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Episode Date: January 20, 2023

Hi. Daniel O'Brien (@DOB_INC) joins Katy and Cody to talk about Alec Baldwin getting charged with involuntary manslaughter, George Santos' escalating lies, and Steven Crowder's dissatisfaction with the contract offer he received from DailyWire+. (If you're interested, here's the real Alec Baldwin Instagram video to match with Daniel's pitch-perfect impression: https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDAmWZqYLA/) Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh   Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news  Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews  When you use ExpressVPN, ISPs cannot see your online activity; your identity is anonymized by a secure VPN server. Your data is also encrypted for maximum protection. Secure your online activity by visiting https://expressVPN.com/morenews TODAY! Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions - and manage your expenses the easy way - by going to https://rocketmoney.com/MORENEWS. MANSCAPED® Beard Hedger - one stroke, one guard, 20 lengths. So get 20% off and free shipping with the code MORENEWS at https://manscaped.com.Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello and welcome back to even more news the first and only news podcast my name is Katie Stoll. Hi Katie Stoll don't look into the first thing you said everybody but I've already forgotten what I said. Perfect. I'm Cody forgotten what I said. Perfect. I'm Cody Johnston. Hi. Oh, boy.

I'm so excited about our guest today. Writer, comedian, staff writer for last week tonight on HBO. And probably his best accolade would be our friend. Is that Daniel O'Brien? Hello. Thank you so much for having me.'s great to to see you and hear you and talk to you guys i jokingly texted you not a few days ago that i was excited because uh doing podcasts is the only time that i talk to my friends and that's like that's barely a joke

that's like fully a true thing i have fully a true thing. It's fully a true thing for me too. I have the podcast I do with Sorin, and that's legitimately the way that we communicate now is a couple hours every week into microphones catching each other up on our lives. And it's great, and I wouldn't trade it. I do wish I saw you all and hung out more. I know. It's hard. I tweeted something today, abe from our old crack days replied about missing seeing me and i felt i felt this ache i'm like i miss everybody

there was something so of course all of our lives have gone on to bigger and nice things and exciting adventures but there was something very special about working with your friends and seeing them all the time and making dumb shit. Yeah, it's... I really like what time does to the memory. Look how thoughtful I sound. Because there are certainly stressors and frustrating things about working there with everyone, especially towards the end.

But as time goes by, a lot of those things fade away and i i really only remember like the positive fun atmosphere we created for ourselves and just like you know showing up to this to the stupid office on monday and and talking about game of thrones for hours then filming a game of thrones reaction video then talking more about game of thrones afterwards Thrones afterwards. This is a pretty sweet little life we had. Yeah. It was. Goofing

on dragons. I mean, I think people outgrow it. You're talking about all those things. It's like, of course there are downsides to it, but it was, yeah, it was a really beautiful time. Yeah, nothing like that lasts forever. But I think that's how it should go. The time passes and then you're like, yeah, all that other i think it's that's how it should go the time passes and then

you're like yeah all that other stuff didn't really matter the other yeah it's like those it's one of those life advice things that old people tell you like it goes by fast remember these and you're like you're only gonna remember that katie we're the old people now but we're the old people now. But we're the old people now. This is a perfect segue into the holidays. Ah, January 19th is Good Memory Day. A day to nourish good moments from our past and present while making new ones for the future. Well, isn't that precious? Isn't that precious? No notes on this day.

We just organically did it. Is this from that same mom and pop essential oil company the the famous this no none of these are yeah we're off well cat for a little bit i'll bring i'll bring some of those holidays back but not i was so ready for there to be a huge scandal from that mom and pop yeah i still think there's some kind of skill. There's still time. There's still time. There's something simmering underneath there. What are they covering up? Yeah. I was terrified of that episode going out and being like, is this the thing?

Yeah. There's still time. I love that email. Blows a scandal wide open. I have already responded to this. Some of these things are slow simmers. I don't know if we're going to blow the top off of this story right away. We have put it out there.

Tip line is open. Don't harass them. The one day they didn't make a holiday for is January 6th, and they were very busy. Uh-huh. Oh, there we go. National Save Our Hero Day. That's Emmy award-winning humor.

Hey! Hey! Segway! We don't need to talk about other holidays it's a bunch of name holidays like everybody doesn't with a name doesn't need a holiday for their name no you don't know what i'm saying i'm looking at it's national annie day and national lucy day it's also national sebastian day national claudia day national judy day i can't keep up i reject that i do too as a premise those are not the days yeah so i'm going to go back to asking daniel about winning so many emmys i can't believe you've won so many emmys how does it feel to win so many it's uh what a generous question

it it feels very uh fun and and fun and rewarding and strange and weird. I'm not quite good at talking about it because I don't want to sound like I'm cooler than awards or that I'm not grateful for the recognition. The best thing about it is it's cool for parents. My mom and dad like to you know it one of the enemies lives at at their house one lives at my brother david's house one was my brother tommy's house and one lives here with me and they're i'm much happier to have them at other family members houses because then you know i'm not to show them off to anyone, but they get to brag and they get to feel cool, and it's nice to have a fancy pants statue. All that said, from the beginning,

when I started working here and going to the Emmys, you really have to side yourself up, just for, like, my own mental health, where it's like, if I lose this, it's okay. It's, it's going to be fine. And that's not going to change the quality of the work that I do. And I, I will not get so wrapped up in a loss that it sends me down a negative spiral.

