wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Election Week Edition

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

 Fake Lord God where do we even start? We bring you the PINNACLE of political JOURNALISM expressing the very PULSE of AMERICA as the election unfolds between November 3 and November 5. Including live reporting from the scene featuring our correspondents: Carmen Morales (FL), BJ Barham (NC), Corey Forrester (GA), and Tushar Singh (AL). Also legal advice from Diamond Drew Morgan. There's just SO much, y'all. 

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I'm Trey Crowder with my sunglasses because my eyes are still fucked up from the surgery last week. And that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? Was that, Trey? You're feeling better, at least? I do feel better. My eyes feel better.

They just don't look better. They're still looking a little fucked up. If you guys can see them in there, I'm self-conscious about it. I'm not going to lie. I went to the grocery store today. I kept my head down the whole time, avoiding eye contact with people,

which is how I always treat the grocery store. But it was a little more pronounced today with my jacked-up eyeballs. But here we are. It's Apocalypse Eve, Mark. It's the L. election night. We're going to do the thing. Yeah, I'm not quite sure while we're still doing this, and by this, I mean, democracy, but here we go. So, all right, here's the deal for everybody.

Here's our plan for tonight. We're not fucking CNN. Obviously, you guys know that. We're going to try, we're going to bring you actual facts and information as they, as it becomes available. We're not going to mislead you with any bullshit. We're going to give you actual breaking news as it breaks. But we're also going to tell you. to lighten the mood, make the evening a little funer, a little less stressful for everybody as we go throughout the episode. Normally we do an hour. We're going to do more than an hour tonight. I don't know how long we're going to do. We're just going to kind of see how it goes. And here's another great thing for you guys. We have went above and beyond. We've went out of our way, Mark, to position strategically multiple evening skews correspondence in all, not all, but many.

of the crucial swing states in this election, and they will be reporting live as we go throughout the broadcast. That's right. We're going to have reports from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and more, and it's going to be a good time. Are you ready for that good time, Mark? Can't wait, man. Anything to give my mind off waiting to know nothing. That's right. Also, you know, if you're drinking, I hope you're drinking, if you're okay to drink, you know. I mean, as long as you're doing it, responsibly or not, just, you know, you know you are. See, look at Mark.

Responsibly. Gigantic bottle of whiskey. That's how you do it. I appreciate, I like where your head's at. Yeah. So with all that said, we're going to get into the show, and we begin, as always, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, producer Matt, let's get that dumbass.

All right. So, as you all know, much has been made of the various demographics of the electorate that Donald Trump would need to lock down in order to secure his re-election this evening. You know, the suburban moms. Everybody talked about the suburban moms. The Russ Bell workers do what? Remember NASCAR dads and soccer moms? NASCAR dads card dads, soccer moms, Russ belt workers. These are crucial demographics that Trump has to lock down. But his son, Donald Trump Jr., today identified and off-forgotten. fraction of the electorate that Trump would also need to lock down,

and Donald Trump Jr. did his best to activate this demographic via the internet. Producer Matt, if you got that graphic, throw it up there. That's right. Hashtag Amish for Trump. And three, not two, not one, three American flag emojis. Amish for Trump, the Trump campaign doing everything they can using Twitter to get out the Amish vote. It's a bold strategy, Mark. How do you think it's going to go for them?

That was a trending among Clodsdale's over 35. It's just they've had some men of nights that campaign rallies, like standing behind Trump because they have some beard and the hats, but they're not Amish. And they want to go back to the 1700s. Of course, they fucking love Trump. Yeah, right. But you're not going to grab them using Twitter.

Like a hashtag isn't going to be effective. No, you got to get out the Amish vote. You got to print it out, mail it to them, and wait two weeks until they go to the mailbox. All right. So, that's our daily dumb ass now. Get into the show itself. It's 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific. Polls have started to close.

Election results are trickling in. Again, we're not CNN, so we're not going to do the constant updates of things that aren't even really updates. Right, Mark? that's been upsetting you for most of the day, I believe. Yeah, I mean, I was watching the CNN before he came on, and it's so funny because they keep, like John King was literally like, we're seeing bad warning signs for both campaigns all over the state of Florida.

Now, only one person out of the two can win. It's zero-sum race. It's impossible for them to be bad for both campaigns. It's fucking, you can't be, but they're doing that wrestling thing where it's like they, or the Bachelorette thing where it's like the biggest rose ceremony of all time. And it's nauseating, and I wish they wouldn't do it. they know something.

Having said that the latest as of right now, how many states have been preemptively called, right? We got Kentucky for Trump, I believe. None of them are surprising. Kentucky for Trump, Vermont for Biden, Delaware for Biden. Are there more? No, they call Vermont, New Hampshire,

some random ones like that. It's like nothing, nothing that absolutely wasn't automatic on the board has happened. Yeah, the only one's worth watching closely right now, I guess Florida, Georgia, and Ohio. I know that they extended the polls open later in North Carolina because they had some equipment malfunctions, some of the polling places there.

Well, we'll be visiting North Carolina a little later in the show, but for now I want to ask Mark, I've heard both sides of this question as far as how much we're actually going to know by the time everybody goes to sleep tonight because, you know, mail-in voting is all that. Some people have said, yeah, look, because of all that, we're not, it could be weeks, it could be months

before we know who won the election, which is terrifying, but we've seen it happen before in our lifetimes. I've heard other people say, actually, we're probably going to know more than you expect. What do you think? How much do you think people are going to know at the end of that? Because one of those things were like, there's a few key states that if they get reliable,

called for Biden by tonight, then it's kind of a death knell, right? Do you think we're going to actually see that? Yeah, I mean, if it's a, uh, if it calls, if Florida or Texas or Ohio, or I think also Georgia and North Carolina go for Biden, we can just stop talking about the election and just drink. I think what we all want. Uh, let's quickly, let's go back. Let's revisit election night, 2016. What was your experience with it um i've told this on the on this thing of the stream before it stopped me but i was at uh i went to a lakers game that night oh right yeah okay and so i was at the game when they um got on the subway to go at north hollywood to go to the staples center uh everything was

fine got off ship was falling apart because you didn't have cell reception um go to the game they finally call it for for trump like in the middle of the first quarter which is amazing because everyone stands at their phones, but the players didn't, right? So the players are just speaking to their shoes and nobody cheering. Right. And it was pretty miserable. Of course, the Lakers were bad, too, so it wasn't a lot of reason to cheer at that point anyway. But yeah.

Because of what happened in 2016, a lot of people on the left got punched in the mouth. Well, I mean, the entire American left got punched in the mouth. There was a lot of overconfidence about the results of the election, and I was one of those people. I did not believe it. Even though I had publicly stated multiple times, Trump should be taken more seriously than we have been taking him. I still, at the end of the day, I didn't believe he would actually win. And ever since then, I have been gun shy and shell-shocked about publicly or overtly displaying any confidence about this election.

And now we are actually here. It's not irrational. It's hard to be confident about a system where candidate, you know, is going to win by 8 to 10 points nationally and still lose a squeaker. college. So it's like it's a stupid system. And so this is the fruits of it is a lot of anxiety over shit that's already been decided or should have been. Yeah. Right. Don't hit. No, no, no, no, don't hit. What was there? I was reading earlier, there was a, there's a lot of flaws of the electoral college system, but there's one that comes down to like a tie or being too close to call and it being left up to Congress or the House of Representatives and and how that

system could be exploited and everything. And we've actually already been through that in 1876, apparently. So there's been, you know, over 140 years of time we've had that we could have used to fix that. And do you know, in like the 60s, it was a very popular by a bipartisan idea to get rid of the electoral college and almost passed under Nixon. And then some like, of course, some southern senators who were pissed off about the Civil Rights Act, you know, tanked it. But it wasn't like, a lot of things we think of is super controversial right now. We're not controversial. It was a simple, straightforward idea to have the person against the most votes.

I mean, imagine we did this like by states where like the person who won the majority of counties won in elections opposed to like the, that's who won governor. It's stupid. It's a bad idea. There's not some secret reason. It's a good idea. People look deeper trying to find some rationalities. Like, one of the big arguments for electoral college is like, well,

it forces candidates to campaign nationwide. But we're watching three states to decide the future. Like three or four counties. Like Biden and Trump have been living in Pennsylvania for too much. Yeah. Right. And that's what always happens. Like that's why swing state is even a term that Americans are familiar with

is because it always comes down to just a couple of states. And I think in Michigan, I think it was Michigan in the last election, on average, if you divide the number of votes, votes by the number of precincts, it was two votes per precinct in the state of Michigan that swung the elections. That's two votes in counties in one state that determine who wins. And yeah, something seems fucking about it. We had the electoral college in theory to keep candidates and spending all their time in California, New York, and Chicago. But instead, they spend all their time in Pinellas County, Florida.

So I don't understand how this is a better solution. but again, I didn't wear a wig and shit in a bucket. So I'm not as smart as a tiny father. All right. Well, we are working on getting our first correspondent report. We're going to, we're going first to maybe the key battleground state, Florida, the American utopia of Florida, always at the vanguard of, you know, American progressivism and cultural relevance.

Florida always out there being the shining light, the beacon for the rest of us to go by. We've got our correspondent queued up here, but we're trying to get the video going. I'm going to say, okay, we're ready. I think Matt, throw her up there. This is the evening skews correspondent, senior Florida correspondent, Carmen Morales. Hello, everybody. Carmen. Hello, everybody.

Thank you so much for having me. I am very excited to be here. I'm coming to you live right now from the polls in Florida. What do we put the swingers in the swing stay? You know, because a lot of people like to swap the wives here. And it's very exciting to be here. But I notice a lot of people putting their keys in a bowl right before they go into the polls. It makes no sense.

But maybe it's just something that they're used to, you know. I am currently hiding underneath the Hyundai accent that the evening skew has provided. Thank you very much, again, for having it. because you spent no expense. Exactly. And I am hiding underneath here because when I was voting earlier, I saw a man who had a T-shirt on the said, Black Guns Matter. And I was like, wait a minute, don't you mean all guns? And then I remember he probably have much guns, you know? So I am, I am hiding under here until he leaves. But he has been here at tailgating after he has voted. So I am very, he is partying like his high school football team just won a regular

season game. He is really going hard. And so I am, I am just going to be broadcasting from underneath this car right now. And I'm going to tell you, I saw a lot of things today. I saw a lot of things. It's been very, very interesting. Like I saw like an array, an array of things today. I saw like a rednecks for a Biden sign. I saw that. And then I also saw an alligator, he kicked out for not wearing a mask when he was trying to vote. He was refusing to wear the mask. And I don't know why, because I was like, listen, okay. He even beat off the arm of the lady who was telling him to put on the mask. And so then they didn't let him vote.

So we had that going. And it was very, it was a lot. What part of the state are you in right now? Right now. Other than under the Honda accent. I mean, in what? Well, right now, I went to the South Florida. I went to South Florida, right?

Because see, the common misconception is that Florida is full of rednecks. And believe me, there's plenty. But there's also a Latin people too, you know. And that was like one of the most confusing things I saw today. I saw a construction truck pulling into the parking lot, right, with a Puerto Rican flag and a Trump flag. And I was like, wait a minute. Don't you remember? Don't you remember the hurricanes?

And I don't mean the Miami baseball team. I don't mean the college baseball team, the hurricanes. I mean Irma and Maria, you don't remember that one when Mr. Trump, but no give a shit about that? You don't remember that happening? You know, because like Trump cares so little bit about Puerto Rico. It makes it bush like compassionate about Katrina. You know, it was very confusing. So that was something that I saw that was like making me a little crazy.

And then because of South Florida, there's a lot of, I thought it was a zombie apocalypse, but it's just the people that live there. They're all these sheep. They're so old. Like I talked to a lady and she said she was going to vote for Biden because she relayed more to him because they both have dementia. That's what I'm dealing with. It's pretty crazy.

It was like, but it was cute. You know, sometimes there were people voting with their families. You know, there was like a young lady pushing like an old lady in like a wheelchair. And I was like, oh, me, look, cute. Because it's like, it's like a family, you know. But then I remember one of that vote is probably canceling out the other vote. So it was like, oh, look at a nice little zero. We have going out.

So, okay, let me ask you this, Carmen. Carmen Morales, everybody reporting live from Southern Florida. What kind of indication do you have about how the Cuban vote is turning out down there? Well, I don't know if you know this, but statistically the Cuban people are very conservative because they don't want, they don't want communism, right? So they like the Russians not very helpful, which is also why it's confusing because the Russians are the one helping Mr. Trump, you know, with the collusion and all of that but I did see a couple people show up via boat to vote.

So I'm not exactly sure which way they're going to go. But I hope that because of all of his, you know, his regulation for immigration, they're going to go through because that is what I am personally. I know you're not supposed to tell people, but I personally am going to vote for Signor Biden and his caretaker. Because I think they are going to be able to make the most change, you know. I know a lot of,

I know a lot of like black hospice nurses and they always get everything done. So I think I'm going to vote for the nurse. I am pro nurse. So I am voting for Biden and Ms. Kamala Harris. Okay. We heard of your first, everybody. If I'm understanding you correctly, you were saying that you're voting for a sweet, find a sweet Jamaican nurse to be president basically.

I mean, if you ever, you ever go, you ever have Curry Gold. It's so good. They know what they're doing. They know what they're doing. What was funny, though, is I did see a libertarian fall down, right? And somebody else helped him up. I was like, oh, look at that. Look at that.

You got pulled up by your buss rushed by somebody else. I hope you learn something today. So, all right, let me ask you this. You mentioned earlier people thinking Florida's full of rednecks. And in my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, Carmen, that's mostly the upper half of the state. They say about Florida, the further north you go in the state, the first. south you get. So I'm wondering if that is sort of what makes Florida the battleground. Is it between, is it like a miniature snapshot of America where it's between northern Florida

and southern Florida that kind of determines how the whole state comes out? Is that how it works? It's kind of like, you know, how everybody makes fun of the Florida like a dick. You know, it's like a dick. And then the further south you go, the more sensitive you get because you get the people who have a feelings and stuff. And then you go up to the base. not as much feeling. So it's just people who are like, hey, don't change nothing. And it's like, okay, but nothing has changed in why you bitching, you know? Nobody is, you have, you still live in the woods, motherfucker. Like, you still live in the woods. Nothing goes, nobody's going to come to get you, you know? It's very crazy. But yes, it's like you find, you find, you find more people

that have more sensitivity, the more south you go. Because then you also get more, the And the more Jewish means and Jewish men. And so there's a lot more people down there. And then at one point, it was like there's many people like there's a lot of retirement communities. And he's not like a much social security. The old people get upset, you know, because they want to be taken care of, you know. So it's weird because they also, they also provide a lot of STDs, a lot of old people here. retirement community.

That's true. People don't know that. It's a serious issue. Yeah. And so it's like if you want a health care because you have the clap when you when you're 70s, you're not, who are you going to vote for? It makes no sense. How are you going to get you, you're all ladies, not free?

You're not going to work on when you're 75. You already had a hysterectomy for Christ's sake. Exactly. You get it. So I hate to, I hate to do this to you, Carmen, but I'm going to ask you right now to make a prediction. It's not journalistic of me to ask this, but I'm still going. going to do it. If you had a gun to your head, give us a prediction. I might have a gun for my head.

You are in Florida. I am. Yeah. But what, how, what are you calling it if you had to right now? When we wake up tomorrow morning or later tonight when they call Florida for one side or the other, what do you think is going to happen? Well, I did see, because I did see something that was very optimistic today. I saw it was like a record number of young people who come out to the post. That was something that made me feel very good because, you know, I remember when I was in college, it was like, ah, whatever. It's like just like how you, when you're young and you think you're never going to die, you know, and that's why you jump out of the tree. You know what I'm saying? But this year, I saw record number.

I wasn't sure if it was like a polling place or like a craft cocktail bar, you know. There was like so many young people out. So it makes me very optimistic about us being able to go. blue because in 2016 we have it very close it was only like a one or two points the difference between between the two of them so true to form i i hope i'm hoping very much this year we go blue well i saw some college campus polling places at 100% turnout today in florida so i'm i'm hoping that there is enough uh you know not hopefully this year we have no dead people voting right well i actually i was about to ask if you guys have gotten the the the

the chads and such things under control in the years since 2000, when Florida had all their voting issues, all that dirty laundry aired to the world. You guys gotten it all together down there? I hope so. I think the only voter fraud I saw today was President Trump coming down here to vote and pretending that he no comes down here, but other than to play golf and to hang out with Mr. Jeffrey Epstein,

because he's still alive. Who else did he hang out with? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Cuban from South Florida noted rapper Lil Pump was with Trump today and officially endorsed Trump. Trump called him Little Pump, but you know, close enough. You know, he has a lot of people swayed. Are people in Florida swayed by Lil Pump's endorsement? I don't know. I do know that my father once asked me to be as professional as Pitbull, the rapper Pete Bull, you know, the one with several DUIs. He was like, why don't you dress like that guy? I go in a suit. Then I would look like Hillary Clinton and nobody wants the lady. at a party, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to sell joy, not rules, you know? So I don't know.

