wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of August 4

Episode Date: August 10, 2020

Last week was a doozy as we talked about fuckin dumb Trump and Biden both talk sometimes and stuff. We talk smart about it though. Also we trash the NRA, the TikTok situation, and Rudy Giuliani. We trash plenty of other stuff too. OH! And we are joined in separate segments by the WellRED fellers, Corey and Drew, and have a big ol time. Holler at it. 

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We are here on Tuesday, August. fourth 2020 and we like to begin as always with whatever is the dumbest shit in America at that present moment and tonight for the second if not third episode in a row the recipient of that honor is none other than our own dumbass in chief everybody is talking about Donald Trump's most recent interview with the HBO program Axios and their political correspondent Jonathan Swan people are fascinated by this thing, and you can count me among them, namely because it is fucking fascinating. It's not just fascinating. It's maddening. It's disturbing. It's hilarious. It's sad. It's frightening. And above all, for me, it's surreal. It's unbelievable. A lot of other people have

pointed out that it feels less like an interview with a sitting U.S. president and more like a scene from a scripted comedy. show a la HBO's VEP or like the office and that type of thing and I got to say I could not agree more with that assessment watch this short clip right here I'm not hearing any of sound are you try oh yes I am well that's hilarious okay hang on false start damn and I was doing so good too I didn't click the share sound button I'm sorry y'all here we go all right let's go back It's worth the weight. Yeah, it's good.

It's good stuff. Okay. It's on like 20 seconds long. Here we go. Do you hear that? And, you know, there are those that say, you can test too much. You do know that.

Who says that? Oh, just read the manuals. Read the manuals. Read the manuals. Read the books. What books? What testing? Like, Mark, tell me that doesn't look like a scripted scene

from some, you know, political satire. show. The guy who is a great journalist seems like a comedic actor and the timing, the incredulousness on his face, just the sincerity of it. It's just incredible. It's amazingly, like Swans did a good job here or whatever, but it's amazing. All you got to do is ever is asking what he means by stuff. He always does that. Just read the stuff. You're like, well, be specific and he doesn't have any specific. I mean, we're on like, this is like if, you know, Emperor had an emperor's new clothes was a seven, like a TV show that went seven seasons. Like what the hell are we even doing anymore? I don't know. It's like we're trapped in this

weird place where it's supposed to be inherently newsworthy, whatever the president of the United States says, but also there's really no point to listen to the president talk because he doesn't even know what his administration's doing. And he can, I mean, he can barely talk. Okay, before I move on to that, as far as the whole, the way this thing plays and it, you know, playing like it's a scene from a sitcom or something. I think they like their camera choices, it's like handheld and a little shit, it like, I don't know. I wonder if that was deliberate on their part if they felt like it might come

across as something like that because I felt like that played into it. I mean, the White House has a lot of saying that kind of stuff. So, uh, right setting. Yeah. So anyway, anyway, whatever. No one's confident. Truly a work of art. I recommend anybody watching it.

But yeah, as far what you just said, there's no point and listen to him talk because he doesn't even know his people are doing whatever else. Also, like, he's just, I mean, like, dude, point blank, he's fucking dumb. Like, he's dumb. Not just, not like dumb for a president. Like George W. Bush was dumb for a president. He got made fun of for being dumb all time because he had, like, a fake drawl and, like, was all folksy. And he, uh, he mixed up idioms and shit. And so he got made fun of for being dumb, but like, He wasn't dumb like a person you meet on the street is dumb. And like Donald Trump, at least at this point,

and I know he's passing the cognitive test with flying colors or whatever, but like he's dumb. I mean, you can watch, you can watch speeches from him even five years, like when he started running from president five years ago. And the difference is market. Like his, his vocabulary is half what it was even five years ago.

And he always talked. from that weird, herky jerky, present tense sort of reality show wave, but now he only knows like seven words. I don't want to, the dude sucks. It's not his fault. His brain isn't work anymore. It's going to happen to all of us. But someone, a responsible country would figure it would be figuring out of be figuring a way

to do with it instead of living in denial of it. I think my favorite part was, yeah, the list of printed, the stack of printed papers. Yeah. Just loose pieces of paper. That he was just like bumble fucking through the whole, like fucking dropping on. holding them upside down it was ridiculous yeah one was a bar graph that didn't really had like maybe three words on it but it looked like the uh the thing you you print out to test your printer you know it's like it's like a list of colors yeah and he just held it up like see see

i'm right they and swan like the rest of us were like what what are we looking at why what is it's like he doesn't understand the statistics he's trying to cite and neither do like there's so many ways to slice these these COVID statistics and he should at least be trying to understand understand it because people are making policy recommendations to him and he has to pick one, although he's just picked none of the above the whole time. Right. But like I understand is the point he was trying to make that we have more cases. So of course we have more deaths. We have less deaths relative to our population in some places.

But the failure is other places don't have this many cases. And we're the luxury of getting this disease last. We had the other, everybody else was doing the rough drafts with treatments for this. We had the benefit of their knowledge. We were able to treat people a little better because Italy and, um, you know, Lombardy in Spain took the brunt. But like, eventually that that advantage runs out. We just let the disease run wild.

You end up with like 150,000 people dead. 150,000 people, man. That's a lot of people. It's a shitload of people. 150,000 people. And like, he would say, he would bring that up and he would say like, oh, it's terrible. It's awful. But he also at one point said, he was like, yes, these people are dying and, you know,

it is what it is. Which that's the second time he said those exact words about the number of deaths. it is what it is. Some of the other high notes from the interview, he was, as far as COVID is concerned, they were talking about his Tulsa rally. And of course, of course, the first thing he had to point out was how big the crowd actually was,

how big the adoring crowd was. He was like, he said, first of all, we had 12,000 people, not 6,000 people like you and a lot of others reported. And Swan said, why would you want a big crowd in these, times and he goes he says totally sincerely no trace of like irony or any self-awareness at all he goes well because at the time Tulsa was a very good area as far as COVID goes he goes yes it spiked

after our rally but at the time we held it it wasn't so bad it's by it didn't fight until after so you know do you understand the effects came after the cause it wasn't it wasn't that was not foreseeable for me. I did not understand that effects come after causes. I'll be looking into that. And he just, and again, he like, he had no idea how ridiculous of a thing that was to say, clearly. At another point, he said, he's talking about the testing and how we're the best at testing in the whole world, you know, he goes, he said, you know, in the beginning, when this whole thing started, we didn't even have any test. And Swan says, well, how would you have a test when the disease didn't exist yet and he goes exactly we refuse the WHA WHO tests

so we could develop our own test the one they developed didn't work they had to recall all of them and then they realized they didn't have to recall all it was a three-pronged test they just need to skip the third prong they yeah I know it's like it's been the whole thing's been engineered we can't do anything unless Jared Kushner can get a cut of it so that's where we're at right here's another example this isn't about COVID this is a separate issue he brought up the taliban bounties on american soldiers on american soldiers for the taliban and that that's the context of the conversation and mark this trump quote i think there should be a name for this thing that i'm about to read you because this is like one of his number one things i feel like he does a

version of this as much or more than he does any other thing verbally so uh swan asked him do you read the operation brief and he goes and he says I do I read a lot they like to say I don't read but I read a lot I comprehend extraordinarily well probably better than anyone you've interviewed in a long time I read a lot I go to a lot of meetings what like the that whole like here's the thing everybody everybody has known a person who does a version of this right it where it's like you asked somebody So do you, you know, do you even work out or whatever? And the other guy's like, yeah, of course, I work out all the time.

Matter of fact, a lot of people who have seen me run say that I'm like, probably the fastest dude that ever seen run before. That type of thing. It's very like, usually people doing it after 12 because. Right. Yeah, everybody knew that guy in school. And sometimes, if you know that guy as an adult, what is everyone's unanimous opinion of that guy?

He's a fucking tool who's full of shit. Everyone sees right through it so easily and cringes at it the whole time. But to me, it's one of the American president's defining characteristics. And he does it all the time. And everybody just, they just roll with it. It's also, like, I always thought it was the fact that works on so many people is what's pointing to me because I always assumed it was obvious. The reason the rest of us stopped doing it after 12 because, you know, real G's moving silence, right?

Like yeah you don't you don't if you're bragging about something you're not actually doing it uh real gangsters don't talk shit it's another classic uh line uh gang gido boys but the um the if you're if you're talking about how much money you have you probably don't have it right you don't need to brag about something you're actually doing and also if you're saying if you're saying something you're the opposite like like if you're dating if a girl says i'm not crazy out of nowhere you're like okay someone's accused of being that a lot and secondly if you're dating a guy who's like i'm a nice guy like that guy's a psychopath someone's accused him of being a psycho so that's why he's announcing he's a nice guy so they're all like who fronts it's like that it doesn't work usually

yeah it's just uh who brags about reading like you literally is the basic job the basic job requirement to president would be to uh comprehend stuff to read the white papers people put in front of you including the daily briefing and then you talk coherently So to skip around a little bit, he did this exact same thing again later in this interview in an even more egregious and offensive fashion. He was talking about the protest and Black Lives Matter and then eventually John Lewis. He's talking about all that shit. And he says, I did more for the black community than anyone with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln. And John Swans said, you think you did more than LBJ?

yes I do Jonathan Swan but LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act and Trump said and how has that turned out? Not well because the judges you appointed or tearing it apart and I don't

yeah just that and then later they bring up John he refused to give John Lewis literally any credit any respect what any at all and he said because clearly he was offended and upset that John Lewis didn't come to his

inauguration because he brought it up three or four times and then in one point he said he said again nobody's done more for black people he should have come to my inauguration and then that's where they left the john lewis he had to he had to also be imagining what his funeral was going to look like and being sad about that um you know he also during that part of the interview talking about police brutality saying like he all he would say is i hope that police don't treat black people differently I hope that. But he also said he made sure to point out, he said, look, look, police have killed many, many white people also,

which is such a hilarious justification. Like, look, they murder other types too. It's not just the black people they murder. The solution to this disparity in outcomes is obviously for police to step up by shooting more white people. That's really how we get out of this. situation. It's just like a free fire zone where just cops just like yeah you got to Johnson you've killed white people only 15% of the American population but the 30% of your

kills like okay I'm going to go out and kill six white people today and I'm not the numbers look good. One of the most insane points of the interview for me was he doubled and then tripled down on not condemning the alleged child sex trafficker Galane Maxwell. If Jonathan Swan brought that up, you wished Galane Maxwell well. You said, I wish her well. He's been given a golden opportunity right here to clarify what was clearly a horrific gaff, a horrific foot and mouth moment, right? But no, he said it again.

He said, I do wish her well. He clarified that he didn't clarify. It barely made sense, but it became somewhat clear that what he, what his justification for was he never said, he would not say, Epstein's name. He only would refer to him as her boyfriend, but he kept saying her boyfriend was killed or killed himself in jail, and I just, I wish her well. So, like, I don't want her to be murdered is what he means by I wish her well. But, like, you don't have to say that. It's someone this notorious, and you're the president, like, you don't have to dig in on wishing that person

well. Like, how do you? Like, it's such a, it's such an elementary thing. you would think but it's also a great illustration of how like um of how like he says the quiet part so loud right he doesn't think she should be right accountable because they go to the same parties and she's a member of morolago or whatever like there's a i forget whose quote it was but like the best explanation of conservatism is that like the belief that the law should bind some people and protect others and then another group of people the law should protect but not bind right here's it like yeah i think that uh black people in the streets should listen to cops or be shot. But this woman who I who are putting on planes with should be free to do whatever she

wants. Right. Like Barr when he was talking about Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, I mean, that's almost exactly what he said, what you just said. Like he, the attorney general pretty much said that in front of Congress. But you said, you were like, oh, there got, you know, there he goes again. Trump saying the quiet part out loud. That's another thing that he just stays. doing and he did that in a separate instance this week. So moving on a little here. Talking about one of his biggest pet peeves at present, mail-in voting.

