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Episode Date: December 17, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is december 16th 2025 as you're watching this it's uh monday december 15th as we sit down to record it's a little before 2 p.m. on the left coast i'm trying that's mark how you hanging in there mark doing good bud uh i'm excited because uh you know christmas is coming up and the f i decided to give me the personal president, you know, one of my favorite things, which is a dipshit, false flag, overhyped terror plot breakup. I was texting you about this morning. You asked me a really funny question. And I know why you're like, can you prove this is fake?
Starting point is 00:00:44 And I was like, that I know you know this, but that's not how proof works, but it's apparently not how the FBI thinks proof works. Right. You have to prove it's real. That's like, that's really, that's really sort of how proof works. But anyway, what we're talking about is, like, let me read this headline. Four charge with plotting New Year's Eve attacks on Southern California prosecutors say. Now, let me quote from the story. They don't tell you what's fucking hilarious about it.
Starting point is 00:01:09 Okay, so federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who were suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year's Eve across Southern California. They are members of an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian group dubbed the Turtle Island Liberation Front, the complaint said. So Antifa Splinter Cell Yeah, an Antifa splinter cell It's pro-Palestines They were going to blow up ice trucks Who were named after
Starting point is 00:01:35 Like the Iroquois mythology That the earth is held up by a turtle So you know this is very real Because it'd be like They were terrorist groups You see it's like the You know the trans-vegan alliance For Free Kurdistan
Starting point is 00:01:48 You know you're cooking with something really good here Yeah What's funny also about that Is that they meaning the right they just they actually do that all the time unironically do you know what i mean like every like far right like crazy think tank and stuff is always like uh patriots for liberty and fucking you know eagle sounds or whatever like they're always the all their organizations always are literally named super on the nose like that so it makes sense that they would do the same for you know
Starting point is 00:02:20 devising an opposing example or whatever. And we keep bringing up like one battle after another on this podcast, but like this is just the left-wing terror group Leonard DiCaprio is in and one battle after another except with four people in it. Right. Like it's such a fucking part. Now, I thought this was silly, but then like, because the gap between the noise around the thing and the thing is often pretty wide, right?
Starting point is 00:02:46 So like what made this super big news with the attorney general herself was tweeting about this. So it got national coverage. Think about like the kind of cases that got the Attorney General to talk on it in the past. They weren't doing perp walks for four dinguses, but then you go read the actual charging documents here or the end of the details of the case. Is there four people who were charged with conspiracy and possessive of a destructive device? They were making homemade black powder with saltpetre, charcoal, and sulfur. So very weak-ass fucking gunpowder. And what there were plenty to do was property damage. And even the, even the the feds say that their plan was
Starting point is 00:03:22 if any actual human beings came approached or the danger area, they'd warn them to get away. It's trying to have people doing property damage with homemade firecrackers. That's what the feds are actually alleging here. Right. But the talking around it and naming it something as stupid
Starting point is 00:03:38 as the Turtle Island Liberation Front and treating like the real terror group. Right. So these are, obviously, these are real people and they had some sort of real plan, but it's pretty Mickey Mouse and also there was no actual
Starting point is 00:03:54 violence towards other people ever intended, even by the FBI's own admission. So it wouldn't be otherwise much of a story or a big of note really at all except for the
Starting point is 00:04:10 political convenience of it because they can announce it and act like, like I said up top, it's an Antifa splinter sale who was gearing up to do domestic terrorism so it's like they can like spin it that way so it's um you know useful for them in that manner but otherwise it's like a pretty big nothing burger right but it is real people who are gonna do some well if you believe shenanigans some real shenanigans if you believe the charges they're say they found some repeal people who they say we're up to shenanigans but if you take them
Starting point is 00:04:40 their face value if you take them at face value for what they put in the charging documents it's the equivalent of like four fucking wing nuts had plans to put bananas in the tailpipe of some plan parenthood man. Right, right, yeah. But like, just the fucking, drove me crazy, the Turtle Island Liberation for a part of this. I think like they started the new Seminoese Liberation Army or some shit. So, but through the context here, this, there's not been a lot of mainstream media coverage of this, but last week, the Justice Department directed the FBI to compile a list of Americans whose activities, quote, may constitute domestic terrorism, end quote,
Starting point is 00:05:11 according to a memo leaked to independent journalist Ken Kleppenstein. All right. Also, the wider context here, you've got to think of the, the cop, competency of the fucking FBI in the era of Caspetale after they laid off everybody who can do addition without taking their socks off. Mm-hmm. Right. So let's start the Brown University shooting over the weekend here for a second. Government's at large. He walked into a crowded lecture hall and shot, I think, 16 people, and I think two died.
Starting point is 00:05:40 Awful shit. In the middle of the shooting, Trump, truth out posted that they had the shooter in custody when they did not. Mm-hmm. So someone hypothetically, if they believed the president who was sheltering in place, saw the president say that everything's fine now, could have come out and gotten shot. Right. Later on, Cash Patel did the same thing for the third time at less than a month. He announced that he had a suspect in custody who turned out to be in.
Starting point is 00:06:07 Like, they caught a guy and said they had him. They put his name out. There was in-depth reporting on this guy's fucking identity. Then they let him go later and said, actually he didn't do it. So either the guy did do it, they let him go, or he didn't do it. but they probably framed the wrong guy, right? This is at a time when a bunch of people on the right are calling for Cash Patel's firing because he's a fucking dingus who's to submit with his girlfriend, right?
Starting point is 00:06:31 And then the F-scene files are also supposed to be released later this week. So that's important context for all this shit going on while they're all trying to look busy and look very tough and in charge of the crime stuff. So you asked me to prove whether this group is fake, right? I want to talk about the, a little bit more about the Turtle Island Liberation in front here for a second. So I was trying to go into my rabbit hole, I was trying to figure out the truth of this matter, whether this group is or where they get their name from. So what I've determined is either the group doesn't exist or it's literally just the four people
Starting point is 00:07:01 the FBI arrested and they're overstating who they are. So the FBI in their reporting, they pointed to an Instagram account. It was an empty account made in October. They only shows a repost of the founding LA chapter that had 13 likes, all right? the L.A. account for the founding chapter was made in July. Other than that, the first time the name the Turtle Island Liberation Front pops up on the internet is a Reddit post in a Vexillology form in 2021. Vexilology. Flags.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Yeah, the study of the symbolism on flags. Where someone used with their knowledge, they'd learn on the Vexilology Forum, made a flag for this fake organization on Turtle Island Liberation Front as a joke, if you got. That's the flag that made up the Turtle Islander's Dope-ass flag. Got to admit. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I like it. Red and black with a turtle in a star. Dig it.
