Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 3/26/24 – Congressional Chaos w/ Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

Description: On tonight's show we talk the recent chaos in the House with special guest, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA)! Also, how Joe Biden used the power of diversity and immigration to destroy that bridge in Baltimore (according to idiots). Join us.Support the show

What's up, everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is March 26th, 2024. I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Good. I'm excited for today's show. We got an interview we take with Congressman Eric Swalwell last week it was a Thursday we taped it talked about the TikTok bills Bill slash S we talked about

impeachment falling apart and we talked about just what it's like to be in Congress with a bunch of psychos who call your names on TV then ask you how your weekend was in the cafeteria so

we're talking about the bridge collapse in Baltimore too a little bit before we get to the show a couple things Diddy's house Houses in L.A. and Miami were rated by Homeland Security for alleged involvement in sex trafficking after, you know, he's facing five different lawsuits for a sexual assault for women and one guy, I think. And I mean, you don't want Homeland Security knocking on your door, but he told you he was a bad boy for life, which is that. He did. He did tell you that. Yeah. His, like, the fact that he, the fact that he made it almost 10 years into the post me too era with all this on his resume his abuse resume or whatever is kind of wild to me it makes you wonder like how many other guys are out there like the upper echelons of the

entertainment world or the political world or corporate world or whatever who are still getting away with it you know what i mean because uh yeah he had a pretty good run there i guess but yeah it's crashing a billion dollars a billion dollars an army of lawyers uh on your side making people sign NDAs will go a long way. And so his plane was in Antigua. By the way, he hired Gislane Maxwell, Galane Gislai, obviously her name's Jeffrey Epstein's compatriot. He hired her lawyer last month, so he knew this was coming.

But people were tracking his plane. It was an Antigua. The name of his plane is Love Air, which is not what you want to name your plane in your case of sex trafficking. Yeah, that's unfortunate. It's like when, like, after all the stuff with Louis C. K happened, which is not on this level, obviously. But when all this stuff of Louis C.K.

happened, he had that movie coming out that was called, like, I love you daddy or something like that. And it was just like, I never saw that movie, but it could be totally justified and fine in the context of the movie. But just that name and that moment and time in that context of that happening, it's like, that's truly unfortunate. That's rough. Well, my understanding it was a biopic starring stand-in for Woody Allen.

so maybe not. But the movie, yeah, I never saw it. The movie was the reason for the story being written. So he flew way too close to the sun with that one. Here's a weird story. And Wasco,

California, a man was arrested after a guy got hit by a train and severed his leg. And another guy took his leg and ate it. And how can Joe Biden say the economy is good? When people are, can't afford groceries so bad, they're eating legs. So, yeah.

Buddy, this dude, like, the level of, like, woo, it must be my birthday that this guy was being. Safford leg popped out from, do you know what I mean? Like, if you want to eat a leg, how, you know, that never comes up. And then one day you're at the train tracks and there's a leg right there. He must have been like, God damn, I must have done something right. This is Kismet. Here's how, like, how much of a fine. a $20 bill in his jeans moment this was for him.

You think, oh, he took the leg home and cooked it or something. Nope, he picked the leg up, walked a few feet away, and started chewing on it. Really work with a sign. So, yeah, we got some, just your people who are just out there being psychos, and you don't know it until they're presented with an opportunity to eat human leg that's very, very fresh. In political news, George Santos says the Republican Party is too corrupt and embarrassing for him to be in it anymore, so he's going to run for Congress as an independent.

That's funny. The face of embarrassing corruption on their side for the past year or so. I was like, these guys are too much. Yes, he's running in a district of one of the New York Republicans who tried to push him out and got and kicked out of Congress. So that's going to be a fun way to watch. A friend of the pod, Bob Menendez, has decided not to run the Democratic primary, which he, you know, give him, you know, he's got those corruption charges. Also give him more, free up more time to spend getting his wife off of vehicular manslaughter charges. So he said he's considering an independent bid, which is funny because he's the most, like, you know, one of the most hated figures in New Jersey politics, even when he was winning elections. The primary involved the congressman named Andy Kim and the governor's wife. The governor's wife just dropped out clearing the path for Andy Kim, who by all rights is a, you know, a decent guy and a decent congressman. But the fun thing is, like, it's probably the collapse of the New Jersey political machine, which would be good for, you know, this residence of New Jersey. because, like, just one of the most, I mean, Chris Christie ran the place.

It's one of the most corrupt states in America. And, like, the, so even if there have been lawsuits, Kim filed one about the way the ballot works because they party, the county party chairs control the ballots. And if they have candidates, they don't like, they're just, like, hide them on the ballots. You can't fly them to vote for them. It's just like, just crazy shit like that. I'm not saying New Jersey or any state should be corrupt, but it does feel kind of appropriate for New Jersey to be that

like a shadowy and like mafia type feel to it, you know what I mean? Like all these like nefarious covert operations they're doing politically and whatnot. It's like coming out of New Jersey, it just kind of feels like, you know, that's the way it should. Not that's the way it should be,

but you know what I'm saying. It makes sense. Remember when Chris Christie to retaliate against some mayor or something did fake construction on a bridge? to cause traffic problems and some lady got stuck in traffic in an ambulance and died. And everybody's like, well, I guess that's just New Jersey. But while we're talking about flagrant corruption, so Trump's true social has never made any money. It's famously lost a bunch of money.

But yet, an investment firm owned, associated with Jeff Yaz, which owns another digital media company, might be merging with true social. Jeff, yeah, as we talked about him in the TikTok bill episode, we did a bonus excuse a couple weeks ago. He's the one, the same fun, was a big chunk of bite dance, which owns TikTok. And he went and lobbied Trump. And Trump, who spent the last half of his administration

trying to ban TikTok, immediately said we should never ban TikTok after meeting this guy. Now this guy, it's not clear on any shares they still own how involved in this, his company might be, but this merger is going to put a bunch of money in Trump's pocket, somewhere around $4 billion, I think. He's going to own a majority of the new company, even though it's a merger. The thing is, like, in order to sell the shares to access this money, you have to get approval from the seven-member board of Trump media. That board includes Don Jr., Cash Patel, who is in the Trump administration, former U.S. trade

representative also works for Trump and Vince McMahon's wife who was Trump's labor not labor so he's in Trump's using Trump's cap after turning a bunch of money and so another part of this is like they're going public so Trump sells his shares the price drops that's how supply and demand works but going public they seem to be trying to turn into a mean stop where like mega people can buy shares in this company to keep the price up while Trump sells the cash in his pocket so can post this $464 million bond which is now $175 million. but that's a different story. Right.

