wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of December 8, 2020

Episode Date: December 15, 2020

Well first off, ANDREW YANG JOINS THE SKEWS this week! We wasted no time getting right to the conversation and it was surely a good un, y'all! Later in the week, Senior Legal Correspondent Drew Morgan and Senior Georgia Correspondent Corey Ryan Forrester joined us to talk about their respective areas of expertise, and we had a big ol time in the spaces in between all of that. Enjoy. (NOTE from Trae: I am just sorry as hell that I'm so late getting these files posted. Last week in particular was insanely busy for me and I just lost track of it. A man will do better in the future. Love y'all.)

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Thank you very much for being here. Today is Tuesday, December 8th. I'm Trey Crower. That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? Yeah, buddy. We got a great episode of evening skews coming up.

special episode tonight because of our guest mr. Andrew Yang we're gonna be talking with him very briefly but first a couple of quick announcements first I wanted you know that we're so excited to talk to Andrew we're gonna get straight to it here in just a couple of minutes but not to worry we still got the daily dumb ass and viewer comments and other beloved segments coming to you in the second half of the show we're just shuffling things around a little bit that's all and secondly if you've been following me for a while you may be aware that I'm a producer and also the narrator and host of a forthcoming documentary

film about universal basic income called Inherent Good. That's actually how I first met Andrew, who was kind enough to sit down with me for an interview for that documentary, and it's not where the relationship ended, because I'm excited to announce right here, right now, that Andrew's organization, Humanity Forward, is presenting a virtual screening event of Inherent Good this coming weekend, December 10th through the 13th through the app, show and tell. You can make a donation to see an advance. screening of the film and all of those donations this is important all the donations go

towards the national advocacy campaign for direct cash relief and right now i think if things are working out the way they should my co-producer rennie should be in the comments providing actual links for you guys as needed so i hope you check that out thrilled to be partnering with humanity forward on that inherent good coming soon so with that said let's do the thing mark let's get to the man himself our guest tonight in my opinion at this point needs no but we're gonna give him one anyway he's an American entrepreneur philanthropist author and former presidential candidate not just any presidential candidate the New York Times deemed him quote the internet's favorite candidate and I would

just add in my limited personal experience with him he's also a hell of a good dude we're thrilled to have him here let's get to it everybody please welcome to even excuse mr. Andrew Yang Andrew hey man thank you for having me Trey and Mark it's a pleasure to be here I am so pumped for the documentary. I haven't seen it. I was a part of it, a very small part of it, because you know how much work goes into those things. But I cannot wait to see the end result. Oh, I think you like it. You come across great, man. You know, surprise, surprise. The Sterling's theme for a big hit. Yeah, yeah, all those beach scenes.

Andrew, good to see you again, man. Thank you so much for doing this. I guess let's start simple. Just give everybody a little update on what you got going on. on now. Geographically, where are you at? What's going on? What are you up to? I am in the great state of Georgia because we've got not one but two special Senate races on January 5th. And I'm here because we need relief in the hands of the American people and our government has not been able to get a whole lot done with the current composition, in part because Mitch McConnell likes to say no a lot more than they like to say yes. So I'm here knocking on doors and getting out the vote for John Ossoff and Reverend Warnock.

They're great guys, great candidates, and I'm doing everything I can to help them win. Right on. So what's the general vibe there, sort of on the ground in Georgia? Is there you guys feeling good about the efforts down there? Because, you know, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in Georgia, obviously, lately. We've got, like, plenty of Republican, hardcore Trumpers in Georgia who have threatened to, like, boycott the vote and whatnot. Like, how are Democrats feeling about?

the turnout here i definitely agree with the uh republican boycott idea certainly if you were considering voting for david perdu or kelly luffler you know how you can really make them listen to you boycott they will not be able to mess with you like this again listen to your leaders there was like a a trump lawyer who i think made that case uh so the the energy on the ground is fascinating you know um it uh it uh it um it It's really important. A lot of folks know that they have to get out and vote again. To me, this really is to get out the vote battle.

Because if everyone comes out that voted in November, then the Dems have a really good shot. Because obviously, Joe won the state by a narrow margin in November. You were in Columbus yesterday, right? Is that correct? Yeah, yeah, I was. Was that yesterday? Maybe Sunday. I can't remember.

I've just been, you know, like weekends have no meaning when you are given by the people. What's a weekend? Anyway. So you guys run. they're pumping up canvassers and people good to go door knocking and volunteers but like with all the death threats is it is there any sort of like concern i mean obviously the internet's not real but it's still like feels scary even does it feel does it feel does it feel scary in real life as it looks like on the internet i guess what i'm trying to

ask in real life people are warm and delightful you know there were dozens of people who are there to knock on doors and you know it's true when you knock on a door and meet someone it's true when you have these kinds of canvassing events. It's just a lot of love, a lot of warmth. You know, we can't let the internet influence our behaviors to that degree, I don't think. You know, it's like, because it's so much easier to be a jackass online, frankly, that it is. Like, if someone's standing right in front of you, like, it's actually generally a different thing, particularly if the person standing in front of you is well intended. So I'm still, very, very confident that the internet does not reflect what's going on in most people's day-to-day

lives in that way. For sure. You said everything rests on Georgia. And I think I know why, but can you just elaborate a little bit on why this is so important these races? Yeah, you have these major efforts to try and get something positive done. And then they all run into the goalie that is Mitch McConnell. And I was joking in Columbus that if the Senate's a conference.

and Mitch is a driver, he's just aiming it at a ditch and just going, rar-r-r. Like, oh, why is this car going anywhere? So if Reverend Warnock and John Ossov win, then you have a very still evenly divided Senate. So you're still going to need consensus, and frankly, you're going to need to get people like Joe Manchin who represents West Virginia on board. So it's not extreme or dramatic at all,

but it would actually be a functional legislature in a way that we don't have now. So one of the things I think a lot of folks here can relate to. If you give Washington an excuse not to work, it will take it. You know what I mean? Like right now, if you give people an excuse to say, oh, it's their fault, it's their fault, then we get inaction, which we've seen for the last eight months or so. So this to me is an effort to make it so that our government can function. And I know that there are some folks who think like bipartisanship is the key, in my opinion, 50-50 is going to lead to very bipartisan efforts.

It is like underrated one key. Like you're writing McConnell is a huge roadblock. But like even if just having being able to put bills in the floor, you'll be more likely to give Republican votes for it. I mean, it's like just Mitch McConnell being a one-man break is sort of like even screwing up members of his own party who might vote for, for example, cash relief if, you know, if they had an opportunity. Yeah.

And I'm super pumped that some members of Congress have introduced a cash relief bill as part of this relief bill literally just a few hours ago. So thank you to everyone who helped make that happen. Humanity Forward has been a big part of that because we've been calling and wrangling members of Congress. I've had over 50 meetings with members of Congress over the last number of days trying to let them know, look, three quarters of your voters are for cash relief.

It's common sense. Like every economist is for it. So the goal is to get more legislators in position where they can actually put forward this kind of thing. And there's like a tough rule in Congress right now where you can't propose anything unless it's approved by the majority of the majority. So think about that if you're a minority member of Congress.

Like when I mean minority member of Congress, I mean like you're in the party that's not in control. Like you literally can't even introduce legislation. You know what I mean? How messed up is that? So there's a reason why nothing's getting done. Right. And you know, you're talking about cash relief

and how so many people are for it, which completely makes sense. And maybe it's just my perspective, but it seems to me like there's not, enough hammering home of that concept from like democratic leadership like it seems like it could be a layup to really you know hammer this forward but like Pelosi and schumer and i feel like they're not exactly screaming this from the rooftops do you how do you feel about that you think that's fair why you think that is if you do think it's fair i'm with you 100% tray i mean this stuff is so obvious

you know it's like if three quarters of us are for it and all you have to do is look around our communities. I mean, you find all these families who are struggling, what can you do to help them? And if you say, like, oh, we're going to jam money into PPP, it's like, well, guess what? Maybe they're not a business owner, or maybe their business doesn't have a banking relationship or whatever the heck, you know? I mean, there's so many Americans who are falling through the cracks right now. So it should be common sense to every member of Congress. Certainly, it's been mystifying why leaders have not led with this to a higher degree, but you're seeing new leaders emerge. And I am so grateful to the members of Congress who have raised their hand and said, hey, people want cash relief.

It's obvious. So shout out to Lisa Blount Rochester and David McKinley, who were the bipartisan, I might add. So Lisa Blun Rochester is a Democrat from Delaware, and David McKinley is a Republican from West Virginia, and they put forward this cash relief legislation. And you look at that team, you're like, okay, you know, let's get on board with that because like this is a no-brainer. And you do wish that leadership could have provided that in the beginning. But the problem right now in my mind is that you have this very unipolar negotiation going on

where you essentially only had three people who were the key decision makers. It was Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and then there was Steve Mnuchin who was negotiating on behalf of the government. So if you were another member of Congress, you were at arm's length from these negotiations. So to get common sense across the table, I think it took some of these other members to step up. So thank you, Lisa. Thank you, David, and thank you for everyone who's supporting that bill. I think just so people don't understand what to stay here, but besides the, I think people know about the insider scandals that both Loughler and Purdue were involved in. But even previously to have been involved in serving the Senate, Lofler's big career move, which he established a credit default swap clearinghouse and it came in islands to use as an offshore tax haven. That was her big contribution to the business world.

and Purdue was a CEO of Dollar General and then lost a lawsuit in the shareholders because when he sold out, the company to a big private equity firm, he apparently ripped off his own shareholders who were there to rip off poor people by running down or Dollar General. So it's a real, it's a real turtur duccan of not cool people there. Yeah, David Purdue and Kelly Leffler both had insider trading issues when they found out about the coronavirus. So imagine you're in the Senate, in the Senate. People explain to you that this pandemic is going to rage and kill people. and shut down the country. And your first move is to balance your stock portfolio. Literally Kelly Leffler like sold millions of stock. And then she bought stock and things like Zoom.

Like that is your move. It's not like, hey, I'm concerned about the people of Georgia or the people of the country. It's like, oh, how is this going to impact my vast riches? Like that is literally like the level of behavior that we saw out of these folks. And I think David Perdue has one thing going for him that Kelly Leffler does not.

He actually got elected by the people of Georgia. Kelly Leonard, like a lot of people in Georgia are looking up being like, she's our senator? Like, what did this happen? Like, I don't even know this happened. Because she got appointed in part because she made a six-figure donation. So when you, when I'm on the ground here in Georgia, there are a lot of warrenasov signs. There are some Purdue signs. A Leffler sign is like a freaking, you know, like unicorn or like.

Like if you see a Leffler side, you're like a Leffler sign. And even when you do see a Leffler sign, it's because there's like a whole slew of Purdue side. They felt bad and they just stuck a Leffler sign in there. Yeah, I was reading people saying that it's a real possibility that people split their ticket and ends up being Warnock and Purdue winning, which is just a really funny, dumb result that would be. I mean, that would be a very, very odd thing, Mark, because you know it would be very rare for someone to bother showing up for a special election January 5th. And then split their votes. Like, that would be a typical voter behavior.

But if there's any instance where that might happen, it might be this one. Yeah, it's totally bizarre. Speaking of Dead direct cash relief, that was your big issue during the primary, the presidential primary was a universal banking facing income, which I hesitate to ask you to explain because it says what it is in it, which is a nice little messaging bonus, right? Well, not at all, Mark. I mean, I'm here, and I appreciate the work you all do.