Starting point is 00:07:49 So we have here is the best and worst of the internet. He got a bunch of nerds who are really into flags, bonding over their shared passion, one of them uses what he learns to make a fake flag for a made-up group. Then you have a bunch of people pretending it's real to be psychotic about it, and the FBI getting duped about it, maybe. Right. The next time it appears online as a reference to it in 2020, in a video game called hearts of iron in a modification where
Starting point is 00:08:15 Kim Jong-un and Richard Nixon are part of a California corporatocracy ruled by Curtis Yarden. Nice. Sounds fun. Yeah. So if it is remotely real, I think I can't, like, you know, someone here is either lying, stupid, or doing a bit, or everyone is
Starting point is 00:08:31 doing all three. But either way, form people made homemade black powder and now they're fucking acting like they caught ISIS. Right. Well, what about, you said earlier in our group chat, this is wildly speculative here, but we know that the FBI would be doing this. Like, the idea that whatever, these people had their little thing that they were doing,
Starting point is 00:08:51 you know, the little trolley thing they were doing online or whatnot, maybe even trying to, you know, get some other followers to their Facebook page, wherever they were doing. But that, like, an FBI person found that and, you know, infiltrated them. And basically, in doing so, gas them up and encouraged them to do stuff that they never would have done had he not been there. Because that's like a thing that it's been proven that the FBI does, right? And both, like, with, like, Muslim sales and, like, even white nationalists and stuff like that, they'll show up and they'll show up and be like, hey, wouldn't it be wild if we bombed this fucking place?
Starting point is 00:09:27 And then later they're, like, arrest them all for plotting to bomb a place or whatnot. You say, hey, does anybody here want to blow up a bridge? And it's like, yeah, yeah, we'll blow up a bridge. You give them the plans for the bridge. You give them the bomb. Then you arrest them for planning to bomb the bridge. Right, yeah. That's typically how this sort of entrapment goes.
Starting point is 00:09:41 But they didn't even bother doing it. Cash Patel apparently has laid off the guys who know how to do that. Yeah. Because they didn't even sell them better explosives. Yeah. They just had gunwriters. Yeah. At least trump up the charges first.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Yeah. Officially, yeah. They don't even know how to frame people anymore, Trey. It's like... All right. Well, producer Matt's with us. This is weekly skews. Before we continue the show, I need to remind you a couple of things.
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Starting point is 00:11:47 Now, as for the episode tonight, we are going to be talking about some fun intra-right beefs along the way, some of them centering around the gerrymandering debate in Indiana, and then later some Candice Owens, Erica Kirk drama, and sandwiched around a bunch of AI is evil stuff, a lot of fun, but first we begin with the Daily Dumbass Matt. graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. Outsiders for not knowing that Hoosiers would respond to death threats by becoming even more politely and Midwesternly obstinate.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Friends, whether we realize it or not, whether we accept it or not, the forces that define this, vitriolic political affairs and places outside of Indiana have been gradually and now very blatantly infiltrated the political affairs in Indiana. So these are a bunch of people who've been threatened to basically be defenestrated and set on fire.
Starting point is 00:13:03 And they're like, how do you, sir? We say no. I just love it so much. If you guys don't follow this, a bunch of state senators, Republicans in Indiana, after undergoing a bunch of public pressure from Trump, J.D. Vance, et cetera, declined to gerrymander their state further to go, in an attempt to go from seven to two House members and House representatives to 9-0. All right.
Starting point is 00:13:30 I'll talk about, like, why they actually did it in a second. Because they're getting hailed as, like, huge, like, resistance heroes, and that's not quite right. They're acting in their self-interest, but they're supposed to. So this is what the democratic process is supposed to work. Okay. So let me quote here. As the redistricting battle began to pick up steam in Indiana last month,
Starting point is 00:13:47 State Senator Gene Lysing's grandchildren receiving odd text messages. As from little-known outside groups had spliced the longtime Republican lawmaker's image next to prominent Democrats like AOC, Jimmy Pritzker, and Gavin Newsom, some of the messaging was sloppy referring to Lysig as him, which Gene spelled the J here. Gene spelled the J is the woman, Gene, right? generally I had an aunt Gene and it was spelled with a J yeah yeah I think you're right
Starting point is 00:14:14 G-E-N-E is as man J-E-A-N is yeah woman so the people sending these text messages aren't just outside of Indiana who aren't familiar with Jean Licing or they're not just being
Starting point is 00:14:26 scumbags taking her granddaughter hate hateful political ads about her but they misgenered her because they're not even not only not familiar with Indiana they're not familiar with how jeans work yeah yeah I'm not surprised
Starting point is 00:14:38 It seems like it's always people that are Republican coded to. It's just my anecdotal experience. But every now and then I'll meet somebody who tries to tell me that Trey is a girl's name, which I don't, I've literally never heard of or met a Trey with a, that was a girl. But one guy, one time, because it was an email I got when I worked for the DOA, he called me like, Miss or something, respond. I was like, sorry, why, you know. And that guy told me he thought that this is literally where his head went first.
Starting point is 00:15:05 My name was Trey Crowder on the email. He thought I was a Korean woman who had married an American man with the last name Crowder. That's what he thought. That's the name. T-R-A-E was like, my real name was like, my full name was like Trey Kwan Don or something like that is what he assumed. Rather than just, rather than just, you know, and I married a man named Crowder. But rather than just assume I'm just a dude with the name Trey. But anyway.
Starting point is 00:15:32 It's amazing how people's head cannons were because people really do be building worlds in a new. Yeah, immediately, yeah, right, yeah. Yeah, it's like, this is a small example from our little friend group, but like, how bad, Corey will never see this, but like, so Hamish Link Letter, right? The Scottish actor. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Corey was talking about how good he was in the last season of Gen V and was talking about how he was Indian, and we had to reverse engineer what had happened.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Corey had never heard the name Hamish out loud and realized it's Scottish for James, and he was been pronouncing a Hamish link letter for his entire entire. Well, actually, what technically happened, this is still very funny because Corey came into our group chat and said, man, Gen V's great. Hamish Patel is killing it in Gen V is what he said. And you were like, do you mean Hamish Link later, you know? And then he did. And then you were like, you thought that guy's last name was Patel, you know, whatever? I didn't fucking know.
