100 Days of Bummer

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Speaker 2 What's up, Los Angeles?

Speaker 2 Welcome to Love It or Leave It Live from Dynasty Typewriter. 100 days down, 1,361 to go.

Speaker 2 At least, at least. We've got a great show for you tonight.
Edie Patterson is here.

Speaker 2 And goes for a spin in the news cycle. Guy Branham and Beth Stelling are here.

Speaker 2 And they'll go dolls to the wall. Then we tariff and feather our worst habits.

Speaker 2 Also, in case you're wondering why there's a big, beautiful cardboard replica of the White House on stage with me tonight, my nephew Bennett made this.

Speaker 2 He was here and he made this and he asked if I could put it on the show. I said, of course, would love to have it on the show.
And so I promised I would include it.

Speaker 2 So everybody, thank you, Bennett, for this, look at an incredible job he did.

Speaker 2 If you look closely, you can see Elon Musk awkwardly lingering outside the Oval Office while everyone makes lunch plans without him.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 2 But first, let's get into it. What a week.

Speaker 2 We're 100 days into Donald Trump's presidency. Good news, we're still alive.
Bad news, we're still alive.

Speaker 2 To mark the occasion, Donald Trump headed to Michigan, brave of our big boy to show his face in Michigan after saying this about the Great Lakes.

Speaker 3 I assume the lakes are all interconnected, right?

Speaker 2 And they are.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they are.

Speaker 2 Stupid. We know they are.

Speaker 1 They are.

Speaker 2 Obviously.

Speaker 1 They are.

Speaker 2 And we knew that. It's a stupid question.

Speaker 2 Michigan governor and former presidential hopeful Gretchen Whitmer greeted Trump warmly on the tarmac at the Selfridge Air National Guard base.

Speaker 2 Hands touch, shoulder, shoulder. That's a hug.

Speaker 2 Big Gretch joins a rich history of women who didn't really want to hug Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 After praising Whitmer at the event, Trump unexpectedly threw to Big Gretsch to share some remarks.

Speaker 4 Well, I hadn't planned to speak, but on behalf of all the military men and women who serve our country and serve so honorably on behalf of the state of Michigan, I am really damn happy we're here to celebrate this recapitalization at Selfridge.

Speaker 4 So thank you. I am so, so grateful that this announcement was made today, and I appreciate all the work.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 2 That pause is incredible. She turns back toward Donald Trump as if on some level she hopes someone else will be there.
Like Joe Biden or John Wayne Gacy or anybody.

Speaker 2 I'll hug him, but I draw the line at saying his name. You can't use the passive voice after an active hug.
There's no getting around it. In a hug, the subject acts upon the object.

Speaker 2 Trump also sat down for an interview with ABC News's Terry Moran to mark the first 100 days.

Speaker 2 You know what? What he's right, he's fucking right. People did sign up for it.
Voting for Trump is like clicking, I have read the terms and conditions on a one-month free trial for Disney Plus.

Speaker 2 It's all fun and games until it's year seven, and they're saying it's legally your fault you got the threatening food poisoning from a Ronto rap at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge.

Speaker 2 Speaking of making you sick, the Trump administration last week deported three children who are U.S.

Speaker 2 citizens to Honduras along with their mothers, including a four-year-old being treated for metastatic cancer.

Speaker 2 Oh, so Trump is bringing down American cancer rates, and you're mad.

Speaker 2 A Trump-appointed judge agreed agreed that due process seems to have been violated, and lawyers for the two families said that the mothers were not given the option to leave their American children in the U.S.

Speaker 2 before they were put on a plane. Disgusting.
Even the Nazis gave Sophie a choice.

Speaker 2 You know, the news is what it is.

Speaker 2 We go to war every week with the news we have.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, back in D.C., Trump's staff decorated the White House lawn with around 100 posters featuring mugshots of immigrants, which is pretty embarrassing, putting up your Easter decorations a full week late, but sure.

Speaker 2 Speaking of bringing someone back, after weeks of saying they couldn't secure the release of Kilmar Brego-Garcia, Trump told ABC News the opposite.

Speaker 3 There's a phone on this desk. I could.
You could pick it up, and by all the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, send him back. Right now.

Speaker 3 And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.

Speaker 1 But the court ordered you.

Speaker 2 Trump's ego won't let him say that there's any area where he's powerless. And that's how we get this guy out of there.

Speaker 2 Democrats need to get in front of cameras and say over and over, I actually don't think Trump can get Abrego Garcia back. I don't think he's strong and powerful enough.
Over and over and over.

Speaker 2 Just can't do it. His arms aren't strong enough.
His dick isn't big enough. Can't be done.

Speaker 2 This is barely a joke. It's just a sincere messaging suggestion.

Speaker 2 Trump also got into an argument with Moran about Abrego Garcia's Garcia's tattoos, claiming the Maryland man had MS-13, literally tattooed on his knuckles, when in fact the Trump administration photoshopped MS-13 onto a photo of Abrego Garcia to use as a prompt.

Speaker 3 He wasn't a member of a gang, and then they looked and on his knuckles he had MS-13.

Speaker 3 There's a dispute.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute.

Speaker 3 Wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles.

Speaker 3 He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way.

Speaker 2 But let's move on.

Speaker 3 Wait a minute. Terry, Terry, Terry.
He did not have the letter MS13. It says MS13.
And that was Photoshop.

Speaker 3 So let me tell you. That was Photoshop.
Terry, you can't do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime.
You know, you're doing the interview.

Speaker 3 I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay.

Speaker 2 I picked you because I never heard of you, but that's okay.

Speaker 2 There are times when Trump is obviously lying, but in this instance, I believe he genuinely felt for his own edited photo.

Speaker 2 Our big dumb boy covered a toilet in saran wrap, turned around, walked back in, and sat down to take a shit.

Speaker 2 Here's the photo Trump is referring to.

Speaker 2 Now, if you see, look at it, you can see that it has MS-13 digitally added to the image hovering above Brego Garcia's actual knuckle tattoos, which are a marijuana leaf, a smiley face with crossed out eyes, a cross, and a skull.

Speaker 2 The actual meaning of those, they're claiming that definitely means he's part of MS-13. That's obviously in dispute.

Speaker 2 The MS-13 was not added to the photo to trick anybody, but it tricked Trump.

Speaker 2 They weren't even trying to make a deceptive Photoshop. It's just there to make the case that the tattoos are a form of a pictogram.

Speaker 2 It's like if he met Meryl Streep and asked what happened to her Getty Images tattoo.

Speaker 2 During Trump's televised cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Marco Rubio snapped at a reporter for asking about Abrego Garcia.

Speaker 4 You brought up El Salvador in your remarks.

Speaker 4 Have you been in touch with El salvador about returning a brego garcia as a formal request from this administration to me well i would never tell you that and you know who else i'll never tell a judge

Speaker 2 rubio like all trump appointees had to attend the pissy little bitch school of american diplomacy but it was actually a trump judge on thursday who shut down any deportations being carried out under the alien enemies act so miss us with your snide little remarcos

Speaker 2 also this week the sub-dom romance between jeff bezos and donald trump seemed briefly imperiled.

Speaker 2 Sorry for putting that image in your head. Now you won't be able to unsee it.

Speaker 2 Now please switch their positions.

Speaker 2 Can't unsee that either. Now switch them back.

Speaker 2 First, Punch Bowl News reported that Amazon would start displaying how much of a product's total cost was the result of Trump's tariffs.

Speaker 2 Consumers would see that they were paying the tariffs rather than China, as Trump had long promised. Kind of a cool move.
Doesn't sound like them. Of course, a slippery slope.

Speaker 2 I don't think we actually want to know the detailed cost breakdown of the unholy global mechanism by which basically any household item is delivered to us inside of 24 hours.

Speaker 2 However, it happens that I can order vegan protein powder, a new pair of dress sneakers, and a book on relationships recommended to me by my lawyer before I go to bed, and it's waiting for me in the vestibule of a bank near my house by morning.

Speaker 2 Whatever the taxes, tariffs, fuel costs, urine bottle disposal fees that make it possible, I know it's in defiance of God's will. I know I'll have to answer for it in this life or the next.

Speaker 2 What is the tariff to cross the gates of heaven? Jeff Bezos asks Lauren Sanchez late one night. Or is it hell where you arrive just in time?

Speaker 2 But she can't hear him because she's wearing her red light helmet.

Speaker 2 Sad.

Speaker 2 She's having a genuine moment, but

Speaker 2 she's in the red light helmet.

