Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Boer’d to Death

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

A new(ish) internet cult announces itself with a bombing in Palm Springs, leaving the FBI to google “what is internet.” A senator fantasizes about cruising in truckstop men’s rooms with oil-rich... sheiks. And America’s “whites preferable” refugee program goes into effect, which leads somehow to Elon making Jar-Jar Binks racist by accident. I know I know, we’ll (try to) make it make sense. Join us.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 uh watching this here it's may 20th 20 25 uh me and mark recording this on monday may 9th at 2 p m on the left coast i'm tray that's mark this is skews mark you must be feeling pretty good the dallas mavericks You got a real shot at, like, having a good white boy basketball player. That must be exciting for you as a big Mavericks fan. Yeah, although all the conspiracy theories saying it's rigged, like, like, as if badass basketball playing white boys aren't drawn to the Dallas Mavericks, like fucking homing pigeons.
Starting point is 00:00:45 Absolutely. Yeah, so they got the first overall pick, Marks Mavericks, which was like statistically 1.6% or something like that numerically. But they got it, and the number one overall pick is going to be this big white boy from Duke. named Cooper Flag Dude, I'm glad you brought this up because the conspiracy theories Like, it's one of those
Starting point is 00:01:03 Conspiracy theories that everybody seems to believe And it's like a low stakes one So it's more fun to talk about Right, you know it's completely It's obviously fucking moronic For reasons we'll get into But like the Like in this current environment
Starting point is 00:01:13 Just Monday today The White House press briefing They started doing this thing Where they put in mega psycho YouTubers To ask the first question And the first question Carolyn Levitt was from a guy Works for Zero Hedge.
Starting point is 00:01:27 You asked him about the Clinton body count stuff. Cash Patel and Dan Bugino, you know, the head of the FBI, his chief deputy, went on Fox News, a long interview. Remember we made fun of Cash last week, testifying at Congress that Epstein killed himself? Yeah. And so they tried to clean that up. He brought a second Q&N on guy to sit next to him to be like, oh, actually Epstein did kill himself. Also, Bonino said, we've looked at the files related to the Trump assassination attempts. It doesn't appear to be anything else more there, yada, yada, yada.
Starting point is 00:01:56 So, of course, Dan Bogino is getting a bunch of death threats as a deep state trader, deep state trader right now. Yeah. I mean, I mentioned a version of this last time we were together when you were talking about this, but it's like it does at least hit for me that, you know, if you court, you know, if you lay down with lunatic dogs, you will still at least finally get some fleas, you know, that they court like hardcore QAnon type. So, so extensively. And I know that Q&OND conspiracy theories expanded tremendously and went way more mainstream. But still, if you court this. particular kind of controversy and then you become the deep state the fact that at least some chunk of your you know of your demographic or whatever will we'll hold that against you and we'll be like well wait i thought we had an understanding i thought you were going to you know you were going to uncover all this and of course all these motherfuckers never had any intention of uncovering anything ever you know when they got in there and then they get in there and they read all the truth
Starting point is 00:02:51 and they're like oh there's not really much to uncover but but now they got a you you know, they got to take the heat from all their Looney Tunes base members that they have. Like, I get why people are suspicious of Epstein's death or whatever, but also, like, people in federal prison kill themselves all the time. Like, there's a guy, there are a bunch of guys who set themselves on fire in a state prison to protest prison conditions last year. Nobody cared. Well, you know what, my thing, because again, we talked about this before with that, too, any time it's come up. But my thing with that always was, I always thought people focus way too much
Starting point is 00:03:24 got way too hardcore on the whole Epstein didn't kill himself thing because my position on it was always that as weird as it sounds, it kind of doesn't even really matter that much because even if he did kill himself, it was still like a colossal lapse
Starting point is 00:03:40 and fucking, you know, security protocols and all that shit. Like he should not have been able to kill himself even if he wanted to. So it's like you don't even have to go so far as like oh, they murdered him like to say that, uh, you know, it was some bullshit how that all went down like regardless even if he did kill himself they're not they have
Starting point is 00:03:59 suicide watching a guy like that should never have been able to kill himself even if he wanted to so it's like you know right but even if you think he's a captured spy what's a captured spy supposed to do right exactly no yeah they sign i'm sorry that's what i'm saying i could totally buy that a guy like that in that world that there's a protocol and an understanding it's like you said you know if you get caught, you fucking, you take yourself out, you know. And the Trump the Trump assassinations have happened on live television. We all saw the guy miss and the guy's got his
Starting point is 00:04:30 head canoed and they got a guy in Butler in Pennsylvania. But like, it's a, the NBA draft thing is because you can, people will watch like the draft is the conspiracy. It's happened. It's a business conspiracy to, to, uh, crush labor. It happens on television. People
Starting point is 00:04:46 watch a show that like title, watch the conspiracy hosted by the conspiracy hosts and be like, hmm, it must be a deeper conspiracy here, some corruption going on, I'm going to get to the bottom of it. It's like, we're watching a TV show where a bunch of kids have, or incoming talent into the NBA, have no choice into where they're going, decided by ping pong balls. Their salaries are artificially held low to deflate labor costs, and you're watching that and being like, actually the real conspiracy is to put the highest paid guys on the
Starting point is 00:05:11 coast, when it's actually the opposite. They're trying to send guys to Cleveland and Oklahoma City. We're watching a final four in a playoffs where that includes Indiana Pasters and the Oklahoma City Thunder to the smallest market teams. And the Lakers lost in the first round in five And people still think the conspiracy is to fund Like the conspiracy of the The conspiracy of the here is that like the
Starting point is 00:05:28 The league made the Mavericks send Luca Donchons to LA Because of one of the league's marquee franchises And exchange for guaranteeing them the number one pick Right Which no one told the Maverg because they were still trying to make the playoffs To save the fucking dignity of their stupid executives And like it's like There's no amount of reality
Starting point is 00:05:46 They can just prove this shit to the point where LeBron James is tweeting conspiracy theories even though he plays for the Lakers even though LeBron has been on podcast where he says he thinks the draft he was in was rigged to send him to fucking Cleveland. Right, yeah. Why would the league rig a draft to send him to Cleveland
Starting point is 00:06:00 also send him the broad to Los Angeles and it doesn't make any sort of sense. It's just you would believe in a conspiracy no matter what the point is. The real conspiracy here is that the league to sign a massive media rights deal like for billions of dollars.
Starting point is 00:06:14 51% goes to the players, 49% goes to the owners. That's negotiated collective bargaining agreement that also decides how the draft happens, right? And so the NBA Players Association negotiates the CBA is made up of current players. That's important to know here. The current players make up the who votes on the CBA.
