Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 6/27/2023 – Coup Coup Cachoo

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

On tonight’s show, Mark is back to talk about Russia’s coup situation (an idea they clearly stole from US) as well as a pizza scandal and MTG vs Boebert. Join us.Support the show

Howdy, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day, T. It's June 27th, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark Aegee back this week from, I was telling everybody last week you were at the beach, Mark, but that was never true the whole time. We were like making fun of thinking about you on the beach,

being miserable and all this stuff. And turns out that was just never in the cards at all. But either way, welcome back. No, no, I was home for my mom's 70th birthday party and my cousin's wedding. The fun time, good, good family hangs, got to see my buddies from high school. Before we, uh, before we would dwell, sorry, before we went live, we were just arguing about who had, came from a world pot on town. And that's when I found out Trey's nickname in high school was Tuna for reasons I won't go into unless you want to.

Not for anything bad. It's for a good reason, but I'm sure he doesn't want me to spill the, means on that so uh yeah the uh but like i was just thinking about because i was home i think i think i mentioned that like my home county made the national news because they because of a trump-fueled election fraud bullshit like they forced out some nice lady who ran the county's elections because they thought that like she was rigging the election for democrats not because any of them won but because one one democrat came slightly too close and people thought was appropriate so like there's signs all over the county

trying to force out the county commission, like some elected county official. And I saw signs set all over the place saying, Don's got to go. And I was like, is this about Trump? And nope, it's not about Trump. It's about somebody who they think is anti-Trump. But I was reading about it. It turns out a guy I went to high school with is the current Commonwealth attorney. And he's

having to bat down with these idiots being like, look, we looked into it. There's no electoral fraud. You fucking take those. So literally just because they just didn't think the numbers checked at like what because there was like eight Democrat votes or whatever and they were like now we know both of them I don't know where those other six came from but I suspect foul play and as such Don's got to go we count we counted all the gays and all the black folks and we got four more votes than that's yeah right yeah exactly exactly I just since you brought the the nickname thing I was going to say here in a minute that we also found out that evidently producer Matt's nickname in high school was hillbilly so I feel like that's pretty on brand for the show so uh hillbilly Matt every now and then might interchangeably go with that producer

hillbilly something like that either way works but go on yeah yeah it's like even you like I don't think we're just talking about it you didn't quite understand how rural I grew up but I was thinking about my mom just got good internet um which is a real game changer and like Biden administration started rolling out like rural broadband access today and republicans are all taking credit for 40 and they all voted against it. Yeah, I saw Tommy Tuberville did that and John Cornyn and probably somebody else. They're clapping about like Alabama, getting broadband access or whatever when they voted against it. Yeah.

I don't know why Democrats are so bad at taking credit for this stuff or whatever, like why they can't make it clear to people that, you know, we're at least marginally more likely to try to make her, like invest public resources and improving your. lies as opposed to just punishing people who don't like. I saw this. I saw somebody on Reddit that compiled a list of all the various accomplishments of the Biden administration so far, you know. And I mean, it was a lot of shit. And we've talked about on the show before about how like, yeah, they've actually gotten a lot of stuff done.

But it was like, like you said, I don't know why they're so bad at taking credit or if it just don't get through or what. But it's like, it's stuff that most people just straight up don't know about it. If they do know about it, they don't know about it. They don't know that they did it or would call it bad. And if it's something good, you know, they give the Tubervilles and whoever of the world credit for it instead. And it's got to be pretty maddening because like, I mean,

what do you do with that? I don't know. Like, I follow more news than anybody and I don't see them taking credit for any, you know, taking credit for it. It's like if I don't know about it, the other fuck is like, you know, somebody who just checks on the news every now and then I'm going to know about it. But anyway, so I got a fun show today, I think.

I'm going to talk about one of of Biden's many accomplishments, you know, causing a coup in Russia to distract from Hunter Biden's laptop. Pretty smart. Long game, buddy, long game. I think we're, depending on the news, I think we're probably going to talk about a lot of Supreme Court stuff in the Patreon episode this week because it's the end of the term. They're cranking out a lot of opinions. You also get a new corruption scandal. Lose account, buddy. But I wanted to mention this.

The big case that everyone was scared of. The independent state legislatures theory that Republicans have been pushing, which basically says that, like, the state legislature, if they don't like who the state voted for, can just, like, pick the president. This is a case in North Carolina, more versus, I can't remember something. But they basically, when North Carolina had a liberal Supreme Court, they threw out North Carolina state legislatures, gerrymandered maps. That didn't hit for them.

So they filed a federal case, went to the Supreme Court. in the meantime the Republicans have taken over the state Supreme Court so they reversed the decision I don't know and so the case was kind of moot

but the Supreme Court still chose to weigh in being like nah you can't fucking do that you can't state legislature wrote the state constitution you can't ignore the state constitution because the state legislature feels like

because you're the ones that wrote the motherfucking rules that is the state legislature sitting rules the election you're bound by your own rules right Now, the Supreme Court did, the reasoning isn't totally great because it basically argues it because of Bush v. Gore, it's the Supreme Court that gets to decide.

Yeah, right. So it's not totally great, but it was, you know, three of conservatives, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts. Yeah. It was to write a pretty bad opinion, but the liberals had to sign on to where they wouldn't have got a majority, so I get what they did. But a couple of things. Yeah.

