Weekly Skews

The unredacted JFK Files detail a shocking conspiracy (not that one). Trump hosts the world's worst crypto party, but don't worry, the people were hella cool. Then we get into the hot new legislation as crypto tries to go legit at the same time Bitcoin guys are getting their fingers cut off and robbed with chainsaws.Support the show

On this episode of Good Skews, we interview Jane Kleeb, a seasoned grassroots organizer, author, manager, and political strategist in the Great Plains.Since December 2016, Kleeb has held the position of Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, and she is currently serving her fourth term, which extends until November 2026. She also holds the role of Chair of the Association of State Democratic Committees.Her leadership has fostered the creation of innovative programs such as Block Captains, 93-County Voter Guides, and the Candidates of Color Fund. She is the longest-serving Chair in the history of the Nebraska Democratic Party.Our conversation delves into the recent surprising upset in Omaha's mayoral election, where longtime Republican incumbent Jean Stothert was defeated with 56–44 percent of the vote. Ewing's victory marks a historic moment as he becomes the first Black mayor of Omaha and represents a strong rejection of anti-transgender campaign tactics.Support the show

A new(ish) internet cult announces itself with a bombing in Palm Springs, leaving the FBI to google “what is internet.” A senator fantasizes about cruising in truckstop men's rooms with oil-rich sheiks. And America's “whites preferable” refugee program goes into effect, which leads somehow to Elon making Jar-Jar Binks racist by accident. I know I know, we'll (try to) make it make sense. Join us.Support the show

We're getting more drunks in DC. ICE does an oopsie and kidnaps a mayor. The Trump administration tries to satisfy QAnon with facts and logic, and it's going great, and the Big Guy preemptively steals the new Air Force One that has Qatari secret police hiding in the bathrooms.Support the show

Producer Matt here: We're testing a new pilot episode for a project called “Good Skews,” a show exclusively for our audio podcast stream. With this offering, we'd conduct longer-form interviews with people making a difference. It's a show about good people doing good things. So if you like this episode, email us at show@weeklyskews.com and tell us your thoughts.For this first episode of “Good Skews,” we talk with Nathan Evans Fox, an Americana-country singer and songwriter from rural North Carolina. We talked about growing up in a Conservative Christian household and how his family inspired the music he's making today.Support the show

Happy Skews Day. Companies say screw it and start reporting bribes as business expenses. The government is doing Abbottabad Raids on college kids who hang fliers. Canada votes “Death to Amérique, eh.” And Elon truly innovates, combining his new company town with a cult. Well, one of his cults.Support the show

Howdy. A.I. did what to John Cena now? Neil Gorsuch is mad at gay cartoon dogs. Chuck Schumer is mad at an imaginary past. Then we get into the Deep State's effort to take down Pete Hegseth by tattling.Support the show

We talk about Mexican sex ghosts and the government's plan to stop immigration with an AI apparently trained on Blaxploitation movies. Then, the government's continuing cartoonish efforts to make one guy into a supervillain because then we can scrap the concept of rights. I mean who you gonna trust? A guy whose knuckle tats we photoshopped, or a cop who got fired for driving drunk into someone's house?Support the show

We're sorry, but you have to die in the gulag because the White House beat the Supreme Court at Boggle. Tariffs are so confusing that Gretchen Whitmer is playing peekaboo in the Oval Office. Then, we talk about RFK Jr.'s big plan for the measles outbreak in Texas. It's one page titled: “Make it Worse.” Support the show

Today, Trump's trying Super Brexit, apparently because he lost a piano auction to a Japanese guy in 1988 (not kiddin'). We're talking tariffs that the White House can't agree on why they're doing them, apparently formulated by ChatGPT (really not kiddin'). And how we need to fix the trade deficit by making the people of Myanmar buy Cadillacs. It's a lot, and of course there's a nepo baby Soundcloud rapper involved. Join us.Support the show