I don't know if that is going to sway a lot of people here. Maybe not because they're Cuban vote because they're very conservative. So they probably don't like too much rap. And anyways, I know I don't like a reggaeton very much, but my ass does. So every time I feel it, I hate dance to it every single time. Hey, Carmen, I just saw that they called the Trace Home State of Tennessee for Donald Trump. Do you think that was at all influenced by Tennessee's huge Cuban population? Maybe that was it. I didn't know they had rivers that go all the way up to the Tennessee for them to get to there.

But we are very strong swimmers, so we will go anywhere we can, you know, anywhere they will have us. So Miami is not just for Cubans anymore. We're spreading. All right. Well, thank you very much, Carmen Morales. Evenskew Senior Florida correspondent. Thank you for joining us tonight. And stay away from the alligators down there.

Don't let me believe. Okay. I hear somebody chanting four more years. I need to go before. This has been Cameron Morales. Reporting, guys, thank you so much for having me.

I really, really appreciate it. You guys enjoy the rest of your bride. Thank you. Thank you, Karen. Karen Morals, everybody. Let's hear it for reporting live. So, all right, we had a little bit of news to cover there towards the end of that before we go to our next correspondent, come up in a few short minutes. My beloved home state of Tennessee going for Trump, obviously that's been projected at all time. I'm not at all surprised by it.

Based on the numbers, it does, look, if y'all don't know, our governor is like a Trump acolyte who's just one of, of the very fucking worst bill lee he sucks marcia blackburn one of our senators just a soulless succubus fucking black-eyed goddamn conservative pit of immorality that is marshal so anyway we're not look we're not we're not we're not doing good lately i don't know what i don't know what else to say i'm upset by it but i'm not surprised by it Uh, just another shocker. Mitch McConnell is, uh, projected to win. So that they call it that way. So, um, all you suckers that gave $35 million to Amy McGrath.

Way to go. Um, all right. So did we, have we, have there other states that have been called, Mark or Matt, since we've talked like, have we named all the ones that have. Nothing interesting happened. But, uh, Ohio looks really weird, good for Biden, but weird doesn't make any sense. I don't know to make any sense of it from what I'm looking at. What's the projection about Ohio, like how it'll, I don't mean how it'll shake out.

I mean the likelihood of it taking a really long time. Like Ohio, always a battleground state. I think we'll know Ohio tonight. Okay, good. That's what I thought. So what's the latest on North Carolina, Mark? I'm setting up the next segment here. We got some live boots on the ground reporting coming to you guys

from the great state of North. Kaka Laki. but Mark, won't you frame it for us a little bit? How's North Carolina looking? Well, Biden's projected to win, but, and also he's up by like 13, 14 points, but it's so early that it's like what counties are coming in. It doesn't make any sense. I don't know.

I'm looking at the TV and what they're saying doesn't make any sense. I mean, it doesn't, it's not any new information. You know what I'm saying? It's just like Biden's up by a bunch, but also Trump's going to gain on him. Right. And North Carolina, Southern state, but has flipped in recent history, though. North Carolina went for Obama. It's one of those.

And they elected a Democratic governor the same time they went for Trump. They have a Democratic governor by like 10 points and Trump won by like two. It was a weird ticket splitting thing. But he apparently has good approval ratings because of how he handled COVID. So Biden should win North Carolina? Well, North Carolina, let's get into it. Let's see what's going on there on the ground reporting. We got the evening skews senior North Carolina correspondent, B.J. Barham.

How are you doing? Hey, there is. Hey, how are y'all? Good, brother. Good, good. Tell us, man. How's it going there in North Carolina? It's North Carolina, man.

We're the progressive beacon of the South. It's a fucking shit show, is what it is. Right now, everything I see is all week. Biden's been up by two or three points varying between that. But we were horribly wrong in 2000. Right. Well, I was about to ask if you trust that. I don't trust anything.

I'm the most pessimistic human being right now. In my lifetime, North, again, we are, we tout ourselves as this beacon of progressive Southernism, and we voted for one Democratic president in my lifetime. Right. One. We voted for Obama in 2008. We did not vote for Obama. in 2012.

Before Obama, the last time we voted Democrat was 1997 for fucking Jimmy Carter. So we, but it's weird in my lifetime, we've only had two Republican governors. Everything is, we always vote for a Democrat for governor and tend to vote for, for some reason they trust a Democrat with the state, but they do not trust a Democrat in the White House.

I have no idea. What's your, what's your mama and I'm saying, like based on family dinners and what? not and Facebook posts from people you graduate high school with. Based on those key data points, how are things looking? It's a weird thing because, you know, North Carolina touts, we have the highest concentration of PhDs in the country. Right. Research Triangle. The research triangle. But we also have a large subset of our state that will try to argue that fucking your second cousin is completely okay.

So. But as far as my family goes, I come from. a very rural part of the state. And so I've had to block all of my family on Facebook. I sent them all a message and it was like, hey, we're not going to be friends anymore until after the election. I'll still come home for Christmas, but you're fucking crazy. Have you seen any Trump trains over there? I've talked to people in Tennessee, buddies of mine who went to vote,

and they voted early. And they said, like, when they were there a week ago, there was a Trump, a parade. A Trump parade. A Trump train trucks with the flags and shit, driving back and forth in front of polling places. Are you encountering that sort of thing? A lot of it. Yeah.

Once you get outside of these kind of metro city centers, it gets real red. We like to think of the cities here in North Carolina is kind of these cultural oasis. You know, it's Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington. Anywhere where there is a public university, those counties go blue. I don't know if that's a coincidence or not. But anywhere there's a public university, it tends to go blue. I've got neighbors who have like eight flags hanging off the back of their trucks. And one, when the fuck did we start having flags?

I like to think back to all those Obama rallies I went to where we had flags and we tried to run over Republicans. Oh, wait, we didn't fucking do that because we're not a fucking cult. it's scary to watch yeah do you think I had a video today and I mentioned this in it but I'm wondering do you think like any of them

have ever once considered the parallels between the Trump train with the trucks and the flags and the guns and shit and like ISIS or other fundamentalist terrorists in the Middle East like what's a picture you envision of them over there they're in the back of a pickup truck shooting guns in the air

flying the ISIS flag off the back of it like do you think they're at all aware of any of that? A buddy in mine was like, he's like when I served in Iraq, we called those infidels. Like people driving around trying to take everything into their own hands. I think that's lost on them. I think that they don't get it. They don't understand it. They are becoming the thing that they hate. It's hard to watch. You know, these good old, and like I said, they're good old boys. And they're easily swayed and they're fucking walking human embodiments of a monster.

energy drink that are able to get on the internet and fucking spout their views. And don't get me wrong, I get on the internet and spout my views, but I like to base it in science. In fact, not something my aunt made up. But it's hard to watch, man. And being from the South, you know, we've talked about this on multiple occasions. It's really hard to be a southerner and try to talk to these people because we don't have the same set of facts anymore. It used to be there was right and wrong and you could argue and whoever had the most right points won the argument. Now it's just you can base your argument off whatever facts you find that fit your argument. And that's not really conducive to any arguing. My thing with the flags is how fucking big they are. Like they're like

20 by 10 off the back of a truck. I saw like somebody driving through a suburb and it flew off and almost called the big pile up because nobody could see. It's like we get it, man. You like Trump. Like, it's a flag, half that size makes the same point. I don't know. I've never seen another election where we had just, and I guess maybe because he can sell them. It's just a new thing for them to sell on the website. But it's fucking obnoxious.

It just screams like, I didn't get hugged as a kid. Well, all, first of all, a little breaking news, although it's not that breaking, in my opinion, but we'll announce it real quick. Apparently CNN is projected West Virginia for Donald Trump. So that just happened. What? West Virginia, I know crazy, right? Actually, you know what?

Let's just, let's get into that just a little bit. It's not crazy, but it is a little crazy to me because West Virginia, coal country, coal miners. Like, the Democrats should be the party of people like that. Do you know what I mean? Of working people, of coal miners. That should be solidly Democrat ground right there. And it very much was. My grandfather was a registered Democrat's entire life.

But it used to be you were either a small, poor, working farmer who was racist or you were a big city rich guy who was racist. And so the Democrats were just as racist as the Republicans. This thing called the Civil Rights Movement happened. And people had to draw a line in the sand. So that's where you see probably the 68 election is where you start seeing the flip of Democrats become, hey, we're still the working class people, but we're not okay with owning black people. And that's when you see the Republican shift. and then you get to the 80s and you start seeing

the evangelical shift with the Republicans. And now it's so funny to watch these people who are every single election voting against their interest, voting against the thing that could help out

the middle class the most and it absolutely blows my mind because when you try to explain this to them, it's like, hey, listen, like this party is like offering everything you want out of government. Why do you keep lining the pockets of these rich people?

No, man. You don't know how it is, man. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln, you know, did you know what part of he was affiliated with, man? It's like, get the fuck out of here. So let me ask you this. We're talking about the good old boys and they're flying the big 20-foot flags and all this shit. Yeah.

What do you think, as a journalist, B.J, what do you think is going to happen if they lose, if he loses? Like, there's been a lot of talk about that, but I'm just wondering, in your professional opinion, what do you think is the most likely outcome from that in the scenario where he loses they lose this election? What do you think they'll actually do? They're going to have to find a new key personality trait. So many of these people have made that part of who they are as people. And so admitting one that he lost, like the only way that we're going to get out of this completely unscathed is landslide. Like it has to be undeniably like, dude,

your guy lost. And then we get to repeat the same fucking throw up they had in 2016. Stop being a sore loser, man. Let's unite as a country and get through this together. We get to spit all of that bullshit back to them. And then we're going to see

how they really take it because I know. Go ahead. Trump will be doing a rally in Florida the two days after he's called lost the election. He'll be filed for reelection. He'll be running in January for 2024. I mean, I may it's going to be interesting that the party's not going to let

he's not going to let go control of the party. They still love him. So he probably could be the nominee. And here we go again, you know. Second. Man, it's hard to, it's hard to walk. What about him?

He's, go ahead. Oh, you're good. I would, like, I don't, I totally agree with Mark about, about Trump and like he'll be on, he'll have,

he won't be on Fox News. He'll start the Trump News network, right? A week later, he ain't going nowhere. gonna still have to deal with him in some capacity. I fully believe that, but at the same time, there's been so many examples recently of him alluding to the fact that he's going to just run the fuck away if he loses.

The funniest one from yesterday, Mark sent it to me to text. He was talking about his children, and he named all of his children, and he said, it's like, look, wouldn't be here without them. They've been great, but if I lose tomorrow night, they'll never see me again. which they'd probably be okay with. But I'm just saying he keeps alluding to like running off if he loses, which I think we all agree that would be ideal. But I just can't believe that he actually will do that.

Biden made it an actual like campaign commercial. It was like that quote. He was like, if Joe Biden beats me, you'll never hear from me again. And then it's just like, Joe Biden, I approve this ad. You know, it's what we all want. You know, I can't wait to have a. where I wake up and I don't have to worry about getting on the internet and wondering what dumb shit they retweeted the night before. I miss just not having to see it in my face every day,

like each day escalating to where you're so desensitized. You're like, what, he killed a bunch of midgets? That's crazy. I guess it's a, I guess it's a two. No, he just lined them up on the front lawn and just shot them all. It's like, well, you know, it's Tuesday. Last Wednesday did the same thing. But the only thing that's holding me together and inspiring for me is watching how, and I see it around the country, but Northconn, especially, how many more kids are coming out and voting in this election. That's the only thing keeping me from, like, going off the deep end tonight is knowing that,

because I know that in 2016, we had right at like three million people early vote. This year, we had almost five million people early vote and almost a million. million of them were mail-in ballots. And so you're talking about 45% of the registered populate voted early voted in 2016. And then we have 62% voting in this election. It's, it's inspiring. But like I said, for every one of the, you know,

cultural oasis we have here in North Ghana, there's also a bunch of backwoods that are going to fucking vote for Trump no matter what. He could be like, I'm going to come take everything you own and then fuck your wife. and I'm going to piss on you as I burn your farm down. And they're like, man, Trump 2024, Trump 2020A. He's pro-life though, buddy.

Yeah. A couple of things real quick, Mark, just to keep the facade of giving actual information going. From producer Matt, Trump is leading Florida with 90% reporting. Seems like they may call it soon. Although other states, like for example, North Carolina, are looking better as of now. So just keep an eye on that. That's what I wanted to ask about. Two things.

One, I promised a big fan, by the way, BJ. I saw you in Charlottesville once. Yeah. So just so everybody knows, BJ, in addition to being one of our correspondents here at Evening Skews, he is also the front man for Americana Band American Aquarium, who are amazing and everybody should check him out. This is just a side hustle for him, this whole, this whole correspondent. This whole journalism thing.

This whole journalism thing. Well, I had to find something to pay the bills during the pandemic. So, yeah. This is it. So my buddy cool dragged me to me to me at a concert. And I told him, I'd tell you when I bragged about to him that you were coming on, that he wanted me to tell you that him and another buddy B follow you around like the Grateful Dead. So you wanted me to tell you that.

They've seen you like eight or ten different cities. And secondly, I was going to tell you like lay up two thirds to vote in. Biden's leading North Carolina by like seven points. And the Amish Sexter, your buddy Cal Cunningham is up by like six. Yeah, they're calling. I think Tom Tillis is going to get his ass handed to him. And I think Roy Cooper is going to beat the ever-living shit out of Dan Forrest.

Literally, the competition for governor this year, his only ad has been, I'm going to open the state back up. The only thing he's running on is, man, fuck a mask. Fuck COVID. I'm opening this stuff. What's your policy on everything else? Doesn't matter. I'm opening back up.

that favorite breakfast restaurant you like. The last poll I saw, the current governor, the incumbent Roy Cooper, is up 12 or 13 points. Like it's going to be a landslide as far as governor goes. But Cal Cunningham, they thought like, I don't know if you guys read the sexting.

It was so like imagine your parents, like really lame versions of your parents. Yeah. It was like, you're so beautiful. you're epic i want to lay with you yeah it wasn't it wasn't anything cool like fucking helicopter in his talk around or anything it was it was just it was just him being like hey i think you're really a great person and i'd like to get to know you outside of my marriage it was like i want to

smooch you in your bathing suit area yeah yeah it's uh it's uh man it's it's weird because we everything else in this state i really feel that this election is going to go blue. And I really hope that that we do go blue on the presidential race. But I had the same hope last election. I was mad at Cunningham.

I was texting scandal broke. Like, dude, sexed after you win the election because you can't pass a fucking buildability economy if you don't take back to the Senate. Yeah. That's the thing is like he was up big before the sexting. And then everybody read it was like,

this does not change my opinion of him. at all. Like, it kind of, like, he's just a little bit a lamer version of what I wanted him to be. Like, if you're going to sex, go full weiner, man. Absolutely, you got to go full wiener. Go back or go home. Got to go full wiener, man. So, all right, with that, we need to move on to some other states, see what's going on there. But thank you very much. Senior North Carolina correspondent, BJ Barham, everybody. Thank you all so much.

You'll be good. And rock. We appreciate the reporting. Okay, we'll go straight into, so from producing. Matt. The New York Times is reporting that Florida is 95% likely to go for Donald Trump. So that don't hit, but there's still many other victories to be had out there. And also, we'll see what happens. Tray, Biden's up 12 points in Ohio with about half the vote in. North Carolina looks safe. But Florida, we salute you, keep being you. We don't need you.

So another potential swing state that would be, uh, monumental or it would certainly be newsworthy for this state to flip is the great southern state of georgia and we of course we covered all the bases guys we got a correspondent in georgia of course we do and let's get him in here right now senior georgia correspondent cori ryan forrester also known as the buttercream dream what's that worry about you treeline and smart mark agey how you boys doing we're doing good brother so what's the latest i had an eye surgery so uh did you Yeah. Oh, the late, dude,

hey, man, we're down here in Georgia, buddy. We're just saying, fuck it. We got the goddamn vaccine right here. Jello shot, sons. Scoo! Well, Corey won't tell you. He had the eye surgery because his new congressman's about to be Marjorie Green, Taylor, the QAnon ladies.

He got the special they-live implants so we can see who's an alien who isn't. Yeah. You're about to have Q&ON part of the ruling class. Q&ON's going to be the landed gentry in Georgia, Florida. We all get new tattooed. news. Hell yeah. Big Q on your forehead.

It's fucked up, man. It's, I'm not feeling it. Well, all right, look, let's get out of character here. If I've got glasses on,

I can't be smart. I can't be a smart. I can't do it. That's the opposite of how it works for most people. No, you know what it is. You'd think it would because when you have those mirrored glasses on

and you catch a glimpse back of yourself, it's like you're looking at yourself in a mirror, and that's something that none of them people ever want to do. but I just saw myself and it's like, all right, dude. But no, I don't, I felt so good about Georgia a little bit of, you go. And now, what's the, what's the recent poll, smart mark? I know you've got like, I know that your watch probably pulsates every time somebody gets a point or some shit like that. Let me look it up.

