate movie, you know, starring like an actor from... Right, yeah. Her Roberts is already involved.

Yeah, right. Yeah, and like Mark Ruffalo made that movie about the chemical, what, DuPont or something like that, I think it was. But anyway, yeah, this is going to be one of those things for sure. It definitely just feels like it's only going to look worse the further away from it we get. And it looks pretty bad, you know,

right now so yeah um yeah we'll get to like exactly like so disclaimers here one i think some people call it the worst environmental disaster in american history and say it's worse in chernoble i've also seen another people who were like considered experts saying that's overblown and some of these chemicals are are destroyed by sunlight and it should they did their half life or whatever you want to call it should it should dwindle fairly rapidly However, the residents are saying the air smells like chlorine bleach and nail polish while they're being told it's safe. But the experts say, well, actually, you can smell these chemicals at levels that aren't toxic. So believe what you will.

By the way, that list of stuff that I just mentioned was released a statement by the EPA, but they just got that list from Norfolk Southern. So all this still requires us to take the railroad's word on what was on the terrain. All right, and they are already covering their ass trying to fend off lawsuits. A couple of class action suits have been filed. So some experts said they should have evacuated everyone within 50 miles, which would include Pittsburgh, by the way. But the governor only mandated people evacuate for one to two miles from the blast zone. This doesn't, yeah.

And we all know that the cancer stuff is going to take years and years to figure out. Right. But I mean, you also, you know, you were saying, and I'm skipping ahead a little bit here, maybe, but it's relevant to what you were saying. Some of these experts are like, oh, you can smell it, but it's not a big deal. Sure, the air is bleach, but it's not that big of a deal. Or, you know, no, it's safe levels and all that shit, but there's been countless reports from people and video evidence and proof and stuff of, like, animals dying all over the place

here, right? Yeah. In the days since, like, a whole river just floating with dead fish and, like, people's dogs and cats going outside and never coming back in because they just die out there. And it's like, that ain't the type of. of thing that just be happening that you know it'd be a pretty wild coincidence uh you know if that just started happening after a horrific chemical train derailment and they somehow you know didn't have anything to do with each other i mean it seems like a one plus one situation to me i know i

wouldn't want to be fucking sticking around there there's a uh there's a video we can do we can skip because we're running a little late but uh there was there was it was funny talking about all the dead fish in the creeks. And I was like a fun drinking game would be to count the however is in this news clip because there's so many guys in however. People say that the experts are saying that the government's saying this is fine. However, however, however. And like the new the news story Matt has up, and quote from here, um, he had an interview with a guy named Taylor Holzer, whose family were the dairy and they have like a bunch of pet foxes. He has licensed. He's a licensed foxkeeper, which I don't know where he's talking about his fox. He started coughing

really hard, just shut down. He had liquid diet. liquid diarrhea and died very fast. People's cats are getting sick and dying. People's other birds that they have in their house, they weren't being able to evacuate either. It's just not safe for them. I got a call yesterday from a person who lives a mile and a half away from the derailment area.

They let their two-year-old healthy dog out to go to the bathroom. The dog never returned inside. He was dead in the yard. So, yeah, you can believe the government or your lying eyes looking at your dead dog in your yard. So, yeah. By the way, DeWine has refused federal. He refused to let Biden declare to a disaster area and instead working closely with the railroad.

So, yeah, there you go. They arrested a reporter for trying to ask questions about it. This smells worse than the goddamn toxic sludge. Right. And that's time of why they thought. Yeah, sorry. Well, yeah, I mean, I was just going to say, like, it's just, you know, you mentioned what Dwayne's doing and everything else. And the Biden administration and Buttigieg is the transportation.

guy and all this stuff and like making it partisan or whatever and it just seems like it's the general culture of where this is concerned i.e. capitalism in this country on both sides is pretty like both sides bend over repeatedly for you know the corporate overlords essentially and this is the type of shit that happens because as you referenced up top of this segment like the union guys it's not like this literally came out of nowhere like they were screaming it you know forever they were like, listen, they're cutting corners. It's not safe. Something bad's going to happen.