Speaker 2 White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt reacted to the report at her press briefing that morning, saying this.

Speaker 7 This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.

Speaker 2 Kind of a cool move. Doesn't sound like them.

Speaker 2 After Bezos spoke to Trump on the phone, which was actually before the White House press secretary's comment, believe it or not, an Amazon spokesperson denied that the company ever planned to display tariff costs, saying that only Amazon Hall Storefront, its new discount Shein competitor, considered the idea, which was was never approved and is not going to happen.

Speaker 2 Now that sounds like them.

Speaker 2 By Tuesday afternoon, Trump was patting Bezos on his shiny bald head.

Speaker 3 Great. Jeff Bezos was very nice.
He was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly.
And he did the right thing. And he's a good guy.

Speaker 2 Great guy, Jeff Bezos. He did a great job.
Not a lot of teeth. Sometimes there's teeth when you don't want teeth, but not with Jeff.
He did a great job.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 In other oligarch news, here's Elon Musk doing one of his famous comedy bits at Wednesday's cabinet meeting.

Speaker 3 Elon, I love the double hat, but

Speaker 3 he's the only one that can do that.

Speaker 1 Well, Ms. President, you know, they say I wear a lot of hats.

Speaker 1 Even my hat has a hat.

Speaker 2 So fucking fucking

Speaker 1 so unfunny.

Speaker 1 What have I done?

Speaker 1 So unfunny.

Speaker 1 Makes me so, oh no.

Speaker 2 Bennett's White House.

Speaker 2 For those listening,

Speaker 2 I destroyed the White House that we claimed to be made by my nephew Bennett, part of a setup that began at the very beginning of tonight's show.

Speaker 2 And you can see it if you go to Love It or Leave It's YouTube and subscribe. You gotta subscribe to our YouTube

Speaker 2 during that meeting. Trump addressed the prospect of tariffs disrupting supply chains and raising consumer prices.

Speaker 3 Somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to be open. Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?

Speaker 3 And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more.

Speaker 2 Simply ask the child, does the doll spark joy?

Speaker 2 Look, as always, Donald Trump is so wise. We are too materialistic, and Trump has always said this.

Speaker 2 Don't worry, I'll talk to him, said Eric, addressing his 30 sex dolls.

Speaker 2 But of course, you like the filthy stuff. It's a freaky crowd tonight.
You're a bunch of sick little creeps. Anything sexual, you're really going for it.
You're really enjoying it.

Speaker 1 Sick.

Speaker 2 But of course, Trump's cronies aided up turning the week's cabinet meeting into a round of spin the bottle for Trump's ass.

Speaker 1 See what I mean?

Speaker 2 Here's Attorney General Pam Bondi praising her boss, President.

Speaker 4 President, your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country.

Speaker 1 Ever.

Speaker 4 Ever. Never seen anything like it.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 How does he make presidents sound like daddy?

Speaker 2 Bondi also claimed Trump seized on so much fentanyl in the last 100 days, he saved 75% of the country's population from overdosing.

Speaker 4 3,400 kilos of fentanyl since you've been your last 100 days, which saved, are you ready for this media, 258 million lives? Kids are dying every day because they're taking this junk.

Speaker 2 Are you ready for this media? Under Joe Biden, everyone in America died.

Speaker 2 And now we're alive again, thanks to you, President.

Speaker 2 But no one said it quite like Interior Secretary Doug Bergham.

Speaker 3 President Trump, in your first term when I had a chance to work you as governor, you were courageous.

Speaker 3 The thing that's empowering this amazing group of people around this table, and you've probably assembled the greatest cabinet ever, is that this time you're not just courageous, you're actually fearless.

Speaker 2 They say the best organizations are one where the boss receives only endless praise from the people who work for him, that that leads to great outcomes.

Speaker 1 Isn't that right, Hallie?

Speaker 10 Exactly, boss. Hope your arms aren't too tired from hitting it out of the park.

Speaker 1 Ha ha!

Speaker 1 On Tuesday,

Speaker 2 on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that

Speaker 2 he had proudly terminated the Women, Peace, and Security Program, an initiative aimed at increasing women's participation in national security.

Speaker 2 Explained to visibly drunk Pete Hegseth, you know what they say at dating, women, peace, and security, pick two.

Speaker 2 wrote hegseth on X WPS is yet another woke to visive social justice Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops distracting from our core task warfighting you know how it is women be like enough about IEDs let's talk about my IUD

Speaker 2 enough about IEDs IUDs

Speaker 2 IED,

Speaker 2 IUD.

Speaker 2 I think the emphasis would have really, I think that because I see what that's on me. That's not your fault.

Speaker 2 Except, whoops, the bill establishing that program was co-sponsored by then House Member Christy Noam and then Senator Marco Rubio, both now Trump cabinet officials, and it was signed into law in 2017 by Donald Trump himself.

Speaker 2 It does sound like us, though.

Speaker 2 You can see how we got there.

Speaker 2 This week, the U.S. and Ukraine signed a deal that gives America access to Ukraine's resources.

Speaker 2 This came after Trump met briefly with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Rome before the Pope's funeral on Sunday.

Speaker 2 After the meeting, Trump seemed to have a new perspective on Vladimir Putin's motives. I hate to say it, but maybe the Pope should die more often.

Speaker 2 Wrote Trump on Truth Social: There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities, and towns over the last few days.

Speaker 2 It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war. He's just tapping me along and has to be dealt with differently.

Speaker 2 Continued Trump, I couldn't help but wonder: had I rushed rushed into this relationship?

Speaker 2 Terrific.

Speaker 2 Speaking of rushing, Kamala Harris gave her first major public speech since the election where she offered her thoughts on Trump's first 100 days.

Speaker 4 This country

Speaker 11 is ours.

Speaker 7 It doesn't belong to whoever is in the White House.

Speaker 9 It belongs to you.

Speaker 9 It belongs to us.

Speaker 12 It belongs to we, the people.

Speaker 1 Hey, thanks.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 To be honest, the speech was pretty disappointing. It was 15 minutes, which should be plenty of time to say something of note, but she talked about showing courage without mentioning immigration.

Speaker 2 People are asking each other all the time: who are the leaders? Where are the leaders? Who is the future of the party?

Speaker 2 And the answer is that it's not just that we don't know, it's that we can't know because those leaders will be the product of this moment.

Speaker 2 Some people will be forged by it, some people will melt in it.

Speaker 2 Gretsch hugged Trump, Gavin's doing a podcast, AOC and Bernie are rallying people to the fight, Corey is holding the floor, others are heading to El Salvador, challenging the administration, ringing the alarm.

Speaker 2 Kamala delivered her first big speech in months, and she didn't have much to say. And that's the truth.
And if I wanted to listen to Kamala give boring speeches, I'd have voted for her.

Speaker 2 Trump has reportedly decided to remove National Security Advisor Mike Waltz as well as his deputy.

Speaker 2 Well, it looks like I'll be home from work early, Waltz texted his wife and the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.

Speaker 2 The ousting of the Houthi PC small group chat creator would mark the first major staff shakeup of Trump's second term.

Speaker 2 Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer took credit for Waltz's ouster, sending reporters a one-word text, Loomered.

Speaker 2 But then in a Thursday Truth Social post, Trump announced that he would be nominating Wallace to be ambassador to the UN, and Marco Rubio would temporarily serve as national security advisor, in addition to being Secretary of State, which State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce learned from a reporter during the briefing.

Speaker 6 He says that in the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as national security advisor while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department.

Speaker 13 Do you know how long he's going to be serving in both roles?

Speaker 14 It is clear that I just heard this from you.

Speaker 1 I had, I, this is, the magic.

Speaker 6 No heads up at this point.

Speaker 9 Well, I

Speaker 1 have

Speaker 4 some insights as to the potential of certain things that might happen.

Speaker 2 That's the magic.

Speaker 2 The magic of Trump.

Speaker 2 The magic of not having any fucking idea what is happening. And then they're trying to save it by saying, well, I had certain potentialities, and I was obviously made aware I'm a serious problem.

Speaker 2 I'm a senior person here at the State Department.

Speaker 2 So, if it turns out that I don't know what the fuck is going on, maybe you might not take me as seriously from this podium, which obviously can't be the case, even though I'm learning about the fact that my boss has taken a second job.

Speaker 2 It's actually his, I think, fourth job because he's also acting USAID administrator, and I believe also has some kind of role in the National Archives. He's some sort of archivist.
So, good for him.

Speaker 2 Marco Rubio, really crushing it.