And then the thing part of my brain is like, well, then you also have to do the opposite. If you win this, that also shouldn't change the quality of the work. It shouldn't change the process. And like, don't forget. And this is something i feel i've inherited from uh either a lifetime of irish catholic guilt or it's a sensibility shared by my wonderful boss john oliver too it's like at the

end of the day remember that you are getting a trophy for the job that you do and get paid to do and you're an adult with a little trophy and you should feel you should feel pretty silly about that a participation statue yeah yeah what's um which one did you keep i have the the most recent one because this is the one that has my new title is senior writer for the show and the other ones just say writer and this one says senior yeah of those bullshit statues for your family and you got senior writer so fast i like that mentality when i was first in la director los angeles for those los angeles for anybody not in the biz which is short for business that's right meaning entertainment business business anywho he said enjoy the highs but not too much for that same thing. Because the

lows are going to feel extra low and the highs feel extra high. And so what you have to try to do is keep yourself right in the middle to keep your expectations. It's not that you can't feel excited about it. It's that it's ephemeral. Because if you get too high then the the because the hard time always is going to come there's always going to be the in-between jobs the whatever sooner or later so you have to keep that perspective the other thing to to always keep in mind for for this is like it's not a massive industry like we we know people who work on these other shows that we're competing with. And I don't... As cool as it is to

have a trophy, it's like I know personally friends that are going to have a bad night because they lost. It's people like, oh man, my buddies at SNL, my buddies at Colbert, I don't want them... Why can't... This is so cor don't want them. Why can't.

This is so corny in participation trophy. Say it. Why can't. Why can't we all win? Like it's a stupid thing to. It's an honor just to be nominated. It is. But it's that that is such a that's an interesting part of this industry is that one success is oftentimes another's failure. Yeah.

But it also changes. Unless you're Leonardo DiCaprio, you eventually win, I think. Yeah. He's never won, right? He has, yeah. Fuck me. Cut it out. He finally did, yeah.

You can cut it out. That's too old. That's not even recent. That's too old. Sounds like something Mr. dicaprio would say y'all politely nodding at me you can leave it in if you want i don't care leave it in for daniel's joke about i know leonardo's 19 years why i really liked how drastic the energy shift was from uh leonardo caprio he didn't win right, to fuck me

you got more heated than I expected you to get because inside Daniel I felt very proud at having some sort of obviously lame joke pop culture coach but I felt

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Once more, that's rocketmoney.com slash more news. Once more, that's rockandmoney.com slash more news. Oh, I was going to share a mountain. We got to talk about news at some point. But before we started recording, Daniel was like, how's the mountains? Because we are on different sides of the country here in different environments. And I share the story. So there's a big storm, the atmospheric rivers. We'll talk about that later. Lots of snow. And I was like, it's hard to walk out. My dog keeps sinking in it.

It's not that much. I don't have that much where I am. But Benny's. He's a tiny little guy. He's hesitant at best with the snow. So I'm like, I'm going to be I'm a mountain girl now. I'm going to shovel my my concrete, my stairs and everything. And I do it sucked awful. Go to trivia night at the local bar come home holding a bag of flaming hot cheetos an open bag and i

slip like a cartoon and the cheetos go everywhere and i don't feel good today i gotta be honest next day i go out and i uh haul this giant bag of salt that my dad i can't carry it i'm dragging it i'm salting everything good and later in the day i do it again i'm like this isn't gonna happen this morning i wake up to a really beautiful sight of all these deer coming up closer and all of a sudden my whole walkway there's like six deer eating the salt and i'm like okay okay i'm watching when they leave i go outside just covered in deer shit just absolutely covered in deer shit man and so the moral is it bright orange from the cheetos no they didn't i cleaned up the cheetos when i was salting the area because i'm a good girl i don't know i i clean up my sorry i interrupted i interrupted your moral the moral

of the story is don't shovel your fucking snow. That was awful, every step of it. I would rather walk in the snow than do any of what happened after. I don't think I was prepared for just how mountain these mountains were. It's snow and wildlife and you're really out there. I don't know why I had this idea in my head that it was like, yeah, it's mountains, but it's not really mountains. It's going to be like some kind of strange LA version of mountains.

Like an Aspen-y kind of thing? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, no, no. I didn't want the LA mountains. I'm going to tell you my mountains and Jonathan, you're, well, I'm going to say, we're going to bleep what I'm saying. It's. Oh, wow.

