Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – A Flurry of Furry Fury

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

 It was a perfectly innocent $50k in a fast food bag from an unnamed foreign government, don’t worry about it. The feds continue to focus mostly on running down conspiracy theories around the Kirk ...killing, while one congressman solved it: It was leather daddy furries. Then Ted Cruz makes a good point about Jimmy Kimmel in the worst possible way.Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's up, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. As you're watching this at September 23rd, 2025. We are recording this on Monday, September 22nd, 1 p.m. on the left coast. That's where we're coming to you on the space time continuum. I'm Trey. That's Mark. This is weekly skews.
Starting point is 00:00:24 How you doing, Mark? Hanging in there? Yeah, man, doing good. You must actually looking good. Appreciate it. Yeah. I need to take this down a little bit again. I'll try to keep it, you know, keep it really mustached up. But that won't last long. Yeah. Before we get to the show, a couple of things I wanted to talk about related to the, our honky motherland of the United Kingdom and also our fellow former sister colony up and up north, Canada. so Trump was in in UK
Starting point is 00:00:57 last week for a state visit and some people got arrested for projecting images of Trump with Epstein on the side of Windsor Castle the charge was malicious communications, a suspicion of malicious communications, which is a funny thing. It's like, what qualifies
Starting point is 00:01:14 is malicious communication? Right. I don't know. Projecting like, is it meant to be like, for like, projecting swastikas and stuff like that, like, you know, after the war or something or and then it's just being used for this? Or is it just that you're not allowed to project anything onto the castle, you know? Well, half the rule of family were Nazi sympathizers, so I don't know if it was
Starting point is 00:01:37 a swastika thing. But like, but like my thing is like, can you imagine how it feels being Prince Andrew? Yeah. Like, you got banished for Epstein stuff and then your brother is having a dead, your brother that he's now the king is having a state dinner with the other, the third guy from your Epstein group chat? Yeah, it's got to be pretty annoying. I do, I mean, whatever happened to Prince Andrew, though, didn't he? He's still out there somewhere, like, just being fine and creepy, right? Like, it ain't like he got locked up or nothing, and I'm sure they're still taking care of him and stuff.
Starting point is 00:02:07 They just don't talk about it. I think they took away some of his titles or whatever. But I remember when this first all came to light, he had the disastrous TV interview, the Queen canceled his birthday party. Or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. And the Queen canceled his birthday party, which is such a funny response.
Starting point is 00:02:22 It's like, the queen's like, you, like, imagine your mom being like, you can either play Nintendo or be a nonce, but not, you can't do both in my house, son. It's also like, like, Kirstormer, UK, UK's prime minister had to fire Peter Mendelsohn, who was the ambassador to the United States because of like he turned up in the Epstein birthday book writing sweet, sweet things about, but like, Mendelsohn's gay. like he's the only one associate with Epstein who no one thinks did any any creepy sex stuff because Epstein didn't know any teenage boys and he's the only one to suffer consequences for it's
Starting point is 00:02:59 it's just like their reality is so fucking farcical man up in Canada so Trump's ambassador to Canada is a guy of any of a Pete Hoekstra and he gave a speech in the chamber of commerce the other day decrying Canada's anti-American like strong like
Starting point is 00:03:17 his word strong but kept very mild like let me quote here i'm disappointed that can be canada a canada uh that is very very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American Canadian relationship you ran a campaign where uh there where it was anti-American using the elbows up slogan it was an anti-American campaign that has continued that's disappointing a candidate even used the words trade war with the United States we threatened to invade them yeah no I'm about to say I mean it's not like I'm pretty sure everything was totally peachy with us in Canada on both sides for I mean ever for as long as I can remember but then they like started shit with Canada out of nowhere like first thing it's like you said
Starting point is 00:04:00 yeah we're going to make them the 51st state it wasn't just the tariffs and shit it's like we're going to turn them into one of the states just take them over and everything I say we I mean it was Trump fucking doing it the whole time but yeah but yeah it's not like it came out of nowhere we picked a fight and they're pissed about it and then you're you're And then now we're like, what's your guys' fucking problem? What's your deal with us? Just go along with it.
Starting point is 00:04:21 It's all kayfay, baby. Don't you know we're just kidding? Yeah. Like, why your labor industry is going under? We're just kidding. We've got to make the content for Fox News to make fucking Trump happy, right? So, but anyway, this is the main thing I want to talk about, to be silly for a second here.
Starting point is 00:04:36 This is stories how I found out the name of Canada's finance minister. I want you to guess the name of the most French-Canadian wrenched backer you can think of. Just imagine it. Piel Le Dol de Fronque. Francois Champagne. Oh, man. That's very good. Nomit determinism, baby.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Yeah, if you want your Quebec in his son to grow up to be finance minister, name him Francois Champagne. Francois Philippe Champagne, I believe, is his full name. Jesus Christ. That's too much. I was just trying to imagine, like, if every country did it this way, he picked the guy with the most perfect name to be, to be a little name. in terms of the money, be like, like, he's having a summit with, like, the Mexican finance
Starting point is 00:05:20 minister, Rico Suave, uh, they had a channel, that guy that won the first, uh, world series of poker when it really popped off, a Chris moneymaker. He'd be running the treasury department right now. There we go. Which I mean, that wouldn't, you know, I mean, that would, that would, that would be zero percent dumber than the people that are already in charge of like various cabinet positions in this country. So, you know, no, it'd be like somehow if they They had a channel central bank turned out to be a Ritomey Kwan. All right, we can get it to it. Okay, all right.
