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What's up, Los Angeles?

Happy Pride, everybody.

Tonight is our annual Pride Show,

And we have a stack lineup of gays, days, and lesbias.

Darby Lynn Cartwright and Alexis Bevels are here.

Kleia Duvall, Adam Ripon, and Joel Kim Booster are here.

Brennan Scannell and Sabrina Wu are here.

The straight woman who sued because a gay woman took her job and just won at the Supreme Court is here.

Maybe she had a case.

It was like 9-0.

It's like, oh,

let's check her priors.

Maybe some lesbians got her.

But first, let's get into it.

What a week.

The unholy alliance between the world's

richest man and the world's least person fell apart on Thursday.

Just last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump parted amicably in an event at the White House.

Trump even gave Elon a golden key.

I have given it to some, but it goes to very special people, and I thought

I'd give it to Elon as a presentation from our country.

Thank you, Elon.

But alas, the Key Party couldn't last.

On Tuesday, Elon posted this tweet.

He said, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

Shame on those who voted for it.

You know you did wrong.

You know it.

Pork-filled abomination.

Are we talking about a Republican spending bill or am I self-flagellating inner monologue after a trip to Din Tai Fun?

In response, the White House was uncharacteristically restrained.

Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill.

It doesn't change the president's opinion.

This is one big, beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it.

And for a short while, Trump himself didn't take the bait either, which is honestly alarming.

Like if you drop a piece of hamburger on the floor and your dog doesn't go for it, time to take that little guy to the vet.

Something's not right.

Trump finally shared his reaction at the White House when he was in a meeting with Germany's new chancellor on Thursday.

Well, look, you know, I've always liked Elon, and so I was very surprised.

You saw the words he had for me, the words of, and he hasn't said anything about me that's bad.

I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill, because the bill is incredible.

But I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people.

He knew everything about it.

He had no problem with it.

Look at Trump trying to keep it amicable, feeling it out to see if they can keep sharing an HBO Max account.

But then Elon said Trump lied when he claimed Musk knew the contents of the one big bad bill.

Said Elon, false.

This was never shown to me, even once, and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it.

And if it was shown to me, he went on to say, I definitely remember, Musk added, while aggressively shoveling pills into his mouth the same way Tom Cruise eats popcorn.

Crazy way to eat popcorn.

He's so intense about everything.

But you could tell that this restraint is not Trump's natural mode.

Like when people have a ferret as a pet, sure, it's trying to be sweet and calm, but it would rather be eating that baby's eyes.

The president went on to say this.

Remember, he was here for a long time.

You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the oval desk.

And even with the black eye, I said, do you want a little makeup?

We'll get you a little makeup.

But he said, no, I don't think so, which is interesting.

Are you sure, Elon?

We have all this stuff left over from the Biden administration right here.

Concealer, wigs, tape, peanut butter for that thing where you put it in a horse's mouth and it talks like Mr.

Ed, cloning machine.

Trump continued.

I'll tell you,

he's not the first.

People leave my administration

and they love us.

And then at some point they miss it so badly.

And some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile.

I don't know what it is.

It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it.

I think Trump should count himself lucky.

He managed to get out of this relationship without bearing any of Elon's children.

The president also pinpointed why he thinks Elon turned on the bill.

But I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people.

He knew everything about it.

He had no problem with it.

All of a sudden, he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mentape.

Once this dust is all settled, what are the odds I can get a Tesla again?

My current car is horrible.

It's not the car's fault.

The interface on the Tesla was good.

A lot of rattling.

In response to Trump's comments, Musk tweeted, whatever, keep the EV solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil and gas subsidies are touched.

Very unfair.

But ditch the mountain of disgusting pork in the bill.

Hey, keep the good name of Disgusting Pork Mountain out of your mouth.

I've met both of my future husbands there.

Speaking of which, see you all at Disgusting Pork Mountain for our Stop the Squeal rally after the show.

A $10 donation gets you two loose pierogies and trichinosis.

But then, but then,

I'm sorry, I can't believe I have to.

It's so sad.

It got personal.

I hate it.

You hate to see this.

Musk said, Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would have control of the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.

Elon is such a fucking credit whore.

You're not even going to mention how much Joe Biden helped.

In response,

what?

Fucking face it.

Face what we did.

Face what he did.

Sorry, someone's like, I didn't do it.

In response to a Laura Loomer post, wondering what Republican politicians would do now, Elon wrote, oh, and some food for thought as they ponder this question.

Trump has 3.5 years as president, but I'll be around for 40 plus.

Yeah, ew.

Musk then said he's trying to invent a new kind of ketamine that will help you live forever instead of making you incontinent before you drown in the bathtub.

Sorry.

Sorry to say that.

Trump came back swinging on True Social.

By the way, how funny is it?

They're both on their little platforms, you know?

Kind of like, this is how I would fight him if he were here.

This is how I would fight him if he were over here.

On True Social, Trump wrote, the easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon Musk's government subsidies and contracts.

I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it, which is partly why, in the midst of all this, Tesla's stock plummeted again.

Imagine, imagine you're, yeah, you're great.

How did it come to the point where we're just rooting for this pathbreaking electric car company to fucking fail?

Sucks.

It's like, stop worrying about them.

What do we want?

Fuck, fucked, fucked.

Of all the sloppy breakups I knew we were gonna have this pride, this one makes me the absolute happiest.

Road Trump, Elon was wearing thin.

I asked him to leave.

I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted, that he knew for months I was gonna do, and he just went crazy.

By the way, though, it is like such a fucking red flag when men call their exes crazy.

It's like, oh, she's crazy.

She went crazy.

Any involvement you had in that?

You loved her, then she went crazy?

Just happened?

The fucking moon thing?

At this point, Elon went nuclear.

He said Trump should be impeached and quote, time to drop the really big bomb.

Real Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.

That is the real reason they have not been made public.

Which is devastating.

We here at Love It or Leave it prepared a little in memoriam for Trump in response.

That's obvious music we're allowed to use.

We're a podcast.

You want to pay for it?

You fucking pay for it.

But just so we're clear here, Elon's position is, one, Donald Trump was somehow involved in a global pedophilia ring.

And two, he, Elon, is the sole reason that Donald Trump got elected president of the United States.

A powerful message.

