Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 8/29/23 – Tragic Kingdom: Florida

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

Last week we focused on the rampant lunacy gripping Texas, so this week it's only fair that we turn our attention to their fiercest competitor in the Craziest State contest: Florida. Along the way: Trump's mugshot/trial date, and more. Join usSupport the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's august 29th 2023 i'm trey that's mark how you doing over there mark what's that tray it can be a good show we're going to talk a little bit about the jacksonville shooting later on and uh how it relates to the history they don't what you know about and how it impacts the present because time is a flat circle buddy and we're trapped in it um before we get to that How are you? I should ask. You doing good? I'm okay. This is a weird thing to say falling up, given the subject matter, but it just occurred to me when I said your name. Do you, uh, snark? Like, would you say you've got snark? Sure. You seem snark. Yeah, right. So like, snarky mark. I feel about that as opposed to smart. You know what I mean? Snarky mark.

I've never really had a nickname. Boy. I've never really had a nickname stick. I don't know. I'm not a nickname guy. Yeah. I'm not very funky either. But, you know, it just occurred to me because I almost called you Marky Mark just for fun. And I was like, Snarky Mark. Anyway, I'm doing okay. Katie's out of town right now. She's back in my hometown, actually, Clay County, she is like renovating the house I grew up in because we're trying, we're going to try to sell it or whatever. She's, and I'm here with the kids. The boys are in school. So I'm here, you know, cook and cleaning and send the boys to school and stuff while she's like putting in drywall and ripping out insulation and stuff like that, you know. as is appropriate. But we're in week two now. She comes back this weekend and, you know, hanging in there, watching R-rated movies, doing our thing. It'd be a fun bit if she got you a Mother's Day card this year. A couple things before we get to the show.

Just like the dipsittery going on in Congress is killing me. If you guys haven't followed it, the government's probably going to shut down this fall unless we get more. Like, we had the debt ceiling standoff earlier this year, which is different from actually funding the government. right anyway yeah but this happened this is also a pretty frequent occurrence right i mean when i worked for the federal government when obama was president there was we shut down once for like a month and i feel like it comes up every so off it's become like a hot thing to do hold the government

hostage or whatever yeah this happens way more than the debt ceiling thing because it comes up every year as opposed to every three four or five year however they can decide however long it is by how much they raise the debt ceiling but so kevin McCarthy uh speaker of the house and went on tv this weekend and tried to make the argument, you know, to wrangle his dipshits that, uh, that they should continue funding the government because they shut down the government. That's also, that would also shut down all the houses, investigations into the Biden crime family. Yeah. All right. So then the dipshits went on TV, responded that this, that Kevin McCarthy is only doing the investigations in the Biden to distract from the fact he's conspiring as a rhino to help keep funding

Biden's big government, big, big, big spending government. All right. So we got a real, uh, the chip, dip shit game of chicken going on here. And my question is, do you want a fake impeachment or not? Because this is how you get it. You got to, sorry, you got to pay the post office to do your, do your fucking stupid impeachment. All right.

Yeah. So I wanted to ask you, because I don't, it's not in the outline. I mean, I saw yesterday on, uh, Twitter some talk about, like, they're, uh, they're, uh, crowing again about like, some new, like, some new, like, some, They were, Fox News and then were acting yesterday. Like some new shit came out in the Hunter Biden, the Biden crime family investigation. I saw a lot of people like dunking on it,

you know, right wing people being like, yeah, this is it. We're getting close. Something about that, that guy that they had fired, they had him,

the investigator they had fired for not investigating corruption. They're saying that was corrupt. He did an interview on Fox News, said a bunch of wild shit. And they're like, yeah, this is all, it's happening or whatever is how they were acting.

But that's not, I wanted to ask your, uh, it's nothing new. it's the same stuff. It's the guy that it's the anti-corruption. It's the corrupt anti-corruption prosecutor that the whole world wanted fired, the guy who ostensibly would have been investigating Burisma, but was not investigating Burisma. So in theory, if Biden had they got fired, it increased Hunter Biden's like legal jeopardy, but reality doesn't intrude here.

The whole government, the whole world who was supporting Ukraine at this point, one of this got fired and Biden was instrumental in one of the point people in getting him fired. So that's part of that it's, don't worry about making sense. of it. It's fucking, nothing, nothing new, nothing news from it. Yeah, I mean, I knew we had talked about all that before. I just, I, I, I didn't know if anything actually knew had happened just the way they were talking about it. But yeah, sounds like no. Yeah. It's just, it's just a bunch of mess. They can probably, they can, they, they keep trying to mix, uh, make fire out of some smoke they made up, but nah, there's nothing. Um, this

story, so there, people are, uh, apparently going to follow Trump to the ends of the earth. So this story out of Michigan, uh, kill me. Uh, so the Michigan Republican Party is dead fucking broke. I mean, no cat, because they've been fighting legal battles over their efforts to throw off the election and their complete disarray. They elect, they elected a moron to run the state party. Um, a bunch of their, you know, their most prominent activists are in legal jeopardy for the fake electorate. And so they had a big meeting to try to straighten all this out last week. And it broke down into, I'll just quote here, in the face of these troubles, suspicion fighting have been running high.

A recent state committee meeting led to a fist fight, a spinal injury, and a pair of shattered dentures. Two, two different pairs of dentures got broke. That's some, some papal smoke,

buddy, papal throwing bows in here on the on the state Senate floor or whatever. That's pretty wild. Yeah, I couldn't figure out whether it was two different sets of dentures or like a top and a bottom that got broke.

Yeah, either way somebody took a chain to the face. One dude. Like, I mean, picture two pat-balls breaking each other's dentures, but it's probably more likely that one dude broke two different pat-ball's teeth, which is... Yeah. There's also a spinal injury in there, so maybe one guy broke his teeth biting another guy's spine.

Yeah. That's also a possibility. In Republican primary news, O.J. Simpson apparently watched the debate last week, and he has decided to endorse a candidate. He has endorsed, drum roll, please. Bavik Wama-Swami Had a good job. Yeah,

congrats with this made-up guy. Like, it's obviously he's talking about Ravik Ramoswami, but he didn't butcher his name like that. After a long, he's like a five-minute video where he talked about your boy,

Josh Jacobs' contract extension with the Raiders, and then he endorsed Bavik Wama-Swama-Swami. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if anybody's going to butcher a name, you know what I mean? He's a pretty good candidate. Got CTE and two murders.

