Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – A Rose City by Any Other Name

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

We’ve got to invade Portland because the president was confused by footage from 2020 and a lady named Cloud is mad about noise ordinances. RFK Jr. is pretending Tylenol causes autism which, you’ll be shocked, made his fellow anti-vaxxers even madder. No worry, we don’t need medicine anymore because we’re rolling out fake alien technology beds that will regrow our limbs and make us all live forever. Another normal week.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you're watching it is the final day of september september 30th 2025 september's got yeah it's got 30 days in it so yeah i got that right we're recording this though on september 29th 145 p.m on the left coast that's where we're coming to you from time and space this is weekly skews i'm trying that's mark what's up mark Uh, no, man, a couple things before we get to show. We're talking about Portland and some medicine stuff today. But, uh, so Ryan Walter, the school superintendent for Oklahoma finally resigned. We talked about him a few times recently.

Uh, he resigned, but he's, he resigned defied defiantly, Trey. Like, look at this photo, like, with his, the NBC news story about it. Like, he's like a, like, like, like an album cover for a fucking, like, uh, like, like, I don't, how would you describe that? Uh, it looks like it's. uh like a promotional still and he's the lead and like a netflix political thriller about a uh you know a like far right christian theocrat somewhere um who also kills people at night or whatever kind of tv thing you have to do to it but it's just it's very stylized in a you know I'm badass kind of way yeah so basically the the story here is he stole some money he manages

Oklahoma's schools down to be 50th in the country. He gets caught by fellow Republicans watching some sort of video and naked ladies on his office TV. He's forced to resign. And now he's like, I'm going to take on the TV. My next job on how our calling is to destroy the teachers union.

So it's over for you, Libs. It's like the weirdest watch this shit motherfucker I've ever seen him in my entire life. Like, it's like, how are you victorious in resignation? I don't understand these motherfuckers. And he should ever show me this. I mean,

it's not like he's been canceled or whatever. by the left or anything, right? It's his own fellow Republicans in Ruby Red Oklahoma who are, you know, forcing him out or whatever, so I don't know, you know, how he's supposed to be some kind of like, you know, standing

up in the face of woke adversity or whatever type front he's putting up. Doesn't make any sense. Yeah, trouble making an ambassador to Thailand, so where he can do sex crimes, whatever he wants. So one of the thing, I want to talk about a fun thing before we get to the show. I read this piece recently,

that it, it, I was gobs, I smacked my gob, tray. Headlines, Meet the San Francisco woman who charges $30,000 to name your baby. This woman named Taylor Humphrey, who the article describes as a TikTok entrepreneur. It says, with her blonde highlights, camera ready smile, well-lit videos, and knack for going viral, is, she's a model TikTok era entrepreneur. But to some of her critics, she's also the living embodiment of the Bay Area's tech-fueled excess and influence her catering to the Uber wealthy with a boutique business. business, it sounds like satire. It doesn't sound like it. Like, I'm putting this in my category.

We're going to start doing a regular recurring segment called, please tax the ever-living fucking shit out of us. These people are begging to be separated from their money, and this woman is just providing us with the valuable service. Like, I'm not, don't know a woman I make fun of this lady. She's fucking hustling. She's doing what you should do, which is separate rich suckers from the goddamn money. Knowing that it's tech bros were talking about and no one, you know,

that Elon Musk has named his kids, you know, robot noises and stuff like that. Then, like, you know, yeah, I kind of commend her. It seems like it was a, you know, a shrewd thing to have come up with because they don't know how to do human things. A lot of these people apparently, you know what I mean? Like Zuckerberg and stuff. And that they just seem that's a very, very human thing, choosing out the name for your child.

So it's obviously very alien to them. So I can see why they would rather just. just outsource that like they do everything else you know they got their yeah blood boy and their spiritual guru guy and whatever and also you know do a one-off uh baby nameer lady yeah you want to i want to know what the like i don't know i guess keep going do you know more about it are there different does she consult with people what is the what's the aim is the aim to you know it's difficult to tell because like like i understand of why she, none of it, nowhere on her website or none of the pieces about her. Can I find an example of a name she's given a kid? Right. See, that's what I'm wondering, too, is because it's also a big thing right now on, but I wouldn't think tech bros would have this problem. But of, you know, white people getting roasted for the names that they choose for their kids online. You know, there's a whole subreddit for it called tragedy, but tragedy is spelled like, tragedy. D-I-G-H at the end. Yeah, like so.

It was like those like Utah Mormon blonde mom names where, you know, like Katie had a friend who had a son, well, had a baby named Phoenix, but it was spelled F-H-O-N-I-X or whatever. And it's like if you got an F, you don't need the H is only there to turn the P into the F or whatever the fuck. But anyway, now that was a white trash version of it. But anyway, this is the whole fucking thing right now that people have noticed. So it's like, that's what I'm wondering is like, is this like, let me help you avoid. that but and because you know you could never be trusted to come up with James or whatever so yeah let me handle that for you so I wonder I hope he seems like let me quote here she seems like a sense of humor about

this like she says it's a little embarrassing when you get made fun of on the internet but at the same time I'm like well it is silly I come all with baby names for a living you're right so but so I'm not again I've no idea what kind of name she's coming up with so I don't know whether she's trying to like I know what kind of names you're talking about it's like Lachlin but it's a girl's name spelled like L-A-K-L-Y-N-N, like that shit. Yeah. But, like, so she says she's named, they help name more than 500 kids.