Speaker 2 That That painting in his attic of a Marco Rubio who's happy.

Speaker 2 Getting happier.

Speaker 2 It doesn't really make sense.

Speaker 2 Picture should be getting worse. But he's getting worse.
In real life,

Speaker 2 I'm not sure what's happening to the painting.

Speaker 2 Something to think about. I'll ask ChatGPT later.
Maybe

Speaker 2 it'll know.

Speaker 2 I've talked so long that this joke won't make any sense.

Speaker 2 Ousting Waltz from the NSA job couldn't come soon enough as he was caught during the cabinet meeting once again using signal on his phone. This is real.

Speaker 2 During the cabinet meeting, you can see he has a text from JD Vance. He has a text with Mercarubio.
The chat with Marco Rubio just says the phrase, hopefully there's time.

Speaker 2 Hopefully there's not.

Speaker 2 No idea what it's about. Trump spoke at a National Day of Prayer event at the White House on Thursday and took a moment to plug his budget bill.

Speaker 3 Doesn't pass your taxes. They're going to go up 68%.

Speaker 3 So think of it. 68%.
And this is a religious ceremony to me, but that's part of the religion. Because if your taxes go up 68%, you might give up your religion.

Speaker 2 That's a good joke. That's a good joke.
That's a good joke.

Speaker 2 Good for our big boy.

Speaker 2 Trump also had this to say about his faith advisors.

Speaker 3 You know, they work right out of the White House. They've never done that.
That's never been done before. No other president allowed that.
I think, you know, they say separation.

Speaker 3 They say separation between church and state, they told me. I said, all right, let's forget about that for one time.

Speaker 2 The they was Thomas Jefferson for the record.

Speaker 2 This has to be the first ethno-state where the head of it could not give less of a fuck about religion. He's like, all hell, Jesus, or whatever.
Paula, can you take this one?

Speaker 2 I got to go convince some Qataris to buy my internet baseball cards Eric told me about.

Speaker 16 Another banger, sir.

Speaker 10 They'll find that ball in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 Ha ha!

Speaker 2 Thanks, Allie. Keeps me honest.

Speaker 2 Trump's tariffs and musings about making Canada the 51st state led to a liberal victory in the Canadian elections. Here's Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney.

Speaker 2 As I've been warning for months, months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.

Speaker 1 Never.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 these are not idle threats.

Speaker 3 President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.

Speaker 2 That will never, that will never ever happen.

Speaker 2 So, yeah.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, let's.

Speaker 2 First of all, it's like, god damn it.

Speaker 2 We're the fucking evil empire on their southern border that they're gonna have to like, we're gonna start doing like the kind of dance that you see between India and Pakistan.

Speaker 2 You know that, that, that, that, that dance along the border? We're gonna start having a fucking border dance now. The fucking Canadians, we're the villains.

Speaker 2 I know often we have been, but we like to pretend it wasn't true.

Speaker 2 That's amazing.

Speaker 1 This is crazy.

Speaker 2 You know, we used to be embarrassed about our coups.

Speaker 2 You know, people would talk about it.

Speaker 1 Shut up about that.

Speaker 2 Let's trim this down.

Speaker 2 It's so weird when a Canadian talks tough like this. It's like seeing a deer with a tattoo.

Speaker 2 And finally, a seaside Belgian town hosted its fifth annual Seagull Screeching Contest. And here's this year's winner.

Speaker 2 Their prize? One potato chip that fell in the sand.

Speaker 10 Best monologue of all time.

Speaker 2 Up next, Edie Patterson gives the news a choral. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 And we're back!

Speaker 2 Please welcome to the stage. She plays a TV sister I love more than my own.
That stinks. Ah, she doesn't listen.

Speaker 2 But no, she will because of the whole Bennett thing. I'm fucked.

Speaker 2 Please welcome the uproarious Edie Patterson.

Speaker 1 Hi.

Speaker 2 Welcome. Thank you for being here.
Hi.

Speaker 2 Hi. Hi.
Come right here.

Speaker 2 Good to see you.

Speaker 16 Good to see you. Hi.

Speaker 2 You're currently on the righteous gemstones.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 2 Skewing a family of obscenely rich evangelicals racked by greed, jealousy, a lust for power, bunch of phonies. If Trump watched the show, do you think he'd get it?

Speaker 16 I don't, actually. I don't think you would get it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he might not. I don't think he, yeah, he might not see the irony in it.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 16 I don't think he would.

Speaker 2 That's too bad. Yeah.
Well, you know what? It's not for him.

Speaker 16 It's not for him. In fact, don't watch it.

Speaker 2 Or maybe he'd be just jealous of the wigs.

Speaker 16 Jealous of the wigs? Yeah. He would be jealous of the wigs for sure.

Speaker 1 There's good wigs.

Speaker 2 I want to talk to you about this headline I saw about your portrayal of Judy Gemstone. Okay.
The deeply normal rehearsed person behind TV's most insane maniac.

Speaker 16 You know,

Speaker 16 that one was surprising to me. This is a very nice article, but I was like, huh, deeply normal.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I've ever been called that.

Speaker 2 You don't think of yourself as, I don't know, what is normal?

Speaker 16 I don't know.

Speaker 16 I think maybe what this person meant was

Speaker 16 like somewhat nice.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 right.

Speaker 16 You know what I mean? Because I was nice and happy to talk to him.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I know Matt. I've been on Matt's show.
He's never called me normal. I've been nice.

Speaker 1 Huh. Okay.
Well, I don't know what his criteria was then.

Speaker 2 But you also have a trick you use to combat stage fright, which is something you tell yourself. Yeah.
And I think it might be a useful tip for people.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah. If I am doing something and like the fear creeps in, I just,

Speaker 16 I have to get myself all the way down the road to remembering that we're all going to die. And,

Speaker 16 um, and then I have to go even a step further and go, and none of us know when. And I could, it could be tonight for me.
So I might as well fucking let it rip.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 16 Um, but I do have to go all the way to like, we're all going to die someday. And then I've since found out, oh, that was a thing.
Maybe in the 20s, it was a, like, that was a cool mindset.

Speaker 16 and they would have like jewelry with like memento mori on it, like skulls and things. Oh, and the whole vibe was like,

Speaker 16 was that like, hey, we're all gonna die, let's party.

Speaker 2 Maybe it's a little bit of a kind of post-Spanish flu World War I ethos, maybe something we could use right now.

Speaker 2 Yes, you know, like, maybe that's maybe that's because we're still kind of, we all are, um, we had a, you know, a trauma globally, yeah, and um, uh, we all know that it had a profound effects effect on us, but we have trouble describing it.

Speaker 2 And then everyone's just a bit meaner when they drive.

Speaker 16 Yep. Yeah.
A bit meaner when they drive. Or like you can't, you keep waking up when you should be asleep.
Yeah. Or like you

Speaker 16 feel like worried about things that are maybe normal or

Speaker 16 just like weird things. I don't know.
I'll find like. the anxiety pops up in the weirdest way.
I'll like wake up in the middle of the night and go like,

Speaker 16 Was I, was I a bad friend in eighth grade? Or, you know what I mean? Just weird shit.

Speaker 1 You were.

Speaker 1 Well, probably. I was a lot talking.
Honestly, though, I was pretty nice. You were.
Yeah.

Speaker 23 You were nice. So maybe he was right.

Speaker 2 I didn't have a lot of friends in eighth grade. I now become obsessed.
I had become a meticulous researcher that

Speaker 2 my way of escaping the news is the deepest amount of, like,

Speaker 2 I will, this is gonna, this is so bougie and gay.

Speaker 16 Let's get into it.

Speaker 2 I will, when I say that, like,

Speaker 2 if you, if you tried to show me a dessert plate that exists on the internet, be like, who do you think you're fucking talking to? I obviously know that dessert plate.

Speaker 2 I considered it on my fucking vision board for this table and it didn't fit with the color scheme. Look at the color scheme.
Look at it. Do you see pastels? No.
You see a rich, warm color scape.

Speaker 2 You dumb motherfucker.

Speaker 16 So, that's what you're researching: is dessert plates?

Speaker 2 Just crazy, specific tiny items. Like, I needed Pilates' socks.

Speaker 16 Okay,

Speaker 16 I'm listening.

Speaker 1 So, you went so many tabs,

Speaker 2 so many tabs. And at some point, I just, it's like 1:30 in the morning.
Yep, you've got love it or leave it the next day.

Speaker 1 Yep,

Speaker 16 I went down that hole once for Pilates socks. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 16 And there's a like a 15 pack on Amazon that has cool like

Speaker 16 70s stripes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I know it.