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Starting point is 00:07:09 consider signing up on patreon get some more skews in your life uh as for the show tonight mark already told you what we're going to be getting into a little bit later, but we've got to get it started the same way that we always do with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. haters for not knowing that I'm doing this out of the goodness of my own heart, and also for $50,000 in a chicken swarm a bag. Let me be clear. I don't work for the campaign. I haven't taken with dollars in the campaign. Tom Holland is doing it
Starting point is 00:07:43 I think he's the greatest president of my life time I'll see him back in the White House All right you can cut Matt So that's Tom Holman Current Borders are I think is a made up job title This was filmed last year during the campaign The reporting is to be believed
Starting point is 00:07:57 A little less than a month After Holman took $50,000 From undercover FBI agents Pretend to be businessmen And a literal paper bag Yeah A literal paper bag Well
Starting point is 00:08:08 I mean that's you know That's the standard isn't it If you're in like shady, shady back alley deals or whatever involving lump sums of cash, I'd almost be disappointed if it wasn't in a like a crumpled up paper bag. You know what I mean? Like it just feels like, or a duffel. Like either that or a duffel bag feels like the right way to get like a big sum of shady, dirty money. Like this kind of story always is the most fascinating to me because the people who are
Starting point is 00:08:36 least mad should be the most mad. By that, I mean, like, like, Like, first of all, corruption, like, they're just stealing taxpayer dollars does not, like, hit for anybody, right? But, like, what he was specifically accused of doing was taking $50,000 to, to, in advance of Trump, maybe assuming office for a second time, to direct border contracts to unspecified parties we'll get to. Those, you wouldn't need to steer the bid if it was the best bid, meaning whoever you're steering the bid to build a border wall or whatever is going to do the shittiest job for the most. money so you're not even getting the border wall built which is fine with me but it should the people should be maddest about it should be the people who want the fucking border wall right right yes but they're not no no uh no well yeah but they probably just either don't i mean don't
Starting point is 00:09:26 they either just never hear about it or just when they do hear about it they're told like oh it's not a big deal and so they're like oh yeah see it's not a big deal and they just go on with their lives or whatever you know what i mean because of the bubbles and shit everybody lives in and whatnot. And Tom Homan, he's a, you know, he's a good patriot. Like, he's a good man, good Godfair man who's on their side, and they know that. So they just, they're not going to think this through very hard. Yeah, it always reminds me like, because, you know, I'm from Central Virginia and, you know, around Lynchburg where Jerry Falwell's church is and when Liberty University and stuff, when, like, when his son, who's not even a minister
Starting point is 00:10:01 was called doing a bunch of shady stuff to pay guys to have sex with his wife, I'd be, I'd be on Facebook and see people being like, well, this is the media out to get them. But the sources in the story are students and faculty and administrators at Liberty who are asking for help because they're the ones who are being abused and having their shit stolen, right? Right. So like, yeah. Yeah, well, it's also like these people, these are the people that are hardcore about government inefficiency and government waste and all that stuff. So they should care about the way that taxpayer dollars are being spent, you know, and not in a like, you know, corruption. corruption-laced way or whatever.
Starting point is 00:10:37 But it's like I've said before, this is what I used to do for my day job was this exact thing. And it's like, it just got hammered, not take bribes. But that's what I'm saying. We've got like, I mean, hammered into us repeatedly over and over.
Starting point is 00:10:51 Like, they probably didn't emphasize anything more than avoiding this. And by this, I mean, even like the possible, like, a sheen of impropriety. They'd be like, you know, you can't, you can't go like golfing with somebody from a potential contractor or whatever and have them like you can't go to lunch with these people or you can if you can't but they can't pay for a fucking appetizer or any of that shit all because of you know this like it was very very very very highly scrutinized and was treated as a massively big deal so it's always funny to me when I hear about the people at the very top can just you know again go get $50,000 in a paper bag and then just bypass all that and just make it happen, you know, with a snap of the fingers. The FBI just gave him this money in a, in a, in a, in a, in a, in a, in a food, the food, the food, the food, the food, where they sell, like, like, upscale, like, fast casual euros. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Yeah. I have, they, they, they're one of the places it's like, kava is one of the few, but kava and sweet green and a couple others are like, when I'm on the road and I'm, pretend I'm lying to myself that I'm going to, like, eat better or more healthy. they're like a place that I can order from or go to or whatever and not be utterly racked with shame afterwards so yeah I'm familiar with coffee yeah I'm sure that they're not I'm sure it's not even healthy either by the way it's like that's part yeah right but it's part of their thing so I buy it anyway it feels like Mediterranean it feels healthier even like like you know like a euro is just you know high fat lamb and beef and you know put it up maybe whatever it's fine it's delicious I love they got a hidden euro spot across the street it's discovered so
Starting point is 00:12:32 I'm down with it. But yeah. So anyway, the only possible come up come up, it's Tom Homan's going to end up getting here for this is if he gets indigestion from a flopful crunch ball. But so today, yesterday, this story came out like two days ago or early yesterday. And the defense all day yesterday was this was like a setup. He was entrapped by the FBI. Okay. He wasn't.
Starting point is 00:12:56 But that's all different thing. But then today they changed their mind and say, actually, he didn't take the money. They offered it to him, but he didn't take it. Um, so, but my thing is like, so the, I don't really believe them. So let's let's separate in on this. Because they say they have it on tape. And if the Trump administration wants to prove that he didn't take the money, they can release the tape. It's on video. Right. But like, so the FBI gave him $50,000 of presumably of attack our money to, to, to see if he would take the payoff. He took it. So he just has $50,000 of taxpayer money. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:13:28 And this is all basic. This was, this was, this was. This was. this investigation was initiated when Joe Biden was the president and it was that FBI and but Tom Holman at that time was what? He worked. News commentator. Well, how the fuck was he securing
Starting point is 00:13:48 government? I was it like when we win and I get that job? Okay, got you. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So like here's the thing though. Tom Homan was not the subject to the investigation. he was drawn into the FBI case after a target of the investigation suggested in 2003 on his own initiative that a $1 million payment to Holman could lead to lucrative federal contracts for Border Security at work. So the person the FBI is actually chasing, they're just talking to the guy and he goes,
Starting point is 00:14:16 you know who'd love to get a bribe? Tom Homan. They weren't even trying to get Tom. So like, but anyway, they're pretending they were just going out to Trump's people. But the reason this is all like, even the FBI has done. thinking the Justice Department of Biden didn't know if they could charge him because the Supreme Court has muddied, like, what corruption is to such a degree that's basically legal now. Like, let me quote here, they had doubts about whether prosecutors could prove to a jury that
Starting point is 00:14:41 Mr. Holman had agreed to do any specific acts in exchange for the money, and because he had not held the official government position at the time of the meeting with undercover agents. So the Supreme Court is basically like Tom Homan's dad and Tom Homan's like, this $50,000 just follow me home, can I keep it? And he's got to be like, yeah, I guess so. side. This whole thing is such a fucking, it's so ridiculous. He basically they created Schrodinger's bribe scenario
Starting point is 00:15:04 where you get bribed as long as you don't do it in exchange for an explicit quid pro quo that you're later going to do. Also, like another Supreme Corruption case, a mayor of a town got paid off after steering a million dollar in like garbage
Starting point is 00:15:22 truck contracts. And they said, well, that's just a tip, not a bribe, because he got paid after. So if you get paid before, you do it, that's all good. If you get paid after you do it, that's all good. I guess you had to get bribed in the middle of doing the after getting bribed for. Yeah, we're, like, heading back to, like, you know, mob run labor union type shit from, like, the prohibition era and that sort of thing. But with, like, at the highest reaches of government engaged in it, I'm sure that there's been some of that going on for a long time.