I feel like they've been like, you know, knock on wood have been like less terrible recently overall than like most of us would have expected. Like I feel like there's been a couple of Supreme Court rulings recently. You're like, oh, well, wow, you know, whew, I could have gone the other way and I'm kind of surprised it didn't. But with this one, a couple things I don't understand. You said it was moot because the North Carolina Supreme Court had already reversed the decision before it even got to the, you know, U.S. Supreme Court. but like what like what does that actually mean for the outcome of the law except like so does North Carolina just going to continue with their gerrymandered bullshit and they can even though this was ruled against and does it set precedent from for other states in the future or like

does it have any effect or was it them just being like this is what we think just so everybody knows I saw some experts saying it's mainly Wisconsin but this could have an effect on it because of Wisconsin just elected a I can't remember name that lay with a hard and pronounced last name. I got like the Supreme Court and flip the partisan makeup of it. So they're going to be hearing a lot of voting rights cases. So basically gives them a little more leeway unless the Supreme Court decides to smack them down, which like, I don't know a lawyer here, but like, state courts are supposed to set state cases. It's pretty weird for the federal government to intervene in a state case. It doesn't like, you know, conflict with a federal law or something. So this is all sort

of weird, unprecedented. But they, at least they came out and told all the dumb asses include like basically independent state legislature theory was the there's the intellectual underpinning for trump trying to overturn the election so soon court telling everybody to get fucked on that's pretty uh pretty cool um i wanted to mention this story out of uh i think was florida a guy shot at his pool cleaner um 30 times in his back i think it might have been texas it's it's funny it's definitely one of the two it's definitely either florida or texas no it's florida it's florida i just clicked on it's sorry um Pinellas County, Florida. So the guy, this guy's pool cleaner was running behind. So it was a little late, so he came after dark.

And the guy just shot through his patio door 30 times as pool cleaner. Did not hit the guy. The guy was injured by some glass charge from the window. But he got, he's not even going to be charged because this is the quote in the sheriff. It's lawful but awful saying he can't charge the guy because it's standing ground law, which basically like this is getting, like cops arrest people on fishy charges all the time. at least make this guy go to court. But this basically means if you could lure somebody onto your property, you can just murder them.

So if you ever wanted to murder a pizza delivery guy for the thrill of it, Pinellas County, Florida, it just green lit it for you. Yeah, because I thought, you know, right, it's not that I thought this was the idea. It's just you think the idea would be like if someone's there without any kind of reason, like, you know, an actual intruder or home invader or whatever. But, like, if someone comes on your property for a reason that you are, you know, party to or whatever, for example, they work for you or whatever, I feel like you ought not be able to shoot at them 30 times and or, you know, Tournament of Swiss cheese. Also, dude, how do you shoot from your house onto your own back deck 30 times and just not hit nothing? Like, it's indicative of a lot of these gun nuts. I feel like their level of aptitude for the weapons of death that they so enjoy, which is... I was riding around my brother-in-law, picking up tables and chairs from my mom's birthday party.

And my brother-law is a real, you know, he's a real good old boy. He owns, I don't even know how many guns. And he was like, he was like, just so you know when you go to town, if you walk in in a grocery store, Target or something, you're probably going to see a bunch of dumbasses carrying around open carrying like AR-15s and shit. If even he thinks that's stupid, he was, in offense him. because they're being pussies. Yeah.

It's like, it's like, if he's bothered by this shit, that I don't know like why we can't have any sort of meaningful, like league regime that can handle it.

But it's all pretty fucking stupid bleak to me. I know you guys talked about last week. Can I rant about the Ocean Gate sub thing for a second? Sure. I would love to hear your take

on that whole thing. Yeah. Because all people got super moralistic because people were cracking a lot of jokes on the internet or, you know, everywhere. saying it was inhumane to like

but like if I die in a stupid way please feel free have some fun in my expense because like if if I like stick my head in a tiger cage trying to reach my mouth out to get a hot dog I dropped and a tiger claws in my jugular I'm honestly going to get a little bit of joy

out of knowing how much fun you guys are going to have with that as I bleed out but also like what do you expect Yeah, like, it's like, if you do something this stupid, they got in a, in a plastic garbage can to go to visit the Titanic. It had a PlayStation controller. The inside lights, my understanding, they got at a camping store. The actual viewing window they're using the Titanic was a digital screen, so you were just watching like a YouTube video of a video.

They also, they had, they did have an actual port hole at the other end of the sub above the chemical toilet. which also the porthole was not rated for that depth by the way it was rated to like 1,300 meters or something and they were like 4,000 meters so it's like less than half of what it traded for or more than double what it traded for rather yeah dude everything about it was and i know and i thought so i did i talked about it on stage last weekend when i was on the road in virginia actually and fucking killed by the way everybody you know like nobody seemed to have a problem nobody seemed to have a problem with it is what i'm saying but i cut So I clip some of that out and put it, put it online on Monday. And part of me was like, you know, like, is this fucked up? But then I was like, no, dude, fuck it. Because it's like you said. And also, like, I feel like there's, you know, at least a little bit of a class warfare element to it. I, you know, like people spending 200 feet like a life changing amount of money, you know, on a stupid, full hearty venture that ultimately

leads to their death. I'm not saying anybody deserves to die. I'm not like happy they died or nothing. But like, you know, come on. You opened yourself up to some measure of ridicule. I definitely feel bad for the kid because like he was a kid. He didn't get like it. But like the other like one guy, a couple of guys on there.

One was like a Jacques de Kousseau like French dude. Like exploring deep sea. Another guy was like a real daredevil type and set like some aviation records and stuff. And I'm like, okay, I've done stupid thrill-s sticking shit in my life. I've gone bungee jumping. I've jumped off a cliff into the ocean, you know, rode dirt bikes way too fast without a helmet. I was a kid.

If I died during any of that, make fun of me. One thing I did think was kind of funny to think about funny and dark is like all those people, if there were some kind of afterlife, you know, and then they got there and they were like, oh, man, I bet the whole world was watching. Everybody was super worried for us, you know, came together. I was to come back and then, like, you show them. like that meme somebody made of Godzilla using the sub as a fleshlight you remember that words yeah

these people were making like oh oh this is how people reacted okay I don't yeah there's definitely some class warfare stuff in there but like but like also like I don't want billionaires to die I want the fucking tax them but like the but even if like so four of the five I can say well they're victims right but who the victims of the CEO was also on there Guy's an absolute fucking con artist. It raised $18 million to fail to do something. James Cameron had already done 33 times on a submarine that was way cheaper.

