Weekly Skews – Ernest Does Some Light Ethnic Cleansing
We have a fun update on the American turned anti-woke Russian soldier turned cannon fodder. The we talk about how the left wants to cancel sending birthday cards, and war criminals going on prankster YouTube channels. Then we get into the latest farcical incompetent evils from our ongoing mass deportations. Is there a rule that says ICE can’t fake your granddad’s death, as a joke? Support the...
59m Jul 23, 2025
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Weekly Skews – We Put the Epstein Files in the Warehouse with the Ark of the Covenant
We have a fun scandal where a billionaire tried to buy a Billy Madison experience in professional tennis. Then we talk about FEMA’s efforts to keep Central Texas flood victims from turning to selling their bodies (their words), before we get into the continuing fallout from whatever the administration is doing with Schroedinger’s Epstein Files. Support the show
1hr Jul 16, 2025
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Weekly Skews – Weather or Not
On today’s show we talk about the Supreme Court sentencing itself to watch pornos in the basement. Then we get into the flooding in Central Texas. Is the response that locals have found maddening due to politicians selling the government for parts at all levels for decades, or because one guy named Augustus Doricko squirted blue Powerade out of a plane? Experts disagree. Support the show
1hr Jul 09, 2025
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Weekly Skews – We’re Hearing It’s a Caliphate or Something
Peter Thiel comes out as a centrist on the issue of “whether or not all humans should die.” Ron DeSantis has a plan to feed immigrants to alligators. Then we discuss the New York mayoral primary and whether American can survive a Woke Islamist Communist doing Sharia Law, which seems to mainly consist of faster city buses. Support the show
59m Jul 02, 2025
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Good Skews: State and Special Elections with Joe Sudbay
State and local elections are where the political future is being shaped, and Democrats are finally catching up to Republicans’ long-standing strategy of investing deeply in them. Producer Matt talks with Joe Sunday, Host of State of the States on Sirius XM to learn more about what's working. Support the show
29m Jun 27, 2025
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Weekly Skews – Shoot First, Ask If It Was a Good Idea Later
The feds got into an armed standoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers, while the kids are getting into shootouts with pixelated ICE agents on Roblox. Then we talk about the weekend’s bombing of Iran, for peace. It’s a story that involves a Sesame Street character, Private Facebook joining the Army, and a 22-year-old whose last job was mowing lawns who is now chasing Iranian sleeper cells. Suppor...
59m Jun 25, 2025
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S1 Ep3: Good Skews: Donald Trump's Approval Raiting with John Ray of YouGov Blue
In this episode of Good Skews, Producer Hildreth sits down with John Ray from YouGov Blue to unpack the latest polling data and what it actually tells us about the 2024 political landscape. John shares some cautiously optimistic views, including waning support for Trump among key voter blocs like young men and communities of color. Support the show
24m Jun 20, 2025
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S5 Ep266: Weekly Skews – The Minnesota Assassin: An Untalented Mr. Ripley
On today’s show, America did the impossible, we somehow made parades more boring. Then we break down the life and many careers of the Minnesota assassin, who seems to have confused the whole world with one weird trick he invented: Lying On His Resume. Support the show
1hr Jun 18, 2025
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S5 Ep265: Weekly Skews – Stage Managing a Battle of Los Angeles
A growing number of powerful people call for the drone striking of Greta Thunberg so nerds can feel free to dress as hummus for Halloween. (We swear these are real things.) Then we get into the weekend’s ICE protests in L.A., Trump sending in the National Guard, and whether we need the Marines to stop a couple Mexican guys from riding dirt bikes. Join us. Support the show
59m Jun 11, 2025
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S5 Ep264: Weekly Skews – We’re All Gonna What Now?
Trump pardons a grab bag of weirdo scammers, but it’s the potential pardon of an (alleged) pervert that drew the ire of the history’s greatest hater, 50 Cent. Then we talk about how Joni Ernst was honest exactly one time about this government’s health policy and everyone got mad. It involves actively trying to give you cancer while taking treatments away, but don’t worry, they have a solution: ...
59m Jun 04, 2025
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S5 Ep263: Weekly Skews – Crypto Realizes There’s No Such Things as Halfway Crooks
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
49m May 28, 2025
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Good Skews: Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, Jane Kleeb
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 ...
23m May 21, 2025
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S5 Ep263: Weekly Skews – Boer’d to Death
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...
59m May 21, 2025
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S5 Ep262: Weekly Skews – 5/13/25 – What Would It Take to Get You in This (Free and Definitely-Not-Bugged) Plane Today
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
1hr May 14, 2025
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Good Skews: Nashville-based Country Singer, Nathan Evans Fox
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 “Goo...
