Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 3/04/25 – America as a Flea Market for Rich Perverts

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

Good news Skewers, there’s a patriot out there fighting for your god given American right to use third graders as speed bumps. Plus, a hot new murder cult that’s bad because some of the members ar...e tran. Then we get into all the really rinky-dink ways everything is for sale in America now, especially if you’re a cybercriminal crypto warlord who eats $6 million bananas.Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:00 what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you when you're seeing this on march 4th 2025 we're coming to you from the past as per usual lately it's 1.36 p.m. on Monday March 3rd as we sit down to record this I'm flying blind on this one I literally just walked in to my office from a plane from Florida so I don't even know what what Mark is going to be talking about, but I do have an odd sour patch kid flavored energy drink that I'm sure will kill me before the age of 40. But looking forward to it. How are you doing, Mark? Yeah, it might as well bring back the Panera Death Lemonade, dude, wait things are going. Who cares? Yeah. Yeah, no, we got a fun show. We'll be talking about,
Starting point is 00:00:48 dude, I feel like it was going to be a recurring topic, but like we might as well start numbering them. but I titled the episode, America is a flea market for rich perverts because the rapid nature of which everything is for sale to a comical degree. I'm talking about like some obvious graphs having to do with grifts having to do with crypto and shit in a little bit that are breathtaking in their just like upfrontness. Do you'm saying? There's like no ruse, no guile, just like you give me money, you get out of jail to do more scams. It's very, anyway. So we also be talking about America's hot new murder cult And Fox News is all over with
Starting point is 00:01:29 Because some of the people involved are trans And probably my favorite episodes to do Where we just get to talk about a bunch of weirdos A bunch of strange people out there Just doing their strange things And today's full of it So I'm very excited about today's show The first one before we get to the show
Starting point is 00:01:43 I want to talk about Is a guy I want to tell you about named Scott Lobido I'm assuming as a spaghetti person Sounds like a spaghetti person to me Yeah Also, he's from Staten Island, so that's two strikes in a spaghetti person column. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:57 That's like advanced spaghetti person on this side of the Atlantic anyway. Yeah. So he turned himself in a couple days ago. What he had been doing, the charge he was facing, he's real mad about red light cameras and speed cameras in Staten Island. A man at my own heart, a patriot. Okay. Well, we'll get to that. Be careful taking his side.
Starting point is 00:02:19 Okay. I do hate those, though. but anyway. Everybody does because we only want to get away with crimes if a cop's not looking. It feels like... Yeah, right, exactly. It feels like you should have to catch me. I understand the impulse, but we'll get to why this guy's a dickhead. He's just dickhead in a few
Starting point is 00:02:33 different ways. So what he was doing was going around and doing a way to call it a, quote, community beautification project where he'd cover up the cameras with like flowers. Okay. So he turned himself in the Department of Transportation Department of Transportation estimated the
Starting point is 00:02:49 Lovito, he covered up 14 different camera system with his fake flowers. The DA in the case, a guy named Michael McMahon, sympathized with LeBito, said that DOT speed cameras were, quote, omnipresent, adding that LeBito's actions were, quote, not the crime of the century. Like most Staten Islanders, I lov the omnipresence of speed cameras, which we seem to have way more of than our fair share of compared to other boroughs. For the record here, Staten Island, It actually has the lowest density of speed cameras per square mile, according to the New York Department of Transportation in New York City.
Starting point is 00:03:26 It's just the conservative white borough where all the cops live. Okay. So what we're doing here is the cops already face less law enforcement and they want to face none for speeding. Okay. So just like it's where all the cops. So it just makes it easier on the cops to they, it's like automating their own job like on purpose so they don't have to do that. No, no, they live there. They don't want to get speeding tickets.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Right. Okay. I thought you said that was the only neighborhood that had all the speed cameras in it or whatever. No, no, no. They have less than the other boroughs. Okay. The DA bought his bullshit saying these cameras are omnipresent. I hate them.
Starting point is 00:04:05 We have more than every other borough when the numbers show they have less than every other borough. Okay, got you. All right. We got on the same page now. Okay. So for context here, Lobito's truck has been hit with 43 school's own speeding tickets. and five red light tickets since 2022. Forty-three speeding tickets.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Forty-three school zones, speeding tickets. That's some pretty impressive numbers right there. Right. So more context here. The speed enforcement cameras only exist in school zones. So he's gotten 43 speeding tickets for speeding in school zones in the last three years. Okay. I watched the video he posted on the Instagram where he matched up news coverage of the story
Starting point is 00:04:46 with him pulling up to the courthouse and turn. himself in in an SUV flying a bunch of American flags that he had set to twisted sisters, we're not going to take it. That's the exact level of subtlety and nuance I would expect from a Staten Island spaghetti person. Yeah, there's nothing more on a rock than hitting a kid with your car. All he wants to do is to be able to do 50 in a school zone. Their kids are walking across a crosswalk in and not be able to get in trouble for it
Starting point is 00:05:17 unless a cop is standing there. And this is a civil rights issue in Staten Island. It's also funny because on Dave Chappelle, I think on killing him softly, one of Dave Chappelle's like old, you know, incredible all-time classic comedy specials from 20-something years ago or whatever. He has a bit about, you know, his white buddy who is just totally unafraid of cops or whatever. And it's like, I'm sorry, officer. I didn't know I couldn't do that, you know. And the cops are like, well, now you know, I get out of here. You know, and like that.
Starting point is 00:05:45 That's what it's all about. But he's talking about he's in the, he calls him Chip. He's in the car with a white friend chip, and he's just, like, you know, basically driving on the sidewalk speed and all this. He's blasting his fucking, you know, white, this type of white person music. And he's like, we're not going to take it. Like, that's literally the song that he uses in the bit where he's talking about. White people not want to follow the, you know, the laws or whatever. And that's from 20 years ago.
Starting point is 00:06:11 So this guy's like, you know, self-parity, which always hits. How far are you going to Staten Island that's speeding? makes a difference. Right. It's like, like, whatever, it's like,
Starting point is 00:06:25 no speed through school zones, people, nothing matters. I mean, I thought that, I had always been under the impression that speeding in a school zone
Starting point is 00:06:34 was, you know, at least somewhat, I didn't know a person could do that 43 times and still have a car or license or freedom.
Starting point is 00:06:45 I thought you could do that like three, four times max, but, No, no. When you get, you can drive a car. You can kill people with a car as much as you want in New York City, which you can't do is sell Lucy Cigarettes because the cops will kill you for that. So that's important to keep in mind.
Starting point is 00:07:00 It checks out. All right. Producer Matt is with us. He's actually across the ponies in Edinburgh. Scotland? He's in Scotland right now. He's got a kilt on drinking whiskey and fucking rating poems. They like poetry over there.
