Lovett or Leave It - Couch Me If You Can
Episode Date: July 27, 2024Hot off Biden’s endorsement, Kamala Harris (Allison Reese) returns to the show, fired up and ready to go. Monet X Change drags Republicans through the hallowed halls of Congress. And as the Olympics... begin, we're feeling patriotic and taking that feeling out for a spin.Tour dates & cities: crooked.com/events For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.Â
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Hello Los Angeles!
Great to be back.
Welcome to Love It or Leave It.
It's been five days since Vice President Kamala Harris officially entered the race.
And if you think we've run out of coconut jokes, then you don't know this show.
And if you think those coconut jokes will be good coconut jokes then you don't know this show and if you think those coconut jokes will be good then you
definitely don't know this show. Tonight great booking vice president Kamala
Harris is here she was already booked and she didn't cancel so that's amazing
Monet exchange pits drag queens against drab Republicans.
Then we all fasten our star-spangled seat belts
for a spin of the patriotic wheel.
Uncle Sam wants rants.
But first, let's get into it.
What a week.
What a week.
On Wednesday, President Biden addressed the nation
from the Oval Office.
I revere this office, but I love my country more.
It's been the honor of my life to serve as your president.
But in the defense of democracy, which is at stake, I think it's more important than
any title.
Don't feel bad for him, though.
Becoming a national martyr is every young Catholic boy's ultimate dream.
After that recurring one where God sends a letter to his mother detailing every time he's jerked it on a Sunday, the president continued. I draw strength and I find joy in working for the
American people. But this sacred task of perfecting our union, it's not about me.
It's about you, your families, your futures.
It's about we, the people.
We can never forget that.
And I never have.
Why did we decide we didn't want this guy?
It's so weird to me.
People are so weird.
I don't get it.
Said Biden.
I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future,
all merited a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy.
That includes personal ambition.
Biden then ended the telecast and instead of following Miranda Priestly into the Paris
fashion show, threw his flip phone into the Fontaine de Fleur, Fontaine de Fleur, Fontaine
de Fleur, and walked away from it all.
On Tuesday, Kamala Harris hit the ground running at a campaign event in Milwaukee.
As Attorney General of California,
I took on one of our country's largest for-profit colleges
that was scamming students.
Donald Trump ran a for-profit college that scammed students.
No!
As a prosecutor, I specialized
in cases involving sexual abuse. Well, Trump was found liable for committing sexual abuse.
Hook it into my veins.
Do you know how much of a world-class asshole you have to be
that we forget you started a fake college to scam students?
Students who wanted nothing more than to learn how to start businesses from the world's worst person.
Here's Vice President Harris on Project 2025.
Donald Trump wants to take our country backward.
He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda
will weaken the middle class.
Like we know we gotta take this seriously.
Can you believe they put that thing in writing?
It is crazy that they put that thing in writing.
Project 2025 should have been an oral tradition performed by throat singers at Heritage Foundation
male only retreats.
And from the sounds of it, from the feel of it, from the vibe shift, feels like America
is on board Kamala 2024 Express.
We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but
to get ahead. A future where no child has to grow up in poverty.
Where every worker has the freedom to join a union.
Where every person has affordable health care,
affordable childcare,
and paid family leave.
And fuck it, I'll say it, Diet Mountain Dew is racist.
racist. Meanwhile on Wednesday, Vote.org reported that over 38,500 people registered to vote
since Biden dropped out on Sunday, a 700% spike in registrations this election cycle.
Also on Wednesday, the Crooked Store dropped a new shirt that says, vote in the brat font.
Coincidence?
It is a coincidence. It is a coincidence. We couldn't
get a picture of that. But for... Celebrities followed in Charli XCX's footsteps and endorsed
Kamala with Cardi B tweeting, let's go. I told y'all Kamala was supposed to be the 2024 candidate.
In 2024, let's elect a wow, a woman ass president.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday published a New York Times op-ed titled, How Kamala Harris Can Win and Make History.
Clinton wrote of Biden giving up the nomination,
as one who shared that dream and has had to make peace
with letting it go, I know this wasn't easy,
but it was the right thing to do.
Letting go of dreams is tough.
I imagine, never done it personally.
I still think this will be a TV show one day.
No, I'm kidding. I know it can't be.
I didn't get TV thin until I was radio old.
Then on Thursday, Kamala's campaign released their first ad with Beyonce's Freedom as her campaign song.
There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate.
But us, we choose something different.
We choose freedom.
I take that chaos part personally, grumbled Rudy Giuliani as he was being chased by like six geese.
Let's enjoy more ad is above the law.
Into the veins.
Trump responded, you had me at safe from gun violence, but then you lost me at the part
about my crimes.
Also on Thursday, Trump dropped his first attack ad, and this is how it starts.
I am Kamala Harris, My pronouns are she and her.
Unbelievable.
This is how Trump explains the reasoning behind this ad.
Quote, I hate pronouns.
Uh, I mean, Trump hate pronouns.
Trump fear mongers around all the topics you'd expect,
the border, defund the police, Bernie Sanders, and worst of all.
Do you ban plastic straws?
I think we should.
Okay, just inside of our circle here we can admit that that's a miss.
Paper straws are bad, it's easily the Republican party's strongest issue.
But we can't let the fear of limp paper straws losing all structural integrity after three
minutes in an iced oat latte to control our futures. There has to be a better way. We can get Biden's cancer moonshot people on
it. We can solve this problem. And until then, we're just going to use the plastic straws.
I would like, I want to see Kamala just using plastic straws. I don't like the sippy lid.
Meanwhile, Kamala's campaign team has been responding to Trump. They send an email entitled
Statement on a 78 year old criminalold Criminal's Fox News Appearance,
with a bulleted list of issues including, Trump is clearly worried he made the wrong
pick in JD Vance, Trump is old and quite weird? This guy should never be president again.
First of all, 10 out of 10 no notes. It is awesome.
It is awesome seeing this campaign of talented people unleashed in this way.
It's like Kamala walked around and breathed on the statues like Aslan.
Then the campaign's secret weapon is fucking Doug.
Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug.
I've seen this proposed on social media, which is that we should not obey the previous conventions
in any forum, that it should be, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President and Doug.
His official title should be Doug.
Speaking to Jewish Democrats this week, Doug said this.
I'm just going to keep living, like, openly like a Jew and maybe there'll be a Mississa
on the White House.
Let's just think of some of the downsides. Chuck Schumer sees the mizuzah on the White
House, instantly climaxes.
We toned it down from comes.
It's a nice idea.
But the White House won't be fully Jewified until there's a six month old box of Straits
and Matzah in the kitchen and a loose lactate rolling around the drawers of the Resolute
Desk.
You gotta be able to walk into that White House and say, I can get a lactate if I need
a lactate.
That's how you know that this place is the home of a Jewish man.
Doug hides the offie coman in the situation room, hijinks and an unfortunate
military confrontation with China ensues. Uh oh. Meanwhile, Trump's team is reportedly panicked
at new polling showing Harris in the lead just ahead of the former president. Imagine panicking
about polls. Couldn't be us. Not now, not ever.
According to Reuters, Harris is currently polling at 44% with Trump bringing up the
rear at 42%.
Back in the margin of error, baby.
Living life in that sweet, sweet M of E. Yum, yum, yum.
But if it helps, Donald, you're in the lead age-wise.
You're at 78.
Donald Trump is 78.
And I think that's pretty old. Pretty old to nominate a person who at 78. Donald Trump is 78 and I think that's pretty old. Pretty old to
nominate a person who's 78. Don't even know what these Republicans are thinking.
Strange decision they've made. It's weird. He's a weird guy and old. So I'm gonna
think about it. Then you think, well who's gonna be president if he's at that age?
Well it's JD Vance, someone whose personality is not good. Not a likeable man.
Not somebody you trust.
Something to think about.
Trump's chief pollster, who is not Tampa's gayest hairstylist, Tony Fabrizio, rushed
to assure the MAGA fans that yes, okay, the polls might look bad, but before long, Harris' honeymoon will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden's partner
and co-pilot.
She may have been Biden's co-pilot, but look at me.
Look at me.
She's the captain now.
Trump's buddies on Fox did their best to tamp down the nation's newfound optimism.
You need to understand what's happening here.
This is Kamala's honeymoon period. She is
experiencing a sugar high, a feeling of relief and enthusiasm that the guy that can't walk
and talk that stays and confused, the guy that mumbles and bumbles and stumbles, ah,
thank God it's not him. It's a honeymoon. It's a sugar high. But mark my words, it will be short life.
So first of all, I love that clip. I love that Sean Hannity is basically like a thunder
blanket for like angry, confused, old white Republicans watching this being like, what's
happening? I don't understand. They seem to like her, but she's dancing and he being like, what's happening? This can't, there's, I don't understand.
She seems, they seem to like her, but she's dancing.
And he's like, it's okay.
The polls are going to be bad, but you're going to be okay.
Just you get onto the desk and you get into a small space.
It's just a sugar high, says Sean Hannity.
Voters will come to their senses and realize they need us
for a hearty, filling serving of dog shit.
And I will say this, Sean does have a point.
Kamala is our rebound.
And it did happen pretty fast after the breakup.
But you know what?
When it feels right, you know it.
And before you say it, mom, no, this is not another Andrew Cuomo situation.
What we have with Kamala is real. Republicans also continue to call
Harris a DEI hire, their latest euphemism for being black if it's a woman speaking
or a woman if it's a man speaking. Like Republican Representative Harriet
Hagman. I think it's just a failure from top to bottom. I think she was a DEI
hire and I think that that's what we're seeing and I just don't think that they
have anybody else. I just think that they're in real disarray.
I just have to say, there are people online comparing her
to George Santos and saying, George Santos has snuck back
into Congress.
And that's not right.
That's not right.
Stop it.
And sure, that makes sense.
Kamala got to where she is because she's the black daughter of an immigrant.
This is in contrast to Donald Trump, who worked his way up to real estate tycoon from his
humble beginnings as son of real estate tycoon.
Not to be outdone, Congressman Andy Ogles filed articles of impeachment against Harris,
accusing her of a public breach of trust
for allegedly covering up the president's well-being
or lack thereof.
Wrote Ogles,
Kamala Devi Harris has knowingly misled the people
of the United States to obfuscate the physical
and cognitive well-being of the president
of the United States, Joe Biden.
They only got to Tuesday before busting out her middle name.
I thought for sure we'd close out the week,
but that's just on me.
Jonathan Hussein Lovett.
At a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday, Donald Trump brought his post-assassination attempt, Spiritual Awakening, to a close.
You know, I was supposed to be nice.
They say something happened to me when I got shot.
I became nice.
And when you're dealing with these people, they're very dangerous people,
when you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice.
You really can't be.
So if you don't mind, I'm not gonna be nice.
Is that okay?
I'm not.
They say something happened to me,
the asshole area of my brain,
they call it the asshole area,
it got knocked offline, okay,
but it's back now, the doctors save it,
and they're saying it's stronger than it's ever been.
The fact that even he can make fun of the stupid fucking story that claimed he had been
changed by what happened.
He knows it's a joke.
That was funny though.
We gotta give it to him.
That was a good one.
Trump kindly repeated Harris's central campaign message.
They get me to that position and then their campaign says I'm the prosecutor and he is the
convicted felon. That's their campaign. I don't think people are going to buy it.
I don't think people are going to buy this true sentence that is so memorable as a contrast. I,
her opponent, am repeating it at my own rally reminding everyone here and every
reporter covering this event about how interesting that contrast message is.
It's like Pepsi saying, they think people like Santa and polar bears and are going to
associate ice cold Arctic snow and the joy of Christmas with their delicious refreshing
soda.
Give me a break.
Stupid thing for Pepsi to say.
In all seriousness, if you really want to see where the Trump campaign is at right now,
just check out Donald Jr. over on Rumble.
Like there's some of them are like, we don't even want white women.