Starting point is 00:15:56 But it was always like, if you got caught, it was. would be bad, but now they've just made it, like, fine to do. Yeah. I mean, the stuff the unions are doing, but the mob was illegal. The federal government probably because they hated unions also, but, like, went to a huge links to try to crush it. That's why Jimmy Hoffa was ended up, like, arrested in prison. So, uh, anyway, these debate, I read a story this morning that, like, when Trump took
Starting point is 00:16:18 office, there were 36 prosecutors working in the public, public corruption unit, public integrity unit, and now it's down to two. And I imagine what they do all day is, like, play cards. Right. But this wasn't even a public corruption investigation. This was a counterintelligence investigation that they stumbled across Holman. They don't say what country they're trying to follow the money back to, what kind of spy shit they were up to. But if you want to have some fun, just imagine what like Taylor Sheridan would do with spy shit happening with border security contracts.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Well, given time, I'm sure he'll get around to it. Fucking, I mean, I mean, eventually he's going to have told every fucking, uh, you know Texas and border and oil and just general papar related story that there is to be told so yeah he'll get there anyway we're going to end up with is a border wall with like a garage door opener that fits the size of a Chinese tank so that's probably where for going to this I don't fucking know what they're up to here's the kicker to this though even the matter whether they're not they ever investigate and get around a prosecutor for any sort of corruption which they're not going on because we don't live in that world anymore he still needs a pardon
Starting point is 00:17:25 because the Democratic congressman named James James Trafficant ended up going to prison back in I think the 90s because he got bribed. They didn't necessarily get him on the bribery, but he did not declare the bribe on his taxes. So that's Tom Holman goes back and declared the bribe on his taxes. He can still get arrested later for tax fraud. So
Starting point is 00:17:43 what the fuck? It's always the tax stuff, it seems like. That's how they get you at the end of the day. All right, we've got an honorable mention for Daily Dumbass investigators for not knowing the brain. behind the Kirk killing was this one guy in a leather puppy mask.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Before Matt plays a video, I want to need everybody to understand. This is a video tweeted out by Congressman Randy Fine with the caption Leftism Must Be Defeated. For those of you, you listening to the audio feed, that is some sort of fetish content human puppy show
Starting point is 00:18:27 where a guy on a leather dog mask is directed to roll over by a guy in a leather utility kilt and then an audience claps for him doing dog tricks. Yeah. Which, for the record, I mean, the whole reason that it's impressive and you clap
Starting point is 00:18:44 when a dog does those things is because dogs are real fucking stupid in comparison to humans. So like, any human should, you know, be able to handle that, I would think, pretty, you know, pretty, pretty easily. It's not, it's not really that impressive. Somebody's, you know, you roll over and then you roll over.
Starting point is 00:19:04 I don't know that you deserve a treat for that. If you got a human brain as opposed to a dumb old dog's brain. But anyway. Right. So, this kind of a weird furry thing bubbling up on the right, because the, with the investigation that Kirk Shooter, the trains, they all kind of flopped for them. Not in the way, it didn't happen the way they wanted. So, like, but Tyler Robinson, maybe was it.
Starting point is 00:19:25 least a little furry curious when we know. Let me talk about last week. Okay, well, hold on. What's the latest on the trans roommate thing, though? Because I thought they had that going. Right, but I know that the trans roommate wasn't involved at all, but neither any of these furt, but neither any of these furries that he's like curious in. Do you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:19:41 Like. But he was, they're saying he was one. So therefore he's a pervert and therefore a leftist. Right. So they're saying he actually was a furry. Right. But anyway, when we just watched word. Furries. I don't really understand all these different subcultures because I'm not in them, but there's no leather stuff involved in furries. Anyway, there's nothing right or left-coded about people in leather doing, like, was Big Gay Vito and the Sopranos left wing?
Starting point is 00:20:10 I don't feel like you... People also, you know, they go to fucking sex dungeons and gagged and whipped and shit in the bowels of D.C. and then go, you know, and then go fucking place their hand on the Bible and vote for some prudish bullshit or whatever with. the flag pan on their lapel. I mean, everybody knows that happens. It's been going on for fucking years. So, yeah. Yeah, you're right. But yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:33 I mean, I will see it. I don't really see. Like, I, uh, I don't really understand how it's left wing, whether the, the leather puppy stuff. But I will concede there's no Jesus or church involved, uh, but also like, the idea that like being like like, like, like, furies are handling the left wing is weird. Because they're, there are Nazi furries. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:49 You got this big. Of course there are. So like some Nazi furries may even, may even, may even have been involved. involved in a chlorine gas attack on a furry convention at a hotel in Illinois back in 2014. So, yeah, there's a, that's obviously like an irony. I'm not even sure if that's really supposed to be a Nazi, but because the, the Nazis, the swastika armband's a paw print. I don't even know what the fuck they're doing. It's not none of my business.
Starting point is 00:21:10 People are so wild. Did you, so the memorial service yesterday, did you watch any clips from it? I seen, so I saw some clips from Trump's beautiful moving eulogy that he gave, uh, moved me to tears repeatedly, but, yeah, but I saw some clips from that, and I saw, I saw Erica Kirk forgave the shooter. I also saw her entrance with all the pyro techniques. That was super metal. Great choice. So, went hard as fuck appropriately. Yeah, so I saw a couple clips in that, but that's, that's it. I told you guys when it was going on, if I could go back and just watch that whole thing, rather than the fucking Titans and Raiders games yesterday, it would have hit for me a lot harder.
Starting point is 00:21:53 I can promise you that. But I, I, alas, did. Yeah, as a kid who grew up in a church, like, I found, like, it's like a parody of righteous gemstones. Like, I don't really like, but even like, theologically, like, like, that Erica Kirk forgiving, that's like a core tension, a tenant of Christianity is that you forgive us or trespasses as we forget those and trespass. Like, you're supposed to be able to try to work to forgive people who wrong you. Right. In exchange for God of forgiving you for wronging him. Right.
