Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 2/21/2023 - Dummy Deep Dive

Episode Date: February 22, 2023

Tonight we're profiling a couple of up-and-coming George-Santos-level lying-ass lunatics before Mark breaks down a rising new conspiracy theory. Gonna be a good un, so join us. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's February 21st 2023 I'm Trey Crowder that's Mark ad you what's up Mark what's up Trey happy president's day bud how'd you celebrate did you leave some top secret documents out for president clause yeah you know had numerous extramarital affairs and you know overthrew a company country in Central America. Yeah. Yeah, I don't, what the hell are you supposed to just be off work, I guess, is what you're

supposed to do on President's Day? You got to, it's just like, here's the day off because we have presidents. I mean, you know, it's fine with me. It's a chance to learn trivia at least, which I learned a fun fact yesterday. I guess you already knew it, but President John Tyler, who was America's 10th president, who was born under George Washington and owned slaves, still has a living grandson. So whenever people tell you, like slavery was a long. time ago, be like, well, this guy's sat on the, on the knee of a slave owner. And by the way,

he still lives their family estate, which is still called a plantation. So there you go. Sheld my own state of Virginia. But yeah, they, uh, John Tyler's grandson. He used to have two living grandsons. I guess one of them finally kicked it. But they're, uh, so it's one of those deals were like, like, like you said, he was president in like the 1840s or something like that, John Tyler was. I think 1840s, 1850, a long ass time ago. And he had a kid when, he was old as shit and then that dude had kids when he was old as shit and one of those kids is still alive with a papal from the antebellum era so pretty uh pretty crazy Tyler apparently said politically he was opposed to slavery while still owning people so uh yeah

politicians always be the same uh also in other presidential news jimmy carter is in her hospice so he's uh you know getting to die probably the best way which is surrounding by loved ones, shot up with all the drugs you can find. So good for him. Where you had on Jimmy, I talked about Jimmy Carter on my Patreon this week because it was President's Day and because of that. And sort of like the cliche about Jimmy Carter is, you know,

not a great president, but a great man. Or not a great president, but maybe the greatest ex-president we've ever had those types of sentiments. Is that you agree with that? That's fair. I just think the actual record for Carter's presidency is misremembered because people have sort of adopted. opted Reagan's criticisms of him as the takeaway.

Like he was some like he wasn't popular because he was some huge left winger who was like way too progressive. That's not true. I mean, it's like like my presence is a mixed bag and I'll have a lot more to say about it after he passes. Like I just, right,

you know, I had a bunch of stuff prep for the show. You can see I struck doing the lineup. But I thought we have, we have a lot of show today. So I thought we'll save it for the RIP stuff because I think it's important to talk about people's actual legacies because like how do you learn from stuff if you don't, It's not that I want to speak ill of the dead and spit on someone's grave,

but if you don't do honest appraisals of the history, how do you learn from it to do better? Yeah, that's a novel and threatening concept right there, Mark. You better watch it. You're sounding a little critical race theory-e over there. Yeah. But yeah, what was our president up to on president's side? He was over in Ukraine.

He snuck into Ukraine and a train out of Germany or Poland, I think. is the first president to not have U.S. military cover in a war zone. But I guess they told Russia Biden was going in case they're planning on nuke against. They know they probably ought not do that at that particular date. But yeah, so, yeah, I guess this speech is a real success. And I guess it makes sense why it hasn't been into East Palestine. Yeah, because obviously this has been playing for a while and it had to be secretive about it. But maybe should have gone to East Palestine because Trump did.

And whenever you leave a vacuum, the assholes in our country, flood it with bullshit, right? So Trump, Trump went there? He went to, yeah. Okay. Yeah, he gave a long rambling speech about how East Palestine wouldn't have if he was president for some reason also he could end the war in Ukraine a single day. And he also announced a plan when he's president again to have the Department of Justice take over school discipline.

So now the federal government, this part of the small government is going to have FBI agents spanking her kid for, you know, running in the halls or whatever. Oh, so speaking of East Palestine, we did, you know, the whole episode on it last week and we talked about a little bit of a Patreon, a little bit of an update. Mike DeWine, the governor of Ohio and the CEO of Norfolk Southern went to East Palestine today and did a big thing where they drank the tap water. So, yeah, good for them for that, I guess. But I'm sure someone tested it for them first. Yeah, wasn't there? I can't remember which, you know, environmental disaster.

it was. But there was like a famous moment right in the past few years where like it was with fracking or something and the CEO was at a town hall meeting and they like somebody gave them like poured him a glass of water and he like famously refused to drink it and which was obviously a huge like PR nightmare. I don't remember the specifics of it. But I feel like you know, you kind of got to drink the water in this scenario. But also I read that the water they drink in their town is from like super deep underground and like a big steel reservoir or whatever. So like the shit that's slowly seeping into the ground

and fucking killing and poison everything there it ain't made it yet and then we'll have to permeate the steel first so they're probably fine you know not not the fishies though or anybody with well water or so many other things yeah yeah exactly and also like

drinking it once might not be the big problem but drinking it every day for like 50 years you know is a totally different thing so like Mike DeWine drink the water from East Palestine every day for 50 years challenge um uh there's another train to realm with today by the way in Nebraska a dozen cars dumped a bunch of coal um is this like the spy balloon thing is it like what some has this just been happening but people they weren't like newsworthy or whatever it and but now that that that one happened they're being reported or what because there's been a seemingly alarming alarming alarming

large number of train day railments recently, but maybe that's just the status quo. Maybe they just stayed day railing. I don't know. Yeah, trains do, Pete Buttigieg went on TV and said, made that point the train to railments happen all the time. But like, it also saw someone be like, I think like people like me or like are like somehow being, you know, unfair because trained, like we took, I thought with the stat last, we go out how many more trained aroundments America has relative to other countries.

