Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 9/13/22 – Ukraine, the Queen, 9/11, etc

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

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out of there everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is september 13th 2022 i'm tray crowder back again and that is mark aji what's up mark well what's up tray lots to talk about today uh we're talking a lot today about um public morning when comes to 9-11 in the queen and i do want to say that ken star died today or it came out that he died today that he has died and uh for younger viewers right if we have any uh ken star was the guy who uh their special prosecutor who uh he tried to uh take down the clinton's in the 90s of whitewater ended up exposing uh clinton Lewinsky scandal and then went on to be president of bailey university where he covered up a bunch of sexual assaults by

the football team so uh i will i will say that he will not be getting much public morning Yeah, I didn't, I didn't, obviously, I remember all that, you know, when I was a kid, a huge deal, obviously, and I knew he was the guy, but I didn't really know anything about him until I watched the American crime story about all that when Dan Backendall, right, played Ken Starr. And I love Dan Backendall. And it's like, anyway, if that portrayal is pretty accurate, then yeah, he didn't, he didn't seem like the raddest of dudes to me. Oh, Ken Starr, bit of a stick in the mud. I would say. Yeah, but he got to die peacefully of a natural cause of the age of 76. So he had a good run. Who a guy who didn't get a good run, I want to talk about. It was Vegas journalist by name of Jeff German, who got murdered by a guy he was writing about last week.

And this case is absolutely well. You've been following it, Al-Trey? No. So this guy was like an investigative reporter. He had written a bunch of pieces about, you know, it's Vegas. So the mafia and those militia movements and pre-examination movements and proud boys and shit that are, you know, that are not the proud boys so much, but like the Bundys and stuff that are active around Nevada and a bunch of the Western more libertarian

states. And he ended up getting murdered by a county public administrator by the name of Robert Tallis, allegedly. He hasn't been convicted yet. I should say that, but they got him pretty dead to rights. This guy was just, he's a county public administrator, which means he oversaw a small county office. It literally had eight people working in it, I think, who they oversaw, they overseed like this,

the dispensing of like estates if you don't have a will it's not like but the guy apparently had a toxic work environment and got it was sleeping with somebody who worked for him and uh jeff german outed him for this and he lost a primary to a woman who worked in his office again like eight people worked there so that must be it must have been a fun election yeah so so tell us went to his house and stabbed the death they got caught because reporters went to his house to ask him about because there were more stories about to come out just to ask him how he felt about all of it. And notice that his car matched a description of a car found fleeing the scene. They had, they had him on surveillance tape at the scene.

He, when cops searched his house, they found a weird hat and yellow, orange vest. He was wearing when he committed a verter in his backyard. He tried to destroy him by cutting them up. He had four days, and that's as far as he'd gotten. And even yet, after he got arrested, when he went back to his house, reporters were waiting there to question him about it. And he was wearing, you know, like when Dexter cleaned up a crime. I'm seeing if he were in a plastic suit. No.

Just the fuck up. He had the official murderer uniform on when they went to question him about a murder of one of one of his public nemeses. Yeah. Sounds like that guy should have thought that through a little bit more. Also, I definitely thought this was going in a more mafia-e direction when you first started talking about the guy, just a low-level county administrator getting an affair outed. Doesn't typically take that particular turn. That's pretty wild.

Yeah, and it's like, it sort of makes me as a former but terrible newspaper reporter at a time of local news is dying in America and you're going to see so much more corruption locally because no one, like we had, we uncovered stuff like my colleague would be like sitting in a city council meeting and it's like 1130 at night that done with all the regular business. And all of a sudden something will pop up that wasn't on the agenda where a city council person tries to like sell a sweetheart piece of land that belongs to the city. to one of their big supporters

or business allies or whatever. And no one would know about that if someone wasn't paid to sit there through the meeting. And then you have this guy as an investigative reporter who's done some vital public interest stuff. Like this guy's sleeping with his underlings on the city dime

and running a toxic working farm. He was like yelling at people for like what they wore to the office and shit and stuff. This is like public business. Why aren't you wearing your murder suit? You know what are our murder suits in this particular office, damn it? What's this certain?

tie bullshit you're doing. It's casual murder suit Friday. Yeah. Also, what's weird about this is that even though this happened in Vegas, it has not stayed in Vegas, you know. Here we are talking about it on the internet. Weird. This is true. I didn't think that was supposed to be possible.

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see how it's going? It's a tide turning. How's old Putin handling it all? We'll find out a little later. Also, look into America's evolving relationship with 9-11 all these years later, as well as getting into Lindsey Graham's controversial new abortion gambit. All that and more on tonight's skews.

But first, of course, The Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic. Tonight's D.D., the queen for dying before she had one last opportunity to party down with her bestie on this side of the pond. That's right. Play the clip, Matt. Oh, it's muted. Uh-oh. Okay.

Well, we'll just see. You know, that was a share of the sound, Matt. You know how it works. There's a little box down there. It's a share sound, click that. Here we go. Nail the toast. Joe Biden famously said the queen reminded him of his mother,

which I guess is a compliment. He visited the British embassy in Washington this afternoon to sign her condolence book. But few presidents enjoyed their trip to Buckingham Palace more than Trump, who fell in love with the pomp and circumstance, of course. And there are some people who say that the queen never had a better time. There are those that say they have never seen the queen have a better time or more anime any time. We had a period where we were talking solid straight. I didn't even know who the other people at the table were, never spoke to them.

We just had a great time together. I love how, I love the whole like, you know, there are some who say that she really, really dug Donald Trump. And then, like, the proof or evidence is a clip of Donald Trump saying, yeah, you know, some people say that I really hit for her and she had a great time. I'm sure he did love all that, like, you know, royalty shit, though. He's like, you know, I should be a king. I don't know why I'm not a king. I need to look into being a king. I like this whole throne shit you got going on.

