Lovett or Leave It - In-Seder Trading
Episode Date: April 12, 2025Donald Trump tariffies the global economy, SCOTUS is 9-0 for due process, and RFK Jr says you can have one measles vaccine, as a treat. Rachel Bloom and Robby Hoffman gather ‘round to share matzah, ...marriage advice and mortal terror. Lovett’s mother and future mother-and-law share a mom-umental first meeting on stage, and we close out the show with all the dayenus you can use this Passover week."Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special" is streaming now on Netflix.Catch Robby Hoffman on "Hacks" steaming now on Max as well as "Dying for Sex" streaming on Hulu.See Robby live in Portland, Maine at the Empire Comedy Club on May 2nd and 3rd and at the Brea Improv on May 23rd.
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slash love it. What's up Los Angeles welcome to love it or leave it live from the Elysian theater.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Love It or Leave It, live from the Elysian Theater.
Let me tell you.
I'm so excited.
As Farrow once said, man, Passover really snuck up on me.
So we'll be flying through this pack show so quickly
the bread won't have time to rise.
Our plagues, measles, bird flu, and microplastics, so far.
Our bread of affliction, the vegan recipe
we tried to bake with applesauce instead of eggs, and nutritional yeast instead of tasting good.
Welcome to Love It or Leave It's 2025 Passover Seder.
Oh.
Unbelievable.
That was the Havanagila bagpipes from our Shiva episode for Queen Elizabeth II.
Robbie Hoffman, Rachel Bloom, and Elijah are here. We'll ask the four questions and
my mother and soon-to-be mother-in-law will, and this is for real, meet for the first time on this stage.
And with that we'll say, Dianu.
But first, let's get into it.
What a week.
In the wake of Trump's announcement of a trade war against every country on earth, as markets
plummeted, companies announced layoffs, retirees, looked for early bird specials on gourmet dog food, the right wing defended
their best boy.
You have to just let him do what he's going to do, give him some time, because he is a
businessman, he's a billionaire, he knows what he's doing.
Just close your eyes and think of England.
Stop pointing out all these grease fires and let the man cook.
Treasury Secretary and bad gay Scott Besant had this to say on NBC Sunday.
working very smoothly so the American people they can they be very uh take great comfort in that.
Good news everybody the paper shredder your tie is stuck in is working perfectly. It's successfully pulling your face toward the gnashing metal teeth with aplomb. It's eating
that tie while you scream and claw at the machine like it's nothing. Wire cutter your
recommendation is crushed once again.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick offered this exciting
vision for the future on Sunday.
Remember the army of millions and millions of human beings
screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones.
That kind of thing is going to come to America.
USA, USA.
What a beautiful vision for the future.
I would just point out that Howard Lutnick has not worked USA, USA. What a beautiful vision for the future.
I would just point out that Howard Ludnick has not worked a day in his life outside of
finance.
He ran the firm Cantor Fitzgerald over which he gained control after a bitter dispute with
Iris Cantor, the wife of the firm's founder.
They battled in court for years.
She barred him from her husband's funeral.
But Cantor Fitzgerald is best known for having lost 658 people on 9-11,
including Lutnick's own brother. He became well known because of a moving
interview he gave with Connie Chung on September 14th, 2001.
So while I'm the head of the company, I'm trying to help my 700 employees who are
missing their loved ones. I'm just another one of them.
Just another one of them. Just another one of them. The interview became infamous.
Does anybody here remember why? I'll tell you why. Cantor Fitzgerald removed the
names of those 658 employees from the payroll on September 15th. Yeah. yeah, there was an outcry
and the firm ultimately set aside some profits
for the family's employees who died.
But it was devastating for families whose loved ones
were still technically considered missing.
And it tells you something about the ruthlessness
of this person and the focus on the bottom line.
Another revealing fact about Howard Lutnick,
he's from fucking Jericho.
Audience from Long Island nods their heads so hard they have to go to the hospital. revealing fact about Howard Lutnick, he's from fucking Jericho.
Audience from Long Island nods their heads so hard they have to go to the hospital.
There has been some tension. Elon Musk said on Saturday that he hoped for a zero tariff situation
between the US and the EU and spent the following days feuding
with Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro.
One thing about a Trump presidency, there will always be two crabs
in a bucket scrapping it out.
But which crabs? That's what keeps it fresh.
By early this week, Musk was estimated to have lost around $31 billion since Trump announced the tariffs that Navarro championed.
And you all thought the tariffs had no conceivable upside.
Shame on you.
On Saturday, Musk publicly criticized Navarro on X, writing,
A PhD in econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing.
I feel like it's actually a neutral thing
that's often wielded by bad people,
like alternative medicine or the speakerphone function.
And then on Monday, Navarro took a shot at Musk
during an interview on CNBC saying this.
But he's not a car manufacturer, he's a car assembler.
A good part of the engines that he gets, which
in the EV case is the batteries come from Japan and come from China. The electronics
come from Taiwan.
The cyber truck panels that keep falling off come from Mexico, but the glue that doesn't
hold them on comes from South Korea.
Musk on Tuesday replied to a video of the interview on X saying that Navarro
was truly a moron and dumber than a sack of bricks and thanks to Trump's tariffs,
White House press secretary Caroline Levitt, no relation, was asked about the ongoing squabble.
These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs.
Boys will be boys and we will let their public sparring continue.
And you guys should all be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration
in history.
First of all, the combined age of these boys is 128 years old.
Second, it's true, these idiots are fighting in public and
the chaos inside of the White House is spilling out into the open, but that's a
superficial kind of openness. It's democracy theater not democracy itself.
It's real housewives transparency when what we need is Panama Papers
transparency. Because on the same day, Levitt, no relation, described the
administration as the most transparent
in history, Trump signed a memo directing his agency heads to repeal a raft of environmental
regulations and other rules.
That directive also said that as they go through the books removing regulations that they claim
to be unlawful, agency heads shall finalize rules without notice and comment.
In other words, Trump just issued an order telling his agency heads to get rid of regulations in secret without giving the public an
opportunity to know about it, let alone have a comment about it. They've boarded
up all the windows and sent two clowns outside to punch each other in the dicks,
but those are the clowns they want us to see. But what of the inside clowns? What
of their dicks? Speaking of dicks, during a speech at the NRCC dinner on Tuesday night, Trump bragged
that global leaders were desperate to make a deal.
I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.
They are.
They are dying to make a deal.
Please, please, sir, make a deal.
I'll do anything.
I'll do anything, sir.
Please, sir, please, please put the pin back into the grenade you're holding between your butt cheeks.
Everybody wins if you put that pin back into the ass grenade.
On Wednesday morning as the stock market's chaos continued, the president wrote on Truth Social,
be cool. Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before.
We just have to be cool. Everything is going to work out well, the USA will be bigger and better than ever before.
We just have to be cool.
Be cool.
Be cool.
Be cool.
Be cool.
Be cool.
Be cool.
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Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Oregon Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was asked on Wednesday whether he thought a recession was likely and replied, I am going to defer to my economists at this point, but I think probably.
Joining us now are those economists.
Gentlemen, what are your thoughts on?
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Then later on Wednesday, Trump fully blinked announcing a 90-day pause of reciprocal tariffs
on all countries except for China, whose tariffs he raised to 125%.
