What a Weekday: Ties, Lies, and YouTube Guys

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Speaker 2 Let's get into it. What a weekday.

Speaker 2 Nice. Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will face off in their first and potentially only presidential debate this evening in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 At this very moment, city officials are greasing down the lampost. I think you grease them up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you can grease them up or down. Anyway, city officials are greasing up the lamppost to make sure an overhyped Doug Amhoff can't shimmy up them.

Speaker 2 I guess that's why you were greasing them down because he was going to shimmy up.

Speaker 3 Oh. It's the writing.

Speaker 2 It's the writing. It's that balance.

Speaker 3 It's that balance.

Speaker 2 Isn't that a funny thing about writing that we don't like hearing the same word too close to the to to it?

Speaker 3 No, it makes us upset.

Speaker 2 It makes us upset. It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3 It really, reading your stuff out loud, even if you're not performing it, it really does help.

Speaker 2 Well, for sure. Oh, is that a dig at us?

Speaker 3 No, no, no. I'm saying that because it's something like I've always told myself, you should read it out loud, even if you're not, it's not to be read out loud.
No, I, oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2 Anything you're ever, any, anything, if you're writing an op-ed, if you're writing a book, whatever it is, read it out loud. But it is a funny thing, like almost like

Speaker 2 an evolutionary memory of of being sung, of like singing, like or like making noises that like we don't like to hear the same grunt sound too close to itself.

Speaker 2 Like it doesn't, it doesn't change the meaning.

Speaker 3 It just sounds like a mistake, even when it's not. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 2 But even that, like just using the same word twice, there's nothing. substantively wrong with it.
It just rings poorly in a way.

Speaker 3 It's a thing.

Speaker 2 It sounds like a mistake. And so now we, but, but because we know customarily you don't do that, it usually is a mistake.
And so we judge it as a mistake.

Speaker 2 But I wonder if we could change that, you know?

Speaker 3 We'll be pioneers. It starts on this very show.

Speaker 2 I mean, sometimes repetition, like if it's purposeful, people, it has to be purposeful. And then something to think about.
While the mics will be muted, unlike this one,

Speaker 2 his campaign official told reporters that a pool would be there to report on whatever the candidates say into muted mics and that the network may unmute both microphones if there's significant crosstalk or in a less likely scenario, banter.

Speaker 2 Harris has spent most of the last four days at an intensive debate camp at a a hotel in Pittsburgh. In the mornings, hours of high-pressure debate practice.
In the afternoon, archery and s'mores.

Speaker 2 Trump, meanwhile, spent most of the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, participating in policy sessions with his aides rather than traditional debate practice.

Speaker 2 Trump is at Montessori Debate School, learning how to debate through hands-on activities like yelling at the help and golf. The idea that he's in policy sessions.
Give me a fucking break.

Speaker 3 Just posting all those aides watch him post.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's um at the same time, though, that there is like an expectations game that they play well, which is like

Speaker 2 he doesn't do traditional debate prep. He does policy sessions.
Everybody knows that's a joke.

Speaker 2 The people saying he's in policy sessions knows it's a joke, and it lowers the expectations on him even further. He's such a

Speaker 2 sour grapes guy that like

Speaker 2 if he doesn't study so that when he if he fails the test, it's because he didn't study. And if he succeeds, it's because he's brilliant.

Speaker 2 Anyway, ahead of the debate, the the New York Times and Sienna College released a new poll that found Harris and Trump to be neck and neck as they enter the home stretch.

Speaker 2 It was, I believe, 48 Trump, 47 Kamala.

Speaker 2 These numbers are all about how you look at them. If Joe Biden were still a candidate, being within the margin of error would have been great news.

Speaker 2 We'd be carrying him around our shoulders very, very carefully.

Speaker 2 The Times-Sienna poll found that 28% of likely voters said they need to know more about Harris, while only 9% said they need to know more about Trump.

Speaker 2 I will say that that only, though, is doing a lot of work because imagine being part of that 9%. Imagine not knowing enough about Trump.

Speaker 2 Imagine not hearing his voice in your head more clearly than that of your own father.

Speaker 3 That sounds incredible.

