Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 7/27/21 – Capitol Cops Testify

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

Tonight we discuss the profound testimony of four Capitol police officers before the January 6th Commission, the implications thereof and what to expect next. Also, coverage for some ongoing labor disputes and, as always, some real fun dumbasses. Join us!Support the show

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day. Today is July 27th, 2021. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? So, Trey, happy Tuesdays Tuesday. You've been watching the Olympics? A little bit. I've just sort of turned it on when I can, and I always catch, like, canoe, swalluming. or you know something like that uphill mountain biking i haven't been catching any of the good stuff so not there's anything wrong with those sports but yeah not have a lot of luck i've seen the news though yeah so uh it's funny the olympics have turned into it i think they used to bring everybody together it's supposed to bring the whole world together for every country to root for their star athletes in a way that's like sportsman like and nice right and then uh the american

right is like openly rooting it against the olympic team which is i find fucking hilarious These are nationalists, right? And they're all dunking on Simone Biles for like... So the Simone Biles thing, you know what I'm talking about, right? She pulled out of the team competition because she's afraid she's going to get injured. Yeah. Because she messed up a landing and it got in her head. She almost blew both her knees out or whatever.

So she's like, she's thinking about it too much. So she might get hurt is what she's worried about. And they're calling her a coward, a weakling. But the thing is like, not only you, the get in Gary from Indiana who works at fucking advanced auto parts, not know anything about gymnastics or care about it once the Olympics stop. But Simone Bowles is literally doing moves that no one else in the world has ever done. And so other gymnasts don't know what she's going through, right? And what the risk she's taken.

So it's just saying it's absolutely. Yeah, well, I've also, I've seen them. I saw like a clip with a Nosemax anchor, like laughing about the U.S. men's basketball team, losing to France or whatever. And they seem to be actively rooting against the American Olympians. But, you know, they're the. super patriots with all the eagle flag shirts and we are the ones who hate America and then the Olympics come around and they're pointing and laughing at our country's athletic struggles.

For some reason, I don't even really follow exactly why they're doing that other than just general hatefulness or whatever. Simone Biles and Namo soccer who their mouths are mad at for different reasons. I haven't even said anything political as far as I know, but like the U.S. the women's soccer team did kneel a few matches last summer. And so they lost to Sweden and Trump at a rally Saturday night at turning points. Look at a couple clips to read a little bit. But like he led the crowd, he urged the crowd to boo the U.S. women's nationalists.

And they did, of course. Yeah, they followed through. A bunch of fucking hooting baboons. Like, it's just like, you know, crazy times, man. Well, I hope we win every damn medal because I am a patriot. That's what I was. USA, baby. Number one, all the way.

USA, all the way. every day. Don't know what else to say. Okay. All right. Let's get with us as always as producer, Matt, and this is weekly skews. I want real quick reminder. I'm back on the road doing live shows. Thank you to anybody who came out to Birmingham this weekend. Next up, Denver, the weekend of August 19th at the World Famous Comedy Works. Can't wait for that. You can go to Well Red. That's well, R-E-D, well-red Comedy.com. Tickets and information hope to see you out there on the road. Okay, tonight's show. The January 6th Commission kicked off today with some harrowing testimony from four Capitol police officers who shared their firsthand experiences with the insurrectionist on that fateful day. And turns out it was all pretty messed up. Surprise, surprise. We'll talk about everything they said so far, the reactions, the implications thereof, and what to expect is the commission moves forward. Also, we hear the skews love the working man and the working woman. And so we're going to cover some underreported labor disputes happening in the south and the middle

of the country. All that and more on tonight's episode. But first, let's begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., anyone who thinks that Donald Trump doesn't deserve to be in the pro wrestling hall of fame. I mean, just look at his entrance music. Matt, play the clip. Do you miss me yet? Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the fourth. 45th president of the United States of America. Donald J. Trump!

Be an American, we're at least now. I was expecting more Eagles, you know, not the band, like the, like actual birds, thought they'd have birds in there on the, in cages or something like that. They got a Trump trap song now. Trump. Cool. It's like, like trap music literally is for, like, trapping is like selling drugs. It's like, it's like, these guys, it's like, it's like the contrast here is like, I don't know, like it's, like it's sometimes easy to forget this stuff's supposed to be for fucking nerds and it is for nerds. Like this is turning point USA conference.

There's an astrotrous group of fake teens. They're all 60 year old white dudes. Yeah. Who, who have these rallies all the time to try to get kids involved in politics, which is like, these are bowtine wear fucking dorks. And here you have like fireworks and like trap songs and transition to Lee Greenwood, which is the ball. I'm about saying they couldn't get out. Even though it was the most atonal transition, you can't do something like that without having Lee Greenwood at some point. You know what I mean?

So it's like even you're doing a whole trap, pyrotechnic thing or whatever, at some point, you got to flip the Greenwood switch so everybody can, you know, karaoke, how proud they are to be an American because it just wouldn't be a Republican get down otherwise. Yeah, he was on one at this rally. Just, I mean, he's really in mid-season form, just doing the whole thing. Let's see, yeah, let's hear what he had to say about the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal, going to destroy our country this Green New Deal. It's Green New Bullshit, okay? That's what it is. It's bullshit.

No more windows in buildings because of environment. you know i always did great with these buildings the bigger the window the better i did the bigger those windows i wanted florida ceiling windows but they say you can't do that anymore we don't want any more windows it's going to be real hard to sell apartments i think what the fuck is he talking about trying to get rid windows right to this he says uh cows they were going to get rid of cows but they're not doing they were going to get rid of cows he said before all the patriots got upset and they shut that down. So we, the, you know, the environmentalists were going to do a cow genocide is what we were going to do.

We were going to eradicate the species of cows for earth purposes. The squad was going to take a couple of the four of those captive bolt pistols from, like they used in no country and old men, which would be used to put cows down with. And they were personally go around and execute every cow. in America, just you can't have a happy meal. And it's going to take a while because there's only four of them, right, in the squad. But, yeah, we talked about this cow thing before. AOC made a joke about it and about how we're going to get rid of cows. And they took it and, like, she was honestly going to, like, cows are adorable.