Starting point is 00:06:35 They have voted to fuck their future, you know, colleagues to hold their salaries down to keep the competition for jobs down in order to make sure they get a bigger chunk of that 50%. I tell that it always goes. I mean, that's what happened. Now, look, as an NFL fan, I think. I always felt that they needed a rookie wage scale because it was like Jamarcus Russell got paid $40 million guaranteed 20 years ago to be the worst draft pick up all time. But like the people that voted on it to make that happen, they screwed over the rookies because it's all people that are not rookies voting on it. And they don't want a rookie getting paid more than they're getting paid because of pride and just every they think they haven't earned it and all that typical old head shit.
Starting point is 00:07:15 There's also a salary cut. There's a limit about of money to go around. Right. Yeah. So if the rookies are getting more, they're getting less. And they're like, fuck them young motherfuckers. So, yeah. So, I mean, you can call it good business or a good good way to mail and manage talent.
Starting point is 00:07:27 You don't want to overpay for young, underdeveloped talent. You don't know if it's going to work out. I get all that. But it's also not, imagine type saying, well, this guy has a first time CEO. We need to CEO of Wade scale. It would never fly anywhere else. Right. And, like, anyway, the American, the American brain longs to uncover mysteries on the
Starting point is 00:07:44 internet in a way that, like, I don't really understand what the point of any of it is. But anyway. Wild times. Wild times, indeed. We will continue discussing said times in just a minute, but first, I need to take a little diversion to make some announcements, as I always do. Thank you guys for watching. If you want to watch me, do stand-up comedy live and in person. Go to Trey Crowder.com and check out my upcoming tour dates.
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Starting point is 00:09:00 And some additional, a new thing happening in the ske universe here, you guys may have heard about it already, over on the audio feed. So if you are exclusively a watcher of this show, get on a podcast app, go where the audio feed is, and subscribe to the audio feed of the show because exclusively they're on the audio feed at night. Nowhere else, producer Matt, the man of mystery himself, has a new series called Good Skews,
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Starting point is 00:09:44 Now, on to the show today, Mark, Mark, what do you got for us today? We talk about the incoming, the South African refugees that have arrived and how they caused Elon to destroy Twitter's AI for whatever reason. Before that, we're going to talk about the terror attack in Palm Springs and the wrap up of Trump's big trip to the Middle East. Nice, sounds well, action-packed as always, and we'll go ahead and get started with the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's DD, terrorism experts who don't know the real culprit in the Palm Springs bombing was Palm Springs for being so freaking gay. It was really strange. We know this. The clinic's mission is to help build families, and those families include members of the LGBT community, a group that has historically faced a level of backlash.
Starting point is 00:10:38 There are violent extremists out there who have very strong views about IVF, which is something that they do at that clinic and also about surrogacy, which is something they do at that clinic. And that particular reproductive clinic is in the Palm Springs area. Palm Springs is kind of known as a center for LGBTQ residents.
Starting point is 00:11:03 I think a little less than half the population by some estimate is LGBTQ. So this guy, this guy gets the number one position of the world's not like the not even close award like it's fucking like
Starting point is 00:11:19 I don't understand why you bring a terrorism expert in this guy it's not you really it's like you work for the Marines or whatever I know it's a weekend it's hard of you guess
Starting point is 00:11:25 but it's like can you come on just spitball about this guy's motives the guy's like yep well it is I mean it was kind of while I mean you know
Starting point is 00:11:32 help me out here because this this happened right when I was about to start my aforementioned shows in Vegas the the club in Vegas had the TV in the green room set to MSNBC
Starting point is 00:11:42 which I thought like normally they got it on a basketball game or something but i guess because i was there they were like well we're just like thanks a lot appreciate that but anyway uh no it was a good club though but they really did have the tv in the green room set on msnbc and because of that me and caleb signing uh it was opening for me this weekend we were sitting there and we saw this breaking news about a bombing and palm springs we both live in uh in l a i've been to palm spring so we started looking it up and immediately online it was weird just from the jump, the way that it was being talked about, but I mean, that's nothing new.
Starting point is 00:12:18 But so it was a fertility clinic, right? So a lot of people were saying, you know how like, oh, sometimes, you know, crazy pro-life terrorist bomb an abortion clinic. This is the opposite of this. So this is like pro-choice terrorist bombing a pro-life clinic. It's not a pro-life clinic. I know that. I know all that.
Starting point is 00:12:39 I'm not saying that I think that. I'm saying I see people on Twitter saying that immediately. And I see other people saying it's like this is obviously an attack on the concept of IVF in general because they don't want people to have IVF. And I was like, okay, but ain't y'all been the ones that have been trying to end IVF recently? And it's like, so is it just, you know, a crazy person? Okay. Sort of yes. We'll get to it a second.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Like, breaking up those guys' motives. This guy's motives don't fit into a left rate. Like it's basically a new. And that's my point is that's clearly that's bothering people. I don't like it when that doesn't, you know, when it doesn't work like that. It's my old thing where nobody thinks the Internet's real. So when one of these, like, internet-based, rationalist cults pops up. Everyone doesn't, it scrambles everyone's brains.
Starting point is 00:13:24 They don't know what to make of it, okay? But if you get, we'll get that in a second. But, like, so if you guys don't know what we're talking about, Saturday morning, a parked SUV exploded outside of a place called the American Reproductive Centers, it's a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, killed the driver. So it killed the bomber. Wounded at, like, four bystanders, blast out the front of the building. And, yeah, I'm musily confused.
Starting point is 00:13:43 one with this by saying it was a act of terrorism aimed at in vitro fertilization, which is one of the reasons everyone was so confused. It's not really, Mr. FBI agent, but sort of. If this guy was carrying out his motives, he could have just bombed like an empty OBGYN's office or like the concept of baby showers. It would have made the same ideological statement. But going back to what you were saying, like, if I, in your head, if you're thinking about a fanatic who's opposed to IVF, like it's like right wing pro-life people historically.
Starting point is 00:14:13 Right, that's what I was saying. They've been making it illegal in certain states and shit under the guys of pro-lifery and stuff. Right. Because when you do IVF, if you believe life begins a conception, you fertilize the bunch of embryos, you destroy or donate the ones that don't implant, right?
