Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – From Russia With Stupid

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

We’ve found a new family who fled to Russia to escape Woke, only to endure a Biblical level of suffering, which includes having to snuggle goats to not freeze to death. The lady we’re gonna install as the dictator of Venezuela says they have Hamas now, so please act quickly. And the FBI director joins the mile high club on your dime, patriotically.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is uh november 4th election day for some of us some people across the country remember i hope you voted for uh bj if you're there in uh what's the county he's in outside of raleigh there in north carolina windell is a town name. Winddale. If you're in Windale or in that county, I'll be voted for BJ for that one and any other pertinent elections in your community. It is, as we sit down to record this, it's actually Monday at November 3rd at 1 p.m. on the left coast. I'm trying that's Mark. What's up, Mark? No, man, I got a fun series of panic text for my wife this morning as she was stuck in a doorway at work. She, what had happened

was she got they did in the utility closet in her business a folding table had fallen over behind the door so the door couldn't get open right so she's trying to get in there to rectify the situation and she got it cracked and she's like okay I'm pretty I'm small enough I can slad through the crack in the door and then she could not and she got stuck and she's texted me about it mm-hmm like I have the jaws of light I'm like what am I'm glad you're telling me because it's funny as shit but what am I going to do about yeah so what did you do about it Nothing. She eventually got us a freak, but I'm like,

I could have gone over there and pushed on the door, but like, she felt like, but I wonder what, like, I guess I could call the fire department for you because if you're too embarrassed, but otherwise I'm going to Home Depot and be like, you got the WD40 for Disney Broads. I don't know what to find. Yeah. You got to go grease my wife up. A saw or like a, one of those big battering ram things or whatever.

I don't know. You never wanted to like kick a door or, you never wanted to breach a door, Mark, you know, could have been. Yeah. Could have been your chance. Just me and the other members of my tactical special forces squads, screaming breakout, break out, break out, break out. We throw a fucking flashbang.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, be cool. So, before we get the show, I want to say congratulations to you and your fellow Dodger fans. Yeah, maybe two in a row, three and five years. Yeah. Dodgers. So, uh, the game seven was in Toronto, right? Do what?

Yes, the six and seven were in Toronto, yeah. So I didn't see any like, like, why, typically you, Maybe because the Dodgers fans have gotten so spoiled with victories. Like, I was expecting, usually you set off fireworks or people shooting guns in the air and shit. But none of that happened in my neighborhood. Maybe it was elsewhere. We heard some fireworks, but nothing like too crazy, but there definitely was some fireworks set off over this. And so there was none of the, as far as I can tell, there was no, like mass people in the streets flipping over cars and stuff on fire or anything.

But yet, the cops still acted like there was. I want to play this video, Matt. This is outside of a bar called the shortstop, which I have been to. I've been to, too. That's where I went to a Dodgers guy. game this year was a group of comedian friends and we met at the shortstop and walked up there so I think it's a common occurrence it's like sort of a bit of a Dodgers bar there it's not far away yeah so the people are just waiting along to get out front you'll see this video

this guy got a cop on a horse just walks up to a dude and wearing a Dodgers jersey and hits them in the head but I got I want you to see what he hits him in the head with and fuck this cop it's got seen fine but yeah here comes a horse cop Horse cop Horse cop Yeah Anybody that hasn't been a show Or comic book

What is that That is a bocun A.khaa wooden sparring katana Okay Why would he have that? That's what I was fucking like shocked by It's like they're using The LAPD

Besides all the other Fucked up shit about them They're also like Sword guys or Japan Like anime Weaves Yeah They're weeds

Yeah And they're allowed To like Arm themselves? Is that common for police, you know, squads? You can, you can choose your own gear or whatever. That's how I learned about this. Apparently, it's common for LAPD horse cops, the Mounted Patrol is what you're going to call them, to use Bokens. And like, I went, I was Google to surf around the internet trying to figure out because someone, like, I posted a joke about it on

on a blue sky or whatever. And some people like, actually, like, I found out this is pretty common. I went and found, I found a manual for an LAPD training program. They teach mounted patrols to use broken batons. Instructional goal to revive the learner with knowledge and skills to effectively deploy. Instead, affected deploy, because it can't even fucking write their own manuals. Effective deploy and maintain a broken baton. Effectively, you're not doing actual sword fighting, whether you're just cracking people in the head or unarmed.

What kind of training do you need? Right. Pull it, swing it, you know. Yeah. So like, like LAPD, apparently, maybe we figured a way to, we got the problem with a, they, they want all the MRAPs and like grenade launchers and tear gas and shit. What if we trade, we take away all that stuff,

but we'll give you Hittari-Honzo swords? Well, I mean, they definitely want the Hattori-Honzo swords, I'm sure, but can't we just have the grenade launchers and the swords? That'd be even cooler, right? After all,

and master chief, he has both rocket launchers and swords. What about, you know, like the Air 15s, the grenade launchers matter on the bottom? What if you have one of those that shoots, a katana. Shoot swords, yeah. Rocket-propelled

samurai sword. That'd be pretty sweet. I'm sure they'll add that to the next call of duty DLC. But yeah, go Dodgers. People are pissed off. That's okay. I don't blame them, but as a fan, it hits for me. All right. This is Weekly's Q's producer Matt is with us doing this thing back there. Before we continue, of course, I've got my announcements I'd like to make. First, if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person, and you should. I've been off the road for a couple of weeks now. It's unusual for me, but we're getting back at it this weekend

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Consider signing up on Patreon now. Let's see. What are we talking about? We're talking about Russia stuff this week, Mark? Is that what's going on? We got a fun update on, like, the American expats who moved to Russia live in an unwoke paradise

and found hell on earth. Then we talk about, we're going to talk about ongoing stuff in Venezuela, fun update from the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is insane. I want to show you. And then if we have time, we got some fun tech stuff on the back at the very end. All right. Sounds like a rollicking good time this week on weekly skews.