Beautiful. It's gorgeous. It's absolutely gorgeous. I understood why we bleep them though. She lives in, I can't even see word mountains. Can they say that? Can they write that down on maps

no it's just a census designated area i looked it up it's not even like a actual town it's a town wow and it's very charming and it's very different and i love it i do and now i'm curious if you had a similar story to what i have because i i hear you being caged about where exactly you are you don't want people to find you i never mentioned like the uh my town for by name for the the same reason uh and i've i've always danced around with just a quiet little small beach town in new jersey please don't find me. And then I go on living my life. And I had a sweatshirt with the name of the town on the shirt. And one time I was in California on a fishing trip,

and I took a picture of me on the fishing trip on the boat, just like, here I am being a happy guy holding the fish. And then a guy DMed me on Instagram and was like, hey, just so you know, I know you're really cagey about where you live, but if you zoom in on that picture, you could see the name of your town. And I figured out that's where you live. And it's someone that honestly thinks he's doing a good service. Yeah.

It's a strange phenomenon. But also demonstrating, I i mean exactly why you're cagey about it like i yeah yeah like you know just so you know anyone could uh anyone could zoom in on this one picture of you and find out exactly where you live could you imagine if it was someone weird and not a cool normal guy like me exactly i've had so many emails like that over the years of like i know exactly where you are right now. I got one email saying, I just want you to know how easy it was for me to find all your personal

information. I'm not going to do anything with it. It's it sits at you. I don't there. And there actually are a lot of more fans than I expected up here. I meet them all the time. And I'm always like, let's just keep this.

Like, let's not place it not that I think someone is going to but the world do anything but it is a they could yeah but I'm very conscious of not posting pictures uh that have any sort of a signage anything or anything that is specific to the town even though I'd like to promote the town yeah sure don't want to do it, we should talk about some news. Jonathan, why don't we start with... Speaking of contracts.

Well, the big news this morning out of Hollywood or New Mexico is that Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the October 2021 shooting death of Helena Hutchins, the cinematographer on his film Rust. The film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who multiple sources said was responsible for the care of guns on set and making sure they were unloaded, was also charged. You know, this might be a tough conviction for them

because he's Alec Baldwin and he has lots of resources. conviction for them because he's alec baldwin and he has lots of resources but also i i read the new mexico criminal code for involuntary manslaughter today and they congratulations yeah no i'm you know just to toot my own horn that i can read a page on the internet no they have to prove criminal negligence and a reckless disregard for others and i think if they can kind of offload some of that responsibility to the armorer or the assistant director the first assistant director by the way took a a deal he agreed to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon in exchange for a suspended sentence and six months of probation honestly i'm not quite sure are my thoughts on this story. It's just so fucking tragic, the whole situation.

And I was seeing you shared a thread. There's some speculation about why these charges are being brought, you know, if it is about someone trying to do a high-profile case or trying to make a statement. It's not that I... But I don't know. I don't know what the degree, the enough details about it.

Could all be rumor in the New Mexico, you know, lawyer community. It's really hard and really, it continues to be a conversation, safety on set, you know, and it never seems to, certain regulations happen or procedures are established

and then this happens but yeah i'm not quite sure how i feel except that this is really fucking tragic and i and if i remember correctly that armorer this was like her first job uh i could be wrong about that daniel you look like you got thoughts yeah i'm gonna say something that that in no way reflects the sensitivity and tragedy of this moment. Do you guys see Alec Baldwin's Instagram video from last week? No. I have it almost memorized. It's him in his kitchen looking like shit.

His hair is messy. And he's like, hello. It's January 5th, the day before my wife Hilaria's birthday. We don't celebrate January 6th the way other people do. We make it just about her birthday. Hilaria is, it seems like, just centimeters away from a million followers on Instagram. I really want to get her there for her birthday. Will you do that for me?

Please. Please follow Hilaria. Please. I love my wife. That's true. That's definitely true. Please. Please do this for me.

Please follow her. Thank you. And then there's that. Yeah. It's like an incredibly weird, insane thing for a famous person to do generally. To just like, please follow my wife on Instagram. Like, no, no, no. You're like a rich, famous adult.

You don't, I'm not, you shouldn't do this. You should have different priorities. But second of all, the fact that like, that's where his mind is at now, right now specifically, is like, I think Alecwin might be a little bit crazy i think he uh not to not to speculate but i think a little nutso bobutso so this that's why i'm talking around it's like i don't know the specifics about how this set was run but the legality of how to prove things but yeah alec baldwin seems like kind of a shit shitty person sometimes here yeah and you know he said he didn't pull the trigger but it seems that he did and look that's a stressful situation i would never want to have a loaded gut being that

but it's his it was his set it was his project and there is where does the responsibility go if not somewhere i just feel really conflicted about the whole thing though and um yeah we'll see what happens i don't know there's a there's an element of it that it is uh a fucking deer is back you ate all the salt sorry ah there's that there's that catchphrase again that she always trots out yeah you don't it's right outside the window we've got that on t-shirts and everything yeah i'm sorry i've ruined the whole show i think you've enhanced it i forget what i was gonna say but you definitely enhanced it uh just yeah i don't know uh he was handed a gun on set and he fired like most actors

would do because that's usually how sets work you have like a chain of people who handle the things very very carefully and then they're like all right now here it is and go do the thing um but like you said it's his set i do think there should be sort of um regulation on the low end and the high end of people on social media. And I think wealth should also be taken into account. You get a certain amount of like a certain age and a certain amount of wealth. You don't post anymore because then we'll know, then we'll see it. We'll see what's happening to you. Here is one other thing i was gonna say is that they are apparently still making the movie i guess that was more of a gentle question i think that's appalling to be honest that you are trying to you know lock this wrap this thing up and then make your movie finish it i couldn't stomach watching that it will i'm i believe still be directed by

