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Elon is sliding into your DMs and your wombs. RFK Jr.
is on the asshole spectrum. And I watched golf, so you don't have to't have to you're welcome but first let's check in with the best cabinet ever in another installment of the worst wing

what a bunch of losers

let's start with uh health secretary robert F. Kennedy Jr.
seen here greeting a supporter. It's always good to meet a fan, but RFK is known for his controversial health ideas like drinking raw milk and adding roadkill to the food pyramid.
But the conspiracy theory that he's most known for is that vaccines cause autism. He's basically a health expert, the same way Katy Perry is a rocket scientist.
You never know how much love is inside of you, how loved you are until the day you launch. I have a teenage dream that she shut the f*** up.
So, unsurprisingly, RFK Jr. brought his anti-vax policies to the administration.
And yesterday, he gave a speech about autism, and people are pissed. Comments from Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. that are raising eyebrows.
During his first news conference as the nation's top health official, he addressed rising autism rates while calling the disease preventable. RFK Jr.'s bleak description of people living with autism causing outrage.
Autism destroys families. These are kids who will never pay taxes.
Wait, that that's what that's what you're going to lead with lead with? That's the big tragedy for you? These poor kids will never know the joy of attaching a Schedule K to a 1048. It's not even accurate.
I mean, autistic people do pay taxes. Are you thinking of art history majors? But, I mean, please, give us more of your expert opinions about what autistic people can and can't do.
They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball.
They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date.
What do you mean they don't date? I mean, does the candy compound not have Netflix? Because David took Abby on a f***ing safari to Africa. And yeah, could Connor be a little more open-minded about dating blondes? Sure, but couldn't we all? I mean, everything this guy said is ridiculous.
Autistic kids will never write poems? Well, who wants kids to write more poems? That's something we should be preventing. So it's no wonder why people are pissed at him.
Most autistic people can do all that stuff. And even the ones who can't are still human beings.
Who even made RFK the

judge of what makes life worth living? I'm sorry, they'll never know the joy of planting bear

carcasses in Central Park or holding 85% of the world's mucus in their throats. But whatever,

this is a huge project he's taking on. I mean, Lem spent the next two decades trying to figure it

out. By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
So you think you're going to have a pretty good idea, huh? We will know by September. By September? Wow.
That was quick and very specific. I mean, I ordered a couch that isn't going to come by then.
But good to know when I'm watching the Wicked sequel this fall, I can focus on the plot instead of wondering what causes autism. I mean, why are you even pretending to study it? We all know you're going to blame vaccines, okay? This whole thing is more rigged than a golf championship at Mar-a-Lago.
I mean, just look at who he hired to do the research. Kennedy has tapped a previously discredited vaccine skeptic, David Geyer, as a senior data analyst.

Geyer was previously fined $10,000 by the Maryland Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a license.

You know when commercials say 9 out of 10 doctors agree?