And, but they're saying, well, trained aroundments in America are down, actually. it like had been going down for years and years and years. I'm like, so like, so what, the people in these Palestinians should suck it up and die because yeah, we're working on it. The stats are getting better, you know. I'm sure it makes them feel better, right? Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry your kid might get cancer, but look at this graph. Yeah, right, exactly. And it's also like, you know, listen, calm down. Trains derail all the time. And it's like, that don't really make me. feel any better about it like you know just not like knowing that doesn't really change anything or change the fact that they probably ought not and maybe we should be doing shit to prevent them from doing so you know in the future but what do i know i'm not a train guy it doesn't change the

fact that the derailment would have been a lot less bad if they had invested in better breaks it doesn't change the fact that it's crooked as shit this train carrying hazardous materials didn't have to abide by the hazardous material regulations because they made the train so goddamn long and clumsy that the hazardous cargo was a relatively small amount of its cargo. None of that stuff fucking makes it has anything to do with the fact that trail and

railments are going down. It's still a fucked up situation. And you can each, people can eat shit if they want to tell me it's not a big deal because of some chart. Okay. So, but I'm thinking about the current state of federal regulation and I came across these two stories that are from last November, December. Here's the first

one from December. No copoly. Airline Airlines Lobby for Change of Regulations. I remember this. Yeah. I fly a lot. And so this one stood out to me. So, yeah, they want to go down to, they want to lobby the federal government. They'll let them only have one pilot per plane because they say, well, autopilot's gotten real good.

And also they have staffing problems because they don't want to pay to train new pilots. And their two main pipelines, we talked of as before, are hobby pilots who have flown enough hours to qualify for to fly commercial airliners. So unless you're wealthy and have your own plane, you're not in that pipeline. Or number two, military veterans. And since we're using a lot of drones now, there are less of those to hire once after they retire. So their solution to that problem, instead of paying them to do their own training, is to let the federal government fly with one person.

Which keep that in mind, this story happened about a week or two before this story about their lobbying. Pilot dials are taking a plane takes off in Chicago and his co-pilot successfully landed. of the plane because it was lucky they fucking had too. And this is not the first, yeah. What is supposed to happen if, like, if they go down to one pilot per plane, they're like, oh, autopilot's great now, but can autopilot just do everything? And if it can, why do we even still have the goddamn pilots?

I'm assuming it's got some limitations. And if it does, what happens when that one pilot has a massive heart attack or whatever? Because it's bound to happen eventually, as you said, it just happened two weeks before they started lobbying for this. what is supposed to take place in that eventuality under their plan? Like just a crash? The head flight attendant will go in there and they'll fucking walk them through it like in that old 90s

movie with I think Anne Hayes, wherever it was, turbulence. Anyway, that's a deep pull. Anyway, go ahead. Or airplane. Yeah. So like, yeah, so I think my reader of this is they've crunched the numbers and they make more profit paying to deal with an occasional crash than they would by training new pilots so but it's not just it's not just the heart attack scenario this was from

the first article um oh yeah this happened in 2015 a co-pilot of a german wing's flight locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed the plane kill himself and 1409 other people so it's not just physical problems psychological problems the other reason you want to have two pilots in the cockpit right yeah i mean i remember that that was a huge fucking thing that was terrible but and they ended up they made changes to the doors and shit right like the cockpit doors where you can't because they used to could just like turn around and fucking you know flip the lock and now nobody can get in there but I guess they can't do that anymore but uh yeah still I don't want to be on a plane with only one pilot uh up there no matter what and I'd be on a lot of planes so um yeah there's also a miracle in the Hudson uh sully sullenberger gets all the credit but he had a co-pilot by the name of geoffrey scyles who he needed to do that landing to sullenberger just had to rank um there were 57 people would have died on that heart attack flight and 150

would have died on the Sully Sillenberger flight. And so they did the math and be like, yeah, we can afford that many settlements. So we only need one pilot. Yeah. Capitalism, baby. All hail. All right. Well, let's do it.

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among the ranks of incoming Republican Congress people. We've got two more for you as we go through. Also, the basement-based conspiracy theorists of the world have identified a new and alarming threat to your liberty and livelihood, convenience. That's right. The concept of urban efficiency must be stamped out at all cost, less the communist win.

I know that doesn't make any sense. I can't promise that it will later, but we'll do our best. And so we got all that and more for you on the skews tonight. But first, of course, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. My graphic, please. Tonight, CD, people at Harvard Law School for being shocked to learn the question, is Donald Trump a criminal, isn't a calculus problem. Let's see here.

This is from the Georgia case with Trump. Sir, we have breaking news from the Associated Press and the New York Times, the four woman in the special grand jury investigating Donald Trump's potential election interference in 2020 has given an on-the-record interview to both news organizations telling the times the jury recommended multiple indictments. It's not a short list, she's quoted as saying. Asked whether Donald Trump was one of them. She responded, you're not going to be shocked. It's not rocket science.

And adding, you won't be too surprised. though this woman is for me she's like amazing you like like uh just don't trump a criminal uh yeah it's like it's like you ask a regular person lately or not but mm-hmm yeah it's like if you ask a regular person is the sky blue and they go yes and you ask the scientists they go well actually it's light reflected and you're it's like shut the fuck up i know i'm looking at and it's amazing you ask a regular they got a grand jury of regular people to look at this shit Trump did. And this woman,

this woman seems really frustrated by the national discourse around this by people who are way overeducated. And so she says, it's not a short list of the people being charged. She also, the jury appended eight pages of legal code that we cited at various points. The jury did their

own legal research to point to these lawyers. Like, look at these fucking crimes. Oh my God. Just like, everybody, everybody who did go to Harvard or Yale is like, will you people just do the fucking obvious thing that is your job?

And everyone's like, right, technically. Maybe it's like, shut the fuck up. Just do something. Yeah, no.