Even if we don't eat them, they're fun to have around. They also give milk and cheese. I like cheese. Love cheese. Love butter. I love what cows are doing over there, man. Yeah, man, pro cow here on the skews. Cows are great.

Great work, cows. and what is the windows thing that's it's probably something there about like mandating like energy efficient windows or something but it somehow that comes out it comes out it comes out it goes into his one ear it comes out his mouth like they're going to like you're like AOC doesn't want you to be able to see who pulls up in your driveway that's what I just miss yeah that old speech was by the way another takeaway of that speech it wasn't the clip wasn't playing up to show but like he he's the new right wing thing you're to hear him talk about routers now how they like they like election computers, they won't hand over the routers, which there's nothing in a router. Routers don't hold you. Yeah, it's not how routers work. Yeah. So anyway, we hear people talk about Routers is because that speech. Trump said Routers about 400 times because he's one of those things where you just learn

a new word and said it over and over again. Yep. And also, again, that opener, you know, green new bullshit, like really swinging for the fences on that one. Why is there no conservative daily show, Trey? I know. Just swap it out the word deal with bullshit is the height of comedy.

Yeah. Red Hot fire. They're slinging over there. All right. Our first honorable mention for dumb ass is Ram Paul for thinking he would be safe from the internet at a telephone conference or whatever the hell this is. You'll see what I mean in just a second. Play the clip. This rolls. We'll go ahead to our next question now. Mrs. Alexis Tune, you are live with the senator. You can go ahead and ask your question. Hi, Senator. I am a proud Kentucky citizen, and I just wanted to tell you to get fucked. All right. We'll go ahead to our next question. I'll say that's how you do it right there. The look of Rand Paul's stupid face is a surprise list. And low-key, my second favorite part of this, besides him, the one telling Rand Paul to get fucked.

We are all, we all stand with you, Rand Paul's neighbor, who beat the shut out of him, by the way. It's like, Rand Paul has lower production values than we do here on the evening skis. So that's really, yeah, which, you know, not the highest bar to clear and they're still underneath it. Also, I love that. That lady gives the response that, oh, producer Matt was upset by that comment, Mark, watch out. I'm more referring to, like, like, Trey's internet's run through the middle of a field with like. It's true. Yes, I got horse internet.

So, it's a company. Powered by horses on Trembud. mills that somehow make it. You ever seen those? I don't fucking know. Those old grain mills that are pulled like four horses strapped with a crank that walk, they just walk in a circle all day. Like that's your head's your head.

That's where my memory comes from. It's from one of those. I was going to say that lady with Ram Paul, that's the like, that was just such a classic reaction to that. Do you know what I mean? That just like silence for a second. Oh, okay. We're going to move on.

I mean, you know, I don't know what else you're supposed to do in that scenario, but it's always funny to me, because that's what everyone always actually does in that scenario. Okay. Yeah, look, let's be honest. Like, that's just the internet. Isn't it? Like, Rand Paul does suck, but that could literally happen to Mr. Rogers on the internet. There's a reason we don't

take live callers on here. Yeah. Okay. This next one, Mark, involves like, conspiracy theory, dumb assery. So, would you please do the honors? Because this is a good one. Okay. Yeah. So, um, there's a hot new

Q and on theory that's taken hold. It's basically that when Joe Biden tried to enter the White House on January 20th, he was turned away by the military and because of his dementia, he's been living on a sound stage that's built to look like the White House on Tyler Perry's estate in Atlanta.

So I guess the dumbass here is Joe Biden for not being able to tell DC from hot-ass Atlanta. So anyways, it's a three-story stucco replica. This is a very specific theory of the Commander Chiefs resident built as a set piece for TV show. Perry allowed Biden to use the full White House as an operating base. Oh, God, everybody, this is gold. It's built 80% to scale, 80% tray, not all the way to scale.

They didn't have the budget for that. Tyler Perry is only a billionaire. I like the idea that Tyler Perry couldn't afford to recreate the actual White House. It was built in like the 1800s. Yeah, it's in the door. By the way, 80% of scale, Matt makes the point to the White House doorways like four foot seven that's how tall people were then

so like Joe Biden's just having to do the limbo through the White House. It's also just like it's built to 80% scale but on television and images it's indistinguishable from the 16 hundred from the actual White House. It's just like like you said the specific details of this

clearly made up lunacy are just something else. So I'm not sure and I'm sure this is a May problem not a the you know conspiracy theorist problem what like who who's in the actual White House?

Trump still is in the actual White House? Like, I don't really follow exactly what they're even saying. I get that Tyler Perry built a fake White House for Joe Biden to live and president inside of, and it's 80% of scale, and it's in Atlanta. And Joe doesn't know that. And the media's propagating this lie. I get all that. That's clear to me.

But what's happening at the real White House, though? And why can't he be there? They haven't gotten to that chapter of the story yet. The Choose Your Own Adventure book in his Q&N hasn't gotten that far yet. But I guess the thing is like when you think government's just a television show, as long as they're able to make the TV show,

it looks like through the government. So that's just so like he's leading the country through the TV show. This is what they think is happening. So I guess it doesn't matter what's in the White House because Trump's obviously a moral logo and turning point. So I don't know what the... Yeah.

I don't know. Don't have answered for you. I don't know. either and let's see I think we could get through these quickly I think producer Matt I want to show this this Tucker Carlson clip

Tucker Carlson being a dumb ass just for thinking he'd go out in public and not meet a huge fan check this guy out I don't even get like the mic I don't care man

okay just too you are the worst he would have been known to man I want you to this thing to be in the nancy, to everything else in this world, I don't care that you're not here. What you've done to people's families?