It just is so, this is so fucking crooked. Yeah, I don't, I mean, you know, I'm very admittedly money dumb and I've said that forever, but like I just don't get out something like this. The primary asset of this company is true social, right,

which like you said, never made money. And also like in their last reporting quarter had like a million dollars of revenue or something like that or two minutes, like revenue, not profit. And that's the flagship asset. of this company but this but this company stock is valued at multiple billions of dollars or

something and i understand that it's bullshit and it's a griff but like i don't what is the ostensible rationale for that like how it's how is that possibly just there's no more concrete proof of so much of like wall street being just made up fucking hocus pocus you know ghost money bullshit than this to me because i don't i can't even understand even as a grift how that's supposed to make sense, that valuation of this. Like, usually like a stock market stuff. Like, this doesn't make any sort of sense to me. It's obviously just done a bunch of done bullshit.

But the value, again, the value of the stock appears to me that, well, we know Trump can just get on true social and tell his supporters to spend a couple hundred bucks on it. And I'll go do that. And then it'll be worth that. It's like, it's like a, it's like a crypto asset or something. Yeah. So, yeah, it's just like, yeah, you're right. How can, how could a company with a million dollars in a revenue have Trump's 55% be worth

$4 billion? Right. Right. And also, I had been wondering, I said this in my video last week, I was wondering how Trump was going to, the next way he was going to find to financially exploit his dumb base or whatever. And my guess was commemorative plates. So this is way more advanced and sophisticated. Today he announced, he licensed his name to promote a line of King James Bibles. It's called the, for $60 you can own a Trump endorsed Bible.

It's the only, it's the only Bible, the FAQ for the website of the website of where. there. It's the only Bible endorsed by Donald Trump. Yeah. That's how you know it's good. All right. Well, get into it. Marks. Before we continue, I want to let you know of a couple of quick things. First of all, if you want to see me do stand up live in person, go to traycrouter.com and check out my upcoming dates. Next up is Vancouver and Seattle. I'm coming for you, Canada. I'll see you there. I certainly hope so. Also on traycrouter.com, you can find a link to me And Corey's book around here and over yonder, a comedic travel log.

It's a fun time. If you get the audio book, we read it dumbly and it's fun. Lastly, if you like this program and we'd like to show your support, you can do so by signing up on Patreon. You can go to weekly skews.com slash more. Or you can just go to Patreon and look up my name. Either way, works. $5 a month get you access to full-length bonus episodes like the one Mark just mentioned, where we went into the whole TikTok debacle in Congress.

This week we're doing a skew and a where we answer burning questions from you. the skewers. So a lot of fun stuff over there. You get some more skews in your life and support the show in the process. Now as for tonight's episode, Mark said it up top. Very excited to welcome a pre-recorded segment with Congressman Eric Swalwell of California

talking about all the recent chaos in Congress. It was a fun time. We know you guys are going to enjoy it. But before we get to all that, we must begin, of course, with the Daily Dumbass Mac. Graphic, please. Tonight's dumb-ass drivers who think they won't die on these damn woke millennial bridges. I try to hit the video, Matt.

But what kind of questions do you want to see answered, Matt? Well, you know, as I said, you look at our critical infrastructure, and I'm one of these people that believes we've never fully come out of all the lockdowns and the COVID issues, and you can look at whether you look at our air traffic controllers where we have critical mission problems with filling slots. You know, I'm no expert on what's going on on the seas, but all I would say is that if you talk to employers in America, they'll tell you that filling slots with employees who aren't drug-aided

is a very huge problem. All right. You can cut it, Matt. So the crew is Singaporean. Right. If that matters at all to this, but that's not even like, there's so much bullshit going on with this, But that's Matt Slap, who's the head of CPAC, who I saw a paid ad on Twitter earlier, X or whatever you want to call it.

There was CPAC had paid for. They just said sex abuse lawsuit against Matt Slap dropped, exclamation point. So they're, he's feeling himself today. They bought an ad to announce that he beat a sex abuse lawsuit. So what happened about 1.30 this morning, a ship that's like three times the size of the Titanic and the size of like a Nimitz class battleship, lost control of its uh he lost power control of its navigation and crashed into a bridge the francis got key bridge in baltimore um collapsing a chunk of the 1.6 mile long bridge it crosses the patapsco river it's uh it's the way you get across the river on i 695 um shut down the port of baltimore which is one of the country as busy as ports it's not immediately clear how many cars fell into the water um that the crew was able to radio in like a may day that they lost control and some cops were able to close the bridge off, so hopefully there weren't many cars crossing but last I saw six people dead or bridge workers who were stuck in the middle of the bridge

they couldn't be saved and some other people were hurt and rescued. Even if no one died here, the economic impacts of this are going to be extremely dire. And if anybody watched the wire, that bridge was featured a bunch in season two. There's actually a scene where Frank Sabaka calls his nephew Nicky. to yell at him for doing scumbug, scumbag crime shit. He points to the bridge and say that we're like that bridge, I'm paraphrasing,

like that bridge, Nikki, it's like a metaphor. We'll always be here. Our family, the unions, the working class, we're never like,

we're in a fucking, yeah. So that part just like, you know, as far as metaphors go. So we're talking about like, this pork goes down, domino sugar.

Like a bunch of industries are going to be like, absolutely fucked by this. The city of Baltimore, whole families are going to have to leave or find new lines of work, yada, yada, yada. This is going to be nice to have a government

that operates in the real world. And this isn't a criticism of Biden administration, but we need, you need FEMA, you need the Army Corps of Engineers, working 24-7 to get some sort of fixed on quickly as quickly as possible, even though it probably took a year or two,

at least. You need, like, we need like fast legislation to provide something like, I don't know, tremendous unemployment benefits for the city of Baltimore, people dealing with disaster, yada, yada, yada, yada.

And I don't know if we're going to get any of that. Right. No, because I mean, so a massive cargo ship operated by a Singaporean crew, right, suffered a catastrophic mechanical or technological failure, which led to them colliding with one of the supporting pillars of this bridge, which led to the whole bridge collapsing. And that is obviously Joe Biden's fault, right, because of infrastructure reasons or immigration reasons or diversity reasons or all of the above.

