The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch LIVE at the Largo in Los Angeles with How We Win, Kathy Griffin, Allison Gill, Brian Tyler Cohen, and Frangela

Episode Date: August 24, 2022

Today, we are excited to share with you our live show from the Largo in Los Angeles, California! We were honored to participate alongside some incredibly talented people, including Kathy Griffin, Allison Gill from Mueller She Wrote and the Daily Beans, Brian Tyler Cohen, Frangela, and Steve Pierson of the How We Win Podcast—and raise money for the How We Win Fund, which helps Democratic candidates in the most important races across the country. If you want to contribute to the How We Win Fund, you can do so at HowWeWinLive.com! Together, we have already raised more than $30,000 to help usher in a BLUE WAVE!   SHOW BREAKDOWN 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:55 Show begins: Steve Pierson and Allison Gill 00:10:56 Frangela 00:27:00 MeidasTouch + Brian Tyler Cohen 00:44:44 Kathy Griffin 00:59:15 Outros + Goodbyes + F*** Chant!   Contribute to the How We Win Fund Subscribe to How We Win podcast Subscribe to Mueller, She Wrote and The Daily Beans Subscribe to No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen Subscribe to Frangela: The Final Word Follow Kathy Griffin   Special thanks to Steve Pierson, Allison Gill, Kanai Williams, Frangela, Brian Tyler Cohen, Kathy Griffin, the Largo, and the Meidas Mighty! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That's not America. What's up, Midas Mighty, and welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Brett, and today I'm excited to share with you our live show from the Largo in Los Angeles, California. We were honored to participate alongside some incredibly talented people, including Kathy Griffin, Allison Gill from Mueller, She Wrote, and the Daily Beans, Brian Tyler Cohen, Frangela, and Steve Pearson of the How We Win podcast, and raise money for the How We Win Fund, which helps Democratic candidates

in the most important races across the country. If you want to contribute to the How We Win Fund, you could do so at howwewinlive.com. That's howwewinlive.com. Get this, together, we've already raised more than $30,000 to help usher in a blue wave. Now, without further ado, enjoy our live podcast from Los Angeles. What's better than a well marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue, a well marbled ribeye sizzling

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field director, California Democratic Party leader, and the host of the How We Win podcast, Steve Pearson! Yeah! Thank you so much. This sounds like an audience that has a real fuck around and find out kind of mood right now. So let's do a quick chant. What are we going to do?

Keep the house blue. What are we going to do? Keep the house blue. What are we going to do? Keep the house blue. What are we going to do? Keep the house blue. All right. All right. And we're going to bring out now. What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? All right, all right.

And we're gonna bring out now, of course, you know her, you love her, the brilliant host of Muller She Wrote, the Daily Beans, Allison Gill. Hi, everybody. Yeah. Fuck yeah. This is a swearing show, just so you know. There'll be a lot of fucks given tonight. All out of fucks.

I think that was an air supply song. I'm all out of fucks. I think that was an air supply song. I'm all out of fucks. I'm so lost without them. That's right. That's the one. Beautiful. Like an angel. Thank you.

Like an angel. Yeah. With fucks. No fucks to give. With but many. So, first of all, we want to thank everybody for coming. And we want to thank everyone who's about to come out on stage, too. Because this community is so important.

And what we're doing is so important. And everybody who listens to MSW Media Podcasts, all of them, are so engaged and plugged in and fucking activated. And we hold each other up when we need to. And that's so, so important because kindness is key, right? Yeah. And also kicking fucking Republicans' ass in November is also key. So what is the How We Win Fund, my friend? Yeah, well, first of all, thank you so much for donating, for everyone who bought tickets and are donating to

this really important fund. We get questions all the time from people. There's so many candidates. There's so much going on. Where should I donate? Where is my money going to make the biggest impact? And that's what the How We Win Fund is. It's Swing Left's national impact fund, and it goes to the races that need our support the most. So there's congressional races, there's Senate races, there's gubernatorial races. And what's cool about it is it's not the same. It changes depending on where the greatest need is. So the political team at Swing Left figures out, you know, what candidates are in a little bit of a shortfall or where they need some more money. So often we're chasing that bright, shiny thing, you know, that's really compelling, but maybe not where our money is the most strategic. So

it takes a guesswork out of doing that. So for everyone who bought tickets, thank you. For guests, you're freeloaders. That's okay. That's okay. I'm really glad you're here too, but we're going to give you opportunities to donate at howwewinlive.com to continue to donate to this important fund. How much have we raised already? All right, so when we launched this fund, about a... How long has it been? Sir, I... Reclaiming my time.

How much money have we raised? It's fucking incredible what he's done, seriously. We've raised just about $30,000 already. Tip of the iceberg. I know we can get to 50, probably more, but we can do it with your help. And it's, you know, we all know what the stakes are for the midterms. It is literally the most important election of our lives.

So, yeah. And every election from now on will be. Yeah. And tip of the iceberg is right. And, you know, you know who's made it a hell of a lot easier to raise money for the midterms? Fucking Joe Biden. Yeah. Dark Brandon has been...

And also, Justice, the fucking FBI. Okay, look. We have... Right. We have a list of... When we planned this show, none of this shit had happened.

No. It was dark. We were just like, we got to get together and really start raising money. I think maybe Roe had been repealed. Yeah, that was it. That was it. That was all that had happened. But now, let's hear it for the Inflation Reduction Act.

