Lovett or Leave It - What a Weekday: 2 Canceled 2 Debt

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

It’s the day after the eclipse, and boy, are our retinas tired! The world’s biggest liar is at it again, this time pretending he wouldn’t sign a national abortion ban with the thickest Sharpie h...e owns. President Biden finds a kinky new way to forgive student debt, the Rock finds the loudest possible way to say nothing, and all of us find out together how much $30 million weighs.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The two RuPaul lines are all born naked and the rest is drag. And it's so silly, but it's like how you can't love someone else until you love yourself. Like truly, like, like are there any two more important sentences? That's like those are it. If you just can internalize those two ideas, you're pretty good. Speaking of Spanx, it's funny. It's also funny that RuPaul's like, if you don't love yourself, how are you going to love somebody else? Oh, there's no makeup because we're in the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:00:26 I'm putting on a balaclava. Oh my God, I forgot about that. And we're back. I'm here with Kendra. I'm here with Chris. Halle is on vacation. Sarah Lazarus is sick as a dog. You love to put our business out there. Yeah. That's not like social security numbers. Do you know the last time you said on
Starting point is 00:00:54 the air that I was sick I then got a text from my mother being like, why are you sick? So that does that mean your mother listens? Yes. I like that. Oh yeah she listens to like every episode. Hi mom. No, good for her. Hi Kendra's mom. I bet Kendra was a challenging, a challenging daughter. And I think it speaks really well at you that you allowed her to have so many different kinds of animals in the home.
Starting point is 00:01:19 And having worked with Kendra now for several years, I just want you to know, I see you. Wow. I was a real, I was, oh, you know, I was an easy child. No, I'm sure you think you were. Compared to what came next. Okay, well, you know what? We can't focus on that right now. Let's get into it. What a weekday. This week, Donald Trump finally answered the question on everyone's minds. What will he do to pretend he wouldn't sign a deeply unpopular national abortion ban he will 100% sign? Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights, especially
Starting point is 00:01:56 since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars both sides wanted and in fact demanded demanded be ended, row v. Wade. My view is now that we have abortion, where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land, in this case, the law of the state.
Starting point is 00:02:27 This statement was at least initially taken at face value, covered as if Trump said he would leave abortion up to the states. But A, he doesn't actually say that. And B, he's the world's most famous liar. If you believe Trump wouldn't sign a national abortion ban, the instant Republicans sent one to his desk, I've got a Trump endorsed Bible to sell you. I bought it as a joke. I don't even know what I was thinking.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Please, someone stupid, take this Bible off my hands. People are gonna believe that you own that. Well, you know what, maybe I did buy a Trump Bible. Did you actually buy one? No, I did not buy it. Here are some things I did not buy. I did not buy a Trump Bible. I did not buy an Apple Vision Pro.
Starting point is 00:02:59 I was closer to buying, I am currently closer to buying an Apple Vision Pro than I am to buying a Trump Bible. But that's because I will never buy a Trump Bible. I may ultimately buy an Apple Vision Pro. And the Trump sneakers are in your closet. I would have bought those. If those Trump sneakers, I liked those Trump sneakers.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Okay, all right. It's a choice. If it wasn't the Trump version, right? If you had just the gold sneakers with the American flag, no T, no Trump connection. Even with the American flag, you're gonna wear sneakers with the American flag on them. Yes, yes. As part of what I believe should be our collective progressive left project, which is taking back the symbols of patriotism. We should all be wearing the American flag. We should all be wearing the Gadsden flag. We should take these symbols back and make them our own. They get them.