I mean, it's halfway there. He's got a bunch of dipshit kids who act like they're inbred. So, here you go. Yeah. This must be like a weird moment for Biden, who, of course, is very into his Irish heritage. And we're talking about Irish people in a minute because they've been having a blast this past week since the Queen died. Everyone is responded to the Queen dying by becoming the least normal person on the planet. It's not just Trump who tried to be like, oh, well, you know what in high school when somebody dies?

And all of a sudden everybody was their best friends. They get up school and go to their funeral. Yeah. So Trump did that. British people, man. there was a lady who she had a tweet go viral because she posted how upset and disappointed she was because there was the day the queen died her son went to the bathroom to jerk off she just said that jesus and then followed up with like he says he just had a bad case of ibs but

i don't really believe him it's like can you imagine you're that kid no first of all i was a team boy uh tell you that not even my own death would have kept me from jerking Sure. But also, mom's just standing outside the door, screaming. I'm like, stop playing with yourself.

The queen is dead. How dare you? Oh, man, that's a fucking nightmare right there. They have a grocery store chain, I guess, called Morrison's. And to honor the queen,

they turned off the beep with their self-checkout. So it caused a bunch of lines back up because people thought their groceries weren't scanned. And so somebody's like, what happens? Oh, in honor of the queen, we've turned out.

off the beeps like what the fuck so I can't I can't get into it in too much detail because I don't remember it all because we recorded it so long ago but Corey you know our frequent guest host Corey Forrester he covered this thing on our podcast putting on airs

I think it's called Operation London Bridge I think or something like that and it's this very elaborate plan they've had for years for what happens when the queen dies and it's wild like it's like a 12 day period of morning officially and it's like the BBC and all that shit can only show like

queen related stuff for that time and there's all these rules about no you know no jubilance in public or whatever and stuff like that and uh yeah it's pretty crazy it's a whole thing up to and including turning down the beeps at the grocery store i guess turning down the beeps is you know they did it wasn't operating linda apparently had a bunch of different plans with military names for her contingencies where she died, man. I forget which one they actually had to use because she died in Scotland, which I guess tribute triggered another one because he had to like

they drove, they did like an O.J. White Bronco chase where the canvas followed her casket from them, from their castle to Edinburgh to like all the way to London. They're going to spend like last number, I saw three and a half billion dollars on her funeral celebration.

And this is at a time when England like is about to like face a heating crisis where people might have able to heat their houses. this fall, but this is because of the war in Ukraine and also Brexit and a bunch of other shit, they fucked up. And they're having a food cost crisis. I think we're going to spend $3.5 billion, having a funeral for a 96-year-old lady who died in her own bed at old age. I'm sorry, go ahead.

Well, I was just wondering what you thought about. Like, I've seen some people speculating, I guess the, and it's only at like 20-something percent or as of the most recent poll, but there was growing support for the idea of abolishing the monarchy. And I've seen people speculating that, like, the queen was a, the queen not being there anymore. And now it being Charles and it could be like a real crossroads or watershed moment for the monarchy. Because the queen for some of years was just like, you know, oh, she's a sweet little old lady who's, you know, also an imperialist monster or whatever.

But mostly she's a mama who likes cows, you know what I mean? And wears cute hats. And so it's like sort of insulated. that movement in some ways for a long time. And now people are like, now that it's a king, because I'm a dude, even me, I don't like it. Makes me want to throw a bunch of tea off the boat, Mark.

I don't like it. I bet France don't like it. King of England just doesn't sound right. So, you know, I'm wondering if they'll be changing tides in the coming years for. Yeah, I mean, no one likes Charles, so I imagine those little,

that could speed up that movement a little bit. But look, I didn't realize how, I mean, I guess I knew, but I didn't realize how much people did there a certain contingent of Brits. I know it's not everybody,

but a certain contingent of the British just fucking love the monarchy. Yeah. For the reason and are absolutely insane about it. Like the grocery store thing wasn't even the weirdest tribute. They closed bike racks, Trey.

They closed bike racks. You cannot put your bike in a rack. Yeah, I... None of that dutch shit after the queen has died, okay? This is Angling, God damn it. Yeah, walk. advance warning Royal period of morning

this cycle rack will be closed from Friday the September 8th to Wednesday the 21st for 13 days that closed the bike rack if you leave your bike here it may be removed they're gonna steal your bike because the queen died

that's what I'm saying it's like that I guess it's 13 that like period they listed there there's all kinds of rules like that that they've had in place for forever for when she died and it's pretty crazy but yeah we and court were over there in May and like there are definitely people that are super into the queen but even a lot of younger people we talked to were like they would be like yeah you know it's kind of silly I guess at this

point but you know she's all right like they not we didn't meet any British people or English people who were like yeah fuck all that shit really they were at least sort of like you know tepid on the matter the most tone deaf one I think I saw was you talking about like England having food shortages and cost of living crisis Their economy is doing way worse than ours, if you want it, the general vibes over there are. A food bank announced they were closing for the Queen's memorial. They're literally doing when the Queen died, so you have to eat cake. So no food for the peasants.

Yeah. And the peasants being fed after the Queen has died. It just, you know, it just doesn't sit right. I guess they got yelled at a bunch, so they open the food bank back up. But like, you're talking about the people, the backlash, dude. a Scottish dude got arrested for yelling at Prince Andrew calling him a pedophile.

Yeah, fucking notes, isn't he? Yeah, you got the shit. You got the shit beat out of my cops too. Other people just got arrested for being outside of Buckingham Palace holding signs instead of abolish the monarchy. But nobody went in and as much fun as the Irish.

There was a soccer game where they sang this song for five full minutes. Hit it, Matt. I always those soccer chants, they're always like, they're always so good with the harmony of it and everything and getting on board. And I'm always like, do they like workshop those at the tailgate or whatever? Like I don't know, they're very creative, much more so than we are at our sporting events. Alex drinking songs, man. I mean, the Star Spangled Badder was just written new lyrics written over top of an Irish drinking song, I believe.