And sure, we are all having fun, but imagine how much more fun this would be if we lived in a functioning democracy where two billionaire narcissists crashing out.

Did it impact rural hospital closures and meal programs for needy kids?

Their drama shouldn't be this important.

Musk, who believes empathy is Western civilization's weakness, personally oversaw the dismantling of USAID, which has, by some estimates, already led to the deaths of 300,000 people, mostly children.

And it is impossible to measure the cost of research programs shut down, experiments never run, drugs never tested.

Sure, Elon is testing a lot of drugs.

But there's no fucking control group, so what are we doing here?

Many on social media joked about this, ending in Elon Musk's deportation.

And then like a prayer said over a mound of clay, the joke became all too real when former Trump advisor and guy who took a shirt off a chair by the bed and sniffed it before putting it on, Steve Bannon,

said that he was advising Trump to cancel all of Musk's contracts and told reporters they should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien and he should be deported from the country immediately.

Don't, what the fuck?

Shame on you.

Shame on you applauding that in the dark.

First they came for Elon, but I did not speak up.

Deal with it.

Deal with it.

He's a citizen.

Bannon is the kind of friend you want to have in a breakup.

He was never good enough for you, and anything you want to do to him is justified.

You can set his house on fire.

You should set his house on fire.

Bannon also called on Trump to investigate Musk's drug use and his reported effort to get in a classified briefing on China from the Pentagon and said that Musk's security clearance should be suspended in the meantime.

For my friends, everything.

For my enemies, the law.

You know that Roy Oberson song?

It's really good.

Fox didn't really know how to cover this, but we did get this lovely moment.

Sometimes when you're angry, you say things you don't mean.

Brig knocked my hair last week, and I said he's on the Epstein list.

Yeah, you did.

Sometimes guys fight.

Guys sometimes will punch you in the face, and the next night you're having a beer.

Sleep with your girlfriend and you patch things up.

Really?

Not your wife, your girlfriend.

No one slept with my girlfriend.

Let's put it that way.

Oh, my word.

What did the let's put it that way mean?

No one's up with my girlfriend.

Let's put it that way.

What are you talking about?

10 out of 10.

No notes.

The whole kerfuffle was set off by Musk's opposition to Trump's spending bill that cuts taxes for the rich, increases the debt by trillions of dollars, and costs as many as 16 million people their health care.

This is, of course, unpopular and indefensible.

But during a contentious town hall last Friday, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst absolutely nailed her response to a woman who shouted in reference to Trump's proposed Medicaid cuts that people will die.

People are not dying.

Well, we all are going to die.

Good to lock in the 2026 campaign slogan, nice and early.

Now, after her comments sparked outrage, Ernst did the seemingly impossible and managed to make it worse with a sarcastic apology video that she filmed, where?

In a cemetery.

And I

made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes,

we are all going to perish from this earth.

So I apologize.

And I'm really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well.

It's nice of her to keep digging in the place where the holes are at least useful.

But Joni wasn't the only Republican struggling to defend the We're All Gonna Die Act of 2025.

Georgia Congresswoman and person who does not wipe down the machine after, Marjorie Taylor Greene,

said she regretted voting for the bill and admitted that she didn't actually read it.

She objected to a revision slipped into the bill that would ban state regulation for AI for a decade.

Though I'm not sure what Marjorie's worried about, AI will never be able to replace jobs like scarecrow that got struck by lightning and started having doubts about the Holocaust.

Please, these gays, they're trying to murder me.

And you know what that sound means?

It's time for gay news.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, gay news.

In Montana, the Missoula City City Council skirted a state ban on pride flags in government buildings by adopting the pride flag as the official city flag.

Great move.

Not to be outdone, San Francisco proposed replacing its official flag, a sea lion shooting up on a streetcar,

with an even gayer pride flag, which officials are hoping to accomplish by 2032 once the first environmental impact statement is complete.

Bada, ba, bada, gay news.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Navy to remove Harvey Milk's name from a vessel celebrating the late gay rights icon.

In Milk's honor, however, the ship will remain full of seamen.

Explained Hegseth, there's no good reason for the Navy to honor Harvey Milk this way, who I assume is the inventor of milk.

Pete, you can rename the ships, you can throw out the books at the Naval Academy, but you will never stop the Navy from being gay.

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in this country and had served in the Navy until he was forced to resign when he was outed.

Interesting fact, the reason Harvey Milk is said to be the first gay man elected to public office is because a few years before in Michigan, Kathy Kozachenko was elected to the Ann Arbor City Council, and another lesbian was elected to the Massachusetts legislature a year later.

But these path-breaking dykes are less well known than Harvey Milk because PR is all gay guys and straight women, lesbians.

Step away from the lathe and write a press release for your girl, Kathy.

Let's get her a ship.

Bada, ba-ba-da-da-gay news.

A museum in Amsterdam exhibited a 200-year-old condom decorated with an erotic scene of three clergymen and a nun, which curators say was likely a luxury brothel souvenir.

Said Joe Biden, oh, there it is.

And that's gay news.

In Grey News, Grey Anatomy star

Ellen Pompeo said that the TSA recently called in a bomb squad when she tried to go through security with sunflower seeds from Erewhon.

One TSA agent reportedly said to Pompeo, you paid how much?

That's got to be a crime.

Pompeo told Travel and Leisure, they literally held me for an hour and they brought the bomb squad in.

Imagine, you're a TSA agent.

Ellen Pompeo's bag has set off the bomb detector.

You're pretty sure she doesn't have a bomb.

She's Ellen Pompeo.

But then, what if she does?

What if the 20th season of Grey's Anatomy finally pushed her over the edge?

Ellen Pompeo blows up a passenger plane, and you're the agent who let her board because she was Ellen Pompeo from Grey's Anatomy.

You can't take that kind of a risk.

In other Grey News, an elephant

broke into a store in Thailand and helped itself to several bags of sweet rice crackers, bananas, and a sandwich.

Don't love that I ate more than a starving elephant for lunch, but hey, at least I had pants on when I did it.

In B news, 250 million bees escaped after a semi-truck overturned in Washington state.

According to B experts, that's a quarter of a billion.

In an unrelated story, this summer's hottest fashion accessory is a big hat with a mesh veil.

If you want to help out the company that suffered this loss, they have started a GoFundMe.

And that's B News.

Coming up, Darby Lynn Cartwright and Alexis Bevel share their very homosexual opinions.