Like it doesn't like we need to check like three or four boxes so you can end up with
like if you're like a trans communist, this that the other like you too can be the CEO
of a fortune 500 company with no experience.
He's actually spent real time with them.
Any sort of I would say he's the blue collar billionaire 15 years ago.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
First of all, do you remember that commercial when I was a kid?
Where they said, this has not been sped up.
This footage has not been sped up.
That is the speed at which Don Jr. is speaking
to a silent and deeply confused JD Vance.
Shout out to Ron Filipowski for that incredible monjosh
of Don Jr. on one.
Meanwhile, social media was aflame this week with an incredible claim about Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance.
I never know.
Uh, the claim is that JD Vance once had sex with a couch.
How many of you are so terminally online that you're aware of this?
How many of you are not aware of this? Proud of you. I'm proud of you are so terminally online that you're aware of this? How many of you are not aware of this?
Proud of you. I'm proud of you.
Sex with a couch responded Vance,
okay, I'll bite.
Why do you think they call it a love seat?
The craziest part is Vance let the couch get on top
because JD Vance is a lazy boy.
I haven't seen people have this much fun on the internet since everybody found out that
the JD in JD Vance stands for J.Dolph Dittler.
Alas, we are nothing if not journalists here.
As it turns out, no such passage exists in Vance's New York Times bestseller, and so
we have to say there remains no concrete evidence that JD Vance has publicly admitted to having
sex with a couch.
We cannot say more than that, but that is what we can say.
It did lead to this incredible fact check by the AP.
The headline is, no,
JD Vance did not have sex with a couch.
But much in the same way that the AP
might have debunked one aspect of the story,
that is a claim the AP cannot make.
The only claim the AP could make is that the claim
that JD Vance documented sex with a couch
in Hillbilly Elegy, that is false.
But this is a sweeping, sweeping claim of the negative.
And anyway, a headline like that tells you your candidacy is off to a roaring start.
In other JD Vance, not so recent news, a 2021 clip resurfaced
in which the Republican vice presidential candidate
accuses Kamala Harris, who is a stepparent, of being miserable
because she's childless.
A very good point, because think of all of your friends who don't have children and how miserable they are.
And now they're always going, oh you know what would have made this weekend getaway more fun?
A toddler. Here's what Vance said.
We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs,
by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices
that they've made.
And so they want to make the rest
of the country miserable too.
This naturally enraged the nation's childless cat ladies,
including Jennifer Aniston, who had spoken publicly
about her fertility issues and unsuccessful attempt
to conceive using IVF, wrote on Instagram,
I truly cannot believe this is coming from a potential VP.
All I can say is Mr. Vance,
I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough
to bear children of her own one day.
Woo!
Woo!
Oh!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
As Minnesota Governor Tim Walzbitt.
I'll tell you what, go ahead and continue
to denigrate people, go ahead.
My God, they went after cat people.
Good luck with that.
Turn on the animal and see what cat people do when you go after them.
Seems like they mostly just post pictures of their cats, but I take his point.
The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff leapt into the fray to defend Harris against
JD Vance's sexism and criticism.
My God, Trump can't even get his current wife to defend him.
Said Kirsten Emhoff, these are baseless attacks for over 10 years since Cole and Ella were
teenagers.
Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I.
She is a loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present.
I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.
I thought it was mature and involved for me to reply, ha ha ha, when my ex texts me a meme. This is incredible. Harris isn't
childless and it's nice of Kirsten with an E to point that out. But also, childless women
are not unfit to hold public office. Giving birth is not a prerequisite to governing. What
kind of twisted little sicko freak looks at a woman running for office and goes, ah, but
is she breastfed? Also, being endorsed as a stepmom by the ex-wife of your husband is Jedi-level relationship skills.
Her husband's ex-wife is on her side. Get this woman in a room with Putin.
Meanwhile, fucking weirdos. The weirdo argument is these people are fucking freaks who have talked to each other in rooms alone for so long
that they come out and the shit they said is weird. Remember when the Chicago Tribune wanted to call themselves Tronk?
This storied brand got into a room, bunch of people spent too much time, had too much coffee,
didn't talk to anybody outside of the room, and they came out and said, we've done it. We've figured out a new brand for this thing.
We're calling it Tron it trunk and everybody's like
stupid bad go away the Republicans have gone full trunk meanwhile the
government's whitest men rushed to throw their hats in the ring for Kamala's
vice presidency this week I gotta tell you I'm loving the show
Minnesota governor Tim Walls came out swinging against Trump and JD Vance
their policies are what destroyed rural America.
They've divided us.
They're in our exam rooms.
They're telling us what books to read.
Walz went on to say this.
I think this is going back to the bread and butter.
Getting away from this division, we do not like what has happened where we can't even
go to Thanksgiving dinner with our uncle because you end up in some weird fight that is
unnecessary. And I think bringing back people together, well it's true these guys are just
weird. And you know they're running for He-Man Women Haters Club or something.
Pick him, pick him said Joe Biden loving the reference.
It's a reference to the little rascals, which I presume Joe Biden would refer to as our
gang.
Pete Buttigieg also clowned Vance on CNN.
The choice of JD Vance is a regrettable choice because he's somebody who was at his most
convincing and effective when he talked about how unfit for office Donald Trump is.
And he has not explained any reason,
other than of course his obvious interest in power,
why he would have changed his mind on that.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear,
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro,
and Arizona Senator and former astronaut
and Navy pilot Mark Kelly also came out swinging.
But to whom shall she give her rose?
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in DC to speak to Congress
on Wednesday, honestly, perfect week for him to come.
He's like a guy trying to get everybody's attention during a fireworks show happening
directly above an active shark attack.
In the end, around half of Congress' Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did
not attend Netanyahu's address.
Pelosi opted to meet with families of hostages instead.
Said Pelosi, Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation in the House chamber today
was by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary
invited and honored with the privilege
of addressing the Congress of the United States.
That has to have hit Netanyahu pretty hard,
given that Congress has had a lot of sick fucks address it before.
For example...
For those listening,
that is a picture of Elmo addressing Congress.