Starting point is 00:07:15 But anyway, he's over there doing that. We're over here on the left coast. divided by space and time but united in our hearts as always this is weekly skews um before we continue of course i got my standard announcements if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person go to tray crowder dot com and check out my upcoming tour dates i got i was just in florida those shows are fun thank you guys for coming out to that we got minneapolis coming up then the northeast including uh the wilbur in boston that's a big one so you all holler at that one and then Austin, Texas, northwest Arkansas, back home in Tennessee for a bit.
Starting point is 00:07:49 That Corey and Drew will be with me on those shows as well, one of them at each show. So a lot of exciting stuff coming up. And then many, many more dates after that, too. We're getting, filling up the whole rest of the year as we do. So go to traycrouter.com and come and see me. I've been having fun. Sorry. This thing's going to kill me.
Starting point is 00:08:08 I was like, I don't know what just happened. Anyway. Matt can't hit this out if you want. No, no, no, no, leave it. Anyway, if you enjoy this program, I would like to show your support, you can do so by signing up on Patreon. You can go to weekly skews.com slash more or just go to Patreon and search for my name. Either way it works. $5 a month, you get access to two full-length bonus episodes.
Starting point is 00:08:32 It's just additional episodes of this show. If you watch this show, then you get the idea. But we also do skew and a sometimes. We're actually in the middle of one right now where we answer your burning questions. So it's a lot of fun. get some more skews in your life support the show in the process. Consider signing up on Patreon. Now, it's like I said, Mark told you all what the show is going to be about,
Starting point is 00:08:52 and I'm glad he did because I would not have otherwise known. But, so we're going to go right ahead and get started with The Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Today's D.D. Trans people for inventing a brand new thing in America called cults. Hate it, Matt. A group of transgender computer scientists came together, not to build a website, not to introduce a new app, but instead to join a violent cult. Three members of the trans-vegan group known as Zizian have been arrested on charges, including trespassing on private property. So, bro, if I was sitting on a plane and I looked over and I just all, I couldn't hear any of it, I just saw that Chiron exposing the dangerous new trans.
Starting point is 00:09:44 vegan cult. Like, again, talk about self-parody. It looks made up. It looks like it's out of a sketch making fun of Fox News. I find, like, as somebody who pays attention to the world, I find Fox News's framing of this kind of stuff always hilarious because, like, it's like, so I Googled, I was trying to figure out if America has more cults in other countries, and I couldn't find a definitive source, although a lot of people do suspect it.
Starting point is 00:10:08 But I did find some research that at any given point in America, there are 5,000 active cults. Damn. And trans people got one. one now therefore it's an emergency yeah so uh i also in context every other cult i've ever heard of essentially was formed by some straight dude who wanted to have like a dozen child brides concubines yeah right and and so like this is what a quality looks like trans people get one call it's fine sure they well not the murder part they they have the they're they're they're alleged to have been involved in like six murders around the country
Starting point is 00:10:45 over the past since 2022, which we want to get to that. I just want to warn you. I've read like a bunch of articles about this and I could not make sense of any of it until one of our viewers by the social media handles, Honky Talk Heart, who apparently works in tech and has been following this cult for a long
Starting point is 00:11:02 time. I knew I would be interested in it. You're absolutely correct Honky Dog Heart and send me some materials that made it make some sense. But all this is so strange. I'm going to warn you that everything I say is probably about I thought 30 to 40% slightly off, at least. All right. So that's better for this show.
Starting point is 00:11:17 We're trending upwards in accuracy. So do you remember on inauguration day, we talked about that Border Patrol agent who gotten killed in Vermont? Yes. Okay. And we were sort of making fun of the Fox News spin on it because they were actually, they said it was the Border Patrol agent. First of all, getting killed in Vermont when your Border Patrol agent is kind of difficult
Starting point is 00:11:37 to do, we thought. And the Fox News was like this person, they had a one of a Trump, Homeland Security official. go on and say this border agent was targeted, which seemed ridiculous at the time because he initiated the traffic stop. Remember that? Yeah. Unless you intercept the person to stop you. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:53 But sort of makes sense, whether they're being a little paranoid because it was part of an organized group, again, the Zizians. But just not in the way that they thought or met, right? And that day, remember, the blue check marks on Twitter were saying that one of the killers was a quote, illegal immigrant. Now that the suspect was a migrant in the way classic, in the way they talk about it. And both were in the country illegally. The surviving occupant of the stopped Honda Prius was a young woman named Teresa Youngblood.
Starting point is 00:12:25 She's an American citizen and a computer science student. The other person killed during the gunfight. Teresa apparently initiated the gunfight after they were pulled over. The Border Patrol agent returned fire killed a German national with a valid visa who identified as transfeminine and went by Ophelia. Affilia had a history of employment as a quads and software developer for well-known hedge funds like James Street and Radix. And Teresa, for her part, uses non-binary pronouns. So the reasons this particular movement draws trans people we'll get to in a second. It's actually pretty interesting.
Starting point is 00:13:01 It's not, but it's not the same reason Fox News would think. Fox News thinks all trans people. You know that whole right-wing meme where all school shooters are trans? Yeah, right. Right. So that's what they're going out. But, like, another part of the story that was hilarious to me is that law enforcement was surveilling Teresa and Ophelia because they were wearing black tactical gear. But, like, that's just everyone walking around at Starbucks and they could have been doing Uber Eats for Black Rifle Coffee.
Starting point is 00:13:26 Like, I don't understand why that's suspicious in America. No, me neither. I mean, yeah, I feel like you see the, you know, the gravy seals and them, the mayonnaise militia guys, they're always decked out and tactical gear everywhere they go. part of their whole thing. I wouldn't think twice about it. But it's like, but you know, those are patriotic alpha males doing that.
Starting point is 00:13:49 You know, if you see like a trans person dressed like that, then, you know, that's obviously cause for alarm. I mean, as one of the situations, you kind of got to give it up for profiling, though,
Starting point is 00:13:59 because they were up to, they were a part of a murder call. Yeah, I guess that is true. So I was trying, like reading all the stuff trying to make sense of it. A reporter for Wired compared the story to a, large language model chat bot because basically whatever conclusion you want you can get to get
Starting point is 00:14:15 out of it you can plug you just plug your own prior prejudices into it and get and get back right like the closest thing originally i could i could find a headline to make sense of was this one uh vegan computer savants with bay area ties linked to deaths across u.s like okay this is starting to make a little bit of sense i'm not sure what degree like ziz who's the founder of this movement um uh as a trans woman she likes like eating meats like the holocaust right she also calls herself a vegan Sith Lord. So you start trying to make sense of these people,
Starting point is 00:14:44 you start getting dumb it real quick, right? Well, that's why I'm trying to, I'm wanting to get to the motivation here that they have. Is it,
Starting point is 00:14:51 is it a meat as murder? Is it like a crusade against the eating? Is it the vegan part that's, nope. Okay. All right. It's close to having to do
Starting point is 00:14:59 with artificial intelligence. Okay. Of course. Because they're all, they're all Bay Area, uh, tech people. They're part of a movement called,
Starting point is 00:15:06 they calls themselves rationalists. And like Sam Bankman Fried, like the, the what do you call it the movement he was a part of the spaces that you've got like greed is good
Starting point is 00:15:16 because you spend the money on charity I forget the name of it but like that's part of a rationalist community so that the fight between Elon and Sam Altman sort of an offshoot
Starting point is 00:15:24 of this too but rationalists are based a loose community of amateur philosophers focused on self-described rationalist inquiry that's become influential
Starting point is 00:15:31 in AI research and philanthropy for their part young blood and Ophili seemed to have fallen in with the infamous rationalist blogger Ziz who espouses a hard-line philosophy of justice and an eccentric theory of cognition.
