What a Weekday: Kamala on the Blitz, Elon on the Fritz

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I boarded 1103. The door closed 1105.
You cut it so close. I wasn't supposed to be 1047? I got to the air because the flight was 1120.
The flight I was supposed to be on was 1150. I got delayed to one, which meant I wouldn't be able to get to Pittsburgh that night.
So I moved to a 1 p.m. flight.
I could get me to Pittsburgh on time. But then I said, fuck it.
And I left my house, drove reasonably fast. Got on.
Yeah. I hadn't eaten either.
And they don't really sell food on Spirit. Oh, no.
What would it be even? So it's just like I like. So all I ate.
Take food away just like, all I ate until I got to Pittsburgh was a bag of

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is not a particularly fulfilling option.

Because at least on Ryanair, they'll sell

you food. They'll also sell you a Kylie Jenner lip

kit, I learned. That's fine.

You need that. All right, let's get into it.
What a weekday. And you know what that sound means.
The Kamala Harris media blitz has begun on Sunday. Kamala appeared on Call Her Daddy, one of the most popular podcasts in the country after this one.

During her interview, Harris addressed Sarah Huckabee Sanders' recent snide comment about her lack of biological children. I saw the governor of Arkansas said, my kids keep me humble.
Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble. How did that make you feel? I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble.
Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.

And I think it's really important

for women to lift each other up.

Lift women up?

That's the signal.

She gave us the signal,

said the Black Ops exhumation crew

hired by the DNC

to search Ivana's golf course coffin.

Yeah, that was worth it.

I laughed.

It just wasn't that loud.

Three takes. Kamala went on to talk about her relationship with her stepchildren, Cole and Ella.
They are my children. And I love those kids to death.
And family comes in many forms. And I think that increasingly, you know, all of us understand that, you know, this is not the 1950s anymore.
Unless the body cams are off, of course. That was a good joke.
All right. Their conversation about abortion rights included this moment.
Can we try to think of any law that gives the government the power to make a decision? I know what you're going to ask. About a man's body.
No. No.
Is there any law? But you know what? There should be. We need a federal ban on men getting Marvel tattoos.
Buddy, you're not Venom. You don't have antihero energy.
You're just a medium guy who doesn't change the sheets enough. Can I just say, like, that question and the way that she asked it, like, she really thought she cooked with that.
Yeah. And like, that is the reason this is the second episode of Call Her Daddy that I've listened to in full.
The first one was Ari Automatics. And that is the reason I cannot listen to this show.
And I know that I'm not the only one out there. And I just want to say that if you want to hear the same style or the same more personality driven discussion with the vice president, but also addressing actual issues.
She was on All the Smoke last week and they talked about a lot of the same things and it didn't get nearly as much attention. it got yes i agree but it also like that was also a great interview and it is like part of this story of like her going to the other places but yeah i also want to say that the call her daddy set looks like it's like the waiting room where you wait to find out if you got chlamydia but like they tell you through an app does that make sense i just all is that their actual set though or did they redress a place where kamala harris was going to? Because the call her daddy is off center.
Well, because this this is the I believe we're getting really into the. It just sort of leaps off the screen.
You're like, oh, OK. But I don't know what because Alex Cooper put out a video that basically they had before the hurricane for Helene hit.
They had set up a hotel room in Las Vegas to film this interview because they're basically just going to where Kamala would be, where she would have the time. So I don't know if this is their actual day-to-day set or what they set up for her to be able to do this.
It does look like a hastily assembled 2010 girl boss aesthetic. It's the wing.
They're in the wing. Yeah.
Nice. Yeah.
And then on Monday, 60 Minutes aired their sit down with the vice president, opening their show with this ice cold intro explaining how Donald Trump backed out of the interview, which I think we should play in its entirety.

A few weeks ago, Trump backed out.

The campaign offered shifting explanations.

First, it complained that we would fact-check the interview.

We fact-check every story.