You know, it's new to a lot of people. But we called it the freedom. an end. And what we're saying is, look, at this point, we all should be treated like owners and shareholders of the richest country in the history of the world. That's even more true with this pandemic. Because if you look at the bartender or the food truck operator or the security guard who doesn't have a job right now to go to, we know it has nothing to do with anything they did or didn't do. It's just that the bar shut down. No one's going to the place where the food truck used to have business. The security guard's mall is shut down. I mean, whatever.

it happens to be. So we need to treat ourselves like the owners of this country instead of the supplicants. You know what I mean? It's like this country is ours. Everyone has intrinsic value. Like we should be able to treat ourselves with the degree of dignity and humanity. So universal basic income is a plan that's been around for ages. And they've had it in effect in Alaska for decades with oil money. Everyone in Alaska gets $1,500 a year, no questions asked. So a family of four at $6,000. Some of you are like Alaska, that sounds pretty good. So one of the things I was suggesting on the trail is like, look, what's the oil of the 21st century? It's data, it's technology, it's AI, all this stuff's coming online and people are not seeing a dime of it. We're selling

our data for $200 billion a year and not seeing a dime. You know, you log on to these platforms and Facebook's like pelting you with ads and whatnot or like YouTube and the rest of it. They're just selling and reselling you all the time to the tune of billions of dollars paying next to nothing in taxes or nothing in taxes. And then we see nothing. And then people are looking around being like, what the hell happened to the economy? Right. So, you know, you were talking earlier about it being like a common sense idea.

When we're talking about, you know, cash relief when it comes to the stimulus package of what's going on in the Senate right now. And I've always thought that, you know, giving more money to regular people also seems like a common sense idea. And I feel like you can make the argument, you know, you're, you were the UBI guy right. That was your thing. You were out there at the forefront, pound on the drum for it. And you also, kind of, from most people's perspectives, had a meteoric rise.

You kind of came out of nowhere and people immediately latched on to what you were saying. And I feel like the main thing you were saying was we need to be giving more money to Americans on a regular basis, right, from the government. So do you think that, like, just your personal. success that you saw as a candidate is indicative of the general feeling towards UBI as a concept. Like, it means something, right? The majority of Americans are for universal basic income now, Trey. Again, three quarters are for cash relief. Those numbers were not that high when I was running for president.

If they were, I might have done better. But now they're that high because we're in the circumstance. And there are dozens of mayors who come out for, and including the mayor of Atlanta, the mayor of Los Angeles, the mayor of Newark, and on and on. So it's wildly popular. To the extent that I'm popular, I'm just going to try and use it as an instrument to get positive things done for the American people.

So one of the ways I did that was by meeting with members of Congress and they're willing to talk to me, frankly, because they know that I've got a following and can bring some support to bear. So talking to members of Congress who want to do the right thing, trying to get people to vote here in Georgia for John Ossoff and Roman Warnock. You know, one of the fun things, and I think this is true for you guys too, it's like, the more you do for people, the more people are like,

okay, this person's not so bad, or this person actually seems to be trying to help, you know? And there's so much cynicism built up in America that at first people are like, what's your angle? What's going on? Right. It's real. But then if you just keep out of long enough, they're like, you know what? He might actually be sincere.

There was one of the interesting things I was looking at today was like, among the two Democratic candidates in the primary who pulled the highest with 2016 Trump voters were you and Bernie. And you don't have anything else in common other than your both were concretely promising people help, right? I mean, and we don't seem like we're products of the system, you know? Like I'm actually talking to Bernie this week about how we can try and collaborate and getting money to people. But there is something up with kind of like the institutional vibe of our government, of our media, of like a lot of the leaders in both parties. But certainly I think some of the Democrats kind of give that vibe off a little bit more than others. And I think people sensed that me and Bernie just had visions for how we could make people's lives better.

And there was also a sense that some of the current institutions maybe weren't thrilled. about some of the things we were putting out there, which, which, you know, for some voters, like, just made them like us more. But certainly I was deeply indebted to Bernie and inspired by him. I supported him in 2016. And when he put his arm around me and told me he liked me, he's like, one of my proudest moments on the trail. Honestly, I felt like, like Bernie likes me, because, you know, he's like kind of a hard guy to read that way. Like, you can be around him and not know if he likes you. Right. I don't know exactly how to even frame this question. I feel like you kind of alluded to this a little bit earlier. Do you feel, and nobody is trying to put a

positive span on the horrific situation we're in with the pandemic and everything. But what kind of effect do you think it specifically has had on the public's perception of universal basic income? Now my take on it, Trey, is that the pandemic had dramatically accelerated our problems. Like, one of the some of the things I was campaigning on was like, hey, Amazon's going to close the malls. And then some people were like, is that happening? And then COVID happened. And then like a lot of retail is dead. I mean, if you look at all the bankruptcies of some of these major businesses.

And companies are doubling down on automation very quickly. Sam's Club, Robot janitor in every location. Tyson food, meatpacking robots. Google AI to replace call center workers. All these announcements came out over the last number of weeks. Some of them were COVID related. So COVID sped us up. And the only hope we have is that COVID also speeds up the solutions.

You know what I mean? Like I was going around saying, hey, we should give everyone a thousand bucks a month. And then people were looking at it being like, oh, you know, that seems awfully dramatic. And then COVID happened and everyone looks around being like, why, that's pretty much the only thing we can do. That makes sense. So that is the thing I'm fighting for because I agree with you. cannot put a good spin on any of this pandemic and the rest of it. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives, millions of lost their jobs,

at least 10 million that we know of. So the least we can do is accelerate some of the solutions along with the problems. That's my take. If we get all the problems and none of the solutions, then it's the worst of all worlds. Automation is like, this is a funny, interesting dynamic, because automation is like the stick argument for universal basic income. It's like that's the bad thing that's coming. But like it also would free people up to like start their own businesses with a little bit of a cushion without being afraid.

It would allow people to be like be do more like labor organizing where they wouldn't have to worry so much about their job wouldn't be. Losing your job wouldn't be a death threat basically. You know, so there's like it feels like there's lots of like it's a stew of reasons why it would be a good idea to make the world a better place in it. Yeah, I'm like you all where I'm an entrepreneur trying to make good things happen. And you know if people had more money in their hands, there'd be a lot more people trying to do something that they've had inside of them. You know, whether that start a business, bakery, nonprofit, band, like, you know, sort of give rise to their own creative impulses, do something that maybe the market has not been super rewarding of. But if we all had a bit of extra money, then we'd actually be like, sure, I'll pay for your, you know, tutoring or, you know, whatever it is that you're. want to offer. So that is the only path forward. It's like you have scarcity and abundance at war

with each other in America and scarcity is winning by a mile. I mean, you gotta be honest. Cicacity is freaking dominating. And it's very hard to be optimistic and do something like start a business successfully if you're doing it from a position of scarcity and desperation or subsistence. You know, like if someone's in a position of security and stability and optimism, and then they can reach out to people and say, hey, I really think our community needs this. And none of the people say, yeah, I agree with you. And then they'll like, you know, patronize the business or spread the word. I mean, that's the way entrepreneurship happens.

And I'm deeply passionate that we need more entrepreneurship. We're going to get much less of it with the current circumstances, obviously. You know what I mean? You look around, like, no one's going to be out there. Like our current bars and restaurants are like can't stay open. No one's going to be like, you know what this market needs? like my new bar concept. I mean,

you know, it wouldn't make any sense. Right. And another argument, but another thing that's worth pointing out that I've seen pop up in our comments some too is it also this idea at UBI also puts a value on work that is currently not valued by our economy, meaning like caregiving work.

You know, people raising children or taking care of old relatives and things like that. Tray, are you a dad? What's your situation, Tray? Yes, yeah, yeah, I am. Yeah, yeah. I got an eight and a nine-year-old, man. I just got a dog, but she takes a lot of time,

so I could use it. I could use turn out a few gigs so I can play a little more fetch, so that's like UVA. But I think about this is, like, sometimes we forget, you get so lost in career stuff and work, you forget what the point of being alive is. And, like, one thing the market doesn't reward is you turn in on extra hours of work

to do things like raise your children. Right. Yeah. I mean, like as a parent myself, I'm going to aid in the world. My wife works harder than I do for sure. And the market values her work at zero. You know, my dad does parent 80 and I live in fear of him falling ill. And then if he were ill, you know, like presumably, like I would be able to try and take care of him.

Market values out at zero. Market values volunteering. A lot of arts and creativity, unfortunately, for the folks who have those aspirations. Like the market undervalues that stuff. very systematically. So we have to try and evolve, really. If we let the market value all of our activity, you're going to see, I mean, this is what's going on in this country right now.

People are having fewer kids. People are getting married less. People are more depressed than ever. People are struggling with addiction and suicide more than ever. It's like all of the things that you value in life are getting eroded because the market does not care about that. them. You know what I mean? Like if I help you, if I go to my neighbor and like, you know, help you clear your driveway or something like that, and the market doesn't like that. So like all of like

the stuff that makes the world around positively that the market rewards, then we're going to get more of that. But then all the other stuff, we're already seeing less up. So we have to do is evolve and say, look, some of the stuff has value, whether the market recognized or not. The market is not all seeing, all knowing, and all powerful, you know? Like the market is going to kick many, many Americans to the curb if you have, like, artificial intelligence that can do that job. And it's like, is that right? Are we just going to accept a future?

So you're right about this guys, both of you where it's like, there's the stick and the carrot. I'm passionate about both of them. I'm passionate about the positive vision of what we can do. Like, we actually all have some money in our pockets and have intrinsic value. There's inherent good in it to the point of it. to the point of the movie. There you go. But also the stick is real.

Right. We're being a version of the stick and it's beating the crap out of us. Now, like 19 million people are facing eviction by the end of the year or something like that. It's a bad place. And it's really, the scleroticness of our government has been frustrating for a long time. But in the face of, I mean, could we mount a resistance to an invasion right now? I mean, no one's not a threat of it. But if there was an existential threat to America, could we,

face it because I don't know if we could. Yeah, it's very weird. Oh, we could definitely face it, Mark. You know, come on. We're the most heavily armed society ever. It'd be like Red Dawn trial. It's like the Russians come in, like, you know, a parachute in, and then everyone in the town like busts out their rifle. Like, bringing on aliens.

Do you guys see that stuff about how the Israeli leader who's like, yeah, aliens are real? He actually called it the Galactic Federation. Do you believe that crap? So now in my, in my vision, it's like the aliens descend, Red Dawn style. And then, you know, yeah, we can. still do it though Mark bring it on USA USA the aliens don't want to come here the aliens can pick another country like Canada it was pretty edifying that like trump got his first national security briefing it was immediate like we need a space force right you know I was talking to my wife about this

last night I was like hey is this this aliens thing legit and then you read it and it's like well this is really guys he was pretty legit and and and then you know and then you have to ask those questions like do I believe in intelligent life it's like well It's a big universe, you know, so like a lot, a lot of time. I'm always in the camp that's like, yeah, mathematically, they're definitely to exist, but why would they come here? And maybe it's not like, there's no guarantee they'd be more advanced than us. They could be a thousand years behind us.

We might be the most advanced species in the universe. I mean, so that's a scary thought. Yeah, but if you have like all of these different places, man, I mean, some of them have to be more advanced. And then eventually they'd figure out how to like buzz by us and screw around. Well, listen, guys, I could sit here. and talk about aliens with you two all night long but you know we got to be respectful of andrew's time getting out of here shortly so i guess i just want us to ask andrew like

you know what do you got coming up what should people look out for her some rumblings about mayor in new york i'm sure you're not going to make an announcement here on the evening skews but uh but you know what do you got what's coming up for andrew yang what should people look out for and also anything you would like people you know to do any support they could give and that type of thing or where you'd like to direct people's attention, just hit us with all that. Thank you so much. The first thing is I'm here in Georgia trying to win these Senate races. So if you want to help on this level, I wonder if I can put it in the, like the fundraising effort I have here in Georgia is called win both seats.org. And it sends money to community organizers

here in Georgia trying to get out the vote. So that's what I'm doing right now. And then number two, what I'm doing also right now, which I would love everyone's help with, because I think this is main topic is we are pushing for cash relief out of Congress right now. And one of the things I say to folks is, look, a trillion dollars is getting spent. And we need to have some of that money come to us, like our people, families. So I have conversations with members of Congress all the time about this. And I'm happy to say that I believe we've played a role in the legislation that's coming out now that's trying to have stimulus checks be part of this bill. So if you think that we should be getting treated as well or better as the big megacorps at a Congress, go to Move Humanityforward.com,

and everything you do for us is about trying to get money for the people. And I'm happy to say, like, we've genuinely already had results. Like I looked at my team today and was like, I believe that we might have helped unlock $100 billion, $200 billion of value for the people. And the ROI on that is like insane. Like I looked around and looked around and said, I said this might be the most impactful thing I'd ever done in my life. Because if we unlocked another $100, $200,000, $200 million for your families, your people, I mean, that's immense alleviation of, like, pointless scarcity. So if that sounds good to you, move humanityforward.com.