Today we have an official attack on the civil rights of imaginary teen furries. There's elections Tuesday, which means of course there's a guy who's pro sexy dances for autistic children, and Elon's doing double corrupt fraud in Wisconsin. Plus, we discuss how law firms will make money after announcing laws aren't real. (It's by funneling bribes for a guy who sold engineless trucks.) Support the show

Today, Trump goes to war with his biggest adversaries yet: The Golden Girls. A popcorn warlord rich moron attempts a one-man mayoral coup in a small village in New York, proving once again America has an unlimited supply of Guys Like This. Plus, the administration's plan to Abu Ghraib everyone who frowns at a Tesla, and why are they acting like he's going broke? All that and more on tonight's Skews.Support the show

DOGE has innovated a new kind of dog that doesn't need food, don't worry about it. Plus there's a new government-funded style influencer who posts videos smiling over the blood curdling screams of her fired co-workers. Then we get into the latest on Mahmoud Khalil, and whether Trump can successfully cram the first amendment on a rendition flight.Support the show

Today, we're talking about Canada's yellowcake uranium, Wayne Gretzky becoming their Hanoi Jane, and how they found their freedom fries. Then, Tennessee Brando joins us to discuss how one Volunteer State congressman chilling in a Bible thumping treehouse connects to everything going on in politics: financial fraud, fundamentalism, pathetic sucking up, and a rich donor who made his wife watch sex tapes he made with other women.Support the show

Good news Skewers, there's a patriot out there fighting for your god given American right to use third graders as speed bumps. Plus, a hot new murder cult that's bad because some of the members are tran. Then we get into all the really rinky-dink ways everything is for sale in America now, especially if you're a cybercriminal crypto warlord who eats $6 million bananas.Support the show

Welcome. This week even literal Nazis are saying there's too many Nazi salutes. “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” is involved. Congresspeople are getting strung up like Mussolini at town halls (just metaphorically, so far). Then, the farmers have gone woke, and the only person trying to solve the eggpocalypse is one lady running “Uber for Yardbirds.” Plus Egg Cartels? Egg Cartels. Come hang.Support the show

Skewers, we've known for years now that Money in Politics is one of the biggest threats to our country, and it's never been more evident than in this election. Tonight we talk about the hundreds of millions of dollars being funneled into Donald Trump's effort to regain the White House, a massive chunk of which can be traced directly back to, who else, Elon Musk.Support the show

Unfortunately we have to talk about Elon again because a bunch of people are still pretending DOGE is about “cost cutting.” We get into what it's really about, which involves a Chinese Tony Stark and hooking our nukes up to a computer that can't buy eggs right. Support the show

We solved the California Water War mystery. Plus a 19-year-old named BigBalls has seized control of the U.S. Treasury, it's probably fine.Support the show

This week, Dr. Phil gets a Junior Deputy ICE badge, MS-13 signs up for AP calc, the CIA gets it Black History Month pizza party canceled, and the Q Shaman announces plans for a Supermarket Sweep at the gun store. A real stupid era for America ramps up.Support the show

We touch on Trump's inauguration, Elon's “Roman salute,” and Biden pardoning everyone named Biden, before diving into the clown car demolition derby that was the fake TikTok ban that led Americans to flee to the glorious land of the free: the Chinese Internet. Join us.Support the show

Tonight we debate about the debates about who's to blame for the big LA fires, and it's everything except the thing to blame. It's wokeness, deaf people, Chilean gangs, and one specific lesbian, but – you'll be relieved – not anyone who's cooking the planet.Support the show

Today we're talking the continuing anti-immigrant fallout from an American guy killing some Americans, somehow. Plus the coming Sino-Danish-Panamanian-Canadian-Mexican War Trump's agitating for, being egged on by Mr. Perfect from Shark Tank and the heir to Estee Lauder. (Seriously.)Support the show

There's stuff in the sky! Run! Hide! Shoot at it! Or say it's aliens. Or that it's government-run fake aliens? Or call for war with Iran because passenger jets have blinking lights? The important thing is that you, as a freeborn American, have options. Join us.Support the show