But, I didn't get that. Okay. Yeah, you said it. You know, it was a good, no pun intended moment. On the Josh Jacobs thing, I've said this before, but like, O.J. Simpson's, like, Twitter presence is so wild to me. It's like, it's a real source of fascination because he always starts out. I was like, hey, Twitter world is me, OJ, or whatever, just so bright and cheery or whatnot.

And like, if you, so sometimes I'll click it, just be like, what is this lunatic saying? But a lot of times he's talking about football. And like, if you remove the fact. that he's a double murderer or whatever it's like allegedly he's pretty good at that like a lot like i'll find myself thinking i'll be like damn you you spot on with that one juice that's in terms of the running back situation in los vegas right now like uh it's just it's so weird that he is a thing still but also he'll get on there sometimes and be like people he'll talk about true crime stuff or whatever which is super wild like a lot of people want to know what

i think about this new murder here's my thought like he also is a murder commentator, like a football and murder commentator, which again, you know, certainly qualified for both. So it's just an interesting Van Diagram he's got going on. Yeah, it's a very quick. The man has charisma. That's why he was great in the, uh, the, uh, naked gun. Yeah, naked gun movies and the Hertz van derrick car commercials.

Uh, that's why he was out of his old name. So like, uh, taking a break to commit a couple of murders and get rid of your charisma. But yeah, but it's, yeah, he's a quintessally American character. Yeah. A black Republican murderer, felon. Yeah. Former context. Very, very well-known anecdote.

It might be apocryphal. I don't know if you're talking about him and naked gun and whatnot. The story goes that he was almost cast as the Terminator, but James Cameron said he didn't think any, the American public, the movie going public, would never buy him as a killer. And so that's why. And that's why he didn't get the job. that's what I've always heard. Cameron's also pretty woke. It's why he made the term of T2 a cop

and why in the last Terminator, the bad guy was a Border Patrol agent. So I don't think he would cast a black person as the villain in the Terminator because he would worry about the takeaway from it. But that's why he cast her Eastern European son of a Nazi party official who's a huge bodybuilder.

But not, yeah, I don't know. It's not getting a Schwarzenegger's personally as we. So because he liked, We talk about domestic politics. I want to just point to do this a little bit to talk about dumbasses also exist abroad. Specifically, I want to talk about Spain for a second here. Have you followed the women's Spanish soccer team?

No, I have not. So Spain won the Women's World Cup. They defeated England won nothing. And during the presentation of the trophies and medals or whatnot, a Spanish soccer president, a guy named Luis Rubialis, gave a bunch of women creepy hugs and pulled one of them in for a forcible kiss. Her name is Jenny Hermoso. This was, of course, broadcast all around the roll, and then people noticed.

In the locker room afterwards, Hermioso said she didn't like the kiss, and it was reported on, so it caused a bit of a controversy. So in response to this controversy, Rubialis put out a statement, essentially from himself and also one for Homoso, where she said, I quote, she said it was totally spontaneous and prompted by the huge joy of winning a World Cup. The Presi, I guess she has a nickname for him as the president of the Spanish national team. The president have a great relationship. His behavior with all of us has always been 10 out of 10. This was a natural gesture of affection and gratitude, the statement continued, except she didn't say any of that.

He apparently wrote that statement for her. Then she put out a statement said she didn't like the kiss. I do not like to tolerate that my words question, and much less that words are invented that I have not said. so it's so wild to write that statement yourself you know what i mean you're like you uh sexually assault basically one of your players on live tv and then write their statement for them is like well this is what i'm sure she would have to say about me anyway 10 out of 10 exemplary man individual i'm surprised he didn't put like big dick in there somewhere but yeah yeah pretty wild it's

worth noting that ruby alas is a well-known pig in a moron in 2016 a woman named todd tamar ramos who was them a staff for Spain's players union said that went public with accusations the rubiales had among other things made lewd comments to her in professional settings such as asking what color underwear she was wearing and at front of everyone he with a sarcasm he has of laughing is obviously translated from Spanish told me come see come see you have come here to put on your knee pads all right uh even on the very day of the kissing incident he'd been caught on camera uh like doing a jerk off motion. Classic.

Spain was kicking so much ass, the soccer winning 1-0. He was standing a few feet from Spain's queen and her 16-year-old daughter. And again, he's already giving everyone else creepy hugs.

All right, go ahead. It just sounds like, I'm always a little bit, look, this dude is a pig. I'm not saying this guy hits for me. I'm just always a little bit, like, heartened whenever somebody does some shit like that that isn't a dipshit American.

This dude just sounds real American to me, standing by a queen. We don't have queens, but you know what I mean. Standing by a fancy lady making a jerk off motion because your team's winning a game or whatever and also all the creepiness. But at the same time, I thought, like, just like a kiss, I thought, you know, Europeans, you know what I mean?

I'm glad to hear that they take care of this much about this stuff because I always thought they just, you know, was more laissez-faire about kissing. I just, I feel like I see them kissing each other all the time and say, I don't know what they're doing over there. It is funny because, like, when the U.S. women's national team lost, last month, like the whole all the right-winger said is because the U.S. women's team was too

woke, and then you have the wokenness of the Spanish women's team fucking bringing their empire telling me down. By the way, the U.S. women's national team lost to a Dutch team who were all in, like, lesbian relations with relationships with others who constantly complain about capitalism. So I don't know who's more woke here. But anyway, going back to the Americanist of this, after everyone called her friend to resign, he held a big meeting where he said,

this is a fake news story. And he was the victim of a hunt led by, quote, false feminists. man, this playbook, dude. So all these meatheads of the room clap for him, including the coach by the guy with the name of Jorge Vilda, who, by the way, the whole team's been trying to get him fired for years

because he does stuff like he makes them leave their forbids them from locking their hotel doors before midnight so he can do spontaneous inspections and go through their purses in bags. All right. And all this is to the point

where the mother of Rubialis he has locked herself inside a church. She did this on Monday yesterday, declared that she was going on a hunger strike over her son's inhumane treatment. So this is one of those stories where, like, it's not clear whether this is like reactionary

because Spain's anti-feminist or whether it's becoming more feminist in these dipshits. It's one of those things where you can't tell whether an old, in New World is struggling to be born or whether old ones reasserting itself, which is the theme for tonight we're going to be talking about

when you get to Jacksonville. But this is just like, just fucking perfect. This guy, these guys are probably going to end up getting raises while the women who actually won the goddamn World Cup are going to fucking not be listened to. Yeah. Ain't that just the way. All right. Well, let's get into it with us as always as producer Matt. This is his weekly skews.