This is the 10th doctor. I mean, this guy looks like the reason second opinions were invented.
But enough about RFK, let's move on to Elon Musk, living proof that autistic people can do anything including... ...
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And as far as his dating life goes, Elon isn't lacking there either. According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk followed cryptocurrency influencer Tiffany Fong on X and began liking and replying to her tweets.
Around November of last year, Musk sent her a direct message asking if she was interested in having his child, according to people familiar with the matter. The two had never met in person.
Elon, can you just be a normal person and send a dick pic, all right? This is why you should switch the settings on your DMs to followers who don't want to impregnate me only. I mean, you haven't met this person and you're already trying to raw doge her? Like, I...
I have to work up the courage to put the moves on my own wife, all right? Like, hey, if you're not doing anything later, maybe you could, like, I don't know, like, kiss or whatever. Never mind, it's stupid.
But let's stop thinking about Elon's sperm and get back to actual government stuff. Specifically, the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth, defense secretary, and guy whose tattoos are somehow embarrassed by him, just scored another victory in his war on thinking.
The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has been ordered to purge its library of books related to diversity, equity and inclusion, along with some topics related to race and gender. The Naval Academy Library tossed out nearly 400 books, including titles on feminism, civil rights history and the Holocaust.
Speaking of, at the Naval Academy, Hitler's Mein Kampf made the cut and is still available to read. That's where you draw the line? Like, yeah, I don't want one of those woke social justice books.
I'm looking for more of a beach read. Do you have Mein Kampf? This type of censorship is outrageous and un-American, and this has got to be the most disgusting thing Pete Hegseth has ever done.
If Pete Hegseth would have a bagel with cream cheese, he would drop it, it would land upside down, the cream cheese on the floor, and he'd pick it up. I'm like, wait, is there any hair on there? Oh, no.
It is so gross, and he would just pop it in his mouth. Okay, well, I think we just found the cause of autism.
This, this, this, this is the worst thing I've ever heard a defense secretary do, and I'm including Vietnam. I know it's caught in everything, Bagel, but you're supposed to draw a line somewhere, okay? Anyway, this whole anti-DI thing is getting out of control.
They're pulling books about minorities out of schools, scrubbing stories about women and gay people from websites, and Disney can't even put out a new Snow White without people trying to deport her. And that's just the beginning.
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For example, if I say UFC needs to be more violent... Oh, well, then I say fighters need to settle their differences peacefully with a licensed therapist.
Yeah, well, I'd like to introduce you to my two therapists, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Oh, yeah? Well, I should go to therapy, seeing as how I'm obsessed with your mom.
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Hey, let's talk golf, okay? Short game, amateur, handicap, ball washer. These aren't just Ronnie's nicknames, they're golf terms.
And this week was a historic one on the links. Tonight, Rory McIlroy is now one of only six golfers to win all four major golf championships, winning the Masters for the first time.
The kid who grew up in Northern Ireland. Overcome with emotion, winning his first green jacket 11 years after winning his last major championship.
Wow. Congrats to Roy McIlroy.
It took him 11 years to get a new green blazer. And as someone currently serving a 20-year ban from the men's warehouse, I can totally relate.
This is totally different, you idiot. Rory was trying to accomplish one of the hottest things in all of sports.
You just took a dump in a fitting room. They guaranteed I was going to like the way I looked, and breaking a verbal contract has consequences.
The point is, I'm happy for Roy McIlroy. Oh yeah? Well, I'm not.
Okay? I don't want to seem happy. Everyone knows that Irish people are at their best when they're depressed.
Haven't you ever read James Joyce?

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And moving on, the NBA playoffs start Saturday. But if you're a little girl with a big imagination like Costa, you also have a reason to

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I hope it comes with a brawny James doll that you're forced to play with even though it sucks. Wrong again, boy toy.
I happen to love LaBarbie. He has every, he has what every little girl wants in a doll, pride for the city of Akron.
Now, they can play until their heart's content with a middle-aged man dressed like a 14 year old no notes they should expand this to other nba legends like dennis rodman the worm the first doll in barbie history with the pierceable scrotum or my favorite my favorite from the childhood will chamberlain there are hundreds of different Barbies and he can have sex with all of them. Which brings us to our extremely random endorsement deal, Better the Week, presented by Joanne Fabrics.
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Baseball's a sport where you have to know your signs, right? Curveball.

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But this week, Bryce

Harper took that to the next level.

Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce

Harper is about to take another swing at fatherhood.

And he got creative with the baby's

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Harper asked shortstop Trey Turner

I'm going to go to the next one. Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper is about to take another swing at fatherhood.
And he got creative with the baby's gender reveal during last night's game.

Harper asked shortstop Trey Turner to hand him either a blue or a pink bat before he went up to hit as a gender reveal.

He found out right before stepping up to the plate that he'll be having a baby boy.

This is awesome.

Baseball needs more medical tests revealed during games. I want to see a runner slide into home and the umpire yells,

you are safe from Tay-Sachs disease.

Costa, you are out of your mind, all right?

This is ruining the game.

You can't be doing gender reveals at the plate.

Gender reveals are supposed to be for a close group of loved ones

that you're hoping to injure with explosives.

Ronnie, I got your gender reveal bat right here. Surprise, it's brown since you're a piece of shit.
Well, Costa. Yup.
For those of us who've had sex, this is a disaster, all right? Baseball is the thing you think about when you're not trying to get someone pregnant. Get your family planning out of my sports, okay? Can we please see a baseball story that has nothing to do with sex? The Baltimore Orioles' AA affiliate, the Chesapeake Bay Sox, decided to unveil an alternative team identity to help them gain traction with new audiences.
That included a new alternative name, the Oyster Catchers, along with a brand new logo. This logo, which at least to many seems to depict a baseball glove catching an oyster.
Others interpreted it a bit differently. The team took the criticisms to heart, deleting their own announcement within minutes.
But later they unveiled a new new logo showing a bird holding a bat. God damn it.
I'm never going to be able to slurp an oyster off a baseball glove ever again. And that's the only way I like them.
What are you talking about, Ronnie? The oyster logo is great. If anything, the new logo is the one that's perverted.
That bird is clearly flying away with some guy's severed penis. And you know what? That poor guy.
But those lucky baby birds, what a lunch. This whole thing just confirms my belief that baseball teams should get rid of logos entirely, okay? If they're not sexualizing oysters, they're pissing off Native Americans.
Every team should just name themselves after their city, like the Philadelphia Phillies, the Boston Bostonies, the Cleveland Clevelandies, the Detroit

titties. Nothing sexual.