Oh wait, wait, hold on one second.
Johann, it's love it.
I'm sorry to call so early in Zurich.
Bad news.
I know last week we decided to open a chocolate factory in East St. Louis.
I know, I'm really disappointed too.
They said the tariffs were here to stay.
Hey, hey Johann, don't cry.
I do think we'll always be friends.
Best to Ursina and little Albrecht.
Let's not call it Auf Wiedersehen.
Let's call it goodbye forever.
Why did Trump back down, you ask?
If that joke worked,
Hallie had to buy me a sandwich.
If it didn't work, I have to buy Howie a sandwich.
I think you fucking won.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Why did Trump back down, you ask?
Was it because those other countries negotiated awesome deals?
It was not.
You walk us through your thinking about why you decided to put a 90 day pause.
Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line,
they were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.
Yeah, people get squirrely when you dump all their money in a big toilet and say,
I am going to flush this. The president continued.
They will be fair deals for everybody, but they weren't fair to the United States.
They were sucking us dry and you can't do that.
They were sucking us dry.
Negative.
And now they're sucking us dry.
Positive.
My whole family is here.
Stocks immediately climbed after Trump's reversal, which helped make sense of Trump's truth social
post from earlier that morning that said,
This is a great time to buy.
Signed, DJT.
Trump innovating in the insider trading space by posting this on the internet.
Internet sider trading, if you will.
Health secretary RFK Jr. finally changed his tune on the measles vaccine after a second
child died of the illness.
Writing in a Sunday ex-post, the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.
R.F.K. Jr. explained that his target number of dead kids was two.
Anti-vax activist Sherry Tenpenny, who once claimed during an Ohio legislative hearing that COVID vaccine caused patients to become magnetized, wrote in response, I'm sorry,
but there is no defense for this poorly worded statement.
Gee, I guess Magnet Lady found RFK Jr.'s new position polarizing.
In a Tuesday's CBS News interview, Kennedy publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine
for the first time since becoming health secretary.
It's one thing to say the measles vaccine is the best way of preventing spread, but
it's another thing to then say, and therefore, we suggest that you get the measles vaccine.
We encourage people to get the measles vaccine.
Okay, so that, I mean, I think that's actually the next step and that's news as far as I'm
concerned that you're saying that. Okay, so I mean, I think that's actually the next step, and that's news as far as I'm concerned,
that you're saying that.
I'm still learning and evolving, replied RFK Jr.
while slurping down a whole goldfish through a boba straw.
I do want to say, you know,
when somebody does something you've asked them to do,
even if it's ridiculous that we had to ask,
and even if it's abominable that we're in this position,
we do express our gratitude.
The thank you carcass is in the mail.
Last month, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia,
a legal resident who has been in the US since 2011,
was deported to SACOP, the Salvadorian mega prison.
The White House admitted Garcia was deported
due to an administrative error,
but claimed they do not have the authority to retrieve him
because he is now in the custody of El Salvador,
a classic case of not it.
A judge ordered the Trump White House to bring the Maryland man back by midnight Monday,
but the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on that ruling.
And then on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government must facilitate
Abrego Garcia's return in an unsigned order.
In a separate statement, the three liberal justices went further, saying the court was wrong
to stay the Monday order and that Abrego Garcia deserves the full due process he was denied.
And that's three more thank you carcasses in the mail from Cricket Media.
Just do want to stop and say that all nine justices have now said in two separate rulings
that everyone deserves a measure of due process, that the administration cannot just remove
people without giving people enough time to have their objections heard in court and that removing someone to a jail in El Salvador does not mean that the administration
does not have a responsibility to try to correct that mistake because what the Trump administration
position is, is they can take anyone off the street, claim that because they are an undocumented
immigrant, they can be deported without seeing a judge, they can be sent to a prison in El Salvador, and
once handed over to El Salvador, they no longer have the ability to bring that person back,
and U.S. courts no longer have the ability to question it.
It is as clear as day a means of saying that they can basically deport people and imprison American citizens
without anyone having the ability to ever question it or stop it. And this is
nine Supreme Court justices saying that that is not gonna fly. And all the claims
that this is a that these are activist judges they are now what they're gonna
claim Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett
and the other one Gorsuch that
these are all these are all what liberal activist judges I that's all
just fuck them all right also this week the Supreme Court vacated judge James
Boasberg's temporary ban on the Trump administration's attempt to deport
Venezuelan immigrants using the Alien Enemies Act.
The Trump administration claimed victory, but all nine justices also made clear that
the administration must notify immigrants that they're facing deportation ahead of
time so they can challenge the government's decision.
The court unanimously agrees, in other words, that everyone is due some sort of process.
These have been decisions with something for everybody and by the same token satisfying
to no one, like a protein brownie or salmon with frosting on it.
And if you've been following the story of Andres Hernandez Romero, the gay makeup artist tokens satisfying to no one, like a protein brownie, or salmon with frosting on it.
And if you've been following the story of André Hernandez, Romero, the gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador after an investigator with CoreCivic, which contracts with ICE, signed off on the claim
he was in Trende or Agua, it turns out that that investigator was once a Milwaukee cop so shady,
county prosecutors flagged him as too unreliable to testify in court. Are you so terrible at being
a cop that even other cops are like, woof, I don't know about
this guy.
An exciting career awaits you at ICE.
Apparently, this guy left the force after drunkenly driving his car into a literal home
while being investigated for lying about overtime and was convicted for kicking in the door
of an apartment and threatening to kill himself with his service revolver in front of his
girlfriend. Now he's sending immigrants to a mega prison
based on their tattoos.
Said everybody in his high school reunion,
yeah, seems about right.
So as Trump tanks the global economy
and his administration terrorizes legal immigrants,
Fox News continues to be laser focused
on the most important topic of the day, gender.
Here we have Fox News' gender chaos headlines.
The network had to dig through second and third tier sports to find enough trans athletes
to freak the squares this week, railing against trans women playing in a women's pool tournament
and a fencing competition.
Pool, a sport that famously hinges on the sheer physical strength of the competitor,
the most jacked person who hits the balls the hardest wins. Pool. Here we have a clip from Fox News.
Oh, we got trouble. Right here in River City.
And that is the capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool.
But we got trouble. Yeah, that's right. Music man.
But good news, the solution to gender confusion exists is a stiff dose of international trade
barriers.
This is an actual Fox News chiron from this week.
Trump's manly tariffs.
Pundit believes it could reverse crisis in masculinity.
Because men need to get out of the office and back to the factory floor.
When you sit behind the screen all day,
it makes you a woman.
Study some showlists, study some showlists.
And if you're out working, like building robots like Harold,
you are around other guys.
You're not around HR ladies and lawyers
that gives you estrogen.
What do you do?
Let me finish, judge.
You sit behind the screen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get his ass, Judge Jeanine Pirro. Fuck.
Whatever.
In other news, Nintendo paused pre-orders of their Switch 2 in the US, Canada, and China
in response to Trump's tariff threats.
Unacceptable.
Just wait till my father, Bowser, hears about this.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, himself a vocal Trump fan, tweeted,
These tariffs are turning me into a Dem, along with the rainbow emoji.
He may be the CEO of GameStop, but he doesn't like it when the game stop.
