Weekly Skews

America celebrated 250! 250 what? A lot of people don’t know. A MAHA Mom might be getting the death penalty, but not for what you think. And then we get into the somewhat over-the-top reactions to the Supreme Court keeping citizenship the same as it’s always been, and reflections upon birthright after two-and-a-half centuries of rockin’ and rollin’. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterH...

This week Mark is regrettably absent, and it just so happens to be America’s 250th birthday week. Coincidence? Yes, yes it is a coincidence. He’s fine and will return next week but in the meantime the one and only Cho joins Trae to opine on the state of things in this husk of an empire.  Weekly Skews is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If you believe religious...

 The Supreme Court has ruled that because Thomas Jefferson liked to party we can all get high and still have guns. The stupid Reflecting Pool saga has reached a late-stage Stalin level of Soviet farce, with show trials and a total war mobilization to destroy some algae. Then, Trump officials are now saying thoughts about Israel’s government that left-wing protesters got beaten half-to-death for ex...

We recap a fun sports weekend in America, which included brawls on the White House lawn and beautiful game shenanigans. Then, we break down all the angles to the screwworm outbreak that will decimate ranchers and turn hamburger into a collectible item. Some greatest generation patriots had originally fixed this in the 60’s by being big fans of watching flies bone. Just another thing we have to get...

It would obviously take a conspiracy to make Spencer Pratt, a well-known failure, fail. We get to the bottom of it. Then, Congress has it’s own CIA? And they’re mostly watching your posts about data centers. Before all that we get to Pete Hegseth declaring Mormonism a cult, which has gone over great in Utah. This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW now. You'll get...

Nigeria has the rare political scandal that would make a fun Disney movie where a candidate turned out to be a literal child. An immature congressman? Can’t have that. Then, we get into the Texas campaign for the U.S. Senate and the tens of millions of dollars worth of mud about to be slung at James Talarico, which so far amounts to “It’s communist to eat meat veganly” and “He has a girlfriend, bu...

Good news, your fourth-grader is now free from the federal tyranny that barred them from mango-flavored vapes. We check in on a few primaries and discuss a gubernatorial’s winning gambit of ‘wearing tall socks,’ and an aspiring congresswoman in Texas who had way to much caffeine then talked about Israel. Then, we discuss our seemingly inevitable military action against Cuba for several pretexts we...

Kash Patel continues living like a ten-year-old who found a winning lottery ticket. Trump’s supporters debate the strict meaning of “worship” with regards to the golden statue of him they built to take pilgrimages to. Then, we get into Mr. Wonderful’s planet-eating Death Star of a data center project in Utah, the fight against it, and his ability to sniff out all the Chinese A.I. saboteurs who’ve,...

The government (barely) disclosed (very little) stuff about aliens and you’ll never guess, no one is satisfied. The root cause of all of this does seem to be a government disinformation campaign that no one seems to remember why they did it for. It’s pretty funny. Then, we talk about the practical death of the Voting Rights Act and the mad rush all over the South to gerrymander every state into a...

The War in Iran has hit a new phase with dolphin troops. Dolphin troops? Support the dolphin troops. Primary season’s in full swing, so let’s talk about Graham Platner becoming the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, the Reddit post controversies, and the shaken state of Dem moderates. Also,   Because the definition feels very specific, and not what you might think. This episode is sponsored b...

Today we talk about a guy in Colorado who’s trapped in a time loop movie of unwarranted traffic stops because of Big Computer. It’s a silly anecdote connected to the growing privacy and law enforcement nightmare that is Flock Safety, and how cities and counties across the U.S. have helped set up “Netflix for Stalkers.” Do you want to livestream a child’s gymnastics class in Georgia? Flock is the s...

The Correspondents Dinner assassin that wasn’t, a Washington press freakout over hearing gunshots vaguely in the distance, and whether there’s anyone left in America who hasn’t tried to kill a president. Then we get into the paper thin federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the effort to protect the real victim of racism: Donald Trump’s reputation. Also, the funny reactions of N...

Live Nation's predatory grip on live music is finally cracking — and a homegrown, hyper-local music scene is rising up to take its place. Matt sits down with longtime music publicist and industry expert Devon Léger to talk festival season, why the corporate giants are getting pinched, and how Live Nation's monopoly playbook (own the venues, the artists, the tickets, then jack up prices) is running...