I'll come back. So while he's looking it up, let me get this straight, Corey. You're saying that up until very recently, you felt like Georgia was ahead. Shut the fuck up. But it's starting to seem like at the last second, Georgia may blow this one. That's weird. In my defense, though, in my defense, though, like the whole time,

like everybody had been saying, they're like, dude, I'm telling you, Georgia's going to be a swing state, dude, George is going to be a swing state. Well, they didn't sound like that. But the people that were telling you, you know what I mean, like, dude, I'm telling you, man, Georgia's got a really good chance. Have you seen the early polling? Have you seen what they're saying, the early polling?

And I'm like, I mean, I saw what the early polling says, but I also was just at the Ace Hardware and you should have heard what they were saying down there. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. I don't know, guys. I got my ears to the ground. And also,

I remember the last time, man. I think there's a lot of people out there. There's a lot of liberals that have whatever that hormone is that makes pregnant women forget how shitty that experience is so that they'll have another kid. I think liberals have that for the last election. But I don't. I somehow missed it.

It's like, no, I remember what the fuck happened. This is how it seemed last time. so I'm not moved right now. Okay, let me ask you about that, actually. First of all, from producer, Matt, as of right now, it seems Georgia is leaning Trump, but not a done deal. But I want to ask you, Corey, related to what you just said. I can tell you right now with the exact tax totals are with 33 precincts slash counties in out of 159 Trump's up by 12 points or whatever. But again, that's like a quarter of it breaks in and who knows.

I mean, the thing is like it'd be awesome repudiation of Georgia. if Trump lost Georgia, but it doesn't matter much. Because if Biden wins Georgia, he's already won everywhere else. If Trump wins, you win Georgia, that's normal. Well, it would matter for different reasons, in my opinion. Like, my thing on this is, and I know this might sound like a defeatist attitude, but if Biden, if Trump doesn't win Georgia by as much as he won it last time, I'm still considered, and if Biden ultimately wins,

I'm still considering that a little bit of a victory, because it's like, okay, We're gaining a little bit of ground, and then those motherfuckers will be dead in eight years. You know what I'm saying? So who gives a shit? Like, that'll be fine. Right. It's a thing does seem like it's a marathon. It's not a sprint.

And so, like, I am seeing little tiny things that are like, okay, glimmer a hope. But it still seems like draconian and desolate. And I want to go out back and, you know, stick my car exhaust pipe in my mouth. So, okay. So, like, I agree with you completely. Progress in that direction still counts as progress. It's still encouraging, even though obviously, even if it ends up being in the L column. But I want to ask you specifically about, you know, we've been boys for a long time.

You've been a correspondent for years, even before I had a show, you were a correspondent. Mejah to a duck, man, you. That's right. And in 2016, I'm going to give you credit here. And that's not the first time. Far from it. But in 2016, in the run-up to the election, Corey, we got asked. a lot about to, you know, predict who would win. And I already mentioned earlier, you know,

the whole time I was like, look, Trump's a bigger deal than a lot of people think he is, but he ain't going to win. And Corey, the whole time was like, no, I think he is going to win. I'm very worried about him winning. And a lot of the rationale you used at that time was, we've been around the country, we've driven across multiple states. I see a shitload of Trump signs and wild places and stuff. Obviously, you can't. You can't travel this year, but I'm just wondering, based on the yard sign methodology, what you are seeing there in Georgia. Now, for the record, I am aware, let me defend myself a little bit because a lot of y'all

out there may not understand, but Trey was very subtly shitting on me right there. It seemed like he was giving me a kind of, oh, it seemed like he was giving me, based on the yard sign methodology there, Corey, that you have. Yeah, a lot of y'all don't know our relationship, but I know when I'm getting a dick slapped in my face. But the thing is, as pedestrian as that sounds, my point is, is that, number one, if election signs didn't meet anything, they wouldn't spend the money on them. Number two, it may, like, sure, it may be like where it's like, okay, if you drive them down the side of the road and you see a cross, that's where somebody wrecked and died. It doesn't mean that every open space means that someone didn't reckon die there. You know what I'm saying?

it's just that these were the most enthusiastic people that decided to put a thing there. And Trump was, and Trump, you know what I'm saying? And Trump, it ain't where an atheist died. And Trump's people were very mobilized, you know, last time. Now, granted, we weren't able to travel this year like we were the time before. But I will say this, in my hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia, Trey, where, I mean, I would say, dude, I wouldn't even want to get into percentages.

I mean, this is Trump country as Trump country gets for like, from the uneducated rural part to the wealthy, hey, don't fuck my taxes. Like, we have a very decent mix of like, like any reason that you could vote for Trump exist in my hometown. And I said that to say this. There's so many Trump signs. We've got your basic ones that you can just go down and call and get. We've got some fucking bedazzled ones that people have made.

We've got some that like just are like liberals are pussies and it's just in red, white, and blue so you know it's a Trump sign. Like it doesn't say Trump, but it doesn't have to. But I also have seen. Now, I've only seen two. But this is in my hometown of Chukamong. It's very small. I've seen two Biden-Harris signs.

Just the fact that those two houses felt comfortable enough to put them out. You know what I'm saying? Like, I know it's only two. But it's like that Dave Chappelle bit when he was talking about like this man, they call this serial rapist in Texas, but he only rapes men. And he'd seven men had come forward. And Chappelle's like, which means he must have raped thousands. That's how I feel about the two people putting out the Biden-Harris signs.

two people actually put the sign up. Do we lose audio? Oh, yeah. Corey, we can't, we can't hear you. There's something happened on your end, or is it on ours? No, nothing. Producer Matt just says we've lost audio. I don't know. That sucks because you were hitting.

You're good. Can you mean it? I know. Look at it. Leave and come back. Leave and come back. Hey, Corey, leave and come back real quick. Leave and come back.

Well, we'll keep it going. Hopefully this works. I was really wanting to know his Thanksgiving projection. That was going to be my next question, how Thanksgiving was looking one way or the other. Fuck. No, still can't hear you. I don't know, buddy.

Oh, man. Well, I don't know. I'm sorry, baby. Thank you very much for joining us. Corey Rineforster, Senior Georgia correspondent. We're going to have to lose him, I think, because of technical reasons. which really sucks.

But yeah, I think Thanksgiving is looming large for a lot of families in this country right now. You know what I mean? Like one way or the other. Like pretty much no matter what happens, there's going to be a lot of fucked up Thanksgiving this year, I think, or at least very tense thanksgivings on the horizon. Do you have to worry about that, Mark, or no?

No, I mean, we're not going anywhere for Thanksgiving. The debate is to whether to have a couple of people get tested and have a small Friendsgiving thing. But my wife still makes my wife nervous. Of course, everything made, oh, speaking of the election, I meant to tell this story earlier. So like right when the first polls closed, my wife had this election results thing up and freaked out. She's like because it was like, Biden's winning New Hampshire, 70%, right? That's 30%.

And I was like, well, it's only like 3.30 p.m. or whatever. So I was like, well, how many precincts are in? She's like, oh, 1%. So New Hampshire State that doesn't matter, had 1% of New Hampshire voters in, which is like a car load and was freaking the fuck out. So this is not going to be a fun night no matter what happens.

How do they know obviously 1% isn't enough? But I've always wondered like how they work out the math of when you can reliably project that based on the numbers that are in. It's the precinct. So like they know how many people are registered to a precinct. So a precincts.

So appreciates on its results at once when they're done counting, tabulating, or whatever. So if the one in my neighborhood stands in like, oh, that's the local, you know, New Hollywood Elementary School, it has 2,000 registered voters, 1,600 of them voted. Now, that's the percentage of results we have now. All right. So, so far we've taken you through boots on the ground reporting from like a hardcore fact-driven journalistic reporting from three key swing states. But now we go to a state with a little bit of a different scenario.

The great state of Alabama. And yeah, because look, we couldn't just, it's not only a swing state thing. We had to position our correspondence strategically in as many places as we could have. And that includes Alabama. And so now we go to senior Alabama evening schedule. correspondent, Tushar Singh. We get him pulled up here. There he is. Hey, Tushar. Hey, Tushar. What's up, guys? How's it going? My man. So, Alabama, not much of a swing state. Am I right? A little bit of a loss cause. Is that accurate? A little bit of a loss. Depends what

cause you're for. I think slavery is back on the ballot this year for just the state. state state to state I guess it's probably state to state so it makes sense so I was very shifting focus from the presidential election for just a

second I was so so pleasantly surprised and thrilled with Alabama when they didn't elect pedophile insane Republican Roy Moore in that special election and instead elected Doug Jones but

a fee before a fee before file. Let's be specific with the language here. Steve a file. Excuse me. He's just trying to have a good time, man. But now there is unfortunately a football coach on the docket, and that's hard to beat in Alabama. Am I right?

Too sure. It seems like a hard sell. I mean, it combines I mean, that's I think the country's not going to go into civil war because football is back on. But Doug is probably going to lose, I would imagine.

Right. Yeah. But it's like, Tuberville, like, cut back on ad spending. It was like hiding. It was like, oh, Tommy Tewable, once again, tried to sit in the fourth quarter lead. You know, it's pretty much the thing. Yeah, I know. Doug Jones had a lot of ads focused on, like, Tommy Tuberville abandons his football teams.

That means he'll abandon you too. And, like, it sounds like I'm making fun of it. But honestly, when I saw those, I was like, That's a good strategy. Like, like, focus, focus on football, man. Do it. He's going to quit Alabama and go sign with Italy or something. Yeah, he's going to go senator for North Dakota.

That's what he's going to do. Honestly, like how bad football coaches treat, like, their players and their team. Like, it should be indicative of terrible character. But it's not how people look at it, you know. No, no. So what's the, given that Alabama seems to be, it's not considered. a swing state. It's not considered up in the air. It's considered a done deal for Trump. Considering that, what's the general atmosphere there, Tushar, revolving around voting and whatnot?

How are people acting? Well, it must be said first that I am not in Alabama. I left. No, he's in Alabama. He's in New Jersey, Alabama. Much like a lot of the people who had to leave post-slavery, we moved up here. I got away from the thing. But Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's just, last time I went down to Huntsville, where I grew up and walked around the neighborhood, it was nothing but Trump sign after Trump sign after Trump sign. And for the first time ever, I felt, I mean, I felt awkward walking around that neighborhood, looking like this. Okay. You know, and I was like, uh. Well, since you, I mean, since you bring it up, I think that, like, because I've told people before, obviously, you know, I'm white. I sound like them, but still, like, when I was, I grew up in the rural south.

You grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, fucking Rocket City, right? There's science and shit. There's science there, too, Shar. No, that's, that's, it's science and shit. Yeah, science and shit. Welcome to Huntsville, science and shit. But I grew up in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee. And, but it was still true, like, growing up my whole life, it wasn't the same atmosphere that it is now,

at all, not at all. Like, people knew that I was a commie queer or whatever, and it was like mostly fine. People were more apolitical. It didn't have this charged atmosphere that it has now. And you just said, like, because you were, yes, you're in, you're in Jersey now, but you have recently been in Alabama with your mama and them for a long amount of time up until very recently, and that's where you're from.

And you said that for the first time recently, you actually felt uncomfortable. It's not that I felt uncomfortable. I just feel when you have that many Trump signs in a row and there was Trump like graffiti spray painted by what seemed like kids on the sidewalk and not graffiti, but it was like markings all over. And knowing what I know,

and we've talked about this before, but I'm always like, oh my God, what is the logical end of this? Are they in it for what? Are they in it because it's, uh, what they're, it's just what everyone else is doing and they're kind of, you know, I don't mind a Trump voter if the logic is not crazy if that sounds okay. Like a lot of Indians are Trump voters because a lot of Indian Trump voters.

A lot of Indian Trump voters. A lot of Indian. So what counts as crazy logic in your mind? He's got like, like, like, so, uh, he's got a, like Hindu nationalists love him. each, like, people, like, the right-wing in India loves Trump. Yeah, right-winner, I mean, so I, so right-winning India loves him because they mutually hate Muslims. So that, oh, all right. Always comes down to hate.

It's just they hate Muslims in China. And so, like, let's get together on that list. And so, I mean, that, that's, that in itself is crazy. But, like, yeah, they, people who go straight to the monetary argument, which is like, like, old Indian men, you know, old Indian, my parents' generation, a lot of my mom's friends happen to be now Trump voters because it's in their financial interests. And they're like, whatever. There's no, there's nothing matters. This guy's a psycho. He's saying crazy shit. He's dismantling the government from the inside, like all this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. It's like,

I'm going to save more money in the next four years. And you're saying that you get, you get that. I get that. I understand it. I don't condone it. I get in arguments with them, but it's the other one where it's like, we're losing everything. It's like the diarying of a dying white man type of shit. Like fear-based. And so that makes me scared because then when they look at me, I just presume they're thinking that,

which is probably wrong on my part, but it's just a tough thing to be. Can I read you guys this thing that makes me fucking, just it's so goddamn stupid the way we do it. The New York Times needle, remember the needle? They brought back the needle, but trying to be responsible with a couple of specific states. The New York Times needle is giving Trump a 76% chance of winning North Carolina, but the Fox meter is giving Biden an 89% transfer payment.

So somebody is about 60% wrong here. Can I ask something? What is you guys' general feeling of the actual numbers that we're talking about our bullshit at a local level and an aggregate level and what's reported to us level. I can't tell if I can believe it. If that makes sense. You mean like...

Like the whole thing is a thing, a little charade is that... Are you talking about like the poll? Do you mean like trusting the polls? The polls and just what's reported in? No, well, I like, we've talked about this a lot in recent weeks because I just, I can't, I can't feel comfortable trusting them. I can't. Like after what happened last time, I just can't anymore. And I know a lot of them are very

sound mathematically, methodology-wise, whatever, but I just, I just can't do it. So I'm not, I'm not comfortable at all. I won't be comfortable. Dude, I won't be comfortable until fucking inauguration day, frankly. And it's Joe Biden getting inaugurated. Like, that's, that's the only, that's the only time that I will feel any comfort, I think. Like, I just, I don't know. I'm too, man. I feel like this this whole damn year feels like we've been waiting in an

ER waiting room. Just that tension of like, what's going to happen? Like, come out and tell you that your wife's dead or not? She's still not dead, but stick around. We'll be right back. Let's dip in here real quick with some more facts. We've got some facts from producer,

well, fashion. So yeah, I know, you're right. Reporting. Reporting. from producer matt uh Biden doing very well in Ohio so far Trump wins South Dakota um and yeah that's it that's what we got so far so looking good for Biden in Ohio Trump wins South Dakota we're bringing the news to you as it happens Tushar let our senior Alabama correspondent Tushar saying everybody let me ask you

um as we've asked some of other correspondents as an Alabama and you were talking about how more motive. Oh, Trump also won Wyoming. Another huge shocker. All the cows out there turned out. The cast of Yellowstone has gone 80% for Trump. So anyway, I'm wondering if somebody grew up in Alabama spent a whole lot of time there and everything, being on the other side of things, politically speaking, how concerned you are, if at all, with what their response will be in the event that he loses. Their side loses. Are you worried about that?

Or do you think it's more like, ah, that, you know, fuck them. You're saying Trump loses, they go ballistic. No, well, I'm not saying the second part. I'm saying if Trump loses, how worried are you about them actually going ballistic or some crazy shit happening? I think if Trump loses, I think this country is built on kind of loving to hate each other,

I think we'll be fine. I'm worried about what Trump will actually do in those three months, two months, where he will push a couple of buttons, throw us into a conflict that he can say, well, emergency, blobbitty blue, I'm staying, and just do what he needs to do to continue being the monster that he is. It's really dark in my head. It's like that's something he's not going to, I mean,

people have been saying for months, years, like he's just not going to walk away from that with any type of dignity. So what does that look like? I hope he like, you know, COVID was the perfect opportunity for him to fake his own death and fuck off. But he didn't take it. Unfortunately. Are you thinking you should have faked his own death? I wish you would have just fucking faked it, gotten out.

It would have been amazing. He would have died a saint in the eyes of a lot of people. I don't know. Yeah. But hey, Trey, you shaved your mustache. I didn't shave it. I cut off the ends of it. And now that you brought it up.

Yeah, well, let's call attention to it. I accidentally cut too much off the ends. It's okay. Nobody be a long back, okay? It'll be okay. But yeah, you're right. I cut off more than I meant to. So now it's just kind of a regular-ass basic.

It was for democracy. You cut it for democracy. I did. That's a sacrifice. With this look, you kind of, this sport coat and the sunglasses and the facial hair, you kind of, in the hair, you kind of look like a 90s comic

who exclusively talked about. atheism? Yeah, yeah. I do. You booked a lot of road gigs. I'm a Bill Hicks acolyte, dude. Foghubbishop Bill Hicks. You know, Bill Hicks does hit, but I'm saying, I'm, yeah, I'm based my whole career off being

edgy. Ah, you, you've got me self-conscious, Mark, I do look like that, and I kind of am. We're being honest, I kind of am like that. Wow, you've really shown a light on me over here. So, Tushar, I hate to do this to you as a journalist, you know, you're a journalist, your correspondent.