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begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic please. Tonight's D.D., anybody who still needed Viagra or Loub after seeing Trump's steely jail gaze. Let's watch Mr. Waters break it down. I am

now going to book the Fulton County photographer for my Christmas card. because, Judge, and I say this with a unblemished record of heterosexuality, he looks good. And he looks hard. He looks good. He looks hard.

I'm super straight. Let's do this thing. Yeah. So they're working really, really hard to turn this mugshot into like a good thing. And I haven't made a brief stop in jail before. It does not hit. So I don't know why they're doing,

only a bunch of super fucking white privilege people could act. like jail, the rules. Trump actually, and it's like, Trump isn't pretending this. I mean, his merch people are if they're selling it. But he did an interview on Newsmax where they made quote, here's an actual Trump quote. I took a mugshot.

I never heard the words mugshot. Didn't teach me that at the Warden School of Finance. I think we all know what a mugshot is. I don't know why the fuck you pretend you wouldn't. But I went to a, I Googled Wharton felon just a see what will come up. And I found an article from like a student alumni publication with the headline is Penn's pipeline to white collar crime. Now, I don't know why Wharton people call

it Wharton because it's just Penn's business school. Right. But they made a list like if people know what, no one went to Duke says I went to Trinity College. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes. Universities also have sub-schools. Like you'll see hear people say I went to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, but nobody says it just says I went to Kennedy School of Government. Yeah, for a lot of time, I didn't even realize that Wharton was just Penn. I thought it was some special uppity business school or whatever, because, yeah, it is weird. Like, almost every college has a separate name for their, like, you know, sub-colleges, like the business school or whatever. Yeah, I went to Randolph Hall.

That was my freshman year dorm. So this person, this list of people include some fairly well-known felons, including Michael, Michael, Michael, Milton, you know, the huge, like, scam artist, who, by the way, was pardoned after pleading guilty to six felonies, including tax violations, security's fault. He was pardoned by one Donald Trump who presumably knows that Michael Milton took a mugshot. Michael Milken, sorry. So, uh, yeah, I don't know if both, Penn isn't Ivy. Why would you feel bad about just saying Penn? I know. I know. Maybe they think people don't know, maybe, or they assume people don't know that it's an Ivy or something. I don't know. I get confused with Penn State or some shit. I don't know. Who the hell knows?

Yeah. I don't know. So Trump has some legal proceedings this week. The judge in his, Tanya Chukun, sorry if I pronounced that wrong. The judge in his January 6th related case. They tried to push the trial date to April of 2026. And she's like, no, March 4th the next year, Doug. Sorry.

That's the day before Super Tuesday, right? right they were all pissed off about that on the right talking about how this it could not be clearer that this is all politically motivated this is weaponized partisanship that's what this is and they've just you know they spelled it out for all of us by making it the day before super tuesday that was there's not there's not a day in the first three quarters of next year that isn't close to some primary or caucus or something and also like you got the primary locked up putting it around super tuesday is probably the most convenient day for you that's a good point yeah fuck who cares like it's like you like you want you want to say how do you push back against arguments election interference except for just not holding him accountable at all because the election like when do you want to do it you want to wait to laugh the election when he could pardon himself because that's stupid right so like nobody made you run for president she actually said like well he's running for president she's like well i don't take uh defendants like personal professional obligations under consideration for any for any other person why to fuck him yeah right a couple of things

about this. So earlier you mentioned the Michigan GOP, they're like strapped for cash because they're spending it all on legal fees. Like, is that going to be a possible issue for Trump or does it not matter for him because Rube's given so much money? And also he never pays his lawyers or whatever anyway. But like, and then I also saw that like he'll have to be at this trial, right? So that takes him off the campaign trail or whatever. Like, I don't know. How much is all this going to impact his like campaign in terms of money or availability? Do you think any of it matters? Availability, it definitely impacts, but also, like, he's been out of public, he's been out of public eye pretty much for, like, two years, and it's still, like, got his

fan base. So, you know, he's over there posting on true social stuff that nobody sees and staying in Moralago. But that does Mugshot thing for a second time about how, how this is going to impact the election? They're trying really hard to spin that it's a good thing. Like, Charlie Kirk said Trump's Mugshot is like a Rades Against the Machine album cover, which no, it isn't. He also said it was like the bat symbol of the resistance. So they're trying to take the term resistance for themselves. Right. Well, that's, I mean, yeah, I guess the two things are related.

It's always like, you know, there's been plenty of videos of like these mag of people like rocking out to rage against the machine. And also was it Paul Ryan or whatever? So it's his favorite band or something. It's just always been so funny to me. It's like, who do you think the machine is? Like, what are they, you know, what do you think they're raging against? Also, have you ever heard of any of them? talk like they're hard core bro not down with y'all yeah zett dela roaches the songs of run run the jewels

and tom orello the guitarist and rages out here like playing guitar on the picket lines for during the writer's strike so i don't i don't know who they they thought they were allied with but none of that bullshit and i want to watch this video in a second prepared me for this because this is like this is an angle a lot of them are taken if you got this fox in the loring graham video man right That mugshot situates Trump in a cultural context that I'm not sure his enemies may have anticipated. Now he joins Frank Sinatra. He joins Elvis Presley. He joins Johnny Cash and Tupac Shakur. And he didn't only know some of these people, meaning he is now seen by non-political folks as a rebel, an outsider with swagger. And as one black lady I spoke with earlier today here in New Orleans said, Trump's a gangster.

And that means he has creed among a new block of voters that perhaps have never given him a serious little street. Even some people are saying, you know, if that one black lady said it, but it's like, it's so funny because it's like, listen, we all know how much black people love crime, right? Well, they didn't even think about that, right? They have pretty short-sighted Democrats. Black people love crime. Now that Trump's a criminal, they're going to flock to him in droves. They've all been saying this. they've all been saying it like

it's the idea that black people would more likely to vote for somebody who's been to jail is so deeply racist that I'm like on so many levels that I can't even believe they said it out loud but we don't have to show this next Jesse Waters video Matt because you know fucking I'm sick a look at his face but he went on his show on Fox News

and said that he talked to his garbage man who happened to be black and he's getting a mugshot T-shirt for all of his friends uh and people do like I don't know You know, there's plenty of mugshots that have been on T-shirts and stuff before. Some iconic mug shots out there of, like, famous people and whatnot.

