wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of December 29, 2020

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well hello there everybody thank you for joining us and a continuing happy holidays to you hope your christmas went well and hope you're ready for you know the last 48 hours of this godforsaken year because today's tuesday december 20 29th, 2020. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? How was your holiday weekend?

Oh, the first part of it was fine. The actual holiday part was just wonderful. But then yesterday we took a little brief family trip up to a, basically I got, I thought about submitting myself for the Daily Dumbass today because I got stuck in a blizzard in Los Angeles yesterday, which seems like pretty hard to do. people that don't know what I'm talking about. I didn't know this either, but there's a mountain, a bald mountain, I guess, called Mount Baldi,

that's an hour away from downtown Los Angeles, and it was supposed to snow yesterday, and my sons always lament the lack of snow. So we drove up there just to, like, see the snow and let them plan it and stuff, with mask on away from everybody else. We just want to see the damn snow. And apparently, everybody had the same idea, and it snowed 21 inches, and everybody got backed up and tried to. traffic it was slipping sliding around and stuff and we were there it took us uh nine eight and a half or

nine hours to drive back uh to cover a distance of like six miles or something like that up there in the snow so kind of kind of didn't work out but you know what are you going to do uh how are california drivers in the snow absolutely horrendous i mean yes that's part of it too and even the the resort that's up there Mount Baldi Resort. They were posting on Facebook and stuff and saying things like, uh, you know,

our staff and everybody else is stuck out there with hundreds of Southern California's worst drivers, uh, you know, in the snow or whatever. Because I mean, yeah, they don't,

uh, they don't know how the hell to handle it. But I mean, I'm from the South. I don't, I'm not great in it either. I'm not, you know,

cast in the Spursions here, but it was a real shit show. What? It was a shit snow. It was a shit snow up there. In Virginia, we, we got enough snow that I understood a,

few some basic stuff like i remember when i moved to texas um like i had a old thunderbird with front wheel drive but texans apparently thought full wheel drive would help you in ice so like i'd be driving along at a safe speed past uh you know my 89 four thunderbird driving past people who had full wheel drive jeeps in the ditch because they thought you know didn't understand that full wheel drive just means you have four wheel spin in instead of so right i've i mean i've always gotten i've always been defensive about because usually you know you don't ever hear anybody I talk about snow in Southern California because other than the mountains, it just doesn't. But like, I've always got, it's always the South that gets shit on for how they handle snow.

And I've always been very defensive. Imagine that. But, you know, about the fact that we just don't maintain the infrastructure for that kind of thing because why would we? It's not a, you know, it's not a good use of resources because it hardly ever happens. But so when it does happen, yeah, we get totally fucked by that. It shuts everything down. A law and running theory that like rural people are better drivers because we learn the physics of cars first as opposed to the laws.

Like, like, you take drivers that in a city, you just learn the laws and put you in a car. Whereas I started driving on it was like six or eight or whatever. And my dad was trying to train me to be a NASCAR driver. So the first thing I learned was like, we're the full. NASCAR, yeah, the ultimate dream for any whiskey tango father. You're going to be in. NASCAR man someday. How did that didn't work out?

At what point did you realize you didn't have what it takes to go fast and turn left, Mark? Probably when I, I totaled my first car two weeks after getting my driver's license. Yeah, that's the way it goes. All right, well, let's do the goddamn show.

What do you think? We've got a good one tonight. We're going to get into the latest on Congress's bullshittery. Mitch McConnell in particular, talk about why Bernie Rocks got an update on Georgia, an update on the vaccine. And later on, if we have time,

who knows, maybe in a little malignation. action for you. We'll see, we'll see what happens. But first, as always, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Producer Matt. I thought what that great. Tonight's D.D. is any one of you out there who ever doubted the street cred of Michael Cohen? And if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, well, just watch this clip. Now, I did the mandamus because I made a promise the guys back at Otisville and others, like my buddy's Tony Meathballs and Big Minty, that I wasn't going to stop.

Once I got out, once I was put back on home confinement. Tony Meatball's big minty, hey. Like, I wonder, like, do you think, do you think he tried to get them to give him his own mob nickname when he was in there? Like, do you think he was like, hey, guys, what do you think about calling me, like, calling me something like, like Mikey Fix It or something like that? And Tony Meatball's like, Mike, you fix it?

I don't know. I don't know. What do you think about that, Mint? I don't like it, Tom. Mint don't like it. Mike, I don't know. Maybe, I don't know. I was thinking like Mike,

to rat. Is that, well, yeah, Mikey to rat. That's good. There we go. Yeah,

Mikey to rat. Let's go with that. Fucking Tony meatballs, man. Meathballs. I remember when, one of the cops

that got, got fired in the middle of the protest in Philadelphia, Philadelphia's name was Tony Bologna. And I thought, nothing good time. He was like, it was like, Anthony Bologna,

Bologna was a news of a corner. No, man, Tony Bologna. Come on. the mob isn't that progressive it might take away from the three or four times I watched his sopranos through and Cohen is Jewish

so it'd probably be something like Mikey the nose or some shit. Yeah, yeah, you're 100% correct about that. But I just like, I'm not going to lie. I mean, obviously, look, Tony Meatballs, I assume, probably a murderer or some kind of pimp, not a good guy at all. But generally speaking, I don't know, I kind of dig that a human being named Tony Meatballs

actually exist in the world and is in prison where I'm sure he belongs, but like, that's just, you know, he's real. Tony Meatballs is real. It sounds so made up, but there's a Tony Meatball's out there in the Otisville Correctional Facility. When the history of this era is written

and we do that thing they do in history books, we turn every president into a hero, I don't think people are going to be able to accurately Struh that we had like a president who Michael Cohen was basically his best friend up until four years three or four years ago like he would they they were Trump doesn't have friends it's the closest thing he had was Michael Cohen right and he was his bag and the guy he trusted to go back and forth between porn stars and fat Tony Salerno who the mob guy that Trump was friends with and shared a lawyer with or business partners with or whatever and it's like we remember when presidents

had like JFK was associated with a mob but they were the classy mob the one they ran the casinos in Cuba, right? Not the fat Tony Salernos and Tony Bolognes. Not even a family trade or glorified crew over there in Jersey. I love your like, I don't know, your like traditionalist views on the mafia. I appreciate it. You know, the mafia used to mean something, guys.

These new age mafia, they don't get it. They don't understand. Yeah. All right. So we got a couple other honorable mentions for you in the Daily Dumbass today. This next one, if anybody, if you're in the future right now and listening to the podcast version of this, the audio only version, just imagine a bunch of lunacy while this classical music plays. But for those of you who are watching, I think you'll appreciate this. This is a video that Trump just put out on his own Twitter for like, I don't know why just to remind people. It's crazy. It's crazy and absurd. And it's, it's crazy. It's atonal and I mean pretty Trump in that way, but it's just, let's just play it whenever we've got it ready. Come under the universe, Ray. Very briefly, just to recap that, it's a video of all the things that Trump stands for. So Trump stands for the military, Trump stands for freedom, whatever.

And put to that music and it ends with Trump literally hugging an American flag. This isn't my joke. I saw this on Twitter is one of the top comments, but it's a little ironic because, you know, He's not like, he's not really, he's more of a sit type of guy, I think, than a stand type. Like if he has his druthers, you know, he's not even forestanding. But Mark, what, like, what, he, also it ends with the words Trump. He's what's for America. Like, it's not even, who, what even was that, Mark, that we just watch?

What is that? Because they didn't just take the beef it's what for dinner song. And it's queer that the whole video is an homage to. to the beef it's what's for dinner commercial. Holy shit. You're 100% right. I didn't even, like, I didn't, that's been like so long ago or whatever. I didn't even think about that while watching it.

But like, now that you said that, that's literally what that was. It was like, it was a beef. It's what's for dinner homage. Trump. He's what's for America. What other explanation is there for that? Given the same music and the syntax at the end of it. Trump, he's what's for America.

That is hilarious. I'm not sure what my favorite part is. You got your standard stuff in there, like the trucks and the tractors and the factory jobs. But you also had the Trump in front of the blacks for Trump signs and the women's Trump bus and a WCW championship belt on his desk, I believe. And also a Photoshopped in Nobel Priests that he didn't win. So it's really a bunch of shit. I think that's his concession.

I think it's like the closing. Okay. This is like the role credits on his presidency and like declare victory. I hope so. I mean, that would be an optimal rationale for that as far as I'm concerned. But yeah, just really,

really something else. Just going out with an Arby's parody or whatever you want to call it. So, all right, one more honorable mention for you. lady in Minnesota Congresswoman I believe in Minnesota who's

she ain't buying all this people dying from COVID bullshit apparently so let's just Matt if you've got the clip ready just play it to hear it from her in her own words here and in Colorado

has been reported that at least two cases of gunshot victims were being classified as COVID-19 deaths and that is why we are calling for a full audit. The President Trump, if you are watching Fox and Friends this morning, I am asking you to request a full

audit of every single state in the nation. Because Minnesota is not an anomaly. The citizens of our country are being led in fear. Okay, so let me get this straight. She's saying, like,

is she saying that people have died but not actually from COVID, or at least a big number of them, did not die from COVID? of died from gunshot wounds, which like that's an odd misdiagnosis to make to me, like to land on gunshot wound when in fact it was an infectious disease. But what is she like actually suggesting to be done about this? Dig up granny and give her blood test.

You know? Right. Like what? Go check your grandma's two-month-old corpse or bullet hole. I think is what she's saying. I don't know. But these, I've heard that the Congress, well, the way Congress structured the first bailout bill way back when was they reimbursed Toss bills by per COVID case, which probably is a stupid way to structure it and probably did incentivize some, um, fugitive reports because we're going on by the same shitty private equity firms, everything else. But that doesn't mean that there's not COVID, but we have a total death count, even if you don't remove all context, like half a million extra people.

died in America this year. Certainly some of those were a few extra suicides because the economy sucks and people are lonely and, you know, pill deaths, probably probably cracks in deaths are probably down. But overall, we got a half a million extra dead people laying around and it's what they died up. They're dead. So, right. Yeah, well, all right.

Moving on. Let's get into it. Stimulus package finally on the way, seems like, but of course not without turmoil. President Trump on Sunday signed the new bill, but he signed it. And we texted about this offline about it. He, like, signed it. He did sign it, but he, like, redlined it and then tweeted about all the things he wanted changed before it actually went into action. But, like, that's not how that works.

Like, if he signs it, then it's signed, right? Like, you can't, that ain't the process. If you married your wife and then asked her to change, how would that go? It don't work like that. The president does not have line at him. veto. It's unconstitutional. Otherwise, Congress would be completely two of us. But anyway, they tricked him to sign the bill by

convincing him he had line out of him veto power. So that's nice. I've been a job for five years, but I guess he's only signed one of each other bills, so he doesn't really understand the process. So he signed it, and one of the things he said was, it's a $600 stimulus payment to every American right now, and he said that's too low. It should be $2,000

which like, look, fuck Trump, but obviously I'm with that. I feel like almost every one of us is with that. It's a lot. he said. Yeah, and it's one of those things that seems to have almost universal support, but one person in particular, he's not the only one,

but he's the one that matters. One person in particular is not down with it, and that's, of course, Mitch McConnell, because multiple members of Congress have tried to put forth a vote to up it to 2000, and Mitch McConnell keeps blocking it. Just because he hates us,

he does, but probably not. There are ulterior motives there, right, for why he's doing this. Well, so there's a couple of, so the house passed the $2,000 check bill, overwhelmingly, like a veto proof majority, 275 to 134. I'm not sure whether the other 40 Congress people sat it out. Maybe they're just chilling on vacation or whatever. But a bunch Republicans supported it. I think like two Democrats voted against it. In the Senate, it probably passed with 60, 65 votes if they got a vote. It's just Mitch McConnell holding it up. And so they're vote they're trying to, they have to vote on another bill this week too, or they're trying to.

