Lovett or Leave It - Don Jr. Does a Line of Questioning (Live from Seattle!)

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

It’s a heaping helping of tossed salad, scrambled eggs, and civil fraud here in Seattle. We give her 24 hours, Rep. Pramila Jayapal gives us the world. Lovett doesn’t really get Seattle, so the audience uses Fraiser to help explain its appeal. Madeleine Smithberg talks Letterman, Stewart, Carson and French Onion Dip. And we do rapid fire rants, high notes, and a check in with the Batman to Seattle’s Gotham: The Green Jacket Lady. Thank you, Moore Theatre! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [e-mail] and include the name of the podcast.

Hello, Seattle! It is great to be back. Lovely to see you all. Just got here from Portland. It's great to be in a real city. Now let's put on our big boy pants and be adults. put on our big boy pants,

and be adults. Who do those people in Portland think that they are? Welcome to Love It or Leave It, the Heirs Tour. We have a great show for you tonight. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal joins us. Originally Drag Race alum Irene Dubois was supposed to be here, but she's sick. You know what? The show's still going to be great.

I ask you, dear audience, to give me some non-Frasier frames of reference for this soaking city. And Daily Show creator Madeline Smithberg is going to teach me how to make French onion dip for some reason. And I would love to hear your high notes. But first, let's get into it. What a week. Ron DeSantis. And it's like into it. What a week. Ron DeSantis.

And it's like at this point. It almost feels like it's like, it's like it's almost he doesn't deserve us. You know what I mean? He doubled down on his promise to, quote, slit the throats of federal bureaucrats if elected president, telling MSNBC's Willie Geist that he was simply being colorful.

When you say something like you said in Ryan, New Hampshire, that you want to, quote, slit the throats of federal bureaucrats, I know you didn't mean that literally, but do you have any pause or any regret about using that kind of rhetoric given our political climate? any pause or any regret about using that kind of rhetoric given our political climate? No, because I think people knew it was a figure of speech. I think people want to see big changes to how Washington... Why not just say you're going to fire him? Well, because you're being colorful. Well, it's better than when he said he would skull fuck the Supreme Court. When I said I would gouge out your eyeballs

with a spoon and then run you over with my car, I was being folksy. Later, DeSantis announced that he would drink the blood of the woke in what critics are calling quirkiness. On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump began giving testimony in their father's civil fraud trial.

In preparation, Don Jr. did a huge line of practice questioning. Photographers were allowed into the courtroom to take Don Jr.'s picture before he took the stand, leading him to joke, I should have worn makeup. Here, take some of mine, said his father, skimming off a handful of bronze sludge from his own cheeks. Of course, I'm joking. Trump didn't show up. Didn't show up to watch his son testify. In his second day of testimony, Don Jr. was grilled by prosecutors on why his signature was all over stacks of allegedly inaccurate financial statements that he claimed to have nothing to do with. Said Don Jr., I rely on the accounting team to tell me what is accurate.

That's why we have accountants. Don Jr. went on to blame outside accountants for any discrepancies in the Trump organization's financial statements, which is obviously a lie. There's no such thing as outside accountants. These people are inside cats. These are indoor creatures. Lies. How obvious. I've never seen an accountant outside. As the grueling questioning went on, Don Jr. screamed, where is Papa? As he searched desperately in the gallery for the shining sun in his sky, the orienting force of his life, only to find nothing, just as his father before him found only a Fred Trump-shaped hole in every room, in every crowd. And so did

Fred, and so on, and so forth, until the original father awoke to sentience in the depths of the primordial sea, made his own slimy little Don Jr. and said, stop crying, men don't cry. At one point, according to the Times, Don Jr. began speaking very quickly while answering prosecutors' questions. When the judge cautioned him, Don Jr. said he would try to slow down, probably just excited about all the justice going on. I know nothing gets me revved up like pure, uncut justice straight to the dome. Continued Don Jr., I'm going to say this as slowly as possible, Your Honor. You and I should start a business that's like Uber, but for verdicts. And maybe it's also a TV show. I'm really excited about this, man. I think we have something special here.

Yeah. In his own turn on the stand, Eric Trump claimed to have no knowledge of key documents at the center of the case, saying, I never had anything to do with the statement of financial condition. I never worked on it at the time, and I don't know anything about it, really, until this case came to fruition.

Okay, said prosecutors. Once again, the question was, do you need some help getting your boxers unstuck from your pant zipper? Looks pretty mangled there Eric Trump ultimately became combative with the prosecutor When asked if he knew about the Trump organization's financial statement Saying, of course he knew the company had financial statements

Since we're a major organization A massive real estate organization All my girlfriends have told me It's the biggest real estate organization they've ever seen. And yeah, I've seen the financial statements and I was invited to my dad's birthday party. I was just busy that day. I'm in the loop, guys. He said, crying.

Crying. Prosecutors then showed Anne Rice's ugliest vampire a 2013 email from former Trump Organization comptroller Jeff McConney. You say comptroller, right? When you say comptroller, you just say comptroller. No, I think that that's a new thing. We started pronouncing it comptroller, but it's just comptroller, right? No? We say comptroller? No, but you... Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I like when this happens. You see C-O-M-P troller. I'm going to do two things. Is that comptroller? Or is it controller? Anyway, they showed Eric Trump an email from former Trump Organization controller

Jeff McConney, who earlier testified... Boo me, I don't care. Told him that... Anyway, some fucking douchebag at the trump organization told eric to overvalue his family's seven springs property the email said hi eric i'm working on your dad's annual financial statement i need to value seven springs attached. Please find how I valued it last year.

Shockingly, Eric replied, I'm unable to value a single spring, Jeff. How am I to value seven? The melting of the snow, the return of birdsong, young lovers emerging from under blanket and hearth, hands held in verdant parks, taking long walks amid lengthening days. How do you expect a man to put a price on the return of life and the vanquish of biting, numbing winter? Come on, Jeff, you stupid fuck. It's worth a billion dollars. So Donald Trump actually did not attend his son's days on the witness stand. But before you start feeling bad for them, Trump did send the boys a note in someone else's handwriting that read,

Have a great kickball game. One final note on this. On his way into court on Thursday, Don Jr. told the sketch artists to make him look sexy. Which does explain the giant tits. Oh, I'm sorry, mate. Everybody's seeing it. You're seeing a sketch like it's Sam Begman freed, but...

tits. I incepted you all. I incepted you all with nonsense. It was Dino, right? How's it going so far? You okay so far? Okay Dino doesn't know what this is

It brings me no pleasure to report That the House Republicans are at it again A resolution written by Marjorie Taylor Greene To censure Rashida Tlaib Was voted down on Wednesday Greene then lashed out at Republicans Who voted against it Including Chip Roy

After he said the resolution was deeply flawed and contained legally and factually unverified claims. Green then attacked Roy for kicking her out of the Freedom Caucus while retaining vaping, groping Lauren Boebert. And I just want to pause and appreciate the phrase vaping, groping, Lauren Boebert. It has a beautiful meter. It's trokies. It's just troky, troky, troky, troky. Four in a row. Vaping, groping, Lauren Boebert.

