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blubbering drunk outside of

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knows other people think I'm funny, but

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she doesn't see it Maybe

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one day she will there's

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still time Known

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Hillary Clinton now for literally

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20 years always get the same facial

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expression, which is I don't get it

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You know when you go to a place you

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how you're just a

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little shit to your sibling when you're home for Thanksgiving even though

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you're both adults with life

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great to be back tonight

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alpha Frank is here. Many

2:03

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2:06

Sam Jay and Josh Gondelman are here. And

2:10

we're going to end the show with a new game called

2:13

Smash or Pass Over. That's

2:18

too encouraging. And

2:21

we will also be doing your live high notes. So

2:24

please think about your high notes and

2:26

a reminder that I'm sharing just here. Your

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high notes should not be about being at this show

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because the people at home are not at this show. And

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that's a shitty high note. It's lovely for me,

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would be great if your high note could be about something going on

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in your life just as you're thinking about it. That's

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just for us because we've gotten some

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feedback. But

2:52

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

2:58

The New York Police Department arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian

3:01

student protesters at Columbia who refused

3:03

to leave an encampment on Columbia's lawn

3:05

in violation of the university's rules. Columbia's

3:08

precious rules are very clear. One,

3:10

note tense on the lawn. Two, no mentioning

3:12

that you went to Columbia because you got

3:14

rejected from Harvard. Those

3:17

are the only two rules. You're not allowed a break. I

3:20

can't believe this shit said a bunch of cops who had to

3:23

stop playing Candy Crush on the subway for an hour. But

3:27

if you can believe this shit, it seems, get

3:31

this, arresting the

3:33

protesters has backfired.

3:38

They rebuilt the encampment and the protests have spread

3:40

to campuses across the country. It's hard to blame

3:42

administrators for not knowing how to handle this. They're

3:44

dealing with a completely new phenomenon,

3:47

an anti-war protest on

3:50

a college campus. What's

3:53

next, some sort of ostensibly straight a

3:55

cappella group? And

4:04

camels have also sprung up at MIT, Emerson,

4:06

UC Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. When

4:09

the MIT kids get involved, you know it's over. Those tents

4:11

have running water. And

4:15

a particle accelerator. You

4:20

might be asking yourself, why would you need a tent with

4:22

a dumbwaiter? For

4:25

peace, that's why. Hundreds

4:30

of Columbia faculty members held a walkout on

4:32

Monday to protest the school's decision to have

4:34

the students arrested. I feel so alive, said

4:36

a professor of anthropology in a throuple that

4:38

isn't working. House

4:43

Speaker Mike Johnson, a foot taller because he

4:45

passed a bill, visited

4:49

Columbia on Wednesday to denounce the

4:51

protest and to do what any

4:53

legislative official from Louisiana should be

4:55

doing, making personnel recommendations for Northeastern

4:58

private universities. Said

5:00

Johnson on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. It's

5:03

unconscionable. President

5:05

Shaqique is shown to

5:07

be a very weak and up leader. They

5:09

cannot even guarantee the safety of Jewish students.

5:12

Yes, it's the number one Jew defender. A

5:15

right-wing evangelist overseeing a caucus that

5:17

spreads anti-Semitic conspiracies and attends white

5:20

nationalist conferences and who seems like

5:22

he'd call scallion cream cheese too

5:24

spicy. Johnson

5:29

also said he had a simple message for

5:31

student protesters. Go back to class and stop

5:33

the nonsense. Stop wasting your parents' money. What

5:36

do you think happens at Columbia when they're in class? A

5:40

lot of these kids are English majors. Class is

5:42

where they waste the money. Speaking

5:48

of Speaker Johnson, according to a new profile

5:51

in the Atlantic, his sons nearly drowned in

5:53

the ocean shortly after Johnson met with Trump

5:55

at Mar-a-Lago last fall. That's both

5:57

of his sons, the one who monitors his porn

5:59

consumption. And the one who feels left out. LAUGHTER

6:05

Johnson said that he and Trump spoke about

6:07

the incident by phone, saying, we talked about

6:09

the faith aspect, that God spared the lives

6:12

of my sons. That's how I understand those

6:14

events, and we talk about that. And

6:16

Trump said, God, God saved your

6:19

son's lives. I would bet so

6:21

much fucking money that as

6:23

Trump told Mike Johnson on the phone that

6:26

God saved his son's lives. He was 100%

6:28

doing a jerk-off motion. LAUGHTER

6:34

To a caddy that is also his

6:36

chief of staff. LAUGHTER No,

6:42

totally, Mike. God saved him. 100%. It's

6:44

sad when kids die because they can't campaign for

6:46

you anymore, right? Anyway, gotta run. My wife's here

6:48

for a check. LAUGHTER

6:52

President Biden on Wednesday signed the $95.8 billion bipartisan

6:54

aid package for

6:56

Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The bill

6:58

included a provision that could ban TikTok in the United States

7:01

if the parent company, ByteDance, fails to sell

7:03

it to an American company within a year.

7:05

You might have only one year left to

7:07

diagnose yourself with ADHD, and

7:10

if that doesn't seem like enough time, you're already on

7:12

your way. LAUGHTER

7:16

A TikTok spokesperson said in a Wednesday statement that added

7:19

the spokesperson, You

7:23

wouldn't believe how late Merrick Garland stays up watching local news

7:25

bloopers. LAUGHTER

7:34

Speaking of bloopers, on Tuesday,

7:36

Judge Juan Marchon held a hearing on whether

7:38

to hold Donald Trump in contempt for violating

7:40

his gag order in the Hush Money case.

7:42

Meanwhile, Trump held what he called a judge-fat-bitch

7:44

hearing outside in the parking lot. And

7:47

well, Marchon is not going to like Trump's ruling.

7:50

LAUGHTER When

7:54

Blanche said that Trump was trying to comply

7:56

with the gag order and being very careful,

7:58

Marchon replied, Credibility

8:00

with this court your honor. It's

8:02

one thing to insult me. It's another to invent a

8:04

word like credibility to do so a Prosecutor

8:12

argued that Trump had been willfully and repeatedly

8:14

violating the order and that even made statements

8:16

that violated it in the hallway Right

8:18

as he left court, but who isn't cranky when

8:20

they first wake up It's

8:24

relatable actually He

8:28

said the prosecutor he knows what he's not allowed

8:30

to do and does it anyhow also

8:33

true of me when I bring in a burrito Bull to

8:35

the movies No

8:39

one could hold me in contempt Actual

8:42

testimony began this week with the first witness Trump's

8:44

former ally and publisher of the National Enquirer David

8:46

pecker Which people make fun of but was changed

8:48

at all silent to anglicize it from the Yiddish

8:52

long He

9:00

So stupid stop it He

9:02

described how he bought and paid for Damaging

9:05

stories about Trump during his 2016 campaign

9:08

pecker said that he acted as the campaign's

9:10

eyes and ears I

9:12

called all the other orifices said Rudy

9:14

Giuliani Know

9:16

what that means? Utah

9:19

senator Mitt Romney offered this take on the hushman

9:21

a trial on Tuesday I think everybody has made

9:23

their own assessment of President Trump's

9:25

character and So far as

9:27

I know you don't pay someone a hundred and thirty thousand dollars

9:29

not to have sex with you Nice

9:36

me put some put

9:39

some chocolate syrup in that milk you've earned it Give

9:42

yourself a little treat go crazy Then

9:46

on Thursday the Supreme Court heard arguments on Donald

9:48

Trump's presidential immunity case in which the former president

9:50

argues conducting a coup Is in a crime so

9:52

long as you pay for it on your work credit

9:54

card Naturally

9:56

much of SCOTUS is hearing revolves around what could

9:58

constitute an official act like For example,

10:00

a president murdering his enemies. Ask

10:03

Judge Sonia Sotomayor. If the president

10:05

decides that

10:07

his rival is

10:10

a corrupt person and

10:13

he orders the military or

10:15

orders someone to assassinate him,

10:19

is that within his official access from

10:21

which he can get immunity?

10:23

It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that

10:26

could well be an official. I could. We

10:31

all heard the voice. Is

10:36

he wearing his Air Force One jacket when he orders

10:38

the extrajudicial killing? Is he snacking on a box of

10:40

White House M&Ms? Then he's in the clear,

10:42

Your Honor. Justice

10:45

Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett seem

10:47

shocked by the defense's argument that a

10:49

president orchestrating a coup or assassinating rivals

10:51

should be protected from prosecution. And these

10:53

ladies don't shock easily. They've had to

10:55

sit through multiple slideshow presentations of Alito's

10:58

vacation pics. And he's toppling off a

11:00

boogie board in 1920s neck-to-toe bathing

11:03

suits in every single picture.

11:08

Justice Katanji Brown Jackson noted this problem

11:10

with Trump's argument. The most powerful person

11:12

in the world with the greatest

11:15

amount of authority could

11:17

go into office knowing that

11:19

there would be no potential

11:22

penalty for committing crimes. I'm

11:24

trying to understand what the disincentive is from

11:28

turning the Oval Office into the

11:30

seat of criminal activity in this country.

11:34

Now you're getting it, said Rudy Giuliani, barreling

11:36

down the aisle on a tricycle for some

11:38

reason. Meanwhile,

11:47

Justice Alito asked this of the government's lawyer.

11:50

The president has the authority

11:52

to pardon himself before leaving

11:55

office. And the DC

11:57

Circuit is right that there is no

11:59

immunity. from prosecution won't

12:02

the predictable result be that presidents on the

12:04

last couple of days of office are going

12:07

to pardon themselves from anything? Yeah,

12:09

great point, you fucking dweeb. Also

12:13

this week, the Supreme Court

12:15

heard arguments over whether Idaho's near total abortion

12:17

ban conflicts with a federal law which requires

12:19

patients to receive appropriate medical care. The Idaho

12:21

law says that anyone who performs an abortion

12:23

could face up to five years in prison

12:25

unless the woman's life is in danger. In

12:27

that case, it's 10 years in prison. In

12:33

one exchange, Justice Sotomayor pressed Idaho's lawyer

12:35

on how much flexibility the state law

12:37

gives doctors for performing emergency abortions and

12:39

right-wing Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to

12:41

be shocked at the answer. When

12:44

Idaho law changed to make

12:47

the issue whether she's going to

12:49

die or not or whether she's going to have

12:51

a serious medical condition, there's a big daylight by

12:53

your standards, correct? It

12:56

is very case by case. The example of a

12:58

problem... That's for sure how I'm kind of shocked

13:00

actually because I thought your own expert had said

13:02

below that these kinds of cases were covered and

13:04

you're now saying they're not? No, I'm not saying

13:07

that. That's just my point Your Honor, is that...

13:09

Well, you're hedging. Oh, are you shocked? Are

13:12

you shocked? You overturned a cartoon barrel

13:14

of motor oil all over the highway.

13:16

Yeah, cars are running off the road.

13:21

Gambling in this casino. What do you think was going to happen? The trigger

13:23

laws were on the books. They were all

13:25

on the books. You're shocked? I think you should

13:27

be shocked. Meanwhile, in Arizona, Democrats managed to

13:29

advance a bill to repeal the state's 1864 abortion

13:32

ban on Wednesday with three Republicans in the

13:34

statehouse breaking rank to vote with Democrats on

13:37

their third attempt. Congratul- Yeah. Congratulations

13:43

to those three Republicans who either consulted their

13:45

consciences or happened to read one poll. Speaking

13:50

of switching teams, the FTC voted this

13:52

week to ban nearly all employers from

13:54

issuing non-compete clauses which prevent workers from

13:56

joining rival companies or

13:58

launch their own rival businesses. And

14:02

I'd like to see you try it, Kendra. Non-compete clauses have been replaced with,

14:08

I'd like to see you

14:11

try it. The White House

14:13

also issued a new rule this week that

14:15

requires airlines to promptly issue passengers refunds for

14:17

canceled or significantly delayed flights. Instead

14:21

of vouchers for future flights. It's a great

14:23

day for people who had a canceled trip

14:26

and a non-compete clause, you know? Fucking

14:29

crushing it this week. Better

14:32

go knock out some doors for Biden. Said

14:35

Biden in a statement, and this goes

14:37

for you too, Spirit Airlines. I know you're

14:40

trying, but if you're gonna mail people physical

14:42

cash, it's gotta be new bills. The

14:46

number one complaint this month to the FCC,

14:48

other than trapped in Cybertruck going 200 miles

14:51

an hour, doors locked, screens black, is

14:53

dirty, smelly fives and tens from Spirit

14:55

Airlines. Strange.