Speaker 2 9% need to know more about Trump. Two-thirds of those voters who said they needed to know more about Harris, that 28%, wanted to learn more about her policies specifically.

Speaker 2 Hey, have you tried looking it up?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 2 Look, I won't dwell on this for the next seven weeks because there's no point.

Speaker 2 But just amongst us girls here, everybody treats the I need to know more crowd with undue reverence because the media and pundits don't want to be seen as elitists and the campaigns and politicians want the votes.

Speaker 2 And practically speaking, we just need to figure out how to persuade these people.

Speaker 2 So everybody kind of skips the step of pointing out that she's a mainstream Democrat, Trump is a far-right nationalist Republican, and whatever interesting policy proposals she offers, whatever way she can win the news cycle by speaking to specific concerns, and she should do that.

Speaker 2 And I'm glad she's doing that.

Speaker 2 The vast majority of these undecided voters or voters considering whether to vote at all would be far better off under Kamala Harris, even if Trump were a normal Republican and he's not.

Speaker 2 And basically what politics is right now is a Democratic apparatus trying to explain this, a Republican and right-wing apparatus trying to deny this, and non-partisan media teaching the controversy in a way that turns the simple and static into complicated and dynamic.

Speaker 2 because complicated and dynamic is more interesting to talk and write about.

Speaker 2 But the very idea of complexity and nuance when there really isn't creates space for rationalizing a vote for Trump when it is indefensible. But that's for another day.

Speaker 2 For now, we need to help these people understand that Kamala Harris will cut middle-class taxes, make housing more affordable, cap drug prices, create opportunities for young people to start small businesses, and protect access to abortion.

Speaker 2 We must be the Google we want to see in the world. And we're just going to be very nice.

Speaker 2 And we're going to be very welcoming.

Speaker 2 And we're going to keep these less helpful thoughts to ourselves for seven weeks, right?

Speaker 3 Also, she has a policy page on her website now.

Speaker 2 And good news, we now have this tool, as Kendra points out, to help these information-hungry voters. The Karis campaign added that policy page to our website on Sunday.
Let's check it out.

Speaker 3 Oh, come on.

Speaker 2 For those listening at home, we've reached our free policy page limit.

Speaker 3 Kudos to whoever did that.

Speaker 2 A little joke about how you have to subscribe to every website now.

Speaker 2 The page titled A New Way Forward outlines Harris's agenda on the economy, foreign policy, and and reproductive rights, among other planks.

Speaker 2 The economic portion details Harris's plan to cut taxes for more than 100 million working and middle-class Americans by restoring an expanded child tax credit and the earned income tax credit.

Speaker 2 Compare this to the economic plan on Trump's website, an AI rendering of Elon Musk giving a cyber truck to a crying barefoot orphan. And I think we have a photo of that.

Speaker 2 Oh, come on.

Speaker 2 That's just a

Speaker 2 parakeet with balls.

Speaker 2 It's a songbird taking that in.

Speaker 3 AI gives us so much. What'd you say? AI gives us so much.
I'm glad it's blown the oceans. It's worth it.
Look at that.

Speaker 2 Sure, to make this image, you have to use the energy of Denmark.

Speaker 3 But it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 The page also outlines Harris's policy to provide down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers and extend Biden's cap on insulin and out-of-pocket healthcare spending.

Speaker 2 It's great to have this information in one place, but all of it was previously available. There are no surprises on the Kamala Harris policy page.

Speaker 2 She didn't suddenly announce a ban on leaf blowers like I specifically asked her her to.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, as Kamala Harris is rolling out her economic policies, Donald Trump has been laying out his second-term agenda, destroying his enemies and vilifying immigrants.

Speaker 2 On Saturday, the former president promised to oust undocumented immigrants from the U.S., said Trump.

Speaker 4 And you know, getting them out will be a bloody

Speaker 4 story.

Speaker 4 Should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.
Nobody checked. Were they criminals? Were they from jails?

Speaker 2 Okay, sure, but does Kamala Harris's policy page go into enough detail on tax deductions for small businesses?

Speaker 2 On Monday, J.D. Vance ramped up the racist propaganda and publicly accused Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating people's pets.
Excuse me, I'm not Haitian, replied an irate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Speaker 2 Said Vance, months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio.

