Happy Friday Slatsters. It's time for another end of the week bonus-o. That's a combination of bonus and episode.

Bonus-o, just for you lucky humans who subscribe to Slate Plus. I am not Mary Harris. I'm Rob Gunther.

I'm filling in. Mary Harris is back next week. I promise. But during this bonus episode,

we like to shine a spotlight on something beautiful,

something boisterous, or something downright bizarre from our mothership, slate.com. And this week,

we have one of my favorite slates in the world, Luke Winky. Luke just traveled to Texas. Luke,

how are you doing? I'm good. Thanks for having me, Rob. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for doing this. So you just traveled to Texas. Luke, how are you doing? I'm good. Thanks for having me, Rob. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for doing this. So you just traveled to Texas to profile one of the most famous, or I guess we should say, most infamous comics, stand-up comics in America. We're talking about Tony Hinchcliffe. That's right. This is the guy who was at one point too racist for Donald Trump. Luke, what do we need to know about Tony Hinchcliff?

Yeah. So Tony Hinchcliff is a kind of career roast comic. And if his name is familiar, like I think most people know him from the Trump rally towards the end of the campaign at Madison Square Garden,

where he told a joke about Puerto Rico that really broke through and kind of became

massively viral and like a kind of a significant controversy for the Trump administration.

He called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage.

Okay.

I was just going to say, should we say the joke on the air?

Yeah, I think, yeah, we're just, we're just, we're just, uh, we're just doing

journalists here. Let me ask, did you know, did you know about this guy before that joke?

Because I did not. I had seen clips of Kill Tony, his show, which is what the piece is about, which we'll talk about later. I was aware of him in that capacity. He had like a viral moment on the Tom Brady roast. I think his set there did quite well.

Hey, Tom. This is his set there did quite well.

Hey, Tom.

This is great. Nice shoes, bitch. Did you win those in the divorce? I think people sort of got to know him there. But it was really the, it was the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the Trump rally where I like he became kind of like a significant figure in my mind or someone

that I think really kind of broke through into into the mainstream fairly infamously. So I would say

that that that kind of was the apotheosis for the dude. Yeah. And so like I mean during that

time he made this joke and the narrative seemed to write itself, right? Like Trump distanced himself.

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