They're grasping for every straw available to blame this on Joe Biden from every angle you can imagine, despite it just being like, you know, a horrific once-in-a-lifetime industrial accident. I do want to be clear. The videos make it look like the whole bridge collapse, but it's really just two sections. So pretty much the whole section you see on video collapse, but if you're wide and out, you'd see a bunch of the bridge still standing. Okay, dude, I was talking to Drew about this earlier before we recorded the Well Red podcast.

I was telling it, because I just saw the video and I was like, dude, I fucking, what fucked me up about it was the fact that I get that that's a horrific thing to happen, you know, but the fact that the whole bridge collapse is like, I didn't know it was like that. I was like, I've seen documentaries of gigantic radioactive lizards taking out a section of a bridge and the other sections were fine, but yet the whole bridge, I didn't know they worked like that.

So I'm glad you told me that. That does make me feel a little bit better because having a brand new existential fear at this age was upsetting me. Not knowing that that can happen. But anyway. Yeah, the bridges like that are constructed to not have the whole thing collapsed if one chunk does. And that part worked. So hooray for our energy. Well, that's good.

That's not. So talking about how like trying to blame this on government policy or whatever, like I would like this for this to be a debate about policy. and we'll get to the ways that it's not in the second. But I want to say something nice about Nancy Mace after you watch this video because she went on Newsmax and tried to talk about policy. She was dishonest about it.

We don't even need to hear her section on sum it up for you because it's long and boring. But I want to play this guy talking to her first because he's fucking hilarious. Yeah, you'll hear that. I'm sure you'll hear the Democrats have a press release and conference somewhere today or tomorrow

about the need for a trillion-dollar infrastructure program after all the other ones. And that's my question to you. It seems like we do have these infrastructure bills lots of money in it. I mean, I've been under bridges. They're horrible to look at it. I spend all kinds of time under bridges.

You can understand why a well-read, well-kept man like me would spend a lot of my time underneath bridges. You know what goes on under bridges. Policy debates and things of that. Two kinds of beings spend a lot of time under bridges, and that's, you know, trolls and guys getting $30 blowjob. All right, so I, I, I, anyway, what Pleasant, what Mesa's about to say is, the point she's about to argue is that, like, we had a, you know, a huge infrastructure bill that passed under Biden and a bunch of it went to green energy and she's going to say that it should have been spent, most of it should have been spent on roads and bridges. And that's a fair argument to have. And I'm like, I wish politics was about shit like that. It's just not, you know, obviously, like, we should be spending on both green energy and infrastructure. And a little bit where you're talking about, like, the government. funding bill there's $1.2 trillion and 70% of it went to the military and like we can do we can do both bridges and wind farms yep that's a false choice but anyway at least she was trying to have something approaching world war talk but she got to rail about talking about bridges

but like so she's like full of ship at least she's not talking about aliens and wokeness and DEI shit yeah but a lot of people fucking were and there was actually an ancient aliens guy this thing we're about so yeah go ahead before you even get to that though I feel like I don't think it's unfair of me to say that like even like even if the infrastructure bill was nothing but roads and bridges if it was put forth by the Biden administration I still think Nancy Mason her her ilk would have still voted against it largely like you know what I mean like they don't like they don't want to that's still government she in that clip she talks all this about like our our infrastructure's falling apart this is what government's supposed to be for and it's like y'all

don't think government's supposed to be for anything you don't think it's even supposed to exist Like, I still don't want to hear this argument coming from y'all. Y'all don't want to spend taxpayer dollars on this stuff. It also doesn't stop a bruise from falling down. When a boat hits it. Right. A billion-ton boat drives into it. Of course.

That's the main point. Like, yes, exactly. The reason you need infrastructure spanning is to be able to quickly rebuild stuff like that happens. So here's a list of other things that happened today after this. In an interview with Senator Rick Scott from Florida, Maria Bartlett-Roma on Fox News suggested this is because of Biden's wide-open immigration policy at the border. Because the cargo ship was flying under a Singaporean flag. Right.

Because all those Singaporeans rushing over the southern border. You know, the Singaporeans coming over on rafts from Southeast Asia, landing here at the Port of Los Angeles and stuff that we're all aware of. Immediately getting jobs on boats to go back to Singapore. Alex Jones reposted something from Andrew Tate, known sex, another sex trafficker, looks deliberate to me. I mean, Tobolix Jones impression, looks deliberate to me. A cyber attack is probable.

World War III has already started. That's pretty good. Yeah, thank you but working on it. So in case you're wondering, like, the whole thing is they lost control of the boat, a hacker would have taken control of the boat. Like, there was no power. And the government's already said there's no reason to believe there was any sort of like, you know, how play, anything like that.

And also, if you're going to do that, you would also disable their communications so they couldn't warn the authorities that the boat was going to crash into the bridge and saved a lot of lives, right? Right. Anthony Sabatini, is Republican and ran for Congress in Florida, just said DEI did this. Diversity equity inclusion. What qualifies is a diversity hire and a Singaporeian boat? In Singapore, right. Right. I think Singapore is like three quarters ethnically Chinese, so I guess they had to like, I don't know, flash somebody in from Myanmar.

It's like, it's like, no, Singapore should be hiring more white engineers for their boats, you know. If white people were on all these boats, none of this ever would have happened. That's what I hear whenever they, you know, denigrate the idea of DEI. But yeah. Yeah. Some Jackoff huge influencer called Baltimore's mayor, a DEI mayor because he happens to be black. And like Baltimore, he got almost 70% of the vote. He wasn't, you know, diversity hire a mayor.

He fucking runs and he gets elected. I would assume the mayor of Baltimore is almost always black, I would think, because Baltimore's a very black city, isn't it? Going back to the wire, it's a whole thing when Carcaddy is running for mayor, he still says, like, no matter how well I do, it's still wake up white tomorrow in a city that isn't. And he ends up winning because he splits the vote. We're talking about the wire too much. But so this guy named Jimmy Corsetti, who's sort of like, he makes ancient aliens conspiracy theory of videos, but he's also a huge conservative influencer. he found some photos from a movie that Barack Obama produced last year

called Leave the World Behind Start a Juliet What? I can't think of it Pretty Woman I didn't know Julia Roberts Yeah So the opening scene of that movie

Is a boat getting cyber attacked And crashing into something Like a beach or something And so he says While on Earth did Barack Obama Produce a Netflix film about a catastrophic cyber attack. And here's the opening scene and screen grabbed it. So we've graduated to the Obamas knew

about the Baltimore Bridge accent and put it in a movie six months earlier because why? The book came out. The book is based on come out in 2020 for whatever. That's fucking worth. But this guy says this can't be a coincidence. The ship, the crest into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was headed to Sri Lanka. The flag of Sri Lanka is a lion.