And it's like some people I do think, think that it's cool or whatever. And I'm sure Trump's, like, existing fan base, they already, I'm sure they think it's super cool, presumably. Or they're telling themselves they do. But I just don't think it's like, I don't think it's swaying anybody or nothing. I don't think anybody before I was like, fuck that guy. They're like, oh, never mind. He's a gangster. Well, now I'm in.

You know. Also, like, the idea that we're supposed to believe that Jesse Waters talks to his garbage man he's like hello black garbage man how do you feel about Donald Trump sir or like this guy the other guy with Lori Ingram's like I say hello black lady is Trump gangsta yeah right these people do it yeah I do it actually I I was gonna say I kind of like this video because of the yeah the ending like the punchline as you put it so I think we should Matt sorry if you could go back watch this other Jesse Waters video the mug shots up on the side of buildings in the inner city

The 2016 phenomenon's happening all over again. Trump won that election because of a laser-like focus on the forgotten man. A bond was formed back then that can never be broken. All right, you've got it, Matt. All right. So now, you're showing the guy putting up a mural and when he says to the inner city, I think it's supposed to be downtown Atlanta. I can't tell him the picture whether the guy's white or Hispanic. Anyway, the punchline of this, they didn't show the finished product of the mural.

Right. I know this picture up here, Matt. Yeah, this is the mural he was painting. If you're only listening, the final touch on the mural, which is a mural of Donald Trump's mudshot, the mugshot, the final touch is a speech bubble comic book style from Trump that says, MAGA, my ass, got arrested. So that's what the mural the guy was painting was. Dude, Fox knows just absolutely shameless, man. They got in trouble this week. They were been running a story about how some Marine he was killed in Afghanistan during the evacuation, his wife had to pay to bring his remains home.

and the military got mad not the Biden administration but the Marines were like we wouldn't leave a fucking guy behind like that what are you talking about and this quietly deleted the story with no retraction or no correction or anything like they just fucking lie and you cannot man you like consent cannot be manufactured this easily you have to have some like creativity behind it the fact that that mural exists and people can go look at it is going to like kick you in your dick for anybody is actually persuadable so I don't understand the point of doing it anyway this fucking idiot's like being arrested sucks as far as like the point of I just think like they just know and correctly I think they know that like the people they're making that for like they're never going to see anything else on the subject

you know what I mean like that their report on it that's all those people are ever going to see about that probably you're never going to see the finish mural or whatever and they know that shit so right but Roger Ailes who was the king of this shit and it was an evil battle

but was good at his job. He was working in Nixon White House and he founded Fox News, right? So, like, his goal was an electoral project. It was established conservative power by convincing something approached to a majority of Americans of your viewpoint or that the mainstream media is biased. This is not that. Whatever that is, it's not this. This isn't fooling a single motherfucker who doesn't actively want to be fool.

You got to fool people in the middle to win elections. Right, yes, for sure. All right. All right, you want to get into it? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So if you guys have been following the news, there was a, I guess by our standards, a minor mass shooting in Jacksonville over the weekend. A 21-year-old shooter, he entered a dollar tree. First, he tried a family dollar. And then he used to work for a dollar general. I'm not sure if that factors into this at all. But he went to a dollar tree first. He was called on camera leaving when a security guard arrived. Not sure if that deterred him or not. Then he went to historically black cops. college called Edward Wodgers University.

I guess we're going to shoot it up there, but a girl saw him putting on tactical gear and mask in hot-ass Florida in August when told a security guard he was going to go talk to the guy to see what the fuck was up. He left when the guy went to approach him. Then he went to a dollar general, and he shot three people, a 52-year-old woman named Angela Michelle Carr, a 19-year-old named A.J. Liguerre, I'm not sure from that wrong, I apologize, who worked there after chasing him through the store. and then he shot a third victim named Gerald Galleon

as he entered the store. All three of these people were black. Then the shooter, his name's name's name. I'll try not to say his name again because fuck him, killed himself. At least one of the guns has swastikas painted on it. There were also scrawls in the weapon that referenced the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand

and he wore Rhodesian flag patch. How familiar you with Rhodesian while white nationalists love it, Trey? I mean, I know that it was like a former colony in Africa that got, you know, is no longer road Zimbabwe or whatever now. But it's right. It was one of the, you know, when they were all collecting African nations or whatever,

I know that Rhodesia was, was one of them. And they got up to some bullshit down there, but I, I don't. Yeah, it was a white minority ruled African territory. Like you said, it used to be a British colony. It was, they got a bunch of military funding from like apartheid South Africa. But then they got their shit wrecked by black nationalists in the Bush War. These people just fucking love losers. Confederates, Nazis, Rhodesia, just like, if you got, you got,

if you got your ass kick in the name of a dumb cause, these fucking idiots love you. Palm Peter also sent statements to federal law enforcement and the media suggesting that his attack was to mark the fifth anniversary of a shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville a few years ago where the guy killed two people. That guy wasn't racist.

He was just a crazy kid who got mad over losing a game of Madden. So, yeah, if you want to know what can get you shot in America, beating a guy Madden, we'll do it. Yeah. But this kid left behind 20 pages of racist writings. Like before the shooting, he called his dad and told him what was about to happen and checked his computer. His dad called the cops.

It was too late. If you go to write 20-page papers, just go to fucking school. Your life will be better. You won't be so full of hate. Yeah, giving himself Nazi homework or whatever. I'm surprised they're not calling him trans or something. They couldn't dig up any kind of trans stuff on him because that's been. They've probably figured out.

I've probably figured that out. But the thing about these manifestos, man, is, like, we keep calling these people lone wolves, but they're not, they're not. They definitely don't see themselves as lone wolves. They see themselves as part of a movement. So, like, these manifestos are the way of these cats have to all talk to each other, even post-mortem. And, like, this is a weird box to be on because, like, as a person considers myself kind of a free speech absolutist. Like, I'm not sure what to do about this shit. But, like, that's why the guns have to be raided.