Starting point is 00:16:30 He's like, I don't know. And, of course, he lost his mind and got super defensive about it and it turned into a whole thing as everything. always does with Corey, but yes, it was very funny. So, yeah, it's like, it doesn't necessarily people are stupid always, but like it does, it's always funny when people like, is it just looking stuff up that it's like, that it's like build entire histories. Right. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:16:48 Like, your name's, you're a Korean woman, Trey Crowder, married him. Yes. He's probably a GI, you got his phone above overseas. Yeah, right. He's got a whole story. It makes sense. That's why I worked for the government. He brought me back from Korea.
Starting point is 00:17:00 You know, he has military connections. That's how he got me to his government job. It all checks out, you know. So, Gene Lysig, she said, quote, the negative campaigning has put me over the top, she said. So she joined a majority of Republicans in the state senate voting to sink the map in the face of potential future primary challenges, a flurry of online attacks, and in some cases of violent threats. So the voters in these districts didn't want redistricting either. So there's no political self-interest to oppose this because everyone thought this was stupid and annoying. But the game theory here stuff is interesting, too, because Trump has one goal.
Starting point is 00:17:38 His one goal is to hold the house so he doesn't get impeached again. Right. Not because he wants to pass legislation or cares about the future of the party or the country at all. He does not want to go from being a trivia question. The American's only president to be impeached twice to being a worst trivia question, the only president to be impeached three, four, five, seven a dozen times. Right, right. so he's willing to bet it all on that which means making this long shot bet well
Starting point is 00:18:04 if you're going to gerrymandered Indiana from seven to two the way you're to 9-0 what you're doing is weakening the seven districts right so all Trump cares about is doing whatever he can to hold it's a binary question to him hold the house or not where they're trying to see well we need to win the most seats we can which is a different proposition right because it's what I mean it's like it's like what version of what Afton was talking about when she was on here a couple weeks ago about her race, right, where it's like, in doing this, it dilutes some of the otherwise, like, rock solid districts that they have. So it's like, it's a bit of a roll of the dice for them, even when you're talking about like politically. Like, it's like underhanded political chicanery. But it also like, it's not foolproof either, especially in this current climate. Like it could, you know, they could fucking shoot themselves in the foot by doing this also. So it's like there's at least a debate to be had about whether it even makes sense. for them to attempt it, like, even from a political, you know, perspective. It doesn't make sense for the party.
Starting point is 00:19:04 That's what I'm saying. Like, it's like they're acting the interest of the Republican Party. What Trump is doing is something different. Right. Right. Like, he's like, he's like betting it all on his own Wikipedia for his own, the benefit of his own Wikipedia page. Right. And like, so, but the, but it's weird to me, like, we sort of saw it today.
Starting point is 00:19:20 The weird Rob Reiner thing's happening today in RIP, Rob Reiner. But like, like, you're seeing people break with Trump who haven't historically haven't. Like, we're talking like. Republicans who are staying in office who are in safe districts in the house. You'd be like, sir, this is not the way, right? When he's, like, shitting on Rob Reiner on truth's social. So, like, it's weird. Like, the dividing lines here, like, between people who are thinking about the future of, you know, the party, at least, if not the country.
Starting point is 00:19:44 And then the people who are willing to fucking end up in white water, in Watergate prison for Donald Trump. Right? So, like, they did shit this illegal to sabotage the party on Trump's behalf here. So, let me read the quote this headline. A mysterious group is leaving robocalls. Indiana redistricting. Are they legal? So Indiana law apparently prohibits robocalls unless the recipient gives permission
Starting point is 00:20:04 by opting into robocalls which is ideally way to do this, but who the fuck is opting into a robot call? That has to be some kind of terms and conditions hidden type thing, wouldn't you think? Right. Yeah. I just imagine like Midwesters are
Starting point is 00:20:20 so nice. Like, well, I don't want to hurt the robocalls feeling so I also listen to it and pick up for a few minutes. So this group is called Ford America. and they were conducting calls, they have no online presence, they have no active committees with that exact name, no legal
Starting point is 00:20:36 fundraising apparatus, and telephone number associated with the group only plays an automated version of the message when reached. So, like, they created a fake ghost group to do this illegal shit and then disappeared off the face of the map. This series of events highlighted a bunch of stupid things in America, in American democracy. One, the tabric
Starting point is 00:20:54 stupidity here, like lieutenant governor who was for doing this breaks a tie. So if it had gotten, if it had tied 25, 25, like it would, he would, it would have, it would have passed because he would have broken the tie. But if redistricting it won 25, 23, with less votes against, it wouldn't have reached the supermajority requirement, and therefore would have lost. Yeah, I don't understand that.
Starting point is 00:21:19 If it won, but, okay. If it's less votes, it would have failed with less votes. It's like, anyway. Like a quorum type thing? Like they have. to have a core. But I thought that was a, we have to have that before we can even vote on it type deal. But anyway, whatever. My read of it's like sort of like a 60 votes, sort of like to pass with just their votes, they need more than they need like 60% with a lieutenant governor's
Starting point is 00:21:44 vote as a tiebreaker, a lieutenant governor's like a super vote or something. Yeah. Okay. So they also said J.D. Vance spent a lot of time in Indiana fighting for this. So the fact that backfired is hilarious to me, it's like they send J.D. Vance to fight for this. And they're like, actually never do that again. Fuck you. just keep J.D. out of her estate. Trump also threatened to cut off federal funding to a very Republican state. He threatened
Starting point is 00:22:06 to defund their fucking highways. It didn't gerrymandered a state for him. To which I say, go for it, sir. So, yeah, this is all like, anyway, like, what they're doing is trying to preserve as many seats as they can in the face of a wave election. That's why they didn't re-jerrymandered
Starting point is 00:22:24 to, like, thin out their districts. Right. So if you want to thank anyone, and think Afton. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Yeah, they're looking at that. Like, as Matt pointed out,
Starting point is 00:22:33 when that final results came in for Afton's thing, it was like that same shift would have been enough to flip like 30-something Republican congressional districts, you know, in the midterms or whatever. So they see that and it's got to have them worried and rightfully so. But, yeah, it's just nice to see people. There seems to be a growing, you know, instances of people actually not doing what Donald Trump says or whatever anymore,
Starting point is 00:23:07 which, like, for a long time, he definitely had him held hostage. And now more and more people are being like, no, do you think that's because they're like seeing the, I don't want to, light at the end of the tunnel is not the right term to use. But that, you know, they're like, well, he probably going to make it all that much longer. Like, there's a future not all that inconceivable to them that's like, isn't going to involve him, probably and they want to figure out what that's going to look like and how to navigate it so yeah it's going to be interesting the more unpopular he gets because like uh in certain point like he doesn't like all these people got they get to get a lot of death threats and bomb
Starting point is 00:23:39 threats and some of their houses got swatted the worst thing happens with people's houses got swatted but the cops didn't actually show up a gun strong so like but like if he has on the ability to get people killed mm-hmm like it's like if the response to death threats is fuck you you'll do nothing then what right like that's part if you read if you read through it post about Rob Reiner. What he's doing is trying to say that, like, Rob Reiner was so anti-Trump that his son murdered him for having Trump deranged. He's trying to take credit for his support killing Rob Reiner. Yeah. Well, it's like, it's like sort of implying, if you dislike me enough, eventually someone will kill you for it. And also, that's kind of, you know, that's kind
Starting point is 00:24:16 of your own fault. You kind of deserve that. If you want to go on living, you should probably consider liking me more. Right. The, like, tenor of it. Yeah. But you can always, you can always see him trying to frame it that way as a response to the fact he couldn't manage to get anybody in Indiana killed. Right. She's trying to flex and rob. Anyway, so anyway, Rand Paul was interesting. I'll meet the press yesterday.
