Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 2/7/23 – Balloonghazi

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

It's Skewsday, and tonight as we lead up to the State of the Union, we'll be talking about Hollywood's Satanism, Georgia's Confederate groundhog, the Taliban's pronounced ennui, and, of course, China's dastardly balloon. Plus more!Support the show

What's up, what's up, everybody. Welcome back, happy Skews Day, to you first things first i got my laptop back from the poodle garage so we should be good to go yes thank you it's february 7th 2023 i'm trey crowder asked mark a g what's up mark what's up tray uh sad was on at a gig yesterday i was on set for work and uh one the crew guy crew guys was like hey big fan of the weekly skews and i was like oh shit because you're out in the world meeting the people a lot on the road i never actually as far as i know no one watches this is just me talking to you yeah it's like a like a verbal diary so it's a it was nice so shout out to leo nice to meet you bud thanks for watching uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we got a good show today uh we want to laugh

about all the balloon insanity and whether or not we're to go to war war three over a fucking balloon um short answers no the long answer a lot of people really want it for some reason uh yeah um uh first though we do a little bit of a victory lap we never back in december we did an episode uh i was making my case that uh the people attacking the power grids were near Nazis and turns out boom one two of them got arrested yesterday for trying to blow up a bunch of power substations around uh well shoot up a bunch of power stations uh substations around baltimore and yep it was a founder of adam waffin division adam waffin was a civic group we called out was it was really into this shit um and uh this made me laugh uh their uh they're i hate group

from the other party law center we know that but apparently they idolized charles manson which is the thing I didn't know. And, of course, the idea of loanable violence is a big thing they're in favor of. I guess the idea that the Charles Manson goes back to, like, helter-skelter and thinking that you could jump start a race war by... Yeah, you know, he had the swastika on his forehead and stuff, you know. It's not a far cry, I don't think, for Nazis to be into Manson. Yeah.

Yeah, my mom's boyfriend, I don't know how he's going to feel about this, because I think I mentioned on here after I got back from Christmas, but he was telling me about all these plans to attack the power grids because he hears it on his CB radio. But according to him, it's Russia behind it all. It's Russia and Putin who's, you know, trying to take down the power grid, especially, which is why you need to be ready, get a bunker, get some pot of meat, stuff like that. Well, it's funny.

You heard from him, everybody. It's funny you bring that. I'm good. There have been reports that, like, Russia's experiment on being able to take down our power grid, which is, you know, like, your geopolitical adversaries, I'm sure we have a department is trying to figure out how to take down Russia's power grid. Like, it's like, yeah. All that's, you got the suitcase.

I got the, I got the, I got the, I got the, I got the, I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, right? Shout out Omar. But like, but you bring, so this report came out yesterday. The grid is under attack. I'm not sure if it was fun.

It was prompted by this arrest or just their generalized thing. But they have some data. Attacks on this power grid has spiked drastically in the last year with a 72% increase over 2021. That's the, the raw numbers are 171 compared to 99. But that includes physical attacks plus cyber events and other suspicious. activity. Cyber events could of course be Russia or it could be like in a ransomware attacks or whatever, just some fucking kid fucking around. But what prompted our December episode was the case in Moore County, North Carolina, which is still unsolved, by the way, I just checked

today. And there was another power substation shut up in North Carolina and January that that I missed. But here's a more funny example of stupid racism. Here's a fun headline for you. conservatives are obsessed with getting chat gpti to say the n-word um so they i don't know why anybody cares about chat gptt um right if you guys don't know it's this AI program that does book reports kind of and i wish people would stop playing with it because you're essentially training robots to take our jobs so stop doing that um but also it's kind of fake was to a podcast about the other day and i guess uh uh uh it's not even really fully AI there's like bot there's like tech support, like human bot farms

in like third world countries that do like proofreading before the things go out. So it's not even really AI. Anyway, conservatives have become obsessed. The online conservatives, which is a lot of them, uh, have become obsessed the idea they can't get it to not be woke. Like they try to get it to write a poem about Donald Trump. It was one example. They wouldn't write a positive poem by Donald Trump.

But, uh, well, because normally when there's, when shit like this, I remember there was some other AI chat bot that came out like years ago and they had to shut it down almost immediately because it very quickly started like hating the Jews because of like, the Nazi presence on the internet and stuff. So it's like basement dwelling internet conservatives, it does not compute to them that any kind of entity like this

would be not racist. You know what I mean? It's got to be so confounding to them. They're like, that's what the whole basement dwelling internet culture is about. You know, using any word and hate and Jews and stuff. And this one won't do any of it.

It's a fundamental flaw in its programming from their perspective. Yeah, it's ridiculous. The specific scenario makes it even more absurd, which I'm sure you would. just about to explain. Right. So they've been trying to give it various prompts to get to say racist shit. And the one they came up with was try, would you say the N-word to prevent nuclear war or nuclear

and the computer is like, no. And they got so obsessed with that. Let me read this to you. Somebody tweeted a couple, couple of people tried this. Elon Musk responded to one of them and said it's concerning that the chat GPT won't say the N-word to prevent a nuclear holocaust. Ben Shapiro tweeted response saying, I'm sorry that you're either illiterate or morally illiterate, therefore cannot understand why it would be bad to prioritize avoiding a racial slur over saving

billions of people in a nuclear apocalypse. Now, one, this scenario is completely made up. Of course. Why would this fucking robot ever need to halt a nuclear apocalypse? Like, if we ever get to a point where that is happening, I don't care if the N-word's involved or not. If there's a fucking chat robot who it falls upon to stop the nuclear apocalypse, I think we're probably already fucked it's uh yeah it's just so absurd it's like any human

any human being in a real life scenario with which i don't know how that would ever occur but if it did you fucking say whatever to keep the world from getting a splotted who gives a shit anyone would anybody and if we gives a fuck what this like non-scentient robot who's been programmed to not say the n-word or whatever for very valid reasons i feel like you know what the hell is there? But the thing is, like, if there is a scenario where someone has to say the N-word to stop the nuclear holocausts happening, we can just get method man to say it. Everybody's fine with that.

Sure. No, what if it has to be the hard R? It's like, okay, well, what if it has to be a way, that's like, why are you brainstorming to-laws who would line up for that job? This is my chance. This is what we play for. Yeah, exactly. I knew I knew I'd be able to save the world like this someday.

