wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of 2/23/21 - Everyone is a Predator Apparently and more

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

This week our Dumbasses center around the horrific implications of wilted roses and nonfunctional gas pumps (it makes sense in context...or does it?). Outside of that we dig in on the Congressional actions related to the Capitol Riot hearings as well as the legislation aimed at protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination. You'll never believe this but Republicans fuck up both proceedings with idiocy. All that and more on this week's Skews. Love y'all. 

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What's on, Trey? Before I get into the show, I wanted to ask you, you and Corey and Drew are real excited about pizza. I'm having Detroit-style pizza, which is apparently is really popular in Tennessee. And I just want to know what the fuck is Detroit-style pizza. Okay. I'm not going to say that Detroit-style pizza is very popular in Tennessee. We were talking about Jets, which is a pizza chain. And no, they don't sponsor the podcast.

This is organically coming up. That's Detroit-based and the pizza is Detroit-style. And me and Corey were both saying, we are big fans of it. it, not that it's like a cultural phenomenon in Tennessee or anything, but as far as what it is, as far as I could tell Mark, it's a rectangle. So I like that, you know, it's rectangular. And it's like, it's not deep dish, because I mean, look, I like deep dish too, but deep dish to me, like Chicago type deep dish is more of like a casserole, like a pizza casserole than a pizza.

So it ain't like that, but it is like, it's a little thicker. and a little deeper and it's rectangular and it's real greasy and I'm probably butchering what Detroit style pizza is but that's my interpretation of what it seems like it is and that's what I think they put the cheese and I like it. I think they put

Detroit styles they put the cheese under the sauce so it keeps the sauce from sipping into the bread soaking into the bread I think. Okay well see look clearly you've done some research you have all I've done is eat it all I've done is eat it and I know that I like it and so like you ask me what it is I'm like well it's a square first of all

Because it's all just based on how it looks to me. But yeah, no, I like, I like Jets. Like, people get too, mostly invested in which pizza is better. It's all pizza. Pizza's all good. It's bread, cheese, sauce, toppings, good. Right?

Speaking of Detroit-style things, did you know that, like, Coney dogs? Like, people are aware of, like, Coney dogs for hot dogs. You know, that's not Coney Island. It's Detroit somehow. Coney dogs come from Detroit.

It's not a Coney Island thing, apparently. That's also. I may have just absolutely butcher, but I'm pretty sure that that's true because I've been to Detroit a few times. I'll just say that all the regional food specialties are good in their own way,

except for Cincinnati chili, which is an abomination before God. I'm with you on that. I like the city of Cincinnati. Spaghetti noodles, man. I like the city of Cincinnati a lot. Yeah, I actually think it's underrated in terms of beauty because I've always always,

drove into Cincinnati from the south on i 75 right is that right up from tennessee up through uh kentucky into cincinnati and when you drive into Cincinnati from the south it kind of you go around this curve on the interstate and Cincinnati kind of like slowly presents itself to you and it's a gorgeous city i love Cincinnati but yes y'all need to stop fucking with chili i don't know what i don't know what that skyline chili stuff is supposed to be i'm a trash barrel i'm a garbage bin of a person when it comes to food. And I can't even, I can't, I can't get with the Cincinnati chili thing. I can't do it.

The only time I ever passed the Wienerobiel in person on the interstate was in Cincinnati. So it always had a special place in my heart. Yeah. Real quick, before we get into the show, Mark, you got a birthday announcement, right? Oh, happy birthday. Holly Barlow, avid viewer. My aunt Kim asked us to wish her happy birthday.

And I'm going to say, have a good one. Yeah. Yeah, we've talked about Aunt Kim on here before. You got Aunt Kim, and Aunt Kim is the aunt who is lesbian, right? Is gay? Or is that a different aunt? Yeah, but she doesn't like, when I was talking about on Facebook, I don't think. I'm sorry.

I'm very sorry, Kim. I apologize. Here's why I said that. Here's why I said that. Just so she knows, here's why I said that. People have followed me for a long time. No, you've got Aunt Kim and I've got Uncle Tim, my gay Uncle Tim. So that's why I was setting it up that way,

but I feel bad now that I just put it out there on Front Street for Aunt Kim. I'm sorry, Aunt Kim. No, no, it's not like a huge, like, secret or anything. It's just like, you know, we're Rednecks. We're private people. We don't fucking talk shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, anyway, happy birthday, Holly, friend of Aunt Kim. We love you. Thanks for watching.

All right, let's get into the show. With us, as always, producer Matt, doing his thing. This is evening skews tonight. We update you all on the capital. riot hearings that are currently going on in Congress. You'll never believe this, but a lot of the Republican lawmakers involved are taking some positions that some might describe as shitty or the worst. Details on that later.

Speaking of Republican Congresspeople, they're also currently in the process of trying to cancel some of Joe Biden's cabinet nominees because of how offended they are at some of those people's past tweets. my how the turns have tabled or you know how you know the actual saying speaking of turntables rest in peace daft punk all that

and more on tonight's evening skews but first as always the daily dumb ass mac graphic please tonight's dd is i believe the very first non-human being honoree in skews

history that's right our dumb ass tonight joe Biden's dog, champ for being so old and trashy looking. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll let news, Max,

explain for me. Matt, play the clip. Do you see the dog? I want to show you something I noticed. Doesn't he look a little, a little rough? I love dogs, but this dog needs a bath and a comb and all kinds of

love and care. I've never seen a dog in the White House like this. I remember Buddy. I remember Millie. I remember lots of dogs, but not a dog who seems I don't know. I don't know how much love and care he is getting. Let's bring in the historians. While he introduces these people,

this clip kills me. The picture they have of that dog is like the sweetest most pap-ha-law-looking type gentle dog. Like if the dog was snarling or something, you know, it'd be a different

story, but just look at that dogs. Like, loving his face, loving and appreciative. Look at it while they shit all over him. This part's good, Trey. And very unlike a presidential dog like Millie or victory or something else in the past in the White House.

Yeah, the dog's not presidential enough, Trey. No, very disheveled. Disheveled, dirty, uncamped, like, oh my God. I don't know. It just, it kills me. I mean, we were talking before the show started, I'm like, part of me is kind of, I'm like,

part of me is relieved to get back to the sort of like, tan suit sitting when there's a veteran in presence, mustard stain type of controversies. You know what I mean? Like, when it comes to Joe Biden controversies, they got to be like, look at how fucking old and dumb as dog looks, you know? And that's what the controversy is. Like, part of me is relieved.

buy that. But also just, I mean, what? What is this? I'm always going to have my beef with Joe Biden. I mean, like, where's the fucking $2,000 checks? Why are you telling people we can't have a $15 minimum wage? Why are you talking down student debt loan,

student loan relief? Why, the situation of the border's gotten a little better, but not better enough. Like, is all that shit. But like, the degree to which, like, all that stuff, they like about Joe Biden, right? So they have nothing on him to complain about that he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't be they're

conspiracy theory machine he doesn't really fit into outside of like that's why they're they were really trying hard with a hundred Biden's laptop but like Barack you know he was like his middle name was Hussein he went to a madrasah they had sort of rumors that he ate dogs and he like his dad was from Kenya he was a secret Muslim socialist or whatever Bill Clinton was a was a horny weirdo who was like you know from Arkansas and plugged into the cocaine scene there or whatever in their heads so he's like he's like he's like he fits in a conspiracy machine where he murdered Vince Foster, but Joe Biden's been around for 40 years and never really done anything.

So it's like it's, like it's like, it's teflot, man. It's teflon to them. Right. Well, yeah. And again, what the best I could come up with was,

look how fucking old his dog is, y'all. Like, it's just, it's so, it's so funny to make. Even as propaganda, it's never going to work because you're never going to win over

Americans by being like, look how fucking ugly this dog is. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yes, it's also like this is that whole thing about like self-parity, how much they self-parody themselves, you know what I mean, and like how hard it is to parody these people?

Because like, what could you do? If me and you were given the assignment to sit down and come up with the like newest fabricated scandal for Joe Biden by the people at newsmax, you know what I mean? What could we possibly do that would actually be believable or funnier than look how old and dumb his dog is. Do you know what I mean? Like, where do you even go from there?

What do you do with that? Well, he was smart enough not to get on Epstein's plane ever. He is because he probably hasn't been horny in 45 years. It's how old he is. You got what else on him? Like, his son got a job in Ukraine. That's it. That's what happened.

So, also, I just want to make a note, we talked over the introductory part of that video on purpose because it's boring. He's just introducing these other old white guys. But just so y'all know, one of those old white guys, his name was Doug Weed, which I just appreciate. So, yeah. So to my dad, know what I'm saying? I got Doug Weed back in the day.

Anyway, all right, moving on to our honorable mentions. First honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, anyone in 2021 America who tries to do something nice and decent for their community. You should have known better. What the fuck are you doing? With that in mind, Matt, if you've got the clip,

I guess let's just play it. Me and Mark will give some commentary or whatever. It was a Facebook post that said panic through the city of Kashak. Dozens of Red Roses were found on vehicles outside the Walmart. Now, the fear was, it was a sex trafficking ploy. Calls were pouring into dispatch

The sheriff's office was investigating, but the truth was far less sinister. They're putting roses under all these windows, and that's basically where my associates. So people outside of Columbus, a Walmart outside Columbus, Ohio, they're walking out, they're finding roses under their initial wipers. And obviously, very upset. You and I must be alerted. By the way, this deputy, look at this deputy mark. I did not see the Mohawk coming.

It's completely harmless. The post warned of similar tactics tied to human trafficking. So the police department makes a post that warns people that similar tactics have been used by child sex traffickers or sex traffickers in the past. So now people are getting whipped up into a frenzy here in the Columbus Walmart community. Have you heard anything about that? Yep, we sure have. Then that Facebook post showed up in Britney Strupy's speech.

And here's the explanation. Basically said that there's like a potential sex trafficking thing going on at Walmart and at the bottom of it was like a match to my vehicle's description. So I knew I had to call them then and let them know. She needed to let them know where those roses came from in the first place. On Valentine's Day, my at the time boyfriend decided to propose. I think he ended up saying that he spent over $300 in just roses. And instead of tossing all of those flowers, Strupey decided to spread the love with the help of her sister and daughter. So she just go to Walmart thinking like, oh yeah, this will be a good idea. Like people's going to come out and think it's awesome. And that didn't happen.

We had the idea. Oh, we've got 400 roses. Let's spread around the community. Spread of love. People will like it. And instead, you know that it had been solved. and it actually was just a kind, harmless deed that someone was doing. It didn't go the way we expected.

I think the world still needs more positivity. And I don't want that to like, you know, stop us from trying to keep people believing and hope and trying to have positive. Yes. You know, turn it off. First of all, bless these ladies' hearts. And I mean that in the sincere way, not these. Congratulations on your engagement. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like they literally were just trying to do something nice for people. They're like, we got all these extra roses. People will like roses. And the next thing you know, the county police department is posting on Facebook that there might be a child or a sex trafficking ring going on in the community because of this epidemic of flowers under windshield wipers or whatever. And it's just, that's just, you know, we live in a society, Mark. like first of all like I don't watch local news very often because why but like

last two years ago my mom was visiting and she likes to watch the news like like the six o'clock news so I put it on local LA news here for it and it was like the level of fear porn is like so like Fox News gets a bad rap but like people are getting that disease pumped into their brain every goddamn night that like having a rose left in your windshield is something like what's right what is the sex traffickers plan here right rose on windshield step one, step three sex traffic women. What the fuck is step two? What is step two of this plan?

Yes, it's that state of fear thing with the media. Like keep people living in a state of fear and whatnot because then they're, you know, they just lap up all the information that comes out of it. They're like heightened awareness or whatever that comes from a state of fear. People care more about anything if they're afraid of everything, you know?

