Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 2/15/22 – Ram Ranch Truckers

Episode Date: February 16, 2022

It seems a new theme has emerged from the big Canadian Trucker Protest, and that theme sounds a lot like gay cowboy porno metal (seriously). Also, momentum is gaining to stop stock trading in Congress, which is a change so obviously necessary it’s no wonder it hasn’t happened yet. And more!Support the show

Howdy there, y'all, y'all, welcome back. Today is February 15th. It's Skews Day. 2022, I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Audey. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? Excited for today's show. We got the Canadian Trucker Update to End-Dulled Trucker Updates,

hopefully literally, because I think it's almost over now. But it's real fun involves trolling with someone. of the worst yet hidden heavy metal I've ever heard in my entire life. But first, I know you watched Super Bowl because we were texting about it. I found all the ads for crypto incredibly depressing. I thought that they had that big like scandal or whatever, but I guess that didn't impact them too much. They just rolled right on through that.

The funny thing was Bitcoin dropped like 500 bucks during the game. So it didn't even work in the short term pump and dump sense. But like, remember that QR code ad with the QR code ad with a cure code just bounced around the screen like a screen saver. Yeah. If you want to know how reliable this technology is, people actually use the uro code and it crashed the website immediately. So that's how that goes.

The one that depressed me the most, I think, was the Larry David one just because if Seinfeld was still on, they would definitely do an episode where Kramer's dumbass gets really into crypto. Yeah. So, yeah. Then again, fortune favors the brave. Why do you think they went with Brave? Like, is there a reason for that?

Because that's not, that's not the saying. The saying is bold. Fortune Favors the bold, right? Like, they just needed to switch it up to make it different. So it's their own slogan or something like that. Well, it's, we always think, I always think it's funny about, like, when you watch, like, Fox News, for example, they always have those cash for gold ads. Yeah. It's like, society's collapsing.

You want to move your money into gold. And my question is always, if my money is worthless and your gold is super valuable, Why are you giving it to me in exchange to my worthless cash? Yeah. Why do you want my money for the gold that you have? Yeah. So, like, it's like if you have this super secret, amazing investment that's going to go up forever, why are you trying to sell it to me, right?

Yeah. But also it's like when the pitch is, get in on this. Don't you want to be smart? That's when you know you're a mark, right? It's like smart people are doing this. Okay. Everybody's saying it. Some of the smartest people are doing this.

That's what the smart people are doing this. That's what the smart people are doing. And the bold things to make you feel like a smart visionary, but it's also kind of saying, you don't want to be a pussy, do you? Everyone else is getting rich on this shit. But sell your house and buy this or you're gay. You know, that's basically what they're saying. Marketing, baby.

I love it. Oh, but in skews related real world news, somebody who works for Matt, one of producer Matt's staff, he does a non-profit political fundraising. and in his real life world. I actually don't even know exactly what he does, but something like that. I think what I said is broadly sort of true.

Rural organizing. There you go. So I guess one of his staff members is, anyway, they made the news because it caused a bit of controversy by saying something objectively true. All right, there we go. Tennessee Democrats strategize ways

to connect with rural voters. But one organizers comment today raised eyebrows. So News Channel 5 asked the party chair for his thoughts. A POS. Forgive me, but what kind of unity and trust does a phrase like that bill? Tennessee Democrats.

So one of Matt's employees called a politician. He'd come in a politician, a piece of shit on a live stream. And now the candidate they were promoting is getting yelled at because Matt's out here being uncivil. Matt's people are uncivil. The way they clutch their pearls anytime, like, anyone on the left has any kind of bite whatsoever to them. And then they turn around and, you know, call us every manner of comedy and Nazi and homophobic slur and whatever else you can imagine.

Like just baby killing devil worshippers and all this shit, you know. But you use a three-letter acronym for a four-letter word and they lose their minds. Yeah, let's say Obama is a, is a Marxist-Kenyan, Manchurian candidate that let's do wear let's-go-baraned masks. They will openly try to pass bills that Joe Biden should take a dimension test. And then you'd use, you say, POS on the internet,

and all hell breaks loose. Yeah, producer might's got to do some sensitivity training over there at the office with these people in line. Can't be using uncouth language like that. Matt, you should know better. I like, I said, how are you supposed to bring rural people together by calling people pieces of shit? It's like, you some bitch instead.

everybody knows that you got to speak the language. You know who's most likely to think of politicians is lion sacks and shit? Yeah. My dad wrote in his uncle every presidential campaign ever thought of because he had to see any fucking politicians. Yeah, well, we're ragging him, so he is still here with us. Producer Matt, as always, this is weekly skews. I want to remind you if you're vaccinated, want to see me live, you can go to well-read comedy.com for tickets. I'll be back where it all started for me. Knoxville, Tennessee on March 5th. Very much looking forward to that. Some other fun places afterwards. Hope to see y'all out there.

But as for the show tonight, a new theme is emerging from the big Canadian trucker protest, and that theme sounds a whole lot like gay, cowboy, porno, metal. What a time to be alive. Also, Congress is flirting with the notion of disallowing themselves from trading in stocks. You might hear that and think that's so clearly the most ethical and appropriate thing to do. And so why would our nation's lawmakers ever consider something like that? That's a good question. We'll get into it later.

But first, as always, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., it's been a while, but she's back, everybody. Marjorie Taylor Green. That's right. What's she on about this time? Soup Nazis. Literal soup Nazis.