Meanwhile, protesters released piles of maggots and crickets at the Watergate Hotel where
Natanyahu was staying.
My salad! said R.F.K.
Jr.
And what's interesting about that, R.F.K.
Jr. has never said anything about eating bugs, but you thought you missed a story.
Speaking of creeps, Senator Bob Menendez submitted his resignation and will leave office on August
20th following his conviction on federal corruption charges.
Sounds like Kamala just found her VP.
You want to defeat a criminal, you gotta think like a criminal.
In a recent Adidas ad, Bella Hadid was featured wearing a pair of retro sneakers modeled
after a design that was used in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Israel reacted furiously to the ad saying, Adidas recently launched a new campaign for
their shoes to highlight the 1972 Olympics.
In Munich, 11 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the Munich Olympics.
Guess who the face of their campaign is?
Bela Hadid, a half-Palestinian model, who has a history of spreading anti-Semitism and
calling for violence against Israelis and Jews.
There's only one reason Adidas would hire the most beautiful woman in the world, and
that's to do subtle, esoteric, shoe-based anti-Semitism.
On Monday, Adidas posted an Instagram apology, writing that its recent campaign was not meant
to have any connection to the tragedy at the 1972 Olympics.
I believe them.
You can tell because there isn't one.
It's been a while since I've seen the movie Munich, but as Spielberg tells it, the attack had very little to do
with running shoes. Unfortunately, it's not a full apology in my eyes until it includes
the words, we've been very bad-ed-ous.
Speaking of bad things, in the wake of Elon Musk's sit-down interview with Canada's weirdest
man Jordan Peterson, in which Musk claims he was tricked into allowing his eldest child to transition, that child,
Vivian, now 20, aired him out on threads.
Vivian pointed to a tweet Musk wrote in the past in which he said that she was born gay
and slightly autistic.
And as someone who was born gay, and let's face it, with a little whiff of the spectrum
on him, I take offense.
Vivian says that the evidence, which is that she once described Elon's jacket as looking
fabulous when she was four years old, didn't happen and couldn't have happened because
her father, quote, simply wasn't there, end quote, while she was growing up.
Claiming children are gay and autistic instead of trans has become an increasingly common
right-wing talking point.
As her father's claim she isn't trans, Vivian concluded, I am legally recognized as a woman
in the state of California
and I don't concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me.
Obviously, Elon can't say the same because in a ketamine-fueled haze,
he's desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels
and pycmies who are quick to give it to him.
Go touch some fucking grass.
If you're a father and your child doesn't go public with your ketamine problem, then congratulations, you landed the plane.
And if your child's calling you by your first name on the internet while mocking your ketamine
problem, you muffed it.
Also how fun that Elon's trans kid is ten times the poster he could ever dream of being,
and it's all happening on threats.
And finally, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was involved in a rollover crash in Illinois,
though luckily no injuries were reported.
The Wienermobile is still rolling over at this very moment to keep it at a juicy 140 degrees.
Up next, Vice President Conway Harris definitely has time for this. Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up.
And we're back.
I couldn't be more excited to bring out our next guest.
She's had a whirlwind of a week, been traveling all over the country.
It's obviously a miracle that she can make time for us, but here she is, existing in
the context of all in which she lives
and what came before her.
Please welcome my next president and yours,
it's Vice President Kamala Harris.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
Nice.
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["Bad Night, Bad Night, Bad Night"]
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Madam Vice President, thank you so much for being here.
This has been such an exciting week.
Yeah.
Everyone feels so hopeful and energized.
It's like we all nearly went over a cliff
and then we look straight down into it,
but Nancy Pelosi pulled us onto her shoulders
and scrambled up a tree branch. We're not out of danger, but we feel like we've nearly went over a cliff and then we looked straight down into it, but Nancy Pelosi pulled us onto her shoulders and scrambled up a tree branch.
We're not out of danger,
but we feel like we've cheated death.
So that feels good.
What's it been like for you?
You know, I just wanna say, okay,
in case he's still on speakerphone, Joe, we love you.
Okay, and we are clear.
You just, you never know with him.
You know, I do want to thank Joe, okay, for making this selfless, patriotic decision.
But that's just who the president is.
You know, one time he offered me the last cough drop he had in his pocket.
Isn't that nice?
It was right before the debate, so in hindsight,
I shouldn't have taken it. But here we are. You watch that debate back?
I did. Yeah.
He sounded like Jennifer Coolidge. Had a cold.
Is that what you sounded like? That's what you thought?
That's what I... Yeah.
Huh.
Folks, I want a hot dog real bad.
So in just a matter of days, your campaign raised more than $100 million.
Yeah.
The youth are churning out Kamala fan cams on TikTok.
People are fired up.
Yeah.
Did you expect this level of enthusiasm?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
100%.
You know, I'm glad that young people are excited. Do you expect this level of enthusiasm? Absolutely. Yeah. 100%.
You know, I'm glad that young people are excited.
America needs young people to be invested in our politics.
And if that starts with singing about coconuts
to the tune of Chappelle Rhone.
Am I saying that right?
Sure, yeah.
Chappelle Rhone.
I think it's, there's a, Chappelle Rhone.
Some people say chapel. If it's Chappelle Rhone, yeah. Chappelle, Ronan. I think it's, there's, it's, Chappelle wrong. Some people say chapel.
If it's Chappelle wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
And if that's how we get young people excited,
then I love that for us.
Knee deep in the presidency,
Joe dropped out, now it's my turn.
That's been floating around out there right yeah, yeah, no no that has been 100% yeah, no you're you're on it
You're right on the pulse. They're eating pulse so
The hard part of this election is not over the completely impossible boring yet terrifying sleep paralysis part seems to be over
But the hard part is just beginning. How are you feeling about the challenges to come?
You know, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, okay?
It's gonna be tough, right?
Brat summer won't last forever.
And what comes after that?
Rascal autumn?
We don't even know what that is yet, John.
But you're ready for whatever comes.
I'm ready for whatever season.
Even people who had incredible expectations
for the kind of candidate you would be.