Sure. I know this isn't professional of me to put you in this position, but I'm still going to do it. Gun to your head, make a prediction for us right now. How's it going to turn out? Not just in Alabama, we all know it's going to turn out in Alabama, but in the country at large. I think we'll be, I think Biden will, I think Biden will. be it'll be close but he'll sneak it out in terms of i don't know what the final numbers are going to be but he's going to he's going to win officially and then um i have my gut says that

it's going to it's going to it's going to go to the courts somehow and then it'll just be on a decision like that it'll be some supreme court shenanigans but isn't that isn't that horrible for the left like if if like i'm saying if that happens we're in bad shape right because of the current state of the courts yeah yeah yeah it's bad it's it's getting it's like it's like getting cucked it's getting cucked by the other party okay and it's well let me ask you this as the child of immigrants um what at what point no i'm just wondering yeah i feel like you have an actual like this is an actual possibility for you if you wanted to take it. I think I'm speaking from ignorance right now.

I'm wondering at what point you would literally decide to say, fuck it and get out of here. Because people talk a lot about on both sides about that. If X wins, I'm leaving. And when it's the Trump people, they're like, if Trump loses,

I'm going to Canada. It's like, good luck in fucking Canada. I'm going to Canada. Yeah, right, exactly. but people say that type of shit. But you know what I mean? That's a thing people talk about.

They lose. I'm going wherever. I'm just wondering like being literal about it. At what point would you say fuck this shit, I'm leaving this entire country and get out of here. As someone who, you know, has grown up here and spent your entire life here. I mean, you know,

your boy loves having abortions. So whenever that's over, I'll see you up north So whenever that overturned row V Wade You're like fucking I'm out I don't know I don't know the heart

Within three weeks of that They have abortions They should No They don't have They don't But they really really should I really

They don't even They don't even pull out there Man Zero form Of sexual this kind of shit that makes me nervous. I clicked on Texas' secondary state website for the election results,

and I got 404 file not found. Someone's fucking hack to the code right now. Not good. All right. Well, okay, thank you very much to our senior Alabama correspondent, Mr. Tushar Singh. Hey, buddy. Thank you, too good to see y'all. Be safe.

Thanks for joining us. Yeah. So we've got one more guest for y'all tonight. If he shows up, he could be a little flaky. We'll see what happens. But it's a little bit different. That's the run of our correspondence there. We've got somebody going to show up and give us a little bit of legal advice,

a little bit. If you need a living will, if you need to plan for your untimely demise, well, we got that covered in our next guest segment. Again, if he shows up. So we'll see what happens. But for now, let's cover a couple things we haven't yet announced Biden won New York or is projected to win New York, whatever. So again, that's expected.

So no real shell shockers so far, right? Like nothing crazy so far. I mean, like, like Ohio is looking really good for Biden, which I don't have to sound up, so who knows what their analysis is, but it's like six votes and he's up by like six. But, I mean, if he wins Ohio, I think that's, it's North Carolina still is getting increased. recently tight. So real quick, Mark, because you said that, there, there are a number of states

that if they soundly go for Biden, it's almost certainly a done deal. Is that correct? And what are, what are those states? Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona. Like, if it basically, I mean, Pennsylvania could, I mean, unfortunately, all coming out of Pennsylvania if everything breaks Trump's way of below. That would be unfortunate. Which is the nightmare, it will end up in courts. Yeah.

I look like you here. Oh, is here, sorry. Let's, uh, you know what? We lost Corey unceremoniously earlier because something fucked up. So we're going to bring senior Georgia correspondent Cory Forrester back and also producer Matt,

uh, senior legal expert. Diamond Drew Morgan Just throw them both in here if you got them There's Corey, can we hear you Corey? Hey baby Hey we can Diamond Drew

Are you there? What's up? Can you guys hear me? Yes, we can hear you So we want to know Drew What legal advice do you have to offer people In the event of an impending apocalypse What steps should they take to care for their family

In the event that we join Some kind of Mad Max reality in the coming weeks. My legal advice is buy a gun. Make peace with whatever God you pretend to believe in. And also

for the most part, you know, we're going to be all right. That's what I really believe. You know, especially everybody on this chat. If one of three, four white dudes, we'll be fine. Is there a scenario? Well, especially Mark, look at Mark. He's already got the guns.

Oh, shit. Drew, if I wanted to write, is there a way I could write a living will and enter a voluntary coma for, say, three to six months? Is that possible? Man, I don't know if my internet's drunk, because it's in New Orleans as well. I think you asked if there's a way to do a living will, but I didn't get the end of it. No, he said if he wanted to, if he wanted to legally request that he'd be put into a coma for a while, can you do that? me personally yeah not legally but i know how to do it i mean look this robe i can put you in i was i was going to say i'm in a i'm in a group chat with this exact four people every single day of my life if there was a possible way to put yourself into a coma one of us would have the jump on that breaking news everybody crazy crazy this coming straight off the wire joe biden has won

connecticut oh my god That far, I know. Count it. Oh, man. And there goes Drew. Apparently, Ger's dead. God damn happy. Producer Matt, if, I don't know what happened to Drew, if he shows back up, throwing

back in here. But producer, Matt, won't you go ahead and throw us some, uh... There's Drew. Some viewer comments and stuff up there. And we'll just all address them. I got so excited that I, uh, about Connecticut, I couldn't believe it. Drew is not, Drew is our senior leader. legal correspondent, but he also is on the ground, on the scene in Louisiana.

Anything to report? Probably not. A lot of people are getting drunk. I can't tell if that has anything to do with what day it is. It seems to not. Wait, what color beads are they wearing? Yeah, blue or red? How many tetties are blue beads worth right now down there?

I can be honest, a lot of purple. Big titties always go Republican. Yeah. Yeah, well, the Green Party seems to be doing pretty good here in New Orleans. I don't know if that's. That's little titties for the record. Everybody knows that. All right, Drew.

So not in your capacity as a logger, just as a human being. You are about to be driving. You're about to be traversing the country. You're about to drive across the entire country. Are you prepared? for a Mad Max scenario in the coming weeks. If we devolve... Yeah, buddy.

Yeah. What do you do? I drive a Zion XB. I don't know if you know what kind of car that is. It's got 14-inch tires with 10-inch rims. I had to look... And he's gone again. He just described the reason why his internet went out.

Yeah. There he is. There he is. He's bad. I have no, boys, I don't know what's happening. I'm at a guest house in New Orleans. Yeah, this place doesn't even have a toilet that works, much less internet. So I don't know why I even tried this.

Your two best friends in the whole world couldn't come through for you on your big election live stream are fucking up. We're both very sorry. No, y'all are happy. Drew, you just drove from East Tennessee to New Orleans today, right? Or yesterday? Yeah. You get the, you're the only one is left.

your house in six months. So tell us what's the vibe of the country like out there, bud? It's going on. Oh, yeah. I'd say most people are over it. You know what I mean? It's kind of like Yeah. They're just like, they're just ready for, you know, and I've seen a lot of people giving people shit on Twitter. Like, you're so privileged if you just

want this to be over. That's true. I think that's a true statement. But most people are privileged in this fucking country. This is America. Yeah. And that's how they feel. They're going to do what they got to do. I will say I only saw one hat. at the junior high basketball game last night. They said Keep America Great again.

But I will also say that he was a deacon at my father's church. So, you know, for me personally, that was definitely not great. But in terms of my political outlook, less hats than I expected. Okay, well, that's good. We've talked about the sign methodology. Now we've got the latest on hats. You say keep America great again. That's not fair.

That's not fair. That's different than yours. I know, baby. You're a half man. No. Well, yes, I am, but actually, I'm going to go completely opposite on that. My point is, is that, like, with yard signs, like, anybody can have a goddamn, you're actually, it's kind of the same. Because, like, yard signs is the bumper sticker of your shrubs.

That's right. You know what I'm saying? So, like, and with hats, hats is a wig that tells people what team you like. And so all these things are more uneducated Trump voter. So, like, it just makes sense. Like, I personally have an Obama Biden hat. but I bought it as a goof to do a character.

You know what I'm saying? Even though I support them, like, dude, fuck that shit. Like, I like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but like I ain't wiring a goddamn teeth. Right. They're just fucking people.

Fuck them. Go dogs. Yes. We've talked on the show recently about exactly what you're talking about. The idea that it's confirmation bias because the type of people who are more likely

to plaster their opinions on their foreheads and shrubs and ass end of their trucks and whatever are the same people who are on one side of the thing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, like, maybe it isn't a good

polster thing to be like, but on Drew's point, though, like, if he saw, like, if rednecks are willing to take their hat off, like, that is a statement. You know what I mean? Like, that's a, a bold statement. Like that's a redneck taking their

Trump hat off is as close as they'll get to kneeling for the goddamn national anthem as far as like statements go. You know what I'm saying? So like I don't know, that might mean something. All right. Y'all out there watching with some

what's, okay. Laura, Laura Orbaal says, what's going on with your attorney? He's green. Yeah, we don't know. Look, he's in New Orleans. It would be kind of funny if Drew was their attorney because like, I don't know what you guys know Drew, but uh... I mean, he is. He did.

That motherfucker saved me a bunch of money on legal fees and shit, no doubt. No, I mean, if you were locked up, would he see you, Drew, who you would call? No. Well, actually, if I was locked up, maybe not just because, like, I'm in Georgia, like, I would call someone

closer to me, but like, the last time that I was broke as fuck and, like, was in legal trouble, I was being sued by a hotel in Kansas. You know, You know how that goes. And I called Drew. He walked circles around there. And Drew was like, if my client did break that lamp and was drunk, it was after you said he was drunk and broke that lamp.

And they were like, you're honored. Please don't mess with us. Well, I tell you what. I got off of it. So like, yeah. This story, this story has been told before. But early on in my relationship with Drew, we were outside when, all right, so here's what happened. We were at a comedy show.

Somebody come up there and said, hey, a black F-150 just got its windshield busted, somebody broke into it. I drove at the time a Navy-blue F-150, and it was night time. So I was like, oh, shit, that might be my truck. So I ran down there, and Drew came with me, and we went down there. It wasn't my truck.

It was another truck that had clearly been broken into, right there in the street. And then randomly, not as a response to the call, randomly a cop car pulled up. And we, like, flagged him down, and we were like, officer, excuse me, as you could see, someone's broken into this vehicle over here or whatever,

and the cop literally goes, okay, what you want me to do about it? And I swear to God, verbatim, that's what he said, what do you want me to do about it? And Drew goes, I want you to do your fucking job, asshole. And I, like, turtled up in the corner. I was, like, in the fetal position, because, you know, I'm like, you don't talk to cops like that.

They'll fucking, you know, because people don't know I mean it ain't as bad as if you're black I'm not saying that but like cops don't fuck with rednecks either or they do they'll fuck you up and so I was like terrified and Drew was like no do your fucking job you're supposed to be a civil

servant you piece of shit or what and I anyway ever since then I double damn if I get arrested yeah I'm calling Drew first because I'm like yeah he'll do he'll do the damn job I was like no he don't

he don't fuck with him honestly if you get arrested If you get arrested, that's the only thing I know anything about. It sounded like when I finally got internet, I had to walk out into this pool area where everything looks green. It sounded like Mark was disparaging my legal abilities in relation to criminal activity. It's literally the only thing I know anything about. You guys always ask me about like election law or suing people,

and I just make stuff up. Yeah, no, we know. No, no. Yeah. But if you get arrested, I know. Drew, Drew, I know that you're very. smart and I've lost enough arguments to you to know you're good at arguing. I'm more concerned with your temperament in front of a judge that I would be locked up.

I would call you. There'd be one hearing and we both be sitting in the same fucking cell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a fair point. This is also... I've only been held in contempt one time and it was only for an hour and then he changed his mind. That is so fucking... That's like the most shocking thing I've ever heard out of your mouth and I've heard a lot of

shocking things out of your mouths is that you've only been held in contempt one time. I always think when it comes to Drew and that whole thing, I think of the same from liar, liar. Yes. I hold myself in contempt. Dude, every time I see that, I'm like, this is just like texting with Drew. So, uh, Kathy Ann Craying, that guy is funny. He looks like a riverboat gambler and a lingerie photo shoot.

That's a good bird. Yeah. That's our longer. Hey, has anybody, has any, I know this doesn't have shit to do anything, but has anybody pointed out that Trey looks like Richard Belser in a detective munch origin story? That's a better version. Do you do? Yeah. He's a, he's a, he's a, he's a, he's a, oh, he hasn't got promoted yet.

David S. Skipper, which sounds like a cut Tom Hanks. sketch from Saturday Night Live says John Hickenlooper is cleaning gory Gardner. Is that a Halloween joke? Is cleaning Cory Gardner's clock in Colorado? Yeah, that's awesome. Fuck Cory Gardner.

But yeah, I just saw that a update coming up is because he's up by like 25 points or some shit in Colorado. It's ridiculous. Hick and Hooper. That's quite a mouthful. Isn't it? So, I got to go do another show. If I can get work, which I probably can't,

so I'm just going to get drunk. Also, I need to go before I offend whoever this fan is. Comment that's on the screen. Way to switch teams and get worse, ma'am. I appreciate you guys. Y'all have a good. Bye, buddy. See you, Diamond Drew.

Thank you. Y'all can kick me off, by the way, too. I would just like to let it be known that we have a group chat going on, me and the three dudes that are on this screen. And in that group chat, I saw a text from Mark Agey that said, Drew, are you coming on? And I was on my couch getting drunk and I thought, oh shit, Drew's a no show.

I better slide in and save the day. And then we both just ended up on the fucking show. So like, I didn't want you y'all think I was being a goddamn like attention whore. Like, I didn't need to come back on the show. I was just being, like I was just being a buddy. I'm glad you're here. But you know what's funny about what just happened with Drew

besides everything? Everything. He said that. I got to go make mashed potatoes. y'all fuck yourself for me. He goes, he said, I'm going to piss off this fan, whoever's on the screen right now. Fuck you, lady, basically. And the fan on the screen was a guy named David.

And Drew was like, fuck this woman. And what's funny about that is, Drew, if you've seen us on tour recently when that was still illegal, you've probably seen us talk about it because it was such a funny fucking story. Drew, one of our more recent shows, which was still over a year ago now, because of COVID. We were in New York and Drew literally had a great set, was crushing it. And right before he walked off stage, someone in the crowd said something. And Drew responded by saying, fuck you, sir. And it turns out it was a woman who was agreeing with him. And it was like, oh, yeah, like sympathizing with him. And his response was,

fuck you, sir, to that sweet lady. That sweet lady who was there in the audience. In Drew's defense, where we're from, we are very conditioned in a large setting. If a woman speaks out at us, it is usually negative. Yeah. Also, Drew has

clarified in the private chat, and he is right. Of course he did. Drew loved to clarify. He stayed clarifying. He clarified Thomas is what we call him. So, and he's right this there was briefly a

comment on the screen that then got taken away from someone who said they were a public defender for 10 years and then switch to the prosecution side and have done that for 15 years. That's who Drew was talking about being mean

to because he's really mean to prosecutors Drew is. Yeah. Somebody in the comment said that Drew looked like a young Obi-Wan Kenope. Obi-Wan wannabe hilarious. I want to be, Drew, you piece of shit.

All right, let's throw some more comments up there. Nikki Minton says, LMAO. Thank you, producer Matt. We appreciate to. Yeah, that's a good one. Thanks, man. I like to work with there.

People laughing out here. Oh, just everybody knows that doesn't listen to our podcast. First of all, you should. The Well, Red podcast. Well, Red podcast every Wednesday at 6 a.m. That's when it drops. You can catch us on Spotify.

or wherever you get your podcast or at well-read comedy.com, W-E-L-L-R-E-D-com. How much of a pro is this guy? Dude, unreal. Corey has been on a sobriety kick lately, which is a funny way to say someone has gotten sober, been on a sobriety kick. But as you'll see, he's drinking beer tonight.

This is only like the second or third time in like what, three or four months, Corey or something like that? This is the second time in 15 weeks that I've gotten drunk. No, no, third time in 15 weeks that I've gotten drunk. And I know to a lot of people who are functioning adults who go to Panera bread. They're like, oh, whatever. But like, I used to get drunk. I'm going to say this how the kids say it, all day or day, like a lot.

And so, yeah, me, me only boozing three times of 15 weeks. And also not only that, Trey Crowder, today was the sixth day in a row that I've went on at least a six-mile hike. I'm fucking crushing. I don't know what's happening, but like, I'm becoming a full person. I'm like experiencing feelings.

I'm crying when I see butterflies. It's really nuts. So I'm certain that we're about to, you know, elect Trump again and all that's going to go away. All right. Well, but I don't know, that's why you had to drink, right? Like, I mean, if there was ever a night. Look, it just tonight.

Yeah, tonight felt like, like, you know, we don't have many water cooler, like water cooler shows are few and far between these days. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, we got to stay up and watch Friends. We got to watch Seinfeld. Now it's like everybody's streaming the stuff, but there's not that much appointment television.

And I didn't drink during the Georgia Alabama game. I didn't drink during the Georgia Tennessee game. I skipped so many things. But election night, like, I don't know, man. Like, I don't know that I could see here. I need to sit here and watch this. I guess my point is, if I wasn't drinking, there's no way I'd be watching this right now.