the director who was shot and recovered i understand no i'm not saying that i know i don't means one thing or the other i don't know yeah it's like that would be even weirder if they got a new director yeah but it is yeah it's very strange because how could you go to just see this movie like oh a new western I'd like to right like there's there's too much baggage attached to the movie because it will have two cinematographers because the first one was fucking shot

yeah yeah yeah you know all right let's take a quick break huh oh good uh is there another deer we can end this segment on a high note or i mean two others walked by but i but bit my lip because i couldn't do that again they're gone now but i bet they'll be back we'll be right back just like us hey it's me cody the diceston, telling you about Manscaped.

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Last week could be last year for all I know. Do you want me to look up last week's ads so we can remember what they just heard? Not at all. Not even a little bit. Well, we should talk about some of the floods that happened in California recently. We had in both Northern California, Southern California, quite a few very heavy rainstorms causing widespread flooding. And, you know, it's very foreboding every time this happens now, because we've seen reports of what the flooding situation is going to look like in the Central Valley and around the state in some climate change, worst case scenarios that, you know, leave Los Angeles underwater and what have you.

Yeah. That article from a couple of months ago, it definitely was looming large in my mind as all the atmospheric rivers approached. I wanted to talk about this. I'd like to hear you speak more on atmospheric rivers. You've mentioned atmospheric rivers a few times are you guys see this is the problem is that i cannot believe that everything i'm saying

isn't just like common to everybody because i i'm shocked at the lack of coverage about things atmospheric but anyway or just i guess the newsfeed targeting my location. Sure. But the atmospheric river, I absolutely do not know the science of it, but it is an extreme winter storm where all of the water collects over the ocean. We had, how many is it in the notes here? 13? I don't know. Like we had a bunch of atmospheric rivers, one after the other, after the other. I didn't Google the number.

It's fine. I feel like something in that range is true but someone is gonna correct me it was a lot and it's like a massive amount of water like trillions of gallons of water over the last several weeks you know it was nine nine atmospheric rivers sorry and 32 trillion gallons of water over so i was right on the trillions you know what i thought nine and then i inflated it i was like i think it's a higher so nine still a lot and what has been revealed is just how woefully unprepared we are for any of this stuff that's coming i was so last week at our, I asked if anybody was seeing coverage of what's happening, like, uh,

the runoff from the mountains into these primarily agricultural areas with workers from that are migrants, you know, low income people that are working completely flooded. Like there is a town that was a hundred percent evacuated underwater and, uh, you know, parts of California, where my brother lives in Half Moon Bay, a sinkhole opened up into the main only road, the main road in and out. You couldn't. Same in Santa Cruz. I'm not sure where the where that stands right now. I believe Monterey became an island for a minute. It's it's Capitola, whole docks flooding into Santa Cruz.

This is what we've been talking about. And it's really shocking how little attention, like the only attention really that people got was like, wild, look at this person surfing in LA or whatever. And like for a day or, you know, San Francisco, which was bad enough. The whole, and you think about our unhoused community living in these conditions, but whatever and like for a day or you know san francisco which was bad enough the whole and you think about our unhoused community living in these conditions but that's not what we talk about like people's lives were absolutely ruined 20 deaths which you know i think were pretty desensitized to death counts in general but beyond that the the property destruction and whatnot um

anyway i just wanted to bring this up to mention mention it, because I couldn't believe how little people saw what was happening. This did not land on my newsfeed. I knew that it was raining in Los Angeles recently, and people were talking about it on Twitter, certainly, for sure. But as far as the rest of this stuff goes, this is all, I'm learning this for the first time. So that's why I say it. And it's like the floodwaters. Well, part of it is, of course, that we have been in extreme drought. And now we're just in drought, I guess, not extreme drought after all this water.

And everything is so dry that it's not able to absorb. But it's beyond that. There's lots of like, like you know engineering questions that this raises about you know preparing ourselves because this wasn't even the super flood that has been warned of in fact uh just today an article comes out saying that you this is a pretty standard amount of water for uh it's not climate change well i don't know how they know that everything has been really extreme and like whatever. But it just shows like even at that, the destruction,

the way the changing landscape. Yeah, we can't handle like normal bad weather. Yeah. Let alone like the climate change bad weather. Well, because we've ignored our infrastructure on that account already. Like they talk about the money they want to spend uh to you know build up more build up the dams and allow for the what is it i don't even i have the word here so i don't want to say the wrong thing atmospheric river no there's the like the natural flood plains they

want to address the natural flood plains in the central valley so it's like better for the wildlife and we're not even doing it for the regular old weather and I think it's very easy not to one it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it means and when climate change is past a tipping point and all those things and also when there's like death counts