Can I hear some noise for the CHIPS Act? Let's hear it for the Safer Communities Act. How about the PACT Act? Easy to say. Record low unemployment. Mar-a-Lago searched. They like that one. Extra pause for applause. Rudy Giuliani is going to be fucking indicted.

Lindsey Graham is not going to squirm out of his fucking subpoena. So we have a lot to look forward to, a lot of momentum. I think we can hold the House and increase our stake in the fucking Senate. Think about everything we could get done over the next two years. It's absolutely incredible. And so I want to say, I want to say one quick thing though, because you gave me some props, which was really sweet, but I want to give you some props too. Yeah. For what MSW media has done. And I want to thank everyone who's participating in this. It is so important that we build coalitions in progressive media and that's what you have been doing with MSW Media.

So yeah. The sad truth is in the alternative media landscape, we're getting our ass handed to us by right-wing conspiracy theorists and liars. And the way that we fight back against that is by coming together and doing stuff like this, you know, joining forces and building our collective power. So for everyone that's on this show, I hope that you subscribe to their podcast, you leave reviews for them, you lift up all the truth tellers. It's how we get the fascists off the charts. That's right. And I realize that everyone who's on this show has a huge podcast,

and everyone's like, who is How We Win, the best kept secret in political podcasting. I knew this when I was interviewing Adam Schiff at an event, and I finished the interview, and this woman walked up to me and said, who are you with? And I said, the Howie Wynn Show. You should have said Adam Schiff. I'm with Adam, right?

I am with Adam. But I said, the Howie Wynn Show. And she said, are you Howie? Yeah, my intro music, think says News Liz Waring. So instead of News with swearing, so I often, Hello, I'm Liz Waring. I'm here today to bring you some news. But yes, absolutely.

Everybody who comes out tonight, please follow. We have to knock these fascists off the list. I was beating, who was I beating yesterday? Nunes. Nunes's podcast. Yeah. That's a low bar though does he still have a show like everyone's like yeah so like you got eight listeners um but no they they seriously dump so much money into this shit we got to do this yeah yeah all right so you have you have a a cool thing that you're going to unveil right now oh yes that sounds sort of an unveiling to raise money wait

don't pop it up yet i'm so excited about this who's a fucking nerd in here who's a nerd who who likes justice okay so this is the nerdiest most justicy thing i've thought of in my whole life so i've decided to make a shirt out of it and some of the proceeds from the sales of these shirts, which you can find at dailybeanspod.com, will go to How We Win. Unveil the shirt. Yeah.

Conspiracy against the United States, espionage act, mishandling of records, obstruction of justice, and obstructing an official proceeding. That's right. All crimes that judges have credibly accused Donald Trump of committing,

and what a conversation starter. People are going to be like, what the fuck is the answer? What'd you sure say? I'm so glad you asked. Why, it's all the crimes judges of consent to Donald Trump have committed. And hopefully by the time, you know, maybe in a couple years, it could be all of the crimes he was convicted for.

We'll see. We'll see. All right, who do we got coming up first, my friend? I'm so excited about this. I am really excited about this. I am really excited about this, too. This duo has been a regular fixture on, you know already, on television and radio,

popping up to offer their witty and scathing commentary about the pop culture and political stories of the day. They have appeared on such television shows as I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, VH1's Best Week Ever, The Today Show, Dateline, CNN's Showbiz Tonight, among others. They are regular guests and frequent substitute hosts on The Stephanie Miller Show. Hosts of the Final Word podcast, let's welcome to the stage Frances Collier and Angela V. Shelton, better known as Fran-gilla! What is up? Hello!

I'm Frances Callier. And I'm Angela V. Shelton. And y'all, we are Frangela, and welcome to... Idiot of the Week! Week, week, week, week, week! Professional. Now, there's a reason why we say professional. Because we do two podcasts.

The final word in Idiot of the Week on MSW Media. Check it out. But Idiot of the Week, usually we don't have politicians in it. No. Because that's not fair to the normal idiot. Yeah. That's like NBA players playing your kid in seventh grade. It's not fair.

But for you, for you, because you're saving the democracy tonight. We're going to do something special. It's all political motherfuckers. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Now, we want you to listen up close because you're going to vote at the end of this.

You're going to help us decide. Because we believe in democracy. Yes. Which one of these dumb motherfuckers going to win? Okay? All right. Let me tell you, it's going to be hard. It's going to be hard.

It's going to be hard. It's going to be hard. First up, we have Eric Trump accidentally shares Wi-Fi network and password during whiny Fox News appearance. Look at this stupid shit. This is this dumb motherfucker right here. Look at him. There he is. And then right up, he's doing a selfie. But what he doesn't realize is that the camera, Wi-Fi, password,

and network is right there above him. That's where your nuclear secrets are. Right there. If you want to get to them, there's the password and the Wi-Fi. Or slip the pool boy two dollars and you can get into the actual file boxes. See, I'm not a parent. Frances, you're a parent. I'm a parent. What's it like when you realize that your child is a dumb motherfucker? That's a hard-ass

day, let me tell you. That's a hard-ass day. And you a dumb-ass motherfucker too, right? I mean, bless R.I.P. Ivana, but none of these people smart. No. Okay? No, no. But he somehow,

you gotta give it to him. I mean, that is damn good stupid. That is damn good. But we gotta sit here and listen to, oh, you know what? You know, you broke into my father's home. You're stealing his secrets.

You're sending them out on the internet. Here's the Wi-Fi passcodes. Yeah, that's the kind of shit we're talking about. Mm-hmm. Next up. This is hard. This one, get ready. You, okay.