What you have done to everybody else in this person? He's not. Don't you can call my son for one. This is my brother right here, this guy. He literally could be my older brother, I think, if you look at it. I'm like, that's going to be me in 15, 20 years, I think. But yeah, he's got an old boy thing going on there in some kind of bass pro shop situation. He's got his short sleeve plaid button up in a ball.

cap, you know, with the facial hair. I'm just saying, I feel like he's coming with a slightly unexpected take here. Tucker Carlson probably sees this guy and is like, oh, this guy's a big fan. And he's like, I just want to let you know that you are the worst person on Planned and just goes smooth in on him. I just, uh, I appreciated this guy. They, like, it's, it's amazing to me that Carlson, like, like, I don't know if you remember Tommy Lauren got a drink thrown on her to brunch in L.A. a couple years ago

and everyone made a big deal about how that was uncivil or whatever. But like, if you have Fox News relatives, and you know what Fox has done to their brain, what it's done to people's relationships with their family, they absolutely should not, if they understood what they had done, they absolutely would not feel safe walking around in public. Not to mention the fact that Tucker,

the people that Tucker's gotten killed in the middle of a pandemic by lying about a bunch of bullshit when he's vaccinated. And it's just, I don't understand. It's like, we talked about this in JD, Jay Vance a couple weeks ago, but it's like, if you got him alone in the room, you'd be like, yeah, it's just a bit, man, just doing a bit. But like, this stuff doesn't stop at the TV screen.

You're talking to people on the other side of it who then go out and do things. You know, so, yeah. Yeah. No, fuck them. Yeah. Also, it was funny because they tried to be like, this man had a cost to Tucker Carlson in front of his children. His daughter's is 29. It's like so fucking.

I didn't even see that part. That's pretty good. All right. George, next up, George P. Bush. There's another one. Holy shit. God damn. George P.

Bush for thinking he'd be the only frog to not get stung by the scorpion. Tell everybody what I meant by that, Mark. All right. So just play the video first, and I'll explain to you why it's so fucking funny if you get the CNN clip. Trump snubbing his favorite Bush, as he puts it, despite weeks of wooing, kissing the ring, quite frankly, sucking up to Trump. In what appeared to be an effort to get his endorsement, George P. Bush doesn't have it. Instead, Trump is backing Ken Paxton in the race for Attorney General in Texas.

Bush, of course, is the son of former Florida governor, Jeb Bush. He met recently with Trump in New York. He even had a campaign coozy that was made. A source telling CNN that during that meeting, Trump assured him that he would stay out of the race. That was never going to happen, though. Another source comparing the situation to this. This time, I'm going to kick that football player to the moon. God.

Tough sledding, George Peabro. What about that cozy, man? Yeah, go ahead. If y'all don't follow Texas politics closely, which why should you? It's fucking frustrating and annoying. But George P. Bush is the son of Jeb Bush. Now, you might recall,

Jeb Bush had the temerity to run against Donald Trump and try to stop him from taking his God given right to the presidency in 2016, during which Trump retweeted a guy who's handle his white genesis, said, who had made a meme of Jeb as a homeless beggar outside Trump Tower. He insulted Trump, Jeb's wife, reminder is George P's mom. Mother. Yeah, Jeff Bush's wife had some, a little bit of legal trouble.

She got caught trying to smuggle some shit through the airport or whatever. It's like, I don't know, whatever happened there. It's not, it's not of my business. And she doesn't deserve to be dragged to public life just because her husband and son her shithead. he accused George W. His uncle of treason. And this family is so fucked up and weird. Reminder that when George H.W. Bush was accused of racism, he said he couldn't be racist because he had little brown grandchildren.

That's talking about George P. of course. It's just like, so he ran around for the last six months trying to basically kiss Trump's ass to get his endorsement to run against Ken Paxton. Here's the guy Trump endorsed. Now, important to note, the reason Ken Paxton is getting primary, people think he's very. vulnerable is because he's under a bunch of indictments for a lot of corruption. And the whole Republican Party is running away for him. So Trump fucked him by endorsing a literal criminal who's not even going to survive his term in office probably. And George P. was so hype. He made a bunch of beer coosies with Trump shaking his hand. And it says,

this is the only Bush that likes me. This is the Bush that got it right. I like him. So this dumb motherfucker, George is a dumb motherfucker has a whole warehouse full of George P. Bush for returning general coosies with Trump's face on it. He's not going to be able to move or do anything with because he's not even going to be in the race this is like that is so embarrassing those like just so baldly sucking up to this guy it basically says yeah he hates my whole family and thinks we suck but he's okay with me though he says i'm all right and then they gets fucked over by him anyway it's just ugh i wouldn't have public if i was this dude anymore either uh for different reasons yeah what do you say Thanksgiving man i don't understand what

these families right right but i think they all i think it's just different in family you know what i mean where it's like uh they all just know what the game is or something i guess like it's got to be because i want to the same things like what do you say like you're just selling your whole family out basically but it's a whole family of fucking sharks recently inept sharks but i you know i just i mean it's great separate things somehow i don't know i mean the the the family money of the great granddad made it made his money smuggling oil to hitler in war war too so i guess i It's just, it's all business, baby.

Yeah, right. Yeah, I guess that's what I'm saying. It's got to be. Yeah. Well, okay, let's get into it. So everybody knows, January 6th commission on and off, off to the races with some riveting and upsetting testimony today from four Capitol police officers talking about, well, how things actually went down on January 6th. there's a whole lot of

gutting testimony in clips and we're going to cover a bunch of them but this one is kind of sort of sums it up, we think, in a lot of ways. This is from Officer Phonone. I'm saying that right? I think so. I didn't hear it pronounced, but it looks like yeah, definitely Phenone. So that first

clip there, Matt. The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. My law enforcement career prepared me to cope with some of the aspects of this experience. Being an officer, you know your life is at risk whenever you walk out the door, even if you don't expect otherwise law-abiding citizens to take up arms against you. But nothing, truly nothing, has prepared

me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day. And in doing so, betray their oath of office. Yeah, man. Because, I mean, that's like, he talks about the indifference to his colleagues. Like, that's the thing, you know, you've got all these Republican congressmen downplaying this trying to keep it from being investigated, saying it was just a bunch of tourists, whatever you want to, you know, whichever quote you want to pick where they've just been trying to act like it was no big deal. And if you're this guy and you've been, I mean, feared for your life, uh, he says the only way they got him. They were screaming, kill him with his own gun. And he believed the only reason

he didn't was he finally said, please, I've got children. I've got kids. And so they allowed him to live. They were yelling at him, you're going to die tonight. He thinks that he was unconscious for up to four minutes. He was tased repeatedly. So to hear these motherfuckers act like, oh, it really wasn't that big of a deal. We don't even, there's no, there's no reason to even get into all that has got to be pretty infuriating, I mean, to say the least. Yeah. I I mean, he worked in a little bit of copaganda there about every cop first their life every day, which I just, just to point out, being a police officer of America is not one of the top ten most dangerous professions. But on that day, it was definitely true. And you watch the body cam footage.