And so that that hits for for the media But if you like this is all this is all Q right I mean like this is all Q&R. Like this is the level of moral panic people learn about sex trafficking right now all because of Q&N that the sheriff's department in Khashokta, Ohio, sorry if I said that or Shokhton is like putting out messages to people to call 911 if they find a flower. Like what the fuck is wrong with this?

Right. Also, a thing you couldn't tell from just watching that video, but if you read the actual Facebook post, another element of how dumb the police department's post was about it, if you watched the video, you saw there were pictures of the woman or her daughter or both putting these roses under cars, and they both have long, dark hair, right? And in the police's Facebook post about it,

they were described as two males driving, a, what seems to be a forward explorer. And as they go out describing it, they're like, these two males repeatedly place flowers under the windshield. And then the two males got into the thing and left. And it's like just, I don't know, add an insult

to injury for these sweethearts who went out of their way to try to brighten people's lives a little bit. And then they get accused of being sex traffickers and also get called dudes in the process. By the cops, by

This kind of thing. Mohawk Columbus cop. I like that the ladies called the cops themselves and they recognized their vehicle description. This happened like when the wildfires in the Pacific Northwest last year, people thought Antifa was starting it. This person got on Facebook and noticed that people they went to high school with were tracking their cars that people starting Antifa fires

and had to be like, no, we're not Antifa. We're photographers taking pictures of the wildfire damage. Everyone's going insane. think would have happened right because they yes they then as soon as they saw it they called the cops and were like hey just so you know that was us and this is what we were doing if that didn't happen how do you think this would have played out would this be like a national story by now like it would just would have blown up like who are the sex traffickers in columbus ohio what are they doing with roses in walmart parking lots like the mystery would have just cranked it up even further

if they hadn't come forward yeah there would have have been within three days there would have been like self-appointed like uh like oathkeeper militia types like detaining flag guys to sell flowers on the side of the interstate for questioning right right they would have outwalled roses in the greater columbus area uh producer matt just so y'all know is a resident of columbus and he says uh kossoctin is a great little town in appalachian ohio they will hate us for calling them Columbus i'm sorry we do keep doing that. Not being familiar with the area. If you just read the stories, they related it to

Columbus, but I'm sorry, Ksoctin and all the good people of the Kassadden Walmart. Trey, not always Matt correcting your pronunciation in the chat, but you heard it pronounced 10 times in a news story. It's Kishokhton. It's Kishoked. All right. Okay, we got some other

honorable mentions for you. The next one is, anybody who thinks conservatives can't be funny. Listen, that's not true. They got jokes. If you don't believe, Let's look at, again, someone who is becoming a daily dumbass Hall of Famer as we go on here. Congresswoman Lauren Bobert. And here's the clip. Just look at the way I've been treated by the fake news and by creeps like representative Jared Hoffman.

He was literally looking like jiffy pop. Perhaps Huffman is actually the famous corn pop we've all heard so much about. Okay, Mark, you're going to have to even explain this, Joe. to me. What was that? I could tell, as a comedian, I could tell it was poorly delivered, regardless of what the joke was supposed to be. But explain to me what that even was supposed to be, because I don't know. Well, the jiffy pop part, I think she's kind of creepy as I think looking like jiffy pop is some metaphor she's using for horniness, like trying to like, like he's about to explode. But mainly she's using this as a clumsy transition to get to the corn pop joke. Corn pop,

you might remember from like a year and a half ago, I guess, at this point was a story that came up during the campaign when Joe Biden was on a weird, like one of his weird grandpa of Simpson rants. And he was telling a story about growing up on the mean streets of Delaware and volunteered to be a lifeguard at across town, the bad neighborhood pool, you know, which is the segregated time. So it meant like a pool for black people. So there was a guy who was a bad dude named corn pop who was a gang leader who he talked out of a knife fight. Now, this sounded very cartoonously ridiculous. and everyone made fun of it for a day or two. And then it turned out to be a true story when they tracked down people who knew corn pop.

So that was a level of gang name people were operating on back in Joe Biden's youth was corn pop. Corn pop, yes. That is the most perfect 50 years ago, Delaware gang leader name I can think of. The infamous corn pop out there just corn popping. But we have another example of conservatives killing it in the sense of human.

category. Matt, you could play. Well, actually, so this is about Disney has put disclaimers in front of some old Muppet show clips. Things like Johnny Cash playing a song in front of a Confederate flag, things like that. They put a disclaimer in front of those episodes. And this was covered on Fox News. And Matt, play the clip whenever you got it. part conversation to create a more inclusive future together. So rather than get rid of that content, which is very expensive, they're putting that label at the beginning of it. What do you think about that?

Total Mickey Mouse move, guys. Boom. But seriously. I mean, putting these kind of disclaimers on the Muppets or other old movies in its catalog. You can cut that off that. That's all we need to say. Landed it, looked around. Hey, hey, right?

But seriously, folks, anyway. Disney is the devil. I mean, I think Disney Plus putting a disclaimer on Muppets is like one of those things. Most people I roll their eyes out and move on with their goddamn life, you know, like who cares? But I understand why a billion other corporation wouldn't want you to think Kermit the Frog doing like a Chinese accent as a Is it like cool with them now? Right. Okay.

So to get further into this, I think that, uh, I think that these reactionary conservative snowflake types are the reason that, that those, uh, disclaimers exist as opposed to just, and what I mean is if they had of just removed all them, if they had just removed, if they had canceled all the Johnny Cash appearances on the Muppet show or whatever without saying anything. and then the internet found out, which the internet always finds out, they'd be raising even a bigger stink.

They're actually, you know, if you've been fucking around with the internet for a while, you know that Disney has caught flack in the past for not doing this, because they had like Song of the South and other things that they tried to bury. And at the same time, Warner Brothers,

with old Looney Tunes shows and stuff, they took this approach. They put a disclaimer on front. It's like, look, this is offensive. It reflects. the taste at the time. We don't want to bury it and act like it never happened. It did happen, but it ain't cool.

And at the time that happened, that was like the grown-up move to make on Warner Brothers part. And people shit on Disney for just trying to erase everything. So now they're doing that. They're leaving it in and just putting a disclaimer up top. And now this is, like, you literally can't win with these people, is all I'm trying to say. Like, what is Disney supposed to?

I mean, I guess they're just supposed to. to leave it in and not say anything about it and just have fucking the stars and bars you know flying on their streaming platform like what what else are they supposed to do how do you appease these people well they don't want appease they

they they see this as someone else being appeased that's what pisses them off like like I'm not sure how would it cost them to take three seconds to see it like the it's like when you watch an old VHS tape and said you can't copy it the FBI I'll come get you I get apparently that was oppression. But I don't, you got to try real hard to be mad about this shit. I couldn't

possibly care. Like, like, Disney Plus just put the Muppets up. That's why, that's why this is the issue. They just put it up. And it came up with this logo. But like, by the way, Disney Plus, Disney and Fox is the same company now. They got the biggest content library in the world probably. They don't need to put them up itself. They could just not put it up and these people wouldn't even have the fucking issue it mad up. But they put it up and they can watch Johnny Cash. Right. Yes. They also try to make that point. They're like, well, they couldn't stomach just getting rid of the content because they need all that revenue, all that money. It's like, dude, they're Disney.

They're getting it either way. I promise you. Actually, on the well-read podcast this week, Corey Forrester talks about how his church, when he was a kid, tried to lead a community boycott of Disney at large because Disney started allowing gay pride parades at Disney World. So the church that Corey went to was like, we got to boycott Disney and his whole point is how that didn't go anywhere because he was like, all right, pastor,

you come in here and make my kids shut the fuck up then. You try to avoid Disney-owned content. You can't do it, you know, so they can get as mad as they won't. They're not going to do shit about it. The only reason anybody even noticed this is because everyone's been stuck at home with their kids for 11 months. This one parked their kids in front of Disney Plus to watch TV all day

and wandered by it when somebody was like, like it's like I mean the reaction of this is like yeah I don't know I again you gotta try hard to be mad about it you gotta you gotta get to get a will it into being right and see that kind of goes back to what we're saying earlier about Joe Biden's dog they're like producer Matt says also

kids can't read which is actually hilarious that disclaimer that pops up they have no idea what the fuck it says that's a good one producer Matt so but it goes back to what we're saying earlier about the

about the Joe Biden's dog and it's like like you said you got to try really hard to be mad about this right and it's like I feel like we're veering back into that territory which I'm actually encouraged by the territory of the party not in power going out of their what they have to try so hard to find shit to be mad about whereas for us it was like murder and treason

and stuff for four years. So I'm thrilled to get back to an America where the scandals of the day are Disney disclaimers and a poor old dog looking like shit on camera or whatever. You know what I mean? I mean, I wouldn't be too happy about it.

A lot of people vote based on this stuff. I mean, that's what Trump figured out. You can win America presidential race just being the guy to know the bar yelling about having to press one for English or whatever. Like people will get really fucking fired up about this shit. I can't wrap my mind around it. I have actual problems and bills.

to pay, you know, but whatever. A lot of people don't. This is the biggest issue in their lives. Okay, so producer Matt, just so you know, let's skip the, we had a clip of Tucker Carlson shooting an assault rifle, which is silly, but let's skip that because we've, we've ranted about dumbasses for a while.

But I do want to show the one about the Bible, because I think it'll be relevant later when we get into the... Well, it's relevant to what we're talking about right now. this is this cancel stuff so yeah cancel culture stuff which will come up again later too talking about the cabinet member hearing so matt whenever you got it play the uh the by canceling these american presidents they're going to come after bible characters next yeah you could you mark my word wow yeah and really yeah the bible is this bible is a series of stories about people being canceled it's a series

of stories about shitty people god punished like it's like that according to fox news king herod is good now Herod killed every child under two, just trying to get, trying to get Jesus. Jesus sneaky, though, got away. And he's good now, Pontius Pilot, A-OK, fucking, a lot. Great. All the people in Sodom and Demora, great. What about his wife, though? Lot's wife.

Lots wife got a raw deal. She got canceled at the time, right? She got canceled back then. So let's bring her back, I think. Yeah, she didn't listen. She was told not to look backwards, and she looked backwards and therefore deserved to die. Guy was a guy was really strict with his terms of service agreements. exactly right that's right exactly like it's a text based around like divine retribution or whatever

you know what i mean like and shaming stiff consequences and talking about how oh they're gonna try to cancel these biblical figures next it's like no god did that for half of them you know moses didn't get to see the promise laying because it got mad one time you know he was he was ostracized from his people So it's like It's all It's so It's like I like when he says

They're going to cancel Bible characters next And the end And the two women Dana Perino And the other woman And go like Oh

Like he said something Really smart And insightful Shut the fuck up These people so much All right So we've spent half the show Talking about the daily dumbasses

Ases As we often do Because it's a fun time But let's get into the skews Y'all Which will be more of the same All right First up

There are hearings going on in Congress right now about the congressional riots that took place, the capital riots that took place on January 6th. And the Republican stance seems to amount to basically, it never happened, but it's your fault. Yeah. If it did.

We don't need to show this Ron Johnson clip because it's fucking nonsense, Matt. But basically, he has a testimonial from somebody who was out there that day. And his basic argument is everyone out there was too nice and also fat and old to have rioted. So that's fun. That was my favorite part about it. He's talking about like, so yes, it's Senator Ron Johnson talking about the people actually out on the streets or in the capital riots. And he's saying, it's like he's describing like the good Republican Americans out there. And as part of his point, he says, he's like, many of them were too old, overweight, or otherwise infirm to have possibly participated in a riot.

which is just hilarious to me. He's like, look, we couldn't have done it. We're too fat old and dumb to do something like that, guys. He also said they were wearing pro-police t-shirts. Like we didn't see the video of somebody beating a cop with the Blue Lives Matter flag. Right. Yes. All the testimony from black Capitol police officers talking about people with Blue Lives Matter flags

beating the fuck out of them in the moment. They were working class too, which is their new, like which the course. to them means white. But then he also said there was another element there. He pivis was talking about how, obviously trying to say it was Antifa. They keep saying it doesn't have anything to do with Trump. Meanwhile, yet another Republican official

got arrested for storming the Capitol today. This guy was like the president of the Queens, the Queens Republican Party in New York. And a member of NYPD got arrested today for storming the Capitol. He actually gouged another Capitol police, Capitol cop's eye out. So that's fucking really cool. these people didn't exist, Ray.

