We have a fun scandal where a billionaire tried to buy a Billy Madison experience in professional tennis. Then we talk about FEMA’s efforts to keep Central Texas flood victims from turning to selling their bodies (their words), before we get into the continuing fallout from whatever the administration is doing with Schroedinger’s Epstein Files.

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On today’s show we talk about the Supreme Court sentencing itself to watch pornos in the basement. Then we get into the flooding in Central Texas. Is the response that locals have found maddening due to politicians selling the government for parts at all levels for decades, or because one guy named Augustus Doricko squirted blue Powerade out of a plane? Experts disagree.

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 Peter Thiel comes out as a centrist on the issue of “whether or not all humans should die.” Ron DeSantis has a plan to feed immigrants to alligators. Then we discuss the New York mayoral primary and whether American can survive a Woke Islamist Communist doing Sharia Law, which seems to mainly consist of faster city buses.

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State and local elections are where the political future is being shaped, and Democrats are finally catching up to Republicans’ long-standing strategy of investing deeply in them. Producer Matt talks with Joe Sunday, Host of State of the States on Sirius XM to learn more about what's working.

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The feds got into an armed standoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers, while the kids are getting into shootouts with pixelated ICE agents on Roblox. Then we talk about the weekend’s bombing of Iran, for peace. It’s a story that involves a Sesame Street character, Private Facebook joining the Army, and a 22-year-old whose last job was mowing lawns who is now chasing Iranian sleeper cells. 

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In this episode of Good Skews, Producer Hildreth sits down with John Ray from YouGov Blue to unpack the latest polling data and what it actually tells us about the 2024 political landscape. John shares some cautiously optimistic views, including waning support for Trump among key voter blocs like young men and communities of color.

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On today’s show, America did the impossible, we somehow made parades more boring. Then we break down the life and many careers of the Minnesota assassin, who seems to have confused the whole world with one weird trick he invented: Lying On His Resume. 

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A growing number of powerful people call for the drone striking of Greta Thunberg so nerds can feel free to dress as hummus for Halloween. (We swear these are real things.) Then we get into the weekend’s ICE protests in L.A., Trump sending in the National Guard, and whether we need the Marines to stop a couple Mexican guys from riding dirt bikes. Join us.

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Trump pardons a grab bag of weirdo scammers, but it’s the potential pardon of an (alleged) pervert that drew the ire of the history’s greatest hater, 50 Cent. Then we talk about how Joni Ernst was honest exactly one time about this government’s health policy and everyone got mad. It involves actively trying to give you cancer while taking treatments away, but don’t worry, they have a solution: Go pet a cow (not kidding).

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The unredacted JFK Files detail a shocking conspiracy (not that one). Trump hosts the world’s worst crypto party, but don’t worry, the people were hella cool. Then we get into the hot new legislation as crypto tries to go legit at the same time Bitcoin guys are getting their fingers cut off and robbed with chainsaws.

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On this episode of Good Skews, we interview Jane Kleeb, a seasoned grassroots organizer, author, manager, and political strategist in the Great Plains.

Since December 2016, Kleeb has held the position of Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, and she is currently serving her fourth term, which extends until November 2026. She also holds the role of Chair of the Association of State Democratic Committees.

Her leadership has fostered the creation of innovative programs such as Block Captains, 93-County Voter Guides, and the Candidates of Color Fund. She is the longest-serving Chair in the history of the Nebraska Democratic Party.

Our conversation delves into the recent surprising upset in Omaha’s mayoral election, where longtime Republican incumbent Jean Stothert was defeated with 56–44 percent of the vote. Ewing’s victory marks a historic moment as he becomes the first Black mayor of Omaha and represents a strong rejection of anti-transgender campaign tactics.

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A new(ish) internet cult announces itself with a bombing in Palm Springs, leaving the FBI to google “what is internet.” A senator fantasizes about cruising in truckstop men’s rooms with oil-rich sheiks. And America’s “whites preferable” refugee program goes into effect, which leads somehow to Elon making Jar-Jar Binks racist by accident. I know I know, we’ll (try to) make it make sense. Join us.

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We’re getting more drunks in DC. ICE does an oopsie and kidnaps a mayor. The Trump administration tries to satisfy QAnon with facts and logic, and it’s going great, and the Big Guy preemptively steals the new Air Force One that has Qatari secret police hiding in the bathrooms.

