Lovett or Leave It - The Bus Stops Here (Debate Special!)

Episode Date: June 29, 2019

Liz! Kamala! Bernie! And Jeff! Is that Jeff? Josh? Was there a Josh? Sounds wrong. Anyway, twenty candidates debated for the first time and we learned a lot. Plus, Monica Ramirez joins to break down w...hat's happening at the border and how to help. Travon Free has a problem with Twitter's amateur television critics. And Tawny Newsome is not a fan of Kim Kardashian's new product launch. Oh and the democratic candidates were asked to name their favorite comfort foods and the answers were genuinely horrifying and we need to TALK ABOUT IT.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Good evening, Los Angeles. Yes. Everybody's pumped. It's fight night. All right. Back at the improv after a week break. Thank you guys for being here. July 2nd, we'll be here.
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Starting point is 00:01:10 You cannot get these pants. So Amy Klobuchar asked me where I got these pants, and I made a joke about I got them from Mike Pence's nightmare, which is like such a shitty joke. But not as bad as a Swalwell wine, but not good. But of course, I don't want other people to have these pants. It's cool that I have these pants. I saw one of the Queer Eye guys had pants that were similar, and I was like, fuck.
Starting point is 00:01:36 But then I actually looked, and they're fully sold out, so I don't care. All right. They're from Top Man. I don't care. All right. They're from Top Man. Also, we have released a Crooked mini-series called Pride on Screen.
Starting point is 00:01:56 It's out now. It's a Crooked mini. That's what we're calling these little docuseries that we're doing. Travelle Anderson, who you've heard on this show, he's a director of culture and entertainment at Out Magazine. The series looks back at moments in TV and film that changed the course of LGBTQ history and representation in media. I was featured in one of the episodes.
Starting point is 00:02:12 I talked about watching Ellen in high school. I'm not going to tell you the whole story because I told it on that podcast. Subscribe to Crooked Minis. Thank you. All right. Two debates, 20 candidates, many of whom deserve to be there. So I want to talk about the debates with our panel. I want to quiz some of you, especially the parts you did not see, because that'll be fun. But let's just run through. I'm going to try to go quickly through as many of the candidates
Starting point is 00:02:45 as I can, okay? Which is all of them, because I can do whatever I want. I'm 100% in charge of the timing of the show. All right, night one, Klobuchar. I think she did well. I thought she did well. And you know, she has a simple case, right? She makes it wherever she goes. She made it on the debate stage. She's practical. She can win the Midwest. She did that, and I thought she had a great presence on stage. I didn't even need 20 seconds. Booker. So, here's
Starting point is 00:03:14 the thing about Cory Booker. I really like Cory Booker, and I actually think, you know, Marianne Williamson talks about love, but Cory Booker has an argument about love that's a bit, let's say, more grounded. And I just wish that that came out in some of his more specific answers because it rarely does
Starting point is 00:03:28 and I feel like it's a missed opportunity. I'm going to do Tim Ryan pretty quick. Okay. I am very frustrated at people who fought so hard to be on that stage and then don't make the most of the opportunity and seem a little bit lost being up there because this is a fucking big decision we have to make together.
Starting point is 00:03:50 And I, end of thought. Beto. I think he had some good moments. I think he had some rough moments. He didn't look happy up there. And for whatever reason, I think people have decided that there's no cost to going after Beto. So he kind of mixed it up with Julian Castro.
Starting point is 00:04:05 de Blasio went after him. de Blasio. From left, Beto's standing up there like, I'm fighting with fucking Bill de Blasio? What is my life? That is the... Could we... There's not a more subtle noise to mark the end of 20 seconds when I'm actually successfully doing it?
Starting point is 00:04:23 Julian Castro. You know, a lot of people were saying how good a job he did. I did think he stood out in the sense that he made his presence on the debate stage known. I don't know a lot of people totally understood the nuances of the debate they were having about immigration. Yes, thank you. Inslee.
Starting point is 00:04:44 Look, he can be on the debate stage. He can put on a baseball cap and play catch with me. I like him. John Delaney. I don't know, man. What are you doing? At least John Delaney, though, is making some kind of an argument, I guess, for being a moderate and existing. But, like, is making some kind of an argument, I guess, for being a moderate and existing, but I don't know. I want the numbers to winnow.
Starting point is 00:05:11 And I might start there. Bill de Blasio. Six foot something. So it's interesting. He came to make a name for himself and at least he has an argument for why he's running and why he's up there,
Starting point is 00:05:26 and he made the most of his time on that stage. And that's the nicest thing I've ever said about Bill de Blasio. Tulsi and Tim Ryan mixing it up? Fascinating. What a helpful thing for choosing the Democratic nominee to have Tulsi Gabbard and Tim Ryan arguing on stage. a Democratic nominee to have Tulsi Gabbard and Tim Ryan arguing on stage. That was a good moment for her because I think she made Tim Ryan look very bad. And finally, Elizabeth Warren.
Starting point is 00:05:57 Yeah, I know where you guys are. I know where you all are. When she spoke, people paid attention. I know where you all are. When she spoke, people paid attention. And she has an argument for why she's up there and she made it successfully. She kind of disappeared in the final third of the debate, but I don't necessarily blame her for that, but I thought she had a good night. Okay, night two.
Starting point is 00:06:20 Buttigieg. I thought he did well. I thought he did well. I thought he did well. I thought he had some really good moments. I think he, you know, handled a very hard question forthrightly. His China answer was good. He had a number of really strong answers.
Starting point is 00:06:33 And I was impressed. Andrew Yang. The Yang Gang. Thousand dollars. Got that across. Marianne Williamson. What will you do as president? I'll call New Zealand and say you're fucked I'm the only one on this stage that understands that Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:06:56 is using fear no you're not what are you doing here Eric Swalwell. Here's what I would like to do. I would like to find the writer who is vacuuming up discarded pieces of paper from the DNC in
Starting point is 00:07:13 1996 and then using an iron to make them seem kind of like flat and not crumpled and then giving them to Eric Swalwell. I would like that person to be fucking punished. Shame on Eric Swalwell for those sentences that I heard tonight. Sing-songy nonsense. Kamala Harris.
Starting point is 00:07:39 There were several moments during the debate tonight where I was genuinely stunned by the strength that Kamala Harris brought to this debate, sincerely. I thought it was an incredible performance. Bernie Sanders, well, he knows what he came here to say. And he's going to fucking say it. And he's going to say it to your face. But I think his closing was really strong
Starting point is 00:08:06 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand I am a fan of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand I thought she had some good moments but for the most part she gave a lot of strong answers but they always felt like they were kind of like orthogonal to the room somehow like she's giving her answers but I don't know why she's giving them I don't know how they fit into a larger reason for why she's standing on that stage. Michael Bennett. We were talking about this in our group thread, which we've now put on YouTube because we're content machines. And as Dan pointed out, he's the only person that hates Mitch McConnell more than Dan, which is very cool. Governor Hickenlooper. You know, I like Hickenlooper.
