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Celebrities in Politics_ UFC Lawn Fight _ Spencer Pratt_s Bid for L.A. Mayor _ The Daily Show · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to The Precap, a daily show podcast
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  Speaker 1: where we sit down with this week's host to take
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  Speaker 1: a look at this week's news and talk about what
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  Speaker 1: we missed from last week.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Nicole Conlon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a writer at the show, and I am joined
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  Speaker 1: today by the incomparable Michael Kosta.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Michael Kosta. I'll be the host this week.
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  Speaker 2: So exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Fun to be sitting here with you, Nicole.
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  Speaker 2: Fun to be sitting here with you, and of course, Walter.
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  Speaker 3: Walter, what's your role this week besides host emotional support?
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  Speaker 3: For those of you that do want to know, This
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  Speaker 3: is a very dog-friendly office.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And Walter is here almost every day. Every day I'm here,
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  Speaker 3: Walter's here.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. It's as grumpy as he seems now. He has
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  Speaker 1: actually warmed up to me considerably.
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  Speaker 3: It's only taken six years of you working at the Dill.
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  Speaker 3: He is slow to warm up, but in a weird way,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of like it because I feel like maybe
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  Speaker 3: in my life, I.
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  Speaker 3: Warm up too quickly to people.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe he's like, hey, man.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good balance.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good balance.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: A good balance, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, Walter, if we get any facts wrong, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to need you to fact check us on this episode.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, please.
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  Speaker 2: Or take a nap.
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  Speaker 3: Either way.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with what has happened in the world in
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  Speaker 1: the past week. We have been off for a week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We were on break. I was in Ireland. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Isn't it fun when you're in a different country?
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorite parts about traveling... um, abroad is you,
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  Speaker 3: you almost inherently see how other people see us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Cause you see their news.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And it's always like, oh shit.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I will say everybody in Ireland was still very friendly to.
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  Speaker 2: Me, which was good.
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  Speaker 3: There's such good people.
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  Speaker 2: They're, they're so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Um, now I will say having been there for a week,
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  Speaker 1: I fully checked out of the news and so missed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of what happened this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems to be that one of the running
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  Speaker 1: themes from the past week is this White House 250
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  Speaker 1: celebration and all of the event planning debacle surrounding that.
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  Speaker 1: So the biggest news, I think, was they were having
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  Speaker 1: this big concert with a bunch of acts that everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows and remembers. And then one by one, they slowly
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  Speaker 1: started dropping out as people got mad at them. So
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  Speaker 1: some of the acts who dropped out were Bret Michaels
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  Speaker 1: from the band Poison and like Several VH1 reality shows,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Martina McBride. Okay. Morris Day and The Time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Classic.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: The Commodores.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Easy Like Sunday Morning, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Young MC.
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  Speaker 3: Which the only song that I believe he's ever sang.
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  Speaker 2: I only know the one.
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  Speaker 3: Is, wait. I used to know it. And you're going
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  Speaker 3: to know it. But do I remember it? Leave it
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  Speaker 3: in the comments down below.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, I know every word to that song.
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  Speaker 3: Young MC, what is it called?
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  Speaker 2: This here's a.
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  Speaker 1: Jam for all the fellas trying to do what those
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  Speaker 1: ladies tell us.
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  Speaker 3: There we go, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Bust a move.
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  Speaker 3: Bust a move. Yeah, when I heard that Young MC
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  Speaker 3: was on the docket, I go, of course he is,
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  Speaker 3: because Sylvester Stallone is at the Kennedy Center. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: of course.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is how you prolong your career. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: my card here says the original vocalists of Milli Vanilli,
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  Speaker 1: but then on the poster.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, right.
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  Speaker 1: It was a, it was a picture of one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys who did the lip syncing. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know which is correct.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, I don't even know if
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  Speaker 3: the current generation even knows or understands what Milli Vanilli is, was, wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: When I said Milli Vanilli, our YouTube views dropped like 5,000 people.
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  Speaker 3: These were two with two singers with A number one hit.
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  Speaker 3: Two of them, right?
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  Speaker 1: Multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Blame It on the Rain.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And another one I can't remember.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see her?
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  Speaker 2: That sounds right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me, have you seen? But they were not the singers.
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  Speaker 2: No, they were lip syncing.
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  Speaker 3: They were lip syncing the entire thing. And they also
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  Speaker 3: didn't even, it's not like they were lip syncing their performances.
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  Speaker 3: They were not singing. Like the CD.
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  Speaker 2: They were like two young, hot guys.
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  Speaker 1: And then the actual singers were, As far as I
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  Speaker 1: can remember, like middle-aged, like normal looking studio musicians.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. And the songs that were recorded were not their voices.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want people to know.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And now they are also not performing at the White House.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Even though they were never performing, even when they were performing.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. Although I do think one of them, after the
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  Speaker 1: reveal of the lip syncing, did try to launch his
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  Speaker 1: own singing career.
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  Speaker 2: But then it's like, well, then why didn't you just
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  Speaker 2: do that in the first place?