He went on a Twitter tirade earlier this week, directed at the state of Nevada for their measures to enact mail-in voting, threatening to sue the state of Nevada, but, and this is the pertinent point, him saying the quiet part out loud again. He also literally explicitly said, they do that there's no way Republicans can win the state like I guess we all sort of know that that's what they're doing that's why they're so pissed off about this but like

you still are not say that like he's literally just explicitly stating if the maximum amount of people are allowed to vote we will lose and that should be illegal and then today he tweeted that mail-in voting is acceptable implicitly in Florida. It's good in Florida. Everyone in Florida to do it. Yeah. What was that about? I saw why? Oh, they need old people to win in Florida and old people are afraid of dying so they're not going to go to the polls. Yeah, he was talking about the dangers, the unimaginable dangers of mail-in voting in that Axios interview and he said he was talking about all the fraud that goes on. He was like, somebody got a ballot for a dog.

Somebody got a ballot for some other stuff. And that was his, uh, his justification. but he's really, really spun up. They must have some, uh, they must have some bad data out of Florida that freaked them out because it's a lot of Floridians, man. It's like, we'll, they'll do, we're brave enough to do it. We'll shoot, we'll take a shotgun and shoot a stack of fireworks inside a store, but we're not, I'm not going to a poll.

There's a pandemic on, right? Yeah. Now, he's very, he's very, I wear flip flops in a neat how puddle wine put up my Christmas lights. Yeah, with alligators. Yeah. But no, he's really spun up over this mail-in voting thing. They talked a lot about it in the Axios interview, and he, but he also threatened to sue Nevada.

He also has said this week that he's thinking about issuing an executive order regarding mail-in-voting. Now, I don't know, I don't know what kind of capability he has in that regard. but like he's just throwing everything at the wall where this shit is concerned desperate to do something about it and like there is only one explanation for that in my opinion you know what I mean like only one like he would not be this furious about it if he didn't know that it spells doom for him like yeah that's all there is to it yeah I mean it's also like he just gets pumped up by these bad talking points but the funny thing is like his tweets like in a normal election year quietly the Republican Party Nevada would have filed

you know lawsuits trying to stop this because some hypothetical old constitutional case law and to be arguing that it's not partisan and whatever but they can't even make these arguments he blows up the case but they can follow the brief by tweeting we can't do this or we will lose right so that's going to be in the front page of the Democratic Party's response brief and the case just got obliterated because he has no impulse control he can't not express every thought Right. It's pretty funny when you think about it. The man's what tweet himself out of office. I almost hesitate to even bring this up, but just in the interest of trying, I don't know, fairness or whatever the hell, being a devil's advocate or whatnot.

I wonder how you feel about, obviously, I think he's on some bullshit. We're mailing voting is concerned. I don't see. We vote by mail here in California. I love it. I got no issues with it. But he keeps harping. on this New York congressional race, this New York primary, and how much should be read into that

do you think? Because for people that don't know, kind of objectively speaking, there was a mail-in primary in New York that has basically turned into an abject disaster. Six weeks on, and they still can't sort everything out. And it has been a major problem. And so how really, how really Is that, you know, how much should that matter? No, no, no one's alleging any fraud in New York. No, that's true. Fraud is, fraud is not a part of it. It's just kind of like, just incompetence.

Incompetence, right. It was basically just like they didn't have the infrastructure to count that many mailing votes and some got lost in a pile. I don't know the specifics. Okay, but I'm saying to be fair, like, can the argument be made that we as a country generally speaking also do not have the infrastructure or experience you know to like like what if it does turn into an objective cluster fuck you know like you think cluster fucks before but democracy is messy we you figure it out we get through you muddle through you you try to act like people are acting in good faith and then you uh you figure it out afterwards like that's that's fine like everyone like

Like we do this where we try to, we try to make the perfect enemy of the good. And like, you'll see like to make the equivalent of mass people to be like, well, the masks don't even keep out every virus particle. Like, yeah, we're not asking you to keep out every virus part. It's a question to keep some of it in your mouth. Not everyone. We know that nothing's perfect. Right. Also a more sane and functional society, I feel like would treat this botch, New York, mail-in primary as, you know, a learning experience. It's like just thank, you know what, thank God that happened because that brought to light some

fundamental weaknesses or flaws we might have. And we learned a lot of lessons about how to actually approach us in the future. And with the presidential election on the horizon, we're going to take a lot away from this that we can use to make sure that is handled in the most appropriate way. But like, I don't see nobody saying that shit. Learning from your mistakes and doing things better the next time around, Not my country, buddy. Not my country.

No, we ain't for that. We plow ahead like a football coach who'll call a run play for, same run play four downs in a row, right? Stop for a loss every goddamn time. That's the America I live in, Trey. Absolutely. God bless it. So this is an, this is an ever-changing thing.

I don't know if we have the, what's the latest on the stimulus bill, Mark, such that you are aware of? No bill yet, but there was, seemed to be some movement late this evening. McConnell signal, McConnell said he's fine with 600 bucks, extended $600 in the eviction and the eviction moratorium. Now, I don't know what he wants in exchange for that. I'm assuming it's the liability protections for employers, which, I mean, look, I think I'm almost always in favor of being able to sue your employer to the ground if they screw you over,

but I don't know how, I don't know, like the thing is the employer is gonna take advantage the liability waivers to just be less risk-averse than they already are when they should be more risk-averse. But I don't know what to do about that. I might be okay with a one-time, I don't know. I need to read more about it. I don't really understand.

But they're still not there yet. There's apparently some concessions have been made, but they're still not there is where we currently stand on it. Yeah, but Trump announced he was $40,600 because he's finally figured out that people of all, of all voters like more money in their pocket. Right. And he doesn't have any actual principles. So he's throwing everybody under the bus. So, okay, first of all, because I have now forgotten seven or eight times at least in this episode already to tell you, y'all think about, if ain't got some great news for some our more redneck viewers out there, we're going to have some free legal advice.

at the end of this episode. Now, this legal advice ain't, like, legal. He's kind of a logger, but he's not really. Drew Morgan, who tours with me, and if y'all follow me a lot, then you probably know Drew. Drew used to be a logger, and that's about as good as we can do. But my point is, Drew's going to join us here in a little bit, and he's going to take your legal advice questions if you have them.

So if you've got a cousin that's in some bullshit right now, go ahead and type that up, And we'll see if we can't get Drew to give you a little free, free legal advice here about 15 minutes. I will say that as far as I know, the reason Drew is not a licensed lawyer anymore has to do with like a continue to pay his fees and not for some ethical violation. He went volunteer. Yeah. He went full time in comedy and just stopped being a lawyer. He was not forced to stop being a lawyer.

I mean, it was a matter of time. But, you know. Yeah. He wasn't like that porn star lawyer who sued Trump a minute. up in jail. Yeah. So, all right, anyway, back to the skews. Um, so you're saying they did, they did, uh, eventually, because I know that the $600 per week, uh, additional federal bonus for the unemployment, I know that was a huge sticking point. You say they've, they've, the Republicans have conceded on that. Ms. McConnell says, look at it right now, uh, told reporters, he has,

quote, prepared to support, end quote, a coronavirus stimulus package includes extension to your dollar okay unemployment checks because my understanding of it was that was like one of if not the biggest sticking point for them based on what I read that because the Republicans and this has got brought up on the show before but like the the Republicans are worried that having that that level of employment been unemployment benefits that will incentivize people to not go back to work that people will choose to not work and just be you know what every human being inherently is what is the piece of shit in their

opinion and sit at home and count the money instead okay what about almost literally no one is making that decision and I don't understand this is how like grossed out they are by poor people and also how much they just don't understand them like we're in a ever change an unprecedented ever-changing socio-political climate right now. No one is throwing away actual work to sit back and count the government, the pandemic checks. You know what I mean? Like if anything was ever unstable, it is this current situation. No one is turning their nose up at an actual job or actual work for this year. I agree. Like it's ridiculous. But can you imagine like what a health,

what a dystopian healthscape would be for someone who's never had money their entire life to not have to go back to a horrible workplace where they're mistreated you know it's like they're trying to force people to go about the shitty jobs they hate which is different but like it's it's also bleak man and there aren't there the jobs don't exist there's 30 million people out of work and 5 million open jobs those those numbers are well that well yeah well that's why that's why the extra money is needed is because is because of that so trying to act making this straw man of like, no, there are jobs, but they're just going to turn into lazy sacks of shit and not take the jobs if we give them this extra $400. Like, it's insulting and fucking ridiculous. And it's

also like, it's proof, proof that they are so utterly disgusted by poor people. And I grew up before my whole family's poor. I grew up poor my whole life. And I never have been able to understand how any poor people are hardcore Republicans, and I still don't. They hate you. They hate you if you're poor. You're fucking gross to them, and they hate you. I don't like, point blank. American general hates poor people. It's across the board. It's not like people who make $30,000 a year look down on people who make $22. You know. Okay. Yes. But like, there are politicians on the left. arguing for UBI and things like that.

Or like, like in the hate and poor people Olympics, the Republicans have taken the gold every year for 150 or however since they don't fly parties. Since the 60s at least. I'll, here's the thing about UBI. If you're concerned about taking a 600 bucks instead of a job that discouraging people from going to work, you could make a $600 permanent for everyone across the board.

And then the person goes to work, work and makes 500 bucks a week, that's an extra 500 bucks a week. And then your problem for solve, you're not discouraging work. And we have, uh, there've been, there've been Nordic countries have done experiments. And what they, with UBI and what they've found is that it doesn't discourage people taking jobs because people want more money. I'd rather have 1100 bucks working than 600 bucks in a home. Right.

Absolutely. But I don't know. So hopefully that'll come through soon. I guess it sounds like there's been some, uh, sounds like there's been some progress on it. So that's good. Uh, because Trump had come out. and said he was gonna executive order that shit too if they didn't figure it out he's just

throwing executive orders around all over the place um when they left uh just one last thing with they like you wonder how they like how this is work and like when meadows was in this mark meadows chief judge trump's chief of staff was in this meeting too and he came out of it he was complaining about how republicans had made significant concessions only lifting the eviction uh extending the eviction moratorium to and extending them for unemployment benefits um but basically republicans only have what 52 53 seats in in the Senate so if 47 48 Democrats vote for it and a few Republicans who are up for reelection trying to save their ass and McConnell lets this caucus vote for it however they want then it'll get passed and that's that's it's

that because try this triple sign it's done yeah Lynn Hoff Victor said the 600 being seen as a disincentive for people to go back to work tells you just how low the minimum wage really is. And that's exactly right. If people were paid the way they should be, then this would never even get brought up. It's always amazing to me. Like when the minimum wage was established

in the 50s or 60s or whatever, like if it had grown with inflation, it'd be like $25 an hour right now. Right. That'd be the minimum wage. We were basically communist in the 1950s and 60s, And no one ever talks about it. It's like it's pretty crazy.

Yeah, no, the tax rate was insane on the rich in the, in the, and during that same period of time that they all want to go back to, you know, like the whole like what they think of it and make America great again. It's when, you know, every white person had a factory job in a three car garage and, you know, two Cadillacs and whatever else and a wife that listened and cooked dinner and kept her mouth shut and all that. And, but during those house-in, on days that they openly pined for, the tax rate was insanely higher than it's been,

you know, for the past 20, 30 years or whatever, but we're living in the social salescape. The dirty little takeaway from that is like when mostly white people were getting those benefits, we got to be a social democracy. But when black people started getting them two after the civil rights act, the voting rights act, and it was like, oh, man, these poor people are getting over, man, we got to cut a down on that. Well, when they talk about welfare queens and shit, they mean black women, you know, like...

That's a cool word. Obviously. Yeah, right. Okay, so I know all Trump all the time, but this motherfucker, you just can't keep up with him. This actually happened toward the end of last week, but we haven't been, we, you know, haven't had an episode since this happened. Trump is, if he doesn't watch it, he's going to lose the dancing tween vote for good. even though they don't vote, he's really going to alienate a lot of teenagers because Trump is coming after TikTok.