That's the National Defense spending bill. Because Trump vetoed that because it didn't strike down Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and renamed Confederate bases, bases named by Confederate generals to non-traders. So what happened next was because McConnell will put that up, the $2,000 bill up for a check bill up for a vote. Bernie said, well, we're not, I'm not going to let you vote on the national defense all three days. Right. He's going to hold up the other one. Yeah.

To incentivize them to vote on the stimulus part. And this is something about defunding the military or anything like that. No one's trying to stop Bill from passing. It's just trying to leverage $2,000 checks before the other thing to get passed. Now, the leverage Bernie has, he can't really stop it permanently, but he can drag out the process for a while and make McConnell. and everyone else stay in Washington for New Year's. Right, which you know is driving them up the fucking wall, like being forced to stay there.

I mean, I'm sure they can throw together some like hooker and blow parties or whatever in the D.C. area for New Year's Eve if they want to. But just being, you know none of them wants to be there, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. And anytime they have to, they might have to do a thing they don't want to do, you know they're infuriated by it. So that's what Bernie's going for here. It is both hilarious and infuriating.

It's hilarious that he can make it a little stay there over the holidays. It's infuriating because it will work because it will definitely be the worst thing to happen to them all right. Yes. Yes, exactly. Right. It's a good plan. It makes sense because you know that like that being inconvenienced on a drunk holiday for 36 hours or whatever will actually incentivize a lot of these motherfuckers. because like you said,

that's like the worst thing that's happened to them ever, or at least in a long time. And Bernie doesn't give a shit. He's nobody inviting him to parties. So he's a cranky old, dude. He's not going to be getting drunk on New Year's Eve, watching the ball drop. So anyway, McConnell's compromise proposal is like,

okay, we'll vote under $2,000 checks, but I'm rolling into a big combo bill where we're going to roll back, give her to section 230 of the communications eases the act like trump once and um that's the fucking third thing i keep blanking on it uh um god damn it i don't know either we're really talking about it's live uh it's something it's something but it actually is gross um that nobody would want to do but um anyway so like these he's trying to roll it all together but i don't understand democrats aren't calling his bluff because we miss mcconnell does not want to roll back section

2.30. Getting rid of section 2.30, the Communications D.C. Act, in its entirety would end the internet. It's election fraud stuff, isn't it? Or campaign or election related, or related. That's the third thing. That's right. Yeah. Thanks for that.

So he wants to establish a commission to investigate all the election for all that didn't happen. Right. And for the life of me, I don't understand why Democrats won't just give. Like, the Democratic instinct to

bail Republicans out of their own jams. is extremely weird to me because what you can do is take the deal on both things. Like, okay, because McConnell's not going to repeal Section 230 because it would wipe out a lot of wealth with a lot of his donors, right? Pretty much every dot-com business

will become, the stocks will go through the fucking floor. And as far as the other thing goes, electoral fraud, be like, okay, all the Republicans who signed on that lawsuit saying the election was fraudulent, they're like, okay, we'll take you your word. Your elections were fraudulent. You're not getting sad.

until you concede the election was fair. Otherwise, you didn't win it. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, right. And you're saying like what, what the end, this democratic instinct to like bail him out. You're talking about one in particular, right? I mean, not the only one, but someone in particular. Dick Durbin.

Yeah, third Dick Durbin up there, Matt. Yeah. So just, yeah, throw the video up, Matt, whenever you have it. They came up with a good bill. One that I was proud to support. This annual legislation has been signed into law for six. consecutive decades. When the Senate fails to do anything, they always do the National Defense Authorization Bill. It shows that Congress can come together, at least on this measure, when it

comes to supporting our men and women in uniform and keeping our country safe. This year, the bill authorizes $740.5 billion in defense spending. It provides another 3% well-deserved pay raise for our troops. It also recognizes that many in the armed forces are on the front lines here at home as well, helping fight the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, providing our troops with necessary benefits and protections, including a 10%. So,

so there's, Dick Durbin is the minority whip. He's the party leadership. It's his job to keep the party unified to get to present opposition to Republican. And there he is coming out and trying to take away the only leverage that the left has to force a vote on a $2,000 checks

just to tell Bernie to fuck off? I don't know. Literally, why is he doing? Is it because it's a military thing? Is it because like you never, you never go against the military no matter what? And so in his mind, like, you can't not vote on a military spending bill

or fucking what? Like, why? The two grand starts phasing out. It's 75 grand in income per year. So pretty much everybody in the military would get it who isn't a colonel or a general or a boat captain so i don't understand the military families want this too it's not this isn't difficult to frame or message or whatever and the again the bill is still going to pass it just won't pass until the first or the second don't get the

raises the only the only people being punished you're not the military it's senators who can't go fuck their mistresses on new year's it's it so i it's just political malpractice and and also again we have and i know that trump wants those other things to that are bullshit. But still, when you have Trump, their God emperor or whatever, literally yelling at them to make it $2,000. Like he literally said the Republicans,

unless the Republicans have a death wish, they should make it $2,000. And yet you've got all this bullshit going on and it's just like, I don't know. It's basically an intra-Republic. can fight and you have Dick Durbin playing the child of divorced parents coming in to try to mediate between them

at the expense of the left wing of his own caucus and uh it like and Republicans are like they're in a Mitch McConnell's an idiot set of Chinese finger cuffs here and Durbin's trying to cut him out of it for reasons unbeknownst to me coming up on a huge runoff in Georgia and

Republicans are like like okay play the Kelly Loeffler video and Matt you see what I'm talking about. It's her being asked about voting for the military bill. You'll vote to support the president's push for the $2,000 checks, but will you vote to override his veto, which will come up in the Senate soon, on the defense authorization bill?

Well, look, Griff, I have been proud to support our men and women in the military. President Trump has been a huge champion for our military in rebuilding it in securing our national defense. And we're going to continue to make sure that we support our men and women in the military. But look, my opponent, radical liberal Raphael Warnock, has said that you can't serve God and serve in the military. That's wrong. That's an attack on our military. And he would be the first in line to stand with Chuck Schumer and cut funding to our military. George is an incredibly important military state in this country. And I will always stand with our men and women in the

military, and I thank President Trump for fighting for them. So the president vetoed the military defense military spending bill over section 230 and confederate generals she's being asked if she will vote to override the president's veto right uh and she's saying yada yada yada support the troops because she can't say i'm going to vote i'm going to vote against the president and to fund the military because trump defunded the fucking military and all dick durbin has to do is nothing nothing right yeah right Yes, they're in a, yeah, they're in a really shitty situation right now with all of this, for all the reasons we've already talked about. And like you said, they don't, they don't need any help.

I don't know. Like, why would you go out of your way to try to, like you said earlier, bail them out? Like you said, he doesn't have to, he don't, he doesn't have to say anything about that. Like, just stand back and just let them fucking flounder and, you know, flail and figure it out. like they delayed them this so long but like the new congress has set five days the new the new georgia senators it'll be sat in like two weeks uh i don't know i guess that was a good time to do or did uh georgia update yeah uh well that so we were talking about them it sucks for them in their minds it's a horrendous uh assault on justice for them to have to miss new year's eve or

whatever like really i said about it but like perduan lawfuler in particular you know i mean they're coming down to the wire now and having to stay there to deal with that as opposed to being in Georgia is obviously a whole thing. But yes, what's the, so update us on Georgia, Mark. What's the latest? What do we know so far? What's going on? Turnout is huge. Already had 2.4 million ballots cast.

For a frame of reference, 5 million. There we go. 5 million total people voted in the general. So we're already halfway to the general election vote. There's still another half million mail ballots requested and not returned. As far as the data goes on who's voted so far, obviously we know from all the post-election stuff, the Democrats vote more early through mail ballot and the Republicans. Republicans are relying on election day turnout, right?

The mail return ballots so far is more Democratic than what voted in the general. The actual number is like Biden led 56-36. among voters who have now voted in the runoff. He only led 5140 among those who are voted by the equivalent. He's like, this votes like five points more Democratic than the general election vote the Biden one. So it's looking pretty good for them there.

And I'm, I'm assuming that's because Trump voters is aren't voting. And that's what's swinging into a couple points. Because why would you vote when the leader of your party has been telling you for two months that if you vote is just going to go for the NBA All-Star game or the voice or whatever. So, yeah. Right.

but there isn't there data? You put it in the outline here about Purdue running ahead of Osloff, and you're talking about what happened in the general, the numbers that they had there, or what? Yeah, some people ticket split. They voted against Trump at the top of the ticket, but still voted for Republican Senate.

That happens. People personally find Trump as tasteful. This shouldn't shock a lot of people. So hopefully this is enough to, swamp that effect of people who still want a Republican Senate, even they didn't want Trump to be president. So you're going to need all those votes. So if you're in Georgia still vote,

don't think you got anything is locked up by now. Yeah. For sure. But, and I'm just trying to like work through this right now, logically. If they're, those people,

you're talking about, the ones who weren't for Trump, but, you know, we're still Republican. They voted for Purdue, but not Trump or whatever. none of them are going to be the ones that sit at home because of fraud, right?

But he's going to lose all the hardcore Trumpers who also voted for him. Yeah. Because they're a vote Republican for everybody. And theoretically, because of all the Trump's bullshit about election fraud and whatever, those people will now sit at home. And we hope that's enough to make up a 90,000 vote difference is the idea. I mean, everybody keeps saying it's going to be a turnout election, so it just depends on who drives down and spends a gas money to go over there. But like this is what weird shit going.

If you look at the polls, like Warnock's pulling higher than Ossoff, which means that some people are planning to vote for Warnock and Lawfler. So I don't under, no, sorry, Warnock and Purdue. That doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it. But that would be the funniest possible result is Mitch McConnell still in charge the Senate, but they lose one seat. but this stuff is important because McConnell wouldn't single-handedly be able to hold up a bill that would get 65 of those if Chuck Schumer was the majority leader.

Now, I'm not excited about Chuck Schumer was a majority leader, but I am excited about not Mitch McConnell's senatorial leader. Right, yeah, absolutely. All right, well, let's get into some vaccine talk here. Yeah, earlier. Why we need that big COVID bill, Tray? Because we continue to be fucked. yes um so you know vaccines are out being rolled out whatnot and earlier little behind the scenes info

for y'all diamond drew morgan friend of the show was texting us earlier about some uh information he saw about how just how dismal the process so far has been uh with vaccines like we were we were told that 20 million people would be vaccinated by the end of this month well it's two days away from the end this month and about two million people have gotten the vaccine so far so it seems like they're way way off and at extrapolating that the rate we've been at so far it's going to be years possibly but when he said that in our group text earlier you kind of went off about all the reasons you weren't down with that information so I'd love for you to repeat that now where you stand on this the vaccine process how worried should we be how do you think it's going to end up turning out

But this is one last Trump administration moment of incompetence fucking us, right? It's like they made, I don't know what, they made and delivered 30 million doses or something and two have been administered. Now, I don't know why that is. Jared took the weekend off. I don't fucking know. But also that we've failed. You know what the marshmallow test is, right, Trey, where you put a marshmallow in front of a kid. And if you can not eat it for 15 minutes, they'll get two marshmallows.