Starting point is 00:15:43 All right. For all the hardcore, like, people who might earn philosophy like I did, a little bit of a nerd alert, these rationalists have nothing to do with the Enlightenment thinkers who use the same word. This type of person, because you went to college, be familiar to you. You play overly abstract, like stupidly overthought philosophical games and attempt to live in compliance with the stupid consequences you're using. These are kind of people you do drugs with in a dorm room and think about whether we live
Starting point is 00:16:09 in a simulation, except they take it way too seriously, and they got guns. Plus, murder and stuff, yeah. Right. Right. And again, I'm still not, I assume, you know, you're getting there, but I, the, the, the, why are the, what exactly are they trying to do and what people are they killing them to, to, to murder, facilitate that, you know. The murders I've seen them involved in, like, they shot a Border Patrol agent for trying to stop them. They, they will get to another one. Most of them seem interpersonal and not ideological, not directly anyway.
Starting point is 00:16:43 It's more like they're unstable people who kill people who fuck with them. Okay. Yeah. They're not targeted assassinations or whatever. Okay. Of the three murders that are three or four murders that I've seen documented, all of them seem kind of random just because they're armed up and, you know, overly enthusiastic about their belief system.
Starting point is 00:17:02 Let's see. Yeah. So like the most famous version of this, this would have related to like modern politics and the, the doge kids or whatever, who you could also sort of say you're part of this because you're going to put AI
Starting point is 00:17:12 into everything. The most famous version of this rationalist impulse is like reason yourself into, I'm quoting here from a blog that Honkeyton Hart sent me, reasoning yourself
Starting point is 00:17:21 into a belief that God-like computer-based super intelligence is inevitably coming and therefore the best use of your time in the present is to devote yourself to ensuring
Starting point is 00:17:32 its compliance with human morality. All right? Right. How do you do that? How do you ensure? a future godlike superintelligence is compliance with human morality. Well, because you're in a war with the other side, the yang to this yen is based of the Roku's baseless version of this thought problem, where the AI is inherently going
Starting point is 00:17:55 to be evil and will murder anyone who didn't help bring it about. So therefore, your job is to help bring about the evil supercomputer. Okay? Yeah. Just playing to be like a meat slave or something. Like, that's the best you're going to. It's like, hopefully I'll be a pet, like a purse dog in the layer of the, you know, the evil computer overlords or something. That's the best case scenario.
Starting point is 00:18:18 So the way I've been thinking about it is like AI is like the force in the Star Wars universe. And one side of rash list with the Zizians are on see themselves as like the rebel alliance for the good light side of the force. And the Broku's Baselist side, which is sort of the Elon side, is the evil like Sith Lord version, complicated by the fact that Ziz calls herself a big That's what I was about to say. It's like, what's funny about that is the person in the first group literally called herself a Sith Lord or whatever. The Godfather of this rationalist movement
Starting point is 00:18:49 is a guy named, I might say his name fucked up, Elizor Yudowski. No shit, he writes rationalist theme, Harry Potter Fan Fiction. Like it's called Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. It's a series series linked fan fiction, 122 chapters and 660,000 words long.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Now, this sounds crazy, but a lot of people Reddit interviewed it, said they think it's really well, across the ideological spectrum, think it's really good and even better than most of J.K. Rowling shit. So if you guys are Harry Potter enthusiasts, go pick up Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. You're going to end up converting people, Mark, recommending this shit. And they wind up, you know, joining a vegan trans murder cult or whatever's happening. So let's get to Ziz for a second. Ziz is from Alaska. Her government name is Jack Lassota. She got arrested a couple years ago a protest wearing a guy fox mask if you're wondering what it would arrive is uh in in 2018 uh so
Starting point is 00:19:45 here's where uh the idea ideology connects to the trans stuff a little bit um they experiment with something called on hit atmospheric sleep uh they try to put one half of the brains to sleep as a time is one half the brain asleep at a time as a means of debucketing basically they're working off this theory and i might be phrasing this very poorly that part of their trans identity is because their brain is at war with itself and one part's like a better way to put it one part's masking one part's feminine and deciding which part's dominant could up solve the riddle of like whatever's going on in their brains but they also think that like everybody's brains like this did with different stuff so they want to they want to see what's going on the other half of your brain by putting the dominant
Starting point is 00:20:23 half to sleep okay i mean i definitely feel like my brain's at war with itself pretty often frequently uh and definitely one half of it i'd like to you know shut the fuck up for a little while at least if I could get like an ambient but just for the you know that particular part of my brain you know that'd be all right right so here's we get we're here's we're going to get the criminality we'll get into the criminality of this part other so ziz was arrested the protest wearing a guy fox mask she didn't show up for court her lawyer in court showed up showed up and swore that ziz had died in a boating accident ziz was alive and kicking still alive uh later that year, two Zizians got a dispute with her landlord and stabbed him with a samurai sword.
Starting point is 00:21:07 They do seem like sword people to me. The landlord lived, shot one of them to death. Cops showed up to the crime scene. Ziz was there. And the cops lit Ziz off, even though she was wanted and allegedly dead. And they knew it was Ziz. Okay. Ziz laid low for a few years.
Starting point is 00:21:28 And then the Zizians are kind of quiet. Then on January 17th, three days before Teresa and Ophelia killed the Border Patrol Guard, and Ophelia gets killed, the landlord from the Samurai Tech was stabbed to death three days on January 17th. The guy just can't catch a break, man. He could even stab twice by the same cult, the second time fatally. The guy arrested for killing the landlord with a 22-year-old computer named Maximilian who had previously been engaged to, drumroll, Teresa Youngblood. But then last week, Zia's got arrested in Maryland for trespassing and possession of a handgun,
Starting point is 00:22:04 which I'm sure the Trump administration will try to wrap her in a terrorism charge is related to the Border Patrol agent slaying, even though I don't even know where Ziz was at that point. Anyway, that's the mystery of the Border Patrol agent slaying and the Zizians. And whether the life and death of one cult and a landlord who was slain by a samurai store will attempt to slain with a samurai store, then later slav by a regular knife, I guess. You have any, like roughly how many, how many Zizians exist? Are there chapters of this? Is this just one?