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Producer Matt here: We’re testing a new pilot episode for a project called “Good Skews,” a show exclusively for our audio podcast stream. With this offering, we’d conduct longer-form interviews with people making a difference. It's a show about good people doing good things. So if you like this episode, email us at show@weeklyskews.com and tell us your thoughts.

For this first episode of “Good Skews,” we talk with Nathan Evans Fox, an Americana-country singer and songwriter from rural North Carolina. We talked about growing up in a Conservative Christian household and how his family inspired the music he's making today.

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Happy Skews Day. Companies say screw it and start reporting bribes as business expenses. The government is doing Abbottabad Raids on college kids who hang fliers. Canada votes “Death to Amérique, eh.” And Elon truly innovates, combining his new company town with a cult. Well, one of his cults.

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Howdy. A.I. did what to John Cena now? Neil Gorsuch is mad at gay cartoon dogs. Chuck Schumer is mad at an imaginary past. Then we get into the Deep State’s effort to take down Pete Hegseth by tattling.

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We talk about Mexican sex ghosts and the government’s plan to stop immigration with an AI apparently trained on Blaxploitation movies. Then, the government’s continuing cartoonish efforts to make one guy into a supervillain because then we can scrap the concept of rights. I mean who you gonna trust? A guy whose knuckle tats we photoshopped, or a cop who got fired for driving drunk into someone’s house?

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We’re sorry, but you have to die in the gulag because the White House beat the Supreme Court at Boggle. Tariffs are so confusing that Gretchen Whitmer is playing peekaboo in the Oval Office. Then, we talk about RFK Jr.’s big plan for the measles outbreak in Texas. It’s one page titled: “Make it Worse.” 

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Today, Trump’s trying Super Brexit, apparently because he lost a piano auction to a Japanese guy in 1988 (not kiddin’). We’re talking tariffs that the White House can’t agree on why they’re doing them, apparently formulated by ChatGPT (really not kiddin’). And how we need to fix the trade deficit by making the people of Myanmar buy Cadillacs. It’s a lot, and of course there’s a nepo baby Soundcloud rapper involved. Join us.

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Today we have an official attack on the civil rights of imaginary teen furries. There’s elections Tuesday, which means of course there’s a guy who’s pro sexy dances for autistic children, and Elon’s doing double corrupt fraud in Wisconsin. Plus, we discuss how law firms will make money after announcing laws aren’t real. (It’s by funneling bribes for a guy who sold engineless trucks.) 

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Today, Trump goes to war with his biggest adversaries yet: The Golden Girls. A popcorn warlord rich moron attempts a one-man mayoral coup in a small village in New York, proving once again America has an unlimited supply of Guys Like This. Plus, the administration’s plan to Abu Ghraib everyone who frowns at a Tesla, and why are they acting like he’s going broke? All that and more on tonight’s Skews.

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DOGE has innovated a new kind of dog that doesn’t need food, don’t worry about it. Plus there’s a new government-funded style influencer who posts videos smiling over the blood curdling screams of her fired co-workers. Then we get into the latest on Mahmoud Khalil, and whether Trump can successfully cram the first amendment on a rendition flight.

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Today, we’re talking about Canada’s yellowcake uranium, Wayne Gretzky becoming their Hanoi Jane, and how they found their freedom fries. Then, Tennessee Brando joins us to discuss how one Volunteer State congressman chilling in a Bible thumping treehouse connects to everything going on in politics: financial fraud, fundamentalism, pathetic sucking up, and a rich donor who made his wife watch sex tapes he made with other women.

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Good news Skewers, there’s a patriot out there fighting for your god given American right to use third graders as speed bumps. Plus, a hot new murder cult that’s bad because some of the members are tran. Then we get into all the really rinky-dink ways everything is for sale in America now, especially if you’re a cybercriminal crypto warlord who eats $6 million bananas.

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Welcome. This week even literal Nazis are saying there’s too many Nazi salutes. “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” is involved. Congresspeople are getting strung up like Mussolini at town halls (just metaphorically, so far). Then, the farmers have gone woke, and the only person trying to solve the eggpocalypse is one lady running “Uber for Yardbirds.” Plus Egg Cartels? Egg Cartels. Come hang.

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