I've been blown away by how you have hit the ground running,
taking in a matter of hours the mantle of defender
of democracy with everybody hope on your shoulder,
and you're rising to this occasion.
How did you do that? How did I do that? I've been in hiding for three years
I've been training getting better faster stronger laffer-er. Huh. That's how I did it.
That's how you did it? You know, some of these, some of these Republicans have been actually saying insulting things
about your laugh.
How does that, that must be frustrating.
Yeah, no, that sucks.
But honestly, I do think that's interesting because I don't think Donald Trump can laugh.
Right. And I think that that's more fucked up
than a woman who laughs when shit's funny.
Than a man who can't, please.
That is strange that we have never seen
Donald Trump truly laugh in public.
That is wild.
Yeah, what do you think that is?
So people have tried
to, I have tried to say, I've said this, we've never seen Donald Trump
love and people send me what they consider the closest you can find. Is it that meme
where he's like... If that's the best you got, he scoffs. He'll do some scoffing. But he
doesn't laugh. What do you think that says about a man's mind? Broken, bad, un-good.
Now what do you think about, like how are you gonna,
so you have to do two tasks, you have a huge task out of you.
One is to make the whole Democratic coalition
that turned out to defeat Donald Trump the first time
and the second time turn out for you.
But then there's a lot of moderate voters,
undecided voters that are just getting to
know you yeah are you ready to are you ready to make the case to those
undecided voters I feel like I am I'm so memeable I'm everywhere they can't get
rid of me I'll be in the Midwest I'll get a white guy whatever that's what
they want fine I'll get a white guy. Which one? Elmer's.
Just a glue. Just pasty. Just like as pasty. Yeah.
Pete Glutigej. That was really good. Thanks. Thanks. So.
Glutidge. Glutidge.
I'm going to get that crocheted on a pillow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm rubber.
You're Pete Glutidge.
That's nothing.
Sorry.
Sorry, I'm nervous.
I'm talking to the vice president.
I'm talking to the next president of the United States.
Thank you.
So Republicans have already begun throwing some pretty racist
misogynist spaghetti at the wall trying to figure out how to
attack you.
One of them is your laugh.
The other is that they've started taking to calling you
some kind of a, they want to call you a DEI hire.
DEI hire.
I think that that is interesting.
Cause I could arrest all of them. I won't, but will I?
It's funny, I'm glad you brought...
All of them.
You know, one of the criticisms of your 2020 campaign is that you didn't want to run as a prosecutor when there
was a kind of progressive fervor in the party at that time in which people thought that
that might be a liability.
Obviously Republicans have been throwing a lot of pretty absurd and disgusting attacks
your way. But some people have even gone so far as to say that impressions of you
right are racist or misogynist.
How do you feel about that?
True. Yeah.
Anyone doing an impression of me is a racist homophobe, honestly.
Wow. Probably never ate pussy.
He's probably never ate pussy. But so, I mean, are you worried that people are a little too hopeful that at some point
this moment is going to give way?
And gonna crescendo, like it's gonna go bye bye?
Yeah, it's gonna peak.
Sometimes I wonder if, I found glass in my mouth
a couple weeks ago.
And I wonder if I died.
And that this is a dream.
Did that answer that for you?
Sure.
Yeah.
So, we already started touching on this,
but let's talk about your VP pick for a second.
Right.
Elmer.
Can you give us a little bit more on who you might be leaning towards?
Give us a little scoop.
Any scoops?
A little scoop?
Got any scoops for us?
Scoops?
You want a little scoop?
Yeah.
You know, I am looking for someone to compliment me.
Just whoever's going to tell me I look really nice.
Just someone who's going to be like, you're so smart.
It's really nice that you laugh, stuff like that.
So like, yeah, to compliment you, to serve as some.
Yeah, I see what you mean.
Have you know one of them is an astronaut, Mark Kelly.
Yeah.
No, I like that, because he did the gorilla suit thing.
That was him.
Yes. That's him? Yes.
That's fun.
He better not do that shit to me, though.
When Senator Mark Kelly was an astronaut aboard, I believe, the International Space Station,
he without his other astronauts on board knowing had brought us his special item, I guess,
a full gorilla suit and then put it on and terrorize his fellow astronauts.
That's cool.
Hilarious.
That's so funny and fucked up, imagine.
You're in space.
You're in space.
For months, weeks, it's just you
and the few other people there.
And then there's a gorilla.
That's awesome.
Do you know that the International Space Station
apparently has a kind of gross smell
from all the people that have been on there
not showering for so many years?
I didn't need to know that.
Well, I mean, you're going to be in charge of NASA.
It might be something you need to look into.
The smell?
Yeah, the smell aboard the International Space Station.
It's not not a problem.
OK, yeah.
I'll tell them to stop smelling like a GameStop.
And I feel like they're a bigger fish to fry, honestly.
But yeah, cool. get some Febreze.
Wow, that's a good idea.
Now, you're about to head out,
this is the most consequential 100 days
that any candidate has ever had.
A week ago, you were not a candidate,
now you have 100 days to make your case to the country.
Is there any piece of that makes you nervous?
No, not at all.
Because, okay, look.
A week ago, I didn't exist in the context.
But now I exist in the context.
I did not fall out of the coconut tree.
You know what I mean?
No, I do know what you mean.
Yeah.
You're unburdened.
I'm unburdened by what has been.
Exactly. I do know what you mean. Yeah. You're unburdened. I'm unburdened by what has been.
Exactly.
Vice President Kamala Harris, everybody.
Thank you.
OK.
Everybody give it up for Alison Reese.
And we're back.
Please welcome to the stage singer, performer, drag icon, co-host of Sibling Rivalry and
one of the founders of the brand new drag pack, the incredible Mona X Change.
Hold on, John.
You forgot gorgeous.
And gorgeous.
I should have said gorgeous.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here.
Thank you for being here.
What happened here?
Just like I'm messy.
I think she that's part of it.
That's part of it.
Lovely to see you.
So now before we get into it, I something did happen on this show that does involve your cohost,
which is this your cohost, Bob the drag queen did our pride show in twenty twenty two.
Bob comes on the pod.
