Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 4/25/2023 – Biden, Tucker, Elon, etc.

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

Hoo wee is there a lot to cover tonight: Biden's announcement, Tucker's firing, beer's...wokeness, Sarah Sanders's absurdity, Elon's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week, and more. Join us.  Support the show

Hey, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is April 25th, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? How you doing, buddy? We watched the Grizzlies together last night.

That wasn't fine. No. Not looking good. Not looking good at all. But I'm a Tennessee sports fans. I'm very used to disappoint. appointment. So it's okay. I'm a left-wing person in America, so I'm also used to disappointment.

Yeah, that's good. I've often drawn a parallel between the two experiences. Yes, it's it do be that way. Yeah, it was a big week, man. We got a lot to talk about. Joe Biden reannounced. Nothing, he announced he's running again. Nothing big to say there. It was like 22, 24 is going to be a 2020 rematch unless one of them dies. So we just keep living the same thing over and over again. I watched the 2016 Democratic primary get relitigated for going on nine years now. And

so it's just retract in a fucking circle of hell, dude. I don't know, it times a flat circle and all that shit. How do you feel about like I was reading some stuff earlier about you know, Biden's record and his perception or whatever about they've done this like polling and stuff about how

most people view him as like a do nothing dud, like statistically. most people do, but like, you know, he's gotten some shit done. He's gotten a lot done. I'm not a huge fan of all of it, but it's like the stuff that's in his way, like he wasn't appointing judges at a record pace until Dianne Feinstein went brain dead. Some of the stuff I'm not a huge fan of, but, you know,

he passed the inflation reduction act. It has, you know, more for climate than anybody else has ever done. if courts let him do it and all that stuff. It's not all bad, but like you're not going to get, it's America, it's pretty impossible to be a good president. Right. So it's all, she's between the lesser two evils. You know, there's a scene in West Wing when President Bartlett has to do a war crime.

And he doesn't want to do it because it's evil. And his, you know, chief of staff is like, trying to convince him he has to do it and he's like the part of the character is very Catholic and he's like talking about why do I have to go to hell his answer is essentially because you won like you took an oath on the Bible

to go to hell essentially yeah it's a deeply funny way to think about it there's also more news of SCOTUS corruption turns out wasn't just Clarence Thomas who by the way lied Harlan Crow did turn out have Trammel Crow had a case make it to the Supreme Court where they were being sued and

Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself. So there you go. Also, it turns out Neil Gorsuch has run the same hustle. Somebody, a conservative billionaire who has business before the court, bought a house from him, which he made between $250 and a half a million off of and he did not disclose who the seller was. Oh, this is very fun. And Dick Durbin was asked this week, why he hasn't even invited Clarence Thomas to testify for the Senate Judiciary Committee?

And he was like, well, I just figured he'd say no. So there you go. I mean, I would be surprised if any of them at that level aren't, you know, my assumption has long been that they're, you know, bought and paid for. So. Right. In some capacity. So it's nice to see it confirmed. It's like confirmation of the fact that it's, you know, totally fine apparently and will continue

to be so. It's like why you never see congressional investigations in a naked insider trading among members of Congress. It's like because it would get a lot of people. people in both parties. It'd just be embarrassing for all of them. But yeah, I lead a couple of senators, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, and representative, I can't think of her name right now, Alana Presley. They're doing like a nationwide tour to try to draw attention to this stuff. And it's like, yeah, but like more of, like, you guys, good job. But like, this is awful. Somebody should

be fighting it, you know? If an unelected council of nine evil Sith lords is going to fucking make all their laws or strike down every law they don't like even if it's good for people, then someone should hold them accountable to reasonable public standards, I think. But maybe I'm a left with a lunatic, Trey. I don't know. Yeah, sounds a little out there to me.

Rining in a little bit, Mark, getting a little too ambitious. E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Trump for sexual assaulting her in the mid-90s is headed and the trial started today. It should be over quick, and it's basically come down to whether the way jury believes her and her witnesses or not because Trump's not going to mount a defense because he doesn't have to.

He's going to pick apart their witnesses. If you guys are familiar with the case, she alleges that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of a department store. And either 95 or 96, she doesn't really remember, which is part, which is one of the things Trump's lawyer is going to hammer over because Trump, he made the fair point. This is that jackass Trump, Trumpico guy or whatever, that if you can't even allege that, when it was, and how is he supposed to come on with an alibi? And that's like, okay, that's fair. But I don't blame her for not remembering the exact date 28 years later. But so the, it's basically, the witnesses are her, two friends she told at the time,

two other women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Trump in a very similar manner, and then, like, psychological experts and stuff. And there's also a, she has like a Lewinsky dress, but isn't going to be introducing evidence for reasons I can't really figure it out. Because she tried to get DNA sample for Trump for years, and then Trump declined. And then they did some sort of DNA test on it that showed there was no semen on it. So then Trump wanted to volunteer his DNA to try to disprove her. And the judge was like, ah, fuck it with his dress.

Y'all, y'all right out of time. It's all starting. It did have a deeply, Trump is going to testify, but he's going to show clip footage from a deposition he gave in this case. And there was one deeply funny exchange where his excuse going back to, beginning of this was like he would never sexually assault her essentially because he said she's not my type, but the tone of voice was like she wasn't attractive. Yeah, right.

And then then her lawyer showed him a picture of E. Gene Carroll from the 90s and said, can you recognize this woman? And he goes, yes, that's my second wife, Marlon Maples. So classic, classic Trump right there. It's also classic Trump that it's like,

what the hell's going on in my hair? But he, uh, like, just the mountain of shit that he has done, the indiscretions and everything, are so vast that it's like, make something like this, you know, fly relatively under the radar,

which is so wild, considering it concerns an American president and sexual assault. But that's like, that's like his whole playbook, man, just do so much terrible shit that it's hard for anybody to focus on any one item on the shit list.