Like, you don't have to take his word for that, that I kick his own gun and kill him. And I've got kid stuff is on his body cam footage. And they show that today. It's fucking nauseating, man. And, like, the close-up nature, like, they showed some new footage today. Like, anybody's a Game of Thrones fan, it looked like the battle of the bastards. just like all that close court is fighting and the randomness of violence and like it's claustrophobic like it can't breathe right I don't even like going to like Disneyland and shit with my family because of crowds that size you know what I mean

I can't imagine being in the middle of a bunch of frothing at the mouth gravy seals who you know want to murder me and that just crushing weight pushing in on you when that's the context specifically that's like one of the most terrifying things I can imagine I mean, these are, these reaming militia dudes are obsessed with, like, medieval battles and wars and stuff. Like, they have momento mori tattoos and a, uh, uh, uh, Molan Labe. They all have Moulon Labe, they all have Moulon Lave is supposedly what, uh, king, king, uh, the king of the Spartans. Like, like, Leonidas, Leonidas said to the Persians and they said to disarm and come and take it. Come and take them. Yep, yep, yep. Um, so like, and there's clips are the limited chance, like, you're yelling, build a shield wall. That's the reason it took the shield's way from the cops is they were trying to build a fucking shield wall like the Spartan. it's it's absolutely infuriating but like uh here's get the show that clip that uh well if you want to talk about how brutal this is do you want to show this clip or not because

yeah i mean yeah look i mean it's on the news it's public record i mean this also this is like this is what actually happened it's super fucked up so yeah just i don't know it's super fucked up clip i'm sure maybe you've already seen it but like yeah it deserves to be seen by as many people as possible in my opinion so i mean yeah let's play it this is another officer who's there today officer done that prompted a torrent of racial epithets one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled you hear that guys this nigger voted for joe biden then the crowd perhaps around 20 people joined in screaming boo fucking nigger no one had ever, ever called me a nigger while wearing the uniform of a Capitol police officer.

In the days following the attempted insurrection, other black officers share with me their own stories of racial abuse on January 6th. One officer told me he had never, and in his entire 40 years of life, been called a nigger to his face, and that streak ended on January 6th. yet another black officer later told me. Yeah. And then get all defensive when we imply that they might have an issue, they might have some issues with racism on their side of the fence, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, like, the thing that, my takeaway was like, the, the anger in these guys' voices. Like, you can't, like, that's a bunch of right-wing people are saying that they're acting or playing it up or whatever, but, like, these guys aren't trained actors. I don't know you can pretend to be that. full of rage. And this is seven months after the motherfucker, almost eight months after the shit happened. By the way, this, this hearing should happen in February, by the way. Yeah, right. Wasted seven months, trying to get a bipartisan committee. Right. Yes. I know. That was one

my biggest takeaways from this today is like just thinking about the fuckers like the mansions and the cinemas and whatever of the world. We're always talking about reaching across the aisle and working with the other side and everything. You've got to work together in this country and all of that. And I think this is one of the biggest examples for why that is just complete bullshit at this point because yeah trying to do it the bipartisan way if they would have had it their way it would never have happened nobody ever would have heard any of this you know and this is why you just can't concern yourself with trying to to work with these people if they make it impossible like shit this shit like this needs to be investigated and covered and people need to see it and hear it and they need to be forced to reckon with it

and they're not going to do that unless you make them and you have the ability to make them then you got to fucking make them that's what you got to do. And it sounds like they're gonna they're not fucking around with subpoena power. The DOJ, I mean they're

going to actually use subpoenas and issue them to a bunch of high level people. I don't know if they'll go so far as like to subpoena Trump because I have a feeling that would just turn into a disinformation coup for him that might be a bad idea but like the DOJ announced they're not going to assert

Garlick's DOJ has been a huge fucking disappointment they've been doing amongst the institutionally shit that basically serves to protect Trump and his cronies not prosecuting and like and basically saying the Department of Justice is right to defend Trump from his that

trial he's got against E. Gene Carroll for defamation lawsuit. He's called her a liar when she said he raped her all that stuff like so they've been very disappointing but they did announce they're not going to assert argue for executive privilege for anybody who works in the department or the white house at that time at that time to like to try to save trump's ass so that's cool um there were actually there's i would even we've been thoroughly dive into this stuff for like seven months now i still saw new footage today that was like god this is so much worse than where we even believe that day it was like it's so

we're so goddamn lucky that, like, they didn't work or that hundreds of people weren't killed. And it's like, in general, like, the way American sexualism works, the way their human brain works to form things in a narrative looking back, we seem to, we seem to assume that everything's going to keep getting better. And America's always an upspring towards more and more freedom and prosperity. But like, there's a series of close calls in American history. And that was another one. And I don't know what would have happened if they'd kill. Pelosi and Harris and, um, and Mike Pence. Do you know what I'm saying? Like I, I don't know what, and that's like. Yeah. Yeah. Pelosi especially, it would have been especially rough for her

considering, you know, she was the one who actually is to blame for all this. Uh, I see that GOP? What was the exact context? It was some GOP, like party chairwoman or something like that. At least, at least she's the one that took over, uh, Liz Cheney's spot as number three in the Republican caucus. at least Stephan, she's in New York or whatever. But, yeah, she was, like, they won a parallel commission. They're going to host their own commission to investigate Pelosi. I don't know, in the back of an Applebee's something.

And it's like maybe an AA meeting room or some shit. But, like, they want to, they want to know why Pelosi didn't have more capital police. But here's the thing, like, Pelosi's not in the chain of command for the police or the National Guard. The D.C. National Guard answers to the president. Pelosi can't call up the National Guard. So I don't know what they wanted to happen. It's all bullshit. Yeah, it's also like, listen, if you knew that our Republican president was gearing up all these lunatics to come and try to murder you, you should have stopped that.