It's the people we can't find that actually did it. That guy, the guy from Queens, the Queens Republican leader guy, Frank Grillo is his name, which is that, I appreciate that name. I'm sorry, Philip Grillo. Yeah, Frank Grillo is an actor. Yes, right. Frank Grillo is a net, yes, very, very New Yorkie sounding name. Philip Grillo, 46, leader of the Queens Republican Party,

taken in for participating in the U.S. Capitol siege. On the day of the Capitol, he was caught on camera, leaving the Capitol holding his shirt over his face. And he said, as he walked out, the media asked him, what were you doing in the Capitol? And he said, quote, none of your motherfucking business, you fake news, fucks. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mark, that's not fair.

I shouldn't misrepresent him. That's not what he said. What he actually said was verbatim, none of your motherfucking business you fake news fucks that's what I was doing in there yeah fucking worry about yourself

all right I got shit going on in here I wrote I love when you get your money money's worth out of your improv classes yes I know I know I know you love it look I like to make fun of the way

other people talk and I'm allowed to if anybody's allowed to make fun of how other people talk it's me that's what I thought so yeah so give you give instance, reminder, this is,

these are hearings into all the people that tried to kill Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz, et cetera. They think they would have been spared.

They're, they're fucking wrong, right? And here's, this, that's the hearings about, and where you get that picture of Ted Cruz,

Matt? Maybe you don't have that one. Okay. He was, he was looking at his, he was looking at his, a phone. He's just playing on his phone

all day where they're talking about, like, like, to be fair, I also don't care if Ted Cruz got murdered. So we're on the same fucking page.

But Ted Cruz, in theory, should care if Ted Cruz got murdered. And just see, like, just see how life's going for Ted Cruz. Let's have a live look in in front of Ted Cruz's house today. Yeah. Matt, fuck the picture of Ted Cruz. Play the, play the shit in front of his house whenever you got it, if you have that.

God bless Texas, man. Dude, fucking mariachi band. He's front of his house. Yeah, they brought Cancun to him, man. Yeah. You know, he was trying to make him feel better. That's all. He missed out on his vacation.

Yeah. There's a picture of him looking at his phone. That's all he did all day was fucking play words with friends or whatever. But anyway, just to cut through the bullshit, though, this day was the first day hearing as they interviewed for the four capital, different police chiefs, most of whom have resigned by now, who were testifying about their various agencies' response, including the capital police and D.C. Metro Police, yada, yada, yada. First of all, they said, no one could have seen it coming.

A, it's all the other police chief's fault. No, it's the FBI's fault. Wait, actually the FBI did tell us, gave us intelligence briefing that this was a possibility that's going to happen. But they put it in an email and they should have actually called. So this is the buck passing that happened, an ass covering that happened today. But here's the thing. Like, you get this, yeah. All these people are saying,

didn't see it coming on January 6th. We fucking predicted it on this show. We talked about it. Dude, everybody did, right? Like, it was a whole thing. Like, people were worried. Like, in the run-up to that, people were scared that something would maybe happen.

And then it did, and now they're acting like, well, there's no way we could have ever known. Also, quick side note, I saw a comment fly by our, earlier from Troy Turner said, Trey, I can help you do a passable New York accent. Look, I know they're not good. I'm not saying any

of them are good, just so y'all know. They're just, they're fun. Another guy said just now, Trey is to comedy what Ted Cruz is to comedy fodder. And I don't know what that means or how I feel about it, but we'll... I don't know if it could be taking a lot of ways.

Yeah, it could. Anyway, Yes, they're trying to lean on this argument of like, oh, there was poor intelligence. There was shitty intelligence so we couldn't have known. But like you said, everybody knew. Before it even happened, everybody knew it was going to happen. I saw some people comparing it to 9-11 because there was actual intelligence and no one bothered to read it. The FBI, like the, so the Capitol Police teams were like, well, there wasn't a report.

Oh, wait, there was a report. The FBI put it in an email. And by the way, it's still not our fault because the FBI, email that we didn't read says the chances of violence were remote or improbable. So how can you put the blame on the email when you didn't fucking read it? Right. And the thing is really is the bigger takeaway here. By the way, Josh Halley was defending the police chiefs because obviously, like, if they

couldn't have seen it coming, obviously he couldn't either. So it's a brilliant way from to cover his own fucking ass. Step back. Rema here, seven of people are dead. Five people died on the day and two cops killed themselves like, within three or four days after. So this is the context which all these guys are doing this dance to not give a shit about. And just an example of how little these people seem to understand. Like everybody in authority seems to this takeaway.

If things that happen on the internet aren't real, as if most of us don't do all of our living through online to some degree. I'm not about sitting under tree or whatever, but me and working where we get our information, how we talk to other people, how we plan things, like say a siege of the capital, right? like here here's a clip for amy clobeshar just to give you a sense of how little they get how anything works all right president trump sent nationwide tweets

the clip was I got cut off early there but she says president Trump sent nationwide tweets she's accusing him his Twitter to nationwide yeah didn't thankfully for the rest of the world he didn't go global tweet

he didn't use the global setting He said it on national only, but still pretty destructive, Mark, that the whole nation had to read those tweets. This is a silly, silly example, but this, we knew this stuff was going to happen because we read Twitter, right? So you can see these people planning to fucking overthrow the government on Twitter, on Reddit, on 4chan, on 8chan, on all their little, on college football message boards. College full of message boards are hotbeds of right-wing propaganda and misinformation and Q and non-shit. Uh, these, it's just like, even like the degree, like they're questioning Merrick Garland and, um, a really smart, uh, expert on extremism. I like a lot named J.J. McNeb, explain this. Like, even describing as a white nationalist movement sort of like diminishes it, right? Because it, white nationalists are a small segment of what she calls anti-government extremists, like you're Q and non people, your oathkeepers, your three percenters. Those aren't necessarily have racial opponents. I mean, the black, the proud boy's national leader was a black dude. Is he also? really a Western chauvinist who hates feminism and Muslims? Yes, that too, but he's also black. So like these guys, it's, it's just like they don't have a, they can't wrap their mind around

what a fucking dangerous moment it is. Right. They, they oversimplify it all. Like they boil it down to this like buzzword explanation of what's happened that isn't actually reflective of what happens. But yeah, like yes, there are plenty of white supremacists up there. Don't get us wrong. They were heavily involved. But. there's a lot more going on than just that. There's plenty of anti-government extremists or whatever that the vend diagrams of them and white supremacy overlap a lot, but they're not all the same thing. So you can't just say, oh, yeah, it was a bunch of racist or whatever that took it over.

It's like there was a lot more going on than just that. And you have to understand all of it and address all of it to have any kind of actual response to it. And they're just not, like you said, it just seems like they just don't understand, really. what's actually happened. These aren't your parents' white nationalist movements, right? Like, you couldn't, as Dave Chappelle brilliantly pointed out at the beginning, the first episode of Chappelle's show, you can't really be a black Klansman, right?

You can be a black proud boy if you can see that Western culture is the bees, knees, and you hate feminism, and immigrants suck. You can join the proud boys as long as you believe in those things, right? So you see a group of people and they have one black dude, you don't, think they're a threat you're fucking wrong right right so that's they keep getting blindsided by this ship because they're all 90 they didn't confuse the ageism again yes but and and downplaying it and everything like that and i just want to make sure uh we show like just as a reminder of you know the fact that this was real you know because they also try to act like oh you're overplanet it

it didn't really happen but if it did happen it was your fault and just to sort of dispel that here's u.s. capital police captain carnitiam and Doza talking about her experience that day. Of the multitude of events, I've worked in my nearly 19-year career in the department. This was by far the worst of the worst. We could have had ten times the amount of people working with us, and I still believe the battle would have been just as devastating. As an American and as an Army veteran, it's sad to see us attacked by our fellow citizens.

I'm sad to see the unnecessary loss of life. I'm sad to see the impact this has had on Capitol Police officers and I'm sad to see the impact this has had on our agency and on our country. So she like, this is a good example, I think. Like when watching this for the first time earlier, I thought about that guy years ago during one of Obama's debates he had, during one of the debates they put a question on the screen from a troop abroad. It was like a soldier abroad asking a question for the presidential debate.

and he identified himself as a gay man to begin with. He's like literally deployed overseas, and he's like, you know, I'm first sergeant, whatever, whatever of this, whatever. And I'm a gay man. And as soon as he said, I'm a gay man, he started getting booed relentlessly by the crowd, despite being, you know, a troop, fighting a war.

You're supposed to support the troops. And I thought about this while watching this clip earlier, because it's like, she checks a lot of boxes. you know, law enforcement official, the Army veteran and whatever, but she'll still just get brushed off immediately, I think, by them for being on the wrong side of the debate and being a black woman with a name like Carnisha. It's so clear how the scales really work out, I think, when you put all the different weights out there at the same time, you know what I mean?

A veteran, you know, American, whatever, versus these other factors. you find out what people really stand, I think. I expect you're probably right, but it's weird that it's not really a political stance that she shouldn't have chemical burns on her face from going to work. Yeah, right. Do you know what I'm saying?

It's like, but because it's an inconvenient fact for them that this happened, pointing out facts just means she sucks and she's against them, right? But that's where we're at, America in 2021. By the way, that memory from 2008 just reminds me how, like, much how different America was even in 2008.

Wow. Yeah. It sort of, it sort of crystallizes why reactionaries are fucking going so hard right now. If you think about how much the world's changed the last 10, 15 years. Yeah, man. Anyway, should we move on to a more fun topic? Yes, please.

Mira Tandon, close, uh, mirror to my heart. Ah, so she's like, you don't know if she is, she's a Biden's nominee for OMB director. We talked about her last week and she's under fire for mean tweets. She called, she, she didn't call, Bernie and ignorant sluts, but Joe Kennedy pretended she called Bernie an ignorant slut, and it was really funny. So she's not going to be O&B director because Joe Manchin has decided he's going to vote against her.

Now, all this is really, really funny because, I mean, I just, like, Neeratannan's like a rich lady. Her main thing she does in life has raised money from Clinton world. It doesn't really matter if she's an OMB director or not. It was like a, it was like a patronage job. She kind of shouldn't happen in D.C. I don't give a shit whether she's OMB director or not. That's just funny. But more importantly, man, she's also making noise about torpedoing Deb Halland.

Matt, tell me if I'm saying her name wrong. It's about H-A-A-L-A-N-D. Now, she's a U.S. representative, and she's a Biden's nominee for Interior Secretary. Right. Now, so she is a Native American woman, a committed environmentalist, and a support of the Green New Deal, which is why they hate her. But they're pretending they hate her for her mean tweets. Right. Specifically, she tweeted once that Republicans don't believe in science.

And so Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the ranking matter in the Senate Energy Committee, confronted her about the tweets. And they probably spent a good, I don't know, three hours on the fucking tweet. She said Republicans don't believe in science. He pointed out the Republicans are doctors, a lot of them. Some of them are doctors, which is why they went their taxes cut, I guess. And do you think it's medical doctors don't believe in science? How can you stand by that statement?

Now, there are a lot of medical doctors in the house. See, also, some of them are the craziest people in there. So, the fact, getting through medical school doesn't mean you understand anything else about the world, by the way. I'm not saying doctors are stupid. I'm saying you can be smart at one specific thing when you're in your 20s and then go crazy later. So, yeah, here it is. They deleted the word, his a tweet. They just got the clapping emojis between it, which is the internet lingua franca.

They deleted the word science from their website. Republicans don't believe in science. All right. That was a wonderful translation. of that tweet, Mark. Yeah. For the record, you really nailed that interpretation.

