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Speaker 2 What's up, Los Angeles?

Speaker 2 Welcome to Love It or Leave It. We're less than a week out from the next presidential debate, so here's hoping it goes just like the last one.

Speaker 2 So terribly that we trade in Kamala Harris for an even younger, stronger candidate, like a politically and chemically juiced up Sidney Sweeney Hunter-Schaefer hybrid.

Speaker 2 We've got a great show for you tonight. Poppy Lou and Gareth Reynolds solve your problems without showing their work.

Speaker 2 Paul Scheer and I duke it out during a summer movie Showtown, and then we wrap it all up with a trip down memory skate ramp. But first,

Speaker 2 let's get into it. What a week!

Speaker 2 On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off her reproductive rights bus tour, which will make stops across the country to win over voters in swing states.

Speaker 2 If the bus ever slows below 50 miles per hour, a national abortion ban immediately goes into effect.

Speaker 2 Her first stop was Palm Beach, Florida, which is just a stone's throw from Mar-a-Lago. A stone's throw, also the potential punishment for having an abortion in Florida.

Speaker 2 Seven states, including Arizona, Nevada, and Florida, will vote on abortion measures in November. Trump dug himself into a hole by overturning Roe, but we can't rely on the hole to do all the work.

Speaker 2 We have to point at the hole, yell about the hole, shine a light on the hole. We have to bring the hole home for people.
We can't just tell hole.

Speaker 2 We must show hole.

Speaker 2 But the vice president is speaking to more than reproductive rights during a rally in New Hampshire on Wednesday.

Speaker 2 Harris outlined her economic agenda and addressed gun violence after yet another mass shooting, this time in Georgia.

Speaker 3 This is just a senseless tragedy, on top of so many senseless tragedies.

Speaker 3 And it's just outrageous that every day in our country, in the United States of America, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive.

Speaker 3 It's senseless.

Speaker 5 It is, we've got to stop it.

Speaker 3 And we have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all. You know, it doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.

Speaker 2 Or does it, said a man who has no idea why he's angry and sad all the time, even though he's tried everything, like ignoring it or driving really fast for no reason.

Speaker 2 Harris has reached at least one Republican voter. Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney announced Wednesday that she'll be voting for Kamala Harris in November, saying this during an event at Duke University.

Speaker 2 This is pretty huge. I have to double-check the population of Wyoming, but I think we just won Wyoming.

Speaker 2 There's like a quantum theory of Bush Republican, which is you can't predict their location and trajectory at the same time. Like Liz Cheney is now voting for Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 Lindsey Graham will drop flowers on John McCain's grave before campaigning for Trump.

Speaker 2 Like, sure, at the scale of the meter, Republicans look like particles that hold specific views and values, but zoom into the nanosphere, and what you'll find is a dazzling and uncertain world that defies logic and expectations.

Speaker 2 Speaking of people going against the family, Tim Walls' MAGA older brother, Jeff Walls, suggested in a recent Facebook post that he didn't consider Tim fit for office, writing, the stories I could tell.

Speaker 2 Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.

Speaker 2 Those stories, mostly things Jeff considered gay at the time, that are now just things we consider wearing pink or tucking in your shirt.

Speaker 2 That sounds like an exaggeration, but this is this is real. When a News Nation reporter reached out, this was the story that Jeff told.
I'll give you one example.

Speaker 2 My little brother, when we were younger, we would go on family trips in a station wagon.

Speaker 2 And the thing was, nobody wanted to sit with him because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 No, it's important. This country cannot survive having a vice president who has to stare at the horizon while he's on a boat.

Speaker 2 Get me to the window, Kamala. Get me to the window.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, a photo circulating online shows a smiling family of very distant relatives of Tim Walls dressed in matching t-shirts that say Nebraska Walz is for Trump.

Speaker 2 All right, yeah.

Speaker 2 So I believe they're related to like a great uncle's brother or something. It's not the worst thing about these shirts, okay? There's no apostrophe in plurals.

Speaker 2 It's Walz's, W-A-L-Z-E-S.

Speaker 2 If you want to know how we got to the point where Trump is president and people are filming and shouting at each other on airplanes, it's because first we let go of the little things and then we let go of the big things.

Speaker 2 Like I'll allow for a debate over whether when you're doing walls in the possessive, if it's W-A-L-Z, apostrophe S or whether, you know, there's a debate about whether you say walls or walls's.

Speaker 2 I'm fine with that. When there's an S at the end of a name, Jones, Jones's.

Speaker 2 Speaking of letting go, a federal judge has ordered the Trump campaign to temporarily stop using the song Hold On, I'm Coming, by the late soul singer Isaac Hayes.

Speaker 2 Said the judge, this court finds it highly implausible that Donald Trump has ever warned anybody that he was coming.

Speaker 2 Speaking of awful surprises, we have some more ghosts from Joan Duddian Vance's horrible and quite recent past. Joan Duddian, you know, again, you're missing some fucking...
That was good.

Speaker 2 That was good. Joan Duddian,

Speaker 2 I swear, if you don't laugh at these, I'll stop doing them. And we got a long fucking list of these.
And yeah, yeah, the low-hanging fruit, that's gone. Jeffrey Dahmer, Vance, that's gone.

Speaker 2 But we're still going to keep doing it.

Speaker 2 The New York Times reports that the VP Pick wrote the introduction to a 2017 Heritage Foundation collection of right-wing essays opposing fertility treatments and abortion access, and that included one essay describing the threat of an empty stomach as a great motivator for finding work.

Speaker 2 No big deal. I can still fix this, said Vance, Vance, taking a steadying breath before his next round of ordering donuts practice in the mirror.

Speaker 2 Gotta hear your 10,000 hours.

Speaker 2 Whatever makes sense. No, no, JD, that's not how you order donuts.
They all make sense, you fucking asshole.

Speaker 2 You can't go wrong. Whatever makes sense.

Speaker 2 Speaking of trying to fix it, when Trump was asked last Thursday how he'd vote on a Florida referendum that would overturn the state's six-week abortion ban, Trump refused to say he'd vote no and seemed to imply kind of that he'd vote yes.

Speaker 2 And I've told them that I want more weeks. It's an age-old political dilemma.
On the one hand, your real position is toxically unpopular. On the other hand, your brain has holes in it.

Speaker 2 This led to a whole bunch of adjudic from the Christian right.

Speaker 2 Albert Moeller Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote on X that Trump's comments seemed almost calculated to alienate pro-life voters.

Speaker 2 Hey, man, sorry you're having a rough one. If it helps, not a single word out of Trump's mouth is calculated.

Speaker 2 Then on Friday, right before his Pennsylvania rally, Trump said he would vote no on the referendum protecting abortion access before ranting about how Democrats want to execute babies once they're born.

Speaker 9 Are you voting yes or no on Amendment 4 in Florida?

Speaker 8 So I think six weeks, you need more time than six weeks. I've disagreed with that right from the early primaries when I heard about it.
I disagreed with it.

Speaker 8 At the same time, the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation that where you can do an abortion in the ninth month.

Speaker 8 And you know, some of the states like Minnesota and other states have it where you could actually execute the baby after birth. And all of that stuff is unacceptable.

Speaker 8 So I'll be voting no for that reason.

Speaker 2 So just, yeah, man.

Speaker 2 So he's voting to keep a six-week abortion ban. He's voting in favor of a six-week abortion ban, which he knows is totally unpopular.

Speaker 2 So he makes up this bullshit about, you know, you could do abortion up till the bar mitzvah.

Speaker 2 Abortion up to the age of Haftorah. All right.

Speaker 2 Donald Trump is, after all, a man of conviction, and his conviction is Donald Trump popular and everybody loved Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 And then because he knows how bad his abortion position is politically, he tried to swing over to the left on IVF saying he's not only in favor of it but that if elected he'd make the process free to families in need.

Speaker 2 Who would end up paying for this policy between the insurance companies or the government, you ask?

Speaker 8 And what we're doing, and we're doing this because we just think it's great, and we need great children, beautiful children in our country. We actually need them.

Speaker 8 And we are going to be, under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment. So we are paying for that treatment

Speaker 8 for all Americans that get it, all Americans that need it. So we're going to be paying for that treatment, or we're going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.

Speaker 2 That clears it up.

Speaker 2 When asked if he knew what IVF was, Trump responded, I think it's where you pump the uterus out and blow on it and put it back in.

Speaker 2 If you've tried everything else.

Speaker 2 Trump is also, to be clear, against Obamacare. He famously only failed to repeal Obamacare in 2017 because John McCain gave it a dramatic dramatic thumbs down.

Speaker 2 So Trump is voting against allowing access to reproductive health care in Florida.

Speaker 2 He's for throwing tens of millions of people off their health insurance, against coverage for pre-existing conditions, but for universal free IVF coverage, which will also be a felony.

Speaker 2 Pretty neat.

Speaker 2 To hide in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 Make it make sense.

Speaker 2 On Wednesday, Trump and Harris finally locked in the rules for their presidential debate next week, with Harris' team reluctantly agreeing that microphones will be muted when it's not the candidate's turn to speak.

Speaker 2 Here's my pitch. Both mics muted.
No moderators. No one is in the room.
Kamala isn't there. The room is small.
It has bars. It's a prison cell.

Speaker 2 Incredible that the Trump campaign insisted on this, on the muting of the mics. Our candidate is a walking, bellowing id with zero self-control, and we demand that ABC fix it.

Speaker 2 It's also incredible what side we're on now.

Speaker 2 If we remember just to a few weeks ago, we thought the muted mics would be good because our candidate spoke in a whisper and even the slightest breeze could turn a sentence upside down.

Speaker 2 Now it's like muted microphone? What? Like for fags?

Speaker 2 Just hours later, during a Fox News town hall that was actually just a Sean Hannity interview in front of a live audience, Trump basisly questioned the fairness of the upcoming debate.

Speaker 10 Her best friend is the head of the network. Her husband's best friend is married to the head of the network.

