Lovett or Leave It - What a Weekday: McCarthy throws hands and Scott drops out

Episode Date: November 14, 2023

It’s fisticuffs for the frisky sluts in Congress! This week, Markwayne brings the mark-pain while Ex-Speaker Kevin hits and runs. Tim Scott finds love and gives up on the White House. Donald Trump calls everyone reading this description “vermin,” and Lovett asks the most important question of all: where was Foghorn Leghorn on January 6?

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Let's get into it. What a weekday. Things are off to a great start in the Capitol. Representative Tim Burchett told CNN that Kevin McCarthy elbowed him in the kidneys in the halls of Congress. Explain to us what happened with you and Kevin McCarthy. Well, I was doing an interview with Claudia from NPR, a lovely lady,

and she was asking me a question. And at that time, I got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys. And I turned back and there was Kevin.

Incredible. There he was. This is Congress. It reminds me of like watching my father and my uncle pay a bill, and he realized they are just two old silverback gorillas. At any point in time, they could just

be taking kidney shots. It's cool to remember we're all primates at the end of the day. I just... The idea that you're walking past someone you don't like and you do the hip check thing.

I like that McCarthy was like, I didn't do it and everyone's like we saw it yeah I'm gonna piss in just be like yeah I did like at that point just fight to be like I didn't do it but just like you hit me with my skull lock or something clearly like Kevin McCarthy is genuinely going through something as

a person because remember when he wanted to fight Eric Swalwell too? Yeah. And he got up in Eric Swalwell's face and said, call me a coward again and see what happens. Then he said, you're a coward. Then he went, and then he marched away. Well, remember when he achieved his dream in the most embarrassing way possible and then lost

his dream in the other most embarrassing way possible? He's got to fight somebody. He's got to fight. He's got to fight somebody. He got to fight. He's got to fight somebody. He needs a fight club. Like he needs, he needs to physically fight someone. There's something in him that has to come out. I'll do it.

Brian, he'll snap you like a twig. I don't think he would. I work out sometimes. Who thinks that Brian would win? And if I was Kevin McCarthy? He's pretty big. Hey, Brian. She's a big man.

I think you'd win. Thank you. I think you'd win. And I think you'd win. Thank you. I think you'd win. And I think you'd win because I think you have youth on your side. I also think you have. I also think that that McCarthy would approach a fight like the British would approach a war in their height of empire, which is just like lining up ordinary tactics. And I think you'd have the energy of a kind of insurgent campaign. Like, I think you'd I think you'd go. I think you're I think you'd go high.

I think you'd go low. I'm bouncy. I think all of a sudden you're behind Kevin McCarthy. Yeah, we've talked about my center of gravity. But yeah, your center of gravity. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

And I think you you kind of, you know, I think you can get real small and then get real big. I don't know which of us has less to lose. I think it would be a moral victory for you. If I win? No, no, I just mean in general, even if you died. Oh, okay. You'd be on the right side of history. And that's what's important.

I feel like Kevin would do a lot of just like squaring up. That's what I'm saying. That's what I mean. Fisty cuffs. That's what I mean. That's what I mean in the sense that he'd be like a British army. He'd just sort of like hop back and forth. Yeah.

He's like, and he's, yeah, there's a lot of that. I think Kevin McCarthy really wants someone to grab him and hold him back. And he can say, let me go, let me go,

let me go. He doesn't want to fight. He wants to want to fight and he wants to be stopped from the fight. He wishes he could have, which actually is also his political philosophy. When you think about it, let me add him, let me at him. I'll fight him.

Look, if we all fight him, we have a chance. Well, who would you rather fight? One Kevin McCarthy-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized Kevin McCarthy's? Ooh, that's a great question. Anyway, we here at Crooked Media call that the Vitor Good Morning. It just means they're best friends.

Right? Is that what he says? just means they're best friends, right? Is that what he says? It means they're best friends. NPR's Claudia Grisales confirmed on Twitter that while talking to press after a GOP meeting, McCarthy seemed to shove Burnett from behind. Burnett then bumped into Grisales, knocking all her papers to the ground. They both reached for them and their hands touched. I'm sorry, that's from my erotic novel, Insurrectionist of the Heart. It's more of a novella.