A pair of nearly 100 year old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia
Zoo have become parents
for the first time, cried the tortoise's mothers, finally.
And by a very sweet coincidence, the baby tortoise's face looks almost identical to
that of Gavin, the zoo's loneliest maintenance man. Gavin, fuck that turtle. Up next, guess who's coming to Seder? It's
Robbie Hoffman and Rachel Bloom.
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Before we bring out Rachel and Robbie, my nephew Bennett is here and unless the cast of Young Sheldon has finally responded to my many invitations, he is almost certainly the youngest person in attendance.
Which means he gets to ask the four questions of the Love It or Leave It Passover Seder.
Bennett, can you please stand and help us out?
Here I have this on a card for you.
Would you like to ask the first question?
How is this live show different from all other live shows? I
don't know we kind of create a Passover gimmick for it because our parents were
coming and all the guests were Jews. What's the second question? Will you tell
my mom to let me get a dog? What do you think? It's a no. I tried. I tried.
Third question?
Why hasn't Love It or Leave It become a TV show?
Well, that sucks.
I mean, we took it out, but it was right before the pandemic.
It's a tough time in the industry.
What's the last question?
What is my birthday?
Thank you, Bennett. Great job on the fourth question.
Please welcome to the stage, Rachel Bloom and Robbie Hoffman.
Hi.
Hi, hi.
This is nice.
Look at that.
My picture there.
Beautiful.
What a good looking picture that was.
I took a good picture.
Skin looks great.
Love it.
Hi.
How are you?
Robbie, you're in a brand new series called Dying for Sex.
Yes.
Congratulations.
In addition to Hacks, which is premiering right now, and I'm here with you.
Wow.
Thank you.
Big roll on Hacks.
Big roll on Hacks?
Big roll.
I think I'm in almost every episode.
Wow.
So was she.
You know.
The title is a little bit ironic because they're very talented. Wait, what's...
Oh.
Now...
I love your wedding ring.
Oh, thank you.
It's an engagement.
Yeah, that's my engagement ring there.
So wait, but you're the boy in the relationship?
Because I'm the boy in mine as a...
No, for sure.
Well, that's an interesting question.
I think it's really kind of...
I think on some questions you would say yes, but in others no.
Let me see the part and I'll decide right away, I know.
What?
I'll say who's the boy, who's the girl in the relationship.
Okay, we'll just get into some sort of giant metal or glass cube and you can observe us for a while and then tell us which gender role you think.
But this is very girl moves that you're wearing the ring.
Well, we're both wearing rings.
Hmm.
You know when gay people are really gay?
Like, it throws me off.
I'm like, eh, but you know, who's the girl?
Who's the boy?
Like, I'm like still like, well, don't actually be gay.
Who's the girl who's the boy is what a man in a cowboy hat
asks you on a plane?
All right.
See, for me, I feel like I'm so immersed in, I don't know, I have a lot of queer friends,
but also queer culture.
I said to my husband the other day, I was like, well, I'm the bottom.
I'm just married to a man.
I'm just married to a cis man.
Yeah, I'm the bottom.
You're the bottom.
I was like, I'm not a top.
And he was like, yeah.
Men are the tops and women are the bottoms.
But I guess there are some, I could be the top.
I've never pegged my husband as someone trying to-
There's always, we speak.
It's come up.
It's come up as a possibility.
I don't currently crave that power dynamic.
Does he?
He does not.
Not, he's not, no.
Because you know I had a boy once,
he wanted me to put a plastic bag on my finger
and I should put it up and.
Maybe Bennett should leave.
Sorry.
Get him out.
Oh God, I instantly forgot about the child.
I'm so sorry.
I don't know.
We didn't think of condom something.
We were only like, you know, I mean, we were of age to think of a condom.
I was maybe 21 when this happened.
I hear the prostate is a beautiful experience.
But he brought out like a Ralph's bag.
Like a plastic bag. I've only asked one question and it's, so I understand you're like a plastic bag.
I've only asked one question and it's,
so I understand you're in a new show.
Yes.
Now I'm...
It's getting fantastic reviews.
I'm thrilled about it.
Dying for Sex on Hulu and Hacks on HBO Max.
Well, the thing about,
the Dying for Sex is about a woman trying to become sexually liberated
while dealing with cancer.
And it raises the question, which is, can people have sex when they're tired?
No, but you know what?
Me and my wife, we do it.
We're so honest with each other.
Like I'll pitch, we do this thing because I used to think I was very open with sex.
I thought I'm open, I'm sexual.
But I don't talk, I won't like say,
oh, should we hook up tonight?
Like I don't speak such things.
In a weird way, I'm like, I guess that's what they mean
when you're talking about it.
I guess I would like, you know, do the moves.
Like we're in bed, like, but I would never like pitch to her like oh
We have the night off like do you want to fool around tonight?
Now I do that. Huh? So I'm like, oh I'm talking about sex in a way like it felt like so weird to
Pitch it unless it happens organically. That's Mary has
You got it. You start talking about it. You start planning for it
Yeah, so we because we like the organic and we also like this because this is kind of
exciting too.
I'll realize, oh, we're getting off early, pun intended, and I don't know if she has
anything going on, but I'm like, maybe, maybe I'll make dinner or something.
So we do that.
And I don't even know what the point of this was,
but if we're tired, if she does the pitch to me,
if we had sex or whatever,
if I'm tired and we haven't had sex,
okay, I'm tired two minutes, I'll get over it.
I'm tired the beginning part
and then I don't realize I'm tired.
But if we've just recent and then I, we say, oh, and she goes,
she would normally goes me too.
I was just checking.
When you say recent, are you talking about like earlier that, like that hour?
Or are you saying like within the last couple of days?
Nice.
Yeah.
Rachel in your book, you talk about worrying about what happens if you
masturbate to porn while pregnant in case your fetus is somehow imprinted by
the porn you watch. I forgot that I wrote that but that's that was very very smart
and now that's a worry that I'll have again. You didn't put it into the book to
kind of get rid of it? I think I did. I think that's how I that I'll have again. You didn't put it into the book to kind of get rid of it?
I think I did.
I think that's how I deal with a lot of my intrusive thoughts.
That's funny.
Yeah.
Well now she's five,
so she's not into porn.
So I guess that answers my question.
I have a question for you, Rachel.
Did you have sex when you were pregnant?
Yes.
Okay, so do you consider that a threesome?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
That's a, no.
Um.
Uh.
No, but it-
Because you were worried she was thinking back then,
so you think she was like,
oh, dad's dick is here now, and we gotta.
Dad, well, the good thing is,
something, if they can see the dick, something is very- She can't, I mean, she's right there, probably. No, no, no, but good thing is, if they can see the dick,
something is very-
She can, I mean, she's right there, probably.
No, no, no, but it shouldn't,
something would be very wrong.
If a dick was going into the uterus,
that could probably cause sepsis.
Is there a doctor?
It's such a thin film.
That would probably cause sepsis,
well, because it's bumping up against the cervix,
but it's only when you're-
She feels a bump.
She's definitely feeling something, and I read-
There's some poke in her. I did read somewhere that when you're- She feels a bump. She's definitely feeling something and I read- There's something poking her.
I did read somewhere that when you have an orgasm
and you're pregnant, it makes the baby feel like
they're in a hot tub.