weather related death counts we're all like well that wouldn't happen to me I'm on the second floor or I this, or I wouldn't be caught out in that kind of weather. So it's very easy to take yourself out of it as a thing that could possibly affect you. But I think that's what climate scientists are trying to warn us about, is this is the kind of stuff that in 2035 and 2040 and beyond like no one will be able to avoid it yeah what is this quote from i'm not sure um is it the one about how global warming will push the average snow elevation higher global warming will push the average snow elevation higher in

california's mountains where more precipitation will fall as rain and uh that is exactly what you've been seeing. There's tons of snow at higher elevations, like a shocking amount, more than expected, but there should be a lot more where I live. The snow line just keeps going higher and higher. So what the amount of water that's running down into these communities at lower elevations is very significant. But yes, there's lots of that coming. And the central California flood plains is a big deal. Part of it is that agriculture has been booming and just lean into it, and then you develop all around it, and now there's no room for waters to flood because there's lots of cities and everything is used up. The space

is limited. Anywho. You want to talk about George Santos updates? Because just since we talked about him last week, there are several new lies slash scams that he pulled, and I can run

through a couple of them. I love this story because i mean it's fascinating in so many ways but like did nobody look into this i know like in his own party in the opposition party like nobody seemed to care or try but you can give us the updates because well right if if there was an opposition research firm hired by his opponent it should be hard for them to get new clients like god so the the first thing that came out earlier this week is that he scammed people who needed surgery for their pets out of thousands of dollars uh he would set up gofundme accounts for pets who needed surgery. And then for one veteran, he said, well, I've raised this $3,000 for you, but you can't

go to the vet you went to. You got to go to my special shady vet. And then when he went to that vet, they're like, well, we can't do that surgery. Your dog's not a candidate for that surgery. And George Santos was like, oops, kept the money. We have to we're going to give it to another dog in need. And which is that he kept it for himself. There was all this is.

I don't know if this has been reported like confirmed yet by a major news organization, but it's 99 percent likely that George Santos was a drag queen in Rio under the name Katara Ravash. A former friend of his spoke to members of the media, shared some photos. It's it's Tim. It's it's like it's Tim. You know, the the of course, it's not the thing itself. It's the hypocrisy that he's part of the party that is now making attacks on drag queens,

a central part of their platform. Also, as with many people who knew George Santos in a central part of their platform also as with many people who knew george santos in a past life they know him as anthony devolder i love it's so funny like that one of the like this brazilian drag queen heard about it and was like hey yeah this is anthony but like no that's george like it's it's just like, I, we didn't even, I didn't even know about the fake, the fake name until last week. And now people are like, it's just all these wires across. Yeah.

The drag queen thing is what I wanted from this story from the beginning because he was just telling so many outrageous lies. And I wanted one thing to be true. I wanted them to get found out on everything like yeah that's not really my name yeah I didn't really go to this school yeah I I came from money no drag queen thing that's true that's true I threw in one real thing that I did yeah you gotta you gotta keep on their toes it is astounding to me I know you just said it we talked said it last week but how does this happen how is this they had to vet him yeah they got everybody they also i mean like we again we

talked about it last week like at a certain point i think they just don't they i mean they just don't care right like even this stuff like maybe it's a sad actually uh that like maybe the drag queen thing is going to be like what does it for him which is like very depressing again because of our current situation it's all bad but like they just don't they just don't care and they're going to like again maybe the drag queen thing but probably not yeah i think i imagine their their vetting process well first of all i don't think they expect anyone to be as outlandish and unhinged as as santos in so many ways he's got like so many avenues you can take with this and i i do feel like the vetting process sort of begins and ends with like he needs to take maybe two boxes you You know, like, oh, what's that?

We've got him to, you know, he's going to vote to ban abortion. Great. That's our vetting process done. Like, they find their one or two, like, biggest talking points. It's like, great. He does the thing that we want. He's going to tax cut for billionaires. Good.

Fine. I'm sure yeah i'm sure he's normal like the rest of us we can say oh gay republican look we yeah you know how about that yeah yeah perfect yeah and at this point it's like okay well we have it's all it's only and this is true of politics in general obviously but just like well we have the power now so if we just ignore it eventually in a few weeks the stories will run dry there will eventually not be another thing that he lied about that people are investigating right my favorite excuse is when he said no i never said i was jewish i said i was jew hyphen ish come on excellent which is like well what do you mean by that like that you do things

that you think that jewish people do i don't know right exactly it's like you think this is making it better but actually if you pull that thread what's your line of thinking there now we have more questions for you yeah you're not making it better uh He also, I believe his tweet about it was like, there are claims that I quote unquote performed as a drag queen, which is a lie. It's like, wait, are you just saying that you aren't a professional performer? Like, you did it. But it's just like this weird semantic thing.

It seems like he's trying to play in the same way with like, well, I'm Jewish. I didn't perform as a drag queen outrageous i never opened the the show as a drag queen exactly opened the show but like no it was a ponzi scheme i don't know what this ponzi scheme is ponzi yes i don't know what happened did he get some committee assignments too i think he did um yeah i'm pretty sure he did he got two committee assignments it was something about space right it was a like uh some space thing that he doesn't deserve let's see the steering committee recommended that he sit on the house small business committee and house science space and technology yeah oh yeah the house small business committee is very funny because he House Small Business Committee and House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. The House Small

Business Committee is very funny because he lied about running a family business. But he actually did go to space. The one thing. It's weird. That's one thing he didn't claim, but it's true. We looked into it. It's like, yeah, why didn't you say this?