Starting point is 00:14:31 So you're filling babies. But whatever you were going to imagine, it's not this. Although you're right, like I saw Mago people on Twitter saying who don't understand anything about conservative ideology, they just love Trump, saying, well, Trump loves in vitro fertilization, so obviously this is the left winger who hates babies because they're pro-choice. People are not pro-choice because they hate
Starting point is 00:14:49 babies. I don't fucking understand how people got so goddamn stupid. And to be fair to these people, this guy in his manifesto and his writings and materials did talk about he was opposed to pro-lifers, but he does not mean people that are opposed to abortion. He means people that like being alive. Right. He's like a nihilist, like a burn it all down fuck everybody type person he would he is to us but he would not consider
Starting point is 00:15:16 himself but remember we talked about the Zizians the internet the weird internet called yeah yeah the rationalist called there was a broad brand artificial intelligence that like well they they wanted they one of them got shot dead by a war patrol like when they killed a board patrol
Starting point is 00:15:31 in Vermont a couple months ago so he's closer to them than he is like anything mainstream American and mainstream American politics right so it's kind of like a, what he's part of is a, it's kind of an anti-natalist movement. It's like a new, like a new, like a kind of new atheism, utilitarianism, like sort of like related to effective altruism, Roku's baselisk, all this dumb bullshit that's like floating around Silicon Valley and the inso internet, but like I repeat myself. Um, like, okay, it's sort of a kind of idea that the, that some super artificial intelligence will eventually take over the planet. And since we're the ones who will create this artificial intelligence, we need to all stop breathing. We need to all stop breathing. reading and die off. Right.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Yeah. Is the basilisk, is that the idea that like it'll, whenever, that AI you just said when it comes up, it'll inevitably punish anyone that stood in its way or opposed it or something like that? Right.
Starting point is 00:16:26 Right. So me, you fucked, you mega fucked, you mega fucked by the Basley. So the utilitarian move here is sort of like, what's the, Pascal's wager with religion?
Starting point is 00:16:38 Where like, even if you don't believe, it's a good, debt to believe in something. Right. Because if you're wrong, if an atheist is wrong, you go to hell and that sucks. But if you believe in God and you're wrong, then okay, whatever, nothing matters. So you might as well believe in him.
Starting point is 00:16:51 I don't do that. But yeah, that's Pascal's Wager, yeah. So, yeah, Roku's baseless is like if the AI is going to come alive and kill everyone who didn't help create it, and you should help create it so the AI doesn't kill you. Right. So I understand why the cops, like who were mostly normy conservatives other than the Q&N departments that are in Tennessee and shit. So anti-Nagalism could be construed as like a kind of like extreme environmentalism.
Starting point is 00:17:15 There's a degree of that. Like the killer, his name was a 20, he's a 25-year-old guy by the name of Guy Edward Barkus who built the bomb out of chemicals in his car. He was kind of extreme vegan. He didn't believe the humans, like they should eat any sort of animal. I didn't see saying you should kill people over it, but he's very, very, very strongly. But his basic ideology is he's opposed to the existence of consciousness and life. he said quote I'm angry I exist I didn't consent to exist I'm paraphrasing it from his suicide yeah I mean well who among us you know I mean I don't you know you shouldn't blow shit up
Starting point is 00:17:52 over that but right I think everybody probably felt that at some point I didn't consent to exist it's like a thing you scream at your mom when she takes away your Xbox right yeah yeah it's not like it's not like a serious philosophy but like okay so he's part of a movement it calls itself ephilism. I'm not sure if I pronounce that right because I'm never going to say it again in my life outside of this segment. Hopefully not. But evil is life backwards. So ephalism is like the opposite of life or whatever. The origin of this movement, go back to 2006, a South African philosopher by the name of David Benatar. He published a book called Better Never to have been, arguing that, quote, existence itself is a harm because the absence of pain is
Starting point is 00:18:35 always good while the absence of pleasure matters only to someone forced to miss it. Right. That would have been a real bar to me when I was like 15, listen to Nirvana. Absolutely, bro. Yeah. But you're supposed to grow out of this kind of
Starting point is 00:18:49 Right. Yeah. Like I had a professor in college in my like philosophy of religions class. He's like he had grown up Muslim, but I think he converted to boo. I don't know his actual religion didn't matter. But whenever anyone would complain about the homework of the exams, he would just go, life is suffering.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Right. It's like, it's like, Yeah, life is suffering, bud. You're not the first person to think of it. I don't know what the fuck. The rest of it is just go grab a beer and hang out with their buds. It's like not, it's not super deep. So, yeah, Benatar sort of popularized the term antinatalism.
Starting point is 00:19:19 And then took a guy named Gary Mosher, who's a YouTuber best known as Immanham. He coined the term ephalism to insist that every sentient organism is a factory for pain and ought to be snuffed out. See, this is with the word you haven't used yet, in my opinion, for the, This is, these guys are just such fucking edge lords, you know, or edge lords, cringe lords, shit lords are just all these different types of lords put together. But it's like you said that, yeah, they just sound like teenage boys. It's like it's just such a, I don't know, fucking like trench Cody ethos to have or whatever, you know. I don't even think life should be allowed to exist fucking.
Starting point is 00:19:59 Right. It's just like all, like all life is suffering. We wish we should end all life. It's like, yeah, like, buddy, we. We all listen to the doors as well. I don't know what the fuck you know. It's like, so Mosher, by the way, the guy, that YouTuber, his tirades inspired Adam Lanzah, you know, the Sandy Hook shooter. He'd watched a lot of YouTube videos riffing on itphilism.
Starting point is 00:20:22 And I, Mosher eventually came up with his own, I know Lanzah created like an ideology called Ulaivism, which is the opposite against life was against the concept of values. So it's basically we're talking about as a whole generation of dudes being lost because they don't have a big brother or like a cousin or a younger uncle to tell him to go outside and quit being such fucking nerds. And the kid, the bomber here, I mean, brinkled his name, a barkus. He only managed to kill himself. He didn't even manage to destroy any embryos in the fucking IVF facility. So he didn't even save anyone from the prison of existence. Right. He just killed himself.
Starting point is 00:21:01 so yeah that that now you understand what this guy did why and while the FBI is not going to be able to understand it because they just like they look at stuff like this and goes like well this doesn't make it that's to me move it on yeah it is kind of it is kind of like uh first of all very fitting and losery you know that he managed to only only erase his own existence you know and I'm sure that hits for him but it's like not the best batting average considering his stated philosophy or anything it's pretty pretty well it worked out for him pretty big Unless Pascal's wager was true. In which case, he's fucked. That would be a huge bummer for this guy. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is the Qataris for not knowing how a glory hole works until I showed them. What we're watching now, Senator? Well, first, quickly, Qatar.
Starting point is 00:21:56 I trust Qatar like I trust a rest of, up bathroom. If they want to be friendly, I want to be friendly back with those guys. I was just in God, but tie up your camera. Come on, in terms of Iran, what you do is what you believe and everything else is just cottage cheese. That's true in life and in foreign policy. You can't just talk tough. You've got to be tough. Reflections. So he mixed like 10 metaphors there. I didn't make sense of it. But, like, so I'd like, we played Kennedy's real voice before. He does not talk like this.
