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Vivek Ramaswamy Almost Drops a Kid _ Mamdani Holds Hands with Ex-Rival Curtis Sliwa · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: Great. We got it. Hello, and welcome to The Pre-Cap,
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  Speaker 1: a daily show podcast where we sit down with this
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  Speaker 1: week's host to recap some of what happened last week
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  Speaker 1: and take a look at what's coming up next. I'm
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  Speaker 1: one of the writers of the show, Nicole Conlon, and
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  Speaker 1: with me today is your host for the week, Michael Kosta.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Nicole. This is fun.
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  Speaker 1: This is fun. And hello, Walter, who's sleeping in a
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  Speaker 1: position that I can only describe as uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Walter is my dog, and he really is a
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  Speaker 2: big fan of the pre-cap, even though he's yawning right
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  Speaker 2: now as we speak. Very exciting. And we're both in
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  Speaker 2: our whites, our Wimbledon whites right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I wore this shirt. It's not because
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  Speaker 1: it's the last one that was cleaned in my closet.
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  Speaker 2: I love that shirt. And as I told you before
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  Speaker 2: we started recording, sharks survived the Big Bang.
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  Speaker 1: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. No, that's not the Big Bang. The Big Bang
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  Speaker 2: is when the universe started. Thank you. Sharks, we'll take
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  Speaker 2: that back. Sharks survived the asteroid that killed 80% of
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  Speaker 2: species on Earth, including the dinosaurs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. This shirt is about how we're... overfishing. The back
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  Speaker 1: of the shirt talks about empty seas. And it's crazy
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  Speaker 1: that sharks survived the deadliest event on record and might
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  Speaker 1: not survive humans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, might not survive how fisher boats are dropping chains
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  Speaker 2: in the bottom of the ocean and dragging the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Not great for sharks.
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  Speaker 2: But an asteroid that was 10 miles wide and traveling
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  Speaker 2: at 40,000 miles per hour and was equivalent to 1,000
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  Speaker 2: atomic bombs.
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  Speaker 1: Sharks were like, we got it.
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  Speaker 2: Sharks were like, we got it.
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  Speaker 1: No problem.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to go swim a little deeper.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Michael, I can't help but notice that one of
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  Speaker 1: your ankles has a big brace on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I had an MRI today.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Which I've never had an MRI on a foot. That
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  Speaker 2: was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I wonder what, brain?
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  Speaker 2: I've had shoulder. Shoulder. I've had wrist, but the foot
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  Speaker 2: was nice. I actually didn't have to go all the
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  Speaker 2: way in the tube.
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  Speaker 1: Foot's easy because they just put a bunch of stuffing
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  Speaker 1: around it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to do anything. That was great. I
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  Speaker 2: have a chronically sprained foot.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into all the details because
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  Speaker 2: doesn't everyone love hearing about everyone's medical ailments?
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, but there is a big contingent of people
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  Speaker 1: online who love hearing about feet.
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  Speaker 2: Feet, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: So this could really help us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what was funny was, let's just put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: The third time I sprained my ankle... I was at
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  Speaker 2: a bowling alley. And what happens with me is I go,
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  Speaker 2: my vision turns bright red and I go into such
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  Speaker 2: a pain that I kind of black out. It's really, really, really, really,
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  Speaker 2: really hurts. And I come to, and there's a man
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  Speaker 2: standing in front of me. And this woman says, talk
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  Speaker 2: to him. He's a doctor. I'm on the ground grabbing
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  Speaker 2: my ankle. And he goes, well, actually, I'm an anesthesiologist.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, am I just going to ask an anesthesiologist? Anyways,
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  Speaker 2: long story short, he said, Michael, you still think your
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  Speaker 2: ankle's 20 years old. I said I should be better.