But other Irish people made, like, videos of them tap dancing in front of, like, we're doing well-choreographed tap dances in front of Buckingham Palace. And, like, I don't have, to me, she's, like, I don't believe in magic meem all blood. She's just an old lady who dad, right? So I don't have any special feelings about it one way or the other, positive or negative, just laughing at people's reactions to it. 96 too, right? Like to me, that's also, it's like, I mean, you know, I mean, she won, you can't have a much better run than she did, I guess,

unless you were Louis the 13th or whichever one it was, it was still longer than her. She missed the record, so that's a shame. But, but yeah, it's like, you know, she was almost a fucking hundred. How sad is anybody really supposed to be? I get she's also the queen, but come on. Yeah, yeah, but this resulted in, like,

because people like, you know, British people are big old manners, like, all the Irish are being on. with the Twitter. Like, I don't have a strong of feelings about it as they do, but also, I don't have a great, great, great, great granny who was sexually assaulted and murdered by Oliver Cromwell. So that might be a big difference to me. But it's resulted, like, people have to go on TV and try to explain to white news anchors what colonialism is. And it reminded me, it's like the British Crown's record is so fucking weird on this shit. Like, do you know what, do you know what Section

377 is, Trey? No. So it's a, a code that they added laws in their colonies. It basically outlawed being gay because, like, countries like India and, like, they don't have, like, West, they didn't have Western senses of, like, sexual, like, weirdness, right? So nobody really cared. But then those laws are still in the books in those countries because they taught them to be homophobic. And then so it was a campaign in the last few decades of the British, the empire, the royal family, going around trying to convince these countries to repeal their laws because England is now enlightened, whereas they are. you know the backwards colonies as they were the other way but it's flipped now yeah and you have these anglican ministers in these four british colonies who are saying that that's now colonialism literally

guys in like caribbean uh a caribbean countries in the anglican white collar saying the queen should fucking butt out of their business and let them be homophobic like the christians it's like it's so weird twisted but like they were like It's like a picture of floating around Hong Kong. And it's like Hong Kong was established as a British colony to funnel opium through from India to China. The crown forced Indians to stop growing grain to grow poppies so they could get the Chinese hooked on opium. And they're using that story as like how enlightened Queen Elizabeth was about colonialism. It's like Jesus Christ.

And the weird thing was like, I know you've heard of Lyndon Ler, Rush, right? The American Crank conspiracy theorist who ran for president a bunch of times, including from prison. He had this conspiracy theory that the Queen ran the world drug trade. He thought she was like El Chapo. She ran all of it. Anyway, the Queen died on his birthday. So I just want to say that Lyndon LaRouche won.

But another weird thing is like American nationalists apparently love the monarchy now. Like Tucker Carlson did a fight. Look at this. British paved the way for democracy. What the fuck you're talking about? By what? By pissing us off so much with all their monarchy shit that we warred them in 1776? Like, I don't get that.

Me neither. I didn't even try to figure out what he was talking about. But like, they took a cross into segments, praising the British monarchy. So did Charlie Kirk on his way, his show. And then last night, the funniest one, the New York Post put out a tweet that was like that would link to a news story is how the Emmys totally snubbed Queen Elizabeth in the In Memorium Packets. She wasn't on any fucking TV shows. Yeah, noted American television impresario, Queen Elizabeth, snub by the Emmys.

Olivia Coleman played her on the Crown. That wasn't really the fucking Queen. She probably will be in the Oscars in Memorial Montau because she was in Paddington, too. But that's a different fucking award ceremony. I just, oh, God, this whole thing drove me absolutely insane. One last thing, I think it was you who sent in our group text, apparently at the actual venue for the UFC fight on Saturday, they called over the PA system for a moment of silence for Queen Elizabeth. And everybody started booing and doing a USA chance. That's so UFC and perfect.

Every American news anchor was on TV talking about death of the queen. The queen. We have the king is now spoken. I don't have a fucking king or a queen. And if we're talking about other countries, kings and queens, there's more than just one. Yeah. Stop calling her the. It's just fucking annoying.

It's like everyone stopped being so weird. Old lady died. Her family's sad. And that's the end of it. Yeah. All right. Well, let's move on. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbasses is questions.

for requiring stupid shit like actual answers. This is a state House candidate debate in Minnesota. The first guy speaking is a Republican candidate. Go ahead, Matt. Yes or no, please. Sorry. Oh, so please clearly state yes or no, and then explain your answer in one minute.

Yeah, so, okay, abortion, sorry. Would you vote to restrict abortion in any way in Minnesota? Please state clearly, yes or no, then explain your answer in one minute. If this comes up, my abortion, I will vote. We need more nuance in this discussion. I would say yes, abortion policy. So I just said yes. Atisa, the tone.

No. I... It pretty much is her answer. Yeah, she just clearly states, no, I would not vote to restrict abortion in the state of Minnesota. But that dude's like, is that the... I don't know if anyone remember this reference.

Is that the fucking boom goes the dynamite guy? Do you remember that video, Mark? I don't think so. The kid who got, he got thrust into being a sportscaster on the local news because the sports guy was sick and he clearly was not ready for it and he was like just mumbling to out the whole thing during these basketball highlights he was like and uh oh god and and then the guy hits a shot and he goes and boom goes the dynamite and uh and it was just a shit show but anyway that's what that republican candidate reminded me of was the boom goes the dynamite kid

he does look like that guy but he does he's a he's a first-time candidate as far as I can tell and he's a lawyer by the day for his day job. His name's Thomas Nect, K-N-E-C-H-T. And the funny thing about this guy is like... It's like him and from a jet. Like, Your Honor, I think the evidence will... How did I say that? I feel like it was definitely...