Well, I mean, it is very frustrating in that way, but it's also like, I mean, you know, we've said it a million times on every time it comes up. Like,

I just never have expected that to happen anyway. Like, you know, actual legal consequences just because of like, that's, that's America and that's, and he is who he is and that's how things work. But it's still,

I mean, you're right. still like for many like regular person's perspective it's like what the fuck is every now then a new headline will come out kind of like this one you know where it's like alluding to these you know uh legal ramifications that are cooking or like shocking new developments or whatever and every single time it's like okay well so is something going to happen now like or or you know it'll just be a couple more weeks and then there'll be another headline like this and you know or will something ever actually happen I think

this woman spent seven months in this grand jury so she knows how these people are and she knows how the lunatics can respond to this so she outed herself put her name on it made herself the subject of death threats to come forward and be like well somebody please hold someone accountable and i'm like he was still like the even if trump got charged the space between him being charged and any suffering of sort of consequence is is vast right right so i still don't think anything actually happened but it's like this is this is all extremely frustrating i just when to talk about it from that lens because it's like it yeah man i didn't i didn't i didn't go to law school but but i saw i saw a guy mug an old lady right pretty sure that was a crime yeah yeah

yeah well it's um maybe well if you think about space time continuum maybe she mugged him okay well okay shut the fuck all right our first honorable mention for daily dumb ass is anybody who thought the right couldn't make their own version of hamilton this is uh from project veritas Founder James O'Keefe, who apparently is a big theater guy. He spent the company, he spent Veritas's money putting this project together. So I hope you all enjoy it. Go ahead, Matt. I just can't believe that my face is on TV.

I like Rocky. And my left. All right. M or G. O.E. Aligarchy. Do I have to. James O'Keeke is suing Twitter for defamation

So you get it You get it There's a lot of quite a bit more though Oh, he's made a ton of these So I want to talk about this guy Because his journey is important He's been a tremendously successful Right-wing propagandist

And also, you know, criminal But we'll talk to the success part first So if you remember the controversy He discussed conspiracy at the beginning of Obama's presidency by ACORN, which is, you know. I remember it being a thing. I knew that I remember Veritas, like, blowing it all up and all that, but I don't, I don't remember the specifics, though. It was like eco-terrorism, right, was like the accusation or whatever or whatever. No.

This one was he went, he went undercover in an ACORN office to talk to some organizers and pretended, if you look at the edited version of the video, he's pretending to be a pimp and he's asking them for advice. legal advice on how to manipulate his hose or whatever, all right? That's not at all what happened. It doesn't matter. A video went viral. The Obama administration completely cowardly backed down. Congress cut off funding for it. And this group was very successful at registering people to vote among connecting them

with other resources. Now think about how much different the last, you know, I don't know, 15 years would look if we still had our country's most successful political voter registration organization. Anyway, by the time anybody got around looking into the actual factual claims in it, they were all wrong. Like, they were all off. Nobody pressed any charges. They were, they weren't just not indicted. They were cleared the general accounting office and law enforcement, both California and the Fed said, nope, they didn't do anything wrong.

It doesn't matter. They're out of business. That's one of those things, man, it's like, you know, can't get that genie back in the bottle. Like the narrative got set or whatever, and the decision was made, basically. And then they were fucked. And then it doesn't matter, you know, any kind of exoneration after. the fact, because, uh, I mean, I think I'd heard because of Veritas and what they do and all that shit. I feel like I'd heard at some point that a lot of it was bullshit. But again, it didn't,

it doesn't matter like the damage was done. So right. Right. Um, and so he, uh, he's done a bunch of other shit too. Like he's paid, he did jail time for trying to bug a Democratic politician's office. Um, he's also in legal hot water right now because, uh, I don't even, it's lesser than the Hunter Biden scandal, but also, uh, uh, Ashley Biden, Joe, Joe, uh, uh, uh, Joe, uh, Joe's daughter, her diary got stolen and plastered all over the internet, and two guys in Florida pleaded guilty to stealing it. The case against the Keefe is about whether he ordered it or just accepted it after the fact. The government's theory of the case is that he paid them to do it, which is a big no-no.

Now, a journalist can print stolen materials if they've not involved in the, you know, in the actual theft. That's the First Amendment that's how we're allowed to print the Pentagon papers, right? So anyway, no, that's the reason they fired him. They fired him for shit like the music video. Um, he, he spent money on dumb shit like that dance video, which he made several. He, uh, he filmed the production of Oklahoma. He, uh, did a music video where he danced a thriller.

It doesn't even had a political content. The Project Veritas paid for like all this shit. And, uh, all this stuff, like you spent, um, $14,000 in a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat, uh, and pretend he was meeting with a donor. He's been $60,000 on dance parties, $150,000 on car services. And he bought personal DJ equipment with the, with the company's money. the organization's money and all this was chasing donors away that's why they got yeah i was gonna ask like where you know they get their money and it's from like is it from regular people

regular you know lunatic people or is it from my big private benefactors like coke brother type shit that fund them yeah and so those people find out he's you know blowing a 150 grand on a dj and a limo and stuff and so then that is what makes the difference yeah he also Yeah, he's like, you're supposed to be using your power of your propaganda to turn children and middle-aged people into adult psychos who get mad about drag queens. But instead, what he did was he used $25,000 to fly his employees to attend a performance of Oklahoma. He did at a theater in Virginia. So he just like, I imagine nobody else would be there if he didn't make his employees show up since he paid, he paid $25,000 to have people. He was also a bit of a meanie, right?

Kind of a jerk, this guy. Yeah. Great boss, I heard. Yeah, he would apparently spit in his employee's faces over tweets. He would threaten them. He made them undergo lie detectors. And he stole a pregnant woman sandwich. Here's the thing about stealing the pregnant woman sandwich.

That's not even the stupidest part of it because he was being sued by some Democratic organization who he'd done some chicanery to do. And he was hungry in the middle of the trial. And he yelled at one of his employees. about the fact he was hungry and then he stole the pregnant woman sandwich in front of the jury who then of course decided against his organization

Oh my God hundreds of thousands of dollars by still I'm sure he might have been found they might have decided against him anyway but I'm sure stealing a pretty woman sandwich in front of a jury doesn't fucking help It's no wild that our society is like set up to reward people that are this

maniacally shitty do you know what I mean because like this dude It just seems like, how do you not know any better than to act that way? But, I mean, he's been validated for the most part along the way up until recently, you know, like, I mean, found great success in the propaganda game by being a lunatic asshole. So he'll rise again. And it's also like the people that are fans of him are saying he was the globalist deep state that outed him at Project Veritas. And that like, I guess the Koch brothers have gone woke now because they don't want their money being spent on performances of Oklahoma. It's just all too fucking stupid.

Our last honorable mention is anyone who thought that medieval knights wouldn't stand up to tyrannical overlords. That's right. It's happening right now in our society. Medieval Times is experiencing a labor strike. The knights, they said no. They said, now they threw down their lances and spears and discussed. Yeah. It's thrown them for a loop.