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom Williams of C & C Music Factory.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: This is old school.
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  Speaker 3: This is Make America Great Again. This is what Trump
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  Speaker 3: believes music is.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Make America 1992 again.
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  Speaker 3: When Bill Clinton was president?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's all very strange.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there are still two performers in. Vanilla Ice.
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  Speaker 5: Classic.
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  Speaker 2: Because obviously. And Flo Rida.
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  Speaker 3: That's funny.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why Flo Rida is still doing it
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  Speaker 2: other than, I don't know, he's a swing state.
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  Speaker 3: You know, are these artists getting paid?
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  Speaker 1: I think so because at one point Trump tweeted, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: he truthed that the artists are getting the yips, which
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: is a golf term, I guess a sports term for
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  Speaker 1: when you get nervous.
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  Speaker 2: Like Charles Barkley has the yips real bad. Although I
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  Speaker 2: heard he fixed it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But the artists are getting the yips and they were
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  Speaker 1: overpriced anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So they must have been getting paid.
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  Speaker 3: Because I can say as a performer myself, one way
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  Speaker 3: to really make sure that an artist doesn't pull out
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  Speaker 3: is to pay them money. A lot of it. So
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  Speaker 3: my guess is like the public image cost of this
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  Speaker 3: was way higher than what they were getting paid. But
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  Speaker 3: I promise you, watching all my friends go to Saudi
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  Speaker 3: Arabia to perform. They were making enough money that.
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  Speaker 2: They were- There's an amount of money where it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: There's an amount of money where they're going like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't care. You can hate me. I'm going to Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 3: So I would guess knowing Trump, he was probably paying
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  Speaker 3: them poorly.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't a smart move for them. People are going,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing this for?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need this.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom Williams of CNC Music Factory- Speaking of Vanilla Ice,
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  Speaker 1: when I was in college, an episode of The Apprentice,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Celebrity Apprentice, shot a challenge on campus where
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  Speaker 1: they had to make pizza for all the students.
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  Speaker 2: And Vanilla Ice was one of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm wrong. Mark McGrath. Cut that.
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  Speaker 3: Alan, cut that. Cut it. I do not know Vanilla
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  Speaker 3: Ice's real name. Me neither.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: We may never know. For all I know, it is
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  Speaker 2: Vanilla Ice.
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  Speaker 6: Here goes.
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  Speaker 3: Real name.
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  Speaker 2: Real name.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be like Cody or.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Robert Matthew Van Winkle.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great name.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Why did he change it?
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  Speaker 2: Robert Matthew Van Winkle.
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  Speaker 3: Robert Matthew Van Winkle? I feel like that Vanilla Ice
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  Speaker 3: is a downgrade from that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe somebody answered his riddles three and then he had
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  Speaker 2: to change it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it is kind of hard to understand what
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  Speaker 3: a big moment that was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When Milli Vanilli was caught.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Or even it was revealed because I don't understand why
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  Speaker 3: they didn't think or, you know, that was just like
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  Speaker 3: for me when I was nine or 10, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I just thought things were what they were.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And then that's when you kind of learn like maybe
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  Speaker 3: this little box that sits on your living room dresser
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  Speaker 3: doesn't always give you the truth or things are produced.
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  Speaker 3: So this was a big moment.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And now the lip-syncers have too much integrity
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  Speaker 1: to perform in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right, right, right.
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  Speaker 3: But they said yes at first.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But look, they were getting paid. If you were putting
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  Speaker 1: together an America 250 concert, who would you pick?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I am... You know how The Daily Show
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  Speaker 3: has the Facebook?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It has everyone's... It says, like, what's your favorite TV
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  Speaker 3: show and your favorite music? My answer to... to my
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  Speaker 3: favorite music is I'm not really a music guy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And people think I'm joking because it's like, who isn't
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  Speaker 3: a music guy? I mean, I love the Beastie Boys.
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  Speaker 2: Pick the Beastie Boys. I think that's a perfect answer.
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  Speaker 3: I love the Beastie Boys and I've met them and
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  Speaker 3: I've gone to their concert. It was the first concert
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  Speaker 3: I ever went to. But like after that, I get real...
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  Speaker 3: Real thin on who I would have.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Beastie Boys is a great answer. You know,
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  Speaker 1: RIP MCA. But I think they would be a perfect
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  Speaker 1: choice because they are so Brooklyn. Like New York City
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  Speaker 1: is so rarely represented when we're talking about like, this
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  Speaker 1: is what it means to be American.
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  Speaker 2: It's the biggest city in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Well, why I love the Beastie Boys is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of musicians are like this, the best
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion. But you really watch them evolve as
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  Speaker 3: people through their music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it's very safe to say you can go, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I love this band because of their last album. You
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  Speaker 3: listen to their new album. You're like, who is this band?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're evolving. They're progressing. Guess what? So are we. So
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  Speaker 3: is this country, hopefully. And so much of what this
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  Speaker 3: administration encapsulates is him trying to fight, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: how this country is growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That, to me, is what Trumpism is. It's like, no, stop.