They don't care. And, you know, no one can make them care. And then, you know, look what happens. I bet you, I don't know if there's an actual regulation, but if there isn't, there should be about how many different types of insanely hazardous chemicals you can have on the same goddamn train or how many cars that are carrying stuff like that can be on one train. Right. And, you know, they just shove all that together, put as many of them in as possible, because that's how you make the most money and send. it down the way. Oh, by the way, the fucking breaks are from the Civil War era, and we've only got one dude for 300 miles of track or whatever, but fuck it, it'll probably be fine because, you know,

we've got to worry about the bottom line and the balance sheets and the shareholders reports and all that stuff instead. And it's all, you know, shit does happen, but that doesn't change the fact that they made it way more likely to have happened by openly prioritizing profit motive over safety measures and just the value of people is my main tech away from it. This train was 1.8 miles long. That's crazy. One of the union things the unions complain about is like to make more money. Like if you only need one conductor to pull 1.8 a mile long train and saves you money

is affronting like four half mile long trains. Right. Now obviously the union wants more union jobs and more hours and stuff. I get that. But also it doesn't mean they don't have a fucking point. This is unsafe because. If a train's going to derail and accidents do happen, you might want the derailments to be smaller and more contained if they're going to carry all this toxic shit around. By the way, I did Google.

Trains do not carry nuclear waste, so that's good. At least we have that to worry about. But I wanted to mention real quick why I think they're going to get away with this. So East Palestine is a small town of about 5,000 people. If you're wondering about the environment, if there's any environmental racism about this, not really. It's overwhelmingly white. But they're not 95% white. But the median income is less than $28,000.

Right. That's, yeah, it's like they're poor white trash, dude. Nobody gives a fuck about them either. Like, no, but, you know, I think that's why, like, initially it wasn't that big of a story. You know, this happened 11 days ago or whatever, and nobody was talking about it for a while at all in the mainstream media. And I feel like it was because, you know, it had a meeting. And somebody's like, well, they've got that train derailment with the hazardous chemicals. Well, yeah, where did that happen again?

Eastern Ohio. Ugh, gross. But we just talk about some canceled children's book or something. something instead let's roll with that i'd put this lower in the rundown so you brought it up i'll skip to it so here's yesterday uh this is this from yesterday from reporter named timothy burke who did the legwork so i want to take credit for his work there were there were 136 stories on the front page of the washington post website yesterday zero about the east palestine disaster it was also completely absent the cnn homepage displaced by headlines such as french defense ministry

contends wakonda forever blake lively dropped some baby news star of axed bat girl movies speaks out and the big red boots taking over the internet. All right. I have a theory about why they don't cover this. It's that I'll get to in a minute. But so, they're talking to the residents. Like,

you can't pick up and move if you don't have money. No, I know. They read this, yeah. It's also like their community, too. So there's like, this woman said, generations have lived there now to make a choice

if they can afford to make that choice. Most of us can't. Who would buy a house, even if it was cheap? right how you can't sell your house when no one wants to move into your fucking town so it's another reason moving's not an option um i don't want to take my kids back to that none of us had the money to completely start over somewhere and this local artist post posted a really touching letter about uh on its facebook page open letter to north and southern said you just

ripped from us or a small town motto a place you want to be it may not be beachfront property you may not even have the highest paying jobs or much else to offer but in my experience in life the place and i most people want to be is where you need a helping hand a shoulder to cry on, a friend to pray with, or a place to call home. East Palestine has always been that place to be. And in exchange for taking all this away from them, Norfolk Southern gave $25,000 to the town, to the town of 5,000 people, $5 a piece. Right. Well, they also offered, they offered people within a one mile radius, even though the evacuation radius was two miles, which most people agree was too small anyway people within a one mile radius get a thousand dollars a piece that's

what's about to say i know this town is not it's a little bit bigger than mine but it's not that you know dissimilar for my hometown and yeah people can't you can't they can't sell their house their property and everything they have is essentially worthless now they don't have the money on hand to just pack up and move away so what the fuck are they going to do but they should because every single goddamn bit of that should be paid for by these motherfuckers they should be liable for the cost of all of that relocating all of these people replacing the property that they cratered in value with their horse shit all of that and it's like them acknowledging oh we do owe you something and then that amount being a thousand dollars for only half of them or whatever it's just such a fucking slap in the face man it's insulting they'd be they'd be better off not offering them shit i feel like than to offer them that much it's fucking it's in furied it. Well, the catch is a lot of people are taking the $1,000.