It's kind of like the First Amendment's up against the second at this point. And you got to, we kind of got to pick one. Because, like, if you're going to be going to be. going to have a bunch of people being radicalized by bullshit they read on the internet, which I don't want to regulate. We've got to limit their ability to fucking kill mass amounts of people in a short amount of time with no skills or training or whatever,

just enough money to buy used AR-15. Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I definitely agree with you on the guns, but also on the other thing, like, you know, any, like, private company who, you know, wants to say, hey, you can't do that Nazi shit on our, on our software or our platform, like, that's, you know, it's free

market. That's their free speech rates. Yeah, right. they have the right to do that and I'm fine with it but I but like if they want to find some like you know like just some shady ass subterranean portion of the internet to post this type of shit on or whatever like and then you know other people can find it there I don't know what we're really supposed to do about that you know they do have that you know if people are like going out looking for that kind of thing they'll find it and find a way you know they'll find the rabbit hole eventually anyway I don't know how you would I don't fucking care what Post on the internet.

Yeah, just leave the rest of us alone. But like, one reason I say it's going to do something about guns is like these guns are purchased legally. Florida doesn't have a universal background check law for people buying firearms. It does have people prohibiting, does it have a law prohibiting people from owning or possessing firearms that they have documented a mental health concerns. Here's the thing. This guy fucking did. He'd been involved in a domestic dispute before. And he's been held, he had been held on a 72-hour psychiatric hold before.

And he was still able to buy guns legally. this is oh shit Sheriff Waters said that the shooter made clear in his writings the swastick and the Rhodesia thing to make clear to you that the guy hated black people and so I wanted to talk about about Jacksonville's history here because this seems

sort of relevant this shooting happened in an area of Jacksonville known as Newtown if they know about this story in Newtown you might notice I mentioned up top that there were at least $2 stores this guy visited and not the third when he worked at. And there's also an HBCU involvement in this.

So why is this neighborhood called Newtown? Everyone's probably heard about the Great Chicago Fire and the San Francisco Fire. But the third largest urban fire in American history was in Jacksonville in 1901, May 3rd, if you're wondering, a factory, a fire to start a factory burned 146 blocks, destroyed 2400 buildings, left 10,000 people homeless, then killed seven people. This fire took place over eight hours. the fire department decided to save the white homes, let the black neighborhoods burn to the ground, and tuning two historically black colleges, including, yeah, the one we mentioned earlier, Edward Waters, then college, now university. Think about letting the black family's homes burn.

It's not totally clear from historical record whether this was like passive racism or active racism. What I mean is whether or not they just didn't only have so many resources to use them to save the white people's homes. I mean, that would be my immediate assumptions. Look, that's absolutely horrific, but it's also like in 1900, in Florida, like, you know, I would have guessed every time that they, you know, did everything they could to save the wide homes and just, like, deprioritized the black neighborhood or whatever, because that was just kind of just how it rolled. I mean, frankly, even if that, if that happened today, I wouldn't really be surprised, you know, depending on what happened at, you know, like, which is terrible. It's worth noting that a few people did say when they complained to the fire chief, again, this fire took eight hours to burn all this shit down. he did say maybe it was good for black homes to burn down.

So maybe it was active racism or maybe just knowing passive racism. I don't know. Anyway, one of the people who described the fire department's in action was a guy who was a school, the vice principal of school there by the name of James Weldon Johnson. The year before, he had written a little song called Lift Every Voice and Sing, which since then,

the NWACP is called the Black National Anthem. It's a prayer of Thanksgiving for freedom. that uses imagery from the book of exodus in the Bible, talking about leaving slavery towards the freedom of the promised land. Ironically, after the fire, he said, fuck it, and moved to Harlem. The exodus from the fire actually led to the song spreading. It was part of the reason the song spread nationwide, and the NWACP, led to the NADCP during the Black National Anthem.

So part of the legacy of that fire, because the black part of town moved down, is Edward Waters College relocated to a part of the community where, there were a bunch of new jobs for free black people call uh you know in the railroads so i said free this is ever while ever water's college was started to teach freedman in 1866 so this is obviously 50 years later but they they you know it's historically black college related to another black part of town and rebuilt and that's what's called new town all right so i don't know if this kid fucking knew any of that probably not probably not he probably just sent it to where the it's the black neighborhood right or a black neighborhood and that's probably as much as he

as far as that went in his head I would imagine but rebuilding after losing everything in a fire because of racist firefighters and then suffering through a legacy of like 100 years of redlining which is when you couldn't use new GI Bill dollars after World War II to build in black neighborhoods that's so you end up with a food desert that's where people are fed from two dollar stores all right and it with no security and no policing to protect them, all right? So anyway, that's the history of this part of this part of Jacksonville. And an indirect way to describe how this kid ended up targeting it, even if he fucking

didn't know why this was a black neighborhood, all right? More recently in Jacksonville, this shooting happened on the anniversary of something called Axe Handel Saturday, which is when a white mob used baseball batts and axe handles the club peaceful black demonstrators protesting segregation of downtown lunch counter in 1960, which, you know, almost this shooting happened almost 43 years to the day. This is a quote from a guy named Rodney Hurst, who was 16 when that happened and had been encouraged by progress following the civil rights movement, whereas that racism has again become normalized. He blames dog whistles from Republicans, especially former President Donald Trump,

who's again ratting the politics of white grievance and his bid to return to the White House. again we're doing all this fucking again but like the thing the thing here is like going talking about we were talking about the beginning with the soccer team stuff is like I can't tell how much of this is extra reactionary is reasserting themselves or how much is actually reacting to genuine progress right yeah Jacksonville elected its first black mayor in 2011 all right so are you going to yeah well I just I know exactly what you mean because I thought I think about a lot too because like for a long time I uh I was always adamant at being a southerner and everything I was always like look we still got a lot of problems

There's still a lot of racism. Of course we do. But like, we only move in one direction. Like, it is, it's gotten much better. It's still continuing to get much better. Like, we just got to keep pushing. Like, every year is a little better than the last one for most people in that type. I used to, like, firmly believe that. And then even for a while in a post-Trump world, for a while, my thing was, I used to always say. I was like, you know what this is? This is like, this is like their death throws. That's what this is. Like, you know what I mean? Like, they realize that they're on the verge of, like, losing. for good and so they're like lashing out in desperation and that's what we're seeing and whatnot that's the type of shit telling us up to sleep at night but like I don't know you know it's just it's disheartening because you can't like you can't just say that what I used to say out you can't really say that anymore it's like you know because it doesn't really feel like it's better now than like when I was a kid in Tennessee necessarily which is wild and I don't know that it's just a reaction to like an inevitable defeat it's like you said it could be be it might also be the dawn of some new shit, depending on, you know, who emerges victorious,

which is a very terrifying thought. But yeah, it's a wild time of big lives, man. Yeah, let's talk about the encouraging part first, for a second. Because like I said, objectives of it's first black mayor in 2011, a couple years later, I'm quoting her from the newspaper. Another watershed moment unfolded when a coalition of activists succeeded in persuading the school board after years of failed attempts to rename a high school honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate General and First Grand Wizard of the KKK.