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  Speaker 3: No Spanish. No different people. No different cultures and languages.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to stop all that. So it's all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: You ask Donald Trump, please, but he still says no.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, Nicole.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I think I would pick the Chicks. Formerly the Dixie Chicks.
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  Speaker 1: Particularly because they were like the... Not like. They were
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  Speaker 1: the ones who... stood up to Bush and said, he's
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  Speaker 1: not our president.
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  Speaker 2: This doesn't represent us.
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  Speaker 1: And then they were the ones who really suffered a
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  Speaker 1: career setback from that and.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't give up on it. I wasn't fully aware that
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  Speaker 3: they had a career setback because of that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they used to play like arenas.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then they still had a career.
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  Speaker 1: They're still very talented musicians, but it was definitely going
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  Speaker 1: from you know, playing MSG to playing Terminal 5.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's funny you say that because the Beastie Boys
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  Speaker 3: rapped a lot about George Bush. And I believe MCA
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  Speaker 3: even had a line like the Kyoto Treaty you chose
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  Speaker 3: to neglect. And I was 12 years old going, what
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  Speaker 3: the fuck is he talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But it was like a climate thing or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But I love, love, love when a public figure speaks
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  Speaker 3: their mind about what they think is wrong because it
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  Speaker 3: does cost them commercially.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But that's okay because to them, it's more important to
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  Speaker 3: speak up for what they believe is wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: And that's why Michael Kosta is here to reveal his controversial,
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  Speaker 1: righteous political opinion.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to subscribe to the Patreon for that.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: The other event planning sort of hiccup That has happened
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  Speaker 1: this weekend is, so they're building this big UFC arena
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  Speaker 1: on the lawn of the White House for a big
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  Speaker 1: fight on.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Is it an octagon?
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  Speaker 2: I have to assume it's an octagon.
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  Speaker 1: But it also, it has sort of, you know that
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  Speaker 1: thing outside of LAX that has like four legs coming
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  Speaker 1: off of it?
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  Speaker 2: It looks a little bit like that.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be funny if Trump didn't know how many sides
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  Speaker 3: were on an octagon. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I have the best octagon. It has 12 sides.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone knows it.
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  Speaker 2: Other octagons have eight. I said, let's get 12.
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  Speaker 1: I think I said this on the podcast with Desi,
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  Speaker 1: but I have, between Colbert and here, I've been talking
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: about Donald Trump for 10 years now, and my impression
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  Speaker 1: of him has only gotten worse.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a part of me that doesn't mind
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  Speaker 3: that this is happening.
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  Speaker 2: I actually agree.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that there's a reason that there can't
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  Speaker 1: be a big event.
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  Speaker 2: On the White House lawn.
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  Speaker 1: If I think about, oh, if it was President Bernie
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  Speaker 1: Sanders and he was like, let's do a big celebration
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  Speaker 1: of America on the White House lawn with whoever he
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  Speaker 1: would pick.
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  Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders would have a farmer's market, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I would love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be great.
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  Speaker 3: That would be great.
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  Speaker 2: I think that would be a great use of the lawn.
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  Speaker 1: And so I don't necessarily mind the idea of a
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  Speaker 1: big spectacle on the White House lawn.
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  Speaker 2: It is stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't mind, you know— It's beautiful imagery,
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  Speaker 3: the White House. I hope people get excited about the
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: White House. I hope people watch this and get more
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  Speaker 3: curious about our government. They won't. But the thing that
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: is most on brand for Trump is that this is
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: violent and mean spirit. You know, it's fighting. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, and I would say these fighters have incredible
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  Speaker 3: integrity and sportsmanship because you have to play by the
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: rules in particular in fighting, which is very funny because
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: I don't feel Donald Trump is that way. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it is just so on brand for him to have
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  Speaker 3: it be where people are kicking the shit out of
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  Speaker 3: each other.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And it is also for the benefit of the UFC,
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  Speaker 1: which is a private corporation also.
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  Speaker 3: And Dana White has been in his pocket from day one.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: One of the issues that they're having is that Dana
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: White thinks there's going to be a massive gnat problem.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He, I guess, was at an event at the Rose
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  Speaker 1: Garden and he was like, this is something we got
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: to figure out because there's moths everywhere. There's gnats everywhere.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: The fighters are going to be out there dealing with
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: the gnats, which I guess would be a problem, but
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: it is also like you're, you're beating the shit out
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: of each other.
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: But it would suck if someone's like, uh, trying to
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: get a fly out of their face and then they
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: get their nose broken. But yeah, I mean, this is a, Hey,
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: this is why the sport of tennis is so wonderful
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: because you have to play outside and you have to
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: deal with those conditions. And while you're dealing with those conditions,
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: you aren't getting your In.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Many ways, you guys are tougher and braver than UFC fighters.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: I've long said that.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Even though we play in a rectangle, they play in
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: an octagon.