Her services, say, cost up to $30,000, but there are multiple price points. So, like, for, like, for $30,000, you get a, like, a, a, a baby's name, like, Tu-Wiliker Millionaire, Sunlight, but, like, for $100 your baby's name Fred, right? So, so our add-on features include a baby-name branding campaign, a genealogical investigation designed to ferret out old family baby names or even a think tank to discuss the top naming options a think tank i guess we can get hired onto this right so like but so an investigation to ferret out old family names you're paying $30,000 to not have to call your grandma right yeah and even a thing a baby name think tank is just like you know your sister and cousins or whatever run it by

them see what they think that's what most people do and generally they'll tell you what you think yeah but Both of my sons are family names, and one of them is an old family name, but it's just I just remembered it, you know, from hearing it when I was a kid, you know, and it's not like I was accidentally going to name one of them, Comer, which was the name of a, like, great-great-uncle I had, Comer, Crowder, you know, it's like, it's not like knowing that, I don't know, having someone find that would, anyway, I don't even know what I'm trying to say. It's very dumb. yeah i mean like they're pretty much like family names like i mean like i like i'm named after like my dad's uncle who didn't have any kids and his best friend from high school mark was his best man from high school he my dad was a junior originally wanted to name me the third William edward age you the third and which would have made you a tray yeah we could have we could have been the tray and tray podcast but like anyway like the point most of it was looking around and grab like because it doesn't really matter what you name

your fucking kids right like you don't want to give them something something you don't to name him like, like, you know, Satan, Adolf, Agee, right? But other than that, like, who gives a fuck? Well, I mean, I would think it generally doesn't matter, but that's what makes it ironic, this whole trend, what we were talking, you know, with, you know, the, you know, the, the tragedies out there or whatnot is that, like, their parents want them to, like, stand out, but that just, if I could just get somebody to fun of for their whole fucking life. Yeah. I kind of feel like our generation was two, like, our parents were, generation was, like, too uncreative would name.

So it's kind of like a back, like you go to class with like nine Jessica's and you'll have to use like Jessica P, Jessica H, Jessica C, it's literally, yeah. So Humphrey's notes on her official website, the only limits are quote your own imagination, but that's always the fucking case. You've always allowed to make up

whatever name you want. So this, the piece I read tries to trade like these baby name convention trends. Like it was when Chris Martin and Gwinnett Paltrow named her kid Apple, it was like fucking crazy. Yeah. But now, God, do you, how old is Apple Martin now?

Do you know? Can that kid, like, vote and drink beer and stuff? Oh, yeah, I'm sure. It's got to be 20s, right? Oh, my God. Yeah. I thought about that in a long time. That's tough. But it's like an arms race for weird celebrity names because the people,

it happens as the influencer story of the kids crazy shit. Like, I'm going to consider Elon Musk an influencer for the purposes of this because he kind of is. And, like, so his recent names from like celebrity influencers. Poetry Lucia. Lockett Romance. Slim Easy, Rumble Honey, and one in which you had two kids in Malibu Barbie and Aquaman. I don't hate either Slim Easy or Rumble Honey, depending on the type of kid that they're going for. Yeah.

Rumble Crowder is a cool fucking name. I got to all give them that. We got to hear the last names. So, but yeah, so this is depressing as fuck, man. I can't figure out what people. I mean, I'm not a parent, so I'm just watching the shit from out of the outside. but, like, I can't really figure out what people think of their kids are anymore. But, like, last year, a babycenter.com survey found that nearly 10% of mothers wish they named their child something else.

I'm going to start a consultancy for rich people where I give people real fucking problems. Like, you give me $10,000, I'll install fire ants in your front yard. Yeah. This other aspect of this where a lot of this stuff is just trying to be, like, like, I read a piece a couple weeks ago where, like, people are using AI, like, their AI things. therapist friends to like in spousal arguments to like settle beefs be like I have my my my the AI says I'm right about this you're actually talking to you very condescendingly like like no I'm sure that that would go over great with my wife for one I could tell you that yeah yeah so like these people are mediating interpersonal disputes we're like like so like

Humphrey says that like a lot of what she's doing is deep brokering deep rudely disagreements between spouses over Zoom calls and she she feels more like a like a marital therapist which is obviously the case. Like, she gives an example, like, one woman hired her because she found herself in the same situation that kind of ruined her friend's marriage, where the couple became so deadlocked in the name issue, they couldn't complete the birth certificates. They were stuck at the hospital and spent $300,000 in medical bills because they could not name their baby. Yeah, I actually, no shit was going to bring this up and be like, I wonder if this is more a just like, like, uh, or like she said, an almost like mediation type thing where it's like,

Because me and Katie didn't have this problem, but I know that sometimes, you know, sometimes new parents get, like, deadlocked on a baby name or whatever, and it gets, you know, can get ugly if you don't watch it. And I was just like, if you're just rich and you're dealing with that, is that, is that really what this chick is? It's like, let's hire a third party to, so, you know, it's, what's the word I'm looking for? Impartial, you know, it's ostensibly impartial. Is that what this lady is doing? because these, like, super rich and privileged to powerful people there are not, you know, are not going to just concede defeat themselves, you know? But I, yeah, I mean, I said, it's all very stupid either way and very rich people problems.

It's just, you know. Yeah, I mean, like, the biggest fight my wife and I had were planning her wedding was she gave me one task. She wanted to play, like, I'm not sorry, like, I wasn't like that I'd try to be absentee husband or whatever, would it. But it's like, she gave me one task and was to pick. like a song for us to leave the ceremony there, right? I picked beginner's luck by, by Eels, the Eels, like, which is like a happy song about a guy finding his true love

after missing a bunch, right? I thought I was like, she just didn't like the song and came up with a bunch of bullshit reasons to not do it. And I had, like, a responsible adult. I went and did DMT and meditated and came back fine with it. Right. So, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And that way, yeah, and then just let her, and then you just walk out to, you know, her song. or whatever and that's fine she was going to do the whole time no matter what I pick yeah yeah it's like yeah sometimes you just got to let the other person win but can't have that like anyway my dad I'm named Mark because my dad

let my mom win I guess so there you go all right well before we continue any further I would like to make my announcements my weekly announcements if y'all don't mind listen if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person go to traycrouter.com and check out my upcoming tour dates I just got back from Ohio

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Or there isn't at all. With that in mind, let's start with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Today's D.D. Other Libertarians not on board with the Committee to Reinvade Portland. This is Rand Paul, Libertarian extraordinaire, purported. Are you comfortable with pushing the limits here of some of these uses of either potentially troops or federal agents? I think both the people in Portland and across America have to decide. about this. You know, we had

anarchy in Portland for like six months or a year. The city didn't even control large swaths of the city. What? All right. So, he's reverencing 2020, which I want to point out is five fucking years ago. Right.