Steve, uh, Steve Bannon. announced that was always their strategy flood the zone of bullshit so his exact quote and the more stuff this is the other stuff that happened this week we're going to talk about in the main part of the show is Tucker Carlson got shit canned and Elon Musk had perhaps the worst single day in the history of an individual since the dawn of capitalism so let's that's be fun to talk about indeed it is so uh we also got a little bit of an update

from Tennessee once again right it seems uh yeah not not doing so good on their decorum in the Tennessee House on the Republican side. Yeah, so this guy named Scotty Campbell voted to expel all three of the Tennessee three, who by the way, we're at the White House yesterday. Congrats to them. But he also voted not just the two guys who did get expelled, but also voted to expel your friend, Gloria. And the, turns out, while he was casting his votes,

he had already been found guilty by a House Ethics Panel of sexually harassing multiple interns. All right. now he basically it looks like he'd been sending them like perverted messages and when it got found out by our old friends at news channel five who just yeah keep wrecking these assholes keep showing up maybe news channel five shout out once again keep in real in middle tennessee i don't want to show this video because it's too long it takes too long to get the punchline map but uh so your buddy phil uh phil williams of the news channel five who we've shown Cliffordage up before. He confronts him outside the Statehouse because he's got to hold a copy of

one of the complaints against him or one of the findings against him and says, so it looks like you sexually harass an intern. And then he responds real flop sweatly. Yes, I sent some consensual messages to a few interns. Like, wait, wait, a few? Like, he confess to more crimes on camera. Yeah, he also, like, couldn't have looked more uncomfortable. He was like, he's like, do you just give me like five seconds, please? He pulls his drink out. And he's like, shack and text a drink with it. He's like, uh. So, yeah. They were consensual adult conversations, and conversations can be consensual once that's been established. And, yeah, it's pretty great.

Yeah, so he'd, like, immediately resign that afternoon and no one would say why. I guess they were going to find out when they watched the six o'clock news. But so, and then one of the justins, I forget which one, was trying to ask questions about it on the house floor. And he got, like, shut down. So they're not still not letting them speak. It's all very gross. More about Campbell. He represented Mountain City, Johnson County and parts of Sullivan County.

Yeah. Northeast Tennessee. Is Johnson City in Johnson County? I mean, I don't know for sure. I'm not sure what the county is up there. Johnson City is in like the Tri-Cities are in the northeast part of Tennessee near Virginia. I was only asked his mom, granny, he was from Johnson City. So he was his career, he's a professional wrestling promoter and owner of a wrestling company

called Beside the Ring and good for him on June in June of 2013 he got to go on Monday Night Raw and he danced with the tag team tons of funk because he was the winning bidder for Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund auction so I lot of his life buddy made it to the big show money yeah yeah yeah so shout to Phil Williams uh new channel 5 it's continually ruining these bucks lives all right let's get into it with us is always his producer matt this is weekly skews i do want to remind you before we continue though of a couple of things first if you want to see me live go to traycrouter dot com check out the upcoming dates i'll be in alabama this coming thursday and friday then me cori andrew will be in little rock arkansas together

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We will add to that a little later. And then Elon Musk's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day slash week as his blunders continue to mount. So that should all be fun. But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. Transwomen for not being dainty femmes like one Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Meow. Here we go. This is real. America presents real women of politics. Today we salute all the real woman leaders of this great country.

Real women don't have to fake yet. Real women Doing real things. Real women work too hard for this. Some big companies can't tell the difference between real and fake anymore. Real people know the difference.

That's why we're introducing the real women of politics coozy. All right, you can cut it, Matt. So I have some legal questions about this because they're spoofing a butt-like commercial and parodies protect the speech, but they're also selling coosies

yeah so i don't think that's legal but i'm not a lawyer uh anyway somebody sue them uh this is like how did they pick the four that got on board you know what i mean like loren bobert too much of a uh a dumb ass a dingbat bat like marjorie taylor green not on the you know what i mean how they land on these four republican governors governors they're all governors specifically yeah okay there you go i think i think that was maybe the thought process um maybe it was maybe he's coordinated from uh Republican Governors Association or something. So there's still, like this is, what, week five with this dumbass moral panic. And again, the Bud Light thing relates to one ad posted by a transgender influencer.

And no one else saw it except them and this person's followers. And last night, a Florida restaurant owner went on Fox instead the last two weeks were the most difficult of his life because he was so torn over whether or not to continue selling. bud light uh what the fuck is tough man keeping you up at night do i or do i not continue to sell bud light at fucking you know joe's parrot shack in panama city beach or whatever this guy's doing like uh if you're up all night thinking about somebody else's genitals maybe just go jerk off you can fall asleep you know this is all so fucking dumb but they're fully all in on this shit like there's this thing that happen. Let's watch a little bit of this video, Matt. We don't need to watch all of that because

it's so, it's fucking dumb. America's been drinking beer from a company that doesn't even know which restroom to use. That's why I created conservative dads, ultra-right, 100% woke-free beer. As conservatives, we're constantly getting hit in the face, left and right, by the woke mind virus. Ah, you're kind of bad. The last place we want it. The woke-mind virus, yeah. So, this is the different. Trans people do know.

which by a term to use, you know? Right. Like, it's just, uh, they're just not allowed to in certain places or whatever, but it's not that they, uh, right that they don't know. I knew as soon as, and I'm not just saying this. Like I, as soon as I saw this was becoming a thing, I was waiting on this right here. You know what I mean? Like I knew, I knew I was like, well, there's going to be, you know, Patriot Ail or something, which I guess Sam Adams has got that on lock. But like, I knew, you know, something like this was coming. So I'm not surprised at all. Though I guess it's not been smooth sailing for dad's ultra ripe beer is that no yeah this guy by the way his name he's he's a grifter he previously sold let's go brandon wrapping paper at christmas um so we need to find

a brewery to make this beer because he doesn't know how to make beer he doesn't know how to make videos so he found one and immediately announced they were partnering with him but they hadn't agreed to anything and so they announced once he figured out who he was like no we're not making this fucking trash ass beer for this asshole so he's playing immediately fell apart so he doesn't have any He still doesn't have anybody to make the beer. But that's not even really his biggest problem. Let me read this headline to you. Ultra-write beer says it will ship its woke-free beer straight to you.