It's good. It's good writing. That's just good fucking writing. She's a stupid, hateful poet, but she is a poet. You voted with the Democrats to protect terrorists to lead, Green tweeted. You hate Trump, certified Biden's election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted. Stop trying to make us like Chip Roy.

And Chip Roy responded, tell her to go chase so-called Jewish space lasers if she wants to spend time on that sort of thing. Recalling, of course, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory which green-floated as a possible cause of what? The 2018 California wildfires. We remember space lasers, but we don't remember what they were for.

I forgot. Did you remember that they were starting fires in California? I forgot. Did you remember that they were starting fires in California? I forgot. The FBI on Thursday raided the home of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 25-year-old fundraiser, Breonna Suggs. A search warrant reportedly showed that the raid was part of a broad public corruption inquiry into whether the Adams campaign conspired with the Turkish government to garner illegal foreign donations. Wow, that's crazy. Sounds like a pretty big story, no? Said New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez.

Digging up the backup gold bars he hid in Henry Rutgers' grave. I thought for a while about where we should put the gold bars that Bob Fernandez was going to dig up. And I thought, Rutgers, that's funny. What is a Rutger? Googled it. Turns out it was a man. A Revolutionary War man. And then I said, well, where's that guy buried?

He was buried in lower Manhattan, but they moved him once Manhattan got too crowded for that kind of thing. Where'd they move him? New Jersey. The joke works. All right, shut up. Investigators are looking into whether the campaign provided kickbacks to a Brooklyn construction company with ties to Turkey and to Turkish officials. Hey, I'm funding illegal campaign contributions here. During an appearance on Italian TV, the Pope endorsed a two-state solution

and lamented global anti-Semitism. Two peoples who must live together, said Pope Francis. With that, a wise solution exists. Two peoples, two states. Follow the Oslo Agreement. Two very limited states and Jerusalem with a special status. Okay, Pope, but Arafat and Abbas walked away from peace talks. Israel has continued to expand settlements and resist a right of return.

Tensions have never been higher. There can be no peace as long as Hamas controls Gaza. To which the Pope replied, hey, hey, hey, check out my bigger hat. I'm a little Pope. The Times reported that at an early meeting with Adidas in 2013, Kanye drew a design featuring a swastika before later advising a Jewish employee to kiss a picture of Hitler every day. To be fair, from what I know about Hitler,

he'd have hated that. This is a far cry from the vision of Adidas' founder, Nazi party member Adolf Dossler. Besides, if Adidas didn't use pictures of Hitler and Eva Braun to delineate the men's and women's rooms at the office, things like this wouldn't happen. Turned it around on Adidas. Coming for Adidas that time. In an interview published this week, Brooke Shields told Glamour that last month she had a seizure in a restaurant,

and when she woke up, she was in an ambulance, and Bradley Cooper was holding her hand. She said the seizure was caused by drinking too much water. So she said, You were perfect, Brooke, perfect Said the Kool-Aid man Sliding the bear bonds across the table Next to the massive crumbling hole in the side of her house Look, it's done, okay?

I'm out, you said I was out Will you leave me and my family and my brick walls alone now? Oh yeah. You see, the Kool-Aid man paid Brooke Shields to pretend she had a stroke for drinking too much water so that people would buy Kool-Aid to put it in the thing so they get their electrolytes. It's all fucking follow the money. Cooey Bono, the Kool-Aid man. The Kool-Aid man always wins. The Kool-Aid man, hey, the Kool-Aid man wins whether you're thirsty or not.

Anyway. Shields has this seizure. They can't reach her husband. Bradley Cooper is in the neighborhood. And somehow they get in contact with Bradley Cooper via some celebrity network of assistants as if the only person that could help Brooke Shields in this moment has to be famous. It doesn't actually make sense. Like when a person has, when a celebrity has a seizure, if you're

on a plane and a celebrity has an emergency, they don't say, is there a celebrity in the house? Like there must've been some medical professional Like, Bradley Cooper wasn't actually helping. He was just around. But when... Justin Trudeau? I don't understand. Anyway, the point is, Brooke Shields said to a Glamour editor, who is also her friend, what she felt when she woke up

with Bradley Cooper holding her hand. What she said is a Glamour editor, who is also her friend, what she felt when she woke up with Bradley Cooper holding her hand. What she said is, I thought to myself, this is what death must be like. Because I could not stop for Bradley Cooper. Bradley Cooper stopped for me. Shields said that in order to ensure she has enough sodium in her body and avoid another seizure, she's now under a doctor's orders

to eat potato chips every day. Shields' doctor said, and this is a quote, it's either that or medicine. But, take a look at her doctor. I don't know if I trust this fucking guy. Doctors shouldn't have mustaches. I don't know why, but it's a rule. It feels weird if your doctor has a mustache. I don't like it. Plus, that's the Pringles guy.

What do you mean? We're going to cut this, but just for us. Like, okay, you're drinking too much water. You've basically, you're drowning on dry land here. Like, I can see how that might happen by accident one time, but the solution isn't, oh, you should eat potato chips every day. As if, like, it implies that, like, Brooke Shields is living a normal life and just unable to get the salt she needs. This is America.

We're all fucking pickled. We're fully pickled creatures. Like, what do you mean you're not getting enough salt? What's going on? What kind of fucking celebrity New York Lower East Side godforsaken dietician are you dealing with here? But you're in a at a moment of fucking so you need to eat a medical potato chip. Yeah, I don't know. That was my reaction. Hall of Fame basketball coach Bobby Knight, known to fans as the General, died Wednesday at age 83.