Starting point is 00:03:46 The freaks get it. If the freaks own patriotism, then patriotism is for freaks. Trump told Americans to follow their hearts and added this. Now it's up to the states to do the right thing. Like Ronald Reagan, I am strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. Trump, once pro-choice, took a hard anti-abortion turn during the 2016 primaries, saying at one point that if abortion were outlawed, women who got one would face some sort of
Starting point is 00:04:12 punishment — a comment that he walked back amid backlash. It was a revealing moment. Having not really thought through any of this very deeply, Trump just assumed, correctly, that being pro-life means punishing women for having abortions. He didn't realize that while it does mean that, you aren't supposed to say it, just make it the logical conclusion of your policies. He wasn't versed in the nuanced politics of taking away basic human rights. It was like it was his first Stone Temple Pilots concert, and he was like, oh, I love
Starting point is 00:04:37 this. It reminds me of Pearl Jam. Of course it does, man, but shut the fuck up. Just weeks ago, Trump had been privately talking about supporting a 16-week national abortion ban, reportedly telling one aide, know what I like about 16? It's even. It's four months. Sorry, you were denied an abortion at 17 weeks and now you're in sepsis and may not be able
Starting point is 00:04:55 to ever have another baby, but you'll be relieved to know that there was a good reason. 16 is a perfect fourth. After calling that reporting fake news, Trump then publicly announced that he was considering a 15-week federal ban. The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15, and I'm thinking in terms of that, and it'll come out to something that's very reasonable. But people are really, even hardliners are agreeing, seems to be 15 weeks, seems to be a number that people are agreeing at. But I'll make that announcement at the appropriate time. And again, Trump's new statement does not preclude supporting this ban. And he says explicitly
Starting point is 00:05:34 in his new statement that he is not endorsing the ban in order to win the election. His position is virtually unchanged, which is why anti-abortion groups expressed disappointment at Trump's decision not to endorse a national ban right now, while saying that they were still rioting for him anyway. Anti-abortion groups know that Trump may not align perfectly with their views, but he's still vastly better than his opponent. It's sort of like how many on the left are upset with Biden's response to the Israel war in Gaza, but they understand that despite serious misgivings,
Starting point is 00:06:00 for the good of the country, we all have to do everything we can to re-elect him, because he is far better on every other issue and even on the issue of Gaza, Trump would be far worse. I agree. Meanwhile, former Vice President Mike Pence called Trump's new stance a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him. Continued Pence, and not the hot kind of slap in the face that I let Mother do to me
Starting point is 00:06:21 once a year on Ascension Day. God is coming up, keep it together, Mikey. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, because this screen is still up, we're looking at this Trump interview that he did. I just want to say, like, I want my politicians to be accessible. This man will talk to anyone. Who are Sid and who are his friends? I've never heard of this. You know what, it's one of those things where it's like, we've never heard of Sid and friends, but it's got more viewers than like, you know, Fleabag ever had.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Where is he finding these people? On W-A-B-C, listen to Sid and Friends in the morning on wabcradio.com. Wabcradio.com, traffic and hate on the eights. Yes. That's what I'm saying, you definitely just did an ad for like ingesting Clorox. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:07:07 100%. I like that. Traffic and hate on the eights. Meanwhile, President Biden slammed Trump in a Monday statement saying that Donald Trump made it clear once again today that he is more than anyone in America, the person responsible for ending Roe v. Wade. He is more than anyone in America responsible for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America since the Dobbs decision. Let there be no illusion, if Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:07:29 is elected and the MAGA Republicans in Congress put a national abortion ban on the resolute desk, Trump will sign it into law. Or, the statement continued, perhaps he'll sign it in the private study while dining with Eric and Don Jr. and jokingly, but non-jokingly, referring to them as abortion number six and abortion number seven. Speaking of the promising next generation, during a speech in Wisconsin, Biden announced a new plan to reduce or eliminate student debt for tens of millions of borrowers. The White House estimates that the plan would wipe out debt for more than four million people and reduce the amount owed for 25 million people. A majority of Americans with federal student loans will qualify for some
Starting point is 00:08:05 form of relief. Kendra, I believe you are one. I'm excited. This is the marital income limit on this is finally something that I fall into for some relief. And I've never like of all of the other past plans that have both succeeded and failed, I've never qualified for anything. So this is very exciting for me. I will say as someone who holds a federal student loan, maybe like the most frustrating thing about the last two or three years has been just like the unknown. Because for so long, I graduated in 2010.