15:04

Speaking of stink, in the American Lung Association's

15:06

latest edition of their annual state-of-the-air assessment, the

15:08

group said that roughly two out of five

15:11

Americans are breathing unhealthy air, and it's even

15:13

worse for Americans who are serving on the

15:15

juries for crimes involving hush money payments. Because

15:22

of the farts.

15:26

Because of all the fucking farts. And

15:33

a small update on the cicadas. A

15:35

horde of cicadas emerging in

15:37

one South Carolina county are so loud that

15:40

residents have been calling the police. Said

15:42

Columbia University's president, we're the police

15:44

able to help. A

15:50

beloved ostrich named Karen of the Topeka Zoo has

15:52

passed away. Yeah, I'm sorry.

15:56

After swallowing a staff member's keys.

16:00

It was the only thing she could do to stop

16:02

that zookeeper from driving home drunk again. RIP

16:07

Karen, the ostrich. She

16:10

died doing what she loved. Eating

16:12

keys. And

16:17

finally, at least five British

16:19

military horses broke loose in London on

16:21

Wednesday, charging through the streets near Buckingham

16:23

Palace and injuring at least five people.

16:26

But, not to worry, the Royal Family quickly

16:28

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16:30

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And we're back. Please

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welcome to the stage America's own

19:25

Senator Al Franken. Good

19:29

to see you. Thanks

19:35

for being here. You

19:47

know, it's a little intimidating to say doing

19:50

monologue jokes while you're watching. I just I

19:52

don't care for it. You

19:54

know what's interesting is I forgot

19:57

to bring my hearing aids. And

20:01

I was getting most of them, but

20:05

shouldn't have been intimidated. Like, I'm a young man.

20:09

She should have told me before. First

20:12

of all, hogs some ass. Happy

20:14

Passover. Ah, happy Passover to

20:17

you. You know what

20:19

I realized? You know what I

20:21

realized yesterday? I'll tell you. Rudy

20:23

Boschwitz, Jewish. Paul

20:25

Welsong, Jewish. Norm Coleman,

20:28

Jewish. Jewish. Al

20:30

Fankin, Jewish. Yep. Tina

20:33

Smith, not Jewish, but quite a run of

20:35

Jewish senators in that seat. Not

20:37

since Chuck Schumer dined alone, has

20:40

a seat in that Jewish. His,

20:44

yes, his qualifies

20:46

as very Jewish, Shimmers. But,

20:50

no, it was, I

20:53

was the only New York, when I ran

20:55

against Coleman, the only New York Jew who

20:57

was born in Minnesota, who grew up in

20:59

Minnesota. Huh, in that race. When I was

21:02

in that race, yep. Interesting,

21:04

interesting. The guy before Boschwitz, I don't think

21:06

he was Jewish, because Wikipedia said

21:08

he plays hockey. Now

21:12

that I think of that, none of the Jewish ones

21:14

played hockey. But Paul

21:17

Welsong was an all-American

21:19

wrestler. A

21:22

Jewish wrestler. Now I've heard everything. I

21:24

wrestled people. People? You wrestled people? I

21:26

wrestled people. I wasn't great. Paul

21:31

was great. Paul was like

21:34

in the wrestling Hall of Fame. So, I have

21:36

a copy of your 2003 book, Lies and the

21:38

Lying Liars here. And

21:44

the reason I have it is because I was

21:47

excited you... You want to talk about lies. I want to

21:49

talk about lies, but I also want to talk about the

21:52

way you talk about lies. Because this book was

21:54

very important to me. I think it was important to a lot of people when it

21:56

came out. And it was

21:58

this great book. a clarion call

22:00

about just

22:02

how malicious and deceptive the

22:05

right wing had become. And what

22:07

I was thinking when I realized it's

22:09

been over 20 years since the book came out is did

22:12

you ever imagine it would seem so fucking quaint? Well,

22:16

it was interesting because at the time,

22:18

you really weren't, it

22:20

wasn't common to call someone a liar or

22:23

use lies. And I said lies and the

22:25

lying liars who tell them for

22:28

a reason because it was meant

22:31

to be satirical and funny but calling

22:33

people liars at that time, even though

22:35

they were lying up the wazoo, Fox

22:38

and Limbaugh, but it wasn't cool

22:41

to colder those people. And

22:47

so I did this up at

22:49

Harvard and I had

22:51

14 students help me with it

22:53

and we researched the shit out of it. It

22:58

did very well, it did very well. Well, that's

23:00

good. One of the, you

23:03

mentioned Paul Wellstone and one anecdote I think

23:05

about all the time because I think it's

23:07

still relevant now is you talk about this

23:09

experience of being at Paul Wellstone's memorial. Yeah.

23:12

And this tragic death

23:14

just days before an election,

23:18

a kind of group mourning

23:20

and celebration of who Paul Wellstone

23:23

was, you're there, you experience it

23:25

and then you watch the way it is translated

23:28

first through the right wing media, then

23:30

to the mainstream media and then even to

23:32

Democrats. And the

23:35

reason I think it's still relevant is it

23:37

seems to be that style of

23:39

politics has kind of become the only

23:41

way Republicans do politics, which is to

23:43

find some events that happens in the

23:46

world or make one up and say,

23:48

see, see, this is who they are. These are terrible

23:50

people. So you just talk about what it was like,

23:53

you were at this thing and then you watch what happens

23:55

when it is translated through the right. Well,

23:59

it was. Everybody's

24:02

passion was out there. It

24:04

was in

24:06

the basketball arena and

24:08

there were 20-some thousand people and

24:10

there was an overflow of people.

24:13

Not everybody could get in. And Rush

24:16

Limbaugh, they bus people

24:18

in. Unions bus people

24:20

in. That's why they

24:22

look like there were so

24:24

many people there. And it

24:28

was, there was

24:30

a point in which one of Paul's friends

24:32

got up and gave a speech that was

24:34

a little bit inappropriate because he said, let's

24:36

win this election for Paul and Walter Mondale

24:39

was going to step in for

24:41

Paul at the last minute. And

24:45

that was used in the book.

24:47

I write about this way

24:49

this was taken by

24:51

Limbaugh and by Tucker

24:53

Carlson on, what was he

24:56

on at that time? I think CNN. He's gone to all of them.

24:58

It may have been MSNBC. Yeah, no,

25:00

it was CNN at the time. And

25:03

these are people who didn't see

25:05

the memorial. It was an incredibly

25:08

moving and passionate memorial. And not

25:10

only did Paul die, but his

25:12

wife and his daughter

25:14

and three aides. And

25:16

it was

25:18

incredibly moving

25:24

memorial and yet Limbaugh

25:27

and the right exploited it.

25:30

And I think they actually

25:33

won that seat and they won the Missouri seat

25:36

because of it. So it

25:38

was the chapter in the

25:40

book that meant the most to me. The

25:42

way that you see it, it is sort of a

25:45

pattern that has played out to this day. And even

25:47

as you say that the idea that

25:49

someone wouldn't say it a memorial for a senator

25:51

who passed away, we should try to win this

25:53

for that senator. Even saying that that was inappropriate

25:55

now feels like from another era given the new

25:57

levels of inappropriate we see on a daily basis.

26:00

basis. Yeah, well now

26:02

the lying we see, and that's

26:05

why lies and liars, at the time you

26:07

didn't call someone a liar. Yeah.

26:09

That was just not done. But

26:12

now it's just the

26:14

opposite way, which is no one doesn't

26:16

call the other side a liar, especially

26:18

their side calling us liars all the

26:21

time. But one lesson I took

26:23

from just sort of observing you when

26:25

Air America Radio. So you know, we

26:27

started crooked media. And one of the things we thought

26:29

about was that there's been so many efforts to make

26:32

a kind of progressive counterweight to Fox News. And I remember

26:34

when you started when you were a bear on the first

26:36

day of Air America Radio, I went and I bought a

26:39

radio so that I could listen to

26:41

the very first episode I did, I was living in

26:43

New York, and I bought a radio. And I listened

26:45

to the whole first episode you did where you had

26:47

BB Newworth, pretending to be Ann Coulter, I

26:50

believe locked in a concert if I remember that

26:52

correctly, we locked her in her dressing room and

26:54

turn it up the heat. BB

26:58

Newworth. BB Newworth. Well, we didn't lock.

27:00

No, it was radio. It was radio.

27:02

Use coconuts for the horse radio theater.

27:06

Yeah, they did not like Ann Coulter. And

27:09

so I think it's

27:11

appropriate. But you are

27:13

this pugnacious and direct and

27:16

very funny, very aggressive. You call them liars.

27:18

You call Bill Riley splotchy.

27:21

Remember the word splotchy? He was mad

27:23

about that, too. He was very mad about

27:25

that. He didn't have makeup on that day

27:27

or something like that. And we got a

27:29

picture of him splotchy. And I didn't feel

27:31

like I needed to fix it up

27:33

for him. But so and,

27:36

and then you decide you want to

27:39

run for Senate yourself. And as

27:41

a senator, you were, you were very

27:44

direct and hard hitting during hearings. But I think

27:46

it's fair to say that you were less combative,

27:49

or at least not as pugnacious as you

27:51

were when you were writing from

27:53

the ads. But it's interesting,

27:55

right? Because I think you were

27:57

trying to be a version that you thought would be the most

27:59

effective. way for you to be a senator.

28:01

But in hindsight now, given the jokers and clowns

28:03

we've got running around, do you feel

28:05

like you were overcompensated for the fear that you would

28:08

be called a comedian, or do you still think it

28:10

was the right way for you to be a senator?

28:12

The first week I was

28:14

in the Senate, I was Sotomayor's hearing.

28:17

And she said that she had

28:20

become a prosecutor

28:23

because of Perry Mason. And

28:26

at Perry Mason's Hamilton

28:29

Burger, the prosecutor in Perry Mason,

28:31

I said, that's

28:34

odd because he lost every case. And

28:37

she said no, he won one case. And

28:40

I said, well, we'll get that to

28:42

if we have time at the end.

28:44

And then I started asking questions and

28:48

at the end I had about two minutes left and

28:50

I couldn't develop a new line of

28:52

questioning. So I said, what

28:56

case did Hamilton

28:59

Burger win? What case

29:01

did Perry Mason lose? And

29:04

she said, I don't know. And

29:07

I said, didn't the White

29:09

House prepare you? Which

29:14

just came to me at the time.

29:17

But then I got all this

29:19

kind of press. Can

29:22

Al Franken stop doing it?

29:24

Can he help it? Can

29:27

he help it? I went

29:30

to the

29:33

committee room, because

29:36

we do those Supreme Court hearings

29:39

in a much bigger room, and

29:41

then we went back to the

29:44

judiciary room and

29:48

they come in and Tom Coburn from

29:51

Oklahoma goes like, actually,

29:54

Perry Mason lost two cases.

30:00

And then

30:03

Jeff Sessions says, I like

30:05

dragnet. And

30:13

I said, you know,

30:15

I worked with Bradra Crawford. Oh, highway

30:17

patrol, that's what he said. He

30:20

said, I love highway patrol. And Bradra Crawford

30:22

is nothing. I said, you know,

30:24

I worked with Bradra Crawford. And they all went, you

30:29

worked with Bradra Crawford, who

30:32

was a very well esteemed actor,

30:36

and older than maybe

30:39

some of your audience

30:41

remembers, evidently. But

30:45

then I was finally legitimate to them.