But if you listen closely... For those listening at home, a folding chair flew across the stage. Amazon used a secret algorithm codenamed Nessie that functionally allowed it to inflate the prices of products on other websites according to a newly revealed excerpt

from an FTC lawsuit. Hey, all right, all right. Once you're stopped booing the people that aren't booing, any of you fucking in on this? It's dark, you don't have to say anything. Give me a, just, hey, just a light clap if you're in on this. Yeah, there it is. There it is. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. Work for Bezos starting today. Come see the lefty

fag at night. I support you. The FTC alleges that Amazon executives intentionally destroyed more than two years worth of communications by using the disappearing message feature on Signal in defiance of the agency's instructions. Whenever someone gets in trouble for having deleted their messages, it's always like, well, yeah, we knew we'd get in trouble. We don't have them. It was more important that you not have them. That's why we deleted them. They're terrible. They'd have been so much worse. Whatever, however mad you are, that is the lower limit of how mad you would have been. Without a doubt, unquestioning, there's no chance that you would have been less mad than you are now. You would have only been more mad.

So our decision was good. The government also alleges that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos instructed executives to accept more junk ads to drive up ad revenue at the expense of user experience. For example, one executive apparently found that buck urine was the first result in a search for water bottles. Oops, said a freak. This wasn't what I wanted to drink. This wasn't what I wanted to drink. A tarantula crossing the road in Death Valley National Park caused an accident when a Swiss tourist in a camper van braked sharply, causing a man on a motorcycle to rear-end them.

Yeah. The motorist is being charged with one count of failing the trolley problem. Also, if you cause a car accident because of a bug that you wanted to save, you fuck up some motorcycle guy behind you to save the life of a bug, you lie. You say it was a bigger animal. The biker was hospitalized, according to a statement from the National Park Service, which also noted that the spider walked away unscathed. But, according to news reports, tragically, down came the rain and washed the spider out. And finally, according to new genetic research, the arms of a starfish are actually extensions

of its head. Oh, now I'd fuck it, thought the scientist. I'm sorry. The study was published in the prestigious journal of things a five-year-old said unprompted. Offered the study's lead author, it's as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk and is best described as just a head

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Oh, hi. Thank you for being here. Man. Well, I guess you're not going anywhere. Thank you for being here. It is so great to be here. Welcome to Seattle. It's great to be here. I want to start with this.

Your sister just announced that she's running for Congress in a city. It's this, it's really a town that thinks it's a city. Uh, it's like basically, yeah, it's, it's called Portland. I know you're very supportive of your sister, but come on, is there anything you do that she hasn't tried to do? Is there, can't the Congress be your thing? Wasn't Congress your thing? Don't you have one? Can't one thing just be yours? No, it's true. One thing. I mean, I literally said to her, you have so many professions you can be in, but you want to come to Congress? No, I'm really thrilled. She's going to be

an amazing member of Congress. I hope you all get to know her. She's wonderful. That's cool. I hope you both get to be in Congress. That'd be so fun. Well, you know, I don't, you know, sisters, I don't, brings its own. We're not living together. Right. Just letting you know.

We're not staying in the same apartment. That's the show. That's the fucking show. Right, why wouldn't you, you know, I mean, Chuck Schumer lived with, like with Dick Durbin on a pullout for years. I bet your sister's a better roommate than Chuck Schumer. It's going to be our version of Alpha House. Yeah, right, exactly.

Dean Phillips. He definitely existed two months ago. He's not someone the simulation created. You were aware of him before this. I was aware of him, yes. But running for president, really? Yeah. Just throw that card away.

Hey, what do you think about Amazon sending drones to basically poop packages onto our lawns? We have a video. Hey, hey, listen, listen. I know a lot of people in your district work for this conglomerate, but this is not good, right? We don't want this. It is not good.

It is not good. We love the people that work for Amazon, but Amazon does need to be broken up it is a monopoly and this i mean this is a lawsuit waiting to happen there is definitely somebody who is going to get hit hundred percent hundred percent yeah honey my dumbbells are here. Where's the dog? What? I'm just, you're...

To your point, and not to mine. The FTC sued Amazon in September. That came after a 16th month investigation by the House Antitrust Subcommittee, on which you're vice chair. That investigation led to a number of bipartisan bills which go after monopolies. There's been a bunch of revelations just last few days, some of the practices inside of Amazon. What's your reaction to the most recent round of information we've gleaned from this FTC lawsuit? And, yeah, what did you make of it?

Well, I mean, you know, the most recent lawsuit, and there's a lot that's redacted, but the stuff that's in there is stunning. Amazon got rid of a whole bunch of documents, first of all. I know you talked about that in your monologue. That is always a problem. When they start getting rid of documents, you know there's a problem. But also it's all the stuff that we found in our antitrust investigation, right? Like controlling the price, making sure that nobody else, no small business could be out there selling a product because you could take that product from them. You could see which things do well and then use that information to make your own that undercuts it. And I think this is,

you know, I tweeted about this and said, Microsoft also changed many, many years ago because of a lawsuit, because of an antitrust lawsuit. And everyone believes that that was a good thing for competition, for small business, for consumers, even Microsoft thinks that. And so I think Amazon has just gotten too big to care. They are engaging in practices that are both monopolistic and also hurt workers and hurt small businesses. And I think we'll see where this FTC lawsuit goes. But I think it's really important to take it on. The issue of the anti-competitive practices of big tech companies, it's a rare issue in which there's a little bit of an ideological scramble. It doesn't neatly align.

You have members of the right that think this is an important issue. I think you have members of the left that think this is an important issue. Is there any hope for any kind of legislation that could make it through this Congress? I don't know about this Congress, but we did get all those bills. I mean, I'm asking. I don't know about this Congress, but you never know. And I do think all of our bills made it through the committee in the last Congress. And Democrats controlled the House then, but it was still hard to bring it to the floor. My good friend Ken Buck on the other side has been our champion on this issue. And we have talked about, is it possible to at least bring the, there's a newspaper competition bill, basically, that is probably the lowest hanging fruit. I think it's

possible we could get that passed and help all of our independent newspapers across the country to survive. I think that would be a really, really important bill. really, really important, Phil. I'm trying to think if there's some way we could connect the effort to make these giant companies more competitive with Noah's Ark. Sort of incept

the idea that I don't have it. I was waiting, John. I was really, Noah's Ark, the tech company's competition. Tell me, tell me. Well, just sort of, you know, the dinosaurs were quite big. I don't have it. I don't have it.

