What's up everybody?

Welcome back.

Happy Skews Day to you.

It's August 27th, 2024.

I'm Trey.

That's Mark.

How you doing over there, Mark?

What's that, Jay?

We got a fun show and we talk about the astronauts who've been stuck in space since June and are coming home to February.

And it is a political story.

It's not an electoral sense because now the party really cares about fixing the stuff that caused this.

But it's about, you know, privatization, neoliberal economics and decades of fucking...

Like, capitalism.

Yeah.

Extracting money from what used to be public goods so a few psychos can be richer and more powerful. So we're going to talk about it. And how it led to two people being stuck in two people approaching retirement age being stuck in space. I'm glad we're talking about it because it's wild to me that that's not a bigger story because it's, you know, like, for example, The Martian, which I love that book and the movie hits too, but like, you know, the idea that like marooned astronauts, the whole world would be glued to their TV every day. Like, we got to get these people home. And I feel like, I feel like 70 plus percent of people don't even know that there are marooned astronauts out there right now.

No, waiting for Elon to give him a ride home and he can figure out by February.

But it's like, yeah, we were allowed to, man.

It's not just the Martian Apollo 13s about like, shit, the fucking, what's the one where Ben Affleck and they dig the hole in the asteroid? Armageddon? Armageddon, yeah, yeah. How could you forget the cinematic masterpiece? It is Armageddon, Mark. I just forgot the title of it, Trey. I just read the title of it. So, like, we thought we were led to believe that the entirety of Earth's society would mobilize to solve space problems. We're supposed to be like looking at like TV news coverage through the windows of storefronts and we all hug

hug each other and cry. And it's just like, well, American flag, we, nobody gives a fuck.

It makes you think that Adam McKay was really on to something with don't look up the Leo,

Leonardo DiCaprio movie, which is the opposite of that

which is him saying like nobody would give a fuck and you know it's like yeah maybe that's maybe that's

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