Starting point is 00:08:35 And for so long, it's just been like habit. I pay my student loans every month. I have a federal and a private. And I just pay it. It's always been part of my life. But then once all of this started happening, especially with the pandemic cutting out payments for a year, it just feels so unknown now of like, should I still be paying? Should I not still be paying? Should I pay once every three months? Should I?
Starting point is 00:08:56 Because it just feels like anything could happen at any time. And will I get the money back that I have been paying if it's deemed that I didn't need to be paying this whole time? It's been really weird. Yeah. Yeah. It says here that the only borrowers who wouldn't be eligible are those who quote, got a degree in something fucking stupid like poetry or Latin. So sorry to 98% of our listeners. Biden highlighted- This anthropology degree really served me well. I consider you a student of people.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Thank you. Yeah. Biden highlighted his efforts to keep his promise to cancel student debt even after the Supreme Court blocked his initial $400 billion debt relief program. Tens of millions of people's debt was literally about to get canceled. But then some of my Republican friends and elected officials and special interests sued us and the Supreme Court blocked us. But that didn't, well But that didn't stop us.
Starting point is 00:09:46 No, I mean it sincerely. We continue to find alternatives to reduce student debt payments. Continued Biden, you're never too old to experiment with alternative paths. That's what I told Jill when I talked to her about opening up our marriage on April Fool's Day. God, you should have seen her face. Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up.
Starting point is 00:10:13 But not everyone smells what Biden is cooking. Dwayne The Rock Johnson said in a Fox News interview last week that he will not be endorsing Biden again in 2024 after backing him in 2020. The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time. And I thought back then, I'm in this position where I have some influence and it's my job now to exercise my influence and share with this. This is who I'm going to endorse. Am I going to do that again this year? That answers no.
Starting point is 00:10:47 I was then the most followed American man in the world, and I am today the most followed American man in the world. I appreciate that. What that caused back then was something that tears me up in my guts, back then and now, which is division. And that got me. And I didn't realize it then. I just thought, hey, our country feels like there's a lot of unrest.
Starting point is 00:11:14 It feels like I would like things to calm down. To be clear, the Rock's endorsement obviously did not cause division. The division was already there. He just didn't like hearing about it. It's like if in the movie San Andreas, he flew the rescue helicopter away from the earthquake because when he flew towards it, people started screaming for help and it grossed him out. Johnson continued. The takeaway after that, months and months and months, I started to realize like, oh
Starting point is 00:11:40 man, that caused an incredible amount of division in our country. So I realized now going into this election, I'm not going to do that. I wouldn't do that because my goal is to bring our country together. I believe in that. There's going to be no endorsement. This level of influence, I'm going to keep my politics to myself. And I think it's between me and the ballot box. But I will tell you this.
Starting point is 00:12:02 While like a lot of us out there, not trusting of all politicians, I do trust the American people and I trust that whoever they vote for, that's gonna be my president and that's who I'm gonna support 100%. I endorse whatever happens. Whatever happens is great
Starting point is 00:12:18 as long as no one is mad at me, The Rock. I love this country and its people too much to try and make it a better place. The Rock also bravely came out against the Wokes saying this in today's easy cancel culture world and Cancel culture woke culture this culture that culture division, etc that really bugs me and in the spirit of that you either succumb and be what you think other people want you to be, or you go, well, no, that's not who I am. I'm going to be myself and I'm going to be real.
Starting point is 00:12:49 And that may get people upset and may piss people off, and that's okay. In summary, does The Rock have a preference? Yes, but he will express his preference privately. He will decide what he thinks is best for the country in an election that has vast stakes for his hundreds of millions of fans, and then choose not to help make that better outcome a reality. Why? For The Rock, keeping it real means hiding what he really thinks. If The Rock told you what he believes, that wouldn't be true to what he believes. After all, a lot of people out there will try to silence you for expressing yourself.