So this is happening in Southern California. California, they're protesting unsafe working conditions, unfair labor practices, I should say, and the fact they get paid $18 an hour. If you guys, I did a couple corporate events for medieval times in Dallas and I was still doing stand-up, including like their office Christmas party. So I know more about this than I should, but like it's pretty thorough training process to become a night at medieval times. Like you really do start off as a squire and learn how to do stage combat and shit and how to ride

horses and stuff. So like $18 an hour to live in Southern California is not a lot. Anyway, that's where they're on strike. And so they're using scab. They're using a bunch of different kinds of scab labor here. Here's the fucked up part. They flew in nights from other castles around the country and are putting them up and panned them, you know,

what do you call per diems and shit. When they could just give that money to these people and get them back to work. Right. But so one of the scabs, they tried off they bumped up a squire or something to a job he wasn't ready for. But you'll recall from the story.

There's a standard moment in the medieval time show where the chancellor invites any knights to leave if they believe the danger of combat is too great. If any of you should lament this petition, it's dangerous. You are free now to retire in honor. It's a perfunctory overture that Brave Knights always declined. But in this case, the employees told Huffington Post, the substitute knight took the chancellor's offer

and fled the arena on his horse, never to return. It's a really funny moment if you think about it because it's like every show they have there has this moment where they're giving up. If you feel your life is it too great a risk, you may leave and retain your honor or whatever but like no one ever does that they're all like no let's do this shit but this guy that's bumped up squire or horse trainer or whatever he was was like fuck it all right and just bounced on a horse or just rode out but they didn't know he was

going to do that so you know everybody was sitting there like well way what do we gary left like what do we do now what who's gonna we just do it without gary or what and And I did, I reckon. You show up to your job as a stable boy or whatever. And they're like, well, tonight you're the green knight. And he's like, well, wait, I don't, when they swing the sword at me, I don't know when to duck. And I haven't betrayed of this. But, Tray, can you imagine how freeing it is to say, fuck you, I quit and gallop away on a horse?

Oh, my God. And what an amazing moment. Yeah, that's got to be one of the hardest hit and whites to quit a job for sure on your fucking, you know, trusty stayed. There's also something deeply hilarious to me. about, like, people who play knights and queens are trying to overthrow a feudal system. It'd be like if there was an anti-racist Confederate Civil Warian actor or something shit. I don't even know how to categorize this. But in other labor news, I wanted to talk about this real quick.

The Warrior Met Strike in Alabama is ending because the employees have realized they're probably not going to win this way. And they've been on strike 23 months. What happened was because of spiking energy prices, the coal company had a huge windfall. The strike didn't hurt them at all economically, so they had no power to negotiate. And so these guys said, okay, I guess we have to go back to work with the shitty old contract. So, they're still negotiating. They're just negotiating while they're working. But I'm sad.

They lost for the moment. Solidarity forever, guys. I hope you get them on the next one. Yeah. But yeah, early in COVID, they never shut down. They kept mining or whatever, which allowed them to stockpile of shit, load of coal. So then they had that in reserve when, like, the strike started. And then also coal skyrocketed in price, and they brought in a bunch of scabs and all this shit.

made a whole bunch of money and it wasn't really having any effect. So it's a bummer. Yeah, they got screwed over by the government. They got screwed over by the coal company. It was a lot, they did a lot of things working against them. So yeah. Federal judge ruled they couldn't protest. They couldn't, they actually

marched for the strike. So yeah. Yeah, it doesn't seem, uh, that doesn't seem cool to me on behalf of that federal judge. But again, you know, I'm a law. I'm not a lawyer. So what the hell do I know? Let's get in. You know, else isn't a

lawyer, a lot of people, including some people in Congress. That was a terrible segue because I don't think she even... Even some who say their lawyers apparently, but yeah. I know. Well, that's... I was thinking that and then I was like, but did what I'm saying? It was a logger anyway. Like I said, up top, there's some new hot new liars just dropped

from the Republican Party. You've been hearing about George Santos. Of course, we all knew Hersch Walker. He got beat and then it was George Santos. Now, there's an Anna Paulina Luna, who's come up on the show before, former Maxim model, flipped a district in Florida, a Republican Congresswoman down there, and she's made an assortment of claims along the campaign trail

and then interviews, and it seems that they may be at the least somewhat dubious, Mark. So to begin with, she has often claimed that she grew up very poor and was isolated and shunned by her family and had no support. Yeah, Washington Post reporting says that Luna's relative said she was cobbled by her uncle and cousins as a kid and always attended family gathering. She had everything, what she needed and more. And service members, she started. She was in the Air Force and people she served with said they always got the impression she came from a well-off family, claiming that she wore designer clothing and mentioned having nannies as a child.

So she's bullshit in one way or the other, right? Like she used to tell people, like, she used to tell people, oh, yeah, I remember my nannies when I was a kid or whether she was a rich kid or she was bullshit in then or, you know, it's just bullshit all the way down. She also is often told a story about surviving a high. home invasion when she was stationed in Missouri during her time in the Air Force. Yeah, the, uh, the post talked to her roommate at the time and said there was a break in, but no one was home. Right. And it was during the day, right?

Like she said it was the middle of the night, middle of the night, violent break in, thank God there was this guy there to protect her and all this stuff. But according to the roommate, their apartment was broken into in the middle of the day when nobody was home and they never encountered the person. Going back to the, the first thing for a second about whether she grew up poor or not, now, it doesn't even one of those things where either one's true or the other one's true. She could have been middle class and both of them are lies. Right. So like, but it seems to me that like you're in Air Force, you're around broke people where you pretend to be rich to be special and you're in Congress around a bunch of rich people where you pretend you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps to feel special. She's just about she's just trying to be special. That seems pretty straightforward to me. All right. Sorry. I just want to say that. That's all right. So she also has often talked about her father being incarcerated when she was growing up. Her father, the convict, the fellow.