And as part of that, definitely support Trey's documentary, inherent good, Humanity Forward's hosting some screenings in the next number of days. And we have to make that movie a success because it helps shed light. on what a society of abundance could look like we have the wealth i'll tell you guys like i ran for president and you know what one of the main questions i got was always like where you're going to get the money how are you going to pay for it and then push goes to the show when the pandemic and they're like two point two trillion dollars there you go and at the point i used to make was back before the pandemic i was like do you remember voting for the four trillion dollar bail out of wall street in 2008 like

does i remember anyone like complaining about where the money was then and they were like huh that's interesting. And then you are again. And then they got to and they were like, here's 2.2 trillion. What? Not enough. So we have the money 100%. We just need to have it come to us and not go into the bells of these corporations. So thank you for the work that you do, Tray. Inherent good. I can't wait to see it. And there's a lot of inherent good in that message. So thank you both. Absolutely. Well, yeah, well, there you have everybody. Thank you so much, Andrew. We really appreciate it.

Thanks for taking the time. It's always a pleasure. Good luck fixing the subway. People say don't even recognize you without the deal. I know, I know. I just shaved. Well, they'll get used to it. Thanks.

Happy holidays. Yeah, you too. Happy holidays. Keep fighting a good fight. Thanks, Andrew. Bye, everyone. All right. Andrew Yang, everybody.

Yeah, with the final note on my facial hair. I don't know what to tell you. I just, Movember is over. You know, I've had that mustache since the entire pandemic, and it just felt like, felt like time to change it up, you know. Just to let anybody blow him behind the scenes. Before we went live, Andrew asked Trey if he lost weight,

and they talked about Peloton bikes for a little bit. That's true. He's such a sweet guy, I tell you. I just, I like that guy on a personal level so much. Yeah, and it has nothing to do with him asking me if I'd lost weight or not. It's just a totally separate thing. I was texting about this earlier, but how to pay for it,

things really interesting. And I was reading up and listening to podcasts about modern monetary theory, which I do not recommend unless you're sleepy. But it's very easily paid for. And people just don't want to be able to do it. So I also, I know I made a few announcements tonight, but I also just want to put out there if you guys are watching, do not already know.

I'm doing another online stand-up comedy show this Saturday. with Chief Georgia correspondent Cory Ryan Forrester and Chief Legal correspondent, Diamond Drew Morgan. This coming Saturday at 6 p.m. on Rush Ticks. You go to Rush Tix.com. Look up Well Red. That's Well, R-E-D. If you watched our last one in August, first of all, thank you so much for that. Secondly, it is completely entirely across the board. Brand new material, and we've got a lot to talk about, so I hope you guys will check it out.

We're really looking forward to it. My sister is maybe going to be putting a link in the comments if she yeah I asked page to do because I can't do all that the same time I'm doing this I text my sister I was like could you throw a link in there or whatever and she's like yeah I'll do it she said I got to set my alarm for

7 p.m. so she don't forget so we'll see if she forgot or not but listen let's just uh let's let's do the rest of the show man uh we I promised it earlier we got the daily dumb assery for y'all just like on any other episode just a little bit later

so producer Matt won't you hit that D-D graphic. Yes, tonight's honoree is any of you who are looking forward to the COVID vaccine. Why are you a dumbass for looking forward to the COVID vaccine? Well, because you don't need it. You know why? Vibrators, vibrate, something like that. Listen, don't take it for me.

Take it from these two Tammies. Matt, you play that clip. We don't have the vibrational frequency to host that virus. And I taught her that. So if you don't have that vibrational frequency right here, you're not going to get it. Yeah. We don't have the vibrational frequency to get COVID? Correct.

Do you know that everything in this universe vibrates and is alive? There is life with that. That's what I'm talking about. I don't put life into COVID. I'm not going to wear a mask. I'm not going to wear a mask either. I never wear a mask. But we're not going to wear them.

Every. My favorite part was the other one, the other lady goes, I taught her that. I know. Mine too. Mine too. She's so proud of, it's like, you know, spreading this bullshit around to her friend.

But also it's like this seems like an example of like somebody who finds out a thing. It is true as I understand it. And I don't know much more about physics and whatnot the news people do. But there is a vibration to everything in the universe. Adams and all that. They do vibrate. And this seems like one of those examples of people like hearing a real thing that, also is a smart person fact to know.

And hearing that and having it related to this other crazy shit, they think, and just latching on to that and going with it. It's like, did you know that things vibrate? And because of that, the plague is fake. I can tell you what she appears to have matched up string theory with the secret. And also remix it with a drum press conference. And so she's like, everything vibrates, yes. But if I don't put out COVID vibrations in the universe,

I will not receive it back. And like if I put on a mask, I'm, I'm manifesting a fear of COVID, which will therefore bring it to me, right? That's what that's what she said. Right. Yes, she said, I'm not going to give life to COVID. Yeah. The ones that I'm not going to give life to COVID, and I refuse to wear a mask. So yes, like you said, if I don't wear a mask,

if I don't acknowledge its legitimacy, then it cannot kill me in my mammal. And that's what I have decided. It's like the universe of like Dumbo, flying. Like he can only fly if he believes he can fly, right? Right. Yeah. If she carries her in her dumber, she will not get COVID. She'll fear to thin it up. You got to follow your heart during a plague, Mark. Everybody knows that. Yeah. Follow your family. So we got some honorable mentions for you. First up, you know, I don't know how many more of these we're going to have. Who am I kidding? He ain't

going anywhere. But the current reigning champion of Daily Dumbass is Mr. Donald Trump, the president for this moment, still the president. Yeah. had a rally in Georgia ostensibly to support Loughler and Purdue. But he got into all kinds of other shit, though. Imagine that. We've got a couple of clips for you. Let's just hit that first one, Matt. Blueberries, pepper, squash, and cucumbers.

Who does cucumbers around here? Because I like cucumbers. I'm the only one. I like you. I like you. Well, yeah, there you go. Nothing to say, nothing to do. That's our president.

I hope you guys like it. No, I don't know what happened. There's some technical difficulties, obviously. I believe that was the one where he was. There was a big vaccine. Matt says he can hear it, but in case you guys couldn't. Maybe it just can come through with me and Trump. Me and Trey.

Oh, with the blue bear. Okay, we showed that. So Matt says we showed the one from the rally on Saturday at a big rally for Lafleur and Purdue, which is really funny. You should go watch the highlights. but he went off and rant, I guess, about Georgia produce, where you started listing stuff to grow in Georgia, like blueberries, whatever,

and they got to cucumbers and then started talking about how much he liked. He said, I like cucumbers. That was the big punchline. Yeah, like he did the I like turtles thing from that six-year-old and went viral saying, I like turtles. That's what the president did. I got to be honest, Trey, I do not believe he likes cucumbers. Yeah, I don't either.

I don't buy that. Like pickles, maybe, because I know he's a big fan of McDonald's, like cheeseburgers and whatnot. I can see him being a pickle guy, but like, he ain't eating cucumbers. He don't eat any vegetables, right? For the most part, it doesn't seem like. He don't believe in them. Yeah.

And this next one, this is from today. There's a big COVID warp speed celebrator event. And the president is remarkably optimistic about how good it is that people get COVID. Well, CDC puts out the guidelines and the very important guidelines. But I think this, I think that the vaccine was our goal. That was number one because that was the way it was the way it ends. Plus you do have an immunity, you develop immunity over a period of time. And I hear we're close to 15 percent.

I'm hearing that and that is terrific. That's a very powerful vaccine in itself. And just tremendous progress has. So congrats to the 15 percent of that. Yes, good for you guys. Good. Yeah, it's not, you know, it's not. It no longer is it

It is what it is No now the COVID wrecks in this country are terrific We're doing a great job We are rocketing Towards the finish line of herd immunity You know the faster we can get people Sick with this potentially fatal Virus

The better off will be in Trump's America Mark. We're doing good 15% But we can do better I think Take those mask off everybody Go to the dollar store Do your thing I have a like back at the beginning of this people were throwing COVID parties like chickenpox parties night where yes they'd have immunity yeah we all moved on for this nine months ago the president is still trying to encourage America to throw chickenpox COVID parties um but uh madden let us know they said there were two questions I wanted to ask

Andrew that we didn't get to one was like what secrets do you learn running for president you have to take a deep state blood oath or go to any eyes wide shut parties that one's obviously a joke but the second one the news from today was was that Trump did come out for more cash relief, but he talked himself down from 1,200 last time to 600. And my question was going to be, Trey, how much money do you think rich people think $600 is? That couple gallons of milk, you know, and whatever else poor people like. And apparently either think it's enough to buy a couple gallons of milk

or like a you, your rent and everything right at the whole time. Yeah, either way, it could go either direction, they have no idea. It's like that. rest of development quote like it's a banana how much could it cost 10 dollars or whatever it's like yeah they don't they have no idea the idea that he's like supporting it happening at all but

cutting it in half is just the most like modern era republican party shit i can imagine but the people like the people love him like we want one more clip we wanted to show during like to show the enthusiasm gap in uh in georgia it's just really funny this is from the same uh the same rally we talked about how much love cucumbers. Now, when you watch this clip, I want you to remember that I like cucumbers, got a huge ovation. Now listen to the crowd respond to Kelly Leffler and David Perdue. He needs you to vote January 5th.

If you're our voice on January 5th, we'll be your voice for years. We have to make sure that we keep America strong. Thank you. Well, you know what? My colleague, David Perdue, my good friend, was to make sure that you vote. We are going to vote because if we don't vote, we will lose the country. If we vote, we will win. Hey, guys, I want to take liberty just one second.

I want to say something personal to President Trump. Hey, guys, I want to say something for President Trump personally. Guys, I want to say something personal for President Trump. God bless you. We love you, Mr. President. We love the First Lady. And we're going to fight and win those two seats and make sure you get a fair square deal. Dude. So that has got to be so disheartening if you are either of those candidates or anybody on their team or just Republican leadership. Because I mean, like, not only was the crowd not giving a single fuck about what Loughlin and Purdue were saying, a fucking chant in opposition. started in the middle of they were saying fight for Trump right

isn't that what they were saying fight for Trump fight for Trump they were basically expressing their distaste and disapproval of these candidates while on stage at their own rally in Georgia 100% only because

of Donald Trump's presence like it is not I would be if I was on the other side of things I would be fucking terrified right now frankly. However, I'm not, so I'm loving it. My favorite part was, like, it's very subtle if you notice this or not, but like Kelly, when Kelly Lefler was in the middle of her

student council, clumsy, sweaty, America's land of contrast rambled, where she didn't know why what she wanted to, how to tell people to vote without acknowledging the Trump loss and not going to be president anymore. Trump did the little, he signals to David Perdue to take the mic from her. He does a little you take. That's what she chipped in the intro and Purdue. and then the crowd, because Purdue's going to be a better performer than Kelly,

Trump has a sense of performance, right? He's a circus master. The, so, but so she's terrible, so he gives it to Purdue, and the crowd starts chanting where Purdue can't get him to shut up and listen to what he has to say. It's just perfect. Yeah, and also, like, Purdue, like Trump brings him in, and he does have a better sense of being a performer,

and I could tell because he went straight to pandering in the middle of that. Like, he could, he understood, what direction it was going and he goes straight to like no no everybody listen i just want to say how awesome don't rump is like i all i'm trying to say i know you don't want to hear me talk at all but all i want to do is talk about how awesome he is will you please just let me do that and they're still chanting through it fucking fight for trump fight for trump it's just it's just it's good chef's kid You ever been in a wedding where like the loser brother gets a token

like get groomsman's pot? Yeah. He's giving a toast and he's trying to talk about how happy is for his brother, but everyone else knows he just got divorced and got out of rehab. That's the vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so we're about to go to viewer comments,

questions, comments from you guys. Mark, I want to sort of tee this up. You can ask us anything, throw anything out there. We had another thing I did want to try to get to, which is this was a daily dumbass nominee from Mr. Mark Aegee here saying that us, we on the left,

the Biden administration, however you want to put it, is a good nominee for Daily Dumbass because the Biden administration has announced they will create a position with the sole focus of reaching conservatives, trying to reach conservatives.