Starting point is 00:08:48 I like him. But, you know, if you're going to come up there and say your argument is going to be against socialism, make the argument. But it always feels like a mix of, like, I'm the optimistic guy who knows how to get things done, plus we cannot talk about socialism. It's a little bit weird. It's weird.
Starting point is 00:09:00 I don't get it. But I still like him. I don't care. He's very positive. Has a brewery. And Joe Biden, I don't know. You know, there was a very rough moment between him and Senator Harris during the debate. And I think that that is something that will come back to him.
Starting point is 00:09:17 I don't know that he has a great answer to that quote, that gaffe, where he said that don't worry, rich people, things will not fundamentally change. That said, I think for the most part, I don I think for the most part I don't think he did terribly I don't think he did incredibly well I think it was sort of status quo ante for him and those are the candidates now how are we doing okay can you believe that there's only 400 more of these debates? We have a great show for you tonight. We have an awesome panel. She's a longtime activist who created the first legal project in the United States dedicated to addressing gender discrimination against farm worker women,
Starting point is 00:09:59 and she was monumental in sparking the Time's Up movement. Please welcome Monica Ramirez. Hi, Monica. How you doing? Alright, thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you. That was
Starting point is 00:10:17 like a totally fine thing that wasn't like awe-worthy. You know, like, it was fine. Thank you for appreciating me. I don't know why they just patronized you in that way. I'm gonna go with it. Keeping you guys on your toes.
Starting point is 00:10:34 I made this weird. We can keep going. She's the host of Yo! Is This Racist? and one of our favorite guests. Please welcome back Tawny Newsome. Hi. Oh my goodness, favorite guest. You honor me, sir. You honor me with this favorite status.
Starting point is 00:10:56 It's a lot to live up to. One of. Okay, I'm not going to try now. He's a comedian and an Emmy and Peabody winning writer for The Daily Show, full frontal with Samantha Bee, Black Monday, and many more. Please welcome back Trayvon Free. Hey, Trayvon. What up, man?
Starting point is 00:11:16 How are you? Hello, everybody. Hi, John. How are you? I'm good. All right. Let's get into it. What a week. All right. Let's get into it.
Starting point is 00:11:24 What a week. It's happened. The 2020 Democratic primary is finally over. Night one. Elizabeth Warren. There's no even need to finish the sentence. Julian Castro and Bill de Blasio made a name for themselves by coming out swinging at Beto.
Starting point is 00:11:48 We saw John Delaney audition to be Howard Schultz's Secretary of the Interior. Then, night two, Kamala Harris gave impassioned answers on child separation, and she went after Biden on his comments about busing. We saw Mayor Pete take responsibility
Starting point is 00:12:03 for a police shooting in South Bend, and we saw Marianne Williamson chug a green juice and scream chemtrails are real. I want to issue a small disclaimer right now. There are people that tweet at me that get mad when we make these kinds of jokes. And I want you to know that I hear you. And deep down, I know that there's some truth to what you're saying. So I will only say that I do think there is some value to the point she makes about answering Trump's fear with love. I do not believe she is the messenger for that argument. And I do not believe she provided very many sophisticated answers on things like prescription drug costs, but I do think that there is value to
Starting point is 00:12:45 that being a part of the debate of someone saying, let's step back for a minute and look at the deeper emotional cues that Trump has been invoking for the past several years and make sure we don't lose sight of that. So I don't think she should be the messenger for our party, but I do think that that's a message that should infuse what we ultimately do as a party. So I will say that only to make the jokes more, you know, justified. What a weird set of critics to answer. My mentions are a cesspool, but that's the one I grabbed onto. I don't know why. Tawny. Oh, no. Any surprises from the first night of the debate? Yeah, like who are half of these people? More tonight, though.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Like, I think I had seen every person's name last night. Tonight, when Bennett came out, I audibly said, who is that man? And a woman next to me goes, I know, right? He's not doing anything. And I was like, no, miss, I mean, literally, who is that man? And you know, people like Williamson, yeah, she's a wild card.
Starting point is 00:13:46 She's a whirling dervish talking about chemtrails and love and whatnot. But you know, frankly, I'm here for this Marianne Faithful song. I'm into it. I'll listen to it. I'll put it on repeat because this whole thing is a circus. So sometimes when there's at least a fun clown who's got like a warm message,
Starting point is 00:14:03 who's not Joe Biden, who looks like an angry baked chicken yelling at me about how he has so many black friends i'm like i get it man civil rights i hear you i'm like everyone's insane so i'll take it i'll take williamson i'll go to brunch with her akilah hughes friend of the show tweeted, Marianne Williamson is what happens when an Instagram influencer gets old. It's a good joke. See why I did the caveat earlier? One more point on that, too. There was a moment between Michael Bennett, who is a great senator,
Starting point is 00:14:38 and Joe Biden on fighting Mitch McConnell, when to compromise with Mitch McConnell. And it's interesting that when you get through all the kind of questions about what you do as president, especially questions that are like, what would you do as president, ignoring the fact that getting things through a Congress is going to be incredibly hard no matter what happens, that little argument as to whether or not Joe Biden was correct in describing his victory and negotiating with Mitch McConnell was actually incredibly important because that is actually like the nuts and bolts of what will ultimately happen but of course Michael Bennett
Starting point is 00:15:09 is doing it as a very good senator but not a presidential candidate people have particularly drawn to I don't have a really larger point there just something I noted I didn't have a point other than like I don't I don't know who this man is no i know no i it's just an interesting thing the difference between what makes someone an excellent and effective senator and what what we expect and want from a presidential candidate as someone we expect to do more than just be a legislator we're not picking a prime minister it is different just a thought and half of these people i mean more than half i'm not even looking at as like what would make a good president because some of them just have to be scraps on like the when you're making a dress.
Starting point is 00:15:46 Right. You cut out the pattern. So many of them are just the extra fabric that you then make your Halloween costume out of later. Right. Yes. And some of them are the Chanel pink dress that Marge sewed 50 million fucking times. Yes. Into different shapes just to kind of stay fresh. Exactly. I like these references. kind of stay fresh. Exactly. I like these references. But so some of them I'm just looking at to like offset the energy and to set the stage for stronger candidates to actually like make good points. Because if we didn't have Gillibrand saying things the way she was saying them and kind of, you know, generating this general ire on Twitter about people being like, I don't like the way she's saying whatever. I don't know, Maybe that wouldn't lay the proper groundwork for someone like Kamala to say kind of similar things just in a better package, right?
Starting point is 00:16:29 So it's kind of all, I don't know. It's a big organism of crazies. You compare people. That's what it's for, ultimately. And maybe it's not through the mechanism of them arguing, but you do see how they perform on a stage like that. And one of them will have to stand on a stage like that with Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:16:43 Monica. Hi. What did you think of the debates? What was the biggest moment that stood out to you? Well, there were several. First of all, that was the most Spanish that I've heard from candidates. There's that. But also I thought that it was really important that the last two days
Starting point is 00:17:02 they spent a significant amount of time talking about the border crisis and what's actually going to happen on immigration because that's certainly taking up a lot of our attention and it needs to be addressed it was a lot of people to hear from some of them I wish had talked a little bit more about what they're doing right now today to address the border crisis because you know waiting until people get elected to be president is too long so I wish there had been a little bit more conversation about real people's lives and how they're fixing people's lives today.