Later, Trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020. Trump claims correspondent Leslie Stahl said in that interview that Hunter Biden's controversial laptop came from Russia.
She never said that. Nice.
Great stuff. It'd be cool if you just did like a daily recap of the things that Trump said that weren't true.
Yeah. Trump said Jews cause hurricanes.
They do not. There was this media news cycle around what press Kamala Harris is or isn't doing for a while was, oh, she's not doing any interviews.
Then she announces that she's doing the National Association of Black Journalists. They announced that she's doing 60 Minutes and Univision and also Call Her Daddy, Stern, The Late Show, etc.
Tim Walls is on Fox News Sunday. And there are still political reporters saying, oh, well, she doesn't want to do serious interviews.
Even if you put aside the fact that she's doing all of these actually serious interviews, like it is like kind of refusing to acknowledge that, hey, like these institutions don't have the reach they once did. Like it's really stratified.
People go for information to a bunch of different places and to get in front of actual people. They have to go to all these other news sources.
That's like a problem. That's not like a good thing.
Like I do like it was frustrating that they were so critical of her for doing all these things and ignoring the fact that she is still doing the mainstream serious publications because we like the world is a worse place because 60 Minutes is going to reach far fewer people than a bunch of apolitical stuff. And the fact that like it used to be that if there was no competition, like when the news was on and the news was on all the channels, that was what was on.
There was no competition from Netflix. There's no competition from their from people's phones.
And like, I don't know, like, I'm glad that like 60 Minutes as an institution, as like, like sort of like putting a little flag in the sand and saying, like, this is what we do. We're going to keep doing it until they close the doors and lock them and sell the 60 Minutes brand to a YouTube channel to hawk some various products.
And in the meantime, Kamala Harris must go on Hot Ones. Kamala Harris must go on Hot Ones.
Go on Hot Ones. I want to see, like, I do think, I do think, like, if we look back on this moment and, like, we lose, which is very possible, obviously, Donald Trump going to those places, like, going on Theo Vaughn's pod, doing this stuff with, like, big YouTubers, like, that will be pointed to as evidence of how he managed to put together a win.
She should sit down with the Vaughn. Absolutely.
Yeah. I mean, she's like we have to get somebody big on Rogan.
Like, oh, he's a bad guy. OK, someone's got to go on Rogan, Theo Vaughn.
We got to go to all those places. Just we have to.
During her interview, Harris announced a new policy designed to ease the burden of Americans taking care of aging parents in addition to their kids, letting Medicare pay for long term health care at home. Incredible.
Now she just has to go on an anime podcast I've never heard of with 80 million weekly downloads so that people can actually hear about it. Harris also reiterated that she is, in fact, a gun owner.
I have a Glock and I've had it for quite some time. Look, does this make me uncomfortable? A little bit.
But a campaign ad where Kamala fires that Glock at a shooting range while talking about abortion rights in a voiceover. A bullseye followed by a wink to the camera.
Landslide. Landslide victory.
It's over. Wouldn't hurt.
Wouldn't hurt. She should be firing that Glock up in the air like Yosemite Sam.
Wearing a camo Harris Walls hat. Sure about it a camo um cowboy hat sure okay yeah okay it's getting more we're moving into the drag the drag zone well you gotta look at like Donald Trump I I feel like Donald Trump has he's become a mask of himself I feel like she's gotta like get a little what do they call like peacocking she might have to go with a big hat Donald Trump is smart enough to not put himself in other kinds of hats he knows that he can only be.
Yeah. And he has to wear that.
And you never you'll never see Donald Trump put on. I guess maybe you do now once in a while.
He will, I think, have his hair done under a hat so that he can remove the hat. But like when you see Donald Trump in a hat, that's a part of his carapace.
He's a cartoon character. He cannot change.
And he is smart. He's got hat discipline.
Yeah. Harris will also sit for interviews with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert, and the host of The View.
She'll be eating increasingly hot chicken wings during all of them. That's just because she's super stressed.
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Monday marked the one year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas

attacks in southern Israel, which set off the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Hard to believe it's already been a whole year of trying and failing to write even one joke about any of this before deleting the whole section and focusing on mudang. Nothing to say about that.
Trump also went on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Monday to say this. Israel has to do one thing.
They have to get smart about Trump because they don't back me. I did more for Israel than anybody.
I did more for the Jewish people than anybody. And it's not a reciprocal, as I say.
Two points about this. First of all, just very cool that he's using Israel and Jewish people interchangeably now, just a convenient shorthand, never led to anything horrific before.
Also, I can't prove this, obviously, but you all know that he's picturing Diamond District to Has, right? Like he's when he's talking about Jewish people, he's basically saying to Hugh Hewitt, like, these people are Jewing me down on Israel. Like, that's what he's getting at.
It's not reciprocal. He's like not getting a good deal.
That's what he's like. These Jews, they're driving their usual hard bargain, you know, with their hooked noses and their fucking this.
Did you see He went to visit Rabbi Schneerson's grave yesterday and offered to sign a prayer book.