She very clearly has absolutely no idea what this show is.
And then goes back to you and talks about having no fucking idea what this show is.
And then you try to explain it.
You get it wrong.
Did I get it wrong?
Yes, because you thought that somehow I can't remember the details,
but in some sense you confused me with Jon Favreau and believed we were
in some kind of a relationship.
Okay, so I listened to Potsdam America.
I'm obsessed with you and Jon Favreau.
But I remember I fell in love with Jon Favreau
through some MSNBC something.
I was like, who's that?
Then I found out that, then I don't know what happened.
Then for some reason, I thought that you and Jon Favreau
were an item, a couple.
And I was like, girl, you went on Jon Lovett's podcast.
That is Jon Favreau's husband.
And so, and am I wrong?
Yeah, he said no.
So now you have started Drag Pack.
Yes.
Which is really exciting.
Can you just talk about like, what is it?
How did it come together?
So it's a political action committee and it's a pack come together with Queens and we are here to
Essentially initiate to to get Gen Z
obsessed with policies and get them into this whole bit because we realize that Gen Z is a huge voting block and a lot of
Our fans happen to be Gen Z, you know because drag is fierce and they're really engaged
so we just we felt like we could be most useful
in this political cycle and hopefully beyond
by activating them to getting them excited about politics
and having them do the work with us.
Nice.
Yeah.
And I, being a Gen Z girly, why y'all laughing?
I'm making jokes.
No. I wish. Look, we're just two Gen Z girly. Why y'all laughing? I'm Uncle Joe.
We're just two Gen Z girlies.
So first of all, has this week been a bit
easier in terms of the recruitment? Oh my god, yes.
Like it's so crazy how we're everyone,
like it feels like Gen Z has gotten so much more excited about this political cycle
because old Uncle Joe said, you know, I'm gonna sit this one out. Like, to be honest, like even
through our Instagram and everything, people are saying like they have not been this excited since
Obama in a very long time. So I feel like that is a really, we have a lot of momentum. A lot of people
are, hey listen, Beyonce and Taylor ain't even saying nothing yet. I know, and they're still loaded up.
I know.
Well, Beyonce gave approval for the song.
She did.
And Beyonce's mom posted the photo, I believe.
Oh, she did?
You follow Miss Tina?
I follow people who follow Miss Tina.
OK, got you, yeah.
So when Beyonce and Taylor get on track, girl,
Gen Z's about to fuck, oh sorry, can I curse on you?
Yeah. They about to fuck it up sorry can the curse on you? Yeah.
Oh, they about to fuck it up in this month.
They don't really know what to do, it's going to be good.
Yeah.
So, Project 2025 I think is one of the motivating reasons
for forming this pack.
It seems like Trump had to say he had tried
to disavow Project 2025.
The Democratic candidates have started talking more about it
but it seems like it was organic.
Like people were bringing up Project 2025 on their own. Like have you found that when you're organizing The Democratic candidates have started talking more about it, but it seems like it was organic.
People were bringing up Project 2025 on their own.
Have you found that when you're organizing this drag pack that people are talking about
Project 2025?
You know, 100%.
I think through social media and through, I know they're trying to shut it down and
squander it, but through things like TikTok, people are getting a lot of information through
social media.
And I think we cannot ignore that. Like people are not ignorant anymore. Like this, like
you wake up in the morning and you brush your teeth hopefully and then you open your phone
like you see 19 TikToks about the information and this stupid 900 word triple space size
15 Comic Sans document and you're like, oh wow, like the information is here.
So I think that people are coming to us with information
about Project 2025 that we don't even know.
So I think it's great, it's great that they know already.
Because I know me, old 18 year old, 22, 25 year old,
Monet girl, I wasn't worried about that.
I was on Craigslist, I wasn't talking about no Projects,
y'all don't even know what that is, see? They gave it away. You have to just be like, look, as someone who doesn't remember 9-11,
then go from there. So now, before we get to the game, I want to talk about JD Vance's guyliner.
Oh God. That is like he's wearing gender affirming makeup.
But I like how you're, you're how you're concentrating on the guy liner.
Look at the bad filler, though.
You know what I mean?
You think?
You got this by Dr. 90210.
You know what I'm saying?
Dr. Zizmor fucked him up, girl.
Dr. Zizmor, man, you're doing it again.
You're doing it.
Does Gen Z know about Dr. Zizmor?
Gen Z, do you know about Dr. Zizmor in New York?
No, you don't.
You're not Gen Z. Stop it, girl. You're wearing Hollister, stop it honey.
From opening the library to read,
to reading at an actual fucking library,
to America's children, queer people are more than just
fabulous outfits, impeccable lip syncs, and catty feuds.
But we're definitely those things too.
Monet, what would you say is your all time favorite beef
from Drag Race?
Ooh, my all-time favorite beef,
it would have to be season four,
and it was Sharon Needles versus Fifi O'Hara.
It is good old, like, Drag Race in its prime,
just Fifi, Sharon would inhale.
Bitch, why the fuck you inhaling, girl?
Like, it was crazy, and I mean, toxic me, I just love, I literally go back and just watch the fights
on all those stupid Miss Mojo YouTube drinking videos.
Obsessed.
So good.
Now there is one group that is more quick
to a nasty public fight than drag queens
and it's the Republican party,
which is why we're playing a game we're calling,
which bitch?
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. Which is why we're playing a game we're calling which bitch.
That's a good one. That's a good art.
That's good.
I'm going to describe a beef to you and you will tell us, am I describing a
squabble between drag queens or a fight between elected Republican officials?
So let us play which bitch, a consummate professional passionately informs a
colleague that she does not take money from a benefactor but she could if she
wanted to. Oh that is 1000% Shangela. Yeah that's correct.
Yeah that's Shangela. The legendary sugar daddy. I could have a sugar daddy if I wanted to have a sugar daddy.
I could have. But yeah I don't know the rest of it.
Next up, an old school diva,
some might consider a husband,
Savage is an unhinged colleague
after being interrupted during an interview.
Is that Maxine Waters?
No, it is a political event.
It is Republican Queens.