Starting point is 00:17:28 But, you know, lots of Spanish. Let's talk about that for a second. I'm of two minds on this. And on the one hand, I think to myself, what does learning Spanish phrases do to prove that you actually fulfill the promise, that you actually mean what you say? It's a way of demonstrating your sincerity on an issue. But on the other hand, I don't know. I can't speak to what it is like to experience candidates trying to do that and trying to reach an audience with Spanish.
Starting point is 00:17:58 So what do you think? Well, I actually did appreciate that people were trying to reach the Spanish-speaking community because that's not something that we've heard in other debates. But it is a question of what will they actually do for the community. And we have to acknowledge the fact that there are many immigrants that are trying to come into our country who are not Spanish speakers. So there should have been some more discussion about that. So yes, speak to the Latinx vote in this country, some of whom are Spanish speakers, some of who are not. But let's talk about when it comes down to it, what are you going to do for all immigrants
Starting point is 00:18:28 and how are we going to make things better for everyone? Yeah, I think that's right. And to me, the strongest, most impassioned answer on immigration in two nights came from Kamala Harris, who didn't use a word of Spanish to deliver that argument. When she talks, half of America hears Spanish anyway, so. They just see her face and they're like, she's probably something, right? What? America's racist? That's the joke.
Starting point is 00:19:00 She's probably something. Trayvon, who fucked up the most? Who really shit the bed? I think Inslee kind of shit the bed a little bit when he pretended to be the biggest feminist on the stage next to three women. I mean, the fucking nerve. That resonated with a section of the feminist audience.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Yeah, right here. These are my ladies. I brought them with me. These are my crew right here. I thought that was pretty tone deaf. Beto went Spanish really early. I would have kept that in my pocket a little longer. I mean, the best part of that was like Cory Booker looked at him like
Starting point is 00:19:40 he forgot he left his kid in the car with the windows rolled up. That was like the look he had on his face. I was like, oh shit, there's something I was supposed to do. But Cory Booker, what we later learned is Cory Booker was staring at me like, you motherfucker, I'm going to speak Spanish too.
Starting point is 00:19:55 And you did it at the top, but I'm going to save it for an immigration answer. That was my plan. You're fucking with Cory Booker's plan. Cory's like, I wasted a hundred bucks on Rosetta Stone. For what? For what? Just fucking undercut me.
Starting point is 00:20:09 I can't return the app. I can't return it. But, uh... And I thought de Blasio playing the black son card was pretty strange. I mean, come on. This is probably the first time a white man running for president could brag about having a black son that he didn't own.
Starting point is 00:20:27 Everybody go. Too soon. 200 years. Too soon. All right. What are you oohing exactly? Ooh, our history. Our nation's past.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Don't confront us with it sometimes. We're not expecting it. Warn us. Warn us. We're white in Hollywood. Be nice. But then I would also go with all the people who I just don't even know who they are. That's pretty shit in the bed.
Starting point is 00:20:54 I mean, when you said Michael Bennett, I thought you were talking about the football player. That's how little I know about Michael Bennett. I liked the camera angles. We got a lot of side eye from these camera angles. We got when Swalwell jumped in to Buttigieg tonight and was like, why don't you fire the police chief then? And like essentially shoved him in the chest a little bit. And Buttigieg just shot back this,
Starting point is 00:21:16 motherfucker, you gonna? I was like, oh yes, I am here. So first of all, Swalwell interrupts Mayor Pete to say we need generational change, which was clearly the line Swalwell had prepped to use after Biden. But he's like, I am here. So first of all, Swalwell interrupts Mayor Pete to say we need generational change, which was clearly the line Swalwell had prepped to use after Biden. But he's like, I got to jump in. I'm Eric Swalwell.
Starting point is 00:21:30 If I don't start talking now, I won't exist. I literally stop existing if I don't talk soon. I vanish. So then later to come back and tell him how to be the mayor of South Bend, Indiana
Starting point is 00:21:44 in that moment, you're just a guy with soundbites be the mayor of South Bend, Indiana in that moment. You're just a guy with sound bites on the end of the stage getting ready for a book deal. I mean, it would be cool if Rachel had a button she could push and they just fall beneath their podium. Like when it's just like, enough. Yeah, like in nothing but trouble. Enough. We need Dan Aykroyd in nothing but trouble to press a button and eat a weird hot dog. That actually would have been more fun.
Starting point is 00:22:03 Too specific? You broke him. Unpopular opinion. The film Nothing But Trouble, starring Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, and John Candy,
Starting point is 00:22:16 many of whom in several very weird roles, is actually good. Wow. Did I lose this debate? Talk about your black son. Talk about your black son. I am the only person on this stage
Starting point is 00:22:39 who is both gay and raising a golden doodle. And I want to know, when I look into that beautiful golden doodle's eyes, that I left her a world with places for her to run, with kibble for her to eat. Three best facial expressions of the two nights
Starting point is 00:23:02 were Cory Booker staring at Beto when he spoke Spanish, Cory Booker looking at Bill de Blasio when he said black son. Like, I am black. I am physically, actually a black man in America. And when Mayor Pete looked at Eric Swalwell like he wanted to rip his fucking head from his body.
Starting point is 00:23:28 And Swalwell just responded with a fortune cookie being like, if you want what's right, Swalwell's the fight, or whatever. We're like, did someone just power you on? What's happened? Mayor Pete's look at Eric Swalwell in that moment was really a moment where I can I can see that guy at a big desk
Starting point is 00:23:49 with a big job you know cause that look was it was a big look from a small town mayor I watched it in a gay bar in West Hollywood and when I walked in I was overwhelmed at everyone's energy and like passion cause I had just been at work all day.
Starting point is 00:24:07 I ate a salad during a vocal recording booth on mic. I shoved a salad in my mouth today. So I was not fully prepared to walk into full-on Kamala for the people, Buttigieg crowd, Bros for America, this whole vibe. I walked in there and I immediately got swept up. Within 10 seconds of drinking my one vodka soda, I found myself shouting at the screen, get him, sis. Wasn't even for Kamala.
Starting point is 00:24:36 I was just like, yeah, girl. I was like, what am I doing? What have I become? You know what's funny about that? Get him, sis feels appropriate in order. Kamala, Mayor Pete, Gillibrand. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Yep. You know? Yeah. I probably said it at everyone. Didn't Bernie seem really angry the whole time? That's his brand. I think it works. But like, angrier than normal. Like, he found out there was was four guys with all the money instead of three.
