All right, welcome back, everybody.

Happy Skews Day to you.

It is, as you're watching this, is January 28th, 2025.

We're recording this yesterday in the past, Monday, January 27th at 2.30 p.m. on the left coast. Again, it's

important we tell you that because if crazy shit happens between now and then, you'll know why

we don't talk about it. But thank you guys for still tuning in. It is still skews. I'm still

trying. That's still Mark. Hey, hanging in there, Mark, one week in.

Yeah, man. Did you follow the stupid diplomatic row with Columbia yesterday, what I'm calling the Cuban Missile Crisis of Mokalates?

Yes, a little bit.

I mean, a little bit.

I know that I saw, like, conflicting reports.

I saw some people saying, you know, that, like, Columbia bowed before the pressure, and I saw another thing

and said Columbia is enforcing their own tariffs and were firing back.

And then this morning, I got a very helpful email from the Epoch Times.

I don't know how the hell I'm on their mailing list.

But I got one, and they definitively stated, obviously, that Trump had won and Colombia

had, you know, kissed the ring and it was fine.

It's not quite, yeah.

I figure it's not, but I don't really know what the truth is, so please enlighten me.

Yeah, Fox News is going on their whole, this is the art of the deal, what a skillful negotiator stuff, and the White House press score is doing.

The White House says that Columbia capitulated or whatever.

Let's walk through the sequence of events here because I think it's more important

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