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  Speaker 2: It happened six weeks ago. He goes, it takes 10
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  Speaker 2: to six months at your age now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, God damn it. The whole time I
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  Speaker 2: thought I could still follow the rehab program of a 20-year-old.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I had ankle surgery five years ago because I kept
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  Speaker 1: rolling my ankle over and over again. And, and because
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  Speaker 1: like you roll it and then the ligaments and tendons
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  Speaker 1: get all loose. And so that makes you more likely to,
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  Speaker 1: so I just kept rolling it and then I rolled
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  Speaker 1: it really bad one day and then I was having
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  Speaker 1: trouble bending it. And so I finally went to a
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  Speaker 1: doctor who got an MRI and we got the results
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  Speaker 1: back and he was like, Oh, it's all fucked up
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  Speaker 1: in there. He was like, you have cartilage damage. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a bone spur. That's why I couldn't bend my
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  Speaker 1: ankle anymore. He was like, your ligaments are like barely
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  Speaker 1: attached to the bones. And then I had surgery and recovery,
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  Speaker 1: like kind of sucked, but wasn't that bad, all things considered.
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  Speaker 1: But I have not rolled my ankle one time since then.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so what... Because I don't... I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: to avoid surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But what do they do to the ligament in surgery?
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  Speaker 1: I think they cut part of it off and then
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  Speaker 1: just reattach it so that it's taught again.
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  Speaker 2: The actual ligament in your body, or they provide an
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  Speaker 2: alternative ligament?
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  Speaker 1: The actual ligament in your body.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't... As far as... I think I have
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  Speaker 1: maybe a couple screws, but nothing else foreign... in there.
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  Speaker 2: I did the worst thing you can do when I
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  Speaker 2: was initially injured was I went on YouTube and I
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  Speaker 2: watched ankle surgery videos, which is like WebMDing yourself. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know what's wrong and I'm already like, gotta
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  Speaker 2: get the foot taken off. I am not optimistic about
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  Speaker 2: this MRI. I think the doctor's gonna say you got
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  Speaker 2: your shit's all fucked up in there too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But let's fingers have fingers crossed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I got, I went to a few specialists and I
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  Speaker 1: got prescription insoles, which is very nerdy, but they've helped
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Except the guy who did, my ankle doctor
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay, I'm going to send you to this guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's the best at this. He's very weird. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay. And so then I went to the
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  Speaker 1: address my doctor gave me. It was just this guy's house.
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  Speaker 2: Already weird. Already weird. He like did the.
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  Speaker 1: Consultation in his living room and he like He spent
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  Speaker 1: a long time making these insoles. And then he was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, I'm going to go out to the garage.
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  Speaker 1: You stay here in my house.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like a very long process, a very
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  Speaker 1: strange man. And my feet and ankles have never felt better.
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  Speaker 2: It is interesting. We are willing to accept high levels
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  Speaker 2: of weirdness if somebody is great at their job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That goes for all jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Comedians, musicians, artists, writers, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's like in comedy, if you're an asshole,
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  Speaker 2: you better be very funny. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's fine kindness.
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  Speaker 2: It's not fine, but you're going to keep your job.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're not funny, you better be really nice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. So that's our lesson. You only have to
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  Speaker 1: be nice if you're not funny.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. You can take that straight to the bank. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: you can take that one straight to the bank. But
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  Speaker 2: I also am putting myself in the ears of our
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  Speaker 2: listeners right now. A lot of people who don't live
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  Speaker 2: in New York City... Maybe everyone hates foot problems, but
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  Speaker 2: it takes on a whole new level here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, because you walk everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You walk all the time and you're also carrying goods
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  Speaker 2: on you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You're not just walking from the parking lot to the car.
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  Speaker 2: You're walking various elevation changes of like concrete and you're
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  Speaker 2: also carrying stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got kids and a tiny dog that you
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  Speaker 1: can trip over as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this guy is probably the reason I don't have
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  Speaker 2: any cartilage because he likes to hide under my legs
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  Speaker 2: while I cook.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's going to be, I just foresaw the
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  Speaker 2: way his life is going to end is I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to drop a steak knife and he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: standing right there. Keep that in the edit, Alan.
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  Speaker 1: Walter's going to have a real Final Destination style ending. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Final Destination style endings, there's a plague in Russia.
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  Speaker 2: I know. How can you, well, what is a plague?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's literally the bubonic plague.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, shit.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the plague. It's the titular plague.
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  Speaker 2: I thought plague was just like a term for a sickness.
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  Speaker 2: But even though they called it the sickness.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, I think it also can be. But when
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  Speaker 1: you say the plague, typically you're talking about bubonic. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds like one researcher has died.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And there have been like a bunch of shutdowns and quarantines.