Starting point is 00:25:08 There's a fourth guy? Look, I think it is frustrating to be Bernie. Bernie gave an interview to NPR that I thought was very revealing about where his head is at. Where he was basically asked, four years ago you were seen as this insurgent outsider. Four years later, so many candidates have adopted the positions that were seen as outside the mainstream so recently. Don't you think that's maybe made it less of a reason for you to be in the race? And he goes, less of a reason for me to be in the race, less of a reason for them to be in the race. And, you know, fair point. Honestly, I see that. I see why that makes sense. So I get the anger. And you know, fair point. Honestly.
Starting point is 00:25:47 I see that. I see why that makes sense. So I get the anger. I kind of get it, but it also smacks of this like, I was doing this back before it was cool. You know, walked four miles in the snow type of a vibe. That's off-putting to people. So I get both sides. Why people are annoyed with him and want him to not be there.
Starting point is 00:26:03 But I mean, maybe he does have a lot of experience in it and now he knows how black people feel about kim kardashian sometimes people take what's yours it's appropriation man it's gonna call it what it is that is fascinating when we come back okay stop hey don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up. And we're back. Now it's time for OK Stop. We'll roll a clip and the panel can say OK Stop at any point to comment.
Starting point is 00:26:41 Vice President Mike Pence. Yeah, yeah, stop at any point to comment, Vice President Mike Pence, yeah, yeah, yeah, a man who shares a resting facial expression with Lieutenant Coffey in the film The Abyss when he's trying to pretend he's fine even though the high pressure has fucked up his brain and he's secretly cutting his arm under the table while planning to nuke the beautiful sea creatures,
Starting point is 00:26:58 sat down with Jake Tapper to discuss climate change and the current situation at the border. All right, so this video covers a very tough subject, but we thought it was important to discuss climate change and the current situation at the border. All right, so this video covers a very tough subject, but we thought it was important to discuss. Let's roll the clip. We have money to give toothpaste and soap and blankets to these kids in this facility in El Paso County.
Starting point is 00:27:15 Right now we do. Of course we do. So why aren't we? My point is, it's all a part of the appropriations process. Congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at our southern border, but we've got to get to the root causes. is it's all a part of the appropriations process. Congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at our southern border, but we've got to get to the root causes. We've got to close the loophole. I just want to say I really fucking hate this dude. All right.
Starting point is 00:27:36 Continue. It's also just, you know, Congress right now is passing funding for the border, but of course Mike Pence is avoiding the question, which is, couldn't you have fixed this problem already? Which the answer is yes. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. And also, you know, I think people don't realize, we're not talking about the fact that they're leaving the lights on all night long at these facilities, which is really impacting these children. They can turn the lights off and buy toothpaste.
Starting point is 00:28:08 They don't need to be wasting money on things. And they shouldn't have them there in the first place. But if they're going to have them there, they should do things that make sense to keep these children safe and well. Yeah, no excuse. If anybody knows how bad it is to be separated from mother, it should be Mike Pence. Smart crowd.
Starting point is 00:28:28 ...using to entice vulnerable families to take the long and dangerous journey north. Yeah, and I'm not taking issue with any of that. I'm talking about the kids in our custody right now. Just listen to this. This is the New Yorker citing a team of lawyers who just visited a... Jake, Jake, here's the hard fact. As I say, I'll answer your question. I just want to read this quote. The conditions the lawyers found were shocking. Flu and lice outbreaks were going untreated. Children were filthy, sleeping on cold floors, taking care of each other because of the lack of attention from guards. I know you.
Starting point is 00:28:53 You're a father. You're a man of faith. You can't approve of that. Okay, stop. I mean, this is tried and—I mean, we've heard this enough. I'm not original in saying this, but I'm so sick of anyone saying, you're a father or you're a parent or you're a person who has a neighbor. You don't have to be anything
Starting point is 00:29:09 to understand human suffering and to want to alleviate it. You don't have to be a parent. So I just don't even like them feeding into that rhetoric. But you gave birth to a child, so you believe that children deserve soap? Yeah, I agree with that. I hate the general framing when someone says,
Starting point is 00:29:27 as a father of daughters, I believe women are human beings. Where were you before? On the fence. It's a classic. When Rob Portman discovered that gay people deserve equal rights because he had a gay son, I always wonder,
Starting point is 00:29:43 okay, so, having a personal experience with an issue showed you that you needed to be more compassionate on an important subject, and that you were wrong on an area of dogma. Have you considered applying that reasoning to other issues? Perhaps
Starting point is 00:29:59 imagining what it might be like to know a trans person or an immigrant who's struggling to get to a place where they're safe. And so that is very frustrating. I will say, though, Jake Tapper is such a tough and good interviewer in moments like this, and it's when he is at his absolute best. And I know we make fun of CNN a lot, but this is when CNN, I think, is incredibly valuable, as it has been during these town halls. And that's it.
Starting point is 00:30:29 I just want to throw a compliment their way. Enjoy it. I agree. I just want to say, as a mother only to an elderly cat and a floundering career, I shouldn't care about any of you bitches, but I do. I shouldn't care about any of you bitches, but I do. No American should approve of this mass influx of people coming.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Okay, stop. Motherfucker. It is incredible that he feels he needs to dodge a question that says, don't you feel something for these kids? Don't you feel that it's wrong? And he is so afraid to actually say that because of the position he is in because of the choices he's made in his life to associate himself with these people
Starting point is 00:31:12 and reminder that they believe cruelty is a weapon. They believe cruelty is a weapon in the immigration fight. It hasn't worked. It hasn't stemmed the tide of asylum seekers one bit, but they still believe it. It's an article of faith that at some point they will make things so miserable for parents and children trying to escape desperation that it will show itself in the numbers. But of course it hasn't.
Starting point is 00:31:32 So it's been cruelty for its own sake. Yeah, that's right. I mean, the numbers, actually, if you look at the numbers across the board, immigration into the United States has actually been down. And this problem is not a problem that's going to end anytime soon, because the mothers who I've spoken to in Mexico who are on their way to the United States and the women who I've represented throughout my career are fleeing with their children in their arms. Some of them walked over 2,000 miles with their small children because they're trying to save their lives.
Starting point is 00:31:59 And I think anyone in this country or otherwise would do the same thing if they were in that position so they need to stop using these arguments to try to make it seem like, you know, if we just take away the soap and the toothpaste, then maybe they'll stop coming. There has been a rise in asylum seekers along the border, even as overall undocumented attempts to cross the borders down. Is that what's happening? That's what's happening because we're seeing more, particularly women and children who are leaving their countries in Central America because there have been so many threats against their lives attempts to have daughters become boyfriends to gang members you know I've talked to people who have told me about how they've seen people shot
Starting point is 00:32:35 dead in front of them and threatened to give you know payments to people or else they're going to be shot dead as well so people are fleeing because of gender-based violence against them they're fleeing because they're trying to save their children from being pushed into gangs. And also, we're not talking enough about the fact that people are fleeing because of climate change. I mean, there's a lot of reasons that people are leaving. And we're not having a full enough conversation. And so for Pence to talk about human trafficking, let's talk about the human trafficking that's being caused because they're sending people back over the border. And out of desperation, they're trying to find places to stay.