Matt, if you would. Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. Gulaw. But now we have Nancy Pelosi's Gazpacho police, spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff, and spying on American citizens. I'm not surprised to hear Nancy Pelosi's into chilled soup. I bet she likes an assortment of soaps, Nancy Pelosi does. So if you guys didn't catch that mystic there, the Gestapo was a Pantherd-Rike secret police force started by goering and eventually taken over by Himmler that rounded up. people and was one of the main organizations

running the Holocaust. Gispocho is a delicious Italian snack. Yes. So some people are, they're sort of pretty hilarious running jokes. I saw people say that like the Gospacho police going to throw you in the goulash you know, like that kind of shit.

Yeah, but I just can't I saw a bunch of people say that like she did this on they do this stuff like this on purpose to like get to get internet engagement because people dunking on them. And I'm like, I don't know. Not her.

Like, I just don't, she just, she say all kinds of dumb shit. I mean, I just don't think any of it is that calculated with MTG. I mean, like, she just spouts off. And then like, the thing you, the reason you know she's not trolling is she always, she always, like, apologize to the wrong word, but she always tries to explain herself about, of course, the media is trying to make her look dumb. But in reality, what she meant was X, like, she, like, she sort of retracted the Jewish space lasers thing. And like anybody, a woman who thinks that people have weather machines and, you know, wildfires and sort of by space lasers is not smart. I'm just going to die on that hill.

I'm not going to think I'm being out chest. I'm being checkmated by this idiot. Right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, let's say we are our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass tonight is any good God-fearing Christian out there who believes that witches are not a very real problem. in our nation's congregations okay but it's all right one man pastor gregg lock is on the job

matt can play this clip we got first and last names of six witches that are in our church and you know what strange three of you are in this room right now oh three of you in the room right now you bet look at my eyeballs we ain't afraid of you you you stink Witch? You devil worshiping Satan is witch. We cast you out in the name of Jesus Christ. We break your spells. We break your curse. We got your first name. We got your last name. We even got an address for one of you. You so much is cough wrong. So that's Greg Locke, who's a huge Trump supporter. Like he talks about, yeah. We've talked about it before. But it's really funny about that clip. There's a couple different reasons.

One, he says he has the names. He doesn't name them. He just says, if you come back next week, you're going to out you. So conveniently, I bet they'll be gone next week. But, which I just watched Nightmare Alley, the new, uh, the new, uh, Guillermo. Giroo, yeah. Great movie. Enjoyed it a lot.

But also, like, it's about this mentalist, like, like, a circus huckster or whatever. And basically walks you through how they do stuff like this. And his is like a particularly dumb version of it. Yeah. Well, I was thinking, I was thinking, and I know he does. like gives them this ultimatum don't come back at the end but in the middle of it he's like i officially i cashed you out i break your curse i cast you out and i don't know were they not expecting like a poof of smoke or like a ray of light or something to come down on three you know

three women in the congregation just rapser them up or something should have happened shouldn't it seems like they made it through his uh his smiting pretty well what do you think these women in question really did mark i caught them like listening to metallica or doing trigonometry or something like that we're like oh shit we got witches in our midst y'all and later on in that clip he says what made him made him realize their witches

is people that hung around with them got sick so obviously it was a witch curse like as if there's not a fucking it's like cold and flu season it's not a pandemic going COVID is it Chinese people or is it witches Mark who's really what are they where's COVID coming from in the end according to these people

Chinese witches Chinese witches Chinese witches Yeah, this guy kills me Yeah, so anyway It's weird We've talked of this before But like God's always on the verge of losing to Satan

So here's this witches Run around this church making people You know sick And then Locke talks about it And you're right They don't get smit They don't get smitin

Smited smite Smote? Smote Smote Smote Smote Whatever they're idiots But whatever the past tense of smite is so nothing so it's like they have magic god doesn't i'm like i don't know i know what god i'm

going with i guess yeah yeah all right our next honorable mention it's not just witches you got to worry about out there christians when it comes to your your kids uh you also need to worry about ice fishing okay first step on a long road of depravity all right and if you don't believe it for me hear from this the mayor of hudson ohio who lays it all out right here. Additionally, if you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens next year? Does someone come back and say, I want an ice shanty on Hudson Springs Park for X amount

of time? And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem. Prostitution. all right just points to consider you got about so i guess you're saying if you let if you get people permits to ice fish next thing i want permits to build ice shanties and then they're going to be plugging in the shanties then they're going to put a whole bunch of ice hores in that ice shanty and uh and there and there you have it no more jesus on the ice lake that's that's the devil's like now uh yeah i thought ice fishing was like i you know the purest of northern

pursuits, I thought, you know, they're coming for ice fishing now? Well, I guess it isn't the fishing. It's like you say, it's the, it's the shanties and all the types of hedonistic activity that could go down in an ice shanty. Yeah, I don't, look, I'm not, Matt's a resonanty Yankee, I bet he's been ice fishing. He's from South Dakota. But I, uh, I don't really think when you're that cold, you want to take your pants off. So I'm not really sure what's, Well, this guy's thinking about. This guy, he's a mayor of Hudson. He, uh, so he'd been campaigning with Josh Mandel and our old buddy.

And it was funny about this guy being so concerned with sex perverts. If you watched last week's episode, the reason Trump hasn't endorsed Mandel is he thinks he's a sex weirdo. Yep. Although nobody knows why. I let's do a podcast, the reporter broke the story. He wouldn't even go into details. Apparently, J.D. Vance's people or some other Republicans in the primary have been trying to get someone to print this lurid sex story. story about Josh Mandel and no one's doing it.