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: That you do what they do with half as many sides.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of funny to think that maybe Different
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: athletes are just people who do different things on different shapes.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they just like different shapes. Baseball's a diamond.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, diamond. Basketball would be, what's a pool? It's a
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: square with water in it. Anyways, cut that.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Some of them are kidney bean shaped.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think they do a lot of events in those, though.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan also said he doesn't like that it's outside.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: And I think it's just, they want to, I mean,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: if it rains or something and it gets slippery.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I've seen 300.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: They were out there rolling around in the mud.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Perfect reference.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Fighting, fighting, when you are fighting somebody, conditions would be
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: very important.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I get that that's a thing. I mean, what's funny
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: is we all want Joe Rogan to say, I don't
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: like this. I don't like this administration. But the reason
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: he doesn't like it is because it's outside. Yeah. So
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: it's not.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: It's.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: The fights will be worse.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: It's bad for the fight.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Which is understandable.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: The other funny thing about the UFC fight at the
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: White House is that the White House is trying to
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: get soldiers to attend the event, but they have to
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: pay their own way.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: And also they have to meet height and weight restrictions.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Height restrictions?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: So you can't be too short.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if you are too short, then
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: you can still buy a ticket, but they'll put you
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: in the nosebleeds or something. But if you want to
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: be in the stands near the front, in the you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: section of honor or whatever, then you have to.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: No fatties, first of all, and you can't be short.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: You have to look like what they want our soldiers
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: to look like.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Even though probably the most skilled drone pilot operator might
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: not be a 6'4.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I suspect that the most skilled drone operator probably looks
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: like he's playing Warcraft in his basement.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: 20 hours a day.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I agree, and... It's just this whole, look, the whole
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: world is more focused on optics now, but Trump in particular,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: that is the game. Optics is the game. Optics is
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we know he loves a beautiful man because
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: he never misses an opportunity to be like, look at you,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: look at this wet glistening off your skin.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: It's like, all right.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Although the optics standing behind him at his rallies are
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: also lots of non-beautiful men. Let's just put it that way.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, now we're going to do a new segment that
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: probably won't be, I hope, won't be a recurring segment.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: But because I am from Colorado originally, there's been a
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: few weird news stories coming out of Colorado.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And the first one.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: What's the state motto?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Boy, I should know it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Is it like.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: It's the centennial state.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Centennial state.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, so this will be our 150th anniversary in Colorado.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: What can you tell me about... It's flower.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Nothing without providence. I've never, I don't think I've ever
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: heard that. Uh, it's flower is the Columbine. Oh, wow.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: And when I was in Ireland, we saw some Columbine
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know that they grew there. This is
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: only interesting to people from Colorado.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Can you tell me, and don't look at the screen.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Can you tell me about the flag at all?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Uh, the, the flag is like very iconic. It's just
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: got a big C on it. Um, with the, uh,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the center, I think is supposed to represent the sun. Um,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and it's, if you're, From Colorado, 50% of the people
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you know have that flag tattooed on them.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I like that. Oh, really?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Well, because it's a good, it's an easy tattoo.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: It's beautiful. You know, I am just a huge fan
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: of the state of Colorado.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It rocks.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: It just has so many different things going for it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: It rocks. Although I will say, do you know Caleb Heeran?
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: There's a comedian named Caleb Heeran who's very funny, who
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: has a joke that I will paraphrase worse than when
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: he does it. But he has a joke that's like,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who've moved to Colorado
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and for every single one of them, it has been
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: a cry for help. I do feel like there is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a large contingent of people in Colorado who are like, well,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I'm 35 and my.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Life isn't working out. Denver's blown up. Yes. I could
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: kind of tell you a little bit about the state
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: flag of Michigan, but you really knew what you were
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: talking about there.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Well, it's because it's iconic. It's iconic and it's also,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you know, a child could draw it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Alan, pull up the state flag of Michigan.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: It's just got the state seal on it. It's blue
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: with the state seal, but I don't know... It needs
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: a rebrand because Colorado looked like fun. Looked like they
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: want to go to that place.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You got some stags and an eagle.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: It's not awful, but it's just kind of formal to me.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Circumspice.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: It's formal, whereas Colorado looked approachable.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. The Denver city flag is also very good.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: It has three triangles for mountains.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: It's great.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: But anyway.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Good talk.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Shout out to everybody from Colorado.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Colorado Corner.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: A few stories from Colorado Corner. The first one is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: that Tina Peters- famous election denier. Our governor, Jared Polis,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: has been talking about commuting her sentence for a long time,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and she has officially been released from prison. For those
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of you who don't remember, Tina Peters was in the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: news around, I think it was the 2020 election, right?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: She was behind a lot of the voting conspiracies. She
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: got arrested because she was promoting all of these voting
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: conspiracies and um, saying that there was.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Subterfuge and the election was stolen.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And so she's finally been released and she immediately went
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: on Steve Bannon's podcast and started doing it again.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: The second she was released.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I know that, um, I know that the Democrats are
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: going to cheat and, um, and no one's really addressing
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: the problem that the basic, that I, that I spent
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: my time in prison, um, As retribution for and that
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: was exposing the the election machines that allow the votes
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: to be flipped.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Well, just and just remember that Fox lost a 800
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: million dollar lawsuit.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Claiming that the election machines had been compromised.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: They kept saying they were compromised. And the election machine
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: company sued and won $ 800 million.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Does everyone know that? She looks good for being in prison, though.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: She looks great.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Whatever they're doing in the Colorado State Penitentiary appears to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: be working.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So that's one weird story. There is a weirder story,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: which is that.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: The frontrunner, the Republican frontrunner for governor is a guy
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: named Victor Marks. And he gave an interview with Denver
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: newscaster Kyle Clark, who's awesome.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I would assume the governor is... Republican?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Our current governor is ostensibly a Democrat. But this new
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: guy who's running as a Republican, Victor Marx, just gave
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: this interview and he has a couple wild quotes that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'll have you watch.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: You perform exorcisms, commanding demons to come out of people.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Stop.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Can you explain to me how that works?
