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S2 Ep43: Skews 3/15/22 – Gaslighting Gas Prices

Weekly Skews

Weekly Skews

Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.9652 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tonight we engage in every red-blooded Americans favorite pursuit: hollerin’ about gas prices. Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. There’s a lot of debate about what’s really going on there and just how much blame Joe Biden should take for it all, so let’s get into it (and plenty of other stuff too, of course). 

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome back.

0:10.7

Happy Skews Day and beware for verily it is the Iads of March, March 15th,

0:16.2

2022, to be exact.

0:17.6

I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee.

0:19.2

What's up, Mark?

0:20.7

Well, is that, Trey, this week's also the two-year anniversary of the official launch of COVID,

0:26.0

I think, is the way we're trying. I think it was March 11th where NBA shut down,

0:30.3

NCAA tournament got canceled. It's my last day going to a job. Right. It was definitely

0:35.5

somewhere around here. Yeah, because I remember we had been touring so much.

0:42.1

And then we took a self-imposed break from the road in January and February of 2020, you know,

0:48.8

which we scheduled a year in advance.

0:51.7

We're like, yeah, that would be nice.

0:53.2

And so our first dates back, we're in

0:55.8

Riley, North Carolina on like March 13th-ish or something like that. And I landed, went to the hotel,

1:03.2

and got into my room, and my phone rang. And my agent was like, yeah, it's off. You could just,

1:08.5

you could just go back. And then, you know, didn't have more for a long time after that. So, yeah, happy COVID anniversary, everybody. Or, you know, shitty anniversary. I don't know what you say about a terrible anniversary. But, yeah, two years still going strong. Real staying power, COVID has. Yeah, yeah. Have I if it's on the show to ever tell my mechanical bull COVID story?

1:30.6

I don't think so.

1:32.9

The last thing I was doing that might have been March 11th or March 10th is me and you said we,

1:37.7

you're including my Corey and Drew, me and Corey were working on this game show development thing.

1:42.1

And we're doing a run through the pilot.

2:19.8

And it was a game show, the premise of which would be like in the final round, you answer trivia about country music and shit. And then you're on a mechanical bowl. And every answer you get wrong, it speeds up until you fall off. And that's how much money you get for your writing. All right. I like it. So I'm sitting there watching this as a good notifications. Tom Hanks has COVID. His ain't the tournament's canceled. And I was like, holy shit. This is the last thing I'm ever going to do. What I'm watching a paid extra ride a mechanical bull for $50. So that, and that was like the last thing you did in person person professionally watched a guy ride a mechanical bull and try to answer questions about Toby Keith or whatever yeah it's

2:23.9

appropriately silly for what I go to in-person work one day every three weeks right now for

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