He definitely murdered the guy if you look at the... Anyway, so if the jury wants to maybe... I don't know. Sorry. Does your client plead guilty or not guilty? Well, I mean, you got... You know, it's... More nuance. Yeah, more nuance.

than that. So this guy absolutely really doesn't want to be talking about this. I don't think he cares much about this issue at all. He's been trying to do that old canard. Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. And so, like, he doesn't want to be talking about this in, like, any sort of yes or no way, or really, at fucking all. But this is a good example about how Republicans are screwing themselves electorally on this, which brings us to the big abortion news of the day. and Lindsey Graham.

So Lindsey Graham, out of nowhere, without alerting any of his colleagues today, announced today that tomorrow is going to introduce a bill to have a national abortion ban at 15 weeks. There's a lot of bad stuff in this law. One of the weird ones is there's a rape exception for minors, but it only applies the doctor gets documentation from law enforcement that a rape was reported. So Republicans want to make up the law that 10-year-olds are presumed to have consented to sex, which is not going to make sense to a lot of people, I don't think, and that's why you don't want to be like,

a guy, Thomas Nectar and answer this question. Yeah, I mean, I thought, so I know we're going to get into this, but I just like, everything I had been hearing this whole time since Roe and all that has been that Republicans have been surprised at the amount of backlash and that they've been trying to, like, backpedal their stance and try to slow play it a little bit and not be as, you know, hardcore about it because people are so pissed off. And so now he comes out with this,

which seems like the exact opposite to me. Like, I don't get this. All right. Well, let's just talk about why he's probably doing this, okay? Because, like, we talked to a few times a while back about how one reason, like, you just be aggressive in general is because he put your opponent on your back foot. And what a back foot looks like is arguing about, arguing, like, how we think of Democrats usually arguing, which is, like, from a defensive

couch and whatever. So the idea, I think he's playing, he thinks he's playing chess, but he's playing a really stupid game in checkers here. They have polling data that says that people are more split in the question of 15 weeks, as opposed to, like, six weeks and four weeks and stuff other states are doing, or absolute no exception to bands. So he's trying to reframe the national debate around 15 weeks. But the thing is, and this is the case we keep making it where Democrats go wrong, is like,

opinion isn't immutable you should not be making your case and try to change people's minds but what he's trying to do because what's going to happen when you have a 15 week ban is you're going to get horror stories about shit that happens at 16 17 18 weeks for example at this press conference we couldn't find a good video we actually hear the woman really well but a woman I'm not clear whether she was a reporter or an activist because you stood up and asked the question she's like well I at 16 weeks my doctor told me my baby had a birth we're going to skip this video, Matt, sorry, because it had the quality. You can't hear what the woman's saying, really, so I just describe it to you.

She's like, at 16 weeks, my doctor told me my baby had a birth effect to make it so he would not survive long past birth. If he had been born, he'd been bleeding out of, I don't want to get too busy, but the kid would have a really short, miserable life. And he's basically, what would you do about my case? And he ran away from the question with some obfuscation bullshit that sounded like that Thomas Nett gothrum before. So I think he's being too clever by half here And it's really funny to me The Republicans try to play these games As opposed to just making their case clearly

And letting the chips fall where they may If you really believe You should fucking introduce your bill And live and die by it, right? Right, but they've been trying to do the whole You know, state rights things Or you know Back on that again

But yeah, you know I don't know, it's just up to the states Which is just like sort of their way I feel like, you know Trying to stay out of it. it or well yeah i mean graham graham had been the one saying we're going to leave it to the states right he'd be making that case clearly for a while and that all the other federal republicans were still on that page but until they started getting all this awful polling and uh massily got

a hold of something can't go to details about it because he haven't released it yet but it's pretty horrific for conservatives um but it doesn't really matter what graham is trying to do from a national messaging standpoint when the states were going around being insane For example, today, West Virginia passed a near total abortion ban. It has the same dumb shit where you have to go to a doctor and prove that a 10-year-old didn't consent, which is in nonsense legal concept anyway. Right. And you've got to get the documentation in 48 hours before the procedure. It also creates additional restrictions for minors, including requiring that a guardian be notified as well,

and it is an additional 48-hour waiting period. And this law, West Virginia only has one abortion claim. they're making a whole law around one facility. That's how fucking gassed up they are. So that made my point is it doesn't really matter what Lindsey Graham's going to say when these idiots are going to be doing this. And his colleagues seem to understand this intuitively. Like, here's some reactions here to show you how fast his colleagues ran away from him.

John Corrin, that wasn't a conference decision. It was an individual senator's decision. His preference is leaving it to the states. Herschel Walker. So when I asked him about that, he was running in Georgia. I believe the issue should be decided at the state level. But I would support this policy. He's supporting both Virginia and Lindsay Graham.

He's tied him together. I got him Joe O'Dea from Colorado. I don't support Senator Graham's bill or Republican bans or reckless and tone. Is it as reckless and tone deaf as Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer's hostility to compromise. So all I got to say is it doesn't really matter what you guys say is people see what you're doing. So too bad motherfuckers. And by the way, as press homes today, sorry. So like he's trying to like reframe it as them having some.

semblance of sensibility or being reasonable about it as opposed to like the total abortion bans in places like West Virginia? He's like, no, no, no, listen, we've got a rational approach to the issue and it's even-handed. And that's what we're really trying to do is his, that's what he's, that's what he thinks he's doing. Yeah, national polling shows basically a 50-50 split on a 15-week ban, which he thinks it's a winning way to talk about the issue. But again, no one's argued about the 15-week ban yet.