Speaker 2 Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country. Where's our borders are?

Speaker 2 Vance continued, cats and dogs are here to be eaten by decent, hardworking American citizens, as an aide tried to grab the phone out of his vance.

Speaker 2 This is a completely manufactured story.

Speaker 2 Basically, there was a news report about one woman in Ohio who seems to be an American citizen with some serious mental health problems who did kill and eat a cat. That does seem to have happened.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 It's Ohio. It's not the craziest thing I've heard.

Speaker 2 There are people, it's not tied to their ethnicity or background, whatever her ethnicity or background may be. This person did something terrible, and there was news about it.

Speaker 2 Then, right-wing influencers took that story and decided to say that Haitian immigrants in a very different part of Ohio are eating pets.

Speaker 2 It's like pure racist propaganda against a community of legal Haitian immigrants whose only crime was coming to a town in Ohio to find work in the wake of turmoil and the earthquake in Haiti.

Speaker 2 I've seen people compare this to how we made up that J.D. Vance fucks couches.

Speaker 2 These claims are in some sense equally unproven, but one stokes anti-immigrant racism and xenophobia, and the other is funny and true.

Speaker 2 Lots of Republican elected officials jumped on the bandwagon, Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, during a hearing Monday. Marjorie Taylor Greene also leapt onto the dog pile.

Speaker 5 Can we add in that there's Haitian illegal migrants taking over towns, eating people's pets, but yet there's not a government show of force against that.

Speaker 2 Look at these people spreading this rumor. It's a real who's who of people who give off the distinct vibe that they know what cat tastes like.

Speaker 2 Does it surprise me that some random right-wing asshole on the internet found this story, decided to

Speaker 2 make up a connection to

Speaker 2 immigrants in Ohio or that a sleazy outlet like the New York Post would jump on it in some disgusting way? Like that doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 It does surprise me a little bit that people like Ted Cruz and JD Vance

Speaker 2 would start explicitly saying specific immigrants are eating pets, not because I think it's

Speaker 2 beneath them,

Speaker 2 but because I thought they were a little more, I thought they recognized the value of being a little bit more subtle in their racist

Speaker 3 politics.

Speaker 3 Do you think it's a panic thing that they're worried about the election generally, and so they're just going as extreme as they can?

Speaker 3 The Haitian American community doesn't seem to me to be large enough.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's certainly there are quite a few Haitian Americans in the country and the West Indian population, when you expand that, is like much larger.

Speaker 3 But this just doesn't, they weren't even on my like bingo card of people to target. I mean, I think it's that they're in Ohio.
The story was in Ohio.

Speaker 3 They are a convenient stand-in for immigrants as a whole. And And so it's just an anti-immigration.

Speaker 3 Yeah. It's interesting to me because I've never heard them so specifically be able to like sort of delineate different groups of black people.
Usually we're just a monolith.

Speaker 2 Well, they have, like, there are some politicians who have said versions of they're turning Minneapolis into Mogadishu, right? Going after

Speaker 2 like African immigrants.

Speaker 2 I think we see the connection between Haitian immigrants and African immigrants.

Speaker 2 But, and then like a lot of

Speaker 2 xenophobic propaganda about people coming from Central America. But yeah, it is like, this is not a group that's been specifically targeted before.

Speaker 2 I do think there's something happening

Speaker 2 with their filter.

Speaker 2 The Republican filter is like breaking a bit because

Speaker 2 it's both a strength and a weakness that they have this right-wing propaganda apparatus because obviously it is

Speaker 2 immunity against losing any of these people, right? Like anyone inside this bubble is protected against learning facts that are bad about Donald Trump, good about Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 But that conversation is so closed off. Like, I think not realizing that J.D.
Vance had all these liabilities around what he'd been saying about women.

Speaker 2 It's whether, look, is it possible that they're so incompetent they didn't have it? Sure. But I do think more likely they're aware of some of it, but didn't understand the cost of it.