So I take it that you think that's a dumb ass proposition, Mark? Just no hope in that anymore. I think I agree with you, but How do you feel about that? Fleepless endeavor? The same day, they're going to form a, you know, cabinet-level department of republicanism. The House Republicans were saying that they're going to like challenge Biden's win

on the floor of the House January 6th. Right. And Ted Cruz was loudly saying he would gladly perform as lawyer from the Supreme Court to argue that Pennsylvania's elector should be overturned if the case may have there, which it didn't know that today's other news is Supreme Court 9 to nothing. There's two Pennsylvania politicians to go to help. Right. It just,

it can't be done, right? Like at the point we're at right now, and I don't know how we like come back from that, but you, like, it just, they're so obstructionist and we're so polarized and everything,

that it's just a waste of time, it feels like. Here's, okay, so keep, here's how this negotiation goes, right? You can be trying to meet him in the middle.

so I'll be Republicans and you be Democrats. I want 10 and you want zero. So what do you offer me? You're Republicans and I'm Democrat? You want 10? I want zero. How about seven? How about 20? Well, I thought you wanted 10.

We could do like, okay, fine. We could do eight. We can do nine. 35. Fundamentally don't want to pass bill. You can do old-fashioned hardball politics where you put the bill on the floor and dare them to vote against a bill

public constituents when they're up for re-election in two years. You can do that. What you can't do is preemptively negotiate against yourself by trying to meet them in the middle and the text of the bill because they'll do what they did on health care and waste the first two years of Obama's administration. Yeah. Dan B says if you've been watching OANN-N-1 American News Network for the last few years, there is no bringing them left.

And I mean, I'm inclined to agree with you. Not if they are aware that that's what they're doing is coming left anyway. and what I mean by that is a whole lot of them would love a check right now given what everything is going on but if you point out to them that that's socialism or whatever

then they're not going to be for it but they would take it and I think that is actually the only version of like working with them that exist as silly as it sounds it's like there are things that they are open to but semantic stand-up

in the way. You know what I mean? Like you just term it as like, no, we're just going to take care of your ma'amaw. And it's like, that's actually socialized medicine we're talking about. You know what? And without letting them know that, that's the only kind of hope you have for getting across them, I think. I mean, it's always like when people have things that like them, like Kentucky's a Obamacare exchange is called Connect. And when you poll it, people say they hate Obamacare but love Connect. I think it's right. Yes, exactly. Exactly. chaotic three exclamation point super chaotic says what are your guys thoughts on the senate being flip and i assume it means flipped and i assume it means runoffs what's going to happen in georgia or the runoffs i uh okay as we've talked about you know multiple times up to this point i'm thrilled with everything i'm seeing coming out of georgia so far with how trump seems to be inadvertently sabotaging the gop's chances there having said that, I'm not from Georgia,

but I am a lifelong southern liberal and thus I still am very much conditioned to expect the worst when it comes to things like this. I think that we've got some great shit going for us in Georgia right now, but I cannot allow myself to truly believe. I hope it happens, but I don't, gun to my head, do I think it will? I don't know, maybe one of them probably not to we'll see what happens.

On the hidden side, you got like the polling in Georgia is actually pretty good in the presidential race. And the polling looks like right now a narrow lead for Osop and Warnock, right? On the not hit inside. And you also got stuff like we talked about at the day, like a million people requested mail-in ballots. Only 5 million people voted in general. So like if turnout hits two, three million, I think the Democrats probably win. Because that's a big, for a runoff race, that's a big turnout. On the not-inside side, you got the Republicans are already up to.

their old bullshit. They've already closed a bunch of polling places. They were over for January 5th. They're in court trying to, because I'm not a lawyer, but court-wise, like challenging things after they happen is kind of a no-no. It's something called let's yes or whatever. But you can't challenge beforehand.

Like a lot of the Republican court cases got thrown out because they're trying to challenge mail ballots after they'd already been cast. They're preemptively trying to cut back on mail ballot in court right now and doing shit like that and throwing people off roles and doing all that. So it's going to be, so that's the detention right here. Yeah, no, I, yeah, I'm with you.

Laura Orball says, Trey, what happened to the window air conditioner? I can't pull this part. It's still right back there. I just, uh, I don't know, I like the idea of it because I'm white trash and whatnot. I like the idea of it being in there, but I kind of, I got to a point where I was like, no, I don't know. I kind of missed my old blue background.

I don't even know why. I can't give you a good answer for that. I just, I just, uh, I just flip-flopped on it, politician style, uh, last week. the aforementioned stand-up show we're having this week. Something about like just a curtain behind you or whatever just feels more appropriate for like a stand-up appearance, I think. And that's coming this Saturday, so I just tried to get all my shit together for that going on, I guess.

Amalene says, Amlin, Amlin or Amlin says, Ossoff debated an empty podium, L-O-L. Do you see the clip? So they had back-to-back debates the other night for the four candidates. Purdue opted to not show up because he got really embarrassed last time when A SOP kept hammering on being corrupt and belonging in prison. Yeah, I remember that. So instead, because he didn't show up, the debate commission's like, well, you agree to the debate

if we're having it. They put an empty podium there, announced basically that Purdue was a coward for not showing up. and then they would ask Ossoff a question and Ossoff would ask the empty podium a question. It's kind of funny. No, that's awesome. That's exactly what you should do

in that situation as far as I'm concerned. You know what I mean? Just fucking dive in. They give you an opportunity like that. Just, you know, make it out to be exactly what it is. A display of cowardice, Mark. And on that note, Jennifer Hartshorn says nothing says chicken like Purdue. Yeah, there you go.

I didn't know he was a former CEO of Dollar General until today, and I saw that, and I was like, of course. A fucking course he is, man. Yes, it very much checks out. Yeah, just like making his bones off the backs of poor people. I'll be honest for a minute. I'll take a little tangent here. I don't, it is that kind of like predatory, poverty predation.

It's predatory shit like title loans and checking the cash places and that type of thing. I think dollar stores are another. version of that. But I grew up in poverty in a poverty-ridden area where like all we had was dollar stores, you know, other than like the one grocery store. And it was like a thing I had to come around to realizing how they were shitty. I do now. But what I'm saying is like the dollar store is just a staple, a staple of my childhood and early adulthood, you know, in the rural poverty stricken south. But that's their whole thing. They would defend themselves saying their immediate price point in areas where it's necessary.

But there are a lot of studies that show they chase out real grocery stores. And like we, I think we talked about last week, but like they save money by, they make things cheaper by selling smaller amounts at higher rates. So like you're not getting a cheaper gallon of milk. You're getting a two-thirds of a gallon of milk that costs the same as a gallon wood and a regular store. Yeah. Chris McCain says the podium had more personality than Leffler, or locker. Yeah, Andrew, you know, and he ain't not the first one to point

that out, but yeah, like he said earlier, nobody, Georgians didn't want her in the first place. She just got like imposed upon them. And even hardcore right wangers in Georgia, they don't seem to give a single fuck about her, which I think

is great. I mean, when Kent picked her, he didn't think about whether, did she ever need charisma because they've already rigged the elections enough. But like her never had to run for office. This seems like a real, like, there's a reason she didn't stand. She ain't got it, man. No, she don't.

I say this as a charisma lacquer. She's one of my people. But it's also, I mean, so I don't know, if I remember the dynamic correctly, Trump wanted Collins to be appointed, and Kemp appointed Loughlin against Trump's wishes, which is one of the reasons Trump's had beef with Kemp for two years for going against them. She wasn't just forced on Jordan's at large. She was forced on Trumpers, too. Right.

Yeah, nobody likes or gives a fuck about her. Which, again, I'm still not counting that as, you know, a victory or anything necessarily because just the way things tend to go. But again, it's one. It seems like I'm enjoying how that appears to be playing out and being received. Like, I don't know, man. We've got a lot of things lining up in our favor in Georgia right now, in my opinion. Again, not, I'll still believe it when I see it.

But I just feel like shit is coming together in a favorable way because of things like this. It will feel more normal to have a Democratic Senate in Congress and instead be mad at them for not doing anything with it. That'll be a little bit. It'll be relieved to be back on. Mark, you're being taken to task here. I don't know the facts of this scenario. But Barbara Finn Visconti says, dollar tree sells smaller versions of products, Dollar General of Purdue fame does not.

Yeah. I mean, it's been a while since I've been in one. I'll take your word for it, man. I do, but the study's about them pushing out real grocery stores and creating food deserts is like, it's pretty,

pretty, you know, they got them pretty dead to rights, which is just like, when you don't eat fresh, we don't get access to fresh produce, it causes health problems down the road and makes people more,

lives more expensive in the long run. So it's like, they're not good, you know. Yeah. uh, please don't give Trump media coverage after January 20th. I agree with you.

Nothing will make me happier than for him to just disappear forever. I do not believe that's going to happen. He's still going to be out there doing his thing, pissing dumb people off. And as long as he's doing that, I think he's going to pop up every now and then. But yeah, I have no desire to ever utter his name again.

It's so weird. There's a, they finally did the first round of primary polling where they include him every study was going to run again. And he pulled it. 57% Drake.

And like the closest one with Don Jr. at 7%. Yeah, right. He's never going away. But like we'll know more. If they split stream the inauguration with his rally

on January 20th, we'll know we're in for hell. But if they just sort of ignore it and do five minutes on it after as a wrap up, then we'll be like, okay, maybe we're free. Well, like, don't you kind of feel

like a version that has sort of already happened? Meaning like, I was terrified about the potential of this like false victory for Trump on election night, which did end up happening. And meaning like that on election night he would go out there because we hadn't counted mailing votes or whatever

and he would just declare victory. And I was terrified about the implications of that and what that would turn out to mean. But it did happen. And it kind of didn't really end up mattering so far because enough, I don't know, either sane or objective people or left that they were like, you know, no, that ain't that ain't the deal. That ain't what it means. I thought he would just get the benefit of the doubt just because of the amount of power he had built up on the right in this country. And I feel like that kind of didn't happen. So I'm hoping that that will also carry over to, you know, his big 2024 announcement and that type of shit. That it'll kind of also just be disregarded.

Oh, thank you, Sherry. I'd like to wrap my home state. Sherry Powers. I like your hat, smart, Mark. It's a good one. They just got rid of no knock warrants. So thank you, Governor Northam. That's a step in the right direction, I think.

By the way, Northam coming out of the blackface scandals, which were awful, it's been a pretty solid decent governor, I think, from the stuff I've read. I don't keep up with the Virginia News like I should. But shout out for Ralph Northam. And what was going to? I thought I was going to say something. I was talking about Trump being, like, not being taken seriously just because he says the thing is basically what I was trying to get at. The 57% number is a sign he's not going away, but it's also kind of weak, right?

The sitting president's going to pulling a 57, so 43% of Republicans would rather just say, let's just do something else now. You know, that's a decent chunk. Yeah. People don't, like, his whole brand is being a bulletproof winner. And once he's lost, and he's just sort of rolling around the country doing rallies, it'll seem pathetic to me personally. I don't know.

Right. Yeah, well, who knows? We'll see what happens. All right. Well, that's it. We're out of time. Thank you guys very much. We'll see you in 48 hours on Thursday's edition of evening skews.

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That's what people say. That's what I've always gotten. The feedback I've always gotten baby-faced when I don't have the beard. But, you know, like when I was in my 20s, I didn't like that because I didn't look like a teenager or something. But as I progressed down this, you know, the path of this mortal coil, I think a little baby-face action every now and it's all right. I like to switch it up, man. I like to, you know, I've had that. That was my pandemic beard slash mustache and it just felt like time.