That there are like little bubbles.
So that was cute.
I think what was mine-
Would you ever tell your daughter you came
while she was in you?
Would I or do I?
Is this a conversation people have I don't have kids. I don't know what so my so my daughter's five
So, um
Honesty is the best policy. Yeah, I feel like not having kids that sometimes you
That you don't you feel like you don't you're gonna say the wrong thing You don't know you don't know how to address the parents with the kids like they're going to say the wrong thing.
You don't know how to address the parents with the kids.
Like they're a whole other universe.
I don't really care.
Yeah, you don't know what's okay.
Or you don't know what's okay to say.
I mean, like my daughter, she knows that babies grow
inside a belly.
I mean, it's not a belly, it's a uterus, but whatever.
That babies grow in the belly.
And she hasn't asked further than that.
So no, I have not told my five year old that I came.
Let's say she turns 21, she's of age I'm saying.
By the way, I came a couple of times when you were there.
Okay.
You're good friends by this point, God willing.
Yeah, I think if she.
No, you're saying you don't say that.
Okay, there's some things,
honestly she's not the best policy.
I think she'd have to ask. No, asking is good.
We'd have to have a, I think I'm such an expulsive person. I'm such an overshare. I think with
her I've been mindful. Like she asked, our dog is 15. That's just a cute story that our
dog's 15 and she's doing great. But she asked, why isn't Wiley ever had puppies?
And I was like, because Wiley can't.
And she was like, why?
And I started to be like,
well, Wiley had her uterus taken out.
And my husband was like, no.
And he was like, she never wanted to.
She was focused on her career.
But I was about to explain like spaying to my kid,
because the medical stuff you say to your kid,
you know, you use the term, the real terms, you use, I try to use the word vulva, which is the correct
term for the entire area, you know, it's not just vagina. But you don't care. So when,
the whole area to you, it's okay to call that vagina. But even though it's technically, it's the vagina's just the one hole.
Okay.
Anyway, I'll say, I use medically accurate,
non-judgmental terms.
And again, to just reiterate,
no, I have not told my five-year-old that I came.
Which by the way, it's better that you haven't.
By the way way I would leave
that in your court obviously now I'm so convinced you're gonna come over to my
house now okay come here let's I think it would be way worse if your husband
told her this one day yeah cuz he also came while she was there and that would
be way were in my opinion a father should never tell a daughter this.
And look, that's something we've always said here at Love It or Leave It.
Hey, question.
Influencers are trying to reach uncontacted tribes, like one in the North Central Island.
Jesus Christ, someone needs to stop them.
On the one hand, experts call it a human rights abuse, but on the other hand, is it?
Yeah, you're going to die. You're going to get killed.
They're going to murder you.
Yeah, that's bad for you.
Everyone just leaves everybody alone.
Would you go on somebody's lawn? You get shot up on the block.
I don't go on somebody's lawn. I don't do nothing.
I walk on the sidewalk and that's where I am.
Never mind some ancient tribe somewhere. You do your thing.
Enjoy.
I don't even want to know what's going on.
So are they landing there?
Are the influencers, what are they doing?
Are they dropping leaflets?
Well, so the influencer had a GoPro and was trying to get content,
but then seems to have left without having gotten any content,
but left behind a Diet Coke and a coconut. I don't really know why I don't
think he's like crushing it. Is that so is it a human rights abuse to leave
behind a Diet Coke and a coconut? It's a human rights abuse to contact these tribes because A
there's the possibility of disease and then B they are undisturbed they are
they are isolated tribes they have not had contact with the rest of
civilization and so it is, like to the experts that care about this, it is that the encroachment
on their tribes and on their kind of autonomy would be eradicating, would be genocidal.
You have to leave these tribes where they are.
There's no such thing as rules, we made these all up. Okay, so rights, like you're speaking of them,
like is it a human rights?
Like sure, there's morality that we've...
But yeah, humans can basically do whatever they want
for the time that they're here.
There's not really anything, I mean, we have no idea.
Like humans, there's nothing stopping anybody from doing anything.
Look what's going on in this country.
So yeah, I mean, it sucks that they would do that.
I wouldn't do that to other people,
but if other people did it to them,
I'd be like, humans can basically do,
if you wanted to kill somebody, you could right now.
You'd get in trouble.
Like you have to face consequences
because we have a society set up, but you could do it.
It's like when comedians get mad
that they can't talk about anything anymore.
You hear about the Chappelle, or you can't say anything anymore.
Bro, you could say whatever you want, but it's going to be consequent.
You could say, you could be transphobic, you could do whatever you want.
Some people might be mad at that.
That's what that is.
Nobody's saying nobody can't do nothing.
You can kill as many people, you can do whatever you want.
But there might be consequences.
It doesn't mean you cannot do it.
I just looked over a buck of milk and I was like, I'm going to do whatever I want.
I'm going to do whatever I want. I'm going to do whatever I want. I'm going to do whatever I want. I'm going to do whatever I want. I'm going to do whatever you want. Well, no, I think that's- But there might be- I think that's not- There might be consequences.
I think that's not right.
It doesn't mean you cannot do it.
I just, I looked over-
You can do whatever the fuck you want to do.
I'm really glad the child has left.
Yeah, no.
Was there a child here?
Yeah, he's gone.
I saw him leave.
It was a good moment.
I'm really-
I saw my father take my nephew out.
Okay, that's good.
Excuse me?
I think it was at some point where you were doing this.
Several different versions. With a Ralph's bag?
There was this, there was this, there was this.
You know what?
And then he was gone.
She's saying vulva to a five year old.
Well, I mean, yeah, no, for sure.
I'm using protection in a Ralph's bag.
How many?
All right, let's take a vote.
Who is more responsible for my nephew having to leave?
Is it Rachel?
Why is this?
It was the pegging.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The pegging wasn't for your ally.
Was it Bobby?
You're an ally.
Wow.
Wow.
Whatever.
Pretty tough.
And here's the thing,
do you think am I to hear about this later?
What do you think?
Mom?
Mom, I'm sorry.
Am I in trouble?
I'm in trouble?
Stephanie?
Is your son, am I in trouble?
Stephanie, I apologize.
Wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, what are your thoughts?
John, I'm sending him to you with the questions.
The questions can all come to me.
He's gonna have questions.
But here's the whole thing. You invite... People who know me. Come on.
I don't think they know you.
No, but I'm saying this is a grown-up comedy show.
This is what people are doing with kids. And then I'm in trouble.
I'm at a comedy club. I'm at a comedy club.
No one's getting you in trouble. No one's... oh, to be clear, you're doing your job.
Stephanie, I'm sorry.
Mom, mom and I took a picture backstage.
Are you mad at me?
I used a bag, it's safety.
Do you understand?
It's actually better.
It's actually better.
One day you'll all thank me.
I promise you this.
Your kids are asking you.
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So Robbie, you got married earlier this year. Rachel, we were talking about this backstage.
You've been married for 17 years.
I've been with my husband for 17.
I've been married for 10.
Wow.
Tips?
Any tips?
Yeah, any tips?
Just communicate.
Look, I think most of it is luck.
I just met the right person at the right time
But also we just we just are open with each other and we communicate really well
And we and we respect each other and we make the subtext text the best that we can
And we sure and you have to keep having sex. That's also very important. Yeah
And how long have you been married?