They don't like it. Trump is threatening to ban the social media video app, but he is going to allow them to continue operating if they sell to an American corporation, but not only if they sell to an American corporation, but also in the United States, but also in the doing so set aside a quote substantial amount of money for the u.s treasury what the fuck is that like he's like openly just saying hey if you want to keep operating you have to bribe the u.s. treasury and then i'll think about it like that's fucking crazy and i don't i don't fuck with tic-tok i'm not a tic-tac person at all but uh like Like this is absurd.

It's a it's not just an American company is Microsoft specifically right so basically he's forcing Microsoft to buy a company they hadn't been acquired about he's forcing to take back to sell to them and also taking a cut off but this is a very this is a very like soprano's B plot shit happening where it's like you're forcing sale of a garbage company is so your buddy can take their roots forcing your buddy to take their roots so you can get your big it's a yeah what um and i don't know like what kind of power does he have to just sort of get rid of tick talk do you know like because because you know especially lately he says all kinds of shit

you know but a lot of it he literally is incapable of doing it with the authority that he has but i i don't have a good understanding of this one and what he could do if he really wanted to I think you can, I think you can do this. Like we've already like we're, we're, I mean, we're always in a various trade disputes in China over like, I'm not a tech guy. I don't understand enough about it, but we've like literally arrested executives

in their cell phone companies for like, uh, espionage and TikTok does a lot of crooked stuff with data. They do. Right. That's for the record. Well, we are, we are not pro TikTok here at evening skews. There's a lot of, there's a lot of, There's a lot of shady shit about TikTok,

but still, this like, leave it to Trump to just out shady literally anybody. Yeah. I'll think there's any good guys in the story, but like basically if you have TikTok on your phone, Chinese government knows everything that you know. So, I mean, it's bad enough with Facebook and Google and Apple are all very, very bad as well,

but at least they're American. Right. And yeah, right. And they're apparently, tech people I read say that TikTok is worse, at least marginally, if not by magnitude, what kind of data it steals. Right. I mean, ask yourself this, if Vine wasn't profitable at six second clips, how is TikTok a much smaller platform profitable, profitable sending out sharing more data that's basically the same? They're not. They're subsidized by the Chinese government. And then the question becomes, why?

Why is the Chinese government heavily invested in a social media app for people to do cover song parodies? Right. And mal, president's words along with your own video. To get onto every phone in America. Yeah, right. I mean, yeah, there's no other explanation for it. I agree with you. But I don't know, me and you, we're both too old to talk about TikTok probably.

Yeah, honestly, everything I said just now could have been bullshit. I just made it all up. I have no idea what I'm talking about. None. Um, so it's almost time for our, uh, lawyer, the official evening skews lawyer, Mr. Drew Morgan to show up, but not quite. We got a few more minutes. So by thinking about those legal questions.

Another thing, okay, we got a little bit of sports news here. And man, like this shit is actually really, really fucked up. You sent this to me a little bit before we went on the air. It has come out that Colorado State University, and is this just the football team, Mark? Yeah, it was a football coach. Basically has been telling his guys to lie about symptoms. Right. And their playing time will be cut if they report being sick.

Right. Coaches have told players not to report if they have not to report symptoms of COVID if they start having them to keep it to themselves. Threaten players with reduced playing time if they try. try to quarantine and altering their contract tracing reports to keep players practicing. Like, I'm a huge football fan. I'm a huge college football fan, specifically. Go balls, we don't hit.

But I was born into it. But anyway, I love football. I've thought for a while that I just don't see a reality where football happens or like finishes this year. Like even if they start, I feel like they're going to get canceled at some point. I just don't see how it's possible. This right here is the model. This is the model for how they finish.

They just act like they're sick. I know. Right. I know. And that's right. And that's what I'm, like I was not worried about not having football because again, I know it's like it,

you know, it is what it is. Not to quote the asshole himself. But like, but this type of thing didn't cross my mind, frankly. Like even with, even with the,

the macho bullshit culture that goes with football, you know, fucking walk it off. Are you injured or are you hurt? You just got you bell rung, you know, all that type of shit that everybody knows. Got some dirt on it. Right, rub some dirt on it that everybody knows is a part of the culture of football.

Like, even with all that, I'm not going to lie. I guess I'm just too naive. It didn't enter into my mind that this type of thing would go on. Like literally straight up telling players keep it to yourself. You'll be punished if you don't. And the thing is, as a fan of SEC team,

I hate to even bring this up, but it's true. Like, this is Colorado State, man. Like, they're not that big of a player on the college football landscape. You know what I mean? Nothing at stake. Nothing at stake. Yes, nothing at stake.

Like, you have to think that there's elements of this at the higher levels, too. and hell I've seen, there's been NFL coaches or ex-coaches. Jack Del Rio was on Twitter earlier today talking about how like, I better not say what my opinion of players opting out this year is because that might upset some people. And it's like, okay, dude, you pretty much said it. Like, you're sitting there saying you're not going to say it,

but you make it like exceedingly obvious what your opinion is, which is that if I may. they, you know, surmise that they're pussies, but they're huge pussies for opting out of this season because that's sort of the football mentality, which is just fucking ridiculous. But anyway, I don't know, just everything about COVID and the sport of football

just seems like a complete fucking nightmare. Like, there's no way it ends well, in my opinion. Yeah. Yeah. Read the actual, I want to read the, the headline of the story because it's pretty. Among complaints from Colorado State athletes, staff, athletes and staffers,

coaches that told players not to report COVID-19 symptoms, threatened players with reduced playing time if they quarantine and claim CSU is altering contact tracing reports to keep players practicing. And this is all just to beat Air Force by 17 points instead of 14. Right, exactly. I don't know, it's a goddamn shame.

But anyway, it's about that time for all you out there, are legally inconvenience. Hopefully we can help out a little bit. Here he is. Man himself said he was coming on. This is Drew Morgan from Well Red and Well Red Associates. There he is.

Hello, Drew. Hey, fellas. How you doing? Pretty good. I want to have a better law theme if I'd known the, this is going to be the vibe. I'm trying to think of a country lawyer show. What's the, what's the Andy Griffith Law Show? Matlock.

Mattlock. Meemaw loves Mattlock, man. Meemaw's doing Mattlock. That's sort of the whole thing. That was the main theme of the first season of Better Call Saul, or maybe the second season, his whole business plan was Mammon's love Matlock, so he just tried to be Matlocked.

Yeah. I watched for a bit, boys. Trey, I didn't realize this whole show was just you took the shitty parts of our podcast and made it a nightly thing. I was enjoying it, but I was sitting there just like, God, y'all don't know shit. Like, y'all just really are making it up. It was really a beautiful thing to see.

What I'm saying is I'm pitching myself to just be your evening skews lawyer. Just have me. No, that's not true at all. I don't, you guys don't understand the powers of the president. What were we saying? What were we saying? Tell me, explain TikTok. First of all, Drew's on TikTok.

And if you have as little dignity as he does, just go on his TikTok. Hey, man, come right. Yeah, that's right. You guys are doing a face. Facebook show and you're shitting on me in regards to be bigmitted. You guys out here talking about the Chinese government. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg looks like a sex robot in Hawaii. He's selling all your data to the Chinese.

Yeah, that's true. Drew, tell everybody what mean you got going on in a couple days. We have, I don't know if they can see that and it looks backwards on my screen, but we have a live stream comedy show Friday, August 7th at 9 o'clock. You can get tickets at well-read comedy.com or on Rush Tix. Yeah, we're gonna do comedy. We're gonna stream it from our houses and I've done a couple of days. I know you have two Trey They have all gone better than I expected Yeah, a lot of fun for the audience and kind of fun for the comedian

Yeah, it's gonna be a good time. We got it. I got the ticket link panged over there if y'all been watching for a few weeks and you know about it you've seen me do it So let's say here I guarantee you I was checking the comments either no one asked for any legal advice or no one asked for any fun legally advice right here's one Drew Michael Samford asked can colleges really force students or faculty to sign liability liability shields like a waiver essentially is what that essentially yeah way can they do that you can't really force a waiver on to somebody no but in theory you always have the option of not going to the school I would imagine that if it's a public school or university there would be a a different set of rules than for a private one.

I'm basing that on my gut instinct and my vague memory of waivers and contract law. Shout out Dr. Hillinger, sorry that I am a terrible student. But I mean, to answer his question in essence, no, they can't force you, but I'm sure that if they can make it to where look, if you wanna go to school here, you have to sign this.

Now whether or not that will hold up in court, that's a different story. I would say most of those would not hold up in court, or only would hold up to a certain extent, but that's why people like our wonderful Governor Bill Lee from Tennessee are trying to just make it to where you just can't sue businesses in a private school would absolutely qualify as a business because they're in it for the money.

He's trying to make it to where you can't sue them anyway. It's almost as if he's mostly worried about them. Yeah. Kermit Blackwood says, please talk about evictions. That's all it says. But from a legal perspective, how does that all work? because we're coming up on the, you know, the wishing hour here where all that goes. Evictions are governed by state law and state statute in most cases.

There will be a little bit of case law coming to play. If you're confused about what the difference between that is, is a statue is like a law on the books that a congressman or congresswoman has made. And then the case law is a judge's interpretation of what that law is. So in Louisiana or Tennessee, I would say we're about to have some real nightmares. I'm not trying to suggest it ain't going to be bad in California, but the tenant rights in California are much stronger. I don't know what that gentleman wanted me to get into specifically. Evictions are about to start.

You've got to start an eviction court. You have to give people a lot of notice, and you have to evict them for cause, and they get to stay there while they go through the proceedings. But obviously not paying your rent is for cause. whether or not judges can have the power and or the balls to just not fucking do it. I mean, that's kind of what I'm waiting on as a judge to be like, look, I can't, in the spirit of what's, you know, of fairness, I know what the statute says, but I can't evict 400 people today. Right. Even if their governor or state legislatures aren't helping them out.

I'm waiting on state legislators, legislatures to get their asses in gear. and I'm not just saying that as someone, like, I'm, look, I'm as cynical as anyone can be about Republicans and then to a certain extent, Democrats, but, like, you really can't have a bunch of people just become homeless all of a sudden. Like, like, they're going to stop buying your widgets, Mr. Republican pro-business guy.

Like, you just, you really can't have that. So I think they'll do something, but I just don't know what. Well, here's a specific. They really do. Go ahead. Mark, sorry. They really do think people are lying about being broke. They really do think people have secret money

they're just like begging and like but can you um well the federal the federal sorry you got a question after here well i was just going to ask you guys i'm confused about these landlords and their plans who you going to get right right who are these people that you think are lining up right now just like man i really would love to move into a place someone who's checked the check can afford drew um this came up on a previous episode me and mark didn't really know and it's been been raised again and it's about evictions. Nanya Bidness wants to know are people who've been evicted able to vote in the election. That had come up before something about addresses and some shit.

Like, do you know anything about that? Well, you are supposed to have an address on file with your local voting office. Voting rules are also governed by each state. There's no law that says you have to have an address to be able to vote. And it would be unconstitutional for them to require you to have a home to be able to vote. The address thing comes into play when they're trying to check and make sure that your address matches where you're voting. So like if you want to vote in the Marable city elections, you have to have a Marable city address. The reason I bring that up is I forgot

one year that I was registered there and had to go back to Marival and pretend I live there. Yes, I'm committing to committing a fraud on Facebook. So if the government's watching me, guys who are afraid of that, I hope they come get me soon. So the, Sure, my bar is watching. The short answer is no, Trey. It's not that that won't prevent you from voting. But the long answer might be yes, because these motherfuckers are going to do everything they can to jam you up.

The whole point of the address is to keep you from voting in local elections that you're not supposed to vote in. But if you think in a Trump district that some asshole at the voting booth ain't going to tell you you can't vote if you don't have an address, I'm certain they're going to try you. Just don't let them. Look, punch somebody. That's my legal advice.

to say Drew's legal advice is not we take the responsibility for it you don't have an excuse Amanda Durham Thulein says what can you do if an at-will state tries to fire you for quarantining

almost nothing right okay yeah that's the problem with at-will employment rules and by the way the reason those made a comeback other than the fact that for years both Democrats and Republicans have just dissolved the unions in this fucking country other than that the reason those are coming back is because it's a way around all these anti-discrimination suits you can't fire anyone for being gay anymore but if you just make it where you can just fire people just don't say it's because they're gay right uh so god damn it now by the way let me let me use that question differently if you have the means

or a lawyer who'll help you sue the fuck out of of them and maybe they'll settle but in terms of like can I I I have a question for Dutray so if evictions are governed by state law explain to me like all the talk about extending the federal eviction moratorium is that just wishcasting is that like unconstitutional or when I said evictions are handled by state law I just meant that statutes that govern inviction processes are written in each state the feds in the name of I would imagine the interstate commerce clause I didn't really look too far into it The Fed said, I don't care what your rules are, stop evicting people. And so they could extend that.