Yeah, so I mean, okay.
Let's give a check.
A ding.
Ding.
It was this.
You know, he looks very unhinged.
I mean, a lot of people have concerns about him.
And I'm not sure if he's on something, but I do hope he gets the help that he needs.
Fucking, that is the cattiest, fucking bitchiest Kevin Gra-
I hope he gets a- that's like a, oh, poor child, you know?
What CNN needs to do is add the shady rattlesnake noise sound to the thing.
It'll be great.
The news will be fun again.
It'll be good.
Oh, man, that'd be awesome.
People would complain.
They'd say, oh, this isn't reality.
It's like, okay, all right, let's keep pretending.
Let's keep pretending this is news.
I just add RuPaul to the house of represent.
Ladies, silence. Let's keep pretending this is news. I just add RuPaul to the house of represent ladies. Silence.
Basically, Nancy Pelosi was in the RuPaul role
for the last two weeks.
This fiery prima donna called a colleague Tubby
and a little bitch on social media.
Oh, that is 1000% Republicans.
Yeah, that's right.
That's representative Derek Van Orden also
going after Matt Gaetz.
So good. A little bitch.
Next up, two Titans clash after accusations of arrogance on a national stage.
Drag queens?
Yep. That's Candy Muse versus...
Oh yeah, Tamisha Iman.
Tamisha Iman in season 13, Untucked.
Yeah.
That most likely one untucked its Emmy
for outstanding unstructured reality program.
I believe we have a clip.
Cause you gonna say you call me arrogant
and like you don't like me bitch,
you don't know me from a mother f***ing hole in the wall.
All right.
So I said yes.
I'm not gonna beat too many bitches.
Yes the hell you are.
You got the right one.
Yes the hell you are baby.
I'm not gonna beat too many bitches.
Like I said.
I'm obsessed with Candymew saying anything.
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It is. Girl. So for Mike Johnson to actually think that his Republican conference supports
sending 60 billion dollars to Ukraine, he is a damn fool, Steve. And he's a liar. Hold on, hold on. Can I tell you something?
I have a ring, we all have ring cameras.
Tell me why I saw this bleach blonde bad built butch lady stealing my packages from my front
door.
And when I tell you she hopped over my neighbor's Ficus ranch and tuck and rolled onto my front
yard and sold a package.
I said, bitch you deserve that.our yes but it was like a pretty bleach blonde
horrible wig she had on and I was like you know what Ferris you're in that can
ask a personal question yeah what was the package it was an August lock and
ironically a lock I know and some loop oh what a funny thing to open up be like
well I hope.
Like, if you open it, you really, that's specific.
It's very specific.
Well, the lube isn't that specific.
Everybody likes lube, but the lock is.
She can't use it.
I'm like, at least you open it, you can't use it.
Just run back and just throw it and run away.
You know what I mean?
Like, I guess I can't use it.
Yeah, give it back.
Just give it back.
It's not valuable.
I don't know what the, that's not, it wasn't a hall. It was an exciting thing to tell. Terrible beach blonde butch body. It's really
no bleach blonde bad built butch body bleach blonde bad built butch body. It's too much to
say. Each blonde bleep bleach blonde bad built butch body. Say what now? Bleach, bleach blonde, bad built butch body. So good. Honestly,
Jasmine Crockett should be the next poet laureate for that one. Okay. She really should be. I want
her to give the poem at Kamala's inaugural. Oh, now just, just, I hadn't even thought about a poet
at Kamala's inaugural. It's just a fun thing to think about. We got to, we got to stay in the fucking game.
We got to stay focused.
We got to stay focused.
Can't think about that now.
We can't think about that poem.
Can't think about it.
It's not worth thinking about.
How can people support?
Where is the drag pack going to be?
What's it doing?
So yeah, go to dragpack.org and you guys,
we have a list of ways that you can help support us,
get the word out about us and support the causes that we interested in because you guys, we have a list of ways that you can help support us, get the word out about us, and support the causes that we're interested in.
Because there's a lot of anti-drag, anti-trans legislation going up out there.
And a lot of this anti-drag legislation is just anti-trans legislation, just colored
up in words, kind of mask it.
So we are always fighting for those in our community who are the least served, and we
try to make the biggest impact.
So dragpack.org.
Can everybody go to dragpack.org?
I also like, you know, whether or not it's the most salient
and effective way to convince a middle-aged person
in the Midwest who voted for Trump,
then Biden is kind of not sure where they're gonna land.
Regardless, like the way in which Project 2025
uses trans issues as a backdoor way to talk about regulating speech
is so dangerous. I don't think people have fully under like people talk about the way
in which they will take over different parts of the federal government. People talk about
how project 2025 calls for invoking the Comstock act to make sending abortion medication illegal.
They talk about a lot of different aspects of it. I do not think people have focused
yet enough.
People have even talked about the fact
that it talks about banning pornography,
but people do not understand that the document makes clear
that what is pornography to them?
It can be anything that refers to gender ideology
and that it is not protected by the First Amendment.
And if you combine that with what Clarence Thomas is saying
about needing to use the tradition of the First Amendment
to interpret whether or not the First Amendment applies, you start to see a very dangerous path in which laws
ostensibly or, you know,
deceptively, misleadingly, disgustingly
defined as protecting children from harm are used to ban not just
drag shows, not even just the right of trans people to get medicine, but to contain
everybody's freedom of speech, everybody's ability to access the care they need, everybody's
ability to live as they see. So I'm really glad that you guys are doing drag pack. It's
an amazing thing. More people should get involved and it makes it fun, you know? And it's like,
so thank you for doing that. Monet exchange everybody, drag pack.org. Monet's gonna stick around when we come back.
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All right, please welcome Allison Reese
to the stage for the first time.
Lovely to see you. Lovely to see you for the first time. Lovely to see you.
Thank you for being here.
Hello.
All right.
Tonight, in honor of a great week,
great week in politics and the start of the Olympics,
we're going to do what the Olympics does best,
a light, not a kind of nationalistic fervor
in a segment we're calling, Oh, Say Can You Spin?