That's from my insurrectionist novella, Insurrectionist of the Heart. That's from my erotic novella, Insurrectionist of the Heart. How's it selling? About as well as you'd expect. Burnett, who voted for McCarthy's removal, reportedly chased the former speaker down the hall and shouted, why'd you elbow me in the back, Kevin? Hey, Kevin, you got any guts? You're pathetic, man.

You are so pathetic. Call me pathetic one more time, McCarthy screamed back. Really do it. I'm this close to coming. Ew. In the old days, these guys would have dueled to the death. Now we get to watch them circle around

and snap at each other for a couple couple days like the sharks and the jets. I can understand Kevin McCarthy's rage. His entire speakership was based on being a tremendous little bitch. Where's all that bitchness supposed to go? You know? That's the question. Wasn't it Rand Paul who got into a fight with his neighbor? Over leaves.

Someone's neighbor's just got to attack Kevin McCarthy. All right. Hypothetically, if they wanted to, if they wanted to. We don't we don't condone. We enjoy, but we don't condone. Burnett went on to say this. I just don't expect a guy who was at one time three steps away from the White House to sucker hit you with a sucker punch in the in the hallway. Why do you think Donald Trump never knocked the wind out of Jeff Sessions on his way of the house. Famously. Famously. That was as the nation was being ripped apart by

the fight over slavery. Like that was a country at the brink because of a fundamental disagreement over basic moral precepts that would ultimately lead to a war. Kevin McCarthy elbowed someone in the back because he was mean to him. There's no policy disagreement. It's just 100% because they personally don't like each other. I do think, you know how there's that famous lithograph of the Cade incident? It'd be cool if we had a pen and ink drawing of Kevin McCarthy elbowing someone in the kidneys. Merch! Merch! What was it? Who is that

um... Who is the Dutch etch... The Dutch artist who did all those famous etchings? Oh yeah, what is it? Oh, Durr? That's another person? No, Durr! Durr! That's who I'm thinking of. There's actually quite

a number of people who used to do it as it turns out. Durr, Durr, that's who I'm thinking of. There's actually quite a number of people who used to do it as it turns out. That's who I was thinking of. Der, der. That's the sophistication range for this show. Der to der. And that fight between Birchin and McCarthy, that's not even the only fight that almost broke out in Congress on Tuesday. Over in the Senate,

Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, our guy, got up to fight Teamster Sean O'Brien over a tweet mocking Mullen, and Bernie Sanders had to break it up. If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here. Okay, that's fine.

Perfect. You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold here. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold on. Stop it. Is that your solution every poll? No, no. Sit down. This rules. You're a United States

senator. Actively. Okay. Sit down please. So I just want to be clear about what we just saw there. Mullen read a tweet that Sean O'Brien posted that basically called him a bunch of bad names and then said, I'll come. I don't think he said fight explicitly,

but like, let's meet, name the time and place. And then Mullen at this hearing goes, this is a time, this is a place, which is, I have to say, cool. And then- That's cool guy stuff. That's cool guy stuff. And then he stands up and just,

Mullen is a hulking dude. And like, he goes to take off his wedding. He doesn't do it. He stops, but he's, it's clearly, what's interesting about it is like, as MAGA has taken over the Republican Party, like guys that fight at bars have moved closer and closer to the center of our politics because

he stood up and went for his ring like a man that has almost or often fought with his fists in his life did they say stand your butt up you stand your butt up i love that well i also think he the person who he's fighting is a teamster who is also that same person so i think you're right it's about just like if we're really gonna get into it the person on the's fighting is a Teamster who is also that same person. So I think you're right. It's just like, if we're really going to get into it, the person on the other side of the fight is the Teamster version of Mark Mark Green Mullen, who is like, oh, yes, I've been in a fight before. Like, I will meet you on the battlefield that is the floor of Congress. Here's my question.

If you were going to fight, wouldn't you put on more rings? I think that that's not gentlemanly. Write in the comments. You know what is gentlemanly? Getting in a fight on the Senate floor. Yeah, I think also, though, if you have a ring on your finger and you punch someone really hard with your fist. Oh, it's going to hurt you. And your hand, well, then your hand swells up.