When I brought up state statutes, what I meant was it's going to vary state by state how that process works once the evictions start. Gotcha. Okay. That makes sense. And this is super funny. I don't know why I quit being a lawyer. Jason Ruderman says you are Drew, the people's lawyer, heart eyes emoji and laughing. emoji. So you're hitting for Jason Ruderman there, Drew. Buddy, and Jason Ruderman's hitting for me. That's exactly what I am. I like this exchange right here. Tracy Wilk says, if they try to stop you from voting, ask for a provisional ballot. And immediately after that, Robert D. Lata said,

punch somebody then ask for a provisional ballot. That's a good idea. I mean, obviously the problem with provisional ballots is they're not automatically counted in as my understanding. I could be wrong. I don't. I didn't focus on voting laws, voting law, you know, back in my day. I know. Look, I'm just bad people aren't asking me. How can we sue Trump out of the White House? No, we've gotten a few of those, man.

There's been a few. What can I sue Trump for? We can't. And even if we could, he don't give a fuck about the law. I don't know what y'all think is happening in this country right now. But he doesn't give a shit about the rules. yeah but i've made this point on the show before but if you want if you want trump out of office right now you got to raise an army that's pretty much your only fucking uh yeah well they're like he broke a rule

and i'm like all right who's gonna make him follow the rule and then let me not let me not go down there i'll piss some people off real bad if i started talking about who's supposed to be making him follow the rule true richard sarky senior ass what you drinking that is a beer that i got uh like a growler like at the curbs out pickup and I don't remember what it is Andy and I and I were camping there's a brewery near the river there where we were camping and we did a curbside pickup of a growler it is light and flavorful I would call this a craft logger that's what I think it is a craft logger I like that Debbie Lance will so know Drew what's your

legal specialty Drew was a public defender I don't know if that's a specialty but that that's what he did yeah well the specialty would be criminal defense that's why That's why Trey made the joke about if you got a cousin who got into some shit. Let me say this. This isn't like a caveat. Like I'm afraid someone's actually going to listen to me. I don't care. If you're listening to a fucking dude in a bolotie and a cowboy hat on a Facebook show about legal advice,

you fucked your own life up. But in all seriousness, just on a personal note, I don't know shit about fuck unless we're talking criminal law. And even that, I forgot. All right. Drew and Mark, I'm about to do it. We got five minutes left. And it's like there's a lot of it going on in the comments. I'm going on.

we talked we wanted drew to come on here we'll have a fun time talking about silly legal questions and we didn't want to so trying to be silly and fun talking about law your shit we didn't want to disrespect the situation with george floyd which is an obvious current and relevant legal topic but as everybody who's in the comments can see it's all over the comments a whole lot of people are talking about it so i am going to bring it up there's a guy over here named nils Griffo. Oh, I saw him earlier. Nick, you can suck my legal dick. So Nick, Nick is over here in the comments. Basically, he said he said a lot of shit, but he's essentially, he's talking about George Floyd. Okay, real, for anybody doesn't know, the body cam footage for George, the George Floyd case was leaked today. It wasn't supposed to be public, but it has become public. The body cam footage, you can see everything that led up to the infamous video of him being murdered. Um, and,

A lot of conservatives are saying that this is a good look for the cops because they say, I'm not saying, they say in the video you see George Floyd resisting arrest, being noncompliant, being paranoid and combative and yada yada at length. And it forces the cops to like take this action. And Nick Griffith was over in the content comments saying a lot of this stuff also saying the toxicology report on George Floyd shows that he was on amphetamines. and a cocktail of drugs and all this type of shit. And that's kind of a death.

Is that a death penalty offense? I know. Right. And that's kind of a good summation of what people were on meth. Dude, if I knew you could kill people on meth, I'd have killed every cousin I have ever stole a fucking battery. Right.

And I'm sure that all three of us are on the same page where that goes. But yes, that kind of sums up the argument a lot of people are, a lot of people on the right are making about George Floyd today after the body cam footage is. But they're all trying to say like, well, look, he was on drugs. he was, you know, acting weird. He wasn't listening to him, all this type of shit.

But like, okay. And then after all that, he was executed for it. And none of those things even remotely justifies being fucking executed by an officer of the law. Like point blank, I don't know what else to say to you, but Drew, you're a lawyer. So from a lawyer's perspective, how's this all looks? Well, look, if you want to look into, I think if you look at the Fourth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment, you can still say, suck my dick, you pieces and shit. No, my serious answer, when you say from the law's perspective, do you mean do those cops have a good defense based upon the body cam footage? Or is this somehow justified based on the law?

Or what do you mean by that? I mean the first thing, because I've seen people say that. The current charge against Chauvin is second degree murder, and they have other charges too. And yeah, I mean, from your perspective, how does this affect the actual case itself? Like, does this give them, is there a chance of like acquittal here based on any of this shit? Because the short answer is no. Here's my long answer. It depends on the jury, of course.

I think I just hit my microphone. Sorry. My microphone's white and round. It kind of reminds me of that guy's head who keeps commenting that. That's why I hit it. the space between the moment Chauvin put his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck and the moment that he took his last breath on Earth is basically, not entirely, but I would say 90% of all that is relevant in that court case.

If I were the prosecutor, that would be my opening and my closing. It would be the nine minutes. I think it was eight minutes and, is that right, eight minutes and forty-some seconds? Eight minutes, 46 seconds, yeah. Yeah. That would be my opening and closing that the space between those two times

when he, as he begged for his life and he literally choked the life out of him with an illegal choke move is illegal, is murder in every sense of the word. You cannot justify any of that to me, with any behavior that was before that. Now, in terms of what you were talking about, the only crime I could see being charged there from what I saw,

and I say charged, not convicted. The only crime I could see there, and I don't know what happened with a check, but I'm talking about what was released on the body cam footage, is resisting arrest. I was a decent lawyer. I worked with good lawyers, and I work with bad lawyers.

I can think of maybe two out of thousands who wouldn't beat that case every fucking time. To prove resisting arrests, you have to prove not just that someone resisted the officer, that the officer was arresting them for something that it was actually a crime and that in doing so, they weren't doing anything illegal. That body cam footage also showed them beating the fuck out of him

while he's handcuffed. Right. Now, I don't want to get too much in the weeds here because again, the question put before us is like, does this body cam footage, is it going to be part of the defense? If you're that cop's lawyer, it is going to be part of the defense. What you're going to say is this man was resisting arrest. So we subdued him. That's the word you're going to use. It's a very, very clever word. And as we were subduing him, an accident happened. But we couldn't get off him because he would act like this again. But here's the thing about that. for me and this is a moral argument more than illegal and we'll get back to the legal one in a minute the thing you would then show is like oh he would act like this if i took my my knee off his throat it was him screaming it was him saying get off me it was him pleading for them to stop beating him there was nothing on that tape of him swinging that i saw i couldn't watch it all and i'll admit that uh if nick pooh or where the fuck his name is wants to tell me in the comment you know no look right here he broke a guy's jaw but but that didn't happen because that would have been the first

story. But anyway, you can't tell me that resisting arrest. And I would argue this doesn't meet the legal qualifications of resisting arrest because the things they were doing to him were unlawful. And an unlawful arrest, whether it be because you didn't actually commit a crime or because the way they're doing it is unlawful. That's a defense in every state I've ever been barred in. If you guys are wondering assholes, and I don't know how you guys ended up with so many pro-cop assholes in your comments, I'm barred in three fucking states, all right? That aside, you can't tell me that that's justification morally. And I know it's not justification legally.

His defense, if they do go to trial, is going to argue that he was resisting and that this officer was just trying to keep him subdued. The problems with that are many. Number one is he was resisting because you guys were beating the shit out of him, from what I've seen. The first cop came up with his gun out,

and that freaked him out. Number two, once you got him subdued, why do you keep him in a chokehold? Number three, that chokehold is already banned. So at every step of it, I don't see it as a viable defense. Now, all this is up to the jury, of course, but there's nothing to justify what that officer did. Morally, it makes me furious anyone would even try.

And I want to be very clear about that point. because I will separate myself from the lawyer and the person here like this man was executed like I can't imagine what goes through through people's minds the best case scenario and this is not the case that video is such a nightmare for that officer if he goes to trial the calm look on his cold-hearted face but he just looks like he's just like hanging out at a basketball game he's not very interested in but let's say his face was scared and like like just bear with me for a second Let's say that that was the reality of it. Best case scenario for anyone morally is, man, that officer made a mistake.

Like he freaked out, you know, blah, blah, blah. But for these people who are out here like, well, if he would have just acted right, like morally, I can't be on the level with you. I don't think you're a good person. I think that you love cops and authority so much and or you hate black people deep down in your soul so much that you need, you desperately need to justify this shit. But legally speaking, now, just to get back to the actual question at hand,

no, it's not going to be a good defense. That fucking tape, because you've got to think of two things. One, does it help him by the letter of the law? No, it doesn't change anything about, like, they already were claiming he resisted. Right. So it doesn't change anything about the story. The assumption the whole time was that he had just resisted arrest when all of,

what everybody saw when that happened. Right. Before that, he had resisted arrest. That's what they have always been saying. So this isn't like anything new. And then the second step would be if it went to trial, if it was a trial about jury, would this sway any jury members? My honest opinion on that is there are people out there who were going to look desperately for a reason to give this man and not guilty. Yeah. And honestly, if I'm him, I'm going to trial hoping for this country is so unbelievably pro-cop, unbelievably pro-cop, that if I'm him, I'm going to be. doing that anyway, that it might help in that regard. It might help give someone who desperately wants to give this guy not guilty some kind of thing in their brain because here's the thing

that people don't understand, I think, from movies and stuff. Juries really are allowed to do whatever they want at the end of the day. And there are successful lawyers. I took the hat and the Bolo off at a respect for Mr. Floyd, but there are successful lawyers who dress like that, who win a lot of cases because they understand that fact, and they just straight up tell juries because it's true, and you're not, you know, they can't tell you're not, you know, if it's true, you're allowed to tell them, you can just tell a jury, you're allowed to do whatever you want. And that might be what the defense is, is like, look, this dude's a good guy and he's a cop, and he made a mistake, just let him off the hook. And if they get one jury that goes not guilty,

that's a mistrial. And that's why I think it'll go to trial. And by the way, if and when it goes to trial, it's going to be much more tense in this country. No, shit. Oh, dude. I mean, honestly, that's the main reason for me that I even asked you the question

because, like, the thought of anything, like, spring in this, buddy, let me tell you. Because that's what, Rodney King writes in 92, that's when that actually all kicked off in earnest is when the verdict came down and they were found not guilty. Everything that's happened already, if he has found not guilty,

if he gets off on this at all, like I shuddered to think what this. Well, and prediction here on evening skews, I think the prosecutor will offer that man a deal that he will take. And when that comes out, I'm going to be furious, and I'm not going to believe the prosecutor did it

for any reason I personally would agree with. But if you're out there and you don't like riots, to see that's my thing. I had to quit being a lawyer because I'm kind of pro-riding. If you don't like riots, don't get too mad at that prosecutor. Like, I'm saying

that prosecutor is going to give that dude a deal in order to get a guilty. And I don't think most people are going to be happy about. I wouldn't be surprised if they manage the order of events such that is whatever deal he gets for federal tax evasion, which he has that coming to. I mentioned that will be the longer sentence

and people won't be as mad when they downgrade to third degree manslaughter. So the police department's happy. He's going to jail. Everybody, all the moving parts fit where they fit. And they can be like, okay, moving on. I just heard about that like two or three days ago. And I genuinely was excited about it.