So they just go straight to Trump with it, which is what Trump thinks is a sex weirdo. But so, uh, Maddell's been campaigning of this guy. The last time he was in the news was for trying to have the school board of his town arrested for child pornography for permitting a college level book to be read in a college prep class. So, um, that's why Mandel, uh, sex pervert and anti-sex pervert have teamed up to stop all the sex in Ohio. And, but good news is we don't need to show the clip of Mandel, Matt, because it's kind of boring. So there's just a mandel talking about, like, how he's trying to stop pedophilia.

But the good news is, after this story went viral, this asshole actually had some shame and resigned. Cannot believe that, dude. Cannot believe it. Yeah. Ohio mayor says fishing shanties may lead to prostitution, resigns after multiple controversy. now he said in the in his resignation statement he said he was joking and people just didn't get his joke and also said he was stressed out after the death of his wife now that's sad i don't want to make fun on him for his wife dying i don't think he was joking though um i kind of feel like these

you know northerners it was more about you just you don't come after ice fishing god damn it that's what really came down to it's not it's not like any kind of you know uh problem with the the gaffs he was making or the morality he was projecting out there It's just like, you know, you can have our ice fishing chanties when you take them from our still a lot, cold, but still alive. And drunk, very, very drunk hands. These people, it's like they're from the 1940s or something because, like, we saw, like, talking about the Super Bowl, the, I'm sure you saw the weird panic from the turning points USA people about the, the Super Bowl halftime show being sexual anarchy, which is like. Yeah, I didn't, I did see that. Look, I knew they were going to have problems with it on account all the black people they had up there singing and how they mentioned cops.

few times and oh the white guy took a knee and all i knew like i knew they was going to have issues with it but i did not expect them to to proclaim sexual deviant well because mary j blige fell out at the end of singing or whatever she wasn't even like that you know she wasn't hussied up really she's wearing the cheerleaders yeah right yeah so i don't your pro-america save america argument is that that the cheerleaders were in full-length pants good luck with that is it like a is it like a rappers are misogynist and these are rappers and so this but they look misogyny's their shit they love misogy but i'm saying is that i literally don't understand what

that angle is supposed to be that that halftime show was like sexually deviant or sexually anarchist or whatever yeah i don't mean they all did the clean versions of their songs i mean right you see mentioned that uh drace did still not loving police which is you know from a song from crying 2001. But like, like, Fittie said, like the real version of his song is,

Mama, I got that X if you, if you had taken drugs. But I'm sure they've never heard that version. They've only heard the Radio Clean version which when he did, which is,

I ended to having sex. I ain't into having sex. I ain't into Mike in love. Yeah. So it's like, hug. You end to get a hug. I didn't even say what they're talking about.

So I can't even like, it's like, it's one of those things is just from another react. I said it was probably a timed tweet. You see that one guy. He said, you know what have made a much better Super Bowl halftime show? Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, and Lee Greenwood. That's what...

Unironically, he meant that. And it's so funny because it's like the roster they have available to them to pull from. You know what I mean? It's just those guys. They're like, maybe special guests, Scott Bayo, you know, put Kevin Sorbo in a loincloth, have him dance around. And like, and that's, well, that's the whole thing. That's pretty, that's all we got. I don't know who else to put out there's a modern maga people get the the one red guy from

Florida Georgia line get for Giotto blow you know get that yeah yeah you get a better roster to choose from than that so I don't know like you got there's got to be a country artists who would plug and play fine for them yeah anyway like you get kid rock we could all use a bathroom bathroom break for about 40 minutes in the middle of the Super Bowl yeah run to the liquor store all right our last honorable mention for daily dumb ass the Trump administration's secret service for failing to properly secure the White House toilets in terms of national security. Yeah, it seems Trump was taking a unique approach to document disposition, I guess, we should say. Anyway, play the clip, Matt.

With the toilet. Tell us what you learned. Good morning, guys. Thanks for having me. So as I was reporting out this book, I learned. I learned that staff in the White House residence would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it, and what the engineer would find would be wads of, you know, clumped up, wet printed paper, you know, meaning it was not toilet paper. This was either notes or some other piece of paper that, you know, they believe that he had thrown down the toilet. So this is like one of a bunch of stories the last few weeks about Trump's, let's say, failure to follow the law when it comes to retaining documents.

I guess he has a habit going back decades of after he finishes reading a document, tearing it up in like four, six, eight pieces. But, of course, the President's Records Act mean you can't do that. So, Aides had to tape it back together, try. He also took a bunch of top secret records within Tomorrow Lago. Don't know why. Maybe it was a mistake. He's not very, say, diligent.

Maybe it's nefarious. I don't know. Either way, it's probably not kosher or legal. And then there's a gum just a relevation. I guess he got tired of his age. taping stuff back together, so he would just put it in the toilet. But I love what you said the engineer would come on stuff. Like the White House toilets have an engineer that it's like a five-star general

as a plumber. Yeah, one step. Yeah, it can't just have plumbers in the White House. You've got to have commode engineers. Yeah. I mean, like the general. I think that of the White House code word for the guys that did Watergate was engineers or something like that.

So maybe he's got G. Liddy coming to Pondon's toilet to snake the toilet. Yeah. Classified documents he threw into it for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. He was wild. All right. Well, let's get into it.

You know, going to be a heck of a segment here beginning with maybe my favorite headline of, well, maybe ever. I don't know. And I say we'll just put the screen grab up there, Matt, so everybody can see it in their glory and we'll read it for the people that are listening. from Rolling Stone, a porno metal song about gay cowboys is disrupting the anti-vax trucker convoy. Yes. You know, sometimes this timeline is all right, Mark, you know.