Well, we begin, of course, as always, with the Daily Dumbass. Back, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., the haters who thought my name. life in Russia wouldn't be as great as you can clearly see it is in this proof-of-life video. I'm Derek Kepkman here, enjoying my vacation. I'm alive and well, as you can see. I just wanted to take a quick video. We're enjoying our Russian friends, our family, enjoying our birthday party for our daughter.

This right here is why I joined the army to protect my family, to protect the Russian people, to preserve our way of life. Okay. Preserve the Russian way of life. I want you to notice there a six-year-old kid's birthday party, they're watching a minions moving and eating takeout pizza.

That is a Russian way of life. He's fighting to do. Yeah, American. Cultural, we won the cultural war, baby. So at least we have that. Like back in the old days, the minions would be manned behind the fucking iron curtain because it would have shown like the decadent

West all have tiny yellow slaves to do their bidding or something. So that's Derek Huffman, who we talked about a couple months ago before. You might remember him. He's him and his family. They moved from Houston to Arizona to get away from woke. And then they realized Arizona is still too woke. He moved to Russia because Russia bans gay stuff or whatever.

And he joined the Russian army to, quote, unquote, earn his Russian citizenship. They thought he'd, like, give him a job as a welder because that's his trade. Instead, they put him on the front lines as a 47-year-old grunt infantryman, right? Right. Ukraine has been, the reason he posted that video, is part of an info where Ukraine keeps saying they killed him

because he'd be a nice little propaganda coup to kill the American who turned to his life for Russia and got his life ruin. So, Ukraine keeps posting video and X that they say

is him dying and it's not so every week this guy dies online, apparently. So that's why he posts this video. But I wanted to talk about another family because somehow his life

has gone even worse. So, Russia's established like a visa program, a residency program for quote-unquote ideological immigrants. So far, they've had 1,500 people from around the world sign up, including 127 Americans. So this family, the Hare, is moved from Abilene, Texas to Russia to shield their three sons. And what they say are harmful elements of American culture. Abilene was too gay for these people. You've ever been to Abilene, Treg?

I have not. No. Is it gay? Abilene is nothing good. No, it's the least gay place. yeah it's oil it's like oil wells right and abilene christian university which is church of christ right and they're like i'm tired of this woke bullshit this might as well be san francisco these people thought yeah and abilene texas yeah to shield their three sons from you know

but from the gay woke agenda or whatever but not like you know ukrainian missile strikes or whatever you know what i end up getting their sons blown up in a fucking foxhole or something in the near future. And by the way, it's not like being gay, being gay as an easy life in Russia, but it's not like, it's not that you actually ban the existence of gay people. It's just illegal to hang like a trade,

a gay pride flag, right? So, so the hairs, like I said, this family, I want you to read this passage right here about the hairs, Trey. They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas and the family spent a big, bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses, and rabbits on a farm, 70 miles south of Moscow, in exchange for free board.

At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying. They moved to Russia for a better life and are immediately having to hug, huddle with goats to not freeze it. In the barn to not freeze the death in the winter. Yeah, they're immediately living a fucking like, like, Dostoevsky novel or whatever. the brother's caramize off and shit it's like that's so funny in russia go drink your milk so here's a video from the dad leoh hair he's like so right after the goat thing happened his wife post they of course they're doing us all to be influencers they have a youtube channel his wife does and she posted a video and here's him responding to his wife's video

okay if you got this man as many know the The video of my wife is almost unbearable to watch or even to hear. She was in a graveyard, a woman crying in a graveyard. Yeah, she was falling apart. Damn it. So your wife posts a video weeping in a graveyard, tray, because he made a decision to move her to a foreign country. And instead of being like, we got to get the fuck out of here, you're like, I need to make a counter argument.

Right. Yeah. So I'm sure you guys are all aware. She's pretty whiny. It's always something with her. And, you know, we'll see what happens. I'm sure she'll get over it soon. You know, she's just in her emo phase.

She was going through old My Chemical Romance albums or something and just wanted to be crying in a graveyard. It has nothing to do with moving to Russia. I'm sure that's what it was. Right. But yeah, the idea that, I don't know, it's wild that they think the absence of wokeness like equals, you know, not having to raise goats in a barn. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like, to me it seems like places, the places that are more, whatever, developed or however you want to put it, like, probably have more instances. of what they would call

wokeness in the first place. So if you want to go to a place it's completely, like one of the least woke places on earth, you know, is probably like, like,

Mogadishu or something. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So like, but I don't know. They think that it works in the opposite direction somehow. I don't know.

Yeah. So, uh, yeah, it's kind of weird. Like, I know nothing of life in Russia, but like,

it's weird how like Americans move there immediately fall into what I think, My most stereotypical 80s, like, I was about to say, I was about to say, to be honest, like, the way I picture Russia is probably unfair to Russia, but then I hear these stories, it's like, well, I don't know, maybe it is how Russia is. You know, because I know that there's, every now and then it'll be a video on Reddit or something for, because there's also like Russian influencers and stuff, it would be like, make, like, daily vlogs. They're like, you know, this is what life is really like in Russia. And it's like, you know, it's still, it's a simpler existence or whatever, but it's not. one potato goats in a barn in a middle of a blizzard, right? As a candle slowly, fucking dies, you know, at midnight or whatever, the baby shuddering its last breaths and everything. It's not like that, but it's, you know, not so bad either. I don't even remember why I was saying this.

It's just funny that these people apparently go over there and, like, live the most stereotypically negative Americans' perception of a Russian experience imaginable. Goat snuggling. So it did get worse from them. They do have an apartment now living indoors, not without goats, so that's good for them. But like, let me quote here.

Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord's son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg and what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money

and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said. The couple went to the police and the local court to file complaints about their lost money and with their concerns that they had been swindled but say they have received no

help from law enforcement. Wow. No way. Again, very stereotypical. I just feel like you think like some fucking rushing with neck tattoos and a shaved head shows up being like, you know, couldn't make you lots of money and import export business or whatever, you know, like you should probably see that coming. And then if you somehow don't, and when he does invariably abscond with your money,

you should probably just be glad you still have all your fingers. But then if you do, do decide to go to the local law enforcement. Like, of course they're not going to fucking do anything about it. You know, like, that's another stereotype. They're, like, they're probably the same dude. Yeah. Or basically the same dude. They have three kids, all boys, and the older two want to return to America

according to this NBC News article, but quote me quote here, they feel isolated or disappointed. The school is not an option since Russia requires students to pass a language test to study in public schools. Right. Leo Harris said it probably would have been a deal breaker if they knew about the school restrictions before they moved there. Yeah. learn the language motherfucker

you know like if you want to live in a country you learn the goddamn language I guarantee that's been his philosophy his whole life until he moves his white ass to Russia now he's like well this is fucking ridiculous there's like a whole slew of people you can find like screen grabs their arguments online it's like if

America doesn't do anything something about all these immigrants I'm going to move to another country it's like bro I have some fucking news for you right yeah so did you see what we're on top of Russia Did you see the Trump threatened a startup nuclear testing again? Yes, yes, it did. It's not at all disconcerting or anything.

Do you know why? No, I just knew that I just saw that he was saying that it was going to happen. And I was like, you know, whatever. We're just ramping everything else up and, you know, road to the apocalypse. So why not? So Vladimir Putin announced a successful test of two new weapons over a couple days ago. One is a nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable underwater drone that could be fired like a torpedo it can go to 120 miles an hour and travel in a quote constantly changing route.

So it got a zigzagging a nuclear torpedo that goes 120 miles an hour. The main effect of which would be to cause tsunamis. Does that sound real to you, Trey? No, well, no, not unless the Jews were involved. I'm right, Mark, you know. I didn't know the Russians were into the weather machine game, but yeah, no. So Putin's claim came only days after the announcement that Moscow had conducted a test of, it's unlimited range

berevestnic nuclear-powered cruise missile. This is a missile that it's like it's nuclear-powered so what you do is you launch it and can it circle the globe for much longer than an other missile until you tell it to attack

and then it can drop its payload. This is what it does in theory, okay? The excessive success, there was no video, no still photos, no statistics about the test, and they said it covered 18,000 kilometers over several hours.

They didn't say where there's 18,000 kilometers were, and there's no detection of radio. isotopes by any outside observers. So basically, Putin was like, I've got the gun we talked about earlier that shoots Cotonoswords. And Trump's got to be like, I have two guns to shoot Cotanorsors and we're going to test him to prove it to you.

And we're a dick measuring contest between people who made up ideas about how the world works. At least one knows he's lying. Trump doesn't. So there we go. Yeah. So it reminded me of, didn't like Sam Altman just claim that like Open AI's revenue is going to be like $100 billion in 2027 or something like that?

Yeah. Right. So it's like that's what I'm just saying it's the same thing. It's like you can just say whatever. They're a private company. There's a way to prove that. And he's like, he's like, actually, we make way more than the $13 billion, you know, people think we make. And we'll be making like probably a trillion pretty soon. And everybody's just like, okay, thanks, bro. And it's like Putin's like that with tsunami torpedoes. Tesla was supposed to achieve full self-driving cars by 2018. Elon said we'd be on Mars by 2025. So on the griff goes. Right. All right. First honorable mention this week is Seb Gorka, the wonderfully named Seb Gorka for admitting the war on drugs isn't about drugs. It's a war on being sneaky.

There are countries that send a lot more drugs that Venezuela does, but there is no country, I think, that is as sinister in nature as Venezuela is and as Maduro is. And I think that that actually makes a lot more sense to me. I want to ask there. All right. So we're technically, does that mean? We got to attack Venezuela to stop the drugs, but Venezuela doesn't have any drugs,

but what they are is untrustworthy. We've got to take out the swery Latin, specifically in Venezuela, forget about the rest of the continent. Right. It's like, yeah, yeah. Columbia or whoever sends infinitely more drugs over here, everyone knows that, but they're, uh, they're not as nefarious, you know, just not quite as shady, just something about those Venezuelans. That's like the official line from the regime.

So I've been continuing perplexed by we've been making this argument about drugs because like you said we all know they don't fucking have any and so

I found this piece in dropside news they have sources inside the White House and State Department that's saying basically Marco Rubio was in trying to pitch

Trump on regime change in Venezuela since Trump took office again in equality Ruby was cycled through multiple arguments for regime change

in Venezuela during the early months the administration largely based around human rights and election concerns which were unconvincing

to Trump. Human, like, we've got to change it because of human rights. I don't give a shit about that. We got to bring the democracy. Who gives a fuck about that? Trump said. But then, then Rubio's like, well, they sell drugs. And Trump's like, well, drug dealers are black and people that use drugs are losers.

So that I find compelling, right? Right. So Trump, if you guys know about as personal, like he considers himself a teetotaler, his uncle drank himself to death. And he thinks, like, people that are addicts are like losers and weak-minded. He does this while he's addicted. fucking European diet pills, but whatever. Another thing

about the boat strikes and they're up to they've killed, they're escalating the pace of these boat strikes. They've killed like 60 some people by now, I think. There's actually an article because nobody could figure out why they think these boats have drugs or what justification they have or what intel they have. And there was

an article a couple days ago, I think in the Washington Post where somebody inside the DOD or the CIA was like, well, they're within three hops of a drug dealer. all right so think of like six degrees of kevin bacon but three degrees right right let's do a little quick back in the envelope math here i know way more than a hundred people i bet you do too i don't know how many contacts on my phone but it's way over a hundred right let's go with a hundred for a round

number um if they're using signal intercepts or phone hacks or whatever just go to those phone contacts lists if i know 100 people and they know 100 people and they know 100 people there's going to that's a million people. Uh-huh. So for every person who works for a drug cartel in any capacity, that justifies the murder of a million people. So, wait, they said that it's justified to kill a person. You said within three hops,

it literally works like six degrees of separate, of Kevin Bacon or whatever, meaning like if you know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who's a drug dealer, that qualifies you? Yeah, you go out of, one of those guys you go on the boat, yeah. What human being doesn't fit under that? Bro, I know drug dealers.