I disagree, Ron.

All team names should be sexual

but educational.

Sex ed in this country is a joke, but if

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Hey, my guest tonight is a trailblazing Hollywood icon who has written a new book called The World of Nancy Kwan, a memoir by Hollywood's Asian superstar. Please give a very big welcome to the one and only legendary Nancy Kwan! Thank you.
Yeah. Thanks for coming on the show.
Hello, everyone. Yeah.
It's the Hollywood legend. How how are you doing i'm doing fine how are you doing i'm okay i'm okay yeah so you were born in hong kong yes so you were born in hong kong yes so let's say what's it gonna want to say no hi malaysia choose what's scaring the white people now we that.
From Malaysia. Yeah, yeah.
We were discussing how great it is to be in the West. And, yeah, so you started in Hong Kong.
You were born in Hong Kong. Yes.
Then from there, that's kind of where you started acting. And you didn't even start out wanting to be an actor.
No, I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was going to the Royal Ballet,

very serious about being a ballet dancer. I was back in Hong Kong for summer holidays,

and they were testing, making screen tests

for some of my favorite Chinese actresses

for the world of Suzy Wong in Hong Kong.

So I went up to the studio to watch my favorite actress

at work. And I was standing there

and somebody says

to me, you want to do a screen test?

I said, no.

I'm a ballet dancer.

I'm nothing to do with her. I'm just here

watching my favorite actresses.

They said, why don't you do a screen test?

I said, well, what's that? They said, well,

just sit in the chair. So I said, okay.

So I sat in the chair

and he asked me questions. How old

I'm going to go. They said, why don't you do a screen test? I said, well, what's that? They said, well, just sit in the chair.
So I said, okay. So I sat in the chair, and he asked me questions, how old I am.
And every time he asked me something, I burst out laughing like an idiot. I mean, I laughed the whole way through.
And then when I got home, I said to my father, I said, I don't know, but this guy wanted me to do a screen test. And I just giggled all the way.

He said, well, never mind, you're a ballet dancer, forget it.

Few weeks later, my father gets a letter from Ray Stark,

the producer of The World of Suzy Wong. Sorry, a letter, what's that?

You know, one of those...

Like a piece of paper?

Like a piece of paper.

And a contract. He said, well, you know.
Like a piece of paper? Like a piece of paper. Like a piece of paper.
Writing on it.

Yes, yes, yes.

And a contract.

They said, well, you'd like to go to Hollywood for six months.

And I even get paid for it.

I said, I've also been a student.

So I've never been paid.

I said, oh, I would love it.

I would love it. I've never been to America.

And that's how I started.

Right.

And so that was in Hong Kong. Yeah.
You went to go see your favorite actress and then you end up replacing her on the movie well no that was much later i don't well that's that's how i got this job i was just yeah standing around as a ballet dancer in terms like Yeah, like, you know, both of us, yeah.

Yeah, and then that was your first time in America, right?

And then you started doing movies in America?

Well, first time I came...

This was the 60s.

The early 60s.

Right.

Where the studio system...

Yes.

...was just phasing out.

Right.

So this was Hollywood in the 60s in America?

Yes.

Right, and what kind of drugs were they doing back then?

What were you doing?