I've been married for three months.
Any tips?
Yeah, I agree.
Just, yeah, I got lucky type of thing.
I mean, I love to hang.
I used to keep girlfriends separate from,
like I would go out or be with my friends,
but I love to hang out with Gabby as well.
So now it feels like I get to be like high school girls
that touch each other.
And the whole thing is very erotic and it's fantastic
and we're best friends, but we also touch each other.
Yeah, same.
So it's very, it's like, yeah, it's like I get that whole like,
I used to think it was gay when people said I'm marrying my best friend.
I'm like, you used to think it was gay?
Yeah, like not gay like that. Just because I say something's gay doesn't mean it's gay.
Like you mean like like 90s gay, like the pejorative gay.
Yeah, like the chair is gay, obviously, it's velvet.
It's not gay, who cares? But you know what? We're best friends who fool around and she's also my baby and I'm her baby and we don't
want kids and we just get to be everything for each other.
It's really been a great few years with her.
And you got married in Vegas.
We did.
Wow.
That's cool.
Yeah, we were evacuated for the fires and by day three or four there, as she was saying, first
of all, they hooked us up with a free room because at first we couldn't find a room.
We were supposed to be evacuated.
We had to go to, I was looking, Palm Springs or Joshua Tree, whatever's close by, they
told us to call.
And we couldn't have, couldn't hear back from the hotels if there's a room.
I said, babe, you know where they have rooms?
No problem.
24-7 Vegas.
An hour and a half more, we go there.
She had a hookup.
We get into the room, resorts world,
shout out, never heard of them.
And then, and we had like, it reminded me of hacks actually.
It was like a wedding suite.
And she was like, should we get married?
I'm like, oh, the fire's talking.
She's, you know, she has,
cause I don't want her to get to him, because I've been saying it since I met her,
but I don't like when it comes from her.
I'm like, oh, she's getting him.
Some things it's not.
And then by day three, she was like,
I am going to Neiman Marcus and buying a dress.
And I'm like, okay, I gotta go to Cartier.
And we just had the greatest wedding.
Like we can't recommend it enough.
And you know what?
Should I tell you a secret?
Yes.
I actually can't believe I'm really doing this by the time this comes out.
So we're actually legally getting married tomorrow.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
We found out that our biggest wedding, we're married in Nevada, which no shade to Nevada.
I love the state, great state of Nevada.
We don't live there.
Does that not count on a federal level?
No, there's like five states where it does not count.
And Nevada is one of them.
That's why so many people get married in Nevada, Because it's like you could technically just be married there.
If you, you know, it's like an easier wedding to do.
So, um...
So you're legally getting married in California on Friday?
Tomorrow, Shabbos, yeah.
What are you doing?
I can't say, but...
Oh, it's just going to be us two again as usual.
It's our favorite... If you can get married, just the two of you.
I mean, my brother Schmully called me.
He's like, I can't come to the wedding.
I said no.
I have to tell you something.
Like, Rachel talked about pegging in front of my nephew.
You advocating for a wedding where my parents aren't there.
Right.
My mother's going to come on this stage and fucking kill you.
But so your parents like gay people?
Yes. Yeah.
So my parents, it's like they don't even really.
It's not really a thing.
And then her, she's not with her mother and her father's military.
They're still trying to figure out.
So we're like, you know what?
Take your time.
Just take your time, do you, we'll do us.
And honestly, we went to the all you can eat buffet
at the Wynn Hotel, I can't recommend it enough.
Oh, a great buffet.
I can't recommend it enough.
I went to Vegas.
Crab legs, whatever you want.
I went to Vegas before the 2020 caucuses in Nevada, stayed at the Wynn.
It was, it turned out two weeks before everything shut down.
I walked into that buffet.
I ate basically two meals in Las Vegas.
Both of them were my, a one meal a day by myself.
I went to the Wynn buffet by myself and ate enough in a 30 minute span
that I did not eat until the next time I went to the Wynn buffet.
No, it's a one meal a day. Yeah, yeah. No, it's, yeah.
I remember the first time I grew up in LA and so we started going to Vegas, I don't
know, the first time I was five. But the first time I registered a buffet,
the first time I registered a buffet, maybe actually this is when I was five,
and I just remember the first time
going into the Luxor, Pharaoh's Feast,
and being like, this is the height of food,
this is the pinnacle of food.
And it showed me the beauty of binge eating.
And so I started to eat a bunch of meals,
even outside of Vegas, as if I was still
at the Pharaoh's feast, which culminated
in a couple times of me eating so much
that I then threw up.
Wow.
This is not like, this is not an origin story
of I didn't have binge eating disorder,
I just really liked free rice and cookies.
Yeah, I'd say you let, the Pharaoh said,
let my lunch go.
Wow.
You know what I'm saying?
Trying to bring it back to Pesah.
That was really, really good.
I know, they got nothing.
Pearls before swine.
Wait, do you think the Luxor should do
like a whole Passover thing?
Absolutely.
Where they like reenact.
I love an all you can say.
Like what if they make a bunch of Jewish people
repair things at the Luxor?
For like the week, like you get a bunch of Jewish people repair things at the Luxor? For like the week, like you get a bunch of Jewish people and you say,
hey we have a leaky faucet in this room.
Like they make, like the entire cleaning staff is just a bunch of Jewish people.
Yes, that's a good idea.
And then there's a day where they release them.
Yep.
No, it's a cool idea for sure.
And then you feel great.
And they, and you split the Bellagio Fountain and all of the Jewish and all of the Jewish people. Yes
Who've been who've been working in the Luxor pyramid all week?
Get get hope get to bathe in the Bellagio fountain greatest idea I've ever heard. It's awesome
That's awesome. Please take it. We should really do this. If we wanted to actually have fun, if Jews actually wanted to have fun, we'd reenact,
we would reenact being slaves in Egypt and being traitors.
At the Luxor.
At the Luxor.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
If we really wanted to have fun, if we really wanted a good time.
Well, we don't want a good time anymore.
We don't want a good time.
We're afraid of a good time.
Yeah. That's the thing about Jews. That's. We're afraid of a good time. Yeah.
That's the thing about Jews.
That's a perfect transition to the next part of our show.
Robbie and Rachel, I think it's fair to say that it's part of our collective Jewish heritage
to shy away from exhibiting any traits that goyim might consider cliché.
For example, using the word goyim in front of the goyim.
However, in the spirit of Passover, I wanted to give all of us an opportunity tonight to
lighten our mental load by embracing some Semitic stereotypes in a segment we're calling If the Jew Fits.
I will serve up a Jewish stereotype and Robbie and Rachel, you'll tell us whether or not
the stereotype resonates with you.
First up, complaining, veching.
What's wrong with complaining?
To complain is to enjoy.
To me, this is one and the same.
I could be on a yacht and find it too
shaky. It doesn't mean, it doesn't mean it means I'm enjoying, I'm alive, I'm in the
experience.
There's something that I find baffling. Why are Jews so cold?
Or hot.
Or hot. But my family, my, my, you can't be under a draft. My grandfather,
when my mom was growing up, they would have to restaurant hop if the restaurant was too
cold. But, but we come from, I mean, some of, I don't know.