Then you have a problem. Yeah. Though in the film The Abyss, which we all know and remember in great detail, film The Abyss, which we all know and remember in great detail, Ed Harris refuses to take off his wedding ring, even though he is officially or unofficially divorced from, oh, what's her name? It sounds like Alyssa Mastromonaco, Master Antonio. What's her name? There was a lot of wedding ring imagery in 90s movies. Yes. But in the film The Abyss, he refuses to take his wedding ring off.

And then when the emergency doors are closing because water is flooding the ship due to a conflict over how to talk to the undersea aliens, which is, of course, because we all know what that film is about, the door closes and the ring saves him because it's a very strong ring. It makes you think. It keeps him alive.

It really makes you think. That's like in Bring Down the House when Queen Latifah has the razor Motorola and she gets shot in the boob and the phone saves her. That's cool. We're just describing the plot of different movies at this point. I believe also in the book of Eli. Head strikes over, baby.

Yeah, let's hear it. Run him down. Bernie Sanders was quite frustrated and gave a pretty stern talking to to both the Teamster representative and his colleague, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Hold it. You'll have your time. Can I respond? No, you can't. This is a hearing. God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress. Let's not make it worse. I don't like youugs and bullies. I don't like you because you just described yourself.

Hold it. You have the mic. You have time. Make your statement. Oh, now Bernie calls for a ceasefire. It's basically this scene from Dr. Strangelove. Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room. Awesome. Anyway, Mark Wayne Mullen has been sent to a farm upstate where he can run and play with Commander Biden. But don't worry, the 2024 presidential race is also a wonderful mess. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has suspended his campaign, announcing his decision in a Fox

News interview on Sunday. Sorry, Tim, looks like America just wasn't ready for the first virgin president. But I believe your candidacy has brought the virgin community one step closer to popping the glass cherry. Ew. Ew. I regret writing that. And even more sadly, we won't get to see a real-life version of this 71-minute B-movie from 1968 called The Virgin President. I will read the synopsis of this film. This is real.

The president of the U.S. is succeeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atomic bomb on Manhattan and blaming it on the red Chinese. I will note the word succeeded is misspelled in what I believe is the original copy. The president's name in the film is Filmerd Millmore. And I have no doubt that the racial and gender politics are horrifying. By way of explanation, Tim Scott told reporters, I had sex, so I'm a Democrat now. So in this movie, is the virgin son the vice president before he dies?

I don't know. I don't know how much of an internet footprint this film actually has. It doesn't actually, why would the son succeed the president? Yeah. Doesn't really make sense. I don't know that a lot of this film is going to make sense. This is my running mate. He's my son.

He's never had sex. I'm dead. Right, exactly. Don't that sound like America, though? Part of me is like, no, that seems like a good pan out. Said Scott. I love America more today than I did on May 22nd. But when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate.

Scott is referring, of course, to his girlfriend, actress America Ferreira, in the role of a lifetime. of course to his girlfriend, actress America Ferreira, in the role of a lifetime. Two people close to the Scott campaign told reporters that they hadn't been given advance notice about his decision to drop out. Said one advisor, it came out of nowhere. Everything was going so bad, like usual.

We talked about this a little bit on Pod Save America yesterday. I find it like, I believe this happened when Trevor Noah said he wasn't going to be doing The Daily Show anymore. It happened here. It's happened in a few other places. decided to give up their time and to vote themselves to a project that like, yeah, you're doing it together, but like you're working to make someone else look good, perform well when they go public and announce they're quitting or leaving or ending their campaign without

first giving a heads up to the people that that worked for them. Like, it's so obnoxious to me. Like these people move to to Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina or wherever to like help you because they were either convinced by what you said or thought it was the right thing to do for themselves, whatever reason they may have. But like, it would be so easy to take a moment and like talk to your staff and say, hey, I want to let you guys know I'm about to do the Trey Gowdy show. I made a really hard choice that I think I'm going to suspend my campaign. I'm so grateful to all of you.

And I don't want you to think it's a reflection on your work. But instead, you're just going to find out with the public, like you're just you're nothing like you don't matter to him at all. Like it's very, very revealing for a guy that said he was going to make his campaign about like better ethical and moral values that he is so disdainful of the people that work for him. And honestly, the more you talk to him, he could have been president.