Starting point is 00:13:16 And The Rock hates that, and so he won't express himself. You see, The Rock's fame is a good unto itself. It has no value to society beyond serving his reputation and interests. Could he spend some of that capital he's earned over decades to make the world a better place? Yes, but then he couldn't be buried with it in his pyramid. The Rock is simply too influential to use his influence. The Rock is too big to care. Okay, I have a question.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Is that a bottle of his branded alcohol sitting on the table between them? Like, is this whole thing just an advertisement for one of his companies? Yeah, this is branding. Ugh, is that whole thing just an advertisement for one of his companies? Yeah, this is branding. Ugh, is that what this is? He's also at WrestleMania. Yeah. I find, it's like...
Starting point is 00:13:50 It's... Politics is so hard, and you know, it's always hard, but man, there's so many people out there that could make it easier. Like, do I think the rock endorsing Joe Biden makes the biggest difference in the world? No. But do I think if you add up all of these people who know better, who in their private lives claim that they are compassionate, believe themselves to be kind, believe themselves to have good values, if he went on stage at the Democratic convention, if he was joined
Starting point is 00:14:21 by a bunch of other big nonpartisan or Republican figures saying that for the good of the country, we have to get behind Joe Biden, I think it could really make a difference. And like his whole life, he walks around, he hugs all of his fans. He has a very important, his image is very important to him, right? His image as being a decent and beloved figure who cares about the people who care about him is very important to him. And ironically, he has decided that in order to protect that image
Starting point is 00:14:46 as someone who is beloved and caring, he is not going to do something to help or show love to the people that love him, especially the people who are vulnerable, who could really benefit from having Joe Biden in the White House as opposed to Donald Trump. And I know it's like all this is just him bending over backwards to avoid saying he doesn't want to endorse because he didn't like the political blowback, but it's just frustrating to me. I've always said, I said it since 2022, if he had really, if he was really serious about helping with politics, he would have set John Fetterman up with his tailor. No, genuinely. I genuinely believe that. If he wanted to be helpful, he would have set that man up
Starting point is 00:15:21 with the person who makes his suits. I don't know that John Fetterman can afford the rocks. Then pay for it, because I know he can afford that. That's an in-kind contribution. I don't think the Rock can pay for those suits, and I bet those suits are so expensive. I mean, definitely. Wow. Wow, what is he paying for a custom suit? God, he looks good.
Starting point is 00:15:39 I miss the Rock from like 15 years ago, when he was self-deprecating and would poke fun of his own image versus the one now, which like he thinks himself as the most serious person in everything all the time. And he's just so boring to me now as an entertainer. Yeah, he's got his serious man glasses on. And yet he's doing an interview on a show with a logo that looks like it should be on the cover
Starting point is 00:16:01 of a YA fantasy novel. Like, that is what that logo says to me. He's gotta move alcohol. Please just Google the Will Cain show logo and just see what I'm talking about. The things we've been promoting. Oh, right, what are we doing? What are we doing?
Starting point is 00:16:16 What are we? Well, these people are like making, putting these people into the algorithm of my brain. I've never heard of these folks before. I just don't, I don't get it. I really don't get it. And it's, and you know, like people are like, Oh, Taylor Swift should do this. Taylor Swift should do that.
Starting point is 00:16:32 I was like, well, actually at one of her concerts, she said this and oh, she did put out this endorsement. And that's all, that's all great. But I find it like, I just, I just can't imagine being in the position of having this much reach and Seeing what is happening in politics and forget having to be dragged kicking and screaming To like do the right thing that you wouldn't be like so excited like you're the rock You have the most followers of any American man in the world. I want to account Yeah, sure
Starting point is 00:17:04 Like the idea that you wouldn't be excited, like, wow, the election's really important. I want good things to happen. I can help these millions of people understand what I think is the best thing to have happen. And the idea that you would see that opportunity, be like, no, no, that would make a group of people mad at me.