No record of it. No record of it whatsoever. It doesn't exist. Her father, who apparently either abandoned her family or not, didn't spend any time in jail as far as anyone can tell. And jails keep records, Trey. It's one thing the government's very good at is keeping a list of people who do crimes. So there you go. All right. Also, she is of Mexican heritage and has always been very open and proud of that fact. This one's complicated. And, of course, it's not for me to judge her. identity or how she wants to go, but she has presented herself. She's changed her surname a few times. She used to go by Anna Paulina Meyerhofer. And I guess like this makes sense. I'll be generous here. She got divorced and so she changed her name back to her mother's maiden name or whatever. So that's fine. I don't want to judge her for that. But she also told people, which was in the Air force, that she was, I'll skip down on the next one because she told friends in Air Force.

She alternated between calling herself Middle Eastern, Eastern European, and Jewish. So, yeah, I guess she's whoever she's talking. This seems feels very Santos-y to me. Yeah, she was right. She said her dad was a Jew or part Jew or something, and she was raised as a messianic Jew. Yes. She has claimed that her father was a Messianic Jew,

which basically means a Jew for Jesus. So, like, it's not, anyway, I'm not Jewish. She's not people to get in that fight, but Mainline Jewish people would obviously say that, well, if you believe Jesus is the Messiah, have and you kind of know that was a fine i didn't know what that existed but okay yeah so all right yeah so here's the points line to that uh it turns out her father was a grandfather was involved in the holocaust he was in the nazi army uh there you go there's her uh paternal

grandfather uh henrik meyerhofer who's again whose name he was going who's name she was going by until fairly recently uh in a nazi uniform in the 40s now to be they had a draft. It doesn't mean he wanted to be fighting in the Nazi army, but also, like, I like to think of both those to be like, no, I'm not fighting for the Nazi army and take whatever it happens next. But, you know, uh, who knows? But anyway, so yeah, she's a line.

I feel comfortable saying she's a line second shit. Um, none of hers appeared to involve crime, so she's not going to be in trouble like Santos. Um, but this next guy walked up to the edge of being a criminal. And his name's Andy Ogles. And he's a congressman from Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, baby. Yep, that's right. Always, always putting her best foot forward from the volunteer state. Well, my Tennessee hat and honor him for today's show. So here's the type of shit he's spent this entire campaign saying you're going to play this video, I'm out.

If you believe Middle Tennessee's newest congressman, he's not only a business man, he's also a minimalist, a trained law enforcement officer, even an expert in international sex crimes. But an exclusive News Channel 5 investigation discovered, Ogles' life story may not be nearly as dramatic as he sometimes makes it sound. No, you could have meant. So what percentage of that stuff they just claimed do you think is true, Trey, if you had to guess? Well, I mean, I feel like given the context, what we're talking about here, a pretty low percentage. Zero. None of those things are true.

None of those things are true. He's claimed to be an economist, although any look at his college records show that he's major wasn't in economics. and also he's sort of like, he's fuzzy about what college he went to because his actual bachelor's degree is from one school. He doesn't list that. Instead, he claims degrees from more prestigious school, which he just took extension classes at, which if anybody, you know, anybody's a business person. They take, like, you know, classes for the resume. There's essentially like a full profit type of situation. But so anyway, the actual facts are he claimed he had studied foreign policy in the Constitution of Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee State, but there's no mention of economics.

um yeah so anyway he also claimed to be a cop he said it's watched this video of him saying it many many times man if you have that ready yeah like he he claimed to yeah he claims like vanderbilt in dartmouth but like you said he just took like a couple like whatever online courses right and graduated from mitzoo mtsu which i mtsu hits for me i got no problem with it but yeah he graduated from there his diploma looks like it was from me was a third years old or something they said in the news report like so it's all just very muddied and confusing yeah it turns out there's nobody who keeps an actual life history which is i mean i'm not saying we should establish government databases to check fact check people's resumes but like it's it's weird

which you can get away with if you're just determined to do it before like this this sort of thing happened recently like chris you know we've talked about chris rufo before right he's the guy that came up with a with a critical race theory panic and he's like a political advisor for desantis now yeah he's been telling people who went to harvard and someone actually looked into it and he went to harvard extension school which is basically one of those. It's not literally their guidelines say, if you go to Harvard extension, please do not say you went to Harvard. It's not the same thing. Anyway, you get to play on his mat. And then I went into international sex crimes, which is obviously human trafficking.

You know, my midlife crisis, I went into law enforcement, specifically, I, yeah, right, but I worked in human trafficking. I did work in the anti-trafficking and the human trafficking space and have a great deal of experience there as well. Well, you know, part of my career I worked in human trafficking and then I'm all right so here's the butt here he was sworn as a volunteer reserve deputy with the Williamson county sheriff's office in 2009 a position he lost two years later for not medium minimum standards making no progress in field training in failure to attend meetings he got fired as a volunteer cop tray I don't even know you can that could happen yeah there's also no record he worked did anything involved with sex trafficking which of course why would you have a volunteer

deputies do stuff like weekend night traffic enforcement I got a buddy who's a reserve cop and like like he did it he was a professional officer for a while and then he did volunteer reserve officer stuff to keep a certification for a couple years after he quit the job

just in case he wanted to go back to it but no it's like it's not like it's like you're certified but they're not giving you the important shit to do no as far as far as he can tell but what he means by that he did some work for it for a nonprofit called Abolition International, but what he claims he did is not nearly as interesting

as the stuff he's saying they do. And they paid him a grand total of $4,000, which he was claiming to be the C-O, the chief operating officer. So I doubt he was the chief officer. And that company, that nonprofit, it was founded by gospel singer, it's real Jesus. And it seems like what they actually do is they give money to holistic ministries in places where human trafficking is taking place, right? So it helps like the victims or something, I guess, through like churches, basically. Nothing wrong with any of that.

But it's not, he's not out here fucking, you know, doing his international law and order SVU thing or being deployed to fucking Epstein Island or shut the whole thing down or nothing like that at all. No, no. I just like, these people like, I was thinking about the other day is like, up until very recently in human history, you could like a ban on your family,

move 11 miles away, start a new family, and just tell people you're a dentist and open a shop, right? These people aren't innovators. They're fucking throwbacks. Right. Yeah. It's not surprising there's con men and calm women in Congress, you know? Yeah.