I liked it. So I'm not doing cultural approach. I want to recognize that that is a tremendous black woman's contribution to American discourse is the clap talking and I support it. But the mean tweet thing is so fucking childish and stupid.

I want to remind you that Joe Manchin voted for Richard Grunel and a bunch of other Trump supporters, Trump nominees, who had way worse stupid mean tweets. And also, So, like the whole Republican Party pretended for four years, they had no idea what Trump was tweeting because they just Twitter's stupid. They don't go on it.

Yes. Right. That and the fact that, you know, the arguments that's been beaten in the ground at this point, but it remains true that they come after us for being overly sensitive snowflakes, right? And they're trying to discredit these cabinet nominees for saying some kind of mean things about them in the future. Also, Matt, by the way, if you got some questions and comments, throw them on. up there. Whatever y'all are thinking about the congressional hearings or any of this shit, hit us with it. But yes, or, you know, how they're acting with cancel culture, however you want to, however you want to term it.

They're canceling their intended. They're also like, they're trying to, it's like, it's like they're also like, basically, they're saying, when you tweeted that you thought we were racist for putting children, Mexican kids in cages. that was really offensive to us for you to say that kind of thing you know what i mean like when you said you support mexican babies and think they shouldn't be kept in cages and we're the ones who're putting them there that was unfair to us and our people like it's just yeah why you got to bring up current shit trick right yeah uh but uh so matt made this point i think it's very Marr's one reason we should care about this. Our viewership

for obvious reasons skews rural, right? Native Americans, like, she's obviously very committed to Native causes and natives live on big chunks of land and want to protect it. They're also the first people to get fucked by environmental policy. Like, for example, the federal government

solved chunks of their land or give coal companies or forced lumber cutting companies access to it, yada, yada, whatever. They're canaries in the coal line for another group of people, Appalachians, who are the next in line to get fucked with any new environmental racism idea.

And I'm talking, I don't just mean white Appalachians or community of color there too. Like, it's a throwaway land, which is why Joe Manchin cares about it, because he loves coal so much, he eats it with milk for breakfast. And that's the real problem here. He doesn't care of his shit. He doesn't give his shit about her fucking tweet that said Republicans don't believe in science.

Joe Manchin is not a Republican, first of all, so he doesn't care about that. Right. The other thing that makes it even more ironic, and I'm saying this tongue in cheek, but it is true, is it's like if you are a if you're a poor white trash person i think you'll agree with me when i say that uh poor white trash people like to claim a degree of connection with natives like like it's a white trash stereotype that everybody's got a cherokee grandma or whatever or something like that like there's an old old joke that goes what do you call what do you call 16 southern white people

in the same room a full-blooded Cherokee right yeah uh yeah that that whole thing so there's a lot of reasons why you would think people would draw the same conclusions like if they're going to fuck them over they will fuck us over too but people don't look at it that way because they're because and in the moment it's like well yeah well let them get fucked over I mean that's not how they frame it but it's how they obviously feel about it it's not them getting fucked over at the time so fuck it who cares this should be obvious by now but if you're a working class white person you have more in common with a black person or Native American person as far as your class interest than you do with a white person

who happens to own a fucking business. You just like I grew up like five miles from an industrial pig farm. And if the wind shifted, the whole fucking neighborhood smelled like pig shit all summer. And it doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't. Somebody gave them a permit and put it there. Right.

I saw a comment fly by from Lita. I don't know. Lita Marie Wills or Willis or something. like that who said ah my favorite tribe the pretendians oh there it is there it is matt pulled it up yeah he saw he saw it coming yeah leader marie wills ah my favorite tribe the pretendians i've never heard that before the pretendians but i love it uh sell sword king says tray don't call out every single girl in my high school which one was that well yes it's very much a thing i mean look oh they Indians, yeah, okay.

Yeah, the, yeah, the, uh, look, uh, senior Georgia correspondent and hugely progressive, everybody loves him. Cory Ryan Forster, his family has the same thing going on. It's like his dad will tell you, you know, they're one whatever percentage Indian. It's a, it's a whole thing. But Harry, uh, Harry, uh, shh, don't have to trade on. Harry's up. No, I'm, I'm going to, I try it. But, dude, I'm going to try it, Mark.

It'll take 20 minutes. Dismiss their last name. Damn it. I'm going to try it. Harry Zola, Zola, Zoluk. Harry Zola Balliuk. I bet that's close, Mark. Says, my parents live down when from a sewage works. I can totally agree with Mark. The, uh, I just like, like, all this is bullshit, right? Just say, like, you can even phrase it the term of jobs, which you can, you're, you're afraid that the woman in charge of the interior is going to be two friendly environmental groups. It's going to cost people money. Just fucking say that. Quit being children. Like, give an example of how they should.

should work. If you're grown up, you just say what you mean. Bernie announced he was going to, like, oppose Tom Bilsack because he thinks, quote, when someone a little bit more vigorous in terms of protecting family farms and taking on corporate agriculture. Bill Sik was confirmed, but at least Bernie said what he fucking meant. He was concerned. Environmental groups, black farmers, civil rights groups. It was like everybody was against this guy except for corporate agribusiness, and he's

fucking in charge. So there we go. So Harry corrected me with a smile and I appreciate Harry. Zoe Balak. Harry's Obeylick. Yes, despite my best efforts, I did in the end butcher the fucking shit out of it. I don't want to pull the curtain back too far here, guys, but true redneck fashion, Tray can't read. So we work around it.

I can't say words good, you know? I mean, I've been up front about that. I fuck like, I pre-apologize to people all the time about how poorly I will say word. you know like it's just it's thing oh man uh laura win norton says my husband claimed his 23 and me results were obviously wrong because they didn't show any native american history and his his mama or whatever it always told him you know you've got american blood in there yeah it's a thing it's very much a thing 23 of me is like the funniest business model of all time because the real making it comes in the back end when they sell your genetic data to like health insurance companies and

shit or like for drug research right whatever that that's that's that's that's you know cruel enough but on the front end the amount of families that have been ripped apart by it when they find out daddy isn't the real daddy or that they're racist but it turns out they're quarterback or whatever it's like it's just like it's just just just just just all around evil and just don't don't blow up your mom's spot by getting a DNA test your dad raised you it's fine don't get don't ruin the family Robin Floyd says You two are a brilliant team I'm gonna be pissed when I have to pay for HBO

Go if that's supposed to mean when we're on HBO Go don't worry about it Robin You'd be I wouldn't I wouldn't worry about that You'll be fine but we really appreciate the I don't know right there Yeah So have you done the 23

of me thing Mark? Have you done it personally My wife did it for a dog Katie did it for for me and her And I was just going to say like my results were just so, they were very boring, nothing interesting. Just white, just white. Crowder is an English name and I'm like 54% English and the rest of it is like Scotch-Irish hillbilly or whatever.

And that's, that's it. There's nothing, there's nothing interesting in there at all. AG is a French name, but my family's been here for like 400 years. So we're all Scotch Irish and whatever was around to fuck. This doesn't, whatever salesman was in town. people are not not happy with my gumba voice earlier anthony shepa says try your new york italian accent would have you sleeping with the fishes i know again i never claimed they were good i just think they're funny you know i thought he means italian people yes yes the fishes

no no you said that they're not they're not they're not good at if you're just funny i was like you mean italian people right We love you, I didn't even get what I thought your joke was. I thought you were saying the fishes were Italians. I was like, yes, Italian fishes, we all know. And I thought you were saying you'll get a lot of Italian action because you'll be sleeping with the fishes. I went to a completely ridiculous place with it. I would just be it ironically racist against the one group you're still allowed to do that too.

You're still allowed to do that too, yeah. Not really, but sort of. No, yeah. You could clip out that little clip of me doing that guy's voice earlier and put a caption over it's like watches the sopranos once or whatever and it's like hey fuck you motherfucker yeah i think i could do it a little better than i'm doing it i'm just having fun with it now y'all give you some time to work on it i'll come back later i'll have it yeah i'll go a few more improv classes i'll work on it i'll get it i'll get it down you guys will be right with it oh shit somebody said

I'm sorry I missed your name. It flew by very quickly, but somebody said, New Yorkers wouldn't give a fuck. And yes, you're right. You're very right about that. I know they're not concerned. As a side note,

me and Corey and Drew, we did our tour all around the country. And people might be surprised to hear this, but I felt like the most kind of redneck adjacent place that wasn't redneck at all. So it's like, of all the places we went that weren't at all redneck, but had a kind of rednecky thing going on.

number one would be New Jersey, in my opinion. Because they were very, very, very Jersey, but there was a lot of overlap between them and the rednecks on that Venn diagram, in my opinion, because they were coming up to us in the meat and great line, just talking shit, just roasting us the whole time. Walking, it was like, you don't look like a fucking redneck. Okay, well, I'm not going to keep doing the voice because it doesn't make people happy. But anyway, yeah, I like, I like, I like what I got going on up there.

one of the single reddest experiences in my life was in queens as well as i happened to living in new york uh for a job in super super bowl sunday two years ago and maybe three yeah two years ago and uh they they played god bless america which is important to the story is not the national anthem right yeah yeah late grailwood right yeah no that that's going to be an american god bless america is oh oh okay yeah i'm sorry yeah yes so this this guy with the the ponytail stands up with his hand over his heart during God bless America, no one else does, and

cusses the rest of the bar out, because he doesn't understand that it's not the national anthem. Then they cut to John, the Super Bowl was in Atlanta, so a bunch of Atlanta luminaries were in the field for the anthem, which was coming up soon, and they showed John Lewis, and he booed John Lewis just

for, not liking President Trump, I guess. So there you go. Issa or Isa can no this i'm so sorry everyone uh says i'm from north jersey and i 100% agree but yeah yeah yeah you know yeah you know what i'm talking about it's a thing oh adam locks or low adam low says jersey smells like ted cruz's breath well that seems mean adam we don't got to be mean to jersey up here you know they're mean enough to themselves there it is matt once again me predicting matt's moves

over here. That's the comment I was talking about. Stocking them alone over there. Just reading each other's moves ahead of time. Serenity 6831 says Sheesh, Adam. Will HPC for Life says RIP, Tiger Woods

his legs. Yeah, that's a thing. He had another car-related incident this morning. If I was worth even after his wife took 800 million, he still probably got 500 million now. So why was he driving? If I had that many reasons to live,

I would travel in an armored car, like climate controlled, with someone else driving, right? Yes. Like, yeah, yeah, it's wild. I don't know.