Speaker 10 And they're going to get the questions. I've already heard they're going to get the questions in advance.

Speaker 2 Sounds like somebody's worried, but that's life. Sometimes you're in a debate with the faltering old man.
Sometimes you're in a debate as the faltering old man.

Speaker 2 Listen,

Speaker 2 they knew I was. Nope, we didn't talk about it, but they're annoyed.
They know that I. I'm sorry.
You have no idea how much time was spent getting that right.

Speaker 2 It was the to try to find the right rhythm of it, and you'd fucking just B minus right through the room.

Speaker 2 And I'm sure the original formulation would have done fine, which is what everybody said to me because they wanted to go home.

Speaker 2 Trump also, in this conversation with Sean Hannity, seemed to have trouble remembering who he was actually running against.

Speaker 2 But don't worry, Trump may seem old, but he said this week he'll put Elon Musk in charge of making the government run better.

Speaker 2 So if you don't like what's coming from deranged grandpa, you can get a second opinion from the ketamine kid. It's like putting the weasels from Roger Rabbit in charge of judicial reform.

Speaker 2 Speaking of destroying something from the inside, unlike that worm in his brain, RFK Jr.'s campaign just won't die.

Speaker 2 As multiple states, including Wisconsin and North Carolina, have ruled it is way too late to get off the ballot without creating chaos for ballot printers and local election officials.

Speaker 2 On Tuesday, a Michigan judge ruled that RFK Jr.

Speaker 2 must remain on the November ballot there as well, adding, Elections are not just games, and the Secretary of State is not obligated to honor the whims of candidates for public office.

Speaker 2 Another sign it's not a game? Are you having fun?

Speaker 2 Is this fun for any of us? Thank you for bringing the joy to this fight. Tim, not now.

Speaker 2 On Wednesday, Baron Trump started his first day at college at NYU, and we hear Love It or Leave It Wish Him Well. Really? None of this is his fault yet.

Speaker 2 Also this week, CBS announced the full cast for the upcoming season of Survivor.

Speaker 2 One contestant, John Levette, said he joined the show

Speaker 2 because at its root, it's an experiment in democracy. It ends in a vote and the players decide what it means to earn that vote.
I wanted to be part of that experiment.

Speaker 2 So make sure to watch and see if I was 2020 Joe Biden or 2024 Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 And finally, it's time for a segment we call America's Least Wanted.

Speaker 2 This week, we're headed to New Hampshire to talk about the craven Republican lady dangerously close to becoming its next governor, Kelly Iot.

Speaker 2 Ah, New Hampshire, New England's libertarian uncle with several DUIs. Okay, that's not fair.

Speaker 2 The Granite State is home to all manner of Republicans, from libertarians who have all the age of consent laws committed to memory, to MAGA culture warriors, to uppercross Mitt Romney types who think all taxes are theft, and who can't be racist because they've always been so generous with their Christmas tips.

Speaker 2 Speaking of Mitt Romney, what's with all the New England states and their Republican governors?

Speaker 2 You guys are always bragging about how you're so liberal, but it seems like you secretly want a big Republican man with a strong jaw to come in and be mean daddy, don't you, you sick fucks?

Speaker 2 Anyway, back in 2016, when she was serving as senator, Kelly Ayot publicly withdrew her support from then-candidate Donald Trump after the Access Hollywood tape leaked, and she said she would not vote for him.

Speaker 2 Ayot said she made the decision because she wanted her daughter to know where she stood. But boy, that backbone disintegrated quickly.

Speaker 2 In 2024, she endorsed Trump again, so Senator Ayot's daughter can take comfort in knowing exactly where her mother stands in the garbage.

Speaker 2 In this governor's race, Iote is saying that if voters don't elect her, the granite state could become more like the worst place she can imagine, Massachusetts.

Speaker 11 We are one election away from becoming Massachusetts in New Hampshire, and I'm not going to let that happen.

Speaker 2 Like Reagan once said, Where's one generation away from becoming Massachusetts? Her official campaign slogan is, don't mass up New Hampshire. First of all, cool lady.

Speaker 2 Second of all, face down, mass up was right there.

Speaker 2 And what's wrong with Massachusetts besides the people?

Speaker 2 Healthcare and public schools, too good. A city with more than 100,000 residents? A cool lesbian governor? And this is just a personal aside.

Speaker 2 But why aren't people in New Hampshire constantly bragging about how they have no seatbelt laws? Like, ooh, the law says you don't have to wear a seatbelt. Cool, so edgy.

Speaker 2 Do you also drink beer in the shower? Congratulations on all the preventable deaths, I guess, you stealth hillbillies. If you're a New Hampshire listener, this was not about you, and you are perfect.

Speaker 2 Kelly Iot has repeatedly called for a national abortion ban and voted to defund Planned Parenthood four times as senator.

Speaker 2 Despite the fact that she looks like an unassuming woman you would see in a Coldwater Creek catalog, she's proven herself ready to fully rubber stamp the Trump agenda.

Speaker 2 On Tuesday, New Hampshire will hold its primary to decide which Democrat will face IOT, but we already know that IOT would be a terrible governor and this election will be incredibly close.

Speaker 2 So, if you want to help flip New Hampshire's governor's mansion, go to votesaveamerica.com to get involved. And that has been America's Least Wanted.
I remember what what it's called.

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Speaker 2 Please welcome to the stage of the hilarious Poppy Lou and the gregarious Gareth Reynolds. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Hi. Welcome.
Come on in.

Speaker 2 Hi. Thank you for being here.
So nice to see you.

Speaker 2 Bring it in. I'm good.
Yeah, that's great. Hello.

Speaker 5 I think I should just do a disclaimer because whenever I'm in the audience and someone's wearing a mini skirt, I'm like, careful. It is a skirt.

Speaker 4 Sorry, it's a what?

Speaker 5 A skirt.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 5 Which is a skirt with shorts inside, so no one will see my cooch.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 you can watch in in peace.

Speaker 2 I think that's nice that you let their anxieties, because I think there'd be people out there worried for you.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 5 And I'm an empath, and I care, so I wanted you to watch this in peace instead of being like, oh no, will my joyful time be broken by seeing Poppy's cooch?

Speaker 1 You won't.

Speaker 2 Do you think it's a problem for empaths that half the people who say they're empaths are actually sociopaths?

Speaker 4 It's a different path.

Speaker 2 Interesting.

Speaker 2 It could be me. You think? Maybe.
Well,

Speaker 2 it would take time for us to know.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Well, I did.
Okay, I need to just get this out. This is the second thing that's on my mind.
You both already know this.

Speaker 5 I had a chicken just die, one of my chickens, like two hours ago.

Speaker 2 Thank you. Oh my God, you all are empaths.

Speaker 2 Some of them.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but, and this is actually my fourth chicken that's died. So maybe I am, I don't know, which like, yeah.

Speaker 2 I think on the other side, just to see the chicken is half full for a second. Thank you.

Speaker 2 100% of the chicken, most people's goal is to kill 100% of the chickens in their care, right? Like they, the second that that chicken is meant for death. And if you've saved even a single one,

Speaker 2 that's lucky for that chicken because the 100% of the chickens I see, they died ideally as soon as possible. Right.

Speaker 2 A lot of them come dead. Yeah, right, right.
You know?

Speaker 5 I don't want to tell you my ratio of living to death.

Speaker 2 Then don't.

Speaker 2 You don't have to. You're right.

Speaker 2 These people don't get that information. They don't need it.
And it's not, you don't owe that to them.

Speaker 2 That's different.

Speaker 2 That's different. Yeah,

Speaker 2 if you want to tell us, you can, but don't.

Speaker 5 I've had four chickens die.

Speaker 5 Not all. I have three living still.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 5 But okay, two of them were really not my fault. Right.

Speaker 5 Two of them.

Speaker 5 Two of them were taken by coyotes because someone had left my driveway gate open, and the coyotes got in, and my neighbors told me that they saw the scene.

Speaker 4 You have two coyotes, which is another way to look at it. Two happy yoats.

Speaker 2 Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 There's no blood there, so I think they brought it home to their young, which is kind of like that.

Speaker 2 Right. So that's something.
I mean,

Speaker 2 it was a good day for the coyotes. And maybe for all you know, that that coyote was like, if I don't get a chicken in the next 15 minutes, the next shih tzu is fucking dead.

Speaker 2 And I have a shihzu, so I'm like, living, living, living shih tzu.

Speaker 4 Alive shihzu.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Papa, you're an actor. I'm just going to read the first question on my card.

Speaker 5 Amazing segue.

Speaker 2 Hey,

Speaker 2 speaking of, you know,

Speaker 2 being alive.

Speaker 2 Good.

Speaker 2 Very natural. I'm like Dick Cabot.

Speaker 2 You learned to deal blackjack for hacks.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 2 You're also a doula.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 5 Wow. I know.
It feels like I'm not a good doula based on my chicken stuff, but chickens and humans are different. I'm a good doula of.

Speaker 2 I would say, how are you with eggs?

Speaker 5 How am I with eggs?

Speaker 2 Like chicken eggs. Oh, good.
See, that tracks for me. Yeah.
Thank you. Like a chicken doula.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Yes.
Yeah, exactly. Because after the baby is, I mostly did like

Speaker 5 birth, labor, and abortion doula stuff, not that much postpartum, which actually makes sense because it's mainly just the egg and birth phase, and then I kind of check out.

Speaker 2 So, and there's better protections for coyotes in hospitals.

Speaker 5 100%, 100%, yeah.

Speaker 2 It's been a long time since a coyote has gotten all the way up

Speaker 2 to the level where the babies are. You can get a coyote in the ER.
It's not impossible, but it's been a long time since that kind of thing has happened

Speaker 2 for centuries, really. Without question, without question.

Speaker 4 Technology's come a long way.

Speaker 2 Speaking of technology. Nice.
Gary.

Speaker 2 You have a phone.

Speaker 2 You've done your homework, John.

Speaker 4 And Anna, you watch videos.