30:48

That was it, that did it. That was

30:50

Bradra Crawford. You worked with Bradra Crawford. Didn't

30:54

really answer my question. What

30:58

was your question? You

31:00

had a different tone when you were in the

31:02

Senate than when you were a pundit on the

31:04

outside. Yeah, I was a senator. Of course. Do

31:08

you think that that is, was that the right way for

31:10

you to be a senator? Or looking back, do you think

31:12

it might have been okay, given how

31:14

fucking crazy everything got thereafter, for you to

31:16

just sort of bring the full, let loose.

31:19

Let loose? Yeah, would you let loose if

31:21

you were still in the Senate? Yeah,

31:23

maybe more. But no, I

31:25

was, I tried to

31:28

be the best senator I could be. And

31:31

I tried to conduct myself. It's

31:34

a serious job. I mean, you

31:37

can be funny, and you can do both. But

31:41

no, I'm happy with the way I

31:43

conducted myself. Part

31:46

of the reason I ask is, we're

31:48

in this fight to try to

31:50

remind people how bad Trump was. And

31:53

to explain to people how

31:55

much worse Trump will be. And

31:58

we have this problem where... The

32:00

memory of Trump is getting a little less colorful.

32:02

Still there, but it's not as bright and vivid

32:04

as it once was. Right. And

32:06

then we have to explain to people just how

32:08

dangerous a second term could be. Meanwhile, Joe Biden,

32:11

he's in the present. People

32:13

can feel that and see that every day. And

32:16

I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on how

32:18

Democrats ought to be talking about Trump,

32:20

how to make it feel real for people, whether

32:24

that's people on the outside or what

32:27

President Biden should be doing or what Democrats should be doing. Well,

32:31

I think we

32:34

have to remind people how

32:36

he blew it during COVID. Now,

32:38

you know, when

32:41

he talked about

32:43

injecting bleach,

32:47

I guess up your ass. I guess that's no other

32:49

way it could be. I

32:51

think directly in your veins. Well, I

32:53

think, yeah, I think it was supposed to be sort

32:55

of, yeah, kind of like, OK, like,

32:58

you know, aerating, like aerating a green. And

33:01

I remember in the debates that Biden

33:04

and he had, Biden

33:06

said something about you said you should inject,

33:10

we should inject bleach in the work. And

33:13

and Trump said, I was

33:16

being sarcastic. And

33:19

all I want, I just want if

33:21

that comes up again in the next

33:23

debate, we got to play that over

33:26

and over again, because remember, he wasn't

33:28

being sarcastic. And you remember

33:30

Dr. Oh, Burks.

33:32

Yeah, Burks was kind of

33:34

doing this. During

33:43

that. And so I would just I

33:45

want Biden to ask him that again, if they

33:47

debate, I hope they do debate. And

33:49

Trump will say I was being sarcastic again in

33:52

later in the commentary. I want to show

33:55

that clip because she was

33:57

just. Yeah,

34:00

I do think people have made

34:02

a kind of choice to

34:05

just block out that

34:07

period of time from their minds. Like everybody just sort

34:09

of... I think there is a psychological thing where we've

34:11

done that. And I think that redounds

34:14

to Trump's favor because he handled

34:16

it so badly. Yeah. He

34:18

did get the vaccine going and... We

34:20

didn't... But who wouldn't have done

34:23

that? Right. Right. Right.

34:26

He could have even fucked that up. In that case,

34:29

he did it. There is a part of this where

34:31

people want to move past the pandemic. I

34:33

am partial to the idea that

34:36

America is carrying around a lot of trauma from

34:38

that time we haven't really processed and we're laying

34:40

it at Biden's feet. Do you think there's truth

34:42

in that? I

34:45

think we took a psychological toll and

34:47

kids took a psychological toll and we

34:50

just did. And there's that... I don't think that

34:52

could have been helped. I don't... It

34:54

could have been handled maybe better. But

34:57

I think that we paid

34:59

that toll from it. And

35:02

maybe Biden is paying a price

35:05

for that. I

35:08

just think that we have to remind

35:10

people that Trump

35:12

didn't handle it well and didn't get

35:16

material to people for prevention. He

35:20

didn't wear a mask, which was

35:22

a terrible thing. And

35:24

there were a lot of people who died

35:26

unnecessarily because of him. Yeah.

35:29

Hey, Al. Do you

35:31

remember this clip from The Matrix Reloaded? No.

35:40

Okay. Well,

35:44

tonight... I

35:50

didn't think you would. Tonight, we're going to

35:52

compare old school maniacs versus new school maniacs

35:54

and decide who is doing it better, which

35:56

really means doing it worse. Does age come

35:58

before beauty? find out in

36:00

a segment we're calling Right-Wing Gremlins, The

36:02

New Batch. Basically,

36:09

we have a couple of the classic

36:11

goons that you catalog here in

36:13

your book. And we're going to compare them

36:16

to the new batch of goons. And

36:19

did you see which of the two you think are worse? It's

36:21

a worthy enterprise. I

36:23

agree. First step, I'm

36:27

going to take that at face value and keep on moving. I

36:31

meant it. I was very literal.

36:33

That was exactly what I meant.

36:35

We all remember Bill O'Reilly. Mad,

36:38

full of shit. To refresh

36:40

your recollections, here's Bill O'Reilly from just last week.

36:43

You know, I'm not really fearful of

36:45

our democracy because there isn't

36:47

anybody more outspoken

36:49

in this country than I am about

36:52

politics and other things. And

36:55

my freedom was not impeded. One

36:57

I owed him during the

36:59

Trump administration. I don't know

37:01

any broadcasters, freedom who was.

37:05

That's an incredible statement. What

37:09

did he say? Such

37:14

an important question. He's way too. I'm

37:19

so sorry. What he's saying is,

37:22

freedom in America isn't under threat

37:24

because nobody is threatening me Bill

37:27

O'Reilly, which I think

37:29

captures the kind of narcissistic

37:33

blowhard qualities we

37:37

cherish for so long. Now,

37:39

we're going to put him up against the

37:41

new batch, Jesse Waters. Here's

37:43

Jesse Waters insisting that Donald Trump's lack

37:46

of golf course access is cruel and

37:48

unusual punishment. But the guy

37:50

needs exercise. He's usually golfing. And so you're going

37:52

to put a man who's almost needy, sitting in

37:54

a room like this on his butt for all

37:57

that time. It's not healthy. You know how big

37:59

of a health. not I am. He needs

38:01

sunlight and he needs activity. He needs to be

38:03

walking around. He needs action. It's

38:05

really cruel and unusual punishment to

38:07

make a man do that. I

38:14

gotta agree with him. I

38:17

do. When

38:22

he's got time to play golf, you

38:25

know, this trial has to be tough on him.

38:29

And let me tell you why. He has

38:33

to shut up for

38:37

the whole all day. It's really

38:40

I don't know how he's going to

38:42

make it through. Too bad. I

38:45

love that he had to sit there and they're

38:47

reading these statements that are like, now is

38:49

it true that you called the defendant

38:52

there a sad ugly piece of shit?

38:58

Yes I did. But can you be unbiased?

39:00

I think so. The

39:11

defense. We'd like to strike her. So

39:17

now the question is, who

39:19

do you think is worse? Is

39:22

the new batch worse than the old batch? Bill

39:24

O'Reilly or Jesse Waters. Who's worse? I

39:28

don't watch enough Jesse Waters. I

39:30

studied Bill O'Reilly and I gotta

39:32

tell you, he's really,

39:34

really, really bad. But I've

39:36

got enough of Jesse Waters. Jesse

39:39

Waters did a thing, I don't

39:41

know, last week sometime about

39:43

saying that some

39:47

of the jurors who were coming in were pretending

39:49

to be right wing

39:51

or middle of the road when

39:53

they were really very left wing.

39:56

You saw

39:58

that. Yeah, yeah. Trump,

40:00

and then I think

40:02

Trump reposted it on Truth

40:05

Social, and then that,

40:07

of course, is attacking the jury,

40:10

which the judge has got to

40:12

be thrilled with. Yeah, it's

40:14

sort of, in a way, Jesse Waters led

40:16

Trump to violate the gag order. Right.

40:20

So, in a way... He's helping. Yeah.

40:24

I think the... I think what makes... Jesse Waters is a little

40:26

bit in on the joke, and Bill O'Reilly was never in on

40:28

the joke. I agree. Okay. Next

40:32

up... So, O'Reilly, worse. O'Reilly, worse.

40:34

Next up, the elected official category,

40:36

we have first, Newt Gingrich. When

40:39

discussing Proposition 8 in 2008, this was

40:41

to ban gay marriage, Newt

40:43

Gingrich told Bill O'Reilly, in fact, this. I

40:46

think there is a gay

40:48

and secular fascism in this country that

40:51

wants to impose its will on the rest

40:53

of us, is prepared to use violence, to

40:56

use harassment. Sure, but only

40:58

on fashion. Just

41:01

fashion. So,

41:05

he's saying that LGBT

41:08

people are going to be violent? We're

41:10

going to impose a kind of gay,

41:12

secular fascist state. I

41:16

mean... Why

41:20

not? Now,

41:23

let's put up Newt versus large-marge

41:26

herself, Marjorie Taylor Greene. The

41:29

problem with Newt Gingrich, too much nuance. Let's

41:32

see Marjorie. The Democrats are a

41:34

party of pedophiles. I

41:36

would definitely say so. She

41:41

said Democrats are the party of pedophiles.

41:43

Yeah, that's what... And she said, I would

41:46

say so. She's...

41:52

Worse? Well, here's

41:54

the... She's...

41:58

She's worse. Gingrich

42:00

was very bad. Gingrich taught

42:03

Republicans how to talk, how

42:05

to call Democrats traitors

42:08

and decayed. How

42:11

to talk like Newt is something that's

42:13

actually in this book. And

42:16

it really is, he started this

42:18

whole thing of

42:21

calling each other, making it impossible

42:27

for Republicans and Democrats to get

42:29

along. And he told his new

42:31

members not to live in Washington

42:35

to go back home over the weekend.

42:37

And it really helped

42:39

when senators and congressmen lived

42:43

in the Washington area, and

42:45

their kids could be on the same

42:47

baseball team or soccer team or stuff

42:49

like that. Yeah, it's ironic

42:51

that they spend far less

42:53

time in D.C., they spend much more

42:56

time at home, and yet the

42:58

politics have been nationalized. So they spend more time

43:00

in their districts, but they spend

43:02

less time worrying about the kind of

43:05

local issues that might have created other kinds

43:07

of coalitions. It doesn't happen anymore. And

43:10

I do think that it hurt

43:12

the comity between members. If

43:18

your kid played on another kid's baseball team, it

43:24

made a difference. I

43:26

feel like Marjorie Taylor Greene is obviously

43:28

worse, and yet Newt was smart and

43:30

effective in a way that she can't

43:32

be. She's

43:36

effective in her own monstrous way, but

43:44

not effective in his monstrous

43:46

way. All

43:48

right, and finally, it's the

43:50

cranks-crank category. First

43:53

up, we've got Ann Coulter, prominent in the

43:55

book. Ann Coulter once famously said of 9-11

43:57

widows, these broads are

43:59

millionaires. billionaires, lionized on TV and

44:01

in articles about them, reveling in

44:03

their status as celebrities and stalked

44:05

by grief-arrotties, I've never seen people

44:07

enjoying their husband's death so much."

44:10

Just a reminder. I'd

44:15

prefer to say worse. Sure.

44:19

And yeah, no, and she has, and she

44:21

will. Versus

44:25

right-wing internet personality Charlie Kirk

44:27

who recently offered this gem.