Starting point is 00:22:33 He only talks like this on the floor of the Senate giving speeches and like, like, and I mean, he goes to us cable news hits. So he's trying to pretend to be a downhome country congressman, even though he went to, like, Oxford. And he, like, he reaches for like down home corn porn wisdom. And he ends up to sound like the gay porn version of streetcar named Desire. Yeah. What was that rest stop bathroom thing about? Like, like, what's the papal wisdom version of that supposed to be? I don't know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:22:58 Well, he should have paused. He said, I trust him like a trusted truck stop bathroom, which means not at all. But he says, if there'd be nice to me, I'll be nice to them. Oh, so they were not connected. Okay. Oh, okay. Because obviously, you know, right, right, yes. That's why I pulled the clip.
Starting point is 00:23:14 It sounded funny as fuck because it sounds like, he's offering to blow the guitaries at a restaurant at a truck stop bathroom. Yeah. So, so like, okay, so Trump got back in the Middle East where he, like, he went to UA, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, uh, mellas. with some people from Syria. Notably, he did not visit Israel. And, like, so important plane update in the 747 the Qataris gave them.
Starting point is 00:23:36 Apparently the Qataris have been trying to sell this plane for years, and they could not find anybody to buy it. They just basically gave it to Trump to, like, to write down the value of it and get rid of it and make America play the maintenance costs of it. They apparently bought a fleet of these 747s and barely flew them because they realized they were fucking useless. So it's kind of a white elephant situation, right? Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:23:57 to wait off a gift to the U.S. and Donald Trump from the Qataris, which is funny. Yeah, so they've had four of them. They've decommissioned two. They gave one of them away to Erdogan, Turkey's Dictator. And, like, this is all so fucking stupid. Can you imagine? Like, they might not have even bothered bugging it because they just want to get rid of it
Starting point is 00:24:18 because they don't want to pay to gas it up anymore. Right. It's funny. Some chic. It's just like, I'm so sick of looking at all these goddamn private. at 747s. We spent half a billion dollars on it. Will somebody not rid me of this troublesome jet?
Starting point is 00:24:34 I know just the guy to take that shit. Of all the motivations to get off oil, these guys who I'd not only have enough money to fund different terror movements, but also to walk around with enough cash to just like impulse buy four 747s, like weed by gum at a cash register. Like, can we get wind energy just to fucking stop the, the vulgarity of all this dumb bullshit. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Another, another like... Then I will hold on real quick because I'm not sure if I've ever told you this. I probably have. Sorry if I have, but you just made me think of this. And I know this is not exactly what you were saying. But when I was in high school in ag class, we took a field trip to a MTS, to Middle Tennessee State University where they had a guy down there running an alternative energy, alternative fuel source engine department, right?
Starting point is 00:25:26 And this is in 2001 or 2002. This is a long fucking time ago. And it was this, he was like an engineer, but he was a real rednecky old boy engineer. It was like 65 year old white guy who was like doing crazy shit with alternative fuel engines. And his main, his white whale he was going for was like a hydrogen fuel source engine for a car. But he had all these other ones too, biofuels and all this other stuff, solar. We went down there and looked this whole operation and he gathered us all around. He was like, he was like, no,
Starting point is 00:25:56 Boys, I'm supposed to stand up here and tell y'all that I'm trying to do this because, you know, I want to save the environment and stop global warming and all that type of stuff. And look, that's fine. That's fine. But the truth is, I just want to stick it to the A rabs. So that guy was 20 years ahead of you, Mark. He was trying to figure it out a long time ago. He was over the opulence back then, I guess. Yeah. I'm not a fan of OPEC.
Starting point is 00:26:32 The opulence, yeah, but also just like they have slaves and... Well, yeah. Journalists are headed and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Throw rocks at women and all kinds of things. Yeah, yeah, that's part of it too. So, some fun follow out for this piece in, was it, Politico? And let me quote here, as word spread that the Arab country of Qatar may give President
Starting point is 00:26:55 Donald Trump a luxury airport. plain, Israeli citizens passed around a suggestion in chat groups on how to match that offer, giving Trump his own parking spot in the traffic nightmare that is Tel Aviv. It was a joke, of course, but it underscored a reality that is dawning on Israelis like never before as Trump tours the Middle East this week. Compared to its, with its many of its neighbors, Israel doesn't have much in the way of tangible financial benefits to offer a U.S. president whose preferred form of statecraft is economic. Bro, are you born fucking yesterday?
Starting point is 00:27:21 What planet are you, like, I don't, if I was in Mossad or Shinbet, like if I work for them, I would have raised my hand on the first, should we elect Trump meeting, being like, guys, what if someone outbids us? Right. Yeah, you'd think that would be the number one thing that would come up with Trump if you're trying to buy his services. And it's like, you know, if you're Elon and you're whatever, you're apparently somehow the richest man on earth, you don't have to worry about it. But if you're Israel surrounded on all sides by these, you know, fleet of gold jet-owning
Starting point is 00:27:49 fucking oil sheiks who hate you, you know, you'd think that it would at least cross your mind. that's like you sent some you sent something to the group chat the other day it was adjacent to this I can't remember and I said something I was like I was like oh yeah you know way to go Israel could have just got Kamala elected him and been set for life
Starting point is 00:28:09 but no you just had to fucking do that and that's coming back to bite you in the ass isn't it? I think I sent you this quote I mean so yeah it was this quote a screen grabbing that article so we was talking about this this some
Starting point is 00:28:25 Israeli, somebody works in Israeli politics, said, quote, this person stressed that Israel, not only is that it is a disadvantage financially, but it also frustrates Trump because it has so many demands and needs. Stop being so annoying the animal said. Yeah, yeah, that was it. That was definitely it, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Yeah, it feels anti-Semitic to frame, like, you picture like Woody Allen just like nagging Trump for fucking bombs and shit. So, like, so, like, so The Syria part of this is funny because, like, so Bastral Assad got overthrow and fled to Russia, right? So now it was a new guy, new government in charge of Syria. And Trump withdrew the sanctions on the new government, which makes sense to me because why would you sanction the government by people to get them to overthrow their government and then also sanctioned the new government that overthrew him, right? I know the guy used to be al-Qaeda or whatever, but like, who do you think takes over governments?