The ship in the opening scene of Obama's leave the world behind is named White Lion. Fucking we cracked it. Right. Yeah. You know, there was a I could have some of this wrong, but there was an X-Files spinoff called The Lone Gunman about their, like, guys, and it only ran for a few episodes,

but I believe one of the first episodes of the Long Gunman had an attack, and this is in, like, 99, basically had 9-11 in it, like two years before 9-11 happened, right? And Vince Gilligan was a writer on that show. And, you know, fortunately for Vince Gilligan, no one's put it together yet, but he's like a covert conspiracy jihadist operative or whatever, because that happened at that time, you know?

I mean, the fact that Obama's name is on that is obviously why any of that's happening, but that's just so ridiculous. But, all right. I guess let's talk about Congress a little bit, Mark. What do you say? All right. We're running a few minutes behind. I'll speed through a few news updates.

So Congress nearly awarded a government shutdown. They passed a bill more than 70% of it went to defense, which usually buy off a lot of Republican votes. But no, the past more Democratic votes for Republicans. and it made everybody mad to the point where Marjor Taylor Green introduced a motion to remove Mike Johnson as speaker because the bill moved too fast for her to sabotage it. She said there's no movement on that. They come back in two weeks, so maybe she'll calm down.

They'll talk her out of it. But, like, Representative Kay Granger, who's been a longtime Republican congressman, she was my old congressman or lived in Fort Worth, Congresswoman, sorry, she was a chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and after this, after passing this bill, she just like quit being she didn't quit Congress because she quit the committee because she's so fucking fed up with these psychos and like there's so

so much of this bullshit like I'm I just all here wondering of Marjor Taylor Green is the best campaigner for Democrats that there is I mean that's kind of that's like part of the the DNC's like overall strategy sort of right is like elevating these lunatics like her because it helps them in the long run

I was about saying you're just talking about Kay Granger and all these other people that are stepping down and leaving it's like anyone you know it started with, I'm not saying it started with, but like with Cheney and Kinsinger and them, it's like anyone has any semblance of sanity or whatever gets forced out. And all that's left is the lunatics, which is frightening. But the hope is, right, that that makes them less and less electable at, you know, overall, right? If they ultimately submit to this maniacal monster that's like this cancer they have inside their own party,

If it wins out, ostensibly that will lead to the death of the party overall or at least some kind of massive, you know, paradigm shift over there. Like, that's what we're hoping for, right? Because if they keep power but continue to get crazier, holy shit. When you're talking about, like, Democrats elevate, you're talking about the campaign ratfuckery stuff. Yes. Democrats do not make Marjor Taylor Green a leader. They did not make her speaker pro tem pretty often in the House. That was Kevin McCarthy.

All right, so she's like, so a couple of people have quit high-profile positions lately. Mike Gallagher, who is a congressman, we don't have to play this video, Matt, which is a running behind. She went on TV and complained about how Mike Gallagher quit because he left to go work for Palantir, which is like a psychotic defense contractor. Oh, Matt, he's not exactly, he's not a hero, but he did quit in a way that fucked the Republicans because he set up so his resignation is effective April 19th. It makes it like a couple days too late for that it to be a special election, so his seat's going to be empty until November. He seemed to have done this on purpose to make it more likely for the Republicans to lose the majority between now and November because they don't have a very large majority. Two guys die, and we have Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, right? So the Republican majority, like I said, is downing to effectively to two votes.

If Dems do get the majority, by the way, they should absolutely hurry and try to codify Roe into overturn the Const Act because there's a Supreme Court case today that could take away, you know, pill abortions. nationwide. They don't appear to have enough votes for it, but people, someone needs to do something to stop this shit from potentially even possible being possible. Another guy, we talked about how Ken Bucket retired. He fucked Republicans the opposite way. He made, he scheduled his resignation just early enough to force a special election, which is hilarious because Lauren Bobert moved districts to run in his because hers is the toss up and his is safely conservative. Right. To run into the special election, she has to resign from Congress. in order to run for that seat. Right. But so she either has to do that or run against an incumbent in the fall. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Because she goes for that seat, she has to abandon her current seat, right? In a like hotly contested district, correct, to attempt to go for the other one. But if she doesn't, then she'll have an incumbent in front of her, which would kind of fuck her, you know, hypothetically in that way. So, yeah, she's. So Ken Buck fucking Lauren Bowler in the way up. Like, if you want to tell you what these people like to work with,

the people in their own party are openly trying to tell you their impossible to work with and can't. I mean, I've said, like I've said before, like I'm, one thing I'm, I mean, I'm existentially terrified at most waking moments of the day, but one thing I have been enjoying is this how much they are

kind of cannibalizing themselves and all the infighting is going on on their side because I still maintain, I'm not saying it never happened, but it wasn't, they did not have this type of, uh, you know, internal turmoil going on for a long time. And watching it happen and watching them, you know, rat fuck each other, as you put it, is kind of nice.

For part, congressional parties is this divide. I mean, you'd probably have to go, Congress is probably more dysfunctional in the late 1850s, I would imagine. It was probably, there's party, probably internal party strife. I mean, both parties during the civil rights movement in the McCarthy era, did not, the McCarthy area in the 50s, not Kevin McCarthy area, although they both suck. Um, but yeah, it's pretty bad. But so before we, before we get to the interview, I want to set the table for impeachment because it kind of fell apart last week. And so I wouldn't tell you guys what we're talking to, um, uh, uh, Eric's Well,

well about. So left Carnus, who was a Giuliani associate, uh, testified in front of Congress last week and basically told them that he had worked on all this Ukraine stuff with Giuliani for Trump and it was all based on lives and it was all bullshit. All right. Uh, he said, it'd be cool here. The American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudyiani, and various cohorts. of individuals in government and media positions.

This is what Led Parnas said. They created falsehoods to serve their own interests knowing it will undermine the strength of our nation. And that led to this moment from the congressmen we're about to talk to that went a little viral and we'll unpack it a little bit because a couple things happened here. I dare you to impeach, but you won't because you don't have the evidence.