I would be watching. You need it. I would be watching it. Yeah, yeah, I'm like, I would be catching up on the last two episodes of Lovecraft Country. You know what I mean? But I couldn't be watching this,

but I know that like as a citizen, I need to be watching this. And this is some high stakes, Las Vegas, Nevada shit that's going on right now. So, you know what I mean? When you're watching the election, like, you've got to drink. Since you said that,

since you said that from Daniel Peron, he said, 49.6 to 49% Biden was leading in Texas with 72% of the votes reporting. And like you said, it's extremely high stakes. I've heard a lot of people say, and I feel like it's probably true, if Texas flips, Mark, you're an adopted Texan. If Texas flips, that has larger implications than just like the White House in this election, right? That's like, that's really, really bad news for the party at large if they lose Texas, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, because Texas is gerrymandered all the shit. Also, before I get to that, Aaron Ellis Reid says Mark's McGraths from Greb background, I was going to Mamaw's plates, and that's a fucking solid burn. I do like this wallpaper, though. Thank you. Compliment. No, I was about not burn.

Compliment. Dude, somebody said that to me about my motherfucking bathroom. I was in my motherfucking bathroom the other day, taking a goddamn video, and somebody's like, oh, somebody's got mammal wallpaper. Yes, I do. That shit is from 1917 when this goddamn house was built, motherfucker. That shit is not mamma. That shit is original.

That shit costs more than my fucking car did. I didn't pay for it or nothing like that. I ain't got it like that. I'm just saying that like it's listen. You all just need to shut the fuck up with old stuff. Mark, I think you got it. You know what I mean? I think that's cool as shit.

And I think that these pieces, some of these pieces of shit in the comments, no offense, don't have taste at all. Dude, people love to do that. They love to get on that. I will literally post a picture of my asshole. Hey, Corey. Put up my asshole out there.

To be fair. to be fair to Aaron Ellis Reid Everybody's got a goddamn opinion To be wallpaper all sorts of shit I was in the middle of a point Trade asked Also to be fair to Aaron Ellis

Reed She didn't say that it was bad It could have hit for her I'm sorry I'm sorry I was triggered on a Jason Ruderman says Who else is drinking right now Certainly not us Jason

So to answer your question Trey about Texas Texas is gerrymandered all the shit. When I was living in the mid-2000s, you're only supposed to redistrict after the census every decade. Texas Republicans took control in the middle of the decade.

They redistricting in the middle of the decade, breaking all norms, which is something they wouldn't do, obviously. Democrats fled the state. Republicans had to send a fucking Texas Rangers to go fetch them from Oklahoma and Arizona, bring them back to have a quorum so they could pass the shitty redistricting plan,

under which guys like Dan Crenshaw, the I patch motherfucker has this weird district that looks like a weird worm, right, so you can get elected around Houston. So if Democrats take the House in Texas, the state Senate, then they can redistrict and make a map that looks like actual sense. And it'll be worth three or four seats in the house, which is another thing I wanted to say, breaking news, Fox News decision desk,

just called Democrats gaining at least five seats in the house. so they'll keep control of the house. So that happened. That hits. That does it. Mary McFadden says when you guys start talking interior design, rather than politics, and we're in serious trouble.

No, that's on me. That's on me. I'm sorry. I've calmed down. No, it ain't. It's on Aaron Ellis Reed. That's who it's on. And clearly, and clearly, like, I wasn't,

and Aaron Ellis Reed, I'm sorry. I obviously wasn't mad at you. That was, like, you know, the phrase, this seems like it's about something. else. It very much was, uh, I have, I've just had so many people talk shit about my wallpaper and I've just about had it up to here. I'm just about had it up to here. I'm like, you made people on the internet? Yes, dude. I'm like, we have a

what's on with your wallpaper, Joe? It ain't, it, it ain't from fucking yesterday. I guess. I've got a certain motif going at my house and I'm sorry I don't one, want one room to look like 1910 and the other room to look like 2020. We keep. it old so I just got really mad because like it just feels like I can I literally can like pull my dick out and put it on the internet and everybody like yeah your body your choice but like I scramble eggs the wrong way and people are like you fucking idiot put hot sauce on it you don't fuck it's these little tiny things like burn me up and so far this year wallpaper has been one so Nikki Minton says gerrymandering is some bullshit period I lived in Arizona so

disgusting. Yeah, I was going to say, Mark, you said, Texas has been gerrymandered to shit, and you're right, but like, that's true of so many fucking states in this country, especially like red states in particular have been gerrymandered the fuck out of. And how do you even fix that? Well, like states, states with ballot initiative systems, usually if you put it up for a vote, the actual people, people will say, yeah, it makes sense

of a non-partisan redistricting process where you make fair districts. Voters will overwhelmingly approve that every time because voters don't think about saving politicians fucking jobs. Politicians think they get into hold of it will do everything they can to fuck over their enemies and save their... Right. Well, isn't

that kind of the... Isn't that kind of what happens? It's like, whoever is in control tends to be in favor of it because that's how they got there in the first place type of thing. Like, they want, they win because of it. And so, of course, they're not going to want to change it, but that's why it stays the way that it is, which is what fucks everything up so much. That's how it seems to me, like, just

because, like, when you, if me and, like, 10 dudes were in a room and me and all these 10 dudes had different opinions, if you just start explaining what gerrymandering is to all 10 people, everyone, like, just hearing it, you're like, dude, like, nobody can disagree that this is very fucked up and like clearly cheating and everyone feels that way. But then when your candidate wins and that was a thing, you're like, the game is the game. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.

Right. Stuck in Florida from YouTube says, gerrymandering has gotten out of control since they have computer analytics to help. Yeah. I don't know how much that factors into it. No, it does you stuck in Florida. With the disturbed album photo profile pick, which I do.

I like that. I too am down with the sickness. Me too. Stuck in Florida. I've been down with the sickness. That person is absolutely right, Tray. What they can do with like regression analysis and statistical profiling is like break it down neighborhood to the neighborhood,

how they can, what they call it packing and cracking, geographic areas to make the maximum number of districts. Like this guy who mastermind of this project and blank learned his name right now, but he died two years ago and his daughter was so offended by, by the data she found on his hard drive. She turned it over for various lawsuits. And that's why North Carolina Republicans

have been so fucked in all their court cases is because they got caught explicitly racially gerrymandering when they said it wasn't racial, it was just party-based. And they got the data hold. And they had emails saying, not put all the black people in this district. So whites have 10 districts. And they got busted.

Wasn't that also related to that shit we talked about recently on an episode about Cambridge Analytica with the columns they put people in of like, desirable voters and whatever else and the ones that were like harder to reach it's all based on like race and um yeah socioeconomic background and that type of shit like i mean of course of course they uh categorize everybody in that way like why wouldn't they Ashley Butler says I swear if Texas goes blue I won't talk shit about them for the next four years at least Texas thrives on

people talking about them they love it they love it in my opinion they are the Dude, they love it. Like you, everybody, like sincerely, and I got nothing but love for Texas. Like, regardless of the political, political affiliation, I know that like technically maybe they're a red state right now, hopefully they flip and everybody thinks that, you know, as Trey has said on stage several times, everybody thinks when we're going to Texas. What was it?

You said, they said, like, oh, don't get shot by a rodeo clown. Here's a thing, though. Like, when I hear that, I'm like, oh, my God, we're going to a state where it's possible to get shot by a rodeo clown. What fun, you know, like, that's a pretty cool. they got great barbecue, they got good people. Now, granted, we, we do a lot of stuff in Austin, but like, I don't know, Texas is its own thing. And, uh, and, look, anybody that supports Donald Trump, fuck them, but I ain't putting that on a whole state.

I can't because I live in Georgia and still have hope. So Texas is all right in my book. And, and man, I'm just, I'm so nostalgic to be back on the road. I agree. Let me ask you this. Like, I feel like here the, here are the states that I categorize as being sort of their own thing. Now personally, and this is always the thing whenever we do shows in Texas, this comes up.

Our crowds are very liberal, so they're very divided on this. But it's like, is Texas part of the South? I personally count Texas as part of the South because, A, they fought for the fucking Confederacy. And they're in the SEC. There's a lot of, they're in the SEC. There's a lot of southern tendencies there.

But I do count them as part of the South, but I also have to say, Texas, like you said, Joe, is its own thing as well. I feel the same way about Louisiana. Oh, yeah, dear. Louisiana is also its own thing. New York, too.

It is its own little subcategory where it exists, but I still count that under the umbrella of the South. And then most of the rest of the Southern States, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, all them are like, that's the South. But you got Texas and Louisiana are kind of doing their own thing, but I still count them.

I do that with New York and the, New York in the north or like in California like I don't even consider like but like I know that like there's a lot of Republicans are like California ain't America and they mean that is a bad thing I don't mean it is a bad thing but I still believe it you know what I mean like I don't I don't mean like Californians are un-American but it's just like when I here am I off again no no you're not I just this is relevant to what we're talking about but it's I know I know I know it's good I think this is going to be a good one because I feel like I think I know where Mark's going to chime in on this one.

Brian Meredith asked the big question related to what we're talking about right now. In and out Burger or where do y'all stay? How much time you got? To me, well, somebody lived in Texas for a long time. And Waterburgers, obviously, like I've only been in an out burger and I live in California for about as long as I live in Texas a couple times. But Waterburgers, what you get at three in the morning because they serve breakfast all day and they're open 24-7.

So like you get a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit from Waterburger. You get a honey butter chicken biscuit from Waterburger from Waterburger from Wonderberger. I think I might have an actual burger from Waterburger maybe twice. But I still love it. In and Out Burger, I never thought anything was special about it. People of California will hate me for that. It just takes regular old diner burger. I don't get it.

Okay. Okay. Here's a fuck up thing. In and out burgers, French fries are fucking garbage. Garbage. Garbage. Garbage. In and out burgers, burgers are head to tell a gym and among the best in the game.

and smoke Waterburger, by the way. Dude, first off, I'll tell you this one thing right now. The Waterburger has a thing called the Dr. Pepper Milkshake, which is wild as fuck and good. But their burger is fucking trash. And that whole argument, I feel like we're doing around the horn right now, and I really like it. Give me some fucking points on this tray.

I feel like that whole argument of like, well, I'm from Texas, so naturally I like Waterburger. Okay, I'm from Georgia. Do you think I like controlling a woman's body? No, the fuck I don't. grow up. You know what I'm saying? I've been to something that is better. In-and-out burger smashes the fuck out of

Water Burger. It ain't nothing but a glorified Burger King piece of shit that's always cold. Their lettuce is always fucking mushy. It tastes like shit. The in-and-out comes crispy. It comes with the monster sauce. You ain't got to get it like that, but who the fuck are we kidding? Their fries are trash? I ain't going to lie.

But you don't have to have good fries when you've got that fucking Derek Henry of a fucking beast truck pulling you in, baby. Hitting them touchdowns every day with that burger. It's so delicious. I think this is an important distinction to make too. John Eulicki says in all caps, White Castle. John, I hear you. White Castle rules. It rules. But in my opinion, it's a different thing. They are different enough from regular burgers that you have to, like, you have to consider them differently, I think. But White Castle is the

fucking shit, dog. Somebody just said, somebody just said, somebody just. said it wasn't on here but i'm gonna throw it out somebody just said well about shake shack i personally think shake shacks better to all of them because here's why i think shake shacks burger cheese sauce is what's up and shake shacks burger and out neck and neck but the shake shack has better fries and they've got that cheese sauce so like it goes up i'm i have to i'm i have to like lose a fan for life here maybe m morgan says all caps sonic With five exclamation points, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, M.

You got to go. You got to go. You miss me with that. Well, hey, if you're getting a drink that you could get literally anywhere else, then yeah, Sonic's the fucking best. Corey,

hold on. Hold on a second. You guys are focusing exclusive on the burgers. My argument for Waterburger was that their breakfast options are amazing, right? Your argument for a burger restaurant was at the morning when I'm up after I jogged. Shut the fuck up, Mark. You sound just like him. You sound just like you're playing a different game right now, son.

Like you're not even in the same ballpark as us. And what about their bread? But have you ever had their salad? They put strawberries on it. Shut the fuck up. I was talking about being drunk. Shut the fuck up. All right.

I was talking about being drunk at 4 in the morning, but that's beside the point. The, uh, Waffle house. What else to say was that Sonic, like, if you want to get like a corn dog at like a, at a fast food place. aren't allowed place anymore. Sonic has some cool shit like corn dogs. They do. They do.

Yeah. So that's the appeal of Sonic. Their extra long cheese coney means a lot to me. Yeah. When you're talking about drunk at 4 a.m. and you need something, Waffle House reigns supreme in that in that game. Oh, yeah. In my opinion.

That's a very southern thing too, but it's just the truth. Sometimes you want to drive through, Tray. Yeah, you're right. No, I mean, you're right. That's fair. That's fair. If you're talking about drive-through shit, then it's a different story.

Yeah. I just love that all your fucking concessions for Waterburger were like, look, you've got to understand if you're not at all in your right mind and you are so fucking desperate, this restaurant is so good. Like, it's just like a- like a-you-a-wa-a-dose in a desert.

You ever been crawling through a desert and get a honey-butter chicken biscuit? Come on, man. Yes, yes, Mark, but I'm just saying, like, I know you and you know yourself. If you heard what you're saying, you would be fucking in the floor laughing and calling that person a goddamn idiot.

While we're waiting on the next comment to pop up, and y'all, please make it about something other than food, that's fine. But while we're waiting on that to pop up, best breakfast, what y'all think? I got Hardee's slash Carl's Jr. I got Hardee's all day. All day. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, well, look that. Wait, look, it's still possible in this country to find something we all can agree upon. It's not like I don't like, it's been a long time since I had Ardy's breakfast, but like McDonald's and Waterburger is still hit for me. McDonald's, by the way, ain't bad. And let me tell you something McDonald's has done recently that really does hit for me. And it's sort of cornered the market here literally on my corner because we have a McDonald's and we have a Hardee's.

Now, the Hardee's is better, but the Hardys hasn't gotten hip to the fact that at Hardee's, your literal best thing is your biscuit and gravy. Your literal best thing is your breakfast. And they're like, yep, and we're going to shut it the fuck down at 10.30. Whereas McDonald's is like, ours is a little bit worse, but it's here the whole time. You know what I'm saying? How do they justify that, man? Like, I don't understand. Is it like a thing where it's like, oh, it'll make people want it more if they can't get it after 1030 or what?

I know exactly why. Yeah, because your daddy works for Hardy. So please explain this. It's because, and by the way, honestly, respect. I'm not, this is so funny to say, their biscuit makers are such specialist. Yeah. And they will not just let any Maimaw come in there and sling biscuits. You're right.

They have certain hours and they can't get enough to work like two, like at two o'clock to do that. Like they've got their gals. They have, and I know this for a fact, by the way, because you know that I go to Hardee's twice every morning. So what I do is not every three times a week at least, I got my 615 Hardee's run. And then, of course, I get hungry again at night. and you can tell a difference in the biscuits at 615 and the ones at 9. The one at 9 are always crispy. I don't know who that lady is, but I've called her Wanda in my mind.

Wanda makes them a little bit crispier. But they've got two biscuit ladies that are in there running them out, running them out, running them out, running them out. And they don't have the extra talent to go to 1 p.m. And Hardee's is a place that's like, look, we're not going to put out subpar biscuits at 2 p.m. just to say that we still have it. You know what I'm saying? It's like, I do respect that. they should have like a business school that they got a business a biscuit a biscuit school that they got to go to because i've passed by hardies before where they have on the sign it says wanted biscuit maker they take like you're right it's a no they do specialized position you work at hardies you are a biscuit maker i don't know how y'all feel about this misha coler says chick fillet has the best breakfast no hands down no it's such bullshit they have really have for breakfast they have for chicken meat

They got those little... Chicken... You want to know what the fuck those are? They're called chicken minis, Trey. They're called chicken minis. And all they are is one of their nuggets on a sister Schubert roll with a light drizzle of honey and bait.

There you go. Do it at your fucking house. Hey, Corey. Chris Mousley from YouTube says, Hey, Georgia guy, chill, please. That ain't gonna have the effect you won't. I'll think Chris. It's the first time he's...

It's the first time he's direct. drank in like 10 weeks. So it's, dude, it's not only that. It's like, okay, yeah, I'm drinking. But like, I was fine until everybody started coming with the fuck shit. Yeah, all this fucking biscuit. About the election, but goddamn fast food breakfast got him fucking. Well, we are, listen, we are, because it's panning out kind of the way I expected it would.

Tonight, we've, we've been live on the air for an hour and 50, two minutes now we're going to end at the top of the hour that's what we're going to do we got eight minutes left we're not going to i don't think we're going to know their results we're not going to know the state of the world in the next hour or two hours so we're going to call it in eight minutes uh but you know guys we got eight minutes left mark pouring that whiskey out let's fucking let's take it home what do we uh what do we got here mark is there anything that while we've been talking about biscuits we've missed like actual news Nah, it's gotten real close in a few important states.