Starting point is 00:22:22 So, like, but then Trump got up there and said basically. I hate my opponents. Yeah, right. Right. Right. And so, anyway, we're speed running real quick why, like, religious people should be against co-miggling church and state because it kind of bastardizes your religion. Anyway, a lot of people are trying to dabble into evangelical Christianity for the first time
Starting point is 00:22:41 this past few weeks. It leads to, like, people are, like, live tweeting, literally live tweeting going to church for the first time. I don't know what. But part of this is developed into, like, a huge movement on TikTok, people thought the rapture was happening is happening tomorrow um this tomorrow like the 23rd yes is the rapture tomorrow tomorrow and the people don't ever get to see this episode mark because the rapture happens nobody watch this is getting taken yeah right yeah we'll be around burning in hell
Starting point is 00:23:10 make sure to still watch this as you're being tortured by demons or whatever happens to all the people that don't get uh sent to the promise land i'm not really up on it you just get left behind so we're just here um yeah and it's like so okay let me have That quick theological diversion here or digression, right, we all get left behind for not being believers, but like, then does bad shit, does hellfire rain down and stuff, or is it, as the, is the supposition always been because that, because only sinners are left behind, we'll ruin the earth and turn it into hell. Because if that's what's supposed to happen, what would be hilarious is if they rapture all the Christians and then Earth and America just hits after that forever, do you know what I mean? we then just we just fix everything and everything's fucking great you know they're going forward yeah yeah I mean like
Starting point is 00:24:02 however you think it looks kind of been none of this stuff's actually in the Bible really so like it was all kind of invented in the 1800s by various like you know Pentecostal movements and the shit so like whatever you think it looks like is what it looks like it's in your heart tray so like this lady was mega viral she gave out a bunch of tips on what to do
Starting point is 00:24:19 during the rapture if you got this is tip number five That's your trip Tip number five When you finally start moving up into the air I recommend that you don't hold on to anything I definitely don't recommend looking down I think we learn that lesson from Watts' wife Okay
Starting point is 00:24:36 All right So I do want to say because this drops tomorrow I don't want to get too far to limb here And say this isn't going to happen We'd really have any on our face If when the rapture does occur Yeah So one of our other tips was that everyone should get clean underwear because when you float up in the air and disappear, you don't want your stained underwear floating down because that would be embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Can you imagine how dumb we're going to feel tomorrow if you walk outside and the rapture's happening? This lady's perfectly clean underwear flow down into your yard as you get left behind. Like people were people are like, again, it's hard to draw the line between who's like performing for viral reason. is in who was actually believing in this shit, right? But people are, like, cleaning their houses to prepare them for whoever moves in after them when they get raptured. Some Australian dude sold his car. Just because he don't need it because he's going to be raptured and he'll have angel wings after that or whatever. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:40 But you don't need the money either. Right. Yeah. So, what? Well, maybe he just, you know, somebody else needs the car, but he's not going to not. take money. Lead the keys in it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Right. So, going back to the investigation. The FBI, man, like, this basically spend more of the time chasing the conspiracy theories and trying to actually make a case in court. So, but they did find they've been looking really hard. They really, really, really want, they really, really, really want Tyler Robbins to be a part of some, like, larger group, like an Antifa cell or like an online OGBTQ support community or anything. And they can't find any of that. thus be quote one person familiar with the federal investigation said they quote thus far there was no evidence connecting the suspect with any left wing groups every indication so far as this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found kirk's ideology personally offensive this person continued so as we talk about motives we were i tried to be really careful to like basically preaching against certainty be like we don't think everyone's actually like they're so certain this guy is like left wing or whatever that they're ignoring all the possibility
Starting point is 00:26:49 because they don't understand, like, the right-wing internet. And it turns out that he, Tyler Robbins, appears to be just a normie who was hate, who was hateful about hate. And those text messages came out last Monday night, right? Um, where he texted his roommate slash, um, romantic interests. Are you, are you at all dubious about any, or find those text messages at all dubious or anything? Because like, Reddit did for sure.
Starting point is 00:27:12 I don't know if they moved on from that or not, but Red, right, right? No, they haven't. Yeah, Reddit was very much in a position of like, this is clearly bullshit. What do they think were fucking babies? This ain't real. What do you think about that? Two things. One, there were text messages were very weird because he did not talk like a Zoomer talks.
Starting point is 00:27:32 And he was very explicit in confessing to crimes in very specific ways. And it didn't sound like he was talking to somebody who was familiar with. That said, I get why people are looking at a little bit of a side eye. To try to fake this would be extremely ballsy. because you need, the messages need to be on both phones. There has to be metadata. They have to be in the cloud. And you'd have to have like seven different police and prosecutory, like the department's
Starting point is 00:28:02 agencies involved in this lie and cover up for reasons, which I cannot imagine because they kind of, like, from the administration standpoint, they absolved the love interest, which was bad for them, right? and also they could have faked them better so people would like he read like a civil war sort of my dearest roommate I have I'm texting to let you know that I have murdered Charlie Kirk
Starting point is 00:28:29 with a very specific rifle which I left in this location and it definitely belongs to me even though I wipe my fingerprints off it's very it's all like I get why I just don't think they need to do that and for what reason I can't possibly imagine the old like the people pushing this you were just saying you would think if they were going to do
Starting point is 00:28:47 that, they would fake it in a way that serves their interest even more explicitly or better than those seem to. Like you were saying, they want them to be in an actual Antifa cell or something. If you're going to fake all that, I mean, why not put that, put all that, put that shit in there, you know? If Cass
Starting point is 00:29:03 Mattel was going to write the dream text messages, it would be like, it would say hello, my trans lover. Please report to the commander of Antifa cell, Kamala Harris, that I have executed the mission she ordered me to do. Right. Yeah, right. Yeah. So, Like, I do want to say, like, this is one of those situations where, like, knowing stuff kind of makes you stupider.
Starting point is 00:29:23 For example, like, like, if you were somebody who barely watched the news, didn't know where Charlie Kirk was, or know what a Groyper was, or know anything, you just saw like, well, somebody had killed a MAGA guy. I bet it was somebody who didn't like MAGA. You were kind of way closer to the truth than me, right? Yeah. So I still think you described the guy's politics as like a, like, a guy otherwise didn't care about anything, but was by, like, he's like a bisexual, Barstool Barstool sports guy, right? So, but anyway, like, let me, so I said something on one show, maybe both shows we've done since the shooting, that he went as a Pepe meme for Halloween, right? That could be true, but maybe not, because what is true is he, for Halloween one year, he wore an Adidas track suit to backwards kangal cap and took a pose in a picture where he squatted, which also is in a Pepe, there's also a Pepe meme where Pepe wore a black track suit and a backwards kangal cap and squatted.