Right there in the name. But it is, right. It's harder to get away with it now. We know more about it, which is a good thing, I think. I do love that all of these motherfuckers now have to work in sex trafficking is a little hat tip to Q&9. because it scares me they all feel the need to do it

because like it's like how many they have polling data how many voters are there so Will Summer we're going to use some of his work later as a reporter for The Daily Beast had a book come out about Q&N recently and he just did a podcast interview about it

and asked him to guess how many Americans believe in this shit and he said at least 10 million and I was like okay there we go 10 million is a high number but what are we up to now around 400 million people in the

country or something like that? 330, I think. 330, okay. Well, give it time, Mark. All right. Speaking of Q and non, let's get into the hot new conspiracy theories out there. I found this one to be pretty wild. So I didn't know.

I had not heard of this. I don't think there's a thing in city planning, urban planning called a 50. I did a 15-minute city. And it pretty much just boils down to planning and developing the city or neighborhood in such a way that the people who live there have access. to everything a person needs within a 15-minute walk from where they live. So school, doctor, grocery store, recreation, and amenities and stuff, all within a 15-minute walk. That's the whole thing.

That's the whole plan because it's to cut down on pollution because, you know, then people don't have to drive everywhere, less cars on the road, all that type of thing. But also, it's just like, that sounds pretty rad to me. Like, as somebody lives in the fucking hell of urban sprawl that is the Los Angeles area, you know, like being able to just take a 15-minute walk to get everything you need and never having to leave your neighborhood, sounds pretty sweet, but apparently not everybody agrees. I live in a pretty fairly walkable neighborhood. It's not perfect, but within a, you know, 10-minute walk, I have the bus that takes me to my gym. I got two bars, two restaurants, and a grocery store, like a 15-minute walk. So I like it.

I don't understand why anybody wouldn't be against it. Obviously, if you're disabled or something, it's going to be a different system. But that's where we need better public transit with accessibility and stuff. But the reaction to this is so fucking weird. But let's talk about what it actually, Trey established what it is. Let's talk about where it is. So basically, urbanists have been pushing for this for a long time for a lot of basic reasons, It's like better for the environment, like Trace said.

It's also better for people's health to walk as opposed to driving. Not just like cardiovascular stuff because you burn calories, but your back, long commutes in a car cause back pain. All right. A shorter commute means more time with your family. It's like there's lots of stuff here that have nothing to do with the environment or anything else. It's just like good public accommodation.

And this idea has been spreading in Europe. Like there's a huge pedestrian city center in Spain and Ponte Vida, Ponte Vida. They did in Paris, and a lot of people seem to like it. COVID spent a lot of this up because more people working from home. And also, cities had this space with less traffic on the roads to do these kind of improvements to try them to see if they work. And if you don't like it, we can go back to the other way. But I like a world where people can try new things and see if it hits better, right? Right.

This idea spread to the UK where it's become, like, extremely contentious for insane reasons we're going to get into. It's just about like, I don't know. I put this um one of the rate there's two separate things the UK thing um they they change the way cities streets flow and like something called modal filters or whatever I don't this is all fucking this shit should be nerdy I like I don't want to get into it too much but they uh they also put up they they may restrict cars to go down certain streets so like if like a lot in LA here you have a lot of parking reserve people with permits right so more like sort of like that but with actual street access. And they're going to use

cameras to take pictures of license places to see who's allowed, whether the car is on the right street or not. And people took that idea combined with the separate idea, which is that walkable cities, and they think they're setting up George Oilwell's 1984 to imprison people in their neighborhood. Yes.

So we're finally arriving at like the conspiracy theory. Like what is the problem with this? Well, they claim it's like, yeah, we're being districted, right? They're going to imprison us in districts, which We are not free to leave, and during which time we're under 24-hour surveillance, and there you go. That's just trying to control you and keep you in your little hog pan in your lovely neighborhood with all the amenities and all this shit, you know, but you can't leave ever.

And each other is watching you is that's basically, that's what they are worried about, right? Right. That's part of it. Yeah. They think it's about social control, which is like, can we just try something new? Like, if I have to live in a city, I'm about to walk where I want to go, right? If I have my brothers, I probably live in the woods, but I've got to be in Los Angeles for work. But like, why can't I walk to the bar? Why is it a globalist conspiracy if I'm like, I'd rather walk to the bar instead of having to take an Uber home, right? Yeah, well, they said, you know, one thing you have in here, they said, you know, they already had 15-minute cities in Poland during the Nazi occupation, and in 1941, the Nazis introduced the death penalty for going out. And that's then being like, yeah, you want that to happen here? But it's like, I don't, I don't get what the two things really have to do with each other. Do you know what mean? Like if our fucking overlords want to decree that you're to be put to death if you leave your house because of another pandemic or just a lockdown or just because they say so, what the fuck doesn't matter if the gym is a 10-minute walk away in your neighborhood now, you know,

because they've switched some things up. Like, if they want to fucking kill us all, they're just going to kill us all, right? The evil government, like, why they wasted time on where the grocery store is in relation to your house? Like, I don't, I don't, I don't, just kill us, yeah. Right, yeah, I don't see what difference it makes. This type of shit, so it appears to me, like, European countries historically have been able to try new things.

They have more nimble governments that we do for whatever reason. And like it feels like we've exported enough of our lunacy that maybe our exported lunacy could stop progress in other countries, which I find infuriating. But also, a couple cities here are trying this. It's like there's been a version of a plan in Seattle. And also the progressive hotspot of Utah. Now, people like living in villages, right? So I imagine the Utah version, they say it's going to have affordable housing, but I imagine

by the time exists, it would be like a gentrified version of that. this plan where it's super expensive to live in a place with nice and many people like living this way a lot of them you know like people don't like spending a lot of time in cars but i saw an internet argument where people talking about this and it's like and somebody was just about being able to have your kid's school be like 15 minutes away and they're like but what if i want to drive 45 minutes to my kid's school and i don't know what to fucking say that late like what i know somebody else's like what if i what if i like my long commute well you can still drive around If you look like to get some work drive around.

I don't know. It's literally just trying to make your life easier and give you better options and whatnot. And they're like, no, fuck that. This is communism. I like things to be shitty. That's how I prefer. You know why? Because I choose it to be that, even though they don't.

