Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 8/16/22 – Insulin Explains a Bunch of Bullsh*t

Episode Date: August 17, 2022

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What's up, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's August 16th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder. And that back again. Mark Aegee, what's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? Good to be back, man.

Sorry to miss last week. I've been listening to you. Thanks, buddy, for taking care of the show for me. Do you have a good time? DJ? That's what we told everybody you were DJing. And we talked about you with like, you know, the headphones on and morosely dropping the bass and stuff like that. It was great fun.

So do you have the hot? We tape. We did have a DJ. It wasn't me. But I just, I added together a video package in for a stop and start in the video package. Essentially what I do with during the show. So it's sort of like producer Matt and, you know, the ones and twos. Keeping the show moving.

No, but it was good. We're only in New York, like 48 hours. There's nothing but work and drinking and eat some good Chinese food. my wife went with me she saw some friends and had a good time so that was cool uh oh happy birthday to my wife her birthday is monday so i gotta figure out what i'm gonna do for that you got a you got a big plans or a big present in mind you like i'm no good at any of that ever i think she wants to drive out to a vineyard for like a night or something to get wine drunk and relax i don't know well you can handle that yeah i can do that yeah nothing too hard uh before we get

the show man i wanted to talk about a couple things i read this week that uh infuriated me sure that's what we do here uh loosely maybe we just call the banter thing i was thinking we just call it uh things i read this week they're going to turn me into the joker um first one you know that we're going to talk about the uh the uh the biden signed the IRA today inflation reduction act which is a funny name for it we talked about like a couple weeks ago but the um the climate that we're going to talk about health care stuff but the uh The environmental stuff, Republicans are apparently mad at oil lobbyists for not going hard enough against the bill. You should be doing more to kill this planet, big oil.

It's funny to be mad at big oil for not doing enough to rape and murder the planet in due fashion. Your own donors, who you ostensibly see yourself as working for, are not mad about this bill, but you're mad at your donors for not being mad about it. because it's a good bill. And energy companies are pivoting to green stuff anyway because they see the writing on the wall. Yeah, right. Yeah, they'll have to eventually

and they still want to make money. So where are they supposed to do? But as we talked about before, like it used to be, I can see, at least see, like I disagree with it, at least understand the free market logic where you don't have to carbon interfering in markets to prop up green energy. But now green energy is more profitable and more efficient

so consumers can get cheaper energy. Employees can get better jobs working for solar farms. And companies can make more money because they're laying out fewer costs to extract resources. And the Republicans are like, no, we just love oil because it fucking destroys the planet. Right. No, you're right. It's weird that like the people you think of as their puppet masters, if they don't care, then why do the, you know, the Republican politicians still care? Because they've apparently evolved to have an ideological commitment to oil against all other concerns.

Including the big oil's concerns. Yeah. Yeah, and I've seen a bunch of stories pop up. I hope they pop up in campaign ads about like former coal workers in West Virginia are excited to get jobs working on like wind and solar farms and stuff. They're like, there are, these places are already going into getting set up because of stuff they anticipated. Like, that's good.

It's good to get people better jobs. It's better than learn to cope. Yeah. As the fucking, I think, to tell a 50, like a 45 year old formal coal miner. But talking about fucking over workers. So this story in the New York Times. which absolutely drove me in saying it said the rise of the worker productivity score. Employers are coming up with different ways to track, you know,

like how much you talk to your coworkers and how much health and you spend going to the bathroom. And including this woman, this woman is employed at like a hospice center or like a hospital as like a chaplain to talk to dying patients about their fucking, about their feelings about death. And she has to justify her job with metrics. Reverend Margo Richardson in Minneapolis,

She's a hospice chaplain, you know, I was right. So, plural started inquiring her to accrue what it called productivity points. And, like, so a visitor dying person's only one point. Participating in your funeral is one and three quarters points. A phone call grieving relatives is one quarter point. So deal with the actual dying person gets you like 40% less points than go into the person's funeral after their fucking death.

I don't know who just devise these metrics, but these are all things stupid because, like, there's lots of stuff that, can't be quantified at your job, you know, like thinking, right? Yeah, thinking, writing stuff down on, like, an actual piece of paper, reading stuff that's written on an actual piece of paper. Yeah. Yeah, and also, like, this lady, I feel like it's, like, sort of incentivizing her to

hustle these people along off the mortal coil. Yeah, I get both points after you're dead. Yeah, it's like, I need that funeral or I'm not going to hit my quota this month and get my bonus. us. So let's wrap it up, Agnes. What are you doing here? I also wonder if she can go to a funeral and call a family member while at the funeral and kind of double down, you know, double up on her points, on her points for that event. You got to game the system somehow, Mark. Yeah. Like, I sometimes have a subtle work problem. Like, I can't figure this out.

And I go walk my dog and I figure it out. Like, how does that factor into my worker productivity score? But, like, people, of course, people are afraid ways to hack this shit. So people are buying devices, they jiggle their mouses. Yeah. So you can get paid for not doing your job, but for jiggling your mouse because that'll drop your worker productivity score. Whereas a person who's thinking about how to solve a problem, it's no credit for solving it.

So this is a, this is just, it's not accomplishing anything. It's just being fascist for the sake of being fashions. Well, it's also like, it's just so inherently demeaning and disrespectful because it just like, you could not be sending a clearer message to your employees. like, hey, we in no way trust you at all to do your job. We have no faith in your capacity to perform this work. So we're going to, you know, micromanage you down to the most minute details just to ensure that you're actually doing shit. Whereas to me, it always felt like there's going to be shit that needs to get done.

If the shit gets done, why give a fuck about any of the rest of it? Like, if they get the stuff done, who cares if they also dicked off on Reddit for a little while or whatnot? Yeah, because it's not just, we don't trust the employee to do their job, but I don't trust myself as your supervisor to judge your work performance. I'm going to hand out bonuses based upon how many times your mouth jiggles. So that's a... How do the supervisors, do they get a point for, like, stopping by a cubicle? You know what I mean?