Yeah. So we'll try to play a little bit of the song in a minute or two, I think. But just for a little background. So a lot of the trucker convoy was coordinating on an app called Zello, which is like a push-to-talk, walkie-talkie sort of app. but it's public so anyone can join your chat rooms right as long as you let them in so a bunch of people in Ottawa were getting really fucking annoyed with these people and the police not doing anything about them because they occupied downtown they clogged up all the parking they occupied a grocery store basically they ran through a soup kitchen

they pushed out all the homeless people they were harassing their honking their horns all night nobody could sleep and so they got fed up so what they do was they'd go on these channels And I'll read a little bit as far as you said, set the vibe. And a recent chat on Zello Channel Tudder, Windsor Convoy 2. A group of people supporting the trucker convoy started an impromptu sing along for the National Anthem, O Canada. I'm glad to these dipshits are everywhere. Our whole man native land. One person sang off key, followed by another crooning just as poorly.

True patriot love with all our sons' command. Those aren't the actual lyrics, but that's what they sang. And then comes a loud guitar riff, quote, 18 naked cowboys in the shower that ram ranch, the voice screams. But they got removed from the chat before they can continue the next lyrics. Big, hard, throbbing Cox, wanting to be sucked. So, apparently, this has become a meme. It's a hashtag Ram Ranch Resistance.

And I guess we should have done a content warning because the language is a little more aggressive than we usually using this show. But you guys are our babies. So here we go. Matt, play a few seconds of this song so they could. 18 naked cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch. Big heard throbbing cocks wanted to be sucked. All right.

All right. That's enough. I get nervous when we play any music on the show, but it just, you know, needed to be heard to be believed. Yes. That, dude, no, thinking of these dudes on their, like, walkie-talkies trying to coordinate their whole, you know, this operation they got going on it. Because you know, they're all, like, like, military escapabes.

it and shit i bet you know what i mean it's like you know freedom canuck one over go what's the what's give me a sit rep for you know what's happening outside the tim the fuck what's the name of the damn hortons tim hortons yeah down the street there and then this burst in in the middle of it and then them having to deal with it it's like this is my favorite type of um well well i i don't know if it's my favorite type of resistance. It's the most entertaining type of resistance, for sure, is this type of trolling, gay, cowboy porno metal trolling. Yeah, because it's, it's like perfect because it's absolutely harmless to everyone.

Right. The person doing the protesting is not at risk, and it's not actually doing anything to people that are protesting except annoying the shit out of them, making it harder for me to coordinate. So, so the girl, the woman who started this, she was talking to that article about how frustrated they've been with the lack of police response. And Trudeau invoked emergency powers today and sending the Mounties because the Ottawa cops weren't doing shit. And I hope the Mounties were running on horses because if not, they've really ruined on mental image. But in their, you know, the flap room hats and the reds, they all really get, uniform, all that.

Yeah. We all love Mounties. Yeah, they don't hit people as go, get, shoot, whatever, you know, whatever being in the cops here. Yeah. And slightly shoe them away from their horse, yes. But I want to show you an example of why the citizens of Ottawa will. be pretty frustrated with their police right now. Here's a video from today of cops hugging the protesters goodbye when they're getting ready

to leave because the Mounties are coming. Do you have that video, Matt? I mean, they are known for being very polite and nice up there. Maybe you just, maybe that's just what you do, you know, your worst enemy. you just you know you're legally bound to hug them on their way out or something like that although they all they also like you know fist fight over hockey jackets and stuff so I don't know I don't know which way to go on it no obviously this is we see this type of shit here all the time too fucking cops dapping it up with proud boys and shit and stuff like that you know it's like it's the only thing that's surprising about it is it's in a different country but you know yeah apparently this is uh we've exported this problem everywhere or via our cop shows or whatever but uh so the all right so the this happened today too she wasn't the only one fed up with their lack of police response because uh the police chief was essentially a mutual agreement to fire himself he resigned after meeting with the uh the town

ottawa city board um fun fact he's a former soccer player for canadian national team this guy named p uh peter slowly slowly slowly is a fun name for a guy who would not respond or protest yes it is nominative determinism baby i love it slowly he said his complaint was he didn't have the manpower to do anything about it because his cops were outnumbered by the protesters basically but that's not how police like right exploit protests the cops were out number two they still crack the fucking a bunch of people's heads right um and also what difference is more body is going to do if all you're going to do is hug them yes right we just needed to give out more hugs and that would have dispersed the crowd?

Like, what, yeah, what is more manpower going to do when that is the response? It's like, you know, we haven't tried anything, but I don't know what else you expect us to do, really. Yeah. The attitude. We told you, okay, let's talk about this Fox News video first, because we told you that Trudeau invoked emergency powers to deploy Mounted Police to shed two to end this protest. They were all going to be arrested that they didn't disperse. Here's Fox News, as very astute legal analysis of this.