Starting point is 00:30:16 right yeah but here's the back the slavic squat is a separate meme they both could be referencing because there's a meme on the internet the slavic people like to squat in adidas track suits and backward tango gango gaps and takes pictures yeah it's uh fuck there's a funny saying that goes with the slavic squat it's like
Starting point is 00:30:35 heels on the ground comrade found heels in the air uh fuck i can't remember but it's basically you know you're a capitalist pig except it rhymes but it's it but anyway and that's always been funny because i can't i can't squat all the way that low down with my uh comfortably with my heels still on the ground so you know that's how you know i'm a true american but anyway yeah maybe the pepe meme itself was like you know
Starting point is 00:31:03 it'd be funny as if we made pepe doing the slavic squat right so yeah and then he's just also doing the slavic squat and then pepe are you know just doing the same thing yeah that's overlapping They independently arrived at the same bit. Right. Parallel thinking between him and Pepe, or Pepe's creator, rather. Right. So, but the right-way movement thinks that, like, they need the text messages to be fake because they want the, they want their roommate to be implicated in it.
Starting point is 00:31:31 Now, what just sounds like in public, how they think through the conspiracy theories? And they range from Trump killed, had Kirk killed to change the story from at the the Epstein files to Israel killed Charlie Kirk for kind of advocating for release of Epstein stuff and be a little bit skeptical of the war was being conducted. The mechanics of that, by the way, is that there was a, just like the Pagers, Charlie Kirk's microphone is what killed him. So anyway, this is, I'm about to read you a headline in a video made about Liz Wheeler, who has millions of followers on social media. And in 2018, she was profiled political magazine and called a Titan of Conservative Media. let me read this title this video um transleader of utah antifa group under fbi investigation tied to communist billionaire
Starting point is 00:32:21 transleader of utah and tifa group under fbbii investigation tied to communist billionaire that is like madlibs it's like a dmt rush to an angry old man's brain um yes none of that relates to anything as far as i can tell um but this is the main thing they seem to be focused on The official FBI, Cash Patel, tweeted out a long statement yesterday, and he quote part of it. We were meticulously investigating theories and questions, including the location for where the shot was taken, the possibility of accomplices, the test message, confession, and related conversations, discord chats, the angle of the shot and bullet impact, how the weapon was transported,
Starting point is 00:33:00 hand gestures observed as potential signals near Charlie at the time of the assassination, and visitors to the shooters residents in the hours and days leading up to September 10th. That's every internet theory they're investigating. Right. Speaking internet theory, just since that came up. up just now. I don't know if you know this, but I'm well read. So Drew, I don't know if any of this has changed or not, but you're not Drew B. Drew wouldn't like commit to anyone like, like, the actual impetus or motive behind this, but Drew last week was saying that it was very hard for him to
Starting point is 00:33:29 believe that, uh, that this guy like acted alone, right? He was like, he's like, I don't know why, I don't know who else did it. I don't know, I don't know all that. I'm just saying, I don't see any fucking way that this one guy did it himself because he was talking about the hand signals. He's talking about the whole gun location thing and him being leaving without it, but then it was there and all this other stuff that happened. And I didn't know if you and Drew had talked about that or if he put in the group chat or what you think about that. Because my whole reaction, my response to it in the, I was just like, okay, but, but like, but why, like who would have done it and why? And he had a few different theories that you've already covered, you know,
Starting point is 00:34:03 Israel fucking the Trump thing, whatever. But, uh, yeah. Yeah. Like what's it? The hand signal guys, just as an example. That's just a thing that just looks weird in context. Who the fuck knows? I mean, like, the old man that got tackled first, that guy in the crowd who turned back and looked and, like, celebrated the shot and all that stuff. You know, like... You think a professional hit squad would publicly celebrate the middle of trying to get her
Starting point is 00:34:31 away? No, I don't think, I don't think any of that. I'm asking, you know, what you'm saying, but Drew, Drew, who isn't here to say this, but I'm relating it to you second. man, he did say all these things. He does find them weird. Sometimes things just be weird. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Yeah. If nothing in sight had ever happened, none of that, no one would have even noticed any of those things, you know, and even if they did, they'd be like, that was weird,
Starting point is 00:34:55 but then you just move on. But because this crazy fucking thing happened. Right. If, uh, so, it, I can't remember,
Starting point is 00:35:07 I can never remember the name for it, but the psychological mechanism where we, where we, where we ascribe a higher meaning to events in retrospect depending upon their impacts like there are no conspiracy theories at all about the
Starting point is 00:35:19 John Hinckley shooting Reagan that I've ever seen just because Reagan didn't die right so what if the shooter had missed are we still doing conspiracy theories about it or no yeah just so you know Corey also separately is getting deeper and deeper
Starting point is 00:35:36 and deeper into the JFK stuff he's just now getting around to that but yeah But that too, he's like, he's just, he refuses to hear it, you know, he just will not hear it. He's like, no, you got to be an idiot to actually believe that it's. But it's like, but, you know, it's like you just like you just like with Kirk, even him being like deified the way that he is when it's like, where was he really at in the hierarchy of all these like right wing thought leaders and stuff before it happened? Obviously, he had a lot of cachet, but it's like, you know, where did he really fall? Was he like build a statue and give him a day of remembrance God level dude? dude, no, but this happened to him. And because this happened to him, that's, you know, amplified all that on the right and made them, like, really dig their heels in where all that is concerned. Yeah, I mean, you try to, like, quantify it.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Like, people's reactions to this are for, like, yeah, I mean, we don't, like, I don't say this is the criticism in him because he's objectively way more popular and successful than we are, but, like, he was the 38th most successful podcast on Apple. But, like, the reaction is, have you followed the Starbucks shit? No, I don't know anything about Starbuck, like related to the Charlie Kirk thing, Starbucks? Yeah, so apparently Kirk had like a signature Starbucks order. It's like one of their mint teas with two honeies or something. And so all across America, because everything we do is consumerism now, people in memory of him are going to Starbucks and ordering this drink and trying to get Starbucks people to write Charlie Kirk on the cup.
Starting point is 00:37:08 Some baristas thought it was weird and didn't do it. Some people didn't. But also they manufactured a controversy about trying to film baristas who, like, weren't enthusiastic enough about doing it. And one person, on their own cup, after they got this order, wrote loser on it. And we know this is, but they pretended that it's barista did it. And with violent the internet, that Starbucks got closed down for a few days because of a bomb and death threats.