Starting point is 00:17:21 That might hurt my future box office. That might hurt my image. That might make people mad. I don't me. That might hurt my future box office. That might hurt my image. That might make people mad. I don't like that. I like being publicly lauded. I like being celebrated universally. Like he says in this thing, like, oh, I don't want to sow division.
Starting point is 00:17:32 I want to bring people together. But not saying what you think doesn't bring people together. It just lets people stay exactly where they are. Like there are a ton of people who will hate you for endorsing Trump. There are a ton of people that will be glad you did what you could to elect Biden.
Starting point is 00:17:45 They're there. They exist. They're moving about their days. You're not bringing them together. You're just going to each of them individually and saying that you want to be loved by both separately. And like, okay, that's a choice you can make, but don't pretend it's anything other than a dodge. I mean, and it's fine to believe all of that, like to believe that you don't want to sow division, to believe that you don't need to say anything. But then my thing is, don't say anything. Never have, you know who's political beliefs I know nothing about?
Starting point is 00:18:12 Tom Cruise. Couldn't tell you a thing that man believes. Can't even tell you his favorite movie because he will never say it. Just don't say anything. Once again, this podcast, if it believes anything, it believes that Tom Cruise is the kind of movie star we want and love and need.
Starting point is 00:18:29 And I agree. I agree too. I simply agree. I know nothing about him. It's the, yeah, no, I know, I know. And well, part of it too is it's also like what gets to count as expressing a view or what doesn't. Like he does here get to say like, oh, I don't like cancel culture.
Starting point is 00:18:46 I don't like woke culture. There's just, because the Republican Party went completely bananas, there are all these rich, successful people out there whose instinctive politics is a kind of moderate, old-fashioned Rockefeller Republican cosmopolitan conservative worldview. And because it doesn't really have a political home in the Republican Party and being a Democrat
Starting point is 00:19:11 is just not cool, we end up with this. And so you can't, it's not partisan, I guess, to go off against woke culture, cancel culture, because if you're a rich, successful person in LA or New York, that's what people are talking about at dinner. That's why all these movies are about cancel culture. Oppenheimer's about cancel culture. Ferrari's about cancel culture.
Starting point is 00:19:30 Napoleon's about cancel culture. Every movie is about cancel culture in one way or another, because these are the, when politics has no material impact on your personal life, when you don't feel threatened by abortion bans or by draconian border policies or efforts to crack down on protest or basically politics for you is something that happens on television. It's a sport. It's something you watch.
Starting point is 00:19:54 It's something you observe. It's something that your personal identity is wrapped in with but not your personal stakes. This is how you end up with this kind of moderate but empty politics where the only thing you can decry is cancel culture because it's the only thing you feel or see. It's the thing you worry about. And I just... These people need better conversations. All right, now I'm done. How do you start, you know, I don't know how you're supposed
Starting point is 00:20:16 to not be out of touch when you're the Rock. Hey, go, he's, after WrestleMania, he's getting back in his helicopter and going back to Star Island, where he does not have to interact. It's great for him to see LGBTQ people out when he's like, out in Miami for the nightlife. It's great for him to experience all of that stuff.
Starting point is 00:20:33 But then his private police force, or the private police force of like Star Island, none of that gets in. He just goes back home. Yeah. How do we get out of here? I don't know, we're going to cut some of this. I just wonder what kind of microaggressions The Rock deals with on a daily basis.
Starting point is 00:20:50 I'm sure it was a lot more back in the WWF day. For sure. Back then. I feel like probably now for him, microaggressions come in the form of just it's all online. Who is he actually talking to in the real world that's not just immediately trying to... Beloving, loving him. Just like exist in his shadow somewhere,
Starting point is 00:21:07 or beloved him, or like loves him- Lighting up, panicking, nervous. It is, that's why, right? Of course, he goes to, if he's talking about something, he's talking about cancel culture, he's talking about world culture, if he sees culture, it is people like that criticizing him on the internet, which is annoying to him.