I don't have it. So, we just went through a week in which there was a vote to expel Congressman, he's also the inventor of Beanie Babies,

George Santos, your colleague. So that's his pedigree. A lot of the movie Invictus is based on his life. It's a really moving story about people coming together at a difficult time. But there was a vote to expel him that came from New York Republicans that failed. There was a resolution by Marjorie Taylor Greene to censure Rashida Tlaib. There was then a competing measure to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene. Is it frustrating to you having all this free time? Because we've solved all the problems? You know, it really is frustrating.

It's like we spend so much time there, and we have so much work to do, right? We have so many people who are hurting across the country, so many good things we could do, and we literally go there, and we do this BS stuff. It's censures. It's bills that cut the education department by 80%, right%. It's like, don't say gay laws. It's all these horrific things.

They'll add on a federal abortion ban. Why not? Let's put it into some piece of legislation. And it is absolutely infuriating. And it's become, I mean, it's just hard because we want people to have faith in government. And it's very difficult to have faith in government with Meg and Mike Johnson as speaker, or with Kevin McCarthy, or with any of these people. I mean, it's same menu, different waiter. And so speaking of the menu, and we've got to shut this restaurant down, by the way.

But we just went through this ridiculous fight where we didn't have a speaker for all these weeks. And we end up in many respects where we began, which is if there's any hope to prevent a default, fund the government, that has to, by definition, be bipartisan. Democrats control the Senate and the White House. Republicans control the government. That has to, by definition, be bipartisan. Democrats control the Senate and the White House. Republicans control the House. Every bill that's happened under this Congress to keep the government open and fund the government and prevent us from default has been bipartisan. What happens? We're a few weeks away from a potential shutdown. The same structural issues are coming for Mike Johnson, uh, that came for Kevin. Yeah, because he's also catering to the extreme. Well, he is part of that caucus. The

Freedom Caucus loves him. They're willing to, um, get rid of the motion to vacate, which is that rule that allowed just one single person to get rid of the speaker. They like the speaker, so they want to keep that, um, you know, they want to get rid of it now so they want to keep that. They want to get rid of it now, and they want to keep him. But we're going to have to pass a clean continuing resolution. There's no other way to do it. And so at some point, probably on the 16th, because funding runs out on the 17th, so probably literally on the 17th morning, there will be a big fight. And then right before the government is about to shut down, we will pass a clean continuing resolution. Really what should happen is the Senate should send us all of this so that they jam us in the House. And it's right there and we can just vote

on the Senate bill. Because last time what happened is the Senate didn't send us anything. And then it got down to the very end and we didn't have anything and so everything just took even longer to get done no and i think it's good that this is how we run our country i i definitely think that america should basically operate like a small contracting business run by two brothers who fucking hate each other. That's cool. That's how it should be. Just two, just two certified plumbers who can't make eye contact anymore. It is a challenge doing this show at a time in which the news can be very hard and very bleak. And I did want to talk to you about this because I consider you somebody who really thinks a lot

about how to be a representative of the progressive left in a way that is open, that tries to bring people in. So you sign on to a resolution introduced by Cori Bush and others calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And I wanted to ask you about this resolution, not because I think this resolution is of outsized importance, but I just truly want to use it as an example, because I genuinely want to know what you think about this. Because, you know, even as senators and members of Congress are now increasingly calling for a ceasefire, calling for a humanitarian pause, generally speaking out against Israel's conduct of the war, and are increasingly being open about how horrified they are by the sort of indefensible toll on civilians. And it is indefensible.

Fewer than 20 members of Congress have signed on to that resolution. Now, the resolution does not explicitly reference Hamas terrorism or the fact that Israel's military campaign in Gaza is a direct response to the worst atrocity committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The resolution says armed violence has claimed the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. And my reaction when I saw that is, oh, I don't, this wasn't written to persuade, that this was written in a way that could alienate people. You know, Barack Obama spoke with John and Tommy and Dan and Alyssa in Chicago to mark

the 15th anniversary of the Obama campaign. And he talked about the importance, especially on an issue like this, to listen to people and bring people in. Isn't the most powerful way that the left in Congress and in this country can advocate on behalf of the lives of Palestinians, the humanity of Palestinians, is to be in solidarity with your colleagues and with millions of people who are horrified by what's unfolding in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank, but reject responses, are mistrustful of responses that diminish the humanity and security of Israelis. Yeah, no, I mean, I think this is... I think that's beautifully said.

And actually, I think we should think about legislation as one part of how we respond in any moment. So the day before I signed on to the legislation, I issued a statement with six others that called for a ceasefire, called for a cessation of hostilities. In that statement, we talked about October 7th. We condemned what Hamas did. We talked about the fact that it was the worst incident of killing Jews since the Holocaust. We talked about all of the ways, and we said Israel has a right to self-defense because it felt important to contextualize what we were calling for in the universal horrors that are around us. And what happened on October 7th was a horror. And what is happening now in Gaza is an absolute horror. And so we wanted to say that we were

calling for a ceasefire both because you need to save, and by the way, I called for a ceasefire or at minimum a cessation of hostilities, because I think this is also something that's not super well known, but a ceasefire is a negotiated agreement. It actually takes often a long time to do a ceasefire. It has many things that have to be a part of it. It usually is about a longer-term solution. A cessation of hostilities can happen today. Israel can say today we're going to cease hostilities. And so it felt important to me to also give that duality to it.

But I think that the challenge is that it doesn't... If you believe in international humanitarian law, that does not look at the justification for why a conflict started. It doesn't look at who was right, who was wrong. It just says we need to minimize the impact on civilian lives. And today, John, I mean, you know this, 9,000 plus people in Gaza, Palestinians have been killed. Over 3,000 are children. One child is being murdered every 10 minutes in Gaza. And there is no question in my mind, and I came into this work as a peace activist in 2001 against the Iraq War, and there is no question in my mind that the military solution here in Gaza is not going to get Israel peace and security.

It's not going to get Palestinians peace and security and self-determination. It's not going to bring back the hostages. I have continuously called for the hostages all to be released, but it's not going to bring back the hostages I've continuously called for the hostages all to be released but it's not going to achieve any of those things and so that's why for me the resolution is a resolution it's a piece of legislation, it's there but it's very important for me to contextualize everything

that I've been saying because and it's even hard on Twitter I hardly ever put out statements with tweets that are threads because somebody will just take one tweet and say, you haven't called for the hostages to be released. I have. I've talked about Hamas. I've talked. And I think that at the end of the day, we all have to recognize there is so much trauma in the world. And this is what strikes me again and again. There is so much trauma. There is so much pain. There's so much historical context and lived experience that is all part of everything that we're dealing with, and it is incredibly complex. I don't think there

is a single person who knows exactly what the answer is. We don't. We don't know. This is a very complicated question. But for me, I do think that recognizing the humanity and the pain of Israelis and of Palestinians is very important. And I wish that we didn't always have just one or the other recognized. That is almost every Almost every resolution is... Well, this is why I wanted to ask about it, is because... So the resolution that did pass was the one that was very much written in defense of, in support of Israel. I think that's something like 412 votes.