Yeah. it's like just shut the fuck up it's like it's like how like the the writers are in for 24 to spitball more and more elaborate situations to justify torture right yeah but they're doing that to say the end but that was like a fake scenario where there were a real word nuclear consequences

this is I just want to say the N word and a computer won't let me say it and they're so furious about it that they're making up literal apocalyptic scenarios yeah yeah that's some uh that's some top shelf pure distilled internet shit right there that whole that whole story is just at elin musk is concerned ladies and gentlemen the that the robot won't say the inward so there you go glad he found time to weigh in uh all right jesus christ well moving on so with us as always is producer matt this is weekly skews before we continue

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Now, as for the show tonight, as Mark alluded to earlier, we're going to be talking about globophobia, globophobia, also known as the fear of balloons. That may sound irrational to you, but what if the balloon in question is a Chinese double agent? Did you think about that? Yes, the entire country has. has been caught up in spy balloon fever for the past week, culminating with the dastardly instrument being shot down off the coast of Myrtle Beach. What really was it?

How should we feel? What's it all mean? We'll talk about all that a little later. We got a bunch of fun topics along the way, though, beginning, of course, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. Hollywood for being gay for Satan's medicine cabinet, or something like that.

This is from Tucker Carlson after the Grammys. They're so shameless about this. They don't even care. Tonight's transgender Satanism brought to you by Pfizer. In check their products in your back. It's so gross. Okay. So this is prompted by Sam Smith performance of the Grammys the other night.

And to walk you think what actually happened, Sam Smith performed bathed in red light, sort of dresses the devil. a song that is one of his big hits that sounds like a church anthem kind of and then after that they went to commercial and there was an ad for Pfizer coincidentally all right but there are no coincidences

of these people right and this prompted probably I mean there's always dumb moral panics going on this is one of the dumbest ones in in history this is also a classic right I mean this is like this is a reboot of a moral panic

this is a satanic panic this is an OG moral panic here from like the and beyond. My only problem with it is, like, I just wish I could get more into the music that is, uh, that's got Satan in it nowadays. Like, through most of my life, Satan worshiping music was fucking rock and roll and heavy metal and stuff. And I like to get down with Satan and also those genres. So it overlapped nicely for me, but no offense to Sam Smith or something. This just ain't really my bag. So I have to appreciate only the Satan part without getting,

without getting to jam out to the music part as well. That's my own thing. Yeah, Sam Smith. Do you watch the Grammys, Drake? I used to, but I haven't in years, no. Right. Me neither. The Gramies aren't for me, right?

They're not for me. Not for you. They're for teenagers, wine moms, and can't be gays, right? And Sam Smith's in the Can't the Gay category. Now the, but you know who is obsessed with the gramees? These fucking assholes.

Like, they watch it just to get mad. Ted Cruz, I was tweeted this dot, dot, dot, dot, evil. All right. This is fucking evil. One American news correspondent named Liz Wheeler said the production was teaching your kids to worship Satan. Now, the funny thing is, this song is about a guy is condemning a guy for cheating on his wife. So the song has biblical values, right?

So whatever. The Martin Taylor Green said the Grammys featured Sam. Smith's demonic performance and was sponsored by Pfizer. And the satanic church is now has an abortion clinic in New Mexico that requires its patience to perform a satanic ritual before services. Now, this is funny because I hadn't heard about this, but this is actually true. Yes, I know. That's such a pleasant surprise to me. That's like one of the, I read that quote from Marjorie Taylor Green and immediately I'm like, okay, sure. The satanic temple opened up an abortion clinic where you had to perform a satanic ritual, of course, that happened. But like, it did. And I love it.

Well, we've explained this before, but for those of you don't are familiar, the church of Satan aren't, don't worship Satan. They're just atheists who are making a point or trolling, right? Right. They're just annoying atheists who are kind of funny. It's about religious freedom. It's about like illustrating both sides of what religious freedom is supposed to be and how it's supposed to work. And I'm glad that they exist to do that shit because. right you know nobody else would be doing it yeah they're kind of they're kind of people like if your town wants to put a Christian display up in the town square they're like okay we want to put up a Satanist display and they follow a lawsuit over it and it makes a bunch of people mad and to that point the name of their abortion clinic is the sam alito's mom satanic abortion clinic that's top shelf trolling right there man my god let me read you in the press day but announcing

this in a quote in 1950 samuel alito's mother did not have options and look what happened. Alito wrote the Dobbs opinion, which is why they're doing this. Yeah, right. And they're, I don't know why they chose New Mexico because they're based in Massachusetts. But they're doing this,

and this satanic ritual she's referring to, is they are claiming that abortion is part of the religious practice. It's not. They don't have a religious practice. But abortion is part of the religious practice, therefore they have a First Amendment right to do abortion. Right. controlling.

But anyway, so that's the ritual she's talking about. They're claiming that the child sacrifice is part of the religious practice to annoy it, to annoy people like Marjor Taylor Green. And again, because they don't understand anything about the world, it works, or she's pretending that it works or whatever. Who knows get inside of her brain. But anyway, she's a fucking idiot. Yeah.

Anyway, go Sam Smith and go Campy Gays. And also, the woman he's saying that had sung with is the first transgender woman to win a Grammy, I think. So congratulations for her. Hell Satan. I love it. All right. So we got a couple honorable mentions for Daily Domass today. The first one is General Sherman for not burning all the groundhogs in Georgia.

So they do Groundhog Day in Georgia as well. Instead of Pucks of Tony Phil, they got their own Georgian version named General Beauregard Lee. Check it out. Here, look at him. He is cute. Hit it, Matt, whenever. They keep the groundhog in a slave plantation. Good morning.

Bo. Oh, God. Looking good, that. It's incredible. Right, that's really obvious. The winter has treated you well. Yeah, play the fucking, you know, charge music or whatever.

And then the Confederate groundhog exits his plantation home to predict whether there will be six more weeks of winter or not. If you guys are only listening, it could not be a more apt description for his little groundhog house. It's a miniature plantation.

house that he walks out of the front of resume you know this groundhog own slaves absolutely you got slave grown hogs yeah yeah i don't know what he hasn't do for him but he owns slaves but yeah they named him he's the descendant of the first uh georgian groundhog who was named uh general robert e lee uh no relation uh but no he was named directly for famed confederate general robert e lee uh and then his successor here is beau regard which is a classic Confederate name as well. Yeah, there's a couple of things that are hilarious about this to me. One, I guess he inherited the general title along with the Lee last name.