Speaker 2 And this too feels to me like a conversation amongst a group of people who are only talking to each other, like Ted Cruz sharing the article with, like, ha ha ha, this is so funny. Like

Speaker 2 the Republican Party is posting pictures of Donald Trump protecting a cat. Like, it's for no one.
Most people won't have heard this story. Most people will find this story hard to believe.

Speaker 2 It's just not plausible to people.

Speaker 2 So I do hope that on, like, this is the downside of their bubble, which is they end up speaking in a language that doesn't really make sense to people outside of it, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2 But it wasn't just immigrants that Donald Trump promised to target in his second term.

Speaker 2 In a Truth Social post, the former president promised to prosecute any enemies he finds guilty of, quote, rampant cheating and skullduggery this election season, including lawyers, political operatives, and donors.

Speaker 2 Sorry, but skullduggery isn't in Trump's voice. I can't picture him saying skullduggery, neither can you.
But he's he's accountable for the post, even if he didn't write it.

Speaker 2 Just like me with this joke. All right, which one of you cockalorems wrote this?

Speaker 3 Is it funny if I was like, which one of you, girly pops? Just like some other word that you would never say. Yeah.
Skull Duggery feels very Roger Stone for some reason.

Speaker 2 It's very strange, continued Trump. It was a disgrace to our nation.
Therefore, the 2024 election, where votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny.

Speaker 2 And when I win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted prosecuted to the full extent of the law, which will include long-term prison sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again.

Speaker 2 Guess we'll just have to cheat enough so he doesn't win. Am I right?

Speaker 2 I mean, vote. I mean, vote and so forth.

Speaker 2 In the post, he talks about how this will unfortunately involve prosecuting a lot of people. And

Speaker 2 there's just been this online debate about like, is the media talking about this enough?

Speaker 2 And like, maybe that's true, but

Speaker 2 also, like,

Speaker 2 it is amazing to me the way in which like we all collectively shrug at this kind of rhetoric from Trump right now, that we've like grown accustomed to it.

Speaker 2 And because he basically didn't do this during his first term, I think people don't truly believe that he would do it in his second term, either because he doesn't mean it or because even if he does, he lacks the competence to enforce it.

Speaker 2 But I don't know. It doesn't seem like a risk to me that's worth taking.

Speaker 3 No, it's definitely not a risk that's worth taking. Is part of it possibly because he is

Speaker 3 talking like this on outlets like Truth Social, which we don't necessarily see as, A, I don't see it because that's not a space I inhabit.

Speaker 3 And then when it does get reported on, there's still enough people who are like, what is this platform?

Speaker 3 It doesn't feel like a real place where he's talking.

Speaker 3 I don't know. I don't know.
It just is, it sits strangely next to

Speaker 3 media complaints about Harris not having enough policy available on on her website.

Speaker 3 Like, it's just a strange contrast of like, this is what we're talking about, and this is what the other candidate is saying on a daily basis.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think this goes back to what we were talking about earlier, which is just

Speaker 2 the politics of this moment are simple and obvious and not changing. Like, he is a dangerous clown.

Speaker 2 She is a competent mainstream Democrat.

Speaker 3 Which is boring if you're an op-ed writer who has to churn something up. Like, that is what that's what it is.

Speaker 3 It's, yeah, it's tough to make something of it because because he shows us who he is every single day without fail.

Speaker 2 And the other part of it, too, is

Speaker 2 like in terms of media bias, like, no, I do not believe the mainstream political coverage is biased towards Kamala Harris, but it does, and I've made this point before, treat Kamala Harris as the protagonist and Donald Trump as the antagonist.

Speaker 2 And so she has agency and her decisions and choices are scrutinized because she is the main character and Trump is the villain. And so the villain is expected to be villainous.

Speaker 2 And so his villainy is not treated as interesting. And then she is expected to be perfectly heroic.

Speaker 2 So Trump can say these things on Tree Social, and it is expected, she is expected to do far more interviews, to be much more straightforward, to lay out her agenda as specifically as possible.

Speaker 2 And any failure to

Speaker 2 any, like if the polls are showing them tied, it is her fault that the polls are tied. It is not the fault of us as a collective as and I don't even just mean like the media, right?