45:00

He said that birth control

45:02

is causing young women to

45:04

become bitter Democrats and

45:07

that you should stop anyone in your life

45:09

from being on birth control lest they become

45:12

bitter Democrats. Did

45:17

you know that birth control turns young

45:19

women into bitter Democrats? I

45:23

did not know that. I

45:25

did not know that. You

45:29

learned something here on your show. No.

45:32

Yeah, it's entertaining, obviously,

45:35

but there's information. You leave with more than

45:37

you came with. And that's the beauty of

45:39

it. Yes, I did

45:42

not know that. So

45:45

I feel like... Thank you for

45:47

that service. It's

45:50

a labor of love. When

45:56

you look at O'Reilly versus Waters

45:58

or Newt versus Marjorie, or

46:00

Anne versus Charlie, they're

46:03

not sending their best. Well,

46:09

there's no one can

46:11

beat Ann Coulter at being the

46:13

worst. So

46:16

maybe that's a reason for some optimism. Here

46:21

we have the new generation, and

46:23

are they better at this than

46:25

the previous generation? No. No.

46:28

No, they're not. Just different. Yeah,

46:32

some of them are worse. Look,

46:34

I'm not sure we're the best judge. The

46:36

best judge are the people who consume

46:39

this stuff. They're the ones

46:41

to tell us. All

46:45

right, we'll ask them. So you're on the road, you're

46:47

doing a tour. Yeah,

46:50

I'm doing a tour every,

46:52

I'm developing an act. I'm

46:54

going to different city

46:57

wineries around the country and

46:59

doing a tour. So

47:09

you write these books, they are important

47:11

to a lot of young people. They

47:14

shape a lot of people's way of thinking

47:16

about politics. You run for Senate, you

47:19

spend those years in the Senate. What do you want

47:21

your impact to be now? What

47:23

do you think about running again? Probably

47:26

not, probably not. I'd

47:29

like to have an impact. I have a

47:33

leadership pack where I raise money for

47:37

Democrats who are running all over the

47:39

country and we're target

47:42

the key races in the

47:44

country and spend

47:46

a lot of the money on ground game.

47:49

Franken. Yeah. Senator Al

47:51

Franken, thank you so much for being here. Really

47:54

good to see you. Thank you. Good talking to you.

47:57

Senator Franken will be back. Come

48:00

on. We

48:03

come back. Maddy

48:11

Halson is here. Everybody. Please

48:15

welcome to the stage the hardest

48:18

working man in political digital media.

48:21

It's friendly to hear from

48:23

you. Please

48:27

welcome to the stage the hardest working man in political

48:29

digital media. It's friend of the pod Maddy Halson.

48:35

Good to see you. Hi,

48:39

Maddy. How's it going? It's

48:42

good to see you again. You've been on Pod Save America. You haven't been

48:44

on Love It or Leave It. I think this is your first time. Alright.

48:47

Well, you know. So let's

48:49

start with this. What do you think of speaker Mike Johnson heading up to

48:51

Columbia to call him the president of that school to resign? Do you think

48:53

he isn't busy? I

48:56

think it tells you everything you need to know about the president of

48:58

Columbia. That she sent the police

49:00

off to her own students to try

49:02

and appease the GOP and discovered that

49:04

you can't appease the GOP. Now

49:07

everyone wants Pod on right and left. So

49:10

she made that bed. She has to sleep in

49:12

it. About the speakership you said,

49:15

Congratulations everyone. You've given the GOP exactly what

49:17

they wanted and needed. An excuse to pretend

49:19

to care about anti-Semitism despite a caucus filled

49:21

with raging white supremacists and

49:24

who attend conferences with a Holocaust denier and a

49:26

candidate who hosts that Holocaust denier. At

49:30

an Earth Day event this week, President Biden said,

49:32

I condemn the anti-Semitic protests and I also condemn

49:34

those who don't understand what's going on with the

49:36

Palestinians. They put out a

49:38

statement that just announced anti-Semitism. It seems

49:40

like he's trying to say, I want

49:43

to separate out the anti-Semitic actions

49:45

that have taken place around but not led

49:47

by the students, around the protests, and

49:49

separate that from the cause of the students and to say

49:52

that, you know, to try to not fall

49:54

into the same trap. What do you think he should be

49:56

saying? This might not win me a lot of

49:58

applause with this crowd. But

50:00

I wish Joe Biden would understand what's going on

50:03

with the Palestinians as well. Thank

50:05

you. I

50:09

do worry that he has now opened

50:11

the door. The Democrats, liberal media, whoever

50:13

you want to call it, have opened

50:15

the door for people like Mike Johnson

50:17

and Elise Stefanik and Donald J. Trump

50:19

to pretend that they are friends of

50:21

the Jewish people. Elise Stefanik, who pushed

50:23

the Great Replacement Theory, Donald Trump, who

50:25

hosted Nick Fuentes for Thanksgiving dinner, Paul

50:27

Gosar, who goes to Holocaust denial conferences.

50:30

It is ridiculous that we've got to a

50:32

point now where Republicans can posture and pretend

50:34

to be friends of any minority community in

50:36

this country. But that's because people in the

50:39

Democratic Party need to fight much stronger,

50:41

need to call these people out as

50:43

white supremacists. Stop. I hear

50:45

Democratic senators say, my friends in the Republican

50:47

Party. John, have you ever heard

50:49

a Republican say, my friends in the Democratic Party? I haven't. Tell

50:53

me what you think about. It is. I

50:56

can see you thinking hard right now. But,

51:00

look, Republicans don't need

51:02

Democrats. Democrats often do

51:04

help, but Republicans don't need Democrats to

51:07

demagogue an issue, right? They brought,

51:09

it wasn't Democrats that fucked up that hearing.

51:11

It was the presidents of the college themselves

51:14

that kind of fell into the trap that

51:16

Stefanik had said. But the entire anti-Semitism debate,

51:18

which has been hijacked by Republicans for a

51:20

long time, let's be very clear. After October

51:23

the 7th, a bunch of Republicans went out and said

51:26

crazy, shitty, genocidal things

51:28

like the Tom Cottons, the Josh Paulies, the long list of

51:30

Republican people I'd never heard of, like, how's the wrong guy?

51:32

I didn't know this person exists. But he came out to

51:34

say, turn Gaza into a parking lot. And

51:37

all of this Lindsey Graham, what was it? Tom Cotton

51:39

said, bounce rubble. They

51:41

can say this genocidal stuff about Palestinians. And

51:44

yet, who is the only

51:47

member of Congress who is censured, the

51:49

one Palestinian American woman in Congress? That, unfortunately, and

51:51

I have a bunch of Democrats voted for that.

51:54

Let's not forget. So that

51:56

kind of stuff really bothers me because you really are just

51:58

giving them a pass. to

52:00

pretend to be friends or good

52:03

faith on this issue. They're not good faith on this issue.

52:05

Yeah, it does speak to one of the challenges of the

52:07

politics, right, because they're,

52:09

you know, in

52:14

Joe Biden's statement, you see him trying to walk

52:16

a fine line. Why does he feel he needs

52:18

to walk a fine line? Well, because he feels

52:20

like what he wants to say is some version

52:22

of, I denounce anti-Semitism in all its forms. I

52:24

take the, I never want to give any ground

52:27

on that. I don't want to give ground to

52:29

these Republicans who are going around and claiming that

52:31

we're not standing up against anti-Semitism. And by

52:34

the way, if there are Jewish students who

52:36

feel unsafe at college campuses, they deserve to

52:38

be heard about that too. And clearly, despite some

52:40

fear mongering around it, that is happening. But

52:43

at the same time, wanting to signal in some

52:45

way, right, that he is not taking

52:49

the side of the Republicans and using the

52:51

issue as a cudgel. But

52:53

the reason I say that is all because

52:56

there's where Democrats are, there's where Republicans

52:58

are, they're where the students are. And

53:01

there are a lot of Democrats who feel like they

53:04

need to walk a more kind

53:06

of politically delicate line. And

53:08

I know what you think about that. Yeah, I'm not happy

53:10

about it, John. I'm not happy to

53:12

see Josh Gottheimer and Jared Moskowitz and a bunch of

53:15

House Democrats turn up at the Columbia campus to

53:17

join in the demagoguery. Did

53:19

they turn up at the Columbia campus a couple

53:21

of months ago when pro-Palestinian students were skunk sprayed

53:24

and Columbia did nothing? Did they

53:26

turn up in Stanford when an Arab American student

53:28

was run over by a car? Did they turn

53:30

up in Vermont when three Palestinian students were shot,

53:32

one of whom is now disabled for life? Did

53:34

they turn up in Illinois when a six-year-old Palestinian

53:36

kid was stabbed to death in front of his

53:39

mother shortly after October 7th? Like, I just

53:41

worry about the demagoguing. Jackie Rosen, Senator from

53:43

Nevada, very, you know, she just

53:45

came out against a Muslim judge that the Biden

53:47

administration was trying to put on the court. She

53:51

went with the Republicans on this. And then she

53:53

comes out this week talking about Anderson. I would

53:56

just like to see some consistency. Can we denounce

53:58

bigotry across the board, anti-Muslim? anti-Jewish,

54:00

anti-gay, anti-transgender, it's possible

54:02

it's not hard. Right.

54:06

Well, it's not hard and yet it does seem like we make

54:08

it look hard. I

54:10

guess where is the space for Biden is

54:14

trying to do that, right? Isn't that what Biden

54:16

is trying to do in this kind of a

54:19

statement, right? To say that he put out statements

54:21

and has denounced anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim

54:23

violence. My issue with Joe Biden is not

54:25

the statements or the rhetoric. It's the policy.

54:27

It's the policy. You can't say there's a

54:29

red line not to go into Rafa and

54:33

then say, you work for Barack Obama.

54:35

He's the guy who was famously red line in Syria. Do

54:37

you remember the red line in Syria, Kevin, that you got

54:40

battered for that red line. I mean, Biden's

54:42

red line is worse because he's saying, no, don't

54:44

go into Rafa. Yay. We agree with

54:46

you, Joe Biden. Thank God you said that. But take

54:48

billions of dollars in weapons as you say

54:50

you're going to go into Rafa. Right. This

54:53

is the problem fundamentally since. We see this

54:55

stuff. We see all these drip, drip, drip, drip,

54:57

drip. He doesn't like Netanyahu. He's very upset behind

54:59

the scenes. A lot of leaks to Barack, Ravide

55:01

and other reporters. You know, he dropped an F

55:03

bomb on Bibi in private. Great. Come

55:05

out and start in public. Come out and say in public

55:07

and come out and do something about it. Also

55:10

politically, put aside the morality

55:12

of selling weapons to a

55:14

government that is

55:16

bombing residential apartment buildings, refugee camps,

55:18

hospitals, schools, cemeteries, mosques, churches. Put

55:21

aside the morality of that for a moment.

55:23

Just the political suicide. Who in this country

55:26

likes Benjamin Netanyahu? Why are you going to

55:28

bat for Benjamin Netanyahu? Why are you risking

55:30

American democracy for Benjamin Netanyahu? Why are you

55:32

risking your reelection for Benjamin Netanyahu?

55:35

Whoa. I feel like Biden had on

55:37

a wall every day, John. So I'm

55:40

actually just curious if you can try

55:42

to answer that question because there is

55:44

a movement to say, I mean, but

55:46

there's a huge variety of opinions, many

55:49

of which I completely disagree with among

55:51

anti-Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests. But

55:53

there is clearly a consensus

55:55

of some kind around believing that

55:57

Israel has a right to... the

56:00

safety and freedom, the Palestinian people deserves

56:02

dignity and self-determination and safety, and that

56:04

the way Israel's conducting this war is

56:06

abhorrent and shouldn't go on while respecting

56:08

Israel's right to exist and defend itself.