That's illegal in Illinois. And I was like, that was a local Illinois headline. Well, I just Googled this guy's name as the name of the beer company. I was like, I wonder what's in other states. There's only seven states in D.C. where you could have beer or liquor mailed to you. Yeah, that would seem to be a limiting factor for his business model. So now if he was going into this business

Without Googling is my business legal Also dude He charges $20 plus shipping and handling for a six pack Like if there's actual rednecks out there Who are doing that Then like I truly don't know who these people are anymore Do you know what I mean? Because that was like that's the fucking

The audacity of a beer company To charge $20 for a six pack That's fucking That's like you know That's like European microbreed shit right there like we can't have that's not american at all get the fuck out of here i can't imagine even the most hardcore conservative beer drinking papal going for that but maybe i'm wrong like maybe i've lost touch with them like constantly actually we're like a fat liby coastal elite

assholes for like going to starbucks a venty starbucks is three dollars and 25 cents right and then these guys selling uh 450 shit beer uh per can and like I was the last last I said I bought a six pack of beer uh me too actually that'd be like that'd be like super high priced IPA prices right yeah I know that that's what I'm saying yeah like yes yeah yeah that's like high end shit and you know that it's not well I was going to say you know it's not high end in terms of quality but like so does it even exist yet because like he can't find a brewery

to make it right so it's like it's just a concept right now you can't even drink Whenever, whatever it ends up being, it's not going to be good. It's going to end up being a go-fund me to research the scalability of this business idea, and these are in a pocket and go. Also, it's just like woke-free beer. It's just such a stupid thing. Like, this is truly the dumbest timeline we live in. It's like, you know, hops, barley malt and zero wokeness.

It's also like upside down. It's a wokeness that makes it good. People drink to forget about the world. problems. And here's one that's organized solely around the world, like, what you see is the world's problems. So that's not an understanding of this. But so this guy's job, he's like a mega fitness influencer. Like he does Instagram, like workout routines where he also teaches people nutrition, like, that are focused around, I'm quoting here, unlearned government lies about nutrition. So I don't know what the fuck that means.

But anyway, like, you, you can eat cheeseburgers, despite what that Dame of Michelle Obama used to say like I that's the last time I can remember government nutrition being a thing was Michelle Obama just trying to get kids to be less fat and everybody was like get the fuck out of here that comedy bullshit I mean I'm giving mine gravy right now you kiss my ass I mean the Department of Agriculture does like encourage people to put corn syrup and everything and fucking you know push milk you know and also I mean right and also like I've thought before about like the food pyramid. You remember the food pyramid?

Like we were taught that as like the gospel or whatever. We were kids, it's like, make sure you get your six servings of pasta and or bread a day. In addition to, you know, three steaks, four apples and however else at work.

And it's like six servings of bread. Like that's a, and every we, they put those in school books, man. We're like, this is, this is the thing.

And then yeah, and then the, you know, big milk getting in there. What? sugar did to fat. I'm sure you're aware of that. A crime, a travesty, what sugar did to fat,

big sugar, demonizing fat forever, unfairly. So, yeah, you know, there's been some bullshit where nutrition is concerned from the top in this country, but I don't trust this guy to set them straight. Nope, me neither. Good luck to you, Seth. All right. Honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, is anybody who refuses to have their dog put down in order to focus on

on this quarter's TPS reports. This is from a Utah-based digital marketing company's CEO statement last week. I'm all in in what we're doing here at Clearlink. I want you to know it and feel it because this is what we do. And I've sacrificed, and those of you that are here have sacrificed greatly to be here as well, to be away from your family. I learned from one of our leaders that in the midst of hearing this message, went out and sold their family dog,

which breaks my heart as someone who's been, you know, at the head of the humanism. He made him come back to work, right? They had been working remotely. He wasn't having any, couldn't have it. All these, a lot of these CEO types can't stand the thought of remote work because they're just utterly convinced of everybody's inherent laziness and worthlessness. So they decided to make them come back to work.

Somebody in order to do that to keep working there had to get rid of their dog. And he's like, now see, that's the type of self-starting ambition we support here at Clearlink, Inc, or whatever the hell it's called. So he said to other wild shit, too. Yeah, he, he waxed skeptically on the compatibility of working full-time with serving as a primary caregiver to your child. He's basically saying that he doesn't want parents, he doesn't want people without staying-home parents, the other, the other partner staying home with the kid working for the company. he talked about he accused 30% of his staff of not having even opened their laptop for the last 30 days which that feels like a fireable offense that you knew that he's just like this deeply paranoid fucking weirdo he he wondered aloud of remote employees where we're secretly working multiple jobs and which is like if they're doing their job that's none of your fucking business buddy exactly so yeah he talked about the judeo-Christian work ethic he's he encouraged them to use chat GPT to get their productivity up um which is a bad idea he's talking about like the office cooperators like like using chat

gpt to fucking to increase their productivity 30 to 50 times so no one's going to be proof free to the robot 30 to 50 times productivity increased but it's also i've just always with this shit it's like these people have responsibilities right they have whatever whatever their job is they have shit they're supposed to get done is is that shit getting done? Because if it is, then just fuck off with the rest of that shit. And if it's not, take corrective action or whatever. But that's literally as simple as the equation should be to me. But these people, these bosses and the high level managers and shit, they just can't stand that. They can't stand the thought of someone not slaving away endlessly, you know, regardless of what their, you know, actual job responsibilities require or whatever. There's like real monetary stuff here too. I want to say, like, besides, like, it saves a lot of money on child care if you can be home when your kids leave for school and when they get home from school, right? Yeah. And people will point out because they got to pay for additional child care.

And he said that he didn't even like employing mothers, basically, because it can be done, but it had so much stress to the working mother's life that I never want to put it on anyone. Additionally, he said it could be argued that having a full-time job in serving his primary caregiver is, quote, neither fair to your employer nor fair to your children. He put employer first. So I just want to say, congrats to the next bomb he fires on winning a huge lawsuit. I started wondering, what does Clear Link even do? I went to, I went and read their entire fucking website, and I could not tell you. But let me try to quote what they say they do. It's like internet tech involved internet marketing or something.