Like, why didn't you stop that, Pelosi? Really, it's your fault for not just keeping that from happening since you knew it was going to happen because the president told them to do it. Everybody said they should do it. And then they started to come there to do it. Why didn't you just stop them from doing it? Like, that's the implication of this argument to me. Yeah. To paraphrase TI, front of the, front of the show, rapper TI, if you deserve it if you allow it, right?

It's like, it's like the victim, why aren't they to blame? See one of those things. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so I would encourage people to go watch the video because it's harrowing shit and makes you realize how close we came to a lot worse result. And maybe a permanent Trump family dynasty with nuclear weapons. But there were a few moments of levity today. and like this officer Hodges who's the one you might have seen about video is getting crushed in the doorway

and he had like a really profound moment with camera caught him watching the footage of himself almost dying and like almost breaking down crying but he had this pretty good quip there was a pretty solid joke i think today that you referred to terrorists or terrorism 15 different times to describe the people who were assaulting officers dragging them through the crowd stealing their weapons smashing them over the head gouging eyes and so on. However, some of our colleagues have been calling the violent insurrectionists not terrorists, but tourists. Why do you call the attackers terrorists? And what do you think about our colleagues who think we should call them tourists? Well, if that's what American tourists are like, I can see why foreign countries don't like American tourists.

Yeah, great whip. But then he goes on to say in his response to that, he basically is like, here's what I call him terrorists because they are, and I can prove that to you, because I came prepared and he pulls out like the U.S. code, you know, U.S. Code 3-4, whatever subsection quotes the whole thing, and then reads it verbatim and essentially proves that. by any definition of terrorist. That's exactly what these people were. I thought that was a real G moment from this dude all around.

I thought it was great. Terrorism is just violence intended of a political result, right? That's fucking what it is through inciting fear. What else was that? And like going back to like Merrick Garland's DOJ being bullshit, these two environmental protesters who had welded holes in a pipeline to try to slow down construction for the big, I'm blank in the pipe line,

the one that Biden, Biden just stopped, thank God, the one who was going through native land. But they got hit with a terrorism enhancement last week. They're going to jail for like eight years for welding. Meanwhile, nobody involved in January 6th and hit with terrorism enhancement yet.

So it's just really frustrating bullshit. People died. But while that was- It's always when white people do it. Yeah. Like when white people do, the shit that's just this reticence from, you know, racist, but also just the media in general, it seems like, to call them

terrorist for whatever reason. Left-wing property damage is terrorism, but right-wing murder is just a misdemean. Yeah. So while that was happening, a GOP thought leaders, Marjor Taylor Green, Matt Gates, and Louis Gomert were down the street. They tried to walk in the DOJ and ask why the Patriots from January 6th are being treated so unfairly by being put in solitary confinement. And look, American prisons and jails fucking suck.

We should all, we should improve all them across the board. That includes for people to do shitty things, good things, whatever. It doesn't excuse doing atrocities to people, especially people who have been convicted of anything yet. But so, but they didn't they had a press conference outside where they tried to, I don't know, say that the real travesty was the people, January 6 people were being prosecuted. And this was the scene outside the DOJ. people of this country the answers to the questions we need it we need a break the

left is interrupting the press conference we need to end it thank you for those of you that really care about this process thank you ladies and gentlemen what you just saw here today is again the intolerant left Yeah, I mean, I had to actually, here, I'll give those back now. So the whistle. The ladies in the newsmax reporter. Yeah, it's just like, if you, for the, people listen to the podcast version, it's just somebody blowing a whistle and two guys with posters,

one says rapists sit down and one said January 6th, an inside job. And they got brought off from the DJ for a DOJ from like, it was like maybe eight to 15 people, something like that. But this is the clip right before that. It was a real funny. If you got the one right before that scene, where listen to what my NJD says. I thank Congressman Gohmert, a former judge, no less,

for his commitment to the rule of law and to seeking the truth, even in the face of much opposition. Thank you. First of all, to the guy that's blowing the whistle, we are not deterred. And so for anyone that's here being an activist in yelling today, here's the statement that I need everyone to understand. We will not back down.

We will not stop asking questions. So right before they. Yeah. So right to the guy whistling, we will not deter, we will not back down. We will not stop asking questions. The guy blows a whistle a few more time. She immediately gets deterred, backs down, and stops asking questions and leaves. Yeah.

All because of Antifa. That's Antifa there. Yeah. Antifa always got the. Antifa. A classic whistle Antifa tactic. Yeah, yeah. Why I learned it in the Antifa school.

It's like a, there'll be a conspiracy theory next week that it's, Antifa has mind control whistles. That's what they were doing is like the Piper. So also right after that, Matt Gates's life is just real fun right now. Yeah, well, it's not like you were talking about Tucker Carlson and them and like just going out in public and stuff. You know what I mean? And it's like, I guess if you're Matt Gates, I guess you kind of got to, but it's a similar type of thing to me because, you know.

Yeah. It's always something with this motherfucker. Yeah. Check out this mat gate. How, how. Kay, are you a pedophile? Are you a pedophile? Are you a pedophile?

Are you a pedophile? Are you a pedophile? Are you a pedophile? Are you a pedophile? Are you a pedophile? Congressman, are you a pedophile? All right. She asked that a multitude of other times right after that too, but you guys get the gist.

He just gets a question whether he's a pedophile or he gets guys, you know, very enthusiastically telling him, I don't think you're a pedophile. I think you're great. Yeah. We have him understanding it's a joke. It's one or the other. His future sister-in-law was viral on TikTok the other day. Matt Gates is engaged to his billionaire's daughter.

And her younger sister, who Matt Gates got an internship at the White House. And then apparently she was 19, tried to sit her up on a day. with a 40-something-year-old dude, and she's still mad about it. Matt Gates tried to set up his fiancé's sister with an almost 50-year-old dude when she was 19. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, she's not, like, so, again, what are these people saying to each other at Thanksgiving? I don't know.