Senator Ron Johnson claims he was only involved in fake electors plot for seconds. Y'all, he just put the tip in, okay? It was just the tip! It was just the tip! It was like, sick sock! No, I'm done! You can't get pregnant with no insurrection off that. You can't.

No! Sick sock! None! He pulled out. What do you want? He pulled out. They put the insurrection in his hands and it was barely there. It was barely there. It was barely there until he delivered it and then he was done. Then he was out. Then he was out. It was done. It was just It was second, y'all. He stuck the tip in Mike Pence. He went six

sock out and he was done. You know, you know about those Federalist papers that were like, you can commit treason if it's under 27 seconds. Over 27 is fucked up. Okay, that is fucked up. That's fucked up. And let me tell you something. I am sure that this man has had sex shorter than what he committed treason for. So you can't be judging him. No. No, you can't.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that he's never gone that long. He said, quote, I had virtually no involvement. Literally, my involvement lasted seconds. Okay? No, it's not. No, it's not fucking okay. It's not fucking okay. It's not fucking okay, and it's not over.

I don't know what's so difficult for these white men, but they seem to think that laws apply when they feel like it for, like, brief periods of time. But Ron, you can't be like, like, I was only involved in robbing that 7-Eleven for, like, 36 seconds. Then I had nothing to do with it. It wasn't in my spirit. It wasn't in my soul. It wasn't in my journey.

That's a professional idiot. That's a professional idiot. That's a professional idiot. Now, this last story, I wanted to leave a lot of time to talk about. Because first of all, I'm going to say, I need to recuse myself. I don't know if I get to judge on this particular story. Because we're liberals, we do things correctly. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Will you read the title, Angela, please?

I'm going to try as hard for my lips to do it. Dennis Rodman says he will travel to Russia to negotiate Brittany Griner's release. Oh, Lord! Woo! I don't know if you Brittany, you like... I so want to get out of this motherfucker. I so want to get out of this motherfucker.

Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. I have to recuse myself because I'm going to tell you, this sounds sane to me. It does. I'm going to tell you, I'm at that point. I'm at that conspiracy point. You got some people right over here. Okay. Y'all with me? Because I'm going to tell you,

we sing crazy to talk to crazy. That sounds sane to me. That could work. But this is a quote from Dennis. He said, quote, I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl. I would like you to know my name. I think there are a lot of that girls in prison in Russia. I really do. I think if you go to Russia, go, I'm here for that girl. They're going to be like, well, we got Pussy Riot. We got who you want.

You got some air body. Who you want. You don't even know her name. And this is the thing that came to my mind, and it scared me. I'm going to tell you the truth. It scared me in this safe space. Who you want? You got some air body. Who you want? You don't even know her name. And this is the thing that came to my mind, and it scared me. I'm going to tell you the truth. It scared me in this safe space, because I've never thought I would have this thought in my head ever in my life. What?

I said to myself, it's kind of like if you knew that Kanye was coming to get you out. Right, right. And it came out of my head before I could stop it. I went, could you say Kim? Damn. And I'm going to tell you, you're right. You're right. You're right. Send Kim.

Please, Lord, send Kim. Don't send Kanye. Are we at that place? Because we're way beyond Rome dying. We're way beyond that Rubicon. If you're telling me that I'm sitting here going, could you send Kim Kardashian because I think she could do a better job,

are you fucking kidding me? But here's the thing. What you don't want to give up is that Dennis Rodman is a showman. He is a showman. Okay? He is a man. Let me tell you something.

He is the Madeline Albright that we all wish we could be. That's right. That's what I know. Let me tell you, he's going to traipse up in there, up into Russia, and he is going to present like a wild peacock. That's right. That's right. A lot of you are thinking, oh, I need to learn Russian. No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. You need to ball and be able to be like, yo, Putin, that's it. That's it. Maybe have a tiger-like pattern in your hair.

If you can pull that shit off, then you're in. I'm very upset because he does seem to think he's, I don't know what this is. It says, Rodman has assumed the role of an unofficial diplomatic ally. Ain't that just a party crasher? Ain't that just not invited? Yeah. But he says he got permission from the U.S. government. I want to know, can you imagine?

What part of the U.S. government? I need to know, can you imagine? What part of the U.S. government? I need to know exactly what department, what department does a Dennis Rodman getting people out of prison in Russia go to? What department? Because you know everybody was like, I don't want to touch that. And he called up, he was like, hey, hey, it's Dennis Rodman. I want to get Brittany out. Can you hold for a minute?

Dennis Rodman wants to get Brittany britney grinder i don't even think he knows her name i don't even i won't get that girl yeah we're gonna transfer you i want to get that girl out of russia we're gonna transfer you to accounts receivable okay they're gonna tell you what to do like it's like if you're if you're brit Griner, you in prison in Russia right now, what are you feeling? Relief? Or more fear? That's the problem we have, and that's why we have to fight for our democracy. Because when we're at the point, when we're sending Dennis Rodman officially, unofficially, what the fuck ever.

Yeah, we have a problem, y'all. We have a real problem. So what we need you all to do right now is to help us decide who is this week's Idiot of the Week. We're going to start off, we're going to remind you who we talked about. Number one, we had Eric Trump. All right. You think that's the biggest idiot? Okay. It's solid, you have to admit.

That's good. While complaining about being investigated to put up all your secret deets is amazing. Yes. Then we got testy Senator Ron Johnson claiming that he was only involved in fake electors for just a few seconds. For me a second. That's a little better. That's a little better. That's better.