And because you don't have the evidence, you don't have the votes. Guys, it's dead. And so I'm here to pronounce the time of death. 5-16. Saved in Chinese. Impeachment is dead. Five 16. All right.

So that's, Anna Polina Luno saying sailing Chinese. And talked about how like how bad faith operators this is. So there was a well-known incident you guys are probably aware of a few years ago where a woman named Christine Fang or Fangfang

who turned out to be working for the Chinese government. She had hosted a couple of fundraisers for Congress in Swalwell. And he apparently was informed and corroborated investigators and cut off all contact with this woman. All these people have foreign nationals who work for foreign government's trying to get information in favors from them all the time. The best you can hope for is to have them come clean and be honest about it. And I, in good faith, in cooperation with investigators and the FBI and said,

who could say, yeah, nothing bad seems to happen here. Anyway, but they don't care about the truth, protecting American interests. They just care about yelling, say it in Chinese, in favor of a bullshit impeachment that is meant to divide the country. And, Trey, you can introduce the Congress might play the interview now. Yes. So, all right. Just so you all know, obviously we do this here, program live.

You're trying to coordinate schedules with an active U.S. congressman. Sometimes you've got to make concessions like pre-recording it, which is what we did here. Like Mark said, we recorded this last Thursday at around, it was 11 a.m. Pacific time, just so y'all know. But we're thrilled that Eric Swalwell agreed to join this humble program, and we hope you guys enjoy this interview with them. Also, me and Mark will be back at the end of this, just so you know. So we'll see y'all in about 20. minutes, enjoy this interview with California congressman, Eric Swalwell. Matt, hit it.

Congressman, thank you very much for joining us. It means a lot to us. We really appreciate it. I wanted to start with a general welfare question. How are you holding up having to deal with these lunatics day in and day out, having to spar with the Republicans? You're not talking about my six-year-old, my five-year-old two years. No, I'd certainly relate to that, too. Okay, because they kick my ass every day. And getting them up, fed, dressed, and off to school, that's the hardest thing I deal with. So it's just, you know, the house is money once I get to the Capitol.

I guess that does make sense. I've got two boys. Mine are tweens, though. They're 11 and 12. So I like, I've been nostalgic for the days that you're in right now. You know what I mean? I'm like, bittersweet. Like, oh, mine are about to start hating me.

Puberty's around the corner. I'm terrified. I missed the hell-raising, you know, toddler days. Oh, yeah, I'm in the thick. That's where I'm out right now. Yeah, well, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. So we devoted some time on this show already in previous episodes, talking about the TikTok

bill, and we came down pretty firmly against it. I did one of my silly little rants on the subject as well. You were one of the relatively few congresspeople who voted against the TikTok bill. Can you tell us why you felt that way? We don't ban shit. Right. There's just how. I see it. And I don't like bans on bodies. I don't like bans on books. I don't like, you know,

bans on voting. And I don't like a ban on how people communicate. And if there are data issues and privacy issues and algorithm issues, you know, we should take those on. We should take those on for every social media company. And when I look at like, you know, the intelligence threat, well, the last time a foreign government attacked America, you know, through our elections, they used Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and Twitter. And so it just seems to me there's a better way to do this than to poke, you know, 100 million young people in the eye as far as where they receive their news and small businesses that use TikTok. And the president, by the way, he went on TikTok about two months ago, just signed up. And his state of the union

had about 200 million different views. And so I just don't like it, don't like it. Right. There was a, talking about taking on data and algorithms and AI stuff as a whole. Like there was a bill that passed yesterday, right, unanimously, the Protecting Americans data from Foreign Adversaries Act. Can you tell us this, they passed unanimously. I'm assuming you voted for it or?

I did. Yeah. This, you know, limits, you know, foreign government ability to. purchase, you know, U.S. person data, essentially. And so that's why I thought, you know, with TikTok, like, sure, let's put more transparency in place. Let's put more controls in place. Let's understand, you know, the algorithm and have, you know, restrictions there if we feel like, you know, there's a harm that's greater than, you know, infringing on free speech. But to just say, sell it to an American company or we're going to ban it. It's like, okay, so sell it to an

American company that also has practices that I don't necessarily agree with when it comes to social media, right? It's not as if, you know, some of these other companies are doing great things when it comes to data, privacy, and algorithms. Right. That was, that was, we pointed out, we talked about that. Like, if the problem is the Chinese government having our data, they can still buy it on the open market. What's the difference between getting it straight from tech? Like, so it's an insane loophole there, but like, so what I think that does? And you tell me if I'm wrong about it. read through the text of the bill. It prevents foreign adversaries.

And the adversaries in this context is specifically China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, right? That's right. Those four countries. It keeps them from buying geolocation and health data, of voicemails, you know, texts and stuff like that. But this part jumped out of me just because it's funny. Like, it plants foreign governments from buying a photograph, film, video recording, or other similar medium that shows the naked or undergermic-clad private area of an individual.

So, like, is there like a reason that president, and she can't have my nudes, but Elon can. Oh, man. I'm going to get back to you on that one. If you want him to have your news, I, yeah. I just really want President Xi to have my nudes, man. All the sex tapes are making over here. In general, approaching this stuff,

like there was a quote in the piece I read from Maxwell Frost, who's the first gen, you know, first Zoomer member of Congress, who was in favor of this bill, didn't like the other one. It's like, at me the point you said, this take on data as a whole. whole incident attacking one bill. But like, my question is like, does Congress have like a generation gap with these issues? Like, does it make it difficult to regulate tech? I mean, I know your district's near Silicon Valley, right? I'm sure you're well versed in these issues.

Yeah, so the answer is yes. You know, I was elected in 2012. I was 31. And for many years, and we didn't have that many people in their 40s and under at that time. We have a lot more now, almost four or five times more now. But in my first couple years, I was approached by my more senior colleagues more so to kind of be like the IT help desk. And it was like, hey, my phone's ringing in this hearing. Can you like, put it off? Or hey, can you get me on Snapgram? You're right. On Snapgram. I'd love, you know, if you could get me on there. And so I actually, because of this, saw an opportunity to create an organization called Future Forum. And I took our youngest, Democrats in the House, and we went out across the country to listen to and learn from

young Americans and then come back to Congress and educate our colleagues and try and legislate, and particularly on issues like student loan debt, obviously tech, AI, et cetera. But my advice to any of my colleagues is, you know, to really get behind the wheel and take these technologies out for a test trial. So, you know, early on with AI, you know, my good, well-intentioned staff were trying to put in front of me, you know, AI experts or, you know, professors or ivory tower crowd folks. And I said, no, I said, I need to know how it works. Like, I want to share a screen, you know, with a developer. And I want to see, like, how it works and what I can do with it.