And making the employee feel bad, you know, where are their metrics come in? Yeah. Sorry, Bob, you're not getting promoted because you only said working hard or hardly working seven times this week. And you barely sniffed any intern's hair. So there you go. So lastly, this thing, the last thing that I read that if you read, a lot of stuff that if you're a lot of stuff that if you were already, you know, because I'm me. But so Nebraska cops arrested this girl.

She's now 18, but she got, she did that at home abortion. She was 17. And they found this out because they suspected her for having an abortion. And they went to her and she showed them some proof on her phone that, no, I was just talking about having a miscarriage. And they go, oh, there might be more stuff on her phone. They subpoenaed Facebook and got her private messages to her mom and her and her mom both get arrested and they're charging this girl as an adult for doing an at home abortion with some stuff they got on the internet. Anyway, so everybody fucking take your shit offline and don't send fake.

I don't know why this girl's communicating through her mom through Facebook messages, but that's her another way that row is a privacy bill. Like whatever their family dynamic is, let her custody disputes with their father. It's none of the newspaper's fucking business. We shouldn't know any of this shit. So I hate every aspect of this. But did you say she's like she's being charged with multiple felonies now under those laws? Yeah, because she was a fairly 18 year old. Yeah, she was at 26 weeks and Nebraska's law is 20 weeks, which by the way, was their standard before Dobbs.

So this is this would have, this case was already in motion before the Dobbs decision. So it would have sucked anyway, which is why we need a national right to abortion law. um yeah so anyway this is they're really come they're really going for it man uh i can't imagine when a cop thinks he's doing his day to day trying to enforce this shit um yeah yeah so well i'm sure we'll get some dumbasses yeah i'm sure we'll get to plenty of other shit that'll piss us off but producer matt is with us this is weekly skews i want to remind you of course couple quick things number one if you would like to see me perform live you can go to traycrouter dot com look at the dates get some tickets i'm on a solo tour right now we're in the process of

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where Republicans fucked over millions of Americans with diabetes to own the lives. You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd be thinking that they don't care about people. It's weird. Anyway, we'll get to a little bit later, but first, of course, the Daily dumb ass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. All of us for not applying Occam's razor to the question of why Trump had all those classified documents. Let's let John Bolton explain. Give me a sense of where you think the truth lies with respect to Trump's intelligence, carelessness, and the degree to which he might have brought motive to bear on taking these documents out of the White House and keeping them for this long at Marlago. Well, I don't, it's very hard to speculate on motive other than that he liked cool things. He saw things that he, so he wanted to take them and he was pretty much able to take them and not just on classified information matters on all kinds of things that crossed his desk.

Some days he liked to eat a lot of french fries, some days he took classified documents. He wanted them. Why didn't they want them? Because he could get them. All right. Yeah. Nuclear secrets are pretty cool, Mark. It's hard to argue with that.

You know, why even be the president if you can't do cool shit, like abscond with the nuclear codes and whatever else he had in there? But I like that French fries line. Listen, some days he hammers French fries. Other days, he takes classified documents. It's just kind of what you get with this guy. Yeah, I like that. At least we've taken John Bolton out of the field of trying to start stupid wars. And it employed him in the field that showed up on cable news three times a week to call Donald.

Trump a fat dumbass that hits for me it just shows up dressed like a cartoon app like a rich asshole in a Loonitunes cartoon from 1960 with his stupid mustache and just like absolutely like it just insults the four president

it fucking rules but the so I was like you guys talked about the raid last week and we found this trap about talking about Trump crime stuff about how smart he actually is none of these things are very difficult to pull off like I don't know whether he took it just because, like, the first thing to pop to my head was this. He just wanted to look cool.

And what's cool than bringing in the clientele of Mar-a-Lago, who were, you know, used boat salesmen and dentists who got rich selling laughing gas out of the back of their office and fucking, like, like, guys who got divorced six times and shit. They'd be like, look, here's a, here's a transcript of a phone call. France made of the president of North Korea. We got a hold of that shit. I'm fucking cool, right?

So that could absolutely be it. also if he was like took nuclear reactor designs to sell to Saudi Arabia that would make sense too but like it's like oh you think Trump's doing high level you know espionage shit's like no I don't think it's complicated to call up Muhammad bin Salma like hey you want to buy nuclear instructions right it's not it's not it's not a high level scan he can be doing fucking anything I don't put anything past the guy they've been bending over backwards trying to you know get to the bottom of this whole thing and they're they're proposed explanation so far have been pretty comical and there's been a lot of them you know like uh early on

they were uh jonathan turley a republican said the question is why would a subpoena not suffice particularly when the subject is not at the location instead they had to use a raid but you know he was subpoenaed so that probably he was subpoenaed and it evidently did not suffice so i would imagine that that explains that representative mike turner speculated the fbi rated his residence simply because basically he checked out books too long from the archivist. So he just had like some overdue library books that he didn't take back, Mark. People have also speculated that the FBI, in fact, planted the evidence in Mar-a-Lago. And of course, we all know that it's a conspiracy that's the deep state FBI, the liberal FBI headed up by Uber Progressive Christopher Ray,

a member of the Federalist Society who was appointed by Donald Trump. That guy, so liberal, he's infected all of the FBI with his commie schemes, and that's why they came after Trump. Also concerns about Barack Obama, where's he adding this whole thing? Why didn't the FBI raid Barack Obama's house? Does anybody ever ask that? Dana Perino and Fox News said, you know, short of the nuclear codes being on these documents,

I really don't understand how they could warrant something like this. But, you know, turns out, evidently, the nuclear codes were on those documents. So that prompted them to say that clearly that means it's all a lie, you know, because, or it's like the, it said, okay, if Trump really had the most sensitive nuclear secrets, why did it take them a year and a half to go get it, huh? What's next? You're going to tell us the nuclear missiles are under his bed. And then lastly, there's an idea that perhaps this is all bullshit, because Trump could have declassified the material just by using his brain.