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm confused about is the bubonic plague is
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  Speaker 1: very treatable with antibiotics.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not 100% sure why... There seems to be
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  Speaker 1: this huge, because there's always like weirdly prairie dogs have
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  Speaker 1: it a lot. And there's a lot of prairie dogs
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado. And so every few years we'll get a
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  Speaker 1: story about like, can you believe these prairie dogs with
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  Speaker 1: the plague? So I didn't think it was like that
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  Speaker 1: big a deal, but it seems to be. not great
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  Speaker 1: in Russia.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if that's the map where it is, they
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  Speaker 2: probably haven't even got antibiotics up there yet. That is
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  Speaker 2: so far away.
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  Speaker 1: It's in Siberia. It's not near anything major.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I give nature and in particular sickness a
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  Speaker 2: lot of credit. They are not afraid to make a comeback. Viruses, bacteria,
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  Speaker 2: it is, you know, they have to We've got better medicines.
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  Speaker 2: They adjust and morph themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Good job.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if this is like some sort of antibiotic
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  Speaker 1: resistant bubonic plague.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Which wouldn't be great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know, it was an interesting interview. It
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  Speaker 2: was when John had on last week, the guy who.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Gershkowitz.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And his book about Russia and what a beautiful place
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  Speaker 2: it was as a man who's served a prison sentence there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What a complicated... The book's amazing. Did you read it?
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  Speaker 2: I have not read the book.
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  Speaker 1: I have a copy on my desk because I was
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  Speaker 1: on guest prep last week.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll give it to you. It's really good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to read that.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not even my show and tell for this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody say that it's my show and tell.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a show and tell that's unrelated to
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  Speaker 2: Russia as well. Perfect. Great. But it's on brand for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I can't wait. I've been getting little hints about
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  Speaker 1: what this show and tell might be. And I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to guess. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. I mean, it is.
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  Speaker 2: Strange that COVID happened and all the people that know
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  Speaker 2: about this stuff said this type of thing will be
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  Speaker 2: happening more and more as the earth warms and as
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  Speaker 2: we are more connected to other countries in a multitude
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  Speaker 2: of ways. And it feels like it has since then.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, those scientists get to do a major victory.
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  Speaker 2: Lap around whatever hospital we're.
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  Speaker 1: All going to be quarantined in. Moving on to something
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  Speaker 1: that is less effective at killing people.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. This is a crazy story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there was a woman in Tennessee who many,
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  Speaker 1: many years ago was convicted of murdering a classmate. They
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  Speaker 1: sentenced her to death. And this week they tried to
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  Speaker 1: administer a lethal injection and they botched it. So they
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill her. And then they revived her and took
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  Speaker 1: her to the hospital. And now they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to try to administer another lethal injection. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the state of Tennessee, Yes. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that has a history of botched.
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  Speaker 1: It's done this. It's done something like this before.
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  Speaker 2: And from what I remember from when Gianna Tobani was
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  Speaker 2: on the show and I was hosting and she wrote
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  Speaker 2: a book called The Volunteer about a man in Tennessee. Check, please,
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  Speaker 2: Asad or Alan. He had said, stop with the games
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  Speaker 2: and kill me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Like, I'm ready. I'm asking you. And even
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  Speaker 2: though he was asking, the system doesn't actually know how,
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  Speaker 2: can't do it. Appeals and they couldn't get the drugs
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  Speaker 2: and they couldn't. So it's just a mess, the death penalty.
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  Speaker 2: And Gianna speaks about how complicated, how much compassion do
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  Speaker 2: we have for someone who has committed suicide? a heinous crime,
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  Speaker 2: yet we are also trying to do the same to them.
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  Speaker 2: She talks a lot about how much sympathy do we
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  Speaker 2: allow ourselves for the person, for the victims, for the
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  Speaker 2: whole process. It's just a really interesting conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I can't make any promises because I don't
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  Speaker 1: edit the podcast, but if producer Alan makes it possible,
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  Speaker 1: we'll put the link to that interview in the show
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  Speaker 1: notes so that people can watch it and get sort
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  Speaker 1: of a more informed opinion than I have about the situation. And.
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  Speaker 2: You know....