I was like, man, I don't think I've, I haven't been on the CIA's team. I'm sorry, IRS's team, maybe ever. But like, that was a good move for a lot of reasons. Yeah. I mean, there was like, like, he was like hiding $200,000 a year. and Incomers, which is like crazy because he's like police officer. But I wonder what we got it from. Yeah, right.

No shit. Yeah. I do want to say two quick things. Then we got to go, Trey. But like about just not about the law, but about moral stuff. And we expect that of public servants. One, like if you're a police officer, I don't you say George Floyd was high. He was crazy.

He was being angry, being mean. Okay. That's your job as a cop is to deal with people like that. And to solve that problem as peacefully as possible. If you don't want to do that, plenty of other jobs. Go sell cars. Be a fire, favorite fireman. Who gives a shit?

Number two, if you, I don't understand how you can live in a country where you go, where you're worried about big government, but you love armed agents of the state executing people on street with impunity. I know. It's absolutely insane. Well, hey, on that note, real quick,

and yeah, you're right, we do need to go soon, but like fucking Amin Bundy or whatever, the Y'all Khada guy from Portland, the guy that had his militia do a whole Waco thing with the Bureau of Land Management a few years ago, up there in Oregon, he blew my mind by being a consistent libertarian because he came out this week and was basically like, look, if you say your small government and you say you're libertarian, I don't know how you're not on the side of Black Lives Matter right now because this is a bunch

of authoritarian bullshit. And anybody that is with that is no true libertarian, is no true small government Republican. And you're full of shit if you say so. And I was like, God damn, Eamon. I mean. Never thought we'd say this, but let's end this episode by toasting to Am and Bundy. Yeah. I do think the cops standing around in a circle

are going to go to trial, and that's going to be a nightmare. So here's to that nightmare. What's left to say, but see me and Drew do comedy on Friday with Buttercup and Grame Corrid Forrester. And shout out my Aunt Kim and Linda watch every week.

I want to say, we love you guys. That's right. Congratulations. Aunt Kim and Lynn. Linda, we love it. All right. That's it for this week's evening, or this, one of this week's evening skews, we'll see you the day after tomorrow. Okay, so you love you by. And the boys with me still working on the sound.

That big drag, get the mood. Yeah, buddy, I'm in the mood. Here we are. All right. Heidi, howdy, howdy, everybody. Welcome back to evening skews. Today is Thursday, August 6th. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark A. Hey, Mark, how's it going? Good, bud. It's worked all day. Chilling, how you're done? I'm doing pretty good. How's homeschooling your kids going on?

You're going to charge of that? As you all know, we like to start here on the skews with some dumb shit, and I know it's hard to believe, but we did not intend for this to become a, what did Donald Trump say today, segment, but what are you going to do? He's the president and he stays saying and doing really dumb shit. And today's dumb shit from the president is the holy shit variety. I mean that literally he took a righteous stand against his opponent in the upcoming election, Joe Biden on the subject of religion. And right here is the clip.

Listen to this shit. all right no religion know anything hurt the bible hurt god he's against god he's against guns he's against energy no really okay god guns and natural gas buddy that's the list that's i know okay okay exactly well that's i mean that's really what's going on here rise it's just like he's just checking his pandering boxes you know like he he panders like no other and it's just these are the things you say you know he's coming for your god he's coming for your guns and that's really the extent of the thought process behind it i think but like it's still pretty dumb uh in my opinion of trump the whole situation surrounding trump and the lord is in this

godland godless heathens assessment one of the dumber things about his whole president and situation. I mean, this is the dumb motherfucker who went to Liberty University near my hometown and called it two Corinthians. So I just want to put it down right now. I hereby challenged Donald J. Trump to a Bible trivia contest. I'm throwing down the gauntlet and we'll see who knows more about the Lord.

I got 18 years of Sunday school in my belt and he has never touched a Bible. Right. So I used to say early on in his campaign, you know, years ago, I would say one of the few things that I not respect. Respect is way too strong of a word. But one of the things I almost appreciated about Donald Trump was the fact that, in my opinion, at the time, he didn't really even pretend to give a fuck about God or the Bible. Like every other word out of his mouth was a lie. But for a while there early on, he wouldn't even bother to lie about that, about his piety. Even when he did, it was so funny because he'd be like he'd be in the middle of, like, given her at a, one more once he was at a rally and this literally happened. He said something about his favorite book being the Bible. Everybody starts hooting and hollering. And he, like, the crowd's going crazy is they can't hear him, but the mic can still hear it.

And he just goes, wow, you people really eat this shit up, don't you? I used to surprise it's working. So that part of my, I think I think it's truly funny because he doesn't believe in anything and he knows it. But it's just, I don't know, man. I can't understand who this works on. Like, I know.

We have a framework to fit him in as Southerners because like he's every fancy pants con artist in every Mark Twain book. He's, if you ask Mark Twain to draw a carpet bagger. Right. Or a snake oil salesman. It would be like, we, we have, we understand who this guy is.

I don't understand. Yeah. No, I know. I agree. I mean, I've harped on that a lot because it's true. Like, that was one of the craziest things about his whole,

his whole, like, popularity, like in my hometown and in places like it, it honestly blew my mind when it first started happening. So I'm talking about, like, when it was first emerging that,

oh, shit, this might be a real thing with Donald Trump. Like, the craziest part about it to me was, exactly what you just said because like I grew up there I mean I know that I thought I knew those people and I just I know I know that if you could get in a time machine and go back and ask your like stereotypical redneck in a town like my hometown you know in the years before Donald Trump got politically active if you could ask them what's your general opinion of Donald Trump

you know the host of the apprentice that guy what what's your general opinion of him I know it would have been across the board negative because of what you just said. He's the like prototype of a carpetbagger asshole, you know, Silver Spoon, Blue Blood, Yankee, who thinks she's bearing everybody else, thinks she's smarter than everybody else, and needs his ass whipped, right? And it's still wild for me to think about him becoming like their champion and their guy. you know like I still kind of don't make sense to me I mean once upon a time a tiny half Jewish man with a brown hair and a mustache became the spokesman for tall blind

Aryans so I guess there's a right some people are born leaders to write on that yeah but the whole yeah hemp Trump and God it's just so transparent to me the way they approach it all because you know and it's been pointed out before but it's true like you had you had Obama going and singing Amazing Grace at the church in Charleston after that horrific shooting and that and that and he was considered to be a you know secret Muslim Kenyan terrorist or whatever and then you have Donald Trump who's a however many times married adulterous philanderer just asshole who is been praised as the second coming now by these same people with no real like it feels like they don't even really try to justify it they just say it which i guess is that's kind of part for the course for them really but yeah they don't ever even attempt to kind of back up why they consider Donald trump to be a holy man or the lord's president or whatever they just say it about him and

well the smarter ones will say that like like, well, like he doesn't care. It's not that he doesn't, we don't care that he doesn't know about it. Actually, he doesn't, the fact he doesn't care about it's a plus because it's a total transaction. We're getting a bunch of pro life judges in exchange for him not right about it. Okay. The pro, I was just about to say, I was in an interview with a guy one time who, um,

he was a Hispanic guy and his parents were very, very, very religious, very Christian. And they were Donald Trump people. And this guy's a liberal that I was talking to. And he was talking about how it drives him. and saying, and I asked him that question. I was like, how do they justify viewing him as, you know, the Lord's candidate when everything we know about him? And his response was, he said, to be honest with you, it's literally abortion. It was like he, he is pro life and that's it for them. Like, that's where, you know, that's where it starts and stops.

Well, to be honest, like, I understand where to come from. If I thought that there was organized slaughter of infants going around, they gave be it'd be at top of my list. I just don't think that's what's happening. Right. Yeah. But like, but does this be, let's this be fully fair.

It's like, I don't understand how he's a Flander, understand how they can relate to him because like, they think we're putting too much godliness on their people because I think I fully understand and know people who will cheat or get caught cheating on their pregnant wife and then go to church on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think they're like to because of that, not in spite of it. But yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, you might be on to something there. As you can imagine, this was not, this comment was not overly well received by Joe Biden in his campaign. They responded to it pretty forcefully saying that Joe Biden, who is a practicing Roman Catholic,

his spokesman said, Biden has lived, lived it with dignity his entire life, and it's been a source of strength and comfort in times of extreme hardship. and he went on to point out that Donald Trump, this is a quote, Donald Trump is the only president in our history to have tear gassed, peaceful Americans and thrown a priest out of his church just so he could profane it and a Bible for his own cynical optics as he sought to tear our nation apart at a moment of crisis and pain, which I'm sure everybody remembers when the protest first started. Donald Trump went down to a nearby church in D.C.

And, yes, kick the priest out, tear gas protesters on the way to get them out of his way so that he could do a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church. And he stood in front of the church and did the help this the Bible. He held it up and went, huh? And you could almost see him running it back in his head and his head is going like, you people eat this shit up, right? You love this shit, huh? Right.

So is that. Yeah. Yeah. You know Chris just love to stand in front of churches and holding their Bibles like this? Just love it. I don't know what Joe Biden's actual level of faith, you know, in his private moments is or whatever.

And I don't care because I am utterly godless. And that's the other thing. I can't. I pretty much always have been. So it's kind of hard for me to conceptualize how that is for people. but I imagine though that because they pointed out you know it's been a source of strength and comfort in times of extreme hardship for Biden you know because Biden has went through a lot of personal tragedy and loss and if that is true if like what he

sort of used part of what he used to help him get through that was his genuine faith I just can't imagine how furious I would be if I got called you know if if I said if I got accused of trying to hurt God and hurt the Bible by this guy in particular. It is. It's amazingly how I mean the right successful co-option of religion and and man is like even though it's not connected to anything like like George W. wasn't a big regular church to go over too like I can't speak to his level of personal faith but he the secret service didn't have to plan to work on Sunday is all I'm saying they didn't have to take him anywhere. Obama went every Sunday. When Kerry ran against Bush, they, like, it was a big deal

because his priest refused to give him communion and called for NBX communicated because he was pro-choice. And so Kerry's faith became a big matter of public import because the Bush administration, the Bush campaign pushed a bunch of states to like put gay marriage on the ballot in 2004 to try to make it about religion, even though W doesn't care, D. just doesn't care. He might have memorized us if you babble passages for speeches or whatnot. But Biden, I have no idea what his personal level of faith is, like you said, but I have my problems in the man's politics, but interpersonally, people like him for a reason.

Like people interact with him, find him to be very kind and generous and comforting. And there's a reason Obama sent him out to give speeches about natural tragedies is because he is very, he connects with people and has, he can talk fluently about religion. And he has, like, you alluded to, it but he lost his first wife and the infant daughter in a car accident and he lost his all his son and he's

really he gave one of the I mean one of the most honest things I heard a politician say gave a whole speech about mental health where he talked about how like he never understood why anyone he would ever had whatever commit or commits consider suicide until his wife and daughter died and he really struggled with depression it's like politicians don't say stuff like that in public so I would rather be voting for a different politician, but I don't think he's a secret bad person or anything like that. I don't either. And you're just talking about, you know, there's a reason he was sent out in times of tragedy, he talked to people. He, like, knows how to talk to people and empathize with him and all of that. And that's one thing. But Biden's had his own gaffes with public speaking in the past,

but also this week, a couple different examples of come up and been tossed. around on social media of Biden putting his foot in his mouth this week. Here's the first one that I saw, and it has to do with the cognitive test that Trump has, everybody knows, A, best score anybody has ever gotten in the history of humanity on the RU-C-Nile test. The single, in the middle of a fucking pandemic, 30 million people unemployed, second-grade depression jumping off, and this central issue in this, I am losing it.

So, and Trump has like called Joe Biden. He's like, I aced it. Joe Biden should now have to take this cognitive impairment test and that's become a thing. Yeah. So in an interview with Yahoo News, Joe Biden was asked about it and this is what he said. But please clarify specifically. Have you taken a cognitive test? No, I have.

taking a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man. That's like saying you, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not, what do you think, huh? Are you a jump? What do you say to President Trump who brags about his test and makes your member state an issue for voters? Well, if he can't figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Did you watch that? Look, Come on, man. I know you're trying to goad me, but I mean, I'm so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president in debates.