Starting point is 00:33:06 And in the process, they're being trafficked. There's so many different complexities to this conversation. And the fact that he is trying to water it down and make it sound like by scaring people away, they're just going to stay away, it really takes for granted the intelligence of people in this country and the fact that no matter what, people are going to do what they need to do to stay alive, and I don't blame them. Let's leave it there. That's okay. Stop.
Starting point is 00:33:35 We come back. We're going to play a game about polls. Don't go anywhere. This is Love It or Leave It, and there's more on the way. And we're back. Polls. Everyone's obsessed with tracking them, but deep down, no one really trusts that they work.
Starting point is 00:33:58 They're like a Fitbit for politics. I'm going to make an aside here. Yeah yeah your problem is a lack of data the collective delusion that we're one fact away from cracking this thing is bullshit we all know the problem isn't not getting our steps
Starting point is 00:34:18 the problem is willpower doesn't apply at night around snack time so I had some people over at my house it happened to be John's birthday power doesn't apply at night around snack time. So I had some people over at my house. It happened to be John's birthday. So Emily brought a sheet cake that she made.
Starting point is 00:34:31 And in New York, people eat the whole birthday cake. In LA, they do not. It's just a fact of cakes. You need twice as much cake per person in New York as you do in LA. I say that as a proud bi-coastal American. And a group that receives no attention.
Starting point is 00:34:53 But anyway, three quarters of a sheet cake were left at my home after everyone had left. And a really dark moment, I'm just going to use this time, a really dark moment came when I just admitted to myself that I no longer needed to pretend and just cut little bits with...
Starting point is 00:35:09 You know, you cut little bits with the knife and I just put that knife in the sink and I got myself a fucking fork. Point is, earlier this week, bill de blasio yelled his way into the primary conversation cricket media alongside with the folks at change research released our first poll we polled almost 1 000 democratic primary voters from iowa new hampshire and south carolina and what we found was pretty interesting our overall numbers are consistent with other polls biden is on top with 29 this is the first pre-debate poll.
Starting point is 00:35:46 Sanders and Warren are neck and neck at 20% and 19%. Buttigieg at 14%. Everyone else at 5% or below. But among those who are paying the closest attention, Warren is in the lead. Threw that in for you. We also polled on impeachment and found that overall,
Starting point is 00:36:01 83% of Democrats support impeachment, 52% strongly. This was interesting. 57% of those who support impeachment would be willing to vote for a candidate who voted not to impeach Trump, while 91% of those who oppose impeachment would vote for someone who voted to impeach Trump. So being for impeachment among Democrats
Starting point is 00:36:18 is a less risky choice than being against it, according to these numbers, these fresh, hot numbers. In order to dive deep into these polls, I want to play a game with our panel called Polar Coaster Tycoon. Each question will be framed slightly differently, and the three of you will have to duke it out for the correct answers.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Feel free to let us in on your thought process, okay? Trayvon, you ready? I'm ready. Tanya, you ready? I'm here. Monica? Okay. Question one.
Starting point is 00:36:51 We polled on how active Democratic voters are on Twitter. Without going over, what percentage of Democratic voters that we polled used Twitter at least once per day? 130%. Trayvon, what do you think? 32%. Monica? 32%. Monica? 77%.
Starting point is 00:37:09 15%. 70% of respondents say they never use Twitter. Twitter is not real life. Thank God. If it was like every five minutes the worst people in the world would come through and say, somebody wanted you to see this. Somebody wanted you to see this.
Starting point is 00:37:35 Question two. We asked over 600 people what word they would use to describe Beto O'Rourke. Family feud style. What were the top three responses? Somebody's dad. Cool. No. Top three responses were young,
Starting point is 00:37:56 unknown, and okay. Okay. Is heartbreaking. Well, there goes my memoir title. Well, yeah. Follow-up question. What is the most common word used to describe Bernie Sanders? Huh.
Starting point is 00:38:20 I don't know how you write that. For bonus points, you have to spell that. I know. What do you think? Old. You got it, you got it. 88 people said old, and the next most common was socialist with 24 votes.
Starting point is 00:38:33 I'm sorry, if the top two adjectives for me one day are just old socialist, I'm good with that. Kind of like, yeah, so shut up. Question three. We asked people who said they were not satisfied with the current candidates running why that was the case. Which of the following is a real answer? A. No one
Starting point is 00:38:52 is looking at the total picture. B. We need a strong middle-of-the-road candidate, a known name like Joe Kennedy. C. Most politicians are lying sacks of shit who don't give a fuck about the American people and will say anything to make us happy while backstabbing us to make a quick buck. Or D. Because. C seems kind of promising. Which ones are real?
Starting point is 00:39:15 B sounds real? B sounded real? B did sound real. Trayvon and I agree. What do you think? I think people think C. You're all right. They're all real. Question four.
Starting point is 00:39:30 Of everyone polled, a single person chose Bill de Blasio as their top choice. He's a man from South Carolina. When asked why he supports Bill de Blasio, what was his answer? Keep in mind, though, these are people who plan on voting in the Democratic Party.
Starting point is 00:39:50 What was the reason a single voter in South Carolina chose Bill de Blasio? He thought it said Bill Murray. Monica, what do you think? I'm going to go with D, because. Tani, what do you think? I'm going to go with D, because. Tani, what do you think? Yeah, they thought it was a character from The Music Man. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:40:12 Answer. The answer was they thought he was most likely to lose to Trump. Well, there you go. That's what gets you? And that's Polar Coaster Tycoon. When we come back, we're going to quiz the audience on the second debate.
Starting point is 00:40:32 Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up. I think I'm confused before we come back. Those were people who listened to your shows. No, those are just Americans in South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Iowa who are Democratic primary voters. A random poll, but that person wanted Trump to win. It seems.
Starting point is 00:40:54 All right. Listen, it was the one person, and his reason is bad. And we're back! Less than an hour ago, the second night of the first Democratic debate ended just as the audience here was filing in to the improv. That means none of you weird, politically obsessed
Starting point is 00:41:14 la veterans have any idea of what happened during the debate. Okay, I know you have phones. But for those of you who couldn't watch, I bet it's eating you alive. I bet you're all jonesing for the political goods the way Donald Trump Jr. joneses
Starting point is 00:41:34 for more camo gear and the love of a father figure. If an older man in a Yankees hat with a baseball mitt asks Donald Trump Jr. to play catch, he comes. he comes. John. I had to hide my body as I said it. Well, I want to fill you in
Starting point is 00:41:55 on all the fun from tonight in a game we're calling Is John Hickenlooper Allowed to Use That Word? Here's how it works. Lightning round I'm going to read a list of things That may or may not have happened
Starting point is 00:42:07 If they really happened in the debate You say real If they didn't you say fake Would someone out there like to play the game? Hi what's your name? I'm Chip Chip? Yes like potato or chocolate
Starting point is 00:42:17 This is going to be exhausting Alright Alright Chip Is that what it says on the birth certificate? This is going to be exhausting. All right. All right, Chip. Is that what it says on the birth certificate? It says something else like James. It says Charles. Yeah, there it is. Charles, are you a second or a third?