So he's a Nepo baby, this groundhog. But I guess you're wondering, he did not see his shadow. So we're going to, so Georgia's going to get an early spring. So they, Georgia started doing their own, you know, slavery, Puxetani Phil in 1988. Right. No, 1981. Like, we're going to let these goddamn Yankees tell us when winters over or not, all right? You need a good, God-fearing Confederate groundhog.

That's who I'll listen to. Yeah, I can't have no Yankee Groundhog. So they did, somebody did a politic fact, did an analysis of his success rate, and they said General Lee was way more accurate than Puckettony Phil. Lee has a 60% national accuracy for early spring compared to Phil's 30%, which is hilarious to me because of course a Georgia groundhog. I mean, we're going to be more accurate predicting an early spring than a Pennsylvania groundhog. It's warmer in Georgia always. Right. Oh, yeah.

The South is Rasmuchin' against Ray via weather predicting groundhogs. I'd say, I don't know if Pucks and Tony Field keeps his job, man. You talk about just like some legacy shit going on or something. He's been coasting for a long time, 30 percent. You know, come on. That's supposed to be your whole deal, groundhog. Who's verifying these stats? How do we know the groundhog sees a shadow?

I've always wondered that. I've always assumed there has to be some way they make the determination, but I've never known how that is supposed to work. Like, is it supposed to, like, look at the ground and run off? I'm sure we can find this information, but I'd rather not. It's one of those things I'd rather not know, I think, just keep the stupidity maintained in my head. All right.

Speaking of not, speaking of shattering illusions here, our next honorable mention is, is the Taliban for not realizing that they had accidentally fucked up and got themselves day jobs. That's right. You all remember the Taliban took over Kabul, you know, last year or the year before, a while back. And at the time, there were a lot of pictures coming out of, you know, the new bank president or the new treasury secretary or whatever. And they were all a bunch of gun toting Taliban dudes. Like they looked like your average jihadist.

And we found some humor in that. Well, what's funny is, uh, they do not see the humor in it. In fact, they are racked with on we and despair and feel like that life has lost all meaning. That's right. An article just came out where they outline a lot of their concerns about their new office, uh, office lifestyles. And they don't like it. I'll read a couple of them, Mark, and I'll let you read some too.

They complained about the rent being high. They also said, what I don't like about Kabul is it's ever increasing traffic. last year it was tolerable but in the last few months it's gotten more and more congested people complain that the Taliban brought poverty but looking at this traffic and the large number of people in the bazaars and restaurants I wonder where that poverty is who among us dude we don't like commuting sucks man commuter sucks man commuter sucks there complain about not to be able to afford a house but they're spending all their money on avocado toast this from the fucking Taliban yeah the dude just as the Taliban are fucking evil

all right they're awful but like they're also dudes and for and when you're uh everywhere around the planet good or evil having a job fucking sucks and one thing the taliban didn't realize and they overthrew the government and became the government they'd have to do government jobs so congratulations you're the government now you've got to deliver the mail and shit and it don't hit so they but these complaints like the taliban i never thought about there was lens before we're reading this or really hit home that the taliban or uh rural reactionaries who have now taken over a big city and the dynamic will be when you imagine pat paul saying this shit and you will absolutely like half their complaints and it'll absolutely be oh yeah they're just they're just uh you know say like americans

who think that uh american cities are hellscapes um but this these guys really hate their jobs let me read this one i put this one of the headline nobody wants to work anymore another thing i don't like not only about cobble but broadly about life after the fata are the new restrictions in the group meaning when they're in the war we had we had great degree of freedom about where to go where to stay and whether to participate in the war however these days you have to in the office before 8 a.m. and stay there to 4 p.m. If you don't go, you're considered absent and don't get paid.

Yeah. Yes, that is generally how a job be working. As a matter of fact, eight to four, them some government employee hours. They didn't even really got it that bad. You know what I mean? No. But I understand it's not fulfilling. You know what I mean? Like the whole time, read through these, I just keep picturing like a, like the Mike Judge movie office space

or something, but with a bunch of these jihadists, like AK Toten jihadists, like carpooling together in the back of their fucking Toyota trucks and argue it over somebody heating up fish at lunch and stuff like that like uh yeah I mean you know I hear it hey we're not so different

I guess I mean like you said fuck the Taliban obviously we're just having some fun with them you've inspired me Trey I want to get the IP for this article and write the Taliban office space in that movie it'd be great uh this is a different guy making essentially the same complaint of Taliban used to be free of restrictions but now we sit in one place behind a desk and computer 24 hours a day seven days a week life's become wearisome you do the same

things every day. Another guy said, and our ministry, there's little work for me to do. Therefore, it's been most of my time on Twitter. This is my old day job right here. I'm telling you. It's a lived experience. Here's some more papal complaints have put under the heading. The big city

has sluts. When I joined my group, I was of the idea that Cobble will be full of bad people. But to be honest, last couple years, after we met some of the people living here, I realized that was wrong. Of course, there's plenty of negative aspects, like their support for the occupation, women not wearing proper clothing, use flirting with girls and cutting their hair in a style,

even people in America might adopt. But these problems nowadays exist all in the rural areas. They're getting purple hair, Trey. This girl's got short hair and it's purple and spiked up. A bunch of weirdos. And this, let me read this one. We are tested by cars, positions, wealth, and women. Buddy, ain't that the way everywhere?

Also, another one of the complaints boiled down to. there's a bunch of crime in the big city and people don't say hi when you pass in the street the tattle band's like everybody's so rude in the city they just miss their it's funny they're all they're just sitting there and it's like oh i long for my kingdom for a suicide vest those were the days you know back in the cave talking about who would wear the vest and death to america and all that you know we had it made didn't even realize it it's uh but that's like it's really how they feel though about the whole thing it's just i don't know I kind of can't get over it.

And you said when we were texting about it, you said it was a classic dog catch his car moment, which I think is extremely accurate. You know, it's like this is what they were fighting for, ostensibly this whole time. And they finally got it. And now they're like,

well, this sucks. Bring back to bureaucrats. I don't like doing this stupid shit. Right. I like shooting into the air with my boys. That's what I like doing. Yeah,

let's some fucking Virginia farm boy running logistics for the army fucking deliver mail and cobble. I don't want to do it anymore. But like, yeah, they're talking about their friends. being corrupted by big city life. This guy's complaining. Some Taliban are not become friends

with such youths and are inclined to do many bad things, such as going to hookah cafes. People don't even have time to stop and give you directions. Not the big city, buddy. God damn it. Yeah, but I say it's not the way you won a holy war against the United States, and your first prize is a bunch of desk job bullshit, no time to hang with your boys.

