Weekly Skews
Weekly Skews, hosted by Trae Crowder and Mark Agee, is a new comedy podcast that offers a redneck and working class perspective from the Left on the week's news, politics, and culture.
Episodes
181 episodes
Weekly Skews – 10/15/24 – Tough Times in Florida
Evening, Skewers. Tonight we discuss the state of affairs in Florida, where citizens still reeling from the effects of two hurricanes are also forced to deal with a malicious governor hell bent on making their lives worse. So that’s fun. Also, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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1:00:19
Weekly Skews – 10/08/24 – Hurricane of Bulls**t
Skewers it’s only been one week and already another generationally cataclysmic hurricane is bearing down on this country. Surely politicians on all sides have put away partisan disputes and come together to help our fellow Americans in th...
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Season 4
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Episode 239
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1:01:17
Weekly Skews - 10/01/24 - There Will Be Flood
Hurricane Helene cut a swath of cataclysmic destruction across the South last weekend, with much of the worst of it being in western North Carolina…which is profoundly upsetting considering it was a hurricane and that is the mountains. So what ...
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Season 4
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Episode 238
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58:55
Weekly Skews - 9/24/24 – Early October Surprise Party
Skewers it has been one HECKUVA week for the American Right as a truly comical number of sex scandals have broken at basically the same time. Matt Gaetz doin’ Matt Gaetz stuff (i.e. bringing a teenager to a sex party), yet another vehemently ho...
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Season 4
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Episode 237
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1:01:31
Weekly Skews - 9/17/24 – Failed Assassination 2: This Time It’s Dumber
Skewers, tonight we'll break down the latest apparent attempt on Trump's life, including a look at the would-be gunman, who oddly enough does NOT seem to be a transgender antifa agent. Join us as we talk about the increasingly absurd state of a...
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Season 4
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Episode 236
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1:01:07
Weekly Skews - 9/10/24 – Ain’t Nobody Eatin’ Cats Y’all
Skewers this week we welcome Producer Laura to the fold (Matt is fine; we'll explain on the show) and what a first episode it is for her as we dive into the latest wholly made up fearmongering campaign being embraced by MAGA: that Haitian immig...
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Season 4
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Episode 235
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56:15
Weekly Skews - 9/03/24 – New Migrant Panic Just Dropped
Skewers, it’s an election year, and you know what that means: time to gin up some immigration panics! The right has already been hard at work to this end but now they’ve got a new headliner: Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes in C...
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Season 4
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Episode 234
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1:00:06
Weekly Skews - 8/27/24 – A Great Time to Be Stuck in Space
Skewers, tonight we talk about the astronauts currently stuck in space, and how lucky they are to be missing the insanity that is life on this planet right now. No obviously being stuck in space is less than ideal, but seriously things are wild...
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Season 4
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Episode 233
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1:01:53
Weekly Skews - 8/20/24 – Political Theater
Skewers, tonight we discuss all the latest criticisms being aimed at the Harris/Walz campaign as the DNC continues in Chicago. Apparently they think Tim Walz is a (very deep) sleeper Chinese agent and loves Tiananmen Square and stuff. So that’s...
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Season 4
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Episode 232
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1:00:34
Weekly Skews - 8/13/24 – Why Campaign When You Can Cheat?
As Harris/Walz continue to surge in the polls, the Trump campaign is firing back by…having him barely campaign at all this month. A bold strategy indeed. Could this lack of enthusiasm for campaigning have something to do with the fact that intr...
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Season 4
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Episode 231
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59:58
Weekly Skews - 8/06/24 – BALLS TO THE WALZ
Well the big decision has officially been made: Kamala Harris’s running mate is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. And Skewers, honestly…it’s like this man was designed in a lab to hit for us. Should be a rare upbeat episode tonight so join us in mer...
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Season 4
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Episode 230
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59:55
Weekly Skews - 7/30/24 – The Unified Theory of Weird
Skewers tonight we’re getting into the new and entertaining approach to campaigning by Team Harris and the Dems: just talk about how frickin’ weird these weirdos are. And so far…seems to be working out (probably on account of them being super w...