You voted president. And I understand the hesitation because of the way that resolution was written. But you step back and you look at the politics and you say, there are 412 members of Congress that felt like it was important to make this statement. There are 18 that got behind a ceasefire that was focused on a cessation of violence to protect Palestinian lives. And what is the best and most powerful way that the left in this country can represent, advocate for peace, right? And when I see protesters saying from the river to the sea, when I see people talking about settler colonialism or sort of other jargon

that implies a kind of illegitimacy, a fundamental illegitimacy of Israel, A, like that's sort of other jargon that implies a kind of illegitimacy, a fundamental illegitimacy of Israel. A, like that's sort of anathema to me as a Jewish person. But also, I find it really upsetting because I say, it's like, oh, you've just told all these people that support Israel's right to defend itself and Israel's right to exist, that they shouldn't listen to you, or that they should mistrust you, or that you're not in common cause with them, that you're not in a coalition with them. And I don't know, obviously, I'm just a dumb podcast person, but I don't have the answer either. But I find, like, I want so desperately for especially the people that I view as my friends on the left to find a way to

talk about this that builds that bigger coalition. You know what I mean? Yeah, I do. And I think we're trying. I feel like that's what I'm trying to do every day. And I think what happens is there is a focus on one or the other. And that resolution was a perfect example. If I were to go back over the seven years and look at all the resolutions that are about anti-Semitism, there's hundreds of them, and it's very important. But there is one Palestinian-American woman in the House. Her name is Rashida Tlaib.

And I think that there is almost never a mention even in that Meeks McCaul resolution. It actually didn't mention Palestinians. I signed on to that resolution, by the way, when it first came out because it was in the moment and I really felt it was important despite the fact that there was no mention of anything else. I felt like it didn't matter. It was still important. But 18 days later, 6,000 bombs had been dropped on Palestine. That's more bombs in one year, in six days,

than we dropped on Afghanistan in 2019 in an entire year. And 6,000 people had already been killed. And so at that point, it felt like part of the problem, fast forward, is that Bibi Netanyahu does not seem to feel any need to stop what he is doing. And the United States is one of the most important partners in that relationship. We give more to Israeli military aid than any country. So we are the major backer. And I think that there has been a leniency around how we address this question since October 7th, of how we address this question of international humanitarian law.

Do we believe that Israel should follow laws of war? Do we believe that, just like we said, Russia should, you know, it was bad when Russia laid siege to Ukraine and stopped fuel and stopped. Now, I'm not trying to compare them because they are very different situations. But again, international law does not require that you look at the underlying thing. It's about saving lives. So for the left, I think what we have to do is, first of all, we have to be willing to condemn what Hamas did. We have to be willing to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization.

And I think we have to be willing to look at the trauma and the pain of innocent civilians. to be willing to look at the trauma and the pain of innocent civilians. I think for everybody else also, there also has to be, I mean, I was so moved when I saw President Obama speak because on this topic just yesterday or the day before, I think on the pod, because he mentioned the word occupation. What other president has mentioned the word occupation? So for Palestinians who are there and who are seeing, who they themselves are stateless, they are stateless people. I mean, many of them moved into Gaza because out of Israel, and some moved into Lebanon. So I think there has to be, and I know this is going to sound,

this is who I am. I believe there has to be compassion and love and embrace of everybody for who they are. And I don't believe that military action is the way to resolve any of these problems. It just hasn't. Thank you for having that conversation. I'm giving, we're going to, we're just changing gears. Just as much as humans can change gears, we're about to do it. Everybody, we're doing it. I'm doing it right now.

We're going to, everybody, okay? All right. The gears have changed. It's time for 24 Hours in Seattle. There was no ding? What do you mean you tried? Never in the history of this show was a ding more necessary

for the fucking vibe. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry about this team. Alright, here's how this works. You're the expert on Seattle. I'm just a visitor who saw Frasier. Would you come with me to Pike Place Market at dawn and use your personal warmth and political

clout to get them to let me throw a fish? Yes, I can take you there. They will let you throw a fish. Hell yeah! Absolutely. Hey, this barge got loose in Elliott Bay and crashed into a barrier. Captain Dan Creeble saw the barge and then jumped in his Kings County water taxi

and pushed the barge to a safer area? What are your plans? How can you bring the resources of the federal government to bear to throw a parade for the Sully Sullenberger of Seattle? He's a great captain. He's a great captain, a great crew.

Look at that. I know, it was amazing. Hey, these ships are too big. They're causing all kinds of problems. They're blocking the Suez Canal or whatever. They're crashing into the Space Needle now. Speaking of the Space Needle, has it ever successfully

called an alien to the planet? And is that its purpose? That is its purpose, but don't tell anybody. What? What goes on up there? Is there a restaurant up there? Have you been up there?

I believe when I was a child. There's a restaurant up there. It is a gorgeous view. Here's the thing about the Space Needle. I mean, I can't believe that it was built so long ago,

but it still feels iconic, doesn't it? Like, it is still a central place in Seattle. I love it. Does it have a glass floor? Now it does. It didn't used to, but now it does. Yeah. That's a scary project. It turns, right? I haven't been up there since it's been totally remodeled. Doesn't it turn? Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which way? On a what axis? Okay. We are recording this on Saturday evening.

Daylight saving time ends. So we get an extra hour of sleep. But now the morning people, they get an extra hour of sunlight in the morning. And... And the... And the... And the morning people, they get an extra hour of sunlight in the morning. And the cool people, we got to go get dinner in the dark. Have you taken any kind of position on this daylight saving time? I want one time. One time?

I want one time. Okay. Now, now look. But I just want to confess, I am a morning person. By the way, by the way, I want, I want, there's a thousand people here. One thousand people knew you were a morning person. You have such morning person energy. I mean, no disrespect.

such morning person energy. I mean, no disrespect. I just, I have no doubt that that when you and your sister were growing up, that fucking house, you guys were up. I think she's a nighttime person.