Speaker 1 Got those.

Speaker 2 I consider that one. You're doing a one-person improv show at the Groundlings Theater next week.

Speaker 16 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 I interviewed Josh Gadd, who I made a show with many years ago about his book. And he went, and he was pretty frustrated with the experience because he wrote a whole book about his career.

Speaker 2 And I didn't mention Olaf even one time, I focused mostly on he plays Olaf in uh Frozen. That's a big success for him.
I really focused on his early failures

Speaker 2 because who wants to hear about success? Oh, wow, you're Olaf?

Speaker 1 Great, that's awesome! Love that for you, it's cool. But that's going great.
Did you make a ton of money?

Speaker 2 And so, I was like, so he was a, he went to, he was in the groundlings, but he didn't get graduated up. Yeah,

Speaker 16 I think he he was in the school at some point.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but they didn't move him up. No.
They said, fuck off.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You graduated.

Speaker 16 Yeah,

Speaker 16 I'm a main company alum up there.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 So you must be so much funnier than him.

Speaker 2 I'm so dead. All right.

Speaker 16 Let's talk about my animated franchise.

Speaker 16 Yeah, I don't think it means that, but

Speaker 16 yeah,

Speaker 16 I think he was in the school at some point, but not when I was there.

Speaker 2 You're an improviser. We were talking backstage about

Speaker 2 how much you want to improvise in circumstances that are scripted. And like, what's that like?

Speaker 16 Well, when something is scripted and I know it's scripted and everyone else knows it's scripted, that's awesome. But like, that's just regular an acting job.

Speaker 1 And then usually.

Speaker 16 Like with my show,

Speaker 16 we would do everything as scripted. I'm a writer on the show as well.

Speaker 16 We would do everything as scripted, but then when we got it, when we knew we had it, then we would get permission to sort of improvise and find what's there. And that's always like

Speaker 16 my full on, dreamy, happy place. But if I, if something, kind of what we were talking about is if something is passing itself off as

Speaker 16 this is all improvised, but it's actually very strictly written, it takes me to like a uncanny valley in my head and I like, my brain sort of breaks.

Speaker 2 Can I ask you various, maybe this is too technical a question, but if you are improvising,

Speaker 2 are you ever sort of like, oh, we found something really great when we were, so you're shooting in both directions. Do you ever say, oh, you know what? Don't forget.

Speaker 2 We found something so fucking funny that I said that we were shooting you. When we come around, let's make sure we get it the other direction.

Speaker 2 So we have both ways, or are you just, is it just like you're whatever you find, you find. And if you didn't get it, you didn't get it.

Speaker 16 You know what? That's usually my take is like, we're going to find what we find.

Speaker 16 But if there was something that seemed to bubble up that seemed true and right, usually the director will tell you, like, hey, make sure we get that. Because it was so good.
Yeah.

Speaker 16 Or it just was right.

Speaker 2 Now, obviously, we all are watching every great scripted show on, I believe it's called Max now.

Speaker 2 But what is they, here's the thing. Everybody was like, that HBO brand, brand, PU.

Speaker 1 PU.

Speaker 2 What we want is half of the word Cinemax.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, come on.

Speaker 16 Like the thing that all of us felt like was cool and like had a cool intro and is kind of in all of our kid brains as like prestige, awesome. Oh, let's take that all the way away.

Speaker 2 Right. Remember, remember that, remember that animated thing where you would go through the city and the starry night and end up and it would say max.

Speaker 2 Remember that? Wait, but what are your, what are your like unscripted reality shows?

Speaker 16 My biggest right now is Love on the Spectrum without a doubt.

Speaker 1 I didn't watch the new season.

Speaker 2 I love them. Me too.
I love them.

Speaker 16 So you've seen all this stuff?

Speaker 2 I haven't caught up to this most recent season, but I'm fully watched up to, and like my last, I watched the Safari trip. That's my last experience.

Speaker 16 Oh, man. Get ready.

Speaker 16 This season is the best yet.

Speaker 2 There's a sentence that one of the characters says, which is just a reminder why the show is so amazing, because it's this perspective that's so useful to see and understand and appreciate.

Speaker 2 But she says, that's interesting, but I'm not interested.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 What you're saying is interesting, but I'm not interested.

Speaker 1 It's so awesome.

Speaker 2 What could it mean? Let it soak in. It's beautiful.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 16 It's just like,

Speaker 16 it's, yeah, it's almost like a way more eloquent and beautiful agree to disagree. It's like, yeah, you have worth.
I see what you're saying is intelligent and or fascinating and or colorful.

Speaker 16 It's not landing on me in any way.

Speaker 2 Right. It's not a ref, my not being interested is no reflection on you.
It's a reflection on me and that's okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's the best.

Speaker 16 The way, the way they talk that way on their dates.

Speaker 16 The fact that they just

Speaker 16 out and out will go, I don't think we

Speaker 16 have it like that, but we'd like to be friends. And then they learn things for like, if you kind of never want to see the person again, you just go like, it was really nice to meet you.

Speaker 16 The fact that they just do it and that there's no,

Speaker 1 uh,

Speaker 16 it's not ever going to land on someone wrong because they're just saying the truth.

Speaker 2 Well, that's what I, what I think when I see those early dates is, oh, actually, what

Speaker 2 neurotypical people do is spend months, if not years, getting to the place of trust where they can be as honest as these people are on their first date.

Speaker 2 I was out to dinner once on a date with someone I had been seeing for a while, and all of a sudden I was hit with an incredible panic attack. And I said,

Speaker 2 I just realized I need to go home and write an apology email.

Speaker 2 Just got up and walked out of that Korean barbecue restaurant.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I could be on, there,

Speaker 2 there could be,

Speaker 2 there are, there are shows that make less sense for me to be on.

Speaker 1 Same.

Speaker 16 So you've seen the other seasons. You know,

Speaker 16 James with the hair.

Speaker 1 Incredible.

Speaker 16 There's an earlier season where he can't find his keys or something.

Speaker 16 And he's just got such

Speaker 16 awesome and immediate and visible overwhelm sometimes.

Speaker 16 And there's so many noises that go with it. And like, I have less noises and stuff, but like my anger spikes just as high and my overwhelm spikes just as high.

Speaker 16 I was watching him have that sort of like a little bit of a breakdown in a previous season. My mom was with me and I paused it and I was like, Um,

Speaker 16 did you ever wonder, like,

Speaker 16 just for me, and I want you to tell me, did you ever wonder, like, maybe I'm somewhere on?

Speaker 16 And she said, no, she didn't, but I

Speaker 16 do find a lot of

Speaker 16 commonalities.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 My mother always used to say that I'd either

Speaker 2 be incredibly successful or live at home.

Speaker 2 And there was no in-between. Yes.

Speaker 2 And by the way, she saw both.

Speaker 2 Now, Judy Gemstone is a towering pillar of unearned confidence, an unquenchable flame of delusional self-conviction, a woman of completely baseless faith.

Speaker 2 So she's honestly the perfect person to survive living in America right now.

Speaker 2 Now, we wanted to ask you to embody that energy in a segment segment we're calling Spin and Barrett, aka seven deadly spins.

Speaker 16 Oh, I like us. I like us there.
Look at us.

Speaker 1 Look at those arms.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 I like how I look in that. Damn it.
All right.

Speaker 2 So, we're going to give you some recent news stories.

Speaker 2 And your job is to give us the spin, the bright side, the silver lining.

Speaker 1 Here we go.

Speaker 2 First up, the Agriculture Department announced they will yank a rule limiting the amount of salmonella in the nation's raw poultry.

Speaker 2 The Biden-era plan was intended to reduce the estimated 125,000 salmonella infections from chicken and 43,000 from turkey that Americans contract each year.

Speaker 16 Hey, guys,

Speaker 16 here's the thing. Everyone's crazy about Ozimpic, We Govi, you name it.
But all you have to do is really just eat your lunch the way you would eat your lunch.

Speaker 16 Have a chicken sandwich, have your holiday meals.

Speaker 16 And just if you end up barving your brains out for a good month, then the government has done you a favor.

Speaker 23 Check, please.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's such an important point. Salmonella was the semaglutide

Speaker 2 of our ancestors.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 2 It's the ancient way. It's the ancient way.

Speaker 2 All right, next up, the Department of Health and Human Services ordered a federal research lab dedicated to studying infectious diseases to stop research immediately.