56:10

There's clearly a coalition that agrees with

56:12

that, and yet we can't do even

56:14

a modest thing like condition aid that

56:17

we are sending. There isn't an appetite

56:20

politically for that in Congress. Joe Biden

56:22

doesn't see the value, or at least

56:25

sees it, whether strategically or politically, more valuable

56:27

to keep his criticisms or his more fulsome

56:29

criticisms private, though he has pushed Israel a

56:31

little bit more lately. What explains that? It's

56:34

a great question. I've spoken to members of Congress, I've spoken

56:36

to people in the DNC, I've spoken to Democratic operatives. You

56:39

get different answers. Who is driving this? Is this the people

56:41

around Biden? Is this Biden himself? There's a lot of debate

56:43

about is this Biden the guy who loved Golden Maid? No

56:45

one quite knows who is in the driving seat, because of

56:48

course people brief the journalists different things. A lot of White

56:50

House aides will say, oh, we don't agree with the president

56:52

on this, and then there's people who say Joe Biden's very

56:54

upset about this. I don't know, but it's a real problem

56:56

when we live in it. We talked about conditioning aid. I

56:59

never thought I would live to see the

57:01

day when Nancy Pelosi said, let's condition arms

57:03

to Israel. When Chuck Schumer would come out

57:05

and say, Benjamin Netanyahu has got to go, Israeli

57:07

government's an obstacle to peace, right? So there are

57:09

people in Congress who have traditionally been very aligned

57:12

with Israel. Even they're saying, this is too much.

57:15

If only the Biden White House could maybe try and

57:17

lead that build on that. This whole behind the scenes

57:19

bullshit's got to end. It worked on October 8th or

57:21

9th. Let me give him a bear hug.

57:23

Let me persuade him behind the scenes. We're nearly seven months in,

57:25

14,000 kids are dead. The

57:27

behind the scenes bullshit has to stop, I'm sorry. So

57:33

you're very, you're

57:35

obviously very critical of

57:38

Democrats and the president when you view it

57:40

as being warranted. Well, this issue. No, of

57:42

course, and you

57:44

also are very clear-eyed about

57:46

the threat posed by Trump. I

57:49

don't see those two things as being intention, but

57:52

they do become intention when it comes time to

57:54

vote. How do you think about

57:56

that? Hurts my head a lot.

57:58

I'll be honest with you, John. I've been,

58:00

I launched a new media company recently. It's

58:03

called Ziteo, shameless plug. And

58:06

I've been touring the country. I've been giving a

58:08

lot of speeches in Ramadan. I spoke to a

58:10

lot of Muslim crowds in Dallas, in Houston, in

58:12

San Francisco, in Atlanta, all over

58:14

the place in Maryland. And every place the Q

58:16

and A begins with, we can't

58:18

vote for Trump the fascist, but we can't vote for

58:20

Joe Biden who enabled genocide. That is a conversation that

58:22

is going on in every Muslim American community, every Arab

58:24

American community, and also a lot of black American communities

58:26

in places like Georgia, because we see a lot of

58:29

young students. It's a problem. I don't,

58:31

there's no, I don't have an answer for it, right? And

58:33

I had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the launch of our event last

58:35

week, and I said to her, how do you persuade somebody

58:38

says I can't vote for Biden? What do you say?

58:40

And she said, first thing she said is, look, I'm

58:42

not gonna tell a Palestinian who lost 20 members of

58:44

his family, somebody in Dearborn, you've got to vote for

58:46

Biden. That's just ridiculously offensive. But you know,

58:48

you have to set the scene and talk about what America do

58:50

you want to live under? Which government do

58:52

you want to live under? Do you, which, you know, which

58:54

democracy do you want to be part of? Do you still

58:57

want democracy? And I mean, on

58:59

this issue, I make one very simple point, which

59:01

is, who does Benjamin Netanyahu

59:04

and Itmar Ben Gewehr want to be the next president

59:06

of the United States? They say Trump. So

59:09

from that perspective, as critical as I am of Joe Biden,

59:11

and I'm very, very critical of Joe Biden on this issue,

59:14

and I defended him a lot until October the

59:16

sixth. The

59:19

reality is the people we loathe, I think

59:21

most of us loathe in the Israeli government,

59:24

they want Donald Trump to be president. So I think we should bear

59:26

that in mind when we go to the public. So

59:31

a new Harvard Youth Poll just came out, I

59:34

believe today, a big poll of 18 to 29 year olds. The

59:37

top three issues for young people were

59:39

housing, inflation, and healthcare. Also

59:41

high up was gun violence and jobs.

59:43

The bottom two issues were student debt

59:45

and Israel-Palestine. Climate change was 12th of

59:48

16th. Now,

59:50

this is an election that will be fought on

59:52

the margins, and young people that are upset about

59:54

those issues can swing the entire

59:57

election. But I also was just

59:59

curious for your thoughts. on this. Do

1:00:02

you think at times the press conflates

1:00:05

young people with young

1:00:07

lefty, especially a certain kind of online

1:00:09

young person and that we're kind of

1:00:13

not thinking enough about the broader less

1:00:15

engaged young person who we also need?

1:00:18

I agree with you. And the issue is, of course,

1:00:20

polling is it just gives you the ranking, but

1:00:22

there's separate debate about salience, right? Which issues do you

1:00:24

care strongly about? So the person who puts housing high

1:00:27

up probably does care about housing. Young people have a

1:00:29

real problem with housing in this country. But there's also

1:00:31

an issue where the young people who are going out

1:00:33

and getting arrested by the police feel very strongly about

1:00:36

what's happening on Gaza, right?

1:00:38

So I think

1:00:40

it's a salience issue. And I also think, don't think

1:00:42

about door knockers, you know about campaigning more than I

1:00:44

do. A lot of the people who are going to

1:00:46

be knocking on doors are the people who care strongly

1:00:48

about those issues like Student Dad or Israel-Palestine. And I'll

1:00:51

be honest with you, I'm very worried that we're going

1:00:53

to spend the next few months watching scenes of demonstrators,

1:00:55

young people being arrested. The Republicans are salivating at the

1:00:57

idea of another 1968, of another Chicago to

1:01:00

say, look at Biden's America, we're in chaos and

1:01:02

crime. This crime's down, murder's down, that narrative's gone

1:01:05

away. So now they can say, look, chaos,

1:01:07

chaos. And Mike Johnson can turn up at Columbia.

1:01:09

I think it's crazy. I'm glad the White House

1:01:11

has come out and said no National Guard. They've not

1:01:13

engaged with the National Guard nonsense. But

1:01:16

in Texas, we're seeing some crazy scenes out of

1:01:18

UT Austin. I do worry about

1:01:20

the idea that young people, the big demographic

1:01:22

cohort of the Democratic Party base, seeing

1:01:25

them being beaten up on TV and dragged away and detained

1:01:27

and put in zip ties is not a helpful image when

1:01:29

they are a crucial part of the base. And by the

1:01:31

way, the people who say young people don't matter, please stop

1:01:33

saying that. Like Democrats could not have won in 2018, 2020,

1:01:36

and 2022, they've fended

1:01:39

off a red race without young voters. Yeah.

1:01:42

And it does seem like it's not a messaging issue.

1:01:44

It's not a political issue. It's a question of the

1:01:46

reality of what's happening on the policy and on the

1:01:48

ground. I mean, it's both right? Like don't

1:01:51

sell arms to Israel is one

1:01:54

policy request, but also don't

1:01:56

send in counter terror police onto a student

1:01:58

campus and put people in prison. for

1:02:00

no reason. Like it's both. Those images are

1:02:03

horrific. When you see the police, the scenes

1:02:05

in Austin, horrific scenes. Are

1:02:07

we in China? Are we in Venice? Where are we? When

1:02:09

we're seeing those scenes. So there

1:02:12

was a long ass profile of you in New York Magazine. 6,600

1:02:15

words, I believe. But

1:02:18

who's counting? And they had to cut it down. They had to cut

1:02:20

it down. They left a lot of good stuff on the cutting room

1:02:22

floor, I bet. I'm sure. The

1:02:24

piece ends by saying that your biggest crank with the

1:02:27

left is that there isn't enough bare knuckle brawling. People

1:02:29

are like, that guy's

1:02:31

ready to fucking throw down. The

1:02:35

question? You guys. Everybody's

1:02:38

having fun. The question isn't

1:02:40

are you liberal, are you left, or you're a progressive

1:02:42

Democrat, are you in the squad? All not as important

1:02:44

as the one overarching key, which is where I believe the

1:02:46

Democrats and progressives have failed, which is fighting. Do you have

1:02:48

fight in your belly, or do you not? It's

1:02:51

not ideological. Metti, who's

1:02:53

your favorite pugnacious moderate? Who's the

1:02:55

neoliberal that you think really gives it to

1:02:58

them? I

1:03:00

am partial to, I'm just on the fighting

1:03:02

front, not the politics front. On the fighting

1:03:04

front, I'm partial to a little Eric Swalwell.

1:03:06

OK. All right. Yeah. I

1:03:09

certainly don't agree with him on Gaza. But I think

1:03:11

you look at the ads he puts out, you look

1:03:13

at the rhetoric he puts out, you see him at

1:03:16

committee hearings. He's not trying to go and befriend Republicans

1:03:18

in the House

1:03:20

gym, unlike some of his

1:03:22

friends in the Senate Democratic caucus. Not

1:03:25

being friends in the gym. I don't want to talk in the gym. I

1:03:28

don't go to the gym. So it's fine. What

1:03:32

do you think about the TikTok ban? I

1:03:34

think it's absurd. It's absurd, right? I

1:03:36

mean, I trust the Communist Party of China with my

1:03:39

data more than I trust Elon Musk. So why are

1:03:41

we banning TikTok and not Twitter? I'm

1:03:45

on both. So. Also,

1:03:48

again, again, Joe Biden wants to sign a

1:03:50

bill going into election, pissing off young people,

1:03:53

just mad. Yeah.

1:03:55

So you just launched your new media company. I did. Called

1:03:58

Ziteo? Yeah, it's on TikTok. We

1:04:01

have a TikTok account. How's it going so far? Very

1:04:04

well. In fact, so well that

1:04:06

a piece we commissioned this week was

1:04:08

read out to speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday night

1:04:10

on CNN Primetime and he was forced to respond

1:04:12

to a Jewish student at Columbia who we commissioned

1:04:14

to write a piece about what's actually happening in

1:04:16

Columbia, not the shit you're seeing online. That's cool.

1:04:20

So you want to, you like

1:04:22

to be... We were inspired by you guys. Partly.

1:04:25

And I felt that. Not fully.

1:04:27

Not fully. And these crooked guys are doing,

1:04:30

I could do that. I could have a bit of

1:04:32

that. Yeah, we do make it look easy. What

1:04:38

does this, the tail mean? It means to seek, to

1:04:40

inquire, to search for the truth, John. Oh,

1:04:42

that's pretty high brown. Very

1:04:45

ancient Greek. Before

1:04:47

we go, because you love to fight, you love to

1:04:49

debate, you love to mix it up. Are you going to argue with me?

1:04:52

Yeah. I'm challenging you to three rounds of a game

1:04:54

we played on Ponzi of America. That's right. It's time

1:04:56

for the master debaters. Oh God. Here's

1:04:58

how it works.

1:05:01

Never heard that pun before. All

1:05:04

right. We have three, we named this an hour

1:05:06

ago. We have three hotly debated

1:05:08

topics. We each get 15

1:05:10

seconds. There's a short, very short debate. We each get

1:05:13

to debate one point. You're going to win. But

1:05:15

we're assigning the topics randomly. Which

1:05:18

side we take. You say as you hold the cards. Well, I

1:05:20

have the topics, but I don't know which side we're on. All

1:05:23

right, here we go. The first topic,

1:05:25

all right. Again, it's a

1:05:27

30 second debate. The topic is reclining your

1:05:29

seat is morally wrong. All right.