To the degree that anything you said is remotely true, it was true. It wasn't, but what he's talking about was five years ago. All of us were talking about it's five years ago because Trump saw some old footage on television, which we'll get to in a second. So what's going on in Portland currently is a daily, small to medium-sized protest outside of an ice substation in the city. Okay.

The siege consists of one auxiliary ice office that normally has at most a dozen like weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway. This is literally what the actual siege of the auxiliary ice building looks like if you got this video, Matt. You might want to play it on mute because it's got a song embedded on it. All right. you got half dozen people taunting cops in riot gear with donuts hung on failing on fishing poles classic classic gag all right and they're wearing like how do you not feel extremely silly wearing $25,000 in riot gear to go shoe away some hippies with donuts on fishing poles are like are they mad at being taunted or do you want the

fucking donuts right yeah yeah i know that's not you know that's a that's actually the first I'd seen of the siege. I knew that that's what they'd say was there's an ice facility under siege in Portland. And it just made me think about actually on Trash Daddy, which I mentioned just a few short minutes ago. There was a bit on there about Portland and about how like the dynamic of the way people on the right apparently talk about and also perceive it to be and how contradictory it is, meaning like it's both Portland is. both, and I'm not going to just do the bit, obviously, but Portland is both, like, in these people's heads, it's just nothing but, like, you know, limp-risted, emaciated baristas, you know what I mean?

Fucking whining about pronouns and dyeing their hair and shit. Uh, but also, like, fucking, you know, Delta Force black ops, like ninja queers fucking who, you know, who are, who are, like the, you know, it, It's Fallujah for Socialists up there. Like, it's terrifying. They have to deploy the military to protect these poor, embattled ice agents from, you know, the second barista commando squad or whatnot that they had in Portland.

And how just, it just, the shit just doesn't make any sense. And even during 2020, when there was, there was, well, there was a name for it, wasn't there.

Like, there was a part, it was, it was called something, I feel like, there's something zone or, you think about, As, but that was in Seattle.

Oh, okay. That was in Seattle. Well, either way, whatever. In Portland, I know it was just like in LA when we had the ice protest earlier this summer where it was like contained to a very small, you know, few blocks or whatever of the actual and then the rest of it was completely fine. And that's even when like the height of whatever, the so-called anarchy was going on all those years ago. And I go to Portland every single year to do stand-up, and it's, I mean,

Lovely, never had, never seen any kind of unrest, civil or otherwise, completely unrest free. Portland has been in my anecdotal experience. There's like a meta thing hanging over here with like the 1950s-esque high trust society, these people pine for, does exist, but it exists in like Brooklyn and Portland, right? Like last time I was in Portland, I was woke up the morning by an adult marching band. practicing at the park next door and I went walking around the city and they were having a community potluck where a bunch of strangers came and brought food

to share with each other and I was sitting here thinking like y'all gonna get poisoned right because like they did it was fine they do it they did it like every fucking week I was reading like this guy his blog project is he takes a bike every day

I guess the Portland has like 100 something around more than 100 coffee shops so every day he rides his bike to a different coffee shop try their coffee and he had to take a break from his blog to be like there actually is nothing violent going on here what the fuck is everybody talking about so everybody's trying to figure out what the hell Trump is talking about because he's deploying the National Guard I guess so he might be relent relenting on that he called a already federal last 200 National Guard members of Portland but so this government state of Oregon filed a lawsuit trying to figure out what

he's talking about and I did a control left for the word Fox and I found on September 5th 2025 Fox News aired a report on Portland ICE protests included misleading clips from Portland protests in 2020. Shortly thereafter, Trump appeared to reference events in the same misleading Fox News report when speaking to the press. So he saw old footage from 2020 on Fox News, thought it was today,

and we're sending the military into Portland. Here's him talking in an interview with NBC News. Trump questioned perception in Portland before proving military plan. Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? He fucking knows it. I can't.

I can't with this fucking reality. Sometimes it's just too goddamn. on the nose, dude. Like, what a quote. You talk about a quote for the fucking ages right there. And the idea that it is genuine, apparently, you know, that he's actually asking that. Like, wait a minute. Is some of this not, like, real or true?

Like, is this, am I being told a, you know, a skewed version of these events or something? Because that would be weird. Apropos of nothing, Fred Trump, Trump's father. had dementia the last few years before he died. And how they handled him was they would drive him to a fake office every day with a fake secretary and have him signed fake papers. You talked about that on here, right? Didn't we cover that?

I don't remember. Are you sure? I mean, I know I heard it from somewhere and I don't know where else I would have got it. If not you're talking about them. He went to fake work every day in a fake office and they just let him think he was doing stuff. I did pitch that back after Trump lost the election in 2020.

They should just do that at Moralago. Let him think he's so president. Yeah, you did. You're telling me that you. pitch that for him without knowing that his dad literally did that, that's even more hilarious. Because that's definitely what I was thinking of was just you saying that's what we should do.

I didn't realize that you did not know then that his dad had literally done that. Yeah, I was pitching bits, but like, I guess the Trump kids did really did that shit. Which I mean, like, fine, you got money, you got, you're going to hire a fake secretary. Your dad likes doing it. Seems like a fucking good plan. As long as you're not

the fucking, but you know, what he wasn't doing was actually running the company. So, so as a local store in Portland, when this sort of this protest has been controversial locally, not for reasons you might think.

It's basically, so police department, assistant police chief had the testifying court about this reason. We'll get to why in a second. But the mayor, Keith Wilson,

recently calling the Department to Homeland Security to investigate federal officers use of force against nonviolent protesters have been captured in video, which we're familiar with.