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A very wise drag queen once asked, if you don't love yourself, how the hell are you going to love somebody else?

My question is, if you don't hate yourself, how the hell are you going to hate somebody else?

Here to help us figure it out, it's tonight's judges, the Waldorf and Stadler of Drag, Darby Lynn Cartwright, and Alexis Bevels.

Hi,

thank you for being here.

It's so lovely to have you.

Please join us at the desk.

Come on.

Oh, wow.

Thank you both for being here.

Thanks for having us.

Do you do a lot of judging on your show together?

Yes, All the time.

But like kindly.

Like I've never called someone ugly, although I have.

And I.

It's usually me.

But I didn't mean to.

It just came out.

It was when like the truth came out.

And it's like, how are you going to stop that?

You know?

But she doesn't talk to me anymore.

What are we judging tonight?

How judgy do we have to be?

You can be as judgy as you want to be.

Basically, I would like, first of all, let's start with this.

Judge the monologue.

Absolutely.

We can do that.

We absolutely, like, it was so good

that

we definitely were listening to it back there.

Yeah.

What were some of your favorite parts?

Whoa, when you beginning.

I love it.

Get in the beginning.

The middle was

good.

The middle was about 18 minutes.

The middle was about 18 minutes.

I liked that.

And when you also, I loved your outfit.

Oh,

thanks for saying that.

Thanks for saying that.

There's a lot of music in your monologues.

Are you a musical artist?

Yeah.

I'm a musical artist.

Yeah, there's a lot of clips too, but I didn't notice any familiar faces on any of the clips.

Like any familiar faces.

Like, yeah, oh, I see, because it wasn't about you, is what you're saying.

Right.

So that's why we didn't.

So lost your focus, lost your attention.

Yeah, I'm so sorry.

Well, that's and I and I honestly respect that.

But before, and so let's do some practice judging.

Okay, okay, okay.

To get us ready for the rest of the show

here in your courtroom in a segment we're calling You're Under Oath, You're Under I.

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okay please pass judgment on targets pride neutrals oh

so this is

so this is part of target's pride collection uh it's uh sort of a kind of um oatmeal color if you look closely it says out in proud in very small letters

But one might argue that in this case, the medium is the message.

Yeah.

Yeah, listen, you know, we don't do target anymore unfortunately um but when we used to go to target i only went for their pride collection and um i have to say this collection looks like it's beige for buy

i give it a four out of ten if that wasn't clear i hate it

I have bought and returned so many of the Target Pride Collection items over the year,

years.

Why'd you, wait, why?

Because they weren't cute.

Then why'd you buy them to start?

Well, I think they're cute in the store, and then I take them home and I try them on, and they're not cute anymore.

You don't love yourself.

That's true.

I didn't when I was still going to Target, but now I'm on anti-anxiety medication, Selexa, 20 milligrams a day.

Wow.

And I love my, thank you so much.

And I love myself a little bit more.

So I'm going to say no thanks to that.

And then minus two.

That was good.

Negative two.

Negative two.

I saw a guy once.

I I don't know if this is the show for it, but I saw a guy jerking off in a Target once

by the athletic wear.

Well, he's probably working up that.

You want a wicking fabric.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

You want to what?

You want to wicking fabric.

You're right.

For sure.

Yeah.

Don't say come.

Don't say come on this podcast.

Girlfriends.

Oh.

Yeah.

Depressed.

That's the same Selexa bitch.

I recognize you.

Are you mad at us?

Not at even the littlest.

I'm very much enjoying this.

Okay, good.

I feel good about it.

You feel good about it?

Yeah.

I felt good about it until Alexa now checked out if I'm mad.

I don't take Lexa Pro.

She's on Prozac.

I'm on Selexa.

Oh, sorry.

Because it sounds like my name, Alexa.

Selexa.

Oh, oh.

I'm on Prozac.

Yeah.

And thank you.

And Adderall.

And she can't come anymore, so she doesn't need the moisture wicking.

It's fine.

True.

But I'm on Truvada just in case.

Great.

Great.

Thank you.

Happy Pride.

Next up, we have Ash and Chess's My Other They is a Them bumper sticker.

Oh!

Oh, wait.

The 2023 Pride Collection was removed from some targets due to threats.

Ash and Chess have apparently quadrupled down on their queerness with their bumper sticker that reads, My Other They is a Them.

I like it because I,

what does it mean?

my other they is a them are you asking what the bumper sticker means or what non-binary means no I know what non-binary means I just found out and I love it

all for it I love plurals you know um what do you say Alexis um I say minus one because of the font

but yeah it's a tough font but I like the message I feel like it's pro poly polyamory

oh that's an interesting interpretation wow this is a beautiful rich text.

Wow.

Because you're saying my other they is a them.

It's like my other they is in my other half is multiple people.

Yeah.

Is that what it means to me?

Maybe.

Did anybody, I just read it as, I think the simplest down-the-middle interpretation is I'm a they and I'm with the they.

Basically, my other they is a them.

Is that

what I, how I read it?

Oh, that you know who asked.

That makes more sense.

Why are we asking?

Let people live their lives.

First of all, you're right.

I love a funny bumper sticker, The like, don't honk at me or I'll cry.

I love that shit.

Yeah, but I don't want anyone to talk to me ever.

And if you put a bumper sticker on your car, guess what's gonna happen?

That depressed Alexa girl is gonna be like, I love it.

You are.

See, she's already given feedback.

So I would say no on this bumper sticker, but yes, on the sentiment.

Okay, non-binary pride.

Next up, we have the lesbian target birds and their U-Haul.

Oh,

I, yeah.

What do we think?

I've heard about these.

Okay, yeah.

Now, I also recently heard about lesbians, and so I know.

No, okay, I'll tell you this: there's a lesbian in Costa Rica named Paola who does all of her social media.

Hi, Paula.

She's the sweetest, but she's also young.

So I asked her if things are offensive.

And I'll say, I thought the U-Haul thing may be a little like stereotypical offensive, but she responded, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

And was that in Spanish or English?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I give it a five.

When I moved here from Chicago three years ago,

I drove with a friend, we're no longer speaking,

in a U-Haul.

And it was beautiful.

The mountains of Colorado, the desert.

Alexis, Alexis, there's other guests.

Okay, I said no.