Yeah. you know with their hooked noses and their fucking this did you see he went to visit um rabbi schneerson's grave yesterday and offered to sign a prayer book yes he did he also did a he offered to sign a prayer book 10 out of 10 he also um he had a memorial at his golf course like he didn't he wouldn't they did the event at miami his course like that's because what you just you won't even leave the house.
That person, I assume, is not buried there. No, he went somewhere.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
No, no. The rabbi is not buried at Trump at all.
But he does these things. Yeah, no.
God knows who's under there. I mean, during his campaign rallies over the weekend, Donald Trump leaned hard into spreading misinformation.
Here he is in Butler, the rally he put on with Elon Musk. Because they don't have people there.
They don't have the people. All of the people in North Carolina, no helicopters, no rescue.
It's just what's happened there is very bad. They're offering them $750 to people whose homes have been washed away.
Just a flat out lie, easily debunked. It's like he came back to Butler, Pennsylvania to see if he could make God regret saving his life.

Officials and lawmakers from both parties have been pleading for the misinformation to stop.

Kevin Corbin, a GOP state representative in North Carolina, wrote on Facebook,

Please help stop this junk.

It is just a distraction to people trying to do their job.

When Donald Trump made up lies about Mexicans, I did not speak up because I was not a Mexican and was kind of into it. When Donald Trump made up lies about trans people, I did not speak up because I was not a Mexican and was kind of into it.

When Donald Trump made up lies about trans people,

I did not speak up because that kind of weirds me out.

When Donald Trump made up lies about my community

in the wake of a devastating natural disaster,

I actually didn't reflect on the other shit at all.

But also, I'm in an emergency,

so it's a lot to ask that I also reflect

on my broader politics right now.

So it's like in fairness.

Meanwhile, coastal areas of Florida

that were just battered by Hurricane Helene

are soon to be hit by Hurricane Milton,

which is politics right now. So it's like in fairness.
Meanwhile, coastal areas of Florida that were just battered by Hurricane Helene are soon to be hit by Hurricane Milton, which had reached Category 5 and fall into Category 4 by Tuesday morning. As we're recording this, the storm hasn't hit yet, but depending on how bad the damage is by tomorrow, we should know if the Jews caused it.
Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reportedly refused to take a call from Kamala Harris earlier this week. According to NBC News, a DeSantis aide said the vice president was trying to reach out and we didn't answer because the call seemed political.
First of all, how do you know how political a call seems while it's ringing? It would actually be awesome if calls vibes could be foretold by the ring so you could know if a friend was calling because they are bored and driving or because they need someone's help to move, you know, but they don't work that way. Oh, this sounds like it's going to be about boxes.

You have no idea what a call is going to be when your mother calls it like not your your usual time. It's like, is she bored or did somebody die?

Yeah, exactly.

The same way that like cars have different beeps based on how you feel.

A phone should ring differently based on what the call is.

It would be really nice to have like, I think if we get in the car and we are in the just the hackiest of 1980s.

Thank you. based on what the call is it would be really nice to have like i think like if we get in the car and we are in the just the hackiest of 1980s comedy territory here but like let's let's let's that like just practically like the horn that i feel is the most missing is like like excuse me just like i just just drawing your attention you're on your phone it's kind silly.
I just like just like just wake up a little. This is not emergency.
I blew a tire on the highway the other day and people were honking at me, which I like to let me know that my tire because my pressure signal hadn't come on yet. And because I also have a bumper sticker on the back of my car that says honk if you love the mummy.
I'm sorry finish your thought yeah so i get like i'll be driving on the highway and people will honk which is very because of the bumper sticker and then they'll wave yes so i thought if you loved the mummy it says yeah honk if you think like the 1999's the mummy is like the most perfect movie ever it's it's a lots of people in la have this bumper sticker no they don't yes they do no they don do. No, they don't.
Yes, they do. Never heard of it, never seen it.
We all live in LA. Has anyone ever seen the Honk of You Like 19? I've seen different versions.
I've heard it's like similar. I've seen a lot of people have this one.
It's from Super Yaki. It's a really popular movie company.
Honk, if you like The Mummy? Yes. I'm not, I'm not alone.
Do you know about this? Yeah. When you're on a way to see some film in the Vista.