happening. See where you can catch where the bullshit kicks in. Do we not have it, Matt? Standard tactic of groups going back to the civil rights movement even earlier to block bridges and streets, to do what was referred to as, quote, good trouble. And so the troubling aspect of what is coming out of the prime minister's office is that. by this rationale, they could have cracked down on the civil rights movement. They could have arrested Martin Luther King. I mean, I think that the office needs to dial down. Martin Luther King famously never arrested. I know. Imagine how things would have gone if

we'd just been able to arrest Martin Luther King at any point, you know, would have upended the whole deal if the U.S. government and police forces could have, you know, harassed Martin Luther King when he was doing his thing. It's worth noting that one of MLK's most famous protest was marching across the head and blocking the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Which he got the shit beat out of

him for and arrested for, I think. I don't remember if he was arrested on that particular occasion. These people are also blocking the bridge and nothing happened to them. So I don't know, yeah, I don't know. These people should read more than the first sentence of MLK's Wikipedia page, I think. We had sort of one of our constant complaints about these

fucking idiots. But the real shame is all this happened right before these bridge-blocking heroes were given the gift of a perfect night's sleep because they are America's big heroes and we wanted to give them the greatest honor we can bestow on anyone and that is on my pillow hello we're busy all our employees are busy making pillows right now for the truckers in Canada we're going to try and get them through I'm not going to say what day or you know there'll be there'll be obstructionist I know you guys are

good for your problem getting the pillows across the bridge would not be left-wing obstructionism. Right. Yeah. He's like, we're worried we might have some trouble getting goods across the border right now to support these patriots who are blocking goods from crossing the border. So we're going to have to employ, you know, some a little bit of covert ops in this pillow operation. We're running down here.

We're going to airlift them in, maybe. Time to some Canada geese, you know, have them fly them in. You get one of those secret CIA-funded shipping. companies. There was like transporting weapons in the Laos, but like to get pillows into Canada. Anyway, so that's the context for all this. Let's have some more fun with the song. All right. Back to Ram Ranch, the Ram Ranch resistance. So the backstory of this song is hilarious. It's written by a guy named Graham McDonald, who's a Canadian singer, who seems like he's fucking awesome. He says that Ram Ranch was inspired by part of Rodin's thinker, okay,

and in part by Nashville radio station rejecting his LBT-themed country songs. Of course, country music's involved in this. It was to get back in the homophobia of Nashville. That was the whole foundation he says. That's why he started making super horny, uh, horny gay, uh, heavy metal. So, uh, he made the songs in 2012, but they didn't start going to viral in 2016. Now, fun thing about this is, um, like, because of this, the song is like now the top 500 to Spotify. So he's a full, he's got a full on hit now. Yeah. But here's this line, him talking right never killed me. Um, After it first went viral in 2016, someone on Discord requested you do a sequel. At first, I was like, that's like Pink Floyd putting out Dark Side of the Moon, too.

But I figured if George Lucas can put out Star Wars, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, I can put out a Ram Ranch too. And totally has not written 541 versions of Ram Ranch. Oh, franchise, baby. And some new songs, including ones called Come God and Prince Harry's 12 Inchcock. dude side note here you ever read much about the guy who made monster mash yeah me and you have talked about this

but I avoid spoiling it you go no not on the show so I do know what you're about to say but go ahead because it's real fun because he makes a critical error in my opinion but go ahead so the guy the guy made Monster Mash was just a work at a song right who never had a big hit before Monster Match blows up his career doesn't take off

Outside of that, so he keeps trying to go back to the well, making more and more monster holiday theme songs. You can go, go to YouTube and watch Monster Holiday right now, which is his Christmas song, where the monsters have a holiday party. But see, I guess I get why he did that, but my thing with that is the monsters are for Halloween, so it should be like reindeer mash and, you know, Easter bunny mash and firework, like, you know what I'm saying?

it's not Monster Christmas, Monster New Year. The Monsters are the Halloween part. The holiday theme, it should be, you know, you should be doing, it should be elves, elves mashing it up, you know. That's just my opinion. Far be it for me to, you know, speak out of turn where the, you know, songwriter, Monster Match is concerned in his later career efforts. But that's just, that was my take on it.

So, anyway, I think I like this guy, his struggling country writer has pivoted to making super gay heavy metal. and it's like keep going back to that well baby it's not it's not it's much better than me the monster holiday um but anyway this is 2022 and nothing's on nothing's unproblematic so uh he doesn't hit for everybody uh that's one lady in the article's mad if she thinks the song is she said the song uh she thinks the song is funny but as uncomfortable with many of mcdonald's songs about black men such as quote love my black pros and black cock gay so maybe has objectification problems i don't know uh but he is he is the he is the kind of like the Jimmy Hendricks to this protest movement.

Yeah, which is, he's the Jimmy Hendrix that I desire for this particular protest. You know, it's exactly correct for it. So that article came out like three or four days ago, but this is from last night, this BuzzFeed reporter who's been following this. Last night, the last night of the protest, had an emergency meeting and a Twitter space, which is like an online hangout room in response to the state of emergency. So it says, he describes the Windsor Detroit border blockhead tells a story of how the communications were infiltrated, leading to organizational collapse. So he's fully crediting the Ram Ranch resistance with ruining this whole thing. He describes the background.

So they were trying to have this meeting and they couldn't even have the meeting to complain about the Ram Ranch protesters because they kept coming in and playing the song. Playing Ram Ranch. Yeah. Couldn't even talk about what to do about the Ram Ranch invasion without being invited by Ram Ranch. Yeah. It turned out even one of the guys who organized this Twitter space

hang was one of the Ram Ranch resistance. They could even kick everyone out effectively because he was holding some of the controls. They were everywhere. They were leaving. It's a morale blow. What a cluster fuck. Someone started playing at Ram Ranch on the second feed. Christen across one protester he else.

It's so great, dude. The report of loses track of who's legit and who's a protest or they can't tell who's a troll and who's not. There's lots of talk about needing money. Quote, none of us know how to use that goddamn Bitcoin says one guy. I've got kids. I need some money here. I can't do this.