He'd been told it was unsafe, not just by people that work for him, but buy James Cameron himself. When James Cameron tells you something, you should probably fucking listen to it about going to Titanic. And it's like, this is a pretty big example of how, like, one hockster can capture enough venture money to, like, empower idiots to ruin and destroy lives. And like, we're living through that right now. You can't expect people not to see their own stories in it. Dude, that guy, like him, most of the jokes I did on stage and in the clip I put out were ripping on him specifically. And he absolutely deserves it because he was like, he was just begging for it, dude. Like so many of the quotes and footage they found to him and drug up, poor choice of words.

But like it was a, you know, it was just like I said in the thing, I was like he was just spreading his butt cheeks to fate this whole time. you know and just begging for something because he's like people tried to tell him it was unsafe and he was like you know there was there's 10 submersibles rated for that depth in the world that was the only one that wasn't certified by or by whoever you know the regulatory authority that was the only one because he's like regulation stifle innovation we're pioneers we're not going to be held down by the you know the rigors of of bureaucracy or whatever this is about you know doing something other people haven't done that all this type of talk just like just like just Just the hubris of that dude was absolutely unreal. And, yeah, what do you know, like submarine rating experts? I got money. But so like, but like some of the regulation stuff, like my understanding is after the Titanic itself crashed, there was a push for more regulation of like shipbuilding and stuff and a, you know, ship management, ship lanes. And so there's already a pushback against any sort of regulation of this industry. Let me read your quote here.

I've seen a bunch of people at this point, but this is the dumbest way, I think. Glenn Beck said, it bothers me that the U.S. government is now saying, should we have more federal regulation? No, I don't think we need more submarine laws. That stops innovation. That just stops it.

These guys all signed documents that say, some of the liability waivers. Okay, but the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy spent millions of dollars in manned hours trying to save these people who were already dead, like, the moment they went under, basically. And, like, my thing is like, okay, we'll sign one more waiver

that we're not going to fucking look for you if you're going to risk your life in this stupid-ass way. Because, like, there's a pretty one-to-one comparison here. Right now, hundreds of migrants are drowning a week in the Mediterranean trying to get to Europe. And one just capsized last week. It lost 750 people from Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Palestine. Only 104 people have been rescued alive.

It's, like, close to 650 is still missing. And they've made it illegal to save these people. If NGOs and charity organizations have been out in the water trying to rescue. people whose boats capsize or turn over or they're in leaky, shitty, shitty boats run by human smugglers, they get charged for aiding illegal immigration under the theory that they're collaborating with Libyan smugglers by trying to save them from the Libyan smugglers. So like, think about how many of these migrants could have been rescued for the same amount of money that the West of World spent trying to find these five dipshits who are already dead.

As my point, it's empathy for me, but not for the, and it's weird how people find the billionaire going to say Titanic more relatable than these migrants I feel like a whole lot of people wouldn't even know anything about what you just said if the Titanic sub hadn't happened you know what I mean like like it just like it goes underreported or unreported nobody gives a shit in general you know until something makes it like relevant to bring up and you know now people are at least aware of it but yeah pretty fucked up

yeah obviously All right. Well, yeah, yeah, sure. With us as always is producer Hillbilly, Matt. This is weekly skews. Before we continue, I want to remind you all of a couple items of business. Of course, number one, if you like to see me perform live, as I was just talking about, go to Trey Crowder.com. Get your tickets. I'll be in Wisconsin coming up next. Then Kentucky, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Connecticut, upstate New York, Texas, a bunch of places. I'm still adding more dates all the time. So it's going to be busy the latter half of this year and it's going to be fun. and see me, Tray Crowder.com. On me doing stand-up note, you also, if you would like, can watch my special damn boy on my YouTube channel now for free. So check that out. It's a good time as well.

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Well, where is the state of Florida to stand up for me? Where is the bed to stand up for me and my rights? Well, my guns have been stolen. My ammunition, my children, they've all been stolen from me. See, that's the difference in writing a letter to your congressman and having your views reflected in policy and action. Somebody must find the Democrat who has done this. somebody has came into this man's home and stolen his guns and I suspect it was a Democrat somewhere.

So I hope that I suspect it was the way he was ranting about it. They took 32 of my guns, thousands of res the ammunition, and also my kids. So I'm assuming someone's a protective order. I couldn't tell if he was calling his guns, his babies, or if he actually meant also my children, you know. I'm going to guess he got radicalized by a family court judge. But this is not a hearing that you, Marjor Taylor Green has been on a tear about the ATF being like, I don't know, out of control or whatever, which is to my, as far as I can tell, the ATF doesn't do shit, but whatever, Marjor Taylor Green's mad at him. I don't know if you remember she did a thing where she stood in front of a gun store and stopped an ATF inspector from going in the gun store to do his routine. Do you have your paperwork sort of check?

So they had this, this, you know, accountability field hearing in Florida with her and Matt. gates and immediately it gets ruined marjor taylor green's event gets ruined by an obvious marjor taylor green supporter yeah you would think that happens all the time to them you know but yeah yeah attract the best crowd how do you uh why is everything i do ruined by people who are like me i wonder if i should reflect about that at all um i wanted to use this energy point to talk about in a couple of Marjorie Taylor Green stories. So last week on the house floor, Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert got in a finger-pourning

streaming match. That headline is incredible. That's one of my favorite headlines I've read in a minute. For anybody that's only listening, the headline from Intelligence, it says, Marjorie Taylor Green on calling Bobert a little bitch, quote, she's a little bitch. Yeah.

Well, clears that up. So to set the context, talking about people that are like Marginer Taylor Green, ruining Marginer Green's life. So Laura Bulber is the Dr. Thunder version of Marginle Green, right? So she has Marginle Green is introduced like, I don't know, six different articles of impeachment against Joe Biden. Bolbert essentially Xeroxed one of them and fast-tracked it in a different way to get a headline fast with the Marjorie Taylor Greenwoods.