The rich aren't like me and you. But fuck, what a weird, weird way to be. But anyway, so that was the fun stuff for today. But, like, if you're wondering why they're making so much noise trying to set. shut down the commission. The officer earlier, who talked about being called the N-word, he really understands it more clearly than I think the Democratic leadership does. If you have that clip, uh, yeah. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. And while I agree with that

notion, why? Because they told the truth. Why is telling the truth? Why is telling the truth, hard. I guess in this America, it is. Us four officers, we would do January 6 all over again. We wouldn't stay home because we knew it was going to happen. We would show up. That's courageous. That's heroic. So what I ask from you all is to get to the bottom of what happened. And that includes, like I echoed the sentiments of all of the other officers sitting here. I use an analogy to describe what I want as a hitman. If a hitman is hired and he kills somebody, the hitman goes to jail. But not only does the hitman go to jail, but the person who hired them does. There was an attack carried out on January 6th, and a hitman sent them.

I want you to get to the bottom of that. Thank you. there's like there's a lot of money behind january sixth it was organized i'm not saying that like the people held the organized the rally necessarily directly caused the insurrection but like can you imagine to go back to the pipeline the ladies imagine if george soros had bought their welding equipment you don't think he'd be in fucking jail you know like right so yeah i mean yeah there are people uh who should be held accountable uh and a lot of them I think no it and are worried about it, other people in Congress specifically, which is, again, why they try to actively work to keep this type of shit from ever happening or anybody from ever hearing any of this. They try to, like, remember, like the two Republicans, only two Republicans in commission because Kevin McCarthy, a minority leader, tried to appoint Jim Jordan and Jim Banks who voted to overturn the election to the commission.

And Jim Jordan needs to be called a subpoena, a call to testify under oath via subpoena because if you, want to know why. What's his spot clip from the day? And watch how sweaty he is trying to say it, say a no that he doesn't really mean. Is he going to go down a number of different roads about who knew what, when, who was talking to coordinators of the protests. Did you talk to the former president that day? I've talked to the former president umpteen times, thousands. I mean, I may not thousand times, but countless, countless times. I talk to the president. I never talk about what we talk about because I just don't think that's appropriate. It's like I don't talk about what happens in Republican

conferences. So I've talked to the president numerous times. I continue to talk to the president. No, no, I mean on January 6, Congressman. Yes. I mean, I've talked to the president. I've talked to the president so many. I can't remember all the days I've talked to him, but I've certainly talked to the president. Yeah. And on that day was, can you share any of the inside of what he was thinking about that day? Brett, the people we need to come testify are the people who can testify to the fundamental questions. Why didn't the United States Capitol, the people's have an appropriate security posture on that day and what have we done those are the people we need to hear from those yeah that same argument of like you know listen the real question is like why weren't they

better prepared to stop this riot that we incited this insurrection riot that we incited why was it not stopped by someone in charge that's what we should be asking also that that that that's sweaty non-denial denial. Like the way human memory works is like around around traumatic events, your memories get really, really sharp, right? So like the idea that he would remember if you talk to the president of the United States on any occasion, especially not the day of like the cap. It was breached as ridiculous. But, but especially like that that framing of a non-denial is just so fucking hilarious to me. Like what if a cop was like, Trey, did you see your wife the day she was murdered? Like, I've seen my wife. See my wife all the time. I'm always seeing my wife. I mean,

not anymore since she's been murdered, but like I used to see my wife all the time. You know. I was like, yeah, but on that day, it's like, listen, I see her. I see her, okay? Yeah, I've seen her. She's about this high, Greg. So you get, she. All right. Yeah.

Well. Get them under oath. Get them under oath. That's what needs to happen. Let's fucking, let's see how this thing plays out, man. Before we go to like questions and comments here in a few minutes, Mark, you want to walk us through these labor things? There's a couple big labor things.

One's still in progress and one had a pretty big victory. but um so uh a coal mining union has been on uh from alabama has been on strike since april first um uh the basic the company's called warrior met coal and uh they're owned by black rock capital and uh basically the just the deal is five years ago the old parent company uh went bankrupt and uh this company bought him and negotiated a new contract the deal was if you guys take a six dollar an hour hit on your wages from 22 to 16 we'll hire everybody back well they'd never hired a went back. So they've been working for less money for five years while their compatriots are out of work and the companies are making record profits. So they've been on strike for a long

time. There's going to be a protest of about a thousand mine workers tomorrow in New York from the Black Rock's headquarters in New York and a friend of the show, Drew Morgan's going to be there stirring shit up. So that's cool. Drew did the show in Alabama related to striking coal miners a cut a few months back also. So Drew's been all over this thing. So yeah, shout out of Drew. Walk in the walk. Yeah. The other one is a big strike at a free-d-o-lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, the last couple weeks. Basically, these people say they've been asked to work 14-hour shifts, seven days a week during COVID and during an epic heat wave and all that shit. And they finally got fed up and walked off. And what they're asking for, basically, they just won a union agreement and got their, the max work hours knocked down from seven, 14-hour shifts to 6-12.

So that's a huge win, even though it's like still sucks. We're talking before, I mean, like, you look back to like early 1900s, like a big labor victory would be like, we got shortened work weeks for people who are 12 years old, only 70 hours. And we're just like back to here again. Yeah, man. If you want to know why they won, God, I love this dude. This is one of their union shop stewards.

And listen to this fucking fire. He's spitting. It's great. So great. Man, it just, I'm hot. I'm tired, I'm mad. They got us working 84 hours a week in this thing, all right? Do it look like my shoes can hold my fat ass for 84 hours?

That's what I'm saying. And the thing about it, they got the little mascots on the thing. Chesa Chito, he ain't got to worry about this type of shit. He just get on his motorcycle, and he's gone. I can't afford the motorcycle with the pay they give me up in here. I got child support coming out of my check. I got, I got the food stand's about to get cut off. And what's a little handsome man with the Steve Harvey,

mustache on the Pringles can, the Pringles man, and the little boy with the dog on the cracker jacks box. He ain't never seen them frown and ditching. Now, the only thing Frito can do is kiss my ass, because now I'm about to go, uh, uh, except my Frito Lays, I'm going to go be lazy, you hear me? I'm going to go lay the f*** down, because I ain't doing this no more. I'm going to go see if they're hiding down there at Lowe's. Uh, and y'all don't really give a damn a... I like that.

