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S2 Ep101: Weekly Skews 5/23/2023 – Debt Debacle

Weekly Skews

Weekly Skews

Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.9652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On tonight’s show: Republicans in Congress are holding the economy hostage by refusing (thus far) to raise the debt ceiling. Is America really going to go with the "Tell em I aint got it" approach to debt? We'll all find out soon enough. Join us.

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0:00.0

Howdy, everybody, welcome back.

0:10.2

Happy Skews Day to you.

0:11.3

It's May 23, 23.

0:13.5

I'm Trey Crowder.

0:14.7

That's Mark Aegee.

0:15.7

How's it going, Mark?

0:17.5

What's up, Dre?

0:18.0

Uh, we talked, got a good show, uh, fun, show of fun i guess and uh laughing through the darkness

0:23.6

uh will the economy exist our slogan that's our mission statement here 15 days i don't know

0:29.7

yeah yeah since we're yeah it feels like our economy is always on uh not always but very often is on

0:36.4

the verge of absolute collapse.

0:39.4

And, but I, I'm not, don't interpret that as me saying like, so everything's going to continue being fine.

0:46.6

I'm not saying that because I remember because of like swine flu and bird flu and things like that, when COVID first became a thing, I was like, all right, whatever. I'm sure it'll be okay. And that was super wrong. So one of these days, you know, it could be the COVID of the economy could eventually show up. It's all going to explode at some point. So it'll be in a couple weeks. I don't know. We'll find out, I guess.

1:12.8

Because we're, let me talk to the economy.

1:17.5

I thought I should mention, do you see that it in artificially intelligence-generated photo of the Pentagon and White House being bombed went viral yesterday, and it caused a dip in the stock market?

1:25.1

It's somebody put it on a Q&M Facebook page.

1:44.3

And then a bunch of blue checkmarked Twitter people started retweeting it to went viral and I'm not sure why the stock market react to that that like the Pentagon and White House got attacked and you're hearing about it from shit dick patriot one two five seven nine on Twitter yeah I was about saying yeah that you said that you know a bunch of blue

1:48.2

check marks started retweeting it and it's like well that means effectively nothing

1:52.6

right now in fact that's not that's actually not true it does mean something

1:57.5

but not at all the thing it used to mean you know what what I mean? Yeah. It almost means the opposite of that thing. Yeah. It's a reality inversion field. I don't, but I don't understand why the stock market would dip because it's like, I guess a bunch of day traders who aren't stupid enough to believe it thought that the rest of us to be stupid enough to believe it. So they sold stock and anticipation of the market dipping, so they made it dip.

2:19.7

It's stock market's stupid.

2:21.8

I don't understand it.

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