1:05:32

So, I'm going to flip it, call it in

1:05:34

the air. Heads, you're

1:05:36

doing, it's wrong. Okay? Okay,

1:05:39

I want tails. You

1:05:41

got heads, you think reclining your seat is morally

1:05:43

wrong, you'll kick us off. 15

1:05:45

seconds? Yeah. All right, let's go.

1:05:48

How can it not be morally wrong to put

1:05:50

your seat back? We are on the left. We

1:05:52

believe in community solidarity. We're not selfish individuals. If

1:05:54

you want to be Ronald Reagan and put your

1:05:56

seat back and put yourself above society, that's on

1:05:59

you, John. about my fellow Americans, even when

1:06:01

I'm up in the air, 15,000 miles away. You

1:06:04

be selfish. Wow. Fuck.

1:06:10

All right, I need my 15 seconds. Selfish

1:06:13

individualist prick. I just- Hey,

1:06:22

this doesn't count. Stop the effing clock. You gotta start

1:06:24

the clock. It's just buying time. It's

1:06:27

just nice to get a little lean. And

1:06:30

if I get a little lean and you get a little lean, everybody

1:06:33

gets a little lean. And then it's, except for one

1:06:35

row in the back that gets a little bit worse

1:06:37

and one row in the first front that gets a

1:06:39

little better. But that's America. All

1:06:43

right. Top big number two. People

1:06:47

should be able to bring dogs

1:06:49

everywhere. You're

1:06:52

gonna be, heads will be defending it.

1:06:56

It's heads- You're choking me. It's just, it's

1:06:58

how it's checked. That woman's

1:07:00

quarter. Anyone who knows me knows

1:07:02

that I'm not the biggest fans of dogs. I've

1:07:04

never made that concession in public because people will

1:07:07

hate me for saying that. So let me say

1:07:09

tonight in the interest of saying that I

1:07:11

can get things wrong, we should love

1:07:13

dogs, bring them everywhere because we need

1:07:15

friends. We're all losers. All

1:07:20

right, I'm up. My

1:07:22

heart wasn't in that one. Leave

1:07:24

your fucking disgusting, dirty, ass-eating dog

1:07:27

at home. We

1:07:30

all, this is

1:07:32

a supermarket. There's food at the bottom. Stop

1:07:34

it. Where

1:07:38

did you get this coin from? Why am I heads every

1:07:40

time? All right. You know what? I'll just do

1:07:42

the third one first because that's, we'll do the third one first. No,

1:07:44

I want to hear what it is. All right. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene,

1:07:47

make some good points. You

1:07:50

want it, want to flip? Or you want me to take it? You

1:07:53

flip it, let's flip it. All right. Again,

1:07:55

heads, you go first. It's

1:08:01

tails. All right. Here's

1:08:07

the thing. Crossfit is hard.

1:08:12

And sometimes, sometimes

1:08:16

you need a kind of creative

1:08:18

spirit. I didn't have

1:08:21

it. It

1:08:24

was a hard one. It's a really hard one. Well, yeah,

1:08:26

now you can say I'm wrong. Marjorie

1:08:29

Taylor Green doesn't have good points. Let's see your

1:08:31

skill at work. All

1:08:35

right. Let's do it. Who

1:08:38

gives a fuck about Crossfit? I'm

1:08:41

going to wait. It's too easy. Let's give it

1:08:43

a few more seconds. Marjorie Taylor

1:08:45

Green said, Huma Abedneen and Hillary Clinton tore

1:08:47

off the skin of a child and put it on their

1:08:49

faces. That's

1:08:52

Marjorie Taylor Green. What else does that say?

1:08:55

You know, I lost three debates so quickly.

1:08:58

I think you won the dog one. You think

1:09:00

I won the dog one? He thinks I

1:09:02

won the dog one. The

1:09:04

new media company is Ziteo. It

1:09:07

means truth-seeking in, I

1:09:10

want to say Latin, drink. Matty

1:09:15

Halston, thank you so much for being here. Thank

1:09:17

you very much. Thanks, Josh. He'll be back for

1:09:19

the last day. That was fun. Appreciate it. When

1:09:21

we come back, Josh Condelman and

1:09:23

Sam Jay are here. And

1:09:27

we're back. Please

1:09:31

welcome to the stage two absolute speaks of

1:09:33

nature. Comedy-wise, I mean. It's

1:09:35

hilarious Sam Jay and the uproarious Josh Condelman.

1:09:41

Hi. Hello. Hello.

1:09:45

Hi, hi, guys. How

1:09:47

are you guys? So

1:09:50

you're touring the country. You're both touring and doing shows

1:09:52

across the country. Yes. Okay.

1:09:56

You notice any difference when you're in a blue

1:09:59

sky? city in a red state or a red city

1:10:02

in a blue state? No, everybody's dumb. Although,

1:10:06

blue city in a red state, they look both

1:10:08

ways and go, thank you for coming here. Is

1:10:12

that what happens? Yeah. Even red cities

1:10:14

in red states, whoever

1:10:16

shows up for me in Oklahoma City, they kind

1:10:18

of go, we can't believe you're here. I feel

1:10:20

like there's a small town. Yeah, that's true. I

1:10:22

feel like you just go to a little place

1:10:24

where they already know nobody should be there,

1:10:26

and they're like, we appreciate you stopping by.

1:10:31

Right, like you're doing a

1:10:33

show, but they treat it like you stopped into their

1:10:35

restaurant. Yeah. And they're like, have a free slice of

1:10:37

pie like that. Because they have to live there, and

1:10:39

they know people shouldn't beat it. Yeah.

1:10:44

This is a segment about political freaks. What

1:10:48

political freak do you think is due for

1:10:50

a comeback? One pitch, Christina

1:10:52

O'Donnell, the Delaware tea partier who had to tell everybody

1:10:54

she wasn't a witch in 2010. Wow.

1:10:58

I thought she meant freaky like sex freaky.

1:11:02

There's plenty of those too. Yeah, I

1:11:04

was about to bring back that sloppy bottle

1:11:06

kid. So

1:11:10

get in the butt inside the Senate chambers.

1:11:14

Oh, yeah. Just

1:11:16

just applaud if you're here. No,

1:11:20

you're not. No, not everyone.

1:11:23

I know you're all here. I

1:11:28

mean, the guy that fucked in the Senate. Technically,

1:11:30

technically, that's at least two guys. I appreciate

1:11:33

it. You said the guy, but that wasn't

1:11:35

just one guy. Yeah, definitely two

1:11:37

guys. He popped it

1:11:39

out. I just I'm sorry to

1:11:41

interrupt. So I said,

1:11:43

are you here? And

1:11:46

a group of you said, yes, I am like

1:11:49

you, not the you we were

1:11:52

talking about, but you personally. Well, we

1:11:54

may have a bunch of people who have fucked in the

1:11:56

Senate here. That's another possibility.

1:11:58

Don't know. We don't

1:12:00

know. This feels like a vibe of people

1:12:02

that are gonna go home, crank NPR real loud

1:12:05

and get freaky. I mean, since

1:12:07

then after this tonight. It's possible. Get

1:12:13

a little Terry Gross. Nice.

1:12:18

Nice. Nice. Terry

1:12:21

Gross? No, after hours it's Terry Nasty.

1:12:28

All songs considered. That's

1:12:32

beautiful. That

1:12:35

was awesome. We're

1:12:37

having a good time. Okay. Tonight.

1:12:40

I'd like to just point out that I had set

1:12:42

that all up. None

1:12:48

of that would happen without me. If

1:12:50

I didn't say freaky sloppy bottom,

1:12:53

we don't get to Terry Gross, Terry Nasty. I know.

1:12:56

But we don't get to that. I wouldn't have started with

1:12:58

freaky sloppy bottom, so I'm very grateful for you. Thank you.

1:13:01

It's all fruit of the Sam Jay tree.

1:13:08

And speaking of fruit. Nope.

1:13:12

But what if that had worked? We're

1:13:15

tonight. We're inaugurating a new segment. Sam Josh. I'm going

1:13:18

to quiz you about some truly top notch freaks. And

1:13:20

at the end, you have to crown our freak

1:13:23

of the week. Let's do

1:13:25

it. Yeah.

1:13:31

First question. This week, runner

1:13:33

Tom Gilby went viral after doing

1:13:35

what at every mile marker of

1:13:37

the London marathon? You

1:13:40

go first. Okay. Take a shot. I

1:13:44

was going to say doodoo. We both say we both did. Oh,

1:13:47

no, no. Change. Okay, fine. Okay.

1:13:49

Just say doodoo. I'm

1:13:53

say. Jerked

1:13:56

off, but not to completion. That

1:14:01

show let's see jerked off but not

1:14:03

to completion on the big board even

1:14:05

imagine that a family feud imagine No,

1:14:11

in fact he sipped a glass of wine Okay

1:14:16

We were going way here He

1:14:18

did it right he put his nose in first.

1:14:21

Yeah running with the wine. He would run have

1:14:23

a sip keep running There was somebody waiting with

1:14:25

a different glass of wine at every mile marker.

1:14:27

What's the problem? There's

1:14:29

no problem. Oh, I thought you got in

1:14:31

trouble for this. I'm like why you know,

1:14:33

you went way freakier No, yeah, you went

1:14:35

way freaky with it. I was I don't

1:14:37

know where I'm at. I'm sorry I

1:14:40

feel like we calibrate myself. I mean, he's

1:14:42

sort of a freak in a sweet way.

1:14:44

Yeah, you know, yeah The sweet freak freaky.

1:14:46

I gotta get my mind out the gutter

1:14:49

you say freaky. You just mean anomaly I'm

1:14:51

saying freaky like doing it in the butt

1:14:54

Yeah, and for some people

1:14:57

that's an anomaly Brothers, it's

1:14:59

their every goddamn day Every

1:15:02

day. Okay. Wow, some people just have

1:15:04

a stamina. I'm sure And

1:15:07

so we have a clip he

1:15:09

tried a different glass at every stop He

1:15:28

Drank so much wine That's

1:15:30

two brags right because it's like I can run a

1:15:32

marathon and I can hold my liquor Yeah,

1:15:34

and I can identify the glasses the

1:15:36

wine as I go like service not

1:15:39

a buyer Yeah, pretty

1:15:41

cool. Yeah, I like this guy next up

1:15:44

David pecker the insanely named former publisher of

1:15:46

the National Enquire testified this week at Trump's

1:15:48

hush money trial about using a scheme to

1:15:50

crush Trump related stories. What is that scheme

1:15:53

called? It's

1:15:57

the broadening yeah the broad man Is

1:16:00

it a catch and kill? It is a catch

1:16:02

and kill. Oh, yeah. That's what I was going

1:16:04

to say, too. We are so aligned

1:16:06

tonight, Sam. I

1:16:08

wasn't going to say pussy busters. There

1:16:11

is. I was not going to

1:16:13

say that. Mr. Pecker, can you tell us how

1:16:15

you orchestrated this pussy buster? I wasn't going to

1:16:17

say that. Do

1:16:20

you think having a name like Pecker drove this man

1:16:22

to madness? I

1:16:25

think that and his face. It

1:16:28

was a combo. Right.

1:16:31

Do you think maybe growing up with a name like

1:16:33

Pecker, you end up looking like that? Just kind of

1:16:35

that look? Not even his looks, just sort of the

1:16:37

facial expression. Let me close my... Let me do this. You

1:16:39

say Pecker, let me envision the face and see if it's the same

1:16:42

face. Pecker.

1:16:45

Same face. That's crazy. Did

1:16:47

you picture that for some reason he's

1:16:49

wearing a Yankees jersey under his jacket?

1:16:54

Like, they might need me. This is

1:16:56

our year. Next up,

1:16:59

an Australian porn star went viral after he gave

1:17:01

a street interview in which he revealed he makes

1:17:03

over $80,000 a month on OnlyFans. What

1:17:07

is that man's name? I know

1:17:10

this. This is incriminating. I

1:17:14

should have just laid in the cut and let Dan say

1:17:16

this. You go. I don't

1:17:18

know. His birth name or his

1:17:20

professional name? I

1:17:23

would call it his... Noam De Gair. Noam De

1:17:25

Gair, sure. He's got quite a De Gair.