Quote, we connect over 75 million high value customers with the world's leading brands, Across verticals and channels, we provide advertisers new and engaged audiences. So essentially he's saying here, sacrifice your marriage and kids and kill your dog so we can provide advertisers new and engaged audiences across verticals and channels. Mm-hmm. Are they selling ad space on podcast or something? Like, what, I don't, yeah, I don't know any of that means either, but. Yeah, but the part there was a real kicker to me, for me to this is like, like some of your local web blog in Utah, like a business publication. they're asking all these CEOs to write puff pieces about themselves about how they became so successful.

And his origin story is, in college, I learned that I wanted to be my own boss while working for an extremely difficult manager. This was the kind of boss about which they make movies. Okay. While he's being Lumberg from office space. Right. Imagine what that guy was like. All right. Our final honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Meatball Ron for thinking he can just turn into bobblehead, Ron, just by looking like an idiot.

idiot, this is a spaghetti man Ron DeSantis in Japan. Governor, a old show you're falling behind a Trump? Any thoughts on that? I'm not, I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes.

So the video chopped up there, but he was doing some deeply weird shit with his neck and head. It's like, this guy, when I talked in the week about how he's not ready for prime time, this wasn't even like, this was kind of the most, people were calling this as Howard Dean moment because it's so deeply weird. Yeah, believe that.

Yeah. See, there might went. back it's like it's a yeah it's a almost uncanny valley looking thing even though he's a real person it's uh it's like he's short-circuiting or something yeah it looks like one like one of the like the singing gorilla at chucky cheese um so he uh he also today he went on hannity and uh he is his uh advanced people oppressed people had him set up doing the out he was the outdoor uh doing a hit doing a hit outdoors talking to camera and they set him up looking directly into the sun where he couldn't see and he was just squinting.

It's like, these people are fucking, like, it's like, no chance, call it, no chance. That's hilarious. Yeah, dude, I've not, I can't remember like a fall. I don't know if it's a fall from grace, man. He feels like he never really even got off the starting line. Like, just what, I definitely feel like I had gotten the wrong impression about that. I thought this dude was like, I thought he was like the next dude. You know what I mean?

Like, for sure. And, uh, he's just getting smoked. It's like, I don't know. I thought he was their guy, and he just ain't got it. He flew to some sort of fundraiser in like Nebraska or something, and he was meeting. He met with Lee Zeldon, he was a congressman, and Lee Zellon shook his hand, took his money, walked out front and said, I endorse Trump. Nobody likes this motherfucker. No, I mean, yeah, and you know, obviously fuck Trump to death too, but this.

This is still fun. I still do enjoy this. If you can't enjoy the downfall of shitty people who are not going to get to live their one dream, then what else do you go to enjoy nowadays in American politics? Speaking of which, Tucker Carlson got shit canned, Trey. Yep, yep. If you didn't know, I was going to do it. So, yeah, good job.

So it turns out this was Tucker Carlson's last 30 seconds on Fox. What a great way to end a week. Yeah. Truly, that was a great segment and I'm just grateful that you came on. And I'm especially grateful for the pie. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it. Employee of the week, we're going to.

I was just making it of the year, Tyler Morrell of Coco's Pizza. That's it for us for the week. We'll be back. By the way, the entire episode of Let Them Eat Bugs, not quite as good as pizza. Streaming now on Fox Nation, use a promo code Originals for 30 days free. And we'll be back on Monday. In the meantime, we'll be back on Monday. Let them eat bugs is not going to be, not going to, is it going to be a casualty of this affair?

Because I'd hate for that to happen. I'd hate for the people to miss out on let them eat bugs, whatever that is. I just thought this was the perfect way for him to go out, like doing a segment about anti-woke pizza or something. Plug in Info Wars level documentary about the New World Order wants you to eat bugs. Anaziline, he'll be back Monday that immediately fall into an opening manhole and dying. So a couple things, when I saw this news, I saw, one, I didn't, I thought it was fake for a bunch of obvious reasons, but also the way our current media environment's working was changes that have been made to Twitter. It's really easy to get fake news trending. And we're going to talk about that in a little bit.

But people had two or, I mean, first let's talk about all the people that are very upset. I saw a bunch of people online canceling their Fox, their Fox News digital subscriptions. Lauren Bober was super pissed off. Marjor Taylor Green made a video about. it, Glenn Greenwald, made a bunch of posts about it, all very mad and sad. Plus, this, what do you call it, an obituary from a leading luminary of freedom and intellectual discourse. Perhaps it would be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the United States. I've heard that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News. It's curious news. What is this related to? One can only guess. But clearly, the wealth of. views in the American information space has suffered as a result. I got back.

That's Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, lamenting the death of free speech in America. So that was the reaction on the right and whatever Russia, whatever you want to call it, Russia. I saw two main immediate reactions from like liberals and left-wingerers. One, he took her left voluntarily to go make more money elsewhere, which was probably not possible but also unlikely because of the secret of events and yes it did turn out he was in fact shit can he did not leave voluntarily and i seriously doubt he'll still make a great living but i don't think he'll make as much money as he made on fox or have the reach he had on fox because right all the people have left there was bill o'reilly doing now he's like a youtube

right yeah exactly yeah bill i made a video about this today and i brought that up to i mean we were talking about last night but yeah like megan kelly glenbeck you know whatever like um it seems like, I mean, Tucker, I guess, was on a whole, I don't know, Bill O'Reilly was like the dude for a very long time there. I mean, he was Tucker Carlson before Tucker Carlson. And like you said, I mean, he's nowhere near as relevant anymore. So I mean, I guess I'm holding out hope that that's how it goes for Carlson too. But I could see him, you know, starting a podcast or something. And I think it'll be that big of a, you know. I think he has a podcast. Like, like, on our.