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: When you say I perform exorcisms.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: You described yourself as a quote unquote reluctant exorcist.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: I believe the word of God that I can pray
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: for people and see people set free from whether it's
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: demonic oppression. I never call it possession. I believe there's
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: levels of demonization where people are suffering because of evil.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: But could you explain to folks who have never witnessed this,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: don't understand how it works? I've heard you describe it
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: a number of times.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: You've got the.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Two angels with the sword. You've got the circle of judgment.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: I can't tell if this guy's taking the piss out
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: of him or... So I think it's real. And I
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: think what Kyle... I think Victor Marx here is trying
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: to be like, well, I mean, when I said exorcism,
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: I meant it metaphorically.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And Kyle Clark's like, no, you don't.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: But then he also says... You have previously.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Said a thing with angels and swords and stuff.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: But then he also said, that's a joke. I don't
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: believe that, but I can pray it out of people,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: which is what you said.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, religious semantics, words.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yes. So that wasn't the only part of the interview.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: There was also this one.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Your claim that your abusive stepfather forced you to kill
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: a man when you were seven years old, is that
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the only person you've ever killed?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, stop.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: This is such a long pause for the question.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Did you kill anybody else?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Did you kill somebody?
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Alan has not paused the video, by the way.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: I would say... As a... As a child, yes.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: As a child, yes.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Did you kill anybody as an adult?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I've only killed... Yeah, I mean, that's wild.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: It's truly wild.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And he's probably going to be the Secretary of the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Interior within our lifetime.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Well, people do forget, though, because of Boulder and because
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: of the ski culture there, of the money and the
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: private flights and Beaver Creek and Vail. people forget that
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Colorado also is like wild country.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: People forget that rough and tough men who love Jesus are,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: are a enormous part of the state.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Definitely.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: It's easy to forget that.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Everything past the airport is, is basically like West Kansas.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Correct. Yes.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And then you go, you know, like far to the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Southeast and it's cowboy country.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Ranch, ranchers. And yeah, and it is easy to forget that, but,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: He is a nice reminder.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: He really is.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Now, Kasa, I would love to get your take on
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: this headline, which I saw, which is that Serena Williams
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: is returning to pro tennis.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Wild. Wild to me. Is she tied for all-time? No,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: she's second place for all-time Grand Slam. She's at 23.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: And I believe Margaret Court who played like 100 years ago,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: has 24. And definitely, definitely, definitely, Serena Williams is considered
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the greatest of all time. But she doesn't have that record.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: So that could be driving this.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: You think maybe she's trying to get one more Grand Slam.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: She definitely is trying to get one more Grand Slam,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: or if not two. Now, this doesn't fare well for
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: any gender when you leave the sport and then you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: come back. I mean... Do me a favor, Alan, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Google Bjorn Borg returned to tennis 1981. Here's a great
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: example of this, 81 downfall. Bjorn Borg, you know who
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Bjorn Borg is?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I know that he is a legendary tennis player.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Very beautiful Swedish tennis player. Played with this wooden racket
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: called the Don A. He left for four years. The
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: whole sport moved to aluminum tennis rackets. That's a big jump.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Metal rackets. Everybody. Bjorn Borg comes back playing with wood.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: He had to pay Don A to make wood rackets.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: My whole point is, I hope Serena's been paying attention.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: The sport has evolved considerably since she left.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: What are some changes that have happened since she left?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Movement. You know, when Serena played, she was the only
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: one that could serve.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: A lot of women now can serve, and they can move.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: They move unbelievably. So I'd be curious to see. I mean...