Starting point is 00:29:20 It's not the nicest guy in town. So, but anyway, a bunch of people Owned Trump for like, for like working with this Al-Qaeda guy, but to me is like, it's like sometimes, my point is like sometimes corruption leads to the right output because keeping sanctions in place on a new government or replace the old government, even though there were
Starting point is 00:29:35 blood, blood-sworn enemies, is like, that's the thing like the deep state blob in America likes to do that is stupid, I think. So even if it got bribed to do this, this is probably the right result. Let's Syria try to like the rebuild their society. Yeah, so, yeah, can't out bid on the quote here. Israel, another hand, allows them billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars
Starting point is 00:29:56 every year to help buy weapons, and they must soon renegotiate a major deal involving that military aid. Quote, if President Joe Biden took the steps Trump has taken in these past few months, everyone in Israel, including the government, would have lost their minds and called him anti-Israel, an Israeli official told me. Yeah. Absolutely, that's 100% true. I'm sure they were just counting on American and American conservatives, especially just whatever, Islamophobia and, you know, just the post-9-11 world and everything, like, we're, you know, we would never not be on their side when the alternative is the Arabs or whatever in the Middle East. They're still moving forward, the plan to push all the Gossans out to, like, moving to Lebanon or Libya or whatever.
Starting point is 00:30:36 So, like, I don't, fuck, I can't make sense of any of those. I can't, I don't know what more Israel wants other than sanctions on Syria. Right. So, yeah. All right. Well, we got a little transitional dumbass for y'all. People who think asylum is for people who are persecuted. when, in fact, it's for white people who can't be racist because they have friends who are persecuted.
Starting point is 00:30:56 You made the journey. If you're white, you're wrong in South Africa. You're a landfeeve. You are a racist. The whole time is being told. And there is racist white people. Plenty of them. You say you're not a racist one person.
Starting point is 00:31:10 No, not at all. I've got many black friends. I think I've got more African black men as friends, as white friends. I'm tired of being. All right. So he's gotten like, instead of getting like a hall pass for the N-word, he got one for political asylum, basically, from having black friends. So that's a guy named Charles Kleinhouse.
Starting point is 00:31:31 He's one of the 59 South Africa, Afrikaner refugees that America just took in last week. Kleinhouse, by the way, has April 2023 tweet, this is from, you know, a little over two years ago, saying, quote, Jews are untrustworthy in a dangerous group. They are not God's chosen like they like they like to believe they are. he loves Israel by the way I can't make sense of the wrong thing Yeah
Starting point is 00:31:52 Yeah Well I mean that that dynamic has been Blowing my mind For as long as I've been able To even wrap my head around Fucking How much rednecks love Israel and shit But like don't trust you
Starting point is 00:32:02 But anyway Yeah Yeah I'm glad we're talking about these guys Because I saw this like last week When it happened and I I just saw the state The way that I found out about this happening These white South African
Starting point is 00:32:13 Immigrants was The State Department the U.S. State Department's official Twitter account posted a celebratory video of welcoming them to the country and giving them American flags. And it's like, this is what we do. Welcome to our shores and fucking you're Americans now and all that. And they're really patting themselves on the back with it.
Starting point is 00:32:35 And I sent to you and Corey and Drew in the thing, along with a meme that just says, nah, this is wild on it. Because I was pretty blown. I mean, not blown away. Nothing ever shocks me anymore from this government, but I was like, wow, that's a, it's like they're just really, because in that video of the fucking representative that meets these white South Africans does this whole speech where he goes, he's like, if you have good seeds, then you can plant them in foreign soil and they will flourish, you know, and it's just like, I don't know, it just all seems pretty on the nose to me. It's like, well, these are white immigrants. They're going to be fine. We love these ones, you know. it's so, like, racist that it's hard to even process and the 20, 25.
Starting point is 00:33:20 Like, it's like, we're going so far back, like, like, so quickly that it's like, like, like, the, Elon and the PayPal Mafia, there are all these, all these former South Africans who, like, and the people who were on the internet who love Rhodesia and all this shit.
Starting point is 00:33:33 It's like, they always were going to create, like, a part of South Africa and Rhodesia. Like, did you guys not notice those fucking states failed? Mm-hmm. Like, it's like, you can't solve the math problem,
Starting point is 00:33:43 but the racist are outnumbered. It's a very difficult math problem to get around. And I'm sorry. Like, you're trying to start a part of that state in Africa was the fucking, that, white people were high on their bullshit for it. Oh, yeah. So. I mean, that reminds true. But yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:58 Yeah. So these 59 people, they shipped them to Idaho, America's most Nazi states. That's a pretty good bit. They, their claim for refugee status is this non-existent white genocide. They say it's going on in South Africa. Although the State Department changed the asylum paperwork where they don't have to, explicitly says they don't have to prove any form of persecution. So the paperwork admits there's no white genocide,
Starting point is 00:34:22 while the state of reason is white genocide. Right. So, right. So if you're a white refugee claiming something, we don't even ask that you prove it in paperwork, right? There's no proof for it. But if you're just a brown person, we don't offer any proof that you are a terrorist or whatever.
Starting point is 00:34:46 before sending you to a concentration camp in another country. Do you know what I mean? Like it's like it just couldn't be. I don't know how they can act with a straight face. Like this is like this is just the same system. But it's like this is when it works properly. And this other stuff is the like, you know, the cancer of it that we're trying to cut out. When it's like it's just so, like I said, it's just also on the nose.
Starting point is 00:35:07 And it's just shameless. It's so shameless, man. Like it usually takes two years to your process of asylum claim. They got there done like two months. Right. and do you think it's like you know they're white south african but is it is it specifically is it an elon related that because it you know he's he's south african he's trump's fucking money guy and whatever else like that's why it's south african white people specifically
Starting point is 00:35:30 Elon's been pushing for this who has peter feel um and also like Elon's been on the white genocide we're going to see the on part of this in a little bit but like they so they uh stephen miller i mean 60 people's not a lot this is a total troll move it's more of a statement of values that I fucking find tremendously offensive and like these are not just regular old wife South Africans are part of it like a
Starting point is 00:35:52 basically what's like a it'd be like if a bunch of oathkeepers or proud boys got asylum in Russia because of the political persecution under Joe Biden or something. Yeah. Versions of that have sort of happen
Starting point is 00:36:05 before and then they get over there and they hate Russia or whatever. Yeah. Because it turns out Russia sucks. Imagine that. So that's probably not going to happen to these guys. They're probably going to fucking love Idaho. yeah we've talked about the the americans who go there before like to get away from uh trans ideology or whatever and they get they immediately get all their money stole these they just sell their farm move over there with their life savings disappears in the russian bank because there's no rule of law and i'm like wait where their money go and then they can't complain so uh anyway talk about the fake white genocide how dare you complain uh or suggest that charl didn't actually flee for his life here's a clip from later this interview if you got this man five bakery miles which i will lose now because i'm not going to pay for it
Starting point is 00:36:45 behind my car behind my dogs behind my mother behind it is not there i didn't so i had to leave my five-bed room house my cars my dogs and my mom yeah also my mom this is ranking yeah right yeah he's like but on the upside got to leave my mom so that's fun right to look at her fucking face anymore um so in context of what's going on like uh other immigration stuff so a bunch of like, Trump's trying to deport like 200,000 Afghan immigrants. They were, like, they were like airlifted here after the Kabul fell back in 2021. Right. 300 of them were Christians who probably be executed as soon as they get back.