Because we're desert people. Well, well, I guess, yeah, look, if we're
talking OG desert people, so I guess it's not, but it gets cold in the desert too. I
was going to say in Europe too.
So it depends how long your DNA is remembering back.
I just said Jews are cold.
They are cold.
We were in Mexico at a really nice hotel over the holidays.
Excuse me.
Not to brag, we've been to Mexico.
Jewish president. Oh,. But... Jewish president.
Oh, there is a Jewish president in Mexico.
Claudia Scheinbaum.
Yeah.
Wow, I did not know that.
Her family, yep, she's an Ashkenazi, her parents, I don't know if they were survivors, but anyway,
Ashkenazi Jewish ballet dancer, climate scientist, president of Mexico.
Shkoyev, I wish her well. Yeah.
It's amazing what you can have.
But so we're there and we're sitting,
we're sitting at this and we watch,
it was, we were there around Hanukkah,
so we knew who all the Jews were
because we had done a candle lighting.
And so then we're sitting at this table
and we watch just Jewish family
after Jewish family just say no to this one table.
They just got walked to the table.
Ari remembers this and they're like, nope.
And they would get walked to another table and then another Jewish family came.
They tried to say that, nope.
It was behind a pole. They couldn't see the view.
What? Moved. Moved.
Three Jewish families said no to this table.
And then a lovely, very clearly not Jewish couple are sat at this table.
They eat their whole meal and they're so happy.
And at the end, the man said the most kind of Christian thing
I've ever heard, which is he turned to the waiter and said,
would you please send the chef our compliments?
I don't think a Jew's ever said that.
No.
I always have envy for these type of people
because it takes me so much.
I feel like it's like, if you get started watching porn,
then you need crazier and crazier porn,
these type of people.
It's like sometimes I'm on a plane.
I was on a plane next to just a regular Midwestern type of lady.
She must have been mid-50s.
She ordered pinot grigio, whatever.
She's watching Mall Cop 2.
Not Mall Cop 1, Mall Cop 2.
Kevin James in a mall on a sidewalk.
Paul Blart, the Paul Blart one.
What?
Paul Blart. Go on. Paul Blart? I don't know. Was? Paul Blart, the Paul Blart one. What? Paul Blart?
Go on.
Paul Blart?
I don't know.
Was it Paul Blart?
Kevin James.
Yeah, yeah.
It's Paul Blart.
I don't know why I'm connecting.
It feels like I'm correcting Kevin James's pronouns, but I'm not.
I think it's Paul Blart.
It's Paul Blart.
Have you seen King of Queens?
I love that show.
Anyway, she is, this lady is sitting next to me,
I'm middle seat, this lady, it's like,
even the setup to any joke, she's already dying.
She's like, plot stout.
Like, she's like fucking dying.
Then as soon as the joke hits, whatever,
there's slapstick stupidity falls off the thing.
She's, the wine is everywhere.
Like she is, she's dying at this movie.
And meanwhile, I'm still looking for something to watch.
It takes me so long to find something.
And this lady could just throw on whatever's there
and enjoy her life.
And I have an envy for these people.
Absolutely.
No, I know it is.
There's something about, it's beautiful.
You're just sort of like, that's so cool.
They just enjoy so much.
I still get like that when it comes,
like I will re-watch any of the Austin Powers
and I'm back to being in middle school.
And like a couple weeks ago I was like,
my daughter has to see Austin Powers.
And so I turn on Austin Powers too
and the first thing is like fat bastard
having just fucked Heather Graham.
And I'm like, nope, nevermind.
She will not see Austin Powers.
When I was pregnant, when I was pregnant by the way,
I would do a fat bastard voice all the time.
I would go like, I'd be like, oh, my baby.
It was so fun where I was like,
my baby is kicking my bladder, oh.
It's like actually the main reason to have another kid just to be able to go around and
do that.
How old is your nephew?
How old is Bennett?
Benny, how old are you?
Oh, he's back?
Shit.
Oh, you're only nine?
What is...
No, bro, nine is too young.
Wait, you're ten.
You're nine?
No, nine is really young.
And actually, I can't guarantee my performance.
I thought we did. Why did we?
Oh, was this three quarters birthday at Hogwarts?
I thought he would be 13.
Nine is too young and I can't guarantee.
Well, I'm an R rated performer.
So you're going to record a live comedy show at Hogwarts?
No, no, no. We just went to.
I was like, how did you get in there?
Muggles can't access it.
At this point, the parents, the onus is on you.
I am not myself a parent, I don't really care.
Okay, so the onus is on you
and all the responsibility is with you
and I feel fine being me.
Thank you.
I thought he was 10.
All right.
Anyway, we'll be right back.
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Please welcome to the stage,
it's my actual mother Fran Lovett
and my actual future mother-in-law Wendy Schwartz.
Wow.
Careful, careful.
Wow, look at this. Are you mad at me? Hi, welcome to LA. Hi, hi. Hello. Are you mad at me? Hi, welcome to LA.
Hi, hi, hi.
Are you mad at me?
Okay.
Let's sit there.
I'm going to sit over here just because we don't have enough space.
All right.
Sit down.
It's great.
Thank you.
Mother?
You both look really great.
You look lovely.
Beautiful.
When you speak, just bring the mics up when you speak.
Mother? Yes, dear. Mother. Yes dear.
Wendy. Yes. They say you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. You two
literally met today right? You briefly spoke. Did you cross paths at the house before the show?
We did, we did cross paths, yes. You've really never had a real conversation so it's time for
a segment we're calling Meet the Makhetanam. Makhetanam is a Yiddish word that doesn't exist in
English but should as it means my child's spouse's parents. Moms I will
provide you with questions and I'll be checking in with Robbie and Rachel
throughout to get their perspective on how well this bit is going. Are you both
ready? Mom kick it off. I'm asking this to Wendy? That's correct. Okay Wendy you
want to put it? Mike closer? Mike closer. When did you
last sing to yourself or to someone else? What if anything? No, no, you have to answer now.
No, Wendy, you've been asked a question. The question was,
You've been asked a question. The question was...
The question...
Wendy, when is the last time you sang to yourself or to someone else?
This week.
What would you sing?
I sang a Jewish song that I really like, In the Shower.
What was the song?
O Se Shalom.
And you were singing that to yourself just like in the shower?
Yep. That's beautiful.
Mother, when was the last time you sang a song?
It's been a while. I don't have a very good voice.
Alright, Wendy, over to you.
Okay.
Um, what if anything is too serious to be joked about?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Ah!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Well, Bobby.
I'm a Netflix comedian.
Like, I don't support the children.
I'm sorry.
He didn't tell me.
But you also, you do come from children's TV. When I worked in children's TV, I wasn't doing this.
Well.
I am an Emmy award-winning children's writer,
as a matter of fact.
Mother, what if anything is too serious to be joked about?
Well, I don't like when people have jokes
and they hurt other people's feelings, so.
OK, that's nice.
Yeah.
OK.
Thank you. Now, Mom, you ask a question to Wendy. It's a simple format.
Both very smart women I think you're gonna get the hang of it. I think there's only two
more questions. We kept it pretty tight. Okay. Oh this is so sad. OK, Wendy, your house containing everything you own catches fire.