Okay. It's a delayed gratification test, right? We have failed every marshmallow test as a society we've been given the last couple of years. And this is one more time we're panicking about not getting a vaccine yet that was just approved a month ago or whenever. They have to make 3.30 million doses. There's like one and a half vaccines have been improved. There's three and a half more in the pipeline. Those all get production ramped up.

This is not indicative. This rate is not indicative of how fast the process. will be going forward the whole time right of course because it because it just started i mean to me that just seems like common sense like once it becomes more uh you know practiced and normalized or whatever for these for these people like we you know you got to find your groove man you got to get into like you got to figure it out uh there's got always some a learning curve and some bumps in the road when you first start with anything but once you like get into it you get in the zone then that's that's when things really start to happen.

So it should get way bad. It's ridiculous to expect the first couple weeks of the process, to expect the statistics for how that is gone, to just remain the same the whole time. Yeah, and this is like the base, this is the type of thing that the federal government is usually really the best, no one has the resources the United States federal government has to do supply chain logistics, right?

And it's usually the thing that federal government is the best in the world at and the thing that the Trump administration specifically fucking sucks at because it doesn't require any magical thing, any grand ideas, it just requires showing up early and staying late, right?

None of them are doing that. So just having the parks and recreation watching nerds for what he's serving in Biden's White House in charge this as opposed to Jared Kushner and his synergy buzzword bullshit is going to improve this tenfold.

And as far as like, we're talking this earlier too, but like, like, just like, I'm not an epidemiologist, but it seems to me if spread is exponential, so will the decrease in spread as people get vaccinated. Right. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you would think like that, right, you would think as more and more people get vaccinated, even if we're nowhere near the number we need to be at to hit herd immunity or whatever still, there will be this ripple effect of fewer people who even aren't vaccinated

getting infected because of the correlation between that number rising and the other one falling down. I mean, I'm not an epidemiologist either, but it just seems like that's what would happen. The caveat, we don't know if the vaccine prevents disease or spread in disease or just disease. Like, it's possible you can be vaccinated and not have any, it just makes everyone asymptomatic carriers, which means you vaccinated, you still might not be able to go hug your grandma, you know. Well, okay, but on that note, I mean, obviously the idea is the most high-risk people will get it first. You know, it's prioritized the frontline healthcare workers and also old people and people at risk. But that's another thing.

Like once, as we get all of those people taking care of, that will also make it easier for everything, all the other gears in our society. society to move more normally, right? Like once that gets done, I mean, I'm just trying to be hopeful about this thing because I'm losing my fucking mind with this shit like everybody is. I'm so ready for it to be over and I know it's not over yet. And there's still a lot of rows to hoe and I get that. But I'm just, again, I'm just trying to be optimistic here. Like there is fucking hope, Mark.

Yes. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Like here and you read the article the other day, Trey, but the, you know, Here in LA, man, they're basically, we're done like a handful of ventilators. They're treating patients in hospital gift shops and coffee rooms. So, wear your mask. So, okay, to detour into that just a little bit. Yeah, L.A. has been really, really bad for COVID lately.

They just, the Department of Health just asked Hollywood to shut down all productions again. That was like today or yesterday. If it's not ordered, not required. Yeah. Just a little general, would you think about it? Yeah. But it's been, like you just said, ICU filled up, ventilators filled up, all accounted for.

Shit's really, really bad out here. And I know this is anecdotal what I'm about to say. But like, it's a law out here that you have to wear masks when you go somewhere. And I live in Burbank. I live in the Valley. And any time I have to go to the grocery store or something like that, which that's the only place has ever go. I almost never see someone not wearing a mask.

Like, to be honest with you. And then I talked to, like, my mom and my sister and them back home, and they'd never see anybody wearing a mask, right? And then, but at the same time, Tennessee, my home state, has also been one of the very worst. Nashville's been horrific. Tennessee's also out of ICU beds. It's fucking terrible there.

But, like, and I'm not trying to do any kind of conspiracy type shit or whatever. I'm just at what, is that just the sheer amount of people out here, is what leads to that? like why is LA comparably bad to fucking Nashville and Tennessee when the regulations and restrictions

and the leadership in place is different? Because it's a, one, there are a lot of people who can't work from home who are still going to work, right? People like, LA has a very big

manufacturing sector. It has a big port. It has people that work in grocery stores and hospitals and so forth. So like, like people like me and you can do a lot of stuff from home, but a lot of other people can't. It also spreads in households. Like one of the side effects of having really high-priced housing is a lot of people share

a lot of space. So when you've got like eight aspiring actors all living in the same apartment, you know, it's like all eight them are going to get it. So there's a lot of stuff like that. And also like, it's, things are technically, stores are technically a 20% capacity. But if you went in a store shopping for Christmas, it was not 20% capacity. No, you're right. They don't enforce that at all.

One of my neighbors works at a department store. He was like, they gave him permission to leave. They were all uncomfortable, and he was leaving every day. Because at 3 p.m. it'd be packed. He was like, I'm not staying here for this. So it's just like, that's part of it. You also, things aren't like, go look at traffic and tell me things are close. Traffic has been as bad as ever.

I don't know where the fuck everybody's going, but these regulations are supposedly in place. aren't being enforced the bar down the street here has been open off and on as a speak easy I don't go but it's people my neighborhood do and then nothing's bad nothing's happened to them they say they say they're limited to 10 people but I don't know yeah yeah I don't know but it is like it is maddening and infuriating and like the semi-deniers the people in the middle who are like trying to question this shit who weren't deniers but are wondering like if you look at the data like North Carolina and Oklahoma

have comparable infection and death rates even though one as a Democratic governor shut down in school they think and the other one's Oklahoma I know I know that's what that's what I'm saying like when I brought it up it's like I hesitate to even bring it up because like I said I don't want to yeah I don't want to sound

at all like I'm saying so why are we even wearing these fucking mask you know if it ain't help any like that's not at all what I'm trying to say I'm just trying to like understand it because it don't make no sense straight. I'm just like, what I threw up my hands. I'm not an expert. Tell me to wear a mask and say home. So I'm doing it. I feel like there's like out of ideas. So that's the only thing I think

it's to do is to tell it. So hospitals don't run in capacities to try to limit, try to limit it by making some rules. And people aren't following them. And also they don't seem to totally work for some reason. It's a magic disease, buddy. Yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, yes, it's a fucking, you know, it's just a force of nature. You know what I mean? You can't, you can't explain everything about it, I guess. Or, I mean, in this way, it's just going to... Five Gs, right? Five G. Yeah, five G. All right. So, this is a little bit, this is a funner topic here as we get headed towards taking the viewer comments and whatnot. Trump's pissed off, apparently. She's pissed off about a lot of things, but one of them in particular. He's pissed off about the recent renovations at Mar-a-Lago.

his post-presidential layer where he's going to be at down there. He's not liking a look of it. He's upset with the aesthetics. Who's responsible for that? Well, Melania, of course. Melania and her personal interior decorator, who selected many of the details and sort of ran the renovation. And Trump's not happy about it.

I don't know why they didn't give specific specifics on why that is. But I'm sure Melania's pretty upset. Like, there's only so much things can be gold, Mark. Like, not everything in the house can be gold. Not every picture can be magazine cover picture of him. There have to be other pictures, other things. There have to be other colors in the house. I don't understand that it's Christmas time.

I mean, I hate fucking Christmas. And, yeah, she's upset about it. What are you thinking? I'm looking at the name of the personal decorator, and it's Sam, K-A-L-A-L-A-H-A-H-A-M. Can-A-L-A-L-A-L-K-A-H-A-M. K-A-L-A-L-A-L-K-A-A-M. That's that's like,

look at K-A-N-N-N-A-L-H-A-M. Tam can I lick them Sure Tam go for it Trump's America why not His ass What your freak back fly His aesthetic I mean I'm not sure whether

He's probably not like Marlardo isn't tacking enough That's yeah that's exactly it Because like his aesthetic is He wants it He wants it more gaudy I guess I don't know But hers is also

She does that weird icy cold Like when she decorates for Christmas She's got that icy fascist thing And he does like 1984 Cocaine main Gold Coast kind of stuff. Christmas is meant to be cold and tragic, Mark. You have to have, you can't have it.

It's not about joy. It's about the frost, the lack of hope, despair. That is Christmas in my country. Everyone knows this. Why would you have other toys for Christmas? Nothing gets the Christmas stuff. No potatoes. One potato, whole family.

Entire family. It's not nice, but not big potatoes, small potato. My fucking, oh, Eastern European poverty jokes. Shouldn't be doing that. Be part of this year. Her aesthetic is like, it's always funny to be like, what doesn't get you into the mood to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, like living inside a Nordic fairy tale where children get eaten?

Yeah. Oh, well, she's almost out of this hell. hole, you know. Not that I have that much sympathy for her, but I'm saying like, she'll like, I mean, she's gone, right? Like, yeah, as soon as possible, I feel like. I mean, there's all those tabloid

rumors stories about the delay in her moving to the White House was renegotiating her pre-nup to stay married another four years. And there's also that stuff about having a long-running affair with the guy that runs the Tiffany's jewelers and the, in the bottom floor, front power or whatever. But wait, if they repealed Section 230,

Facebook get sued for me saying that right there. Because we're streaming on Facebook. That's what happens. So let's hope they do that. Yeah. I mean, I think you just like, just the video,

all the videos and the compilations of him and put together of her like being overtly upset by his physical touch. Or you know what I mean? Like all of him trying to like hold her hand for photo op or whatever and her being like, you know, I mean, dude, she's,

she's not happy for sure and I don't you know you can't can't be getting divorced while you're in the white house I just feel like she's you know she's gone again not that I care it just seems like I mean they've been living in sleep in separate rooms the White House that was a public story so like whatever's going on their marriage is not my business but it's weird um did you see the story about speaking to Moralago that legally he's not technically allowed to live there no why he had a zone as a club for tax purposes or something so it's not technically a resident. So if Palm Beach wanted to they could sue him for living there, that'd be fun for him if he got evicted and sit back to New York. Yeah, I hope just anything that can be done to him once he's

in honor and the president is done to him, frankly. Just fucking throw all that shit at him. Why not? He deserves it. Start sending in y'all's comments and stuff, whatever you got, Georgia, COVID, the vaccines, whatever y'all are thinking about. Hit us with it. In the meantime, we're waiting on those.