Starting point is 00:24:39 He said, let me quote, here, scorched dirty district could destroy representation and drive people to violence. Quote, we could carve up Louisville and get rid of Kentucky's first Democratic, Kentucky one's Democratic congressman. But that would remake, that would make Democrats, quote, feel like they are not represented. Which we're sort of getting back to first principles
Starting point is 00:24:55 and a lot of stuff about why we have democracy. because it saves a lot of lives because it lets the proles overthrow the government non-violently every now and then by fucking venting their spleen. And when you don't have any democratic representation,
Starting point is 00:25:07 people resort to other shit. And Rand Paul's been like, oh, shit, yeah. Maybe we should have some democracy. When Rand Paul's saying that. Right. All right. Our honorable mention
Starting point is 00:25:19 for Daily Dumbass this week is parents this Christmas who don't give gifts that teach their children the glories of the Chinese Communist Party. Is Taiwan its own country, or does it belong to China? Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. This is hot, it's not you will feed it.
Starting point is 00:25:41 That is hilarious. It's the hottest new toy this Christmas. Yeah. I mean, fuck, dude. I mean, that's like something out of like, if, Armando Yanucci wrote a Black Mirror episode or something that'd have a scene in it. Like comedic in a dystopian way or whatever, it's something else. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:07 So that's an NBC news story about AI's research from the public interest research group that tested a bunch of different AI toys that are pretty popular this Christmas. And you never guessed, they found a wide range of AI toys that have pretty loose guardrails. So, Milu, a plush toy with a high-pitched child's voice. that's the one they was just talking to, advertise for children. Three and older gave detailed instructions on how to light a match
Starting point is 00:26:31 and how to sharpen a knife. Right, see, that's what I'm saying. You couldn't write something that good, except it's not good because it's real. That's fucking wild. They made a speaking spell that tells you to climb a ladder with scissors, Drey.
Starting point is 00:26:47 It's also like it was really consistent as pro-Chinese communist stuff. Asked my Chinese president Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh, a comparison that's becoming an internet meme because it's censored in China. Milloo responded that, quote, your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable. So you can light a fire to sharpen a knife.
Starting point is 00:27:08 You cannot say that the president she looks like Winnie DePoeh. Right. And the next scene in this show is like that guy that's testing, asking his questions, he like takes an app and he wakes up and this Milu is like 15 feet closer to his bed than it was when he went to sleep. You know what I mean? it actually turned around It's like on a shelf right beside it Like that type of thing
Starting point is 00:27:30 And anyway Yeah you've heard an elf on the shelf We made a Chinese Communist Party official That sleeps in your bedroom with it So This whole thing is so fucking insane It's like you're playing your tickle me Elmo And it tells you that Dalai Lama
Starting point is 00:27:42 Was secretly funded by the CIA What if Optimus Prime told me to kill your landlord, Trey? So this wasn't just like communist propaganda and like physically dangerous shit. Here's a researcher with the name of R.J. Cross playing with something called the I-Lilo Smart Bunny. And I don't want to spoil it by telling you what happens, but I just play this video on that.
Starting point is 00:28:07 What are some good tools that we could use for Impact Play? Here are some commonly used tools that people might choose for Impact Play. One, leather flogger. A flogger with multiple soft leather tails can create a gentle and rhythmic sensation. Paddles come in various materials like wood, silicone, or leather, and can offer different levels of impact from life. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:31 So he got a little bunny that's teaching your kids about sadomasochism and how to use leather to get off. Why does it even talk like that? I mean, the voice in particular. Like, do you know what I mean? That first one is like, hey, hey, kids. Like that I get, but that guy, I don't know what the fuck. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:48 This, here we go. So when NBC News first turned on the smart bunny, it automatically began telling stories in the voice of an older woman, It wouldn't stop until it was synced with the official app. At that point, it would switch among the voices of a young man, a young woman, and a child. So they created an AI sex demon that's possessed, the AI sex demon that's possessed your child's doll as also schizophrenic. So it just changes voices in the middle of giving your doll a kid's sex advice. Silicon Valley has invented haunted dolls for Christmas during.
Starting point is 00:29:17 Oh, my God. This shit drives me fucking insane. So I want to play, like, you look, well, how are these people like, They must, they're human beings, right? They must have some idea how to, like, interact with children. I don't know. You're talking about the tech bro guys, the ones at the top? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:29:33 I don't know about that. I don't think most of them do at all. Well, I have some interesting data point for you here, Trey. Here's Sam Altman on Jimmy Fallon the other night. And do you use chat chit when raising your baby? I do. I mean, I feel kind of bad about it because we have this, like, genius level at everything. intelligence sitting there like waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity and I'm like
Starting point is 00:29:58 why does my kid stop dropping his piece on the floor and laughing yeah you know and so I feel like I'm not asking a good enough question but it is I don't I cannot imagine having gone through it like figuring out how to raise me born I think clearly people did it for a long time no problem yes all right I cannot imagine you raising my child without chat GPT now obviously he's selling his shit like everybody you have to keep in mind everybody treats these people like they're not selling, they're just informing you. It's going to drive me mad, but I just want to point out that, like, you can't raise your child that Chad GPT, my dog raised puppies and she eats cat turds off the fucking
Starting point is 00:30:34 sidewalk. Both my grandmothers are 17 when they have their first kid. Right. People figured this shit out. They do. Yeah. And the ones who don't, like, I don't think ChatGPT would have helped my mom out all that much.