There are going to be plenty of time. And by the way, as I joke with them, you know, I shouldn't say it. I'm going to say something I don't, I probably shouldn't say. Anyway, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical mental, my physical, as well as my mental fitness and to, you know, to make a judgment about who I am. Yeah,

right. And yeah, you kind of, you groan there at the end because like, I get why this went viral. I understand. It's funny. It's funny to be talking about your own mental fitness in the words you

fuck up or mental fitness. Right. And it was multiple things. Like, okay, they asked him about the test. He lasted off. He says,

and then he asked the guy, that'd be like me, asking you, did you take a test to see whether you're on cocaine or not? Are you a junkie? He then shortly after that said, I am so forward looking to debating this guy. And then at the end, it took him three or four times to figure out how to say the word fitness. And this was all in response to a question about his cognitive ability. So I get, I understand why it's gotten passed around so much. But, okay, the first part of it, in my opinion, the question was first broached and he laughs at it. And the whole thing about like, that would be like me asking you,

are you on cocaine right now? Are you a junkie? Like, I personally have no problem with any of that. Like, I feel like laughing in the face of that question is the appropriate response to it. It's a good analogy. It's a good analogy because tests are actually. accusations like like a like a like a test to get into the seventh grade is a test accusing you of being too stupid to be in the seventh grade right it's like are you proved to me you're not too dumb to be in the seventh grade a drug test is proved to me you're not on cocaine a mental acuity test is proved to me you don't have dementia right and that's the thing that Trump doesn't want to frame that way because it means someone's like hey I think the president has dementia we got to get him to take this test and he's bragging about passing it which he shouldn't have done he should get his mouth shut and I honestly don't believe he passed it but whatever he didn't just pass it mark he aced it so the highest scores have ever crushed it highest scores any these doctors have ever seen but yeah no I don't I don't I have really no problem with any of that part of it and then after that the other

things were yes admittedly it was multiple ones back to back but you know slips of the tongue or whatever you want to call it I'm not trying to be too apologist here but I'm just saying in general this clip in you know as a whole I don't feel like it's that big of a deal or that bad of a thing no no but it does like it does point I mean the fact we're having this debate points to a larger problem is like we got too many old people are in charge of too much shit and I'm not just talking I'm not saying this to be ages talking about their their mental acuity but they're out of touch and they like they're concerned old rich people are their concerns are way different than yours for two different reasons like in like, like, Trey, for example, in March, April, when school shut down at first, would have been like, child care is going to be a huge economic and societal problem. We got to figure this out quick. I know technically Trump has a school age child. He hasn't talked to in a year and a half probably. And Nancy Pelosi has grandchildren.

She does, you know, great-grandchildren or whatever. And children are not an immediate day-to-day part of their lives. Right. And this isn't this is the problem in show me like, let's look at in terms of something it doesn't matter for a second. The thing we work in, which is show business. We've had the same action stars for 50 years. Sylvester Stallone had been making the same action movie for six decades. Yeah. And he won't go away. There are no new movie stars. And it's Matt, I know what they're doing. They're parodying the audience. The audience sees themselves and people. So the average age of a white person is 58 years old now. So Stallone kicking ass is like telling a bunch of people who can't have sex anymore without pills. Like, hey, you still got it. You can still kick these young kids' asses. And like society is just we need to like, I'm not saying bring back ice flows or maybe even a mandatory retirement age, but we need to keep in mind they need to be a new generation of leadership doing different stuff, you know. For sure.

Okay. But how do you reconcile this is what you just said, which I agree with, by the way. but we're in the middle of a pandemic. Old people are the most at risk for it. They should be the most, because you were talking about when it all starts up, they're not going to be thinking about a single mother and her daycare situation because their kids are all 40.

And I agree, but they're the most at risk to this disease, and yet a whole lot of them seem to not, you know, give much of a fuck. They're rich. And I think there've been a few high profile cases of rich people getting it and having serious cases lately. But like it took longer to get there because working people were still having to go to work every day and be around a bunch of people. It was spreading among them like wildfire. And so the wealthy who were isolated still having dinner parties and stuff thinking they were impervious were fine because it took a while to penetrate their bubble.

Now it's in their bubble. And I don't know what's going to happen next. But yeah. All right. So we're talking about Joe Biden putting his foot in his mouth. this is not the only instance, and these will not be the last with certainty. The other one is a little harder for me to just automatically explain away, but let's get into it. So here was the other most notable example.

Yes, and by the way, what you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. Okay. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna, God damn, I hate this. I'm gonna be defending Joe Biden for the next few months. But like what he said was stupid, what he meant was accurate. He was talking in terms of voting patterns.

Right, okay. Yeah. He was talking about how like the voting interests of Cubans in South Florida are different from Mexican Americans in Arizona. Right. And he, I think Dave White, put it the reporter for the Washington Post was like put it best is like he might be getting a little too cocky about how popular is among black voters but

he's not he wasn't strictly speaking wrong about what he was talking about there but they chopped off the begin they chopped off the question they chopped off what he said afterwards he's talking about voting patterns and yeah I'll leave it at that there are black Republicans but they're few and far between whereas like Latino Republicans are a much bigger block yeah I mean, I think you're 100% correct. That's how I interpret it too, but it's still like, it is still an example of a gaff, you know, of like a thing that could have, without a doubt, could have been said better and, you know, maybe shouldn't have been said at all given the way that it comes across. But so, okay, but he's going against Donald Trump, right?

And I'm not going to show the clips because I'm sure everybody's seen him, but like also the same way Donald Trump pronounced the, you know, as the Yosemites. No, just Yosemite Park, Yosemites Park. There was no plural. It was never a plural. He just added a plural and made it Yosemites. And, uh, and Thailand, the country as Thailand, right? And he does this type of shit all the time.

Um, and he's a, they spelled it wrong, T. I mean, they, they, they fucked up. That it. He said it how it's spelled. It does have a T.H in it. He's right. That is true. Uh, and I mean, hell, Yosemite is literally.

spelled yo semi, Mark. I mean, you know, if you break it down. But my point is like, I feel like a talking point that gets repeated a lot, I think on both sides, like from people on the left who were very pro-Berny and not really into Biden, but also people on the right, they always say like that Donald Trump is just going to eviscerate Joe Biden, like in the, in the debates and whatnot. Like the Joe Biden's not going to be able to hang with him, because Donald Trump will just tear him apart or whatever. And I've, from the very beginning, I have not understood that at all. I mean, especially in the wake of that Axios interview we were talking about on Tuesday's

episode, like Donald Trump can barely talk, man, he can barely form coherent thoughts or sentences. I just don't understand how anybody could genuinely believe that he's, you know, punching below his weight with Joe Biden in a debate. No, I mean, the other reason Trump wants debates is because he's behind. Like he doesn't want to debate because he thinks he's good at it. It's like this is, this is always the, like, the dynamic in political campaigns is the people that are behind always want as many debates as possible and people that are ahead want to sit on one of the clock.

Right. It's, it's always the same. But they're going to have the debates and you know we're going to have so many soundbites to cover marks. hard to keep up with them. I don't know if we're going to have them. I think like, like, I saw today the debate commission was like the Biden, the Biden campaigns hold now they want fact checks of statements during the debate and the Trump campaign saying no. So I think this might be the excuse, the might be the excuse that Biden has to not do any. Yeah. Well, I mean,

you were just saying, you know, if you're ahead, why do it? Just, you know, sit back and which seem to be the primary strategy, the number one strategy of the Biden campaign so far, you know, is just, just sit back and let him bury himself, you know, which I can't,

I mean, I can't blame them. Well, I mean, they're, like, they're at a box, I mean,

they're trapped, literally trapped in a basement because, like, like, COVID, you know? Right. Like, it's like,

what are you going to, like, like, you can't have a 77 year old guy flying all over the country, shaking, people's hands in the middle of a pandemic. And I sent you the article of the day about like the Trump campaign is a massive door knocking operation.

Right. Whereas the Biden does zero because it's irresponsible. I just wondering how that's playing when I mean, this is like this is a partisan issue, but it's kind of not like 80% of people are taking it seriously and pretty scared to get it. And so you're sending people around like Mormon missionaries with with carrying the plague instead of religious literature, knocking on people's doors. It can't be coming across great. I don't know.

But Donald Trump or Joe Biden are not the only ones out there who say some regrettable things. Donald Trump's personal lawyer and former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, really was on one recently. In an interview, he claimed that Black Lives Matter is a, quote, domestic terrorist group. he said the quote these are killers and these are people who hate white people they are people who hate white men in particular and they want to do away with a mother father family pretty strong statements there mark yeah yeah man it's like uh they have they have uh they got one move and it's been pretty strong throughout american history it's been like the uh you know the people's elbow, it's finished quite a few people off.

But like, it's like, it's getting funny because I think people are catching onto it. It doesn't seem to work anymore. But like the, I mean, they, they called FDR communist and not just because of the new deal. They thought that when FDR tried to establish interstate to speed up, you know, transportation during World War II, so we get like tanks bed built quicker. They said that it was also a good works program for out of work people during the depression.

They said they called that communism because it was making the federal government stronger to have states be able to move to be able to move between states faster Martin Luther King was a communist Everybody in the civil rights movement was a puppet of the communists and by the way this Soviet Union probably was following some you've you funneled money to your poet and civil Dissidents community it's not like that's we do it too everybody does it it doesn't mean that a A person marching in Selma was a communist But here's a funny one that's just a I didn't know about too recently you're familiar with the the bonus army, Trey? No.

So after World War I, a bunch of veterans who weren't being paid out their bonuses, the way they've been promised, and it's just still during the Great Depression. It's 1932. A bunch of veterans, 17,000 veterans and another 25,000 of their family and friends occupied, I think Lafayette Park, because that comes back over and over again, to demand the payment they thought they deserved. President Hoover dispatched the Army and police to clear the park, which men, people got shot. They burned their encampments. And the Army intelligence report claimed that the bonus expeditionary force intended to occupy the capital permanently and instigate fighting a signal for communist uprisings in all major cities. These were World War I veterans.

So it's the same tune every time we all dance to it. Right. They're using terrorists instead of communist. Although I did, people keep calling BLM. Marxists too. And look, they still, you,

yeah, the communists and socialism one is still there, but right, but you, essentially if you stand opposed to them, then you are a terrorist or a communist or both. And that's how they've basically gone about it.

And Black Lives Matter is just the latest in the long line of examples. Yeah. I mean, they're using terrorists as a catch ball again because it's like, after 9-11 happened, that became like the permanent class of bad people. Exactly. Right. Yes.

Back in the, the period you were just talking about, the communists were, the ultimate, you know, boogeyman or whatever. And since 9-11, that has become terrorists. So now you get classified as a terrorist automatically, not just Black Clause Matter. Obviously, Antifa, huge terrorist threat domestically. Yeah.

17 skinny white kids with vitamin D. Right. Yes. They are the American Al-Qaeda and everybody knows it. But does. Go ahead. I don't know about to ring Gore. The thing it drives me goddamn insane about this is, like, it's this, like, it's, like, it's,

like you can't criticize America from the left, right? It's always love it or leave it. You can absolutely criticize it from the right. If you want to drag America to the right, you're a goddamn patriot. If you want to, if you want to criticize America from the left, you're communist. It's a framing where there's no way to win because they criticize America too. Make America great a great. Of course. Right. It's a criticism of America. You're saying it's up. I can't say America sucks. You can say America sucks. I'm on American. You're not a patriot. Whatever. I was right. Yes. All right. So and you know, we mentioned Antifa and they're terrorists and And we know who they're targeting.

They're sending their buses. They're going to rural America. That's where Antifa's headed. They're infiltrating the small towns and communities. And I don't know how these communities are going to fight back, but I'm sure they've got a plan. And also everybody knows rural America, these small communities. These are also where the most patriotic patriots in this country live.