And then the cop who's testifying basically said this guy in the name of assistant chief Craig Robinson testified in court that the feds were the ones instigating a lot of the classes between the officers and the

protesters between ICE and ICE and the people in South Portland. Is that words where they are instigating ruckus, which is very cool? We need more cops to complain about people instigating ruckuses. I don't know. You know, you don't want to get

shot for any reason by the cops, but I feel like you particularly don't want to get shot over instigating a ruckus as a cop turned, you know, determined that, you know, this cop seems, I guess, all right. I'm just saying most of them probably aren't, so. Well, ICE is making their jobs fucking impossible. Like, it's like, you just want to get through your day no matter what your job is. And here you've got a bunch of extra calls because these fucking people are like being bad at

their jobs in the way that's riling up the public that's leading to like fucking noise complaints and shit, if not violent clashes. The cops have basically stopped policing these protests because they're so annoyed with ICE, it seems like. But the thing is, the protests are way less than they were. Like, they peaked back in June and July and been flareups depending on what's going on the news, but they're basically at a manageable level of a few people every day. But the reason, I do want to mention the reason Dobson was testifying in court is because of a lawsuit followed by a woman who lives in the neighborhood who's very upset that the city police are enforcing the city's noise ordinance, right?

Her name, I swear to God, and I'm making this up, is Cloud Elven Grail. that is perhaps the most Portland name that I've yet encountered yeah she in the crystals and shit I imagine she's she's a poet who writes poems about metaphysics among other topics she's also like a citizen of civil rights and stuff in most cases but not when she's trying to fucking sleep

so but anyway we got a woman if you wonder like how hippies hippies all you get reading about the back to land movement or whatever like you end up with like you read about like what happened in the Humboldt over the Of course, the Humboldt California, but the growth of the weed trade and all that stuff. And there was a bunch of people to move there to be back to the land hippies who were upset that the governments regulating their pesticides because they want to be able to spray it on their weed plants. Right.

Right. So Cloud Evan Grail is essentially once the federal, once the police and now the feds to come in and be her Homeowners Association to keep the hippies from making noise while she's trying to sleep. All right. Right. Now, I want to make fun of her except I watched a video of her. She seems to have been driven legitimately insane. I guess it's easy to say when you're not having when you're not being kept up at all hours of the night by you know these newfangled kids these days hippies out here doing you know coming up with pranks for the next day or whatever they've got going on fucking you know riding their penny farthings around and tooting their little horns and shit I don't know yeah like I saw it like she was like arguing with a protester had a megaphone who's like wearing like a chorus huge of like bag of the dude has like pink hair is wearing a leather harness and uh and she's like fuck you

um and so i get like i think about a lot of this depends when he's not about pauses it's about how heavier or light of a sleeper you are mm-hmm i'm a very heavy sleeper i'm generally happy in my day to day my wife can't sleep her shit she's fucking always anxious i feel like that yeah um as for ice they responded to dobson's comments talking about ice instigating ruckus and a deputy director said Assistant Chief Craig Dobson's comments are disgusting Our officers are not instigating ruckus All this

Argue and debate over ruckus And who is who is and who is not instigating it up there in Portland So We've talked before about how Antifa's fake It didn't realize how fake Like it's not that there aren't like left-wing protesters We don't, oh, they're even, like, you know, occasionally people throw rocks and shit. Apparently, some of them even shoot it on a substation, if you believe they're reporting on that.

So, like, but I didn't realize that, like, it was made up on purpose. I thought it was, like, a mean that it caught on, like, conspiracy theorizing. But, like, this writer name, this guy by the name of Jim Stewardsen who, like, an expert on conspiracy theories, went back and looked like Google trends and social media activities starting since 2017. Because basically, the word Antifa was, didn't appear on the internet. internet before 2017, when a few MAGA influencers started using it. There's the Antifa's use over time over the internet, okay?

Yeah. The one exception was back in 2007. There was a group called Rose City Antifa, which was started in Portland, where a bunch of people got together to go protest like a Nazi music festival, right? Yeah. What happened? Yeah.

I just, yeah, I mean, that track, the 2017, that tracks with my own internal timeline of it. Because the way I, in my head, the way I remember it sort of happening is early on in the first Trump administration, all these protests, or like that fucking, like that Charlottesville thing and all these stuff like that was happening. And there were whatever, the proud boy types and the racist and all that shit. And then there was some people who would show up and be against that. And that got reported in the media as being Antifa. Like, we just found this, like, they treated it like it was a thing.

that was forming right then as a response to that. And they're calling themselves Antifa or whatever. Which no one's ever called themselves Antifa outside of that run by 2007 group, right. But it just spiraled from there, and it just became another one of the buzzwords that they use for things that they don't like and whatever ever since. But I didn't know that if you're going to say that it was like very pointedly fabricated by a very specific person or entity out of nowhere. I mean, no, I didn't know that. So, we've talked about Microchip before. Do you remember Microchip?

Microchip? He's an all right influencer who ended up in jail for some election fraud shit. So he, you brought up Charlottesville, Unite the Right Rally. It was explicitly in response to United the Right rally. Microchip posted a petition to the White House to label Antifa a terror group. And he said, he was interviewed by Politico to talk about why he did it. he was very honest about his motives in fabricating the existence of this mythical Antifa organization. Quote,

it was to bring our broken right side together after Charlottesville, he said, and prop up Antifa as a punching bag. So the narrative changed from I hate myself because we have neo-Nazis on our side to I really hate Antifa. Let's get along and tackle the terrorists. Good call by that guy. It's amazing how they can just say their fucking plans out loud and still do them and they work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, the thing is, that's a,

I said it's a good call by him, but that's like a version of one of their most commonly utilized strategies, I feel like, of the whole, like, creative boogeyman to focus all the, you know, the disparate types of right wingers hatred onto and thus in doing so bringing them together or whatever. So it's like obviously trans people most recently in that type of thing. But it's like it's kind of a tried and true strat for them, really. so it makes sense that he would have done that with Antifa. It's a useful propaganda thing, but like a lot of people were in the only joke at the beginning and started believing their own propagandists, they made up a ghost to be afraid of

and then got afraid of their own ghosts. Again, I would argue that's essentially what they did that with trans people too. I know that trans people actually exist, but you know what I mean. Like it's the same thing, in my opinion. They didn't even know they were out there that anything was happening until one day they just decided to make them the, you know, the new monster hiding under the sweet Christian beds or whatnot.