North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas are all real, real close, man. Arizona people are still in line to vote. Okay, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas are all real close. Again, as we mentioned earlier, is it true that if all of the like done deal states on either side, if they go the way that they always do, do we, us on the left, Do we need just one of those, or do we need to pull multiple of those? They have varying amounts of electoral votes that will depend. You might need, like, you might need, if it's just North Carolina,

you might need a combination of one other state, I think. But Pennsylvania might be enough. Ohio might be enough. I guess just, Texas would definitely be enough. Florida is still being labeled too close to call, even though Trump's up by like two or three full points with 90% in. Yeah, I don't know It's going to be weird

If Biden wins by like 10 The popular vote by 9 points And loses the fucking electoral college I don't know how we keep me in a country It's going to be crazy Here's a good question for us Very relevant, very topical Rachel de Groot

Ask Vodka, beer or eggnog I'll get my answer first I actually really really like eggnog in the holiday season. If I'm at a holiday party and they got hitting eggnog, I'm all about that.

I love a good eggnog in the right scenario. But it's kind of like the way I am with Thanksgiving dinner. I love Thanksgiving dinner, but a lot of that shit, I don't really care much about having it outside of Thanksgiving.

And that's how I feel about eggnog. In the right context, right season, I fucking love eggnog. But other than that, like in July, miss me with eggnog. So if you're talking about any random day of the year. I'm a say vodka, personally, because beer makes me swell up.

I myself, I'm a beer man, through and through. Like, that's the thing that I can drink the most of. Go dogs. And I'm the same way as, as Trey with Eggnog. It's like, I definitely want to have that like ceremonial glass at the family get together, you know, when everybody's uncomfortable. and it's like, well, we got to have this, like that National Lampoon moment. But every other time of the year, or every other time I even think about it,

it's like that old Jim Gaffigan bit where it's like, let's drink pancakes. That's how I feel about that. And I love vodka, but that's a, you know, we're about to do a show. Two of them, let's do the show. Beer is like my all-day thing, and I can't give up on it. I'm a beer guy. Hey, Corey, the scam likely says if we're switching from the food topic, Do we got to talk about that belt?

Is there anything special about that championship belt behind? Tell us about that belt, champ. Well, that belt right there is the European championship belt. You boy right here, the buttercream dream. Hey, is the current European champion in all of these here, United States. You heard that right. Shut up. Quit listening.

I'll defend it to anybody that wants to come up to the buttercream dream. I'm the champ. I'm the best there ever was, best there ever will be, best there should be. and all the multiverse. I'm the best in the multiverse. I'm the only wrestler. By the way, nobody knows this. I'm the only wrestler that has ever defended their title in the multiverse.

Nice. Mark, I won't, Mark, tell us about vodka beer eggnog. Answer it. I like a mint julep and then I like to take a shit and go to sleep. I'm Mark. I like eggnog two days a year, but the rest of the day. A beer is nice on a hot summer day, but in general, if I had to pick one

to take to a desert island, I'm going vodka. I don't think I'm doing eggnog year-round. That seems like a psychotic. Corey referenced it just now when making fun of you, but you're one of those like food as fuel type people, aren't you? Yeah, like you don't care too much about food. Blows my mind. I don't understand the brand of a man like you.

That's not true. What? It's, Corey. Yeah, for the record. Am I out of bounds here? No, you're not out of bounds, right? And for the record, I want to say to everybody that's listening to this, like it sounds like, oh, does Corey hate Mark?

Because he keeps being very snide towards him. No, I love Mark more than anything. Mark's one of my best friends in the entire world. I'm very jealous of Mark because, yes, he does seem like one of those food is fuel. I just wake up and I have a piece of chicken that was just cooked the exact proper amount with no salt or nothing. And then I carried on about my day. And then I fucking had an egg.

Also, look how much better Mark looks than either me or Corey. But before we go on, like, it should be said. Yeah, he's doing the right thing. Like, if you, you know, that's what Chris Pratt said. When he became Star Lord, they were like, what did you have to give up in order to get in that shape? And Chris Pratt said, uh, fun? And that's Mark. Do you think, do you anyway think Chris Pratt's life is less fun than when he was on like Parks and Reg?

Do you really? No, I mean, he's with a, he's with a Schwarzenegger right now, right? Yeah, I mean, like, whatever funny's giving up is voluntarily because he's got super Christian goes to Justin Bieber's church or whatever. But yeah, no, I cheat a lot on food. I just when I don't care about it, I eat healthy. All right. All right, look, we're going to close it here in a couple minutes. So in the final stretch here, let's ask everybody, as we've asked some of our correspondents, gun to your head, Corey, you're first.

Gun to your head. what's the ultimate outcome of this? The ultimate outcome is it looks good for Biden for a while and then there's the mail-in and it starts getting a little fishy and then we're going to have a year 2000 Trump Gore situation and it's going to go to Trump. By the way, before you jump on me, I don't want that to happen. I'm just telling you what's going to happen.

I know. All right. Mark. Well, actually, you don't know. You're smart, Mark, God damn it. I'll go. I'm going to go first. you're going to go second. You're going to go last.

I agree with most of what Corey just said. I think that I think it's going to, I fully expect some version of a Bush gore situation in this. I don't think it's going to go simply. There's going to be some kind of bullshit. It's going to be a whole fucking thing that's going to stretch out for months. That's why I was saying earlier, I won't feel comfortable until inauguration day.

Right now, maybe it's just me being an obvious. optimist or just telling myself what I got to tell myself to sleep at night. I think at the end of the day, Donald Trump will not be the president any longer. But I think it's going to be some fucking bull shit between now and when that happens. So Mark, tell us what's going to happen. I got no idea right now, man. It's like the little bit I've been in, well, we're doing this show, but don't look at returns and stuff. Like it seems like a it's Biden's up in the going to be way up in the popular vote of course.

But like if North Carolina, Ohio, Texas are way too close to call. Florida is probably not, but they're still labeling too close to call. Pennsylvania looks like Biden's up a bunch. But of course that's to do with the mailing fucking in person shit. Like there's the possibility that all of them are just really close squeakers that Trump can steal all of them. I don't know. but I'm still think it's Biden's in good shape, but as you guys have put it many,

many times to me, don't nothing hit anymore. No, nothing hits. That's the thing. You need to learn, Mark, nothing hits. That's right. Well,

and that is the note we should leave on, everybody, nothing hits. Thank you for joining us on this election night special edition of evening excuse presented by rural organizing.org. Make sure you check them out. They're doing the fake lord's work over there.

and either way, come what may, we'll be here in 48 hours on Thursday. Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, love you, Gary. Love you, George. Love you guys. It's like, hello. Hello, and good evening, everyone, to all of you who have something to cling to your sanity over the last 48 hours.

Mark and I are doing our best, but we're still here. We're here. We've got a lot of shit to talk about it and a lot of shit to talk in general. Today's Thursday, November 5th. I'm Trey. That's Mark. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? How's your Thursday treating you? Oh, you know, could be better. Could be worse, too, though.

So, yeah, we're going to get into it all. Of course we are. Everything that's happened in the past 48 hours since last we spoke on election night, everything we know, everything we don't know, everything we should know, everything we might know soon. We're going to get into all that, including special attention paid to the ever-increasingly important, Great State of Georgia, featuring Evening Skees, Chief Georgia Correspondent, Corey Ryan Forrester, the Buttercream Dream, who will be joining us at the mid-show mark. So we've got all that for you and more, but first, as always, we begin tonight with the Daily Dumbassery.

Matt, hit that graphic. So, this isn't the first time this has happened, but it is a bit of a rare occasion. But tonight for the Daily Dumbass, we have to gaze in. inward, look upon the mirror, and engage in some serious and honest self-reflection, and admit that unfortunately tonight's Daily Dumbass is the American Liberal. Why do I say that? Well, because of the undeniable stupidity and short-sightedness displayed by our failure to also steal the U.S. Senate elections while we were stealing the White House.

Now look, guys, we've done a great job stealing the White House. Nobody's debating that. We spent months in our secret liberal gay meetings talking about our methodology for how we're going to go about stealing the White House. And that's going pretty well so far. And I feel good about it. But I stopped short of patting ourselves on the back because it has to be said that we left a massive opportunity on the table when we somehow neglected to steal the Senate as well. And I fear, Mark, that in the future, when history looks back upon this moment,

they'll have a lot of questions for American liberals, questions that I don't know how to answer right now. Why didn't we steal the Senate? Well, I mean, I know you're joking around, but it would be the perfect Democrat plot to steal the presidency, but purposefully not still the Senate so you can't pass a big, you know, unemployment bill or Medicare for all. Shit, did I miss that meeting? I'm sorry, guys, if I just gave the game away, I apologize. If we put out a memo saying that this was purposeful misdirection and I missed it, that's my fault.

I'm sorry. I hope I didn't give the game away. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's like a, it's a Democratic Party, so everything it's going to do is going to be half-less and half-assed. So it kind of, it kind of does fit that it would be how we would steal it. But nobody stole shit. No, yes, of course.

I know you guys know this, but of course, we are just. joking. That's a joke. It's hilarious to me. Go ahead. What kind of fucking rock you have to be living under to think Trump is actually really popular? Like, what do you think is, where you've been for the last four or four years to think that how in the hell could 50.1% of the population not like the dude? Yeah. Right. Yes. So we'll circle back to this a little bit later, but since you asked about what kind of rock they must be living under or whatever, I want to say, obviously, we were joking. we have an actual legitimate daily dumbass nominee for you guys tonight, and Mark has segued into it expertly.

Trump's supporters are enraged at this nefarious instance of shenanigans from our side, and they're not taking it lightly, no, they're taking it to the streets. That's what they're doing. They're taking to the streets, and they're protesting, and their message could not be less clear. Matt, play that video, please. so if you're listening only and even if you're watching i know it's kind of hard to discern but what that was was that was a concurrent live feed of both trump pro-trump protesters in michigan and pro-trump

protesters in arizona that is chanting stop the vote stop the vote the other side is chanting count the vote count the vote which if that's not just a snapshot of their entire uh political I don't know what is. What are we supposed to take away from Mark? Well, they haven't gotten clear messaging from Trump about what they're supposed to do. The most clear thing for protest to protest has been that Fox News sucks chant, which... Also singing YMCA. They've also done that at various protests.

They sing YMCA. The ultra-conservative anthem from noted straight cisgender conservative group. The Village, yeah, a song about sucking an anonymous dick in a locker rooms is the official anthem

for America. I mean, they originally were doing it because they would do the MAGA, but they stopped doing that. Now they just love the song unironically.

So it's a really bizarre phenomenon. It was a moment last night. It was really funny because the protest you showed in that video clip where one was from Maricopa and one was for Detroit, right? So it makes sense.

You want to keep counting in Arizona and stopped counting in Michigan, although Biden's up in Michigan. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. But at least there are two different places. But CNN reported Philadelphia last night. At one protest, half the crowd was seeing counting count every boat.

A third of the crowd was doing that. A third of the crowd was chanting stopped account and a third of the crowd being in YMCA, all at the same place. No, I don't know if we're mixing them up right now, but what you just said also happened in Arizona last night. the CNN reporter on the scene reported they were there listening to them that the same crowd in the same place chanted both stop the vote and count the vote and sang YMCA and again that's not that's not a scene from that's not a deleted scene from Borat to everybody that's actual live election coverage from the country that we live in it's so because also Trump tweeted early this morning he tweeted stop the vote, right?

But if at that exact moment you stop counting in every date, all of them, he would lose. Yeah. So there's just no consistency whatsoever. But I mean, look, and Mark and I both, we don't expect consistency from them. Of course we don't. It's not none of this is surprising.

It just remains whole ass. I don't know what to say. Like, they're so. and lacking in self-awareness that you can't help but laugh at it, unless you're existentially terrified. But I find a way to be both. It's also based in nothing. Like the Fox News sucks chance or like, well, for one, the right, of course.

But two, they're mad that Fox called Arizona for Trump, okay? Now, the TV networks calling a state has, is not in the Constitution. That's not how elections are won. It does not matter, right? They could, they could have called it for the, libertarian candidate Joe Jorgerson or whatever she is. It wouldn't affect where the electoral votes go. Bush in 2000, their campaign got mad,

and I guess they kind of had a point because they called the state for Gore when the panhandle in Central Times Zone was still voting. You could say, well, they deterred people from the polls. But like Arizona's so far west, calling it didn't deter anyone because they're time zone. So it does not matter, but that's what they're really hung up on is what they see on TV. It's a whole political movement based around yelling about what you saw in your television. And it's just, we're trapped in this hell, man. And it's not, it's not,

I mean, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, the fact that they alternate between yelling, totally diametrically opposed buzzword slogans and singing the song that their cult leader dances to, uh, irrationally. Like, it kind of just, it just sums them up, you know. But so we've got a whole lot of stuff to talk about where the election is concerned. I think one of the headlines one thing I would like to do and I you know I don't care if it sounds pandery or not it's just the truth I'd like to give a fucking shout out to black people in this country because uh you know I appreciate them making sure that I don't have to raise my children and how to pray like because you look at the numbers and like man if it wasn't it wasn't for black people all other types of

liberals in this country would be in rough fucking shape because if you look at the number the ratios of how they break down amongst the demographics. It's like, you know, 60-40 white men, Trump for Biden, 45 white women, Trump for Biden. And then in the other minority categories, it skews Biden, but the ratio is still a little closer to the middle. But amongst black people, black men, it's 85 Biden, Trump. black women, 91, 92% Biden to Trump.

So I just really appreciate what y'all are doing out there. I don't know where we'd be without you. Yeah, I mean, at every critical point of American history, I mean, Chris was addicts first got to die in a revolutionary war. And people have made this point more eloquently than I have. But civil war, slavery only ended because so many black people ran away to fight for the north. that became politically untenable for Lincoln and not freedom. They freed themselves.

And so it's so frustrating about when they get called unpatriotic during the BLM protests, black people are the only people actually believe in this country, the ideals of it. Right. It seems like that's what I'm saying. Like you said, every month, like all the major like progressive shifts we ever made have, you know, been at the hands of black people pretty much. They have happened because black people have fought for it. yeah i hugely appreciate that um but we're not look we're not there yet everybody well actually

first sticking on the black people voting thing if you guys watched a little about an hour before we went live on the show and donald trump made another uh dress he addressed the nation and he was like he said a lot of stupid bullshit but one of the major takeaway for me the subtext of what he was saying was basically like, look, all these votes from black people are fucking bullshit, all right? Because he was talking about, he was talking about how, if you don't count the illegal votes, then I win by a lot. And then he further clarifies by saying,

you got states like Detroit and Philadelphia and Atlanta, who should not, who are, you know, everybody knows they're corrupt, and they should not be able to determine, a national election, whatever. These are all very black cities. And there's just like clear undercurrent of racism, even in, you know, this latest iteration of Trumpist bullshit. Yeah.

And that's a really ugly meme goes back in American history to when Reconstructionary candidates were winning. And Southerners got real pissed about it. And they assumed someone was telling black people how to vote because it was so coordinated that the segregationist candidates weren't winning. So they assumed it all must be corrupt, illustrated by, you know, 1880s, George Soros or whoever. And, yeah, it's just like, okay.

So let's go, let's go into, like I said, a lot of other things to talk about. I think beginning with like trying to take it somewhat chronologically from after we left everybody, which was, seven Pacific 10 Eastern on election night. We didn't really know very much by then. One of the big takeaways come out first was

fuck, the polls were wrong again. Right? Because it was like becoming increasingly clear. Holy shit, this is going to be very close. Now, people had already put out there, there's going to be something of a red mirage on election night. But like even considering that, it just, I mean, look,

it's two days later and it's still, it's still not. clear it still hasn't been definitively determined so like it's coming down to a razor-thin margin and all the polls you know even more so than 2016 the polls were like pretty emphatically stating no he's got this right but i want to say because i know you have a lot to say about this mark i want to say i was wary about the polls beforehand if you watch recent episodes mark was the one saying hey everything looks good and i was like i believe it when i see it because i was just too gunned just too gun-shy and terrified.

So I was one of those people. And I felt the same thing about the polls on Tuesday night, Wednesday morning and everything. I tweeted about it. I was like, look, fuck this poll shit. I don't even want to hear it anymore. I'm getting tired of this. But the swing states that are out there right now that have yet to be called,

if at the end of the day, all of them but North Carolina, if Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, if they all end up coming down to Joe Biden, I mean, that will ultimately be a pretty fucking decisive victory, right? If that's what happens, which means, like, it will not have actually been as far off

as it has seemed like over the past few days, which is all a result of Republican posturing and everything where the vote is concerned leading up to it. Are you suggesting that lives or pants sweating cowards? Is that what you're suggesting? Well, if they are, I am chief among them. My pants wedding coward. Look, if the Republicans in Pennsylvania had let the ballots be counted the day over ahead of time, the way counties asked to,

this would have been called election night and you would have had what's going to be, California takes forever to count. That's a popular vote. It's going to keep going up for the next month. but you would have like an 8 million vote majority for Biden and he would have 306 electoral votes and he would have flipped five states and people will be dunking all over Ted

talking about what a huge failure this was for Republican Party instead because he lost a couple of house seats and they still have to fight for the Senate they're going to those are important things I feel like you said that like dismissively but that shit's important though like Trey, if I told you Monday night. I know, no, I know, you're right.

A W is a W at the end of the day. I know, you're right about that. But another thing though, Mark, is that Trump, putting all that shit aside, just looking at what Trump did, he got more votes, a lot more votes than even he got in 2016. And I know it's naive and shit, I know, but like I didn't, I'm also upset. discouraged by that.