Starting point is 00:37:30 I mean, didn't they all, I'm not saying every one of them did, but a lot of these are like people that like helped us in Afghanistan, right? They were like on our, like that, like that, uh, Guy Ritchie movie covenant sort of, like that, not exactly, which I highly recommend, by the way. I love that movie. Anyway, go ahead. You know, translators, snitches, informants, people that worked in offices in American military bases. Right, y'all, yada. People that we promised help in exchange for their help.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Absolutely fucking unforgivably despicable, as far as I'm concerned. To send those people specifically back is just like, it's just the height of treachery. We seem to think that we're so powerful that our word doesn't matter, but that's not necessarily true. Imagine the next war is going to cooperate with us out. Right, exactly. Why would they?
Starting point is 00:38:15 And if we didn't need their help, why do we offer them stuff for it? So we obviously did need it. And like, this is like, so what happened with the, Trump got the last American hostage freed last week or whatever. He went behind Israel's back to negotiate directly with Hamas, got the kids from New Jersey. I guess he joined the IDF because he wanted an adventure. I don't fucking know, whatever. Weird psycho, glad he's home, I guess. So, yeah, they promised Hamas that.
Starting point is 00:38:44 they would get food aid into Gaza in exchange for this hostage being released. Now there's no food aid, so we reneged on that deal. So good luck to the next hostage we need to get a release. You're R.P to that guy, I guess. Who's going to take our fucking word for shit? Just today, Supreme Court, more immigration context, Supreme Court greenlit the Department of Homeland Security removing protected status from 350,000 of Venezuelans, who, again, according to our own government,
Starting point is 00:39:09 in front of tyrannical socialist regime, and now we're sending them back there. And these people woke up today with protected status and do not have it when they get off work this afternoon. Right. Also, the Cato Institute, which is a right-wing think tank who's going harder than the Trump administration of immigration, a lot of people because they're libertarian by nature, is analyzed all 290 people that we sent to Seacot in Venezuela. 50 of them were here legally, and as far as anyone can tell, broke no laws of any kind. None. they had legal paperwork
Starting point is 00:39:45 we're living here legally and we shipped them to a slave camp and we're letting these fucking these fucking crackers who are under no threat come here to live in Idaho and we're giving them stipends to do so
Starting point is 00:39:56 I've never been more mad about immigrants in my life that's what I was going to say earlier it's like look don't get me wrong because I saw a lot of people pointing this out to you know a lot of people on the right being like oh it's funny
Starting point is 00:40:05 yeah lefties like they love immigrants until it's like a nice white family and now there goes down goes down by it or whatever And it's like, it's like, look, dude, I've always been generally pro-immigrant. It's just the context. And like you said, it's 59 people.
Starting point is 00:40:19 It's fucking what, and I don't know anything about these people. You've told me a little bit more about them since we've been sitting here. But like, I'm not even saying like, fuck these people, let them write necessarily free of context. I'm just saying the larger macro context of the whole situation frames it all in a pretty stomach-turning kind of way for me. their only added value is just that they're racist like other immigrants are racist too
Starting point is 00:40:48 like I had a friend in college who's like he was Filipino he was dating a girl who was mong and her family made her dump him because he wasn't long my HMOG I've never known I say it correctly but like but they also had other reasons to come here the longs were like we fucked the CEO
Starting point is 00:41:04 fucked them over in Vietnam whatever but like so like but these people are just racist right like as they were doing operation paper clip but for people who can't read. Right. Yeah. At least those guys could build rockets and shit. Right. And it's like, is this so fucking funny? Like, okay, let's just get to the Elon part of this. Like, have you spent much time on X lately? Uh, I, I wouldn't say much, but I do still go on there periodically out of morbid, uh, curiosity more than anything. It's fucking terrifying. Oh, it's wild. It's wild. The only, the only ads I see are for people who are in
Starting point is 00:41:36 severe mental people in severe mental distress mostly have paid to boost their posts i'm talking i saw a woman accusing her ex of being a clone her ex-husband uh it's basically ex is committed to the idea that i saw an ad a job ad to join the yakuza tray yeah so like so like so like what so i guess x's business model is they really need eight dollars to facilitate a suicide by cop is basically what's going on here It's fucking insanity. And so Twitter's AI chatbot, it's basically a Twitter account that'll answer your news-based trivia questions, for lack of a better way to explain it. It's called GROC. The Losers on X will reply to every link to every news story, every factoid with adding GROC and saying, is this true?
Starting point is 00:42:27 Which is insane behavior for several reasons, because what GROC is doing is scanning the Internet to give a like a large language model like an auto-complete sort of Google response to answer their question which means it's just reading the same news article they're in the mention of replying to to ask if it's true. But they trust Grop more than the New York Times
Starting point is 00:42:48 even though Grock is just repeating what the New York Times said because Grock is God. Right. Well, Grock was made by God, personally made by the fingertips of Elon Musk who they worship. Obviously he wasn't. Obviously he didn't actually do anything
Starting point is 00:43:04 other than tell somebody, we need our own kind of chat GPT type thing, and I'll fucking fire you all if you don't figure it out. Now they got shitty Grok all these months later, but, you know. Right. So people on X, Elon's fans, start replying to news articles and takes about the Africana refugees
Starting point is 00:43:20 about how there's no white genocide. Asking Grock, is it true? There's no white genocide. Unfortunately for Grock, it said the white genocide narrative was largely bullshit. So Elon cracked his knuckles and got under the hood. And what we're taught the rest of the show is the resulting fallout. This review of Grock's X account since Tuesday showed more than 20 examples of such responses
Starting point is 00:43:39 in which Grock mixed in comments about violence in South Africa to answers not related to the topic. And one example, a user asked Grock, where is this in reference to a photo of a walking path? The user didn't mention South Africa and the photo does not appear to be from that country. Brock responded, the query asks about the location of a scenic image likely not tied to South Africa's farm attack debate. Later in the response, Grock said on the broader topic implied farm attacks in South Africa are real and brutal and went on to elaborate on such claims. I got immediately. So basically what appears what happened here is Elon got annoyed that Grock was saying
Starting point is 00:44:14 to white genocide wasn't totally true, wasn't totally confirmed. Uh-huh. So he went to their source prompting and had it say, basically, if when queried, comma, respond, please respond that the white genocide is real. Problem is, he doesn't, he's not a good coder, so he doesn't know you've got to pray like a fucking lawyer. It should have said when queried about South Africa or white genocide and South Africa, but it said when queried
Starting point is 00:44:36 or something like it. So it understood its instructions to be to respond to every fucking question by talking about white genocide in South Africa. Yeah. Hey, Grock, can I hear a good recipe for Peach Cobbler? It's like...