And then they've just blown it completely out of proportion to say the least in the intervening near decade since. And if you're wondering, like, like what they act, like what their actual, if there is an actual legitimate, quote unquote, beef with the people of Portland is or the protesters, it's not because like they're hampering ice efforts or whatever. It's like, like, the ice just spent about $5 million on a fortification project on that, like, like, that ice facility. And the city of Portland, because of all the controversy locally, is issued a notice of violation last week, alleging that ice breached his conditional land use agreement by repeatedly holding detainees longer than 12 hours

and by boarding up its first floor windows. Theoretically, this would start a legal fight where the city could force the ice facility to close. That's what this is about. It's about politics and power, about money, and that they've already spent, they want to keep this station open. It's not about some people with fishing poles with donuts.

So there's also a part of this where, like, people can say everything is a distraction related to Epstein. I get why, because everything is very fucking weird right now. Like this lady named Adelita Grahalva won a special election in Arizona, I think, for Congress. And she's the 218th vote to sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files. And they're going to shut down the government instead of swearing her in. All right. they might fucking disband the government rather than release Epstein files at this point

which is like I bro it's like everybody knows Trump's a sex criminal I don't fucking understand why you'd even bother lying about it anymore it's like it's already baked in but Trump also this week came out

and said they're going to release the files related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance which is such a funny fucking let me let me let me but the background here is even funnier to this because this is even stupid to try to distract me. I've seen stuff. But yeah, he says

President Donald Trump announced Friday. He has ordered the declassification of public release of all government records about ABA or Amelia Earhart. I'm not even sure if people even know what the fucking conspiracy theories are. I don't. I was about to say I didn't know. No, I didn't know that she was on the list

of things that they're entry, you know, JFK and fucking whatever, Bigfoot and various under things. I didn't know that Amelia Earhart. was a part of all that. So she disappeared in 1937 when Japan was invading Manchuria and there was like, we're in the lead up to war, to World War II. So they're like depending on, they're different slices of the conspiracy theory, but like either

Japan, the United States killed or captured a millionaire heart because he wanted like to create a pretext to do whatever having to do with lead up to the war. Like so all these conspiracy theories we live in now, none of them are fucking nothing's new under this time. This is always the way it goes. But for context purposes, I don't think this, this is because, I'll use the independent data points. You can draw your conclusions.

A guy named Tim Mellon, a billionaire. He's the Carnegie Mellon Institute, those Mellons, right? He's, like, made of his life's mission to find Amelia Earhart because he's one of these conspiracy theorists. He thinks he can find her plane and her body and stuff. He also donated $50 million to Trump's campaign last year. Here is Tom Mellon in a photo, if you have those, from a documentary he made, where that's him sitting next to the jumpsuit worn by Hillary Swank in the film Amelia.

So, yeah, he's just really obsessed with this shit. At one point, Melon got really excited because he thought he saw her A Millionaire Hart's head in a cell phone bag in an underwater video. He once thought he'd found Amelia Earhart's toilet paper from her missing plane underwater 100 years later. Yeah. I don't think that's how any of those things work, especially the toilet paper part. But also, you're talking about rich people having more money and sense and too much time on their hands and not enough real problems or whatever. I mean, I get, you know, God forbid them, man. a hobby but like Jesus Christ

I mean that's just wild silly shit especially from these like old money families like that like that feels like a joke character you'd make up for a movie or something you know this just the eccentric youngest fail son from this ancient fucking American

dynasty or whatever and it's like oh what's he do he just you know he's been looking for Amelia Earhart for the past 50 years or whatever he's like I was wearing aviator shit and the old time me stuff. Anyway, go ahead.

Talk about a sucker board. I've got to figure a way to get money out of these people. So back in 2015, Mellon sued a guy for a million dollars because he'd paid the guy a million dollars to find Amelia Earhart and her plane and shit. And he became convinced the guy had found Amelia Earhart, but was refusing to tell him to get more money out of him. Yeah. You did get scammed, bro, but the scam is not what you think of.

as a scam is, no one's going to fucking find Emilia Earhart. The ocean's big. Right. So, but the idea, obviously they found Bigfoot. They just didn't tell me is the funniest fucking lawsuit of all time. Anyway, he got thrown out of court. Oh, fuck. We live in the, all our lives are dictated by the insane whims of the world's dumbest wealthy people.

Mm-hmm. So, yeah, a bunch of people work for the government to have to dig up and redact Ameliahart files. I do think, just in the interest of fairness, I guess, you said a man ago, it's like, there's nothing new under the sun. I feel like that's also kind of always been the case in most places or most civilizations, meaning like regular people's lives are just dictated on the whims of lunatics with power or whatever. You know, like fucking Roman emperors used to make people go and like sword fight the ocean because he was mad at Poseidon and shit like that or whatever. But anyway, so rich, rich powerful people have never hit.

And it's two things about what you're saying. saying, yeah, like nothing new or the son, rich people. We've all been subject to the whims of insane rich people. But we've allowed people to get richer than anyone's ever fucking been before. So their whims are way more impactful. And two, we somehow forgot the whole point of democracy is to insulate the rest of us from the insane whims of rich, wealthy people. It's supposed to ameliorate it. And we just fucking forgot to do that part of it. Mm-hmm. All right. And we got an honorable mention for Daily Dumbass. And it is Tylenol for having the side effect of making. can people talk like this? Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. I don't know. Don't take it.