1:17:28

His pants. Is it? It's... He

1:17:31

goes by Girthmaster. That's correct. Girthmaster. His

1:17:34

name is... Well, because I read the

1:17:36

news. Oh, wow. He look

1:17:38

girthy. His name is the Girthmaster.

1:17:40

I like that. I

1:17:42

wasn't going to say Pussy Buster. He's

1:17:46

both, I think. When

1:17:49

the Girthmaster family... He's actually from Germany.

1:17:51

When the Girthmaster family came in through

1:17:53

Ellis Island, they changed it to Pecker.

1:17:55

I got it. That's

1:18:00

funny. I

1:18:08

feel like odds are someone here is

1:18:10

a client of her customers. I mean

1:18:12

of the girth master. A lot

1:18:14

of money. He's cute too. I don't know. I

1:18:17

don't think he's cute anymore. I saw him on the

1:18:19

big screen on the little one. It

1:18:21

looked better than the big one, but I

1:18:23

will say he looks good, but I

1:18:25

weren't doing now. I want to know is it all

1:18:28

right? I'm not going to ask, but sometimes it could

1:18:30

be girthy, but short. That ain't fun. Well,

1:18:34

you guys don't call themselves the chode master.

1:18:38

I don't think you call yourself the girth master if it's not.

1:18:41

Yeah. And you don't get the 80,000 month of your. I'm

1:18:44

a lesbian. I

1:18:46

don't know if you do or don't. You know what

1:18:48

I'm saying? Well, I think it's kind of nice to

1:18:51

claim your best quality about. Yeah.

1:18:53

You know what I mean? Like, that's right. That's why

1:18:56

my only fan's name is good at Dark Souls 3. Good

1:18:59

at Dark Souls 3 master. I

1:19:04

think there are other lesbians here because when someone

1:19:06

saw this photo, they shouted, I just want that

1:19:08

plant referring referring

1:19:11

to the plant behind him.

1:19:14

That's the girthy thing you want. It's a

1:19:16

healthy plant. It's a healthy plant. Look at

1:19:18

that. It tells me something. $80,000 a month.

1:19:21

Okay. Yeah. You

1:19:24

can get a fucking month. There are. I

1:19:27

save that shit for Emily's garden. So. You

1:19:33

people are carry nasty. Yeah,

1:19:36

they are. They

1:19:38

love it. I was just

1:19:40

going to say you make that $80,000 a month. Why

1:19:42

didn't you show us the penis? That

1:19:46

would have held everything down. I wouldn't ask my

1:19:48

child question. Yeah. I just think it's

1:19:50

hard during the day when you're prepping for the show to send

1:19:53

a note saying, reminder, we need

1:19:55

a huge picture of a dick to

1:19:58

put in the slideshow. form the public

1:20:00

or don't you? It'll go between,

1:20:03

go between Mary

1:20:05

has some Mary Hassan and, and

1:20:08

the part where I plug future tour dates.

1:20:10

A huge picture of a slum. Yeah. All

1:20:14

right. Next up, Carrie Lee grumbled

1:20:16

to the Idaho dispatch that the Arizona Supreme

1:20:18

Court said this is the law in Arizona.

1:20:21

But unfortunately, the people running our state have

1:20:23

said they're not going to enforce it. So

1:20:25

it's really political theater. What Arizona law is

1:20:28

she referring to? It's really

1:20:30

political theater. There's

1:20:33

a couple laws in Arizona that are big in the news this week.

1:20:35

A couple of girthy laws. I

1:20:40

don't, I don't know anything

1:20:42

about Arizona. Well,

1:20:45

it's even drier than it used to be.

1:20:47

Is it was it the abortion ban? Yeah,

1:20:49

it was the abortion ban. I

1:20:52

had to get that right. Because if I

1:20:54

only knew girth master, be

1:20:56

pretty humiliating. Yeah. That's

1:21:04

just terrible. Three

1:21:07

Republicans voted with with every house

1:21:09

Democrat to overturn

1:21:11

the ban, but most Republicans were pretty pissed and

1:21:13

are throwing off those Republicans from

1:21:15

their committee. Yeah, I heard about that.

1:21:18

I just didn't know that it was happening

1:21:20

in Arizona. I kind of when I

1:21:22

heard news like that, just put it all in this state

1:21:24

of crazy whiteness. And I just I'm

1:21:26

like, I sent one of those crazy white places,

1:21:28

but I should have paid more attention to

1:21:31

the fact that it was Arizona specifically. After

1:21:36

losing contact in November, NASA has begun

1:21:38

receiving dispatches from the farthest manmade object

1:21:41

in the universe. Do

1:21:43

you know what that object is?

1:21:45

Probably this manmade object in the universe. It's

1:21:50

the it is the girth master. It

1:21:54

does have a gravitational pull. Yeah. So I'd

1:21:56

make sense. Actually, it's the girth master 3000.

1:22:00

It's Voyager 1. Was

1:22:03

he an outcast? Australian

1:22:05

outcast? The Voyager

1:22:07

1 probe came back online and started

1:22:09

sending scientific data for the first time

1:22:11

in six months. Wow, that's cool. I

1:22:14

forgot about Voyager 1. I

1:22:16

think it's not real shit. That's cool. I'm

1:22:18

still glad Captain Janeway is still working. Is

1:22:20

that? Okay. Yeah, a few

1:22:23

nerds. Got it? Yeah. So the message

1:22:25

came back from Voyager and it says,

1:22:28

get seven of nine the fuck out of here.

1:22:30

This is my show. I don't know what that

1:22:32

even means. There we go. There

1:22:34

we go. So she was looking

1:22:36

for. Thank you. I feel so wrong.

1:22:38

Did they say what the message was?

1:22:41

Help help. They're crawling all over me.

1:22:44

I don't know. That's all we got.

1:22:46

Wow. Yeah,

1:22:48

it was new parents have it so hard. The

1:22:52

ship is 15 billion miles from Earth. So

1:22:55

it takes roughly 22.5 light hours for the information

1:22:59

to, well, no, that's the distance. It takes 22

1:23:01

hours for the information to reach us from, from

1:23:03

where it is, which is 22.5 light

1:23:05

hours. Well, Oh, they must get

1:23:08

so many spoilers about TV shows. Yeah. Just

1:23:11

one day ahead. They did like, it hasn't even popped up

1:23:13

on streaming yet. Why are you telling me this? It's like

1:23:15

we were all watching it once. It was the finale. Voyager.

1:23:20

Cool.

1:23:23

And finally and tragically Karen, the

1:23:25

ostrich died after eating

1:23:27

what at a Topeka

1:23:30

zoo and conservation center? I'm

1:23:33

going to say a zoo hot dog.

1:23:37

Wait, I've got this. This, I know this

1:23:39

one. Damn. Josh. We

1:23:42

had keys. The eight and

1:23:44

ring of keys. My

1:23:49

house. I like

1:23:51

ostrich is swallow like you shit, even though they

1:23:53

make small like that. No, they can't Ask

1:23:59

an answer. How I. I'm

1:24:02

very. I'm. Karen

1:24:05

since yourselves Oscars Heaven Also known as

1:24:07

Humid Settle. After

1:24:12

reaching through the keys of or enclosure,

1:24:15

she snatched the keys. To

1:24:17

do you think receive they look like foods

1:24:19

are are using she saw a bowl forties

1:24:21

and was like every one of the oil

1:24:24

terminal miss our and. Like

1:24:26

as it's okay. So this is all right. So let

1:24:28

me tell. You about blinds? Okay that

1:24:31

is this reason why as we as a.

1:24:35

Single. Is Janet Ring? Leopards

1:24:37

Animal Rights. To. The Max.

1:24:40

He's somehow to our source, but or

1:24:42

was it was a keys on a

1:24:44

little ring. light enough to swallow a

1:24:46

good stuff. I've heard

1:24:48

the question are asking is with the securing.

1:24:51

To. A zoo keeper or the securing

1:24:53

to a lesbian suki? Yes yes yes.

1:24:56

Like what kind of key ring with

1:24:58

ours are going about our yes find

1:25:00

a home bases with a Bechtel key

1:25:02

ring like a giant as realization from

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a half the way that you're a

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lesbian. Of uranium Awesome. can't do

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that has saved awesome the I

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think that down hard enough with

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I did then. That had

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to be like the less new. And was there

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a Subaru key on is saying. And

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I'm I'm a little joy. Yeah, on a

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terrible my diary this is. yeah. Since

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his. Daughter

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refrigerator Dire. months

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and months. I

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need to be a better our. Them

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as sounds. As for your mom, some put

1:25:43

him in a. Separate. Now.

1:25:51

Must. Have been awkward waiting to get your keys back.

1:25:55

And let them see go. I

1:25:58

guess. Open with

1:26:01

the right I mean right thing to do

1:26:03

is an ostrich we we eat birds cut

1:26:05

open a bird to get her keys. I

1:26:07

mean that sank about it wouldn't use you

1:26:09

just let me just bit what you you

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have a few the one bird funeral happens

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to be the one where your keys going

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to have. this is the zebra chicken swallowed

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your keys the ever zebra cluttered. Out of

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necessity build these early. Birds the of

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the zoo. Said

1:26:25

we don't have the as a

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good old Others bags of as

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Bird and as Citizens birds. funeral

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related. Every officers is buried at

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sea. Sfs know the Berryman the

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ground had for her to assess,

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assess, assess, assess. All

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right, that's perfect place to go.

1:26:43

To. The final moment of the second, which is when we

1:26:45

crown. or freak of the week. Just

1:26:48

remind you we have a marathon one guy.

1:26:50

David. Pecker, the Girth Master

1:26:53

carry like Voyager One or

1:26:55

can. The. Ostrich.

1:26:59

Money's. On. The. Asteroids

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Sausage or freak of a Week when

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you think. I figured everyone. Oh.

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To me of Towson yachts outside

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with the judges but I think

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it can be allowed I armor

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I've the wine guy the are

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married on ah I remember to

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pairing the line Dion Austin's says

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he has no. Ironically

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the wine guys should have had

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as he's taken away from him.

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you hear Drive over a Dog

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the with. kent state their

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names does something for people and people here

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that your kids they grab eric oh have

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a lot of nurses like best and good

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nurses, they want to hire you because you're

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broke. Kids take in their nursing programs,

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they teach the work of nursing, they

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teach therapeutic communication, they teach

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how to really care for the person and

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I gotta muscle it out of them. Senator Franken, Mehdi

1:30:02

Hase, come on out here. First

1:30:09

of all, this is the part where I'm gonna say

1:30:11

the things I forgot to say earlier, and everybody check

1:30:13

out the Al Franken podcast. Thank

1:30:15

you. I

1:30:18

plugged the fuck out of your thing. In

1:30:24

honor of this most sacred week, Passover,

1:30:28

we wanted to close out the show with a lively round

1:30:30

of Smash or Passover.

1:30:32

I love it. Here's how it

1:30:34

works. I'll throw out a topic,

1:30:36

and together we're gonna decide if we would smash

1:30:39

or pass over it. It's as

1:30:41

simple as that. It's a good or

1:30:43

bad thing. First up, jumbo slices.

1:30:49

Jumbo slices. Pass or smash? I don't know what that

1:30:51

is. You don't know what a jumbo slice is? Like

1:30:53

a jumbo slice of pizza? That's like

1:30:56

elephant cold cuts, right? Smash,

1:30:58

always. Anything bigger. Have

1:31:00

you ever had a jumbo slice in DC? A

1:31:03

jumbo slice is a giant piece of pizza.