I'll tell you this. I'm not a big golf dude at all, but like, I know, shocking, white trash, don't know a lot about golf. But like,

if he somehow, because apparently he broke both his fucking legs, I guess. guess, or he has multiple leg injuries, they're saying, if he somehow comes back from that and goes back to winning masters and shit like that, then I mean

ever head must bow, every tongue must profess, in my opinion, but I don't know how that doesn't end your career at that point. Oh, Eric B says, you never mentioned daft punk. Are you fans? Yes, I am a fan. I tweeted this earlier. It's a true story. I'll reiterate

it here in 20. I've always liked daft punk, because I mean, I like dance music. I like PDM and all that good stuff. I'm not a cute, I couldn't go over there discography with you or nothing, but I like Daft Punk. In 2014,

I was watching the Grammys with my wife, Katie, who she's the most casual music fan on planet Earth. Basically, like, if it, you know, if you can, like, dance to it a little bit, she's familiar with it, but couldn't tell you the artist

or the lyrics, and beyond that, that's the end of it. So we're watching the Grammys of 2014, and that's the year that Daft Punk won album of the year for random access memories but before that happened they were out there

with Farrell doing Get Lucky they were doing a live performance of Get Lucky but Farrell starts on stage by himself and then other people pop up and at the end

this like kind of door opens in the back and Daff Punk pops up and they're back there and the robot things on the ones and twos doing her thing and the crowd loses their mind and but my wife is watching this and she goes check out those dudes

in the back wearing the robot costume. She was like, how do you get that job? I want to be one of those guys just like bouncing around in the back with a helmet on. And I was like, that's literally the, that's daft punk. She had no idea, which I think is proof of how effective their strategy was, you know. I do want to say they're better people than me, because if I had access to all the money they were making and I could just put someone else in the robot helmet and send them on tour and collect those checks, like Millie Vanilli style, I would.

keep doing it. There would be 300 years of daft punk and no one would know when I died. Okay, as we talked about on the group chat earlier today, we don't have any proof that they didn't do that, Mark. They might have done that countless times. Nobody would know. That's what's cool. But yes, rest in peace,

daft punk, the band, they're both still very much alive, but y'all know what I mean. Producer Matt's telling me, and he's correct, everybody who took our survey, producer Matt's survey this week, we really appreciate it. Over a thousand people have taken it. It's still open on weekly skews.com if you want to fill it out. It's very helpful for us. So thank you all very

much. And join us in 48 hours for what will be the very last Thursday edition of the skews. After this Thursday show, we're going to Tuesdays only. So yeah, make sure you come here Thursday and we'll do the thing. Mark, you got anything to add, anything to close out on? Thanks, guys. It was fun. Yes. Thanks, guys. you very much so you love you bye hey there everybody thanks for coming back today's thursday february 25th 2021 i'm trey crowder that's mark a g what's up mark what's up trey how you living bud i'm doing all right uh but i forgot to tell you the day i was uh working out the park and this uh dude real nice civil made nice conversation kept to

say they're you know eight 10 feet apart we're working out they got like pull up bars and shit uh in kitchen emmental picture and what's happening but he started playing music from his phone and he was blasting some QAnon rap music that took me a few minutes to decide her. All right, well, I have a couple questions about that. First of all, I was like, I know you say it seemed nice enough civil guy, but like, in my opinion, people that blast music from their phones with no headphones or whatever in public places like that,

I'm already not on this dude's side. You don't have to do that. Heavphones are a thing, including wireless ones. But more importantly, cue rap. What is that? How does that work? Well, to set this scene, he's the kind of guy who'd be working out in work boots. And he drove up in like a 80, like a 1990-194 F-150.

He looked the kind of dude I'd want to stand around the back of this truck and have a beer with. So I was automatically fully on board with him. But he started playing music from his phone. It was like all about how the elite suck. And I'm like, yeah, I'm on board with that. I'm not familiar with his band. But then I started getting into Tom Hanks and the cabal. And I was like, okay, now I know what I must do.

But yeah, it was. It was like the shittiest fucking, it was like, it was definitely made on garage band, and it sounded like a system of a down played over at eight, like, like at an AM radio. It was kind of what sounded like. I actually, I had a similar experience this week, except not in person, but I found out this week for the first time about this guy named Tom McDonald. Have you ever heard of that guy? No, not familiar. He's a, he's Canadian, but lives in L.A. now, and he's a white rapper, and he's white with like dreads and face and neck tact. neck tattoos and all this stuff.

And seems kind of machine gun Kelly-ish or whatever, but like you were saying, you know, and then Tom Hanks pops up. All his lyrics are very Trumpy, you know, capital rioty, whatever. He's got songs like fake, woke and no lies matter and all this shit. And, you know, pains me to say, he's been tearing up the billboard charts, man.

Turns out he's like charting, he's doing great. But yeah, that's such a weird, that's a weird genre of music, man. you know, hate rap or whatever you want to call it. Yeah, it's like, uh, rap. You're an example of how racism hurts white people too. It's like they go, they're racist. They go, well, obviously rapping must be very easy.

I like easy shit. Right. I'm gonna rap. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, just the fucking bad at it. And, uh, if you said that guy's good, but Tom McDonald's a terrible rap name. He sounds like a, yeah, well, no, okay. I don't want to, I don't want to put out there that I said Tom McDonald's good.

We talked about this on the well-read podcast this week, and Corey and Drew, first thing they asked me was, okay, but like, objectively speaking, could he rap, though? And, I mean, you know, yeah, well enough. It wasn't like egregiously out of place and terrible if you're not listening to the lyrics. It just sounds like a generic rap song. But then you listen to the lyrics, you're like, what the fuck?

What is going on here? But yeah, yeah, generally not a fan. Anyway, let's get in. of the show. With us, as always, producer Matt doing his thing. This is evening skews. Tonight, we discussed the long overdue congressional legislation aimed at helping LGBTQ Americans avoid discrimination

and how it's being marred and threatened by the hateful idiocy of the GOP. So, you know, just your average Thursday. A lot of people are wrapped up in this story. Everyone from, unsurprisingly, Marjorie Taylor Green, all the way to maybe a little, surprisingly, Mr. fucking potato head for some reason. We'll get into it.

All that and more on tonight's skews. But first, as always, the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., I hate to say it, is many of my fellow American parents, specifically those of us with small children. I have two little boys. Nothing's more important to me than their safety and well-being. But having said that, some of y'all really need to chill the fuck out.

So with that in mind and with Tuesday's dumbasses in mind, Matt, play this clip, please. Officers are working to stop a pet online over some inaccurate posts being shared. Social media posts claiming that people narrowly escaped being kidnapped and forced into human trafficking led to Savannah police to launch some investigations. Sometimes make an assumption this is what was occurring. And in a lot of cases, and not all of them, but in a lot of cases, that assumption could be wrong or off or there's a varied fact that occurred. That's what police determined on one incident in a social media post this week,

where a woman thought a man was trying to distract her while at the gas pump, thinking he was trying to take her children. Police later learned the man was a gas station employee, attempting to tell the woman the pump she was at wasn't working. That's it, Matt. That's the good part, Matt. That's all right. I needed to know. Again, keep in mind, if y'all weren't here Tuesday, on Tuesday we covered the

Kashokton, Ohio, Walmart Rose scandal, where a daughter, a mother and daughter were just trying to spread some love and put roses in people's windshields at a Walmart, and it caused a panic in the community because they were worried that it was involved, it had to do with child sex trafficking. And now you have here, some guys just trying to tell her, hey, that don't work. You need to do something else. And she's like got both hands out like, stay away from my

children. Mark, I don't know about it. Go ahead. So yeah, first of all, shout out to this Savannah TV station and police department who handled this fucking responsibly by telling people to calm the fuck down as opposed to what the Ohio people did was telling people to be even more on the lookout

and what people would be responded by simply having flowers left on their car. assuming it was definitely child sex trafficking that that was the correct instinct to definitely call them next time. We are a nation that's constantly in various moral panics,

and I don't know why we're such panicky people, whether it's a satanic shit in the 80s, it became like everybody being a pedophile in the 90s. Now apparently we've combined the two and now we've got some panic pedophiles and they're organized as a business community. So, do you know, like, in the 60s,

Congress held hearings, the FBI investigated or the song Louis Louis because parents assumed it was telling the kids to fuck because they couldn't understand the lyrics. We just do this shit over and over and over again. And I don't know why we're so fucking stupid. But yes, like the whole, like, if you need to understand how mainstream Q is, this is happening constantly now. And if you look at any numbers, your kids are safer than they ever have been. Everything's fine. Right. There's dad on this.

Crime is the floor. It's fine. So related to that. If y'all, you know, if y'all saw my other social media activity earlier today, you know that I, me and Corey actually put out a very short little mini sketch that was actually very relevant to this. That's not why we're talking about it, though, but it just seems like such a thing. But basically the sketch is just, I'm just a regular father who cares very deeply about the safety of children. And I've heard there's a sex trafficking thing going on. And then Corey, who's a QAnon guy, gives me the actual details of it.

It explains that it's vampire pedophiles harvesting their oxidized hormonal fear in the form of adrenalocrine to, you know, propagate their health or their wealth and immortality or whatever. And then I just get up and walk out because, Mark, like, I don't, that's my whole thing with this. We talked about plenty of times on here. I don't. They frame it a lot of times as like as though those of us who don't believe this shit, as though those of us on the other side of it, like don't care about what's going on with children. or whatever and it's like no it that's not the part that's not the part of the story that fucks us up like everyone pretty much cares about the welfare children it's all the specific shit you say after that that you know sticks with us a little bit and i just it's so wild to me

than anybody even gets past that point the whole thing is so crazy well that's why it's so spreads so rapidly is because it starts with the Save the Children hashtag and who could be against saving the children. Exactly, right. Yes, exactly. But I get that. That's what I'm saying.

It's like I get that. Part of what you just said, what you just said kind of makes sense to me, but also kind of doesn't. And that's my whole point. I agree with you completely. I think they're really smart to start from a foundation of

hashtag save the children. Because again, that's bipartisan. that's just humanity. Everybody's open to that. What I don't get is how when you find out about that and you're like, oh shit, this sounds bad, I should check this out. And then you read the specifics of what they're claiming. I don't know how almost every single person I've ever met in my life doesn't just walk away from it right there, as opposed to all the people that then get sucked into it. I agree it's a good, hook, but the follow-up is not. Obviously, it is effective, but it just, it blows my mind. I just,

I can't understand it. There's a writer of light named Jared Gates-Sexam, he wrote this piece on his substack of the day about why Americans are uniquely susceptible to conspiracy theories. And the first thing, the top line is we're extremely lonely people. I mean, we just, we just are. We're very lonely and isolated. There are lots of reasons, like a conservative would say it's, we don't about a church anymore. A leftist would say it just to spend too much time at work. But for whatever reason,

like there was a study last year. There's a real male loneliness epidemic. It's one of the reason the opioid crisis and alcoholism and suicided through the roof is like 20 years ago, you asked a man how many close friends he have. The average answer was like three to four. 10 years ago was one to two.

Currently, the average American man, if you ask him how many close friends he has, the number is zero. Zero fucking friends. Yeah, I mean, but you think about it. Because of the internet, you mean? Like they're not counting internet friends and people just live on their phones and stuff now. Is that what's behind that?

Yeah. I mean, when I think, when I think about how many like really close friends I have, like people like if like my wife and I were having troubles who I called and go sit down and talk to about it, it's not a lot of people. You know what I'm saying? But that's fairly normal. I mean,

you could see somebody, some people would say it's toxic masculinity. That's probably part of it. I don't know. But it's just like, serving surveys or surveys and unless everybody decided to lie to the polls at once, dudes don't have friends. And women are.

busy raising the kids and it's fucking, everybody's, everybody's lonely and isolated for whatever reason. And that conspiracy theory spread among lonely people. Because you spend too much time online, you just feel like something must be wrong. You're just vaguely suspicious. And here we are. People are calling the cops on gas station

attendance for trying to help them out with telling the pump done work. This lady is going to stand at a broken pump for six hours. She was going to stand at a broken pump for six hours. This guy didn't tell her. And now she assumes he's trying to kidnap her kids. Well, that's what I was about to ask you is like, I'm sure some of this has happened already.

And actually, Bill Byr had a bit like kind of sort of about this idea. But like, do you think all this is going to lead to people just pulling back even more so from trying to help strangers in public or trying to be Samaritans or whatever? The more of this type of shit happens, people are going to be afraid to do it because, you know, they don't want to get accused of being a blood sucking pedophile or whatever. Yeah. I mean, the last one of the, the last one of the. these panics that started was probably went to catch a predator was on the TV and made everybody think that like all men who like children were pedophiles. And there was like a huge statistical drop off and like men going to teaching elementary school just because they felt like it made them

look like perverts. So like I imagine you're going to have like, yeah, I mean, that does have that effect on people. So a whole generation of people that have been passionate teachers just don't want to look like creeps. So it didn't do it. Sad. It's a sad state of affairs. Yeah. All right. Well, moving on. We got a couple honorable mentions for you in The Daily Dumbass tonight. First one is anybody who didn't think Tucker Carlson was a hardcore gun guy. You can play the clip whenever you got. Look how badass.