And that's the only way I can understand how to legislate on it. And I think you have to be a little bit vulnerable and reveal that you don't know. know something to truly understand what it does, which is why last year we, for the campaign side, signed up for TikTok. And I have a TikTok phone that's separate from my personal phone. But I didn't want to like talk about something that I had never used. Right. I mean, you have a reputation kind of for being one of the more tech savvy members of Congress. I think at one point you were dubbed the Snapchat king of Congress, which that's a lofty title. I'm sure you did you, how much did you hate that, by the way?

And I also, I had used, do you guys remember Vine? Oh, of course. And find a vote. And then, you know, Vine was not around much longer. But I'd record, you're not allowed to record a vote. And it was an abortion ban bill. And so I vined like me pushing the button, no. And, but I try, I think you really have, you have to, though.

Like, you have to stay current or you just risk, you know, losing the muscle memory, you know, to understand this stuff and legislate this stuff. Well, kind of on that note, since you are, you know, you do keep up on that front with the tech front and everything. With all this talk recently about AI and everything, I can tell you know, as a comedian and writers like we are, we've got our own concerns about it. But I mean, how are you feeling about that? And how big of a, how worried are you, how big of a dilemma do you think it is that technology is advancing just so much faster than like our government can possibly move to regulate or keep up with it? Like, how worried are you about that?

I'm very worried. And again, I think, you know, part of the risk is that, you know, policymakers, if they don't understand something, you know, the tendency is to just kind of be a part of the nodding class. So someone's talking you about it. You're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about. But if you're not using it, you don't see the benefits and understand the risk and think about like the guardrails, you know, to mitigate the risk, then as I said then industry is going to want to go at one speed and then you know other organizations may want to go you know at another direction and if you're not using it I just think you're you're in the blind and so that's why I really encourage people to use it but what I'm

doing practically we are the first campaign that is using a technology every time I post something on social media on the campaign side, it goes through an AI filter that prevents the image or the video from being manipulated. So if you would essentially, if you try and manipulate anything that we post, it will be, the file will be corrupted. And so that is, you know, a protection. And we're kind of in a pilot phase of doing that right now. But my hope is that we see the successes and kind of can tell others, you know, why they should

be doing this too, whether it's, you know, other campaigns or news organizations. You can't go back in time and, you know, take off the internet what's already been uploaded. But everything going forward, especially in this consequential presidential election that's ahead, you can do that. And then, Trey, I don't know if you think about this with your kids. With AI, I also think a lot about, are we going to have, you know, a two-class system of education where, You have school districts that have qualified teachers and software capabilities and device capabilities for kids to learn AI at the earliest of ages so they can be in the AI economy. And then a class of kids who didn't learn it because they didn't have the resources. And then like, what the hell do they do is this job market drastically changes because of, you know, needing people who know how to use AI?

I worry about that, you know, almost more than anything when it comes to AI. Yeah, I mean, I understand what you're saying. I'm also kind of a Luddite. Like, if I was in charge, I just take AI out back with a gun and shoot it. But I get why you can't. The, I was thinking about the generation gap divide, like, the TikTok vote. Like, how many contentious issues are you in AOC on the same side of Matt as Matt Gates and Marjorie Taylor Green? Yeah, and I don't know if Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gates,

We're on that side before Donald Trump. Okay, got it. Yeah, right? I mean, Trump saw this. I mean, clearly he met with like one of the biggest investors. Right. That is well known. And everyone knows what that conversation was like, you know, like, hey, like, can you

help me with my bond? Cool. Let me talk to you about how I support TikTok now. But Trump is also, you know, he's, he is brilliant at finding the wedge issue. And that's what also makes me nervous about us being seen. as a party that, you know, would be banning, you know, this platform with someone as dangerous as Donald Trump. Because at the end of the day, like, we lose to Donald Trump. Like, this guy is bringing a demo crew to our freedoms. Like, he's not the freedom candidate. This is a wedge

issue because he cares about himself. Winning means he escapes his own criminal culpability. And so if that means saying for a couple months that, you know, he supports TikTok and that gets him a few more votes or keep Biden, keeps Biden voters home. Of course, that's what he's going to do. He's not operating from a core set of principles at all. Yeah, it does seem like people are, are blaming the Democrats more for the TikTok thing. And I don't know if it's because they expect that sort of thing from the Republicans or what. They're like, no, the Democrats are the ones they're supposed to stop this, stop things we don't like. And they're not doing it. So now I'm mad at them for this. But it does seem, you know, a little unfair to me. But I guess you guys are probably used to that, right?

Yeah. Look, it's going to come down to what the president. president does, right? So I imagine the president is not going to want to move as quickly as the house moved on this. Again, it just kind of came out of nowhere. And that also, you know, the urgency of it, uh, gave me pause. That's what we could figure out. I was like, why like the bill is written and passed in four days or something and nobody'd ever heard of it before. Yeah. But yeah, the Senate side was reading this more and they're going to write their own bill and it's not clear whether, you know, they need 60 votes. So who knows what's going to happen with it. Um, uh, some other, I just want to, like, throw some out there.

So I was reading about this case in Florida where a couple of teens, boys age 13 and 14, were accused of using an unnamed artificial intelligence application to generate explicit images of other students from ages of 12 and 13th their school. They got criminally charged for that. Personally, I would rather the people that made the child poor generation machine be on the hook for it somehow rather than little kids. But, like, the reason I've been charged in Florida is there no federal legislation towards it. Is there any, like, I know there's a couple of AI bills floating. around out there, but there's any hope for any sort of progress on it? Or was it just sort of like everything just sort of sit in the committees? No, you know, in credit to actually one of the few

bipartisan things we're doing, leader Jeffries, Hakeem Jeffries, and Speaker Johnson created an AI task force with equal amounts of Democrats and Republicans. And they're looking at issues just, you know, just like this. And frankly, I remember when I was a prosecutor prosecuting these horrific child pornography cases, you know, the law federally and and most states, you know, says that, you know, possessing like a digitally altered, you know, child porn pick exposes you to the same amount of criminal liability as if it was a real child. And the reason is is because the digitally altered pictures enable the culture of someone wanting to use a real child. And so that we recognize the harm, you know, there.