He walks off right after they goes, y'all don't give a damn about me. you don't care about this shit in no way and just walks off. God damn, that dude. I like the idea of Chester Cheetah clocking out from his shift at the plant by his motorcycle off. This guy just mad at him and stuff like that. Yeah. This guy's center.

It's like, you know what? I think, to me, it looks like it's pretty goddamn easy being cheesy. I don't know what he's always complaining about. Like, I'm the one out here doing all the work.

Let it be heard here first. Chester Cheetah is a class traitor. Yeah. Dude, it's how much of a fat sack of trash I am. I read on the internet years ago. that at Frito L.A. I don't even know if it's true. Read it on the internet. Who the hell knows? It was somebody purporting to be an employee that at Frito L.A. Factories or whatever is the only

place you could get like fresh out the oven Cheetos or Doritos chips like that. You can't even go on tours or anything like that and get these hot, but the employees could have them hot from time to time or whatever. And I was like, dude, hot fresh baked Cheetos. God, that sounds like a dream job. And apparently I was wrong, Mark. There's more to it. There's more to it than hot, fresh-baked Cheetos. God damn it. I was lied to.

Yeah. But, yeah, no, good for them. It's like you said, it's like, you hear that. It's like, yeah, they've got a big victory. Now they only have to work 72 hours a week, six days a week, 12 hours a day. And that's way too much. But it's a hell of a lot better than seven days a week, 14 hours a day. And you got to move in, you know, got to move in one direction.

So I'll just try to make it the right one. They got overtime pay, so, I mean, like, it is going to improve their lives. Because the upside of overtime pay is if you do work extra, you get paid overtime, obviously, but also it's an incentive for your boss to get you out on time, so they don't have to pay you extra. So that's all, that's all cool. Frank Repi, or Frank Repipepe, I'm sorry, Frank, I'm saying your name wrong. I'm sure. I were in the comment said, that's true, so listen, so there's at least some perks to it.

I'm pretty sure it's not repeate, but I think you probably figured out what you. He was R-I-P-E-I. Right, we'll stop because we're both, thank you, Frank, appreciate it. All right, questions and comments, everybody. What about the Capitol Police, anything you want to hit us up about? So, Mark, what is going on? The CDC now says you do have to wear masks indoors again, even if you're vaccinated, only in certain places or what?

Like, I just, it's just our never-ending national nightmare, man. It's some, I can't even agree with it. made a meme earlier today it was like CDC guidance and it was like one of those really complicated parking signs where a bunch of hours in a different shit in different zones and permits. It's like, yeah, it's kind of like that where it's like they want to

encourage kids to wear masks in schools if they can. I don't know. I don't know the science won't have to know what's good or bad but like two things about it is people are the typical grifters are saying ah they were been wrong all along and wrong again when it's just like things change with Delta variant something new and we get better science than Delta

a better understanding of it. How can it is. It's like three times as contagious as COVID or whatever. It's way more contagious. And so hospitals are flowing out. There's like no ICU beds in Arkansas. And I just don't, that was reading today, like the only other country with less levels of vaccine, higher levels of vaccine hasn't seen than us that has access to them is Russia. This is the government that did Chernobyl and did hustle through a bogus vaccine without a few human trials. All the shit the right says about the, you know, conspiracy theorists say about our vaccines is sort of true over there. And we are right behind them as far as not trusting the

vaccines. And I hope that all our elite institutions will think back over the last 50 years of all the shit they did wrong, not prosecuting Watergate and Iran-Contra, letting rich people get away with crimes constantly, five or six failed horrible wars, teetering for economic collapse, economic collapse, no consequences of restructuring. 9-11 and all this shit and be like, oh, we fucked up and the country's falling apart because of it and we need to like be more responsible going forward. And I think the CDC is trying to be responsible, but this is really confusing messaging and I find it all really annoying and just require vaccines and they'll cry about it for a month

or two and then we move on. Yeah. We'll see what happens. Bryant Mitchell from YouTube says January 6th should have put the nail in the blue line flag that thing is a joke the nail in the blue line flags coffin i assume because yeah well they talked about they as they were being assaulted on the ground and tased and shit they could see blue line uh thin blue line flags waving in the air over their head and shit and i say at all the time these people are immune to irony uh the types of people in the crowd i mean like just totally

lost on them but i want to see uh um holy shit real quick nick star says can't wait to see y'all in Seattle already bought my tickets and flight to Seattle from Alaska. Oh my God. Thank you so much, Nick. That's truly phenomenal. I appreciate it. Yeah, the Seattle show, Incheon toured sold out. So that'll be a damn good time later this year.

Can't wait. Back to the thin blue line thing. Like, how do you, if you are one of these people, one of the Blue Lives Matter crowd, the back the blue crowd, thin blue line thing or whatever, I know they're, they're, you know, these people are like the Simone Biles. of mental gymnastics, right? Like, I know that they excel at it, truly. But how do you rationalize something like today and that testimony with saying that you

believe that shit or still wearing those shirts or whatever? You just keep doing it and ignore today? Yeah. Yeah. I think, I mean, you can still claim you're staying on the side of police officers because there were so many cops in the crowd in January 6th. Right. Yeah, that's true.

So many off-duty. Yeah, they, yeah, a bunch. There was one like flashing a DEA badge or something today. Yeah, he took his, the guy got fired because he took his DEA badge and gun to the January 6th direction. And he took pictures posing with his badge and gun. And there was another like a New York cop just got arrested for being there.

He's in a bunch of photos. Yeah. I mean, like, it's like you, I can't explain to you. It's just like it's an aesthetic thing. Like they stand on the side of law and order because in their heads, police exist to maintain social, racial, hierarchies, and that's what they like. They're not talking about the actual police officers of human beings.

They're talking about police as an institution. Right. And, you know, the good police, the one who are not trying to stop them from, you know, stopping the steel. You know, the regular good old cops, not the traitor cops who were working that day. They don't count. Yeah. I'm assuming is how their brains work. Haley Meade says, how about Fauci basically telling Rand Paul to get fucked?