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Serena Williams is one of our generation's greatest athletes. If
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: anyone could do it, it could be her, but 44,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: you took four years off. Maybe you started to have
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: a piece of chocolate cake every once in a while.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? This is going to,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: it's going to be tough, but Hey, I'm rooting for her.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's, I mean, look as, as a woman approaching
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: middle age, I am always looking for examples of like, see,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: she could still do it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And, and she's a bad motherfucker.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. So she's also like a genetic freak, which is,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: If you're the top athlete in any sport, you have
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to be.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: You have to be. And also her sister has been playing.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Her sister retired and then came back.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: How long did Venus take off?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Do you know? I don't know how long, but also
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Venus hasn't won a match in like three years, but
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: she's still playing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Good job, Venus.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a tennis question?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Well, you're going to be disappointed with what the question is.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: But I rarely play tennis. If somebody asks me if
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I want to go, I'll be like, sure.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: But I'm not good at it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: But even though I don't, play tennis, but once every
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: other year, I do still find myself doing the.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Grunting.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Why does that happen?
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Well, let's go back to boxing or fighting. One of
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: the first things they teach you when you punch or
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: strike is to blow out or to exhale. It helps
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: the strike. It's the same with tennis. In fact, probably
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: if we miked a pitcher... a baseball hitting it. We're
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: all breathing out. Why? I don't understand why tennis is
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: always is sexual sounding. Maybe it's because you have time.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I don't, you know, you have a little bit of time.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: The ball, you gotta, the ball's got to travel 76
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: feet to the opponent. Maybe there's time.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: You can't help it. It's yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: And, and you know, I've tried when I put like,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I don't practice. I barely ever play. And my body
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: naturally is.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Just like, yeah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I, as a former coach, I strongly encourage people
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: to grunt when they hit.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Great.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: What does happen is people start, people add a little
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: artistic flair to their grunt.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It's like one of the guys in the gym who's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: lifting really heavy goes, ah!
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: That's not helping you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: But it is, you know, Venus got in trouble early
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: in her career. People were mad at her grunt. And
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: she was like, this is my grunt. Sport has a grunt.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: So it's just, it's been a thing.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I wonder why it's, it feels like golf is such
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a similar motion, but when I play golf, maybe I'll
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: start grunting when I play golf.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I bet you if we mic'd you, there, it would
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: be some form of an exhale.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: But I don't know if it would be, I mean,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Gustavo Cuertin from Brazil used to grunt like this. I mean,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: it was awesome. It was like, it was like, what?
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: So.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Anyways.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, maybe when I play golf from.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Now on, I'll go.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I bet you Tiger Woods grunted when he crashed his
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: car into that fire hydrant.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: This is going to ruin the tour. All right.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at what might be coming up
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: this week. And let's start with the L.A. mayor and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the California elections.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Have you seen the Spencer Pratt phenomenon?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I was just in L.A. You can't get
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: rid of these ads. They're everywhere everywhere.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And is it ads for everybody or is it his
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: ads are overwhelming?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I did see some Spencer Pratt ads. I don't even,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: you know, I just, when you hear that it's political music.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Especially for a place you don't live.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know who the city sewer commissioner
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: is going to be. But there was even so many
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: that at one point there was an ad attacking an opponent.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Then the opponent's ad came on. Great. then the first
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: person's ad came back on. And it's like, whoa, how
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: much money did we spend on this? Yeah, no, California's
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: really gone.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Mad.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: And you know what? They have truly collective trauma from
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: the fires.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Totally. And that is why Spencer Pratt has been able
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: to do this.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Because during the fires, he emerged maybe not as a hero,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: but definitely as somebody who who everybody was surprised to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, right, this guy exists. And he seems
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to be saying like reasonable and sympathetic stuff about the fires.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And then now that he's running for mayor, not so much.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I think we all as a society do not fully
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: understand trauma.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And you can look at COVID with the election of
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden. I mean- You can look, you can, I mean,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: trauma affects us so deeply that we search for people
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: that can offer some organization of it or just, uh,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: appreciation for it. And in some strange way, Spencer Pratt,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: the reality star that everybody hated because he was an asshole.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Is offering a little bit of that in some capacity.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: One thing that has emerged from his campaign is that
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: he loves crystals.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Oh boy.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Um, Alan, will you?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Walter, we're doing a pod. Can you please stop? Thank you.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: He's old.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Talk to me about crystals. Talk to me about crystals.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: What is the deal with crystals?
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Do you believe they have powers?
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: I know nothing about crystals, so tell me about it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: Do you believe the ocean has powers? Do you believe
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: waterfalls have them? Do you believe hummingbirds have power? I
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: believe anything God put on this earth has energy. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: I respect the earth and the powers of God. And
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: so that's, I don't worship crystals. I think they're beautiful.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: The ones I collected all went up in value before
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: Mayor Bass let them burn to the ground.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: They were investments.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: It was a museum-grade collection.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: How would you describe, do you think they have special powers?
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Or do you just think they're nice to look at,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: they're good to collect? Like, how do you explain them?