That's a little better. Okay. Then we have Dennis Rodman being our head diplomat on our prisoner exchange with Putin. Not so much. You know what that is? Empathy, because you're good, caring people. Yes, you are. Yes, you are.

That's what that was. You're like, you know what? He's got problems. Yes. Yes. Yes. But what sounds like you went for Senator Ron Johnson, claiming he was over-involved for a few seconds. Senator Ron Johnson, you are the idiot of the week.

You know what, people? There was a time in this country. There was a time in this country? There was a time in this country when being a senator meant you didn't say stupid shit. Like, consistently. There was a time in this country when you were a senator you weren't involved in treason.

Actually there was a time when like none of them were but I guess that's over now. We are Frangela. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Come on make some more noise for Frangela! Wait, don't go anywhere.

Don't go anywhere yet. Not yet. Not yet, yeah. On How We Win, we always ask our guests one final question, and so we're going gonna bring it up right now for you all what's bringing you hope right now oh I'm gonna tell you something the fact that justice is happening to Trump let me tell you as a black woman in America let me tell you I am delighted I am hopeful I am overjoyed, okay, to watch somebody, that person, have law applied to him.

I have to agree. I don't generally like physical labor, but I would carry every one of those motherfucking boxes. I really would. I really would. Up and down them Capitol steps, to everybody's office individually if they wanted. I mean, here you go, here you go, happily, sweating, happily, getting those Weight Watchers exercise points. I don't give a fuck, because it's like watching Donald Trump

get pulled over like a black person with a broken taillight. It's amazing. Accept espionage. One more time for Frangela. All right. Before we move on, we also, on our How We Win podcast, have a to-do list that we do every week.

So we give you guys something to do that's meaningful and important. Guess what that is today? It's to donate, that's right, to the How We Win Fund. So what I'm gonna ask you to do is to pull out your phones. I know that you got a nice talk about how you weren't supposed to use your phones at the beginning of the show. Now is the exception.

Go ahead and go to howwewinlive.com. And if you can make another little donation, we would really appreciate it. Your nation would appreciate it. The very fabric of our democracy would appreciate it. And if you've already donated, make sure you share this with your friends. That's a really powerful thing that you can do. We all have a circle of influence. And that's something that I've found when I first started doing this kind of work volunteering And and sticking my toe in the activist pool is that we all have a circle of influence and we can make a really big impact So please share that link with your friends and make sure that they know what's going on

And then the other thing I want to acknowledge. And buy the nerd shirt. And buy the nerd shirt. That's right. Yeah. That's when is that going to be up on the right now? It's there right now on DailyBeans.com. So we could do it tonight. You are the first to see the shirt, by the way. Wow. So you'll be the first to wear the nerd shirt and answer some questions on the street, which is great. And then the other thing that I want to say really quickly is we've got some amazing volunteers here from Swing Left Los Feliz. Can you make some noise for them? Yeah.

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Just taking the internet by storm with their incredible videos. And seriously, like changing the world with the Midas Mighty. I want to welcome two-thirds of the Midas Touch Network. Ben and Brett Misalis. Come out. Come out. Come out, guys. I'm so glad you guys are here.

Microphones, couch, Sarah Silverman stitched pillow. Have a seat. Grab a mic. You're going to put your butt right on it, aren't you? I have a fit. Thanks for having us. Yes, now you may sit. How's everyone doing? You know, it's absolutely great to be in a room that applauds for the Inflation Reduction Act. I mean, that's pretty damn fucking cool. The CHIPS Act.

The PACT Act. Let's go. The PACT Act got a lot of love. I thought that was, yeah. That's pretty cool. So the Midas Touch Media Network has really taken off. You guys have done such an amazing thing. I know it exceeded all of the expectations you had when you first started doing this.

What are your plans in the, by the way, 77 days we have until the election. Well, when we first started getting Diaper Don to trend, number one, and make Donald Trump want to repeal the Communications Decency Act was a pretty big accomplishment. But now we've turned our sights on something bigger, which is to really take on Fox News. In our network, we're unapologetically pro-democracy. And what that means is we call a fascist a fascist. We call a traitor a traitor. We don't both sides the issues. And too much mainstream media, even ones that are supposed to be in the middle,

are both sidesing the issues and treating fascism and democracy the same. So we call them out, we call them extremists, and I think that's what media needs to do in general. Yeah, I am totally with you. I don't need to worry about my, oh, well, if you block these people, you're putting yourself in an echo chamber. I'm like, I'm cool with my non-fascist

information silo you know who doesn't worry about echo chambers you never hear like ben shapiro or any of these people being like are we talking to our own echo chamber here it's never a discussion they just go ahead with their and their lies so it's time that we counter that propaganda with facts and with truth and with honesty and that that's what we want to do. Here's the thing. These radical right fascists are making our job a little easy, right? I mean, they're going out right now, and this is some of the issues that they're running on, and I kid you not. You have Carrie Lake, I don't know if you've seen this, radical fascist from Arizona, talking about big dick energy. She told the crowd, she told the crowd, ask your children about BDE, because Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have big dick energy.

Probably the least big dick energy in the world. The least BDE. But think about that. Then you got Marjorie Taylor Greene groping cardboard box cutouts of Donald Trump. Some of the weirdest shit in the world. And we need to point that out, frankly, that that's weird fascism over there. Absolutely. Well, look, we have a lot of big news that we want to talk about.