What was I doing? Yeah. Oh, I don't do drugs in...
Oh, I don't do drugs either. Okay, good.
Okay, cool. Tell me in Cantonese what drugs they do.
Okay, so this was the 60s. This is like golden age, you know, once upon a time in Hollywood, like that period of movies.
And you were there right in the middle of it. Yeah, no, the studio system was phasing out, and independent films were coming in.
Really, that was an exciting, very exciting time. Okay.
Kind of sounds like what's happening right now, too. But I guess history repeats.
But sorry, yeah, okay, so in the 60s... It does, it does.
The studio system was phasing out, and then... Yeah, and independent films were coming in.
And so, I mean, I was just caught in that. But Ray Stark had me under contract.
So I did quite a few films, you know, for seven years, actually. Yes.
Under contract. Yeah.
And different films. And at that time, you know, with Asian actors, before then, Asian actors did not get the good roles.
Really the roles that could advance the career. I guess history really does repeat itself because that's still the case.
No, no, no, no. It's much better now.
It's getting better. And hopefully...
Tell that to my agent, man. All right, I will.
And you were mixing with kind of Hollywood icons at this time, right? Terry Grant. That's right.
That's right. I think you were hanging out with Dean Martin.
Yes. Right? Glenn Ford.
I worked with quite a few of them. Yeah.
Mr. Bruce Lee.
Of course. Yeah.
My good friend. Your good friend, Mr.
Bruce Lee, yeah. Bruce also came from Hong Kong.
Yeah. And Bruce went to La Salle, which is a Catholic school.
And I went to Merino, which is kind of a Catholic school, a convent. But Bruce used to hang around Merino just to look at the girls.
Okay. Maybe we shouldn't be talking about that part of the story.
He was the cha-cha king of Hong Kong at one time, Bruce. He was a what? Cha-Cha King.
Oh, yes, he was the Cha-Cha King. Yeah, yeah.
What was he like? Was he a cool guy? Very cool. Very nice.
Good friend. And he was the one who told me, he said, actually, I worked with him on The Wrecking Crew.
Yeah. With Dean Martin and Sharon Tate.
And we had, Sharon Tate and I had a fight scene at martial arts. So Bruce was called in to show us what to do.
And that's how I met him. Yeah.
And when I got to know him, Bruce said to me, you know, Nancy, I'm going back to Hong Kong to become a big martial arts star. That's what I'm going to do.
And I believed him. Yeah.
I mean, he was so determined. Right.
And he had such energy and conviction that he was the best. And he was.
Yeah. And he introduced martial arts, you know.
Yeah. And so he wanted to go back because of a lack of opportunities in America at the time.
Yes, yes. But did you also feel that way? Well, I was under contract, so I was lucky.
Yeah. I was, one time, Ray Stark put me in a film

where I played an English girl with English parents.

So all the actors in England were complaining.

I said, what is this Chinese girl or the Asian

playing an English girl?

And you turned the shut the f*** up?

No, I didn't say.

What did you do?

I did the film, got reviews, got reviews. Oh, you got reviews there.
Yeah. Do you remember what film it was? The Wild Affair, it was called.
This is why I was so excited to have you on, because you're one of the rare persons in Hollywood and in the world who actually has this perspective on Hollywood, because you've been there for quite a while now, and you've seen many different eras. A long while.
Yeah, a long while. And you've seen kind of, you know, I guess, have you recognized any patterns appearing in terms of the business cycle? Well, I know with Asian actors, and I have a lot of good Asian friends who are actors, very good actors, that never got a chance to really show their talent.
And I'm trying my best, all right? Keep trying, keep trying. She meant that as a nice thing.
You guys read it like she was talking shit. She was saying, keep going.
No, no, what are the patterns are because okay here's the thing like i think i think like we're all in 2025 now is it 2025 benny no no no it's not 25. okay okay uh but uh whatever year we're in we're in a we're in a period where we keep thinking of the past.
We kind of romanticize the past in terms of films. You know, we're like, oh, you know, this era of films kind of sucks.
The 90s was when the peak of Hollywood, you know, and then we go back to the 80s was when things were cool. And we keep thinking that way.
I mean, you are one of the few people who people actually live through it all is it true that we live in the worst era right now or is it or has it always been the case that we always look back with rose tinted glasses i think you're right both both oh so we suck and we also don't suck yeah that's right exactly right okay yes so what sucks about now other than have you seen the films yeah i mean have i have i seen them i'm in some of them. So what sucks about now? Other than this.
Have you seen the films? Yeah. I mean, have I seen them? I'm in some of them.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
But what do you, I mean, I don't want to talk shit about it anymore, but like what is like, what do you think is your main problem right now? If you have to say, in general, in general. I don't think it's the main problem.
I think audience have changed. You know, the thought, I mean, in the old days.
Yeah. Okay.
I my days, in the 60s, they did group. That's mean.
No, it's a comedy show. You got sense of humor.
We got, yeah. No, but they, I mean, my favorite director was David Lean, who did great films.
Bridge on the River Kwai, Lions of Arabia. They don't do that kind of films anymore.
They really don't. And I wish they would come back to that, and maybe they will.
Because everything goes around. That's life, isn't it? Sure.
It's very Buddhist. It's very cylindrical.
But is that... I don't want to put you on the spot, but do you think there's a reason you could point to why that's the case, that they don't make it like that anymore? No, it's not a reason.
I think it's just a phase. Maybe one day we'll go back to it.
But now it's just... What do we need to do to get back to that? Do we need people to put down their phones? What is it? I wish I knew.
Okay, so we don't know. They're trying their best to do films.
And films are not, I mean, television's taken over. And, you know, people don't go to movies in a movie house anymore.
They don't. You know, so that's another reason, too.
Yeah, it's their problem. That's a them.
That's a them problem. But, okay, and then you said that's kind of like the problem.
Like, you said that's why we're not in a good era. Why are we in a good era, then? Why? Yeah, because you said know, we're currently, it's both.
What era are we in? We're in an era that's bad and it's also good. I think it was, I mean, this too shall pass.
And how do you know? Maybe some great directors, producers will come up with some great ideas and we'll start again, another kind, on another level. Okay, well, let me put it this way then, because we romanticized the past.
What sucked about the past? So let's get it on the record, you know, that what was bad about it? Like, what was bad about the era that you were coming through, you know? What did you not like about it? I loved it. All films, all films.
I didn't think it was bad. Oh, okay.
It was perfect. Okay, great.
So, yeah. No, it wasn't perfect.
Okay. But I thought they did very interesting films, during my time anyway.
Yeah, yeah. And I got a chance to play non-Asian roles.