You know what I mean? He was a piece of shit. He could have made it. When he ends the show, how do you want to find out? Just stand over my grave and let me know what the plan is. You'll take off your moon boots and check your,

slide me out of my drawer. Check your hollow screen. Yeah, throw my ashes out of the moon base where we all live. Hey, hey,

I know that Hallie's funeral is the wrong time for this, but I decided to end Love It or Leave It. Now let's press this button and watch her go boomp.

And then I'll be replaced by an AI version of myself and this is, that's what hell is. That's what hell is? I don't know. I've never been there. Hey, Hallie. What's hell? It's where you go when you die? Hang on, I'm gonna Google it. I'm gonna look on IMDB. What is hell?

We should fight, though. You and I should fight? That's a good matchup yeah that's a good matchup I got a lot going on you got a lot going on we're both

we're both have zero calories in our bodies it's going great for us I would like to actually know I'm I'm I think we might

maybe we need to ask Crooked HQ who would win in a fight let's ask HR to set something no no I feel like you two are a fair fight. Brian and I are a fair fight.

Yeah. But I would never hit you. I'd hit both of you. And I'm ready. I'll hit anybody. Yeah, no, I couldn't hit Hal either. I'm expecting a backhanded slap any day now. There's a moment I always think about

is it another movie? no and that's so insulting it's a British television show what is the TV show where the guy from Fifty Shades of Grey was with the woman from from the X-Files

oh the serial killer show what was that? The fall. I never saw that. Oh my god. There's something so chilling in the fall, which I think about all the time, which is... What's his name? Jamie Dornan. I'm getting my slapping hand warmed up.

Jamie Dornan. Jamie Dornan is a very scary serial killer in that show. I think I gave up on it because it was too scary and too dark. But basically, he is doing a serial killing. As you do. And he is happened upon by someone who catches him in the act. And then that person hits him in the back with a bat.

And then Jamie Dornan flies across the room. And then he comes to and he fights back and he wins the fight and then he's like captured two people and he says to these two people he goes because you were afraid to hit me in the head because like you were you got nervous and you chickened out and you hit me in the back instead of the head you're gonna die i didn't think about that that's exactly exactly what Tim Burchett said. Nice. Should have killed me when he had the chance.

Scott's exit from the race came just days after his girlfriend reveal when interior designer Mindy Nose joined him on stage following the third Republican debate. Oh, great, said Mindy. Now we can spend so much more time together holding hands, being so tired, maybe doing it tomorrow. I think that this is AI. I know we saw this woman in real life at the debate, but I believe she is CGI of some sort. By the way, a lot of people have noted

that Mindy Nose looks a lot like Lisa Gilroy when Lisa Gilroy came on Love or Leave It and played Tim Scott's girlfriend. It's uncanny. It is. We were spot on. I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us.

Meanwhile, when God closes a weird sexless door, he opens a neocon window, Nikki Haley's campaign will spend $10 million in TV, radio, and digital ads in Iowa and New Hampshire in December. As of now, that's more than five times what Ron DeSantis is planning to spend. Pencils out, kids.

If Nikki Haley spends $10 million in Iowa and Ron DeSantis is planning to spend? Pencils out, kids. If Nikki Haley spends $10 million in Iowa and Ron DeSantis spends $2 million in Iowa, how many more times likely is Haley to lose spectacularly regardless? Do you think so she could win, though? Nothing is written. Yeah, I do. Nothing is. If she wins, do you think she'll then win? There's only there's only what we can do i don't know i don't know i the hypothetical of the hypothetical the unlikely hypothetical of her winning means i don't feel like emotionally i need to deal with the hypothetical of her being the nominee and then running against joe budden i do think the first female president will be a republican

yes definitely i also just think like we've just been over and over again surprised. Like the future never fails to surprise us. And we're always fighting the last war and we don't really figure out why we were fighting the last war until

the next war is over, you know? So you're saying Doug Burgum will win probably? It's not off the table. Is he still technically in the race? I just looked it up, yeah. I thought he hasn't dropped out yet. He says he's going to stick it out through the New Hampshire primary. Why?