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: Okay, this watch right here has quartz in it. And
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: it has energy.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: It's moving.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: It's also battery-powered.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Yes. I used to live, when I lived in LA,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I lived in a place called La Crescenta, which is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: sort of like behind the mountains, behind Burbank.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: La Crescenta Flintridge?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I know exactly where that is.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: La Cunata Flintridge, which is like next to La Crescenta.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Okay, exactly. Because I would go up to the Angeles
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: National Forest.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, through there. And what.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: When I first moved there, somebody described it to me
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: as the kind of place where somebody in a MAGA
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: hat would try to sell you a healing crystal.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: And that is exactly the vibe there.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Also, keep in mind the placebo effect is like 30% effective.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: So if you have a surgery and you put a
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: crystal next to your bed, you think it's going to
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: help you? Hey, if you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: feel like crystals help and also you're following your doctor's orders. Right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I'm down with that. That's great.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled for you.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I just wish they would call it the placebo effect crystal,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: not the, this crystal that I'll sell to you. Yes.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely. So the other big news is that, uh,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the Knicks are in the finals.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was great.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: It's huge. I'm a, again, I'm from Denver. I'm a
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Nuggets fan.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: We were eliminated this year, so I don't really have
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: a horse in this race, but I'm very excited for
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: all of my friends, uh, especially at the show, including, uh,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: your friend and mine, Jon Stewart, uh, who are all
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: very excited, um, about the Nick Spurs finals. Uh, Trump
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: has said that he, a plan Trump has said that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: he plans to attend, but.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you why. Let me tell you why
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: we don't want that.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. It seems like a logistical nightmare.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: It is like he came to the U S open
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: tennis final and everybody has to get there at 8
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: AM for a 5 PM final.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: To go through security.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Not even just like the metal detectors, like the, If
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: you're a journalist, the security background, it's a nightmare. But hey,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: don't be afraid, Trump, to say something nice about New
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: York City. For once. I mean, it was your home.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Forever and ever and ever. For your entire life. For
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: your entire life. I mean, I think no one really
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: knows for certain, but I think your wife and kids
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: still live here.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I would love for him to name one Nick in
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the history of the Knicks.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Also, resale tickets for the finals are already like most
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: nosebleed of nosebleed seats are over $ 5, 000. I can't imagine
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: what it would be like if Trump also was there.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: It's fun for me when other people in this country
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: see how expensive shit actually is in New York. Like
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: when my friends in Michigan are like, why are tickets $ 5, 000
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: to a Knicks game? I'm like, because you don't even
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: understand how much a hamburger costs you. You don't understand
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: how much rent is.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I watched a TikTok yesterday of a guy who was like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: this is part 12 or whatever of my realistic search
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: for an apartment in New York City that I'm affording
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: independently without a guarantor or anything. And he said his
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: budget for a one bedroom was $ 2, 100, maybe $ 2, 300. And
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: everybody in the comments was like, you're wasting money.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know if he's going
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to be able to find a place for $ 2, 100, but okay.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Everything's so expensive here.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: The other big news about the NBA finals is that
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of like political AI slop has come out
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: of it. So Governor Greg Abbott of Texas just posted
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: this insane photo of himself, who is in a wheelchair,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: dunking on Kathy Hochul, who is in a Knicks jersey,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and Donald Trump has court side seats and is laughing.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: It's so weird.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: It's awful. You know, I.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I also like that they gave him crazy guns. He's
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: so jacked at this photo.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: But also you just used AI machine that's sucking our
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: fresh water out of lakes to make this thing. Also,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: how do I tell my daughters to be nice to
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: people and to say please and thank you and be
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: respectful of everybody in your classroom, even if they're different
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: than you? And then like our elected officials, I know
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: this is jokey, but it also just pisses me off.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: It's... Boy, it's, I guess because I don't have kids,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I've never thought about how, when I was in like
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: third grade, I got in trouble for like drawing a
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: mean photo of a classmate. And now.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: It's very strange.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Depending on the age of your kid, they do start
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: to see this stuff on the news.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: And they're like, well, that's mean. Dad, you say don't
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: do mean stuff. And I'm like, you're right. I do
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: say that. And I try not to do mean stuff.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: But then the person who's in charge of this country.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Or whatever. You know, it's tricky.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: When you become the president, you can do it. Yes,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: you can do the mean stuff.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: But the Knicks are not the only big sporting event
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that we're looking forward to because the French Open is,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: is it already happening?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Is it just the finals?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: It's happening. The thing that's most exciting to me about
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: the French Open is the top two men's players, Yannick
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who have been winning everything. They're not,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: they're out. So Yannick Sinner retired with, well, he lost,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: but he had heat stroke essentially.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Well, there was a crazy heat wave in France this week.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, he literally couldn't move. It was very sad
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: to see how you become number one in the world
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: and you can't handle playing in 92 degree heat.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Carlos Alcaraz is out with a wrist injury. So we're
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: going to have a new, Novak Djokovic is out. We're
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: going to have like a new champion. That's fun.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: That's fun.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Do you have any predictions?
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I believe this Brazilian, Fonseca.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Is this the guy?