That's what Marjorie Dele Green was mad about. She calls her a little bitch on the house floor. Lauren Bolbert tells everybody, let me read the exact quote. I've donated, this is Marge talking. I've donated to you, I've defended you, but you've been nothing but a little bitch to me and you copy my articles of impeachment

after I asked you to co-sponsor them. And then Lauren Bolbert goes to the press and tells them that Marjorie Delaer Green called her a little bitch. And so, as Trey alluded to in the, and we're reading the headline, we quote here, defending her choice of words, Green invoked the perfect logic of a bully. And that's not really.

She said that she called her over to a little bitch because she has, quote, genuinely been an assy little bitch to me. Right. Yeah. You know. Oh, God. What was I supposed to call her? Yeah.

What she is? What are you going to do? Yeah. It's funny to that it's like, you know, you copied my art. Like, because the, the. So any of them can draw up articles of impeachment anytime they want to, right? But it doesn't, you know, it doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere or anything. Like, they can just do it anytime they want to.

But Marge is mad because she was going to do it, but Bobrick got better to the finish line. So what McCarthy's been doing, the bunch they've been following a bunch, right? I've lost count of how many. But what Kevin McCarthy's been doing is following them to committees to delay to try, because these would be bad, stupid headlines for them, right? is we're heading into an election year in six months, which is we're in a permanent election cycle now. So they don't want to look stupid.

So McCarthy's quietly like shuffling them around at different development committees that would hold hearings. And so it would take months and months and months of delaying. He's apparently the way I read, he's convinced Marjorie that this is the more professional way to do it. So Bobber tried to fast track to the floor of the house, but the way she followed it.

And so she's trying to get her headline, but the consequence of making them all look fucking stupid. I'd hope for them to all look fucking stupid. They must be really tore up over that possibility. I'm like, like, there's no good guys in this fight. This whole episode's about how fights there are really no good guys in. But this is a guy. March also had an online meltdown other day because her TV wasn't working or somebody tried to connect to the wrong internet connection.

And made her TV flicker and give some weird signals. So she'd assume she's being spied on. assassins. Or by Barack Obama, I believe. Yeah, she posted to me with Barack Obama spy on order

like Obama, Obama's hacking Marjor Taylor Green's TV while she's trying to stream the real housewives of Atlanta or something. She also seems to think people are going to have her killed

because she's doing that thing a lot of people do when they think people are trying to kill them doing that, by the way, I would never commit suicide thing, which was the guy the software security guy,

John McAfee? Yeah. He posted a little bit of suicide, then immediately killed himself. Yeah. He was wild, though. I mean, not that she's not. She's also pretty goddamn wild, but yeah. Yeah.

So she posted on Twitter, just for the record, I'm very happy. I'm also very healthy and eat well and exercise a lot. I don't smoke and never have. I don't take any medications. Side of no, you probably should. I'm not vaccinated. I'm not concerned about blood clots, heart condition, strokes, or anything else. So if Marjorie Dr. Dealer Green dies, guys, you're heard it here first.

the deep state got to her, and President Obama and personally injected a chemical that would give her a heart attack between her toes. Yep. Well, here's hoping. All right, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is anybody who thought all them spaghetti people in New York City wouldn't start planting IEDs if you came for their pizza? Yeah. If you ain't heard, there's a big pizza scandal going on in the big apple.

Another stupid moral panic drop. Yeah. Let's hear from this meatball. rate ever. We are being invaded by illegal immigrants who are being treated way better than our homeless veterans. Our city schools produce the dumbest kids. And the old f-punks who run New York shitty are afraid of pizza. This is the New York pizza party. Give us pizza or give us death. Give us pizza. He's now throwing pieces of pizza over the gate. Bosses pizza in New York City Hall. The response to what it is.

The mayor's mansion. He's chucking a paper. Which is like, dude, that's not cool. That's a fucking pizza. You'd think somebody like him would have more respect for pizza than just hurling onto the ground like that. Like that kind of bothers me saying that. Yeah. I don't like to see pizza treated that way.

New York's lunatic mayor, Eric Adams, many complain over this was the guy didn't let him eat the pizza. He's like, just bring it to me. We eat it. So the context of this is the New York posted a story over the weekend They totally misread potential new city policy So the city government is considering asking a lot of like old stool pizza ovens They use coal and wood to try to to cut back on particulate

Like being released in the air because apparently The air inside pizza places can cause increased asthma rates and like you know Lung conditions and stuff so can living near the pizza places so but even the mayor misunderstood this in his clip he's talking about how we need to get our carbon flipper down this is not about climate stuff this is about like lung health and all they're going to do this this would affect the maximum of 50 to 60 pizza places total in entirety of new york city and what asked them to do is uh it would require pizza owners to have an architect or engineer come check out the oven and see if it's feasible to install an emission

scrubber. If not, they can apply for a waiver. So this guy, the city government is going to ask 50 people, 50 places to undergo an inspection to see if they can either install a scrubber or get a waiver. And then the fucking fake right news rags turn it into a climate protest where this guy is throwing pizza at the mayor's house. And I feel like you, like, you, like, it started with the post, right? And like, they knew what they were doing, right? They knew it were like, if we, if we spin a yarn that the Democrats are coming for your pizza, like these people lose their minds and that'll be good for numbers, whatever. And then that's exactly what happened.

It's funny that they, they think that, like, they genuinely believe that, like, Democrats hate ovens, you know, because, like, like, first it was gas stoves, pizza ovens. It's like, we just want you all to eat just raw parsnips all the time, just raw vegetables only. And, of course, wait, grass. Trump gave a speech today where he said that. Democrats were coming for your washers and dryers. I don't have any context for that. We hate appliances.