No.

Have you seen it?

Oh, yeah.

But often it's like more text than that, right?

It's a long, I'm misquoting it. It's a long bumper sticker.

If you'd rather be watching the 1990 classic.

Yeah.

Cinematic masterpiece of Mummy starring Brandon Frazier and Rachel.

There we go.

Anyway, it's on the back of my car.

And so I get honked out a lot on the highway. And usually then people pass and they're like waving because they're acknowledging it.
So when I blew my tire out the other day, I did not know that they were honking to warn me of the tire. So I could have used a different honk.
Did you feel that there was a problem? It was just at that moment where it was like about to go down. So I just hadn't caught on to it yet.
You just need a second sticker. So it's honk if you love the mummy or if my tire is blown out.

You'll know.

It was my first flat tire.

I'd never had a flat tire before.

So it was like I was navigating a new territory.

Where were you?

On the 134 heading towards the Glendale Galleria to take a walk.

What a sad diversion from a wonderful time.

Were you going to Dintai Phan? No, I was probably going to go to the Cheesecake Factory. Nice.
Did that all get fucked up by the tire? Yeah, though I will say the tow truck came in only 20 minutes. Thank you, Honda Roadside Assistance.
It was great. Shout out to Honda Roadside Assistance.
Give it up for Honda Roadside Assistance. Yeah, it's not associated with the car company.
It's a person named Honda who's very fast and loves the mummy. Harris was asked about DeSantis not taking her call.
She said this. It's just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish.
And it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do. When asked in a subsequent press conference, DeSantis claimed not to know about Kamala's calls.
I didn't know she called me, Ron told the press. I was not aware of that.
That is just a lie. Just obviously just a person lying.
We are no longer in the era where you can not know that somebody called. We actually don't get to not know anything about anybody, and it's creating a whole lot of problems.
But in this one case, we can pretty well be sure he knew she called. Also, your aide told the press that you purposely didn't take the call.
So you're in the middle of an upcoming natural disaster. The second one in as many weeks, you're preparing for that occurrence.
The sitting vice president calls your aide, sends it to voicemail. Your aide then tells the press that you sent it to voicemail on purpose because fuck you.
Then no one told you about this plan. You had no idea this happened.
Like what? It used to be there was at least some. Some if you're sitting good, look, members of Congress have always been fucking turds and weird.
Well, always been liars in politics. But it used to be there was some show to pretend you weren't lying or to have some plausible defense of your lie.
There was some effort to ground what you were saying in some kernel of defensible, objective reality that you could claim. But this is not that.
It's interesting because I feel like I would only try to be governor to give the illusion that I had gravitas and power when I knew inside I'm a worm. But he doesn't even care.
It's just like you don't even want the thing that you why did you do this if you're just going to humiliate yourself on the news i just feel like if if the vice president calls any of us we're going to know well it might say um like restricted or unknown number right like that might be the case but that it can. She's leaving a message.
She's absolutely leaving a message. And your aid already told reporters why you didn't take the call.
Yeah. This is part of a little plan you had.
In the middle of a hurricane. Yeah.
To kind of, to be like as like, it is the like, you know, the little stinker political error too, because like he has made a point, De Santa's made a point that the Biden administration is it's a way for him to.

Behave like a governor the way other Republican governors have, which is to say that the administration is doing everything they possibly can while doing a little bit to shiv the Democrats to that's that sort of get a little bit of politics in there. Pretty gross.

Harris also took Trump to task for his nonstop lies about Hurricane Helene. There's a lot of misinformation being pushed out there by the former president about what is available in particular to the survivors of Helene.
And first of all, it's extraordinarily It's about him, it's like Tom Tillis are out there saying that what Trump is doing is disgusting and not helpful, or some are willing to go far enough to call it disgusting, and most are just at least saying it's wrong and not helpful.