Starting point is 00:22:30 It's mostly, but mostly just people who read her blog, and I couldn't even tell you how many of that is. Like, I doubt many of them are committed enough to pick up guns. But again, there's not the same sort of organized movement here. They don't have a compound or anything. There's a couple people who read a blog, went to some rationalist meetings, and then got guns. So, anyway, they're going to be the new Antifa.
Starting point is 00:22:47 If Antifa stuff ever starts happening again, if you prepare for Zizians to make a big comeback on Fox News. Oh, yeah, absolutely. No, I mean, you knew they're going to jump all over this. there's like a, you know, the fact that there are trans-vegan people, like, being violent, like, legitimately. It's just, it's like a Christmas morning over there. So I'm not surprised by any of that at all.
Starting point is 00:23:12 But with that said, let's, uh, let's continue. Yeah, America's going out of business. Say, oh, buddy, everything must go. Come on down to crazy uncle Sam's. So I wanted to, we were going to talk about this stuff. I put the show together yesterday. Then I'll wake up today. and I see that Trump basically announced the executive order that we're eliminating even token anti-money laundering reporting requirements.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Money laundering is fully just fucking fine and cool now. Elon just stole a contract from the FAA. They had a $2 billion contract with Verizon to do something. And there's like, nope, give it to Starlink, even though it's patently outbound the out of the law or whatever. There's a process for changing contracts, yada, yada, yada. Oh, yeah. A hugely complicated process. I'm not caping for Verizon.
Starting point is 00:23:56 But then a hugely complicated process, which they see as redundant and pointless bureaucracy, is what keeps this process from being corrupted, right? So, like, I said, I mean, again, that is what I used to do for the Department of Energy. And the whole time I was there, that type of thing could not have possibly been taken more seriously. I mean, it's like I mentioned before, like, you couldn't, we couldn't, like, let potential vendors, like, you know, buy an appetizer at lunch or anything like that. You couldn't take nothing from them. or even the semblance of like impropriety or favoritism or whatever was like a big time fucking problem. And that's why it was always treated before.
Starting point is 00:24:34 But now they're just like, they're just willy-nilly handing them out and stuff. And I mean, that type of thing did still would happen or whatever. But if you got caught, you know, or proven, you'd be in deep shit. Now they're just doing it in broad daylight, you know. Yeah, I mean, it goes back to like a standard tick that I have is that like all this, much of a current crime. of crisis is just a top of elite impunity and decades of failure
Starting point is 00:24:59 to prosecute white-collar crime. Anybody, you reach a certain amount of wealth and respectability and it's just full on the purge for you 24-7. I was thinking about this when I saw it like in a LinkedIn ad,
Starting point is 00:25:12 somebody had screen grabbed for the David Petraeus Institute for doing war with woke leadership or whatever the fuck he's doing. Do you remember David Petraeus as, Trey? I mean, I definitely know that name
Starting point is 00:25:25 but I don't remember specifically where he fits in here or what he does. Was he a CIA person? Later, but he was like a, he was like an army guy for a long time. He was like a hero, quote, unquote, hero of the Iraq war led the counterinsurgency. He was like the, he was like the book read nerd general who was like a favorite of like the Obama set during the Iraq war.
Starting point is 00:25:45 He got caught after, so he became CIA director later on. And then it came out that he had basically been giving top secret information to a woman writing a book out on him who he was sleeping with. Now, depending on how you want to couch, they could be like, well, he had loose lips with his girlfriend, or he could say he was trading top secret information for sex. Either way, should have been chased out of a respectable
Starting point is 00:26:07 national security community, but a bomb administration did it on firing a messia director, and then Trump almost made him Secretary of State, and now he's back to profiting off his good reputation. Good job, everybody. So, back in January,
Starting point is 00:26:22 Trump started selling watches for $100,000 on his website. You can only purchase through crypto. So no limit on the email you could buy. I don't even know what their watches were worth. He might have gotten them out of a fucking bubble going machine. I would bet not much. I'm watched dumb and everything, but I'm assuming that they're probably not that great.
Starting point is 00:26:43 Especially in that world, dude, they watch shit. It gets, they got some, they'll take that seriously. And it gets real fancy up in there. There's no way the Trump watch is stacking up against, you know, the real deal. Trump's not in a watchmaker shop, like handcrafting stuff with gold, like Rolex. So like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:01 So, but my point is like, you could buy 20. If you just want to give Trump $2 million, you buy 20 of these with the crypto and walk away and nobody, you can't prove it was like, it's not a bribe, but you get watches for it.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Right. So these are extremely crumsy gifts and you don't even have to be clever to do these, is my point. And none of this shit is particularly clever. They're even bribing Elon's mom at this point. May must. has been going around the world giving paid speeches about good parenting in the business world or whatever. I'm talking specifically about visits to China, Kazakhstan, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Starting point is 00:27:39 So she visited China at least four times last year to endorse or model a bunch of fashion brands and makeup products and massage devices. Her visits are promoted by state media outlets. in October 3 weeks before the election she headlined a formal women in Kazakhstan where she spoke about her son's success according to a state news agency there and in January a week before Trump's second inauguration she was in Dubai speaking to government conference
Starting point is 00:28:05 on influences with a former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. Her talk was titled How I Raised Three Amazing Children, including the richest man in the world, according to the Emirates News Agency. This makes me realize I'd never really thought about like what's Elon's public image or whatever
Starting point is 00:28:21 in other in like China for example or some of these other countries he's the richest man in the world i'm surprised they all know who he is but is he like does he have cult of personality in all these places too he's worshipped in these places by he doesn't china he doesn't china he's hated in europe um it's like the mixed bag depending on where you are i imagine he's very popular in russia right now but yeah and in china he's like he's like a celebrity in china yeah and uh which makes which so may musk is like a hot commodity speaking there but he likes familiar like as a person who has friends with Chinese parents. They want other kids to go into STEM and become billionaires.
Starting point is 00:28:55 So, like, parenting tests from Elon Musk would be highly prized. From May Musk is highly priced there. But I was thinking about Kazakhstan and UAE for a second because, so Kazakhstan, most famous for being Borat's home country, I was like, they can't be super friendly to win. Like, they give me super into hearing women talk about, speak on influencing current events over there. Right. Well, it was sort of wrong because like this Kazakhstan government does try to do equality because its legacy of being like a Soviet state
Starting point is 00:29:27 and their emphasis on egalitarianism under communism. But they also have a huge problem of forced marriage and bride kidnapping. So But also I know that they got you know, and I mean I know that you know this, but like Borat, that was all filmed like in rural Romania or whatever
Starting point is 00:29:43 and all those villagers were lied to about what they were doing and what they were saying and stuff all the time and they got sued a bunch by both sides of it and Kazakhstan, the country was pissed off because I guess it's nothing like it's portrayed in those movies, but it is still a former, you know, Soviet, a country that has a lot of bullshit going on in it, but...