Since then, the city has continued to severize the racist past by removing a Confederate soldier statue atop a memorial at the park of bordering City Hall. That move was finalized by Jacksonville's former mayor, a Republican who once served as the party's statewide chair. I imagine he would not get elected the party statewide chair right now, but good on that guy for doing the right thing, at least on this one occasion. On the other hand, other stuff has been happening recently in Florida. In Jacksonville, MLK Day in 2019, somebody distributed flyers about, you know, basically like, I don't even want to describe them, but there's like gross images of MLK.

Also recently in Florida, Nazi creeps and racist goons have like, you have been all over Jacksonville hanging banners and lighting up, you know, downtown buildings with laser, I don't know how to describe, when you call them like the laser. Like a laser projection? Yeah. Yeah, like projecting, there you go, you see it, projected, if you're only listening, it's an image of a cross, like a crucifix and a flasica together, projected via laser onto the side of a skyscraper in Jacksonville. But see, like with this, like, look, dude, that's awful.

Fuck these guys. Like, you know, you read in the article or whatnot, and the guy, there was a reporter embedded with them when they were doing all this, whatever, and he said it was like five dudes or something, and the guy was the guy who runs the thing, runs the group, was like, yeah, you know, we got like 20 guys now. We're hoping we can get up to like 30, you know, before long or whatever. And like any amount of Nazis is too many.

But it's also like, you know, Jacksonville is actually a big-ass city. Yeah. It's like, you know. Yeah, this guy, Trace talking about is got his name. And kudos to him for using his fucking name because he's just standing behind his dumb bullshit. His name is Josh Nunes. He, I'm quoting your, another message they projected onto a stadium during a college football game. that Kanye is right about the Jews.

Talking about how big this movement is, he said his group regularly coordinates with other far-right groups, forming what advocacy organization of the Anti-Defamation League calls an unprecedented level of coordination among white nationalist groups in Florida. So yeah, this group might have five people on this night,

but there's more of them. And to that point, they've been like, there's a big Nazi rally. I was going to talk about a little later, but outside of, like, Disney World earlier this year, it was a group called the, Order of the Black Sun, they marched around Disney with anti-Semitic slogans and anti-gay and anti-trans stuff with the Santa's campaign signs.

Right. Well, yeah, on that note, the same dude in that article said that, like, he said that they'd had a lot of, they'd seen a lot of success in terms of recruitment and engagement from, you know, finding other Nazis and stuff, a lot of success from all the anti-trans, anti-drag show shit they've been doing. He's like, that's been a real boom for us, basically. And it's like, that is why the mainstream version of that rhetoric, like it's like a Republican Party talking point, shitting on trans people or whatever. It's like, that's exactly why, you know, it's so dangerous whenever it's because it's like they've found it to be useful, a useful tool in like bringing people over to their side, finding common ground with other perhaps slightly less Nazi race, racist, where we can all agree that these people are gross, right?

And then next thing you know, they're all in cahoots together and their numbers are burgeoning and whatnot and it's, you know. That's why I find DeSantis' refusal to like denounce these people because they're marching around with his signs. Right. And they do this costly. And whenever he's asked about it, his like, his staff will say that you're trying to smear the governor by associating him with these people. It's like, no, the reporters aren't doing that. They're doing that. Right.

It's like, yeah, they're always like, oh, we're not a Republican's right. Don't call us all racist or whatever. It's like, maybe not every Republican is racist. But pretty much every racist is politically motivated at all is a racist. Republican, though. You know what I mean? Like, none of these dudes, none of these Nazi guys are voting for Joe Biden. None of them. All of them are voting for, you know, the GOP nominee, probably Trump, wherever it ends up being. It's like, and that's got to, that should tell you something. But they're always like, oh, here comes with the name calling and the smear campaigns. acting like we're all racist. This is typical Democrats. And it's just like, I don't know. But all you got to do is say, I do not support Nazis. I don't want them to stay in my campaign. campaign, please put down my fucking signs or like, you know, like, I did just like, I'm not sure the exact wording wishes to say it, but instead he says nothing, which brings us to DeSantis part of this because like the reason I brought up the history of Jacksonville is you're not

going to learn that in a fucking classroom in Florida right now. No. So like the, so DeSantis looked utterly aggrieved to have to fly back from Iowa to deal with this shit. He went to a couple like a vigil. He gave a couple of speeches. He announced a $100,000 donations to the families and a million to Edward Waters University for more security. In Fox News, when they talked about this, talked about the Sanchez in awe, like he's a martyr. Like, they talked about it like he was taking a break from his full-time job of running for president to do his part-time job of being governor. Right? And but see, the people going back to the Fox News thing can't be fooled bad easily. So here's how it was received

at the vigil in Jacksonville if you got this video Matt. We are not going to allow these institutions to be targeted by people. Okay, listen, y'all. Let me tell you, we're going to put parties aside. Because it ain't

about parties today. A bullet don't. Yeah, it's hard to hear. there but so he was being heckled right people were saying like you don't belong here you cause this shit like that yeah you're not welcome here your policies caused this uh which are referring to besides the fact that you can't learn about racism in florida is these loosen states going laws um so the i have like when i watched this the first time i sort of mixed feelings about it because i wish we didn't live in a world where any of this happened right but like i don't feel sorry for desantis

i just wish he was a different guy that didn't deserve this to happen to him right you know what man. Yeah. But it's not like he's made his brand civility. All he does is like acrimonously yell at people who dare to question him in public. Yeah, he antagonizes a shit out of everybody who isn't like his like cord. I mean, they all do, but he's like one of the worst, that whole, you know, proudly waving his like gay hating flag and whatnot and whatnot. And what I'm making a whole campaign ads about how much he hates a certain type of people or whatnot.