And I said minus three because there's three items on the screen.

Actually, I'm mad at Target because I also loved going there and walking around for hours and spending money I didn't have and then asking her for money so I could have money.

Yeah.

Paola, who does our social media, makes more than I do.

She does.

She does.

So I do like those birds.

I like them too.

But never never enough to buy one.

I just like that they're there.

What happened between Chicago and California that caused you to have such a falling out, or was it when you got here?

It was when I got here, but I will tell you that there was some kind of miscommunication with a truck driver.

And we passed him and he got mad at that.

And so he came up and he threw quarters at us.

Wow.

It was very scary.

And did you do the dance?

Or was it you just, it was, oh, it wasn't like for something.

No, it was because he was mad at us that we passed him.

The quarter did go down her top, though.

So she did end up topless anyway.

but the guy was really thankful.

That's actually the start of Thelma and Louise in a sense.

Oh, yeah, and it was Brad Pitt in the semi next to it.

Yeah.

That's cool.

That's cool.

That's fun.

Next up,

we have the Human Rights Campaign trucker hat.

It says,

it has an eagle with talons that says these colors don't run.

The feathers of the eagle, for those listening, are in the pride rainbow.

Yeah.

Including we have the kind of addition addition of the black, brown, turquoise, white, and pink on the tail feathers.

Wow.

So that's interesting.

It's an interesting eagle.

It's an interesting eagle.

Why do gay people get a whole month?

That's what I think about when I see that hat.

Maybe we shouldn't have rights, you know?

Maybe I like it.

I actually like it.

What do you like about it?

I like it too.

So I like that we're taking the symbol back.

Are we?

Yes.

Oh, okay.

We're not letting the conservative.

Why do conservatives get eagles?

I like the eagle.

We took the rainbow from Christ.

So that's pretty good.

That's a big one.

That's great.

That's great.

And that felt good.

Yeah.

It still feels good every day.

I'm going to use this opportunity.

I'm going to just brag for a little bit and say that I recently went on a cruise to Alaska.

Thank you.

And I saw a bunch of real eagles there.

And did you know that in eagle relationships, males and females,

if the female dies, the male will just starve himself and then die as well.

But if the male dies, the female will go find another partner.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm plus five for this.

What do you like about it, honestly?

What do I like about it?

I just want the, I don't like the idea that conservatives got the flag, patriotism, all those things.

I want those things.

They're useful.

Yeah.

They're useful.

Absolutely.

You know, those are, that's our eagle.

There's a gayer bird, though.

You could do peacocks.

Oh, hummingbirds.

Hummingbirds, they're mean.

They're cute, but they're mean.

That's gay.

Someone just yelled geese.

Oh, God, it's Celexa.

Benjamin Franklin.

Selexa, quiet down.

Benjamin Franklin wanted our national bird to be the turkey.

Oh, he did.

Yeah, he did.

That's a great thing.

They're smart.

They're smart.

I stopped eating them a couple years ago because I found out they were highly emotionally intelligent and I felt bad.

But

I started eating them again.

I once went out to dinner after watching my octopus teacher

special.

No.

On teachers?

That's a no.

Yeah, it was fresh caught teacher.

Oh, wow.

My octopus.

My octopus teacher is a film.

Yeah.

Okay, I thought you just had an octopus teacher.

I was worried that there was a course I missed.

Don't encourage it.

Hey, everybody.

Before I move on, I just want to say everybody should check out Darby and Alexis' fantastic podcast, In My Homosexual Opinion.

Thank you so much.

And you'll be judging all as we go.

You're just there to judge.

Very interesting about that.

Can I hit the stage for a moment?

Quiet trans voices.

John, I have a twin brother who is straight.

So I've always not been as good as him because God made a mistake with the whole gay thing.

But

this is his favorite podcast.

And he's not on it, and I am.

I hope smelling your pussy fingers is worth it.

I don't know what straight guys do.

I'm sorry, I don't know.

I don't know.

Really?

Your brother shader podcast?

Yeah, truly.

Grant.

Grant?

Yeah.

Where does he live?

He lives in Orlando.

Don't judge him for that.

So my twin brother, he was a pastor for 20 years.

We were not friends.

He left the church, and now he's gay affirming and very liberal and like, oops, sorry, I made a lot of mistakes.

And so, and we have a podcast called Twiny Window where we talk about our childhood and he remembers it very differently than I do.

That's so interesting.

Thank you.

We'll be right back.

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It's the Love It or Leave It Pride Show, and just like Pride Month itself, we're somehow doing way too much and not enough.

It wouldn't be a a rainbow without all the colors.

So, please welcome to the stage.

It's Joe Kim Booster, Adam Ripon, Brendan Scannell, Sabrina Wu, and the iconic Claya Duval.

Hi, come on in, Lady Dundale.

Oh, okay, sit there because you'll be a team.

Because you'll be a team.

Okay, that's great.

Thank you, thank you.

That's perfect.

Oh, wow.

Oh, I forgot that I have to sit in this.

Oh,

shit.

Cross your legs, John.

Basic instinct, the audience.

See my Tommy joke.

Side saddle.

Side saddle.

And I'm sitting.

Didn't make sense.

Okay.

Hi, everybody.

Hi.

Thank you all for being here.

What a fun group of Adam.

You're so far from me.

I know, but I have direct line of sight to you, which is ideal.

Nice.

Thank you for saying that.

What?

Thank you.

Do you want to say it to the class?

Oh, yeah.

I leaned over to Cleo.

I said, oh, you're so tall.

And then I said, I'll scooch down.

That's like they have their own language.

It's crazy.

So

many people use this month to immerse themselves in queer art.

For example, I just finished all of Real Housewives of New York.

What was your favorite season?

Well, favorite season, I mean, I mean, Scary Island, come on.

I love, love, I mean, the true most breathtaking thing in Real Houses of New York is there is not a scripted HBO drama that has the slow, meted-out plotline of Luanne De La Seps writing a book about class in season one, and inch by inch, she arrives as if it was inevitable, eating a bologna sandwich in jail,

realizing she bit the mustard packet

in season 10.

You can't find that transition in 9876543 or 2.

But there it is.

Imperceptible, magical.

Listen, people don't want to accept this, but it is like if you want to see like interesting narratives about women over 50, there's only one place on television you're going to get it.

And it's Bravo!