Howdy. They caught the UHC shooter and yeah it's kinda what we all thought, but also weirder (in his normalness). Plus, Trump 2's plan to steal the gold in the federal reserve with computer money… explained, obviously, by the latest doins of the Hawk Tuah girl.Support the show

Tonight we're talking about how a children's author who thinks QAnon is real maybe shouldn't be put in charge of the FBI. Plus, Joe sprung Hunter from the hoosegow and Hunter didn't even have to tunnel out Shawshank-style.Support the show

Skewers, this week we discuss the grand, ambitious, totally-not-dumb-and-infeasible designs that Elon and Vivek have for the federal government through their shiny new Department of Government Efficiency. Spoiler: it's not great. Join us. Support the show

Tonight, we talk about the latest news in Hell's waiting room, mainly how Trump's terrifying cabinet nominees are basically all examples of America's elite accountability crisis. Plus, fun with punching influencers, and there's apparently a committee to invade Mexico? Probably fine. Join usSupport the show

Skewers for the past week the discussion on the American left has been centered around one question and one question only: what went wrong and whose fault is it? But fret not, because tonight, Smart Mark and Trae are going to definitively answer this question and solve this problem once and for all. OK…probably not, but they'll talk about it. Join us. Support the show

Well Skewers a week out from the election and, as expected all along, all eyes are on the material of edgelord shock comic Tony Hinchcliffe, who made serious waves this weekend by letting the whole world know just exactly what kind of rally Trump was throwing at Madison Square Garden. Did you guys NotSee that? Support the show

Skewers, we've known for years now that Money in Politics is one of the biggest threats to our country, and it's never been more evident than in this election. Tonight we talk about the hundreds of millions of dollars being funneled into Donald Trump's effort to regain the White House, a massive chunk of which can be traced directly back to, who else, Elon Musk. Support the show

Evening, Skewers. Tonight we discuss the state of affairs in Florida, where citizens still reeling from the effects of two hurricanes are also forced to deal with a malicious governor hell bent on making their lives worse. So that's fun. Also, some dumb stuff from Trump and MAGA wants to cancel the weather. Support the show

 Skewers it's only been one week and already another generationally cataclysmic hurricane is bearing down on this country. Surely politicians on all sides have put away partisan disputes and come together to help our fellow Americans in this time of need right? Actually, no, Trump and MAGA have deemed this fertile ground for sowing lies and unrest. Imagine that. Support the show

Hurricane Helene cut a swath of cataclysmic destruction across the South last weekend, with much of the worst of it being in western North Carolina…which is profoundly upsetting considering it was a hurricane and that is the mountains. So what is being done, politically, to ensure this never happens again? Believe it or not, very little. But Trump's getting some good photo ops out of it and that's what really matters. Join us. Support the show

Skewers it has been one HECKUVA week for the American Right as a truly comical number of sex scandals have broken at basically the same time. Matt Gaetz doin' Matt Gaetz stuff (i.e. bringing a teenager to a sex party), yet another vehemently homophobic activist turns out to have a super gay history, and of course the abject and filthy insanity of Mark Robinson. Join us. Support the show

Skewers, tonight we'll break down the latest apparent attempt on Trump's life, including a look at the would-be gunman, who oddly enough does NOT seem to be a transgender antifa agent. Join us as we talk about the increasingly absurd state of affairs in American politics as the 2024 election season barrels on. Support the show

Skewers this week we welcome Producer Laura to the fold (Matt is fine; we'll explain on the show) and what a first episode it is for her as we dive into the latest wholly made up fearmongering campaign being embraced by MAGA: that Haitian immigrants are out here eatin' kitty cats. Pre-game for the debate by joining us as we explore the reality of this truly insane story as well as the Ohio town at the center of it. Support the show

Skewers, it's an election year, and you know what that means: time to gin up some immigration panics! The right has already been hard at work to this end but now they've got a new headliner: Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes in Colorado. Tonight we talk about the complex reality of the situation, plus Trump's IVF position and a bunch of other dumb stuff along the way. Support the Show.