I mean, I played an American Indian in the Western, you know, and I played English girls, I said, or a circus performer with no nationality. So at least I had a chance to do that.
Unfortunately for Asian actors, they're not there yet. I wish we would have more Asian directors, writers, producers writing for Asians, making films for Asians with great roles for them to play.
There's so many talented Asian actors out there. Yeah, for sure.
And sorry, I cut you off a little bit. You're kind of explaining the studio system was ending when you got there.
So what does that mean? Actors were no longer under contract. They were, you know, getting their agents together, being handled by lawyers, making their own deals.
So it was a whole big change in that time. And I don't know if it was good or bad, but I think it's just another phase in life that we go through and hope, you know, maybe things will come back again.
Better, better movies, more interesting movies. Okay.
So the last thing I want to ask you was, you were born and raised in the East, and you've been working and living in the West for a while now, much like myself. And do you have any comment on this current kind of civilizational clash between the East and West right now? Is there, like, what is your perspective on this thing? I think there will always be political clashes.
That's what makes the world interesting. And...
Okay, well then we are in a very interesting period then, because shit is going down right now. And you know, you never know what comes up, so...
Oh. Okay.
No. So there's a...
You're saying there's a silver lining to this end of civilization? I didn't say it was end of civilization or silver lining. I just think it's going through changes.
Okay. Like life.
Okay. You're going through changes, aren't you? I am.
Yes, I am. What kind of...
I think my voice is breaking. I don't know.
I don't know. All right, so...
And what are you smoking and what kind of drugs do you use? Yeah, I'll tell you in Cantonese after the show, yeah. Promise.
So what is your perspective on this East-West thing? Like, is there anything you can speak to, anything that the America continues to misunderstand about the East or vice versa, you know? I think it will always be so. I mean, I really...
Even the, even like you talk about the East. You know, you come from Malaysia.
I come from Hong Kong. And there's Thailand and there's all these Southeast Asian countries.
We're not, not everyone gets on all the time. They don't get along.
But we learn to live with each other. And I think it's like the West.
I mean, we have to, we will go for phases and political things, bad or good, but we learn from it, hopefully. And from those lessons, you know, something good will come out of it, I hope.
I mean, I like to look at the good side of things. I really am not a negative person.
Okay, I think you might be in the wrong era then. Because this is...
Well, you're going to have the yin and yang, you know, so both. I know, yeah, okay.
So I was really hoping for... You're saying that this is...
You've seen it go up and down and that we'll come back and we'll be friends again. Always.
Okay, okay. Okay, I hope you.
I hope so too. I mean, I like to think of the positives.
Yeah. Okay.
I gotta say thank you so much, Nancy Kwan. I think you're the best.
Thank you for representing Asian people in Hollywood. Thank you for making the films that you made.
And thanks for coming on the show. And thanks for representing all of us with dignity and class.
We appreciate being you. Thank you.
Hey, the award of Nancy Kwan comes out April 22nd. It's available to pre-order now.
Nancy Kwan, everybody. We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back after this. Hey, that's our show for tonight.
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