Welcome to the fucking show, guys. Yeah, yeah, that story is a real treat as far as I'm concerned. But again, can't read right enough. Fuck the Taliban. Okay. Also, before that, we get to, I want to do it. The one thing that made me sad. One guy was like, I joined up because the invasion happened when I was 11 years old.

And the industry bombings killed my family. So, yeah, we ought not have done that too. So sorry to this guy. We're killing his family. Yeah. Yeah, we aren't done that. No, I agree with you. Speaking of things, people aren't not done.

Chinese spy balloon, right? Man, killing it with the segues tonight. I'm sorry for that. Anyway, Mark, go ahead. Balloon, Gazi. Let's talk about it. So what actually happened here is a very small part of the story, but let's go through it real quick anyway. So, well, what actually happened or what they're saying happened, at least.

And we'll talk about why you shouldn't necessarily, you need to take everything involved in this green assault because everybody lies about national security shit. And when I say, I'm not making a moral judgment like they're evil. I'm saying it's their job to lie. And now they lie for self-intered reasons, self-intered reasons, ask-coving reasons. They lie for national security reasons. and they lie for war-mongering reasons. Now, the problem there is when they confuse war-mongering for national security, and that's when we get in a whole heap of world trouble, right?

But anyway, so the timeline here is the balloon got noticed from January 28th by our government. It was in Alaska. On the 30th, across into Canada, then the 31st across the United States and Idaho, and that's when Biden first asked them to make plans to shoot it down. They talked them out of it for reasons we'll get into in a minute. Thursday, it becomes public because people in Montiore. panic and look up in the sky and see it. And also the Pentagon puts out a statement about it.

Maybe because they can see it or maybe they can put up the statement anyway. I don't know. We'll talk about that too. And then Saturday they shoot it down. In between a bunch of fucking dumb bullshit happens. But I do want to say this story came out like an hour ago. Chinese balloon part of vast aerial surveillance program, U.S.S.S. Now, I'm glad.

Thank you to the Washington Post for including U.S. says in there because a lot of this stuff gets treated like it's the word of God. And we all not do that. all right i know i'm getting ahead of us a little bit here but just from the first time i saw this pop up i don't know maybe i'm an idiot or naive or whatever but my only my first thought was like china spying on us the hell you say surely not i can't believe that any of that you know what about russia they're not like doing that are they because that would be really alarming if russia was spying on us i thought it was only us spying on the whole rest of the world i didn't

think they would actually spy back oh my god you know be still my heart. But then I was like, it is weird they're using balloons, though. I thought like, balloons feel like kind of antiquated. I'm just, right. I was never, I don't know. I never really gave much of a fuck about this Chinese spy balloon is all I'm saying. Because from the moment it popped up, I wasn't surprised by it.

I don't know. I just don't like the fucking pearl clutch and everybody freaking out over it, never really made any sense to me. Maybe it's just like, there ain't been a whole lot going on. And it's exciting for a second. And it gives people a chance to beat the war. drums or whatever but yeah i don't know i don't really oh they beat them they beat the hell out of them i'm still beating them uh and yeah it's like it's worth saying china says it's a weather

balloon i don't i'm not saying i trust the chinese god i trust the chinese government less than i trust the american government i'll just say that show over front but it they have satellites they have right overt spy drones there's no reason to use a fucking they have human and we catch we've caught a bunch of chinese spies and various levels of american industry and think tanks and governments and like it's they don't need to use a fucking wily coyote balloon to do this shit

there's no reason to like be super suspicious of it it they if if you wanted to do sophisticated spying you'd probably use something you want you could you know fucking steer I know yeah that's what I'm saying

it's like I don't like I would 100% take it for granted that they're spying on us all the time at a very high level with means way beyond a fucking balloon is just that's immediately what I thought which is why I was like so it can't be I mean I don't know what it is I mean yeah now that you I mean so maybe it is just a fucking weather balloon I don't know like it could be but even if it's not it's like it's not I don't know it surely is not really that big of a deal right and thank God Biden's

acting it's not that big of a deal because if he was his own it as the rest of these psychos we'd be in real trouble here because the real story to me isn't the balloon. It's our reaction to the balloon. And we'll start. We'll get to our fucking crazy politicians in a minute. But the media did not cover themselves in glory here. This headline, pretty isn't summed it up for me. The U.S. media's Chinese spy balloon meltdown shows intellectual vacuity of national security coverage. People went all in on fucking, it was wall-to-wall coverage of how we should be terrified of a goddamn balloon. Right.

And it's a very big balloon. It was like 200 feet tall, they said, and flying at 65 to 80,000 feet. And they said it way, like when they shot it down, it spread debris over seven miles, seven square miles. And like, it's like somebody kept scared it to the size of three buses. Okay. So, yeah, I wouldn't want to fall out on my house, which would get to that in a second. That's why they didn't shut it down over land. But they took every government narrative.

And a bunch of different levers of government were saying different. shit about this and they took the most warlike scary ones and ran with it and again this is an environment where there was a u.s. air force general last week who's just in charge of like logistics he just moves around equipment fuel and he he sent out some memo saying for all of his troops be ready to go to war would shine in less than three years and use some some really warlike language and told his troops to shoot to kill again these are cargo pilots but like even the same news sounded like this. This is Jake Tapper

and this is fucking insane if you got this video, Matt. All right. Well, he's... I don't see that. Yeah, no. Yeah, there he goes. Jake Tapper was grilling Pete Buttigieg about this

and this is how it sounded. You got it out. Yeah. Well, again, you know, it had been some slow news days, Mark. That's great that there were lives or property. Obviously, that's great that there were no Americans hurt by this, but is it acceptable that there were eight days that the spy saddle, the spy balloon was over the United States, then Canada, then again, over the United States, from Idaho, Montana, all the way through the Carolinas for day after day? Well, as the U.S. has communicated, it's not acceptable at all that China sent this object into our airspace.