All right. Yeah. Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. Yep. Also, there's that separate clip where he tries to pronounce the word of Cedaminophen or whatever. We got to go,

drop it in, Matt. We want to go ahead and pull it, Matt, if you have it. Immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that they use of I said, well, let's see how we say that. I said, I'm menifin. Got it. Perfect. Is it wild to have an anti-tylonal press conference? It feels like a fucking fever dream?

Yeah. Trubonzo said there's a rumor that there's no Tylenol in Cuba and there is no autism. But there is a Cidaminophen in Cuba and they do have autism. That's just, I'm never sure where the fuck he got that. while you think Cuba, which has a health care system of better outcomes than ours does, would not have Tylenol? So, yeah, they basically came out last week. I'm sure you guys have seen the news by now that, like, they had this big press conference

where they announced a small correlation between pregnant moms taking Tylenol and autism. But the dad is based upon a study of two and a half million children. There was a small association between in-utero Tylenol use and subsequent autism. But the association disappears entirely when you introduce sibling control. implying that it's spurious, right? So like, nothing. Yeah, it's one study that, yeah, that other, you know, academic professionals and scientists in the field and stuff have made criticisms of

in terms of its methodology and all that shit, and it's the only one. So, like, the consensus is like, no, that seems like bullshit, but they have this one thing that looks scientifically and official that they're hanging the whole thing on. But for me, it's weird because it's Tylenol specifically, which is like, I mean, is there a more well-known and generally well-trusted brand of readily available medication in this entire country for the past 75 years? Do you know what I mean? Like, Tylenol is like the goat, arguably. Tylenol's in every fucking medicine cabinet. Pretty much every American has been very familiar with Tylenol for, again, since fucking just right after the goddamn war, it just seems like you would automatically think to yourself when claims were made that that stuff is actually, you know, bad or is poisoning people or poison babies or whatever that you would think you would, that you'd be dubious to that immediately because you're like, well, I don't know.

I mean, I and everyone I've ever known has taken Tylenol and seems fine. So that's real damage here is like no one's ever going to trust these institutions ever again because they're getting on TV in line to everybody's face every fucking day, even the people that sort of half believe them, which we'll get to. But yeah, you say like the consensus is like this isn't what this. This isn't true about town. The people that wrote the study, they based this press conference on came on like, that's not what the study says. So yeah. And by the way, if we're doing correlation as causation, uh, autism diagnoses have gone up every year that RFK Jr. has been alive. Have we considered the possibility that RFK Jr. has been alive. Have we considered the possibility that RFK. juniors causing autism. It's also extremely funny that Trump had to deal with Elon Musk for just a couple months and immediately was like, we have to destroy autism. Oh, God. So basically what happened. So this press conference, Dr. Oz immediately went out and walked it back.

Basically, the point of this, forget the theater of Trump screaming out Tylenol and RFK for like an hour or two. They're going to put a small addendum to the end of the warning label. It's already on every Tylenol. bottle. That's basically what this is. It's basically just like, talk, if you're pregnant, consult your doctor before you take Tylenol, which Ta-Nol already recommended anyway. Because every drug puts that on its warning label, so you don't sue it. Right. But what happened here is, we talked about it back when it happened. Back in the spring, autism

I mean, autism promised. The hell of a 40th slip there. RFK Jr. promised they would get to the bottom of what causes autism by September. It is now the end of September. So, uh, so Trump obviously is curious. It's just funny that they're like, oh, fuck, that deadline's coming up. And we still haven't solved autism. What are we going to do? They got their, you know, their fucking wingnut think tank room. They're all in.

And then it's always like, Tylenol, you know, like, fuck it, go with that. We'll go with that. Just do that. They just rummaged through soda. The show I worked forward with this guy, we keep pitching this, this segment to do for a story about how, when we get to the bottom of whether or not chocolate's good for you or chocolate's bad for you, right? Because every week, there's a new study out saying the chocolate's good for you or chocolate's bad for you. And we never actually did the story on it, but we did figure out what's happening.

There's these like pop science factories where they do these massive like surveys of people, ask them what they, like, how they live their lives? How much chocolate do you eat? How much do you drink every week? Do you smoke? Do you do this? Do you play video games? Yada, yada, yada. and they look for correlations between two things

and put them out as press releases and they're paid for by like Big Chocolate. Right. But no scientist would trust the data. It's just to get in the newspaper. Mm-hmm. Right. So, RFK Jr.

essentially based entire guidance to the federal government on a similar kind of fucking study. So Trump, of course, is interested in autism. I'm not going to draw any conclusions here, but he got really convinced that vaccines caused autism right about the time Barron was born. um and also all this stuff is an effort to blame it on the mother because it can't be

what they have found is guys having kids past the age of 50 does correlate with the higher instance of autism because they're because their jizz is fucking crusty right mark can't be right yeah i can't be his old sperm women that are doing it's one way or another right so i'm confident that uh the christian god and jesus would not make anything be the man's fault uh in this scenario You know, so you're going to have to rethink that a little hypothesis, I think. So he's not this September deadline to solve autism, right? He can't, but so he barely thought he'd be to come on and say vaccines, it's vaccines, right? But if the vaccine association was, quote, unquote, if he insisted that was proven,

he'd be obligated to change the vaccine schedule, but he does not want to take NMR off the schedule, not at least yet because it's very unpopular thing to do. And he just got yelled out of a bunch of senators who'd seen the polling data two weeks ago, right? So he can't do that. So he does this instead to own the libs a little bit, but an insurious way I want to forget about it because it doesn't matter. And the only effect is a small update to the warning label. In which case, I can't tell.