Quote, there's a rich debate about whether or not a document is declassified if a president has decided but not communicated it outside of his own head. Yeah. I mean, nobody knows what he has or when it got declassified or reclassified or whether Biden reclassified it after or whether he never declassified it because he forgot to or whether he just like it doesn't like the order of events here is the FBI subpoenaed and shit to get it back. He gave a bunch of it back. His lawyer sent documents saying that they gave it all back.

Then they subpoenaed his security footage to show they didn't give it all back. So he had lied. It's all fun. It's such dumb. Like, God, they make the whole country fucking dumber. It's like, if stealing a bunch of government documents is fine now, then can Edward Snowden come home? Whatever Snowden did, I'm agnostic on it because we don't know what he took. Like, we'll never know all the governmentally announced, like the only released a very small percentage of Joe and the governmentally outlined.

less small percentage of it. So like whatever he to China or Russia or in his home pocket or to trash can, I don't fucking know. But like reality winner, she spent years in prison for just leaking to the intercept

that Russia tried to hack election machines. And that should be public knowledge. She leaked something that should be public that was classified. She spent years in prison for it. So what are we doing? You know, I saw a tweet from Rand Paul where he said something

like, it's time we got rid of the espionage act or something like it's like basically to be like okay if trump did some espionage then clearly what we need to do is make espionage legal now espionage hits for republicans uh because trump does it and everything he does hits for them evidently yeah i mean like in a different time i might agree with ram paul and about a different case or whatever but like because the government does use overly broad laws about public information to crack down whistleblowers and reporters like like the aforementioned reality winter right so like but this isn't that.

Trump didn't do this in the public interest. At least Edward Snowden has a public argument that did this for the good of the republic. The public used to know they're being spied on. Again, I don't really care. I don't know enough about it to get into it. But like, Trump didn't do whatever he did. He didn't make a public.

There's no whistleblowing aspect here. And yeah, all this stuff that's been happening. So Trump, a bunch of armed lunatic showed up the Phoenix FBI office. I think the Cincinnati shooting app happened after y'all's episode last week so I don't think you'll talk about it but when a guy tried to use a nail gun to break the bulletproof glass at the fucking well hey they don't call it nail proof glass mark all right yeah yeah like I got all these

bullets for what am I going to do use nails that'll get it yeah so this uh this whole incident that we know about um they the Trump sent a letter and sent a message to garland there was like we need to turn the temperature down which is basically like you know nice country have be ashamed of something happened to it. Exactly. If you make a deal with me, I'll tell my supporters to calm down, but if not, fuck off. And I'm glad for one. They're not taking that deal because we got to rip this band-aid off and get through this

fucking moment and get it over with because you got to like, if the Republic's going to burn down one way or you might as well at least try to save it by having some institutional integrity. Sure. You know. It's worth a shot, you would think. Yeah. So, but one problem Trump has is lawyers absolutely fucking suck.

Like, these lawyers might be worse than his impeachment lawyers. and they all hate each other. It's not even clear whether he has a criminal defense or whether anyone's done any goop. There was some of the story last night about one of Trump's lawyers reached out to a reporter to ask them how they thought, well, what they thought

was going to happen next? It's like, buddy, you're the lawyer. Right. You're the reporter's source, not the other way around. Well, I can't believe that the guy who specializes in throwing people under the bus and also demand sycophants at every turn is having trouble keeping

actually good and competent people in these positions, you know. Yeah. It's a good lawyer's job to tell you shit you don't want to hear. Right. And he hates that. Yeah. So one Trump lawyer might be seen on TV a lot. It's Alina Haba. Haba. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing it. I want to call her Haba. She's a New Jersey lawyer who just does like, I don't know, real estate or divorce cases or whatever. And then Trump saw her on like One America News and thought she was cute and she was enthusiastic. So her hired her to be one of his lead attorneys. And she's going all over TV saying. a bunch of dumb inflammatory shit that's basically confessing to a bunch of crimes. So she's killing it on the, you know, as far as Trump is concerned. It's like she's checking all the boxes. She's super loyal. She loves him.

He could picture her holding the casserole on a 50s lifestyle magazine and she's saying a bunch of dumb shit on TV. I mean, well, that sounds like upper management material and Trump incorporated to me. Yeah. Yeah. So here's a quote from the story, The Daily Beast, on her. Some of the Trump lawyers think her work is so bad, so self-interested, Pointlessly aggressive and sloppy.

They think Hawa's mere presence on their team increases the likelihood of Trump and his family facing court losses and legal peril. So there you go. You get what you pay for, which is nothing. Yeah. Well, now I'm a fan after that description, if that's true. She's deep state.

Yeah, right. She's deep state. Yeah, that's secret antifa. Why is nobody talking about that? All right. All right, moving on. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Beto O'Rourke for not putting a sick beat on this disc track

before it dropped. Might play the clip. I'm going to make sure that now 11 weeks since we lost 19 kids and there are two teachers shot to death with a weapon originally designed for use in combat legally purchased

by an 18-year-old who did not try to obtain one when he was 16 or 17 but followed the law that's on the books ladies and gentlemen that says that you can buy not one you could buy two or more if you want to AR-15s, hundreds of rounds of ammunition

and take that weapon that was originally designed for use on the battlefields in Vietnam to penetrate an enemy soldier's helmet at 500 feet and knock him down dead up against kids at five feet. It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but it's not funny to me, okay? Oh, hey.

So, you're good, man. I think, so it's worth pointing out, like, we talk a lot about authenticity and, like, Beto seemed authentically fucking piss right there as any human being should be. Well, I feel like that's the thing, you know, that's the thing about a guy, you know, politicians, we all know how they're supposed to be and how they're supposed to talk. So for him dropping a motherfucker, you know, in anger, authenticity is like, that's what you get from that. You know what I mean? It feels authentic when something like that happens because of the way that they normally act, you know?