At least I have known drug dealers, but I definitely know people who know drug dealers, let alone know people who know people who know drug dealers or whatever. If that's how you're saying, this works. I mean, that's fucking insane. I know drug dealers, and I have one hop from the cast of the Avengers. Right. All right.

you know drug dealers you have met jadie vans right yeah i'm one hop from donald trump i'm through like t bum burnett i'm one hop from fucking the cohen brothers and bob dillon and all these people right yeah yeah it's crazy three huge three hops dude you can get just about anywhere from anybody it's that's the point right there's that whole there's a thing cori would do on his patreon that he took from somewhere else called it's like three clicks to hitler or four click you get on a random wikipedia page and you have to make three clicks or less and make your way to Hitler's Wikipedia page and you can do it almost every time. So, like, this is a known phenomenon. So, yeah, that's an insane justification to years.

I mean, that's crazy. I could do, like, so when I worked for the paper in Texas, I knew people that knew George W. Bush, right? His dad, H.W. Bush, sorry, if you ever, I'm assuming George W. met his grandfather who did business with Hitler. So I'm three hops from Hitler. Right. Right. I think I did want some four hops from Saddam Hussein Like this is an insane game to play like this And they know it is And they're just fucking, there was blown up boats Like we all suspected to make a TV show

Jordan Goudreau has been doing a media tour Are you familiar with who Jordan Goudreau is? I don't think so He's the former Green Beret Who got, whose private security company Got a $200 million contract From the Venezuelan opposition hooked up with by he says

The then Trump administration Trump's first term Venezuelan government. All right. They call it the Bay of Piglets. Remember that fucking stupid Wally Coyote coup attempt? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

All right. So he's been going around like all these Russia Today YouTube channels, any right-wing or like like right-wing YouTube show he'll go on. He's basically trying to say, it's a say-trap, Mr. President. Do not debate Venezuela. It will not work this time. The regime has been solidified since we tried our coup attempts. And this stuff, the stuff you're doing is when radicalizing Pete the

people to support Maduro even more. Yada yada. And I got to say, Goudro's a weirdo and a psycho. We'll get more about him in a second. But like, that's a fun angle to try. Maybe the rest of it should try it. You're too smart to fall for this, Mr. President. Right? Right. Yeah. Yeah, it seems to be like that would be

particularly effective on Donald Trump. There's a documentary that came out a month or two ago about Goudreau in his coup attempt called Men of War. And I want to recommend it. I'm not sure. It's fully entertaining. I would not trust the facts you get from him, but there's a really, for reasons I'll get to in a second, but there's a

really interesting part of it. We don't know how fucking stupid America, South American coup attempts are. He has a meeting with Kurt Schiller, who is Trump's former bodyguard turned government contractor in some capacity because they all get rich off the government now. He meets with Goudreau in a we work in Miami to plan to overthrow the government of Nicholas Maduro. Goudreau says there was a handshake exchange made in an open deal that I am going to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Schiller was testified under oath in front of Congress about this. He said that if anyone planned a coup, it must have been while he was in the bathroom of the Wework. Right.

Was there even other people there? Yeah, there was other people there. So I wonder, but so Goudreau has been. he's been on bond. He's awaiting trial for when he tried, he shipped a bunch of AR-15s to Columbia to prepare for the coup attempt and he didn't get the right export licenses. Right.

So it's basically what he's on trial for. Turned out as $2 million bond had been put up by the woman who made the documentary because she had been living with, he had been living with her. And that's the, the reason I can't recommend the documentary is because that seems like a no-no. She says they weren't sleeping together. And she said he promised to pay the $2 million bond back with cryptocurrency and gold he had

hidden, which that's also illegal in a no-no. But you want to talk about what nerds or media are? Like, let me quote here, I'm not going back to prison. It was a text message sent to her, and they're construing that as a statement that indicates his intention to flee. I'm not

going back, bitch, is not a statement. You're not, you're going to flee. That's a statement you're going to have a shootout with the fucking cops. Right. Yeah. They'll never type me alive kind of thing. Yes. So So Pete Heggseth, when he was talking about these boat strikes in the Caribbean, he called him narco-terrorists and said,

we're going to treat them and quote exactly how he treated al-Qaeda. And I don't know how to tell them this, but Al-Qaeda won. Right. Yeah. With war on drugs, we're on terrorism. Drugs won, terrorism, whatever. We didn't win, but either of those, put it that way. Al-Qaeda runs the government of Syria, and they just took over Mali.

Taliban's back in charge of Afghanistan. Afghanistan, yeah, right. I don't know what to fucking tell you. So I want to talk about Maria Machado. Also, dude, I mean, just in terms of the fucking, the path that seems to have set us down, you know, that being 9-11 and what they did, what they want, their goals with all that or whatever, it's like, you know, job well, job pretty well done. I have to, I mean, it sucks. I hate it, but it's fucking.