Mark, you're wanting to ask me about something, right? I wanted to ask you what you thought about this Hilaria Baldwin situation, which we don't do a lot of TMZ Toul stuff here, but this is fucking too great. Yeah, Hilaria Baldwin, Alec Baldwin's wife, apparently is actually from, she's Hilaria, and she speaks with a Spanish accent, and she's like, you know, all European and into yoga

and stuff like that, and her name's Hilaria. Well, apparently her name's Hillary, and she's from Massachusetts, and she doesn't actually talk that way. Okay, is that, like, is that confirmed true, or is this just, okay, all right. Well, that's amazing. Because I had to ask if it was confirmed true, because I'm going to be honest with you, as someone who has been accused often and for years now of faking an accent and everything, I kind of wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, because I know how annoying that is. On the other hand, if it's like confirmed true that that is what she has done, then I mean, that's fucking hilarious.

I will say as someone who's a convout because he's been around Trey when he was too drunk to make an accent, he definitely do be talking like that. Second, so this video of her, his video of her not having the accent. And then this video, if you don't know who she is, she does like, she's like a influencer, Half-ass life coach, yoga instructor slash chef kind of person. I don't know. She does the cooking segments on the Today Show kind of shit. And this video of her going, remember, she's from Massachusetts, living in America her whole life.

She's like, she's like, can you pass me the, how do you say cucumber? Cucumber, how do you say? Do you make the pickles? And then she basically, when she got caught, she tried to say that because she's, she has some sort of Spanish heritage or something, and she spent, like her parents moved back to Malarca. She's like she, when she talks in Spanish, she basically code switches and she forgets, like, she forgets to not use her accident. That's her, like, excuse is like what she's saying.

It's all very, very, very, okay, wait, hold on. Because I was actually going to bring up code switching too, because, and I have talked about, I talked about this on stage or whatever for a while. Code switching is. If people listen aren't aware what code switching is, it's like how you can kind of alter your actions. I guess what trade do be talking like that. So that's example. Right. But it's like, you know, key and peel at sketches about it.

where it's like, you know, when they were with their white buddies, they were all, yeah, let's go to Whole Foods. And then when their black buddies show up, it's like, what's up, dog? Like, that's code switching. And everybody does it. It's just like human, it's just human nature. And I mean, I do it too. I don't think my accent ever completely goes away, but it definitely dampens when I'm in some

fucking, like, business meeting in Hollywood or whatever. But when I'm talking to my buddy Kobe from back home on the phone, it gets a, what do you say, what do you say, son? And I don't think about that. It just happens. So I was actually going to ask you about that. So that's her explanation for it. No, that is real, whatever.

It's not make you forget the English word for cucumber. Right, no, yeah. Yeah, I'm not just trying to let her off the hook, but I wondered about that. Well, you know what, Kim, so have we, this across my mind earlier. We were in the middle of talking about something else. Trump, like us here at Evening Skews,

completely ignoring the Nashville bombing. Obviously, I'm a Tennysonian. Yes, let's please get into it. So I'm sure everybody's seen by now there's bombing in Nashville, 2nd Avenue, downtown right by the Batman building. And I got swept up in all the, not entirely swept up, but a bit swept up

and all the sort of like theories that were going on afterwards, because there was some wild shit going on with this. It was an RV that exploded, and the RV had a loudspeaker playing a message telling everyone in the area to evacuate. way everybody get away and then it did blow up so it's like they didn't want any loss of life so what were they doing here and my little sister she was she was saying diamond heist and i was into that i was like yeah diamond heist because i kept thinking about that there's a scene and die hard with a vengeance

where this little street rat in brooklyn or whatever there's been a bombing there and he's like look around you it's christmas all the cops are into something you could steal city hall and i was like yeah maybe it is a highest i don't know that'd certainly be the coolest outcome here seems have not been, it seems like now maybe it was even some 5G shit, which we talked about earlier or something going on with this guy. Like, we still don't really know, but. The heites idea makes more sense. I mean, the 5G thing is just based on lunacy.

So you can't even make sense of that. But the diamond ice thing, I mean, I think all three diehard movies are about using a terrorist attack as a diversion for a heist. And two of them are set on Christmas. So the mind just goes there, you know. It makes too much sense. Couldn't help. brains have been shaped by diehard.

I mean, yeah, apparently this guy, the only theory that the cops are working off of is he had been radicalized by one of the five-G conspiracy theories. He was trying to knock out that AT&C hub, which he successfully did, which is why no one in Nashville had cell phone or internet service. No, not, dude, not just Nashville. It was like large areas surrounding Nashville

and in Tennessee and stuff where people were 911 services and whatnot were out. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to lie. It's discipline. There's no good explanation for a bombing or whatever, but, you know. At the same time, honestly, we're not in the fucking movies. Anytime something like that happens, I think you have to just assume at the center of this

is either a crazy or a literally evil person. You know what I mean? And probably a mixture of both. Like, of course it wasn't going to actually make sense, whatever his motivations ended up. being because you have to be you have to be fucked up to even go through with something like that in the first place you know and just thank god he even had the the loudspeaker message running you know what i mean because obviously it could have been so much worse but and to be honest neither trump nor us talked about it probably for the same reason it said like in this like heightened culture war state

things that don't fit in anyone's narrative just doesn't happen they just just get in up on a cut of room floor because there's no sense to be made of it there's nobody to roast for it so it's just like it's just a bad thing that happened from a poor sad dude to blow himself up and uh yeah hey mark i know this question's for you but everybody likes your reports through my eyes ask what's the latest on q anon yes please mark let's get that cue update uh so basically the louis gomer fought a lawsuit uh based on this idea but there's this somehow idea that because the constitution says the vice president opens the and counts the electoral vote that he can just decide not to count the states that these people think were fraudulent,

like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, whatever, whatever the list is. They think Trump won California, too, so whatever. So, I mean, if this was true, I sure wish Al Gore had heard of it because he could have been his name self-president. But no, that's supposed to happen. January 6th and they're suing Pence to make him. This is how fucked up it is. They went to Pence with this idea. Pence told him they were crazy. And so they're suing Pence to make him do their idea.

Also on January 6th, the proud boys and them are trying to organize like protests, riots, anti-democrat, fascist, whatever you want to call it. But like they're trying to put that together on the same day, right? And I know that there's been like, hotels they booked in D.C. That have just straight up said, well, we're just going to be closed. That just closed the whole hotel down as opposed to hosting them there. Are those things related?

How intertwined are those? Is it just that January 6th is the day after this ratification of the votes or whatever or what? Someone asked Louis Gomer about January 6th if he's amped enough violence. He basically said, yeah. And then, you remember the weekend after the election, all the major cities bullered up their women. because they thought that Antifa was going to smash up every downtown if Trump won or lost.

I wasn't even clear on why people panicked and boarded up the windows. Anyway, it definitely happened. D.C. probably should be boarding up windows for next weekend. This feels like the dying, I'm not sure it's the dying last gasp of Trumpism or the origin story of a worse time of Trumpism. But it's going to be a turning point of some sort. Yeah, fun. So we had a comment over here that I saw go flying by earlier, just setting you straight a little bit, Mark.

Die Hard 1 and 3 were heist. Die Hard 2 was breaking a guy out of custody. Ah, okay. There you go. Sorry, I remember there being a military. There's a military plot line where they pay it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember.

The Die Hard franchise, well, I mean, until it went completely off the fucking rails, starting with Die Hard 4, was one of my very favorites, because Die Hard was the very first R-rated movie I ever watched. And I don't remember exactly how old I was, but dude,

I couldn't have been more than like seven or eight years old. I got out of bed to go get like some Kool-Aid or something, go get a drink, and my dad was watching Die Hard, and I tried to hide behind a cabinet door and watch it secretly.

I'm six feet away from my dad, thinking like, if I hide here, he won't see me. And he was just like, you can come over and watch us if you want to. And I sat there and watched Die Hard at like seven or eight, and I just became a fan for life. Die Hard is what's up. Cory Oliver says,

do you think Mitch is more about turning his back on Trump or truly doesn't want to see Americans get $2,000? Mark, what do you think? I think ideologically they think poor people getting money is bad. I think because then they won't go to their shit jobs that they get the turd factories that they want to McConnell once I'm working at. I think that I don't think he define it as turning his back on.

He's doing everything Ken to not frame it's turning his back on Trump, which is why he's trying to combine everything Trump wants into one bill. Right. Well, that's his like ostensible rationale, right? He doesn't want to add the 2000 thing to where we're at currently because he wants to put it together with the other two complete bullshit demands that Trump has and pass all of those at once. So it's like the other two things would be like poison pills

that he would add to this thing that would have everyone's support. Is his like evil genius plan that he has? Is that correct? Yeah. So it's a way to get the bill voted down while he can blame the Democrats for it. The Democrats do not want to look into the election fraud, therefore

they're the reason you're not getting your 2000. That's, to me, that's his too clever by halfway of trying to still win Georgia, which is this like, no one knows how to do this without fucking up Georgia. I mean, if I was McConnell, I would just make it a clean $2,000 bill, let everybody vote for it,

let Loeffler and Purdue campaign on being the people who worked with the president to get you $2,000. What? Mark, Frank Thomas here. The big hurt, the big hurt says plaid shirt and floral wallpaper make him dizzy. You got a lot of contrasting patterns going on there, right? Things are clashing. You're right. One more thought of my shirt wallpaper comes.

Do a better job. Farah. Ferra Upson says, Mitch says, Mitch says, it is adding to the deficit that would benefit his rich friends. Anything any of them ever do is for the benefit of rich puppet masters or whatever. I can't figure out how much they're bullshit they actually believe because I had to get too nerdy here, but I've been reading up on a monetary theory. And basically our economy doesn't make any sense.

Now, well, anybody who's seen the big short or Wolfel Wall Street will tell you the same thing. But conventional economics supposes that deficit spending will lead to inflation. Debt and deficit spending will lead to inflation. So under their own rubric, they've been completely irresponsible and running up a huge national debt by running huge deficits. So we should be living under huge inflation. We've run this mass experiment under their principles. And there is no inflation. So it appears that you can just print money in it out to some degree and nothing happens.

I don't know how much we can do that. But, like, if they still believe they're worried about inflation because all their rich donors' money will become investments, will become work less. It's just not happening. So I can't even figure out what they think is, what they think anymore. Well, it's also just like, there's always money for the things that they want. You know, like, there's always money for the Army and all that shit.

It never even comes up that there might not be. They only apply that logic of, well, we can't just print money to things that benefit poor people or just regular Americans. or whatever, but all the other bullshit, they stay printing money. So like, I just don't want to hear that. They spent $6 trillion or whatever in Iraq and Afghanistan while cutting taxes repeatedly. And nothing, I mean, everything, bad stuff happened, but not economically. And, you know, they got, they got money for war if we can't feed the poor.

Shout up, Tupac. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. all right well listen we're just about out of time but i want to give you all a little teaser for uh thursday's episode we are doing we're doing a show on new year's eve but you know same time so five pacific eight eastern be done in plenty of time to watch new year's rocking eve or whatever the hell uh but we will be here doing our thing and we're gonna i'm not gonna say it's gonna be an all dumb ass episode

but we're gonna we're gonna do a dumb ass recap of 2020 because hey this is the year for it So we're going to give some of our favorite dumbass clips, maybe even crowned a dumbass champion. I don't know. We'll see what happens, but it just feels like an apt way. Dumbass, right? Yeah, right.