Speaker 2 RFK Jr.'s agency paused indefinitely the integrated research facility, one of the few federal labs studying what? Ebola, padlocking the lab's freezers and refusing to say when research could commence.

Speaker 16 Hey guys, here's the good news.

Speaker 16 Now, this closed-down lab can be a movie set.

Speaker 16 And we'll send in a crew from the US,

Speaker 1 from

Speaker 16 Britain, and from Russia.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 16 And everyone has to make a movie for as long as you can until your crew starts dying. Whoever wins this reality competition gets to

Speaker 16 take over the factory.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 The Ebola factory.

Speaker 1 The Ebola factory.

Speaker 2 Take over the Ebola factory. It's a little bit like a Willy Wonka situation.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a golden ticket thing. That's right.

Speaker 16 It's not the best movie. It's

Speaker 16 how much crew did you have left? Right.

Speaker 2 How did you survive the movie making experience? Do you ever see the movie Outbreak starring Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman? Sure. And Renee Russo and Kevin Spacey.
Doesn't matter. He was in it.

Speaker 2 That's a fact. It's our history.

Speaker 2 It's about the Mutaba virus.

Speaker 1 Mutaba?

Speaker 2 Mutaba, but it's based on Ebola. And it turns out that the government had been doing research on the Mutaba virus.
And the Mutaba virus mutated when airborne.

Speaker 1 When airborne.

Speaker 16 A lot of people watched that during COVID.

Speaker 2 They did. It was that and then one where Gwyneth Paltrow dies.

Speaker 1 Sliding doors?

Speaker 2 No, she lives in both outcomes of sliding doors mostly. There's a third sliding door where she gets hit by the train, but they cut it for time.

Speaker 2 That was the cool part about sliding doors. There was the one where she's a brunette, one where she's blonde, and one where she dies kind of split.

Speaker 2 You know, like the train, she's still alive until they pull the train off.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but like she's alive. Okay.
But they come and give last rights because once they bring the thing, the airbag to push the train off, that's when all the bottom falls.

Speaker 1 Whoa. Whoa.

Speaker 2 Because what happens is when people fall between between the train and the platform and the train's moving, everything gets fucking destroyed.

Speaker 1 Wow. But you're held alive.
Dang.

Speaker 16 I mean, I guess I fell asleep before that part.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they cut it for time.

Speaker 1 As I said.

Speaker 2 Trump shut down a program to stop raw sewage from backing up into Alabama homes because he called it illegal DEI.

Speaker 2 Here are some facts from the AP's story. For the last 14 years, when it it rains in Loudis County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Ann Burke's home.

Speaker 2 When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet. Although frustrated,

Speaker 2 Burke says she doesn't let it get her down.

Speaker 16 Well, hey guys, Ann Burke, actually, what she doesn't realize is she's sitting on a gold mine because come October, you can go to Ann Burke's haunted sewage house.

Speaker 16 All she has to do is hire some high school kids to like put, you know, fake blood on their faces, a couple of like, you know, skin hanging off, whatever.

Speaker 16 And then they just chase people through her house. And the whole thing is you push them into the bathroom and the toilet starts to like bubble, bubble, bubble.
And then you get raw sewage on you.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh.

Speaker 16 And then you have like.

Speaker 2 That's scary. Yeah.

Speaker 16 But then it's that old time

Speaker 16 We Go V V Ozempic thing where like you will get sick for a month. So not only did you get a good scare for Halloween, but you're going to get so skinny.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 That's so important. And that's what it's all about.
It's all about getting sick.

Speaker 1 That's right. It's all about getting skinny.

Speaker 2 That's what it's all about.

Speaker 2 It's all about, if you take nothing from this conversation, it is all about getting

Speaker 2 skinny.

Speaker 2 We did the show, Love It or Leave It, this show, the one you're on. Yes, this one.
This one. During the pandemic.
After, well, during, we're still in a pandemic, calm down.

Speaker 2 But we did the show in my backyard, and my parents were visiting.

Speaker 2 And then, and then, um, I'm not going to lay any blame or cast aspersions, but um,

Speaker 2 raw sewage started spilling out of the side of my house right before some, I can't remember, was it? Might have been, it might have been

Speaker 2 the cast of severance was going to arrive at my house.

Speaker 2 According to the AP,

Speaker 2 a climber had to be airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan, of Japan's Mount Fuji. He then tried again returning to the slope.

Speaker 2 He returned at about 3,000 meters above sea level to look for his cell phone and other belongings that he'd left behind.

Speaker 2 He was found by another climber, unable to breathe, and he had to be evacuated a second time.

Speaker 1 The good news is

Speaker 16 he did get his phone.

Speaker 2 He did. He did get his phone.

Speaker 16 He did get his phone, and he had a bunch of texts that he hadn't seen.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like how was the hike?

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 2 That is so amazing.

Speaker 16 He lost both his hands.

Speaker 1 He did.

Speaker 2 He did.

Speaker 16 He has his phone. He does.

Speaker 1 He was very skinny. And he's skinny.

Speaker 2 He's so skinny.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Edie.

Speaker 2 The series finale. Series finale of Righteous Gemstones is on Sunday night on Max.
When we're back, Beth Stelling and Guy Branham get all dolled up.

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Speaker 1 And we're back.

Speaker 2 My next two guests make it look easy, it being stand-up to tell your jokes. Damn it.

Speaker 2 Please welcome to the stage the hilarious Beth Stelling and the hysterical guy Brianna.

Speaker 1 Come on out.

Speaker 1 I have been saying for years that Beth is hysterical. I think that honestly she needs to be treated.
And

Speaker 28 does this mean I get the first C?

Speaker 28 Is this mean I get the first C?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 2 You're being hysterical.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 2 Isn't that funny that it can both mean quite funny, but also crazy in the way that women are?

Speaker 1 Yes, I prefer that second one. Yes.

Speaker 28 Being known that way.

Speaker 28 Psychotic.

Speaker 2 Psychotic.

Speaker 1 I'm crazy.

Speaker 1 I prefer to identify as hilarious.

Speaker 1 Hulu has not identified me as hilarious, but I hope.

Speaker 2 Oh, was that their slogan?

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 28 another hularious special from Guy Branham.

Speaker 1 Yes, let's hope one of these days.

Speaker 28 Yeah. If you get your social media numbers up.

Speaker 1 Yes, I will. Follow me on TikTok.

Speaker 2 I was trying to think of one with Roku.

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Speaker 1 Rokuku.

Speaker 28 Thank you.

Speaker 23 Beth. Yes.

Speaker 2 You're headed to Canada for part of your tour this summer. Any concerns about them whipping a hockey puck at the stage? Are you not going to Canada?

Speaker 28 I am. You reminded me.

Speaker 1 Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So you're excited?

Speaker 1 Dumping.

Speaker 2 Are you worried about them dumping a bucket of maple syrup from the rafters during your set? Like pig's blood? Spitting in your Tim Hortons?

Speaker 28 You know, I'm looking forward to having Tim Hortons every single day. What are they always pitching? A hot coffee and a tuna sandwich.

Speaker 1 It's evil. How is that a commercial?

Speaker 2 I don't like coffee with my tuna.

Speaker 1 Me neither.

Speaker 2 Ew. Sometimes I'll have tuna and I'll have not finished my coffee, but I'll put the coffee aside and I'll pull out a Diet Coke because that's what you need.

Speaker 2 Tuna is not coffee food.

Speaker 1 One of the great rifts in the friendship between John Lovett and I, he emphatically Diet Coke. I emphatically Coke Zero.

Speaker 2 That is true.

Speaker 1 That is true. That's a big rift.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you don't like that, yeah, because Diet Coke is for women and fags, so you got to get the manly manly Coke Zero that you fell for the fucking branding. You know,

Speaker 1 classically mask presented.

Speaker 2 Guy, you're staying stateside,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 you have to admit, it's pretty amazing how Donald Trump brought together the nation of Canada.

Speaker 1 It's magical. It's magical.
They like they were going to elect a conservative because Justin Trudeau had been there too long, making them mad.

Speaker 1 And then Donald Trump, like tried to take them and they were like, no, we have to be serious. And I just, I like,

Speaker 1 they understand the stakes of things. They understand that sometimes you have to take elections seriously.
And I feel like we've been fucking around for a couple of elections.

Speaker 1 They were just like, you know, it's Canada. They have third parties.
This time they were like, no, there is no time or space for third parties.

Speaker 1 You vote for the one who will hand us over to Trump or to the man who is not really from Canada, but from England.

Speaker 2 And then he won. And then he won.