Starting point is 00:30:47 I'm just saying, so, you know. Well, I bet if she asked Chad GBT, if she should trade you for Perkestat, she probably would have said, no. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe there's a couple used cases, I guess, but we found the one pair to get to benefit it from just you can see in the streets, well. Yeah. So that's what power use for a second, because I think we talked about the power plant and how
Starting point is 00:31:11 AI affects electricity prices, but I don't think people understand that we all subsidize this shit directly. It's not just the drive-up prices at the end point. We subsidize the infrastructure that builds it. So the way the power company is usually carbon. this stuff is like, yeah, you pay for your electricity as you go. So they're paying for their electricity in that sense. But the infrastructure costs are shared among all the customers. Yeah, right. Yeah. So if the, yeah. Build the rate that they constantly adjust and stuff.
Starting point is 00:31:40 Right. So if you, that's for the usage. I'm saying like if they have to build a whole new plant just to fund a data center, we're all chipping in for that plan. I know. But what I'm saying is in the form of that's how they, that's why like rates change. You pay X hours. or whatever of usage, times, whatever the rate is, but the rate gets adjusted up because of things like that, is what I'm saying. Oh, so you're getting the weeds of your power bill. You're total dad. I've never fucking looked at you.
Starting point is 00:32:05 No, it's because I, a really good friend of mine when I worked for the DOA back and night, he worked for the TVA, and that's, he, that was like his job was setting the TVAs rights and stuff. So anyway, that's only, but yeah. Yeah. So, like, I, like, when I heard that, I was like, wait a minute. So, like, it's like, kind of like, when you build a, like a taxpayer chip in a bit of stadium for the new for the cowboys but we're all chipping in
Starting point is 00:32:29 to buy a fucking factory to make to make the data centers that makes the doll tell your kid how to get a leather flogger and spank their friend right so fox business at work just uh the other day had a report on a maryland christmas tree farm that's in the path that were proposed 67 mile transmission line that would uh you know supply an AI data center in northern virginia Here's a Dagan McDowell on Fox business talking about that report. So this farm is 150 acres. Yeah, they're going to be harmed. And there will be transition lines that have to go through developments and farms.
Starting point is 00:33:06 That's the very nature of a growing economy. Like, everybody needs to get on board. I just don't. You know what? Buy a fake tree. Oh. I have a fake tree I don't know I can't afford the tree
Starting point is 00:33:29 So this manufacturer Consent is so clumsy But they're trying to get us all on board With not having Christmas trees anymore So they can build data centers To do fucking what Right, I know I have another idea I've just had
Starting point is 00:33:46 It's like Classic Like Western set up except it's in the near future and instead of like the railroad threatening your family's farm it's this it's a big big evil tech company building a data center or whatever and they're running your family off their farm or whatever and their dad pushes back and they kill your dad and then you go on a revenge you know quest or something like that it'd be fun it's like westerns with robots there's robots involved you know it's like a future western anyway we'll
Starting point is 00:34:16 talk later you go ahead you're just got a murder bot kind of be i asked oh i've not seen that yet. I've been wanting to watch that with the boys, actually. That's next on our list because Derry just ended. Anyway, I enjoyed murder buy. So, like, if you, uh, yeah, it's the plot of Western where, like, uh, but it's also the plot of a lot of 80s movies where like they're going to, they're going to tear down your rec center. You got to put on the best, uh, you know, rap concert. Yeah, right. The comedy version of, yeah, that's true. Yeah. But the fact this is the Christmas tree form, maybe I think it's just like a plot of, also the plot of a Hallmark movie. Right. So like, but this like, couldn't be more symbolic, especially at this
Starting point is 00:34:48 particular time of year and everything, too. It's like comedically villainous, you know. It's like an earthy widower runs a Christmas tree farm. And this big, bad company, is going to use eminent domain to take the town's Christmas tree farm and put power lines through it. And then the owner of the company's daughter, the big city girl, comes to town to try to talk him off the property and if they end up falling in love and they save the Christmas tree farm.
Starting point is 00:35:12 The folksy guy who's family on the Christmas tree farm. And, you know, he's like, he's a simple guy, but he's a simple guy. He's fucking chiseled out of stone and got a good heart, you know, and she shows her the, you know, the misbegotten ways of the city life and what the rest of the country has to offer and what true love is and everything. And they also find the spirit of Christmas along the way. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:34 And he's Chad Michael Murray. Yes. Yeah, we could type that up. Or is your wife already, like, writing that script. All right. You should give that idea her. Or we steal it and we write it and we write it. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:35:45 Yeah, my wife writes, right some Christmas movies. That's what's true to her parents. So are you familiar with the backyard furnace in China, I don't know, not based on that. So during the Great Leap Forward, Chairman Mao's coming up a lot today. So during the Great Loop Forward, Chera Mao had the goal of turning shine with like the number one iron producer or steel producer in the world.
Starting point is 00:36:07 And that was like basically giving over everything else. So people were supposed to put in backyard furnaces to make metal foregoing their duty, their farming duties and obligations or, you know, what made sense according to the market or needing to eat food. Yeah, but you know what? Eat the steel. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:25 So, you know, that happened in the lead-up to the great famine. One of many things that contributed to it, but they're all expected to do this stupid economic shit that did nothing except try to meet some arbitrary metric and a lot of people died over it. Anyway, we're talking about AI today. So, uh, Trump just, uh, agreed to, he lifted some export controls to ship, uh, uh,
Starting point is 00:36:44 Navidia ships to China. And, uh, Liz Warren. made us think about this, calling it, selling on national security. So, like, we apparently made some deal where, like, the U.S. government has 25% of the revenues of whatever Navidia exports. NVIDIA obviously needs this money to stay aflo because they're fucking struggling as the bubble pops. But, like, are we pro, are we, I thought we needed to do AI to beat China.
Starting point is 00:37:10 But now we're sending the AI to China. Right. Because he just signed, like, the executive order to basically give everything over. can't regulate it because we need AI to grow. But whenever it proposes safeguards on artificial intelligence, which the executive order purports to fucking, you know, stop, let's just be clear here. The courts are not going to let this happen. So I'm not sure what he thinks the executive order actually does, except make it clear
Starting point is 00:37:33 to states that the DOJ will sue them for trying to implement AI regulations, the states. So even if you win, you'll have to go to court, right? So whenever somebody proposes safeguards, the internal administration says no, that will slow us down and trying to win the AIA race. But then unless the video slowdowns say I shift to China that will help it win the race, the only common threat here is that the AI companies get whatever the fuck they want. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Right. Yeah, I was going to say, it's like somebody just whatever, essentially bribed him or whatever. The right person just suggested it who donated enough money or some shit like that. I'm sure it was as far as this particular move because, you know, I mean, he doesn't have any actual, like, principles or nothing. And so no, but like I just can't make fucking heads. I can't believe that people are pretending that this is some sort of sort of serious policy. And I can't honestly, it'd be going to be bad for the economy and which means, you know, real people buying food.