The year of the dumbass, exactly. What better way to end it than to do a little bit of a dumbass recap, dumbass best of? So that's what we're going to do Thursday. And obviously, if any other, if major, if shit is happening, we will talk about that too. But yeah, get all your dumbass needs here at Evening Skews,

which is the place to be for that. but we are out of time for this episode so i hope you come back in 48 hours on thursday december 31st that's it for this edition i'm tray that's mark see you bye bye like to blow them out i blow them out holster it's what i do still says live matt yeah producer matt's in here no video though and it still says we're live i don't know if we are we live matt see you later tray we just took off i guess that we do okay yeah yeah all right well shit Heidi there and a happy end of this

godforsaken year to you all. It gives me great pleasure to say that today is Thursday, December 31st 2020. I'm Trey Crowder that's Mark Aegee. What's up Mark? How are you feeling? Oh, pretty good man, we made it. Yeah,

you dressed up for the occasion. I didn't. I didn't get the memo. You're looking good though. I like the tie beanie combo you got going on. It's still bold when I put a tie. So, heck it's great. Yeah, are you a New Year's Eve? How do you feel about it's a party? It's one of the party holidays.

You like to party on New Year's Eve? Because I kind of gave it up once I had children and I don't really miss it. Well, I mean, well, I was, I do like to be out at bars, as you know. But also, I was forced. I was required by work to be out at comedy clubs back when I was doing stand-up. So every New Year's Eve for a long time, I was working. That is a good time. Yeah, and again, tonight's celebratory, no matter how you celebrate it, as far as I'm concerned.

But here we are, as always, producer Matt, with us behind the scenes. Let's do the show. We got a fun one for y'all tonight. We're closing out this year in the only way that seemed appropriate by doing a dumbass review. All of our favorite daily dumbasses from the run of the show, keep in mind. We only started in the summertime. So if somebody was a dip shit in like March or April, they're off the hook. but there's still more than enough to cover.

And we'll get to what little news we have, but that's going to be the bulk of the show, just talking about dumbasses and having some fun. We're glad you all are with us for it. Now, tonight, there still has to be a daily dumbass, though, obviously a daily dumbass for this edition of the show. So let's do that. Producer Matt, play the graphic.

Oh, uh-oh, here we go. Off to a good start already. Matt warned us that, We might have tech issues because we loaded up too many video clips, and this website can't handle it for whatever reason. Knight's DD is this sorry motherfucker here, y'all. Play it, Matt, whenever you've got it. A medical center employee in Wisconsin got fired for allegedly destroying hundreds of doses at the Moderna vaccine on purpose. This happened at the Aurora Medical Center in Grafton.

Officials say the employee, quote, intentionally removed. 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from a pharmacy refrigerator the day after Christmas. Because of this, more than 500 people were delayed in receiving their vaccines. Both the FDA and FBI are investing. So, endangering the lives of your neighbors to own the libs, Mark. Is that where we're at with this guy? We have a vaccine now, Trey, and nobody can get it. And when they do get it to the hospital, dumb motherfuckers are leaving it out like it's lunch meat.

And I don't know what's happening. Right. But on purpose, though, like this guy purposely did that. And again, what other rationale is? It's why, like, this is a professional. You know what I mean? Like, I got my sister-in-law, she's a pharmacist and a trumper, and she's getting her vaccine and would never do something like this.

I'm saying, like, this dude is on a whole other level. I'm getting cheered on by a bunch of people out there, I would imagine. But not the people who got these shitty vaccines, because that happened, by the way, wasn't clear from that video, but the vaccines he left out on the counter were still administered to people. So those people, in all likelihood, didn't get shit from it or maybe a slight benefit. But still, imagine being one of those people. How furious would you be at some shit like this? Yeah, that dude got arrested.

They haven't said what it motivated like? it. So it's probably, you're probably right, it's probably some sort of conspiracy thing. Because he's a pharmacy technician, I guess, is what he was. He's not some high-level dude, science-wise. But it, or it could just be some George Costanza type who was mad at his cold workers eating his lunch out of the fridge and he just fucking left it out. I mean, yeah, I guess you're right. It could just be a disgruntled situation. Still, still not cool to take it out on everybody else, though, especially considering who's getting the vaccine right now. what I mean?

Like, it's a shit in cohort to target. Yeah. Yeah. But I've seen like stories like 20% of medical workers and doctors and nurses in LA are to find a vaccine and 50% of medical workers overall in Ohio are turning it down. Dude.

They didn't say like they did 50% number in Ohio scared me. But then I read, oh, they're not talking about all doctors and nurses. These are like people like like like janitors and people from all the frontline workers, like people that got like their medical technician. degrees from schools that advertise on Moripovich and shit. So it's not like this is not necessarily a signal that something's wrong with the vaccine or that people don't trust it. No, I know Katie told me that she shared those stats with me earlier

and I found it very alarming. But yeah, like you said, just like because I feel like if it's frontline medical workers have that like percentage of volunteered disengagement from it or volunteered dismissal of it. not a good sign for when they get to the regular Americans out there, but I'm just trying not to worry about it. To be clear, I'm going to take it. I did that in New York Times surveyed.

I came in 8 millionth in L.A. County to get the vaccine. But at this rate, I figure I'll get it by next week. Yeah, so there is that. All right. In keeping with the thing, we got the honorable mentions for tonight's Daily Dumbass. And the next one has to do with a frontline medical worker. And the next dump mask is the guy who snitched on one of the cooler nurses out there. It seems like, man, if you put that screen grab up, you've got it.

This is my favorite headline of the year. Well, so, yes, in a bizarre incident, a nurse has been suspended after he had sex with a COVID-19 patient in the toilet of a hospital in Indonesia. Both are in isolation after the patient published details about the incident on social media. First of all, Mark, you talk about a bedside manner. Am I right? The story was funny because it made it clear that the nurse was fired for taking off their PPE. It wasn't the sex that was the problem. So if they put the plastic sheeting on and work on them, they probably have not a fireable offense in Indonesia.

So to be clear, not that it matters, but just to be clear, this is two dudes going at it. So you got some butt fucking action here in the toilet. Also, to be clear, in other non-American English. speaking countries. Toilet means the room, not the throne itself, which I feel like might clear some things up for people. They weren't literally like somehow in the crapper going at it. They were in the room there. But yeah, and the guy that got this special treatment from his medical professional, apparently went on social media to brag about it, like it was on there posting about, y'all, I'm never going to believe this shit. Because I mean, it is like, I mean, it is like,

I mean, it is the plot of a porno playing out in real life. And this dude just couldn't keep it to himself. And, I mean, neither one of them could, apparently. But yeah, it had, it had major ramifications for both parties. I just like the idea of this dude, like immediately, like, I got to put this on Facebook. And then everyone else read it. And then he thought everybody would read it. Be like, way to go for the sex, man.

And then, like, dude, you gave everybody COVID. Yeah. So, you know, par for the course of 2020, I think. We got a couple other honorable mentions. The next one, about the food service at Mara Lago. If you've got the screen, grab Matt, throw it up there. Seems like they're really into buffets there. On Sunday evening, Trump took a brief moment during a buffet feast

at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach to reunite with Roger Stone. But yeah, still going to buffet route, despite all the scrutiny that that has received. This is the second time we've talked. talked about president, the president hosting a buffet during COVID. And it's just, someone that made this point, but like, obviously it's a buffet because how can people tell you the most important person in the room? There's no line to cut for the gross beat, right? So I've got another, like, I got a tangential question for you about this. And I mean, you know, we're both trash, I'm aware, but like, you know, I grew up white trash,

poor and all that. And like, in my mind, a buffet is very much white. trash cuisine, which I love, by the way. But I'm saying like, like Golden Corral and stuff like that, like the manager of the O'Charlie's I worked at used to call them feeding troughs, which is hilarious that the manager of O'Charly's was like condescending to the Golden Corral across the street. But I'm saying, I didn't know that, I didn't know that, you know, rich people partook in buffets. That was kind of news to me. I thought that was like, you know, our people's forte. I think it's common like country club type settings

which we have more a lot of goes trying to aspire to be but like there's actually a really good country club over in Burbank near where you live has a really good brunch buffet if it's nice. Is it like lobster tails and shit that are on the buffet? Like do they class that up?

It's not like you know cheese sauce next to the meatloaf and whatever the shit that I like. Is that how they do it? It's like a guy out of waffle station and then like a carving station. but that's the classic kind but when I see pictures

from Marlora it looks like the shitty guy yeah that would check out also last honorable mention and I got to admit I'm a fan of this dude I'm a fan of the way this dude looks I'm not a fan of him I guess

but I was not aware until Mark sent the link earlier what the person at the center of the Hunter Biden's laptop controversy looks like and if you guys don't know what he looks like Matt, will you show them what this thing? Look at that. G.I. Jacques, man. What is, what is that? People listen to the podcast. He's wearing like a green beret. He's got a green beret but doesn't otherwise appear.

It's not like the green brer, like the badass green beret. It's the silly jester type green beret look he's got going on. He also looks like petrified in that, in that picture. Like, not like, what is up with this? dude. And usually they stop, and they stopped talking about the laptop for a while after the election because what was the fucking point? But now they're back. They're just so bored talking about COVID.

They're just like, here's a guy on a funny hat to say, to ramble about the president-elect son's laptop, which they still haven't said what's supposed to be on it. It's bad except some emails about China. I don't know. So, like, I mean, on the one hand, this is not at all surprising.

It's what you would expect. But on the other hand, it's so wild how. all of the people who have been like brought forth on the right, you know, when it comes to election controversy or any of these like conspiracies like this, how comically absurd they have been. They're like caricatures of, you know, some type of crazy or silly person. You know what I mean?

Like we'll get to some of them later in the Daily Dumbasses, but one that isn't covers like that. The ghost hunter guy, the ghost hunter dude who was there to, comment on election fraud. You had the lady who was convinced the sandwich van was filled with ballots instead of sandwiches. And then you got this dude out there. Like, I mean, I get it. They're not going to be able to find regular people, I guess, but it's still just, it's, I don't know. It's funny. But they can't find a crazy person who doesn't dress like they got dressed in the dark at a thrift store? No. No, they can't. They very clearly can't. Because if they

could. That's what they'd have, but this is what they got instead. We live in the U.S. capital of crazy people, and most of them wear regular clothes. A whole lot of them don't, though, to be fair, but yes, plenty of them do. All right, so that's it for tonight's Daily Dumbasses. We're going to get into the review in a little bit, but you know, we've got to cover at least some of the news. Here's a breaking story for you. Another dumbass we could add to the list for tonight. Senator David Perdue, who in the absolute heat, of a very contested Senate race in Georgia has to quarantine because of COVID-19 exposure. One of his top staffers tested positive.

So far, the last thing I saw, Purdue and his wife have tested negative to this point, but have effectively taken themselves out of the, not out of the running, but out of, you know, the public appearances for a little bit because of, you know, this fake China virus out there. It got them. It bit them. Yeah, but then Matt's at the end. has a video, so roll it if you want, Matt.

Breaking news here now with this crucial Georgia runoff that will decide control of the Senate. Republican incumbent David Purdue is going into quarantine after exposing himself and being exposed to someone with COVID-19. Let's go to CNN senior national correspondent, Keung Law, who is in Georgia tonight. Keung, what could this mean for the election that is now just five days away? This is not a good time for a candidate to be in quarantine. Yeah, I mean, off the trip. Yeah, there you have it. The funniest thing would be if Purdue and his wife forgot to request the mailing ballot and they lose by two votes.