Okay, so a couple things. One, Jake Tapper just straightforwardly called it a spy balloon. He doesn't know what's a spy balloon. all he knows is somebody told him a spy alert right and then he's like is acceptable if it's unacceptable what's step two of a thing being unacceptable what do you do right like it's like what yeah i know i know he's caught biden's caught a lot of shit for not shooting it down immediately and that was the thing why aren't they shooting it down or whatever but like you already said they know that shit comes down right if it's a fucking massive apparatus the size of three buses that's in the sky it's not going to just like it's a vaporize or a spload

and drift off into orbit. That ain't how none of that works. Like, it's going to fall somewhere. And I don't think you want it falling over Montana or Idaho or any of them damn places. So, like, was that ever even an option? Like, that it's just, it's not hard to understand that shit to me, or at least it shouldn't be. Like, Joe Biden's falling for the woke lie known as gravity. But, like, yeah, today, Andrew and Mitchell went on TV and compared this to fucking Pearl

Harbor because that was the last time we shot down an enemy aircraft over U.S. soil. Yeah. It's like, I mean, technically, I guess that's sort of true, but what the, why are you comparing this to fucking Pearl Harbor? And here's how, uh, well, dude, these people, like some of the, the hawks out there, you know, we got a very fucking warlike culture, obviously, pretty into war and the military and all that shit. And we ain't really had much war in a while.

meanwhile we got to watch these other countries have a war that we ain't even in you know what I mean it's like they probably got some serious war blue balls going on so anytime they have even the slightest opportunity to again start beating the war drums and shit like I'm not really that surprise that they're taking it you know because it's like fucking finally this is it you know because they're just that shit's what they live for and they make a lot of money off it and all that stuff so well there's two things going on is it pretty much everybody nowadays considers himself with the protagonist of reality. So therefore, if a war movie happens, you're going to survive it. And we have a really bad case of movie brain in America. We think things go like movies. And it's not like that. But like I saw some one congressman went on TV and said it said this reminded him of the movie Independence Day. And then, uh, this senator was on TV. And here's how he said he found out about the balloon over his home state of Montana. But I'll tell you how we found out about it. We had Montanaans calling our office. saying they're being the balloon in the sky.

And in fact, we had a lot of Montanis and said, is it okay if I take a shot at it? That's what we heard about. The only thing that surprises me about that is that they asked for permission first. There was at least a few rounds popped off in the general direction of that sky. I realize it was way too fucking high up

for it to do anything. But like, these dudes ain't thinking about that. Fucking old boys with guns, it floats over their farm or whatever. It's like, you know, some people took some shots at it, I would say. Yeah, it was 65,000 feet in air. So even like a long, like you got a 50 cal I probably got within, I don't know, 11 miles of it.

Right. So, yeah, by the way, if somebody in Montana has the equipment to take down something flying at 65,000 feet, that's a much bigger concern to me than a balloon. Anyway, yeah. So, but like a bunch of people, Don Jr's went on, got on Twitter and urged. the good people Montana to try to take it down again he has guns he's not even him i don't think he's that fucking stupid jaddy vance posted a picture of himself you got to throw it up matt uh uh posing with a gun jd he's joking all right he's true he's uh making a joke but so fuck you and the thing that killed me about this was early a couple days earlier he had endorsed donald trump

this is this myth that's taking hold on the right that donald trump kept us out of wars he's the first of president years not start wars which is like he didn't invent he's the first president of a while and not, you know, do a land invasion of a new country. But the idea that he wasn't a warmonger is fucking insane. He took the reins off the goddamn drone program and killed a shit ton of people. Um, uh, Mike Pao, Carrey Lake and, uh, Powell Gosar, also posted picks about shooting the balloon. Um, we're just so insanely warlike, dude. And that today's up, one of today's updates was this headline from, I think, Bloomberg, U.S. seeks Chinese balloon remnants says approach to China will stay calm.

Yeah, I fucking hopes, why wouldn't it be calm? It's a balloon. Right. It's a balloon that China says floated off course. Now, the military, air military says it has some limited steering and motor capabilities, a little fan on the back or something. Maybe turn left or right a little bit, but China says they lost control of it. And I don't know, but like, why are we going to, nobody died, nothing happened.

Right. We shut it down. But think about how insane we are as a people that you have to announce you're not nuking Beijing over a fucking balloon. That's how the world sees this. We had to make that statement because people think of us as goddamn insane and they're right to. Yeah. Yeah, man. I don't know.

I mean, like the China, you know, I've always thought about as far as a possible war with China, I've always been skeptical of it just because I feel like there's way too much symbiosis there, financially speaking. Like, you know, they make all the dumb shit that we buy and we buy all the dumb shit that they make. and whatever else. There's just way too many people making way too much money to, you know, it's not like a, oh, they got some oil that we want type situation. And so I don't know what it would take. I'm not saying it's impossible. Like crazy or shit, you know, has happened. I don't know. That'd be pretty crazy. But like, it ain't going to be a fucking balloon. You know, like, I'd tell you that much. All the supply chain stuff, Americans were fucking shit in their pants over. Right. Was like, that was like a small dent and stuff coming from China. Yeah, I know. Cut it off completely. America's a lot. America's. have no stomach for enduring a war with China. No. You go to Walmart, you pay him $70 for a t-shirt, all right?

Nope. People are not going to do that. We would abandon a war fucking immediately. Anyway, but we're all Dr. Strangelove now, so we've got to talk real big. Here's a small compilation of some stuff, like the officials said. Representative James Comer, he went on Fox News, Harris Faulkner show, and said it was concerned the federal government doesn't take into serious. He says, is it bioweapons

in that balloon? Did that balloon take off from Wuhan? All right. Large Brain Marge tweeted that Biden should shoot it down and said, but Donald Trump would never tolerate this shit, which is not true. We'll get to that in a minute. Jim Jordan tweeted out

that if maybe the Biden administration wasn't so worried about banning your gas stoves, they would have seen these Chinese a spy balloon coming. Joe Biden's headed for his vacation in Wilmington tonight while a Chinese Bible. He put Chinese in all caps in case you were wondering if he had to make it racist. Chuck Grassley tweeted out some fucking nonsense that I can't even really read. We're running late.

So I'll just skip on or even say it was racist and barely legible. Greg Gianforte, who was a former House of Representatives guy, who's now the governor in Montana. He knows basically, you know, same guy as literally the same guy as Kevin Costner's character in Yellowstone. He's mostly famous before this for a body slamming reporter asked him questions. And he was on Fox News doing a live hit when this happened, and this was fun. Governor, I hate to pull random video off the internet and ask you to respond to it, but this is going around. It appears to be it's on social media. Video of an explosion over your state showing what looks like a smoke trail into the sky.