Starting point is 00:21:23 Because he's not even the type of person, like take, say, Will Smith. I could imagine walking into a Vons, and Will Smith is there, and I would not recognize Will Smith just because he is a normal size. No, genuinely, because he's a normal-sized human being. The Rock is never able to go somewhere
Starting point is 00:21:38 where people are interacting with him, not knowing that he's the Rock. Because he's shaped like the Rock. Yeah, I mean, he's just so- Massive man. On Thursday, hard transition, him not knowing that he's the rock. Because he's shaped like the rock. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's just so... A massive man. Yeah. Yeah. On Thursday, hard transition, Biden got on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Starting point is 00:21:51 Netanyahu and delivered what sounds like an ultimatum that the US would change its policy towards Israel unless Israel took immediate steps to protect civilians and address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. By Thursday night, Israel's security cabinet had approved measures to open the Erez crossing in northern Gaza for humanitarian aid and increase the flow of supplies through another crossing. Even though for weeks, if not months, they said that they weren't standing in the way of that aid, but there were practical impossibilities to getting that aid in.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Interesting. Ultimatums work unless you're trying to get someone to commit to you romantically. Well, even then they can work, but it's not quite right. It's like, did the ultimatum force you to actually see happiness right in front of you? Or did it only force you to see that what was in front of you was slightly less terrifying than being alone? Have you ever issued an ultimatum in your personal life?
Starting point is 00:22:38 I haven't. I don't think. No, yeah, I did actually. Nice. With my ex. Did it work? Tells you how that goes, yeah. Did it work. Nice. With my ex. Did it work? Tells you how that goes.
Starting point is 00:22:47 Did it work? I mean. Did it work and then it didn't work? It didn't work, I think is the ultimate answer there. I think we know how I feel about ultimatums. During their call, Biden also told Netanyahu that an immediate ceasefire is essential. Meanwhile, after facing months of criticism for failing to apply more pressure on Israel given the devastation in Gaza and mounting conflict in the region, Biden's decision
Starting point is 00:23:09 to take a slightly harder line made Republicans absolutely furious. Cried Republicans, wait, no! Keep doing that thing that makes gender studies major burn you in effigy. House Republicans introduced a resolution in Congress denouncing Biden for calling for a ceasefire, criticizing efforts to place one-sided pressure on Israel with respect to Gaza. Nothing makes Republicans more upset than Biden addressing a crisis in an election year. Reaches the deal on the border, shut it down.
Starting point is 00:23:29 Calls for a ceasefire when a country where supplying with weapons is killing civilians by the tens of thousands. Center him. They're like a bunch of hot topic golf kids on a beautiful day pissed at the sun for ruining their vibe. Speaking of ruining the vibe, last Thursday, RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign sent out a fundraising email that referred to January 6th insurrectionists as activists who had been stripped of their constitutional liberties. We all remember those precious words of our founding. We are all endowed by our Creator with the right to life, to liberty, and to drop a loose
Starting point is 00:23:54 one on Nancy Pelosi's day planner. I never thought I'd say this, but I wish you'd go back to talking about how fluoride toothpaste causes bipolar disorder. Kennedy's campaign quickly distanced itself from the email with a spokesperson saying, that statement was an error that does not reflect Mr. Kennedy's views. It was inserted by a new marketing contractor and slipped through the normal approval process. And you have to be careful around that new marketing contractor. He's a disbarred lawyer with an anger problem in the morning and a drinking problem in the afternoon and his suit
Starting point is 00:24:20 coat smells like it's from a steamer trunk labeled guys and dolls in the back of the auditorium at the local high school. But believe it or not, that marketing contractor was once the mayor of New York City. Oh my god. And then, flipping back, Kennedy said that if elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the harsh treatment of January 6th defendants. He said that while he opposes Trump and all he stands for, he was also disturbed by the weaponization of government against him. You can't say you oppose all Trump stands for while also parroting his grievances. His grievances are all he stands for.