Speaker 2 I remember when Brexit happened and people were like, oh, that's a warning sign for America that so they'll learn from the Brexit mistake and not elect Trump. I don't know if you guys remember, but

Speaker 2 we didn't learn from, yeah, America is going to learn from Europe. We have never done that one time.

Speaker 2 But then Europe learned from us. We elect Trump and it led to a like, it's just quite frustrating that the backlash to Trump seems to consistently take place in countries outside of America.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, maybe when absolutely every small object on Amazon costs three times as much, we'll wonder what's going on.

Speaker 1 But, you know, we've been making all of our decisions about egg prices in like December of 2024.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Beth, do you think it's because we closed all the churches?

Speaker 21 Possibly. Yeah.

Speaker 28 I think if we all prayed a little bit more or prayed harder, we wouldn't be here.

Speaker 1 Oh, our God.

Speaker 1 This is awesome, God.

Speaker 1 That was beautiful. Thank you.

Speaker 2 So far, just to keep track of where we're at, double threat.

Speaker 1 John, John, it's an important time for politics and Christianity right now. You, a man who watches the polls, who watches the races, what do you think we're going to get out of this next pope?

Speaker 1 You think we're going to get like one of those pro-fascist popes like we had in the 30s? I want to say

Speaker 1 Paul VI or something like that? Or do you think we're going to get like a fun cool, like another Francis, francis another john the 23rd it's all gonna come down to turnout guy the

Speaker 2 uh look i think obviously we're all seeing uh what's happening with some of those swing cardinals uh

Speaker 1 no did you did you hear about the cardinal who's like under suspicion for stealing who was like all right i won't vote oh did that is there has he decided to abstain i didn't know about that um i think it's cool that they're all guys i like that i think that's good i think no women should be involved in the process wait a minute no girl popes

Speaker 1 yeah no girl popes that's what i said okay this is erasure of pope joan during the 10th or 11th century she's the reason that they had to sit on a chair that their balls went through for a couple of hundred years what i'm sorry go back

Speaker 1 so There is a rumor, a speculation, a tale that in like the 10th or 11th century, a woman from I think England managed to get herself elected pope.

Speaker 1 And from then on, oh, but she was found out because she went into labor during a papal procession.

Speaker 1 And then for a couple of hundred years, there was a weird chair that they sat in that had a hole that your balls could go through so that they could make sure that you were neither a woman nor a eunuch.

Speaker 2 And we know that there's other ways to make sure somebody's a man, right?

Speaker 1 But I just like it's one of the top priorities of our government right now, for sure. Has he asked for directors?

Speaker 2 Yeah, NC DAA is getting one of those chairs. But the

Speaker 2 make all the athletes sit on it it before the mouth.

Speaker 28 Of a feeling moment underneath,

Speaker 1 a cupping, if you will. I think there's a bell.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I have to imagine in the Middle Ages, in the Vatican, there was a lot of ball cupping for a number of reasons.

Speaker 1 Some procedural, some just fun.

Speaker 2 That's exactly right. Yeah, it's sort of hard to take rumors from the 10th centuries seriously, given that we have pictures of everything and nobody believes anything now.

Speaker 2 Like, I don't really believe Catherine had sex with the horse.

Speaker 1 I 100% do.

Speaker 2 You know that that's a rumor, right?

Speaker 1 Catherine the Great had sex with her horse. I do feel like she would have died

Speaker 2 from that. No, but it was pegging.

Speaker 1 She's the top.

Speaker 2 Why does everyone assume? Everyone assumes she's getting fucked, but it's like that wasn't her relationship with that horse.

Speaker 2 You fucking prudes.

Speaker 2 Guy and Beth, we're all firmly in the millennial camp.

Speaker 2 After the 2024 election, there's a lot of talk about how Gen Z is more conservative than us, maybe the most conservative generation since the boomers.

Speaker 2 However, recent polling suggests that young people are turning on Trump as well.

Speaker 2 Where are you out on the Gen Z? What do you think? What's happening with you?

Speaker 1 Where are you guys on Trump?

Speaker 2 What's your experience of the youth out on the road?

Speaker 2 You're both doing stand-up tours. What's happening when you see the young people in the world? They're giggling.

Speaker 1 Yes, mostly at their phones, but then sometimes they pay attention to the comedian.

Speaker 28 That's true. They got some

Speaker 28 hunching going on. Bad posture.

Speaker 1 They love the Smash Bros. They love the Smash Bros.
And they love not having sex with each other.

Speaker 28 Yeah, maybe a little celibacy.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 28 They're saying things like Sigma.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh.

Speaker 28 And

Speaker 28 I've actually had some of them tell me they're paupers, or they're into paupers.

Speaker 1 Yes, our culture is being stolen yet again.

Speaker 1 It's like, though at some point in time we are going to find out out that black women in the South were doing paupers 30 years before gay guys.

Speaker 2 That's a really good joke.

Speaker 1 Thank you. That's really good.

Speaker 2 That's a new one for me. That was good.
I liked that. I enjoyed that.
Hey, your shirt says barf.

Speaker 1 It's true. All right.

Speaker 1 I just want to say,

Speaker 1 John,

Speaker 1 calling me millennial was one of the kindest things anyone said to me, and it really shows that the moisturizing is paying off.

Speaker 2 I was just going to let it live, you know, not call attention to it.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 2 Earlier this week, I saw something that shook me to my core. No, it wasn't that Belgian seagull contest from the monologue.

Speaker 2 No more.

Speaker 1 That's horrible.

Speaker 2 It was something called labooboos.

Speaker 2 Do you know of labooboos?

Speaker 28 Only because of you.

Speaker 2 Laboo boos are a type of evil-looking elf that inspired a near riot at the pop mart in LA this month after people camped outside before dawn to buy new releases.

Speaker 2 I found found out this week that one of our colleagues, Jordan, wears a labuboo clip to his bag.

Speaker 2 It was horrifying to discover. I only found out about labubus because I was served algorithmically a video of people rioting of the Century City Mall for labubus.
They were all adults.

Speaker 2 I was like, okay, I'll bite. What's a labuboo? Seems to be some kind of a doll.
That can't be right. Those were all adults.

Speaker 2 Those hundreds of adults, adult human beings waiting outside of a store for a doll. And everybody, the people that worked at the mall were furious because they were like,

Speaker 2 everybody's got to leave. You're not behaving.

Speaker 16 Ew.

Speaker 1 I think this is one of the best arguments for the tariffs. I think

Speaker 1 this is a tariff labuga.

Speaker 1 It's a searing reminder that necessity should cost more money. That, like, honestly, you know, we have grown weak as a nation.

Speaker 1 And it would be better if we lived in an America where people had to engage in more fist fights on a regular basis.

Speaker 1 And you had to scrimp and save to afford wheat and eggs for your family and had less money to spend on slightly creepy, cute things.

Speaker 2 You know, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 It's an interesting point. It's an interesting point.
I think on some level, you seem to be suggesting. And I don't know if this is what you took from it.

Speaker 2 I was going to say dump them into the ocean, but yeah, which is that it is not possible to have

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 2 to have meaning requires scarcity.

Speaker 2 And Mike, and I just think we're not going to have scarcity. So we need to figure out a way to have meaning and laboobus.

Speaker 2 There's going to be either we have, here's the thing, laboobus are going to win every fucking time. So if it's meaning versus laboobus, labooboos by a mile.

Speaker 2 So we got to figure out how to get meaning and laboobus.

Speaker 1 Okay, I would like to, two things. First of all, who wrote the thing about the

Speaker 1 plentiful project? Like the idea. Abundance.

Speaker 2 Abundance.

Speaker 1 who's Ezra Klein that's why I said it like that

Speaker 2 abundanza by Ezra Klein

Speaker 1 yes I mean what we do as progressives need to figure out how to create a

Speaker 1 and Derek Thompson also the co-writer and Derek Thompson a notion of abundance and how to live in a world of abundance and I would say that this is the key place for queer bitchiness in our world queer bitchiness is a way of creating the feeling of scarcity in a time and place of abundance.

Speaker 1 You can have your laboo-boo, but also there are going to be like

Speaker 1 two mean gay guys and a queer code aid sassy lady who are going to tell you that your labo boo is dumb and then you feel bad about it.

Speaker 2 That's beautiful.

Speaker 1 One of the creators of the long-running play, Five Dykes Eating a Kiche. Five lesbians eating.
Five lesbians eating a quiche. I'm sorry I said that word.
It's okay.

Speaker 28 Okay, but why don't you think they have more just in cardboard boxes and plastic in the back? They're not are I feel like there's why would we have a scarcity of laboo boos?