I don't know. It'll grow back. Yeah, to quote my boy, L.P., immortality is out of bounds. This is the one-way ride. But the, do you, did you, you look down like cherubic? I don't know if I'm saying that, right. But, uh, yeah, that's, that sounds, that's a pejorative, right? It means it means a little bit chubby, but I didn't mean it that way.

I meant angelic. But did you recognize it? You didn't have to really clarify the, but you didn't have to make sure that everybody knew that it meant a little bit chubby, I think. But I appreciate you doing that because, yes, that is our, our, our, one of our guests later tonight, uh, Mr. Corbyn, I've always thought. He's got a churubic, I've always thought. He's got a thing going on. Did you recognize yourself when you took the beard off? You took it off pretty regularly, right?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I switch it up pretty regularly, so it's not that weird. A couple years ago I was shooting this thing. My buddy's pilot had like a Amish farmer in it. I had a pretty bushy beard at the time, so he asked me if I'd be the Amish dude. And I love my friend, so I said, agreed to it, yes, which meant I had to shave my mustache off and make one of those Amish, like, giant chin strap beards. Right. So once that was done, I was left with a choice to either just wait to the mustache crew in or take it all off.

I chose to take it all off so I wouldn't, I would look slightly that's ridiculous. And I hadn't been clean-shaven in like six years. And I did not recognize myself. I was way older than I remembered, and it did not hit for me. Yeah, I do it frequently. When you have babies, it freaks babies out. It don't hit for them either. They don't understand what has happened.

Why is your face all weird and different now or whatever? I mean, my sons are eight and nine now, so it's fine. But yeah, it's a whole thing when you got babies, switching up the facial hair. They're not into it. But let's get into this goddamn show. as always we got producer Matt Hildreth with us behind the scenes and this is evening skews got some fun stuff tonight we got some Chinese espionage my favorite variety also smart mark and I are going to probably end up getting accused by some of you of being agist again if you follow us for a while you

know that's a thing that happens and we never mean it that to be the case and we don't mean that tonight either but given the subject matter which we'll get into a little later I feel like it might happen so we got some good stuff coming up also Also, Chief Legal Correspondent, Diamond Drew Morgan, will join us to talk about all of Giuliani's recent antics, and right after that. Chief Georgia correspondent, Corey Ryan Forrester, will give us the lowdown on the latest in the Peach State. All that and more on evening skews tonight. But first, as always, the Daily Dumbassery. Matt, let's do it.

Tonight's dumbass is any one of you poor sons of bitches out there that contracted coronavirus and then did not have the foresight to be rich and powerful. Frankly, I don't know how you missed it at this point. It is pretty clearly the most effective treatment for the disease. I mean, look at all the evidence, you know, people like Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, some of the dumbest, oldest, fattest sons of bitches around, made short work of coronavirus. Why? Because they had the good sense to be rich and powerful when they had it. And if you don't believe this coming from me, well, you could take it to the, you could take it from the farting horse's mouth, the latest in that line of luminary to contract coronavirus, Mr. Rudy Giuliani, who explains, while being rich and powerful,

really how simple it is to deal with the coronavirus. Matt? Yeah, the clip, that first clip. Yeah. You can overdo the mask. You can overdo almost anything. Everything done in moderation makes much more sense. My advice to people is get early treatment. The earlier you get treated for this.

number one you totally eliminate the chance of dying and number two you probably eliminate the chance of getting it a more complicated illness so he's not wrong Trey no I know right yeah it's true you and I don't listen to this show can check into the fucking hospital before they get symptoms and get the monopole antibody shit

that is basically that essentially seems like a miracle cure except nobody can get it except for Trump and Giuliani and maybe Ben Kron Right. This is that classic like, you know, just take out, just borrow money from your father, you know, like advice that they give. Like if you're unsure as a young person, you need some money to get on your feet, just borrow it from your parents. And start a business, be an entrepreneur. It's very simple. Just do that. When the guy, the guy who started Jimmy Johns had a fundraiser slash rally for Mitt Romney. And Mitt Romney was like, you do what this guy did. Just get a, he just got a small $50,000. alone from his parents and opened a restaurant. Oh shit. Why the fuck can they think of that?

Right. I think, right, exactly. And all the people, all the regular people with coronavirus, same thing. Why didn't I think of that? Get this special highly advanced treatment super early that's not available for anyone else. And like, clearly he, you know, is totally oblivious to that, which is always the thing that's most infuriating about this type of advice from these types of people.

They genuinely don't realize the level of privilege that they have. Except he did because this is something. else he said today. You're right. You're right. Yes. Matt. He says, what with me, I wouldn't have been put in the hospital, frankly, he told WBC radio. Sometimes when you're a celebrity, the word if something happens to you, they're going to be examined it more carefully and do everything right. He's right. It would make Trumpful like a fucking idiot if his lawyer died of COVID in the middle of his lawsuits. So they shot him up with Super Soldiers Serum, right? So you get back to his day job. You're right. I, like that. I wasn't thinking about that when I said what I just said.

But that makes it like even worse, really. You tell people more masks, even though he knows he got special treatment. Right. Because that's the thing. Because I always feel like with those, again, that type of advice, just borrow money from your parents. You'll be fine. It seems like genuine ignorance that they have. Like I was just saying, like, they don't realize that that's not an option for people.

But when he, like, clearly demonstrates that he does realize that he got special treatment, but still goes on there. And like you says, like, don't overdo it with the mask. Just get early treatment. you can guarantee that you won't die. That's all you've got to do. Like, it's just, it's egregious. We should go to Georgetown University Medical Center

in the hospitality suite. They'll bring your room service in the morning and give you to monocular antibodies in the afternoon. And you can play a shuffleboard. That's awesome. And even more egregious is the reason they did all this. To get it, he's apparently all healed up, even though he's isolating,

is we can get back to his day job, trying to get poll workers assassinated for the president like here's here's what they shot him up so you could do tray shouldn't throw this clip matt how can they say there's no fraud look at that woman what could have taken those ballots out look at them scurrying around with the ballots nobody in the room hiding around they look like this they look like they're passing out dope not just ballots quite obviously surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they're vials of heroin or cocaine I mean And it's obvious to anyone who's a criminal investigator.

Well, he hasn't been a criminal investigator in 30 years. Why he thinks that's how people get heroin now. People get it from pharmacies. Right. The doctor prescriptions. The dark web. Yeah, on the dark web. You get heroin on 8chan.

You do not fucking drive up on a street corner and do a hand-to-hand, like on the wire. So it's like, yeah, this whole thing's a fucking farce. What are your thoughts, Trey? you guys did or not we'll get it worked out. Maybe what's going on? Somebody let me know. I can hear you. Can you hear me?

You're back right. I can now. I can now. Okay. Okay. So I was just making fun of Rudy Giuliani thinking you get here. Don't get here. I'm going off your dark web.

Up the dark web. And I was asking you what your thoughts are on this whole ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, it seems like, like you said, he's not been a criminal investigator for 30 years or whatever. He's just pulling like plays out of his old playbook.

Do you know what I mean? Like the whole, like he's a very much. of the war on drugs era and everything and this was you know it's like a go-to play anything you can like compare to drug use will instantly you know demonize it further like it's just old school it's just old school tactics man that's all he's doing is taking it back taking it back to the foundation you know it's so stupid it's like he was describing how he thought like a gay dude took up and he was like you know they go down to the porno theaters in times square it's like no they got tender now

man. This is like you really, I don't know anything. Yeah. Doesn't make any, uh, doesn't make any sense. Um, we do want to give you guys an update on one of our favorite recent dumbasses, um, um, Melissa Carone, um, who is the famous drunk Michigan lady who, uh, we made fun of in the farting clip last week, uh, that episode. But, uh, so turns out, um, Melissa Carone is a fairly recent name change. And one thing that's really funny about this is no one's figured out why she changed her name because she didn't get married to divorce. She just changed her last name to Corona. Because if Rudy Giuliani Googled her under her other name, he would have noticed that she has a criminal history for how she described this. She taped herself having sex with her

boyfriend and then sent it to his ex-wife to harass her and then tried to frame her for stealing the videos off her phone. Yes, just in time for Christmas, this lady is truly the gift that keeps on giving, you know, like everything that comes out about her. the idea she's got a theory she's peddling about the virus like she sat there with Rudy Giuliani who was later found out to have the virus he was touching her trying to get her to calm her shit down again like I said before if Rudy Giuliani's trying to get you to get your shit

together then your shit is really far apart and she knows he had coronavirus and she's saying she's not wearing a mask she's not getting tested because she doesn't trust any of it and further I guess The reason she doesn't trust is because according to her, everybody knows that Barack Obama invented coronavirus in a Chinese laboratory. I don't know if you guys knew that, but it's true, according to this drunk, insane lady from Michigan. But yes, I don't know if he just funded the laboratory mark where they invented coronavirus or if he was like boots on the ground over there overseeing the operation when they invented it. But either way, Obama was involved.

Yeah, the theory goes, because there was like a weird. There's an NIH grant to some Chinese lab in like 2014, 2015, to try to prevent coronavirus pandemic outbreaks. Like these, you know, the wet market outbreaks that China has every now and then like SARS and, you know, swine flu or whatever. To stop this stuff from happening, obviously, this is, instead, this is the plot to create COVID-19. This time, but in 2015, they launched this plot to end Trump's presidency in 2020 because we all knew we were so sure in 2015, don't. Trump was going to be present. See, right. This is just another example of that thing.

This happens all the time. Like, this has gotten brought up. I know we've talked about it on the show before, but, like, it kills me this idea that we, on the left, like the American left, is both this, like, weak-willed, ineffectual, can't get nothing done, wants to please everybody because they're politically correct, and thus they have no actual sway, because they don't have the stones to make things happen.

Like, we are both that and also hatching five years in advance foreign plague espionage plots to take down the president that, like you said, no one even thought would be elected at the time that we hatched it. Like, how smart and, you know, ruthless are we? versus how, you know, dumb and weak and wussified they make us sound most of the time. Like, how is it possible that we're both things at the same time? I don't know. It was like the, all the birth-orism stuff was so funny because apparently the, back in 1950, whatever, or six, whatever Obama was born, they planted a birth-announced, but it was fake in order to groom this guy in, you know, Jakarta and whatever, Magrissa says, to be a Manchurian.

candidate to become president of the United States as like a communist undercover communist Muslim socialist or whatever which is like if you were the whole point of Manchurian candidate thing is you take somebody who's like central casting to be a president you know like a war veteran who's like a centrist from the Midwest or whatever you don't try to place all your hopes on the first black president his middle name is right right it's like it's right yeah uh well let's keep in let's uh keep with china here for a little bit because It's not, you know, a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff coming out from China right now. In particular, espionage.

Big story leaked this week about a Chinese spy by the name of Fang Fang or Christine Fang, which I think I prefer because I feel like I've got my accent saying Fang Fang about a Chinese person just even though that is her name. It almost makes me uncomfortable. It sounds like I'm making fun of her or something. But that is her name. But she also went by Christine. Anyway, she really got around the Democratic Party, apparently.

A lot of Democrats were implicated, including California Representative Eric Swalwell, and even going so far as to say that apparently she had sexual relations with two Midwestern mayors. So she's literally all around the map, all echelons of the Democratic Party doing... What exactly is she doing, Mark? It's not really clear from the story what she was doing, but I... I do want to shout out and congratulate her on her patriotism because it's nothing like a sacrifice you're making to have sex with two Midwestern mayors.

It doesn't feel like it's high-up to do list. She was a very pretty lady. Congratulations to her. So apparently what they say she's doing that article was she would give donations in order to arrange to plant interns in people's offices. And these interns were like in, unwitting agents for her.

They would just tell her what's going on the office and stuff. So it wasn't like the Americans or anything. It was just like she raised money and gave money and put somebody up with an internship or job on a campaign and be like, hey, what's going on overwork? How's with house things? And then what should be fun of the information back to shine, I guess is the theory.