Yeah.

Plus whatever's happening on end just like that.

And I don't know what is.

I don't actually know what's happening on end just like that.

Well, you know they're doing amazing things with with non-binary people.

Either way.

Your community really took a blow

on that show.

No, I think we finally became a part of the Zeitgeist.

Well said, Che Diaz.

Me, Che Diaz.

Exactly.

In honor.

I was fucking the.

Okay, sorry.

No, finish your thought.

And I've watched the show.

I'm fucking Miranda or Julia, who's Rude Julia Roberts?

Julia Roberts, Julia, Julia Roberts.

I gotta check back in.

I think she is on.

I'm so, I can't believe we're being quizzed on like

shit for them.

Wait, is it not Julia Roberts?

Probably not.

No,

Sarah Jessica, she was Sarah Jessica Parker.

Oh, her sister, Sarah Jessica.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm fingering a blonde woman.

Wow.

Three fingers in.

That's okay.

Get off, Darby.

Hey, this is why Shadea has got a pilot.

Thank you for having me on the show.

If anyone wants to tell me what Shea Diaz's vibe is, like, just help me out.

I feel like you nailed it.

You're nailing it.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

What does Chey Diaz do butt bomb on stage?

I'm sorry.

I'm really enjoying the vibe.

Hi, Claya.

Hi.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

Remember the faculty?

Of course.

Spooky.

Very.

Tense.

In honor of pride, we're going to do what we do best, pit different parts of the flag against each other as the gay guys ass off against the queers and lesbos in a TV and film quiz we're calling, but I'm a brokeback mountain cheerleader.

I'm a Cheerleader is like a seminal text for all of the bisexuals and

lesbians at crooked media.

Oh, really?

Yeah, And they've shown it to all of their boyfriends.

Yeah.

Got them.

Clay and Sabrina, you will square off against Joel, Brendan, and Adam because you two are equal to three gay guys just in terms of worth and strength.

Yes.

And Adam and I are white gay guys.

So I just want to point that out.

We're in the negatives over here.

Starting at a deficit.

Why are they gay guys in War 2 Slurs?

Like, why are we queer in Leslow and they're just gay guys?

That's such an important point.

I have been completely disrespectful by not calling them what they are, which are just fucking cum guzzling fags.

Thank you.

And so I honor that.

I hear it.

I receive it.

Happy pride.

I'm listening.

I'm learning.

I'm growing.

I love that you achieved parody, not by giving them an honorific that was not a slur, but just by bringing us down to

that idea had not occurred to me.

Okay.

Darby and Alexis will be our judges and will keep track of the score for us.

Oh, that's why we have these.

And where are we at so far?

Points-wise.

Okay.

Currently, we're it's neck and neck.

All right.

First up, what Ryan Murphy TV series featured gay couple Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson?

Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson.

This can't be Ryan.

Oh, you don't want to see what they're mouthing.

This is crazy.

What?

You?

Come on.

You don't know this?

I barely know who Julia Roberts is.

Wait, say the names again?

Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson.

You don't know their names are not going to help.

You don't.

I mean, honestly, like, the fact that Kurt Hummel isn't lighting a bell is just a fascinating moment for us.

Yeah.

This can't be real.

Can we guess like three Ryan Murphy shows?

All right.

I think you should start.

This is crazy.

Suddenly, I I can't think of one Ryan Murphy show.

Oh, my God.

Wait, wait, no, no.

Yeah, I can think of a...

Wait,

okay, is it the politician?

No!

Go out.

I walk in glee.

It's glee.

I've never seen glee.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

Oh, I know.

Oh, just wait for your question.

I don't feel nervous anymore.

How did you know you were gay if you've never seen glee?

I'm a lesbian.

How did you know the courage to come out?

I became sexually attracted to tales from Sonic the Hedgehog.

And that kind of did it for me.

And I was first sexually attracted to stormtroopers

from the original Star Wars.

I'm much older than you guys.

Wow.

Unpack that.

You know, I think about it a lot, and I think that because they were just these sort of like strong, genderless, like anonymous beings.

That were very in control.

Like a glory hole.

I'm on the sitting now.

Yeah, they're fucked.

Honestly, I get it.

I get it.

I get it.

Over to the gay guys.

Who plays camp counselor Mike in But I'm a Cheerleader, starring the incomparable Clay Duval and also Natasha Leone.

Who plays the camp counselor Mike?

You asked us the first question instead.

That was for the

easy.

See?

Damn, you guys are dumb as fuck.

It's hard because I only remember the women in any movie.

Yeah, asking of us about the man.

As gay guys, we don't see ourselves in men.

No.

What?

I don't identify

with gay men in film.

No, I identify with Tony Collette, okay?

Counselor Mike.

Who was the man in that movie?

Who is the man in the movie?

What is the movie again?

What?

What?

What?

The answer.

That is crazy.

RuPaul.

Oh, that's tricky because I should have.

Who's that?

Okay.

It's zero.

Oh.

I gave, I renamed them Ciclea.

Oh, Ciclea.

Okay.

I gave you 11 points for not knowing about glee.

And then

I gave you nine points because of Tails, because that does sound sexy to me.

Yeah.

I think Sega got a lot of people.

I don't know what Tails is.

I'm saying Sega got a lot of people.

You know, because there was a Sega Genesis game, and he's a fox that can fly by spinning his many tails.

It's like Star Wars.

Okay.

In the movie Broke Back Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal tells Heath Ledger he wishes he knew how to what?

Quit!

Quit!

Yeah, you got it.

Next up, Corky and Violet are the protagonists in what 1996 lesbian neo-noir from the Wachowski Sisters.

I love how much

the theory of this game is working because

Claya just fucking knows it.

He's like, yeah.

And you, it's nothing.

That's so interesting.

Isn't this interesting?

What, say it again?

Who are the names?

The Wachowski Sisters.

No, no, no.

The character sisters.

Corky and Violet.

In 1996, lesbian neon noir from the Wakowski sisters.

I only know one Corky, and he was on TV.

I only know Corky Romano with Chris Katar.

Yeah.

You could have just said Corky, and I would have known.

Wow.

You want to tell them?

Bound.

Oh, Jennifer Tilley, right?

Yeah.

Jennifer Tilly, yeah.

Gina Green.

Yeah.

All right.

Back over to Seclia.

In Luca Guadengino.