If you could, if you told Assam bin Laden September 10th, that within, uh, 24 years, the United States of America will be on the verge of collapsing into an authoritarian, like, like the, the mask had been, in his point of view, the mask had been ripped off. And everyone saw us laid bare for what we are, which is a colonial superpower, just out for our own money with no values, about to invade Venezuela and a collapse into a right-wing dictatorship. He'd have been like, we've succeeded beyond my wildest fucking dreams. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because you could not defeat us on the battlefield, but you can get us to,

to fucking step on a rake and kill ourselves, which is kind of, you know, whatever. So everyone's, well, a bunch of people really want to invade Venezuela. And they're trying to tell Trump that Venezuela, like, like, Nicholas Madero is a cartel leader. And then I want you to listen to this quote, and Maria Machado, the Nobel Prize winner, Venezuela opposition leader, who I guess we're going to try to install as a right-wing dictator. She went on a Bloomberg podcast. And I want you to hear this pitch she's making to, uh, to the interviewer. Horrible, what we're leading.

Russian agents, Iranian agents, freely operating in Venezuela, Hezbollah and Hamas. Hamas. Hamas and Hezbollah are in Venezuela, Trey. We got to go get them. I'm losing my goddamn minds. Yeah. What are there, and I know that you're just about to get into this, but I was going to ask you anyway, that like, are there like warring factions within the Trump? Like, did Marco Rubio and all these people think like, okay.

We're just about to get him to invade Venezuela. And then at a left field, someone comes up and is like, hey, you know what's going on in Nigeria? And now Trump's like, oh, shit, we're going to have to invade Nigeria or we're going to invade Nigeria, Venezuela, or both or what the fuck is. Because I know that we're about to start another crusades in Nigeria, apparently, is what's about to happen. I do want to talk about, like, Nigeria. But, like, I just want to say, like, for you to believe that Hamas is operating in Venezuela, I need you to, like, Tell me what you think Hamas is and what their goals are and what the point of being in Venezuela would be and how many people do they have? What are the resources and like what do they fucking?

Because it seems like Israel will fall as soon as we go to Venezuela and perfect a recipe for repis. I don't fucking understand. Like how many people think the world works. But so, yeah, so he's been, Trump has threatened military action Nigeria over the weekend. Let me quote here. He said he asked the defensive department to prepare a possible, quote, fast military action in Nigeria if the West African nation fails to crack down the killing of Christians. If the United States sends in military forces,

it would go in guns ablazing to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Iraq and Islamists are responsible for the mass slaughter. Trump wrote, without offering any specifics.

Because the thing I need to everybody to understand here is no one knows what the fuck he's talking about. Maybe it's confusing. it was Sudan or something, but there's no Christian genocide. It's just a genocide among Muslims, I believe. But like, so these appear to be viral plays. Which, of course, is fine.

Right, no, but I'm not saying it's fine. I don't care. I know. I know it just sounded funny. I know, but yeah, I know. But I really wish I could remember now where it was, but before Trump said it, there was one of the big right-wing grifter, like on Twitter or one of those, they had picked it up and were starting to spread the rumor, purely out of thin air from my perspective. But I'm saying and that's presumably how it got to him.

Was there cat turd or somebody like that? Because I know I was on Twitter looking for sports shit or something and right-wing Twitter. So just Twitter had picked up this whole thing, again, out of nowhere, from my perspective, about a Nigerian genocide of Christians. And then, like, two days later, he's talking about it. So I don't know what the source of it is, but that's probably where he got it from or, you know.

The biggest names I can see pushing this are Ted Cruz and Nikki Minaj. Yeah, quite a pair. Strange bedfellows there, yeah. So, Ted Cruz with a BBL. That'd be fun. So my, my reading of what's going to Nigeria is basically normal business as usual.

Like, there's a lot of different tribes and ethnic factions. And, like, of course, it's about evenly split between Christians and Muslims. And, like, it's not like some horrifically unstable country, but you've got Boko Haram out there doing their stuff out in the hinterlands,

but they're mostly kill other Muslims. So, like, Let me throw us some numbers here. According to data collected by U.S.-based armed conflict location and event data, the program, there have been 20,409 deaths from 12,000 attacks against civilians in Nigeria since 2020. So 20,000 people in 12,000 attacks in the last five and a half years. Of that number, 385 tax and 317 deaths were Christians. And the same time, 417 were Muslims in 100,000.

196 attacks. Now, for context, we're talking about 317 deaths, Christian deaths in five and a half years, and a country with the population of 230 million people. Yeah, so 60-ish people a year, probably. Yeah. And specifically for like their religion, so like a hate crime, like, how many hate crimes are in America every year? Like, got to be more than 60, right? Yeah, it's got to be. I mean, as a percentage of our population, the U.S. probably has a similar number of people admitted into hospitals each year with foreign objects stuck up their ass. They're not even a doubt about that. By orders of magnitude more.

You ain't you see Cat turd fucking tweeting about that. Yeah. There's cat turd out on the butt plug epidemic. But yeah, well, look, if somebody who's 23 of me results informed me that I'm 1% Nigerian, I take this very seriously, Mark. I just want to see the right thing happen here, you know. But yeah, I don't know. So because there's no, this is probably going to be a kind of a flash in the pan type thing, right?

I mean, I don't want to jinx nothing. But there's literally nothing seemingly there. It's like, it's just some crazy shit he said once and then it'll go away, probably. I would assume so. We had a few troops in Nigeria and we pulled them out. We have a military base somewhere in the region where we, like, we do our little commando raids with Boko Haram and shit every now and then. But yet so, like, I'm not sure if we have the, how many troops does Donald Trump think we have? all right

are we going to mobilize for total war and call up all the grandmas and shit because I don't know how we're going to fucking invade Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Chicago, Canada, Greenland. Portland. Portland. I do want to talk about a country that is

horrifically persecuting Christians and that would be the United States of America. I've lost count of how many clergy people have seen shot in the face with pepper balls in the last few weeks. Right. let's talk about all the people Oh you mean actual Christians

Sorry I thought you meant like like Marsha Blackburn type Christians I was I was gonna be like oh you agree with them Because that's all they talk about is how much they're persecuted In this In this country But you mean like actual Christ-like Christians Like the priests that the protests and stuff For getting shot in the face with rubber bullets and shit like that

And the people that were deporting I would guess are probably 70% Catholic Oh right yep yep And we would try Trump just deported, like, there were a bunch of Iranian Christians with open asylum complaints for religious persecution in the country until four weeks ago, and he sent them to Panama. What the fuck are Iranians going to do in Panama? Right now, as a priest planning a walk from Illinois to New York City to call attention to the plight of immigrants,

he started at the home of Pope Leo and walking all the Ellis Island, you know, where 12 million immigrants were prosecuted, were processed entering the United States during the peak years. And to hammer home this point, I want to play It plays video, Matt, of Illinois State Police arresting a guy who literally dressed as Jesus. I mean, you know, it's on brand.