Yeah, no, is Colin Carter's the opposite of civility. So, you know, you shouldn't be surprised when people are like, hey. you're a dickhead, you know, when you walk around being a dickhead to everybody all the time. Yeah. As evil as he is, like, I was thinking about, like, no one would have done that to George Dibb. Bush. I know. I was, right. I agree. It's like, it is different. It's like, I'm not saying that, like, well, I don't know. You know, he did get a shoe thrown at him. But like, but. Yeah. But. He had to murder that guy's whole family, though, to do things.

Sure. Yeah. Right. I just thought for a very long time, like, the president, it didn't used to be like, the president did get respect. He might have been your guy. you might not have voted for him or whatever. Like, if the president came to town or whatever, people, you know, afforded them a level of respect that, like, the office itself justified or at least ostensibly and publicly, you know what I mean? And that's just like, it's just over now. And like, rightfully so, when it comes to people like DeSantis and Trump and whatnot, but it's also, like you said, it's just kind of a shame that this is where we're at. Because it definitely does feel like a devolution, you know, in general. recently politically. There was that old quote about Ronald Reagan where like he'll give you the shirt off his back, but then vote to take away all your, all your government

benefits, right? Yeah. But like, so like, at least so many people like that, dude. You know, grew up, surrounded by so many people like that. So like, I don't understand we're like, yeah, I mean, this whole genuine generation Republican leader that can't express any sort of human empathy at any time or like can they consider themselves fallible or taking any sort of questioning. But like, I don't, I'm never going to know whether DeSantis's heart, whether he's fucking racist or whatever. And I don't know how these guys, like we live in a stochastic terrorism factory with all

these lone, just coincidentally 4,000 lone gunmen, right, who all line up on the same side of the political spectrum for the most part. And they all support a political party who, you know, talks openly about insurrection against the government and how in secession and stuff and how we need to kill elected leaders and the tree of freedom must be water by the blood of tyrants or however the tree of liberty must be water by the blood of tyrants all these people say this shit openly while pushing to like repeal gun laws

and the repealing gun laws thing really started in earnest around 2008 when Obama was elected you could draw your own conclusion there I'm not being a spiritual here I'm not saying this is a plan I'm saying if it was a plan how would it fucking be different right yeah if they don't if they actually wanted stuff like the Jacksonville shooting to happen

And what would be different? Right. And I'm struggling to like. Yeah, right. To figure it out. And it's worth noting here. What's like what do you think? If it's not like a plan in their head, what do you think of it?

It's just like what metrics and shit. Like this is what works. Like we got people telling us this is what works. This type of rhetoric and pushing these narratives and stuff. It's like it's effective. And so that's why we're doing it, you know? I think DeSantis looks at the Nazis carrying his sign. and says, well, I agree with them on 98% of stuff, just not the signs.

The Nazi, that's not the Nazi iconography, right? I honestly feel like there's no other choice, but like conclusion to draw, but that he feels some sort of like affinity to them. But I don't, like, I have to actually have this in writing. I want to read from this here real quick because periodically the DHS or the FBI, one of the national, you know, federal law enforcement agencies will put together an intel report that says something like, you know, white, ring domestic terrorism's biggest threat

to the U.S. or whatever. And it almost always causes a controversy. Recently there were hearings about it in Congress like last year, and where Republicans threw a fit about how dare you even bring it up. I remember one of these things happened in 2009 when the Obama Justice Department put

out one of these reports, and they were pressured into retracting it. And I want to quote here from John Boehner, who now is seen as a sane Republican, said the Secretary of Homeland Security, it was the American people explanation for why she has abandoned using the term terrorists

to describe those such as al-Qaeda are plotting overseas to kill innocent Americans. While her own department is using the same term to describe American citizens who disagree with the direction of Washington Democrats are ticking their nation. Here's a DHS report of like militia groups and Nazis and lone wolf terrorists.

And he says, why are you picking on our people? Yeah, right. Yeah. Oh, just because they don't like Democrats, they're terrorists now? Right. No, it's because they're Nazis. how to make bombs and shit. Fucking set churches on fire and stuff like that. That's why.

And this is again, this is from 14 years ago, I want to quote from it here. It was titled right-wing extremism, current economic and political climate, fueling resurgence and radicalization and recruitment. It names white supremacists, radical anti-abortionists,

and a few disgruntled veterans is most susceptible to recruitment by extremist groups or to harboring resentment that may lead to domestic terrorism. DHS stressed that during recessions, these threats go up and law enforcement is being lookout for such extremism. Returning veterans possess combat skills,

is an experience that are attracted to right-wing terrorists. They're Oathkeepers. All right. They predicted the fucking oathkeepers. So, yeah, like, like, going back to George W., like, again, the dude should be in the Hague, but like, he at least would have hugged people there and said, I feel your pain while repealing some gun laws, but he wouldn't have went on TV and said, these terrorists are our people and refused to denounce them.

So I don't know what to make of that. But, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Things don't hit, Mark. That's the bottom line there. I'm going to choose to, like, feel like this is the death rattles of it, a whole way of thinking. These people are always going to be with us to some degree, and they're, unfortunately, you're always going to have guns.

But again, Jacksonville took down their Confederate statues, Chains of School named after a day the bettered for us, and elected the first black mayor. The sheriff had mentioned earlier as a black dude, not that sheriffs don't hit in general, but if you're going to have one, they should be black. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's what I've been trying to tell myself since all this shit really kicked off in earnest, you know, in 20. 16 or whatever it was. That's how I try, you know, sleep at night. So, I mean, I'm with you. I'm going to hope that's the case. Matt, get us some comments and questions.

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And, yeah, all that internet stuff, which somehow works. Nicole Parton, Allie, Allie Good. says DeSantis couldn't spell civility. I don't know if he went to Florida schools, but yeah. He apparently was well-liked at Yale, play baseball. He got a pretty girl to marry. He must be charming in some context. I just don't, I've never seen it yet, not in public.