And I know you guys are used to working as a trio and Jordy couldn't be here. So Jordy not here. No, Jordy's not. Jordy's not here. He's not here. I thought he was. So we got you a present we got you a present we got you a substitute for jordy a special surprise guest

to help out he's been bringing the facts since the early days of occupied democrats creating viral video smackdowns of republican lies before it was cool. He hosts one of the top political podcasts in the world, No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen. It's BTC himself, Brian Tyler Cohen, everybody. What's up, Brian? I think Brian could pass as Geordy if we're being honest. These guys needed a white Jewish guy in Los Angeles and said, wherever are we going to find one?

And we found the perfect guy. Are you sure that's not Jordy? So now that we have everybody who like the coolest people in the world here I would like to hit the hot notes Let's hit it We could just hot note it there we go there we go. There it is. The best part is you guys couldn't hear this, but all I heard in this year was, oh, fuck.

I thought I had to sing a song or something. The folks at home will never know. We'll edit it out in post. We'll fix it in post. We'll fix it in post again. All right. So, well, first of all, let's talk about the amazing, incredible, tremendous search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago. 300!

Yeah, that's breaking news tonight. 300 at least classified top secret SCI clearance documents. Seems bad, guys. Seems bad. The craziest thing is like you have an entire right wing ecosystem who's predicated their entire identity on wanting to lock up a woman for mishandling classified documents. Now you've got this guy who has 300 classified documents in his golf club slash cemetery. That's like only known...

Talking to his highly qualified patrons, buffet patrons and you've got all of these people falling over themselves to absolve this guy every single day with every fucking excuse they could possibly cook up. It's almost enjoyable

because they're so bad at it and there's no legs to stand on. Don't you love the excuses? I mean, first, it was planted. It was planted. Then with a magic wand, I declassified it. Declassified the documents that were planted. The documents that they then planted. Today, they filed a motion for judicial oversight. I'm telling you this as a lawyer, that is a made-up motion. Not a real thing.

Not a real thing. Not a real thing. Okay, now the motion. Wait, wait, but wait, but wait. It's filed by Jim Trustee. You can always trust a trustee. Call trustee a trustee. That's probably the main reason why Trump picked him.

He saw the last name. He's like, trustee. Yeah, okay. But like normally motions have declarations and affidavits attached to it. This just slopped together exhibits. It was like, here, judge. Take this. Make some sense of it.

Wait, I have a question about Jim Trustee. Yeah, because you remember when Trump was making up fake people to call into news organizations, right? Jim Trustee is 100% Donald Trump, right? Jim Trusty is 100% Donald Trump, right? I won't say 100%, but I'm 99%.

I'll ask this question to the room. Has anybody here seen Jim Trusty and Donald Trump in the same room at the same time? My name is Jim, Jim Trusty. I'm tremendous lawyering like you've never seen. But I'll tell you what, Trusty's probably better than Alina Haba and this Christina Bob,

who basically go on Fox News and just admit to the crimes every day. It was downstairs. The janitor had access to it. The staff had access to it. I mean, Trump had access to it. I mean, I don't know what the hell I'm saying right now. I mean, that's literally, like, even Laura Ingraham, who I hate, looks at these people with, like, disgust. You see it in Laura's eyes, and I almost am like, Laura, yeah, they're horrible people. And then you bring them on your channel. She just looks. She goes, oh, shit, we're fucked.

She's like, why haven't you filed anything, you crazy bitch? And, you know, Hugo Lowell got the scoop over at The Guardian. The reason that there's a filing today is because I didn't like the way she performed on Fox News. She made us look bad in front of Anger Mangle. But wouldn't you want to file this motion? Wouldn't you want to file this motion when the search warrant is executed? Wouldn't that be the common sense? Wait a minute, search warrant.

Okay, maybe I'll file it tomorrow. I don't know if you went to law school, Ben, but they actually tell you to wait until Laura Ingram yells at your attorney on TV before you file a motion. Hello, hello, I'm Jim Trustee. I want to say I need to file this motion because it is urgent that we stop

going through these documents. It's urgent. Well, why did you wait two weeks to file? Look, you. I didn't know about it until Fox News. I just like that you're Team Trusty. That's, you know. Jim Trusty from Trusty & Trusty & Associates.

Jim Trusty, the smell-good plumber. He's got a, Jim Trusty! Jim Trusty! Like, I just, there's so many ways to go with this. He's got a Jim trustee, Jim trustee. There's so many ways to go with this. But I think that now that we found out about these 300 documents, I think the chickens are going to come home to roost on that. And then DOJ's been on this quietly for quite a while.

We had two subpoenas. They subpoenaed Donald Trump twice and the Trump Organization. And we didn't know about it. That was last spring. That is a tight-lipped fucking DOJ. Which makes them easy to attack. I know. That's slow pace and their quietness.

But dark Merrick is coming, I hope. We got dark Merrick. We got dark Brandon. And they're all coming for us. Here's my question. With the 300 documents, isn't it like with the espionage charge? And I could be wrong. I'm not the attorney here, you guys.

I am. What can I do for you? I'm Jim Chesty. Is it each document like a certain number of years in prison? So 300 documents times, let's say on the low end, two years or something. I don't know about that. That's a lot of years. More.

And the Michael Cohen. More. More. More. Up to 10 years per document, right? And so if you have 300, Trump, can we get him away for 3,000 years? One could dream, you guys. One could dream.