You've got to live, man. There's nothing else going on. Why not? Yeah, that's the question. He's the governor of a state, isn't he? Yeah, but not one that has, you know, stuff happening. I was like, land the plane, Brian, you got this. Not the cool Dakota. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection, threatening Democrats' ability to hold on to their Senate majority and

suggesting he may be gearing up for a presidential bid. What kind of next level hype man does Joe Manchin have that he believes for a second anyone would vote for him? Who has that houseboat rocking with enthusiastic conviction? Wait, has anyone seen DJ Khaled? Has anyone seen DJ Khaled? Where's DJ Khaled? Khaled, no. Khaled, no.

Khaled, no. Thank God, no! Khaled, no! Thank God Manchin's running. America needs a president that looks like he warms up his ice cream and calls it Joey's sweet soup. What does that mean? I don't know, but it could also apply to Joe Biden. I think we have applied it to Joe Biden. Joe Biden likes ice cream. He likes it on the cone. He doesn't like

ice cream. He likes it on the cone, as the saying goes about ice cream. As the cool kids say about ice cream, I like my ice cream on the cone. Save it for the novella. Said Manchin, I believe in my heart of hearts that I've accomplished what I set out to do for West Virginia. And that's hard to argue with. Look at West Virginia, a glittering utopia, a shining city on the hill, first in health care,

fourth in economy and education, if you count from the bottom. Meanwhile, Chris Christie's campaign announced he is qualified for the fourth GOP presidential debate to be held in December. It's a Chris Christmas miracle. I'm rooting for my boy, Chris Christie. Now that my, now that, now that, now that, you're in the first choice fell out. Now that, yeah, now that, now that my guy, Tim Scott is gone. Is this the last debate? Everyone keeps saying the last debate. There's no last. It goes until it goes. If there's multiple candidates, there'll be more debates.

They'll never stop. I also assumed that there was some fine amount. There are debates after the primaries. People keep debating. It never stops. It doesn't stop once Iowa happens. Damn it. I thought it did.

The content monster must be fed. But when we're dead, though. And we will be made into more content then. Yeah, you're right. Our digital footprints will ultimately be more real than our real lives because they will continue to exist and feed the AI that is based on the sum total of humanity's output. Your contribution to what the future believes of this era will have nothing to do with what you did with your physical meat and bones and liquids. It will have to do with what you typed with your fingers and said into a camera. Nothing else will remain. Now my liquids

are going to make a mark. Yeah, I like to think about what I do with my liquid. I like to think that my liquids are going to leave a mark is what that person said on that flight to Marshall. Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up. On Veterans Day, Donald Trump called everyone on the left vermin. We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible. They'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream.

Hey, listen. Sure. I scuttle around at night and occasionally eat little bits of Cheeto that I find on the ground. But the resemblance ends there, sir. This is too tough to joke about. It's getting very Mussolini. You can't be a vermin and a thug. Those feel like two different kinds of...

They're always trying to make that, though. They're always trying to be like, you guys are pussies, but also you have the power to destroy everything. Yeah. So at this point, Trump has plans to create camps for immigrants. He plans to stack the government with loyalists. He refuses to leave power, and he's calling his opponents bugs to be squashed. But he is three years younger than Biden. So he's got that going for him at first i thought he said varmints but that was a statement from yosemite sam's presidential

campaign and you know i was thinking about this that yosemite sam would be full fucking maga like that is he's he is maga and uh foghorn Leghorn, he's 100% at the insurrection. Like, he saw fucking Ashley Babbitt die. Foghorn Leghorn saw Ashley Babbitt die. Save it for merch. It would be fun to go through i'd like to go through a few of the looney tunes and decide which one would be at the insurrection bugs bunny no we'd hope we'd hope but we don't know i think bugs bunny is bernie bugs bunny is black bugs bunny is black great but now he's jewish bugs

bunny is black can he be both he can be black and jewish he can be both okay it's a tie isn't bugs bunny based on clark great gable he's also both. Okay, it's a tie. Isn't Bugs Bunny based on Clark Gable? He's also black. What? He's voiced by a Jew. He's voiced by a Jew. Clark Gable's black? It's a long-held belief for some people.