People's minds will be changed by facts once they see news stories. So, like, it's a nonsense poll that won't play. And also, he fucked that real bad because he just cut a Democrat campaign ad for the midterms at his speech today, show this quick quick clip. So I'll look forward to the debate. I'll look forward to the vote. If we take back the House and the Senate, I can assure you will have a vote on our bill? If the

Democrats are in charge, I don't know if we'll ever have a vote on our bill. Thank you, and I'll turn it back over. They just said it. Yeah, right. So if you're not into this, maybe don't vote for us, because this is 100% what we're going to do, if given the opportunity to. Even though

we just many people hate it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give it to him. At least he's being honest. He's the only honest one. Mitch McConnell was asked about this. and said he doesn't think the bill should get a vote. We know if the Republican will take the Senate, Mitch McWoddle will have this vote and pass it. In like three seconds, they do it while killing the filibuster. So I guess I'll give it to Lindsay for that. Right on.

Okay. Well, moving on, let's talk about 9-11, I suppose, with another honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, and that's Mohamed Atai for not believing in this great country, at least according to Herschel Walker, Who else? Play that clip, Matt. If you got it. Well, you know, you got to pay tribute to the 9-11 victims, you know, but also you saw America come together. You saw America come together because this country was, you know, it was on the war with a country that didn't believe in us. And right now we have leaders in Washington like Joe Biden doing venomous speeches that doesn't believe in America people.

So Joe Biden's basically Al-Qaeda because he also, he don't believe in us. Yeah. I can't, but whoever's making him run for sense still. This is a form of abuse, and I don't know why you're doing it to him. He's obvious that Herschel Walker's brain is mush from football. Got the mush brain. Yeah, I would say it's wrong to make fun of him, but he's trying to become a senator. So they can't be punching down definitionally, right?

No, for sure. I will say this, that if I was Herschel walker, I would not look into 9-11 any further. So he's probably the happiest person in the world with he doesn't have me anything about it. Yeah. So, but yeah, but not, you know, not everyone responds to 9-11 or the anniversary thereof with this type of decorum mark. So everybody has their own way of processing it. One example would be this Virginia seafood restaurant. who in advance of 9-11 debuted a brand new themed menu,

a 9-11-themed menu featuring offerings such as Freedom Flounder, Flight 93 redirect crab dip. That one's a little clunky in my opinion. And I might have workshoped that one a little bit more. Pentagon Pie, 9-11 oysters, that one's a little on the nose, first responder flatbread, and the 2977, Chowder, which is a nod to the number of people who died on 9-11, 2,977. I wonder what they didn't go with.

It's like Freedom Tower of Onion Rings, Twin Towers of Onion Rings, you know what I mean? We got a ground zero calorie raspberry tea for goodies if you're watching, watching your weight. Yeah, this is something else. Yeah, we should be noted here. this person wasn't trying to be flippant or funny. They were seriously trying to honor the 9-11 victims with the seafood menu. And look at that silly little dancing clip or a crab. Stuff like this has come up on the show a few times before.

It's always so wild to me, the stuff that gets the ideas that people have and then follow through with. You know what I mean? I know this is just like a sole proprietor of a seafood restaurant in Virginia, but still he ain't got nobody bouncing stuff off of. Like, somebody put these graphics together for them. Like, at no point was anybody like, yeah, I don't, I don't know about that, Bob. Maybe go with something else than the Flight 93 redirect hot crab dip. Yeah. After getting, after this guy got yelled down on his Facebook page, he did apologize as they, like the headline says.

And he changed the menu, and the Flight 93 redirect crab dip is now, it now become the hot defense crab dip. And the chowder began the champs chowder and the flounder became the fumble flounder. So, football theme probably, probably was more, better for football season at a seafood restaurant. Yeah, 9-11, oh, God, I can't, the extent to which all have been Lottin's biggest dreams came true, it was just good. Like, all this, absolutely broke everyone's brains, destroyed their country, we evaporated $7 trillion in wealth, and, yeah, started the crumble of the empire. And a good example of this is a hero of 9-11, Rudy Giuliani,

celebrated on 9-11 by committing to speak at a Q-Anon conference. Q-N-on-John. So, yeah, the Leds really got into Rudy's brain. A brief Q-up date. I want to do off the back of this. There was a weird... A guy killed his wife, shot his daughter, after being sucked down a Q rabbit hole.

Base is kind of Igor Lannis. Went crazy after 2020. started believing Trump's election lies that led him to 5G cell tower conspiracy theories stuff about vaccines and started believing people were lizard people and then he shot his wife, dog, and his daughter and then he got killed by cops

when they showed up and he shot at them. So stuff is still out there destroying people's brains and yeah, I know what to do about it except warn people about it and keeping on your relatives. Yeah, that's pretty crazy all around. Let's do a couple. of more real quick, honorable mention for a daily dumbass.

Anybody who thought that the conservatives were being too mean to us all, turns out the exact opposite problem, at least according to Nikki Haley. It's Nikki Haley, right? Yeah. That the media will

give this guy with the most radical positions of any candidate I've ever seen a free pass for this election. I'm talking about John Fatterman. Look, I've said it for too long, Sean. Republicans are too nice. All right. Yeah.

You get it. It should be known. They're talking about John Fetterman and Dr. Oz is sitting right next to her on the screen, not in real life, but he's in the split screen with her. And Dr. Oz, just in the last week, has called John Fetterman, a stroke the victim who deserved it because he's fat.

So. I know. That's what I'm saying. It's like, what is their version of, like, being a dick? Like, if they've been, like, They've been holding it back, raining it in this whole time. Like, when the gloves come off, Jesus Christ, what are they going to say? I mean, besides just the N-word, obviously.

But, like, there's going to go straight to just hardcore slurs and death threats, baby. That's the only direction I see it could go if they need to crack it up a notch. It's already 80% death threats. I'm not sure what the hell else they could do, you know. They could actually go for it. I mean, they tried to kidnap a governor for Christ's. Yeah. They tried to storm Congress.

And our last honorable mention for a daily dumb ass, anybody who thought the scourge of kitten kids was over with? No, still going strong, according to who else? Miss Bobert. I was in Michigan, and a man told me that his son got in trouble because he stepped on a furry's tail in school. And I said, well, I don't think it was a furry. I've never seen one.