Like the, because I mean, I've said before on the show that I know people who were like raised Republican and they just identify as Republicans and they voted for Trump because Trump's a Republican and they hated Hillary. But I also said like, but look, these same people, they, they've seen what's actually happened. They've seen what's transpired. They see the stay of the country right now. And I just don't believe that they'll be able to find it in their hearts to vote for

this guy again after everything that's happened. and I was dead fucking wrong about that. I mean, I'm sure a lot of the people I literally know personally may not have voted for Trump, but statistically speaking, it looks like they did and their neighbors did. Like, that is still, that's still disheartening to me, I think. Like, even with a, even with a victory, you know, like Van Jones said on election night, he went in this whole thing about, look, we hope to see a clear repudiation of this ideology you by the American electorate.

And I hope for that too. And it's like, yeah, things are looking good for our side right now. But any way you slice it, that didn't happen. And I still think that that is upsetting and discouraging any way you slice it personally. Yeah. I mean, Erica is in real trouble, man. Has been a lot. Right, right.

But as far as the polling stuff goes, no one knows what the fuck happened. It doesn't make any sort of sense although then turn out way up both sides and that therefore it was unprecedented so they couldn't predict anything about it. But it is depressing. My point is more that on paper,

if the Dems win the two Senate seats in Georgia, it seems like a real possibility. We talked about it pre-show a little bit. They will have control of Senate. they will have control of the house and they will have the presidency and what else it's like what more could you yeah right at the end the problem is dims are learning all the wrong lessons from uh from you know this mild loss in the house um but the we're going to we're going to talk about more we're going to talk more about Georgia whenever we bring in chief georgia correspondent courter rime faster okay the butter

cream dream here in about i want to i want to see this about one thing trump said and is a deranged a mouth diarrhea rant a little while about an hour ago. He was talking about how public polling is a form of voter suppression. And I think he's correct. I think he's absolutely correct. Other countries releasing a public opinion polling before an election is against the law. And this phenomenon we talked about before in a show where every voter is reduced to being a pundit or a flack is all that has to do with like seeing politics from like a distant remove, hypothesizing what other people are thinking and trying to figure out what they're thinking. and how to manipulate them.

Voters should not be concerned with that shit. You should vote what you want to happen. You should not be tactically voted. If you want to vote for, you know, like if you look at the candidates, you vote for the person you want to vote for, and honestly, something that might have happened,

no one's talking about this yet, but like, if you're a hardcore Republican who wanted Trump to lose and you were being told all the last two months he was going to lose in the landside, you might as well vote for him to make it look a little closer

so you don't make it, so the party doesn't feel so bad. Like this stuff works all kinds of triangulation, ways that it should work. You should vote for the candidate you want to win. End of story. And yeah. Yeah, well, okay, because that speaks to like tribalism, right? Because a lot of these like anecdotal people I was talking about people I know in my life are Republicans who I know they don't actually like Donald Trump, who still may have ended up voting for him. Like you said, months of these, the polls and the projections of all, you're going to whip his

ass because fuck him and all that could influence a lot of them to cast that vote anyway because of exactly what you just I mean I think yeah I mean I think there's a lot of validity to what you just said but but either way like I said at the end of the day

a W is a W if we managed to get it but Trump is fighting tooth and nail to keep that from happening you mentioned his verbal diarrhea right before the show started he said a lot of crazy things we've touched on a few of them but he also brought up again the mail-in votes and how like it just cannot be it cannot be true that mail-in votes are skewed this far to the left statistically and this has been said multiple times of the

past few days despite the fact that he literally spent months telling his people not to trust mail-in votes and not to vote by mail so of course that's what they look like right like again none of it's surprising but none of it makes any fucking sense either if you have any logic center in your brain at all the one thing i'll push back on is uh uh that was not fighting that was like that was the closest to get does complain he was not that that wasn't that was not fighting to win the election that was the closest you're going to get to a concession speech that that that like he lost and he knows it and he's whining that no one's rigging it for him and um i i i like even I'm going to stick this right here.

Biden won. It's over. It's over. We broke it. We broke it. We broke it, everybody. We declared Joe Biden the next list of the United States of America. Let's read some pretty obvious T leaves right here that aren't his speech talking about how unfair it is that he lost.

He pretty much just said it, right? Jared, there was a story a couple days ago where Jared was calling around trying to find their Jim Baker to lead the Florida, their original Florida recount effort. And they got nobody. Nobody was willing to go on the record defending them. They got Jay Sechalow, how do you say, his name was already on the payroll. We got Rudy Giuliani and Pam Bondi, right?

They got the fucking, the suicide squad of the DC University of Republicans. They got, Don Jr. has been complaining about the Republican Party letting them down because they have. The parties abandoned them. Like no one's coming out to fight for them. Because they know they're losing, right?

Which that's your entire point. Yeah. The funniest one was Don Jr. tweeted out that the deathly silence from the 2024 allegedly was not to be going to be forgotten. And then almost immediately, Nikki Haley and Tom Cotton, who of course, want to be president in 2024, tweeted out talking about complaining about the vote counting process.

but in the past tense. They complained about how this election had been stolen from Trump, and next time we have to do better. They use the past tense because it's like, bye, bitch, we don't care anymore. Go away. It's done. Like the lawsuits everyone was afraid of, and I was on a guy was talking about how they're going to steal it in the courts.

They barely tried. The one lawsuit they won that it wasn't laughed out on its face was they complained about where they were having to, their observers were having to sit in the Pennsylvania recount. they got a closer chair. They got a closer chair. That's the lawsuit they want. Nothing is same.

Which Trump brought up like five or six different times in that aforementioned speech. Like he kept mentioning that one thing. He's like we won. We won in the courts. We took it to the courts and we won. And every single time he was talking about that same case that you're talking about where it's like, yeah, they're allowed to watch.

They're pretty much the whole thing. They filed all these different lawsuits, which again, as you're alluding to, they wouldn't be doing that. if they weren't very, very worried that they were going to lose those states. And all but one of those lawsuits, and that one was pretty ineffectual, have been summarily dismissed, right? Like, or will be?

Like, there's not ever, pretty much everyone knows anything about it on an actual legal level is saying, whether there's nothing here. I'll do a rundown real quick. Okay, so the, they fought a lawsuit. in Georgia that was laughed out immediately. It was, Tray, it was over

53 votes, or 56 votes, I think, where somebody said someone told them, they saw a stack of 53 mail-in ballots sitting in a separate pile from the main pile. And they came in to say that that shouldn't be in that pile. And there were judges like, what? That was laughed out, all right? These all feel like Trump yelled to file lawsuits

and the legal team's like, I don't know. And they just started, like, when I worked at a grocery store, when I wanted to goof off, I would just take the dust mop and put it on my shoulder and walk around because it would look like I was on the way to do something. These lawsuits feel like the legal version of that. They thought about the chair lawsuit earlier. They declared out loud they were filing a lawsuit in Nevada,

but they just said it on TV and no paperwork was actually filed. And in Michigan, let me read this description of what the judge did. The only problems, according to this judge, with Trump's lawsuit, was that it was based on hearsay, they brought the wrong party to court, couldn't give names of any of the people or locations they said broke the law and the relief they saw was unavailable because the counting is over.

And this was Trump's lawyer's face. Go ahead and throw it up, Matt, when the judge handed down his ruling. Does that look like a guy who's fighting a righteous battle who thinks he's going to win? Look at that fucking guy's face. Fuck you. Piece of shit.

Yeah, so no, go ahead. Also, legally speaking, one thing judges don't like to do is you file for relief before something happens, right? Once the votes are counted, they're fucking counted. And George's within like 2,000 votes or whatever. It's like there's no, there's no time traveling lawsuit that can save him. So I toast to your health. it's over. It's fine. Everyone can...

All right. We're talking about we're going to get... We're going to get Corey in here in just a second, but you brought up... We mentioned Georgia multiple times there. The Georgia lawsuit was about literally 53 votes or whatever. Here's nothing to remind people of. And I know everyone knows this already,

but still, it's important to bring up. Georgia is ran by Republicans. I mean, there's a lot of people who think me, included, that they stole the election from Stacey Abrams. in 2018, right? Like, Brian Kemp is the governor of Georgia. And if y'all don't remember

or don't know much about Brian Kemp, he is a fucking lunatic. He's the guy that went viral at the time because his campaign videos, including, they included a tricked out rounding up immigrants bus. It was like an immigration bus. He took a school bus

and converted it in a capture Mexican, and deport them bus. And that was his campaign video. Like, this guy is a fucking lunatic. He was the Secretary of State, right? At the time that he was running for governor and he had a lot of control over the election and the election was a nail-biter

and there's been a lot of people who think that there was some shenanigans involved there that kept Stacey Abrams from winning. So, like, Georgia has not been a bellwether of, you know, progressivism recently. like they that Georgia is ran by people who fit firmly under the Trump umbrella right and they're one of the states that Trump is fighting back against right now so with that in mind because it's not also it's not just the presidential election the Senate elections in Georgia are crucial as well y'all as much as you might be terrified to hear it because look I'm from the south and I'm scared to hear it too the state of Georgia is about to become the center of of the American political universe. So with that in mind,

let's bring in senior Georgia correspondent Corey Ryan Forrester, aka the Buttercream Green, there he is, boots on the ground. What's up? Yeah, what's up, baby? Go dogs, huh? Go dogs, go dogs.

Yeah. Yeah. We're going to do it again. So, how are you feeling? It looks like you're feeling good, but how are you feeling down there right now? No, no, no. This is an outward lie, my friend. This, much like democracy and freedom, this is really just an illusion that I'm using to make myself feel anything right now.

Other than sheer terror for several reasons. Number one, it just doesn't feel real that what, and I still can't bring myself to say it, because y'all know, we've talked about this in our text. I'm a jinx guy. I'm a sports fan, you know, from way back. What's looking like may happen is already crazy enough. But then, like, just with the, the Bermuda Triangle type bullshit that has been going on in Georgia with, like, sports in the past five to six years, I'm so worried is going to bleed over into the election. So, like, look, man, I'm just trying to feel happy.

You know what I'm saying? But here's the problem. Here's the problem with your logic, all right? So. My logic. this man's logic take a snapshot of his screen right now we're talking about your logic

sir camry newton right now you're telling me I'm fucking have logic as a Georgia sports fan you're talking about how the good guys in your opinion always have these come from ahead failures right sure what if Trump's right and we're the antagonist

and this is his come from ahead failure have you thought about that I mean look that feels if that's what I need, then that's what I need. Because that's certainly how, well, you know what, Mark, I would say that's how most people in Georgia are going to feel about it. But I'm looking at a sign that tells me that's not true. Absolutely, you're right.

And that's one thing that I said today. I threw a video up and I want to shout this from the rooftops right now. Don't get me wrong. My God, we have so much work to do in Georgia, the South, this goddamn country, everywhere. People suck everywhere. But like, man, I'm not trying to be. be fun like i'm gonna get choked up like it's a great deal to me if i could say look man don't blame me i'm

from a fucking blue state i don't know what to tell you i'm yeah i'm so jealous of that because i still i still consider myself a tennessee and even though i live in california right now so i mean yeah i'm very jealous of the ability to say that my virginia blue state too mark i'm the only i'm the only red state are here but cori said it would mean a lot to him if this actually comes Y'all almost got Kanye, baby. Y'all almost got Kanye. Yes, we're going to get to that. Let's circle back to the Kanye thing.

But Corey said this is going to mean a lot to him if this actually comes through. Won't you tell the people, Corey, just how much it's going to mean to you if Georgia goes blue. You've made a commitment to the people of Georgia and the people are fans of the buttercream dream, something you're going to do to celebrate if this happens. I plead the fifth. No, no, no, you know what? You know what? It's fine.

I'll go ahead and say it because I did mean it. And I will do it. And I can't fucking wait. I'll do it goddamn barefoot. I said, I'm paraphrasing my own self here. I said, I don't believe in nothing, but I will tell you this right now. If Georgia actually comes out and does the right thing, then I will pull a hamstring doing the neon Dion, butt-necked down my street, chugging a beer and singing fucking free.

son and I yes there will be video it will be available on my only fans uh you can get that and uh i'm kidding and just so y'all know he said he's going to do it down history cori don't live in buckhead all right cori's in cori's in chickamauga georgia a very rural very red town in the north part of georgia like corey's stories about the politics of chickamauga are in some So like him doing him doing the butt-necked neon Dion down Main Street in Chickamauga, Georgia will be a hell of

a thing. I think, Corey, there's a chance you may get arrested, which would hit, right? That'd be a great thing for you. Dude, I can outrun. There ain't one fucking piece of shit cop in this town. I can't goddamn outrun. I'm fine. They can shoot me. They can shoot me. It's a deer.

It's a queer. You're out there. A 10 point queer. That's hilarious. A 10 point queer. That's what they say when they bag Corey on their Instagram. When they back holding his bald head up, look at this 10 point queer I got. Oh my God.

Oh, my God. Guys, I mean, I'm looking at this map here, buddy. It's 3,000. So right now, Georgia, 3,486 votes. And they're shrinking. And as I said, look, right now it's, looking like that's actually going to be the way it's going to go. But Biden doesn't have to win Georgia to win the presidency. It's looking like he can still pull it off without it. So regardless of how

this goes, the fact that I'm sitting here, and I've done a show to the amount of people that it is between Biden and Trump. That's fucking crazy. And again, we got a long way to go. In a better world, it wouldn't be a 50-50 split between tyranny and decency. But that's where. That's where. You're we're at and god damn man i mean i i just i'll be honest with you felt like four years ago i felt like i had my thumb on the pulse i knew what people were thinking i was fucking wrong this year and by the way as most liberals are with their beliefs glad to be wrong yeah right uh so i mean yeah i like look i mean i'm jealous like i'm very much looking forward to the main street uh butt-neckiness that we've got coming uh but i'm very jealous of you personally

as a Tennessean, because, I mean, Tennessee is one of the first states called for Trump, very solidly Trump, our governor, Bill Lee, maniac. And also, as you alluded to earlier, Tennessee was literally the number one state in the union hoarding candidate Kanye White. Like double. Tennessee had like over 10,000 votes for Kanye West, and the next closest one was like 5,000 and some change. So like, y'all, I look, I don't know what else to say other than I'm sorry, but we are, don't look to us for shit right now. It also, for a while there, I was like, I had arguments I could make because before Bill Lee, we had Haslam, who was also a Republican, but during his reign, we made community college free for Tennesseans and stuff. there were some actual progressive things you could point to, and I did very loudly and proudly, but we ain't doing shit worth of fuck right now. So, hey, let's go Georgia.

I'm looking to Georgia for some hope. Dude, we talked about it earlier this year, but no shit. Like, it was a big deal down here when Kanye went to Gatlinburg. Like, Kanye went to Gatlinburg. Yeah, I think, yeah, you think that's what swung him. That's what got him the votes he needed. Kanye played Gatlinburg, buddy. that put him over the top.

I'm not even being funny. I'm just saying like, when's the last time a fucking candidate went on a goddamn log ride and had a pancake for your fucking vote? It don't happen that much. You know what, Corey, you're right. Kanye did the,

he did the legwork in Tennessee. He did what it took to happen. He did. If Joe Biden's ass had to went to goddamn Fannie Farkel and had him a lemonade with the common man, then maybe this would be a different story.

So here's the deal. We alluded to it. before you came on. All eyes are on Georgia right now because of where they stand in the presidential election, but all eyes are going to remain on Georgia no matter what happens, even if Trump manages to hold on and ends up taking Georgia, Georgia is still going to remain crucial because of the situation there with the Senate races. Both of them could be going to runoffs with and if the Democratic candidates managed to win those runoffs in Georgia in January, that would put Democrats over the top in the Senate

and would complete this blue wave we've all been looking forward to. So Cho, how are you feeling about the entire political landscape being focused on your home state of Georgia? Well, I mean, look, okay, I'm going to do this. I'm going to try to be completely positive and look at it at the best possible way. Yeah, that makes me really nervous. But at the same time,

this is the first time I can remember where it was even a question. You know what I'm saying? Like, where my state? Like used to it would just be, yeah, they're red, who gives a shit, move on. Like the fact, like I said, I think we can pull this out.

But even if we don't, like, even if we don't, the powers that be, the moral majority, the Republicans in this, this state, there's no way in my mind that they can be sitting there thinking anything other than, oh, dude, what we're doing ain't working no more. This old school shit, this like you were saying with Brian Kemp, this, this pimping out the, you know, the Mexican shit and being overtly

racist, like, I guess these old people are dying. And we can't, so like, regardless, some of those people are going to have no choice but to at least try to come back to the center, which, look at that goddamn motherfucker right there. I mean, that's just how I feel. So, like, I don't feel, you know, like I don't feel like Georgia ever needs to have anything resting on it. But at the same time, just the fact that we're in the conversation

makes me know that we're heading in the right direction. That was the most political answer I've ever given. Mark, Mark got a lot of thoughts about the runoffs in January. Oh, do you, Mark? He does. Yes. So first of all, caveat being that the Democrats are absolutely going to fuck up the race. I'm with you.