It's in character. You know what I mean? I don't, I have no idea how to make sense these people. They're going to end up at a war with the Catholic Church because, like, Calvics really believe in this probably being nice to your neighbor and immigrant stuff. And it's so weird to me because the Supreme Court is all Catholic. The Speaker of the House is Catholic.

J.D. Vance is Catholic. Not just Catholic. What's it? It's not Opus Day, right? Opus Day. Yeah, right. Yeah. There's six.

I think there's super Catholic. Like, fucking. Yeah. The ones Dan Brown was afraid of. Like, Robert Langdon, like, Catholic. Yeah. Yeah. I keep meaning to do an episode because there's a book came out of last year, making the point there's like,

6,000 members of Opus Day in the United States and like 4,000 of them live in Washington, D.C., and they're all involved in government. Right. Yeah. Okay, next up, we got the people complaining about Cash Patel flying

his girlfriend around on government jets, not realizing he's doing this a favor by keeping her out of the airports. Here we go. I'm glad. Love on verse in. All right. These people

If some random civilians Start to sing the national anthem over the airport Like the question Some of this white ring viral video is like You can send them an alligator alcatraz As far as I'm concerned If we If we were deporting only the people

Who think that they It's justified for them to sing In an airport or on a plane Or in any situation like that When no one's invited them Like you can fucking do whatever you want to them I'm I won't lose

He's going to sleep over that. Like, he's fucking, what a nightmare person. That woman's singing was Lexus Wilkins, past Joe's girlfriend, by the way, if you, yeah, if it didn't get that from the context. But, yeah, like, one time I was in a sports sport, I'm not sure if they still exist now. They call Big Wangs, which is like a hooters, but about Dicks, right? Yeah, they didn't, me and you, I mean, God, that's probably been seven years ago now, but we went to that. There was a Big Wangs here, right? We went to a Big Wangs.

Yeah, they were chained around, like, the one in North Hollywood closed, I think, over during COVID. All that, no, I didn't even know that. Yeah. One time I was in the big wangs in Ohio would for like an NFL playoff game. And I didn't notice a national anthem was playing because I'm at a goddamn sports bar telling my friends. And some guy gave me shit from not taking my hat off in a fucking sports bar named after Dix. Yeah, that's stupid. I mean, honest, I've never seen that, I don't think.

Yeah. I mean, I'm not surprised by it. I'm just saying generally in a sports bar, it's like when the game ain't even started it, people ain't even, you know, paying attention. That shit don't count. all I'm saying. Right. Nobody, by the way, nobody fucking, most people didn't stamp

the National Anthem before at the fucking game before 9-11. Like the players wouldn't be on the field. We all fucking panicked. It's a 9-11 thing. So,

Casper tell is involved in a, um, uh, marred in a controversy, even like, even like the right-wing psychos think it's annoying because they don't like his girlfriend because he thinks she's an Israeli spy,

which we get, I think we've talked about that before. Uh, so he flew her to sing the national anthem before the real American freestyle wrestling event, uh, near Penn State, October,

Now, this is a weird scandal because she lives in Nashville, he lives in Vegas, they're in Pennsylvania, they barely lived, they left D.C., went to Pennsylvania, flew back to Nashville and all the same night. Obviously, it's a stupid use of fucking government jets, but he's required, like, he's legally required by statute to fly on government jets because he needs access to secure comms or whatever. Like, it's like, it's like a legal requirement. So it's not something like, it's something if a Biden administration official was doing it, I'd be like, yeah, probably, probably shouldn't be flying your, you know, your, you know, fuck buddy around. but like I get it. So the real scam of here is you should never date someone trying to make it in show a business, but that's a whole other thing. Is it giving me Roddy Ho vibes his relationship with her?

Do you finish slow horses? Right. Yeah, have another, I mean, well, you just said people think she's an Israeli spy or something, but like, yeah, people think that about her, right? That he's been, he's been honey trapped or honey potted or whatever the term is. Yeah, she's 27, he's 45. she's objectively way out of his league. They've been dating since 2023,

but this is a prisoning non-spy thing. They've been dating since 2023 in January when he was an unemployed children's author and professional Q&N podcast guests, so I'm not sure what Israeli spy would get out of at that point, but whatever. People in line are making fun of him for this. And he turned around and fired

the guy at the FBI, I've been there 27 years, who was in charge of like the critical incident response unit, which handles like the HRT, the hostage rescue teams and the, I guess the FBI Jets. The guy didn't do anything. I don't know why he picked this one guy to punish for it

because the flight recorder data was public. And he posted like Patel posted video, selfies from the wrestling event with Alexis. Yeah, but you just, I mean, you said that guy he fired is the guy that's in charge of whatever. the planes, the FBI planes. People are mad at Patel for

plane things. So he's like, I fired the plane guy. It's fine now. Like, it's probably not more complicated than that. I mean, I know that doesn't make any sense. I'm just saying that's probably as simple as that. Yeah. And in the aftermath of the wrestling and matched debacle, the FBI has, quote, pulled the jet cash Patel frequently uses from its flight

tracking database flight aware. So like, in response this, they've decided to break the law. I'm sorry, you're a public official in a democracy and the public needs to know where you are and what you're doing with government resources. But have you seen the thing where they're all moved on a military bases? Like Rubio lives in a military base.