Skewers, tonight we talk about the astronauts currently stuck in space, and how lucky they are to be missing the insanity that is life on this planet right now. No obviously being stuck in space is less than ideal, but seriously things are wild, and we're gonna talk about ‘em. Join us.Support the Show.

Skewers, tonight we discuss all the latest criticisms being aimed at the Harris/Walz campaign as the DNC continues in Chicago. Apparently they think Tim Walz is a (very deep) sleeper Chinese agent and loves Tiananmen Square and stuff. So that's fun. Also JD Vance continues to make normal things as weird as possible. And more. Support the Show.

As Harris/Walz continue to surge in the polls, the Trump campaign is firing back by…having him barely campaign at all this month. A bold strategy indeed. Could this lack of enthusiasm for campaigning have something to do with the fact that intricate and widespread plans have been put in place to ensure that Trump “wins” this election even if he loses? Let's get into it. Support the Show.

Well the big decision has officially been made: Kamala Harris's running mate is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. And Skewers, honestly…it's like this man was designed in a lab to hit for us. Should be a rare upbeat episode tonight so join us in merriment.Support the Show.

Skewers tonight we're getting into the new and entertaining approach to campaigning by Team Harris and the Dems: just talk about how frickin' weird these weirdos are. And so far…seems to be working out (probably on account of them being super weird). Should be a fun one, and yes, the couch is gonna come up. Support the Show.

Tonight we're talking about turning the page, Joe Biden committing seppuku, how insane recent TikTok star Kamala Harris makes Republicans, and a Trump donor getting stuck in his car elevator. Trae is on the road so Mark is joined by Senior How-Fox-News-Just-Got-My-Mom-To-Love-Joe Biden Correspondent Corey Ryan Forrester.Support the Show.

Skewers it's kinda hard to know what to talk about this week as so little is going on in the news cycle right now. However, we'll surely come up with something. Maybe the assassination attempt or fake hillbilly VP candidate, if anyone's interested. Support the Show.

Skewers this week we talk about the same thing everyone on the American left is talking about: should Joe Biden step aside? More importantly: will he? With almost indescribably massive implications for November and beyond, someone needs to answer these questions, and soon. As for us, we opine. Support the Show.

Tonight on Skews we'll be joined by Dr. Scott Lemieux, professor of political science and constitutional law at UW-Seattle, to help us make sense of the recent tear SCOTUS has been on (culminating with yesterday's decision that Presidents are Kings now). Just exactly HOW terrified should we be? We'll discuss that, as well as all things Biden, on the show. Support the Show.

Skewers, tonight we discuss the ongoing and ever-perplexing shift in rhetoric, demeanor, and position of Senator John Fetterman, as the one-time progressive darling continues to openly antagonize countless members of the American political left. To what end? Who knows, but we'll talk about it. Support the Show.

 Skewers, tonight we discuss the traffic policy kerfuffle that New York Democrats have embroiled themselves in, and, more importantly, how it offers insight into the ineptitude of Big Democrat and the threat this all poses to the possibility of Dem control of the House of Representatives in the forthcoming election. Join us. Support the Show.

Well Skewers, everyone else is talking about it so we reckon we should too: Hunter Biden has been convicted of three felony gun charges related to lying on a background check. Which is of course a massive surprise considering his father Joe Biden personally operates a famously rigged and partisan justice system. What does it all mean? We'll try and figure it out. Support the Show.

Tonight we discuss, what else, last weeks big verdict: 34 felony convictions for Donald Trump, as well as the discourse surrounding it since from both the right (unhinged, flailing, hypocritical) and the left (basically nonexistent for some reason). Also Fauci's big day and a bunch of other fun stuff too. Join us. Support the Show.