Weekly Skews – The Eye of Sauron, with Rep. Aftyn Behn
Weekly Skews
Weekly Skews
4.9 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Marjorie Taylor Green quits Congress like she works at Pizza Hut. The AI nerds are angling for a government bailout for a crash that hasn’t happened yet, so your Social Security can fund chatpots that give you recipes with rocks in them. Then we talk with Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn about her run for Congress in next week’s special election, and what it’s like becoming a national target for attacks just because the race is closer than anyone thought it would be.
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| 0:00.0 | what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you thanks for joining us on this |
| 0:12.8 | this turkey week i hope your fasting and anticipation got all your gravies lined up |
| 0:18.4 | and stuff ready to go for this th. It is November 25th, 2025. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Trey. |
| 0:24.7 | That's Mark. |
| 0:25.8 | Are multiple gravies a thing in her Thanksgiving? |
| 0:30.0 | Well, it can be. |
| 0:31.3 | So my ma'amaw, I don't know how regional the thing this is, but she used to, and not just her, but other members of my family used to do, jiblet gravy. You ever have jiblet gravy? Right. Okay. Which I like jiblet gravy, but me, I'm going to just make a, like, turkey gravy with, like, the pan drip, just like a classic standard gravy up. That's my choice. |
| 0:56.8 | But generally, it's probably going to be one or the other. |
| 1:00.8 | But there's a couple of different Thanksgiving gravies that live in my heart, Mark. |
| 1:03.2 | So, you know, it's a matter of... You don't even want to get into the whole, like, dressing versus stuffing debate, by the way. |
| 1:07.9 | We devoted an entire episode of Well-read to that once, and it never really got solved. I don't have a firm opinion. I'm not saying there's a specific way it should or shouldn't be done. We never did it inside the turkey in my family. It just wasn't a thing people did. Right. So I don't really have a frame of reference for how much better the other way is. Right. So speaking of turkeys, Marjor Taylor, so I don't know. |
| 1:29.4 | Perfect. |
| 1:30.3 | Nailed it. |
| 1:32.7 | So fucking dad joke. |
| 1:34.6 | So Marjor Taylor Green announced she's going to resign her office, |
| 1:38.6 | effect of January 5th as a congressperson. |
| 1:40.8 | And I find this whole thing. |
| 1:43.2 | I didn't watch the entirety of her 10-minute video announcement. I did find it interesting in a couple levels. Did you watch any of it? Do you know what I'm talking about? No, I was on the road this past weekend, and I saw, I knew that it happened, but I haven't actually gone back and watched any of it or anything. So I don't know. I don't know what she said. I don't know, |
| 2:18.7 | you know, the specifics. Basically, her reasoning is that, well, Trump hates her now. He's picked her out of the four Republicans who forced their vote on the Epstein files. He picked her to hate the most probably because he's the one who's closest to. And she's going to get a primary challenge. And she was like, well, I would win the primary, but it would be bloody and awful for the party. |
| 2:20.7 | And also, I'm getting death threats already. |
| 2:18.7 | I don't want to deal with that. And she's going to get a primary challenge. And she's like, well, I would win the primary, but it'd be bloody and awful for the party. |
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