It's more than an energy project. It's an attack the weak against the strong. Look how hardcore. Yeah. So there's at least two ways I count he's holding that gun wrong. One, it's way too low on his shoulder. like that pre it's probably pretty sort of the day after that and two uh although in ar it's not a very powerful very powerful so maybe not but he uh he's shooting on full auto which only a moron would ever do

they don't even teach that in basic training they took they basically have taken that off of uh of uh trainings in maybe basic training for weapons because i heard a guy in the isn't army uh he called the full auto setting the uh the zombie setting because like you only would use it if you're about to be overrun like you're george custer or you're you got a bunch of headless zombies coming out of holly And the third thing is he's left-handed. He's using a right-handed AR. She was just like shooting hot lead into his own chest as they're from the ejection port. So just a fucking all-around genius that guy definitely loves guns.

The guy who grew up going to private school in San Francisco, the heir to the Swanson chicken, a frozen dinner fortune. He's definitely a heart like a populace. So you should definitely believe the shit he says. Yeah. I mean, I know they've always been that way. I recognize that, but I feel like there's a real, a real trend with them lately of this like leaning into trying to be like Avengers or whatever. We've shown all the ad, the campaign ads from other Republican congresspeople and whatnot that are literally made like action movie trailers, like jumping out of planes and all this shit and pulling guns and whatnot.

And it's like they're just really leaning into trying to be bad ads. and some of, I mean, you know, old boy's got an eye patch, you know, but if there's anybody out there who can't pull it off, it's fucking Tucker Carlson. Yeah, I mean, at least what Dan Crenshaw jumped out of an airplane for his hand. That's fucking, that is objectively cool as shit. I'm not going to like, should it, but the ad was dumb as hell. And that's what, like, when you get, when you strip away everything else,

and that's the, all this polling about this stuff lately is like, Republicans have drifted to the center economically. But they have no, like, they're going to, someone are going to vote for the stimulus. Mitt Romney proposed child tax care credit and probably get some Republican votes. I mean the child support the government's going to send everybody checks

for having kids, whatever they, whatever the bill is called or whatever. And but like at the same time they've turned sharply right anti-democracy and all they have left is performative bullshit like that. Like they all they do is shitpost and jump out of airplanes and make TV ads. That's the whole entirety of the movement is Tucker Carlson's shooting a gun wrong

and everybody thinks it looks cool. Right. Yeah, we'll talk more about the performative bullshit a little bit later on, but we have one more honorable mention for you. And this is related to, you know, we've covered a very popular sub-segment of the Daily Dumbass has been people involved with the Capitol riots and how they went about hiding their identities and whatnot. And we've got another one for you.

We've got an update for you. So Matt, you can put up the screen. grab whenever you've got it. Yes, a capital writer texted his ex during the insurrection to call her a moron and she then turned him in. He's since been arrested.

Does not not look a good for him. There's no limit to like the dumb assery of those people on that day and how they went about the whole thing. Like, yeah, I mean, first of all, don't text a confession to a federal crime to your ex

in the same text where you call her a moron. Right. You don't even need that last part, by the way. Yeah. Just like, don't do the first part. But if you do do the first part, most especially don't call her a moron in the midst of it. Just begging her to turn your ass in or him, I guess, but either way. Remember a few minutes ago we're talking about how lonely people

go insane? a lot of these guys have been turned in by the exes and they were recognized by their exes and whatever it's like there's such an extremely divorced guy I mean Trump is like the supreme like capital D divorce guy like if divorced guy was a superhero it'd be Donald Trump with a DG on his chest Yeah right

Just like everybody at Moralago has like collects divorces like their Pokemon It's the weirdest subgenre of people And they just really hook in with the anger and bitterness and loneliness And not giving a shit about anything other than like performing online that it's really what they connect to about Trump I got to feel and uh the base of the castle was the capital was stormed by divorce guys largely yes yeah nobody's talking about that aspect of it mark you know what I mean it's all like is it anti-government people is it white supremacists is above whatever nobody's talking about it's divorce guys that also are racist they hate the

government you know they the entry point to hate in the government is family court, Trey. That's what we're learning here. It's very much a correlation versus causation thing, too. You know what I mean? It's like, are they divorce or, you know, did they get divorced because they hate the government or do they hate the government because they got

divorced or is just that everything is shitty and they hate it? A judge gave her my house tray, so God damn, we're overthrowing the burden the whole system down. I think that's a positive. So moving into the story of the day, so far at least, Congress is working on the Equality Act. And it passed the House, the Equality Act.

And it's an amendment to the Civil Rights Act that if passed, would amend said act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, federal funding, credit, and the jury system. So it's just giving advanced federal protections to LGBTQ people. It's passed the house in 2019, but then of course failed after that. I mean, it's been a thing that's been, you know, yeah, in the works for a while. And this is where we at right now on it. And a lot of people are not happy, but they don't know exactly how to go about fucking it up, right? Well, I mean, my favorite part of the bill is the jury system part, because I got to feel like

LBGT people like, wait, we don't, we don't want the right to jury duty. Can we take that one off the fucking this? Actually, you can cut that last part out if you won't. That's fine. You can yada, yada, yada that part. But yeah, so basically this is, um, with it like the Supreme Court basically made this law of the land in 2020 in a Supreme Court decision called Bostock versus Clayton County. But they didn't define gender identity. So that's basically what this bill is attempted to do. It's largely symbolic because 29 states already have a law like this in the books. But symbolism, is good to stand up for people's rights because you got this over in the Senate today this is just to compare what what fucking how shitty these dudes are this is nothing to do with this bill this is ran Paul at a at a at a confirmation hearing the deputies under secretary of you have human services woman a Rachel Levine who just happens to be trans listen to how fucking Rand Paul talks there senator Paul genital mutilation has been nearly universally condemned genital mutilation has been condemned by the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Population Fund.

That's probably enough, man. We got the gist. Genital mutilation is recognized. Yeah. So he then goes into the comparison that he's making is that genital mutilation is on a par with, like, hormonal therapies for transgender children and things like that is what he's trying to say. Yeah. Yeah.

And like, do you have to talk to an expert about how, uh, uh, transitioning genders actually works, but much smarter about it than me. But like if you, basically kids, doctors don't recommend hormone therapy for kids, except as an absolute last resort for kids that you feel like

are on a path to suicide if they don't get it. So that's, that's one part of it. Also, like, gender media, I'm not going to get into like, while this is bullshit. It's just ran Paul spouting dumb nonsense

about trans people coming for your kids, forcibly converting your kids or whatever is happening. And so anyway, that's why this law is important. because it's important to tell these people to go fuck themselves and to publicly shame them. Exactly. And that's part of, so first of all, just as a note,

Dr. Levine there, at the end of that, responded to his question by saying, Senator, thank you for taking an interest in this aspect of the, just very much more polite and professional than I could have been, is what I'm saying. It's another example of like people in like minority positions, you know, having to, all the shit they have to put up with.

Do you know what I mean? Like you have to just swallow to, you know, because otherwise you become a problem or whatever. Do you know what I'm saying? Like she couldn't just look at him and be like, you know what? Fuck you.

You just can't do that. Even though he couched it in all these like, professional sounding, you know, words and phrases he put together. But what he said was extremely offensive. But you can't respond in kind. to these people. And her job, by the way, has nothing to do with, like, it's just working for

health and human services. She's the former, like, Surgeon General of Pennsylvania, I think, and she's been, and after that, she oversaw the state's COVID response to her in which she's apparently done a great job to rave reviews is why she's being offered this promotion. And it's not like she's deputy undersecretary of HHS for turning kids trans or some shit. Like, it's just like it's just a regular job, but she has to be asked about her genitals in a fucking congressional hearing. Like, it's just like, I mean, I mean, uh, I was born. Uh, I was born, liking to have sex with a lady

and being comfortable with being a dude and all that shit. I don't have to use the word lucky because that sounds like the other way as pejorative or something. But it's objectively easier to be what you are. It's easier to not be asked about how your dick hangs at a goddamn job interview, which is basically what just happened there. And so the other thing I was going to say is like

there's still, not that it's surprising, but they're still on this, like they're basically circling back the transgender bathroom thing, man, which is like literally what my first big liberal redneck video was about five years ago and it was a fabricated controversy then,

but they're still on about it because they try to, they're trying to couch this like opposition to the Equality Act as being like, they're like, well, it's not about, you know, it's not about disagreeing with their way of life or anything like that or being hateful. What it's really about is it prohibits

people from stripping their rights based on this basis and they try to justify it but being like the safety of, you know, you can't just let grown men walk into female bathrooms and things like that because little girls are being in danger. It's literally the same argument they were making five years ago that you're bringing up there now. Can I say something absolutely fucking obvious?

Is that throughout all of human history, 99% of human bathrooms have been non-gender labeled. Right. The bathroom in my house has no gender label. Everybody can use it, right? Putting a men's and women's sign in a restroom comes from like when indoor plumbing was existed. They had to put it in restaurants.

Restaurants wanted to be able to put 10 toilets in the same room without spending more money on real estate. That's all that came from, right? It was invented for that. And even then, I've never been in a bar where women actually waited in the line for women's bathroom. They always go in the men's bathroom because it's quicker and shorter, right? Coffee shop, everybody goes in whatever bathrooms open because they're single-seater.

what you put on the door. So they're trying to codify the law in the name of being natural, a very unnatural way to be, which is everyone just peas and poops where there's a hole to put it. Yes. Yeah. And so the other thing. And by the way, that what I say about the North Carolina bathroom bill is they were trying to, just like when they put gay marriage on the out of constitutional amendment, Ohio in 2004, so Bush to keep the presidency to turn to gin up the rubs. That's what they're trying to do, North Carolina was trying to do five years ago. And the Democrats still won the, governor's mansion it didn't work and just still running this ineffectual hateful campaign to to lose by two touchdowns i don't fucking understand well it's because it's because they have to

with the north carolina thing in particular these like state level measures that pop up that are insane because i'm from tennessee we've done plenty of them i've always thought it was like just a like a way to make your name or something like a way to get headlines and put yourself out there especially if you're at that level you got to do something to sort of get yourself known you know so they literally fabricate a scandal or a controversy or whatever out of thin air and then just roll with that but again we're still they are still going with it five years later the other thing um and you talked about this i think on tuesday show or like one of last week shows but the other thing they're really hinging this argument on that they have is how devastating this measure would be to the world of female sports of women's sports which they have always cared so much about the Republican Party known, you know, longtime supporters of women's sports, very passionate about everything that's going on in women's sports.

But yes, that's the other side of the argument they're making right now. It's like, we can't do this. This will destroy women's sports in this country. I want to meet the person. Like, look, I'm not going to try rag on women's sports because I'm one of those guys who thinks I could dominate the WMBA or some shit. because I like you those women would absolutely smoke me in two seconds in a basketball court. It's a really dumb opinion to have.

But anybody who's been to an American high school, try to imagine a boy who's like, I know my path to be cool. I will say I'm a girl so I can play women's volleyball. And dominate. Yeah. Yeah. First of all, dominate volleyball is hard. But secondly, what path is that to anything?

Is it, it's like, you know, like what is, how do you get a step three money? What is it? What the fuck is it? Like, what do you get out of it? The person doing this doesn't exist. I know the right will always have examples. Like there was like one, some track athlete who was born a woman but had a naturally high testosterone and kicked her out of the sport, which that's just like, that's just like a natural gift. That's like being born tall or something.

I don't understand why that would like have it keep you from being able to compete. When you start trying to regulate this shit, you end up in psychotic wormholes like that. But I don't know. Yeah, my thing is just like just them acting like they give a shit, which I know that's their whole thing. is acting like they give a shit about things that they don't. But I just feel like women's sports is a particularly egregious example of that for the people that we're talking about.

Republican lawmakers and leadership or whatever, trying to act like they care deeply about the integrity of women's athletics in this country is just fucking hilarious to me. Asinine. Yeah. Matt's making a big point. It's the opposite of Title IX.

