what's up everybody welcome back and happy skews day to you i know what you're thinking

the answer is no i'm not going to be laying down any funky jazz riffs for you on this

episode i uh wearing the shades because i had to have eye surgery again if If you followed the show for a while, you know, it's the second time. Hopefully it will be the last. Don't worry about me. Nothing life-threatening. Just trying to make my eyes work the way eyes are supposed to work. In the meantime, don't get too distracted by how overwhelmingly cool I look over the course of this episode because we got some serious

stuff to talk about, okay?

It's May 10th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? I'm so, Trow. I dig the look, man. You kind of got your own little, I remember when Steve Rekl turned into Stefan or Cal? You got to get super cool. It's like what it is. Oh, yeah, I'm glad you can see though, but I hope that surgery works out.

I don't want to lead you but I hope that surgery works out.

I don't have to lead you around public places when we're out.

Yeah, a lot to talk about today.

To start with some fun stuff.

So Steve Schmidt, who helped run McCain's campaign in 2008,

lit Twitter on Friday the other night with like a 20 tweet thread.

It seemed like he was maybe a couple pulls off the Scotch bottle,

but he essentially argued that McCain's 2008 campaign was infiltrated by Russia

and also called Megan McCain a huge diva bitch.

So that was fine.

Nobody's immune from, you know,

drunk Twitter and, you know what I mean?

I mean, you know, unless you just got some sense.

But I'm saying anybody that both drinks and fucks with Twitter,

you really got to watch it, you know.

Yeah, when you're typing in the Ford slash, Ford slash X in, in the middle of a

thread, you'd be like, wait a minute. Should I drink a glass of water? Right. Uh, so, uh,

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