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  Speaker 1: Nevada.
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  Speaker 2: Nevada, thank you. It was Nevada. I think at one
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  Speaker 2: point Tennessee or somebody was like bringing back the firing squad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Which doesn't seem to be much better than lethal injection. Although,
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  Speaker 1: like in France when they had guillotines, when the guillotine
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  Speaker 1: was invented, part of it was viewed as like a
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  Speaker 1: compassion thing because it.
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  Speaker 2: Happens so fast. Yeah. You know, it's a very dark subject.
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  Speaker 2: And what I find most interesting about humanity and our
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  Speaker 2: society is the idea that the state was trying to
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  Speaker 2: kill someone, messed it up, and then medical professionals were
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  Speaker 2: trying to bring her back to life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they can kill her again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that is just, that ethically, conversationally, something is
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  Speaker 2: off here. It's a mess. It's a mess. And I
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  Speaker 2: would encourage everyone to check out Gianna's book And also,
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  Speaker 2: let's think about ourselves and do we want to be
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  Speaker 2: in a society that punishes killers by killing them? I
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  Speaker 2: don't personally, but, you know, we can move on.
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  Speaker 1: If we do, we should at least nail it on
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  Speaker 1: the first try.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what this guy was saying in the book.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, just fucking do it. Yeah. Do it. Do it.
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  Speaker 2: Do it. Do it. Do it. Anyways, I know. Messed up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: On to some more lighthearted news.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen this video of.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, former... co-head of doge or
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  Speaker 1: something like that have you seen him picking up and
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  Speaker 1: almost dropping a kid aren't.
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  Speaker 2: You so i i don't know about you i wake
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  Speaker 2: up every morning thankful at the amount of money doge
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  Speaker 2: has saved this government it's every single day and then
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  Speaker 2: knowing that we can put it towards iran yes i
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  Speaker 2: can't be happier.
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  Speaker 1: Yes i see the benefits throughout my life personally for
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  Speaker 1: sure every day i'm walking down the street i'm like
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  Speaker 1: that was doge that.
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  Speaker 2: Was doge that was doge that was doge.
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  Speaker 1: Um and Vivek has retired from a successful career cutting
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  Speaker 1: government spending to do this. And you're watching this for
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  Speaker 1: the first time.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen this. It's very funny.
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  Speaker 1: Alan, can you cue it up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, shit. I'll pick you up. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa. Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 2: Big guy. That is a big guy. You want to
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  Speaker 2: say something? You want to say something?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: USA! That's our educational system right there.
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  Speaker 1: There are many funny things about this. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I thought when I saw this video going around, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that must be like his kid at a rally.
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  Speaker 1: That's somebody else's kid. I don't know whose kid that is.
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  Speaker 1: When he picks them up and he almost drops it,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, oh, big guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the big guy. I mean, when I'm at the
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  Speaker 2: playground with my kids and there's like another kid screaming
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  Speaker 2: on the swing saying, get me off. and I'm closer
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  Speaker 2: to that kid than the parents, I always say, like,
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  Speaker 2: do I have permission to help your child off the swing? Like,
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  Speaker 2: you don't touch someone else's kid. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: they always say, yeah, grab my kid.
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  Speaker 1: Michael, very trustworthy. Very trustworthy park dad.
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  Speaker 2: I do have kids. I'm not just at the playground.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is that kid... was not helping. The
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  Speaker 1: kid went fully, like, dead body and was not helping
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  Speaker 1: Vivek in the scenario at all.