It's impressive. Why did you lie about saving animals? That such a like provable thing or just a provable thing in his case it's also like the animal thing it's it's one of those things where it's like obviously like go back to that one with that brita and community like i uh can forgive racism but i draw the line of animal cruelty but like that is kind of like how republicans operate you know in a sense and like the animal thing is like well surely both sides will come together on this um that's the one thing you don't do right like as a scam it's very much like opportunistic in that it's like well everyone loves animals so i it's

easy to raise money for animal stuff for my cake. Right, but everyone loves animals, so they'll be mad at you when they find out it's a scam. Yeah. I think my friend Jill pointed this out on Twitter, and I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but it was very funny. But he was like, and I did this animal rescue

where I saved or cured 2,000 dogs and 150 cats. I was like, why wouldn't you make up a better number for cats? Right? It could be whatever you want it to be. Like, people hate cats. One-tenth the number of cats. I didn't save as many. That's such a good point.

He doesn't want to seem too woke, right? Yeah. Well, you know, it's gotta be it's gotta be blue hairs and their cats all right what else we got jonathan i think we should talk about the rift between steven crowder and the daily wire or daily wire plus all right all right there's a lot of details here interrupt me of course i have to credit journalist will summer who like went through and pieced all this together it would have taken me way way longer he's a politics reporter for the daily beast i don't know this story at all so oh great oh so you will just get to react i'm gonna

literally sit back cody do you remember the name of the Steven Crowder response show that you pitched me that you wanted to do years ago? Is it Loudest with Johnston? That's right. Think about it. Every time this chucklehead trends on Twitter. That one's been so good. Still time to do that. Okay, so it looks like Daily Wire Plus offered Steven Crowder a four year 50 million dollar deal to do his bullshit show for them

it looked like a pretty good deal he'd get four weeks off a year never have to work Fridays he apparently took issue with the fact that not all the money was guaranteed and it could be reduced if he didn't deliver as many episodes as he said he would or if he got banned from YouTube for something

that he said so would or if he got banned from YouTube for something that he said. That is so funny. Okay, keep going. You know, so he referred to it as a slave contract. Stop, Stephen. A what now? You can't do that. I mean, I know you can.

Like, there are no rules, but... I mean, I know you did. You can't say that, man. I mean... And then you can't... I'm sorry, you can't say it's a slave contract and then you can't i'm sorry you can't say it's a slave contract and it be for 50 million dollars it's so much money that's so much fucking money and slaves notably did not have contracts interesting fact about slaves and the word slave and the

number 50 million and i love that it's 50 million but he's but he took issue that it might not be as much as 50 million. It's still going to be. I bet it's still a lot, though, man. I bet it's at least many millions. Yeah, I would bet it's still millions of dollars. He apparently and I can't watch the response video from the CEO of Daily Wire because it's an hour long or something like that uh apparently crowder came back trying to make it 50 million a year he was like i don't like this contract for 50 million over four years it needs to be 50 million per year that is absurd that i

my home's money like i we talk so much about like the right wing grift and like how easy it would be to just like yeah i changed all my fucking opinions uh give me the money and it would totally work and you could just make so much fucking money off of it yeah it's so easy god hey cody i want to uh slap you in the face because you just you balked at watching the daily wire response video because it's it's it's an hour and i'm i'm still watching the jordan peterson video you made it's well it's an hour of the ceo of the daily wire explaining like a contract with steven crowder that's that's the video that i can't i can't. Sure. In this video, he like reads through it. So he's like, let's go through it from the beginning. And he reads like this non-binding term sheet sets forth the basic deal points of our proposed content. Like he reads through it

because I watched way too much of that video putting this together. So anyway, he real quick, he he great. Stephen Crowder griped about this on his show. Didn't say Daily Wire specifically specifically but everyone figured out who it was so the the co-ceo of daily wire jeremy boring put together a 53 minute video where he's like here's why it was a good deal just like that rules the 30 second video it was for 50 million dollars right it was a good like i don't think i ever really knew how much money the grifters were getting paid for this kind of bullshit. I knew there was money involved. I am very shocked that the number is that high. I would like it blew me away.

Yeah, you assume like, yeah, millions of dollars. I know like, yeah, they're being funded by billionaires to push their ideology so they can make more billions of dollars um so they're pumping money to make more money but like that's so much i have a hard time believing they'd make that back i mean they must but it's like that's absurd it's obscene amount of money uh for what it is uh a friend reached out about uh the jordan peterson videos very very long and basically he was like yeah you know i've talked to some people uh about him and like this and this and this and it's like and also by the way the amount of money he's getting from the daily wire is absolutely

disgusting and i they didn't give a number but i it's got to be more than than this right like there's no way he's not like a hundred millionaire now that sucks it's like very clear like this like uh his climate denialism specifically was like knocked up uh to like a hundred after this daily wire deal i would take the the the 50 million dollar deal i'm i'm really trying to would i sell out the planet and uh do an about face on all of my values? I'm trying to give this a real thought experiment, give it the real college try. It's so hard to conceive of $50 million. It's not a real number to me.