Starting point is 00:30:03 My point is that, like, an appetite for selling a bunch of tickets to listen to May must-speak, Phil's Astro-Turfed by the government, that's my point. Yeah. Because I don't want to go see... I don't want to attempt talks by people that actually like and respect, you know? United Air Emirates is doing a little bit better. You know, it's a fundamentalist Muslim nation doing better women's rights. But
Starting point is 00:30:23 flogging is still a punishment for premarital sex over there. So I bet Maymust doesn't hit for the general public over there. Anyway, that's all context for this. Trump trued this yesterday. His statement, formally announcing there's going to be a United States Crypto Reserve, which no one knows what this means. But the U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden administration, which is why I'm had executive order on digital assets directed by the presidential working group, directed presidential moving group to move forward on presidential working group, sorry, to move forward on crypto strategic reserves, it includes XRP, Solara, and ADA.
Starting point is 00:31:00 I'll make sure the U.S. is the crypto capital of the world. We're making crypto, making America great again, yada, yada, yada. Okay, so a couple things about this, besides it being stupid as shit. The formal announcement included five different crypto coins, Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, and Korda. No, no thing I want to note about that post is it's extremely obvious that Trump did not write it. Oh, you can always tell whenever it's one that was written for him versus one that he actually wrote. You know, it's very obvious.
Starting point is 00:31:33 I've had a guess you wrote it. I would guess Stephen Miller because he's Elon's point man in the White House. Elon's whole career is pumping dump shit, which is why he hates the Securities and Exchange Commission, which I'm sure we'll have to come back to at some point. I have no idea when he's actually going to try to do this or even what he means. buy it. Like, he hasn't released any details. There's going to be a big White House crypto summit on Friday where they're going to lay out more of these plans.
Starting point is 00:31:55 The crypto were some, what some people in the crypto world have been calling for, but they've been calling on a crypto reserve is just law enforcement holding on to the crypto it seizes instead of selling it, which, fine, fuck it. I don't give a shit. Okay. But what they want us to think in order of this pump and dump scheme to work, if that even that's just it, I've no idea what I'm saying is I've no idea whether it's just a pump dump based upon this statement or whether it's actually going to use Federal Reserve money to
Starting point is 00:32:21 buy crypto. But what they want to something they're going to do is use the money they stole from us by illegally canceling government programs to pump cryptocurrency. They're basically cutting cancer research. They can bail out rich degenerate gamblers, which if you think about this in terms of any other gambling to think about how stupid it is, they'd be like, we have to use federal money to bail out everybody who took the jets in the points last Sunday. Yeah, I don't get why they're, I mean, why are they, I don't know. I mean, you know, you know, every time Crypto even comes up at all, I just immediately get lost. But I don't understand what they're, like, why are the, why bail those guys out just
Starting point is 00:32:56 because that's their, um, because it's, I don't know. Well, because they're all in on it together. These are Trump supporters. And they've given them, they, they buy the rock, they buy the watches using their crypto and they do that type of shit. And so they just, yeah, right. But you don't understand anything by crypto for this kind of, pretend they're baseball cards. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Or pretend their pet rocks or any sort of collectibles. Like, they can just pump it up the value. a collectible. This is a way to think about it. And all the people that were in on this beforehand and knew which ahead of time, which ones he were going to mention just made insane returns. All right. Assuming they sold before they, because they already started drop it again because it's
Starting point is 00:33:30 stupid. But like, Solar, for example, was up 20%. And it just in like an within an hour or two, XRP was up 26%. ADA was up 53% immediately. Okay. The crypto people said someone had placed like a basically $200 million bet on, on, on, on these particular coins going up. And if they'd gone down 2%,
Starting point is 00:33:52 they would have lost $200 million, but it went up, so maybe they made $16 million in profits. It's not a bet you'd make unless you're sure of it, right? So talking about who they would do this for? David Sachs is going to be running the crypto summit on Friday. He's Trump's lead crypto czar. He is or was, not really clear.
Starting point is 00:34:10 He says he's no longer, but he hasn't revealed his financial disclosures. He is or was investor in an act. company called BitWise, a crypto holding firm whose top five holdings, you're going to be Shock Tray, remember I led you the list of the five coins Trump mentioned, Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Salana, and Cordero. His top five holdings are Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Salana, and Cordero. He made bank yesterday. Well, you know, it just makes sense, Mark.
Starting point is 00:34:35 If those are like the top five, whatever, cryptoins in general, you know, then they're not the top five in general. So Laura's a pretty unknown one, my understanding. So, like, this is pretty much. much the coin just became famous. Trump made it famous yesterday. Nice. I want to do a brief detour here to talk about a person who's in this particular aspect is being an annoying loser.
Starting point is 00:35:01 And that's Arizona's Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego. As a headline for Rolling Stone, Dem overseeing digital assets, the whole luxury retreat with kick to a crypto-kingpan. Yeah, Gallego is holding a fundraising weekend with Mark Andreessen, who's a big mega-crypto billionaires. you know, venture capitalists, Silicon Valley dude. Gallego replaced Kristen Senema ostensibly. He ran being like,
Starting point is 00:35:28 she sold out her constituents. He was going to primary, he was a congressman before he was a senator. And then immediately, cinema is now a crypto lobbyist. And now Gallego is essentially being a crypto lobbyist as a sitting senator.
Starting point is 00:35:43 For sale, baby brain, never used. a lot of people's idea of politicians is the kind of guys who would use their wives as human shields and they're not beating the allegations currently I like I mean what does he do
Starting point is 00:36:01 I mean it's just I mean just the same thing they always do so it's just you know there's a lot of money here you're just getting the same type of garden variety corruption that always happens with Congress people and everything they just get in the bed with They're all serving the same masters at the end of the day, that type of shit.
Starting point is 00:36:18 Maybe, but like, my question to Rubin is he's, like, when I say he's not bad on everything, historically, he's been a member in the house who's a member of the Medicare for all caucus, good. But like, if you have to choose between tax and crypto out of business to pay from everybody's health care or not having health care, what's your choice, buddy? Right. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, the part that kills me is like, I'm not saying you shouldn't want to.
Starting point is 00:36:44 to be on the digital assets committee because part of the banking committee, the Senate banking committee subcommittee on crypto, that would be a composition on which to set to regulate the fuckers to keep them honest. Instead, he's attending a fundraising summit alongside them. And like, if you think that you're supposed to use your power in government to protect the people from predatory financial dipsets, I guess you're too naive to live in moderate America. Anyway, at the same time, he's doing this. We talked about the shareholder lawsuit rebellion against Elon Musk's payment package from Tesla a couple months ago. Do you remember I was talking about it?