33m May 08, 2025
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S5 Ep263: Weekly Skews – 5/06/25 – We’re Bringing Back Company Towns, but as Cults
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
57m May 07, 2025
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S5 Ep262: Weekly Skews – 4/29/25 – Neil Gorsuch Can’t Read Good and The Ongoing Passion of Pete Hegseth
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
59m Apr 30, 2025
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Weekly Skews – 4/22/25 – Everyone is MS-13 (Except for MS-13, Who We Made a Deal With)
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’...
57m Apr 23, 2025
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S5 Ep262: Weekly Skews – 4/15/25 – RFK Jr. and Horseshoe Theory Eugenics
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
59m Apr 16, 2025
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S5 Ep261: Weekly Skews – 4/8/25 – Trade Deficit Disorder
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 Soundc...
59m Apr 09, 2025
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S5 Ep261: Weekly Skews – 4/1/25 – First Let’s Cow All the Lawyers
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.) Suppor...
1hr Apr 02, 2025
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S5 Ep260: Weekly Skews – 3/25/25 – Holding a Telethon for the Downtrodden (Elon)
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 S...
58m Mar 26, 2025
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S5 Ep259: Weekly Skews – 3/18/25 – Can You Deport the First Amendment? Let’s Find Out
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
59m Mar 18, 2025
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S5 Ep258: Weekly Skews – 3/11/25 – Canada Strikes Back and DC’s Hot New Fascist Frat House
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 se...
59m Mar 11, 2025
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S5 Ep257: Weekly Skews – 3/04/25 – America as a Flea Market for Rich Perverts
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
59m Mar 05, 2025
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S5 Ep256: Weekly Skews – 2/25/25 – How to Lose a Food Fight Against Food
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 ...
1hr Feb 26, 2025
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S5 Ep255: Weekly Skews – 10/22/24 – The Price of the Presidency
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
59m Feb 19, 2025
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S5 Ep254: Weekly Skews – 2/11/25 – Party in the U.S. of A.I.
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
1hr Feb 12, 2025
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S5 Ep253: Weekly Skews – 2/04/25 – The Dumbest Trade War and the Weekend Tech Bro Coup
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
1hr Feb 05, 2025
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S5 Ep252: Weekly Skews – 1/28/25 – One Week of Habsburg Rule
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
59m Jan 29, 2025
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S5 Ep251: Weekly Skews – 1/21/25 – The Inauguration and TikTok Kayfabe
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
58m Jan 22, 2025
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S5 Ep250: Weekly Skews – 1/14/25 – Flame Wars
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
1hr Jan 15, 2025
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S5 Ep249: Weekly Skews – 1/07/25 – A Mad King and Manifest Destiny for the North Pole
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
1hr 2m Jan 08, 2025
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S4 Ep248: Weekly Skews – 12/17/24 – The Medieval Peasant Drone Panic
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
1hr Dec 18, 2024
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S4 Ep247: Weekly Skews – 12/10/24 – Insurance Shooter Caught; and Planning a Trillion Dollar Crypto Heist
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
1hr Dec 11, 2024
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S4 Ep246: Weekly Skews – 12/03/24 – Q. Edgar Hoover
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
1hr Dec 04, 2024
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S4 Ep245: Weekly Skews – 11/26/24 – D.O.G.E. and the Clownocracy
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
1hr 2m Nov 27, 2024
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S4 Ep244: Weekly Skews – 11/19/24 – Cabinet of Curiosities
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 us Support the show
1hr 4m Nov 20, 2024
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S4 Ep243: Weekly Skews – 11/12/24 – Post Mortem
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
1hr 1m Nov 13, 2024
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S4: Weekly Skews – 10/29/24 – The Infamous MSG Rally of 2024
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
1hr 1m Oct 30, 2024
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S4 Ep241: Weekly Skews – 10/22/24 – The Price of the Presidency
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
1hr 1m Oct 23, 2024
1hr 1m
S4 Ep240: Weekly Skews – 10/15/24 – Tough Times in Florida
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
1hr Oct 16, 2024
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S4 Ep239: Weekly Skews – 10/08/24 – Hurricane of Bulls**t
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
1hr 1m Oct 09, 2024
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S4 Ep238: Weekly Skews - 10/01/24 - There Will Be Flood
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 tha...
59m Oct 02, 2024
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S4 Ep237: Weekly Skews - 9/24/24 – Early October Surprise Party
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
1hr 1m Sep 26, 2024
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S4 Ep236: Weekly Skews - 9/17/24 – Failed Assassination 2: This Time It’s Dumber
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
1hr 1m Sep 18, 2024
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S4 Ep235: Weekly Skews - 9/10/24 – Ain’t Nobody Eatin’ Cats Y’all
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...
56m Sep 11, 2024
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S4 Ep234: Weekly Skews - 9/03/24 – New Migrant Panic Just Dropped
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 th...
1hr Sep 04, 2024
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S4 Ep233: Weekly Skews - 8/27/24 – A Great Time to Be Stuck in Space
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
1hr 1m Aug 28, 2024
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S4 Ep232: Weekly Skews - 8/20/24 – Political Theater
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
1hr Aug 21, 2024
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