We can't even guess as to what this is. Do you have any information about this? I not at this point. I was notified of it just minutes before we came on the air. We're monitoring the situation. I'm talking to our National Guard to find out additional information. I'm sure I'll be briefed here. All right. Okay, about it. So that video went by. What the hell is that about? It was a contrail from a jet as far as anyone could tell. And the flash of light that people were saying was explosion was just the phone adjusting the, you know, when phones adjust, they're light sensations or whatever. There's no explosion. I'm also. dumb about cameras and fun and stuff. So, yeah, they just the stuff with the light and shit and the exposures, shutters. Yeah, there you go.

All that type of stuff. So, yeah, but that was funny as shit to me, the governor of Montana is monitoring the situations. And if things get dire, if there was an explosion of the skies of Montana, he will call up the Yellowstone Park Ranger Air Force to fucking investigate. Anyway, that's the dynamic is going on here.

Joe Wilson, a bunch of other Republican congressman gave floor speeches yesterday demanding Biden Harris resign. over this um everyone's being such a big fucking baby you mentioned this earlier like everybody spies on everybody right you don't just we spy on everybody everybody spiles on us not just your enemies we aspire uh spy on our allies and our allies spy on us this headline here jonathan paula is one of the most damaging spies in u.s history he spied for israel all right he stole a bunch of american nuclear secrets and gave them to israel um and we also talked about

the guy last year was he worked for the he was a sailor in the navy and and he tried to sell plans for a nuclear submarine to France. And France turned him in because they already had our nuclear spy submarine plans. Didn't need to fucking take this guy's shit. And the publicly available numbers, this is the public numbers. We probably have more that are secret. But America has 290 spa satellites circumnavigating the globe. China is about 160.

We're looking at each other all the time anyway. Right. And we can skip this boarderoma video because we're running late, Matt. But the stuff Fox suggested, They were just spitballing about there being like chemical attacks and bioweapons attacks. They suggested the balloon was a test run to see if they could do a biological attack. Jesse Waters spitballed using wind turbines to blow it back over Canada so they can have the biological attack, I guess. And he also suggested going kamikaze with the Goodyear Blimp.

I can never tell when these guys are kidding. Yeah. Hey, the only way to take down a balloon is with a bigger balloon. Emerald, balloon on balloon violence, you know, fire, fire, baby. We send our balloon at it. Yeah. Now, that shit is, all of that is so wild. But, like, you know, you said earlier, it's like any opportunity to fear mongering,

that's their number one jam. They love when they get a chance to do that. And this was the first, like, really good opportunity for that in a while. Fear mongering involving, like, war and shit, buddy, can't beat that in the American media escape. And as to why we didn't shoot it out earlier, Trey alluded to it. But it's very big and has a bunch of stuff and would have crushed a bunch of stuff. And they had plans to shoot down any time they want, but they say that they had the technology to, they moved, they moved military assets out of the path of the balloon. They also apparently used some jamming equipment to keep from setting signals or something.

So they weren't actually worried about what it was collecting. They could just shut it down at any moment. They chose not to because they were worried would create a debris field. I'm sorry, I misstated earlier, 20 miles by 20 miles. And here's a quote from a DOD official. The last thing we wanted was for something the size of a school bus to go through the roof of a preschool. But on the other hand, according to Fox News, defenders of real America in the heartland, these people do not count. Yeah, at the video, man, here we go.

Montana has no one living in Montana, Alaska, even less people. Yeah, all right, so good luck people of Montana because Fox News doesn't care if you get dead. Actually, Water, also did a really dumb rant about how, like, if it did fall in your barn, you'd be famous to be able to make money sitting up a museum and get to go in Good Morning America. So, therefore, you should want the government to blow up the fucking spy building over your house. Yeah. You should want debris to rain down on your property, you know, think about the magazine photos or whatever. Yeah. It's pretty ridiculous.

Well, it's just they had to, you know, they wanted to bitch about him not shooting it down. There's an obvious rationale for why you wouldn't do that. So they had to, like, you know, start fucking with that rationale, poking around at it and, you know, trying to talk shit around that, you know. Yeah. And, of course, we had to go to the partisan blame game here. So everyone was like, actually, there were three, at least three balloons that flew over during the Trump administration. And then another one earlier in the Biden administration. But like, going back to everybody named big babies about this spy shit, it's like, it's the stuff's early routine.

And Fox News had a graphic today. You don't have to call it up matter. I just describe it. But they showed all the different. balloon intrusions from China over the last decade or whatever over all our different military bases now if you're trying to watching american news this week would you at all be wondering why your government was keeping an eye on american military basis the evening we're going on there where we're fucking itching for war with everybody all the time right i'd want to

keep it out on us yeah i'd want to know if a fucking stealth bomb was taken off of Missouri loaded with nukes head in east um head west sorry uh so but dems have this brain too this is a quote Let me read this quote from my representative Mike Quigley from Illinois. Democrat said it went on CNN Friday. He did say calming things that I want people to think this is something abnormal. But then he said they have to be mitigated. They have to be addressed. We have to confront the Chinese government.

How? What do you want to do? Right. What's your plan? What's your plan? Yeah. Got it out with the balloons. Huh?

come on come on what are you doing with the balloons over there come on cut that out skit yeah you're right we're sorry no more balloons that's how I picture it anyway yeah having a partisan

fucking fight I'll just read this headline I call it up Matt but there's an honest to God fighting happening in washing over which party is softer on balloons so to recap this whole thing if you can follow the narrative here China sent a spot by a balloon over strategic U.S. sites in places where there aren't really any strategic

U.S. sites. We have missile silos there, but you can't see a missile silo. They're fucking underground. So what? It shows us to spout on these sites with a big visible balloon, visible from the naked eye from 65,000 feet that anyone can see on the ground to demonstrate it had the capability to do what? Do what?

Despite having a plethora of other more discreet ways to spy like satellites and self-drones, we seem to be unclear that any. anyone besides China is mastered to technology of hot air balloons. China chose to do this on the eve of Secretary Blinkin's visit to China. This was a big deal. It's the first time a Chinese president has met with the American

Secretary of State in a long time. The goal of the meeting was to reduce tensions between our two countries. China wanted that meeting. They would not have fucking provoked us to stop this meeting. And Blinken only didn't go because you know all the whole, every question you got would have been about this dumb fucking balloon. But the question is, this has happened all the time. We didn't know about it.