I mean, I'm a morning person because I have to fly back and forth across the coast. So for me, I'd rather stay on DC time, right? So I come home, so like right around now is kind of bedtime, you know? Which is why they're telling me to wrap

it up. Last question. You represent Seattle. Your sister is running to represent Portland. I'd like to get a rivalry going. Can we just shit-talk Portland for two minutes? Where do those people get off? Are they kidding?

They're like our little sister, you know? Portland is like the little sister. I mean, they got cute neighborhoods, you know? I like that. That was patronizing. They have like sweet little neighborhoods. They've got good food trucks. But I mean, we're Seattle.

And Seattle rules. And the thing about a Portland food truck, it's two hours away from being a Seattle food truck. You know what I'm saying? Exactly. Exactly. Congresswoman Jayapal, thank you so much for your time tonight.

This was great. So appreciate it. One more time. More member of Congress. Thank you so much. And we're back. Do you know how we're doing? All right.

What? He's doing great. Dino's doing great. Hey, did anybody else bring someone that didn't know what this was? Oh, yeah. Now, if you're one of the people that didn't know what this was, and you're still on the fence, that's cool. Please applaud.

Okay, okay, okay. That's too many. That sucks. Good night. All right. Look, it has been incredible getting to experience Seattle during this short, precious time we've spent here. The rain, the gloom, the wet fleece, the tossed salad,

the scrambled eggs. Look, as I've told you every time I come here, I'm a Frasier boy. Deal with it. All of which is to say, I am certain there is more to Seattle

than what I have gleaned from television, and that I'll discover a glittering metropolitan gem if I dig past its delicious cups of piping hot coffee and crotchety retired dads and Roz and Lilith. Here's what's going to happen. Producer Brian's going to come out there. Can we bring up the house lights please And I would like you to just pitch me

On something you love about Seattle I'm listening and I'm learning But I'm going to need you to start your pitch by saying You know how in Frasier So that you can connect something you love To something I'll understand Okay So you have to have the ability To tell me something you love to something I'll understand.

Okay? So you have to have the ability to tell me something you love about this city, but you have to start by relating it to Frasier. Can you do that? Hands are up. Hands are up. Let's start right there. Hi. Hi. You know how in Frasier, it's gay and they eat?

Yeah. Our fast food chain is called Dick's. All right, that's really good. Also, Frasier isn't gay. Frasier's gay-coded. You know how in Frasier he's a psychologist on the radio? Uh-huh. We all need psychologists because it rains here and we're miserable all the time.

Okay. But it's good because we're all doing therapy. Because you're all doing it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hi. Hello. You know how in Frasier, how, sorry. It's such a funny, evil thing for me to make you all do. You know how in Frasier, Marty's really that like down to earth character that everybody can identify with on some level. Okay. We have really fucking awesome water taxi captains

and it's really worth taking the water taxi. That's who, Martin, that's who saved the fucking thing. That was a Martin Crane type. That was cool. Now I'm getting it. There's dicks, there's rain. You know how in Frasier, he's a therapist?

Every time I hear it, it's so funny. Yeah, what about Frasier? You people are obsessed. Well, in Seattle, our therapist can do psychedelic psychotherapy with us to really help make an improvement in our lives. Wow. Mushrooms will unscramble some eggs. You know?

I think there's anybody else. You know how Frazier was married to a real housewife? Oh, interesting. Mm-hmm. And he divorced her, and he was such an asshole about it. Like, terrible person. Okay.

She followed the rules. I don't... It was, she said, but she meant Frasier as in Kelsey Grammer, the man, which it took me a beat to understand. What do you got? You know how in Frasier, they have the skyline out in the logo? Yeah.

The closest equivalent is just down the way at Cary Park. It is the best view in the city. However, and this is true, the view from the apartment would be in the middle of Elliott Bay. That's so interesting. I never thought about that. Fucking TV magic. Hi. Hi.

You know how in Fraser they have a dog? Sure. In Seattle, there are more dogs than children. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. You guys are doing great. You guys are doing great. Just, you know, understand that if we tried to do a game like this in San Francisco,

someone would just go, Frazier! Just drunk. I love it. Hi. You know how in Frazier, how the dad is really laid back? Okay. It's because everyone here is stoned all the time,

and you walk down the road and you smell weed. Okay. Or as my grandma calls it, freshly cut wood. Wait, what was the last? My grandma calls the smell freshly cut wood. That's cool. She'll take a deep whiff and go, mm, freshly cut wood.

Your grandma sounds cool. Your grandma knows that weed is tight. All right. Let's do one more. Hello. Hi. Mine is also dog adjacent. Okay.

We have some of the best parks. Wait. What are you? I don't, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. You did not put it in the form of a- You know how on Frasier, he has a dog.

We have the best parks. No, no, no, no, no. Take the mic away. Take the mic away. What? no, no, no, no. Take the mic away. Take the mic away. What? Just blew it. Just fucking blew it. What?

What? What? This is Seattle. We follow the rules here. That's some Portland shit. Think you can do whatever you want? Grow up. Hey, John.

Hi. Hey, you know how on Frasier it's all white people? Yeah. All right, we're done. In Seattle... In Seattle, we have really awesome

summer cultural festivals, Filipino festival, Japanese dance festival. So there are brown people here. I think that's a great place to leave it. Thank you for helping me understand your fair city in a language I could understand. The language of Frasier. When we come back,

it's time for a late night snack. Don't go anywhere. This is Love It or Leave It, and there's more on the way. And we're back. Joining us now, she's one of the creators of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. And yes, I know what you're thinking.

She's here to make French onion dip. Please welcome to the stage the current host of Mad in the Kitchen. It's Madeline Smithbert. Hi. Thank you for being here. Oh, my God. You're so good. Oh, stop it.

Oh, my God. I am so impressed. Oh, what did you think so good. Oh, stop it. Oh my God, I am so impressed. Oh, what did you think this was going to be? I have no idea. It's like TV without cameras. No, I know. Believe me, that's the fucking problem. It's fucking amazing.

We've tried to make a TV with cameras, and they're like, no thank you. I could help you with that. Hey, she's got connects. She's got connections. I know how to do it. But this is so much better. Is it?