It seems to me like what level of like real intelligence and I mean intelligence in the, you know, spy sense? What level of intelligence are you getting from that type of, you know, operation. You know what I mean? I'm just saying, like, based on the facts we know right now and what's come out about it, I'm just, I'm not all that alarmed by this,

as far as what we know so far. It doesn't sound that bad to me. I think part of it is like the, like, so I remember reading stuff back in 2016 about Putin, like Putin was having funning games type shit because he really did, like they really are paranoid. they really think democracy's fake and they really thought that the powers to be wouldn't let Trump be in charge right they so I think I look at a country like China and I think they're probably

like are they really doing democracy so they put somebody in the game like yeah they're taking phone calls and people and yeah right so I think it's like it's like it's super rough to shit we're not up to so they're trying to find out secrets that don't exist you know yep well listen we got dime and drew coming up shortly and so I want to make sure to get to something before that since I I tease it at the top. Ageism, again, not where we're going for here, but it's something we want to talk about. Article came out in The New Yorker

that doesn't cast Senator Diane Feinstein in the best light. She's 87 years old. And according to this article, The New Yorker and a lot of people that have worked for been around her, quote, speaking on background and with respect for her accomplished career, they say her short-term memory

has grown so poor. She often forgets she's been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have left. They described Feinstein as forgetting what she has said and getting upset when she can't keep up. And it's obviously a very, it goes way further into detail, this New Yorker article, and it's all just has to do with her mental faculties and how they seem to be declining, which I'm sure is probably true. She's almost 90. And that's how many people in our leadership are, you know, that old. I don't know. Like it just there was a how should this be handled man or like how do you how you feel about this whole thing?

I mean, I don't know. I don't know if it can be handled. It's just like it's a cultural problem that like we especially on the left seem to suffer with suffer from where we turn these people into heroes instead of servants. And then we we fed them and let them do like you're there to do a job. If you can't do it. It's your obligation to step aside and let someone do it because you're there to serve the people like California like she's our senator. She says, we have 55 million people in California or whatever. She's representing.

And there was a clip that went viral. I don't want to make fun of her. This way not show it, but at Twitter hearing, she asked Jack Dorsey the same. It was a long set where she'd read a thing and ask a question. And she did it twice in a row. So it's fairly clear she doesn't really know in the day to day. And he just, the only part of it that's sort of darkly hilarious was a Chuck Psemer's apparently asked her to step down.

And Matt showed her the screen grabbed a minute ago. But she got real mad about it. but then forgot he'd asked her to step down. And then he confronted her again and she got mad again because she had to do the same, come to Jesus meeting twice. And I don't know. Why do you think, like, why do you think on the left and the right, we just have so many very old people in positions of our leadership.

I mean, president, Congress, all of that. Like, I have no problem with old people serving in Congress. obviously they're wise they know shit that's not what i'm saying but why aren't there more why isn't there a lot like the balance is more you know the ratio is more balanced out with more aOCs and that type uh in comparison to these like why do you think it works out that way i know that i know old people famously vote obviously like vote in large numbers i guess on both sides but i think it's just partly powerful and once you're an incumbent it's really hard to get anybody out of there so they just stay and as far as the movement goes like Republicans actually want to do

shit so if so if a person gets in their way they just move them out of the way because the movement their issues are more important than than people outside of Trump Trump has this huge cult of personality but the most part like if a Supreme Court justice one of theirs gets sick they're going to replace them as soon as possible they will step aside because they want to make sure they're pro-life judges in the court whereas like RBG stayed on after having pancreatic cancer in 2013 and no one even there were hints that she should she should leave but like right now we're just hoping like you know it's just as stevens dies they're going to approve someone on january 19th you know yeah you know i mean strong thermand served until he was a hundred years old he was a mummified segregationist yeah and just propped him up in there in the senate until he's a hundred years old it's pretty crazy but let's get our first guest out here my good buddy you're a good buddy we've known him we love him uh chief what chief well yeah we know him chief legal correspondent diamond drew morgan what's up drew

are you there here he is here he is bolow time my man you hit you can you guys hear me yes yeah oh you're just ignoring me when i said that was hurtful okay no no you No, you came in right after that, I guess. Yeah. So I hesitate to bring me on. I hesitate to even ask you this question, but what's your opinion, Drew, on the average age of American leadership in high levels? Yeah, we should kill them. I think that's our logger, everybody.

That's our show. There's a provision of that in the Constitution, right? Yeah. Is it the ice flow provision? Is that what it is? Or are you being serious right now? I don't know. You're all entitled to the life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

People don't finish it. The rest of it is until you're 72. Like, it's in there. Like, it says that. I didn't make that up. I think I thought it's sad that there are more people in the Senate named Chuck than there are people under 45. That's funny. There's more people in the Senate.

I didn't hear it. It's named Chuck than there are people under 45. That's definitely true. That's 100% true. man, I don't know. The Feinstein stuff, it's weird because it's like she can't help that she has dementia, but every other thing about the situation is her fault. Every other thing and the Democrats fault in general.

The fact that she remained around this long, the fact that she's clearly a narcissist, I mean, that might be not her fault. But you have to have some moment of clarity to have the conversation with Chuck Schumer about what your job even is when he tells you, hey, you need to quit it. You know what I'm saying? Like, if she had just responded, hey, I think you have dementia, you should quit. And she just, like, responded, well, mashed potatoes. Like, then I'd feel bad for her.

But she had, like, a cogent reaction every time. So it is sad that she keeps forgetting, but that cogent reaction is psychotic. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right. You, again, you're the show's chief legal correspondent. been a lot of legal shit going on lately, Drew. Talking about a strong word.

Yeah, right. Well, on that note, Rudy Giuliani and everything he's got going on. I'm just wondering, like, if somebody's an actual logger has legal training, past the bar and all that, how does it, like, is it even worse than it seems to us normal people, or are we able to perceive the level of stupidity that's going on here well enough? Like, how bad is it? It is as dumb as anyone thinks it is. So everyone out there, however dumb you think it is, am I still on? Yeah. I can only see me now, which is weird.

We have better tech capabilities now. You're zoomed in on us what happened. Oh, okay. Well, I don't like it. I think that it's as dumb as everybody thinks it is. I think though that the problem with it in a big grand scale, like the fact that you have, I think that you have, I think, I think 106 Republican politicians signing on to an amicus brief and 18 attorney generals. That's not a dumb problem. That's a scary, scary one. Okay. Well, yes, since you brought that up, yeah, I wanted to talk about that with you.

Explain everybody what you're talking about. There's 18 Republican states or their attorney generals, whatever, have signed on to this lawsuit going towards the Supreme Court that, as far as I can parse it, seems to be. asking the Supreme Court to just disqualify millions of voters in key states for reasons, for reasons. Pennsylvania and Georgia specifically. Right. And that seems like just a, just a Hail Mary shot in the dark like they've been doing so far.

I mean, are you guys familiar? I don't know how much of a hellmer. It's, it is a hellmering. Are you guys familiar with the Federalist Society? Yeah. So for anyone who's not,

you know that movie, skull and bones. Take away all the cool shit, but just leave the evil, rich, powerful, smart dorks. That's what the Federal Society is. They are a legal fraternity

or illegal organization. They raise money. They're kind of like those families first organizations that like really, really, really want to control women's bodies. But they have nicer suits. They have law degrees and they're very powerful. And there are people

on the Supreme Court who are in the Federalist Society. They're very, very right-wing legal scholars. And they are apparently growing more powerful by the day. For whatever reason, I think because they recognized him as someone that was easy to play, Trump just appointed the fuck out of Federalist Society judges. Like if George W. Bush appointed 80% of the judges he appointed were Federalist Society associated, It's a hundred under Trump, 100% were. And that is scary for a variety of reasons.

Sorry, I'm getting notes. This is so, I can understand how this technology is so much better for your viewers than Zoom, but I feel like I'm having an aneurysm. As far as the legal stuff, first of all, Skull and Bow Society is real, and one of their initiation rituals is they possess, in theory, the skull drawn. actual Geronimo, and you have to masturbate into the skull of Geronimo, is one of their next regular rituals. And George...

You see how much fun that sounds? George H.M. Bush did that. John Kerry did that. George W. Bush did that. I'll pretty much have... Most of our most recent presidents were in Skull and Bones. So that rocks. So the actual case is really fucking...

in case you thought Republican lead or anything, because it's one of the most anti-federalist things I've ever seen in my life. Like they basically they're saying that the Constitution gives states control of their elections, but they're arguing that the Supreme Court should overthrow Georgia and Pennsylvania's control their own elections because election fraud in Georgia damaged voters in Texas, right? So if the president of this was said, if they passed it, it was really funny because like say if someone got shot in New York with a gun bought in Texas, they could sue Texas for their lax gun laws. and it'd be a lot of fun of the system, basically. It'd be a cool thing to happen, honestly. Yeah, I mean, I think the gun thing might be a little bit of a stretch, but they're a lot of things.

It's a big stretch. The Federalist Society, the reason I brought them up is they're behind all of this. Trump appointed a lot of them in the judgeships, and I don't know what they are hoping for. It doesn't seem like they have a chance to win this, but what is their goal? Maybe I have two theories. Maybe they think there's a 1% chance of winning and there's no reason for them not to.

They're not going to lose anything. People are going to forget. Americans have such short memories in national politics especially. Or, and I'm talking about the attorney generals now and the Republican senators. Or they think Trump's going to run again and win four years from now. So they think this will curry favor with him now. I don't know why else they would do it. I think it's just he has such complete control over the party

that like anybody who doesn't try to overthrow an election now is going to be considered a rhino and primary. How, Mark, does he have control over the party when he just lost? This is what I'm saying is new territory, in my opinion, in American, at least recent American politics, that a loser can have such control over the party is proof that the people who are in power know that he has legions,

of scary followers. Right. Well, that's the thing. Because, I mean, you know, we all know if he went to Georgia and straight up said publicly, do not vote for Loughler or Purdue. That is my decree unto you as Baby King. If he did that, I mean, they would lose without a doubt. Like, these people are, he's not doing that. He's telling them to vote for them, and they're still showing up and yelling at Loughler and Purdue,

you know, stand up for Trump or whatever the hell. So, I mean, that's why he still wields an insane amount of power on the ride. But that doesn't think playing the attorney generals. It does, though, because, like, I read an analysis yesterday that made this point that, like, if you think Trump's fighting this battle to hold on the power of the presidency, you're probably off. But if you're, but if you understand it's him fighting to hold on the power over the Republican parties, absolutely won.

And a party, a political party being in control of it is very, profitable you know like he's gonna be able to make a lot of money he's already made two hundred million dollars and raised 200 million dollars off his fans for his legal challenge he's always spent eight and i don't know why he's put a hundred ninety two million dollars in his own pack his own pocket to use for future purposes that he could finance primaries for all those against all those attorney generals that's one reason he's telling it oh so it's a threat thing it's like um are all those attorney generals elected i'm pretty sure some of those attorney generals are appointed maybe i had varies from state to

state rate. That's what, yeah, and that's why I'm just really having a hard time wrapping my head around it, because I assume most of these people don't believe in anything. They're just, you know, Merks. Yeah. But I guess the scarier thing is what if they do? Like, what if 18 Attorney Generals really think Donald Trump should just be president forever? Right, yeah.

It's, I don't know, I go back and forth on whether I'm more terrified or upset by the idea of them actually believing all the shit they say. or, you know, just doing it for their own personal gain or whatever. Like, I can't really decide which one I think is worse, you know? Yeah. I mean, I don't understand what you're saying, because if there was a tremendous amount electoral fraud and Venezuela had used vote machines to rig our elections,

obviously it should be thrown out. It's just not just that that doesn't grounded in reality. So it's either they're psychos in pursuit of power or there's psychos who are getting all their news from Twitter. Right, but what I mean about those in general is that's a great point, but I'm also saying, what if they know that the voter fraud is bullshit, but they just want Trump to be president

so bad and they love him so much that they'll do whatever he says. And that is what scares me because, again, I see them as mercenaries, but I don't know what Trump has over them or why they feel the need to count out of him anymore.

