S5 Ep261: Weekly Skews – 4/8/25 – Trade Deficit Disorder
Weekly Skews
Weekly Skews
4.9 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
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 Soundcloud rapper involved. Join us.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:08.9 | Welcome back. |
| 0:09.6 | Happy Skews Day to you. |
| 0:11.1 | Guess what, |
| 0:11.6 | Mark? |
| 0:11.8 | Guess what else today is? |
| 0:13.1 | Happy birthday to me. |
| 0:15.2 | That's right. |
| 0:16.0 | Yes, Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. |
| 0:20.4 | Came in at this accursed world and this acc cursed day, all those many, many years ago. |
| 0:25.1 | But as we're sitting down to record this, it's actually not yet my birthday. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm 38 for a wee bit longer because it is 1.50 p.m. on the left coast as we sit down to record this on April 7th. So I'm Trey, the birthday boy. |
| 0:39.5 | And that's March. Yeah, it's what good for my birthday. Another once in a lifetime catastrophe, |
| 0:44.1 | you know, it's always fun. As a millennial, always look forward to those. Every five years or so, |
| 0:49.2 | there's a new generational disaster that we get to deal with. But yeah, the global economy |
| 0:53.8 | teetering on the precipice of |
| 0:55.3 | collapse for very reasonable and understandable reasons. I'm sure we'll get into. But how are you doing? |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, every time we like the Republican president, this happens. What are weird coincidence? |
| 1:05.6 | So, but I'm doing pretty good. Before we get to the show, less than one week ago, Corey, what did Center of New Jersey, |
| 1:15.9 | Corey Booker did like a 25-hour speech on the Senate floor broke Strom Thurman's record. |
| 1:21.8 | The regular records fucking cool. |
| 1:22.8 | Fucked Strom Thurman. |
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