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  Speaker 2: And if you think it's hard picking up a kid,
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  Speaker 2: imagine moving an adult body, right? Just think about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's heavy picking up a kid who's alive.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. So if you ever have
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: to dispose of a body, that's going to be a
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: lot harder than picking up that kid. It is.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: And that is very funny. And I would say to
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: all politicians... It's not going to be a good photo
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: op if you're picking up a... That was not even
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: a toddler.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. That was like a nine-year-old kid.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: A nine-year-old kid. That's funny.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Also not having anything prepared for him to say. To
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: just be like, hey, you, third grader, open mic.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: You can say whatever you want. It'd be great if
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: the kid was like, we need to reevaluate our strategy
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: through the Strait of Hormuz. 40% of the world's oil
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: goes through the Strait. Okay. Oh, whoa, I dropped him. Yeah,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I dropped you again. Okay.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that is what Vivek Ramaswamy is up to.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Some other former cabinet members. We got Kristi Noem. News
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: about Kristi Noem this week. I was just thinking a
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: few days ago, like, oh, right. Remember Kristi Noem.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: I know she was.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It feels like a lifetime ago.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: But isn't she now the head of Special Shield Western
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Hemisphere Envoy?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Very funny. And everyone was saying this whole time that
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: her marriage was a mess, right?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, because she bought the sex plane, which was ostensibly
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: for deportations, but there was a bedroom. And then a
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: news story about her husband dropped. Somebody leaked his OnlyFans DMs.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: And so people were like not... Because they're also a
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: very traditional family values couple. And so people were like, okay,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I guess they're just going to stay together. But they
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: are now getting divorced.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and wasn't... It was like his requests were very
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: strange or something.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: He was sending pictures of himself. And look, I don't
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: kink shame, but he was sending pics of himself. He
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: has like a, I think it's called a Barbie fetish.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Where he would stick balloons in his shirt to look
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: like huge boobs and then like wear like short shorts.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Alan's going to pull up the pictures so we can
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: all see.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: And I might've even said this to you, Nicole, because
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: it sounds familiar, but I was always like, why don't
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: these people just say, We're in a kinky open marriage.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: But then the thought, the response I had was, it's
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: actually worse to say that than to just be a Republican, like,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: there it is.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And just do all this shit in secret.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't, you know, do your thing.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: These are also, like, everybody involved was a consenting adult.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: There's no actual nudity.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Like, this... This is all.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Honestly fine by me. It's just like they're in this weird,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: like traditional family values, you know, socially conservative couple that is,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: handing down these regulations for other people. And it's like,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: what are you doing?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Is it true that Grindr always goes off the chain
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: when the Republicans are in town?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's an urban legend. Or it's the kind
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: of thing that activity on any dating app increases whenever
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: there's a big convention.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: When there's a convention.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Because I always thought that was a fun one to
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: want to believe.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: But I always wondered if it If it would. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: welcome to our podcast called Alan Google Stuff.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: This is, I mean, Joe Rogan's constantly having him look
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: up stuff. Yeah, Jamie's always looking stuff up on Perplexity.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: If it's good enough for the most popular podcast in
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the world, we could do it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I don't ever root for anyone getting divorced. I hope
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: her and her ex-husband are better for it. But there
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: is a complexity to this because of this whole family
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: value thing.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: And man, is that such an insulting photograph of Kristi
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Noem standing in front of the, I almost said prisoners.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: We don't even know if they're prisoners. The men that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: were locked in that El Salvadorian jail.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Really bad.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: And we don't even know if they had reasons to
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: be deported or imprisoned.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: We also, I think she did a photo op in
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: front of men in an El Salvadorian prison who had
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: been they were like violent criminals who had been arrested
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in El Salvador. So like she was like trying to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: make American like immigrants.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So it was a whole thing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: So I, I really am not a fan or rooting
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: for her, but personal stuff. I hope they get through it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. But at least somebody in the administration found
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: love because it was just announced today that Kash Patel
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: has gotten engaged to Alexis Wilson.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: His now fiance slash country singer.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, is she a country singer?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: She is a country singer. Oh, yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I remember this one.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, good for them. Yeah. I will say, Cash
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: is probably a little busy right now.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Well, he's still got to find the grandmother that went missing, right? Yeah.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's right on that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he's really on that. Yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: So, I don't know how involved Cash will be in
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the wedding planning, but if they're lucky, that same oligarch
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: who paid for Don Jr. 's wedding will pay for theirs.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Will pay for theirs. I mean- Uh, you know, he,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he was in the news a lot as a drinker Uh-huh.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And then that story came out, I forget who broke it,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and he has stayed out of the news a little
