Weekly Skews – Screw It I’ll Do It, ft. BJ Barham
Weekly Skews
Weekly Skews
4.9 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week BJ Barham, the lead singer of American Aquarium, stops by to talk about his run for town board. What’s it like to be in The Rolling Stone the same week you’re being called a Communist for pointing out that local officials are giving sweetheart land deals to their relatives? We get into it. Before that: Jelly Roll-based psyops, the No Kings protests vs. Operation A.I. Sky Diarrhea, and the cartels’ (fake? fake.) bounties on CPB.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is October 21st, 2025. |
| 0:13.2 | We're recording this on Monday, October 20th at about 1.30 p.m. on the left coast. I'm Trey. That's Mark. |
| 0:20.6 | We've got a special guest coming up for you later. If the tech guides, if they show favor, shine their favor on us anyway, we'll have a guest later. The whole internet's down today, apparently, because they all use the same company. So that's fun. I'm Trey. That's Mark. How's it going, Mark? Yeah, man, that's all put all of our eggs in one basket called Amazon Web Services. Like, it's like, like, I lost track of the number of sites that are down, but like, it's not just the platform we use for this. But like, you know, my day job, we're down because of it. Like Venmos have struggling a bunch of other fucking shit. |
| 0:57.1 | The CIA and State Department of both on Amazon Web Services. |
| 0:58.6 | So I wonder if they're able to work today. |
| 1:03.1 | President Xi, make your move. |
| 1:06.8 | So before we get to this show, a couple of things. |
| 1:08.7 | The government's been shut down for weeks. |
| 1:11.7 | Thousands of federal workers are facing layoffs, not getting paychecks. |
| 1:17.3 | Forty-two million people are going to lose food stamps at the beginning of November at a time when formula costs $400 a month. |
| 1:21.5 | And Senator Jim Justice, West Virginia, just threw his dog a birthday party. |
| 1:24.9 | That is a nice dog. |
| 1:26.4 | Look how fat and stupid it looks. |
| 1:27.8 | Those are always been my favorite kind of dogs, the fat or stupid or looking ones. Look how fat and stupid it looks. Those are always, I've been my favorite, |
| 1:44.4 | favorite kind of dogs, the fat or stupid-looking ones. Look at that. Look at that fucking thing. You know, they got your cute, Mark? Look at that. I know the world's dying around us all, but, you know, that idiot's happy. A fat bulldog in a party hat, begging for death because it can't breathe. |
| 1:45.4 | Oh, absolutely. They are affronts to God. |
| 1:47.2 | Those, uh, A fat bulldog in a party hat begging for death because it can't breathe. |
| 1:44.8 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:45.7 | They are affronts to God, those creatures. |
| 1:49.7 | When asked them the optics of throwing a birthday party for a dog in the midst of a deadlocked and shut down Congress, just as positive that this might be the best time. |
| 1:59.1 | Quote, this place needs to smile and be respectful of one another, |
| 2:02.8 | and that's what baby dog's all about. |
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