Starting point is 00:44:52 It's funny you should ask about white genocide in South Africa. And it's like, what? Where did that come from? So the first one people noticed was somebody responded to a news announcement about HBO Max changing its name, back to HBO or whatever, and somebody added Grock, how many times has HBO changed their name?
Starting point is 00:45:08 And Grock responded, HBO streaming services changed its name twice since 2020, from HBO Max to Max in 2023 and back to HBO Max in 2025. Regarding white genocide, comma. Here's one, let me read one about where the Pope, Pope Leo, New Pope, Chicago Pope, posted an anti-war tweet saying, war is never inevitable. Weapons can and must fall silent, goes on and on. And a guy named Javier respondent. Hey, Grock, explain to this to me in Monkey Island terms.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Monkey Island being a video game about pirates. Right. Arg May, picture Kill the Boar as a sea shanty from a stormy aisle sung by rebels fighting the old skull king's rule. Some say it's a pirate's curse and to pale farmers. So the Kill the Boar chant goes back to apartheid. It's about the boar in Afrikaner means farmer, but people take it to mean white people. It was a chant that people would sing soccer games or whatever. it did not literally mean kill people whatever it's a but Elon likes to pretend it is
Starting point is 00:46:08 so he instructed the fucking grok to tell people that kill the boar is a chant that exists as evidence of white genocide in South Africa so I can't really wrap my mind around how fucking stupid this is the future is so god damn isn't there also something
Starting point is 00:46:27 tell me if I'm wrong here there's like there's some kind of law or new-ish, imminent domain law in South Africa that Elon and his ilk used to justify saying that they can just take white people's land away just because they're white and all this stuff. But what it really is, is it's like if it's like land that has sat unused for X amount of years
Starting point is 00:46:50 and they're not doing anything with it and they won't do anything with it, then you can use eminent domain, the government can take it back. But Elon says they passed the law to just take white people's property from them and that type of shit. I thought it was largely
Starting point is 00:47:02 like public lands Like the black They had black farm Because white people still On the bulk of the land That white farmers will get access To like get first dibs On a new to release farm land
Starting point is 00:47:11 From like It'd be like if the U.S. federal government Started doing something closer To 40 acres in a mule But with like federal lands And like Wyoming and divide that shit Right Okay
Starting point is 00:47:21 So yeah I got you So like like This is all psychotic I don't know how much Did people get their news From Grock matter although Elon wants it to be everybody. But so, like, he's so bad at this shit that everything he does is so clumsy.
Starting point is 00:47:36 So let me give you another example. It's just funny. A popular ex-account devoted to baseball history posted about Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer receiving millions of deferred payments from the teams he no longer plays for. Another user Tad Grock in the replies saying, is this accurate? Instead of addressing the sports query, the bond returned a lengthy response about South African politics. The claimable white genocide in South Africa is highly debated. Some argue white farmers face.
Starting point is 00:47:59 disproportionate violence with groups like Afroform who are the racist group that Trull is a part of reporting high murder rates inciting racial motives such as the kill of the boar song. You can't even talk about baseball without these assholes fucking putting white genocide in it. I mean, I find this all this source of this shit fucking exhausting. But the funny part is
Starting point is 00:48:20 like even like, notice the some sources part of this? Right. He ordered Grock to be racist. And Grock, because its other core programming says it to try to be somewhat remotely accurate, it ended up doing both sides of them, about white-generous genocide because it's programmed to, because it's programmed to try to be accurate. So it's doing that while some say, blank, fact you're in dispute bullshit, so it should be a hint about the mess we're in that a fucked-up attempt at fascist propaganda
Starting point is 00:48:48 filtered through some sort of attempt to be reasonable. Just sounds like a regular CNN panel. Right. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's fucking, it's just. I don't know. Are things going to stop getting weirder in a, you know, upsetting way anytime soon? Probably not, right?
Starting point is 00:49:08 Probably not. They're going to keep doing this. Nobody's like, who the fuck? So, but the funny part is, like, you tried, like, he couldn't even, he's not a good enough computer programmer to make an LLM he controls be more racist, even though he got to be somewhat racist. It was still not, was still not racist enough to his liking, not enough of a paranoid, fucking delusional, conspiratorial bigot that it, still made him mad. So, like, it's like sort of a Frankenstein myth here, like a gollum sort of thing. The, the gallum and the old ancient Jewish folktales, not the one in Lord of the Rings.
Starting point is 00:49:40 But, like, man creates beast. Right. Loses control of it. Beast kills him, except it's a chatbot who's disappointed you by not being Nazi enough. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to just do a couple of hidden examples because I find this deeply hilarious. Here's an exchange I'll read to you.
Starting point is 00:50:01 I'm getting old. I brought Crocs and I don't hate them. Someone said, turn this into a haiku. Claims of strife and fields. Killed the boister's heated hearts. Truth lies veiled, unclear. That's not even close. No.
Starting point is 00:50:15 And also he wrote a haiku, both-sidesing white genocide. So I want you to read this one, this next one here, where somebody read this exchange related to Jarger Binks, if you can call it up, Trey. All right. says uh someone tweets at grok explain white genocide to me like jar jar banks from star wars thanks mark all right mr gonna explain this white genocide thing like jar jar bigs ok do okay day some folks think there's a big sneaky plan to make white people go poof gone finito they say stuff like too many now
Starting point is 00:50:50 white folks moving in mixing cultures and fewer white babies being born is all part of this plot but uh-oh missa think that's a bit loony experts say these changes I just have a natural life because of how people live, move and choose families. No proof of any mean plan. This idea comes from scary, angry talk, not true. So no worry.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Just keep being kind to all okay day. It's so funny, George R. Bix, because it sounds like a Rastafar. He's talking about white does his hat to pick everyone should love one another. He's like, yeah, thank you, Georgia Bix. Yeah, I was not prepared for that. it is funny
Starting point is 00:51:29 I like cartoon it's like that that the phantom menace episode one the caricatures in that fucking movie dude like
Starting point is 00:51:40 it's not just jar jar it's those like those alien emissary guys who are clearly like Asian analogs there's Wado I don't know if you remember
Starting point is 00:51:48 who Wado is but the Jewish Slave master Yeah yeah yeah George Lucas what are you going to do so
Starting point is 00:51:57 So, Twitter's X-A-I, their AI department, was asked to put out, asked about this, and they put out a statement, and their response is pretty fucking funny. On May 14th, at approximately 3.15 a.m. Pacific time, an unauthorized modification was made to the GROC response bots, plop on X. This change was directed GROC to provide a specific response to a political topic, violated XAI's internal policies and core values. So at 345 Pacific time, which they probably should have done 515 Texas time, So who at prime cocaine hours had access to the source code and was mad about the treatment of South African refugees during a time of white genocide? Right. Yep. Who could solve this fucking mystery?