Starting point is 00:42:35 No. Okay, good. All right. He's a California highway patrolman. All right, Chip. Some of these are real. Some of these are fake. Michael Bennett gave a passionate ode to the Statue of Liberty.
Starting point is 00:42:47 True. Yes. Biden, upon noticing that the white candidates were grouped on one side of the stage, made a segregation joke. False. False. Buttigieg followed Kamala's big applause with an impassioned plea for soil management. True. True.
Starting point is 00:43:00 In an effort to capitalize on Bill de Blasio's good performance from night one, Kamala Harris announced that she was also a huge fan of Ska. False. Correct. Williamson was asked what her top priority of elected would be, and she promised to make the U.S. a better place to raise a kid than New Zealand. True. Yes. Biden was asked what his top priority would be if elected,
Starting point is 00:43:20 and his answer was beating Trump. True. Yes. Biden disappeared from behind his podium when no one expected it, popped up behind Kamala Harris. False. True.
Starting point is 00:43:31 False, yeah. Sanders gave Buttigieg a handful of old Werther's Originals. False. False. Biden was twice accused of not raising his hand by the moderator when he did in fact raise his hand true true
Starting point is 00:43:47 Marianne Williamson refused to say whether or not she believed in ghosts true no false Kamala said I don't call it
Starting point is 00:43:54 climate change I call it a climate crisis and then immediately called it climate change true true Andrew Yang spoke passionately
Starting point is 00:44:02 about the threat of job loss from animation and said that if this debate were in 2024, they'd all be robots. False. False. Michael Bennett was really surprised when he was called on.
Starting point is 00:44:15 True. True. Williamson said we have deep, deep, deep realms of racism. Three deeps? Three deeps. True. True. Pete Buttigieg spoke Arabic,
Starting point is 00:44:28 then said that the most important world language is actually compassion. False. False. Swalwell tried to answer the wrong question, and the moderator shouted, no. True.
Starting point is 00:44:39 True. Gillibrand did a fake laugh to give herself time to consider a tough question from Lester Holt on her previous position on guns, but then for some reason it slowly became a cry and then screaming. False. Pete Buttigieg didn't mention being gay once,
Starting point is 00:44:55 but for some reason Eric Swalwell explicitly clarified that he wasn't. True. No. No. Marianne Williamson said The one thing keeping us from beating Donald Trump Is all of these plans True
Starting point is 00:45:13 Harris told a story that ended with And that little girl was me True Bernie Sanders said The greatest threat we face is the greed of the billionaire class We need a leader who's willing to crush it like I crushed that bird that landed on my podium. False.
Starting point is 00:45:29 When answering a complicated question about race, Biden stopped himself mid-sentence and said, my time's up, I'm sorry. True. Bernie Sanders sneezed so loud that it was silent for five seconds after. False. Correct.
Starting point is 00:45:43 Gillibrand said, quote, the debate we are having in our party right now is confusing. True. True. Correct. Gillibrand said, the debate we are having in our party right now is confusing. True. True. Chip, you've won the game.
Starting point is 00:45:54 And a parachute gift card. Everybody give it up for Chip. When we come back, the rant wheel. Don't go anywhere. This is Love It or Leave It, and there's more on the way. And we're back. Now it's time for the rant wheel.
Starting point is 00:46:17 You know how it works. We spin a wheel. We rant on the topic it lands upon. This week on the wheel, we have the therapist in Big Little Lies, TV film criticism online, lands upon. This week on The Wheel, we have The Therapist in Big Little Lies, TV Film Criticism Online, Candidate Comfort Foods, Border Crisis, Kim K's Shapewear,
Starting point is 00:46:33 I Learn Spanish, Duncan Hunter, and Instagram Influencer Engagement. Let's spin the wheel it has landed on the therapist on big little lies why even have it so I'm going to let you guys behind the curtain
Starting point is 00:47:02 it has actually landed on I Learn Spanish, but I feel as though we covered that a bit earlier. Now, I've decided I wanted to have landed on Therapist on Big Little Lies. I want to talk about the therapist on Big Little Lies, and I'm going to try to bring it back to candidates speaking Spanish on stage, but I may or may not. All right.
Starting point is 00:47:22 I don't think she's a good therapist. She's very aggressive. she's very aggressive she's very aggressive and she's forcing people into deeply uncomfortable and personal moments in front of each other there was I do not think she is helping Reese Witherspoon's marriage at all Nicole Kidman had a full fucking breakdown in there and like listen I don't know how therapy works all right if I did I wouldn't have this show. This is my therapy. But she's way too calm when Nicole Kidman starts screaming at something in her imagination. Another point on Big Little Lies. Some people thought I was being critical of Big Little Lies in a previous rant on this show during a segment called Gay News, which I forgot to introduce because technically this is gay news.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Gay news. Big Little Lies Season 2 is the shock of the summer. It is so fucking good. Meryl Streep, good. A lot happening in the first three episodes, good. Meryl Streep. Good. Lot happening in the first three episodes. Good. Episode two, a lot of drama, a lot of changes.
Starting point is 00:48:33 I'm here for it. Episode three, is this funny now? I'm here for that too. They only go to Meryl Streep for full-blown Shakespearean fucking racing-striped-down-the-script-page monologues. It is fucking incredible.
Starting point is 00:48:50 And I would say roughly 75% of the monologues are just roasts of Reese Witherspoon. And what a joy that is for Reese Witherspoon. She has this show called Big Little Lies. All of a sudden, Meryl Streep shows up. She's acting across from the most nominated woman in the history of the Oscars, and it's just
Starting point is 00:49:07 hilariously bitchy rants about her character. That's cool as hell. Here's the thing about candidates speaking Spanish on stage. Jokes aside. No. Jokes included. So much of what these debates are about are about proving that Democrats really, really, really mean it this time because I think so many Democrats have felt let down in the past. And so it's why all these stories begin with,
Starting point is 00:49:35 here's what I learned when I was a kid. This is something that's personal to me. All of that comes back to this basic idea of proving that you aren't just a collection of policies, but you're the Democrat who's really going to fight, who's really going to follow all the way through. And deciding to speak Spanish on stage is a little bit a part of that, of demonstrating that you really care, that you really mean it. But, you know, there are other ways to demonstrate that you really care and that you really mean it. And one of them is by having a very coherent argument as to why you're
Starting point is 00:50:01 running for president, why you'll beat Donald Trump, and what you'll actually do when you're elected, given the limits of our system and the challenges you'll face. And only a few of the candidates are actually doing that. And so to Monica's point, like, I do understand why to someone who's not me, to someone who hasn't heard a candidate speak Spanish to them in the past, it might mean something. And I take that point. I sincerely do. But to me, part of the problem is also it's performative. It's a show of learning a few phrases to send a message. And I just think this is a bigger moment than that. This is the most important primary in our lifetimes.