Speaker 2 You watch.

Speaker 2 Who told?

Speaker 2 You watch videos. You're obsessed with watching videos of chiropractors cracking the necks of their patients.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 4 I just want one to die.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I want the guy who has the loudest crack ever.

Speaker 2 And then he's like, Tom, Tom, Tom!

Speaker 2 Do you, isn't

Speaker 2 chiropractor, chiropracty? Chiropractors? Chiropractors. Yep.
What are they doing?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 4 John,

Speaker 4 that's a great question. No.

Speaker 4 What they're doing is they are getting the, if there's a chiropractor here, don't speak up during this wrong answer.

Speaker 4 But I believe there's like little gas between our vertebra called subluxations, and they're releasing that pressure. But I don't think it actually does anything long-term.
Right.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but but when you watch these videos, they are now like fully in on social media. They're micing the patients.
They're yanking them with towels. They're really

Speaker 2 competing. And it seems like, it does seem like this is 50-50.
You're going to be better. You're dead.
Yes. And because the crack is too loud.
It's simply too loud.

Speaker 4 I also think if I was there and they did it and it hurt, I would be like, that's great. Like, I would feel weird being like, ow!

Speaker 2 Like, they're filming.

Speaker 5 There's like animals too, and that's really real because they wouldn't perform for the camera.

Speaker 4 No, that's true. No, sometimes the dogs go to bite the guy.
Yeah. And you're like, that probably hurt him.

Speaker 4 One, one, sometimes there's chickens. You'd like those ones.
They don't always make it.

Speaker 5 It's too soon.

Speaker 2 Too soon. I apologize.
It's still raw. I apologize.
From my experience. So is the chicken.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Actually, not anymore.

Speaker 2 stiff, stiff body.

Speaker 2 Gareth, you told our producers

Speaker 2 that you're bothered greatly by TikToks where people scare their significant other. Yes.
Why do you hate love?

Speaker 4 Geez, you're really coming at me tonight, John.

Speaker 4 Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 To me, that's not an extension of love. That's where maybe it's how some people keep the fun of a relationship alive.
But when was the last time you were genuinely scared?

Speaker 4 Like, jump scared, not Trump scared.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah,

Speaker 2 someone I was dating did pop out of a garbage can once. That's a crazy song.
Broke up on the spot.

Speaker 4 It was a proposal.

Speaker 2 John, marry me. It's out of line.

Speaker 4 This really happened?

Speaker 2 Yeah. All of it? Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 But so you must relate to what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 100%.

Speaker 5 Was it to like be cute?

Speaker 2 I'm trying so hard to commit to that sexual it was sexual

Speaker 2 it was a hundred percent sexual

Speaker 2 garbage can roll

Speaker 2 but but it was but I was not the person

Speaker 2 I wasn't

Speaker 2 I wasn't supposed to open the can if I discovered cheating because it was a sex game that I wasn't meant to be a part of the garbage like truck driver this was

Speaker 5 the per that's the scene that was the sex scene that was the sex scene

Speaker 4 I've seen this

Speaker 4 this fetish not your specific one.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 We taped it. We taped it.

Speaker 2 I know, I know.

Speaker 5 I used on the internet because you don't want to lose a tape.

Speaker 2 Yeah, because he was dressed in an orange. It wasn't technically in a green costume.
He wasn't technically Oscar just for copyright reasons, obviously. But it was an Oscar.
It was

Speaker 2 Matthew the Grunch.

Speaker 4 Now, John, for the crowd here, will you show where the Grunch is on a human body?

Speaker 2 Poppy, you're in the new movie Space Cadet.

Speaker 2 What would you do if you were one one of the Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station? You're stuck up there for months.

Speaker 5 Are they still there?

Speaker 2 Yeah, right now. Really?

Speaker 2 February, right? So February.

Speaker 5 I feel like I check in. Like, it's not really on my news radar that much, except for every couple of weeks.
And I'm always surprised that they're still there. So are they? It's been like seven

Speaker 5 months.

Speaker 2 I don't know how long it's been. I know that they're going to be there until.
Does anyone here know how long it's been?

Speaker 2 Read the fucking news.

Speaker 2 It's still at least February.

Speaker 5 I don't think I would fare well. No, I have really bad astigmatism, first of all, and I have really expensive contacts.

Speaker 5 I would run out and then when I don't have them, I'm basically, I'm like, I think legally blind. My optometrist hasn't fully said that.
They keep saying something like, you're 99.999th percentile

Speaker 5 of astigmatism, which

Speaker 2 seems bad or good. Yeah.
I don't know. It's really impressive.
He doesn't want to give you the bad news.

Speaker 5 I have like a lot of, I have a really extensive skincare routine that I feel like would not bode well on that. Right?

Speaker 2 Yeah. You only brought enough for like 10 days.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And there's like at least eight different specific K-beauty creams.

Speaker 2 You know what's sad about being on this?

Speaker 2 So one thing that happened is there was a ship leaving the International Space Station, but they just said it had to go empty because they weren't sure if it was safe enough.

Speaker 2 And I feel like the astronauts were like,

Speaker 2 let's just get on it. And NASA said, no, thank you.

Speaker 5 No, I don't think it's on the astronauts. I think it's on Boeing because they keep having stuff blow up.

Speaker 2 Hey,

Speaker 2 look, I mean, we're all friends here. I shouldn't say that because

Speaker 5 they're like, they're whistleblowers.

Speaker 2 Good lord. Hoppy.
Some things are sacred.

Speaker 2 You're going to insult Boeing on this stage?

Speaker 2 Boeing? Boeing. Boeing.

Speaker 5 I shouldn't have put a target on all our backs.

Speaker 2 Well, like that.

Speaker 4 You don't need to. With Boeing, you don't need to.

Speaker 2 It's already there. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Flying to Denver?

Speaker 2 You are a target.

Speaker 2 The target is the Earth. And we'll send you, and you'll go and we'll point you at it.

Speaker 4 By the way, they might be the safest Boeing passengers on Earth. Yeah.

Speaker 2 In the world.

Speaker 2 In the universe. The 1990s are back.
I don't know what.

Speaker 2 Space Disasters, Oasis, the 1990s are back.

Speaker 2 And while all the revivals and sequels have grown tired, the Oasis reunion has kept me wide awake, not just because of their musical art.

Speaker 2 But also,

Speaker 2 Noah Gallagher, the lead singer, waxing on about the time he shit on Maroon 5 right to their faces with absolutely no remorse. What fans do you like now? Guitar bands are shite these days.

Speaker 24 So we're in this bar in Hollywood after a gig. And this guy says, Excuse me, can you just come and say, and that's my friend who's a really big fan?

Speaker 24 And he's like, hey, man, you really inspired me to play and all that. I just want to say.
And I was going, I know what band do you? And he said, I'm in the bass player in Maroon 5.

Speaker 2 And I'm Maroon 5? Fing shit.

Speaker 24 How the f if you got Maroon 5 from what I'm doing?

Speaker 24 Be gone out of my sight.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 He later ends up at a party at a big house in the Hollywood Hills, comes out of the bathroom, sees that guy from Maroon 5, says, what are you doing here?

Speaker 2 The guy from Maroon 5 says, this is my fucking house.

Speaker 5 Okay, this isn't on my radar at all. The thing that's on my radar is about how T-Payne, my hero, my love, my man,

Speaker 5 How he said that when he got big, he was on the plane with Usher, and Usher was like, You ruined music because you brought in auto-tune.

Speaker 5 And he was like, It sent him into like a deep depression, which is so sad because T.

Speaker 5 Payne is actually an incredibly talented singer, and he uses auto-tune as like an aesthetic choice, not like a I can't sing choice, but I love him.

Speaker 5 If T-Pain, if you're listening to Look,

Speaker 5 in that one, he also is a great guy, like in the heart.

Speaker 2 I've always said that about T-Pain. And

Speaker 2 look, I think the story you're telling about Usher is important because it is true that it does happen that once in a while a hot person can be wrong.

Speaker 2 It's time for a segment we're calling Doola Right Thing.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Took the image, but it did work.

Speaker 4 That was when a piano fell on my head.

Speaker 5 I can't actually tell what I.

Speaker 2 Yours too.

Speaker 2 What am I? You're holding a pizza from South.

Speaker 5 Ah, you see, it's from above.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
It's from above.

Speaker 2 That didn't track immediately. Oh, yeah, yeah, right.
Inspired by Oasis and now, to a lesser extent, Usher, if you have a question from, so Gareth gives advice in his podcast.

Speaker 4 We're here to help an advice podcast, yes. And who's your co-host? Jake Johnson.

Speaker 2 Pretty neat.

Speaker 2 Wow, that, that,

Speaker 2 people were impressed. They're like, he got Jake Johnson.
Pretty good. No, they see me.

Speaker 4 No, it's it's definitely a get. I'm punching out of my glass for sure.

Speaker 2 No doubt. Yeah.
No, no. And listen.

Speaker 2 And we acknowledge that. We acknowledge that.

Speaker 2 If you have a question that you need advice in your life, and the question is basically about whether you should be nice or whether you should be honest, please raise your hand. Hi.
Hi.

Speaker 2 What's your name and what is your question?

Speaker 25 My name is Jesse.

Speaker 25 My best friend is dating a guy significantly older than her.

Speaker 26 And the other night he broke up with her and said that he could never see himself loving her.

Speaker 25 And then now he's like texting her and wanting to get back together.

Speaker 2 What do I say?

Speaker 25 Because he's really nice.

Speaker 2 He's just like a lot older.

Speaker 5 Wait,

Speaker 5 what's the age difference?

Speaker 25 She's 22 and he's 31.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's nice. Oh, that's not that bad.
That's not that bad. 30.

Speaker 2 I feel like you're.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, no, that was a punch in the gut for sure. But, but

Speaker 2 100%. Now, if someone says,

Speaker 2 you're, you're, you're filthy, disgusting dirt to me, and then the next day says, like, please, please give me another chance, I'm not thinking age gap. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 I'm not worried about that part of it. You keep saying, and there's an age gap.
We would like, just because we want to, put the age gap aside. What are some other qualities?