Starting point is 00:37:34 Then Starbucks released a security video showing that the person that was not on the cup, the person must have done it themselves, but it doesn't matter. But, like, what is the point of all that? Like, why are you stunting on somebody's death to go viral with a fake thing trying to get baristas killed? What is the point of any of that? I just dude, attention and clout and virality and any of that. Like, any opportunity that you can take to try to, you know, accumulate any of that,
Starting point is 00:38:00 people are going to do it. Obviously, not everybody, but a huge chunk of people. Like, you know, even like the, like, it's even like, like um like fucking tucker carlson said about uh the like trump administration just like using kirk's death is a you know a mechanism to accomplish some of their own like political in means or goals or whatever like and you know dude is uh as far as i could tell none of his family outside of his wife was at the memorial service yesterday but r fk junior and tucker crawson spoke so like what is the i don't i don't i don't i don't i don't i don't
Starting point is 00:38:37 People agree if they want to agree, but that wasn't a memorial. Whatever it was is a political rally. So get by the text message for a second. Yeah, so half the right thinks the messages are fake because they don't implicate the roommate. Another half thing, the shooters of Patsy, because it was Israel that killed Charlie Kirk. I'm equality of Matt Walsh. I'm leaning very strongly towards the theory that this text exchange was scripted as a way to absolve the boy, he's his boyfriend. I don't know the gender of the person, so I'm going to say a love interest.
Starting point is 00:39:03 It's almost exactly what Walter White did at the end of Breaking Bad. So because he saw Breaking Bad, there must be more people involved in this conspiracy. And obviously the kid, the 22-year-old kid was a huge fan of a show that went off the air almost a decade ago and took it in... Oh, God, shut up. Is that fucking true? So, anyway. Yeah, it would have been, you know, like 2015, 2016, right? So, um, turning points USA, Kirk's organization, they had to put out a statement because one of the big conspiracy theories is that,
Starting point is 00:39:37 that a 30 out six is too powerful of a rifle for Charlie's neck to stop around. Right. So the proof that there was a conspiracy and the surface story doesn't make sense is that no one behind Charlie Kirk died. So Turning Point, USA spokesman Andrew Colvette put out a statement Saturday that even in death, Charlie Kirk may have saved lives. In a post on X, Colvette addressed the online discussion about the lack of an exit wound after Charlie Kirk was shot. He said he spoke directly with a surgeon who worked on Kirk at the hospital.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Colvitt said the doctor described Kirk's bone as, quote, so healthy and so impressive that he's like the man of steel. Well, I mean, not exactly like the man of steel, but... Right, but, yeah. But, uh, yeah, I... Okay. Well, it's funny. You know, they got to take any opportunity to lionize him further, but it's also like, I don't know. Wouldn't it, you know, come from an angle, hit right here, go down, you know, there's a lot of other...
Starting point is 00:40:34 Right, but there's no exit. Apparently there's no exit wound, but part of the... right part of the conspiracy theory is that they took the body without doing an autopsy, which is like, I think we all know the calls of death here. So, yeah, I just like,
Starting point is 00:40:47 I would recommend to, um, the family to decremate Charlie Kirk, because people are going to be digging up his bones and trying to sell them as relics. If you don't, because this is fucking, his, his super bones stop the powerful bullet.
Starting point is 00:41:02 Um, yeah, I don't know the truth of any of this. But I, I, respect to all the people are trying to make reality. so muddy that no one will ever know the truth about anything ever again yep all right what do we got here we got another uh honorable mention the FCC is the honorable mention for making me agree
Starting point is 00:41:20 with Ted Cruz even when he's doing a stupid impression he threatens explicitly we're going to cancel ABC's license we're going to take them off the air so ABC cannot broadcast it and and I got to say he threatens it and says we can do this the easy way and we can do this the hard way
Starting point is 00:41:41 and I gotta say that's right out a good fella No it's not cut it back right out of a mafioso coming in so oh god
Starting point is 00:41:50 fuck Brandon Carr the FCC director for making me agree with Ted Cruz so so Campbell's gonna be back on the air Wednesday
Starting point is 00:41:56 I don't know if you saw the announcement came out a little before he started taping which style I figured all this would end
Starting point is 00:42:02 is like there'd be like some sort of cooling off period and then he just quietly put him back on the air after what I don't want to do I want to talk about free speech for a second but I don't want to sound like this let me quote here from exchange over the weekend
Starting point is 00:42:16 on Chris Hayes' show Ben Smith who's editor from Semaphore quote what you saw with Mahmoud Khalil is that in some ways he is less vulnerable than Jimmy Kimmel the people are most vulnerable employees of big consolidated mega corporations Chris Hayes
Starting point is 00:42:29 yeah although he's about to get deported So the reason you worry about free speech in a case like Jimmy Kimmel's is not because it's the most important or the most vulnerable. It's because he's the least important and the least vulnerable. But protecting him, you protect everybody else, right? But as far as like the FCC immediately got a bunch of backlash for this. They also talked about like trying to ban hate speech, which like that does not hit for large chunks of the right for pretty obvious reasons. Charlie Kirk himself was an adamant opponent of hate speech laws. As IM2, to a lesser degree, I just don't feel as strongly about it because I don't really want to do a lot of hate speech.
Starting point is 00:43:07 So, but the sequence of events they were saying was not coercion. What Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz is quote there, Brandon Carr was word for word, legit. He went on somebody's podcast and said, we can do this easy way or the hard way, talking about you getting Jimmy Kimmel off there. Then Trump said ABC should be fined or loses licenses, quote, for their unfair coverage, talking about their news division. Then Trump accused ABC of hate speech, suggested a DOJ investigation. They were reporting that ABC execs were pissing themselves over fear of government retaliation. Then Neckstar, which carries ABC programming as affiliates, and it wouldn't carry Jim and Kimmel's show.
Starting point is 00:43:39 In other words, Sinclair's, they own a bunch of ABC affiliates. Nick Stel is waiting for FCC approval for an acquisition. And they need to be broadcast, they need licenses. And after all that, Jimmy Gibble got taken off the air and they tried to say, no, we didn't do any government coercion. Right. And they didn't just say that. All the right-wing people online and justifying it were like, this is just a this is what you guys been saying for years people on the left it's a private company
Starting point is 00:44:03 if i'm firing somebody because they have the right to do that you know because it's something they said like you guys love this shit and the whole time it's like well then no this is a little different because it's clearly you know government coercion or involvement like you said but everybody was just trying to act like you know the obvious truth wasn't obvious and also you said it's like it's important because this is the least important type of free speech or whatever and i know this is what you're saying or version what you're saying but it's like yeah and that's why it's kind of the most important because you start there like that's how you know Putin or any like strongman dictator like that you know we'll start with that type of thing jokes and satire and you know
Starting point is 00:44:40 criticism and they move up to regular journalists and then up and up and up from there you know but it's like it starts at a level like this that a lot of people are like who gives a fuck it's a late night talk show or whatever but it's like it does still matter or at least it should yeah also like Like, just to be fully transparent here, I have friends who work at Camel and I don't want them to lose their jobs. So that's, that's also part of this. But like the joke itself, like, as far as like it is a private company making itself a private decision, sure, if it was like a huge public backlash and outcry, and that's the reason they decided to cancel them is because they were going to lose money. I'd been like, well, you got me. But that's, they weren't losing money because they're losing viewers.