I wish politicians said fuck more, among a myriad other curse words. I think it would improve. I don't know if that's what a divided country needs is them deciding to cuss more, but I don't know. I'd be into it. You can be authentically angry about shit that broken to people or authentically angry about about cursing, but like I would want to say motherfucker in that moment. But like in the context, like I'm going to think piece today about like,

I don't know if you'd follow the Dr. Oz, John Federman stuff, But, like, Oz put, like, we didn't, we didn't do it on a dumbass because the video is actually months old. And why I went viral again yesterday, but it's Oz shopping for produce in a, uh, uh, uh, some Pennsylvania grocery store. He's named the name of the grocery store wrong. Wegmans? Yeah, it's Wegmans, right? And he calls it like Wagner's or something like that. Well, he met like, Regnors is the one he was in. Wegman's another chain that's more high end and he crossed, he mixed the two names together. Oh, okay. All right. I think is what happened. I don't, I haven't spent much time in Pennsylvania, so don't get, don't get mad at me if I

got that wrong granite state folk uh so he but he's buying like he bought like asparagus and guacamole and anyway so uh fetterman just doesn't make him look stupid and out of touch he could talk about your family can't afford cruditay because the joe biden's inflated right so but it's like the author's making the point that like um when you talk about how scary republicans are it might not land very well because one the other side they like being scary they see themselves the empire right right but everybody hates dumb out-of-touch dickheads so it just roast them for being clowns like stupid out-of-touch clowns it might be more effective and i think betto tapped on to some real anger here yeah this fetterman with his vegetable vegetable tray making fun of o's not being able to put together

cruditate um but the betto thing got people clutching pearls and maybe wonder what century they're from Like this MPR wrote this piece, and I want to read from it. Some writer from, you know, writing for Women's Quarterly in 1946 said, O'Rourke quickly spun around and pointed to you, motherfucker, but it's not funny to you, motherfucker, but it's not funny to me. They bleeped out, motherfucker in the article. The crowd immediately began cheering and supported Rourke's snappy interjection. According to Cal Jilson, professor of political science at Southern Methodist University, O'Rourke's New York reaction shows he's passionate, which is good, but dropping an F bomb at a room with elderly attendees and kids.

not so much. Like cursing, can make it seem more authentic to your supporters, but there are shades of language that are dangerous. A work may have skated right up to it and passed it. Did she not hear the people cheering? I know, right. Exactly. Like, it obviously landed. It went over like gangbusters. What's the concern here? Like, here are the people that are, I could buy that argument maybe from the other side, just because I think of like ultra-Christian mammal types or whatever who don't like to hear that kind of language. But I just, you know, I'm sure we We've got a few, you know, prudish mammoths on, and on our team, too. But I just feel like it's, you know, less of a concern generally.

Yeah. I mean, I just can't give a fuck. And also, I like the advice about how, like, you should do light cursing. It's like, yeah, because nothing with, we know what something more authentic is he called, if they call it, if you call it a dingus or, or do you call. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What's it to say in the TV version of a, uh, uh, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, a, a, of diehard yippio chay melon farmer i think something like that yeah uh yeah i think samuel jackson snakes on planes it's like i've had it with these monday to friday snakes and this melon farming plane or something like that i don't know anyway it's always fun what the fruit is going on here all right yeah next up and we'll got we've got some more dumb asses let's uh we'll get through them a little more quickly because i you know i want to show some of these especially This one, our next hour will mention this lady's hat for not being big enough to get her point across. I just thought about that.

It's a weaponizing the FBI and it has to stop. The FBI is not here to weaponize against another president. It never has happened before. They should go after things that are clearly a violation, meaning the hunter, laptop, which they don't even have to investigate. All right. I don't know that's enough. I did want to hear some of her talking because. of how seriously she's talking, juxtaposed with the head.

And also, what accent is that? Is that German or something? Some northern or Eastern European, I don't know, something like that. But if you're listening to a podcast feed, she's wearing a giant foam MAGA hat, it's like the size of the hood of a car. I, yeah, I don't know if you saw the story, it's a nonstop vigil of MAGA supporters outside of most since the FBI raid. and they had to hang a sign up saying there's no public bathroom access

because they don't want these the dirty pours taking a ship in the Moralago bathrooms even though they're there to keep the big guy out of prison. Oh, yeah, well, that's gross. Can't have pores inside that place. Trashing it all up. Keep them outside. You know, that's where they're useful to him is outside of, you know, where he actually be. That's where he likes to keep it.

Yeah. All right. Do you go to the segment now or you do one more? Well, if let's do. Let's do two more real quick. Matt, it's just going to be screen grabs, I think. I did want to talk about this one. Honorable mentioned babies for not knowing they can restart their moms by unplugging their umbilical cords and plugging them back in again. Kamala Harris got dealt with on Twitter by this guy when she tweeted about a woman's right to choose and bodily autonomy.

And then a Salt Lake County Council member named Dave Alvord let her know. he said the baby is not part of the body of a woman the umbilical cord and placenta do not directly connect to the woman the baby floats inside the woman it's not about the woman's body it's to kill and then remove the baby's body it's done in greater proportion to black babies he also said it in they all they love to throw that one in there too yeah yeah you know that stuff that she grew inside of her body and with her body and all that that act none of that really counts as being part of a woman yeah and Do you remember that famous, like, Quora question, how is Bambi for him? It reminds me of that. This is like, it's so fucking dumb. And he did, not only did he not deleted after getting little newspaper articles written. He was, is he went back on Twitter and wrote a whole thread about how actually he's right. People are missing the point.

And I just want to, like, say, these guys' commitment to the bit is amazing. They never break K-Fave. It's like they will not learn how a woman's body works and you can't tell him. No, but he refused. Yeah, well, that goes against the Lord and whatnot, I think, Mark. I'm a little bit of dusty on the Bible, but it's stood from Utah. It's probably the Mormon Lord in particular telling him what to think. But either way, yeah, he's on some dumb shit.

Okay, and I also wanted to do the last one there, Matt, because I always like to feature her whenever possible. Lauren Bobert, her neighbors for not having a Claymore mine under their mailbox. Well, apparently her whole family was just on one in the neighborhood, tearing it up. I've said a lot before about her, but every headline seems to reaffirm it. It's like, everything I hear by her sounds like, like one of my white trash cousins from back in Clay County or something like that. You know what I mean? Like the, she married that guy, pulled his dick out in the bowling alley.