Starting point is 00:24:48 It's like saying, I'm no fan of the Joker, but I will set a series of elaborate traps to test the moral boundaries between Bruce Wayne as a human being and Batman as a heroic figure. Kennedy also said in his statement that there was little evidence of a true insurrection and included the false claim
Starting point is 00:25:02 that the protesters who stormed the Capitol carried no weapons. In reality, a bunch of insurrection and included the false claim that the protesters who stormed the Capitol carried no weapons. In reality, a bunch of insurrectionists were armed with guns. Others had axes, knives, tasers, bear spray, baseball bats, and literal fucking pitchforks. But to be fair, this is also how they attend NASCAR events. Kennedy put out a second statement on Friday. Kennedy then put out a second statement that read, my understanding that none of the January
Starting point is 00:25:23 6 rioters who invaded the Capitol for carrying firearms was incorrect. Several have been convicted for carrying firearms into the Capitol building. Admitting you're wrong, this absolute amateur, this dilettante, he makes his name talking about how vaccines cause autism and he thinks it means he could just start sounding up on January 6th, not being real.
Starting point is 00:25:39 It takes actual qualifications to talk about that. It takes holes in your brain so big an adult could walk through them without bending over. Speaking of conspicuous holes, thieves pulled off one of the biggest heists in Los Angeles history on Easter Sunday, stealing somewhere between 20 million and $30 million in cash from a Garta World warehouse
Starting point is 00:25:57 in the San Fernando Valley. Garta World, you couldn't even Garta one stinking warehouse. Love an analog heist. Fuck off phone scams and cyber attacks and AI voices telling your grandma you've been kidnapped in Buenos Aires. couldn't even guard a one-stinking warehouse. Love and analog heists. Fuck off, phone scams and cyber attacks and AI voices telling your grandma you've been kidnapped in Buenos Aires. We're breaking into a building and cracking a safe like good old-fashioned patriotic Americans.
Starting point is 00:26:14 Though the burglars tripped at least one alarm, the theft wasn't discovered until the next day when warehouse operators opened the vault. Can you imagine? You feel a little off from eating too much Easter candy, but you drag yourself into work and then immediately, first thing in the morning, before you've even poured yourself a coffee, you have to call your boss and tell them someone stole $30 million. Woof. Officials haven't announced any suspects, but said it appears to be a professional,
Starting point is 00:26:37 sophisticated operation with one former FBI official speculating in the LA Times that it likely involved a current or former employee who knew the facility's layout. The former agent also pointed out the challenge that thieves now face, saying, "...this is a lot of money. I use the analogy we have stolen the circus elephant. Where do you hide it? There aren't many places this amount of cash could go." Yeah, in Joe Biden's America, it would take weeks to spend that at a coffee shop.
Starting point is 00:26:59 Am I right, Maria Bartiromo? So according to the Federal Reserve Board, a bill, an amount of the denomination, weighs about one gram. If the thieves stole $30 million in smaller bills, let's say it was all 20s, that would be 1.5 million grams or 3,300 pounds of cash. So they have a cool, interesting hobby, they're good at making plans and they're super strong.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Hey, if you recently robbed the garter world in the San Fernando Valley, damn me Were I were I still in my fanfiction writing days I would probably be Commuting into work and turning this into a story of Danny Ocean and Carmen San Diego's honeymoon. Oh My god, I like that. I am curious how many people are writing spec scripts based on this right now. I love it. Just morning. Plug it into chat, cheapy tea.
Starting point is 00:27:49 They'll give you one. Anyway, this should be an easy crime to solve. We just need to keep our eyes peeled for the richest, buffest man. Wait a minute. It's the rock. I think it's the rock. All right.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Before we go, Love or Leave It is going on tour. It all starts at the Moon Tower Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas on April 21st. And then we're headed to Washington, DC on April 25th. We have incredible guests lined up. In Austin, we'll be joined by Tim Miller, Zach Zucker, the Sklar Brothers, and Joel Nicole Johnson. And then in DC, we'll be joined by Josh Gondelman,
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