I like it. One could truly dream. Aspirational. Well, let's switch gears a little bit and talk about the incredible turning tide the Democrats have had over the last couple of weeks last month really but there was a new NBC poll that came out was it today it came out today was reported today reported today that found threats to democracy have overtaken the cost of living as the most important issue facing the country. And the only thing I could think to myself

is you remember the old James Carville, it's the economy, stupid. It's democracy, stupid. Hell yeah, hell yeah. And despite Ron DeSantis' best efforts, people are fucking waking up all over the country about democracy. No, I think people are activated more than ever. And in all seriousness, you know, months ago, you had all the pundits saying people don't really care about democracy. You know,

they're worried about gas prices. They're worried about inflation. And I don't want to say that those aren't very important issues to people that affect people. But the fact is, we don't have any of that without our democracy. We don't have life without the United States of America being a democracy. So I think people have finally, instead of us chasing the polls, which is what the pundits suggested, we should be talking about this and talking about that. Instead, all of us, everybody in this room, hammered home the message that our democracy

is the single most important issue out there, and we manifested the polls, basically, by telling people how important this really is. And people are waking up. Yeah, because MSW, mainstream media, MSM, I'm all, meh, they weren't talking about this. They weren't talking about this.

So I credit, like, the Midas Touch podcast, the videos, the people who listen to these podcasts, independent journalists, they're the ones who hammered this message home, just like you said. We had to do it ourselves. It was like I said during the Mueller report, he's not going to save us. We are the Muellers we've been waiting for. We have to fucking make this right.

Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think that's the thing, too, is like, we give so much power to these mainstream media sources to kind of like dictate what we're talking about. And when they come and say people don't care about this, this isn't something that people are paying attention to, it's because they're the ones that aren't paying attention to it. They're the ones that dictate the terms of the conversation.

So when they say people aren't talking about this, this isn't a big issue, that's because you're not giving it airtime. So if you spoke about it because it's important, then that's what the conversation would be about. So I think, like, again, that's why it's so important that we just keep hammering this home. And I know a lot of people have done it, you know, in the independent media space, and I know that that's been, like, a top priority because democracy is foundational. Nothing happens, like Brett said, without democracy. So, you know, just keep hammering it home and, like, fuck

the corporate media. Jordy! Have you noticed Jordy got a really smart... He's brilliant. Alright. Follow me, Jordy, at MidasTouch.

Poor Jordy. Jordy's recovering from COVID in Pennsylvania right now. He'll hear it on the podcast. He's going to be so sad that he's lost his job, too. You snooze, you lose. Snooze, you lose. All right. The same question that we ask everyone, our last question to each of you.

What's bringing you hope right now? The pro-democracy movement right now. You know, I think we're energized. We're delivering for the people. We're talking to people. And I think that's a big difference. I really feel that this summer has been the summer of democracy and we're all a part of it and we all have a role to play. And to Ben's point, I was kidding about it earlier that we could get a room to applaud the Inflation Reduction Act, but honestly, the fact that we can get a room to applaud the Inflation Reduction Act while we have other rooms of people

applauding to lock Dr. Fauci up and do all this crazy bat shit stuff, I really feel like we actually have the energy and we are going to turn the tide here together, all of us, and we're making it happen. And we got that plus justice, plus people like Dr. Oz humiliating themselves every single day on the internet. Oh, man, Fetterman is taking him to the fucking cleaners.

Trees, everybody, trees. You know, there are too many trees, Herschel Walker said, too many trees to be concerned about environmental issues. There are too many trees out there. When you see these candidates... That's how we get crudités. Yeah. They're really in touch with people.

They really know what's on people's minds. Too many trees, not enough crudités. I think that's the problem in America right now. Nailed it. I would say, you know, something that gives me hope is, and this is going to seem corny, shit, I shouldn't have, you guys being here, because it is so difficult to get people to pay attention and stay engaged and stay informed, and, like, people showing up, you know,

to take time out of their busy schedules to be here, and people that are listening to this podcast as well, just people who take the time and pay attention, not just in October or November of an election year, is so fucking important. It's what I spend so much of my time desperately begging people to do, and so the fact that, like, you guys came out, the fact that people are listening to this, thank you, and keep keeping your other people in your circles involved. I know there's, like, a lot of focus of focus on like influencers these days and whatnot. I think the most important people, the most important thing we can do is like when individual people,

you guys have so much more influence over your own individual circles, so much more than anybody who's just like tweeting on Twitter or like making YouTube videos or making their podcast. You individual people have so much more influence over your own circle. So if you can find like two or three people, especially people that didn't vote, especially people that live in swing states, especially people that just turned 18 or 19 and get them activated and get them to vote, that's going to make so much of the difference. I know in a place like Wisconsin, you know, Joe Biden won this last election in Wisconsin by three votes per precinct. That's it. So it doesn't take much to flip an election. So you have a lot of power.

Run for something if you can. Work at a polling place if you can. But anyway, thank you for being here and for being involved. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Let's hear it.

Ben and Brett Mazalius. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Brian Tyler Cohen. Midas Touch and No Lie. Make sure to subscribe. Let's knock these fascists off the list. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. Thank you so much. See you. Thank you so much. We get all the best people. We do. We have all the best people. Tremendous people.

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Kelly Griffin! I'm like, boy, they're clapping hard for my intro, man! The white chocolate macadamia cream cold brew from Starbucks is made just the way you like it. Handcrafted cold foam topped with toasted cookie crumble. It's a sweet summer twist on iced coffee. Your cold brew is ready at Starbucks. Yes, I have the Madonna Beyonce version for the gays and the ladies. Of course I do. Hi. Oh, my friend, it's so good to see you. Can I explain my voice first because I'm self-conscious? So I had lung cancer and they took out half my lung and my voice got kind of damaged.