Starting point is 00:37:24 Yes. So basically, a bunch of Tesla activists and investors sued the board who they said were in Elon's pocket where they agreed to give him $55 billion in compensation. They won their lawsuit. Tesla was forbidden for paying them that. So now Elon's lawyers wrote a bill for... for the Delaware Democrats to pass to make sure you can get that $55 billion, and they're well on their way to pass it. Delaware, you know, there's a race to a bottom for financial regulation that they won
Starting point is 00:37:54 a long time back. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's like Wild West, banking-wise, everything, right? It's just like a tax haven for all these corporations are like technically headquartered there and stuff for all these shady financial law reasons and shit. If there was a bank that would hoard, store gold for the Nazis, like Swiss did, it would be in Delaware. and they don't want to let go
Starting point is 00:38:16 with that business model so they're just going to help Elon and get $55 billion as a very corrupt favor to him and letting Elon's own lawyers write the bill is just just the chef's gift thing for them to do anyway, if you live in Delaware
Starting point is 00:38:26 call your fucking state rep and yell at them to stop helping this corrupt motherfucker steal money from his shareholders Let's go back to Trump for a second because this is we want to get to the fun part here I got a fun character for you we haven't talked about named Justin's son Chinese national crypto billionaire
Starting point is 00:38:41 originally made his money running BitTorrent we all used to steal music and movies remember bit torrent trade yeah i do yeah how do you uh i mean wasn't that like illegal the whole time like you're saying this dude like invented bit torn or that was his thing like he's the bit torrent guy because yeah that was a fucking he owned it yeah he owned it yeah yeah that was a big big deal but i thought it was one of those things where it's like you couldn't be uh you know like the dude that just that got pardoned by trump that was from the silk road or whatever. I thought that it was like a similar type situation to that. They either didn't know who he was. It's just wild that you could just be that and get rich off that and everybody
Starting point is 00:39:18 knows you were that. And that's just like fine because I thought, you know, piracy was bad. Obviously, I don't give a shit. I'm just, yeah, we use it for piracy. I did not realize that. We could also just use the transfer large files, right? So maybe that was how they made it sounds profitable. Yeah. Is that right? I did not even know that. It feels like it's kind of like, like, yeah, well, only fans isn't for porn, it just, you know, can't be used that way. But that is, you know, it's a good point. So SOT is pivoted into being a crypto guy. And he got charged by the SEC for, again, these are extremely clumsy grips.
Starting point is 00:39:55 They said what he was doing was two different things that were illegal. One, he was doing, we had a couple different companies that he was doing wash trades with crypto with, which is basically where you just buy coins back and forth from yourself to make it look like demand and the prices are going up. Right, yeah. Your right hand buys something for $100. Your left hand buys it back for $200. Your right hand buys it back for $300.
Starting point is 00:40:15 Then you try to convince a sucker to the price. And look at all this action on this coin. Yeah, right. Yeah, it makes it look. Right. Yeah. The second thing he did was he was paying celebrities to endorse his coins and not telling everybody these were ads.
Starting point is 00:40:26 Okay. So we got in trouble with the SEC. The SEC just dropped the charges yesterday. In the context for this is he soon just gave Trump $30 million. dollars in December so Trump Trump's a
Starting point is 00:40:43 crypto venture is called World Liberty Financial and they finance has been frozen because they couldn't extract money from it because they hadn't hit some sort of revenue target
Starting point is 00:40:54 so when Sun put $30 million in the WLF that unlocked $18 million that Trump could just have so he paid WLF $30 million so Trump could have 18. The fact that
Starting point is 00:41:06 The president even has a, like, you know, a crypto company or whatever just, like, openly and all of his, you know, it's just another thing, like, it just got normalized by Trump and how shitty it is, but it's like, it also should not be cool. Like, with, like, so many things he does, we just get, like, you know, you just become, what's the word I'm looking for? You just get, like, numb to it or whatever. But, you know, like Jimmy Carter had to give up his family's peanut farm or whatever, at least temporary. and yet Trump is out here running crypto schemes and fucking broad daylight and charging the Secret Service, you know, on his own golf courses and all that type of stuff. And everybody knows it. He don't even pretend to not do it. And it's just like totally cool with everybody.
Starting point is 00:41:52 And it's so wild. It's also just offensive. It's offensive to our intelligence. Like I love a clever scam. I love a ice movie. Yeah. Like, but like this is the, this is the high. This is an Ocean's 11.
Starting point is 00:42:05 This is walking to a convenience store. hitting the cashier in the head with a rock and stealing a pack of gum. That's like, there's nothing like remotely even fun of this. It's funny and how brazen it is and how stupid it is, but there's nothing like, I can't, like,
Starting point is 00:42:20 there's nothing even be proud of here. Like, at least if you run a smart scheme, you're like, ah, I'm a genius, but like, this is just fucking stupid.
Starting point is 00:42:27 So the part of here is there were people actually punished for this. Oh, by the way, since, since the original $30 million investment, son has dumped, dumped another 45 million into WLF and
Starting point is 00:42:41 causing Trump to receive another 56 million I know he's 56 million total fees so he's made basically because a little bit of financial chicanery Sun's actions have unlocked $56 million for Donald Trump. The people actually got punished for this are pretty funny.
Starting point is 00:43:00 When it charged Sun, the SEC also charged eight celebrities that said were involved in the scheme including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, soldier boy little yachtie uh and so lindsay lohan basically paid $400,000 the only person to pay the scam is Lindsay low hand it costs her $400,000 I imagine you could probably use right now yeah no shit that's a real a list lineup right there um I mean Jake Paul it's like he's just you know any kind of shady bullshit that can be going on he's it's like he's involved with it one way or another well uh he sucks but
Starting point is 00:43:36 If he hasn't paid yet, I imagine Trump will let him off the hook, too, because Trump loves Jake Paul. So I mentioned that Son was from China. Some other context here. Fuck. I hate having to give it up to China, there was a couple episodes in a row. But in 2021, Beijing imposed a sweeping crackdown of crypto trading and mining, forcing exchanges and businesses to shut down or relocate. They also barred foreign exchanges from serving Chinese customers.