We got bears. We got wolves, praise the Lord, thanks Boulder. We got eagles. What's a furry? And he said, well, it's someone who thinks they're a cat or a dog. I said, dear Lord, that sounds like an identity crisis. I think your son needs to go to school and identify as a trapper. A applause, break.

I was in Michigan. A plaz break on the trapper bit. Not a poorly constructed joke, but I do want to say here, which is advocating here is for one kid to murder two of kids. Yeah, yeah. I do like this furry lie, I can't explain the degree to which that conversation never happened.

I know. Yeah, we've talked about it before on the show, and it's like, and I just, Katie, my wife just like literally last night or the night before brought it up because she was saying it on Facebook.

Like, and some of her like back home, Wayne County, Facebook people, they were talking about it there. And she was reading me these comments that they were saying, it's like, I know somebody works in a school. And she says that there's like, you know, 15 kids who demand to use litter boxes and all this stuff,

whatever. And Katie's just like, she's like, these people know that they're making this up. Or you know what I mean? It's like this just isn't true, especially in fucking, she's from like the border south Tennessee,

North Alabama. It's like they're not fucking, that's not. Even in Portland, junior high kids are not pissing in litter boxes. You know what I mean? But like, let alone, but they're acting like it's just a, it's a nationwide phenomenon. It's insane. I don't know what to do with this kind of stuff because it's so, it's so fake, but so many people believe it.

Even though, like, no one knows anybody firsthand who saw this or did it. It's just like game of telephone stuff about made up bullshit. And a lot of the stuff, all you got to do is just, like, go talk to a regular person. You can go down to your local school and, like, like talk the kids if you want. Do some research, Mark. That's the problem. They are doing research.

The research is reading on Facebook how it's really happening. Get the first-hand accounts, that's sheep shit. You've got to do real research there on the internet. Matt says that the way she leans on the pulpit when she preaches is triggering for him because he went to Bible college. Yeah. So, yeah. All right.

Well, let's talk about Ukraine, Mark. What are you say? All right. So, yeah, Corey brought it up last week and I've realized that we haven't talked about in a while. And then. This happened late last week, and that was pretty awesome. So if you've had this video clip, Matt, set it up, set us in.

He's got it. Here it comes. Ukrainian forces marking massive victories in the northeast. Their troops now controlling the strategic military hub of Izzyam, which was occupied by Russian forces for months. Now, videos circulating online show abandoned Russian tanks and military equipment littering the area. Ukrainian soldiers raising their flag once again over the city.

It's a massive blow for Putin. And across a large swath of territory, troops liberating dozens of towns and villages in video released by the Ukrainian military. Emotional scenes, civilians greeting. Yeah, so we talked about a little bit last week about like what was why Corey hadn't heard much about it recently. and what that was about. Basically, they've been a stalemate for a while,

but Ukraine was considering an offensive, but worried about what would happen if it backfired politically with Western relief and whatever. But then they just went ahead and did it and said, fuck it, let's be legends to recapture like a thousand square miles or something, which isn't, it's like maybe 10% of what Russia's taken since 2014, but they also

captured like enough tanks and weaponry to outfit 20 brigades and took a bunch of POWs, a bunch of Russians deserted, in pretty hilarious fashion. We'll talk about that in a minute. But they totally broke Russian lines. It's not really clear.

They took a bunch of railroad depots. Russia had as their sole mains of resupply. Clear what the Russians do for here, other than keep making Ukrainians lives miserable by harassing of air and with artillery. They did. Russia, after Ukraine recaptured those towns, they'd been holding, they blew up the power plants to support. applied them, just as, like, is throwing a fit, just to torque the civilian populations. And Zelensky gave this pretty, an Independence Day speech directly to Russia that said, read my lips, without gas or without you, without you, without light or without you, without you, without

water or without you, without you, without food or without you, without you, cold, hunger, darkness, and thirst are not as scary and deadly for us as your friendship and brotherhood. So basically, fuck, fuck you, your stuff. Yeah. Label as a motherfucking crew. He's a pretty ice cold motherfucker that, Zelensky. I got to say, they've been, uh, yeah, keeping it pretty gangster, uh, since, since day one from what I could tell.

Yeah. Yeah, that's, that's pretty hard statement right there. The, uh, it's pretty weird. Like, people are sort of, like, it's tough to read the tea leaves where it goes on interior inside Russia because obviously, even a dictator needs a certain amount of public. support or people can just drag him out of his cast on killing, which is like the Chechens who have been fighting in Ukraine as an ally are threatening to quit because they don't know what the plan or the point is anymore. And like freed Ukrainians, I do want to say here, have a little bit

more bracing I would in a lot of cases. Like they had this interview with this lady who was like, they were not monsters. They were kids, she said. She wants to ask Russian troops to move the tank they parked in front of her house. What a weird name is. Hey, trying to get my paper. Your tanks in the way. Oh, sorry, man. Ask what they want. from us, they said, we can either be here or we can be in jail. Yeah. They're conscripts. Like, so I do some of them. So, you know, some of them obviously go there and become war criminal. Some of them just go there and they're trying to buy their time and they can get out.

For example, other, on the bad side, in that same town, the troops had a standing order for the Ukrainians. They occupied to be in their house by 6 p.m. and have their lights out and be quiet. And these guys had the lights on drinking and they just executed them. As far as the actual escape, the fleeing, Russian troops aren't getting paid. They're not getting fed very well. They're not well equipped. So they literally couldn't run fast enough. Half the soldiers fled in their vehicles in the first hours.

The people that were stranded grew desperate. Some residents overheard them on the radios, pleading to you to commanders for someone to come get them. They said, you're on your own. They came into our houses to take clothes so the drones wouldn't see them in uniforms. They took our bicycles. They're stealing clothes off fucking laundry racks and stealing bikes and pedaling their way back to Russia. This is not a war that's going well for them. Right.