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: since then.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Well, but there was the whole bestiality thing.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't remember that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. We did a show. Josh had two shows,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and he got the fun bestiality stories, and then you
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: hosted the next day.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: That's right. I was the next day.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And you were the very dry and dark around war updates.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It was. And I was like, oh, Kosta missed the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: fun show by one day.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: It is funny. Some days you strike gold, and some
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: days you're like, oh, I'm shoveling coal today.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'm the policy guy.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm the policy guy today. That's right. I forgot
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: about the bestiality.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kash Patel had that whole thing where he was like,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: we're taking away the restrictions today. Against officers having participated
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: in bestiality. And John Kennedy trying to throw him a bone,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: no pun intended, was like, so what do you mean
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: by this? Because surely you don't mean that if a
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: guy fucked a chicken, he could still be in the FBI.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And then Kash Patel not understanding that John Kennedy was like.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Trying to be on his side.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Was like, this is exactly what it means. This is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: exactly what it means. And it's also for people who
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: are victims of bestiality who are.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, Jesus.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: That was like, he really kind of got over. He
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: got out over his skis on that one. But you
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: know what?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to cover.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: My dog's ears for this.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Walter.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Neither Kash Patel nor Kristi Noem can get
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you in here, Walter.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I would love to just be proud of these cabinet members.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Or not know who they are at all.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Or not know who they are and just go like, oh,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard about the FBI in four years. Or, yeah,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: it's just all a big reality show.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Another video that was popping off this week was
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: two New York politicians who both are very good at
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: using social media.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Mamdani, Zoran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa both got flu shots
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this week.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Nice. Zoran Mamdani, the mayor, holding Curtis Sliwa's hand.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yes. Sliwa was nervous about getting a flu shot.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: That's very sweet.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And so Mamdani went with him. And it's like a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: very sweet video. I mean, Curtis Sliwa is like kind
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of an unhinged weirdo, but I do like him as
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: like a mascot. I don't think he should ever hold
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: elected office, but I like that he's the kind of
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: guy that we can have around. Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of how I felt about Trump.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I liked that he was in the Republican debate. He's
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: sort of a weird avatar. Yeah, it was like kind
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: of a fun character to have as long as he
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: didn't bode any real power. And now we see what
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: happens when, you know.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: But Curtis Lee, I always give him credit. I mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: when I turn on the news at 7 a.m. and
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: he's like at the live show, media hit, I'm like,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: this guy wakes up every day doing this shit.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, he lives for this. He's 100% sincere. He's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: wearing that beret.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: 100% sincerely. And so they got flu shots. And I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: always think it's nice when there's like a more conservative
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: politician who's like, you should get a flu shot. You
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: should get vaccinated.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Correct. I think the imagery of elected officials supporting science
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: is a great one.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. I got A few years ago,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I got a flu shot at like the CVS inside
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of a Target. And I was ahead of these two,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a mom and her two little like five and six-year-old
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: girls who were visibly very scared about getting shots. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: their mom was like, it'll be okay. Like they do
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: this all the time. And the pharmacist was like, do
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you mind, like, can they watch you so they can
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: see you get a shot? No, it's not a big deal.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And I was like, absolutely not. No problem. And for
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, it is the most painful shot I've ever gotten.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: They must have just hit me at exactly the right
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: angle because they stuck me. But I was like, these
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: two little girls need to get their flu shot. So
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I had to be like, oh, it was not a
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: problem at all. It feels kind of good, actually. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: then every shot I've had since then has been fine.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: It was just that one where I was on the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: spot that was a nightmare.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I think older kids who aren't getting vaxxed as
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: much Are more afraid of shots.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Which is something my pediatrician said when the COVID vaccine
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: came out. Some of these kids were coming in for
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the first time. Keep in mind, the vast majority of
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: children are getting vaccinated. Yes. But the ones that weren't
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: were terrified of a needle and they were like 11
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, gosh.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I support vaccines and I need to get my flu shot.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: OK, let's look ahead to the stories that we're probably
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: going to be talking about next week. The midterms are
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: kicking into gear and Trump is on tour. Trump is
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: on like a cross-country tour. He's doing rallies, I think,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: every day this week or at least three days.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Trump's in Nebraska.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Fourth rally in five days. Unbelievable.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: The stamina on this guy, especially because isn't it? Is