text chain, Drew compared his popularity to, like, Bill Simmons. And I was like, now, Bill Simmons is way more popular than Tucker Carlson. Like, it's, uh, we're talking about that in the context. Of course, he doesn't get a $200 million contract on Spotify, like Rogan and Bill Simmons both did. And it's like, no, it's not, because he, you can go, his power is not, because he has a huge audience. So there's the largest on cable news, but that's a very relative term. It's still lower rating. It's still like a, you know, a ninth of the ratings of big, of young Sheldon or something. shit. But like these powers over the Republican Party because he can get you, he can make you lose a primary election to some psycho right winger. That's really his power here. But the other take was not, you know, the first was him was him leaving him to make more money. The second was this is awesome. America's democracy saved. I'm like, that's also seems no. They'll replace them with somebody who's also bad. I don't think you can possibly be as bad, just tuck. supremely talented at this and also his brain appears to be absolutely broken the same with the Alex Jones says like that that bugs a bugs thing is like info seriously just straight off of

info wars and that's what he was good at was laundering info war shit into the american political mainstream so yes I'm super fucking glad it's gone um so I was thinking about how this could possibly be his downfall and because I immediately thought there must have been something huge we didn't know like he was about to be arrested for child blessing or something uh-huh And Fox News, because he just lost a big defamation suit, do you want to let him go back on the air and say his arrest was a deep state conspiracy? That's literally where my brain went, like, at first. Yeah. But then that turns out probably to not be true, because it looks like the covers.

Funny, you sound like kind of disappointed a little bit. Not that the kids weren't molested, but that he's not going to do. Right, yeah. So the other third reaction was with Q and on people because he was eating pizza in that bad the last time he was on. TV's a message about Pizza gate. Coted. Yeah, I forgot pizza. Yes, pizza is huge in the conspiracy world.

So what was that supposed to mean that he's eating pizza? That he's like been gotten to by the cabal or something? Try, don't do it. I can't help it. You're doing it. It's trying to make sense of it. It's like this is the same group people that harassed Chrissy Teagan off the internet because she took a selfie eating pizza like an Oscars after party.

And they thought it was a coded message by molesting kids. So, but I think nominally, they're going to, they're sort of alluding to it's about this. It's a headline for New York Times. The lawsuit, Tucker Carlson is accused of promoting a hostile work environment. This is a lawsuit filed last month by a woman named Abby Grossberg, who worked as a booker on Tucker show and a couple other shows. And she says she has a bunch of recordings of them making anti-woman and anti-Semitic jokes, which, you know, obviously. So you're telling, right, that's what's about saying. Like, that's actually a problem at Fox News.

like Fox News will fire you for that. Like I thought, you know, I would have thought that was just the standard there. But, you know, Daddy Rupert sets the standard. Like, it's like, oh, you mean to tell me the fucking higher ups at Fox News or, you know, anti-woman and anti-Semitic and racist? Right. I hate minorities, all that shit. Like, the hell you say.

I can't, I know that still doesn't make it okay in an office environment or professional environment. But I'm just saying, like, like you said, well, yeah. But, Trey, it's not the, it's not the sexism. it's the money is the money he's going to cost like they remember he replaced bill o'rally who was he was fired because he got sued for sexual harassment right so um so so this is part of it but also like this has happened to back around the the dominion lawsuit that they settled last week for like what 800 million dollars it cost them uh for tucker's lives and all this stuff that came

out there about it came out of tucker's text messages we'll get to more of those in a second but like he he he cost them a bunch of money and it's possible they've been willing to wanting to fire him for a while for that, but doing it before the lawsuit was resolved would result in a situation where disgruntled, fired ex-employee was going to be on the stand testifying, right? So case resolve that. So maybe that, but also the text messages,

there's a lot of, there's a lot of insubordination. Like Rupert Murdoch was literally ordering them to tone it down and they were not. And Tucker was being flippant, basically about basically the same fuck Rupert. And bosses do not like being told to go fuck themselves. No, especially somebody like Rupert Murdoch, dude.

You know that guy's like a fucking, you know, ego-driven monster. I mean, you'd have to be to be in that position. And also still even be, he's like 90, right? Like, the fact that he's still, like, active in this way, like, tells you, you know, like, he's the dude there. That's what I kind of wondered if, like, you know, Tucker was getting a little too big for his britches or whatever. And, like, he was the guy at fight. He was like, no, this is my network. I'm the dude here.

And Rupert Murdoch. He don't play. Yeah. Like he's the guy. Nobody's bigger than him or bigger than the brand type of thing. Right. It's like when Chuck Lorry fired Charlie Sheen off two and a half man was the number one show on television for being a pain in the ass.

He was talking to be being too big for his britches. Bosses, we'll get on some respect my authoritative type shit, whether it's making you kill your dog to come back to the office or fire a deal with the number one show on their network. But then I read this story of the Vanity Fair this afternoon, which makes a pretty good. this is just about Rupert Murdoch finding Tucker kind of personally annoying.

So they went to a, they were at the same function on Friday night, and Tucker gave a speech that was like really laced with like apocalyptic, like Christian religious rhetoric. And that stuff does not hit for Rupert Murdoch, who's just like, you know, a libertarian, Australian dude. But also, let me read the description of Tucker speech. Carlson told the heritage audience in national politics has become a Manishian battle between good and evil. Carlson said that people at a beginning for transgender rights and DEI programs want to destroy America and they could not be persuaded with facts. The answer was prayer.

I mean, that's basically what he says on his show outside of the prayer stuff. So it's just the prayer stuff that doesn't hit for Murdoch. But here's the part that really made me laugh. Rupert Murdoch was had recently engaged to a woman for two weeks and abruptly called it off. All right. So his ex-girlfriend was a huge talk. Tucker Carlson fan. So Ruper,

uh, Ruper was perhaps unnered by Carlson's messianism because it echoed the end times worldviews of his ex-fiancee and Leslie Smith, the source said, in my May cover story, I reported that Murdoch of Smith called off a two-week engagement because Smith had told people Carlson was a messenger from God. So maybe that's also a, you know,

like he just jealous or something, you know, like, yeah, like he, so he dumped this woman for being a religious zealot psycho, but he goes and sees Tucker talk like, her and reminds him of his craziest girlfriend. He's like, you know what? Fuck this.