She, like, wrecked her car to music festival. Like, she got caught with a gun in her purse. And now this week, her kids were raising hell in a fucking doom buggy all around the neighborhood and got the cops called. So her husband showed his ass. It's just all so whiskey tango, which, hey, far be it for me to cast aspersions on people of that persuasion. but I just, you know, when you're this particular one in the halls of Congress, it's, it's noteworthy. Yeah, so the neighbor called 911 and nothing happened. We'll get to the nothing happened in a part because the sheriff's department seems to be in Boebert's pocket.

We'll come back to that a second. So evening of August 4th, a neighbor flagged down one of Bober's signs and asked him to stop speeding up and down the street to Doombucket. He said, quote, he's going like 50 miles an hour and this is a residential lane. There's kids. We try to stop him. he just freaking cussed unless it's the it's the boberts if you know who the boberts are a wonderful congresswoman someone else said in the background so her neighbors don't like her so that tells you something about her and by the time the second neighbor called 911

deputies still hadn't arrived during that call jason bobert reportedly began to run the second neighbor's mailbox over in a truck so he can he went got his truck came back just to run over the fucking mailbox and that but that's the that's that's her husband jason or is this still the kid it's Right. So the husband gets involved. I'll take care of it. Go run her ass's mailbox over. How about that? These people got some balls also, you know, getting in this kid's face because they know he's got a gun on him. You know, anybody's ever seen pictures of Lauren Boberts kids knows that they're strapped to the nines, even on Christmas morning, especially on Christmas morning, matter of fact. And so, yeah, as long as nobody got shot, I guess I should count themselves lucky dealing with this fucking lunatics. have flagged us for a second uh because we talked about before but there's no bigger sign of like it's the republican party symbol in 2022 should not be an elephant it should be someone getting in a violent yard based dispute these guys love a yard dispute it's like it's like really it's like it's like this whole promise of america it's not just a man every every man has his own castle or whatever

it's like they literally they're all little feudal lords and you can't fuck with their shit like asking your son not to run over their kids with a dune buggy is like fuck you you can't tell me what to do I run this joint so they call the sheriff sheriff sends a deputy out nothing happens

even though there's a broken mailbox and the underage kid drunk driving a dune buggy at excessive speeds and the sheriff's step oh it's just a dispute among neighbors we left them to sell it among themselves and by the way the sheriff

is in fact a bober supporter he does coaster campaign rallies and shit the hell you say sure or not didn't uh it's been a few years ago now but didn't ran paul got his ass whipped in a yard-based dispute of one of his neighbors yeah we've covered quite we've covered quite a few of them i think it's probably the 10th republican in a violent yard-based dispute we've covered uh there was the road rage guy there's ramp paul getting his ass kicked because it's something sort of arguing over moving tree banges back and forth between their yards and ran almost died man he got put the guy collapsed his long and shit

you know some people you don't want to fuck with in or out of a yard but especially in yards but you know certain white trash they get powered up by being if the fight takes place in the yard you know what i mean it's like it gives them a buff a plus three to ass whooping if they're in the yard run out bonus bonus points if the shirt is off or comes off and then you know you're in trouble or take your earrings out you take your earrings out take your earrings out take your shirt out yeah all right well let's get into the segment pissed off man IRA, generally good, but stop the Republicans for being shitty about it. No, so we talk a lot about the climate stuff and infrastructure stuff in there, but there's some healthcare stuff in there. Like Medicare is going to negotiate

some drug prices for the first time, which is we talked about before. It's a Democratic campaign promise in their platform since 2006 and they're finally partially doing it. It's good to partially do it. Also, medicine should be free, but we'll talk about that different episode. So the extended Obamacara subsidies to 2025, and they were dead set to expire.

And, of course, this is drastically two months before an election would have been an electoral nightmare, despite ignoring the fact that that's what's good for them about it, but also a bunch of people aren't going to lose their houses and shit and not build a Ford rent. So that's fucking awesome. They saved a bunch of people's lives probably. So let's get on to insulin. Because one of the things that happened, this happened last weekend. They're in the Senate's Voterrama.

Votarama is when a bunch of fuckery happens, when people negotiate different provisions, the minority party tries to trap you in a bunch of messaging votes on popular shit. You know, it's basically why people hate Congress. Yeah. Yeah, they're basically in the Voterrama. They're just trying to get like the other side on the record as voting against a given thing, right? So they'll just throw in some bullshit amendment that has nothing to do with the substance.

the bill just to say that, hey, they voted against this thing that I wanted to give you the American people. Yeah. So one of the things that happened to lead up to IRA passing was the Senate parliamentarian ruled that a provision to cap the price of insulin that was, I guess, designated its own separate act was going to pass at the same time. Could not pass under the reconciliation process because of budget reasons or whatever. So correct me if I'm wrong. This is how I understood that. You tell me if I've got it wrong. That, yeah, the only reason they were able to pass this without the 60 votes or whatever is because it was done under the reconciliation process, which for any of that to work, it has to be explicitly about the budget, has to be

budget related. And the parliamentarian is a person who determines whether or not any given provision is budget related. And I feel like what I read was there was insulin provisions in there, one of them for like government insurance or whatever, and then also one for private insurance, just capping insulin across the board, including through private insurers or private providers. And that part was the part to parliamentarian said, hey, that's private industry. It has nothing to do with the budget, so you can't do it in the reconciliation process. But they could have had an amendment to do so, but an amendment needs 60 votes. And it got 57, 43 Republicans voted against capping insulin at $35 a month or a dose or however that.

not a month, I think. Anyway, and kept it from happening. Is that correct? Yeah. That's how the process worked. Yeah, that's my, that's my top line understanding of it. Again, I've no Senate probably probably made a procedure expert, but that sounds about right. It got 57 votes, so seven Republicans voted for it. So with that means, 43 Republicans voted to keep insulin prohibitively expensive when people needed to live. Uh, cinnamon did get her $14 billion property equity tax break after voter drama, which means if you keep it track, this how the Senate works. it's a dumb-ass institution where it takes 51 votes to protect private equity from taxation, but 57 votes aren't enough to ensure that diabetics have affordable insulin.