Oh, God. What happened to the money we donated? I gave 600 bucks one woman acts and one of the trolls that it's gone. Bye. Bye. Anyway, these people fucking kill me. This is like, it just reminds me of like, remember when the, when the K-pop team claimed all the tickets in Trump's rally

in Oklahoma City, so there was like 15 people actually there. Enough to kill Herman Kane, I guess, but that was about all they got done. One guy says he's got a live feeder of insurance company and then the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays. The ranchers, as they're called, or just beingcessantly punking them. Oh, God. Yeah, they can't.

Anyway, this is how that was going for them. They were one of the old people on the line got a hold of guy in contact with that reporter Deandman said by his guest, like 80% of the people in those rooms are trolls, not actual protesters. So it's like, it's like, this is like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, a dumber 2020 version of like those Black Panther meetings in the 60s where everyone was an FBI agent.

Anyway, things are not going well for them. Some more good trouble. Someone momentarily hacked the, the, because they got kicked off of like GoFundMe and all the legit, uh, uh, organizations, legit like crowds funding things where they raise like $15 million. So they started their own sort of thing. It was called Give Send Go or maybe it's a real one.

It has more lax rules. But someone hacked it and redirected the URL to GiveSend Gone. And when you went to the website, we can't play it because it's a Disney property. But it was a clip from Frozen of just her riding a horse. I don't know why. Maybe she's riding a horse. It's like Ram Ranch. But the scroll says it sounds like the guy from Viv and Vendetta bragging about stealing their money is like

Your money has been usurped by the government of Canada. You will no longer be able to hold your operations. It's really fucking funny. The internet fights back, man. Yeah. You don't want to get the attention of like that particular brand of troll, you know? Like, they come after you and it's relentless. The pro trucker people did eventually get a hold again of the website.

But in the meantime, someone had downloaded names and email addresses for 92,000 donors and handing them over to reporters. That should be interesting. I saw one report that somebody gave 50 bucks from a DOJ email address, so that's probably not going to go well for that guy. In the background of this, here's a fun update from our old friend, the Queen of Canada, we talked about in prior episodes, Queen Romana Dudulo, if you don't remember. She's this lady. She happens to be a Filipino immigrant to Canada.

She started making YouTube videos for nobody where she claimed she was the Queen of Canada and she was forbidding COVID restrictions. unbeknownst to her at first she became mega famous and viral and had supporters but then it began to manifest in real world she became aware of it and started showing up protesters and people literally fed her bow before her it's crazy anyway she doesn't hit for everybody anymore some of her biggest supporters started thinking she was a fraud and got a hold of her YouTube account and locked her out and made a video calling her a fraud she also had crowdfunded money to rent an RV for her own truck convoy to Ottawa but that heard the supporters who turned on her stole her RV Yeah, a little snag

Yeah And then she made this video If you got it man Hello everyone So this is Queen Romana And we have the owners Of the managers Of this Canada Dream RV

Here in Montreal Who is refusing To cooperate With the head of state And Commander-in-Chief Of Canada The Kingdom of Canada

the Kingdom of Canada, who requires an RV to travel as part of her convoy. So this is this, and perhaps the next time I visit this facility is when I'm closing it down. I'm not quite sure they understand that the head of state can do that and commander all of their vehicles and this building as a commander-in-chief. Like when she gives like a quainly. decree, right? And then nothing happens. Like, she goes in there and she's like, you know,

your queen demands an RV, which is a funny demand for a queen in the first place. And the guy's just like, I'm not giving you an RV. And then in her head's like, well, I'm going to have to shut this guy down using my queen powers since he just ignored my queen.

I do this all the time, like trying to make sense of any of these people, you know, but it's like I just don't, I'm fascinated by, you know, some of these brains we encounter on this show, Mark. As someone who's a big fan of patiness, uh, I like the idea, how small he thinks is like, I'm going to become military dictator of Canada in order to close this RV rental place. Yeah. Yeah.

It is, uh, yeah, that's, that's some real George Costanza shit. I love it. Well, let's, uh, let's talk a little bit about the Congress people in their stocks. Yeah. So there's been some traction, boring on bipartisan momentum to ban stock trading among people in Congress because of a series of scandals and cluster fucks that they've gotten themselves wrapped up in. And it's become sort of, I mean, it should be untenable to begin with. Yeah. For those you don't remember the context of this. Right after COVID hit, a few Congress people, including, you know, the two Georgia dipshits, Kelly Loughler and David Purdue. Got caught basically dumping, like, I think Purdue dumped hotel stocks and they bought into like online communication software. Like, I don't know if it was exactly Zoom, but something like that. So they saw it coming and used after an intelligence briefing and decided to profiteer off of it.

Now, I don't know if that's why Laughler and Purdue lost to Ossef and Warnock, but the fact they seemed like, you know, crooked scumbags and Oslox and Warnock are like literal church boys. Well, I also was Jewish, but you know what I'm saying? Squeaky clean and Warnock's literal reverend with no with no skeletons. closet seemed to me to be a factor but it's like they also tried to one reason this to become a partisan scandal is because they said dian feinstein did it too now i don't want to be ablest here but one of the things you know about diane feinstein and she has a pretty bad case of Alzheimer's now this is like basically in the public record chuck chuck schumers had three separate

meetings with her to try to get her resign because of because of her mental state and the reason he had three is the second one because she didn't remember the first one had the third one She should remember the second one. And I guess she doesn't have the third one either. So the fact, I doubt she formed some high level, you know, plan. But something like the current, they're currently regular by something called the Stock Act, which is like stop trading on congressional knowledge, whatever. That was passed in 2012.