So with that in mind, we wanted to welcome in a special guest here to give us a little rural report, bring us a little rural report, Bring us up to speed on how people are doing in the middle of nowhere. And you guys know him, you love him, a lot of you do. I'm sure his name is Cory Ryan Forrester. You might know him as the Cho or perhaps the buttercream dream. But either way, if you don't know, Mr. Cho here lives in his hometown, Chickamauga, Georgia, very small town in rural northern Georgia.

And he's here tonight to talk about how they're feeling about shit. What's up, Chowmago, Georgia? Oh. Trey Crowder, first time, long time. Yeah. Look at that. I'm sorry if you just heard a truck. There was a truck.

Right. I know. And I know that I'm supposed to come on here and give you the rural report. And I had my computer room all set up, ready to go, and then I had dinner. And then a tree fell on the line. So we don't have power at the house here in rural Georgia right now. So I'm out on my porch. with my little light gimmick here

because it's too hot in the goddamn house so now I'm out here just getting I mean just eat the fuck up with mosquitoes so it's rural report time baby off to a great start yeah no power nothing how are things going to rural America well trees are falling down

trees are falling down where we ain't got shit we got shit Antifa beavers we're under tech oh god hey Mark Hey, buddy. So on that, speaking of Antifa, yeah, you're there in Chickamauga. What's their, what's their general opinion in your experience of Black Eyes Matter,

Antifa, and or both? What's your Antifa alert level at? You got it. I can, which one's worse? Red's worse, I guess. Okay. Well, so here's the deal, man. Like, we, I'm kind of, I won't say I've been fortunate.

the reason that there hasn't been much talk between me and a lot of my friends about Antifa is simply because Antifa is sort of kind of like the new hotness. You know what I mean? In that, like, Black Lives Matter, they've been around, but Antifa's the new hotness. They're like the grilled cheese, you know, Gordita. And we've been in a pandemic. So, like, I just literally ain't talked to nobody about that.

But, like, here's the deal. As far as Black Lives Matters goes, like, no, they're not for it. They're not for it. That's the simplest way that I could put it. But like, dude, it's so easy with these people most of the time. Like, they're the same people that, like, I remember when I was a kid reading about, well, not reading about Martin Luther King, but having our teacher tell us what they wanted us to hear about Martin Luther King.

That actually is a more accurate representation of what it was. And I, like, I remember being told that they would start talking about Martin Luther King and like all the, you know, the good stuff he did. And then they would always have to throw in there. They're like, but you know, here's the deal. Martin Luther King cheated on his wife. And the FBI had, you know, Martin Luther King that didn't hit. And I was like, it seemed like the stuff that didn't hit for him, though, didn't hit even more.

You know what I mean? So, and with Black Lives Matter, it's the same thing. Like, they see this entire, they see this entire thing happening. Or maybe they don't see this entire thing happening. But the only thing that they're leaching on to is one story will get on Fox News and it'll get shared on Facebook, even if it's not true, about like some, you know, black person who shot a group of white people and they identified as Black Lives Matter, whether that was propaganda or not. And they immediately latch onto that and they go, that's all I need to know going forward. And they don't care. Like they'll,

they can see that there's a black person got choked to death by a police officer and Black Lives Matter showed up. But the second they hear that it was Black Lives Matter, they're like, oh, that's, I don't care about the chant and what the chant means because I know it as an organization. and I consider it a terrorist organization, which is inside. Yes. I love the word organization because it's like they're like Drew's in it. You can't know what I mean? Like it's not an organization.

It's like the idea that I mean, it's like ISIS, right? Like some person with a schizophrenia shoots up a mall and they have an ISIS link on their Facebook page and all of a sudden their ISIS affiliated, ISIS never heard of them. But it's like, I mean, I guess. it's a smart strategy for a decentralized movement, but also like you also get branded by people trying to make you look bad. Like there's those boogaloo dudes who killed two cops in the middle of Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter got tagged with it even though it was like two white dudes who were like right wing military. They hate cops too, but they're right wing militia dudes.

Which is weird to me too because it's like, okay, let's say hypothetically some Black Lives Matters protesters have gone too far. Let's just say that that's happened. has anything has happened. It's been a wild year. The deal is the way that I look at it, regardless, is like, their whole movement is reactionary. The whole thing is reactionary. It's reacting to a thing that not only just happened, but has been going on in silence and in the dark for years. Like, the deal is, and I'm not breaking ground here, but like because of social media, we're just now seeing the George Floyd's. It's not like the George Floyd's just now happened. Back in the day, it was quite legal for this to happen to George Floyd.

So regardless of whether Black Lives Matter makes, maybe goes to the extreme on some occasions, they're going to the extreme as a reaction of something that was actually an atrocity and the fact that you would skip over that part and only care about what the reaction is, is literally bonkers. Like if any of these so-called good cops or any of these so-called good white people would just go, hey, guys, obviously you're upset. can we talk about this? Nobody wants to.

They want to see them do the thing that makes them go, oh, well, I don't have to care about black people because they threw a rock through a fucking CVS. So now everything I've felt my entire life is completely justified. And I can go back to pretending that I vote simply because of my fucking taxes because I'm just going to bury my head in the sand because I'm a piece of shit and I always have been. Yeah, it's like the, are we going? Are we recording yet?

Yeah, it's like a like a mass, disorganized mass protest movement of millions of people all have to answer for one weird white kid who calls himself an anarchist who listens to too much pop rock music is smashed up a mailbox right yeah yeah 100% man um she said you know they don't have to care about black people because the windows getting broken what what do they care about right now show like what's their general just state of mind with COVID and the economy and everything there in chickamauga georgia how are people doing and how are they thinking and feeling about shit Well, I'll tell you what, masks and eat a dick.

Sorry, there's a, yeah, keep driving like that. Fucking kids live here, you piece of shit. Sorry, he does it all the time. This asshole with a Mustang, and he's old, and I think his wife left him. Anyways, yeah, no, their whole thing is like, so school's about to start up. I can't hear, like, and the reason that I know that is because my wife is a second grade teacher, and she's going back to school. just went down and helped her set up the school. And for the record, I'm not for that. Like,

I'm not for that at all, but that is my wife's job and she's having to go do it. And I'm her husband, which means I helped her. You know what I mean? Because that means it's my job, too. But I mean, dude, here's the deal. Like, they're all gearing back up to go to school. They're all, and it's kind of weird to me because, like, they've been on a mass don't hit kick for a long time. But I kind of did believe, like, when Herman Kane died after publicly being like, yo, mask ain't it. And then, you know, God smited him like in the most literal sense. I thought that that would make them go, okay, well, maybe masked, but still do stuff, still party.

Yeah. But no. No. No, no, because, no, because Herman Kane's life didn't matter to them. Right. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, they're going back to school and they keep talking about,

Our kids got to get an education. Our kids got to get education. And it's so hilarious to me because, like, it's the same people who always talk about, like, the greatest generation in the world. And, like, they were the best generation in the world. God damn it, they all dropped out of school in ninth grade and went and got their ass whooped on a farm. And they still blah, blah, blah, and did all this.

It's like, well, if the greatest generation of the world could accomplish all that on a sixth grade education, don't you think these kids can take four months off to not get fucking polio again? Like, what are we doing here? Right. It's also the education they're getting is that Robert Lee was Santa Claus. Right. That, yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Trust me, dude. Science ain't allowed. Like, evolution ain't allowed. Like, none of that shit. But they're like, they got to get an education. Right.

Like, my kid ain't dumb. But so like, but the thing is, like, all over Georgia, there's already been a couple cases, like, immediately when they started back and they're having to quarantine their school. So, like, it's just, they're going to go back. And then they're, then it's going to get worse. I mean, that's how this is, that's how this is going. And it's crazy because it's coming from these conservative people who my whole life have preached conservatism as like, you know, just do a little prep, do a little preparation

now. And then later everything will be good. You don't need to be so extravagant right now, Corey. You need to prepare for some things and just do it. An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of fucking bacon grease, whatever the hell it is, they say. But like, none of them are applying that to this. Like if we'd have just done the right thing from March till now, we'd be probably sending

our kids back to school, not worrying about shit. But now we're just going to keep trying and keep trying. And then like by this time in December, there's going to be 500,000 motherfuckers dead. Nobody's going to be in school anyways. And I don't know. It just seems so goddamn dumb to me. I know that's hot tape. Yeah, I mean, kids are designed to spread this.

They lick the floor, then hug everybody they meet. You know, they're there. Yeah, no, I know. They're very loving short-term thinking beings. And it's a, yeah. And God bless these teachers going back, man, because, like, I know you don't have a choice. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you don't get paid enough anyways.

And if they're going to do it, you're going to go because otherwise, I mean, well, you'll get fired. You can't just not go to your job. So. Yeah, my, my sister and her two kids, my sister Ziti's first grade and her two kids go to the same school district. And they're doing online. I was super relieved because my mom's a 67-year-old cancer survivor. Right. They had that as an, like, it was going to be an option for Amber School and they voted it. They voted NAH. And Nause had it. The Naws have it, man. They love voting. Nah. America solves problems like a, like we only have one speed to solve problems. It's like a football coach. Like if something's not working, the problem is you need to do it harder, right? Yeah. No, yeah, 100%.

So first of all, Corey slash Cho, do you, you got a hard out, you got something you got to go do other than lay down or just, you know. I can't even find my couch. It's dark in my house. Well, stick around with this thing because I've got a specific topic we didn't get to before it was time to bring you on that. I think you can also speak to here in just a minute. But before that, I just want to let everybody know if you don't know already, Mr. Corey here is going to be a part of that virtual show I've been telling you all about along with our guests from Tuesday, Drew, we're doing a virtual show tomorrow. It's tomorrow night at 6 p.m. Pacific and I'm

going to put the ticket link over here again. That's the last time you'll have to meet, last time you'll have to hear me talk shit about it. Corey, are you excited? I really am, man. I'll tell you what, I'm really super glad that like phones work and stuff. And I say that because, like, you know, I've been worried all week because I live in freaking rural Georgia with the internet. Can you imagine if this shit had happened tomorrow night when I was trying to do a goddamn show? You don't know that it won't.

It's not like more trees can't fall down, you know. Oh, God, yeah, that's the thing about trees. You just eat up with trees down there. No, dude, I am so excited, man. Like, on God, earlier today, like I was going back through my notebook of the stuff that I've been writing down manically during the pandemic and I actually got on my whiteboard and I storyboarded it out and I was like, holy crap, I'm going to tell new jokes for the first time in almost a year tomorrow, like brand new jokes.

Yeah. So I couldn't be more pumped, man, and I've had experience doing these shows in the past and they are super fun. You would think like, oh man, that ain't it. It is it. It's awesome. And this is the new normal. So what are you going to do anyways? But yeah, man, I'm super pumped to just interact with human beings.

Jesus Christ. Yeah, me too. it's going to be a good time. So with that said, here's the topic. It got brought up over in the comments. This was many, many comments ago. I can't find it. So if I get the guy's name wrong, I apologize.

But if I remember correctly, it was Seth Sanders, who said, I want to see, I want to hear y'all Denguses, appreciate that, I want to hear y'all dinguses talk about the dumpster fire that is the NRA. So if anybody does know, including UCHO, the Attorney General of New York, the Attorney General of New York took action today to dissolve the National Rifle Association following an 18-month investigation that found evidence that the powerful guns rights group is, quote, fraught with fraud and abuse. It has to do with-it-it-it-it-do with leadership at the NRA, in particular, the executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, which I feel like, I can't believe he's been in charge of

the NRA with that French of a name. It is Wayne. Like he does have Wayne, but then it's La Piere, and I just, I can't believe they've got behind that. But anyway, he's been. They must have seen him shoot one hell of a deer. He's been the head guy at the NRA for like 30 years. And the investigation is found or alleges that he and a bunch of other high little people

in the NRA have been misusing funds, accused of financial malfeastern. feasance. He's used the funds for, he's used NRA funds for things like private vacations, private jets, golf memberships, that type of shit. He gave himself a post-employment contract valued more than $17 million. Yeah, just really, really going in. And so they're coming after them financially, which you know, that's oftentimes how nefarious organizations end up getting brought down. I don't know what the odds are of this actually, you know, working out, but I, for one, would love to see the NRA go away forever. I would too. It's kind of wild to me, though, because, like, that actually, like, all the behavior you just described by Wayne Lafoufoo

or whatever the fuck is name it, that all is the type of behavior that, like, hits for those people like you know in the NRA like that's the type of shit that you would hear Donald Trump do and every normal person be like he can't hit that's literally illegal he can't treat the office like that or he can't treat his company like that and they're like hey when you're at the top I don't know what to tell you won't you suck my shotgun dick you know like I don't like but I guess like as you said though it's it's fucking with their money but yeah however however you got to take the NRA down that's fine I mean as we know it took finances for Al Capone to go away so whatever they got to do.