Starting point is 00:45:21 there are going to lose some like people that own like you know affiliates were going to lose money because the Trump administration wasn't going to let them do corporate consolidation which they shouldn't be allowed to do anyway which is part of this but like I will say this is stric hand effect on top of stric end effect like punishing Kimmel that joke specifically was extremely innocuous it turned like the way he phrased it basically making the same kind of like Assumptions that we do that Tyler Robinson was MAGA like they got to fucked by logistics here. He said, like, they're spending more time trying to make it make sure he's not one of them than they are morning or, like, trying to solve the case, right? Which is
Starting point is 00:46:00 true. But because the show aired Monday night, written Monday morning, taped Monday afternoon, the text message with the roommate came out after they had taped before they aired. See what I'm saying? Right. The sequence of events just fucking just really fucked him in the ass. That said, it was still extremely innocuous. And like, I hadn't heard that people were even mad about the joke until they took them off the air on Wednesday. So, ABC rocketed this into the fucking stratosphere by taking Jimmy off.
Starting point is 00:46:35 When I couldn't tell if there's any actually organic backlash, but the target of the joke was not Charlie Kirk. It was Trump for fake mourning. That's why they were mad. Trump is like, people trying to do all these high-mandic constitutional defenses of what the administration did or what ABC did. But then Trump will explicitly be like, Let me quote here from him.
Starting point is 00:46:53 The President of Air Force One, quote, when you have a network and you have evening shows, and all he do is hit Trump. It's all he do if you go back, I guess. They haven't had a conservative on in years or something. And you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that. So they keep trying to defend him.
Starting point is 00:47:06 He comes out and be like, well, they shouldn't be allowed to make fun of me. Right. And they're all like this. Let me quote here from a similar four piece about this. One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience for him was being booted out of the Gawker comments section way back in the day. Bro, just fucking go do anything else in your life and be mad about getting kicked out of an internet comment section
Starting point is 00:47:31 15 years ago. It's tough to describe what's happening here because it's backlash against like being made fun of or free speech. To me, it's all downstream with the internet. Like basically, when social media was vetted, all the country's elites were thrown in the mix with everybody else and shit poster forums.
Starting point is 00:47:48 They could read what everybody thought about them and all the jokes people made at their expense. They drove them insane. They've been trying to end the internet and democracy every fucking sense. Like, I'm sorry people don't like you, Elon Musk and Donald Trump to a lot of people. Like, but like, what do you want? Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:05 That is what it's, you're right. That is what it's about. Because when he, like, when Trump was just famous for being a rich daybag and then hosting the apprentice and stuff like that and the internet was still and it's like infancy and social media didn't even exist yet. It was just beginning to exist. It's like you say. thought he could like genuinely tell himself that he hits for everybody you know what I mean this shows a hit everybody likes me whatever it never really has to be faced with any kind of anything indicating the contrary and then and like Elon too he just want you know he thinks like
Starting point is 00:48:39 and he because he had that for a while even like in the early stages of the internet he was called the next Tony Stark and people bought in and he was idolized and all this shit and he and and then he would do he thought he could do anything have to cart blanche and then he started to do something that's kind of fucked up people would call it fucked up and he just couldn't accept that you know because he's like no you're supposed to just love everything i do and everything i say and everything that i am uh and he couldn't handle when people didn't it just pushed them further and further you know down the rabbit hole of bullshit and it's also like people they think they're like because it's the natural human instinct
Starting point is 00:49:13 is to love them if you don't if you don't love them you're just pretending therefore you must be getting paid as part of conspiracy, right? Let me just play this video from cable news panel the other day. C-NANN. Haunted protested the president might have been a racketeering enterprise, all right? I mean, a racketeering enterprise is what I used to use. The people who heckled Trump, you know, other people used to prosecute MS-13. The people who heckled Trump in Joe Stonecrab are part of a RICO conspiracy.
Starting point is 00:49:46 They go to hit with a racketeering charge. according to the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche. So hanging over all this, it's hard to get to the bottom of the stupid shit, they believe. But part of what Doge was doing, and I don't want to get into all the, like, the cathedral versus the bizarre stuff. But, like, when Colbert got canceled,
Starting point is 00:50:06 a huge part of, like, the Doge fans and Elon Musk fans were celebrating because they think what happened was they had to take Stephen Colbert off the air because his U.S. aid funding was cut. I mean, how, what, from, I mean, how is that supposed to work? They think everybody, everybody who's like left wing or woke or whatever is on the payroll of the cabal. Oh, okay, right, okay.
Starting point is 00:50:37 Stephen Colbert has a long track record of being the exact guy he is, who's a devout Catholic, who teaches Sunday school, who tries to practice volunteerism and low. for mankind. I'm not a fan of his show. I'm just telling you, like, that's what he's been his whole fucking life. His dad, his dad brother's died to try the plain accident. And James, of course, was like. So, but the, the censoriousness here, like, according to
Starting point is 00:51:01 inside higher ed magazine, more professors in the United States have been fired for controversial reviews in the past week than any other point in all of American history. We made it through the red scare and the lavender scare cleaner than we've made it through whatever you call this.
Starting point is 00:51:17 And how did fucking Bob Iger, who again, maybe this is all part of a strategy that didn't go well or maybe, I'm not clear whether they were always just planning to have like, had this be a benching of Kimmel or whether they wanted to test the water to see if they should cancel them.
Starting point is 00:51:33 But a whole bunch of Disney adults went absolutely insane. They had to do the math or whether they'd rather lose mega viewers who don't actually watch Kimmel or Disney adults who spend half their salary at the theme parks. Right.
Starting point is 00:51:45 Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like when it's sort of like when Target bowed to Trump and then whatever those we talked about before. It was like, you know, that's dumb for y'all. Like, Walmart should cater to them. You should not. Or, you know, and there's an obvious reason why. But, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:03 If we talked, we talked about, we talked about Target and tracker barrel a couple weeks ago, I still think the best strategy is just to lay still and do nothing. Yeah. And all this. For sure. Just, just try to let it's going to boil. They're going to, the whole political, cultural work. conversation now is like a room, but it just bounces off something and goes over the next thing randomly.