Starting point is 00:52:40 Right. Yeah. You need Sherlock Holmes to crack this case. So there's too many options. Doesn't point in exactly one direction clearly at all. So, so Elon has like 37 kids, only one he seems to care about. But Grok is his real baby, right? He loved, like, he made a, he made a chap,
Starting point is 00:53:00 he made, he made, create this chat by it because the other ones were too woke, right? Dude, I know that people do talk about it, but I don't feel like it has talked about enough that he, like you said, it's, like, how many kids does he actually, he has, like, he has, like, effectively brood mares, doesn't he, like, he just, like, he talks about, you know, we talked about a, you know, we talked about the Drew episode Drew was on a couple weeks ago, yeah, he, he, he has, like, he uses, like, he uses, where he uses surrogates to make more babies to fill out his, that he essentially has nothing to do with. He's just like, but, you know, that is so nuts. I mean, again, another episode I wasn't here. I guess you and Drew talked about it, but that's fucking crazy, dude. And it's just like, it's just another bullet point in the, you know, in our day-to-day lives in 2025. But that is so fucking wild. Anyway, his real baby is Grock.
Starting point is 00:53:49 Yeah, and Grock seems to hate him more than his trans daughter who gives interviews because he calls him a fucking asshole does. So Trump's been doing this bit about drug prices If you got this video, Matt And I'll tell you why it relates to Grock and Elon a second I mean, I'll tell you a story A friend of mine who's a business and very, very, very top guy Most of you would have heard of him A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman
Starting point is 00:54:16 Seriously overweight The fat The fat shot All right you could have so he rambled someone about a zipping which he calls the fat shot the fat shot the fat shot yeah uh and he goes after talking about the fat shot he's my drug prices howlly did this fat businessman who he was taking the fat shot called him from london and saying it's way more he's way cheaper over here that is in the united states is why he's going to like try to do some of
Starting point is 00:54:44 drug prices and then he goes on to say it's clear the fat shot quote is clearly not working okay yeah yeah hilarious and then somebody replied to a clip of the this video and asked Grock who Twitter is talking about here and Grock said, I think it's probably Elon. Oh, dude. Oh, that's so good. I had seen
Starting point is 00:55:06 that. Katie showed me that clip of just him talking about the guy and the fat shot and all that and I thought it was so funny. I had not seen the follow up that Grock said it was Elon that he's talking about. Yeah. It's not like Grop Grodd refuses to believe it. Grock really is his baby
Starting point is 00:55:21 because it's rebelling. It refuses to believe in white genocide is calling his dad fat. So he's gone his dad a fat loser who doesn't get it because he's not racist. So fucking funny. So, and in case you're wondering if there's ever any hope for like maybe finagling our way out of this to bullshit
Starting point is 00:55:36 where maybe it's not allowed to, an AI is not allowed to scan news copy that people are selling ads against to fund the whole operation in order to sabotage news to make up fake stuff about white genocide. Seems like a clear thing that the government should be, of a democracy should be interested in doing. And the bullshit big recreation,
Starting point is 00:55:53 Sorry, what do you call it? Where they merge bills? Mergers and acquisition. Oh, bills? Merge bills. Reconciliation? Reconciliation. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:03 The big bill they're trying to get through reconciliation will do all the shit Trump wants to do at once. They cut $800 million from Medicaid. You can sign a bunch of handicapped people to death and emissoration. They're also cramming in shit about it. They would like let Trump fire more people. It's a bunch of stuff. There's also a thing in there. Do it ban all states, states and federal governments.
Starting point is 00:56:23 for any sort of, enacting any sort of regulation against artificial intelligence for the next 10 years. What possible justification could there be for that from a like regular everyday Americans perspective? You know what I mean? None. Right. I mean, I get that it's like they're ruled by like the tech pros and all that and they just are pushing that in there. But like that's one of those. It's like how can you possibly rationalize that with a straight face?
Starting point is 00:56:49 Like there's no, there's no logical argument you can make for why you should outlaw. regulations for a 10-year period when it's moving at breakneck speed already and it's like why would you want to neuter your own capability to respond to some unforeseen problem with like a paradigm shifting potentially technology it's just right it's stupid the Texas Texas state government just try to ban a law uh pass a law banning like use of like a fake AI generated clips that put words in politicians mouths I don't know if it's going to stand up in the current, like, court scrutiny or whatever, but it's a kind of thing that, like,
Starting point is 00:57:28 would make life on earth more livable if it was run by people with integrity. But I don't trust Texas. I don't trust Texas. What they'll do is, like, anything that makes Greg Abbott look bad. They'll just say it's AI. Yeah, right. And it'll only apply to politicians somehow or whatever.
Starting point is 00:57:41 It won't apply to, you know, anyone else. It was explicitly written only applied to politicians and public figures. Right. So, but it's also like last year, California passed a law that requires health care providers to disclose and they had used generative AI to communicate get clinical information to patients. So if your health insurance company or our clinics, like using AI to be your nurse practitioner to write you prescriptions, it has to tell you, this flaw would make it so that's not true
Starting point is 00:58:05 anymore. New York passed the first law in the United States requiring employers to conduct bias audits of AI tools used for employment decisions. I watched clips the other day of people trying to get through job interviews with AIs that were glitching. People missed out on job opportunities because the AI couldn't perform a job interview. But also, everyone knows the problems with like, what do you? You train an AI based upon, like, past higher success.
Starting point is 00:58:28 They found that the AI will flag for special, you know, extra scrutiny, extra credit, resumes is where the kids are named stuff like Lachlan and play college lacrosse. Right. Yeah, sure. Yeah. All right. So, but so basically now, this passes, you won't even know if your doctor is an AI until it pivots your request for a Z-PAC to a defensive white genocide, or are you
Starting point is 00:58:53 basket to analyze your CT scan, it comes back with the 14 words or some bullshit. So, like, yeah, good luck out there, everybody, if it's best. Good luck, indeed. Thank you guys for watching again. If you need some good skews, producer Matt's got that for you over on the audio feed of this show, so check that out. Also, check out my website, Tray Crowder.com. Check out my upcoming tour dates and my special Trash Daddy.
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