Sounds like a bit of a quagmire to me. Like, you know, they're just going to hang around for forever now. Stories is going to admit defeat or whatever, you know, but they also can't win it. So it's just like you said, just make everybody's lives miserable for as long as possible and just continue to fuck everything up. it reminded me of historians disagree whether this actually happened I think most think it's apocryphal but the old story about Jefferson Davis

after the South collapsed he was fleeing in his wife's dress when they caught him sort of reminded me of that yeah so Ukraine might be going for the full wind which would mean taking back Dombas which has been a civil war

in Crimea which Russia took in a war for years right but they might be too high on their own supply it might be a bad idea to drag it on that long. Yeah. I mean, I don't,

dude, I don't know shit. I'm very, very war dumb. You know, this particular conflict, you know, I,

what do I know? But yeah, I kind of thought the same thing when I saw that. It's like, good for them. I'm glad shit's going well. But yeah,

it's like, I don't know. But like, yeah, take what you can get, just try to fucking get the thing done. But again, that's easy for me to say.

It ain't my land or my people. That's it. That's not like, the pit, people I've been most frustrated with, and I consider myself pretty solid left wing, but like the people that think this is just a Russia like a CIA proxy war

with Russia, just to weaken it or whatever. It's like the only reason Ukrainians are fighting and dying for their land protecting their families is because of CIA propaganda. It's like fuck now. They're fighting for their own reasons, their own purposes. And it's really, we can stop giving the weapons if we wanted to. I would vote, I would be against that because

I think that wars and invasion and conquest are bad. They're bad when we did. And they're bad when fucking Russia did it. And there's a lesson here for the larger world. It's that invading, occupying armies are basically 0 for, oh for since World War II. We keep doing the same fucking dumb shit. And I don't know.

I just think people, they're agitating for Ukraine. People were agitating for them to surrender the day this happened. It's like Ukrainians are not going to fucking surrender, man. They're fucking mad. You heard that speech that Lindsey gave to Putin. Yeah. And speaking of Putin. What has Putin been up to?

Well, while this was happening, he was at the grand unveiling of, I think, a Ferris wheel. Yeah, for the moment, the Kremlin has sticking out of defeats in business as usual ensuissance. I can never say that word by Ms. Putin, who has Russian lines buckled on Saturday in the Kharkiv region, inaugurated a giant Ferris wheel in Moscow Park. Reports from social media said the wheel quickly broke down, the wheel quickly broke down. Yeah, the ending of that is just perfect. It's funny enough that that's what he's there, you know, ribbon cutting a fucking Ferris wheel in the middle of all this. But then the fact that the Ferris wheel breaks down is just, that's some chef's kiss shit right there for sure.

Yeah. It's moments like that that I believe there is a god because, like, some poor suckers who were there testing the Ferris wheel out, be stuck at the top because of Vladimir Putin's fuckups and incompetence. It's sort of a metaphor for the whole war. Right. So what's going to domestically in Russia is pretty interesting, even though he can't really gauge it. like people point of public opinion polling in Russia

as if that matters because if a state media outlet calls you to ask if you support your murderous dictator, what are you going to say? Right. And also just the propaganda that they all get fed and everything constantly anyway coupled with what you just said. It's like, you know,

fucking you can't be talking shit publicly. That's how you get fucking defenestrated. You know, get thrown out of goddamn window. So I mean, yeah, which has been happening, by the way. Of course. Putin loves defenestration, dude. He loves throwing people out windows.

I think it was a couple weeks ago. One guy fell out of a hospital window, which is a very common thing that happens. That was an oligarch. Another oligarch died last week when he fell off his yacht, which of course happens. That's how Ghislane Maxwell's dad died. So it's a very common thing to fall through yacht and die when he involved in international intrigue. Another oligarch publicly had to surrender his all his assets to the state or sell him off like for pennies on the dollar a couple weeks ago. So he's been, I'm not sure if he's getting pushed back, but he's worried about it.

And like 18 people, probably more was made of this than, than it's meaningful. But it is, is something that 18 municipal officials around Moscow signed a letter calling on Putin to resign. So it'd be like the LA City Council asked Joe Biden to resign. It doesn't really matter a whole lot, but it's still something to speak out. They were, of course, immediately arrested for insulting the military. But the military collapse happened so fast that, that the Kremlin didn't have any sort of talking points. They couldn't figure out what to say.

So, like, the state media appraised was left on their own. And filibustering, they were left with nothing but to be honest. And talk about how the war is a disaster. Yeah. So that was pretty funny to me. It's like, I got jack shit to say. I guess it isn't going well. Fuck it.

You know, it's like, yeah. So before we wrap up here and move to comments, I didn't want to say, we have a video, but it's like two plus minutes long, but it's that their UN ambassador for Ukraine who's also a G who's made he's been a soundbite machine as well and it was him doing that again saying that you know the thing got understanding about Russians is that many of them suffer from delusions they see things that aren't there they hear things that aren't there and they need help but it's not the kind of help that we can give them on the floor of this off you know they need to be basically just saying you know that they're all crazy and delusional and and don't hit which I appreciated but also after everything we've just talked about. We want to revisit a brief clip from Tucker Carlson from about two weeks ago. Matt, you could play that one. If you got it. And then, Mark, if you got anything else on Ukraine, hit us with it. Otherwise,

we will wrap up here in a minute with some comments. Just calling for an unconditional surrender from Vladimir Putin. Here's the weird thing. By any actual reality-based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine. He is winning the war in Ukraine. And Joe Biden looks at that and says, we won't stop until you proffer an unconditional surrender. This isn't bad policy.