And so I do think with AI, we're going to have to take the same. approach that we're not going to we're not going to give you the benefit of the doubt because it's digitally altered because it's still to you know what would bring a harm uh to a child yeah uh so mark i want to make sure we get to the impeachment stuff because we got like five minutes left we talk about something funny i mean Jesus Christ yeah coming at it with child porn picks and stuff yeah it's a little brutal so you did a yeah you had another great clippable moment yesterday as you were want to do you did like a dave letterman style top 10 reasons why you guys are idiots in this impeachment inquiry. You pronounced a time of death for the Biden impeachment inquiry and gave all

the reasons why it should be over. Love that. My question is like, do you actually think they're going to let it go? Do you believe this is the end of nonsensical theatrics from the Republicans in Congress, especially where the Biden family is concerned? Or, you know, where you add on all that? Yeah, it's like that, uh, the new Taylor Swift song, you know, is it over now? Yeah. Kind of like, are we, we're wondering, like, you guys had someone testify from the fucking Slammer by Zoom. Right. Yeah.

Does that mean it's over? Fox News broke away from its coverage, 10 minutes in, and they were like, uh, this seems like the same old hearing. I mean, does that mean it's over? I don't know. Was the, uh, sorry, oh, sorry, was the guy testified from the slammer, the same guy who had had a photo of meeting with Mark Meadows while wearing a ski mask? No, that was.

Oh, Bobelinski. Bobelinski, who has a very criminal sounding name and affect. So it's like, they're all like bad 80s, Villains, you know, henchmen or something, all their star witnesses. They're in a cul-de-sac, and they made a lot of promises without any evidence. And so the Gates and Marjor Taylor Green Crowd, I mean, they're expecting a vote on impeachment. But they can't have that vote because they'll be an acquittal. And so I don't know what they're going to do.

But as I said, it's at the extent of what we need to do in a lot of other important areas. I, yeah, sorry for it's talking about you. I just say I saw a really funny moment. I'm not sure if it was yesterday or this morning where Moskowitz moved for impeachment and couldn't get a Republican Senate second. That's why we're almost, and it's like, why are we the ones daring you to do this?

Like, you're the one that wanted to do this. And they know, they know that they don't have the votes. And if they don't have the votes, that means it's an acquittal for Joe Biden. So again, they're just kind of, they're in this impeachment quicksand, but they're not going to impeach them. They don't have the evidence. They don't have the votes. And so they're just stuck, which is kind of the theme of this MAGA Republican Congress.

So what you're saying is they have to keep, they can't quit and they can't call the votes. They have to stop to keep having these hearings all the way through the election. And teach you and purgatory. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, on that note, I wanted to, I wonder about this all the time because me and Mark are both from like the rural South. And so like I grew up with, I grew up with all these people that like, I know if you like quiz them on what their actual beliefs were, you'd be horrified. by a lot of it. You know what I mean? But like just dealing with them on a day-to-day basis or whatever,

they seem fine. They seem nice and norm. You know what I mean? It's like, I had great relationships for some of these people and they're full-bore lunatics. So I wonder all the time when I think about you and your colleagues on the, the Democrats in Congress having to deal with this current brand of MAGA Republicans, like having to work with them daily. Like, I mean, what does that actually like? Like, what kind of work environment is that? How is that for you? Yeah, so as I say, nice is never the problem, right? Right. You guys are all nice, but then they're like voting to give your daughter a government-mandated

pregnancy or preventing your neighbor from getting the fertility treatment that she wants in calling her a serial killer for wanting, you know, to not use all the embryos and have, you know, 10 kids. So, yeah, nice is never the problem here. But I got to run and vote. But I'll just say this. It's a pro wrestling culture. That's what's so bad. these guys, like if they see me out at dinner or on a plane or even like, you know, in the

restroom, they're like, hey, Swalwell, bro, saw you on TV. You were great. And you're like, what? Like, right. Itting me? And I just come to realize they just see themselves as like entertainers. And like, it's okay to hit me over the head with a steel chair in the ring because that's what they think the fans want, who I call constituents. But when we're off camera, we're cool. we all get that it's just entertainment. And that that is most frustrating. I respect Marjorie Taylor Green a hell of a lot more than Ted Cruz because she leaves her crazy. And Ted Cruz knows it's all bullshit. And he just, he sees himself, you know, and that's kind of the problem. That's how it's always seemed. So thank you for confirming it. And thank you so much for your time.

We'll let you go vote. Congressman Swallowell. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. It's good work. Of course. well how about that mark two hillbilly giggle mongers talking to a u.s congressman that was fun right yeah i like to do a part where uh he roast us for not being funny yes i know i was gonna bring that up yeah his staff apparently told him he was going on a comedy podcast he was expecting to do we're asking about AI child porn so uh yeah but it's like it's the wild west out here man it's like everybody's like like we didn't get a chance to ask him about like there's like a booming market

for AI images of porn of celebrities that's being sold as still images on eBay and like there's no way to stop. I mean like I might the theory the solution I was going to pitch him

is have a law that's kind of like the selective service when you're 18 except when you instead of signing up the draft everyone has to just has to post all their nudes so then we're all at least on equal footing but yeah like so like an hour we tape that about an hour later

I see a clip of him online at a hearing where Republicans are trying to insert some rata into a bill that would have mandated bathroom usage to the gender you were sent at birth for, I guess, school kids or something? And he just raised the point. It's like, how are you guys going to enforce this? Do you really want cops inspecting genitals in the fucking bathroom? And then he got in a good dig at Jim Jordan.

I guess at least I'm glad now you're talking to care about what happens in locker rooms. But yeah, it's like, it's a little weird. weird place to fucking work, man. Yeah. Lauren Russell Pank says, great interview. Thank you, Lauren. We'll try to have more for y'all in the future.

Yeah, keep them coming, Matt. Eric J. Lofenberg says I absolutely love when you have guests. Thank you for doing this. Yes, we are just so y'all know we're actively trying to do better about that. Yeah, when you go it live, it's hard. That's why this pre-tap, probably is pretty good work around. That's the thing. And it seems like you guys are cool with it.