I don't even really, I mean, I know you could say this about so many of their things, and it just comes down to like, because fuck them, that's why, is how the Republicans feel by a lot of this. But like, what is, I mean, they got seven Republicans to vote with them on it, because what is the, what's the thought process behind, you know, saying no to this because it's not like you're saying we're going to pay i'm going to use your taxes to pay for some poor dumb motherfuckers insulin and that ain't it's like we're just capping the amount of money that the companies can charge for it it's not about you having to pay for somebody else's so like who on earth would actually oppose that any actual

constituent outside of somebody who works for big pharma you know what i mean like well i'll give you their argument and then later on we'll get to why it's worse shit Right. But their argument, the typical libertarian economic argument, or right-wing economic argument, is that price controls lead to shortages because there's less incentive to make and sell the product. And that the person, the price is going to be set by competition, so there is no competition in this field. And that if you cut off this company's access to profit, they're not going to fund that money back into research and development, which there is no research and development on new insulin, at least none of the needs to. to be done, which we'll get to in a minute. All those things are absolute fucking lies when it comes with this specific product. I'm not saying that press controls never create shortages. They often do. It will not, it would not happen with insulin unless you restrict the price way lower than $35 per vile. We'll talk about that at the second, but let's talk about the parliamentarian for a reason. Here's the thing about the parliamentarian. The parliamentarian's

employed at the will of the majority party. Nobody elected her. They could fucking fire her, have a job interview where the one question is will you put this and let us go through the reconciliation process with this bill and she find a person

says yeah and then hire them and they vote on through reconciliation process and by the way that's what the Republicans did last time they had a problem

by the parliamentarian or one of the time was that a parliamentarian in 2001 Trit Lott ousted the Senate parliamentarian who ruled against the GOP

it was a much more fucking stupid and dumb issue it was less big it wasn't going to help anybody of course it wasn't because there was Georgia Bush and Trent Lott

and they just Fire her because she was in their way and put someone else in there who'd be a yes person. Parliamentarian has a woman named Elizabeth McDonough. She did use this dumb bullshit to fuck up for Republicans in 2015, which is funny. One of the times they try to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, she wouldn't let them do it to the reconciliation process. During which Senator Ted Cruz commented that McDonough should be fired or ignored. You obviously don't have to fire or you can just ignore. You can vote to overrule a parliamentarian and just do it.

So they could have done that shit and didn't. I hate to focus on my hire on Democrats who did at least vote for this process. I'm just saying when we say they're not trying as hard as they could have, this is the kind of shit we're talking about. I looked up some McDonald's job history. She's been in the parliamentarian's office since 1999. And one of the first, one of their first jobs was she advised then Vice President Al Gore

on the procedural for counting ballots following Bush v. Gore. So her entree to Democratic politics was teaching Democrats how to lose by the rules. And she's still fucking doing it. I'm not saying there's anything you could have done in January of 2001 to stop Bush being seated or should you have tried. That's what Trump did. I'm saying that Gordon already had been fucked by the Supreme Court and Jed Bush and the Secretary of State Lady and all that stuff.

But it's just anyway, I just thought that was a funny thing to know. So again, the 483 Republicans are the big problem here. I'm still going out of the Democrat because she's an unelected nobody who emiserated a ton of Americans and their Democratic. party, just let her do it. Fucking Jody Ernst, Republican Senator, voted against it. I want to show this video of her in 2020, saying that Senate should do this. The skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs has become a matter of life and death for so many.

We've heard the heartbreaking stories of individuals who could not afford their insulin. were forced to ration and skip doses, and as a result, they lost their lives. I remember quite vividly a conversation I had with an Iowa mother explaining how she lost her son, who as a young man was rationing, is insulin because it's not for him. Cut it off, Matt. To do more. Yeah. So that's her argument when you do something about insulin prices and voting against this specific bill.

I don't know what her specific objections or whether she had some sort of specific thing that about this bill that bucked her. But one thing to know is her own brother and sister take insulin. She voted to fuck over her own brother and sister for reasons. Well, I never. I can't believe it. Republican flip-flopping and not, you know, saying something and doing something else, not having any principles.

Shit is wild. But it is, you know, of course, it all checks out. But that is a particularly egregious case. That's why you have highlighted it. But, yeah, has it in her own family, but also has taken to the Senate floor herself to argue that this exact thing should have happened and then voted against that happening when given the opportunity. It's, uh... Yeah. So, I'm not, I don't have a list of the seven Republicans who voted for it.

I'm assuming there are people that are up for election this year. Dude, I know one of them was, I don't remember all of them either, but there were some unexpected names on there from, like Josh Hawley, I'm pretty sure, voted for it. I'm pretty sure. And that lunatic Kennedy motherfucker from Louisiana, he voted. voted for it. And I was like, well, Missouri and Louisiana, those are pretty B to C states. You know what I mean? It could be like it could be related to that. I don't know. I'm just kidding. But either way, yeah, there was, you know, there was some definite assholes on there who voted for it, which just highlights how shit it was to vote against it, which is still what most of the people in their party did.

So three guys voted against it. Republicans are up for election this year. Three at least, I saw all these three. Ron Johnson, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio. Rubio is fucking beatable. So it was Johnson. So fucking go get them if you live in those states. So how many Americans they fuck over? So about 30 million Americans, I think we all know America has, you know, we're large people. We are a large people.