And after saving your loved ones and pets,
and you have time to safely make a final dash to save one item,
what would it be and why?
Oh, wow.
Oh wow. Probably some jewelry from my, you know, heritage from my family. Some jewelry from the family. Well, so that jewelry had come a long way.
Yeah, from my mom most likely or my grandma.
Okay.
You said you know, but we don't know.
Well, just there are some of this. I don't know. Well just there there there there
some of this I didn't know what jewelry this was but it could be jewelry that
made it on the other side of the Holocaust is what I was getting at. Yeah no none of that.
I was trying to let you bring up the Holocaust. I can tell when someone is about to bring up the Holocaust.
Julie I didn't know what jewelry it was. I just thought if it made it all the way through the Holocaust,
you'll grab it in a fire.
It's probably a sentimental.
No, I understand it's sentimental.
I don't think she's getting it to melt it down and sell it.
Now, mom, what do you think about him bringing up
the Holocaust to make her feel such a pain for no reason?
She wasn't even thinking.
Her head wasn't even there.
I wasn't there.
Yeah, the time wasn't great.
So Fran, what would you save?
Oh, you're asking me what I'd save?
Yeah.
Well, that was your question, Wendy.
You have this one.
No, no, you have.
Mom, you're just meeting. Don't be a bitch.
What would you save in a fire?
Well, I probably would save all my photos.
I mean, that's you know what I love the most.
Yeah, that's a good answer.
OK, that's a good answer.
All right, Wendy, you want to ask the last one?
Well, no, I want to ask you a question.
OK. You you lived the fire. What what did you decide last one? Well, no, I want to ask you a question. You lived the fire.
What did you decide to save?
Well, we didn't really, I mean, we were,
there was no fire near us.
We just left because the power went out,
but still, we didn't have any Wi-Fi.
Wendy, do you want to ask my mom the last question?
Okay, Fran.
What do you value most in a friendship?
I value most in a friendship would be honesty and someone who's there for you and some laughter.
You know, all that's good.
That's very nice.
There's a lot of pathos from you tonight.
A lot of what?
There was just a lot.
When you read that question about the house burning down,
it was like she was really there.
Did anybody else catch that?
It was like a real performance.
Should we ask questions?
If you'd like.
What are both of your thoughts on God?
Thank you, moms.
You did an amazing job.
And because we, I need you both to love each other.
Those questions were all from the famous New York Times
list of 36 questions that lead to love.
One more time for, are you in love? Okay.
Thank you, Mom.
Thank you, Wendy.
When we come back, we'll swim the wheel.
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Next week I'll be joined by Bob the Drag Queen,
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at Dynasty Typewriter.
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Such fun, it's gonna be a great show.
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that's next week. Do not bring kids.
At Dynasty. Crooked.com slash events will be not spring kids at dynasty.
It's not like it's not like someone else brought kids. I did it. I did this. It's my fault.
I'm the one that's going to pay.
Like if I were at a real company, I could go to HR for this.
Like I'd say like this was really my company. I do grown up stuff. It's like having at a construction place, you just let some lady walk in without shoes
on.
It's like a violate, you know what I mean?
It's dangerous.
It's a liability.
I feel like I just want to stop you.
If you think that the audience needs an analogy to understand why talking about pegging
in front of children is frowned upon.
She?
Like they got it.
By the way, did I say peg?
She brought peg.
It was all me.
It was all me.
And you know what?
I said with plastic wrap, not even peg.
No, no, not going back to it.
We're moving on.
Next.
To be clear, I was talking about the character Peg Bundy.
Bennett, a little peg.
From the wonderful series Married with Children played.
No, it was by Katie Sagal.
It's a bag.
She wore a lot of leather and peg Bundy.
Now it's time to end this theater with a spin.
There's nothing wrong with a human body.
You're exploring.
It's a peg.
Peg Bundy, she would go ow.
She would go ow.
Dianu wheel.
She would go ow.
Die, Dianu.
It's very funny.
Die, Dianu.
It's like if you're going to have your kids try alcohol, have it at your house.
You get to see them.
You regulate them.
Give them some Anishevits.
You don't want them out there.
Here's how the Dianu wheel works.
I actually wasn't allowed to watch
Married with Children as a kid,
so that's actually, that hasn't even worked.
I wasn't allowed to watch it either.
And you remember I would sneak in to watch it.
I watched Oz at 10.
Oh, my God.
Jesus.
My brother, Lavi, had it on, and it was a fantastic show.
I would sneak MTV's Undressed. Oh, yes. My brother, Levy, had it on and it was a fantastic show.
I would sneak MTV's Undressed.
Oh, yes.
Remember?
Well, MTV Undressed was an amazing show.
It was designed to hook children.
It was basically a drug.
100%.
Because every episode had three ongoing stories and every episode, each story was in a different
place. So the stories would have three beats and so each episode a story be at the
beginning a story be in the middle story be the end. Have you written a spec of
undressed you know a lot about the structure? This is unusual. But
what was amazing about undressed is once in a while there would be a gay
storyline. I remember this. But and and it was the only place on television that
you could regularly happen upon two boys kissing.
But...
And Bennett has to hear about this?
But when...
What was interesting about Undress, and if you go...
This is just from memory, truly just from memory of it airing at the time, but basically
they would show heterosexual kisses close up.
But when they showed a gay kiss, they would cut really far away.
So the gay kisses were always wide.
And it was like, sucked.
Yeah, that's so, I wonder what that, because it's cable, right? And so it's not like they
were trying to fit into FCC guidelines. This is boring. I had a network show for four years,
so I got to know intimately what the FCC allows and doesn't allow on network TV and what standards
and practices will and will not allow.
But it's not, it's not.
They did the right thing.
Yeah, they did.
Yeah.
So here's how the Diana.
There's a time and a place.
There's a time and a place.
For kids, for gays, for different things.
Let's just all have some decorum of respect for women.
Can I also say, for the record though,
my five-year-old completely understands gay people.
It's not for anyone who's like, how are you gonna make,
for anyone who's like, don't kiss in front of my kid,
are you gonna make me explain gay people to my kid?
It's really easy.
You just say, some men love men and some women love women.
They go, okay. It's so easy. It is true, some men love men and some women love women. They go, okay.
It's so fucking easy.
It is true.
The first time I heard about a trans person
or anything like that was our cousin Pinsky,
who was enormous.
He was the size of the car and he was the greatest guy.
And he would come to visit us.
And we don't, I don't even know how he's my cousin,
but it's like Pinsky's in, he's got candy.
And so we're in. And Pinsky's in, he's got candy. And so we're in and Pinsky showed up,
his girlfriend must have been six four.
So we're like, this is the tallest we've ever seen.
And we went up to my mother and my mother was just like,
making, like making and then I'm like,
mom, what's up with this?
Like, and we were like all asking her,
like me and my brother, it's like, why?
Like, Pinsky's girlfriend is so tall,
like just the tallest girl we ever seen. We kept saying how
tall are you? How you're a kid? How tall are you? You know, and
she was happy to tell us and whatever. And I was like, what's
with Binsky? And she goes, she was she was born a boy and now
she's a girl. And I'm like, Oh, okay. And it totally made it
sense. It made it that that's why she's tall. Like it was like, oh, I must've been like five or six years old.