Nope.

Guadenino.

Guadenino?

And call me by your name.

Timothy Chamolet.

What?

Is it the answer peach?

Yes.

Wow.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

That is impressive.

That is impressive.

I'm blown away.

Yeah.

Back over to the boys.

well behind.

What was the title of the L-word reboot, which ran from 2019 to 2022?

I know.

Take it away.

L-Word Generation Cube.

You got it.

You got it.

That ran for how many seasons?

It's, I think, four years.

I don't know how many seasons they got out of this season.

I recently had someone stop me on the street and say that they loved me in L-word Generation Cube.

I am not in L-Word Generation Q.

There is a lovely trans male actor that is in Generation Q that they were confusing me for.

What did you say?

I said, thank you so much.

Yeah.

It's nice to be recognized.

In a 2022 gay classic, the main character, Noah, refers to the setting as Gay Disney World.

What is that setting, which is also the name of the film?

We steal.

I think it's Fire Island.

You got it.

Wow.

They wouldn't have gotten it otherwise, though.

I guess they don't have Hulu subscriptions.

No, I did.

I saw the movie.

You sent me a really nice message about it, too.

Wow, that's classy.

You got to tell people when you like their stuff.

I don't do that enough.

Next up.

In her culture-changing 90s sitcom, Ellen, Ellen DeGeneres blurts out her sexuality in an airport to which beloved actress?

Laura Dern.

Correct.

Susan,

I'm gay.

It was at the airport.

And she did it into the microphone.

I love that.

I watched that live.

Anybody else watched that live?

I did.

Yeah, I watched that live.

It was very meaningful to me.

And I didn't know it was meaningful to me.

I didn't realize how much because it wasn't until years later because I was in the closet when I saw it.

And then I saw Ellen getting the Medal of Honor from President Obama.

I'm sobbing.

I'm like, What's this about?

I never talked about it

until just now.

No, no, I've talked about it since.

I talk about everything all the time now.

But back then, I was in the closet, I see Ellen, it means a lot to me.

I don't say a word about it.

Years go by.

I come out.

Ellen gets the Medal of Honor.

I'm sobbing.

Oh my god, this was important to me, but it was a secret at the time.

That's just my, you know, and then apparently she's mean.

The world's a complicated thing.

Where should women be mean?

I agree.

Okay, never mind.

I'll back off.

In the Christmas rom-com Happiest Season, directed by Clay Duvall, Kristen Stewart ends up with Mackenzie Davis, but some fans screamed and begged and pleaded that she should have gone.

Aubrey Plaza.

That's rapid.

Should have gone.

I was one of them.

That's what my card says.

I was one of them!

Is that not a thing?

You're not familiar with it?

No, I'm very familiar with that.

Was that a big thing at the time?

People were really mad that that didn't end the way that you're judging the lesbian community.

Wow.

Wow.

That was hard for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sabrina, is there any?

Do you want to talk about it?

No, no, no, no.

I'm in front of you.

Just like on Reddit and stuff?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

All over the YouTube.

You should check out her letterbox reviews.

John, I'm sorry to interrupt, but we have a development.

We are currently at a tie.

Wow.

We are currently at a tie.

We are at a tie.

Yeah, and Claya got eight points extra for knowing about the peach because eight is kind of a butt, but sideways.

Can we turn her mic off?

But you got three points.

You got three.

I got three points?

Yeah, for your Ellen story.

That touched me.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you for saying that.

You're welcome.

Thank you for giving me points.

Next up.

In 2017, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway accidentally announced Lala Land as winner of Best Picture.

What gay black coming of age drama actually won that year?

Oh, I can say it.

Yeah, Moonlight.

Hell yeah.

So

I'm going to go right to another one.

Name all three leads in the film Too Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.

The actors?

The actors.

Oh, the actors, yeah.

We're talking about the youth, like

the movie, Too Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.

Well,

do you have it?

Do you guys have it?

You think you have it?

Isn't that interesting?

Yeah.

They have it.

Well, it's Patrick Swayze, isn't it, right?

Correct.

Yeah.

Wesley Snipes.

Yeah.

Fucking unbelievable.

Just

a cheating lesbian in the crowd.

Just a...

Just a unscrupulous, non-binary person in the audience.

They, them, don't follow the rules.

Can we just have just some silence so I can really concentrate?

John Legazamo.

Wow.

Wow.

All right.

I'll do one more because I do love this question, which is,

is this podcast new?

It is.

That sucks.

It's sort of in an it's it's

just that's

believe it or not, I've done this hundreds of times.

Oh, okay.

It's sort of an indictment on the industry right now that literally every lesbian movie you've quizzed us on other than Happiest Season was not from this century.

Yeah, what's that about, John?

I'm in charge and I don't let the lesbians make stuff anymore.

That's how we did it.

In an iconic scene from John Wanner's movie, Pink Flamingos, Babs Johnson, played by drag legend Divine, is asked her political beliefs, can you name one of those beliefs?

I'll let it open up to anybody.

Can anyone name one of those beliefs?

She,

and it's a good one.

It was like

eat something, right?

Eat something.

Yes.

Yes.

You're getting it.

Eat your sleep.

So shit and die, right?

Yeah, I'll give it to you.

I'll give it to you.

Yeah, we'll go with that.

Let's eat shit and die.

Let's watch the clip.

Kill everyone now.

Condone first-degree murder.

Advocate cannibalism.

Eat shit.

Filter my politics.

Filth is my life.

Woo!

What's our score at?

Okay, okay.

Hers is made up.

Go ahead.

So, Saklea is actually sitting with 100 points.

Wow.

It's It's incredible.

Incredible.

I put just the gay gentleman got

11,10.

They have five.

Five points.

John Lovett has three points, and the unscrupulous they them has two.

Wow, way to go.

I'm going to call it a tie.

I think it was just a tie.

But I'm going to give it to Ciclea.

I'm just going to, that's, I'm going to tie break it.

Oh no, my nail.

We'll be right back.

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Uh-uh, that's no, this is what my brother said it would be like.

Can you?

What?

Oh, points on.

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This has been a fantastic show.

And we could think of no better way to close out the night than by taking a spin on the Love It or Leave It Classic in a segment we're calling the Pride Wheel.

We'll spin the wheel and when it lands on us, we'll each share one thing, gay or not, pride related or not, that we're proud of

Are you guys ready?