No one's ever been prosecuted for it. It's a very high bar to meet to pass this law. But in the meantime, like Pelosi's husband made some timely trades that profited $5 million like a couple months ago. All this stuff just looks like absolute shit. And Pelosi dragged her feet. Recently as a month ago, she's saying there's no way to do it. It's unfair to keep powers people from participating in the economy.

Now she's come around because it's like, they have all this extra information that other regular people are not privy to, like you said on intelligence committees or economic trends or whatever. There's a million different ways they could have a scoop on something that's like patently unfair that they could artificially enhance their wealth with and that's like you know i thought we was against that sort of thing generally it's like just clearly like conflict of interest abuse of power all that shit they shouldn't be able to do it in the first place in my opinion i mean if you have them if you have uh interest financial interest before you get elected or whatever

as long as it's not like a direct conflict of interest in some way than whatever but actively trading in, you know, these markets while you're participating and running and helping to run the economy just seems like such obvious horseshit to me. It's not even just knowledge. Like they're, like, you're talking about like, they literally pass laws that help and hinder these, these, right. Like, you could, you could, like, for example, buy stock and Exxon and then introduce a bill that pays more old subsidies.

Right. You could short Exxon and pass a bill. that funds green energy, right? You could, I'm just spitballing here. You could, like, be on the board of Halliburton or something like that and start a war. There's a lot of different things you could do hypothetically in these positions. But they do really do think they're special. And it's like, I really hate, they really think being in Congress is a real job.

I hate it so much. Like, this has gotten so bad. Like, there was a reporting this month. that like at least 55 members of Congress violate the Stop Act in 2021 alone. And nothing's going to happen to them. But the funny thing is all the people got caught doing this. One of the reason Pelosi had to like switch lanes is because the people got caught breaking the law are now trying to save their asses by advocating for a stronger law. Here's a woman like an Iowa congressman.

After scrutiny, U.S. rip, Cindy Axney supports ban on stock trades in Congress. The scrutiny she got got was for making like, I think, like 60 grand on society. suspicious trades. So it's not scrutiny. She fucking did crooked shit and somebody noticed it. It's not the scrutiny she's worrying about. But anyway, just a reminder, though, as much as Pelosi annoys me, there are still much bigger dumbasses than her. Here's a quote from our returning favorite, Senator Tommy Tuberville, football coach slash senator slash asshole. Trump-loving GOP senator says no one will run for office if you ban lawmakers from trading stocks. He is essentially saying if you can't get paid an exorbitant amount of money, you're only going to get people who aren't smart enough to be greedy.

Right. If you can't profit on your position of power in the first place, then what would possibly motivate you to serve as a U.S. representative? It's just outright stating, like, we are not here to represent the people or their interests or our constituents or nothing like that. We're here to line our pockets. And if you try to keep us from doing that, we'll all just fucking leave. And I hope you're happy. It's fucking outrageous, man. By the way, they can still have investments, just get put into blind trusts under the

most of the frameworks of these laws. Yeah. It's also, it's not even, like, they're debating. It might, what they're probably going to do is pass something that it doesn't do anything until they'll look better in an election year. Right. But, like, some of these laws don't even do anything, but it's like, it's like one of the most stringent will ban, like, Congresspeople, their spouses, and their dependent children.

So they're adult children. They could still leak information too and nothing would happen around, which is absolutely what happened. But anyway, so like, but let's say you could stop Congress people from profiteering off being in Congress. Can you imagine the horror if all you got was like social workers and activists and people that cared about their community elected to Congress? How awful that would be? I know, right. People who were motivated by, yeah, serving their people and their community and whatnot, then where would we be? If those people actually ran and were elected to office.

Yeah. What a hellscape. That famous Simpson's Outtake where somebody's like imagine a world with no lawyers and the lawyer brains. It's like a bunch of people of all races and creeds dancing around the field holding hands with rainbows. Yeah. And the lawyer goes, oh, awful. It's like, it's where these fucking idiots think. It's like we were full.

Greed is good was a parody. in the 80s to make fun of Reaganism. And now it was satirical. Yeah, but I genuinely espoused that belief. I'm like, no, I got was fucking Gordon Gecko. He was the shit. Yeah. I got unironically ruled, I think.

I hope they passed this. It's political malpractice that Pelosi didn't hang this around with Purdue and Lawfler around the entire party's necks and enous committee investigations into every fucking body last year. But whatever, it's where we are. Two years ago, whatever it happened. Yeah. All right.

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Been weekly skews for a minute now, though. Yeah. So the Super Bowl halftime show, Mark. I saw a good, a good tweet about Jim Gray says Trigger, a hell of a salesman. I appreciate that. I was, I was in thinking, like, when you, when you threw to me about me, like, I'm not very hourly, I'm not, I'm not good at selling.

I'm very unculted with it. I'm also not very hourly emotive. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I was like, how you feel about it? Are you excited over there? You're like, yeah, man, it's going to be cool. That's, we're going to have good time. Yeah, I know, I know.

I honestly, I've got a little bit of that, too. It's hard for me to be, like, to get, like, I can, get like riled up about things that piss me off or whatever but like you know things like joy oh you know uh just outward uh expressions of passion or love and uh joy and things like that i can get a little get a little weird about i still feel guilt to this day when my christmas might when i after a turn 16 my dad got me a little beat up pickup truck get around in yeah and like open a stocking and there's keys in it. I realized he got me a truck and I'm like, oh, cool.