It's made up. And Steven Crowder is so. Bad at this stupid thing that he chooses to be. Yeah, that's such a great deal. And I'm just really trying to think like, you know, I could say all that dumb shit, too. I could say all the horrible like it's it's no one is bringing no one. No one of these grifters is bringing anything new to the table. I can. That's the thing about it 50

million dollars for the easiest gig i will ever have right because like it's not it's always this sort of like yeah i want to do this and do this and this and this and i couldn't and so i'm gonna just like do be one of these like yeah professional liars and uh get that sweet cash and sell brain pills or whatever and like you're saying like if anyone i don't want to be too rude if anybody talented decided to do this like they would be so successful yeah it's only because of what they're saying that they're getting all these incredible grotesque deals but imagine imagine like a talented funny person doing this yeah i guess i guess it's for the best though right i guess i mean oh yeah i i work so hard to write stories about true things that are

that are are sad and like we work ourselves up to such a state to be in in like the right mental position where i can live with sad stories about people dying in prison or you know, this fascist dictator, some other part of the country, or part of the planet. We work ourselves into such a state to write these stories and I get paid so much

less than $50 million. And I work so much harder. Yeah, yeah. You also have gold statues though. Yeah, yeah. You also have gold statues, though. Yeah, but who cares? Your mother does, and you know that. That's right, that's right. Jonathan, sorry, what were you saying?

No, their work is like, because, you know, they do four days a week and it's, I don't know how long his show is, two, three hours of just like, here's a bunch of topics topics what's the thing on it oh this is the this is the left's fault for this made-up reason it's it takes more effort to like research stuff it just does and i think that's why we can't pump out as much content and there's not like there's a lot of reasons there's not like a left-wing media machine worth billions of dollars

and if you because also like we yeah we like research stuff we have fact checkers and we make There's a lot of reasons there's not like a left wing machine worth billions of dollars. And if you because also like we yeah, we like research stuff. We have fact checkers and we make sure that everything is accurate. And if something's not accurate, we like adjust it or like write more to take that fact into account. And like we also spend the emotional energy to create content that we're trying to help people with as opposed to destroy them yeah it's just and like just like and knowing his positions on on like workers rights and wages and even like paternity leave and things like that and him being like this slave contract for 50 million dollars is oppressing me fuck off leave forever never come back it's so uh i mean good for him for i guess embarrassing himself um with all

this but may i tell you what jeremy boring referred to crowder as at the beginning of the video he wanted to compliment him and so he called step Steven Crowder maybe the most talented person working in the conservative media space. He's one of the top entertainers in the country, politics notwithstanding, a great comic voice. Excellent. Eyes convince me.

Give him the 50 mil. A year. Depressing. One of the top entertainers in the country is a wildly unserious thing to say. Here we are again. Not being able to have an agreement on what a fact is.

We clearly have a different idea of entertainer. Not me and you guys. Just looking at the pictures of him and he is like just some fucking guy. He's just such a dude. Dumb face yeah unremarkable yeah man what a what a lucky idiot what a lucky oh my god he's so lucky why would you fuck that try to fuck that up in some way i'd be like okay fine i mean if i had his uh morals

right and maybe he'll you know his like independent thing will work out for him maybe he has enough but i don't think it's going to be 50 million dollars i don't think it's going to be 50 mil but then like he's going to have like fans who are like wow he really stood up to the daily wire but like no you're doing you're all doing the same thing it's the same shit jordan peterson was one of those fans before he deleted his tweet of support for Steven Schreiber. Hell yeah. I love it. I love it. You love to see it. Anything that's like, gets

these people to be like, I thought we were friends. Or like, wow, it's weird that he's saying this now when he said this. You're all just fucking liars. Just get it over with. Did it go well for him though? Are his daily wires in support of his decision? Or are they calling him, I believe Candace Owens called him a coward?

She called it a bitch move. Bitch move. Bitch move. Yeah, that sounds like her. Saying he treats people poorly. Oh, Candace. Wow, really? Yes, and also. Sorry sorry jonathan i feel like we keep interrupting you to

say that steven crowder's piece of shit is there more to this story wrap this up no that's we did everything in the interest of uh spending a lot of time on uh work and research and like you know doing doing you know using your talent for for good is there any uh thing that you've had released on i'm speaking to daniel o'brien right now uh anything uh that you've released that like you're particularly proud of or you want to talk about or that you feel you want to get people to see yeah there is so uh thank you for what a generous opportunity you've provided the show is in between seasons right now. We're working on the show, obviously, but we will not be back on the air until February.