Yes.

Yes queen.

Yeah work mama's sleigh

Boots

Okay, let's spin it

It has landed on Darby.

Oh shit.

Okay.

Darby, what is something you're proud of?

It could be anything.

Okay.

And you have a minute.

Okay, great.

Thank you so much.

Starting now?

Sure.

Okay, first of all, I just lost a nail in the middle of that.

That's homophobic.

But that's okay.

That's what pride's all about: facing those things head on.

Speaking of, my dad got so constipated that he was in so much pain, he passed out while on the toilet.

And then when he woke up on the ground, he had shit all over himself.

So I'm proud of the fact that his constipation, we found out was psychological

he's a very homophobic man

and his mind won't let him shit sorry

that's a true story

that was so beautiful I thought that was like a poignant and beautiful story thank you so thank you

Isn't that how Elvis died?

Didn't Elvis die in the toilet?

He did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'm hoping the same happens to my dad.

Sorry.

He's so bad, y'all.

Okay.

Let's spin it again.

It is Lando Alexis.

Oh, hi.

Okay, I have been rehearsing this all day.

I'm not just saying it because it came up earlier, but I am proud most this year of Sarah Jessica Parker.

She wears a hat in the new season of And Just Like That that truly reminds me to be bold and express myself in a way that's authentic to me, which is wacky and whimsical.

And just like hat.

By Miriam Camey, I too want to go out into the world and be as brave and authentic as she is.

Thank you, Sarah Jessica.

That's beautiful.

That's so beautiful.

I thought that was beautiful.

Thank you.

10 out of 10.

All right, let's spin it again.

It has landed on Brendan.

What's something you're proud of, Brendan?

I'm proud that

this pride is is also my six-year anniversary with my boyfriend.

We met on Pride at a party, and his shirt was off, and we started talking about how he had had laser hair removal to remove the hair on his back.

And I was like, I've had laser hair removal to remove the hair on my neck because of my acne.

And then

the next day, I DM'd him.

Hey, if you ever want to talk more about laser hair removal, I'd love to to get you a drink.

And now we've been together six years, so that's a message to all you single losers out there.

This pride,

just talk to somebody,

just talk to somebody.

And Brennan, you're hosting

what I do weird.

Oh, you got a 69.

It's a 6G.

Way to come to life at the end of the episode.

Jesus crying.

Brendan is hosting the show Three's comedy this Monday, June 9th at Nico's Atwater.

That means I have nothing to promote.

But you should all come.

Yeah.

Let's spin it again.

It has landed on Joel.

Yeah, this is, I guess it's been two and a half, almost three weeks now since I have looked at a comment or jumped into the comments or looked at the reviews of my podcast or looked at the letterbox reviews of my movie.

I have completely let go because my life is actually pretty great when I'm not looking at my phone.

And I know all six reasons why people hate me.

So

it really doesn't deviate from six different buckets.

And it's just not interesting to look at anymore.

So I guess I'm like not so much of a mascus anymore, but I'm very proud of myself for that because it's difficult.

If you knew a bunch of people were talking about you, wouldn't you want to know what they're saying?

And it turns out I don't now.

So that's a real growth moment for me.

What's one of the buckets?

One of the buckets is I'm a bad representation for the community.

Bullshit.

Yeah.

No, they do.

I love your body.

And I talk about it.

They don't like that.

Some people.

Do you find, so I go back and forth of ignoring successfully, then not ignoring successfully, which I

mean, I'm able to look at things and not have them get to me.

But I find that

I'm okay until I see a comment that I agree with.

Yeah, no,

that is the tough thing.

I will say I'm okay until like someone recently on threads of all places

referred to my partner as a psychopath which if you've ever met him and spoken to him for more than five minutes you'd know that is a ridiculous thing to say and I get really heated when it comes to my friends and family so I definitely

I don't know if he's on threads anymore

I wrote that actually

We've we talked about video games.

It was nothing but sweet.

I get no sociopath vibes.

No, he's the sweetest boy.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

And Adam's sorry.

Yeah.

And Joel, you are hosting Bravo's Love Hotel

and season two of the Bad Dates podcast.

And you're in Loot.

Yeah.

And that'll come out later on this year.

Oh, that's cool.

On Apple TV Plus.

The plus is for the shows they make.

Let's spin it again.

Claire, you're up.

Okay.

What's something you're proud of?

I'm proud that I don't know what threads is.

But aside from that, aside from that, you know, I'm going to

I'm really proud that I am here with all of you and am like an out

grown-up who has a life that I'm really happy with because when I was like a little kid who was too scared to be out, I never thought that I could have this.

And I do.

I'm so happy and proud.

Yeah, I mean, that's like, that's like a nice thing to say.

It's not, I don't think it's as poignant as what Darby said about her dad shitting on the ground, but

I did think that would happen when I was a kid.

I did.

I did.

But, you know, that's what Pride's all about.

Let's spin again.

Sabrina, what's something

you're proud of?

Okay, I'm not proud of much.

I'm just going to list little things I'm sort of proud of.

Is that fine?

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm proud of my mom.

I'm proud of Susan Boyle.

I'm still proud of what she did.

Okay.

Oh,

I'm like legit learning to, I'm not, I don't hate being Asian, but like being in, I'm like, I'm usually in New York, I'm in SoCal, and like, I am like, the Asian people here are so happy and proud.

It like breaks my brain because like I grew up in Michigan and like growing up, I was still very like, oh, like everyone hates the way my food smells.

And then the SoCal Asians here, like, they're all just like, what's up I'm Asian I'm also

well

you're so bad for our community

I was gonna say something so wholesome like I'm Asian and I'm also in the Jabberwockies.

We love to dance here and like be in community and drink boba.

So I don't know.

Yeah.

I love that.

Those were, I got a little bit of the moves.

It was cool.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Are you?

How proud are you?

Can this be online?

It has to be.

It has to be.

It simply has to be.

I I think I'm the stupidest guest you've ever had.

Oh, you've been a bitch.

For the guests listening, Sabrina just mime sucking a dick.

After doing an incredible body roll.

So

they are, that was, you're a Japperwalkie.

That was cool as huh.

All right, thanks, thanks.

Sabrina is currently starring in Murderbot, now streaming on Apple TV Plus.

So good.