1:31:06

I can envision it. That's

1:31:10

what we need from leadership. People who can imagine a better world. Basically,

1:31:17

I don't even

1:31:19

know legally you can sell them before 10pm. Because

1:31:23

of medically what it does to the body.

1:31:25

But it's a giant piece of pizza that

1:31:27

just, that drunk people buy in Adams Morgan

1:31:30

in this city. It's

1:31:35

on the late night tip. But

1:31:37

I know a guy if you want one. In the

1:31:39

morning. You can get one. I got you

1:31:41

a morning jumbo guy if you need him. But

1:31:44

that's what happens. You start by having him at night. It

1:31:47

has to come with fentanyl on top. He'll

1:31:52

make you pay for the pizza and gift you. You

1:31:55

buy the pizza. That's the same as the weed here. I

1:32:00

wink at him and I say, keep the fentanyl. Because

1:32:03

I'm here for the pizza. It

1:32:05

is antithetical to the spirit of

1:32:07

Passover, right? A giant slice of

1:32:10

pizza. Yeah.

1:32:12

But I'm still going to smash. Smash.

1:32:21

OK, great. Next one. I'll

1:32:25

smash it too. You'll smash it? You'll

1:32:28

smash. Well, I'm going to smash. Smash

1:32:30

it across the board. Next up, flying in

1:32:32

a Boeing. Here's

1:32:38

a question. Does

1:32:40

anyone know a good airplane? Airbond?

1:32:45

They're evidently one

1:32:48

of the best. Which one? The

1:32:51

one of the best. But we just went to the back. Yes,

1:32:55

as far as if you're going to book a top five.

1:32:57

Five? Half of them.

1:33:00

Half of them. What are the other ones? The

1:33:03

ones up in the air. Airbus,

1:33:07

Amtrak. Seriously, what's the

1:33:09

other plane company? It's Airbus. Airbus makes,

1:33:11

are they the ones that make spirits?

1:33:14

I saw a report on this. I

1:33:17

saw a report on this by a guy

1:33:19

who knew an awful lot about the industry.

1:33:22

And he said that they're

1:33:26

safe. Did

1:33:30

he say it like that? He

1:33:34

said it exactly like that. They're

1:33:37

safe? Now, he

1:33:39

said that they're

1:33:41

safe. John,

1:33:44

we're in DC with the shittest roads

1:33:46

in America, holes everywhere. I'll take a

1:33:48

plane over driving in America the other

1:33:50

week. That's a good point. The bridge

1:33:52

is falling down. I'll take a plane.

1:33:54

That's a good point. I'm taking the

1:33:56

boat. I'm bashing the boat. Let's

1:33:59

float in. You're blaming the victim a

1:34:01

little bit. Blame the victim a little

1:34:03

bit. The bridge didn't fall

1:34:10

down. The bridge was fucking murdered.

1:34:12

That bridge. You're not just going

1:34:14

to put that on us. That

1:34:17

bridge. There's plenty of bridges that have fallen

1:34:20

down in America. We're not talking about that

1:34:22

one. There's infrastructure. What is it? Biden's infrastructure

1:34:24

bills for a reason. Yeah, that's exactly right.

1:34:26

A really important point. Biden has passed a

1:34:28

lot of important infrastructure laws.

1:34:33

Maybe we can meet in the middle. We got to

1:34:35

get Toyota make an airplane. Hell

1:34:39

yeah. I love

1:34:41

flying. I'm smashing. All right.

1:34:44

Smash. Smash your Passover. I'm

1:34:46

going to say pass and then forget to do

1:34:48

the research and smash by accident. I,

1:34:53

it's like when you, when you say what an

1:34:56

attractive person is like, you can't lie and

1:34:58

say you not smashing. I fly

1:35:00

all the time. So I'm smashing, but I

1:35:02

don't want to be. As I

1:35:07

said, I heard an expert on

1:35:09

it. It

1:35:12

said that they're reliable planes. Yeah.

1:35:16

Here's my feeling about it. Every

1:35:19

day people are crashing their

1:35:21

cars into God knows what and each other.

1:35:23

Don't that's a weird clap. I know

1:35:26

it's an agreement class, but

1:35:28

you can get like a, the point

1:35:31

I'm making doors fall off of cars

1:35:33

every goddamn day. Does it make the

1:35:35

news? Nobody got sucked out of that

1:35:37

Boeing could have. They didn't. No one

1:35:39

came out. I thought that spoke to

1:35:42

the craftsmanship of the play. I'll

1:35:44

tell you what the door came off

1:35:46

and they was just looking outside like,

1:35:48

all right, whoever makes whoever makes the sea

1:35:50

felt that Boeing does a hell of a job. Those

1:35:53

people might be okay. It

1:35:56

made me less scared of crash. Now that we get to a

1:35:58

certain fee, we could rock with no doors yeah

1:36:02

people take the doors

1:36:04

off their cars sometimes on

1:36:06

purpose like a Jeep yeah

1:36:08

it's a Boeing Wrangler that's

1:36:11

pretty cool that is

1:36:13

pretty thick all right next

1:36:15

up but I've

1:36:17

heard that they're reliable absolutely

1:36:26

next up smoothies oh come

1:36:30

on no yes

1:36:34

are they healthy are they healthy

1:36:36

no they're just a poor man's

1:36:38

milkshake I think they're a

1:36:40

rich man's milkshake I don't when

1:36:43

I say poor I don't mean financial I mean

1:36:45

just a sad pathetic person is not having a

1:36:47

milkshake that's that's a good point yeah it's

1:36:50

a healthy man's milkshake people

1:36:55

people of all genders can enjoy you've never had

1:36:57

a smoothie I'm 44 years old I've never had

1:36:59

a smoothie

1:37:06

Wow you're well live a little here

1:37:08

to try won't kill you yeah you

1:37:12

don't even know who you are yet baby the

1:37:19

whole world I can't wait for you don't you

1:37:24

don't you have any curiosity don't

1:37:28

care you can't I'm kind of

1:37:32

a scholar

1:37:40

not for a substandard milkshake oh

1:37:42

okay you don't know you've

1:37:44

never tasted the thing my father has also

1:37:47

never tried to yeah I don't I've never

1:37:49

tried sushi what what never

1:37:51

tried it you never walked around with

1:37:53

a belly full of blended fruit and

1:37:56

you've never had a good piece of raw fish over

1:37:58

a minute you're out here totally about opinions.

1:38:00

Yeah. Yeah,

1:38:04

we're all supposed to take serious. Tonight,

1:38:08

tonight we're blending up some raw fish.

1:38:11

We're cooling it

1:38:14

down. We've invested

1:38:16

smooshy. Do you

1:38:19

eat much

1:38:21

of anything? I

1:38:25

do. I do. I

1:38:27

eat very unhealthy food. That's what I eat.

1:38:29

I eat milk. I drink milkshakes. I eat

1:38:31

ice cream. I eat ice cream before I

1:38:33

came. You look great. You look good. You

1:38:35

look good. What? You

1:38:38

eat fish. I do eat fish if

1:38:40

I have to. But you've never tried sushi? You've never

1:38:42

tasted it? I've already said that, John. No, no, I

1:38:44

know. But it... And is

1:38:47

it... Because like my father... I've never had a lot of things.

1:38:49

I have a very narrow palate. I've never drunk coffee. What

1:38:51

do you... I've never

1:38:54

drunk tea. But

1:38:56

how do you know your palate is... We gotta really

1:38:58

reject all your opinions. I

1:39:00

don't think you are allowed to talk on anything. We're

1:39:05

simply out of time, but I have so many... We've...

1:39:09

We've... I've never shared... John,

1:39:12

I've never shared any of this stuff publicly. It's like

1:39:14

a therapy session. Why do I have such a limited

1:39:16

palate? Why am I not more curious about food? Be

1:39:18

the Ziteo you want to see in the world. Yes.

1:39:22

Just keep saying Ziteo. I'm very sorry about

1:39:24

that. I'll take it. But my father... I'm

1:39:26

not used to the PR. My father won't

1:39:28

eat sushi because he calls it quote, bait

1:39:30

end quote. Oh, I

1:39:33

respect that shit. And he thinks it's dangerous, but then

1:39:35

I say, but you know that like everybody

1:39:38

in Japan's okay, right? Like, but you

1:39:40

know that people, millions of people eat

1:39:42

it every day. I'm

1:39:47

trying to restrain myself from saying I've never been

1:39:49

fishing either. Well, that's okay.

1:39:52

That's an activity. Fine. Just

1:39:54

checking. I guess that's the end of the

1:39:56

segment. You have. I

1:40:00

think we just have to end it. I think

1:40:02

we all have to go home. Hard Passover on

1:40:04

smoothies. Yeah. Where did

1:40:07

that smoothie take us? So pass on smoothies, but pass

1:40:09

on a lot of great parts of life. Yeah.

1:40:12

Are you kidding me? I ice cream today before I

1:40:14

came here. There's more to life than

1:40:16

ice cream. Not really. You're

1:40:19

not five. I

1:40:23

kinda am. I

1:40:25

kinda am. Me and Joe Biden. I

1:40:29

love how hard you go politically, yet

1:40:32

you have reached across the aisle and

1:40:34

embraced a fully Republican diet. All

1:40:41

right, we're gonna say goodbye to our incredible guest. Thank

1:40:43

you so much to Mehdi. Thank you so

1:40:45

much to Josh, to Sam, to Senator Al

1:40:47

Franken. That was so much fun. We appreciate

1:40:50

you so much. So good to see you.

1:40:53

When we come back, we'll end on a high note.

1:40:59

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1:41:28

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1:41:30

there. Alright,

1:41:33

now it is time for the high notes. We are over. So I'm gonna

1:41:35

do a couple high notes. So if we bring up the lights. If

1:41:39

you have a high note, Kendra's right there. Go

1:41:41

to Kendra. Kendra does not come to you. Hi,

1:41:44

Dan. I'm Sarah. I'm from Lancaster

1:41:46

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1:41:49

last year, I told you I was running

1:41:52

for school board and we swept it. Hell

1:41:54

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1:42:00

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1:42:04

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1:42:07

what's your name? What's your high note? Hi,

1:42:10

John. My name is Carol. I'm from the

1:42:12

Virgin Islands. And I know you said

1:42:14

don't talk about being here, but I am going

1:42:16

to talk about that but for a totally different

1:42:18

reason. Because I originally

1:42:20

planned this trip to D.C. because I thought I

1:42:22

was leaving during Carnival, but I got the dates

1:42:25

wrong. And I came the week before Carnival, but

1:42:27

then it turned out that this was the week

1:42:29

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1:42:31

the week of the Supreme Court argument. So today

1:42:34

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1:42:36

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and scream at the protests and also be interviewed

1:42:41

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some crazy Trump person be interviewed. And it

1:42:45

was weird. And then I

1:42:47

got to be here all because I came here on the

1:42:49

wrong week. So that's my high note. Seems like I came here

1:42:51

on the right week. Seems like it

1:42:53

was the right week. Hi, what's your name? What's your high note? Hi,

1:42:56

my name is Sophia. I'm from Toronto,

1:42:58

Ontario, Canada, weirdly. Thank you.

1:43:02

And my high note's kind of goofy. It's

1:43:04

that I am just halfway done university now, which is

1:43:06

great because the first two years were hard and I'm

1:43:08

hoping the last two years will be a lot easier.

1:43:11

Yeah, that's great. Hi,

1:43:15

what's your name? What's your high note? Hi, my

1:43:17

name's Allison. I'm a librarian

1:43:20

at Anne Arundel Fanny Public Library

1:43:22

in Maryland. Thank

1:43:25

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1:43:27

Annapolis. And my high note is

1:43:29

that today, Governor Westmore signed

1:43:31

into law two really

1:43:33

important acts, the Freedom

1:43:36

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1:43:38

workers as we do our job.

1:43:40

And the Library Workers

1:43:43

Empowerment Act, which secures

1:43:45

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1:43:48

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