I think most of them just feel like it's political suicide on their side of things to not do that. I think that that's how they feel about it. I don't know, but we were talking about Georgia, right? So let's actually, let's, it's overlap our guest for a little bit here, because the man who showed up, he's in the green room. Let's bring in Chief Georgia correspondent, Corey Ryan Forrester. Y'all know him. There he is. Hey, buddy.

Ew! What about it, fellas? All right, listen, for I get some, the actual stuff here, I want to make sure you guys are both on screen at the same time to say that the three of us, me, Corey, and Drew, not Mark, are having a online stand-up show this Saturday. I've mentioned it before, just remind you. Again, it's only two short days away. We've all written a bunch of material. We're going to have some Christmas jokes, computer jokes, all kinds of other jokes.

It's going to be fun. It's all brand new. None of you will have heard any of it before. So please check it out. I'm going to have producer Matt. We're going to attempt to put a link in the comments. Hopefully you can find it. But it's rush text.com well read.

Well, R-E-D is the name of the show. Anyway, boys, how are y'all feeling about it? Drew? Oh, man, I'm super punk, dude. I've been behind the desk all day, tapping away. writing the jokes, getting in the Christmas spirit. I'm pumped, man. I am also very excited.

I have not been doing any of things Corey just said today, but I have been earlier this week. Hell yeah, well, we're going to have a good time. I feel confident saying if you were at, if you participated, if you viewed our last show, it was fun. We had a good time. It was fun.

We had some slight technical difficulties up top. Those have been addressed and taken care of. And will not be a problem this time. And yeah, we're going to go all out and have a good time. It's going to be fun. Someone asked how crude the humor would be because they're going to have an elderly person there. It won't be as crude as me wishing death upon all of them their age

as I did earlier. I mean, if y'all follow me or us at all, I mean, it's going to be about the level I would say that you expect. About far from the court. Which is to say fairly, fairly crude, probably. Will you say crude if we're telling me? No, even that. So I'm opening up with a 2020-year monologue style,

and the things that I'll be covering from 2020 are worse than any four-letter expletive that anyone should be heard of. Yeah, I don't think it. It just started off real good and light-hearted, get people in a good mood. I mean, there's still, you know, those jokes. It'll hit.

Well, I, so y'all please check it out. Rush Ticks, well-read show. Well-read holiday at home this Saturday. I hope you check. it out and with that we can say goodbye to chief legal correspondent diamond drew Morgan you got any parting thoughts thoughting parts any good buddy buy a gun yep there you go heard here first buy gun everybody thank you drew appreciate it all righty so there he is the man himself tell us what's going on in Georgia and if it just means what at the grocery store

that's fine just tell us what's going on down there what do you want to know like Drew said something before he logged up that like all these people, these Republicans line up behind Trump to do a half ass coup are committing, are doing it to avoid electoral suicide. And my thought, knowing after like half the Republican state leadership in Georgia's

gone into hiding, is they're worried about committing actual suicide by opposing Trump. Yeah, no doubt. I'm not seeing like, okay, so right after the election, I think everybody had their worries that like, oh, man, this is going to start like an actual civil war. And like, man, you know, they're calling it a fake.

for it's a fake election and these people are going to riot. I live in a very red area, as y'all know. And really what it is that scaring me the most is that it's real quiet. Yeah. Like none of that shit has happened at all. It's kind of like it feels like right before the 2016 election, Kat Williams had that bit when he's like, man, white people look like they got a secret, you know. It's starting to feel like that again.

Because I've talked to some people, you know, my right-leaning friends and family. And I really thought that, like, first off, I didn't go in on them. I wasn't like, yeah, fuck you. We won because, like, I'm, you know, a Georgia Bulldogs fan. I know what can happen. But I totally figured that, like, the topic of conversation would be, oh, it's a fake and we got to count all these votes and blah. But, like, nobody said anything. So, like, I have a fear that, like, there's some sort of, like, Discord app that they're all talking on behind my back and I don't really know what's up. I want to know what you think as a lifelong Georgian and you know like you said you're

north rural Georgia it is red as hell oh yeah you've grown up entrenched in the red assery of rural Georgia if I would love to know if I don't know Corey's congresswoman is the Q&I lady Marjorie Taylor Green yeah yes just lunacy around there so I would love to know how you feel about this storyline. We've brought it up, we've talked about it quite a bit on the show at this point of like Trump loyalist in Georgia potentially 86ing the Senate runoff races for the Republicans because, you know, Loeffler and Purdue show up at like Republican rally, Trump rallies with all these fucking

red-ass Trumpers and they're yelling out at them, you know, support Trump, Trump, stand up for Trump and all this stuff. like they seem like they've talked about boycotting the election because it's fraudulent because Trump says the elections in Georgia are fraudulent so you shouldn't trust it but at the same time he's telling them to vote for Loeffler and Purdue and you know a whole lot of these people in that state specifically people who align in that sense and I'm just wondering how like likely you think that actually is that something like that could play out man I do how I feel about it is kind of as confusing as the scenario you've just laid out for me.

Because I do know these people, but like the area that I'm from, you know, we talked about a million times, it's a, like, you can't just say, oh, it's Trump country. It's a very specific, different type of area where like there's pockets of, of completely rural no money. And then we got Chattanooga and all these people from the mountain that have money feeding into the same school system and stuff. So everybody's got these bumping ideals that are, while both definitely right in different brackets of classism amongst their own.

And so I do think that there's like a good bit of people. Because like here's the deal. We've talked about this a lot. And I have to keep reminding people of this so many times. Just because like if people always want to go, oh, if you're a Republican or you're a Trump supporter, you're stupid. There are a lot of stupid ones. There for sure are a lot of stupid ones.

But you can also just be a bad person and be smart. Right. You know, like people seem to. think that if you're smart, you will always do the right thing. And like, I don't know if you've ever seen a James Bond movie, but the fucking arch nemesis isn't some dipshit that just happened to be gold. So, like, anyways,

I think that there's a lot of those that are just bad people that were actually smart Republicans who are looking towards the future right now and thinking to themselves, okay, considering we have a 24-hour news cycle and people tend to only remember the last thing you did, if I can distance myself from Trump right now,

you know, wash this stink off, then I can position myself into looking like, no, I'm a Republican, not a Trump supporter. There's a difference. You know, we're real Republicans. So I kind of think that right now, as unlikely as I thought it would be several years ago, there is like a brand split.

And I still say all that to say this. I don't fucking know what's going to go on. What I'm saying is I don't know if there's enough energy in the remaining people that are willing to admit that they still like Trump to actually move the needle on. anything. Well, do you think, I mean, when you go to the grocery store or interact with, and I know, you know, you stay at home because you believe in science and stuff, so you pretty much stay at home

all the time. But still, your family's there, your parents, whatever. I'm sure you hear them talk about people. Do you hear people talking about Lothler and or Purdue? Like, are there signs? Yeah. Yeah. But, like, dude, like, dude, like, they got it like in a bundle with all their You know what I mean? Like it was like, it was like buy, you know, buy two Trump flags, get a fucking Purdue sign for free or something like that. But like, dude, well, hey, as you said, I stay at home because I believe in science. But also, I go the grocery, because of that and I work from home and, you know,

you know what we do. I go to the grocery store like 215 when I know ain't nobody going to be there. It's like, when I tell you that I talk to y'all when we record the podcast, that's about it. But like, dude, no, this is probably, this is the first time they've even known who was running in a while, you know, just because I guess Trump's saying their name or whatever, but like, honest to God,

man, because mudsling is so popular, I actually see them talk about Ossoff and Warnoff. I see their names more, but in a negative light. Like I don't know what I'm saying? Like, I see more fuck these dudes than I ever do. Sunny Purdue is good and he'll do this. Like, all the shit that I get in my mailbox, I go out in my mailbox every day

and there's some leaflet with Raphael Warnock on it, and it's like in black and white with like flames, you know? It's like, Raphael Warnock said, God damn the police. And I was like, ooh, that's a bop. Hell yeah. And then I was like, oh, oh, never mind, this is supposed to not hit, you know.

So like that's, that's what I'm seeing. It's just a bunch of that shit. But that's just in my mailbox. I don't know. Like I said, man, they're being real. They're being suspiciously quiet. Like, they got a plan. You think it's like that old, the old thing I always said in Westerns is like, if you see Indians be nervous, if you don't see Indians, be very nervous like that. Exactly it. That's exactly it. And that's what they say too here, around here. It's also about Indian.

They're still giving the Indian advice. Yeah. Yeah. So I saw this earlier today, Corey. Here's something else happening in your state. Georgia House Speaker, he says you'll ask for legislation for a constitutional amendment that the Secretary of State will now be selected by the General Assembly instead of being elected. So your neighbors are responding to the election well. by trying to go back and undo the reconstruction. That's nice. Hold on now. Say the top part of that again and try to put it from Mark language into my language

because it's not time. So your Secretary of State, Ben Rafflesberger. Yeah. Ben Rappensberger, I think. Rappinsberger, yeah. He's elected, but they're all mad at him. So the Speaker of the House is introduced a bill that would make that an unelected position instead appointed.

Like an appoint. Just you do you be appointed? By the Georgia. By the, oh, dude, we can't have none of that shit here. God damn it. The very fucking second, we start to do, like, all the people start to shift to one side. They're like, no, you know what?

We're just going to let Cracker McClacker here, you know, in his judge robe, just pick everything. We can't have that. Do you, actually, that makes me wonder, like, I know you're thrilled that Georgia turned blue and the general and all this and about the stuff that is going. The potential for George. right now. And obviously, I know you wouldn't have it any other way, no matter how you answer this question. But do you, like, at all worry about that making it even wilder and crazier for the, you know, the fucking people you know in Chickamauga, the hardcore Trump type,

like, that it will, like, escalate? Yeah. Like, does that concern you that it's going to get wilder down there because of this? Or sort of. I mean, there's part of me that thinks, man, it's almost hard to imagine that they could get that group of people could get more energized than they were in 2016 and 2020 for Trump when like, you know, we've talked a million times about like, it's pretty recent. Well, it was Obama and there's a lot of reasons for that. But like, I remember when I was a kid, and so to you, that like people in the South just wouldn't tell you at all who they were voting for.

Like you would have no idea. Even though the South has always been a very red place, I guess the line between Democrats and Republicans was still blurred enough to where like people didn't just assume and you wouldn't just talk about it except for the last couple years like dude I have I literally never even after 9-11 I never saw some bitches with uh flags on the back of their truck now like bumper sticker flag sure but like literal full flag on both sides of the truck uh hadn't seen it until now so like these people are so energized so like what I'm like what else could they do especially a lot of them of dying off right now.

But like, yeah, I kind of think that the ones that are energized already are going to be doing some crazier shit because they looked at me. Like everybody in my town looked at me like, oh, you know, don't worry about Corey. He's just the one liberal that exists. And now they look at the map and they're like, oh, my God, technically, if you just go by this, there's more Corrie's now than there is me. And honest, I hope that it just, I hope they all just get in a garage and turn a car on. Like, that'd be the cool thing if they do that.

But I don't know, man. Like, I kind of, nobody's don't exit my house yet, but I can see it happening. I mean, the sheer amount of a, the response to this is going to be, if Democrats don't take the Senate and we get rid of the filibuster and pass the new voting rights act, is going to be an insane amount of vote suppression in a Republican-controlled state. You're going to need like nine forms of ID that combined to cost $3,000 to vote by the time this is over. Well, I do assume that. like because you know for the past however long i mean ever they these people have known they've got

georgia in the bag so like i don't know man like i'm i'm curious to see who they start running like this marjorie taylor green like a person like her right now we go oh that's the qanonan lady and so we can separate her from the pack and go like well she's you know extremist even amongst them but like i have a bad feeling that like in four years it's going to be like oh that's the not qianon person that's running so okay on that on that on that on that's that note we're gonna produce your mask and start throwing up some comments and stuff so y'all let us know what you're thinking wondering do y'all think that these people are gonna continue further down the crazy trail or you know try to normalize a little bit what you're all's expectations let us know what else

you're thinking any other questions you have but uh start with you corey do you think that do you think on like a not a super long timeline but you know at least like going out somewhat long term five to 10 years. You think that's where we're going to be in five to 10 years? It's like they're going to be like full bore, far right Q&on, lunatic Nazi into the spectrum is going to be what the party is or does Trump represent a sort of, you know, high point for that that. I wouldn't say it's a rain back in.