But, yeah, that's part of it is, in order to continue doing it, a lot of them will probably have to be pre-taped because doing it live, we have a very strict time frame we can give people. And if that don't work out for their schedule, then we're just fucked unless we pre-tape them, which, of course, we can do.

So I guess that little behind the scenes info, we had to go 20 minutes early because the schedule changed. And that's why Trey was doing the interview in the top. In a little women shirt. I know I almost said that before it started. I was like, Tray, it's fine. No one will even care. Don't even bring it up.

But yes, we, right, he had, because of vote stuff, we got a call. It's like, hey, he needs to do it now. I need to do it right now. And I was still wearing my, my Lulu lemon shirt for being on the Peloton and stuff. And I was like, okay, all right, fuck, let's do it. So that's why I looked like that, Mark, much more professional than me. Debbie Lynn Robinson says, hit that like button. Thank you, DLR.

We appreciate it. Smash that like button, subscribe, share, tell your friends, all that. Kimberly Jordan says, Swalwell was great. it is you can tell just from i think just in the house of representatives there's so many of them the ones you know i feel like the ones on the right you know that means they're like profoundly crazy but the ones on the left who you're aware of and see pop up repeatedly that does mean they got something else going on you know what i mean they got a natural affinity for it like there's so many congresspeople out there who you just like never hear of and i just they just

they just ain't, you know, they just ain't got the, the, the, the Riz, as the kids put it, or something. That Riz. Amy Nagel says, great job on the interview, Tray and Mark could have listened to him for hours. Yes. Yep. Yeah. There's something like, like, it's kind of hard to even legislate anymore if you're not going to be telegenic and be able to talk to your constituents, you know, it's like.

Right. One of the things we do here is sort of unpack, like, like, here's like a sound by you heard. There's 25 minutes of explanation about what's actually happening. because it's hard to like uh yeah it's i mean being interested who has time to figure out everything that's fucking going on you know like trying to that's what's so weird about um like the the ball we're talking about the baltimore brit stuff it's like trying to explain what's actually happening here who was on the book what at the or sequence of events the rescue operations all that that takes a lot of time saying it's because of COVID lockdowns takes

five seconds it takes no research it's lazy as fuck and it'll get a ton of use because you're moron. So it's just like, it's weird. Carter on YouTube says I really prefer our representatives to be smart. Yes, those were the days, weren't they? I'm not saying they were always smart, but they definitely seems to be a higher percentage of not smart ones working out there now. The dilemma is you need 435 smart ones to pass quick nimble legislation when like, you know, when like AI's learning at a like a thousand X rate and it's destroying the internet to the point of degree it's in usable. Like if you I don't know if you've seen Google if you use the Google AI search like it'll tell you things

are patently false so the algorithm tells the computer that that's what you want to hear right it's like yep great yeah Alan Speed says funny to see Mark with no hat though uh but on the button down sure for that yeah yeah it's what I'm saying yeah Mark got gussied up everybody but yeah no I'm what you were just saying without like I've thought before about how like the nature of the internet in its current iteration and maybe always, but with its like ubiquitousness now, like you can find

validation for almost anything that you want to believe. Do you know what I mean? Like immediately. Like if you want to think something is true, you can find a sensible backup or evidence for that. And, you know,

that's part of the danger of the timeline we live in. YouTube commandos says pro mark yeah he's a real pro i was that oh yeah i was like i was like he's just i'm pro or maybe that's what he means maybe he's just pro mark either way he's pro mark and mark's a pro maybe it's a it's a double-layered thing i don't know the pro all the people that are pro mark the list is pretty much just you it doesn't even include me or my wife so here you know that's not true they know wait you wait till we do this skew and a on the patreon this week i even put

it in the prompt i was like give us all your questions for mark and to a lesser extent me they want to know what you want to think about it, buddy. I'm just like a novelty who's present. Lauren Russell Pank says Mark looks sharp, though. Yeah, he did. I know he did. Thank you, Lauren. God damn it.

I said I fucked up, all right? We're supposed to have another 20, 30 minutes. It's okay. Anyway, yes, he did. See, I interpret, I feel like Corey right now. I interpret a compliment to you as an insult to me. And acoustic, acoustic iris says we're all pro Mark here. See, I told you, Mark.

See, this is what. They love you. That's why I don't need therapy. I'm not going to, these are, by the way, these are just the comments Matt's picking, not the. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of which, Joy West says, today is my birthday. Can I get a happy birthday from the guys?

No. It's kidding. Happy birthday, Joy. I hope it's a, I hope it's a good. Mine's around the corner, in fact. So I don't know if, I'm not up on astrology. I don't know if we're in Aries cut off yet, but I'm an Aries. So if you're in Ares, that means nothing.

But hey, what's up? Carla Barrick says, who would you want to interview now if you could choose? I mean, there's plenty of people. AOC would be a great one. 50 cent. Get 50 on here.

Matt Williams, obviously. There's tons of people we would love to, love to get on the show. Let me ask you this, though, Mark, like in sincerity, since that question got brought up

because I've wondered about it before, and I think we're probably on the same page. Where would you fall on having, you know, opposition on here? People that we'd have to like go after. could get them to agree to do it. Do you know what I mean?

Right wing thought leaders or congresspeople or whatever. Like where do you fall into like platforming versus taking them to task? You know, would you even want to fuck with doing all that or no? To take someone to task to be intellectually honest. Like we will get on here, I'll tell you when I think maybe I'm full of shit on something, but they never will, right? So like, what do you, uh, what do you, if I say, what do you say to a person says this? And they pivot to being like, this is just what the woke or, like, I don't,

it's also plug-in-play right now. Like, I don't even know how you'd even have a honest conversation with somebody. No, I mean, that's kind of where I'm at on it, too. It feels like it's not a great idea for that and a myriad of other reasons. But, yeah. I think it'd be interesting to talk to someone who converted, like, who used to be, like, a hateful person. Then, like, I think I've mentioned on the show, the guy who was the son of the guy who founded Stormfront, the Nazi, neo-Nazi website, then went to college. and tried to major in race science at new college to prove all the liberals wrong and

end up being like, wait a minute, race science is wrong. I'm a liberal now. Like some dude who devised some rocket or experiment or something to prove the earth was flat and then prove to himself that it wasn't. That'd be interesting. I have no interest in having somebody come on here and spew a bunch of talking points that are based on lies. And we try to unpack them, they just pivot to a new lie, which is what I heard that.

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