Well, hello there, everybody.

Welcome back today's Tuesday, May 11th, 2021.

I would like to begin with a little shout out to my baby sister, Paige Crowder,

who yesterday celebrated a birthday, a birthday marking 32 years on this earth,

32 years spent upstaging me in the liberal redneck

comedy and most other departments.

I love you very much, Sissy, and happy birthday to you.

I'm Trey Crowder, and that is an empty chair.

That's right, as you may have already ascertained, no smart mark tonight.

No, he is defying his nickname at present by vacationing in Florida with his in-laws.

So, you know, pray for him, y'all.

Fret not.

As long as Mark manages to not have his face eaten by an alligator or a rabid Floridian,

he will be back with us next week and things

will be back to normal. But in the interim, you're looking at it. That's right. I'm going to be

ranting into the void on my lonesome this evening. But if you followed me for a while, you know

that ranting into the void is a favored pastime of mine. So I think we'll be just fine. Also, I'm never truly alone on this show as I have you all and the venerable producer, Matt, who is with me on the ones and twos doing his thing.

In light of that, as we go through the show, Matt is going to, he's still got to do all his producer duties, but he's going to attempt to put up some more comments and stuff earlier in the show so I can respond to those

and you guys can have a conversation with me of shorts as we go of sorts as we go along.

So that's, that's the plan.

So, hey, let's see how it goes.

This is weekly skews tonight. The primary subject of my solo ire will be the supposed labor shortage that has job creators all around this country in a real tizzy.

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