I wouldn't say it's a flash in a pan for sure. I would say that hopefully for the time being like that's the peak and it's going to start going down a little bit. But like, to me, it's just going to be one of those. I think a lot of people right now with Biden getting elected, a lot of the Republicans who like wouldn't admit they were Trump's like, oh, they probably loathe Donald Trump, but he is a Republican, so they voted for him. They're probably, like I said earlier, are going to use this time, this four years as a walking back, you know, portion where they can be like, no, I was never for Donald Trump, even though, you know, unfortunately for them, like, we record everything now. But like, they're going to try there,

but I think there's going to be a lot of them that try to separate themselves from that. they're going to do what, frankly, honestly, the Democratic Party did for a while was like, no, no, no, no, there's the Democratic Party and then there's socialism, which is, you know, Bernie Sanders. They're going to be doing that to distance themselves from that. Whereas with the Democrats, it's almost like, hey, actually, you kind of have to start accepting some of this because it's getting more popular. And on their end, hopefully it'll be, we really need to just run on small government and no new taxes. Let's get back to the fucking basics. It's like there's no reason we have to start talking about Mexicans again.

Like we did that. Well, Robert Kapper says they can't go back now without losing face. And I'm sorry, I don't know how much I believe that. Just because of how I've seen them operate over the past four years, I mean, like Lindsey Graham, we were talking about it on a recent episode, Lindsey Graham said in 2016, if we nominate Donald Trump, it will be the death of the Republican Party or something like that. I'm paraphrasing.

And who has been more on Trump's nuts? in the past few years than Lindsay Graham, you know? Like, they don't care nothing about. For the record, some of them motherfuckers, like, are the, that is the doubling downest group of human beings that's ever lived. So, like, I do think there's going to be some of them playing the fiddle on that Titanic the whole way. Yeah, the pipeline for Republican talent, political talent, is the college Republicans. And you go read about college Republicans.

They're pretty radical at this point. And I think you look at, like, the kid who just got elected to Mark Meadows, old seat Madison, California, I think his name is. When he was a big of mouth, he tweeted cry more lib with some like crying laughing emojis. That's like that's that's that's that's a statesman in 2020. Michelle Miller says this will have to be a long timeline. Republicans have sat back and watched this shit hit the fan this entire time. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. But I do also think like we were talking about earlier at the end of the day, it will ultimately come down to what works or not for them, you know? Like right now, they're all. events that Trumpism is is what works, except I mean, he just got his ass whipped, so I don't know. But, you know what I mean? Trey, did he get his ass whipped? Because he got 74 million votes.

Like, that's the thing is like, he, like, we're in the middle of a huge recession in a quarter million people. There's going to be 400,000 people dead by February. And it barely affected his electoral prospects. Well, that's true, but he still got soundly defect. At the end of the day, what matters is winning the thing. And, I mean, he got soundly defeated because of the other. side's response to his bullshit. Like they have to take some

kind of messaging away from that, I would think. I think they're just going to come back more competent Trump type next time, and that terrifies me. I think what we're thinking though is that like, you know, when people say, oh, can these people come back after supporting Trump? And it's like, well, you don't, you can't look at it on like what you as a Democrat

think. Because like, no, they can't ever come back to you. Like, you're never going to think of them as anything other. But like, can that other, they don't have, they don't need you. Can that other side ever accept them back into the fold? And I, yeah, because I don't think the bar is that

fucking high. You know what I'm saying? For them to come back? I don't know, man. Right. Well, okay. Well, all right, comment from Natas L. Hector, who says, I'm registered Republican and the party is dead. The GOP is, the GOP is now Trump's. And I think

there are, you know, people out there like Hector there. And I guess I'm wondering, like, then what is it? Where are the new people that they're gonna, you know what I mean?

They have to have lost reasonable Republicans like Hector. And then how many like new people are they going to be able to activate and bring into the fall

with this new ideology they have? Is it going to be enough to like to be relevant and competitive? See, that might take away from the

you said like he lost sane Republicans, but there's no proof for that. Like there's just, he got more, he got 10 million more votes that did in points. 16. So the

appears to have happened is electoral we're so tribalized that electoral results are completely divorced from what it happens in reality. People who vote Republican and vote Republican no matter what they do and people vote Democratic and vote Democratic no matter what they do. And everything else

is based on turnout. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Trump's thing about he could kill someone on Fifth Avenue is true. He could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and where effective votes. Yeah, he killed like probably you know, a thousand people on Fifth Avenue this year, really. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Fifth Avenue is probably fine because I don't know if you saw it

the top of the show, Corey. The cure for coronavirus being rich and powerful, so they were probably okay. Oh, right. Rudy Giuliani just told everybody that, so you know, but look into that. I know. I keep thinking about that South Park episode where Cartman gets AIDS and he goes to Magic Johnson's house and get the cure. And Johnson's like, I don't know, this is what I take every night. It's just money blended up into a syringe.

I think this is not worth. The Cases the cure for AIDS. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, man. I guess I'm just trying to be hopeful as far as it's just, it's hard for me to accept, not even believe. It's hard for me to accept that Trumpism, for lack of a better way to put their ideology, is a sustainable long-term strategy for the right in this country. On-track stack from YouTube, I assume, says,

you're forgetting about gerrymandering. That's a very good point. You're right. I mean, they have, it's gerrymandering and like voter suppression and stuff, like the shit we're trying right now in Georgia. They have a whole lot of cards in their hand that they play to keep all this shit from even mattering. You know what I mean?

Right. So, yeah, it's also a huge problem. That's why you're going to have Q Congresspeople because all it matters is who wins the primary. And if you can turn enough people to win the primary, you're shooing in the general. It doesn't matter what you think. so yeah i mean we got one yeah yeah and it's truly um people man and like you know shit thank you for bringing me down that notch tray because i too was uh you know trying to be hopeful

but like man when you really just but like but like on the real dude like when you when you look at it and you're like hey we won we beat trump and and georgia flip blue you have to go right 73 million people though still were like this is cool like they still like they still turned out. Like, it's, you know, I always used to despise the term, you know, we're a divided country. We're, because I was always just like, yeah, well, I mean, there's always been Republicans and Democrats, but like at the end of the day, we're not as divided as we think. We're, there's just a couple issues that differentiate us, and one of us goes here, one of us goes there. But when we really talk to each other, we're kind of right in the middle, and that's,

that's good. And sometimes the pendulum swings this way, and sometimes it swings that way. but like if anything trump did that like i mean honestly maybe maybe good that we at least know now before it got too bad or maybe this is it getting too bad is like we truly are right now a insanely divided on almost everything like every single thing because of this motherfucker has become politicized every single thing yeah like i i and and and and again we won okay we won um there's just there's a whole bunch of people out there who are not only going to do the whole not my president to joe biden but like i have a bad feeling or just not even going to follow the rules no more right yeah john john i'm sorry i'm going to butcher

your last name here john icavelli i think something like that jackaveli says we need to make porto rico and dc states so we can rebalance the senate sure i don't know right yeah i'd be all for that too trump i know that porto rico's not another country a more he thinks they're a me country. You know all the Mexican countries down there? You got Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, all the Mexican countries. He thinks Puerto Rico is a Mexican country. It's not clear that I mean, Puerto Rico, I think they don't want to be a state. That's part of the issue with them, but also, you probably shouldn't make them a state against their will. That's, you know, colonialism. You know, literally how the goddamn civil war started. They tried to, they added

Missouri to bring balance to the force and it pissed them all off. And they were like, you know, p p p p phew phew. Same. So that's where they were afraid they were going to do. they didn't do it until afterwards. But also, like, there's no gear. I mean, not this is the reason not to do it. Porter-A-Gur should be admitted to a state if they want to say, get representation along with their taxation. But they have a Republican governor.

It's not clear why Republicans would be super opposed to it because they would be competitive in Puerto Rico. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, I don't, I don't know, man. I thought I was one of those that, I was hopeful at least that it would be this big repudiation of the past four years, you know, on election night. Like the thing Van Jones cried about, you know, like I thought, I hoped that too.

And then, you know, that not happening, like you said, him getting more votes he did last time. Yes, it was a big victory for us. But I mean, yeah, still, it's definitely concerning. Mandy Sue says, I think Biden will be more progressive and bold than Obama. you know what I agree with you and I'm me too he has to be I take I think I'll tell you why Mandy Sue because the party at writ large has been pulled further to the left because of people like Bernie and aOC and whatnot in the intervening years and like Corey's and the opposition is so far in the other direction I think that Biden will almost have no choice but to be more progressive than Obama because again by the way Obama and I loved him I still love him but he was pretty much about. moderate and he could have been a hell of a lot. When I voted for him in 2008, I thought he was going to be a hell of a lot more liberal and progressive than he was.

So with that and the other thing I said, like, yeah, I think there's a really good chance Biden will end up being more progressive than Obama was. His cabinet is marginally better, although it's some weird but weird confounding picks that served to do nothing to make the left half of the party insanely mad. So I don't know, I'm actually quite sure what he's up to. Well, I mean, look, man, we can't, you know, I would say you can't, it takes you longer than, you know, than a couple weeks to screw something up.

Like, it's going to take Biden's probably full term before we ever go, okay, I think maybe we're starting to get back to normal. And I'm not saying that he himself can do it, but like right now, we probably shouldn't judge how things are going to be in the long term based on the time in the time we're in where Donald Trump hasn't actually even conceded. the race yet because that's a weird pretty unprecedented time where tensions are just wild so like at some point there has to be a guys we're just all fucking exhausted you know this guy's in there let him fucking give it a shot the economy always does better under a democrat anyways what are you worried about i don't know man like it sucks uh all right well here's a good question for us to end down here from linda all well medina thoughts on the vaccine would you take it I'll answer first.

Right. Yes. Of course. Right. Yeah, I'd take it right now. Of course I would. Please, please, God. Please take these vaccines.

Because look, I mean, to me, like the alter. We are so fucked if people just, if Americans just straight up refuse to take this vaccine or whatnot. I mean, I guess it'll eventually just run through all of us and then that'll be that. But I would rather not live in that scenario. I mean, the first people getting it, or is every health care professional in America who all into medical school. Who is my. dumb ass to refuse to take it if every doctor's taking it. That's what I'm saying, man. Like, dude, I know that, you know, obviously think for yourself

don't be a sheep and all that shit. But like, like everybody that's smart thinks this way and everyone who's a fucking idiot thinks this way. So I'm going to get the goddamn shot. I mean, fuck, dude. I'm sure that there was, I mean, I know this is cliche, but I'm sure that during FDR stint, there were some motherfuckers on the. offense about polio because oh hell you know I'm I live on a yacht whatever I don't need my leg anyways

I just float this is a short version of the story but the continental Congress was anti-vax and British troops had immunity to smallpox when a smallpox outbreak started among the you know the revolutionaries

George Washington told Congress to fuck off and inoculated all the troops and eventually stopped the smallpox talks out. The only reason where country is because people didn't listen to anti-vaxes. Man, that is classic George Washington. The first time you ever jacked off to the weakest link lady, for God's sake. Artists, most knowledgeable human being.

All right, well, yes, please get the vaccine. And also, almost as importantly, please check out me and Corey and Drew show on Saturday, Rush to Texas. It's right up there with them. It'll be your vaccine for your heart. That's what it'll be. That's it. Yes, so check it out.

And we, me and Mark, will be back now. Tuesday on evening skews. I have a good time. So see you love you. Bye. Good show, fellas. Bye. Thank you, Corey.