Speaker 25 He's a chef.

Speaker 2 Well, he's got a lot of employment.

Speaker 4 He's older than a chef.

Speaker 2 Wait, tell me more about the chef, like a good chef.

Speaker 26 Okay, well, it's my best friend from college.

Speaker 2 She lives in Chicago now.

Speaker 26 They live in in Chicago. Is that like a good restaurant scene?

Speaker 2 The bear? I don't know. Based on the bear, but I mean, that's a show about important sandwiches.

Speaker 2 Okay, but they live there. He's.

Speaker 5 Wait, let me say, actually, I do think that the age gap thing is relevant because as someone who dated a lot of people in their early 30s, when I was in my early 20s, I really thought I was like, I was like, I'm so mature, amazing.

Speaker 5 But now, if like one of my friends, friends in their early 30s was dating someone in their early 20s, I would very much judge that.

Speaker 5 Or like now that I look back on the guys I dated that were like 10 plus years older than me, I'm like, oh God, what losers.

Speaker 5 You know, so like.

Speaker 25 No, because why is he single at 31?

Speaker 5 Why is he single?

Speaker 2 Whoa!

Speaker 2 Hey, hey, hey, why are you going to wait?

Speaker 2 Poppy was on your fucking side.

Speaker 2 Poppy was on your side. Poppy was helping you.
And you're like, out of the way, Poppy. I have a hole to dig.

Speaker 2 Wait, one more crazy thing.

Speaker 26 I have one more crazy thing.

Speaker 25 The biggest thing when she first told us that she was dating him was that he wouldn't tell her his birthday.

Speaker 27 He just didn't want to make a scene of it.

Speaker 25 So, like, that was

Speaker 2 like year or all, all the above.

Speaker 27 But we knew he was like 30-something.

Speaker 2 So, what is your friend? I don't even understand what's happening here. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, what's the question?

Speaker 2 There's an immature 31-year-old who says he can never love her.

Speaker 2 And she's saying, what do I do to you? Yeah.

Speaker 2 and you're what are you are you just are you just meeting her on red right now what are you saying

Speaker 25 she seems like she likes him but I don't want her to be with him

Speaker 2 selfishly

Speaker 4 well John

Speaker 4 as the only doctor on the stage

Speaker 4 let me point out that 31 is just three years older than 28.

Speaker 4 31's not that old, first of all, for those of us who are a little older, like that guy who's

Speaker 4 only fucking guy clapping.

Speaker 2 And President Joe Biden, it is wonderful to have you here tonight.

Speaker 4 He thought we said crapping.

Speaker 4 I would say

Speaker 4 the reason to not be with this guy is because he just broke up with her because he's like, I can't see a future with you, not because of age.

Speaker 4 So if anything, I would be like, that's a really weird tendency and thing to say to someone. And then be like, by the way, I don't mean it.

Speaker 4 So I would highlight that part of it versus the age and be like, yeah, there's like some weird, not telling your birth date is super shady, obviously.

Speaker 4 But I would be like, yeah, I mean, the fact that you break up with me because you can't see a future is just a super weird cop-out. And I don't do super weird cop-outs.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Wow.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 Thanks, guys.

Speaker 2 Really good. Got a plus.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 We're here to help Tuesdays at night.

Speaker 2 That's why Jake Johnson keeps you around. Just

Speaker 4 right every now and then. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What do you got?

Speaker 28 Today,

Speaker 28 I posted something about

Speaker 28 on Instagram, I posted something that was criticizing Kamala Harris

Speaker 28 for her genocidal campaign against Gaza. And

Speaker 28 a former high school teacher of mine responded back saying that I questioned that, like, well, so who are you going to vote for then?

Speaker 28 And then saying that I should not be posting this because it will make, it'll have Trump be elected.

Speaker 28 And this is a former high school teacher of mine who I haven't spoken to in more than a decade who responded. I have not responded to him yet.
Should I be nice or should I be honest to him about,

Speaker 28 you know, like get off my DMs?

Speaker 2 It's getting political.

Speaker 2 How many Instagram followers do you have?

Speaker 2 Not many.

Speaker 2 3,000. That's why I was like 20.
3,000.

Speaker 2 But any of them in Wisconsin?

Speaker 28 Maybe.

Speaker 2 A few. A couple.
A couple. And any faves from them?

Speaker 28 No.

Speaker 2 Okay. I don't know if I listen.
I think every post does matter. And we should treat every Instagram post like it will be the difference

Speaker 2 between life and death.

Speaker 2 You laugh, but.

Speaker 5 I think you should be honest. I think you should send.

Speaker 5 I mean, okay.

Speaker 5 I had to like, I try not to engage in like online just back and forth battles because it like I get really, I have a Scorpio moon and I get really really uh riled up and it like keeps me up at night and I like really um

Speaker 5 I'm not scared of conflict I actually kind of like it I don't like it but I'll like I'll really jump into it uh so I've like tried to like stay away from internet arguments.

Speaker 5 But if this is someone that you know and they're there, I say be honest.

Speaker 5 Honestly, there's been like a lot of people that I've talked to in the last 10 months who like, I know personally, and I feel like if they feel comfortable to reach out to you, that is an open door for like maybe for you to share information.

Speaker 5 Um,

Speaker 5 and

Speaker 5 honestly, I don't know. I like

Speaker 5 I have a lot of thoughts about this, and I feel like if it were me, I would say something like,

Speaker 5 honestly,

Speaker 2 the

Speaker 5 illusion that we have a democracy is a facade and we should start from there.

Speaker 5 And if it is actually a two-party system that we are locked into, both of which support the same genocidal regime, how much of a free choice do we actually have as American people?

Speaker 5 And if like the actual possibility of having a third party outside of that that isn't bought by APAC money is not possible on the table, what is the democracy that we're fighting for?

Speaker 5 And I'd be curious to hear what their response is.

Speaker 4 You're definitely going to get the see more, but I think that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 I would also add, John, if I may, while I agree with what Poppy says, I think it's also the reason why you do it is not only because of everything you just said, but also because how often do you get to go fling shit at a teacher?

Speaker 2 It's true. Of yours.

Speaker 4 This is someone who you probably,

Speaker 4 if a teacher of mine was like coming at me in the comments, I would relish the opportunity to be like, I get to talk shit to Mr. Bach publicly now as a grown man.

Speaker 4 Like I can find, it's like, it's as satisfying as like fighting your father, which I don't know if you've done, but it is

Speaker 4 there's few highs bigger.

Speaker 5 I would say one other thing to say, too, is that like if you actually are committed to your party and you care about it, you should hold them accountable to what they say.

Speaker 5 And Kamala Harris is someone who's repeatedly said that she's doing everything she can to fight for a ceasefire, but her actions are not matching to that.

Speaker 5 And I think it's incredibly valid to hold our candidates accountable to what they say they're going to do, which they haven't done.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think the most

Speaker 5 scattered applause.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Look,

Speaker 2 we have 60 days to stop a fascist takeover of our government. We all must do everything in our power to elect Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 The idea that these are two parties that are in any way the same, that there aren't vast differences between them. There's one party that will make life in this country a lot better.

Speaker 2 There's one party that will make this country a lot worse.

Speaker 2 There's one party that believes in democracy, one party that doesn't, one party that believes in abortion, one party that doesn't, one party that believes in the dignity and rights of Palestinians, even if they are failing every single day to fight for him, and one party that is using them as a scapegoat and using them to create racist ads all across the country.

Speaker 2 That doesn't mean that we don't need to prove

Speaker 2 to everybody that could be part of the coalition to elect Kamala Harris from the furthest left all the way to the centrist and modernist in the middle of the country that they have a place in this coalition.

Speaker 2 One of the ways you prove that there's a place in this coalition is by saying, I am a part of this coalition and I want Kamala Harris to do better on this issue.

Speaker 2 I want her to represent change, not just from Donald Trump, but also from Joe Biden in the way that they conduct this policy in the Middle East.

Speaker 2 And that means a policy that is about supporting Israel's right to exist, but also

Speaker 2 showing that you stand with the protesters on the streets of Israel who recognize that Hamas is a murderous and disgusting regime, but also Benjamin Netyahu is putting his own interests ahead of the hostages, ahead of the Israeli people, ahead of peace in that region.

Speaker 2 And I think making clear to everyone that I am going to hold Kamala Harris accountable every single day that she's president, but I'm also a part of her coalition.

Speaker 2 I think that both serves to make the point that you're making, while at the same time helping to elect Kamala Harris and those things are not in conflict, is what I think.

Speaker 29 Thank you.

Speaker 5 Oh, look, look at that giant, juicy fly on my arm.

Speaker 4 Save it. Take it home.
You need to replace an animal.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 2 This is my.

Speaker 5 That was a big boy. This is spirit of my chicken that I...

Speaker 4 It's that Scorpio moon.

Speaker 2 What is a Scorpio moon?

Speaker 4 It's where the astronauts are.

Speaker 2 Hey.

Speaker 2 When do one more?

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 29 a former flatmate of mine used to be very, very close friends

Speaker 29 for over a decade.

Speaker 2 Got

Speaker 2 weird during the pandemic. Variety of reasons.
We all did, sure.

Speaker 27 Just we all did. We all went through it.

Speaker 2 Still weird. Yep.

Speaker 25 But it's kind of like continued.

Speaker 29 And

Speaker 29 we just don't have as much in common anymore. And lately, this person has been reaching out a lot to hang out

Speaker 29 and

Speaker 29 still kind of making it weird. Every time we do hang out, it feels like I'm being interviewed or I don't know, the friendship just like isn't really there anymore.

Speaker 29 But they keep trying to push it.

Speaker 29 And so I'm. kind of at a point where it's like, do I be nice or do I be honest?

Speaker 5 I have follow-up follow-up questions. What do you mean interviewed?