They didn't choose any of that. You know what I mean? It's just like, that's just how their life is. And it's literally just like, you know, different, different bad, same good to these people. Like, why it can't be changing. of? That's tyranny. Anything new and different is socialism or communism. That's exactly what they think. So this woman

named Carla Campaign's cool name, by the way, Carla, she's in Herringey, Herringey, North London. She moved there a few years ago in search of a community, she said, an area where I can make friends that would go to the park with me on a Saturday and where there are cafes nearby and everything is in walking distance. Sounds like fucking communism.

So in February 12, she posted a threat about the benefits of 15-minute neighborhoods and somebody responded, she got a bunch of death threats for this. This is an anonymous lady who just lives in this neighborhood. That's not freedom. That's a socialist prison, said one reply to her. And then you're a Nazi when you already brought up.

And the aggression of the messages left her shaken. How can I put my family at risk from someone for just saying that we'd like to be able to walk to the local pub? And then I talk to this expert online disinformation is like, there's no reason that an urban planning initiative should have anything to do with the idea that Bill Gates wants you to eat bugs. Right. I don't know how to live with these people, man. It's like, you go from zero to somebody's like, well, maybe it'd be cool if this neighborhood had a restaurant. They're like, communist. It's like, oh, fuck. So, yeah, QAnon types are mad about walkable neighborhoods now.

And this is a video from Edmonton where a district planner went out and talked to these protesters to try to explain to them that it's fine, actually. This is maddening. What's the point of a district? What's the point? I'll answer that question. Do you actually want an answer to that question? Okay, we have neighborhoods right now. The city right now is divided into about 400 neighborhoods.

Has anyone, it's been that true for, I don't know, as long as Edmonton has existed, has anyone tried to confine you to your neighborhood? No. But they never called it a district in section of law. That is true. So, so, so, neighborhoods exist and all during COVID, I came and went. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm going to ask you off for a second. I'm going to answer your question.

You said we were, you wanted me to answer your question. Short stop, short stop, short stop. Short stop. You said we were never confined through our neighborhood. But they certainly tried under COVID. And let's just pretend for a second, we go along with the 15-minute city plan, and now we have these wonderful districts. How much easier would it be for them to literally lock us down into a little tiny 1.5 square kilometer? There are going to be a stipulation in this policy that says, look, we will never have barricades here?

No, we didn't consider that because... We didn't consider that because that's the exact plan that we have considered. Because... In fact, there's infinite things that the plans will not do. We're not going to neuter your chintilla, for example. We're going to come in the U.S. We did, yeah, he's like, we didn't put everything we're not going to do into the plan. Right.

That's not how plans generally work, right? We're like, these cover the things we are going to do. And, you know, it doesn't, not, not everything on earth we're not going to do. And if you see in there, we don't intend to do barricades or whatever. But yeah, just, uh, this guy's a fucking city planner or whatever, you know what I mean? There's just trying to, like, add a little more efficiency. inconvenience to, you know, his community and he's got to deal with this shit. It's got to feel, I don't know.

It's bad driving you and saying. It was like, we already have neighborhoods. It's like, yeah, like, all the things different here is they're calling him districts. And maybe if they, maybe this rollout would work better if they called it like a subdivision name like meadowing Heights or whatever as opposed to district 14. But like just can start, have a naming contest. Let kids name it like they name elementary schools. And so these psychos won't think of district nine when they see the word district.

this is absolutely fucking infuriating. This one other publication tracked down the guy who came up with this idea. He's a naturalized Colombian who lives in Paris by the name of Carlos Moreno. And the headline killed me. 15 Minutes City conspiracy theory is insane, says 15 Minutes City creator. So he's like, who would want to live within easy walking distance of shops, cafes, theaters, and swimming pools? Those at the same who claim that Morano's 15 minute city concept. is a Stalinist climate lockdown plot

to combine people to ghettos and that's easier for global cabals to control. And this, like, I want to talk more about Miranda in a second, but this piece included, I think we've talked about Jordan Peterson before. He's the Canadian former, like, philosophy professors who's become a right-wing influencer. And he had to be hospitalized

because he's an all-meat and pills diet and almost died. Anyway, so he posted a tweet that included here where he says that, like, he called it the 15-minute cities planet perversion and said that idiot tyrannical bureaucrats would henceforth decide by Fiat where you're allowed to drive.

That's just what fucking roads are. That's what roads are. A bureaucrat has decided where you should drive. Where you're allowed to drive. Yeah, they do. Never really thought about roads that way, but you're right. They do kind of just dictate

where you are and are not allowed to drive. I don't know why I said kind of. That's exactly what roads do. That's a one-way street sign is now tyranny. Yeah. What about a stop sign? Do I have to yield? Is that government over?

Like, it's like, these people are so fucking stupid. It'd be like, well, I'm not going where that guy says to me to drive. And you're like, well, that's where he put the bridge. You're not telling me how to get across this river. It's like, Jesus Christ. Oh, my God, these people drive me absolutely insane. But one thing about Barrano, so he lives in France because he was in a left wing guerrilla group in Colombia in the 70s. And so he fled as a political, you know, refugee.

That's why he lives in France now. So his honest to God background where later in life, when he got his degree and stuff, he became, he was like a mathematician, I think, and then transition into urban planning. So he's like, yeah, but his background is huge fodder for these fucking conspiracy mongers because he was a left-wing radical in Columbia and the 70s, fighting an oppressive and tyrannical military dictatorship. And somehow now, 50 years later, he's now a tool of the cabal. it's like okay fuck off and shit okay now we can all right

it's anyway I don't want to we can go to the you can look for comments and stuff I'm so exhausted by this shit there was there was another

there was another clip what they had that they put a little 12 year old girl up there in Oxford England where they're doing this and she went in this whole thing

about how like you know you're trying to force me to walk home and you say oh but there's cameras so they're there for your protection so now

I'm being surveilled 24 hours of day you really think my privacy means nothing. I should be under, you know, watch at all times. And also, you know, this makes it, it's like the implication as you put it in here is like, it makes it easier for fucking pedophiles to kidnap kids or human traffic them or whatever by forcing them to be walking everywhere or whatever is like part of the pitch of it. She was definitely, she was definitely

walking up to that, but also her first point of video, which I don't want to show because it's too long and it just creeps me out, watching a little kid be right, be a railing radical. But she's saying that like will she visits her friends in another district because it'll be around road surrounding all the districts right like a hub to get to different various entry points that the environmental stuff might is bullshit because of the 10 minute parents 10 minute drive is turned to her 30 minute drive but she doesn't want to walk it I'm like if you're if you're correct I don't know the plan but if you're right that is a good point go to the planning meeting and raise it that's your right as a citizen yeah you don't need to overthrow

the government over that but like the second point yeah she's talking about like she again she's mixing up the traffic camera thing by the way I I don't like traffic cameras. I got a $400 ticket for running a red light last year, a Boscham. But anyway, the idea that that's like a direct line to 1984 and her being surveilled. And also, you're worried about seeing the dash off the street if you don't want cameras, but also CCTV cameras are everywhere. Right.