But in the meantime, we released a web exclusive over the holidays that is just called Trash. If you go to last week's night's YouTube channel. And it's sort of bad form for any writers to take credit for any segments or anything. Because so much of the show is written by so many people in different departments coming together. I wrote this thing. It's one of the dumbest things they've let me do on this show because sometime in the last year, for reasons that escaped me the show acquired a bunch of disgusting haunted looking baby dolls that washed up shore in texas we hated them and so we bought them this was an idea brought to us by by my co-worker sophia and then we spent a lot of time trying to find

different weight different things to dispose of these baby dolls. We wanted to send them to a recycling plant in Australia that belonged to a small town that we had decided to start a feud with for reasons that no one can remember anymore. They were like, no, we're not going to take your dolls. And we were getting towards the end of the season and no one knew what to do with these dolls. And I was making my rounds on the internet like i like i do and found there was a

campaign in a town called malmo in uh sweden and they were trying to get people excited about garbage so they programmed all of their garbage cans to moan sexually and say like oh thank you for filling me up more, more. But like in Swedish or whatever. And I was like, oh, this is pretty fun. And I just like, that's one of the bits of information that if you work at Last Week Tonight, you just file away in your brain. And like, yeah, that's going to go on television. It's like sexy talking garbage cans.

Yeah, absolutely. Let's bookmark this for my serious HBO show. And it was just a good time of like stars aligning where I was like, can i can we uh send these dolls to to to malmo and throw them out there and they were like yeah let's let's let's look into it and we talked to the people who made the garbage cans and they were and they're like the garbage cans were only moaning in the summer we're not doing that anymore we're like fuck like we'll we can program them to say anything else you want if you want them to to do that and i was like yes please yes please uh this is the assignment i've wanted my entire life is

just write alt lines for sexy talking garbage cans that that's like some serious voice actor in sweden we'll have to record them and we we got that all done, and we sent the dolls, and there's the lead singer from uh, oh shit, it's that band that does that love me, love me, the Cardigans. Yeah, the Cardigans. Their lead singer is from

Malmo. She's the only famous person from Malmo, so we were like, hey, lead singer for the Cardigans, will you throw out these dolls for us? She's like, yes, fine. And she didigans, will you throw out these dolls for us? Come on. fine. And she did that. And it's like, one of the stupidest things

we've done or that I've ever been a part of. Yeah. Yeah. This is incredible. And I gotta say, this is how you win gold statues. Right?

This is a $50 million over four years idea. It sure is. I love that I spent this episode talking about how hard i work i'm jealous of steven crowder and then and now i'm realizing the realities of my job now we know just how hard you do work for that um because i thought i thought you were gonna

talk about that airbud video but that's from like eight months ago. Yeah. Because that also was like, I bet Daniel had a hand in this Air Bud video. It's very chill that my boss just let me write an expensive version of Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder. Yeah. And have him film it instead of me. I haven't seen this before, but I've seen this before. I know. This has Daniel written all over it. It's a fun job.

It is a fun job and you're perfect for it. Oh. It's like one of those things when you got this job, I was like, yes, of course. Yeah. Did you guys, so you just took a month break for the holidays. Did you completely avoid the news? So to clear, we didn't take them well we took a significant chunk but it's kind of the way our ad schedules work about releasing stuff but so part of that time was still working you know

before releasing stuff i definitely didn't read news for a while cody oh yeah i mean i i was uh i went to uh i can say i went to ohio to visit my family yeah you're not there now uh yeah exactly um and i you don't know where in ohio but uh yeah so i for at least that week when i was there i pretty heavily avoided uh twitter.com and the news in general and just like yeah it's awesome it's it's amazing we're in it's hard to come back to. Yeah, yeah. I know that I was in, I did a lot of traveling for our hiatus and spent the first week of January in Cancun feeling amazing, not looking at Twitter. I don't think I took my computer out of its laptop case the whole week that I was there. And then we, my travel buddy and I went to our clubhouse at the resort to get our midday scotches.

And I looked over and the TV was on and it was CNN. And it occurred to me that I had no idea what was going on and I hadn't for days. And it felt awesome. And then she was like, what's going on in the news? And I was like, I think according to headline mccarthy lost his fourth vote for speaker and just like went about my day it was such like of anything to like groundhog day my way back into the news seeing that as the headline yeah yeah that's like a really good way that was a real touchstone for me too because i remember it happening and being like don't care i'm gonna

i'm gonna choose to not pay attention to this it's gonna be everyone was watching circus for four days everyone oh my god they'll figure it out absolutely not nothing in me they'll figure it out themselves you know i don't what am i gonna do nothing for me to do here so moving on daniel this has been so nice to have you to see our friend sort of in person this has been so nice to have you, to see our friend sort of in person. It's been so nice to be here. I can't wait to see you guys in real life. Pretty soon. I hope.

I think so. Sometime soon. Sometime soon. I know. I can't wait. We will not share any more information than that. Yeah. Especially not locations.

No. God. Crap reunion tour. Look for it. Oh, my God. You just shared more information. Oh, oh my gosh it's a lie folks we're not going on a tour stop it cody okay we're out of here this has been great daniel i feel like you've already plugged your stuff where do you follow daniel o'brien uh oh i i get in trouble

if i don't mention that i also have a podcast that i begrudgingly oh yes you do have something to plug quick question with soren and daniel i don't know what day of the week it comes out you don't need to well you just got to smash that subscribe button and i'll smash that subscribe button it'll it'll uh turn up you don't need to know the day it'll be a delightful surprise okay that's it we've done it we did it except I still have to say we love you very much

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