Yes, that would be very much the funniest thing. I don't know, I'm still, you know, very much fingers crossed. We'll see what happens mindset for me when it comes to this runoff still, you know, like, I'm hopeful. I'm going to make fun of him and laugh at him for this, but like honestly kudos to him for quarantining because a lot of these main thing. Dude, I was surprised by that too, actually. When I saw the headline, the first thing I thought was, honestly, I'm kind of surprised he's even doing that. Like, you know, I feel like you'd expect him to just say,

fuck it and go out there and make a whole thing out of it. But, yeah. The, uh, uh, uh, it's, it's funny to me because, um, like, like maybe it occurs to me that, uh, campaigning is not going well for him. So maybe he's like, calling in sick to school, you know what I'm saying? Because yesterday,

yesterday somebody tried to corner Asoff with some, you know, Fox News reporter tried to corner Asoff with some Fox News gotcha nonsense about Warnock. And Asoff just said, into the microphone three times Kelly Loughler's been campaigning with a clansman. Kelly Lofler's been, they broadcast that live. So that was not a good call on their part, probably. But it's so weird to me because the Republicans chose to make Warnock

to face the campaign. and try to make turn in into like Reverend Wright or whatever. Yeah. Because a radical black dude, I guess, is who they thought they could make the villain. But Warnock's polling better than any of the other three candidates in a special election. Yeah, well, he's like a pillar of that community there, right, for a long time in a very important church. I mean, Purdue. He's a reverend, I think MLK Jr's old church.

So he's got the church that when politicians need photo ops at a black church, they go to speak to people. people about politics. Lafleur and Purdue, both in photograph sitting behind Warnock at that church. If he's so radical, where were you doing that? Right. Yeah. Yeah. That literally has to be

not like, what other rationale is there for that other than the fact that he is the black candidate of the two, meaning that decision to focus on him as the primary target of the propaganda and whatnot despite everything you just said? Like you say, it's a radical

black guy is the thing they were going for, right, despite the rest of it. I mean, it had to be. They think it's more easily villainized because of that. They mean, it's like they're pulling data must be insanely scaring to them because like Assoff, what they're trying to hang around Osaf right now is like he's on China's payroll. And the logic is because he, uh, what his job is he makes, he makes, like activist documentaries. And he made a documentary about like, I think ISIS and Syria or whatever. And it, uh, production company and China bought it for Chinese. distribution. And they're saying because they bought the movie for distribution that

therefore he's a Chinese secret agent or something. So. Right. So also every producer in Hollywood is a Chinese sacred agent, which I mean, they probably believe that's that's, that's that's closer to reality than the awesome thing. Right. Yeah. All right. Moving on in the actual news on Tuesday, we kind of hopefully set up this situation in Congress with Bernie Sanders as the hero where he was doing this brilliant move of going out of his way to make sure that all of Congress had to stay in session through the holiday in an effort to force them to vote on the $2,000 checks. You ever going to believe this didn't work out great, did it, Mark?

No, we feel real bad for insinuating something good could happen. I don't know what we were thinking. Yeah. So pretty much all the Democrats sat at it with Mitch McConnell. to pass the national defense spending bill, or whatever the procedural roll call thing is to get it over with before the nights. They could all go home and party with their family.

The only Democrats who voted not to do that were Bernie, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Chris Van Hollen, and Jeff Marpley. And they were joined by five Republicans. So only 12 total people were holding up military spending for a week to get people $2,000 checks. By the way,

this is just a hostage-take. the situation. So like they could pass the deal was we'll vote for the military defense bill if you vote for $2,000 checks. So it's not being fair to say that Bernie was holding up defense spending because all they had to do was relent on $2,000 checks and bill goes through it. So is that their like public rationale though that we can't hold up a bill for defense spending because as a politician in America, you literally just can't do that. And I know that like, you know, they just want to be home for the holiday or whatever. But I'm saying is that the

is that the rationale you pay? put forth to save face in their perspective? Is that what they're going for? I think they think that Ossoff and Warnock have a good shot at winning. And they don't want to hang the Democrats hate the troops around their necks for the next. Okay. But it's just like another example of how perpetually Democrats are scared of a, scared of Republican attacks from 1996.

That Biden won a, I think Biden won a priest, solid percentage of military votes this time. And I don't think anybody, people understand, people, the military people, they're, they already missed a paycheck because Trump vetoed the bill is my understanding. And they're not rich. They are cash strapped. They could probably really use a $2,000 check,

is what I'm saying. Yeah. So once again, Congress as a whole failed to show up for us. You know, what else is no. But there it is. All right. Well, hey, that's the news. Let's get into the dumbasses.

And again, this is, every one of these is a dumbass we've previously featured, which means it only goes back so far in the year. But like I said, still plenty to cover. When did we start doing this, by the way? It was in May? No, it was like July or August, somewhere in there. Okay. I mean, I looked earlier, but when we first started, we hadn't really hammered it out yet,

so we didn't have the Daily Dumbass up top. By the time we started, like, doing the Daily Dumbass at the top of the show, every single episode it was like in August but anyway so that's what we're working with and these are in roughly chronological order so let's just have some fun with them the first one is someone we were just talking about Kelly Loeffler Leffler whatever who made one of the head scratchingest most ridiculous campaign ads we've ever seen which is saying something so Matt you could play it whenever you got it did you know Kelly Leffler was ranked the most of most conservative senator in America?

Yep, she's more conservative than Attila the Hun. Hercr Fight China. Got it. Percrmer. Erchermint. Eliminate the liberal scribes. More conservative than Attila the Hon.

Uh-oh. Kelly Leftra, 100% Trump voting record. I'm Kelly Ler. I approve his name. Dude. Where do you even stop? even start with that. Like, first of all, you're comparing yourself favorably to Attila the Hun.

Second, you got the, you got the white dude playing Attila the Hun who's just literally grunting to represent their language, and it ends with murder all the journalists. Murder everyone who can read, I think. Right.

Yeah, I don't know. That's the dynamic of that was funny. I mean, if I was a Warnock, she's running against Warnock, right? I would, I'd just play that ad because she was, she was doing that because she was, her, thought her biggest problem was a conservative primary challenger, and that open,

open primary they had Doug Collins or whatever. Who, like, how many people in the Republican base, you think, like, really know who Attila the Hun is? I mean, I'm sure they recognize the name or whatever, like we all do, but like I'm saying, it's just such an odd reference point to take. And it also,

like presupposes that when a Republican hears Attila the Hun, they're like, now there's a conservative. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's so weird. There's a lot of weird assumptions baked into it, right? Because I'm not familiar with Tillahun's actual position on like trade and health. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, all I know about him is he was a violent conqueror. And they think violent, I think conservative and good. It's just so weird. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. All right. Next up, we've got some representation from producer Matt's homeland of South Dakota,

where the governor had a novel approach to the coronavirus crisis in an ad she put out. Matt, you can play it whenever. So. This is how we do social distancing in our state. That was great. Plus COVID more hunting. That's the plan for the future. This is how we do social distancing in our state.

murders a bird that you know, and producer might say this earlier, you know that bird was just like caged right off screen the whole time they call action, they let it out in the designated spot, and then she just mows it down. What even is that supposed to be? Again, like, is she trying to make like some kind of scent logical statement where it's like, hey, you can social distance and do things you like as a South Dakotaan. Like, you can go out and murder birds as the South Dakota. and social distance.

See, you can be by yourself. Or is she just like, we're going to shoot COVID? Like, what happened? I don't know, but I like Matt's bird was caged idea. I basically gave it like some more bitchewants before they did. I also took her three shots to hit the bird.

Yes, right. And that was probably the best take. You know how many dead birds were a result of that shoot that day? How many drugged up? Caged, now dead birds came out of that because like, you know, three was probably the best take they got.

A couple of them might have made it, actually. So, you know, here's hoping. Yeah, that's probably our president in 2024, by the way. She's a rising star, man. She's like, she's Sarah Palin who can read a teleprompter, so we're in trouble. Well, she is, producer Matt, again, a South Dakota himself informed us that she has been using

coronavirus relief funds. for tourism ads in South Dakota, which they're tourism ads, but really they're just meant to make her look good, you know, gearing up for the probable presidential run. You're talking about $5 million worth of COVID funding put towards this propaganda. So, yeah, she seemed like a real peach. Matt also informed us that South Dakota has maintained the highest COVID death rate in the country all winter long. So again, bang up job. No wonder she's a rising star. I remember seeing some crazy stat a couple weeks ago that like one in,

one in a thousand people in South Dakota is currently in the hospital with COVID. So that's not good. But she's been using her time as governor to run around. Like she's doing like appearances in Iowa and New Hampshire and she's like that. She's laying the groundwork to run. And that's what she's spending her time doing while all her people die of COVID. Yeah. So again, par for the course.

All right, what do we got next? Let's say here. Oh, yeah. You know what? This is the only, I think the only time that Mike Pence features prominently in the dumb-ass review. And it's a good one, and as far as I'm concerned. Matt, you can play the clip whenever. You know, it's said that people relate to Garfield because Garfield in many ways is them.

He is a human in a cat suit. his creator Jim Davis likes to say. Garfield loves TV and he hates Mondays. He'd rather pig out than work out. In fact, his passion for food and sleep is matched only by his aversion to diet and exercise. A cat after my own heart. You can do you can tell that he's like he's so pumped to do this analogy. You know what I mean? It's like this is going to kill. He thinks in his mind, this Garfield stuff he's got. And also he calls him a cat and a human. suit, which like he's one of the more seemingly human

suit wearing motherfuckers in the government, I think, Mike Pence. So, also just what? What? Yeah, I wish I did the context of why he was talking about Garfield when he was in Congress. I mean, he was just a, he was a conservative talk show radio host who accidentally

end up in Congress. So I'm not really quite sure. His life arc is pretty interesting. But I do respect that he came out and said, like diet and exercise and then the next sense that he's put on a good 40 so thanks these these are honest politician that in that moment so yeah that's another thing he's like he just implies that uh you know americans are generally fat lazy pieces of shit or whatever which i mean hey i hear you mike pants but it's just a funny it's a funny uh stand to tell not a stand to take it's a funny metaphor to uh pin a whole speech on or whatnot um yeah

I mean, it's weird that Mike Pence shares the British take on the average American, you know, so we're all fat and stupid, which I guess they get because they all go to Disneyland. I think we're all Disneyland. You also had that graphic that, he had a graphic there of Garfield, like busting out of a cake or whatever, something like, whatever it was. That was a good choice. All right. So let's see. What's the next?

Oh, this is Donald Trump. And of course, Trump's going to show up a couple. times. That's another thing. Of course, like this entire thing could have been Trump clips, but, you know, I know we're all sick of him. We don't want to do that, but we had a couple choice ones in here, including this next one, where he does something that I recognize from my own past many times, which is, this is basically Donald Trump bombing at Open Mike Knight. This is Donald Trump, when he has a joke that doesn't land. This is his approach to that situation. Play it, Matt.