I'm good. But also his ex-girlfriend was literally telling people, you know, presumably in front of him, she's telling people Tucker Carlson is, you know, a gift from God or whatever. I'm sure that also don't sit well with a dude like Murdoch. So probably a little bit of everything, I would imagine. Yeah. Anyway, rest in piss, Tucker. Hope I never hear you from you ever again.

Even though we're losing a lot of great content from stupid shit you said. Well, again, dude, they'll feel that'll, So tonight's guest host, tonight's guest on that time slot is Brian Kilmead, probably the dumbest human being who's still able to tie his own shoes in America. All right. Well, now let's talk about Elon. Why not? How's he doing?

Dude, he had one of the worst, last week had one of the worst weeks in the history of business, like ever, outside of somebody who just died at work. And it touches a lot of shit in corners, various corners of America, in a lot of different hilarious ways. I just wanted to talk about it. So he lost $13 billion in 24 hours. Now, that $13 billion seems like a low estimate to me for reasons I'll talk about.

But like, we're told over and over again that rich people are rich because they're smarter and more hardworking than we are. Right. And yet, if he's smarter than me for making $13 billion, I would just like to point out that I have never lost $13 billion. You know what I'm saying? this is this is all so fucking stupid it's like the 13 billion doesn't include the money he's lost on Twitter it's just it's just about Tesla of stock losses and his rocket blowing up for SpaceX so okay the SpaceX rocket rocket all right before we get into it I'm rocket dumb but I do like space shit like all that you know I'm a big proponent of that I want us as a species I'd like for us to continue to do that it pisses me off that this dude is at the forefront of it just kind of how much he seems to suck.

but I saw that the rocket took off and then experienced rapid unscheduled disassembly, which is a funny way of saying it blew to fuck up, right? But I saw a lot of people, a lot of other space people, ex-astronauts and people like that, I saw afterwards still saying like, no, don't worry about that part, which is a wild thing to say about a rocket exploding, but like this was, this is great. This was a tremendous accomplishment. This was awesome. I'm like, despite the fact it exploded, sure, this was really good.

I saw a lot of people saying that. Yes, if you squint and look at it just the right way with a huge success. It was the biggest rocket ever launched and they got it off the ground. All right. So, yes, an accomplishment. But I am super into space stuff and I wish we still heavily invested in NASA. Me too. Elon is getting government funding to privately own this shit and he's fucking it up.

And I'll tell you, like, because science involves failure is true. And I do want to talk about that. Let's talk about the specific failure here because this is makes it so fucking stupid. The government gave him billion dollars to do this. And I'll watch this video of the rocket blowing up first because then we can talk about what it means. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. That's a lot of fire dust for it. all right you cut it so right after that i don't want to show the other videos because it has like

like it's like a woman who works for elon narrating he's talking about it would a tremendous victory for sciences and i'm like i'm not doing that propaganda for him but like it tumbled and over and then blew up neither of which is supposed to happen but since they're bragging about the takeoff let's talk about the takeoff for a second because one of the reasons there's all that debris and by the way it's spread for miles, like set off car alarms like 20 miles away, covered people's shit and dust. There's like science worries about what would happen to people who breed all this shit in.

And if you're wondering why there was so much shit, there's stuff you're supposed to do before you're to launch a rocket. And again, I'm rocket science dumb. I'm just telling you really I read, when I'm regurgating what I read here. You're supposed to either dig a big trench try to catch some of this or use like some sort of water system to like try to to contain it somehow. He didn't

do any of that because he was in a hurry to launch on 420. Dude, it continuously amazes me that this is the richest man on earth. Like, and, you know, by that measure, the most successful man alive is just such a, you know, sophomoric troll at every turn. I know, like, fucking taking the W out of Twitter on their company's head, you know, main signage. So it says tit. He, like, I know that they'll respond to journalists who, request comments, they'll just send back

poop emojis. Right. That's their comment is poop emoji. And now he forwent many safety precautions and launching the world's biggest rocket because he wanted to get it up on weed day. That's a real

shame, honestly. Like it's so disappointing. Like this dude's supposed to be like a fucking real life Tony Stark or something and he's just, I don't know who. He's just fucking Logan Paul with hundreds of billions of dollars or whatever. I mean, he's, yeah, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, the only thing we've talked about

before about naming his company Tesla is he's Thomas Edison, taking credit for a bunch of other people's work, but including Tesla's. Um, so this destroyed the launch platform. It's going to take a year to rebuild. NASA has grounded him for any more test flights. So if you want to call this a success, first of all, we got to wait and see if how many people in this fucking town get cancer from breathing in all that goddamn, uh, uh, space stuff. and Boca, Chica, Texas.

Which, by the way, this whole, like, SpaceX facility has been a huge environmental disaster. This guy paints himself as environmentalist is using, like, his cover is like this green energy titan to, like, drill for a natural gas on his property in areas that used to be protected wetlands. He's just a fucking fraud. That's one thing that makes me so mad about him. But, yeah, so this getting off the groundless of success, everything else about it's a huge failure, and you can't really learn from it because he's not going to be able to

replicate this experiment for the foreseeable future because he's grounded it and he destroyed his own platform because he wanted to launch on Wead Day. All right. Also, just the fact that he gets so much government money or whatever, it's like, why not just give that to NASA? I mean, I know the philosophy with the government is like, you know, private industry, you know, more efficient, you know, creates jobs, whatever, instead of giving it straight to the government just as a general rule of thumb. That's more efficient? It's still, no, I'm not saying that it is. I'm just saying like, because I used to work in government contracting.