I think it is. So, first of all, let's start by understanding. Now, you've brought a very technical... No, no, no, no, no, no. This was not my idea. This was your producers, and I ran with it. They said, why don't you make a late-night snack while talking about your career in

late night television? But you can't use heat. Well, we're not going to cook on stage. Well, that's a tremendous impediment to cooking. Like, I can't use heat. I would have done focaccia. Like, there's a lot of things I might have done. But so I did this idea, which

I think is kind of genius, which I do describe myself as sometimes, which is what is the most like sort of iconic snack ever in the history of the world? And it's the Lipton fucking soup with sour cream. You can't top it. You can't beat it. But I have. You can beat it.. You can't beat it. But I have. You can beat it.

I'm amping it up. Wow, taking it to another level. I'm taking it to another level. That's madness. Okay, so here's my story. Do you want it really quickly? Yeah. Okay, so I created The Daily Show

with Liz Winstead, blah, blah, blah. I was recruited to create a daily show for Comedy Central. Before that, I worked for Dave Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman in 30 Rock. Oh. I tried to hire Tina Fey, and then Lorne gave her Weekend Update.

I hired Colbert, Carell, John, Ed Helms, Rod Corby. Pretty good list. So, it's French onion dip. It's going to be a pretty good list. So, it's French onion dip. It's the recipe. We're going to make some dip. Here's the thing. Nothing. There's nothing the producers of this show like more than when I completely lose control.

We're going to take, this is Lipton's onion fucking soup. I don't even know what's in it. Yeah, what is in it? It's very far from the onion. I just had cataract surgery. Oh, we don't need to actually find out because I think it takes away the mystery. It's not even on there. You have to go to a website.

Never good. Never go with French onion soup to a second location. Hello, Seattle! All right. This was the onion soup mix. Yeah.

We don't know what the fuck is in it. We don't know what's in it and we don't need to know. But we know there's in it and we don't need to know but we know there's onions and in my for my money

if I could only choose one thing to put in my food it would be an onion you can caramelize it

and here we go so we're putting it in so and that's it. Okay, so. I love a live audience. It's great. I've never had one.

I've always been behind the scenes. Fuck that. So now. So step one, you've opened the packet. Okay. This is yogurt. This is Greek yogurt. This is Greek yogurt, not sour cream.

That's so interesting. No, no, no. Sour cream is so, like, 70s. We're taking this onion dip, and we're bringing it into... What century is this? I've lost count. 21st, I believe.

I believe. I hate it. This is the worst century I've ever been alive for. Yeah, but you say that, but then wait till you see the next one. I won't be here.

You knew Johnny Carson? Yeah, of course. Talk to me about that. Okay, so I'm going to talk to you about, I was living in to talk to you about, I was living in New York, and it was, what year is it, 1985 maybe? And there was no internet, and there really were no,

there was TiVo, but only like two people had it. What? Wait, I'm sorry. What? No one, you couldn't record shows. What do you mean there was only TiVo? No, there was, I'mo? No, there wasn't. I'm sorry. No, it wasn't there.

That's wrong. You're wrong. I'm wrong. I just, right? I feel insane right now. Okay, so when I stayed up late and I watched Dave, I thought, I need to be a part of this. And then I wrangled some tickets and I went

and I saw this guy on the studio floor and I said, I want to be him. And that guy was Robert Morton slash Morty and he was the segment producer. And I would attain that goal. And when I did, I thought, why didn't I aim higher? That's awesome. So we've mixed the onion into the yogurt,

which again was, I'm sad to say, step two. But what's the next step on the dip? You're going to take some. You're going to take some. What is that? You have to tell me what this is. Mint. That's fresh mint.

This is parsley. Parsley. And then this is dill. Dill. Okay. So this is a very, so Sam, my now husband, gave me a cooking class the first Christmas I was here. I took a cooking class and I got recruited to be a chef. And I changed careers at the age of 60.

And I became a chef. And then COVID came and my place that I was working closed. My wedding was canceled. And then I started on a whim a YouTube cooking channel in my kitchen and it took off. And I was on the Today Show three times. I was a regular on all these shows. I had five cameras in my kitchen. And then I got breast cancer and I ended up with this Patrick Mahomes hair that you have. He knows Taylor's boyfriend. You're funny.

I do all right. You're fucking funny. I do all right. All right. Wait, so we cut this into here? You're going to make a mitt. This is a mat in the kitchen, and these are called ceasers. And this is what I did on my channel,

which I'm not doing right now. I'm writing a fucking book called Almost Funny, and it's my life in late night television, cooking, and cancer. You're going to make a mitt. Squeeze them. Let me ask you this. So you go from Letterman to working on the creation of The Daily Show with Liz Winstead? Creation of the Daily Show with Liz Winstead. Liz is my neighbor. I go from Letterman to being hired by MTV to produce. I do a cooking like food show

pilot called Eating New York. I leave Letterman gracefully and I produce this pilot and I produce a pilot with my now still best friend. I'm talking to you, Mike. And it's called Eating New York.

And it ends up on the desk of this woman named Eileen Katz, who is the head of original programming for MTV. She sees my show, because she's a foodie, like me. And she sees my resume, which is inside the, you guys will love this, three-quarter inch cassette on her desk. I'm old. And it says, late night with David Letterman, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She brings me in. John and I have this meeting. They have him in the basement. We fall in professional love. And now I go from segment producer at Letterman to showrunner at the Jon Stewart show on MTV.

The best time of my life! We had a band on every show. What do you think? So, Jon Stewart in The Daily Show had this outsized influence at this moment. You know, he was the right person. After the 2000 election. He was the right, yes.

He was the right person in the right format, the right show. At the right time. At the right time. You're welcome. the right time, in the right media environment. Absolutely. Thank you. What do you think right now, though? As someone who found everyone from Ed Helms, Colbert. Colbert and Perel.

I want to ask you a question about right now, which is that it does feel like in a media landscape where Jon Stewart was satirizing something a lot of people were seeing, which is cable news. Now everyone is seeing something different. There's no place for it. So what is the role? How do you do, how do you have a late night show that speaks more broadly when people are getting their information in such striated ways? No, there's no place for this late night show anymore.

Nobody stays up and watches this entire show they watch the monologue on the internet the next day I don't know the answer to your question but I'm really excited to try to figure it out and I'd love to be involved in the next incarnation this is really good

isn't it? yay oh my god that is so friggin good come on This is really good. Isn't it? Yay! It's so... Oh, my God. That is so friggin' good. Come on! French onion dip rules. I would like you to share one thing about Johnny Carson that we might not know. Carson was the king because he never looked like

he was sweating and he would just sit there and let things happen and then all of a sudden boom! He would just pull out the perfect joke and he would never laugh at his own jokes. Mad in the kitchen. Madeline Smithberg.