So I'm doing this town hall with concast, C-O-N, right? Con. Because it's a con job, con-cast. C-O-N, not C-O-M. C-O-N, cast. So I'm doing... Everybody knows, Mark. Everybody knows when a joke don't land,

what you need to do is break it down and reiterate it five times right after that just to make sure that everybody, you know, understood the humor there. What he should have done was the call of Secret Service agent over so he could elbow him in the ribs and go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish if at the end of that it'd have been like, what else is going on? What do you do for a living? Oh, you're my press secretary. Okay.

Yeah. All right. This next one here is a screen. It's a picture we got for it. There is a video, but I think the picture kind of says it all. This is the Oregon Health Authority's regular COVID update that happened to fall on or around Halloween. Yeah.

Put the string grab up there, Mark. This is what they did at the Oregon Health Authority. Sadly reporting three deaths today. The ladies weren't clown makeup. Look at that sad clown. Like, I can't. this is one of those, again, whose idea was the, it's also, it's not just a whose idea was this thing. It's one of those things you see sometimes, and you're like, you know that multiple people had to look at this and say, yeah, that's great, go with that.

You know, like. The best part to me was like she, so the woman talking next to the guy, this sign language interpreter is not dressed up. He can't, he understood he was doing a regular work day. you wore a black suit that appropriate and grim occasion. The lady who's talking, she's delivering the appropriate

emotion, which is sadness and solemnness, but on her face is painted a smile. Right. Yeah, exactly. And like, it's not like she didn't know what she had to say. You know what I mean? Before she put on the clown makeup, and like, yeah,

I don't know. It's the most unjoker person in the world doing joker. accidentally. How, man. A lady works in public health. It went on camera and talked about how many people died today and happy clown makeup.

Yeah, look, man, you know, they can't all be winners. Like sometimes it falls flat a bit or an idea. You know what I mean? I mean, God bless her. She went for it. But, uh, yeah, pretty ill-advised. So, you got a couple more Trump clips coming up for this next one. Who could forget? Trump's infamous Axios interview, which like, you know, we could literally spend multiple episodes only talking about that. And it's hard to pick just one clip from it. But we tried.

So Matt, you can play the clip we got from said interview. We're lower than the world. Lower than Europe? Here's one right here, United States. You take the number of cases. Now look, we're less, meaning we're first. Lost. I don't know what we're first in. Lower than the world. We're last, which means we're first.

I felt like that was a pretty good representation, but the whole interview was filled with that type of shit. The bar graph, the color-coded chart that had no words or numbers on it, it was just bar. No X or Y-axis. I don't know. Like, John Swans, like, I don't know what I'm looking at. What does this graph say?

It's just four different colors. Jonathan Swan was so awesome in that interview. Like that was my favorite part about it. Because again, his, like, his reactions were so, like, we talked about at the time. It was literally like a scene from Veep or something. Like, he seemed like a great actor playing that role. But he wasn't. That was just his genuine reaction to it all.

But how, like, confused and just dumbfounded he was throughout, really added to the whole thing. Trump also had the quote where he said he'd done more for the black community than Abraham Lincoln. Or no, more for the black community than every single. other president except with the possible exception of maybe Abraham Lincoln and just a ton of other insane bullshit. So yeah, it's a

winner. Yeah. I'm usually not a fan of Jonathan Swan, but that interview was good. And seeing anyone, it's kind of like a good lesson to help to see if every other interviewer has been to Trump. Because they handle them through stuff and try to like try to help him arrive

at a point and it's just like, it's not your job, man. So kind of on that note, although that doesn't really happen in this interview, but they're more just sit there and let him roll in this next interview clip that we have, which is when Trump informed everybody about how good his cognitive state was. He passed the test, passed the biggest test, passed it bigger than ever, showed his brain, works great, best brain, and this is how he explained that. Matt, you can play the clip, interview with Fox News.

questions the first questions are very easy the last questions are much more difficult like a memory question it's uh like you'll go person woman man camera tv so they say could you repeat that so i said yeah so it's person woman man camera tv okay that's very good He's literally like the, this is I love lamp from Anchorman, right? Like he's like, person, woman, man, camera, TV are just things that he sees that he's adding into the conversation he's having as an example of how cognitively advanced he is. He did emphasize also that was one of the harder questions on the time. Yes, yes, you're right. You're right.

He did. Before that, he's like, and the early questions are pretty easy. But then later on, let me tell you. And then that was his example for that. It's like, also, there was just listing things that were in front of him. So you couldn't even think objects that weren't in the room. Right. Yeah.

Like he was trying to display that he still has object permanence. It doesn't, he did the exact opposite. And in case you're wondering, to put this, if you want to remember why he was doing this, is because at the time, they're trying to bait Biden into taking that same test. and the funny part is everybody's like, yeah, Joe Biden is completely, he's gone. We don't care.

He's not mean. So you're both crazy, but we're going with the less mean guy. All right. Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Our next one here, this is a screen grab. You can throw up whenever, Mark,

has, comes from Don Jr. after the election, right after the election, displaying his yeah here we go oh no that's that's Eric Trump well we can do we can do that one too Eric Trump

Minnesota get out and vote note the date there the timestamp November 10th 2020 a week after election day a week after the voting it already happened so apparently he just hit the wrong date on his tweet

scheduler or something like that yeah or he he ate too much glue I don't know. Either one. But yeah, so still a progeny of Trump there, but we had another one from Don Jr. If you have it, Matt, and if you don't,

we can just talk about it. I mean, we'll get the point across. There it is. Donald Trump Jr., hashtag Amish for Trump. It's a comment on a picture of Amish people with a Trump flag. But the hashtag targeting the Amish community, I don't know how effective that's going to. be, you know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know if they're going to rally behind that hashtag

or not. The Amish community, their Twitter game leaves a little bit to be desired. Yeah, I mean, what would Amish Facebook be, it'd be like Twitter? It'd be like carving mean replies into a tree or some shit. Yeah. But like maybe they're targeting all the kids on Rumspringer who have cell phones. So all you 17 year old who left home for a year to go have sex and do drugs. Be sure and take the time out to go vote for Trump. Yep. Got another picture for you from the Trump team. Again, who could forget is when Rudy Giuliani was leaking poop out his face. You'd throw that picture up there whenever you got it, Matt. There it is. Look at that. God damn, could you look like a crazier motherfucker?

Like, look how disheveled and out of sorts he looks in that picture, even without, you know, the hair dye running down his face. That's America, Trey. Yeah, Rudy had a rough go of it, man, that whole stretch there after the election. Once proud, accomplished entity who peaked in the 90s, 9-11 hit, gave us way too much swagger and credibility, and then now just a decrepit shell. It's America, baby. Rudy G.

Holy shit. I didn't know you were about to do a whole thing when you said that's America, baby. But you nailed it. I thought you were just saying, that's America. But no, you had it. You had the whole deal. Really played it out. That was good.

So speaking to Rudy and his whole shenanigans after the election. This next one, I think, is my personal favorite of all of the dumb-ass compilations we have. Rudy Star Witness in the Michigan Election Frog case. Just whenever you got it, Matt, just play it. And I don't play the whole goddamn thing as far as I'm concerned. I just, I love it so much. The poll book is completely off. Completely off.

Off by 30,000? I'd say that poll book is off by over 100,000. That poll book, why don't you look at the registered voters on there? How many registered voters are on there? Did you, do you even know the answer to that? No, I guess it's, I'm talking. trying to get to the bottom of this here zero zero there's zero so my question then is if the how many wait what about what about how what about the turnout rate a hundred and

twenty percent let's let's let's let's let representative johnson ask his question so the poll book number there's two things that could happen here either the poll book number if bounce from common multiple multiple times there's two options option number one is that the poll book numbers are not going to match. They don't. The actual. Not by thousands and thousands of votes. That's that we see right now. You take a look again. Take a look again.

Option number two is that they essentially were filling in names of people who didn't vote. Dead people too? And there's more to that than even what we showed. Like I said, we spend so much time on drunk Michigan lady, hero that she is, hero of the people there. This has some actual news attached to it. I forgot that two days ago. go, Dominion fell out a lot, threatened her with a lawsuit, told her to please shut the

fuck up. And they hit her with one of the most, go get your shine box thing as we've ever seen in a lawsuit. Cool. We write you now because you have positioned yourself as a prominent leader of the ongoing misinformation campaign for pretending to have some sort of insider knowledge regarding Dominion's business activities. When in reality, you were hired through a staffing agency for one day to clean glass

on machines and other menial tasks. Oh, shit. hitting her with it. If you don't know shit about computers is what they said. Yeah, and you know, I'm inclined to believe that. I don't know, maybe that's stereotypical of me, but I wouldn't think of her as a computer scientist. But Mark, what was that other shit that came out, like,

right afterwards about all the shit she had had going on prior to that. Again, star witnesses here. This is the... She was on probation. What she did was she did was, recorded some sex tapes with her boyfriend and sent it to his ex-wife and then filed a false police report saying that the woman had hacked her email and stolen the sex tapes. So she tried to frame her boyfriend's ex-wife for stealing some weird revenge sex porn she sent.

So she sent it herself and then tried to claim it was revenge porn on behalf of the ex-wife? Yeah. So like, but again, going back to the guy with the weird. Scottish golf beret. Where the fuck do you find people even think of doing shit like that? I know. And why are they all in the same political side?

The base, buddy. That's where you find them in the base. That's what I'm saying. That's what I was trying to get at earlier. Like, that's a very valid question you just asked. But the fact that so many of them have cropped up in the wake of the election and have been put front and center, center stage with this whole thing

by the right I think indicates that like this is just what they're working with dude like this is this is all they got when it comes to this type of like who else are you going to find to do it if this wasn't the best they can do they wouldn't

put them out there and like you just said how do you even find this many people who check all these boxes but they keep doing it because like what else are they going to do I know it's a selection bias thing because like no one else is willing to do this. But like at a certain point, don't you're, if you're really doing to do that on it,

don't you look around and be like, I'm surrounded by nothing but crazy losers. Wait a minute. What club am I am, right? You think you'd have one of those moments of realization. I remember like when I was in high school, I realized they needed to cut back on drugs. They looked around and realized it wouldn't be hanging out with any of these of people if it wasn't for the drugs. Yeah. It seems like you've got to have some sort of moment like that.

You're like, oh, shit. Yeah, I'm going to do something else. Yeah. All right, I want to close the dumbass in review on this one. This is from right around the same time in that same brief and magical period in Rudy Giuliani's life. I just can't think of a better thing to end on me personally. It's a couple clips we're going to play back to back. And Matt, you just roll them whenever.

Let's have it. The answer. The answer that I gave you is they didn't bother to interview a single, witness just like all right keep going the answer point of order

the answer that I gave you is they didn't bother to interview a single witness just like you they don't want to know the truth one last one and it's different what was the last part that last part is not

you're attempting to seek a pardon so why is it not part of that I will I will ask that he'd be he'd be disciplined for that first of all, first of all. I don't know, dude, as far as I'm concerned, there's no more fitting way to end the dumbass review of 2020

than with some fart clips. The man farted twice. So, and hey, it's hilarious. And to me, this is so juvenile, but one of the things I love about it is really feeling like he's farting and everyone else around him is wearing a mask. Now, if you didn't know about COVID.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So that gets us through up to date so far. However, we have one more clip

in this same vein. This is Mark's very favorite pop culture moment of the year. That's what you set it up. Probably the worst politics, pop culture crossover event in history. And it was we were arguing, we spent a whole day arguing about whether or not

it was a joke or not, because it's so bad and so corny that but they interviewed the guy and he's being completely earnest. It wasn't trying to be funny. He really didn't place a bunch of American heroes in his mind onto the Avengers on your left scene from Endgame. And I think we'll be able to watch this one with you because it's...