Starting point is 00:50:35 This is the most important choice we're ever going to make. I don't want gimmicks. I don't want fucking Swalwell soundbites. I want someone to stand up there and be honest about where we're at right now and why they are the person. We are coming together to make a choice, to pick the person to represent us in the most important presidential election of our lives. If we lose this election, it is more than just twice the damage of Donald Trump. It is more, and it is heartbreaking. And so when I see someone bust into Spanish to make a moment of the debate,
Starting point is 00:51:05 I think it is beneath the scale of what these debates are supposed to represent. And one other thing, Laura Dern, fucking hilarious. An absolute delight. Laura Dern, comedic actress? Sure! Why the fuck not?
Starting point is 00:51:25 Let's spin it again. It has landed on TV and film criticism online, suggested by Trayvon. I'm gonna take this one. If you have a cell phone or a Twitter account, online suggested by Trayvon. I'm going to take this one. If you have a cell phone or a Twitter account, you're not a fucking TV critic. Watching Game of Thrones was so fucking annoying this last season.
Starting point is 00:51:56 Watching everybody with their fucking armchair dramatizing, talking about how good the show was, it was fine. It was fine. It was fine. These guys gave you The Red Wedding, Hold the Fucking Door, Thank You, Light of the Seven,
Starting point is 00:52:15 fucking Battle of the Bastards. Just fucking relax. If you're not Emily Nussbaum, if you're not fucking Roger Ebert, rest in peace, shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Watch the show.
Starting point is 00:52:28 You don't get to decide how it ends. People work really hard to make really great content for you guys, like John and this lovely podcast. And see how I pander to you a little bit? And I love it. That's my rant. Shut the fuck up. Watch the show. Counterpoint. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:52:54 Let's spin it again. It has landed on the border crisis. Monica, this was your suggestion. I do want to rant about the border crisis, and I want to rant about something that I think a lot of people ignored. So last night during the debates, there was breaking news around the fact that a temporary restraining order has been filed by attorneys that are involved in upholding the Flores Agreement, which is to ensure that the children in detention are being treated with care. And many, many people
Starting point is 00:53:30 missed this. And what they missed in this moment of the filing is that some of the transcripts were released, which shared what some of the hundreds of children said when they were being interviewed. And for those of you who know anything about my work and know what's important to me, what's important to me is passing the mic to people who can't be heard. And right now, I'm incredibly privileged to be holding this mic, and I want you to hear from these children. So, female, age 16, we slept on mats on the floor, and they gave us aluminum blankets. They took our baby's diapers, baby formula and all of our belongings. Our clothes were still wet and we were very cold so we got
Starting point is 00:54:11 sick. I've been in the U.S. for six days and I've never been offered a shower or been able to brush my teeth. There's no soap and our clothes are dirty. They've never been washed. Three days ago my baby soiled his clothes. I had no place to wash the clothes, so I could not put them back on my baby because when he went to the bathroom, his poop came out of his diaper and all over his clothing. Since then, my baby of only three months has only been wearing a small little jacket made of a t-shirt. Male age 17. I am in a room with dozens of other boys. Some have been as young as three or four years old. Some cry. Right now there is a 12 year old who cries a lot. Others try to comfort him. One of the
Starting point is 00:54:58 officers make fun of those who cry. Female age 16. We are in a metal cage with 20 other teenagers with babies and young children. We have one mat we need to share with each other. It is very cold. We each get a Mylar blanket, but it's not enough to warm up. There are benches, but we cannot sleep there. Sometimes it is so crowded we cannot find a place to sleep. So they allow a few of us to sleep outside the fenced area. The lights are on all of the time. Male age 12. I'm hungry here at Clint all of the time. I'm so hungry that I've woken up in the middle of the night with hunger. Sometimes I wake up from hunger at 4 a.m., sometimes at other hours. I'm too scared to ask the officials here for any more food,
Starting point is 00:55:56 even though there is not enough food here for me. There are thousands of children right now who are living in these circumstances who should not be caged who should not be detained who should be with their families who are fighting for their lives who deserve every single comfort that every single one of us have we have a moral responsibility to use our privilege to pass the mic to allow them to be heard. And I'm asking every single one of you in this room and listening to take action, to speak up, and to join us on July 2nd when mass mobilizations will be planned across the country. Sign up at closethecampsnow.org.
Starting point is 00:56:41 There is no moment, there is no time to stand on the sidelines, and we cannot wait for another person to be elected president to stop what's happening on our border. Monica, can you say the website one more time? The website where you can all go get more information and sign up to join us in calling for the closure of these camps is closethecampsnow.org. closethecampsnow.org. All right. Thank you, Monica. Thanks for sharing that. Let's spin it again. It has let... Now, this is like... This is perfect.
Starting point is 00:57:34 This is morning television level transitioning from like when... This takes someone like Katie Couric, decades of training, to go from a very heart-wrenching and important story to like a celebrity recipe for pancakes. And I don't have it mastered. Do you think that I do? Well, here was my thinking.
Starting point is 00:57:58 My thinking was that this very interchange was giving us the space to give enough respect and space to what Monica said, which is so incredibly important, while also creating the space to transition it to something lighter, which is also part of this show. And I think we've done it. Okay. By lighter, you mean very stupid and irrelevant, because that's what I'm about to talk about. It has landed on Kim K's shapewear. Take it away, Tani.
Starting point is 00:58:29 You know, John, I want to thank you for giving me the space to come on this show and talk about things that are close to my heart. After following someone incredible like Monica, like none of this matters. Kim K came out with her shapewear. One of the things that stuck with me was that she said it was hard for me to find shapewear that was my skin tone. And my immediate thought was like, yeah, bitch, you haven't seen your skin tone in 10 years. So of course it was hard to find it. You don't know what it is. But who cares? She's a celebrity. She made a product. You know, celebrities are great at teaching us new ways to hate our bodies. Great.
Starting point is 00:59:06 I want my shapewear to come from a woman I've never seen. I want to just be an anonymous Betty Crocker type figure. A Lorna Dune, perhaps. You know, a Susie Cakes. What are those called? Betty J. Cakes? Yeah, that's exactly what they're called. They're called Betty J. Cakes. Shut up. Whatever. I want a fictitious, I want a Mrs. Buttersworth unitard that goes underneath my summer dress.
Starting point is 00:59:31 I don't want a woman that I see everywhere selling me how to have a smaller waist. So aside from all that is the issue with the name. Of course, she named it Kimono, which she says was just like a fun play on her name, just like a fun play on words.. Just like a fun play on words. I wonder where she heard that before. Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:59:47 Who knows where she heard that word before? And who knows where she got the idea to trademark it? So she is trademarking the word Kimono. In case we didn't think it was bad enough. It's one thing to call something something. Are you allowed to just trademark anything? Can I just be like, bicycle? Deal with it.