Yeah. Right. Clarence Pinkney says everything is a conspiracy if you don't know how anything works. My thing is they go for the most obvious. as shit that know, like, vaccines are one of our oldest technologies. Like, it's the simplest thing. Like, urban planning is the simplest, most boring thing. There are real conspiracies.

They make real, they make conspiracy theories like me look bad because conspiracy theories, the true ones are on the front page of the fucking business section. Doddy Kelly says, good God, don't ask our fat asses to walk. Yeah. A lot of people. Yeah, I can't really see this ever taken off in America for sure. We fucking got way too big of a heart on for our cars. As Hogan says, it's oddly comforting how much this kind of stuff drives smart

Mark crazy too. It's just like if we ever in confront, like we had a big problem with COVID and we could not confront it, right? I mean, most people did their duty or did at least half-ass their duty and got their at least one dose to the vaccine and wore masks sometimes and stuff like that. But like, if we confront a real problem, how the fuck can you get people in the same? same page enough to, like, deal with it. Right. It's stupid.

No, I know. I mean, yeah, that's what COVID really, like, illustrated that exact thing. Like, it just made you realize, like, oh, wow. If we, like, you know, if there's a much more serious version of this type of scenario in the future or whatever, or like the fucking, you know, that, um, Adam McKay movie, don't look up or whatever with the comic coming ass and everything was fucking perfect, I thought, because after COVID, how could you deny any of it? Like, there's no way we won't fuck it up.

You won't be able to get enough people together to do the thing the right way in the first place. Like, we're just, I mean, we're hopeless as a species overall because it's how fucking dumb and crazy, such a large percentage of us apparently are. It's fucking, it's wild. I like that a lot of the UK towns and cities seem to be moving forward to this. And the fever swamp people will fizzle out and I'll find a new thing to focus on. They'll just build their new cities or they design their towns or whatever. that's probably the way you do this is because there's too many of these people

but there's not that many of them the problem in our context is these are the people who go scream at city hall meetings and so they're overrepresented because they think there's real public anger about that out there and there just isn't everyone else is just at home watching TV it's like controversies about a comedy special

or something when it's like two people tweeting about it on the internet and that's all it really was you know what I mean but those tweets get picked up and turned into a story and the story gets spread around or whatever and it's like oh this the internet is outraged over this. It's like not really. There was two or three people. It's the same thing with this type of shit. And also it's like we brought up before like, you know, there was people out right. People thought it was tyrannical when they passed like seatbelt laws and

stuff. You know what I mean? And started making those modifications to the vehicles. Now like nobody ever bitches about seatbelts anymore. You know, like fucking. You see it one that went viral recently about drunk driving laws? Yeah, I did. Hang on. Yes, I did. And that hit for me. Lola Podinski says COVID Illustrated. that we are doomed and I mean yeah I tend to agree anyway go ahead yeah there's local news reports interviewing people by the new law against drug driving from like I don't know the 70s or 80s or whatever was and this this guy was like what's the world coming to when a man can't drink a beer on the way home for work and it's like okay one beer you

probably fine just be discreet but then the other woman was like if she was like we're becoming she's smoking while she's got a baby in the front seat no car seat and goes like it feels like we're becoming a communist country right right Thank you, Shep, on YouTube, for reminding everybody to please hit the like button. Smash that like button, folks, as well as subscribing, sharing and writing and reviewing and all that good internet stuff. It surely does help. Right. And that, yeah, I try to remind myself of that with a lot of this stuff where it's like, you know, we do be like this, stupid, panicky animals or whatever.

And this does happen. Like, it's not a brand new phenomenon or anything. and generally you just kind of ignore it and push through and do the shit anyway and they give up and move on they find a new car to chase or whatever eventually and so you know i don't know ruby laguna says mark you really take on a shit ton of stress and frustration for our benefit hoping you having some recreational relaxation available for later smoking emoji leaf emoji talking about the wacky weed i do believe mark here's my thing is my problem is i can assume the this stuff 24-7 anyway, so at least I have this show to screen about it. That's actually, that's actually the main, that's why I asked him if we want to do the show in the first place, because he would send us text messages and stuff about, or, you know, I'm talking about all the shit he's reading and how ensign it is or whatever. And I was like, well, let's just, uh, yeah, put that to use.

So anyway, I want to say, like, because the problem, like the, the Oxford thing, like there was a mass protest about this fucking, I'm assuming people came from all over England to, to pump up the numbers. And that rally with a little girl spoke at was, like, too heavily attended for me. but I still think these people's numbers are relatively small, but the rest of us have to show up to boring city council meetings. They don't know that we're cool with people trying boring new stuff instead of being screened at about no new housing or whatever.

Yeah, that's the thing. It's also like a confirmation by, I don't know. It's one of those things. I don't think it's not confirmation bias. Election bias. Just that selection bias, maybe. Yeah, but like if you're okay with the thing, you're not going to show up and just sit there placidly and be like,

yeah, I think this is cool. you know like you're not all those people just sit at home and the only people that show up are the ones who are trying to froth and rage and scream about it all right thank you all for joining us go to traycrouter.com get the tickets get my special on amazon please it's available now look at some bitch up also you can support this show on patreon weekly skews.com slash more you get bonus episodes for it and express your love for us in the meantime which we appreciate either way thank you for being here on the main show we'll keep doing it if you keep watching them appreciate you see you in seven days love you bye