This is nuts. It makes no sense. In fact, it only makes sense if the goal is to completely destroy the West in order to make way for Chinese global dominance. Sure. Sure, right. You could say how.

you can see how that would be you know Joe Biden's ulterior motive I think it's like we're supposed to be the ones who hate America right I've got my problem with it right like we talked earlier about there's done

the segments this week defending the British monarchy against against criticisms from people who like you know who like democracy and now he sees all in for Putin

it's like what are these guys fucking believe it's just just power I mean, yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'd love an authoritarian dictatorship, you know, as long as the dictator in question was, you know, their boy, they'd be all for it. Fascism hits for a lot of people. It's like, please just tell me what to do.

Please just tell, like, please just tell other people what to do. Oh, yeah. Well, no, I mean, really, yes, really that's what it is. You know, like, I want it's like everything that I think is, is how everything should be. So we really need somebody in place that crushes any opposition to that with brute force

and rules with an iron fist. Yeah. If you got freedom, somebody might have the idea to have a drag queen story hour and somebody might want to go to it. Then that's fucking chaos and can't have it. It's the most important threat to. Thank you, Debbie Lynn. Debbie Lynn Robinson says, hit that like button,

everybody, please do. Hit the light button. Tell your friends, share, leave a five-star review on the podcast version, all that good stuff. We would appreciate it. Toby Coosman says, what does Mark's hat say? See you out there. It's a company that makes like redneck surfing apparel.

That's fun. I don't surf, but I do like going to the beach. Yeah. You ever try surfing terrain? No, never. You know, fucking whatever body and boogie boarded and shit in Florida, that type of thing. I love water shit. I mean, I grew up on a lake town, so no surfing, but I loved, like, any of that stuff, anything involved in a boat, you know, but no, never even tried surfing, though.

I didn't, dude, the water out here is too goddamn cold for me. I didn't know that before I moved here. Shocked the shit out of me. It's a real, I don't know. It's a fool's gold, all them shots of the beautiful beaches in Southern California. You see in movies and stuff, but you will freeze your ass off if you try to go swimming. Yeah, if you guys never swim in the Pacific, there's a reason that everybody. you'll see it on TV swim in the ocean is wearing a wetsuit

because it's cold as shit. Yeah, apparently it's like a current that comes down from Alaska, straight down the west coast or something makes it cold as fuck. But yeah, it's not fun. Yeah, I can't even I can't even stand up paddleboard, but balance is so fucking bad. I didn't realize it about myself.

I knew I couldn't skateboard when I was a kid, but never thought about it too hard. Then I tried to do stand-up paddleboarding at a woman who's married, and I had busted my ass on the paddleboard and lost a pair of sunglasses to the bottom of golf. You found a pair of Rayban I bought so many

pairs of sunglasses on boats in my life Kim Avery says you a tuber tray oh yeah we were big tubers every now and then bust out a whiteboard or something but we mostly just sat our fat asses on the tube and got pulled you know the goal is to throw your buddy off in the most you know possibly painful

way possible or whatnot but yeah there's a there's a big festival in a little town around from called float day It's basically like 10,000 Red Mexico and float down a river for like eight hours. And then they got like trucks that will haul you back to your cars. And me and my buddies, I guess it was in college. My high school buddies went during the summer. And we, they had tied to stuff with the boat, the hill of the rapids.

We flipped it. We lost all our beers and our wallets and our keys. Yeah. And now we're into an eight-hour float. And then I was in a tube tied to the back of a canoe. And my buddies, because it was my fault of the shit got on tied, as a little bit of a prank revenge prank untied me and they went way ahead so i floated by myself for the last six hours of this begging beers off people pass me by so they do that again i grew up on a lake so different but where katy grew up they have they do a lot of float they're floating the buffalo there's a river down there called the buffalo you float to buffalo huge thing we went there one day on father's day the whole family it's like we're going to go out and do that and i and i and but my sons at the time were like three and four i mean they were little and i was like you know are they big enough and katy's like oh it's like a lake

River. We got there, you rent canoes to do it in. Every one of the canoes in our group got flipped at least once. The children were terrified most of the time. My father-in-law killed a snake with an oar in the middle of the trip. And then it came a wrath of God thunderstorm right as we're coming down the end of it. But it was like, it was way more intense than a lazy river. I had a great time. But it was, it was wild. When we left, the boys were upset. And I told him, I was like, you were never in any danger. And Bishop goes, no, no, no. At the. end. That was danger. So, yeah. Aaron McCullough says, any thoughts on the John Federman's social media dominance of Dr. Oz? I enjoy Federman's TikToks. I'm not on TikToks. I see some of the

stuff on Twitter. But like, so I think we think we talked about this a while back, but like in general, it's not, it's beyond a social media strategy. If you don't engage, like you wouldn't debate a maniac, right? Because the person doesn't mean or understand anything they're saying. There's no point engaged in the merits. You're debating someone like Dr. Ross, who's a scamming, lying scumbag, who's not even from your state, you don't engage with them. You just treat them like a fucking dumb clown. That's the part that's like, that works for me. It's what Trump did to the Republican primary field and it worked. Because nobody, nobody thinks Marco Rubio was a serious person. Why fucking treat him like he's like he means what he says? Just call him a dumb

asshole and move home with your life. And so like, I think a little bit more of that. Because I either persons of substance or they aren't. And like, until they nominate people of substance, don't bother debating with them. Yeah, I've been digging it. I love everything Federman's doing. He's fucking great. And really, like, sort of not exposing because people already know, but really illustrating just how much of a, you know, fraudulent clown Dr. Oz is in so many ways. It's pretty sweet.

Laura Borialis, like that name, says, I just bought tickets to one of the Zanee's show. Can't wait. Yeah, those are always fun. Those are well-read shows. Mecor and Drew were at Zanis before Christmas every year. Big homecoming deal. Everybody's mom and cousins and everybody comes out. They don't get on stage.

Don't worry about that. But it's always a hell of a good time. So, yeah, those are some of the bestons there. And I do want to say that Laura Borealis would be an amazing roller derby name. Yeah, it's great. That's a fantastic name. I dig it. So, yeah.

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