Weekly Skews – Let Them Eat Ballrooms
Weekly Skews
Weekly Skews
4.9 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
First we talk about a fun development in China, that our overlords are certainly jealous of, where the government is forcing people to stop being sad on the internet. Then, we talk about a pretty big special interest group in America called ‘People Who Eat Food,’ and the Trump administration’s plan for everyone to live on Hamburger Helper while he cosplays as Jay Gatsby in a ballroom apparently designed by ChatGPT.
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| 0:00.0 | what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you miss type that a little bit thanks for being |
| 0:14.9 | here oh it is weekly skews i'm tray and that's mark it's uh october 28 2025 happy |
| 0:20.7 | spok spooky season Halloween |
| 0:21.8 | coming up in just a few days uh we're recording this on monday october 27th at about |
| 0:26.4 | 1 30 pm pacific time uh how you doing mark you got a costume picked out no not really my thing |
| 0:34.7 | you know mirth heard that yeah normally katie thing, you know, mirth. I heard that. Yeah. |
| 0:41.9 | Normally, Katie, makes me, you know, have something. |
| 0:49.0 | But she's been so, we just bought a house last year, and she's been so tied up with home. |
| 0:57.1 | She's a huge Halloween person, but she's way more focused on the house Halloween decorations this year that like worrying about mine and her costumes or whatever is kind of flown under the radar, which hits |
| 1:01.8 | for me just fine because I'm not super into it either. She has made an extremely kick-ass costume |
| 1:06.5 | by hand herself for my 14-year-old son. So I'm looking forward to posting that on it. |
| 1:13.3 | It's the type of thing that like he could wear it a Comic-Con and I think would get |
| 1:16.9 | some like kudos for it. |
| 1:18.2 | It's pretty fucking sweet. |
| 1:19.5 | But I just been sitting on my fat ass. |
| 1:22.9 | That's a somebody's got to do it. |
| 1:25.2 | So speaking of scary stuff and nightmares, I's talk about nuclear weapons for a minute. |
| 1:30.0 | So before we came on, I was asking you about if you'd seen, because you brought a point blank, point break. |
| 1:35.3 | I was like, all have you seen Catherine Bigelow's new movie, House of Dynamite, which is supposed to be like a searing thriller about the world we live in where, you know, a nuclear missile was incoming and |
| 1:45.7 | nobody knows where it came from and trying to figure out how a moral way to respond that doesn't |
| 1:49.6 | get everyone killed. |
| 1:50.7 | And it's just like, at times like these, it's nice to know that responsible, sober-minded |
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