You got to do something about all these goddamn appliances out here. Yeah, I don't really understand where they get this stuff from. It's like any time the government does anything, they assume the stupidest possible motivation for it, the most like authoritarian tendency and then work backwards from there to try to figure out what they did and come with the worst case scenario possible. It's just maybe, maybe we should lessen the chance you're getting asthma from me. eating a nice pizza. And let's see if we can figure that out. It's not even a rule yet. Maybe it's too nanny state-ish.

We can have a talk about it. Don't throw pizza at the fucking mayor's house. All right. Next, Honorable Mention for Daily Dumbass, is anybody who wouldn't do 30 years worth of steroids to be able to bench press the weight of a large dog? This is renowned lunatic, Robert Kennedy, Jr. Doing bench pressing with a shirt off for some.

reason by the way in blue jeans with a dress belt now trey you lift some weights can you see how much he's pushing right there i mean if i'm looking at it right is that is that 35 pounds on each side is that a 25 and a 10 is that what that is yeah that's what i thought yeah so he's jacked his shit benching 115 pounds which is not to be all too jim radish and you guys but that's not like not remotely his form's awful i i didn't know steroids can make you jacked but not stronger. This is a weird way to learn that. And also this guy.

The guy spotting him, though, has got classic spotter for him, I feel like, you know, he's doing, he's doing all the thing. Like, there, yeah, there you go. There you go. Push it. Yeah. Okay. There it is.

Like, and that's, you know, universally accepted technique. A bunch of people in line being like, who are going to take health advice from this guy or Dr. Fauci? I'm like, I, the RFK is 69 years old. You cannot be that buff in 69 years old without significant. chemical health. So he's rich enough that like if you guys don't know this, the people who do a lot of HGH and steroids. It is safe to do under doctor's supervision if you get like monthly cancer screenings because HGH also supercharged as cancer. So like he's getting monthly colonoscopies to make

sure he's not dying at cancer. So he can look at Jack. And how are you going to stay that Jack in the White House, bro? It's a busy schedule. I also if I was and I mean he's running as a Democrat and everything I know. But like where he's like what he's courting, I don't, it's not like it matters, because they'll just paint you on to a jackd dude. You know what I mean? Like, you don't have to be a jacked on Trump. I saw a picture of Trump as a Roman centurion yesterday, a shirtless one. He looked literally more Jack than Gerard Butler from 300.

And they do that shit all the time. It's like, they're so, what, why is the president need to be ripped? Like, you know, the rock, we need the rock to be president. in. I mean, don't give anybody any ideas, but it's just, so where it's all that alpha male shit, I guess. But, you know, obviously, 80% of them are all fucking

flabby and mediocre. Yeah, I want to show that videos we do a, you guys talked about RFK, the whole episode, the base segment last week. But today, it was going on as we logged on to start the show. He was holding an event with a doctor who says, COVID vaccines, make forks, makes forks stick to your body.

She's one of those COVID vaccines, turning magnetic people, named Sharon Sherry Tenpenny. We probably talked about her on here because she gave this testimony at Ohio House Health Committee hearing, became national news. She testified at the state legislative panel that 5G turned those COVID vaccines and human magnets. Her medical license is curly under challenge. And if you're interested in learning more from her, she currently runs an online course

called COVID shots, your interview and analysis of upcoming shots and boosters, which you can watch for $229. So she's on the up and up and fuck our FK Jr. Yeah. All right. As we move in to the main topic today, we've got time for one more dumbass. And it is Joe Biden himself for starting a Russian coup to distract from Hunter's laptop. Can you believe this?

Play it, Mark. Or play it. We're covering it. Rightfully so. Does it break through and become a real problem? The White House wanted to give the media something else to cover. And this is the MO. This is exactly the way they do things.

In fact, on Friday, I said, wow, what a blockbuster, what's that message. I'm sure there will be an enormous story over the weekend that the White House is going to be pushing to take this story off of the front page. And sure enough, we've got the State Department drumming up all the drama that took place over the weekend in Russia. So I don't know if it's going to break through. The mainstream media has an excuse again not to cover it. They're covering everything about Russia and the Wagner group. Yeah, it's true. As it really matters to the U.S. right now.

Yeah. You got about it. So this take was every. everywhere. It wasn't just Maria Bart Romo who's turned into a raving lunatic. There was his influencer who started to talk about like if you have this cream grab, Matt you can throw it up there, but he was like

basically saying like first it was a submarine now it's Russia. Like Joe Biden sank the fucking Ocean Gate submarine to distract the Hunter Biden scandal. That's not the only, I saw on that specific note, I saw some other people saying like in the replies to Don Jr's tweet about the Ocean Gate and stuff,

I saw people saying things like, has anyone checked to see if any of the passengers had dirt on Bill or Hillary. Yeah. And another one was like, another one was like, maybe they oppose the central banking system. It's like, Jesus fucking Christ, man. It's like you said earlier, it's like, you know, these are your people. It's what you attract.

But like they, you know how it's like limp-risted soy boys, but also fucking, you know, vegan supercommandos or whatever? It's the same thing with Joe Biden where it's like he's mentally incompetent and an old, you know, old, sleepy, Joe the grandpa who whose brain don't work yet he's also like orchestrating these like worldwide you know distractions up to it including a military coup in Russia it's just it just doesn't make any goddamn sense but they genuinely believe it all to be true I was going to say like that like I'm so fucking annoyed by like these people having to filter every world event through like American culture world bullshit

but like I think I figured out I have a theory for what it is like they see the world like we talked like about you know Q it on before so like movie influence down to like the crack and being from the fucking stupid Titans movie from like 10 years ago or whatever but like

so checkoff's gone right when you see something happening a TV show no one waste time's film it unless it's important so it's going to be called back later right If you see like a matchbook being set on a table, someone's going to use it to set a fire later or whatever, right? So these people see something happen on TV. Trump versus Clinton is the TV show they watch all the time.