Starting point is 00:44:02 But because blockchain is decentralized, basically the way it works over there is. exchanges are banned and mining's banned, but it's in practicality, in reality, it's legal to own crypto because nobody's going to fuck with you. This is not worth the Jews. The Jews isn't worth the squeeze. The government is coming after you. So what I'm saying is, save us, President Xi, glory to the people's republic. So I want to talk about Smith, spend the rest of the show talking about Justin's son
Starting point is 00:44:27 because he's a wild fucking character. He knows abroad, obviously, because his existence is illegal in China. He was appointed ambassador and permanent representative of Grenada. to the World Trade Organization in 2021. This is connected to, remember how Sam Bankman Fried was operating in the Bahamas? I think this is all a part of the Caribbean countries trans-stripto. Yeah. They've been doing, I mean, they've been, they've been, they've been a thing with them for a while, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:44:53 I mean, ain't that we're the, like the Cayman Islands down there somewhere? Yeah, yeah. And that's a famous, you know, so they've been, they've been after that, you know, that blood money work too for a minute. man. Yeah, I mean, drug cartels had to have a third nation to stash the money, and there wasn't a U.S. or wherever they weren't have to flee when they're an impover from it, right? So, uh, he got pushed out of the job from Grenada because, uh, the government, the ruling party lost the election, so he lost that gig. But then October 24, he got another gig with another government.
Starting point is 00:45:24 He was elected as Speaker of Congress, I'm put, put this in air quotes, please. Speaker of Congress imported as quote, prime minister of Liberland, a micronation that claims to own, but does not control a small river. floodplain border between Serbia and Croatia. Is this one of those libertarian utopia things? Yes. Yes. Those are always fun. Typically, they fall apart pretty quickly or whatever.
Starting point is 00:45:47 I don't know what's going on with this one. Right. Peter Thiel is currently financing another one. They always want to live in floating cities with no laws, but they fall apart because they have no servants. There's no underclass. They have no employees. But like this one, like, they're currently what they're trying to do if you really
Starting point is 00:46:01 understand is they're trying to turn America into one of these libertarian crypto startup states. But like, again, they never. last long so morons are gassed up on their own supply but like I want to read
Starting point is 00:46:10 this again to you a migra nation a subland country that claims to own but does not control a small region on the Danube River border flood plain
Starting point is 00:46:18 between Serbia and Croatia so among other things he's a rebel warlord and a breakaway republic on the Danube and Trump just legalized him running scams
Starting point is 00:46:29 in America okay yeah so son was in the news other reasons in November, December, besides the fact that he was bribing Trump via World Liberty Financial. He bought a $6.2 million banana.
Starting point is 00:46:46 He bought that? Uh-huh. I remember that fucking banana. Yeah. But the banana, the art banana, me and Corey talked about that on putting on airs. I didn't realize that this was the dude who bought that. But I, yeah, I had totally separate from all this, but just the whole, like, the art world. We bitch about the art world a lot and, like, those types of things.
Starting point is 00:47:04 It's like art stunts or gimmicks or whatever. And that banana was one of the most egregious examples in recent memory to me. It just really pissed me off. But anyway, go ahead. Yeah, I pulled the story back then. I guess when you guys talked about it, I mean, I didn't know you guys talked about it, but I had it sitting in reserve because I knew he was going to come back up. I didn't know it would be this soon.
Starting point is 00:47:24 But I figured these kind of assholes are always doing some shit that lands them in the news are in prison. So maybe it would have come back up when Serbia and Croatia combined to whip Laberlans ass and a war. But, uh, this is, um, so I felt this video of Sun eating the banana, Matt, and I don't want to talk about how fucked up this is, not besides being hilarious. Oh! You know, welcome, let's see you know. We're also, we think, today, Sun Yuchinianne, this one-year-old, this one-goyed-old,
Starting point is 00:47:58 not only is a show-stern-sing of behavior. and at all the time, this is to beaunuch and culture, trusting. Today's our show we're very much
Starting point is 00:48:09 can go with other way and media people, we've seen this great, and the beautiful
Starting point is 00:48:16 shan the beautiful shan. So this fucking guy spent $6.2 million dollars bidden up, bidden on this art
Starting point is 00:48:25 piece called, it was called a comedian by a guy named Marizzo Catalan, which is just a banana duct tape to a wall. Okay?
Starting point is 00:48:32 Right. And then he said afterwards, many friends have asked me about the state of the, about the taste of the banana. To be honest, for a banana was such a backstory, the taste is naturally different
Starting point is 00:48:44 from an ordinary one. To make this even grow, he said the taste is different from an ordinary one? Because he cost him $6.2 million. Yeah. He's like, and you peasants will never know
Starting point is 00:48:57 what that kind of banana tastes like. Like a fancy art banana, we'll never understand what that taste. I mean, I feel like I could guess probably exactly the same as any other goddamn banana. But, uh, yeah, I, you know, again, I don't understand the big. It tastes like a, it tastes like a poor person's tears. Yeah. That's what makes it hit.
Starting point is 00:49:16 Right. It tastes like a poor person's tears. It tastes like you're depriving 20 kids from going to college. You could have done that one. I know that that's what. That's his position on it. I'm saying, I bet it tastes like just a banana. But, uh, but, uh, but that's how he's,
Starting point is 00:49:29 He's trying to frame it. It's like, yeah, you know, you can't even conceive of what this banana would taste like. Poor people are not allowed to know. But anyway, yeah, go ahead. I can't believe that he's running scams to get more money when he has $6.2 million to spend on a fucking banana. I will never understand these people. I know. Well, it's just the, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:49:51 It's the fucking. It's the game. Right. Yeah. The game, the hunt, the fucking just all of it. They just live for all that. the pursuit of more. It's all,
Starting point is 00:50:00 more is all that matters. It's not like me and you. Because, yeah, if I've always said, if I hit one big ass good lick, I'm just going to disappear, basically. If I sell one banana,
Starting point is 00:50:10 you'll never see me again. Yeah, but people that are out of actually, you know, doing this shit, then get it, they're just not, that ain't how their brains are,
Starting point is 00:50:20 you know, they have to, they have to keep going, keep crushing other people and, you know, accumulating, dragons, hoarding,
Starting point is 00:50:29 wealth and shit. It's like some kind of disease that they have that makes the rest of us sick. Yeah, that was the quote. It was the quote. It's like the reason we can't cure poverty is that is not because we don't have enough money to feed the poor. It's because we can't satisfy the risk. So when I say the banana tasted great to him because it tastes like a poor person's
Starting point is 00:50:53 tears. I did not mean that in abstract. I mean, literally one guy's fucking tears. The banana that that artist put on the tape to the wall was bought from a New York City fruit vendor for 35 cents. The guy's name is Shah Alam, 74 years old. Who went and told that guy that? To me, it's kind of like, I feel like they could have just let that.
Starting point is 00:51:18 He didn't need to know that, I don't think. Like, somebody had to go out there and find the specific fruit vendor. It was like, hey, you know the banana you sold this morning? guess what you know uh and that's pretty rough that's tough to deal with i mean we as a society got to understand how fucked up this is the guy can sell a banana for 35 cents and some other dipshit gets paid six point two million dollars by a crypto for taping it to a wall for duct taping it to a wall yeah yeah i don't like i'm not an anti art person but like i don't understand the value of the banana take to the wall especially i'm not an anti art person in general but
Starting point is 00:51:55 some of these things, these, there's like art stunts and shit like that. Some of it's just fucking stupid. It also, it seems like another version of a, of like a crypto grifter, just like a grift or a scam or something. And that type of art stuff has always pissed me off, you know. The value in art is supposed to be that it's timeless beauty. And it's a banana's literally, it's the avocado of fruits. It is. It doesn't last.