and it is like a it's not the most important reason that we have to win this election but

four years from now the ai little girls in vests holding puppies will be more convincing

our ability to separate fact and fiction will be even more difficult. And it really will depend on people having some kind of hygiene in the internet, in the way they consume the internet, but that's a lot to ask.
So then it will come down to like public officials and like their willingness to kind of like tell the truth or at least call out stuff that is false. And with each passing year, there are fewer and fewer Republicans willing to do that.
And until we like, this does feel like for a variety of reasons, our last chance to defeat this version of Trumpism so that other Republicans view it as a loser so that they can start to move back, not even a more moderate direction, but just in a less fascistic direction. They can keep their right wing, terrible policies.
They can keep their, they'll keep their heinous abortion policy, whatever. They'll keep their rash of actual political views that we find important, important but like on policy but like it but like to move away from this kind of like conspiratorial paranoid politics to make it to make clear that that's a loser because like i'm glad you have media institutions denouncing this stuff i think local news still matters but like the most effective weapon against republican misinformation right now has been Republicans.
And there are fewer and fewer people willing to say that. So sort of just a.
It is another like this week has been another reminder of the stakes, because imagine if this happens. Donald Trump is president.
He's only sending aid to Republican states. They're making up lies about what Democratic politicians are doing in in in their states.
It's just like we just we can't. How do you have a society with these people? I don't think like the idea that if you because obviously we had that story last week about him equivocating on sending aid to blue states and potentially benefiting red states was like that is only true up until the point that he has a personal grievance with, say republican governor like brian kemp so if any republicans out here and thinks well i'll be on the side will look after me the second you do you second you send the wrong email he will threaten your state so the the idea that like that they're like some sort of cohesive group that they're going to benefit from trump's presidency is a lie because trump only knows how to have conflict.
He will have conflict with you when things get worse and worse. He'll turn on Ron DeSantis like he'll turn on all these Republican governors as soon as it's inconvenient to him.
Yeah. The other part of it that's like kind of dispiriting, too, is that the reason this kind of paranoid conspiratorial politics is effective and it's part of how Trump ran and won in 2016, it's how he could almost win now, is a lot of Americans believe this is how the government always operated.
That like the way Trump describes politics, the way Trump views politics, what he would do if he were to win is how people think it does work. They think it is already about France.
And when it's actually genuinely in these moments not, at least it hasn't been. Obviously, there's exceptions, but like people are so cynical about government.
They believe it operates in the way Donald Trump would make it operate if he won, which is just this like ridiculous catch 22 at the heart of all this that I find very frustrating. And then there's Elon Musk.
Here he is at the rally in Pennsylvania, physically leaping into the air once he took the stage. American car company in generations and his rocket company is the only reason we can now send American astronauts into space.
Come here. Take over, Elon.
Yes, take over. Richest man in the world.
At any given moment, he could be anywhere on the planet, doing anything at all.

And somehow, at this moment, he is doing the saddest possible thing in the shittiest possible place.

Elon told the crowd this.

He's wearing a black MAGA hat.

As you can see, I'm not just MAGA, I'm dark MAGA.

Very shrewd the way the Trump campaign brought in Elon Musk so that J.D. Vance would seem less like a web form poisoned incel loser.
Imagine being Elon Musk and bombing at a MAGA rally, the most receptive crowd that doesn't work for him that he'll ever be in front of. It's like eating shit at your own bar mitzvah.
Unbelievable. Just the like, I hope it's drugs.
Honestly, it's the only way I like we've talked about. I don want to talk about elon i'm sick we have to i'm sorry he's funding trump's run nobody wants to talk about elon he has made himself a pivotal point of our political system nobody wants it but here we are i know well we were in we were in pennsylvania we did this show in pittsburgh obviously and we did potty of america in philly everybody should listen to the show it's a great.
It's actually one of my favorite live shows that we've done with Potsy of America. And there are, I think in Pennsylvania, this is maybe not exactly right.
I think this is right. But basically the most money ever spent by super PACs for one candidate is currently being spent in Pennsylvania.
And my understanding is that it's all coming from just a few billionaires.

And those are billionaires who, I think some of them make their money via, what's it called

that kind of like fast action trading, the hyper, the companies that do the kind of like

thousands of trades per second type trading.

What's the name you're on that's called?

No one is.

Put it in the comments.