Speaker 29 It's like every time, because I do meet up with him.

Speaker 29 And every time we grab coffee or something, I feel like I'm on stage with you guys getting interviewed. Like it's weird.
It's just like a lot of questions and a lot of...

Speaker 2 Well, it seems like you're not vibing. There's no vibe.
Right. And you don't want to be friends anymore.
No.

Speaker 2 He keeps

Speaker 29 inviting me and my husband out to go to like EDM dance raves. And we're like 40.

Speaker 2 I'm too old for that.

Speaker 29 I'm in bed.

Speaker 2 40? Yeah.

Speaker 4 You think 31 is old, but.

Speaker 4 By the way, 40, not that old. Jesus.
Okay, but anyway,

Speaker 2 not that old, 40. Not that old.
Not that old. 40 is not that old.
40 is 90s. I didn't say that.

Speaker 29 No, it's just. 40s is the new 20s.

Speaker 5 And honestly, the hottest that get actually, I think, is 50s. Think about it.

Speaker 5 Rachel Weiss, 50s.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 5 Shakira?

Speaker 2 Yes. 50s.
T. Payne.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 T-Pain.

Speaker 2 I actually don't know. Changeless.
We don't know. Shakira is 50.

Speaker 5 Actually, someone should fact-check me on that.

Speaker 2 Here's what I think.

Speaker 2 I think this is a great time to be nice. I just think you don't.
Did you ever see that video going around of this therapist or some kind of a, I don't know, spiritual nothing saying,

Speaker 2 like advise,

Speaker 2 advising people on how to end a friendship and saying, like,

Speaker 2 I've really enjoyed our time together, but our season of friendship is at an end

Speaker 2 like poke me in the eyes before before you tell me that I think I think this is why the kind of like off-ramp of ah just can't make it fucking work like uh not in can't do it this week it's been crazy no one's busy everyone's phone is telling them they're doing six hours of phone time a day nobody's busy everyone's pretending to be busy like 17 people are busy but the rest are not and so you're not busy this person's not busy pretend to be busy everybody gets away with it but i i don't have to go to the dance rave right no absolutely don't no you've you've gone above and beyond by doing i mean how many times have you hung out with this flat mate by the way come on

Speaker 2 what do we mean soho yeah

Speaker 2 it sounds like you're the you're maybe maybe he's somewhere being like this person since the pandemic she's really putting on airs she called it a flat

Speaker 2 she keeps yelling me darling yeah pick me up in a lorry yeah this is a weird yeah we parted ways she said cheerio

Speaker 4 that's up how many times have you hung out with this uh charity case uh

Speaker 28 um

Speaker 29 it's been it used to be a lot yeah i'd say like in the last

Speaker 4 i don't know like i saw them a couple weeks ago and over under five times huh over under five times in what amount of time since you've not been flatties

Speaker 2 oh way way over five times but it's been it's been over a decade you're good now okay i think you do use whatever scapegoat you need but it's

Speaker 2 also would say this.

Speaker 2 Speaking of, I feel like you've put a pejorative on this to make yourself feel better, that he's weird and you're not. You're weird, he's weird.

Speaker 2 Everybody's just growing apart. We're in our different weirdnesses.
You're growing in different directions. You just grew apart.
Like in space,

Speaker 2 time and space are relative. Is he getting weirder?

Speaker 2 Like, is he blue shifting or maybe you're red shifting? You know what I'm saying? Also, if you're asking somebody to go to ED, it's not like he's asking you to go get waffles.

Speaker 2 Right, that's like huge.

Speaker 4 can meet me with a bunch of people who are on Molly.

Speaker 2 There are certain things you can only say no to if you're busy, and there are certain things you can say no to no matter what.

Speaker 2 Sports events, concerts, EDM events, you're allowed to be free and say no. Weddings, birthdays, a coffee, you're not allowed to say.

Speaker 2 If somebody says, hey, you want to get a coffee tomorrow, you'd be like, I'm free, but I don't want to. Not allowed.

Speaker 2 Actually, not allowed to say.

Speaker 2 But if someone says, you want to go to a rave, you can be like, I don't want to. And everyone's like, Cool.

Speaker 4 Counter back and be like, Do you want to come to a chicken funeral?

Speaker 5 I'm hosting

Speaker 2 at Poppy's. All right, we have to leave it there.
Thank you all for your questions, for being honest and nice. Thank you, Poppy and Gareth.
That was very fun. Up next, he knows how it gets made.

Speaker 2 It's Paul Shearer.

Speaker 2 We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 And we're back.

Speaker 2 Please welcome you to the stage. He's here.
He's Sheer. Get used to it.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Paul Sheer. Hey.

Speaker 2 Hi. Thank you for being here.

Speaker 2 Good to see you, too. All right.

Speaker 2 Let's go. Let's do this.
You have a new memoir. I do.
Yeah, it's called Joyful Recollections of Trauma. And it was a New York Times bestseller.

Speaker 2 I have to say that now because I feel like I work so hard on it.

Speaker 2 I got to at least say it every single time I talk about my book. Was it worth excavating your deepest and darkest memories to get on the Times bestseller list? You know, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 I don't view this book as therapy. So it's a reflection of therapy.
So it's like, I wasn't like, I got to sell my soul to get on this list. It was like, it was actually something that I felt.

Speaker 2 like empowered to write. Like I didn't know I was going to write it.
I thought I was going to tell like funny stories that I've been telling on how did this get made.

Speaker 2 And as I started writing those stories, like, well, there's actually something more here. And I've read a lot of books that feel like it's just like a journal from a therapy session.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, I can't be that, but I want to be able to be like honest and tell something and be funny at the same time. And I feel like in that way, I was able to release it into the world and then

Speaker 2 be okay with it. It wasn't like, oh my God, what have I done? You know, I was remembering like my parents are alive.

Speaker 2 I must not say things that their friends will take and then drive into them, which is, you know, like, like, you know, these conscious thoughts. My wife is someone that people know.

Speaker 2 Like I, I have to, there was a, a part of it that was like, I was aware of what I was doing. And I think sometimes I tried to be responsible, responsible memoir.
Interesting. Yeah.
Interesting. What?

Speaker 2 I didn't expect that. Yeah.
Wonder what the wonder what the real story is. Well, the real story is that.
Like, but I mean, like, that's, you got to also keep stuff.

Speaker 2 It's like, I could tell you my dream, but like, is that interesting to everybody? Like, I have to understand. Like, there's like, like, no, it's like, it's interesting to me.

Speaker 2 There are things that are personal to me, but that's not for everybody. Then, because if I give it to everybody, it's not mine anymore.
Do you think

Speaker 2 we wrote a book and it was hard?

Speaker 2 It's hard. It's so hard.
But our book wasn't, I mean, we had little fun stories about politics, but it wasn't deeply personal. It wasn't revelatory about our human spirits.
But we got like notes.

Speaker 2 You get notes from editors and others. How do you get notes? Like, how do you get feedback on a book that's so personal? I think that

Speaker 2 you don't in a weird way. Like, right? Because I think there's an element where people are like, you want to write it? Put it in the book.

Speaker 2 Like, you know, they can't be like, make that ending different. Make that person a killer.
You know, like, they can't change it.

Speaker 2 And really what I did is I wrote the book. They gave me

Speaker 2 not. notes like, oh, we need this.
It's like, oh, maybe we combine these two chapters. And it was really my own sense.

Speaker 2 I spent like two months in the revision mode, to much to their chagrin, of just trying to like get it to what I really wanted it to be. Because I don't think there's anyone there to stop you.

Speaker 2 And I think that's where it gets dangerous. It's like, because it's like, I wrote things when I was angry.
I wrote things that I was like, yeah. And then I'd read it back.
I'm like, do I want it?

Speaker 2 It's forever out there. It's locked in amber.
And I'm telling these stories. And I'm like, how can I walk that line of being truthful, personal, real, and funny, but also

Speaker 2 not in a way like,

Speaker 2 yeah, just the consequence. I understand consequences.
Like, you know, you do it, because I feel like these books are like, the worst actor I ever worked with Nick Nulty, that piece of shit.

Speaker 2 And it's like, and then you see Nick Nulty, like, oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know. It's like, you did.
You had many times. You did the audio book.
You said, that piece of shit.

Speaker 2 You saw the first pass, piece of shit. I'm sure a lawyer said, do you want to call Nick Nulty a piece of shit? Like, yeah.
Like, you know, and you get like empowered. Like, ah,

Speaker 2 It's like, no, but everyone is going to see this. It's like, you know, you know, that, that's, I was aware of that.
I think that was, I always, I'm happy that I was aware of that.

Speaker 2 Do you think that trauma brought you towards comedy or was comedy just something that was helpful to process it?

Speaker 2 I think that trauma is the, uh, is the fire in which we are all forged in a way, right? We all have it. It doesn't make a difference.
It's like what mine is,

Speaker 2 what yours is. It's like, how do we respond to it? How do we get over it?

Speaker 2 And, you know, it's called joyful recollections of trauma, not just recollections of trauma, right? And it was like, because I always look back on my life in this way.

Speaker 2 Like, my grandma told me, never open the door to strangers because there's a rogue butcher out there who kidnaps children, grinds them up into chopped meat, and they did catch them because when one of the moms went to go buy some chopped meat, she was making a patty, and the patty looked up at her and said, Mommy, you know, and I was like, and forever I bought that story, hook line and sinker.

Speaker 2 It makes no sense.

Speaker 2 That is hilarious. I think it's funny and that is traumatic.

Speaker 2 So that's the book, you know, it's like, but like, yeah, so it's like, I'm looking at those things and I'll tell you that story right now and be like, that was a hilarious moment.

Speaker 2 But it also did fuck me up. I was like, I got to lock these doors.

Speaker 2 The butcher, the butcher is out. They're going to make me the chop meat.
There were two important moments when I learned that adults could lie to you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 One was when I saw Billy Crystal doing an interview and he said that City Slickers 2 is even better than the original.