I'm not going to tell anybody how to act, how to stop being crazy, but the pregnant women who are all popping, like, Tylenol on TikTok as an act of protest. Don't be doing that either. Don't take drugs as an act of protest. I mean, like, recreational drugs. Yeah, if you want to go down to the sit-in and pop some molly or something,

go for it. but like especially while nine months pregnant you heard it here uh everybody we hear it skews mark specifically endorses pop and molly while nine months pregnant so um yeah we're not doctors peck it with a grain of salt and just when i thought this news cycle uh could not get any stupider so a bunch of to own the lives i guess a bunch of mega people found it's like a eight-year-old tweet from talanah where they said they said they recommend that that uh people pregnant women not take I don't know. But again, drugs say all kinds of stuff. I'm not going to go back to doing 90 stand-up bits, but the whole warning label thing

has been well-trodden fucking material. Like, my favorite one now is the one that tells your tape's going to rot off if you take Yeah, no shit, man. It's wild that they keep coming up with new and worse ones examples of that. The side effects may include, yeah, you're right, the fatal taint rot. That's not the medical term for it, but that's pretty much what they say. I was like, God, damn. I think I just live with the diabetes or whatever.

I can't remember what the drug is. I feel like it was some kind of diabetic thing, but I could be wrong. But either way, I don't want fatal taint rot. I can tell you that much. So, yeah,

so Tadol was telling people to consult a doctor if they're pregnant before taking Tijuana, which is always their position. But again, very important here, this is a very important part of this. They were not telling women not to take Tijuana because it would make their kids come out of fucking autistic.

Mm-hmm. That was not it. But if everyone acting like they're dunking on Tadol, it's fucking idiot. So, anyway, RFK quote tweeted with no caption needed, like it proved his case. But so, like, I'm not sure how we got to this, but like tweets from marketing interns are not legally binding medical advice.

Consult your doctor first is what they say about everything. And like everybody stopped being so insane and stupid, including our Secretary of Health and Human Services. Callie Means, who works for RFK at the HHS, came on and said, the cancer rate for the Amish is 40% lower than the general population. Why? This is after somebody at the White House press conference said they saw an Amish person on a podcast who'd never heard of ADHD.

That was Theo Vaughn's podcast. Somebody watched Theo Vaughn's podcast and asked the White House, a question about it at the White House. Right. To be clear here, the Amish have low rates of tobacco use, low rates of alcohol use,

they engage in regular physical activity, they're protected from the sun because they wear their stupid goddamn hats, and they have fewer sex partners than the average person. so that lifestyle is available to you motherfuckers if you want to go live like that if you want to not drink smoke and wear a big hat and not have any sex and go outside and walk around you can do that right but you don't get to like drink do zins uh sleep with every woman you can before you're before you're 40 drive your truck to go a block and then wonder why the omish are healthier than you yeah sure yeah for sure and then the whole the the namish guy saying we don't happen we never heard ADHD in our community or whatever

happened is also like okay well he probably never heard of a PlayStation VR either or whatever it doesn't mean that that don't exist like you know like that the whole thing with I made I made a video about this last week when it's all first happened and I was talking about the autism thing at the time but just the idea that like and it that all these, especially older people, are like, I never used to hear about this. And now it's just fucking everywhere, all over the place all the time. And y'all are really going to act like that's not, there's not some kind of problem there or whatever. And it's like, that just don't mean any, we just didn't know, you know, that's how working, that's how figuring shit out works, you know.

It's like, as society evolves, advancements are made, you figure shit out. And then once you know what things look like, you're better at identifying it. And it becomes seemingly more prevalent, but it's like Isaac Newton was probably seemingly autistic as all get out, right? But they wouldn't have a word for that for another 500 years or whatever. So it doesn't, you know, get recorded that way. They didn't have any cancer in the middle ages, except, of course they did. They just called it like having witches in your blood or whatever they called it. But, you know, but like it was all there.

So it's just, I just don't understand what's so hard to understand about that for these people. Yeah, there's also a part of it where Dr. Oz said the FDA is recommending Lecovorin, Lecovorin, I don't know how to say it. Yeah, and he's got some kind of financial interest in that or something. He used to own a stake in a company that sold a version of Lecoverin.

Again, I don't know. It's a company called, I don't think he owns it anymore, but yeah, the companies call iHeherb, which is the perfect name for one of these fucking companies because you know what's healthy? Herbs. Plus, we've added the computer. IHERB.

Here's the punch line of all this RFK Jr. shit. You know what was really mad at him about the Tylenol Press conference? The fucking anti-vaxxers. Yeah, it sort of steals their thunder, doesn't it? Because, like, this is supposed to be their game, right?

Right. Yeah, this is their whole thing. That's like, no, we, our thing causes autism. This, like, takes shine away from having vaccines. The Children's Health Defense, which is the organization that Kennedy founded,

put out a statement of this was not caused by Tylenol and all fucking cats. Here's another group, anti-vaccine group called Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice, wrote in a Facebook post, We didn't wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer. So this administration is hidden for nobody. We'll continue until morale improves. So the good news about the destruction of health and human services is we no longer need medicine. Let's watch this fake AI news story, Trump posted, about med beds.

And we'll talk about what medbeds are afterwards. Breaking now. President Donald J. Trump has announced a historic new health care system, the launch of America's first medbed hospitals and a national medbed card for every citizen. Every American will soon receive their own medbed card. With it, you'll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation. I can go back. Okay. Why would he, why would he do that? There's no context at all. There's no caption even. And it's a completely fake AI video that features him so he presumably knows that he's like, wait, I didn't do that. Or did I? Did I do that?

Are we doing that? That seems cool. Maybe we are doing that. I'm glad I had that idea. That was really smart of me. They're going to love this. Or what the fuck is it like? So the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report rooted in a conspiracy theory that features an AI generated version of himself promoting a policy that doesn't exist about a technology that doesn't exist where he speaks in an interview that he didn't do with his daughter-in-law at a job she doesn't have.

right yeah so is it good that i can't decide the president's about to start a health care pyramid scheme or if you just saw an ai generated video of himself and thought it was real right i know that's what i'm saying yeah like what the hell is that about like so med that's just like the sci-fi trope right put them in the med med bay or med not med bay but med pod or you know you get back you get attacked by zanamore if you get drug back to the fucking right spaceship and they put you in a in like a glass coffin and lasers fuck with your muscles for a little bit and then you're better when you get out of it yeah i did always think those were cool you know yeah it'd be really cool if they really did exist the problem is they don't and like they it's a it's a

qanon thing it's been around for this conspiracy theory about med beds has been around for years basically the qanon people uh canont types believe that med beds are in all healing possibly alien technology that the cabal is keeping from us it's like a it's a medical instrument that does everything from reversing aging to regrowing missing limbs. Basically, the idea is that the elite already have access to the secret technology and are keeping it from themselves and that famously dead people like JFK are still alive and a medbed somewhere.