Yeah, the funny one to me was from August 2014 to January 2020, the NRA paid LaPierrez travel consultants more than $13.5 million. I don't know what travel consultant is, but I heard of Sireck.com and you can book a Hotels.com. Is that a travel? What kind of travel aging is paid $2 million a year? In 2020, the whole thing's nuts. and like, like, just how far we've come, like, first of all, nobody says what they mean, right? No, no, no, no, no.

Like, no one says what they mean in 2020 anymore. The NRA claims the Second Amendment organization fight for the rights of gun owners, but it's not. It's a, it's captive by the gun industry. Its purpose is to scare people to sell more guns, right? Right. Yes. The interests of gun owners and gun companies are not the same thing. Just like, I might be a car enthusiast.

It doesn't mean it's my interest for general electric, general motors to sell more cars. right of course to not have airbags right those two things are not in the same ballpark right and it's not in their interest for you just just to have one old sweet car that you really like like they want you to keep buying the new shit like they don't give a fuck if everybody just has their protective shotgun because that's not paying their bills like when they hear that we got a shotgun passed down for our grandpa they hate that that don't hit for them it didn't come from

them so uh i want to circle back to that in a minute but i got to read y'all a couple of comments we've gotten over here because they're both funny to me. Jessica Meyer said, does anybody else chuckle every time Corey Swats at a bug? I don't know why, but it tickles me. Do you have me in Gallery View? Yes. See, God, well, God damn it.

I thought it was in Spaker View. So, son, I've been sitting over here doing the Bocorino whooping these little motherfuckers. And on that, I wasn't in my ear right now. On that related note, and I'm not sure, this honestly, this could have been either one of y'all, but I think is Corey or maybe both. Terry Philo said, keep that hat on, you almost blinded me.

That was probably me because I scratched my head a minute ago and I thought I was in gallery view and I've got this ring light up here and I guarantee you it hit the bee and it was just, but to go back to where we're talking about, Paul Anders said, where the hell was the NRA fighting tyranny with the Portland protesters? And it's really what y'all were just saying. Like,

that's literally the whole deal with the secret police. is coming into Portland and just abducting fucking protesters and everything. That is ostensibly what they want. What the Second Amendment is supposed to be for, right? Yeah. Like according to them, the tyrannical government. But also, in another example, like when Breonna Taylor's boyfriend is just in bed with his lady and a bunch of armed assailants break into their house and do not announce them,

with police officers or anything, they just break in and shoot her. He shot back and shot a cop and was arrested in charge for that. The charges were later dropped after all this, all the protests, everything. But like the NRA didn't say shit about it. Like that type of, it's like, he was staying in his ground. These are lit. These are actual examples of what the second amendment is supposed to be for. And they never say shit about that. But whenever, you know, 15 second graders get murdered and somebody's like maybe we should look into how guns work in this country. They're all over that shit. Well, and furthermore, and I'm not saying, I'm not going to sit here and generalize and say every single libertarian has been silent during all of this that's going on. However,

I haven't seen them flapping their fucking yellow snake flaggums as much as you would think they would because not only is this the things that the NRA is supposed to stand for, the libertarians also. also staying pretty firmly with that on certain things, but now it's just, oh, whatever, riots, I don't know, we're gonna go back to the house. Like, those people should be pissed, but I can't imagine why they're not. We brought, I know you already know this,

Corrig, you talked about it, but your boy, Ammon Bundy's the only one pretty much so far. Although the, the one that is allowed us anyway, but there have been, people think all the Boogaloo boys are right wing, but they're not really, some of them are left wing, and like there was a left wing boog who was shot and killed in Austin a couple weeks ago marching with the black, white dudes marching with his handicapped black girlfriend, the BLM and

and BLM protest and somebody pulled up their car and talked shit and shot him dead. Why is caring his AR? And I narrated that either. Right. Ah damn. Yeah, well now I'm super depressed. But like when I say no one's saying what they're, but they're mean like like so the premise of this case in New York, the people have been defrauded here are a

ostensibly the people who fund the inter race. So it'd be the gun companies and the members, right? Right. They don't care. You're right and being defrauded. So I don't know, I don't know who the victim is. This obviously is sort of like a, it's a tackle on corruption and maybe you need to attack corruption even if the victims don't, it's like what I guess when a person's being conned

by a psychic, they don't think they're being cons, but you stuff. Of course. But I just remember when the NRA was actually a sportsman's group. Did you guys know the NRA was pro gun control in the 1980s? Well, also did you? as we learned earlier, it was formed by, it was started by the Union, right after the Civil War. So it was formed by

the Union and now it's run by a Frenchman. God damn, how much these people love guns. Yeah, David Searle said, Philando Castile, licensed to carry, ended up dead for telling the cop. That's another great example of the NRA's silence, you know. Yeah, but again, like, it's, as you said, like, they're not going to get mad about all this shit,

but like you said, a second someone, like, there's a school shooting they don't even call for a press conference the NRA sets up their own and they have that lady up there or pinstripped suit and she just like i got to get out in front of the story like because they know it's fucked up and they know somebody's going to say something about it but as soon as that happens they're just like just let you know this wouldn't have happened if we'd have trained that kid how to shoot all them kids i guess somehow god damn it yeah the actually the exact math of it but the reason they operate that way is like it's not for the 99% of people own guns in a regular way like you know like we do it's or uh but i don't

have any guns in a house mine are at my mom's place but the um it's the the the gun industry makes most their money on the 1% of people who have a shit ton of guns you're right right right that's why when you see an nRA magazine it advertises lasers and silencers and uh and and and you know huge mags and shit like that because that's what they make their money off of is the people who do nothing but by guns. And that sounds badass. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, if you're buying your own business, I don't have any problem with it, really. But you could also wait three days and go through a mental health background check to do that. Yeah, no, yeah, I agree. But like, I would normally say, like, it doesn't, if you're as long as you're minding your business, I don't care. But like, it's like that Jim Jeffries joke. And he's like, that's the thing about crazy people.

Like, your hobby is collecting, like, you know, mad max levels of ammo and, and, and, laser scopes. Like, there's still, there's something off. You know, I don't really trust you. Yeah. So if anybody, if any of y'all have a particular topic that we haven't brought up yet, throw it out there in the last five or six minutes or so. But yeah, people are really into these bugs, Cho. I don't. A lot of chatter over here about, like, why don't he just use some off or some deed or something? I didn't have other people like that. Those are Georgia skaters.

They're immune to off, you know. Well, also, I didn't have time to do none of that. Like, right, like, my power went out right before all this was happening, and I didn't want to be late because I'm a punctual person. And, like, all I had time to do was set my phone up, set this light up, and click go. And also, man, and I'm not kidding about this, bugs normally don't fuck with me. Now, granted, it is like sometimes bugs ain't trying to fuck with me. It's just that they're flying and here's my head, and it's so they can't miss it.

But like I've always heard it's because I'm a huge fucking drunk and I've heard that like if you sweat alcohol like bugs and mosquitoes, they don't hit for them or something. But I haven't drank in two days. So like I think they're like I hit for a lot now. On that note, someone earlier, I'm sorry I don't remember. There's a lot of comments ago. Somebody, as I mentioned, Corey is also the buttercream dream and you should check out the buttercream dream if you're not already familiar with it. But somebody said earlier, those bugs are going to end up with diabetes after sucking all that buttercream out of his ass. You're damn right, but yeah, between that and the liquor, I'm sure, you know.

But now they're eating my ass alive right now. I do want to say this is a perfect distillation of how life and comedy in general work is like, me and Trey are like, what topics do we talk about? You got video clips, all this shit. And Trunk, Corey just shows up and kills just hitting bugs because it's power. A lot of people are saying, like, mail in voting are. TikTok and things like that, which we talked about on Tuesday. I'm seeing a lot of chatter over here about Biden having a stutter.

There's been, like, debate in the comments about it. He's just old and he forgets words halfway between saying them. That's all it is. I mean, I do that, too, by the way. My mom's got a, got a, she just did it. Yeah. She's a smart lady with a PhD, and she's been doing that. So she was in her 30s.

She'll call me my sister's name. get words mixed up. So I, well, he does, he did have a stutter as a, he had a childhood stutter, supposedly. And so people, uh, for a while, people were saying it's unfair to make fun of his speech patterns because of that, but he hasn't stuttered in adult life very much. And I think it's just like, public speaking is weird and dumb and people that are good at talking straight into a camera or associate past. Sorry actors. Um, no, well, the thing is, is my dad had a stutter when he was a kid. And, um, and he went to a speech pathologist and they got over it, but still to this day, if he gets like super excited or super mad or just like you know blindsided by something it'll come back

because all that is is nerves i mean a lot of well i'm not saying i'm not going to sit here and profess to know what exactly about stuttering but like it is a lot of that and it is a lot of it's your your brain gets ahead of your mouth and shit like that and so if if he had that when he was a kid i'd say that the pressure of running for president might could bring something like that back um there was another comment, and again, I've lost it, but it was from Jack's, Jack's something, and it said, hashtag do more than watch, is QAnon poised to become the third biggest political party in the U.S.? I don't know about that, but as anybody that's been watching some multiple episodes, no, I just found out in detail about Q&N on the show

a few weeks back. Mark explained it to me. but since then my wife has shown me according to her like the actual YouTube videos that the QAnon crowd like post on Facebook and pass around amongst themselves that's sort of like the the loose change of Q&on shit have either one of y'all actually seen any of those no I've heard I've heard like like I'll you know like the whole like oh Tom hanks he moved to Greece to get away from the police when they catch them for kitty diddling. And my buddies, they'll pass these theories to me, but I don't see the videos. Dude, it, however dumb you can possibly imagine it might be, I promise you, it's actually dumber. Like, it looks, the production

quality and everything about it. It's like, they look like they were made by like junior high students or something. They probably were. To say nothing of like the shit they're saying in them. But I honestly couldn't believe it because I've seen like some I mean I could believe it but you know what I mean I've seen some like truth or 9-11 truther like conspiracy docs and stuff like that before just out of curiosity and also crazy but not like they're well done they're well done they're ridiculous but they're well done and also on shit oh my god also with a lot of those like even if they're crazy you're like, okay, this is insane. However, I do see how your crazy ass kind of landed there

and you've provided some pretty good evidence. But yeah, with some of this shit, go ahead. I will say compared to 9-11, compared to Q&N, the 9-11 truth or stuff could pass a doctoral dissertation and be approved. The Q&O's like literally, it's like 10 years ago, Chrissy Teigen tweeted that at an Oscar after party, OMG, Brad Pitt, just handing me a slice of cold pizza.

Chrissy Teagan's been harassed off the internet. Yeah. Yeah. Because Pizza gate or whatever? Yeah. Yeah. Pizza's the secret code for pedophilic sodomy. Yeah.

Pizza always means child sex and this person couldn't just have eaten to eat in a slice of pizza. Well, maybe on a future episode we can get a little further into the Q and on Rabbit Hall or not. I don't know if that's a good idea, but we'll think about it. but we are out of time for this edition, and we'll be back next Tuesday, me and Smart Mark there will be. And as far as Corey goes, you can catch him with me, Andrew, tomorrow night,

live on your computer screens with that show I've been telling you all about, so please check it out. And that's it for me, Corey or Mark, you got anything else you want to throw out there? I love you. Pleasure, pleasure having you, Corey. Yeah, I'll see you in the morning, buddy.

Later. Thank you all very much. We'll see you Tuesday.