Like, I know that, like, you know, that's part of the whole, like, like I said, philosophy of the, of the, the government when it comes to accomplishing that, you know, you contract out to private businesses and use taxpayer dollars on it. But Elon taking all that taxpayer money to, you know, fulfill his little like rocket fantasies and stuff. And then like, you know, remember the whole thing with NPR, he labeled them state funded media or whatever as like a takedown or whatnot. And it's like your state, you're state funded rocket feller. You know what I mean? But, but you're a face beach warrior. Like it's. Tesla would have been out of business. in 2008 if Obama didn't give them a bunch of money and it's a good thing that we can

invest in electronic electric vehicle you know electric vehicles and electric vehicle research that's good that was a good thing for President Obama to do this is I don't know this is a rich guy playing around with toys you can't figure out how to work and Nash should be doing this shit so we all own it so we get the tang we get the GPS shit like we talked that's before but like if if they privatized NASA in the 60s we'd all be subscribing to GPS to get around and they're navigating it's all it's all ridiculously bad and stupid so let's talk about Tesla now for a second because a few updates there about how he's running this again the premises segment is like why the fuck is this dude rich I don't understand but if you see if you can fall

on the dot the emerald mine thing yeah so I know that so he said he's always been defensive about the emerald might people say Elon got started out with you know his father money from his father's emerald mine in Africa which is like you know that was a rough ass place uh regard you know any kind of mine in Africa owned by a fucking rich white dude not great but anyway it's what people always said nelon got defensive about it so i guess last week or last sometime recently he said i will give one million doge coin to whoever can prove to me that this emerald mine existed and then his father who owned the emerald mine said uh could i get in on that because i can prove it existed and also you know it existed and you've always known it existed so yeah so

If you're not familiar with Elon's backstory, so his dad is, stood trial for murder. It doesn't appear to be a great dad. He's married to, I think, a girl who used to be his stepdaughter. Stepdaughter or something like that, yeah. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, the guys he killed, I guess, were breaking into his house, but he still tried for murder because maybe he asked him to come over and killed him. I don't know. Anyway, he claims he won this emerald mine in a card game and got rich off of it.

And Elon used to be open, used to be open about coming from money, but then he started wanting to tell the story about himself about coming from nothing. So even though he's talked about being the son of an Emerald tycoon before, now he's like, he's literally tweeting, I don't know where the Emerald story came from. But when you've talked about it, so yes, dad gave that interview was like, he knows that it had Emerald Mine. He's like, when he was in college here, he was crying because someone stole his bicycle. So I said, do you want to go to America? And he said, yes, to go to school. And so I gave a bunch of money from the Amarral Mine to go to school in America. And so he just continued lying about this shit for reasons.

So what's going on with Tesla is Tesla is really, really struggling. The stock price is down, like, I don't know, 60 some for 65% since its peak in a couple years ago. So what they're trying to do is like Tesla tries to get owners to give up unlimited free supercharging for life. So the current business models, you know that thing you paid for? our business plan is to now stop doing it. So things are going great over there. There's another headline about Tesla. Tesla's shareholder group complains Elon Musk is too distracted to run company.

And I should say so... What would give them that idea? Is it the incessant shit posting that he does all goddamn day? He's on Twitter 24-7. He's on Twitter 24-7. So they're absolutely not wrong. And I want to watch to watch this video because this is what he's spending his time doing instead of running any of his fucking 12 companies,

a lot of whom take government money and are publicly traded. I mean, the urge to have sex and to procreate is, after breathing and eating, the most basic urge. How has it been subverted? Well, in the past, we could rely upon, you know, simple limbic system rewards in order to procreate. But once you have birth control and, you know, abortions and whatnot, now you know, now you, now you, now you, now you, you can still satisfy the limbic instinct, but not procreate. So we haven't yet evolved to deal with that because this is a fairly recent, you know, last. Okay.

That's like literally the exact same stance that like super hardcore Catholics and like the quarterful religious fanatics, like what the duggers are. Like no sex without procreation. Like that's hardcore religious fundamentalism. It's the exact same thing that he is saying there. It's pretty wild. Also, he just needs more slaves or whatever. Like so, you know, don't stop producing or reproducing, I mean. Yeah, so his entire business empire is collapsing.

This is our money, by the way. This is our fucking money. It's taxpayer money. He's wasting. It's like public people that have money in the market or mutual funds money. And he's going on Twitter, Tucker Carlson, to talk about coming. And he's trying, and he's using a bunch of big science words, but what he's saying is stupid. I know what he's trying to say that, like, we've disconnected.

pleasure sex for procreation through abortion and birth control. But he says those things are new. They're not new. People have been pulling out since the dawn of time. Abortion, they're like abortions for recipes, recipes for abortion in the old, fucking old testament. Right.

You go to like, you go to the medicine lady or whatever, and she makes you a moon tea, you know, or whatever, like that always. Yeah. There's this like, there's this thing going on Silicon Valley where they have this, the movement where they need to outbreed the poor people because they're the elites. So he has like, what, nine kids by this point?

10, I think. Something like that. And this new, this story also dropped today. Google co-founder Bryn deals a blow to Musk and Tesla. Sergei Brand reportedly sold a large chunk of Tesla stock at the time. His wife had allegedly an affair with the EV maker CEO, Elon Musk. So Tesla stock was 319 at the time Sergey Brin sold. It's currently trading it.

165. So he's helped spark a stock price drop of 65% because Elon fucked his wife. Do you think that was pro-creative sex strike? Yeah, probably not. But like going back to Rupert, whatever his reason that Firetucker was and the CEO of Clearlink, like our lives are in these people's hands to a fucking significant degree. Like, Tesla's stock price drop. means a lot of people lost money out of the retirement funds, right?

And if the stock gets low enough, because it can't move money around and be liquid anymore, that means Tesla lays people off. So the sequence of events here is Elon launches rocket on 420 and it blows up half of Texas. He fucks one woman at a party. Stock price drops. That guy gets laid off. Is filing for unemployment and telling his kid he can't have new shoes for school this year, right? Yeah.