Plus, stands for the show that they make.

And Clay, you directed an episode of Poker Face.

Yeah, I did.

That's on Peacock, where the housewives live.

Yes.

And Love Hotel.

Peacock.

It's from NBC, but the bird is for the shows you can only get

there.

You okay, buddy?

No, I'm all right.

Okay.

Just checking.

I think people are having fun, right?

Yeah, I think so.

We brought up Susan Boyle.

I'm good.

If you go back and watch the Susan Boyle video, it is shocking because the whole premise of it is like, she can't sing good.

Because she's ugly.

Because she doesn't look like what we want her to look like.

It's wild.

And everyone in the audience freaks out.

And it's like, we have a terrible bias about looks.

I cried watching the Susan Boyle video recently.

So

when you said that, I went, yeah, I get it.

We acted as if she had been bitten by a radioactive spider that gave her the ability to sing instead of the fact that she was just a lady.

They also, like, when her, they did her makeover, but she's, it's so British where it's like

they do weird stuff over there, beauty-wise.

Yeah,

I agree.

Weird place.

I'm glad we left.

Even now, looking back, I'm glad.

Yeah,

especially now.

All right, let's spin it again.

Yeah, who's we, by the way?

Well, it wasn't me.

My people were in the schedule.

Adam, it's landed on you.

What's something you're proud of?

I'm proud to be here tonight with some of my closest friends

on this ruggable.

Wow.

I know it's a rugged ball.

And I was proud to know the answer to the glee question.

And then I was also really proud that nobody could hear the rattling of two marbles inside my brain of every other question that happened after that.

And so I actually was really proud of that.

And now that I know that it's honorable, I'm proud that I had the hair on my neck lasered off, too.

Right?

Yes.

That's so cool.

You got to tell me where to do that.

Thank you.

Oh, my God.

Thank you.

Oh.

Oh, it's a medal.

It's a medal.

Backstage, we were talking about our first jobs, and Adam goes, I didn't really have a first job.

I'm a figure skater.

We had no idea.

That was my job.

Yeah.

But it wasn't like working at Dippin' Dots.

Like, that's what they were talking about.

Joel working.

I got fired at Joel.

No, but Joel and I

write the mean comments on threads.

I wrinkles.

that for threads.

You were at Coldstone?

Well, I got fired from the Dippin' Dots stand and then moved immediately to Coldstone.

Which is actually,

you'd think you'd go from Coldstones down to Dippin' Dots.

Because Coldstones is really, it's kind of an arch.

It's the underground railroad for gay teens in the suburbs.

Wow.

Wow.

I had never thought about it like that.

But I see how it's 100% right

and incontrovertible.

Wait, Adam, tell me about it.

I threw the card down with your podcast information.

So I have a new podcast.

It's called Intrusive Thoughts.

Yeah, Intrusive Thoughts.

Intrusive Thoughts.

I saw that that's what it said.

Yeah, it's like love it or leave it if you're stupid.

It's like,

oh, it's okay.

Thank you.

And the run-through, too, if you like figure skating, I have another figure skating.

Are you a figure skater?

I did mention it backstage.

Oh, there you go.

Okay.

Sure.

I have intrusive thoughts.

Please come on

to see that.

Every time, if I'll tell you one of them, just to give you a window of what's going on inside here, which is if I'm on the phone with a friend and their phone cuts out, I think 9-11 is happening and that a plane has hit their building.

It's crazy.

Or it's a collapse or it's an earthquake.

I'm getting the clock.

Not that like just the 5G went away.

No, it's that something horrible has happened.

And if I can't get them back right away, I'm like, well, that's it.

That building went down.

That pancaked like after what happened to that building in the North Ridge one.

And that's that.

That's that.

What's your reaction to it, though?

How do you feel?

I feel very scared.

Oh, I wasn't sure.

I don't know you that well.

You should try Selexa 20 milligrams a day.

It's really good.

Do you always think, like, oh, George W.

Bush is at it again?

Yeah, I mean, I wonder what jet fuel can and cannot melt.

Didn't you work in the Bush administration?

No, the Obama administration.

God damn it.

Let's spin it one more time.

No way.

Hey, everybody.

It's landed on me, and I'll just say, you know,

I would like to to take a moment to just say that, like, I am,

this is a really dark time.

And I think we should take a moment to be proud of ourselves just for getting through it and staying involved in politics, still caring about politics, believing we can make a difference in politics.

That can be a really hard thing to do at times.

I think there was moments when it wasn't clear that that was going to happen, especially in the initial crush of Trump winning and the first few weeks of that moment where people weren't sure how quickly and how bad it would get and if people were going to be willing to fight back, but we've started to see people showing up more and more at protests.

We've started seeing not just like individuals, but organizations, companies, schools being willing to push back, which is what has to happen.

And it's going to be a really long fight.

And we're going to win some and we're going to lose some.

But I'm just very grateful for all the people that have shown up when we've been campaigning for judges in Wisconsin and when we've been

making calls right now to stop this bill.

I'm excited to see all the people this weekend that come out as part of these, the protests we're doing for Pride in DC, which I have to go to immediately.

But I really like, you know, people say all the time to us, like, oh, how do you guys stay up?

Like they say in a way, like, how do you guys met?

Like, how do you keep up with the news?

How do you pay attention to news all the time?

And I always feel weird when I get asked that question because it's like, I'm like incredibly, like, are you kidding me?

Like, none of them fucking mind.

Like, I read the news.

It's bad.

I get to talk about it.

but it's all palatable and possible because we have an incredible audience that has stayed with us for so many years.

So I feel very grateful to you, this Pride.

And I'll close by only saying that I'm also grateful that my intrusive thoughts have gone from will good things happen to will the good things that have happened be taken away, which I think is progress in a sense when you think about it.

When you think about it.

And I'm proud to have had this show with these wonderful guests.

And so that's where we're going to have to wrap it up.

That is our show.

Thank you to Darby Lynn Cartwright, Alexis Bevels, Adam Ripon, Joel, Klan Booster, Brendan Scannell, Clay Duval, and Sabrina Wu.

We will see you next week at Dynasty Typewriter.

There are 514 days until the midterms.

You can hear the pride show I'm doing tomorrow.

It'll be out tomorrow in your Pod Save America feeds, the show I'm doing with Sarah and Tim in DC.

So check that out.

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