It's like the conservative is no the defenders women's sports because it's funny it's that's laughable for anybody knows the politics of college sports the last like they spent the last 40 years saying it was ridiculous like overly woke nonsense to even have women's sports because they don't generate a profit for the schools they're at and how they're like we got to protect it um but uh go on your point about how like uh they always pretend like they're protecting their rights of religious people um representative al green uh had a pretty good retort to that today it's probably the we'll just let him talk because it's a pretty good speech Yeah, I love this.

Yes. Yeah. And still our rise, Mr. Speaker. You used God to enslave my forefellants. You used God to segregate me in school. You used God to put me in the back of the bus. Have you no shame? God created every person in this room.

Are you saying that God made a mistake? This is not about God. It's about men who choose to discriminate against other people because they have the power to do so. My record will not show that I voted against Mr. Cicillini having his rights. My record will show that when I had the opportunity to deliver liberty for all of our I voted for rights for all. Gentlemen, his time is expired. Love how they start giving him the light at the end there.

I'm like, all right, you wrap this up. I said they have rules, Robert's Rules of Order and time limits and shit, but like, the male was obviously geared up for a big finish. You can just let him, let him go ahead. So Congress is full a lot of weirdos, and Al Green's kind of a cool weirdo. He's only one scandal. I just wanted to bring this up because guys are talking about sexual discrimination. He was accused of sexual discrimination

It was kind of a funny incident This woman apparently he was sleeping with Accused him of Offer her money or job to keep quiet about it And then she dropped that lawsuit He countersued her for trying to blackmail him Then he dropped his lawsuit Then they both put on a joint statement saying

Yeah they both guys got too mad and they're over it Which is that's maturity That's gross No absolutely That's what you'd like for that to end You know all things being equal that's the preferred outcome is both parties just being like, look, we got a little hated.

Yeah, we, the sex was too good. We got mad after when it ended, and we didn't meet you to each other. It's okay. But moving on, is what you said about people using this shit, even though they know it's a failed political maneuver to try to build the brands.

That brings us to our good friend, Large Brain Marge, Marjor Teth Green, who, she got kicked off the Educational Committee and it's worth reminding people, the whole reason she wanted to be on the education committee was to rail about Title IX and Tranship. So she's using this opportunity to really get clawback

that ground she lost. Hang on, I think we should say, like the context of it. She in the capital, her office is right across from Marie, Marie Newman, right? Is that right? Marie Newman, yes, Congresswoman Marie Newman, who has a trained. daughter

and so she put up a trans flag outside of her office and this is how MTG responded to that yeah you're at Taylor Graham here we go yeah

it's silent for those listen to the podcast we just show us her hanging a sign it says there are two genders male and female uh believe the science trust the science or whatever that fucking that the way

the ending phrase of that. Trust the science. Like, again, I've said it for years. I say it all the time. These people are immune to irony, man. Like, the idea of her making this grandiose, bigoted point she has by finishing it with trust the science, with everything else she represents in her political career is just, I don't know, the audacity, the shamelessness of that, they just consistently blow. my mind. I don't give a fuck about science. She don't know shit about science. And what she does know, she don't like. Ask her about the science of fucking climate change. You know what I mean? And see how she's... Ask her about adrenachron.

Right. Yes. It fucking... Jewish space lasers. Yeah. Jewish space lasers. Literal thing that she has propped up in the past. Not even a joke. It's like, that's a real thing she said.

Or believes. You already revealed it, but But to me, that was the big twist to this, is that Marjorie didn't start this online shit posting. Newman, probably good for her, was standing up for a daughter. She hung a, she hung a rainbow flag up inside of her house, outside of her office, after MGT was saying some insane shit yesterday. So that would, so Marge's response was to that. But that's, I guess that's what Congress is now. It's just like, you know, we're in the shit posting civil war. That's just how this is going to go.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's it. Yeah, right. That like, yeah, man. You have two, two congresspeople whose offices are opposite each other in the halls of the Capitol.

Like you said, going on there, like a ship posting crusade against each other. But again, I'm not equating the two because, again, Marie Newman has a child who's transgender and put up a trans pride flag. That is a completely different thing. But that that was, like filmed and tweeted and then turned into a filmed and tweeted response to it that involved,

you know, a hateful message going up across the wall. And like you said, that's what American politics is now. You know, American diplomacy or whatever. That's what it looks like is like Twitter wars, Twitter finger, shit posting wars amongst Congress people is just a real shame. made this point. This is what happens. You elect people from the suburbs.

Just fights over like homeowners association fights over this height of fences and like what you can hang in as a decoration. That's very funny and very accurate. It is some HOA type shit. Like people just trying to, you know, passive aggressively do their yards in a certain way. That will, you know, piss off the neighbors or whatever. And it, I mean, yes, you're absolutely correct.

There's something extremely different about, posting something supportive, it's prideful, as opposed to posting something it's hateful and negative. And like those are two different things. But still, it's a very weird place for evidence of a country. But speaking of trans, fight for, for trans stuff,

let's get to the extremely fun, stupid, silly one as opposed to the never-winning hellscape with one little. Before we move on, that bill probably has no chance of being passed unless they eliminate the filibuster. Exactly. Yeah, because they would need 10 Republican senators to support it

in order to avoid the filibuster, right? So, you know, y'all thought it was good that we got control of the Senate, and it's better than not doing that. But, you know, here we are, long as the filibuster exists, if you go on the floor, you might get five Republican votes. I could probably name a couple, but not only, you're not going to get enough. But so anyway, also today, I don't know, whoever decided what we're going to talk about for the day decided it was going to be about trans stuff,

but not even the congressional bill. Because the fight online was about Mr. Pretzian. So Hasbro announced in a pretty adorable video that they were rebranding Mr. Potato Head to be, there's still going to be Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head, but the brand name is going to be Potato Head. I don't know why. Probably because they had some focus groups to say that people were confused about why the brand was Mr. Potato Head, but there's also a Mr. Potato Head and Subcategory, kind of like there's Pac-Man and Miss Pac-Man, right? I don't know.

Hasbro is a billion-dollar corporation. they don't do anything that would involve that is going to make them make less money. So this is about money somehow. I had literally no idea that the umbrella brand for the potato head franchise or whatever was officially Mr. Potato Head. Mr. Potato Head.

Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I didn't know that that was, who even thinks about it that way? You've got Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head and then there's, you know, they can bring out other potato heads or anyway. Anyway, go ahead though. They made their moose.

Yeah, so everyone immediately took this as like Hasbro's trying to turn our kids trans Because again, moral panic is all we fucking do and it had some pretty insanely Insantly good responses to this person up here Matt the response to the okay So you can't you can't read it let me it's a little blurry I'll read it to you So the AP story says Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister has bro the company that makes a potato shape plastic toy has given the spud a gender neutral new name Potato Head the change will appear on boxes this year And Mark Dice, as a conservative radio host,

respond to that, it's time for Republican states to secede. Dude, like, hey, what if this was the thing? What if this was the thing that led to the actual secession movement? But secondly, like, they're, like, furious that they're like, Hasbro, Hasbro's trying to act like potatoes don't have genders. You know what I mean? Like, what?

try being a good godfaring male potato and Hasbro trying to act like potatoes or not have genders and everybody knows you either got you got dick potatoes or you got vagina potatoes and that's how potatoes work and I'm aware of biologists that plants do have whatever but that ain't the point you know what I mean potatoes ain't got dicks and balls what like also the whole point of the toy is you can mix and match the body parts right. Mr. Potato has been trans this whole fucking time. You could put the woman's lips in the male potato.

You're right. The woman's eyes and you're going to be batty eyelashes, but the man's ears, it doesn't fucking matter. Yeah, man. It's just like, yeah, Mr. Potato has been, probably American's most progressive toy since it was debuted in the 1960, whatever. I mean, so up that second slide, Matt, if you got it. This guy fucking made a meme of all the canceled, um, I can't believe this.

I know it's real, but I can't. this is so, so yes. Yeah. Our canceled characters welcome a new hero today. Pour out some syrup from Mr. Potato Head. He saved our lives. We saved our lives. What the fuck? I don't know what that you're referring to. But it's Mr. Potato Head entering cancel culture heaven with the Redskins logo, the Cleveland Indians logo,

the dog from Paul Patrol, who I think you know the name of. Chase. That's Chase, everybody. Chase from Paul. The Land of Lakes, Native American Lady. Andreama Syrup, Uncle Ben from Rice. And of course, our hero, Karadun, Carrano from a Mandalorian. But I can't even get my brain around this.

Like how attached to you or to the to the logo on the land of Lakes Box? Okay. So you sent this in the group text earlier with Corey and Drew in it or whatever. And Corey's like, oh, that's hilarious. And then Corey goes, oh, wait a minute. That's for real. Like he looked in the guy.

So like this dude, that's not at all. When he says, Mr. Potato Head, you saved our lives. We are eternally great. he means that or not means it but you know what I mean he's not like he's not taking the piss as our friends across the pond would say he's making a sincere point or trying he's not he's not being ironic he misses on your mama's sir file um yeah all right and again and again this is all based about a misunderstanding of mr potatohead branding which hasbard hasbro put out a tweet that

clarified yes there's still mr. potato head there's still mrs potato head just the umbrella a band is me potato head the mr potato head version that's it that's like that everything about that makes complete fucking sense if you're a rational human being do you know what i mean like there's you know not that i give a shit about yeah there you go right there's said hold that tot he says i like how they they open it hold that pot your main's bub mr potato head isn't going anywhere he said potato head brand name and logo or dropping the mr that's not true mr Mr. Mr. Potatoa aren't going anywhere. They'll remain so.

And Potato Head is the umbrella branding or whatever. What I was going to say is not that we care about gender roles or norms or anything in this household. We don't. But it's just like I'm Trey Crowder. My wife is Katie Crowder. We are what, Mark, as a family? The Crowders. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? Like naming the potato head. like making the umbrella designation being potato head. This is the potato head family or whatever and it includes Mr. and Mrs. and hell add other kinds of potatoes.

They're fucking potatoes, sentient potatoes who like you said have been trans-friendly or have been trans-friendly since they started because that's the whole point of the toy. Like, what are we going to be talking about? There is that thing where wives would fully take their husband's name. it'd be like, you,

Katie would be Mrs. Tray Crowder, right? That was a thing at one point. And I guess that's what they want

for Mr. Potatoahead. Right. This is Mrs. This is Mrs. Mr. Potato Head. They're very happily buried.

Mrs. Mr. Bata Head. They're also, they also, even if they think that should be the rule, they got fooled

by it a couple months ago. I remember they, they thought they discovered a dead person voting for Biden. And they, because this guy had been, had, say his name was Joe Smith.

This Joe Smith had voted. they went to the house and asked him and said, no, it's his wife, Mrs. Joe Smith. The dead guy didn't vote. His widow did. So, like, they don't even understand their own fucking rules. Yeah. It's all exhausting. Of course I don't.

All right. We got another riot update, right? Let's go ahead and throw the comments. I'll just ask you, let's do the question for me to get the question started. Did you see this riot update where the, uh, they keep saying it was Antifa, but keep catching. fascists, the Bellingcat figured out, Bellingat, if you don't know, is

an online intelligence gathering collective, kind of like anonymous, but they're public, and what they do is they scrape social media to look for evidence of various things. They solved a couple Russian poisonings, for example, and we're able to track some stuff going on in Syria. Anyway, they dug through, the

woman who was arrested for stealing Nancy Pelosi's laptop. This brain genius turns out is a supporter of Adam Woffin, who does some social media posts where she wears a lot, like a low, she wears a hat and has the logo that the Christchurch shooter wore. And she's doing Heil Hitler.