RFK Jr. “Yeah yeah, we’ll get to the measles outbreaks, but first what’s up with raccoon penis bones?” The FBI director apparently cries at work, but don’t worry, it’s only because he’s blackout drunk. Trump considers giving himself an Iran War medal. Then, we get into the insane goings on with influencers on the right, where the real ones are self-immolating at the same time they’re being replace...

There’s a chimpanzee war. Sound dumb? You’ll never guess. Then we get into JD Vance’s global catastrophe of a week, starting with failed low-effort negotiations with Iran while the Secretary of State got drunk in Miami. Then, we talk about the election results in Hungary, where the people basically voted for JD and the rest of the MAGA Dweeb Wing to go eat rocks. It was a campaign with an insane a...

 Matt sits down again with Joe Sudbay, host of State of the States on SiriusXM, to check in on what's actually happening in American politics right now — and why you have to look at the state and local level to see it clearly. Since the beginning of 2025, Democrats have flipped 30 Republican state legislative seats while Republicans haven't picked up a single Democratic one. Joe breaks down the pa...

JD Vance has a new book about his journey through forty-eleven religions before he arrived at the correct one, Catholicism-Where-You-Hate-the-Pope. Then Mark and Trae talk about the president threatening war crimes in internet posts where he sarcastically converts to Islam. Then, a fun discussion with scientist, small business owner, and Congressional candidate Dr. Michaela Barnett about running f...

The White House has horny pun fun with sex-working farmers. Marco Rubio wants you to know he listens to rap music while various prediction market fiascos continue to surround the non-war with Iran. Also, Iran hacked the FBI director’s emails and we learned that he pays for porn? Yeah, Kash Patel pays for porn. Then we get into the overlords’ obsession with replacing teachers with A.I. ,which someh...

Congressional retirements are hitting a modern record heading into the 2026 midterms, and author, political scientist, and professor Dr. Tom Schaller joins Matt to break down what it all means. More Republicans are fleeing the House than at any point in the last century — tied with Trump's own first midterm in 2018 — and historically, that's a very bad sign for the party in power. Tom and Matt dig...

We’ve got a new FEMA chief who believes he has telekinetic powers. In other DHS news, the likely new secretary has been stealing Delta Force valor but you can’t catch him on it because the truth is too classified, and Trump is sending ICE to be the new TSA. Then we get into the latest stupid war news. An aircraft carrier is out of commission because of a laundry fire and overflowing toilets and it...

The White House July 4th UFC bash is coming together great, provided someone remembers to start building a stadium back in 2022. Cops in Ohio are suing the rapper Afroman (remember Afroman?) for negatively impacting their self-esteem. Then we get into the ridiculous verdict in an “antifa” case where part of the evidence for a terrorist conspiracy was possession of a feminist movie review. Trae’s o...

Our solution to the Hormuz crisis is for some guys in boat captain hats to do Pickett’s Charge. All of this is very necessary, according to an A.I. George Washington, I told to say that. We did the Vietnam Airlift to with one private jet to rescue a TikTok dogwalker. Then we get into all the unforeseeable (very foreseeable) impacts the war is having, including that we’re kinda paying Russia to hel...

This week, we begin with the number one political issues facing Texas: Sharia Law and lies about porn addiction and organic honey. Then we get into the beginning of our most recent non-war with Iran, news of which was broken by a couple drunk guys overhead at a seafood restaurant by TMZ, and things have only gotten dumber since then. Why’d we attack? The White House will have to get back to you on...

The Olympics turned into the hockey team having a Take Your FBI Director to Work Day. Then we talk about the MAHA backlash against Trump trying to make all the children’s water fountains spray Roundup. Finally, A..I. CEOs keep saying insane things that reveal they want us all dead, then cry when we don’t just lay down in our graves. Weird. Join us. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHe...

Portugal has MAGA now, down to even A.I.-generated xenophobic rap videos, and we’re sorry. Then we discuss the nationwide widespread pushback against new ICE detention facilities due to an alliance of wokes and the most undefeatable of American political forces, NIMBYs. After that we bring on Corey Ryan Forrester to walk us through a hilarious mayoral scandal that’s rocked his small town. This epi...