So they assume they start trying to figure out how it connects to the larger, fucking story or narrative, right? Right. But like the world doesn't work like that. So let's talk about what actually happened before we get to the stupid American reaction to it. So, all right. So the Wagner group, which is a Russian mercenary army, we'll talk about them a little bit.

led by this guy named Yvgeny Pugosin, who is a fascinating character, also evil, I want to say it up front. So nobody was actually rooting for him. If he had somehow taken over the Kremlin and Rand was running Russia now, it's probably worse.

I'm going to say it up front. So he pulled his, on Friday, he pulled his troops off the front line and started marching into Russia. He took the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, which is a critical military outpost with no resistance.

Then they started just like, fuck it started going towards moscow they got within 200 kilometers of moscow before like turning around and going back to the front uh before that they started to get to why this all started progozen was being investigated for treason sort of um and i'm not sure how much of this like i'm not sure how much this makes any sort of fucking sense or it's just a couple dudes with grudges right like whether there was a rational cause for this because i like the more i read about it the more confusing against because it seems like everybody's gassed up on conspiracy theories

Pergosen is pissed off about how the war is going Wagner as far as war fighting going if war fighting goes is more competent than the mainline Russian military so they're very frustrated with how the military is running the war right? Progozen seems to think they're getting a lot of unnecessary guy killed a guy's killed unnecessarily which is true

right still one Ukraine to push them all they got to do is stop the killing is go home, all right? He's been complaining about an ammunition shortage, but it looks like maybe he was holding back ammunition to get Russia to keep re-arming him so he could turn his weapons on the Russian military. Pretty slick. So there were reports last week that Progozen had met with Ukrainian intelligence and maybe been offered a better deal to switch sides.

Now, I can't tell whether that's a conspiracy theory or the leaked messages from the Discord chats were real. and really fed into why Putin had his house searched and was trying to arrest him in the ship. Last week, they were trying to turn over Bachmutt. They had captured Bachman. They had been holding Bachmet, sorry, in Ukraine. Try to hand it over to the Russian militarists.

They could, like, you know, move around and change assignments or whatever. The mainland Russian military planted landmines in their way, which really pissed off Bergozum. When he complained about it, the Russian military fired missiles at him. And he says, killed a bunch of his guys. So all this is to say, what the fuck?

Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean, it's wild. I mean, the whole thing was like 24 hours, right? It's like the mutiny or whatever it is starts. He starts marching to Moscow. They get to like 200 kilometers or whatever away, but then the deal is brokered and he turns around and puts himself into exile if they'll stop investigating him further, but also he.

Right. and then turns and sends his guys back to the front or whatever. Are there other hot dog warlords? This guy was a hot dog seller. Are there other like hot dog warlords who have like groups of bloodthirsty mercenaries at their disposal? Because I feel like, you know, it's indicative of perhaps some weaknesses or something. I just didn't know that, you know, you could just do that.

I guess if you got your own army, you can just do that. You can just turn around and be like, no, I'm going to take everything. So to explain the hot dog thing, let me run through Pergosen's biography real quick. So he was born in Leningrad, I think like in 1969. He grew up wanting to be a cross-country skier, but apparently didn't hit at sports. Sorry, he's born in 61. In 79, he was 18 years old. He was caught stealing and got suspended sentence.

Then two years later, he was again caught stealing and sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbery fraud. And involving teenagers in crime, which was a hidden criminal statute for Russia to come up with. sentenced to 12 years, pardoned after nine. When he got out of prison in 1990, he, right as the Soviet Union was collapsing. He started selling hot dogs with his mom and stepdad at an open-air market, which apparently were really profitable.

I'll get to his criminal history in a second, Matt. He started, used the capital from the hot dogs to open restaurants and casinos. This is when Russia became hyper-capitalists in the 90s, so it was time for anybody with low moral standards to get really fucking rich. He eventually started to catering

company, which catered for the Kremlin, which is how he became close friends with Vladimir Putin for a while, until last week, apparently. He also, he was linked to a company called Translates to Moscow Schoolboy. They would basically supply poor quality of food to Moscow schools. And in 2019, caused a dysentery outbreak among Moscow schoolchildren. So, like, all this is, so I was trying to go with an American parallel for this. And it's like, if we tried to invade Mexico, because we sort of thought Baja was ours, and the entire U.S. military got bogged down in the desert. Then Blackwater turned on us and started marching towards D.C. Overnight, except Blackwater was run by an ex-convict version of Guy Fierry.

It's sort of like what this fucking is. Yeah, it's pretty fucking insane. It's like everything in Russia is wild. But also, like, I mean, goddamn, you got to, you leave jail and start slinging hot dogs with your parents from a cart in the square. And then, you know, 30 years later, you've got your own literal army. like I mean you know pretty good come up man you started so you've rents casinos

and a catering company he was like fuck it I'll be a warlord and starts a mercenary firm Right Those come to those These guys live in like some sort of Like bizarre evil version of the American dream How fast it came up like

Post criminal history back up there mad Right So look at the sequence of this events All right So 1979 theft 81 robbery fraud 2018 conspiracy to defraud the United States 23 incitement to armed rebellion in Russia

Yeah That is zero to the major leagues real quick. And by the way, the conspiracy for all the United States, another company owns as the internet, sorry, the IRA, it was that the internet something agent, internet research agency. They were involved in election rat fuckery in 2016. He ran the company and it did that. J.D. Vance was like, post a tweet. There was like, oh, now liberals are rooting for fucking this warlord.

It's like, no, nobody's rude. This guy's evil. He sucks. We're going to get into Wagner, War. war crimes in a minute, I would enjoy hearing that bad things happen to Vladimir Putin. Right. But if we're being real about it, like, there was no scenario in which Progoza was going to be the new president of Russia.