Ha, ha. Their best fight yet. Do you know about that one, Mark? Yeah, they had a big running lab. Rand Paul is continually, Rand Paul is a doctor. He went to Duke Medical School. Or he's an ophthalmologist or whatever.

He's not as dumb as he pretends to be. So he always argues in Fauci about this, like, medical shift that he, he misunderstands on purpose, trying to interrogate him. He basically is accusing Fauci of lying about funding gain of function research in Wuhan and all this shit. And Fauci has to go up there and basically get a screaming fight. It's like an old merry couple. It's like it's really, it's because he's calling Fauci a murderer, basically, and Fauci's like, you're killing, you're, this misinformation is killing people, you know, it's a, we already have a little enough trust in our institutions.

We don't need less of it for fake purposes, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Rand Paul. I too feel that he should get fucked, but that, that's just, that's just me, you know. Yeah. I still want to see an interview with his neighbor who beat the shit out of him in, uh, that guy, I don't, I remember that when it happened. And I remember looking it up at the, the time and I feel like that dude was like he probably just had a French last name and I turned

him Cajun in my head to make it more entertaining but that guy I remember him being a character in that whole situation was uh was you know for the nature that you don't like Rand Paul the nature of that dispute and the economics of Rand Paul's neighborhood I assumed that guy probably voted for Rand Paul still but like yeah he was a rich dude he had like he invented some kind of medical vest that was revolutionary or something I remember remember i don't know so yeah a bit fight if i remember it was like they kept moving a pile of leaves back in 14 to the yard these guys are also in these neighborhood fights that they're like to imagine his neighbor like hid in the pile of leaves the last time and when ramp paul got

out there to move him again he jumped up and whipped his ass instead it's like a gilly suit one of those sniper things where he looked like a pile of leaves ran paul thought the leaves were fighting back for a second he thought he was getting his ass whipped by leaves thought it was moss man Oh, so from YouTube theory 980C says, What can we expect from the revelations about January 6th? You know, there's a lot more to come. Hopefully, you know, we'll see what all. We didn't talk about the politics of this,

but like this is one of the reasons you do these type of investigation. You don't do investigations because you know where they're going. You investigate stuff because you need to know what the answers are, right? So like they've been hesitant to do these things without knowing the outcome and sort of the circumstances have it forced them to actually be bold. And the rest of the expression goes, be bold and unseen forces will come to your rate. Right. So you, whatever's going to come out of here is not going to make them look great. It will help you increase your chances to hold them on the house in 2022. Right. It's good to be doing this also to get to the truth so the

Republican survive. But also like, it's nice when your self-interest, political self-interest aligns with also the interests of the Republic. So that's cool too. Yeah, I, you know, we've talked a million times on the show about how my like my default expectation for any sort of congressional proceeding is that not shit will ultimately come out of it you know at the end of the day but but it's still vitally important to just so everybody hears this like to you know air this out publicly and again make them have to respond to these things or you know the deafening nature of their silence if they choose not to like you put it out there in front of everybody and force them to to spin it or try to rationalize it or whatever they're going to try to do and just, you know, use that against them and try to keep winning and moving forward, I guess.

Like, I don't know. The, I would, the Watergate hearings are going on for like two and a half years before they got any traction. Like, they were, like, Nixon got reelected in the middle of the Watergate hearings and calling him like a witch hunt and a travesty and a fake investigation.

until they got a couple star witnesses and made some riveting TV out of it and then Nixon was forced to resign a year after winning 49 states or what the fuck ever. It's like, so like you can't anticipate how I think history is going to happen. You just have to like try to do the right thing and hope it works

out because you never, you never know all the U.S. soldiers who died in World War II have no idea that we won. You don't know the result of the thing when you're fighting it. Right. You know, so yeah. Yeah. I would, by the way, I would like, by the way on subject of Watergate, I highly recommend the slow burn podcast season one on Watergate. It will walk you through beat by beat how insane it was and how slow and frustrating the investigation was. And everyone thought it failed a bunch of times until you had paid her, you know.

Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I never, I never understood that about it until you said that just now, really. That it was like, I never really thought, you know, obviously way before I was born, I never really thought about the timeline of how it all played out. you know, I just knew how it all ultimately went down. I mean, what we're talking about earlier about how, like, we always assume that things are going to work out, like, the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice. We always assumed that the happy ending was inevitable, and it didn't take a bunch of people fighting miserably to make it happen.

You know, it's like, yeah. Scott Wharthen from YouTube says, Ram Paul, an ophthalmologist, blinded by his own rhetoric. Yeah, that's true. You got him. Have we talked before about how Ram Paul invented his own ophthalmology board to certify himself? no but that's some real white people shit right there yeah i mean he didn't do it because he wasn't qualified to be an optologist he couldn't be board certified the regular way he was being a typical

libertarian and doing making some trolly dushy point about credentialism whatever that what's the point of a certification board if i can just make one and certify myself which good point rand also you're dick and i wouldn't let you recognize yeah yeah all right well uh listen i want to remind everybody again yeah thank you matt it's all over it to go to well red Comedy.com, well, R-E-D-comedy.com for the tour dates, and please come out and see us. Next up, Denver,

Colorado, the weekend of August 19th. That comedy works. It's going to be a damn good time. Yeah, that's about it for this edition of weekly skews. You got anything else, Mark? No. Just go see Trey and Corey and Drew on the road and then go look at Corey's

social media after to see him talking about suicide with the Taco Bell delivery driver. Yeah, yeah. Corey did that. His taco bell was an hour late, Saturday, like four in the morning. I wasn't there. I found out about this later. So he started texting the DoorDash driver saying that his life was meaningless without tacos and he was being consumed by the void and needed his nacho bell grande, you know, to keep him from the precipice of despair or something like that. You know, just stuff like you do. And yeah, like you said, if you follow Corey, he posted all that. So it's all out there for the world to see. Yes, lovely fellow that senior Georgia correspondent. Corey Forrester. And yeah, he's on the road with us. So come see us. Come see us right here same time next week on weekly skews. Thank you guys very much. So you love you by.