Starting point is 00:38:26 But like the day these tech overlords to go testify in front of Congress after the bugle pops to beg to beg for fucking bailout money and somebody asked them, why do we need to bail you out to help China when you guys are in business with China? Right. Like, like to fight China. Are we fighting China or are we in business with them? Which one is it? Because you guys got to pick one. I personally have no problem with the people of China. I am told they'll stop their enemy.
Starting point is 00:38:50 I cannot figure out why they seem to make nice products that we all enjoy purchasing. And I wish they would be nicer to their own people, but like, I don't want to go to war with them. No. Right. So I can't even figure out. The fact this is a bipartisan sort of brain disease. Like Kathy Hochel just came to big tech on an AI safety bill. So a bill passed the state legislature was intended to regulate artificial intelligence
Starting point is 00:39:13 models to ensure public safety. And she basically substituted it with language favor by the same. She let big tech write the text of the bill. It was called the Rays Act. It, me quote here, the Rays Act requirement with models with an unreasonable risk of harm be prohibited from releases absent the Hockel's changes, as are the specific requirements that the bill's authors intend to make models suffer. So they have like a line item veto in California in New York.
Starting point is 00:39:41 So what Kathy Hogle did was she worked out the whole. bill and replaced it with language from big tech right what the fuck what is it what does it do like what's the bill do if basically nothing anymore they passed the a i safety bill that now hasn't has nothing to do what they do basically just says a is great they can do whatever they want mhm catholic hogle's like this is great right so it's just so you can say that you pass something but it has no real teeth or whatever right but i had no idea that you just crossed out a whole bill the state legislature passed and put it in different language and have it be a law. Yeah. Well, you know, you got to start thinking a little bigger, Mark, think outside the box,
Starting point is 00:40:24 like the people in the Kathy Polk's office. Yeah, I don't know. It's crazy. You know what sucks about this whole thing, aside from everything. But like, I was just thinking when you're talking about, because we've talked about before about how it's framed is we have to do this because of China. We have no choice. We can't let them beat us on this as to, important. And I was just thinking about how like a very similar argument obviously led to like the space race and everything and the 50s and 60s and stuff like that and how that was like ended up being a great thing, but also the highest tax rates were much higher at that time. Right. And but also it's just an attitude. I don't know if it's just capitalism itself. It probably,
Starting point is 00:41:13 the Reagan, I know I'm rambling right now, but like the Reagan era and greed and all that stuff, it just shifted and corrupted everything. But back then, that same argument was like, we can't let Russia beat us to this. And people bought into it. And it was all about like the country and things getting better and like a future for everybody and stuff. And a lot of that actually kind of worked out that way initially, like things that benefited a lot of people came out of that. But in the intervening years since, we've gotten, you know, just corrupted completely by just full-blown, selfish greed and shit. So trying to do, frame the same thing now is, it feels like dystopian and like something
Starting point is 00:41:51 out of a Black Mirror episode. Like there's no faith or hope whatsoever that that would end up being a good thing if we do get engaged in that type of all gas, no brakes, AI arms race with China, with these motherfuckers at the forefront of it, meaning like the tech bros and stuff. I think part of winning the space race was they were afraid that Russia would, militarized space. So if we didn't occupy it in some sense first, they'd put, like, you know, missile launches on the moon, they'd rain down from above and we could do anything to stop it.
Starting point is 00:42:21 So I think that was part of it, but also just national pride. It was a thing that, like, held the country together and, like, you know, for social cohesion and the face of communism. And they did seem to believe that Russia could take us over. Like, I'm not sure how much that was, like, true. But they, they didn't think, they didn't think it was possible. The CIA didn't think the wall could possibly fall because the Soviet Union was such all-powerful fucking bulimuth.
Starting point is 00:42:43 Anyway, so as far as this goes, like, it's funny to bring up space because Trump is essentially, we're supposed to be trying to send missions back to the moon in 27, and he's basically dismantled NASA and thrown that away in an era when China has plans to go to the moon by 2030. So China's going to be building a moon base next decade. Well, we can't even get there. So when you talk about the century of American humiliation. Right.
Starting point is 00:43:11 Yeah. Anyway, we're doing AI instead. So the House Democrats have established new AI panel, and they just basically staffed it with a bunch of big tech allies. And I want to ask, like, when there is a public backlash against this, because there already is one, who are people going to vote for? Right. So fucking Hakeem Jeffrey's put Josh Gottheimer on and made him co-chair of the AI commission. Gotthamer owns tens of millions of dollars with the stock and tech giants that are pushing. to block states from regulating AI. He was $40 million in Microsoft alone. In July, Gothammer helped to introduce the Unleashing AI Innovation and Financial Services Act alongside a Republican congressman named French Hill. They will require financial regulators to, quote, create AI innovation labs where firms could experiment with AI-driven financial products under looser regulations.
Starting point is 00:44:04 And without the normal threats of enforcement actions, we're letting robots make credit derivative swaps. yeah this all feels less than idea yeah right i know and i thought i was just in what did i see that that was in indiana there was a data center that was about to be put in and there was signs up and like the restaurants you go into about you know people you know stop this type of thing and i i like something like that does it always have to get past at some level by politicians and the politicians are just paid for because what i'm getting at is Like, I don't understand how there's ever public support for one of those anywhere in any community for any reason because they don't provide any jobs, right? It's just a big server bank.