Speaker 2 Like because political coverage is around

Speaker 2 strategy and tactics, as opposed to outcomes and policy, even if those policies are covered and people will come to find out what they are, but they're really a means to securing votes and seeing how it's playing.

Speaker 2 If Kamala Harris is down in a poll, that is seen as a strategic challenge to her. It is rarely, imagine like if you went on CNN

Speaker 2 and a reporter said,

Speaker 2 due to a collective failure of the American people to understand the stakes of the election, Kamala Harris remains down by one point, right?

Speaker 2 Like it's inconceivable that anybody would talk about politics in that way, even though I think it's a reasonable way to view what's happening, right?

Speaker 2 Like due to a kind of solipsistic and cynical view of the world, like whatever you would want to say, like that just isn't, that isn't the cultural language of politics right now.

Speaker 3 What's interesting is that is how we talk about elections in a historical sense.

Speaker 3 When we talk about things happening in the past, we talk about what the country as a whole was thinking and the mood and the misconceptions of the public.

Speaker 3 We don't talk about that in the present or in the future tense. Right.

Speaker 2 And I, and like,

Speaker 2 I think that's a mix of pragmatism. I think it is also a fear of being arrogant and wrong, which I think is reasonable.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but

Speaker 3 here we are.

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Speaker 2 And the voice of CNN, died this week at the age of 93. Congrats to the new voice of Darth Vader, Glenn Powell.

Speaker 3 Come on, that sucks.

Speaker 2 He doesn't need that. Nobody with abs should get voice work.
That sucks.

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Speaker 2 And thank you for the few days of consideration about whether it's right or wrong so you can feel better about ultimately getting to the inevitable yes. Because

Speaker 3 coaching, I wonder if he is his voice in the Mukfasa movie that's coming out.

Speaker 2 That's interesting. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I no idea. It's actually Glenn Powell.

Speaker 2 Glenn Powell's Mufasa. That's crazy.
But I bet I bet he's good.

Speaker 2 But we can't help but like him.

Speaker 3 So charming.

Speaker 2 And in a new video, YouTuber Nikocado Avocado revealed that he had lost 250 pounds, but concealed concealed it by secretly pre-recording content for two years.

Speaker 2 You can lose weight without incessantly talking about it. Uh-oh, looks like I have some every single person I know to apologize to.

Speaker 2 The YouTuber is best known for making mukbang videos in which he eats a tremendous amount of food on camera, which is way less dignified than what I do on YouTube every week.

Speaker 2 Stick my head into the swirling, clogged toilet of American politics, and take a fat swig. Let's take a look at the video titled Two Steps Ahead.

Speaker 10 Two steps ahead.

Speaker 10 I am always

Speaker 10 two steps ahead.

Speaker 10 This has been the greatest social experiment of my entire life.

Speaker 2 Just so everybody understands, what we're looking at here is

Speaker 2 a thin man wearing a panda hat. to cover his face.

Speaker 2 This is a social experiment that does finally answer the age-old question, what's on YouTube now?

Speaker 2 I thought it was makeup tutorials.

Speaker 2 In the reveal, which has over 31 million views, Nikocado said he had enlisted other YouTubers in his ruse, strategically uploading videos across social media platforms and shaving his head so his fans wouldn't recognize him in public.

Speaker 2 But again, I ask,

Speaker 2 what is the experiment?

Speaker 2 Let's take a look at this video, which again is about a YouTuber hiding his weight loss from his viewers.

Speaker 10 And you will continue to consume these stories about me

Speaker 10 year

Speaker 10 after year

Speaker 10 after year

Speaker 10 for as long as I tell the internet that I am the villain.

Speaker 2 Stories that permeate and linger and infect the minds of the ants

Speaker 2 influence the ants.

Speaker 2 Brainwash the ants.

Speaker 2 You

Speaker 2 are the ants.

Speaker 3 I do think he should be arrested. I don't know for what yet.

Speaker 3 I was going to say,

Speaker 3 I would hate his opinions on The Last Jedi. That's the only footage I've seen of this man, and I know that he has bad opinions on that.