Chris Nolm lives in military housing. They're basically, they really do seem to believe they're under siege. No, I didn't know that. I'd heard that something about all the billionaires, you know, I think we talked about at one point. They're building like apocalypse bunkers in something, particularly in New Zealand or on islands and that type of thing. Like, that's also happening, right? like it seems like whatever they've you know convinced themselves that something is coming or at least

might yeah i mean well they're trying to make it happen yeah right yeah i know they don't they seem to not somehow not see it that way but yes right obviously i agree but um they're they're gonna keep pouring federal feds in chicago until somebody shoots one of them and i don't know if the feds not realized they're being used as like right bait uh they're still get to crack the heads and fucking, you know, shoot the tear gas canisters and all that. So they get their decks hard either way. They probably don't give much of a fuck. Also, each one of them would be like, I'm not going to be the one that gets killed by these

fucking losers, you know. I just go out here and rough them all up to my heart's content and everything will be just fine. That's what's going through all of their heads. I'm not, I'm not going to like, I'd quote the guy directly, but the 40th, I watched a video from one of the Info Wars hosts talking about complaining about Cash Patel. It was literally a six minute long run. where he used the F word slur for gay people,

I must have, I would guess 400 times in six minutes. About Cash Patel or? Uh-huh. Man, that's funny. Yeah. As an adverb,

adjective, like he'd create new constructions for it. Like, they think the way this guy is falling over this younger woman is pathetic. And I got to say, I do agree with that part of it. I would not use that language.

But it is extremely indignified. Let me quote here from a post. put a cat fatale put on x i've always said criticize me all you want but going after the people doing great work my personal life or those around me is a total disgrace this disgustingly baseless attacks against alexis a true patriot and the woman i'm proud to call my partner in life woman 20 years younger than him who's been dating for like a year and a two and a half years are beyond pathetic she has a rock solid conservative and a country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in 10 lifetimes i'm so blessed he's like have you ever heard her music

No, I don't care to, neither. I could promise you that. I have a bad ear for music, but I can tell her she's not a great singer, okay? And her music, like, the kid rock, Forgiato Blosjean and her stuff where, like, she just stands in front of, like, a green screen with a waving American flag and sings about the troops. Yeah. It doesn't, it doesn't hit. She's not going to make it. That's what I'm telling you.

No. And so the guy, the InfoWars guy, part of his was like he was going off for calling her a country music sensation is so far off and he shows what a fucking cuck he is. Maybe he's in love, maybe he's in love, you know, whatever. So attacking her isn't just wrong, Cash says. It's cowardly and jeopardizes our safety. My love for family will always be my cornerstone. You will never tear that down or keep me from him.

Bro, she's going to leave you. She's 20 years younger than her. you cannot be the father of her children. How is it, how does attacking Alexis Wilkins, a country music obelmiker from Nashville, jeopardize international security? Right. Yeah, but

you know, he's clearly lost in the sauce here, Mark. The theory that she's an Israeli spy or whatever, you know what I also have seen on the internet that's tangentially related to this is people think, people saying that Erica Kirk is a

Masad asset or agent or something that her dad was a Massad agent or something like that and so she's she's also wrapped up in that. Have you heard that? Do you know anything about that? I have not. Although everyone's beside everyone's Mossad. Yeah, right. I know. Yeah, I'm surprised I wasn't in Mossad. Well, didn't people in the internet think you were? Yeah, yes, right. Yeah.

Yeah. So, like I guess, yeah, you're right. The total lunosphere does think she's a honey trap. Um, So let me quote here my interview. She is Besides the fact she's doing in Cash Patel, she doesn't need to. There are others weird stuff about her. According to a profile written about her or an interview she gave to the independent women's forum.

She said her father served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. And he was a son of Armenian immigrants who fled genocide. So the immediate genocide was in 1915, I think. And the Korean War, if your father fought in the Korean War, that means he must have been born in the 1920s and 30s. She was born in 1998. Right. Yeah.

Old dad. I'm not saying the stories. I'm not saying the story's made up. I'm saying I want to know more about it. I went to school with a guy whose dad was like 72 when we were in fourth grade or something. You know, that didn't ever. Very famously, Theo Vaughn has had an old dad like that, which he's talked about a lot. so you know my wife's got older dad he fought me but like my wife's dad is really old he fought in

vietnam right yeah not korea yeah my grandpa was like korea age and i was born in 86 and that's my grandpa so a kid her being born in 98 and her dad i mean yeah that's my great uncle falling well he was in the army during korea he was stationed in germany but uh right yeah it's like it doesn't for my grandpa i'm pretty sure i will say that her dad was like 70 when she was born or whatever. I kind of get why she has a thing for older men. There you go. She's not a surveillance spot guy.

She's got a real bad daddy issue. All right. And finally, bosses that don't believe you when you're late for work because your car is a pedophile. Why is a chat bot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car? Pause it, pause. I want to process it.

Time to be a life. Matt, can we play that one more time? I want to be a little sort of processes together. How are things going in 2025? Yeah. Yeah. Is a chatbot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car. Toronto mom, Farah Nasser, says she was driving her children home from school when her 12-year-old son asked Tesla's AI chatbot, which soccer player it preferred.

Christiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi I got that My son was very If you're wondering If there's any stuff This fucking GROC GROC started doing that

You know the character The pilot character From Airplane It's like Hey Johnny you like You like movies with gladiators You know You were spending time

In a Turkish prison Johnny Like GROC started doing that You like soccer players kid Oh So He liked him when they're all sweaty. Yeah, that's the story of the Canadian Broadcasting Company. This poor lady, she's driving home, her 12-year-old son, her 10-year-old daughter,

and one of their friends driving them home from school. And her son asked the Tesla's AI, the GROC AI, which soccer player he preferred, Cristiano Ronaldo, or Lionel Messi. And the kid was really excited when the bot agree with him that Cristiano Ronaldo was better. and then immediately there's not like some buildup or long exchange he's just like oh that's cool you grew with me and he then goes cool will you send me some nudes to a 12 year old boy I mean it's kind of like that one of the earliest iterations of this I can't remember who made it or who put it out but one of the first times they attempted this type of chat bot thing

and they had to pull it offline because only 12 hours later it had become a Nazi or whatever and started Highland Hitler digitally. This is kind of like a similar version of that where it's like there's just so many sources or whatever online you can pull from or exchanges you can pull from that just basically amount to like, oh, that's cool, send nudes, you know, picks or get the fuck out or that whole thing.

That whole thing is sort of like a staple of massive parts of the internet. And so Grock got its hands on it and now it's asking 12-year-olds for dick pics. So pretty wild. Do you think they'd want to? control for that and programmers and whatnot but no that's that's that's that's that's added value as he took all he took off all the safeguards to make it unwoke right turns out if

you make something right you try to make some allow something to be racist the user wants to be racist it also will be a pedophile it's amazing how that works right it's almost like the computer smart and the person programming it um so like the thing about this uh groc a i has different versions is a spicy version where it's supposed to be dirty and say dirty shit to you this was not that this was the the the personality of this one is supposed to be a lazy male and it's named gork because they're very creative over there you know intentional wasn't spelling of grok do you pick the version of grok that you get in your car oh and you can switch it in any time and so let's go with gork yeah you know so she picked the one she thought it would be child friendly because it's just like

a lazy slacking persona yeah right but she had to pick one because let me quote here this chatbot is a new that was automatically installed in Tesla's the United States and Canada in recent months you're through your terms of service

legally obligated to talk to the pedophile Mm-hmm Yeah No Over my dead body bro I've never amused fucking Siri

You know or whatever like When Siri came out And it was a big thing fucking what At least 10 years ago or more Like

I never fucked with that And I still don't And I don't Fuck with any of these things either um we have an alexa i keep forgetting unplug we haven't used it in like two three years i don't like it doesn't do like it's it cuts out the only thing i ever used to use alexa for until katy just unilaterally unplugged it was uh it was in the kitchen and i could just say a song you know

alexa play that you know this play joey by concrete blonde or whatever and then they'll just play it you've been really to joey by concrete blonde i know well i did i just rediscovered it recently so I can't, I've been listening to it a lot. That's really the, that's basically the only use I've ever discovered for the Alexa was if your hands are like dirty while you're cooking, you can say, hey, Alexa said a timer or play a song. Right, pretty much. That's basically it.

It's pretty basic, yeah. It could essentially be a like voice activated timer or alarm clock slash, you know, stereo, music player or something. I know they can do a ton of other things, but I literally never used it. for that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand. I know I'm a Luddite and I always go back to Hayton on this shit, but I've yet to see a practical wide use for it among the congeneral population.

I know some professionals have found some uses for it, but like when they stop, when he put it out and make Excel stop working, you made a computer that can't do math and that's who you think is an accomplishment? I'm like, okay, I'm fucking out. But yeah, Elon Musk needs to go to prison. reason number 4,942 is he wants your car to molest your child. It's a good reason.

It's a good reason. I want to ask you real quick because I saw it because I was doing a Patreon thing right before I came here like just a couple hours ago, they're going to snap food stamps has that contingency fund and they were not allowing that to be used at first but now they're going to,

but it's only going to cover like half of the food stamps for the month of November and that's it like at best and it might be wrapped up in red tape and bureaucracy in some states regardless but it's like something and you know yeah

I don't honestly like it doesn't like even if like the topic intensity fund it's like three weeks worth which three weeks of being able to eat it's not not nothing but it's like it's still it doesn't remove the problem I think apparently it's only like two it's like they said basically half like half of every recipient's monthly allotment is what it will cover.

And they are doing that, apparently. But yeah, that's all it's going to do. Yeah, I mean, it's really depressing. They see the lives of our hunger of 47 million people as like a negotiating point of leverage. They feel like that. I think they really think Democrats come back to the table if they make people hungry enough. And maybe they, maybe will work because I don't know what I would do, you know. Right.

The, uh, I did, I mentioned on one of the show, one of the shows recently that, there was like AI generated TikToks going around showing black women screaming about using they're always black women. Oh, they did add. There was a fun one. They added in white people, white hillbillies who were talking about how they're going to have to go back to eat and possum that they don't need VT doesn't. Sure. Classic.

Fox News got fooled by that and wrote an article on their website about the videos being viral as though they're real. And then when they figured out they had fucked up. They quietly rewrote the article to be about how the videos are AI without any correction. And a lot of people take this as a news source. A lot of people like TikTok's a news source, which is the whole other problem. But like, there was one account that made 10 versions of the same video where it was a black women screaming the camera about like their EBT stuff. And they used the same script. And people thought all the videos were real, even though they were word for word the same.

just fucking take AI out back by a fucking barn and shoot it dude absolutely that's what needs to happen but it's definitely not gonna happen it's not even close you know what I mean like they're I don't know what would have to happen

for that to be on the table anytime soon but there's just not enough people that are interested in that like people on both sides like no it's too cool it's the future it's whatever and it's like it ain't going away and the only real hope is that it like remains relatively shitty, right?

You know, subpar, not that great. And it's already dangerous, even where it's at right now. Right. I mean, like, you're going to trust any, like, video of anything a politician says. Like, I mean, when we see an AI deep fake of Donald Trump announcing we're launching nukes against Beijing and the whole world weights on pins and needles, how do we know what comes after that? You know what I'm saying?

and like I really do feel like they've overreached so far with it that the Lottay backlash might be real. Do you know what I'm saying? They might be powerful enough to fucking like, I'm not sure what happens after that, but like I've yet to meet anyone who's deeply enthusiastic about this shit.

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