When we come back, it's time for the Rat Wheel. That dip was good. People love that dip. And we're back. Somehow it's already November, and tomorrow, November 7th, an election day in key battleground states across the U.S.

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Find out. Plus, Get Out star Alison Williams stops by. Ooh, big get. For more pop culture moments and coverage, listen to new episodes of Keep It every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. I've run out of things to rant about, and so we solicited some rants from a few of you before the show.

But before we get to that, there was somebody that we wanted to invite to the show. Can we roll this clip? It's not a thing that happens on the street. People just come up and try to rob people on the street. Do you walk around every day like, someone's gonna rob me every second? Seattle decriminalized drug use,

and then they criminalized it again. Oh my God, who are you getting these facts from? You're from New York, apparently you're listening to the wrong people. I saw a lot of people shooting up on my way down here. Oh, did you? Okay. And they were bothering you?

I was in a car, but you know, people- Oh no, you're in a car! Oh no, they were hurting you so I was in a car, but, you know, people... Oh, no, you're in a car. Oh, no, they were hurting you so bad. Ten out of ten. Ten out of ten. So, we put the word out that we wanted to meet this intrepid resident of your fair city.

And they're here tonight, and we just wanted to say hello. Are you here? Hi. Come on. The defender of Seattle. This is bonkers. This is cool.

Now I know you're when did you realize when did you realize first of all great energy i get it when did you realize in that moment that you were dealing with like a fox news guy um So I was at Seattle Center, first of all, not a place you go to meet people from Seattle. Totally weird. And this guy with the camera, he's like, hey, can I talk to you? I was like, sure, fine. And then I was like, wait, what is this for? And he says, it's Fox. I'm like, oh, no, abort, abort. But I was like, I already said yes, I wouldn't want to be rude, right? So, and then he starts, and he comes in with the most boneheaded questions. And I was like, oh, this guy's a complete doofus. So, but he started getting really aggressive about it.

So it's like, okay, no, I'm losing my cool. And apparently when I lose my cool, I get really sarcastic. Way to go. Thank you. So I want to try this. Let me see what we got. Here are the suggestions. Performative parenting. I just have a problem with parenting. People talking on their cell phone in the public bathroom. I'm for it. Have your chats. It's fun hearing one side of it. Car-centric infrastructure. Yeah, I'm against it.

But not when I'm driving. Because when I'm driving, it's me. And I got places to go. Golden Bachelor, it's sort of, what if the thing that was bad was older? Family Medical Leave Act is only 12 weeks and it's not 100% paid. Yeah, it sucks. Tasks at work that make you envy Sisyphus, that just feels like a cry for help. at work that make you envy Sisyphus. That just feels like a cry for help.

Why isn't everyone talking about the Diablo 4 expansion? Because everyone isn't as cool as us. Love is Blind is just trauma bonding people to overcome physical attraction. Yeah. But you know what? Here's the thing. Having spent some time watching Love is Blind for the

first time. I watched the most recent season. I know, apparently it wasn't a good season. But I don't know what it could be, so what I saw is what it is. You're watching it. Dino's watching it. He's having a great time. You're having a great time with the show.

Well, you're just interrupting me to tell me that he's having a great time. It's not just about Dino. There's a lot of other people here. I'm glad he's having fun, but I was in the middle of a fucking sentence. That's it. What? Dino's the fucking best.

Look, Dino's vibe has been cool from the beginning. He was unsure but open. I watched him have more fun as the night went on, and then I watched you embarrass him. The worst moment he had, based on his facial the whole night, was you just now. We've had a lot of fun tonight, but we're going to end with your high notes. Let's bring up the house lights. Hi, John. Hi.

Long time, first time. So this summer, I just moved back to America after living in China for the last 11 years. And I am so very glad to be back here. Welcome home. It is a much better country. Yeah. Yeah, it is.

And I've been listening to you guys since the beginning, keeping it 1600. Hell yeah. And you guys are blocked in China. We're blocked? Yeah, you need to be pwned. Yeah. President Xi can't handle what we're putting down.

These takes are too hot for President Xi of China. What do you got? My name is Aileen and I'm a political consultant and as you mentioned, Tuesday is election day, including here in Seattle and across Washington State, we're voting on city council, county council. And my high note is that a candidate I work with, Alex Hudson, who is running in Seattle's District 3, Capitol Hill, First Hill, has knocked on over 16,000 doors.

16,000 doors and I'm feeling really good and optimistic about our chances of getting another progressive leader champion on Seattle City Council and I just want to make sure everybody here votes Vote, freaks! It's so easy, just put it in the mail

Everybody's going to vote in their local election All the way up there By the way, this theater is fucking beautiful the moore theater it's so cool what do we got hi john hi my uh my high note is a little bit coming off of your rant about family paid medical leave so i just came off of that and it was awesome it's an amazing state program. And I just think that being able to have your husband or partner stay home with you for three months is pretty amazing. And so I'm coming off of that this week and it's been an amazing experience. So very grateful for

Washington State Family Paid Medical Leave. Oh yeah. Hi, John. Hi. I'm Rachel, and I have a friend named Catherine who beat breast cancer, and she's here with me tonight to see you because she's alive and she's going to fight. Nice. She's my high note.

Very happy for you. Thanks for coming. Hi, John. Hi. Hi, John. Hi. I'm excited to be the new uncle of a twin nieces of my brother who lives in North Dakota. And I'm excited to be the crazy leftist uncle of the family. Hell yeah.

It's going to be a ton of fun. And thank you to the Cricket Media team for being somebody who helped me see the light from North Dakota. Last one. Last one. What is your name? What's your high note? Hi, I'm Emily. My high note is that I'm a critical care nurse and I'm getting a PhD in nursing science. And my high note is that I'm a critical care nurse, and I'm getting a PhD in nursing science. And my high note is that my research, improving health equity for patients who speak a language other than English, was approved to be presented at NTI slash the Association of Critical Care Nurses, which is like the largest conference we have. That's great.

And I'm really excited about it. And terrified. We have to leave it there. We have to leave it there. That is our show. If you've got, before we wrap, thanks to everybody who shared a high note tonight. If you want to leave us a message

about something that gave you hope, call us at 323-538-2377. That is our show. Thank you so much to the Moore Theatre. Seattle. Camilla Jayapal. Madeline Smithford. Thank you all so much for coming out.

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