Just take a good look at Clark Gable. Daffy Duck. I think he's... Yeah, what's his deal? He feels like a vague guy to me. He's an Elon reply guy. Oh, yeah, he's crypto. He was cheering it on, but he wasn't there. Yeah, what's his deal? He feels like a vague guy to me. He's definitely, he's an Elon reply guy. Oh yeah, he's crypto. He was cheering it on, but he wasn't there.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Porky Pig. Bowtie suspicious. I think he was there. I think he was invited to do something. He was so excited to be invited to do something by like somebody he thought was a friend that he didn't even realize it was January 6th.

I can see Porky Pig being very like. He's still a nerd. He just has no friends. I can see him being a kind of Tim Scott curious. He has a sweetness to him, but definitely right wing. Definitely uncomfortable with trans issues. Elmer Fudd.

Yeah, we know. Come on. Is that a question? Yosemite Sand, Fog, Floor, and Leg are Recovered. Tweety Bird. Gay. Was at the Women's March. Made a pussy hat. Sylvester, Republican. I don't think Sylvester pays attention to politics. I think Sylvester's totally out of the loop.

I think he's worried about cancel culture, though. I think he reads the headlines and then tries to talk to his niece and nephew. He's open to listening, though. Speedy Gonzalez, probably best to just skip. He's an immigrant. Depends what part of Texas he's from. And he's Catholic, probably.

I'll tell you who's definitely worried about cancel culture. Pepe Le Pew. Oh, well, he should be. He really should be. Tasmanian Devil. Cornel West. Okay. He can't even vote here. Tasmanian Devil can't vote here, probably.

He's not a citizen. He's Tasmanian. can't vote here. Probably. He's not a citizen. You don't think he... He's Tasmanian. He's Tasmanian. Right. That's where he's from. But when we spend time with the Tasmanian devil, we're not in Tasmania. Where are we? I don't know, but he's around other toons who are not...

Bugs Bunny can travel wherever he wants by tunnel. Sure, but canonically... Like Hamas. Canonically... What did you say? I heard it. I heard it. say? Oh, I heard it. I heard it. I heard it.

I heard it. No, I don't know. I think it's good. I think it's good. Wow. You know. You never thought the Venn diagram of bugs, bunnies, and moths would have any overlap, but here we are. But that's why you listen.

That's why you listen. And my brain isn't a QAnon. Are you granny? Yeah. 100% her Facebook is a horror. Kendra's crying. Sorry. Kendra fully crying, laughing, imagining the comparison between, and these are dark times, Bugs Bunny and Hamas. We didn't talk about this this week, but so speaking of the Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers announced that they were going to not release the Wile E. Coyote movie, Coyote v. Acme, which is based on the cartoon, obviously, but this great New Yorker piece about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for their failed products. It was a very funny and great piece. And it was really interesting because a Looney

Tunes Coyote movie does feel like on its face, like, oh, that's another cynical IP thing. And of course, on some level it is. But then Warner Brothers announces that the movie is basically done and they're killing it to take a tax write off instead of releasing it. And then all the people involved in the making of the movie started putting up various like stills and music and other clips of the movie or just to give you a sense of what it was going to be. And it does seem like it's one of those things where, yeah, they took like what could be a cynical premise and like really tried to make something cool. And like that this was I mean, who knows how good it'll actually be. But like, it's very clear, like from the energy the people involved were putting off that it was like one of

those projects where a lot of people are like, I'm going to really bring it for this one. Like I want to I love these things as a kid and I'm going to make it really awesome, which is the difference between bad IP turned into movie stuff and good. It's the difference between the first Suicide Squad movie and Barbie. If the people who love it, if the people who participate really love it and really try, you can make something

excellent from any idea. But the blowback was enough. They decided they're going to try to sell it, which I think is cool. That movie better be good. It better be good. I think it will be good based on nothing. Lazarus had that look she gets sometimes, which is this idiot cares about the dumbest shit. No, I was actually,