Speaker 1 Well, I think I think we I think capitalism artificially creates scarcity so that people will buy things and be excited for them. But like I was

Speaker 23 we need comforters.

Speaker 1 We need people out there going, don't worry, there's more. But I just

Speaker 1 line up right now. We spend so much time worrying about these dumb things when maybe we should be thinking about like important things like why are we fighting with our other country, France?

Speaker 2 Right, no, and I think, and I think that'd be something I'd really like to talk to the people on the lines for the labooboos about.

Speaker 28 Can I know how much they are?

Speaker 1 How much are the laboobus?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 13 You know, when you're sitting across from somebody who's really rich and you're like telepathically being like, buy me a house.

Speaker 1 Yes, that's what Los Angeles is constantly.

Speaker 21 Every Zoom I'm in, like, buy me a house.

Speaker 1 But also, would you like to know what kind of shoes Laboobus wear?

Speaker 2 What kind of shoes do Laboo Boos wear?

Speaker 1 Laboubatons.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 2 all right so it's time for a segment inspired by the booboos called an inconvenient youth

Speaker 2 i'll give you something the youth love you'll give us your gut reaction is this a valuable piece of culture we millennials should learn about and retain or is this for little losers

Speaker 1 little freaks that need to grow up

Speaker 2 first up we have well we've already covered the boo-boos

Speaker 1 You don't need it.

Speaker 2 Here's a clip of Charles Barkley, who is also old, clouting on Dylan Brooks for wearing a laboo boo on his belt.

Speaker 1 Man, that's how he underdogs bird nest. What?

Speaker 1 That's how you go to work.

Speaker 28 As they should.

Speaker 1 If they didn't have little fangs, I would think that they were adorable and great. But I think it is the little fangs that make them dumb.

Speaker 2 But I think that their meanness and their kind of the fact that

Speaker 2 they have some bad boy personality is what makes the Laboo Boo appeal to people.

Speaker 23 Like Sour Patch kids.

Speaker 1 Yes, it does not appeal to me. I was never a garbage

Speaker 1 pail kid person in my time. I am older than a millennial.

Speaker 1 I like things to be cute and fun.

Speaker 28 I was into beanie babies when they happened, but I had a school teacher mother.

Speaker 23 So it was like,

Speaker 23 you got what was there when it happened.

Speaker 28 You know, if you did well on a test or

Speaker 2 I love the garbage pail kids because they were like cabbage patch kids, but funny.

Speaker 2 You know, they were mean and weird, and they had different problems.

Speaker 2 They were really kids in crisis, every single one of them.

Speaker 1 Cabbage Patch kids were orphans. They were orphans.
They had no one to love them. And you would say, oh, I want to love one.
And then they would say, you're a boy.

Speaker 2 You can't have that.

Speaker 1 You need to have action figures that fight with each other. And then I just took the one girl, G.I.
Joe, Scarlett, and gave her a complex inner life.

Speaker 2 I would take two of my sisters' cat dolls, and they'd go on dates.

Speaker 28 You don't want to know what I was doing.

Speaker 1 What were you doing?

Speaker 1 Scissoring barbass?

Speaker 28 There's possible. There were some life-size doll scenarios.

Speaker 2 You're talking about mannequins.

Speaker 28 Yeah, well, you know, just like maybe a doll that was around my size, that perhaps we sort of got to know each other better.

Speaker 2 I was like, Legos.

Speaker 2 Legos and then a cat dates.

Speaker 2 Cat dates were a secret.

Speaker 2 I think my mother's finding out about the cat dates right from this.

Speaker 2 If you like laboo boos but think they're too clothes, here's Sonny's angels.

Speaker 8 Here are all my sunny angels, keychains, and hippers.

Speaker 20 One, two, three, four, four, seven, five, six, six, and seven, seven, eight.

Speaker 8 I organized them all by series, and I have 115.

Speaker 2 So those are troll dolls. All history repeats.
I did love that. And I'll just go back to where I said we got to get people back into the fucking pews.

Speaker 1 We got to get people.

Speaker 2 These should be saints. We got to get, these should be fucking saints.
We need more people. I need less laboobus, more matzah.
Like, we just got to get people back. People want a fucking program.

Speaker 1 They want a program.

Speaker 2 This is not working.

Speaker 1 No, that's great. We need monoculture so that Beth and I can make jokes about it.
If you all have your own little thing, what were those little naked dolls called?

Speaker 2 They were called sunny angels.

Speaker 1 Like if one person.

Speaker 1 A sunny angel, I make a sunny angel joke, nobody gets it. But if, you know, I make a a joke about Saint Catherine of Siena and all of you are good church-going Catholics, y'all get the joke.

Speaker 1 Jesus gave her his foreskin as a wedding ring. That's funny.

Speaker 2 You misgendered Jesus. Beth,

Speaker 2 sunny angels were designed to be a tiny companion for working women in their mid-20s dealing with the stresses of adulthood. What do you think about that?

Speaker 28 Oh, yeah, when I'm stressed, I definitely want a little baby to take care of.

Speaker 2 You never know which sunny angel you're going to get because they come in blind boxes. So there's a raffle element to it.

Speaker 1 That's ugly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 like, but it, and it's also just like it's creating an eBay business for someone, and I don't like that.

Speaker 2 I think there's something about manufactured collectibles, too, that bugs me. Like, it's, it's like, it's like kind of the collectible version of the ugly sweater party.

Speaker 2 Like, the original concept of an ugly sweater party was someone made something they thought was beautiful that they, that, but like, ha, like in a sweet way, but this wasn't my taste, or it's from a Midwest plant,

Speaker 2 or it's gone out of style. So, we all find something that was once considered nice by someone somewhere, like a Cosby sweater, a Cosby sweater, which obviously has the connotation of his innocence.

Speaker 2 And so,

Speaker 1 uh,

Speaker 22 I don't know, he was nice to me,

Speaker 2 but then all of a sudden, Target is selling ugly sweaters that people will go buy before these parties, like collectibles, like us, the like we create the randomness of collectibility so that you have to collect.

Speaker 1 It reminds me of

Speaker 28 what's the

Speaker 28 little messed up Christmas tree from the peanuts.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 16 You know, it's like, I don't want to be able to buy that.

Speaker 28 Right, right. The Charlie Brown tree.
You shouldn't sell that at Urban Outfitters. It's upsetting.

Speaker 2 I can't go on Urban Outfitters anymore. Too old.

Speaker 1 Bit of an overload. Too old.

Speaker 2 I bleed from the eyes like a vampire if I go in there now.

Speaker 1 I endorse this and support this in all ways, except I like the state quarters.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's manufactured

Speaker 1 collectibles, but

Speaker 1 I love a state quarter.

Speaker 2 State quarters were a huge, huge, good idea. I think the money should change more.
I think the money, we got to like used to change all the time. And then we got really stuck in our ways.

Speaker 2 And I think we got to move stuff around. We need different people on the money.

Speaker 1 It was that fucking Hamilton musical. Everybody was excited to get Hamilton off.
And then...

Speaker 2 Well, the problem is that this is a Trump fucking issue, as always, because it requires getting rid of Andrew Jackson. Yeah.
And then there was the question of where to put

Speaker 2 Harriet Tubman. Right.
Oh, it was. Harriet Tubman was meant to replace Andrew with Alexander Hamilton.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 But then everybody liked Hamilton, but then there was an Andrew Jackson problem somewhere on the money. Or no, that Trump wanted Jackson.
It's not him.

Speaker 1 Trump loves Jackson because he was the one who said fuck you to the Supreme Court. And Trump, we are headed towards that.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Then he's going to put himself on it. And

Speaker 28 I don't want to throw away money.

Speaker 2 What do you think about Benson Boone?

Speaker 1 Please

Speaker 1 stay.

Speaker 2 I like him.

Speaker 1 You have a clip.

Speaker 2 He's very talented and he can do flips.

Speaker 28 That was crazy.

Speaker 2 And I really respect the effort.

Speaker 28 I can't believe he did that at the Grammys.

Speaker 2 Also, he quit American Idol, which I also think is really cool.

Speaker 1 Oh, that is awesome.

Speaker 2 He was like, I'm leaving because I'm going to be a star without them and I don't want to be a star because of them, which is cool.

Speaker 1 I love that. Is that right? Yeah.
Do people not like him?

Speaker 10 I don't know.