What is the stock market? Yeah. Yeah.
Anyway, stocks. So but like that's millions and millions of dollars.
And I am sure that that is ideologically driven. A lot of these billionaires are ideologically driven.
But also, like, I'm sure it's in part insurance for having Donald Trump in the White House, who is 100 percent transactional, even in on Israel. He's like, they're not being reciprocal.
Like so you what what a down payment. Right.
Help make sure that you put Donald Trump in the White House and you're you'll have an SEC that's favorable to you because they're corrupt. And like Elon is a living embodiment of that kind of corruption.
He has billions and billions of dollars of interests from the federal government. It will be very valuable to him to have Donald Trump always take his calls, always do what he asks.
You can already see that Donald Trump is adjusting what he says about electric cars because he knows in the back of his mind that he's going to see Elon this week. But of course, that doesn't stop on all the other fucking issues.
On Monday, Trump leaned into his race science argument against immigration while talking to Hugh Hewitt. How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Now, a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes.
And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. Got the calipers.
Yeah, I mean... Look, I'll make my prediction again.
We are... Phrenology is going to make a comeback in Republican politics.
Calipers, sure. All of it.
But, you know, Trump does know a thing or two about bad genes being in our country right now. Cut to photo of Eric and Don.
Boom! Got them. We got them.
We got them. It is...
it is i mean it is crazy it's like we have cycled all the way back to his first like his announcement in 2015 because that first announcement was the they're sent mexican rapists right so it's like he's it's not even playing the hits it's like there's he can only churn like there's only cycle like there's only the same 12 things over and over again forever and and half the population finds that at least somewhat satisfying and that's hard i would say more that there's a base of the republican party that eats this up and then there's probably a majority of the country that finds it disgusting and then there's this group of people either they are so cynical about politics or so kind of apolitical that either this doesn't reach them or it all seems like noise. Or there are people that just don't care enough.
They just aren't. They don't care enough.
And like our job in the next 30 days is to figure out how to make a lot of those people care in one way or another to stop this. And that's been the job for the last decade.
And we love what we do. So that's part of it.
And finally, Todd Phillips, flopped at the box office this weekend. We didn't say Joker in that sentence.
Oh, Joker, you know, the sequel, fuck it. Earned a meager $40 million in its opening weekend.
You know what they say? Joker wants shame on me. Joker wants shame on me.
Joker 2. Felia de.
Got him. Fucking got him.
I was literally going to turn Todd Phillips into the Joker. Yep.
He's on his way. I'm going to see the Joker sequel.
Yeah. It was a movie.
Kendra, you saw it. I saw it.
I genuinely, the reviews that I read before going in made me expect truly the worst. Oh, wow.
I think its biggest sin, honestly, is that A, it's very boring. That's what everyone says.
It's boring. It's incredibly boring.
That's too bad. Also, he, very quickly, he references a movie, The Bandwagon, often throughout the movie.
It's a, you see a movie poster for it at the beginning. And then there is a scene where it is, it plays a very long portion of the movie or a big chunk of the movie that the Joker is watching in another scene.
I love being in a movie theater, watching a character watch a movie. Yes.
So The Bandwagon is in part about a man who is putting on a musical version of Faust, which does not go well. People leave opening night very depressed.
They're like, this is a musical. It's supposed to be bright, happy, sunshiny, blah, blah, blah, surreal, whatever.
And he references this movie so many times. And then you see the Joker and you're like, you clearly did not get the point of this movie that you keep referencing.
Or maybe he did. It sounds like this is a really not what people wanted from it.
And it's a boring musical that leaves people depressed. No, but then at the end of the bandwagon, the whole turn is Fred Astaire and his friends.
Spoiler for the bandwagon. Yeah.
Spoiler for this movie that came out in 1953. No, Fred Astaire and his friends make him realize.
That he's gay. Sure uh that he needs to put on the bandwagon which is like this bright cheery thing it becomes a hit blah blah blah and it's just like it was just interesting watching this thing and realize there was no joy no surrealism not that all musicals have to be joyful i mean if you've seen cabaret for instance it's not a bucket of laughs but he just he fundamentally doesn't understand musicals and didn't understand what he had to work with.
There were some things in there that I actually kind of liked. They just didn't ever come together.
Right. Right.
Yeah. Seems like a real mess.
That's also part of the plot of Merrily Rowling about somebody that sells out. It's funny because it's been remade so many times.
Like originally it was about someone who sold out and made plays that were too commercial and now it's then it became in this but yeah well lady gaga harlequin the album i loved okay that's insane that's all the music that i love that's the well okay and that's fair but i was like when she released it i was like oh well this movie is a bomb oh it's gonna be absolutely a bomb i i liked that album because it is very good but i also knew that she could do it in her sleep like she rolled out they have rolled out of bed and like every song one take yeah no i mean she's like i'm already scatting just start recording it there's no scatting on that album oh well then what's there for anybody then okay well it's another great week of news here in America. Thanks, everybody, for listening.
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