Sylvia Kidwell says if my family member was murdered by a racist, the last person I would want speaking at their vigil is Ron DeSantis. So apparently, you know, some people there very much agreed with that sentiment. acoustic iris three says oh jesus bainer is sane now i live through 2000-2008 and that is not reality but like i don't think that but i but i like he like he saw this getting worse and said said fuck it and went back to ohio to drink wine get wine drunk every night so like yeah i'm not saying he's good right way i'm saying he's good well it's funny we've had that we just had this same conversation sort of in the text thread the other day about like mitt romney or whatever

It's like, I hear you, dude, of course. Fuck John Boehner, of course. But like, I don't think he is as bad as this current crop of, you know, the real mega extremist, the dipship brigade or whatever. It's like, I don't think we've had any mainstream politicians who were this bad, this publicly, you know, outside of like, post like civil rights, you know, Strom Thurman maybe. He's a mummified segregation, you know what I mean, like, but outside of like that. I don't know these guys are as they've ever been. Banner was replaced by but he said that any sane Republican wouldn't still be calling themselves one of those like commenters.

I wish they're correct. But it's worth saying that like Banner was forced out to be replaced by Paul Ryan because Paul Ryan was crazy or Paul Ryan was forced out to be replaced by the idea because he because he wasn't crazy enough. Like they're getting crazier and crazy and crazier and it's not like I thought those were good people. I'm saying like you're going to get worse and worse and worse. all of these people have any sort of power.

And I don't know what to do about it. Henry Minch, a little nugget, a fun fact for you. Bainer is a medical marijuana entrepreneur now, he says. Yep. So it's nifty.

But yeah, like, you know, Liz Cheney, arch conservative, man, super conservative. She had to go. Love Trump.

Love Trump until January 6th. Right. Yeah. She had to go. Wasn't crazy enough. So, yeah, they, like,

they have gotten work. I mean, again, dude, I've said this before plenty of times, but like, I didn't think it was possible. to hate a politician more than I hated George

W. Bush when he was president. I hated that motherfucker so strongly. And it's like he just seems quaint in comparison to fucking Donald Trump. You know what I mean? And what we're dealing with now? I never thought it was possible. What we were arguing about the other day about

Mitt Romney, this is a no mystic, I mean quote here. Mitt Romney is a classic pro-corporate douchebag, but things have gotten so bad that he seems bearable. D.B., I'm not sure that it's dickbag or douchebag. I went with a douchebag. Let's go, it's a dick bag. So, like, yeah, we were talking about the other day, I was like, oh, Mitt Romney. I was like, people forget how bad Mitt Romney was.

In 2012, he's literally the biggest liar ever to run for president. He lied about everything he'd ever done in his life. And his professional background was, you know, doing corporate raider shit where he's the reason to want to toys or restaurant out of business, right? He was an evil, awful motherfucker. But he wouldn't have tried to overthrow the government. That's literally his defining feature. Like, what separates him from Trump is he would have been civilly cordial to people. he would have been welcome at that vigil probably

and hug people and they would have taken it sincerely and then we would have been back to doing behind the scenes covertly racist stuff instead of overtly racist stuff but he would have left office after he lost the election. That's basically we're talking about you. Christine Brody says thank you for helping keep me and so many like me sane

as a Florida registered Democrat I feel like I'm going to lose it. Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm from Tennessee. I certainly get it tough sled and late. It's got to be worse though for y'all because you know for a long time Florida was like the battleground state, super purple, you know, very up for grabs and it's taking a hard right turn in recent years.

So it's got to be tough as a Floridian Democrat. Yeah. Speaking of Tennessee, do you see what happened today and yesterday and today with the gun argument stuff? Oh, here we go. Yeah. About the, oh, yeah. February Aaron says the Tennessee special session on public safety ended very nearly in

fisticuffs this morning. It's just an embarrassment. to be a Tennessean right now. So, yeah, speak of the devil. Yeah, they, the silenced, Justin Jones. Yeah, the Tennessee three, like, they once again voted for him not to be able to talk the rest of the day yesterday. And then they basically gaveled out the session, not doing anything today. And when she's talking about, what this person talk about, I'm assuming is she, sorry.

I'm assuming it's Aaron. That's my wife's name. They, after they gallopled out the session, Jones tried to hold up a sign and block their way. and they shud them out of the way. It didn't look to me as violent as the way the captions of the videos looked, but yeah, it was at least a gentle shove. But, yeah,

it wasn't great. And the fact that they booed this guy out of the legislature, he got reelected, and they're back voting that he can't talk again while the gallery is like booing and hissing. And they were talking about the covenant school moms are a big factor in this. These are like, I think race is relevant in this situation. These are white moms who had kids in a private Christian school.

These are not like what you call the Democratic. democratic base. Right. And they're there screaming for fucking gun control. And then they gaveled out of session. And then the Tennessee gun rights organization puts out an email, fundraising email. The literally said there was no substantive action. We consider this a victory.

Yeah. It's a bummer. I mean, you know, like we said, a lot of, you know, most of their policies don't seem to be actually popular with anybody. No mystic says I meant douchebag, but that's all good. Now, he got it right. You got it right. Yeah.

You went with douchebag. You know, you had some reservations about the choice, I guess, but you nailed it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, man. Like you said, just try to try to be optimistic, well, not optimistic, but try to keep the, you know, the void at bay to a certain extent. Try to remind myself that at the end of the day, most people are still, you know, pretty all right in this country and have some semblance of sanity and whatnot. Yeah, the problem is you can have just have a bad day. become the world's biggest asshole.

Like you're forever members of murder because you fucking lose your shit because it's gun handy. Like there's a... You didn't see... University of North Carolina was locked down yesterday for what turned out not to be

a mass shooting, but there was an active shooter. It was one PhD student killed his professor. I haven't seen any motive for it. They happen to be both from China. I'm not sure whether that's affecting their story at all,

but the conspiracy theorists are having a fucking field day with this because it's like the physics department, so I guess they're building nukes for China or something. I don't know. It doesn't like, whatever. We'll go with whatever.

Probably just a guy who got a bad grade and flip the fuck out. Yeah. And, you know, it's easier to do here in terms of like flip out and then murder someone as a result of flipping out. We make it very easy to do that. All right. Listen, we're going to remind you all again real quick. Like I said, go Treycrouter.com, get tickets, pre-order my book, come and say me, all that good stuff. And subscribe to the audio version of the show on whatever podcast app you use.

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