Speaker 1 i love the suit i love the flip i love the song i like i like i am pro uh dumb pretty strong guy and so i i endorse it and i like that he wears little outfits to make himself pretty it was cool to see the bump of his

Speaker 1 stuff

Speaker 1 it was like a perfect little bump nice little bump yeah

Speaker 25 i feel a little bump

Speaker 2 beautiful voice

Speaker 1 beautiful voice i'm there

Speaker 1 famous double threat beth

Speaker 2 She's the double threat. Funny and can sing.
End of list.

Speaker 1 As far as I know. Beth, do you have chorus? Don't make me flip off this stage.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Guy and Beth. Get tickets for each of their tours at guybranham.com and bethstelling.com.
Great job. You know what? Millennials, we got our names.
You know, we got in early enough.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Jim Z can't take that.

Speaker 2 And you can also catch Beth's special if you didn't want me then on Netflix. That's right.

Speaker 1 Wow.

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The tariff saga is never ending. But just like three-day old Panda Express in your fridge,

Speaker 2 it's probably okay.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 2 Maybe it's not all bad. Some things should be tariffed to protect us from our worst impulses, which is why we're closing out the show with a segment we're calling tariff only,

Speaker 2 tariff only, tariff only.

Speaker 2 We'll spin the wheel and each share something we'd like to tariff to save us from ourselves. Now to the wheel.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 2 Beth, it's landed on you. I knew it.
You have one minute to share something you think we should tariff, which I guess means we're not getting rid of it, but make it a little bit harder.

Speaker 2 to get access to it.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 28 Right. And I only have to choose one thing.

Speaker 1 One thing.

Speaker 10 Does the time start now?

Speaker 2 It starts now.

Speaker 28 I think that we should put a tariff on

Speaker 28 art of animals portrayed in a bad light.

Speaker 16 That's really good.

Speaker 23 Are we talking like dogs and poker?

Speaker 28 Yeah, I can't see a dog smoking.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 28 I think that should be harder to get.

Speaker 2 It's a bad influence on the other dogs for sure.

Speaker 28 You know what else?

Speaker 28 I want to see them pretty much close to their thing. You know, like, I can't see a shark being nice because then you're going to think that that might be possible for you.

Speaker 2 So, you're saying it's not that you don't want to see, it's not just that you don't want to see dogs doing something bad,

Speaker 2 you don't want to see sharks doing something good. You want the photos and art of animals to be fitting the conception you have of their souls and character, and that's what art is to you.

Speaker 2 That you don't want to be surprised or challenged by anything you see about the sky.

Speaker 1 Looks like we got a real Kincair. Dog lands here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you want to see fucking trees with snow on them

Speaker 2 and dogs running and jumping, but end of list.

Speaker 28 I'm okay with a dog and a hat

Speaker 23 because that's possible.

Speaker 2 So art for you needs to be something that crazy

Speaker 2 has to exist.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I don't, I can't, I can't have, you know, see you thinking that you should be hanging out with a shark or

Speaker 28 doing drugs with a shark.

Speaker 2 Well, I don't think art necessarily has to be something, it's not as an always suggest what you should do. Like,

Speaker 2 I don't think Chieronimus Bosch wanted to burn Belgium to the ground

Speaker 2 or wherever.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying, make it harder to get.

Speaker 1 Make it harder to get. Yeah, just make it hard to get.

Speaker 2 You're not saying don't get it, just put a tax on it. I'm just saying.
Just say, put a tax on it.

Speaker 10 You got to work really hard to get it.

Speaker 16 So if I wanted a picture of, like, you know, a woman, like, leaning against a tiger, just make it real expensive. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 21 That's going to be hard to get into your house on my watch okay

Speaker 2 but not impossible not impossible cool

Speaker 2 thank you beth that was that was wonderful

Speaker 2 let's spin it again

Speaker 16 edie it has landed on you okay I think there should be a tariff on whenever anybody wants to go

Speaker 16 online and make a video going like hey guys here's a big life thing that i've figured out and you should do it too i think anytime someone wants to like teach the world something

Speaker 2 on like instagram or tick tock or whatever they should just have to pay a tariff i think that's right yeah i love that's really smart it's not saying you can't do it but like pay a fee pay a fee because in the same way that we like there are those um high frequency traders that they make a ton of money by doing, and it's like you can do, but you got to pay a little bit of a fee.

Speaker 16 Yeah, pay a fee. And then also, that'll like maybe keep you just a little more honest.
You won't, every time you have a frigging thought, go like, I got to get online and make everyone else do this.

Speaker 16 You'll maybe go like, ooh, it's a pretty high tariff. Maybe I should mean this.

Speaker 2 That's, I saw somebody make a video that went pretty viral. And it was someone saying, hey, take it from me.
I've been,

Speaker 2 you know, I'm, I'm, I'm one of your elders and you just need to take it from me. You can't be successful successful and have friends and I was like no no no no no

Speaker 1 bad advice bad advice yeah

Speaker 1 he should have been tariff yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 2 no actually it was a woman because women can also be wrong and that's important

Speaker 2 I'm just it's you know it's 2025 and women can be wrong too huh well that's what that was That one's harder for me to get behind, but same.

Speaker 1 Same. I want to, the way that Beth is looking at you makes me think her triple threat is just being threatening.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's good.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 28 I think that the tariff thing is good in the sense that you would choose. You know, you're not going to just give 17 life lessons this week of all the things.

Speaker 21 You got to pick and choose what you're,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 28 how much can you afford?

Speaker 16 You can't make that your life. Getting on every day and going like,

Speaker 16 You know, just do this thing that I did.

Speaker 16 Wear only this or look at the sun only through this side of your face or whatever you got to pick and choose that's so smart good tariff thanks good tariff let's spin it again

Speaker 2 it has landed on guy what would you like to put a tariff on guy Branham how exciting

Speaker 1 European crime dramas

Speaker 1 um it is important to protect our domestic manufacturing market. And

Speaker 1 through all of these streamers, it's just become too easy for us to access crime dramas from other countries.

Speaker 1 Every time a man in Denmark finds a dead body and has to fix his relationship with his dad to solve the crime, now suddenly it is being shoved down our throats. Can we still make a procedural?

Speaker 1 Yes, but think of our mayors of East Towns. Do you want to live in an America that can no longer make a mayor of East Town? No.

Speaker 1 That's why we need to start putting real tariffs on our imports of American foreign crime dramas.

Speaker 2 I think that's such an important point. And I'll say we have to do it now before the AI gets too sophisticated because it's all fun and games when there are subtitles.
All right. That's a barrier.

Speaker 2 Okay. But pretty soon, Netflix, you're just going to click a button and AI is going to make them talk in English.

Speaker 2 And then we're absolutely fucked because then we're watching them before they even, we're not even getting the three years later American version with slightly better looking Americans.

Speaker 1 If you don't let them speak Danish and then have subtitles, how are you going to learn that the Danish word for woman is Kavinda?

Speaker 2 That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 10 And they're going to pay for that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Borgen,

Speaker 1 hardly know them.

Speaker 16 Kabanga, they're right in 2025.

Speaker 2 Let's spin it again.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 So there needs to be a fucking massive cost per inch of website real estate that comes before the fucking recipe. What is going on? What is the? I don't understand it.

Speaker 2 I don't understand the incentives. I'm sure it must make sense.
It must have some rationale.

Speaker 2 But why am I reading a book about the story of mustard glazed chicken and all the exciting experiences you've had with mustard and chicken and glaze and all the different modifications you could employ and then the recipe described subjectively

Speaker 1 in full

Speaker 2 before I get to what I need, which is the things I need to buy at the grocery store and the steps I take in order to produce the chicken? What is who is benefiting?

Speaker 2 Who wins from what's going on all the way up here. Is it just, I don't understand, I genuinely am baffled by it.
Who is producing all this text? Chat GPT, perhaps. I just want a tax.
I want a tax.

Speaker 2 And I want to, I want to also, by the way, I'd pay a monthly fee. I'd pay a monthly fee to the internet.

Speaker 2 And then the internet would know. I get to go right to the recipes.
I want internet-wide recipe plus. And I don't see any of this.
I don't see any of this. You need the recipes to be right at the top.

Speaker 2 I need to be able to jump down to find out what kind of chicken I'm supposed to to buy. I don't want to know about your husband.

Speaker 2 I don't ever want to know about your husband.

Speaker 1 Except for Priya Krishna. Priya Krishna from the New York Times cooking section has the hottest husband.
He is an architect named Seth who loves to bake, and I would like to learn more about him.

Speaker 1 Mostly what he looks like with his shirt off.

Speaker 2 And that's our show.

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