So I'm self-conscious about it, but it doesn't hurt. So I don't want you to think I'm in pain. Yay, cancer survivors! I'm pandering. I'm pandering. I'm already pandering. Go ahead. I'm so glad you're here, my friend. It's so good. It's always good to see you.

What a day. And Allison is so smart. I want to get like a brain transplant, like that movie Face Off, with our brains. Because she knows a lot of shit that I don't. And never will understand.

That's why we're friends. It just came in the middle of the night. What's this? What's happening right here? No, I have screenings of the J6 parties. I mean, sorry, they're a party in my house. At my house. And then one time I have a dinner party, and this one brings Officer Mike Fanone,

that guy from yes Yes, and so it was like so great because we got to give him an evening of just like laughs And we were just like goofing around like it was really cool, so she's in with that whole crowd Parties parties Yeah, I forgot to wear all my bling, all my January 6th committee passes. She's got the passes laminated. For being in the room. Smithsonian. I was going to wear them.

When I came into Kathy's house the first time, she's like, oh, I'm sorry, all my Emmys and awards are up here and that you probably tripped over them. Who put these here? I hate when people notice my Emmys and Grammy. It's so embarrassing. And so when I come over, I come wearing all my January 6th badges. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I don't know how these got here.

Oopsie. It's a fun thing. Now, as you know, many years ago, I started a podcast called Muller, She Wrote. Yes. Thank God. I could not understand anything about the investigation or the report. So really, thank God. that's such a good podcast. And you've documented the whole thing so beautifully for normal folks.

But now what's going on with murder, she wrote. Okay, so look, I'm just going to do a lot of confessing, a lot of confessing. So like just to get through shit, and I know people like have their different shows that they binge. So for some reason, since like cancer and Trump, which are the same, and I tried to have him removed, but I couldn't find a doctor to do it. Yet, yet. But anyway, so like, I don't know about you guys, but sometimes the real news was like so intense that I had to go the other direction so believe it or not I I never had seen Breaking Bad so I watched all of them I've never seen Better Call Saul oh can I tell you why because I'm

friends with that girl Ray Sehorne who's fucking amazing on that show but I've never seen the show so one day she's like oh my god you have cancer I'm coming over Wednesday with lunch I was like what because I've never seen the show. So one day she's like, oh my God, you have cancer? I'm coming over Wednesday with lunch. I was like, what? Because I'd never seen the show. And I told her I always watched it. And I loved, I'd say shit like, I loved your energy in that scene. You know?

So. And you made a diorama. I did. And so I called her and panicked and said, don't come over. I'm having relatives. There's some lie. And she hasn't spoken to me. But I'm going to get back on.

So I watched all the Better Calls songs. So I don't know why. It helped me to watch something kind of violent and weird. But then the other thing is sometimes I get just really, really nauseated, just vomiting just from either cancer or Trump. And so then I have never watched Murder, She Wrote. Go ahead, laugh. Because even like, I remember having like a friend in the Groundlings that was on one time.

And thinking like, oh my God, that's so corny. Like, why would you do that show? First of all, Jessica Fletcher, 2024. That show is so amazing. And I'm almost more fascinated by reading like the of how Angie, I call her Angie, Angie Lansbury, fought for all the stuff, fought to stay single on the show, and she wanted to be a widow, all this stuff. But anyway, I find it comforting, and what I want you to keep in mind is the reason I think she should be a statesperson, maybe not president, but I think she is such a diplomat because she's kept Cabot Cove on the map when the murder rate is unusually high there.

I believe the population is in the hundreds. And also, look, but here's the thing. If we've turned the blind eye to crime before, and so it's what's called a shadow campaign. I wonder if the writers ever discussed that. Like, should we maybe have a couple of these murders out of town? Because this is a really small place. I mean, I don't know why they would,

but every so often she travels and murders. I mean, witnesses, witnesses. So anyway, I get a lot of comfort from watching Murder, She Wrote, and luckily there's hundreds of episodes, hundreds and hundreds, and they're all the same. Oh, it is like a hug from the baby Jesus. Yes. One thing I wanted to ask you,

when I started Murder, She Wrote, I said this has to be about the Mueller investigation. I want it to be serious, I want it to be historic, but I also need it to be funny. And I live my life between sort of trauma and comedy. I can't explain why or how, but I wanted you to talk, because you and I have talked about this a little bit, about AA. And is there comedy in recovery?

Yeah, so get this shit, you guys. And I went on ABC News and talked about it, whatever. But a couple years ago, I took like 100 benzos and tried to kill myself. And instead, I just fell down the stairs a few times, and I kind of injured myself. But anyway, then I got into recovery, right? Oh, but first, I was on one of those 5150 cycles, just like Brittany or Kanye. I know. I know.

You're welcome. Although, I will tell you, when you're on lockdown, they use words like, Ms. Griffin, we don't have to give you the bracelets, and that means the cuffs. Because I kept going, I'm Kathy Griffin. I can tear this thing out and leave. I could not do that. I think I saw it maybe in a movie, which it didn't work, but anyway, that aside, you have to find the comedy in recovery, and so I go to like AA Zoom meetings, even though I was a pill person, but it's like all the same, and so I love Alcoholics Anonymous. I love everything about recovery, and I'll tell you why.