Speaker 2 And then I was like, I like ran, I literally, I like saw it.

Speaker 2 It was like, it was in the time when there was like a movie on HBO until like five minutes or four because they had to fill the time before.

Speaker 2 I literally ran up the stairs and was like, mom, dad, you'll never believe it. Billy Crystal says City Slickers 2 is better.

Speaker 2 It's like the U boy. I love that.
Like, I will tell you this. I don't know if I've ever talked about this.

Speaker 2 When I was a kid, I loved like the idea of meeting a celebrity going and having an interaction with a celebrity felt so foreign to me and there's a book called how to meet celebrities and the book was like never approach a celebrity with um like their career so i wouldn't come up to you and be like oh i i love you know your podcast i love i loved your book because that would you're like oh thanks kid and you'd walk away I'd have to come at you and be like, I find out your interest.

Speaker 2 So they'd always put in the book, like, here's a celebrity, here's their interest. So it's like, okay, you're going to approach Nick Nulty.

Speaker 2 He loves speedboats like hey nick do you see that new speedboat that came out you know and he'd be like oh this guy knows we're buddies now

Speaker 2 and so like that was the way in that's how you would meet these celebrities it was like beyond the picture but the only i remember this and i've been trying to find this book forever the only person in that book they said do not approach billy crystal

Speaker 2 it was the only like they had a meter on each person like friendly not friendly billy crystal was the only one was like do not approach they broke the mold It wasn't like one. It was,

Speaker 2 I never had seen anything like it. And I was shocked.
I was like, this, I love Billy Crystal. You look marvelous.
Why did you know? I couldn't believe, I was, I still don't believe it.

Speaker 2 And I'm a Clippers fan and he's a Clippers fan. And I saw him.
I was on a vacation and he was on a vacation. And I was like, do not approach.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like, you walk up to him and just go, Jews in baseball.

Speaker 2 And he's like, Jews in baseball. Jews baseball.

Speaker 2 The other moment that taught me that adults could lie is my grandmother said something

Speaker 2 to my mother. She was telling a long story.

Speaker 2 And then we were like pulling out of the driveway of my grandparents' house. And my mother just rolled up the window and she just turned to me and my sister and goes, she's lying.
She made that up.

Speaker 2 Well, you know what? I think as I became a parent, I realized you have so much power over your kids. And

Speaker 2 in a wonderful way, like they look up to you and you want to be a good role model for them, but you also can tell them whatever you want.

Speaker 2 It's like, that's why every now and then you'll see a story where it's like, this family taught their kid how to speak Wookiee, and that's the only language that they speak.

Speaker 2 And you're like, oh, God, you know, and I have that power. We all have that power.
They look to us.

Speaker 2 And you got to wield it the right way. And I think some parents can abuse it and not.
And, you know, I forget sometimes that, but it's a great reminder because I'll say, like, oh, I was making a joke.

Speaker 2 I mean, this is going to sound really dark. I was making a joke.
And I was like, yeah, it was, it was you and your other brother and and this guy. And

Speaker 2 my son was like, what do you mean my other brother? I'm like, we don't talk about him. They're like, what do you mean? I was like, we lost him.
And

Speaker 2 it was like,

Speaker 2 and I thought I'm doing a fun bit. And then like 30 seconds past, he's like, dad, are you being serious? And I'm like, oh, no, no, I was just totally joking.
But I was like, oh,

Speaker 2 if I leaned into it, I could be like, yeah, we lost your brother at the zoo.

Speaker 2 And he would forever go like, yeah, I did have a brother that we lost at the zoo.

Speaker 2 You're in Twisters. I am.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's my blockbuster summer. So finally, Hollywood is acknowledged, everything.

Speaker 2 I love being in Twisters. I loved every moment of it.
And it happened in such an interesting way. I was going down to Oklahoma to shoot a Super Bowl commercial.

Speaker 2 I was directing and starring in the Super Bowl commercial. And I was on the plane to Oklahoma on a Monday night and everyone around me has final draft open.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, what the fuck is going on in Oklahoma? Why is everyone have final draft open? We're going to Oklahoma. I was like, weird.

Speaker 2 And I talked to my DP and I'm like, did you see everyone have final draft open? He's like, yeah, I don't know what that was. I was like, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 2 And then the next day I get a phone call. Hey, are you in Oklahoma? And I'm like, yeah.
It's like, my agent called me.

Speaker 2 He's like, well, you were sitting next to the director of Twisters on the airplane. He wants to write you a part in Twisters.
And I was like, yeah, sure, I'll do it.

Speaker 2 And then uh, and I talked to somebody like in Oklahoma. I was like, they want me to be in this Twisters movie.
He's like, oh, it's a Netflix series. I'm like, all right, cool.

Speaker 2 You know, I was like, Twister. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 And then all of a sudden, I see it's like a $150 million movie that they're like, they shut down the Oklahoma City airport for this scene that they wrote for me to do with

Speaker 2 Glenn and Daisy and everybody in the movie. And it was.
It was crazy.

Speaker 2 It was like, again, I didn't think about it. I didn't know.
And then all of a sudden,

Speaker 2 more than anything I've ever done in my life, everyone saw Twisters. Like everyone, to a point that it was like,

Speaker 2 I was like, my phone was blowing up. I was like, oh, this is what it would be like to be like in a Marvel movie.
I've never experienced hundreds of texts. Everyone,

Speaker 2 like old people, like I got a text from an 80-year-old

Speaker 2 friend of my parents. They're like, I went to the movie.
I was like, you did? I didn't even know that you're going to the, like,

Speaker 2 I was surprised that people were out in the cinema. Like, they were like, they were, and and everyone was like, this is great.
And it was the craziest experience. Did you get to kiss Glenn Powell?

Speaker 2 I did. It's caught out of the movie.
Here's the thing that was the best part. I don't want to spoil the movie, but

Speaker 2 tornadoes.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 we're shooting this scene, and I'm kind of, I'm a traffic cop, and I'm getting into it with Glenn. And Glenn has this truck that drills itself into the ground.
And he doesn't follow the rules.

Speaker 2 He's a tornado wrangler. You know,

Speaker 2 his rules are skylaw. Yeah, that's it.
it.

Speaker 2 It's just high pressure, low pressure. He's the only rule that counts.
You know, Mother Nature is the only person that tells him what to do. And he doesn't even listen to her.
And so

Speaker 2 it starts drilling into the thing. And the director comes up to me.
He's like,

Speaker 2 why don't you just say, what the fuck? And I'm like, yeah, yeah. And he's like, oh, do it.
And I'm like, He said, it's like a PG movie? He's like, yeah, but

Speaker 2 you'll be the only fuck in the movie. And I was like, what? Now it got awesome.
I was like, I'm already having so much fun. I'm in Twisters.
Frank Marshall is there.

Speaker 2 I'm like, this is the coolest thing. They're shooting on film.
And then I get to say fuck. And then all of a sudden, you know, I see him go into like the little area where the monitors are.

Speaker 2 And then a big conversation is happening.

Speaker 2 And it feels like people are like, no, no.

Speaker 2 We've gotten through the entire, I'm in the last, literally the last scene of the movie. I think I might be the last spoken line in the movie um and you see a bunch of people like pointing at me going

Speaker 2 and i'm like they don't want me to say fuck and i'm and the director comes back over and he's like

Speaker 2 oh you're gonna say fuck i'm like really he's like yeah you'll say fuck and i was like all right and i and it's like it's this movie is like on one or two takes it's not like we're doing 50 takes a bunch of coverage is like I said fuck.

Speaker 2 And if you watch that movie, it cuts out right before I say fuck.

Speaker 2 I is not, fuck is not in the movie and for good reason i watched it it would be for a movie where people are getting sucked up with this sky to have dual tornadoes fire tornadoes for the guy at the airport at the end to be like what the

Speaker 2 wait wait that that pushed the button it's like and it's almost like you got so far to then hit the button on me it's like so yeah i didn't get to say my fuck and i thought well it would definitely be in the gag reel well it's not in the gag reel because i I think it falls into the same thing.

Speaker 2 It's not a family movie if I'm saying fuck. No, you that's the thing about America.
You can watch a person get sucked up into a fire tornado while screaming. That's just good, wholesome family fun.

Speaker 2 But to take, to swear. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, can't do it. Can't do it.

Speaker 2 And now I wish I was in an earlier scene when I watched somebody get sucked up. I'm going, whoa, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 It would have been great there, too. I'm available to curse in your big blockbuster films.
It was truly, though, it's been like, it's, it's been hilarious.

Speaker 2 And then the other thing that's kind of happened that was dumb was, you know, I was walking the red carpet. I have a very small part in this movie.

Speaker 2 It was, I was thrilled to be like, thrilled to be in it. I like my part.

Speaker 2 I love everybody that I worked with. They were amazing.
You became like a family on set, I heard. Yes.

Speaker 2 So this is the thing. I worked for a couple of hours.
I worked for like three hours on one day. But I'm walking down the red carpet.
No one knows that.

Speaker 2 And And they're like, oh, he's in the movie because I'm on the sheet of paper that everyone has. Like, come over, what was it like? And I'm like, oh, the best.
Everyone's, oh, the camaraderie.

Speaker 2 I heard Glenn Powell is a prankster. I'm like, he's the best.
Oh, he's an attractive guy, too.

Speaker 2 You know, I'm doing all my, I'm doing all my bits because I'm not going to go like, well, technically, I was only there for one day. It's like, they're not going to use it.

Speaker 2 I'm like, everything is great. So at one point, they said,

Speaker 2 what was it like? It was like entertainment tonight or something. They're like, what was it like to be

Speaker 2 a part of

Speaker 2 this Twisters world? And I said, well, it's not my first time, you know, my mom was actually pregnant during the first Twisters,

Speaker 2 and that was me, she that was me, and the director was like, We need to find the kid that was in that pregnant woman's belly and put him in the movie,

Speaker 2 and they did, and that's how they got that's how I got in the movie. So, I'm the only legacy character, I'm the only one.
And

Speaker 2 for some reason, that like took off on TikTok

Speaker 2 now. Twisters came out in 1994,

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 you know, and I thought it was a pretty obvious

Speaker 2 thing.