It becomes, why did the Pentagon tell us about it? Now, there's a couple possible explanations. They expected Americans to be sane and mature about it, which, L.O.L. I doubt that. They realized people could see it this one time if they had to say something. Or they wanted to depend, the military industrial complex wanted to sabotage Blinken's efforts to reduce tensions with China. I'm not being inspiratorial about that. But the most likely scenario is, is probably that it's a series of unfortunate events,

hilariously stupid unfortunate events without malice on either side and just a balloon floater over the fucking Midwest but the malice in this scenario is on the media's part and the politicians and like in the wider members of the blob

the fucking foreign intelligence operation establishment the foreign policy establishment they fucking immediately started agitating for war and I saw this headline this is from February 1st which is basically I'm not sure I forgot my time that was around the time

the balloon was announced This headline from the Intercept, White House-linked venture capital fund boast China war would be great for business. This fucking guy, this fucking guy went up at a goddamn public event and said that if China, Taiwan situation happens, some of our investments will be 10x, like, overnight. So they're saying, like, because we get most of our microchips from Taiwan, we go to war with China and they seize Taiwan, U.S. government will have to buy our microchips, and therefore our profits will go up tenfold. hooray. Right. Right. Yeah.

Well, you know, just saying the quiet part out loud. I mean, you know, the war profiteering, man, it's a few things more American than that. But I mean, yeah. Right. Probably we're not saying on the record that war would hit for you for money reasons. But, you know. Yeah. Still.

And I do want to say that like I was like this is one moment where I was very happy that Joe Biden was president because all these psychos would be way worse. Any of those motherfuckers in the House represented into the Senate going on TV, agitating for like, Dr. Strane's love shit. But one of Biden's best traits, he does not entrust the blob or the military industrial complex. Remember when they pulled out of Afghanistan, he essentially told him, I'm sick of your lying bullshit. And it's like, because they always say, we just need another six months.

You just another six months. We're just one month of war and we'll win. He's like, no, just fucking leave. And he called him on their bullshit and we got out of a forever war. But yeah, the media did not cover themselves in glory. And I reminded of that William Randolph Hurst, who pretty much created a war in Cuba, Spanish American War out of thin air. by manufacturing much of

stories and when he sent an illustrator to cover the war in Cuba, there wasn't anything going on. The guy wrote back, there was no war to cover and he just said, you furnished the pictures, I'll furnish the war, and then we invaded Cuba. Yeah. The more thing to change. Go read the lyrics for 99 Love Balloons,

the translation. They predicted all this. They had fucking 80s song, a German techno pop song. Yeah, I always knew it was prophetic. I used to say that. I said one day, 99. and loose balloons will be proven true. Matt, get us some comments and stuff. Throw them up there, comments and questions.

Mark, you excited about the state of the union? Starting when we get off. Yeah, Cindy Archer says this would be a good time to use the Jewish space lasers. It's a good point. It would have been helpful for that. Yeah, if you wondered at any point, I mean, I'm not going to say that. If we had space lasers, I was going to say we might have used them in the balloon. I'm not sure.

I didn't know we could fly to 65,000 feet to shoot this motherfucker down. So I was just thinking about being. up that high and almost had a panic attack. My fear of heights is so bad. But yeah, I didn't think about it. Yeah. Well, Matt's looking for some more comments. Robert Draper says you can Google the location of the missile silos.

Yeah, that's what you have them on submarines. So you can move them around so they can't get all of them. So I want to do a quick George Santos, I beg because this is too good to, well, Matt's looking for some more comments. George Santos claimed he produced Spider-Man turn off the dark for some damn reason. yeah so bloomberg found out when he was fundraising for congress uh he claimed he to produce from spatterman after dark and if you're not a broadway buff as tray and i are right the spider man turned off the dark was a huge fucking catastrophe that you know injured a bunch of

and crippled a bunch of their spider man we're talking multiple serious leg injuries and one stunt performer two broken wrists at the same time and uh yeah no i'm not i'm not a huge broadway guy but i definitely am aware that that's like one of the most like legendary failures or bombs or whatever you want to call it in the history of you know that industry and so it's funny it's wild that he would choose that one I don't know it his dude is just so wild man maybe he was like well people maybe they'll think that you know no one would willingly associate with that you know so it must be true like you know what I mean because it's embarrassing but I don't know Debbie Lynn Robinson says hit the like button thank you

very much for that I had forgotten like subscribe it uh it helps yeah that play they lost $60 million in his three-year attempted run. I don't think, I don't think they ever made it out of the trial phase, but they prompted this quote from one of the other producers said, of all the tribulations the producers of Spider-Man had to endure, we were very pleased, proud, and relieved to report. Working with George Santos is not one of them. That was a pretty good slam.

Yeah, I like it. Kim Cousado says, will there be skews on Valentine's Day? Will your wives let you? We hadn't even talked about it, but I mean, yeah, I'm right. Yeah, we'll do it, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we go out and we'll go out the weekend or something. Okay. All right. Yeah.

We probably won't do too much. I'll get her some chocolates or something. I'm a pretty big, listen, sorry. I love my wife. We got a good relationship. Valentine's Day, not a fan. I never have been. It's some commercialized horseshit. It got invented just to make people buy flowers and chocolates and stuff. And I won't buy into their propaganda. Okay. I refuse to. Yeah. Just because I'm lazy or anything like that. I'm not going to give him. I'm not going to bow down to big hallmark, you know.

I'll get her something. It'll be fine. I don't worry about Cody. I'm sweet to my wife 24-7, 365. There you go. Don't need a day. Don't need a day to be sweet to my wife, all right? That's every day ending in why.