Starting point is 00:52:23 The last thing is. It's a big of Brown's. Another guy once, when we talked about on POA, I found this story, some other, I don't know if there was like, you know, nefarious crypto billionaires involved in this, but some other artist sold a, sold an invisible sculpture for, you know, more than million, like $2 million or whatever it was. It's like, and it's just a pedestal, you know, with nothing on it. And he's like, there, yeah, that's an invisible. sculpture that he gave a name or whatever and someone bought it for two, so they just bought literally nothing. They gave him $2 million
Starting point is 00:53:00 for nothing, but for a little plaque that has a, you know, title on it. I applaud that artist because whatever Rich Moran bought that deserves to be separated from his money, the same way that Justin's son deserves to be separated from his money, not just for fucking stupid reasons, but for more reasons because he's a goddamn criminal. But like,
Starting point is 00:53:16 but like, the artist, what's his name, should go split the money with the Vood vendor. Because you guys both worked in the scam, right? So, I want to go back to Shaw-Alam for a second. He's 74 years old. I'm going to read here from New York Post. Recent learned that a piece of his produce was used.
Starting point is 00:53:32 I got 35 cents. The other guy got $6 million, Alam told the Post Friday as he manned his fruit cart outside of Sotheby's auction house from East 72nd Street, New York Avenue. It's beyond my imagination, he said. The nearly blind Bangladeshi immigrant, who speaks little English, said that he felt gutted over the sale, which he was informed of by a New York Times reporter this week.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Alam, who makes $12 an hour and works $12 an hour and works 12-hour days that stand tearfully told the times I have never had this kind of money I've never seen this kind of money the 74-year-old immigrant lives in Brooklyn with five fucking roommates yeah right
Starting point is 00:54:05 he commutes from Brooklyn into Manhattan to work 12-hour days yeah every fucking day right and they stole six million dollars from him and Trump let the guy fucking off even SEC civil violation for being a con artist
Starting point is 00:54:20 yeah that whole this whole story is just like uh you know know, very metaphorically appropriate for just the current state of this country and our culture and everything in general. Everything about it is kind of perfect and an infuriating way. Shop pays taxes, works hard. Elon does neither. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:37 Like, they're all fucking, this is all, this is scams on scams on scams. And, uh, yeah. And you would think, like, the thing people keep saying that I don't think is true is that like, well, they're going to end up in jail if they don't. I'm like, no, they won't. Ruben Gallego will be holding a fundraiser. with them in two years. There's no, the people in, in, in power of no impulse towards, like, accountability or retribution.
Starting point is 00:55:01 And, like, I, I think it's going to end up falling on the people and it's going to be, like, you know, more and more Luigi type situations, because that's, no one else is going to do anything. And it's, it's fucking frustrating and scary. But also, yeah, I know. It's fun stories. Like, you know, Sonny to banana. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:19 Yeah, well, at first, you know, you said that more Luigi type situations up top show, top of the show when we were talking. talking about, you know, the trans vegan death culture, whatever. I didn't know if that was, if that was where that was going, you know, when we first started, and unfortunately not. But, yeah, but anyway, well, they, they, they were probably going to end up being in the shootout with other rationalist movements or pro-AI or pro-eval AI, whatever. So, we're just, these people's conflicts are inscrutable to us. Like, we could do a whole hour episode on the beef between Sam Alton and Elon Musk and still not make it make sense. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:58 Well, speaking to Elon, I got a couple, because we have a couple of minutes left here at the end of this episode. Don't just give people a little taste, I guess, of what we do on the skew and A's. I mean, it's pretty straightforward. You guys could guess. I'm sure you don't have trouble understanding it. But I'm going to read a couple of questions from that because they're related to Elon at the end of this episode. So Natalie Nichols, longtime skewer and patron says, hey, boys, I was. just wondering what you were going to do with the big old check, Elon is going to send you
Starting point is 00:56:24 from all the gazillions of government money that he is currently saving. You guys don't know, Natalie, that's definitely meant to be tongue-in-cheek. But yeah, you're excited for your time? I've heard 5,000, 8,000. Big old check. They're going to send everybody. It must be very exciting. They can't, first of all, statutorily, not the law.
Starting point is 00:56:45 I don't know where they're going to find the money because, like, they keep breaking about all these savings, but the last time I saw it accurate counting of the money they've saved is like $16 million. dollars. No, I mean, look, I literally said me in one of my videos. I was like, they're not, there's not going to be a check, you know. So I'm, you know, the only thing that makes me think there might be some kind of check is the fact that I stated publicly that there wouldn't be. But, I mean, they literally, do you see they canceled the leases for the weather, national weather service? They're just like, they're not going to be the office for the national weather for part of the national weather service.
Starting point is 00:57:15 The part that actually predicts the weather. So, everybody, be prepared to keep paying. taxes for weather services doesn't exist and while you get your weather by looking out the fucking window the same way your great grandparents did. That's where we're headed. Okay. Got another question from Chad Riddell, which is just appropriately ridiculous. He says, I can't remember where I saw it or if this was even real and not just click-bake
Starting point is 00:57:37 garbage. That's the type of, you know, type of sourcing we appreciate here at the skews. Chad, he says, but a recent article states that in 2026, Elon plans to begin production on a massive humanoid robot army in typical elylon fashion that sounds like another false promise investor grift but if that does come to fruition that's it for us at democratic freedom right i mean i feel like you answered your own question chad this is another example like we're supposed to about had a base on the mars base on mars by now we're supposed to have the the brain chips where we can all hook up to each other's thoughts and chair emotions and all this stuff there's supposed to be a
Starting point is 00:58:14 fucking tunnel to Vegas or whatever the fucking, you know, and literally none of those things have happened. So I've seen him talking about his robots and shit, but it's just another one of those things. Like, Tesla's last earning call, he promised the humanoid robots be rolled out by the end of this year,
Starting point is 00:58:31 so it's already pushed that back to next year. So, yeah, it's always, it's always be like that. The original promise of Tesla was a lie. Like, none of his shit's real. And, like, you can, you can throw in, like, whatever he's doing to the government right now is just an extension of it. And again, going back to the elite accountability thing, everything he's ever said has been a lie.
Starting point is 00:58:48 None of his business has ever panned out the way he said they would. And yet and yet and yet and yet and yet just keeps on getting more powerful. Yep. All right. So, yeah, thanks for those questions, guys. Made it on to the main episode. How about that? Lucky you.
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