So this imaginary Fox report has Trump supposedly giving real Americans access to the elite's magic product. So the dark part here is like in the real world, there have been people who refuse medical treatment because they believe that one day soon Trump or Q or Nassara, whoever, will release med-back technology to restore their health in minutes. And now these people are going to be encouraged even more now because the president of the United States is telling them to not take their medicine because of permanent cure is coming that will regrow their legs and feet and make them young again. I mean, has anybody like asked him about that in a press conference or anything about that post? Like, has he been asked like, hey, what was up with that obviously fake and rooted in complete fantasy post that you shared the other day?

As of our recording, no, but he just posted this, posted it yesterday on Sunday, today's Monday. So I don't know. He did a press conference with B.B. Dan Yahoo, where he announced a peace plan that isn't going to work. And they refused to take questions, presumably, because he doesn't be asked about his peace plan, but also stuff like this and invading Portland. And all about, I got to mention, there's a court hearing tonight about the Portland thing. He might already have a restraining order by the time you guys see this episode. Get back to MedBeds for a second. one of big

promoters of the Medbet's conspiracy theory is our old returning champion the queen of Canada Romana Dudulo remember her Of course Who could forget

Yeah By the way She and seven followers got arrested three weeks ago About Mounties For having a single gun At the abandoned elementary school

They use their compound And I just gotta say I want to be in a Canadian cult Their branched of idioms seem very chill They just calmly Arrested by Mounties For having one gun

Yeah one gun Among seven people It's the exact opposite it for our, you know, Dames Day cults or whatever in this country. Yeah. Every man, woman, and child needs to have at least seven guns or you can't be allowed on the,

uh, the compound. So there are a couple sad and funny ironies here. Like, this ridiculous conspiracy theory is caused by a broken healthcare system and a legitimate anger of powerful people have access to better treatments than we all do. That is real. Right.

Um, it's just about being able to go to the hospital and have a doctor actually pay attention to you. It's not about a secret device in the, basement of the Pentagon. But also, like, there are, like, MRI vaccines that exist where a cure for cancer is really close, and there's going to be a whole subset of people who are not going to take it because

of the conspiracy theory is like this. Like, the future is here. It doesn't look like the one you imagined. Mm-hmm. Which is odd because I feel like if you'd been, like, paying attention, you probably should have imagined that if a cure for cancer would ever did show up. It might look like a form of vaccine because of how vaccines have solved so many other devastating medical problems since, you know, their inception in the past

couple years or so. I mean, or a couple years, a couple centuries or so, you know, go back to inoculation, but like smallpox, polio and all that stuff. But we say it all the time, people just, people forget quickly. And yeah, gratitude is fleeting amongst humans. the humankind, evidently. Yeah, so conspiracy theory sleuths try to get the bottom of where he found this or how he saw it. Because let's be, like, I don't think the video wasn't re-truthed. It was embedded. I don't think an 80-year-old man knows how to do that.

So that means somebody even crazed on the hammer works on staff, did it form, or he asked somebody, or somebody thought it was a good political idea to do, which I don't like that, they deleted it. So obviously somebody thought twice about it. But the earliest place people could find this AI video posts is and now deleted Instagram. page that uses the common fake name for fake doctors and romance scams, Dr. David Richard Simon. So basically, if your mom was messaging with a guy on Instagram called Dr. David Richard Simon, shut down her account, somebody's trying to steal her money.

But here's an example of another AI bedbed video on a random true social account, if you got this, Matt. Mr. President, you've just announced the medbed program. What can you tell us about these new hospitals? These are the most advanced medical facilities in the world, built here in the United States, equipped with medbed technology and stuff are the finest doctors anywhere. So you guys know

just what kind of says floating around out there. It's very possible that Trump just surfed across the other video in a similar way to the way people suffer across this one. But all these people are like offshore Nassara cryptogrifters. If you don't know what Nassara is, do you know?

No, I do not. It's a fake law that doesn't exist called the National Economic Security and Reformation Act that was supposedly passed under either Clinton or George George W. Bush, like that was supposedly to eliminate everyone's debt and credit rating and give everybody free money or something. So it's like another one of these magical, all your problems are solved. It's going to kick in any moment. That rich people or that the powers that be are keeping from you? Well, it's supposed to just happen. It's supposed to already be on track to

happen. But no, but they don't, like, it's like, you don't need to pay your bills this month because Nassar is going to kick you in, right? And so people take out loans and do stuff because they think they're about to get free money. And the way to scam people is like, you're like, If we get to, whenever the internet goes out in India, a bunch of American scams stop happening. So, like, a lot of American culture wars shit is just griff shit that's happening from other people overseas and, like, Bangladesh, Moldova, India, whatever. And, like, it's just so funny that so many people are profiting off the downfall of America and none of them are us. But, like, I'm just thinking, so when Trump reposts or retruths a thing about Nassara or crypto or, or, or. fucking these medbeds.

Is he conning his followers or these people conning his followers through him or his followers conning each other? I'm losing track of fucking who's scamming. Who? It's just cons all the way down baby. Everybody's conned and being conned all

at the same time. Over on that side of the fence anyway, not over here. We're all smart and shrewing on top of things. Stop giving $5 to text messages from the Democratic Party, everybody. It's not really then. you're not doing anything yeah yeah all right well thank you guys for watching that'll do it for another edition of a week of skews real quick remind you go to traycrouter.com and check out them up

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