Because they seem to think that they lost a few seats in the house because they were too woke and not racist enough or whatever. Meanwhile, Florida passed a $15 minimum wage by like 60 to 40 while voting for Trump. Can you guys see me? I see the Brian Kemp thing. I see you. Brian Kim thing too. Matt will fix it. He'll get us back up there if he's been already.

So one thing that's going to happen is, so the actual, which we call it, the elections, Kitt Laughler and David Perdue, the Republican candidates, and they're going to the general, are extremely unpopular and caught up myriad of scandals. And there's going to be, Stacey A. Aram's has organized this. state all the hell. And Kelly Loeffler's side of the seat election was so vitriolic that she left a really bad taste in her mouth with the other candidate Collins' followers. And I've already seen interviews with a bunch of them say they will not vote for her. And also, she's got that federal investigation hanging around her neck for insider trading. And the Trump, and we're

January 5th, so Trump's Justice Department will still be in charge, but who knows? I don't really, I don't know about you guys, but I don't really give a fuck about insider trading. I hope she falls off a cliff, but that one's never, I've never understood that. Like, that just sounds like what the stock market should be. What was that? Who is it that had that joke. Kat Williams. Kat Williams, talking about Martha Stewart.

He said, Kat Williams said, her advisors taught her Martha, bitch, if you don't move your money, it's going to be gone. And she did. Where I'm from, they call that the hook up. I feel the same way. Yeah, I mean, I do too in the context of a Cat Williams bit. No, no, I know. But when you consider these fucking plutocrats out here, they're actually making, you know, taking advantage of it.

She didn't just inside her trade, though. She instead of traded on COVID information. She got a briefing that saying that COVID was going to be real bad. And then she sold her stock the same day she came out and told her constituent, which COVID wasn't going to be that bad. Like she got people killed. So it's a little different. No, it is different.

And in fairness, when you're actually one of the people that's in a position of power and can affect stocks one way or another, it is different. I'm just saying, I'm just saying Martha went away. I agree about Martha. Yeah. Yeah, I do too. And I know that I know that Corey's entire political stance where insider trading is concerned is based upon that Cat Williams bet.

It really is. It really is. Corey is. High-level endemic insider trading, obviously, you know,

that ain't what's up. But, Corey, what you, I've been doing this with our correspondence lately, and I'm going to do it

to you, and I apologize, but gun to your head, I want you to call all of these right now. All of them. Not just the presidential race, race, but the Senate race is too.

I want you to give your prediction as a lifelong Georgian of what is going to actually turn out here. Well, so in the Senate, they got to go to a runoff, right? So there's a special election January 5th. Yes.

That's the deal. Well, I think that that, I think that's going to end up going back to Purdue. And I say that because I think Biden's going to legitimately win Georgia. I think he's legitimately going to win it, and it's going to be majorly contested. I think it will ultimately be fine because as Mark was texting earlier, I didn't know any of this.

They were trying to go to court with a lot of this shit, and they were just laughing. I saw that dude. The fucking guy, the dude with the face is just like, ugh. So, like, it's ultimately not going to matter if Georgia wins, but I do have this bad feeling that if Joe Biden wins Georgia, it's going to ignite those people just further again who maybe they didn't. and come out this time and they're going to go at least like well god damn it we can't lose this racist I don't know that's how that's probably how I feel it's going to show

I just can't believe it would all be good and it's looking like like if I was a Vegas man like I'm putting my house on Biden in Georgia right now it seems right am I wrong no yeah no no you're right I think yeah 3600 vote difference and I think like 20,000 left to count so he only has

to win at like you know 11 to 7 or whatever um you know I said to the night just wanting whatever it is but it's not yeah no but uh we were saying before we went live earlier me and mark and producer matt were talking about this and and they were both talking about the the trump effect like when you don't have trump as a factor his base doesn't show up right the way that they otherwise yeah that's true which in the the runoff that would be the situation and i was saying

like related to what you were just saying i feel like i'm worried that because of the contact of all of this and how this all may play out, that that would still activate them, even if, like, Trump himself is not up for being voted for. But, look, me and you are both, we're just, like, we're just talking. We've been in an abused relationship. Yeah. Like, we just can't believe.

But, I mean, I'm hopeful. Do you think Trump is going to do any rallies for these candidates? No. After everybody ran away from him and he's lost and, like, he's mad at the Georgia Republicans. for not rigging the election for him. He's not going to help them. Absolutely not. And I mean, that's

the thing about Trump. And this is not, I mean, I think he would probably say this about he's a very fucking selfish human being. And as soon as he's out, like if he loses, he's not, dude, we'll probably never hear from this motherfucker. I mean, okay, that ain't true. See, we will.

Go. What? No, I just, no, I mean, go ahead. Because exactly what you're bringing up right now, I wonder about a lot. Okay. Here's, here's, in that respect. There's what I think. If Trump loses this shit, he's going to, for the next

couple weeks, be bitching just in case there's an off chance of, hey, we can take this to court and yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But once they find out, look, man, no, Joe Biden's going in the White House. I don't give a shit. Sorry about it. I think he will disappear. Dude, he golfs

every day anyways. Like, why not when he's on his way out? I think that he'll disappear for a bit, and then he will he'll probably start a goddamn podcast and it'll be great. I don't know, man. I mean, he's definitely good to run in 2024 because, one, he needs the ego hit of keep doing rallies.

But two, he's going to, one thing he's going to do is he needs the campaign cash. He needs those campaign accounts and those donations to pay all his legal bills of buildings because he's broke. What do you do? Hey, producer, Matt, real quick. Start throwing some comments. up there from the from the people we're here for the people um but anyway yeah sorry what were y'all

talking about what do you think his chances in 2024 would be what would that even look like depends on the next four years ago right yeah right yeah i i because you were talking about i said the thing about like him like never seeing this motherfucker again yeah that's not true because he will be like he himself has alluded to that one of the funniest things in recent trump memory at Mark sent us in the group chat was when he said, he was talking about his children. Trump was talking about his children and he named them all off. And he was like, look, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them and I love them or whatever.

But if I lose this election, they'll never see me again. Which is like the fifth or sixth time he's publicly alluded to him fucking off forever. But I think the thing with that is everybody on our side is like, of course, we would love that. you know, so he won't, he'll, he'll start the fucking Trump News Network or whatever, because they're already talking against Fox News, right? Fox News sucks, apparently. Well, he'll start a new one's like, yeah, you're right, Fox News does suck. Come to the Trump News Network.

And I just cannot make myself believe that he'll actually disappear. He'll be around and it'll be a thing and it'll suck, I think. I think that's true. And, dude, I've been saying that for a long time going against the people who keep saying, like, man, you comedians, you should want him to get elected. And my whole point of that is like we've said we beat this horse dead, I'm sure, but like the guy's been a laughing stock for 30 years before this election. We had a comedy central roast of him before he ran for president.

So that wasn't a factor then. And now, yeah, he's not going to shut the fuck up. So maybe we can have a functional leader and I can still talk shit about him when he's, you know, when there's going to be a sad picture of him on Rush Limbaugh's grave here in about two months. Like that'll be for good internet and, you know. Yeah. All right. So we got a, we got a comment here.

from Kevin Clark from YouTube says, what about Steve Bannon calling for Fauci to be beheaded? Have you guys seen this? Yeah, producer Matt. Yeah, that was something else. If you have it, producer Matt, throw it up there if possible. Because I know we had the link, the link for this pulled up. This is from Bannon's fucking podcast or whatever.

If you think this sounds like hyperbole... No, it's... That's the second term. Second term kicks off with firing Ray, firing Fauci. Now, I actually want to go a step farther, but I raise the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor, England. I'd put the heads on pikes, right? I'd put them at the two corners of the White House.

As a warning to federal bureaucrats, you either get with the program or you're gone. Time to stop playing games. Blow it all at. Put Rick Grinnell today as the interim head of the FBI. That'll light them up, right? You know what, Steve, just yesterday. So there you have it. Literally calling for Fauci's head to be put,

Fauci and the FBI director, their heads to be put on pikes outside the White House as a warning to treasonous, comity liberal queers like the three of us. I don't want to defend Steve Bannon, but I want to go 70% I assume he would be a metaphor there and like to fire them to make an example of them. But who knows?

But the thing is like threatening violence, is a violation in terms of his bail. He might end up back in a back off the inner boat and back in the Hooskow for running his damn mouth, as he should be. It also is a violation, apparently of the terms of YouTube's, terms and conditions or whatever. So a lot of people have been like reporting that to be taken down, and it seems like at least so far it hasn't been.

Actually, that was a Twitter link, so I guess it could have been. But that goes back to the whole thing about Facebook and YouTube and the role they play and disinformation and all that, you know. And I know that Twitter has been marking some of Trump's tweets as like potentially misleading or whatever, but still.

It's so funny to, though, that Steve Bannon video right there, like, obviously when he says it, it's terrible because he means it, but, like, I think if you took that word for word and just put it in a Bill Burr bit, it would be, like, he would have pulled it off. You know what I'm saying? saying like, and we would have been very sarcastic, whatever. You know what they used to do to these guys?

They put their head on a spike. Heads on pikes outside the White House. Just to let people know. This is how it was done. So, like, I liked all the words. They were just coming from the wrong dude and with the wrong intent. Does that make sense? Right.

Right. Yeah, absolutely. It was beautiful. Frank Frank Repiipepi, Frank Ripepi, Frank Ropeppy. Frank Ropeppy says, Trump will do a reality show contest called America's Next president. I know you're making a joke, Frank.

Literally that exact thing wouldn't surprise me a single bit. He founds the Trump News Network and their flagship program is America's next president in the style of the apprentice or whatever. How would a stupid reality show picking a next president be different from the actual fucking election? That's always been what it is, man. I mean, I've watched some, there used to be a show on HBO called Assume the Position and it was with Robert Wool, who was a comedian,

and he played the manager in Bull Durham, great comic. And he was basically, and this is like 15 years ago, long before Trump, but he was talking about how basically it's always kind of been a reality show type popularity contest when you really bull it down,

because the way that Franklin Pierce got in, like Franklin Pierce is considered one of the worst presidents of all time, like got several DUIs on a horse back before that was even a thing. Like, like, he's an all. Ar you eyes, Corey. It was an argue eyes. Writing under intoxication. Also, George W. Bush is a direct descendant of this man. He's widely considered one of the worst presidents of all time.

And was a nobody coming out. And he just happened to be roommates in college with this guy that you may have heard of called Nathaniel Hawthorne. Who right before the election, he, Nathaniel Hawthorne to help his buddy out, he wrote a book called my buddy Franklin Pierce. and this guy went from a complete nobody to sweeping and winning. So it was a huge popularity contest then. It's just that Nathaniel Hawthorne was the George Clooney or the Gary Busey of his time. Take your pick, whichever won. You know who was also the George Clooney of his time, apparently?

John Wilkes Booth. He was a big fucking deal. Yeah, he was. The beef, the thing about John Wilkes Booth, who was a pretty successful actor at the time, was that he wasn't considered, like, he was a leading man. because other actors considered him a shit actor

but he was so good looking and got all the starring role. So look at John Wilkes Booth. He was the hottest piece of ass in America in 18. He was like the Timothy Chalamey of white supremacist president assassinated.

So I want to give Mark an opportunity to shine here because Russell Chiodo, I believe from YouTube, says, my emotions have gone from confident to devastated all day. Out of control, man.

So me, Corey, and Diamond Drew Morgan are in a group chat with Mark that we maintain all the time. And the three of us, except for Mark, have been exactly where you are, Russell. Like, we're not, we're refusing to be comfortable. We're refusing to be confident about any of this shit. We've been terrified to.

And Mark has consistently said, y'all are idiots this is what's up uh so mark respond to russell the way you've responded to us those were some numbers out there fuck them up with your logic and numbers um so biden's way up in nevada up in arizona it doesn't appear to be any pathway for them to catch them just those two alone gets by in 270 pennsylvania if unless something incredibly bizarre happens and trump just lost his most recent lawsuit in Pennsylvania, by the way. He's going to win Pennsylvania, and it looks like he's going to win Georgia and Corey's going to get naked.

If there is some sort of weird, all the paranoia, and like I got to check myself here, too, because we've done something to this show about, like, Trump would, Trump is half-assing a coup attempt. It's the most Trump thing of all time. He's fucking lazy and stupid. He cannot pull this off. He cannot figure out what button, what we lever a power to wield to make him not lose. He doesn't have it. Like so I don't know what everybody is afraid of that hasn't already happened.

I'm I'm I'm hardbroken for our country because like we got a lot of real shit to address and we're not going to be able to address it with a with a split government and a bunch of Democrats chastened by the idea that they lost because they were too far left after they picked the most right wing candidate in the primary. I don't. Let me ask, let me ask both of y'all this question. because you were talking about, you know, I don't know what we're going to do or whatever. I don't know how this is going to sound.

I know this is going to come across. But I kind of think that, and the massive disclaimer at the front of this statement is, given that Joe Biden is the winner and gets inaugurated in January, given that that happens, I kind of think that we might all be better off. if Trump spends the next couple months preoccupied with trying to fight that result, as opposed to spending it twiddling his nuclear football holding thumbs, right? Do you know what I mean? Like, I almost think that that's like, because of how shitty of a situation we're in,

that's like a best case scenario, maybe. If that keeps him preoccupied until the transition period is over, over, that's like a good thing. Am I crazy? No, you're not crazy. And I think that there's a couple things at play here that he could spend part of the time, like you said, completely worried over this.

He's not going to be paying attention to any other thing that's going on, foreign or domestic, as if he fucking really has, you know, this whole time. And then if that, that'll either take the whole time and keep him occupied, or they'll shut that shit down. And I genuinely think that he'll sulk. I don't think that You know what I mean? Like I don't think

I don't know There's just It's hard for me to think That he's going to be like Okay I have one month To seal my legacy You know what I mean?

Like what the fuck's he gonna do? Like his legacy is You just lost the goddamn election To Joe Biden You know So when you when you said that This country was going to be a complete red wave So like no I agree with you

I think it would be best if If our country just came to a screeching halt For too much and just Right the pause button. Yeah, it'll be stressful. It'll be stressful for all of us and everything, but it might actually end up being better than the alternative. Mark, before you respond, Pamela and Ray Osmond says, I don't think undertaking a coup is like starring in reality TV. I would have agreed before 2016. Now I don't know. But Mark, what do you think about all that? Well, two things.

If you had done it like a reality TV show, it might have worked, right? Because a TV show has a plot arc and things aren't done out of order. His problem was you can't announce ahead of time you're going to declare victory while you're ahead so you don't ever fall behind when the mail votes are counted. He said that out loud because he's stupid as shit. Yeah, he says the quiet part out loud all the time. So much. It's coming his thing. So because, I mean, this isn't a lot of things wrong with this country. We complain about them a lot. But like, people still believe at least in the pretext of democracy. like you still need the traffic right you can't

you can't just call up the Supreme Court on your on a live Zoom call and be like help me do a coup please it's they think it doesn't because you when people see you do it you box them in where they can't do it George Bush didn't go on TV

and be like we got the Supreme Court 5 4 buddy Florida is ours bitches it wasn't like it doesn't work that way you have to pretend right well it's also been it's been they've said on CNN and other news outlets multiple times that actually the Bush team in 2000, they went out of their way

to not litigate certain cases and whatnot. That would be contradictory to their important ones because they knew that would hurt their case. And then as we started at the top of the show, the Trump team meanwhile was screaming, count the votes, stop the votes at the exact same time. So, I mean, I think you're 100% right. And Stacey Evans is, Gay Rees says, Kay Stacey Abrams is my hero and I agree. You should have put boots in the ground organizing in Georgia, which would be the model going forward.

You've got to knock on board and shake people's hands. Like, I'm a human being. I'm not a monster you've seen described in my attack ads. And here's her plan to make your life better. Yeah, absolutely. So that's, we're at, we're, we're out of time. We're closing up here. And I'm glad you went to Gay there.

Talking about Stacy. Yeah. Stacey Abrams should be a model for all of us going forward for the right way to go about things. And it, you know, if Georgia, Corey, if Georgia ends up actually coming through with these monumental decisions we've got in the next couple months. It's down to 20. It's going to be because of Stacey Abrams, man. Oh, no, it will be. You got to look to Stacey Abrams and say, thank you. No, listen, make no mistake right now.

We're three white dudes sitting on here talking. through white southern dudes and I'm as pumped as I can be to be from Georgia and I do feel like people like me have had a small part in this waking people up but as always uh in the if we turn this thing around as always it was the black folk specifically in this case the black women that turned out and did it and so remember that shit remember that shit forever it was the no matter how they've been treated no matter what kind of disrespect they've had they turn the fuck out and if we win it's absolutely it's absolutely down now that's right thank you black people we appreciate it all right well thank you all and thank you all black and otherwise thank you black

people thank you black people and everybody else that joined us night we appreciate it who the fuck knows what'll happen between now and next tuesday but whatever happens unless we're dead me and smart mark will be here to talk about it so that's it for this edition of evening skews i'm tray that's senior Georgia correspondent Corey Ryan Forster right there and Mark Aegee thank you guys we'll see you next to all love you by skew we still on air Matt