Speaker 2 So I have done interviews where people are like, and you're the only legacy character. I'm like, and then I don't correct it anymore.
I'm like, yeah, the only legacy character.

Speaker 2 And then I'll have other people like, he's lying. He's lying.
I'm like, yes, of course I'm lying.

Speaker 2 Can I tell you something? Yeah. I have to tell you something right now, which is I saw this reported earnestly that you were actually in the first Twisters because

Speaker 2 there was a woman in the movie that was pregnant. That's your mother.
And I did not interrogate it at all. And I'm realizing now that I simply believed it.

Speaker 2 And I never questioned, like, if I'd thought about it for a second, I'd been like, wait, I was alive when Twisters, I was a, I was a conscious, like,

Speaker 2 teen when Twisters came out. And it's also like, how insane would it be for the director to be like looking like that pregnant woman? Find that, find that child.

Speaker 2 like it's like it's such a it's such a

Speaker 2 prepping for the movie we need the kid that would remember that background actress give me that kid that person would be fired I just thought I just thought oh that's so fun that's so interesting so now I have adopted that I am a legacy character and twister I'm like yeah I've been in both if someone says it if you would have said oh you're in both films I'd be like yeah I did because now I can't correct it anymore it's out there I like how in in gremlins 2 there were like more gremlins, different shaped gremlins.

Speaker 2 And that's the same approach to Twisters. That it's like, we need more tornadoes and we need each tornado to have a little bit of a personality.
Fire Tornado was the best tornado I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 I love the corner. Cool as hell.

Speaker 2 I mean, I saw that movie at the premiere, which was great, but where I really enjoyed it was in 40X. When the seats are moving around, you're getting sprayed with water.

Speaker 2 That I'm not interrogating where that water is coming from, but

Speaker 2 you're getting blown with like a fans and there's lightning effects. 40X, that that movie was so popular that it just came back out in theaters last Friday again in 40x, and they played both twisters.

Speaker 2 You can go back-to-back 40x and twisters. That's cool.

Speaker 2 You can get pill packs and spit on your face.

Speaker 2 You feel like you're there. Yeah, it's a good thing.

Speaker 2 My kids had a love for a movie. They went to that movie.
They loved it. And the best part was...

Speaker 2 I forget that my kids are, again, we're talking about young and impressionable kids.

Speaker 2 One of the final scenes of the movie, Daisy Edgar Jones, she's about to launch her big plan. And I look over at my son.
He's like this.

Speaker 2 Please let it work. Please let it work.
Please let it work. I was like, wow.

Speaker 2 That is the magic of movies. I was like, this is the best experience I ever had.

Speaker 2 There was a lot of doubt in his mind that this plan, because it's a crazy plan. It's a crazy plan.
It's a crazy plan. He fucking pulled it off.

Speaker 2 But to watch him just like, please, please, please, please, please.

Speaker 2 Tornadoes are a great villain, you know? I love

Speaker 2 nature because they don't care. They don't care.
That's the thing about them.

Speaker 2 They just don't care.

Speaker 2 They don't care. They're sociopaths.
They're the sociopaths of nature, the tornadoes. Well, are they or are they just living their life? And we're like, you know, we're just here.

Speaker 2 It's like that asteroid in Armageddon. We love something that has no personality coming right at us.

Speaker 2 I thought that asteroid was a little bitch.

Speaker 2 The ones in Deep Impact.

Speaker 2 The ones in Deep Impact were kind of pretentious. If you had to choose Dances with Wolves or Farrest Gump.
The worst. That's the battle of the worst.
I know. That's why it's fun.

Speaker 2 I guess if I had to choose between them. You're just going to watch.
You have to watch one every day for a year. Okay, well,

Speaker 2 it's going to be Farrest Gump. Because at least I could just listen, focus one day on the music, and the music is not bad.

Speaker 2 I can look at Marvel to CCGI technology, learn a little bit about our history,

Speaker 2 you know, and really make a good thesis about Jenny and her AIDS, where she get it from, why.

Speaker 2 Write some fan fiction on that.

Speaker 2 Dances with Wolves is a rough rewatch. It's tough.

Speaker 2 I'm over Kevin Costner.

Speaker 2 And I feel like

Speaker 2 the Horizon, it's like,

Speaker 2 you know, he lost all of his money on it. Yeah.
Don't make a fucking six-hour movie. Like anyone who would have been like, hey,

Speaker 2 should I spend $45 million on my own movie on a six-hour film? The answer would be no.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 But he did it. I don't feel bad for that.
Like, if he said, oh, I spent $45 million on a 90-minute movie, I'm like, oh, that sucks.

Speaker 2 I appreciate it. But a six-hour movie is egregious.
Like, that's like, you should lose $45 million. Right.
Like, you should not, you should be banned from, yeah, that's a bad idea.

Speaker 2 Aaron Sorkin has told this probably as so I can terror it here, but when I was working on the newsroom, he tells the story about how he basically went into a hotel room, did a bunch of drugs, and came out with like a several hundred-page script.

Speaker 2 And Rob Reiner took this loaf of script and said, this hundred pages, this love story, I'm going to make a movie out of that. Wow.

Speaker 2 And Aaron Sorkin, who uses the whole Buffalo, said, well, I'm going to use the rest to make the West Wing,

Speaker 2 which is interesting. So American President and then West Wing were from the same kind of drug-fueled, very long writing session.

Speaker 2 But the point being is Kevin Conster needs somebody to come in and say, six hours?

Speaker 2 No, sir. No, sir.
Yeah. You need actors, need somebody in their life who's like, I don't give a fuck that you were in that movie about baseball.

Speaker 2 I just watched it last night. Bull Durham.
I've never seen it. It's a lot about fucking, less about baseball.
And he's also in Field of Dreams, right? That's another, he's in a lot of baseball movies.

Speaker 2 The other one, the other ones where he's a pitcher on the mound,

Speaker 2 one day in baseball. Nope.
One day in baseball. For the love of the game.

Speaker 2 All right, so he's in a lot of

Speaker 2 baseball. Like, he's like our representative of man and sport.
Golf movie, draft day.

Speaker 2 You know, he's like,

Speaker 2 and there's something about him where I'm like,

Speaker 2 I watched Bull Durham. I'm like, what the fuck is this movie about? It's like Susan Sarandon's fucking Tim Robbins, and to make him a better baseball player.

Speaker 2 Okay, cool.

Speaker 2 And that's really the premise of the, that's the plot. And then, like, Bull Durham, who's not a character, by the way.
I thought Kevin Kevin Coster's name was Bull Durham. It's not.
It's not.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he also is helping Tim Robbins be better at baseball. And then when Tim Robbins leaves town, he starts fucking Susan Seran at the end of the movie.
Yeah. I'm like, what was this movie?

Speaker 2 What did I just watch? I enjoyed the hell out of it. And I think that that's what I miss is like that kind of movie star energy where I'm like, none of this works as a film, but I'm just watching it.

Speaker 2 You're a watching time. You had a great time.
Yeah, sometimes I see some of those masculine Kevin Costner movies. He's like, shut up and kiss a boy.
All right.

Speaker 2 But you would like to see him kiss a guy.

Speaker 2 I just think it's like it's enough already we get it you got a hat on you're in yellowstone you're such a real man kiss a boy let's see how much of a man you really are

Speaker 2 thank you Paul

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Speaker 2 To close out our show,

Speaker 2 it's time for a game we're calling I Want My 90s Thing.

Speaker 2 I want my 90s thing.

Speaker 2 Really good. Really good.

Speaker 2 Really good. That was really good, Kennedy.
Really good.

Speaker 2 I liked how slow it was.

Speaker 4 How did you get Dire Straits to do that?

Speaker 2 That is so.

Speaker 2 We'll spin the wheel. And when it lands on us, we'll share one thing from the 90s that we'd like to bring back

Speaker 2 from that glorious decade. Just something from the 90s you want to bring back.
Let's go to the wheel.

Speaker 2 Oh my God. Toppy, what's something from the 90s you'd like to bring back?

Speaker 5 Okay, honestly, honestly, I thought about this before this show and I'm triggering myself with my own answer because the thing I was going to say is like Tamagotchis and Furbies, but then they would all die.

Speaker 2 That's because they don't believe in the vaccine, right?

Speaker 5 No, it's because I kill

Speaker 2 all of the

Speaker 2 pets I have.

Speaker 5 I have had no dogs die, knock on anyone get wood.

Speaker 5 But I've had it over, I don't know what the math is, four out of seven chickens die, so that's not good. Two of them were not on me.

Speaker 2 I think seven out of seven chickens counts as one chicken.

Speaker 2 Right. Thank you.
No, I think that's

Speaker 2 and that. And I've always said that.

Speaker 2 I also just think it's worth keeping in mind that over time, 100% of dogs die.

Speaker 2 That's true. You know? Whoa.
Something to think about. Thank God that's not true for humans.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Anyway,

Speaker 2 Not if we give Elon what he's asking for, which is control of the government. All right.

Speaker 2 Let's spin. I think you're right about the Tamagotchis.
I think we should bring them back. Let's spin it again.
I love them. They were great.
They were great.

Speaker 2 They taught kids responsibility and about batteries.

Speaker 4 Two important things.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 Gareth, what do you got? My cheek looks swollen in that picture. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Puppy. Yeah, I've lived a life.

Speaker 5 Wow, the difference a hat makes.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, I like that.

Speaker 2 That's all it is. Gareth,

Speaker 2 one time we spun the wheel and it landed on me, and the other guest said, ugh, that's such a bad picture of me. And I was like, that's not a picture of you.
That's a fucking picture of me.

Speaker 2 Who was it? That's not important.

Speaker 2 That's tough.

Speaker 2 It's actually a good picture of me. Yeah,

Speaker 2 you know.