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Nebraska at play? I guess they split their electoral college votes,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: so I wonder if their two senators are split also.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you for knowing that, Nicole.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Because there's two states that do that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember the other one. I know Nebraska
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: splits theirs.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say New Hampshire.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: That sounds right. Everybody at home, Google it on your own.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Google it on your time. This is our podcast.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I have a second guess if it's not New Hampshire.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, wait. Alan's looking it up.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It would not be Colorado because you would know that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: There's two states, Maine and Nebraska.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Maine.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I was close. I was close.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just one state off. Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So he's traveling around.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: There's also been a lot of polling that shows like
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: or not polling. There's also been a lot of stories
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that have been like these Republican candidates are trying to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: get Trump not to talk about them. Right. Because he's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: so unpopular right now that he's like tanking their campaigns.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I just never know what to think about all this.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I don't trust it at all.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I just want it's like what I want is not
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: always what it is. I hope I hope that America.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: opens its eyes and pays attention to the bribery that's happening,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: to the... Jeez, I just think Donald Trump has only
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: helped himself in this election, not the average American person.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like every election that I have watched for
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the past 10 or 15 years, everybody's been like, this
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: could finally be the year that Democrats flip Texas. And
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: then everybody gets their hopes up and they never do.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And it feels like a Lucy with the football situation.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So I'm choosing to be pessimistic until proven otherwise.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Pessimistic, but still registering to vote and voting.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Yes. Do that. Don't let the system defeat you. Stay
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: voting and be pleasantly surprised when it happens.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. Michael, you've also got some good
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: guests coming on this week. You've got Aaron Sorkin. Yep.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: who is here promoting The Social Reckoning.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: He wrote and direct The Social Reckoning.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You got Sebastian Stan, who is in the movie Fjord.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Somehow I didn't realize that Sebastian Stan is Romanian from Romania,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and he speaks Romanian in this movie.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, and he is a... And I'm halfway through this movie,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and I had to stop it because I needed a
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: break emotionally. Yes, it's... Yeah. Yes.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: It is really well done and really, really... Well done.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, but he plays a Romanian man living in... Norway. Norway.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: It's based on a true story.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, is it?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Shit, I was hoping that wasn't the case.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Get to the end of the movie, but it'll all
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: be fine.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: And then on Thursday, Kyle MacLachlan.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which, of course, I knew who he was, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: when you read someone's memoir, it's like, oh, yeah, of course. Oh, yeah,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of course. Oh, yeah, of course. And just a really...
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: fun writer, fun book. I typically would not be one
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: wanting to read an actor's memoir, but it is very
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: well done and funny. And you really see the correct
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: decisions he's made in his career and the terribly awful
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: decisions he's made in his career, which he's open about,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: which I love.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: That's what a memoir should be.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: So these are like I mean, Michael, you kind of got.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: A-list celebs all week. I know, I can't fuck it up.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I can't fuck it up. Yeah, don't fuck it up.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: The pressure's really on.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: No, I love, you know, one of the best parts
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: of this job, period, is the vast array of different
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: successful people I get to talk to.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It's very cool.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Hearing from their stories, just getting their energy, their vibe.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: When in a million fucking years would I have been
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: able to talk to those three people? It's like insane.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: It's very cool.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. I'm excited to watch all of the interviews.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And I'm also excited to finally find out what your
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: show and tell is.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Because we're onto the daily show and tell. What is
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: something that you have watched or read or listened to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: or have in your pocket that you would like to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: show and tell us?
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Well, this was sitting in my office and I thought,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of writers do I get to actually
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: reference sports and they know kind of what I'm talking about.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: But you actually have a good understanding of sports.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Pretty solid.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: The pressure's on now.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Pretty solid. So Tyler, one of our stage guys, gave
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: me this recently.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And I didn't know if anybody knew that tennis balls
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: used to be white. Did you know this? Interesting.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Why did they become yellow?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: They used to be white tennis balls. And let me
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: just see if this monitor makes it easy for you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Do you see my shirt?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, because they always wear white.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Is this easier to follow?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Is this easier to follow?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: This is fascinating.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Is this the best show and tell we've ever had?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: You're really leading into the show. So let's hope that
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: everybody's watching this on YouTube and not listening to it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: When color TV was invented, nobody could track the fucking
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: white ball. And the whole sport changed to a bright
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: optic yellow ball. Because of television. Because of television. I thought,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: that's interesting. And also, duh, but also good job doing that.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: That was a smart change.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Have you ever played with the white balls before?