The best case scenario was probably what happened, which was nothing, because having a nuclear-powered state completely collapsed as applies to the world's interred. Like, you'd have 10 different warlords controlling nukes and also the world economy cratering because there's much less oil and gas. And, like, it's just like, this is not good. There's no good result here. But like, you think is this guy going to get,

uh, is he going to get defenestrated, do you think at some point? Yeah. You know, chucked out a window because it's like he lives in Belarus and self-imposed exile now. And it's like, it feels to me like it makes Putin look weak that it happened anyway, right?

So like, is he not going to retaliate? Because I thought he'd just be defenestrating everybody. He'd throw a fucking journalist out of window like that. Like he's this. Starts a coup and just gets to chill in Belarus. It seems unlikely to me. Yeah, so Belarus is president, a guy named Lukashenko, is the one who brokered the settlement that got Progogian to turn his army around.

Now, I wouldn't quite clear, like, he claims Wagner has 25,000 troops. I don't think it's that many because a few years ago was just 6,000, but their numbers have been gassed up by recruits they've been getting from Russian prison camps for Ukraine. all right now i don't know how low of those guys are in anybody i mean i don't we talk about i don't think somebody's inherently a bad or evil person because they're in prison but like you know like you get offered a free chance to get at a prison if you want if you agree to go kill people it seems like you're not the i mean we all do weird shit to get out of russian prisons i get it um but like so let's talk about wagner for a second um so like the russian military because whatever beef they're having with progozen and wagner and

was going to disband Wagner and absorb them into the regular military. Which is a pretty big concession from Russia because Russia's whole deal with Wagner since he started in like 2014 is they don't actually control Wagner. Right. It was a little deniability, right? Right. Right. So it wasn't even public that Pergosen actually owned them until last year.

People suspected it because the guy technically was in charge of it was the former head of Pergozian security. So it seemed like fairly obvious. But it wasn't actually, he never admitted it until like late last year. But, yeah, talking about the plausible liability thing. The first time they were used was when Russia first invaded Crimea and Ukraine in 2014. And there were troops there were operating that they claimed to be Ukrainian nationals. Those were Wagner's first, like, guys.

They're called them Little Green Men. They were popping up doing resistance shit and they pretended to be Ukrainians. Like there was a civil war and it was just Russian invasion. And another thing with plausible liability. I remember when this happened, in 2018, Wagner tried to flack U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria to capture oil field, and the U.S. bombed and killed, like, depending on which numbers you believe, let's say, around 100 guys, 100 Wagner guys, and no one made a sort of stink about it

because Russia can be like, well, they're not, they might be Russian nationals, but hey, mercenaries are actually illegal in Russia. Those are just mercenaries hired Bob Bashar aside. We don't have anything to do with it. They can just disown this guys and, like, not have to retaliate for it, right? it's sort of like like when you look at U.S. casualty figures in like Afghanistan and Iraq, they do not count like Blackwater

guys. Right. Same thing. Plaus or not, Bill. Yeah. Yeah, I got to say, dude, getting disavowed and going rogue. That's some classic mercenary stuff right there. Yeah. Yeah. I just watched extraction too, buddy. Right. Yeah. So Wagner have done a bunch

of war crimes and awful shit. They're operating all over Africa in the Middle East, also in South America. Just for one example. from last year they were accused of using rape and mass murder to run an African gold mining town so yeah there are no fucking good guys here all right these are all war criminal psychos

but like I just thought it's important because like this is this is so bizarre and you're right the effect on Russian domestic politics one good thing progosian did he's really popular on telegram and Russian social media he made a big stink about he said this war has no has no purpose Ukraine is not run by Nazis.

They've been lying to you. We're losing the war. The Russian ministry defense is incompetent. All this stuff. Damn. That's the short-term effect is now people can't deny they know the truth, right? Right, right, yeah. Long-term effect is it did make Putin look weak as shit.

These guys destroyed, like, not a single Wagner troop was killed, as far as I know. But they shot down six helicopters and an airplane of the Russia's militaries. and it killed 13 pilots, I think. So. Speaking of extraction, too, based on that, yes, kick-ass movie, it seems like it's actually much easier to shoot down a helicopter than I would have thought. They destroyed so many helicopters in that movie. There's like 15 helicopters just blah.

I was like, the director of this movie fucking hates helicopters. But anyway, that's it. But I think we both recommend to you all, if you like, movies, you should watch the extraction series. The second one was pretty fire. It's like a 22-minute single-take. It's, you know, edited to look like a single-take, but still, it seems to be a one-shot. It's like 22-minute action sequence involving an escape from a Russian prison.

It's pretty bad, well, it's supremely badass, in fact. George in prison, they hit Chris Hemsworth with a Molotov cocktail. You're right. With a Molotov cocktail. I don't know how he didn't die. There's a car chase after the Russian. in prison that I don't know how they shot and then they have the train sequence they kill the helicopters and I don't like it's like it's like if you like action it's like this

yeah you're right george in prison you said they hit chris hemisworth of the molotov cocktail they do that set his arm on fire but luckily he had a plan he put his arm out he put the fire on his arm out by punching a man to death with it uh so yeah works every time anyway yeah back to So, Pergosen's stated goal by marching to Moscow was trying to force them to change leadership at the Ministry of Defense because of their incompetence. It didn't work. And like you said, now he's taking refuge in Belarus, which is a Russian client state. I don't think he's long for this earth. Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, I mentioned earlier, right before we started live streaming, announced that, yeah, Putin had told them that he wanted to kill Lukashenko before he negotiated the settlement.

So those are all the players here. As far as what it means for Ukraine, obviously anything that lowers Russian morale and distracts troops from the front is good for their warfighting efforts. They've been making slow advances. They've taken like 50 square miles in the past week or two. It's not going great for Russia,

which is part of the point that Pergosen was trying to make. As far as Wagner's troops, I think like half of them have been absorbed back in the Russian military if they don't want to. They've also been offered asylum in Belarus, I think. So they can go, they can go live, they built like a concentration camp for former Wagner forces to live in Belarus and like, maybe it's like a four-h camp. Maybe it's not called a concentration camp.