Speaker 2 Are we just all going to be a society of fucking jokers? Is everybody going to be the joker now? We're all just becoming the joker. That's how people drive.
Everybody's driving like they're the joker.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Am I joker-fying? Are we all joker-fying? Is that the future? No Batmans, Jokers, all the way fucking down.
What is this?

Speaker 3 I don't have the energy to be the joker. Unfortunately, our billionaires aren't doing the work.

Speaker 2 No, our billionaire, they're becoming jokers too. Elon Musk is a fucking joker.
They're all jokers.

Speaker 3 Jokers all the way down. Jokers all the way fucking down.

Speaker 2 What is this? What is the experiment? What's the null hypothesis?

Speaker 3 What's

Speaker 3 it?

Speaker 2 What is it? What are the fucking who got who got the placebo?

Speaker 2 Give me the fucking placebo. I'm out.
I'm out. I don't want whatever this experiment is.
I don't want to be a part of it.

Speaker 3 Well, we weren't. Had you heard of this person before two days ago? You brought this up.
You brought this to our attention.

Speaker 3 We weren't part of the, I was not part of the experience. I could have gone my whole life never seeing this.
Never heard of this person. People need to know this is happening.

Speaker 2 We're covering this. We're not part of the experiment.
We're covering the experiment. We're the New England Journal of Medicine.

Speaker 3 This is peer review.

Speaker 2 This is a, yes, like what

Speaker 2 I get, like,

Speaker 2 there is something.

Speaker 3 The experiment is that if you don't show people a current video of you, they won't know what you currently look like. Which is perfectly, more people actually should invest in that, I think.

Speaker 3 Less, less

Speaker 3 stop making videos. Yeah, period.

Speaker 2 I do think, like, there is something

Speaker 2 about,

Speaker 2 like,

Speaker 2 so he makes videos that are about he was heavy, and he makes videos about eating a ton of food and he wants to make a change.

Speaker 2 I have to imagine making a big life change in front of all these people over time would be awful, just awful, because you have people who think they know you trying, like I think obviously he must be getting all the time terrible, mean, awful comments all the time.

Speaker 2 But even putting those aside, I imagine even worse are the people who claim to be fans saying they want to help him, telling him why he needs to lose weight, how he can lose weight, what they tried, what they did.

Speaker 2 Then, if you start losing weight, you start hearing encouragement that's also kind of discouraging. Like, I imagine that would be very difficult.

Speaker 2 So, I suppose it's an experiment in losing weight without having to do that. But I really, it's more like

Speaker 2 The word experiment, I think, is not really fitting here.

Speaker 2 I think he chose to lose a bunch of weight without having to do it in public, which is, I think, an interesting decision to make, but to reveal it

Speaker 2 like you're Doctor Evil is insane.

Speaker 2 But it does seem like he has a lot of issues with his viewers. He seems quite angry.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And again, I know nothing of this man's history, so maybe they did something to him. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Also, you can just log off and do something else.

Speaker 3 And that's also part of it.

Speaker 2 Well, right? But can you? Because this is.

Speaker 3 It's a great job market out there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's true. It is a white hot job market.
But I think that when you're making YouTube money from eating

Speaker 2 fast food, that's a great gig.

Speaker 2 That's a great gig. It's also kind of strange to think about because part of what his videos were about were consuming a lot of food.
Was he, how is he, how is he eating?

Speaker 2 You know, he's making videos where he's eating a lot.

Speaker 3 That was really interesting to me, the fact that he made he said he made two years of content and then took the two years offline that period of filming the two years of content content must have been disgusting right yeah to fit all of that into a into a assume not a two-year period of time

Speaker 2 yeah i mean he's sort of just been on sabbatical that sounds nice yeah was he on the island

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Speaker 2 And that's our show. Thank you to Sarah.
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Speaker 2 Coming up this week, we've got Jane Fonda, Zachary Quinto, Kamale Nanjiani, and Louis Vertel joining us for a big show. So check that out this weekend.
See you Saturday.

Speaker 2 Loving or living, it's loving or living

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Speaker 2 Love It or Leave It is a crooked media production. It is written and produced by me, John Lovett, and Lee Eisenberg.

Speaker 2 Kendra James is our executive producer, Chris Lord is our producer, and Kennedy Hill is our associate producer.

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