We like to eat sweet foods. And so about 30 million Americans have some stage of diabetes. So almost 10% of Americans have fucking diabetes. About 7 million Americans, yeah. About 7 million Americans require insulin daily. uh about a Yale study said that 14% of those insulin users so about a million people are spending more than 40% of their income after food and housing on insulin that's crazy yeah so some of the Americans needed insulin daily that's about one in 50 so basically on average we all know at least a couple of people we all know a couple hundred people right I think at least about 100 200 you know school church work whatever yeah people you see at the store your neighbors um so these are all people you know and here's some other fucking numbers for you four out of five americans with diabetes wanted a debt to pay for insulin

one in four patients say they can't throw insulin because of high cost that's the rationing that jerniress was just talking about uh diabetes uh accounts for about a hundred thousand deaths per year um so yeah there's a lot of misery being caused by diabetes and not being for insulin and they don't give well dude no everybody everybody in this especially if you're from the south or one of the you know larger peopled regions you know somebody that's you know got to sugar mark or

or forbid somebody that the sugar took them already I've known plenty people got took by the sugar so yeah it's again it's one of those things that I just can't imagine any regular day-to-day American who doesn't have some kind of vested interest like working in pharma

having any kind of opposition to this whatsoever I would think just just money for big pharma buddy that's just money for big Forma, and because insulin is a essentially cost-free revenue stream for the three companies that make it, which we're going to talk about in a second, but they're money, but it's just money in politics. So the above, what we just talked about for the last few minutes is how insulin explains our broken

sclerotic fucking politics. Now let's talk about insulin explains big pharma, because insulin's pricing is a huge goddamn scam. One thing to know is insulin costs about $10 a vial to make, but it sells for about $100 to $300 per vile. It's even more expensive on resale groups and Facebook and shit because what people will do was a ration their own insulin. Sell some of it on Facebook at a huge markup to be able to afford more of their own insulin if they don't have to ration.

So dystopian, man. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. The cost of insulin for patients, this is one study I found, ranges from $350 to about $1,000 a month, $12,000 a fucking year to stay alive. And that's for patients with insurance. It says the cost of insulin for patients with insurance.

insurance up to a thousand dollars a month inside yeah i forgot that part and by the way like i saw a bunch of numbers different places that i'm assuming it's because a broken health care system things can charge differently different regions different health care plans cover different stuff and so if my numbers sound less for your insulin or more i don't know because i saw those are just the numbers i got top line numbers i got from various sources so um with so this insulin was invented i say i'm going to put it invented in air quotes because insulin's a naturally occurring bodily hormone. We're talking about as, you know, a fake insulin that you inject. He's invented by a Canadian guy named Frederick Banting. He made it in 1923. So it's basically

the same insulin we use now, was made by guy in 1923. He probably wrote a big wheel bicycle at work. This guy was a cool dude. He refused to put his name on the patent. He thought it was unethical for a doctor to profit from discovery that would save lives. That's hilarious in today's I know, I did imagine that now. It's, yeah, it's, that's, uh, that's truly something. I just imagine the, uh, effusive guffawing and laughter from a pharmaceutical boardroom at the very notion that something that saves lives should be, uh, not profiling from. So banning this two co-inventors sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for one dollar. That's the R&D that went into insulin.

These guys did it on their own. sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it. Anyway, being on a patent a naturally occurring hormone is a crazy fucking thing to be. It'd be like if you could patent kittens or something. Like, what are you doing here? So taking something that you acquired for free and selling it at an absurd markup is a straightforward ripoff. Yeah.

There's no, there's no bigger scale. And again, there's no R&D here. This was invented in 1923. They do update their patents, but that's the point because patents expire. Right. If you don't tweak the formula every few years to use their patents. Yeah, they like barely alter the formula for their insulin so they can get a new patent so that it doesn't expire and people can sell generics of it or whatever.

Yeah. So it is a quote from an expert in this article in The Insulin Rackett. We're not even talking about rousing prices for better products here, she said. I want to be clear they're talking about rising prices for the same product. There's nothing that's changed about Humelog. It's the same insulin that's just going up in price and now it costs 10 times more It's gone up 10 times more since like 2005

Yeah What these guys basically did It was Martin Screlli did with that children cancer drug And be like, we can definitely do that Just slightly slower so people don't riot And you've seen the fucking dark Biden memes Over the internet with the laser eyes People stole up in the art vault right

I think it's cool now because Biden's doing base shit Yeah Biden if you want to be truly based break the patent let's have generic insulin because they don't need R&D money to make new stuff they're just taking something they make for they bought for free they make for $10 and they sell it for $100 if you want to make the argument that they wouldn't make insulin if they can only sell it for 35 someone will get in that business to make a 350% profit that is plenty of profit no one's leaving that market because they can only sell for 35 would cost 10 to make

yeah well we i've always said we are the the true arbiters of what is and is not based uh on this show you and i were experts and based them and i agree that that would be based mark and i like based based stuff yeah no this is why you fucking need regulations you know what i mean because i don't know how many more times these like corporations and industries and stuff need to explicitly prove that they do not give a fuck about anything other than the bottom line and will run you smooth over in the process of reaching it. No one they won't fuck over unless you keep them from being able to do so legally with regulations and shit. You know, if that's big government, then give me some big government.

If I'm talking about, I don't give a fuck. It's not big government. Like, people, capitalism is a government system. It needs regulation to function. Right. Like, society sets the rules for all things. run that's not like it's not big government to be like yeah this is absurd we should fucking stop this like murder for hire laws outlawed that or government regulation right

in a purely free market i'll be able to pay someone to kill you tray that is it's not big government stopping me i mean i don't want to it's not just a big government stopping me but yeah uh matt you can go ahead and find some comments and stuff questions and comments throw them up there but go ahead mark as we turn to the comments so Alex Jones's bankruptcy started and he had some obviously chicanery as shit

like he said oh we need to free up more money yeah it costs $10 a month in Australia it doesn't cost more to make in Australia it's also well I don't think this came up but I saw on one of those articles America I don't have these numbers right but it's something to the effect of America accounts for like

10% of the world's insulin users and like over 50% of the world's insulin revenues. So like we're the only place that's price gouging fucking insulin in the first world, at least. So not that any of that is surprising. Lena Marie says in Norway, insulin is free. All medications that are necessary to uphold life are free. Any chronic condition requiring medication, that medicine is free. Other medications we might pay a tiny portion of.