Starting point is 00:52:21 So, like, if you just wait for it to move on, you're fucking fine. But they can't do, but they have to react and make everything worse. And, like, how did Bob Iger, Disney CEO, go for me, like, a progressive corporate crusader? Like, less than 10 years ago. Like, he almost ran for president in 2020 as a Democrat. And now he's, like, a huge Trump lap dog. Like, how, like, it's hard to rap and, like, even, like, explain how cowardly a week our elites have gotten? K. Graham,
Starting point is 00:52:49 the publisher of the Washington Post, the woman who constructed Marlago, I think, is her summer home, published the second trance of the Pentagon papers in the middle of an IPO at the same time Richard Nixon was threatened to pull her FCC licenses. She fucking did that shit. Because fuck you.
Starting point is 00:53:05 I don't know whether it's because they had, like, this is a generation, it lived through like, they were in the middle of the Red Scare and the fighting communism while Vietnam War was going on. They lived through World War II and see what authoritarianism dusty countries. But why those elites
Starting point is 00:53:20 why are they so much braver than our current fucking, like, knee-bending crop? Do you have a theory? No, well, I mean, I don't, not exactly, but as far as just like Iger and a lot of them and a lot of the corporate elites and stuff and the people in charge of Target,
Starting point is 00:53:37 we talked about this when it happened, it just feels like there was a massive overreaction by a huge number of people to the results of the last election, meaning like, I think a lot of them thought it wouldn't go that way. and then when it did and it was like, oh, fuck, it was, you know, like bigger than we thought. A lot of people just interpret that as being like, you know, they threw in the towel. They gave up.
Starting point is 00:53:57 They were like, oh, I guess this is what America wants. Fucking, we better get with it or we're fucked, you know, we have to just, we have to completely abandon all this and change everything about it because, you know, we were wrong and this is proof of that. when it's still like, you know, whatever, to even get 50% of the popular vote, you know, or it's still like hugely divided, not to mention the fact that a solid third of the people of this country, you know, don't vote at all. But still, I think that that just freaked a lot of them out so much and they just overreacted to it is the best theory that I have for any of it, but I don't know. Well, if they just have a little bit of solidarity to hang together a little bit,
Starting point is 00:54:37 none of it would be any trouble. Like, there's like, like, it doesn't, anyway, they, These people are like, like, the weirdest deer I heard saying that like, well, it's weird that it's not censorship because they didn't go after South Park and they worry harsher on Trump than like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimball and way more popular. It's like, that's not why it's because Trump doesn't know what South Park is. Trump's like he's mad at late night TV hosts who most people don't watch anymore because he's 80 years old. He's the demographic of people who still pay attention to stuff like late night shows. so he's just like it's hard to be
Starting point is 00:55:14 it's weird to be governed by a guy who's so out of touch like if you really wanted to shut down criticism himself he's actually influencing people he probably should go after South Park because his because a lot of mega people watch South Park you know what I mean give it time we'll see what they do
Starting point is 00:55:29 with their next few episodes or whatever dude Paramount Paramount there was the episode recently where they made fun of Charlie Kirk before before he out show. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:39 And Charlie Kirk apparently had made it, like he was using the top art characters as avatar on very social media platforms. Yeah, I saw that. He liked it. After he got killed, Paramount tried to, like, took the episode down. And I get, I mean, in this moment, I get, I find that to be one of the least cowardly things of the carily things going on. But, like, turning points USA had to be like, can you get, please put it back up? Charlie, liked the episode.
Starting point is 00:56:04 We're doing censorship that even the people who are supposed to be offended. aren't for right um but the way this stuff gets counted do you do you remember when jimmy kimmel got political uh no i mean no i mean i know you know he got his like started the mainstream with the man the man show and doing black flag black faces carl malone and stuff all of which i was a huge fan of at the time by the way i was like 16 loved it um he got this job but i no i don't know no you tell me well he got one of us first remember he got this show because bill mar got for some big c and lower seat canceled for for saying stuff about 9-11 right yeah he called he said they were not cowards right yeah so so so so jimmy kimball live only exists because of because of
Starting point is 00:56:54 that free speech backlash so but like he gave a heart like a heartfelt speech because his he's he had a child born with a heart condition he just got talked about how like how scary it was and how he feels bad then not everybody can have as good of health care as his child us. And then that went viral. Ted Cruz felt the need to tell him to shut the fuck up. And that's how he ended up doing political content. It was just like he, that was saying, I wish everybody could go to the doctor like my child can. To me, he's not political, but they took it that way. And now we're here. That was, he never talked about politics before that, to my knowledge other than like the Jay Leno stuff
Starting point is 00:57:27 making fun of like current events vaguely. But so as far as whether or not, I, I can't figure out whether even they think this stuff is popular because like, so Sinclair, which had taking Jimmy Kimmel off before, like one of the things that forced ABC to suspend him, Sinclair is, you know, the company runs a bunch of local news broadcasts that like feel like they should be in place inside Robocop, you know, they were going to air a Charlie Kirk documentary special in honor of him on Friday night in place of Jimmy Kimmel. Instead, they pulled it, put it on YouTube, and instead aired an episode of Celebrity Family Feud. Because of it. I guess they thought that would get more ratings. And I don't know what the fuck anybody thinks anything is anymore. But yeah, I don't know. No, we never do. All right.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Well, I'm sorry, I wanted to mention, like the real story here. Like I mentioned earlier, the corporate consolidation, they're trying to censor Jimmy Kimmel to allow, should not be allowed anyway. After the 1996 Telecommunications Act, they were down to like, like in 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to five. Since then, airlines merged from 12 down to four today, four giants controlled 80% of meat processing. There's only a couple of big pharma companies. This, what we're living through is the government essentially failing the people and consumers and capitalism on behalf of cronyism.
Starting point is 00:58:59 And my real takeaway here is, and they shouldn't be censoring political content on TV. but they shouldn't be letting these big companies consolidate no matter who the fuck they fire and that's all this is just like we got us fighting over Charlie Kirk because of this chart what just happens the top 1% now owns more wealth
Starting point is 00:59:14 than the entire middle class that just we all knew they had more than the lower class and all they got more than like ID for us combined so yeah all these people owns all communications companies want us fight about Charlie Kirk and I don't know follow the money baby that's what it's always been about
Starting point is 00:59:28 ain't no war but a class war one of these days people will realize perhaps but we're out of time thanks for watching reminder go to traycrouter.com and check out my upcoming tour dates come and see me on the road ohio and virginia are next then a lot more after that you can also check out uh trash daddy my most recent special there's a link to that on traycrouter.com as well check out producer matt's audio exclusive on the podcast feed for this show called good skews and finally consider supporting the show on patreon weekly skews.com slash more or go on patreon and search my name five dollars a month get you access to two full link bonus episodes uh just this show but more of it either way, if you keep coming back on Tuesdays, we will too, and we'll see you next time. Love you, bye.

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