I'm like, oh, makes sense.
And we all moved on, that was the end of that.
There was no follow up.
I was like, oh.
Okay, and then we just, yeah.
And so, and he just was like,
he was with the trans woman for years and years.
We never knew she was a trans,
we never even had that language, but we just knew, she's
a boy, she likes a big girl.
But it never came up past that again.
It was just like we figured it out.
So it's very easy and then you don't have, if you make it a bigger deal, it's like if
a kid falls, it's fine.
It's like, it's fine.
If you make it a big deal, oh, what happened?
They're going to be screaming, crying. It's almost like we need to take the whole conservative movement
and just when and then show them a bunch of trans and gay people and just go,
you're okay.
It's no big deal.
You're okay.
You're fine.
Just you're going to get up and run around and have a good time with your friend.
You're okay.
Yeah.
You're okay.
You're a tough little guy.
You're okay.
Exactly.
It's like, oh, and they just want to like know what happened.
Like everybody just, it's just, yeah, I agree to some extent. That's it.
Nope, we got to spin. Now it's time for the Dianu wheel. Here's how it works.
We're going to spin the wheel and we'll each have one minute
to talk about something that we've had enough of.
Die Dianu. Oh, it's spinning.
I luat si, si an, si an, mi mi tsa,
mi lo ha sa, vam tra ti, da, yeah.
It has landed on Robbie.
What's something you've had enough of?
You know what it is?
As you get a new phone.
So somebody texts you and then you go,
I'm sorry, who's this?
And they take it so personal, like,
I'm not saving numbers, bro.
Like it takes me a whole thing to go new, add contact,
do it, it's like, why can't I ask who's this?
Even if I know you and we're friends.
Like what's the big, it's like,
you don't know my phone situation, like you don't know,
like maybe I just got a new phone.
Maybe I just never saved numbers.
I used to like to memorize numbers.
So I never used to save numbers.
Now it's too many numbers to memorize.
But I'm like, just throw me a name.
Like, bro, like it's not that personal.
Yeah, it's enough.
It's enough.
It's like somebody says, if you message somebody and they say, oh, no problem.
Who's this?
Don't go, oh my God.
It's just, it's like, great.
I'm thrilled to hear from you.
It's like, what's, there's no problem here.
There's no problem here.
Why make problems with this problems, Diana?
We have enough problems.
We have enough problems.
We don't borrow trouble.
Diana. Let's spin it again.
It's perfectly rigged.
Oh, wow.
Rachel, you're up.
What is something you'd like to say Dianu to?
Human beings in groups. except in a theater. I don't think other than when
it's groups of people gathered for positivity which can be very powerful I
think something tribal happens when you get human beings into groups and this is
in person this is social media I just just think that the group mob thinking is very, very,
is very alarming to me.
But at the same time, community is fantastic.
But that's, I guess that's, when you talk about community,
I guess like that's for a good cause.
I guess what I'm saying is I'm over human beings
and their adrenaline being up when they're in groups.
Something happens when you kick in the lizard fear brain
in groups of people.
And I was reading an art, this is, I sound like I'm 70,
I was reading an article in the New York Times
about George Orwell and how everyone across
the political spectrum loves to say,
this is Orwellian, this is Orwellian, right?
They love to think that George Orwell
would be on their side, right?
That George Orwell would, no, he'd be liberal or he'd be conservative, but is Orwellian, right? They love to think that George Orwell would be on their side, right, that George Orwell would,
no, he'd be liberal or he'd be conservative,
but George Orwell was actually very mistrustful generally
of systems, of codified systems of groups.
And I guess that makes me Orwellian right now.
Hell yeah, nice.
I know that's not a funny answer, but.
It doesn't need to be, it's true.
Yeah, I just think. Dianu to that.
Dianu, I think human beings on an individual one-to-one level
are very redeemable.
I like a group hang though.
I like a group hang.
I like a positive...
That was a 101, it's too much pressure.
It's like, who's all gonna be there?
I like a positive group.
I guess I'm talking about when...
Remember flash mobs?
When everybody would get together and do a dance at the mall?
So I guess I'm saying human beings in groups when it's not something like positive for a community.
Four or five people watching a movie is a good time.
You know what? I don't know. You're right.
You heat up some pizza bagels?
You like pizza bagels?
I like groups.
The mini pizza bagels? 14 minutes.
I guess I didn't think this through. I like people in groups when it's positive.
There's just something about... You don't like to shit talk? I love to this through. I like people in groups when it's positive. There's just something about...
You don't like to shit talk?
I love to shit talk.
Okay, you ever get somebody,
there's some good tea going around.
Oh, I love it.
I love to hear the tea.
You're right.
Hit me with the tea.
Dienu, let's spin it one more time
and see who it's gonna land on.
Here's, it is landing.
Here's what I would like to say Dienu to.
It's a very specific thing.
It is, it is land to me.
Here's what I would like to say, Diane, you too.
It's a very specific thing.
It is the increasing number of inanimate objects that people are referring to as she or her.
I have grown sick of it.
It's getting my hackles up.
It's getting something.
It's turning something.
It's making me uncomfortable. It's making my hackles up. It's getting something. It's turning something. It's making me uncomfortable.
It's making me nervous.
I'll see a social media video,
the way all the kids would say it,
of someone will get a new person say,
look at her, I love her.
Okay, okay.
Then it's somebody makes, I don't know,
like a chicken dish, and there's like, look at her, she's beautiful.
About a chicken dish, I saw somebody make a dining room
table and say, look at her, she's beautiful.
It's enough.
It was weird when it was just boats.
It's weird that it's sometimes countries,
but not all countries, because some of the countries
are men.
What are the lady countries?
America.
People are saying, like, I love her?
Yeah.
My God, I need to be more on...
But Germany's a man.
It's giving chauvinistic.
It is giving chauvinistic.
No, you!
You don't like to speak, girl!
Oh, I...
Wow. Wow.
You know what that was?
What's wrong with the chicken?
That was conversationally, you put a carrot in a box, and I grab the carrot, I'm stuck
in the box.
You really...
No, because...
This is...
We forget that gay men are men.
We forget this. We forget that gay men are men. We forget this.
We forget this.
It's an important reminder for us all.
That is true. Some of the most chauvinistic things ever said to me have been said by gay men.
Thank you.
Well, absolutely.
The gay male gaze is very real and it's withering.
Yes. Thank you.
Well, like a truly misogynistic gay man is so much more dangerous than a misogynistic
straight man because you truly have nothing to offer the misogynistic gay man.
Exactly.
Exactly.
They've been some of the meanest people because they're like, you give me nothing.
You give me nothing.
And so you're just a face of flab and wrinkles that gives me nothing.
I don't want to fuck you.
I just see you as an imperfect canvas.
This is a true story.
And I think,
and I think that's a wonderful place to say,
Dianu, for that, because that has,
we have to put a stop to that.
That is our show.
Incredible.
Rachel Bloom.
The game and misogyny.
Incredible.
Robbie Hoffman.
If I have to ask you who it is, it's okay.
Wendy Schwartz.
Fran Love it.
Give it up to Bennett.
Give it up to Bennett.
Bennett.
There are a lot of days until the next election,
but not as many as there were last week.
We will see you next week at Dynasty.
Have a great night.
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