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I don't think I have. And
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I think it would be fine, but I think this
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: would be easier. Okay. Definitely be easier. Yeah. What's an
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: equivalent in this? Like hockey's Hockey's played with... Hockey's got
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the puck.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I play golf, and I'm... So, like, typically
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I'm always, like... I want to be a little bit different. So, like,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: with golf, I'll try to pick, like, a colorful ball,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: but then you just can't find them. So, like, the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: white stands out against the dark green better.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: But I think an optic yellow ball is fun.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I've played with those before.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: It's also fun to play with a pink ball every
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: once in a while.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but sometimes you lose them. When I was caddying,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: my first job was... I was a caddie. Okay. And
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you used to have to... Like, part of your job
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: was to, like, watch... where people's balls went so they
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: could find them. And whenever somebody played with a ball
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that was hard to see, it was like a nightmare,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: especially because I was also 14 and I should not
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: have had that job.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: That's kind of the job of the caddy. It's like,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: you know, it's next to the tree under the thing.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyways, you know, I thought we weren't going
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: to talk about tennis today. We talked about it a
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: lot last time, but I thought, you know, isn't that interesting?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: It's also nice to see when people make, when sports
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and organizations make adjustments for the better.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: How is your ankle situation going to impact tennis? I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: assume not well.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Terribly.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I love playing tennis and I play tennis
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: and I have not injured my ankle playing tennis in
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: 10 years. It's always hiking now. It's bowling. It's bowling
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: and hiking. It's largely bowling-based injuries. I should say there
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: were a few beers involved.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I think it's the bowling thing. More than the beers, probably.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: What is your show and tell? And if it's showing
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that tennis balls used to be white, I am incredibly sorry.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: That's not mine. I am. For better or worse, using
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: show and tell for a little bit of self-promotion because
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the new season of my podcast just dropped this week.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: It's called The Climate Denier's Playbook. I co-host it with
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Raleigh Williams, who's the creator of the Climate Town YouTube channel.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: We just put out an episode about the White House
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: released an AI video about the auto start stop feature
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: in cars where almost everything in the video is wrong.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So we put that out. We're doing an episode about
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: AI next week. So there's never been a better time
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to subscribe to the podcast.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: It's called The Climate.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Deniers Playbook, where in every episode we sort of break
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: down a different kind of climate myth or piece of
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: misinformation that people in power use to stop us from
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: fighting the climate crisis.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Love that. And we just need to care and pay
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: more attention to our climate.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it comes down to is like we
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: have a lot of the technological and ecological solutions and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the problems are largely political and cultural.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does seem like, to be optimistic, technology and
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: some of the development is quite amazing.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of amazing stuff. And the Earth is
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: quite resilient. Yes. So if we put in the work
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: to help it, a lot of things can bounce back.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Not everything, but there's still so much that we can save.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And I do think the Earth is going to win.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Ultimately, yes.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to win.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: The floating rock in space will be here for a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: lot longer than us. But it would be nice if
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: we created a, you know, habitable place for us while
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: we're here. Yes.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting talking about how we started here.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I was at the Natural History Museum yesterday learning about
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: the asteroid that knocked out the dinosaurs, but not the sharks.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: And there's this whole exhibit on all the other times
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: in Earth's history that we've had a near-life.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Blackout cataclysmic we've had a lot you know we've had
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: like eight in the last 600 million years or something
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: and i just am watching all this going oh it's
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: gonna happen to us too if we don't do anything
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: it's just gonna happen to.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Us well life finds a way yeah so it'll.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Be eventually some seed will sprout but yeah let's make
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: it better for our kids how about that yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I think that's something we can all agree on yes
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: uh unless you work at the oil companies yes um
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: right walter Walter's ready to go back to sleep.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. There you go, buddy. All right.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: That is all the time that we have for the pre-cap.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I have been Nicole Conlon, and you can catch Michael
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Kosta hosting all this week on Comedy Central, Paramount +,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: or right here at the Daily Show Ears Edition.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I'm Michael Kosta. Which one's easier to follow?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to the Ears Edition, he's holding the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: tennis balls again. Oh, yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I should explain that.