Yeah, well, it can be us. I enjoyed the skews international correspondents don't know we know we fucking suck about health care guys very I read the stories we might have talked about it before but like because the Better Call Saul finale was last night I remember reading this explainers before people about stuff they don't understand on American culture and like neither breaking bad nor Better Call Saul makes any sense to them

because they don't understand why the guy met the cell right for his cancer treatments they don't understand why there's a personal injury attorney they reject the premise yeah that's funny you slip it you slip and fall in a store you don't sue the store you just go to the doctor and you fix your leg there's no fucking cost to say why are you why are you suing a guy for with a fake neck brace um that's funny i never thought about that or seen that pointed out but yeah that's funny yeah we something else anyway alex jones yeah his whole thing has been wild and comical uh as is you know customary for him so he went and said they needed to free up more money because they had if in for us had a surgeon or orders for people trying to financially support them after the verdict last week, and I'm sure that's true. But he was saying they needed to free up money to pay outside vendors to ship

this product. So money's not for them. It's new outside vendors. One of the outside vendors is a brand new LLC. I don't know who owns it, but it's operating in Alex Jones's warehouse with Alex Jones' former employees running it. So Alex Jones is trying to trick the bankruptcy court into letting him pay himself with money that's owed to the plaintiffs in his lawsuit. by starting a new business in the same, he didn't even fucking rent a new building or hire new people. It's the same people. It's for his like supplement,

his brain pills and stuff. That's a wild dude to hawk brain pills. Although I guess if you're the type of person who's inclined to believe that he is truly on another wavelength, then that's exactly who you want your brain pills from. But it has the opposite effect on me. Yeah, I don't know. I look forward to seeing how the all Alex Jones thing plays out.

you know, I hope he ends up destitute. It's wild. There wouldn't be that much difference between him and a lot of other dudes, you know, just screaming a bunch of wild shit out there except for the millions of dollars that he has. So if you take that away from him, then, you know, makes a little more sense. Who that, what's it? I like that name says, grifter's going to grift. Yeah, that's all they know how to do, baby.

You know, this isn't my point. I don't always make it, but, like, one of the, like, those supplement industries are unregulated. like the FBI doesn't evaluate them at all. And like so much the right-wing infrastructure is funded that don't do anything or harmful, you know, like buying out of a month than on the internet. Like if the federal government crack down on that stuff,

not only would improve people's lives and say them being ripped off, but it would cut off a lot of funding to stuff like Alex Jones and, you know, and like if you pick up like a local party, like political pamphlet, there'll be ads in the back for, you know, buy this to cure this, disease or whatever.

Right. They're shot through with it. Especially now that they've decided, you know, that doctors or liars and medicine's a hoax and all that shit in the wake of COVID, they'll be all over that shit. Say what? On YouTube says, California will be manufacturing insulin soon. Isn't that part of the whole, like, problem is that places are not able to do so under the current laws or that's not true?

Like, California can just start doing that. I thought these fucking companies had like a stranglehold on that. thing through their bullshit with the patent laws and all that stuff. But I don't know. Yeah, Anita Schmidt says, love your show, fellas. We love you too, thank you. Oh, like and subscribe.

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Am I wrong? I don't, I've lived here for, you know, years now, but I don't consider myself a Californian, but a displaced Tennessee. But I feel like a lot of Californians aren't crazy about Gavin Newsom. You know what I mean? Like he's a lot of his own bullshit. Yeah, right. Yeah, he's not like, it's not like he's beloved in the state that he's the governor of. So, but I guess that makes them qualified.

Chuck Atkin says, hey, try, I saw you in Albany a few weeks ago. Hit and say it. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah. California, I'm not read up on the details, but they're also trying to do a version of Medicaid for all, starting for the lowest tax brackets. And like, California is an obscenely rich state. I mean, like, I think on our own, we have the eighth largest economy in the world.

So, like, California could probably afford to do that while other states can't. but, like, the federal government's rich as fuck, too. So, like, I don't know. Have you ever seen those, like, billboards for, like, Palm Springs or some, or a beachy type place that the whole billboard has done in this, like, big, bright, vibrant beach style? It's, like, the letters all have, like, like, pictures of people on a beach or palm trees or stuff inside of them. And it's just really, like, it's like a tourism type approach. I saw one of those the other day that. just said abortion on it

and then smaller than that it was like abortion free and legal here or whatever is still legal here but the way the like the stylistic approach to it was funny to me because it looked like a you know a tourism billboard but for abortion which hits for me just clear wait with abortion is going to be legal

in 26 states that people can travel to get them they're going to be vacation shopping where should I go to get my abortion and they're going to be like it'll be like Virginia's for lovers that's an option you know California though they got that they got Rob Blow doing those beach commercials. Yeah, we can also go to Disneyland, you know.

Yeah, get abortion, go to Disneyland. Yeah. An Enemy Anemone, who's a frequent watcher, we appreciate them, but anybody in here says, it's nice to watch the like number jump whenever you remind people. Yeah, well, you know, doing my best. Jesse Perez has come to Chicago. We've done plenty of shows in Chicago, but it's been a minute. It'll be time to come back for it.

I think we're actually right now looking at a new Chicago date in, like, early 20, 23, but it isn't finalized yet. But I've loved Chicago. I don't know about early part of the year, but, you know, what are you going to do? I'll come there whenever. It's one of my favorite cities. Last time I was there was February, and that did not hit. Chicago's a very, very, and I mean this with all the love in my heart, a very, very, like, fat and drunk place, which hits for me.

You know what I mean? Like, they're just real good. They're food, and booze culture there is just top. They know how to fat down. I will not stand for your anti-italia. racism. No, I love it. I'm a huge fan.

But one thing I will say about their boozing in Chicago is, have you ever had a lort, Mark? No, but I've heard about it. I'm convinced it's an elaborate prank they're playing on everybody else by pretending that it hits for them and then making you drink it when you go there. It's like motor oil. That's not actually, I can't even remember what it tastes like because I've repressed that memory from my brain because the shit is wild.

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