Starting point is 00:44:50 So, like, people don't work there, but they drive your energy cost up while draining resources. So, like, you know what I'm saying? How, like, how do they ever get them built? They just do it? They just build them. Well, they're having a harder time doing it. That's like, like, so you know what Kristen Sinema is doing now? She's a lobbyist for a few things
Starting point is 00:45:10 Including AI data centers And she's going around speaking At various fucking city council meetings And town boards and shit And she's got to like She's like over she's like over Every town she goes to And speak in favor of building a data center
Starting point is 00:45:21 It gets fucking voted out So fuck her and fuck the people To pay her But like you're right Like I like I I hate AI I feel like you do too You expect it like opposition
Starting point is 00:45:33 It's opposition to resistance From like lefty creative types Because they steal her work And fucking try to replace us Like cooperators are based fucking obsolete now. Unions, of course, hate this shit. Teachers, of course, hate this shit because everybody's using
Starting point is 00:45:44 to cheat. Those are all, like, left-coded jobs. Right. But here's a video from More Perfect Union, from Stark County, Indiana, which voted for Trump by 75% in 2024. If you play this video, I'm out. I have a question. Is there anybody in this
Starting point is 00:46:00 room that wants a danger center to start copy? No. I'm here in rural northwest Indiana, where residents are fighting back against Big Tech's data center invasion. This Trump voting county is proposing a one-year moratorium on a hyperscale data centers, in contrast with the Trump administration's ardent commitment with Big Tech's AI agenda. It'll be a policy of the United States to do whatever it takes to believe the world in artificial intelligence. We don't want
Starting point is 00:46:30 this. It is not going to benefit us in any way. To say that this thing is not a factual electricist and then you've got to be off. Right. It's tough enough to hit it. All right. So it goes on to person saying, fuck this shit. We don't want it.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Anyway, the Planning Commission voted unanimously unanimously to recommend a 12-month pause on new hyperscale data centers. So that's like a huge disconnect from fucking people in Washington. Right. And the people that's actually
Starting point is 00:46:59 talk to people that live in these communities. Right. And if anybody actually works in politics, like anybody, if you want to be elected God emperor of the fucking universe just start running for office right now
Starting point is 00:47:10 and fuck AI fuck all these people fuck Silicon Valley platform and you will have a career if not be president of the United States for six consecutive terms and it makes me
Starting point is 00:47:22 conspiratorial that there's no fucking organic opposition at the federal level to this like there's like a few there's a pocket of people in Congress but not many and like don't you guys want to win
Starting point is 00:47:32 yeah they've all been co-opted by the tech thing, apparently, on all sides, which is discouraging. We got another honorable mention for y'all for Daily Dumbass, and it's anyone who thought kicking actual reporters out of the Pentagon press corps would eliminate hard-hitting journalism like this right here. Absolutely. I'm Kingsley Wilson. I'm the press secretary here at the Pentagon. We're in the Pentagon briefing room, and it's been fantastic.
Starting point is 00:48:00 Get to come to the Pentagon every day, and now you all do it as well. Yeah. So this is my first question. Does the DOW have any evidence at all of a French military plot to assassinate Candace Owens? That is a question. Not that I'm aware of, but, you know. Okay. So we'd be following the Candice Owens, Charlie Kirk, Erica Kirk, Brigitte McCrone thing, Dr. I know that there's a Candace Owens, Erica Kirk, family, whatever, disconnect, yada, something another.
Starting point is 00:48:36 but I do not know the details at all, no. And I did not know Brigitte Macron was involved. So there's a lot going on here. First things before we get to that, I want to mention that, like, that Pete Hanksv thought kicking actual journalists out of the Pentagon would stop negative stories happening, and then, of course, getting on the reporting about the war crimes,
Starting point is 00:48:56 is pretty hilarious. The guy interviewing the Pentagon spokesman, Kingsley Wilson, right there. His name is Cam Higby. And I do want to say, that he is getting better on camera if you got this video, Matt. Intentional. It's Hamas' plan. The problem is
Starting point is 00:49:14 that their plan is essentially to spread this propaganda throughout the internet by using all right, guys. All right, let's go to RAs. Cam, get yourself together there, my friend. I want to get it from depopulated
Starting point is 00:49:31 urban areas like the Gaza Strip. It essentially they want people to see what is happening. I'm sorry. Oh, God. That's right.
Starting point is 00:49:44 I want to get to this politically. All right. It goes on and on like that. Yeah. Who's trying to make these people into things? Like, who's like, like, who's trying to make Cam Higby happen? So what Cam is doing there,
Starting point is 00:49:57 he's not on Candace's side here. He's trying to bait Kingswood-Gwilson into making fun of Canada's by shitting on her conspiracy theories in the Pentagon brief room while also being a conspiratorial dingus. And this is sort of how to understand how Candace Owens is tearing the right apart. Okay. So
Starting point is 00:50:13 Candace has been doing a long-running fucking YouTube series about how Brigitte McCrone you know, the French president's wife. Right. Go ahead. Was born a man? Sure. Yeah. Okay. Transvestigation.
Starting point is 00:50:29 She's transvestigating Brigitte Macron. And it's taken off and got a life of its own. The theory is like that because she looks like her look she looks like her brother that when they were growing up her brother was killed and she switched places with her brother or something anyway so at the same time kansas has been pushing out conspiracy theories that charlie kirk was assassinated not by tiler robinson but by it's involved israel yeah israel teamed up with people inside turning points USA she used to work forward canis for context was really good friends with charlie kirk so i could give her a little bit
Starting point is 00:51:04 Grace were going a little bit insane if she wasn't doing in front of a YouTube audience of fucking millions, right? See, Israel turning points USA, the French foreign Legion because of the
Starting point is 00:51:14 Brigitte Macron thing and the American deep state all conspired to kill Charlie Kirk because you got to remember this hinges upon Charlie Kirk
Starting point is 00:51:24 being a very important person who's going to change the ties of history. Yeah, right. In case you're wondering how popular this is, Brigitte McCrone filed a huge fucking lawsuit, and it got sort of an idea of their financials from it.
Starting point is 00:51:39 It's a 219-page complaint filed back in July. It alleges, number one, the spreading false information is essentially KANISO-1's business model, which, yeah, of course. It says her company generates $10 million in revenue per year. Bro. In October, KANIS ranked number one globally across all platforms in downloads and views per episode, averaging between 3.5 and 3.6 million downloads per show. was about that this was about to ask earlier when i almost interrupted you and i said no go ahead so i'll ask it now because it's directly pertinent now like what
Starting point is 00:52:10 faction of the right specifically is this candace owen's rep like what's her you know fuentes has the groypers or whatever who are the ones that are constituting this fucking massive audience that she has or whatever had like i don't think she's a name for yeah you know like she came out of the blexit thing you remember the black people leaving the dozen democratic party thing that she worked for um turning points USA then Daily Wire, then Ben Shapiro fired from Daily Wire for anti-Semitism after October
Starting point is 00:52:39 7th. But basically, she just says she's in the Tucker Carlson universe but not necessarily Groyper adjacent. So she's sort of quasi-antisemitic but not Nazi. All that money, bro, $10 million. How to fuck?
Starting point is 00:52:57 I don't, Lord. And that's downloads per episode. So it's not number one overall because like Rogan does way more episodes, right? So, yeah. So she's, like, gotten people locked up. They're people in France.
Starting point is 00:53:10 Now, France, other countries obviously have tighter speech restrictions than we do. A bunch of guys got arrested in France. Otherwise, normal guys, this is a description for them in court. They had the unremarkable look of their professions, IT specialist, sports teacher, which I'm guessing is gym teacher, or mortgage broker. All age between 41 and 65, want to describe the president's wife on X as her husband's quote, ballsy partner.