And using a filter scheme that's called Fashwave, which is fascist love aesthetics. So that picture on the right is Fashwave. That's what they call it. See, there again, like, this is another example of what I was saying earlier about how they're like, how, this is like from watchmen or something.

it looks like like the way like they they're try it's such try hard bad assery aesthetic that they go for you know what I mean like you're already standing there hiling Hitler in your fucking Instagram post or whatever but she has to give herself laser eyes and you know this negative filter or whatever just to add to how fucking super cool it is it's just I don't know if you I mean fascism is all about aesthetics in the first place. It takes away all meeting from all like material meeting for people's lives and gives them like things to do to feel part of a group. And like, but the Nazis at least got like Hugo Boss

suits and Mercedes Ben's cars and Wagner. These guys get that Tom McDonald rapper guy an Instagram filter. It's like it's and fucking Donald Trump, it's the weirdest movement. I'll never be able to understand what they found so

cool about it and appealing. Right. No, I know. Not that narcissism's appealing, but the suits, objectively the suits look cool. Goose stepping, if you didn't know what they were walking about, was a pretty cool way to walk. Right. I know it's like just that whole like, it's so hard for me to wrap my because if it was like

just that, oh, they were always this way and then there was an opportunity for them to embrace what's becoming a more mainstream ideology, like of course they're going to take it. You know what I mean? Like that makes sense, but the fact that some of this, this girl, her name's Riley, whatever, she's like 21 or 22 years old. You know what I mean? Like the fact that so many people are getting roped into it daily and have been the whole time, that's the part that blows my mind. If it was just a bunch of old, like,

you know, guys that have been clan members for the past 30 years or whatever and now they're just doing this because this is cool now or whatnot. Yeah. I could get that because they're, you know, Thomas Ludi-Ludiana says y'all kida yeah exactly but the fact that I don't I don't know how this ropes in new people I really don't even like dumbass racist people because it's just so uncool how do you look at Donald Trump and look at him and be like that's that's my doctor doom right there you know what I mean like he's basically our Thanos fucking his flabby ass like it just I don't it I don't get it it's so wild to me. I mean, to borrow a line from Big Lobosky, like say what you want about the tenants of Al Qaeda, but at least it's a belief system. These people don't believe in anything. Like they've lost the plot between like ironic, like ironic shit posting and living their lives. And they don't like, here's a woman like, like usually like a guy like Tim McVeigh would say he's like fighting for the soul of America. And this is like the blood of the, the, the, the, the, the blood of the tree of

liberty must be water with the blood of tyrants or however the fuck you put it. But this woman wouldn't, doesn't even really identify as a patriot because she's trying to steal Nancy Pelosi's laptop to sell to Russia for profit, right? So it's not even like. Didn't they have that video of her. You can hear her voice saying to some other writer, wear a glove, dumbass. And then her gloved hand reaches right into frame and picks up the laptop and pulls it back.

Yeah. She's doing a cat. She's doing a cat burglary for freedom. You know, It's just like... Yeah. I don't want to do anything stupid. Yeah.

Inez or Ennis... Innes Sinai... Oh, it's a palindrome. I get it. Ines Sinai says she's super weird the more you find out and read about this girl. Which, yes. Yeah, she's... I mean, I don't know.

Hell, honestly, man, she might just be an actual crazy person, in which case, you know, somebody help her. I don't know. but yeah, it's wild. I mean, like, look, we've all got our craziness. Right.

Like, once it crosses over into behavior, it kind of doesn't even matter what your motivations are, except to, like, as clinical psychologist or the FBI, when they're trying to feel over the charge it with. I agree, yeah. I don't care whether you're kidding and just confused. You end up storming a speaker of the house's office in a mob that gets, they got caused the deaths of seven people.

You're in trouble. Yeah. And, Mark, what do you think? Shmerier. Shmire. I'd go Schmeier. Schmeier. And Schmeier. And again, every

every episode, I have to apologize to people for how I pronounce things. I think people are making up names to fuck with you, just because they can't read. They're not. There should be. Anne said, this is not just a redneck thing, and that's what's so disturbing. I know that both of us could not agree with you more.

That's been a thing ever since, well, I mean, for forever, but since Trump first cropped up and it was blamed on, I mean, it was blamed on rednecks to begin with as though 40% of Marin County, California, didn't vote for Donald Trump or whatever. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's been, rednecks have been the scapegoat for these other types of fucking lunatics. That rednecks also, the Venn diagram overlaps, but still, everybody just categorizes it as rednecks only in their head, and that's not the case. There's a whole bunch of shitty white people out there. shit do you know the uh the area of los angeles the two areas belong to los angeles then went

super heavy for trump or beverly hills and the pacific palisades man right of course rich people yeah the people i've heard about los angeles the people from the la that i've heard got got arrested the capital riot there was a USC student that's like a 50 000 a year private school and there's a UCLA student forgive me if i'm wrong about that but either way a kid going to a good school and uh a woman who owned a beauty salon in beverly hills so yeah this is not I'm not, we're not taking the blame for this one. Right. So sorry.

Yeah. I mean, you know, we're there. But y'all are there too. Other white people were saying. John Orbit Bainbridge says, good eye on that palindrome. Thanks, John. I appreciate it. Yeah.

I get something right every now and then. Your initials are you trying to say. Now I'm picking up on, picking up on clues and everybody's names out here. But yeah, that even before Trump and all that shit, I used to, it's always hard to talk about because like, especially with my accent and everything else, it sounds like I'm being an

apologist or whatever, but I've always gotten real fired up too about the rest of the country acting like the South is the official racist part of America. You know what I mean? My whole thing was always like, I'm not saying the South ain't racist. Of course it is. I'm saying America

is racist. And when everybody else just points at the South and says that's the racist part, it lets fucking Minnesota and Boston and everywhere else off the hook, which is bullshit, you know, like... I've heard more pro athletes complain about playing in Boston than Atlanta, so whatever that's worth.

So, I mean, it's just like the clan was started in Indiana. The clan actually ran Indiana at one point, I think. So I don't know what to tell people who'd hang on to that stuff. But I went to, but I'm a southerner who went to college and the run along the Mason Dixon line. So I was like, oh, I'm from a small town of the South, you fuck your cousin and hate minorities. And I'm like, like, people would ask me if, like, accuse me to be in the middle. anti-Semitic and literally I never encountered any anti-Semitism until I got to college because

there were no you didn't there were no jewish people i know exactly what you mean yes again it's like you say that and it's like we're not it's not letting anybody off the hook it's just true because like you say no one was anti-Semitic where i grew up because there were no jewish people for 200 miles or whatever like literally no one there met a jew knew a jew they weren't you know they weren't coming up in these people's conversations. If they knew about them, sure, they'd have been bigoted towards them too. I'm sure they would have. Sure.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. But it just wasn't a thing. I'm not making excuses for the South. I'm saying that everyone else says their shit too. But like if you'd come up to my dad and been like, you'd be like, you should, you should be really suspicious to Jewish people. And he'd be like, why?

I'd be like, because they're a secretive insular group that controls global finance. He'd be like, okay, what's global finance? I don't fucking know. yeah you know i wonder though because me and you were around the same age it's been a long time since we were growing up in these places i do wonder if that maybe isn't different nowadays do you know what i mean like with the internet and the propagation of anti-semitic conspiracy theories and things like that and how it's kind of gotten wrapped up together that it wouldn't surprise me if that's not really true anymore but yeah when i was growing up and when you were growing up it what

they just they didn't know about jewish people one way or another so it didn't factor in literally everything I knew about anti-Semitism was from jokes on Seinfeld. This is, I've told this story a million times, but I don't think I've told it on this show. I'll make a brief version of it, but this is true, just to illustrate my point. My high school girlfriend, who wasn't, you know, the brightest crayon in the box, let's say. I was at her house talking to her stepdad about pro wrestling like you do. And then me and her left to go to town like you do. And I was still on wrestling.

And so I said something by how I liked Bill Goldberg a lot. And she was like, why? And I said, well, you know, he started out undefeated. He was just real badass, everything. And then I said, I was like, and also, you know, he's a Jewish guy. He's kind of breaking stereotypes. I feel like you don't see that a lot. Big Jack, badass Jewish guy.

That's cool to me. Anything that breaks stereotypes. And she goes, and she's not fucking around, not joking at all. She goes, what are you talking about? And I was like, well, Bill Goldberg, he's. he's a Jewish man and she looks at me completely serious and she goes, Trey, there are no Jews. And I was like, what?

And she goes, really? Hitler killed all the Jews, Trey. And like she genuinely believed that. And I had to be like, oh my God, you can go ahead and drop me off. No, I dated her for like two more years after that. Pickens were slim, y'all. You have to understand. It's a small town.

Matt says, is she into Q now? Oh, he says, isn't she into Q now? No, that's my other ex-girlfriend, Matt. Thank you. That's my college ex-girlfriend who's super into Q and parlor now. But that's just the level of ignorance that exists, you know. I mean, in her defense. Jewish people was some, not everybody.

She was a special case. But still, just that's illustrative, I hope. in her defense Adolf gave it his best shot uh he sure did I'm not saying I'm not saying no you support it he just

no I know right she clearly had just she had learned about the Holocaust it wasn't her saying it was a good thing or nothing but she clearly had learned about it and she interpreted her misremembered it as Jewish people were wiped out by Adolf Hitler and that's what she thought

and a very quick story about this girl one time we were in my bedroom just laying there and she looks up to me super cutely or whatever and she's like tell me a story Trey and I was like what the fuck? All right and then I literally just told her like start to finish

the plot of Armageddon the movie but as though I was just making it up you know I was like once there was an asteroid coming or whatever and at the end of it she was like that was amazing someone should make that into a movie and I was like yeah so anyway I'm saying

y'all can say say what we're dealing with here those are two completely true stories this is a terrible transition but speaking of the Holocaust a movie I've never seen that I want to recommend it came on 2001 but I just watched it recently

I wasn't aware of it's called conspiracy and it's pretty much a real-time hour and a half movie with Kenneth Brona Stanley Tucci, Con Perth and some of the really good actors Tom Hilsonson. I heard of that and it's basically the meeting where they got together

to decide on the final solution and watch it. And it's just like watching these dudes leave the room to go vomit where they're having an office meeting about what to, about, about, about the plan they're about to carry out. Wasn't that HBO? Isn't that HBO thing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's on HBO Max if you have it.

But it's worth printing on iTunes if you can find it. Just like the banality of evil, man. I don't understand how you can just sit in the office and plan how to execute a bunch of people. It's weird. Yeah. Sorry I was laughing because Gary Fox says, oh my God, I want more girlfriend stories. There it is. Yeah,

a predicted, Matt's pull again. I texted you all the good one last night when the band Buck Cherry came up. I forget why we were talking about Buck Cherry. Yeah. But for a while in my 20s, I dated this girl who I met in a comedy club

because I was spending all my time in comedy clubs and she was a proless dancer who was back there in MySpace. When I went to her MySpace page, you know Max Space was auto play music? Yep. The song that auto played you went to her profile was crazy bitch by Buck Cherry.

which of the time was the opposite of a red flag for me. Right, yeah. You're into. Like, oh, she fucks so good. I'm on top of it. That's what you were thinking. That's the song, yeah. Yeah, this is true.

I had an auto play song on my MySpace. And I just liked the song, but the chorus of the song, the song was by the guy named Marty Casey, and it was called, actually don't even remember the name of it. But part of the chorus goes, screams very loudly, one man can make a difference. That's what I have.

So I've been Yes, it's true. I've been this pretentious since. You're not very different. You're such different people because I would only blast a song that had something about one person makes no difference.

Yeah, no. Casualty. That was named it. Marty Casey, it's all called casualty. Yes. Yeah. Screaming, one man can make a difference. That's what you heard

when you came on to my Facebook. but my MySpace page would have just like pictures of me with a chin strap and the beam or whatever. Fucking. Fucking bonfires there. It's like, what make it make a difference? Lord God.

Oh, anyway. Okay. Well, we're out of time, but I want to remind everybody. We will be back on Tuesday. It's a normal time,

normal place, all that good stuff. However, as a reminder, March is about to start. Starting in March, starting on Tuesday, we're going to a week.

format for reasons we've mentioned a million times before so we will be here Tuesday we'll talk about it maybe some more than but yeah come with us Tuesday and then after that it'll just be Tuesdays going forward but it'll still be a good time and we hope y'all join us so thank you love you bye