Starting point is 01:00:06 But, you know, of course, Black Twitter was quick to point out that Kim K has been constantly culture-vulturing, appropriating shit from us for years, as Trayvon mentioned earlier. As I said before when you groaned. He really did. But she's been doing it. We know. You remember the boxer
Starting point is 01:00:22 braids, aka cornrows? You remember the Fulani braids? And then she was just straight up like, I know they're Fulani braids. I was like, I didn't know they were Fulani braids. How dare you say you did? So now suddenly she's done something that seems more obvious to people, that it's cultural appropriation. She's got Japanese Twitter coming for her neck,
Starting point is 01:00:38 which I really love to see, because you know they are thorough. But whatever, she could have named it a million things, but whatever. She named it this dumb name. She's trademarking it. I whatever, she could have named it a million things, but whatever, she named it this dumb name. She's trademarking it. I mean, just everybody put on whatever you want under your sundress, but just look out in the future when she comes out with a line of jewelry called collared greens. You know, just so many things that she can take from us, but whatever. She's a business person, and I just pray that she's finally found her place in the sun, a.k.a.
Starting point is 01:01:08 a legitimate basis for that fake-ass tan she's got going on. Let's spin it again. It has landed on candidate comfort food now. I was off last week, okay? And I was trying to disconnect, all right? Spent some time away from the laptop,
Starting point is 01:01:34 from the tweets. But then I did see that an intrepid reporter had asked many of the Democratic candidates for what their comfort food is. What do they eat? What is their comfort food? After a hard day, you want to eat something gross? What are they eating to make themselves feel better?
Starting point is 01:01:54 How are they going to love themselves with food? What are the things they use to eat their feelings? Something every human does. Something we all do. And I was excited to find out the answers. The relatable answers that would show us that these are, yeah, they're politicians, but they're people just like us. Here are
Starting point is 01:02:13 some of the answers. Cory Booker's comfort food was veggies. Boo! What are you talking about? No, it isn't. No, it isn't. It's not. And you know what?
Starting point is 01:02:31 Yeah, you're vegan, and you, like, all the great vegans, you make us aware of it. I live in Los Angeles, all right? There's plenty of vegan comfort food in this city. There's vegan macaroni and cheese. There's vegan meatloaf. They make anything vegan now.
Starting point is 01:02:47 It is 2019. We can wield God's creation into unholy food items. Meat made of cashews? It's possible. It's possible. Veggies. That's what happens when you don't have a black sun. Veggies.
Starting point is 01:03:02 That's what happens when you don't have a black son. To wit, Tulsi Gabbard said vegan cupcakes. I'm going to say acceptable. Better or work, any kind of fast food. Acceptable, good answer. I would have liked more specificity, but you know what? With Beto, we're working our way up. Steve Bullock, who was denied a place in the debate,
Starting point is 01:03:30 he said a good hamburger. I'll count it. Seth Moulton, a burger. Great answer. John Delaney, grilled chicken sandwich from McDonald's. No sauce. Grilled, not fried. But, he said this, two of them. And you know what? I respect that. I respect that. Because any true McDonald's connoisseur knows you get a meal and one little thing.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Amy Klobuchar said a baked potato, which as many noted online, you can throw at people. Michael Bennett said an Italian sausage sandwich at Pass Key in Pueblo, Colorado. I'll take it. Bill de Blasio pulled pork. I'll take it. Andrew Yang, kind bars. Fuck you. Kind bars are the veggies of the bar community.
Starting point is 01:04:23 John Hickenlooper said, little bowls of M&M's or mints. So, way to go, Loop. You got the weirdest fucking answer. Little bowls. Like, what a window into another world. Like, how did you make this answer sound so fucking rich?
Starting point is 01:04:40 Little bowls? Like, oh, I'm constantly coming across little bowls of M&M's coming across little bowls like of m&ms weird jay inslee said it was m&ms but i take in an oath now to lay off the m&ms to maintain belt security uncle jay i'll go through all of them i don't care bernie sanders said last time out we did a trip to the west coast and i gained three pounds in four days, so it's too much comfort food. You know what, it's not an answer, but it's charming. Marianne Williamson said, I have no comfort food.
Starting point is 01:05:16 Fucking A plus answer. She's like, you fucking earthlings and your inability to manage your human emotions. Because when you're Marianne Williamson, every meal is uncomfortable. Yes. Pete Buttigieg said, beef jerky. Come on, Pete! Beef jerky is not comfort food. It's
Starting point is 01:05:38 not. It's like the opposite of comfort food. It's what you're supposed to eat on a horse. Comfort food's what you have when you get back from the week of being on the horse eating beef jerky. It's the stew in the bowl at the ranch. To weave a tale about it. Tim Ryan said, I'm an ice cream guy. Kirsten Gillibrand said,
Starting point is 01:05:57 a glass of whiskey at the end of the night. So, but this is what I mean. It's like, this is the Gillibrand candidate problem almost but a little off you're like i get it all right you want to drink fine but that wasn't the question are you evading the question elizabeth warren said chips and guacamole you know what that's bias that's bias it's but it's not great. It's not comfort food. It's not comfort food. This is
Starting point is 01:06:29 California, John. Also, Chip is very upset with you right now. Chip the person is furious. Chip blew a gasket. Kamala Harris said French fries. Good answer. Fine. Get the job done. A little cautious, but we'll take it.
Starting point is 01:06:46 I would like to... Now, Joe Biden just didn't respond. That's his strategy, and it's working. I would like to do the two worst answers. One was Julian Castro, who said, iced tea? The fuck? It's not a food.
Starting point is 01:07:02 It's a beverage. It's a beverage it's a beverage you know when I've had a bad day and I want to kind of chill on the couch and watch the movie I have a big bowl of iced tea and then Eric Swalwell said it's really
Starting point is 01:07:17 a comfort coffee my favorite coffee is a mocha is this how we find out that democratic candidates chew their drinks? And I only... Yeah, they're chewing their fucking drinks. Eric Swalwell was beamed from like 1994 when he had like just discovered the coffee house scene. He's like, a mocha.
Starting point is 01:07:42 Someone was playing an acoustic guitar. My comfort mood is a mocha. Someone was playing an acoustic guitar. My comfort mood is a mocha? You're not going to win the Midwest with that shit. Every time Love It or Leave It or Pod Save America goes to the Midwest, I gain eight pounds. Not three, not five. I gain eight fucking pounds. You cannot communicate with these people if your comfort food is a cafe latte.
Starting point is 01:08:09 Or veggies, Corey. It is unacceptable. Shame on all of you. What would your comfort food be? Oh, wow. Let's judge you, sir. I want to tell you a story about what it really means to have comfort food. And it's going to a pizza place in West Hollywood alone, ordering the pizza, eating the pizza,
Starting point is 01:08:42 walking out of the pizza parlor, realizing it was next door to a Five Guys, walking into the Five Guys, getting a cheeseburger fully fucking loaded, eating that cheeseburger. All right? You don't come at me about comfort food. Love it, 2020. And that's our show.
Starting point is 01:09:03 I want to thank Monica Ramirez and support her march. Go to the website. Want to thank Tony Newsom, Trayvon Brie, Lester Holt, and Nancy Pelosi. Thank you to all of you in the impromptu. Have a great night. Loving, or leaving, yes loving, or leaving Respecting all concepts Loving, or leaving, yes loving, or leaving
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