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Season 4
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Episode 229
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1:00:37
Weekly Skews - 7/23/24 – Unburdened By What Has Been
Tonight we’re talking about turning the page, Joe Biden committing seppuku, how insane recent TikTok star Kamala Harris makes Republicans, and a Trump donor getting stuck in his car elevator. Trae is on the road so Mark is joined by Senior How-...
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Season 4
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Episode 228
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59:45
Weekly Skews - 7/16/24 – Trump Yet Lives
Skewers it’s kinda hard to know what to talk about this week as so little is going on in the news cycle right now. However, we’ll surely come up with something. Maybe the assassination attempt or fake hillbilly VP candidate, if anyone’s interes...
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Season 4
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Episode 227
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59:47
Weekly Skews - 7/09/24 – Biden VS Time
Skewers this week we talk about the same thing everyone on the American left is talking about: should Joe Biden step aside? More importantly: will he? With almost indescribably massive implications for November and beyond, someone need...
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Season 4
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Episode 226
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59:50
Weekly Skews - 7/02/24 – SCOTUS Declares (Some) Presidents Untouchable
Tonight on Skews we’ll be joined by Dr. Scott Lemieux, professor of political science and constitutional law at UW-Seattle, to help us make sense of the recent tear SCOTUS has been on (culminating with yesterday’s decision that Presidents are K...
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Season 4
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Episode 225
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1:00:34
Weekly Skews - 6/25/24 – What’s Up with Fetterman
Skewers, tonight we discuss the ongoing and ever-perplexing shift in rhetoric, demeanor, and position of Senator John Fetterman, as the one-time progressive darling continues to openly antagonize countless members of the American political left...
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Season 4
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Episode 225
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1:01:21
Weekly Skews - 6/18/24 – Congestion Headache
Skewers, tonight we discuss the traffic policy kerfuffle that New York Democrats have embroiled themselves in, and, more importantly, how it offers insight into the ineptitude of Big Democrat and the threat this all poses to the possibili...
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Season 4
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Episode 224
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1:00:13
Weekly Skews - 6/11/24 – Hunter Biden Convicted
Well Skewers, everyone else is talking about it so we reckon we should too: Hunter Biden has been convicted of three felony gun charges related to lying on a background check. Which is of course a massive surprise considering his father Joe Bid...
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Season 4
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Episode 224
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59:53
Weekly Skews - 6/04/24 – Felon Hard Times
Tonight we discuss, what else, last weeks big verdict: 34 felony convictions for Donald Trump, as well as the discourse surrounding it since from both the right (unhinged, flailing, hypocritical) and the left (basically nonexistent for some rea...
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Season 4
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Episode 223
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1:00:40
Weekly Skews - 5/28/24 – A Third Party Party
Tonight Trae and Mark will be joined by longtime Skewniverse vagabond extraordinaire Drew Morgan to discuss Libertarians, Trump, RFK Jr. (as well as his maybe-also-insane running mate), and a host of other topics. Gonna be a good un!
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Season 4
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Episode 222
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1:02:22
Weekly Skews - 5/21/24 – Don’t Mess With (Racism In) Texas
Tonight we dive into the wildly typical and deeply disturbing decision by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to pardon a man who was convicted by a jury of his peers of murdering a BLM protestor in 2020. But before that we tackle the lighter matters of...
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Season 4
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Episode 221
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59:58
Weekly Skews - 5/14/24 – United States of Protection Rackets
Skewers: are tariffs good? Should lab-grown meat be banned? Should paying for your prescriptions require a second mortgage? Will Big Oil give Donald Trump an actual billion dollars? We ruminate on these questions and more (plus some fun dumbass...
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Season 4
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Episode 220
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1:00:22
Weekly Skews - 5/07/24 – The Ol College Try
Tonight, after a Trump Trial Update and a generous point-and-laugh session aimed at Kristi Noem, we dive into the right wing fervor surrounding the left wing fervor surrounding college campuses across this country. Plus some other fun stuff; jo...
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Season 4
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Episode 219
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1:01:17
Weekly Skews - 4/30/24 – The War on the Poor
Skewers, this week we talk about escalating hostilities in one of the American Right’s most passionate and longest running conflicts: The War on the Poor (with some Trump stuff and miscellaneous dumbassery along the way). Join us.
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Season 3
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Episode 218
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1:00:32