As far as like what it means for the Russian people and they're like, I don't want to, like, Russia has a population of 143 million people and they're just people. They're being conscriptive for this awful war. They're being lied to about it. Now they, now they at least say they know the truth. But for Putin to hold on to power, his typical move in this type of situation is to crack down on regular Russians to reestablish, you know, that he's the one with the boot. Like when there were protests about him rigging the elections in 2014, that's when he started cracking down on LGBT people. So he responds to pretty much everything with more repression.

So I'm not sure what this means long term. The beatings will continue until morale improves. It's Putin's whole thing. Yeah. yeah so um somebody i wish some fucking he's surrounded himself by such suckups and incompetence is one the reason they're losing the war but also there's no clear person who could actually challenge him and take over right uh progosian's the only guys in the whole in the military leadership seems to have any sort of fucking balls and he technically wasn't even in the military leadership he's a guy that

cooks hot dogs um and now he's gonna be dead yeah mark apparently apparently he's staying in a place that has no windows so that's what he's that's smart yeah that's a good That's definitely a smart move. Got to stay away from windows across Vladimir Putin. Matt, if you want to start bringing up some questions and comments and stuff, we actually got to them this week. How about that?

Seven minutes left. It's been a while. Me and Cho did last week, too, but yeah. So, let's see here. Oh, Eric J. Lofenberg says, happy pride, y'all. Yeah, thank you.

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I appreciate it. Yeah, Randall Week, must up all our plans. Nikon Kalipakum says, thoughts on the Indian PMs, visit to the White House and the related comments from both sides of the aisle. Before you continue, Mark, I saw today this, but that people on the right were losing their minds because they posted a clip of Joe Biden at this event sitting at the table saying, he said, I sold a lot of state secrets and something. else right and so they're like how is this how does he get away with this how are people this is insane he's literally saying the he's saying it out loud he doesn't even care this is this is this is our president the corruption is unreal and it's like of course the context is he's begin he began

by saying something like we started without you like because somebody was like a little light or something like that and he's like I sold a bunch of state secrets and everything so I hope you're happy it was like such so obviously a joke and uh and they just lost their minds over it. But, you know, they'd be doing that all the time. But I thought that was kind of funny, but also annoying anyway, if you would answer the actual question. I didn't, I saw the Modi, India's, you know,

I can't remember if the president or prime minister. I forget, I think prime minister, Narinda Modi was over here for a state visit. And, of course, state visits, you've got to do the handshake, glad hitting thing. I personally am not a huge fan of Modi because he's a fucking fascist. They have that sort of right-wing nationalism, populism stuff happening. He's a Hindu nationalist.

He's allied with like the Hindu militia groups that like burn busloads of Muslims. You know what I'm talking about? So he's practiced a lot of censorship. He censored a show I used to work on. They did an episode about them. So he's a bad guy. I wish Joe Biden didn't have to be nice to them, but they have a billion people. So I don't know.

I didn't see any domestic political fallout. I'm assuming the Republicans were opportunistic about Joe Biden having to do president stuff. Yeah, but I didn't see that. Just Jucka says, followed y'all on Spotify. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah. Nancy Sporbert says, thanks for the subscription tip.

Done. You guys are too sweet. We appreciate it. Yeah. Let's see here. You got to, oh, oh, shit. I can't believe I actually remember to do that. this this time. And also, I haven't even talked to Mark and Matt about this, but I think if, I mean, so next Tuesday, I don't know why I'm saying.

July 4th. Next Tuesday is July 4th. Typically, when it's Tuesday falls on a literal holiday, we do not have a show. And that's what's going to happen next week, too. Because you guys will have your own plans for the 4th, do your thing. If it was the 3rd or the 5th or whatever, we'd be here. But it's the actual 4th. So we will be off next week for 4th of July. We'll be back after that. I cannot believe I actually remembered to say that. Yeah, I was going to say something pre-show about whether or not we're going to do it. I assume we weren't because, like, I mean, our viewers would be like a dozen. It would be like, you know, go celebrate the, you know, the nation's birthday and have some hot dogs. We're going to.

We wouldn't, we would have taken the week off giving that anyway, but because of that, Katie had asked me and I said, yes. And so we're going camping during that time. So like even if even if you and Matt are about, so it's like, no, we could do it. Nope, I'm going to say in the woods, but not in the woods. I'm camping in Southern California. I'll be in like a, you know, like a little ring that goes through a park

with a bunch of other people also camping on it. Robert Reynolds has got some shit to blow up, Tray. No, I wish. Not in this commie state, buddy. They won't let you. now my son we like the last time we were in Tennessee on the 4th

was like two or three summers ago and we bought a shit lot of fireworks and that was a lot of fun because my sons haven't grown up almost entirely in California they've only seen like big official fireworks shows that like the city puts on or whatever

so that was good nobody lost any fingers so yeah my like I've seen like house parties people set them off in the street and stuff and people do that in my neighborhood but yeah out in the wilderness You would know Trace that off fireworks if you saw a news report where he'd been arrested for starting a 500,000 acre fire.

Mom loves metal. I like that. That's cool. I like metal too. Not probably not as much as you do. I know some metal heads get pretty intense, but I like Sabaton and Amon and Marth. Anyway, says us Canadians would have been here for y'all for you. Yeah, I guess the whole world isn't celebrating next Tuesday.

But, you know, they should be, damn it. It's our birthday. All right. Everybody should let's get us some cake or something. I have a personal pit theory that the Revolutionary War was kind of stupid because he just waited a few years and asked politely to leave like Canada. Like Canada did, yeah, right. So I don't even know if they have an equivalent of an independentist.

I don't even know. Maybe it's not a big deal there. But here we all get drunk and listen to League Greenwood and blow shit out. All right. Well, that will about do it. And yeah, so we'll see you all in two weeks. But reminder again, traycrouter.com for tickets. Come and see me.

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