I think it's a trap because Norfolk Southern pulled this exact stunt before. It turns out there was fine print language and the deal you're sending to get the $1,000 that keeps you from suing them. I knew you were about to say that. God damn it. It's even fucking, oh my God, dude. Just absolutely no humanity whatsoever. It kills me. Norfolk Southern also set up a phone line.

If you call, if you were concerned, where you could talk to an expert who would tell you that the air is actually fine. Of course, who's the fuck, like, hello, Norfolk Southern. Did Norfolk Southern fuck me? No, hello, North and Southern did not fuck you. Norfolk Southern loves you. It's going to be great. And so the locals there aren't trusting the government or Norfolk Southern. They're all just getting their own information on Facebook.

So you can't trust doctors you're paid for by the railroads. You're like, I guess I just got to go on Facebook and ask my neighbors if they're also getting sick and having breathing problems. But just to get through this real quick, the regulations, Tray is talking about. So when Tray said there was civil rail breaks, he's not lying. And the braking systems currently in use for most of the railroads were designed in 1868. And in 2014, there's a big train derailment. Obama tried to like make them switch to ECPs, electronically controlled pneumatic bricks, which stopped 67% faster and acts simultaneously as opposed to this janky old broken down brakes.

And this analogy killed me. And when his expert was like, trains are like slinkies. Now explain like the force of the back of the train, pushing the front of a train and making the derailment worse when a train come. It's like, I know about trains. Let me use an analogy you more on to understand. Trains are like slinkies. Right. So, and yeah, like as Trey mentioned, the union's trying to stop this and try to, and try to stop trains.

The average train length being over 7,000 feet, which is 1.3 miles, which is still of like a little more than half what this one was. Right. It's like the people who do the goddamn job, you know, who that's their whole job and they've done it for years. Like, they're telling the suits, you know. this shit is dangerous and you really need to do something about it and they're basically just like well what would that guy know yeah i have an NBA from Cornell what we were talking about trains for train guy this guy went to community college if that yeah he doesn't know about trains it's fucking i just hate i hate this shit so much they've been warning about

it for you this is a headline i'm going to read from two years ago um for my union executive a union leader. It's going to end up like Boeing. This is right after Boeing had those two huge plane crashes because they kept lying about their software that they killed hundreds of people and nothing ever happened to them. And like if you're wondering if it has to be this way, because yeah, accidents are going to happen. We'll get a second, but like the U.S. had 7.2 derailments per 1,000 miles of track in 2021. The same year, Sweden had 0.6. So we have 12 times as many derailments. And I don't know what Sweden's up to, but they're doing something vastly they're doing what we're doing. Because the whole.

world has trains um yeah so you got to separate the disaster to different buckets because there's layers to it you got the crash which crashes are going to happen the question is why is the train so fucking long and why is it carrying 10 different dangerous things at once you got the burning of it was it the best move was to get the train to get the train to open back faster you get the legal fuckery post crash because like by the time this something we got to be aware of is like by the time people get cancer file a lawsuit over it get paid out over it, Norfolk Southern would have broken up into 17 different subsidiaries

that all changed their names, all right? These people are never going to be able to get a fucking dime. When I work construction, the company I work for, depending on what truck I was driving in, had a bunch of different names. Because if one of the drivers hit and killed somebody, they could move all the assets over to one of the other shell companies before the person could file a suit.

And there'd be nothing left under the shell company except the one truck that killed the guy. All right? If a small town little construction company owner can figure this shell, certainly Norfolk Southern can. And if you're wondering if anything is going to learn anything, anybody's going to change? No, because everybody

fucking sucks. All right, we talked about Obama trying to change the rules. By the time it got actually put into place, they watered it down so much. The new break rule didn't even include breaks in it. Not that many breaks anyway, not as stringent. And then when Trump came in, railroad industry gave

$6 million to seek GOP campaigns. And the Trump administration got rid of the rule altogether, and Biden's done nothing to put it back into place. North and Southern, all safety regulations, sir. Well, I was just going to say, like, that, like, as I already said earlier, the Democrats, they don't, they don't hit about this either. They also get walked all over by the corporations and stuff, and nobody holds them to task on either side in this fucking country.