And this is also why I'm going to hell. Same reason. I fucking live for when somebody shows up at an AA meeting and they're wasted. Sorry. It's heaven. Heaven. Because there's like kind of rules, and the person like, and on Zoom, you can't start shouting like, get this person out of the room. So you'll hear bitches go on for like, wait, like you're supposed to give three minutes, and they're like minute 10, and I'm like this.

And then they invariably tell you the drugs that they're doing while they're getting sober, because they forget. And so it's kind of glorious and so of course I go for the recovery but I don't mind somebody who's like maybe fucked up on I don't know like a few stingers or some shit but it's just always it's always fascinating but I do I do enjoy a little faux pas oh or then there's supposed to be this thing where like, if you talk about something too graphic, like let's say I was to describe like how much I fucking love Xanax or whatever, then somebody else in the meeting is supposed to go like this.

Kathy G. Kathy G. And I sort of like the part that you could also get like in trouble at AA. So every so often I kind of don't mind being disciplined. You got to find the fun. Find the fun. Fun. Got the best meetings.

You're going to the best meetings, clearly. I'm sure I get booked to play a lot of rehabs after this. Yeah, I've done some NA shows. They're interesting. Oh, I'll bet. I know you're totally anonymous on there, too. They don't, they're, you know. No, no. Nobody's, no.

Although one time, one time I did her, this girl, she wasn't on camera and she goes like this I'm not even kidding she goes like this come here look at this it's Kathy Griffin yes and then she goes like this how do I know cuz I work at Bravo camera off now Now, something interesting happened in the news recently. I believe that Eric Trump and Andrew Giuliani's weird mouth twin, Gary Busey,

did something close to where you live. Yeah, relax, honey. We're not gonna act like we have to feel bad for fucking Busey, okay? So first of all, Busey's like, you know, 75 or whatever, and're not going to act like we have to feel bad for fucking Busey. Okay. So first of all, Busey's like, you know, 75 or whatever. And he's fun to love as a crazy, but now I live in his neighborhood. It's not so fucking fun anymore. All right. I'm afraid of him the way white people are afraid of Mexicans with that fentanyl. I'm afraid of that Gary Busey. I'm afraid of him in

a caravan. I don't want him jerking off. Okay, so he like, whatever, assaults some women and like a fucking like super duper D-list, which, you know, I would do in a heartbeat, but like a signing thing in like T-neck or jersey or something. What? What happened? Are you guys dating? What's going on?

You can't just have a two-year date. She was flirting with me during your, I don't know. What about chopped liver? Whatever. Whatever. All right, so Gary Busey is possibly assaulting women at some sort of a signing thing, which I like to point break too, but Jesus. All right, so anyway, yesterday he was caught jerking off in my fucking local park in Malibu.

But pants down to here, full dick jerking off. So I don't want to hear any one of you like, oh, that's sad. He was having the fucking time of his life. It's sad for the poor person that's like, oh, God. And so I have enjoyed people putting pictures of Andrew Giuliani and then, who's the other one? Oh, Eric Trump, and saying that that's their secret father which is possible which is

possible and also you know Yvonne is not around to ask her anymore anymore tonight so that maybe that's why they push her down that staircase what if it what if they hired the guy from the fucking staircase? That guy's like still around and free and shit. That fucking dude. Anyway, he knows what he's doing. Sorry, I'm off track.

No, it's okay. The reason I was looking over at him is because I was going to cue him to do the last question. To do the last question, which is now the most awkward segue ever how much do I masturbate in parks that's fair only one necessary I mean I bring a

covering I bring a covering so you can tie these two things together in time together so from Gary Busey jacking off in your park, I'd like to ask you what brings you hope right now? The fact that I'm post-menopause and I can't get pregnant any more than Mrs. Busey can. No, what gives me hope, actually, is I have a wild dream and fantasy, which is we actually take the Senate because we don't have it now.

Did you hear me? I didn't say the House. I said the Senate, because we're too down in the Senate. Don't fucking forget. Don't forgive them. Don't forgive them. All right. And if we keep the House, then I really have a fantasy.

I think Biden-Harris could do really amazing things in the next two years. Like, really pass the stuff they want to pass. All that stuff. So I'm afraid to be optimistic like many of us are. But I'm like, come on. two more Senate seats and keeping the House, and we could really, like, right the ship. And things are going to be perfect, and Biden's still a centrist, don't be fooled. He was too center for me, but I love him now. I will say this, and this is going to definitely get me boos, please, busters, please don't fuck this up.

I'm begging you. If you love Bernie Sanders, fine. If you wanted him to be president, fine. But if you didn't vote for Hillary, you just stayed home, or if you thought President Jill Stein would win, you fuckers, then I'm not speaking to you. So I do, I do, I get nervous about how the repubbies

always stick together no matter what. And we eat, no, no third party. Did you say that? Who's that, Mrs. Ye? Wait, why did I not sure if that was pro-third party, but no? Okay, okay, Jesus, I have cancer, I have cancer, I have cancer! Kathy Griffin, everybody! Come on! Kathy Griffin!

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back out here. Let's bring them all back out. I guess I have to call them by their names but let's make some more noise for Frances Collier and Angela V. Shelton. Frangela! Frangela!

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You in the middle are another. You over here are a third part. Your note, fucked. Your note, fucked. Your note, fucked, fucked, fucked, fucked, fucked, fucked, fucked. And then when I go like this, everybody says, fucked, really loud. So usually it was Manafort or Trump or Cohen or somebody was fucked but I think this time it's the Republicans yeah who are fucked so I'm gonna lead us in this now ready Republicans are Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Griffin, Brian Tyler Cohen. Until next time. Thank you. This is how we win.