I was like, my dad wanted to be, he wanted his show. And I was like, yeah. Rebecca, YouTube says, T-T-shirts. Yeah, we're going to, you know, that's a good idea, Rebecca. We've got the weekly skew shirts. We can do more, more shirts, figure some shirt stuff out. But I was going to ask, Mark, I saw this tweet that got me pretty good because I honestly

hadn't thought about it this way. which is funny but like even actually on my patreon earlier this week i was talking about the halftime show and i said with no sense of self-awareness whatsoever i was like you know every now and then i have like the rolling stones or something like that it appealed like an older demographic or something right uh but this year this was for you know like oh wait a minute yeah this is it's the same type of thing it's just 20 years later or whatever there was a tweet that said like a whole bunch of us this week thought you know They used to get bands like the Rolling Stones to appeal to the older crowd,

but now finally this year, they, oh, my God, oh, no. Yeah. I mean, I haven't think about this because, like, you know, I'm a little bit older than you. Like, I remember, like, we turn on oldies rock radio. Like, they've been playing Green Day for like 20 years already. Yeah, right. Pearl Jam, Nirvana. Like, it's like, so this isn't a new experience for me, but like, but I think about it.

Like, I remember my dad listening to Oldies Rock and you were playing like Skinnerd and Zeppelin, but that wasn't only like 12, 13 years old in the 80s, right? So it's like Chronic 2001, which Drey was doing songs from, came out in 2001. That's 21 years ago. Of course it's oldies, you know, yeah. Yeah. Kind of related. I noticed I was in Alabama and there was our buddy, Matt Mitchell, shout out to Cassio

kid, awesome dude, very funny comic. He's on a radio station down there and it's like rock radio. not classic rock, like modern rock radio, but I noticed when I was there, and I'm not throwing shade, because I don't know what else they would play. It's still the same stuff that was on rock radio when I was in, like, college listening to rock.

You know what I mean? Like saliva and fucking three doors down and all that stuff. You know what I mean? Because it's like that they just ain't making new versions of that, I guess. I don't know what else you play on rock radio. Imagine Dragons. Brian Fowler from Facebook says, I had a 65-year-old asked me if I'd ever heard of the liberal redneck.

Watch him every week. Dude was a Republican pre-Trump. Well, that's nice to hear. Unless he was like, you believe they got one of them? What the fuck is that about? Whole country's gone to shit, man. Get my gun. Yeah.

Where's he at? But yeah, I don't know what, like, what rock music is right now. That's how to touch I am. You know what I mean? don't know what classifies as rock music like right now today you know i'm not big on like i started it's an old documentary but i started a mics and men last night the uh documentary series on wutan clan it was pretty good so far but i was just like like like i grew up my dad hate and rap music and stuff but like there's all kinds of music like i don't mean genres but i mean like

some people make music to be silly sometimes it's dance music sometimes it's like protest songs sometimes it's everything but like sometimes people just out there having fun yeah like when method man does the song method man he's just doing it's just doing it's just doing it's doing a lot of wordplay. There's nothing, there's nothing really going on behind it, and that's absolutely fine. But like, so rock's the same way where so much to dance, some it's whatever. But like, there was a top 10 rock albums list a couple years ago, and I'm looking at it. I'm like, none of it, like, definitionally to me, to me, I don't know what rock is. I can't really define it, but it's like something you would make sense to

ride a motorcycle too. Is it the best way. Yeah, that's a good. Yeah, good way to put it. And like, imagine dragons, vampire weekends, do not. Right. Right. Right. Well, there's a bunch of different kinds of rock, you know, Michael Krause says, not Coldplay. See, you know, yeah, Coldplay is a rock band. I don't know what they're, but I know, like, Vampire Weekend, I think they're like indie rock. It would be the thing they are.

But I don't know. But even them, dude, they've been around for a while now. But yeah, I know. Like, that's why I said Imagine Dragons. It's like, I think Imagine Dragons, I believe, is, like, considered to be a rock band in this era. And, you know, and I ain't. got no problem with them. My son's they fucking love Imagine Dragons.

But I don't, it don't sound like rock music to me, but I'm old now. I've been going through this lately. The music thing, I'm definitely turning into my dad and I never thought I'd be that way. I used to be like hip to shit Mark, where music was concerned. I really

did. And now I just don't, I don't get things. I'm confused by if I listened to him, I'm like, I don't know what that is, but I don't like it. I want that to get off my yard. You know, like, I don't, I never used to be that way, but it's just like, it just be happening when you get older, I guess. I still listen to a good amount of new music. I'll browse to what the new stuff is. And if I, if it looks like a genre

I'm into, like I'll give it a listen. But you, but you, most new stuff doesn't hook me. Like, I'll listen once. I'm like, oh, that's good. Like, I like, like, Anderson Park with the Super Bowl, Anderson Park with the Super Bowl show just playing drums. Nobody even noticed he was there. He's playing drums for him and him. Like, I like his music a lot. He does like soul stuff. That's cool. Yeah, I didn't even know that. That's rad, though. It's good news to lay by a pool, too.

There's lots, there isn't a good new stuff. He just got to really dig for it. Or maybe we're just old. I don't know. Terminal three from YouTube said, Modern Rocks is bad as modern country. I've railed on, you know, radio country for the better part of 20 years now. A lot of that rate was just on porches.

I just been bitching on porches about it. But we've got a whole podcast about 90s country. But the thing about that is, like, I know, my dad, he loved Whalen and Willie and him. he hated 90s country. My buddy Earl, who's around my dad's age, same thing, big, great musical taste, hated 90s country. But we were like kids at the time and had a different, you know, so it's all, it's just all, like, relative completely. DGP, Holy Hang Grenade, I like that name, says, I haven't listened to the radio on over a decade, and it's all the same playlist. I mean, on some stations, it literally is, in my experience, you know, it hasn't changed, but that's whatever.

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