Speaker 4 I missed the

Speaker 2 ab roller.

Speaker 4 Remember the ab roller with the connective bar? That seemed like the peak of technology for abs for a long time.

Speaker 4 And I really, when I got it, when I was probably in like ninth grade or something, I was like, well, this summer is going to be fucking off the chain.

Speaker 4 Because I was in my room, and then I was like, I'm still a chubby child.

Speaker 2 What's going on here?

Speaker 4 I thought the ab roller was going to chip. The Y had them.
It was awesome. Awesome.

Speaker 2 The 90s was a great era for if you just use this strange-shaped device for three to five minutes a week, you're gonna be so skinny.

Speaker 2 That was the Suzanne Summers had the Thigh Master, Thigh Master, delicious,

Speaker 2 George Foreman Grill.

Speaker 2 I mean, not the same, but kind of the same.

Speaker 4 What about the Ron Popil food dehydrator?

Speaker 2 There you go. That's what it is.
The fat just rolls off of it.

Speaker 2 And then there were so many different ways that you could make your legs go like this. Yeah.
Like kind of swing your legs back and forth, but not exercise, you know? Yeah. And that was exciting.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 it was really like when we were like, anyone can be in shape. And it was a lie.
But it was before we knew it. It was like the Instagram ads today, I still fall for them.

Speaker 4 But back then, I would watch like a 45-minute thing and be like, all right, I like what this guy's pitching.

Speaker 2 I mean, I was never overweight as a child. All right,

Speaker 2 but I.

Speaker 2 Congratulations, Paul. But I was interested in deal a meal, the Richard Simmons card game.
That was like,

Speaker 2 you would have a card game and you deal a meal.

Speaker 4 I had my vegetables.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and you're folder.

Speaker 2 Where's that Nerf gun?

Speaker 2 It was a simple time when you could go on a diet by eating only pasta. And like, that was a beautiful era when they were like, get as many fucking potatoes in your system as you can to be healthy.

Speaker 2 And we'll never go back to that. We'll never guilt.
That's over.

Speaker 5 That was also Jared the Subway guy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Right? Yeah. Whatever happened to that guy? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Is he going to be? Did he he stop acting?

Speaker 2 No, no, he yeah, he just went off to that.

Speaker 4 Wish him the best.

Speaker 2 Yeah, whoever.

Speaker 5 I bet he listens.

Speaker 2 No, I wonder if they have radio where he is.

Speaker 2 Is this radio? Let's meet it again.

Speaker 2 I got a feeling.

Speaker 2 Hey!

Speaker 2 You know what? I was really deliberating between two things, and I'm going to go with my less popular thought, which is the Sega Dreamcast had a remote control fishing line.

Speaker 2 And when I was a kid, that was the most fun I could possibly have. It was like, just throw out a fishing line.
You were just fishing video game. That was like the Dreamcast was the shit.
Crazy taxi.

Speaker 2 I know I could get all this stuff, but there was a simplicity to it. Not VR, just a simple game.
And

Speaker 2 I'm a big Sega Dreamcast guy. I love the Sega Dreamcast.
Toy Commander. There you go.
Fucking Toy Commander. God damn it.
That was fun.

Speaker 2 Crazy taxi friends is still not even available to get anywhere. It's like it's

Speaker 2 ableist.

Speaker 4 Someone had to say it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Inappropriate taxi, maybe. Yes.

Speaker 5 But I had like a lime green

Speaker 2 Game Boy. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 And I only had one game, which is Pokemon Blue.

Speaker 2 See, that's fun.

Speaker 2 I had a a friend who only had Dr. Mario, which was like,

Speaker 2 of all the games, Dr. Mario just have Tetris.
Dr. Mario was fucked that game.
Every aspect of that game was insecure, sad. Yes.
That game had a sadness to it. It was, it really, it was.

Speaker 2 The music was sad.

Speaker 2 It's about pills.

Speaker 2 It's like, what if Tetris were about pills?

Speaker 2 It's such, it's like, it's such a terrible idea that they're like, they, they raced into it.

Speaker 2 No one thought that through because pills in a bottle, a game for kids, like Tetris.

Speaker 2 Oh, man. Oh, man.
We're doing Mario.

Speaker 4 Finally. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a me, a pharma.

Speaker 2 It's a pharma, Mario.

Speaker 2 And every time we do this, we're one day closer to when you're not allowed to do this. Yeah.
All right. Let's spin it again.
Enjoy it.

Speaker 2 Hey.

Speaker 2 It's landed on me.

Speaker 2 I have two things that I would like to be nostalgic for from the 90s. One is just colors, using them all.
Just, we're going to use all the colors, and that's totally cool and allowed.

Speaker 2 The cars could be in all the different colors.

Speaker 2 What's the baseball team from San Diego called? Padres.

Speaker 2 They rolled out a new uniform. Did you see this? They have a new uniform?

Speaker 5 Definitely not. And

Speaker 2 it's amazing that I know about this. And the first thing at time I heard about it, it was somebody somebody saying, these are the ugliest uniforms in baseball history.

Speaker 2 And I was like, I want to see the ugliest uniforms in baseball history. They fucking rule.
They are colorful. Has anyone seen them?

Speaker 2 You don't agree with me.

Speaker 2 You don't like them because I can tell by your shirt that you are a straight man.

Speaker 2 And I can also tell, what color are you wearing? Oh, blue and white striped top and blue shorts. You have a blue sweatshirt,

Speaker 2 a blue fucking watch. This is the point, but you're dressed beautifully.
This is the point I wanted to make.

Speaker 2 There's a whole rainbow of colors, and no one's going to think you know your way around somebody else's dick if you wear a pink shirt. It'll be okay, sir.
Thank you for coming.

Speaker 2 But this is what happened. Like, there's every every like there's only there's only two kinds of colors now for straight men, which is like navy and tactical.
And like, that's fucking ridiculous.

Speaker 2 And like, I wear the pink shirt a lot, and it gets a very mixed reaction. It gets a bit like nice pink shirt.
I'm like, okay.

Speaker 2 And then some people are like, I really like you in that pink shirt. I'm like,

Speaker 2 whenever someone says, oh, that's interesting, the pink shirt, it's like, you don't like it. If you're calling it out, you don't like it, I feel it.
I agree with that.

Speaker 2 But I just think like the narrowing of this, the range of colors, like all, like too much beige in the fucking world, too, like, too, like,

Speaker 2 you go into a West Helm because you want to buy sheets. All the colors are gray.

Speaker 2 That's why I've adopted an Adam Stanley lifestyle. Like, during

Speaker 2 the jersey,

Speaker 2 it's fucking cool as hell.

Speaker 2 And maybe you should open your mind for a goddamn second.

Speaker 2 There's other colors. It's okay.
Just take a, I'm not saying you have to like it, but I'm saying give it one second to go into your mind.

Speaker 2 In the same way that when Paul, when I see on the internet that Paul is appearing in Twisters because he was in the original Twisters as a fetus. And I didn't question that at all.

Speaker 2 That same failure to actually interrogate it, you're reacting negatively to a jersey because it's not what you expected.

Speaker 2 And I'm just saying, give it a goddamn second before you jump on the train and say, not navy, not black, not gray, hate it. Every car is gray and black and navy now.
It's enough. Colors from the 90s.

Speaker 2 I also think we should have romantic comedies again, and that's all I wanted to say about it. Oh, I love a romantic comedy.
All right.

Speaker 2 I like your outfit.

Speaker 2 She doesn't speak for all of us, sir.

Speaker 2 I was going to say, in defenses, gentlemen, it looks like you're wearing a little, like, like I was, when I looked at you very quickly, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 It looks like you're having a little bit of a golf look here.

Speaker 2 The golf, I feel like, brings back colors. Most people, when you look at people playing golf, they're wearing bright colors.
They're embracing it.

Speaker 2 It's one of the only sports that I think really does embrace a color scheme.

Speaker 4 So, you could do it, sir.

Speaker 2 And, sir, and I listen, I'm sorry to pile on, but this is raising another important point, which is: hey, just because you golf at some point during your day doesn't mean you have to treat the whole fucking world like it's the back nine.

Speaker 2 It's the only sport where you just be like, nope, I wear golf clothes 25.

Speaker 2 Like, basketball players don't do that, pickleball people don't do that, but the golf people are like, no, no, no, I can wear this to a restaurant.

Speaker 2 It's always dressy God, because it's a collared shirt. It's a collared trick that you know.
Just because I listen, listen, listen. These fucking, these performance fabrics, you're not fooling anybody.

Speaker 2 We can all see that it's a fucking performance fabric. We know you're comfortable.
We're happy for you. Put on a fucking night shirt.

Speaker 4 John, may I point out that he's sitting next to a gentleman who's got a shoulder bag with a pink strap and a mullet, so maybe he's just trying to balance the evening out a little bit.

Speaker 2 And that's a beautiful point about diversity. We come back lent on a high note.

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Speaker 33 This is Lily in Manchester, New Hampshire. And my high note this week is I am running for state rep for the first time

Speaker 33 here in Manchester. And I was out talking to voters today.
And I had a really great conversation with one woman,

Speaker 33 you know, about housing and

Speaker 33 a lot of housing. The housing market sucks here.

Speaker 33 And at the end of it, she was like, Well, you've got my vote. And just hearing that from someone who

Speaker 33 has never met me, doesn't know one, not family, doesn't know any of my family, you know, to have the confidence to say that they'll vote for me really just

Speaker 2 hit home.

Speaker 33 Like, I can do this.

Speaker 33 So,

Speaker 33 yeah, that's really exciting. Thanks so much.
Bye.

Speaker 34 Hey, love it. My high note is that after making my off-Broadway debut this summer, this week, I got to record my first original cast album of a new musical.

Speaker 34 Something I

Speaker 2 never actually thought I'd get to do because I've been just doing regular plays for 15 years.

Speaker 34 And now I'm doing musicals.

Speaker 2 uh, and it's really cool.

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