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: That's not that guy. That's Gustavo Cuerten.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Who was at the matches, by the way.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I like him, but it's just, yeah, so I don't
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: know who's going to win, but it's a lot of fun.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Do they play on clay?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: They play on red clay.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Red clay.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Very classy.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Very French.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Very French. And my favorite thing about the French Open
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: is of all the other tournaments, the umpires speak English
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: because it's like the language everyone understands. But of course,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: the French is like, we're speaking French. So you can
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: hear them. You hear them say, you know, it's great.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: So I love the French Open.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to watch some of it, even though I
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: don't understand what's going on because it will be a
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: good opportunity for me to practice my high school level French.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: And maybe pick up some tennis terms.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Also on the women's side, there's a wonderful player named
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Marta Kostyuk, who's Ukrainian. And here's why I love her.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: And it's relevant to this show. Three years ago, she
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: said before she was a big name, when I play
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: anybody from Russia or Belarusia or my umpire is from
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: those countries, I will not be acknowledging them or shaking
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: their hand because it is my duty to speak up
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: against this war. And I, and I don't like that
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: the other players from other countries aren't doing the same thing.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: So she will beat a, she, she played a tournament
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: where she beat a woman from Russia and there was
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: an award ceremony and she didn't acknowledge her or shake
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: her hand. Now everyone on tour kind of knows she's
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: going to do that, but I just love the, the,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the guts to say like, you're bombing my country and
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: this isn't okay with me. And I'm going to make
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: sure everyone knows all the time.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: She's still in the tournament and she could win it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Um, when she has.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Referee umpire, when she has a Russian umpire, I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: presumably she has to like heed their calls.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: I think she acknowledges the, uh, calling of the sport,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: but you're always supposed to shake the hand after a
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: match and she doesn't do that.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: Wow. Yeah.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Well, good for her.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good for her.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: It is time for something that we call the Daily
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Show and Tell. So, Michael and Walter, what is something
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that you have watched, read, listened to, argued about, or
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: just been on your mind lately?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Well, it's relevant to Walter. Okay. The guest on Tuesday
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: is the tick guy. Awesome. And he is an expert
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: and a professor who deals with ticks. And Walter's got
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: a little tick-borne illness.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Walter, do you have Lyme disease?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: He does not have Lyme disease. I don't know what
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: the name of it is. It's apparently like the one
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: you want to get if you're going to get one.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: But I find ticks fascinating. They use their mouth to
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: open up your body and then they insert a straw
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: into our vein and they suck our blood. Kind of crazy.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Terrifying.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: And I think more Americans need to be aware of
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: ticks and understand ticks and feel empowered to know how
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: to handle them because there's more and more coming with
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: climate change. Totally.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: There obviously are ticks everywhere in America, but there are
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: way fewer in Colorado. And so when I moved here,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: particularly when I had my big German shepherd who was
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: so furry, and we would bring her home from walks
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: and just have to spend like an hour going through
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: her fur. And fortunately she had like dogs. She had
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: that thing where when she gets a tick, it drinks
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: her blood and just dies immediately. So she was always fine.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: But one time my husband found a tick on him.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: He actually just found another one recently. And it was
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: immediately like trying to get doxycycline.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: People really freak out about them. And what I'm hoping
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: to achieve with this interview is it's right to be concerned.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: But the more you learn about it, I think it's like.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: You don't need to end your life over it.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: You can figure it out. But it's a thing we
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: need to learn to deal with.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him. And then have you seen,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: there's a guy on TikTok. He's part of the Mississippi
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: State Extension Service.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: He's Dr.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Jerome Goddard. He's a bug guy and he has the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: thickest Mississippi accent that I've ever heard. I'm going to
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: send you a video. He does a lot of videos
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: about ticks.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: They're great.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Can't wait for that guest. Check out Dr.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Jerome Goddard also. What's on your mind?
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Well, today's the first, right?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: So it's the first day of Pride Month. Uh, and
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: in honor of pride month and me just getting back
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: from Ireland, I, um, bought a book when I was
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: there that I thought was very good. So the, the
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: writer's name is Nevna Malone. Uh, and she wrote a
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: book called ordinary saints. That is about a, um, gay
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Irish woman who's living in London, whose, um, deceased brother, uh,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: is going to be made a saint in the Catholic church,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Catholic church. And it's about how she has to kind
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of reckon with her own past and her relationship to
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the church as somebody who grew up very religious and
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: is gay now. And it's very lighthearted and funny also.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And I really recommend it. It is kind of hard
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to get in America, but I think you can order
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: it from any bookseller. And I really recommend it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: The perfect antibody to screen addiction.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Is reading a book.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: It makes your brain happy. It makes your emotional health happy.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: It's just a wonderful thing. Put the phone down and
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: read a book.
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: Truly.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: And again, This Ireland trip that I just went on
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: was great because whenever I go to a new place,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I try to just pick a few books from authors
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: in that.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Region to read.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And Ireland has such a huge literary canon.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: They're just churning out authors.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: So check out any of those and check out Ordinary
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Saints by Niamh Malone. Don't try to Spell her name,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: just Google Ordinary Saints. And I think that's everything. That
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: is all the time that we have for the pre-cap.
• 42:28
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• 42:31
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• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Thanks for watching, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Walter's got his butt up.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Walter.
• 42:43
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