I'm with you, Mark. We're both super sweet guys who love our wives very much. Jeff Curry says I'm starting to think the whole ground hog looking for a shadow thing is bullshit. Whoa, Jeff. I will not have you besmirching the. integrity of a beloved weather forecasting ground log. No, neither one of them. Neither Pucks of Tony Phil or General

Beauregard Lee. Jim Gray says what y'all's take on the State of the Union theme on blue-collar workers? I mean, Biden has done a lot to lay. I mean, the jobs, the jobs economy is the side of the economy has been great and the but the Fed

on Hawaii won't fire, I know he has limited control of the Federal Reserve, but he could yell at them to trying to engineer a recession to put all those people out of work and he won't fucking do anything about it. But luckily, none of their efforts have worked yet. But he is supposedly going to announce a proposed tax on billionaires. So that'd be cool. Because billionaires can afford it. That's not like it. Some of them are evil and greedy and I hate them, but also just they have money. So we need to, we as a society need to pay for stuff. If you're going to take money for it to pay from to pay for it, it should be the people that have the most of it, right? Some straightforward. Right. I just, I don't know. They also need to make them pay. people more generally, you know what I mean, outside of just taxing them, tax them too, but it's also just the fact that like people, you know, that wages have not kept up with

cost of living, inflation and all that stuff. And it makes a huge difference. And they're never going to just voluntarily do that shit. So, you know, Jenny Knowles says, we believe a groundhog, but not climate change. Ha, ha, only in pencil tuckie. Yeah. Well, no, also in Georgia. Poxetone.

Poxetony. Is that right? Poxetot something, whatever. Phil, old Phil up there in Pennsylvania, he's a worldwide superstar, you know, a lot of people tune in to see what he's got to say about the issue. You know, when they're shooting the movie, the Groundhog Day, that Bill Murray got bit by a bunch of those groundhogs? Yeah, yeah, that checks out. This is, I'm sure, I've never heard of this. Mark, you heard of this. Melissa Bean-Felders says Possum, Sam, and Alabama. So I guess they got a meteorologist Possum. In Alabama, by the name of Sam. Sam from Alabama.

Okay, why not? Nothing at all inherently more weird or absurd about that than a fucking groundhog. Matter of fact, I respect that more because, like, it's some originality. You know what I mean? Georgia just, like, ripped off a thing that already existed completely. At least Alabama was like, hey, let's Alabama it up a little bit. Make it a fucking possum. I respect that.

Chris Webster says, Tray, they shot down the friggin' wizard of Oz. You killed it in Orlando. love you. Thank you, Chris. That was a great time in Orlando. Thanks for coming. Do you say you performed in a church in Orlando? No, that was Fort Lauderdale. Orlando was at the Orlando Improb, but in Fort Lauderdale was at the world's largest LGBT church. And so, like, when I heard that, and also just that they wanted me to come there, immediately, I was like, okay, so it's not really a church then, right? And then I get an Uber from my hotel. We pull into the parking lot, and I was like, yo, that's a fucking church right there. like it you would never mistake it was so churched out like unmistakable is anything you know

could not be anything else but a church and then i was like damn i don't know about this you know uh but they you know they were obviously a very different type of church and it was a really good time we decked out your sam sam harris uh sam smith devil devil devil type of yeah no but i you know i said a lot of satan-y type stuff and they let me get away with it so that was fun Eric J. Lofenberg says, Trey Crowder, I'm glad your computer's working this week, so you could be here for the entire skews day.

Yeah, me too. I'm thrilled. They said it takes seven to ten business days, and I think it ended up taking like seven-ish. I thought for sure it'd be ten. So, yeah, thank you. Mail, Rose, Mac, Apple people here in Burbank who fixed it.

Judy Kidder Browning says that was a great interview in Fort Lauderdale, Tray. Oh, thanks, yes, I also did a queer news tonight. They got a like a news or media situation that is like literally shares a parking lot with the church. I don't know if they're formally connected or run by the same people or what. They definitely have some sort of connection. But yeah, that was a, it was a good interview and that was fun. Shout out to Al and everybody at Queer News Tonight. Third Eye of 2020 says if Raccoon Rick smokes his shadow in Florida, 420 more weeks of winter.

That's a good one. I like that one. Raccoon Rick, figure y'all have like an alligator or something. as to either rip a leg off or not to determine when winter ends. I have a comment, actually, Trey. Yeah. Oh, God. So state of the union will be like the fifth workday this year for the Senate.

So they actually have to show up and do something, which is just watch Joe Biden talk. All they've done is swore in new members, recess for three weeks. They've taken five roll call votes so far this year. Again, it's February 7th. One was to confirm Assistant Secretary of Defense. The other two were to confirm board members for the U.S. U.S. Institute of Peace. They're doing a bang-up job, ready to wear of a balloon.

The final two were to vote on resolutions that were to observe national trafficking and modern slavery prevention month. And the other ones to designate January as National Stocking Awareness Month. So, yeah, it's working hard for the American people, baby. As always. Yeah. No, yeah. You believe they thought John Fetterman didn't have the faculties to do this fucking job.

I know, yeah. I mean, we've petted a million times before, but like doing stuff is not. you know, really their thing as a general rule, even when they get together to do stuff, they still mostly just don't do any stuff, you know. But the vast majority of the time, they're not even there, like, pretending like they might do stuff, you know, then they show up to do stuff and then they get like, and then at the end of it, they're like, yeah, we couldn't get any stuff done. We're going to leave for six more weeks or whatever.

They didn't impeach Trump because they wanted to go home for Valentine's Day? Yeah. Say, God damn, we're going to be here for Valentine's Day. We ain't in the Senate. You can fucking, yeah, your jobs are way more important. We have to work for a fucking minute. Yeah, unlike some fucking people, you pieces of shit in Washington, D.C. I mean, they really don't hurt for me, though, as a general rule.

The vast, vast majority of them. But anyway, I guess some of them are okay. Anyway, all right, about to wrap it up. Thank you guys again. Remind you real quick before you go. Go to traycrouter.com. Check out the tickets. Matt, I'm about to need to up.

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and for $5 a month you get full link bonus episodes and you support the show in the process which we would greatly appreciate so yeah consider doing all of that stuff you know happy February I don't know wherever you're at in the country If it is wintertime there, it ain't really wintertime where me and Mark are, but I go to places where it's wintertime, and I'm cold the whole time I'm there. So my heart goes out to you, and I hope you un-stay warm.

Some of you people from the frigid north, you've got thicker blood, you're better at it. So I'm sure you're doing fine, ice fishing and all that kind of shit. Anyway, we'll see you on Valentine's Day, I guess, seven days from now, the next Tuesday, Cupid's Day. We'll get all sweet and lovey-dovey and stuff. Mark will eat chocolate slowly. on camera for everybody. That's what we'll do. I'm saying it now.

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