I was also sad when I saw that that got shut away. So I'm excited. Kind of happened like the Tim Scott campaign. The thing of like a studio like they're it's so um short-sighted and small-minded that like they've like who knows what happened with the back roll thing but like there really was this implicit promise like for people that make things in entertainment which is it's impossible selling an idea is really, really hard. Getting that idea to be developed into a script anybody wants to make is really hard. Getting a green light to

shoot anything, a TV show, a movie, anything is really fucking hard. It's like a one in a hundred, one in a thousand, one in a 10,000 chance. But if they've, if they've given you, if they've like, they've given you the green light and you're making it and you've finished your shoot and you're editing it, it was unheard of that you could kill that finished project because it was somehow more lucrative for tax purposes to kill it than to release it. And I do think like if you start, if you like people that are making things have to believe in them they have to actually like it's just it just it's so it's so sad it's so small like isn't it kind of like what the producers is about you it is well right like somehow they make that if if it fails completely they get the insurance or something yeah yeah i don't remember the yes but it is about like it is the producers but this is this is just like... The idea that your fully made movie

starring John Cena gets shelved, that must make anyone trying to make a movie feel so hopeless. Yeah. I feel like it's like this is why I believe like there will be like an explosion of independent cinema is because like I just feel like people have...

We'll get to the point where it's like, oh, so there is no way other than this. Like even if you were to get what you have been told that what you want which is like studio backing and actual money to even see it that it doesn't really matter i i don't know i believe that people are creative and like need to make movies so i hope that that is possible but then it's like getting it on streaming getting it distributed distributed like yeah it's it's it's hard to. I feel like it's going to go back to like high maintenance, awkward black girl, Caleb Gallo, like more like indie TV stuff because it's just like doable and you don't need to.

I'll watch it. Meanwhile, Don Jr. took a stand once again Monday in his father's New York civil trial. My dad did nothing wrong and that's exactly what I will tell him over Thanksgiving. Reminder, Mr. Trump, you're under oath. My dad did nothing wrong and that's exactly what I'll text him on Thanksgiving after I FaceTime with my children. Jacob Chansley, best known as the QAnon shaman, seen wearing a furry Viking helmet during the January 6th insurrection, filed to run as a libertarian in Arizona's 8th congressional district. Chansley expressed that he's done being an agitator. He feels the time is right to work

inside the system, reaching across party lines to finally hang Mike Pence. Good luck. I'll send a little gift to your office if you win, said Nancy Pelosi, rolling a dead rat into a newspaper. When asked by reporters how he thinks he might fare in the polls, Chansley responded, the only polls I care about are the ones strong enough to sport the body weight of a dangling 5'10 evangelical from Indiana. Look, he visited the Capitol and he got inspired. It's a nice story if you leave out most of it. The Supreme Court announced Monday that it has adopted a code of conduct for the first time following a series of reports

about undisclosed gifts and property deals. Totally, totally agree. Ethics, so important, said Clarence Thomas as he put a Cedric caviar onto a potato chip. A fun little twist on a classic he recently learned at St. Bart's. The code is a clause in fine print that reads, okay, if nutcase wife accepts gifts though,

that is totally ethical and legal. The ethics code doesn't appear to impose any new significant requirements. The justices said in a statement that for the most part, these rules and principles are not new. The absence of a code, however, has led in recent years to a misunderstanding that the justices of this court, unlike all other jurists in the country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules. Oh, you guys didn't think our unwritten vibes-based ethic code was strict enough as we gallivanted across the country with right-wing billionaires and intellectuals, often with interest before the court?

What if we write those same rules down with no enforcement mechanism and say that explicitly? Now do you understand how humble and accountable we are? The code requires justices to, among other things, uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary and avoid impropriety and appearances of impropriety in all activities. The code goes on to say, and learn how to cover your fucking tracks.

Clarence, you're blowing it for all of us. I think we should leave it there. Great. Cool. And that's our show. We did it. Yeah.

Thank you to Hallie, Sarah, Brian, to a lesser extent, Kendra. Bugs Bunny and Hamas really took Kendra out. Bugs Bunny and Hamas really took Kendra out. Bugs Bunny and Hamas really took Kendra out. And that's the episode title.

And that's the, oh God. And just so everybody listening at home knows, we are recording our show as usual at the end of this week. That will be out Saturday. No What A Week, no show next week. This team needs a break. We will be off for Thanksgiving week.

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Phoenix you'll hear Phoenix on Saturday and then you'll hear Boulder on Monday and then you'll hear What a Week Tuesday so we'll do our offering to the content gods

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Yeah, no, I'm, I'm, uh, I want to go. Maybe I'll, maybe, maybe it's time to go full Frida Kahlo and just let it, let it happen. Just let them, let them, let them, let the two sides meet.