But, dude, if the Republicans fully had their way, there'd be no regular, there'd be no nothing, none of that. They'd have complete free reign, because that's the free market, baby. that's capitalism regulations are big government shit you know so it's like that's why any kind of like they're gonna finger point you know Biden's in charge right now and they're going to do everything they can to like you know dog his ass for this but it pisses me off because it's like you know I like this type of shit wouldn't happen on y'all's watch it happened every other fucking day you know right no yeah it's i'm not saying the democrats are as bad i'm seeing

both parties like like you both parties completely captured by campaign donors and they don't have a will to upset like Biden if you had a magic wand i'm sure would have a better trade But it doesn't think it's worth the fight, right? Neither is Pete Buttigieg who didn't say anything about it for like 10 days and today said some mealy-melt shit about looking into it. And as far as the news coverage, there's a simple reason it doesn't get covered. I'm not being conspiratorial or corporate media or anything like that here. It's because they like covering parties in slap fights and both parties here essentially

agreed that the railroad should not be regulated. All right? So there's nothing, there's no fight to cover. you're like well pull out public interest reporting i'm like well cable news is not going to do that at all and like if we had an actual pro labor environmentalist party to raise a story about this and go on sunday shows and yell about it it probably would get coverage but that's not what they're set up to cover instead they cover UFOs fucking balloon or hunterbond's laptop but like instead we get this and i want you watch this video from a white house press conference today the question they got from a

fucking reporter in the middle of what's maybe a huge environmental disaster, a cold war with China, a war in Ukraine, whatever else where people are dying all over the world. This is what this dumb motherfucker asked about. If we couldn't begin with a threshold question to win, is President Biden woke?

Yeah. You know, this is exactly what J.D. Vance was talking about right here, Mark, you know. It's funny because it is. but, you know, in reverse. This dude is, you know, on his side, I'm sure. It took J.D. Vance 10 days to say in something.

He put out a statement that sounded kind of like something Bernie would say about we need to regulate the railroads and push back against big business, except he's not going to do any of that. He's just fucking saying it. Of course not. So fuck J.D. Vance the most for pretending to be a populist left winger on some issues when he's absolutely just lying. It just works for Peter Thiel.

So whatever. Sorry. Sorry for going on so long. I got rolled up. No, it's all right. No, it's, yeah. like that this is a perfect example of the type of thing that drives me perhaps the most up the wall in this country this kind of shit corporate people getting walked all over and shit on and all that stuff i fucking i can't

stand it maybe the people who are saying the the the the assumed health impacts are being overblown it's not that bad environmental disaster are right but i don't trust any of the people in charge to be honest about it it's like if they are right it's going to end up being a in by accident. So I, fuck. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, how was your Valentine's Day, Mark? Was that right? Well, I apparently blew it because my wife wanted to get a bunch of new furniture. And I was like, yeah,

get that. I'll be her Valentine's Day thing. And then the day hit, just like, eh, and I was like, I thought it's not got. I got to go,

I get flowers on shit. Well, she's out doing a friend hang. Well, I knew I was going to be busy. So I tried to, but I bet this still won't work. Like,

I got Katie some chocolates and shit on Sunday and said, happy early Valentine's day. And then yesterday. day I could just like nice you know meal with fancy shit it's like happy valentine's day and my head I'm like or you understand what I'm saying like happy valentine's day now even though it's not you know actually valentine's and now that it is valentine's day I've been busy all day I'm doing this I've got more shit I've got to do I'm still going to like try to be sweet about it but we'll see if I get it I don't know she's usually pretty cool you're thinking about

hacky marriages like every time like like I'm a professional comedy writer My wife's very funny. She's an actress, a comedy actress. And every time we have an actual disagreement or marital situation, like, oh, King of Queens did this episode. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's the thing, you know, a lot of those shows, they weren't that far off. You know, that's why they're hit for people, man.

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