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
There we are in those little coats.
I remember that day.
Yeah, that was such a fun day.
That was such an honor.
That was so good.
I was jealous that you were in front.
Sorry.
Do you remember the potato salad they had at Crafty?
Yes.
It was so good.
It was so good.
Even though the raisins were there, it was so good.
The raisins were there and I I said a white person did this.
I know.
I'm like, OK, Chad, we got you, girl.
OK.
I thought people would like raisins.
All right.
Bye.
All right.
Here's how it works.
We're going to spin this wheel, and then we're
just going to share something that makes us feel patriotic.
Because we're taking patriotism back from these people.
Let's spin the wheel.
Oh, I love this patriotic wheel.
Oh, Allison.
Oh yeah, I forgot.
We have an eagle.
You have to hold the eagle while you speak.
Oh, very normal.
Very normal. very good. I'm really excited to finally feel
patriotic about being booked. I'm excited to you know do this show to get attention. I'm the middle of six kids.
So I feel like it's, uh, the universe paying me back in interest with all of
this attention I have right now.
I love that.
The, the moment I saw that the president Biden was endorsing vice president
Harris and that everybody was rallying behind her, I don't think it was the first thought, but it wasn't the tenth.
It was like the sixth thought I had was like, Alice is going to crush.
This is a good time.
It's a good time to be Alice in Reese.
And then, and then, and then I was like, God, she's good.
This is awesome.
Because people were saying Maya Rudolph, Maya Rudolph.
I was like, okay, I guess.
And then what do I see?
The New York Times has a story about you doing Kamua.
Thank you so much.
And even better, they use a picture of us together.
They did! It is the picture I sent them.
Hell yeah it is.
What were thoughts two through five?
So the first thought is this is awesome. The second thought is, I must be missing something
that's terribly wrong.
The third thought is, no, no, don't do that.
Don't do that.
Take this in.
Exist in this context.
In the context.
Yeah, you are unburdened by what has been.
Who's up next, let's see.
I'm gonna get some next.
Monet, you get the eagle.
You have the talking eagle.
What is something you're patriotic about?
This is deceptively light.
Yeah, I'm a remember.
No, no.
It's just internet trash.
Something that I'm patriotic about is going to Target.
Okay?
Like there is, I don't feel more American
than I walk, than when I set on a mission
to go to Target to buy two or three things
and I walk out with 95 things, right?
I just feel like I am an American.
I have the ability and the freedom to walk up to this Target
when I budgeted $25 and I'm spending 500.
It makes me feel like I'm in my American power
and I'm doing my civic duty as an American
spending money up in this motherfucker
and I feel good about it.
Yeah.
Target. Target. Target.
I love that. I love that.
Let's spin it again.
It has landed on me.
So I want to talk about something I'm patriotic about, which is the way that the United States
enters in the opening ceremony of every Olympics.
It is one of my favorite times of the Olympics and one of my favorite moments every four
years because first of all all I don't know how
Ralph Lauren always gets this fucking contract but we send our people out there like they always
look like the villains in a Mighty Duck movie you know they they look like they work for the
person that's gonna beat Rocky like they're so appointed and even though I always I always feel
that about the uniforms, the
best moment is it's like, you know, a few people from this country, a few people like
this from that country.
And then we send in so many fucking people and I love it every time.
I love it.
I love how many Americans start marching through there.
Like just like a whole fucking, just more than any other country.
And it's like, you can't see the end of it.
You know what I mean?
Like France sends in their couple dozen and then and then what happens?
Just an unfucking phalanx of Americans just one after another.
And they're all so they're all so good looking.
I love that about us.
And I love that we just like, you know, the Swedes get to do a couple of sports.
They're like, I hope we can beat that American in that sport that we invented
and is the only one we do.
And it's like, maybe if you're lucky, but we Swedes brought that sport to America
about 120 years ago and we're good at that too.
And everybody's so smug about soccer for so long.
And it's like, sorry, we got a little interested.
Now you're fucked.
And I like it.
Thank you.
Are we good at soccer?
We're good at soccer too?
I'm not sure.
Okay.
Simone Biles goes so high up and it's like,
and it's like, what are you thinking when you're up there?
You know, like left, left, left, right, down, up.
How do you think through it?
Oh yeah, she's fully doing a Mortal Kombat
finish him at the end.
Yes.
She's like putting in a Mortal Kombat fatality.
Absolutely.
She's like, Donda, back, back, circle, circle,
Sub-Zero wishes.
You know, he could never.
Sub-Zero could never.
Raiden could never.
I'm too young for that reference.
Same.
Just three Gen Z girlies.
Just three patriotic Gen Z girlies.
And that is,
Osei, can you spin?
One more time for Monet Exchange.
One more time for Alice in Reese.
One more time for Vice President Kamala Harris.
When we come back, we'll end on a high note.
And we're back!
Because we all need it this week, here it is, the high note.
Hey, love it. It's Evan in Seattle.
Last summer, my recovery was on the rocks and I left school without my bachelor's, but now I have a fun job. I married Gabrielle, my partner, four years in
February, and we're living together now. I'm a non-binary technician. He's a genderqueer artist.
It's awesome. A Certain Kind, his documentary about a queer feminist porn collective in Portland,
just got into its third film festival. I know this is a lot of stuff, but the big high note is this. He was here
from Mexico on a student visa, and if you've seen the movie Problemista, it's very much like that.
Really stressful. Graduating from Cornish meant no visa, so we filed for his green card after our
wedding in March, and it arrived last week with no interview. That's so lucky. Right out of college,
he's allowed to work in the USA. If the worst happens in November, we might not be safe, but it's a start.
I think about that all the time and listening to you guys talk helps me deal.
We're making our family.
Starting with two adorable baby kittens, Jami and Mouse.
Gabriel's Instagram, TodaLaPapita, has pictures of them every day.
And you can check out his work there too.
Things are looking up and I'm so glad I can support Gabriel and following his dream. It's my dream too
now. Thanks for listening. Bye. Thanks everybody who's sending a high note
tonight. If you want to send us a message about something that gave you hope you
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