They'll remember it, but yeah, let's hit it. Yeah, thank you. All of these states that we've won tonight. And then you take a look at the kind of margins that we've won by. Frankly, we did win this election. What do you, shut up, man? No. Now that you're really in for a ride.

Like, okay, they're going to do the whole thing. Okay. The whole thing. And then you're like, okay, well, why is Barack Obama? Okay, here's the big reveal. Barack Obama's Black Panther labeled Georgia. There's nothing Georgia about Barack Obama other than, then you start thinking, is this place?

Who else is going to be Black Panther, Mark? Who else you're going to make black panther other than Barack Obama? Oh, there we go. I love that O face. The O face. He's got on Biden and makes him to fly by. Bernie Sanders is Dr. Strange that kind of love. Yeah, yeah, I can dig that.

Beto for some reason. I don't know what Beto is in this. You didn't do anything. He had to find somewhere to put all these characters in. You got to make the best. Keep on my head. At least Pete Buttig is with the campaign circuit. I don't know what that is.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, my favorite part's coming up. Very short. Friend of Andrew Yang. Also, yes, exactly right. Andrew Yang is the only Asian dude in the whole original clip. And it's going to be in 100 fighters. This is the 20th place.

Is that every one? Furnberg, her to the border machine? Yeah. Did you think of more anti-greenhouse gas with a cloud with a rocket? Sean Connery, man. Sean Connery is going to die. Now, every vote must be counted. No one's going to take our democracy away from this.

Oh, shit. Avengers! The cutoff Trump screen, at the end of it too. Like, I don't know. Like, I, like, like, I, like, again, finding out the do was, like, completely, because you were the first person

to send it to me, and, like, Drew and Corey and our other group text, too. And I remember, we were debating at first, like you said, spent a whole day debating it because I was like, I was like, I don't know, man. Sean Connery's showing up

and the scream at the end and all this other stuff. It's like, I think this guy's, I think this, you know, he's doing a bit. This is a whole, this is like satire or whatever. But like you said, there was an interview with him that was published and no not at all completely earnestly earnestly done and i mean huge hit mark

massive hit massive hit 60 000 retweets or whatever colossal they had uh hunter biden smoking a cigarette as fat thor and he meant it earnestly yeah thank you hunter biden for saving america i guess i don't know It is pretty, you know, again, also pretty 2020. Like everything about this year is going to seem unbelievable to, I wanted to say to future generations, but in the middle of saying that, I got worried like, no,

they might be even wilder and dumber than we are. So, you know, who the fuck knows? They think we're really on top of it when they look back on us. I mean, I hope not, but.

They're probably doing like the bad guys plot and tenant trying to send, trying to go back in time to kill us all. Yeah. So, Matt, you can start putting some comments up there if you want. I do want to do we have a, I don't think I want to show this clip, man, because it's depressing. We'll just talk about it. So we do have a dumbass of the year and a anti-dumass of the year. The dumbass of the year is a huge chunk of us Americans.

Why do we say that? Well, because they won't wear masks. They won't stay the fuck at home. They won't file any of these protocols despite, their grandmas dying and they've made it a million times worse for all of us. We had a clip to show, but like I said, it's just sad, but I'll explain the clip to you. It's a medical professional in Los Angeles talking about how now any kind of cardiac arrest or stroke victim or anything like that that is responded to by L.A. County health officials cannot and will not be taken to a hospital

because there's nowhere for them to go. So people are going to just be dying now, not even from COVID, but because there's no help available to them. So that's fun. You know that thing in movies where somebody's heart stopped beating, but they do chest compressions all the way to the hospital, then they get you restarted to the hospital. They can get your heart started back up at your house.

They're not taken yet, basically. So that's not very good, but I wanted to point out, like, Matt and I were talking about it earlier, but like the people have actually done a really good job this year. And when, when, when the George Floyd chest and when the Corona pandemic first started, there was like all this stuff. You always see this doom porn about how social strife makes people dark and evil. People get guns and they steal each other's shit. Right.

Like walking dead type shit. It's always like the theme is always, oh, it's not the monsters or whatever. It's the people that are left after the monsters show up. By the way, tell us what you think the dumbest shit was this year and whatever else you got. But yeah, go ahead. But I was going to say it's like, but that's not actually what happens. So social scientists would tell you is when times are hard, people pulled together, like grapes of raft type shit or during the dust bowl or people find ways to work for each other and give each other food.

And like, people have been doing that. People have stayed home this year. People worn masks and tried to take care of each other and get donated to food banks and taking care of their neighbors. Much of people in my neighborhood have been organized, like taking hands sanitizer and bottle water to homeless people. And because they know times are even harder for them. And so it's like, it's easy to focus on the negative. But people have done a really good job taking care of each other this year. And they just been failed by their government.

And that sucks. But everyone else, you mostly did pretty good. Yeah. So that's the anti-dum-ass of the year, the rest of us. Dumbass of the year? A lot of us, anti-dum-ass, the rest of us. That's what we've landed here at evening skews. So, yeah, I don't know.

it's also like I've been thinking all day like I feel like a lot of people probably um you know last day of this year and we're all like oh thank god I'm so fucking glad this year is over but it's like tomorrow is still gonna be basically what today was you know obviously there's like there's light at the end of the tunnel now there's like hope on the horizon which is great but I'm just saying I don't want to come across like we think that oh now all the bad shit's over you know and tomorrow starts the good shit like there's still. a lot of bad shit to come for sure. I mean, it's an artificial holiday built into the calendar for us to sit down and think about what we want to do different going forward. It's like it's a time for reflection. So I think it's natural too. Justin Goldberg says, biggest dumb ass of 2020 for him.

South Carolina for reelecting Lindsey Graham. I mean, you know, I hear you. But, you know, we'll be Kentucky reelected Mitch McConnell. And as bad as Mitch Mitch or as bad as Lindsey Graham is, uh, I feel like that's even worse. But yeah, and look, again, I've talked about I'm from Tennessee. I don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to that thing. We are also terrible in that regard.

I mean, Lindsey Graham is a conventional politician. What makes it bad as he's spineless, but it's also good because you can make him vote for your bills if you yell out of enough. Ms. McConnell is fucking evil. Right. Kim Shea 22 says, worst thing this year, that the election was as close as it was. millions of people voted for Voldemort.

I agree completely. We've talked about that on the show before, too. Like I said, before the, on election, it went viral, a bunch of people saw it, but that shit that Van Jones was crying about, that is also how I felt. His whole thing about, like, look, I'm glad it's trending the way it is, but I really thought this would be a repudiation of Trumpism and everything he stands for, and that hasn't happened, and that makes me sad. And, I mean, I agree with that completely.

I mean, it's like you try to think about what Trumpism actually is and it doesn't really make any sense. Like it doesn't, it's like a dog whistle that most of us can't hear. But it's basically, you know, we just had festivist. Trumpism is an area of grievances, right? And I saw somebody talking about how like Republicans losing Georgia, Trump caused sabotaging Georgia is a self-owned. And I'm like, it's not a self-owned. It's a perfect encapsulation of Trumpism because. Absolutely.

Asoff and Warnock aren't on Trump's enemies list. Lawfler and Purdue are crushing Lawfler and Purdue for not being loyal enough for Trump or not trying to help him keep in office is them failing him so of course turning on them is a natural extension of it. It's no actual political beliefs behind it. He's just fucking angry old dude. Yeah. Rebecca Ryan says I'm from Florida.

Look what we, quote, contributed this year. Yeah, again, you know, we could have a fuck up state Olympics up here right now. You know what I mean? Like I said, I don't feel even with Florida I don't I don't have a lot to or you know I guess I don't feel I don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to those arguments but I mean yeah y'all fucked up y'all fucked up for sure yeah but big time what are you going to do a lot of us did ronda santas only one two years ago like 30,000 votes or no maybe it's more than that I think but like it's so weird because the guy he he he beat Andrew Wiggum I think was his name I ended up getting arrested in a hotel room with meth a couple of months Florida, baby. Yeah, and it's like how many more people will be alive right now if you guys had addicted to the method?

It's a crazy thought. Right. Did you say that happened like shortly thereafter? Because it's like, dude, what else you got, you know, you lose an election in Florida. You got to burn that steam off. What else you're going to do? Meth, hotel. It's Florida.

It's what you got to do. By way, my wife's from Florida and I got married in Florida. I love Florida. And Florida is not just all the crazy shit. No, I agree. I also love Florida too. but I love it for how crazy it is. In my experience, most Floridians are pretty cool about acknowledging that.

I know what's up. I remember sitting on a patio of a bar in a metropolitan area and seeing an alligator out the back window. It's like, absolutely cool. Jennifer Hartthorn says, Awesome person of the year equals Stacey Abrams and her squad for helping to flip Georgia Blue and showing everyone it can be done.

Once again, I completely agree. I think it's hard to overstate Stacey Abrams significance and the contribution she has made. So, yeah, absolutely. She deserves all the respect in the world. I mean, like, it's like, people get, we've been saying this is a shit year for like six years in a row, right? Things keep getting worse. And it's like, in a way that seems unsustainable. And you have a bright point of a lady who just worked hard that made a difference in her community.

And it's like, oh, yeah, that's what you're supposed to do instead of being like us and just bitch. about it on the internet. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm good at bitting on the internet.

You guys do your thing. Retriever 19 Golden says South Dakota went ahead with the Sturgis rally and Trump's rally at Mount Rushmore. Yeah, again, they fucked up. Did you see their governor earlier? You know what I mean?

Like, of course they did that shit. But yeah, I mean, uh, that's just once again, par for the, course for red states in this country this year, although I do think Sturgis in particular is pretty egregious situation, but just watch that campaign ad or whatever, that PSA earlier and tell me you're surprised by any of that. I mean, look, I understand what to feel normal, and I can

empathize the people who travel for the holidays to see their families because you feel your family is a good thing and it makes people feel pleasant and loved and less lonely. So the people who got their family were sick, I think they shouldn't have done that but it seems understandable. I do not understand risking your life to go see a 60-year-old dentist's wife's tits. Yeah, well, it's because you don't rock hard enough, Mark.

I don't know what else to say. All right, well, that's it. Well, everybody go to their New Year's Eve festivities. I don't know what y'all got playing. I ain't doing shit. I'll probably be asleep by the time. the ball drops. Tomorrow can't get here soon enough.

But we thank you very much for being with us to this point in time. It's been fun trying to figure this out and everything. And that's it for the last evening skews of 2020. But we'll be back in 2021 on Tuesday. We'll be here. Mark, what are you got? Happy New Year, man. I hope everybody gets New Year's in.

And we're going to stick to them this year, everybody. Sure. All right. Well, thank you all very much. We love you. and see you next year. Am I right? Cheers.

Cheers.