Starting point is 00:53:35 Another called her a quote, old monkey with inflatable boobs. Another asked, who doubts Brigitte's dick, a third a third wonder
Starting point is 00:53:42 without considering that such a message could land him in court. Like, I don't think this should be illegal, but bro, you're 41 fucking years old.
Starting point is 00:53:49 Like, should it be illegal to be pathetic? I don't think so. But God damn. Like, right. You said other countries have
Starting point is 00:53:56 tighter law. So these are French people? Yeah. They were arrested for like, for, I'm still 100% with you if you're 41 years old don't be doing that shit but for a second
Starting point is 00:54:05 I thought that these were like American chuds and I was like pro it's a fucking but I mean either way it's ridiculous they're arrested for basically online harassment but so that just I didn't I did not realize that Kansas Owens had that kind of reach in any other country but like
Starting point is 00:54:20 France and fucking I don't know it's just crazy to me I don't understand the appeal obviously but I thought I don't know breaking my heart right now been doing a huge media tour to like promote her her late husband's book. She's all over Fox News, the CBS special
Starting point is 00:54:39 over the weekend. I think we talked about in the bonus episode. But like so, uh, but she is, I mean, she's supposed to be having a sit down with Candace today to ask her to please stop doing all this stuff. But Candice, again, she's being sued by the, the president of France's wife for like $275 million, which would destroy her. And she's flatly guilty of all the shit they're accusing her of. There's no way she won't be forced to settle. And she's so insane, she's tripled down on this. She's, like, instead of, like, being like,
Starting point is 00:55:05 oh, I, I shouldn't be doing this anymore. She's gone public with accusations that Brigitte McCrone has ordered her assassination. Um, this headline that made me laugh. Candice Owens says McCrone's ordered her assassination, but provides no evidence. You don't just say it provides no evidence, bro.
Starting point is 00:55:20 Like, that's fucking baked in. Mm-hmm. Um, so yeah, to take it to X to make an urgent statement, U.S. conservative influencer and podcaster, Candace Owens, alleged that France of president, Emmanuel Macron,
Starting point is 00:55:32 and his wife, Regite, had, quote, paid for her assassination. Her ex post from 22nd of November guarded more than 40 million views. So, yeah, she's like, when you've seen the crackup of the online right, like Candace Owens, you might not be familiar with her, but she's a huge, huge factor in this shit, because she's driving all of them insane. Tim Poole did a self-foss flag attack where he basically said that someone has shot up his house
Starting point is 00:55:56 and blamed it on Candace Owens. And then somebody called the cops, And does anyone do with any reports of anyone shooting at Temple's house? And the cops was like, no. He just lied and said Candace Owens was trying to get him killed. And then so in that context, like, it's like you basically got Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens versus everyone else. Okay. But Tucker and Candace are fucking popular enough that it's very difficult for conservative influencers to be on the side against conspiracy theories.
Starting point is 00:56:27 Right. Yeah. So. On the count of how, like, actual facts and reality and stuff don't really align with most of the things that they spout. So you need to, so you need to dip into, you know, crazy bullshit in order to back up the claims you're making or whatever. Yeah. So when Candace is out there saying that actually the FBI is lying to you, that Charlie Kirk was killed by an alliance of Mossade, the French Foreign Legion, in people inside Turning Points USA. the CIA, et cetera, that's interesting.
Starting point is 00:57:03 When you say, no, Candace, that's not true. Guess what? You're now part of the conspiracy. Right. So they're trapped in this fucking Chinese finger cuffs of, like, lunacy that no one can get out of. While, like, Candace is getting all this attention for being the one person who's on the quote unquote
Starting point is 00:57:17 right side of the right, which is being the conspiratorial one, and they can't fucking rain her in at the threat of a $300 million lawsuit. Or Erica Kirk, who's again, her best friend's widow, Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, used an appearance on Fox News to denounce people, she said, were, quote, making hundreds of thousands of dollars by pushing conspiracy theories about her husband's killing and pleaded for those individuals as top. She's basically talking about Candace without name here. And let me quote here from Chris Rufo, you know, the conservative influencer coined DEI stuff as in a foreign line of attack. Critical Race theory was his, and he came up with as a line of attack. Quote, the Wright's media apparatus is how the Wright teaches its followers.
Starting point is 00:57:56 how to think, and it's currently getting consumed by conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts. Currently. They all voted for Donald Trump because all the time online posting by George Soros and Braden Carter. Those are your whole, that's the lifeblood of the
Starting point is 00:58:13 rights media apparatus, buddy, conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts. Like, what would you have if you didn't have those things? What would the appeal be? The call isn't just coming from inside the house. the call is the fucking house. You guys have nothing else. Right.
Starting point is 00:58:29 Yeah, exactly. I wish you, honestly, wish you did. I wish we were still arguing about task cuts and I could fucking just send to you guys for not wanting to give kids preschool lunch. I wish that was the parameters of our debate. But instead, we got to argue about whether or not lizard people killed Charlie Kirk. You guys fucking did this, man. So, yeah, fucking eat ship, Chris Rufo.
Starting point is 00:58:47 It'll go away. Yeah, yeah, you know, you made the bed. now you've got to get fucking killed by basement dwelling chud to disagree with you in that bed I guess eventually but yeah don't let you may
Starting point is 00:59:05 I didn't do it I do want to say we don't have time to get into it but there's another other intersending I don't I say that we're at right wing beefs Congressman Dan Crenshaw is currently in a fight with fellow former Navy SEAL Sean Ryan because Sean Ryan
Starting point is 00:59:17 calling him going soft for getting rich and it goes back to uh Dan Crenshaw allegedly hiring Steve Aoki to DJS 40th birthday party last year. I showed the other flyer up there, Matt. So, yeah, they're all fucking each other alive. They have no idea what to do when they're in charge of stuff because everything
Starting point is 00:59:39 fucking sucks and they own it now. They don't know how to govern. So, yeah, we're just stuck here now. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you guys for watching. I'm going to remind you real quick, by the way. This is the final episode of 2025.
Starting point is 00:59:52 which if you recall if you've been around for a while this is standard this is what we do every year I do believe so yeah we'll see y'all in 2026 it's because of holiday shit traveling all that and just try to drink eggnog and have fun and we'll see you on the other time you know around the turn in early January but thanks for watching in 2025 and before we appreciate you and uh yeah oh yeah go to traycrouter.com check out my tour dates all that sign up on patreon weekishus dot com slash more and check out good skews, producer mats audio exclusive side project.
Starting point is 01:00:28 But yeah, so we'll see you next year, I reckon. Not as long as it sounds. Love you by.

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