I mean, it's that Matt Damon soliloquy when he's getting interviewed for the job in Goodwill hunting. Remember that? Like, all the fuck out of these big puppet masters, you know, fuck everybody over with all their machinations and shit. And when one of them is so demonstrably, like, childish and everything, it's alarming and upsetting. It's, he could, he has control over Ukraine's military communications. Right. Yeah. Like, no one man should have this much.

fucking power. It's like, especially not one this fucking stupid. Anyway, if you want to have an argument for Joe Biden's season, a few whole industries and, uh, and, uh, making them state owned. Here's a good argument for it right here, but Elon's just a walking advertisement for it. Uh, all right. Let's talk about Twitter last. That's sort of the most fun one, because it's so, um, so, so the 13 billion dollars that he lost in that one day does not include however much money is constantly losing at Twitter because he bought it for 44 billion and the latest valuation was 20 billion. He also owes like a billion dollars of interest every month or something. So I don't know what he's fucking doing. But this isn't, I'm going to explain

a little bit about how Twitter works, but it's not even really about Twitter. It's about bending reality here because one of the big changes he's made besides like letting Nazis back on and disinformation artists back on and scammers and spammers back on and like reducing content moderation so Nazis can yell you via you should die. He also has removed the legacy verification system. Yeah, the blue check mark.

Right. I just, I feel obligated to say. So people that don't know, they used to, pre-Elon, there was a Twitter blue subscription service, which used to be $3 a month. And what that allowed you to do is it allowed you to post longer tweets, but for me,

importantly, longer videos. Because I put my rant videos on all different platforms and paying for that before Elon ever got there allowed me to put the same video I put on Instagram and TikTok and whatever I put them all they're all the same I don't have to edit them for different platforms on that shit which is worth three dollars to me so I was paying for Twitter Blue already and I was verified already Elon comes in fucks everything up takes everybody's checks away unless they pay for Twitter Blue so now Twitter Blue has become about the checkmark which it never was for me and I was paying for it already and now the only people that are paying for

the checkmark are tools and dip shits. And now here I'm sitting with a fucking checkmark just because I want to post the type of video I want to post. And it's really pissing me off on a personal level mark. Also, it's like everybody, on my verified notifications I get now are all just from fucking mouth breathers, hating and everything. And it's, uh, it's just a shit show. It's an abject shit show over on Twitter at press. Right.

And the reason I thought Tucker's firing was fake for, for a couple hours is because no reporters are verified anymore. So I can't tell who's a real person. So it's really easy to jump up a fake news story. But it doesn't mean it doesn't matter if Tucker's fired. But like they're like government accounts are verified too. And we're talking about like school like university accounts that tell students when to shelter in place because of a mass shooting. Right.

So those are also unverified. So now anybody with eight bucks can pretend to be the University of Ohio. Right. And Ohio State University and announcers a school shooting. and everyone should fucking run and hide. All right. There's like, there's a city. So one city has like eight different police Twitter accounts now

and all the reclaiming to be a real one and they're all arguing with each other about who the real police are. So like, when there's a disaster or a manufacturer disaster, how are we going to know, right? This is just fucking chaos and it's stupid. Like I saw like real unverified Charlie Sheen

arguing with, fake verified Clay Thompson last night. I'm not sure which one's dumber. That's two Charlie Sheen mentions on one episode of the skews in 2023, so I just want to keep track of that. So he got rid of the

verification, which is a fucking nightmare for anybody who wants to be able to follow the news in real time, like me. He did this in order to try to make people pay the $8 because he's collapsed Twitter's ad income by like 90%

by being a humongous dipshit interpersonally, but also because of letting the Nazis and scammers back on, companies don't want their ads next to Nazi shit, right? It's bad for the brand. So if you're wondering how much money this has netted him, trying to force people to sign up, the first day had 28 signups. He spent $44 billion to turn away 90% of advertising and a plan to make $224. Yeah. America's like he grew it up right

Which is like Do you talk about the people that don't want to buy Blue Check just because Twitter Because Elon wants him to? That's absolutely true. Like people don't like him personally If you spend time on on Twitter. That's a weird thing.

It's like there was a public polling About his popularity. And America overall is pretty popular. Like 49% of people like Elon Musk a lot. Either some or a lot. And only 37% of people have a distaste for him. But the people who interact with him people who tweets he literally replies to, they can read what he's thinking and writing all day, every day, fucking hate his guts.

So that tells you anything at all about the myth of what rich people are actually like. So if you're wondering what it's like, what his presence on there is like, since he bought Twitter, he's made a hard right turn, his political presentation of himself, which you've talked about before, and he's been incredibly unfunny about it. He's a least funny motherfucker on earth, which is really the basis of all this. He's taking away people's jobs. He's fire people. He's stiffing businesses on, he's not paying rent on his headquarters. he publicly mocked and sent his sycophantic fans after the disabled employee that he laid off.

He surrounded himself with a bunch of people who spent all weekend on Twitter scolding everyone else for not paying the $8. Like, he's talking about how unpopular he is on Twitter. He posted a poll about whether or not he should be the CEO of Twitter. He lost it like 92 to 8. And then he started to announce that only people pay for Twitter bloke can vote in polls now.

right he's saddam hussein in his election yeah he's just a deeply weird guy last night someone he tweeted a screen grab the x thing revealed he has a private alt account and someone tracked it down he posts stuff the response to people saying like do you like japanese girls uh he but he also posts in the voice of his three-year-old son ex um he's just a fucking huge weirdo and this is a Quote the end of the story, the last line of the story hit for me. Because like, like Trey mentioned earlier, he's a press office. Basically doesn't exist. If you email their press office, you get an auto reply with just a poop emoji.

Gizmoto reached out to Twitter's press office for comment but received the poop emoji in response. That's everything. All right. So, yeah, this is all just very fucking frustrating. But yeah, he turned the blue bark into a scarlet letter now. We got to, but the main thing is like all this might be illegal. because he started putting blue checks back on celebrity accounts, which implied an endorsement.

All celebrities immediately started announcing they did not fucking pay for this shit and do don't want to be associated with it. So he's going to get, he's already been hit. Twitter's already operating under FTC consent decree. He's not supposed to be doing any of this. He should be in whatever rich finance jail is. Yeah. Yeah.

So sorry, I lost track of time. Honeymoise was sorry, six. That's all good. All good. A lot to cover. I'll have to get into a lot of railing to do on Elon Musk, which he very much deserves. So it's all good. But that will do it for this week's episode. Remind you all quickly. Tray Crowder.com. Check out my special and also the tickets to my shows. Please

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